skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mux | All sorts of roles across the organization | SF, London | Full-time | https://mux.com/jobs

Just going to drop in the blurb on our jobs page, but the tl;dr is we build cool video infrastructure. Our stack is mostly Elixir, TypeScript (React/Redux), Go.

The first product we launched was analytics and performance monitoring - think “NewRelic for Video” - used by major video streaming companies like PBS, Vimeo, CBS Interactive, and the New York Times to monitor and improve billions of streams.

In early 2018, we launched Mux Video, a simple API to video hosting, encoding and streaming - think "Stripe for Video" - which uses our performance data, machine learning, and just-in-time encoding for unmatched video quality and efficiency. POST a video in; GET a video out that plays anywhere and is deeply optimized for the target device and user. We think building with video should be fun, not complicated.

You’ll be joining an amazing team from places like Google/YouTube, Twitch and Brightcove. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technology. We also authored Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video player on the web.

If you want to chat more about any of these roles or the company before applying, feel free to drop me a line: matt at mux.com
Same with me and these random chest pains I get. I've wiped out my HSA, still not close to meeting my deductible. Hooked up to an EKG for 15 minutes and monitored for an hour in the ER? That'll be $5k. 15 minutes on a treadmill with an EKG attached for a stress test? That's $2.2k. I would continue to pursue until I had an answer, but I simply can't afford it.
Good book. Surprisingly little moon stuff, mostly about China’s unique governing system interacting with China’s residency laws.

I’m curious how much research he did on China’s internal politics; hard for me to know how much was based in reality.
They are in some ways. Hospitals are required to publish their chargemasters, a list of all of the services they provide and their "retail" price, starting this year. Previously a few states like CA required it.
"You've never seen a Got Milk ad, have you?"

That's not the government - it is a private association of "... milk processors and dairy farms."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Got_Milk%3F
You can use Google Cloud Container Registry and it is basically free, you only pay for the raw Google Cloud Storage that you use. No fee for using it and limit on repos you can have.

https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/pricing
Wow, my dad worked for DOI for 30 years as a research scientist and topped-out at a GS-13. And you're starting sysads there?
> I don't know how they didn't all get fired. Like, ALL of em, including everyone who set up the special "OldTuber" priv long before.

I can think of 2 reasons:

1. The gamble paid off. It turned out the time was ripe. Thus, there was really no negative impact on the organization that people had to be punished for.

2. The OldTubers were the experienced backbone of the group. Firing everyone with that privilege would likely have destroyed the group's technical expertise. YouTube as it was would have died.

That latter point is a bit of a strong negotiation position that many engineers don't realize they have. For example in my team we're having a lot of difficulty filling job openings (we're picky and frankly our interviewing pipeline sucks). As such, there's a significant cost/benefit calculation to firing someone. Maybe the person did something egregious, but is it likely to happen again? I know some people in my team are... not great, but are they so bad that we would be better off without them? (I must reluctantly admit, no)
"Screening" potential customers is a notoriously bad idea. Spam calls are their own animal but you don't want to pre-qualify or screen people who might become customers because you really don't know anything about them or the business value they might represent.
I had to google Thatcher in the Rye :) Thanks for the laugh.
That said I have hope. The more clowns in power, the more pressure on real leaders to step up. This is a phase where the media and social media have allowed things to happen that no one expected. But we learn from that and things change. For the better. They always do. Or we'd still have a King running things.
In Romania we call them "autoservire" or "impinge tava" which translates literally to push the tray, the food is much much better than fast food and much healthier as well. See [0] for some example menu.

I always wondered why fast food was such a big thing in the west, maybe it's because they never had this?

https://www.facebook.com/pg/CaLaMama1/photos/?ref=page_inter...
Collaboration - one control arm, 2+ active drugs from multiple companies (why not 6+?). Fewer patients exposed to placebo, less paperwork, same statistical power, more so if you randomise 2:1:1:1:1:1 rather than a standard trial with 1:1 or 2:1
Seems like any decently size university could host summer olympic games.

Scale matters. The Olympics draw millions of attendees: Atlanta sold 8 million tickets; London sold 11 million. Moreover, there are over 100 different sports in the Olympics, most of which have multiple rounds of competition (except for the long-distance races like the marathon), requiring several thousand hours of competition.

No university has the facilities for all of the Olympic events. No university has the space to hold all of the events within a two-week time-frame (or even a two month time-frame). No university in the world can handle those sorts of crowds.

And finally, the crowd sizes you suggest - 20k, are generally smaller than the crowds that attend annual specialty regional events like the Mt Sac Relays or Penn State Open.
> only once per second

That isn't generally true.

