skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cooklist | Django / React Native | Dallas, TX | Remote | Equity 1-5% Salary $70-90k

Cooklist shows you recipes you can cook with the groceries you buy.

Our app can connect directly to 81 grocery chains like Walmart, Safeway, Kroger etc. and automatically download every purchase a user makes in store and online. It uses NLP to match each product purchased to recipe ingredients. Over 1,000,000 products are matched to 1,000,000 recipes with 95% accuracy.

Cooklist has been live in private beta as an iOS app for two months and we are launching publicly in the app store next week. Hundreds of users are participating in the development process. 10,000+ purchases have been downloaded in the last week. Right now we are a 6 person team with experienced startup founders. We've been accepted into several accelerator programs and have decided to attend one this summer. You can see a demo video at https://cooklist.co

You can reach me at daniel@cooklist.co
Fun with SQL: Window Functions in Postgres
Simple Tricks Helped Me to Finish My Side Project
"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. Helped me to understand the language of architecture. What works and why, and what doesn't work and why. To this day I can still pick up this book, turn to a random page and get lost for hours in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language
But numpy is the underlying library used by the rest of the SciPy stack, right? I use Pandas, so taking that as an example, it can be slow when you're doing stuff that isn't
mostly leveraging Numpy. If I have to loop over a relatively large dataset to do some complicated row checking/filtering stuff, then it can be very slow, and I might as well take a coffee break. You can rewrite that into using just the numpy values array and it will be performant, but you lose all the nice Pandas features when you do that.

Also, if I'm just restricted to using Pandas on a laptop or small server instance, then loading in a several gigabyte csv file can really tax the memory.
I've read the memo and that was in fact his argument. What do you think his argument was?
"Reaction" is a big one. I wonder if the beginning of the wasteland was YouTube trying to make "Reaction" videos a thing by directly encouraging that nonsense.

"vlog" is another word that seemed like a good idea at the time but seems to have degenerated into near uselessness as a marker of content.
Mary Meeker’s essential 2018 Internet Trends report
Workiva | Ames, IA; Scottsdale, AZ; Bozeman, MT; Denver, CO; Chicago IL | ONSITE

Workiva began with the vision to disrupt the SEC filing market by building a platform on the latest PaaS cloud technologies. Avoiding the traditional approach to architecting systems in-house and instead embracing the future of building a highly scalable and secure web application built upon the emerging PaaS providers quickly turned the original vision of disrupting the SEC market into a reality. Today Workiva’s solution Wdesk is being used by thousands of companies globally, including over 70% of the 500 largest U.S. corporations by total revenue. Workiva’s vision is reaching into new and larger markets with the same original goal of disruption, building a platform that will continue to revolutionize the way businesses operate and collaborate.

Our Stack:

*Java/Python/Dart/Go

*MySql/BigQuery/Datastore/GraphDB

*Vessel and Nats messaging bus

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* Software Engineers

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* Site Reliability Engineers

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Check out our careers page to learn more: https://www.workiva.com/careers
Wonder what will happen if the US passes laws enforcing companies to retain data for up to a year minimum for digital forensic integrity reasons of cyber criminal cases. Also maybe on the other hand GDPR is good for VPN services to be much more transparent.
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Electrical Engineer, Perception, Gen. Software Engineer, ML Engineer, Test Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full-time
We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. Looking for:

- Gen software engineering (Platform team) - C++ expertise

- Controls Engineer

- Behavior Planning Engineer (Machine Learning & Data Science combo)

- Perception Engineeer, Machine Learning Engineer

- SW Engineer - Test (SF): Testing Infrastructure & Automation

- Field Test Engineer Florida: 50% software 50% hardware, Miami/Fort Lauderdale area

- "Full Stack" Truck Tech Engineer: Help scale our trucking operations in any way possible. In charge of product discovery, development, deployment, and design for our trucking business.

- Internship (SW or EE): On a limited basis, we are open to extremely talented internship candidates. In addition to a resume, attach anything that will show us that you’re exceptional (non-school projects, side-businesses, etc).

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team. The team takes an extremely active role in the development and testing of Starsky Trucks on highways across the US.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, college dropouts, and high school interns all working together. No matter your experience, we're looking for intelligent folks who have a history of diving excitedly into new fields. Able to sponsor all visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/starskyrobotics/
In my case, I don't use an ad blocker, but I do use Privacy Badger, which is only supposed to block tracking, and should only block ads if they can't have their tracking disabled. It looks like Privacy Badger decided "pagead2.googlesyndication.com" should now be blocked as a tracking domain.

