skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oura Health | Helsinki, Finland | Python Backend Developer | Onsite | https://ouraring.com

Oura ring is a smart ring that measures your sleep, activity, night-time body signals like HR, HRV and temperature. Oura app helps our users to improve their sleep and recovery.

Both Oura Ring and Oura App has won Red Dot Design Awards. We have passionate users that love our product and high-profile individual investors helping us.

We are looking for Python backend developers to strengthen our backend team. There are interesting challenges ranging from Data Engineering and Data Architecture and optimizing processing pipelines to machine learning and algorithm together with our science team.

Note: These positions are onsite in Helsinki, Finland only. We want to build the strong enough onsite team before extending to remote positions.

https://ouraring.com/careers/
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> Aside from the fun problems the rest of that industry can die in a fire. The basic business model is to prey on people's passion so that they pour themselves into the job for 3-5 years and then burn out leaving open a slot for the next poor soul who signs up.

Fellow ex-gamedev confirmed. :P

I ended up in robotics / industrial automation. Many of the same challenges without the issues. Plus, giant robots! Like, real ones.
Everyone want to make money. They sell ad space, not news.
Tell the recruiter you're a backend developer, and are interested in one of those positions instead.

The backend interview lets you choose whatever language you want. You'll be asked algorithms, distributed design, code quality, and data-structure questions.

Generally speaking, if you focus too much on a programming language / stack, it comes off as a sign that you're not a good fit, since you emphasize programmer skills, but they're looking for engineers. Except for particular roles, like front-end dev, where they're looking for programmers with experience in the technology stack itself.
I do agree, the thing is 90% of the API users just want to render a mesh of some sort and not write a high performance render engine able to sustain 90 FPS under all conditions.
Vivaldi shows domains in punycode by default. I believe this is the only reasonable solution, otherwise browser makers will always be playing catch-up with exploiters.
I know that for https in NSS browsers (Chrome and FF) you can dump the secrets to a file that Wireshark can read.
Given that Chrome is currently the biggest user i would be supprised if that was easy to update.
Don't get me wrong. I am sure it is a massively popular book.

But I have not found stats that break down the "150 million over 60 years". It was published on 1954 + 60 years = 2014. The movies are made in 2001. So what is the % of sales for 48 years versus the 14 years after 2001? I am not sure really.
Bram Moolenaar: Support for (vim) plugin authors needs to be improved (poll)
Bancruptcy court only gets involved when it has been determined that the company doesn't have enough money to pay off all their debts.

Currently the company is undergoing volunatry liquidation, a phase during which they try to come to an agreement over their outstanding debts with their creditors, and try to make deals to prevent the worst case of having any outstanding debts at the end. At the same time they liquidate all their assets, so they can pay their creditors. You usually have better negotion skill/market insight/etc., so you can sell your assets at a higher price than the bancruptcy court would.

Usually, you would auction off the assets for the highest price in order to prevent insolvency, but here it seems they thought it would be better to try and defraud the creditors of their money.
No need, its spelled out pretty clearly in Google's TOS [0]:

> Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

> When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.

> Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored.

[0] https://policies.google.com/terms
Sure. I guess my argument is, judge them all you want, nothing will change unless they have a concrete incentive to act differently.
What’s social about a bunch of strangers screaming profanities at each other?

It should really be called angry mob media, if anything.

I see your point of course, but I’m not really worried about creating echo chambers by giving users more ownership over their own conversations.

If you started screaming at me in the real world, I’d walk away and probably never talk to you again. That’s an echo chamber, but it’s relatively harmless, and I think the same thing would apply to almost all of social media.

I’m sure political tweeters would be terrible at it, but would it really change anything? Right now thousands of people are trolling each other in Donald Trumps twitter feed, but do you think they make a difference? I don’t, in fact I don’t think anyone has ever really been pursauded of anything in a political twitter comment section.

Mean while, the rest of us are taken hostage by the angry mob and a lack of control of what ought to be our content.
Meaning that people shouldn’t be treated fairly if prison time is not on the table?

There are principles that are only binding to the government, but worth following outside of the courtroom in a civilized society. Innocent until proven guilty is one of them.
This is interesting. I’m a veteran and know first hand how terrible the system can be.

I’ve taight myself JavaScript and have recently learned Django with my current position. I don’t have any plans to leave the company now, but working on systems that can help out fellow veterans more easily is tempting.

Maybe in a year or two I’ll revisit this :)
Bitcoin completed a 10-year journey
Thanks, i did not know this two, they seems interesting and more modern than my lists.
El disertador de la realidad
BSD was the first mover, getting contributions until the suit happened.

