skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi schd - I'm one of the creators of the Starling. We've designed the Starling for every family, including gadget distracted parents (like me). We're also working with a non-profit called Literacy Lab in Oakland to get Starlings into low income homes and have had a number of devices donated through our campaign.

On RF, the Starling uses Bluetooth LE, which uses about 1500 times less energy than a smartphone. We've also designed it so parents can tell it to only sync with their phones when they place it in its charging dock.
This sounds remarkably similar to another recent Ask HN on remote C++ work.

In any case, a good bet is to refer to the monthly "Who's Hiring" / "Who's looking for work" threads?
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I think so. Unless you're writing code for rockets and medical devices I'd say fake until you make it... or we can call it "on-the-job training".
From the FAQ: "A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there." Some will accept remote workers.

There's also a Freelancer thread.

The November threads, for reference:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492086
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492087
How obscure can the common affiliation be? Does "dislike of hidden charges" count? :)
We're already in complacency. It is not uncommon for me to find a standards-compliant site but which has unfixed bugs in Firefox which make it unusable, so you have to use Chrome.
"very silly. In fact if you do this, I think you're vapid and I lose respect for you."

I used to agree with you. And I still would feel someone is silly for paying so much for a watch or a handbag (because we have different values from them). But I think you're missing something important.

User feeling is hard to define and even harder to work with, but that's where the real gold is.
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My daughter hangs online all the time. I work nearly 24/7 and can’t control her on a smartphone all the time. Could anyone please offer me any kind of monitoring software to prevent her from wasting time online and coming across unchildish websites?
Of all the data they could store about me, having a 6-month (or 12 or 24 etc) long cache of "account X had IP Y at time Z" sounds like the most benign. As long as that data is only given out in response to a court order, I don't have a problem with it. ISPs shouldn't be burdened with providing anonymity to their subscribers in the face of the law, even if said law has debatable utility.
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Could someone just create Worldwide Credit Union and just require living on Earth to be the affiliation?
Can you provide a source?

I'd be surprised if, for instance, seducing someone and getting laid by pretending to be substantially wealthier than you are was considered rape. Even pretending that you aren't a convicted felon when you are one would probably not constitute rape. I'd also be surprised if a woman who lied about being a virgin (and maybe had hymenoplasty) was prosecuted as a rapist by her devout husband.

My guess would be that it's considered rape if the deception made the victim believe they had to have intercourse with the liar. If the lie merely made the liar more desirable, it's (possibly unethical) seduction.

This hypothesis would mean, to come back to the original case, that:

* telling you're not a cop when you actually are one is not rape;

* telling that you're a cop when you aren't, and hitting that a sexual favor would buy you some leniency, does constitute rape.
I wonder if Apple should review, warn the developer, and drop, if necessary, low-rated software. Obviously, this requires manual review (people gaming their competitors, a single updates has a regression, PEBCAK, etc).
I think the kind of companies that hire C/C++ engineers are not the same companies that post jobs on rentacoder or whatever it is called today. The companies that have remote positions that you can "find over the internet" tends to be small young shops or possibly single persons implementing in PHP, Ruby-on-Rails or similar platforms that offers high productivity for small scale projects (at least in the short run).

That are plenty of C/C++ jobs inside banks and telecommunications but they will not advertise remote job opportunities and if they to, they do it thru recruitment agencies or consulting firms that subcontracts to freelancers. However I think it is quite possible to build a relationship with say a departement at telco thru regular consulting that eventually will let you work remotely.

It just requires some legwork and that you work on-site in the beginning.
>Explaining C++ lookup rules or convincing a teammate that a particular piece of code contains undefined behavior... it helps to be in person. I haven't tried this sort of work over video chats, though.

That can't be explained over email? How do the LKML people handle this?
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I think the smaller you are the less you need to store in terms of customer data, this is certainly the case in the EU/UK. The aim being to ensure that regulations are not too onerous on smaller organisations.
> Finance remains the most heavily regulated industry, as it has for decades.

I'm not trying to be pedantic if you were just speaking in hyperbole, but I'm curious on the methodology for determining that.
Same here (scala dev / haskell wannabe trying to go remote.)

