skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, sorry—there's randomness in what gets upvoted and the order we happen to see things in. The best current answer for this is "keep posting good things and it evens out in the long run". But we're working on some ideas about how to link related submissions and distribute karma more fairly. It's not that the karma matters so much, but I do think that rewarding earlier submitters would incentivize the most valuable behavior on HN, which is to find good stories that haven't been posted yet and post them.
Having read waaaay too many books about the development of the atomic bomb, I have to say that my favorite is Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Davis. It tells the story of two strong willed scientists, the competing methods that they were pushing for isotope separation, and how the intersection of personality, science & engineering, and the political/bureaucratic jockeying that's part of any large project played out.
> the pain associated with getting hit in these all-important reproductive organs is so severe that he will go to great lengths to avoid it and protect them

Too bad we're so soft-headed that we spend our formative years doing our best to hit each other in the testicles as much as possible!
DHS found evidence of cell phone spying near White House
But what is the price difference between an Optane module and the equivalent size of RAM?
You can do that very easily, and also use raw regex for more flexibility
Well, there is the ability to write something along the lines of https://github.com/nbp/holyjit :)
I have the same question but just to know what a "Blockchain Engineer" does.
Currently? Correct, hence I'm referring to a network properly scaling in the future. Ethereum currently has difficulties processing a image-based cat game, nevermind actual transactions.
Facebook decides. It's in their announcement post.
Curious, do credit card companies provide SLA's?

If you lose x% of sales on a day due to customers not having alternative forms of payment... is there anything a merchant can do to recoup their losses?
Juvo, Inc. | Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Juvo builds financial services for millions of underbanked people around the world. We partner with mobile operators in emerging markets to provide shop and lending applications for prepaid cell phone users on the carrier's network. As users purchase or borrow mobile credit, they unlock access to higher value products in our marketplace and improve their credit rating. Juvo recently completed a $40 million Series B funding round from top-tier VCs including NEA, Wing Venture, and Freestyle Capital.

Our tech stack is Ruby on Rails (Backend), Java (Android), Swift (iOS), Python, Java & Apache Spark (Data). We are deployed globally in Amazon Web Services, with an infrastructure managed by Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

This month’s featured job opening that we are especially excited about:

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GitLab here we come...
Only a Third of Consumers Opting in to GDPR Compliance
You think war between major powers is obsolete? That's naive at best and completely ignores how volatile the world is. Tiny countries do not exist in a vacuum, there are layers of resources and allies and other political ties that can move entire regions into conflict. Also yes, small countries are developing nukes themselves and I fail to see why you just brush over that threat? Are nukes not real or somehow guaranteed to never be used?

AI, which is the topic here, changes that dynamic completely, and with drones and cyber warfare there is no need for world-ending firepower when you can just shutdown leadership and modern society instead.

And yes, I want the country that I'm a citizen of to stay both free, powerful and wealthy. The point is that we are on a path to building wartime capabilities that will put one country far ahead of everyone else, and I absolute want that to be my country. I would think you would want that for yours as well.
Why can't the scooter companies design locking docks that also allow the scooters to be charged while locked in them? The locking docks is obviously already solved; modifying the scoots to lock the batteries in and charge them while locked seems pretty simple (I mean, we've had dock and charge tech for all sorts of things for many decades...).

Seems like a relatively simple problem to solve (sure, still a few months of dev time with several months of manufacturing lag, but you'll do it if it's central to your business).
This is so untrue. I just looked it up, and costs aren't that much different than they were when I graduated in 2006: https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tabl...

Looks like the median for tuition and fees at state 4-year schools is around $10k. My contention: if you can make ~$15k per year, you can put yourself through school.

First, you can start at community college, which is very cheap in most states. And many states have a deal where you are guaranteed admission and transfer to the 4-year system if you get good grades at community college. So that'll save you some money.

Second, many states (and possibly the Federal government) offer grants to help defray these costs. You can also apply to tons of private scholarships.

Third, you can live very frugally in terms of lodging and food. Not fun, but doable.

Fourth, you can take out a little bit in loans. If you take out $5k / year in loans, you'll have $20k at graduation. Hardly crippling.

I actually did this, though I also had the GI Bill so I didn't have to do the loans part, so don't tell me it's not possible. It's not easy or fun, and I'm not saying we can't improve it, but today's students are hardly totally screwed.
Domo, a $2B Utah startup, filed for an IPO
But really, just because the extremely autocratic CCP decides to concentrate power, doesn't mean that that's your only option.
Now Fighting for Top Tech Talent: Makers of Turbines, Tools and Toyotas
Not fake. My report authoring process includes a live updating PDF preview in an Emacs sidebar.

