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Ask HN: Recruiting agencies that focus on remote opportunities?
First off, thank-you for clicking on the post and taking whatever time you might to read and respond!

As an engineer in the data analysis/software industry, I'm quite blessed to have an abundance of alternatives out there to my current position and receive recruiter emails/LinkedIn/Indeed/etc. a few times a month, generally.

All of the positions I am contacted for are office-based though, but due to my personal situation and preferences, I'm not willing to give up my flexible remote position for an office. Are there agencies that recruit for remote work positions?

Indeed.com has a filter for remote jobs and there is flexjobs.com, but I've found that working with an agency can be a positive experience in finding an interesting company and getting a serious (non checklist-HR style) interview. My education is in physics and applied mathematics with software experience as a serious hobby and internships along the way. Recruiters understand that background can work in the machine learning / software engineering space while I suspect HR departments don't.

Finally, I apologize for the throw-away account, but I work for a very small firm (less than 20 people). My actually HN username is quite similar to my true name. ;)
how long does it take to make a civilization?

how long does it take to get to the moon?

estimates are irrelevant to actuality
Or your psychiatrist.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/29/bullst-jobs-part-1-of-%...
FMI is a TLA for "for my information"
I think a lot of those nerds maybe skipped the dance parties in college, and skipped going to the club as an adult. The experience of being at this kind of event, but where you're the guest of honor instead of an out-of-place spectator, is enticing.

Of course I'm not trying to say all ML researchers are dweebs, but if that description applies to 10% of attendees, you've got a line.
"Remote first" seems to be a popular term for distributed teams. "Remote OK" tends to have problems.
That's correct it compiles to an HTA. There is a thin native executable which simply launches the HTA.
What's the precedent the Supreme Court set in the Darstar case?
This is really good! I must have a play...
I don't understand.

If they already have the ability and protection for all of this, what difference does the legislation make? If not, how do they already have this freedom?
They are using it collect labeled drawing data for future ML training.
Do you use electronics to monitor / help farming ?
GOOGLE!?
The laugh track was a huge part of TV up until the last couple decades, seems unfair to characterize it like that.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-laff-box/
I'm seeing this sentiment often. Some people seem to think that the storming of the Bastille would never have happened if the people would just have known how much better France's trading partners had progressed over the last decade or so.
We took the iPhone XS and XR into 26 foot deep water. Only one survived
Beavis and Butthead?
I would hope they’ve had chilling effects or what would be the point of the legislation?

The 20 probably refers to the CPS’s VAWG report in 2012. As I’m sure you’re aware that was 20 cases that had magistrates’ hearings covered by section 62. Not convictions and not just cartoons (I don’t believe there were any cartoons but I could be mistaken). It was somewhat more the following year but still very low, <200.

If that has helped reduce the amount of child porn entering the UK from abroad then that’s great. I doubt it though.

No idea what this has to do with Google.

TBH if your work actually flouts section 62 then I’m 100% ok with you stopping. I see no particular need to support someone’s freedom to express depictions of child sex. Freedom of expression has far more important battles to fight than that.
Version 1 Sucks, but Ship It Anyway
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Κρίνονται προκρίσεις στο φινάλε το Nations League
For some insight, my experience is that oftentimes the more experienced developers are the only ones let near legacy, but valuable projects. Newer developers are often not familiar with the technologies and thus the risk of regression is higher.
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
Great Stork Derby
The article is about non-tech employees' wages dropping.
But isn't that effectively just git without all the branching nonsense and stronger crypto?

The original argument for bitcoin was that it's a great replacement of physical money.
I'm sure you'll get downvoted to kingdom come, but I actually checked out the included links - interesting stuff
> Local news organizations have always been required to maintain two competencies - advertising and journalism. This predates Google News, Google, and indeed the internet.

3. Distribution.

News organisations like the music industry before them need to realize that a huge part of what people used to pay them for was the reliable distribution of their product. This and the markup on it was where they made their profits and now its gone.
Prior law asserts raw data can't be copyrighted. The particular display of the data can be.
How about Maya and Solid Works? Photoshop isn't the greatest example of cutting edge software.
Yes. But not all scrapers and indexers respect that? So it’s still a problem.
His new series Tales From The Tour Bus, telling stories about musicians doing drugs and/or being kind of assholes is absolutely hilarious too. I love all of his stuff, King of the Hill especially.
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Nice one, have a look at the example animations on the demo page: http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/09/20/vector-animations-wit...
I had no idea that was possible. The concept still applies though.
Well that’s fair. If it’s all unknowable anyway, I’d be happy to know that. Anything that lessens the blogspam on the topic!
Dan Lyons, one of the writers of the show recently wrote a new book titled "Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us ..."
Woah, slow down a bit. This feels very much like a toy project with a toy budget that had optimistic ideas about how easy it would be to create something that could be dynamic in an interesting new way.

