skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how about a residency system that doesn't depend on medicare government funding? Or accepting foreign residency programs? I wouldn't think canadian, scandianvian, british, german, australlian, etc residencies and doctors should be considered invalid for example. From what I know, even being a Sweden trained doctor makes it hard to transfer into the USA and get a licence.

Residents from what I know are not well paid, what makes it a profit cost center for them that they require government funding for it?
The best feature about Acompli is that when your corporate IT goon tries to remote wipe your device from the Exchange server, they can only wipe your email, not your entire device. Most people don't realize that by using the default iOS and Android mail clients to connect to an Exchange server, they're implicitly giving it the ability to remotely wipe their entire mobile device.
That seems like a rather roundabout way to save the human race, no? A love-powered hyper-dimensional gateway used to transmit Morse code sounds like something straight out of h2g2.
Very interesting, thanks for replying and the link.

While I agree that given the nature of the data they capture, it makes sense that they receive a little additional scrutiny -- this more feels like someone had the idea of how the data could be misused, then discussed the idea with a various security folks who (unsurprisingly) said, "Well.. yeah, now that you mention it, this COULD be a problem." In other words, feels like the writer was making the news here and not reporting it.

And to an extent that's legitimate. I question the need to approach it in this way though - making a one-sided story of it instead of working with Uber to see if they're aware of this as a potential issue, determining what steps they're taking to prevent it, etc...

As far as how Uber is using the data they've acquired - it seems they've hit that painful point that every long-term startup does. They've evolved past the point of a small group of folks with an idea, and need to adjust to a new reality. That includes reining in some of their "ooh, pretty data! let's play with it!" impulses, because of the privacy implications and because of the implicit trust their users place in them. I would expect a couple of high profile hires and some policy statements to be forthcoming as they mature.
Insightpool - Atlanta, GA
http://insightpool.com

COMPANY

Insightpool is the audience cultivation and conversion platform used by the world’s most innovative companies. Insightpool’s platform intelligently predicts the ideal people and precise actions to drive measurable impact. Through proprietary predictive analytics technology, Insightpool leverages demographic data, identifies and activates brand advocates to optimize network effects and real ROI conversion. Launched in 2013, Insightpool is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Our technology is deployed by the world’s biggest brands, including Coca-Cola, The Home Depot and Warner Brothers.

PRODUCT

A collection of services including a Rails API, a Flux / React client, various Go workers all tied together with Sidekiq, a handful of data science projects, and a few others make up our platform. We love experimenting with new technologies and are always looking towards the future.

YOU

Insightpool's Engineering team is working on big problems; the kind of challenges that give you bragging rights, but we're nowhere near finished. Our greatest accomplishments are still waiting for you to build them. We've got a huge vision for what's ahead, but as the team is still quite small, you'll be owning entire efforts. Not only will you be joining talented teammates, but you'll be both a trailblazer and a mentor to many engineers to come. Right now, we're looking for people that can fill the gaps in technology when they find them. Having strong beliefs in loosely coupled applications, using the right technologies for the job, and delivering scalable and robust software solutions.

If you're experienced in web technologies and passionate about problem solving and building a product, check out our listing here: http://www.insightpool.com/careers?gh_jid=20542
The author is just giving what I would call, "optimizations" or maybe more plainly, "good code".

To me, the term, "premature optimization" means optimizing something before measuring that your optimization has any effect.
They are not afraid, and never was. In the USSR gays were criminalized and put to jail. There was no same punishment for lesbians, surprisingly.
However, we are talking about TOKAMAKs and LASERs here.
KeyTouch
Unlock, lock and enter your password with Touch ID.
> For an even more retro approach, perhaps some things are just better written as desktop apps.

This is effectively what the mobile marketplace has decided. Native mobile apps are thriving while mobile web apps struggle to keep up.
Imagine in the 2D analog, if there was a small gap of air between the 2 points on the paper.
Does top-notch encryption make websites slower or faster?
I've been to my GP three times before I realized I've never even met him. I've been seeing a nurse practitioner.
It does.. and it only makes sense on firewalls actually.

I'm running OpenWRT and miniupnpd to manage UPnP requests and open holes in the firewall.
> I still think daily whole body scans are a spectacular waste of human capital for relatively little benefit.

I agree, and I'm not recommending we do that right now. But imagine if we had cheap, fast ways to do the scans. So much money is being pumped into cancer treatment right now, I'm just wondering if better cancer detection might be more beneficial. Our current treatment methods might get us a lot farther because we'd use them when the tumors are smaller, and we'd have a much better sense of how aggressive a tumor is.
BroadConnect - Downtown Toronto, Canada - Graduate/Co-Op/Full-Time

SUMMARY

Our engineering department functions like an independent startup, with financial backing from an established company with a healthy bottom line.

