skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the thing that "non-believers already know" that these findings reinforce? I do not think that you will find a rational basis for any such thing in the facts cited by the article, as I shall discuss presently. This suggests that it is the tone and context of the article which provides your feeling of 'reinforcement', which in turn suggests that what is being appealed to is not your capability for reason, but your acquired prejudices.

The article presents a single scientific finding: the parchment on which the Birmingham Koran was written was very likely manufactured sometime between 568 AD and 632 AD. That is all. There is no other finding presented in the article.

The article presents four pieces of valid contextual information regarding dates. Firstly, that Muhammed most likely lived between 570 AD and 645 AD. Secondly, that Islam is generally regarded as having been founded in 610 AD. Thirdly, that the first Muslim community was established at Medina in 622 AD. Fourthly, that the first known 'official' version of the Koran was assembled on the orders of the third Caliph, Uthman, in 653 AD.

The article also clarifies it is known for a fact that many sections of the Koran had been written down well before 653 AD.

In this context, we have Keith Small's statement: "This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven,"

Clearly, the prior existence of the text of the Koran would establish a solid, factual doubt regarding the story of the Koran's origins. But just as clearly, no such thing is established here. The evidence presented merely fails to eliminate the possibility the Koran could have been written before so-and-so date. The parchment could have been written on before 610 AD, for instance. But even if it had not been, the possibility that parts of the Koran predated Islam would remain, because there is no way to disprove a hypothetical.

Thus, it is hard to see how the assertion that 'more ground is given' makes any sense outside of a prejudicial, opinionated context. There is no ground given that was not already there. What Keith Small is announcing is basically that the available evidence fails to disprove his admittedly fringe hypothesis. What he is overlooking is that the evidence we are discussing could only ever has (a) proven, or (b) failed to disprove his hypothesis. It was never at risk of falsification.

There is no rational basis to regard the "failure to disprove" as significant, and to treat it as such is evidence a prejudicial and emotive involvement in the subject matter.
Man, you are not joking. I still get the occasional ping from someone looking for me to work on TIBCO. I did a tiny bit of work on that in ~2001. It was on my resume for about a year. I'm still getting pinged for it 13 years later.

Ironically (or perhaps predictably) I've avoided adding the same two technologies you mentioned to my own resume.
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Uber | http://people.uber.com | Seattle (& San Francisco) | Visa OK* On-site

Uber is opening a new engineering/product/design office in Seattle and we're hiring across those disciplines, plus data science and product marketing.

A number of our new projects that have not been started or announced yet will be built up there, so this is a unique opportunity to work on something totally new with plenty of whitespace to define. You can find out more about what its like to work at Uber and the hard problems we are solving @ http://people.uber.com.

We also are of course hiring across the board here in San Francisco too.

Check out:

- Seattle - https://www.uber.com/jobs/list?keywords=&location=Seattle,%2....

- San Francisco - https://www.uber.com/jobs/list?keywords=&team=Engineering&lo....

If you want to apply directly or have any questions please email me: benm [at] uber. As you can see from my profile, I'm not a recruiter I run a team that works on these projects.

* = Visa's ok but at this point next available new H1B date is for work beginning Oct 2016 so probably more feasible for existing H1B holders, E2 (Australian) etc.
That's what designers tell you anyway.

Objective support for this hypothesis is thin on the ground.

In reality logos are nowhere near the top of the list of factors that drive a buying decision. Whatever bounce effect businesses get from a new logo can usually be explained just as much by novelty as by implied psychological voodoo.

Generally, I'm suspicious of management-by-logo. When I see logos being updated at vast expense for no good reason, I worry about the direction a company is heading in.
Yeah the RAID1 part is weak sauce. However, my specific setup mitigates these flaws:

* The intention is to detect at-rest bit flips before they progressively pollute everywhere. I don't mind if it's not instantaneously detected on-access. I perform a nightly full scan - so there's up to 24 hours where an at-rest bit-flip may lie undetected, but it won't progress past that.

* I use ECC at all cache hierarchy levels possible, and ECC DDR, with active background scrub. So bit flips here won't occur (with vanishingly small probability).

* I use software-RAID1 only. The path between DDR, thru CPU, and to storage controller is unlikely to have a bit flip. From there onwards, the data is essentially written twice, so there is vanishingly low probability of both having a bit-flip, except for systematic failure for that bit pattern in two attempts to two different disks and two different controllers.

So there's still some places in the stack where errors can be introduced, but the most common areas of fault are either duplicated or covered by detection mechanisms.

My goal is to detect, but not correct, transport and at-rest bit flips. I'll discard everything when an error is detected, and use backups.

For my next setup I'll probably switch to a filesystem with a better end-to-end error detection story, such as ZFS, and ditch RAID altogether.
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>where the Solaris team constantly justified their existence with 'dtrace!' 'zfs!' 'zones!'

they did that inside Sun as well. Most noise was about DTrace, the most useless thing for the Sun/Solaris at that moment.
It's part of the movement toward a more realistic view of "entrepreneurs". Wishing to be a wealthy aristocrat with a sea of sharecroppers isn't a commendable goal, regardless of your background. This article just points out that aristocrats tend to beget aristocrats.
Are you using any open source projects?
I'm deeply curious about how you're doing the encryption and am usually skeptical of in-browser cryptography, though I'd love to be able to trust some of the crypto libraries that have been transpiled to JavaScript.
Performance regression in Go 1.5
Distil Networks | SF, DC (Arlington) NC (RDU) | ONSITE (with a few exceptions) | We block bots on the internet.

