skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An unique aspect of board games is how extremely moddable they are. People are making house rules all the time (sometimes because they're bad players who can't handle a certain strategy, sometimes because the game actually is unbalanced). People bring their homemade expansions. Modding a game can be as simple as "let's try a game where everyone starts with X or Y!".

Board games also have very few quitters. A person who quits mid-game is usually labeled a jerk and avoided in future. Players might cheat or turn over the table, but griefers can face anything up to physical violence. Players have power to police themselves as they see fit.

Also, while board games are relatively expensive, a whole group can play a single copy. This is almost unheard of in video game world. One example was Starcraft 1 "spawn" feature, another - Age of Wonders 3, where you can play expansions you purchased with people who don't own it. It avoids splintering the multiplayer community. It pays to do some research before buying a game or trying it out a few times.
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Last year we were named one of the Coolest Companies of 2016 by DC Inno. We've also been named one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the DC area by the Washington Business Journal and SmartCEO. The Wall Street Journal wrote “NGP VAN is something of a secret weapon for the Democratic Party and the labor unions and progressive groups that use it.” We have also won the AAPC award for Best Use of New Technology, and the Campaigns & Elections Award for Most Innovative Product.

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I have a collection of 20 or so games, all well rated and popular on BGG, but for us Carcassonne is the most popular and enjoyable to play. It's beautiful, not too heavy, keeps everyone involved until the end. We just love it. We use three expansions: river, traders and architects, and inns. What a beautiful game!
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYNXeHfTdQ
> Not allowing the addition of floats and ints together is less of a fundamental issue, but it also helps quite a few problems.

Needing to use +. to add two floats seems odd to me as well, and I believe this is what OP was pointing out. I would agree with you that adding and int to a float should require conversion of one of the arguments, but I see no need for a separate + operator for floats and ints.
My point is that, just because the futures are not directly linked to Bitcoin, they can still have a direct effect.

And I'm not suggesting that they're listing futures in order to attack Bitcoin. I have no reason to believe that.

However, it is notoriously hard to prove general price manipulation. It is much easier, and more common, to prove specific price manipulation. In practice this usually means an extraordinary anomaly e.g. a flash crash or a targeted anomaly. The latter is almost always due to a specific event such as a rate setting or a close price.
From Apple documentation;

What happens when I turn off iCloud Keychain on a device?

When you turn off iCloud Keychain for a device, you're asked to keep or delete the passwords and credit card information that you saved. If you choose to keep the data, it isn't deleted or updated when you make changes on other devices.

And then...

When you turn on iCloud Keychain, any previously-saved website usernames and passwords, Wi-Fi networks, and Internet accounts are automatically included in iCloud Keychain.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204085
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Broad Institute | Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA (Onsite) | Full Time | https://macarthurlab.org/exome-aggregation

Join us to build open-source tools that help researchers and clinicians explore, search, and analyze large genomic datasets. The goal is to significantly accelerate the pace of diagnosis for families affected by rare genetic conditions.

You will help build:

- UI's and data visualizations (react, redux, d3)

- server-side APIs (python, django, postgres)

- data processing pipelines (spark, elasticsearch)

Apply by sending a resume and/or a link to github projects to weisburd@broadinstitute.org
Perhaps it's not too late for rebranding it?
Thinknum | New York | Multiple Positions | On-site - Full-time | $70k-$140k + equity

=== Who We Are ===

Thinknum is one of the fastest growing profitable SaaS companies in the world. Economic activity is coming online - companies are selling products, hiring employees, marketing and moving operations to the web. Thinknum captures the data trails that are created (e.g., How quickly is UberEATS growing on a restaurant-by-restaurant basis vs Grubhub?). We work with hundreds of financial institutions and corporations. We have a private office in Midtown and offer full benefits.

=== Who We Are Looking For ===

Web Crawling Engineer

We're looking for an experienced Python engineer that will extract and ingest data from websites using web crawling tools or APIs. You will need experience in Python and Javascript and to be familiar with the DOM and tools for parsing the DOM like Selenium and BeautifulSoup. At least two years of experience in web crawling is required.

ReactJS Front-End Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced ReactJS front-end engineer to implement features that enable users to intuitively answer questions on companies they are analyzing. You will need experience in ReactJS, CSS and an eye for great design.

Reporter

We’re looking for reporters / writers who want to be part of a major, brand-new media property launch. You should be comfortable covering anything from: technology, to politics, to retail or economics and entertainment. You should also be skilled in ideating, pitching and developing stories, proactive research, and (more than anything) a great writer. All subject matters considered and writing backgrounds welcomed. Big plus if you already have samples of your previous work to share.

