skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teforia soaks up $12M to make the perfect cup of tea
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Microsoft Surface Studio: The Engineering Beneath Floating Pixels
Exactly. I still get the office social life, and regularly chat to fellow co-workers by the coffee machine or go to lunch together, but I only have to walk two minutes round the block to get to work. My primary client is in another country so commuting wouldn't be viable anyway.
If the incidents were isolated, then I could see this working. In the case of the recent DNS blackout, that took out everyone. Wouldn't that bankrupt the insurance co?
We tried Sqwiggle for a bit, but honestly didn't take to it very well. Basically it's Slack, Async and Zoom for us these days and it does the trick.
All it takes to steal your face is a special pair of glasses
Talkshow is Shutting Down
You're not comparing like with like, and that coil whine thing I think is exaggerated. I'll post a comparison in a short while.
This is awesome. I wish I had more time to do something like this myself. We're a team of 14 full-timers, 23 total with contractors, all remote.

We describe trust as a core value in our company and it goes both ways. We trust our team to do a great job, help each other when needed, be transparent, etc. They trust me and our execs to be open, honest, etc and I've gone above and beyond in that department. So I love the focus on trust in the 'running a remote team' section.

I'd also add: If you're planning on doing this as a founder/exec, expect to spend time and money dealing with different jurisdictions. Our team is mostly in the USA and for full-timers we have to file corporate taxes in every state where we have an employee. We have a team of accountants and HR folks that help us now, but it's still a lot of work and if it wasn't for my amazing co-founder, this would have been impossible to wade through.

For international domains, we have worked with or are working with people in Sweden, Greece, Paraguay and I think a few others. In general we reach out to our local law firm who connect us with counsel in those countries to figure out NDA's etc. It's not cheap.

Also had to work with local legislation in some countries that deal with workers comp type stuff and number of hours worked each week, government benefits - the list is long.

But the benefits are that we have an amazing, talented, diverse team who bring cultural influences from around the world and the USA and are able to live and work anywhere in the world they want to.

In terms of tools: VoiP is still ridiculously unreliable. I specifically include Skype and Slack in this criticism. As the team grew we discovered a secret weapon for super reliable voip calls: Teamspeak. It's AWESOME. It has push-to-talk which is great for big team meetings and you can see packet loss on a per user basis. You can also isolate yourself and your team to a single server so you're not load sharing with other teams during peak. It's been a real life saver.

Also, we don't do video. I know many remote teams do. We don't. What I love about it is that it really levels the playing field in terms of who is more charismatic on video. It also removes the distraction, frees up desktop space and reduces bandwidth usage for international team mates. When another company wants to do a hangout etc, we sometimes just tell them we don't do video and it's great. I can stand in my office staring out the window, really listening to what someone is saying, rather than having to think about whether I look good or watch them. Voice only for remote teams is awesome IMHO.

Thanks again to @WadeF and Zapier for doing this. I still find it absurd that remote work isn't the default for tech teams. One day we'll look back and wonder if perhaps lack of trust was the only reason big tech companies don't feel comfortable having everyone work remotely.
How about adding a direct link to the PDF (or any other single document that exists) on https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-workin...?
Graph-Based Machine Learning: Community Detection at Scale
Closer to minikube then? That was not at all clear to me from reading the site, where it seemed to be discussing a kubelet on an OS on bare metal or hypervisor, but not managing containers.
The Dell Precision looks like a good option if you don't need a better GPU (Quadro M2000M ~= GTX960m). I've been doing VR dev so I went w/ an Aorus (the smaller X3v6 on preorder), but you may want to look at something like the X5v6 which should tick all your checkboxes save touch and might be more appealing than the Aorus: http://www.aorus.com/Product/Features/X5%20v6

One bummer about this new gen of Aorus' is the mystifying lack of TB3 (despite USB-C 3.1 on an otherwise top-of-the-line-specced system).

Too bad about the P50 having external display issues. A built-in 100% NTSC / 100% AdobeRGB 4K panel sounds great. (same crap Quadro card though)
For me it's about 1000 kilometres.
I misunderstood; thanks for clarifying!

I would be happy to see a worker owned co-op emerge in a city like Austin. It would probably be better for the city and for the drivers.
The REX prefix: http://wiki.osdev.org/X86-64_Instruction_Encoding#REX_prefix
Elsewhere in the world UMTS is being retired while GSM is being retained because of all the devices (switches, sensors, etc) that use it.
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We're looking for an Senior Backend Engineer to help us architect and scale our micro-service oriented platform. Some technologies we use on a daily basis: Scala, Akka (cluster, http, fsm, pubsub, many more), Play, Docker, Mongo, PostgreSQL and Jenkins. We also have some Clojure and Ruby sprinkled around, and we're looking to introduce some more of both. We like functional programming and hopefully you do too! Other teams have an array of services that we can take advantage of like Mesos, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Zookeeper, ELK, Hadoop, etc. Ideally you'll have plenty of hands-on Scala and Akka experience, but a strong Java background is ok too. You need to have experience working with distributed systems too.