However, this graphics stuff is still bolted onto a core engine that treats everything as a text terminal.
I have found that anything put out by Robert X. Cringely is worthwhile.
There's also the possibility that the human male who is less prone to aggression and warfare is the most adept at warfare.

An interesting parallel would be Starcraft AI. It excels at micro, but fails at macro, like tricking the opponent into building the wrong units.
In addition to the sentinel/in-band replies, they also put properties on that symbol: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/81b5131e11fa96d32...
( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sy... )
Becoming a dramatically better programmer
No matter how much money Alphabet has lying around, 6B is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on credibility. They are confident in their product and confident in return of their investment. Tesla is doing a great job at screwing up public perception on self-driving cars, when it itself is not a self-driving car (it's a glorified driver assist).
The rest of the world though? Especially in contrast ...
>“It is easy to imagine, for example, that someone invested simply because a friend suggested it, or because all that percolated down the grapevine was vague insight that Theranos was a fast-growing company, or had promising (but unspecified) technology,”

How would it ever be possible to convict anyone on these grounds, period? Even if I had the fraudulent claims in my internet history I wouldn't be able to prove that they were specifically what misled me. This precedent sounds like a blanket license to lie to investors through any channels other than official communications.
AppNeta | Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Full-Stack Developer, SRE, Engineering Manager, Technical Account Manager | Vancouver, BC | Full-Time, On-Site, https://www.appneta.com/ We help IT and Operations have peace-of-mind when it comes to their applications and infrastructure by offering comprehensive monitoring and forensics of network behaviours and application preformance. More info about the open positions on the careers page: https://www.appneta.com/about/careers/
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Amperity | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | Full-time Amperity is hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

- Ingesting and cleaning large amounts of data daily and blending it with real-time events

- Automatically stitching data together across disparate systems by training machine-learning models to build a probabilistic knowledge graph

- Taking research algorithms and productionizing them for high-scale usage

- Allowing users to perform complex, real-time queries across an aggregated view of their data

- Publishing query result data to a diverse set of systems for client usage

We're using Clojure/ClojureScript and all the modern big data tech goodies you'd expect of a 2-year-old company.

Apply at https://amperity.com/careers/ or reach out to me directly with questions. My email prefix matches my HN handle.
Privacy Labs|iOS Engineer|Seattle,WA|Onsite

We believe the internet has changed because of the proliferation of cloud services that commoditize personal data. Companies masquerade "free" services in exchange for something quite valuable: collecting and storing user data like emails, contacts, purchases, travel and browsing history.

At Privacy Labs, we are building a different future. We are on the verge of a new computing revolution - one that puts the user and their data first by decentralizing the net.

The Role

We are looking for an iOS engineer who wants to make an impact in consumer privacy and security by bringing passion for the problem and expertise to the team. As a key partner in our endeavor, you will be someone with an owner's mindset; someone looking to take on everything from owning a specific feature to looking for creative ways to improve the product as a whole. This role reports directly to the CTO.

While we aren't publicly disclosing details right now, we can say that it's strategically central to the company and is going to change how we think about where we store our data and how we access it.

Interested? Apply here https://privacylabs.workable.com/jobs/626649
Saw my first Waymo Van on Wednesday morning as I was leaving Phoenix, AZ. It drove phenomenally better than my relatives at the reunion.
I do all my day to day in-person payments in cash, yet all my assets would be just as vulnerable to that kind of attack as those of a completely cashless person.
You can get a nice two bedroom within walking distance of Tencent's global HQ in Shenzhen for around $950 per month.

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Cashback is very US thing though, so using cash in Germany won't deprive you from that. There are some companies offering modest cashback in Europe too, but in my experience their cards are rarely accepted anywhere. Which is fine by me, I'd rather have lower prices to start with.
I am not able to click on this due to having facebook blocked at my router, but the original link worked.
Is it? Were males not the primary fighters? Men are more built for combat (higher testosterone, more muscle mass, endurance etc.).
Philadelphia Shipyard Struggles to Survive on Order Drought
Are there numbers down? Stocks up 20%-ish since the deleteFacebook movement.
BlockFi | NYC | Software Engineers | ONSITE | Full-Time | https://blockfi.com/

BlockFi is an engineering-centric fintech company building bridges between fiat and crypto currencies. Our mission is to bring liquidity to digital assets and create engaging, performant products meeting the demands of individuals and institutions that hold crypto assets. We are venture-backed startup backed by ConsenSys Ventures, Kenetic Capital, and others.

