skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefly Learning | Developers and a Manager | London UK | ONSITE

Firefly Learning is an award-winning EdTech company that works to bring teachers, parents and students together, enabling greater collaboration, intuitive workflows and rich resource creation, while saving teachers time. We’re used by hundreds of leading schools globally, including 8 of the top 10 UK Independents.

In developers, we're looking for four main strengths:

◦ skill: your colleagues would say you get things done to a high standard.

◦ desire to learn: despite (or perhaps because of) you being good at what you do, you want to get better.

◦ understanding: our product team is great but not infallible. You’ll be happy to challenge and clarify product decisions with our users’ best interests at heart.

◦ clear communication: We have a lightweight process, so most days, other than a morning standup meeting to share what’s going on and what’s planned, you’ll be responsible for your time.

In a manager, we're looking for someone with experience of the above, as well as:

◦ experience and skill in training, developing and strengthening a team.

◦ hiring expertise: you know how identify what skills the team needs, and how to find and close candidates with those skills.

◦ balancing conflicting priorities: for example, we want a product that is well engineered but not over-engineered.

In terms of experience, we need you to be comfortable with a web platform. Our server-side code is written in C# and our web front end has some Javascript, so you’ll need to know these or be able to pick them up.

We work as generalists, so experience of any of the following would be a positive: React, iOS, shell scripting, infrastructure automation, building API integrations, and databases (particularly SQL Server).

We offer competitive salaries dependent on experience. We’re committed to everyone’s professional development, so we offer a flexible training budget for you to spend on attending training courses or other events, as well as brown bag talks and Kaizen weeks for self-improvement and experimentation. In addition to this we offer 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and 3 days over Christmas and New Year), 3% employer pension contributions and discounted gym membership.

So, if you’ve got an interest in education and a desire to learn your craft alongside others making the same journey, we want to hear from you. Drop me an e-mail (robin at fireflylearning.com) or apply on our website – http://fireflylearning.com/join-our-team/jobs/developer (manager isn't listed yet so e-mail me please)
Mistakes happen and will always happen. It's how you respond to it that's important.
Yeah, yeah, GPFS was one of them that inspired my HPC and cloud comparison. It, combined with management software, got one to about 80-90% of what they needed for cloud filesystems. It was badass back when I read about it being deployed in ASC Purple. I didn't know it turned into some stagnating, fascist crap with IBM. Sad outcome for such great technology.

Typical IBM, though. (shakes head)
I expect to see a post mortem.
Apple deploys Swift 3.0 preview ahead of WWDC
How to Aggregate Clickstream Data with Apache Spark
In real hardware, DAX comes in two parts. There is an NVDIMM device (basically ordinary DRAM, but backed by additional flash chips so it preserves its contents when powered off). NVDIMMs work at RAM speeds so although you can use them as fast block devices, it's better to direct map them to avoid the block layer completely. The other part is a filesystem implementation (I have used ext4, but xfs exists too) which lets you mmap files directly if they come from a device which is backed by NVDIMMs. Also execute-in-place for binaries (like the old XIP support in ext2 which is obsoleted by DAX).

QEMU has a virtual NVDIMM ("vNVDIMM") so you can test this without needing the real NVDIMM hardware. But in this case it's also a useful way to reduce memory usage, since you're avoiding the block layer and page cache in the guest. That's the theory. Although I've been able to make it function correctly, I didn't observe any great improvements in speed or memory usage (see the paper for details).

Here is a patch which adds DAX support to libguestfs which should give you some ideas how to try out DAX in QEMU: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-May/msg00138...
Do you have anything other than ad hominem argument? I fail to see myself as well the irony in the comparison, does it mean that I am stupid?
I feel that taxes do not exemplify these traits.
Yes, the Coway. I've had it for a few months now and just leave it on all the time on auto/eco mode.
I know we're talking hypothetical science fiction here, but assuming each hemisphere requires eight hours of sleep, wouldn't that total 16 hours of half brainpower per day?
Yeah, it didn't sway me to apply either, but I like that they are trying the supply & demand thing. Unlike most companies in Berlin that think experienced programmers should make 65k.

edit: Another reason I didn't apply is because I'm not qualified for the job. :)
At this point, I cannot say or even comprehend all the
things that a computer someday will be doing for our
homes, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if they could provide
more time for parents to spend with their children,
therefore, making every home a happier one?
-- Ruth Sutherland

Somehow I feel that this was almost a golden age for computers. When they were still tools and not means of mass distraction.