Perhaps Google should split off their nonpersonalized ads service into a different domain so such services can easily distinguish between the two?
Yes! We use juries for criminal trials not because they're especially good fact-finders but because they're very resistant to regulatory capture. Similarly, Sortition is the real answer to money in politics problems, because there's no such thing as running for re-election to raise money for. You get nice side effects in representation too - 50% of your legislators will be women, for example, but more significantly 50% of them will come from below-average incomes.

In the US at least, we already have a representative body laying around with super-majoritarian rules and long, overlapping terms where citizen-legislators could build institutional knowledge. Conveniently it has both the most anti-democratic setup right now and one that's already been subject to revision via constitutional amendment. Selecting Senators at random is the simplest fix with the biggest potential impact on our democracy.

And that's just first-order effects, not counting the potential civil society benefits of encouraging every citizen to think of themselves as a future Senator, or having that structure mirrored in micro in smaller jurisdictions.
DeepScale | Software Engineer | Mountain View, CA | Full-time, Intern | Onsite

DeepScale is a venture funded startup in Mountain View, CA. Our investors include Next47, Point72, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Autotech Ventures.

In automated driving, perception is the consistent (and very difficult) piece of the puzzle that must be solved whether the goal is to produce a basic driver-assistance feature like adaptive cruise control or a fully autonomous vehicle. By building extensible software that can be used for all levels of vehicle automation. This allows us to start saving lives and deploying our software in mass production now! Meanwhile, we are also engaging in advanced developments that will enable autonomous vehicles, ensuring that DeepScale will be a stalwart of automotive safety whether cars are driving themselves or helping humans drive.

DeepScale is hiring multiple positions for the following roles:

* Software Engineer

* Deep Learning Research Scientist

* Embedded Engineer

* Infrastructure/Tooling Engineer

Checkout http://jobs.deepscale.ai/ for more details.
"Assuming our results reflect cause and effect, these analyses suggest that increasing walking pace may be a straightforward way for people to improve heart health and risk for premature mortality"

Why would you assume cause & effect rather than correlation - if you have health problems, you don't walk as fast. This is sensationalist bs.
There is an interesting amount on behind-the-scenes IT going on for just this sort of disaster, and others, in the government sector.

We don't hear about any of it, so we assume nothing is being done. But the reason it's kept secret is so that people don't start freaking out at scary tabloid headlines.

For example, there is a thing called "the black web" (different sectors have different names for it). Many U.S. government agencies have websites ready to launch in the event of a catastrophic calamity like a pandemic or a radiation leak that affects millions.

Source: Two people I worked with who worked on one of the projects.
It's C-u <Space> in Emacs lingo; it pops the mark ring. Some actions like C-<Space>, M-< and M-> push the position of the point to the mark ring before moving it, and when you pop the mark ring, you jump to the position that was pushed most recently.
The per-person limit is already only $2,700, and only people can give money (not companies), so direct contributions are not particularly compelling as a path for corruption. Plus, quid pro quo is already illegal.

Candidates are far more concerned about 3rd party money than direct donations these days, because 3rd party spending is unlimited. Quid pro quo is not necessary because it's all done in public. You don't need a secret meeting with a lobbyist to know if the NRA likes your position on guns. Just watch the ads.

Of course not every House member has to worry about this; in fact most don't. Most of the big spending on House races is concentrated in the few districts that everyone expects to shift the balance. This would still be true in a House of 35,000. While most races would probably get less expensive, there would still be a small set of "tipping point" races that would attract most of the effort and money.
4chan is smaller and tighter. It's a different beast. Reddit is massive and those boards account for a small percentage of its activity.
> and has access to the network

It does not have access to TCP or UDP sockets.
Interneuron CIC | Full-time | REMOTE (UK based) | Developer Consultant/Engineer (Customer Facing)

Interneuron CIC aim to be the leaders on designing, developing and supporting open source software for Health+Care providers globally. We are already helping many NHS and Private organisations transform the way they approach Health+Care IT problems, now we need an additional rock-star customer facing development consultant/engineer to join us and help make this happen.

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Matt
ARM Assembler in Raspberry Pi – Chapter 1
Please do! Not only are the folks at Invenia technically talented, they're also really kind and wonderful. I'm sure I'm not speaking out of turn to say that I think they would very much appreciate bug reports, API feedback, and especially doc and code contributions!
> Giving to the Make-A-Wish Foundation is motivated mostly by a desire to feel good.

