skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transparent | Seattle, WA | Multiple Positions | ONSITE | Full-time | $80k-180k with equity

Are you shocked at how hard it is to move money? How expensive it is? Transparent is a well funded stealth fintech looking to solve how money moves in the US and the world.

Our stack is Rust, Go, and cryptography, but we really value those who are opinionated team players, can quickly master new technologies, and are excited about making a difference.

We're especially looking for senior software developers and applied cryptographers, but if you can write code, I'd love to talk to you - jeff@transparentinc.co.
Stripe is probably the best but I think Twilio is a close second. For both the page designs are easy to read, there are clear examples (some are even interactive), and the sites are easy to navigate.
> Typically people will buy amazon ads at breakeven or worse in order to gain sales rank to get more organic sales.

This is a very important point. I sell on Amazon and I run ads at break even profit to get more organic reviews and higher sales rank. Much more retained value compared to paid search engine ads in ecommerce
I know this is not quite on topic, but:

Giving some particular construct in your language the official name "Concepts" is just unbelievably fucking atrociously stupid. Inexplicably greedy and needlessly destructive.

Say what you will about Haskell's user-hostile jargon, but even they had the sense to rename a concept that was originally called "Idiom". (now "Applicative")
I know a lot of people are different, but personally having someone talking is for me foolproof method to stay awake. Weird stuff really.
I need some docs, would compensate, contact in my profile
At a company I used to work for one of the project areas had an (in)famous "wall of sugar" as they called it.
Unhealthy office food is the worst. I have a hard time avoiding it. My house has absolutely none of that stuff because I know it's a weakness... Then I go to the office and 'accidentally' eat two granola bars. 400 calories of oats and HFCS later and I'm still hungry.
Sure, absolute perfection is impossible, my point is that the river to success is extremely narrow with plenty of hidden boulders along the way. Navigating it requires extreme precision and a bit of luck.
> A secret military technique that is said to help anyone fall asleep in just two minutes has recently been revealed.

and

> The secret is detailed in the book Relax and Win: Championship Performance, which although first published in 1981

I guess 37 years is "just" for the author.
I've had good success with the Sleep With Me podcast for this. https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com
Ask HN: Is there a market for an AI teaching assistant?
GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compiler Performance on AMD Threadripper 2990WX Benchmarks
(OP)

I wonder whether spine fusion surgeries can be compared with conservative treatments (I presume which means less intrusive).

I was asked to fill 5 consent forms acknowledging the risks of undergoing the surgery, 5th was supposedly a handwritten one explaining I understand that the surgery might result in my death. I asked a doc to write it himself & I signed it.
I still haven't found a single API as quick and easy to get started and test with than Flickrs
The race to make the world's most powerful computer ever
MIT Energy Initiative study reports on the future of nuclear energy
ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full stack

We're a boutique software development/consulting company based in Bangalore.

Apart from client work, we spend time understanding and exploring diverse topics. Sometimes these explorations lead to writings like compound interest[1] and creating a visual primer on elixir streams[2], some other times, it leads to discussions in ML or distributed systems[3], or readings like Understanding Comics, or Art of multiprocessor programming. We care about having colleagues with whom we can grow in our perspectives.

We pickup language and technology based on client work, or personal interests. Most of our current work is in Elixir, Go, JavaScript, Python.

We built a distributed job scheduler in Elixir, a tunneling solution in Go, TypeScript emacs mode (recommended at https://www.typescriptlang.org/), a font converter in Haskell, a DynamoDB emulator in Ruby, a remote debugger (in JavaScript, and Go), a Youtube annotation extension in JavaScript and more[4]

The interview process usually involves a programming problem followed by a few rounds of telephonic/in-person conversations. If interested, please reach out to us at career[at]activesphere.com.

[1] https://www.activesphere.com/compound-interest/

[2] https://www.activesphere.com/blog/2017/11/28/stream

[3] https://www.meetup.com/Papers-we-love-Bangalore/events/25235...

[4] https://www.activesphere.com/hacks.html
C is a very difficult-to-parse language for both humans and computers and its syntax family got popular as much from circumstance as anything else. JavaScript stole Java syntax to court Jaca developers, Java stole C++ syntax to court C++ programmers, C++ stole C syntax to court C programmers and now you have most of the biggest languages of the past 20 years using C syntax because C got big back in the day (and it didn’t get big because of its syntax).

Modern C-family/Algol-family syntax is nice but I certainly welcome trying out other syntax families (in the case of Erlang, Prolog-family).
"And toddlers are great at rinsing dishes before putting them into the dishwasher."

