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HyperScience | New York, NY | Onsite | Full Time | https://hyperscience.com/ We’re looking for:

-DevOps Engineers

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-IT Managers

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At HyperScience, we help organizations better serve their clients by automating data entry. It’s a deceptively complex use case with large implications. Slow or inaccurate data entry can lead to poor customer experiences or even affect the delivery of important government services. Our machine learning-driven software is proven to minimize errors while maximizing speed - all while ensuring security and keeping a focus on the end user experience.

We offer competitive salaries and great benefits (401k matching, parental leave, generous vacation allotment & more)

Apply here https://hyperscience.com/careers and mention HN or feel free to email me with any questions: dave[at]hyperscience.com
In the US GINA bans health insurance companies from using genetic data for determining premiums or eligibility.

If it were legal you wouldn't have to worry about insurance companies mining genetic databases, it wouldn't matter, they'd simply demand a DNA sample in order to be insured.
Outschool | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Senior engineer, UX designer

Imagine a school offering every possible class, each one taught by the teacher who loves that subject most and filled with kids who chose to be there. Imagine that this school is steps away from your front door.

Join us to bring it to everyone.

Outschool (YC W16) is the marketplace of live online classes for kids. Our classes take place over video chat, bringing independent teachers together with small groups of curious kids around the world.

Thousands of classes are in progress now, generating millions of dollars in sales. We recently raised funding to expand our team from 11 people to 24 this year. Now we're looking for experienced engineers in SF who can shape Outschool with us as it grows.

You would build major product features and help us scale. Upcoming projects include classroom learning tools, communication, personalization, growth, marketplace experience, data infrastructure, and more. We work in modern JavaScript: React, GraphQL/Apollo, and Node/Express backed by PostgreSQL.

https://jobs.lever.co/outschool
"Airplanes are worse" is not a great reason to be an apologist for papers-please style authoritarianism.

In any case, airports generally concentrate the scary security stuff in one specific area. Once you're through that, you can pretty much expect not to be hassled. Especially, say, mid-journey when you're fast asleep.
Is there already goodness that does this in Linux?
My 8 year old daughter wants nothing to do with programming, but loves math. This morning she asks me in the car for a math problem: “papa give me another hash to calculate!” :). ( I had taught her a simple hash function that just calculates a 1 digit hash by adding all the digits together repeatedly until you get 9 or less.)
This might be something you like then:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3250464/microsoft-wind...

No forced updates, no store apps, no Cortana.
I didn't mean your situation but was mostly referring to the profit/loss chart :-) I am sure you're having a grand adventure, and I hope to have the same. And I didn't realize you are constraining your work hours, which is a nice goal. I am trying to front-load the pain haha.

Are you formerly from Google NY too?
As the article indicates, MSFT is offering 3 months of free service to affected customers.
The same! Windows 10 seemed like it started out stable enough, but it’s been getting flakier by the year for me. I’m now keeping a log of things that go wrong with it, just for fun. Every once in a while I look at the list and ask myself, how on earth did they screw up start menu search?![0]

[0] https://m.windowscentral.com/how-fix-taskbar-search-not-work... Had to have a work PC reimaged to fix this. True story.
Ara You a Good Cooker?
Would that really work as well as the interstate though? Just letting anybody on the interstate is mostly fine because if they run slow or way behind or breakdown you just go around them.

When someone runs shitty trains that breakdown and block the whole track though...
Instabase | Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, NYC, Boston, Bangalore | on-site | full-time

Founded in 2015, Instabase is a cross-cloud operating system with a powerful suite of data processing applications. We have taken $23M Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and NEA, and we have strong customer and revenue growth. Instabase is used in universities (Stanford, Columbia) and large financial institutions in Asia and the US, both as a platform for collaboration and a tool to automate human-intensive workflows. We're an engineering driven company, scaling rapidly driven by customer demand.

We take the latest techniques from research labs around the world, evaluate them against each other, and adapt them into products for use in industry. Living at at that edge of research and production is the “secret ingredient” that powers many of our capabilities as a platform.

We are hiring engineers across our stack. We look for people who have a bias toward action, who enjoy finding patterns amid chaos, and who are capable of driving a project from whiteboard sketches to completion.

