skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Places where nobody lives are usually not conducive to marauding bands of malcontents. Those almost always require some support structure behind them, because if you just pillage and burn you have no reliable source of food or prosperity.

There is an explicit reason why the places people would "disappear to" like South / Central America, central Asia, or Africa, are all predominantly totalitarian states. You are just, in such places, hoping to fly under the radar and be the one mouse not to be pounced on by the lion destroying everything.
Pachyderm (YC W15) Is Hiring – Love Golang, Docker and Distributed Systems?
San Francisco -- Onsite only

pachyderm.io

github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm

Email: jobs@pachyderm.io

What would data analytics infrastructure (namely Hadoop) look like if we rebuilt it from scratch today? We think it would be containerized, modular, and easy enough for a single person to use while still being scalable enough for a whole company. Tools like Docker and Kubernetes provide the perfect building blocks for us revolutionize data infrastructure!

Pachyderm is just 4 people right now, so you'd be getting in right at the ground floor and have an enormous impact on the success and direction of the company as well as building the rest of the engineering team.

Salaries start at $100k and go up from there based on experience. We also offer significant equity, full benefits, and all the usual startup perks. This position is based in SF.

Positions:
* Core distributed systems/infrastructure engineer
* Front-end UI/UX -- Own the entire front-end, admin dashboard, and user interface for Pachyderm!

Our hiring process:
* The entire process is focused around strong communication skills and simulating our actual work environment, not BS coding questions.
* Step 1: Friendly chat with founder to get to know each other
* Step 2: Technical phone screen
* Step 3: Take home problem -- because live coding is no fun for anyone. :)
* Step 4: Onsite

We're a small startup so our entire process can be less than 2 weeks start to finish or whatever you prefer.

Read more about our long-term company vision:
https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/lets-build-a-modern-hadoop...
Yeah the poor performance in this blog post is a total misunderstanding of why and how julia is performant. Is printing "hello world" fast really that important? OK. Then don't use Julia.

You pay for it by having the compiler JIT the code in a highly optimized fashion. If you have actual numerical calculations that are compile-once, run-many-many-many-times, then you will see a huge performance benefit, amortizing the cost of expensive compilation and optimization that happens once at the beginning of the program cycle.

The very title of what he links to "How To Make Python run as fast as Julia" betrays the problem. The goal of Julia is to not have to do that sort of boilerplate/arcane tweaking to get really good performance - the system will do it out of the box.

I'll have to disagree with the notion that Julia is hard to read. I'm currently deploying Julia to run automated hardware verification on a computer chip. Effectively, I've written a DSL using Julia macros that generates assembly code files, compiles, and executes it, and my coworkers (who do not use julia) have found it easy to read my code and understand what's going on. Far easier, in any case, than the equivalent C code using asm blocks.

I do agree about the one-based indexing. I get it, it's what matlab does. But it would be nice to say, be able to throw an option at the top of a program that forces the appropriate indexing.
I like that most recently idea. I'm going to use that.
What do you think happens to the person who receives a single lab result, out of many, indicating that they have cancer? Human nature is to focus on the negative. To assume that humans can, by looking at a multitude of data points, ignore the small # of false positives is to misunderstand the evolution of human emotion.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200306/our-brains-n... talks about why we are evolutionarily programmed to latch on to the negative aspects of our life
Please help a fellow in his struggle with ASUSTek Corporation
Here is my story: I bought this Android Tablet (ASUS Fonepad ME175CG) last year. I've been updating it regularly, but the last Lollipop OTA update (v6.3.9) caused a glitch that is causing the battery to drain continuously, so the tablet has become unusable.

This is a global issue with all tablets of this model running v6.3.9 OTA update, but since the model is relatively old, the company is not bothering to fix this by releasing a new OTA update.

There is no official way to downgrade. One way out is to hack the tablet and install a custom ROM from xda-developers site like some have done. But there is a risk of bricking the device that way.

Instead, I decided to raise a ticket with Asus but there is no action on that front. Hence, I decided to create a change.org petition requesting ASUSTek Corporation to fix this by releasing the next OTA update. If enough people sign my petition, there is a chance that ASUS might listen and release this update. Please help me by signing this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/asustek-please-fix-the-battery-drain-issue-in-your-latest-ota-update-v6-3-9-for-fonepad-me175cg?recruiter=337404987&utm_source=petitions_show_components_action_panel_wrapper&utm_medium=copylink
New research estimates probability of mega-earthquake in the Aleutians
Thunk is from haskell,.
Hello,

I'm leaf, I founded itch.io 3+ years ago. I launched it on hacker news even! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445029 (it's funny reading that thread now, so many haters)

Anyway, this thing is a huge accomplishment for us. The post linked doesn't go into the technical details, but they're the reason why I think this launch is awesome.