To think that it somewhat represents future direction of Google seems over the top.

Dynamic creation in the way they are hinting at in the description seems like a very difficult but interesting endeavour that requires a lot of iterating to get anywhere on.
If you can't give at least give a order of magnitude estimate, or an estimate with documented assumptions, you don't know your job well enough.
Number one trump business deal .. hey Dad can I borrow 50 million... Quote horse sense 1992 https://www.amazon.fr/Horse-Sense-Ahead-Business-1992-03-01/...
This article has:

- No technical details

- Is not timely (issue is resolved)

- Reads like a poorly written hit piece

- Could be summarized by a tweet: 2FA outage in Azure impacts cloud hosted services. Issue is now resolved.
Ask HN: Signing bonus situation sketchiness
Wanted to get some feedback from the hivemind:

Recently joined a company, compensation included a signing bonus 'provided I stay with the firm for 6 months'.

To me 'signing bonus' suggests a bonus you get at the time of signing, for signing.

After some weeks of not being very forthcoming about when I can expect my bonus, they are now telling me that I will get it at 6 months.

To me this feels quite sketchy and at best very misleading. That was not my expectation when signing.

What do you think?
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fed...

If you have any interest in tennis (or not, honestly), I'd say start here before buying another book. Read it as a kid and then had a magical revelation years later when I connected this piece to the man itself.

If you like it, then hop onto the rest of his work from nonfiction to short-stories to IJ if you have a spare couple months.
The "origin" under the Lanham Act refers to the physical product. If I repackage a music CD pressed and published by Sony BMG and pass it off as my own, that could be a violation of the Lanham Act. If I copy the content but procure the media and press my own CDs, that cannot be a violation, because I, not Sony BMG, am the origin of the physical good.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/539/23.html
State isn't always isolated, and for good reason. Design and operational parameters may dictate state as part of the expected functionality. Sometimes, because of the stateless nature of a protocol, extra work has to be done to constantly re-evaluate an operation in progress to see if it should be terminated early or changed. Since the operation isn't stateful, some other separate component has to act as a sort of babysitter. Then you either have to have the inefficiency of repeated calls, or implement your own pseudo-stateful protocol to wait for some kind of event to be passed up to alert it of a state change. Using the same hammer for every kind of nail is dumb.

And no, you don't need a database and transactions just to perform four operations and return a result. Not every transaction will be affected by a change of state in the middle of the transaction. Sometimes transactions are duplicated, or replace a result entirely, and the latest one can win. A transaction in progress can also provide data to another transaction later, and the first transaction can be paused or terminated. We don't see complex interactions like this because the databases and protocols we use have strict separations between their parts, but we don't have to do things this way. The more functionality you surrender to a database, the less flexibility you have in the future, because now your big database is the bottleneck for operations.

We need more design paradigms that allow flexible operations, and protocols that can work with such operations to manage transactions by also working with state. I say we "need" this because it seems the state of the art of these systems has languished under proclamations about what we can and can't do, due to assumptions about how we must go about them, and what technology is readily available for use. But we're talking about a new protocol, so we don't have to carry the baggage of those assumptions with us.
It seems to me that environmentalists want cheap energy, they just (rightly) consider the environmental damage of traditional energy to be part of its cost, and it’s expensive enough that it’s not actually “cheap energy.”
I feel like I should mention Miguel's book.

It builds a similar kind of application. I would say it is complimentary. It is not as deep as, say, the Goat Book is on Django.

https://flaskbook.com/
As stated, there's a difference between beliefs and facts which you are conflating. You cannot debate facts like the Holocaust.

The OP was saying SJWs were a vocal minority where I claimed otherwise. If you're also saying that they're widespread beliefs then it looks like you're just agreeing with me. The actual problems with those beliefs was not the topic of this thread.
Would something like the TSBS [1] help with this? It's TimescaleDB but they're built on Postgres. They have built-in high-CPU queries, but I haven't seen high-memory before. Can you point me in the right direction? Otherwise, we've had some Postgres people use the lab and are waiting on their decision whether to share publicly.

[1]: https://github.com/timescale/tsbs
Think of withgoogle.com as an off-google.com domain place for experiments and ad-hoc programs/campaigns. There are still the same privacy and security standards, but a little bit more lax branding rules to allow for more ambitious projects. (Disclaimer: I work in Google and have launched some projects on withgoogle.com)
I feel like this essentially exists for the sole purpose of generating a large training set for some sort of drawing analysis.

