skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deadspin's "brand identity" _was_ that they didn't stick to sports. That's why people liked them.

Your analogy is backwards. Deadspin had a profitable pizza business ("woke sports journalism"), and the new management insisted they pivot to tacos ("just sports"). Now the original customers don't like them ("We _liked_ pizza") and they've failed to attract anyone new (since the taco lovers still have ESPN and basically every single other sports news outlet).
Copyright infringement harms corporations with lobbyists. Slavery harms poor people.
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes -- I've been working remotely for > 5 years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (Node, React, jQuery, Backbone, Meteor, and a wide range of other Javascript frameworks), Serverless, Erlang, LaTeX, AWS, Ansible.

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/scott-patten/

Email: scott@scottpatten.ca

I'm one of the founders of Leanpub (https://leanpub.com), and I'm looking for something new (don't worry, Leanpub is just fine). Leanpub is a well-loved, profitable company that has paid over $8 million in royalties to authors, and I was one of the people who built it from scratch.

At Leanpub I was responsible for the book generation engine, our Markdown parser, devops and infrastructure and the main Rails app. I jumped in on the React side of things when needed. I figured out requirements, talked to customers, did support and wrote documentation.

I have more than a decade of experience in software development with a wide variety of technologies. I'm interested in finding a position where I can have an impact on the company, learn constantly and be a part of a great team. I'm looking for a remote-first or extremely remote-friendly company.
BitKeeper was distributed sccs on steroids, but kept true to its sccs heritage -- as tridge had demonstrated when he "reverse engineered" BK by telneting to the server and typing "HELP" (and following examples from it).

SCCS is a single-file revision management system, which inspired RCS (but they are not compatible IIRC; one keeps changes forward and the other backwards). CVS was a management system on top of RCS to provide "repository-wide" actions and branches. SVN was supposed to be "CVS done right".

git is a blockhain/dag content addressable storage, inspired and borrowing a lot from monotone (a system created by Graydon Hoare who later went to create rust; Linus credits monotone and graydon for inspiring the design of git, which is essentially monotone but much simplified).

McVoy and Linus did, in many ways, collaborate on making BitKeeper more comfortable for Linus and Linux development; but the design and implementation of BitKeeper predates that and goes back to SCCS through TeamWare, and maybe even farther.
At least https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/ takes a more enlightened approach.
I'm looking for a junior front-end web developer role, I'm always willing to learn new things.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript, WordPress, CSS Grid

Resume / CV: https://gregoryhammond.ca/cv

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hammondg

Email: job+hnnovember18-at-gregoryhammond.ca
To add to the irony: Telegram has evolved in a bit of a darknet on its own where people casual share content that would be near impossible to find on the surface web.
My wife homeschool's our daughter (which I add to the context for that it shows she wouldn't have already been exposed to Comic Sans from public school) and one day my wife decided to switch some of the worksheets she created for our daughter to use Comic Sans. Our daughter was really excited about the change and said that now they're "more fun and easier to read, it seems more like a kid made this".
The QR code video shows a ton of people going through the turnstiles quite fast. The one guy that didn't go through might have run out of credits, and needs to top-up.

So those two videos actually demonstrates that QR codes is actually more than fine. NFC might be faster and more convenient but the difference isn't huge.
That is his point. Who is qualified? It'd probably have to be many people, but then who are they accountable to? Is it really better to have Facebook be government run? I highly doubt it.
Adverts. But I'm a white supremacist for noticing, apparently...
I play with my 3 year old daughter. Best thing in the world for me :-)
I wish people would stop asking why about this stuff.

It’s biology. Emotional messaging is implanted in our brains early on.

Swears are bad was still the norm when today’s public school admins were kids.

Most people quit learning and reorganizing their worldview after college simply because that’s what most people do.

The majority will never be as on top of integrating new information as data nerd types.

We do this all the time in tech by saying don’t rewrite software it was good enough for us then.

It’s the same emotional pattern in different contexts.

It’s who we are: decision makers with the emotional tools and facts we can access in the moment.

If you want the discussion around school administration to change, take your opinion out of this filter bubble full of like minded “rethinkers” and go to a damn school board meeting and lobby your state board of education.

Knowing this thread they’ll throw all their ideas about DRY out the window though and build an AI to replace school admins rather than use grandpas invention called “government.”
Not that I’m calling myself super smart, because spending so much time commenting on forums about things I don’t know that much about probably means I’m not, but Comic Sans is my goto font for pretty much all my presentations. Comic sans and well placed gifs.

It’s part of the charm for me, and I use it as a self-confidence boost and a reminder that life doesn’t have to be so serious, because now I can inject some humour into a talk and I have to own that well enough to keep a straight face while delivering the material. Especially in your typical office set up, it’s quite cathartic, and I genuinely enjoy showing people that you don’t have to be so perfect.

