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We create Virtual Assistant(chatbot) technology exclusively for the education market. Cognii's award winning Virtual Learning Assistant is today helping students across the K-12, higher ed and corporate learning verticals. We have a few immediate openings in engineering and research:

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Front-End Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/shyp/b701bc7b-b920-4fd9-98d0-359f70490...

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Besides DD-WRT, which can be at times quite flaky a unreliable on WRT54GL with its outdated OS base and a slow UI (and also a real pain to keep track on the few working firmware revisions as time progresses over the years; many DD-WRT users and the DD-WRT site will sadly keep suggesting to use half a decade old firmware for it [1][2][3] and any 'official' activity seems to have stopped years ago) and the Open-WRT which sadly hasn't supported WRT54GL for the last several generations [4] despite its by now somewhat ironic name, there's also Tomato by Shibby [5] (note: This is a fork of the original 'well known' Tomato that stopped its development half a decade ago - though surprisingly people sill run even that one), which is amazingly supported today with regular and frequent updates [6], latest security fixes and modern revisions of base software and OS tools, with properly working kernel 2.6-generation, IPv6, QoS and not at the very least with the staple slick Tomato configuration interface. If you happen to run a WRT54GL, you must give Shibby's Tomato a try sometime to see what this piece of hardware can still do.

Disclaimer: I'm by no means affiliated, but run WRT54GL hardware actively and at times I'm still regularly amazed at what Shibby can squeeze out of the mere 4MB of flash space and a hardware that wouldn't properly run a smartwatch alarm applet in 2016.

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[1] - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT54GL

[2] - http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486

[3] - http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=288371

If you're lucky, you may also end up with gems like this:
> Malachi - DD-WRT Guru
> Your router was made in the 1800's. Why do you need firmware made yesterday.

[4] - https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g

[5] - http://tomato.groov.pl/

[6] - http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=78
It's explained pretty exhaustively in this article.
I'm equally puzzled by this. The complexity argument is IMO bunk; it's no more difficult.

There is however a possible efficiency argument: if you are more likely to write horizontal rectangles of bitmaps, then you'd want the memory word to be horizontal so you have fewer memory locations to update. Was that really the case?

UPDATE: I'm was using 2016 thinking, my bad. In those days, compared to the complexity of the rest of the system, making the CRT circuits custom was trivial. If this could, even marginally, simplify the rest of the system (not least the software), it would be the right choice.
Someone planning to fashion ad-hoc spears out of plastic utensils or whatever must account for the presence of a guy with a gun as well as passengers fighting back.

So, are you saying a vigilant public and "a good guy with a gun" are the actual solutions? (And before the reader jumps to a conclusion about my relevant political positions, I'd estimate there's an 80% chance that you'd be wrong!)
Software Engineer | Zenysis (YC W16) | SF | Onsite

Zenysis helps governments and international organizations analyze large amounts of data for insights that save lives.
Developing countries use our product to deliver emergency aid to millions of people in need, stop infectious disease outbreaks, deliver lifesaving vaccines to millions of children, and more.

As one of the first engineers, you'll be responsible for development of our data integration and analysis platform, working closely with the founders to grow the company. You will also travel around the world to connect with vastly underserved populations, understand their problems, and build software that will impact entire countries.

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How would a better cockpit door and an air marshal stop a guy with 10 lbs of explosives?

All he has to do is show it to everyone and he can direct the pilots to fly anywhere he wants. They may not do a 9/11, but they will all do what he says.

Some type of security will always be required at airports and probably eventually on high speed trains as well. Now we just need to figure out how to make it way faster and less invasive.
Meh, some women like to be pursued. Some don't. Some guys like to do the pursuing. Some don't. Sure, societal perceptions are one way, but it's up to you whether you let that define how you date. Going with societal perceptions will probably make you marginally more successful, while going with how you feel will be more comfortable.