A suit that was settled in about 2 years, and Linux also had its own set of suits.

Most companies that use BSD seldom give anything back thanks to the license.

MySQL is not a competitor to Postgres when one cares about real SQL support.
Thank you for this. While I love a good old nerd round of 'stump the wizard' I also appreciate someone pumping the breaks with some realism.

Some security conversations get to the point where it's stringing together a highly unlikely chain of scenarios requiring multiple pivots, multiple concurrent failures (stochastic or otherwise), and a state sponsored actor in order to slap a 'do not use' recommendation on something.

If companies like Nike can run _Magento_ and educational sites still require Flash then I can use JWTs. Maybe...
As an astute reader, you rightfully criticize the use of

<!DOCTYPE HTML [
...
<!ENTITY ICON6
SYSTEM "blah..">
...
]>
<HTML>
...
&ICON6
</HTML>

which doesn't make sense as it declares and then references a parsed entity containing HTML.
Of course, what should've been used instead is an SGML data entity:

<!NOTATION GIF SYSTEM>
<!ENTITY ICON6
SYSTEM "blah.."
NDATA GIF>

Interestingly, the discussion also evolves around the anchor tag vs allowing href attributes everywhere to make any element work like a hyperlink, as MathML did. The decision to go with anchor tags complicates HTML to this day. HTML5 uses the (unproven) concept of "transparent content" to specify that the content model of <a> is inherited from the context where <a> is inserted [1].

Another interesting tidbit here is that <img> is modelled as SGML EMPTY element (HTML5 "void" element), a decision that would later complicate integration of XML/XHTML which doesn't support elements without end-element tags.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html#transparent-content
1933, Lost Horizon, James Hilton, i forgot it, I have seen the Lost Horizon movie, but not the book, it must be a beautiful book.
> All the time I see a destination and I'm trying to figure out what closest cross street I should stop at

Instead of zooming pinching try to click the street to drop a pin and you got the street name.

Old abstractions (maps) on newer media (phones, desktops) offer a UX that cartmakers in the past could only dream off. It is up to us to break our old habits and discover and use this new UX.

For example. When the iPhone first came people complained about the lack of copy and paste. But most of the time people don't _need_ to copy and paste text, eg they _want_ to dial the phone number they see on a webpage. Therefore they _need_ to have the phone number in their phone app. A problem which can be solved many ways (eg: recognise numbers on a page and make them clickable links directly to phone app) of which copy and paste, though the most familiar, is really one of the worst in UX.

This is the difference between what people (think they) want and what they actually need.

Back to maps. People don't want to read street names, they want the nearest address to a certain s point. Of which zooming and pinching or a cluttered screen full of text are by far the most inferior ways to use of the technology available today.
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You mean 2019 :]
reposting what I've said about this before:

the US was the only country on earth that had nukes for 5 years and was unscathed from WWII. We could have demilitarized and enslaved the entire planet under threat of nuclear death, but instead we gave away billions to help Japan and Europe rebuild. There's never been a more selfless act in human history as far as a country not seizing an opportunity to gain power is concerned. There's probably never been a larger power disparity between a single country and the rest of the world than post WWII USA, and they did exactly nothing to take advantage of that disparity.

US is far from perfect, mainly due to unconstitutional actions by our intel community and military, but as far as superpowers go there's really no comparison.
Twitter is like 12 years old and has somewhere over 300 million users. It has been public for five years.

Whatever it may be, it is not pets.com
The ASCII one. There appears to be a bug in some URL parsers that converts things to punycode incorrectly.
The convenience utilities live on as DirectXTK, the C++ version of XNA.
Disappearances of citizens with forced apologies, if you say anything against the government you are crazy, Internet about as free as a house in the Hollywood Hills, other human rights abuses, social credit scores, total government surveillance. Sounds pretty bad to me.
Sounds like you're used to being spoonfed. American?
The jail time is only for people who know that the required annual data protection report the company files with the FTC does not comply with the requirements of the law, but certify to the FTC that it does.
WIth the auto upload feature of flickr I can imagine people using flickr as their main photo storage/backup.

And if they happen to not pay attention to announcements like these they might find their photo's irreverably gone in a few months.