Yo HN, Distil's mission is to stop bad bots from scraping content from our customers websites. This is along with reducing fraud, spam and security issues from automated traffic. Measurements on our global traffic show about 60% of the traffic is from non-humans and that number is growing. We have a global network and actively block traffic based on our bot / human signatures. Our customers love us (and they pay us too!) and that's why we're growing very fast. Our investers love us. I (data scientist, employee 14) stoked about working there too. Lots of problems (and lots of and lots of data) and good people to work on them with.

What we’re looking for (https://jobs.lever.co/distilnetworks?lever-via=3TYvimYmGi):

- Senior Lua Developer - Our next generation of bot blocking technology will be built with NGINX and Lua. Make it go fast!

- Senior Solutions Architect / Solutions Engineer - The nitty-gritty work of getting customers hooked into our network and happy with the performance.

- QA Automation Engineer - Automate testing all the things! These folks are surprisingly tough to find.

- Front End Engineer - Change the face of what our customers see.

- Senior Javascript Engineer - We need deep, framework-less, JavaScript experience to build fast bot-fingerprinting systems on the frontend.

- Ruby/Rails Developer - Our customer facing systems are Ruby/Rails and we need more help.

- DevOps Engineer - We run a vast global network and East/West coast engineering teams that need support.

- Graphics Design - Make our marketing material, website, presentations and everything else look beautiful.

- We're also hiring sales, marketing, and recruiting.

I'm a data scientist at the company and I'm having a great time working there. If you want more information or want me to push your resume into our hiring stack, contact me: william dot cox at distil networks dot com.
The attention to detail in spec output is exemplary.

Uploading to Imgur for displaying card images to users seems like a strange choice, though. Why not have the bot serve its own images up over HTTP and attach URLs to itself? I could even imagine a badges.io style image preparation microservice that could be shared by several playing-card based bot apps.
I think above all they test on fast internet connections.
Robin: An Inexpensive Android Phone with the Cloud at Its Core
The fact that they're stuck might be part of the fun. It's usually easiest, and frankly less intimidating/annoying, to follow a simple protocol:

1. Ask them if they have a second to chat (if no, leave them alone for a while).
2. Ask them what they're working on, and what they enjoy about it, and what is hard (if they don't want to talk about it, leave them alone for a while).
3. Ask them if they'd mind a suggestion about what they're trying (if they don't want a suggestion, leave them alone for a while). This may also be in the form of a leading question.

It's really not hard to do that without falling into one of those two categories. Just ask quietly and politely, and respect their space. This isn't rocket science.

EDIT:

Also, some of my sibling commenters and even my parent comment have language that suggests some grumpiness over gender or feminism or whatever.

If you're there to help with tech, none of that matters, so don't bring it up. Just ignore it and focus on the tech--doing anything else is, by definition, being distracting.

Furthermore, complaining about it just makes you look silly.
Kind of like this? http://patents.stackexchange.com/
This is why a social security net (ie. Welfare state) can actually be good for the economy. In fact, most western countries qualify as 'welfare states' when compared to 3rd world countries.

But this supports the whole idea of a basic income - if everyone is able to live without working, they can take risks such as going to University, starting a business, etc...

A lack of social net prevents risk taking and severly limits mobility, creating a 'have-not' class and keeping them there for the most part.
It's amusing how our mental model of people has become: anything potentially internally upsetting to a person will psychologically destroy them forever. Therefore, you must never say anything anybody (globally) could possibly have a negative reaction towards.

Being sensitive and aware of others needs is great, but being punished because Joe cries when he hears the word Soufflé, and you didn't know that fact, is weird. On the other hand, once you know Joe is sensitive to the S word, and you continue harassing Joe with a daily Soufflé, then you are an asshat.

Our future is on a trajectory to just be like the minions movie. The only word allowed will be banana, in deference to maintaining the internal psychological purity of all sentient humans.
Yup. I managed some dataguard (not RAC) instances on AWS for Palm pre HP. Thankfully we had DR plans and snapshots to cover our asses.

Edit: Fixed HA techs.
I am. I'm making heavy usage of keybase.io's kbpgp: https://keybase.io/kbpgp
Location? Carrier? Plan? Cost?
Open Whisper Systems • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE

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iOS Front End -- Someone intimately familiar with iOS development and internals, who has an appreciation for the craft of software development and experience with making decisions that result in great products. No experience with cryptography necessary, just solid experience developing for iOS and an eye for good design.

Android Developer -- Is the pleasure center of your brain directly wired to the experience of a slick UX or a nice animation? Do you hunt down memory leaks and StrictMode violations for fun? We're looking for someone with deep knowledge of the Android framework and an equally strong intuition for pairing beautiful app experiences with beautiful code. You'll be the architect of major features, making your code available to the world. You don't need to be a security expert; it's knowing how to make complicated systems simple to use that's at the heart of what we do.

