skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mabl | Boston, MA | Software Engineer | Full-Time, ONSITE | https://mabl.com

Redefine the software testing space by joining our growing team at Downtown Crossing. mabl seeks to provide automatic testing of web applications using advanced ML and AI techniques to replace the tedious and fragile UI testing of yore.

We’re a 100% serverless operation build on Google Cloud Platform that rapidly develops and deploys features on a CI/CD model. Recently GA, our biggest challenge is keeping up with our clamoring customers’ feature requests.

We’re looking for senior backend engineers familiar with the following (or similar) tech:

- NoSQL persistence stores - DataStore/Firebase/S3/Redis

- Managed scaling services - AppEngine/Cloud Functions

- Container orchestration - Kubernetes/Helm/Docker/GKE

- Streaming Pipelines - Apache Beam/DataFlow/Pubsub

- CI/CD Tools - e.g. Jenkins/X/Codeship

- Browsers/Extensions - knowledge of what makes browsers tick is a plus

Our stack is built with Java 8, ES6, Bash

Drop me (an engineer), any questions, joe @ mabl.com, and checkout or careers site [1]. We can’t wait to work with you.

[1] https://www.mabl.com/careers
Google developed a far left employee culture and then expected their employees to help the military.

They don’t seem to understand how those two things are mostly incompatible.
Hi Jeff - I applied for the full-stack position last month. Is the hiring cycle particularly long, or did I just drop out of the funnel?
Infinite Food | Mechanical Engineers / Operations Researchers / Food Safety and Quality Manager | HK, Shenzhen and Zhuhai, China | $neg + equity available | Full-time or REMOTE | http://infinite-food.com/

Infinite Food will define and dominate a completely new segment of global food retail by rethinking the distribution and edge of the supply chain with novel approaches based upon robotics and machine learning. We're a Series A, Shenzhen-based, Hong Kong registered company with 2.5 years of IP and a business method patent. We've optimized for growth, not time to market, but will launch in three markets (HK/Macau/mainland China) in 2019.

(1) Talented Mechanical Design Engineers with fluency in Solidworks. Working language is English, Mandarin or regional languages well regarded. Broad range of interesting work focusing on automation and industrial products, rapid prototyping and iteration with supporting electrical, software, logistics and machine learning engineers. Experience with CFD (heat, fluid and airflow modeling), electrical and food safety regulation in any market, production in thermoform, injection molding, blow molding, extrusion well regarded. Private office in Shenzhen (Houhai, near HK/Shenzhen Wan border crossing). Physical presence encouraged but not a daily requirement.

(2) Operations Researchers. Opportunity to get involved creating, shepherding and managing fast-growing greenfield operations processes using the latest technology with supporting software and machine learning engineers. Areas include manufacturing and real time perishable goods logistics networks as well as network planning and spatial configuration of new sites.

(3) Food Safety and Quality Manager. Background in microbiology, chemistry, software or operations research, national or international experience in the food safety industry well regarded. Initial jurisdiction will be mainland China but global knowledge will be critical as we move from domestic through regional and global markets. Interface with manufacturing, design and government relations teams, author and run world first automation systems for food safety and traceability.

Mandarin speakers well regarded, but Chinese knowledge is not required. Clear written technical communication in English is mandatory. Skills and experience first, qualifications a distant second. We respect execution.

Email in profile, please include 'Candidate: <job title>' in subject. No recruiters.
There's a classic essay on this:
http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
Sheesh, and even that had a spike in price and volume at the start of the year
I love how some of the tech industry is beginning to see data as a liability rather than an asset. It dramatically reduces the ability for government mass surveillance for two reasons:

1. If companies only collect what they need (to reduce their liability), governments can't demand more than that (or even hack in to get the data illegally).

2. If the industry culture is to limit data collection, governments can't just say, "Well every company does it, so why can't we."

There's a wonderful talk, Haunted By Data, that covers a lot of the societal downsides of treating data as an asset. Highly encourage watching/reading.

