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Hi I'm Reuben. An MIT trained consultant, open source contributor, and speaker. I help organizations derive insight from their customer and user behavior data.

With specialties in data integration, marketing automation, and customer insight; I can solve your issues around low customer engagement, high churn, inefficient operations, or reduced productivity.

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ScaleFactor | Austin, TX | ONSITE | Full-time | Software Developers & Senior Software Developers | https://scalefactor.com/

ScaleFactor is a bookkeeping and finance software company that uses powerful software to create monthly financials, deliver proactive insights, and ensure accounts are accurate and healthy. Our goal: to empower business owners to make the best strategic and financial decisions by automate the painful, time consuming accounting tasks small business owners are forced to complete manually.

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Tech stack: Rails, Ember.js, and Postgres
Over the counter Tylenol is not the same as Rx Tylenol. And you will do it because due to the crackdown on physicians all their new Rx say don’t fill the opioid until the patient has tried the Tylenol.
Powertools Technologies | Junior Engineer | Lisbon, Portugal | Full-time, ONSITE

Looking for a junior engineer for work on Electronic Design Automation software tools, scripts and physical design kits. Candidate should at least have (or graduate shortly) a 3 year university degree in engineering. Most suitably Electronic/Computer Engineering or Informatics with good Systems base.

Site: http://www.powertools-tech.com . Growing a small experienced team with international industrial and academic track, willing to train new hire in fairly uncommon skill set. Candidate should be capable of quality detail work, and have good communication abilities, to provide support to international design teams in fabless semiconductor companies.

Email your interest and CV to contact@powertools-tech.com, please.
This looks even worse, you've got double line breaks which turn simple line breaks into paragraph breaks.

Your editor shouldn't insert the line breaks at 80 column intervals; separate the content from the presentation, and let HN format your text properly. After all, if you have a small screen, the text will be wrapped according to the browser width anyway.
Pretty sure that's FUD spread by parties interested in seeing ICE cars hold on a bit longer.
Amen to that! I often end up in discussions and decision making at work were I haven't even scratched the surface with my knowledge of the problem.
Trying to listen and absorb as much information from the people that know most about the problem is my way of trying to quickly be able to make a decision (if that's needed).
Do you have citizenship requirements?
> Where is this narrative that statistics is only interested in understanding coming from?

You may have heard of this guy called Fisher he might like to have a few words with you. He says he fathered modern Stats, that he connected what was a bag of recipes to math. Many seem to agree [0] despite the fact he does not seem to be the most pleasant bloke around. The British queen seemed awfully impressed with him though, YMMV.

[0] "a genius who almost single handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" -- Hald, Anders, A History of Mathematical Statistics.
'The mere presence of your phone — even if it’s powered off, and even if you’re actively and successfully ignoring it — “reduces available cognitive capacity”'.

I thought this was interesting. Our focus is so sensitive that knowing it's within physical proximity is distracting. I bet most people wouldn't have guessed there is a difference between 'in a drawer' and 'in another room'.
anything like this for Python?
This is the new reality of the internet, best get used to it. Free speech is dead.
Reminds me of what someone from the industry said around 20 years ago about walmart. Since I can't find it online I'll have to paraphrase

"Not selling to walmart is to invite death...

Selling to walmart is to embrace death"

https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
I think some of the content will move to Instagram and Twitter
BusinessVPN | Elixir and Go Engineers | Anywhere, REMOTE | FULL-TIME | https://www.businessvpn.com

BusinessVPN is building the next-generation secure network for SMBs that want the ease-of-use of a consumer VPN, but need centralized management, powerful web filtering, and end-to-end encrypted audit logging.

We are growing the team and adding a Golang engineer to work on our custom VPN framework for the server and cross-platform clients, as well as an Elixir engineer to work on our Phoenix web app and control plane API. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a new B2B SaaS offering and to directly influence the product. The work is challenging, but fun and varied: cross-platform considerations, user management, SSO, payment API, end-to-end secrets/key management, device management, application delivery, to name a few!

Requirements (Go):

* Cross-platform Go development experience (macOS, Windows, Linux)
* Familiar with network protocol design, C10K problem, and Go garbage collector highly desired
* Secure systems design experience is a nice to have (cryptography, AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, etc.)
* Experience containerizing applications using Docker (e.g., Kubernetes concepts desired!)

