jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://www.futureadvisor.com - http://nyti.ms/X3N7r2

== Experienced infrastructure engineer, San Francisco ==

FutureAdvisor is an automated investment manager. We help our customers cut their investment fees, avoid excessive risks and save on taxes, so that they and their families will face better choices down the road.

We're seeking an infrastructure engineer. Your job will be to keep FutureAdvisor running smoothly. It might be deploying and maintaining server clusters on EC2, building tools to automate our deployment pipelines or designing and implementing a new piece of the request pipeline. Your job will be to make FutureAdvisor as fast and reliable as possible.

You might be a good fit if you have experience writing production code, but you'd rather be building out the running systems. You're security-conscious and detailed-oriented when it comes to provisioning servers and designing deployment processes. You have a strong desire to automate everything, but you know when introducing automation might be a bad idea. You're comfortable in Bash and Ruby.

As a FutureAdvisor infrastructure engineer you might work on improving our Chef cookbooks to make it easier for others to deploy services. You'll spend time identifying and eliminating likely reasons for FutureAdvisor to go down. You'll also work on building out more tools to manage and track our server cluster using AWS technologies like EC2, S3, OpsWorks, and VPC.

Skills you'll need:
Experience working with AWS
Experience provisioning and maintaining VPC instances on AWS
Knowledge of service oriented infrastructure
Knowledge of working with Linux and Bash scripts
Experience with infrastructure management tools like Chef or Puppet
Bonus Experience launching Ruby on Rails apps

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26316#.VHyoQ....

== interactive designer, San Francisco ==

You're seeking meaningful work solving problems in an organization that supports design.

FutureAdvisor distills the complexity of finance into a simple interface so that our customers can understand and grow their life savings. We're giving working- and middle-class households a powerful portfolio management tool that they never had access to, until now.

You've designed interactive apps for the web and mobile. We reach more than 150,000 users who depend on us to monitor their nest eggs. You're used to reasoning about the scope of various features' functionality, and how to implement them. You like imagining how touch targets, palette, patterns, information architecture and microcopy can make UX smooth.

You know that UX is more than just product. Every touch point, from marketing and sales to onboarding and support, are all part of the total experience we want to improve. We're looking for designers to work with our engineers and product managers to make sure that FutureAdvisor is delighting its customers from start to finish.

What we're looking for:
Background in interactive design
Portfolio of web and/or mobile apps
Empathetic and practical individuals

https://boards.greenhouse.io/futureadvisor/jobs/26309#.VHyou....
This analogy exaggerates the bandwidth savings.

Converting from uncompressed BMP to compressed PNG can easily save over half of the file size; even 10:1 compression is common for some images.

The bandwidth savings in HTTP2 are much smaller, and are probably only significant in aggregate.
But nobody has come up with any serious objections to arguments like those coming from Kurt Gödel and the like.

Reality is measured by evidence, not arguments.
Politicians are cheap to bribe with campaign contributions and political adds and that money is enough to ensure the government will do a poor job of serving the people.
Dutch speaker here (but without such an American accent).

Dutch people tend to speak English with American accents because they hear most of their English from American TV, movies and Netflix series. I'll leave it to the linguists to debunk any suggestion that Dutch speakers had more than a marginal influence on American English.
That's pretty neat. Do you have any pictures? I have never seen that before from automotive OEMs.
Every other tool in this space is in NPM - why do I have to trust your install script?
I was curious about this, and went searching, and it's fairly difficult to figure out exactly what is being referenced.

There is a reddit thread that links to deleted tweets that appears like it might be related: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/i8nuyb
I work on an open source project which is popular, but definitely a lot less used than Firefox. I often feel pretty lucky that I grew up with the early internet, back when you hid your real identity and trusted no one. While I don't do that anymore, it does still give me with a strong sense of maintaining a "firewall" with the public. I don't put myself out there as a public face more than necessary. I don't have work email or any of that on my phone. If it's not work hours, I'm not dealing with it. The Internet is an incredibly harsh and toxic place, always has been, and these days I find the less time I spend around technology, the happier I am.
It's quite possible to do an impressive water simulation in real time. Here's one on WebGL.[1] Very impressive demo. But you need most of a GPU to do it.

The fountains in GTA V are just playing a short texture animation on repeat, plus a particle effect for water droplets. They have a whole game to run and can't devote too many resources to water. GTA V does amazingly well at keeping a large number of active objects moving around.

GTA's ocean water is quite elaborate. There are waves, you can jet-ski on it, and the effects all work together well. Much more impressive than the fountains.