Text: http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk
Latest mobile CPU benchmarks show Apple two years ahead of the competiton
CNCF to Host Helm
Ahh! Yes, each App Engine app lives in its own container & process. App Engine Standard further sandboxes things (you can't use arbitrary C modules from your Python code, for example).
> Every message board I've ever used does stuff like that

I just went to /pol/. No -- every message board I've ever used does not do stuff like that. And how the hell are you okay with using one that does?
Is it worse that Clinton got 48 percent of the popular vote or McCain got 46 percent and lost - that is a much bigger disenfranchised proportion.
Flattr is an extension/service that monitors your web usage and uses it to direct your payment towards the sites that you use. Recording your browser history is almost the extensions entire purpose
Phantom | Python Developer, Front End Developer, Analyst | London, UK | ONSITE, Full-Time | https://phantom.land

Phantom is a forward thinking digital creative agency based in Old Street, London, United Kingdom. We are currently expanding the team and have vacancies for mid/senior python engineers, front end developers of all levels and a data analyst/strategist.

No matter what the role, we love Phantoms to be involved in everything from strategy to delivery, working collaboratively with the entire agency to find unique solutions to some amazing briefs. To help facilitate this we have our own bar in the office and the cupboards are always stocked with snacks and treats. Most importantly we have an awesome development and creative team in place and are looking for more like-minded people who will keep pushing the agency forward.

A small sample of the technologies, languages and frameworks we use include Angular, Three.js, Unity, GCP, ES6, Django and Flask. Some recent projects we've worked on include a Cardboard VR Experience for Google (https://phantom.land/work/petra/), a personalised playlist generator for London Grammar (https://phantom.land/work/moodmix/), Market Finder (https://marketfinder.thinkwithgoogle.com/) and an interactive piece for the TATE Modern featuring music by Sigur Rós (https://phantom.land/work/states-of-matter/).

Please check out our site (https://phantom.land/jobs) for more info on the current jobs available. Alternatively send matt@phntms.com an email directly with your CV and any relevant information. Would love to see any recent or personal projects in your email.
UPCALL | San Francisco, CA | Full-time ONSITE | Sales
Upcall is the next generation on-demand call center, providing access to phone callers to all Small Businesses. Upcall is transparent, scalable and affordable.
If my movie library is of any indication, yes it’s definitely still a thing.

(And before you say anything, I do pay for Netflix and have video included in my Amazon Prime membership - none of which had those movies)
Who says it isn't mature? Is it immature because it doesn't fit your content expectations?

Reminder that after 15 long years of chaos, it still exists. It's a very specific, essentially impenetrable market of 4chan users that can't really be pushed away except by catastrophic mismanagement. The features of the site have stabilized and reacted to user demands over the years, and though good boards (/prog/ :( and others) have been terminated, lovely discussion still happens.

4chan isn't selling your identity to data scientists. 4chan doesnt fail whale every few moments, 4chan doesn't have a huge amount of bot accounts relative to human users, though I'm sure there are some.

People love to hate 4chan because there are deplorable users that use it, but it's just disingenuous and dishonest to make the claim that 4chan isn't a good product in terms of capturing their desired users.

The fact that so many other chans exist is a testament to the success of the format. Reddit has an entire sub reddit /r/RedditAlternatives, which I think accomplishes the same thing: letting reddit know "the product is good, I just don't like YOU."

The difference is that 4chan is a very strong anchor of all chan-related traffic, outside of Japan and Germany. "competitors" don't really pose an existential threat, but rather a topical, and therefore fallible threat of feature envy or fashionable content envy.

Disclaimer: I haven't used 4ch since the /prog/ days, but I check in now and then, and lo and behold, it still exists.
the old joke is "HPC is the art of taking a cpu-bound computation and making it I/O bound".
kiwifarms?

not a message board though, but a forum.
do you know about TRAMP? https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
Amazon Neptune GraphDB Generally Available
Disagree. Have you ever seen a toddler use an iPad? More input/stimuli in 2018 = higher capacity to analyze said inputs. Or an overload of capacity which results in the epidemic of mental illnesses and psychotic breakdowns we witness in this post-social media society.

