skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The government approved treatments are all strictly priced.

I kind of like Japan's system based on what I've read so far, but I'm still not sure of one thing:

Does regulated pricing have a chilling effect on drug companies?

It seems like it would be impossible for a Japanese drug company to be viable if the government gets to fix the price so that anyone can afford it seeing as new drugs can cost billions to develop.
Are you referring to the article with this comment?
Really good point.

My high-level take away though is that it is directionally correct regarding Twitter and its (mis)management.
Rescale | San Francisco | ONSITE | Rescale offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation. (We're an HPC/Supercomputing Cloud Platform)

We are a Y Combinator startup with top investors: Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, & a bunch of others.

We have about 100 employees scattered around the world, with about 15 software developers all located in San Francisco. The company still feels small and everyone is pretty tight. Work atmosphere is fun & friendly. We recently closed Series B ($32MM). We are growing very rapidly--all departments are hiring (30% increase in headcount last quarter--to give you an idea of our growth rate).

It's exciting, a lot of opportunity, interesting technical problems to solve, definitely a good time to join. Devs that come in now will have the opportunity to have a big impact on the future of our company, our code & our culture.

We're currently looking for:

Data Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/4882eec3-3abf-4161-af0f-5d32e3...

Senior Backend Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/ba8800d3-b0bd-40b0-8a72-887e27...

Senior DevOps Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/5bbd7886-8b96-4bf6-a0be-c5df93...

Senior Frontend Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/db57778b-268d-473d-9edf-111fb8...

Site Reliability Engineer:
https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/9b3b5816-e832-4e9f-b49d-ba0292...

Software Engineer in Test – QA:
https://jobs.lever.co/rescale/c9be7521-636f-47a1-ad62-347921...
Are any non-Christians part of the Life.church team?
Price tracker monitors and alerts the product prices. Built with firebase
"Privacy?" Hah! More like "plausible deniability for fueling ethnic violence." If they can't read the messages, then they aren't responsible. Meanwhile, most of the useful ad targeting data is in the metadata, which they still collect. They're truly shameless.

This is also funny, in a grim sort of way:

> Late last year, Facebook admitted that Clear History is taking longer than expected -- it turns out that browsing data, which the company uses to help send more targeted advertising to users on its social platforms -- is more deeply ingrained into Facebook’s systems than anyone realized. Simply finding and deleting the correct data without disrupting Facebook’s advertising and analytics businesses has been a big enough challenge that the product hasn’t gotten off the ground...

If Facebook were serious about this, they could easily implement a "nuke all of my data" option that would wipe all of your history. Not just the stuff gathered from beacons, but everything, so people could start over from scratch with their new understanding of how Facebook operates.

But they clearly aren't serious. I suspect that the only real "clear history" option will be exporting your data, deleting your profile, and making a new one, preferably using a new email address from a public computer.
Jarhouse | Atlanta, GA | Full Time | ONSITE | Sr Software engineer

Real-estate company looking to expand to national scale. We have a few products including: a Rails data warehouse with an API that drives other apps in our company, a Django API that houses machine learning models making real estate valuations and a react mobile application which allows users to inspect properties to inform our purchase decisions.

We are looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails engineer with additional experience with Djagno/python and AWS deployment to join our team.

You can contact me patrick [at] jarhouse.com if you are interested.
I'm depressed just thinking of the admin battle and stress you went through!

I paid £2 a day for parking when my first child was born, requring an emergency c section and 4 days of intensive care.

Hospital food was shit, but medical care amazing.
Flare Jewelry | Boston, MA | Backend engineer, Mechanical engineer | Full-time | https://flare-jewelry.breezy.hr/

We put hidden buttons into your jewelry so you don't have to make compromises for your safety.

Started by two female founders, Flare is reinventing personal security with data-driven technology solutions that give people the freedom and power to boldly live the lives they choose. Sitting at the intersection of hardware and software development, our technology turns wearable accessories into escape buttons.

- Backend: https://flare-jewelry.breezy.hr/p/25a4025d610f-backend-softw...

- Mechanical: https://flare-jewelry.breezy.hr/p/ed7b187afb89-mechanical-en...

I'm Flare's head of engineering. Please send any questions or comments and I'll do my best to reply quickly. I'm mike at flarejewelry dot co.
Let's write a code of executive ethics instead. All this ressentiment at tech workers needs to be channeled into something actually productive.
Outside Board Director, Former Executive Officer at US/Japan Multinationals, Retired Int'l Business Attorney.

you can find him on linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/eneiheisel
Caffeine Cranks Up Solar Cells
Skyscanner | full-time senior and lead hires (back-end/front-end/mobile/data/product) | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia, Shenzhen, Singapore | ONSITE, VISA https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. We have a unique position in the market and are continuing our incredible growth as a tech company. We'll soon be a top-100 website in the world by traffic.

