skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faithlife | Senior Full Stack Software Developer-Social Network | Bellingham, WA or Chandler, AZ | Full-time | Onsite

Faithlife is a tech company committed to the Church. We build the world’s premier Bible study software, along with an entire line of resources for Christian living: Faithlife.com (an online community that connects Christians from all around the world), Proclaim (a cloud-based church presentation tool), Faithlife TV (video streaming service), the Faithlife Study Bible (the world’s most advanced study Bible), and more.

Faithlife is looking for an experienced full-stack engineer with the knowledge and skills to help build Faithlife Groups. Faithlife Groups is an online community that helps people find and create fellowship wherever they are.
You will be someone who can work well in a diverse environment of different languages and technologies. You should have expertise in responsive web and single page applications, but you will also have opportunities in the services, data, and architecture overall. You should also be able to provide positive technical leadership.

Apply at https://faithlife.com/jobs/SeniorFaithlifeFullStackSoftwareD... or email devjobs@faithlife.com
Check out all the developer positions we have open here, under Software Development: https://faithlife.com/careers

Please note that Faithlife will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
Such sad news. Mapzen has been a core component of many projects that I've worked with. They have created and supported many great products that will be missed.

They also have been a big part of supporting the GeoNYC group and helping to organize the OpenStreetMap US conferences.

Thanks for all the maps and data Mapzen!
They could be going long on the bet that the Lightning network will go through and turn Bitcoin into something reasonable to use for transactions again.
I switched to Kaiser after my own dealings with the kafkaesque world of healthcare that this article describes.

Kaiser is amazing in comparison.

With Kaiser, I no longer have to stare into the abyss of the "post-systematic atomized era" of healthcare. I don't have to use CPT codes to compare prices on bills with Medi-Cal rates, study legal agreements to find discrepancies, or repeat myself to every different medical provider I visit. Instead, I can go about my life and focus on the things I care about. Kaiser isn't perfect by any means, but it's astonishingly better than the alternative.
A million seconds is a bit under two weeks. A billion seconds is almost 32 years. That helps me put it in perspective a little better.
We can hope...
> Police have to assume that there is a possibility that anyone that they interact with is armed to the teeth.

I've never understood this argument. I assume that some 10-30% (depending on where I am in the country) of people around me are carrying a concealed weapon, and yet I don't react with such recklessness.

We are all surrounded by guns all the time; in what way are police disproportionately vulnerable as a result?
Yes, but that doesn't mean that the American healthcare system is efficient overall.
Indian doctors protest against plan to let 'quacks' practise medicine
Hospice and palliative care are not somehow "separate" from the medical system, they are a part of it.
This article is talking about analytics. Analytics will have a marginal impact at best on reducing poverty. Of course people working in analytics have been benefited by it through the income it has given them, but the cumulative effects of analyzing data will not lead to some epiphany that will help us to end poverty.

In order to bring about structural change of the scale needed to end poverty, we need to reach levels of technology, productivity and social organization that we have not yet reached today. We will not ascend to this level by analyzing some set of socio-economic data. We will reach this point by building machines that can do work for us and automating entire supply chains so that labor no longer impacts production costs.
That's a good point. They treat their retail/warehouse employees very differently.
Techmeme summary: Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17

Could those who downvote this comment please explain why you did so? I try to provide extra context for those who come across this submission, which I get from Techmeme.
I wonder if he also has money in Ripple and Ethereum.
To my mind (and I am no economist) inflation is the only constraint on a fiat currency's ability to create monetary tokens from nothing. We are indeed fighting deflation, almost globally. I suspect that the reason for this is that most economies are operating under the idea that the limits of productive capacity are not far off from what is being produced now, that is that they assume scarcity is a real threat. Historically, every time we have seen hyperinflation, there have been disruptions to production (e.g. war), or an economy that is built around one product (e.g. oil). In today's global economic system, local disruption (say a hurricane) is easily routed around by other suppliers in different locations. I think that our productive capacity before affecting inflation, and I'm just guessing here, is much much higher than we suppose. If so, I suspect printing money won't cause inflation because there is excess production capacity, and global competition would limit artificial price increases.

Because I believe this, I support much higher deficits, and thus am a hybrid Republican/Democrat: I want low taxes, and high government spending. However, aside from infrastructure, I'd want the government spending to be a bottom up type of spending like UBI, because it would give people seed money to start businesses, and more money to spend at other's businesses.
"It's a store of value."

Maybe this was the intention all along, but this idea has only recently reached some saturation among information channels.

