skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how you calculate when it comes to insurance. You can't divorce life from maths. In your calculations you are assuming 500 million people will all fall ill at the same time and each will claim the full $7860 for the year which is next to impossible. In my opinion, $314 million is more than enough for now unless India is struck by an epidemic.
F1 'grid girls' may have lost their jobs, but are fighting back on Twitter
I still see the original Telegram app on Apple’s AppStore. I’ve been using Telegram app for a couple of months and it matches the same app I have installed. I don’t like waving the “Fake News” flag prematurely, but this seems like an appropriate time to start waving it.
Invoiced | Backend and Frontend Software Engineers | Austin, TX | Remote ok | Full-time | https://invoiced.com/careers

Invoiced is a startup that helps companies modernize and automate their billing processes. We work with companies that have high-volume or complex billing processes that have recently outgrown/broken their current billing system.

We are looking for both backend and frontend engineers that are passionate about delivering high-quality, testable code (because who likes getting a bill for the wrong amount?). The ideal candidate should be comfortable shipping production-level code in a fast-moving environment. We are currently a team of two developers supporting over 15,000 businesses that rely on our software to get paid.

What we use: PHP (Symfony 4), MariaDB, Redis, AWS, AngularJS

Reach out to us at founders@invoiced.com
“500 miles, or a little bit more.”
I heard about this years ago!

I even think I recall info coming out about results from a mouthwash developed by the Australian military that regenerated teeth.

I've been waiting ever since.

As somebody who has left dentists and hygienists completely quizzical about some of the mineral decay on my teeth (in spite of my praised hygiene habits), something like a periodical regenerative treatment or a regular mouthwash would make me so happy.

In the interim, I've been recommended and given a Japanese toothpaste that contains some extracts of dairy (cheese?). I can't remember for the life of me what it's called, but it's supposed to help with some of the enamel and mineral issues. If anybody knows off hand what it's called. I think it begins with an M...
I was under the impression that the only important part was that you didn't appear to care.
If you like reading, I highly recommend Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of Maladies. It's a catholic overview of the history of cancer research and the modern understanding of cancer as of around 2010. I read it when my Mum was struggling with cancer.
ExoAnalytic Solutions | Director of IT | Los Angeles, CA or Orange County, CA | ONSITE, Full-Time | US Citizenship Required

Exo owns and operates a global network of 200+ telescopes responsible for keeping satellites and humans safe from orbital debris and other threats. We're 100% employee-owned and offer full health care, dental, vision, 6% to 401(k) as well as equity grants.

We're looking for a full-time computer-whisperer who can manage our existing back-end and develop infrastructure to fuel our growth goals. You'll work directly with users to identify issues and needs, our directors and PM's to understand technical roadmaps, and our C-suite (including me, our CIO) for planning and resources.

Skills we're looking for: Active Directory, Windows and Linux admin, cloud/virtualization tech, IP networking, GSuite/O365, scripting languages

We're also hiring a variety of other positions. See https://exoanalytic.com/careers/ for details.

Questions? Email me, HN username at exoanalytic.com

Interested in applying? Send a resume over to jobs at exoanalytic.com
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", anyone?
Probably not, actually - I have a similar thing and was told that although the MRI machine won't rip the metal out of your jaw like it would for ferrous metals, the titanium will essentially act like a little antenna and obliterate the image
The younger was :)
Math and Pencil | Software Engineer | Anywhere/NYC | Full-time | https://www.mathandpencil.com

We are a small full-stack consulting agency with locations on the US East and West coast (Seattle, DC, Philly, NYC, Maryland, and Buffalo). I'm looking for a talented python developer looking to work remotely full-time building applications using:

React/Redux/Jest/Websockets, Python(Django), Postgres/Redis, AWS/S3/Ubuntu, CircleCI/Jenkins

My client is a well-funded start-up changing the ways in which hurricane insurance is bought/sold/and priced. We are building extremely exciting real-time technologies and you will have a lot of leverage/ownership of the product/features you are building. The team comes from a wide variety of schools and submission (UVA, Stanford UMD, UMICH, etc), and you will have a ton of flexibility with work hours and work-life balance (the team is 3 years old has has an attrition rate of 0%).

