skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Anywhere US, currently San Diego, CA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript (ES6+), React, Next.js, MongoDB, Redux, Node.js, Python, CSS/SCSS, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://storage.googleapis.com/obmelvin.com/obmelvin-resume....

Email: obmelvin@gmail.com

I am finishing my MS this month in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research in the Data Driven Design Group has been focused on interaction mining, which is a new area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that mines UX insights from mobile app interaction traces. Through my professional and research experience, I have gained experience exploring ill defined problems, iterating on system prototypes to accomplish the desired task, and describing my work in technical writing. Along the way, I have also built web applications, predominately in React, and refined my design process.

I was a primary contributor for a paper currently in review that mined Android interaction traces to create deep application links, links directly to UI states within an app, and allows users to search for appropriate deep links to complete a desired task.

My thesis is centered around a user study exploring what information users consider private in Health or Finance apps. The novelty in my approach is to post the user redacted screenshots on a repository of Android interaction traces (http://eaux.design), which forces participants to truly evaluate what they consider private. This research direction excited one of our group's Google collaborators and will be continued by a PhD student in my lab this summer at Google to inform privacy decisions surrounding the Fuchsia project.

I am extremely interested in positions with any combination of full stack engineering, UI/UX/HCI, research, and product.
Werner von Braun's goal as a scientist/engineer was always to travel past Earth. That the V-2 (and later U.S. military rockets) were stepping stones to that goal did not seem to bother him as long as he made progress.

Oft quoted regarding the V-2, perhaps apocryphal: "The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet."
Going ad-hominem now? What points? You posted URLs. Neither of the URLs showed a revenue stream to Google.
Seems like a better market for biodiesel or tallow would solve a lot of this problem by raising the price of the raw materials.
allplants - https://allplants.com/pages/careers - London, UK - Onsite - Permanent - Full-time. Founded in 2016 by food-lovers and serial entrepreneurs JP and Alex, allplants is an award-winning planet-positive food brand, and VC-backed B-Corp with approx. 60 employees on a mission to build Earth’s most forward-thinking food company. We have openings across Design and Engineering. Please contact james.p@allplants.com for more details
Upper level athletes eat 5000 calories a day just fine, though they tend to have better macros
I don't know exactly, but a rough estimate would be around €800k. This is in western Europe. Around €500k of that should be home equity and the remainder tied up in various funds and investments.
Why are they asking? Why do they care what the Trump Administration thinks about the copyrightability of APIs?

Last time around, the Obama administration suggested that the Supreme Court not hear the case, and they didn't. I'm hoping that the Trump administration decides the opposite, if only out of spite for Obama...
That works for most of us, but not for all. It's basically the same as public speech, some people simply will do badly unless they go through some radical change.
I think you are getting confused about how RL works. The continuing payments are decryptors and the rocket pass - this is the "continuing service" that frankly I am not talking about getting a refund on, I got my money for exactly what they promised.

The initial price of rocket league is what I am talking about - and yes, that's where I believe that the contract of violations were broken.

If you change your car's firmware 5 years after its released so it behaves in a way that I cant use it as I have always used it, I might have changed my purchase decision - and in the car example I usually get to accept or decline the change - I cant (obviously) because this has a service component.
Angaza | San Francisco | ONSITE | https://www.angaza.com/careers/

Angaza enables solar-powered appliances and other life-changing products to be sold on payment plans in off-grid regions across Africa and Asia.

We've reached millions of people who now have electricity in their homes for the first time:

- https://youtu.be/2EvEeAs_9R4 and https://youtu.be/onMT6_Yv67I

- https://www.angaza.com/category/engineering/

The technology you build will help reach the 1+ billion more. We are hiring in San Francisco and in Nairobi:

- https://www.angaza.com/careers/
Dell sells to Enterprise A LOT. This sounds like a tool intended for behind-corporate-firewall deployment that got promoted to the public.
You're speculating wildly here, and upset at the possibility that Epic will pull Rocketleague from Steam.
Download is ready for this sandbox AI competition
It's not a us v. them thing since they were not OldTuber and the article says that many other people were granted the access in spite of not being OldTuber.
I’d guess it’s because in that case you don’t produce much insulin which is starting to be called the fat storage hormone.
I really think they need to reduce regulation so people can do creative stuff again. There used to be six wheelers or turbo vs non turbo but now it’s kind of boring. Maybe someone wants to try all wheel drive? Adrian Newey has been complaining about this for a long time.