Specific roles we'd love to talk to you about:

- Frontend Engineer - Machine Intelligence Apps (https://grnh.se/b742155c2)

- Software Engineer (https://grnh.se/6e1a9d042)

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You can contact us directly at careers@instabase.com, or you're welcome to reach out to me privately to answer any questions (my email is in my profile)
A/B testing is the way Satan interacts with this world. Optimizing for business metrics eventually leads to dark patterns, and also provides a convenient excuse ("data says so!").
3 felonies a day is a lie. The fact that there's a book with that title doesn't mean it's reality.

Your point is a decent one, no need to exaggerate.
US company working with government. Breaking news!
Herbert Marcuse: The Philosopher Behind the Ideology of the Anti-Fascists
Regarding Skype, it's acquisition has been argued to have been more in order to allow for NSA interception of VoIP traffic than it making business sense, though the truth behind that statement is highly debatable.
Mostly God, e.g. Titus Salt is listed in that article

"Salt's motives in building Saltaire remain obscure. They seem to have been a mixture of sound economics, Christian duty, and a desire to have effective control over his workforce. There were economic reasons for moving out of Bradford, and the village did provide him with an amenable, handpicked workforce. Yet Salt was deeply religious and sincerely believed that, by creating an environment where people could lead healthy, virtuous, godly lives, he was doing God's work."

Now, God doesn't exist, so as an external motivation he's a bit of a problem, certainly it doesn't seem to make _more_ sense to cite a non-existent God as forcing Salt to build this village than it does to credit it to his basic humanity.
Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA / Boston, MA | Rust Engineer | Fulltime | ONSITE

We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes medical care worse and more expensive for everyone. We are a group of previously successful engineers and entrepreneurs (MIT, Dartmouth, Stripe, Twitter, Salesforce, DataPower, etc) and senior doctors (Johns Hopkins, UCSF, etc) who are determined to finally fix this.

Compensation: market salary & equity -- we are well funded by top-tier VCs.

Stack: includes Rust, React and Kubernetes. In addition to building our back end in Rust, we are also solving some very interesting problems in the areas of data transformation, high-speed APIs, flexible UX frameworks and fine-grained authorization for healthcare data.

Please email jobs@commure.com and mention "[hnrust]" in the subject line.

Other positions available: - Senior Front End Engineer (React Native, React) - Senior Security Engineer (OAuth, SAML, identity, etc) (please use [hnfe] or [hnse] in subject line for the above).

Locations: San Francisco, Boston or Montreal; sorry, no distributed/remote option at the moment.
If you could dislodge the rail lobby, why waste time and money building a parallel national rail system when there perfectly serviceable existing tracks that can be converted to be operated for the public good? This is one of the things Eminent Domain would be good for, as opposed to seizing people’s homes and giving them away to property developers.
The issue here is complete regulatory capture by the Canadian telecom companies. They own everybody in the government who makes these decisions.
Windows had "web apps" before the term was even invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
There's a couple of services out there that help map which OTA stations people can access. Quebec City & Winnipeg aren't that close to any US population centres so they don't get nearly as many stations as places like Montreal or Vancouver. I was quite sad when I got to Calgary and couldn't pick up any US signals.
That being said, the CRTC has some restrictions on these kinds of signals. You aren't allowed to import DirecTV/Dish equipment. Shaw Direct used to advertise to snowbirds that they could bring their dishes to their US homes but got their hands slapped by the FCC and stopped.
The Limits of Information
U.S. Withdraws from Nuclear Weapons Treaty with Russia
People shouldn't be giving Facebook their info either.
Do you have any thoughts on the changes in v2?
> That means that when someone gets the rough end of the stick, the entire group helps to pay to keep them on their feet.

That's exactly what I meant, government should be that entity that helps those on the rough end of the stick. Riding on the misinformation of life insurance company is not a solution either
this week I had two fantasies:

- kickstarter for investigative journalism. Get decent writers, get people that are willing to pay to hear about what they find, and hope they maintain ethics and integrity.

- a monthly news source, that is focused on "slow news". Sure, XYZ happened, 30 days later, what's relevant. 3 months later, what was the overall trend? It's not meta, but definitely "slow" and the goal is to focus on the moving average vs the noisy data.
Every time I start a little thing in C or C++ and I write a corresponding Makefile I get annoyed by it and write the thing in Rust. Cargo is really nice. I've considered using a Cargo.toml and build.rs file just to build C and C++ files before.
PromptWorks | Multiple positions | Philadelphia PA | ONSITE https://promptworks.com/

We are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web & mobile applications, APIs, products, and services.

