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Uncountable | San Francisco (Onsite) | Full Stack / Front End, Machine Learning, Enterprise Sales
https://www.uncountable.com/careers

Uncountable accelerates the innovation of the world’s largest manufacturers. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence techniques, Uncountable's algorithms get better material and chemical products to the market in half the time. We work with companies of all sizes, from innovative startups to Fortune 500 manufacturers.

Senior Full Stack / Frontend Engineers | $120k - $170k + Equity

---> Uncountable is looking for an experienced engineer who can spear head the development of the Uncountable Web Platform. The position is an 80/20 mix of front-end and back-end with the primary challenge being overcoming UX challenges.

Machine Learning Engineers | $150k - $220k + Equity

---> Uncountable is building a world-class machine learning team that can push the boundaries of what is currently possible with Bayesian optimization. You will have the opportunity to innovate in machine learning at a small startup.

---> This position requires experience with statistical learning theory and software development.

Enterprise Sales | $70k - $120k + Commission & Equity

---> Uncountable is looking for resourceful, scrappy, and driven professionals to grow out our sales and business development team. As a sales representative, you will be responsible for generating leads, pitching Uncountable’s AI platform to Directors/VPs, and closing enterprise deals.

These are all onsite, full-time positions in San Francisco, CA. Learn more: https://www.uncountable.com/careers

Contact: jason@uncountable.com
https://www.awn.com/animationworld/dr-toon-when-reagan-met-o...
For anyone who missed it in Quora's post, passwords were salted and hashed, which makes it functionally impossible to decrypt en-masse. Targeted attacks (trying to discover a specific user's password) may or may not be feasible, depending on if the salts were retrieved, how many iterations and which hashing algorithm was used, and the processing power available to the attacker.
Timely question https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update?share=1
This can be helpful in development scenarios. I’m supporting a team that uses localstack to support local development against some AWS services. Unfortunately, the CORS settings for localstack break the development environment. With Chrome allowing them to disable from the command-line, I can provide a shortcut to launch with degraded security, no plugins, no user settings, etc. My only wish is that Chrome would make it more obvious that it’s running with these protections disabled.
CentOS Linux 7.6 (1810) released
> All the Federal Reserve has to do is buy US treasures on the open market at higher and higher prices.

Doesn't that lead to inflation?
> Nevertheless there was and it looked really crazy.

You're talking about the high-contrast theme. It wasn't anything special, it was just a specific set of settings from this dialog. Compare that to now, when having a dark mode took so much work Microsoft made a special announcement and everything. Ridiculous.

> The last version of Windows I used was Windows 7 and I'm pretty sure it was there.

It's been a while since 7, but if this dialog was there it was because you could still disable compositing and use the old fashioned Win32. The closest thing in 10 lets you change your titlebar color and background.
That's the compatibility issues for webextensions at all, but the bug still exists for extensions that declare compatibility ranges between the latest version and the previous ESR: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394448
It's nice for webapps, though.
The absolute number of users seems to be declining as well, although I'm not sure why that is: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
I think we’re at a point where it’s safe to assume most of our data can be collated into a frighteningly thorough profile of our lives for anyone on the internet to see.
That's not true at all the whitelist allows sites like Breitbart, Dailer Caller, TheBlaze, TheFederalist, and probably a bunch of others that lean heavily to the right.
"If we wait until we're ready, we'll never get started."—Eleanor Roosevelt
You could just use a normal Citi or BoA or any other card that generates virtual card numbers and that'll also lock it to that vendor after the first charge. So that they couldn't even hit it for $0.80 if they wanted to.
Uhh the antitheft devices don't actually do anything, the police won't follow up on a good theft report, and passers-by don't care either. Literally all of the Chinese ebikes and escooters have standardized parts, so it's easy to sell parts or buy cheaper replacements. The lipoly cells themselves are also nice. I've personally converted birds back to stock xiaomi scooters for about $20usd per scooter (replace the "dashboard" board), which then sell for about $300. A few friends strip them for parts which is lucrative if you don't have much else going on
This has it advantages and disadvantages. One its great and requires less bandwidth, but also means that any floating calculation rounding issue can throw different machines out of sync from each other.
I think you haven't been to Europe... Or maybe China. The difference in attitudes to road safety is very significant.

For example, deaths per 100k cars per year in China is 105. In Europe it is 19. In Western Europe it's about 7.
I've never jumped on the whole Chrome hype train, and while Firefox for a while was slower, it didn't bother me that much. A pity many jumped and never returned, even when Firefox caught up.

Now three major milestones I'm personally waiting for (for the Linux version) are Firefox using Webrender (efficiently) with Vulkan on Wayland.