Because I haven't heard much about "store of value" until about a month ago. Which seems to be either a shifting of goalposts which is bad, or a complete morphing of why people are interesting in crypto which is even worse.

It means, people are scrambling trying to justify why the hell they're throwing all their money at crypto.
> The scaling and transaction cost issues

That's why I'm bullish on Ripple ( Tick = XRP ). Transactions take about 3 seconds vs an hour on Bitcoin [1]. Plus Ripple's Blockchain technology has real use-cases with about 100 Banks around the world already using it for cross border transfers and liquidity.

[1] Source: Ripple CEO on CNBC - https://www.reddit.com/r/Ripple/comments/7miikv/ripple_ceo_w...

Also, here's the No Paywall version of the OP https://archive.is/6BD2U
Only with a lot of false positives I'm guessing. Probably a dream come true for helicopter parents, either way.
Medicare doesn't cover "everything" though -- nor could it. No health "insurance" whether it is single-payer, private, public, can just open the checkbook for every patient.
If their goal is to kill traditional retail, why are they opening traditional retail book stores across America?
People generally caring about declaring img size attributes died out like 15 years ago. grumble

Declaring image sizes doesn't fit into the distributed model that is that is the rage these days, so I guess people don't care since it's so hard. At least it makes their ms/req numbers look great, nevermind that the experience for the actual users sucks.
Using the Wolfram Language to Prepare a Sumptuous Holiday Feast
> in regards to the diffuseness of utility, food has the same problem and its a relatively very efficient market.

Food is a frequently repeated purchase with significant immediately-apparent utility and disutility, and so discovery of utilities is quick and the market reasonably efficient in terms of immediate utilities. (There are long-term utilities and disutilities that are less immediately experienced with consumption, and the food market is hardly efficient in terms of those.)

Healthcare products are infrequently purchased, and the relative utilities of different options are far from apparent. It's not at all similar to the aspects of the food market that can reasonably be described as relatively efficient.
Ripple

https://ripple.com/xrp/market-performance/
> Ripple

Centralized.
Whether Medicare covers the cost of services provided is at least controversial.

If it doesn't, then it just gets the benefit of being mandated to look efficient.
Diametrically opposite causes, even. TLJ is a story about moving on from and getting over the past. RP1 is about obsessing over it and clinging to it.
This is the lie the industry keeps telling itself, especially in print.

Vendors come in and bullshit your bosses and the purchasing authority about how awesome their tools are and all the things it can do.

By the time the developers catch wind of it the check has already cleared, and they -have- to use this tool because someone with firing authority paid for it and you're not going to get away with embarrassing them by calling them on their bullshit (young me tried, young me failed).

I'm not aware of any development team that consciously picked Atlassian. Atlassian gets picked for them. Their success is in selling to the management chain, not in being a good product. Because they aren't (but then neither are many of their commercial competitors).
I don't think you know what the word 'lens' means[0]. It has a pretty solid definition, and the objects used in the paper do not meet it. To be a lens the object has to focus or disperse light via refraction, the objects used in the paper and then referenced in the article diffuse[1] light.

Even relaxing the definition of lens to be an object designed to have particular optical properties, the diffusion filters referenced in the article weren't designed but chosen arbitrarily (they use the laminate from an ID badge at one point). That's the bulk of the reason this is valuable is because it eliminates one of the most expensive components required to accomplish the same result (the micro-array lens they reference in the article).

Now, the lenticular lens you referenced is a lens because of how it operates, but the referenced in the article technique definitively does not require a lens because lenses aren't diffusers. Does that make sense?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(optics)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuser_(optics)
I've always found using the unit seconds to be the easiest way to convey the scale of billions vs millions.

1 billion seconds =~ 32 years

1 million seconds =~ 12 days

Edit: mikeash beat me to it ;)
Blatantly obvious ideas, and those that someone will come up with sooner or later, are distinct categories, more or less by definition.

There are plenty of problems, the shortage is in problems with obvious solutions that have not yet been implemented yet. One could argue that these opportunities are becoming more fleeting, as more people are being drawn into the search for them.
Yes, not that they do exist but perhaps the notion of how a quantum field theory of quarks is really nearly the same thing in some ways as an Ising model, etc. The ultimate goal is to understand how these disparate physical systems are similarly mathematically structured and how to get from one to the next, and to find out the limits of the space of theories. (The signposts and roads analogy in the article is a good one.)
Sure it's about a murder. When I say "the murderer," I'm referring to the person who made the false emergency call, thought to be Tyler Raj Barriss. I.e. the "this person" you said we should pay very little attention to.

