skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a moment, it seemed like maybe you were suggesting... a union.~

That might have worked 15 years ago, but I think it's going to take unions and government, working along near-parallel vectors, to bring the economy back into a sustainable power-balance among its various institutions.

Corporate management and moneyed elites have erected a nice little fortress full of positive feedback loops for themselves, and have been steadily plugging the holes in it for 40 solid years now. They're working on mindless, robotic slave labor in an effort to defeat the labor unions forever, but they're also still relatively open to attack by government, as buying it off with corruption has so far been sufficient to keep it at bay.
Sometimes you have to just give the idea guy a pat on the head and wait for the technology to catch up.

This is one reason I really hate the "do it on a computer" patents. Someone writes down the same idea everybody has that isn't quite feasible yet with today's technology and basically sits on it. Then when the technology matures to the point where it's practical they start suing everybody who is actually implementing it.
This. It gives you can (but not always) give some valuable insights to what services they use, potential security issues, etc.
I almost didn't click on this because I thought it was just a wrapper/library built around OpenGL.
> idea guys&girls who are busy executing

No, because those aren't 'idea people'. The phrase is meant for people who only come up with ideas and nothing else, it's not meant to describe anyone who has ideas.
That's a fantastic point and I agree 100%.
I used to be the idea guy no one likes. I always had these Grand ideas that I would rattle off to friends and colleagues. We would go and white board them out. We would eat lunch over them and discuss them, point by point by point.

In the end, nothing. Nothing would materialize, we would start some work then realize how much effort these grand schemes were and get completely discouraged.

Then I forced myself to stop rattling off these crazy ideas, instead just whisper the big vision to myself and break it down to its smallest viable parts for building (aka MVP) and go off try to build that. After trying about 3 different ones so far and failing to get any traction on those 3 I have the pain of having spent my nights and weekends trying to make ideas work.

I no longer rattle off crazy ideas to people because I’ve come to understand what it actually means to go off and build them.

As a little self promotion, my latest idea (I know right) is actually kind of working but it took a ton of effort and I am afraid to even talk about the grand vision but non the less have been chipping away at it on the weekends.

I built an app that lets you listen to any Article on the go so you can maximize that dead time on your commute or when biking. The app is cross platform and uses some beautiful sounding AI ML models to convert Text to Audio.

You can try it here if you have the time, but just know it took a ton of effort and discipline to go from Idea to App.

https://articulu.com
Policygenius | Multiple positions | Flatiron, New York City | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://www.policygenius.com

Policygenius is a NYC-based tech startup that makes it easy to compare and buy insurance online. Since 2014, we’ve raised over $52 million of venture capital, established ourselves as a pioneer in Insurtech and helped more than 4.5 million people get vital coverage for their families.

We're rapidly growing and looking for people with grit, great attitudes and creative problem-solving skills to join our powerhouse team. Come see why we were voted one of INC's best workplaces of 2018!

Our tech stack: React, Rails, GraphQL, Go, gRPC, Google Cloud hosted, Docker / Kubernetes, full test automation / CI / CD

Our culture: We are a strong product-driven shop, with deep collaboration between Product, UX, and Engineering.

Hiring for the following roles:

- Site Reliability Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/policygenius/jobs/1544126

- Data Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/policygenius/jobs/1544131

- Senior Engineering Manager - https://boards.greenhouse.io/policygenius/jobs/1558455

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- Senior Staff Engineer - https://boards.greenhouse.io/policygenius/jobs/1301195

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See https://boards.greenhouse.io/policygenius for all jobs!
Location: New York City (NYC)

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mainly Python for data science: pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn. Basic experience with many others.

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ckrhmulbidzigr0/Reardon_Resume.pdf...

Email: reardon.danielj@gmail.com

Targeting Data Science / ML Engineer / hybrid data & eng roles in NYC!

