skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Postscript.io (YC W19) | REMOTE (PT-ET Timezones) | Full-time Engineers (Front End & Full Stack)

Postscript is a fully remote team of 13 looking for help in solving complex problems like real-time streaming data (1000's of events per second) on the back end and beautiful, simple ways of interacting with that data on the front end. We help e-commerce companies stay in touch with their customers via text messaging (promotions, customer service, order management, and other notifications).

We're scrappy hackers searching for similarly hungry individuals -- growing revenue 20% month-over-month. We love LEARNING & BUILDING and we want every one of our engineers to leave us ready to start their own company.

Tech stack: Serverless Python / Flask - React - AWS - CHOOSE YOUR TOOL

Email colin at postscript dot io <- That's me, let's chat!
I'm "that guy" who plays with new libraries and dives into HN articles. I have side jobs, podcast, meet-ups (although not for long). I continue trying to take me social media skills to the next level, but no luck yet. I throw all that in the trash whenever one of my 3 kids needs me for an even or anything. They're pretty independent so I'm lucky. At 35years, I should be exercising... But I love learning new things, and always try to make progress towards self-employment.
This would be a huge step in the right direction but I think it's important to limit surveillance by government entities as well. After all, you have _no_ opt-out options where they are concerned.
Spontaneous emergence of cell-like organization in Xenopus egg extracts
Finale Inventory | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full time

Finale Inventory is a SaaS application that helps small and medium ecommerce sellers manage their operations efficiently. We integrate with over 25 other systems (Amazon, eBay, Shopify, QuickBooks, etc.) to give our customers a complete picture of their business.

We are a remote first company with team members in the United States and Europe led by a founding team with decades of experience building companies.

You will be joining a small engineering team and have personal responsibility for shipping features working directly with customers to make sure they meet our users’ needs. We use continuous deployment practices to ship code to production frequently (multiple times per week per engineer) and have a strong test driven development approach to prevent regressions or downtime due to shipping code. Our technology stack is predominantly JavaScript (Node.js, React).

Interested? Contact Chris Hondl, CTO/Co-founder, chris@finaleinventory.com I am leading the interview process which will include coding interviews and phone interviews with my co-founders.
I'd not heard of it before your post, interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)
It's ok to go after the free speech of political dissidents if you slander them with generic insults first?
It's nice to see the better integration with the GTK applications developed by Purism.
SEEKING WORK | EST timezone | REMOTE ONLY

Anything and everything embedded:
Android low level, BSPs for i.MX and other application processors, custom ASIC bringups, and ton of Cortex-M experience.

You ship me your hardware and I make it work. I have a full high end lab on site. Over 50 successful projects in the last decade.

Lots of experience with sensing systems (vision, IMUs and others). Mission critical software. Azure IoT and Functions.

(even did work for two YC companies so far!)

C/C++/C#/JS/Python.

roee at rtcec dot com
Job burnout? Try LIFE burnout. The job I've managed to compartmentalize and keep at bay, but life is burning me out and I'm not out of my thirties yet. Things are getting faster and more expensive just to live.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals | Salt Lake City, Utah | Full-Time | www.recursionpharma.com/careers

We have raised over $200M to apply machine learning to one of the most unique datasets in existence - over 12 billion images of cells under a huge number of biological and chemical perturbations, generated in our own labs - in order to find treatments for hundreds of diseases. Our long term mission is to decode biology to radically improve lives - we want to understand biology so well that we can fix most things that go wrong in our bodies. Among other awesome folks, Yoshua Bengio is one of our advisors, and helps our ML team come up with novel ways of tackling these problems.

We’re looking for:

* Software Engineering Manager (SLC, UT): Looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join our team. You’ll lead and guide two of the most important aspects of our organization - our people and the definition/execution of our technical strategy.

* Machine Learning Scientist (Anywhere): Looking for a highly experienced senior/principal-level Machine Learning Scientist who wants a challenging problem, lots of rich data, and knowledge that their breakthroughs will seriously help people. No bio background needed.

