skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is what Apple does: they are having to tell something because their practice is to only show when they are ready. They are getting enough pressure from impatient people that simply showing when ready is insufficient. Apple doesn’t do vapourware launches (for the most part).
As a late Wii U owner, I'm willing to wait until the Switch proves to be a success. The horror stories of the Wii U's launch, combined with lackluster support and signs that Nintendo didn't know how to adapt to the Internet age haven't exactly been mitigated by what we know of the Switch so far: no web browser, no Virtual Console nor movie services like Netflix at launch. Everything smells rushed...in the meantime, I got a PS4 to try the VR and have been more than entertained by the system's regular selection. It's surprising to me that Nintendo couldn't score Overwatch or a Rocket League, two of the best multi platform games currently out, which would go a long way in showing the purported value of console-power in handheld.
I am responding to what you said. I'm saying that it's wrong, which you don't want to hear. Instead, you want to accuse me of not reading the article carefully.

The context of that paragraph was that the author had visited the city before, in the context of a political campaign, and this time wasn't. Rather, this time the author was there to look into the change in culture caused by the decline in city centers in provincial cities. And that is the last mention of national politics in the article. There's a bit of discussion of city-level politics in the creation of shopping malls outside of the city center, but nothing more about national politics.

So I've read the article carefully enough to be confident in my assertion - that you are projecting your perspective onto the article. You're taking what is only peripherally mentioned, and trying to make it a central issue.
First, as others pointed out, you will need a decent internet connection, with minimized packet loss and jitter. Most metro area data connections and quality WiFi access points will be sufficient. However, the wifi router that comes from your provider and stuffed away on the other side of the house might not work very well.

Secondly, good codecs make a world of difference. This is where I'll add the disclaimer that I'm in the collab side at Cisco. But I have the opposite experience using systems on my phone, my mac and with big telepresence units: the quality in all 3 settings far surpasses what's on PSTN, and if you're using good speakers or headsets, you can really appreciate the good quality.

In your case, it sounds like you might benefit from a better network access point at home.

Shameless plug #1: check out Cisco Spark. We still have some rough edges but I think the call quality is what you're looking for. I'm able to carry on a call and switch from wifi to LTE without dropping, or turn on VPN in the middle of a call and just get a few seconds pause before it recovers.

https://www.ciscospark.com/

Shameless plug #2: check out the new Sparkboard. It's got 12 microphones and does beamforming in order to filter our room noise away from whoever is speaking.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/collaborati...
That happened in Chicago in 2011 - a blizzard caused hundreds of cars to get stuck on South Shore Drive. I'm not sure if it wasn't warned or people were just stubborn.
Yeah Hangouts on Chrome forces webp, even if you have hardware h264 support, whereas Hangouts on Firefox / Safari will happily use your hardware h264 support.

This is also why Macs get scorchingly hot when using Hangouts on Chrome.
Really disappointed with Google more and more everyday. AOL 2.0?
Uh, the modern codecs are already using linear prediction and correction. (essentially a rephrased more advanced perceptron) This is why SILK (Skype), Speex and Opus (SILK-derived part) can work even mildly well on bad links. They predict syllables and also long term speech characteristics. Going to full sentences or words is much harder and not likely to bring gain other than free subtitles. And would require really good voice recognition comparable to Siri at least. Good luck running that on an embedded device reliably.

Remember, the codec has to handle less than 20 ms latency. Running a sizable ANN (fast) or HMM in that time is not easy or even possible. A small one will be no good for various speakers.

Instead the codecs use various specialised error hiding tricks and adaptive strategies.

Heck, Codec2, one of the strongest voice codecs around could be used if all else fails. It is beginning to be used in SDR and amateur radio - optimised for availability and intelligibility not quality. It would be nice to have a variant integrated with CELT for higher quality.
Because it's the reality of things.
IIRC the Switch doesn't ship with a web browser at all. This could change down the line, of course.
InComm Digital Solutions | UI/UX Designer, Systems Engineer, Database Engineer, Software Engineer, SQL Server DBA | Portland, Oregon | ONSITE

InComm Digital Solutions (IDS) redefines the connection between merchants and their customers through our stored value and mobile gifting solutions. As the pioneer of digital gift card delivery, IDS helps our customers leverage their gift card programs in new ways to drive sales. The IDS platform supports gift cards sales through e-commerce, social media, promotional, and B2B toolsets. Gift cards can be delivered physically by mail or digitally to a recipient's email or mobile device.

