skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Varo | San Francisco (Montgomery/Sutter) or Salt Lake City

Varo is building all-mobile bank from from the ground up, redefining what banking can be to consumers. We have a social mission to improve the financial health of all Americans and we're doing that by making access to premium banking completely fee-free. Varo is bringing a customer-first approach and startup DNA to a modern tech stack to redefine an old and broken industry. Based in San Francisco and Utah and privately held, Varo has raised $79M to date, led by Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund.

We are hiring for all sorts of engineers (front-end, back-end, full-stack, iOS, Android, security) and non-engineers (marketing, finance, design, program management, and risk management):
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These are opportunity to get in early, work on small teams coached by industry experts and seasoned executives, but make a big impact on people's’ lives and on an industry. We will be scaling quickly and it's a great time to join!
Applying GTD to Email
very true, not that friends dont exploit us too, its just done in more subtle ways so you often dont notice it.

but i have a very different way of looking at the world than most
An Apple Watch, of course. It's the blinged-out one studded with Swarovski crystals, which is how you know it's the model for IT pros.

The builds admittedly take a bit longer, but that's a small price to pay for style.
Imagine...

No need to imagine. There are innumerable cases over the years where cops have turned into stalkers backed by the power of the government when their girlfriends dump them. It happened to one of my ex-es, but I've seen it in newspapers dozens of times over the years.

The problem is that cops are still people. And people are often messy, emotional, irregular, obsessive, mean, or just have a bad day and need someone to take it out on.

Wetware will be wetware. All we can do is advocate for better training and smarter policies.
> Don't mean to get political, but when many U.S. administrations talk of throwing billions towards military weapons, but nowhere near as much towards positive research like this, it just gets me frustrated.

The US benefits much more from developing cutting-edge weaponry than a cure for a deadly but rare health problem. It should be noted that military programs like the F35 involve both research in many fields of hard science and engineering, and generates demand for highly technical and highly specialized areas of expertise.

These military programs may not cure cancer but improve the lives of a whole lot of people within the US.
I used to be a pretty big Musk supporter, but he's becoming increasingly juvenile. His tweets like this make me feel like I'm back in high school.
I'm glad you brought this point up, because in both cases it comes down to having the humility to understand your general skills aren't very useful without specialized knowledge.

I think software development is less guilty of this, because the usual refrain is "if they're good, they can learn the specific stuff on the job." So the industry (generalizing here) might not always hire for expertise, but it does clearly value having it long term.

On the other hand, MBA's were invented with the idea of "general management" as a career. Sometimes it works, often it doesn't. Even in the elite business schools I've spent time around, I don't often see a culture of valuing expertise. The MBA's I've met who did have domain/discipline expertise either already had it going into their MBA program, or specifically sought out optional classes for it.

All of that said, if you pay attention, MBA usually have a lot to offer in teaching soft skills. I've seen Harvard Business School's curriculum, and I genuinely believe that classes to teach communication and negotiation should be undergraduate core requirements rather than attached to an expensive secondary degree. I wouldn't have paid HBS's asking rate for that kind of training, but if I had that in undergrad, I would have been much more effective coming out of college.
Have a random number of partitions and answer yes.
This is mostly true. One can wander - botaing, fishing, camping, etc. - between the banks of any waterway of any size in Texas and they will be considered to be remaining on public property unless the stream, creek, river, etc. has its entire length from headwaters to terminus with larger stream on property belonging to one owner.

In other words, if the stream you're following begins and ends on property belonging to one owner and no part of that stream is owned or shared with a second party then that stream is entirely private property and access would require permission.

Therefore, short feeder streams in the watersheds may be private property but the majority of waters in Texas are public property between the banks.

People still need to respect the land owner's rights to ask them to tone down parties, control size of any fires, etc. so that their activities don't adversely impact the landowner's property. They also need to remain between the banks unless they have permission to wander around the floodplain, woods, or pastures.
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This is another reason (along with preventing remote hacks etc.) that vote-by-mail[1] is much more reasonable. It provides you with as much time as you need to look up candidates and issues.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote-by-mail_in_Oregon
> Or wipe your phone, restore backup from cloud on arrival.

I'd wager the agents could legitimately (for some deranged, modern usage of that word) require that you either surrender your phone anyway or restore it immediately so they can review what you're clearly planning on bringing into the country.
Heroku, HBO, Discord, Amazon Prime, etc all have free trials/plans that require a credit card . . .
> you don't see a lot of MBAs sitting by a coder's desk and saying that they're choosing the wrong name for a function

So basically, you are implying that MBAs are aware of their boundaries but scientists and engineers aren't? I think a little of introspection might be in order here.
I've often wondered this too. how can one be a master at something they have never actually done? and running a small online or mom and pop shop doesn't really count in most cases. MBA right after a bachelors seems silly to me.
Auterion | Zurich, Switzerland | multiple software, system and testing roles | Full-time

https://auterion.com/open-positions/

About Auterion:
We are leaders in a movement that is bigger than ourselves. We enable new business by creating better technology the open source way, and by connecting the community of developers, contributors, and companies.

