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Daisee (www.daisee.com) | Software Engineer, Devops, Data Scientists | Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, Australia | Full-time, ONSITE, no visa but vague chance of REMOTE for someone brilliant

Daisee makes software for call centre operators to transcribe calls, and then do various kinds of analysis on the call text (e.g. whether the caller was expecting a call back, general sentiment of the call, predictors of a successful or unsuccessful call). We also help call centres offload voice volume on to chat. We also do predictive modelling for demand (not just in call centres: retail as well).

We are a well-funded startup with a long runway to support our current 20 staff. We're making large $$$$ sales into enterprises most weeks. We have mature management (two ex-googlers are on the management team, including the former Australian general manager; the rest of the executive team have held senior roles across the banks, successful startups and a variety of other major corporations). You get the stability and mature culture of a large corporate job, but the interesting work and dynamic environment of a startup.

We have a team of data scientists already; I'm looking to hire one more, preferably with skills in computer vision.

I am looking to hire around 3-5 software developers to take on various projects. There are existing projects in Python, but we are seriously considering switching to Go or Haskell for the bulk of future development. (If you are only interested in a Haskell role, or only interested in a Go role, just mention it in your resume.)

What I would like from a software developer is a lot of experience of working with data scientists and/or some machine learning skills yourself. Having taken projects through to production and supporting them there is also valuable.

The call centre application is the most important one, so experience with NLP, Twilio and call centre software (e.g. Genesys) will get you to the top of the resume pile. On the other hand, if you are happen to have some knowledge around point-of-sale systems, forecasting, stock and warehousing systems and so on, that will get you to the top of the resume pile for the demand modelling part.

I also need some devops folks: in particular, we have a platform that helps speed data science projects through the cycle from jupyter notebook -> software development -> in production system; I'm looking to hire someone who can own that product and provide insight into what production problems could be avoided by baking things into code at an earlier stage in development.

https://www.workable.com/j/2A144554F9 or contact careers@daisee.com and mention that you saw this post on HN.
What was the connection between MS and IBM?
First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale
Unfortunately, I have lot of personal experience here. The reporting on still births varies greatly. Some states require it past week 16, others stipulate a birth weight, and others set more arbitrary criteria. You would have to account for a lot of external factors.
It might just be how you present it, but to me that sounds like using multiple layers of hacks to implement use-cases other filesystems were carefully designed to support in the first place, and that sounds extremely unreliable and brittle.

I'll stick to ZFS :)
Use the time you spend trying to find how to download the videos actually watching them, doing the readings and practising the exercises.
.. but it does go away if you don't maintain a presence of some variety in the given countries.
We have this large scale in France, as “sos medecin”.

The key points are the “I need help” focus right in the name, and a triage process done by phone.

They’ll deal with sny unforseen event that needs medical attention. It can be a severe pain in the back in the middle of the night or high fever for a kid, anything that is not a regular check-up or renewing a prescription.

Then there’s pre-filtering of the calls to decide if it’s worth it to send someone, or if the patient better come to the office, or straight up call official emergency services.

Price is higher than an usual consultation but not that much, and interestingly it’s also higher than ER in a public hospital, so you have incentives to choose the right service for you.

We end up using it a lot because usually we detect our kid is sick after picking up from school or during week-ends, when normal offices are already closed and there’s no hope to get an appointment.
FOI request reveals Tor funded by US government agencies
I get the sentiment, but how many people can just casually add OpenCL to Tensorflow? For a lot of people, even if talented programmers, they may not be able to do anything but ask and beg.

My webcam doesn’t work with Linux. Should I write a driver despite not knowing the kernel API, C, or how webcams even work?

I would be better off sponsoring development somehow — this is something I’ve wondered if it’s possible to do. Someone with the skills could be paid by me, and other affected users.
Earmarks and subsidies are some of the most criticized aspects of the legislative process. Those who benefit directly from the subsidies of course are in favor of them, others simply feel powerless to do anything about them.
You don't necessarily have to be a self-promoting a*hole either, though.

You're welcome. Haven't really checked if translations of Shalamov into English are any good, but originals are. Not something you would read for pleasure though.
Bill Gates Mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates

> Beyond the Seattle area, Gates was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980, becoming the first woman to lead it in 1983. Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed her son's company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.
The thing is, we aren't currently able to keep a stable acceleration of 1g.

The ship's mass will also increase relativistic-ally, as it will reach a maximum speed of ~0.9999961c, so more mass will require more force for the same acceleration.
As I understand, it tends to be profitable in cities where it has operated for longer time, but it operates at a loss in cities where they've entered more recently due to costs related to marketing for driver acquisition, customer support, fraud, etc while ramping up the fleet size and establishing a stable physical presence.

