skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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ArcherDX's next-generation sequencing assays based on Anchored Multiplexed PCR (AMP™) generate a highly enriched library of gene targets of interest for downstream genomic sequencing. Complemented by proprietary software and readily accessible reports, our technology enables dramatic enhancement in mutation detection speed as well as complex mutation identification and discovery.

* DevOps Engineer: Manage and drive operational systems, requirements, and tool sets, take better control of our existing systems and infrastructure and provide expertise in automating our build, upgrade, and deployment processes.
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* Bioinformatics Software Developer: Build bioinformatics tools for calling genotypes in Next-Generation Sequencing data (SNP/INDEL calling, CNV, Haplotyping, RNA Differential Expression) and develop new software tools as needed to meet project and company goals.
http://archerdx.com/company/careers/bioinformatics-software-...

The company is a couple of years old, with 50 or 60 people working at our Boulder office (about 20 of which are on the software team). Great group of motivated people, kegerator, pool table, Rocky Mountains, all that jazz. Come work with us!
but Craigslist's anachronistic static-HTML feel is so charming...
Was reading somewhere that you're free to do on the fly updates of any interpreted code - so JavaScript is fine. Only compiled code can't be updated on the fly.

And in react native only the main framework is compiled, with the actual application running in a JS interpreter. So unless we upgrade the RN version, or start using a new SDK etc there will never be a reason to go through the App Store.

All interpreted code is sandboxed anyway, so there's no security risks involved.
Im never shaving again this made me laugh, then cry then I watched 3x more times
Starred one of my projects too, but within 134k stars it makes me feel kind of insignificant ;)
Do you (or anybody else) have any advice on how to figure out how to come up with limits for things? Somebody else mentioned that Github limits stars to 5000/hr, but that definitely seems high. How would you decide on how to limit something like this?
Most of my family and a significant number of my friends are in trades and I've always found their educations models enviable. Here in Canada, hours are accumlated on the job prior to classes and the time spent in a classroom is small (4-6 weeks 2-3 times a year). Unemployment insurance considers trade school a legitimate leave so students receive 55% of their wage for those weeks. Certain high schools even offer accelerated work experience programs where one semester is spent on core classes and the other on a job site. An individual could leave high school with enough work experience to have a ticket within 2 years of graduating. Not to mention making significantly better wages without having to work evenings and weekends.

Compared to arts and science degrees with substantial debt loads, years of no applicable experience, and a high probability of employment outside your field, the economic model of trade schools seems significantly better.
Thanks rnovak, I really appreciate the reply. I would definitely say a downside of my CV website is it focuses on those silly D3 things I made, but actually 98% of the site is a social network I made that is centered around finding top music and getting news feeds around the world, you can auto sign in and try it out if you like. Now this particular app I don't think is for me personally a "Passion" project but more like "How many things can I cram into this site in order to get a job type app". There is an old app I made that is a precursor to an app I am going to make: https://youtu.be/rL5WeKeYKWY?t=1m43s . I started recently a app that is a real time tutoring module that will be open source(maybe Khan academy would like it). And it uses Nodejs Socket.io the data that I record for the draw is instead sent to the other person.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get started since writing out cover letters and getting rejected for entry level positions has been all I had time to do since I started applying.
How does a company increase diversity with current lack of diverse talent?
Specifically technical talent, for which the pipeline of diverse candidates is not nearly full enough throughout the US.
I feel you bro, same happened to me.
There's also a strong temptation to increase the saturation and gamma to stand out in brief side-by-side comparisons. It's the visual equivalent of loudness war audio mastering.
So selfies have been around for 176 years :-)
I once took the train from Tokyo to Kyoto. Shortly after arriving, I found myself deep in a bamboo forest within close walking distance from the train station.
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Peter Thiel's 'Zero to One' should be what anyone looking for more of this kind of reading should look into.
It is also a shame that casino rights is the form of recognition they seek.
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I've seen a few users with 100k-plus starred repositories so nothing exceptional there. What would be interesting to know is when this "starring frenzy" actually started. Considering the user joined Github in November 2013 that equals to about 5.5k stars/month.
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Not as insignificant as not being starred.
Did Cherokee not sit on the floor?
I rewrote Firefox's BMP decoder
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Did you put it on Twitter? There's a vote ring detector
that's more of a query limit, not just starring.
The user is also the author of this, which will artificially inflate the number of commits a user has made of a calendar year. https://github.com/4148/greenhat

Perhaps 4148 is testing something out related to that or a new project and the script went bad?
Very nicely done Chris, but the basic problem with Paul’s analysis is not the mathematics (this can be fixed as you have shown), but the underlying data. Any data set you could get to measure bias in the start-up world is too small and messy to tell you anything useful. No matter how sophisticated your analysis, if the data is garbage then all you will end up with is garbage.