Don't teach them kids to waste water rinsing dishes! The dishwasher works most efficiently if chunks of food are removed (scrape into trash), but not rinsed.
Thanks so much for the feedback! Both the typo and the validity-checking bug have been fixed.
Sure, and I still use Perl as my primary language, just as I did 20 years ago, with some forays into other languages (like Python and C) along the way. But, this is survivor bias (one could argue SQL is also benefiting from survivor bias, though SQL was the dominant data query language then and it is the dominant data query language today, whereas one could argue only C was/is dominant in its space at both points in history). But, where's Pascal, Visual Basic (or Basic of any sort), Tcl, etc.? There's dozens of other languages that came and went, including data-oriented languages. All of which were popular during the 90s, and effectively gone now. And, only C among your examples is actually exhibiting the same kind of longevity (SQL is more than 40 years old, so it predates Python, Java, Perl, etc. by quite a lot)...I probably should have put the starting point for this thought experiment at 30+ years ago, but 20 years ago is when I first started using SQL, so it's what I used, which isn't really useful. Who cares when I learned the value of SQL, when it's an industry-wide phenomenon?

My point wasn't that one can't name languages with staying power. There are several. But, SQL is still special, I think. It's almost universally needed. If you go to work in a Node or Go shop today, you're probably still gonna need to know some SQL, just like if you went to work in a Python or Perl or Java shop in the 90s.
If it's about who's the boss rather than the project being the boss the project is fucked and then so is the boss.

Good bosses know this and like honesty. Bad bosses fire people for stating the truth and wind up with shit.

However I will agree that saying "You suck at.." is pretty bad, and it would be equally bad coming from a boss.
I used to have sleepless night once in a while generally due to over-thinking while lying on the bed for years till 2014/15. I experimented with meditation before sleep and since then I haven't had a single sleepless night in all these years.
The practice is simple. Turn lights off. Sit (with hips on the pillow) on the same bed you're going to sleep. Sit straight and comfortably (preferably in cross-legged pose), gently close your eyes.
Now concentrate on the area Right in the middle of your chest. You can feel bone, muscle or anything else when you focus here. Just continue to concentrate on that physical sensation you're experiencing. Just discard every thought that comes even the thought of how much time has passed. If mind drifts onto some thought, gently bring it back to the area and its sensations.
About 8 to 10 minutes of this meditation and you're ready to sleep. Lie down, keep the focus on the same middle of the chest area and don't entertain any thought. They'll still come and if you focus on them, start analyzing/thinking about them, you'll lose the peaceful state just gained with meditation. And you may have to do it again

I generally fall asleep within first few minutes of lying down after this meditation.

The above is my personally tested and daily practiced method. You can also try Yoga Nidra guided meditation audio which has helped people in relaxing the mind before sleep. Go here http://www.swamij.com/Meditations.htm
Ive seen plenty of successful companies that got lucky, but none with dumb luck. Which are you referring to?
(OP)

You are correct.

I have mentioned what lead to that here[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906463
Boeing 737 Production Meltdown
And amongst all this nobody considers electronic warfare or cyber warfare.

How do you control your military when communication and GPS satellites are feeding you incorrect information?
Okay, sure, doxing is bad, you've reported it, and as you've said, they've deleted a previous post. I don't know what the threshold is, but pretty sure there is one at some point. That being said, Alex Jones is still up and tweeted 5 minutes ago, and has done things at least as bad, if not worse. So... yeah.

But, that's 1 out of 3 you've "address", and your 1 isn't even compelling. You literally tell me flat out that Twitter is indeed responding to reports and acting on them.

Anyways, please address the other two, and I hope they actually demonstrate what you claim.
Reading with a pencil, and active reading, and arguing with the paper is what works for me for reading research papers.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/07/how-i-read-research...
Paternity leave at startups: designing a policy for new parents
(OP)

I've mentioned about DNA test here [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906532
I was in the USMC for 20 years... never once had a problem falling asleep.

In Humvees, in the dirt, on a stack of rifles...
More importantly, the piano is the instrument of choice for understanding and participating in music theory, which means that with some fundamental understanding and a lot of practice it unlocks many other instruments, as well.
I have to assume this is designing the implementation of existing crypto libraries, products, etc.
> a clear conscience

That's the real killer for me. I'm not military, but I've managed to somehow get pretty good at sleeping pretty much anywhere. Sleeping on planes or in departure lounges or really anywhere isn't an issue for me, although maybe a steam catapult might keep me up. I think that the hundreds of nights I've slept on couches and backpackers hostels (as well as overnight buses and car trips) have acclimatised me to sleeping in noisy, moving, well lit environments.

I think it's just something that you just get used to. All through South East Asia you'll see people sleeping in the most improbably places, on parked motorbikes, park benches, even in the middle of a busy roundabout in Vietnam. South East Asian people seem to just love sleeping everywhere they can.