As for drivers, my anecdata is that many claim to make "good money" (in their words). I've had a guy say Uber doesn't make him money, but then he followed up by saying he's a retired guy just doing it to keep active and that he owns two convenience stores...
Prepared for Bumps, the Met Starts Charging Non-New Yorkers
Gile Life Planning: Updating Your Backlog of Personal Goals and Objectives 2
Another Introduction to FPGAs
> but that makes it hard to version since submodules will track HEAD by default

you can track any branch or release right?
To bridge that example with how the article is discussing the term: LOTR was a huge deal for Weta, but as per the articles framing, it wasn't "The Big Deal" -- Weta did The Right Thing by creating a valuable productive business in and of itself and letting large deals come later.

Weta was not in a holding pattern ignoring their profitability hunting for a white whale that would make their business make sense. They created a business that made sense, built a reputation, and were then positioned to take on a larger project that catapulted them. Without the large deal they would still be a business, a profitable entity, and their interests would be aligned with their customers.

An apples to apples comparison would be if Weta had ignored Xena because they were flirting with Disney hoping to land an exclusive Star Wars contract.
I find that T status is still an issue.
Use AdEspresso. Go to their free academy section and read their guides. They'll teach you 95% of what you need to know, for free.
Declassified: In 1981 a New Zealand teenager fired at the British monarch
Just once. We had to fill out the paperwork for their procurement and compliance teams, but I don't think it was a public RFP.
What happens to people who refuse to submit to medical intervention?
You're right. I don't really know much about the field at all. I was basing my opinions off the article. I'm still surprised they're touting geostationary satellites as superior though. The speed of light is constant. SpaceX's plan while very expensive, at least theoretically could provide a complete internet experience. Same thing with Google's balloons. Astranis at best can only serve static sites.
I'd say that Uber/Lyft would be better positioned to take advantage of driverless vehicles. The hard part is the tech, personal for fleet management is a cost center. They have already mastered outsourcing low-skill cost center type jobs to large numbers of poorly paid contractors. And both companies have business relationships with fleet management companies.

So once either company successfully develops proprietary IP that enables fully autonomous cars they should have a clear road to profitably. They can use their existing relationships with fleet management companies to handle that part. And that is a mature industry, so the presence of a lot of capable competitors will keep costs down for Uber/Lyft. If they do need to do a bunch of hiring for new low-skill positions they can probably outsource it easily. I think the major winners will be tech companies and car makers. I don't think the fleet management industry will capture the majority of the profits, but they will probably get a minor portion.
On hacker news who is hiring by cmd + f remote / visa and applying the first time.

The second time was through stack overflow careers by filtering the ones that sponsored visa.
Blockchain | Head of Engineering Excellence, Head of Mobile, Head of Platform Engineering, Platform Developer, JS Developer, UX Developer, Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Sr DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps, Android, iOS | London, NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | https://www.blockchain.com/

Blockchain is hiring!

Blockchain is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open,
accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

The foremost quality for any position at Blockchain is integrity.

Some of the technologies we use::
Blockchain Technology: Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies
React & Redux
JavaScript / ES6
HTML5/CSS/SASS
AngularJS and other single-page client-side application frameworks
Cryptography and digital signatures
Clojure, Java, Kotlin
RxJava, Dagger2, gradle
D3, Grafana, InfluxDB

If you’re interested in working on the most interesting and challenging problems in the digital space, we want to hear from you! Please check out our job postings to apply: https://www.blockchain.com/careers/
Or reach out directly to me at: taryn@blockchain.com
Ignoring the ridiculous price tag this phone is as close to what I'm looking for yet. I also want to go lighter but a major thing for me is battery life. Light Phone 2 is aiming at 5 days stand by, why are we still dealing with battery life in terms of days, not weeks or months?

So, that means my Nokia 120 is still an awesome phone with 3-4 weeks of battery life, calls, texts, radio, alarm and a 32GB (via micro SD) music player. And that at a tenth of the price of Light Phone 2.
AFAIK in type 1, most of the beta cells get destroyed, and it happens because of autoimmune processes. To me this means that immune-modulating medication or perhaps stem cell injections could help a great deal.
Have a look at NLP(neuro linguistic programming) techniques regarding memory.

An example, before you start starting studying a topic, tell yourself, consciously, why you are going to learn this specific thing, and how you want to use it. After studying, tell yourself how are you going to use the things you have just learned, imagine yourself applying them in different scenarios. Even these two simple exercises helps brain to make those connections GP told about.

