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GLOBO is hiring a Sr Engineer
This is a role where you'll dig deep in a variety of technical areas, building innovative products that will revolutionize Translation Services. This path keeps you connected to the development work you love; you'll be able to hone your skills, work with a top-notch team, and build amazing technology (voice, video, chat, mobile, device, etc.).

If you like this idea; here are some of the near term goals.

As a Software Engineer reporting to our VP of Engineering you will integrate core technical aspects in the growth of GLOBO. This includes working closely with our internal development team to build/ modify features with a focus on stable scalability. Another is working on new product development to explore the ways GLOBO can innovate in the areas of product and service delivery.

About You:

You're a true technologist and an advocate for great engineering practices. Solving complex problems and building products that serve a valuable function in society gets you up in the morning. You like working with a smart team and enjoy collaborating with like-minded people to build truly useful technology.

Stepping into this role, you'll leverage your 3+ years of software development experience to develop creative solutions to the task at hand, implement unit and integration testing, code reviews, stress testing etc. We believe that a skilled open-source polyglot, who's a creative problem solver is preferable to an expert in our specific stack. Your expertise lies in the backend, but you know enough to be dangerous across the rest of the stack.

If you're intrigued, message me at matt.webb@helloglobo.com

www.helloglobo.com
Facebook Wants to Spy on People Using Their Phone's Camera and Analyze Facial
That's incorrect. Browsers limit request to 8 req/domain at the same time.
The person employing them is also breaking the law and on a much larger scale since they employ many illegal immigrants.
Time for Apple to pay up Chinese government again. Their Chinese competitors sell customer data as a business model and authorities are totally cool with that.
I think the concept of good debt does nobody any favors. The people who make real money using debt get money at very low to 0 percent interest rates. There are always exceptions but for most people this concept is BAD.

I would beg you not to tell this nonsense to people but I suspect you will think you know better.

What appreciating assets should people get in debt to buy? Surely you aren't trying to label houses as appreciating assets.
Not to mention that it is a couple living in the most expensive part of Canada making pretty basic yet big impact financial mistakes.
> “Rent, groceries—everything is costly,” says Kervin. “You get your paycheque, and you don’t know where it goes.”

This quote really stuck out to me. It wasn't "just poor financial planning" it was absolutely no financial planning.

Was there predatory behavior on the part of the loans? Absolutely. But to me the larger take away here is the importance of budgeting, saving, and being responsible with your financial planning. They were making over $87k/year after-tax, and just a couple months after he lost his job they had liquidated their entire savings.
WebAssembly cut Figma’s load time by 3x
Scientists use relativity to measure a star's mass
Right now I've been enjoying the quality of writing (as well as value of the content) on http://www.meltingasphalt.com/; it's a mix of philosophy, psychology, econ, and tech (with various other stuff sprinkled in).

Probably my favorite post from there: UX and the Civilizing Process http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ux-and-the-civilizing-process/
The $2 / TB / Mo we've traditionally advertised as our price included 3x redundancy. The math we've done on reliability suggests that really you only need about 1.5x redundancy once you are using 96 hosts for storage.

The network prices today are less friendly, though that's primarily due to market confusion. The siacoin price has doubled 6 times in 6 months, and there's no mechanic to automatically re-adjust host prices and the coin price moves around. So hosts are all currently advertising storage at these hugely inflated rates, and newcomers to Sia don't realize that these aren't really competitive prices.

Though, I will assert that even at our current prices it's not price that's the primary barrier to adoption. It's some combination of usability, and uncertainty. Sia is pretty hard to set up (it's around 8 steps, with two of those steps taking over an hour to complete), and a lot of people are not certain that Sia is truly stable enough to hold their data.

We're focused on addressing these issues.
I just remember 2 episodes. While it was entertaining, one episode lacked any intellectual rigor at all. It seems like Gladwell can't understand the counterarguments at all and chooses to cut out most of them with out realizing.

One obvious thing he misses is the moral hazard of rewarding poor performing schools. Also, the real question is why donate to universities at all? There is no real reason why universities can't support teaching purely on tuition. University can easily charge on a sliding scale based on need and SAT scores. If they want more kids to go to college, they can give to scholarships directly. Giving to university directly just promotes spending them on outspending each other on other axis for attention...
That doesn't have anything to do with subsidies, and at most indirectly depends on unrelated parts of protectionist agricultural policy i.e. tariffs. Then how the EU is anyhow responsible for predatory industries in Argentina? And how the global markets would fix any of that if only relieved from the cancer of EU subsidies?
Low-Shot Visual Recognition by Shrinking and Hallucinating Features
Just drink a beer in your pub and talk to a stranger about anything
Venezuela didn't happen overnight.  how two presidents broke democracy
Instead of using math to rewrite districts, do something else:

Change the ballot.

