skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BackerKit (YC S12) is looking for software developers who love to pair
Hi Hacker News,

I hope this finds you well - I’ll be brief; I’m the co-founder at BackerKit, and our product here is growing like crazy. I’m looking for a few more folks who LOVE to pair to round out my dream dev team.

About us; we make software to help creators (think folks on Kickstarter and Patreon) make things their fans love.

I personally come from a background of Pair Programming (brainwashed at Pivotal Labs), weekly sprints, TDD, and am looking to recreate that magic here at BackerKit. Since we are profitable already, my goal is to build a high functioning, tight-knit, sustainable agile team. I'm looking for 2-3 folks, so if you have a pair you love working with, I'd love to chat with both of you!

My main goals are 1) Find folks that I love working with every day 2) who love pairing 3) who are excited to work on well-tested Rails app that has thousands of happy customers with millions of users.

Does this speak to you? Or does it sound like someone you know?

If so, drop me a note, maxwell AT backerkit DOT com, I'd love chat!

@maxwellsalz
https://github.com/maxwell

P.S. more about us here: https://www.keyvalues.com/backerkit
Personally, I've written all companies by default. Seeing things like that from both outside and sometimes inside, I came to conclusion that most sales&marketing material is simply full of shit, and unless your company gives me evidence otherwise, I'm assuming anything not casually verifiable is likely to be a lie.

Also, RE Samsung vs. Samsung Malaysia, etc. - that's a flip side of having a brand. If you want various groups of people to inherit good reputation from the common pool of a brand, you should also expect they'll all inherit bad reputation too.
Big tech employees voicing ethical concerns echo warnings from history: Op-ed
Dnsmasq Everywhere
> by encoding my invariants in the type system

the way I program that is nothing but a pipe dream.

> If you "know" that the value is present rather than absent, you must have a reason for knowing it, so explain that reason to the compiler.

I might know that it exists for example because it is computed in a post-processing step after a first stage but before a second stage. So it exists in the second stage but not in the first. Relying on global data (which I won't give up) makes it practically impossible to encode that the data is not there in the first stage.

And that's not a problem at all. I simply don't access that data table in the first stage... Trying to explain my processing strategy to a compiler would amount to headaches and no benefits.
IMO, the times I've tried Android it always ended up being a mistake to use something other than the Nexus and now Pixel. Android and privacy is whole other situation though.

I've settled on my iPhoneX for now.
Interesting idea, I'd be on board if the coin weren't so niche.
Location: Western NY

Remote: Yes ONLY

Willing to Relocate: NO NO NO

Technologies: A few. Let's say Ruby on Rails

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/davidvandervort/

Email: drvandervort@gmail.com

About me: 19 patents. Many years of development experience. I spent 8 years in corporate research leading technical teams, including remote and offshore teams. If you need someone who knows how to build teams that deliver, get in touch. Id love to help you.
Sure, you do what you want, no one is stopping you.

But I guarantee you'd be amazed of just how quickly you could go from installing the Flutter plugin into VS Code to actually developing a fully hot-reloaded app inside an iOS emulator. The DX of Flutter is by far the best I've seen anywhere.
his is a terrible post, coming from someone who doesn't know statistics to claim something is not statistics.

But the author went to Harvard, doncha know. Harvard.
AI Baby Sings to Her 'Godmother'
Senior Audio Electrical Engineer Position
Hello, We have an exciting opportunity for Sr Audio Electrical Engineer. Please see the below job description. If you are interested please email me at pchaubey@control4.com

https://control4.applicantpro.com/jobs/893721.html

The Senior Audio Electrical Engineer will be responsible for developing next generation Control4 Audio products as well as supporting existing product lines. He/She will define requirements, detail specifications, develop audio hardware with system level/holistic approach to optimize system efficiency, performance, and cost, from input to output. Position requires teamwork with existing audio team and designing to high performance standards.

ITEMIZED DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
•Create, control and release design documents (schematic, layout, gerber, test procedure, bill of material, etc.)
•Tune and optimize the acoustic performance of reference designs and demo platforms
•Perform competitive product analysis and benchmarking
•Support product derivative initiatives that expand existing product portfolios
•Work and collaborate with a broad cross-functional team to ensure new product designs are developed with proper attention to detail, manufacturability, supply chain consideration
•Must be able to identify, articulate and mitigating technical risk early in the development process
•Evaluate supplier capabilities and drive OEM/ODM partners to meet quality, cost and feature requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
•Minimum Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering (Masters preferred)
•10+ years' experience designing analog and digital professional and/or consumer audio products
•Knowledge of processor architecture, digital circuit design and various communications protocols such as I2C, UART, SPI, USB, MIPI, I2S, etc
•Experience partnering with software teams to define and implement firmware, drivers and algorithms
Tracking is not invisible, see ghostery of disconnect or... .

