skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I am a Master’s student in Computer Science with a specialization track in Data Science at North Carolina State University and will be graduating in May ’19. I have with 3+ years of experience in building, designing and managing Web/Mobile platforms, Backend applications, Machine Learning pipelines and Deep Learning architectures.
I am looking for Full time roles in Software Development/Data Science starting May '19.

I am allowed to work in the US on my OPT, but I'll be requiring visa sponsorship in the future.

Location: Raleigh, NC, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: 1) Programming Languages: Python, Ruby, C, C++, SQL, 2) Web Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Flask, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, D3.js, Nokogiri, 3) Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, 4) Tools and Frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, Pandas, Zookeeper, AWS EMR, Apache Spark, AWS Sagemaker, Git, Heroku, OpenShift, AWS S3, OpenXML, RESTful APIs

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/parthn_resume

Email: pnagori@ncsu.edu, nagori.parth@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/parthnagori

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parth-nagori
I use Meteor everyday and its actually pretty cool for side projects. But, then I keep thinking subconsciously if Meteor is dead!

Frankly, it wouldn't really matter if it is dead as the current version seems to mature enough for my needs in the foreseeable future. But then ... there is kind of on an ego boost that you get while using something trendy!
Tesla have been driven over a billion miles, seems like plenty to get a good estimate.
> It's important to me that my physical address not leak, I don't want people or packages showing up that I didn't ask to show up.

What is the likelihood of being a target of this? Are there people out there that you expect might want to mail you an unexpected package or stalk you at your home?

I get that there are people who have stalkers and such, but for the average, random person, what is the likelihood a criminal is going to pick their name and address out of some leaked information and...what? Mail them a bomb? Travel from Estonia or wherever the hacker lives to burgle a house in the US? Why? There's no point to doing that.
I don't 100% trust what another person reports to me regarding another subject, I'd rather look into it myself and figure out the truth as I see it.

Regarding medical practice, why would a physician rely on what a high school graduate EMT obtains from a patient on the way to the hospital. Sure, it provides a starting point, but in no way would I find that comprehensive.

Similarly, an ER doc has a different perspective than a trauma surgeon, than a cardiologist. They all view things differently and ask different questions relative to their specialty.
Faxing to you carries a bunch of bureaucratic hurdles to avoid HIPPA violations. Facing to another physician doesn’t, and the other physician will be quite good at narrowing down exactly what records he wants.

It’s just way less work to send them directly. And since that’s what most patients are asking for...
I've been in an adjacent industry and am nearly always a skeptic about these sorts of things. With Boom specifically though, I don't think they're a scam. Their developmental timeline is definitely optimistic, but assuming they're able to get continued funding as needed (i.e. billions of dollars), I expect they'll succeed.
Heard it was discontinued cause people was using it to sell items and Fb, either didn't like it or didn't approve of it. I thought it was one of Facebook's highlights. Hope it comes back.
>> If autopilot gets into an unsafe situation and gives control to the human at the last moment

We have lots of experience with the reverse, where the human drives but the autopilot rips control away when things go wrong. Traction control, radar-triggered braking, even basic ABS is a machine taking over from the human once things get hairy. Several AirForce fighters have systems that will sometimes ignore the pilot's inputs and save the aircraft from a crash. That's the real path for semi-autonomous cars imho: you do all the driving until the robot steps in to save your ass.

(I cannot wait for the day someone tries to sell a car that will automatically obey speed limits regardless of driver input. That's a stock to short.)
Unless you are in the 0.1% it is very unlikely that the effort required to do that and kidnap you is going to be worthwhile.
Rent control is only in a few areas of the US.
One of the 10 best articles ever published here.
Reminds me of the time when WIRED magazine back in 2010 declared the web 'dead.' [0]

Kind of amusing to note how wrong they were.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff-webrip/
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/11/how-to-activate-uan.ht...
Given that all websites are running code on your device, that seems like a distinction with a very small difference. The question is what has the better sandbox to protect yourself. The web is definitely better but somehow I still get tracked across sites and shown "relevant" ads. Mobile apps are also fairly well sandboxed and yet some apps that need your permission to do something useful also use that permission to do evil.

As web applications get more powerful, they will become a greater and greater source of the issues that currently plague mobile apps.
If I read that correctly, it sounds like you’re assuming that rent is lower than buying, which is not true in many places (including my own city). Many people buy rental properties because they can charge hundreds more dollars...
Right, and it's also worth highlighting here the meaning of these "protection" levels:

L1 - all content processing and cryptography operations are handled inside a CPU that supports a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).

L2 - only cryptography operations are handled inside a TEE.

L3 - content processing and cryptography operations are (intentionally) handled outside of a TEE, or the device doesn't support a TEE.