If you are located in or near NYC a plus, but it shouldn't matter for the right candidate. You will need to have a 4 year degree in a technical subject for this specific contract.

For more info: joseph dot misiti @ mathandpencil.com
I remember twenty years back a new technique where the destructive bacteria were replaced with friendly ones. Never made it to market I guess, would have made half of dentistry obsolete.
An introduction to Reactive Programming
Carta (formerly eShares) | ONSITE | Full-time | NYC - New York, NY

Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership through corporate governance. We help 7,000+ privately held companies and a small (growing) number of public companies track who owns what. We're growing rapidly and are hiring across the board.

We're building out a new team in our New York, NY (NYC) office to handle publicly traded companies.

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Senior+ backend or full stack engineers

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Required:

* 4+ years professional software development experience

Nice-to-have:

* Experience with Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol

* Professional experience in Finance, Banking or Exchanges (ACH, Wires, Trading Stocks, etc)

* Familiarity with Python and Django

* Experience writing unit tests

Drop a note to robert.balousek+feb18 [at] carta [dot] com for more info.
DR.: Well, thats odd - your getting a bit long-in-the-tooth... Should I regenerate you body instead?
Passing block-level storage through a virtualization platform is not an easy task, because you're talking about a physical connection to the block storage (i.e. fiber, 10G copper, etc) passing through the hypervisor, to become accessible at the VM level. When dealing with a cluster of hypervisors, making that block-level storage accessible, and portable, to entire infrastructure, requires a level of engineering effort.
Fermionic marginal constraints for hybrid algorithms
Forgot to mention, Android Podcast Addict is a great podcast app, and for windows is Groover Pro.

Both supports opml file that saves your subscriptions to the cloud. So you can sync on your devices.

Podcast addict supports youtube links also, both support video podcasts.

And why not use Itunes? Itunes likes to download all your podcast feeds, and can eat lots of disk space if you have many subscriptions, use a dedicated podcast app/program.
Time Waste Alert!

Their recruiters talk a big game.

I was given a timed HackerRank test of 5 algo questions which I completed. I was then completely ghosted by the same recruiter. They wouldn't even respond to an email.
>only use 100% anonymous public networks (see reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ )

nitpick: reddit is pesudoanonymous, anonymous would be something like 4chan.
Meet with Purpose
Or basically: No remaining suckers available for this transaction.
Deep Learning Generalist with some specialist knowledge/ideas in regression & causal discovery type problems

Location: Sunshine Coast, Aus

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: ML/ Deep Learning / Data Science, JS/Java/Python, Product Design, Operations Research

Resume: On Request

Email: eric at gregarious dot com dot au
Good catch. Keystone-ness has nothing to do with consciousness, of course. I was making a pile of reasons not to murder elephants.
I did not suggest being timid. The whole thing is a structure of symbols of timidity; an abstraction of wealth begetting confidence. So, it is certainly a matter of walking the ridge between symbolic timidity and actual timidity.
Life on Mars, from Viking to Curiosity
I'd say that all of the above have become more refined, but I was always different than my peers growing up so they were a bit more refined to start (in large part due to more reading and different media consumption).

My interests are very much middle/upper middle class geek though and that's definitely something that the upper classes aren't very comfortable with. I'm not interested in a lot of the thinking that comes out of high end private liberal arts schools for instance. Really a focus on math/computers/science is generally not an upper class thing. I like media but not "art".
To mimic that effect until late in the 20th century dentures contained added uranium. Sadly sometimes they would fluoresce in green or yellow.

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/dent...

And the amusing inverse! https://m.imgur.com/gallery/lcmSI
The current state government is pro business and don’t have any money to implement or continue any past programs. Whatever money they have is spent on pet projects and making themselves rich.

