skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OkLetsPlay | Front-end Clojure | San Francisco Bay Area | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://okletsplay.com

We're a Clojure shop in the Bay Area and we're currently hiring employee #5: an enthusiastic team player and front-end developer. Diversity is important to us and we want to start things out right.

OkLetsPlay is building LetsBet, a patented social betting platform for skill-based games. Built using ClojureScript, ReactNative, and the NEM blockchain, our mobile app allows players to challenge others to a match of skill (think Chess or Fortnite) and win real money and cryptocurrency.

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Yeah and actually what I simply noticed was a promotional pattern that reminded me of things I read as a kid at my Dad's office and to this date. Generally for real estate investing where someone would send out newsletters with little actual information just general platitudes praying on people's lack of sophistication or simply looking for easy answers.

One other important thing is that there are also things that are missing from a book like this that might matter in terms of why a particular action worked. (At a particular point in time) Because they might appear to be sleezy (even if they aren't) and someone might not want to mention them for wide review or reading or have them known. So honestly you never really know the full story and without the full story it's hard to nail down exact steps and honestly you can't do that anyway (for example you can't control luck). [1]

[1] Not a great example but let's take an actress writing a book on how she got her first gig in Hollywood but she fails to mention how the director had the hots for her and what she might have done to lead him on into thinking she would sleep with him. Instead she just talks about things she can and people reading give that greater weight.
I can see you don't miss much. You've made some excellent points!

> First of all, without some coordinated effort to spread out donations, won't some of the more effective charities still suffer?

This is almost certainly true. However, it's also true that this is the case in any scenario where there are less than infinite resources. The starvation issue is very real today.

With that said, I think adherents to EA hope that their movement will incentivize effectiveness in charities. Some might postulate that there are worse possible outcomes than charities competing for effectiveness.

> Second of all, who decides what is the most effective cause (or who interprets the studies that indicate which cause is most effective)? If I could spend 1 dollar and know it would save 5 lives or prevent 50 people from living with horrible mental illness, I would have trouble deciding which one to give to, even if given empirical evidence as to which is cause is the most beneficial to society.

This is another excellent point! How people pick causes is a real concern. It's also one people face today. I think it's largely still a matter of personal choice and priorities. The EA approach tries to put a framework in place for explicitly reasoning about what people currently tend to do implicitly.

It absolutely is a trolley problem with infinite tracks and infinite victims. Yet, we already live that trolley problem.

> Third of all, some of the causes that are not effective might still benefit from some amount of involvement. The example they give - volunteering at a soup kitchen - is one such example. Say giving to the homeless is effective, but volunteering at a soup kitchen is not. Someone still needs to volunteer at the soup kitchen, even if it's not many people.

Not to nitpick your example, but a sufficiently well-funded soup kitchen could likely afford to hire some of the homeless to staff it. Then it could be free of the need for volunteers and lift people off of having to live on the streets! It wouldn't be many people, but it also seems like it might be preferable to staffing the kitchen entirely with unpaid volunteers.

More broadly, you're once again absolutely right. This is a real and pressing concern in a scenario where Effective Altruism becomes literally the only way any person thinks about charity. However, some might postulate that we are not currently in that scenario.
Fines.
Couldn't agree more.

On repeated visits to NY, frustrated by the inefficiency of getting from A to B, one of my repeating dreams is the idea of closing every other street (both N-S and E-W) in the grid system to cars, and only allowing bikes, scooters, skateboards, and maybe buses. (Delivery traffic strictly outside daytime hours).

Imagine the transport utopia that would gradually develop, as more any more people not only feel safe to ride bikes, but realised that it represented the most efficient solution.
Wego | DevOps Engineer | Singapore | Full-time | ONSITE, relocation available | VISA support

Wego is the leading travel metasearch engine in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.

We are looking for a DevOps engineer who aspires to build a world-class infrastructure. As a member of the team, you will be exposed to all production services and infrastructure. This allows you to be a major multiplier on Wego’s product velocity. Our goal is to create a culture of service ownership and automate processes to increase safety and productivity.

- Multi-region deployments as well as multi-datacenter replication

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If this sounds like fun, please send your résumé to alex at wego.com.
From what I read, the Carrington opportunities did happen but the Sun's blasts missed us too many times to do the damage. We got super lucky.
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Ultimate Software has been building HR and Payroll software since 1990. We moved from selling licenses for on-premise installations to a cloud-based/subscription model in 2002. We are passionate about building awesome tools to make people's work lives easier. Our motto is People First, which describes how we treat our customers and our amazing company culture.

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No one said that money was the most important thing. You added that.

Then you proceeded to tell everyone else how they should live their lives.

Understanding how to effectively generate wealth, build companies, etc is something that has certain advantages. For instance, this will allow for more time to appreciate the other things in life.

Warren Buffett spends most of his day reading, which he loves to do, for example.

He’ll be donating 99% of his wealth.

