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Location: US Midwest

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure/ClojureScript, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Erlang, Java, C/C++, Kubernetes

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Email: robert.boyd@me.com
FedEx partners with Walmart, Pizza Hut to test last-mile delivery robot
The majority opinion in this case was based on Colorado's failure to respect freedom of religion. They also acknowledged the free speech argument, without ruling on it either way, while the concurring opinion was about free speech. Both are about the 1st.
That's just ill-informed. "If you don't accept the banking oligopoly you're clearly trying to launder money" is the kind of nonsense that tries to shut down legitimate concerns over self-determination.

Money is an essential input to freedom. If you can't make an income, pay rent, buy food, pay for transportation, etc. you are not very free. I'd also go so far as to say that the right to transact anonymously should be part and parcel to a free society.
I think you will be happy sooner rather than later, but I heard about it second hand, so I don’t want to say too much.
I love Europe for the reasons you mentioned, but it's a different culture. Most Americans have no interest in living a European-style life and would see it as a huge decrease in their quality of life, especially if it were forced on them.

Which means it's effectively impossible to do, because as soon as you try, they'll vote you out of office. Short of suspending elections, I don't see how democracies make the level of changes needed until we're actually suffering badly from climate change. But historically it doesn't seem like the types of people who become tyrants do so because it's the only path available to save the society from itself.
While this is true I think if anyone had control of my password database they could remove the 2FA from most of my
accounts without much issue.

Also where is the password to your Authy account?

And where are your 2FA backup codes?
An on-chain transaction is required to create a lightning channel which holds funds.

For every person in the world to open just a single channel in their lifetime, it would take just about 34 years (with 7 transaction per second, 7.5 billion people, and a block every 10 minutes).

This doesn't include the transaction necessary to close the channel to receive the funds back in the Bitcoin wallet.
Snobbism?

I personally stopped visiting w3schools when I started finding more answers that were simply wrong than ones that were right.

Glad to hear that it has improved since then, though.
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There were one or two high profile cases in which the occupiers refused to give way and their behaviour flaunted the rules badly. The conductor or police didn't take action. I'm not sure if they didn't have the power or simply didn't want to use force. Videos were posted online and became viral.

Anyway, this is the background information for the last one.

IIRC the travel ban doesn't last forever. It expires after some time or after you have taken remedy. But I haven't checked.
There's clearly two schools of thought debating here. One is that there should be a presumption of innocence, and the other is that there should be random warrantless checkpoints everywhere to catch the bad guys.
maajid nawaz and ayaan hirsi ali are, literally, useful idiots for fascist propaganda. splc had good reason to suspect them. they made a mistake and apologized, but it doesn't discredit the institution.
That explains the name recognition.

"Could I get your name?"
"Bob."
"Sorry, I can't help with that!"
So banks operate a bit like open proxies on the internet (actually they are much more responsible). The administrators should go to jail then?
SystemTap derived its regex functionality from re2c:
http://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=blob;...
I think this is mainly a thing for perception (images and sounds). Tabular data would have to match up with the training dataset, and "most" interesting tabular models are the sports of things guarded like piles of gold by the businesses that build them...
It’s an interpretation of how things are. And unfortunately “let’s ostracize those who don’t behave ethically” doesn’t seem to be a scary enough stick if you consider that those banks have far more business with individuals that acquired their wealth in illegal ways and give zero shits about ethics.
I think this is a great explanation for consumer products. We can't possibly research every product in our lives and so we take short cuts. Great advertising allows us to make a quick decision that we can feel good about (i.e. we believe we made the right choice).
> Just seems like something a civil society can deal with quite easily without resorting to black marks on people's "permanent record" (which in this case seems to be functioning as a kind of parallel judicial system).

Exactly. I never had issues that could not have been easily resolved. Most people where I live is very careful about not being a douche, despite not having to fear that the Government will punish them.
In Belgium, People who can't sit may go sit in first class. ( Train)
Oh, Please.

You don't get put on the TSC's No Fly List for unpaid taxes and being a douchebag on a train. Let's not act like the standards between these two systems are anywhere near the same.
These aren't really homophones though, right? Because they differ in tone?
Clicking the RSS or JSON link goes no where and then breaks the back button.
It was beforehand. works fine now.
I see this is controllable via an app. Does it communicate via the "cloud" or locally? (Bluetooth etc).

If it is cloud-based, what happens when the service inevitably shuts down?

Edit: Upon further reading it appears that this device has BLE. That's reassuring, at least.
> Real wages and real purchasing power must keep going up.

