skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Komodo Health | Data Science & Eng Managers, Sr. Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers | NYC & SF | Full-time, Onsite

Komodo Health builds data-science and AI-powered products improve decision making in healthcare. Our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease through big data analytics. Our "healthcare map" is where we process data and stitch together information about patients (have 295M US lives), doctors, hospitals, payers, etc.

We are a data-first & eng-driven company and growing fast. We have significant traction and revenue.

Career Page: https://grnh.se/5ccd0c0d2

Data Science:

* Data Science Manager

* Data Scientist

* Sr. Data Scientist

Engineers:

* Engineering Manager - Data Engineering

* Staff Software Engineer

* Sr. Software or Data Engineer

* Sr. DevOps Engineer

Product / Design:

* Sr. Product Manager

Stack: Spark, Airflow, Python, React, Scala, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, PostgreSQL, Flask, Django
Both images show that convection pattern, but only the second image illustrates what parent was referring to, with the ground level dropping inward. As the groundline recedes, the surface area of ice exposed to the water increases, resulting in a positive feedback loop and further accelerating the melt rate.
I'm fascinated that you cycled through the U.S. Did you happen to write anything about your travels that you're willing to share? I'd love to hear your experiences seeing America.
> Like/dislike the guy, the selective journalism/editing and the unrelated call back is: unproductive, dishonest, and is propaganda.

No, it's context. You cannot reduce political action--and "political action" should be understood as any action between people or groups, there is no light switch to turn it off or on--to a single-shot prisoner's dilemma game. The game is infinite. Your history matters. The context of your actions in the body politic matters.

News organizations have a duty to place events into context, and...this is that context.
And the type of screen, a single screen 1960's area cinema isn't going charge as much as a flagship cinema.
The VAT income of the state is the same regardless of where the product was manufactured. So it's not like a tariff at all.
This is an example of snopes not doing their job well: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nathan-phillips-vietnam-ve...

Snopes claimed that Phillips hadn't claimed that he was a Vietnam veteran until the 24th of January, when a Twitter post became popular with that information. Apparently these clips were found on Phillips' Facebook page. You would expect a fact-checking website to check facts. At least check their Facebook page.

This isn't a perfect example of what you're asking for examples of, but it is a very recent one, where relying on snopes would've kept you misinformed.
Is there anything quite as shared as DNA? You share 99.xxx percent with everyone else. You share a significant portion with other species. Other living things.
And we have only gained the knowledge of this as a species within the last hundred years.
Interesting, but there are typically recurring costs involved in keeping a company open. Mind you, I guess accounting/filing costs also can get pretty cheap at scale, especially if each company is identical in nature.
At this point nothing is trustworthy. But I have more faith that AI is going to do a better job in future than humans ever have. We may be 100 years away from that though, or 1000 years. Who knows?
The question is what counts as "real work". Certainly work done with Google's office suite counts as well, considering that Google and many other companies run their businesses using it.
One thing to keep in mind is that (in theory, but also from what I have seen in practice) better starting salary at Google will fairly quickly be negated by smaller raises in the future.

Same level / performance will be equal after a few years, so the really important thing to work on is (perceived) performance.
What bothers me about this is not the figures, but the feeling that the only thing that matters to increase your salary is competing offers.

The more articles I read the more convinced I am that this is by far the most important factor in an offer, including interview performance. Companies seem to rely in a 'wisdom of the crowds' of sorts.
> > Riding on the misinformation of life insurance company is not a solution either

But this is the very and only concept of insurance: misinformation on misfortune...
Meanwhile, in France, they’ve been doing monthly subscriptions to the movie theatre since... forever for 20 EUR/month. 17 if you’re 26 or under.
Well, it's certainly one way to guarantee database consistency after a network partition…
It's not that, it's selective memory. Everyone remembers the blown forecasts. Even I do. Three or four years back NWS predicted a big Christmas storm in SoCal, but the damn cut-off didn't come on shore, and the resulting offshore flow made the day nice and warm.

