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Simbe Robotics | San Francisco, CA | On-site

Simbe Robotics is currently hiring for a number of robotics-focused engineering roles in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At Simbe, we are automating brick & mortar retail through the use of mobile robots, computer vision, and cloud-based software. Our first product, Tally, provides retailers unprecedented visibility and insights into the state of their stores. Tally in action: https://vimeo.com/145242961

Current open positions include:

Robotics Software Engineer
https://jobs.lever.co/simberobotics.com/e15c5b16-5f6f-4469-9...

Computer Vision Software Engineer
https://jobs.lever.co/simberobotics.com/7f842efa-e9e0-4a91-a...

Robotics Research Intern
https://jobs.lever.co/simberobotics.com/4952daea-00f4-419d-a...

Dev Ops Engineer
https://jobs.lever.co/simberobotics.com/be3f094c-ccce-41d2-a...

Full Stack Web Software Engineer
https://jobs.lever.co/simberobotics.com/78ea9088-be51-47c7-8...
If you're at the point where being fluent in both languages is necessary to assess the quality of a translation, then it's already very high quality. Most poor translations are easily judged as such by anyone fluent in only the target language.
Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to pizza?
That is very much unsubstantiated, all kinds of athletes enjoy and thrive training fasted. It's probably much more complex in what's best for whom than just "much more likely to hit the wall". Type of metabolism, levels of fat adaption, type of activity, length of activity, etc all matters.

As an personal anecdote, I enjoy climbing in the mornings before having food, that's a few good hours of intermittent sprint type activity.
What is the best guide to learning how to reverse engineer programs?
You have access to Oculus touch? What makes Vive wands better for immersion compared to Oculus touch?
This company produces great, great content. You agree that it's interesting, from what you've read.

And yet apparently the most popular comment on their effort is that you don't want to spare the all-of-2 seconds it takes to click your mouse to close a pop-up? On a site that isn't plastered with ads, btw, and is generally very accessible?

I don't mean to take out my frustration on you, and I get where you're coming from, but maybe we as consumers should stop feeling so entitled, maybe that's the pattern that has to end here.
Why not use PostGIS for geo-spatial data?
Who would win?
In all seriousness I think you'd undo the last couple decades worth of productivity gains in just a couple days..
And is about 35 years old... GP mentioned 'last decade'
It is also the name for physical pieces of metal in which you place servers to store them while they are online.

I don't see a problem with two items have the same name provided the functionality they provide is substantially different. Nobody is going to get confused over whether they are referring to the PaaS application or a Ruby library in everyday conversation.
I bought one, and it's totally useless - the onscreen keyboard doesn't even have a tab key! While trying to attune to the consumer (which will never happen), they at the same time disenfranchise the power users!
This Animation Lets You Watch Global Warming Heat Up Over 166 Years
Funny, I was thinking the exact opposite after I had been on the site for 10 minutes or so.

It's sad that you get sites making 'slideshows' getting 20 page views per visit for stupid slideshows like 'Celebrities who have had DUIs'. Meanwhile, something educational and informational makes 5% as much as those other guys? Just because I have only loaded the page once?

You can't pay wall it, because then you don't get the 50,000 visits from HN. It sounds like a really tough position to be in.
In a few generations that could be alieviated though
It never ceases to amaze me how many people mistake political will for market trade-offs. Do you think we can't build tall apartment buildings with elevators in the vast majority of the United States, or do you think we pass laws against it because we prefer, for some reason, that even our cities should be basically suburban?
It's all about how temporary it is. A few days to a few weeks is definitely different then having something that sticks with you for at least a year.

I'm sure the designs will change, as will the motivations for getting them. Beyond that, this technology would be difficult to differentiate from a traditional tattoo whereas henna and temporary tattoos are visibly different.
I'm curious abour another thing: like the previous comment asked about MySQL and MariaDB, and your answer cuts away MariaDB from the quote.

However, the trend seems to be from MySQL to MariaDB. Red Hat and many other Linux distros, for example, have moved to MariaDB. It doesn't feature Larry Ellison. So why not address it?
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

However, storing secrets in a git repo is still not as good as a purpose built store, because the access control on git is not fine grained enough.
This is the very approach that I use. I suppose in some ways it's like a "written" history for me. A reminder of the evolution of myself.
Do written letters still work?
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Microsculpture
Happy to see projects like this pop up! As a long-time go user, these types of fundamental projects really are what drove the community early on.
I've recently used both and think they're equal in terms of immersion when the Vive is roughly around the minimum space requirements. For gaming, I could take either; for non-gaming experiences, I haven't seen anything on the Vive that wouldn't feel similar on the Oculus or vice-versa.

