skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the reason why I (can't speak for others) went from a super strict traffic law observer to "slow and roll through stop signs if nobody is there" on a bike isn't just the momentum conservation, which I agree is one of the big factors, but think about this: do you really think that drivers would make a full stop, as much as they do now, if suddenly they wouldn't have access to freeways and other high speed roads with no/synchronized/very few intersections and instead would be forced to take residential roads full of stops? This factor is easy to miss for most drivers, but they can do this experiment on themselves, change their commute route to only include very low traffic (ie "safe") roads, and take that route every day, every week for a few months (it was a slow "grinding" process). Let's see then if they still continue to make a full stop as before for every one of those 20 new full STOP intersections...
Arm Targets Laptop Performance
Apropos of nothing much... This seems to have the first use of the phrase "oligarchic subsidization". At least the only one that's currently coming up from Google for me.
If anyone else were constantly writing one-sided articles on a product or company, with referral links in their signature, they'd be down-voted like crazy. Yet Electrek repeatedly makes the front page.
> currently the LAW is to STOP but instead people roll cause they feel they can get away with it, when the LAW is to ROLL they will start to blow through it (many already do anyway)...

Slippery slope...
Helmets do seem to be at least somewhat of a cultural thing. I recently returned from a trip to both Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

Essentially no one who isn't a young child wears a helmet in Amsterdam. (And often not even them. You see small kids propped up on handlebars all the time.)

In Central Copenhagen on the other hand, which would seem to have almost as good biking infrastructure as Amsterdam, a lot of people do wear helmets. It's still the minority--maybe 25%--but it's definitely not at all unusual.
One thing I always dislike about julia is the .+ .* .< ... all those dots for element-wise operations. It is inherited from Matlab, but is a bad design because more common usage should have shorter operators.
Somewhat related:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
How about EichScript?
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Fraight is an early stage, ambitious logistics technology company. We write software that coordinates truck shipments. We are working on challenging, real world problems that require unconventional interdisciplinary thinking. Our goal is to revolutionize the logistics industry through automation and AI to reduce the cost of transporting freight and to eliminate waste.

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Interestingly, "literally" itself was likely exactly such a contortion to deal with the fact that "really" became an intensifier when before it meant that the manner of something was, you know, real.
Writes someone who has obviously never menstruated
Any thoughts why a system like Eagle Cash[1] couldn't be used more generally? Obviously this particular design is stored value, but that's just a limit the chip is tracking, there's no particular reason it couldn't be based on your credit limit.

[1] https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsservices/gov/pmt/eagleCash...
Wellth | Lead Engineer | Venice, CA | Onsite / Remote | Full-time

Wellth (https://wellthapp.com/) helps patients stay healthy after they leave the hospital by rewarding them for taking their medications and taking good care of themselves. We're funded by large insurers and healthcare VCs, and our mobile apps have shown great results in clinical populations with diabetes, heart failure, or heart attack discharges. We love hearing from our users how the app has changed their lives for the better!

We're based in Brooklyn currently, but moving part of the team to the Los Angeles area (probably Venice or Santa Monica) in a few months. We're looking for a great Lead Engineer who can contribute to all areas of our stack, mentor junior developers, and help whip our engineering processes into even better shape in tandem with our CTO. Looking to hire anytime in the next few months, with the possibility of starting remote until we move to LA.

We're React Native for our mobile apps (iOS and Android), React for our admin dashboard, with Apollo and GraphQL for both, connected to a Node.js backend with Postgres / Postgraphile, deployed to a HIPAA-compliant PaaS. The current product team is two mobile engineers, one web engineer, a designer, and the CTO who does back-end and AI work.

Come help us build awesome, engaging applications that help patients stay healthy and lower the healthcare cost burden in the US!

Apply at https://angel.co/wellth/jobs/368903-lead-engineer, or email alec@wellthapp.com
In an ideal world, we wouldn't call it anything.
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Interdax is building a 3rd generation digital asset exchange. Our engineering team comes from top HFTs and exchanges like Nasdaq and NYSE, as well as from well known firms in the blockchain space.