At first, I thought it might really replace me! From the
cartoons and jokes we see and hear about computers, isn’t
this the general impression that most homemakers at
present would have if they suddenly found out they had a
computer in their home?

And this part made me laugh. My mother hated my dad's GPS unit he purchased for traveling. And she still dislikes Siri, though it's more half-joking now. She actually resented the loss of participation, even given the relief from the burden of being navigator. Fortunately she's come close to Ruth Sutherland's realization/observation: These are tools, they don't replace us, only some of our roles. This leaves us open to other opportunities in both leisure activities and productive activities.
Yep, this precisely. Hit the hammer on the head on this comment.

My gut feeling was this was a bucket of NiH syndrome. There was too much duplication of work, and way too much made-up jargon to throw us off the mark of what it really was.

But yeah, a cult.
Elon Musk: There's a 'one in billions' chance our reality is not a simulation
Paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature18300

Company release: http://biontech.de/2016/06/01/nature-publication-describes-f...

Really it is pretty random as to what cancer research and development gets more or less attention from the media and public. Merit has little to do with it. You should assume that any given article like this is representative of many similar ones that passed by without comment.

The most important thing for any approach aspiring to be widespread in the next generation of cancer research is how costly it is to adapt the platform to any specific cancer. The only way to make real inroads in control of cancer is to crush down the cost of addressing different cancers, making it a small project rather than a whole new research initiative each time around.
Yes! Flex box has lots going for it, but it breaks a "feature" that many web developers and framework developers have relied on since the earliest days: it being mostly harmless add an extra layer of element at a whim anywhere. One could argue this is a lousy feature (and I would agree). But lots of developers and lots of frameworks do it.
There is a config in the source of the talk: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs-talks.git;a=tree;f=2016... which could be a good place to start. Or you could follow the instructions in the paper about starting from the absolutely minimal config and adding features until you get something bootable.
"Anyone who's worked with Postgres at scale would guess autovacuum."

Well, there's knowing it's autovacuum-related then there's the specific way it's causing a failure. First part was obvious. The rest took work.

"Postgres doesn't have many weaknesses, but most of them relate to autovacuum."

Sounds like that statement should be on a bug submission or something. They probably need to replace that with something better.
Could be due to HTTP/2 switch - e.g in the morning it was working in HTTPS and now it's HTTP only again. BTW, it's interesting how much bloat there is in their HTML code.
Ukraine's first official tweet
It is a technology demonstrator, it just gives a potential customer for their 3d printing services a ballpark figure for the cost.

Airbus is also a participant in a new standard for data exchange for additive manufacturing so they probably want to publicise what they can do.
Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
It's essentially the question of God, only in disguise. It's absolutely untestable (just like the existence of God), so it's a matter of faith and nothing else.

If God - as understood by major human religions - does exist, then the world IS a simulation. I mean, all atoms and particles are "real", but ultimately they form a simulation device, one that invokes the sense of existence in sentient beings.
I mean, I don't use much else on a regular basis outside of work, but I don't see why it couldn't handle most things except maybe the full Visual Studio suite (and I've been tempted to install it to try it, but there's not too much more space left in the main memory, because small SSD).

Like Atom, Sublime, Notepad++ all that should be fine. Maybe it'd struggle with Eclipse. I wouldn't expect it to work as well as a $400 computer, though. This is a dirt cheap computer, on about the same level as basic Chromebooks, but you can install desktop applications on it (my main requirement at the time).

I mainly bought it for: writing python scripts, writing stories in coffeeshops, and some light graphic design work (thankfully it handles medium graphic design work, because I do a lot more of that nowadays), while on the go, with an SSD, and as cheap as possible. It's handled all of that much better than expected for the price.
Is it odd that some of the biggest names of FOSS use such a closed platform? Or is Richard Stallman sort of the exception in being a FOSS zealot?
Ideas don't need qualification. Think about it.

What he said was that there is a one in a billion chance that our reality is base reality.

If you agree with Occam's Razor, there's no reason to believe we aren't in base reality and just the result of incredible luck (the same incredible luck that leaves us the only known life in the universe).

Understanding the probability of something is not the same as claiming the majority result of that probability.
I wonder what's the connection, if any, between the author of the article and Gawker.
I'm going to warn you: if you apply this pattern of thinking in all sorts of spheres of life you're going to lose a lot of friends.
Zoekt – Fast trigram based code search
http://escapepod.org/2010/07/29/ep251-unexpected-outcomes/ might have some ideas on that.
> A good night's sleep means you're not working hard enough.

