skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber Issues Warning about Potential Over-Regulation of Self-Driving Cars
As it happens, I have written to my (labour) MP, hard to see anything coming out of it since they've not been in power since 2010?

To be fair, my position varies between blaming the companies for the financial shenanigans and blaming the politicians for the messy tax code, not that I said anything about this in my previous post.
It's actually good intentions. If you only have one customer, they push you in the direction of full employment to make sure you're not being exploited. Employment (in Germany) has health insurance included and your employer pays into your retirement fund. And of course minimum wage! Although that shouldn't be an issue in anything IT related.
Evolution has clearly been doing quite a bit. But, so much about our environment has been changing so quickly it’s more like a first pass than the deep optimization you see with say sharks. If the Bronze Age had lasted 10+ million years many things would have changed.
Maxwell Health | Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager | Boston, MA OR Remote |Full-time

At Maxwell, we are inspired by the opportunity to make a difference in society by helping people make better health, wellness, and financial decisions. We build applications that support a rich set of interactions among consumers, employers, brokers, and product vendors. We view ourselves as the stewards of change for a very complex industry.

We're looking for engineers who love working with technologies like Golang, Scala, TypeScript, and React.

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I am happy I have the option to work from home if I need to, but I will never ever want to do so for extended periods of time. I might not consider my coworkers friends, but I really enjoy their company. My work days are fun because of the great people I get to hang out with.
I have a hunch Costco purchasers view reddit for product reviews and ideas.
Someone sent an email ECE wide this morning with a link to this medium post.
Nope, American single family home zoning is really that out of control.

Even San Francisco (inarguably an area that should be densely urban) bans duplexes (or denser) in over 30% of the city's residential areas.
The First Day of Work at Nike, Salesforce, IBM, and Sega
Getting the last known good state of the registry can often tell you what install caused issues.

Reinstalling is fine, but IMO should be a last option in many cases. Especially if you are trying to quickly recover from an incident - reinstalls take time!
Indeed. Incredibly slow.

Status page:
https://status.gitlab.com/

Issue:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/issues/928
> Emotional courtroom speeches

Yea this guy is a fraudster and not a good one at that, show keys or gtfo, that’s all that should count.
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Stylight is Europe’s leading style aggregator available in 17 countries worldwide. The team behind Stylight are 100 style geeks and tech professionals, a data-driven lifestyle force, coming from 20 nations all around the globe (company language is English). Also we’re #1 Meetup organizer in Munich, deeply involved in the local tech community. Together with Bits & Bretzels we organize daho.am, our own annual developer conference. Grow with us: We’ll give you a personal development budget, to go to conferences, buy books, etc. We are looking for engineers who want to make an impact, having experience e.g. in Python, Javascript, React.js, AWS, Machine Learning etc.

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Really. So you don't think Japanese folks just don't run into problems? Or Koreans? Or anyone using a primarily upper Unicode alphabet that is phonetic?
I was interested in comp sci precisely because I didn't have to talk to people, an area where every interaction is a performance. I want to be alone - what's so wrong with that?
You're very much taking that out of context. Read the entire section. There's a grand total of 7 sentences in there. It literally says:

If you're going to have to explain it at the next code review, you should comment it now. Complicated operations get a few lines of comments before the operations commence. Non-obvious ones get comments at the end of the line.

The section you're quoting says:

On the other hand, never describe the code. Assume the person reading the code knows Python (though not what you're trying to do) better than you do.
Good.. maybe they can dial back a bit on the interview format promo video with Ive talking like the new Apple TV is possess museum caliber design.
I think you misunderstand the real quality of running an IRC client from anywhere on anything. I don't need to carry around a $4000 laptop to get my work done when I can use my home dev server from anywhere using a 10-year old Thinkpad junker. Break it? Pitch it and buy another for less than $100 on ebay.
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Smartcar is the API for cars. Developers can use Smartcar REST APIs to locate, get an odometer reading, or even lock/unlock the doors to cars of any make or model without any aftermarket hardware. We hope to remove barriers to entry to build apps/services for cars and empower developers to build experiences that help make mobility more accessible to the masses.

