skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but it's possible ;)

Technologies:

- Front End: HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript (React [Native], Angular, Vue, jQuery, etc.)

- Back End: More JavaScript (Node, Express, etc.), Go, PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, Swift/Objective-C, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, WordPress

- Sys admin stuff: LAMP/LEMP/other Linux infrastructure, Docker, k8s, AWS, GCP, Azure

- Currently beefing up my infosec/pentesting skills for fun (and bounties!)

Résumé/CV: https://jarv.is/ (PDF: https://jarv.is/resume.pdf)

GitHub: https://github.com/jakejarvis

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakejarvis/

Email: jake@jarv.is
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I absolutely thought this would be an article on building just enough pesonality in user interfaces. I still think that would make an awesome article.
I agree, just to be clear - you're talking about the author of the article, not Richard Feynman.

Clarity in writing reflects clarity of thoughts. I wish the same thing dies in the Business world. When I hear a CEO of Intel or Adobe or Google speak in polished, PR approved, Lawyer vetted tone as if they strung big words together and tried to make the sentence after the fact - it makes me cringe. This is one of the reasons why I like Elon or Steve Jobs - they are relatable and human.
OOP is terrifying
It might be doable without telling your new employer at all.
Nice idea, but I'm very confused what I'm doing or how it works - it starts with non-zero matches, and then for each thing I click it _increases_ the number of matches...

I'd expect it to start large, and then filter down with more things selected. But it's not even like it's acting the other way, including only companies that match at least one thing I clicked, because it started non-zero.
Wow, I would never have expected my comments to have been interpreted that way. Genuinely shocked.

Thank you for the feedback.
Location: Manchester, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Python, Java, Oracle EPM, JS/HTML/CSS, SQL, Weblogic

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glacava/

Github: https://github.com/toyg

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/toyg/

Tech Blog: http://blog.pythonaro.com

Website: https://autoepm.com

Email: giac at autoepm dot com
Like most articles on social credit, it is mistaking a bunch of separate things as a single unified system.

from https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-soci...

"The public blacklist has been incorporated by another incarnation of the social credit system — Zhima Credit, a service of the mobile payment provider Alipay. China has a huge mobile payment market, with transactions totaling $5.5 trillion in 2016, compared with $112 billion in the United States. Alipay, owned by Ant Financial, and WeChat Pay dominate the still-growing Chinese market.

Zhima Credit is an optional service embedded in Alipay that calculates users’ personal credit based on data such as spending history, friends on Alipay’s social network, and other types of consumer behavior. Zhima Credit’s technology director controversially told the Chinese magazine Caixin in 2015 that buying diapers, for example, would be considered “responsible” behavior, while playing video games for hours could be counted against you.

Hu Tao, Zhima Credit’s general manager, paints a different picture now. She says the app doesn’t monitor social media posts “nor does it attempt to measure qualitative characteristics like character, honesty, or moral value.” Zhima Credit is not a pilot for the social credit system and doesn’t share data with the government without users’ consent, she says."
I have dealt with more than my fair share of HOAs in such housing (townhomes organized as condos, high-rise, etc.) Some of the stories of dysfunctional HOAs are right on the money unfortunately. Also, state laws give HOAs more power than they typically deserve: until about 2012, Texas allowed HOAs the following: place liens on shareholders' properties without explicitly informing them, deny them xeriscapy options, and define where they may or may not place flags. It is horrifying what trouble a bunch of tinpot bullies can cause when they manage to infest an HOA board.

Transparency is another problem area: it is often difficult, without going though the expense of making a purchase offer, to get HOA terms, details of board meetings, and budgets; this makes it tough to go in with informed consent when making one of the biggest purchases that you will make. I had to withdraw a purchase offer (and lose my option fee; I since learned that a good realtor would get the information before going through the process of making an offer) once after reading the 60+ page HOA terms, which appeared to mandate that the buyer must leave a key with the central office and that the latter may visit properties as they needed with unacknowledged prior notice.