If you devote the rest of your life to changing societal perceptions on this issue, you might be able to do it, but you might not succeed until after you're dead. It's not going to help you date--it will probably be counterproductive to that goal. And you probably only will have time and energy to pursue one change of that scale in your lifetime. Is this the thing you want to change with your life?

Ultimately, sure, you're right. It's not inherently only the man's responsibility to make the relationship happen/work/whatever. But that's not a productive truth; there's no pragmatic action that comes out of that. Sure, complain about it on HN if that makes you feel better, but if you actually want to succeed at dating the best thing you can do is suck it up and work around it.

EDIT: To add to this: the basis for this is evolutionary, and it takes an immense amount of work to get societal pressures to override behaviors that are built into our DNA. It's not clear that this will even be possible to change, even if some people devote the rest of their lives to it.
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Lose It!'s founders have taken one company public and sold others to Macromedia and Microsoft. Our product-focused organization knows the importance of a quality, well-designed user experiences- losing weight is already hard enough.

We're looking for more full-stack software developers that have no problem jumping between mobile platforms and servers. If you enjoy picking up new technologies and languages quickly, you'll learn a ton with us.

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So you want a new (Django) admin?
Streamroot | Paris, FRANCE | full-time | onsite | http://www.streamroot.io/jobs

Streamroot is developing a p2p-accelerated streaming technology built upon WebRTC, that helps online broadcasters to offload more than 70% of their bandwidth costs while improving the quality of service for their users. We have offices in Paris and NYC, with a total of 20 people, hlaf of them being engineers.

Streamroot is looking for a:
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Metabiota | http://metabiota.com | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Metabiota is the pioneer in comprehensive risk analytics that improve the world’s resilience to epidemics. We're a group of engineers and scientists that are helping the world track and mitigate the risks associated with infectious diseases.

Some of the technologies we work with: Java, Scala, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, HBase. We love unit testing and agile development.

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

Big Data Engineer -- Help us build components and services ranging from various data ingestion, scalable big data platform, analytics engines, data warehousing and external facing services.

DevOps Engineer -- Help us expand and improve the way we deploy and maintain our platform.

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Interested? Send your resume to: aaunelle [at] metabiota [dot] com

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This is why I stopped giving a shit what the courts rule when their ruling obviously disagrees with the spirit of the constitution, or bill of rights. I don't stop having rights because some corrupt former lawyer says so.
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If you put an alarm in your house it means that thieves will choose another, not that thieves will find a job.
Now multiply by 3x-10x to find out the real number.
Do we trust the pilots not to unlock the door in that situation? "Open the door or the passengers die!"?
I moved my e-mail off Google a few years ago after the PRISM leaks (which the world seems to have collectively forgotten about), but it's not easy. I've posted an article before on my struggles with running my own e-mail server and my messages going straight to spam (even with valid DMARC, DKIM and SPF records).

I have a lot of friends internationally and I feel I can't exit FB, Google Hangouts, etc. The idea of federated social networking never really made it. :(
Looking for web development work. I can do full stack, and I have sysad and netsec background

Location: Philippines

Remote: yes

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Technologies: Python, Java, JavaScript

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Email: me@bensarmiento.com
I'm looking for a software engineer or web developer position in the Boston or New York City region. (Would also be open to other areas if the right offer came along)

Most of my side projects are in Python Flask but have also done some work in Django. My future goals are to make something with Golang and Android.

Location: Boston or NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Flask, Django, HTML, CSS, SQL

Resume: vincenttide.com

Email: vincenttide@gmail.com
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There are plenty of plans with nearly 600 people in capacity. The Airbus A380 has a max capacity of 900 people. If you are going to bring a bomb on a plane, which one would you choose?

A 20 person commuter jet or a 900 seat Emirates Air flight from London to NYC?

http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/the-10-bigge...
Yes, thank you for pointing that out (upvoted it and yours).

GMOs should certainly be regulated for safety and transparency, which is part of the job of the FDA in the United States.

