skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Southern Brazil (Kiss) nightclub fire, the security team didn't initially know the fire broke out, and since it's quite normal at nightclubs in Brazil to pay for all one's drinks upon leaving, they didn't want to let anyone out and thus locked the front door. There were other contributing reasons (lack of exit signs, people mistaking the bathrooms for exits, etc) but policy, I believe, was the main reason for a high death toll.
Good Eggs - San Francisco, CA, Full Stack Engineers

http://www.goodeggs.com

=== About us ===

Good Eggs brings local, farm-fresh groceries right to your door! We are a technology focused company with a CTO who previously founded Carbon Five, an exceptional agile development shop. See our Engineering Blog and Github account:

http://bites.goodeggs.com

https://github.com/goodeggs/

We have a great mission (https://www.goodeggs.com/philosophy) - to grow and sustain local food systems worldwide - and everyone here is deeply committed to it. We have expanded to 4 cities - New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco - and our investors include Sequoia Capital, Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund and Westly Group, among others.

There are ~20 of us on the engineering team and we’re actively growing. We’re building next-generation web and mobile applications with JavaScript across the stack, including Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, Backbone, and CoffeeScript. The team has been built from the ground up with practices around test-driven development, pair programming, and continuous deployment.

== About you ===

Ideal Candidates Will Have:

* 3-5+ years full-stack web application development in Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript

* TDD experience / experience with pairing / Continuous Deployment

* Domain expertise in: e-commerce, billing, payments, or warehouse distribution software

======

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/goodeggs/software-engineer/cQ_...

I’m happy to field any questions - feel free to e-mail me: daryl(at)goodeggs.com
Interesting side note, it wasn't thought to be flat for as long as most people think. The roundness of earth is a pretty ancient piece of knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
This is a fine historical article. Your comment does not engage with it. Please stop using HN threads as pasting walls for ideological boilerplate.
You realize that you are complaining that EFF takes your money and does real work in the legal system , instead of blowing it on ad campaigns fornthemsef.
Excuse me for being unreasonably giddy but I've been eager as hell for this to be released for a time. I have grown to adore React and React Native and really enjoyed Flux. Facebook dev hitting on all cylinders!
Well this is new. I've never seen Nim before. What does it offer that Rust, Haskell, Erlang, etc... do not?
It will cost almost $10,000 for someone in SF to launch a Bitcoin start-up that can operate in California. Imagine the cost of a business which serves all 50 states if they all roll-out similar legislation!

Non-refundable license application fee: $3,500

License fee: $5,000

Annual License Renewal: $2,500

Annual Physical Location (per location) Fee: $125

CA LLC minimum fee: $800

SF Annual Business License Fee: $90

I hope well-funded VC start-ups like CoinBase did not contribute to this awful bill. Why would a random legislator in Los Angeles propose AB-1326?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/263598568/AB-1326-Virtual-Currency...
And computed gotos, which just jumps to a pointer, which is a gcc extension. That's totally crazy, but sort of awesome.
Seems they alluded to exactly that some years ago (2008!): http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recycling... "... at some unfortunate point, the ESS will come to the end of its useful life in the application :(. However, it might be possible to use the ESS in other applications. For example, the ESS could be used as a power source for off-grid backup or load leveling. "
Patients Know Best -- REMOTE ONLY. At present we all work core hours in London time, give or take a few hours.
We're hiring mid-level developers -- full-stack, really (we're all full-stack more or less!) but we've notice we're weaker on front end, so we'll be particularly interested if you have solid experience with some of these: strong cross-browser support (we have to support more than the "evergreen" browsers), i18n (we can't assume text length is constant, or even RTL...), multi-device/resolution support, accessibility, jQuery for auto-save and that sort of thing; HighCharts for graphing.

For the rest of the stack: Java experience is important; beyond that, we can generally show you around (more below). We're mostly a Java enterprise stack, actively rebuilding and splitting up functions, actually. Recently we've scripted the setup of the entire stack (or individual servers), including using Vagrant to easily set up a complete environment locally for each developer.

More about PKB

I've worked in a lot of different sectors since I first started writing code in the late 90s, including education, b2b supply chains, POS systems, e-commerce, banking, and anti-spam.

PKB has been head-and-shoulders above the rest in everything I care about.

We're building something that actively, directly, improves the lives of people in general -- not selling more stuff, helping others sell more stuff, or making comfortable people a bit more comfortable. If you're interested in PKB's growth, funding, profitability, contracts, etc., ask -- our CEO is also active on HN. I'm the CTO.