I once briefly met the guy who did the first good water shader, for Softimage. That had synchronized levels of detail, so you could see fine detail close up yet see all the way to the horizon, and the waves matched up.
Not real-time, but it was the 1990s. First used on Waterworld, which didn't get that guy any attention. Then used on Titanic, which did.

[1] http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
A lot of things, but this paper points to one issue:

* In order to get an academic position, you need to have letters from a research community.

* In order to get citations, you need your papers to be used by a research community.

This gives a strong advantage to work done within existing lines of research. Virtually anything outside of one of the existing "academic cottage industries" or "mutual adoration societies" is at a huge disadvantage.

You end up with research communities going down long rabbit holes with tunnel vision, and big broad areas of potential research are never explored.
March 15 shows an uptick in "loss of smell" in USA

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
I notice it. Somebody posted on social media and I was reading it last night. I was reading through the comments (most of them were criticizing the content) When I refreshed the page, I got the 410 error.

The article had some inaccurate info but also some new sources of data that I was not aware of.

I think was an interesting reading.

I wonder what Medium Rules it was in violation.
Can you include the data from 2007, as it is helpful to see the whole bull cycle from 2008/2009?
>Holes in earlobes and tattoos.

These are methods of self-expression. (usually) people get tattoos because they want to remember something or because they like the aesthetics of it.

Breaking your legs or enlarging your breasts is done (often I'd say, not necessarily always) to attract others and to try to appeal to some beauty standard. There is a huge difference between self-assertion and trying to satisfy others expectations. The former is healthy, the latter is insecurity and making self-worth dependent on how one appeals to others in the most banal way is one of the most harmful things you can do arguably.
Cyber security maybe? I don't think that companies will seize needing sales roles?

I know that Launch School is doing a webinar about this topic the coming days, titled:

'How to Navigate a Recession for Software Engineers'

I am not affiliated with them, but here is the webinar link:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xarP2qpeRdKTfD-qikbX4A
>It is about an escape hatch of being outside alone so these shared apartments don't turn into the Diamond Princess.

A contained infection is fine, it's uncontained infection which aren't. Thus this whole thing.

>You cannot infect yourself outside if you keep a distance of 5m to everyone

Sure you can, careful on what you touch, virus lives for three days on steel and plastic.

>You also very unlikely to infect yourself if you go to a hotel without air conditioning, clean the room yourself, don't go to breakfast and just use the room as an isolated office and keep a frigging distance to everyone.

If you know your flat mate is sick then you're probably already sick. There's a multi day incubation period without symptoms and this strain seems decently infectious. So going to a hotel will just expose other people to YOU.
> The more I look into k8s ecosystem, the more I'm convinced that it's one of those things that suits FAANG etc, but the regular Joe developer has caught on the fad and wants to add it to his repertoire, even though it's an overkill.

You are absolutely spot on because this is how not to pass the behavioral interview for Engineering Manager.
Just make sure you don't have another server running on :8080.

I had syncthing running and kept getting some error whenever I tried to run redbean. The error didn't make much sense, but eventually I realised that this was the casue of the error.

I'm really impressed how portable this is. The only improvement I can see is if it auto-opened your browser to :8080. That way it would be easy to distribute the binary and have people run your application and just interact with it through their browser. No need to ship electron then!
金 from 金曜日 (Kinyōbi) means Friday. The letter correspond to the planet the weekday was named after, just like in English (金星 is Venus)
classpath's one is fantastic. Pragmatism to the maximum. Thats also more the focus of these projects and not some fancy logo/marketing
It's an optical illusion. Lines are actually parallel, but seem not so.
It's not like it's a balancing act between the two, though. Spending more effort on presentation doesn't necessarily mean that the functionality will suffer for it. People that are more aesthetically inclined can contribute better presentation for the software. Since it's open source, those people could be anybody, not necessarily software developers. That someone might want to design logos seems like a pretty different desire than making functioning software, so it's not like you would be diverting effort away from the actual software. (OSS programmers could also want to design logos, but that desire doesn't seem like something that would contradict their desire towards contributing to OSS.)

If you want more design-inclined people to contribute you'd have to market towards those kinds of people. So it seems like a catch-22.
- One Linux Window Manager I used understood the concept of icons, but used the same icon for every piece of software.

- Most apps didn't install .desktop files for years after they were standardised.

- OpenOffice/LibreOffice is still a shotgun blast of icons, years after MS abandoned the concept.

TBH, good examples of OSS UI are harder to come by than bad ones. The only one I can think of is Firefox.

