skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SevenFifty Technologies | Full-stack Developer (Rails), Customer Integration Engineer | New York, NY | Onsite

SevenFifty is modernizing the wholesale beverage alcohol industry, which is massive but technologically antiquated. Over 40,000 restaurants, bars, hotels, and retail stores across the country connect with their sales reps and wholesalers through our platform, replacing a status quo going back to Prohibition. We work with everyone from the largest importers to mom and pop winemakers to build bespoke tools for communication and content distribution and provide transparency across all tiers.

You'll be joining a 5-person engineering team tackling a wide array of challenges - from complex data processing to modern, interactive web frontends; from liberating data from decades old mainframes, to consuming and writing APIs used by everyone from small retail shops to large conglomerates. We want people who are excited about learning new technologies and passionate about transforming a broken industry. We're also in a sweet spot for ambitious and talented engineers; we have a lot of traction and are well-financed, but still have a very small team responsible for a wide range of work enabling you to take ownership of large slices of our technology stack.

Technologies: Ruby, Clojure, Rails, JavaScript, Backbone, React

Contact steve (at) sevenfifty.com
My fiancee has BPD. We've been together for 7 years and have two kids.

Why should I distance myself?
I think that was the joke that GP was alluding to :)
Mattress startup Casper sued for “wiretapping” website visitors
Sad news - I remember reading that regularly back in the day.
This was at Cal. State Chico.

However, it was not a department thing. It was a particular prof that ran the course this way.

Other profs taught the same course in a more traditional manner.
What qualifies as a business record? Anecdotally from most company policies, it sounds like email qualifies.
The information capacity of a single photon (2012)
Pretty sure that's the joke.
> This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special.

I would say if you still manage to run sophisticated system that is 37 years old, even more challenging when its out in space, everything you do is special.
Disclaimer: work for Digital Science, don't speak for them, all my own thoughts, have started on my beer advent calendar, etc

I think many publishers really are having trouble finding a sustainable long term business model. That doesn't mean many aren't making money now, but there is a complex and difficult transition happening. There's a huge push towards open access, and "preprints" (a concept I can never really understand in a time when they don't actually print things). What can be charged for, where are the margins and most complicated of all: how do they get there from here?

Where should the payment come from to build and host the infrastructure, manage the data quality, do the admin, etc? What out of those should even be done any more?

> I fail to see how blockchain solves this issue.

There are at least a few things I can think of:

* Registering an experiment, like a clinical trial

* Registering results

* Having some evidence you've registered a method and proposal before gathering the results, all data in the open

* Register, in the open, facts or results tied to you for credit when they're used

* More, since I'm not really working on this side of things. I do work with bibliographic data though and I'd love and append only log of publication data people pushed to.

But then if everything was clear, it wouldn't be useful to offer a bit of money to gather ideas and try something out, would it? Worst case, the company loses some money but makes some contacts for people with interesting ideas in the field.
And cost.
No, that is why you see the legal disclaimer--either attorney work product or "privileged communication".
Of the first 67,000 mortgages insured by the G.I. Bill, fewer than 100 were taken out by non-whites. *

It is a figure that makes me want to throw up, and I'm not even black. I feel like this country owes blacks (as a group) probably a few billion dollars in some sense. Barriers to home buying for African Americans constitutes actively preventing them from creating savings and financial security. Homeownership has historically provided half or more of the value of the nest egg for most ordinary (aka not rich) Americans.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_and_the_G.I....
Is there a calculus based approach to statistics? Like understanding linear regression simply as a minimization problem, but ALL THE WAY ie extending to other statistical techniques?
If computers can successfully play go better than humans (alphago), then eventually computers should be able to successfully trade stocks better than humans as well
I think Voyager data rate is 160bps (when I last saw it at https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html ).
Then I think your workplace is in the wrong in this situation. Reasoned discussions not based in bigotry/xenophobia/etc, where both sides are respectful, should definitely be acceptable at work -- they definitely are at mine.
This guy turned sand into a 'liquefied soup'
Not sure I agree with these two:

"Salaries in the tech industry are up a lot in the last few years, caused by: a tight labor market, collapse of a cartel organized against the interests of workers, increasing returns to scale at AppAmaGooBookSoft, and the like.

Investor money does not pay most salaries."

