skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did Constantinople get the works?
"Back in your day," were you allowed to just pull out a newspaper in the middle of class and read it? I find that doubtful.
Brain Health Registry | Full Stack Developer | San Francisco | Full-Time | ONSITE

The Brain Health Registry is aimed at accelerating the development of cures for brain disorders by driving down the time and cost of finding research participants through an online registry which connects interested participants with eligible research studies. The registry is run by an innovative, experienced, and well funded group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco who are developing high-impact tools which will revolutionize the way brain disorders, especially Alzheimer’s disease, are diagnosed and treated.

The most rewarding part of our work is the passionate belief that what we are doing will ultimately impact the health of millions.

Should be smart, get things done, and have some fun.

Bonus points if you know our stack: C#, MVC5, SQL Server, Azure, React, D3.js, Python, R

Decent salary, solid benefits, awesome coworkers, stunning location (Lands End)

https://rew21.ultipro.com/NOR1032/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx?_...
Unfortunately this position is _not_ remote-only. This job is partly remote (1 day/week), we work in the office for the rest of the week.
World's longest palindrome?
I love the mental image of you walking into the leasing office and going:

"I'm very happy that the apartment is finally available after sitting on the waiting list for 3 months in this competitive market. Lets get to signing the lease so I can move it. But first I'm going to have my lawyer add quick clause where you guarantee competitive broadband internet options for my unit on penalty of substantial fine."

I imagine their reaction being similar to if you had walked in with your head on backwards.
Unlock | front end | New York, NY | Full time | onsite | employee #2

We (http://unlock-protocol.com/) are looking for front end engineers: React, Redux, ES6, web3.js, Ethereum

At Unlock, we believe the web needs a new business model. We believe the decentralization promise of the web cannot be achieved if economic incentives are not aligned between consumers and creators. For this, we're building a protocol which lets anyone restrict access to their creations and for consumers to earn points when they discover and promote the best creations.

Apply at https://unlock-protocol.com/jobs/
Show HN: My team built a social recycling application with React Native
My team and I completed this project as part of our capstone at Fullstack Academy of Code.
Developing a cross platform application in React Native was an amazing learning experience.
My team and I learned about the challenges of developing for both Android and IOS.
Something as simple as displaying the keyboard for form input challenged us in unexpected ways(different keyboards with different size displays).
We tried to solve this problem by using relative dimensions for the vertical offsets in our Keyboard avoiding views. This was an incomplete solution to the keyboard problem but it taught me to prioritize work based on what is required by your deadlines. We had roughly two weeks to build this project from start to finish and it is really a testament to the React Native platform that we were able to almost seamlessly translate our knowledge of React into building a mobile application.

Short video of the application:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82NKctfn_A&feature=youtu.be

Code:
https://github.com/recycle-blue/recycle-blue-native

Link to live Expo application:
https://exp.host/@globalart19/recyclingapp

Currently Looking for a position as a front end or fullstack developer:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamine-sadoun-873159134/
Google Cloud changed its pricing model for Places API usage and we're fucked
Hello, we have a friend that invented a very special formula for extracting the locations within a circle area and we are proud of him because he managed to pay for your service just around $26k. His name is ROMEO and he is from VALCEA. Don't trust me, check out his invoice: https://imgur.com/a/pWPBwAT.

Want to find out more about what ROMEO is building, then go to Google Play or App Store and install uVibe.
My old (handcoded starting in 1999, so ancient tech) site www.lomont.org. It now looks like 1999, so needs some serious updating, which led me to making www.clomont.com, in the hopes someday I will merge them with newer tech to make it easier to post articles.

Now I'm leaning on using or making a static site generator, needs markdown supporting math via some LaTeX flavored plugin, and simple to edit. Maybe one day when I'm less busy I'll get around to merging, updating, and posting the gazillion articles/talks/progs I've done that have gone unposted.
I'm a designer 70% of the time, but I also do a lot of front-end, and iOS development work. Don't know how to show a combination of design and dev-only projects without confusing clients.

Anybody have links to example portfolios that solve this problem well?
Going to be honest, it doesn't look great and I don't think it shows off any designer skills you may have.
Why don't you like tennis?
Right. The author seems to talk about typos and simple bugs in the code, but every programmer makes those on a regular basis and no way anyone could deny such a bug when it's pointed out to them.

This cognitive dissonance seems like it may be more applicable at a higher level, when talking about design flaws in the system. There the programmer can actually come up with excuses for their "issues". For example, if someone complains "but your design won't scale to 1 million customers" the programmer might reply "come one, we need to be fast" or "we won't need that kind of scale until years from now"
The quality is also better if you have insurance. Firstly, because it's easy to see a specialist. Our friends in Canada don't even know you're supposed to see specialists for a lot of ailments. Second, most facilities have access to diagnostic equipment that even hospitals might not have in Canada (MRI machines, etc).
> We estimated the amount of time each task would take, assigned it points based on that, and we'd fill our task list in such a way to try to make the estimation close 40 hours of work.