Edit: as the poster below points out, those aren't official GNU apps, they just run on Linux. That said, I don't think GNU is much different from other OSS.
NN4 is not Mozilla.

Mozilla is making Firefox and helping keep the web open with new APIs, standards. It is helping with the politics side regarding net neutrality. It is helping millions learn how to build web pages thru webmaker.org program that teaches web literacy and moving onward to teach app making with Mozilla Appmaker. Mozilla is helping bring the next billion people online by working with partners to offer affordable mobile devices on emerging markets where people can't afford computers or high end devices. Thats more than posturing.... Thats the result of a global community of volunteers, staff and partners working together to make the web and the world a better place for everybody.
Actually making accounting fun for kids is also a good idea and should be encouraged.
>Logistics part of Amazon has expressed a desire to become the "4th flywheel" of Amazon

I'm not surprised at all if this is the long term game plan. I'm curious though, what are the first three flywheels? AWS, retail sales, and what? Alexa/Kindle devices? Prime Video? Advertising? All of those seem like strong contenders but I'm not sure they really rival the AWS/retail arms (yet).
Yeah bullshit programming classes https://www.whitehatjr.com/, where they promise that your kid will become the next Gates/Zuck.
Have your kids go outside, let them indulge in free play, explore. We're destroying a generation with this nonsense
Learning Prolog is less about learning the particulars of the language than about learning the logic programming paradigm, which is timeless and universal.
Maybe I did, but you still missed mine and added zero additional value to the conversation. So let me spoonfeed you my point:

The OP claims that 99.99% of all websites back in the day were shit, just like 99.99% of all iphone apps today are shit. He then makes a remark that suggests that Debian is a superior platform because the number of debian apps is small/manageable.

Now, I pointed out that out of the vast majority of shit of the early web came a bunch of valuable companies, and I conjecture that it was in part due to vast number of websites were built that it became _more_ likely that the web as a platform would be successful and that some websites would become hugely valuable.

From that I consider it a risky bet to say that the vast number of iPhone apps in itself makes the platform inferior.

I then finished off by pointing out that no debian _apps_ that I was aware of had in any way become as successful as a bunch of websites I could care to mention. Maybe it was that which confused you - they are separate but related points.
you did awesome there. and Forrst rocks!
I don't totally disagree. But I don't agree either. Maybe that's because I'm making enough off my ad supported app to pay my monthly iPhone bill. Not much more than that, but enough.

http://brianlane.com/software/nascar-iphone/

and it isn't even pretty.
Whether you agree with a market or a business, it's your money and your choice and your investments.

Whether you believe the market is the next great thing or unsustainable, if it's trending up, that's money to be made.

Whether you think a widget is pretty or pretty ugly, it's money.

Whether you think the CEO is a genius or an idiot, if a company is going up, it's money. (And if you're positioned for and inclined for a put or with a CDS, a market or a business that's headed down can be money, too.)

Sure, the folks might eventually realize they're getting minimum wage, and that those fancy tulip bulks are all worthless. The key is stepping off before the bubble bursts.

Or you might wake up one morning, and realize that the business cycle has shifted, and iOS is everywhere.

Welcome to capitalism. Place your investments.
Agreed. I was thinking the same thing. A fast and small encoding _(whatever that encoding may be)_ would help immensely, and is far more sane than url encoded JSON, imo.
That’s a great point. I think the troublesome word is “display”. Maybe something more like “host”? Feels a bit like DMCA safe harbor all over again
> We hypothesise that the SARS‐CoV‐2 infection triggered an anti‐tumour immune response

A completely different hypothesis: what if the tumor was sustained by the EBV infection, and SARS-CoV-2 displaced or outcompeted it? There are signs that viruses can compete and suppress each other, e.g. influenza rates have apparently dropped dramatically during the SARS-2 pandemic.

"Triggering an immune response" is probably the mechanism (perhaps tautologically: everything viruses do is done by commandeering the host's cells, and having them kill another virus would be classified as "immune response"), the difference is that viruses may have evolved ways to actively stimulate immunity against rival viruses.
700 older comments when the original annoucement was made about 8h earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693742
All android phones let you sideload apps. It's a built in feature of Android.
In fact, not all languages have a library as simple as the Node package you are pointing at. Most libraries require you to use the iCalendar standard syntax which, for a single event, is accessible but becomes complicated for a recurring event for example.

But for the Node package you mentioned, you are absolutely right.
No one is stopping them from side loading an APK of Parler.
Well... don't give them ideas... "preparoved" domain lists in browsers on mobile might just be "the next thing". What's more worrying is, that a bunch of people wouldn't even notice (we've had a bunch of people call our ISPs support number, that "the internet is down" when facebook stopped working some time ago).
This is a great summary of what the law's function is.

