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SEEKING WORK - remote (United States based)

Have you gotten your company past the first stage or two to where it's profitable? Have you been thinking about starting to collect data and optimize? Then let's discuss!

I will instrument your software to produce the necessary metrics and data points, store them, analyze them, view them on dashboards, and best of all: optimize and grow! Both now and down the road.

Another common scenario I can help you with: have you created a monster Excel spreadsheet fed by your database? I can replace it with dashboards that show the same information in a much more useful format so that you won't have to squint at that clunky spreadsheet anymore!

Remote only. Not willing to relocate, but open to a small amount of travel.

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A few keywords for people using search: business intelligence, data analytics, data warehousing, ETL, data visualization, reporting, time series, Django, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Segment.
> why not simply require a p value of 0.001 instead of the 0.03 the paper used?

That is the proper response to a low prior probability, in general, yes.

More to the point, in an ideal world the p value one picks as the significance criterion should somehow capture both the state of prior knowledge and the consequences of reaching the wrong conclusion. If it really doesn't matter what you conclude, p=0.5 (not a typo: 1/2) is fine. If the conclusion really matters for something important, p=0.03 is likely too high.

Most published research that does significance testing seems to have no particular discipline for picking their threshold p values other than cargo-culting, unfortunately.

> the sample size is small (n=57), and small samples are a lot more likely to give extreme results.

That's already captured in the p value, no? That is, the sample size is already part of the computation of the p value. If you come out with p=0.03, then that means that if the null hypothesis holds in 3% of cases you'd see your observed results, whatever size your sample is. I'd genuinely like to understand why you feel there is a qualitative difference between n=1e4, p=0.03 and n=1e2, p=0.03, because I feel like I'm missing something there.

(Now it's a lot easier to get p=0.001 with n=10000 if your effect is real than it is with n=57. So in that sense, having larger samples helps. Having a larger sample _might_ also help with the "I tried a bunch of experiments until I got one that tested significant" problem, if it's genuinely harder to do a larger-sample experiment. Of course people could also apply a Bonferroni correction, but most practitioners of statistical testing don't seem to realize it exists or might be needed...)
Should have said: that is in an imaginary scenario where foo+bar really does cause autism
Beeing yourself can also be an excuse to never change. If somebody is beeing themselves but happens to clash constantly in unhappy ways with their environment, maybe they are not beeing themselves, but they have unresolved issues of some sort — and cementing who you are at a certain point of time is not gonna help.
VDFs could save hundreds of millions of dollars (this is exaggerated but let's roll with it) but they have already been invented. It's not clear how much a slightly faster implementation of their VDF is worth; maybe it's less than $100K. The Chia VDF contest had a few entries so this is not a crazy concept.
Location: Surabaya, Indonesia
Remote: Yes
Willing to Relocate: No
Technologies: Elixir, PHP, Node.js, Linux System Administration
Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fw8tgawgqmti9gg/resume.pdf?dl=0
Email: syukronrifai [at] gmail [dot] com

I have 3 years experience in web development. Currently, I'm a candidate for Master of Informatics in Surabaya, ID.

I'm very eager to learn and explore new technologies, languages, or frameworks.
This was a result that everyone expected to be true, but weren't able to prove: our mathematical tools weren't good enough. Now they are. It's like weightlifting: as your mathematics becomes “stronger”, it becomes capable of doing more things. The applications will come. See this Quanta magazine article and quotes in it from researchers about the problem: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer...

> But no one could prove it. […] “People wrote long, complicated papers trying to make the tiniest progress,”[…] this power should yield new insights about complexity measures. “It adds to our toolkit for maybe trying to answer other questions in the analysis of Boolean functions,” […]

etc.
Whoa, I had no idea the commissions were that high.
>taking the paranoid rants of a barely literate high school dropout at face value?

Have you heard Snowden speak? I've not heard many people in my life who are more educated and eloquent.
Features of Responsive Web Design – Sasi Online
I dunno, compared to drivers dedicated to a specific business, I've yet to have an experience with UberEats/Postmates/Grubhub/DoorDash that wasn't leaving me with food that was cold, either because they did not use insulated bags, or they simply took way too long to get to me. When a joint is 15 minutes away, it'd take the driver a literal 60 minutes to drive from the restaurant to me. Your mileage may vary, depending on your region, but it's just a waste of money and time if you ask me.
What things are new/unique? Hmmm, I'll bet someone could implement almost all of what I do inside excel sheets one way or another, but it would just be super-cumbersome to do.

One big example is regression. All Excel really does is simple linear regression. Add more variables you get a better r2'd and that's it. Comparatively, with scikit it's trivial to avoid all horrid overfitting problems that come with simple regressions in excel. I use of lasso-cv model, and better practices like cross-validation, etc.