I don't want to get in to the topic of whether NLP has a scientific base, just want to emphasize that most of these techniques are brought together from examining how experts relevant to the area do things that made them successful.

I don't have enough time right now for a longer answer or sources, will try to expand later.
There are 3 filesystems that can do transparent compression: NTFS, ZFS, btrfs. One is for Windows, the other isn't available for RedHat/CentOS, the third is getting sunset. XFS could really benefit from compression support.
No it doesn't. You may lose right of abode but you are unlikely to lose your citizenship.
15-year-old Indian girl married off to an older Nigerian man
Willa Cather, Pioneer
Bring back teaching 'manners and comportment' in schools! Seriously!
This approach is super goofy because refined sugar and corn syrup are already heavily subsidized by the federal government. Instead of adding another layer of distortions to correct the first one we should start by looking at why the current regulations exist and what the consequences will be if we unwind them.
This headline is a confusing a statement based on what the paper says. The paper[1] claims "Results show that per
hour worked, median profit from driving is $3.37/hour before taxes". The profit has subtracted from it amortized losses associated with vehicle wear and tear/deprecation. This makes sense knowing the nature of the business, but if a Domino's delivery driver, who similarly uses his own car for the job, says to you that is hourly wage is $9, would you assume that he was subtracting out vehicle deprecation?

[1] PDF: http://ceepr.mit.edu/files/papers/2018-005-Brief.pdf
That doesn’t really answer the question.
Podaris | Full or part-time | REMOTE | London, UK
Podaris (https://www.podaris.com/) is re-inventing how the world plans its cities. We're developing a platform for urban infrastructure planning, with a focus on agile, real-time collaboration, combining elements of BIM and GIS. We've been in tiny-startup mode for several years, but have built a serious product and acquired a small but loyal customer base. Now we have an opportunity to scale rapidly. We're looking for:

- Full-stack developers with experience building complex single-page applications.

- Developers with experience in GIS, BIM, Parametric modelling, applied graph theory, transport microsimulation, or API design.

- Interface designers who can also code

- People with a passion for making better cities around the world.

Our tech stack includes: OpenStreetMap, OpenLayers, Meteor, Node, Go, Kubernetes, Docker.

We're based at the Urban Innovation Centre in London, UK, but are open to remote workers from anywhere in the world, provided we can establish a collaborative rapport. Equity is also available for extraordinarily talented individuals. Currently we can only offer contract work, but we expect further financing to soon allow us to hire full-time as well.

https://angel.co/podaris/jobs/
Classic techbro. Knows virtually nothing about selling on Amazon; happy to accuse a retailer and author of a detailed blog post of not knowing much about selling on Amazon.
My city recently got them, and we currently have more bikes than NYC. It was rough at first but people are taking them a lot now, and its increased bicycling in general even outside of bike shares.
There are good and bad subscription services, it has always been like that.

>Also, if you load 320kbps MP3 and 14.4khz WAV into a spectral analyzer you will find differences, which will be detectable to anyone with the right critical listening skills.

Do you listen with your eyes? A spectrogram can't tell you what your ears will hear.

The only way to know, is to do a proper double blind ABX test on files you encode yourself from known original files. You can use Foobar2000 with the ABX Comparator plugin for this purpose. I think you'll be surprised at just how low you can take the bitrate even on an ancient format like MP3, before you can tell a difference.
> Especially when you realise that most people dont really need to see a doctor.

With regards to the US, the issue isn't the medical need to see a doctor, it's the bureaucratic need to see one, as you can't get approved for extended sick leave without it.

Such visits (and per this document [1, pg 7-8], many ER visits) are for purely bureaucratic reasons, such as no insurance or no other providers available. I interpret this as largely a workflow issue with regards to the availability of the simple care. A separate style clinic or service dedicated and allowed by Employers/Insurance which deals in low-priority cases for the purpose of documentation (e.g., flu clinics) would solve a lot of these issues, but, as I found out with my previous employer and insurance, flu clinics are "not real doctors", and as such cannot be submitted for sick leave claims.

I think we'd see the numbers for inappropriate/unnecessary visits drop rapidly if Employers/Insurance accepted such documentation more easily/readily.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr090.pdf
Have fun with Unix
Recognising the issue doesn’t require you to feel sorry for them.
Implementing Transparent Reactivity: The Ideas Behind React Easy State
I’ve had my shares diluted from $2000 to $50 a long time ago, but if it’s “void” after a dilution then I’d like to have the math explained to me...
The vast majority of money-earning musicians don't earn anything significant from album sales, they have to rely on live gigs and merchandise sales. This shouldn't come as a surprise.