We are doubling our headcount within the next 12 months, here are a few of the current openings:

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- Developer Relations: https://jobs.lever.co/smartcar/366373c9-fe40-4c60-9928-a62085d81d79
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Apply at the above links or email our recruiter directly: mathilde@smartcar.com
Who wants to deal with licensing headaches on cloud servers? Plus if you want to run headless then you need to go through the AD setup process to manage Windows hosts, where the Linux hosts are fine with just ssh access.
Ah, yes, the old "you're not doing it right, so read these 3 books and follow 10 bloggers every day" argument.
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Sure, but how do you know if your tests match real-world use?

I'm not an engineer, so you may well know much more about this, but it seems reasonable to me that real-world people, or some percentage of real-world people, aren't going to hit your keys in the exact way you tested for. If the effects don't appear for years out, what type of user test can you design to account for that?
Actually no, why is disabling backups in the name of saving 100MB of disk space ever OK?

Did we go back to 1995 when disk space was expensive?

I'd like to look the manager/developer who approved that change in the eye and ask them what the hell were they thinking.

As far lying to the user goes...hasn't that been MS's motto for at least since W10 came out? That's the least surprising part. A poor technical decision is much more worrying.
American here, from the South. I've noticed the same sort of phenomenon travelling to the Canadian plains in winter, or among Northern transplants to the South in midsummer. Canadian sitting rooms felt like greenhouses to me (80+ Fahrenheit) despite it being 20 below outside, and my boss has commented before on visiting Southern households where the A/C is set to 68 in July.

My theory is that it's more about not-to-exceed ceilings [or the converse, floor] temperatures rather than average temperatures. When you have the huge temperature differential between the conditioned space and the outside, opening a door or something can affect the conditioned space's mean temperature by a huge amount for a short time. By over-conditioning or over-heating a space, you're more likely to be able to ensure the interior temperature never rises over ~75F, than if you'd set it at a comfortable 72F or so. Or in winter, it won't drop below a minimum comfortable temperature indoors when someone has to go outdoors.

Of course, once you've adapted to that habit, you may not always make seasonable adjustments to those settings.
Slytrunk | Data Engineer | Fulltime | Remote (US only) | slytrunk.com

Slytrunk is a small team of technical experts focused on developing beautiful software applications with a range of incredible clients.

We're currently looking to onboard a Data Engineer [0].

The Data Engineer is responsible for building out and managing our Apache & DataStax Cassandra and Solr clusters as a replacement for our existing MySQL databases. The engineer will be responsible for working with Dev and infrastructure teams to; upgrade, manage, optimize, monitor, etc.. our Cassandra and Solr clusters.

This opportunity will require expertise of Cassandra key concepts such as SSTables, compaction, and garbage collection, as well as Solr concepts such as; core, schema, indexes, and field types. This is a ground floor opportunity to be responsible for DevOps and production support of the new Cassandra and Solr clusters you help design and build.

We're a very small team with some really awesome clients/projects. All of us are remote, but are highly collaborative. Slytrunk was founded 10 years ago by two engineers and to this day continues to be engineer-focused. Check out the links for more information. Applications go directly to the CEO and founders. Even if you'd like more info before applying, feel free to drop us a line and we can provide you more details.

[0] http://bit.ly/sly-data-engineer
Agreed, that's the key line that summarizes the whole article: once proud design/tech company turns into operations/finance driven behemoth.
I have wondered that about SGI machines too.

One guy did explore the largely unused, shared memory graphics system that was used on the O2 and NT workstations SGI made.

He made a very precise compositor. Was capable of many real time effects and sub pixel accuracy. The thing could take huge images and do real time transforms, effects at a couple hundred MHZ clock.

I ran it once, in the very early 00's. Can't for the life of me seem to remember enough to get a URL.
HealthRhythms | Backend Engineer, Senior Data Scientist | NYC | Full-time

At HealthRhythms [https://healthrhythms.com] we are working to make it easy to measure and care for everyone’s mental health. Our products leverage real-time mobile measurements with data analysis and modeling to create truly personalized just-in-time interventions. We are helping people and their clinicians detect and characterize their mental health from passively available data from their mobile phones.

We are funded by the NIH and we work with researchers, hospital/healthsystems, as well as pharma companies.

We're looking for independent thinkers who care deeply about the problems we're solving. Our mission is to redefine not only how we measure and treat mental illness, but how we optimize wellbeing as a whole.

[Backend]
We are looking for a backend engineer to help drive our various python coding efforts. You'll be working closely with our data science and mobile engineering teams on our data pipeline, improving our data quality system, and helping our data scientists put behavioral inferences into production.