And, Americans only: if you forecast temperatures of 99°F and the observed temperature is 97°, good job. But if the observed temperature is 100°, then you made a huge mistake. People need to know when you hit the century mark!
My wife just spent several hours making a Word document, then it refused to save ... It didn't even say why it couldn't save. She is a long time Windows and Word/Office user, and pretty good with computers. But she is starting to hate technology more and more.
I think you're missing an important way of looking at DNA. It is clear that most people view the details in their DNA as being specific, private information about themselves and want to have control of what can be done with it.

DNA is also shared, however. A relative can currently choose to reveal private information in their DNA that also reveals information that you consider private in your DNA. This is the way in which DNA has a shared or commons aspect.

My point is that the shared nature of DNA means we have to look outside of individual actions to preserve the privacy rights that many seem to want preserved. In other words, I shouldn't be able to use my DNA to reveal private information about anyone else.
I once posted a shot including a friends daughter. FB tagged her mother before I shared the post. We were all creeped out.
First round. You aren't competing with your colleagues for jobs, you don't have to deal with survivor's guilt, and generally the severance will be better (or exist at all) because they either feel guilty or are still interested in virtue signalling by making sure you're taken care of.

The main downside of first round is explaining why you were in the first round.
You’re right in part, but even publicly-shared media companies are doing the same thing.
Also, we can't conflate DNA and one's specific DNA sequence. It's like the majority of the code is GPL.
IMO HN is not the place for jokes, but that was really very very funny
"Uh, no."

Uh, yes.
The calculus becomes a bit different if you are one of the countries Russia considers its buffer. You might have some aspirations of your own, but of course Russia has its own plan for you. The opposing superpower follows the same playbook, but you don't care since they aren't invading you, and so you'll happily join their defense pact.
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All of this advice is spot on.

I recommend not even mentioning a language in your resume, just explain what you worked on. If they ask if you can program in X, the answer is "of course I can program in X", because of course you can, languages are easy to learn. If they ask if you worked with technology Y, you say "yes" or if that's not true, you say that "I worked with similar technology Z, and I looked at Y and it seemed easy enough to learn in a few days".

You want to position yourself as a person that will do anything that needs to be done, and if it requires learning something new, you'll learn that quickly, as you've already done many times before. Just don't lie, as it can easily poison the well.

Some companies are looking for e.g. Rails developer, and they might reject you if you're not Rails developer, or they don't realize that you are. This is fine, these companies almost never pay $250k+ anyway. Companies that do are looking for people who can do anything they ask them to, not just some simple well-specified tasks.
Edinburgh Genome Foundry | Senior Software Engineer - Synthetic Biology and Automation | Edinburgh, UK | ONSITE | Full-time

We are looking for a computational software engineer or computational biologist to join one of the largest automated platforms for synthetic biology globally.

The Foundry is a unique facility at the University of Edinburgh specialized in large-scale genetic engineering projects for academic and industrial research. We are automating the assembly of genetic constructs up to chromosome size, with an ambition to deliver custom DNA seven days a week with minimal human intervention from order to shipping.

You will help us develop the services that orchestrate our platform, making it smarter, faster and more reliable. This is a great opportunity to contribute to exciting research projects (e.g. in gene and cell therapy, metabolic engineering) while developing expertise in Laboratory Information Management Systems, software architecture for automation, computer-aided DNA design and manufacturing, and web development.

Your work will be mainly open-source and have visibility in the Synthetic Biology and Laboratory Automation communities, enabling biological projects at an unprecedented scale!

Duration: Until Nov. 2020 in the first instance.

Full job description and application: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec...