This does even consider the problem of data dredging which First Round Capital engaged in.
They're now at 134k, so I'd guess it started recently.
Older workers with one skill is more related to the drastic change of incrased longevity in only a generation or two. And with the global population aging and a diminishing 18-65 work force, the surplus of workers we've had in th 20th century could easily be reversed.

Trades also are inherently focused on a single area. Plumbers can't just pick up a rig and start pressure welding.
Salesforce.com's $3M salary adjustments to ensure genders paid equally
How about a README badge?
This is why we need Bernie Sanders as our next president. His record shows he will stand up against institutional corruption and any action he takes towards this end, big or small, will bring more legitimacy back to our government.
Links are already posted before I could offer them, but there doesn't seem to be anything much in English.

Please note that I'm not claiming any specific knowledge of specific conditions, only of their reputation in general The examples offered were simply examples of what makes a "black company." You're always free to quit, it's just that Japanese society will punish you for that.
Just from the look of it, it appears something like: take in water through a large aperture, expel it through a small one (which is actually the same one, contracted).
That site looks super biased, I think maybe wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren#Native_Americ...) or news articles would be better sources.
We have proof in this very thread that people don't use the term HKT that way. That makes sense, because that's not what the words "higher kinded types" mean.

> Saying C++ has HKT because it doesn't have typeclasses

I didn't say anything like that at all. C++ has HKT, and it doesn't have type classes.
You did still have to pay for Netscape sometimes.
Seems that way, but it could also have been automatically penalized for other reasons. You'll never really know because there's little transparency into how posts are ranked and penalized. Also, I've heard (and assume) mods have the power to penalize posts so mods may influence rankings without anybody knowing.
My outside impression of Japan and Taiwan is that they're horrific places for corporate work across the board.

Is this a stereotype fuelled by the black companies, or is it largely accurate?
I have a friend with North African ancestry (mother is Spanish) and neither of her sisters show the same (all with 23andme).

At that distance, it's entirely possible you have the ancestry claimed and the ancestry discovered, but the DNA which would show it is absent for your Native American ancestry.
A very interesting article along the same lines:

http://thislandpress.com/2014/08/26/among-the-tribe-of-the-w...
Hampshire College changes speed limits to honor math professor
Oh that would be nice. The difficulty is in keeping track of "supported services" and making sure that they haven't changed their password change forms yesterday.

Standardized password change forms would make our lives (and our customers' lives) so much easier.

It's not impossible, but it it takes a lot of maintenance, to make sure that it behaves as expected. And when you are automating password changes you really want to make sure that it does work as expected.
I'm a little surprised something like "$(fgcolor red hello)" requires a $(fgcolor end) - if you include arguments shouldn't it be self-closing? Then you get nice things like "$(fgcolor red " $(hr)")"

$(title "header") could be cool, outputting " header$(br)------"

An alias for \r could be nice, to go with $(br).
Maybe First Round's data set is too small or messy to get meaningful results, but the entire startup world has plenty of data to potentially pull some meaningful conclusions about bias.

I wonder if all YC companies would be enough data points to learn something useful. Or maybe grab a large swath of VC-funded startups including First Round's investments and many other top firms.

Most of the raw stats in Chris's post was above my head, but I'd love to see this applied to a larger data set of fundings.
Kind of depends on the application, wouldn't you say? For some applications, absolutely not. For some applications, maybe yes, assuming the application programmer knows enough not to negate the advantage e.g. by creating lock contention or cache thrashing. And they know enough to use something like LKL (interestingly also from Intel) instead of reinventing their own filesystem-like layer on top of that raw storage. And they don't make huge security blunders. Because if they don't get all of those things right, it doesn't matter if their performance is 2x for one brief shining moment before everything goes to hell. That's not comparing apples to apples. You have to hold the functionality/quality bar constant or else it's meaningless.
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Sorry, I still believe that
a better approach is in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484602

That post shows that what PG is doing is
a first-cut effort at a statistical
hypothesis test but with being
vague on assumptions and without
any information on false alarm rate.

In particular, in my post,
get to compare sample
averages without making a distribution
assumption. Indeed make no
distribution assumptions at all.

Yes, distributions exist, but that
does not mean that we have to
consider their details in all applications!