We are self-funded and we have a promising prototype with unparalleled performance. Our matching engine can process a whole busy day of trading (24h in other crypto exchanges) in less than 30 seconds. Now seeking world-class Blockchain and Security engineers for auditing and testing the platform.
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Ask HN: Execs and Management, when did you last write code for your company?
Ha. Compared to evolution's treatment of human female reproduction, you have to be kidding. Giving birth is extremely dangerous and painful. Being pregnant itself takes 9 months and generally to have one only one child who takes 20 years (in modern culture, younger naturally) to be independent. Compare this to other mammals such as dogs/cats, who are pregnant for shorter, have multiple children, they mature within a year, and birth is way more effortless.
I suspect you could(n't) care less.
Messari | Software Engineer | NYC | Full-time | ONSITE | 105-175k + equity DOE

Messari is a venture-backed startup building open data for cryptoassets. Our mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making within this emerging ecosystem by building a free, global, and open-source data library for cryptoasset projects.

We think crypto is great, but there are way too many scams. We want to give investors the tools to separate the wheat from the chaff.

We are looking for a few talented developers:

- Infrastructure engineers to help design, architect, and build our scalable data systems. Experience working with blockchain data is great, but this will be a boring old low-latency, high capacity centralized database for the foreseeable future

- Smart contract developers to help build our TCR in Solidity

- Front-end and full stack engineers to manage the site

This is the ideal opportunity for a talented engineer who is interested in crypto, but turned off by some of the excesses in the industry. We are an experienced, mission driven team looking to drive the asset class forward. Our team has a mix of startup and institutional experience at Microsoft, Palantir, Bloomberg, Tower Research, Digital Currency Group, Coindesk, JP Morgan, S&P, and the SEC.

Please send your resume and a quick note introducing yourself to hector@messari.io

angel.co/messari/jobs
Hey people I suggest revolut.com

Make it an alternative it deserve!
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Scribd is a reading subscription that gives you access to the best books, audiobooks, magazines, and more. Our mission is to re-imagine the way the world reads. We are one of the oldest YC startups (YC ’06), operating one of the largest Ruby on Rails sites.

We're looking for senior software engineers (4+ years of experience) or engineering managers that want to work on one of those areas:

* The core Ruby on Rails application that powers the experience of millions of users every day (backend or full stack)

* Building the world's best recommendation engine for books (machine learning in Spark using Scala)

* Data engineering and tooling around our pipelines

* Our search infrastructure (Elasticsearch, Spark, and Go)

* Internal tools that glue together all of the moving parts

We are a small team which means you can have a ton of impact and bring in your own ideas. Scribd has a very friendly, engineering-driven company culture with great perks for employees. We are ambitious but at the same time we value a good work life balance. In general we care way more about your personality and hacking skills than what languages you've used so far. We have hired a bunch of people from these threads, including myself. If you have any questions you can reach out to me directly at nikos at scribd.com or better yet apply directly at https://www.scribd.com/about/engineering
Is there a blog post or something that kind of gives an overview on why JWZ hates HN? I'm really curious to learn about the animosity.
its a good practice. This week, our town had a algae based toxin problem with their water. They sent out emergency alerts via text, email, the school district callouts, etc. I got texts forwarded from 8 friends/family.

Everyone referred you to the city's home page. The site buckled under the load, and was completely unresponsive for hours. If it was a more urgent emergency, the lack of information could have led to people being harmed.

I was hoping they would switch to a less dynamic site for alert pages, perhaps use a CDN or edge proxy like cloudflare, etc. But no, it appears demand just died off, and they are still doing the same thing. They just put out info on where you can go to national guard filling stations to fill up water bottles, and their home made .net based website is back to taking 10 seconds to render the home page.
Writing (almost) garbage free Java using Pronghorn (an alternative to Akka)
> The system root contains all files in the system.

Note that, strictly speaking, this is a misconception. The root file system is the one which is at the root of the hierarchy of mounted file systems.

Even the notion of something being (or not being) "in the system" can be misleading, because today's systems, including storage devices, can be distributed in various ways.
Wow. I remember when Elie and Holden started Givewell they made a huge deal about taking $70k/yr in salary.

https://issarice.com/givewell-executive-compensation

> From 2008–2014, their salary doubled from $60,000 to $120,000

> At the June 2015 GiveWell board meeting, Holden and Elie proposed a salary increase from $130,000 to $150,000

> At the June 2016 GiveWell board meeting, Holden and Elie proposed a salary increase from $150,000 to $175,000

> At the June 2017 GiveWell board meeting, Elie proposed a salary increase from $175,000 to $200,000. The proposal was approved.
SEEKING WORK - NYC, mostly remote preferred, but open to travel for larger projects, major meetings, etc.
I'm a senior iOS developer with experience as a product manager and startup founder.