* Sr. DevOps Engineer (SLC,UT): As a DevOps professional your contributions will benefit Biologists, Automation Scientists, and Data Scientists by building the infrastructure needed to decode human biology and reinvent drug discovery.

* CyberSecurity Threat Analyst (SLC,UT): As you work closely with IT, engineering, and data science teams, you will help promote best practices and help guide us to workflows that are more secure.

* Director of Data Science (SLC,UT): As a Director in data science, you'll work with, mentor, and develop our data scientists to grow and accomplish their missions to identify and answer questions and build systems to propel Recursion’s drug discovery engine forward.

Additional roles we are hiring for:

* Sr. Data Engineer, Sr. Full Stack Software Developer, Data Science Intern, Software Engineering Intern, Biologist, Computational Chemists, Automation Engineer, and Drug Discovery experts.

http://www.recursionpharma.com/careers for more details and to apply.

Logistics: Salt Lake City, Utah. Hiking/running/biking is literally out our back door, and it's half an hour to 6 ski resorts. Great competitive pay, health insurance, 401k, relocation assistance, equity, fully-paid gym membership, complementary chef-prepared meals everyday, two one-week paid company closures in addition to flexible, generous vacation, 70ft onsite rock climbing wall, commuter benefits, a top-caliber team, and help make a massively positive human impact. Happy to sponsor/extend visas.

Tech:

Data Science: pydata stack (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, bokeh, tensorflow w/keras, etc), a cluster of GPUs for all your research ideas

Software Engineering: python, clojure[script], javascript, go, react.js, kafka, kubernetes (GKE), GCE, AWS
Our team of 160 so far: http://www.recursionpharma.com/team
Show HN: Duplicate Images Finder [with OpenCV]
Dropbox isn't a backup anyways. Have an offsite backup that is encrypted. Could be the cloud, could be a hard drive you keep at your parents' house.
How will this affect extensions packaged in Linux distributions, e.g. Debian's webext-* packages. I for one want to be able to do stuff like `sudo apt install firefox webext-ublock-origin` and have all the users on the system have this extension installed and enabled.
https://epiphany.pub/@shi-yan

Platform: https://epiphany.pub/@shi-yan/introduction

Dynamic,

I made the platform myself ...
Location: Virginia Beach, VA

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Docker, Web

Résumé/CV: https://tuckerchapman.com/resume

Email: tucker.r.chapman@gmail.com
Boot Sector Games [video]
I asked a similar question a while back on their forums, founder answered here:

https://community.wildernesslabs.co/t/lay-of-the-land/362/2?...
Samsung has good hardware and very good brand for phones which Microsoft has not. I personally thing that if Samsung decides it can become much bigger threat to Android than Microsoft.
On one hand, I think this could depend very heavily on exactly how the questions is asked.

On the other hand, this doesn't really surprise me.
Get the heart pumping - go for a run/walk, life weights, play basketball...something to make your body feel good after sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day. Depending where you live, get 20-30 mins of sun, does wonders for the feel-goods. Find a hobby you enjoy that’s not on the computer, if only to spend at least an hour a day away from a screen. Find some meetups to meet some people, talking with people outside of a work environment is good for your social skill upkeep.
Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins from the Brain
> Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny"

indeed
Do they? Or do they just anonymize it?

Companies don't like to destroy assets.

I don't think anybody is assuming malice, just incompetence. There are precedents after all.
Which message? I have a UID that's no longer valid and the message IDs have all moved.
Interesting. I’ve been working 4d/w for years now. I might do 5 for a while if work is interesting, but will take those days off another time.

Easily one of my better decisions.

