skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
National Robotics Engineering Center | Software, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics Eng | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | ONSITE | Full Time | H1-B Visa

https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/index.html

The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), a robotics research and development powerhouse, is looking for experienced developers, especially in embedded systems, robotics, and AI. For more than 21 years NREC has brought together a critical mass of software and hardware engineers in order to take technology from the laboratory to the real world. NREC maintains a diverse portfolio of projects, from Augmented Reality driver assistance to full off-road autonomy and from advanced teleoperation to full autonomous manipulation.

NREC is part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on commercialization of robotic technologies, and employs over 150 people in their off-campus facility. An NREC developer can go from developing mapping for a mining robot operating in extreme environments (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/mining/profiler.html) to developing hardware and controls for unique research vehicles for the military (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URxpqi0oAU). Another may go from developing training products for humanitarian workers (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/defense/other-projects...) on to assistive technologies that make work easier for farmers around the world (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/agriculture/other-agri...).

C++ and Python software engineers - https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/senior-software-engineer...

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Lessons in Command and Control from the Los Angeles Riots
Stocking Your Shop with Data Science
A few things. First, I play in an Irish wedding band (it’s insane how much people pay for wedding bands...and since they’re Irish weddings we usually all end up being fed shots throughout the night (this was more fun when I was in my twenties, now I stick with a beer or two so that I’m still standing (well, sitting, I’m a drummer) at the end of the night). Secondly I do quite a bit of teaching / mentoring. It’s easier in nyc than in other places because of how many boot camps there are here but companies pay quite a bit for a 6-10 pm twice a week gig. Plus at my job I’m primarily working with php and vanilla js so this helps me keep my react / insert framework or library here skills sharp. I argue that this is still outside the field because teaching beginning web dev is to actually working as a programmer as apples are to oranges. That last sentence was super bungled but I think the point comes across.
I agree, thanks for the note.
We've been using goaccess [1], we've been very happy with it and most important, we keep things private. Installing Google Analytics is def a NO for us.

[1] https://goaccess.io
There's no way this banner did anything in reality. Corporations didn't upgrade because of their tooling, not youtube.

Don't underestimate the power of employees to influence employers.

iPhones didn't end up all over the enterprise space because Blackberry walked away from the market.
This is a fun story and an easy read. I like how much hand wringing there was about possibly favoring Chrome. Earlier this year YouTube showed me a similar banner: "Watch YouTube videos with Chrome. Yes, get Chrome now." https://i.postimg.cc/x8cFCcB2/Google.png
On behalf of the entire Internet-using world, thank you.
There is also the neat tool "Dell Display Manager". The only way to avoid the moody touch buttons on some Dell monitors to change their brightness:

- updates served via HTTP through the browser only

- as a binary (exe)

- from a domain other than dell.com (delldisplaymanager.com)

- signed by a 3rd party (En Tech Taiwan)

- and nagging about updates every reboot

(you can get an outdated version via dell.com, but it will want to update through said channel immediately)

(And I bet this one gets pinged for updates, having the full url to the exe in the update check: https://www.entechtaiwan.com/updates/public/ddm.inf )
Ask HN: At what point do you give up on an iteration of code and start again?
I'm knee deep in a homework assignment and the cruft I built up to "make things easy" is now just complicating things.

As above. When do I start from scratch?
Conspiracy theories, impostor syndrome, and distrust
Indeed, US education system is somewhat strange, to say the least. However, all these metrics are almost designed to present the US in bad light.

How about "the percentage of millionaires who were born in a poor family"? I bet this is where US shines. Rich people in most other countries are mostly from old money.
I was thinking in enterprise contexts, but, yes, that's fair. Still, anybody doing anything important on public WiFi should be using a VPN.
PyTorch is the best thing which came out of FB (I love it).
However, their company’s core products are IMHO a cancer on today’s society
Joe Rogan eh.... hmmmm.. dont he have alt-right types on a lot?
Emergency Acts (Notstandsgesetze) were passed in 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Emergency_Acts
But also about other claims from the Ekeberg's article (who, as I see, is a "a philosopher of science"):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/26/ther...

"There's A Debate Raging Over Whether Dark Matter Is Real, But One Side Is Cheating"

Careful reader of Ekeberg's article can both recognize that the article claims are inspired by the claims of the "cheating" side but also that where he writes his own he completely fails on physics. I.e. if one side is cheating, he'd be a third side, the one that's completely unscientific: even the physicists that develop theories that compete with dark matter would not write what Ekeberg wrote: "Another recent probe found galaxies inconsistent with the theory of dark matter, which posits this hypothetical substance to be everywhere. But according to the latest measurements, it is not, suggesting the theory needs to be reexamined." It's plain nonsense. The reason:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/01/16/myst...

