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Lateral.io | Full-stack developer | Berlin | On-site

Lateral is an innovative machine learning company based in Berlin. We work with a diverse set of tools to implement our machine learning technology into production systems in large enterprise companies in many languages around the globe. We offer a relaxed working environment that consistently delivers high quality results and the opportunity to join an exciting growing company.

We're looking for an experienced full stack developer with a leaning towards front-end, namely javascript to join our highly technical team to help with our application integrations and interfaces. We integrate directly into our clients existing technologies so there is a lot of interesting work with API integrations, plug-in and extensions development and also custom interfaces.

More info: https://lateral.io/jobs or send me an email to max at lateral.io
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What part of it is not scalable? Storage of history? Supported transaction volume?
> I contribute to Google maps a lot

Oh cool. Will you work for me for free as well? I have a lot for you to do.
Is there any extension that can add the Wishlist feature in my Magento store?
Hi,

I have a Magento store. Last one week I'm searching a module that can add the wishlist or save for later functionality in my store. Any Suggestion?
Hominin head-scratcher: who butchered this rhino 700k years ago?
In the US, the internet is hardly regulated at all. ISPs can legally get away with anything.
It was the macbooks built in microphone:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/128247/why-does...
Conspicuously not mentioned: what kind of design the reactor uses. Thanks engadget, 10/10 reporting.

Based on the wikipedia article, it looks like a passive decay heater attached to a bunch of sterling engines. Pretty much a souped up RTG that trades more energy output for having moving parts. Neat.
Yes: dissolution of ego.
Introducing a nanoMIPS port for Linux
I really like this way of doing 2FA. I worked at my first client that used smart cards and practically speaking it was less annoying than using an RSA token or other generator. Is this overall "cheaper" (hardware cost + implementation) than using hardware token generators? It seems to be a step up from using code generator via SMS, more expensive than say Google Authenticator but can persist phone wipes, and less expensive than other hardware tokens. It's very interesting and seems applicable for corporate applications where you can control what people use to a higher degree.
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Millennials vs. older generations in technology use
Very perceptive. You're hired!
A lot of people are working on that, though. Lightning Network seems like a huge improvement already? Proof of Stake, if it can be made to work, might also scale much better than Proof of Work.
I’m personal friends with many former colleagues. We use Messenger (unencrypted) pretty much exclusively, even when talking job satisfaction and moving to a new job.
This captures the fundamental issues of incentives in this sort of thing. It takes a lot of money to run trials, and regardless of what is said about risk and what participants agree too, anyone suffering an adverse effect has a strong incentive to resort to the legal system.

The FDA system is the only way to get therapies to large numbers of patients. But it isn't the only way to get therapies to patients period, and it has serious flaws. The FDA is risk averse to the point of suppressing progress. The costs have doubled in the last ten years for no good reason.

There is a desperate need for a less heavy handed, more distributed, faster system that favors pace of progress - but all attempts to build it will run into this problem of incentives. The organizations running trials are targets, and people will respond poorly to being struck by risk no matter what they sign or are given to understand up front.

Non-profits may work for low-cost treatments, such as repurposed cheap-to-manufacture compounds from the drug databases (e.g. senolytics), but some types of therapy genuinely do require an organization with tens of millions in the bank to sustain development. How do they proceed if not via the FDA?
At that time when they released, the React Native Android was probably still in a kind of beta state.
“The AWS Formula”: I understand VPCs… I don’t understand VPCs…
Yeah. And there's also a lot of traffic going in Facebook's direction, for example. Hey, let's blackhole that too - and alleviate the stress on our network that comes from people using it. (In non-sarcastic tone: that doesn't make any sense.)
What is LMGTFY?
I think it could do with an extra dimension for eastern Germany, e.g. wages or relative wealth; having low unemployment is good, but if there's a big wage / wealth discrepancy between east and west there's still room for improvement.
Yubico also offers the YubiHSM which is more tailored towards this use case (albeit much more expensive): https://www.yubico.com/product/yubihsm-2/
I run https://www.instantstreetview.com which does 100,000+ 'map loads' per day. The price for these has effectively increased by a factor of 28 ($0.50 -> $14 per 1000), which is completely unsustainable ($1,400 daily!)
It's decentralized for most purposes. It would be very hard for the gov't to revoke any transaction, or to blacklist money you have (except in very specific cases where the stars align and they can list serial numbers to block).

The fact that gov't can print money has roughly the same effect as speculation has on cryptocurrencies
Fuck off MIT next nigger. Cancer is not welcomed anywhere.
Bitcoin is terrible to buying illegal stuff. Now that exchanges have become somewhat legitimate businesses, the authorities can track bitcoins all the way back to the buyers.
> My point being, everyone has something to add regardless of their background. Up or down find people to learn from.