I have a lot of respect for people who can bring a bit of lightness to what can otherwise be quite dull day. We are all human after all.

As an example, I think Gary Bernhardt is great with this. The Wat talk is a classic.
On the other hand, if you buy a business entirely dependent on human capital, then proceed to instigate a mass resignation, there is no amount of spin that adds up to anything other than boneheaded decision making.
I find Vxiaocheng's use of QR to be super interesting and something that I'd think is worthwhile to work on; QR reading is now native in android + iphone camera apps and this is an itch I've been looking to scratch for a long time. Anyone interested? I would think of expanding the application to restaurants, libraries, etc. I would be comfortable with design + engineering + product while mostly looking for a business developer to sell the product to customers.
oblig.: https://xkcd.com/435/
>I only appreciate art that I recognize takes skill above my own to create

Even if you had the skill to create a passable forgery of a Pollock, which you probably do not, you're attributing no value to the importance of concept and initial creation. A kid performing a Beethoven piece at a recital is not Beethoven.
Actually, no, that is not related to cellphone manufacturers.
Why would go and c which have static typing suffer from type errors ? Why would go that has a data race checker and quite good concurrency primitives be more prone that rust ?

Rust seems to have its merits but I find the parent post more level headed in that it tries to characterize language runtime, admittedly subjectively but not in a rust==good, rest==bad way.
If you position your mirrors properly then you don't have so-called 'blind spots'. Further, when you are about to change lanes you should look over your shoulder before executing the maneuver.
There are theories that say black men suffer higher rates of schizophrenia (and associated deaths) due to them occupying a lower level in society.
Staying at a company a long time isn't intrinsically and self-evidently better. For instance, switching jobs every 2-3 years will both maximize your salary and allow you to diversify your equity compensation (for more irons in the fire) [1].

Staying at a job for a while is a means, not an ends, and as such not necessarily something to optimize for.

Myself having 0 felonies makes me below average (as 8% of Americans have at least 1 felony), and I don't see myself striving to be above average in this category ;)

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/3946085/switching-jobs-pay-boost/
Every NATO member plus a whole bunch more was involved in that.
We Created a $2MM/Month Subscription-Based Mystery Games Business
iOS / macOS software engineer

Location: Seattle
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Xcode, mobile, git, AppKit
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pkamb/
Email: [firstname][lastname] @ gmail
>So much for "Don't be Evil"....RIP

https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/02/as-google-becomes-al...
> To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued.

Isn't kind of contradictory?
Have you seen the painting in question live? If you haven't I really recommend it. I didn't really get it either until I got a chance to really see some of his works up close. The the scale and details and layers and dynamism and the way the paint is sculpted into a 3D surface just doesn't come across on a computer screen.

You don't have to like it, but there is no way you can in good faith study a Pollock and come away believing a 3 year old could have done that.
YouTube kept offering me videos of lockpickinglawyer for months and months despite having no interest in lockpicking or lawyers then one day I finally gave in and watched a half dozen of them and now it’s my entire recommendation feed.
The fact you like to call it fallacy doesn't make it one.
Thanks for the defense, but I feel a need to pipe up for HN moderators also. It's not true that the title guideline is enforced as you say. If it were, the threads would be full of complaints about titles, when in fact such complaints are an order of magnitude less common than they were, say, 5 years ago. This subthread is an exception, and you'll notice that we've attempted to accommodate the complaints by editing the title again.

We have spent years calibrating how we handle titles and it's one of the most consistent things we do. I know it can be nonintuitive to casual readers at times, but that's because applying that guideline is surprisingly complicated in practice. If it were your job, you'd soon find that as well. Also, people only notice the cases that stand out, which tend to be the edits they dislike and feel we got wrong (which maybe we did). That's a sample bias. Probably less than 5% of title edits even get noticed. Maybe even less than 1%.

We're always happy to answer questions about it, as well as to change titles in response to user feedback, which we do regularly: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Beacon Biosignals | Lead Operations Engineer | Boston, MA | Onsite Available, Remote Friendly | Full Time

Our super early-stage startup is seeking an individual to lead the development/operations of our AWS infrastructure, and along the way teach us all how to deliver more robust software.

About Us:

Despite its significant potential for improving patient outcomes, brain monitoring is still not easily accessible or interpretable in clinical settings. We're going to fix that, and we'd like you to help.

We're a semi-stealth-mode startup founded by numerical programmers, neuroscientists, and practicing neurologists who are committed to translating our best-of-breed clinical research from the lab into the ICU and ED. We're well-funded, well-connected, and own a well-labeled set of brain data amassed over the past decade at some of the most prestigious medical institutions in the world. This dataset is, as far as we know, the largest of its kind in existence. We intend to put it to good use.

