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We’re looking for:
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* biologists, computational biologists, automation scientists, and drug discovery experts.
http://www.recursionpharma.com/careers for more details and to apply.
Logistics: Salt Lake City, Utah. Hiking/running/biking is literally out our back door, and it's half an hour to 5 ski resorts. Great pay, health insurance, 401k, relocation assistance (onsite is required), equity, a top-caliber team, and help make a massively positive impact. Happy to sponsor/extend visas, but you need to already be authorized to work in the US--we can’t handle the lottery at this stage.
Tech: Data science: python scientific stack (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, bokeh, etc). Software engineering: go, python, kafka, clojure, docker, kubernetes, react, javascript on aws and gce. Deep learning (e.g. convolutional networks) we're mainly using the python frameworks (keras, theano, tensorflow, etc).
Our team of 83 so far: http://www.recursionpharma.com/team
Importance of Arrays in Programming Interviews
Gives him something to do while his code complies.
This is a nice implementation. Using credit cards online is actually a little annoying/hacky, despite years of UX work and several billion dollar companies built to solve this problem. If Ethereum or another blockchain tech can solve this at a lower cost than the current payment processors (2-3% fees), then we might actually see widespread adoption online.
Whew, I confused those. Thanks for pointing that out
Like Bigtable, MapReduce and Tensorflow haven't had any impact outside advertising...
All good points.

The proposal, however, does make the think about this: https://xkcd.com/927/, so I don't know if we'll ever come to a good solution :/.
>Tesla is in fact still embarrassing the auto industry and
>selling EVs by an order of magnitude beyond what nearly
>all of the major auto companies are.

Um, no.

"November was another good month for GM’s Chevy Bolt EV US sales. The electric vehicle hit a new record with almost 3,000 units sold in one month – bringing the total to over 20,000 units to date". [0]

Of course total Tesla sales are higher than 20K units, but if we are talking about EV cars in mass segment, Tesla is being outsold at this moment.

[0] https://electrek.co/2017/12/01/chevy-bolt-ev-us-sales-record...
Price is a function of supply and demand. So this tactic is better than the blunt tactic even if it manages to fool only one shareholder.
Project Denali: Software-Defined SSDs by Microsoft and OCP
Anders Hejlsberg?
VW: 350 e-Golfs / week

Nissan has delivered 300K leafs (why did you leave them out?).

Chevvy sells about 20K volts / year.

Lots more data here: https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

The companies you list are selling millions of fossil-fuel vehicles because that's their business: selling cars. And as long as they can continue to do so profitably they will do so.

And whether or not Ferrari makes fossil fuel cars or not is immaterial, the numbers aren't there.

Fiat has an electric car but they are not turning a profit on it (it is priced very low, and they still can't sell them).

So does Renault, they too make electric cars, and have been doing so for quite a while.
> Video cameras should make a local recording that can be checked for the next few weeks if a crime occurs, but should not allow remote viewing without physical collection of the recording.

it would suck if the terrorist bomb also took out the cameras themselves.

I have cameras at my house wired to a local unit. It's mostly for convenience and looking for animals and not very serious for security; any well-respecting house prowler would want to take the recording unit from my server area so that I wouldn't have any video of who broke into my house.
Advanced Kubernetes Objects You Need to Know
The Awk state machine parser pattern
Although modern usage of the word “hacker” has been applied to non-software contexts, I’ve also seen the term “maker” used here as well.
I agree with all of that, but none of it is their intellectual property. It's mostly brand recognition that keeps them afloat.

K8s could easily release a command line clone and unseat docker in fairly short order.

Not dimininishing the value of what the docker folks bundled together and marketed. They did a terrific job. It just isn't very protected.
I think Jonathan Haidt's theory that the current generation of college students are significantly different due to the way they were raised:

https://reason.com/archives/2017/10/26/the-fragile-generatio...
They open source all their excellent work. Rent seeking cable providers are trying to take advantage of the net neutrality repeal to make people click ads.
Well, you could also say that on a desktop machine one will just open 20 tabs with long-form articles to "read later" and then end up scrolling down a bite sized feed anyways. I know it happens to me.
> "guaranteed expiration"

You could make the database so noisy that there's a proof-of-storage cost on anything over a day old.

No guarantee, but something.