That seems that you buy into one belief system (work is sacred, achievement is the goal in life, etc...) and project that onto others.
"Would you get Andrew into my office, please?" is a great way of not having to communicate on the noisy floor.
Some of the older ones (look for what they buried with the dead), but I think most of them have faded out.
How did you get $16/hour? How much is gas in that calculation?
Twitter seem to serially fail in understanding their own product and the needs of their users. Jack isn't doing any better.
That's very interesting.

I'm imagining different kinds of 3-D visualizations that would usefully show the current state of the diagnosis, with the reported symptoms, test results, current theories, timeline and more.
Title is misleading. The 'apt.dockerproject.org' host had a broken release file. This is not an Ubuntu or Debian maintained repository.
>Does this mean that Docker -- a major infrastructure company -- does not have any on-call engineers available to fix this?

It appear to be that way. Reminds me when all of the reddit admins were stuck on a plane on the way back from a wedding [1].

Remember kids, improve your bus factor.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/26/reddit-lessons-lea...
Well, the whole Hell / Heaven idea and the life after death of the christianity ? Which might be heavily influenced by older religions, like buddhism ?
The art of focus for founders
Fire someone who they effectively just spent multiple millions of dollars to train? I doubt it. Thats a huge learning experience there, and if anything, will make him more cautious in the future.
Is it? Have there been any suits/appeals dismissed based on a lack of standing due to an NSL being inadmissible? Or has there been any dismissal for other reasons (e.g. national security reasons) that might now be able to be revisited now that some NSLs are becoming public record?
Guinness World Records 2016
You're preaching to people who either don't understand what you're saying, or don't want to believe what you're saying.
I have no idea where I read it, but I think it was about Bezos and a situation just like this. The quote was something like "why would I fire the person that caused the outage? They just learned a very valuable lesson and got great on the job training, why would I fire them now?"

When I read it I remember thinking how true it was. That person would be very unlikely to commit the same error, and might even work to prevent others from making that error.
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You:
- A hands-on engineer well-versed in hardware debugging and experimental design
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You:
- Proficient in the design and production of complex electrical systems
- Know how to build and wrangle a team of super-talented engineers
- Experienced with the full product development cycle

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"Talented tech followers in the process who are willing to work for him in exchange for prestige and a lower salary"

To be fair these engineers are taking a lower salary but are getting paid really well in terms of stock options.
How is this theory different from solipsism?
The question seems meaningless, I mean, how do I transfer Postgres out of the computer? Or transfer Knight Solaire out of my copy of Dark Souls?

What would that even mean?
Like the site that sold that bought a stolen iPhone and bragged about it? If Gawker has any good content it's coincidence and not because they actively attempt to make it good.
This brings about an interesting ethical problem. Should we get to the point where we can simulate life and consciousness to a level that is indistinguishable from the original thing (as perceived by the simulator), do our standards with regard to, say, human rights apply within, or does the ability to reboot or restore the simulation from a backup make is exempt from any ethical issues?

Either way, I reckon this will one day be used to generate an infinite amount of behaviourally customized cat videos for our simulators' facebook feeds.
> What really changed that made the founder and top contributors leave ownCloud?

I didn't hear about this. Anyone have the scoop on it?

EDIT: NVM, found other links/discussion in this thread
> Understanding the probability of something is not the same as claiming the majority result of that probability.

I see no evidence (empirical or otherwise) that this probability is accurate.
I have done the same thing. My default search engine is now duckduckgo. Changing the default theme to blue/green (upper right corner) made a huge difference. I don't know why duckduckgo uses a black and gray color scheme that essentially does not distinguish between link/site/description. Makes the results appear very muddled when they are, in fact, usually comparable to google.
Search caches maybe?
your "skip"?
The original article is a bit better:

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/lDn53REhqvhqGoIxs9MgwJ/App...

Apple isn't actually prevented from selling either new or refurbished iPhones in India. What it appears that they cannot do, though, is open any Apple Stores there, because they don't (or can't) comply with a rule that "at least 30 per cent of the value of procurement of manufactured/processed products shall be sourced from Indian small industries" (from a similar story about Walmart: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/30-local-sourcing-...)

It looks like what they wanted to do was to manufacture the original phones in China, as always, but do the refurbishment in India, and thereby call the refurbished phones "locally sourced". If they could do that, then they could run their own stores in the country, assuming that the refurb phones made up 30% of their product.