If you have a large open space the Vive may pull ahead, but I haven't tried anything that could take advantage of that.

FWIW, I was sold on VR when I first tried DK1, but now having tried the consumer version and the Vive (years later), I'm even more excited.
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha... it certainly can be done with postgres, but isn't as simple.
This entire concept sinks or swims on its ability to accurately estimate and control scope.
> But the idea that when you don't like a law, you're free to ignore it is not something acceptable in a civilized society.

Civil disobedience is very much a part of civilized society, your premise is flawed.
I wouldn't call resetting passwords an "abundance of caution" in this case. It's very likely that the attackers are able to retrieve passwords when they have the SHA1 hash and the salt (not exactly by decrypting though).

Here's a good blog post how and why this is problematic:
https://www.troyhunt.com/our-password-hashing-has-no-clothes...
To be frank, I completely disagree, and I get the feeling that so do most people, actually. We don't call it "work" because it's pleasant and fun. I see this as someone who finds his job genuinely engaging and almost, though not quite, a benefit to society, and whose alternate career paths would potentially involve more benefit to society and even more engagement in my work. My job would actually be fun if not for the unpleasant necessities involved in treating it as business that actually has to ship a product some day, which is of course exactly what makes it at all useful to society and not just a shared team hobby.

Of course, the alternate career path would also involve significantly longer hours for significantly lower pay (ie: going back into academia), which brings us right back around to the point that it's called work because you don't like doing so damn much of it.

Also, it really would have helped to segment out the statistics by income and education levels. Remember, the arithmetic average of a power-law distribution does not make sense.
There are a number of machines that don't use superconducting magnets and hence don't have such stringent cooling needs. These machines typically need these sort of cooling setups to support higher fields but imaging is still possible at low field. Some years ago, and I'm by no means up to date with this, there was a group working on imaging using the earth's magnetic field as the main field [1]. While this is the extreme MRI has been functional longer than superconducting magnets have been feasible.

On the flip side of this things like compressed sensing and MRI fingerprinting [2] reduce further the need for a traditional 'full' scan. We are still some way off seeing these sorts of things in clinical MRI but that may be more attributable to the pace at which companies like GE and Phillips move in this space. That and the sheer cost of R&D.

Overall it is a pretty exciting time to be in MRI, despite the outside view being that it has changed very little in recent decades.

disclosure: PhD candidate in electrical engineering, focused on MRI

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16828566
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376817/
If you use a purpose built storage though then you can deny access to the actual keys to just about everyone, so if a developer leaves then they won't have the keys, and if they do you'll know because it will have a built in audit trail. And in many cases you never have to release the key from the purpose built store because it takes in crypto text and gives out plain text without ever revealing the key to the user.

They'll have their own key, which will be revoked from the store, and they might have a single key that machines use to access the store. You should be rotating that machine key all the time anyway, so rotating once more when a dev leaves isn't a big deal. It's also much easier than rotating all of your actual keys, which in many cases is generated by a third party that may make such a thing very hard.
Peter Thiel, PayPal Co-Founder, to Be Delegate for Donald Trump
It can scale pretty far before it becomes an issue. Years ago I ran it on our main DB for sites that got over 1 million visits a month with no noticeable overhead. If I had it on its own server with its own DB it could have handled far more traffic.
That's an interesting looking game, but I'm a bit confused by the reliance on the ASCII aesthetic. True, many people associate it with roguelike games, but when you are using ASCII generate portraits[1] of the fidelity they are, I can't help but feel a lot of time is being wasted on an aspect that matters little to the end result. It will either be fun or it won't, and ASCII is really just a highly constrained tile-set when used in this way.

1: http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/files/2016/05/firstdr...
Ask HN: Does Application Scale and/or Resilience as a service exist?
I.E Does an application platform exist which gives application availability and scalability as a black box service - I'm thinking Heroku is an example but their platform is largely Infrastructure scaling, resiliency is not really managed.
I was equally baffled
Breakfast is not a new thing, or it has anything to do with cereal or milk or donuts.. Just google image search Turkish Breakfast...
Part of the issue is that the team I'm on consists of a majority of finance majors who only know VBA, and maybe just a few C++ devs (I'm pretty much the only non-finance person on the team). This is sort of those "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" issues. Simple one-off VBA tools find a little bit of traction and then, through patchwork, evolve into something critical yet lack proper up-front and long-term-planning design. They're all smart folks of course, but I feel like so much more could be accomplished with better tooling.