More info on my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reardondaniel/
Isn't the point that everything should be easy to get to (even if you’ve never been to releases, it should be obvious how to get there) but frequently-accessed things should require less effort?
So You Think You Understand Blockchain?
It's sad that people sit here and beat their chest about how wrong Amazon is without looking at the other side. Amazon doesn't owe you jobs, tax revenue, or anything else. The discounts are reductions in the amount of money they would owe local and state governments IF they moved their location there.

Since they aren't obligated to move their business there, they don't owe you that money. That's not your tax discount money to spend on other things, it's their tax discount money that they no longer potentially owe you.

The underlying flaw of all of this is that Amazon should "be a good corporate citizen" (do what we want with their money), that tax credits are made of money otherwise spendable by governments (when in fact they're otherwise spendable by the corporation, because it's their money until they owe the tax debt), and that we should be able to beat and shame billionaires into giving us their money and providing these opportunities. Good luck with that strategy, but I think it's unwise.

So while the college students can proudly stand there and talk about how they won with their ideals, the people who would actually benefit from it (families, struggling people who could use additional services paid for by additional tax revenue) are given not the benefits but the warm and fuzzy feeling that the collective nose has been cut off to spite the face.
OnSpecta | Palo Alto, CA & Warsaw, Poland | Software Engineer, Research Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer | Remote | Relocation| Visa

OnSpecta is an early-stage startup founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and deep learning experts, and was born out of MIT’s neuroscience lab. We offer a Deep Learning Server (DLS) which increases the performance of deep learning computations on Intel and ARM CPUs, GPUs and ASICs etc. We're a small team (~10), so you'll have a huge opportunity to make a difference.

We are looking for talented software engineers to work directly with our technical founders (CTO & Chief Scientist). If you have experience in C++ and are interested in working on cutting-edge AI/ML infrastructure tech, please reach out to us. See more at http://onspecta.com/careers.html We're also looking for Machine Learning Engineers (experience with Python + TensorFlow required).

Please reach out to hiring@onspecta.com and include "HN: " in the subject.
(Note: while we're open to remote work, you must be in US or EU timezones.)
Netscout (Arbor Networks) | Sr. SW Engineer - TMS | Ann Arbor, MI | Full-Time | Onsite / Remote

Arbor Networks is looking for a full-time software engineer to help protect service provider and enterprise networks. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of networking and network security, as well as having experience developing for multiple CPU architectures.

As a member of our engineering team, you'll take initial ideas from our research and architecture teams and turn them into functioning code that will be deployed onto the largest networks in the world.

This role involves working closely with our product management, architecture, and research teams to help balance customer impact against maintaining service availability. Through our agile process, you’ll write code to capture, analyze, and dispatch network traffic on the largest networks in the world. Performance, scalability, and reliability are integral to what you will do.

We are an informal and hard-working team of engineers building established products in use by the majority of global internet service providers.

Apply at https://netscoutrccorp.peoplefluent.com/ or reach out to eric.hoelzle@netscout.com

https://goo.gl/RRPtC2 will take you directly to the job posting.
What, should I wear gloves too? That'll make typing really pleasant. When I'm working in a room that's less than about 17°C–18°C, my hands tend to get very cold, as do my feet.
As a user I don't mind sending diagnostic information for debugging, but that should be transparent to me and controllable. Why not just show a dialog saying "a crash happened, here is what is going to be sent to us, uncheck items that you don't want to share with us"?

Quietly retrieving documents without user permission is not acceptable.
I tested the code. It compiles and runs just fine. I compared the checksum of the output from both Rust and this version, they are identical:

md5 5b185f9a67a426baf78aa3bbb5baf8df out_rust

md5 5b185f9a67a426baf78aa3bbb5baf8df out_ada

On top of that, I got this:

Rust:

real 0m0.702s

user 0m0.693s

sys 0m0.007s

Ada:

real 0m0.708s

user 0m0.706s

sys 0m0.000s

Why don't you use this version instead? The output is correct and identical to Rust's, and the performance is significantly better: just as fast as C and Rust, as expected.

