skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Thorne is approaching this from a different perspective than you are.

Thorne is aiming this at people who've never even heard of time dilation. He's aiming this at people who, when they hear about the time dilation on Miller's planet due to its presence in a gravitational field, will say that this is all just made up for the plot, having no idea that this has been known since Einstein's general theory was published nearly 100 years ago in 1915.

I also think that the writing of the movie consisted of the following process:

- Nolan proposes something completely outlandish.

- Thorne explains why it won't work.

- Nolan says it's "non-negotiable" for plot purposes.

- Thorne insists it's not possible.

- Nolan says to make it possible.

- Thorne either figures out a set of exotic circumstances in which it's possible (e.g., a time dilation factor of 1 hour = 7 years), or continues to insist that it's just too far fetched (astronauts traveling faster than light -- something that Nolan originally had told Thorne was non-negotiable but eventually agreed to scrap).

Overall, I think this quote from Thorne really sums up the goal behind the movie's science:

> To a great extent, my motivation here was to try to use the movie as a lure to get people who might otherwise not have much interest in science curious about it, by exposing them to strange, exotic phenomena like wormholes. The film is the bait, and the book is the hook I want to use to draw them in even further, to get them to dig in and learn something new. If they are young, maybe they will consider careers in science rather than in finance or law. If they are older, I still think it’s tremendously important that larger fractions of our citizenry possess enough understanding of science to appreciate its powers and its limitations.

It reminds me of something Feynman said before he delivered his famous lectures at Caltech. The students there at the time were getting bored with the curriculum, and Feynman had observed that it's because none of the new and exciting ideas of modern physics were being presented to them. So he designed his lectures to cover relativity and quantum mechanics, even if it meant leaving out a lot of details to fit it into an undergraduate level. I feel like Thorne and Nolan wanted to present a few of the more exciting ideas of modern physics to viewers who otherwise might think they're made up, and when they insist the science is realistic, that's the perspective they're coming from.
Considering that we have a lot of people dedicated to "bullshit" jobs like advertising , social media curation and other stuff which doesn't really produce anything, maybe OP has a point.
Iterators gonna iterate
I like the main features of LXD; secure by default (unprivileged containers, apparmor, seccomp, ...), image based workflow (no more locally built rootfs), support for online snapshotting, including running state (with CRIU), support for live migration and a simpler command line experience.
We have engineers and we already spend a lot more on them than we do on SaaS. But we want them focused on building Muck Rack into an awesome PR tool for our customers, not internal tools unless they're specific to our product.

Even so I don't think there's any engineer we could hire for $60k salary (or any salary for that matter) who could effectively maintain all of the functionality we get from these products, but if you know of one please send them our way! http://sawhorsemedia.com/jobs/
His long hours at work probably masked the symptoms. He didn't think "I have cancer", he thought "I'm not getting nearly enough sleep." Everyone around him thought the same thing.
Hiring an engineer to work on things that are not strategic to your core products or services seems like a distraction. Engineers also cost a lot more than 55k per year. Even if you could, I can't anyone who would be willing to maintain 30+ open source products as part of their job.
Privacy addresses still come from the same /64 which works a lot like a single IPv4 for home deployments. So from the privacy perspective IPv6 is like giving every home router a static IPv4 address.

Of course, there is no technical requirement to make those addresses static. It's just how they're usually assigned because it's more convenient.
Location: Portugal

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: In the future

Technologies: JavaScript (AngularJS), HTML, CSS.

Résumé/CV: http://goo.gl/tF0qjH

Email: [My HN username] [at] gmail [dot] com

Currently a frontend developer at a telco, looking for new challenges and learning opportunities.

I'm finishing my PhD (concerning HCI - the physical/digital experience of space and place) and I'm experienced in HCI/UX practice (design and evaluation). Most of the time I'm developing frontend but I like to shift frequently between development, design and user testing/observation/job-shadowing/etc.
Webs - Washington, DC

Webs helps small and micro businesses find new customers. We build tools that let brand-new foodtrucks or self-employed crafters create beautiful websites, online stores, and social media profiles.

You can read http://webs.com/careers to learn more about our culture and benefits, or email me at adam@webs.com with questions.

We've been around for ten years and have tens of millions of users. Plus we're ambitious about the design tools we give our users. So we work on some fun projects:

- Build a WYSIWYG web page editor that runs fast in the user's browser.

- Take full-size webpages and automatically convert them to responsive sites, intelligently preserving as much of the arbitrary user styling as possible.

- Replace a complex, overburdened rendering pipeline with a scalable architecture using distributed actors.