Another example - I can record a video and broadcast internationally, translated on the fly into dozens of languages, effectively communicating with significantly more people than if I could not harness that technical capability. In 2000 that communication process would have been orders of magnitude longer. (Did they have on-the-wire translation then? Idk, just making an assumption to illustrate my point.)
Is that yo-yo pattern bad?

Periods that are more frugal help you appreciate the pleasures of higher-end lifestyles while realizing that not having them isn't a catastrophe.

Plus the hedonic treadmill is a bitch. Someone earlier in this thread regretted his parents not having experienced certain things. Truly, it's a crying shame to die without having had truly fancy delicious dinners, for example -- that one time is almost priceless. But once a month is a nice, expensive habit. Twice a week you don't care anymore.
How is this constitutional? At least the Chinese are public about their system unlike the shadow social credit system we are currently using/testing/sleepwalking towards here in the USA. Disgusting.
I wonder if there's another way to "protect" them during bad weather... Maybe by turning drones into zeppelins? So they couldn't "crash" but would merely get "blown away", and hence wouldn't need motors for levitation, but only for horizontal movement.
Because that would directly favour the interests of the wealthy elites at the expense of the vast majority of the population.

That idea is only half decent of your goal is to get yet anothet bloody communist revolution on your hands.
> But the cost of campaigns downs basically linearly with number of voters too.

What makes you say that? Hell at 10,000 constituents you borderline don't even need to run ads, just go door to door, personally.
That could be done in a totally anonymous way. Add up total number of donations and total number of visits and distribute money accordingly. There is no need for them to ever store personal information for this.
Broadway Technology | Consulting, Software Engineering, Trading Application Support | Austin, London, New York, Toronto, Waterloo | ONSITE, FULL TIME, VISA

Broadway Technology develops high-performance distributed trading systems for leading financial institutions. Primary development languages are C++ (especially for latency-sensitive components), Python, and C#. Compensation and benefits are competitive, including the non-financial side:
https://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers#life-at-broadway

Visit http://careers.broadwaytechnology.com for formal job descriptions and to apply, or email jcowans@broadwaytechnology.com and mention Hacker News!
Google AdSense on Ctrl blog is configured to only show non-personalized ads to any users with the Do-Not-Track (DNT) setting enabled or European Economic Area (EEA) citizens. AdSense still uses cookies for rate-limiting and fraud prevention, but not ad personalization or tracking. requestNonPersonalizedAds=1 is part of AdSense’s GDPR APIs.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/adsense-gdpr-consent

You also only see that particular message if your browser sends the DNT header, and an adblocker is detected.
So long as Tor depends on volunteers to maintain exit nodes, and with that the risk of being arrested for all sorts of criminal activity by non-tech-savvy law enforcement, this is how it'll be.
TSB letter error 'may have broken law'
Citymapper | Backend/iOS/Android Engineers | London, UK | ONSITE, VISA | https://citymapper.com/jobs

Cities are complicated. We use the power of mobile and open transport data to help humans survive and master them. We are building the best public transit app, one that caters for the needs of commuters. We are building a routing engine which is truly multimodal. We're running our own services to fill gaps in the transit network. To power all of this, we're leveraging open data as well as building the tools necessary for agencies to add and fix data.

We recently launched our new Smart Ride service, aimed at encouraging better shared mobility in cities. Read about The Responsive Network: https://medium.com/citymapper/the-responsive-network-part-3-.... This is super interesting and rewarding work from a technical perspective, we're constantly iterating and improving our planning, routing and simulation algorithms for Smart Ride to better serve our network. If you are interested in this sort of problem space, now is a fantastic time to get involved from the ground up.

See all our open positions at https://citymapper.com/jobs

We're hiring for Backend (Python, Go, C/C++, AWS), Frontend (Web, React, ES6) and iOS/Android engineers as well as Data Science.

