skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead the central bank engages in various forms of manipulation, like via the "QE" programmes that involved asset purchases. So, the prices of certain financial assets go up.

The last round of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, QE3, ended in 2014. (QE1 began in 2008.) If these price effects for health care and housing began in 2008 and ended in 2014, it would make sense to blame QE, but they didn't, so it doesn't.

Price effects that are associated with government vs. private expenditures are not the same as inflation. That's just governments being bad (perhaps intentionally bad?) at spending taxpayer money efficiently. However, when it comes to health care in particular, that just isn't the case either--Medicare and Medicaid pay much lower prices for medical procedures than private insurance companies do.
It's not clear from the headline, but version 1.0 of the book has just been released:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/combined.html

Available on Amazon as of today.
Digital objects are different in that they usually contain your private memories, pictures etc. and it's entirely possible to reconstruct a complete network of your friends, family, history, affairs, trade secrets etc. from a single phone search.

Physical objects usually don't reveal this much at once and require a warrant. With a border phone search, there's no due process at all. If you're so afraid of bad actors that you're willing to subject yourself to this, you're free, but the bad actors have won.
From the stories my wife--a bank employee--has told me, I'll bet on the phishers.
This sounds awful. This is a problem I have with a lot of Netflix's content. It's nobody's baby. There's no singular vision behind it where a person came up with a story they want to tell. Instead it's algorithmically generated like "Here's some things that popular things have in common, write a story around these elements". That can get something passable sometimes, but mostly not.

Most great art is the product of one mind at the most basic level. Of course with something like a TV show or movie there are thousands of people involved, but there has to a captain to the ship, so to speak. Otherwise it just floats around aimlessly because multiple people can be pulling it in different directions.

It's riskier, because if that person is bad, the whole thing is going to turn out bad, but it's the only way to get something truly good.
I wonder if billionaires think that they, in the case of Kholsa, will live another 2-3 decades and will leave this planet for good. Why fight over petty things? I understand that he bought a property, but man why piss off people and go into revenge mode if you could just let go of your high privilege and allow public access? Or buy a property somewhere else. They won’t have the time to spend their earnings before they die.
How I integrated CSS Modules with SCSS into my React application
Serious question: why would you assume profits are shared among employees, rather than the 99% case of them simply being paid a salary?
Just a tiny thing I made for compiling DOT graphs to Markov chain implementations in Python.
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That process started under the bush administration, so it’s not just dems.

The answer for that of course is that banks especially pay every representative, regardless of party.
Bingo. I am still struggling with 200k dsl I happily pay 75 a month for. And I consider myself lucky as most of my neighbors are too far from the DSLAM for any connectivity. The rural are the new underclass in america. The amount of hate and incredulity of anyone who does not adopt an urban lifestyle I see on HN is astounding.
This happened to my friend in Canada (who was born in and retains citizenship in Canada). They also told use they would use a spectrogram to determine if we had cannabis with us. I think it was an attempt to scare us, assuming we had very little knowledge. Turns out, their definition of spectrogram is tearing our entire car apart. Mostly the interior panels. Thought that was pretty interesting :-)
I'm taking quite the beating on moderation for this, but I'm genuinely curious if someone thinks I've actually misrepresented the contents of the talk. I actually read the slides carefully, talked with some folks on Twitter, and tried to lay it out. Other than the bit about the comics I think I wrote an outline here devoid of the specific statistical arguments we already covered.
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That was also my expectation. I leave my phone plugged into the charger and on Wi-Fi every night while I sleep. Nevertheless, the iCloud Backup status usually shows that the last successful backup was more than 24 hours ago.
I'm really surprised it still exists. I've actually tried to use a few of these services on OS X server at various points in the past. It never worked very well behind NAT; anyone that can afford their own IP space is not going to need hand held through setting up Dovecot or BIND.

The GUI is supposed to make it easy to get this kind of stuff set up without really understanding what it does. But, something strange always went wrong which required trying to understand what the hell the open source software was doing at the same time as trying to understand where in the configuration file hierarchy the apple GUI was inserting its config and what this was doing.

Having tinkered a bit with various services on Linux since, its much easier to cut out the middle man, install from scratch and configure a vanilla installation using the config files. All the helpful comments on the options in the config files make it much easier to understand what's happening anyway.
Do you have any references to running GPU workloads on a Mac VM?
It seems like a prescriptive easement could come into play. In california it seems like it only takes 5 years.

In texas no beaches are private and all waterways are public.
I'd also recommend The science of good cooking by Guy Crosby. I found it to be a more enjoyable read than McGee's. Not as technical which was a boon for me since as a home cook there's a lot more information that can be readily skipped.

For learning to cook: The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America is a great book to learn from. All the recipes will need to be scaled down for home usage which is a bit of a nuisance though.
For the home cook, Essentials Of Cooking, The Elements Of Cooking, or How To Cook Everything: The Basics, are all excellent too. I couldn't decide which was the best, so I listed them all!