But I can only sleep if there aren't things biting at the back of my mind. If something's bothering me (relationships, work, etc.), it doesn't matter how perfect my sleeping environment is, I won't be able to get to sleep for hours. My mind is sleep's worst enemy.
"really slow" isnt catastrophic.
Well, you do a fine job. It's one of the few places I can come and participate in interesting conversations with adults acting intelligently. Thanks for the great work!
My daughter is three and she already cracks the eggs for breakfast. We’ve ended up with a few yolks on the countertop but it works pretty well. Today I took out the garbage and came back to discover she’d put a new bag in, without any prompting whatsoever. She desperately -wants- to be useful and get our approval, and it’s really endearing. It makes me really proud of my little child, even if the day before she pulled all the stuffing out of the pillow.

It believe it also helps that we don’t have TV or any electronic devices for her to use. We dabbled in Daniel Tiger and the like, and her behavior immediately became worse, and the TV was the only way to mollify her.
I write a lot of sql and it is generally a nice language.

But for my taste the language is to close to English and therefore redundant and inconsistent in an annoying way. Example:

Select x from tbl ...

Delete from tbl ...

Update tbl set x=...

Why change the word order?
My first job out of college was as a software developer on the F-14D project, and the AIM missiles.

It was probably the most interesting job I ever had.

We programmed in CMS-2 and AN/UYK assembly language
(OP)

Thank you, your suggestion is much appreciated. Once I adapt to the accessibility limitations and able to sit for longer duration; I'll definitely look forward to remote work & support from HN community.
You may not shop there because there are Oreos. But Oreo is not negotiating in a vacuum; they have to fight off the Keeblers and the Chips Ahoy and the Pepperidge people for that same shelf space. You don't want to wind up in a situation where your competitors have better placement than you (e.g., Uber ads being shown above the fold in a search for Lyft).
For the lettershapes themselves it won't likely be a matter of "printed area", depending on the news paper it will be printed at a far lower dot grain density than your average print product.

There are although numerous things to consider when designing a font for small printed copy, like how tight you can make a corner before ink would start to trap in it and bleed over the detail.

But there are many aspects of creating a full font family that make it a huge amount of work - not only do you need to fit all supported characters to different weights, essentially re-drawing the glyphs for every weight to make them balanced within their shape. You'll also have to do the kerning, tweaking individual spacings for all possible letter combinations at every weight. And that is all after having created & perfected every shape of every glyph to work together and have a distinguishable look and fashion.
100% agree.

We have 2 problems which I think are compounding each other:

1. The classic problem of defense: Fighting the Last War
2. An extremely strong defense industry lobby.
are speaking and keyboard really comparible at all? certainly when coding if I was to speak "open parentheses float width comma float height comma totalArea close parentheses cursor up beginning of line start function comment...". No idea how I would speak camelcase "totalArea" and have the system distinguish between on word and two or how I'd distinguish "cursor up"(move the cursor) from "cursorUp" a constant name etc...

I can imagine context and auto formatting could help but even then I'd expect spoken code to be 10x slower than typed.
Interesting - LibreOffice handled the =delete by setting it as a macro:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=20b...

Other goodies:

SAL_FALLTHROUGH for [[fallthrough]] - see https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/include/sal/types...
I've been invited to join unions a number of times over my career and despite supporting collective efforts, and have declined every time.

In manual labour industries where the difference between a good worker and a poor worker is a similar unions make sense. For example, a new bricklayer may lay 10 bricks an hour, while a quality bricklayer may lay 60 bricks an hour. But there will still be a limit on how much 'better' someone can be than someone else.

However, in white-collar jobs the difference in out put between a poor worker and a good worker can be astronomical - hence the myth of the 10x programmer. Personally, I am pretty good programmer to the point where I'm now running a start-up and doing quite well. When I came across management that treated me poorly, I left and found a better job - I didn't need a union.

However, far too often I've seen in white-collar jobs where there are unions, they protect people who shouldn't be protected. Poor workers whose output is well below the median, or whose behaviour is professionally terrible. Or they focus on niche issues while ignoring the needs of everyone.

So for me, joining a union would have offered nothing to me, while they can boast greater average output or higher memberships. So why join at all?

If union, especially white-collar/knowledge worker unions, want to become and remain relevant they need to get comfortable setting minimum performance to stay in the union and up hold those performance targets and even pre-emptively sanction underperforming workers before management does.
What do your abbreviations mean?
Like we need the military to help us with this...

Just a couple faps and you'll be out guaranteed. :)
Can you please elaborate? Why is the JSF really the JST? Why and what are unmanned mussel trucks to you? Why should carriers be phased out?