Benefits:
* Opportunity to solve interesting and challenging problems within a growing industry
* Community of strong software developers within a collaborative and supportive Agile environment
* Healthy work environment, including in-suite bike storage, showers and standing desks
* Downtown location with lots of windows and good views
* Easy access to public transportation and company provided transit pass (TriMet or C-TRAN) or parking pass
* Fully catered breakfast on Tuesdays and lunch on Thursdays, with company snacks and beverages all the time
* Competitive compensation, including health, dental, vision, 401K with company matching and PTO

Tech stack: C#/.NET (currently Windows only but hoping to work with .NET core soon), Microsoft SQL Server, RabbitMQ, Redis, RavenDB, AngularJS but moving towards React + Redux, HTML/CSS/JS, Docker, Puppet

Openings:

* Senior Database Engineer: https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6102/senior-database-e...
* Software Engineer: https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6091/software-engineer...
* Senior UI/UX Designer: https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6021/senior-ui-ux-desi...
* Senior Systems Engineer: https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/6020/senior-systems-en...
* Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack/.NET): https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/5845/senior-software-e...
* SQL Server DBA: https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/5729/sql-server-dba/jo...

Interview process: Usually a phone screen to run through some basic technical questions, then (depending on the role) a small take-home assignment that we discuss at an on-site interview, as well as some discussion of past projects and simple whiteboarding (no binary search trees). Onsite there's usually two sessions with a pair of engineers in each, as well as a more non-technical session or two with managers.

Email me at the incomm.com domain with rfaaberg as the username if you're interested.

See all current job postings: https://careers-incomm.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchKeyw...
I'm more interested in how low "low brightness" is.

I will never forget my Blackberry Bold 9600. Full brightness was quite bright. No brightness was also quite bright. Not great for checking your phone in the middle of the night without sunglasses.
The enterprise market would be the least likely place you'd find Firefox.

I'd guess IE, Chrome, Firefox in that order. Maybe Edge in there but since it's new a lot of Enterprises will be fearful.
Intersection Co. www.intersection.com | Head of Content & AdTech Engineering | New York, NY | onsite | Full time

https://boards.greenhouse.io/intersection/jobs/589266#.WLb5F...

As Head of Content + AdTech Engineering, reporting into the Head of Engineering, you will work with Intersection executives and team members from across the organization to create a technology team focused on designing, building, and operating a next-generation platform bringing digital content into the physical world. You’ll be a key part of efforts to shape, develop and manage our strategic capabilities, implement and manage customer and product solutions, leveraging creative capabilities, data, and infrastructure across owned and operated properties including LinkNYC.

Key Initiatives:

Execute the “AdLab” - a rapid-iteration focused go-to-market product development team
Create an enhanced Content + Advertising solution for Airports and Commuter Transit
Evolve an international Adtech platform from multiple legacy technology solutions
Make data a first-class product capability: targeting, measurement, and analysis

Key Responsibilities:

Develop relationships with executives and stakeholders
Develop a deep understanding of the business environment and strategy
Identify technology and product opportunities within the company and marketplace
Develop products bringing digital capabilities to physical advertising
Lead the recruitment, development and management of technology and staff
Shepherd agile practices and process at scale across products and projects
Keep abreast of emerging behaviors, technologies, and companies across the Advertising and AdTech landscapes
RBC ACE | Toronto, Luxembourg | Full-time, ONSITE | https://jobs.rbc.com/ca/en/search-results?keywords=ACE

Openings:

- Full Stack Technical Lead

- Big Data Developer

- Full Stack Developer

- Exploratory Tester

What is the opportunity?

RBC Investor and Treasury Services (I&TS) has developed a multi-year business transformation strategy, Advanced Client Engagement (ACE), that focuses on aligning our clients’ requirements with system enhancements designed to improve their overall experience, enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk.

What you will do?

Design, develop and test a large-scale, custom distributed software system using latest Java and JavaScript technologies: Spring Boot, Angular and Cloud Foundry.
Employ agile development practices including test and deployment automation as well as Continuous Integration using Jenkins to improve overall execution speed and product quality.
Be a technology advocate and share expertise with other team members.
Be a key partner to the business and the rest of the team throughout the delivery cycle.
Think through challenging and interesting problems and solve them with your team.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
Leaders who support your development through training and study groups.
Be a key enabler of RBC agile and technology transformation.
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

For more information please email us at ACEResourcing@rbc.com
Not to mention: the US continue billions in dollars of farm subsidies for corn, wheat and cotton making them artificially cheap and thus making farmers of other nations (especially India) noncompetitive in the global market.
Consider that the K80 gives you more FLOPS-per-$ (just the chip cost, ie. CapEx), and also more FLOPS-per-watt (ie. OpEx).
The Nissan Leaf has a front center charge point, it's pretty convenient.
Show HN: Httpflow – A http packet sniffer based on Linux/Darwin
The Elixir Fountain - https://soundcloud.com/elixirfountain

Dot Net Rocks - https://www.dotnetrocks.com/

Startups For the Rest of Us - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Bootstrapped Web - http://bootstrappedweb.com/
This might be the first sub $1000 card to drive games at 4K above 60fps, so that's kind of cool. Considering that there are a few 4K 144Hz IPS monitors releasing this year the card lines up nicely.
I lived in Wellington for two and a half years. It's the most beautiful city I've ever lived in.

