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Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Seattle or Boulder

Technologies: Precision Measurement/Metrology, data analysis/data science, experimental design, vacuum, hardware, CNC/CAM, PCB layout, radioactive waste disposal and more.

Résumé/CV: www.charliehagedorn.com

Email: charlie@charliehagedorn.com

I'm a Ph.D experimental physicist with fifteen years of experience in precision-measurement and data-analysis. I build things, make measurements, analyze data, and answer questions.

Looking to work with a professional manager/team on a problem that is timeless, peaceful, and impactful.
Interactive shell libraries exist. They are quite common for Unix oriented tools. Might be possible to reimplement the same API for a GUI
I also wonder why the funding amount is more important than say revenue for past 3 years ? I assume they only want to deal with "startups" that fall within PGs/HN definition (hockey stick growth possibility). Very interesting but not sure why this matters for business insurance.
Happy to see ColdFusion doing it right. Also, good for Julia for having the support for fractions.
Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It
Introduction to Bert
I had to use google translate for this one, because I didn't suspect the translation to my language to be so literal.

My take is that this sentence is badly worded. How do these fractions specifically use those prime factors?

Apparently the idea is that a fraction 1/N, where N is a prime factor of the base, is rational in that base.

So for base 10, at least 1/2 and 1/5 have to be rational.

And given that a product of rational numbers is rational, no matter what combination of those two you multiply, you'll get a number rational in base 10, so 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/4 is rational, (1/2)^3 = 1/8 is rational etc.

Same thing goes for the sum of course.

So apparently those fractions use those prime factors by being a product of their reciprocals, which isn't mentioned here but should have been.
Do the results page include anything from *.bing.com ? Or any other 3rd party domains that do not share DDG's stated privacy policy?
True but it will from the first moment go to political motivated move for sure.
Very experienced systems programmer: C, older school C++, Linux kernel, embedded. Free software contributions. Major open source project. Lisp hacker/researcher.

I'm not willing to relocate permanently, and have a strong preference for Japan.

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: GNU/Linux kernel&userland, C, C++, Lisp

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaz-kylheku-8a8b94197/

Email: click on HN profile.
"For such a liberal city?"
We call them "totalitarian", but that doesn't mean the state actually has total control over society. Society is still made up of people. In totalitarian systems, there's still crime and corruption. They may get harshly punished, but the police still needs to uncover it first, and that takes time and resources, and may not always be easy.

Take the Pooh Bear jokes about Xi. He'd love to be able to stop them, but he can't. There's a limit to how total the government's control can be. And with China's capitalist liberalisation, scams and fraud become more attractive, and possibly harder to track down.
I'm skeptical any such trend exists. Are you sure you're not misinterpreting your anecdotal experience?

I'm not sure if it's a result of the fact that most people are tech savvy

Most people aren't tech savvy. Again, maybe you are extrapolating inappropriately from your personal experiences, the people you hang out with, etc?
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ exceptions and alternatives [pdf]
Good job UK
You would love this book: At Home by Bill Bryson (https://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Short-History-Private/dp/0767...)

It explores history through the lens of everyday objects in the home (even fixtures like windows, and spaces like your foyer)

A little slow to start, but then it never stops entertaining
I'm not sure if you mean current developers, but TOR was started at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, which is definitely connected to the military intelligence operations.
The left stereotypes the right as willing to build, build, build with no thought to consequences as long as the dollars continue to flow.

The right stereotypes the left as standing in the way of progress, where "progress" is defined as commerce.

So I'd say both parents are correct, and the author of the "Thoughts" on SFO is letting his politics cloud his objectivity.
> Imagine delivering a million dollar feature, working nights and weekends, but somehow it's discounted because of where you live?

