skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the "features" (back in the day) of running a diskless system was that you could set change policy on the server hosting the file which was completely out of reach of the "client" machine that was running the program. For nearly all of the system files there was no reason for them to change. NetApp turned this into a huge win when they could use snapshots to support multiple VM images with just the small configuration changes.

Given the well known benefit there, and that the processor on your hard drive is about as powerful as your phone, why not have the drive set up files that are 'read only' unless allowed to change out of band. Here is how it would work.

Your disk works like a regular SATA drive, except that there is a new SATA write option which can write a block as 'frozen'. Once written that way the block can be read but not written. You add an out of band logic signal and wire it up to a switch/button that you can put on the front (and/or) back panel. When the button is pressed the disk lets you 'unfreeze' or write frozen blocks, when it it isn't pressed they can't be changed.

Now your hard drive, in conjunction with a locally operated physical switch, protects sensitive files from being damaged or modified.
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Osper (https://osper.com) is mobile banking for young people aged 8-18. We give children the power to manage their money, and parents the confidence to let them. We've already helped tens of thousands of young people learn what it means to spend and save in the digital world.

We are looking for an experienced backend developer to help take Osper to the next level by improving our services and capabilities, and mentoring more junior engineers. Our infrastructure is built on python (2 and 3) and Flask; postgresql and dynamo db; docker/ECS for deployment. We integrate with quite a few third-parties for transaction processing/card payments/subscriptions/kyc checks etc.

Compensation: £65,000 - £80,000

Apply at https://osper.workable.com/jobs/415580 or feel free to contact me directly with questions.
Much has been said about risks to investors buying into ICOs. What about risks to startups selling ICOs? Should every startup be fundraising via ICOs right now or risk missing the gravy train?
Lots of noise here about what it actually consists of. This blog post is a good overview[1]

> Creating a module is relatively simple however. A module is typically just a jar file that has a module-info.class file at the root - known as a modular jar file. And that file is created from a module-info.java file in your sourcebase (see below for more details).

> Using a modular jar file involves adding the jar file to the modulepath instead of the classpath. If a modular jar file is on the classpath, it will not act as a module at all, and the module-info.class will be ignored. As such, while a modular jar file on the modulepath will have hidden packages enforced by the JVM, a modular jar file on the classpath will not have hidden packages at all.

[1] http://blog.joda.org/2017/04/java-9-modules-jpms-basics.html
Compose built-in in JavaScript
CrazyGames | Tech Lead | Leuven, Belgium (20 minutes from Brussels by train) | Hiring Full-time and Part-time
CrazyGames.com is a browser games company reaching 5 million people per month, based in Leuven, Belgium. We're looking for a tech lead who'll be the first full-time employee. The qualifications we're looking for are general web software engineering and some game development experience (ideally in Unity). Note that since you're the first full-time employee you'll have a lot of freedom and responsibility. Our stack is Javascript (React) and Python running on AWS.
A full job description can be found here: https://www.crazygames.com/jobs

If you are interested or know someone who might be, you can reach out to raf@crazygames.com.
LoadDocs | Frontend Engineering (Mobile and Web - React/React Native) | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, http://loaddocs.co

LoadDocs is building a modern operating system for logistics; our initial focus is on over-the-road truck freight.

The majority of our team were part of the founding engineering team at Addepar. We're well funded by 8VC, Goldcrest Capital, and a bunch of great people who you’ve heard/read about.

Our frontend engineering team needs you. You’ll collaborate closely with our product team to deliver a world class user experience on the web and mobile. We use React/React Native for our mobile and web apps. We share a bunch of code between the two platforms. It’s awesome.

We care more about technical fundamentals than we do with knowledge of a particular technical stack. It’s very helpful if you have experience with web frontend frameworks.

If you’re interested, say hello to us at careers@loaddocs.co. We’re based near Moscone Center in SF. We're always interested in grabbing lunch/coffee/dinner with cool people and great engineers.
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That's actually a pretty cool / unique freelancer pitch imo. I feel like this is pretty niche yet important.
Just a heads up, I get a "Your connection is not secure" error on your finbarr.ca https link.

