skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say Bitcoin Cash is Coinbases's currency of choice.

They have pushed for on-chain scaling for years and have been very vocal about how horrible Blockstream (small blocks) has been for Bitcoin.
Care to share the papers you found to be the most compelling?
There are no neutral sources.

It talkes a lot of us, working together for a long period of time to approach neutrality.

Today, on this short, for profit, news cycle, we have to use a lot of sources to get diverse bias and some reasonable grasp on scenarios.
Seconds matter in Japan's rail system [0]. Leaving early is (usually) a bigger problem than leaving late - but I doubt anyone was clamoring to get on the train in those last 20 seconds. But in the event a train runs late - get a 遅延証明書 from a station clerk.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839
I don't know what your definition of success is? They certainly haven't failed.
The problem with trying to commoditize those additional features and creating a standard is that although these different services have similarities they also have subtle differences. I don't know if the companies that create these products or their users would want to standardize because the reason for the differences is because people have different preferences.
SUSE is the OS that runs under SAP HANA. https://www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap/hana/

It used to be exclusively the only OS you could use (can't confirm if anymore).
Indian startup database
I have been collecting data from 2015 of most startups funded in India (along with email address of one of the founders). All data is personally hand crafted and verified. I have over 2900 entries in the database. I am working on a project (need some money) and am willing to sell this data. The data comprises of :
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Funding Month |	Amount Raised (In USD) | Link | Email of founder | Personal Mobile number (covers about 30-40% of DB) | Vertical | Sub Vertical | City | Investor

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I am willing to sell it for 800$, interested person please drop a comment below on how to communicate, I can show data in a video call.

This can be useful for any SAAS business planning to focus in India.
Thai rescuers locate missing boys and coach alive in cave
That's something we're working on at Cloudflare. You can query any database which has an HTTP interface though right now. It looks like Dynamo has one: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

But you also have a bunch of other options like:

- https://restdb.io/

- https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database/

- http://couchdb.apache.org/
"when a rouge developer removed a popular module from npm"

The rouge part IMHO was having live dependencies, unless this was sarcasm. Also, I am not seeing any hotpocket urls.

Wondering what the deal is with this article. Auditing good, but why does it look like false positives?

Edit, I see, an old "joke". terrific.
TBTK: Second Quantization for C++ – Go Quantum
Are you saying that if you were a trader or just in the market to buy and sell Bitcoin, and somehow you knew, 100%, 24 hours before anyone else, that Coinbase was announcing this, it would not influence you at all? Because that is what you are saying.
I think John Willis is one of the "core four" who helped create the term, and he has a good writeup at <https://itrevolution.com/the-convergence-of-devops/>.

Here in Austin, one of the leaders in this space that I follow is Ernest Mueller, and his writeup is at <https://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/>.

There's a reason why Ernest and crew helped create DevOpsDaysAustin, and thankfully for us, he's still one of the key figures behind it.
Coincidentally, I just watched a great video by Ben Krasnow yesterday that suggests that the answer to fooker's question is indeed "Yes." There are other well-known principles along these lines, ranging from piezoelectricity to the Seebeck and Peltier effects, and it's almost more of a rule than an exception for such effects to behave symmetrically.

Glowing plasma created by a high speed jet of water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTq8oGpqwM&list=LLaIdy5TkkQ...

He definitely has the "whole lot of mechanical force" thing going for him, considering that he's about 2 psi away from fragging himself with a hydraulic cylinder.
Pushing the barriers or independent validation on the latest research is not a good place to start if you're new to the area.

Go and implement an image classifier, tweak the parameters and the topology and see how the results and training changes.

Switch to a time series model / text model, and learn the difference between convolution / recurrent networks.

Start playing with non-sequential topologies, custom objective functions, Q-Learning,

Once you have a grasp of these basics go back and read the papers, and you'll find that you understand them a lot more, and you'll see where they're pushing the boundaries.
Censorship instructions issued to Chinese media by government authorities leaked
This kind of crap is why I dropped ArsTechnica from my RSS feed after 11 years.
You believe or you know? Nothing I've read suggests that. Please don't advance ideas like that without giving proper justification; this is exactly how myths start.
All the wonderful people who package software for their distro!