Right now we're looking for a few positions:

- Rails developer (interest in frontend and product development a plus)

- Frontend developer (interest in React.js a plus)

- Experienced Java developer (Spring/Hibernate a plus)
It's plain and simple pedantry, and it's not confined to Java. This mindset has a healthy representation in the Ruby community, which actually makes programming in Java much less distasteful to me -- if I'm going to be writing AbstractSingletonFactoryAdapters, then at least let my AbstractSingletonFactoryAdapters be fast.
Are you allowed to sue the GP?

Also, if you don't mind me asking, why didn't you get a second opinion sooner?
>If 'full time' is redefined as 35 hours, then everybody at least has the same pay...plus new people are hired to fill in the gap.

Where do businesses get this free money?
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Technologies: Python, Erlang, SQL, JS, Sencha Touch (most recent in professional context, more in CV)

Résumé/CV: http://btbuildem.ca/cv/resume.pdf

Email: listed on CV

Ten years dev experience, last four in web development. Either full time or contract work, ideally local but I'm well set-up for remote. I've dealt with everything from MS Word code base to one-page FB apps. I'm looking for challenging problems to solve, bonus if they're related to language or visual representation of data. Currently falling in love with FP.
The wormhole was perfect, except the travel bit bugged me. They use the 2d analog with paper. The second you pass through the hole in one location you emerge from the hole in the other location. In the third dimension, as they touch the sphere near Saturn they would be leaving the surface of the sphere on the other side. From their point of view they should be about to hit the 'ball' then all of a suddenly then are travelling away from the surface of another ball. Instead they had this tunnel thingy.
I once made a consumer for an xml api. I made a simple regex hack that worked fine. After reading some rants about "parsing" xml with regex I swapped it out for a real parser.

A few minutes later the parsings started failing because there were unescaped <> characters in attributes. Reported the bug, got a wontfix back.

I reverted to regex and it has been working fine ever since.
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Meanwhile, until you get it removed, did your doctor put you on a strict no-fat diet? Mine did (I wasn't as bad, but had stones in the duct causing pain/damage). And he meant 0 fat (kind of hard to do), or as close as possible to it. I guess fat causes the gallbladder to start contracting (to push an extra dose of bile into the digestive system), so without fat in your diet it will just be the steady ooze of bile from your liver.
35 hours? I think I've done that in 2 days!
The Register - Server Side Perl Developer / Sysadmin [LOCAL]

Situation Publishing, owner of The Register (www.theregister.co.uk), is looking for a full-time software developer/sysadmin to work on server side Perl code and Debian-based servers.

You'll work in our Edinburgh office, doing a combination of software development and on-going maintenance and tasks such as log reporting, server monitoring, applying software updates and system tuning to ensure the availability and quality of our online presence.

Required skills

- Excellent English, communication skills, and the legal right to work in the UK.

- Experience writing Perl, or excellent skills in a similar language and be happy to bend them to working with Perl

- Debian/Ubuntu experience and comfort with the shell

- Good knowledge of Apache

- Comfort using software revision control (e.g. Git)

- Comfort using SQL (“raw” and through abstractions like DBIx::Class)

Desired skills

- Debian package management, and day to day system administration

- MySQL and Postgres

- (valid) HTML, Javascript and CSS

- Familiarity and experience with server virtualisation

- Testing and monitoring

- Mail servers (e.g. Exim)

Broadly put, we favour open source: we use Debian/Ubuntu, Perl, Apache, Exim, MySQL & Postgres in our stack. We rely heavily on Git for process and revision control. We sometimes write our own tools. Our business is on the web, so while HTML, Javascript, and CSS skills are not required they are desirable and you would be expected to become familiar with them over time.

Our Edinburgh tech team is small, focused and has a good degree of autonomy, so you need to be able to produce great work without a carrot or stick and be comfortable communicating with the wider business via email, phone, instant messaging and online tools such as Wikis and Google Docs.

See http://jobs.perl.org/job/19066 for more info & link to apply
This is a great thought. I thought of it as a tragedy at first because having and raising a newborn on your own would be terrifying. But as long as she has people to help her and some way to financially support herself a child will be a great thing to have in her life.
A hedge fund manager and a computer hacker meet at a cocktail party and get to talking...
Interesting. Cheaper than the salary for an employee and probably together are able to help you do more than a single person.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Barcelona, Spain. I can also travel around Europe.

Hi! I'm an experienced Scala developer. Usually I'm focused on backend systems but I can also be productive in other areas of software development.

Libraries and frameworks: Akka, Spray, Play, Slick, ScalaTest, SBT.

Databases: Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.

Email: artur@artursoler.com

CV: http://artursoler.com/artursoler.pdf

Looking forward to hearing of you!

Artur
>I find this idea pretty interesting. That the amount of jobs stays the same even though robots do more and more of the stuff humans did in the past. So far it seems to hold true.

This is only true so long as they are growing. That growth comes from either growth in the end market or by taking market share from competitors.

I don't know the numbers, but I suspect a lot of Amazon's growth will be from taking market share due to lower costs because of those productivity gains.

