skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London, England - Full Time - Local

Brand Networks (http://bn.co/) is hiring full stack engineers for our London office, working on real time bidding, analytics and front end web applications. Graduates welcome.

Requirements:

* BS or MS degree in computer science, mathematics, or related field.
Or related experience.
* Good understanding of web technologies HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, JSON, REST
* Can demonstrate that you're a great programmer in at least one of
Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Clojure, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, Scala
or Ruby
* Would like to work with TypeScript, NodeJS, AngularJS, Python, Ansible and AWS
* Good understanding of a Unix based operating system
* Some experience of databases and at least one web application framework

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If this was the secret recipe to making an Instant Bestselling Novel, then Paul Bussard's Stinger Stars

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19246309-stinger-stars

would be an international hit. It hits every single one of his points exactly (C1&C2 falling in love / Nat Geo setting / Short sentences, Crisp Dialogue, etc.)

But the fact is that it's actually much harder than just writing it. The attention span of the world is short, and people are looking to read what other people are reading. It's a winner take all world, in books, music, movies and websites. It's hard for a single book to move the herd. Many people have to help.

(full disclosure - I PMd the title)
When people recommend legumes, they're not normally talking about peanuts. It's like people recommending fruits aren't normally talking about tomatoes.

| food (100g prepared) | cals | fat |
|----------------------+------+-----|
| peanuts | 567 | 73% |
| black beans | 91 | 3% |
| bacon | 541 | 71% |
| brown rice | 110 | 7% |
| oats | 63 | 13% |
| chicken breast | 195 | 37% |
| provolone cheese | 351 | 67% |
| light string cheese | 200 | 45% |
| cantaloupe | 34 | 5% |
| carrots | 41 | 5% |
| corn | 86 | 11% |
| whole wheat bread | 259 | 14% |

Note how peanuts and bacon have similar caloric densities, yet black beans, brown rice, oats, and corn are much much lower? These are the legumes and whole grains parent is likely talking about, not peanuts and whole wheat bread.

Note how even chicken breast and light string cheese are twice as dense as than those whole grain products.

Note how high water content fruits and vegetables are king.
Many games are played 'bullet' style - i.e. 60s each for the whole game.
Its wonderful what?
It doesn't have to be. Granted it's hard to have consensus but it can be done. Here's a list I found on Wikipedia (I know, I know) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives. They might not be the biggest companies but I guess you could really shoot for a lifestyle business.
Give your code some space
Calvin: Massively-scalable transactional database
It's too late to do anything about it now, but I also think it was in kind of in bad faith for Google management to play up this whole Motorola enterprise as "bringing back tech manufacturing jobs to the U.S." and Texas specifically with big press events replete with politicians and all of that stuff.

Business is business and perhaps folks who were encouraged by that kind of dog-and-pony show are rubes anyhow, but it feels very "un-Googly" for them to have gone that route PR-wise if they weren't seriously committed to it and it's pretty clear they weren't.
So, you didn't actually read the page, then. Quoting:

Only static computers are included. Robots and other
fictional computers that are described as existing in
a mobile or humanlike form are discussed in a separate
list of fictional robots and androids.
As Flonk points out at http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/28794, nothing beats Haskell for casual re-definition of operators. (I seem to remember that this is even on the Haskell wiki somewhere, though I can't find it right now.)
Rent the Runway - New York, NY (VISA candidates welcome!)

Rent the Runway is hiring front end, back end, DevOps, and mobile (iOS) engineers. Our stack:

* SOA with Java 1.7 (soon to be 1.8!) + DropWizard. Modern Java's a thing and we've got the proof.

* Ruby + Sinatra for lightweight, scalable web applications.

* JavaScript + Backbone for a front end that's becoming faster and more awesome to work on every day.

Rent the Runway is building the first online rental platform for retail goods. We're a disruptive e-commerce business that believes that democratizing luxury products in the US is just the first step of a broader vision to drive aspirational experiences for tens of millions of users across the globe. We're more than "Netflix for dresses"—we're Cinderella Experience as a Service. Find out more about the challenging product-oriented problems we face across the boundaries of e-commerce, mobile, analytics and shipping/fulfillment here: http://blog.tech.renttherunway.com/

Job postings: http://www.renttherunway.com/careers
Please, give more points to my post, in order more developers will know about this interesting game idea created by Google
CopThis - San Francisco

CopThis is the online retailer for music merchandise. We help fans discover and buy authentic gear from thousands of amazing artists; from the Beatles and Guns N Roses to Kanye West and Lady Gaga.

Who are we?

A diverse team of technical experts, fans, hustlers, perfectionists and friends. We love collaborating, moving fast and shipping products.

