skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red Hat | https://redhat.com/ | FULL-TIME | WESTFORD, MA or REMOTE

Interested in Linux kernel development and contributing to open source? I'm part of the kernel team at Red Hat and we are looking for kernel developers.

For those in the Linux world we are quite renowned for our Linux distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat is quickly expanding and we also offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services.

Responsibilities include performing kernel work across diverse kernel subsystems, including memory management, kernel tracing, the scheduler, and process management. The candidate must have in-depth experience with *nix operating systems, familiarity with the aforementioned kernel subsystems, and familiarity with open source development/upstream development practice.

You can find a more detailed job description here: https://redhat.sc.hodesdigital.com/jobs/descriptions/senior-...

We're looking for candidates who can ideally relocate to Westford, MA, but remote candidates will also be considered.

If interested, feel free to apply with the link above, or ping me via email for a referral link. If you've got questions about work life, working as a remote kernel dev, or any general questions about Red Hat feel free to ping me at jeyu (at) redhat.com

Thanks for reading!
Actually age isn't new at all. NIST ran an age estimation test before Microsoft's API. I worked on Cognitec's algorithm.

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2013.cfm
What about inheritance from those who haven't worked especially hard to build it?
> Yeah. :/ He should have abandoned ship the moment
> he needed an Exim loan.

Exactly, and that is where I'm hung up in this story. Since he's apparently had some experience here and he didn't abandon the project, I would have expected that the contract language would protect him from the situation he is currently in. That it didn't makes me wonder why he agreed to it in the first place. Reminds me of the joke about looking around the poker table to spot the sucker, if you can't spot the sucker then YOU are the sucker.
Kokonsa.com – Chimpanzee attack victim to receive facial surgery
Or maybe the minimum wage is driven by real wages. Or maybe they're both by a common factor - like inflation.
NSA Targeted “The Two Leading” Encryption Chips
I think it's strange this sudden comeback of a theory that was dismissed more than 70 years ago by Fisher and many others, but no one, as far as I know, cares to explain why Fisher was wrong and why the theory is right. It makes me very suspicious, to be honest.
grad is used to measure the incline of the earth; you might see a 45-degree slope described as "50% grad".

And apparently, in what I have to assume is a related use:

> In surveying, the gradian is the default unit of angles in many parts of the world.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian )

If you ever fooled around with your calculator in school, you probably noticed that it provided angle measurement conversion between degrees, radians, and gradians; the idea has certainly not gone the way of the French Republican Calendar.
Example sentence from mid-naughts: "I've heard several stories of USG bulk tapping Internet interconnection points, but it's never been substantiated."

Thinking from first principles lets us see incentives and probable outcomes before they are "substantiated" (adopted by the media).

I personally don't think shopper data is affecting insurance policies quite yet. But the groundwork is there (Acxiom etc), and the "great" thing about data is it stays around forever!

I'd guess a timeframe of 10 years, but does it really matter as to when?
An interesting exploration of OCR and its interaction with the history of typography.
Neal Ford on Agile Engineering Practices
Except the Go deployment story is nothing new and is available to any programming language with AOT compilation to native code that has ever existed.
> The numbers are equatable, even if they don't measure what you would prefer they measure.

I never claimed otherwise. I claimed that the number as measured excludes many things that are relevant to the discussion. And, therefore, using that number as the basis of an argument is flawed.

> But if you'd like to supply alternate unemployment data, I'm sure many readers would appreciate it. As it is, your post is hypothetical.

Just because someone can point out a problem does not mean that they are capable of providing a solution. This is the equivalent of labeling a ticket as invalid because someone can't tell you what line of code to change. I pointed out a problem in an argument; it is not my duty to then fix the argument.

> And anyway, unemployment has been measured the same way for decades. If the question is whether we stand on a societal precipice right now, then criticizing how unemployment is measured is not relevant. Of course it has shortcomings. But it has had the same shortcomings for a long time, so the shortcomings themselves are not proof that we stand on a precipice now.

Again, I did not claim any of that. Specifically, I did not claim that we are on a precipice. I did claim that using the official unemployment calculation is not necessarily sufficient for claiming that we are not on a precipice. Which is what the person I responded to did claim.
Yeah, I'm not sure. It looks like maybe they changed their blogging backend from whatever in-house thing they used to Medium? Their blog (https://data.triplebyte.com/) is now showing Medium stories with publish dates from last month. Maybe Medium doesn't let you set arbitrary dates when migrating?
We built http://writerack.com to help take care of this problem.

