skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tufts | Software Developer | Software Engineer | full time | Medford, MA, USA | Onsite

We are a team at Tufts University (Boston area) researching data visualizations for machine learning model comparison and selection. Plain English project description: You train a variety of ML models to solve a particular problem. Which is the best model for the task at hand? What can you learn by comparing the models?

The project (Data Driven Discovery of Models, aka D3M) is funded by a large grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). We are looking for a full-time full stack developer (mostly front-end) to join our multi-institutional team of researchers at Tufts, Georgia Tech, and Wisconsin-Madison.

This would be a great way for an established front-end dev to get their feet wet in machine learning, or for a dev with ML experience to work on higher-level ML concepts.

Our current tech stack: Docker, Node, Vue, D3.

The most important skills a candidate would have are front-end development skills in JavaScript, including knowledge of the current state of frameworks such as Vue.js, excellent communication and team skills, and experience in maintaining software over the course of a multiyear project.

Responsibilities: software development of front- and back-end visual analytics system for the DARPA D3M project (e.g., Vue client, D3 visualizations, Node server, communication channels between different components would be through Web Socket and gRPC), Team Management (e.g., participation in D3M project meetings, collaboration with the team members, composed of Tufts, Georgia Tech, and Wisconsin-Madison, Collaboration with other teams in the D3M project).

Expertise: JavaScript, Python. Experience of working in web-based front-end frameworks like Vue, React, Angular, etc. Must be thoughtful of UI/UX. Experience in web-based visualization tools such as D3, Tableau, etc. Knowledge of open-source development and team-collaborative development environments, e.g., GitHub. Experience with integration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, etc is a plus. Research experience a plus. Basic knowledge of stats/data science.

Qualification: BS or MS in computer science with 2+ year experience in working client-web based architecture and developing web-based visual analytics tools. Experience developing server-side data management systems is useful. Experience with machine learning would be an additional plus. The BS/MS isn't a hard-and-fast requirement, but this position will require the theoretical and mathematical background found in traditional CS education routes.

Travel: Some travel is required to attend integration exercises at DARPA in DC, including up to 4 weeks in the summer and 2 weeks in the winter.

If you are interested, shoot us an email: jobs.valt@gmail.com

Or apply online: http://jobs.hr.tufts.edu/ (job # 18001176)
I never claimed to be a 'reliable person' to assess the impact. Just sharing my thoughts and experiences.
I hate how Facebook announces that they're going to release a privacy feature before they actually have.

It's like they're trying to trick the press into covering it before anyone can actually test it -- while reducing the actual amount of coverage it gets when it's finally available to real users.
Second Measure (YC S15) | SF Bay Area - San Mateo, CA (downtown) | ONSITE/REMOTE | https://secondmeasure.com

----

Second Measure analyzes billions of credit card transactions to answer real-time questions about consumer behavior.

Through our self-service analytics platform, we help our clients – some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms – answer questions like:

- Is Lyft gaining or losing market share in NYC? [1]
- What's going on in the meal-kit space? [2]
- How dependent is Stitch Fix on its biggest spenders? [3]
- (Check out our research blog [3])

We’re 35 people today - mostly senior engineers and data scientists. Two-thirds of us are technical, more than half with PhDs.

We’re looking for other strong builders, especially those who can grow into leadership roles:

- Lead Infrastructure Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer (backend/frontend/data) - REMOTE OK
- Senior Data Scientist
- (more)

I'm a founder (mike@). Apply directly [4] or email jobs@ and CC me.

[1] http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lyft-gets-boost-...

[2] https://www.theinformation.com/data-suggest-more-trouble-ahe...