I strongly agree. By being open about this, to can also build team camaraderie.

Also, there are a lot of “experts” that don’t actually know as much as they’d like you to think. The best experts embrace this and work to always learn more.
It's a strange message that one. On one hand, we can totally do raytracing now without any specialized API. Screen space reflection is raytracing, but only on what's visible on screen.
On the other, you can't possibly use raytracing as your only rendering technique for the amount of details in AAA video games. There's a reason we are not doing that now.
New hardware more tailored for that kind of work will help, but don't expect the next GTA (or whatever) to have a full raytracing rendering like you see in those demo. Noticed the tiny size of the scenes?
We'll see what the next generation of consoles brings us - especially since current gen are using AMD hardware and they've been really silent about this DXR announcement.
>ACH and SWIFT are, at their very best, mediocre and sad when technologically compared to blockchain.

Quite the contrary. Modern banking transfer technologies are much better than Bitcoin at what they do. They're orders of magnitude more energy efficient and also much faster than waiting for blockchain confirmation of transactions. Banks are usually quite bad at exposing that functionality to clients but the actual technology beats Bitcoin easily. That's not even surprising. Sending a few messages over the internet and updating a couple of database registers is massively simpler than running a distributed PoW ledger.
People who use other maps or don't use maps at all? Nobody uses a mapping solution just because their friends use that mapping solution.
Perfect scaling is easy: just represent dots on the maps instead of regions, which is way closer to actual raw data. Of course it requires more work, but that's what people are paid for when they collect data.
Neat! Out of curiosity, the YK4 supports PKCS#11 in PIV mode, why use GPG instead of that? I use it for SSH all the time.
For SSL, I believe that OpenSSL has a pkcs11 engine.

https://developers.yubico.com/YubiHSM2/Usage_Guides/OpenSSL_... (for the YubiHSM2, but the YK4 also supports PKCS#11 with OpenSC)

P.S. The color caps on those yubikeys in the photo are cool, are they 3D printed?
I don't have a simple example (and I'm not claiming [some] loops do not have sensible derivatives).

This talk from 27mins onwards discusses some of the issues if you're interested in diving in a bit deeper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhPBfysSYI8 I found it pretty heavy going. YMMV.
That's probably based on average years of experience and average / assumed value to the company? I don't know.
Yes, that's a good point. If you have a certain number of trust points you could use a decentralized ledger to effectively build a banking system where you still get cash out of it.

Suffice to say that this would likely be very against a bunch of KYC money laundering laws, but it's a decent trick
AI fitness tracker? Does what it says or a gimmick?
Spectre-NG 8 New Spectre variants have been reportedly identified
What does "CAP" stand for in this case?
Don't they have spell checker in Virginia?
"Reasearch Areas"
So I signed up to Mapbox, I wonder how the free tier works. I didn't enter any billing details, so what will happen if I reach the 50,000 calls within a month, will it stop working or will I be invoiced later for the calls over 50,000?
If one defines a subset DSL that can be auto differentiated via a symbolic method, then is it really that different? Embedded DSLs are pretty common in the Haskell world anyways.
> which are drawn to contain roughly equal populations

No, the visualization is completely wrong to begin with, because areas with practically population zero like in the northern parts of Scandinavian countries are still comprised of the same regions as their southern neighbors, which makes absolutely no sense and increases their importance area-and-color-wise on the map.
Power Ledger deploys first blockchain-based P2P energy trading system in Chicago
In my country if you are on a dole and the bureau of employment finds a job for you (usually not very nice job) - you have to take it or have a good reason why you can't (health for example). If you don't - you're left on your own.

Also, unemployment benefits end after 6 months no matter what.
I think the general strategy to fight HIV is to try to disrupt one or two key events of the process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS
What gives you such a high degree of confidence to make that statement?
Not many people dare to give a monetary value at this point. What kind of legitimate use case would have the order of magnitude valuation you describe and what is your reasoning behind it?
It is curious. I wonder why non-ionizing radiation causes cancer? Given we are constantly bathing in wifi signals and cellphone signals, I wonder what the effects will be?
Why we're excited about AWS AppSync
Perhaps the ending scene of Thank You For Smoking will start to become a reality instead of fiction.
Is it still? It's a human rights nightmare and I don't think the EU should have anything to do with Turkey while Erdogan is still in power.
Yes. Add to that the environmental impact of proof-of-work as well. Are people still not seeing this? I think the question should be, how is it scalable?
Use the search at the bottom of this page:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=announcing%201111&type=story
Peer to Peer (P2P) Messenger Software
A code generator framework for “controller/service/dao/mybatis/model” layer
Maybe because it excludes people based on their race/sex?