"Ironically, the discovery of a galaxy without dark matter — amidst a sea of galaxies that require huge amounts of it — helps prove the validity of the dark matter-rich picture of the Universe. Only if normal matter can be separated out from the dark matter and left to form its own structures would such a galaxy be possible."

We even have the pictures where the galaxies and dark matter aren't at the same place, totally the opposite of Ekeberg's "everywhere" strawman claim, and exactly that opposite was always treated as the biggest support for dark matter:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/09/the-...

Once I've reached that strawman claim, I've checked what the profession of Ekeberg is. I openly admit his uncritical bias just confirmed my own bias about that profession.
The author chose to download the software from the OEM and the software can be uninstalled.
Armor Games | Part-time/Freelance Web Developer | Irvine, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE

Armor Games is a online community for casual gamers. We offer an online destination hosting over a thousand flash and HTML5 games with new titles launching every week. We also develop and publish game titles for mobile, desktop and console.

We are in need of a part-time/freelance web developer who can dedicate 1-2 days a week toward refactoring and updating our codebase. Our website and back-end systems encompass multiple legacy code bases (primarily written in PHP 5) including a number of home-grown libraries and frameworks.

Additional information and contact information is on our employment website: https://employment.armorgames.com
Ergonomic Chairs
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just for web server statistics? How does it help you with blogging?
Plus, once it's gotten on the machine, why bother to patch it? You've achieved your goal and it was most likely written to spec by a vendor who has already been paid and moved on.
cool effort. One of the things I disliked when I worked in sales/marketing was how often people were willing to behave dishonestly.

Also your site fomo.com has such a nice color scheme to read.
A More Helpful Makefile
This planning has hidden costs for other operations though. At my university they where not allowed to move certain equipment whole or even at all through some corridors, as that sort of thinking on the new building had rendered it basically unsafe for usage.

If in doubt over engineer. When handling use cases be in doubt.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER | FIRST (http://first.io) | DURHAM, NC

First is a venture-funded startup at the intersection of artificial intelligence and real estate tech. We identify when people are going to move, and develop products to change the game for real estate professionals.

As an early member of a growing team, you’ll have significant ownership, input, and influence over the work that we do, and how we do it.

As one of our early engineers, you’ll help guide key design, architecture, and technology decisions. You will be a part of our platform team, helping us to build a platform to support our customer-facing and internal applications. You will help us to scale the system to meet the needs of our expanding userbase. This includes driving the product roadmap, bringing “design thinking” on product features, coordinating development efforts across the team, and working with the front-end team to ensure that our efforts are aligned.

What you bring to the table
* 5+ years of developing Rails applications in production
* SQL and relational database experience (not just using a database through an ORM)
* Experience in building APIs (REST at least, GraphQL a plus)
* Passion for startups and building products that will be used to change the face of real estate
* Generalist mindset, excited to jump into many parts of the stack to ship working software
* Ability to develop features without hand-holding in Rails, diving down into the database level as needed
* Clear, effective communication skills, both written and verbal
* Experience with agile practices, including TDD/BDD, continuous delivery, object oriented design, etc
* Comfort with asynchronous development: pull requests, chat, email, etc

Come work with us. Change the real estate industry. Learn and grow every day.

Apply at http://first.io/hiring
accuRx | Software Engineers | London, UK | ONSITE https://www.accurx.com/careers
accuRx’s mission is to be the communications platform that brings patients and their healthcare teams together; helping make patients healthier and caregivers happier.

Currently, we let GP practices communicate with their patients, team and other organisations. We’ve grown from being used in a handful of organisations at the beginning of 2018, to now being in over 1,800 practices that send over 33,000 messages a day to patients – improving care and saving staff over half an hour each day.

Check out the news about our recent series A here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/accurx/

Over the next 12 months we’re growing our practice base in the UK and rolling out exciting new products to enable the future of primary care.

Apply here: https://www.accurx.com/careers
My last two computers have been Lenovo ThinkPads (T520 and Yoga S1) and they bundle more crappy software than just about any other business computer maker. It's good hardware and once you reformat and reinstall Windows (or Linux) they are great machines.
Yes that's what I mean.

Phillip Morris and the beverage makers you mention were fighting against the threat of regulations that would prevent them from continuing to pump out non-biodegradable filter cigarettes and single-serve drink containers.

We could have had filterless cigarettes and returnable glass-bottle Coke. Instead, Keep America Beautiful was their brilliant idea to redirect the focus onto consumers, away from manufacturers.

Did you misunderstand me?
> What has stopped people from creating a standard with no undefined behavior?

It's a lot of work.

> Is such a thing impossible? Have people done it?