So your "there basically is no proof" is both wrong and a red herring.
Until I read about actual punishments being handed out, I'm skeptical that China will actually enforce rules on intellectual property theft.
I keep hoping someone will kickstart a display company that sells just really amazing displays and none of the “smart” garbage. I read that some manufacturers even serve up ads in their latest smart UIs. That’s infuriating!
Vault provides an audit log. Since each process gets their own token it allows to correlate which machine/container got compromised. I think we will see more tooling being developed around that in the future to make the search more efficient.

The other aspect is that if secret rotation is well exercised, it means that in case of a breach, taking an instance out of commission and rotating all the secrets is not a risky task anymore. If developers copy-and-paste tokens on slack, the window of attack is limited to the TTL of the secret. It also prevents developers from using the same secret for another unrelated service.
You're basically arguing that the concept of torrents isn't workable. It's been proven.

To me the tricky part is licensing but I think technologies like Ethereum could handle that.
I was actually about to get a KeyOne when I was shopping! The primary concerns I had that stopped me from going through with it were: 1) not sure if I'd actually like the keyboard enough to be worth the screen size tradeoff, and 2) I'd read bad things about the build quality (screens falling off?!?) since Blackberry apparently has little oversight over the actual production. I'd be glad to hear from someone else if these concerns were justified.
Why bother with installing anything?

Run your browser in private mode for everything except a few websites you trust.

Done.
That's a great example of MySQL creating a proprietary extension of ANSI SQL that does little more than deliberately mislead users.
Maybe, but it would also cost more than it's worth. How much impact do you think this screw up will have on their bottom line? I'm betting about zero.
I run a business in the Hetzner cloud having moved from Hostgator. Their cloud servers start at 3 euros and run on ssds. 6 months in and I’m very happy.
Looks nice. I find it similar to Adobe AIR but with DART as programming language.
These are dark...almost Solomonic.

"Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."

A lovely little chasing after the wind :D
I think tree-shaking is made for finding dead code? Seems like the goals are intertwined though.
Math Prof writes to cat food company
Why would they waste all that time and money when it doesn't matter?
Herndon's press release mentioned, but not linked, in the article: http://www.hollyherndon.com/godmother-holly-herndon-and-jlin...

Direct link to track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9OjL6Mjqo

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find more technical implementation details. We can speculate until they surface.
For what it's worth, something like Kotlin on .NET is called Nemerle, and it has been around since 2003.
Really? Do tell
Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (2016)
We must study marijuana's impact on the environment before it's too late
of course overwhelmingly we are beset by the tyranny of the increasingly small minority of "country people" telling us how to live due to how the senate and house are setup.
you could probably version-control a lightroom catalog file... it's binary but you can still check in a binary file.
That strips out the interesting part, though. A 5X slowdown for an actual, useful, real-world project is interesting. Vague “overhead” could mean nothing more than some bigger binaries.
Analyzing Data Using Cassandra, Spark, Python, and Jupyter
https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding/
There's also the problem that Apple refuses to write decent software or follow the rules on Windows (which is why your Apple HFS driver failed.) Microsoft, on the other hand, writes some of the best MacOS and iOS software.
Brick laying is not that simple even if it seems that way. Which is one of the reasons it has yet to be automated.

Also, plenty of system administrators still make a good living out there. Just as their are still companies running 40 year old code. Automation is less about replacing every system administrator as it is allowing companies to have fewer of them. Which eventually means it’s not a full time job and it’s folded into other tasks.

Generally the costs of automation outweigh the benifits at some point and people sit in the middle. Look at a coke bottling plant and their is one manual step where a guy loads the can lids into the machine. It’s just one guy and he gets something like 1,700 cans a minute so it’s just not a big deal.

PS: See 5:00 to 6:00 on this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQXxhd4CHE#fauxfullscreen
>These scooters (despite their benefit) are ultimately taking money out of the community (if they’re profitable) and they’re budgeting for loss and damage, so why not let the kids play on them and damage them?

Any business is predicated on a win-win proposition. Lime / Bird provides the capital, maintenance and network that maintains the scooters, and the people that use them pay the cost of their usage. The money they "take out of the community" is likely outweighed by the positive externalities brought to the community:

1. Traffic is lessened.

2. Jobs are provided to community members to pick them up and charge them.

3. Businesses make more money / pay more sales taxes from higher foot traffic.

4. Community members have a pleasant scooting experience readily available to them on demand.

Of course, scooters also have negative externalities:

1. They are not useful for people with disabilities, and can actively prevent people with disabilities from participating in public spaces when people park the scooters like assholes.

2. People will hurt themselves using the scooters.

3. Piles of dead scooters are aesthetically unappealing.

But these must be weighed against the benefits.
It's part of security in depth. Yes, if they own the server, they could keep requesting decryption keys. The main thing this protects against is someone getting a copy of the encrypted data, then breaking into a server and getting a key that is good forever. By using this system, it renders their copy of the encrypted data useless.