Here's an analog quartz chronograph that has 1/10 second dial:
https://youtu.be/mPP3EeWdJsA?t=97

If you are talking about a sweep second hand, there are plenty of quartz movements that do that.

If you go for digital quartz, you can get 1/100 second accuracy in a $10 watch.

The longer you time something, the worse the mechanical watch is going to be. Most of them gain or lose several seconds every day.

Zenith is the only manufacturer that I know does significantly better than this, but that particular movement is pretty rare and extraordinarily expensive.
From what it looks like, this is quite literally the ability to get code into the main codebase with no oversight. Even without malicious intentions, it seems very easy to do something awful by accident.
I’m thinking the lab tech or field researcher most probably accidentally contaminated the samples
I agree. I think the exercise of writing improves my writing, and that's why I'm proud to use no tracking, cookies, or analytics scripts.
FreightFlows | Data Engineer, Devops Engineer. Also Sales/Marketing and Product roles | Boston, MA USA | ONSITE or REMOTE

We're a new startup from Boston (< 6 months old) focused on the $20 Trillion dollar global seaborne trade market.

FreightFlows provides aggregated, predictive analytics for global trade. While maritime data continues to grow in volume and complexity, actionable insights continue to be elusive. The industry instead deals with inaccurate, stale and biased data from many fragmented sources. The complexity of bringing together trusted, timely information means companies have had to rely on dubious, incomplete market insight and therefore make decisions on anecdotal evidence. FreightFlows uses proprietary data science algorithms to synthesize data into trade truth, predictive analytics and actionable intelligence for traders, shippers, owners and brokers.

Ask me anything.. Matt Morgan, Founder hello@freightflows.com
What would be more stylish? a red baseball cap?
Not necessarily. This great video from PBS Spacetime is a fairly detailed, but good for a 'nearly' layman on the findings in depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0jaE--l0Y

A discussion on how a galaxy could be missing dark matter - or how it could be separated from a galaxy
*There -> They're

My self disappointment is immeasurable.
Wow. This hits home for me.

In 2017, I was reselling Anki Cozmos to help fund a side project I was working on.

The buyers were consistently some of the most enthusiastic parents I had ever met. I had never heard a single piece of negativity towards Cozmo.

My favorite memory was taking the train for 2 hours each way to visit someone's home and help them troubleshoot their Cozmo's problems.

People here are claiming that Cozmo was too expensive, but I'd argue that Cozmo wasn't expensive enough.

Interested parents will pay a lot for high quality and well designed educational toys for their children. I know this because I was reselling Cozmos for 50%+ more than their price tag.

I had no idea of Anki's true ambitions in robotics and AI. I think it's that lack of focus that killed them.

There is absolutely a market for well designed educational toys, but it's not a business that needs 9 figures in funding.

I hope someone else will come in and take the lead, because this is a great niche, but one that doesn't necessarily need VC funding, just organic growth due to steady, incremental, product improvements.
Flip (https://flip.lease/jobs) | Engineers | New York | ONSITE & REMOTE | 140k-160k

Flip is making moving into and out of a space as easy as deciding where you want to go. We'll take on your apartment lease and pay your rent so you can leave as soon as you need to.[0] We’re backed by USV, Collaborative Fund, and Tusk Ventures.

We're hiring talented engineers to join our engineering focused team. At Flip, you'll find private dedicated workspaces, a quiet environment, and a distinct lack of regular meetings. We're flexible on in-office employees working from home, and you can work whatever hours are optimal for you. Our team is intentionally small and experienced.

We're hiring:

* Frontend Engineers

* Internal Tools Lead

* Mobile Lead

Apply here:
https://flip.lease/jobs

Cultures we look to emulate are Stripe, WhatsApp (pre-FB), and Netflix. If you like and respect how those companies operate give us a shout.

[0] https://flip.lease/instant
I'm a grad student working on cosmology, and while I agree there is a lot of work still to do (we don't know what 95% of the matter that makes up the universe is!), I disagree with a lot of what the author says.

> Another recent probe found galaxies inconsistent with the theory of dark matter, which posits this hypothetical substance to be everywhere.

We have found evidence of a few galaxies without DM. But most galaxies provide strong evidence for DM - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

> For a crucial function of theories such as dark matter, dark energy and inflation, which each in its own way is tied to the big bang paradigm

Big bang was only the accepted paradigm from the 60s (post CMB observations). We have had DE since Einstein in 1917 and DM since Zwicky in the 30s.

> Historically, Newton's physical laws made up a theoretical framework that worked for our own solar system with remarkable precision. Both Uranus and Neptune, for example, were discovered through predictions based on Newton's model. But as the scales grew larger, its validity proved limited.