I’m not saying you’re wrong - to the contrary, since you are a former pilot I’m actually quite interested in your opinion.
I like the way the Swedish subway system works. Door buttons are normally inactive, but when they are active they are lit up.
Yeah I wondered if it was something like that.
As long it is not submersible CIWS can shred pretty much anything to pieces:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system
Maybe some ML can help now? Weigh the content of the reported comments against the reporter's trustability etc., and have actual mods train the system by having the final say on all reports at first before making it fully automated.
I guess this group are an example of far left extremists in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)

"They engage in violent protest tactics, which has included property damage and physical violence. They tend to be anti-capitalist and they are predominantly far-left and militant left, which includes anarchists, communists and socialists...

Scott Crow, described by CNN as 'a longtime Antifa organizer', argues that destroying property is not a form of violence. The groups have been associated with physical violence in public against police and against people whose political views its activists deem repugnant. Antifa activists used clubs and dyed liquids against the white supremacists in Charlottesville and caused property damage. In one incident, an apparent antifa supporter punched white supremacist Richard Spencer in the face as he was giving an impromptu street interview and on another occasion, in Berkeley, it was reported that some threw Molotov cocktails."

EDIT: And, if you're looking for individuals, these fine folks from the FBI most wanted domestic terrorists:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt/donna-joan-borup

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt/elizabeth-anna-duke
Removing bots and accounts unconnected to an individual should be the priority. Police the mechanisms not the content.
tbh = to be honest, ofc = of course

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com) or even just typing something like "what does tbh mean?" into your preferred search engine will often help you find likely interpretations of unknown abbreviations, in my experience.
What Came First: The Village or the Temple? Or, the Mystery of Göbekli Tepe
Bob Ross episodes!
guided yoga nidra audios examples here: http://www.swamij.com/Meditations.htm
I agree with you in principle, and feel like tmux was written "for programmers" and therefore the author(s) felt it more important to be consistent than usable. For instance: I'm pretty sure with `tmux list-sessions` because the command inside tmux is `:list-sessions`.

It wouldn't be terribly hard to write a wrapper for the command itself that works the way you want it to. As simple as it seems, I think that would probably be something useful to create and release.
I think for me, "okay code" means that it's functional, debuggable, and up to professional sniff, but nothing flashy. As opposed to sexy-cool-trendy-meta-wow code.
Marriage has been shown to increase happiness. Having kids decreases happiness....

http://fortune.com/2016/05/09/mothers-marriage-parenthood/

Comparing couples with and without children, researchers found that the rate of the decline in relationship satisfaction is nearly twice as steep for couples who have children than for childless couples. In the event that a pregnancy is unplanned, the parents experience even greater negative impacts on their relationship.

It’s even worse for women than for men.

I for one do not like small children. Everything about small children and babies irritate me and I never wanted to be a father for that reason.

On the other hand, I became attached to my now step children from the first day I met them and I would move heaven and earth for them. But, they were already 9 and 14. Luckily, my wife also didn’t want more kids when we met. I’ll freely admit that it’s mostly caused by selfishness. Not financial selfishness, but with a teenager and a preteen, we never had to find babysitters when we wanted to go out and my wife and I could have plenty of alone time.

When I hung out with just my (step) children we could actually relate. In a lot of ways, I’m a big kid and they always joke when I say something that “this is reason number X that I will never make father of the year”.
You can jam unjammable laser. If there was something like fog or rain it could block it's line of sight.
"There is zero reason that fonts need to be served third party."

Except for caching. If you use the same font as another web site I've visited recently, I'd rather my browser re-use the already-downloaded font file, rather than downloading the (probably) same file from you. Especially if it's a large font file with Chinese characters.
Stripe and the worst one has to be Braintree.
Goodbye OpenSSL, and Hello to Google Tink
Your values aren’t universal. In some places water is abundant.
Google shows you ads based on what you type in so you are directly telling them what you're looking for at that moment. That's a pretty good position to be in as an advertiser. Some people will do what you do and go right to a specific search site, but others will start that process at Google.

Amazon can do the same, but the user is probably already looking to buy, although with less breadth of category coverage. Amazon is also more of a closed ecosystem, which is less flexible for advertisers but probably better for conversion.
Yep, this is a habit that seems to die hard for people. A modern dishwasher, even a $400 one, does not require you to rinse your dishes. It’s like magic, that turgidity sensor.
(OP)

>The odontoid process on my C7 got snapped

Do you mean tip of your C7? because AFAIK only tip of C2 is called odontoid.

>my arms sometimes become totally unresponsive

Did you check your spine again recently? I would suggest you to consult a spine surgeon.

>But I can't help but wonder what might happen

Consulting the surgeon immediately would be helpful, like all medical treatments; earlier is best.
You said there's zero reason for fonts to be served by a third party.

And then you're saying that part of your proposed solution is for the user (party 1) to download the font not from your site (party 2) but from Icomoon (party 3, i.e. literally a third party).

Did I miss something?