You

You aren't a rockstar. We work with plenty of them and they typically don't make great engineers.

You are a web or mobile engineer that can help us build great products for iOS, Android and the web. You are collaborative, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and like solving hard, interesting problems.

You have a proclivity for building and a bias towards action.

What We Offer

Working at CopThis is a rare opportunity to solve problems for some of the worlds most talented artists as well as (potentially at least) millions of fans.

Daily interaction with colleagues who have built massively successful companies, products used by hundreds of millions of people and personally collaborated with some of the most successful artists in the world.

We recognize there are many paths that can be taken to becoming a great developer and value working with people from diverse backgrounds.

And we are competitive in all the normal ways Job descriptions say.

For more info email us at jobs@copthis.com
Restricted domains, what they are | gTLD.club
Economics of a Supposed Deep Learning Gold Rush
The thing in that category that I have found useful is a speech recognition system trained on the speaker, using the same headset it was trained on. (This was with IBM ViaVoice almost 10 years ago with maybe 30 minutes of training; Dragon is said to be more accurate.) It was substantially worse than human, but good enough to usually get the meaning across, which YouTube's auto-captions mostly don't.
I've been eating a low-carb diet for the past 2 years. In that time, I've lost roughly 20lbs, while my blood work has gotten dramatically better. (Cholesterol: 160 (92 HDL, 64 LDL), Triglycerides: 46, Blood glucose: 92). More importantly, my energy level has 'evened out', such that I no longer get sleepy in the afternoons or feel sluggish after dinner in the evenings. I don't take special care to count calories, or avoid fatty foods. I eat lots of salads and vegetables, but also eat steak dipped in melted butter, and eggs-and-bacon for breakfast.

After I stopped eating carbs, I couldn't help but notice how much sugar is in _everything_ that most people eat. Most brands of peanut butter, for example, have sugar as the second ingredient. Ditto for 'whole wheat' bread, which frequently has sugar added.

Before beginning this diet, I was a believer in the calories-in/calories-out model, because of it's appealing simplicity. The truth is, your body isn't a calorimeter, and metabolizes different calorie sources in different ways..simple carbs break down easily, early in your digestive process, while proteins are broken down more slowly. Some foods can't be broken down at all without the help of intestinal flora, or are excreted without being digested at all. Thus, it's much more useful to say that, in order to lose weight, you have to _metabolize_ fewer calories than you burn, regardless of how many calories you consume.
I present to you my favorite blog post of all-time, The Dan Brown Code: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.h...
If Google had done nothing, would those jobs likely have remained in the US? If not, what is the complaint here?
The title has so many oxymorons I couldn't even click it (straight to comments to post this).
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We're a small and growing company looking for people with a passion for big data who love to solve difficult/fun problems for our clients. Here are two job postings:

Data Miner/Data Scientist:
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Database Developer:
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Being a small company, your daily job will not be defined by your job title, and you will get to learn something new every day. We develop in Linux and Windows, HP Vertica and SQL Server, and other languages & platforms like R, SAS, DataFlux, Python, or whatever we think is best at getting the job done. We offer competitive pay & benefits, a pool table, lots of white boards, and a great team of smart and fun coworkers.

Contact hr@conclusiveanalytics.com for more details.
DevOps in Telecoms – is it possible?
intro calc hasnt really changed much in the past 100 years

someone please correct me
My router and all electronic devices at our house support IPv6, but it's irrelevant. The only two ISPs in my area only offer IPv4.

So no, please do not turn off IPv4. I would appreciate still being able to connect to the internet on the 6th of June.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Hello! I am looking for programming gigs related to web scraping. I use Beautifulsoup, a Python based library for scraping and I love it. So far I have used it to scrap data from Amazon, Rakuten(former Buy.com),NewEgg and HackerNews and automated modules like placing an order, contacts management, price comparison tools and various other things.

If interested, shoot me an email to kadnan(at)gmail.com
People would be more easily convinced of Ur/web's usefulness if impredicative.com/ur didn't look straight out of 1995.
With the amount of debt that seems to be involved in college in the US these days I'm not surprised it's all very business-like. What happened to 'socialise, grow, have fun (but also learn) ?'

What's with the 'minor' thing? Here in the UK university is basically the time you concentrate on your one specialisation. You've had your schooling, your degree is the time for a deep dive into a single thing.
Businesses, Math, Music, Go, Chess, IQ tests, Poetry, Physics, Early development, and sculpture don't really have all that much in common.