[3] http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/

[4] https://boards.greenhouse.io/secondmeasure
Cloudflare's dynamic https would add https on the USER->Cloudflare side of communications.
GoDaddy is confusing. They only have "Pre-Registration" and "Priority Pre-Registration", the latter showing the days of the EAP, but it only says you can "increase your chances of getting this domain", not that you get it right now.
Is stealing from stores that don't have good security also useful to society, by bringing future competition to the industry? And if so, does that make stealing moral?
I think that was meant to be ironic; there's a lot of value in anecdotes.
What do you mean it is giving away the tech for free?
I believe the distinction lies in describing the final work product vs. describing means and methods. If you have an outsourcing contract with an independent contractor, you're allowed to specify (usually via specifications that are appended to the contract) performance objectives and quality of the work, and what the final work-product looks like. If you stray too far or too often over into specifying the means and methods by which they're supposed to achieve those results, then you're treating the contractors like employees, which actually come to think of it, is already sort of a no-no under most current contracting arrangements I'm aware of. Although there are always gray areas... for example what if you're turning over source code at the end of a project? Then your writing of the code is both a method and a final work-product. Some attorney needs to earn their keep and make sure everything is all laid out nice and kosher in the contract so things don't get murky.
Undercover Cops Busted a Large Lego Crime Ring in Portland
Given that the app is free, and that people are willing to install apps their friends recommend, I don't think this is much of a barrier.

WhatsApp doesn't seem to have this issue, for instance.
Action Verb | Javascript/React Engineer | Remote | Full-time

Action Verb is a 12-person, all-remote, US-based team. We are bootstrapped, profitable, and looking to grow.

Our primary service is BrickFTP (https://brickftp.com/), a hosted file sharing service for business. We are finalizing a transition from Rails to React for a core part of Brick. This role would not only help finalize that transition, but continuously add new features as well. As a smaller company, every role also has the opportunity to participate in other areas of the company they may be interested in, from Infrastructure to Personnel to Marketing. While we are looking for someone with expertise in React, we also want general JavaScript knowledge and experience as well.

We offer a starting bonus, 20 days of PTO, and a quitting fee if in the first 90 days you decide that Action Verb is not a fit for you. We also meet once per quarter at a different US city for face-to-face time and great food (paid for by us, of course).

We are not looking for junior-level people or interns at this time, so please only apply if you have at least 3 years of directly applicable experience.

To read more about the position and apply: https://actionverb.com/job-ads/frontend

To read more about Action Verb as a company: https://actionverb.com/working-at-action-verb
I'm in favor of good regulations, but I'm also not a libertarian. I'm a fan of the Scandinavian approach; well regulated free markets.

That said, I'm relatively new to investment. I've been reading a lot on the subject for the last few months, but there are people here who know way more on the subject than I do. It's certainly been highly educational, but it hasn't done anything to shake my core belief that markets should exist to serve people, not the other way around.
> "Your Facebook won’t be as good while it relearns your preferences"

Believe me, "my Facebook" isn't very good with the feed with five years worth of tracking... At least I can have my crappy feed with more of a peace of mind, that's a net win, right?
What you see there is the insane amount of complexity to create a high level feature of C: functions, plus compiler optimizations.

What I don't understand about this argument is that you are calling C a high-level language because of compiler optimizations. I can write code in assembler, or in LLVM SSA, and still use software to optimize it beyond recognition.
Check where? Not all contracts are memorialized.
I read that sentence as you can try to get rid of us, but we'll be back!
SEEKING WORK | SF | Remote | Freelance | Full-time | Traveling a plus :)

What's cookin fellow hackers! I'm currently a Software Security Dev working in SF for the biggest Tech company...But its getting somewhat boring.I'm super interested in becoming a Freelancer and starting something of my own; work in an agile environment.

- I'm specifically interested in working on projects in the blockchain space. I've also got a side project(http://bit.ly/2reAI4H) which is a crypto currency research platform. More things coming..

- Incase you don't want to be tracked click here:(https://eveningstar.io)

- Tech stack:

- JAVA

- Solidity

- Web3.js

- Truffle

- C

- Python

- Node.js

- PHP

- MongoDB, MySQL, OracleDB and Cassandra(yea I know the pain).