Another big improvement is I replaced Excel -> Tableau visualizations pipeline with using Altair-Viz. Altair makes almost-Tableau-like charts pretty easily and cuts out lots of intermediary steps -- jump right from dataframe to a chart.

It's much easier to add sanity/safety assertion checks in python than in Excel. Everyone knows examples of excel spreadsheets that are subtly poisoned.

I took someone else's technical charting ideas and reimplemented them in python, which then just alerts me for key events (changes in trend, potential exciting issues, etc). Now I don't have to look through the data myself, which is a chore, and which is susceptible to my mood. It just spits out its objective 'truth'.

One thing about (at least commodities trading) that outsiders might not realize is -- none of the sexy FAANG big data stuff is particularly useful or appropriate. The data is way too sparse and the quality varies immensely and is normally quite lagged. As a concrete example perhaps you think the price of oil = f(oil demand in china, oil production in saudi arabia). Great. At best you get monthly data, probably lagged, and probably manipulated by the government. So that's 24 pieces of data per year....not great candidate for machine learning ideas. Perhaps very high-frequency, ultra short term automated trading can use tick data for things like this, but not for general prop trading that holds risk for days or weeks.

I also expect outsiders imagine oil price = f(factor_a, factor_b, ...factor_z) and it's just the job to figure out that ka, kb, ... kz are. But markets aren't physical phenomena like a spring where repeated measurements of length and weight can eventually can estimate what the K-factor is. If markets are springs, then their K-factor changes all the time. Factors that sometimes matter for one month don't matter for the next six or twenty four. That's why it's important to monitor the many spaces that can drive a market -- underlying fundamentals, 'flows' from the financial/hedging markets, and myriad non-specialist investors who behave based totally different drivers than oil specialists. As much as oil trading could be trying to accurately count barrels of oil, it's also important to understand the 'meta' of who is buying/selling and why.

To be clear, my trading is not automated. At end of the day I'm making a bet myself, not a machine deciding. It's more like I have machine exoskeleton helping me to see a little bit more clearly and maybe a little less emotionally, which hopefully leads to slightly smarter bets.
Maybe you're thinking of this story?

"Solar panels increase grasses for sheep and cows by 90%"
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/11/12/solar-panel-increase-...

"The paper suggests it was mostly due to significantly increased water efficiency – 328%. This efficiency allows semi-arid regions, with a wet winter, to store more water in the ground, allowing for a longer growth during the growing season."
Urban busses, yes. Commuter busses (public agency or private "Google Bus" variants) not so much.

There are transit districts which run entirely different coaches on commute vs. urban or general transit routes. Commute have comfortable seats, overhead briefcase stowage, reading lights, and. often wifi. Urban transit: hard seats, no amenities, often standing-room only.
Heh, no. I wouldn't want to trade my own money when there are people that will give me money to trade instead.
Metro Manila is not as dense but delivery here is so cheap. Grab and Lala are huge in Manila.
Rust Emacs: Porting Progress
Swanky UES hot spot allegedly Googles guests to keep out poor commoners
Japan downgrading South Korea trade status, raising tensions
Yes. Your chance of being hit by lightning in a given year is quite low. The average number of people struck by lightning in the US annually in the last decade is 270, according to https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-odds (and while that's an estimate, the 27 average deaths/year over that period is not).

So a specific person being killed by lightning within a given year is pretty unlikely (less than one in 10 million chance), and on average it happens once every two weeks in the US. Lots of people, see.

Same thing with other situations where there are lots of observations...
IIRC it was a Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/How-is-China-able-to-provide-enough-fo...
And he's still working on TAOCP.
Effects of eight weeks of time-restricted feeding (16/8)
Cameron's World: A collage of text and images from GeoCities
The Milky Way is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model
Discussed other times too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825054 (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777852 (2016)
Location: South Korea
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Node.js
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muminoff
Email: smuminov [at] gmail [dot] com
One of the fallbacks is to switch from justified to right aligned text for that one line. Most importantly, the compiler issues a warning so that you can look it up yourself.
The proof of Fermats last theorem did not involve many areas of mathematics. It was primarily proved via algebraic geometry.

That’s also not true about wiles productivity... he first discovered the proof in 93 but then when he talked to people about it an error was found. He eventually fixed the error in 94 and then in 95 it was published. No mathematician waits to publish the proof of one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics.
TL;DR: CI/CD for infrastructure as code.
SimplePay | Ruby on Rails Developers | UTC+4 to UTC+8 | REMOTE

SimplePay is online payroll software for South Africa, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our software lets thousands of small business owners (and their accountants) run their payrolls without headaches, so they can focus on the challenge of building their businesses

More than half of our developers are now remote, and I'd like to continue the trend.