For Flavours: The Flavor Bible gives an easy way to look up an ingredient, and see what else would go well with it. Great for creating your own dishes!

The Flavor Thesaurus gives in-depth information about combinations of ingredients, why they work, and how best to use them.
Also recommend the Field guide to herbs and spices which gives more general information about each spice/herb than the Thesaurus. They pair well together.

The Magic Of Spice Blends is a great recipe book of various spice blends, and information about them, along with showing you how to formulate your own concoctions.

Pastries and baking: The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry by Bo Friesberg or Baking And Pastry: Mastering The Art And Craft from The Culinary Institute of America. Either or.

Confections: Chocolates and Confections by Peter Greweling.

Bread: Either Jeffrey Hamelman Bread: A Baker's book of techniques and recipes or Peter Reinhart The Bread Baker's Apprentice.

Reference:
Dictionary Of Flavors. Literally a Dictionary of anything culinary related. Useful on those rare occasions.
> As to your first statement, ignoring how disingenuous it is, if those standards did have a reasonable justification for applying them to inter-regional travel the fact that we do not apply those policies to inter-regional travel does not negate the justification for applying those policies on the international border. It's not binary.

So what is that justifying difference that you seem to think exists?
Actually, it would simply make terrorists avoid official border crossings. They could, for example, pay a human trafficker $2000 to get them over the border with Mexico.

Of course, you would then request for brain scanning technology to be more widely employed and that brain scanners be installed in the subway, on buses, gas stations and any other place drug dealers and terrorists could happen to go by. I think we all know what is the end for this line of reasoning.
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BlueLabs helps organizations personalize their engagements with individuals, optimize communications, and achieve their strategic goals through data science. Our team of more than 40 data scientists, engineers, and strategists come from diverse backgrounds but share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Our clients range from political campaigns and advocacy organizations, to government agencies, to startups and fortune 500 companies in a range of industries. Through our work, we’ve directly and measurably improved the health and financial security of millions of Americans.

We are hiring software engineers-- particularly with backgrounds in data engineering/ETL or infrastructure/DevOps-- to help us support our clients by building and supporting data pipelines and developing the data science platform we deploy internally and for our clients. We're looking for engineers who want to work collaboratively, learn new things, and take projects from conception to production.

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Groundwater use by cities is more economically productive than it's use by agriculture. The former should be privileged in the inevitable allocation conflicts.
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Am I the only one who feels sharper and more adapt while somewhat hungry? Food makes me lethargic. I've never been sympathetic to ideas that "you should always eat breakfast!". If possible, I'd prefer to skip breakfast and lunch.

My idea: our ancestors were opportunistic savanna hunters. Why would we be unable to maintain homeostasis with respect to cognition even without food? Our ancestors would have needed their best cognition when they lacked food!
For what is worth, it's a position in Europe, and it's usual here for work agreements to set lengthy notice periods.

And while I agree with your argument, I was initially informed this wasn't a final date, but rather just something to aim for.
I think this analogy is wrong. It is more like the difference between showing a stranger a picture of yourself naked vs handing the stranger a hard drive with naked pictures of yourself. In both cases, you know they are doing it but it is only in the former case where you can be slightly more informed of exactly what they are doing with that information.
How often do they assume that non-scams are scams?

That part has always made me curious when talking about these tests, I mean I have a mostly fool proof way (type the url or navigate to it from the main page), but even including "this page is not linked from anywhere else for security, you must click the link) would probably fool people. Especially because I can imagine many orgs would actually include that.
Yes, and am not willing to have my privacy violated for dumb criminals.
By some gas stations. Locals know which of them and who's the owner, usually someone untouchable by local authorities because they're in cahoots.

Organized crime isn't thriving because authorities don't have intelligence, it's thriving because it has greased the surrounding gears.
And even he has lots of things to hide, he just doesn't know it. If he didn't he'd made his emails and all photos and file public.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

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What I do: Prototype development. Feasibility studies. Data migration, transformation, and processing.

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

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* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* School data processing app (Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL)

* Custom data dashboards (R, Geckoboard)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

* Proof-of-concept hardware development for projects linking the physical and virtual worlds in real time (Arduino, Node.js)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Clojure, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir / Phoenix, FreeBSD

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Scientist | Software Engineer & Data Scientist | San Diego | Full-time | REMOTE | https://scientist.com

What we do: Scientist.com is a growing services marketplace which helps Scientists the world-over find, initiate, and track service requests. We're at many of the largest pharmaceutical and biotech institutions in the world. We enable the outsourced workflows which increase efficiencies and facilitate compliance. And we're growing.

What you would do: The web application is in great shape but we need to answer more business questions. We want to provide data and tools to our finance and business analysts based on events from the application. The first big project would be maintaining an ETL pipeline for loading data in to AWS Redshift and supporting our internal customers with Quicksight or Tableau.