Ranked voting is better than First Past the Post (what we use) but the one with the BEST statistical properties and simplest exanation is the Approval Vote.

Simply be able to mark more than one candidate.

This way Bernie or Bloomberg could have run and taken the whole thing. As opposed to staying out because of fear "a vote for X is a vote against Y".

Maine did it. They switched! Now 49 more states to go.

This can be done at a local level in some places. Any district that does this will become less politically polarized and people won't be so fearful and hate each other less :)
A $100M VC fund open-sources its playbook
Yes - here's a doc about doing quantized inference in TensorFlow, for example: https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/quantization

AFAIK, there's still a bit of a performance gap between just using TF and using the specialized gemmlowp library on Android, but that part's getting cleaned up.

Haven't seen much in generalized results on training using lower precision.
I somehow just noticed that this article was partly authored by Jade Alglave and others who will certainly be aware of the papers I linked.
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Warning, throws a popup in your face to make you subscribe to their mail spam and plays a sound to make you notice the fake chat having a message in the corner.

Overall this is just a low effort linkbait article to build SEO.
It does not make economical sense to store data in China
lol

Sorry, but having worked for 3 large companies (not apple, or Google, or any in the same field), the auditing is purely just for show. They claim it publicly, but very little is actually done to ensure the safety of that data. When I started as an entry-level tech at 2 of them, I was given direct access after just a couple of days.

I'm sure there are plenty that do treat their customer data securely, but in my limited experience, that's not many of them.
"Number of" is a prepositional phrase that qualifies the noun "people." "Number" is not the subject but rather "traders" is and so the verb agrees with traders.

Another example:

"A large number of people are gathering." "A large number" isn't the thing doing the gathering the people are.

Prepositional phrases are easy to spot. This a good quick read:

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/prepositionalphrase.htm

The key point is that "a prepositional phrase will never contain the subject of a sentence."

A simple mnemonic device kids are taught to identify prepositions is the "preposition mountain":

On the mountin, of the mountain, from the mountain, in the mountain, under the mountain, by the mountain, along the mountain. If it's logical in relation to "the mountain" it's probably a preposition.

It's worth nothing that there are many native English speakers that get these wrong :)
http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/mit...

Credit: a HN news poster from a few months noticed that by prefixing: http://facebook.com/l.php?u=
You can avoid the paywall
Agreed. All of the examples shown were basically, "and then we put a camera on this drone, isn't that cool?" I was hoping for technology at the caliber of those LED greenhouses, or at least as good as that tensorflow cucumber sorter.
You're speaking in pure ideology.

I could just as easily say that this the result of 40 years of the upper class shifting the tax burden downward to the middle class, while lobbying for the passage of laws to ensure that all of the economic gains during that period are funneled upwards towards themselves.

Telling the middle class to tighten their belt because - despite a growing economy - there just isn't enough to sustain the lifestyle that their parents enjoyed isn't sound economic principles, it's class war.
Hmm, the BigQuery HN dataset is now updated daily and contains comments as well as stories? That's new, and I'll certainly give it another look at for my projects.

With the bigrquery R package (https://github.com/rstats-db/bigrquery), you can access the HN dataset directly from R, using dplyr syntax too. (for simple queries atleast; you can pass the raw SQL for complex queries)

As noted, the resulting dataset of words is large, so mapping the words in BigQuery itself may be more practical (using a combo of SPLIT and UNNEST with standard SQL), although of course you can't do complex operations like logistic regression or splines there.
It would be good to include the setbacks caused by religious intervention.

You can find some of it here in this other timeline: http://superstringtheory.com/history/history1.html

e.g: Hypatia, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus... and many more.
On the hemnet link, if you sarch for less then 20qm it finds 12. If you search eg. for 30-40qm it finds more then 600. Doesn't look like <20qm would be some kind of standard.
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For a fair comparison, Grafana should have been with combined with InfluxDB, which is sort of the default configuration. I've been using Grafana / InfluxDB for a personal domotica project. Given that I run it on cheap virtualised hardware, it's blazingly fast, extremely easy to use (for devs), intuitive and many client libraries for InfluxDB exist (Scala, Java, Python, R, to name a few).

Couple of restrictions:

- It's best for the relationship: "time", "tag", "scalar". Multi-scalar rendering is possible using a plugin, but it's not designed for it.

- Density plots are not supported yet. Limited support for heatmaps.

- Due to JSON serialisation, server-side compression is definitely necessary. With zopfli, I've seen compression to below 3%. This, however, entails a (limited) CPU load.