Yes and yes - but how? The interest rate is only monetary policy, not fiscal. Traditionally, low rates were expansionary. Maybe we need lower rates?
I never noticed this actually :) But we mainly tested and ran this in Europe and not in the US, maybe there is a difference in how the front plates are mounted. I don't think I can recall any European plate I've seen that is mounted so it could get bent in that way (the bumper usually covers the entire plate height).

Some bending and distortions are tolerated, so maybe it would work. One of the design goals I had was that if the system fails, it should fail in a way a human would understand (like dirt in the wrong place turns an F into an E, or something like that). And if a human can't immediately see the bent chars (and had to "reason" about them), probably my system would have problems as well.
I mean, they even have a term for that: Monday Morning Quarterback

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/monday-morning-quarterback
Have you ever purchased a car through a dealership? When you buy a car off the lot, chances are good many people have test driven it, and unless you have zero anxiety about the purchase, you were one of those people
Nano is the one true text editor. Easy to use, does what I want and no arcane text rules.

!wq
I travel quite a lot and I've had a few problems paying with the Revolut card, but not more than with my traditional bank credit cards (for example a few years ago, my card from a normal bank wouldn't work in Qatar, to this day I don't know why).

I have learned on my own skin that travelling with a single card is not a good idea. I always have two (plus some hard cash just in case). But Revolut has became my first choice to pay abroad because it charges no commission when paying with foreign currency (I suppose they make some money by tweaking exchange rates, but so do normal banks, and I have checked in practice that Revolut is much cheaper). So even if it's not perfect, I would say travelling around is and advantage.

By the way, what I don't understand about Revolut is why they never charged me the tips I paid when I was in New Orleans last summer... they had this weird tipping system at restaurants where you would first pay the raw prices, and then you would write the tip manually on a piece of paper and they were supposed to charge it later on, except they never did.
In Germany this is solved in a different way. Many punishment don't have a fixed price, but use Tagessatz as a base which is an equivalent of the daily income for the person. In the end, everyone is hurt the same, regardless of the income.

There was a famous case few years ago that one famous football player paid half a million euro fee for driving without a license.

I guess introducing similar system would be more fair than going to this drastic measure like not allowing to ride a train forever and ever more.
> without resorting to black marks on people's "permanent record"

I think the whole point of this system is to "encourage" good behavior and to punish "bad" behavior, while the definition of bad can be a very broad one, so people start to change behavior.

I'm not even sure if I would count this to a parallel judicial system or just "controlling the masses".
> But issues are not simple and journalists are, in general, not qualified to meaningfully interpret the things they're reporting on

The general public is even less qualified to interpret things being reported on.

Jouralists who just repeat the press releases that each party gives are I believe a net negative. They set themselves up to be propaganda mouth pieces.

> Meteorological forecasts are pretty much meaningless at the 20 day level. Should our journalist mention this? Is failing to omit it misleading?

At some point certain topics are maybe just not worth reporting on at all. If there's no way to make a 20 day prediction beyond a wild guess, then why bother reporting that there's even a disagreement? The report at this point is "Two people make different guesses as to the value of a random variable."

It serves no purposes to report, and only creates a debate on a topic that there shouldn't be a debate about.
Do let me know when PayPal starts beating up customers as part of their offboarding process, and I will probably object to such behavior.

It's fairly clear that the various hate groups SPLC tracks "are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument".
I've never seen a dealership delivery fee over $500, and Tesla is going to charge $1200 to deliver this car to my house.
Pre-trained embeddings are only helpful if they are trained on a different (ideally larger) dataset or even a different task, but with the same kind of input data. So you would need to find out where else something similar to the data in your tables appears. If some of the data is text, word embeddings may be applicable. Or if you're trying to analyze user activity by time and location, you might try to transfer what can be learned about the influence of holidays from publicly observable activity e.g. on Twitter (just a random idea that popped into my head, no guarantee that it can actually work).

Of course if all you have are numbers without context, there isn't a lot you can do to improve the situation.
Again and again with the name calling. Do you have anything useful to add to the discussion or are you just using social media as an outlet for your emotions?
Louis Vuitton is a French company. Also, Burberry, am English company, had 8% drop in sales
If “ignore all clicks from a user that clicks >3 ads on a page” isn’t good enough for an ad network, it can add three or four ‘ads’ that technically are visible, but the same color as the page background. If a user clicks a few of them, ignore all clicks from that user on that page.

AdNauseam could detect that, too, but it gets exceedingly hard, slowing down the user’s browser. So, I think the ad network can win that battle.
Use NPM dependencies in the browser without a bundler
Even one person on the list that hasn't been found guilty of a crime is too many.
Interesting. I've noticed the similarity between Kubernetes and Erlang as well, but what it brought to mind was Virding's Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang."

