skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BBC iPlayer | London | Fulltime | On Site | Back-End Software Engineer | 33k - 49k

The job description is pretty much on point - we're a small team of 4 engineers (one of whom is me). We build the API for iPlayer, which is used by the Mobile Apps, TV Apps and the Website.

We're heavily investing into personalisation and experimentation at the moment, working closely across all three platforms and finding the best ways to promote the right content to each user individually at the right time and in the right way. Another focus this year is on Live events, and Music, Sports and News content. There is scope to have a real impact on the product and consulting with architects and product managers.

Our tech stack is mostly Node.js, with several dozen microservices. We manage a couple hundred EC2 instances, dozens of Redis caches and databases, and half a dozen Postgres databases, with code deployed directly to production every day.
We have 10% time, as well as days dedicated to personal objectives, and some working from home days.

Full job description: https://careershub.bbc.co.uk/members/modules/job/detail.php?...

And some more background about how we work: https://iplayer.engineering/the-tech-stack-that-powers-bbc-i...
The last time I "wished" for that kind of language (Lifetimes with dynamic types) people said it couldn't be done.

Happy to see otherwise.
This article was written well before the announcement or release of Netflix's "Bandersnatch". While I liked the concept, and probably spent at least an hour with it, I thought it underscored the weaknesses of the genre, when compared to traditional linear narrative, such as how the alternate paths/realities almost necessarily dilutes the themes and characterizations.

In any case, I don't see the need to bring back the CYA book. As video games get more and more book-like, including the "interactive novel" genre, they seem to fill the role better than any CYA book ever could.
No, I am not taking an extreme position.

Saying that trying to make designer babies comes with potential downside that is potentially horrifying is not an extreme position. It also isn't the same as arguing that people with known genetic defects should be denied the opportunity to try to have children who lack that defect.

Isn't that one element of exploration in foundations looking for a cure?

I've grown vastly healthier while the entire world calls me crazy and accuses me of making that up. I've done so largely via diet and lifestyle.

Based on that, my view is that the obsession with Oo, Shiny! tech solutions expected to create some slam-dunk solution actually hinders real progress. It causes the world to largely overlook more prosaic solutions with more immediate pay-off but less glamor.
Something public safety can be at risk in the software world. Medical devices immediately comes to mind (look up Therac-25). Some software acts are reserved. Most of my friends are registered software engineers.
Finding out that it’s already occupied would be the most astounding scientific discovery in history, so I’m going to have to disagree with you on that.
Try Unity3D! The Asset store has more art than you will ever need, especially if graphical consistency is no priority
It’ll be a shame to lose gems like Escape Velocity. I know several people (myself included) have asked about acquiring the rights to the games but received no reply. It appears Ambrosia is indeed defunct.
My reef tank. Balance in this context means not loosing livestock. Aka us.
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2019
Does this guy know how to party or what?
I don’t get how people can defend Mozilla over this yet blast chrome for simply being a Google product. Yeah there’s concern over what Google tracks but I’d be using their search and services in Firefox anyways.
This would come over to me more if it was not for the fact I also hear these same people complain about SpaceX send tourists to the moon and maybe landing a probe.

More often the complaint is "I hate that you are spending money on space rather on the things I am interested in".
Regardless of the reasons for the call, can you really pursue damages from someone who made a good faith call to emergency services?

Yes, you can try to sue for anything. Also, yes, because the lawyer will try to show it was not "good faith" but a failure of software that caused the tragedy. I'm sure the discovery stage will yield enough to make it painful for Facebook. The current feelings about Facebook are going to come up.

A EULA will not protect you from the families of dead people.
In many cases, Facebook does more harm than good.