We’re language agnostic. Our backend is micro service oriented and containerized using Docker. Our main stack includes AWS, Lambda, PostgreSQL, Redis, GoLang, Python, TypeScript, React/Redux, Jupyter Notebook. We believe in owning our own truth and as such run Ethereum and Bitcoin full nodes. For our blockchain development and decentralized products, we use Solidity, Web3, and Truffle.

We are R&D focused at BlockFi and do weekly lunch and learns on any topic related to blockchain or crypto. Our team along with our stack is organized as a mesh network enabling decentralized learning and tech development. We are looking for a senior front-end developer to take ownership our upcoming login experience. If this sounds like a place you want to work, feel free to reach me at chao at blockfi dot com
I can confirm that it originated in TENEX. TENEX was the first operating system that DEC did for the PDP 10 architecture (a follow on to the PDP 6 architecture). Prior to that, on the PDP 8, PDP-12, and PDP-11 the various operating systems used user identification codes (UICs) and while [0, 0] was special it wasn't named. It was the UIC reserved for the Operator.

TENEX introduced the notion that non-Operators could be empowered to do Operator type things (like load tapes, mount and unmount file systems, Etc.) and to do that they added privilege bits. These bits were associated with UICs and the bit that enabled Operator privileges was called the 'Wheel' bit. (anecdotally the 'big wheel')

UNIX, which was developed in places where there was also a large DEC presence, used group membership like DEC applied privilege bits. The group for people with operator privileges was naturally "wheel" based on the history.
The Scandinavian countries have voting systems that are approximately proportional in the core. Then they use those leveling seats to fix the sub-5% differences in the vote proportions and the seats. But that's just a small correction if we are comparing voting systems that are not proportional in their design at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_meth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method
I imagine it might be easier than you are thinking. I think it’s mostly a matter of mounting all the sensors (camera, lidar, laser), securing the main computer(s) somewhere, routing between everything. For the electronics I think most(all) modern cars are electronically steered so inserting your computer into the steering is probably straightforward. To get and control most of the other auxillary features it might be enough to insert yourself on the CAN bus?

I’m sure there are a lot of details in the above, and a lot of stuff I’m missing, but I’m not convinced it’s something a group of good engineers couldn’t do in a few months or a year. Certainly not something that is not even on the horizon for most companies.
Kira Systems | Clojure and Go Developers | Toronto | ONSITE | VISA | https://kirasystems.com/careers

We build machine learning powered applications to help law firms, audit firms, and corporations review and understand contracts. As one of the fastest growing companies in this space, we're looking to hire a great many new developers to work in our HQ in Toronto.

Our existing technology stack is built on Clojure, ClojureScript, and C++. Recently, we've also introduce Go to handle some of the more performance sensitive parts of our code, particularly around infrastructure and machine learning. If any of these technologies interests you please apply, we welcome people of all skill levels.

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Go: https://kirasystems.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk01uxa/
>> They are fucking HUGE

Then you wouldn't like the "crows" near my house:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C8cVvmw3vGI/VYdRFu0_VSI/AAAAAAAADf...
Jobcase | Boston/Cambridge MA | onsite | full time (sorry no interns) | https://www.jobcase.com/about_us

Jobcase runs a set of job boards and a professional social network focused on the almost 3/4 of the country that doesn't have a four-year college degree. We're growing quickly, with 80MM registered members, and are mostly self-funded to 120+ employees, so we're highly focused on data-driven decisions and making smart capacity investments for the future. We're one of Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work (again!).

Recruiting for multiple roles, especially:

Platform engineer - Build all our core systems (including interesting architecture/scaling problems), working on a well-documented code base in a team with a strong review culture and very clear communications. We use a Java/Hibernate stack; happy to get applications from people with experience in comparable technologies.

Engineering manager (front-end focus) - Lead a front-end engineering team working on member and employer applications (mostly in Ruby on Rails). Collaborate with product management and customer success teams, improve our development process, and build the careers and knowledge of your team of engineers.

Front-end engineer (especially principal/senior level) - Build all our member-facing applications including Jobcase.com, working mostly in Ruby on Rails. Drive the member experience for acquisition and social network features, working closely with product management and design/UX.

Quantitative data analyst - Own a slice of our business metrics and drive member acquisition and engagement. Send email/SMS communications, work with engineering to build new flows and features, and come up with experiments to optimize the member experience.

Data science / machine learning / information retrieval (experienced) - Help our members find relevant advice and jobs, and our colleagues make good decisions. Have a direct impact on revenue and on engagement, working with a team that's making major optimizations for our members and with colleagues who are uniformly data-savvy.