I wonder if google has some new use case where they want to be able to quickly tag human doodles with their subject matter?
The author almost noticed Simpson's paradox:

> Surprisingly, the UC Santa Cruz study suggests that employment in low wage industries is growing. The share of worker in jobs considered low-wage in 1997 grew 25 percent over the next 20 years, while the percent working in middle- and high-wage jobs declined.

The problem isn't that wages are dropping for certain work; the problem is that middle-wage jobs are being automated away, leaving only low-skill but non-automatable jobs that require organically-optimized things that all people have but machines don't, like fingers and eyes.
It only leads to example.com with JS disabled. It's actually an on-click dropdown menu with three options:

- Projects: https://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/projects

- Our Reports: https://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/reports

- UC Olive Database: https://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/publications
Boost the wage floor. High skilled workers have more force to push against the wage supply price that employers set; they have a lot of power to set wages, including an entire department called HR dedicated to ensuring they get the best deal as they can. Low wage employees do not have that power.
Boron, however, is more easily concentrated (in evaporites). Beryllium is found in pegmatites, which are less common. The estimated resource (not reserve) of Be is 100,000 tons (USGS). This would be enough for ARC reactors supplying just 1% of current world primary energy demand. The estimated world resource of boron is in excess of 1 billion tons.

https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/beryllium/...
https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/boron/mcs-...
I think if more people took the time to understand
them and practice writing them (when appropriate),
they wouldn't have such a stigma.

I think this is part of the movement to a more "ide/web centric" development model. The chances to interaction with regexes on CLI are endless. Grep, git-grep, vim, sed, etc. Even bash has some limited regex integration. As a person who still does most their development in the cli with vim regexes are a massive part of my work flow I actively use them several times per day.

When people move away from this model there are a lot opportunities to practice regexes. I've noticed this my own workflow when working Java-centric languages (who's IDE's often have poor regex integration).
It is? Regex have a arcane "syntax". Is good, from the point of view of a APL user, but as part of other languages is not.

Is totally outside the experience among other DSL. For example, you are on python, your DSLs are pythonic, except this one, that look totally alien.
Another thing, regarding eventing, is that you can use HTTP for that: just use chunked transfer encoding in never-ending responses. I've written a tailfhttpd that does this for tailing files a-la tail(1) -f, as you'd expect. You want to have some sort of application-level heartbeat though because HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding sure doesn't have that, but otherwise you can absolutely sit there waiting for events that come along over HTTP, and this can be extremely fast (my tailfhttpd is C10K).
Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi and company keep on taxing to support inefficient bureaucracy
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The pharma trials are a joke. There is pressure on researchers to obtain positive results. Then, pharma companies select which results they want to share. Negative results often go unpublished leaving the doctors and the public uninformed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trial-sans-error-...

I have done plenty of research on this. I have friends who are pharmacists. Doctors don't like speaking up as it can ruin them. Many of these people have really high debt and simply cannot afford not making $100k+.
> It seems to be built around the idea that you spend your youth grinding in a rented flat, with rental furniture, using rental cars, buying every meal outside, so that in your 40's you might be able to move out and live a decent life with some modicum of security.

Not everyone wants to live in a tacky huge McMansion that they can fill up with trinkets and garbage they don't use. See? I can make snarky judgemental comments about your lifestyle choices too.

But seriously, not all "competent, rested (???), mature, well-rounded" individuals think living in an rental apartment in a vibrant, walkable neighborhood is the rank indignity you seem to believe it is. They're perfectly happy living in small spaces and spending their money on travel, hobbies, food, and saving for retirement instead.
Effexor is one of the nastiest ones, even when not tapering off of it. A missed dose can mean brain shocks, and withdrawals can mean months of that, sometimes strong enough to knock you down.

I am ever surprised that they continue prescribing that one. Of the 10 I've been on that one was the harshest by far (though many others also had severe, dangerous side effects).
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Obviously if your skills aren't relevant, they aren't going to be used.

IMHO, this is mostly due to the nature of the industry I am in (software). Hiring engineers is difficult, and only done when there are specific needs to fill - particularly at small companies, that can't afford to think too far ahead, or afield.
I just use the Bitcoin ATMs.
If you're doing anything with text, ftfy[1][2] is an oasis of sanity in a world filled with torment. No data source is safe from the fate of having its encoding butchered as it passes through the cruel fate of dozens of getting tossed from databases to applications to data pipelines and eventually to you. All of which make whatever default encoding assumptions that are most convenient or backwards compatible with themselves, unintended data mutations be damned.