The concept of story points was invented as an attempt to solve the problem of developers reliably estimating the amount of time a given task will take.

If you're directly equating story points to time then you're doing it wrong.
although nobody gives a shit about these tech anymore, there needs to be some comment at least. :P
You might be right, but I think you shouldn't be focusing your resentment at standups themselves, you should be focusing on the managerial or corporate culture.

I've worked in places that did standups and places that didn't, and found that the lack of trust / constant surveillance / psychological pressure can be there regardless of whether standups are used.

What does change, though, is that with standups, a manager has the reassurance that they are checking up on their developers every day, and the developers in return get the reassurance that their boss is only going to interrupt them once per day at a fixed time (or at least there's a better chance this is how it works out).

I see "agile" as being a set of compromises and helpful cultural patterns which were designed by taking into account all the weird cognitive biases that brains get forced into by the group dynamics of working in a team on a project.
There's a UK comedian who created a show around trying to get people to view the moustache as Chaplin's instead of Hitler's [0].

[0]: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/revi...
Thanks so much. :)

I store the videos/media on S3 and use CloudFront for cache.

Tech stack is Node.js on Heroku, MongoDB, ReactJS with MobX (if you're doing ReactJS these I must say you _have_ to be using MobX, it's just amazing, shoutout to @mweststrate), Netlify (they're really great) and AWS Lambda.

Thanks for mentioning read/watch/"seen", as it is on the roadmap and will come in the next days. It can be toggled off, so final decision will be up to the manager/team :)
Every bug bounty platform has tried to be "selective" in the researchers they allow in when they start. You'll soon discover that selective doesn't scale.

The only way you are going to disrupt the current market is by hiring on your own salaried pentesting talent to participate.
Don't wait until the standup to ask for help if you don't have to.

I'm also confused why OP is having standup eith people who havent even heard of the project he's working on. Doesn't sound like he's working on the same product as the other developers.
Based on all the historians I have seen talking about that time period, the Russians captured and sent every German they could get their hands to labor camps during the later part of world war 2. An approximate two to three million German prisoners was captured during those years and about 1 million died in the camps.

The documentary The World at War postulated that the only reason why its not higher is that when the Germans had lost and started retreating most of the east German population fled in mass to the west because they know the USSR would treat them very similar to how the Nazi treated Russians during the occupation. About 10 million USSR civilians died and about 26 millions in total so the USSR had a lot of reasons. I have not heard any historian that claimed that USSR did not pursue revenge. I have heard however that the only reason Berlin was not razed to the ground was because allied troops rushed there hastily during the siege in order to be able to claim half of it after the war.
Ransom: Routing Around Nation-States
Whether standups are useless or not depends on the dynamics of the team. With the team I'm currently working in there are no standups, all communication is async and everyone knows what everyone else is working on. If there's a problem, holler in chat, or discuss IRL. There's also the project board where anyone can just hop in to see progress. There is a trust in each other in my team, which is not something I can say for other teams I've been with.

The whole agile methodology shouldn't be taken as is. Standups, sprint planning, retro etc all can be ala-carted with modifications depending on what type of team you're in and the people in it. The ideal scenario is that the team is a well-oiled machine, much like a precision, well built watch. No standups or meetings that force context switches and interruptions.

Adapt to the team. Do away with unnecessary processes. Just because standups are done everywhere doesn't mean you have to do it just for the sake of 'following the process'. It also doesn't mean you should do away with it, if you have a team that's new, or if there's a lack of communication or trust in each other. Isn't the point of agile, to be agile in everything that we do, including the agile processes themselves?
I feel the same way. I also tend to forget which macro inserts argument at front and which one at back. I tend to use threading[1] package for macros which does what you are proposing:

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/threading/index.html#%28form._%...
Golang dep v0.5.0 release
What city was this in? The wait time was 6-8 months in Toronto for my uncle.
> You're still talking about wealth like it is relative and not an absolute. You're just comparing modern wealth to early 20th century wealth.

Nobody in this discussion is using "relative wealth" to mean comparisons over long periods of time. Everyone is using it to mean comparisons between different people's wealth at the same time. If what you're concerned about is the advantages that relative wealth gives you in competing for scarce resources, that makes sense; but nobody today is competing with people a century ago for scarce resources, so using the term "relative wealth" for that kind of comparison makes no sense.
Hello :) Thank you! The timebox will be toggleable soon, I just left it fixed during the first version waiting to get feedback on it. Storage space is not really an issue, so timebox will be defined by the manager/team.
The infantilization of Western culture
Plain radars are still vastly superior to all and every vision system on the market, and don't require you to carry around a supercomputer.