Come on guys, this is distribution-free
statistical hypothesis testing, and we
should be able to use that.
I think the advice re. competitors tends to be about "how much should you worry about what a competitor is doing _right now_" - and the answer to that is pretty much always "not a whole lot." You can have two businesses doing similar things but taking radically different approaches to execution and both succeeding in their own way.

But on the macro scale there are always windows of opening and closing opportunity on what makes for a viable business before (new technology takes over/bigger companies start paying attention/governments try to regulate you out of existence), and it is that more general climate of whether it's possible to execute at all that pressures the potential unicorns into a do-or-die mode. Monopolistic competition like e.g. Uber vs. Lyft is an exceptional case for technology; the expectation is that if you succeed at all you will probably be in complete control until the technology ecosystem itself shifts.

There is a second half to this, of course, which is that the type of people who found a fast-moving VC-backed startup are so deeply enmeshed in their plans for the company that they will put themselves into an unsustainable overdrive and expect everyone around them to do the same. Their enthusiasm can be entirely real and still be basically toxic and lacking in conservative sensibility. There are a lot of commonalities among founder personalities, IME.
Long live the dinosaurs
Sync was useful in it's original form that was encrypted entirely client-side. With the recent(-ish) changes, Sync should be considered spyware (or at least having the potential to be hijacked into spyware).
you can url golf it down to just

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0684800012
I think the success is a mixture of 3 things, in that order:

No. 1 - Talent pool of 1000s startups to choose from.

No. 2 - Great alumni network.

No. 3 - Experienced partners.
Don't you need to be at least 1/4 (or maybe 1/16) Cherokee native American to be able to claim it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_quantum_laws#Tribes_requ...
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I used to own a LCD2490WUXI. But, after I realized how bad color profile support is in most apps, I eventually replaced it with a trio of U2414H and calibrate them the dumb way.
Let's take USA.

Here's a nice quote from Akio Morita (Sony co-founder):

"In my view, profit doesn’t have to be so high, because in Japanese companies our shareholders do not clamor for immediate returns; rather they prefer long-term growth and appreciation. Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development."

Can't say the same thing for USA.
The truly interesting story of the first photographs were back in 1827 when Nicophore Niepce invented the silver halide process that's still in use today. Daguerreotypes came later, were a technological dead end, so toxic, so limited. Niepce has another claim to fame in that he also invented the bicycle. Two big inventions in one lifetime, quite an accomplishment!
Seems like they should remove the ability to star via the GitHub API. A star should indicate physical/human interaction.
This compelling opportunity is what made us decide to build CodePush!
> wait, insurance companies don't usually make an actual profit directly from premiums?

Well, it depends how you measure it.

In a basic model an insurance company's profit is:

Profit = Premiums + Investment Returns - Claims - Expenses

Talking about "profit from premiums" doesn't really make sense, that concept isn't defined. So you can't really say that "insurance companies don't usually make profit directly from premiums".

Fiatmoney is simply claiming that Bekshire's insurance operations have Premiums > Claims + Expenses.
Twitter would do itself and its users much good if it focused on making its core service work better. Three example areas screaming for improvement: Search, discovery, and alternatives to timeline-based views
I have no idea what the GP post said, but even if it did work, see patio11's comments (on the internet) on the need to reproduce bitcoin-core's behavior exactly.
Didn't Topolsky leave Bloomberg?
"Hi, Martinald! I really need to speak to you urgently! Please call me ASAP, this is very important!"
At the same time though if a business is doing $3m profit a year between two people earning $1.5m a year each, calling it "Bootstrapped" is underplaying its success a little.
You played a lot! I agree with most of your comments and want to add all of that gets just a bit better, more easy, and fun with a second player.

A friend and I would take turns piloting and engineering. The trick was to make good decisions as the "engineer" player, like taking that warp when destruction was imminent, or being able to vary speed while watching the pilot deal with the baddies.

Of course, it was great fun to yell, "shields!", "map", "4", etc... too!
We have that button on our backlog! ;)
> There would have to be 10 million albums released per year to get to a billion in a lifetime.