“oh so you were trying to reconnect with Purple, huh? You’re about to get a call from Spencer“

Facebook had Mickey Mouse security for a very long time. At least google went out of their way to design their data security properly
The same can be said for generational wealth, education, culture, language, and even names.
Didn't think of it that way, but yes it could escalate into a unintentional swatting-style situation. I'm betting some newspaper will call it just that when the first tragedy happens.
There is less economic stability, so it's more risky to be in a place with fewer employers, that by itself incentivizes wanting to live in an urban area.
I came from another platform and tried BBEdit, but never quite got the hang of it. I ended up using TextMate and that's what I've stuck with ever since, largely for similar reasons. Text editors have advanced a lot over time, somewhat surprisingly, but ultimately I need a text editor to operate via the principle of least surprise and be incredibly stable. I still mostly use `vim`, but I am really happy about the state of editors on OS X. It's far better than on my prior platform.
You can try Dungeons of the Endless, Amplitude Studio's refreshing mashup of dungeon crawling and tower defense.
Apparently didn't talk to any of them to ask what they did.
If you like CYOA books, you might also enjoy playing the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective games[1], which have a similar mechanic.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2511/sherlock-holmes-con...
Edition (edition.io) | Full-Time/Contract | Remote/NYC | $25-$50/hour | Equity, if you'd like to join long-term

Bootstrapped, close to launch.

We're looking for two people to help us get to launch a little faster:

1. A front-end developer (HTML + CSS, Bootstrap 4) to help us polish the design for the public-facing parts of the site

Email: Mike at jobs+html(at)edition(dot)io if you're interested.

2. Angular 6 and/or React developer to help us finish our dashboard. Experience with Draft.js and working with Django would be great, but not requirements.

Email: Mike at jobs+angular(at)edition(dot)io if you're interested.

Who we’re looking for someone who’s:

* Reliable.

* A strong finisher. That last 10% is always a steep climb. (Who’s hyped for progressive image loading?)

Who am I:

* Hi, I’m Mike. (Python/Django developer for 11 years)

* Angular + TypeScript for fun in my spare time. Made a massively multiplayer adaptation of the board game Codenames recently:

- Link: http://codewords.io - Angular NYC Talk: https://youtu.be/alOaRITwB80?t=49m9s - Slides: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mike-dev/Codewords.io+(Angular+NYC+...
They discuss this here when comparing to 'the commercial alternatives we all know'. Key things they admit it is bad at are user friendliness and 2d output. Both are pretty essential for serious use in the architecture / construction industry.

Though before revit was bought by autodesk it was probably in a similar point (2d drawing was really poor).

I think the biggest open source success in related industries is still qGIS. I hope this can be replicated in the architectural CAD sector. If so though i think it will have to offer something else. FreeCAD is pushing the best BIM integration which is great. But if you talk to a lot of architects right now they are excited about Grasshopper and Dynamo visual programming which the attached says is yet to come in freecad. Heres hoping it turns out well. My view is that if it does this well and picks up for 2d drawing it could be a serious competitor
Absolutely there are entire fields that have abandoned licensure or have no real need for licensure. These are usually fields where designs are not public facing or reviewed by a state agency and so no implied liability occurs.

However, I think it is incredibly important to note that the story in question had a guy who was claiming to be an engineer and talking about traffic signal timing. Traffic engineering (and all other subsets of civil engineering) is definitely NOT one of the fields that has abandoned licensure. Civil engineering has the highest percentage of licensure of any engineering discipline that I know of. Anything related to a traffic signal, in my experience, has had to be dual stamped by both a licensed civil engineer for the traffic and electrical engineer for the light.
> Radio studios still use ISDN links to other studios, because they have fixed latency and incredibly low jitter.

Can confirm. We have a good friend here in LA who is a voice actor (among other talents).

He still pays for an ISDN line at his residence to allow remote work — obviously, high audio quality is a must have for professional use.
Parsing the Redis replication stream with attoparsec
> But some researchers are sceptical of the findings because a biological mechanism that explains the phenomenon has not been identified.

Is this just bad writing or bad science? Just because we don't know what causes 'dark matter' and only detect its effects we don't deny that the effect exists.

