skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next Level Scholars | www.nextlevelscholars.com | Los Angeles, CA | 110% REMOTE

Do you have what it takes?

We are looking for an amazing Growth Hacker with a proven track record and a passion and love for data and analytics :) A Plus: You have a big data tshirt like one of these (https://datashirts.spreadshirt.com/).

If you want to make a difference in tens of thousands of students lives, and be remembered by their grandchildren's children then work for us!

Looking for an opportunity to show the world how amazing a growth hacker you are? You found it!

We are looking for the best and brightest to join our team long term!

Job Perks

1) Competitive pay, we reward talented people!
2) You get to work with an amazing team and we like to work hard AND have fun!
3) 110% Remote, YES! We do not micro-manage!
4) Unlimited Donuts, j/k :)
5) You get to help tens of thousands of students!

Apply for this position by emailing hiring@nextlevelscholars.com with the following information, please answer every question:

1) What is your favorites SEO/growth hacking tool?
2) What is your daily growth hacking process?
3) How do you track your success/failure?
4) Please provide 2-3 examples of proven successful growth hacks you have done?
5) What is your favorite Growth Hacking/marketing book? Youtube channel?
6) What is your favorite vacation place?
7) Do you have any growth hacking in EdTech experience? If so please explain...
> GPL is not about maximizing adoption, it's about maximizing freedom of your work and anything based upon it.

Yes, but you should add that you are talking about the RMS definition of freedom, not about the word freedom as it is generally understood.
Argh, that idea is great in dense cities, but in suburban towns this type of mixed use has failed miserably. The customers from the housing aren't nearly enough to sustain the shops. The shops need a lot of foot traffic to survive, or a lot of parking, and neither usually exists, so the shops quickly fail.

We have seen this in Cupertino multiple times. There tends to be a lot of lunch time walking and cycling to restaurants by Apple employees, but that is declining as Apple consolidates their far-flung buildings and opens more Caffè Macs with subsidized lunches. At night, those Apple employees leave on buses (or in cars) and the restaurants struggle and eventually close.
Yes, that is pretty much what I meant.
I have a project where I "reverse engineered" this world class poker bot: http://www.slumbot.com. I have something akin to a "what would slumbot do?" API where you can enter the parameters for a heads up poker situation (hole cards, aggression, etc.) and get back a decision. It's far from perfect (and the code is a mess) but it worked surprisingly well in practice. I don't have time to work on it since I've started a new job and online heads up poker is kind of dead at low stakes but it might be useful to someone? Drop me an email via my profile if you're interested.
All of the above reasons are why I stopped engaging with the aforementioned "natural fallacy" folks long ago. It's painful, and seems to get nowhere regardless of how many facts are throw at them.
Maybe we can use it on this election?
I just think that GMO cultivars should be required to be identified the way chemicals are, and meet similar safety standards to other food additives. In many ways that's what they are: an added chemical to a standard product. (Though, I support identifying them by bundles, ie, cultivars.) Do you think that's an unfair standard -- that a new technology be labled like other technologies, so people can be aware that it's happening?

I get that you want to manipulate people and not allow them choice "for the right reasons", but do you really not understand why Im not okay with that? I can outline the history of that thought, and the dire consequences, if you'd like.

You also misunderstood the prior. The prior is merely on "this technology will be dangerous to use for the first N years". I think that's a perfectly fine prior to have, and science has a history of underestimating those risks because they're (understandably) confident in their work (and bear almost none of the cost).

No one is saying scientists have to always be right, just we should be cognizant of their systematic optimism about technology maturity and risk. And therefore, we should be about 3-4 decades more cautious than scientists call to be on technology rollovers of key infrastructure.

Which, given when they started to be rolled out, would be a couple decades from now for total adoption of GMOs.

Ed: I suppose my question about GMOs is this -- if there's no improper motive, what's the hurry to make the transition? We're not starved for land for farming in the US, farming is making acceptable profits, etc. We have the resources to easily sustain a culture wide trial period of a few more decades (a generation from the start), where I believe that GMOs will be able to mature and show their safety and benefit.

What I don't get is why most GMO proponents go "Nah, fuck safety, science didn't mess up this time." They won't benefit in any appreciable way, only companies of which they're not owners will, but they're taking on the risk for someone else's reward.

PR, eh?
Super Size Me was ridiculous, I bought into it too, but he was going out of his way to eat unhealthy at McDonald's. Even McDonald's puts nutritional information out there and doesn't recommend the daily intake of calories that guy was making.
Need Feedback: Mobile Application for Collecting Augmented Reality Vouchers
Hi Hacker News, Im thinking about an idea for a mobile application and I wanted your advice. Here is what is does: You can collect and share a Voucher or Coupon, that is positioned in front of a Retail Store. The Design is in 3D in an Augmented Reality Interface, like in PokemonGo. A fun way to get people in offline Stores with Gamification.
What do you think? Is it feasible? Would you use a App like this?

