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RedCarpetUp.com | Delhi, India| Data Science and UI/UX |consulting

http://www.redcarpetup.com/jobs

RedCarpetUp is on a mission to build the next generation of credit and lending for the unbanked in India.

We are building something around disrupting an entire chunk of banking and credit in India.
We are NOT a payments company. We combine data science and a whatsapp like experience on the mobile to build a credit experience that is easy to use.. and yet manage a very sophisticated lending and recon pipeline.

India is a trillion dollar economy - probably, the second fastest growing economy in the world. We have the fastest growing smartphone userbase.. yet 95% of retail (including e-commerce!) is cash based . The single biggest reason is lack of credit infrastructure - systems like social security number, credit bureaus, etc either do not exist... or are just beginning to take shape.

The need for credit is massive - however the mechanism to originate and manage risk is missing. And that's what RedCarpetUp seeks to solve.

> Data Science
We are looking for our chief data scientist who can set the culture and goalposts around our data science. We are looking for someone who has experience around financial data science (hedge fund, banks, trading systems... Palantir?) and has appetite for graph based analytics.

We are looking for you to build the data science from a validation point-of-view. We will invest a lot of effort into building domain specific backtester... we just dont want to throw algorithms at the wall. We want to have a thoughtful and reasoned out approach towards this.

We do not expect you to be a production quality coder - we already have a team of data engineers who will translate your concepts into production code. But you will need to be able to express your thoughts as R or Python Notebooks.

> UX

We are looking for a UX designer who is focused on the Android platform (oh yeah... those design guidelines). You must not just craft designs, but also be able to look at Mixpanel/Amplitude/Play Store reviews and figure out what's going wrong with UX.
This is not a one shot contract... so you must be able and willing to work with us for a couple of months and be able to respin design.

my email is my profile. or apply directly at http://www.redcarpetup.com/jobs
Are you attempting to imply that cities did not exist 50 years ago? I'll think you'll find that not only did they exist children were far more autonomous in them. The fact is helicopter parents have won the day.
It's not obvious that this couldn't have been produced by any other intensely novel experience at that stage of life, eg. foreign travel.

An intense psychedelic trip could be a good shortcut though.
Against a really clever predator, perhaps with wings? Against accident and illness? Against a change in circumstance such that those overspecialized strategies no longer work sufficiently well or at all?
"Internet connection records – a history of every website that someone has visited, but not every page – will still be collected for MPs"

So at least if a shifty employee feels like taking a look at the data, or leaks the data, or an ISP gets hacked, our MP's browsing history will be exposed too.
FYI, apart from the kernel, OVH's "Ubuntu" image also adds their SSH key to the root user (http://help.ovh.co.uk/InstallOvhKey) and pre-installs some monitoring daemon.
I don't think that we are increasingly living in a world of fiction. We always have. It is human. Kids believe in Santa Claus, adults believe Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. Some believe in Mohammed, Jesus, Jahwe, or Dharma. Some believe they will become rich in Silicon Valley, others on Wallstreet. Some believe in articles from mainstream media, some don't. Many people have dreams for their future, which is just fiction they are telling themselves.

You consider these thoughts dark or cynical. Why? Humans have built an amazing civilization with a global economy and messaging travel across the globe in milliseconds. We did all this as fallible meat bags believing in dreams and telling each other mostly false stories. That is a great story as well. ;)
What should first and second hire get? 1 or 2% doesn't seem crazy after a seed round.
I grew up in the 80s in West Germany, thus I'm acutely aware of that fact - but this was about the arms race between the US and the Soviet Union, not NATO as whole I believe.
1. I wonder how the continuous wavelet transform would compare to the windowed Fourier transform used here. See [1] an python implementation, for example.

2. The size of frequency analysis blocks seems arbitrary. I wonder if there is a "natural" block size based on a song's tempo, say 1 bar. This would of course require a priori tempo knowledge or a run-time estimate.

[1]: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.15.1/reference/generated/...
But Canonical refuses to clarify what you would have to remove in order to make Ubuntu redistributable without asking their permission.

In fact, going further, Mark Shuttleworth has plainly stated that there is no process or tool which can ever be made that would turn an Ubuntu install into something that could be redistributed, unless permission is first sought on a case by case basis:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2015-Novem...

If Canonical wanted people to be able to redistribute something based on Ubuntu, that does not infringe any Canonical trademark, then it would be very simple for them to enable that. But they don't appear to want to enable that. And without that right, Ubuntu is not free software.

