skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LegalNature | Los Angeles, CA | Rails & Vue.js Engineers | Full-Time

At LegalNature, we are in the business of automating legal documents and processes. Our mission is to make the legal system far easier to understand, far less time consuming, and far cheaper for individuals and businesses.

We are in the process of building an 'autopilot' for government forms and beureacratic processes. We want our users to fill out a simple and easy form once, and from that, we will be able to generate any documents needed, file them (snail mail, fax, or online), and handle the response. If you have experience automating manual workflows and creating API's around them, we'd love to speak with you.

We are a non-standard company by most tech standards. We’re bootstrapped and profitable. Instead of worrying about the next round or pitch deck, we are only worried about our customers and making the best product possible.

Our engineering team is currently small, and will be growing throughout the year.

You can apply at https://www.legalnature.com/careers or email me at michael@legalnature.com with any questions.
There's also a difference between saving different levels of stuff within Slack. It can go all the way to saving everything including private channels and direct messages: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/220548947-Apply-for... or just for channels: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/203457187-Custom-me...

Make sure you know who's reading your DMs if you use Slack to e.g. complain about your manager. As someone able to make these decisions, make sure you know who has access and audit that. The story of the manager firing someone for performance reasons when the real reason is that they overheard something they didn't like is as old as the hills.
Good. Feelings need to be hurt. People need to be uncomfortable. Mud slinging is necessary to get people to give a shit and do something.
Not talking about it publicly is very close to sweeping under the rug. Important problems like this one should be discussed publicly as much as possible. This raises awareness and stimulates the search for solutions. Recently, womens' public posts led to real action started to be taken to address the problem. Besides, for many women this public talk is currently the only thing they can do in their defense.
He is 'invested' in a lot of these coins though. Seems to be able to own them before they ico. HMMM
Except for unfortunate auto-correct errors, of course... ;)
CreditSpreads.io: Live feed of profitable risk-defined credit spreads
Guardant Health | Redwood City, CA | ONSITE | http://guardanthealth.com

Guardant Health develops diagnostic technologies to improve cancer management. We are the market leaders in liquid-biopsies. We take blood samples and are able to detect the trace amounts of cancer DNA. In the best cases we can identify treatment options for patients. We have dozens of peer reviewed publications https://guardanthealth.com/publications/

My team is looking for folks who are awesome at any of the following. Specifically, if you are an SRE who wants to wrangle Petabytes of data, let's talk.

- Python

- DevOps

- Bioinformatics

email me at jgourneau@guardanthealth.com for more info.
>(which frankly sounds suspiciously like an excuse to carry on with business-as-usual rather than doing anything hard).

That's what I took from it too. Grab everything we can and dig in.
My pleasure -- transparency definitely saves time on all sides. And thanks for the good wishes!
> What value do bitcoin alts offer? Hardly anything.

Agreed, if taken by count. But there's a few that offer real distinctiveness IMO: Litecoin (scrypt, segwit), Monero (cryptonight, ring ct), Myriad (multi-PoW), Peercoin (PoS), CounterParty (colored coins/tokens). I'm not super up-to-date so there are bound to be more modern ones too.

We all heard Litecoin loud and clear win the race to segwit and it lit a fire under Bitcoin. In fact, many of these coins serve as inspiration for features included or considered for inclusion in bitcoin. So if nothing else they offer real world testing grounds (not merely testnet) for cryptocoin features.

> Your position is just absurd to say that Ethereum and what is buildable on top of it are valueless.

As noted elsewhere, I don't think Ethereum is worthless. But there are a lot of junk assets on there. Are there more junk Ethereum assets than there are junk altcoins? Well, IMO, the only investment altcoins solicit is computational capacity of PoW to secure their blockchain. Some altcoins do a premine and in general I think those are often as shady as some of the junk Ethereum assets.
This is a bit... opaque. Here is a lot of more-readable information about what's in the release, and some links to more editorial content. https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.12
on the front page already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14688209
Demon Miku Hatsune – Vocaloid Gallery
JokkoText:Pay active music fans for sharing and Sell music by SMS or credit card
In Cuba, Growing Numbers of Bloggers Manage to Operate in a Vulnerable Gray Area
So we should just kick out everyone who came here for a job over the past decade? Does anyone think before coming up with policy reforms or do they just spew out the first thing they can think of that gives them the moral high ground?
Censorship resistance isn't the main thing that blockchains enable; trustlessness is. If you host them on your own SQL database, people have to trust that you're acting honestly.
I'm curious to know if you erased all of modern civilization (governments, laws, et. all) and replaced it with decentralized apps and a blockchain-based currency, would it work? I read Snow Crash and I can see how fascinating the concepts are to libertarian technocrats, but I would like to see a rebuttal to it.

