skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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/
SEEKING WORK | Edinburgh, UK or remote | Web & mobile software consultant

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

Email: sw@seanw.org

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Summary: I'm a software consultant with 10+ years of experience who can take your web or mobile project from concept to delivery. I've assisted well known global companies like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own commercially successful apps and have a PhD from Edinburgh University so you can rely on me to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule. I can take charge of requirements gathering, design and development of apps, web services and MVPs as well as giving recommendations on solution design, software architecture and team workflow improvements.

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Previous work experience: Full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, React, WordPress, Django), mobile app development (Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase) and website optimisation (performance, security & SEO).

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Portfolio: I've independently created two commercially successful apps where I was responsible for the concept, design, development, graphic design, UX and marketing.

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks 100s of pages at time against 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. This included developing a system for subscription based payments and authoring a modern web best practices guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Technologies: TypeScript, Vue, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 20K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

- Fresco for Android (see https://www.seanw.org), a digital painting app which was one of the first on the platform to support layers. Features customisable brushes, image filters and robust undo/redo/autosave while being highly optimised for devices with low resources. Technologies: Java, C, JNI.

[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]

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See https://www.seanw.org for my portfolio, client endorsements and more on my background.

Email sw@seanw.org with details about your project so we can arrange a call and work towards a quote. I'll get back to you within one working day.
> I think that the new User Interface that Facebook is rolling out will show whether or not Facebook has a real commitment to privacy.

How would you determine if the new user interface provided (or not) any [new or perceived] level of privacy?
>Surely if people know they could be fined thousands for simple treatments like stitches they avoid medical care altogether?

This is what happened to myself. I've had persistent breathing problems and the last time I went to a specialist for it they charged me $3,000 to breathe in a tube for 15 seconds and say they don't have any ideas as to what was wrong. I haven't been back and try to ignore the fact that I have trouble breathing daily.
Owning it: browser compatibility data and open source governance
You only need downvotes really when post are more like chats and the amount of posters is too big. If you have moderators you don't need downvoting. It's bad for debate since controversial posts get hidden or people get reluctant to disagree. I dislike the downvote on eg. HN.
Just cherry-picking one rather extreme example: There was a method in a core library that had an argument that was not used. Few people knew this, and it was one that was called at least once by most services.

When I discovered this, I asked the module's maintainer about it. He explained that it used to be used, but requirements changed so that it wasn't needed anymore. He decided to leave it anyway, though, because the alternative would have been an immense effort to track down all the call sites, remove the argument, then trace all the resulting dead code, and remove that as well. It would have eaten up a week, I'm sure. Everyone had bigger fish to fry, and always would have bigger fish to fry.

As I understand it, Google gets around that problem by having a group of people where frying fish like that is their primary responsibility.
Is internet access "up" in Venezuela at the moment? I would think Amateur Radio would probably be the most reliable means of communication, and CW (Morse code) at that since antenna and power requirements are the lowest.
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in London, UK)

DevOps / Python consultant with over ten years experience building, hosting and fixing applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, lambdas, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, training, security audits - you name it I've done it.

Recent projects include:

+ Migrating a sizeable websockets application based on django-channels to AWS Fargate. This took numerous modifications to a venerable codebase and shifting the 300+GB Postgres DB was far from trivial. The resulting setup has halved the stack's operating cost and greatly improved its uptime.

+ Re-hosting a large microservice node.js + RethinkDB web application on Google Cloud. The resulting stack (serving a busy news site) is deployed to GKE with a set of Helm charts and a minimal amount of custom tooling for CDN & image serving. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring. GKE has turned out to be low-maintenance and rock solid; I'll be glad to work with it again.

+ Rewriting a Python big data stack for a bioscience client. The result was a robust, scalable system deployed with Terraform/Docker to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. Benefits included better resilience, higher resource utilisation and vastly reduced cost/processing time.

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Updated a sprawling Django/Postgres app to fit modern containerised hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances & continuous integration.

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancing thread.

hn-2019-05@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4
Atlas // Fulcrum | Full Stack Developer | MSP, NYC | $80-$130k + benefits | Full-time, REMOTE or ONSITE | U.S. only | http://atlas-x.com/careers

Atlas Website: http://www.atlas-x.com
Fulcrum Website: http://www.fulcrumpro.com

Small businesses have come to expect intuitive, fast, and beautiful software in their personal lives yet deal with old, slow, and clunky software in their business lives. We are changing that.