Pair programming, continuous integration & delivery, kaizen, and TDD/BDD aren't just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work.

We love polyglots. We use lots of Ruby, Python, Elixir and JavaScript (mostly React and React-Native).

Open positions:

• Director of Software Engineering
• Senior Software Engineer
• Senior Front End Engineer
• Software Engineer

https://www.promptworks.com/jobs
Exactly! Microsoft is exploiting the “cloud” buzzword when including Office 365. I’m sure old baby boomer investors/advisors/managers couldn’t tell the difference. They want to be in the “growing cloud space”. Office 365 is just a continuation of the monopoly Excel and Word have on the business software market
Layoffs are bad for the individual in the short term, but not necessarily bad in the medium or long term, because it frees those people to engage in more economically productive activity.
How long until this is feasible? I've heard of DNA sequencing machines for $2k, but are not easy or reliable.
Launched using this JS platform. Using custom markers, tours, camera controls. All done very greatly, much respect to the content people.
Wikipedia has a Western bias.

Linguistic barriers prevent lots of information from East Asia from being accessible to westeners.

Large portions of the world don't yet have super organized repositories of knowledge.
"Cars can go off and park somewhere further away. Cruising around the city isn't free (fuel, maintenance, risk of damage)"

They can, but then they are farther away when someone calls for a ride. If there's only a few self-driving car rental companies, then maybe it's not so bad, they can send most cars to a remote lot, with a few cars remaining in the city to address demand. But if hundreds of companies are going to have cars on the street, then they'll all want their cars to be crusing near potential riders.

Though a bigger problem is that self-driving cars will cause double the traffic of normally driven cars -- they'll drive into the city to drop off their passenger, then out of the city to a remote lot.
Iterable | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://iterable.com

Iterable is the growth marketing platform that enables brands to create, execute and optimize campaigns to power world-class customer engagement across email, push, SMS, in-app and more with unparalleled data flexibility. We are an integrated, cross-channel solution — Iterable is built for marketers, trusted by engineers, and designed with intelligence.

Here are our open roles:

- Data Scientist: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1144782

- Engineering Manager-Product: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1475142

- Senior Data Scientist: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1463688

- Software Engineer - Infrastructure Engineer: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=228990

- Software Engineer - Machine Learning Engineer: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=511439

- Software Engineer - Mobile Engineer: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=511410

- Software Engineer - Product Engineer: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1374138

- Software Engineer - Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1321405

- Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1111156

- Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer (remote): https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1118621

- Staff Data Scientist: https://iterable.com/company/job/?gh_jid=1463678
Until false positives land you in prison. https://gizmodo.com/when-bad-dna-tests-lead-to-false-convict...
Place; Amsterdam. Date; 27th of March, 1943. Objective; destroy the records identifying the 70000 Jewish people living in Amsterdam.

They were lawful citizens too. The law was to identify them and ship them out. Do you understand their privacy concerns?

Can you promise that this won't happen again? Can you assure us that no future group will use the records for this sort of thing? I believe it will happen again. I believe it can happen here. I'm not keen on making it easier for them.
Related discussion (which was disappointingly flagkilled): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19028184
You are trusted this way. Sudafed (and other pseudoephedrine meds) don't require prescriptions. You don't have to justify your purchase when you ask for them. The reason they're behind the counter is to prevent bulk purchase, since pseudoephedrine is basically a few household-chemical steps away from being methamphetamine. Despite that fact, you're still allowed to buy them for any or no reason, in quantities sufficient for any practical use.

The annoyance is that there's an ineffective medicine taking their place on the shelves in front of the counter, and no sign saying "don't bother, just ask the pharmacist for the real thing". But you know that now, so this isn't so much a problem for you.

The OP you're responding to is just saying, be careful with pseudoephedrine, independent of the law. And they're right; it's been linked to heart attacks and strokes.
Can you please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack, even if another comment is wrong or annoying?

Downvotes and flags are usually sufficient to convey the latter anyhow (as above).
Interesting. Regarding (1), does this mean you have to download the dependency from GitHub by hand, then put it into the cache before you can "install" it?
>So what is one to do with someone who is earnestly good-intentioned, highly charismatic, and completely stark-raving mad?