Hiring at an experienced level in lots of disciplines: back-end with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science & machine learning, full stack (modern frontend + API skills), designers, product, iOS & Android. Languages we like and have great tooling for: Java, Python, JavaScript & NodeJS.

We have a number of offices in Europe and are focusing on Scotland, London and Barcelona in particular.

We want to hire great people to solve large-scale challenges and build industry-leading new products. In short, if you've got good software industry and tech company experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to improve product and people around you, we're interested.

I 've recently started at Skyscanner and see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability here. We have room to make decisions, move fast, and the encouragement to make things better. It's exciting.

Please ping me an email at raunaq.vohra@skyscanner.net if you want me to refer you, and/or have questions. If you'd like your referral to be attributed to me directly but don't want/need to get in touch, please apply via https://grnh.se/3dea97751 (the Skyscanner jobs link above works if you don't want to attribute). Please specify which job are you applying to from the link above and which office would you like to work from.

Permanent & onsite roles only. Relocation / visa assistance for senior roles.
Citrine | Redwood City, CA | Backend Engineering | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full-time |https://citrine.io/

Citrine Informatics is building the enterprise materials R&D platform to help our customers achieve faster R&D breakthroughs, design cutting edge materials, and reduce the environmental impact of existing materials.

As part of the backend engineering team, you’ll be helping to build this next generation platform. You’ll build and maintain services that run materials-specific machine learning, organize hierarchical materials data, and integrate with customer hardware - making the end to end process of designing a new material feel like magic.

Open Positions:

Sr. Backend Engineer: https://citrine.io/careers/#senior-backend-software-engineer

As a senior engineer, you will help drive both engineering and software design as well as help scale and mentor our engineering team

General job page: https://citrine.io/careers/

Some stack buzzwords to give an idea of what we are working with: Scala, Akka, DynamoDB, S3, PostgreSQL, Athena, ECS

Our customers include some of the world’s largest Fortune 1000 materials and product companies. Citrine is backed by leading investors including Tencent Holdings, B&C Holdings, Innovation Endeavors, DCVC (Data Collective), Prelude Ventures, AME Cloud, XSeed Capital, Morado Ventures, and Ulu Ventures.

Please reach out to Jordan (jordan AT citrine DOT io) if you have any questions.
NASA has a ton of regulation and oversight that their contractors abide by. However, if you are in a trusted position of testing materials and not only you but your entire lab is compromised by cheating, how is anyone going to really find out unless someone speaks up? They were speeding up the test equipment between customer visits of the lab. This wasn't just laziness or someone fudging the numbers because its close enough, this was straight up fraud. NASA can't afford to test every little bit of everything that goes into a rocket themselves. They rely on their contractors to do their due diligence and make sure their vendors do everything right. Maybe a lot of stuff slipped past. There's probably bits of deficient aluminum all over the place but it held up enough during testing so no one noticed.
No this works offline too. For example, I would think that my friends have the decency not to talk to my grandmother about my sexual preferences, even if the two happen to meet at my birthday.
Doesn't it work with PulseAudio? Using raw ALSA doesn't sound common. And there are plugins for such cases.

Linux as a whole is moving towards Pipewire anyway: https://pipewire.org

That will take time still.
It wasn't Linux but was based on mach Unix iirc. And they weren't cheap.. but they were cheaper than a similar horsepowered SGI workstation at the time, iiarc. But probably 10x the cost of a Windows machine.
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To apply, please use either my email address, aclark@nexient.com OR https://www.nexient.com/careers

----- My take -----

(I'm a Sysadmin / DevOps person, I'm not HR or recruitment, but my posting here has been approved by the recruiting dept.)

Nexient are good people: My experience at Nexient has been overwhelmingly positive, they are flexible, caring and fun to work at. They actually care about the life/work balance too. Multiple tabletop, D&D, console gaming nights are organized all the time. Charity drives and other ways to give are also promoted within the company. The work environment is really nice too, with motorized standing/sitting desks and laptops that actually have enough memory!! Nexient do outsourcing but with US-based staff, we work closely with clients so we're just part of the team.

Nexient are also working hard to add hundreds of tech jobs in Michigan and Ohio. There's a real need for good folks to help us help our clients.

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Nexient is hiring! In 2009, we launched Nexient to give American businesses a more responsive, domestic alternative to sending software development offshore. We knew we could deliver better software faster by collaborating with clients in real time. Today, we’re the only 100% US tech company among the World’s Top 100 Outsourcers. Every day, we help dozens of businesses — mostly Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing tech product companies — accelerate their products and services to market and increase their agility.