PulsePoint (https://pulsepoint.com) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Scala, JavaScript) | New York, NY | Full-time, remote or onsite
Similar role to the above, but we'd expect you to have senior-level JavaScript experience. We're currently running on Angular 1 (CoffeeScript, JavaScript), and are in the process of migrating to a React / Flux stack. If you have shipped a few JS projects and are interested in working with some of these technologies, please reach out!

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Here’s my secret weapon: I read
> AST was a good idea and parsing as validation was excellent. Having a general stack machine makes validation much more difficult.

Why? This document suggests that it's not that different.

"The main new changes to verification are:

- All branches to the end of a block must have the same arity and same types, including the implicit fall-through to end.

- The true block of if-end constructs must leave the stack at the same height as when the if was entered.

- The true and false blocks of if-else-end constructs must leave the stack at the same height with the same types."
We've fully automated Lets Encrypt on our handful of servers and so far it works really well, with only a few glitches. It's specific to our setup but:

-> We do DNS verification through Dehydrated (https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated). Because we use in-house DNS running PowerDNS with a MySQL backend, updates to records are a cinch.

-> Dehydrated has "hooks" that allows you to call your own scripts for each step of the verification process. We have an on-prem sysadmin box that does remote administration of the servers (so that none of our servers have direct access to any other server, just in case of a breach), so we just had to update a few commands to work with Dehydrated's hooks.

-> Each remote server has its own directory within the Dehydrated environment, and there's an "update" script that runs from cron that: a) asks that particular server which hostnames it currently has, b) updates the hostname list in that server's Dehydrated directory, and c) invokes Dehydrated.

Because we host some client sites, it felt skeezy to me to be updating files in their web directories on a regular basis even if it's really temporary. DNS updates however are just fine.

All in all Letsencrypt has been a huge, huge win for us. I'm really grateful for both them and for Dehydrated.
The horrifying thing about WASM is that you just know like 5 years from now someone will be posting some link here about how they ported the JVM to WASM and are using it to run old Java applets…
Trump gets about 450k mentions on Twitter per day, while Clinton only gets 250k
The Future of Audio Is Delayed
I assume you are referring to Banks? What other Scottish SF writers would you recommend?
Care to elaborate? What specifically is wrong with HTML5? And how is it particularly worse than other offerings?
The older/official Spark integration for R (SparkR) is quite lacking. Sparklyr is newer and makes up much of the ground that was missing on the Python integration. Still a few features that need to be checked off the list, but I think most users will find that sparklyr has the subset of features that they need.
I guess this is one of the rare cases today where removing the middleman DESTROYS value.

Most of the time they might just handle the medication they're asked for. But they ALSO VALIDATE the treatment.

Think of them like a firewall. A human one, mostly silent.
I guess this is one of the rare cases today where removing the middleman DESTROYS value.

Most of the time they might just handle the medication they're asked for. But they ALSO VALIDATE the formula and dose are correct.

Think of them like a firewall. A human one.
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I kinda respect this part:

"The Rules

Its important that all the player in the campaign work at cost and there be
no special interests in the financing structure. This means that all
vendors work at cost and there is a separate auditing function to ensure no
one is profiting unfairly from the campaign. All investments and conflicts
of interest would have to be publicly disclosed. The rules of the audit
should include caps on individual salaries and no investor profits from the
campaign function. (For example, this rule would apply to me.)"
If you want to try to run, e.g., graphics and power between your $2000+ MBP and your $700+ 4k monitor (like the LG panel) on a $10 cable ... uh, have fun with that. I hope it works out for you.
How to test an application built on untestable code?
IS THE FAST GREPPING CASE SENSITIVE?
That won't protect your location and identity from constantly being leaked.
Find your ideal customer or business partner
Marketing is hard, reaching your ideal customer is harder. Twitter is a powerful tool marketers use to find customers and engage with prospects, but it still takes a lot of research to find your ideal prospects. It's all about reaching the right person with the right interests in the right industry, etc. Highly targeted outreach is the key.

I've built a tool to help you find exactly the customers you are looking for by allowing you to specify your own weighted formula of all the things that matter in your search. Search filters include: who they're following (indicates some degree of interest), twitter bio, language, follower/friend count, location and whether or not they have contact info listed (email/ phone number) and how active they are.

You can search by job description using the twitter description/bio field and search for "sales", "ceo", "coo", "founder", "community", etc to help target. Combine these filters anyway you want, creating your own targeted search weighting.

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I am talking about the buzzword. For example, <canvas> dates back to 2005, long before the term was commonly used in the first place.
The profiler integration is so cool! I've never seen anything like that in a free tool.