EGF website: https://genomefoundry.org

EGF Software Projects: https://edinburgh-genome-foundry.github.io
Are all of the positions remote-ok or only some?
So the counter argument is that the Trump admin didn't found Huff Post? The original plan was that Trump would lose.
I've upvoted rather than downvoted you because I appreciate your passion, but I'm eager to see your results. Posting here to remind me to check back tomorrow.
If you want to work on something, then make it English translations. There is still recent work by major figures like eg Enki Bilal that is still unavailable in English. And all of the Moebius material needs to be re-released.
Most organizations don't have the foresight or bandwidth to organize things this way. It's always just one person do everything. I hate it.
Is this a case of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"?
I do exactly the same thing. I've raised support requests, given feedback, starred support items for years about this knowing full well that it is a by-design choice. Other map apps seem to cope without it and manage to record your preference.

It's like trying to brush off an unwanted advance -- it gets creepy after a while.
How I came to work here [JGC, CTO of Cloudflare]
Here is some good news I found today:

The Montreal protocol (to ban ozone-layer-destroying gas emissions) works quite well so far and also has implications for climate change:

> As reported in the 2014 Assessment, chemistry–climate models suggest that continued accumulation of ODSs in the atmosphere in the absence of the Montreal Protocol would have led to a collapse of the global ozone layer by the mid-21st century, with devastating environ-mental implications (Newman et al., 2009; Garcia et al., 2012).

> The last Assessment also reported on the additional (mostly unanticipated) benefits of ODS regulations for mitigation of global climate change.

> Specifically, it was reported that by later this century, unregulated ODS increases could have led to global surface temperature increases comparable to tem-perature increases caused by other greenhouse gases (Velders et al., 2007) and could have almost doubled changes in the hydrological cycle (precipitation minus evaporation) over the next few decades.

The newest addition, the Kigali Amendment, phases out some more gases. This also has implications:

> As discussed in Chapter 2, these new studies indicate that the an-ticipated phasedown of HFCs is expected to avoid up to 0.4 K of global mean surface warming by 2100.

(see some plots on page 34)

http://ozone.unep.org/sites/default/files/Assessment_Panel/S...
That's an awesome video. The guy talks a bit fast, but very great video that shows how much can go wrong. He especially makes the "I am innocent, why should I not talk to police" case be moot. Indeed, being innocent is the best defense there is against being convicted of a crime, but claiming to be innocent right at the beginning might not help your case.
Alphabet's Verily is working on health-tracking shoes
I almost did one of this test because I was curious about the results. Ultimately I decided that giving my DNA to a some random company on the internet is just a bad idea, even if (a big if at that) the results are accurate and interesting.

Stories like these are why I'm glad I decided not to.
The point I was making was that in the case you cited, the person charged didn't just blow far past the limit (because, again, they were abusing pseudoephedrine as a stimulant), but also took steps to avoid the limit (for instance, by striping their purchases across multiple pharmacies).

Perhaps the limit should be higher? Certainly, I agree in advance that people not making meth and not reselling shouldn't be getting prosecuted. But the story of William Fousse doesn't really have much to tell me about the public policy value of pseudoephedrine restrictions or about the likelihood that an especially allergic family might get caught up in it.

If you find other cases where something like that happened, I'm happy to dig into the filings as best I can.

Later

There are also a couple surveys of the state laws easily Googleable, and most of them have "knowingly" (for evading the limit) or "intent" (to manufacture meth) standards for the offenses themselves.
You have to synergize authentic work-streams.
All I'm saying is that Make was designed to be hand-written and often is, and Ninja was designed to be generated, and almost always is. See the manual:

https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_philosophical_overview

Concretely, if you look at how Android or buildroot used GNU make, you can't do that with Ninja alone -- you need another tool.

GNU make is Turing complete, and Ninja isn't. IMO the Ninja design is better (which isn't surprising since it's not an accretion over decades).
Workpath | Senior Frontend Developer | Munich | Full-Time, Onsite

We are looking for our first dedicated Frontend Developer at Workpath in Munich. See more details here: https://www.workpath.com/job-post-frontend-dev/ I'll be happy to answer any questions :)
While it is a TOS violation is this data being scraped really hurting anything? I dont think so.
That's fair. I can understand that if those were your requirements that it would take a decent amount of extra time to put in place, and you can find it valuable to pay someone else to do it.