- Retention and aggregation in influxdb are possible, but it's best to design this upfront.
Are you sure? Facebook doesn't seem to be a tiny fraction of Google in any of the comparisons. For profit, FB is looking to get to $1B/month in a few months, while Google has topped $2.5B/mo and is looking to get to $3B/mo. That's just 3x. Sure Google's revenue is more than 3x. If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say it's 5x as much. Whether you're talking just Facebook and Google for global users or including their subsidiaries, neither would have FB as a tiny fraction. FB already does 2B monthly users. Google likely isn't even double that just based on the number of internet users outside China.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
This is a trait common to religious people. Society's secularization is still progressing slowly, and for a lot of people, their lives and worldviews are still attached to religion pretty significantly. I don't think this is a purely Christian trait. Embed yourself in Indian communities and listen to the conversations among us. Social life revolves around communal prayer and devotional singing, in addition to travelling to temples for services.

Personally, I see no showboating in the above comment. I see a sincere expression of something which helped, and I don't feel that it merits derision.
So you are suggesting using a front end cache server like Varnish is better then what you originally programmed for?
How low does Uber have to go before we stop using it?
That website was set up as a result of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (which also allows people in the US a free credit report once a year) which only applies to Americans.
James Altucher talks about a similar strategy in numerous places... here is one http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/11/ultimate-cheat-sheet-lo...
Art in the age of ones and zeros: Turning big data into art
Federal government joins whistle-blower suit against L.A. over disabled housing
New Release 2.7 of Eclipse Dirigible
Yeah, but it was a loan word in Nahuatl too. I was sure the original domestication was mayan, but wikipedia tells me that the original word comes from mixe-zoque (so plausibly Olmec).
In many countries, particularly European ones, knowingly giving loans to people you know will be unable to pay you back or are unable to handle money responsibly due to a medical condition, is basically handing out free money.

The moment a court hears of it ALL your claims against that person will be forfeit and the blame will lie squarely with you. I'd be surprised if Canada/US doesn't have similar provisions.
So, why not choose the better acronym and use MEGA (Make Earth Great Again?
Ditto the voting system.

I support replacing our winner takes all (first past the post) elections with approval voting. Maybe as a step towards PR. But we'll always have executive races that'd benefit.

Benefits

* super easy to explain, administrate
* per Duverger's Law, would end our two party system
* eliminates separate primary elections
* reduces voter fatigue
* reduces admin costs
* greatly reduce mudslinging, because everyone wants to be your second choice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

Note: I prefer approval to the slightly mathematically superior score voting, we'd get most of the benefits but much more simple.
How to Monitor Nginx on Kubernetes: Metrics Alerts
Samsung would be working on a Bixby speaker to compete with Google, and Apple
NPM: Credentials resets
Average or Median, it makes a big difference.

US Average wealth is $300,000, Median Wealth is $44,000 (source http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/11/news/economy/middle-class-we...)

The US is skewed very heavily by a small number of very rich people at the top

For comparison UK median is £104,000 (Source https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/8239)
First it asks you a bunch of questions without telling you why. Then it tells you to move to France. Ok, no thank you, Belgium is fine for me.
Pretty amazing, though— there's a picture of it on this review:

http://proclockers.com/reviews/motherboards/asrock-x99-ws-e-...
> Why is this a gem?

> I've solved this problem the same way probably 5 times in rails apps

Because gems avoid such code duplication, they're the correct way to "share" code between projects rather than reinventing the solution each time you need it.
Your savings wouldn't be wasted if you left them to a cause/person that you believe in.
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>One glaring exception is "conscientiousness" -- a personality trait that has been the nr. 1 performance predictor in jobs that require results (execution as opposed to ideas), across time and industries. Clearly central, but 17 characters!

Central here should be read as "important and used frequently everyday" (which conscientiousness is not at all), not central as in "the notion identified by the word is important in some domain" (besides conscientiousness does not even qualify that much even for this latter criterion).
In what we actually observe, this doesn't seem to be the case. (In this case - obviously issues like smoking went exactly this way.)

Rather, everything from "best to deny..." to "...bribe scientists and reviewers" got skipped. It just didn't change anything.

Pretty much everyone knows soil erosion, desertification, and aquifer drawdown are major issues in the US Midwest. Certainly everyone with a big enough farm to have a major impact does. Cattle feedlots have been moved out of the TX/OK panhandle area because water is so scarce. Politicians are painfully aware of it.

But there's no incentive to fix it, because the fix is basically just triggering the shutdown sooner. Eventually soil and water issues will cripple midwestern farming, but avoiding that means slashing farming volume now. Better for the environment, but not for most of the people there.

So... no conspiracy, everyone knows, but the problem continues. Ironically, the conspiracy story shows too much faith in our government - it assumes they would act if they knew!
It's almost as if people commenting here haven't even watched Ivan Krstić's Black Hat video...
Amazon would either have to eat that cost or pass it on to their customers. There's only so much money, therefore fewer packages would be ordered from Amazon or they would be less profitable/competitive.