Interview process is a phone screen, then onsite interviews, with onsite design exercise and/or take-home coding/analysis exercise. Happy to answer questions, jberk at jobcase.com - my team works pretty closely with all of those teams.

http://www.jobcase.com/locations/4Od3KKqq7pBUVSLdOt5YCwfo/nz...
Anecdote, but if you hang out in the central/outer sunset neighborhood in SF, you will see this behavior. Tons of stop signs with limited access to thoroughfares in a quiet low-traffic neighborhood. I would say well over 25% of cars do rolling stops, and every now and then you will see a driver that doesn't even bother stopping.
Bad phrasing on my part. I meant that the alternatives you presented—escalate an endless arms race or perish—cannot be the only ones. The point Meditations on Moloch ultimately makes is that we must be able to do better than the eternal race to the bottom that Moloch represents.
Fewer and Faster acquires Speaker Deck from GitHub
There are subsets of creationists. One being that all natural beings came directly from the creator with no evolution (typically young earth), and the kind you mention where something was created by design and further evolved.
In my opinion, a good indicator of pro "content creator" video is usually all capital letters/multiple question&exclamation marks in the title.

You can setup this matching quite easily with regex
+1 for SEPA ICT. Once that's rolled out everywhere it is really going to challenge the established online payment systems in Europe. Last time I bought something in an Austrian online shop it offered me the "eps" option which redirected me to my own onlinebanking portal after logging in the payment had only to be confrirmed with a tan and the payment confirmation from the vendor was instant.

Basically the same flow as paying with paypal but completely through my own bank
Do we really believe large Chinese tech companies will be complying with GDPR?
Fair enough, I can't say I don't wish he kept it.

That said given moot's nonexistent proficiency in PHP, he probably had enough things on his plate just keeping the site running, I can't imagine integrating recaptcha in the world4ch codebase would have been very fun..
The creators of Julia have been focusing on technical, numerical, scientific computing first, however, the language was always intended to also be a good general purpose programming language (which it is) [I was lucky enough to attend Jeff Bezanson's Ph.D. thesis defense at M.I.T. 3 years ago - and was able to ask him that question there].
I used to be a full-time C/C++ programmer, focused on performance of large systems, however, since learning Julia I haven't had to go back to writing C or C++ even once in over 3 years, since I can write even the sort of low-level code I typically do in Julia, faster and easier than in other languages, and get the same performance.
Nearly everything that successfully coordinates large groups of people has 'cultish' aspects.

The trick is to recognize when such patterns of intense synchronization are beneficial, and when they are abusive.
Cheaters never lose, and losers never cheat.
Killing someone who, if left alive, might kill you is arguably a worst justification than those used by actual terrorists. It throws away the very pretext of correcting a wrong, perceived or otherwise.

As software developers we should see the problem here with "premature optimization". It's an incredibly inefficient use of resources with limited success in addressing unplanned situations. Sounds a lot like the war in terror.
Honestly, leaving school with $20k-30k in debt is hardly the end of the world. That's what, $200 - 300 / month? Seems well worth it for a 4-year education of even decent quality. Beats the alternative.

Note: I'm not saying that we shouldn't do a better job of funding higher education, but this level of debt is not crippling. The real issue to me is people who run up high five figure or low six figure levels of debt for low-quality degrees or institutions, or who don't finish, or who are being trained for a career that will never make enough to have that be a positive ROI.
krypt.co | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time | Onsite | https://krypt.co/jobs

Join us in fixing authentication using strong cryptography on mobile.

We are a rust-first shop, running the same rust code on iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, AWS lambda, and web. You will help us refine the core product, add new controls and multi-party authentication to the teams infrastructure, and design and develop integrations between existing identity providers and Krypton.

We're looking for engineers passionate about both systems security and user experience.

Reach out to us at hello@krypt.co
A better way to fund SaaS companies: Pingboard's $5mm Seed Round
That means you're paying it when you pay cash too....
One of the frequently overlooked benefits of Lisp is that the culture around Lisp actively promotes software that is /supposed/ to be extended by its user and sort of grow into the user, rather than the user growing into it.

There is also a huge difference between "building an extension" and "extending the actual code that is the running process." In Emacs, one can redefine one of its core functions at the push of a button, and suddenly all new calls will call your version of the function. If your redefined function has a breakpoint in it, you'll be able to debug-step into the core of the editor as it is running.

Not sure how well TypeScript in VS Code works in that regard.
Unless nature has a say.
Won't it fly away if you don't bolt it to something?
> Anecdotal evidence suggests they won't shit on your balcony, or try to peck the back of your head, if you do so.

Haha, this sounds like quite the protection racket. "Sure would be a shame if... someone pooped on your balcony!"

I was able to train the wild city-crows to stand on a certain part of my fence to receive unsalted mixed nuts. Cashews are like crack to them.