Requirements (Elixir):

* Proficiency with Elixir, Phoenix, and Ecto frameworks
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Please email jobs@businessvpn.com with "BusinessVPN Application" in the subject line and include your current resume, links to shipping apps or code you are most proud of. Thanks for looking and best of luck!
Why are Microsoft and Google employees so different that it's OK for Microsoft to have a censored China specific Bing search engine, but it's not OK for Google to have one ?

https://www.bing.com/?mkt=zh-CN

https://www.economist.com/analects/2014/02/12/bings-chinese-...
It's too many things at once. The ABI is excellent and is used all the time, see DirectX, MediaFoundation, .NET, UWP, etc, they all use good parts of COM.

Scripting support (IDispatch, WSH) is OK despite a bit outdated.

Registration infrastructure (HKCR), GUI widgets (ActiveX), threading model (these apartments) and inheritance of implementation (aggregation) ain't good, way overengineered.

Compound document format (structured storage), RPC both local and networked, are just horrible.
The thing is that for the more niche kink communities on Tumblr the fact that everyone was using it was what made them work.

You will never get that kind of activity on a Tor service. If you look at the more obscure, older fetish-related networks which often still have active IRC channels and such you'll notice that a large portion of people there are quite techy.

I don't think that's true for the wider kink community at all, it's just that the barrier of entry & discoverability of such communities will exclude the less techy folks.
The point is that Google should not be held as moral entity.

If it's held onto the moral standard, Ads should not be Google's business at all, as Larry Page stated sometime in the early days of Google. (I cannot find the reference though, the statement is on the line of "advertising is fundamentally immoral).

On the other hand, if you look at what search service is provided in China (Baidu would sell online groups to advertisers entirely and let the advertisers to pretend to be genuine community member and manipulate the content), by simply providing a censored Google search is a morally noble service to Chinese Internet users.

I do not support or disapprove censored search on the human rights level.

I do support censored search on the basis of providing a more normal search service, and make non-political high-quality information available to normal Chinese citizens.
Try to use that C ABI and see how far you go writing an Android application, an user space driver in Android Things, or a Treble driver.
I used to use Tumblr a lot - and hardly ever saw any porn. I must have been using it wrong :)
A restraining order is just a piece of paper. It solves very little in the face of a determined 'admirer', and stops nothing. Yes it MAY give the police/legal system recourse AFTER the subject breaches the terms, but in the meantime the terms are breached (at varying levels of severity/urgency) and the police are minutes away at the very best of times.
Or sufficiently chilled that they self-censor. That's the "best case" here -- users get non-censored results for non-banned topics (better than today), and still get no support for banned topics (same as today).
Classical critical thinking skills are great, and no match for reinforcement based suggestion engines. You might critically pick the best item from the 5 pieces of shit you are offered next, but comprehending how your viewing habits are being shaped over time by moving the _neutral_ point a half-a-degree is another thing entirely.
Well, without knowing whether the products are somehow complementary or derivatives of the same thing, it's very hard for us to make that call.

But instinctively, I agree. Churning out one product as a side project is hard enough; to really execute well, one cannot split focus among multiple products.
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I’m an experienced React Native app developer and consultant. I’ve worked for startups and agencies all over the States, and many well-known companies in the bay area. If your company is working on a React Native app, I’d love to get in touch!
They have a repo.

https://github.com/pim-book/programmers-introduction-to-math...
Anytime anybody critices china, you only have to replace the word with america, or england, and the story is the same. Except, using china in a sentance significantly raises the clickbait value.
> The fact that the Echo can't seem to hear people talking over itself seems like a big issue

Google Home has the same issue in my experience. It's quite annoying.
Tython | Salesforce Software Engineer | San Diego, CA | Full-time or Part-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.tython.co

Tython provides consulting services to Salesforce partners, customers, and ISVs with a focus on lightning components, Apex development, and backend integrations.

I've been working on the Salesforce platform since 2010 and in that time provided consulting and development services to Fortune 100 companies and nonprofits alike, released products on the Salesforce AppExchange, and spoken at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference multiple times. In 2014 I formed the DC Salesforce developer group and later that same year my team and I were awarded 4th place and $20,000 at the Dreamforce Hackathon.