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.
Aiven | Site Reliability Engineers, Customer Success Engineers, Developer advocates | Helsinki / Boston | ONSITE / REMOTE | https://aiven.io/careers
Aiven is a cloud technology startup creating fully managed cloud services from the best open source database and event streaming technologies.

Our cloud services allow our clients to focus on building awesome applications instead of worrying about data infrastructure management. All our services are based on the best open source technologies, and we're also active open source contributors.

We're headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and can help you relocate here, but we also have employees in other cities across European Union and United States and welcome remote applications. We're now looking for new team members to work on site reliability engineering, customer success and developer advocacy.

https://thehub.fi/jobs/company/aiven lists more of our open positions. Please note that while the site lists the positions in Helsinki, many of them are also available for remote employees in other locations across EU and US.
Several years ago I wrote a simple blog post on ESC alternatives:

https://www.eduardobautista.com/escape-key-alternatives-in-v...
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics

"The 1984 Summer Olympics are widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympics[4] and serve as an example of how to run the model Olympic Games. As a result of low construction costs, coupled with a reliance on private corporate funding,[5] the 1984 Olympic Games generated a profit of more than $250 million."

Peter Ueberroth is still alive, perhaps he could consult.
This is a classic case of what happens when key parts of doing business have a low-cost and low barrier to entry. Diversity and interestingness take hold.
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Saturday Insurance is a US startup launching in the coming months to offer life insurance and other protection products directly to consumers. We’re revolutionizing the buying process by making it safe and easy for customers to shop online and buy from the best insurers in the country.

More details: https://angel.co/saturday-insurance/
To be fair the author was the one who mentioned it first. I tend to agree with the GP here. The lack diversity cred of a bunch of dudes 60yr ago is not really worth mentioning. It has no bearing on the content of the article and only serves as a distraction from the main subject. Considering who the author[0] is I don't think this was an attempt to "point out the accomplishments of the white race" or something like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivka_Galchen
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of agile. Agile isn't Scrum, agile isn't Kanban, Agile isn't even really the manifesto. Agile is, like lean manufacturing (one of its inspirations), based around one really simple concept: the workers know the most about what they are doing and should be leading the charge on what they are doing.

If your agile ceremonies end up being all about giving management control -- if your story points are used to tell management how much work is getting done, if management is using the daily standup to make sure people are on-task instead of being about commitments. If agile is just another way for management to exert control over software development, rather than being about ceding control to software developers, it won't "work."

This is the same thing you see with lean/TPS, by the way. The joint GM/Toyota venture showed that without committing to these principles, adopting parts of TPS don't really deliver the full benefits.[1] As one UAW team leader said about why working for Toyota was preferable to GM:

> The GM system relied on authority. People with rank, the managers, ruled regardless of their competence or the validity of what they were saying. It was basically a military hierarchy. At NUMMI rank doesn't mean a damn thing. Standardized work means we all work the objectively best way to do the job, and everyone does it that way. I might make some minor adjustments because of my height, for example, but I follow the procedure as laid out because it makes sense. We're more like a special forces unit than the regular military hierarchy. Management's delegated responsibility to the people who do the work, and that gives workers a sense of pride in their jobs.

If management is asking the developers to adopt agile, but they aren't doing anything to adopt agile themselves, good luck.

1) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245862516_Democrati...
In a place with lab quality vacuum instead of an atmosphere, at that distance from the sun, I suspect you could use direct focused sunlight for smelting. Not sure if that would be more practical than electric furnaces, though. It would be more efficient, but the setup is less flexible.
As a low-time (just shy of 250 total hours) private pilot, I much prefer all-analog, as I personally find it much easier to take in information in a quick scan. PP and IFR instruction was both done with "glass cockpit" aircraft, and while Garmin's avionics are quite nice -- and were one of the reasons I took instruction where I did, I found that I like the all-analog setups better.

This has a side benefit as well -- the "glass cockpit" planes are much more in demand at the local flying clubs, while I can almost always get an older 172 or 182 with zero advanced notice, and they're cheaper too.

I won't opine about reliability or anything else; I don't have enough experience. I just know which I find easier to process.
I've seen this extremely helpful site posted on HN & ignored in the past, so just want to say - despite the un-HN-worthy word "pwned" in the URL, this is a legitimate and reputable site, which more people should know about.

This computerphile video has more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhUb5iknVJs
> I can't imagine trying to actually be productive in most of those environments.

I know from experience that I can't, and that's one reason why things like WeWork would not be something that I'd consider. I wouldn't even take a position with a company that uses an open office plan.