Adversaries would want to store only those messages of interest, but that would require breaking the oblivious transfer system.
He was already in a leadership role (he led Google Brain). Now he's just in a bigger leadership role.
They promoted him because they already have AGI and it was bored at work.
Ask HN: Anyone with experience running a software company as a 501(c) charity?
What is the organizational structure like? Who can be paid? In your experience what are/were the benefits and drawbacks? Etc.
const var would become a nice contradiction...
Yes, it was sarcasm. Either way it's interesting I got flagged for that.
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Have worked on a cluster where an explicit prohibition in these guidelines was violated ! The admin decided to name machines after quarks, hence "up", "down", "charm" etc. Can't say it caused any particular issues.
Semi-agreed. Sometimes, I want remote jobs in the US (the pay is generally better), but I don't care where exactly. I definitely don't want remote jobs just from a specific city/area, though.
I think they were bought and then sold by GM, similar to how Chrysler and Mercedes were once paired up. But Opels are still designed and made in Germany (or possibly Poland now).

But this is all just financial games that the parent companies use - Opel never employed any actual Americans other than some financial folks, I'm guessing.
In this case for AT&T FTTH there are two seperate devices a ONT and AT&T's router. The ONT is a media converter that converts the GPON (fiber) to Ethernet. AT&T's router is superfluous in the scenario where the customer wants to user their own router. The only reason AT&T's router is necessary is to perform the 802.1x authentication.

Living in Central Florida, the lightning capital of the United States, I take electrical isolation very seriously. This is what is so great about fiber. Instead of having a another separate conductor running into your house (twisted pair or coax) there is just a glass insulator (fiber). So no extra isolation needed.
OP here,

I ran across this from the Cyberlaw Podcast notes[0]. Their brief description of it is why I thought it'd be interesting for the HN crowd:

>The National Academy report on encryption access has demonstrated that access is well within the zone of plausible technology policy, with support from a group of prominent tech experts, such as Ray Ozzie, all of whom know math.

I certainly don't agree with that statement, but I'm a long way from a cryptographer or security expert. I'm mostly looking forward to the EFF refutation, though I'm a little surprised it isn't already up...

[0] http://reason.com/volokh/2018/04/02/keeper-loser-weeper
I used to do sysadmin consulting, and one of our clients had a new director of IT come in. One of his first orders of business was to have us rename all the hosts (around 100 of them) from role-based names (db01, web01, storage01) to city names.

So when an alert came in at 3am that "mulhouse" is down, you had to know that Mulhouse is a French city AND France denotes database machines. And the city names were often fairly obscure, of the 100 names, I had only heard of a handful of them. "Is that name Icelandic or Finnish?"

That director of IT didn't last long.
It sounds like you are describing the problem of trust. In a vending machine, you trust the brands to deliver a standardized product. You know what you are buying ahead of time with no doubt at all. the cost is also low enough that you trust the delivery mechanism within a given level of risk tolerance. Finally, you don't expect the product to last, it is a consumable by nature, so no relationship needs to exist - your relationship is with the brand, not the individual can of soda. If you choose to give the soda away, the person you gave it do also knows what they are getting, and the brand doesn't care who drinks the soda.

To take your laptop example, though, you may trust the brand, but, you expect it to last. therefore, your relationship is with the brand AND the product. You will need to service that laptop, and they, as the vendor will need to set parameters around what services they will and will not provide in which circumstances. They have a kind of "contract" with you that doesn't necessarily extend beyond you. In fact, there are some situations with a laptop where giving it away to the wrong person could be a crime.

My only question is: if we could "solve" this problem, would we actually want to? Do we really want to make every interaction we have into some kind of transaction, with no obligations beyond payment for goods? I don't think so. I think most of our consumer protection laws have been developed to protect consumers from the considerable costs that such a system will create - warranties, lemon laws, etc. Critically, all aimed at improving the amount of trust between brands and consumers.

Instead, I think we probably need to more carefully define what kind of trust is required, and what the covenants of brand/consumer trust actually include regarding data. GDPR is an admirable model, and probably a step in the right direction, but certainly not a perfect effort.
The message to investors is more about demonstrating that they haven't given up and are still enthusiastic about improving.

What investors flee from is demoralized companies where the leaders are burned out or have stopped trying to make gains.
It's the "commoditization" of the Internet.

The other day I started thinking about how amazing toilets are – how much time they save every day. Bare with me. I went on thinking about the history of toilets, musing back to an ancient one I visited in Ephesus, Turkey. There were no toilet stalls. Between 6-10 holes in a bench, with flowing water underneath. According to our guide, this is one of the first toilets of its kind (citation needed). It must've been so amazing when they got this toilet. They probably talked about it all the time, and wanted to go there to hang out. It was a place of communion. Today toilets are utilities. They aren't exciting at all. You barely stop to wonder about the marvel you sit on. How much time it has saved you, or how the mechanics actually work.