The officer who actually fired the weapon probably deserves the label too.
SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken
So far IOTA is centralized, it relies on snapshots. It is just my intuition - but it does not look like "the tangle" could ever be decentralized - there is just no mechanism that would protect the network from bad actors.
Where does this "bitcoin is a store of value, not a medium for exchange" nonsense come from? Literally the first line of the white paper:

> A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
I am going to guess it is just a modified straddle - fund is long bitcoin and long a promising payment tech that already exists. The idea is that if BTC investment does well then existing payment tech does poorly and if existing one does well then probably BTC would do poorly.
Jettisoning the Assumptions of Last Year
Blockchains (e.g. bitcoin) and block lattice (e.g. RaiBlocks) are two approaches to implementing distributed ledgers. A distributed ledger is a type of distributed database. This article from last year I think sums up nicely the distinction between a distributed ledger and a distributed database.

https://medium.com/@sbmeunier/blockchain-technology-a-very-s...

> Distributed Ledgers (DL) are DDBMS that leverage cryptography to provide a decentralized multi-version concurrency control mechanism and to maintain consensus about the existence and status of shared facts in trustless environments (i.e. when the participants hosting the shared database are independent actors that don’t trust each other). Consensus is not a unique feature of DL per se: other distributed databases also use consensus algorithms such as Paxos or Raft. Same for immutability: immutable databases exist outside DL (Google HDFS, Zebra, CouchDB, Datomic, etc.). The two differentiators of DL in my opinion: (a) the control of the read/write access is truly decentralized and not logically centralized as for other distributed databases, and corollary (b) the ability to secure transactions in competing environments, without trusted third parties.
Seems like a pretty effective method for terrorism.

I'm afraid of the police because they are essentially unchecked and usually their behavior is rubber-stamped.

The simple fact that they charge into a situation without ANY reconnaissance highlights exactly why I'm afraid of the police.

The thought of them showing up at my house because "someone" called the police is actually a terrifying thought.

An organized group calling in SWATTING situations around the country would create a serious level of fear.
I agree! It happens alot I'm sure! I'm just not a hot gay guy so it STILL doesn't apply to me.
Add that inside a home, the IP is again behind a NAT because the whole family is using the wi-fi. Including people who drop by to visit you, to have a dinner, to watch a game.

One IP per person really doesn't hold.
No they do not speak efficiently and they do to listen efficiently. That is very core of their communication problems. And they are able to lie and they are easy to misinterpret the situation (e.g. their honesty is often not accurate representation of reality).

> Does it really matter, if he/she can't look you in the eye or can't understand the social hierarchy and games played in the office?

No it does not matter whether they look it the eye. Many of them can do that tho. Yes, it does matter that their communication toward junior or customer communicate disdain and lack of regards, to the point where juniors were afraid to speak or have ideas, despite them not really wanting to cause that. It does matter that they confuse own preferences with objectively better. Inability to imagine themselves in shoes of someone else leads to unwanted unfairness.

It does matter that others are suddenly required to put up with insults and have to send a lot of time learning how to communicate and solving problems for that person. All those being symptoms of autism.

Yes, if other collegues have high social skills a lot of that can be mitigated. But when it is not the case, the communication can become quite toxic.

I worked with people on spectrum and they were benefit to the team. But the framing in which they "don't play politics" and thus it is all sun and roses is not accurate. It is naive. You have to learn to predict problems and have to spend additional time to solve them. And you have to put them on position that is not freaking set up to fail.

People with autism suffer from consequences of all that and should be helped. So does often those around them.
Which in itself is a mechanism that just spreads the incentive to hype and post to all social media channels trying to pump a coin amongst a larger pool of individuals, many of whom are desperate enough to get rich that they are willing to sit and click through captchas for pennies.

Or in other words, just gets you a larger initial pool of astroturfers online.
Surely then a cryptocurrency that doesn't require competitive hashing for security is even better?

The idea that the value comes from the energy already burned is rather silly.
You would hope, with its much higher market cap, that the volatility would be much lower than only half as much.
I am not a db expert, which is why I like read these kinds of comment threads. But what about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