We've built a generic binary patching system for game developers. We're providing it as a service for people who use our marketplace. We've integrated it into our desktop app, but the tools can run anywhere.

Everything is written in go right now, it's divided into our command line tool, butler, and our server architecture, wharf. (we've got some cool tools up our sleeves, like doing patch generation and uploading directly in the browser via a js implementation)

Most of it is opensource: https://github.com/itchio

The wharf documentation is excellent if you want to learn about the algorithm: https://itch.io/docs/wharf/

And we have more info about the command line tool: https://itch.io/docs/butler/

Steam provides similar technology, completely closed obv., and we were able to get on par with them, or beat them in terms of patch generation size and speed in many scenarios. And it completely destroys them in terms of simplicity. I'm really happy about how it turned out.

I'll be checking here to answer questions,

Thanks
I use https://www.facebook.com/clickotrigger/ which is bluetooth, has internet connectivity as an option. Sadly the company appears to be dead now. Was cheaper than buying a replacement garage door key fob
I've shipped a few angular apps, and for my money I'd bet on React these days. If you do end up going the angular route, i'd probably think long and hard about starting with 1.x instead of 2.
Not entirely surprising given Hindu history with Islam... Many, many, many millions of Hindus have been killed from jihadist efforts.
Also, the screen is tiny. I'm wondering if someone can come up with an optical contraption to turn this tiny-screen-on-a-keyboard into a less tiny screen parallel to one's face.

Something like the screen magnifiers seen in Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
Out of curiosity, what did you go with in the end?

It almost seems like some sort of escrow type service is more appropriate. Is there anything like that with a similar developer-friendly platform/API like Stripe to facilitate crowd-funding? I'd honestly be surprised if there wasn't at this point.
I like watching that 1996 WebObjects presentation [0] just to see how technically detailed Jobs could get, in a time before Apple could just dominate the consumer attention span with the slick, adjective-heavy presentations they have today. He's taking questions from the audience, people are walking around in the middle of the presentation. He may not have been a programmer but he knew how to talk about the details, not just talk about the big and beautiful ideas.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goNXogpwvAk
Struggling Mozilla Forecasts Continued Firefox Decline
If this doesn't allow successful candidates to skip the onsite interview, then what value does this add? I had the exact same criticism for TripleByte. If I spend the time going through a non-direct link to a company, there has to be some value along the lines of skipping onsites which are the bane of our existence as programmers these days. If going through starfighter doesn't help us with this, then there's no value, I can just email the company and get a phone interview pretty quickly.
The only thing that the author doesn't seem very familiar with is with Amazon's Vine program which isn't surprising since there aren't a lot of members.

> For example, returns and long-term use aren’t part of the evaluation. When you get something for free, you’re less likely to follow up on breakage concerns or customer service issues. Additionally, if the reviewer didn’t actually buy the product, that person doesn’t take the purchase and shipping processes into consideration.

I don't feel that this is true. People who are selected for Vine aren't random Amazon customers. They are Amazon's top ranked reviewers. A lot of these reviewers have started reviewing hundreds of items before Vine or any paid reviewing programs even came into existence. i.e. They do it for the 'love' so they will discuss price and shipping considerations

Yes given Vine's 30 day review deadline, you're not going to see anything initially about long term use; but... a lot of these reviews do get updated if anything about the product changes from the original review.

> You might notice how few of the reviews through Vine and similar programs are negative or even critical. This isn’t a case of reviewers intentionally being dishonest, but rather the result of unconscious positive bias.

I don't disagree here.

> Not paying for an item can make difficulties with that item seem less irritating.

Vine items are now treated as taxable income starting this year, so Vine reviewers are now paying for the items that they select.

> Additionally, reviewers may give their opinions on items for which they have no expertise or real experience and therefore have no frame of reference about how well something works by comparison.

I could be wrong but I feel that available Vine items are based on the customer's past purchase and review history. There's no guarantee that the customer is an expert, but there's some proof that the reviewer is at least familiar with the product category.

I'm sure that there are some bad Vine reviews and bad Vine reviewers. However discrediting the entire program without any data just doesn't seem fair.

(In case it wasn't already obvious, I'm part of the Vine program)
This guy is spectacular. Check out his other work: http://orbides.org/ Here is a nice concept of an interstellar ship http://orbides.org/concepts.php?lng=eng
Maybe this is where "AI" will come from, particularly military AI. If the genome were synthesized, then some people could convince themselves that what grew wasn't human and could therefore be shaped and enslaved.
Normally I feel AC is something we should try to do without. But come to think of it, if you can actually power an AC unit with panels on your roof, aside from manufacturing the system, it's fairly elegant. You're harvesting & then releasing energy that was bound for that patch of land anyway. Like capturing rainwater on your property and redirecting it through your garden.
Absolutely. And, once that's set up, our banking sector and government should profit from hefty educational loans made to all those student bots.
The problem with Vine reviews is the users don't actually want or need the product they are reviewing.