Our team is composed of neuro-experts, open-source enthusiasts, audio/DSP engineers, programming language nerds, and generally easy-going (but dedicated!) folks.

About You:

- You're excited to design a service architecture that orthogonalizes the critical feedback loops that entangle our code, data, models, and products.

- You're tired of organizations treating DevOps like an individual role instead of a company-wide practice.

- You're a networks/containers nerd who will turn us into networks/containers nerds.

- You've witnessed the pains that result from fitting square AWS-provided-solution pegs into round in-house-problem holes. Conversely, you've also seen how NIH syndrome can drive teams down a rabbit hole whose endpoint is a shallow reproduction of an existing AWS solution that could've just been employed in the first place.

- You are familiar with the many idiosyncrasies of storing, streaming, and analyzing large volumes of dense signal data in the cloud (e.g. audio, video, domain-specific sensor data, etc.).

- You believe that diversity is an integral part of strong engineering culture, and that lack of diversity contributes to stagnation.

Our data science team makes heavy use of the Julia language. This quarter, we're tackling model evaluation as a CI process, pushing >70TB of signal data (and our processes for manipulating it) into AWS, and developing a browser-based viewing/analysis application for our signal data. Come help us make the right decisions!

Contact jarrett@beacon.bio if interested.
Sorry, I was being sarcastic.
Yep, cellphones, cans containing chemicals that people abuse, knives, car trunks, alcohol bottles etc. There are tons of regulations that are a response to an issue that someone created by using a product the way it was not intended to be used.
...or Owncloud [1], or Nextcloud [2], or Syncthing [3], or Seafile [4], all of them free software, none of them needing 'future discounts' like the Duple site promises to 'beta testers' since they are free software.

[1] https://owncloud.org/

[2] https://nextcloud.org/

[3] https://syncthing.net/

[4] https://www.seafile.com/
Not to mention, something like 90% of handsets, tablets, tv set boxes, ebook readers, etc. Almost everything not iOS is based on Linux (Android, Tizen, KaOS, Tivo, Roku, ChromeOS, Amazon's fire stuff, etc)
So he's the worst candidate because he's the least-bad candidate, thus making people more likely to accept a bad ideology?
Cultivate Labs (Formerly Inkling Markets YC W06) | Rails Engineer | Chicago, IL

Cultivate Labs builds collective intelligence solutions like prediction markets and opinion polls for governments, large private organizations, and think tanks. Our mission is to quantify and amplify the voice of employees to better define ground truth and drive reality-based decision making.

This role will touch all aspects of our development and delivery process, from new feature development on our products, to working with clients on specific requested customizations, to data analysis, to bug fixes. On a day to day basis, you will:

- Write code

- Work with clients and our team to define application requirements

- Perform data analysis

- Contribute thinking/perspective on product and company
strategy

We are self-funded and pride ourselves on NOT having a "work hard, play hard" culture, just work hard on interesting problems, then go home and enjoy your life.

You can read more about the job, and if interested, apply here: https://cultivatelabs.com/jobs
It's a Malthusian trap if you don't advertise 100 some other dude advertises 100 and customers think you need 100mbps to browse facebook because the 100 connection they got from that dude wasn't so good. So they won't even consider your real 50mbps connection.

Selling speeds is a scam, but until enforcement is solid you can't afford not to oversubscribe.
Curious, what comparison are you making with Plaid here?
& yet copyright infringement goes on

The biggest blow to thepiratebay was the golden period where Netflix made it more convenient to go about things legally. Take away: how do you compete with slavery's convenience?
How to aggregate logs across AWS accounts
Kaiser Permanente Medical Informatics | Machine Learning Engineers and Scientists (Data Science Team), Backend and Full Stack Engineers (Applications Team) | San Diego, CA | ONSITE preferred

Medical Informatics team develops clinical decision support, auditing, and virtual care solutions for Kaiser Permanente (KP). Our unique operational position within KP gives us complete access to KP's massive EHR and a broad mandate to develop machine learning models and applications for all aspects of clinical care and delivery. Our products are deployed throughout KP’s nationwide network and impact the lives of over 10 million patients.

Our Data Science Team is looking for talented Machine Learning Scientists and Engineers to help develop our new project focused on smarter clinical triage. Unlike existing clinical triage products and symptom checkers, we are able to leverage our extensive Natural Language Understanding pipeline to generate evidence-based content from clinical data, giving us unprecedented symptom and diagnoses coverage.

Our Applications Team is looking for backend and full stack engineers to help support our production applications for clinical decision support and quality. KP Medical Informatics developed and supports an NLP pipeline that analyses in real time nearly every progress note written by a KP medical professionals during their interaction with patients. As a backend engineer you will be responsible with maintenance and development of additional pipeline capabilities as well as new applications that leverage our natural language insights. As a full stack engineer your will be responsible for developing tooling, dashboards, and other interface elements for both internal and external customers, including KP patients and doctors.