But there are apparently a large enough number of people who find that sort of thing tolerable that a business catering to them appears viable.
I'm not sure about your first question, but for your second question the evidence is everywhere. My news feed is filled with multiple articles per day about cutting regulations on just about everything, but mostly impacting the environment, or social justice issues:

https://www.google.com/search?q=deregulate&tbm=nws

Part of the issue is geographic. Being born and raised in Idaho, I've found myself surrounded by libertarians. Conservative-leaning people tend to move here from more liberal states on the coasts.

Now where it really gets interesting is when libertarian think tanks do the opposite of what might be expected:

https://www.hjnews.com/montpelier/voter-initiatives/article_...

In this case Idaho Freedom Foundation (a local libertarian think tank) is against public voter initiatives (which may someday lead to the legalization of marijuana in Idaho) but is for getting public approval for urban renewal projects like the Boise city library teardown/rebuild and new stadium.

You just can't make this stuff up.
Take another look at that chain of bills. I would guess that if the initial bill was for $2000, the hospital only received $800 or so total. So insurance paid half, you paid half, but you think insurance paid for much more when really they just swatted away a fraudulent price.

Yes, very few here have been on the receiving end of a $143k magnitude extortion. The people who have are less likely to be writing HN comments and more likely to be slaving away in the mines of Rura Penthe. But these exceptional stories fit the exact pattern that anybody who has interacted with the healthcare racket has experienced, even though most ultimately dodge the (biggest) bullet.
Linux on the desktop is very nice and easy to use, once installed & configured.

However most people dont know how to install or configure Linux, Windows (or any other OS) on their devices.

This also happens to be the reason why Linux is not popular on the desktop; it lacks the strong relationship with the OEMs that gets an operating system pre-installed.
Are you serious? What about the fact that American black and Hispanic families are disproportionately living in ghettos due to the barriers that have been purposefully imposed on them over the last century?
At my university every major has a specific ethics class as well as taking a general ethics class. The classes were a joke. All we talked about in Computer Science Ethics was gender/race imbalance in the field. An important issue no doubt, but when with Facebook stuff going on, creating weapons, EU privacy laws, and a bunch of other topics out there it was extremely frustrating being in the class.
Did you check the Kubrick archives?
Come on, they also went through Prestwick Airport, just outside Glasgow.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-told-to-stay-off-u...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/29/msps-demand-...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22680924
> I'm not seeing the incentive for someone in testing to fake results on their own.

There's a lot of missing details, so it's hard to know. From the description of what he did, it seems the interest was not so much in generating false results, but cutting corners, such as running the tests quicker than was allowable. This could have been to make up for some shortfall in lab throughput, for instance.

Also, it sounds like he was in charge of the lab, so fairly high up. That position may have come with substantial performance related incentives.
Basically, Nothing in the Bay Area Is Affordable to Someone Making $64,000
It's based on React, Relay & GraphQL but will PHP still power the back-end?
Really? I regularly manage to get most of the linux toolchain to bork, and have particular "fun" getting the profiling tools to work properly.

And never mind getting a nice IDE environment like Visual Studio up and running.

So it may just be a matter of familiarity and/or the particulars of the projects you work on.
"investors rarely, if ever, fund startups founded by a solo entrepreneur"

I'll add another anecdote/datapoint to this: I was the stereotypical one-guy-in-the-basement when I got my first Fortune 500 customer. In order to be paid, I needed to be registered as a vendor with them and they needed an EIN (Employer ID Number).

I was concerned that I would lose their business if they found out I was a Sole Proprietor, so I created an LLC and gave them that number the next day.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that there are many single-member LLC's and S-Corps who only have that business organization for similar reasons.
> One of the unique challenges in comics is the monthly gamble on what will sell. Comics released every few weeks, as opposed to the collected editions available in bookshops or on Amazon, aren’t returnable; with 600 to 1,000 such items published every month, stores must make educated guesses or be stuck with their mistakes. At OK Comics, 90% of what Myland gets in are pre-orders, with the rest put on shelves for casual customers. “Smart retailers would rather under- than over-order,” he says

Ouch. Returns make things hard for the publishers, so I understand removing them for a diverse catalog of small cheap publications which will be replaced by a collection in a known period of time. But yeah, that really does make them very unattractive for retailers.
Show HN: An Accurate Whistle Detector I Made in JavaScript
How do we know that he didn't sell the private keys?
PipelineDB (YC W14) is Joining Confluent
Specifically, the German Constitution was drafted by parties associated with the Weimar coalition, and very much reflects the lessons learned from the fall of the Weimar Republic.