Currently I'm a one man show, but now I'm looking to build out a fun, supportive team of both junior and experienced Salesforce software engineers. Reach out if you would enjoy having a flexible work schedule and building complex applications/integrations with the Salesforce platform.

Interested? Send your resume to careers@tython.co (no recruiters please)
It's a shame because there are some genuinely talented artists there that partake in NSFW art. A lot of the people I follow seem to be moving their work to pixiv and taking commissions through patreon. Some are straight up uploading porn on twitter which is funny considering it is even more public than tumblr.

To be fair though, there some artists push boundaries far harder than others especially concerning the "age" of the imaginary character. However I find these groups far more tame than some fandoms of shows like Stranger Things that straight up sexualize real life kids such as Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown.
MakerDAO | | SF, New York, Europe, Worldwide | ONSITE | https://makerdao.com/careers

MakerDAO has created a decentralized (because it's on Ethereum) and trustless (because no persons control funds, immutable code does) system of crypto-collaterized loans and a token called Dai that is soft-pegged to the US dollar. We've been on mainnet since last December, and growing very quickly all around the world.

Check out makerdao.com/careers for positions and mention HN in your email. If you fit a role not listed there, please still email careers@ and we can talk.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/upshot/fentan...

"Since 2013, the number of overdose deaths associated with fentanyls and similar drugs has grown to more than 28,000, from 3,000. Deaths involving fentanyls increased more than 45 percent in 2017 alone."

28,000 is a lot (same order as motor vehicle deaths), especially coming from 3k not long ago
Apple HomePod uses machine learning to ignore noisy surroundings Siri requests
That's exactly the thing it was useful for. There was just so much beauty (as well as so much weirdness neighboring it but I didn't mind) RIP Tumblr. Anybody capable and interested please back-up and re-upload to some alternative (what are any, BTW)? I was so glad such a censorship-free place existed.
>Are there any satellite imaging surveys or aerial surveys 50+ years ago that can confirm the assertion that the cave entrance has been covered with snow 100% of the time before 50 years ago?

You think people comb through satellite photos to look for cave entrances?
That is simply not true in the US.

By default, in all but one US State, employees can be fired with no notice for no reason (or for any reason other than a handful of specific exceptions like "because of your race"). The legal departments of most companies feel that having a clearly specified contract would weaken this right, so as a matter of policy they do not have contracts with the majority of employees (this includes most tech employees). They have employees sign separate contracts for things like "keeping all the company's secrets", "granting ownership of copyrights and patents" or "promising not to work for any competitor for some length of time", and these contracts are not tied to their salaries.

You are welcome to decide that you don't like this system, but you will find it difficult to find employment.
You're absolutely right. My bad, mixed too many ideas at once :). Gradient descent (or similar techniques) can be used for structural optimization with the same atomistic models used in molecular dynamics.
RELAYTO/ | Software Engineers, UI/UX Designer | London, UK | FULLTIME, ONSITE

RELAYTO/ helps brands with sales & marketing content by enabling the creation and distribution of smart, interactive documents. Simple and powerful way to gain attention, deliver information, close deals and monitor your audience engagement along the way.

You'll be working directly with founders and will have access to the world-class company advisors http://rla.to/advisors

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The author did not work for Microsoft.
Asana | New York City, San Francisco, and Vancouver | Onsite | https://asana.com/jobs

Asana is a leading work management platform for teams, on a mission to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly. More than 50,000 organizations and millions of users across 195 countries rely on Asana to focus on the work that matters, including Airbnb, Disney, KLM Air France, NASA, Uber and Vox Media. Our highly recognized culture spurs innovation and business results, and for the last two years, Asana has been named a Top 5 Best Place to Work by FORTUNE and one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.

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Lattice | San Francisco, CA | Tech Lead, Software Engineer | Full Time | On-site

Lattice offers a performance management solution that helps companies put employees first. We offer 360 reviews, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, and goal setting in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement. We launched in summer 2016 and have grown to over 800 customers around the world. Lattice has raised $9.8 million in total funding from Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Slack Fund, Marc Benioff, and others.

We are looking for product focused, full stack engineers to join our growing team. Our current stack is primarily React / Relay on the front-end and GraphQL / Node on the backend. You should be comfortable with both shipping products in JavaScript, and knowing when it’s not the right tool for the job.