We've built a three stage rocket to get us to where we want to go:

First Stage (COMPLETE): consulting to gain deep experiences in a complicated domain filled with old legacy incumbants.

Second Stage (IN FLIGHT): scalable configurable enterprise product for manufacturers and construction companies utilizing new technologies and frameworks for hard problems like scheduling and forecasting.

Third Stage (FORTHCOMING): connecting millions of small businesses to their big business counterparts and automating the tedious work that exists at the seams between organizations.

We need talented full stack developers who have empathy for users and love making thoughtful and simple solutions to complex problems; developers who want to see their software used daily. About 70% of our work is currently focused on building software for short run manufacturing companies. We're looking for developers to help us transition and build our experiences and codebase into an increasingly scalable product platform.

We value hard work and perseverance. We have never once given up on a single customer and have worked tirelessly through endless challenges to ensure that we are delivering value and that each and every company we touch is better after using our software.

We value proactive work, open-mindedness, self-sufficiency, and subscribe to the idea that knowledge and continuous learning is valuable even it is not directly applicable. Our favorite tools include C#, TypeScript, NodeJS, Angular, and Kendo. If you have at least 2 years of professional experience building all parts of modern webapps, value autonomy over routine, and are interested in helping us develop the next generation of software for small and medium businesses, reach out to us through the contact info below.

Currently Nine Developers.

5% Matching 401(k) after 90 days through Vanguard with immediate vesting. Health, dental, and vision benefits. Remote and flexible work. Equity plan in place and negotiable. Outside investment in motion.

Process: culture screen - tech screen - tech interview - offer.

To get in touch: careers@atlas-x.com
Atlas Solutions
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Do you feel like you should be growing faster?

Are you mostly winging it when it comes to marketing your product?

Lack focus for your marketing initiatives?

I can help your B2B SaaS business sell your product to more software engineering teams. I'm uniquely able to help you because I'm both a software engineer and marketer. That allows me to understand your product, speak your language, and write code to scale your marketing.

I'm available part-time for one project immediately and more in the coming months.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, I can be reached via the email in my profile.
>The TL;DR is owning a mobile home but leasing the land (lot) underneath it is a very bad idea and will most likely harm you financially.

This gets a lot blurrier when you're talking about things that are closer to a travel trailer than a mobile home. Those can be packed up and moved in less than a day. You're basically renting a parking space with water/electrical/sewer hook ups at that point. If you need a wide load permit to move it you should definitely own the land.
Show HN: iOS App – Live Photos in Augmented Reality
Live Studio allows you to order physical photo prints and view the Live Photo in augmented reality. See the demo video on my site and download the app to try the live demo. https://livestud.io/
I already showed you and explained how they were wrong. It doesn't matter that it's from 2014 the underlying point is still the same as it has nothing to do with how much has been added but how you measure it to get to those number you are

No, you claimed that my number of 45% reneweable electricity production in Germany for 2019 so far is false. But you provided a link which showed that it was 40% in 2017 already. So how have you shown my number wrong? Please let us just talk about the number, don't start other topics as in your previous post.

You are talking about electricity it's not energy.

Yes, I am talking about electricity, my claim was clearly referring to that. How was my claim wrong?

You are talking about what % of electricity is produced IN Germany now what it consumes (i.e. imports)

Germany is a net electricity exporter.

Your number needs to factor in capacity factor (it doesn't)

What capacity factor needs to be factored in and how when just doing the sum of the production in Watt hours?

The point of this discussion is whether Solar can be used for large scale energy consumption. It can't and it isn't and you haven't showed that to be the case for the very reasons I just explained to you.

My claim didn't talk about solar specifically, but about all reneweables together. How was the number I named wrong?

Sun could be 100% based on the way you present it and it still wouldn't mean that Germany didn't use other types.