Thanks for letting us know about its existence!
BMC Group K.K. Japan | Senior Full Stack Web Developer | Remote Worldwide | Contract | $ Hourly | Flexible schedule

We are looking for a senior full stack web developer to help us build a collaborative data science platform. The platform will provide a cloud workspace where data scientists can develop and share Jupyter Notebooks. We are looking for someone with experience in web developent, Python, and Kubernetes. Some experience with Jupyter Notebooks and/or data science is also helpful.

We enjoy a friendly and collaborative work environment. We all have families and understand the value of life outside of work. Although we expect you to work full-time, we have an accommodating and flexible schedule.

Strong communication skills in English is also a requirement.

Knowledge of Japanese is NOT in any way a requirement.

The engagement starts with a three month duration, with a subsequent longer term opportunity based on performance.

Technologies involved include: Python Tornado, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm/Tiller, Node.js, Nginx, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, Git, Azure

Please contact eric.lesch@bmc-group.co.jp with your resume, side projects, github, etc.
simplesurance GmbH | Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time https://www.simplesurance.com/

We are building one of the world’s leading platforms to make insurance accessible. Since 2012, we are proudly “Made in Berlin”: we are very international with 150+ people from over 30+ countries working daily in our central Berlin office. Our internationalism is reflected also in our business since we are active in over 28 countries.

InsurTech is just taking off https://blog.ycombinator.com/thoughts-on-insurance/ and we’ve been there from the beginning.

What we are looking for:

- Golang Software Engineer (f/m): For hardcore gophers.
- Language-agnostic Software Engineer (f/m): For pragmatic developers always looking to learn new things.
- Full-stack Software Engineer (f/m): For allrounders.
- QA/Test Engineer (f/m)

PS: We are just starting operations in Japan, so if you speak Japanese that's a strong plus!

Email: jobs@simplesurance.com | https://www.simplesurance.com/careers/
FetchRev | Phoenix (Tempe), AZ | Full-Time | Onsite | Full-Stack Developer (Ruby/Rails), Front-End / UI Developer (Vue.js)

Some of the unique team qualities include being egoless, driven via self-ownership, intellectually honest, and supportive of each other. These are exhibited daily and not aspirational values.

FetchRev is building a platform to help drive return foot traffic for small businesses via highly personalized promotions delivered at the right time and right place. We're looking for mid/senior level developers to help build out new this new product. The tech stack is primarily Ruby/Rails, Vue.js, with some Python/Flask running on lambdas, all hosted on AWS.

Next steps: apply at https://fetchrev.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=24 and feel free to reference me (Sean Coleman) or just Hacker News so we can surface you to the top. My email address is in my profile if you have questions.
As opposed to The National Association of Home Builders giving us their opinion on what we should live in?

Isn't it reasonable to have a conversation about what kind of houses we want to live in, we want builders to build, we want government to encourage?
Being first won't help much. The technology for full self driving in any area (not just a few cities with good streets) is still many years away. And when it does arrive it will quickly become a commodity, available to everyone.
This is something that always strikes me about the amount of money swilling around in tech. $90M is an absurdly huge amount of money. By absolutely any outside objective measure of work put in to payoff it is off the scale. To look at this as the founders having lost out is almost comical.
> The trick is, how do you leverage, or get around, network effects without destroying the community?

Federation. Give the network effect to everybody even though each community is independently operated.
In other words, apart from parenthetical syntax, what value does it add over just writing Python? For example, what macros are useful "in the wild"?
Location: Tempe, AZ

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: python, fullstack, java,C/C++,C#, (Anything ML and Data ,would love to work with NLP!)

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhalselmi

Github: https://github.com/Nydhal

Email: nselmi@asu.edu

I'm a graduate CS student at ASU ( will finish December 2019).
Looking for Summer Internship AND/OR OPT opportunity after graduation.
Send me a fun programming challenge/project!
Is restricting a persons ability to travel due to their inability to pay back a loan really reasonable? Isn't it one short step removed from debtor's prison?