Site Reliability Engineer

We’re looking for a SRE that will support enterprise level applications hosted in the cloud. You need to have extensive experience in web application development and exposure to Amazon Web Services, Redshift and Postgres. Experience with container management and micro-services architectures such as Docker is a requirement. Enthusiasm for security best practices is a major plus.

=== Interested? ===

Interested in any of these positions? Drop me a note at jzhen@thinknum.com with Hacker News and the position title in the subject line.

Learn more about us: https://www.thinknum.com/
Relayr | Berlin/Munich/Chicago| ONSITE | Full time |https://relayr.io/

We enable The Internet of Things. Relayr is a well-funded and rapidly expanding start-up. We have an extremely international and very friendly team of 200 IoT experts in 8 cities across 4 countries on 2 continents!

Our IoT platform development is driven by our engineers and built using recent technologies. We value good working relationships and engineers who stand up for their ideas. Using our tools both internal and external integrators are able to create valuable customer solutions.

We are currently looking for developers to join our teams either in Berlin, Munich or US. Your outstanding passion for all things tech, combined with your desire to solve our customer’s biggest challenges with innovative solutions could make this the perfect job for you!

We'd love to hear from you! Take a look at our job postings and see what's right for you.

Open Positions:

Scala Developer (m/f) - Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=38

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QA Engineer (m/f) – Berlin https://relayr.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=37

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When I just began speaking English more or less fluently I had no problem with American English but British just sounded like a different language to me. I had to watch any movie with British English with subtitles. Nowadays I have to make an effort to recognize British accent otherwise it sounds no different than American.

I imagine different regional accents in Russian could be the same for non-native speakers. What a native speaker does not even notice could be completely unintelligible for somebody with just few hundred hours of studying the language.
If I hold a gun to your head, and "Ask" if I can fondle you, you're probably going to say yes. It's also pretty blatantly illegal. I don't think I need to list the laws.

Instead, if I threaten you with job loss and blackballing in the industry, and "Ask" if I can fondle you, you're probably going to say yes.

Coercion, blackmailing, and credible threats are also all against the law. Criminal law.
The verb conjugation books I grew up with had more subjunctives for French than for Spanish. Whether some are considered archaic, I'm not sure. I don't buy the thing about simple past tense -- I use it, though admittedly not very much, and anyways, if it's used in writing then it's used. There are tenses in Spanish that are not used much depending on where you travel -- if you consider all the variations by Spanish-speaking countries, of course, Spanish starts to look significantly more complicated than advertised!

As for English, I think that there are fewer patterns for growing minds to hang onto than in Romance languages. But that's just a feeling born of my experience; I'm not entirely sure.
BOSTON, MA - FULL TIME, ON SITE
Big Data Engineer

ClimaCell analyzes wireless communications to extract weather data for state-of-the-art weather prediction. We’re looking for a Big Data Engineer to build the infrastructure and the core algorithms used by the company. You’ll be pioneering a cutting-edge solution to process massive amounts of data in real time, at an order of magnitude higher spatial and temporal resolution than is possible with competing technologies. If you love programming as much as analyzing data, talk to us.

What it takes

- Being a backend software engineer with 5 years of relevant experience

- Experience in Python development

- Working with AWS and Google Cloud

- You prefer UNIX environment

- You’re comfortable building from the ground up

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- You love dogs

- Expertise in C/C++ development

- Expertise in NumPy/SciPy driven analysis (ML ftw!)

- Expertise in Machine learning (hands-on experience)

- Expertise in Spark driven analysis

- Experience with GPU programming

- Experience with Git

- You like statistics, data modeling

- You prefer mint chocolate chip ice cream be green, not white

Apply via https://www.climacell.co/careers or jobs@climacell.co
Fastned | Software Engineer (front-end and full stack) | Amsterdam, NL | ONSITE | Full-time | VISA

Fastned is fueling the electricity transition by building Europe's largest fast charging network for electric vehicles. We're looking for software engineers to form our very first software team, whom will build the core of Fastned.

We're looking for team members with all kinds of experience (fresh college graduates to experienced seniors, front-end & full stack) to form this software team. Fastned is a fast growing comapny of 25 persons right now. We opened our German office last week in Cologne, and are hoping to open an office in London early 2018.

You'll be working to replace the current SAAS offering we use now, which combines everything from CRM, to billing & invoicing, to the connection with our charging stations in the field.

The tech stack is open on the table, those decisions will be made by this software team. There's a blank state and an opportunity to really make a change at Fastned and the way Europe will be charging their FEVs. It's going to be great!