But the rest are pretty sage. As one would expect of patio11 :)
Wild engineer's dream: where can I work on something of the same coolness level? High scientific content, total quality, no compromises whatsoever.
Enigma | New York, NY | https://www.enigma.com/

We're a Series B company based in New York City and backed by NEA Ventures, Two Sigma Investments, Comcast and American Express. Enigma was founded in 2012 in order to centralize and normalize public data globally (think Google for public data).
Our view is that public data reflects more of our everyday lives than most of us realize. It’s everywhere, from a plane taking off from an airport to a barrel of crude oil flowing through a pipeline to a new drug being approved. These things exist in specific and separate public datasets, but together, they can provide a vast and powerful view of what’s happening in the world.

https://www.enigma.com/
https://www.enigma.com/labs

Today, we’ve grown into an operational data management and intelligence company that uses public data to inform and train each of our products. Our mission is to empower people to interpret and improve, the world around them. We believe in
curiosity and the power of discovery.
We’re actively hiring and would love to hear from you. Below are links to a few of key open engineering roles, but for the full list of openings, see here:https://www.enigma.com/careers/openings
Nice double meaning with 'passing' also meaning something like: "able to appear to be what those in power want me to be."
> And you're right that a lot of projects start free, and then get commercial contribution once they are valuable. Linux, git, hg, and Python all fit that profile.

I think you used the wrong word here, or at least a misleading one:

Linux, for example, is still free and Free for most reasonable definitions people have of those terms. (Anti-copyleft trolling is not reasonable.) Its development is funded, yes, but that funding doesn't give IBM, for example, special rights which a sufficiently determined individual hacker couldn't also have: Both have the ability to have an idea, code it, and get the code accepted, and IBM isn't immune to a Linus veto just because IBM's poured money into their team of kernel contributors.

I rant, but it's an important distinction between Open Source and closed source. It also reminds me of an old joke: Back in the 1990s, Apple, bereft of Jobs and nearly dead against Microsoft, was moving towards IBM in terms of strategic partnerships. So, the joke went "Apple + IBM = IBM", as in, if you move too close to IBM, IBM engulfs you and you lose your identity. My point is, IBM can't engulf an Open Source project unless absolutely nobody outside IBM cares about it and all the repos outside of IBM's purview utterly stagnate.

> In the "non-company" category, I would put Linux, git, hg, gcc, Apache. A lot of people still use Apache. nginx was in this category too until very recently.

I don't know if you noticed, but you put Linux in two different categories.

> SVN is interesting because it was started by a company (CollabNet), but I believe they diverged and the company no longer had much economic interest in it.

That is interesting.

> It's not as simple as what's in that Tweet.

Things rarely are. :)

Good post!
It's not actually insightful. Every product trivially creates a habit amongst its users of "when <problem>, use <product>."
Is it a moral issue if the habit a starts a virtuous cycle? Like my Apple Watch making me exercise more?
> I realized that the HF boxes fit quite nicely into surplus 19" racks

Is this the right product? The link says they're 16.5" wide.
Back in the early 90's I wondered why so many Unix boxes had 'vger' in their name. Not until this year, when I watched the original Star Trek with my youngest, did I realize what it was all about.

Sad thing is I saw the movie in the theater when it was first released...just didn't put the two together.
To recast what you are saying to remain congruent with the original premise, one might say ideas can have different potential value.
It doesn't seem like it's all the time. Pluto is the largest, Eris is close. Haumea, (225088) 2007 OR10 and Makemake are the only others at least 1/2 the diameter of Pluto.

We are finding more trans-Neptunian objects. There's about 2,500 of them. But as Adams said, "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."

Voyager can only be angled a smidgen from it's current path. There's nothing it can reach to do a slingshot.

If Voyager could change its path by 0.1 degree (which it can't), and if all of the trans-Neptunian objects were equally distributed around the Sun (which they aren't - and Voyager is going out of the plane of the ecliptic), then that's still only a 0.2% chance of having something in its path.

Even if there were, Pluto gave New Horizons about 5-6 m/s boost. That's effectively nothing compared to Voyager's 17 km/s speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6ga-g9ACU via https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10087/did-the-plut... .
Yes, seriously, ew. It looks awful.
The purchasing power doesn't go up equally though, the questioners proposed rate would quadruple many peoples incomes at the low end while barely being a drop in the ocean at the high end.

If the value of the $5k truly drops to $0 as you are suggesting then the value of ALL money drops to 0.