Note that Canonical relies on the right to redistribute a modified version of Debian in order for Ubuntu to exist at all.
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Fecal implant would be an obvious solution.
Because facebook has a monopoly on social news, with a network effect tightly locked in. You can wait forever for a competitor to balance them , or break them.
I'm also a manager, and I think asking your manager is the obvious thing to do ... BUT it is a good idea to ask a team-mate first. The C-levels' speech might just be hot air, and everyone could have got similar

FWIW I brought up a shitty bonus directly with our CTO after 2 months with the company I still work for 6 years later. He didn't change it, but judging by how he's behaved towards me since I think he admired my balls
Walmart pitches social programs as part of your compensation package when you apply. They dont exist to help the poor, its there to subsidize wages for the benefit of corporations.
How did you learn how to make them?
A bit off topic, but the phrase "Hack Makers" - is that a thing?
"The former" refers to natural languages, not programming languages. What you cite is one of the primary reasons I called the two classes incomparable. If programming languages worked like natural languages do, Python 3 wouldn't have been controversial, or exist.
On the other hand, Daimler is pretty well established in autonomous driving (specifically trucks). I don't think any of the German car makers are incapable of providing a good electric car but I think Tesla is way ahead of all of them due to their culture and "software mindset" for lack of a better word.

From my outsider looking in perspective I'd say BMW is the furthest along the engineering-software spectrum as they are very active in Usability/UX and some other areas.
This sounds amazing. Poor TCP congestion control algorithms have long been the limiting factor of today's broadband connections never reaching their potential speed. It looks like this was already patched into the kernel for those interested: https://lwn.net/Articles/701149/ - can't wait to experiment with this!
Hit the slack channel and we can chat about what you're looking for.
The fine article describes exactly the environment one would expect of people who run the worlds largest search engine but who still couldnt see a Trump victory coming a mile away. People living in a well cocooned safe space. A superb fit for university students.

Pretty much consolidates my view that AlphaGo was Google's IBM Deep Blue moment ie now past their peak. Their future products and services are going to be increasingly as distant from reality as the people themselves are, and thus much less useful or profitable.
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The chip design. It was a PVR box and an activist group wanted to opensource the DRM system they were using because they knew some important codes were baked into the chip so they took them to court. The court felt that the functionality was shared between the GPL kernel driver and the chip, so the chip fell under GPL.
>Kind of ironic that the internet is being used as a tool for censorship now, given what it used to be.

Facebook != The Internet
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Oh yeah, I don't like it either. Just saying this is another revenue stream for companies.
It can only be accessed with a warrant, so what are the politicians worried about? If they have nothing to hide, they should have nothing to fear.
A Rod at Mach 20 only has four times the energy of a Rod at Mach 10. Not really a game changer (in my first point I used 7km/s which is Mach 20.6).

The vis-viva equation doesn't change what I was saying in my third point. I didn't know about it, thanks for pointing to it, but implicitly I applied it. I found a Hohmann calculator online, and I got that the delta v for going from a 400km orbit to a 100km orbit is about 175m/s. I plugged that in the rocket equation assuming a decent solid propellant (APCP used in the retrorockets of the descent stage of NASA's Curiosity and Spirit, for example, an application similar to the retrorocket needed here) and I got a propellant fraction of 6.7%. Now, at 400km you still have atmospheric drag, and you need a delta v of about 25m/s per year to maintain your orbit. If you want to go to 600km, you pay a price in the deorbiting delta v. At any rate, let's say the optimal poster that brings you down from space is between 5 and 10% of the mass of the Rod. We can agree to tall this "tiny". But this will need at least a revolution around the Earth (at 7km/s that's more than 95 min). The fact that you have plenty of Rods all over the place doesn't help you. A perfectly place Rod will still take 95 min to get from LEO to surface.

If you want to hit the atmosphere in minutes instead of 1.5 hours, you need to pay a price in delta v, but you don't have a problem with the control at hypersonic speeds - we are still in vacuum. Once you hit the atmosphere you need control to hit the target, not to get to the target faster.

Now let's see what happens if you put a few dozen or hundred in space. What can you do with a single Rod? Sure, you can destroy a civilian building, and that could be a skyscraper and you kill a few thousand civilians. I don't think either the US or Russia would adopt such a strategy (North Korea maybe). But in terms of military targets, what good are these? Remember, they are tiny in comparison with nuclear weapons. You can't destroy nuclear bunkers, you can't acquire mobile targets.

If someone could solve the mobile target acquisition problem, these would be really good at killing tanks and armored vehicles. This could be useful, but this is hardly the application the alarmists on the internet have in mind. The typical perceived threat is some type of decapitation strike (alluded by the comment I was answering to). This simply is far from realistic.
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Off topic:

Would it be possible to submit links to walled off websites like the Economist as google searches? Maybe there could be a tick box that, when selected, made the link into a google search like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+empty+the+ketchup+bot...
If you can specify what exactly is unclear, I might be able to clarify something...
I've seen a company where the most likely cause of death for engineers was a heart attack. There were two deaths in a short period (two months or so).