I know the transition to this model seems impossible and this is what most people in the blockchain-space blissfully ignore.

> The subtext is that a bunch of finance quants read Cryptonomicon and think the blockchain is the answer to their dream of becoming the gangster bosses of the anarcho-capitalist hellscape from Snow Crash.

This made my day, it's a shame it's too long to tweet
JokkoText is the new music service that pays fans for sharing music and artists for adding and selling theirs by SMS in 50 countries or credit card everywhere.

- When the "Rokki" formula is activated, when the fan shares the music, he receives 2% commission for each sale originated from the link that he shared.
- Fans can download entire albums in zip format

Artists can :
- Make music available for free download and allow those who still want to buy it to do so
- Upload their music directly online
- View their sales statistics
- See which singles have sold the most
- Edit their informations
- Annotate their lyrics and make them available for free download
- Edit details on their singles or albums,
- Sell their singles and albums by SMS in more than 50 countries, by Orange Money SMS or Joni Joni in Senegal and by credit card anywhere in the world
- Refer to the Percentage Grid per Country
- Request payment of their receipts
- Thank their fans with a personalized message after every purchase

This app is therefore intended for artists and music lovers. Both can register.
Your site can be taken offline either because it can't handle too much traffic, because authorities seized your servers or simply because you decided you didn't want to play anymore. If that doesn't happen and your site becomes very popular, you might be tempted to create a bunch of coins on your own mysql database to pay yourself.

Blockchain prevents all that: your code is committed and public
>I think in this case "intelligent" is used as a shorthand for "capable of creating a technological civilization capable of colonizing the stars."

Then humanity has a long way to go before proving its intelligence.
The rest of my comment does explain the logic:

If a SaaS app is closed source, like this one appears to be, if it closes (e.g. if they're acquired, decide its not profitable enough, lose interest, etc) I have no options. Maybe I can get my data out, but then what?

If a SaaS app is open source, and the paid version is essentially paying for the service of it being hosted, I have no concerns: if they close for whatever reason, I can run (or pay someone to run) the open source software.

> If you do know anything that looks as good as Vectra please throw out a link.

I haven't tried it, but I'd imagine the recent(ish) browser-based LibreOffice Online might be usable for the same purpose?
Git uses Myers diff, but recently added some heuristics to "shift" the hunks in semantically meaningful ways. See https://github.com/mhagger/diff-slider-tools for the experiments that led to this feature.

It also supports a few other diff algorithms: `--patience` and `--histogram`, but in my experience they produce the same output as Myers in most cases.
Do you know that most Backend Engineers doesn't have portfolio because almost all the work is not accessible to the public via internet?

what do you think about this? am I missing something?
The OS we can reinstall, we don't care about its files. We care about our Excel files with the accounting books in them that we can not put in read only mode because we keep them open and update them every day.
but when the speed limit is 70mph, everyone goes ~80mph... and it is probably not a good thing to always go at your car's maximum rated speed, you can't speed up to pass someone for example... (Assuming that the model 3 would have a lower than 130mph limit to differentiate it from its more expensive siblings.)
Burner | Los Angeles, CA | Dev-ops Engineer | Full-time

Burner (Ad Hoc Labs, Inc.) Burner is empowering people to take control over their primary channel of communication – the phone number.

As DevOps Engineer, you will be a key member of a team building the next generation of mobile privacy tools, working closely with the platform team to upgrade and maintain existing infrastructure while helping to design and deploy the next generation of services to power the Burner mobile apps.

Details & apply: https://www.burnerapp.com/careers/devops-engineer
Any startup with competent legal counsel, accountants, etc, would certainly be advised to stay far, far away.
> There is not one single dapp that is decentralised and working.

Sure there is. ENS, for one example. Plenty of gambling apps for another (I don't find them particularly _compelling_, but they are there and they do work)
"Methinks you doth protest too much" may apply.
You completely missed the mark.

.NET developers only started taking WPF seriously after the performance improvements Microsoft did to WPF, which took place after Visual Studio team adopted WPF to prove its quality.

If you intended to do any remark regarding UWP, first WPF is not going anywhere as communicated to those that care to learn what goes at Build, and second the architecture between WPF, Silverlight and UWP is almost the same, just a few differences regarding XAML features and .NET APIs.
> You go to church, really?

is something you will never hear from civilized people in France, not in that context.

People will discuss religion as part of a general discussion, but context is everything.
If you use ubuntu, install the kernel from here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.12/
Great app, really.

What I would really like woube be 1) an API 2) ability to sync with dropbox.

My team has about a dozen diagrams in out Git repository, so I'd really like a faster way of exporting vecta->folder.
macOS does exactly this, although it’s sandbox is an opt-in for the app and there is no easy way for the user to see if an app is sandboxed.
> The Belgian system contains costs in other ways. For example, doctors (especially GP's) are paid significantly less.