... except for the people who excel at them. The author of this article is a mathematics professor and an author. I'm a computer scientist and a violinist. And in my time reviewing entrance scholarship applications for my alma mater, I don't think I've ever seen a student who excels in a single academic field and has no other unusual talents or accomplishments.
Bug: http://zonino.co.uk/job/572
Stealth Startup in Banking (Miami, FL) - REMOTE

We are looking to hire excellent:

1. Front-end / full-stack JS developers who are comfortable in building beautiful interactive websites.

2. Back-end developers with experience in the banking world with a strong background in Node.js

We are looking to disrupt the banking industry and now good technology is what will power the evolution of business banking.

Shoot me out an email at jobs@lucid21.com to learn more.
To be fair, I'm guessing that BazQux is not getting the same amount of traffic as many of the other alternatives. FWIW, I've been using The Old Reader[1] quite successfully since Google Reader went away.

[1] http://theoldreader.com/
2004 repatriation tax holiday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_tax_holiday
Notting Hill, London, England, U.K.

Our web application is at the heart of our busy and very successful e-commerce business; every day it serves millions of product images and handles hundreds of thousands of user visits, but we can and do update the live site with new code multiple times per day without missing a beat. Our systems are written on the LAMP stack and deployed on Amazon Web Services using Puppet and Capistrano; we are migrating to Symfony 2 as our MVC framework and we have just started using MongoDB for user activity tracking. Developers choose the tools that work best for them - for instance, at the moment we have a mix of Linux and Mac workstations in the team. We are adopting and adapting agile development techniques such as evolutionary design, pair programming, and continuous deployment. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our working environment and lightning talks to share what we learnt. Our developers are generalizing specialists; a typical day may include refining an algorithm, writing a tricky integration test, fixing a responsive-design problem on iPhones, tuning an SQL query, and discussing feature nuances with a product manager. Our team is growing fast and we'd like to hear (at careers@secretsales.com) from any of you who'd like to join us; we're hiring for all technical roles, especially developers of all levels of experience.

Established in London in July 2007, Secretsales.com is the UK's leading private shopping club, offering limited-time online sales with current name-brand goods at deep discounts. Brands include fashion, beauty, homeware, and lifestyle categories, many of them familiar from the high street. The company has about eighty employees and a substantial annual turnover, with profitability in sight for this year. It recently raised over £4 million in funding and was recently selected to join the UK's Future Fifty and LSE Elite programmes for the country's most rapidly growing startups.
Good spot, thanks! That pesky 'job' won't be bothering anyone any more...
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Hello! I am looking for programming gigs related to web scraping. I use Beautifulsoup, a Python based library for scraping and I love it. So far I have used it to scrap data from Amazon, Rakuten(former Buy.com),NewEgg and HackerNews and automated modules like placing an order, contacts management, price comparison tools and various other things.

If interested, shoot me an email to kadnan(at)gmail.com

Profile: http://justpaste.it/adnanprofile
> the HN title does not match the article title

Right. We changed it. The submitted title was "Business models in the deep learning gold rush".
I know nothing about writing novels so I can't attest to the legitimacy of any of this, but I do wholly believe that a lot of what's considered art can be be formulated for success, at least commercially.
This is good advice. Far better advice than "look attentive."
Ask HN: Why is http://www.google.com not redirecting to https on mobile?
Same for http://www.google.it etc. Aren't browsers preloaded with hsts nowadays?
Getting a 502...??
there are schools / programs specifically for talented youth

Yes and no. There are schools and programs specifically for kids in the 99th percentile, sure. In a large city, there will be enough kids for that to be feasible (as long as the kids have parents who will drive them across town).

But I'm pretty sure there are no schools dedicated to students in the 99.99th percentile. Even in New York City there are only 10 students per year at that level.
To me, a "deep dive into a single thing" is a more apt description of a PhD.

A minor indicates a small concentration of coursework in a field separate (but possibly related) from your major.

Many students also double major, which effectively results in graduating with two degrees. Frequently, these majors are related (like, CS & Math), but sometimes they are unrelated (I know someone that did CS & PolySci).

It's hard to quantify the benefits of a minor or a double major. Presumably, it looks better to perspective employers and may give you a wider range of employment opportunities depending on which fields you selected.
I've been noticing a slight trend among the same group of people that are likely to use the big data buzzword without really understanding it, to also use deep learning in the same way, to simply mean "gain business insights from [obviously big] data".

As far as I know the only gold rush is around marketing surrounding this and related buzzwords, i.e., it's the latest thing that your business absolutely must be doing to keep up with your competitors. That particular usage of course has as little to do with actual deep learning as the misappropriation of big data has to do with anything.