Actually some of the earliest evidence for GR came from the orbit of mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

> It is of course entirely plausible that the validity of general relativity breaks down much closer to our own home than at the edge of the hypothetical end of the universe. And if that were the case, today's multilayered theoretical edifice of the big bang paradigm would turn out to be a confusing mix of fictional beasts invented to uphold the model

This is something that people are working on! This is a hypothesized source of DE. However, disproving GR does nothing to disprove the big bang.

> Today's space telescopes provide no direct view of anything

I have no idea what that means. They literally observe the sky...

There is a ton of work to do: finding what DM is, finding what DE is, finding whether GR is correct. But I'm not sold that the author knows what he is talking about...
Preinstalled crapware is one of the main reasons I still build my own desktops. Back when I used to buy Dells or HPs for the kids I always began the relationship with a reformat and reinstall. That was easy for me at the time because I had a complete MSDN sub with access to all versions of MS operating systems.
There's still metadata. Also I'd think that lawful-intercept features mean that telecom traffic is not end-to-end encrypted, so unencrypted streams might be accessible to telecom equipment like this unless the customer is using a nonstandard encrypted phone.
I'm not convinced one way or the other which is ahead out of Tesla and Waymo. Waymo have low interventions per mile but don't seem able to deal with heavy traffic for merging or turning. Tesla have had issues driving into things but are out there in heavy traffic.
I use Fathom[1] for simple, privacy-conscious analytics on my blog. It is interesting to know which pages people are visiting and where they're visiting from. It's rewarding to see month-over-month increases in traffic, too--even if I don't get a lot of traffic. It's motivating to see that people are spending their own time to read what I've written.

Different people will use analytics for different purposes, and different metrics will matter to different people. For me, seeing people read multiple posts (when the number of page views is greater than the number of visitors) is the most rewarding metric. It's one thing to click through from Google. It's another to click through one article and want to read more.

[1] https://github.com/usefathom/fathom
That doesn't happen in the first case. The second case costs less in terms of engineering and PR/reputation, so there's more profit there.
I'm not sure it qualifies under the Treason Act 1351:

> When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen or of their eldest Son and Heir; or if a Man do violate the King’s Companion, or the King’s eldest Daughter unmarried, or the Wife of the King’s eldest Son and Heir; or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm, or be adherent to the King’s Enemies in his Realm, giving to them Aid and Comfort in the Realm, or elsewhere, and thereof be probably attainted of open Deed by the People of their Condition, and if a Man slea the Chancellor,Treasurer, or the King’s Justices of the one Bench or the other, Justices in Eyre, or Justices of Assise, and all other Justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their Places, doing their Offices: And it is to be understood, that in the Cases above rehearsed, that ought to be judged Treason which extends to our Lord the King,and his Royal Majesty.

or the Treason Felony Act 1848:

> If any person whatsoever shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, from the style, honour, or royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of her Majesty’s dominions and countries, or to levy war against her Majesty, within any part of the United Kingdom, in order by force or constraint to compel her to change her measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom or any other of her Majesty’s dominions or countries under the obeisance of her Majesty, and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or declare, by publishing any printing or writing or by any overt act or deed, every person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to be transported beyond the seas for the term or his or her natural life
In this context the comparison is not about the quality of IE6 as a browser, but the control it allowed Microsoft to exert on the internet ecosystem by virtue of its market share. Chrome is now in the same position, holding the vast majority of the www "hostage" to the whims of Google.

The longer Chrome stays popular, the more websites will optimize for Chrome, bringing back the days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer". And as more and more sites become accessible only in Chrome, user share tilts further in Chrome's favor, and so on in the vicious cycle we experienced in the browser dark ages.

That's the fear, at least. I don't think anyone is concerned that Chrome is going to start BSoDing Windows anytime soon.

The omens of monopoly are certainly here, though. All of Google's websites, which constitute a large percentage of web traffic, have been a "best viewed in Chrome" affair for a few years now. Microsoft recently dropped support for Firefox on the Skype web client. And I've seen my fair share of niche/corporate/etc websites that are Chrome-only.

(FYI, I'm not personally worried that we'll see the same browser dark ages as before, but it's something we should be vigilant against.)
It's not that simple. It's not like a) Some galaxies fit predictions, b) Some do not, and we add unknown dark matter.

It's that when they do not fit predictions, there is a single parameter (the mass of dark matter) that does explain its behavior, whose model is that of a weakly interacting gas halo. So dark matter tries to fix things in a very precise way, it's not an arbitrary curve fitting exercise.