If this is the case, then those robots are still displacing jobs, just not at Amazon.
Awesome! Great job Tom. DRF is one of those open source projects that makes me wonder how one person can be so productive. I'm a big fan of the new serializers. Personally I'll probably stick with my custom flask tooling since it works better for 100-200 line microservices, but I'll definitely be trying out this latest DRF release.

I'm sure this is the last thing you want to be hearing right now, but any updates on the flask counterpart you were working on? :) are you abandoning that while you work on 3.1 and 3.2? Or altogether?
Ask HN: How have you improved your communication skills?
I am a programmer and now founder of a small startup who keeps getting more responsibilities that require good communication skills but I realize that I am not the most gifted communicator (I'm also not the worst either). I am sure many of you were in the same boat and had to grow into roles like managing employees, pitching projects to potential clients, fundraising, etc. So what things have helped you? Perhaps some books, blogs, mentors, or seminars?

On a personal note: in meetings I often end up being either too forceful with my ideas or to passive and then regretting agreeing to things I wished I hadn't. When I try to focus on collaboration from all parties the conversation usually becomes too long and nothing gets decided. Over the years I have really benefited from books like 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, or the 5 Dysfunctions of a team, but I feel like some resources would be helpful.

Thanks,
Eric
Agreed about the Kickstarter model for open-source software. It's the best of both worlds - developers can contribute to the community while still getting paid for it.
Rakkoon (http://www.rakkoon.com) - Baltimore, MD [REMOTE or LOCAL]

We are a startup with a strong mission - helping parents be better parents in a mobile and social world. We want to be a force for good and help parents who are currently struggling. At the same time, we are a business that aims to be around for the long time. We want to be healthy and profitable at a pace that is sustainable.

We want the best people, wherever you currently live. We are open to remote candidates or people that want to work in the Baltimore, MD / Washington, DC areas. We are all hard workers, but want people to have thriving personal lives. We want the best performance from people, not the most hours. It's simply not possible to be at your most creative while working too many hours and not having the flexibility you need to live your lives.

Rakkoon was founded by three parents with a long history of leadership in successful companies. We know what it takes to create a successful business that treasures its employees. We've found a strong group of investors that believe in our mission and our vision for creating a great company. We would be honored if you would consider working with us.

We are looking for technical hire #1 with deep knowledge of networking and HTTP-based APIs who is also enthusiastic about all aspects of developing a consumer-facing product aimed at helping parents in the mobile+social world. We value computer science fundamentals (we will be doing deep packet inspection at scale after all), a strong sense of product design, and enthusiasm for shipping product as part of a small team. Typical tasks will include contributing to our core traffic inspection capability to extract information from network traffic generated by apps on mobile devices, analysis of data (including social network analysis), development of user-facing apps for parents (responsive website for now and moving to iOS and Android Apps soon), and support of the product in a production environment (aka DevOps).

Skills we are interested in:
* Strong knowledge of networking (low-level IP, HTTP, and VPNs).
* Strong computer science fundamentals. We will be collecting large amounts of data and doing interesting analysis.
* DevOps experience (Linux definitely - Google Cloud Platform experience is very welcome).
* Our current stack includes Google App Engine (Python / Javascript), Google Compute Engine (Python), iOS (Objective C - we're tempted by Swift, but not yet!), and Android (Java). As we scale up we will likely add another, higher-performance langue to the backend. Maybe Go, but you can help us make that decision.
April 1st post?
The Idempotency Trap
No, you don't get a permanent static IP address. That depends on the ISP. And even if your ISP hands out permanent addresses, your devices can change addresses often. Most of my devices do change addresses, and I didn't have to turn it on.

Both v6 and the linux stack are privacy-friendly.
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JavaScript, while it was rushed and had questionable design goals, at least was somewhat designed. You can't say that about PHP.

Also not sure I can get on board with "lots of quality code in PHP", some sure, but seems that anyone who knows PHP and another language prefers to write in another language.
Location: Slovenia

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Maybe in few years

Technologies: Responsive Design, HTML5, Jade, CSS3, LESS, SASS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Sublime text, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Resume: http://vidakovic.si/

Email: miha@vidakovic.si

Seeking any work related with my skillset, willing to learn anything new. My portfolio is small, but I want to make it stronger and build up some great relationships and long-term collaborations. Worked on many projects in course of four years. Have great experience in HTML and CSS, web designing and protoryping mobile applications. Basic knowlage of PHP, MySQL and Laravel. Willing to work full time or project based.

My key strengths include: - designing branding of company from scratch - building web projects from top to bottom, user experience - wireframing
Containers: Stumbling on the Road to Utopia
Location: Chandigarh, India
Remote: Undecided

Willing to relocate: Not too far away, Delhi at most but I am open to reconsider

Technologies:

Primary: PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Chrome Extension/Apps APIs
Secondary: C/C++, Unix Shell Script, NoSQL (indexed db), Oracle, Java

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lHXE5cGcJjBrGFuKaXUtTi-e...