It's possible; Ada has a really good take -- in that standard, there's a class of errors called "bounded errors" which on the surface look like "undefined behavior", but are a lot different in that they list out the possible results and thus preclude the "nose demons" problem of C -- see: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/2xaarm/html/AA-1-1-5.html
wow. This story is one of my favorite read so far. thank you for sharing it.
Again, he was scared of the US so he fled to the UK. That makes sense to you?

He had sex with someone who is asleep. Some who is asleep cannot consent. You understand that this is rape, right? The women involved does still want to take him to court and the Swedish Prosecution Authority is currently reviewing the matter. The other allegations have passed the statue of limitation and cannot be prosecuted.

To be clear, the alleged offenses happened between 13 August 2010 and 18 August 2010. They were reported to the police on 20 August. Assange was interviewed on the 30th and had left Sweden by 27th September 2010, after an arrest warrant had been issued. They had tried to interview him before he left.

On the 26 November 2010, a European Arrest Warrant was issued after hearings in both Stockholm District Court and the Court of Appeal (in which Assange's lawyer was present). The arrest warrant was issued by the Swedish Prosecution Authority. Subsequently this warrant was certified by the UK's Serious and Organised Crime Agency. It was also upheld by a district judge on 24 February 2011 and by the High Court on 2 November 2011.

So it's been thoroughly reviewed by two legal systems that both agree there is a case to answer.
A bit baffled by the negative reactions you're getting, just wanted to say that I agree with this sentiment.
Databricks Koalas-Python Pandas for Spark
Sometimes, but in this context it means a smallish semi-permanent house that's built at a factory, then transported to a site on a flatbed truck. They can be moved, but they usually aren't.
What is the bounty on a report like this, and does Dell operate an official bug bounty program? How much do you think a report like this should be worth?

"Dell bug bounty program" and the like don't turn up obvious results to me.
> I think every team needs to find the approach that works best for them to itemize, prioritize and communicate progress.

Couldn't agree more. A development process is like your CI pipeline, there's no one solution for everyone, but there are common patterns you can choose from and build upon to make something that works for you. And it's something that you will want to assess and refine on a pretty constant basis.

I've worked on everything from high-integrity embedded systems to web applications over the years, and what worked for one would be catastrophic (both metaphorically and literally) for the other.
"Police officers responded to a domestic dispute, accompanied by marines. They had just gone up to the door when two shotgun rounds were fired through the door, hitting the officers. One yelled `cover me!' to the marines, who then laid down a heavy base of fire. . . .

The police officer had not meant 'shoot' when he yelled 'cover me' to the marines. [He] meant . . . point your weapons and be prepared to respond if necessary. However, the marines responded instantly in the precise way they had been trained, where 'cover me' means provide me with cover using firepower. . . . over two hundred bullets [were] fired into that house."
Hiding... in the UK initially. He would have been safer from the US in almost any other country aside from the US itself.
When are developing asteroids? The moon is a neat stepping stone, but the raw quantity of space stuff just sitting in asteroids is where I'm really excited to see us go. We're talking chunks of rare metals in the thousands of tons range. As well as kilometers of iron, nickel, and water for building and supplying ships in space.
After a quick gander, I'm actually more interested in their phone. The idea of a phone that can not and will not track me, and which I know is doing only what I want it to do is pretty damned exciting.

The laptop is certainly nice though.
Super Micro Dropping China-Made Components After Backdoor Reports
"It means:

72% of calories come from carbohydrates compared with 52% in the US

14% from fat compared with 34% in the US, Tsimane also consume much less saturated fat

Both Americans and Tsimane have 14% of calories from protein, but Tsimane have more lean meat"

That really does seem counter to the low-carb diets that seem to be all the rage among internet communities (also HN).

But, maybe it's just the constant exercise the Tsimane people are getting:
"They are also far more physically active with the men averaging 17,000 steps a day and the women 16,000."
/r/buildapcsales is your friend
http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/DegradeLunarVacuum.html from 1990 suggests that a human presence on the Moon could make the vacuum level worse than can be achieved artificially on Earth:

> Establishment of a lunar base will degrade the lunar vacuum. The time scale for distribution of exhaust gas across the surface of the moon is much less than the excape lifetime of the gas in the lunar atmosphere, and thus exhaust gas can be approximated as uniformly spread across the surface. A 20 person exploration base will contribute an amount of waste gas on the same order of magnitude as the daytime "natural" atmosphere. A 250 person "industrial" facility would be likely to contribute considerably more due to waste gas from various production processes such as lunar oxygen production and mining of helium 3 from the lunar regolith. This could degrade the lunar ambient to levels on the order of 3 nanotorr, replacing the mostly non-reactive gasses hydrogen, helium, and neon with more reactive gasses containing carbon and oxygen. This vacuum is still good enough to perform many important vacuum processes, such as plasma-deposition of amorphous silicon for solar cells, but processes such as molecular beam epitaxy or locating a intersecting beam accelerator on the moon will require additional vacuum pumping. In any case, though, pumping to ultrahigh vacuum will be much easier on the moon than on Earth.
The "relatively low free" part threw me off. Is that a joke? COBRA was $600/mo the one time I might have needed it. That was 6x what I was paying at the job I was in before.
Thanks for the feedback chmars! CC Search is hosted at search.creativecommons.org so assets loaded from creativecommons.org should not count as third-party content or tracking. Let me know if I'm missing something.
> there's no feedback loop to correct the issues.