Interested? Send me an email at jobs@fastned.nl or come have coffee with us in Amsterdam.
fastned.nl/en/jobs
> where I may be copying and pasting from other apps

Is Atom better with copying and pasting certain kinds of content than Emacs?
SHA3 is slow.
BidMotion | BackEnd Engineer | Paris | ONSITE, Full-time |
http://www.bidmotion.com/careers#op-102102-backend-engineer-...

We’re a 3 year old growing AdTech company based in Paris and we are looking for a Backend Engineer experienced in real-time distributed systems.
You would be working on our new product: a real-time ad bidder backed by machine learning.

This might be the job for you if:

- You have experience with programming high performance systems in Core Java

- You have worked with ZooKeeper, Kafka, Consul or any of the other usual suspects

- You grin a bit with pride every time your system scales to new levels

- Minimum 3 years of experience

- You’re fluent in English

On the other hand, what do we offer you?

- Rebuilding components from scratch (you know, the way you always wanted to ;))

- Wish list – choose your own equipment

- Latest technology

- Personal space: 1 engineer - 1 desk

- Be part of a team with very ambitious goals

- Balance between your professional and personal life

- Playstation and other perks (Snacks, team events, etc...)

- An English speaking work environment in Paris

- And of course, very competitive packages

tl;dr: We’re small, but shooting for the stars. If you are looking for a place where you can make a huge impact and grow, come join us.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us hr@bidmotion.com or check other openings http://www.bidmotion.com/careers
> You also need to decide whether to write your own parser and lexer or use automatic parser and scanner generators (e.g. flex and bison).

Really? There are much better choices available in 2017. ANTRL 4 leaps to mind which has been in development since 1989.
> Women should be given the freedom to disclose these things on their own terms

All people, not just women.
iOS's 2FA model confuses the hell out of me. I'm sure if I sat down and worked it all out I could figure out what all Apple is using for 2FA on my iDevices, but I haven't been arsed to do that and it shouldn't be this complicated.

With iOS's 2FA system : I've had to click buttons on other devices. Enter codes on other devices. Enter codes from other devices. Click links in emails. Type my passcode on other devices. I just ... don't have a grasp on it at all.

That's not good.

With regards to the backup issues outlined in the article, it's hard to say if the backup leak is a major issue.

Take the casual user: They won't be making iTunes backups. Most casual users are probably just doing iCloud backups. In fact, they don't do backups at all; iCloud backups are automatic so they don't think about it (it just works).

Take the security hard user: They'll have a password instead of a passcode on the device. So adversaries probably won't get access anyway. Of course, it's possible they shoulder-skim your password, whereas they probably won't be able to ever shoulder-skim your backup password. So certainly Apple's change here _does_ objectively make the system weaker.

It's hard to say if what Apple did here was the right thing. Like I said, I don't think most casual users are doing iTunes backups, so why even bother making iTunes backups more user friendly?

Regardless, it could certainly be improved. Maybe require 2FA to reset backup password?

The issue where you can reset the iCloud password is certainly troubling. It's a hard issue to balance, as Apple doesn't want to set up a system where the average user gets locked out of their account because they forgot their password. But it really shouldn't be possible to take a single iDevice and password and take over a user's iCloud account.
I have a Garmin Forerunner FR220. When plugged into a Windows 7 computer by the USB device, it shows up as a USB Mass Storage Device, initializing a "Garmin FR620 Flash USB Device", and connects as FAT formatted Flash storage.

Seeing 620 does cause me a bit of annoyance, as I know that my 220, which lacks a number of features of the 620, watch is physically identical just with the speed inhibitor turned off [1]. Makes me miss my TI 430 Chronos, but that didn't have GPS. The FR225 is the first version with the optical heart rate monitor, but I believe it and the current FR235 will behave similarly.

All the activity data is stored on the mass storage device in .FIT files. Here's an example file [2] which you can compare to my Strava upload at [3]. Use the tools at [4] to convert and edit it into GPX format, and the schema at [5] to tease out pedometer/heart rate data from this XML text. You'll probably end up using GPSBabel [6] to analyze it.

Garmin is probably the most common activity tracker for actually running, biking and so on. For just sleep tracking and resting heart rate tracking, or daily step counters, Fitbits that lack GPS are much more popular. But they don't allow manual export of data [7]:

> Welcome to the Fitbit Family @JohnDiver! The stored data on your Fitbit Flex can be taken out only via Bluetooth with an internet connection. It can be synchronized with a computer or with a supported mobile device. Your tracker stores at least 7 days of detailed minute-by-minute data. Summary data (calories, distance, and steps) will be stored for 30 days. If you are experiencing syncing issues, please take a look at the basic troubleshooting steps.