This suggests that the media industry only trust you to receive their content if they have some degree of control over what your device is doing. There's an obvious logic to them setting such a requirement, but it does mean rolling out a world wide system where critical security components underpinning our digital societies are resistant to inspection and transparency, by design (and, in many cases, with the full force of the law).

I feel that ultimately this will create a precarious situation and introduce risks that are not justified.
I think you probably missed the beginning of that sentence, which was contrasting e.g. Bitcoin with the MimbleWimble approach.

The difference between 'both parties must be online at the same time' (true of, say, a phone call) and 'both parties must participate, even if it's during different weeks' is a substantive difference, I only wished to indicate that MW requires the latter, not the former.
That’s just clerk-speak for “I don’t feel like doing this”. You handle it like any other lazy customer facing person. Dig in and escalate if necessary.
It probably shouldn’t be written like that in notes though.
Not a single republican was responsible for foisting the ACA on America, the ACA is big reason why insulin is so expensive.
Not being controlled by a government is a feature for all criminals. Bitcoin has other issues that make it less popular for criminals, though.
HIPPA is mostly self attestation, so it's one of the weaker compliance requirements actually. But you are correct that at least there is some fine involved. GDPR will be interesting to follow also, and to see how high the fines will go in the future.
No, the handshake requires the two public keys engaging in the transaction, no one else can complete it.

They can be MITMed by an attacker spoofing the identity, but this is no different from a MITM inserting a different BTC address into a communication stream.
Why do we need open source at all then?
Cars seem like a pretty big market.
Toilets work the same way! When water in the bowl rises to above the highest point in the drain, everything (hopefully) siphons out.
Agreed, it takes awhile to get there but the core idea comes toward the end:

The genius — sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental — of the enterprises now on such a steep ascent is that they have found their way through the looking-glass and emerged as something else. Their models are no longer models. The search engine is no longer a model of human knowledge, it is human knowledge. What began as a mapping of human meaning now defines human meaning, and has begun to control, rather than simply catalog or index, human thought. No one is at the controls. If enough drivers subscribe to a real-time map, traffic is controlled, with no central model except the traffic itself. The successful social network is no longer a model of the social graph, it is the social graph. This is why it is a winner-take-all game. Governments, with an allegiance to antiquated models and control systems, are being left behind.
Doesn’t the equipment used for reproducing the soundstage matter in A/B testing? I haven’t done a rigorous test myself, because I’m comfortable having a predilection for high fidelity audio even if it isn’t demonstrably/empirically superior. But in my experience listening to music on a “audiophile” or “studio reference” setup, when the equipment is sufficiently sensitive and well engineered as to most accurately render the audio signal, I recall rather obviously noticing a difference in sound quality.

I can’t imagine if you compare a 192kbps MP3 with a DSD256 audio file played on reference monitors from a high performance DAC there’d be no audible difference. Personally, using a McIntosh integrated amp and Focal Utopia headphones the first time I listened to a DSD track, 1-bit word depth sampled 2.8M times per second, it was unlike anything I’d ever heard before. I acknowledge that’s not a direct comparison, but all i’m saying is maybe the lossy vs lossless test performed on a low fidelity audio chain where the signal is always meaningfully subject to harmonic distortion before you hear it is the reason most people can’t tell a difference?
Real luxury apartments barely exist in San Francisco, and the few that are available go for significantly more than $3000/mo.
I experienced that same scenario in PDX during the 90's.

Rent on a nice place was $325 / month. One year, they announced a bump to $375. Big jump!

We went looking and got a starter home, 15 year fixed, payments of $425 / month.

No brainer as we watched rents rise right over our cheap mortgage.

My income improved and we put some of that into the house. Paid it in 11 years.

Sold the home for $125k.

Rents at the time were something like 800 / month.
A few years ago, Flipkart was the leading e-commerce portal in India, and Amazon was a poor third, behind Snapdeal[1]. At some point in March 2015, Flipkart (and their fashion portal, Myntra) decided to go "app-only" on mobile[2], i.e., if you went to their website using a mobile browser, you would get shown a large interstitial to install their app, and nothing else. There was no option to proceed with their mobile website. Flipkart also gave away exclusive discounts for people downloading their app.

People rebelled. A lot of people rebelled. No one wanted to install their app to comparison shop. People just went to the Amazon site and bought whatever they wanted, knowing that at most, there would be a minor difference in price. Shopping on Amazon's site using a mobile browser was a breeze compared to Flipkart. The whole app-only strategy was a disaster.[3]

Flipkart admitted their mistake[4], and decided to re-instate their mobile website in November the same year. But the damage had been done. By August 2016, Flipkart had lost its leading place in the Indian e-commerce space to Amazon[5]. They never recovered, and to this day, they're still playing catch-up.