- https://www.healthrhythms.com/s/backend-engineer-2019.pdf

[Data Science]
We are looking for a senior level data scientist to help drive our efforts in data analysis and machine learning. Primary responsibilities will include analyzing our sensor data to better characterize patients' behavioral patterns, and developing algorithms for personalized just-in-time interventions to assist patients whose mental health is deteriorating.

- https://www.healthrhythms.com/s/data-scientist-2019.pdf

Email us your resume and tell us a bit about yourself at jobs@healthrhythms.com

We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks, very interesting and understandable.

That said, fear is rarely the right reason to avoid evolving. Better embrace the change and make your employees expert on electric motors and assembly.
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Location: Northeast Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Stimulus, Elm

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gZqNiu5EbKWt0jOfS2a88bz....

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I have been using Ruby on Rails since 2006 as both a hobbyist and a professional, in addition to other Ruby frameworks such as Padrino and Hanami. I am seeking challenging problems that engage my creativity and desire to build neatly architected, functional, and well-tested apps. Very open to opportunities to do more front-end development (particularly in React), or move into other languages and frameworks such as Elixir or Phoenix.
Sidecar | Software Engineers and Engineering Manager | Philadelphia, PA | Onsite | https://hello.getsidecar.com/

Sidecar combines advanced machine learning technology with years of performance marketing expertise to help retailers unlock the full potential of today’s fastest-growing online discovery and shopping channels.

We have several job openings on our engineering team and are always looking for talented individuals to work with us.

- Senior Go Engineer: http://sidecar.applytojob.com/apply/1MOQVyUmVn/Senior-Go-Engineer
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- Software Engineering Manager: http://sidecar.applytojob.com/apply/VHs5yRGvlK/Software-Engineering-Manager

Our back-end consists of Golang, Python, Flask, and Postgres.
Our front-end consists of JavaScript, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Apollo.
We also use AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Please reach out to me at marcel at getsidecar dot com or apply directly at https://sidecar.applytojob.com/apply (please mention HN July 2019)

Happy to answer any questions!
> how should they deal with robots.txt files that are hundreds of megabytes large?

What do huge robots.txt files like that contain? I tried a couple domains just now and the longest one I could find was GitHub's - https://github.com/robots.txt - which is only about 30 kilobytes.
Or any binarized or ternarized network.
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Which frankly I don’t get. Break up that horizon line a little, add some vertical lines to the scene.
Which begats the paternalistic offspring of collectivism and groupthink.
It's always so refreshing to hear about Germany's labor laws. America's pretty much a third-world country when it comes to employee rights.
Yes. And vertically integrated companies would have a huge advantage, making it really hard for smaller companies to compete.
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Warby Parker | New York NYC | FULL-TIME | ONSITE

Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand at the intersection of e-commerce, retail (~90 stores now!), fashion, and technology. We’re searching for a senior-level frontend-focused Software Engineer to join our ~60 person in-house Engineering team to help build best-in-class eyewear shopping experiences for the web.

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In some areas, superstitions persist because scientific research isn't doing all that much to dispell them. The science is controversial and available evidence isn't straightforward. Consider how many people think about nutrition and diets. Often people choose what to eat based on invisible attributes associated with food (labelling) that we as consumers can't observe directly.

Opaque processes can do it too. With the rise of targeted advertising, coincidences can easily be interpreted as the result of someone watching you whether they are or not.
Their response to the press was “we always transfer when asked”, not “we always transfer or shutdown when asked”. You may either believe the omission of “or shutdown” to be accidental or non-accidental, due to incompetence or to malice. But it’s clearly omitted whether they would or not, which is often a classical marketing technique for diverting users with a plausibly-deniable statement that doesn’t offer what’s best for others while still seeming to be respectful and kind. This is why I took apart their statement financially, to demonstrate how harmful their stated approach is to businesses. They are of course welcome to revise their statement any time.
There’s always a recession coming – we just never know exactly when.
> We pay all that we owe according to tax laws and local customs wherever we operate

The problem is that Apple and other big corporations have lobbied all around the world to minimise the amount of taxes they pay.

That they follow the law becomes kind of irrelevant when they have helped to design the law.

Meanwhile, 130,000 people died in the UK because governments are cutting on healthcare. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-sto...)