We're pragmatic about work/life balance. I work from France, or sometimes from Malaysia, where my in-laws live. Almost half of the developers have small children at home -- personally, I get my kids up in the morning, sometimes see them at lunchtime, then take over late-afternoon & evening (while my wife works), and I fill in a bit of extra working time around the edges as needed. We're collaboratively figuring out what works (e.g., how many working hours should you overlap to collaborate effectively?), and planning our lives and our work around what's effective, not around some photocopied list of rules stapled to a cubicle wall. One of our developers only codes part time (and occasionally takes long leaves of absence), because he's also a theatre director.

Culture -- we're live in various parts of the UK, central France, Bangalore, and Vienna; we range in age (though I don't actually know everyone's ages, so I can't say exactly!). We're not all native English speakers -- but communication skills trump even technical skills for remote teams, so we all understand, speak and write English easily and with the confidence to interrupt if we didn't catch something. We collaborate, not compete -- let ideas fight it out, but we're on the same team. We're not the sort of group to tell dirty jokes, or tales of how drunk we got last weekend; though we do have interesting stories to share.

If we sound like a good match, get in touch: https://patients.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=4 (I'm also contactable directly -- see profile -- but I get a lot of email).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473545

We've moved all the posts from this thread to that one, except where the posters had already made a new one there themselves.
Calling it "enhanced interrogation" is using a euphemism with the intent of hiding what the act actually entails. If you are afraid of using certain words because there is a lack of consensus, then list the activities directly and let people derive the connotations the words carry themselves. Admittedly, you (Yoo?) did list the activities after using the euphemism, but why use the euphemism at all, if not to push the equivalent of the Overton window in a certain direction? Waterboarding, etc., do quite a bit more than make people miserable: I was understating for effect. [1] I understand that this conversation has devolved into the pit that you wanted to avoid, but as others have stated, "enhanced interrogation" sounds like doublespeak of the highest order.

By the way, Wikipedia, for all that it's worth, has come to quite a resounding and comfortable consensus: "Enhanced interrogation techniques is a euphemism for methods used in the U.S. government's program of systematic torture of detainees [...]". Well cited too. [2]

[1] http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/070925/akeller.pdf#page=6

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniq...
Why isn't it worth getting excited about? I get excited about lunch. It costs me nothing to follow the progress on low-probability, high impact technological advancements (see: space elevators, commercial fusion power, etc)
> "As a user, I want to view the site in my own language, given I have come from a German network address, I should get the German language site"

I hate this philosophy so so much. If I wanted the German-language site I'd ask for it.
Light Reveals the Spin of Electrons
+1. Having gotten used to GraphQL I was shocked how hard it was to build something REST-ish at another org.
Grooveshark Shut Down
Ouch! Assuming I'm being downvoted for GoDaddy?
Ah gotcha! Thanks for clarifying.
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - VISA, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team)

* Data science / data analysis (using big data tools like hive to analyze an amazing proprietary dataset)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Product manager and design (UI or UX) roles too

* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service here http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. Last month we launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jaredf at scribd.com.
I'd say that it feels more like a scripting language in comparison to Rust and is more approachable than Haskell or Erlang while being fast since it's compiled to C.
BabyList - Oakland, CA

BabyList is making it easier for expecting parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. These parents-to-be look to us to help them make decisions about what to buy for their baby and where. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly, making real money and building new products that will take us to the next level.

Frontend Developer - Lead the development of our website. Obsess over user-experience, A/B testing, code maintainability and page-speed. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Backbone/CoffeeScript/Javascript.

Why should you consider BabyList?
We offer:
- fascinating work that users actually notice and love

- extremely smart, diverse team

- actual work/life balance

- benefits of an early stage startup (autonomy, fast pace, many hats...), without the risk of the an early stage startup (i.e. our revenue is paying for our growth)

- great office location - Old Oakland neighborhood (3 blocks from 12th street BART)

- we're a team of 8. Everyone has a big impact and is great at what they do.

If you’re interested in hearing more, email me at natalie@babyli.st
Generate a hyperbolic tiling for any image
The first review can be binding, so a peer reviewer is forbidden from overriding any findings of prior art. Appeals could require litigation or.exponentially increasing fees
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> Also conservation of energy. Thrust can't vary by velocity because there's no such thing as absolute velocity. So your velocity (relative to whatever) keeps increasing linearly, while kinetic energy increases quadratically. At some point you start getting more energy out than you put in.

