skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's on a different axis, personally.

I currently work for a startup whereby they tried to indoctrinate us into a startup culture. Ping pong tables, stand up desks, open work spaces, and beer. So much beer.

As a general rule, I don't ever drink alcohol. (More specifically, I only drink alcohol when I'm at home, where driving a car is unlikely to ever be involved, and with good company.)

That caused some friction.
Nimia — https://app.nimia.com — Seattle, WA — Senior Software Engineer (Python/Javascript) — Full Time

We are building a home for great footage. Independent filmmakers and agencies can license, share, and archive their 4k video. See our quick intro here: https://app.nimia.com/video/35785/demo/

We are small. You will help decide what to build, what to improve on, and even how to market ourselves. We are in constant communication with our users. Sales, marketing, legal, and engineering meet up frequently to collaborate. We want team members who care about the product and each other.

== Position ==

You will be engineer #3.

Responsibilities will depend on strengths and interest. Some possibilities:

- API & Infrastructure

- UI / UX

- DevOps

- Marketing / SEO

Qualifications:

- Experience with Django, Rails, or a server side javascript framework

- Experience with a client side javascript framework such as Backbone or Angular

== Our Stack ==

We use Python, Django, NodeJS / IO.js, Backbone, SASS, Elasticsearch, Redis, Saltstack, AWS and some other bits and pieces.

Contact alec@nimia.com and please include:

* 3 references
* Github profile and/or personal website
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That's right. Does any know what's the standard participating and liquidation preferences these days? I know first hand a technical founder who made almost nothing from a >100M exit because the investors got 2x the money they put in first, before the rest is distributed to the common stock holders.
I am not sure what I just read...
Flippa is selling itself on itself: https://flippa.com/4334300-premium-pr-5-online-marketplace-w...
National meat basket, rather.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-j-rose/how-to-take-long-s...

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/californias-drought-whos-...

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/global/sensem/MeatIndustry...
Since you're happy to answer questions:

* What about data export?

* Why no 2FA? (or sign in via federated identity?)

* What is my guarantee that your price doesn't dynamically adjust, potentially hitting me hardest when I can least afford it?
tl;dr: Desal is too energy intensive and expensive to be feasible while other conservation options haven't been tried yet. Also, massive potential environmental impact for water intake and brine output.
IE has already sandboxing since IE8 (on Vista onwards). Spartan is forked of the (former) IE12's "Edge" trident code. It's basically a new WinRuntime based GUI app that uses the refactored trident engine (with old legacy compatibility code removed).
If you read something in Pro Git that could be better, or if you find a mistake, we're taking contributions at https://github.com/progit/progit2. The only requirement is that you agree to license your contribution under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
While this sounds great on paper you have to remember that traffic signals are absolutely mission critical components to the traffic system and what you are describing pushes them to the cutting edge of what many might consider "experimental" technology. There can be no trial and error.

Also remember that traffic systems are not developed by start ups that can iterate quickly with seemingly endless funding and/or no overhead. These systems are usually under the control of municipalities that are already strapped for cash and certainly do not have elite teams of developers at their disposal.
> we can assume that the threat is the most common one

No we can't.
But if you were living in the city, wouldn't that acre be a forest anyway? Actually, it would be a little bit bigger forest because the land under your house, driveway, the road leading to it, and lawn/garden/whatever would also be forest.

Unless you are actively turning some non-productive land into productive land (eg, greening a desert), you're probably a negative on sequestration no matter what. It's just a question of how negative, and living in the city is probably less negative.
The effects seen in the various sub-groups and endpoints are all non-significant at the p = 0.05 level. The lowest I can see is p = 0.07 (cardiac death prevention, as reported in their Table 3).

The multiple-hypothesis correction they apply is reasonably appropriate in the case of simply looking at all results, which is what they do.

Furthermore, because the outcomes are disjoint (cardiac survival vs stroke vs sudden death vs all-cause mortality, etc) there is no simple way to combine the results.

To take a silly example, studying the effect of seatbelts on cancer and cardiac death might well show a bit of an effect on both (because people who wear seatbelts are generally healthier, say) but it would be illegitimate to combine those two studies because the endpoints are (so far as we know) unrelated to each other. Without some kind of causal account the issues become very deep and difficult to say anything very definitive about.

So I'd say their statistical treatment is fair and appropriate. If fish-oil is supposed to have such a large effect as to be worth taking the risk that it increases the risk of prostate cancer, its effect should be unequivocally measureable in population studies. That is not the case.

