skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nirrius Studio | Front-end developer | New York, NY | INTERNS | PART-TIME | https://nirri.us

WHO WE ARE:

Nirrius is a technology firm specializing in web development and technical training. Our team is composed of creative professionals in the pursuit of a more perfect developer experience. We're bent on building simpler tools, and slaying buzzwords.

WHO YOU ARE:

- You are determined, a self-starter, and in active pursuit of new knowledge and experience.

- You have some web development experience and looking to flesh out your skills.

- You're ready for a three month journey through web software fundamentals.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING:

<my-app />, a new open source native web components library and framework. "My App"[1] is our vision for a simpler experience building web apps. Our team provides training for front-end, dev-ops, content writing, and developer relations.

Reach out and tell us your story at teffen @ nirri.us with "Hacker News" in the subject line.

[0] https://nirri.us

[1] https://github.com/nirrius/my-app
Ultima Thule Flyby Success (NASA News Conference Slide Deck) [pdf]
Syncthing 1.0.0 released
There's an Emacs extension for that (called vlf or vlfi).
An unpaid ad is still an ad.
Another one would be the Chinese landing their craft on the far side of the moon. No confirmed date, but within the next couple of days.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/01/680542096/chinas-lunar-lander...
Eating vast amounts of sugar for one
Salisbury University | Assistant Professor of Computer Science | ONSITE Salisbury Maryland

Salisbury University is a "Regional Comprehensive" university on the eastern shore of Maryland, serving almost 9000 students with a focus on teaching but with tremendous support of student and faculty research pursuits. It is a growing university in it's "space" of education, a little bit out of the way, geographically, but a great place to live if you want out of the big city but still like a diverse and active community.

Disclosure: I'm a member of this hiring committee and a second-year tenure-track faculty. However, I cannot express enough what a pleasant surprise it has been to work here! I came from a strong R1 university, so was unsure of what I'd get, but when I visited to interview, the department and campus culture blew me away with how friendly and supportive they are of each other (especially compared to my high-pressure grad school experience). Our CS program is growing, with huge support from the state and administration, and we're looking for basically all walks of computer science phd's. Check out our department (http://salisbury.edu/mathcosc/) and give us a look!

Official job link: https://www.salisbury.edu/administration/administration-and-...
Location: El Salvador

Remote: Required

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby (Rails), Javascript (React, Node), Python (Django & DRF), Java (Play, Spring)

Résumé/CV: Upon Request

Email: raul.ascencio at yandex.com
Add Little Snitch and Transmission to the list :)
What do you mean complete? Like you thought it ended too early or what?

One of my favorite tower defenses is Sanctum, on the PC. It's a tower defense with casual FPS elements. (Its sequel I didn't like as much, it's more the other way around as an FPS with casual tower defense elements.)
Release notes:

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-v1-0-0/12616

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734114 (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13856552 (2017)
I disagree. Using credit cards for cash back is on the same order as going to Starbucks or not. Using them to build better credit is also a small-scale gain if you aren't taking on more debt than you can handle.
Yup, this is just a hit piece that is all conjecture by one of their “contributors.”

It’s kind of sad seeing Forbes taking down the value of their once prestigious brand with this glorified op-ed/blogging platform.
I earned a PhD in Neuroscience. Then suffered through a couple of postdocs and was not advancing in that career. I jumped ship to tech, working at startups and big-ish companies in San Francisco. The money was nice but working style did not match my preferences (frequent interruptions, projects decided by others, and hierarchies).

I decided to go back to academia (and stay in SF), primarily teaching Data Science. I realized that teaching is my passion. I took a pay cut, but it is more joyful for me. I can pick the courses I teach and get to mentor students. As I long I deliver, I can manage my time how I please. I still consult with tech companies.