I wish HOAs had to be treated as public concerns so that the light would shine brightly on pathological boards and buyers would have the best available information possible.
I hate that there are special rules for "enterprises." Every person and every business is an enterprise.
Small parties provide opposition. They can change the national conversation on issues[0]. Sometimes they provide confidence in minority parliaments (remember, in our system of government, losing a confidence vote generally means an election).

Small parties also provide a protest vote, and since voting occurs on a riding-by-riding basis, the desire and intent of the protest can vary. Sometimes protests can be so widespread that no government can form a majority. In Canada, we managed to elect three minority governments in a row over a period of seven years (2004 - 2011).

In short, voters use small parties to send a message.

[0] The NDP's first national leader, Tommy Douglas, was never Prime Minister, but is known as "father of Medicare" and is generally well regarded by Canadians decades after his death.
>> The second, and less discussed, requirement is for the two parties that should trade to be aware of one another’s goods or services.

>> Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

That is false. Maybe it was the case at the beginning, but now with a small number of big gatekeepers like Google, Amazon and Facebook, the internet actually increases information asymmetry. Mostly by concentrating user attention to a small number of companies/products and thereby encouraging herd mentality and distracting users away from real value which would make their lives better.
I like that comparison. I stumbled upon another continuum some years ago, and I think it makes a good companion.

In this one, both ends are bad, and the middle is good. It's especially useful for dealing with any type of devotion to cause (or a person):

Optimism ---- Improver ---- Pessimism

Though people tend to go from Optimism -> Pessimism (-> Improver).

The problem with optimists is that they will "defend the indefensible. He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, “My cosmos, right or wrong.” He will be less inclined to the reform of things; more inclined to a sort of front-bench official answer to all attacks, soothing everyone with assurances. He will not wash the world, but whitewash the world."

The problem with pessimists is "not that he chastises gods and men, but that he does not love what he chastises . . . [In being the so-called ‘candid friend,’ the pessimist is not really candid.] He is keeping something back—in his own gloomy pleasure in saying unpleasant things. He has a secret desire to hurt, not merely to help. . . . He is using the ugly knowledge which was allowed him [in order] to strengthen the army, to discourage people from joining it."

An example of the "Improver" is (are) women: "Some stupid people started the idea that because women obviously back up their own people through everything, therefore women are blind and do not see anything. They can hardly have known any women. The same women who are ready to defend their men through thick and thin . . . are almost morbidly lucid about the thinness of [their] excuses or the thickness of [their] head[s]. . . . Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind."

[0] Quotes from G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy(Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1959), pp. 69–71.

[1] Arrangement of quotes taken from https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-c-hafen_love-is-not-bli...
I agree with you. If you were to look at some of my other posts on privacy then you'd see that compared to many other internet users I actually go to inordinate lengths to keep Big Tech at bay. For instance, not using JavaScript during browsing is my default mode (and that's only part of my protection system); such action however is considered extreme to the point of being obsessional by some HN readers.

However, one can grind things too fine and all one ends up by doing is spending almost full time looking for security breaches in one's fortified ramparts and tunnels under browser 'moats'. It's where one draws the line that matters, the timid keep safe distances, hide behind others or pretend not to know and hope such problems will never affect them. I can definitely say I'm not one of those, in fact I reckon I push my security boundaries pretty hard and demand a lot from them.

It seems to me if you want to achieve something that's close to the bleeding edge then you have to be prepared to suffer inconvenience and or bleed a little. For instance, risk-takers push the law up to its edge so as to get something daring or audacious done that few others risk trying, they tread the line separating the legal from illegal whilst simultaneously leaning over precariously into illegality and hoping they don't fall.

At the very edges—which really isn't very often—I run my internet browsing a little like that, but in my post I was referring to the vast numbers of internet users who always take safer routes or play by the default rules. ...And it's also what I do most of the time.
> Good thing this article isn't about me... apparently idea gals are okay.

In my part of the US, "guy" is a gender-neutral term.
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Look, I'm largely on your side with regards to the SPLC - I think they're a valuable organization and that the Right's attacks on them are largely in bad faith.