That's exactly the point! Single-payer is much better at containing the costs. The cost of a GP's visit is fixed centrally. And somehow we still end up with more doctors per 1000 inhabitants than the US.

> Belgium is also over 10x as population dense as the U.S., which offers significant opportunities for more efficient care delivery.

States like New Jersey and Rhode Island have higher population densities than Belgium. Is health care significantly cheaper there? A cursory glance at [3] suggests otherwise.

One big difference between Belgium and the US is that damages in malpractice suits are not determined by jury, and hence much lower.

> Anyway, it's not clear to me that Belgium has anything like a single-payer system[1]:

What is your definition of single-payer healthcare? If I look at wikipedia [1]: Single-payer healthcare is a healthcare system in which the state, financed by taxes, covers basic healthcare costs for all residents regardless of income, occupation, or health status.

The Belgian health-care system covers everybody, financed by social security contributions and taxation. The compulsory health insurance is about 75 EUR per year, and amounts to simply another disguised tax. What is not single-payer about that?

There are deductibles for doctor's visits (e.g. 6 EUR for a GP visit), but your total healthcare costs are capped at 459 EUR per year (even lower for low-income families). Anything over that is covered by social security.

You can get optional, extra health-insurance which can cover additional services. E.g. if you prefer a single room when you are hospitalised, that costs extra. Some extra health-insurance covers nonsense like homeopathy, which is otherwise not covered.

Btw, dental care is included in basic coverage. No third-world country situations like [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2017/05/13/the-pai...

[3] http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/health-spending-per...
Astranis (YC W16) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite | US Citizen or Green Card

We’re building small, low-cost telecommunications satellites. Our mission is to help bring the 4 billion people online who are without internet. And to pull it off we have to reinvent 30 GHz radios in space using SDRs.

Work with veteran engineers from SpaceX, Google, Qualcomm, and Planet Labs who have flown things in space before. Well-funded, but still a small team that moves fast. No prior space experience needed, you just need to enjoy getting your hands dirty with real hardware and be ok with struggling to do things that seem impossibly hard.

Roles we’re hiring for include:

* Embedded software -- write mission critical software that runs the spacecraft. Should have experience with microcontroller driver-level code and basic PCB design.

* Electrical -- PCB design, layout, bringup, test. Bonus: experience with fault-tolerant electronics, power systems, or high speed digital design

* Power electronics -- Design ~2 kW satellite power systems, including solar arrays and electronics for power regulation and distribution

* Fault tolerant systems -- Design fault tolerant electronics for operating in a radiation environment

* Aerospace/controls -- implement solutions to 6 DOF, non-linear control problems. Experience with spacecraft controls is a plus but not required.

* RF/Microwave -- work across a broad range designing and implementing RF systems at microwave frequencies, including LNAs and power amplifiers

* DSP/FPGA -- program FPGA hardware, develop custom DSP IP cores and integrate off-the-shelf IP cores

Please email john@astranis.com if you’re interested in learning more.
> USB C isn't easy to uplug??

I find the smooth texture (on at least the Apple cables) to be a pain to grip. It's easier for me with USB type-A cables as there's more surface area.
The filesystem itself is a risk: per-user default permissions so any application launched by one user can trash all his files is scary. Even applications being able to access other installed applications is dangerous. I hope the industry find a way between all closed (a la Apple) and all open.
older threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901612

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9638683
> none of the proposed scaling methods so far come even close

you sure? what happened to the estimates related to payment channel proposals: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/hong-kong/o...
That's good. (I see the article did mention "Controlling for factors that may influence funding outcomes — like measures of startups’ capital needs, quality, and age, as well as entrepreneurs’ past experience" but not the other factors.) How about height? I recall a study years ago that found that salaries for men increased by $1,000 per inch of height. CEOs tend to be tall.
Can you explain why nudity the natural state of the human body only becomes acceptable after people reach a wholly artificial age set by society.

The reality is that the nudity taboo is an artifact of culture that is obsolete.

Primitive religions controlled access to sex by forbidding sex outside of marriage and maintaining a monopoly on access to the marital bed. Sexuality outside of marriage was associated with moral breakdown because it encouraged disobedience to the central source of moral authority.

The interesting thing is that people can encourage their particular nudity taboo while scoffing at others as if a particular part of the human body was implicitly somehow more sinful. The taboo that says its necessary for a woman to hide her face is no different, better, or worse than the taboo that says she has to hide her rear end.