Your product looks really cool; I've actually been looking for something that will do ETL tasks and I've only used Informatica and SSIS, which obv aren't free. Will be checking it out!
Ve specifically said ve didn't mind a pay wall. Ve found the the mid-read interruption rude, which I think is totally fair.
If you want to store a large number of time series, influx might not be for you. For smaller bits of data (where the full dataset can fit on a single machine, or there is a very low amount of dimensionality in the data, influx is nice.

However, if the data grows beyond what a single scaled up machine can achieve, take a look at druid (druid.io). It is a bit more involved in setting up than influx, but was built from the very beginning to scale out horizontally. As a result, I can do realtime analysis (using grafana) of over 10 billion data points and perform aggregations over said data. It is an incredibly useful tool, and the newly released 0.9 looks ever better.

It can also count Alibaby, eBay, Cisco, Paypal, Yahoo, and Netflix as users (amongst many others): http://druid.io/druid-powered.html

It is really impressive tech. Bonus points that some of the original founders of Druid from Metamarkets just founded a company to do enterprise support around it:

http://imply.io/post/2015/10/19/announcing-imply.html
Silicon Valley’s unicorn fantasy is collapsing
Interesting how little effect the introduction of OSHA seemed to have on the slope of the workplace fatalities trend graph. I would not have predicted that.
Better Ruby with an inversion of control container
In specific, it is a column store, which is advantageous to do things like real time analytics over millions of data points via streaming market data. This has uses for HFT, but also for anyone who wants to do their own day trading.
You could ask them to make an exception:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LinkingOverContr...
Correction: 7680×4320.

Accidentally multiplied DCI 4K, not UHD 4K.
They're not unsuspecting anymore.
Last October Scott Adams did a segment with ReasonTV on why he believes 2017 will be a Trump presidency. A lot of the content is already covered in the submitted article, but in the video Scott walks through Trump's linguistic techniques alongside with video examples of how he uses them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55NxKENplG4
I'd throw "the perfect is the enemy of the good enough" on as well.
Hi, I am looking for a BizDev Cofounder.

I need someone to reach out to various banks and credit union for information, help create marking campaign, and just generally help with figuring out the different risk scenarios.

My company name is Penny Platform. We are a white-label mobile platform for banking.

We work the same way Android works for OEMs. And in this case, we'd be Google, and we are selling to Banks who will be like the OEMs.

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Title is misleading. It should be titled "How cereal became a thing". But that is kinda obvious and no one would probably click it then.
An example of Linus' attitude:

> Nobody really objected to the patch series as a whole, but Linus hated the name of the configuration option; he asked that it be called CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALLS instead. Or, even better, the change could just be done unconditionally. That led to a fairly predictable response from the PaX developer on how the kernel community likes to hide security problems, to which Linus said:

>> Calling the old vdso "UNSAFE" as a config option is just plain stupid. It's a politicized name, with no good reason except for your political agenda. And when I call it out as such, you just spout the same tired old security nonsense.

https://lwn.net/Articles/446528/
seems like a lot these companies riding the 'disrupt' bandwagon are basically just cutting corners and not doing their due diligence - then operating illegally.

its really quite sad that vcs apply pressure to do this... but then i guess thats what you get if you make your business beholden to something so manifestly interested in the bottom line at the expense of everything else.
I go for one 5oz Chobani for protein (12g), and one pack Quaker High Fiber (10g + 4g protein) instant oatmeal. Total 290 calories, and it keeps me going for hours without wanting more (with coffee, of course). I don't track carbs, only portions, but it's (only?) 23g sugar. I sometimes almost forget to eat lunch. And yes, it is great!
Tesla Selling 100KWh Li-Ion “Powerpacks” for $470/Kwh (without Inverter)
Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has
The web isn't near as fast moving as you imply it is.

Website have always been to big. We've been using huge Javascript libraries for the last ten years to add minor functionality.

Even using Flash for websites was a common standard!

The problem is that speed and usability are almost always considered less important than flashy animations and other bullshit that no end user actually wants.

I think this post will be relevant for years to come. I don't think web developers will ever learn.
With just 72 hours of training data, this is an extremely impressive result, scientifically speaking. However, in terms of quality control/best practices in automotive, it's simply unacceptable to trust human lives with a monolithic black-box system. The reason to have modular building blocks in a production system is not necessarily better performance, but the must-have ability to test, troubleshoot, debug, fix and replace things by reducing the degrees of freedom - it's the ABC of engineering even in much less sensitive industries. So while N2N is going to be very useful for rapid prototyping, and perhaps setting the performance bar for other method, I doubt it will ever be used in production.
As a maintainer, I both adore and prefer one-letter variable names when appropriate - loop indices for old crufty array index oriented languages, temporary variables that all references can be seen on one page, that sort of thing.
No one absolutely, positively, no-possible-other-options "has to" do anything ever. People make decisions on a spectrum and at the margins. There are people who never drink ever. There are people who drink every night but would never drive. There are people who drive drunk every single night. If you make it easier to get home without driving drunk, some people that otherwise would've gotten behind the wheel will make the responsible choice.
> They're great when you have a browser extension, but leaving the app, entering another app, and then copying and pasting on mobile is difficult.