Imagine delivering that feature and expecting to get a larger salary because of where you live? COL is either a thing or it isn't. Job markets are localized because of physical presence. Once you take that limitation away, the artificial inflation of Bay area salaries fades a bit.
You don't need to thoroughly understand the entire spec, nor do you need to know that 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.300000000000004. "Computers can't really represent floating point numbers exactly" is generally good enough. (Also: you added "human" as a qualifier; you didn't have that before so I responded to your statement as it was written.)
>DDG is Bing

Eh? Maybe you are saying that because they serve ads from Bing?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo :

>DuckDuckGo earns revenue by serving ads from the Yahoo-Bing search alliance network and through affiliate relationships with Amazon and eBay.

>In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo! that brought new features to all users of the search engine, including date filtering of results and additional site links. It also partners with Bing, Yandex, and Wikipedia to produce results or make use of features offered. The company also confirmed that it does not share user information with partner companies, as has always been its policy.
Location: Minnesota

Remote: Open to remote

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Ruby, React/Angular frameworks, HTML/CSS, Mongo/SQL, Node, Flask, Express

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

email: salah.inght@gmail.com
So you can get proficient with `!g`?
I personally find RTD far too drab for my tastes but to each their own. If it works for you, run with it!
> "San Francisco has the prettiest natural surroundings of any city in America."

I'm open to disagreements, but I'd say SF has the prettiest surroundings of any US city. The only place I've lived I think was prettier was Rio de Janeiro. I can think of other places that are also very beautiful though, such as Salt Lake City or Jackson Hole.

I like to say the worst thing about San Francisco is San Francisco - everything around San Francisco is gorgeous! Muir Woods, Half Moon Bay, Sausalito - those are within a ~30 minute drive from where I live. The coastal drive north once you get to Stinson Beach might be my favorite road to drive on because of the views.

As for the city itself, I would absolutely give the edge to Chicago for their architectural designs.

What places do you find the prettiest?
Yep, absolutely (and increasingly often people are using 16-bit floats on GPUs to go even faster).

But the person you replied to said programming logic, not programming anything.

Honestly I think if you care about the difference between `<` and `<=`, or if you use `==` ever, it's a red flag that floating-point numbers might be the wrong data type.
You don't need special support from the language, fixed-point arithmetic is effectively the same as integer.

DOOM's implementation of fixed-point is a good example which should work on any platform as long as sizeof(int) >= 4.

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1....
https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1....

Addition and subtraction will work normally. Multiplication also works normally except you need to right-shift by FRAC_BITS afterwards (and probably also cast to a larger integer type beforehand to protect against overflow).

Division is somewhat difficult since integer division is not what you want to do. DOOM's solution was to cast to double, perform the division, and then convert that back to fixed-point by multiplying by 1.0 before casting back to integer. This seems like cheating since it's using floating-point as an intermediate type, but it is safe to do because 64-bit floating point can represent all 32-bit integers. As long as you're on a platform with an FPU it's probably also faster than trying to roll your own division implementation.
Then the government should just do that and replace a lot of taxes with this income source!
Not all numbers are rational.
Here's some good reading on robust ways to fix this without an arbitrary epsilon bump: http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Shapes/Managing_Rounding_Er...
Yes, but then the disabled individuals would have been mentally traumatized. Companies shouldn't avoid doing things just to avoid negative press. They're providing a service for the people.
Well it's working, because as one member of that non-millionaire rabble, after moving here a year ago I desire nothing less than to move right back out.
I switched from Google to DDG on my mobile due to Google AMP pages sometime last summer.

While I find DDG to be equally good for most "dry facts" searches, it stinks for the sort of thing that I'm usually looking for on the road — "best Sichuan in Chinatown" or "glossier sticker blackberry" (long story).

Ironically, I could probably get by just fine with DDG on the laptop where I'm mostly using search as a proxy for Stack Overflow and Wikipedia, and Google on the mobile for shopping and esoterica.
Hey Adam, this sounds right up my alley and I’m looking for new opportunities. Just added on LinkedIn
Are there any quantum simulating frameworks that I can download on my high performance gaming PC and start playing with simple quantum programs?
Well, he has been to NYC...
> "San Francisco has the prettiest natural surroundings of any city in America."