Me spending $40 to go out to dinner with my wife is motivated by a desire to feel good. Should I instead "set aside my feelings" and spend that on your list of approved charities "in order to do the right thing"? Have you given up all frivolous spending and donate it to causes you believe to be effective?

I should have started by saying that it's good that you're thinking of which charities you find to be a more effective target for donations. It turns from thoughtful to unnecessary when you pass judgment on others for giving differently than you would give.
https://up-for-grabs.net/ has a list/search-engine for special marked github issues.
I think it's only bad when you don't feel like you have any control over it, and you feel more like it controls you. There's the long term goal you want, but the lack of having control leads to extremes, all of these things increase the number of variable you feel compelled to reason about, to control. With finances, food, 'stuff', that can lead to overload, stress, hence, oscillating between opposites, lacking self control, self direction, autonomy, etc. These are all things people need to feel secure and stable when they have to operate as mostly independent entities.
Facebook is killing off Trending as it tries to revamp newsfeeds
- Student debt
- Healthcare
- Housing
- ?
The plug to support The Guardian by donating with your VISA card at the bottom of an article about the VISA network being down caused me to laugh out loud. #Ironic
How much growth can be attributed to something like this? And what's the total impact on overall growth of the economy?

It's probably a rounding error, and a pretty reasonable trade-off to make.
Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company - Michael Malone : One of the first Silicon Valley start-ups which grew to incomparable heights through the management style of its two founders. Unfortunately, the lessons they taught are being ignored in today's Quick Buck environment.
That would be a nice picture, except the federal civil service is nearly completely exempt from firing by any of those elected officials.

I agree with you that rule by bureaucrat is better than mob rule. But since you are in favor of limiting government power to a select few - I would choose to limit it to responsible taxpayers rather than unelected bureaucrats.
PR stunt for delivery-by-drone companies:
deliver symbolic vaccines to Nome, Alaska, and
get video of the competing Iditarod teams along the way.
Be sure to keep both batteries & vaccines warm.
You will need their relevant browsing history for the entire payment period
How are the licenses? React and Zstandard had licenses that drove away a lot of heavy users (basically anyone who had an active legal department) - and were re-licensed without the onerous patent constraints after an apparent exodus of users (the public outcry seemed to make no difference, but the exodus did).
> you're only supposed to be offended

Folks have the right to be offended whenever they want to be.

If you aren't offended, then that's your decision and you're free to make it. But ultimately I still believe you should respect the opinions of those who are offended. If they hate 4chan, I'm not going to argue with them about it.

There's a lot of folks in this thread claiming that if you're offended by speech on 4chan, then it's really you who has the problem and that's mainly who I'm trying to address.
Yes something I believe in might be more important than profit. But my point wasn't about whether I think students deserve discounts for some moral reason.

Student discounts are almost always a price discrimination mechanism aimed at maximising profits, rather than an altruistic gesture toward a disadvantaged group or an effort to encourage further learning. With that context, I thought the complaints of the author were strange. It's rational for him to refuse a student discount, but it's also rational for a student to ask for a discount, as there is no downside if the request is refused.

As to whether I would sell babies? Probably not. But if I were to sell babies for a living, I almost certainly wouldn't offer a student discount.
> UK is still first past the post for MPs.

This surprised me but you're right. NI have(/had?) STV, but not Westminster. Very odd.

> Australia seems to be different again

This was my question really. Australia uses IRV, afaik, which is somewhat equivalent to STV except that it's slightly simpler, though I don't see any major disadvantage to the extra complexities in STV.
Which opens the door for people are all too willing to exploit that through real ML algo & data weaknesses.
If they divvy up a monthly fee to the sites you visit, they're going to have a hard time explaining the need to keep your browsing data more than a single month: Enough time to pay out to the websites. Then you can maybe add a couple months to account for backups and the like.

It sounds like trimming the data retention here was well-warranted, particularly given the high sensitivity of browsing data.
Yes, I'm sure r/memeeconomy and other very serious and important people are grateful.
I messed up on the inheritance; it was a house leftover from the house building business and used for rent and a sale later.

Their own yearly reports put the second part to a lie - they would have to cut back significantly on their spending if they lost this income. It's possible for them to do without going homeless, but it would be non-trivial.

His last reported year, his base costs (food, clothing, electricity, etc) were $30,000 - within the range. But as he himself notes right below that total, they spent around $90,000 on health insurance and a vehicle, which he pretends doesn't belong in the previous category because "the job pays for it".