In 2008 our founder created PX4 and Pixhawk, the most widely adopted permissive open source projects in the drone industry.

Today, we are the largest contributor to PX4 and the software platform powers consumer, commercial, and industrial drones of every type, from multicopters to VTOLs.
Economists in Tech [pdf]
It's amazing the stuff I've found with unit tests. Two from the top of my memory: a semaphore deadly embrace, and using a pure virtual function in the destructor of a base class.

Then there's the confidence of knowing, with fairly high accuracy, whether my changes broke anything. Then there's the value of finding out very quickly whether any of my co-workers' changes broke anything.

What are they? They are tests that you can run all the time, because they're fast. They test all (hopefully) of the external behaviors of your class. (That is, they test the behaviors that a caller should be able to count on. They don't test the internal details, because the user shouldn't care if you change those.)

Maybe the best way to learn them is to work with people who use them well - more apprenticeship than book learning.
> How can I learn more

Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development (or internet search for that term). Then look for a specific tutorial for your programming language. Each test suite has different syntax. For more theoretical approach the books by Kent Beck.
I'm glad. Big middle finger to the shorts and the mass media who seems to love to post negative news on Tesla. Why didn't they include that the model 3 was the most popular sedan this quarter?

I personally put more money in Tesla on Friday and woke up to a nice surprise this morning.
Kadena | Haskell Engineer, Frontend Javascript Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | Full-time, ONSITE

Kadena is hiring a Haskell Software Engineer familiar with functional programming languages and interested in learning Haskell to build out our new public-chain protocol, Chainweb, and further our work in formal verification of smart contracts.

Kadena is building the leading blockchain platform for businesses and enterprises by solving scalability and security concerns that impede widespread blockchain adoption. Founded by two lead engineers from JP Morgan’s blockchain group, our existing technology stack consists of our open-source smart contract language Pact and our private-chain protocol, ScalableBFT, products that are already in use with Fortune-100 clients, coded entirely in Haskell. We believe Haskell lends a decisive advantage through drastically enhanced productivity, excellent concurrency and parallelization support, unbeatable programming-language tooling, and sheer pleasure of coding. We can’t wait to see what you will add to our stack!

http://kadena.io/

For more information, email mightybyte@gmail.com
Noom | Fullstack, Backend, iOS, Data Analysis, Product Management | NYC or REMOTE | FULLTIME | https://noom.com

At Noom, we use scientifically-proven methods to help users get a handle on chronic medical conditions like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. We use a variety of technologies, and get to work on hard problems that range from data warehousing to running experiments on mobile devices.

Our entire engineering team is expanding, and we have openings for a number of position that include backend and frontend engineering, data analysis, and product management. Our offices are in NYC, but we are a remote-friendly organization (some 90% of our team is remote) and are happy to consider candidates anywhere.

You can see our openings (alongside a brief description of some of our perks, like our on-site chef, flex hours, and much more) at https://www.noom.com/careers-listings/?department=engineerin....

I'm Noom's VP of Engineering -- feel free to drop me a note if you have question at mt at noom dot com.
It was certainly very segregated. I only ever saw ZX Spectrum games in the local computer store, and briefly, as all my friends had C64's, and to this date I don't think I've seen a BBC Micro in person, nor one of the 8-bit Atari's. The Atari ST I did see a few times, but again in the local computer store - my friends mostly stayed "loyal" to Commodore and upgraded to Amigas, or defected to PC's.
Epidemic of empty stores threatens shopping malls
Kepler Put in Sleep Mode as Telescope’s Pointing Performance Degrades
Thanks for the feedback, will you ask me three questions right here (something more specific than "i dont know what this is"), so that when I rework the copy I can make sure they are clearly answered above the fold? That would be really valuable, thanks in advance.
BoxBoat Technologies | Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, IaaS Expert | DC | REMOTE, FULL-TIME, VISA | https://boxboat.com | careers@boxboat.com

BoxBoat helps global companies develop, integrate, and deploy applications faster with emerging technologies, most notably Kubernetes.

Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer positions open

Candidates bring deep technical expertise with a self-starter passion to enable successful adoption of containers and distributed technologies in customer environments. They are problem solvers at heart, coders and scripters for work and play, and above all understand the impact containerization, infrastructure, and automation can bring to a DevOps workflow.