Not everything in the entire debacle can be attributed to Flipkart's app-only strategy. Undoubtedly, there are others aspects - like Amazon's prime being better than Flipkart's version, etc. But the app-only strategy definitely contributed significantly to Flipkart's uncrowning, and provided Amazon the much-needed entry point to becoming the market leader.

1. https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/flipkart...

2. https://www.livemint.com/Industry/J9VeQxowSOlHU8ZMUParUL/Fli...

3. https://www.techinasia.com/flipkart-myntra-app-only-disaster

4. https://trak.in/tags/business/2015/11/10/flipkart-u-turn-mob...

5. https://www.livemint.com/Companies/c6vY9ta120G7cwewrCg6bI/Ha...
What is shaky about the foundations? He seems like he covered all the bases here.
Thanks for the answer. I hope all firms have a formal HR process where they state expectations and confront the individual before he is labelled as toxic. I think everyone should have a chance!
You and all your colleagues should be aware of the Medical Information Bureau and IMS health.

Despite all of the kabuki theater about HIPAA and black covers on clipboards and whatnot, every single medical fact that is even considered for payment by an insurance company gets hoovered up into various industry databases and shared with any insurer who bothers to ask.
Widevine isn't used in Chrome today for services such as Prime Video?
No, I'm very much disagreeing with you. I can take any title I worked on and point to art, code, production or design work that dovetailed into what makes a game "fun".

In fact the want to know what the largest predictor of if a game is going to be fun or not?

Talk to any game designer and they'll tell you it's the iteration cycle time of their tools. They'll be the first to admit that they don't know what fun is(otherwise we'd just formulate it, bottle it up and fire all the game designers). The more they can throw things at the wall that "stick" the better chance a game has at being fun.

I also can't think of any team I've been on my career(or other teams I know of) where roles weren't "blurred" it's expected and required in the industry even on large, AAA teams.
Sure, that can happen, but probably encodes a pessimistic view about the area's future prospects. If my neighbors highly valued the option to flee, I'd want to be very careful about putting down roots.
Safety improvements on divided highways I think are to the point that driving is so boring for humans that any increase in safty ends up with offsetting human behaviors like, eating, texting, phone calls, looking at the scenery, falling asleep. If auto-cars can do on-ramp to off-ramp driving 3 times? safer than humans(and many say that is already here), this would be a huge improvement for lots of people. Long commuters and overnight trips instead of flying, especially.
Is this a surprise? America's run on the car for over 100 years; it's deeply ingrained in the culture. Replacing that culture was never a matter of trails, lanes, or bike sharing.
Professionally and for personal projects I go with Elixir. Having 99% transparent parallelization of any task is irreplaceable in our multi-core CPU era (especially having in mind that CPUs seem to have more and more cores lately -- see AMD). Functional programming improves the way you reason about your tasks as well.

Having a simple language living inside a 30-year old runtime and being able to reach for pretty advanced tools if you need them, is heaven. Not everything is ideal though; there are still holes to be filled in the ecosystem.

If you do something more serious and need compiler help as much as possible, I'd say go for OCaml. Its multi-core parallelism story is still not good but there are ways around that. I hear from some people Idris is good as well.
> Ilfak Guilfanov and Hex-Rays are known to be picky about their clients.

This was mostly to combat piracy, as far as I was aware–I doubt that there is any nationalistic or moral reasons behind it. So I don't see this being a major issue in this case.
>But on a theoretical level, nothing changes.

Although your overall point is correct, I disagree with this statement. It is in fact only theory that distinguishes between continuous systems and very high resolution discrete ones, because the time-evolution of an ideal computer is nowhere differentiable while the time-evolution of a physical system is everywhere differentiable.

Indeed, it is not only "discrete" and "continuous" that are indistinguishable below a certain threshold. For any data, there are an infinite number of continuous theories that are all indistinguishable from each other, and also are indistinguishable from an infinite number of discrete theories, which are yet also indistinguishable from each other - all that it takes for this to happen is for us to agree that the data doesn't specify anything below a certain scale. Then, every theory that agrees on the large scale will match the data, leaving room for anything you can imagine at the bottom. So discrete vs. continuous isn't the core point.
> only centralized webs of trust work

How can you claim that? Looking at most tech we have today, it becomes readily apparent that most technology needs multiple iterations before achieving wide adoption. Web of trust is no exception.

The lack of a widely-adopted precedent implying that some tech is forever poor is a sloppy conclusion to make.
Well, a number of her interviews seem to show her not having a very good grasp on basic facts. The branches of the US government. How much the military spends. Fairly basic stuff.

Now, this could be that she's not good at interviews, and feels the need to keep talking to appear competent. She could know far more, and just be unable (yet) to bring it out in front of the cameras. But to me, she comes off as talking without knowing. That scares me in someone who can write legislation.
Comparatively, the business who only builds one software is much simpler.