Check our postings @ https://jobs.lever.co/latticehq/?team=Product
Senior Software Architect | Full Time | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE

Secure AI Labs (SAIL) has built and patented a new secure analytics platform that allows healthcare and life science companies to share valuable, sensitive data while maintaining ownership and privacy. SAIL is building a securely accessible network that integrates with existing data silos. Machine learning models are able to be trained and run through the network on isolated data sets.

We combine (i) secure computation technology with (ii) decentralized machine learning to increase the accuracy and speed of analytics for patients and healthcare providers. SAIL's customers are training algorithms on encrypted health records and encrypted drug libraries, ensuring data ownership and privacy without compromising the computational speed and accuracy necessary for medical research.

We’re a pre-seed startup with 3 major pilots underway, so this role has high potential for growth within the company. We’re looking for an engineer who will (i) help architect our platform for longevity and robustness, (ii) manage our other engineers as we implement features, and (iii) bring fresh eyes to any security vulnerabilities we should protect against. Qualified candidates should have at least 5 years of experience managing, developing, and maintaining platform development. Hardware experience is a plus! A strong knowledge of relational databases, C, distributed networks, and security/cryptography/encryption.

Experience/Education:

* BS degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

* 4+ years of software development experience

* Managing teams between 3-10 software engineers

* Background in health is a plus!

With deep expertise in at least 2 of the following:

* Distributed systems; networked systems

* Operating systems; kernel/firmware

* Machine learning systems

* Security and/or applied cryptography

* App/dApp development

If you're interested, send an email to "careers [at] secureailabs [dot] com" with "HN" somewhere in the subject.
I definitely see the need for packages like this. So much of a data scientist's time is spent on feature engineering, but there are relatively few tools out there that are trying to improve that step in the process compared to tools for the modeling step.

I see this tool as a something that can help with the deployment piece of the feature engineering. As things stand, it's "easy" to package and deploy modeling code, but much harder to package up your feature engineering workflow. In part because there is no agreed upon standard for developing feature engineering pipelines.

I'd be curious how this could be combined with a library like Featuretools (http://github.com/featuretools/featuretools/) which helps automate the discovery of features, but currently has less functionality related to deployment.

(full disclosure: I work on Featuretools)
QuotaPath | Backend or Full-stack Engineer | Philadelphia, PA or Austin, TX | Full-Time | On-Site | https://www.quotapath.com/careers/ Sales compensation plans can be shockingly complex. Too often, salespeople are forced to use unfriendly accounting software from the web 1.0 era, or worse, to pass around Excel spreadsheets, without the ability to verify the calculations or understand how they work.
At QuotaPath, we're solving this problem in a new way. We're creating a platform that's built for salespeople, not accountants. This means our business model is unique, both consumer-facing and B2B ("B2BC"; think Slack). Good UX and beautiful design are at the core of our process. The demand for a product like this is intense and we're working as hard as we can to deliver features to eager users.

We're looking for engineers to help us accelerate our development as a product and as a company. If you're interested in having a huge impact on a small team, this is a great opportunity. We're well-funded, but we're still only 8 people: 3 engineers, 1 UX and 4 others in product and executive team. I'm one of those 3 engineers, and I'm also the technical co-founder. Please ask me questions if you have any!

Our stack is Python + Django on the backend, TypeScript + React on the frontend, but we're more interested in working with people who are smart and capable than people from any particular background. If you have strong opinions about using different tech, we'll hear you. Like most startups, we're built on lots of open source tech and we plan on giving back. We value building a culture of inclusion and transparency. We care about diversity and hope you do too.

Feel free to reach out to me directly: eric at quotapath dot com

(Please forgive if this is a repost! My original post seems to have disappeared)
> Maybe the indigenous people knew about it

Or the military.
Yes. The optics look bad with N=2; namely, you wouldn’t have any controls over bribery or other coercion
The fastest main memory bandwidth supported on modern servers is a dual socket AMD Epyc [0] with a theoretical maximum of 320GB/s. One TB/s is non-sense.

That said, I approve of naive brute-force and one should always benchmark their systems against the brute force solution.

[0] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/epyc/7551
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Well 3 is the job of the applicant to figure out. That's about having the right questions on your end.
A source on the Page claim would be helpful. He may have said that then-current ads are morally flawed and that Google could do better, which is what Google did (yet saw degradation over the years)