The Internet will sort of become like that one day too. Just a utility.
Ideally you wouldn't even need to ask for it.

https://securitytxt.org
> Sure, but I'm a busy person like most people here, so it's easy to just throw up a picture or post to FB and make their days a bit better.

It's somewhat ironic you use this as an argument for good. I'm much like yourself in this scenario, so I'm not trying to take a moral high ground, but I can't say I truly believe this is enriching the relationships of people on either side.
If businesses prefer cashless transactions, what about allowing cash but with a premium? Similar to how some American businesses give a discount if you use cash. I also wonder what the transaction fees in Sweden are, compared to the rest of the world.
It will suck if we still won't see macbook pro with more than 16GB of ram because of that
Robot Research in the Wild: Water Transport in Rural India
Come on, he can be a salesman and a genius. At least he is a very extreme determined and hard working person, if not an actual "genius" (whose brains are wired differently). People don't generally make a mid career change into rocket science and then have the most successful private rocket launch company.
Just wait till Iranians or someone like that hacks into this, like they already did to one US drone.
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I don't think this is the original post that I remember from years ago, but the StarCraft convention has always intrigued me: https://slifty.com/2011/03/starcraft-network/
A minor UI suggestion to improve information availability.

https://imgur.com/a/5paZy

How am I supposed to know if I am interested in "Monteg.."?
I suppose there are many ways to choose the subset. Maybe software engineers in specific verticals: medical technology, avionics, etc.? Given the number of security breaches lately, CSO seems like a no-brainer, too.
A plane moves slowest when its landing. Its not like they're landing at Mach-speeds.
This has gone one of two ways for me. Sometimes boredom can effectively lead me to channel some creativity, but often it has been a source of sheer anxiety for those situations where I was left not really finding interest or meaning in anything in particular. I would try to remedy this with a brooding walk outdoors and bookhunting. Ultimately interest in my personal projects has been fleeting and merely theoretical, the application for which tended to stress me out. I took to cooking quickly for this reason as I found the process therapeutic and you could expect some sort of result quickly.
You basically create a hash table over public identities (bucket = pubkey % n) with an n chosen such that you get a bunch of unrelated people in each bucket but not so many that peers are overwhelmed by the message load on their bucket. Messages can be as simple as ES-SS-DH (basically Noise_X), same properties as e.g. PGP, i.e. no forward secrecy, no KCI resistance.

(This is patented, or at least pending)
South Korean capital Seoul mulls “S-Coin” tokens and blockchain-based government
I have happily owned a BP-83 for many years. But this is a very strange announcment. Apparently, everything will continue has usual: firmware upgrades, customer support, warranty repairs, returns and even sales. So from a (naive) customers perspective, OPPO will become a company that will continue indefinitely, with no products and no means of making money! Even knowing that OPPO owns or has shares in other companies, this is hard to figure out. I would love to know the inside story. Someone, somewhere is not happy.
For a privacy-centric approach that is also compatible with GDPR and business needs, there's the MyData conference in the end of August: https://mydata2018.org/
Norvig's title is "Director of Research", presumably this is a different position than "AI Chief". Source: http://www.norvig.com/
>How much would you have invested

Only what I could have afforded to lose. Around $5k. Not a lot of money (maybe even too small an amount to overcome the friction of traditional early-stage fundraising), but I would have gotten a much better RoI than my indexed stock-market fund got.

>and how well would you have done had the start-ups went belly up?

Well clearly I would have done poorly in that case. But that is why I don't invest more than I can afford to lose in risky investments.
Example: https://i.imgur.com/XxgA34D.png
I think I've heard "Jeff and Sanjay" as often as or more often than I've heard them regarded separately. Who invented protobuf? Jeff and Sanjay. Etc.
> you find out that existing C++ libraries on the box are no longer happy being linked into your program, like, oh, say, protobuf, gmock or gtest

Or even worse, they link happily then fail weirdly at run time because all the STL structure layouts have changed.

This is hugely exacerbated by Linux distributions perpetuating the fiction that C++ is an appropriate language for system library APIs. So now there is a generation of dependency-oriented developers who haven’t realized that “apt-get install libfoo-cxx-dev” is an enormous headache waiting to happen.
the point is not to read more, but to try things real-time.
That's the primary reason I don't use tt-rss myself. I switched to Miniflux https://miniflux.net/ and never looked back :D
you need to quickly speed up and take off again for another pass.

