skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alloy | San Francisco, CA and Vancouver, BC | Full-time, Onsite | http://alloy.ai

Over $20 trillion worth of goods are manufactured, transported, and sold each year - the things we use, wear and eat every day. The global supply chain is one the world's largest economic engines, but it struggles to keep up with its own complexity.

The manufacturers, distributors, and retailers that make up this complex network are limited by the information they posses. They struggle to track and respond to supply and demand as their product travels from production to consumer. Those who try rely on 40-year-old data standards, lots of manual Excel work, and hordes of human middleware.

At Alloy, we’re set to change all this. We provide the first comprehensive, low-latency view of demand and inventory across all distribution channels. Our platform connects manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and retailers, allowing companies to track their products down to the store shelf and better respond to end-consumer demand.

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* Model parts of the supply chain and develop features that bring them together

* Automate the collection, parsing, and storage of huge volumes of data

* Design a flexible but blazing-fast analytics framework that powers instant insights

* Build beautiful, easy-to-use apps that our customers love to use

* Dive into server provisioning, deployment, automation, and monitoring

We would love to hear from you - send me a note at evan@alloy.ai
I like the concise summaries of each pattern, but it looks like most of the actual implementations are still under construction.
Using @> instead of ->> only causes the selectivity estimate of the predicate to be a different hard coded estimate. It doesn't fix the underlying problem of Postgres not keeping statistics on JSONB.
Me too please. Contact in profile!
There's plenty of markets dominated by non-technical employers hiring programmers and they have no clue how to assess how good you are.

Hence they all use poor rules of thumb and treat people like cogs. 1x and 10x developers get more or less the same offers.

Not a failure of negotiation. The only way to win that negotiation is to exit the market (if you even can).
The crazy thing to me is that people here look for solutions at lower OSI level (DNS, interfaces, IP address,) where to me the problem is that there are these services that run with zero security.

Fix the services, require authentication and permission enforcement and the problem is gone.
Well, that sounds super bad too!

There should be some central network policy in the enterprise that says a DNS record coming from outside the company can't point to addresses on the 10.xx.xx.xx or 192.168.xx.xx spaces. I'm surprised that isn't already the common configuration.
What's the industry looking like in Bend? Are startups there focused on any particular markets? In Portland most smaller companies and startups are outside of tech (artisanal goods, food, etc)
Just because the article equates privacy with crime doesn't mean privacy is equal to crime. Privacy isn't equal to crime, and it's an attack on fundamental human rights to claim it is. Whether it's the article or Animats making the attack is irrelevant.
If that was the case I don't think they'd be focusing on old and non-updated apps as well. The fact this is announced 1 week before an event says they're probably trying to get some info out without wasting time in the conference, the way they announced the app subscription stuff the week before WWDC.

This is probably just (LONG) needed cleanup that they're starting to do.
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That is super horrible.
You're right, of course. I realised my mistake after the delete link had disappeared. My bad!
If you want a professional career, unless you can demonstrate domain knowledge, I'd imagine you'd need a university degree. Going (back) to university is something I'd not be able to tolerate. If you're a hands-on kind of person, perhaps a degree in something as close to radio engineering at a polytechnic may be a better option.

It's really a hard call. I'd recommend getting in touch, as in writing a letter, explaining your situation and motivation to the radio engineering departments at, for example: Lime Microsystems, CSR, Neul, Imagination Tech, ARM (wireless IP unit), the BBC, Nordic Semi, enOcean, Philips (wireless lighting unit), Thinfilm ASA (printed NFC)...

The list is almost endless, and there is an immense range in activity from blue-sky work, to out-in-the-field fixing stuff (like radios on oil fields).

Good luck, I'll be secretly cheering you on.
Funny you should mention that. Are you aware with how Matasano interviews[0][1]? It sounds like they pretty much figured out a 'moneyball' strategy. But, like any other type of system, it took time to develop.

Unfortunately, I don't see any companies going in that direction. Every company I've spoken to, from huge corporations to tiny startups, treat technical interviewing as an afterthought. Which can be funny and surreal in an Orwellian way, considering the big companies have very well defined systems for non-technical interviewing. So everything will be running like a swiss watch until it comes time to test your technical knowledge, then it's treated as one big unknowable wild card.

[0]: Or used to interview. They were bought out by the NCC Group and I have no idea how they go about things.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260087
> One thing to note is that the purported health effects of smoking are almost all mental or neurological in function rather than physical

How is "mental or neurological" not physical?
Also, we really don't want to have all the communication satellites to have the same bus, and find out years later that they have some bug that causes them to malfunction after years in orbit.
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It's always more complicated for the powerful manipulators of our society. And... businesses are people until they're not.
I like the time when Libya got their sanctions lifted and invested in a Goldman Sachs fund, and GS lost 98% of their money
Openbay | Cambridge, Boston MA | Full time, Junior, senior SW engineers

Hi, Carl from Openbay here. We are looking for a couple of rails engineers to help us building out our marketplace for Auto repair. Rails / ruby experience isn't required, although web framework skills are a plus. We have a great working product that solves real problems for people (sounds obvious, but not true for many startups).

https://www.openbay.com

https://angel.co/openbay/jobs

Drop me a line at carl@openbay.com
Less somewhat related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The17
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I think what the parent meant was that "Moby Dick" as a metaphor for "something alien and unknowable whose behavior you can't predict or understand" is not how it's usually used, which can be confusing. Usually when Moby Dick is used allegorically, it means "something very rare", or it's a metaphor about being consumed by the pointless desire for vengeance. Neither of those are the way the author used it here.