We take for granted the ability to install anything via our package managers, but it's made possible by efforts of a vast number of contributors who often just like a piece of software and stepped up to allow everyone else to use it too. Too often they get zero recognition for their efforts.

I'm doubly grateful because I'm also an upstream maintainer who doesn't have to try to keep up with all the various packaging processes.

If you want to support them, the next time some software is unavailable or lagging behind in your distro, see what you can do to help!
Out of curiosity, are there any readers of this site that rune SUSE in prod? My understanding is it is more of a force in the EU, I've known some desktop users of it (good KDE integration), but I've never encountered it in my work or job interviews etc in the US.

edit: ah there are a few anecdotes nested in this comments already.
It depends a bit on what you want them to write code in. R Shiny has some built in e-learning functionality with interactive documents. At least two packages will let you-develop e-learning materials. If you use Python Jupyter notebooks have a an ability to be graded which would allow grading of code. I would then recommend Piazza for cimmunication with students as it supports code formatting and math in the form of LaTeX support.
Because that spot on the SRB is a flex joint to allow some movement of the nozzle as the engine fires. The joint isn't there because of transportation or other reasons.
Well, calling yourself a unsung hero ... is maybe a bit, well, low.
Usually others judge, who is a hero.
Exactly. That was a chills down the the spine moment.

I will definitely be taking a closer look at the quotes in my passport when I get home today.
Having lived in both Melbourne and Amsterdam, the two crucial differences are in the Netherlands:

1) almost all Dutch drivers are also cyclists. They know how bikes behave, how it feels to be a cyclist around cars, and are therefore far more conscientious of bikes

2) in an accident involving a car and a bike, Dutch road laws have a high presumption that the car is at fault.

In Amsterdam, I don't worry about a car running me over. In London and Melbourne I do, and so never ride there without a helmet.
> Why ask how I am. If you don't care? Why tell me to have a great day if you don't care?! It's just all so infuriatingly fake!

Try to think of it more like a protocol handshake, or a preamble to a conversation, than an exchange of content. It's a scripted way to begin talking. Weird socially scripted questions that are not necessarily intended to be taken literally seem to exist in most languages & countries.

'In most languages, this phrase is used more as a greeting or part of a greeting rather than as a enquiry about your health. The reply is often along the lines of "I'm well/fine, thank you, and you?"'

https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/howareyou.htm
just like the person i responded to you're not getting the point. among the people that use each greeting they are equivalent. i'm exactly saying outside of formality they serve the same purpose. yes in russia you only use that greeting with familiars and in america it's acceptable to use it with anyone. that's besides what purpose it serves.
I haven’t read the book cover to cover, but I’ve heard him talk and read summaries. If it’s something you’re interested in, he’s definitely an authority worth listening to. It can also be very useful to diagnose/help friends and family that might struggle more with sleep and not even realize that it’s the downstream source of their problems
Oh yes, it was amazing. Due to my involvement with the Qt toolkit used by both, I used the N9 and BB10 (Blackberry's QNX based phone OS), in that order, before switching to Android. The N9 OS had a soul somehow, the BB10 OS was pleasantly (very) fluid and efficient. Now I'm on Android, it runs all the apps and doesn't microstutter much anymore. Oh well.
Interesting title but the text was far too small to read on my pixel 2 and wouldn't let me pinch-zoom in. Optimization of some other metric perhaps?
Current medical student here. We do learn about these things but a) the science is weaker than many areas of medicine because it is much harder to do randomized controlled trials of diet and b) patients will barely take a pill once a day for their blood pressure, much less entirely change their lifestyle.
As a first time Samsung owner with an S9, I can't comment on 'less intrusive', but it is definitely frustrating.

Multiple apps called "messages" and "contacts", not super easy to tell which is stock android and which is samsungs? Bixby always gets in the way, where did this "SmartThings" app come from which is ALWAY in the system tray and difficult to disable and can't be removed.

I won't be buying another Samsung device, I'm not sure how they got the reputation they have.
I took the parent's claim to be more that most of the alternative research just didn't seem to be happening. It wasn't that people didn't think it Alzheimer's couldn't be virus/whatever related; but it was widely true that no funded research was looking into that. Instead, a large portion of the funding went into the "amyloid hypothesis."