We're looking for someone to help with front end development - notably, visualization of data generated from our back end and big data team.

Experience with Angular, D3 and REST is an asset, but your eagerness and ability to learn trumps all!

You should consider yourself a full stack engineer, despite focusing on front end, as our dev culture strives to have everyone learn a bit of everything.

DETAILS

We are hiring full stack engineers (DevOps experience is greatly valued)

About Us

The parent company is a telecom provider with offices and subsidiaries in Canada, USA and UK. Our software engineering group functions more or less as a startup of the parent company, addressing specific pain points in the telecoms industry. We apply lessons and tactics from the fast the fast moving consumer web to bring great UI/UX to the enterprise space.

We are small engineering team looking to expand rapidly by hiring smart people. Our focus is on keeping up with best practices and staying DRY. We strive to create a great culture where learning is just as important as “doing” (i.e. grunt work).

About You

You are software engineer with a desire to improve yourself. You enjoy working on challenging tasks but also knows that some grunt work needs to be done from time to time. You are ideally a full stack engineer who is as comfortable with the frontend as the backend. You enjoy reading up on best practises and keeping with the fast past world of web development. You should strive to write production ready code (DRY), but would be willing to go back to refactor when you feel it's necessary.

Technology Stack

- Python/Django

- AngularJS

- Redis

- Postgres

You will get to work with us in the heart of downtown Toronto on University Avenue. If this sounds interesting, please contact me: terryhong@gmail.com
From the article - "To take just one possible example, Uber has become particularly popular among the political class in Washington. During this year’s mid-term Congressional campaigns, Uber accounted for more than 60 percent of rides costing less than $100, according to Hamilton Place Strategies, which culled records from Federal Election Commission reports."
I think it's also crucial users have more than one viable container option.
No way! you serious? Source?
Sorry, there are no kangaroos in Austria.
What I Learned from Fighting a 12-Month-Long Lawsuit
This is great news, particularly for Enterprise customers adopting containers. IMO, Docker's 'new' direction completely ignored the tremendous amount of support they had from the sysadmin and devops communities.

But crucially, they also crossed the business models of many startups (including CoreOS, Weave, Flocker, etc.) that rely on Docker maintaining an Open Platform. So this is an entirely logical response.

I'll be surprised if now Docker in response doesn't unveil an 'enterprise' Docker version that basically just strips away the unnecessary features and has more security by default. The enterprise market is just too valuable to let it just slip away like this. Your move...
Maybe it's just me but this strikes me as a great argument for leaving it like it is:

callbacks.forEach(function(callback) {
callback();
});

Everybody knows what it does. Simple.
Is it VPN related business mentioned in your profile?
Rocket is tied to systemd, that will definitely spawn some interesting discussions. https://github.com/coreos/rocket/blob/9b79880d915f63e7389108...
I was just using MySQL as a hypothetical example, as they listen on all interfaces by default with packages supplied by Oracle. Next time you're on a tech conference, do a scan on the local network.

My point was that by his standard he would just let it listen on all interfaces because in his own word, nobody would find it. Which sounds very naive.
> Trying to force the global economic system into a software analogy just feels silly and wrong.

It's the same thing you see software developers do all the time. "I know this one thing, let me apply it to everything. No no, your job can't be hard, I'm a software developer, let me think for you."

Breadth matters.
Cotap - San Francisco, CA https://www.cotap.com/

Senior iOS Engineer

About Cotap

Cotap helps people work better together. We’re building mobile tools to help people communicate and collaborate at work, whether they’re knowledge workers or line workers. Mobile phones can mean more than photo-sharing or checkins. They can mean better day-to-day work and more opportunities for people who were left out in the past.

Cotap for iOS

We’re mobile first, and we’re always staying at the top of the design curve. We work directly with our design team to build delightful user experiences, responsive animations, and simple, beautiful user interfaces.

We’re keeping up with the times:

We support iOS 7 and 8.

We use CocoaPods and build our own libraries.

We’re already using Swift in production.

We don’t jump on every bandwagon, but we don’t hesitate to bring on tools that help us work better and faster.

Our next hire has

A deep knowledge and understanding of iOS/UIKit standard libraries and frameworks, including:

UICollectionView, custom animations and transitions

NSURLSession and mobile networking best practices

CoreData

Threading (GCD, NSOperationQueue)

A nearly obsessive level of care for and attention to the tools you use, and keeping them up to date and working

Strong opinions, weakly held (http://www.saffo.com/02008/07/26/strong-opinions-weakly-held...)