Well, there's supposed to be -- Technical Quality - Refactoring.

Common to all flavours of Agile (I lecture agile techniques) sounds like you guys are missing out important parts of agile... but I totally agree with what you are saying. I'm old Skool and grew up with waterfall. I find it really weird teaching students who don't have a spec or UML diagrams or any idea what a software pattern is. Hell, some of them don't bother with a Model layer - not enough time to implement it in a sprint, so why bother? Lol. They get code out the door, but quality code? A-hem, it is possible, but do people do it?
As if pushing ever more news of "crime" (much of which may be inconsequential, entirely non-criminal trivia, judging by the kind of material mentioned in the article) at the public will somehow make our society better/happier/safer.

Didn't Bowling for Columbine suggest that a key element in America's fear-driven and violent society, when compared to its northern neighbour, might be the extent to which US media already focuses on such reporting (if I remember right -- it's been a long time)? This sort of toxic, alarmist "news" is already poisoning our social fabric; so let's double down on it and focus even more on feeding people's fears. Great.
Tell that to Pixel.
Wasn't that at roughly the same time? I think thus explains why the lawyers got nervous about the banner.
Then it should state "Press 1 for hours of operation and location information."

I hate the way Chase makes me listen to "You can check your balance on the app!" messages a minimum of six times before I get to a human. If I wanted to use the app, or I wanted to know the balance, I would have used the app.

Two weeks ago I was logged in on my computer watching my bank account being drained while waiting on hold for the fraud department. (Seriously? Three transfers to get to the fraud department, Chase?) The whole time I kept getting told to use the app to check my balance.
Oddly enough I loved working for a hedge fund. The attorneys at the SEC and the attorneys who worked for the funds' clients were all brilliant. I could "zealously advocate" but it was an equal match. The SEC (though overworked) know what they're doing and often have industry experience so they understand how the business operates.

When I moved to investment banking, where the state regulators play a bigger role (with a much smaller budget) and the clients are wealthy families instead of investment funds, that's when it started to feel dirty. State regulators are... at best woefully ineffective and at worst completely clueless as to how the industry operates (they tend to be career government people).

Not meaning to offend anyone's politics but I often told my friends that I was Kelly Anne Conway putting forth an argument that was really kind of a stretch. I felt obligated to advocate but I also felt the regulators and auditors really should have objected or tried to negotiate but they almost never pushed back. Sometimes because they just didn't care but more often because they didn't know any better.

At the hedge fund, a "win" was collaborative and strategic and felt like I had earned it. At the bank a "win" felt a lot like bullying.
Agreed, they're load shedding, but human nature says the first time you call them they'll say "yeah we'll fit you in next week." And THEN they string you along with phone tag for six months until you go away.
Listen360 | Frontend Software Engineer | Alpharetta, GA | REMOTE OK | https://www.listen360.com/career/frontend-software-developer...

Looking for someone with:

* ~3 years real world experience

* An eye for UI

* UX and user-flow experience

* Client-side JS experience (ideally Vue.js)

* Some backend knowledge (ideally Ruby on Rails)

Some perks:

* Unmonitored vacation, flexible hours, and casual dress

* Snacks, drinks, lunch, and fun activities

* Robust medical and parenting benefits & 401(k)

* Gym stipend

* Budget for conventions, education, and tools

Let's chat: hunter.meyer@listen360.com
I think you’re fine. Sorry you’re getting downvoted.
My question, too. I've got Linux on my Dell laptop, but I still had to read a lot of the article to figure out if my laptop had the RCE. I wish they'd put "Windows" in the article headline, but I guess "market forces" prevent them from doing that. I am a firm Free Market person, but this does inconvenience me personally.
I've been planning to switch to goaccess (from piwik/matomo) for my personal sites. Do you have any tips? Generally I just want to know trends in unique pageviews/visitors; whether any page in particular is seeing a lot of referred traffic and from where, and what paths people are taking through the site once they arrive. I like the purity of going solely with log analysis, but I'm a bit concerned I won't get quite as much visibility.
Model training for non dictionary/industry specific terms of guess?
Thanks for the feedback, we'll add browser navigation to our list of things to fix. Our search is still pretty naive, a big chunk of our upcoming work will be focused on improving results.