Even if they "crack" it, they will just be spending much more money to get the same benefits as a $100 mm wave system.

In the future, vision systems will only be seen as a gimmick of this era.

Radars beat both ladars and vision systems at phase, speed, and distance estimation.
I think the desire is more to have goals and work towards those. If you don't have daily goals, then having a daily standup is going to be pointless.

That is, if I am working for weeks or months without making visible progress, but I have successfully delivered the last X things on time, why are you worried about what I look like?

So, yes, people should grow into longer timelines that they can appear to be slacking off. I expect the tasks we've given the newest intern, as an example, to be something that can show daily progress. In large, because it will likely need daily coaching. As you get on the larger projects, though, asking me to break everything down to daily chunks is itself a chore that may add significantly to effort.

Worse, it encourages people to fall for the sunken costs fallacy. If you burned down all of that effort, many folks are hesitant to take any of it back. If I haven't let you know about the small progress I made on the last experiment I did, then I am as likely to abandon the path and try something else if I am confident it will be better.
Just did a rework on mine and would love any feedback:
https://jamievaughn.github.io
This AI Can Predict Your Personality Type Simply by Watching Your Eyes
To be fair , it’s $2/package plus one hour’s wage.
This should really be taken as an example of a team that got rid of standups and did well. Every team is different and without prior knowledge of the team featured in this article, it's hard to judge if this advice is any useful to me. I would've preferred if the tone was more like "Why we didn't need standups" not "You don't need standups".
Right, it's a spectrum. I don't think there are many cogent adults (even "democratic socialists") that wish to do away with the majority of capitalism in our society: the nordic model.
Let's list what Walmart was offering the pilot program volunteers:
- Free TV or iPad for signing up (hock it* for ~$100 I guess)
- $2 per package delivery (average 3-5 deliveries per night)
- 54 cents for fuel per mile
- Extra hour of OT pay (average pay $11 per hour)

All of which the story says adds up to $15.40 for each 10 miles of five packages, not counting OT. After a week one employee said she got $100 after ~12 deliveries.

All so you can spend an extra 30 minutes at your job waiting for someone else's groceries, which you will then spend 2 hours to deliver, by hand, to their (assuming) nice looking house with their nice looking family, as you then trudge back to your apartment and sit on your Walmart couch, in your Walmart clothes, eating your Walmart food and watching your Walmart TV.

If that's not depressing I don't know what is.

*edited for typo
#2 never happened at any job I've had. It was always the entire team and we all had different projects. Sometimes entirely different applications.
> People have figured out how to game the system. I think the internet is ready for some forum software that uses machine learning to decide whether content is high or low quality.

Great idea. Then there'll be absolutely no chance people will find a way to game the system.
And barcodes?
The study is suggesting the opposite relationship - that decreased wine consumption _increases_ the risk of developing dementia
Waste their time? You have to fill out the 401K form anyway, and it's not more effort to click the "Gimme free money!" button than it is to click "Do Not Want Free Money!". Even at benefits enrollment time, it could take 60 seconds to get to the "Max it out, bitches!" button rather than the "Keep everything the same".

And while I'm on the topic, why is it that no company I've worked at has a "whatever the legal limit is for a person my age" button instead of making me do the math each time?
No teachers ever taught me as fast as a computer can today. State school are an anachronism.
That's... understandable, perhaps.

It would be difficult to implement something better, yes, but I'm also not sure it'd be better. In OO thinking, the question of which fields a method accesses should be an implementation detail, which shouldn't affect how the code calling it can look.

If the borrow checker was smarter, then a change to a class implementation could break the code using it.
2 malls using facial recognition technology to track shoppers' ages and genders
Ask HN: I'm trying to find a document that had wild math illustrations
Hello HN,

A long time ago someone posted here a link to a PDF at a university's math department in which wild, vivid illustrations of mathematical concepts like infinite series and sets were made with insects and gardens and so on. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about ? If so, please help me find it

Thanks
Will do! And great about just wanting to launch! Better err and correct than keep waiting till have a perfect plan (which will never come anyway :p)
What Fictional Food Do You Most Want to Try?
If you'd like to see a much smaller worked example of an assembler and machine, I built a Prolog implementation of the reddit dailyprogrammer challenge "Halt Machine" a few years ago. My code is here:

https://github.com/fusiongyro/dailyprogrammer/tree/master/20...