When you get something for free that you don't need, it's much easier to like it. When you're actually buying something to use it daily, you become much more critical.
"The implication that immortality = cancer does not follow."

Indeed, cellular immortality may be cancer when it gets against apoptosis and it's just a natural thing when not. Cancer as well comprises a wider range of anomalous cellular developments that most often does not turn off the apoptosis. The metaphor however was about selfishness, on individual organism and cell level.
How do you know you can trust the app, though?
I'm not entirely sure why there needs to be a financial services or banking contract to build this app and startup. What's wrong with PayPal? Or bank accounts? Or Stripe/Square/Braintree? Paper checks?

This might be a little harsh for what seems like a sincerely useful app and startup, but the problem with the "Yo" startups is that it's just raking leaves (money) to compost them or light it on fire. If the value is in the app, sell the app. If the value is in other people's products and services, then there's no value in it. And if the value is in the "idea" then it's hopeless. If the value is in the fundraising, then we're lost.

What I don't see is why the idea, PiggyBank, couldn't be functional in the first week. Just like I don't see why a company needs $X billion with no imaginable costs or expenses to put that money toward.

Let's say it isn't possible to do mobile-to-mobile payments (which I think it is), or online payments, without owning a bank — then why not release the same app and when you do the chores for your parents or your uncle they put money in a jar? Beyond not making revenue, having users is at least some sort of reward. When you have the revolutionary breakthrough, add that to the app.

And finally, don't leave your job over something you think is a good idea. Make it a reality, and if it takes all of your time and it can support you, then make the jump.

Obviously these aren't things any founder wants to hear, but someone with a greater risk aversion might be able to be as productive with a more realistic focus than the average SV press release.

Edit: Obviously this is a little naïve considering all things, but I'd still like to see the payments possible on a "small business" scale of things.
I'm Italian as well and I understand forgetting a few words, but losing the ability to speak Italian properly in just a few years sounds too much...
humans could use more natural attrition

What's your evidence that more attrition will create a greater society? If anything, greater longevity of people would allow for the accrual of more knowledge and wisdom. Living longer gives you a better long-term perspective. Give people a direct reason to care about what the environment will be like 150 years from now and maybe they'll care more about the CO2 they're putting out.

but right now

None of this is right now. We're right at the infancy of genetic manipulation. Even with the accelerating rate of technology growth, we won't understand our biology at a genetic level enough to be able to manipulate it in an everyday way for at least 50 to 150 years.
Sounds like an opportunity for a fakespot browser extension...
Diversity is good. Ruby and Python, C# and Java... good ideas can emerge. Having another Python-like language is good.
Yes, it is. Storm 1.0.0 was released on Apr 12.
In my short search, I didn't see evidence that either package has run-time dispatch based on the processor type.

I don't see "cpuid" used in the scipy code base, and the only intrinsic I found is specifically in a MS Windows #ifdef.

Numpy doesn't use cpuid. It does have compile-time options for intrinsics, but not run-time.
Ditto here. Amazon is almost as bad as circa 2004 EBay these days. Its impossible to find genuine products in many categories. Ordered a specific tool a few months ago, and a knockoff came in the mail via "epacket" from China.

My assumption for most products these days is that if Amazon is cheaper than a retailer, it's grey market.

IMO, they did a Walmart -- at some point the mission shifted from serving the customer to total domination at any cost.
There isn't any active witch hunt going on in regards to local Estonian-Russian relations, nor LGBT. If you avoid super drunk people at nights, then the threat of violence due to those reasons is low and most conflicts will be limited to verbal abuse & ostracizing. There's a much more real threat of violence if you look muslim though, as there are some vigilante groups unhappy with the Syrian refugee situation.
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The later is surely science fiction, but brain transplants - which really, are just figuring out how to perfectly reconnect spinal tissue, which while incredibly hard is not something completely fictional since we have already done it in very reduced test cases (and we know that stem cells are likely going go give us an easy way eventually to just regrow the gaps in the spinal column) are not nearly as far out as nanites of the sophistication to modify organic cells are right now.
I've seen tons of fake-sounding reviews tagged with "Verified Purchase" lately. I think this is only a small impediment, since the seller gets most of the money back from buying their own product. They just have to have fake reviewers actually buy the product and then reimburse them.
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> If you have actual numerical calculations that are compile-once, run-many-many-many-times, then you will see a huge performance benefit

I agree, and I haven't found anything like this in other (non-exotic) languages. I recently wrote a function using the @generated macro to produce Wigner-D matrices via the recursion relations. The function dispatches on the size of the matrix (using Type{Val{N}}) and after it compiles once for a particular value of N, all future calls are blazing fast (since the machine code is essentially just a long list of multiply and add instructions).
A very reasonable and predictable attitude. Which raises the question: what does this get engineers, if it takes a lot of time and doesn't save any in the interviewing phase?