The Indian government rejected that idea, so I presume that Apple will need to continue selling through third-party retail stores, or come up with another way to comply with the rule.
Not greed for money, but ego. One of my coworkers used to report to Musk and says Musk is competitive.
This is such a basic way to think. How is someone supposed to save the world? How is someone supposed to help humanity escape earth and colonize Mars?

Elon Musk is as close to doing those things as anyone has ever been in history. What else is he supposed to do to appease you?
>Rather, Yahoo’s existing products didn’t work on mobile.

I wonder what this is referring to. All the Yahoo products I'm familiar with (admittedly not many of them), could be adapted to mobile. Yahoo Answers could have become completely addictive if easily accessible. Looking at a list of all their other services on Wiki, I can't find a single one that "[wouldn't] work on mobile".

The phrase "didn't work" is a cop out. If something "won't work" or "isn't possible", then you just haven't thought of a good way to make it. Don't pretend like things can't adapt and change.
Fascinating to watch Gawker's quarter-billion dollar public manipulation machine kick into gear.

Linked-In just emailed me to ensure I was aware of another one of these articles.

Thiel better hope he can manage a death blow, or that people become bored of the manufactured controversy - there's nothing Gawker doesn't stoop to, it's going to be vicious.
Your story is one that's familiar to me and I appreciate the courage it takes to face the realities you describe. In my experience you have really nailed the important elements of dealing with these seriously disabling conditions, and comments like yours are enormously helpful to informing people about the nature of the problems.

The comorbidities and family history are often similar to your situation. I often said "comorbidity is the rule not the exception", and ADHD and bipolar D/O are known to be highly heritable conditions.

Tolerability of stimulant medications is usually quite good. Can't say the same for agents available for bipolar D/O, it's especially devilish to manage when ADHD and mood D/O are both present.

I glean that you've responded pretty well to treatment and that's great. One thing I learned is that treatment can help patients improve tremendously, essentially functioning in the "normal" range. In the treatment field we consider "normalization" to be the "gold standard" of success. It takes time, years in most cases, but the benefit of persistent treatment is in my view extremely clear.

The key advice I always offered was "keep up the good work".
Credit Card Linked Offers
I am looking to build a app that uses technology similar to the Credit Card Linked offers. Can anyone offer some direction on this ?
Look for the paradox at the shadow of an edge case of physics.

Programmers don't really do formal proofing or enough unit testing after all.
Is there some kind of law in India against selling used phones? Or was this an arbitrary decision by the commerce and industry ministry? I guess I don't see what the big deal is (and the article isn't clear to me).
Pocketsphinx. Here is a demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcme7maygw and a blog post about how to do it:
https://scaryreasoner.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/speech-recogn... Code is in here (gpl2) https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space In particular, look at snis_nl.h, snis_nl.c

The trick with pocketsphinx is to limit the vocabulary you want to recognize, and create a corpus of the types of things you want to be able to recognize and feed it through here: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lmtool-new.html

If you try to use pocketsphinx to recognize arbitrary English (e.g. dictation) it's not going to work very well in my experience.
>If you assume any rate of improvement at all then games will become indistinguishable from reality," Musk said. "Even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now, let's just imagine it's 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing on the evolutionary scale."

Uh... following this precisely 10,000 years from now would at 1/1000 of our current advancement rate would look like 2026 (assuming our current rate doesn't slow down). We don't really have photorealistic graphics now and I'm not convinced that we'll have them in 10 years. Even if it is photorealistic, it'll just barely look that way on the macroscopic scale. Now simulate all the particles in the universe.

>Musk said, the odds that we are living our lives in base reality — that is, "real" reality — is one in billions.

Musk just presents an interesting argument and asks "can you find the flaw." Sure. The flaw is that there's absolutely no reason to think that:

...computers are going to speed up by 40 orders of magnitude, ever

...and there will be planet sized computers

...and civilizations will be motivated to spent their planet sized computing resources on simulations

The whole thing is absurd.
There is value in trying to emulate the human mind, which is in learning how the human mind works. A proper simulation of human intelligence would be an invaluable building block for health fields like psychology. Of course this is a very different kind of AI, and the focus on application specific measures of AI success have distracted from this goal.
you feel that 'taxes' dont exemplify those traits?

taxes isnt a living person, so it cannot demonstrate self-reliance/self-determinism.

this doesnt even make any sense
You really think there's a rich man in this world who isn't?
If your concern is that the legal system is too expensive, complex and dangerous then you are right. But there is nothing specially worrying about industrialists in this picture. The lawsuit suit that sideswipes you is far more likely to come from some crusading NGOs or from government agents trying to look tough.
Common Traits of Successful Founders