Agreed, but again - the answer here is not some elusive "login via email link" - how do you even do that in a native app?

As with the password manager situation, I believe Apple's approach is right in this space too - auth form fields fields in native apps on iOS can hook into the saved passwords system (aka Keychain). I have yet to see it used in a real app, but I don't use that many apps either, so its possible support is wide-spread.

> The biggest problem that password managers haven't solved yet, is adoption.

Windows has a built-in password manager. OS X/iOS has a built in password manager. Even if you discount those who don't use the built in solution, that is surely tens if not hundreds of millions.

I have no idea how good the Microsoft solution is - but Apple's is good enough that I wonder why people think good, secure password management is some mythical beast that will never be realised.
It's common in a lot of countries. I took one in Vietnam and it looks like this (a bit denser than these buses, I believe)

http://www.sapavietnam-tours.com/image/sleeper-bus-sapa-viet...
Yes, that could be appropriate.

Access is per-repo, so if you have enough secrets and disparate interested parties, the number of required repos could make a dedicated alternative far more manageable.
> So: help! I've genuinely spent weeks on this but it's a massive job.

I'd love to help, but how? Is the only option for people to go driving all these "roads" in person to see which ones are actually roads, or is there another source of data that can be used to compare against?
Crossrail seems to be original name for the Elizabeth Line, in case anyone else was confused by this comment. I'm guessing it will be part of the system, by sharing stations with the existing lines, but the platforms will be at different levels.

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/articles/crossrail-to-become...
what...? Your example is a convoluted extension of the police-officer example except you added the dog element which I think most people agree is messed up... but that's a separate unrelated issue to address.

I'm saying if you have a private/secret meeting in your basement about how to overthrow the government there is no parallel construction you can make to intercept that. If you have secret files on your computer you can't have cops "accidentally" bump into them.

I'm really doubting "you will never have information that's so secret that you can't build a parallel construction"
Playful’s Paul Bettner: VR is just getting its start, like Disney in the 1920s
Atlas of Emotions, a New Project with the Dalai Lama and Paul and Eve Ekman
> If you believe there is a right way to interpret the world.

I don't see what "interpretation" is involved in comparing a specific prediction with a specific measurement result. You're just comparing two numbers (with error bars, etc.). And the comparison doesn't care what kind of stuff you put in your model; that can be anything you like. All the comparison cares about is the numbers your model outputs as its predictions.

> models that allow us to make predictions does not mean that they match reality it just means that it matches the predictions we can interpret.

No, it means the model's predictions match the actual measurements we make.

> Thats a very different thing than reality.

Perhaps you are using a different definition of "reality" than I am. In which case I don't see how whatever definition you are using of "reality" is relevant to Asimov's article, which is what we are discussing.
Advertising Cannot Maintain the Internet. Here’s the “Secret Sauce” Solution
> And yet, despite his downfall, Conrad is still a coveted name in Silicon Valley. People want to meet the man who created a $60 million company in just three years and made good on his promise to shake up the insurance industry. Dalgaard says he’s been getting e-mails from people eager to work with Conrad since the day his resignation went public.

> Zenefits might also survive for the one reason that made its product so appealing to business owners in the first place: Shopping for health insurance remains really frustrating. The company says it now has 20,000 accounts. “As long as their problems don’t affect our company, we’ll stay,” says Todd Harmond, vice president for finance and operations of the e-book service Scribd, which uses Zenefits to offer Kaiser Permanente and Anthem health insurance plans to its 85 employees.

> “Unless something else goes really wrong with Zenefits, we’ll stick with them for a while,” says BlogMutt’s Yates. “It’s too much of a hassle to switch.”
> Is a constant distance metric part of the definition of flat?

Yes. Otherwise "flat" would have no meaning; we can always make a flat map of any surface, if we are willing to allow the distance metric to be distorted to any extent we like, so every possible surface would be "flat".
Time series oriented databases are usually purpose built around storing data in sorted order on disk (easy on a single machine, harder in a clustered environment) such that range scans are efficient. /plug/ check out riak ts.

Disclaimer: I work for Basho, makers of riak ts.
/plug/ Riak TS was just released open source that does just this. I wrote a post on it, http://basho.com/posts/technical/time-series-the-new-shiny/ .

Disclaimer: I work for Basho, makers of Riak TS.