You could see it was a sensitive topic.
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I live in Germany so there's a good selection of chocolate around* :) I'll keep an eye out for these!

* coincidentally, just a few minutes walk from the Rausch factory, where we usually buy our chocolates.
WOW someone else who sees the Lord of the Flies effect. I think children fall into this trap because they want power. At such young ages power is everything. Power over themselves, and over other people. Bullying, cliques, popularity, it's all about power. Those who have it want to expand it, and exert it over others. Those who don't have it, want to stay away from those who do. To fix this, schools must do more to balance the power. Make all kids clean the school. Remove decisions around popularity; random group assignments, etc. Treat bullying just as serious as a kid bringing a weapon to school. Zero tolerance, and order teachers to use their control in the classroom, instead of giving up that responsibility to administrators. Break the power dynamic for these kids, IMHO, by whatever means necessary, and you will fix the system.
Well, the assertion was that the numbers were so high because of the risk of being destroyed quickly by first strikes. As far as I know, most weapons in the Cold War were tactical and stored close to likely crisis points.
We're looking for people (LONDON, ONSITE) who match at least some of the following:

• love C

• love Rust

• salivate at the idea of running large scale distributed compute on bare metal (no Linux)

• enjoy zero/bounded-allocation programming

• create highly reliable, near performance-optimal software that does the least amount of work for a given task

• despise the prevailing big data stack (Spark, Hadoop, Java) and can cogently explain why it's so painful to use

• are undogmatic - skeptical of new viewpoints but can readily admit when they're wrong

• have been programming obsessively from an early age

• have "hacker" backgrounds (3 of our team have grey-ish hat backgrounds, including writing the first bootsector virus before viruses were illegal!)

• have experience writing on top of paravirtualisation APIs

Our team spans the gamut, from systems to distributed systems, with a mix of interesting backgrounds. Salary >= £50k plus early employee equity.

jobs@hadean.com
Sounds like a lack of imaginationg!

I would suggest that it does not compile, and a different operator is required that makes it clear that it isn't 'normal' division. `//` is a good choice, except that is a comment in many languages. Maybe `_/` to indicate that it is a sort of 'floor division'.
Is adding root SSH keys common practice in the hosting world?
Ask HN: Do you work for an ISP which logs customer traffic?
Just wondering because of the recent UK news about the Investigatory Powers Act.

If so:

1. How do you log the data?
2. What data do you log?
3. Who "is allowed" to access it?
4. Who "technically can" access it?
5. What does the law say about it in your jurisdiction?
6. What safeguards are in place to protect the data?
7. How do you dispose of the data when it is "out of date"? Do you?
8. Has any data every been access illegally to your knowledge?
9. Has your ISP ever been hacked to your knowledge?

Ideally you would name the ISP, but it's understandable if you want to remain anonymous.
OP - if you followed this joker's advice and took instant offense at something that could have been a mistake or company policy, then as your manager I'd be delighted if you quit. I don't people like this on my team
That's different. MS wants you to upgrade to at least IE11 (or Edge) because IE10 is no longer supported [1], and keeping using it is dangerous. (But maybe you cannot upgrade because of !@#$% corporate policies.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_10 says "On January 12, 2016, support ended for IE10 on Windows operating systems capable of running Internet Explorer 11, due to new support policies dictating that only the newest version of IE available for a supported version of Windows will be supported. IE10 will only be supported on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard."
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Since when is the commercial aspect of art about talent?
I hear the Truffle+Graal combination is getting very good results about Ruby. Here is video about it (pointed to the missing-method example): [1]

They're hitting 35x in some benchmarks [2]. Most benefits being in workloads where Ruby has to continuously talk to C; the result-passing part gets compiled away.

It is available in Java 9, if I'm not mistaken. LLVM IR bytecode ingestion is in preparations too [3].