If the roads were congested with Fords because Fords got on the roads for 1/3 the price, then the outcome would be the same as if there was discrimination. Assuming the physical traits of the package are compatible, the pipe doesn't/can't discriminate. The operators do: government requirements, tolls, fares, delivery charges, etc.
I'm not denying that society is tilted in my favor. That's been clear to me since I was young and had minority scholarships explained to me.

I'm not talking about that, though. I'm saying that she literally says, "All white people are racist." And she means it.

She also literally says that there's no such thing as racism towards white people because it's not racism if that society isn't tilted in their favor.

Yes, I know what "institutional racism" is. I also know what plain old "racism" is. It probably doesn't affect me nearly as much as it does any random minority, but that doesn't mean it isn't racism.

And any racism contributes to racism in general. You can't treat someone like shit and then expect them to treat you better. It's foolish.
The root problem here is , that Amazon Glacier is as opaque as mud about pricing. Or did the words "Starting At" not pique your buzzword bullshit detector? It certainly did mine.

Pricing means sifting through a legalese dense block of text to try to come up with even a way to estimate the costs. That is a problem. I should be given a rough cost expectation up front. Sure, it's not going to be exact and all, but This article is about a cost factor of *180.. That's the difference between an iPad and a Ferrari.

Other places of varying types of backup systems are a lot more clearer to tell how much I should be expected to pay. Or at least, I get within +/- 10%. Glacier? "Yeah, Don't worry about it till we bill ya!" That's the scam with all these cloud services really. Once we have your nuts in a vice, we can squeeze and extract, cause you don't have any other choice, now do you?
Cargonauts – A Rust async web framework
Looks interesting, thanks for the link.
It kind of doesn't matter though. They are still the cause of a bunch of data being leaked through their actions. They should be held accountable for it whether it was intentional or not.

Your point is very valid, but the crime being committed against their customers is also very valid.
When Bjørn Lomborg and James Hansen agree that something (the Paris agreement) is a bad idea, I am willing to put aside the various world leader's enthusiasm and apply a bit of skepticism. Is capping the CO2 output of developed nations really the best and fairest approach here? I don't have the answers, but I'm not sure Paris does either.
These comparisons don't really make sense. I just spent a decent chunk of time evaluating the current state of these tools for implementation in a new product, and seeing a comparison of the prom + grafana toolchain with the comparable Influx DB toolchain would have been way more useful.

If anyone is in the middle of this decision, I went with Prometheus and my early experience has been positive. It seems either would have been a good choice though, and the existence of a decent instrumentation library in language I'm using ended up being the deciding factor.
Actually, i don't like the medium article ( personally). I didn't watch the video though.

I think http://demo.viewflow.io/ is better, if you would adjust the introduction text to speak a bit about what it does.
I don't understand how it relates to the article, or even Canada in general. Are they contending that the Canadian government running deficits is causing the population to live on cheap credit? Canada historically runs small deficits. The most recent government has had deficit spending as part of their platform, but I don't think they've been in power long enough to be the source of this problem.

It just looks like vague anger at greedy governments from "the whole world" without anything to substantiate it or talk about.
Unregulated free markets? The banking/loan industry is a heavily regulated industry in both Canada and the US.

Yes, predatory lending exists and it may be immoral, but it still requires the other side to agree to it. And keep in mind that the other side frequently has no intention/ability of paying. That is at minimum acting in bad faith and is usually against the law, even if there is no misrepresentation of income, assets, etc. In many jurisdictions, merely taking out an unsecured loan without the intention of actually paying it back (regardless of what the lender says or does) is technically illegal.
I love the Wall there on Britannia...

"There is no land beyond us and even the sea is no safe refuge when we are threatened by the Roman fleet....We are the last people on earth, and the last to be free: our very remoteness in a land known only to rumour has protected us up till this day...."
Yeah. I don't quite understand how that relates to the environment. Seems more like 'Make France great again' under the guise of 'Make our planet great again'
yes I did and no it doesn't actually sidestep it as the claim was that most people would be upset about it which is simply wrong as they don't even know it's an issue. If you want to see evidence of that then look at their current numbers.
you have to have a risk management strategy, you cannot hold the majority of your net worth in one single company, no mater if it is Berkshire Hathaway, Apple or something else...
What's the risk of a non-American person looking at the website?

Consider that they can probably do so simply by using a proxy located in the US, or while visiting the US.

"Legitimate" users don't notice, casually-interested people get annoyed, and fraudsters work around it.

It doesn't solve anything and I wish people would stop doing this.
> combined with InfluxDB, which is sort of the default configuration

I'd say the "default" or most common configuration is still Graphite + Statsd + Grafana.