401k, Healthcare benefits, Industry-experts staff, and ability to implement cutting edge technologies and frameworks.
I am looking for a good, interesting and easy to understand book on Chemistry for beginners. What textbook do you recommend which covers both organic and inorganic?
You can grow intellectually anywhere.
It’s a happy accident that bring your own device bought Apple into the enterprise and now they are able to leverage that and do partnership deals with the likes of IBM and SAP (?)
BoxBoat Technologies | Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, IaaS Expert | DC | REMOTE, FULL-TIME, VISA | https://boxboat.com | careers@boxboat.com

BoxBoat helps global companies develop, integrate, and deploy applications faster with emerging technologies, most notably Kubernetes.

Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer positions open
Candidates bring deep technical expertise with a self-starter passion to enable successful adoption of containers and distributed technologies in customer environments. They are problem solvers at heart, coders and scripters for work and play, and above all understand the impact containerization, infrastructure, and automation can bring to a DevOps workflow.

401k, Healthcare benefits, Industry-experts staff, and ability to implement cutting edge technologies and frameworks.
People have expressed these arguments in:

- Conference talks

- Essays posted to libertarian blogs

- Private corporate memos written after feedback was explicitly requested

Probably others.

The same thing was said in every case: "it's not the right forum, it's insensitive and without empathy".

How incredibly surprising that there doesn't seem to be any right forum or right time for expressing opinions about anti-male bias. Somehow it's always offensive and it's always terrible that women were upset.

It looks almost as if some people want to shut that conversation down wherever it happens.
In Venezuela, only the local currency is a problem. You could still send dollars. And refugee camps, might be better off getting food and medicine directly.
I think what he’s doing is reckless and his behaviour is really immature. A CEO is supposed to be doing the opposite of everything he has been doing for the last few weeks.
Most other outlets have described the tweet as cryptic or enigmatic....

My guess is he is somehow taunting the shorts. He has posted songs for them in the past... namely that song "who wears short shorts?"

Perhaps he is saying... the SEC is cheating on the shorts with him. Cuz... it's widely suspected the SEC was influenced by short sellers.

https://medium.com/@andrewt3000/suspicious-timing-in-sec-law...
I'm sure in true Apple style, it's entirely custom, works fairly well, and much more expensive than any alternatives.

If it has hardware problems they probably need to scrap the entire thing and rebuild it from scratch.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110731 (56 comments)
Patent law is complicated and noone can give a final guarantee that AV1 will be fine.

However given AV1 has some large companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft behind it and they probably have an interest in making this a success they probably asked for their legal teams opinion. I'd say chances are high that it's gonna be fine.
The largest owners of video coding IP have agreed publicly not to litigate on the enormous body of existing patents that apply to AV1.
Instagram Co-Founders Announce Adam Mosseri as New Head of Instagram
Didn't Sega have the "Sega Channel" for streaming roms to something like this at one point?

I do remember being impressed with virtua fighter and virtua racing having processors embedded in the cart - that was a creative way to give life to the Genesis - obviously not being able to be be burned at the store unless there was a custom cart
We had too low variations in load over the day to make elastic usage cost effective for the most part, so it made very little difference. Indeed, one of the most cost effective ways of using AWS is to not use it, but be ready to use it to handle traffic spikes. Do that and you can load your dedicated servers much closer to capacity, while almost never having to spin any instances up.
Exposure of Confidential Issues on Public Projects through the Events API
Please don't default to a subreddit with the word "porn" in its title, even if it was (at least for me) r\SkyPorn (skyscapes, etc).
What stands out to me is the supportive comments on the Kickstarter page for this announcement. I only speed-read the first page, but they're almost uniformly "that's OK, you gave it your all". One person said they found his updates inspiring.

He may not have reached his goal, it may have been an unrealistic goal for one person, but clearly he ran the process in such a way that he kept his supporters rooting for him. Compare that to the pitchfork-and-torches ending of a lot of failed Kickstarter projects.
it's a shame that people had to guard their drugs! and now their privacy!
If you are carrying a phone and laptop out of the country in this day and age with all of the contents of your digital life on it then you're an idiot. Last couple of trips I used a postpaid phone and a cheap chromebook. They want the phone keep it. They want the laptop keep it. I sure as hell dont want it back after they've planted who knows what on it after their "investigation".
>Even if someone were able to obtain an unauthorized copy, a decent CD-ROM drive, sans burning capabilities, still cost in the neighborhood of $600.