And a lot of musicians don't make anything, or are actually losing money. But they keep doing it for the love of the art.

Would I like to see these talented individuals properly compensated? Hell yes! But between predatory record labels and the sheer vast number of people out there also producing music, it's not easy to break through.
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Mark Zuckerberg tried to screw his co-founder by diluting his co-founder's shares. His co-founder then sued him successfully. Stockholders have strong legal protections in many jurisdictions. You definitely need a lawyer to fix this for you.
i'd try to find somebody (local hackerspace?) with a 4'x8' CNC router who is willing to pop one of these https://www.rockcliffmachine.com/product/cnc-pen-holder/ into their machine.
Hi guys!

An active user from Russia here :). We are a small team of seven developers and we already love Slite.

Before Slite we were using multiple Google Docs and Sheets files to manage our team notes, and Trello to write down decisions we made during team meetings. We would create a lot of files on Google and send links to each other using Telegram or email. It's OK if you don't have a lot of documents but after a few months of working it's became a pain in the ass to find some particular file (and it's actual, team-approved version).

On Trello we had this 'Notes' board, where we would put all the notes on product decisions and team meetings, but it quickly became overloaded with stuff and you would hardly find anything there.

That's why our team loved Slite so much. It's very simple yet powerful tool. I am not sure if there anything else like that. Probably yes. But we are absolutely satisfied with Slite and like that its team already reached out to us to gather our feedback :).
I've been saying it for years - depressed? One-way plane ticket to another culture, preferably completely foreign: solved.

And I've seen it work, time and again. So many times, I cannot be swayed: if you're depressed, you need to move. The deeper the depression, the more convinced you are that there is no solution: the further you need to fly, friend.

No, its not easy. (Except it is). Yes, you will have to learn a new language (except that is fun and very rewarding once you do it). No, your culture is not important, you can shed it in an instant - all it takes is that boarding pass, man.
There are actualy the limits:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/02/16/supe...
I'm not sure if it's purposeful, or how long the hole will remain open, but you can see the full paper. Remove the "-Brief". [0]

The paper is fairly open about their methodology, and give access to things like the actual survey being answered, rather than just saying "a survey matching these criteria was used".

Most of their data apparently has come through Harry Campbell [1], and his yearly survey, which has it's own data and methodology out in the open [2].

I'm not remotely qualified to analyse it, but you can see the data from therideshareguy's survey if you're looking to critique the results of this paper. (I've edited this paragraph to try and get less push/offensive. I'm still not happy with it, but the aphasia is kicking my butt. Rest assured, I'm just trying to be helpful, and just wanted to point the direction to discussing the data. Still not happy with this phrasing either.)

[0] http://ceepr.mit.edu/files/papers/2018-005.pdf

[1] https://therideshareguy.com

[2] https://therideshareguy.com/2018SurveyReport
I wanted to talk about artificial gravity.

Since we're speaking of planets light years away. The only way for humans to get out there, is to stay in some kind of spaceship with gravity.

Floating around on the International Space Station is nice for an hour. But after that, I bet it gets boring real quick. Especially, if you need to go use the restroom, and handle liquids and solids.

So, having artificial gravity is nice. It will keep liquids down. You can drink out of a cup. Food doesn't float away. You can surgically operate safely. You can use the restroom normally.

But, you would need a very large structure, to spin around, in order to not get the effects of Coriolis Force. And since it is currently difficult to build such a large structure in space, then I wondered if we could cheat.

The method is to apply a constant force, but at an angle. This angle will allow the space craft to simulate a rotation, like it is being spun around with an invisible tether. This angular force will push all the occupants inside, to feel 1 G of gravity. And after one full rotation, then the space craft will return to the origin point.

So, the idea is to apply an angular force, to cause a space craft to rotate in place, to simulate artificial gravity.

This is similar to the idea of constantly accelerating a spacecraft, so that the occupants feel 1 G of gravity. But that acceleration would shoot the occupants straight into deep space, which is not what we want.

Instead, this method would be like simulating a Ring World, but instead of rotating the space station, it would use constant angular force to cause the rotation, in order to simulate the artificial gravity.

I was thinking something like an electric-ion engine could be used to provide the constant thrust. It would need to be computer controlled, to automatically administer the right force, at the correct angle, at the correct time, in order to rotate and simulate the artificial gravity. And it can be powered by nuclear, or possible solar. And of course, the thrust can never be turned off, otherwise, the space craft would shoot off into deep space.

One idea I thought was to have this be in a large orbit around the earth. The other location would be at the Earth-Moon Lagrangian Point.

Any space infrastructure architects want to take a stab at this idea? Possible or not?