To be legal is not the same that to be moral or even sustainable in the long term. Someone has to pay for education and health care. If the middle class have to support everyone else, who will buy the next iPhone? Long term and capitalism are at odds. We need some more thinking into it.
> Is Golang significantly slower than c++ ?

Depends the context, but in general, yes. C++ is very close to C on this aspect, trading memory safety for performances.

Concerning google, as far as I know the codebase is mostly C++, Java, and python. Go will surely eat a bit of the Java and Python projects but it’s unlikely to see C++ being replaced any time soon.
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I think, to take this analogy a step further, you need to make sure your manager realizes the factory is not built yet.
Until we program in natural language, I don't see why we must even bother with this. Its fun but useless. For programming as it is today, its just a bunch of English words that we have to learn. We can always comment and document in out native languages if need be. I say this as an Indian, so obviously not English native speaker. (To preempt the "colonial benefit of English" retort, I would say I would say the same thing had USSR won the cold war and everything had to programmed in Russian in Cyrillic. We just had to learn a few words even then, assuming Soviet tech hadn't made NL based programming a reality.)
No, you absolutely can't delete your search history, which Google stores in perpetuity, and you can't delete the copies of your SMS messages that sit on some server somewhere, probably forever. All you can do is make it inaccessible in the app or web page you as the user can view it from.
Force the women to wear suits too, or let the men wear shorts and a shirt with no tie.

If you've got menopausal women that's a problem too, and I think perhaps women and men just have different temperature preference distributions.

My kids teachers (all female) refuse to let the boys wear shorts except in Summer term because the teachers consider it not to be warm enough .. but they wear skirts and dresses all year .. which is weird.

Established norms on dress and room heating/cooling are pretty arbitrary I feel.
> I'm curious about is why you think any answers lie with Apple and not some branch of the UK government.

It appears that it's very tough for governments to stay ahead of the tax shenanigans of enormous multinational corporations with immense resources at their disposal.

The UK tax laws could certainly do with improvement, but in my opinion this is deeply unethical behaviour by Apple, even if it's difficult to establish whether it's actually illegal.
The early components of Raptor were, indeed, tested at Stennis. The Raptors are now being tested in Texas. Here's an article from 2013 about the early work on Raptor: https://spacenews.com/37859spacex-could-begin-testing-methan...
Eh? Videogames have made more money than Hollywood for years, that's not news or impressive.

$14b (app store napkin estimate), out of $265b (2018), is ~5%.
I'm using Dism++ (GUI) for this job
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We are running our own IRC server (UnrealIRCd + Anope for services) for 10+ years. We have bots for gitlab/github, schedulers, management bots (you can basically control whole infrastructure and all services from IRC), event logging channels, alerting, jobs/tasks bots, status checking etc. all with authentication and authorization.

This is working well for us, without any issues for years.
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I wonder if you spend as much time attacking the character of representatives who flee their state and threaten to kill law enforcement as you do attacking someone who doesn't want to be in the same room as the lunatic.
A more recent example is the Parallax Propeller chip. A bunch of us pushed it's video sub-system well beyond the design spec.

It could make all kinds of signals. Too fun.
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Cavulus · Senior Developer (Ruby/JavaScript) REMOTE· Seattle, Washington, United States · Engineering ( Apply at https://cavulus.workable.com/jobs/1038986 )

Do you enjoy spending time with your family, friends, and hobbies instead of working after hours or commuting? Or perhaps a work environment that plans its deadlines around your vacations, and not the other way around, with management that shields you from the vicissitudes of the outside world and leaves you the time you need for focused, deep, uninterrupted work?

Consider Cavulus. We've put together an all-remote development team and a suite of powerful tools to tackle problems in the healthcare space, an industry notorious for surviving on Cobol, flat-file systems, and old spreadsheets. Studies have shown that 30% of overall healthcare costs are directly attributable to these redundant and outdated processes. We've brought workflow automation, modern data science, advanced interface tools, real-time stream processing, and people together to bring healthcare costs down for everyone.

Stack: ZK, Kafka, Samza, Sinatra, Vue, JRuby and Ruby, JavaScript
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I think that is covered in the last section, although they didn't tie the points together. If you give your remote workforce clear instructions, it works. If you do not give clear instructions, it fails.

You could expand upon that by getting into all the different communication tools and channels that are needed, as well as the product management maturity that is needed, and the individual communication skills. But at the end of the day, remote working lives or dies based on good communications and instructions.
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