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Small Improvements | Full Stack Developer | Berlin | VISA, ONSITE

We're building a SAAS feedback solution for smart companies. Many startups in the Bay Area use it to help their employees give and receive work-related feedback and suggestions for improvement.

We're a team of 12 developers & designers and looking to grow!

Perks include no overtime, great and quiet office (team rooms of 3-5 people only), annual company trip to the US to meet clients, 20% time (we call it slack days), solid training budget, conference attendance, and of course a very welcoming and smart team.

Stack: Backend in Java on Google Cloud, Frontend in React (and some Angular leftovers). It's sufficient to be strong on one side of the stack, and have an interest to learn about the other.

We're self-funded and profitable. That's great because no VC is telling us how to do things - but we have to make actual money :)

Tons of details on https://careers.small-improvements.com
Hypothetically speaking: what if the algorithm had hardwired names and probabilities? {name:"Loomis", prob_recidivism:0.99} ? Then you're just throwing him into jail because a lot of other Loomises turned out to be jerks.

He must be allowed to verify the validity of the algorithm. The current situation is just 1 step above secret laws.
100 Days in Reflection
Great find.

Though of course one study is unlikely to be definitive. (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-s...)

Here are 15 more articles on mutual fund persistence: http://www.altruistfa.com/readingroomarticles.htm#Persistenc.... I have not read them all, but my impression of the literature is that:

(1) There is slight positive serial correlation in mutual fund returns

(2) Most of the slight positive serial correlation comes from bad performers staying bad performers (rather than good performers staying good performers)

Theoretically, I find the notion of positive serial correlation far more likely than negative serial correlation. It seems more plausible to me that good fund managers would stay good than that managers would tend to oscillate from good to bad to good on an annual time scale.

In general, negative serial time correlations are generally harder to explain because a negative number squared is positive. Any sort of "rebounding" effect will result in oscillatory behavior, which will only be detectable over a certain time scale. Measuring a positive linear relationship is easier than measuring a negative linear relationship, because the negative solution will have an associated time scale. (That is, solutions that drift/diffuse can be captured over many time scales & sampling rates, whereas solutions that oscillate can only be captured near the rate of oscillation. On time scales that are very zoomed in or very zoomed out, you won't notice that the system is oscillating.) Much of this is handwavy and applies only to linear correlation, but hopefully the point is clear nonetheless.
The "hedge" has left hedge funds. If you're losing 15%+ a year for multiple years you've $&@ed up big time in managing someone's money. When this is happening when the market are doing the exact opposite then it's amazing these places are still in business. The percentage of "top money managers" that consistently fail to beat the plain old S&P 500 index over any sustained period is shocking. People are finally catching onto this hence why so many funds are in trouble.
Gamblore can't be i_mormon_stuff, since i_mormon_stuff also has an account here under the same name and posted in this same thread.

Was there a third user you banned?
very few people care about audio performance. the "passable" bar is really low
The list of Intel CPU's with vPro:

https://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=proce...
I may be wrong, but I believe the Japanese wanted the Emperor to remain in place and retain his power - the US was merely willing to not kill him as long as he remained a figurehead and publicly renounced any claims to authority.
Matthew Garrett: A quick overview of Intel's AMT vulnerability
Wistia | Director of Engineering (Infra/Ops/SRE) | Cambridge, MA | VISA support

Specific responsibilities of this role include:

* Oversight of our infrastructure platform (built on Kubernetes), our internal video service (which handles all uploads, storage, transcoding, and delivery of video), our video analytics data pipeline, and our in-house product metrics warehouse.

* Automating manual processes to make them more reliable and less toilsome.
Defining service level objectives that keep customers happy while allowing developers to swing for the fences.

* Directing local and remote SREs.

* Contributing to architectural decisions that underpin the larger Wistia platform.

* Finding clever ways to do big things without spending big money.

* Translating business needs into an infrastructure roadmap.