A passion for constantly improving both yourself and your fellow team members

A desire and ability to work across disciplines and communicate cross-functionally — everyone owns the product

What we care about

We’re driven by more than just a love of engineering. We build Cotap because it’s an opportunity to make something beautiful and usable that can make a meaningful difference in the daily lives of our users. People spend half or more of their waking hours working. We’re very lucky to be able to make those hours better.

We’re collaborative. The act of writing code may often be solitary, but the process of building a great app certainly is not. We advise, encourage, and challenge one another, and we know that every member of the team has unique knowledge and experiences that we can all learn from.

We’re adaptable and tenacious. Startups are hard. Some of the work it takes to make something great can be tedious and unglamorous. Sometimes we’ll have to adapt to changing circumstances or other things outside our control. To us, the opportunity’s worth the adversity.
huge congrats to Accompli team!
They were posted at Heavybit Industeries until recently, I got the chance to second hand see Javier as a leader who gravitates talent and happiness with the fellow employees.

Here is a talk by him entitled the first million is the hardest.
http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2013-05-21-javier-solt...
This is somewhat off topic, but these kinds of headlines should be auto-flagged from every news aggregator site on the web. Asking a question which seems to incriminate its subject is click-baity at best and unethical at worst. Either make the claim or not and back it up in the article. Don't just throw bullshit questions into your headline. For example:

"Is the Washington Post the Most Unethical Publication in the Nation?"
The Many Flavors of Seed Investor “Pro-Rata” Rights
I think the author comes to that conclusion, the article is just a thought experiment
Theranos - Palo Alto

“To make actionable health information accessible to everyone at the time it matters” – Elizabeth Holmes

Theranos is looking to completely redefine healthcare by solving speed and accuracy issues of current lab testing by combining SW engineering and life sciences using 1/1000 less blood than what is typically drawn today; our process have results in Doctors’ hands in as little as 2 hours allowing them to provide significantly more accurate treatments in a timely manner.

http://fortune.com/video/2014/10/09/why-elizabeth-holmes-fou...

An advanced stage startup, Theranos primary stack is .Net - We are looking for engineers who want to make a positive impact in healthcare (New college grads welcome!) Also looking for Senior SQL Server Developers & Senior iOS developers (must have recent professional work experience).

VISA & Relo assistance (for those already in the US) - Sorry No remote – No International Relocation.

What’s it like working @ Theranos? http://vimeo.com/107759726

For more about each position: http://www.theranos.com/careers/software-development

email michaelw at theranos dot com
I stop short of recommending B-trees as the only tree structure you need to know. I think if it matters at all what kind of tree you're using, you're deep enough in the guts that it pays to know the differences between B-trees and basic trees.

To me, this is especially relevant today, since if you need a "B-tree", you probably need a standard relational database (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite), and if that doesn't work for you, you'd be advised to know what the tradeoffs are with a regular tree. There are scenarios where B-trees are suboptimal.

Cache-obliviousness, which is still new, is also changing how we look at trees, since in one sense a B-tree is a hack on the basic tree structure to exploit locality. Representation matters more today as well. This is a longer conversation. Suffice to say I think this is an area of active and useful research, and wouldn't rule out either class of tree.
> when it comes to large-scale webapps (e.g. Obamacare, UK NHS systems, UK taxation systems.)

There's absolutely no reason to believe the spy tech isn't as poorly implemented and terrible value for money as the examples you mention. Given their secretive nature it's even more likely to be the case I'd suspect.
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We are looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to help us build the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things.

Someone with entrepreneurial spirit who is different, drives change and shares our passion for developing cutting-edge products that people and businesses love and use everyday.

Critical thinking, deliberate problem solving, disruptive mindset, and excellent communication are essential qualities, as you will be working in an exceptionally talented team with know-how across different disciplines, constant learning, boundless creativity, and outstanding execution – always in tandem with our headquarters in Silicon Valley.

If this is you, please share your CV with us at jobs@veniam.com

Target skills:

* Node.js

* MySQL

* MongoDB & Redis

* Computer Networks (!)

* AWS

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HTTP vs. HTTPS
German Hacker's website
Your VPN provider is really your primary internet service provider in that case...
I think this was the original model proposed by Docker. What we have now is (as other posters have mentioned), a Docker organization reasonably bent towards creating value for their investors, which means they need to start building things that, you know, make money.