That being said, most of the tech is centralized in just a few shops. Everything is contracted out to Datacom, Catalyst, Frondie, Solnet, etc. etc.

I mean companies do have their own IT staff, but just due to the shortage of talent, a lot gets contracted out, including tons of government stuff.

If you're under 30 and a US citizen, you can get a Holiday Work Visa and live/work there for a year. (This is how I started out, before switching to another visa). If you're a citizen of a commonwealth state, I think you can get a two year visa to most other commonwealth countries (including AU/NZ).

Oh and Wellington is the windiest city in the world. This is not an exaggeration. Oh and expect at least one earthquake a year too.
Nope, they are a perfect company who can do no wrong on HN. Just try to point out something they screw up, an army will show up to obliterate you immediately. I guess this is the new phase of marketing, just make sure you dominate discussions everywhere, all the time.
why does the example have md5 and sha1?
Bainbridge Health | Developer, QA, SRE | Philadelphia, PA | ONSITE | Fulltime | http://bainbridgehealth.com

A spinout of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Bainbridge Health is making the hospital a safer place for patients. We are building a data analytics and clinical intelligence system for hospital medication safety management. We are integrating transactional data from the multiple devices and systems involved in the medication ordering, preparation, supply chain, and administration pipeline, turning siloed data into actionable insight and preventing errors before they ever reach patients.

Our stack: Python, Go, React, Kubernetes, BigQuery, GCP. You'll be getting in early, so you'll have a chance to help shape and grow all of this.

Our office is in Center City Philly, convenient to transit and all the good things a major city can offer.

You can apply via our careers page, http://www.bainbridgehealth.com/careers, or by emailing me using the address in my profile.
It seems a bit silly that they made the cheapest component replaceable. You could, without much extra cost, have all the benefits by just duplicating the controls.
Samsara | Full Stack, Firmware, Mobile, Devops | San Francisco, Onsite

Build aws for physical infrastructure

Samsara was founded by founders of Meraki (see pg's essay on "do things that don't scale"), has a bunch of interesting customers ( https://www.samsara.com/customers ), and has a small, tight-nit engineering team.

We are looking for people who love building and seeing their code get used by customers. Our backend is in golang/graphql and our frontend/apps are in react/javascript/typescript. We're also looking for embedded firmware engineers (mostly c and golang).

apply/more info at https://www.samsara.com/jobs
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Chrome apps are themselves deprecated. This looks dead on arrival.

Hosted S/MIME is entirely different. It's completely unrelated to their general E2E efforts. The enterprise S/MIME solution is mostly to sell security to enterprises, not privacy to individuals.
Waiting for the long version of your experiences. Thanks for sharing.
Why is your proposed metric better than the original? Honest question.
Ha that reminds me to cancel my Spotify, thank you!
Regulations means you force your standards on other people who might not need or want them.

If you want other infrastructure companies or decentralized internet, you are free to do that yourself via voluntary means.
I'm interested in the comparison code as well if it's available.
Human API | Software Engineer, DevOps, Data Engineer | Redwood City, CA | Full time (ONSITE) https://humanapi.co/ jobs@humanapi.co

Make a difference with technology: specifically, by fixing healthcare. We're building a real-time data network that allows getting health data from anywhere to anywhere in close to realtime. We roll up this data in a clean RESTful API that developers use to build apps that make peoples' lives better.

We have a whole pile of hard problems, and a team of smart, passionate people that love working on them. We like to work iteratively in small teams, and to give people autonomy and ownership to solve those problems.

Some of the things you'd be working on:

- Mapping, modelling and indexing the world's healthcare data
- Scaling and optimizing our APIs
- Modelling human health
- Scaling our ingestion pipeline
- Data engineering and building tools for data science
- NLP and Classification
- Extracting healthcare data from a wide variety of unstructured, unclean formats
- Building intuitive UIs to allow users to find and share their health data

Open positions:

- Full Stack Engineer (node.js, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/7c411192-551e-4c6c-8133-99d34f17f207
- Frontend Engineer (node.js, React, Redis, ElasticSearch)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/f31262f1-6613-455f-96a5-2135a4d6f0d6
- Machine Learning Engineer (node.js, Python, Kafka, Cassandra)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/b698a09d-a5f4-4667-a52a-9e8939659b92
- DevOps Engineer (Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Mesos)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/c74886f1-1e50-4323-a846-7ccac5855164

More information here: https://humanapi.co/company/join

The process: a quick phone screen, a screen-share technical interview, then an onsite to meet with the team and pair with someone on a problem.