Regardless of how it plays out, by putting in place a guaranteed floor it will make the poor relatively richer that they are today and shrink the gap between the poor and the middle class.
For those who didn't read it:

The headline may seem to be saying "BPD is now more treatable than before," but that is not what this is.

The tldr; is actually more like "framing BPD patients as resistant to treatment is wrong. The correct framing is that we don't have adequate treatments for the disorder."
How is "waiting and seeing" more reasonable than "assuming the worst" at this point?
Relativity (formerly kCura) | Sr. Software Engineer (Cloud) | Chicago, IL | Full-time, Flexible REMOTE | https://careers-relativity.icims.com/jobs/2853/senior-softwa...

• Product: Relativity, handles large volumes of data and helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies solve their own unique data problems.

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• Vision: Our mission is to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Building great e-discovery software for managing massive volumes of electronic evidence during litigation or investigations.

• Stack: Java, Scala, JVM, Linux, REST, GIT, Akka, Jenkins, Bamboo

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I'm not sure if this is a question about Garmin or ANT+, but assuming a device is Bluetooth enabled, is there documentation for the Bluetooth API? I really want to find a nice smart fitness thing, but no one makes apps for my phone, so I figure I'd need to make one myself.
If you're interested in transcript search. We do it as part of our video processing engine and we work with a some podcast creators to provide search api. Message me if you are interested.

We do the first option in what you bring up in your later comment
It’s all about volume. Wholesalers pool volume but even using a wholesalers does not prevent you from going direct on certain drugs
Probably nasa or spacex?
AT&T reversed their policy without Net Neutrality rules in place

After official complaints lodged with the FCC. Also, this was during the time period of the 2010 open internet order[0] and the 2014 court case[1], where ISPs and the FCC thought that the FCC had the authority to enforce "no blocking" violations.

So, saying "without Net Neutrality rules in place" is incorrect.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open_Internet_Order_2010

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v....
Yet not having a CS degree makes getting a programming job 10x more difficult.
Data scientist have a variety of background: CS, applied mathematics, pure mathematics..

I don't think a data scientist need to know all that stuff to be good at his job
I am not sure if it as bad as described here. Yes, over time the relative part of generalists in a company shrinks. But it does not necessarily mean, that generalists loose their jobs, just because some specialist knocked at the door.

I think it is more like an organical transition where newly hired personnel are more likely to be specialists. And that is totally okay, because when you start a company there are about 0% specialists onboard ;-)
Assuming perfect information and rationality, you can't charge more than something is worth, at least in the long run, so there's no conflict.
Not sure that's an accurate comparison. We make the English majors do a ton of writing, the art majors produce a lot of art, and no one seems to have any issue assigning a lists of problems to math majors as homework.

I suspect there is just a cultural issue, where the CS faculty doesn't want to do that style of teaching. I had a professor hand out debugging assignments because that was part of the industry feedback they'd gotten, but only the one professor listened to the feedback.
But that's the bigger issue isnt it? That is we keep using bandaids when the root problem is lack of competition.

Has anyone heard if Google is considering restarting Fiber? I was always under the impression that they hope the implied competition was enough. It had seemed to be working. But then it was squashed.
Don't need to tax 'automation', just profits, automation is already baked into that.
It works both ways though - there is plenty racism from many in the east against western people both black and white. As a (very!) white person I've experienced this first hand in several places in Asia.
"The three managers who resigned were Pooja Ashok, chief of staff for Sullivan;"

is it normal for a chief officer to has a chief of staff???
Restaurants pay less for meat than you and I do. Trucking companies pay less for diesel than you or I would.
Note that it said "top level" navigation.
If you read the specs (http://www.astronautix.com/m/mr-103.html) of the thrusters in question, you can see that they do "spew flames" and there is a combustion chamber:

> Combustion Chamber Pressure: 4.35-23.9 atm. Combustion Chamber Temperature: 800 Celsius. Combustion Chamber Cooling Method: radiative. Duty Cycle: 0.008 sec minimum to unlimited maximum burn. 750,000 pulses.
By that rephrasing, execution also only has potential value, since the value is only realized in conjunction with a good idea.