"The random nature of standard version 3, 4, and 5 UUIDs and the ordering of the fields within standard version 1 and 2 UUIDs may create problems with database locality or performance when UUIDs are used as primary keys. For example, in 2002 Jimmy Nilsson reported a significant improvement in performance with Microsoft SQL Server when the version 4 UUIDs being used as keys were modified to include a non-random suffix based on system time. This so-called "COMB" (combined time-GUID) approach made the UUIDs non-standard and significantly more likely to be duplicated, as Nilsson acknowledged, but Nilsson only required uniqueness within the application."
Even if the swatting results in the death of an innocent person? That's the point with Barriss, as this incident resulted in the death of an innocent man. Cretins might enjoy calling in fake reports of hostage situations and watching the police reaction.; but, when people die, the situation and penalty are different. The penalties for driving drunk and killing someone are harsher than a simple DUI.
Some people use plaintext files in a git repo in an encrypted disk image file with a long passphrase (Windows disk image (Bitlocker), macOS encrypted disk image (AES256), and Linux LUKS encrypted image (most modern symmetric ciphers)). "Small" images hold lots of passwords, and you can drop the images in private cloud locations and USB storage in a safe. This method lacks auto-locking after a timeout and easy mobile access.
Is gaming addiction a “disorder” or a “junk diagnosis”?
Gosh I wonder why politicians don't do anything in the interest of the public?
One reason would be similiar timezone. Without knowing the candidate details language, experience and knowledge might be better on the indian side but if the hq is based in sf than the native employee will have more value.

Salary levels aside I have been part of a company based in sf that had money issues so the indian side took over with local financing and closed all worldwide offices and moved r&d to india. Which made sense because the future customer base was in india.

Location and connection to customer base matter. I guess less so for developers compared to the product manager.
Raising the minimum wage will simply result in jobs being replaced by kiosks.

Not that it won't happen soon anyway, but why hasten it.
There's nothing wrong with them, it's just a lot more convenient for us to pay in bitcoin. If you really prefer USD, we can talk after the hiring process and set something up.
Ex Post rationalisation bullshit.

It's called Bitcoin, not Bitgold. It was sold to the public as an anonymous, decentralised, safe, fast, and cheap way to transfer money. It has failed on every single one of those claims.
Given that it currently depends on a centralized coordinator, that seems unlikely.
eSports Gaming Startup | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Full-time | Remote | $140k/year

We need a senior full-stack developer for an upcoming online game (cards/betting). 100% remote position, with flexible work hours (40h/week).

Requisites:

5+ years of hands-on experience with PHP back-end frameworks (Laravel, Symphony, etc)
Solid experience with a major front-end framework: React / Angular 2+
Familiarity with Node.js back-end frameworks (Express, Koa, etc)
SQL, NoSQL and Key-value stores (eg Redis)
Real-time and websocket libs (socket.io, faye, etc)
DevOps and Server administration skills
Timezone: GMT/London ±4h

Bonus points:

Management skills
Experience with HTML game dev

Apply to gaming.startup.eu(at)gmail.com
And it is. When you pay Coinbase, they send you BTC. Then you're free to send your BTC around if you decide the $20 transaction fee is worth it.
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 Crack and Serial Key Free Download
I checked the stock of Intel during the FDIV bug (1994/1995) where they had to go as far as recalling the affected processors at a cost of $500M in January 1995 and there was basically zero effect. By the end of 1995 the stock had actually pretty much doubled in value..
> But right now grandiose measures of showing off your countries genitals kind of creates a narrative of wasted resources to me right now

Countries spend all kinds of money showing off their genitals in much worse ways. Think North Korea's nuclear weapons, or any of the Western nations' colonization follies.

How much has been spent on Olympic games in the last couple of decades? Would that be enough to get us to the moon?
So what.

I love decentralized crypto stuff. But let's be real, most people don't care how their payments are processed.
Hrmf, in a society where police doesn't shoot innocent unarmed people swatting as a concept doesn't really exist - it's called "prank call" and while it's still a rather serious crime, it's something that's solved by a fine and a strong talking to.

Policemen killing unarmed innocent people is the problem that really needs solving - how the hell can innocent people be killed by policemen and not a single person in police chain of commands gets jailed? Why wasn't a single head of police removed from post and why aren't training approaches being reevaluated?!
Ahh, I misunderstood then.

Well, yeah, I don't that the person who made the call, while culpable for involvement in homicide is guilty of murder in the traditional sense.

Something more like involuntary manslaughter. The murderer is unambiguously the person who killed.
It is a great shame to see them go, was always impressed with the quality of their products and ecosystem built around it.

If there are any Mapzeners here looking for something new, please consider taking a look at www.procedural.eu - we also make a WebGL mapping engine based on OSM data, but our focus is more using procedural generation to augment the data, to generate immersive 3D natural environments for visualizing ski resorts, hiking routes etc.
My bet is on DPOS systems. They will not be as decentralized - but at at least they should be practical.

But it is also possible that Lightning (a second layer over the bitcoin base) will prove to be a good solution.