Thx
CB
If you hold out your thumb between your eye and the sun, such that your thumb appears to just block the edges of the sun, then you will be effectively blocking the entire set of overlapping wavefronts emanating from the sun (that would have formed multiple "pixels" forming the sun image on your retina), preventing their arrival at your cornea and ultimately entering your pupil. Notice that your thumb is about about 1.5ft from your eye.

Could you emulate that with a transparent LCD display? Yes, but that display would need to be large and about 1.5ft from your eye. Not really practical for a near eye (head mounted display).

If you try to accomplish this occlusion directly with an LCD microdiplay (such as those found in many projectors) in a near eye application, at best you end up with a blackish smudge with very fuzzy edges. To see this in action, look at Figure 11.D in the following paper:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~maimone/media/pinlights_siggraph_2014...
I rather doubt it in ND since I've seen them all summer doing it at the farmer's market and a cop is parked across the street most times. Plenty of groups still have bake sales.
That's really interesting. You are right. As far as I remember, though, I've never seen one in a shop. I'm going to go to the electronics store today, so I'll have a peek for them. I know that they sell routers and and things (and in fact I will probably buy one of their routers today). Hmmm... Definitely something to consider.

Edit: I take it back. Should have did some poking around before I posted. NEC sells the Lavie model in Japan, which I have definitely seen. Looks like they are filling in that middle tier that I like as well. I wonder how well it supports Linux...
To claim that selective breeding and transgenic modifications are the same is disingenuous.
Canadian man may have found Cold War 'lost nuke'
"...three years in prison for writing defamatory messages that are re-posted 500 times or more. They can also be jailed if offending posts are viewed more than 5,000 times.

First time one of those "if 1000 people like this, then..."-style posts actually holds true.
2017 Bentley Bentayga vs. 2016 Tesla Model X P90D Ludicrous
NP hardness is defined in terms of worst-case hardness, not average case hardness. As long as there exists even one instance that makes your algorithm take non-polynomial amount of time to terminate, P won't be equal to NP.
"Your vote will only be counted if you write 'YES' or 'NO' in the space provided."

"Su voto sólo se contará si escribe 'YES' o 'NO' en el espacio proporcionado."

"phiếu bầu của bạn sẽ chỉ được tính nếu bạn viết 'YES' hoặc 'NO' trong không gian được cung cấp."

"如果你写您的投票将只能算作“YES”或“NO”的空间提供。"

Google Translate used, so these translations are probably wrong. But the concept is the same; you only accept a particular response and provide instructions in the native language on how to respond correctly. All other responses are discarded.
Inside JPL: NASA's Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research Facility
One of the main differences in GPLv3 versus older versions are clauses intended to make sure that this doesn't happen – this is the so-called 'Tivoisation' issue, where manufacturers are nominally compliant with the GPL (sharing changes to the code) but don't actually allow that code to be used on devices.

To quote the license:

“Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods, procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User Product from a modified version of its Corresponding Source. The information must suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of the modified object code is in no case prevented or interfered with solely because modification has been made.

If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with, or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), the Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied by the Installation Information. But this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM).

It's this sort of thing that's really important for 'Free' software.
"printf debugging" is just glorified experimentation. How would you proceed differently?
Actually, there is a slightly higher consensus (89% of scientists) in GMO safety than there is for human-influenced climate change (88% of scientists).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/post_8915_b_6572130...
I may regret this comment in the future, but Magic Leap represents the worst of tech to me. Extreme secrecy while at the same time pushing vapid press releases in the media without sharing any real information.

Either collaborate and share or be secret and reveal, but this is the worst combination. If there was a way to short this company I would do it.
I freelance on .net projects for 70€ per hour, now I also doing e-commerce for myself which gets me excited now.

Also busy with GPS webapplications on asp.Net mvc (embedded device who track trucks and the refrigerator °), WordPress sites, NodeJS ( MVP's),,..

I have a Cordova app before I go to clients, currently landing on too much work because of it ( it's a great conversation starter and builds trust). Will up hourly rates soon, but have a lot of work the next months ( mostly creating webshops for clients). I also work full-time.

My webshop currently lands me 500€/ month without marketing, it's something totally different than full-stack development.

I also did something with Pokemon Go to learn how Facebook worked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12858993 i had the #2 fb page in Belgium. We did events to earn some money with it, it's the #1 rated comment ;)

Currently notified all me clients that i will probably have some delay, but nothing was planned for this month. I do put longer hours currently then i want for now, just to make sure everything will land on time... ( 16 hours per day at the moment, hope soon everything will be back to normal)

Also use a lot of jenkins and automation tools, i hate manual labor. My collegues use 4 tools i wrote for myselve every day. It just takes off a hell of time of lookup up usernames, passwords, phone numbers, logging hours, ... I guess you only need to use it in a "ux friendly" enough way, but just don't sink too much time creating it ;)
12,000 engineers evaluated – Triplebyte
Commercial property taxes are also fixed by Prop 13. In fact that was the impetus for Prop 13 in the first place.