It is puzzling why Twitter refuses to encourage 3rd party applications to do peripheral things while they still get the data.

That way, they focus on the core experience for most of their users.

10 000 and it becomes a poor attempt at medium. 140 characters allows text to be like images where you can skim.

Occasionally, you see tweetstorms and decide if you want to "view more"

Anyway, it's their turf.

Do check out http://writerack.com and have fun with it until it is no longer useful :)
I personally am most productive when I'm head-down plowing into some big problem. And from that POV, I do my best work before sunrise in a private office, and I've thrived in environments where I have my own office with a door, and where I've worked remotely.

My current employer is all open-office, but also very remote friendly. I live hundreds of miles away so I work remote from my home office, but I've spent a few odd weeks in the office and the environment is actually pretty good for getting stuff done.

That said, remote-friendliness is something that's hard to adjust a company's culture to. I've found that heavy use of Slack and the right personalities can lead to a very productive and the sort of spontaneous sync-ups that are somewhat easier to happen in a physical office.

Ultimately the real test is whether your company's culture fits with your company's offices, and whether you fit into that culture.
This comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann's_agreement_theorem

Essentially, two genuine Bayesian rationalists (with some hand wavy preconditions) cannot agree to disagree; ie, they will eventually converge onto the same understanding of an event.
Number8 – Auto-curating music playlists using sensors in our smartphone
I just released Number8 (www.numbereight.me) to the iOS app store - it auto-curates music playlists by using the sensors present in our smartphone. As we go about our day, new playlists appear (waking up, commuting, working out, chillin' etc.) on the main 'Discover' tab of the application thereby making our music discovery process contextual and super easy. The goal of the application is to expand the user's music horizon by harnessing the power of sensors present in our smartphones and not relying solely on our past listening behavior as most other music applications. You can follow us on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/1_number_8 or Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/implicitunes/.

On a side note, the application was a culmination of my Master's thesis and I currently use it for all of my music discovery - would love to get some feedback!
"If my reasoning is shoddy, but I plug it into some math apparatus, then it'll likely make my problems obviously wrong."

That's pretty clearly untrue. I remember reading a study recently where the p value was less than .01 or something like that but where the experimental design was clearly flawed. The correlation wasn't the correlation they thought they had. But because the math looked good and it was easier than actually reviewing the experiment, it was tempting to take the study on face value.

I've read Scott's essay before and I understand his argument, but I don't think it works. While, you might be able to avoid some bad reasoning simply by being more systematic, you can also strengthen bad arguments with a faulty application of statistics. What Scott doesn't do is provide an analysis of how often each of these things happens. I'd argue that for each time a quick application of statistics save someone from a bad intuitive judgment, a misapplication of statistics is used to encourage a bad judgment at least one time if not more.

Understand that my argument here is not that one should never use statistics or even Bayes theorem, but that a naive or lazy application can be worse than no application.
You can do even more with Arrows. This very short presentation goes from Monads to Arrows, and explains why:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3la5wueg1zsid7/Arrows%20for%20CPU...
As a lawyer, this licensing is super worrying to me

"Copyright (C) 2013-2015 NaturalMotion Limited. Used under licence.

Code written by Justin Webb.

Licence granted by Justin Webb with the permission of NaturalMotion Limited.

No rights are granted by NaturalMotion Limited under this licence.
"

Uh, so Justin is using it under license from natural motion, and justin has been granted the right to license it, but natural motion is explicitly not granting any rights under those licenses?

That is somewhat nonsensical. Either naturalmotion is granting rights through justin, or they aren't.

If they aren't, it's not clear anyone has the right to use the code.
If they are, the "no rights are granted by natural motion" part is wrong.
Source? VMware was sold for $625M to EMC, so unless Diane and partner had a hidden company worth 20-30 billion, the math doesn't add up.
Agreed. I know many people that enjoyed that game quite heavily, and it is far from a knockoff zombie sequal/ripoff. It may appear like an Assassins Creed / CoD of the zombie world, but it's definitely not, imo.

Infact, in the genre (which is lacking in general), i think it's one of the top.
I doubt that Izmirlian knew how to protect himself when working with a construction company - the problem here is that he failed to protect himself from the obvious conflict of interest, where the company providing him money pushed him into choosing a contractor with strong ties to them.

Now that I think about it, this is just like your VC pushing you to spend money on, and join your technical stack at the hip with a service provided by another startup... Funded by that same VC.

