skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Mechanical failure of a suspension insulator in the absence of something physically falling on it is a very rare occurrence, and would only plausibly occur if the insulator is well outside its normal service life.

What about one or more bullets being shot at it, as numerous locals have stated happened?
I have the problems you speak of and I'm glad someone is solving them with IoT lights.

I often forget to turn off my light before I leave, and I like that I can turn it off remotely or say "turn off the lights" while I'm getting dressed.

I want to wake up to light at a specific time not tied to natural sunrise, and I like that I can schedule my lights.

I have stuff on my bedside table next to my light, so I like that I can turn on my lights with my voice instead of reaching out in the dark to grope for the light switch.
H5mag | Javascript Engineer | The Hague, The Netherlands | onsite (flexible), interns welcome! | https://www.h5mag.com/

H5mag is an online design platform for digital magazines. We're aimed at graphic designers and enable them to create (responsive) interactive content for the web. No programming needed — practically magic!

Technically: the H5mag editor is a quite large Javascript web app. Our backend and infrastructure is mostly written in PHP/MySQL with some microservices sprinkled on top. We develop with GitLab using a Continuous Deployment philosophy.

Take a detailed look here: https://www.h5mag.com/jobs

Want to know more? Shoot off an email to me: joost [dot] schuttelaar [at] h5mag.com and I'd be happy to share!
> Just listen to Ben Shapiro's opinion on events

I'd rather shoot myself

> and then NPR

I'd rather just sit in silence staring at a wall.
> Something I always mentor those that ask about an idea: “Any good idea you have, 100 other people have already had it. Any GREAT idea you have, 1000 people have already had it. The difference is how well you execute it.”

What does that say about patents, and the patent system?
Article does not actually explain why mid-latitudes were inaccessible to Apollo; anybody care to explain?
Where is this being discussed by knowledgeable people and not getting deleted? I'm asking because I'd really like to know more of the details.
This is absolutely fascinating. I don't know how folks are earing this kind of cash when you can go to a recruiter, with more than decade of hands-on startup experience, and when you want more than 200k a year they look at you like you just kicked their cat.

Then you see someone at a place like Lyft with four years of real world experience and one year with the company pulling 300-400k a year without breaking a sweat. And now they’re about to jump onto the IPO rocket ship. I want to clarify that I’m not jealous of these people: it’s great. I just gotta stop and ask myself sometimes what the fuck I’m doing wrong.

Then again this is crowdsourced and might be a load of shit.
I’ve seen that this is not available in the entire EU, I’ve bought a similar(under some features) product, the Xiaomi Yeelight bedside lamp but the power adapter does a pretty weird buzz sound once the lamp is turned off that I cannot stand.

Does someone knows a similar product that’s available in the EU?
Thanks for your initial thoughts! We do need to store purchase history to improve our predictions, but we have no plans at the moment to do anything else with the data.

@pricing - we haven't really figured out our pricing model yet - that's why we're sticking to a low flat fee for now!
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Haha yes the tax filing giants (TT, HRB) are the kings of funky pricing claims. They say "File for free!" oh and by the way "State Filing costs $39.99". As if anyone would only want to file federal.
Yes, if all the spam hadn't driven me to delete my LinkedIn account, I'd do this as well.
A healthy skeptic? Lol what? Anyone who feels they have a point should be able to back it up with sources or data
Have you considered adding parameters to the end of the url so selections can be saved and shared?
Gephi JavaScript: Exploring the Dystopian Future of a JavaScript Gephi [video]
Front End Dev

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate? No

Location: Redding. CA

email: cwoodward5@hotmail.com

resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tfwOAS8-TgcFH6-3S7N4CGc1...

Experienced front-end developer, 5 years experience using vanilla JavaScript & frameworks (AngularJS, Angular 2+, Vue).

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Let me quote from the "About" page:

> HOW’S THIS DIFFERENT FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG OR OTHER FREE EBOOK SITES?

> While there are plenty of places where you can download free and accurately-transcribed public domain ebooks, we feel the quality of those ebooks can often be greatly improved.

> For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of public-domain ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those ebooks are automatically generated and can’t take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual ebook productions varies greatly.

Not sure about the Calibre conversion. I normally convert EPUBs to MOBI using Calibre (and switching to left aligned, right ragged), but on StandardEbooks I've been downloading the AZW3.
Dude, dude, dude looks like a lady
PaintShop Pro 7, about 18 years old.
> Taxes incentives are incredibly common

Yes, because our society is corrupt by design.

> This isn't some check to Bezos. This is a rebate off their tax bill. These are taxes that you will not get unless the business moves to New York.

At which point he gets to earn an extra 3 billion that should be going to the state.

> Finally, it's not a backroom deal. Part of Amazon's competition was for each city to sign an NDA in the process so cities can't see the bids of other cities. This would have created a bidding war that, surprisingly, Amazon didn't want.