That said, you're not doing them any favors here. Just stop.
Location: Calgary, AB, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Web developer with a background in 3D rendering. Node, React, Mongo, SQL, C#, JS (Typescript too), ASP.Net, OpenGL, OpenCL, HLSL, WebGL

Résumé/CV:

https://github.com/nick-funk (GitHub)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-funk/ (LinkedIn)
https://www.softfalcon.com/ (Blog)

Email: nick (dot) funk (at) outlook (dot) com
It seems pretty obvious that something is off when a company has 50/50 good and bad reviews, with the bad ones offering a ton of detail, and the good ones way too positive and overly "corporate" with no detail.
The flip side of this is the toxicity of first-past-the-post.
You get a choice on once issue and have to take the rest that comes with it. It baffles me that people accept this.
They have received a bank license recently so they are in process of becoming a full fledged bank.
Any source that Microsoft ‘s suing people for this?
I am an expert at google-fu ;-)

"...CreditCards.com releases the national average APR, which is made up of 100 of the most popular credit cards in the country. According to their June 21, 2017, release, the national average credit card rate across all types of cards was 15.96 percent. — Jan 2, 2019"
Aula Education | Remote (GMT+/- 6h) | Full-time, permanent | https://aula.education/ | Full-stack JS, DevOps

We’re a remote-first team of 35 mission-driven people (14 nationalities!) building a ‘Slack for education’: a university's digital campus that brings together students, staff, and educators.

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Tech stack: React, react-native, redux, microservices in node.js, docker, AWS, Terraform, mongo. Read more here: http://bit.ly/AulaTechStack

Company culture: no-ego builder mentality, collaboration and support, focus on personal growth.

We would love to hear from you.
I agree. Looking at the overall inflation rate as a guide to monetary policy is misguided. There is nothing that says that inflation has to be widely spread, rather than just concentrated in smaller segments as we saw in the bubble you mention.

If you keep inflating the balloon, it's going to bulge out somewhere. And last time was bad.
Hi fellow Volvo OSDer. It truly is a wonderful program.

But there's a difference between the OSD MSRP discount. (i.e. buying off the OSD price sheet) and the standalone "Destination Fee" line item. Further, even though Volvo ships the car back to the the states for free for you, it's up to the dealership (and potentially your negotiation skills) whether they still add that destination fee to the final bill.
The mortgage deduction is actually terrible...
gentoo has openrc
Arbor | Software Engineer - Python | Cambridge, MA | Full-time Onsite

At Arbor, we are uncovering nature’s inventions on an unprecedented scale. Through our pairing of new computational approaches and high throughput assay technologies, we are exploring the diversity of proteins to discover bioactivities with impactful applications in therapeutics or sustainability.

We've published some of our discoveries in Science (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/88) and Molecular Cell (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2018.02.028).

As an early software engineer in this venture-backed startup, you will have considerable latitude to innovate new methods for processing and extracting signal from massive amounts of (sequence) data. We make heavy use of Python and Google Cloud, among other technologies. You will be expected to work closely with our incredible team of scientists as we push the boundaries of discovery together.

More details: https://arbor.bio/careers
> We need manpower, not decision makers.

Sounds like you are looking for contractors, not employees. Why not just outsource the whole thing?
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Ann Arbor, MI and Columbus, OH | ONSITE
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We are hiring software programmers across all levels – for backend and frontend development using Java, C++, JavaScript, Angular, React and associated technology stacks. The list of current openings is available at https://www.nexient.com/careers. These are full time positions working from Nexient’s delivery center at Ann Arbor, MI. Visa sponsorship and telecommute / remote work options are not available for these roles.
I'm not sure if it's going to impact your trust in Windows either way, but regulators do 'wiretap' the communication sent off Windows boxes in an effort to keep Microsoft compliant with law, and Microsoft is financially incentivized to be honest (at risk of hefty fines).