(More abstractly, if X is usually used in literature as a metaphor for Y, but you use it as a metaphor for Z, and Z and Y are unrelated, readers will sometimes find it hard to follow.)

A closer metaphor might've been Solaris, or some kind of Lovecraftian monster, but that reference may have eluded readers. Oh well.
Company sounds really cool and I am very interested - what's with the email address? is it that string you posted "aXRzYXVuaXhzeXN0ZW0raG5AaXRlcmFibGUuY29t" @ iterable.com?
Agree that adding more tests and interview is self defeating, but I wouldn't be so sure that there are many more candidates? It's not like the number of CS students has gone up X00%. Visas are harder to come by as well.
OTOH Mozilla is remote, so there have literally the whole world sending over CVs.
From another comment in this thread: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program

Looks like $7.50/new user is their standard affiliate program, I wonder if they have an additional incentive for the button.
not sure what that is :)

is that what became blogger by google?
Chicago. But I've flown down to sfo, seattle couple of times. I seem to be able to not get past on-site interviews :/.
I was really confused when I saw this that the Eve Dev Blogs, https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/, were being posted on HN. For others this is a new programming language called Eve and is completely unrelated to the video game Eve.
This FT article has more details: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/205af87a-6fba-11e6-a0c9-1365ce54b9...

It says Hanjin has 2.9% of the world market share for container shipping, but among Korean exporters, it's a lot more. For example, Hanjin handles 40% of Samsung's exports and 20% of LG's. Still they're fairly small compared to Maersk, which has 15% market share.
I would argue that this comes from attempts to centralize a fundamentally decentralized currency.

With a centralized currency, the central repositories of currency have ultimate control over the currency: if a mistake or fraudulent transfer occurs, they revert it.

With a decentralized currency, the central repositories of currency have no real control over the currency if they lose control of the keys.

The solution, of course, is don't centralize. At a low level of course, theft can still occur, but notably, if a bank decides to steal from you by i.e. introducing fees or whatever, you they can do that and you can't really do anything about it.
Are you looking for any devops/infrastructure specialiasts? I bring a lot to the table: Lot of AWs experience. Can code in python, Java, bash and can understand C,Erlang, Scala(trying it).and I am a Cassandra architect/admin.
I also work a lot on the hadoop stack.

I am in Ireland.
Are these web filter things generally accurate?
So if the company makes the employee worth more should they not have to pay market for that employee? I wouldn't expect the company to benefit from sending an employee to cooking class but if they are learning stuff that benefits the company, and they are worth more as a result, yes you can expect them to have a higher market rate.

Look at another way; if you buy a developer a faster computer, do you expect them to not ask for a raise later? "Hey, but we got you a new computer! You should be grateful!"
Nit: flight termination system does not cause the rocket to magically vanish. It will still continue on its current trajectory and impact Earth somewhere. It just causes the rocket to stop thrusting and, IIRC, disperses the fuel/oxidizer so that we don't end up with large quantities of fuel/oxidizer in a small area on ground.
> Burgling several sheds likely wouldn't result in 52 months in prison, but "hacker" is the modern day "witch".

Perhaps computer crimes are more disruptive than shed burglaries, because most of us depend more on computers than we do on sheds, and it is easier for most people to understand a shed burglary and how to take steps to protect their sheds.

The 1981 Isaac Asimov short story "A Perfect Fit" took an interesting look at that. The story can be read online here: http://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4319939/A-perfect-fit
When I saw the title, I thought it said "a curated collection of idiotic design patterns". That actually sounded interesting.
Related previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300868

The real fight probably won't start until something like Knight's Mill (http://www.anandtech.com/show/10575/intel-announces-knights-...) is launched. Even then, it seems that unless Intel provides a drop-in cuDNN-like library for deep learning the big frameworks will have a tough time supporting Intel hardware quickly/efficiently.
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Well, I know that In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream.
There are a few companies here (even one that posted in this thread) that do tech, and a few VC's with one foot here and another in the Bay Area. There's also a decent outdoor sector, as you can imagine.
Maybe the community needs a little simulated annealing.
It seems the communal views, approaches, and focus are stuck in a local optimum.