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LOL, we debugged our PL/M with an Intel ICE ("blue box") that used 8" floppies. Good times.
Feedback about my site
I'm curious, do you have any specifical examples of things that got worse? I.e. density, new compose moles? Why are they worse for you specifically.
Compellon - Orange County, CA ONSITE

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I owned one. Fell for the hype and run with it for 10years. Now have a Siemens, much much better (better cleaning, less noise, third the price). If I could afford one, would by a Vorwerk like my parents have. But >$1000 is too much for me.

In retrospect the Dyson was not very good, a pain to clean, leaky, loud.
I have launched a site recently and would love feedback on the usability, content and design - or anything else. It is a freelancing and project management platform geared towards web developers and designers.
Ask HN: What do Erlangers think of Elixir?
just out of interest, I know that Elixir is kind of bringing in a lot of 'nice Ruby features' to the language, but how does the Erlang's opinion on this? what is the main reason stopping you moving to Elixir for new project if it is not worse than Erlang? thanks
Hmm, it doesn't appear so. The header says, "NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE - PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY USE ONLY"
ToneDen | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE | Frontend Engineer | https://www.toneden.io

ToneDen is a platform to connect artists directly to their fans online. Today we help over 120k creators grow their audiences. We've built technology for thousands of establishments in the music industry to understand and better reach their fans. We're helping millions of fans stay connected with the artists they love.

We're an engineering focused team out of UC Berkeley that has a diverse background from informatics to big data. We've just recently raised a size-able seed round and found ourselves in a beautiful office right in downtown Berkeley. Our investors include notable angels, two leading seed funds, and Stanford University.

Our stack is JS front to back. We run Node on the backend and React/Flux on the frontend. We build fast, release features every week, and love giving stuff back to the community through open source projects like our player (https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk).

We'd love to talk to you if you share a love for music, get excited about working with cutting-edge web tech (WebPack, React, Flux, etc.), and want to design and build something that millions love to use every day.

You can shoot me an email at tim@toneden.io or DM me @thingsinmotion!
There isn't that much social mobility, there's plenty of statistics that prove that. The American dream is just that, a dream. Like most dreams, the odds are long. You can reduce those odds, but don't kid yourself that it will be easy.
Sparkcentral | San Francisco, CA | Full Time
Engineering Manager

Looking to build something extraordinary?

In less than 3 years, Sparkcentral has become an industry thought-leader that is revolutionizing the way enterprises help and engage customers. Our goal is to inspire and enable amazing customer experiences, and we’re doing this by completely reimagining what enterprise customer service software should look like.

Sparkcentral is starting to scale, supported by the great customer relations we’ve built with the most amazing brands out there.

Many large companies such as Uber, Dropbox, Netflix, T-Mobile, and Delta Airlines have chosen Sparkcentral.

Management at Sparkcentral is very different. So we expect you to be a little different as well.

You, as the manager, are responsible for unblocking your team. You need to provide leadership, not micromanagement. You are here to help engineers achieve their goals and ambitions, provide great communication, and to help engineers ship the product.

You are responsible for setting the culture in your team. That culture is to make sure every engineer is happy, unblocked, doing whatever it takes to help an engineer ship, and to ensure that are no politics while doing all the above. Sparkcentral is all about output. It doesn’t matter if someone is in the office 25 hours a week, so long as the team ships great things.

You are not just a manager, but also an engineer. You must understand how engineers think, what they crave, how much to put on their plate, when to prioritize engineer initiatives, and be able to deliver that repeatedly.

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Excess of most anything will kill you. Certain things are much easier to get addicted to than others (meth, crack, smoking, French fries)
It's possible that the computers didn't run on tubes but rather the radar systems. The two may have been conflated. I believe I've read that tubes are still quite common in high-power radio transmitters because they're more effective than solid-state components. Still a bad situation, but maybe not as sensational as it appears on the surface.
OpenSignal - London, UK (Full time, permanent)
At OpenSignal we're using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we're all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first sensor network is for wireless signal [1] where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal [2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper [3] showing the potential of this approach. If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right now (Android, Frontend, UX/UI & Data Science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills. We also recently raised our $4million series A [4] from Qualcomm Ventures, O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures & Passion Capital so are growing fast.

We've also just released WifiMapper [5] which leverages sensors and the community to build the best free Wifi database in the world.

More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/
Email us: join@opensignal.com

[1] OpenSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3...

[2] WeatherSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal...

[3] Battery Temperature/Weather correlation: http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/

[4] OpenSignal Series A: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/opensignal-series-a/

[5] WifiMapper Website: http://wifimapper.com
Google will own RGB(Y) and sue and buy ebay.
I saved over 80% of my take-home pay when I lived in SF. The rent is expensive, yes, but everything else is cheap and at most jobs you get free food and entertainment.
What is shadow IT and how does it affect your business?
Introducing the New Voice of Waze, Stephen Colbert [video]