The challenge itself is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/1euacb/052...
OpenDNS was pretty good until Cisco bought it, made the interface worse arbitrarily, and started increasing the cost without providing anything new worth having. The second we heard it was acquired I turned to my boss and said we ought to be looking for an alternative.
I’m not downvoting you. HN doesn’t allow you to downvote replies to your own comments.
your patent is an example of what's wrong with the software patent industry. i don't mean to be rude, although you did feature it promo prominently as the first bit of information about you on your resume. i mean, does soundcloud or any of the multitude of video websites that have done this for years have to pay you license fees?
I think once you hit his final wealth level you realize there’s another one that isn’t obvious to people lower down the wealth ladder. At some point your assets are making a substantial portion of your annual income for you passively. If you’ve hit that point, congrats. If not, you definitely know it and are probably working toward it. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t another break point above that, probably to do with how much you think about the cost of large purchases like a home (or homes).
Interesting People: A webseries about interesting people pursuing their passions
Australian Government Set to Boost Tourism with Bitcoin
Some years ago, I taught an after-school chess club at my son's middle school. Now, I'm no sort of decent chess player at all, but I know the rules, and I know a little.

For the first day of class, I sent around a questionnaire, asking students to rate themselves as beginning, intermediate, or advanced. All of them, except my son, rated themselves as intermediate or advanced. I then played all of them at the same time, and won all of those games.

And I suck.

This really is a complicated question, though. First, perspective. Are you describing yourself, or someone else? Is there any sort of a formal rating system? (For example, a Bachelor of Science degree is a formal rating system.)

Take the guitarist example. Every guitarist I know, no matter how good (and I know professionals) is quite limited in what they can play. Neil Young can't play classical. Classical players can't play Neil Young, either! They might be able to get the notes right - by ear, even - but they'll lack feel, expressiveness, and tone. Measuring guitar, or many other forms of art, in terms of technique can be blindingly wrong. What's good guitar technique? Playing fast? Knowing a lot of scales? Piffle. Good guitarists can express what they want to express. Period. That's my measure.

So you see why I have a problem with the idea of "convey information accurately". I think it's philosophically wrong.
If you're not keeping the daily scrum shorter than 15 minutes then that's in and of itself a problem that will make people annoyed and disrupted.
Samsung’s dual wireless charger leaks at Amazon event
Should mention this is built on Ghost.org but is a 100% custom template. Used to use jeckyll with a Github page but with the microsoft takeover I decided to try something new.

Want something fun? Check out all the old designs with the Internet Archive! The 2010 design is a little... uh....

https://web.archive.org/web/*/kolemcrae.com
Thanks for asking! I was looking into the transcoding for quite some time, but due to my previous experience working at an IPTV company in Toronto (they sold a bunch of their channels to Rogers), I was familiar with ffmpeg / encoders in general. So I decided to skip Amazon Elastic Transcoder and do my own Lambda transcoder, which resulted in a way cheaper solution for it. All videos recorded are in H.264 and VP8 counterparts, for easy playout on iOS (H.264) and Android (VP8/H.264).
Until last month doing sqrt of 4 or other perfect squares would give small errors
I recall seeing somebody that did exactly that, largely because it was way more efficient for solar setups. It is a bit ridiculous to take DC power from solar panels, convert to AC power, then plug a standard home electronic power supply into it which... converts it back to DC.

Might not work for everything (eg, refrigerator? Microwave?) but it could be worthwhile to run a secondary DC network.
The photo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/91hv2e/facial_reco...
I'm a fan of the public/military service as payment for higher education (or vocation educational, albeit for less time). It's possible to also serve and learn concurrently for a period of time.

1. Provides government with cheap, high-quality workers.
2. Teaches leadership, discipline and other necessary soft-skills.
Can GDPR and Facebook Losses Boost Decentralized Social Media?
Well done and very comprehensive.
Sure, but signaling isn't all bad, it's frequently misunderstood. Here:

In fact, signaling almost certainly is productive. Sure, in the simplest signaling model where there's only one job, education signaling is zero-sum (if you get ahead it's at the expense of others). But as soon as you introduce multiple, different, occupations, that changes! For a basic example of this, say you have two occupations, each with room to employ half the population, "Simple" and "Complex." In Simple, everyone produces 1. In Complex, smarties (half the pop) produce 4 and everyone else produces 0. In extreme-land where there's no signaling, people are basically assigned to jobs randomly, everyone gets paid a wage of 1, and average production is .51 + .5(.54+.50) = 1.5.

Now introduce a completely wasteful, no-HC education signal. Ed is free for smarties, but it costs 3 for everyone else because they'd have to hire tutors. Now, employers know who the smarties are, and they all get Complex jobs. Others get Simple jobs. Production is .51 + .5(4) = 3. Smarties get a wage of 4 and others get a wage of 1. Others don't bother going to school - they'd get a wage bump of 3 but they'd spend it all on school anyway, so why bother?

Here, signaling alone doubled production (this approach is generally called "matching"). There's a reason we call signaling outcomes the "second-best" outcome in game theory, and not "the really awful outcome" - because it can increase efficiency over NOT having the signal.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976932046638538752.html