Then you have to add in defenses for the active attack, such as rate limits, anomaly detection on access patterns for decryption keys, and the usual host and network based intrusion detection.

It's one part of a complete security strategy.
I use personal cards by choice but I absolutely understand someone who doesn't want to commingle thousands of dollars of company expenses with their own accounts. I would hope that most businesses offer the option of a corporate card to any employees who rack up significant reimbursable expenses.
Crossplane could be one package that customers would not want to use directly from a major cloud provider. You'd never trust AWS/Google/etc to really give equal footing to a competitor. Separately, I'd prefer to trust the company behind the open source software as opposed to some other upstart. So this model may really work.

One observation: Crossplane and Upbound seem a little too unrelated of names. Github has benefitted from being almost synonymous with git (admittedly, Github also created the opening for Gitlab at the same time).
as someone who escaped the south 16 years ago a lot of these statements ring true although I would not put them so kindly. I think these are general problems with many southern urban centers.
At which point it's easier just to use Eto.
It use to be that DuckDuckGo would let you contribute to the search engine years back providing interfaces to various 3rd party data. I am not sure if that is still the case?

Has anyone written anything for DuckDuckGo?
This is what the flutter-desktop-embedding [0] project is trying to address.

[0] https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
Anyone care to comment on whether this complements or competes with Rancher 2.0?
Not in the US, but I'm happy with my Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact. (It's a year old now.)

I was able to disable almost all the Sony apps with little difficulty, and the "What's new?" notification that appears every 2-3 months I just swipe away.

(Of flagship-level Android phones that aren't huge, i.e. fit in my pocket without bending even while cycling or sitting, the Sony ### Compacts have been the only choice for the last few years.)
You can trade our coin on various exchanges, the biggest being HitBTC.

We're trying to grow our own ad economy however. That's why our Ad Bidder platform [0] only accepts ClearCoins (XCLR) as payment for placing your ad.

[0] - https://platform.clearcoin.co
iGit
Which is part of the reason why advertising is a cancer on society, and why it shows the ridiculous double standard we have on the societal level about exploiting people we know vs. total strangers.
That depends on your definition of Microsoft-y.

Microsoft's "new" (kind of old at this point, but hey) direction trends towards what I'd ideally want out of a larger enterprise that works with development. In a lot of ways, what I felt Google was ages ago.
That's the Bang system
in Canada up north, people shoot at passing airplanes fairly frequently
Our extension is open source. Check out the code here: https://github.com/clearcoin/extension

We use the users's private key of their Ethereum wallet to sign every ad impression [0]. Combine that with our KYC requirement, and now advertisers know that every ad impression was a real person.

[0] - https://github.com/clearcoin/extension/blob/dev/app/scripts/...
We've got a site that wont work in edge.

Edge guesses for each number on a page if it might be a phone number. The guess depends on your locale. If it is considered phoneable, edge removes all javascript and replaces it with a link to skype. Which is fun if skype is not installed, it just pops up a messagebox complaining you need to install something, and it's not going to tell you what exactly. The error is only half translated and lost any meaning in the process. Can't put a DOM breakpoint on it either, the bloody browser just ignores everything you do to that DOM node.

Fun, now a few rare numbers on one of our sites seem phone number enough for the dutch locale to break the site. Tell the user to switch to the french locale as workaround, or get any other browser. MS wants you to change the html to say: hey edge, this is not a phoneable number.

WTF, microsoft? Way to shoot yourself in the foot. What else did you hide in there that will bite me one day?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/apps_windo...
I was in college at the time. Wrote a /lot/ of technical papers with GeoWorks. The word processor and draw had great integration.
I think it showcases your expertise. A future employer might stumble upon your write-up and reach out to hire you.

You might want to write a book that includes the subject in the future. If you get good feedback on the article and lots of eyeballs on it, this validates this idea.
They're even easier to deal with if your type system guarantees you can never get them in the first place.
sure they do and there is a lot of interchange (less so austin). But yes I am referring to regional specific demographics and subcultures which SF has a much higher per capita population of than almost any other city. Seattle and portland feel sooooo small compared to the bay and while LA definitely does not it has its own set of challenges.
You’re making it sound like any alternative to a take home project will increase hiring risks.