For what it's worth, I think the prostate cancer studies are at least as flawed, at least the one I've seen, which is a case-control study that shows an extremely modest increase in relative risk of the kind it is very easy to produce from statistically identical populations: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1745
This seems like a nice idea but I actually think it would be terrible. The big discovery recent-ish is "Traffic Expands to Fill Available Road Space" [1]. A situation where traffic lights become smarter to keep traffic balanced between main streets and side streets and between different intersections of the city would just mean result in every single intersection of a given city being in grid-lock simultaneously rather than just some of them.

Already, I've notice that rush-hour lights seem to tuned to take longer than mid-day light - assume that's because any light-change is going to be inefficient (logically enough). But since rush is fated to total congestion anyway, the result just congestion plus tortuously long lights.

[1] http://www.culturechange.org/issue8/traffic%20expands.htm
I don't wanna sound like an annoying libertarian, but would it be the same if water was privatized in CA?

Seems reasonable to assume a private company would solely increase the price of water and gradually try to find other ways to solve the problem.
The problem is less population and more population density.

It would be a small problem to provide socialized health care in Boston or San Francisco relative to West Virginia, for example. It would be a bigger problem to provide equivalent care. It is a bigger problem still to handle the bureaucracy to provide optimal care based on the problems each see.

I want socialized health care, but I don't pretend it is merely an issue of will.
The post is only about 0.3 Timecubes of crazy, but far higher than I normally see on HN.
> The article does not address other potentially beneficial effects, such as decreased inflammation.

I'm wondering about that. Particularly given the increasing interest in the anti-inflammatory properties of statins & whatnot, an effective, easily obtained anti-inflammatory supplement should be very much worth looking at.

The article does not say any thing about how well tested the claimed anti-inflammatory effects of fish oil supplements are. Does anyone know?
I see ad injectors installed on all my friends and family computers.

I think people has developed some kind of ad-blindness.

I remember a friend using facebook and some crazy and animated ads were taking 80% of his screen, I asked him "doesn't this bother you?" , he says "meh".
But the point was that the vacant lot was somehow "free" to the owner. It's not, he is sacrificing any value he might get by selling it.

If someone sees a better potential use of the land (able to get more value out of it), he can propose to buy it at a higher price.

A land-value taxes is just a multiplier of the opportunity cost, but without any real economic foundation (no one is proposing to buy the land at a higher price).
I actually envy you for the stand up desks.
.. and before CDDB, it was Viewpoint Data Labs .. its a part of the heritage of the Internet at this point.
Isocline - Austin, TX - Software Engineer for High Performance Computing and Modeling

We are looking for two people - one interested in neural networks and one interested in GPS.

We are developing microchips that yield a 10-1000x improvement in performance & energy-efficiency compared to digital ASICs, GPUs, and FPGAs. We are a bootstrapped company and are fully funded through mid 2016. Patents pending.

$70K – $120K Salary

0.5% – 1.2% Equity

Full Job Description: https://angel.co/isocline/jobs/38767-software-engineer

Company website: http://isoclineengineering.com/

INTERN - Also looking for interns in software or embedded systems
Why I Got into a Fight with My Phone
1x liquidation preferences are the standard in tech investments these days.
A fair number of APIs offer basic auth, even in 2015.
New U.S. sanctions treat hackers like terrorists
Maybe those agricultural business won't be able to grow anything anymore and go out of business. Not to worry, we can always import almonds from other countries which lack any kind of environmental policy. But at least we will be able to continue Building Great Apps (TM).
The other way is if other states would grow more agriculture so there is more diversity.
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Singapore seems to work fairly well under that principle. Perhaps you need a certain ruthlessness?
Symphony.com Senior Front End Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION
Symphony is seeking front end engineers with expert Javascript knowledge who have experience developing rich, high-performance, browser-based Javascript applications. Design and implement a rich, javascript-based, enterprise-class messaging application, including client-based end to end encryption and related security in the browser. We use backbone.js extensively and chrome wrapper / webkit for native integration.

Why you are needed now:
A sophisticated and modern javascript UI is our #1 need for a few reasons:
- huge customer and test base response for more features and the implementation of clean modern designs
- each one of these features needs to integrate to be maintainable and secure
- we have a great server side team, but our front end developers are shaping the look and feel of our core product and we need more help now.

The problems you will be solving:
- provide cutting edge features (search, notifications, resilience connections, rich presence / MPOP) but with a complete focus on not only end to end encryption, but also compliance and regulatory integration. The UI is a first class citizen in our model, and our business is built on providing features and security consideration never before combined.

REQUIREMENTS
• 5+ years developing rich applications with HTML/CSS/JS

ABOUT SYMPHONY:
http://www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/engineering/see-our-w...