That's a backroom deal. Giving it a (flimsy) reason for being a backroom deal doesn't change the way it was done.
Google have struggled to retain focus. And when they started out, they chose to compete on datacenters as a core competency: their corporate history is full of the idea that they could run a search engine cheaper/better than competitors by using commodity PCs and that kind of thing.

Facebook is a similar story: being the biggest website in the world is a core competency for them, and one of the ways they outcompeted rivals early on was by scaling their website better.

Uber has yet to turn a profit.

If datacenters are a part of your business proposition - not necessarily "we're selling datacenters to other people" but rather "we will be able to outcompete our rivals because our datacenter strategy will be better" - then self-hosting makes sense. But if the datacenter is a commodity from the point of view of your business - and I would assume that would be the case for Lyft - then it makes sense to buy off the shelf.
Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus Review: The Anti-iPhone
On my CS degree compiler assignment, I got to learn a neat trick from our teacher that I still use when advising someone trying to write a compiler.

Basically, our IL was just a bunch of NASM macros.

So yeah not good at all for doing register assignments or writing any kind of performant code, but it was a binary generated by our toolchain anyway, and it felt good.
Just a small point: you have 7 (seven!) play buttons on that splash page, but none of them work! Also, there is an "Add article" button, and it doesn't work either ...
Read New York's Letter to Jeff Bezos Urging Amazon HQ2 Deal
Location: Bratislava, Wien (CET)

Remote: Yes or partial on-site

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: 5+ years worth; Typescript, Javascript, Golang, React, React Native, WebAssembly, Vue.js, Flow, Backbone.js, WebRTC, Apollo, Relay, Web Extensions, Node.js, Express.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, Human Code Reviews, Docker, Git, Travis, Jenkins, Web3, Ethereum, Cryptocurrencies, P2P, Dapp, Dat, ssb, IPFS, DCore

Résumé/CV: https://olso.space

Email: olsansky.martin@gmail.com
In the past it was the right who owned this issue. Conservationist was the term. Now it's environmentist and seen as a left value.
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* Engineering Manager - build & lead a team on some of our newest projects. You should be just as excited to solve tough technical challenges & contribute to the codebase.
* Senior Data Scientist - Python3 stack. Lead an exciting new data science project that can impact up to 45,000 companies.
* Technical Program Manager - Program manage various projects that we have with one of our largest partners.

Tesorio is a high-growth, early-stage startup backed by some of the Bay Area’s most prominent Venture Capital firms (First Round, Floodgate, Y Combinator) and the world’s top finance execs (e.g. the ex-CFO of Oracle, the ex-CFO of Yahoo, and the founder of Adaptive Insights).

We built software that applies proprietary machine learning models to help manage a core problem that all Mid-Market businesses face: managing, predicting, and collecting cash. As we’ve taken this solution to market over the last 18 months, we’ve been able to bring on some great clients like Twilio, Spotify, Veeva Systems, WP Engine, Rainforest QA, and many more.
Hi there, I'm the lead on this project. Yes, our proofreading and formatting is better than Gutenberg. That's the entire point of the project. No, using Calibre to convert epub to azw3 won't quite produce the same output as our special azw3. We do use Calibre in our build process to do much of the heavy lifting, but there are also other adjustments made that Calibre doesn't do.
When I was interviewing a few years ago, one of the interviewers I spoke with mentioned they'd used Mattermark[0] to prospect for companies they might be interested in applying to. That seemed like a novel idea given it seems to be targetted primarily towards investors.

[0]: https://mattermark.com/
But this is where their one-trick pony hurts them. Where will growth come from if they stop growing in the one market they're currently in?
Lowering the interest rates was not the primary band aid on the 2008 financial crisis.

The fed and other banks didn't just help the credit market grow (via lowering interest rates), they quite literally bought it to keep money flow up. There was a substantial credit freeze, and many parts of the financial system were on death's door. So governments and banks quite literally just went "take this huge wad of cash, please stay in business." And by huge wad of cash, we're talking about $12 trillion dollars of bailouts, stimulus packages, debt bonds, etc. Twelve. Trillion. In one year. The entire GDP of the U.S in 2017 was about $20 trillion.

Wages at the time were too low (oh, imagine that) to mitigate any kind of credit stasis on the monetary system. It would have had a compounding effect. No credit, no consumption, no consumption, no economy.

We "fixed" two of those. But we did it in a manner that requires us to pay for it at some point. So here we are.

Bring wages up. Allow the credit to be repaid. And not just consumer credit, corporate credit as well. Allow the federal reserve to finally increase interest rates. Make the economy truly robust again, instead of just "letting the good times roll" and creating another crisis.