No, I have not made any claim about solar. I have just named the total percentage of reneweable electricity of the total electric production.
See this comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19793335

I work in the healthcare insurance industry, lots of market swings due in part to talk about medicare for all, but also drops in expected profits because Trump is pushing for transparency in Rx costs.
How Slack impacts workplace productivity
Foraging and Navigations: Developers’ Predictions of Value and Cost [pdf]
Hopefully viewed even worse as the question would then be "why is NASA outsourcing spacecraft critical component construction to India/China?".
Think of retire early as a polite way of saying having fuck you money.
Dyalog Ltd. | Programming Language Implementor | Bramley, U.K. | ONSITE

We are the vendor for Dyalog APL, the most actively developed commercial APL implementation. APL comes up from time to time on HN (for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952045), but we don't require any knowledge of the language. We are looking for a junior C programmer interested in practical interpreter development, with a focus on the details and willingness to take the time to get things right.

Our company is small (about 20 employees) and the work environment is flexible and laid back. We strongly prefer local applicants but will consider candidates willing to relocate.

See a longer listing at https://www.dyalog.com/careers.htm and contact us at careers@dyalog.com.
> Up until about the middle of the 20th century there was still utilitarian and military horse riding.

Interestingly, the earliest fighting of the first US war of the 21st Century featured soldiers on horses. Horseback riding is apparently now part of Special Forces training. [0]

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/22/horses...
Helpless in terms of capitalism. Their entire business model depends on privacy violation. Zuck cannot change this without risking the future of the company. He is helpless in this regard.
I'm not sure about that. Trying to find the article... but rabies shots, for instance, are very expensive and prescribed on a population level far out of proportion to the risks. Right, here's one such article (it's a county-wide review of prescriptions, not a huge study): https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/half-of-peo...
Right. But while I think the important point is about abstractions, it's still valuable to understand-about (even if not "remember in detail how to manipulate") the next lower level abstraction.

Partly this is to fix things when the higher abstraction breaks.

But TFA's point is to manipulate the system without bringing in the cost of the higher abstraction.
BuildXL is more comparable to Forge, Google's internal distributed compilation tool.
Divisions Maintenance Group | Software Engineer | Cincinnati, OH | ONSITE | Full Time

We provide a managed marketplace for facility maintenance. Our team builds a platform that brings the latest technology to solve the problems faced by companies trying to manange maintenance at their facilities.

We innovate and move quickly and are growing rapidly. We are looking for experienced developers in our area (Cincinnati, OH) who take pride in what they do, want to build a great product, and love to learn and experiment with new things and new ideas.

Our platform is a suite of native mobile apps and real-time web applications. Our backend is an event-sourced kappa architecture. Our stack is mainly React, node.js, Kafka, .NET, and RocksDb and always evolving.

Email us at turing@divisionsinc.com for more info if you're interested.
Ask HN: How to Protect Parents from the Internet?
My mother in law is an immigrant whose English skills are not great. She is not employed and doesn't really have much of a social life to speak of outside of spending time with the family. On top of this she is naturally a naive person. None of these things were problems until she discovered Youtube.

At first she wanted to use Youtube to improve her English and stay in touch with the news. Unfortunately, through months of going down the Youtube rabbit hole she's ended up entrenching herself in some really vile stuff. I've helped keep her away from the worst of it, like the time she tried to show me about QAnon, excitedly proclaiming she's learning so much about "who really controls the world", or the time she started emailing us links to videos prophesizing that the rapture is happening in 2019.

Unfortunately, while she trusts my opinion on many things, any topic regarding her home country (China) she believes she knows best. And her opinion, of course, comes from Youtube propaganda, which assures her that the Chinese Communist Party is simultaneously secretly controlling the world but also on the verge of utter collapse and anarchy. It's gotten to the point that she has ordered hundreds of pounds of food for her family in China to stockpile and repeatedly tells them on the phone to exchange all their Chinese Yuan to USD, because she is certain the collapse of the CCP is happening soon and with it the CNY will be worthless and unable to purchase food.

Has anyone had to protect their parents from internet propaganda taking control of their lives? Do you have any tips?
It's worth checking out Waddell's Wagon.

https://secure.boeingimages.com/Assets/V2/jrZYYwCXohU1rDmk4e...
The point of a job should be to improve the world. The point of a career is to be able to do more impactful jobs by increasing skill and understanding.

Personality and job fit are only important as far as they allow you to do the job better.
CodeCombat (YC W14) | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | Beijing
Software Engineer

CodeCombat (https://codecombat.com/about) is a programming game for learning to code. We are currently 25 people in SF and 4 in Beijing, funded by a16z and YC, aiming to level up computer science education both in and out of the classroom. Long term, we are evolving education through game-based learning. We're open source and looking to add to our engineering team in China.