They have put in all these restrictive rules and it’s still horribly expensive.
Does anyone know if the Tsimane drink alcohol?
Installing via pip gives the exact same version miss-match. Installing via git clone and running `source ./hacking/env-setup` gets a modern version (2.9.0.dev0) running.
In accuracy, over existing visual systems, but still worse than LIDAR and at the cost of several processing-intensive intermediate steps.

In any conceivable situation where you'd use this, it would actually be better to just use LIDAR.
TFA says the potatoes are patented. This one says they are trademarked: https://thehill.com/policy/international/440773-pepsico-sues... and this one says both trademarked and copyrighted! https://www.thedailybeast.com/pepsico-sues-farmers-in-india-... Can someone confirm what kind of rights PepsiCo is actually asserting in this case?
The irony being highlighted there is that you've provided a knee-jerk reaction instead of trying to understand how much time and effort people put into making an enjoyable game for you. Nobody would just assume you're propping the whole company up...
It works, too. This is partly why the iPhone was so popular, at first. It's been so long now that probably everyone has forgotten, but before the iPhone, essentially every smartphone on the market was fully loaded with trialware, crapware, and often had hardware features locked out by software so that you could pay extra to unlock them.

I remember one particular phone that had four user-configurable hardware buttons, but Verizon had locked them down so that they all opened the Verizon ringtone store.

The iPhone was a breath of fresh air if only for its software.
What makes you think it's different in financial organizations?
If you are getting a PhD, chances are you or your professor applied for and received funding for a specific research project - and that's what you research. Obviously an advisor will guide you towards doing work they can advise on, as is their role...

At the end of the project, results are expected and reported. Broad significant outcomes are unlikely without lots of clean data, so the trend is towards narrow-but-significant outcomes.

Reporting is biased against publishing insignificant outcomes... that's a valid criticism. Peer-reviewed publication is a lot of work to announce "we found nothing". However, that is not a valid critique of peer review - even null results are thoroughly vetted.

Despite flaws, peer reviewed science is still clearly superior to commercial research - which suppressed climate change, smoking cancer, and the effects of lead air pollution for decades.
That is an entirely predictable result when you have direct-to-consumer advertising but not direct-to-consumer supply. You just get all the demand the pharmaceutical companies can manufacture without any competition on the supply side to drive down prices.
agree

it has to go both ways, otherwise you are playing a game of slippery slope where you start blocking “those you don’t agree with”...

what happens when leftist parties start to become more resurgent in eurozone (for example podemos)... do we block them too because they are calling for a changes that may threaten the economic systems that support these companies?

what happens when you are labeled “far right” or “far left” and the “committee” thinks so too... is that enough reason to literally cut-off your access to money? just because a committee said so?

these things are not the purview of for-profit corporations... this is for democracies to decide (e.g free speech, free association, etc)

[edit] just to clarify

my point isn’t to support these groups, but that corporations shouldn’t be doing the blocking, if any, instead democratically elected governments should be doing so after going through a judicial process (iow democratic peer-review)... at least then he public saw the decision process, that it was transparent, and it was “fair” and can have a process for appeal etc; corporate committees have none of this.
If you're not going to burn it, you should turn it into something else - carbonate rock, ideally.
Facebook Shows Off High Quality Realtime Body Tracking – UploadVR
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure)
The whole idea of an API being copyrightable is insane to begin with... Interoperability invariably requires it.
Skipping bail is a serious offense. The criminal justice system would collapse if people were routinely able to skip bail without consequences. This point is especially pertinent when the person who skips bail is in the public eye and everyone can see him getting away with it.

As a UK taxpayer myself, I'm happy to see the rule of law eventually prevail in this instance. It strikes me as stingy and short-sighted to value that outcome at less than a few million pounds.

> It is, but when they spend more than seems appropriate for the offense, then questions and doubts about the incentives pop up.

Not really. I'd use the Madeline McCann case as a comparison. Millions of pounds of public money were spent looking for one missing girl who was (sadly) quite unlikely to be alive. You can question whether that's money well spent. But it doesn't take a conspiracy theory to explain why large amounts of money sometimes get spent investigating cases that are extensively covered in the news.
TileDB, Inc. | Full-Time | REMOTE | Cambridge, USA | Athens, Greece | https://tiledb.io

TileDB is a technology for storing and managing enormous volumes of structured data on the cloud. TileDB efficiently stores data generated from variety of domains (genomics, finance, imaging, geospatial, etc) in a novel unified format as sparse or dense multidimensional arrays. Users can efficiently access this data via a growing number of language APIs, interfaces and our upcoming hosted service. TileDB, Inc. has raised $4M in seed funding over the past 18 months.