I realized that I had to make my own way through my life. I found my niche which is 75% academic and 25% industry.
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Golang, Php, Ruby, Perl, Javascript, AWS, Kubernetes

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanfindley/

G-Mail: mojowings

Built a startup from 0 to 150,000 users.
Big Tech May Look Troubled, but It’s Just Getting Started
Show HN: A simple way of creating widgets on your page – PlazarJS
> Just consider the case that a 0day drops, FF gets an urgent maintenance release

It's only urgent if the browser is adtech optimized and delivers tons of random third party js, html on every page visit by default. Otherwise with sensible defaults that block all that the risk of exploitation of any 0day is too small to make it urgent.
Hey OP, Thanks for your guide. I am from India where we have similar analouges such as PayTM and PhonePe. While Paytm is ubiquitous, cash is still king here.

I also had a chuckle when you had to explain so precisely the mechanism of how money is transferred between wechat accounts. I guess that is probably due to the fact that people in the west have very less experience with such services.

As an interesting additional thing, a new thing called UPI (unified Payments Interface) has been running in India. It basically allows you ti use your bank account like a wechat wallet. It is really popular among the young demographic and is gaining a wider acceptance due to less fees and no need of handing your money over to a company like Paytm or Wechat first. Money travels from bank account to bank account instantly with no fees.
Ask HN: To what extent is everything a matter of the amount of funding?
> require you to go to a location in another book,

That's some very powerful and clever up-selling, but was it not enraging in practice?
I spent some time comparing Python's [0] map/filter and comprehensions against Snigl [1].

Comprehensions are just plain faster, especially if you perform say filter and map at the same time.

That and a lambda implementation that only a mother could love, lack of tail call optimization etc.

What bothers me about comprehensions is they come with a separate set of rules, like LOOP in Common Lisp or templates in C++; but I'm pretty sure the restrictions are part of what makes them fast.

[0] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl/blob/master/bench/seq.py

[1] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl/blob/master/bench/seq.sl
Why you shouldn't help your coworkers unless they ask
Gamma Lab | New York City | Machine Learning Internships | Onsite | Visa sponsorship | https://gammalab.us

OneConnect Research Institute (also called Gamma Lab) is a small team of AI/ML engineers working on text conversation systems and intelligent marketing. Our interns work independently and solve challenging NLP problems. You'll be building features from scratch to production.

If you want to know more about our startup, and apply for the internship, talk to our AI assistant Lily at http://m.me/gammalabnyc
BuddyLoans | PHP Developer | Manchester, UK | Full Time | On Site | https://www.buddyloans.com

BuddyLoans is a fast growing UK guarantor lender with great recent funding. We are looking for experienced developers to help us build a bespoke guarantor lending platform integrated with an in-house multi-channel contact center (built with Twilio). You'll have direct input in making new business decisions, from a strategic level to design and implementation of new features. Our current stack is PHP 7.2 on the backend (Zend Framework/Expressive), JavaScript (React) and Elm on the frontend, along with MySQL. Our applications are hosted on AWS.

Required strong experience with:

- OO PHP programming with good use of design patterns

- At least one major PHP framework e.g. Zend Framework, Symfony, Laravel, Phalcon, CodeIgniter

- MySQL

- Git version control

Desired experience in:

- Integrating with 3rd party APIs

- Writing testable PHP code using PHPUnit or phpspec

- JavaScript frameworks eg. React, Ember, jQuery.

- AWS

- Twilio cloud communications platform

Please email php.recruitment@buddyloans.com if you are interested. No agencies.
My statement was not "people don't prefer to live in places without winters". I was careful to restrict it to places that result in things that I think most people consider drawbacks to quality of life. There are places with cool climates, where you don't have to deal with all of those issues.
I think it's the rigor of the field. The general expectation is that a mechanical, or any other type of engineer, will bring to the table some minimum set of skills and knowledge that other engineers in the same field possess. This is not true in computing since so many people entered the field from so many vectors. Not to mention there's still a hell of a lot of snake oil being peddled because there's so much money in the field of computing.