Personally, I hate resumes with the fury of a thousand winds. They say nothing important and decontextualize every important thing I've done in my career. But this won't help unless the Starfighter crew has managed to negotiate _something not so small_ with hiring managers who are skeptical of everything (it is kind of their job to be skeptical, sort of?).
https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/3zqu26/is_besa_mafi...

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Besa-Mafia-Hitmen-for-Hire-webs...

Seems legit.
I haven't got the same perception - I think it's aimed at things like simulator and solvers. Those things tend to have front ends (that is true) but not front ends that support 100's of users.
I don't have any statistics but I'm pretty sure the majority of accidents/incidents are distributed over a small minority of drivers

That's a good point. It makes sense that the standard we want self-driving cars to achieve is the crash rate on average driving conditions, not the average driving crash rate. The latter is lowered by drunk driving, drugged driving, joyriding and other willfull neglect.
It certainly makes it more difficult to compare products. These third-party sellers aren't doing themselves any favours. I recently wanted to purchase a simple phone case (Samsung S7 Edge, so relatively new). ALL of the cases had 4-5 stars, which makes reviews useless during research mode. It was pretty easy to spot patterns in reviews that were essentially paid-for but very annoying.

In the end, I ordered a case (after checking YouTube video reviews) and was contacted by the seller to review their product on Amazon in exchange for 10% off my next purchase with the same seller. BUT not if I was going to give them less than 5 stars; in _that_ case they wanted me to contact them directly.

/end anecdote
Library to encrypt any URL
For those who directly want to visit the site:

https://www.lolatravel.com/
EdTech hits reality in rural Kenya
He mentions in a comment that they considered a webcam and decided not to:

@lachlan We thought about a webcam for a minute or two, but realized it would be pretty logistically tricky (there’s not an obvious place to mount it).

Even more than that, though, we think it’s kind of appropriate that you have to visit Portland to experience the magic.

So, come visit us!
I have already (effectively) permanently mounted my phone on me.
What are the pain points as you develop software?
Try to root it and install another Android ROM
Trying to buy things like batteries or SD cards is just an invitation for fakes. The only possibly way I might buy one is if it is sold by and fulfilled by Amazon.
> Calling a CFO at a Fortune 500 company 'working class' because they work for someone else is going to raise eyebrows.

Most C-levels at Fortune 500 companies have substantial capital stores which are an important part of their overall support (even if they are not being drawn down regularly, but instead being grown for retirement or planned future use, or as inheritance) and are, in terms of the traditional capitalist class structure, either on the upper end of the middle class or outright capitalists.

There might be some living paycheck-to-paycheck without substantial personal capital reserves, but they would be exceptional.
I would like to know just how "AI" is used to help the agents, to prove this is not just a conventional travel agency sitting behind a shiny mobile app.
Forgive my ignorance, but if this system would require liquid nitrogen cooling to detect heat from a human, how do commercial (now almost cheap) thermal cameras work? Are they not sensing IR? The can certainly distinguish the different temperatures of different people, without needing to be cooled themselves.

How is this system better than a commercial IR camera -- besides the very obvious and valid reason that this is DIY, and started long before those were cheap?

> "The most amazing part is not that it glows, but that it glows brightly enough to illuminate the stand. It’s not just the “temperature mapped to an image” of a regular heat vision camera, we see the actual long-wave light being emitted and reflected – a soldering iron turned into a lightbulb!"

How is that different from this image, which shows a duck's IR being reflected by water, made by a cheap-o "regular heat vision camera"? http://thermal-imaging-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/d...
Which is why I always use Metacritic. The issue with Metacritic is that anything with a specific social message will be artificially reviewed higher since critics have a much higher incentive to preserve reputation than random reviewers on IMDB.
What has shipping to do with the products quality? There are two things you buy at amazon: 1. a physical product 2. the amazon service and shipment. The second one should IMHO not be relevant for the peoduct review, yet many rate them and skew the results.
Archaea are prokaryotes, not eukaryotes
Society has yet to grasp the ramifications of stagnant to declining populations in almost all of the first world and China. Capitalism and the fractional reserve banking systems dominating the world depend upon constant expansion, long story short we face a demographic nightmare generations in the making. The citizens are best represented as Wiley Coyote who's run off the edge of the cliff but hasn't looked down.
I'm with you. This really just seems like another annoying step in the broken process that will add more pain.
this is interesting. could you give me a link to the kind of post you're talking about? If you don't want to link here you can also email me at the address in my profile.
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