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Feature Labs, Inc. | Software Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time | On-site | https://www.featurelabs.com

Even though some companies have already found success with machine learning, the vast majority of organizations large and small still struggle to launch new machine learning products and services. The problem isn’t that machine learning algorithms don’t work, but that they are too hard to use.

At Feature Labs, we’re building automation technology to make machine learning easier to use. We work on many unique and important machine learning challenges with a focus on making sure machine learning isn’t just a theoretical endeavor but has a real-world impact.

Currently, our stack is mostly Python on the backend (pandas, django, sklearn), React for the front end, and AWS and docker for deployment. Above all, we prioritize the ability to choose the right approach to solve a problem.

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You can't extrapolate from the price of a human spending 8 hours following limited corporate instructions to the value of their other 16 hours.

First of all, value and price diverge for many reasons all the time. Secondly, most people on Earth produce more value after work than during, but that value is not fully priced or marketed yet (try as captains of industry may).

That used to be more true in the colonial powers as well (most value was not marketed, and stayed on homestead).

Humans do exist now whose labor is fully marketed but they are rare, mostly men, mostly rich. And even them, they still produce a lot of extra-economic value in most cases.

Many humans labor is entirely unpriced, like full-time parents or schoolteachers, social workers, artists, and other "passion professions.

Humans are invaluable.
Well...it doesn't. Members of corporations absolutely can be and are convicted of crimes.

The issue is really whether corporation itself, as a legal "person" can be convicted, and if so, what does that actually mean, legally?
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How can you avoid the "backfire" of having to pay the whole bill? Just pay the whole bill straight away?

People should be honest and pay reasonable bills. But forcing collections and/or lawsuits is one way to put on display for everyone how bad our medical care charges can be.
Oh I understand the real world pressures, that's definitely not what I was discounting. I can see why people want it, I am discussing the efficacy of it and questioning this general push instead of opt in. IMO that's what you are trading for this Sophie's choice of a situation :/

Unless your exec board itself is fully remote, I don't think a company can be. I don't know of many companies like that :(
This is a great article. Do I have to go vegan? No. But it would have the biggest impact if you did. Is organic farming the answer? No. It tends to use more land for less output (although maybe the health-foodies could get off the No-GMO bandwagon). I also appreciate that the authors recognize that for some people living in certain cultures and climates _have_ to eat meat and there's no shame in that.

The bulk of the reduction can definitely come from rich, affluent nations and have the biggest impact.

Articles like this seem important. Hiding the fact that meat/dairy production is such a huge factor in climate change hurts people more than it helps. When we all start to wonder why it isn't getting any better we need to know that there are ways we can do our part. Even if they're small things!
> It may be that actually fully stressing the parts is avoided, as it may risk weakening the part.

Couldn't they just buy an extra and destructively test that?
I'm pretty sure the comment you're replying to was sarcastic.
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GitLab Product Manager for Verify (CI) here.

I agree! I think that we have lots of improvements to make here. One feature that is underutilized (more on that in a second) that tries to answer this is our [1] interactive web terminal that lets you connect directly to the container or runner that is running a job. Would love feedback on how that could maybe help here.

Now, having said that there are two issues still open that are top of mind for making this minimal viable change much more usable. One is making the Web Terminal work in our shared runner pool on GitLab.com [2]. This is obviously required for users of .com who don't want to bring their own runner and something we're working closely with our Production and Security teams on making a reality.

In addition, there is a command today of `gitlab-runner exec` that allows you (in theory) to install the GitLab runner locally and execute it on your development machine. However, we technically depreciated that and have plans to re-implement it in a more useful way. [3]

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/interactive_web_terminal/

[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/56073

[3] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/2797
It's a very unpopular opinion, but I have argued that mere possession of bona fide child pornography should not be illegal. My primary reasoning is based on the ultimate futility of trying to police bits. And I think the argument that not punishing the consumers of it would encourage the production of more is specious - in fact I'd imagine enough has already been produced to satiate demands, and allowing the easy distribution of pictures would actually get evidence of new production into the hands of law enforcement quicker. But I obviously don't have a direct stake in that argument, besides knowing that all of the easy-to-persecute malinterpretations are ongoing injustices (eg having any pornography without explicit documentation that all participants are >=18, having your computer hacked and used as a proxy, inadvertently coming across it on a general website are all harshly illegal)

But I don't agree that we should somehow appreciate this practice because it can highlight other bad laws. Fishing expeditions function whether the laws are sensible or not. You can modify my above catfishing scenario for whatever happens to be illegal. Even if the images are fine, keep going with texts that show an intent to meet up. Even if no meet up occurred, it's still a big hassle. The setup is basically DIY entrapment for whatever crime you want to design.