That's before we get into the whole lack of due process..
The big problem with townhomes and apartments is shoddy construction making neighbors a noise nuisance.

Also, economics is weird. Townhomes cost almost the same as nearby houses, perhaps because they are relatively limited supply and more cost-efficient to maintain, so people look at the sticker price and think "oh, I can get a lot more footage for a little more price".

Also, townhomes tend to get built as sound buffers alongside highways, making them unpleasant to live in.
> Wayland (and thus; Sway) is not supported by OpenBSD.

Is this lack of support philosophical or due to prioritization?
And sometimes worse than just useless or impractical.

(cough Gallipoli cough)
> In a nation with long-held Chinese traditions of etiquette, however, Meiyu is proving to be socially inept. Online chat groups often comprise several dozen extended family members. Openly disputing facts with elder relatives is considered bad behavior.

To heck with "Chinese traditions", "openly disputing facts with elder relatives" does not go down great in the West either, unless you've got a particularly feisty uncle who likes political debates.

Literally my first thought on seeing the headline was "wow, sounds like a great way to get disowned" and that was me projecting my American context onto it.

Have these people never heard of the phrase "pick your battles"? A bot has no tact, and will pick fights with fairly trivial nonsense and deeply problematic lies with the same assiduousness. Lots of things are not, strictly speaking, true. Not all false beliefs are damaging in the same way. Being technically correct is the worst kind of correct.
Oh wow. I don't know where I got the idea they were global from then. Thanks for the correction.
If you're a software engineer (or will work closely w/ engineers), I built Key Values (https://www.keyvalues.com) to help w/ this.

Before building KV though, my research process included looking for and reading:

- the company's career and about us pages

- an active blog w/ recent posts (w/in the last 2 months)

- LinkedIn / Twitter / GitHub of founders and existing team members (I'd also look for any old blogs written by (or press written about) these folks before they joined the company)

- checking to see if the company hosts meetups or hackathons I can attend

- seeing if I know anyone who currently works there or worked there before and then reaching out

- cold emailing or Tweeting current team members
I had two full time jobs for eight months.
The only issue was no leisure time
Would you mind providing a link to your study?
Epirus | Software, Firmware, Mechanical, Electrical engineers | Los Angeles | Onsite | Full-Time

Epirus is a venture-backed startup specializing in agile development of advanced defense systems. Our team combines decades of aerospace & defense experience with Silicon Valley innovation in order to address 21st century threats, such as drones and other asymmetric technologies.

Our office is in Los Angeles, and we're a team of hardware and software engineers with backgrounds split between aerospace/defense and Silicon Valley/startups. We’re building some of our own hardware and working on solving really hard problems in RF engineering, embedded systems, computer vision/machine intelligence, and algorithmic control. We are lucky to have amazing support and funding from 8VC and are growing quickly.

We're hiring Hardware Engineers (Firmware, FPGA, RF, High-Power, and Antenna Design) and Software Engineers (Machine Learning, Computer Vision).

Learn more at https://www.epirussystems.com/careers. If you want to apply, email your resume to careers@epirussystems.com.
Inception/Co-Founders | Cambridge, MA | Full-time | On-site or Remote

Privacy-first Location Services

I'm building a founding team of engineers who are passionate about privacy. And about the potential to architect a mobile app and backend with massive scale and reach. I've co-founded two startups before (2nd one acquired), then took a few years out to study applied science at MIT. Now there's a product I'm insanely passionate about turning into another startup. Working with counsel, I filed two patent applications on a technology solution for getting the benefits of location sharing without reducing any user’s privacy or anonymity. And I've validated the growth model with two key channels who bring a critical mass of users. I have funding: offer of convertible note funding from a friendly VC, and the ability to self-fund this through MVP.