In fact, it's even worse for commercial property taxes because commercial property is rarely re-assessed even when it is sold.

It's business taxes that cities like from commercial property, and sales taxes that they like from retail stores.

Despite San Jose building lots of housing downtown, they've not done too well at attracting businesses.
Hard Work, Little Reward
It's pretty clear that a second, local signing key is absolutely not something Apple wants in its iOS ecosystem, because that would open up sideloading of apps bypassing the app store.
Ex-manager (now VP) here. I've never thought poorly of someone raising the topic of their value to the company or their current salary. Doesn't mean I've always agreed with their assessment, but there's no hard feelings on my side.

By the time you go out and get another bona-fide offer that you're considering taking, I and our company have already lost the game if that's the first I hear about it. I'd much rather hear about it before you've invested that amount of time and energy into it and don't hold it against you regardless of the outcome. If we're talking about it every 3 weeks, it's a problem, of course.

I've also encouraged some very good employees to go interview and see what's out there. This is typically when a potential new role is fundamentally different from what I can offer. (Higher role at a smaller company perhaps, or a job in their home town, or a brand new startup with some past coworkers.) I've had all four outcomes (employee stays-no change, employee gets offer-we counter-they stay, employee gets offer-we counter-they leave, employee gets offer-we don't counter-they leave).

I also don't buy into the "never accept a counter-offer; they'll just be sharpening the knife to fire you later" line of thinking. If I didn't want you here, I wouldn't counter.

If you think of this whole process as a ruthless move in a game, I think you're thinking about wrong. You bring value to the table; the company brings value to the table; we freely exchange that value, making both of us better off.
I am a millenial that makes decent money and lives in manhattan. The following are true of me:

1) I sold my car when I moved here, and I usually walk or take Uber.

2) I sold many of my clothes when I got here (because my closet is small) and now use Rent the Runway Unlimited to have a revolving supply of designer clothes.

3) I do not have a washer or dryer so I use an app called Cleanly to pick up my clothes, wash, and return them.

4) I do not have a dishwasher or a microwave, so I never bought many dishes/utensils, and I order most meals I eat at home from seamless or PostMates.

5) I don't have a vaccum, a broom, a mop, a dustpan, cleaning supplies, etc so I use an app called Handy that sends a cleaner that has these things to my apartment every two weeks.

So, technically I own less things. But only because I can afford to pay to rent them (uber, rent the runway) or pay someone else to make up for not owning them (postmates/cleanly/handy). I imagine that the same is true for many of the people who live the lifestyle the author is describing. So in a way, I can see her point: we're not really minimalist, we're just rich enough to not have to own stuff.

But on the other hand, isn't it cool that technology has created a world where I don't have to own all this stuff to have a convenient, clean, fashionable life? I am not even a minimalist but I do think that the aesthetic idea of minimalism has influenced some of the technological advances that have led to some of the most innovative "shared economy" and peer to peer service companies. And if the people who came up with the ideas for these apps want to live in a white apartment with succulents, who cares?
I hope they can deliver what they are promising.

I remain highly skeptical.
Are you a fan of 'Hot Fuzz' or just enjoy the plant? Either way, I would have to second this recommendation. It's nice to look at, hardy, responsive to watering (everything just perks up), and doesn't require a ton of light.
9 cents/kWh is very cheap. I pay over 13 cents/kWh.
> Too bad Apple won't let me do that unless I'm running it on their overpriced, under-powered hardware with the one supported configuration: running the Mac OS as the host OS.

Somewhat agree: If Apple considers iOS the current "cash cow", then they should just open-source "macOS" and thereby expand its potential userbase. They could even charge to "certify" certain hardware or VM configs for it, while leaving the rest of the troubleshooting on uncertified hardware to the masses.

> You can run it anywhere you want without restriction.

Hahahaha no. I can copy my entire MacOS install/drive to literally any other Mac, or copy it to an external drive and hook it up to ANY Mac, and it boots just fine off it. It doesn't force me to re-validate, it doesn't force me to call Apple, it essentially doesn't assume I'm guilty until proven innocent. You absolutely positively cannot do this with Windows, which makes moving installs (such as to new PC's) ridiculously painful (to any experienced Mac user such as myself). And having to revalidate every time you upgrade your own hardware? LOL.

