skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Laundromat's are now how I explain "the cloud" to non-technical people.

A guy I know who used to manage cloud development at RedHat mentioned to me that one of his developers quit, bought a laundromat which eventually became several laundromats, and now makes more money running his laundromats than he ever did developing cloud software at RedHat.

I believe the laundromats are in Raleigh, NC and he does his own maintenance. Those factors may help quite a bit compared to the businesses described in the article.
Please add LaTeX support to Medium
Grow | https://thisisgrow.com/ | Norfolk, VA | Associate Technology Director | ON-SITE | Full-time

Paid relocation and temporary housing for selected candidates. This is a full-time position at our office in downtown Norfolk, VA.

Our Associate Technology Director plays a key role in concepting, planning, and executing our interactive projects. Successful candidates for this job will bring deep experience leading development teams while building and sustaining productive lines of communication within Grow and to our clients.

1.) Lead development teams on assigned projects through all aspects of project executions including requirements gathering, solution architecture, coding and QA.

2.)Manage and provide direct support to 3-5 frontend developers including professional development, 1:1 meetings, and general guidance/advice.

3.) Serve as the primary technical contact to clients, developing timing and resource allocations, technical specifications, and scope of work documentation.

4.) Work within the local and global development communities to promote Grow as a leader in the digital field.
Define and maintain best practices in development, documentation, standards support, and QA.

Grow is a smaller agency (just under 40 employees) that loves to do amazing work for amazing clients. We’re part of a community of like-minded people in the Norfolk / Virginia Beach metro who spend our time creating great work and building culture around us—with lovely beaches, urban amenities, and family-friendly opportunities throughout the region.

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> If you tailor your blog towards novices then no one will attack you...

This is just wrong. You will be attacked. You will be called an idiot. That's what the Internet is -- a manic outrage of keyboard kommandos punctuated by pictures of cats.

The default comment on the Internet is outrage. If you write anything, your commenters will either be spam or people calling you an idiot.

The trick is learning to brush it off and completely ignore this hate. Break through that and you can start producing interesting work. Most people don't manage to get to that breakthrough. Good luck.
Nope, he just removes the `highlight` class.

>Except HTML (especially HTML5) is not based on "customizing presentation"

Right, I meant CSS, and the HTML classes you use to support it. h1.highlight is just as semantic as h1.

>CSS is the language that is based on customizing presentation

Right, so your CSS should be based on class names that point to their design function. Not "what something is".
I don't quite understand - I get how images can be sent with a transactions but how do you see the image?
Strong crypto used to be considered 'arms'; export was forbidden under ITAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...

If one accepts that part of the intent of the Second Amendment was to allow citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government (but please, let's not start the usual argument about asymmetric warfare), strong encryption capabilities would certainly be an important component of that in the modern era.

But that's just my stance, as someone who likes guns and crypto.
Apple | Backend (Go, PostgreSQL) engineer | Shanghai, China | ONSITE | Full Time

We're a small team that is having a huge impact on the mass production of Apple's products.

If you're an expert in Go or PostgreSQL (ideally both), we'd love to talk to you. But perhaps even more importantly, you should be a good communicator and fast learner. Relocation is possible. My e-mail is in my profile.

You might also enjoy enjoy this recent blog post of mine that gives you a small glimpse on the kind of things my team is up to: http://felixge.de/2017/07/27/implementing-state-machines-in-... (The example is not the problem domain we're working in, it was made up for the post)
At least in the context of this article (iOS app bloat) this is no longer the case - developers upload all assets for all pixel densities, but Apple repackages for each specific device, so that each device only gets one set of assets. Same goes for binaries for multiple architectures - each device only gets the binary for its specific CPU architecture.

Also to the GP's point - Apple also now no longer supports splash screen images, so that element of bloat is no longer a factor (though some legacy apps have retained them pointlessly).

I think for non-game apps assets are not the primary driver of bloat.
I've had some great interactions on Mastodon. I'm hopeful that the fediverse will continue to grow along with public support for ethical social networking.
Your last paragraph tells me you're in the right mindset already. Surrender yourself to the process rather than the outcome.

Fire up that notepad and start typing.
Skin Analytics is a healthcare company building a clinical quality diagnostic service for melanoma using Artificial Intelligence. We’ve a clinical study running across 5 UK hospitals including the Royal Free and Oxford University Hospital Trust.

Based in Old Street in London we’re currently working with Vitality Health, leveraging dermatologists while we finish the clinical validation for our AI system. We have a strong pipeline of future partners for our service across a number of channels.

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> I wonder if it's possible to get major open-source libs to move towards more fine-grained build targets and internal dependency management, so that devs don't pull in a gigantic binary when they're only using a small slice of the functionality.