Since 2010, I've built, launched, grown, and supported many dozens of complex native iPad and iPhone apps, and worked on mobile app projects with everyone from tiny startups to design shops to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies.

I have deep experience with Objective-C and Swift, as well as backend experience with LAMP (esp Laravel, WP, and others), Firebase, and Parse.

MOST importantly, I have real-world, personal experience in making sure that money spent = business results, not just reinventing the wheel with the latest developer-hyped obsessions (I love shiny toys too, but only when they support the business goals).

I focus on two things these days:

1. Long-term maintenance and support of mobile apps, both enterprise and consumer-facing. Ensuring everything stays up-to-date with OS changes, fixing bugs, adding new features, doing redesigns, and generally making sure that your investment in an app pays off in the long run. Discounts for multiple apps, agencies (who want to resell this to their clients), and non-profits. We cover Android and hybrid apps as well.

2. Building MVP mobile apps for startups. I help startups go from a great idea to having a polished app in the hands of their users as fast as possible. So if you have a broad concept and you need someone who understands the entire product development / startup funding / business growth lifecycle and how to get things done within those constraints, I'm an excellent fit.

I'd love the opportunity to work with you if things are a good fit!

You can reach me at ryan@mobileCTO.io or text me at 650-646-3914
Its a good book, with some useful insights, some interesting vignettes from the author's well lived life. He comes across as someone who genuinely wants to help others by teaching the system he developed - which he obviously regards as a key to his success and happiness. I don't see why being a billionaire should make him reticent to do this.
Security Needs a Quantum Leap – EE Times
Well beyond that, Military and Global Geopolitical research is a massive discipline that is studied most intensely by the Military itself.

Just like most disciplines, it's not possible to get even a basic understanding of this issue with only a year or two of study.
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Work in Pittsburgh, Pa!

Sophos is looking for experienced Linux Kernel Developers to join our Network Security Group in Cranberry Township. You will be developing industry leading Firewall, SG UTM, Secure Wi-Fi, and Secure Web Gateway products for the small companies that cannot afford a huge IT staff to keep them secure 24/7

Main Duties
Develop, enhance and maintain Linux network drivers. This may include drivers that support SR-IOV, virtio and DPDK-poll mode, as well as PF and VF interfaces.
Participate in design and code reviews.
Diagnose and correct functional and performance problems in kernel components.
Developing and running unit tests. Proactively addressing problems found.
Fixing bugs and regression testing during product release cycles
Track developments in the Linux kernel, particularly high performance networking, and participate in the Linux community. Be responsible for upstreaming drivers, other modules or patches to the Linux or other Open Source communities.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/about-us/careers/united-states/...

To apply, please send resume to: NA.Careers@sophos.com
Computer Science Programs to Increase in Hawaii Schools – Hawaii News – US News
I've seen it as, 80% of women pass on their genes, but only 40% of men. (I assume that's no longer true today)
Servo components are being uplifted into Gecko gradually. There's less benefit to rewriting the JIT in Rust because static type systems can only do so much when the whole goal of a program is to generate code dynamically.
Ask HN: Does random number generation have any applications in investing?
Researchers Develop Battery-Free Smart Toys for Kids – Design News
Since it only includes a link and summary, no value added, why not submit original link?
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/06/removing-trending/
I GNU what you did there.
Jane | Santa Cruz, CA | Onsite | https://www.iheartjane.com

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Here are our open roles:

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Tech Stack: Backend: Ruby on Rails
Frontend: ReactJS
That works for a while and but after the first few cycles the really bad performers are gone and you have to play games to have something you can fire next time.
For charities, a pertinent question is: Why should I donate money to someone who takes home more money than I do? Why isn't he donating?
Two winners announced for “Nobel Prize” of robotics
On Jump bikes at least, the pedal is practically a gas pedal. I never came close to putting any effort even on 10+% hills in SF.
It just goes to show how anyone can use math + the wrong assumptions to come to the conclusions they already had.

Garbage in, garbage out.
If you only stock 3 meals at once, you have a much more likely problem on your hands: natural disasters.
If I elect politicians who are likely to trade away list A then that indicates I either don't value list A so highly after all, or that the politicians are liars. I don't see how your system solves the latter problem - either way the solution is to not vote for politicians after they have proven themselves liars.