To get in touch please use this link: http://bit.ly/2KqkjmC
Just take the Klein bottle one and change the shapes along the top and bottom (or left and right) edges so they no longer match up. Voila.
Sight Machine | Sr. Engineer (Backend) | San Francisco or Mountain View CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Sight Machine (https://sightmachine.com/) is used by some of the world’s
largest manufacturers to make better, faster decisions about their production
operations.

Sight Machine's data pipeline ingests streaming data from the factory floor,
quality lab, and other manufacturing systems; transforms it according to
customer-defined rules; and outputs data that drives our advanced analytics.

We're looking for someone to help build the next generation of the data
pipeline, with a focus on performance, robustness, and extensibility.

Qualifications:

* Experience building complex data pipelines -- think realtime reporting or
fraud prevention, not counting words.
* 5+ years of industry experience.

To apply, visit https://jobs.lever.co/sightmachine/42be7de3-3959-48f1-a22d-7... or email hacker-news@sightmachine.com with any questions.
What the article doesn't mention is these ads don't show up if the "Recommended by Pocket" checkbox in the New Tab Preferences is unchecked.

https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...
Where does it say in the ISO C standard that C must be translated to assembly code or machine code of any sort?

EDIT: Various C interpreters exist
And anecdotes are useful for learning about phenomena deserving real investigation. E.g. it's been very interesting to learn that there do exist non-techie people who have a harder time with Apple devices.
Google Reader would be the often mentioned first example: Google entered the RSS reader market, became the best, added a bunch of features and really became "the" de facto place to read feeds. ...Then closed up shop and killed much of the ecosystem outright, directing people towards proprietary places to get their news like social networks or Google News.

Hangouts did very much the same with XMPP, a move which a Googler once suggested to me was viewed internally as a betrayal of the company's values.

I think we may be approaching EEE territory with email: Gmail's already centralized a large portion of the email industry, to the point that Google has about two-thirds of all emails on one side or the other, and now they're moving into introducing a proprietary email format (AMP 4 Email), which isn't being developed in a standards-focused way.

I'm sure the same argument could be made for their push into RCS over texting, browsers (now pushing Chrome-only websites and features in a lot of places), Android (embracing third party OEMs before moving into locking down much of newer Android functionality and launching a first party iPhone competitor), etc.

If there was a movie quote that best exemplified Google's business strategy, it would be "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
No, it's really quite different. You take my kidney? That's going to have a direct impact on my quality of life. It'll hurt for a while. I won't be able to drink as much and I'll have to be careful about my diet.

I write a paper for someone else to turn in as their own? In a situation where I know more or less nothing about the client? The outcomes are both unknowable and in most cases impossible to tie to my act directly.
I think it has been covered before that Facebook already has a hunch if two people seem to be interested in each other -- groups, events, messages they share, times they have visited each other profiles, and reaction counts proportional to posts after the friendship was started.

I think the fact that they also announced incognito mode today suggests that this dating feature could be passive. Like, if you browse Facebook normally and you are both using this feature, and Facebook sees you are both stalking each other rather much, it could break the ice for you. This is probably the better the more oblivious you are and I can see the value in this.

It will also be interesting to see how this feature will be rolled out. While there can be a mutual attraction between two people, I can see it being a challenge to programmatically figure out whether there exist any other reasons why the relationship could not work, e.g. logistics, and how well is Facebook able to identify such possible problems before initiating the icebreaker.
They have to do this anyways when you choose to delete their account. And according to Zuckerberg's testimony, he is very confident that this functionality works very well currently.
Well you’re looking at it. If you think of the puzzle only tiling in one direction, the flip needed to move the piece from one side to the other is analogous to the twist in the Möbius strip. Because it works in two dimensions, you have a Klein bottle, much the same way a looping plane is isomorphic to a torus.
I don’t think the author understands console cycles. These are decade long cycles.