Moves like this, so soon after the acquisition, with 0 lenience for existing users makes me not trust Flickr/SmugSmug anymore. What will be the next step when they will randomly delete your photo's?
Crazy to see Guido van Rossum comment too:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0259.ht...
I trust you often visit China and know how it is.
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> But given the law and personal risk, they’re now incentivized to find a solution to that problem

The only thing an executive can really do is issue a directive along the lines of 'we will do things this way', and then leave the interpretation of that directive to the lower ranks. Any mistakes in the implementation - even if all the interests are aligned - could lead to later accusations of mishandling of data.

I think that by now we can conclude that security is a hard problem, and that even companies that do their best (not EquiFax) are at risk.

Criminal negligence for executives is going to be very hard to prove, especially when a CEO could point to some directive that had the right intentions.

Also great to see a 'defined minimum standard of protection', but that definition had better be ironclad if you expect people to serve jailtime when those standards are violated.

I see another company every week and it is quite surprising how wide the range of security implementations is, from 'perfect' to 'incredibly sloppy', and I've yet to meet an executive that understood things well enough to know what risk exposure they had. Jailing such a CEO would just be petty revenge, and would not have the desired effect as an outcome.

If you are going to enforce jailtime then punishing the CTO/CISO/CCO would be more effective, at least they have the relevant knowledge, and would be far better placed to effect meaningful change.

We already have similar mechanisms for lower level employees violating various reporting laws regarding suspicious transactions (notaries, accountants, bank employees).
Full video analysis of Android banking Trojan found on Google Play
The temptation to use it to punish for opinions we don't like is just too strong. And as soon as somebody start using it that way, everybody else follows.
Not by Khronos given the C++ usage on Metal, as they still keep being too C focused.
Woa, you're right. I had never realized they were compiler warnings and not JS errors. Thanks for the tip.
yup, that's wrong on so many levels.

1 it's just asking for abusing a block option.

2 Imagine someone putting up a tweet supporting nazis or something and blocking everyone who doesn't agree, now it looks like majority supports that kind of stuff.
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As a product manager I am always on the lookout for ways to build better digital experiences.
Adopting the design thinking mentality helped me and my team be more creative by generating many ideas in a short period of time and repeating this effort every week.
Click the link to read more on how we managed to iterate faster on user experience.
I'm simple enough to think it's better to be in a compassionate place than in a toxic one.

True, Twitter and Facebook are not the first places when discussion tends to be angry and ugly. Old internet had plenty of that too.
But it was also much more fragmented, it was quite easy to leave the toxic places and move to the nicer corners of the internet.

10-15 years ago they were hundreds of "social" products. But they almost all died (even Google could not keep up) due to an intense darwinian pressure. Only the angriest have survived, those that optimized like psychopaths for user engagement.
It is hard to express tone through text, even between people who know each other well. Situations worsen depressingly quickly, it's too easy to feel offended.

From experience, I refrain from giving any negative feedback through Slack and go speak face to face. I also watch out for any misunderstanding lasting longer than a few minutes, even if it's between others people.

Hedonic index increased tremendously at work in a few weeks when co-workers started doing the same.
FWIW, I think you are totally correct if you take accuracy at face value.

You really have to compare precision and recall values to know if the accuracy statement holds true. You could have have 100% precision and low recall and still have 85% accuracy (meaning you could never flag someone as lying and be wrong while missing a bunch of liars and still have 85% accuracy).

but if everything is totally evenly distributed, then 85% accuracy means 85% accuracy and your first statement is correct.

The real issue is that accuracy is only one piece of the puzzle.
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That's not a denial that anything I said in the above comment is factually correct.

It's like being told you can't judge what color an orange if you've never eaten one.
I see you read the jargon files...
Stuff like this just makes me lose hope...
Most parts of Android can now be updated via the app store. So security is now a big issue anymore since Android 7
They do: risk of lawsuit. Risk of the PR hit of a Twitter mob descending on the company.
They have regular articles about middle class British people moving elsewhere in the EU since the Brexit vote.

Just one example, as I'm not very successful at searching for them.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/mar/24/meet-the-brexi...
I was hoping DeepRL would come up with a more efficient way to dress that we could use :D
Agreed. I just paid $270 to get to China from California.
Keep in mind that many people cannot read a map. At least in the sense of navigating by it. I forget the proportion, but every time someone does a study, it's disheartening. Perhaps Google has done some usability testing and is catering to the "normal" person.

This reminds me of all the complaints about Apple's Touch Bar, saying there aren't affordances for touch typing.
WHO IS LYING BEHIND THE SCENES OF EBOLA?
Yes, I found it rather curious to see which symbols converted back to "pure" ASCII.

