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The job description is to-the-point and doesn't ask for anything out of the ordinary. Other than mentioning a CS degree, I give it two-thumbs up. Hiring is definitely a tough nut t…

First, what does your careers page look like? Sometimes the job description is unclear or you might be filtering out qualified people. Second, mid-senior is really tough to hire fo…

That's not the case everywhere. Some companies pay managers less than engineers. From the company's perspective, a manager deals with a larger chunk of the business, while an engin…

We're pretty comfy here 9/12 months a year. The Spring and Fall are fantastic, and Winter is getting milder each year.

I would quit this team.

Coming from an under-represented demographic in technology, Hackernews has really been my insight into the industry and helped me immensely with figuring out how to get into it. Re…

Thanks! I was browsing a few days ago and applied to work on Telemetry in Firefox and ML Engineering at Pocket. A lot of the work being done with respect to the Quantam initiatives…

How does one end up in a position to do this work at Mozilla? I'm currently looking for a new SWE role, would absolutely love to work on Firefox.

Still the same situation, even for CS majors from less known schools. Somebody has to take a chance, few people want to take a risk on you.

I will keep this in mind when researching jobs.

I've seen at least one or two companies working on optimization at least here on HN. I'd take a guess that Gurobi is one option, and I saw SigOpt post a listing on the recent "Who'…

Any chance you know someone hiring for said scientific computing roles? I studied Applied Math / CS undergrad, have been gearing up to work in Autonomous Vehicles, but really any c…

Like everything else, depends on your use-case. I have personally used TF-IDF vectors and token sets with Cosine and Jaccard distances in practice. Some examples of use-cases: are …

This is really awesome, thanks for posting! I was not yet aware that random forests could be used as kernels, and the link to Davies and Ghahramani is especially useful, definitely…

Hi HN, I'm currently in an employment dilemma where I want to move into an ML engineer or Data Scientist role at another company, but I've spent the last 3 years as a Data Engineer…

The problem is distributed training, not inference.

There might not be a need to do so at the moment. Otherwise, they might open that up at a later time.

I'm gonna go through it as well, that was a significant amount of work you put in.

I certainly have in the past when something really grabbed my attention. My library has expanded in recent years partly because of the topics shared on Hackernews and mentioned in …

Immutability is absolutely fantastic as a default (especially for typical business logic). I'm not sure I want to go back to mutability except in constrained environments or time-s…

Neustar Research has a good article on this which may be of interest to you. However, I think the approach they took was still based on the inclusion-exclusion principle (still a g…

If what you want is an approximate answer, take a look at * Counting Bloom Filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Counting_filters * Count-Min Sketch https://en.wikipedi…

There can be problems with state management, which I've only seen with our web application. Sometimes a hard stop / start is what you need unless you designed the application for r…

I've wrapped C and C++ code via the JNI and called it from Clojure. There are a good number of projects wrapping C code in Clojure. It's a little awkward (Clojure -> Java -> JNI ->…

I worked on this as part of a project with US Fish and Wildlife in 2015 for bats! We were monitoring local populations to track the spread of White Nose syndrome. It wasn't in 3D, …