Not holding that job suddenly puts him on the hook for that $90,000, or puts him at risk of not having health insurance and reliable transportation.
I'm not sure about solving the other issues you mentioned, but I've often thought that a ~$100+ payment for voting in a national election would fix the voter turnout problem.
There are two separate issues at play here:

Emacs' redisplay algorithm is not very efficient if you have very long lines. On the other had on old emacs versions (before 23 IIRC) this was significantly worse as it also had weird UX implications (C-p/C-n working in terms of logical, as opposed to displayed, lines and unability to sanely display lines that are longer than width*height of window).

Other problem is that the gap-buffer data structure is very suboptimal when you start to move the point by multi-MB offsets (which in emacs' case imcludes operations like scrolling to the other end of buffer using scrollbar) as it involves doing memmove() of this multi-MB block of memory.
Not to defend not giving money to the homeless, but isn't the calculation more complex than that? It's not just about how much money the bureaucracy eats, it's also how effectively the remaining portion is used, and I would think that would include actual resources delivered to people.

More simply put, which helps more people and in a larger amount, $10 in the US or $5 in some extremely poor part of the world, where food and services may be much cheaper?

I don't know the answer, but I think it's not as simple as "half is taken by bureaucracy so I shouldn't give to a bureaucracy".
You argument is not a worthwhile one.

No matter the example, you could always narrow it down to "luck".

"Lucky you didn't get run over by a car"

"Lucky you didn't get cancer and die"

"Lucky WW3 didn't start and destroy your country"

What's the point?
CourtDrive | Senior Full Stack Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time (preferred) or Part-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

We are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re a bootstrapped, profitable company launched in March of 2012. We are a remote company based in Los Angeles but have a worldwide team (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few).

We’re looking for a senior, full stack developer, preferably with Perl experience, to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices to integrate with other SaaS solutions, and building and supporting our CourtAPI solution.

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Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Ffwezl2D76eFT_X9qnNMU51...
Exactly. The post above yours is simply an illustration of survivorship bias.
Recently my wife and I were discussing one of the big benefits of rural living being far less easy access to impulse $4 lattes, In-N-Out drive thrus and the like. A trip to a major suburb becomes a planned event (and more meaningful), just like those $100 steak dinners.
Drones enable perpetual war. For instance, the US has been continuously launching drone strikes against its ally pakistan since 2004. I don’t think that’s even the current longest running drone conflict, but I can’t remember which one is. Yemen is probably biggest humanitarian military disaster at the moment, but that war is only in year eight.

Here is a list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mi...
Micropayments were going to be the wave of the future back around 2000. It never happened. People want intangible stuff for what they perceive as free.
Knewton | Software Engineer, SRE/Infra Engineer, Senior Security Engineer | NYC | ONSITE | Full-Time

We build adaptive learning software that powers our online learning platform. We work with universities and community colleges to provide an affordable alternative to text books!

We're hiring for the following roles:

* SDE ideally with a few years of experience, full stack or backend.
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* Senior security engineer

Our stack is React/Redux/GraphQL on the frontend, node/java/python on the backend side.

Come help us bring personalized learning to the world!

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Uncountable | San Francisco (Onsite) | Machine Learning, Enterprise Sales https://www.uncountable.com/careers
Uncountable accelerates the innovation of the world’s largest manufacturers. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence techniques, Uncountable's algorithms get better material and chemical products to the market in half the time. We work with companies of all sizes, from innovative startups to Fortune 500 manufacturers.

Machine Learning Engineers | $150k - $220k + Equity

---> Uncountable is building a world-class machine learning team that can push the boundaries of what is currently possible with Bayesian optimization. You will have the opportunity to innovate in machine learning at a small startup.

---> This position requires experience with statistical learning theory and software development.

Enterprise Sales | $70k - $120k + Commission & Equity

---> Uncountable is looking for resourceful, scrappy, and driven professionals to grow out our sales and business development team. As a sales representative, you will be responsible for generating leads, pitching Uncountable’s AI platform to Directors/VPs, and closing enterprise deals. With junior and senior positions available, non-sales backgrounds are perfectly acceptable given a willingness to learn and improve.

These are all onsite, full-time positions in San Francisco, CA. Learn more: https://www.uncountable.com/careers

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It would be good if you could combine this with some OCR/computer vision to automatically detect and block click bait thumbnails like with a red circle, or proeminent boobs, or similar.