Think Different! O'well.
Only 4 appear to be filled out:

parallelism/md5.go
bounded_parallelism/md5.go
object_pool/pool.go
circuitbreaker/circuitbreaker.go
At some point there must be migration from Bitcoin onto a technology that's actually designed for privacy.
I disagree, as this simple test suite is not meant to be a definitive guide on which hash function is the best.

I would venture to say that your criticism is similar to saying that the Hutter Prize[1] is a terrible idea for someone who will need to do compression on a dataset as they will choose to use PAQ and it will run really slowly. Yes, there are trade-offs and optimizations for different use cases, but to say that it's a terrible comparison is unfair.

1) http://prize.hutter1.net/
Yes but it wasn't even remotely seen as possible by the masses for decades to come. It's already here now.
This looks pretty cool, but I have a philosophical hangup about my task list being in email. The problem is that ones email inbox is a place where other people decide what shows up there.

I realize that people have a lot of responsibilities in email, and for some people email may even be a majority of their job. I've definitely been in that position. But even if I am spending the majority of my time in Gmail, I still take a hard stance that my personal todos need to live outside of email lest I lose agency over my own priorities.
nobody with connections gets their funds frozen in an SEC emergency asset injucture, or FTC investigation

the only way to get your liquidity ponzi scheme funds frozen by regulators is to:

a) lose money

b) not know any regulators

If you got a) and b) covered, then you can start as many funds as you want, issue or rollover as many bonds as you want, dilute as much equity as you want

keep the gravy train rolling
It's not 1Gb, but 1GB.

I wouldn't say it's particularly cheap. Here (somewhere in Europe) you can get 30GB/month + unlimited nights for 20 EUR/month on 4G.
Anectodally, it seems to be a lot worse in the US. But why would it ? I would have thought the competition for great engineers is highest there. Humiliating them is not the best strategy...
I think the on-chip stack was a historical artifact. The Datapoint 2200 is the TTL-based computer whose architecture was copied for the 8008 and TMC 1795. The 2200 used serial shift-register memory [1], so writing the PC to a stack in memory would be very slow and inconvenient. Instead it used 8 words of (expensive) RAM as the stack for system calls. The 8008 and TMX 1795 copied the Datapoint 2200 architecture, including the 8-address stack. Intel moved to a "normal" stack in memory with the 8080, which is in many ways a cleaned-up 8008.

Another interesting historical artifact from the Datapoint 2200's shift-register memory and serial processor is that when you're operating on one bit at a time, you want to start with the lowest bit, so you end up with a little-endian processor. For compatibility the 8008 was little-endian, and thus x86, and thus the processor you're probably using now.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2014/12/inside-intel-1405-die-photos-o...
The trick to accurate interpretability is to decouple accuracy from explanations.

Just like an International Master commentator can explain most of the moves of a Super GM, so can an interpretable simple model explain the predictions of a very complex black box model.

The work by Caruana referenced in this article actually culminated in a method to get both very accurate models and still retain interpretability.

https://vimeo.com/125940125

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~yinlou/projects/gam/

More recently there was LIME:

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~marcotcr/blog/lime/

And there are workshops:

http://www.blackboxworkshop.org/pdf/Turner2015_MES.pdf

We will get there. 'Permanent' is a very long time and in the grand scale of things, deep learning is relatively new.
Cool! I wasn't aware. Where I can go buy one?
It's hard to imagine that this sort of scheme is the best way to provide broadband to most parts of Africa. Why can't they just put microwave links on their cell towers? This is some sort of speculative play by FB to bypass local influences.
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While technically correct, calling NREC a CMU robotics lab is really a stretch. They are surprisingly independent entities - I know this as a former student of Carnegie Mellon and employee of NREC. Most people at CMU, including some of the robotics students, had never heard of NREC (although I imagine that's no longer true after Uber).

Anyway, onto the subject at hand. Yep, Herman is right. Everybody thinks it's just around the corner because they see things move so fast in Silicon Valley. But most of the companies that grow exponentially are based on a sound business and relatively (compared to robotics, nuclear fusion, new silicon chip manufacturing) simple technologies. I love robots and I think they will have a profound impact on the world moving forward, but holy fuck it is hard to make a good robot. Self-driving cars are a long way from happening. I think the gains are so great, and the technology so difficult, that they will augment the problem by changing public infrastructure. Making smart traffic lights that can talk to cars wirelessly, and cars that can communicate with each other, and simple road markers specifically for autonomous vehicles, will drastically reduce the complexity of the problem and allow for self-driving cars to happen far sooner (and safer).
Wow, Does anyone know what this means for the dry baltic index. A bunch of shipping companies look like they are pretty close themselves to bankruptcy.
I recently hired a new developer for my team. She stupidly asked for what I believe is well below market rate. I want to build a team for the long term, so I (and the CTO, my boss) had to stand up to HR to get her what we think the position is really worth.

In my experience, it's HR that stands in the way of employee satisfaction (whether that's salaries, or flexibility in various benefits, or whatever). You'd think they're there to be the champions of the worker in the corporation, but it seems to actually be just the opposite.
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