Helping the disadvantaged is a noble goal, but race/sex is a poor proxy for privilege. That program would accept an African queen and exclude an Indian untouchable.
How do you know there is a secure channel to the site? If the certificate doesn’t have to be CA signed, I can produce a certificate for google.com.
@aninhumer, thank you, this was a very insightful post. I often ponder the "perception of value" effect in my workplace and how much influence it has. In addition, for me, it was a realization that accountability requires recorded decision making outcomes and that accountability must be applied consistently across 100% of an organization including the CEO and directors. Because of this realization (and that implementation is highly unlikely to occur due to the requirement that top level decision makers adhere) it was a clarification in why "perception of value" is often more important than evaluating actual value to an organization. Even though an organization may think it's evaluating actual value.
Thinking about it I'm not that surprised - the population is very small, and most people can/do avail of free third-level education.
In my experience, it is much more common that the job centre will refuse to believe those who are seeking work but can’t find it, than that people attempt to defraud the job centre.
It's reaaaaaaally hard to believe he is genuine when the response looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/PCQOo8N.png
So you're saying that with all the investment into crypto-currency development, and a techonology that did not exist in any form 10 years ago, that it is impossible to scale?

You are saying it is impossible to create an improved form of crypto currency that solves scaling? Even with 10's of billions of dollars being invested this year into their development? People are throwing a lot of money at this technology. The stakes are incredibly high. If someone does find a solution and creates a form of crypto currency which can operate at scale and do so for cheap fees, they'll become at least a billionaire.

On top of becoming a billionaire, a crypto currency that was able to transact at scale, securely, for pennies in TX costs would fundamentally change the world.
It definitely slows reading since you have to think about alternatives. I was curious since I’ve noticed that many ML systems produce errors which are different than past systems and many places aren’t expecting that in their quality review process.

For example, I’ve built web systems which display search results using an image overlay so you never see the OCR gremlins but if the failure produces valid words rather than gibberish that means an increase in the false positive rate and can be confusing for the user.
HNers beware.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16879503
Understanding and Writing Compilers: A do-it-yourself guide [pdf]
>restore user confidence

perhaps bliss is a better word
To answer my own question, OMEMO requires the server to support "XEP-0163: Personal Eventing Protocol". XEP-0163 seems to be more or less supported everywhere. It is sort of amusing that it was originally intended for stuff like letting your contacts know what song you are listening too. Now that it is an OMEMO requirement it has for all practical purposes become mandatory.
ELF OpenGo – Facebook Open Source Framework Implementation of AlphaGoZero
Are you basing this on actual data or is that just your opinion? I'm under the impression that for most of history, marriage status was determined by one's age and social status rather than a choice that would allow conclusions about personality traits.
I got hired on by a large corporation (who seemed desperate to make the hire, for reasons I can't fathom) and was placed on a team, I suspect without consulting the tech lead first. The guy seemed to start off with the assumption that I was an idiot and couldn't be trusted to do anything (and also that my presence was an inconvenience and that I wasn't needed).

I think that opinion has slowly begun to change (and the stuff we're doing here isn't hard, at all), but he did a pretty good job of getting me to hate him those first few months on the job, so I've been interviewing.
Because with early development, people on the spectrum could function better in the neurotypical environment, which means more people with ASD can work and need less support later.
> You are saying it is impossible to create an improved form of crypto currency that solves scaling?

No I'm not saying that at all. I'm talking about Blockchain as it currently exists and as the only real solution to decentralised digital money that we have right now.

Who cares how much money is being invested into it? I'll believe a solution when I see it. And I'll welcome it with open arms. But until then it's purely hypothetical.
This is an unrelated yet related question.
I am trying to access apple support, I use at&t. When I go to support.apple.com I get an error message stating : Access Denied.
You do not have permission to access "http://support.apple.com" on this server. And gives me a long reference hash. This is at&t denying me access?
For everyone thinking they are going to be billed for unwanted overuse. You can restrict API access and rate limit the requests.
Really? That's super annoying!
> although you could argue that some are jealous of the bitcoin millionaires I suppose

I would argue that technologists who missed out not only are jealous but feel ashamed since it's "their" area and they should have known. I personally think this is as big driving force as the holders wanting to pump the price. That's why I can't take any side serious.
What's the connection between the rise of malignant brain tumours and mobile phones? It seems like a bit of a jump to conclude that they're connected.
windows is trying that with UWP,they run on a sandboxed environment
wouldn't you just use wix or something like that?
I'm interested in knowing why you think it failed scaling and evolving. SegWit and by extension LN, increased both scaling and was a significant evolution that enables sidechains and interchain transactions.

What became quite obvious was the "scare" with full blocks and expensive transactions was with all likelihood an attack with spam transactions and not an actual issue at this moment. See https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,all for unconfirmed transactions and notice how it doesn't exactly line up with price increases where you would expect more activity. There seems to be some correlation with the entire BCH fork.
> If a significant percentage of users actually exercise this option, that will be the end of Facebook as a significant channel for ad spend. It will decimate revenue.