The key roles I'm pulling together are UI/UX, front-end (Swift/iOS first), back end (large data/map optimization), but mostly I'm looking for strong technical generalists who are also excited about building a startup with a culture that loves learning, technical problem solving, and is located walking distance from MIT. Depending on the founding team, we may explore becoming a remote-first company. christian-hn@curatedinnovation.org
> Then your #1 problem is making an organization which persists for 100 years; the software is a detail.

Problem solved if you work for Uncle Sam. His organization is very, very likely to survive the next 100 years.
Can anyone share anecdotally if companies are reaching out, and the success rate of these types of threads?
Interesting point, badpun. I think there's an assumption that generally a good company: "treats their customers with decency and respect."

I wonder if one problem is that cultural/societal values change over time, and a company might not be keeping up with the times. And that may adversely impact the way a company is treating their customers. What do you think?
It's a distributed protocol with wide adoption and enough liquidity to be easily traded anywhere in the world.

That makes it great as a medium of common exchange... I can easily convert from Canadian Dollars to BTC in Canada, then convert from BTC to Pesos in the Philippines so long as there's enough liquidity on either end.

Both parties still have to act within their respective legal frameworks, but it sidesteps the need to add even more parties into the mix, each of which take their own fees. International wire transfers are a great example of how opaque, slow and costly that can be.

You can go customer -> Canadian Company -> Filipino company -> customer.

The traditional way would be customer -> Canadian Company -> Canadian bank -> Intermediary bank(s) -> Filipino bank -> Filipino company -> Customer

I'm simplifying somewhat... obviously banks are involved in any domestic fiat transfers, but they're not involved in international transmittal (which they usually charge quite a bit for).
Given statistics that show that blue states tend to do much better on life expectancy I have the feeling that nobody wants to publish that break down as it will only result in a partisan shouting match and drown out the larger message that the US is really failing to provide health care (as opposed to a for-pay health system) to its citizens.
To the person using this to avoid confrontation: adding a bot that responds ‘false’ is at least as confrontational as you replying that same way.
America has been undergoing continuous cultural revolution since the first settlers set shore. I'm with Utah Phillips on this: decades are just convenient rhetorical devices to coerce us to forget our past. The Civil Rights struggle never ended!

Canada has a lot of guns, as well, and far less gun crime and strong regulation in their acquisition and use. Most of the illegal and prohibited firearms are smuggled in from the USA. It would be neat if our southern neighbours could stop the flow of illegal firearms into our country...

Thanks for the pleasant conversation. :)
"We have incurred net losses each year since our inception and we may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability in the future. We incurred net losses of $682.8 million, $688.3 million and $911.3 million in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively."
Well, as you say, it's an opinion piece. It's raison d'être is to allow people to make informed decisions. To that purpose, it is helpful for a society to have reasoned analyses that go beyond the low-value collection of stereotypes and bad-faith of sentences like:

> just another coastal elite telling Americans they should aspire to live and die in a cold steel and concrete box partitioned out in a shared building with neighbors on all sides pestering them
I recall seeing it, but I can't seem to track it down at the moment. It was a study done by Europeans, concluding that China was eating about 83% of the tariff cost. The remaining 17% hits the US consumers.

Of course, that 17% can sort of be returned to the American consumers via reduced taxes or increased federal spending. The jobs are nice too.
The Windows 95 "3D" look isn't skeumorphism. Skeumorphism refers to design touches that mimic real life objects. The big example is from early iOS which had things like virtual leather stitching in apps or lined paper in the Notes app or shelves in the iBook app.
You can easily fit >5 people in 3500 sqft -- that's enough for 4 large bedrooms upstairs and a whole living unit in basement, with a large main floor for "entertaining".
Teensy64: Commodore C64 Emulation on a Teensy 3.6 Microcontroller
Smaller Sensitive Data Footprints Lead to Trusted Reputations