It seems to me that in FPTP you end up with both parties trying to calculate the absolute minimum they have to promise to their base in order to get just enough of their vote to win the election by 50%+1. And, after the election, trying to calculate what is the minimum amount of promises they have to keep, without depressing voter enthusiasm so much that they lose the next election. (The Democrats seem especially bad about this, and I say this as someone who votes Democratic and volunteers for Democratic causes and candidates.)

In others words in FPTP you have politicians trying to figure what is the bare minimum they have to do in order to not get fired. These are perverse incentives, and they do not tend to attract the sort of person I want to vote for.

Ranked choice voting seems to go a long way toward addressing this: I simply rank candidates in the order that they match my preferences, perhaps also accounting for their perceived trustworthiness as well. And, more or less, the candidate who best matches the aggregated preferences of the voters will win.
If you want to talk about external testicles in mammals you should mention elephants. Did you ever see an elephant ball sack? Yes? Then you're a liar, 'cause they don't have one.

Elephants have internal testicles, which seems proof enough that any utilitarian explanation about why it's necessary or useful is flawed. Many, or most evolution features are just accidents. Anything that "kind of works" is good enough for evolution.

Truest part of the article:

> Far too often we repeat refrains like “Well, it must do something important or natural selection would have eliminated it,” or “Living things are perfectly suited for their habitats,” or “Evolution doesn’t tolerate inefficiency.” We haven’t really moved on from the creationist mindset that expects to see perfection in nature.
Some of the hate comes from cyclists who now have to contend with scooters weaving around the bike lane, and from pedestrians that have to contend with 15 mph scooters on the sidewalk.

The author outlined the problem with sharing the roads with bikes:

Scooters accelerate out of a stop faster than bicycles, but the top speed of most scooters is below that of all but the slowest bikes. So if you come out of a stop next to a cyclist, you immediately lurch forward and pass them, only to watch them pass you five seconds later. And it is annoying to pass someone in the bike lane.
Also, not all animals have periods:

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women-have-periods-What-is-the-...
>Some of the day’s dilemmas revealed vulnerabilities that are hardwired into the American system. Some private hospitals, for instance, turned away Clade X patients in order to protect their shareholders. (By the end of the simulation, American health care had been forcibly nationalized.)

GL HF with that. What really would have happened is that the government does what it always does: throw money at the problem. Every hospital gets x dollars to prepare or gets x dollars per confirmed diagnosis. Change like that never happens during a crisis, always after.
>For example, one of the major burdens on small businesses is the cost of producing the data the company has on you -- but there is a simple way to fix that. Require the requester to pay the cost of collecting the information, similar to FOIA requests in the US. Then the requirement is no longer an unfunded mandate and can't be used by griefers as a method of harassment.

If you can't cheaply and quickly respond to a subject access request, then you're probably breaching several other parts of GDPR. How would you respond to a deletion request under Article 17, a restriction of processing request under Article 18, a portability request under Article 20 or an objection under Article 21?

Compliance with all of those requirements necessitates clear documentation of how you're processing personal data. If you don't have that documentation, how can you comply with the stewardship and security requirements of Articles 24, 25 and 32? How will you comply with the record-keeping requirements of Article 30 and the impact assessment requirements of Article 35? If you have a data breach, how will you be able to properly fulfil your notification requirements under Articles 33 and 34? How can you be confident that you're abiding by the general principles laid out in Chapter 2?

Processing personal data is a serious responsibility with potentially grave risks. If you have been taking that responsibility seriously (and been in compliance with the 1995 Data Protection Directive), then complying with the GDPR is relatively straightforward. If you just copy-pasted a privacy policy and gave no real thought to data protection while hoovering up tons of potentially sensitive personal data, then compliance will be a painful and expensive process.

Being a small business doesn't give you the right to be negligent. Not under the GDPR and not under any of the other laws governing businesses. If you don't have the expertise to comply with data protection law, you need to delegate those tasks to someone who is suitably qualified. If the scale and complexity of your processing activities makes compliance impossible, then the EU would very much prefer that you find a different business model or stop doing business with their citizens.
They are probably using semiconductor units (with lasers "solid-state" usually refers to non-semiconductor solid lasers, such as ruby lasers). My point with HeNe lasers was that having variations in the cavity length is not a problem for lasing.
”Reverse Engineering Binary Applications – Lafarge2 Walkthrough” [video]
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OPEN SOURCE SELF DRIVING CAR
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Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React)

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Hey Alexa: Amazon’s virtual assistant becomes a personal assistant to developers