You would be collaborating with experienced application owners who know the datas ins and outs, you would not be learning the system in a vacuum. That won't be the end of it, we'd also like to support more developer friendly tools like Jupyter.

You'd also be supporting the Kubernetes cluster, helping to track system health, improving our CI/CD system, internal metrics and logging, performing cluster upgrades, and doing a variety of security ops. I think this part is more minor but any experience with operating Kubernetes is desired. If you like Rust, this also a great job for you, I'd love to have utilities or even small webapps written in Rust.

You can apply here: https://goo.gl/apmN3F
If you have any questions, email me at xavier@scientist.com
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We run private 4G/LTE networks using container technology. The idea is 4G delivered as simply as WiFi for remote locations with industrial equipment. Expeto sim cards can roam off of private radios onto major carriers internationally with data paths managed by our customers i.e. access to corporate VPNs or gateway'd to the public internet.

Broad array of technologies: JVM languages (java, clojure, groovy), Postgres, docker + kubernetes, telecom networking protocols, message queues.

In brief, the technical challenge of Expeto is to provide an API to manage 4G networks for non-experts.

Apply here: https://expetowireless.recruitee.com/o/senior-software-engin... and mention this hacker news post.
I haven’t eaten breakfast in 15 years, and have lunch about 2pm. It genuinely makes me think clearer.
https://newrepublic.com/article/121807/when-holocaust-became...
Could you share your top 1-3 ideas for solving this problem?
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We are building one of the world’s leading platforms to make insurance accessible. Since 2012, we are proudly “Made in Berlin”: we are very international with 150+ people from over 30+ countries working daily in our central Berlin office. Our internationalism is reflected also in our business since we are active in over 28 countries.

InsurTech is just taking off https://blog.ycombinator.com/thoughts-on-insurance/ and we’ve been there from the beginning.

What we are looking for:

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> It wouldn't stop those things though, there will always be a weak point.

If that is your argument, then I don't think anyone can convince you.

> What it would do is erode the rights and freedoms of law abiding citizens (something that terrorists seem to want).

That's not how Wikipedia (and I myself) define terrorism:

> Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.
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Sailthru is one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in NYC. Our retail and publishing customers are among the largest organizations worldwide and they use our platform to provide a connected customer experience across email, web and mobile. We use data science to drive predictive marketing. We're a technology team that...

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> But you cannot market "bad" indie games to be successful.

This doesn't seem to be a disagreement? Quality is necessary for a successful indie game, but that's very different than being sufficient.

I can easily imagine a world where Stardew Valley failed, but I can't imagine a world where Hunt Down The Freeman succeeded. Given the sheer rate at which new games are released, I expect that a majority of polished, fun indie games fail or at least don't see major Terraria-tier success. Heck, half of my Steam library consists of clever, well-executed indie games from Humble Bundles that got near-zero coverage and sold near-zero copies. Orwell, Antichamber, Distance, and a lot of others all had the quality to sell much better than they did.

And beyond that, I think our standards for quality are usually biased by whether a game succeeded. Factorio is absolutely full of grainy, repeated textures, but took off just fine. Dungeons of Dredmor crashes constantly and went through three major expansions without fixing fundamental bugs like "this skill doesn't function", but it's a hugely successful and widely-praised indie title. Subnautica is constantly criticized for just sort of aimlessly ending. It's easy to look at a failed game and say it didn't sell because it was buggy, or looked ugly, or had a weak ending, but all of those things are present in lots of hugely successful indie games. Above some minimal threshold like "no unbearable flaws, one or more excellent elements", it looks to me like luck and marketing are absolutely crucial factors.
Gravitational Inc | Toronto, Canada | Software Engineer | Onsite | https://gravitational.com

About us

Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun [1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand [2] and some other cool stuff [3] at Rackspace and are authors of Teleport [4] and Teleconsole [5].

We are hackers. We love Linux and low level systems programming and we love helping open source communities and other engineers to get things done. Our stack is 100% Linux and Golang with JavaScript/React for dynamic web front-ends.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits (including a founder shares equity grant, platinum level healthcare insurance, commuter benefits and a stocked kitchen).

About you

For this role we're looking for a generalist full-stack software engineer, preferably located in Toronto, Canada (but we're willing to consider exceptional candidates elsewhere). You understand how computers work and what role an operating system plays? You know why the Linux kernel is written in C and not any other language? Most likely we'll want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

Gravitational builds tools for developers, we are not a SaaS company but we still need to develop web apps. You will own the development & maintenance of the customer portal, the web site, the blog and other web applications that we're running.

Contact

Either reach out to my personal email in my profile or jobs@gravitational.com

[1] https://mailgun.com
[2] http://vulcand.github.io/api.html
[3] https://blog.rackspace.com/onmetal-the-right-way-to-scale
[4] https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
[5] https://www.teleconsole.com