Resumes to careers@symphony.com
One nice thing you can do with SPI is to daisy chain the chips your interfacing with so that the MOSI of chip A goes into the MISO of chip B and so on. If you've got got a bunch of, e.g., ADCs you want to poll at the same time you can just get the output from all of them at once without needing extra select lines.
The issue is that we lose the distinction between content and ad. As this distinction blurs, less people will be able to say which is which. I guess the real question underlying this is the one underlying advertising in general, how much are we morally allowed to manipulate someone who did not give informed consent for the purpose of modifying their behavior in a way that is beneficial to us?
I'm sorry but thousands of reports out of 20+ million units sold is a drop in the bucket.
I suggest that the underlying value of the land is zero, or so close to it as to be statistically insignificant. The market value of land is overwhelmingly dominated by proximity to improvements. If you subtract the value of improvements on the land itself from the market value, you are still left with the value of being near the improvements on all surrounding properties.

The true underlying value is the value it would have if you picked up the land with a god's hand and plopped it down in the middle of nowhere, in a land devoid of people and far from roads or rivers. Does it have valuable natural or mineral resources on or under it? Does it have energy production potential? Fresh water? Historical significance?

No? It's worth zero. People drive the economy. Land only has value to the extent that it does not present barriers between you and your trade partners. No one wants to live atop the mountain if the funicular is not built. No one wants to live across the lake if there are no boats, docks, and piers. No one wants to live deep in the forest if the road into it has not yet been cleared.

How then do you calculate a land tax fairly? Surface area alone? Population density data from the census?
It's automating a task that most of us consider to be tedious busy-work.

Though to be honest, the most valuable feature turned out to be continuous building (in which Ekam will watch (via inotify) the source code for changes, immediately rebuild the affected targets, and communicate errors back to my editor). Instant feedback from my compiler simply makes me more productive. Other build systems could easily implement this too, and a few have, but somehow most build systems still require you to manually invoke a shell command.

Honestly, it would be really great to see some sort of inotify-based continuous building added to gmake (thought don't forget that you also need to get the error log back into your editor for it to be really useful).

(You may be tempted to suggest `while true; do make; done`, but in practice this has all sorts of performance and usability problems.)
The article does mention reduced inflammation, albeit somewhat indirectly (referring to the omega-3s in fish oil). Otherwise, it's rather dismissive. That seems to be a side effect of headline fads along the lines of "studies show X is bad/has no benefit" or "studies show X is good for you!" The best answer, of course, is "we need more data."

However, I did find this gem buried quite a ways down toward the end of the article:

> Dr. JoAnn Manson, the chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said the large clinical trials of fish oil focused only on people who already had heart disease or were at very high risk.

If that's true, then it appears TFA is looking at it from the wrong angle. In other words, fish oils may have no effect on someone who's already suffered from a heart attack (or is at high risk), but someone who is aiming to use it as a preventative treatment might reduce their risk. Should this be the case, studying at risk populations who may have already had heart problems might not be the best starting point. It's a bit like fretting over a nutritious diet and plenty of fluids being of little use for someone who already has the flu, regardless of how poor their diet was prior.

On the other hand, jimrandomh [1] near the top of these comments links to the study and warns there may be something more at work here. This is in the thread where magic5227 points out a comment on the NYT article that the statistical work in the study raises some considerable questions because it may have established too high a burden of proof. jimrandomh's comment suggests otherwise. So, who knows. It's worth reading through that thread as well.

Personally, I think the truth is probably somewhere between these two extremes. It's apparently clear the Inuit's diet has influence on their cardiac health, but is it really just the omega-3s and not the wider range of benefits from eating fish? Or is it possibly tied to a lifetime of omega-3 intake rather than starting supplementation on a whim or only after serious health problems? If that's the case, shouldn't long-term supplementation (on the order of decades) be a focus of study instead? (Note: I have never followed fish oil studies, nor do I take it, so perhaps someone will be kind enough to link to such a study.)

Anyway, I'm no nutritionist, and I'm kind of an idiot, but it seems to me that it's the long-term dietary (or supplementation) choices we make that are most the important, hence why I am increasingly more inclined to approach studies examining short-term effects (or lack of) with caution.
What will happen when international laws which defy reason start being enforced, and are not understood or supported by the national public or their national legislators?
As an American, I would prefer to see people getting green cards rather than H1Bs. I fear that people with H1Bs are more likely to be "motivated sellers" in the labor market, depressing wages because their BATNA is much worse than that of a permanent resident or citizen.
The Value of Discoverability in Context: Annotating EIP Use in AWS Console
Seeking Work - remote or UK (based in north west Wales)

Experienced PHP web developer with experience of front and back end work.

I've worked with all kinds of teams over the past 8 years developing off-the-peg wordpress sites as well as custom web apps.

Latest projects have involved Laravel4, D3.js and plenty of bootstrap on the frontend. Plus much experience of multi language systems.