We'd love to hear from you even if you don't "fit" one of the job specs -- we hire for people, not roles. Contact us at jobs@humanapi.co -- we're nice!
Apparently the day-1 update will include a browser applet for connecting to captive portal wifi networks.
Deep ocean may be an unusual case because species and individuals can relatively easily move between different layers. Unlike caves.

But marine creatures have many different adaptations. Cetaceans IIRC have relatively good visual acuity, but are monochromants. Lots of animals lose color vision. Some animals develop huge eyes to pick up tiny bits of light; some have a bioluminescent lure for those fish with sight. Others go blind. But no marine creatures adapted to deep ocean are going to have the level of visual acuity and sensory dependence on sight that terrestrial creatures often have.

Blindness is a continuum.
I guess it's a matter of personal values.

Good luck.
Not sure exactly what you're after here. The systems have assorted versions of Fortran compilers from both Cray and Intel. With regards to versions of the language standard used/ required for the models I'm not sure.
Fuller Theological Seminary | Web Developer | Pasadena CA | Link to Reddit Post: http://bit.ly/fullerwebdev

PHP | Javascript | Angular JS | SQL

This position serves as the technical lead on the development and support of web platforms in service of the school’s strategic needs in a changing environment for higher education. This position will serve as the technical anchor for a growing team of developers and UX/UI designers collaborating with faculty, business analysts and technologists to build new experiences and solve problems at the frontier of graduate education in theology, psychology, and culture. While this developer need not be a visual designer, they will need to understand and apply design thinking as an iterative, problem-solving methodology.
This position will support and develop some key systems. They will also be called upon to advise and teach more junior staff and to help troubleshoot aspects of existing systems that fall within their expertise. This position will also be tasked with cross-training with other staff and to assist with technical components on collaborative projects with departments outside ITS.
Higher education is in the midst of a revolution. Theological higher ed is experiencing these changes in interesting and challenging ways. This position is situated in a team that will be working on designing and iterating solutions to those challenges at one of the largest and most innovative seminaries in the world. The schedule for this position is flexible.
hiQ Labs | Data Engineer | San Francisco (SoMa)

hiQ is a mid-stage startup doing people analytics for Fortune 500 customers. We are looking for a Data Engineer to work closely with our Data Scientists to scale our data pipeline and build internal workflow tools. Competitive salary, equity, and benefits. Python, MongoDB experience a plus.

Join a great team that is building products that ship to customers.
I want to be like my dog, but smarter and with more freedom.

Every day I look at the lazy beast and wonder at the simplicity of its existence. Give me that life and an allowance for supplies to create, eat, socialize, and travel and let me loose.
Excellent material, thank you!
> informative

There was no information to be informative -- it was an admission of the lack of information. If you haven't read the book and don't remember what little you did read, saying you "found it not great" has little value.
I run my infrastructure on three different providers and use GeoIP assigned AnyCast DNS servers from another provider.

Asia/Australia is run on Digital Ocean, Europe is on OVH, and the Americas is on AWS.

When someone requests the IP address of my site's front-end domain or static asset CDN domain, my nameserver determines their geographic location and returns the IP address of the closest resources to them.

I run health checks so when S3 went down, which I use to host my static assets for the Americas, my nameservers quit giving out the IP addresses for the Americas systems and started giving out IP addresses for the Europe systems.

When health checks started being successful again, everything restored itself.

Due to low DNS TTL values, users in the Americas were only impacted for a few minutes and that's if the IP was cached by their system.
You can do better than the 1980s - the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model [1] is up to date and will run on a PC (albeit not at a super high resolution). You can provide boundary conditions with freely available data from NOAA [2]

However, if you want to run the kind of forecasts that a weather center would do, you big issue would be getting input data. Some of the biggest advances in forecasting have come from improving the amount of satellite data being 'assimilated' into weather forecasts - look how much better the southern hemisphere became compared to the northern hemisphere during the early satellite era (1980-2000). Getting this data in a timely fashion is more of a challenge to do at home.

[1] - http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/

[2] - https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/

[3]Page 3 in - http://www.ecmwf.int/sites/default/files/elibrary/2012/14553...
The latest browser I can think of that should still support your OS and still gets updates (for a few more months at least) is the extended support release of Firefox 45: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/
While it may not support the latest HTML5 features, you'll still be patched against security vulnerabilities.

Alternatively, you could install Windows 10 using bootcamp according to the bottom post of this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7171259?tstart=0
Windows 10 works pretty decent on low RAM devices, and you'll be able to run all the latest browsers and software.
I see "Extension: Google Hangouts" in Chrome Task Manager[1], but I don't see anything Hangouts-related in chrome://extensions/. Seems that it's good old npapi plugin, but built-in into chrome, like Flash and NaCl.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/HLpLf
Absolutely. In the design brief you simply share some style examples and we'll get it done.