Now whether there is really weakly interacting matter out there or some other explanation is valid is still an open question afaik; but the evidence is quite strong so far.
1) I'd argue that what they're paying for is less your time and more your knowledge and ability to provide them with answers. They're only going to complain if you're specifically charging them for an hour of your time on the invoice. If you instead are charging a fixed-fee amount for an expert consultation, it doesn't really matter how much time they take. You set a timebox so they don't take advantage of you, but if they don't need more than 10-15 minutes of your time to get the value they wanted out of the discussion, there's nothing wrong with that.

2) It sounds like you could benefit from showing initial value in some other way, such as a newsletter, case studies, or knowledge-base.

3) From a client perspective, it feels odd that I'd walk into a free initial-consult meeting and then get an invoice afterwards, even if I got value out of it. I think most clients would feel the same way. If they're paying for a consult, they'll want to know up-front. The other way feels like a bait and switch.

That said, you know your clients best. If you think that they'll be receptive to that sort of thing, give it a try.
yeah my original idea was a sort of a Google Freebase P2P Strikes Back Like KaZaA

Imagine a structured gigantic tree data where relational, tabular data of any data is available?

You can see why I was seduced by this idea of an all out liberalization of information by making the storage and computation decentralized and p2p reliant-selective one at that which allows you to create your own private "pool" of workers each with a rotation-des-adresses IP of your choosing.

Basically any data that is uploaded to a scrape:// URL which is seeded by other peers running the Scrape.it client (people you shared the URL with) will stay up there theoretically as long as there's "seeders", sorta like Bittorrent.

You could share a scrape:// URL and maybe somebody will knock down your doors (CIA_OPEN_UP) but if it's shared globally and theoretically if one uses other means of traditional anonymically inclined tools of your choosing online that rhymes with possibly XOR, then anything is possible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Large scale amounts of data can be crawled because speeding up the volume and speed is literally authorizing another peer to have write access to your local Data Sanctuary (by default only read access is granted), virtually even the most stubborn 2009 non-vanilla AJAXY-ANGULARLY-JQUERY-SPHAGEHTEI web apps where the backward navigation is broken, Scrape.it have powered right through, essentially dramatically lowering the cost barrier to that data available online.

Ex) it can try every order of form automation permutation combinations, for every option in select drop down, for instance: search this list of product id and crawl everything on this J2EE enterprisesque web app from 10 years ago.

The most recent discussion on how the web needs an open index, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19713604, so that others may build on it will still the ideal standard.

Creating a completely free and decentralized bank for structured data that is impossible to completely take down once shared with other than your group, with full end to end encryption in-between, cryptographically verifiable list of order edits....

but alas, I'm really pressured to get this out the door so looks like I will just have to focus on the bare minimum in terms of client for now.

I originally aimed this to be a standalone self-hosted desktop/server tool...

anyways I digress, I need to get back to work. Lately honestly been a challenge mentally and emotionally(?) from some other life bullshit, its only when I get into the zone do I feel free
Targeting keywords discovery – cool free tool for marketers
> The potential for any effect on the creatures was "likely to be low", they said.

Typical popsci article. A clickbaity title followed by a hint at the disappointing truth far enough down the page that 95% of readers never see it.
UBiome co-founders are placed on leave amid FBI investigation into company
I’ve wondered the same. He certainly talks as if he did a lot of studying. I wonder if he used a consultant.
Uber has no viable business model and no way to make money. Their approach to taxi service has none of the economies of scale of a traditional taxi service. It's a loser from the get-go.
It could effectively a ring -2 rootkit, and it could prevent you from removing it.
Confirmed; still doesn't scroll smoothly (or at least as smoothly as most other things in Firefox), but it at least does scroll now, so that's good enough for me. Thanks!
Is Angular Dying Because of React?
Most likely they're swamped with work. The problem isn't their time management, they're just crudely shedding jobs they don't need. You may want to give them money, they just don't need it. Another indicator would be a high outlier quote (which is less a quote and more a polite way to communicate they don't need the work).

Disclaimer: I own properties in high growth geographies and face these issues with subcontractors.
We do grab people and then give them to the USA, help set up the bases, let our airports be used for the flights, our officers take part in interrogations and our soldiers guard the whole thing while blocking our own police from investigating it, but no, we don't generally practice extraordinary rendition starting from the UK and ending up in the USA, for one thing our diplomatic agreements and cooperation mean it isn't neccessary.
Those numbers are under "How much would changing my diet actually help?" (one of the first questions), and "Climate-Friendlier diets" (with a graph)
Don't they mean scrimps?
I really wish there existed more tools, it seems like there is a gap for some tooling.

It would be a simple one that could check the git log and see what files has changed since last time.

Or check the hash of each folder and compare it to previous commit.

If you use Docker, you can leverage that docker will take a hash of the context and if the images already exist on the machine use the cache if nothing has changed for those files. That is also quite effective +1