Nintendo released Wii, one of the best selling consoles of all time, in 2006.

Then they released the 3DS, another of the best selling consoles of all time, in 2010.

Then they released the the Switch, the fastest selling console ever for them, in 2017.

This is not a company who is “on the ropes” and then off again. This is a company that is consistently at the absolute top of the charts year after year.

You can say the WiiU was a failure, but that risk helped them nail the switch. The only sense in which they were “on the ropes” is that they take risks which don’t work every single time. But that’s an absurd expectation. Of course bets don’t pay off every time.

The author is anthropomorphizing the design process. As if failed experiments are some sort of existential moment for the company. But these are just the natural ups and downs of an ambitious design team.
> it doesn't bother me much, because higher education is already eating itself alive in the US.

The ship is sinking already, so it's OK if I set fire to it.
In my current experience, VDO is awesome for VM storage. I'm at around 80% deduplication and compression with minimal overhead. I also tried it with a bunch of Media files (uncompressed MKVs) and it was unable to do anything with it.

I think in 6 months when people start to improve it it will be great, but at the moment I think the usefulness is limited.
I guess I'm arguing that it is a reasonable thing to say today in the right context. When I talk to web developers who don't understand anything about computer architecture for example it's much easier for me to tell them I'm a low level developer rather than explain that I design digital hardware (FPGA) and write drivers and firmware to interact with it. But I do agree that it's important developers know that C doesn't correspond to the CPU in the way they might mistakenly think it does
you should always delete all cookies on browser close, there’s a setting to do this automatically. also never accept 3rd party cookies. if you want convenience of easy logins save the passwords into your browser
Quoting the article :

> When that expires, Steamboat Willie can be given away, sold, remixed, turned pornographic, or anything else. (Mickey himself doesn’t lose protection as such, but his graphical appearance, his dialog, and any specific behavior in Steamboat Willie—his character traits—become likewise freely available. This was decided in a case involving Sherlock Holmes in 2014.)

And at the end :

> And in 2024, we might all ring in the new year whistling Steamboat Willie’s song.
In the iOS Kindle app, you can turn pages by tapping on the sides of the screen, but you can also just touch down anywhere and swipe to the left or right. It works like any other horizontal pagination on mobile, like the iOS home screen or photo gallery: as you drag, the view follows your finger, revealing the previous and next page lined up on either side; when you let go, if you scrolled more than a short distance to the left or right, the corresponding adjacent page quickly animates (slides) into full view.

Oddly, swiping is considerably faster than tapping. When you tap, there’s a brief delay before the screen starts scrolling – which is artificial, not just lag, because a quick swipe gesture (just brushing your finger against the screen) starts the same scrolling animation with no delay. Thus I’ve effectively been trained to always swipe.

As strange as this is, at least I wouldn’t call it antagonistic to new users, since the most efficient page-turning interaction is also the most intuitive one: most users will already be familiar with the swipe gesture from the rest of the OS, and will try to do it even without a visual affordance. (It’s also physically intuitive, even if the physical object being simulated is very different from an actual book.)

Of course, you can’t do fluid scrolling animations on an eInk display, so eInk Kindles lack the swipe gesture, leaving only the relatively-dubious tap regions criticized in the article. I agree that hardware buttons would be better there.

On the other hand, on iOS, Kindle is my favorite reading app for the sole reason that none of the others I’ve tried offer equivalent swiping functionality. Either they only offer a “page curl” transition style (iBooks), which looks cool but is more visually distracting, or they support swipe-to-slide but only as an atomic gesture: you do a complete swipe, and then the screen scrolls, without it letting you actually drag the page around first. (That just feels unnatural.)
I wouldn't have checked this out if I knew it would burn a Medium article access for me.
I have a feeling that people who make misterbowlfingers argument would say that your analogy is also valid.
The open question is what technology replaces?