Personally I probably would have tried to get my blog in place before quitting my day job and worked on it in the evenings, although I definitely understand how hard it can be to find the time and energy sometimes (I've let mine sit dormant for a couple of years now, I need to redo it) and how it might not get done if you had to do it yourself.

Best of luck to you in your venture. I'm still hoping I can get to that point eventually, with a slightly different path.

By the way, thanks for sharing the source code. I've been curious about Jekyll but haven't really invested the time into seeing how it's set up. It's nice to see an example of what it would be like in action.
On the contrary, humans are great at interpreting large amounts of visual data. That's how we can drive without needing lidar in the first place.
What specifically was draining about it? What drained you? Why?
Ask HN: How can I become a professional developer without a degree?
The Weekly Standard folded completely in December, and last year Red State had layoffs.

It was interesting to note that TWS was largely anti-Trump, ad Red State laid off mostly anti-Trump writers.
I love San Francisco. It sounds like when you say SF what you mean is SOMA and FiDi (which even then SOMA has lots going on further down market). There is still so much going on in SF even though the crushing expense of its rent is horrible.
No job lasts forever. You will eventually move on. When you do, you will leave un-vested RSUs on the table. That's pay that you will never collect. "Total compensation" is not the same as being paid an actual salary.
You need the demand to make it worthwhile. It's been a long time since I looked at any city pair traffic estimates, but my recollection is that there's just not enough demand for intra-Florida traffic, compared to such routes as SF-LA, Texas Triangle, NEC, or even Midwest.
Was the $100K mentioned in this article the total amount Facebook gave Snopes? Because that's, like, one new-grad signing bonus.
U.S. suspends nuclear arms treaty with Russia
Audio: Mercy Chinwo –Power Belongs to Jesus
You should compare AWS's pricing vs dedicated providers, it's near a 3x difference compared to OVH last time I looked.
It is time for me to brag: I have all of the Moebius books that were released in English by Marvel's Epic imprint in the '80s (Arzach, The Gardens of Aedena, The Airtight Garage, The Incal, Blueberry, and several others).

But you are right: all of Moebius's stuff needs to be properly released again, and digitally as well. It's crazy that such a massively influential figure not just in comics but all of pop culture is virtually unknown in the English world these days.
Perhaps that was exactly the response they've got in that moment.
When I have the time (or have failed ten bloody CAPTCHA's in a row), I sometimes shoot out emails to whatever website or service I am trying to use, to advocate for the removal of reCAPTCHA. Unfortunately, as long as only a few people are complaining though, a lot of websites will continue to paste in Google code blocks willy-nilly.
It's not about whether it's a "good deal" for the investors: it is that as a society allowing unaccountable business dudes to run roughshod over society isn't working out so well.
Tips are so incredibly stupid, unnneccessary, confusing, and a waste of everyone’s time and energy.

Just imagine... paying the price that’s advertised. How practical and convenient that would be!

The obvious solution is a law banning the soliciting of tips, and let’s require prices to include sales tax while we’re at it. Call it the “pay what’s advertised” or “fair pricing” law.
This is what Elon Musk is trying to do with SpaceX isn’t it? Seems like he’s late to the game at this point.
Snowden put it pretty eloquently:
Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
I think people understand at some level that there is something wrong with companies collecting enormous amounts of data on them even if the immediate consequences are hard to describe.
I've always wondered if FB could get into the cloud game, it seems like they might have some data center expertise.

However, your comment has me thinking that FB doesn't have a way to lock people to their cloud - they'd be forced to compete on price more than any other major cloud provider. Probably not a great business.