For example, ℡ goes to TEL, but ℻ goes to punycode!
Interesting times ahead for us people up here then... Good thing I grow my own potatoes.
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There's a knowledge transfer/attention span problem.

With the old 140 characters, or a picture meme, the best you can do is communicate like Frankenstein in the old horror movies: "Fire BAD!" "Sun good!"

Life isn't like that.

The is the same problem political ads face. If I've only got 10 seconds of your time before you click on to something else, as a writer, I'm going to have to punch you in nose. There's just no other way of using the medium. It's built into the system.

But as others here have pointed out, it's not just Twitter, and it's not related to likes by any means. (I have no idea what Twitter thinks they're doing.)

I never participated in Quora because of this same thing, and it's much more of a long-form site. For things worth knowing, things that will change your life? You have to invest some time and effort. It's a conversation. It's back and forth -- even when reading a novel. Drive-bys don't do that.

So let's look at tech overall.

Where we seem to have landed is this weird landscape where everything is either 10 seconds or 100 hours. Yes, there is some nice medium-scale content available, but even then, the creators will tell you that for the most part, people either consume in one of those two fashions. There are a lot of people purchasing long-form content that never use it. It just makes them feel better. We know this now -- and we didn't in the past -- because we instrument the hell out of everything users do.

Looking at the stats across multiple sites, I think if you really want to make people's lives better -- and not just sell stuff -- you have to acknowledge human nature and take a stand: are you going to be the 10 second guys or the 100-hour guys? I'd love to see somebody create something that somehow manages both well, with "progressive elaboration" of deep topics and avoidance of anything created that's low effort.
You for a cross continental trip you lose days of your life confined to the interior of your car. I'd rather suck it up for a few hours and kick my feet up at the destination.
You can't discuss the taste of an orange if you only ever saw oranges on TV.

I won't reply to strawman arguments from people who have never set foot in China.

Suffice it to say that the epithet "Orwellian" does not represent life in China at all.
Err isn't there social benefit to having better priced insurance? I don't understand your position here.
Quite intriguing! I have dropped a mail.
Though I'll say it's much more civil than, say, reddit. So even if HN isn't immune, it's nice to find a place where the majority of discussion is on-topic and not just endless ad hominem attacks.

Granted, HN is rather specific in its userbase.
In the article it mentions that the data comes from apps on the phone, so insofar as the user has clicked through the EULA, Privacy Policy, and permissions screens[0], it's voluntary in theory but obviously not in practice.
The interesting thing is that the data source comes from "hundreds" of innocuous apps (weather, directions to ATMs, social media add-ons) that send the user's location data to a company that aggregates and then sells it.

This in turn is only possible because for useful but easily coded apps, you'll always have a race to the bottom on price, and once you hit free then the only way to make a return on your investment is by taking advantage of the user, by ads or by tracking.
And it will be this way for the forseeable future, or at least until the harvested data indicates that there's uncaptured profit in making apps that aren't free, but promise to respect your privacy.

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0. It sure would be nice if someone could use natural language processing to parse the legalese and spit out a summary of what you're really agreeing to.
Maybe combined with some sort of phone-farm (like they use for testing builds on different devices) to download various apps in order to acquire the corpus and maybe test the what servers the apps communicate with, and how often.
I know that there are sites dedicated to interpreting EULAs from major companies/apps, but probably the greater threat is the myriad free utility apps that get used once and then forgotten.
Check out MSP430 is you want small instruction sets, also fits on one page if needed.
I remember the Dundas greyhound station + that story about the bus decapitation.
robertAngst didn't say "it's unprofitable, therefore we shouldn't run it" but "it's unprofitable, therefore buses are probably running mostly empty, which is environmentally irresponsible".

It's a fair question. If the attendance is truly low, maybe a subsidized taxi service would be a better replacement, for example.
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They waited quite long. 1tb is not nothing and I have backuped to Flickr for that reason but I'm not doing anything there

Yahoo might have been able to afford it.

Otherwise pro user still paying for it. Everyone else didn't. Why should they care what people think of them who didn't pay anyway?
Or to turn it around: Imagine putting up a tweet supporting the victims of the synagogue shooting, and not being able to block a bunch of nazis that showed up to harass you. That might sound bad, but who knows? Maybe someone will make an argument for genocide that will really reasonate with you.

Seriously, blocks / killfiles has been a tool to prevent harassment for decades across the Internet. It’s a tool of user empowerment.
I see what you mean. I don’t care for those either.
Now everyone is a mirror and cameras can see around corners