Worth the 20% cut in pay. For someone with few responsibilities and no expensive hobbies, that is.
the Motorola acquisition wasn't a disaster. It's just that many didn't understand Google' intent with Motorola. Google tried to take a stake in Nortel's patent bid, as the wireless patent war started heating up in 2011, but it eventually bailed out. Google instead went after Moto's patent portfolio. It bought the entire company, which came with $3B free cash and tax credit, and stripped off unnecessary assets it didn't need to Arris and Lenovo. All in all, Google ended up paying less than $4B for what they had previously valued at $5B.

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/did-google-really-lo...
So weird to see these comments, aye. My gig uses Asterisk heavily, and Astricon just happened in Atlanta (went there).

It's quite alive.
I haven’t tried any of the other chat apps. But you can send a voice message with the built in messages apps from the watch. It should work with both iMessage and SMS.
Other cool things about git being "just a directory full of files":

- you can put the git directory somewhere other than in your working directory, if you really want to. Or reference a bunch of .git directories in a series of commands without having to change your current directory. Sometimes this is handy (usually for automation or something like that).

- If you're nervous about some command you're about to run—something that might screw up your git tree—just copy the .git directory somewhere else first. You can copy it back to entirely restore your state before the command, no need to figure out how to reverse what you did (assuming it's even possible).
Well, my experience with Slack (never tried discord really) is that it's pretty hard to find anything that is more than a week old. Slack (and IRC) is designed to exchange the information quickly and forget about it. If we need traceability then e-mail is much superior to both.
Measuring "per participation decision" often makes more sense than "per participation hour" when deciding whether to do an activity. (It could be shortened to "per event", defining an "event" to be the result of one decision.)

In explaining the choice of per-hour, the author gave the example of choosing either an afternoon riding a mountain bike or an afternoon flying a sailplane. The example works because they involve about the same number of hours. But it's also the same number of decisions, so per-event works just as well there.

Per-event fixes distortions for quick activities, where durations are meaningless because they're dominated by setup time that isn't counted (or alternatively, the risk varies by multiple orders of magnitude depending on whether you count the overhead).

The chart shows summiting Everest as being 100x safer than base jumping. But if you're deciding which activity to do, it's more relevant to compare risk per-summit to risk per-jump-trip (say, 5 jumps?) or even risk per-jump, since you can calibrate the number of jumps on your trip based on your risk tolerance, but you can't do a fractional summit.

Using the author's numbers, jumping has a risk of 0.13% per jump, or 0.67% for a trip with 5 jumps. Everest has a risk of 6.5%. So in terms more relevant to decision-making, a decision to summit Everest comes with a 10x higher risk of death than a decision to go base jumping, instead of 100x lower as the chart might lead you to think.
>Now the micro is not giving an advantage anymore.

I guess I need to learn more about the details here. Robotic consistency is a significant advantage, so unless it is handicapped I dont think the result is much of a leap from what we learned by it being insane at micro.

You can feel consistency on your opponent and it is extremely intimidating. Usually, players are consistent at different things.. like my micro might be much better with marines than tanks. To have consistent human-level micro across all units is already a huge advantage.

I agree the aimbot comparison is excessive, but the hyperbole was good for getting the point across.

You could take an fps AI with aimbot, and give it 220 ms input lag to say it doesnt have advantage over players anymore - but its still going to climb to the top of the ladder system because it isnt going to miss. It is either advantaged at aiming or disadvantaged based on that 1 number
I see what you're saying, but it's just a bit naive. It's not that easy to create a new provider to help political dissidents. A number of web services have been started to do so, and forced to shut down by being cut off by upstream providers. "Just make your own ..." at some point isn't viable, because other companies at every level are making sure you don't succeed.
I think you missed his point on the Equifax story. I think he was trying to illustrate that their reliance on the Struts dependency come with a responsibility of both knowing where that dependency was being used. As well as monitoring that usage to ensure that you aren't left vulnerable by that usage.

It's entirely orthogonal the responsibility of publishers of the dependency which you address in your comment. Both are important. But Russ's audience wasn't publishers. He was talking to the consumers and what they need to understand when they take on a dependency.
Not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer. Really love datadog!
There already is JavaScript on microcontrollers - espruino.com

There is also MicroPython and CircuitPython.