Tech journalism is quick to print stories of malfeasance in the privacy/security area, but they've done very little to inform readers of accountability or legal obligations that are enforced by government entities. This leads to general distrust and unproductive online conversations.

If you're interested in privacy/security, you should be paranoid about this stuff, but don't mistake yourself into thinking that Microsoft operates in vacuum of unaccountability.

(Disclaimer, MS employee, and I have to state that this is my opinion)
AngelList to get a sense of their current employees/team make-up. If the place is earlier stage, I might look at their investors too.
Will add if lyft is using things like dynamodb, there is no good onprem alternatives that they can easily migrate to without significant rewrites of core business logic

This is expensive and risky and also difficult to do in piece meal

Disclaimer: former AWS + Amazon employee
There used to be a thing called "Fucked Company" - ran by a guy named Pud..
Peter Popoff probably had a hard time understanding why people had a problem with his activities as well.
But that's human gender, not noun gender. In grammar, gender is a class of noun and generally unrelated to human gender.

In German, words like "library" (Bibliothek) and "street" (Strasse/Straße) are feminine, for example. It's true that some feminine words, such as "woman" (Frau) and "mother" (Mutter), are feminine. But then you have words like "girl" (Mädchen), which are not.

Your example ("she did") could actually have ambiguity in languages that extends the noun gender to pronouns, such as French. "She" doesn't need to refer to a woman, just a feminine noun. For example, "car" (voiture) is feminine, and you can refer to "it" as "elle" (she).
No, Data is not the new oil
I wouldn't lie about a crisis, but it's business. It's not unheard of to take a better offer and offer to work as a consultant at the previous employer.
Location: Chicago

Remote: Currently am, but up for anything

Willing to relocate: No thanks, just got here a month ago

Technologies: Zapier Zapier Zapier, HTML/CSS/JS, UI/UX, learning Ruby/Rails, Sketch, FB Ads Manager

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillian-schuller/, https://www.spaceflight.digital

Email: jillian@spaceflight.digital

More of a generalist than a dev - have been building websites/digital marketing campaigns in politics and advocacy for the last 2+ years. Technically minded, client facing, and moderately alright at foosball.
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Swarm Technologies is a satellite company committed to providing accessible, low-cost global connectivity. Our mission is to connect people and devices any time, from anywhere in the world, at the lowest cost.

We're a small team looking for full stack engineers who are excited to architect and build our platform’s core software features. You'll contribute to implementing and scaling a simple, elegant network-as-a-service software product, as well as solving problems related to networking and data structures.

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PayPal is building out its PayPal for Partners capabilities - see http://developer.paypal.com. We are looking for engineers with several years experience building highly-trafficked services and public APIs, as well as managers that can lead teams of said engineers. Our P4P business is growing and in high-demand, we are looking to build out the internal platforms that keep us ahead of our growth. If you are interested in learning more please email airavindran at PayPal dot com.
The better comparison is that we have volunteer crackers bypassing DRM with obfuscated code (Denuvo) within days of release. To my knowledge Windows doesn’t have obfuscated code (except maybe for activation related stuff) and they even provide symbols in some cases.
It seems like advertising... but I've gotta give it to them, it's some damn good advertising.
Downloaded it to give it a try and compare against an app I’ve been using called Speechify (heard about that one on a podcast). Congrats on getting an idea to materialize, you’re right in that’s the hardest part!
A Real Programmer: The Story of Mel (1983)
Eh, I don't really suspect any foul play. Maybe they cut their margins razor thin because they weren't sure of demand and this is a new market for them, all of a sudden it's selling like hotcakes and getting rave reviews, they're chewing through inventory, so they raised the price $10. It's seems plausible.
> I've not heard a single idea from the Right in the last 20 years that would either 1) reduce pollution, ever, or 2) increase the safety of food and water supplies

1) In the USA CO2 emissions are dropping mainly due to natural gas replacing coal. This was possible because of the development of fracking. Democrats are against this, Republicans for.

2) The best carbon-free technology that we currently have, and can deploy at scale, is nuclear power. Republicans for. Democrats against.