Maybe your certificates aren't configured properly?
Smyte Is Hiring SRE and DevOps in SF: Fighting spam and fraud
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We're primarily looking for a quality devops/infra/sre engineer, but we're also interested in anyone full stack or frontend focused. Check out our "jobs repo" here: https://github.com/smyte/careers

Why Smyte?

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* We are the highest-quality product in this space. We work with a selection of the top websites and mobile apps.

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* We've built our own (successful) SQL-like rules and data counting/fetching DSL [http://docs.smyte.com/docs/introduction-to-sqrl].

* We have the strongest team tackling this problem (founded by ex FB and Google engineers working on spam and fraud, and Pete was part of the original React.js team)

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Here are the reasons given by Goodman (2008):

>"Misconception #6: P = .05 means that we have observed data that would occur only 5% of the time under the null hypothesis. That this is not the case is seen immediately from the P value’s definition, the probability of the observed data, plus more extreme data, under the null hypothesis. The result with the P value of exactly .05 (or any other value) is the most probable of all the other possible results included in the “tail area” that defines the P value. The probability of any individual result is actually quite small, and Fisher said he threw in the rest of the tail area “as an approximation.” As we will see later in this chapter, the inclusion of these rarer outcomes poses serious logical and quantitative problems for the P value, and using comparative rather than single probabilities to measure evidence eliminates the need to include outcomes other than what was observed.

[...]

Misconception #7: P = .05 and P <= .05 mean the same thing. This misconception shows how diabolically difficult it is to either explain or understand P values. There is a big difference between these results in terms of weight of evidence, but because the same number (5%) is associated with each, that difference is literally impossible to communicate. It can be calculated and seen clearly only using a Bayesian evidence metric.16"
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Hey I’m Karim, CTO at Coffee Meets Bagel. I’m looking to hire Senior Data Scientist to work on our best in class dating app and algorithm.

We currently have 2 engineers/scientists on our data science team and will be growing it considerably over the next year as we tackle new frontiers and problems in dating.

Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating app that focuses on quality over quantity. We're growing fast and looking for great engineers to help build new features and scale out our platform globally.

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Cloudhealth Technologies just closed our Series D round of $46M. We're the leader in cost and usage reporting and optimization for AWS, Azure, GCP. We've recently GAed a product for Datacenter, too.

Our stack involves ruby, java, scala, spark, and angular. We've got thousands of customers worth of data and interesting problems to solve.

Here's a link to our job postings:
https://jobs.lever.co/cloudhealthtech/8618c0b5-a3c4-40ff-880...
https://jobs.lever.co/cloudhealthtech/d00de32f-1d08-438d-b6d...

Please feel free to email me if you're interested: johnm @ cloudhealthtech dot com

Thanks!
Rapidly connecting realtime event streaming to programming languages
> provided by governments with particularly liberal electorates [...] One of its key selling points, among certain constituents, is as an equalizer: getting the rich out their Audis and into the same miserable conditions as everyone else.

It's hard to take what you're saying seriously when you're so clearly biased towards one end of the political spectrum.

The actual truth is much less political. Cities like New York City are way too dense for everyone to drive a personal vehicle, full stop, your non sequitur about Audis notwithstanding. Mass transit is the only transportation method that scales to handle a population the size of a large, dense city. Individual vehicle transportation does not. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, whether you're driving an Audi or a beater; if you're trying to drive to your job in the heart of Manhattan from the suburbs it's going to take you hours. Mass transit is the better choice for almost everyone.
G750JZ

https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-G750JZ/
And how relevant is the average Mandarin speaker to the western workforce? Mandarin speaking is not as distributed as English.
I have a USB 3.0 type-A to Ethernet adapter and it's a pleasure to use with my old MacBook Pro. I wish they'd solve the grip issue on USB-C (and Thunderbolt/mini-DP).
I had to abandon the "keep knowledge in my head" paradigm in 1990 or so and shift to the "problem solver" model. This is the skill set with an indeterminate shelf life.