But for open source software itself, the success is not measured by money,but popularity and impact. Linus is successful on Linux work. People and history would remember him. Who cares about VCs in making history?
Extremely prevalent. Identity theft is one of the biggest forms of theft in the US. Things like fake income tax refunds is one of the fastest growing financial crimes in the last few years.
I think that quote comes from Tolstoy when he was writing about families in Anna Karenina.
"
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

I am not sure he was right here, different people may have different ideas of happiness.
>Basic information theory tells us that any noisy continuous system is equivalent to a discrete system of a certain resolution/bit-depth.

Not only that, but the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound also tells us that in a finite region of space with finite energy, there's a fixed bound on its information content. So if the brain exists in finite region of space with finite energy, then it can be described without loss of accuracy by a discrete system.
Regardless of your political views, there’s no way anyone could watch this interview of her and think she’s a competent government official.

https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/
Thanks, I just modified my spreadsheet predicting 4% annual return for the next 15 years (although the article I could find with Bogle's prediction is a decade of 4% returns) and then 7% thereafter. The 30Y loan still comes out ahead, but very slightly (less than $3000 advantage on about $2M expected value of the portfolio). Such is the time value of money.

Agree with you about solar panels (and other efficiency upgrades) - my initial remodeling plans are improving sealing, insulation, and upgrading to a more efficient furnace. Already got the smart thermostat!
Really great, short read!
What do these levels mean on, say, Windows? What would the TEE be?
That's an argument I'm familiar with and sympathetic to, but not something I'd necessarily argue in mixed company, which is what I think of HN as. I don't understand the current coherent argument the GOP has regarding health care but I'm open to there being an ostensible argument and would only ask that Republicans recognize that whatever the new argument is, it's distinct from the original argument, which is that we should have a system that looks basically exactly like the ACA.
House stealing: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/march/ho...

Thrown in jail:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-being-an-id-theft-vict...
There isn't any, so it looks like it would be L3: https://storage.googleapis.com/wvdocs/Widevine_DRM_Architect...
Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem (2017)
Link? Curious!
There are leaks and there are leaks. Something like OSNews having a breach is a case of who cares. If it's important info (SSN, Drivers license, passport #) then any company leaking such info should be hammered with $1m fine per leak for each person. These companies which leak valuable information must suffer intolerably so that they never, ever do it again. That means making examples of those companies early in the cycle by having some go to the wall as that's the consequence of such.

I'd also like to see executives be personally liable for the fines too.
There is one surprisingly good feature in yahoo mail that I wish google would provide: the ability (requirement, actually) to create a custom prefix for disposable email addresses. Just pick something completely unrelated to your real username. You can only create it once and it is forever your prefix, so don't mess up this step! Also, unlike gmail, you have to register a suffix when you want a new address in the form of prefix-suffix@yahoo.com. But this has the added benefit that you can delete any of the suffixes from the list, thereby stopping incoming messages from that address. You can have up to 500 active suffixes.

Finally, since the format uses a dash rather than +, I have never once had a disposable yahoo address rejected.

Not sure if that made any sense, but here's a link to the docs:

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN28338.html
What seems like a very emotional statement.

If you want perfect, we will never get autonomous driving and 35k people a year die in the USA.

What if there's 10 Tesla fatalities a year, but similar people driving similar cars would have expected 50 fatalities?

Granted Tesla hasn't proven this, but generally there's going to be more deaths and we shouldn't just kill off the technology because they aren't perfect.

Keep in mind the decapitation was from someone watching a Disney DVD instead of using the AP like it was intended.
Depending on the rates and down payment, it's not uncommon to need >10% gains in the invested difference for the 30-year to beat the 15-year mortgage. The 15-year mortgage has proved to be much more advantageous in my case.

See https://www.mtgprofessor.com/A%20-%20Term/30_years_or_15.htm
Never said illegal. If I willingly place myself in a high risk category I should pay for that myself. I may buy a wing suit someday, but I won't ask you to pay for my wheelchair.
Sure, but my advice was only on how to better persuade people, not how to better bash the truth into their skulls.
Keep in mind the 30% federal tax credit on solar starts phasing out after this year, and you may have other incentives available (state, local, utility) that reduce payback time of your solar install to 4-7 years; every kw after that is free! Hope my comments have been helpful.
As someone who doesn't drink alcohol (and never has), this can often be a bit overwhelming. People tend to be very surprised when I tell them that I don't drink and are very confused when I'm unable to provide a reason like religious beliefs, a medical condition, or family history of alcoholism. From my perspective, it's pretty strange that I need a reason not to besides not wanting to; nobody seems to expect that I have a reason beyond that for any other form of entertainment activity, but consuming alcohol seems so ingrained in culture that people assume that anyone able to does so.
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