To find out more about us, check our technical blog (https://tech.simplepay.cloud) or about page (https://www.simplepay.co.za/about)

Stack: Our work is back-end-heavy Ruby on Rails and we use PostgreSQL as our data store. We use a bit of Vue.js but believe server-side rendering is still the best default.

Experience: Due to our full pipeline, we can only hire developers who have a few years of Rails experience at this time, or highly experienced polyglots who at least know some Ruby.

Location: UTC+4 to UTC+8 preferred, although we'll also consider candidates in UTC+1 to UTC+3 if they have the right skills and experience.

Please mail developers+hn@simplepay.cloud and include a direct link to an open source contribution you've made, or an issue you've logged, no matter how small.
That's because you are a threat to the manager if you implement something like this without approval.
> iTerm2 is worth it just for the "Copy to pasteboard on selection" option,

The only reason I downloaded iterm2 many eons ago but stayed for the rest
The real problem seems to be unchecked population growth of wild boars due to the lack of natural predators. They are smart animals and tend to figure out that there is more and tastier food available in the nearby city than in the forest.
My main concern with this is having this sensitive information just sitting there plaintext in some DB. I'd avoid putting personal stuff like this on the web at all.
Back in the day, it was "IBM and the seven dwarfs", Digital Equipment, Control Data, General Electric, RCA, Univac, Burroughs, and Honeywell. Later, Amdahl offered fully-IBM-mainframe compatible systems. Tandem's specialty was fully redundant, fault-tolerant systems.

https://it.toolbox.com/blogs/shayne-nelson/the-60s-ibm-the-s...

By the 1990s, "big iron" referred not only to mainframe (S360 descendants -- now S390 / zOS), but big Unix vendors: Sun (now Oracle), HP, Data General, SGI, etc.

Some of these still survive in some form:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer#Current_mar...
This is what a local TimeCapsule should’ve been: an Apple Synology type storage and compute device, that would store a backup copy in iCloud encrypted.

Someone let Tim Apple know there’s still time!
Foxconn exploring sale of $8.8B display plant in China
Undo what exactly?
Maybe it is me, but I seldom see the value of using an extension versus little utilities.

It is not as if every mainstream language doesn't have libraries to handle networking requests.
Agreed, I have a first edition. There was a followup book, “The Algorithmic Beauty of Seashells”, which is also pretty good.
Outliers. Most of the books written by younger people who have no experience in life will sound immature to anyone above their age.
He’s arguing for changing the behaviour via an environment variable, and not recompiling/linking at all:

> The difference between changing a console variable to get a different behavior versus running an old exe, let alone reverting code changes and rebuilding, is significant.

I’ve not tried his way, but he’s pretty explicit about what The Way is.
Army Soldiers Will Use Special M-2 Bradley to Control Robots
China making 'quite significant' strides in supercomputing
Does it make a difference if there is no true discussion or debate, but instead one party that simply desires to spread misinformation? (Party in this context not meaning a US political party)
You should thank that IT Manager today. Most of them would just ask you to get approval to use a database on your own PC at this point.
WeChat for Windows has a shortcut (alt-a) to instantly bring up a cursor to snip a portion of the screen and annotate it with text and shapes. It’s super handy for quickly marking some code or a segment in a doc.
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At Occipital, we’re working on spatial computing - using computer vision to 3D reconstruct and understand your surroundings so that software can operate over real-world spaces. We believe it will power the next generation of augmented reality and some of the key parts of virtual reality as well. https://occipital.com

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>It taught me an unpleasant fact of people's psychology: people have such astonishing status-quo bias that they will rewrite the past to match the present.

Very perceptive. What blows me away is that even knowing the past, they still think the future won't be different.

I'm in Australia, and the amount of apathy is astounding.

Scary developments like the AABill which is to literally force citizen sysadmins to secretly spy on other citizens under threat of 10 years jail, with no oversight and no ability for legal representation.

Passed with bipartisan support, except for some amendments that were meant to happen in February which would have made the catastrophic bill just disastrous.

No amendments have happened, there is no media interest, and no concern from the lobotomized public.
> because of colder and longer winters than in most of the US.

Are you kidding ? Europe has pretty mild winter compared to North America. Everything north of the Washington state / Kansas / Virginia lines is getting pretty rough winter by European standards.

Most Europeans freaks out when they see 1/2" of snow. In N.A., it's business as usual.
Why are you programming directly in R1CS, when there are nice DSLs, nowadays?
> Is your argument based on a belief that there are not enough natural resources to accommodate every human in theory?

Not at all what I meant. I think we can accommodate a lot more people.

> What do you think needs to be fixed before a higher standard of life for all humans should be considered a goal to progressively strive for?