If you are interested, please send your resume and the position you are seeking to ilya.valmianski@kp.org
I've only had them for a couple days, and I haven't listened carefully to many speakers in a long time, or ever really. So I can't really say too much specifically, other than they sound significantly better than anything I've listened to in the last decade. There's nothing more I'm wishing from them at the moment.
Not sure if that is what they do, but on many platforms, there is also code signing. E.g., even if you could trick someone to download your patched/hacked version of Firefox, I believe they'd get a warning on Windows that the software is unsigned.
99.9% of WeWork's employees didn't take the risks or negotiate the deals.
Wherever I worked, mostly the more competent people were the ones leaving. Isn't that to be expected?
Why can't you just tell Wireguard to listen on port 443?

wg set wg0 listen-port 51820...
It’s likely that your work and life has greatly benefited from technologies that originated from the military.
Of course the dragnet should have caught her before she even left the country. But maybe the nationwide customs outage the day after her In N Out photos surfaced helped her slip away?

https://mobile.twitter.com/mooncult/status/11896233371037040...
Russia internet: Law introducing new controls comes into force
Amazon now says the email sent to the third-party dealers was in error

https://www.pcmag.com/news/371708/amazon-dealers-need-approv...
By the way, should this host not work on your domestic connection, I do not advise you to switch away from your ISP DNS, nor, alternatively, to put the following line:

186.2.163.171 sci-hub.se

in your hosts file. Or

186.2.163.90 sci-hub.tw

for that matter.
Yes, we also have situations where a group of people have decided that they are a nation and really want an independent state: such as in Scotland, Catalonia, the Kurds, or Tibet: supporters of the existing state may even accuse them of wanting to "split the nation".

The idea of nationalism, that states and nations should coincide, was only partly implemented. There are numerous groups, including indigenous peoples of the Americas and Pacific or the numerous groups of India which never obtained their own states.
I Started a $500K/Month Video Production Company from My Bedroom in LA
The USG does not need to look for weak points to do passive data collection.

Due to the third-party doctrine [0], they can simply demand access, don't even need a legal warrant. Because there's no reasonable expectation of privacy for data you willingly gave to third parties.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
You are pointing at irrelevant people who don't belong to actual power structures. Ex-yahoo exec seriously? How can you even compare the Reddit CEO to Louis XIV. SV people have an overinflated sense of their importance in actual Power Hierarchies.
That is a dumb analogy. The manufacturer of a hammer cannot control what people do with a hammer. Instagram can control what its users do on Instagram.
Yeah my secondary point that I deleted was that it's the sims that are regulated. Isn't that closer to regulating an ISP? But then a cellphone is more like a computer or iPad, so all these analogies are a stretch.
I don't know why you are saying this, because all I did was say we should stop slavery. Whether or not we protect copyright or whatever, we definitely should stop slavery. Taking down a post isn't stopping slavery, it's insulating elite Westerners like myself from being aware that slavery is actually happening.

Up until today I was aware of piratebay, copyright issues, etc because it has impacted my life. I was unaware that in some places it was still accepted practice to not only enslave people but to publicly post about it. I imagine a lot of the people who work at the social media companies are similar to myself in that respect.
It uses UDP, not TCP. (Which is generally a sensible choice for a VPN, but is a limitation if UDP is filtered)
So are you saying that currently American companies are NOT allowed to acquire Chinese companies or operate in China?

There are a few instances where that's true (there are also a few instances where Chinese companies are not allowed to acquire U.S. companies or operate in the U.S.) but you said "I would support a wholesale ban on Chinese acquisitions of American companies". So again are you insinuating that at this moment, no American companies are allowed to acquire Chinese companies or operate in China?
> To me, a government that feels a need to deploy police to stop a region from demanding independence is inherently illegitimate.

And to the rest of the planet is totally legit

Deploying police when there are serious disturbs by groups of organised people that are purposely preventing people from leading a normal life, ravaging and creating really dangerous situations for everybody is: NORMAL.

Name a country in the planet. Whichever country. This is exactly what the government of that country will do in the same situation.

Maybe for a few people is a videogame and lots of fun, but for the rest of us is a rock put in the path of the train when we or our loved ones are travelling. You will eat this rock if I would see you doing that.

For the rest is their small shop set in flames or ravaged. Is huge bills in damages and healthcare that they will have to pay. Is, undoubtely and crystal clear, Terrorism.

And deliberately sending your minions to disturb the peace and convivence of the society, unless you agree to "talk with me" accept my new twisted concept of "democracy" and gave me something for telling my people to stop and go home. Well, this has a name also in any part of this planet and the name is blackmail.
Well I sure wouldn't be _walking_ in this day and age... ;)

(whoops)
Foucault was astute in observing that schools mirror the architecture and processes of prisons.