AFAIK RStudio is now being lead by JJ Allaire, same person who did Coldfusion and stuff. Also in there is Hadley Wickham, of ggplot2 / dplyr fame.
Here is the link:
http://www.find70.com/?t=hac
The Deadly Ancient Math Problem Computer Scientists Love
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recent: C, C++, Obj-C, Lua, C#, ASM, iOS (mostly iPhone and iPod)
experienced, but a long time ago: Android, Java, J2ME, PHP, ActionScript

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> aren't people (and all living organisms) the quintessential example of a local decrease in entropy that results in greater overall entropy

Complexity is orthogonal to entropy. The aforementioned barrier-separated box is high in entropy but simple. Upon lifting the barrier, a description of the gas front moving into the vacuum is enormously complex. It is also lower in entropy than the previous, barrier-separated state. Finally, when the gas is diffuse and entropy at its maximum, complexity dips back down.

Life is complex. Plants turn solar radiation into complex living structures; they also diffuse waste heat. Animals eat those plants, make more complex stuff, and generate more diffuse waste heat.
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My layman's understanding is that it's mostly deep learning these days (what a surprise, I'm sure). For example, this article says that deep learning is behind most of Mobileye's computer vision stuff:

http://www.computervisionblog.com/2015/03/mobileyes-quest-to...

(They're the ones who did Tesla's original Autopilot hardware, although not the new stuff they just started shipping.)
idk, seeing a comparison with UL gives me hope that consumer device security doesn't actually have to mean totalitarian dystopia.

Nothing is stopping anyone from building their own non-UL electronic devices, and even distributing them to tinkerers and early adopters. This is much preferable to some steep liability/mandatory insurance regime like automobiles where you've got to Soviet-style register your car and even yourself!

Sensationalists push a panicked narrative about insecure devices, but any disruption of third parties is entirely due to scale. Simply making it so the enormous group of low-effort consumers won't end up with negligently insecure devices would basically erase the problem.
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Once candidates have submitted a complete application, we typically let them know within one week whether we would like to meet in person. Most likely, there are at most two rounds of interviews, the first of which will include some basic coding questions.
Well, here's the deal. They can't do anything as it would be a potential quality of service issue to the end user if GSM were disabled currently. Can't blame the vendors either, they built the hardware years ago that operators continue to operate. It's like wanting to blame Ford and Chevy because you bought a car from the 1950's and it doesn't have airbags.

T-Mobile and AT&T are the national carriers supporting GSM through most of their footprint, AT&T is phasing out their network at the end of the year. T-Mobile moved to A5/3 to try to slow down eavesdropping a bit. There are more rural carriers who aren't in a rush to upgrade and probably still use the older ciphers.

Currently, I am on T-Mobile. There are a few areas that never saw HSPA deployed, and voLTE is not supported on all devices and also suffers separate outages. GSM is needed in those situations as fallback.

Operators would prefer to not have customers complain about outages due to accidentally having GSM turned off. So many phones don't have the option to disable.... though I'd argue now with low band LTE, the footprint is becoming larger than GSM.

I would expect Apple to whitelist 'disable 2G' option sometime in the future for AT&T sims. If not just disabling it outright (unless gov pressure gets in the way)

EDIT: as noted below, some manufacturers/OS you can set 3G only. Android is pokey about it on some devices. With Blackberry 10, I have the option to change network generations on T-Mobile, but not if I put an AT&T sim in.
> Saying we shouldn't punish anyone with the death penalty, because 1 in 25 of them will be innocent, is making a claim about n guilty men.

No. PG's piece leaves open the option for punishment by other means, even if they do turn out to be innocent.

For instance, to take the extreme case, nothing in PG's article says he would have a problem with punishing everyone accused of murder with one year imprisonment, with probability one.

I get that you want to tie PG's piece to the Volokh article, but PG's piece is about this particular form of punishment.

[edited to add: since we're going in circles, I'll stop now]
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Why would you want to use Paypal? It's a terrible service.
It's almost as if their sole purpose isn't to give you free stuff that they took the time to produce. I would think most people on this forum would be understanding and respectful of that...
I would recommend Fastly for caching. It's brilliant.
Well, it all depends on how many people you intend to kill, it's all about the ratio npeopleinnocent/npeopleguilty after all.

The problem is that no matter how small the ratio gets in absolute terms there is only the possibility of killing an innocent person or not killing an innocent person. Even if you assume that everybody is guilty I'd still make the argument that people can genuinely change and that no matter what you do you will not be bringing anybody back that's already dead.

Think of still having the death penalty as a black mark on a civilization. As a nice example have a look at the Philippines and try to work out for yourself if you feel that even if society will be better afterwards it is worth it to kill this many people, many of them in serious trouble already.

The extreme example of that is a society that simply kills everybody that is convicted of a crime, after all, why not, it makes society better, right? Or does it?