The previous government even though was corrupt at least did something for the poor. I personally witnessed AROGYASHRI being used by the poor and the amount of stability it bought to their daily lives.

I also agree that there was lot of corruption in the program. If the choice is between saving the lives of the poor with corruption vs letting them die without I would choose the former any day. After all, the healthcare system in the US is filled with corrupt participants.

Let’s us not make the perfect the enemy of the good.

P.S:- I am not a citizen of India or don’t have any Indian roots but I lived there for a few years doing volunteer social work to help the poor.
This kind of reminds me of coley's toxins treatment a little, although a bit different. Really hoping this is successful and can be available in the near term.
Show HN: Nab that sold-out campsite
Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations
Varnish Software | Software Engineer | London, UK

Varnish Software is the company behind Varnish Cache. Varnish Software works with top global enterprises helping them use Varnish Cache to increase web performance and to build private CDNs, consumer CDNs, and advanced edge platforms.

At Varnish Software, we take pride in our software and products and we value innovation. We strive to hire team members who share these values. We offer an open, honest, and international culture in a laid back and stimulating work environment. You will be working with some of the most brightest and talented people in the industry. We offer competitive salaries, full benefits, generous vacation time, and much more.

Job description:

* Create, develop and maintain Varnish products and solutions

* Provide technical guidance and industry best practices to customers

* Interact with prospects during the sales process

* Hacking on various projects (side projects encouraged)

* International travel for customer meetings, conferences, and office workshops

Desired skills and experience:

* Experience with Varnish Cache and VCL

* Experience with C, scripting languages, Linux programming

* Good understanding of TCP and HTTP protocols and troubleshooting tools

* Comfortable explaining technical solutions and details to a non-technical audience

* Public speaking or writing experience is a plus

To apply, please send your resume or questions to jobs@varnish-software.com
> Foo foo = new Foo();

The Golang FAQ calls that stuttering; good term, I thought.

https://golang.org/doc/faq

See section:

What are the guiding principles in the design?

"Stuttering (foo.Foo* myFoo = new(foo.Foo)) is reduced by simple type derivation using the := declare-and-initialize construct."
Bullshit is highly contextual. Often its valudity is dependent on other factors, which are assumed, usually unknowingly, by the author/speaker.

If your assumptions/situation match those of the author/speaker---it will be good advice. If they don't---bullshit.
How to pay less for web app subscriptions
Where NASA Put a Parking Lot, Dinosaurs and Mammals Once Crossed Paths
This article basically says that there's a trend of increasing interest. Well, that's great--I'm sure there's plenty of interest from industrial firms. But there's a lot of grunt work that needs to be done before anyone can hope to make real money off ML in this space... industrial equipment is often ancient and analog, standards are all over the place, and the talent pool isn't there. GE learned this the hard way with Predix.
I thought it was an interesting article - and there is nuance around determining what it means to die, the definition has changed over time and for anyone that has Alcor will hopefully keep changing.

That said, this paragraph about Shewmon caused me to basically dismiss his perspective about any of it:

> "When Shewmon was a college sophomore, at Harvard, he listened to Chopin’s Trois Nouvelles Études No. 2, in his dorm room, and the music lifted him into such a state of ecstasy that he had an epiphany: he no longer thought it possible that all conscious experience, particularly one’s perception of beauty, could be a “mere electrophysiological epiphenomenon,” he said. The music seemed to transcend “the spatial limitations of matter.” An atheist, he converted to Catholicism and studied Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy. He went to medical school, in 1971, and then specialized in neurology, because he wanted to understand the relationship between the mind and the brain."

It seems the main tragedy here is that a family went in for a relatively routine (possibly inappropriate if the apnea was due to obesity) surgery and had their child die. That they don't trust the medical staff after that doesn't seem unreasonable to me, but it doesn't mean the medical staff is wrong.

The determination of death in this case seems less important than the determination of suffering or quality of life.
What do people who use Basecamp think of the product?