Fwiw, this is already a trend in JavaScript land. Libraries are moving towards many small packages so you can import only the parts you need either manually or using a tool like Webpack to throw away what isn't used.
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Most divisions are always looking for talented people and are interested in hiring. Divisions of Amazon in Toronto:

Fulfillment Technology (software to run warehouses); Flex/Logistics (delivery); Fulfillment By Amazon (sell things using Amazon's warehouses); Customer Service Technology (make CS associates tools better); Alexa (voice assistant); Supply Chain Optimization Tech; Amazon FreeTime (Kindle Fire for kids); Amazon Connections (internal feedback and survey tool + data analytics); Probably a couple more that I either have forgotten or opened a team here and I didn't notice.

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Those symbols are very obnoxious.
> Finding the maximum sum subarray isn't testing for any fundamental.

There is quite literally nothing more fundamental to computer science than data organization and access.

And for what it's worth, Google and others are very open about their hiring process: they want generalists. I assume they have the data to justify that's a better investment. So maybe DHH or whoever gave the impression they weren't interested in doing anything they haven't already mastered. We have at least a little bit of evidence that attitude could be the problem: many of these anecdotes are disgruntled people who (often profanely) publicly vent when a company rejects them. Maybe that attitude comes out during the interview when they're asked to do something they deem to be beneath them.
Show HN: D3.sparql
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Climate change would affect rainfall patterns as well (I assume).
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What blogging engine is this? Real nice and clean.
Fun Fact: The PortableApps.com Platform's menu is written in Delphi. We're debating whether to stay with it or not, mainly due to the buy-in costs for developers. We can either use no external bits and let people work with Delphi Starter Edition (free, only for use with free/open source, 32-bit only, no add-on support), convert to Lazarus (open source equivalent of much older Delphi version with many newer bits added), come up with the money to pay for a lot of licenses (unlikely), or rewrite in another language. It's a bit under 10k lines of code, so even a rewrite wouldn't be too painful.

It's also worth noting that while the linked article mentions Windows 7 and up, the current version of Delphi 10.2 produces apps that also work under Windows XP and Vista as well.
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Specifically I'm closely involved with trying to fill our engineering positions. We're looking for folks at a variety of experience levels interested in working on full-stack projects. For these roles we're looking for folks to join our SF team, but we do have a mix of remote and local devs and do open REMOTE positions fairly frequently -- so feel free to reach out if you're curious about those as well!

Stack is Python/Django/MySQL/ReactJS/Elasticsearch/Redis/AWS. Team culture is awesome. High empathy, low ego. Lots of interactions with passionate users, and generally in the company of people who care a lot about the quality of the product experience.

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This is how you make Apache Kafka Blazing Fast
Could you please elaborate, or provide examples?

I can see how high-res pictures embedded in the app can add dozens of megabytes, and maybe a different runtime that you have to bundle for compat reasons, but multiple hundreds of MB?
I know posts about blockchain related technologies are all over HN these days and I think it's all super fascinating. But it took me reading your post, going to the links provided, skimming through your whitepaper (even the glossary in the paper) to try and figure out what an ICO is. I couldn't find it on there at all. After googling it, I finally figured out that it's Initial Coin Offering which allowed me to finally understand what this was all about but my interest was already fading pretty fast.

Not everyone speaks blockchain. Overall cool idea though.
Stop Dabbling at Startups
There's also Facebook Lite
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.l...

And if Play Store won't let you install it then download & install manually from here
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/facebook-2/lite/
> by the time that millennials walk the halls of power, their parents will have signed away all their rights.

It's not as though 'millennials' are so big on rights, take a look at Twitter to see how happy people are to suppress e.g. free speech as long as they're the ones who get to do the suppressing.
Zero rating is not serving as an on-ramp to the internet – Mozilla research
Analytics and ads/tracking is one of the reasons. They're always writing/including more code to track every single click and pixel.
We send 240V to our dryers here, too.
Ironically, private Whatsapp is extremely important in the UK government at the moment - it's where all the anti-PM plotting is carried out. Or so the leakers say.

I do find it interesting that UK politics has not yet been visited by the email leak fairy. I don't know what conclusions to draw from this though.
Have you seen WebRender? It sports impressive performance, which does help on real-world applications/sites, especially on low-end HW. While its performance gains probably come from multiple sources, pushing work to GPU is afaik one of the main ones.

https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki

Also, I'm reminded of Anandtech review of the 1st-gen rMBP:

At 2880 x 1800 most interactions are smooth but things like zooming windows or scrolling on certain web pages is clearly sub-30fps. At the higher scaled resolutions, since the GPU has to render as much as 9.2MP, even UI performance can be sluggish [...] But there are other limitations: many elements of screen drawing are still done on the CPU, and as largely serial architectures their ability to scale performance with dramatically higher resolutions is limited.