I suppose if there turns out to be a non-genetic explanation than the sceptics were right all along. This seems even more far fetched than genetics.
Do you guys sponsor J1 Visa for internship positions?
This reminds me of the documentation for how the game Liquid War did their pathfinding. The interesting relevance is that it does not use a uniform grid when calculating the gradients, but instead coalesces squares into power-of-two squares to "cheat"

https://ufoot.org/liquidwar/v5/techinfo/algorithm
I thought both Until Dawn and The Wolf Among Us were really enjoyable, although Until Dawn branches a bit less than a first play-through might lead one to believe.
In High-Tech Cities, No More Potholes, but What About Privacy?
There are ways to go about this that are much cleaner and less suspect.

By simply shoehorning this into the existing Snippets functionality and deploying it without warning they're continuing a dark interaction pattern with their users.

Their response to the issue - a weird way of maybe saying they weren't paid for this and that it is purely to help users - is either a weasel words lie or a ridiculously out of touch action that is not cognizant of how much goodwill they've been tarnishing over the past year.

Neither bodes well for them.
Getting a 404 on the job description
Tanning beds are already generally already accepted as being dangerous
A couple of years ago I did an experiment to try to mix interactive fiction with a book from the Lone Wolf series (available freely via Project Aon): https://projectaon.org/staff/christian/gamebook.js/
What does the but in this sentence mean?
Your reference says that there will be continued exploration, but doesn't mention another actual fly-by. Funding beyond 2021 isn't confirmed, and even if they top up the funding, they can't top up the manoeuvring fuel.
I’m surprised it took them so long to do this. I forget which app it was (maybe Spotify) but I remember them offloading the tax to the consumer by having a 15% higher subscription fee from within iOS. From a consumer standpoint I find the iOS subscription doesn’t add any value. Have you tried finding where to cancel subscriptions from within iOS? It’s buried under so many menu clicks it’s impossible to find without searching the web for help
The History of Sears at the Abandoned Sears at Century III Mall
Executive View: Dara Khosrowshahi of Uber
For sure. And there's safety certifications and regulations for these kinds of things. I have friends who develop for medical devices. Most aren't professional engineers. But there are some and I imagine they're the ones taking on the liability.
Butterfly Network | https://www.butterflynetwork.com/ | NYC, Data Engineer, Software Engineer (Ultrasound) | On Site | Full Time

Butterfly Network has developed the iQ - the worlds first inexpensive handheld ultrasound whole-body imaging device. Built upon novel semiconductor technology that miniaturizes the traditional ultrasound system onto a single handheld device, iQ is combined with a mobile-first, cloud-based software platform and artificial intelligence assistance. There has never been a more exciting time to join us in revolutionizing the medical imaging industry and saving the lives of people around the globe.

1. Data Engineer
At Butterfly Data Engineering we are fusing a diverse set of data streams such as manufacturing data, commercial data, real-time IoT data, mobile analytics data, logistics data to continuously improve our product design, guide feature development and optimize manufacturing and operations. We seek data engineers with a track record of rapidly implementing and maintaining elegant and robust data pipelines and creating self-service data analytics infrastructure that immediately create value for business owners.
Apply here: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/4Catalyzer/743999681341882-...

2. Software Engineer (Ultrasound)
We seek a talented Software Engineer with a background in Biomedical Engineering, specifically medical ultrasound. As part of a cross-functional team of manufacturing-, software-, embedded-, machine-learning-, and data engineers you will be in charge of implementing an automated image quality assessment of all Butterfly IQ products. Your work will have a distinct impact on Butterfly product design decisions and manufacturing processes. Furthermore, you will support reliability testing of Butterfly products by writing test programs, designing and manufacturing test fixtures, performing experiments, and collaborating with Butterfly Network regulatory engineers. You will also support acoustic safety measurement experiments to ensure all Butterfly Network products maintain patient safety while maximizing image quality.
Apply here: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/4Catalyzer/743999681342060-...
Show HN: State of UX design tools in 2019
The most astounding scientific discovery in history ... of competitors for resources.
This story illustrates why New York Times has fixated on aggressive negative coverage of Facebook. Suicide prevention is another area where Facebook is wiping the floor with newspapers. As an information channel, newspapers can't compete in over most of the landscape. The article includes the head of a premier suicide prevention program, John Draper, praising Facebook's initiative.