Once you've zapped as much mojibake[3] from your data as possible, follow it with a pass through csvclean[4] so you have confidence your data is delimited and escaped exactly how you want/expect it to be and can be processed and ingested with confidence. Then, when you need to cram it back into a legacy system that only supports ASCII, unidecode[5] for the win. And every now and then transliterate[6] comes to the rescue for the odd need.

[1] https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] The main fix_text() function is by far the crown jewel. But there are quite a few handy helper functions in the library that don't get wrapped into fix_text() and have to be called independently when desired.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

[4] https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.3/scripts/csvclean.html

[5] https://github.com/iki/unidecode/

[6] https://pypi.org/project/transliterate/
Sure but the Flynn effect is just something measured and could well just be a 'low hanging fruit' environmental gains that will/already have run out.
Read the same article yesterday, which got me thinking.

I'm not familiar with Fieldbook, but I do wonder if they weren't as savvy as Airtable when it came to sales & finance strategy.

Products alone rarely make a business. It's a perfectly viable strategy to keep forging ahead at a loss while you slowly gain market share. You obviously need to show revenue growth (sales savvy) to keep the funding coming through (finance savvy).

I'm definitely guilty of getting all caught up in product and neglecting the business side of things.
The particulars should have been written into the employment contract that you should have signed but it's not unusual for such a bonus to be tied to remaining with the company for a certain period of time.
I wish you had written a more detailed answer. I have to say I am really impressed by ASP.NET Core MVC on first look. I would love it if you had suggested something like the OP's Mega Tutorial for .net core. Then we could all have taken a look, rather than just taking your word for it.
BitTorrent is free and open but Bram Cohen also created BitTorrent the company, which this year was acquired by a Chinese cryptocurrency/blockchain company, so. Life often holds examples that follow art.
Totally looks like Tacotron.
I heard there was interest in Amazon in buying the project, now it looks like they copied it.
> The Bush era—or rather the core of the era, from about 2002 to 2007 (i.e. after the dust from 9/11 settled and before the housing crisis), was a boom time

It was a fairly modest aggregate growth period with unusually poor distributional effects, where the bottom 3 quintiles so real income drops and the fourth was flat.

Which is actually a lot like the subsequent expansions.

> what if this boom lasts forever?" (i.e. society becomes wealthy enough to automate everything, so people just sit around and watch Ow My Balls and drink Brawndo every day instead of having to work).

Er, the trend of automation and distraction hasn't really changed (indeed, it's gained even more cultural currency), though the shock genre has moved from reality TV to online video venues, often relayed by social media; not any less of a thing, just a slightly different medium. Though I guess a VR headset worn on the smart toilet would be more 2018 dystopian futurism than the big screen.

> Like, you had people saying things like "you talk faggy", which sadly was common in real life during the mid-00s, and as such it was a ripe target for parody, but would be completely taboo now.

No, using slurs implying homosexuality and lack of manliness as anti-intellectual insults isn't less of thing now than it was then. If anything, both anti-intellectualism, it's time to homophobia, and it's tendency to conflate those two opposed things has increased.

> but you don't see those slurs dropped casually anymore

I've seen them about as much in the last two years (including on mass media outlets) as I did in the whole of the 1990s, in the specific confluence of homophobic insults with anti-intellectualism. Less of “gay” as a generic equivalent of “bad”, sure, but that wasn't the context of “you talk faggy”.
DFW in my opinion can craft a sentence like no other author I have ever read- and that's not an overstatement, they are real works of art that may change how you view writing.

Where I feel he falls down is telling a story. The longer he tries to string those sentences together into a coherent whole, the more things fall apart. None of his stories really end, they all have this sopranos-esque ending where it all just kind of ends suddenly and then you have to conclude for yourself what the actual ending was, and what the point of all this was.

With that said, I feel his essays are great and enjoyable reads, his shorter stories are ok too, but then his longer fiction stuff... enjoy it for the sentences.

You can find "Consider the Lobster" online very easily with a google search. If you enjoy that, you can google his name and find some other small works of his, but if you want to dive in and get a compilation/distillation of his major works, the David Foster Wallace Reader is something you should buy: https://www.amazon.com/David-Foster-Wallace-Reader/dp/031618... Personally, I would read the non-fiction first, and then go back to the fiction stuff.

Honestly, at $13 for the paperback, I'd say its a no-brainer to pick up if you have even a passing interest.
To be fair, the original case itself, and the law, are confusing before the blogpost/title even get to it. :)

So the case in question was making separate copyright and trademark claims, and the court rejected _both_ of them, is that right?
Pretty neat, a bit more detail
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C++ DSL for dataflow programming [video]
Letting AI program systems that are used for extended periods of time guarantees that no living human being will be able to pick it a part and make sense of it. It will be the ai adoptor that gets left behind.