Companies like Square and Stripe have project-centered rounds during their onsite that allows them to assess these skills without giving a take home.
I bought a phone recently and specifically didn't go to Amazon for this reason. After searching for the kind of Samsung phone I wanted, I would find several slight variations, all with slightly different prices. It looked really sketchy to me.
Also had a Tetris that is still the nicest clone I've ever played. For years after, I'd load my GeoWorks onto an old PC just to play the Tetris. I probably have the GeoWorks disks in my garage still.
Yes, and unlike AD and GPU support, things like logging have nothing (special) to do with ML. Julia has both very nice logging and plenty of good serialisation options, all of which works nicely with the ML stack. It's entirely unnecessary to duplicate these tools just so they can be baked in to a huge framework.
You are doing small talk wrong if you are lying. Also why not just be blunt with things you want to know about people? It will put off a lot of people. But what is the point of lying ?

I made one of my best friends by asking him about gender roles and Catholicism the second time I ever met him, when I found out he was Catholic.
The $812B per year healthcare opportunity, left unsolved for decades
I think he is talking about the burden of running a SPoF in highly available fashion, with backups, DR plans, monitoring, logging and all the baggage that comes with it.
I like Steam, but I have no problem using other game stores such as Origin as well. If others stores want to co-exist with Steam, why not? Many people have Netflix, HBO Go, Amazon Prime, Hulu..
They have a lot of great anwesers, especially by experts in the field. In the early days around 2011, I would spend hours just reading everything I could on the site.

These days the growth has masked all the good stuff with a layer of spam and general crap that’s hard to get past. Inevitable consequence of growing users but it has been managed poorly.
At the very least it'll be another item to fear the government over, as things like this can be used in the future against you.

I agree with you that it won't foster a positive IP system. In China, instead, it will create more avenues for graft and retribution.
Stealth – Open source chatbot framework
That's just a senior dev retention project.
TL;DR: tip based on subtotal, not including taxes. Else you just send [edit:extra] money to the IRS.

I wonder if the US will ever drop tips. Some other countries don't have tips, and they seem to rabidly love that. We have them and seem to rabidly love that as well. I wonder why both are so passionate about it, aside from the "I'm-used-to-it" factor.
>whereupon I was refused surgery at the local hospitals (3 in total)

did they say why?
? A newsgroups live on many different news servers, hosted by many different subjects, potentially including it's members newsserver. People who host server can choose what groups to serve and with what privilege (read only, max x post per days etc) but do NOT control posts groups content (posts/threads), any member can and normally mirror a (recent) snapshot of group contents on it's own personal spooler etc. Essentially no one can control the entire system.

A website typically run on a dedicated server, not mirrored elsewhere, under the complete control of it's owner, and hosting. So while no one really "own" usenet different subjects own, can censor, destroy etc a website and their reader can't really do much about that.

We have of course other types of site, ZeroNet is a nice example, but they suffer many problem, they are far less available and known compared to usenet and their "ownership" is still partially in singe subject hands.

A simple practical example: what happen to your HN post if HN disappear? How can you or us "posters" united can do in that case? Vs what happen if a newsserver disappear?
I think in the current climate, you are better off keeping things professional. Look elsewhere for love.
I suspect this is one of those features that helps the less technically inclined majority, while hearting those who know what they're doing. I can see the average Googler including words that aren't actually relevant to their query.

As long as I can force it with quotes, I'm happy. Google has even started suggesting next to the results "include only results with the word XXX", to remind me the quotes might be needed.
If anything, your argument works in favour of "company culture". As it grows, company behaviour increasingly averages to profit optimization. A purely market-driven entity does not have any morals other than those enforced through threat of lost profit - be it via regulatory action, or loss of market share.
If you have self-discipline and aren't lazy, NULL is totally fine. Maybe language designers could have made it behaving more like a 0-dimensional sentinel for beginners.
Relational algebra doesn't have nulls, but there's a difference between the mathematical theory and concepts and the reality of a relational system.

As I mention elsewhere, Codd's own list of rules for a relational database [0] explicitly require nulls (see Rule 3).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s_12_rules
OneNote was a flagship WPF software as well. OneNote has announced it's all in on UWP moving forward.

WinUI included in the announcement above is the UWP XAML controls and their "XAML Islands" wrappers, so Microsoft is directly taking UWP open source contributions now, too.
+1 for XML/declarative. One day :(
How does the factory farmer know whether:

A) I buy my meat at the farmer's market.

B) I buy tempeh instead of meat.
Another tool for selective enforcement
My mom got flagged by a system like this a few years ago. The state was in a financial bind, so they hired an algorithmic auditing firm to claw back public funds from medical professionals who billed Medicare/Medicaid. They had been lax about the documentation they accepted so, they were able to claim just about anyone was missing years worth of legally required documents. She did in-home medical evaluations for rural communities and worked long hours. The amount of hours and miles she billed set off red flags, so they sent her a bill for tens of thousands of dollars and threatened her with criminal prosecution. It took her months and who knows how much in legal costs to fight it.
More likely, somebody wanted to have fun with drones, then went about trying to sell it to amazon higher ups
Advertising as a home for CP and other degenerate content does not make your platform very appealing to normal people.