Another one that's still missing is fully functional Servo, that can run in browser.html on some mobile Linux UX like Plasma Mobile.
+1 for DeviantArt. Many artists and models already use it, the community is generally tolerant of unconventional modes of expression, and the platform is designed to be able to handle "explicit" (by U.S. standards) content in a fairly straightforward way.
Consider c to be the Mach number of the luminiferous ether.

After all special relativity works with any waveform in any medium -- it's all about information transfer.
There could be a myriad of reasons for slowly shutting down a site. There might be client or advertiser contracts, leasing issues, employment issues and so forth. Of course, customer outrage and mitigation. There might be some value to be extracted from the operation. There may be execs and employees verizon wants to shift over to other divisions and properties over a prolonged stretch of time. They could even be looking for potential buyers to sell the property.

I don't know that is what verizon is doing. It's just an educated guess on my part. As for the specifics, I'm sure the execs looked at all the data and they are doing what they feel is in the best interest of the shareholders.
Show HN: Swipeable NSCollectionView
> don't directly use fossil fuels

I feel like this is a bit of misleading marketing since a ton of fossil fuel is used to round them up and distribute them around town every day.
Grafana v5.4 Released
There's a lot of informal sharing of info about employees between the tech giants in the area. I don't think they are sharing the lists but people call eachother.

The speed with which we are building this "you're either with us or against us" dystopian factional mega-corporation ruled hellhole is really remarkable.
> Servo was designed to be embeddable, why for instance not attempt competition for Electron.

It should be noted there have been side projects to back nodejs with spidermonkey [0] and have electron APIs backed with gecko [1].

I agree with you and the thing I want more than anything is a cross platform browser engine embeddable with a supported C API that's not Chromium. Servo was on its way, but work has definitely slowed. But I acknowledge that even though I would build my own browser UI on top of an embeddable gecko engine, it probably won't affect adoption that much to be worth the effort.

0 - https://github.com/mozilla/spidernode
1 - https://github.com/mozilla/positron
It's not so much that users have turned off all JavaScript but blocked tracking elements. Take a look at Content Blocking (formerly Tracking Protection): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection. It makes it dead simple to enable and disable for an average user and blocks tracking elements like Google Analytics, etc.
Spring Discovery | Data Scientist / Applied ML | Full-Time | SF Bay Area | ONSITE

Spring Discovery is applying machine learning to accelerate the discovery of therapies for aging and its many related diseases. Aging is the single greatest risk factor for the most detrimental diseases — by understanding and treating the biological damage accumulated as we age, we can find powerful new therapies for fighting disease and living healthier, longer lives.

Over the past few decades, an unignorable amount of evidence has piled up from the best labs in the world that this is possible [1]. But translating the science to real therapies has been challenging in a field that has historically struggled to experiment quickly. Here’s more on our mission and approach: https://medium.com/spring-discovery/accelerating-the-discove...

We have deep support from top-notch investors, including General Catalyst, First Round, Laura Deming's Longevity Fund, Felicis, Sam Altman, and more. And our advisory board includes both world leaders in aging research and senior pharma execs.

We have the beginnings of a great data pipeline (already several TB of rich biological data collected specifically for ML purposes) and are in the process of building out our own automated lab to scale things up even more. We’re looking to add to our early team with experienced data scientists or applied ML engineers who would enjoy working on things ranging from data infrastructure to modelling to statistical analysis of large datasets. Yes, you belong even if you don't have a bio background — we're a cross-functional team. (Although of course biology experience is a plus).

If this sounds interesting to you, head on over to https://www.springdisc.com/#careers or email me directly at benkomalo+hn@springdisc.com.

[1] https://ldeming.com/longevityfaq
The two lines you just quoted me on, did you read the part in between them? As I said:

> you would think that there would be more than just a handful of Googlers quitting for ethical reasons over Dragonfly. But there aren't. The sad truth is, the thought of making just that little bit less money per year at another company (but still more than enough to live well), the thought of losing that status symbol of "Googler", that's enough that they're willing to accept that their work will support suppression of human rights.

My point is that people are not quitting, will not quit, and Google has no real worries about an employee uprising. Because other than this guy and a handful of others, nobody is going to quit over this. Google leadership doesn't care. There's too much money for them to worry about ethics.
Ask HN: How did you do with your 2018 resolutions?
Resolutions if taken in the right spirit could help.

I had decided on the following three goals for 2018:

- Run 3 times a week.
I was 30% successful at this. I dropped the ball during a time period when I switched jobs. Not only that, I still don't have a regular schedule but my stamina is better than before and I'll spill this one over to 2019.