We are looking for frontend and backend developers to help develop a scalable service to make data storage, management, and computations easier for practicing data and domain scientists. A few features on the roadmap include designing a web admin console for data management, monitoring resources in real time, integration with JupyterLab and handling user profiles, billing, encryption and key management, and scaling / management of serverless compute resources.

We are primarily seeking:

- UI / UX Engineer (Javascript / Vue.js / Golang / K8s)

- Backend engineer (Go, CGo, K8’s)

TileDB GitHub organization: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc

TileDB has been featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547749.

TileDB recent blog post: http://bit.ly/2SjkeYR

TileDB talk at PyData 2018: http://bit.ly/2BfbyJ3

Our headquarters are located in Cambridge, MA. The candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents located in the US, or Greek citizens to be located at our subsidiary in Athens, Greece.

Apply today at https://tiledb.workable.com!
> that won't happen to you again

Well, until they add a new setting.

Bonus points for quietly defaulting a privacy-impacting new setting to "on", too.
Software Engineer Turned YouTuber – Jarvis Johnson [video]
>It requires logic and strict thoughts

>art history you probably go there, look into your textbook and just start talking about random stuff associated

(emphasis mine)

>with limited data

This is all really funny stuff.
Hello, I, Maulik Shah, am a masters student in AI graduating from the University of Georgia in this May and would be happy to work for the AI Engineer role. Could you please give me your contact to talk more about that?
The problem is that not every one's culture has the same degree of liberty.

Indeed. This changes over time. It's a process.

My point is simply that democracy may never exist everywhere.

No one disputed that, or held forth any opinion contradicting that.

Quite frankly, it is not perfect.

Agreed.

Democracy is very difficult at scale.

Indeed, it is very messy.
They could have gotten Ubuntu certified on their computers like Dell does, although they'd probably have to pay Canonical.
Keyword Generator for SEO
This is correct, but there's a complication: YouTube today is a lot more than the YouYube of 2006. Today, people's livelihoods depend on YouTube. Naturally, I'd expect more responsible engineers.
It is now offering to settle with the farmers - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/26/pepsico-acc...
I don't even think it's possible to run Flash on a Mac currently.
When you have a beloved product and you announce something potentially concerning you go with some of those concerns up front - the announcement looks like a pretense of all those bad things not being possible while being vague as possible.

I wouldnt say my speculation is wild - its pretty bog standard for video game companies or software companies in general changing hands.
Well Documented Makefiles
There are plenty of ideas left but usually they get made illegal quickly.
I ended up having the opposite experience; I went and installed Pop on my non-System76 workstation.

It is basically just Ubuntu, with a custom desktop environment (that is actually perfectly fine although optional), but more importantly, ppas for up-to-date NVIDIA drivers and CUDA.

It's sort of like if a machine learning person installed Ubuntu on their workstation, did all the configuration work to get it working with their GPUs, and then turned that into a distro.
It’s called torque vectoring (if it takes input from the steering wheel).

But probably if your car has VSC then it has the capability to stabilise by braking the wheels individually.
You might be surprised at how close you can get to that experience at a nicer grocery store/coop (most larger Whole Foods are this way, for instance). The salads and sandwiches can be put into a plastic container or just on a plate and there’s seating (my favorite grocery store even has outlets).
I was super impressed by the zoom capabilities of the Huawei P30. However, the camera seems to have a weird grainy effect which is not there on my Samsung phone. That's preventing me from switching over.
“Look, having Java — my uncle was a great professor and senior developer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, MIT, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the Oracle deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these copyrights are — Java is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 20 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the Java VM —it used to be real, now it’s virtual — but when it was real and even now, I would have said it’s all in the API; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but Google are great negotiators, the Google are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
It's asinine that this has gone on for so long. These giant corporations will do whatever is in their best interest and crush anyone they can underfoot.

I doubt Google particularly cares about copyrightable APIs, sans their in the sights. They're more than large enough to create their own languages and whatnot and would probably like to prevent others from interoperating with their software, as they do with websites that try to offer access to Youtube without going directly through Google.
Delta (and presumably most airlines) do this for you once you have elite status. You no longer have to go through the prompts and are just routed to a human.
Facebook's F8 keynote stated repeatedly that in person-to-person messaging "even Facebook" would not be able to decrypt those messages.
Verge reports that Rocket League will be pulled from Steam

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/1/18525842/epic-games-psyoni...