> If the above doesn't help you please let us know what type of difficulties are you having to transfer your data to your Dashboard? Looking forward to your new comments!

The new Garmins do have activity tracking features; I'd be interested to see if their data can be accessed as easily as the .FIT activity files.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

[2]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H6sBu3XaQgUyTyAhO1Oz7jKL0hx...

[3]: https://www.strava.com/activities/1287343609

[4]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/tools

[5]: https://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackPointExtensionv2.xsd

[6]: https://www.gpsbabel.org/

[7]: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Flex/Retrieve-raw-data-from-...
Yeah I really don't get it. It's not like the accusations from the multiple women who would speak on the record weren't damning enough.

But the author decided to open the article with secondhand accounts of abuse towards a woman who did not want to speak about it.

It's very poor journalism.
DataStax | OpsCenter Engineer | REMOTE | https://datastax.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DataStaxCareers...

DataStax OpsCenter is the management and monitoring web application for the DataStax Enterprise (DSE) platform. DSE, based on Apache Cassandra, is a database specifically designed to efficiently distribute
and replicate your data across multiple data centers, cloud
regions, or hybrid environments.

The OpsCenter codebase currently consists of Java, Python, Clojure, and JavaScript. Familiarity with one or more of these is important, but even more important is the passion and ability to work on any part of an application and ability to learn and adapt quickly as the application and technologies underneath evolve.
Steve Jurvetson's case is also based on a single account. Granted his decision to step down was his, but it exemplifies the power of the accuser.
I think I read somewhere that Alpine will update packages only when there are security fixes. I can't find a link to share, sorry.

If you're on Alpine Linux 3.6, you get access to Node.js 6.10.3 (or 7.10.1 in the nodejs-current package)

If you depend on targeting very specific versions of your runtime stack and also want to use Alpine, check if your stack offers official images based off of Alpine. For instance, node:8-alpine, python:3-alpine, etc.

It seems most projects will offer Alpine-based Docker images these days. They should update faster and more frequently, but that depends on each project.
As a shortcut for those of us who don't have the time to really dig into this right now, could those of you have dug into it answer one question?

Is this credible and well sourced?
You can fix this by installing and running a local dns server like dnsmasq to cache for you: apk install dnsmasq

See this: https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine/blob/master/docs...
Fred Rogers Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications (1969)
Venmo scammer walks away with $125,000 of Yeezys, iPhones, and more
Right, what you type is shared with the company interviewing you. Isn't that kind of the point of the product? Isn't that true in whiteboard coding interviews as well? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but getting worked up about this sounds like being upset that GMail sends your messages to recipients' mail servers.

I think akanet was clarifying that CoderPad doesn't share your data with any other companies.

If you're worried about the company you're interviewing with doing shady things, I'd suggest interviewing somewhere else.
I like to use DEVONthink a few times to save pages on Mac (Mac only), but agree with other poster. Pinboard is only $25/yr for full archiving. So helpful.
I am interested in your assertion that private gun ownership has deterred foreign invasion. Can you provide a citation? I would think that the trillions spent on defense over the course of decades would have the largest deterrent effect.
A lot of people do not realize that they can use emacs on a terminal but also as a gui app. Also copying and pasting from other apps is possible and normal in emacs. For non ide languages i think emacs and vim are head and shoulders above any other editor, atom is really bad compared to emacs for example. The problem is that most people don't know how to use them.
Ask HN: Donating old Android tablets to an orphanage, how to set up?
A local company went bankrupt, and through a friend, I came into possession a stash of old (but functional) Android devices. I volunteer at an orphanage, and they accepted the donation of the tablets, if it is useful to the kids in any way. The kids are of age 8+.

These devices include Galaxy Tab, Motorola Xoom, Acer iconia etc. I looked into PostmarketOS and Debian Mobile, but they're not ready for these older devices yet. Most of these tablets run Android Gingerbread. I would like if these devices can be useful for teaching maths/science/programming etc.

What could be the best way to set these old devices that could be beneficial to the kids at the orphanage? Any suggestion is highly appreciated.
Off topic: why on earth does ghci print out that last “In an equation for ‘it’: it = […]” statement? Seems like something internal to ghci, and not something that’s relevant to the user.
HTML5 Chart That Renders 100,000 Data Points in Few Milliseconds
For those who down voted, please read this: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...