On the other side its perfectly ok for people to maintain the style of dress that makes them comfortable. If you desire to hide everything but your eyeballs that's your right but it becomes morally problematic when people attempt to make the world at large or the internet comport with their sensibilities. Its as sensible as only wearing red and insist that nobody be allowed to wear blue or be seen in the world at large or online attired in blue. Basically the world would be a better place if people didn't impose their hang ups on others.

Your turn.
This page is an example why I gave up and still give up on advance mathematics.

Maths is just the extreme example of science, where to make communication possible between its practitioners, new words encoding known facts are constantly created. Then another layer of new words with definitions based on the first layers are defined... and so on. Rapidly, we end-up with total gibberish for the non-initiated.

For example on that page, we start with quintic and radicals (I can grok that). Then icosahedral functions, then hypergeometric functions, finite monodromy, 60-fold branched covering of the complex projective line (lost!).
I wonder MS has given any thought to 'sealing' executable regions so no new instructions can leak into memory. IOW Once executed, a process can only reference instructions present in the binary itself. Basically make running JIT-ed code, self-modifying code, etc, a special process privilege, that can then have a limited process context for I/O.
Outcomes.com | San Francisco Bay Area, CA| Co-founder CTO | Full-time | https://outcomes.com

We're building a platform to transform patient feedback and bring objective patient-reported outcome measurement to routine practice. Our web/mobile-web/sms-based software automates the process of checking in with patients before and after major treatments. We're starting out by using validated surveys to measure changes in symptoms, function and quality of life over time and bring that data back to the point-of-care to close the loop, enable proactive decision making and help practices navigate the shift from volume to value.

We have a HIPAA compliant MVP that is already used by practices and a grant funded project with UCSF. We've bootstrapped to where we are today and have an incredibly clean cap table. As a committed full-time physician founder I'm now looking for an ambitious technical partner who can really help drive the business forward, put us in the sweet spot to raise some initial funding and grow the team. I'm looking for someone who:

- Is startup ready: willing and able to get their hands dirty, take on the risk that an early stage startup involves in return for real founder-level equity and little or no pay until we raise funding. Not someone wanting to sit on the fence until it takes off.

- Has the right skills: Fluent in JavaScript, experience working across the stack but more than anything else a history of building, curiosity and learning with a need to create something great.

- Is the right fit: Experience nice but not necessary, however an active interest in improving healthcare is a must. Someone who enjoys building teams and helping people grow.

If you're interested in learning more please contact me at francis@outcomes.com
It's also not people who have office jobs, or even jobs specifically in industries where this is very common. At $workplace, managers have 1:1s with their reports basically weekly or bi-weekly, directors with their reports typically monthly, VPs quarterly if they have time. There are tons of 1:1s happening and while some dislike them for various reasons (waste of time, no power to actually change anything, inefficient to discuss a bigger topic with 1 person at a time then have to do that multiple times, etc), I've never heard anyone talk about or suspect that anyone has felt weird about a 1:1 being between two people of different gender. It's a 100% normal part of working at $company, so if we ran the same poll as in the article, I'd be very surprised if it was more than a couple % on each side in the "inappropriate" or even boarder line camp.

Fwiw, all the small rooms used for 1:1s, and all conference rooms for that matter, have at least 1 narrow (but usually wide) full-length window.
A p-value can be calculated for any statistic. The p-value is often calculated using the sample average. I wouldn't say that it is an average, though.
The file dialogs already can handle scenarios where you don't have permission to access files/directories. You just use that.
Please check out 70MillionJobs.com, job board for the 70 million Americans with criminal records
I think you could get 90% of the utility of semantic syntax tree diff by standard text diff + some simple rules.

For example preferring to split on empty (whitespace-only) lines. Almost all languages and coding styles use empty lines as a "semantic separator" marker.
It is, but religion is not a very trendy subject.

Politics yes, and I would not say that it is very civilized, so people avoid it not because of political correctness (so to speak) but rather because these discussions tend to get heated.
But they're not shaming us. I don't feel shamed at all by the coverage. I'm not one of the people they're talking about; I know I'm not, so I don't feel upset by the coverage.
a lottery is an absolutely horrible metaphor abuse.

If you put $2 into buying a powerball ticket, you have a ~1:290 million chance at becoming a millionaire and a ~1:50 chance at breaking even.

If you put $2 into bitcoin at any point in history and held for 2 years, you have a 0% chance at becoming a millionaire and a 100% chance at breaking even.

If you left $2 sitting in your wallet for 2 years, you lost $0.05-0.10 depending upon who you believe
Could someone say something about the new "BFQ I/O scheduler"? I was not aware of the work being done, and the goal to have a more reponsive desktop
yea its that when filling and online application they ask you what you did and a url, and then you have a url but no credentials for them to try
It would be gamed.

Real resistance to gaming requires continuous adaptation. Google "red Queen's race." All closed form systems would fall.