"As a result of the deal, Psyonix says it will have access to more resources to support Rocket League’s competitive e-sports league and, by late 2019, will bring the game to Epic’s PC storefront. After that, Rocket League will no longer be available on Valve’s competing Steam store, though buyers of the Steam version will continue to receive support, which Variety is reporting includes downloadable content, patches, and all other future content. Terms of the deal, including how much money Epic paid to acquire Psyonix, were not made public.

“The PC version of Rocket League will come to the Epic Games store in late 2019. In the meantime, it will continue to be available for purchase on Steam; thereafter it will continue to be supported on Steam for all existing purchasers,” reads a press release issued to media at the time of deal’s announcement."
Show HN: NBT/Anvil Parser in Emojicode
this is a good question everybody seems to ignore?
If I bought a DVD and Disney bursts into my house and takes it, "Did you not already watch the movie? Was it not enjoyable?" is not an excuse. No one would assume as much. I would very much expect my money back.

And if they push out a DVD player firmware so it only works on a brand of DVD player I don't own, I would consider it the same thing.

Breaking something I paid for after the fact means I'm not getting what we agreed upon, and I should get my money back, regardless of whether it was a physical good broken/taken or a digital one.
If you have a mechanism that can extract atmospheric carbon, at scale, without any additional emissions (which isn't really what this is...), then that carbon needs to go back into the ground, not back into the atmosphere.

We don't _just_ need to stop carbon emissions, we need to get the atmosphere back down to ~250ppm, from the current ~412ppm - we probably can't afford to wait ~two centuries for it to weather out naturally.
Is this book meant to be free or is this a pirated copy?
I'm not going to defend the industry or "fine dining" in general, and I think what you are asking for is fine.

However, you seem to have a real misconception about the industry ("money-grubbing", etc.). Margins in the restaurant business outside of fast-food are generally really low, and in the actual fine dining segment, even worse (3% would not be unusual there. Go ahead, try running a business successfully at that sort of rate). You are right, they are competing on "experience" but that is because it is what most people seem to respond to - and it is very expensive to deliver that experience. Besides, if not experience - what - convenience? That's where fast-food comes in.

To me personally the middle of the market, particularly the non fast-food chains are the worst trade-off, though I understand why some people love them. I'd much rather play $35 for an entree that was amazing and I have no idea how to make, than $18 for one I could have done a better job of at home for $5... but I'm a good cook and a lot of people aren't or don't have the time.

There are a lot of things not to like about the way it works (many entrees are a loss, margin made up on drinks/desert, servers ludicrously underpaid which pushes their reliance on tips, back of house just ludicrously underpaid, etc.).

I totally get why you might want to avoid the entire thing (and also why others wouldn't) and wish there was more available in the segment you prefer. It's worth remembering though, that to a first approximation nobody is getting rich doing this - most places struggle at best. There are also a ton of people in the industry that really believe (rightly or wrongly) in food and its ability to provide you with experiences you can't easily (or at all) replicate other ways.
Do you typically use your home ISP "while on vacation"?
You're right, looks like it did have an installable debugger way back when:

http://www.rdwarf.com/users/wwonko/jscript/jsd.pdf

Although the Developer Toolbar had dom explorer and all that jazz, way more than a console, it really was amazing when I first used it.

Here's the release blogs:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2005/09/16/developer-too...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2007/05/10/internet-expl...
This is such a common misconception. US per capita emissions are around 15 tons and China is around 7 tons. And don't forget that there is a lot of creative accounting going on. All carbon emissions are "exported" by making china the factory of the world. Furthermore flying is not counted in US emissions... I don't think emissions are actually reducing in the US. And let's not forget about the shale "revolution". Oh also: the US has the highest historical emissions. There is an interesting interactive graph made by carbonbrief:
https://mobile.twitter.com/carbonbrief/status/11207159885326...
One big problem with IE7 was its asinine "This page contains scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer" warning banner that it plastered all over basically everything, including static .htm pages that didn't have even a single line of JavaScript, much less ActiveX. I got really tired of answering emails from users who were frightened half to death by that warning. It had the effect of desensitizing users to actual threats, or at least it would have if IE7 had ever gained much popularity.

It was a terrible piece of work and I was glad when it never achieved any significant market share.
> Going vegan is simply the right thing to do at this point.

We're pretty much screwed (but not extinct) at this point no matter what, but going vegan doesn't matter nearly as much as living in a smaller house (i.e. less concrete), or driving and flying less.

I mostly avoid beef and dairy, which are the main diet-based causes of global warming, but beyond that it's a rounding error.
I wonder why: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi... ?
Win7 is end of life in 2020 in case you were not aware of that.
No, this is a tool for consumers too, has been for a LONG LONG time