I was part of the early CD-ROM days with a Yamaha CD-ROM burner in 1994. It was well over $3000. It wasn't until 1995 that HP introduced a writer for under $1000 at $995. Worse, the early burners didn't have any cache, so to support the Yamaha, I was using a high-end dual-processor Pentium system that was in the neighborhood of $16,000 and I still got plenty of buffer under-runs! On top of all this, the first writeable CD's I purchased were in the $30/each range.
well, after a tweet that costed that much money, i would probably never tweet again if I were him. however, it was a naughty by nature youtube link, so I guess that is rather harmless
Yes good point, the connections are really good in that sense. The time-scale is a bit misleading at least for me. I don’t know how it could be improved, maybe each segment of connected philosophers could have their own time-scales. I’m not sure time is as relevant really, some questions are timeless as well as different answers to them..
So how does the world work then?
Seems like you're moving the goalposts though: the original question was whether Magic Leap is "unethical," not how much damage they could do by being unethical. Releasing much-hyped, highly-produced, and very compelling marketing content while knowing your company can't possibly deliver on it certainly meets my bar for unethical.

It's certainly not as bad as Theranos, sure - but bilking consumers (or investors) can still be unethical too. If your bar for a company acting unethical requires literally killing people, you'll be overlooking a lot of bad behavior...
Orwellian is often used to describe deliberate and malicious censorship of information, but I think perhaps this case is an even more accurate parallel: creating a convoluted automated system where all participants can believe they are acting ethically but the net effect is censorship of information which would damage the system and restriction of individual expression.
That's the philosophy of C, and most parts of C++.
> When there's no mystery, there's no magic, I guess?

Things might no longer be magic then, but it's better if we can learn to enjoy them anyway.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...
Unfortunately for everyone, it seems like his personality is toxic to others and himself. If you read some of the articles about him, he "regrets buying the property" and to me seems pretty conflicted about the whole ordeal. He even "support[s] the Coastal Act"!

Can anyone give a reason for why he claims $30 million for the easement (6 acres, privacy)? I've heard he paid something less than $35 million for the whole property (94 acres). Articles say that the village is part of what he purchased; clearly all those beach homes are worth more than $5 million.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/vinod-khosla-b...
[1] https://medium.com/@vkhosla/martins-beach-a-matter-of-princi...
Gov signs bill requiring California corporate boards to include women
That's not irrational at all. Why would the decisions of people 50 years ago have any impact on my hiring decisions today? You will rapidly end up arguing about subconscious bias and other things you can't prove.

The idea that innocent people today should suffer for supposed crimes of their ancestors is called 'corruption of blood' and it's explicitly forbidden by the US Constitution as well as most notions of human rights.
I don't think this would work. If the fee was too high, then smaller companies and individuals would be locked out of patents. If the fee is too low, then it doesn't matter and large companies will continue business as usual.
What Are the Advantages of Blockchain for the Hospitality Industry?
When I arrive at the airport I use my phone for maps, my travel info, my contacts, my reservations, busses, trains, taxis, uber, messages with people I'm coordinating with, my travel notes, etc...

Or are you suggesting I should camp out in the airport for a few hours to restore my phone before I can figure out where I'm going and get ahold of my contacts?

Oh let me guess. Your solution so to print those contacts and maps (oh, no GPS to figure out where I am on that map) and use a pay phone (because I still need to re-install the apps I'd normally be using to contact people). Heck, I don't actually have phone numbers for > 90% of my friends. I just have them on Facebook, Line, WhatsApp. The only people I have phone numbers for are for people who've been friends longer than about 15 years, in other words before messaging
Mike,
How do you discover new customers ? (leads channel)
And after discovering new leads how do you follow up ? do you send cold emails/cold calls ?
that mode should be almost always on - the CBP in US can do all that fun stuff to you at any time as long as you're closer than 100 miles to any US border - including ocean. So, for example, CBP can do anything they want to anybody in San Francisco. Granted, for now they do that mostly to "brown" people - well they need to start somewhere to get us into that shiny totalitarian future and of course the start is always with the most vulnerable.
Was this tweet directed at the SEC? Or is that the assumption?
A portion of the whole value of an MBA is the networks, and why pay into a network with people within a nation that has an uncertain policy regarding foreign visitors and business people.
> He then spent $6,000 of his own money to launch a formal challenge to 936.

Either he has a lot of spare time and money or this isn't the full story.
Real estate 101: location, location, location.
MBA 101: network, network, network.
I am a data scientist who spent my early career doing lots of BI work before moving on to my current role (years ago). I don't have an MBA, only a quantitative Ph.D.

BI is more related to analytics than DS (broadly defined, DS deals with predictive, while BI deals with descriptive), and typically falls under the purview of data analysts. It also isn't really a prerequisite for DS work. Also, BI is a skill that is easily acquired in industry rather than in school.

I don't know if an MBA is necessarily more useful than a MSCS if you want to become a data scientist. On the hiring end, quantitative training is strongly preferred for true DS positions over qualitative. Given a pool of people with quantitative degrees vs MBAs, it is very likely the former will have an advantage.

The only exception is if the position isn't truly a DS one; many people advertise data analyst under a DS title to get a broader pool of candidates. It's common practice these days.
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U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Take Martins Beach (Vinod Khosla) Case