I have a feeling it has to do with the general demographics of those languages users. Python/Ruby/Node positions would be mostly filled by young people working on web stuff (so they're more open to remote work), and Java positions would mostly be in BigCorps with a more traditional organization. But that's just a conjecture.

The comment about performance made me chuckle (Most of my colleagues work with PHP)
What you're describing in terms of how software can change the act of watching sports is halfway there already, with RedZone (for the uninitiated: basically a live clip show that shows all red zone / scoring possessions and highlight plays, falling back to live football when necessary). An evolution of the same thing except it weights the clips shown in favor of the starters on my fantasy football team would be incredible.
Think of it like architecture: you create a design that works, people copy it, it becomes standard, then boring, then people make baroque experiments, and then finally it goes retro. Rinse and repeat until a new technology replaces the old (steel over brick/concrete).

Web (and mobile) design is now stuck on the hamster wheel. Until we have nanomachines swimming through our veins, all we can do is reinvent what we have to make it fit the fashion of the day.

I'd argue the same goes for tech startups' business models, not just their websites. Snapchat didn't introduce any new technology, it just changed how we use what we have. That's why you see so many Uber/Airbnb clones: tech has hit a ceiling, for the time being.

I think in the next 5 years there will be a contraction in Silicon Valley, and a cynical cultural backlash as people see more and more that all this new tech isn't making life all that much better than years previous, but instead it just serves to make a few people very rich and the rest more rushed than ever.
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I wouldn't put much (if anything) in those comments. It's like an article about a weird light in the sky that brings out all the tinfoil people.
It depends on many factors, such as experience, learning abilities, and how well people work together. Speaking for myself, I can start becoming useful within my first morning using a new language or technology. Then, given that I'm working with people who enjoy sharing their knowledge, I can be up to speed with them in a week.

What I tend to dislike with the concept of prior knowledge before being let to work on something, is that in the vast majority of cases, once you join a team that has such a requirement, you notice their knowledge acquisition rate is currently flat; they've become stagnant themselves and are generally insecure about what they know and don't know; it's usually people with a currently flat learning curve who assume others need to know a technology prior to working on it; they're just projecting their static mindset onto others.

Some people eat new programming languages for breakfast if they have to. Deal with it?
Great idea.

I would add: if someone tries to do contribute something, but maybe they have a git issue, don't step in and push it yourself. This happened to me on one project, and it bothered me so much that I stopped contributing entirely (which was the right move, it turned out).
I linked the newsletter, go through each of those papers and you will see, that those come from the peer reviewed process. It's hard to believe that those scientists will still think that the Big Bang happened.

Eric Lerner, from LPP fusion to just mention one of them:
Nice presentation with his findings:

https://vimeo.com/97608525

If you give me an explanations for each of the findings in the newsletter mentioned, I would reconsider, but 20 evidential findings that do absolutely not fit, are enough for me to declare a theory falsified.

Apart from the Background Radiation, (2.72 K) which is derived for me (BSM-SG Mainbook Chapter 5.2), not much speaks for the theory at all and this is ignoring the huge number of theoretical problems.
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> I'm really confused here. Are you really advocating that PyPi performs some kind of magic on the thousands and thousands of packages that are uploaded to ensure that all their unit tests pass, including testing the type annotations?

I'm saying that the build tool should run unit tests and check annotations before uploading a package to PyPI. It doesn't matter whether checking annotations is done by a "compiler" or some other tool, but it does matter that whatever tool that is runs as part of the language standard release process (and in practice it tends to be the case that when a compiler enforces types then this happens, and when an external tool does then it doesn't).

> it's up to the developer to ensure his tests pass (by using a ci, or running tests locally, or even making a blood sacrifice to Cthulhu)

Leaving it up to the developer is a recipe for it not happening. We're programmers, we should automate these things.
>Python projects for first-time contributors?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Get_Involved#Mentor_Bugs and Ctrl+F for "python" :)
> See also: driving while black

"driving while black" is not a real thing. Here's the study that debunked it:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418820500088952

The phrase/meme of "driving while black" came about because in the 1990s black drivers were highly overrepresented among those pulled over for speeding in New Jersey. But on inspection it turned out they were only overrepresented among people pulled over because they were equally overrepresented among people who were speeding.