Dekhn's statement in the comment about the allergenicity was this:

A gene from Brazil Nuts that coded for a protein high in methionine was cloned into soy plants; soy from the resulting plant caused allergic reactions in subjects.

An important missing part of that ...in subjects with an allergy to brazil nuts. In otherwords they found some allergic reaction to the brazil nut protein in people allergic to brazil nuts. It did not create an unknown or novel allergen (although allergenicity should be a standard test for GMO food products).

For 8/9 subjects it was not the primary allergen (and for one it was the allergen that causes a dangerous reaction). Regardless an allergen is present and it is good that it was identified. The paper concludes with this:

"It is prudent to assess the allergenicity of proteins in
transgenic foods if those proteins have been derived
from sources that are commonly allergenic. The use
of currently available animal models alone to predict
allergenicity in humans does not produce accurate
results. Techniques such as radioallergosorbent tests,
SDS-PAGE with immunoblotting, and skin-prick testing
can identify IgE-binding proteins that are probable allergens
in transgenic foods derived from sources known
to be allergenic. This strategy will not be useful in assessing
the allergenicity of transgenic foods in which
the allergenicity of the source of donor genetic material
is unknown. Most current applications in the field of
plant biotechnology fall into the latter category."

There is no doubt (in my mind) that GMO needs to be regulated and reported. If there is any protein from an allergic source that source needs to be listed on the food product specifically as "contains material from X" -- in this case X = brazil nuts.

The fact that the source donor material could be unknown (proprietary secret) is completely unacceptable. The FDA should have full regulatory control over GMO and they should be treated with a scrutiny closer to drugs rather than food. There should be absolutely no "proprietary secrets" regarding the source material or process used to make the modifications. There should be complete transparency and rigorous testing for allergic potential.

Maybe increased regulatory control is all that GMO doomsayers are after, but I think the hyperbole hurts their argument when there are sound scientific arguments for increased transparency and regulation.

tl;dr: This is a legitimate concern that should be included in a regulatory framework that supports safety and transparency.
What happens when all houses have alarms?
Well, 'consistently winning' may be a stretch. In these cases, advantage players have a small edge, but the chances of winning or losing any given hand in blackjack is still pretty close to a coin flip. You may win or lose big in any given session/day/week, etc. Given enough time and effort, they will eventually win, if they don't run out of money first. It is possible to do this, but not without gambling a lot more than almost anyone is willing to do. It's hard work.

Having said that, the perception that it's possible probably helps to drive more business.
Depends on what you mean by "learning a lanuage".

You can probably learn the syntax, and to build and run your application in a couple of days. Learning the "ecosystem" of Java I think is another matter.

Installing the Eclipse-plugin which includes the Kotlin compiler, creating and running a "hello World" takes only a few minutes (I just did that).
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Obligatory comment/question: What routers do you use to run OpenWRT? What's the price like?
It’s time for universal housing vouchers?
tl;dr study shows, in a statistically insignificant way, that interviewing is biased in favor of women. author manages to find a way to fit contradictory results to her preexisting view that women are being treated unfairly.
Whoever Owns the Maps Owns the Future of Self-Driving Cars
I really want to support the Neo900 but the estimated $1,100 price tag for a complete phone is prohibitive.

https://neo900.org/estimate
The point is that if you give a number first, there is now an upper bound on your final salary but no established lower bound. If they give a number first, there is now a lower bound on your salary but no established upper bound. A situation where your compensation can only go up is seen as more advantageous than one where your compensation can only go down.
> Is it possible Amazon (or Netflix) are really willing to pay more for exclusive access than Amazon and Netflix combined would pay for non-exclusive access?

Possible? That is certainly the case.
Skimmed the PDF, it seems like the point of this paper is just to show that yes, classical systems can (with memory, e.g. the reference https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3650) simulate quantum ones, and thus finding "characteristic quantum numbers" shouldn't make one immediately suspect something quantum is going on. In the discussion it's like the ultimate nitpick: "The characteristic trait
of QT rely on the fact that the quantum bounds are
achieved without employing extra resources such as memory. Therefore, the principles needed to fully derive
QT (in the spirit of Refs. [33–37]) should account for that."