I don't think it's an unreasonable candidate for someone's favorite, but it's pretty surprising for the author to not recognize that this is both subjective and highly controversial. If I had to predict what people in America would describe as "the American city with the prettiest natural surroundings," I think cities with large mountains would score very highly.
Show HN: How to Add Persistence to Samsung Bixby Capsules
Books don't have links.
That's one of the worst domain name ever. When the topic comes along, I always remember about "that single-serving website with a domain name that looks like a number" and then take a surprisingly long time searching for it.

I have written a test framework and I am quite familiar with these problems, and comparing floating point numbers is a PITA. I had users complaining that 0.3 is not 0.3.

The code managing these comparisons turned out to be more complex than expected. The idea is that values are represented as ranges, so, for example, the IEEE-754 "0.3" is represented as ]0.299~, 0.300~[ which makes it equal to a true 0.3, because 0.3 is within that range.
With regards to schools:

It's not really true that California is ranked 50th out of the states on spending per student. Here's a detailed explanation: https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/jan/17...

The low-ranking cost per student depends on a quality-of-life-adjustment and is also now several years old.

Also, SF public schools are a very mixed bag, they aren't uniformly terrible. The lottery system rewards parents who are willing to do a bunch of research and not just pick their neighborhood schools. Places that are neighborhood schools for neighborhoods that include a lot of low-information parents are likely terrible, other schools are much better.
> Scenes like this

The link points to one example.

The OP didn't support their assertion that constables commonly confiscate screwdrivers during weapons sweeps, but I don't think OP intended the picture prove that, just to show the definition of "weapon" in use.
You jest but it works better than the other way around.
AFAIK They use bing for [almost] all search results and yes, they seem to try to be vague about it on purpose.

Maybe someone from DDG could clarify this?
I don't get any porn results in image searched on DDG for "filled torus" when set to Moderate or Strict. I think it's fair to expect it to be on the user when searching for something online to be okay with perhaps seeing pornographic or unwanted search results when set to no filtering.
If all we get out of it is a more sustainable economy, less pollution, renewable nearly-free sources of energy, and better preparedness for storms, hey, I'll settle for that.
This was an interesting read

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/...
what is the number representation in swift? Looking at your link it seems to be plain ieee floats. In that case, would't it have the same behavior?
A man with a PhD in Chemistry once told me "The average human would have one tit, one nut and a three inch weiner."

(As best I can remember, those were his exact words. No, I'm not cleaning it up to be more PC.)
Counterexample: gas prices in the US are frequently displayed with 3 decimals (tenth of cents)
Get ready for my start up LightningBolt. It has Quantum Computers available on Rigetti.
I hate "Here's Why You Should Too" articles but it's worthwhile trying DDG.

You may enjoy having a less menacing overlord in your browser.
this strategy just trades one risk for another. you're less likely to have your windows smashed, but more likely to find someone sleeping in your car in the morning. I'd rather deal with shattered glass than bodily excretions, personally.
Thank you for your post, I like the theme and the idea of static generator creating the documentation.

How could anyone include search in these static sites? Is there any theme that could provide such functionality?
Of the services you listed, to the best my knowledge, exactly zero of them are profitable yet. Tidal is eternally on the brink of bankruptcy. Deezer's situation has been so bleak they pulled their IPO a few years ago. Google Music and Apple Music are essentially loss leaders being subsidized by their owners. Spotify has always burned through money like it was going out of style. And artists are eternally complaining -- with cause -- that nearly all of them make less money under this system than they did under the old one.

You know what Spotify thinks is the way forward for them? Exclusives. That's why they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on podcasts. You may love it if they're functionally undifferentiated from their competitors, but they don't. Apple and Google can slide because they're Apple and Google, but services that actually need to pay their own way need to give you a reason to pay them, not Apple or Google.