(this was checked using hidden speed cameras to see how much people speed when cops aren't around - those who commissioned the study expected to find a bias and were surprised at the result.)

More here: http://zombiemeditations.com/2015/05/02/profiling/
No, there was no change in FERPA In the early 2000s, except changes in 2000 and 2001 to add additional allowed disclosures (the 2001 changes were party of the USA PATRIOT Act.)

Now, lots of places in the 1970s and 1980s, and some into the 1990s and 2000s, may have been engaging in the practice of posting grades by SSN or student ID #, even though posting by either had long been explicitly prohibited by FERPA regulations.

What did happen in 2001 that may be relevant to awareness of the rule is the publication of a finding in response to a complaint for posting with the last 4 digits of the SSN.

http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/library/hunter...
This is a really good share. Thanks for posting it in full.
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Why not work from home thread?
Mozilla allows almost every job to be remote and Firefox is written in C/C++. I'm sure there must be other companies :)
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Yes, there are many positions on who's hiring / who's looking for work threads, but i am looking for a work from home.
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I work remotely (even though I'm only a half-hour from the office) and practically all of my work is in C. So yes, it's possible to work your way into such a situation. However, that doesn't mean it's easy to get hired into such a position. Many employers are quite reasonably wary of hiring someone who has never worked closely with anyone else on the team. Usually this means working in physical proximity for a while, though exceptions are often made for people who have been deeply involved in an open-source project for a while. Either one serves as "proof" that you can be productive that way, and that proof is what reassures management enough to hire you.

My impression is that companies which aggressively embrace new technologies and markets are also more likely to embrace new management/logistical models such as fully distributed teams. Therefore the pickings overall are better, but mostly in certain technical areas - notably not in low-level areas such as networking and DSP (which you mention). I think you'll have to make some compromise between your preferred technical areas and your preferred working environment, because the overlap between the two isn't very large.
There's actually strict recommendations on the status of "remote" versus "onsite" for these postings. Please look and then just ctrl-F "remote".
Yeah, it was kinda the opposite of tl;dr. :-/ I love weebly because it makes it easy for people who should have websites (like teachers) to create them.
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I think it would just require Cox obey the requests of anyone claiming to be a "rightsholder" and disconnect customers, levy fines and penalties without a shred of evidence of actual infringing, simply a claim. In particular, apparently Cox complies with most requests but considers this particular group abusive scam artists and blacklisted their requests, so they are suing Cox
Living in Russia could be a problem depending on where you're applying. I know that at one company I worked at (in the US), they wouldn't even let beta testers from Russia test the product because they were concerned about piracy and were concerned about political issues in the country affecting their business.
I was curious so I looked up the definition (well, Wikipedia). Turns out, you're correct. Lending to high risk clients is the key component of subprime lending.

What many people seem to think of is the high interest rates, unfavorable terms and other things which push subprime loans into the predatory loan category. It's entirely possible (though apparently hard here, with the restrictions on rates they could provide) to offer non-predatory subprime loans.
> The only way for this system to be fixed starts at the ballot box.

Where are you going to find politicians to vote for who cannot be influenced by money? Not on your ballot, because the one-party-with-two-wings has effectively made it illegal to run a campaign as an alternative. Greens and Libertarians are kept from the debates, kept from the ballot with restrictive measures, and certainly aren't owning the machines that "count" the ballots and determine the elections. (The election fraud from 2000 has never gone away, it just stopped being headline news. It happens in a recent past political election one of the presidential candidates called my house on election night to report their observance of the fraud- in some cases the absolute number of votes they got went down as more votes were counted. A mathematical impossibility.)
That's just another example of how little we know about our brains and how they interact with our bodies. We're at the stage where we see stars in the sky, rotating every night, and think they go around the earth. Or see people getting sick around others and thinking they're cursed.

DID offers us a rare insight into what's possible. When all your life you saw nothing but hills, the concept of a mountain is hard to wrap your mind around. Imagine your brain being able to shut down your pancreas. Then another part (personality) comes forward and your pancreas is suddenly fine. One minute you're diabetic, the other you're fine. This is an example of a mountain we have a hard time accepting.
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Certainly there is. I'm currently working on a JSF project for a client ... it's nightmare to bring a new remote developer on board, their environment configured properly, eclipse working, blah blah blah.