And actually Kubernetes is pretty cool, but between the complexity of configuring it, and the fact that it only operates at the level of heavy-weight OS processes, makes me wonder whether it really is much of an advantage.

To be fair, while I have used distributed Erlang, I haven't used at the scale that my current employer uses K8s, so I probably don't have an accurate comparison.

(An aside: There are some people from the Erlang community who dismiss the notion of Go as a competitor of Erlang, on account of the many things Go lacks compared to Erlang. Your comment made me realize that the real comparison is not between Erlang and Go, but between Erlang and Go + Docker/K8s)
Perfect, mission accomplished ;)
I'm at the start of the "one man army" thing at the company I started working at last month, thanks for being so candid about your experience. I'm gonna really be forceful to make sure we can hire new people for backup. Last night I worked until 8PM. That was the first time, but I suspect it won't be the last unless I really take action on finding someone to help.
> It's so quiet that nobody has been able to spend more than 45 minutes inside

Whoah.
Zoba | backend engineer, dev ops, machine learning, and more | Boston / Cambridge / Somerville, MA, USA | ONSITE | FULLTIME | $90-140k + equity

Zoba is a platform to make spatial data, visualization, ML, and optimization easier. Our mission is to "improve the efficiency of cities and the lives of people that live in them." Right now, our customers are primarily (micro)mobility companies interested in questions like "where should we place our vehicles" and "how should we rebalance our fleet?"

Right now we're a team of 6 people who believe hard in the power and importance of cities as engines of human well-being. We're looking for a backend engineer with a few years of experience to work on our API, which is primarily used by data scientists at client companies. Our backend stack is Python, Django, Postgres/PostGIS, and AWS. Other tools we use include NodeJS, React, Julia, and Gurobi. Of course, we're always looking for talented, thoughtful people, so if you're an engineer or data scientist interested in what we do, please get in touch!

We work hard to make Zoba an actively great place to work. Perks include:

- Sane working hours (e.g. since I joined 6 months ago, I've yet to work a single night or weekend, though it may happen eventually)

- Unlimited vacation policy, with a suggested minimum number of days (to avoid the rush to people trying to be tough by taking 0 days)

- Roughly biweekly seminars on team members' interests, typically not directly work related

- Weekly team lunches

- Have plenty of runway and backed by excellent investors including CRV, Founder Collective, Mark Cuban, and Kaggle founder Anthony Goldbloom

My role at Zoba is data scientist and, empirically, team baker [0]. If you have me-specific questions, you can reach me at evan@zoba.com. To apply for a job or for general interest, I encourage you to contact our cofounder Joseph at joseph@zoba.com. You can also check out a more formal job posting at zoba.com/careers.

[0] today is everything bagel flavored challah; last week was cinnamon rolls and malted chocolate chip cookies!
Ironic that we've made it to that place, given that one of the huge differentiators in the early generations of iPhone was how it was advertised. The carrier ads flogging alternatives showed 3D models of the devices whizzing around the screen (the emotional play), while Apple's iPhone advertising actually showed the UI; they showed what it looked like to use it and showed it being used to do something useful.
Thanks. I'll listen to it after work.

It's hard to find first hand info on this, rather than tons of internet people assuming it's the Black Mirror episode come to life.
>It’s promoting diversity in its truest sense – a broad perspective on shared challenges. [...] To let three online platforms decide what’s real and who gets to speak, will almost certainly result in nothing good, or new.

Too many essays about "free speech" focus on stating principles that feel good to read and agree with. However, the more difficult analysis is how to implement a true free speech platform.

That's the puzzle nobody talks about: how to make a uncensorable free speech platform that's financially sustainable.

If one does Ctrl+F in Robinson's essay to search for "advertisers" or "sponsors", those terms are not mentioned once. Youtube/Facebook/Twitter are funded by advertisers. Youtube isn't the arbiter of diverse topics, it's the advertisers. And indirectly, it's the mainstream viewers that arbitrate what's viewable because they threaten to boycott the advertisers. (Previous comment about this.[1])

If big advertisers like Proctor & Gamble, Coca Cola, etc want to stop paying for ads because the platforms host controversial topics, how does this utopian vision of free speech get funded? That never seems to be discussed.

Some alternative funding possibilities:

- pass a law that requires advertisers to pay for unsavory content (e.g. including Nazi, Alt-Right, beheadings, etc.) However, this type of radical law seems impossible to pass.

- create a new communications platform that's funded by the government (e.g. the USA government?) that allows anything except for child pornography. This just shifts the problem and whatever government that runs the site will eventually start censoring particular topics they don't like. Also, if the website does not censor, it will devolve into a cesspool and mainstream audiences won't bother to log into it. This is an example "freedom of speech" eating its own tail because the big audiences voluntarily shun it.