For example: one can't be certain that someone with a Computer Science degree even knows how to program or has any other specific knowledge or skills. Or that someone supposedly with X years of experience with Y understands Y at all vs. just repeating tasks learned by rote. Or that someone who went to a Z bootcamp can actually do anything useful with/in Z. Maybe someday we'll get there, but it's still a long ways off.
Including Markdown Content in a Vue or Nuxt SPA
PlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers

PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at the same scale as YouTube. For any candidates tired of the quizzes and puzzles of traditional interviews ask us about our alternative hiring path. Email careers@planetscale.com or apply online at planetscale.com/careers
If you like good hacker stories and podcasts you might like the Darknet Diaries podcast. https://DarknetDiaries.com
As far as I remember, for every features of Facebook, like private messages, sharing pictures and status, etc, there is at least one alternative, and people are free to move to several competitors. There is no technical reason to force the Facebook company to change their products, but they might have an obligation to educate people about the usages of its website.

You need strong proof to claim "Facebook has become the most dangerous online company". Recently, Facebook groups were used to organize the yellow vests movement in France. For non-techies, Facebook does provide a new way to communicate.

You could always argue "oh yeah, but it already existed 15 years ago with X", but Facebook made it available to the masses.

The security/social concerns happening recently create new opportunities for Facebook's competition, so I wouldn't be that alarmed.

Google, on the other hand...
Really? I did think they overcharged as contractors but my impression was that employees were taken care of... guess not.
Could that be viewed as a distinction without a difference? If I cannot move to another developed nation then is that different than not being able to leave my current nation?
Favor Delivery | Backend, Frontend, iOS, Android, Security, Product, Senior | Full Time | ONSITE | Austin, Texas

Food delivery startup local to Austin TX, we were acquired by H-E-B as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2018 and are growing fast including a move to a new HQ in East Austin this year.

I came onboard recently and have really enjoyed working with this team. Still very much a scrappy startup/ small company culture and we're building a lot of new tools and features. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter: @Primed_Mover

https://favordelivery.com/careers
Loan Ecosystem Online | NYC | Full-Stack Developer | Full-Time | Onsite | 100k-130k | https://loaneco.net/
Loan Ecosystem Online is a platform that is transforming the way middle market loans are bought and sold. The platform drives efficiency into the currently outdated middle market loan syndication process. Our current stack is Ruby on Rails, AngularJS/Angular Hybrid, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS and Docker. You will be working closely alongside our founder and CEO, and be a part of the core team that shapes the company as we grow.

Apply her https://angel.co/l/28JSu2 or email your resume to me at neil@loaneco.net
Tact.AI | Bangalore, India & Redwood City, CA | Full-time | Onsite

At Tact (https://tact.ai), we're building the next generation of AI-driven enterprise sales SAAS. Tact.AI is the world’s first mobile sales productivity suite. Our device-native, conversational platform is used by Fortune 500 companies to transform the daily sales experience in the field and maximize the value of their CRM investments. Tact.AI brings together state of the art conversational AI built on a platform with a razor sharp focus on scalability and extensibility, tied together by a UX-first approach.

The India Centre of Tact.AI (which I’m an early engineer at) was set up in July 2018, with a focus on bringing together engineering talent to take Tact.AI to the next level, in terms of features, capabilities and scale, while building up on the culture of inclusion that we have always prided itself upon.

We are funded by Accel, Redpoint, Comcast, Amazon, Salesforce, Upfront & Microsoft Ventures (and have been covered by TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, you-name-it)

We’re hiring across the board and looking for NLP Engineers, Backend Engineers, Android/iOS/WPF Developers, Product Management, and DevOps as we scale up the India centre, but same roles are also welcome in Redwood City. We had quite a bit of success with the Dec 2018 Who's Hiring, so here we go again!