Email: achshar2@gmail.com
Update - they do seem to be trying to crack on:

"Ebola Vaccine May Be Ready as Early as January 2015"

"If further clinical trials result in an effective vaccine, health care workers who treat those with Ebola will likely be the first to receive it."

http://newsone.com/3074615/ebola-vaccine-may-be-ready-as-ear...
Didn't it also happen in Zimbabwe?
Very interesting observations about the christ story, I didn't pick up on any of them.
What makes you say it's harder to implement robustly?

Yes people have higher expectations from native apps, it's true.
Seems interesting, though I see how a lot of people will be concerned with privacy since its a location based app. So does your app keep track of the user's location all the time?
Pivotal Labs
New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Denver
(we support relocation)

Job Title: Senior Product Manager (Consultant)

Pivotal Labs now offers Product Management services to our clients. We serve as interim product managers for clients who are looking to build successful products quickly. We work closely with founders, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, and customers to ensure the right product is defined, prioritized, and built.

===Responsibilities:

- Partner with clients to understand client goals and product vision

- Collaborate with the developers and designers to prioritize, plan, and deliver working software

- Enable clients to practice agile development and lean methodologies

- Help improve the product practice at Pivotal Labs (e.g., http://productlabs.io )

===Desired Skills & Experience:

- Ability to work collaboratively with others

- Ability to navigate complex decision making

- Strong leadership and communication skills

- Previous success working with an agile development team

- Experience with defining and prioritizing product features

- Background in design or software development a plus

I'm the Director of Product Management at Labs -- send me a cover letter/resume at gsiener@pivotal.io
Add a donate button to any site w/ two lines of code
Sam has also blogged about this for Ruby specifically: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/12/11/call-to-action-long...
To be fair, though, 2001: A Space Odyssey didn't explore nearly as many exotic phenomena as Interstellar did. It was a lot easier for that movie to remain mostly accurate.
Pretty much all IM protocols have some channel functionality. It's just that the user experience in Skype and many other IM's is such, that it does not ecncourage users to join/create channel first. Rather they all try to get users to find their friends and chat one on one.

With IRC, all new users are told (by their friens and pretty much all tutorials) to join a channel first. Also web clients tend to ask user to give an channel to join before they can do anything. For me and many others IRC is channels first. Commercial IM systems are one-to-one first.
I was thinking man - they don’t even have 1 really expensive SaaS product on the list… $60k for all those solutions seems very very cheap. Just setting up an open-source alternative to something that costs <$500/yr probably ends up costing you more - without upgrades and management.
> Can you imagine having to launch a separate native app for Hacker News, Facebook, Github, Amazon, Ebay, etc

Best I'm aware, a lot of these apps exist already. The step we've yet to reach is "having to launch" instead of merely being able to launch. We probably will for some of them, though.

Speaking for myself, the dystopian present and near-future has me a lot more worried than a hypothetical future with apps: I've lost count of the number of websites which used to work fine on a 1st gen iPad and which now either refuse to work on grounds its browser is too old (e.g. Github), or outright frequently crash its browser owing to out of memory errors due to excessive use of javascript (e.g. most news site).
I think the Front-End community just happens to collaborate a lot more than other communities and so the ideas get shared at a faster pace. Yes, it leads to framework churn, but it's mostly because we're learning from each other's ideas. If the other side of the coin is stagnation where people learn the dogma of a framework and not the reason behind it, I'm all for framework churn.

Find something that works for your team and stick with it. No one is making you use the latest framework or library out there.
Berlin, DE - Dawanda
We're looking for DevOps ( http://jobs.dawanda.com/joboffers/?city=berlin&jobID=offpXfw... ) . Ping me: razvan@dawanda.com
I hope you sue the living shit out of your GP.
stalking on strangers near you newer been easier :D
Three Pillars of Engineering Management
I like interest free loans, too!

I feel like the services that tout tax-loss harvesting don't do a clear job of explaining that it's only interest free loan if your future tax bracket is the same.

For example, if you're going to be moving to a different state after the tax losses are harvested—say, from MA to CA—then that "interest free" loan will cost you ~5% (the difference in tax rates between those states).

Or, if you're just starting out in your career, and you're going to be in a higher tax bracket in a few years—about the same time that many would start looking at buying real estate—then it's again a cost equal to the delta in marginal tax rates (say, 3% or 8%, depending on how your starting salary compares with your salary 5 years into your career).

I'd love if Vanguard got into this market as well; although it seems like they already are, with their target date index funds. Admittedly, no tax-loss harvesting, if that's important to you.