Can you explain why photonic rockets are not breaking conservation of energy using this reasoning? They have the same property you describe, but are considered feasible as far as I understand (if unpractical to implement).
Connectome of human knowledge – fast-learn and make sense of reality (AI)
Hi!
Please see below a third thread (3/3) about a discussion to use a multi-partite graph as a starting point for knowledge prediction.

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The knowledge structure is similar to Google's Knowledge graph, with advantages:
- you get correlations for all topics, even the least popular
- you get traverse the knowledge base
- you can visualize it
Correlations are not computed based on searches of users: collective knowledge is organized in a multi-partite graph.

For a demo, restricted to the mind-map of wikipedia, see the mobile app:
http://learn.xdiscovery.com

or maps created with it at:
http://www.xdiscovery.com/en/atlas

I would like to use a backbone of knowledge as seminal starting point to study how knowledge is evolving, how a society is making sense of reality, exploiting semantic trees.

Which models in artificial intelligence / neuroscience / formation of memories are focused on semantic trees, to explain why things are connected?

###

Please see below additional info to frame my question.

Instead of training machines to identify knowledge correlations against users' searches or popularity of topics, I would like to * explain * correlations.

My proposal is to use an "analogic" approach: as a starting point, to adopt a mind-map of collective knowledge reflecting an average of what people think about subjects; then to iterate AI on top of it.

As example, I can already query pathways between topics (e.g. tell me why "Karl Marx" and "Russia" are linked, or "Google" and "Robotics" are linked ..).

I see a potential for interfacing with natural language and make crazy query like, ehi, tell me about "financial crises 2008" and you get an overview of the * subject * : semantic trees telling about an argument, rather than web-pages.

Currently in San Francisco and I'd love to have a deeper chat, vis-à-vis!!
Fig - San Francisco, CA - Full Time

Fig is a new venture-backed take on crowdfunding in the most popular vertical for crowdfunding.

Fig is hiring a gamer with experience as a front end engineer. This is an opportunity to join as one of the first employees at Fig and shape the stack and the product from the ground up. We have already built much of the MVP and need someone to join us as we sprint towards an exciting set of opportunities this summer. Our tech stack (familiarity with any of these is a plus but not required, we’d rather work with fast learners!):

- Front end development in Angular/React
- Yes, we unit test :-) Tests written using RSpec and ran automatically using Travis.CI

At the end of the day, we are looking for someone with some or all of the following skills:

- Rapid product prototyping
- Ability to learn quickly and take on new challenges
- Adapt to a dynamic startup environment

If you’re interested, contact our Head of Product, Freeman White, freeman@playfig.com. Please send us a link to one of your GitHub repos and let us know the most recent game you downloaded on Steam. We look forward to getting to know you.
I am quite grossed out by the racist and misogynist media coverage of the "missing avocado" incident. Every single article about the case makes sure to mention that it was a female juror against a male juror and some of the articles also point out that the accuser is asian while the accused is white. How are these factoids relevant to the incident, or the larger case?
"that controversies section just goes on and on. I just checked, and it's 7000 words long. This company's insane."

That's what I was thinking. That's an awful lot of smoke if there's no fire.
Two of my old posts may answer that question:

- http://hookrace.net/blog/what-is-special-about-nim/

- http://hookrace.net/blog/what-makes-nim-practical/

Summary by benhoyt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822918

* Run regular code at compile time
* Extend the language (AST templates and macros);
this can be used to add a form of list comprehensions to the language!
* Add your own optimizations to the compiler!
* Bind (easily) to your favorite C functions and libraries
* Control when and for how long the garbage collector runs
* Type safe sets and arrays of enums; this was cool:
"Internally the set works as an efficient bitvector."
* Unified Call Syntax, so mystr.len() is equivalent to len(mystr)
* Good performance -- not placing too much emphasis on this,
but it's faster than C++ in his benchmark
* Compile to JavaScript
A very strange link. This should go to https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/instathink-app-support-yo...

Also a very strange title. From the guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Previous submission of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439097
I posted the same link in this thread already, in another context, but it's relevant enough: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/mythbusters-part-3-recycling... "The result from this process is that we are able to recycle about 60% of the ESS materials and reuse a further 10% (by weight). We currently plan to landfill only the benign fluff, which comprises about 25% of the ESS, but we expect to nearly eliminate this in the future when our volumes get higher and we can justify the effort required to separate and reuse the plastic."
Then they dare to tell us we are part of the problem, as opposed to them getting their taxpayer-funded salaries, benefits and pensions !
Senior Front-End Engineer (Bend Oregon, Remote) (full time)

http://www.manzama.com

You know the future of the web: front end applications built on top of fast versatile APIs. You want to build technically challenging, well designed applications that are easy to use and allow the user to accomplish things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. You know when to use a library or framework and when to build from scratch to achieve the best results.