Some elements of drawing in Safari for example aren’t handled by the GPU. Quickly scrolling up and down on the AnandTech home page will peg one of the four IVB cores in the rMBP at 100%

The GPU has an easy time with its part of the process but the CPU’s workload is borderline too much for a single core to handle. Throw a more complex website at it and things get bad quickly. Facebook combines a lot of compressed images with text - every single image is decompressed on the CPU before being handed off to the GPU. Combine that with other elements that are processed on the CPU and you get a recipe for choppy scrolling.

To quantify exactly what I was seeing I measured frame rate while scrolling as quickly as possible through my Facebook news feed in Safari on the rMBP as well as my 2011 15-inch High Res MacBook Pro. While last year’s MBP delivered anywhere from 46 - 60 fps during this test, the rMBP hovered around 20 fps (18 - 24 fps was the typical range).

The good news is Mountain Lion provides some relief. At WWDC Apple mentioned the next version of Safari is ridiculously fast, but it wasn’t specific about why. It turns out that Safari leverages Core Animation in Mountain Lion and more GPU accelerated as a result. Facebook is still a challenge because of the mixture of CPU decoded images and a standard web page, but the experience is a bit better. Repeating the same test as above I measured anywhere from 20 - 30 fps while scrolling through Facebook on ML’s Safari

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

I think that demonstrates clearly how GPUs are essential for todays rich UIs, especially when targeting higher resolutions. Yes, the examples here are for web, but I don't see any reason why the situation wouldn't be the same for any other stack.
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Nope. Only Crosswalk embeds a browser engine in Android and the project has been cancelled.

Cordova uses the system WebView.
For the few among us who haven't read "The Website Obesity Crisis", this is as good an excuse as any to link it again:

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
The only real solution I can think of would be if apple actually incentivized app creators to reduce their size. They are actively harming the Apple ecosystem by preventing users from having a large number of apps which hurts Apple.

* Charge owners a fee for apps over a certain size "a processing fee" or whatnot

* Charge owners a fee based on the download costs. Under XMB and it is free. The more you cost apple to transfer your app to their customer the larger the fee.

* Penalize large apps in the app store search results or give bonus to smaller apps.

Or rather than straight up bonus's / penalize apps based on size go after specific things that cause bloat

* Apps that don't use pngcrush on their png's

* Shipping wav files and not acc

* ...

Maybe Apple doesn't even need to actually implement any of these, but just threaten to.
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Yea, I wasn't trying to think too hard about the subject, I know there are many excellent posts out there already (like those linked above) that go into detail. I only wanted to show some actual download numbers to demonstrate how absurd it has become. Linking those other articles is a great idea, thanks for the feedback!
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Flow is an enterprise SaaS platform that makes it simple for ecommerce brands to sell globally. It’s a large market (~$400B last year) and growing quickly (~30% year over year). We closed a massive series A funding round earlier this year ($16M) and are scaling the team. We love building software. We love open source. We spend tons of time carefully designing our APIs - both for the REST APIs and the event schemas we use on our data platform.

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Good app daily uploaded new filters so very awesome.
As a Canadian, to get 2.5 GB of data from a larger cell phone company costs me over $100 / month (there are smaller companies that will reduce that, but still, it's little data for quite a bit of money). I'm very happy I can force things to download only over WiFi.
It's still oil. At worst they can just not touch it at all or keep it on life support like coal is being treated in Poland due to miners' demands, it's a strain (and quite fucking unfair towards people who aren't miners at comfy labor union and politics infested governmental mines) but doesn't ruin the entire country on its own.

There are also plenty oil less countries that do well, what Venezuela is doing is just pure WTF, even considering their placement.

At the same time Maduro doesn't seem to give a shit and just presses on with his absolute devoted voter base, pure PR and attempts to meddle with the constitution.
I thought the same, but I've been using various phones with virtual home buttons for years and it's never been an issue. I found that in practice I am almost always holding my phone in my hand before putting it in my pocket so it goes in the same way each time.

Having the extra screen space available for watching full screen videos and such is nice.
Note that employers want people who can write (plans, documentation, ...) so demonstrating that you can write is as important as anything else.
There are various free services that will email you whenever a cert for one of your domains shows up in the CT logs. It's a good idea to sign up for one. (It would be an even better idea for domain registrars to automatically sign you up for one.) Here's one that Facebook operates: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/ct/
Plus with most laundermats still cash, many under report revenues for taxes. I presume thats where the cliche "money laundering" may have come from.

Do any places accept digital pay? Perhaps for a token machine. I notice may of the two buck car washes now accept electronic money.