The problem is not merely being caught up by other bad laws, but Cardinal Richelieu's old "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." The unfounded search is the problem, as it focuses police attention on the victim as a new potential criminal to investigate.
As someone from the EU, this reads like dystopian fiction. I pay about $120/month into the state (mandatory) health insurance system. In return, I get crappy first-contact healthcare, but I know I am covered in case anything bad happens.

Example: ending up in a hospital in Italy during a skiing holiday involves showing your insurance card (or simply giving the number). That's it: there is no payment, no negotiation, nothing — you just get healthcare services and you're done.

The EU gets criticized for many things, but universal healthcare across the entire union is something that should get more praise than it does.
Of course they are. Taxes-funded, never earned an honest dime in their lives.
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I believe that my stance still stands.

Say a lot of people join the bandwagon and become activists in this manner. Or even that, say someone is thinking that this is actually a great idea and starts buying up Parkmobile spots to.

Sitting in a parking lot, no matter what the cause or circumstance is, is a recipe for disaster.

Its still a highly unsafe thing to do.
Maybe there is more to the dominance of the English language than just British and American pop music, movies and empires. Relatively high functionality at low skill levels should be the main quality metric for a common secondary language. English ranks terribly in consistency between spelling and pronunciation, but maybe selecting the wrong mapping rule for a word isn't quite as damaging to communication as over might expect. But I'm biased myself, as a native speaker of German I am clearly on the winning side of English dominance: just add the French half of the vocabulary, the rest is almost a dialect.
What if you don’t know that your actions are illegal? Who could reasonably do a job as an employee if they didn’t have that liability shield?

This isn't an excuse for private citizens, so why should it be an excuse as an employee?

That said, we should propagate responsibility as high as possible. If you are a rank-and-file employee and your manager is asking you to do something illegal, unless you have enough professional autonomy to decline the request without being fired then your manager is responsible, not you.
I frequently see people dismiss this with "programmers have an obligation to think about the possible uses of their work". That's not false, but I think it seriously underestimates the depth of the problem.

The simplest difference between professions with clear ethical codes (doctors, lawyers, civil engineers) and ones without is that professions with strong codes provide outcomes. A doctor treats a specific patient, a lawyer litigates a case, a civil engineer builds a specific bridge. Even indirect work like medical research has specific recipients and a fairly clear course for future use. Programmers, like chemists or machinists, frequently create tools.

Alfred Nobel famously created his prize in atonement for the destruction caused by his invention, but he invented and marketed dynamite for use in mining and construction, where it provided real benefit to humanity. Edward Teller spent the second half of his life championing civilian uses for nuclear power and atomic bombs, having seen the world reshaped by fear of a weapon he hoped would be demonstrated to prevent future wars.

The beauty of professional codes in medicine and law is that they achieve moral good without taking heavily-disputed moral stances; if doctors do no harm and refuse instructions to do so, harm will generally be prevented. A chemist studying nitrates or a programmer designing GPS guidance has no such guarantees; the same work is very likely to create both good and bad in uncertain amounts, depending on where it's put to use.
Especially since they're non-enterprise version of Linux is called Fedora.
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US universities are also pretty bad: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/09/20/re..., although Europe seems to be doing a worse job at complying with mandatory reporting in general.

Funnily enough, everyone with 100% compliance is a Big Pharma company, while everyone with 0% compliance is an academic university.
> a fleet of self-driving vehicles that will make their way into the robotaxi service as soon as next year.

So... are we living on the same planet? Does Musk seriously think that Tesla will have solved full autonomous driving, with no LIDAR, and have commercialized a functioning robotaxi service, by next year? This is so far outside of the realm of possibility that it's like saying he's going to Pluto next week.
> As I understand it, if a company actually goes to trial and is convicted, they are not allowed to operate anymore, hence the plea deals and fines.

This isn't true (a counterexample: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/pge-found-guilty-obstru... ). The reason for plea deals is that neither prosecutors nor defendants typically want to go to court and have a jury trial with an essentially random high-stakes outcome. Both sides usually want to reach an acceptable compromise.

Disbandment also means very little from a punitive perspective, unless you consider disbandment to include seizure of the company's assets. Disbandment is unfavourable because it destroys the value embodied by the company's association: it's customer relationships / brand value, its employee relationships, etc. The cases where disbandment or breakup makes sense are where that association is bad for the rest of society, such as monopolies (e.g. AT&T's antitrust settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T)
Well, no, but I feel like there's a huge jump between that, which clearly was a failure and "we can mind control people now and were going to do it on Assange". If the US were capable of such actions with ease, I feel like we'd see a lot less conflict in the world as political opponents were slowly stifled, and that doesn't seem the case.