Read our other blog posts at https://medium.com/@Citymapper. We've also launched an engineering blog: http://engineering.citymapper.com, if stuff like that interests you, definitely apply!

If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email at suhail -at- citymapper -dot- com
> using 4chan and ignore the crap you don't care about.

Can you even imagine using 4chan as a woman or a black man? Like not only in real life do you have to deal with people being racist as hell, but hey here's this forum that's entirely shameless about it too.

You seem to believe that folks can just ignore being called the n-word day-in and day-out as if it doesn't really affect them.

The only people who can go to 4chan and just ignore the toxic stuff are the people who aren't affected by the toxic stuff.
http://world.timeout.com/ shows most fb events near you
Nope, I wouldn't want to have to keep the browser open all the time just because I'm downloading a torrent.
Is it the block causing the traffic drop, or the DDOS though?
> GDPR doesn't in any way protect people from data leaks.

If GDPR provides PR reasons for better data hygiene the result is the same: less data retained, less data at risk of being leaked.
Shiplify | Full Stack Developer | Atlanta, GA; Summit County, CO; REMOTE (US timezones) | FULL-TIME | https://shiplify.com

Shiplify helps shipping carriers to charge their customers correctly. We're bringing valuable data analytics to an industry that has been slow to adopt it, and we've seen significant opportunities to contribute to our customers' bottom line as a result.

Tech stack:

- Ruby on Rails

- Rspec (testing is important to us)

- React

- Postgres+PostGIS

- ElasticSearch

- scikit-learn

- Heroku

- AWS

Our culture:

- based in Atlanta, GA (Westside)

- one engineer on-site

- another engineer remote in Summit County, CO (in the mountains, near Breckenridge)

- ego-free and results-driven workplace

- we use Slack constantly to text- and video-chat

- we use Pivotal Tracker to plan upcoming work

We're looking for full-stack engineer #3 (~70% back-end, 30% front-end) to help build new products and support existing ones. We'd love to hear about your work and personal projects (passion projects go a long way), and your passion for crafting (or learning to craft) high-quality code.

Ready to apply? Have a peer, mentor, or past employer vouch for you via email to engineering at shiplify.com.

That’s right, it shouldn’t come from you. ;-)
I’ve been building https://payhere.co/ a payments platform to help entrepreneurs and small businesses sell more products and memberships online.

My agency alternatelabs.co uses Rails for nearly all our projects as we think it’s still the most productive framework for building most businesses in 2018.
Blood test to ‘detect cancer years before illness’ hailed as major breakthrough
On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.
Could drones be used to fire nets at the birds? The birds could be encapsulated so they can't fly away and then either left to starve to death or be picked up for execution later.
IMHO, still his most derivative and soulless. Moreover, it doesn't say anything new about the subject, and the main plot devices artifice were so implausible that I frequently stopped reading to wonder whether Gibson was really just phoning it in, or actually that out of touch/practice.
Honestly if it can block anything with the words/phrases "Fortnite, PUBG, Must Watch, new, World Record, Never Before Seen, and similar topics then it is a winner in my book.
Holy shit, Twitter is just 3 years younger than 4chan?!
But you do.
Assurant Mortgage Solutions (NYSE:AIZ) | Milwaukee, WI | ONSITE | Full Time

We are looking for a Scrum Master who is:

* intimately familiar with agile and scrum software development practices

* ready to coach and support the scrum team and the product owner in their daily work

* not afraid to dream big and experiment with new approaches and techniques

You are either an experienced scrum master (3y+) or project manager (5y+) within the software development field and you bring to the table:

* deep understanding of agile and scrum practices based on your current professional responsibilities

* commitment to the values and principles of Agile, focus on continuous learning and foster efficient feedback loops