(This is a slightly reworded version of my initial question... Who uses Basecamp?)
Saudi Aramco is worth 1 to 5 times Saudi Arabia's GDP.
Scoop | San Francisco, California | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.takescoop.com | jobs@takescoop.com

Scoop is looking for talented iOS & Android engineers to tackle exciting new challenges as a result of rapid growth. We bring co-workers and neighbors together to enjoy a smooth carpooling experience—unlocking new opportunities to create friendships, improve their well-being, and make the most of their valuable time.

In this role, you will:

* Ship code every 2 weeks in Scoop’s iOS & Android apps

* Have your work used by thousands of commuters

* Create new screens, implement complex business logic, and leverage iOS/Android APIs for things like location data

* Be one of a small team adding new features & maintaining Scoop’s app

You should:

* Have developed and published iOS/Android native apps

* Be knowledgeable and passionate about the iOS/Android ecosystem, user interactions, and material design

* Care deeply about quality

* Be excited to learn and leverage new technologies like RxJava, Retrofit, and PromiseKit

* Be eager to author and improve automated tests, despite the challenges

You might also:

* Be interested in leading a team

* Or, have significant experience doing backend development and want to get closer to the product

* Or, be a front-end web developer who wants to try something new
Realm Five, Inc. | Software Engineer, Firmware Engineer | Lincoln, NE | ONSITE | FULL-TIME

Realm Five, Inc. is is developing disruptive solutions to automate production agriculture. Its solutions utilize IoT (Internet of Things), data analysis, and automation technologies. Our stack includes Ruby, Javascript, React-Native C/C++, Go, AWS, and LabView.

We develop the hardware, firmware and software in-house. We are hiring for a variety of positions:

Full Stack Web Developer(Jr./Mid./Sr.)
Dev Ops Engineer
Mobile Application Developer (Hybrid)
Embedded Device Firmware Engineer

Holler at justin.collier@realmfive.com if you're interested in helping us solving big problems in agriculture around the world.
Oh, that's neat.

I'm assuming from the nature of the description that remote work (but still US based) is a hard non-starter?
Luster | Brooklyn, New York, NYC - ONSITE | Full Stack Engineer

Do you want to write apps for a flipdot screen? https://luster.cc/flip-disc/

We provide high-tech, high-end experiences for events. We have a passion for bringing smart technologies to the event industry. We believe that event organizers should have access to fun and attractive activations for the guests, and at the same time have full insight into the success of their activations via GA style online dashboards. The ethos with our products is to bring the online and the offline worlds closer together by building custom hardware and software.

This is a unique developer opportunity. Luster is a small 20 person bootstrapped (profitable) company. We grew our revenue by 120% in 2017. We have relied on our sister company (breakfastny.com) for engineering needs up until now. Our tech team is tiny, you will play a big role in the future of our business. You’ll be wearing many different hats and be one of the first tech hires for the company.

Read more here: [ https://luster.cc/careers/ ]

Let me know if you are interested! mattias@luster.cc
What I've seen (and mentioned in another comment) is that the upper classes view "education" to mean private liberal arts school, not math/computers/science. I think those are viewed as too hard to pursue if you don't have to and populated by non-rich people. That's definitely a generalization and not always the case but I've seen it a lot.

I notice a sort of cognitive dissonance with them though. It's undeniable that technology is powerful and many of the richest people in the world got there through tech. I don't think "old money" has quite digested what that means to them and it generally causes discomfort.
The clothing stuff works the other way too. My parents were always well off, but we’re immigrants. I know to wear a nice suit to a client meeting. But I’m completely at a loss when it comes to all the intermediate levels of clothing. Like, what do you wear when it would be weird to wear a business suit but improper to wear jeans?
Dentistry is a weird field.

It takes a certain type of personality to become a dentist.

im sure that everyone can do their own thinking on that subject.

but I have had the gamut oof good to bad dentist experiences;

good: father in law (who was a dentist) was a great man

bad: dentist accused me of having braces (I have perfect teeth - never had braces) -- then charged my insurance for a bunch of procedures which werent performed (I only had a cleaning)
Nah being a seed investor is easy, you just go into Telegram and wire money to anything people say China likes.
Reminded me of this post on reddit[0] about injecting an ethanol gel into tumors (so it has nothing to do with modifying the immune system as in this tactic, just happens to have a similar means of application).