I'm saying that the goals needed to achieve that kind of Utopia don't look like the goals described. I think many people don't want to admit certain policy failures, but they continue on like an addiction, hamstringing genuine efforts. I'm not sure if it's attainable because so many contentious things will have to change before we can even start with the goals described (food/housing/etc.)
Only five basic interactions? That must have been written by someone who never had the privilege of living with a tortoiseshell cat like Tulie.

When I pet one of the dogs, Tulie runs into the bathroom, jumps up on the counter next to the sink, and waits for me. Why? I rinse my hands after petting the dogs to avoid allergies, and she knows I will do that. Tulie loves water and is fascinated by it and wants to know where it goes.

That bathroom sink is missing a stopper. When Tulie was smaller, she would put her arm all the way down the the drain to her shoulder to find what was down there. She still loves it if I turn the water on just a little bit so it dribbles and she can swat at it.

Tulie makes her own toys. Because of that missing stopper, I bought a little steel strainer to fit in the drain, similar to this one:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/203675133

She pulled it out and put it in the middle of the hallway where someone would accidentally step on it and stomp it flat. Now it makes a perfect toy for me to roll on the floor or toss over her head so she can catch it. I bought a couple more and she did the same thing to them. She has trained me well.

When she wants me to play, she starts with the usual cat "walk by and brush your leg with her tail". If I don't get a clue, she stops and puts one hind paw on my foot. I usually wear Birkenstocks at home, so she finds the spot between the straps and gradually puts all her weight on that one foot until I notice.

Like many cats, Tulie loves to play with a bird feather wand toy. These are the toys with a flexible wand, a string hanging from the tip, and a collection of bird feathers hanging from the end of the string.

Tulie's "sister" Sephie also loves this toy. Tulie has studied how I operate the bird toy for her and for Sephie. One night after I was done playing with them, I wedged the bird toy handle into a chair in the hope that they would entertain themselves. And they did! Here is Tulie on the chair and Sephie on the floor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rROBUDPYI

At one point in the video, the bird feathers happen to land on the chair. Tulie figures out how to get the toy unstuck so Sephie can keep playing.

And then the dogs walk by to get some water, so both cats stop playing and act real cool like "nothing to see here, move along now."

I think we have five new behaviors already! :-)
Some Native Americans absolutely have a (pre-Columbian) concept of witchcraft.

Source: my godmother is a Maya shaman.
Fleetio | Senior Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE | https://www.fleetio.com/careers
Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations around the world manage a fleet of vehicles. Transportation technology is a hot market and we’re leading the charge.

Your work will be heavily focused toward high level, high impact areas. You’ll work closely with Product Managers and Designers to plan, design, and implement some of our more complex features. You’ll have a strong voice in the development and planning processes. You'll be joining a tight-knit team (13 Engineers) who are used to moving fast and taking on responsibility. That said, we have lives outside of work, and we know you do too. We are a family-friendly company that is still young enough for you to get a nice slice of equity but old enough to be a stable and healthy place to work.

Tech Stack: currently on Rails 5.2 (hosted on Heroku). We strive to keep our frameworks and libraries up to date. Other technologies include Angular, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

Perks: competitive pay, meaningful company equity, 100% coverage of health and dental insurance, strong remote working culture, professional development budget.

Apply here: https://www.workable.com/j/183C8EE373
I agree. Will do. Thank you.
How a 6k-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World
Yeah, I tried this, while this sort of addresses my issue, it's still not as convenient as MAX.
Location: Durham, NC, USA

Remote: Yes (have been for the past 4 years)

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: JavaScript, VueJS, StencilJS, Web Components

Résumé/CV:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonylebrun/

Email: an thony le brun [@] g mail (minus spaces + .com)

Problems I'd be good at helping you solve:
- Designing great user experiences.
- Creation and Adoption a Design System (aka Design Language / Pattern Library)
- Transforming your Front-End spaghetti code into something maintainable and even beautiful
- Building complex UI components

Benefits of working with me:
- I have a background in back-end development so I do understand that world well. Today I've chosen to focus on UI development and I am pretty knowledgeable about JavaScript, the DOM and cutting edge features in the browser.
- I do not require much direction or very specific requirements. I like to discuss things at a high level, understand the context, and I can help fill in any gaps with a high level of attention to detail and you can usually trust me to make good decisions on your behalf.

I have built 1.5 (one is currently in progress) SaaS apps as side projects (https://www.recapped.io/ being one). And I am also currently working on an open source Web Component design system starter kit (yet to be released).

Open to full time offers and possibly part time contracts/freelance for an interesting project.
Location: NYC area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: everything hedge funds, financial markets, javascript, node.js, vue.js, sql / postgresql, web, network & computer security, networking, internet of things, vba & ms office

Resume: https://www.tambeb.com/resume

Email: t@mbebarsbay.com