That make sense? I mean, yes, people could have thought this before. But, by and large, they didn't spend time throwing money down those thoughts.
Are the Product Manager jobs strictly in SF or will they consider Austin as well?
FreeAgent, Edinburgh and REMOTE (UK-only)

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We have built an award-winning online accounting product that offers full end-to-end compliance, from time tracking to tax return filing. We're based in beautiful Edinburgh and we're growing from strength to strength with over 65,000 paying customers and strong YoY growth. Our NPS is off the charts (71!) - customers love what we do!

We're a growing team of over 140 people and the majority of our team are based in Edinburgh, but we have staff distributed across the UK. If you want to help us make small businesses awesome at doing their finances, we have great opportunities in our product and engineering team. Our stack is currently Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, React.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, SmartOS.

We currently have senior full-stack and front-end vacancies available. Senior engineers at FreeAgent have the opportunity to provide technical leadership and help to grow their teams. We are also looking for engineering managers and a Head of Product Engineering to help us support and coach our engineering teams.

We like to work with people who show initiative and continually seek to improve themselves, their teammates, and our codebase. Our engineering teams are small and cross functional, enjoying a great degree of responsibility. We invest in our platform (code health, scalability, security) as well as working on improving and adding new features that help our customers.

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SOOW | Brisbane, Australia | Software Engineers | ONSITE

SOOW is all about empowering consumer data rights. Our platform enables data sharing and collaboration between consumers and businesses with the guarantee that data is protected and being used in a way you have agreed to.

To apply or gather further information, email me at aaron@soow.io.
> We have this ideal of a genius hacker who blew off school but is a 10x coder in real life... but in reality those people are comparatively rare.

I had exactly one of these guys. The reason I hired him was because he demonstrated mid-flight during a code review interview an immense capability to apply newly learned knowledge. I gave him a few (code) classes despite his background up until that point being nothing more than infrastructure-scripting, let him know he could ask absolutely any questions he wished, and would be scored on findings after he confirms he's completed the review.

Killed it. He was a bit rough around the edges in terms of social skills but I'd hire him again given the opportunity and given what he'd produced for me. He got picked up by a rather large firm in the Austin area whose name fits the pattern "A _ _ _ e"

Other hires aside from him were of the good-grades, great-work variety, but he was the exception who produced great work without that background.
How did 12 boys and their coach survive in a Thai cave for more than a week?
If you think you can get a 5:1 student ratio on 40k a year I have a bridge you can buy. For a 10:1 you'd be looking at 100k.
Just had a convo yesterday with someone at BigCo who standardizes on it... I was surprised to hear it too.
I'm checking out some of the Language Transfer courses on my phone and it reminded me of something so frustrating. I tapped on the Soundcloud link and it requires the app to be installed. Yelp does this too (you can't read full reviews without the app). I'm so glad that YouTube hasn't done this, i.e. I can still view YT videos in my phone broswer.
My assumption is that New Yorkers are too cool for scooters to take off. Maybe in Brooklyn, ironically.
Thumbtack | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.thumbtack.com

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Thumbtack has a strong commitment to transparency, diversity and work / life balance. Having been at a number of companies of all sizes in the Bay, I can say that the people at Thumbtack are some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and genuinely kind that I have worked with. Both from a learning perspective and an overall well-being perspective, this is one of the best places I have ever worked.

We’re hiring for the following roles in SF (3+ years experience minimum):

- Full Stack Engineer

- Front End Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Android Engineer

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- Security Engineer

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We also have a Front End engineering role open in Salt Lake City.

Technologies: React, Redux, ES6, Go, Scala, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, AWS, Postgres, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Puppet, Terraform, Python, R

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If this sounds interesting to you or you have any questions, drop me a line at rich+hn@thumbtack.com
Celo | San Francisco & Berlin | Software Engineer & Mobile Engineer | All Levels | 100K - 200K + equity + coins | FULLTIME, INTERNS, ONSITE, VISA | https://celo.org

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, Celo is a new company aiming to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, Celo makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Anyone can participate in the network and earn Celo currency, even with just a budget Android smartphone. The first application launching on our platform is a social payments and money transfer app, aimed at developing markets.