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/6xsokg/duke_uni...
Columbus really belongs with Bozo and not Fulton and Wright. His plan was ridiculed because it was ridiculous for reasons which were had been clear since before the rise, much less fall, of Rome, could not reasonably have worked, and did not work.

He happened to stumble into something unrelated in the course of his crazy plan (which is the only reason anyone on the expedition survived), which lots of people who weren't him recognized as something new and valuable independently of the goal Columbus had both insanely set out and, even more insanely, insisted after the fact and to his death that he had succeeded in.
Hey, I might have some people interested in this type of investment. Sounds really interesting. You can reach me at zachfeldman at gmail.
*When both players are better informed.

Allstate is the only player better informed. The % of Allstate customers that know their social media is being scraped to detect fraud has got to be incredibly small.

If anything, this is asymmetric, which rarely turns out well for the player with less information.
This is a blatant lie. The devil is in the details and the detail is there has been no specific funds allocated in the budget for this nor are there any specifics about how the funds will be allocated in the future.[1] This is just a vague expression of intent. Precisely the type that every politician will make when in desperate need of good will - exactly what Modi is in need of.

[1] thread about this https://twitter.com/Memeghnad/status/959026718722768896
You mentioned a history podcast, so just remember, you asked for this. I don't think anybody matches Dan Carlin for presentation (although his historical accuracy can be lacking) but here are some that are probably the most approachable.

* History of Rome: A narrative history of Rome from foundation to fall of the western empire

* Revolutions: A long series of various revolutions around the world (American, French, Haitian, etc. etc.)

* The British History Podcast: Chronological history of the British Isles, very detailed, hundreds of episodes in and the Normans have not showed up yet.

* When Diplomacy Fails: Covers various political/military events throughout history. Currently doing a deep dive on the Korean war.

* The China History Podcast: Episodes on all topics from Chinese history from ancient times to the Mao era

* The History of Byzantium: Picks up where History of Rome ended and continues the story until (theoretically) the fall of Byzantium.

* The History of England: Similar to British History, but moves at a far faster pace, currently in the reign of Henry VIII

There are of course many many more, but these are probably some of my favorites.

Shameless Plug: I create a podcast on the First World War called History of the Great War. I think it is pretty good, at least the more recent episodes.
Airbnb CFO Departs Amid Tensions, Leaving IPO Timeline Unclear
Fractional reserve banking is about the availability of funds, not their existence.

In a bank with fractional reserves, the assets and the liabilities all add up. If I deposit $100, and the bank lends $80 of that out to someone else, the bank has liability to me of $100 and assets of $20 cash + $80 loan (a loan is an asset on a bank balance sheet). I can't immediately withdraw all $100, but it all exists.

The bitfinex thing is more akin to the Federal Reserve, which actually can just make up money out of thin air. The big difference between bitfinex and the Fed is that the Fed is a federal agency, created through a legislative process and operated with clear public policy goals. Whereas bitfinex is just some random people somewhere claiming they have $billions in the bank.
Typo. I meant the people hoping that bitcoin isn't a fad, against all evidence to the contrary.
Why would they prefer a lake to solid ground? If there was a fuel budget for return to launch site, they’d do that before flying it into a lake. Hell, they’d land it on a patch of grass before dumping it in water. There’s nothing to be gained by making the rocket wet (or a lake all rocket-y, those things are dirty with soot and stuff). They just weren’t sure that it wouldn’t punch a big fat hole in the ship (plus the ship is needed for Falcon Heavy next week), so they’d rather have the rocket get all seawatery than the ship hole-y. As long as the telemetry comes back, who needs an old rocket? Might still learn something from retrieving it but it’s not worth reflying as this booster was an older version that is rather expensive to refurbish.