But I'm sure that all the problems were caused by the fact that he was dealing with state-owned enterprises. These kinds of shenanigans never happen between private parties, and this is not at all a hit piece.
Sorry, but the methods and definitions used vary from country to country. The unemployment rates between countries are not directly comparable.
That's an interesting link. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything related to reposts and giving credit to the original poster.
>As soon as we started doing them however, I saw a problem. Almost everyone was passing. Our filter was not filtering. We tried extending the duration of the interviews to probe deeper and looking at code over Google hangouts. Still, the pass rate remained too high.

To me, it seems like your team isn't that good at judging ability. To compensate, you rely on coding questions. This what the industry has been doing for years. What exactly is innovative here? I see the need for coding questions (and think that your method sounds pretty good) but too often culture fit & 'soft skills' are overlooked in favor of cramming as many technical questions as possible.

One of the best experiences I had on an interview involved no coding on-site at all. I completed a project for them, they liked it, I got an interview. 3 hours of culture/team/work philosophy. There were no surprises - if I wasn't "technical enough", I wouldn't have been let in the door. It took time up front, but at least the interview itself wasn't waste of time, PTO, and money.
Which makes me think maybe HN should have some mechanism to say "This article is related to this other one", and point to the HN submission for it.

I guess our user comments here in this subthread are that mechanism. By the way, this whole thread is an implementation of the new HN algorithm that revives threads that are missed on first submission and gain upvotes later. I notice that is implemented by resetting the submission date on the submission. (I was the original submitter, so I remember when I first submitted this thread.)
And you should pay for the privilege, frankly. Why would people living in the city, who often don't own cars (and clearly it could be much more), sacrifice their living space for free parking and their health to pollution only to help hordes of invading suburbanites.

Many of which are of course only in the suburbs in the first place because of these problems. This may sound harsh, but you are somewhat part of the problem here.
Kokonsa.com – Pop star lands in hospital after baby mama drama
What you see as Twitter's biggest problem, I see as one of its greatest strengths.

We already have five-craptillion blogging platforms and I feel this change would morph Twitter into yet another one.

I can understand the motivation, but I'm not a fan of social networks tendency to be THE PLACE WHERE YOU DO EVERYTHING NOW.
There are some parties / persons in Dutch politics who refrain from healthy discussions and just money grab with popular and sometimes hate inducing statements. It so happens that they disregard any privacy, as well. I call them douches, and I'm very happy and confident to do so.
This was Dawkins' assessment in the use of Bayesian Probabilities to "prove" the god hypothesis...basically the numbers being entered were complete and utter fabrications, making the mathematics pointless except that they lent an air of quantitative rigor.
You used to be able to underflow the score in MS Solitaire by repeatedly dealing new hands (would subtract 52 points or so). I believe that, in Win95 at least, the score was a 16 bit signed variable so you could underflow it with a mere 1261 deals! I wonder if the modern one is 64 bits, and if you can still underflow it...
Yeah, we get it, HN doesn't like Go.
I think he was referring specifically to an unbounded uniform distribution, which is indeed not well-defined.
If you are actively looking, I'd try hired.com.

For passive (just being out there), SO inbound is way higher quality than LinkedIn. LI is spammy for me.

The last time I did a massive search (2006), I really liked indeed.com for aggregating. I made an RSS to a very specific search term. It took months to even get one hit, but I worked there for 7 years.
1. I fear you're mistaking the intra-partnership honor for a more general one.

General partners [managers or Venetian sea captains] having high trust with the limited partners [investors, Venetian or otherwise] is key to making a commenda, or limited partnership, work.

However, that partnership may be formed to pursue transactions adversarial with the rest of the world.

If you and I form successive spice-merchant commendas/partnerships over the years, then you and I must continue to trust one another a lot. But we may both be incentivized to repeatedly buy low-end spices, ship them to, say, England, and laugh when they overpay for the bland herbs.

2. Regarding "entities like GS," it's hardly useful to think of them as monoliths, much less as broken partnerships.

First, GS is now a public company but used to be a partnership. However, it wasn't like a limited partnership / commenda, in the sense that it had very passive limited partners and active general partners. It was a partnership among people who worked there and the capital involved was largely their own. This is also how a lot of accounting / consulting / law practices have been structured historically. Not a good parallel to the commenda.

Second, GS is several businesses. There is a business which helps companies go public, but even that is two businesses: part is advising the company, and part is selling the shares to institutions / syndicate. Who is the customer to whom GS owes the loyalty / honesty in your mind?