So if you want to keep any useful definition of "valuable", you have to concede that ideas can be valuable.
At a very low baud rate.
Thanks for pointing this out. Emailed.
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About Nexedi: We are a small international team of about 35 programmers (headquarters in Lille, France) creating free software since 2001. All code we make is free, we sell our time to build custom implementations from collecting and analyzing sensor data from offshore windparks to managing product flow in car assembly lines. We all use Chromebooks, have a flat hierarchy, paperless offices and no meetings. We mostly hack in Python and (vanilla) JavaScript. Come join us!
I think Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the buzzword your looking for.
Pay some of my rent
I'd probably take six months and do nothing at all, except for maybe work on the house. Then I'd start picking up every online college degree that tickled my fancy. At some point I'd probably find some places to volunteer and help out the community. Also, maybe I'd have time to get around to music and art... probably not, but maybe.
Hakeema | Lead Engineer, VPE, Senior Architect | Boston, MA or Portland, OR (remote-potential) | www.hakeema.com

We're a profitable, mission-oriented, down-to-earth team about to pass a quarter million in ARR in our first six months. We're bringing light to the social sector by building tools for grantmakers, governments, and ecosystem stewards to map, track, and grow their ecosystems. We launched our first client at UN General Assembly and then in Qatar last month (www.matterfund.com).

Technologies: Node.js, Mongo, Vue.js

Contact kyle (at) hakeema.com
I wouldn't call it poor advice. It isn't a control, more security by obscurity, but it doesn't exactly hurt anything either. I saw a situation recently where a bucket was accidentally opened to the world, but the name was a UUID and in the entire history of the bucket no request was logged other than from the intended clients.
I'm not sure that the more interesting bit is the voyager->earth part.

Keep in mind that there are inefficiencies in simply transmitting with more power. The more you amplify, the more noise you introduce. No matter what you do, you can never improve the size and hardware that you're transmitting to.

I don't work much with RF, but, with optical transmissions, the major innovations I've seen are from better receivers that are better able to separate signal from noise at lower power levels. On the earth side of things, we can use massive dishes connected to modern hardware that have very advanced signal processing capabilities. Ultimately, Voyager is 1960s-era hardware with very very very minimal ability to change the software in any way.

If they wanted to (and had the funding to) build a dish on earth that was 10x larger to receive the signals from Voyager with hugely advanced signal processing, that's a totally doable thing. On the other hand, there is virtually nothing you can do to make voyager hear better.

Ultimately, its a lot easier to amplify something faint than it is to shout louder.
Oura Ring (https://ouraring.com/) has a solid cloud API.

However:

1. No GPS
2. Sleep and activity metrics are digested time slices, not raw measurements.
3. Gen-1 only has night time HR, and gen-2 isn't out till April.
I wonder when Dara (CEO) will start being held accountable for Uber. So far his message has been, "That was them, not me". If he is sincere, he should ask the managers of Uber to share all the dirty laundry that they know. Then, he should disclose it publicly and get ahead of it. That for me would qualify as "that was them, not me".

He has been there 3 months, but there are 8 years of scandals built into Uber's culture before he joined. I expect Uber to be on the front page of HN for years to come. That can't be the right PR strategy.

He has to get ahead of it or he will lose credibility with the drip, drip, drip of bad news.
Don't worry most CS programs aren't designed to teach CS either. They teach a random assortment of technical material that is neither terribly difficult nor terribly relevant.
The very first link on google for me is Symphysis pubis dysfunction

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

For a second there I wondered why this would be very common on HN.
It's still open source. So you can compile it yourself, if you want.
"Close" here meaning it will be 700 times farther away from that something than it is from the sun now.
This is a great idea, I'd totally buy a "chromebook" with coreboot and Ubuntu.
The New Radical – 3D Printing Guns.. A Review
Other reasons Heaviside is often ignored are that he was a commoner, and he published all his papers in a newspaper. He originated the theory of transmission lines (inventing the loading coils you still see hanging between telephone poles) and atmospheric radio propagation, both often credited to others. See Paul Nahin, "Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude"
It would come from the entire rest of the world subsidising the rich slightly less.
DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Album, and $7.3M
Substantially more women than men attempt suicide; more men than women die by suicide, because they tend to choose far more lethal methods. Wrist-cutting and drug overdoses are preferred by women and have a survival rate of over 98%; firearms have a fatality rate of over 80%, while hanging has a fatality rate of over 60%.

Suicide tends to be impulsive and 70% of people who survive a suicide attempt do not make a further attempt, so the lethality of the chosen method has a huge impact on completion rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-...