To apply, shoot out your resume and the role you are interested in to: Y2FyZWVycy1pbmRpYUB0YWN0LmFpIA== (or feel free to AMA). Do mention HN somewhere in your mail so we know where you are from! :)

PS Happy New Year fellow HN-ers! :D
Repl.it (YC W18) | Infrastructure Engineer | ONSITE | SF https://repl.it/jobs

Repl.it is the first open computing platform where anyone, even without needing an account, can hop on and in seconds start executing code, build and host applications and websites, and collaborate with other people.

Providing a service like this is challenging from all a scaling, security, and billing perspectives. Furthermore, supporting the number of languages that we do (https://repl.it/languages) is hard in both tooling and systems -- we have to build generic protocols for executing, debugging, authoring code.

It's a great time to be joining us, we're still 6 people, we reach more than a million coders a month, and we're backed by YC and a16z.
Blockchain just suffers from the classic dilemma of being ahead of its time.

Once we have infinite power from practical fusion we can mine coins for cheap.

And when quantum computers are common you can update the chain or do sharding in no time at all.
StackPath | Software Engineers (Go, Python, C++), Network Engineers, Product Management | Dallas, TX (onsite) - Winter Park, FL (onsite) - Remote for certain positions

StackPath is a platform of secure edge services that enables developers to protect, accelerate, and innovate cloud properties ranging from websites to media delivery and IoT services. With an innovative global edge network infrastructure, StackPath delivers enterprise-grade security and performance in a frictionless, on-demand platform with cloud-scale control and flexibility. More than one million customers, including early-stage and Fortune 100 companies, use StackPath services. StackPath is headquartered in Dallas and has offices across the U.S. and around the world.

https://www.stackpath.com/company/careers/
Motivity Systems is hiring a full stack developer in Seattle (onsite) to help on our mission to make autism behavior therapy more efficient, effective and able to reach more patients in need.

We are currently preparing our flagship product for release early in the new year that will allow therapists to specify therapeutic programs within our system, which in turn generate interfaces for recording performance on tasks (games, response to certain prompts, etc.) and real-time visualization of patient progress tailored to the various roles involved in patient care.

We use F# on the back end and front end, so some functional programming experience might help, but certainly isn't required -- honestly we're really just looking for bright developers who are enthusiastic about learning and being a part of a growing, early-stage (but thankfully well-funded!) startup.

See https://about.motivity.net/careers.html for more info!
This belongs in a list of "strategies for adulthood" or something, along with the Art of Turboing and surely others.

What others, off the top of our heads?

http://www.macwhiz.com/blog/art-of-turboing/
How to use CompletableFuture in SpringBoot 2
> “If you decide to fight the squid with your spear gun, hoping to scare it off, turn to page 17,” one book says. “If you decide to signal Maray to pull you up at top speed, knowing you will get the bends, turn to page 19.”

I died to that very squid when I was 11 :-/ :D Though that was already in the 2000s, our school library still had a couple of CYOA that I quite enjoyed.
Location: Los Angeles; Remote; Consulting

I don't just write code, I solve hard problems. Strong foundations in other scientific fields (math, physics, probability, formal logic). Startups have hired me to implement their core products. If I don't know something, I find the best resources, figure it out and deliver a polished solution.

Skills: application development, operating system internals (nix, macOS, Windows), GPU programming, low latency networking, digital signal processing, numerical computation, databases, high performance computation, machine learning, computer vision, robotics

Languages & Frameworks: C, C++, Swift, Metal, AVFoundation, TensorFlow, Rust, Julia, Objective-C, Python, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, TypeScript, Ruby

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-nemecek-b40153104/

Currently I'm working on http://ngrid.io but I'm available for interesting work.

Contact: my user name at gmail dot com

Education:

* A.B. in CS from Harvard

Open source contributions: https://github.com/adamnemecek.