Companies have to start paying workers more for us to get out of this mess.
I think you should probably e-mail/call all groups/agencies that contract out to workers and sell a bulk deal as a perk for the agency (ie. maids-r-us contractor pays keepertax $x or x% of total write-offs and maids-r-us can offer unlimited service to all its housekeepers). I think it will get you guys more users quickly and allows you to reach out to more potential customers for less.
Characteristics yes. As in what will one be doing during working hours, or what one delivers. However, I've seen "seniors" who really had no business being in software development. No idea how they claimed the "title". While at the same time I see what the industry labels as "Juniors" due to number of years in the job market, being so amazingly good at what they do that they put said seniors to shame. Yet the "business" needs those labels to justify a pay-grade of sorts. This is wrong in my opinion. Compensation should match the ability, not the number of years someone had the fortune of being employed at this or that capacity or how good they can blag through an interview.
Centro | Digital Advertising Platform | Senior and Intermediate engineers | Toronto | ONSITE | https://www.centro.net

We build Basis, Centro's answer to the challenging and convoluted digital advertising landscape. Our engineering teams across North America work closely with product managers, designers, and testers, creating well-crafted solutions to the complex problems of our industry. Our sales team is top notch, and is hitting their targets for rapidly growing our client roster. As an engineering organization, we are aggressively optimizing to reach this scale, while at the same time building industry-leading features that will land even larger clients.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Node, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS

Send me an email if you have any questions: kaizhi [dot] wei [at] centro.net

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Location: Victoria, BC

Remote: Yes, (preferred, 4 years experience)

Willing to relocate: Maybe? Probably not

Technologies: React (JS+Native), PHP, MySQL, Python, NodeJS, Phalcon, Lint, Git, Jest, Enzyme, Docker, Confluence, Jira, REST APIs, MVC Frameworks, HTML5, SASS, UI/UX

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-koch-156aa026/

Résumé: http://tinyurl.com/y4ldwvws

Email: warren koch at gm

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Looking for Roles:

Intermediate/Senior PHP Framework/API Dev
- Been designing advanced CMS systems and web portals for 5 years now. Know my way around.

Intermediate React Web/Native (or other JS framework)
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Junior/Intermediate Solidity/Cryptocurrency Dev
- Lots of tinkering, developed an arbitrage trading bot, years in the space and very interested

Intermediate UI/UX Developer / Data Architect / Front-End Dev
- preferred role, as looking to pivot into more design work
- Did design side for most of my projects (web design, stakeholder consultations, community management, art). Heavy experience designing REST APIs. Strong artistic eye.
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Anything related to Voting or Recommendation Systems!
- Years of Masters degree and spare time research on voting systems and built my own extensively-used hybrid weighted public/expert voting system
This is overly simplistic. This fire was not just the result of an accumulation of “debris”. You’re leaving out two major factors: years of severe drought followed by a year with lots of rain. This both weakened older trees and produced a lot of young growth which acted as kindling. Conservatives like to pin the blame in forest management just as a desperate attempt to take the heat off climate change. But the extremes we experienced were the primary factors here, and that’s climate change.
My car does. Whether that's connected to the cruise control system is an open question.
Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat
Location: Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Will Consider
Technologies: C++, Haskell, JS, React, GraphQL, Ruby, Qt
Résumé/CV: https://www.pliosoft.com/docs/ChristopherCLord.pdf
Email: christopher@pliosoft.com
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>...The FED is essentially signalling to policy makers that the time to up minimum wage is... was, yesterday.

I don't think there is any evidence at all that the Fed raising (or not raising) the interest rates is an attempt to dictate the minimum wage level. The Fed's mandate from Congress is to aim for three goals: "...maximum sustainable employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-economic-goals-does...

Let's not use Fed policy in trying to achieve their mandates as a pretext for some other policy someone wants to promote.
An “Exciting but Dangerous Moment” for Medicare for All
Maven Clinic | Senior Backend Engineer, Android Engineer, Director of Infrastructure | NYC | FULLTIME, ONSITE | https://maven-clinic.workable.com/

Maven is the leading healthcare platform focused on women's health, and we’re looking for great co-workers to join our growing team in NYC. Read more here: https://www.mavenclinic.com/press.

Our ideal engineering candidates care about security, automation, and reliability. We're focused on delivering great care to our patients and keeping their information secure and available. Backend/infra is mostly python(3) with flask, sqlalchemy and a great devops setup on Google Kubernetes Engine with CI/CD. Android in Kotlin.

email: Zachary Zaro (CTO) at zach@mavenclinic.com if you're interested in hearing more.
I picked up the Meditations recently, expecting some profound insights, but it’s been a bit of a let down so far. Are there particular parts I should skip to? Has anyone found a translation they really like?
Deep Spreadsheets with ExcelNet
Your track record is what you present. No one is asking for W2s or tax transcripts. There is no central repository you can call upon for employment history (besides the hot garbage that is Equifax's The Work Number; you have frozen your Work Number profile if your employer reports data to them, right?)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/how-to-opt-out-of-equifa... (KrebsOnSecurity: How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History)
> Tax cuts can't directly cause deficits, only spending can.