Sure it takes time to become fluent in new systems. That's no different than the first system that I learned. I think if one lacks the willingness to stretch and learn the new, whether one is 25 or one is 70, that is when one becomes unsuitable for this line of work.
Replicated | Backend Engineer | $120k - $150k + equity | Los Angeles + SF | https://www.replicated.com

Replicated is developing tools for deploying modern enterprise software. We're interested in connecting with backend developers with Golang experience and people interested in pushing the capabilities of Docker, Kubernetes and Swarm.

The Backend Engineer role will be working on the core of our product.

In this role you'd be working closely with an experienced team. We have openings for a wide range of experience levels. So if you are passionate about what we're working on you could be a great fit.

We're also hiring people to help support our customers. If you are passionate about customer success or supporting customers with complicated devops and sysadmin questions please reach out as well.

Email: austin (at) replicated (dot) com
The delineations at play here for those who don't know, in order of scale, are light rail (typically at-grade), heavy rail/rapid transit/subway/metro (all the same thing), commuter rail, then regional/long-distance rail.
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Volumental is a startup with approximately 30 people currently in a strong growth phase. Having begun rolling out in 2016, our products are now with businesses in 32 countries. Volumental’s products are at present technologically unparalleled in the global retail industry, with our technology team having invested years solving a series of difficult problems. This has placed Volumental in a unique position as the global technology leader for 3D Retail Scanning.

Our vision is to make retail more efficient, sustainable and personalized. By helping people find and create products that fit them perfectly, people feel more connection to the things they buy. We reduce waste by reducing returns and helping brands create products that really fit their customers. Read more about life at Volumental here.

We represent 7 nationalities and are 48% women, some in the engineering team.

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Are there software opportunities for US citizens without a clearance?
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Come change how 6.5+ million US students learn Math, Language Arts, Social Studies and much more. Use data, advanced type systems, great product design and deep pedagogy to change lives.

World class, tight-knit colocated + distributed engineering team in continental US. One of the world's highest traffic Haskell products out there, 100% of backend and tools are in Haskell.

Big presence and stewardship of the Open Source community.

Use the best and simplest tools for the job, maintain the no-firefighting culture, sleep soundly at night.

Front Row is a venture funded, revenue generating Series-A YCombinator/ImagineK12 2013 startup.

Keywords: Haskell, React.JS, FlowType, Ansible, AWS, PostgreSQL
TFA says clang actually uses an encoding of AND which operates on RAX but takes only 32b of constant so it is pretty much the solution you propose. And BTW, operating directly on EAX itself fucks up the upper half of RAX.
>This may be one reason why legal systems have historically been rather forgiving of men who go on rampages after too much wifely nagging or losing their jobs.

Since when? Please show me an example of this..
So we've been told. Part of my point here is that code like this is the opposite of more maintainable. Writing code for clueless people to read and understand is a loosing game for everyone, that energy is better used to cultivate skills collectively. This is about not having to differentiate between individuals, about being able to treat a bunch of coders as a code-factory; which is very convenient but neither efficient nor humane.
Err, that's on purpose? It's so you can tell your writes apart, which is helpful while debugging.

They used to use, uh, more obvious patterns but the PC brigade called them on it so they settled on 0xcd.
Sure, but what literally killed it is a constitutional provision that non revenue neutral laws need to be introduced by a popular vote.
Yes, but with my permanent residence permit I can take a year off to write poetry (if I could afford it) then come back and take a part-time job in a cafe or be a freelancer, and nothing would happen to my status.

I'm not arguing that it's better to live in Germany than in France, that depends on way too many variables (not just the food of course). But it would be nice to see more competition. Maybe if other EU countries really started beating Germany for tech talent acquisition, Germany might finally wake up and allow dual citizenship. (Wishful thinking on my part.)
If cryptocoins are equivalent to shares in the company, what is the equivalent of dividends?
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Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP. We are building products that are enabling anyone to participate in trade regardless of geographic, regulatory or logistical boundaries
By dramatically simplifying the process of importing goods from overseas, we aim to empower a new generation of entrepreneurs benefitting from the wonders of international trade.