There are some people who find the concept of quantum physics philosophically displeasing and try however they can to ignore all the experimental evidence and say we're really in a classical universe. This isn't a case of one of those.
The real problem is we have mechanized so much. Granted, machines can let us do so many things that would be utterly impossible without them, but the problem is we've allowed them to _substitute_ our natural labor and not to just _extend_ it.
But they argued that the IP address is freely given, so they didn't need a warrant for this. However, the IP address was freely given to the FBI when it transmitted the other information as what was to be collected by the warrant from the NIT. So the argument that the IP address was freely given was a consequence of their software running on the person's computer. They pointed out that the warrant was legal and specific, and given in the jurisdiction of the issuing magistrate because it was a "tracking" device and the computer made a digital journey to Virginia and the tracking device went back home with them. But then they go on to say that a warrant was not necessary at all because you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when you're on the internet because a bunch of assholes will hack you anyways, and therefore this is equivalent of a police organization peering into your house through slits in your blinds. Since no expectation of privacy, there can be no 4th amendment violation.
Excited to see a platform that doesn't charge fees to tenants. The rental industry in the UK, and especially London, is ripe for disruption. No fees is a good first step. Another example, one search criteria that many renters will not compromise on is shared housing, yet many (all?) platforms do not offer this search filter.

Gotta admit the salary range for the lead engineer position is worrying. You won't find anyone worth their salt for such an important role in an early stage company starting at £30k.
Yeah I think it mainly comes down to who the code is serving. When people's lives are on the line, it is extremely valuable to make bullet-proof code. However, when you have to get a product out to users to start fueling growth for VCs.. well then let's get that code out the door ASAP. Extending the process in the latter case in exchange for more robust code doesn't always make sense.
Nice! Now to make the idea of compile time virtual functions real, can you force derived classes to have foo_impl, and have an inlined function foo in the base class that calls foo_impl?
What about grand children classes?
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Does this mean you're saying you need _bigger_ muscles specifically to get bigger brains?
I do understand the argument you’re making here, but I’m not convinced. Let’s consider a few similar examples with mediums other than internet:

1) Should the government require warrant to monitor the way you use electricity to see what’s on your screen, or to steal your encryption keys?[1][2]

2) Should the government require warrant to listen to the vibrations your water pipes carry and eavesdrop on the conversations inside? (hypothetical afaik)

Maybe the difference here is that Internet is not, by law, considered an utility in the U.S. Should that make a difference? I think, logically, no. If the government cannot, without a warrant, implement side-channel attacks like the one listed above, then it definitely shouldn’t be allowed to actually actively exploit a device that’s simply making use of some utility, even a digital one.

More to the point, no one intends to make their data public, any of it, simply by connecting to the internet. That’s the determination you make when you actually copy that data anywhere, or when you use any web service, including this site. So no, there is no opportunity to review what you want to reveal, because there is no intent to do so in the first place.

[1] https://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/12/0259246/stealing-data...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/now-you-can-steal-rsa-encryption-ke...
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Yes, getting banned is the other obstacle. Any casino won't take long to ban anyone clearly playing with an advantage. This makes it even harder to do for the long haul, which is what you need to take advantage of the edge.
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At Pathgather, we believe that learning matters and that modern companies can't afford to provide the same tired, low-quality experiences they've been using for the last few decades. Our enterprise learning platform is used by some of the largest companies in the world like Qualcomm, Walmart, and Twitter to help their employees find great learning content from any source, share knowledge with their peers, and track their progress towards career goals - and we've wrapped it all up into an experience that employees actually love to use.

We're growing in a big way and are looking for experienced engineers to join our team to help make enterprise learning better. Our "stack" is React + React Native + Relay + GraphQL + Roda + Sequel + Postgres + etc.

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