Embedded people are very happy about any new languages coming to our hardware. Especially when it brings in new people, i.e. CircuitPython is a great tool for beginners.

But there is also severe limitations with these interpreted/bytecode-vm languages. MicroPython i.e. takes a 100x performance hit. And you need beefy big controllers.

There however a lot of situations where they are usable, and in in those cases, it's really great and fun to work with.
A simple, thin watch with an epaper/transreflexive display and an open ecosystem. Is that too much to ask for?
> the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

Agreed. I describe this as The Right to Hide.[0] An important part of hiding is that when people ask you to provide information, you should be able to lie.

We've learned from App Mainfests on Android and on the web that if an app can tell whether or not they were granted a permission, they'll just try to harass the user into giving it. The better solution is to make it so that the app can ask for anything, but can't validate whether or not any of it is true.

I'm encouraged by the work people are putting into protecting privacy by blocking data collection itself, but I think that obfuscation/misinformation is a more promising direction for us to go.

[0]: https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-hide
The fact that this is news to people here is confirmation that it was a mistake.
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Xamarin and Microsoft alum Bryan Costanich got some friends together to rescue Netduino and “reboot” it.

They wanted to maintain that same sense of delight for .NET devs, but also modernize the aging hardware platform and replace the restricted .NET Micro Framework with full .NET Standard support on the software side.

Several friends from the old Xamarin docs team worked their magic on the Wilderness docs site—which is why it’s so good.
It's fine either way because anyone European citizen surely read the first comment as sarcasm.
Go for a walk with a (real) camera and try to find something to photograph.

1. good exercise.
2. you'll start noticing more and looking at things differently.
3. you'll be holding a camera instead of a phone - so you'll stay more engaged with the exercise.
This is like blaming a hammer manufacturer for enabling hammer murders. It isn't their intention to make a murder tool, it isn't its primary use, and they don't market it for that purpose. They make a tool, and although that tool will certainly be abused, the benefits outweigh the costs. Same goes for these new communication tools.
Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps/Build Engineer

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Prefer not

Technologies: SRE/DevOps, python, bash, Chef, Ansible, AWS (EC2/S3/EFS, OpsWorks, CloudFront, ECS, Route53, ACM, IAM), Docker, Vagrant, Tomcat, etc.

Résumé/CV: https://jake.achee.com/hn.html

Email: jake@achee.com

I've got a wide variety of experience that's lead to my extreme adaptability and attention to detail. I'm stack agnostic, hard- (and smart-) working and available immediately.
Capsule8 | Senior Software Engineer, Product Manager | New York, NY | Full time | ONSITE

Capsule8 does real-time analytics and attack prevention for production Linux environments. Similar deployment model to Datadog but for security, not operations, and working at the system, not application, layer. Some of our big-name customers include Lyft, Looker, and Fastly.

We're looking for someone to take ownership of the web application's Go/PostgreSQL API on a tight-knit team. Ideal candidates have 5+ years professional software development experience and a background in Go/JVM/.NET and MySQL/PostgreSQL/MSSQL (one or more, not all).

Our blog is pretty active if you want to get an idea for the kind of incidents we deal with.

I'm the engineering manager for the team so contact me directly if you're interested (phil at company.com)!

We're also actively looking for a Product Manager.

https://capsule8.com/career/senior-software-engineer/
If this is true, then a brief 30s audio signal would yield more then a A4 photo capture of high density visual encoding, like microsoft hccb barcodes, interesting
I much prefer my Apple Watch over my shitty fitbit to be honest. Charging isn’t an issue. I only charge it in the morning when I’m getting ready and that’s enough to last me the whole day and through the night.
The qr code has three distinctive squares on the corners, which makes detection in images accurate. However, the proposed approach is missing that feature. Thats why I wouldn't call it an easy ocr problem, more like scene text detection, which is acctually a hard problem.
There is precedent in the US that this could be fair use.