- Read 26 books. I used to read a lot of books in school but in college and now in the tech world, it was sidelined and did miss it. I was more than 100% successful in this one. I read 20 books and listened to more than 25 audiobooks. Some friends recommend that I try out audiobooks and I thoroughly enjoy my commute.

- Get into flow stat as fast as possible. I failed at this miserably. I used to get a lot of focused time at the last job but the new one has an interrupt driven team. I realized this later than I should have (October). I've not been successful in making any progress yet but have some ideas and have started to test those out now. This is my brain giving an excuse but I have to accept that I failed.

An additional stretch goal towards which I made some progress was start learning a new language. This was one of "In 5 years I want to". I have started learning Spanish and I'm in early stages but I've got my habit in place.

I'd love to know how others did with their resolutions and what they learned about themselves more.
In addition to dang's reply, see this link for more explanation:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20dupe%20detector%20po...
Ask HN: What programming language would you learn in 2019
If the drop is smooth it would not be a problem. There can be a problem if there is a very abrupt drop and until the next difficulty recalculation the block generation rate would be too slow.

This is similar to what happened with the creation of the Bitcoin Cash fork. Just after the fork, the hash rate in the Bitcoin Cash was 1/10 of the previous rate, so each block would need like 2 hours instead of the usual 10 minutes. They expected something like this, so in the fork they added an special rule to reduce the difficulty automatically if no one finds a block for a long time. (This rule is not in the main Bitcoin.)
Not necessarily. You can design your isolation system to be better suited to a single user system, rather than hacking it into a system which was meant to support multiple human users.
Best earplugs IMHO: Mack's Pillow Soft Silicone Earplugs: https://www.amazon.com/Macks-Pillow-Soft-Silicone-Earplugs/d.... I've tried EVERY type on the market over the past 55 years and have been using Mack's for at least 30 years.
Do you not subscribe to the idea stealing=bad?
Yet they have enough trust in the US economy to assume that inflation won't ruin their earnings over the [longer] 5-year period.
> didn't want it fucked up with graffiti and litter so we didn't tell you about it.

If only everyone else in the world was this selfish and kept things secret, what a better place it would be!

Why would people go all that way to it to graffiti and litter it?
Netscape Navigator had substantially beat IE as a first-mover in the market and the mind.

IE wasn't a first-mover, it was bundled with the computer, it won as the most available, just like Starbucks vs. Coffee Bean - later comers can be assumed as more readily available then their perceived equivalencies. Firefox broke through by shattering the consumer's perception of equivalence.

The door for differentiation in the same way as before has closed, but not for differentiation in other ways that people immediately perceive.

Lacking a prescriptive direction that Mozilla Inc should take to establish this doesn't invalidate the observation, you can describe an illness without knowing the cure.
What incentive would Lime and Bird have to do this? I think that'd have to come about through policy being passed in enough cities.
If you publish it, you'll become famous. Then people will pay you lots of money because they'll think you're competent. Discoverability is the path to perceived expertise.
I'm sure you are not implying they do so on purpose. Israel does better than anyone else in the world at minimizing civilian causalities, but accidents are a fact of war.

So, what other options does Israel have? Let the combatants do whatever they want?

Are you seriously implying someone should not work for the Israeli military because of civilian accidents?

What's your endgame here? Israel should give up and let millions of people be murdered?

abalone has a severely skewed moral filter to say "this does not absolve NSO's software engineers from moral culpability" - he would rather millions of Israeli citizens get murdered?

I really hope you are not in any way agreeing with him because it is a truly loathsome thing to say, and I was absolutely shocked to see someone just causally speak like that.

The only moral thing to do here is do an even better job at this type of software to make the civilian casualty ratio even better.
Got into some heated debates with people about physx where from a developer standpoint it was off-loading all calculations to the CPU with the present of a physx GPU. Typically in game engines you need to pause the world and look into the physx simulation to get the object's pos/vel/mass. This causes the physx engine to stop the world to finish it's calculations so crossing the PCI bus becomes more and more expensive.

Vast majority of the time, most game engine's to solve this problem just let non interactive objects (cloud's, waves, lighting) to be calculated by the phyx sub-system, and only poking it now and then to prevent the phyx hardware from swamping to the CPU.
I wouldn't say that the trilemma is Lewis' strongest apologetic argument either. And I wholeheartedly agree about the book preaching to the choir. I think if Lewis were alive today and had to give the book another title, it might be something like "This is what Christianity is" and not something like "This is why you should believe". The focus is not apologetics; it's clarification.
How do I get the two row address bar back?

