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Data for Breakfast
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Data for Breakfast is the company blog at data.blog, writing about data and programming. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Automattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 26% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Building Thousands of Reproducible ML Models with pipe as a story · 49 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Improving Relevance and Elasticsearch Query Patterns as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted How to increase revenue in 1,000 non-trivial steps with data science as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Predicting the past: how big was the internet? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Introducing Pipe, the Automattic Machine Learning Pipeline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Engineering Data Science at Automattic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 28% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted Real-Time Elasticsearch Indexing on WordPress.com as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAutomattic (WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, .blog, Polldaddy, Gravatar) | Search Wrangler | Full Time | REMOTE We're a distributed company with employees in >50 countries. Help us influence search and recommendations for the 27% of the Web that runs on WordPress. We're looking to take our search infrastructure up a few notches. A bit on what we're working on: - We have some good distributed systems deployed tha…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”Submitted How to Save Time with Alfred, Stream Deck, and Apple Shortcuts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlgolia has done some terrific work on search latency (and written about it which is awesome https://stories.algolia.com/how-algolia-reduces-latency-for-... ). I think ES can get there, but depends a lot on what hardware you deploy (SSDs!), how you build your index, and whether you can geographically distribute your search engine close to your users. We have one ES cluster with hundreds of queries per second that gi…
Comment linking /2016/05/03/state-of-wordpress-com-elasticsearch-systems-2016/
on “Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M”Submitted Data Science Insights from Cameron Davidson-Pilon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasing retention and revenue with machine learning at Automattic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brand Image Analysis of WordPress and Automattic on Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Challenge Hiring Assumptions with Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gender and Racial Bias in Cloud Sentiment Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Data Science at Automattic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcoming New Colleagues – A Data-Based Story as a story · 1 points
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