* Core team member of AudioKit

* added Swift support to Godbolt compiler explorer (https://godbolt.org/)

* contributed to Firefox for iOS

* billion of minor contributions
Stage Intelligence | Software Engineer | Java | London | Full-time | Onsite | £60 - 85K

We are recruiting for a Java technical lead to manage the development of our BICO product in our central London office. BICO provides a bleeding edge AI solution for bike share schemes, one of the first successful Smart Cities initiatives.

This year alone we have grown our customer base 600%, working with major cities such as Paris, Helsinki, Rio and Chicago.
Our ideal candidate is a strong Java developer with experience in managing a team.

Required skills:
x Extremely fluent in modern Java (8+)

x Experience in architecting micro-services

x Experience building using Maven and Jenkins

x Experience managing developers

Desired skills:

x Backend web frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot, Spark or DropWizard)

x Fluent with AWS services

Benefits include a generous pension and private healthcare.

stageintelligence.co.uk / alex@stageintelligence.co.uk
> Moving to california because you want to be a star is not "fashion", its a dream.

I think you may have misinterpreted what fashion means. Fashion refers to clothing. Throughout the ages, poor people have tried to wear clothing that rich people have been seen wearing with the belief that the right clothing will help them become rich. This is very well documented over centuries, and something that remains ever-present today. It was another example of how the poor emulate the rich, as is human nature.

> Or they would have regretted the rest of their lives not taking chances when they were young instead doing poop work on the farm or working a dead end job in a small town.

Okay. Sure. Humans are indeed emotional creatures. Emotions are also the reason why the poor try to emulate the rich as it feels right, even if it not based in anything substantiative. But as far as outcome goes, such a person would be better off in a mundane job than chasing a dream.
Show HN: 501c3 Free Election Campaign Platform for Local Candidates
OurSociety is a 501c3 non-profit based in NJ that developed a free campaign platform (beta) for local candidates. As a non-technical founder, I relied on outsourced development work and a team of volunteers to help drive efforts. We launched the platform in April of 2018 and today we've released our impact report of our first-year efforts:

Highlights:

* In 2018 77% of local candidates in New Jersey had no dedicated website or Facebook page about their campaign

* 50% of candidates had no online presence at all (No personal website or Facebook)

* 192 Citizen Users and 18 Candidate Users participated in our Beta launch

* Our Citizen Users were from 62 different municipalities across the state

* We believe that our findings demonstrate a genuine need to continue our efforts to open up access to local politics for New Jersey residents.

Beta Platform: http://beta.oursociety.org

Read the full Annual Report online here: https://www.oursociety.org/2018-annual-report/

Download the Annual Report in PDF format: https://oursociety.org/impact/OurSociety2018.pdf
"Pilot" does not have median salary of 6 figures.

"Commercial jet pilot" has median salary of 6 figures.
That is not an entry-level pilot position.
Location: Malaysia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technology: Ruby and Rails/PHP and Laravel/Python/Go and i am also familiar with Rust and Elixir on the Backend.

For database it is PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and MongoDB. Angular/React on the frontend. OSes include Windows/macOS/Linux/*BSD and Solaris. Mobile dev: React Native/Ionic and some simple Java on Android and Swift On iOS.

Currently having some products that i had built. Some Ruby On Rails (https://awesell.com) including it's mobile app. I am currently doing freelance for projects that include digital agencies using React Native and Laravel/PHP (yes, both backend API and the mobile app) which also include planning the infrastructure (Amazon ELB/CloudFront/S3/EC2) and building up their CI/CD pipelines.

My favourite tools to deploy code is Ansible or Capistrano for Ruby and Envoy for Laravel. Currently working on GCP,AWS and Azure.

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ch804h5fx0cqle7/Cover%20Letter.doc...

Email: zaihan@unrealasia.net

Github: https://github.com/muhammadn

Website: https://unrealasia.net
Location: Cairo, Egypt

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends on the offer (EU only)

Technologies: Golang, Python (flask, django), React, Nim,Docker, Linux

Resume: https://github.com/xmonader/resume

Email: xmonader [at] gmail.com