I don't know who decided it was a good idea to have it single row without doing basic UX research.
WeChat launched short-video mini program
The pictures that jumped to mind for this as a potential social issue aren't the Civil War ones - they're the Jim Crow era lynch mob pictures.

I'd say there's a huge difference between knowing that your (or someone else's) ancestors were terribly racist and knowing that they were involved in murders.
> Safari's "omnibar" is superior to Firefox's. Safari actually suggests web sites, which I use all the time. Wikipedia is a major one. Start typing "Richard Fey", for example, and the first hit will be the Wikipedia page for Richard Feynman, complete with a short summary and photo. Firefox forces me through a Google search.

I don't use a Mac, so I am not sure if there are other features of the Safari omnibar which are appealing. But the example you provided is especially concerning to me since it suggests that Safari is sending user input in the location bar to some external service for analysis. This is what allows the browser to find and render a snippet of a Wikipedia article that best matches what you've typed in the location bar. If I were using Safari, I would definitely be looking for a way to turn that off. I can't tell you how many times I've (accidentally) pasted something into the location bar that I would never voluntarily send to any third parties.

On Firefox, I have a Wikipedia bookmark that uses the 'w' keyword and uses the URL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

So I would type "w Richard Feynman" to reach the same destination. Maybe not quite as elegant, but I have another that does a Wikipedia search if I don't feel like typing the whole name of an article.

For whatever it's worth, I find the Firefox omnibar superb for many reasons, one being that it prioritizes my bookmarks and my history higher than directing me to a third-party search engine.
Lastpass has been going downhill with every acquisition and had gotten to the point where autofill failed on the majority of sites and the "copy password" menu item disappeared, bringing clicks-to-login from 1 to ~10.

A few weeks ago I saw bitwarden finish their third party security audit and took the opportunity to jump. Couldn't be happier. Autofill fails less, the "copy password" menu works, the mobile experience isn't intentionally broken to sell an app, and export->import went without a hitch. Better, actually: it is the first time I have done an export/import and had the resulting data immediately work better in the second app. There's also the hope-springs-eternal factor of bitwarden giving me the option to host the sensitive stuff myself once I get off my butt and set up that server I've been meaning to for a while now.

If you're thinking about lastpass, save yourself the trouble and try bitwarden first. Or something else, but bitwarden has been good to me and lastpass, well, hasn't, to put it politely :)
I immediately thought of this too. Can't wait for the episode.
Do tell! There have got to be a few good ones. He interviewed me for his current company.
There were artists showcasing their work, but there were also a lot of accounts simply distributing someone else's explicit pictures without the copyright holder's permission. They didn't even have their own .com because they obviously benefited from being served under a subdomain of tumblr. I won't miss them at all.
Pretty shitty that that's going to Chrome tbh. Especially with the new developments.
Discover the writing experience of Document Node with a few GIF animations
And then there were three. Even more reason for Apple to never allow anything but WebKit on iOS. This monoculture isn't good for the web.

edit: Guess the pro-monoculture folks flagged this.
One thing I would like to do is have various US Senators send letters to the major corporations, and perhaps even large open source groups (like npm), and ask them, proactively, what they are doing to secure citizens around the world's data.

There is something called the Cybersecurity Bipartisan Caucus in the US Senate.

I have found calling these senators (which I have never done before for any politician about anything) extraordinarily helpful and gratifying. I have even explained that I don't live in their state, and yet they still listen and clearly need the advice from good security/sysadmin people (like asking them why Facebook still doesn't have a CSP Security Header).

It was only 6 days ago that the "International Committee on Privacy", made up of Senators from countries around the globe, met in London to question Richard Allan, VP of Privacy at Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg rejected the request for his attendance.

[1] https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/cybersecurity

[2] https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P97ubLDbJI
This is gonna be very interesting when this can be combined with a distributed network of specialized CNNs for highly specialized tasks (if there isn't already)
On the front page, I saw another headline that said Firefox desktop market share is below nine percent.
The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher’s CAT: New Cache Attacks on TLS Implementations [pdf]
Sounds sort of cool, but am I the only one not interested in vocalizing my computer UI? I’d just rather not interact with technology that way. I perceive it as a direct competitor for what I’d rather have “in the air” - music, etc.
I've been on Firefox all the way back to when I had to pay for Netscape. Still happy with it. Haven't used Chrome in years.
Cheap extraction leases on public land.

Huge military investment in oil-producing countries and regions.

Building and transport codes built around the needs and technologies of dinosaur burners.

Lack of significant restrictions on emissions.

I don't think you're gonna get back the sum of the decades of subsidies of various sorts that cut the cost of technology developments.

(yes, I know they aren't really "dinosaur" burners but alge burners)