For example what does social media replace? Does it replace real in person interaction between friends? Does it replace calling someone with text? Does it replace opportunities to meet up and connect in person?

What does Netflix and streaming video apps replace, did it replace going with your friends to the video store renting a movie together?

What does online shopping replace? Does it replace real human interaction asking someone in a physical store for advice what to purchase?

These questions are going to get more real as we get more robotics and automation around us.

If you work remote most of the time, then all interactions will be through online chat rooms. Coworking is a solution to that.
Even if they don’t profile you directly, how do you feel about the fact that your non-paying friends would still be profiled?
SEEKING WORK | Senior Full-Stack Javascript Developer | Remote

-------

Highlights:

-------

- 12+ years of experience building complex web applications.

- Architects high scalability, performant and future-proof application infrastructures.

- Writes consistent, clean and maintainable code with enforced formatting and detailed documentation.

- Able to dive in and debug issues relating to unfamiliar programming languages or technologies (last unfamiliar debugging sessions include Consul, SMTP and Scala)

-------

Skills:

-------

- Javascript (ES6, Async/Await)

- ReactJS (Redux, Next)

- VueJS (Vuex, Nuxt)

- NodeJS (Express, Koa, Restify, Socket.io, WS)

- Python (Flask, Scrapy)

- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Cassandra, Redis

- Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Route53)

- Git, Webpack, Jenkins, Bash, Linux

-------

Recent Project Examples:

-------

- Real-time management portal for monitoring and administering a container framework.

- Large-scale crawler to detect and diff changes deep within websites.

- Cryptocurrency trading bot and arbitrage monitoring tool.

-------

Location: Pakistan

Github: http://github.com/HardlyMirage/

StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/157837/hydera

Email: hyderalamgir(at)gmail(dot)com
I guess I remembered incorrectly. However, not too long ago (2016) it was far more prevalent. Would it not be in the spirit of openness to at least encourage it?

In the past when I've suggested upvoting job posts that include salary information, it always comes out with positive upvotes, indicating that it's something that interests the community.

I also never encourage downvoting.
Counterfeit implies a copy of something that has a defined market value. Academic papers don't. What I did is closer to a tailor creating a suit for someone from scratch, rather than someone operating a sweatshop to produce fake suits from some known brand.
Darn it, I'll have to reactivate Facebook. Almost every dating site requires a Facebook login for authentication too, they will be hit hard depending on how well Facebook makes this.

I'm very cynical about Facebook, but just like their blue collar job listings, this has serious potential if done right.
Ha... people find another way to do the same thing. Fundamentally the education industry is failing to inspire students to study.
> So we can't trust Facebook with our data but they want to store our nude photos.

Unless they can monetize on your nude photos, Facebook doesn't want to store them.
> "It's not like Github did this today after neglecting the feature request for years"

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156
Yes, it is about antitrust and monopolies. Many of us want competitive free markets. We need policies to fight the natural monopolies of the recent past, with a recognition that network effects and financial concentration have made monopolies and oligopolies much more dangerous.

Alas, the government has largely been captured by these financial interests. And the consumer is giving up freedom of choice for convenience, and not paying attention to this seemingly abstract problem. Thus the outlook for fighting these interests is gloomy.
Dear Facebook:

Please clarify. By "Clear History", which do you mean:

1. Delete History

2. Make All history available for everyone to see.
My ACME wildcard certificate stack
what bespoke_engnr said, and also

1) If you could change one thing about this place by waving a magic
wand, what would it be? (ties in with above but more open ended)

2) Who do you see as your competition?

3) What do you hope to gain by hiring somebody?

4) Why isn't this role being filled from within the company?
It is. The Ars Technica review[1] is pretty thorough.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/oculus-go-review-the-...
Towards λ-calculus
I worked with less than 100 clients over the course of two years. My impact was statistically insignificant.
Also, various C interpreters exist where there is no explicit C —> assembly translation.