Investors: a16z, Polychain, General Catalyst, Coinbase, Reid Hoffman and Jack Dorsey, among others.

Stack: Typescript, Solidity, Go, React Native, Python, Android, iOS

We tried to make applying fun: 'Mine' your application form to create an applicant blockchain at the bottom of our jobs page: https://celo.org/jobs
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To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/buildzoom

Here are our open roles:

- Backend Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildzoom/ec706cb2-dd89-4e57-8815-1dd7...

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> Have you eaten yet

This is a greeting in quite a few SE Asian countries that I'm aware of. I've heard of it for Thailand (gin khao mai), Myanmar, and Singapore. I always answered yes/the default answer. But maybe I'll try no next time I visit for free lunch? :)
NASA appears to do quite a bit of on-orbit teleoperation from the ground with the arm on the ISS.
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Voyage’s mission is to super-charge communities with autonomous vehicles. Our fleets power essential, everyday services designed to enhance each resident’s quality of living. At Voyage, we strive to become part of every community we serve.

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We're a team of 30 engineers that have raised $23m from world-class VC's to build a massive and meaningful transportation company. We're growing the team rapidly, and are searching for engineers across multiple disciplines (machine learning, robotics, consumer software, devops, and more). If you love to ship, I think you'll love working at Voyage.

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Yea, I mentioned Novell in my essay and how its revenue declined quickly after they moved away from NetWare, including that both NetWare and Windows used Client Access Licenses that Linux lacked.
Sweden, YES!
As the architect of Workers I was obviously pretty happy with Zack's results in general. But, I'm not happy with the tail latency (99th percentile), even if it beats the competition. I suspect this has to do with GC pauses. The solution may be to proactively run GC in a background thread between requests. For high-traffic workers that are always processing requests, we could load multiple instances of the worker and alternate between them.

BTW, if you're into modern C++ and this kind of work interests you, please e-mail me at kenton at cloudflare.com. We're hiring!
I'm in the camp of installing an OS as the first thing you do with a device [0], and I really can't abide by the idea that a computer is just expected to get slower over time.

My S4 (i9500) was still running great on LineageOS (some games even) right up until a few months ago [1].

Good job taking your leap. Going through the process can definitely be unnerving when you're doing it to a device you rely on (which is a large part of why I recommend doing it immediately after getting the device).

Or by all means everyone, keep dumping "old" hardware to stay on the manufacturer's software treadmill. I just replaced that S4 with an almost mint S7 for $80!

[0] I will say, it actually does end up feeling like a little bit of a let-down to get a shiny new device, do the job of flashing it, and then be greeted with the same stock LOS setup. But then I remind myself that I got said device for a deliberate purpose, and it's actually nice not having to relearn an arbitrarily different UI.

[1] FWIW, the symptoms lead me to believe it came down with something similar to "the emmc bug" that's been described for the i9300.
In the Shadow of the Blueberry Titans, Smaller Growers Thrive
It's always surprised me how many people do not know that water is incompressible! For example, when someone is filling a scuba tank, it's common to put the tank in a large, often metal-sided container of water. When asked why, the shop staff member will typically say: "In the unlikely event of the tank blowing up, the water will absorb the force of the explosion." But in fact, water being incompressible, it will absorb approximately 0% of that force - which is then transmitted undiminished to the metal walls - which then explode like a giant hand grenade, promptly maiming or killing everyone standing nearby! The purpose of the water is instead, to absorb the heat from adiabatic compression, and keep the tank cool.
Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer
There is a piano roll, you just need to vertically expand a MIDI track in order to see it.
I actually saw this tweet the other day. Amusing how often performance is neglected until it kills something.

I have also felt it would be a fun bingo game in a year to see when a famous quote of someone would come up. This Knuth quote would definitely be on there.
I'm not surprised. Semi related, my S8 often never saves photos that I take. It's a very common problem they have yet to acknowledge.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/comments/7kc8wj/photos_not...
How so ? In CL you can build an executable. (https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html#bu...) It's large-ish (because it ships an interpreter, a debugger that we can access from outside, etc), but it has a near-zero startup time, and it works for web apps with their embedded web server.
TN Visa friendly or remote Outside the US? Looking for the Android engineer position but it doesn't seem to be listed on you website yet. Is it still open? Thanks.