Modern technology and delightful experiences are at the heart of Manzama and you’ll be a core part of defining the architecture and engineering the front end experience. You’ll get the freedom to execute on your vision and build online experiences from concept to implementation, with an incredible team to help you every step of the way. You will be a very large part of a small team.

At Manzama, you will:
•	Lead the development of the front end of our web app to delight our customers.
•	Work closely with other developers to design and implement new features and functionality to help our users manage their information overload and discover business-critical information.
•	Commit and deploy high quality code regularly
•	Create libraries and APIs that enable modular, extensible design
•	Optimize the code and deployment to create a fast and efficient user experience
We’re looking for people who are:
•	Highly skilled in Javascript
•	Experienced with production MVC Javascript applications
•	Experts in HTML and CSS
•	Experienced with writing well tested code
•	Knowledgable of web development best practices
Brownie points for these:
•	Familiarity with Python/Django
•	Experience with JS frameworks such as React, Angular, Ember, and Backbone
•	Experience with CSS pre-processors (SaSS, Less) and other frontend build tools (Yeoman, Bower, Grunt)
It might be the opposite, for corporates, this might be hardware that no one can afford not to have.

People spend a lot on hardware, and a lot on electricity. If HP can do what others can do, but at 1/4 of the cost, and they charge 1/3 of the price, then money will flow to them like water.
I feel like an idiot after reading that, and I'm studying EE hoping for a career in firmware/low-level programming. Good luck to me :)
To add to this, Hacker News does not display well in either Chrome for Android or Firefox for Android[0], so it's not like it's only Servo (or even only Firefox) that has issues.

[0] Notice the inconsistent sizes of comments (which actually does not always even correlate with nested depth): https://www.dropbox.com/s/b47lhe3px83wq9j/2015-05-01%2019.29...
Civis Analytics | Chicago, IL | https://civisanalytics.com

Civis is building cloud-based products to help organizations do data science better and easier. We create technologies that empower organizations to unlock the truth hiding in their own data—transforming them into smart organizations that are ready to thrive. We help organizations solve their biggest problems with Big Data.

A few of our open positions:

Devops Engineer - http://bit.ly/1P30uit
Senior Security Engineer - http://bit.ly/1anABtS
Systems Engineer - http://bit.ly/1GCZQkn
Full Stack Software Engineer - http://bit.ly/1Hn3As1

Civis is hiring Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Product, Sales, Marketing managers, and more. View all of our open positions at https://civisanalytics.com/careers
Senior Front-End Engineer (Bend Oregon, Remote)
at Manzama
Bend Oregon
You know the future of the web: front end applications built on top of fast versatile APIs. You want to build technically challenging, well designed applications that are easy to use and allow the user to accomplish things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. You know when to use a library or framework and when to build from scratch to achieve the best results.

Modern technology and delightful experiences are at the heart of Manzama and you’ll be a core part of defining the architecture and engineering the front end experience. You’ll get the freedom to execute on your vision and build online experiences from concept to implementation, with an incredible team to help you every step of the way. You will be a very large part of a small team.

At Manzama, you will:
•	Lead the development of the front end of our web app to delight our customers.
•	Work closely with other developers to design and implement new features and functionality to help our users manage their information overload and discover business-critical information.
•	Commit and deploy high quality code regularly
•	Create libraries and APIs that enable modular, extensible design
•	Optimize the code and deployment to create a fast and efficient user experience
We’re looking for people who are:
•	Highly skilled in Javascript
•	Experienced with production MVC Javascript applications
•	Experts in HTML and CSS
•	Experienced with writing well tested code
•	Knowledgable of web development best practices
Brownie points for these:
•	Familiarity with Python/Django
•	Experience with JS frameworks such as React, Angular, Ember, and Backbone
•	Experience with CSS pre-processors (SaSS, Less) and other frontend build tools (Yeoman, Bower, Grunt)
Cuff - San Francisco, Android Lead, Mobile Designer, Electrical Engineer

https://cuff.io

We are a fashion technology company, bringing beautiful hardware enabled solutions to the world.

g@cuff.io
It seems like an impossibly basic mistake, but confusing micro- and milli- newtons would make the math a lot more reasonable.