To keep up with our 20% MoM growth in this multi-trillion-dollar industry and international expansion, we’re growing our team by ~3 engineers per month in our downtown SF HQ.
Check us out if you:

-Care about the real world functionality of your programming

-Want to be part of a close-knit engineering team that releases new code multiple times per day

-Take a product-first approach to building software

-Have a desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity

Our stack: React + Rails + Postgres with some Python sneaking in.

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As far as I can tell, the internal combustion engine and related components are not the most expensive part of a modern car to build or maintain. Suspension, braking, tires, electronics, drivetrain and interior features are the parts of a car that typically increase the cost the most. They're also the parts that get the most wear and tear, and the parts that are the most expensive to replace. And they're all still present on a fully electric car. A modern internal combustion engine will last the life of every other component of the vehicle with basically no maintenance, other than an oil change every 5-10K miles. And if it ever does fail, you can get a complete replacement engine for less than the cost of a suspension system or a few hours of a shop diagnosing a computer issue.

Tesla was recently replacing $10,000 electric motors on their Model S because they were wearing out under normal usage - some customers got 3 or 4 of them, if I remember correctly. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101153_two-thirds-of-ea...
> he told me it's not enough for promotion and we should wait. I did my best to convince him.

Don't let others make a decision for you -- promote yourself! Want to break out of mediocrity? Here's some food for thought from James Altucher > http://freakonomics.com/2013/06/05/in-praise-of-mediocrity-a...
I'd be curious what those ways are?
That's pretty good reasoning.

One other area it'd be nice for them to tackle and simplify is their licensing scheme --even their own people are not always sure what licensing applies where. They seriously need to streamline that aspect of their business --granted this affects mostly their legacy business but that isn't going away overnight.
The Drake equation ends up mixing some terms we think we know fairly well and are either large or suggest something is not that uncommon with terms that are, as you say, completely unknown.

Then throw in that, based on human experiences and intuition, one in a trillion or whatever is an incredibly rare event. But that isn't a fair estimation for an event that may be truly rare.
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Volumental is a startup with approximately 30 people currently in a strong growth phase. Having begun rolling out in 2016, our products are now with businesses in 32 countries. Volumental’s products are at present technologically unparalleled in the global retail industry, with our technology team having invested years solving a series of difficult problems. This has placed Volumental in a unique position as the global technology leader for 3D Retail Scanning.

Our vision is to make retail more efficient, sustainable and personalized. By helping people find and create products that fit them perfectly, people feel more connection to the things they buy. We reduce waste by reducing returns and helping brands create products that really fit their customers. Read more about life at Volumental here.
We represent 7 nationalities and are 48% women, some in the engineering team.

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Speaking of legacy tech, I wonder why some laptop manufacturers (System76, I'm looking at you) continue to ship with USB 2.0 ports.
It's a performance trade off. It's not really surprising that GCC would make different performance trade offs when optimizing for different microarchitectures. (let alone most likely across different versions of GCC)

Why would you expect GCC to optimize for Pentium 4 (Netburst) in this day and age? (Especially given that the article is talking about Skylake.)
Elon Musk Sets Tesla Model 3 Production, Delivery Dates
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Given the recent stories behind the scenes of Musk's companies... I can't help but imagine that there are hundreds of almost broken, spent, and exhausted young people (many of them very low paid "interns") who have been working for peanuts making this happen.
Not just reviews. Elsevier doesn't fund any of the scientific work, but it didn't stop the article from comparing them to record companies and film studios in the very first sentence.
Symmetric Access, Data Sub-Language, Relation Types, Redundancy and Consistency
So basically, there's a switch on my computer which I have to flip every so often or things stop working? Or maybe I can just leave it in R/W mode because I'm tired of flipping a switch every time I ctrl+S...
Your example isn't making sense to me. Hammers and shovels are excellent tools. There's a reason they're some of the most commonly possessed and used tools world-wide.