Data collection may be bad, but suicide prevention is a beneficial byproduct. Data collection may be bad, but the New York Times won't be accused of leading by example. The article is packaged to ping Google, Amazon, and yes Facebook among it's 32 scripts. It's unlikely any of this there to serve a higher common interest than suicide prevention.

The examples in the coverage show how far Facebook outclasses the New York Times.

Facebook said its suicide risk scoring system worked
worldwide in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic

Facebook is working on something relevant to suicide prevention in Mozambique, Algeria, Dominican Republic, and Australia. Beyond it's role in US public policy, the New York Times will always be approximately irrelevant to people in these places.

It's reporting is parochial. Interviewing two experts in New York, four police forces on the east coast and Ohio. To me as a non-absolutist, judgment about the initiative's tradeoffs ought to consider stories from Brazil, Morocco, Mexico, and Canada. Those people don't enter the parochial conversation at the New York Times.

Preventing suicides is the kind of difference journalism is supposed to make in people's lives. The New York Times is driven of "weapons of mass destruction" reporting on Facebook's suicide prevention initiative because it is so completely outclassed as an instrument for journalistic impact on the lives of individuals.
Unsolved problem in Blockchains in general: Finding a real use case.
There is also no such institution as “Dartmouth University,” so I would guess that editors are in short supply over the holidays.
> We are told that our choice is between free markets and state control, when most adults live their working lives under a third thing entirely: private government.

Of course, in practice, private government goes hand-in-hand with growth in the usual sort of government - this is what today's "institutional reality" looks like. A truly free institutional reality would have people constantly voting with their feet, shopping around for the best "private government" service. It's only because of pervasive interference that this is not allowed to happen today.
In the Detroit area the vast (VAST!) majority of the jobs are out in the suburbs. There's a good bit of stuff in downtown, but almost everything here is in an outer ring like Warren, Auburn Hills, Novi, Dearborn, Southfield, etc.
> That was actually the reason I ditched my Android and switched to an iPhone a few years back. After writing an app for both platforms and seeing how terrifyingly easy it was to get on the Play store ($25 and 4 hours after uploading the apk) vs Apple's more rigorous review process which took close to a month, checked out our company's DUNS number and _actually_ tested/used the app.

An optional appstore with verifications is one (great) thing, making it mandatory is another. We have the entirery of desktop computers history to know that. That's like saying "I ditched Linux/OSX/Windows because they allowed me to install things not from their package manager/store".

And if what you meant is "I enjoy a well curated app store", well the truth is that apple's store is not well curated at all, that many apps are being abusive anyway especially from the big ones, and that there are several alternative stores for Android if you want one.

I just can't agree with "I want apple to make it impossible for me to be in control of what runs on my device even if they disagree", and I think both stores are absolutely terrible so I don't get the whole "I ditched terrible for execrable".

> Also the cluster hell that is the forced Android permission system and how intrusive the most basic ones are vs. Apple's opt-in "Read contacts? (Yes/No)" while using the app are why I'd never go back.

That hasn't been the case for quite some time, apps now ask for granular permissions and they do so when they need it the first time. There are still some holdouts that don't upgrade to the newer api on purpose but that's why google is bumping the minimum api version to publish on the store soon and force those leftover to clean up.
On Android, I play a lot of infinitode, which is totally ad free and has the best upgrade tree I've seen in any game ever. It's wonderful.
Uniform Teeth | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.uniformteeth.com/careers/

Uniform Teeth is a fast growing startup making high-quality orthodontic care more affordable for everyone. Our main focus currently is straightening teeth by using clear aligners.