Fortunately this trend has been a bit slower to take off, presumably because whereas big data is a fairly nebulous concept, it's much easier to correct someone when they talk about deep learning quite wrongly.
Software development belief systems in corporate environments
The account that did this is banned unless and until we get a promise that it will never happen again.
You're making general assumptions about me not supported by the post that I made:

> You are just another thief making justifications.

I posted an objection to the "hard work / starving developer" statement, and now I'm apparently a thief for even suggesting that I find advertisements in those apps to be morally objectionable.

I personally do not own an Android phone. Am I a thief for suggesting that I dislike people creating these 'simple' apps and slapping them full of ads?

You also seem to think that people are not allow to speak their mind, which is an attitude that I do have moral objections to:

> Then personally create those apps. Problem solved, no?

What about when the App is full of ads (e.g. "Your phone is full of virus! Download App to clean it here!") that are meant to trick the user into clicking them? Is that also morally defensible because someone "worked hard" on it?
You can install a tunnel - I used to use http://tunnelbroker.net before I got native ipv6. Its free (tunnels are limited to 5mbit though)
Creating a Lovely Morning
The "Tax Dodging" isn't necessarily the fault of the companies, but of The Congress for creating the laws which permit such actions.
Why are you not connecting to https rather than hoping for some redirect?
Nearly all the evaluation terms in Stockfish have been extensively tuned. Joona Kiiski used the SPSA[1] algorithm on a lot of them. Others have been hand-tuned using tens of thousands of games per attempt on fishtest [2]. Fishtest actually just recently got support for running SPSA tuning as well.

There is also a strong bias towards simplification, so if an evaluation feature is not proven to be an improvement it will be removed. Over the last few Stockfish versions, the # of lines has actually decreased in each version.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_perturbation_stoch...
[2] http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests
Does everything work? Last time I used a 6 only network (Fosdem) they warned that Android doesnt like 6 only, and I found some services that didnt work over 6to4 at all.
btw I really like the site, just needs some cleanup on the data.
The complaint is simply that Google repeatedly and intentionally signaled a big public commitment to creating tech manufacturing jobs and selling American-made cell phones and this couldn't have been their actual intention.

There's nothing else to do or say, really. Rightly or wrongly Google has an image of being different than most politicians and corporations and so that's why people are disappointed. I get why they did what they did, I just don't think they needed the political, PR head fake.
Some commenters seem to be missing the detail that the linked page proposes turning off IPv4 on your personal devices, not on any shared infrastructure or public services, for one day as an experiment to see how much functionality you lose (and maybe motivate you to contact other parties to ask them to improve their IPv6 support).
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Separate from whether there is a need for change or improvements reports like this are simply ways to stir the masses.

There are legitimate reasons why companies do many things and for sure there is a continuum from dodging to legitimate. The problem is that reports like this present things as one sided as if everything is simply taking advantage of the system.

You can do this with any subject matter that people don't know about. And then everyone piles on because of course "we know these guys are bad and they don't do the right thing".

A few (small) examples:

"Fedex: Received $10.3 billion in federal contracts from 2006-2012"

Fedex bid on a government contract and was the low bidder or supplies a product or service that the government needs. It's really that simple. The tax that they pay or don't pay has nothing to do with this and making statements like that (to support one's position) is done simply to get "the jury on your side" by pulling at obvious heart strings.

"Microsoft: Saved $4.5 billion in federal income taxes from 2009-2011 by transferring profits to a subsidiary in the tax haven of Puerto Rico. Had $60.8 billion in profits stashed offshore in 2012 on which it paid no U.S. taxes; reported it would owe $19.4 billion if profits are brought home."

Puerto Rico was a tax haven for a reason. In particular many Pharma companies located operations in PR which created great benefit to that area. Now that those tax advantages have gone away PR has had deep problems. Simply trying to cherry pick things like this in order to prove a point isn't helpful.

"ExxonMobil: Paid just a 15% federal income tax rate from 2010-2012, less than half the official 35% corporate tax rate"

Seems to imply that companies are supposed to be paying 35% by comparing to that number. How many people, on personal income taxes, pay anywhere close to the "rack" rate? Note the use of "official" as if to imply "what they should be doing".
Some work was done here : https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/224#issuecommen...
It's always fun reading court documents where the censors go totally overboard. Here, there are a few spots where that happens, such as where they black out the publicly available telephone and fax numbers for the various attorneys. In other spots (page 55) the attorney names are blacked out, but I'm pretty sure they're visible on the very next page (page 56).
I'm guessing it may be because if you're trying to access an https site through a wireless AP that redirects your request to a landing page requiring you to accept their terms of service, you'll get a browser security error.

If you make a request to a regular, unsecured site, you'll avoid the security warning, and be able to use the redirect page where you can log on (or accept) the terms of service and use the AP.