Apply at: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wistia/jobs/674205
What specifically do you consider a gigantic pain in the ass about using SSH keys on a Yubikey? Also, how is keeping the private key ensconced in a (presumably) secure HSM a 'bit of security theatre'? Genuinely interested, here.
A spotify subscription is more valuable than whatever option a social network could offer. Facebook makes a boatload off ads so there's no way they would just turn the option off even with a small subscription. Plus, not enough users care about ads. Most of the comments on this forum will be preaching to the choir.
It seems like we're more or less in agreement...Team performance and individual performance are interdependent, particularly in naive statistics like the ones you've mentioned are traditionally used. You're talking about making team-independent estimations of player value. That's completely valid. What I'm also saying is that in a similar vein, when you are considering how a player's addition will impact a team, you need to correct for his interaction with the team as well.
Tell that to PrinceXML:

https://www.princexml.com/samples/

Print CSS is pretty complete if only the major browsers would support it.
Yeah, as someone in that age range, none of my friends particularly care if some company has all their information and is doing whatever with it.

As long as no one else they know sees...
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IAC Publishing Labs (formally Ask.com) | Software Engineer, Front-end Platform | Oakland, CA | Onsite Fulltime, VISA Friendly | Salary (depends on experience) + Annual Bonus + Great Benefits

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Front-end Platform team. We develop the platforms, services, and frameworks that enable other developers to build our world-class digital properties. Our backend services manage incoming requests and marshall data to the front-end, and the libraries and tools we build are used to create modern and maintainable front-end applications.

We often find ourselves spearheading new technologies and processes for the entire dev org (eg. containerization, continuous-delivery). While focused on web developers, you’d be working with multiple teams in a culture that values collaborative, pragmatic solutions.

Technologies:
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Hi, author of the Medium article here. The block containing the transaction was mined at 4:57pm EST (21:57 GMT) on 1/26:

https://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000001b12145b9ba...

https://blockchain.info/tx/143a764d3fa405f428e1d0e5b9d01b88e...

This tweet showing the screenshot is clearly earlier:

https://twitter.com/evanoconnell/status/824614832691355648
Indeed, what people are willing to give up in terms of UX, in return for other benefits (including cost), is something that continues to surprise the development community.

From what I've observed, just watching what the kids do, it seems that function trumps form. What Google Docs does for them is provide access to their documents anywhere, and by anybody within their collaborative group. They don't need a lot of the typesetting features provided by MS Office -- if they can't express something in one way, they find another way to express it.

It's only been recently, that we can test whether people are willing to give up UX, because MS Office had the same UX at all of its price tiers. For the same general functionality -- typesetting -- folks weren't willing to put up with the UX of Libre Office, which was clunky in its own way. So I suspect that what Google Docs offers is based on function and not price.
>damn they are fast when they need to be

They are fast when the situation is dire enough that the politicians don't care what it costs and the NIMBYs and nit-pickers shut their mouths.
Mine too, believe me! My idea is to allow a group to contribute to cover a certain amount per year for their entire network, depending on the size of it. $50.00 split by 15-20 family/friend members would be pretty affordable. I would say a smaller more intimate network would be a major step in the right direction.
> Considering the fact that people claimed a few hours ago AMT would be entirely secure, I think the opposite should hold true right now. Assume everything is vulnerable, unless proven otherwise.

Well, in that case you'd better disconnect from the internet don't you think?

AMT was not claimed to be 'entirely secure' by anybody that mattered as far as I'm aware and Intel is pretty explicit about this vulnerability. It is a bad one because it is a remote exploitable one, but it isn't the first vulnerability either.

> This is standard practice in most of IT, but apparently we ignore it here.

Standard practice is to go on facts, not on conjecture or hype. If VPro rather than AMT is exploitable that would be very big news, far larger than the issue currently being reported. So far I have not seen a shred of evidence for that but who knows, that might change and then it will be a very very long night for a lot of people here. For now though there is no reason to be so alarmist.

Also, I'm kind of done with this discussion, you seem to want to hold on to a rumor on a website calling itself 'semi accurate' which in fact was exactly that and for which I'm grateful to them. But they are not authoritative in any way and you should stop making it seem as if they have the last word on this, if you want to make a point show some proof.

VPro or not doesn't matter, if the ME runs AMT then you might be affected if the version numbers are the ones listed in TFA so that's what you should go on, not just on whether or not you have VPro.

And if you don't need it disable this stuff in your BIOS, no need to enlarge your attack surface without a reason.
But the Intel advisory specifically links to this document[1] to assess your exposure, which just says to look for VPro. The info out there is still garbage at this point, but that seems to be the most authoritative I've seen so far.

[1] https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-5693
This is great advice for anyone building a feature that utilizes visualization.