Ignore them as you should any other crackpot, charlatan or fraud. Don't waste your energy, time or money on them except to be entertained.
How to Publish Your Progressive Web App in the Google Play Store (notes)
Wow I didn’t know about the drug planting. I just assumed consenting sucked but was the optimal thing to do.
Building a personal site with gatsby (parts 1)
>When someone runs shitty trains that breakdown and block the whole track though...

sounds like a chance to ticket that company just like we ticket people riding a bicycle on the highway.
I don’t believe that test does the same level of sequencing that 23andMe does.

It basically tests for a few dozen genetic diseases. Diseases where if it’s caught early, the child has a chance at curtailing the negative consequences of the disease (they don’t test for diseases with no treatments).
Ask HN: Open source intent detection
I am trying to learn building a Q&A and chatbots. Appreciate pointers towards tools (preferable open sourced tools0 that you know or have used. Looking to be able to do intent detection, train with my own data.
There a multitude of easy fixes for this. I believe in London if you drive into the center, you have to pay a road fee or something like that.

Seems to me that this would fix the issue.

Also, I think that self-driving cars will have people sharing cars rather than owning one themselves, this will lead to fewer cars being owned overall, but not necessarily leading to less traffic since when you own a car it mostly just sits in your parking space.

Fewer cars means that those self-driving cars will probably be always on the road, which won't lead to any traffic savings.
- The costs become uncapped and always end up more, with no accountability. After a certain while, sunk cost factor kicks in and it's too late to back out when you realize this developer is slow or not so great. Good confident developers will be able to estimate costs for projects upfront.

- You either lose the payment or ask for refund. I have done both. That's the risk. You can perhaps lower the risk by giving a much smaller initial milestone or negotiating first payment after some work.

- With crazy claims, the suspicion is already high. I talked to him for a few mins and it was clear there was no sophistication present and the guy was trying to attract clients with little to no experience.

Are you already working on a project or planning to?
Glad to see YC is catching up to what Microsoft did in the 80s.
IMO: As advertising and consumer culture penetrates more and more of society and daily activities, its singular focus on youth and superficiality will generally make someone feel more and more on the outside, until perhaps there is a fundamental change of philosophy towards life... as well as no longer being targeted in the core 18-40 demographics of consumer culture.

As for men vs women, men basically used to value themselves with echoes of the disposable male: doing risky things. But modern life is less and less risky, and therefore a "brave" man isn't that valuable anymore.

As to the headline, the only advice proffered in the article seems to be "avoid social media". While social media definitely is a tool of the marketing wolves to foment dissatisfaction to drive consumption, that is still scapegoating a specific vector over the fundamental problem of consumer capitalism.
How much do you pay for an oversized soda drink and a family-sized bag of popcorn for one? I believe the concession stand is a major source of revenue for theatres compared to the ticket price itself.
> While the passenger is at work, the self-driving car will be giving rides to other people, or delivering packages and meals (not parking or driving around empty).

Says who? I certainly don't want random people inside my car when I'm not around. Don't really feel like having "For a good time call 867-5309" and a drawing of a penis gouged into my center console, and having the seatbacks tagged with magic marker. ("We're sorry to hear that, sir. We have credited your account with a $25 credit for your trouble.")

130 million people drive to work every day in the USA. Something like 115 million cars. There are maybe 200,000 taxis in the USA. If we put 1 million cars to work, we've still got 114 million sitting idle, or rather, doing loops around the block because it's cheaper.

> Greater car sharing

Says who? You can already carpool and have ALL of the advantages of a self-driving car, it's just Larry driving the car instead of Waymo. But as everyone on HN will tell you, they don't want to carpool, they want to ride alone. Riding with others is what poor people do.

You also have the economics totally backward. Your assertion is that driving will be better in every way - easier personally, less congestion, cheaper parking - and as a result, there will be less driving? Utterly backwards. Make something cheaper easier or better, and we use more of it, not less.
Opendoor | Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer | Full-time onsite | SF, LA, and Atlanta

At Opendoor (https://www.opendoor.com/) we’re changing the way homes are bought and sold.

We're growing insanely quickly -- both in size and in revenue. In fact, we're on track to be the fastest company to $1bn in yearly revenue run rate (faster than Google, FB, Airbnb, & Uber), but we need your help.

Technologies we work with: Rails, React, React Native, PostGIS, Python, AWS, Webpack, Phoenix (Elixir), Kubernetes, Docker.

We also have quite a few YC alum who work here (like myself!). It's a great place to meet your future cofounder :)

Shoot me an email and I'll get you fast-tracked: zain@opendoor