- a uncensorable blockchain publishing platform. I see no realistic projects that non-techies want to use. Mastodon instances are run (and funded) by volunteers and by its nature, it won't be the true free speech platform people are looking for.

Let's discuss the challenge of realistic implementations instead of repeating the same complaints about popular websites closing off topics. They are beholden to advertisers and therefore making editorial decisions to maintain a viable business. Complaining about content filtering decisions driven by financial self-preservation isn't going to solve the problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18372005
You’d think any A/C tech could loop around the outgoing AC pipe to the cold water intake, and insulate it.

It won’t be anywhere near 100%, but the extra $50 in copper pipe could pay for itself.
Yes! My solution is to only join/consider a company where the CEO has sufficient skin in the game -- either the company was funded with the CEO's own money and/or they are working full time on the company with typical startup pay -- no side gigs.

To me, idea guys is a symptom of insufficient skin in the game. When the CEO has skin in the game, time is valuable, and they really quick start focusing on execution and the value of time.
> A car transporter carries 11 cars and can drive say 500 miles per day at a cost of $500 per day (including driver, fuel, and vehicle rental).

That feel to me awfully low. Can you be more specific on how you get to $500 for all that? Renting a car can cost me more than 100$ a day for similar distances. I can't imagine 11x that would cost less than half of it and on top of that include the wage of someone that have to drive full time.

That's barely his cost and doesn't consider anything else (administrative and etc..). I feel like it would be closer to 1500$ a day.
That isn’t a list of everything. “Basic” telemetry sends up everything in the “Security” list, plus the things on this page. They don’t publish what’s in the “Security” level or why they send it.
There is no fixed definition of hate speech. It's based on du jure norms, which are in a constant state of flux. No person can define or even accurately predict what will constitute hate speech in the future.

Therefore, once you accept the principle that certain speech can be made criminal, you are agreeing to accept as permanent whatever future shifts may occur. It is inconceivable that this will not be abused in the future by nefarious political actors.
That is not an ‘idea guy’, because their man contribution isn’t the idea, it is those other skills. The definition of an ‘idea guy’ is someone whose ONLY contribution is the idea.
There are not "plenty of variations"; they all measure roughly the same things--web framework, Postgres driver, JSON library. Go's postgres and JSON libraries are probably not well-optimized. Even if this isn't the case, at best it means that Java has a higher ceiling--it doesn't tell us about whether average Java code is faster than average Go code, nor does it tell us about how difficult it is to optimize code in each language such that it approaches its respective ceiling.

Here are some more microbenchmarks that show Go and Java at about the same performance, and the rules of the game prohibit idiomatic Go optimizations (hence the poor performance on binary-tree; regex-redux is slow because Go's regex library is famously unoptimized).

For real-world programs, Go and Java are in the same ballpark.
And if your profession depends on access to iMessage, you're going to have to use macOS or iOS, regardless of whether or not you trust Apple.

This was my initial point. It's not so easy as "if you don't trust Microsoft you shouldn't use Windows." If that's an option, great. But it often isn't an option.
IMO, UX is a minor issue. Why would anyone spend hard money before fiat money? (Gresham's law) Also each spending could trigger a separate taxable event (depending on your jurisdiction) and that would be a serious accounting nightmare if done willy-nilly for casual payments.

Bitcoin is a store of value and a payment rail for significant sums. Currently it is not suitable for casual/small retail payments.

In near/mid-term future I expect new banking services to allow people to stay in bitcoin for "savings accounts" and offering traditional fiat credit in "current account" for daily spending (backed by bitcoin in savings account as a collateral). Settlement and transfers between savings and current account to be less frequent and easily trackable for tax purposes. This would allow a person to completely stay out of fiat while still having access to fiat payment infrastructure - this would cost some interest on borrowed fiat which I expect to go pretty low thanks to collateral (bitcoin) liquidity. See companies like BlockFi which are getting close to this model.
We built this kind of thing in 2006-2008 (Kinzin) but we were too early (and frankly got a lot of the experience wrong). It will be interesting to see how it works.
I pay $70 a month for gigabit AT&T fiber in a southern city, 10 miles from the city center.
I know a fullscreen focused pop-up occured on its own asking to select a time to "apply updates and reboot" on Windows 7. I was wondering, since it occured last during a very time sensitive task at my work and was the breaking point when I decided to switch OS. If it's not happening again I might consider going back to Windows.
LHC experiments produced unprecedented volumes of data
First Randomized Trial on Parachutes Finds They Are Not Safer Than No Parachute