Uniform Teeth's competitive advantages in this market: (1) a focus on one service, allowing for optimization of every aspect of the business (marketing, operations, manufacturing, and clinical care); (2) shorter treatment times; (3) lower prices; (4) ability to handle complex cases; (5) single-minded devotion to customer service and excellent dental care. Check out our reviews [0].

We’re looking for a full stack engineer to join the Engineering team. This team builds functionality for our customers (patients), clinicians, support team, and manufacturing. Looking for primarily onsite, allowing for a fair degree of remote work once you grok the codebase.

Tech stack: Ruby, React, React Native, Go, AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, KMS, Redshift), Docker

For more information, including how to apply, please visit our Careers page at https://www.uniformteeth.com/careers/ . Please email me at jerry [at] uniformteeth.com if you intend to apply— happy to answer any questions you may have.

We’re also recruiting several positions not specific to tech, for onsite in SF: clinic manager, sales manager, orthodontic assistant, lab technician, packaging and shipping specialist, CAD/CAM dental technician.

[0] https://www.yelp.com/biz/uniform-teeth-san-francisco
I've had some fun writing interactive stories with my kids lately using http://twinery.org/ – it has a very usable interface, though I've been doing all the typing and helping them organize their thoughts and the choices.

Here's an example story written with my four-year-old (with some help from her older sister): https://ianb.github.io/Choose-Your-Own-Adventures/Alphabet-F... – if you've had a four-year-old tell you a story, it makes as much sense as you would expect!
It’s not bragging. It’s career development.
Im a Hiring Manager at Cloudflare on our Security Team. We are hiring in San Francisco, San Jose, Austin, and London.
Our Security Team is looking for folks with a variety of skillsets. https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/departments/security/

Our company is growing quickly, has tremendous impact on the internet as a whole, and bringing to market some of the coolest and technically challenging products to build.

We need help:

1) Working with other teams to make our product great and secure.
2) Detecting, monitoring, and responding to security alerts and incidents.
3) Securing the platform and infrastructure that runs our 155+ datacenters.
4) Working as a program manager to drive company wide security initiatives.
Wow. Scrolling backwards through the entries, how had I not seen this before? There’s a 3D movie exploring Pluto, I’m on my phone and it took me a minute to realize as I moved my phone around I could look all over at the scenery. Really great stuff!
What Causes Hangovers, and How Can I Avoid Them
It's difficult right now, but the clients are very much under development—DHT is being worked on in Manyverse for example.

The important thing is that the protocols are not designed to be reliant on pubs in the long run.
"Privateer" has two more common meanings:

- State funded sea pirates, esp. during the 17th and 18th centuries

- In motorsports, a team which is funded by a private individual or group instead of a public
corporation

"Financial independance" is the correct modern term.
50k a year in a city with similar cost of living as San Fran wow
Location: Remote

Technologies: UI/UX/Brand Design for B2B Startups

Resume/Portfolio:
https://bit.ly/2RxW1xH

Email:
fairpixelsteam@gmail.com
I joined a team two weeks ago that built a fairly complex machine learning pipeline. One week in I was told I needed to help interview a candidate.

I lopped off a block of the code, made it run without the rest of the code base and explained what it was supposed to do. This wasn't that simple, but could still be explained in about a minute to somebody with familiarity in ML (assumed; that's what we're hiring for). I then challenged the candidate to spot any bugs and implement a feature.

This really wasn't that hard. I've done the same thing twice before in two completely different industries.

Why would that be impossible for you?
defense grid 1 and 2
Go ahead. Really. You’ll quickly find that even just forking and building and distributing your releases for every FF-Release (not to speak of keeping your patches up-to-date) will consume a substantial amount of resources. Just consider the case that a 0day drops, FF gets an urgent maintenance release at what’s midnight in your TZ and your patch doesn’t apply cleanly. That’s why every time something controversial happens there’s talk of “it’s time to fork” and no real, sustainable fork appears.