I wish I had asked myself "what do users want to find?" instead of "what do users want to explore?" the last time I built a dashboard. Perhaps people would have actually used it.
Very implausible. Largest plausible timezone difference would be like 8 hours (US west coast to GMT), which wouldn't be enough to explain this. The actual timezone difference seems to be a mere 5 hours.
I'm not sure why you're getting down votes, gas-lighting has been a discussion topic since a year ago.

If Putin is behind mass propaganda, the Kremlin's gas-lighting approach explicitly involves supporting extremist groups across the political spectrum in order to disrupt opposition forces. One would expect more left-leaning propaganda, because planting propaganda serves to fracture the movement from within, demonize it in the eyes of the extreme opponents, and undermine the legitimacy of the communication medium. Go read Dugin's playbook, or the numerous English translations/analysis.

Example: Why was Jill Stein photographed sitting at the same table as Flynn and Putin? Because it delegitimized the native Russia Green Party, and builds a narrative that drives a wedge between the Green and Democrat progressive groups.
This is something I'd been thinking about building for a while and finally got around to it last weekend.

Still needs some polishing, but I'm pretty happy with the result so far.
I really don't know how they became so dominant, but Yelp is basically The Way my family and tons of people we know find services, restaurants, and the like. We live in the SF Bay Area; I don't know how widely applicable it is, but based on the work my wife has done with her customers (all over the US), Yelp is generally pretty important everywhere in a lot of sectors.
Does anybody know how screenshot is triggered? Is it on DOMContentLoaded? or some other event? Can we trigger this somehow post page load?
> Non profits strive to place human outcomes over financial results. Most corporations are either unwilling or unable to do so, beyond what is required by law.

This is incredibly reductive. A non-profit can strive to place human outcomes over financial results, but nothing requires them to, and there are plenty of forces that push them in the other direction as well.

Conversely, for-profit corporations might not strive to place human outcomes over financial results, but nothing prevents them from doing so[0], and some in fact do.

The "non-profit" vs. "for-profit" distinction tells you literally nothing about a company's ethics.

[0] Every time this topic comes up, someone brings up Dodge v. Ford, which (a) is not the most relevant precedent, even in Michigan law; (b) does not actually establish the precedent that people citing it usually thinks it does, even in Michigan law, (c) was soundly rejected in other states shortly after the Michigan decision, and (d) has since been overturned (in the part that is relevant here) in Michigan.
Ask HN: Are you doing what you want to do or what you have to?
I have recently started watching the new National Geographic show 'Genius' about Albert Einstein. The way Einstein was obsessed with Physics took me to my childhood days when I used to ponder over why everything is the way it is. I always wanted to become a physicist. But being an Indian, I was repeatedly bombarded with the idea how essential it is to make a living. As such, I strayed from what I wanted to do and got into engineering (CS). It's now the end of my engineering and I am now occupied with the thoughts of what my life had been if I would have chosen the road not taken. It's not that I don't have a good job, but the thought of losing a chance to do something I love that keeps me awake these days. Personally, I think that the advancement in technology is also responsible for this. The internet, though providing us the means to access a vast amount of information, has also taken from us our ability to question things. Rather than thinking of the solutions on our own with our imagination, we now resort to Googling stuff and finding the answers straightaway.
Earth, Fyre, Wind, Water, Heart?
Skylake-EP was shipping to select customers in 2016, Intel has pushed Cannon Lake by 2-3 months and technically it pushed it forward again after its initial delay.
Point taken. Unfortunately when you touch the key you still can't verify exactly what you are approving.
Who's ready for cheap hardware sales?
Any count based on mnemonics is off by 1 because of the CMPSD mnemonic. This mnemonic maps to both a string instruction and a SIMD (floating point) instruction. You probably want to count them separately. It's funny that this mnemonic is mentioned in the article, but the author didn't notice that it actually points to 2 families of instructions, not 1!
Couldn't this be achieved in Chrome by creating different user profiles and switching between profiles depending on the site being visited?

I already break my social media away from shopping from banking using different Chrome user profiles.
Exactly. My first thought when I read the title (and I only read a paragraph or two in), was that this seems like a similar problem to analyzing astronomy data. It's a BigProblem problem to which we can apply "stuff."