In fact, the aircraft always go to max throttle at touchdown, just in case they need to go around for another try. This, as opposed to going to max throttle after realizing there's a problem.
Problem is that vending machines don’t scale. Consider that much of the “tracking” on a site like Amazon.com are to overcome the inherent problems of finding products in such a massive catalog.
You must be kidding. From all appearances they did absolutely nothing except take their entire API down after 8 months.
You can prove that you purchased something by having a receipt. It can be as simple as a unique purchase number. If you pay by some cryptocurrency, you can even prove you own the sending address.
Very astute comment. And lets remember that Musk himself is a big fan of "first principles". By the first principles (fundamentals) of business and finance, it doesn't look very good. But I too sincerely hope that Tesla does succeed.
Is the actual hardware so expensive?
I've heard it's the systems, and increasingly, in them, the software.

So mostly the number bandied around might be just development and for total cost, upkeep costs, divided by the number of airframes.
So losing one isn't so hard, if it's unmanned.
> You can be both skinny and not ripped at the same time.

Of course, the point is there is almost no amount of exercise (8 hours/day in the pool like Phelps maybe) that can make up for a bad diet when it comes to abs. Abs are almost strictly a function of body fat percentage.
Floyd Mayweather-backed cryptocurrency ICO was fraud, SEC says
Yes, it's about the ratio of shareholders you can fool all the time to the ratio of the shareholders you can't fool all the time.
Please fully disclose your work! I was looking into this earlier and found the other post you mentioned. Unfortunately, they stopped following up with RE details on the 5286AC after they got a bunch of CVEs assigned. Was really disappointing.

Either way, thank you! Would you be willing to send me the URL for the firmware? I don't have time to desolder anything at the moment but would love to look at the image.
6 dimensions
Had one of their DVD players with Faroudja processing. Best DVD quality I ever experienced. RIP OPPO, loved your products.
Not only due to cloud; even if you have local bunch of immutable OS instances like CoreOS or RHEL atomic running containers, you don't need a big staff babysitting server OSes.
Why must the search be constrained by dates? If I'm providing a start location, and a budget, I'd like to see options for travel regardless of dates - indeed I'd hope this would allow for more flexibility to stay within the budget.
HN is based around web based work, databases, webservers, load balancing, stuff that can (or does) run in VMs in clouds. If that's stuff that can be automated, then great, you don't need to know the IP, let alone have a hostname.

Most of the general purpose computers (and certainly the vast majority of devices with an IP) I deal with have real world interfaces, SDI ports and/or analog/digital audio connections. I'm not going to give my encoder in Nairobi a name that doesn't say "Nairobi Encoder" (PTR returns NRB-ENC001-obe, forward lookup for NRB-ENC001), same with encoder 2 at New Scotland Yard, and the same with the ntop/monitoring box I have in the New York office. I can't self heal equipment when a lorry drives into it, but I need to know that it's the Old Bailey monitoring box that's broken.
> scoped_ptr which worked just like the one at a certain company. It gives you a few neat things, like the ability to just forward-declare a class inside your .h file and not include the whole thing right there.

But all pointers do this in C++? Why would you need a smart pointer to do this for you?
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches System to Clean Up Space Junk
I think that's an unnecessarily hostile viewpoint. Basically your argument boils down to "some things take longer to do than other things, so there's no point in making things easier/faster/more efficient".

I don't think anyone would argue that since cars are bigger than cell phones, that we should make our cell phones as big as cars (it's incomprehensible to think that cars and cell phones should be different sizes). So why should we use a slower and less efficient payment method just because food takes more time to cook and prepare?

I don't think anyone would argue that since humans can only walk ~3mph, that airplanes should be limited to the same speed (it's incomprehensible to think that airplanes and humans should travel at different speeds). So why should we use a slower and less efficient payment method just because humans walk slower than an airplane flies?

Do you see what I'm getting at here? The speed at which you eat your food does not impact the speed of the payment method you prefer to use. All the payment method impacts is how much stuff you have to carry in your pockets, and how much can be stolen from you at any given moment.
> Shouldn't investors know the truth about their investment?

Don't they? Tesla gave the raw numbers. Investors (should) use those to make up their mind.
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X User Publishes Benchmarks and Overclocking Results
No, statistics aren't useless, but its usefulness cuts both ways: if you can add one or two relevant variables and almost entirely remove the observation, then statistics tells you that the observation was only there due to omitted-variable bias.
That's misleading--you say linalg routines "may be" multithreaded, but the vast majority of them never have been. matmul and einsum, despite being candidates for intrinsic multithreading, are not multithreaded. You can read discussion about that here: https://jackkamm.github.io/blog/a-parallel-einsum/
In case anyone needs a PDF of the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...