More details at https://jobs.lever.co/codecombat/623b1bba-5686-4112-86ff-f99...
ViewRay | Sofia, Bulgaria | Full-Time | Onsite | Senior Software Engineers and Computational Scientists

Description: We're currently seeking senior C++ software engineers and computational scientists for our world class Science team who will share our passion for conquering cancer and help us develop our ground breaking MRI guided Radiation Therapy system. You can find more info about the product on this link: https://viewray.com

We're creating the next generation software for our MR-guided radiation therapy system. This is a greenfield project in its early stages of development, thus anyone who joins now will have the prospect of making key contributions to the architecture and design.

The job includes:

- Creating advanced image processing and optimization algorithms

- Working on data processing frameworks and pipelines that execute these algorithms as needed and maintains a coherent system state

- Creating powerful visualizations for the users: graphs, charts, volumetric imaging renders, and more

We don't have any specific requirements other than 5 or more years of professional experience with C++. The project covers many fields and we feel that any C++ expert can find their place in it.

Stack: C++17. Windows and Linux. The project also includes:

- Custom high-performance algorithms running on multiple threads

- Networking and network communications between nodes

- Databases storing patient data

- UI with complex graphical presentation and editing capabilities

Contact: For questions and applications you can email me: ggerganov@viewray.com or apply at https://viewray.com/careers/
Huawei P30 Pro ‘Moon Mode’ Stirs Controversy (Update: Huawei Responds)
I've managed to get the classic vim `<C>-w` + h|j|k|l working in VSCode. Sadly my convenient remapping of that doesn't work :(

My annoyances are pretty small: not being able to do `:e ` and then tab complete the directory structure and the fact that VSCode has splits with tabs rather than tabs with splits.
So where does the real end and the incredible begin, in your opinion? If it appears on Wikileaks it's going to be the truth? Does it end at what's on Wikileaks? What's your requirements for proof to accept incredible, non-milquetoast claims?
Titan – Overview
A slight alternative to recursive macros, macros are repeatable actions, so this works: 100@a

I use it so I can run the macro in batches a couple times and check if I made any mistakes, before picking an absurdly high number to hit the whole file.
FreeAgent, Edinburgh and REMOTE

https://www.freeagent.com

At FreeAgent we help freelancers and small businesses be more successful by putting them in control of their company finances.

We have built an award-winning accounting app that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength with over 80,000 paying customers and strong YoY growth. Our NPS is amazing (70!) - customers love what we do and our team get to make a real impact.

We're a growing team of over 190 people. 50% of our engineering team are distributed across the UK, the rest being based at our Edinburgh HQ. If you want to help us make small businesses AWESOME at doing their finances, take a look at our vacancies -> https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers.

* Product engineers, mid/senior/principal - you'll be working predominantly with Ruby on Rails but you don't need to have direct experience of - we'll get you up to speed!

* Platform engineers, mid/senior/principal - opportunities to work on our cloud migration (we've moving to AWS), developer tooling, data science

* Engineering managers, team leads, product managers

You can apply directly via the website but feel free to get in touch with me (the CTO) directly – olly [at] freeagent [dot] com – if you have any questions. Happy to chat!

(We are looking for UK-based full-time staff only right now)
Passive immunotherapy: a fast-growing approach in the fight against cancer
Alternative title: "Company release PR statement saying the same thing less antagonistically without actually changing their mind".
I used the word "decimated" because electronics are so integral to productivity that there should be an explanation for the missing growth from 385,000. The fact that there's a decline at all is a double whammy.
There is another dirty side to our healthcare. They generally lose money on the uninsured and in some cases Medicare/Medicaid. Essentially we pay for that coverage with our dollars.
Why do sites like this jam six identical entries into my browser history? Do they think I'm going to try to hit the back button, have it not work, and then I'll just go, "Well, I guess I'm stuck here! Maybe I'll click on some ads!"
>And the patient getting thrown under the bus by getting screwed with a 5x bill is fine?

Where did I say or imply that?

I think it's fully worth it and wouldn't lose sleep over throwing the staff under the bus. If you want to work for an establishment that screws people getting screwed back occasionally is just one of the risks.
The article links to https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5874 which proposes exactly this.
I agree - and you normally lease land for a travel trailer in short spurts (for instance, the winter) and move on.