This is a very tortured use of the word cause that the rest of the world disagrees with.

> Tax revenue is not down

We're only now doing taxes for 2018 which was the first year affected by the Tax Act, of course it hasn't changed tax revenue yet.
How patriarchal.
> The topic isn't political btw. Saying the President is compromised by Russia, along with much of the Republican party is just a fact. But HN sees that as political I guess, and things are removed. It's really unfortunate.

How could you realistically believe that is not a political comment?
That will certainly cause insulator failure. And if PG&E can show that's what happened it would certainly help their case that the ignition was not preventable (by the utility).
I had one of the VC investors in Lyft pick me up for a ride a few years ago in Menlo Park. Had a super interesting conversation - I was impressed they were scoping out their investment directly. I wasn't sure what the protocol for tipping as at the end, hah.
Quant Strategist | Moscow, Russia | ONSITE (later remote)

We are looking to hire one or two physicists/mathematicians/statisticians/"data scientists" or quantitatively inclined programmers to join our small prop trading shop to help find profitable strategies, and take our infrastructure in support of that task (database, backtester, simulator) to the next level. Nota bene: No frontend (well, ssh...), only various backends :-)

Required: MATLAB, Python 3 & the pydata stack, some statistics/ML/supervised learning

Beneficial: Julia, C++, git, Linux, PostGreSQL, inquisitive mindset, fondness for problem solving

Email me at fab@klatek.ru for more info. Cheers!
Yes, I've worked with a few of those datacenters. A few examples:

- Recently had to purchase new servers, because of signed contracts the only servers we were allowed to purchase and put in the datacenter were four years old and technically EOF.

- Firewall changes, AD changes, provisioning a VM, etc. are 48 hour turnaround. Purchasing new hardware requires 4-6 weeks.

- Had an intermittent issue with their edge firewall, it'd slow certain connections to a crawl and eventually they'd timeout. Took six months to fix it, for the first three months they told us it wasn't their fault (turning off their deep packet inspection ended up fixing it).
I still remember when we opened the first ticket about it, and the reply was "no other customers are experiencing problems" and it was closed.

That's just a few examples of how painful it can be. To give you the other side of the coin, having worked with an enterprise contract in AWS, we were having an intermittent issue with DNS resolving failing for a few seconds every few days. They put an engineer on it full time till they found the problem (we misconfigured it), and it didn't cost us anything more than the enterprise support. I was actually shocked they'd invest that much on such a vague issue.

Yes AWS is expensive, but you're getting world class engineering proven at scale, and access to some very smart/motivated people to support it (and they have access to the teams who built it, when they can't solve it). I don't think I'd ever choose managed datacenter over AWS/GCP/Azure/etc. Either do it in-house where there's accountability, or use cloud providers who have proven they're competency.

To be clear, I'm talking about VPC/EC2/etc. I can't really discuss a lot of their higher level and newer managed services; they either weren't as good, or I haven't tried them. But the bedrock these clouds are built on is solid, and that's worth paying good money for.
almost as if the world has a limitless supply of "challenges". As you level-up, so do the challenges which force one to grow. Hopefully.
> It didn't, and a few days ago they announced that they would not be moving into the building anyway.

It did, after months of debate and planning.

Amazon and a few others got it scrapped almost instantly.

> It is oligarchical, crony capitalism.

Our society is built to fuel the interests of the wealthy.

It's just capitalism. No special modifiers required.
Verishop | Lead iOS Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer | Santa Monica / Los Angeles, CA | ONSITE, VISA | https://www.verishop.com/

At Verishop, we are re-imagining the e-commerce platform with a mission-driven approach. We’re focused on building a platform where brands can thrive that’s intuitive and delightful for the millennial shopper.

We’ve assembled a team with deep knowledge in online retail, e-commerce marketplace, and online user behavior. We’re looking to add intrepid individuals who are both skilled and enthusiastic about having a role in building the creative strategy, team, and culture from the ground up.

Our stack currently consists of: serverless/aws lambda, dynamodb, graphQL, typescript, and react.

Links to apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/verishop
I have spoken with several lawyers offices, both the secretaries and the attorneys - and most have no idea what I'm talking about in regards to telemetry and default settings upon machine setup or during updates.

Same with accountants and some dental offices.

Luckily I did find one that does encrypted off site backups three times a week, and fired his last secretary for clicking okay on a windows warning overlay that installed malware once.

Not a lot of data points, but so far 1 out 20 or so sensitive professions I have polled are using windows completely ignorantly of the privacy ramifications.
H&R Block tried to charge you $30 per month @nicksecurity ?