Let's say company X is "worth" $10 a share in the "honest" mind of the GS corp fin team. Let's further say that the GS sales team has hugely oversubscribed interest at the top of the $8-12 range, and many more institutions want to buy at $12 or higher than are allocated shares. What would you have them do?

(Yes, there are a great many potential conflicts and corner cases here. But the idea that GS doing normal IPO flotation work is somehow intrinsically dishonest is baffling.)

(There is a decent case, in my mind, to be made for totally disentangling corp fin advisory from sales and trading, meaning not even a Chinese Wall but actual different adversarial firms working on it. But, how many more layers of middleman do you want in our financial system soaking up the fat?)
INSTANT DOWNLOAD Softwares. – AmazingBestBuy.com
But what about the app?
Literally every interaction with a 3rd party should be considered public knowledge as it is almost always shared with enough 3rd parties to guarantee that is the case.
> These articles answered a lot of my questions, but they also raised a new one. Every one of them mentions something called Unicode. Some of them in passing, as if to say, “We all know about Unicode, right? Let’s move on.”

Anyone who came through with a typical CS/CompEng degree: did you learn about Unicode in any depth? I didn't. We didn't even cover regular expressions. I grew to hate Unicode but only recently have learned to respect what a monumental achievement they were. I mean, I would hate buffer overflows (more) if I didn't understand pointers and memory...but after understanding why they (pointers and memory) are the way they are...They are painful, but I don't suffer :)

This remark by Chris Granger always bothered me:

> We don't want a generation of people forced to care about Unicode and UI toolkits. We want a generation of writers, biologists, and accountants that can leverage computers [1]

[1] http://www.chris-granger.com/2015/01/26/coding-is-not-the-ne...

I don't think people should be forced to decode Unicode by hand, or even memorize little/big endian. But to not understand how fundamentally text translates into numbers? That, from now on, humans will have a normalized way of communicating with each other, whether by Internet or starship viewscreen, for as long as the standard exists?

Unicode is annoying, but only in the sense that going to France and not speaking French is totally annoying.
I think the behavior depends if you are marketing a consumer based product or enterprise based product. In the beginning when I launched my enterprise SAAS product, it was vastly underpriced. I gradually increased the price to market rates (about 4x higher) and the subscription rate has been the same.
Awesome - for HPKP?
Show HN: Time Zone Analytics
Germany is the world’s strongest economy
Your website is offline, do you have a paper about your technology?
The very obvious difference is negotiation.

If you had a gunshot wound that needed treating, and you arrive at the hospital to find today only they are charging 1 million dollars for bullet removal (what a coincidence), but the hospital one state over was doing bullet removals for only 100,000$ - are you in a position to negotiate? Is there any reason at all that this hospital would lower its price to match its competition? (as would happen in a competitive market)

Now flip it and say instead of a gunshot you broke your cellphone. You arrive at best buy and they say today only the iphone costs 1 million dollars, but a store one state over has it for 600 - are you in a position to negotiate? Is there any reason at all best buy would lower its price to match the competition? In fact, this happens every day at most every major retailer.
They were doing great until they got up to the re-test, claiming that the second positive gives you 99% certainty you have cancer. That only works if the second test is completely independent from the first. If you repeat the first test a second time, only for those who get a positive result on the first, the same condition that caused a false positive on the first can cause a false positive on the second.

In reality, a cheap blood or urine test is likely to be followed by a more expensive test on a second portion of the same sample, then by an even more expensive tissue biopsy. Redoing an identical test only reduces random errors. It does not address the diagnostic bias of the test itself.

For instance, a pregnancy test detects hCG, from the placenta of a developing fetus. A man with various types of cancer or liver disease may also produce hCG, and can therefore produce a false positive for every test of that type, no matter how many repetitions. This does not give him greater confidence that he is pregnant!

Understanding Bayes also requires an understanding of event independence! For truly independent events, P(x|y) = P(x) and P(y|x) = P(y).
As crazy at it might have seemed in 2014, it is more and more likely that Google will deprecate the current Android Java-dependent APIs and offer http://flutter.io/ as the way forward.

That move would be strategic not just against Oracle, but also against Apple, as flutter.io targets iOS.
> The true buyer of an asset can be people who have no idea they bought it.

They're the buyers in the sense that their money is funding the purchase, but they are not the ones negotiating contracts. If their agents failed to perform due diligence or other fiduciary duties, the fund should file a civil suit.