Also, what benefit would that have? If the people who Assange truly speaks to are already claiming that he's going to be brainwashed, who does his brainwashing influence? Is there a large group of Wikileaks fence sitters who are arguing that "I'd believe him if he were just a little more mainstream"?
Just a note on your first point. End-to-end encryption only encrypts messages in transit.

This does not make messages inaccessible to Facebook, as they control both endpoints.
EU court advisor sides with Airbnb against French restrictions
That's fair, although at a certain point (e.g. international holding company with several large subsidiaries) it becomes impossible to police every activity by every department of every subsidiary.
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Smart people, agile teams, open culture, great opportunities, lots of potential, flexible hours, NIH Bethesda campus near Washington DC.

Multi-cloud strategy (including on-prem), using cloud-agnostic cluster schedulers / container orchestrators, service mesh, distributed tracing and monitoring products.

Examples of technologies used or evaluated: Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), HashiCorp products (Nomad, Terraform, Packer, Consul, Vault), Linkerd, Istio, Envoy, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS, GCP, CentOS, Python, Django, Rust, Golang, Scala, Finagle.

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>Focusing on adding e2e encryption for messaging services serves as a nice deflector for FB's privacy issues.

Although it's not all that's desired, it's something. After all don't forget that entities much less legal than Facebook are after your data (like the NSA).
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If you're an engineer looking to flex your marketing muscles, or a growth hacker wanting to work with some very technical partners, you could be a good fit for this role.

About you:

- some experience with / strong interest in appsec
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What socioeconomic challenge, in this day and age, applies to American blacks but not American asians, whites, or any other group who are applying to university?
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We enable transparent measurement and verification of energy savings in order to drive investment into flexible energy solutions to help decarbonize the grid.

In other words, we help our energy utility customers learn to run building energy efficiency programs with results reliable enough to eventually be a viable alternative to building new power plants.

We're building a data-intensive user interface and looking for an experienced, mission-driven, product- and user-focused engineer with a strong front end focus who isn't afraid to dig in on the back end if needed. We're a team of ~20 with 7 engineers.

Stack: Vue frontend, python/django/django-rest-framework/postgres backend. Experience in those those technologies preferred, but not totally necessary.

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Their constitution was drafted mostly by the Americans. I don't think that's a fair conclusion to draw here.
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PathAI is looking for front- and back-end engineers and engineering managers to help detect cancer faster and more accurately while paving the way toward personalized medicine.

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> Tooling can optimize what it can see, but what it sees might already be a tangle of dependencies added only because a monorepo made it easy.

In practice this is almost never because of "a monorepo" and more because people don't like being good about including what they use (see: any Titus Winters talk ever). If, for example you have :test_foo and :foo_lib, things are fine and dandy. When you modify foo_lib you'll run :test_foo and nothing else. But often people are lazy and you have :foobarbaz_lib which is built from three source files, foo, bar, and baz. Each of those has a test, but all the tests depend on :foobarbaz_lib, because that's all that exists. So when you change foo, you run :baz_test, even though in practice, baz might depend on foo, and not the reverse. You fix this by making :foo_lib, :bar_lib, and :baz_lib each with their associated :target_test and explicit dependencies, and then :foobarbaz_lib depends on all three libs (or doesn't exist at all, and everyone who needs :foo_lib uses :foo_lib directly.

So yes, absolutely, when/if you start (essentially) globbing your imports, bazel/buck/pants stop being awesome. So don't do that.
This is disproven by Oxford scientists. Grass fed beef is worse for climate change than CAFO beef. Look it up
The downside of equities is not being sued as a shareholder of a crooked company, it's the risk and long-term exposure you bear from your share of ownership and the future cash flow of the company.
If you think about it as an entertainment/sport industry with a product that comes out every 4 years that number doesn't seem too bad. wonder how many jobs it creates.
The issue is really whether corporation itself, as a legal "person" can be convicted, and if so, what does that actually mean, legally?

It wouldn't be up for debate if responsible entities at corporations were actually held responsible for their actions. Corporate personhood is a smokescreen in this case.
It's either a lie or psychotic delusion, I refuse to believe he is that uninformed and ignorant about the current state of autonomous driving.
Wow, are Citymapper job posts being downvoted because of the notoriously atrocious culture? Have they managed to upset that many people?
Oh come on, he's got a whole seven months!
NeXT wasn't Linux, but the point being made was that it would have been easy to dismiss NeXT as a "fringe" platform at the time. It is an argument for developing with platforms [and porting to them] when they may not be a priority for your end users.