> After considering the four factors in the aggregate, the court finds that the fair use doctrine does apply to the City of Radford Police Department's use of Shell's photographs and other works. As long as the use remains solely for the dual purposes of permitting City of Radford law enforcement officers to properly investigate allegedly criminal acts and to use that evidence in any subsequent criminal proceedings, it will be a fair use and not a violation of the Copyright Act.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2407651/shell-v-city-o...
The Court already reconsidered the third-party doctrine in Carpenter v. United States last year and ruled that accessing extensive cell site location records without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Fossil. It's very fast, works well on low bandwidth connections, much cleaner interface, highly customizable, very easy to setup and self host. And the repo is stored in a SQLite database, so it is very easy to backup and explore w/ SQL. It's a shame it isn't more widely used.
Intrigued! (I thought some plastics, polyethylene for instance was always single molecule, but it's seems I'm mistaken.)
There may be complexity under the hood (I don't know), but in my experience, even pretty advanced users employ a pretty straightforward mental model that's considerably simpler than the commands themselves are to use.
> Because there is very little supporting evidence for discrimination of any kind that could justify the “privilege” hoopla

The other poster provided significant evidence of discrimination

> https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

> To manipulate perception of race, each resume is assigned either a very African American sounding name or a very White sounding name. The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. We also find that race affects the benefits of a better resume. For White names, a higher quality resume elicits 30 percent more callbacks whereas for African Americans, it elicits a far smaller increase
Statutory protection would be an improvement, but it would be far better to have this recognized at the Constitutional level, which Yang can't really do.
Rest! Go for a walk, turn off your brain, you will need it for a long time!
When your brain is tired, make your body tired, too.
“But we need to know how much it will cost us”

“External factors demand we implement feature X by that date”

“Let’s just hire more people, preferably more PMs”

“We have many more ideas in our pipeline. In order to orchestrate these, we need precise estimations.”
After regenerating all day at work, I swap with my wife in the duty taking care for my 9mo toddler. I love her, but I still look forward to being back at my work PC. Hopefully it gets better with time.
ADAC Camping GmbH | Berlin | Full-Time | Onsite | https://www.pincamp.de

PiNCAMP is a startup backed by the ADAC, the largest automobile club in Europe. We want to make finding and booking camping vacations an enjoyable experience.

We are currently looking for:

- Site Reliability Engineer (https://adac-pincamp-jobs.personio.de/job/146017)

Our stack includes Node.JS, Python, Go, Django, React.js, Gatsby, ES6 deployed with Terraform & Ansible to a Docker Swarm on AWS. We have plenty of interesting camping related topics to work on and we're looking for creative and positive thinking developers to help us achieve our goals.

jobs@pincamp.de
That doesn't appear to be correct. All unsigned extensions will be blocked in all release versions. Without a developer/unbranded/nightly version, you're not allowed to install anything that didn't come from Mozilla's add-ons site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418604
Highly targetted ads are not my concern here, they may even be welcome.

Using heartrate, activity levels, mobilty can probably infer a broad picture of someones health, which of course, would be very valuable to health insurance/life assurance companies.

With this level of privatised surveilance, I'll stick with my mechanical automatic watch thanks.
Do you know of any commercially available and reliable implementations of this sort of ultrasonic beacon that a startup could use?

I have a dream of a product I want to develop someday. I like to go to bars and do karaoke. But I would love to be able to open an app on my phone and submit the songs that I want to sing, then get an ETA for my next turn. To prevent abuse, the system should somehow validate that the user is in the venue. Having the user point their phone at a screen displaying a QR code would be problematic though, especially for people like me (I'm legally blind). Would an ultrasonic beacon work reliably, even in a noisy karaoke bar? Maybe a Bluetooth beacon or beacons would be better, but that would be more hardware for the venue or mobile karaoke DJ to buy and set up. Yes, I know, all of this is totally a first-world problem; I should focus on things that really matter.