But is Apple a cloud provider? I recall they have some data centers but I thought that it was rumored they used Google Cloud or AWS (or both) too.
See, this is treating "loss of privacy" as an abstraction meaning "any information somehow derived, no matter how indirectly, from my behavior." That's something I fundamentally disagree with. When people get upset about it then I have a hard time taking it seriously.

If I log all the hits to my website and generate aggregate reports based on that, there's no personal information disclosed in the reports. Nobody is harmed and they have no case, as far as I'm concerned. It's the same if I'm outsourcing to Google.
Spotify in Talks to Buy Gimlet Media
Why is housing the benchmark of wealth ? And the great thing about living in a high income area is that you can have a nice vacation home that matches your criteria above
Which parts specifically?? I have worked on GCP extensively. Things that annoyed me were appengine standard using Python 2.7 and AWS being more innovative in bringing in new offering much faster than Google can. But Google recently announced Python 3.7 for appengine std.Other than it terms reliability GCP is amazing.
Well, I'm not sure that's true.

I only hear bad things about AWS and Google Cloud, and I hear nothing much about Azure.
Hey now, we have guaranteed eventual consistency!

...at the heat death of the universe
What’s the story with what’s app? Had that installed 4 years ago in Brazil since everyone uses it.
The most important problem for me at living in a similar place was just one thing: lack of women.

I was compensated for not having a girlfriend, as it is a scarce resource that a high salary can't buy. By looking back in my life to those years, it wasn't worth it.
RealClearPolitics has an interesting guide to the different fact-check providers. In particular, it calls out the difference between fact-checks and opinion-checks.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/fact_check_review/
So should I buy or sell compass-related stocks?
I think it's more accurate to say Google doesn't care very much about privacy concerned users since they represent a very small portion of the user base.
Right now you do not have a convenient way to force your target to submit to a DNA test. This way you can frame someone by placing their DNA at the crime scene and then having it "discovered" using DNA testing company data.
I once had an idea for an erratically-scheduled holiday called "arbitrary apocalypse day". The day after each AAD if the world hasn't ended, you'd roll a D-10 3 times to get a number of days between 0 and 999, and that's the new predicted apocalypse date. You'd select a cause at random (i.e. nanobots, aliens, meteor, supervolcano, nuclear war, pandemic, etc...) and tell everyone that doom is nigh.

In the end, I didn't promote it heavily and forgot to celebrate on the appointed day (or choose the next date). Maybe I should start it back up again.
HSR for passenger already requires dedicated tracks. Mixing 220mph trains and 75mph trains tends not to work very well. (Not to mention the curvature requirements precluding a lot of existing right of way).

The real problem is the lack of demand for passenger traffic. HSR ridership falls off a cliff around 2-3 hours; in practice, you're limited to looking at city pairs within around 500-700mi max, ideally all in a nice line, and outside the NEC, there's just too few of these pairs.
Good! Snopes is a cancer rewiring the brains of youth as to what impartial fact checking actually should be. Snopes passing off as factual is exactly the same as Fox's previous rhetoric of being "fair and balanced", just on the other side of the political spectrum.

There are a few examples already in this thread on Snopes bias with inaccurate inclusions. But historians know that you are just as biased in what you choose to omit, as much as what you choose to include.

An example would be the way they paint Antifa in a positive light. Why is there nothing on the recent arrests of Antifa members for beating up an innocent Jewish bystander, and 2 Mexican-American marines while yelling racial slurs?
https://www.snopes.com/?s=anitfa+marines
https://www.snopes.com/?s=did+anitfa+beat+up+marines%3F
https://www.snopes.com/?s=did+antifa+beat+up+a+jew%3F
An example would be a PowerPoint presentation showing a diagram linked to an Excel file using SQL Server as a datasource.

Dunno if something similar can't be done in Googles office suite as well though.
Yet, computer scientists implement these systems, while being fully aware of the consequences.

If hospitals order doctors to do $BAD_THING, they protest. If an advertisement company orders computer scientists to implement $BAD_SYSTEM, they just comply.