> It's also a vastly superior OS both technically

OK now you're literally smoking crack. The OS with the most security holes, by far, in history, is "vastly superior." The OS with such incredible UX oversights as completely removing the ability to shut down from the UI if you enable Fast Boot mode (which is really just a renamed "hibernate"), is superior for Pro users? That's just my most recent encounter of hundreds. LOLOLOL. (I use a Windows machine for gaming. Because that's all it's good for- it's too fucking naggy to tolerate if I want to get any actual work done. And forced reboots without saving the entire state of the apps you're running are fucking stupid... at least MacOS has a facility to save the entire state of a running application if there is EVER a need to involuntarily reboot... Which there almost never is.)

> For those that enjoy UNIX - Apple is still shipping 10 year old GNU utils with the Mac OS

Apparently you don't use a Mac at all for development or you'd know this: Everyone who's anyone who enjoys UNIX dev on MacOS has long since moved on to Homebrew http://brew.sh/ which puts all those latest utils into userspace.
"Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega" by Gregory Chaitin [0] was my introduction to the theory of computability [1]. I found it enjoyable and approachable.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6FJbwggW1sC

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability_theory
The Genius of Winding Paths
That's true. I'm in India and I pay 30% of that as taxes. So, basically I make $24.5 dollars after taxes. I usually charge $50-60 an hour for PHP work and I charged $80 an hour for a small ReactJS project last month. The only problem is I don't know where to find clients.
I'm saying that selective breeding has literally produced a toxic potato: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/25/the-case-of-the-poison-pota...

And of course I won't claim they're the same thing. They're two different ways to the same goal, though.

How much time and data would convince you? You say you want to opt out until there is more. How much more?
You eat on "lunch time" because you got used to eat at the same time. For some it is 11:30 for others 14:00. It's just a habit.
Everything you wrote ONLY makes sense because you know how Cut works.

It's literally affirming the consequent as applied to UI design and isn't helpful at all.
You can not earn more then someone else is willing to pay .
You can consider them the "same" thing if you regard the asterisk as binding closer to the var instead of the type.

Which the declaration syntax hints at:

int i, *p;
Scaling Your SaaS Database with Postgres
Americans do come up with the best dumb arguments why their busted idiotic system is better.

My "favorite" is "Well farenheit just makes more sense for humans".
> have to pay the premium for the touch bar although most of the time I use the machine it is closed and connected to my display and keyboard

Well at least this one is optional. I'm hoping more people opt for the function-key model, so they actually release one with 4 usb-c ports instead of 2. Why did they do that, anyway?
This ^

Syntax and data structures are usually the easiest part of learning a new language. Leveraging implicit conventions and trying to build anything useful is much harder.

This is still a useful reference for anyone looking to jump into C.
I used onlive for a year or so and really enjoyed it. There were some issues, but even the multiplayer FPSs were playable. Most of the time I was playing single player games that were less twitchy, and if you had done a blind test I probably wouldn't have been able to tell you if it was running locally or not.
Hi, Stewart here from the Firebase team.

We released a C++ API for the Realtime Database earlier today targeting iOS and Android, you can get started with it here https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/cpp/start

Using the C++ API within Unreal (assuming you're targeting mobile) is a little tricky as we have dependencies upon Android resources (e.g AARs) that can be hard to integrate into Unreal's build system. You would probably need to list the set of transitive dependencies (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firebase-talk/15SdQA8xtnc/aw...).

It would be informative for us to understand which platforms you're targeting and which features of Firebase (we support more than the Realtime Database) you would consider using.

Cheers,
Stewart
XAI explainable artificial intelligence expert
Hi, we are an early stage start up doing some pretty incredible things in the automotive space. Looking for an AI software engineer preferably conversant in the world of XAI logic and algorithm creation. This role will be a leadership one and with share of equity. Please do get in touch if interested at this email arshia@thirdspaceauto.com. Thanks!
Relevant HN discussion about the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12031253
> To put that into context, companies at the size of Airbnb or Dropbox would expect to do technical interviews with approximately 50 engineers a month.

This reminds me of an anecdote from when I graduated undergrad — just looking around the room and seeing how few CS / CEG majors a medium-sized midwest school graduates in a year. It was 100–200 in total. Mind you, that's all graduates, not just the good ones. The talent pool is small.
Docker for mac has replaced homebrew for me. Run anything under the sun in a temporary container and mount the current directory. Works great and is very nice isolating everything
I'd vote against it.

Mostly cause it's lame though.
Are these stand-alone, or in a company with other service offerings?
The game industry urgently needs to find out how to satisfy the taste of art historians who like feminist art. Maybe a first person shooter where you play a vagina that shoots with tampons?

That said, while I love game, only very few games are really fun to me these days. It seems only ever few year there is a game that captivates me. Discovery is another problem: maybe there are more good games, and I just don't hear about them.
e-mail field isn't displayed publicly.
[0] http://perl6intro.com/
True, they'd need a way to limit it to the GPL components for iOS devices, which makes it a lot more complex and ugly to implement. (I had mostly been thinking about macbooks, where the feature might be an easier sell)