[1] https://youtu.be/b1NTaVQPt1E?t=48m17s
[2] http://jruby.org/bench9000/
[3] https://github.com/graalvm/sulong
Who is "the name," who is the "he" you're referring to in that sentence?
Makers of a hack, that is "hack makers" - is grammatically okay. The title is in title case, so the capitalization of the text is meaningless.
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He is referring to the allegations of sexual abuse against Tor developer Jacob Applebaum.
The internet has always been about safe spaces. One of the great things I loved about usenet in the 90s was that different groups offered safe spaces where I could be myself among like-minded people.
Unfortunately, society has made its choice that art itself is completely worthless unless artists engage in person cults. It'd be really nice if concepts like Pinterest could change this (in small ways, I'm sure they did).
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Most likely they grab a box of 2-3 rats, take it to a procedure room, and perform surgeries on all the rats in sequence. It's a bit on the lazy end, since you could always do a surgery on one rat, take it back to the housing room, and get the next one. Some labs do not permit animals to observe another's surgery or euthanasia. The rules are more lax for Mus musculus and Rattus rattus, than for other mammalian species, in the US.
It will be hard for people to vote for better politicians, so long as those politicians who are allowed to represent an existing party have to be selected by the party itself.
Silicon carbide is a good name.
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I am with you on that track. Funny also to see how much money non the less ist generated (and used/needed) via advertising. It is the larges part of the monetary cake by far that is coming fromEZ Gebühren" (what I have to pay as a citizen) is somewhat around 1/7th of the overall budget (as far as I remember).
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You defend your invocation of one of Appelbaum's ideas before you actually invoke it. It's a bit cart-before-horse, and took me a couple of passes to parse, too. If you're that concerned about people taking the source as an impeachment of the idea, consider leaving out the former and describing only the latter; citing Appelbaum here adds only a perceived need to defend the concept, which should stand on merit alone if it has some.
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The slice size is indeed quite arbitrary, and knowing the BPM would help, but isn't reliable either (various tempos, rubato for classical etc.)
Making int/int an illegal operation would solve some problems, but I doubt it would make things less confusing.
OMR is under Apache License. https://github.com/eclipse/omr
Hm, can be related to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaith_Pharaon

(last seen in Hungary, likely being involved with the prime minister; there was some scandal about it)
The reality is that they own your hardware and can do whatever they want. But most hosts are more subtle about this.
> Once I learnt more about De Beers, I'm wondering if there is any other product that one could pull of such stunt and make themselves billionaires?

Various sports. Formula One, for instance, is the epitome of racing despite there being plenty of other ways to race cars.

Bottled water. Competes with a spout that everyone has several of in their home, yet people still pay up for it.
Sorry I wasn't very clear. I meant that the PHP OOP syntax is just needlessly bloated. Meanwhile ES6 or ES7's syntax actually makes developers' lives easier while still being fairly readable, when you have some coding standards.
I guess the spectogram behaves like an image in that translation of any feature by an arbitrary distance (dx,dy) preserves its predicting quality.

But please correct me if I'm wrong.
People forget two things when they quote Orwell as evidence for perma-cynicism:

1) Orwell as himself a democratic socialist, writing on behalf of democratic socialism.

2) The level of stratification between high, middle, and low varies massively across time and place. More egalitarian societies have actually existed.
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I know that years of experience is just supposed to be a guideline in these cases, as we all know that YoE doesn't directly correlate with ability to perform.

But the difference between your Senior Engineers and your Engineers is 1 year of experience? That seems off.
It would have been interesting to know the history of that law. Maybe if we had that context it would make much more sense.
The author completely missed the point. It is pretty clear in the Eevee's post (hell, it is even in title) that she isn't saying that C is bad per see, however she thinks that modern higher level languages copying C design parts is silly because it really is. Heck, Java has a god dammit reserved goto keyword for the sake of it.

For sure, the author takes the most controversy points of Eevee's points, that AFAIK are mostly (her) personal preferences. However it does not enter in the interesting parts of her argument, like weak typing, C-style loops* or textual inclusion.

This post was much less interesting read than Eevee's post, that makes me wonder if the author did a click-baiting title just to try to get some clicks on his blog following Eevee's post...

*: really, this is the most retarded thing of the whole C-family languages; it kinda makes sense in C, however if you're writing a modern language that only supports this kinda of loop (pre-ES6 Javascript comes in mind), you're retarded.
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> There are hundreds of millions of gamers on consoles and PCs, and many of them buy hardware accessories to improve their game play. However, the vast majority of the top selling peripherals are $30-50.

They obviously don't focus on PC players. Graphics cards should count as a peripheral and mice and keyboards are above the $50 price point for most PC gamers.
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Both look nice, but it also looks like neither can manage app-level permissions (enable/disable Location) and preferences (block Notifications)
Location: San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose, California

Remote: Yes (more like "depends on opportunity, but prefer in-person")

Willing to relocate: Yes (more like "willing to travel")

Technologies: iOS, Swift, Django, Python, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Objective-C, Heroku, DevOps, redis, AWS, Ubuntu, SQL, full-stack web, mobile

Bizniz: sales development, customer development, business development

Experience: I've had hacker and hustler jobs in both YC-backed robotics startups and publicly-traded software companies

Misc: Security clearance & full work authorization

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> I have never seen a startup offer gold plans or contribute towards family premiums (just individual). Large enterprises/Fortune 500|50s, but never a startup.

Wouldn't that rule out employing anybody that isn't single?
Yes. Tesla and others are the ones that are forcing them to act. If not for Tesla, they would just not change anything. It's easier.