My last Django project, a remote developer had the app up and running in their environment and was fixing bugs before lunch to get a feel for our code.

C/C++ jobs tend to be more more like the former than the later. Many C/C++ jobs are not even possible to do remote; the last time I managed a C programmer it was for an application appliance and I would have had to ship them prototype hardware if they were remote.
They still need to update IE, even if they don't use it. It's code on their hard drives....
Wiki has some information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_disorder

It was a plot point in one of the "Band Of Brothers" episodes.
"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." -- Warren Buffett

I really doubt either Steve Jobs or Elon Musk could turn Yahoo around. With Jobs's Apple turnaround, he had the advantage of sharing (creating, really) Apple's cultural DNA; he didn't need to "turn around" a company, he needed to cut the fat and refocus it so it could do what it was doing a lot better. Elon Musk has never run a turnaround; his companies have certainly encountered difficulties, but it's easier to take a new organization with a strong mission and make it work than to take an old, sclerotic organization in a market that doesn't exist anymore and somehow make it relevant again.
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Not really, per TFA this seems to be more about handling procedural goofs than about the particular law they goofed up on.
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Pftt. The guy measuring the capacitor has got his leads the wrong way round.
I absolutely agree. I can see no reason for an individual to use a big national bank. I've always used small local banks or credit unions (I actually moved my accounts to a credit union when my local bank was acquired by Chase).

This used to be quite easy to do, since you didn't have direct payroll deposit and never had to worry about covering more than your outstanding checks.

Now, with all kinds of automatic transactions most people have, you have to coordinate things a bit more carefully.
And, perhaps more interesting, what was the effect on revenues? Did the ad exposures pay as much, more, or less than paying visitors, I wonder?
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And now the site seems to have messed up.
You just have to search for "Remote" in that thread.
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IMHO Yahoo's biggest mistake was never grokking search. And they had two opportunities.

First: When Larry and Sergei wanted to sell their search engine to them for a few millions, in the late 90s. They said they are focused on curated content, which was the future they apparently believed in. (Just paraphrasing from memory, the stories read in various articles and books on Google & search). But I also wonder, even if Yahoo had bought them out then, would the world be different today. Perhaps, the inevitable future of search would have been just a bit delayed. May be evolved like social networks.

Second: Killing their own search engine in early 2000s, when they had some 30% search share. That was after they tried using Google's search API. Then they started to use Bing. I clearly remember that although Google was the best, but one knew people (lazy friends) who would use Yahoo search. DDG has shown, there is always a market.

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The problem with anticipation is that nobody except you can truly know your intent. For example, walking up to a car with my keys might just mean I want to grab something out of the trunk; or the car might be in a closed garage and that wouldn't be quite safe at the moment.

The easiest and safest thing is usually still to let people control more of what happens because there's a lot of edge cases that might add up, or have really bad consequences for when they rarely occur.
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SVG is in some way an advanced, editable version of PostScript, PDF's ancestor.

Any SVG inside of an <img> tag is as safe as any image format. The JS code won't run, any external resources linked to from inside the SVG won't be loaded, the :visited CSS style is disabled[1]…

For added security, you can even send an HTTP tag called Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; img-src data:; style-src 'unsafe-inline' gives good results. That's what GitHub uses, by the way[2].

> It's not a format that's optimized for rendering like jpg

You could argue the same of jpg in a comparison between jpg and bmp.

You can animate SVGs even within an <img> tag with SMIL or CSS.

Sure, there are a lot of features, and you could argue that it makes SVG complex; but the SVG specification[3] is not that much bigger than the PNG specification[4], if at all. It is irrelevant anyway when edited through a program, as PNGs usually are.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_as_an_I...

[2]: https://github.com/atmos/camo/blob/master/server.coffee#L43

[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/

[4]: http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/
You probably could publish the logs used to make all changes, then anybody could download them and apply them to their copy of the database. Combine this with regular published snapshots (so that people that start new only have to apply all logs that came later).