To address those trying to repeal it:

• Some people think that if 230 was repealed, websites would moderate less. That's false. Because of the liability for users' posts, big websites would be forced to moderate more. And small websites would shut down out of fear of lawsuits.

• Some people think that 230 must be repealed because websites are moderating too much. Well, the great thing about 230 is you can create your own websites. If you want to make your own free-speech forum and watch it be filled with far-right insurrectionists like all the other ones, you can, and you won't assume much liability for it. On the other hand, if 230 was repealed, you would not have this option, and the big tech companies you don't like would censor your friends for the same reasons they do today.

I don't think everyone using Twitter and Facebook is good but this can't be solved by making it hard to run small forums.

I also think it's dangerous to try to force people to run their forums with “fair” moderation. Free speech is important as a right to stop the state using violence against you. Being kicked out of a private group because you're disruptive, mean or faked your speedrunning scores, is on the other hand no great injustice that the law should interfere with.
>Broome said there have been no injuries in the workshops so far.

With 300+ people using them, that's a very very very good testament to their screening process.
I had the same experience in my compilers class at USF. Each assignment added layers on top of old assignments (lexer -> parser -> type checker -> codegen). I think it's an excellent strategy for helping students understand the importance of maintainability. Also, forcing you to revisit past assignments will help implant the concepts.
Interesting thanks. Are your experiences from startups or bigger companies?

In a few startups I've worked at or heard about, you'd receive gifts on your yearly anniversary of your start date plus usually there'd be a cake and/or card for birthdays.

Can you explain why you'd feel odd if a company bought the birthday gift rather than the boss buying it?
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010831

(i've always wondered if their not recognising "miranda" as a language was a miss or a subtle joke on illiad's part)
I'd argue FileVault on the Mac is a fairly solid user experience.
The discussions over the problems of frequentist statistics are old, old problems in which people have grown and died without settling. It seems like we're getting close, finally, now that Bayesian methods are becoming easier and easier.
I just downloaded the Parler app on iOS. I am unable to create an account. The signup screen's "next" button does nothing.

Is the Parler backend down? Their website https://home.parler.com does not have a status page. I found a news report saying that the app was overloaded earlier today after Twitter banned Trump.

Their signup page asks for email address and phone number. Maybe their backend purchased my profile from Axciom or another analytics company and is silently refusing me an account. Or maybe they don't let people in San Francisco sign up?
You may want to look at Ghost by John O Nolan, I believe he open sources the code while the company is making a very healthy amount of revenue.
The point is that free speech absolutism requires that child pornography be protected speech.
I meant destroy each other politically. I would prefer not to have a repeat of Jan 6. I am 100% the opposite of indifferent and have been conducting political organizing to head off the impending crackdown on civil liberties that is coming while condemning the coup and calling for the disciplining of coup supporters in government.

It just so happens I also despise our leaders in government.
Could be worse like in Myanmar where Facebook IS this internet.
Trump’s private political organisation has nothing to do with the government though. This is a relationship between a private citizen (and associates) and a private service provider. Beyond ensuring both adhere to the law, government has no role here.
Fixing NodeList.prototype.forEach() is best because it doesn't read awfully but this is someone learning to program, not to fix the DOM API.
- Play more frizz-bee, start bike riding again and go diving more

- Say "No" more often to working on other peoples babies

- Buy a house

- Actually release my (deployed) side projects to the world
And we're discussing this on a VC site ....
Really? "... and many people's only news source"
Some effects of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMFs) on human spermatozoaare reported. Significant increases in the values of the motility and of the other kinematic parameters have been observed when spermatozoa were exposed to an ELF-EMF with a square waveform of 5 mTamplitude and frequency of 50 Hz.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bem.20278
Vietnam is a better example. A country of 95 million people sharing a land border with others, but they’ve had just 35 reported covid deaths in total.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/vietnams-showcase-covid...
What's that quote about things you grew up with are seen as infrastructure, things invented during your early adulthood are amazing, and everything after is useless crap?
Canada is probably the most apt comparison here. They have about 4x less coronavirus cases per capita [source](https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...)

IMO, a lot of this had to do with the federal response and cohesive messaging they provided. It wasn't perfect, but they at least took action with things like CERB payments, enforced travel quarantines, etc.

On the other hand, the US is way ahead on vaccinations (due to, I would guess, them being developed in country). It does seem like a very US outcome to solve problems with technology and private enterprise in the face of government ineptitude.