To clarify, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with what Docker's doing, but it is at odds with an entirely open, pluggable system. It doesn't make any sense for their business model to truly make it easy to just use their containers and none of the revenue-generating offerings.
Mike Elgan explains Google+
[Full disclosure: I’m a product manager at MarkLogic.]

MarkLogic can handle all of these requirements with aplomb. You can think of MarkLogic as a database built with search engine technology. It uses a document data model (text documents in XML or JSON). Each term (word, phrase, parent-child relationship, etc.) is indexed on ingest. There are index knobs and levers for things like diacritics, wildcards, and scalars, like you'd expect in real search engine.

As for document permissions, they're indexed just like other terms. However, they’re automatically ANDed on to each query in the database engine, not application code. MarkLogic supports role-based permissions (read, write, and execute for stored procedures) with optional Kerberos and/or LDAP auth*n.“Ignored/hidden items” are those that a user doesn’t have permissions to access.

"Followed/watched items" is a pretty common requirement. MarkLogic uses a special "reverse index" to index queries along with text, values, and structures. With regular "forward" queries, queries find documents. With reverse queries, documents find queries. Thus anything that can be expressed in a query can be turned into an alert. This provides some pretty powerful match-making where a document can express its own attributes as well as those it’s interested in matching. Hook that up to a trigger (pre- or post-commit) and you have alerting that scales to billions of documents and millions of queries. One of the world’s biggest news sites uses this infrastructure on a MarkLogic cluster to handle saved searches and alerts.
I have found a fresh site to pass the time
Use your Python skills to win AI contest with $ prizes
My inner cynic suggests it might actually be more difficult to find examples of non-fuckups.
Makes no sense to me. Why not have a document for a file and a document for a folder? Or if you must have a single document, why not a field for folder permissions and one for file permissions? The corresponding query would be trivial.

This seems overly complicated and I can't find any justification for it in the article.
Lyft - https://www.lyft.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA

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This is a real problem, but not as big as Libertarians like to make it out to be. Additionally there is a tendency to ignore the very large command economies within our market Surely the command economy within Wal-Mart is at least as large as the USSR was, and it appears to have just as many inefficiencies, and absurdities generated by perverse incentives and miscalculations.Because it is not the state it manages to do away with the most egregious cruelties of a planned economy, and is definitely preferable to a state planed economy, but it's also probably not the best we can do.

Spend a bit of time studying Yugoslavia and the ideas of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management if you're interested in non-anarchocapitalist solutions to the calculation problem
60 Minutes did a story on robotics in January of 2013 that showed Kiva robots in action. You can jump to 2:45 in the following link to see the demo: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/are-robots-hurting-job-growth-...
Edit: heh, as I catch up I see that last is already happening - http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/amid-user-concerns-ube...
Show HN: Goslow – Slow HTTP server that responds with errors
Introducing the Common App for Programming Jobs
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> how quickly a normally-slow-to-accept-new-things community

I think you're referring to the sysadmin community - but I think the driver for this has been the search for deployment nirvana. Deployment is a much more fragmented field, so it makes sense that a good solution would find fertile ground.
Studio Calico | Junior backend/Rails developer (FT) | Remote (KY or TN, USA)

Founded as a scrapbooking kit club, we have grown into a force in the specialty papercrafting and memorykeeping world by consistently innovating in both product and technology, and have now begun to leverage our expertise by partnering with other brands to power their platform and product development pipeline.

Okay, so that last paragraph read like your standard marketing copy, but here's the lowdown: we solve a lot of complex web, data, logistic, and process problems, every single day, and we're looking for a junior-level, backend-focused developer to both grow with us and help us grow as we continue to expand like crazy in the coming years.

While you might think of scrapbooking as old grandmothers sitting around gluing pictures of their grandkids into photo albums, the world has changed: those grandmothers are now rocking their iPads and pinning profusely on Pinterest, and not only that -- there are a whole lot of other people becoming interested in storing and sharing their memories in a form that they put together themselves with their own hands. We're here to help!

You can read the full details here: http://www.studiocalico.com/careers#career_posting_31

If you are interested, please apply via the link or you can email me directly at kennon |at| studiocalico |dot| com

NB: While this job is remote-able, you will need to be a Kentucky employee or within driving distance due to the wonderful state nexus laws of the USA
I wonder if there is any HTML parsers that use SSE4.2 instructions
I know the guy personally. The company has Socialcast and someone posted a fundraiser for a charity that helps people who are fighting cancer. My friend posted saying basically, "I had cancer and this organization helped out my family... try and help if you can." Someone from HR removed the comment and told him he cannot talk about his medical details on the forum.

Agree though... one company, one comment, one HR dept; your milage will vary.