Sorry, I left out that part of Kelly's estimate of 1b songs is that album rates will also continue to increase at the historical rate. It seems improbable to me that we could really hit 1.1b songs by 2060 (it's such a mindboggling number), but on the other hand, the world keeps getting wealthier, making music keeps getting cheaper, and the appetite and dreams of people for making music seems to know no limits...
Any feature you remove from the API will be replaced with a python mechanize script that does the same thing but less efficiently.
> powerlessness is self-fulfilling

I remember Scott Alexander wrote a piece exploring similar concepts:

http://squid314.livejournal.com/2011/02/01/

"When I was younger, I always imagined dictatorships as surviving whenever the dictator had a majority of power in the country. If the percentage of people x weapons controlled by the dictator's supporters was greater than the percentage of people x weapons controlled the dictator's opponents, the dictator won; once the rebels got more power, the dictator got overthrown.

That was, of course, wildly simplistic. Rebellion is first and foremost a coordination problem. (...)

The real-world upshot of this problem seems to be that even when everyone knows a dictator is unpopular, people won't protest unless they think everyone else will protest. This ends up getting bogged down in self-reference: lots of people will protest if and only if they think lots of people will protest."
I don't followed him before, but when I clicked the title and saw I have followed him. Now my GitHub timeline is full of him ...
Yep that's true. I'll add this point to our docs so it doesn't seem like we're trying to manipulate the value of the service. Thanks for the feedback!
The tests here don't work when zero-plus-noise is the modal return, no matter how much data you throw at them.
Restructuring down to only 3 people? I think this will make the company way more attractive for an acquisition.
I didn't. The one thing I thought I might have done wrong was I commented with a link to an article with some additional background information, and then decided to submit that link as well.
Yeah, that's how I feel about it. Somewhere, I read some comments by the author on all of that. He just did fairly straight up, simple, cheater type 3D on the 6502. Those slowdowns were an artifact of all that.

They add a lot to the game, though the author didn't intend for it to go that way.

Funny, for that time period, there are a lot of "effects" that were resource limits, or bugs that ended up making for a better experience. Little things, like getting an extra color to work with were a very big deal.

We have come so damn far...

This did cause me to pull my old 400 out of the closet. It has this cartridge in it. Turned it on, and it plays fine. My HDTV is a bit cranky about it all though.
I love the music for that game.
Prediction: mass-ticketing, traffic checkpoint operations near movie theaters on the release night(s) of The Hateful Eight.
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It's a shame that casino rights is the only meaningful form of recognition being offered...
Agreed. Thankfully, commerce and many other well-accepted forms of traffic are end-to-end-encrypted by design. Distinguishing between the legitimate forms of encryption and those presumed to be illegitimate will be difficult/impossible. Can you imagine what it might be like to try and add TLS/IPSec to the Internet only just now?

However ISPs can filter endpoints that they believe to be associated with undesirable activity.
I should do a blogpost about the small business I took over from my dad, and the impact it had.
I thought this was pretty cool so wanted to post to help them blast through their funding stretch goals. Basically it's a smart camera that can recognise people and zones in the home as well as having voice recognition (so you can authenticate yourself via voice). Seems similar to Amazon Echo and definitely has potential if they have an open API.
We definitely don't want to encourage "abusing" the service by producing poorly tested updates. We're planning to do some work/docs to help incorporating a CodePush deployment into a CI workflow that can choose to rely on tests to ensure quality, and also use multiple environments to be able to manually test an update in staging before pushing it out to users.
Lots of math in here premised on shaky foundations:

>Group A comes from a population where the chance of graduation is distributed uniformly from 0% to 100% and group B is from one where the chance is distributed uniformly from 10% to 90%

>The mean of group B is not lower because of bias (which would be reflected near x=80), but because the very best members of group B are simply not as good as the very best members of group A.

Yes, if we can assume some a-priori knowledge about certain "groups" of people, then we can make a more "informed" decision. That's pretty much the definition of bias, isn't it? Paul Graham's point, as I understood it, was that those assumptions are often invalid. Therefore, bias could cause the market to under value someone or some company. Your counterpoint seems to be, "let's suppose those biases are legitimate."
I got the yubikey on the github special. Does seem pretty chinsey. What's worse is that it can easily be inserted into a USB port backwards.
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I wouldn't trust something specifically named "elizabethwarrenwiki" as trust worthy. But, relying on Wikipedia isn't too much better. Not for politics.
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He is using religion to enslave the people. How original.
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Also, the seattle area's other awesome independent bookstore, Third Place Books.
The end goal will be displays that have extremely low per-copy variation and therefore don't need individual calibration for reasonably accurate colour. Most of Apple's products with retina displays are really good out of the box.

(Of course, this all depends on your definition of "accurate". We're still not there yet for professional colour work.)
When I think of Wah-Wah in the late 80's I think of "What I Am" by Edie Brickell and New Bohemians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

The little solo in there uses it in a very melodic way.