Your life is your choices but, quite honestly, you’re adding noise to the conversation that people were trying to have.
Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com) | REMOTE | Developers

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over two million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We recently acquired ShareLaTeX.com and are merging the two platforms into Overleaf v2. We plan to add up to three developers to our team, two with a backend focus and one with a frontend focus. Full stack developers are also very welcome to apply.

Our stack currently includes Angular, React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Mongo and redis.

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No, not following the law costs the businesses.
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User Experience / Product Manager who wants to make a super-good developer API experience.

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You asked for scooter or bike recommendations, but I love the Boosted Board electric skateboards for their portability and fun factor.

However, they're almost certainly more dangerous, and a higher learning curve (though I hadn't skateboarded much before getting one). Just watch out for Muni tracks, gravel, wet roads (especially on metal), and potholes.
"Multi-Account Containers"
Blockstack | New York HQ | Full-Time, Onsite or REMOTE| https://blockstack.org/careers

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. We've built this with an open source community and a software stack for building scalable decentralized apps.

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Perks: Blockstack offers a competitive salary, generous equity, 100% covered health insurance, free daily lunch, a computer of your choice along with accessories to fit your requirements, a professional development budget, a casual workplace, and standard vacation + unlimited sick days.
Quatico.com |Fullstack, Backend, Frontend, DevOps and Consultants | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: 95k-125k CHF | ONSITE | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders ONLY

Don't get afraid because our website is in German because we hire English speakers for technical roles, too.

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1) Phone screen with our CTO

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Also, the cited survivors have certain characteristics, like being small items with no "ecosystem" baggage and few dependencies in general.
That, I can agree with. One might also argue that a mere autopilot does not imply good enough capabilities to work in a cluttered, dense environment such as roads.
Would also love to buy a great electric motorcycle/scooter.

It's puzzling how much more robust the ebike market is compared to the electric vespa market.

It isn't even a price issue, fancy ebikes are about the same cost. (The Genze is $3699). It doesn't seem to be regulation, you don't have to pass a bunch of tests or crash them to ship one like with a car.

Maybe the large number of bike part manufacturers and builders give it more sophisticated supply chain? I really don't know.
Ah, but who chooses the experts? Whoever gets to do that has the real power. And I don't trust anybody with that level of power - you've given them the right to control the government, and call it "scientific", so that they can dismiss out of hand any arguments or complaints.

I don't like dictatorships, no matter who the dictator is. Spare us the dictatorship of the whoever chooses the "experts".
True. It's almost as if politicians in general suck, and are unable to foster an environment that promotes the wellbeing of their constituents.
I would like to know more. I've literally never heard of this stigma.
«Poor Nikola's name is being severely abused»
Pluto Has Dunes, but They’re Not Made of Sand
tl;dr When infrasructure of electronic fund transfer becomes unavailable/illiquid, the velocity is M2, unsterstandably, plummets. Correspondingly, the velocity of M0 shoots through the roof like a rocket on the way to Pluto. In the meantime, CPI goes crazy and because of limited M0 barter becomes the main form of transaction.

And in this type of event, there probably isn't a local bitcoin chugger able to mine u a coin or verify a transaction.
I've been calling it ES6 for a while. It reflects the variety of js that generally matters now. Also concise, and reasonably pronounceable (I'd rather say aloud "ee-es-six" than "ecmascript" which seems to me an awkward aglomeration of phonemes)
Unquestionably not.
Shogun (YC W18) | Full Stack Engineer | REMOTE | https://getshogun.com | $80-$140k + 0.25-1%

Shogun is a storefront builder for eCommerce stores. We have one of the most popular apps on Shopify (https://apps.shopify.com/shogun) and we just launched on BigCommerce.

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And now we thank the HN team for the recognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205865
If you listen to the podcast, I think—like nearly every other comment here—that you'll find this is addressed.
They aren't Tor network usability problems. They're clear web network usability problems. It'd be great if more people used Tor, NoScript (yes, I know this will not be baked in), and other privacy protecting mechanisms so that clear web sites would care about the users they're intentionally making the experience worse for.
> Imagine you want to buy something: You pick it, add it to your cart, and go through the entire check out process. In the final step, you see that the company has added an extra cost that was not mentioned on previous web pages.

This drives me insane. I was recently about to purchase something from theMysterious Package Company, which is kind of a "story by mail" thing. They send you notes and letters and trinkets and such, which come together to tell a story.

The product I was interested in was like $85, which is steep but I really like the property it's based on, and I figured that since these were physical items that had to be physically mailed, the cost was probably justified.

Until I got to the last page and they threw in an additional $25 shipping fee. Fuck that noise. And they kept spamming me with "you forgot to finish checking out!" emails for the next week.
> "cost of producing the data" seems really hard to strictly define. What's stopping a company from implementing extremely tedious procedures and billing $100 an hour to discourage people from requesting it?

Government agencies have been known to do this when they don't want to release FIOA information. Then they get sued over it by the ACLU or similar.