And to answer a probable objection, "It's BigProblem, all the way out."
My favorite part is the huge disclaimer at the bottom:

INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL® PRODUCTS. YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION IN THE DOCUMENT OR MATERIALS LINKED FROM THE DOCUMENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. INTEL RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE OR UPDATE THIS DOCUMENT AT ANY TIME. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, INTEL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, AND INTEL DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF INTEL PRODUCTS INCLUDING LIABILITY OR WARRANTIES RELATING TO FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

Intel: "Hey everyone it's your BFFs at Intel. There's this uber critical bug in our enterprise hardware that will murder you right in the face and you should totally update your firmware right away or face certain doom even though we won't tell you exactly how it works or why it's so critical. Trust us, you totes need to do this asap but if it borks your servers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. kthnxbye"
Is there a word for that slightly scummy, uncomfortable feeling you're left with after reading a particularly empty piece of marketing drivel?
Also let's not forget about Guilds...

http://olivierlacan.com/posts/concurrency-in-ruby-3-with-gui...
Adventures in JIT Compilation: Part 3 – LLVM
> The point is Japan's militarism combined with their utter over-the-top brutality and expansionist agenda.

Everything Japan learned about Imperialism it learned from the West, though. The Empire of Japan may have been brutal, but the Allies were hardly angels in comparison, or lacking in their own expansionist ideals.
At around T+8 minutes it's really obvious how the rocket is actually gliding at an angle as it comes down, to steer itself towards the landing site. A cylinder might not make a great glider, but it has significant lift especially at these velocities.
You seem to be taking this personally. What I described was my reasoning for choosing Verilog. It worked fine for me. I am not going to debate minutiae.

Also, who said Verilog is C? It feels like C but it isn't. It's simply a lot easier to context switch between C and Verilog than between C and VHDL. That's my opinion. You don't have to agree with it. There is no implicit obligation to agree with anything at all.

I have shipped millions of dollars in product very successfully using Verilog. Others have done so using VHDL. In the end it is a choice.

My intent was to give the OP one criteria he or she might be able to use in some way in making a similar choice.
Angie's List Acquired for $500M by IAC
> except for closed appliances (e.g. a video game console)

My video game console literally has a camera pointed at my living room (PS4, camera is for the VR headset).

Given Sony's less then perfect security record, I accepted this as an unfortunate tradeoff for the ability to have VR.

I do not think they should be given any special leeway.
Ha! You're right, these can sound like cargo cult if someone doesn't know what they mean.

These teamwork ideas are worthwhile IMHO. YMMV. :)
Off topic comment here about Medium's "open in app", on mobile which can't be dismissed [1]. It's so infuriating that it sticks out over the text and has no way of being closed.

No I'm not going to install your app!

[1] https://imgur.com/a/81hky
Yes, it is what we do with insurance. The crux of the matter is that driving is a privilege, incarceration is a restriction on/revocation of a person's rights.

Healthcare is a good demonstration of where lines are blurred (at least in the United States). Some view it as a right, others don't.
I have a feeling we'll all know soon enough the exact definition Intel uses for "consumer PCs" and how it differs from the reality of what consumers end up buying.
"Content-light" is being rather charitable; I was going to say this article is absolutely terrible. It's like they started writing a really interesting article about this lady, then just stopped 1/3 of the way through without getting into any detail of her ability at all.
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Our CEO wrote a great post here about our long term vision you can find here:

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Click on the link below to apply. Be aware of the confidence gap* and remember that you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply.

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I don't think the iPod supported AAC at its initial release. Virtually no software supported it at that time -- that didn't really come until 2003, when iTunes 3.0 added support for AAC (including encoding). The Music Store was introduced in the same release, so there would have been a required software update for iPods at the same time, to add support for Fairplay encrypted files.
Are you arguing that we "understand" the opaque computations in our brain because they happen in our brain?

That is pretty clearly not a useful definition of understanding.
> I don't understand the sinister outlook, especially from people who in other contexts--e.g. cryptography & terrorism--would adamantly claim that technology is neutral and that the net benefit from innovation is with rare exception to the betterment of society.

There's no contradiction here. "Technology" in the abstract may be neutral, and specific technologies might even be neutral, but that doesn't mean that specific applications of specific technologies are necessarily neutral. And in this case, we're discussing the lattermost - the ability to market teenagers' feelings of depression[0] to advertisers.

That's only neutral if you think that the set of advertisers who might be interested in that information is either a completely unknown set or a set of advertisers that is, on the whole "neutral", after being weighted by their willingness to pay.

[0] conflating mildly the DSM-IV diagnostic criterion of 'worthlessness or guilt' with the clinical diagnosis, but nobody's keeping score here