That's what he meant when he said it will worsen your experience right? :-)
#Schneider Electric Development Tools are affected by a critical buffer flaw
Not very surprising. There's little invective besides familiarity with a location to keep these kinds of conferences in any particular place. So even small problems like these can send them packing.

The attendees are from all over the world anyways. The big selling point is going to be the difference of buying a plane ticket to Canada vs buying one to the US + having to deal with the hassles of US immigration and customs.
Exactly! I just stumbled upon this blog and thought that this is something for HN. Really pleasurable.
Once a potential employer baited me into writing a module that would determine a sentiment from given text and few more things. They liked what I did so they invited me to face 2 face interview. During the interview they had given me a task to integrate my code into their product's API and explain to his developers everything as I went along. I completed the task and their product's API has been enhanced. They thanked me and told me they'll give me a feedback in few days. After a week I got an email from them saying I am great, but I wouldn't be good cultural fit. Out of curiosity I checked their API month or so later and they had my code in production (or whatever left from what I did).
Have I got scammed?
TLDR: Overhaul H1b L1 visas. Replace work restrictions with 6yr temp Green Cards equivalent EAD (work authorization).

Here's how I think the offshoring model works with many of these companies:

1) US company wants to get rid of its aging workforce (benefits costs will be too high, due to rising insurnace costs)
2) US (IBM, Accenture, HP etc) and Indian (Infosys, TCS etc) outsourcing companies bid on a project, get trained as replacements, jobs get offshored.
3) Quality complaints and rising costs of offshoring/outsourcing makes the company end the contract, and start hiring younger employees.
4) Profit! Firing / Laying off older employees in the US companies is not easy. But taking this route, the employer gets to wash hands off from the rising costs issue.

This problem with tech workers paid low is because:
- Healthcare and Insurance is broken in the US (it works for those who are healthy and are in a company with younger workforce)
- H1b is basically a high tech indentured labor visa: If an employer is willing, the employee on H1b can be treated as such (no job mobility, no hikes, no option to even raise a voice against something going wrong). Fortunately, those on H1b visa as employees of actual companies (not outsourcing firms), they are treated much better, and it doesn't feel like indentured labor.

Solution?
Turn H1b, L1 and F1 OPT into time limited Green Card equivalents EADs:
- An international student graduating with a degree gets a 3 yr green card equivalent work authorization
- Once the student green card expires, give them a 6 yr green card (instead of an h1b). At the end of 6 yrs, if the employee has not been sponsored for an employment based permanent green card, he/she has to leave.
- No limits on the number of these green cards available.
- No H1b or L1 visa work restrictions. H1 and L1 dependents can work with a similar EAD.

How will this work?
- Giving true job mobility and freedom to switch jobs at any time, without giving the employer any hold in the immigration process, helps bump up the wages for the employees (US citizens or those on 3yr temp green card).
- Employee has no fear of job loss / retribution from employer.
- Employer has to pay at market or above market salaries. Or else employee will jump ship.
- This will automatically regulate the number of jobs that get outsourced to teams/companies that genuinely address the problem if inefficiencies, and immediately create a penalty for those companies that are body shops running on indentured labor.
- Having H1 and L1 dependents be able to work (with the new green card equivalent EAD), enables the primary visa holder to risk it and start a new venture.

About me: I came to the US on F1, worked on OPT, got H1. now sick of the US immigration system, I'm moving to Canada soon! :D
Not directly related to your personal anecdote, but a confident feeling of "I know better" is the easy part; actually stepping in and doing something about what you think you know better is hard. Because most of the time, while you might think you know better, stepping in and replacing the CEO for example is a career path you don't actually want to do.

So yes, being cynical about stuff, especially bullshit from the higher-ups, is perfectly normal and such, but unless you actually step in and fix things it's wasted cynicism / anger / energy.

(source: I'm cynical all the time but don't envy the person saying the things)
Solve it with a For loop and it's immediate interview fail.
The solutions should be optimal. /S
Privacy problem solved!
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I'm pretty sure I can have the same output as a chess grand master, even though I haven't played it in decades.
This is how the BLS U3 statistic is arrived at. The U3 is the federal-level unemployment figure that is most commonly pointed to.

The U3 specifically does not include discouraged workers, those who are underemployed, or those who simply aren't looking.

As long as we are comparing apples to apples (i.e., these figures are all indicative of the same basic data with the same restrictions), there's no issue comparing them.
Maybe the paper addresses this, but don't most people hold the phone predominantly on one side or the other? Wouldn't the locations of the tumors be more on that side of the brain? And wouldn't that provide some pretty good support for the association?
> The young are embracing crypto-currencies.

Are they actually using it to make payments or just HODL?
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