Website: http://meigwilym.com/

Github: http://github.com/meigwilym
Huh - the other domains in *.google are hitting a default page. Perhaps the most-robustly-hosted apache default page in the world?

http://foo.google/

http://wewjfkenf.google/
DreamHost currently has multiple openings across a few of our teams. If you're curious what we do in the hosting and cloud services world, poke around www.dreamhost.com

- Web Performance Engineer
- Cloud Storage Engineer
- Javascript Developer
- UI Designer
- Systems Administrator

With the exception of the SysAdmin role, all of these positions can be remote. Otherwise we'd be happy to have you work out of one of our main offices in Los Angeles, Brea or Portland.

You can find most of the job details on our careers page: dh-careers.com

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Elasticsearch – Deprecating Rivers
San Francisco, CA

Outbound (https://outbound.io) is looking for a server side engineer to join our small team of 4. We're young (as a company) and you'll be early enough that you'll be involved in core architectural and infrastructure decisions that will be the basis of our technology stack. We have a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline that should keep architecturally minded engineers happy, interested and busy for a while.
Technologies we use (currently): - Go - MongoDB - AWS - AngularJS - Firebase

Go experience not required. None of us knew it before we started building Outbound either.

Prior startup experience is a huge bonus especially if you were engineer 1-5.

DevOps and people with sysadmin experience a bonus as well.

If interested, email travis@outbound.io.
A lot of password hashing APIs have two calls - one where you provide the password (and possibly work factor) and it returns a hash that includes a randomly generated salt, and another where you pass in the hash (which includes the salt and work factor if any) and the password which returns true/false.
You also have to consider transportation of goods/services. It's more energy intensive to get produce to 10,000 suburban residents than 10,00 NYC residents, for obvious reasons. And, don't forget utilities, runoff, water use, and simple pavement.
SECUREDROP = 0.3 – Possible Backdoor and Privileges Escalation by Unauth User
While a pipeline network may not be millions of miles from one end to another, it's certainly possible that the sum of the lengths of all the pipes in a tree-like network may be much greater than the length of the network's longest path.
I think a lot more goes into making urban life better for the environment than just cars. Off the top of my head I would expect the following to contribute:

Suburban heating and cooling involves larger spaces for less people (houses being bigger in the suburbs),

In an urban environment, there is a lower environmental cost for transportation and processing of food/water/other goods (fewer locations to deliver to).

In an urban environment, I would expect fewer materials are needed to maintain infrastructure (power lines, water pipes, roads, etc). Manufacturing all of these parts involves an environmental cost.

Suburban living currently almost certainly means a big lawn. Traditional green lawns are bad for the environment.

Urban communities can also centralize waste disposal and (I suspect) more easily implement recycling programs.

Finally, don't forget that an electric car is only actually better for the environment if the electricity is produced sustainably (this is mostly not the case in the US). I suspect that electric cars may actually be worse for the environment if powered by most US power plants.
>Very hot and high growth companies (Facebook, famously) have been able to sell off single digit percentages of the company with incredibly high valuation increases between rounds.

well, one can see how selling only single digits (at sufficient valuations to fund the company's progress) may in turn have potential to make the company very successful - by preserving founder(s)'s control and thus allowing the founder(s) to drive the company further. Basically taking control out of founders' hands VC risk ending up with bigger share of less successful company.
Symphony.com Sr. DevOps Engineer

Symphony is seeking an exceptional Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, improve, operate and monitor our growing cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web service (AWS). The ideal candidate for this role will have experience in maintaining large scale, mission critical web services with various underlying services and dependencies on AWS cloud infrastructure.

REQUIRED:
• Expert Linux administration skills
• AWS experience
• Automation using Shell scripting, Python, SaltStack
• MongoDB, Hbase

NICE TO HAVE:
• Hadoop, NoSQL, Kafka, Zookeeper, Solr, Release deployment, Nagios, Ganglia, Ruby
• Network architecture and administration skills, VPN

Resumes to careers@symphony.com
Switzerland, Zurich | Full-time | DevOps, Front-end, and Back-end.

This might be a very exciting, well-paid opportunity if have a Swiss work permit or if you are from the EU. You should speak some German or be willing to learn.

We're a Swiss software shop that is re-building an existing e-commerce solution from scratch. Our young, motivated web-team is looking for DevOps, Front-end, and Back-end people. We currently use the following tech-stack:

- Python/Flask

- MongoDB

- Elasticsearch

- RedHat and Docker

- Gulp

We are open to other technologies (e.g., we are looking into NodeJS and React).

We look for people who can reason about technology and contribute with their ideas.

Contact me for further info: iwang at fastmail . net

I myself moved to Switzerland only recently. My very positive experiences living and working here can be found on medium: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" http://goo.gl/EIX4UX)
Hmm, a previous competitor slamming them only after they're certain FoundationDB's gag order will prevent a rebuttal. Classy.