> In addition, GPDR says that getting access to data on you is a right and it seems contradictory to have to pay for something that is your right to have.

That is how all the other rights work. Freedom of the press isn't a right to use someone else's printing press without compensating them.
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Software Development Engineer in Test

I have 5+ years of SDET experience writing dockerized, comprehensive test automation in all facets of testing, tied into CI/CD that teams can rely on to verify new features, drive development, and ensure smooth releases.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/ provides precisely that and is one of the things which makes Facebook such a great platform for events.
The path of least resistance for the bots appears to be that they have a tool that scrapes search results, and nothing to talk to an API.
Not micropayments. just small subscription fees for that specialized search engine(or maybe even that isn't necessary).

But i want to read content from people just wanting to write, without perverse incentives, as much as possible.
My point of view certainly isn't that extreme. I prefer people on docked bikes over having more cars on the road. I just would also like to see them wearing helmets, being conscious of others on bikes and generally being better citizens. I realize this could apply to lots of interactions :)
Podcast player app market share
Yeah, that is a possibility. I'd have to avoid the most direct route though as that is fairly fast moving (Chertsey to Hammersmith in / around London). From memory I think the limit is only a few hundred watts. There is an ebike shop near me, I might pop in and see if they do test rides.
Hi Kranner, Here the commercial rights in video means you can't sell videos to other companies. If you are a startup you can use it for marketing & promotions without commercial rights.
PubNub | Full Time | SRE Site Reliability Engineer | ONSITE San Francisco | https://g.co/kgs/MQu53x

Docker / K8s - building deployment and ops on Amazon AWS. We are moving from Hashicorp tools like Terraform to the latest Kerbernetes.

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Bird's chargers are freelancers that get $5 per scooter charged. Given the price of renting them it seems like they have thin margins even before you account for the capital costs of buying and replacing the things, plus theft and destruction.

I suspect that $5 might start shrinking if they stick around. It seems just a touch generous currently. I guess it depends how many bored kids with bikes are available and willing to do the work.
Tlon's Urbit is probably the best all-fronts attack on the problem I've seen.

Honorable mentions for tackling part of the problem go to IPFS and Scuttlebutt.

There's a lot of people who understand the larger vision around the decentralization crowd if you can find them in the haystack of hypesters.
What the earth Billy knows about HPV ?
Did he payed to some consult to teach him ?

Hyppocrite, I would say
Ubisoft Massive | Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure Engineer) | Malmo, SE | Onsite, Relocation/VISA offered http://www.massive.se

My team is looking for an automation focused individual to help us release AAA games with the highest possible reliability, while supporting the needs of the adjacent programming squad.

Our team is comprised of classicly trained sysadmins who have always had a brush with automation, we work very closely with C++ programmers so experience or willingness is helpful.

Our stack is mostly comprised of Saltstack+Python, an ideal candidate would have enough Python experience to be able to investigate with us and fix bugs with us in saltstack.
We also deal with Windows and FreeBSD, but knowledge in those things is not paramount, typically we look for expertise in practical use of systems and infrastructure, concepts that go beyond the implementation of a single OS.

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External testicles are interesting because they do seem like pretty terrible "design" by evolution. However, as any man can tell you, the pain associated with getting hit in these all-important reproductive organs is so severe that he will go to great lengths to avoid it and protect them. This makes sense evolutionarily: men protect their fragile but crucial external organs. It's a lesson they only have to learn once!

Also interestingly, it seems that sperm really needs to be cool to operate well. Some of the first advice fertility doctors will give to a man is to wear loose underwear, i.e. let the testicles hang and stay cooler than the rest of your body. Apparently none of our ancestors had success making sperm at body temperature, so we're stuck with these external organs that are optimized to stay cool at the price of being vulnerable.
US Digital Service Survives Trump–Quietly
Contactless payments have finally rolled out in most discounters/supermarkets and drugstores in Germany, it's a godsend. Just tap the card and the receipt starts printing in 3-5 seconds.

But yeah for other stores and restaurants, better have cash.
Santa Clara (in Silicon Valley) has a measure proposing Ranked Choice Voting.

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Against: https://noasantaclara.com/
At some distance there's a crossover, where the speed and comfort of a bike overwhelm most of the other factors. I'm surprised by the price point for the Jump bike; that makes my price concern less of an issue.

As it is, as an NYC resident, I have neither Jump bikes nor shareable electric scooters, so my personal experience is limited. I had no idea that Jump bikes were so cheap -- the cheapest you can get here is the CitiBike, which is non-electric and has a half-hour ride for $3 (cheaper as you get memberships and rides in bulk, but that complex pricing is one of the things that makes it annoying).

Do you know how much of the Jump price is them burning VC money and passing the savings on to you? It seems like the depreciation on the bike is in excess of that amount.
Regulation would make it pretty good, even a 2-6 company oligopoly would could raise prices enough for very good margins.