* excellent communication, coaching and motivation skills

We would be especially impressed if you have

* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification

* experience working with predominantly remote development teams

* extensive prior experience within a large multi-team organization

Email Brad at brad.pokorny@assurant.com

Assurant benefits include: > 401(k) with up to 6% match > Stock Purchase Plan at a 10% discount > Medical, Dental, Life and Disability Insurance > More at https://www.assurant.com/Careers/RewardsAndBenefits
"Andy Grove"

"The Intel Trinity"

"Netscape Time"

"Valley Boy"

Brian Kernighan is a CS professor at Princeton and quite a personable guy. I'd imagine that he has some talks about his work and past up online.
The article specifically mentions that they are getting bids from WingCopter (which flips between VTOL and fixed) and includes a link to their brochure:

http://www.wingcopter.com/brochures/WINGCOPTER%20178%20GEO.p...
I feel the same way about the Matrix. Even the first film sacrifices a lot in order to be more cinematic.

I like both aesthetics, admittedly.
Ask HN: Is there a OpenSource projects looking for work?
Maybe I'm just niave, but I think it would be cool for OS projects to voice small, discrete needs on a monthly basis for developers who are looking to dabble in a different project without committing to maintaining an entire project.

EG, I'd love to have someone tell me about an OS project that needs 10 hrs of golang or python work that I could pick up for fun.
To see why this isn't necessarily the case, add to your list all the text editors launched between 1992 and 2008 that are no longer around ("being around" defined as being able to install and run on whatever OS you're using on your main computer with no special effort).
VS Code and Atom are practically guaranteed to run until the end of time at this point. The sole benefit of web apps is that they're more likely to remain functional than native ones.
This depends on where you live though. Midwest basically required a car, living in Seattle and SF my wife and I never need a car. It’s not always as simple as grouping a population. America is big and diverse.
I am using it, but it's quite inconvenient. The return types are wrong. Documentation is sparse. I would like contribute to it.
"Kelly: More than My Share of it All" - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson : A personal narrative of the world's greatest aircraft designer

"The Mythical Man-Month" - Fred Brooks : A classic book of software engineering but it is so much more. If you have aspirations of becoming an effective manager, you need this book.

"Flight: My Life in Mission Control" - Chris Kraft : A book about the early space program written by the man who literally wrote the book on how spaces missions were to be conducted.
If you think it is irrelevant there is probably a lot of things going on in contemporary books and plays that are going over your head

I don't watch plays, and I doubt I'm missing many Shakespeare references in modern books. Even if I am, I don't lament what I don't know I'm missing.

But why keep others away from it because you didn't like it?

Because it's an enormous time sink that could be better used on other things. Why turn so many kids off of plays, poetry, and appreciation of literature because of an obsession with one playwright?
Art. 5:

Personal data shall be:

kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed

Recital 39:

The personal data should be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed. This requires, in particular, ensuring that the period for which the personal data are stored is limited to a strict minimum.

The GDPR is very explicit on this point. You must delete or thoroughly anonymise personal data as soon as is practically possible.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-39/
What happens, then, when one "side" takes it as an article of faith that any plan proposed by the other side needs to be rejected out of hand? That's the circumstance we're in right now, and have been since 2008 at least.

To wit, Merrick Garland would like a word.
> Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for life.

Which is exactly why we not only do the whole handouts-as-inexpensive-penance thing but also make sure to keep the system 'sustainable' as you put it by gating off access to the fish reserves, polluting and over-exploiting communal stocks, 'teaching' fishing as a method of being a reliant user of charity-approved fishing gear with built in planned obsolescence of increasingly confusing and complex dependencies, and of course 'supplement' the rudimentary knowledge with a complete moral reconditioning program stressing the virtues of submissive piety and gratefulness as prerequisite to rather dubious advice on self-reliance.
Reminds me of this game, Plague Inc [1], where you can simulate a plague that starts silently until the symptoms become too strong and starts a race between the deadly decease and the governments looking for a cure together and closing borders to prevent it from spreading.

[1] https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc
South Carolina anti-drug police unit admitted it conducts illegal no-knock raids