So, sure. Consumers love "pay $10 a month to whoever you want, eh, it's all the same, tomato, tomahto." But it's not at all clear to me that it's a sustainable model in the long run. And I'm pretty sure the reason the video streaming world didn't even pretend to take a stab at that business model is they don't think it is, either.
The multiplication of the first 5 primes ;)
You're right, Adobe Experience Cloud doesn't sell information, so how problematic you find the product depends on where you draw the line on privacy.

Specifically, Adobe Experience Cloud definitely offers retargeting capabilities (ads following you around the internet) and the ability to get statistics on the effectiveness of that advertising. If they're at parity with competing marketing suites, then they also have attribution capabilities to track you with per-user, per-interaction granularity.

A site that serves Adobe Experience Cloud cookies in the third-party-disguised-as-first-party way is likely enabling this capability for all marketers that are going through Adobe Experience Cloud. So the interesting question would be whether you, a visitor to Fox.com, consider being watched by marketers who aren't Fox.com to be a privacy problem.
I think that is the parent poster's point. They tried to do something that to them seemed like it would help people, but ended up in a scandal instead. This is how apathy spreads.
Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones, computers
I think you're on to something. I'd bet it is correlated with a person's conscientiousness score. The higher score would both mean less spelling mistakes and tidier code.
It's a pretty common model for VC backed startups in financial services these days, especially ones that involve risk assessment.

I think it is kind of a Potemkin village approach. Let's be honest, they don't want to actually solve the hard problems of underwriting things, they want to appear to solve them so they can impress VC's and get millions of dollars in funding for themselves. Unfortunately you can't help them with that goal.

For them, what better group to work with than the very companies that were funded by the same VC's they're trying to impress?

This approach works in both directions, since for one these companies are by definition well connected and well funded so they don't have to make tough underwriting decisions, and two VC's are for the most part living in a bubble, so by signing up a couple dozen venture backed startups they can create an "everyone is using it" impression.

Needless to say there are problems with this approach. The main one being the addressable market of VC backed startups is tiny and probably not worth that much to corner unless your revenue per customer is massive. And the other problem is that it's not clear you're actually learning anything if you're not really exposed to the wider marketplace.

They'd counter by saying they're getting good at their business and achieving scale and building a great product, and that expanding beyond their own bubble eventually will be easy once they get that product built up.

Maybe they're right. But until they do it's hard to consider any of the companies employing this model to be successful yet.
Hm... what happens if you've got a neural network trained to make decisions in the financial domain?

Is there a way to exploit the difference between numeric precision underlying the neural network and the precision used to represent the financial transactions?
People had the same attitude pre 9/11 when suggesting to have impenetrable cockpit doors on planes. Just saying...
Of course, it depends how much juice your A-ports can provide and how fussy you are about things charging as fast as they can. If most of your A ports provide no more than 1-or-2 amps, maybe 3, at 5V then most (all?) devices that charge via USB-C will charge slower than they could. That won't realistically matter at all for refreshing a phone overnight, or even a chunky laptop, but it'll still matters to some.
Reduced potential for socializing and exercising? I think you mean increased. I have way more time for those things working remotely than I've ever had in my life and it's improved my quality of life immeasurably because of it. It's one of the reasons I'd never go back given a choice. Also, the employer should provide all equipment (mine does) and ideally, even internet subsidies, etc.
Of course there is something absurd about such instant assessments - or, in this case, pre-assessments. At such moments, accomplished elder statesmen invariably quote Zhou Enlai's answer when he was asked for his view of the significance of the French revolution: "It's a little too soon to say."
Yep, which is exactly why I haven't replaced mine after it got busted. Instead I "rebuilt" it with clear Gorilla Tape and a Prop 65 sign (because everything in California causes cancer, apparently).

Naturally, it's the one window that even my Haynes Book says "don't try replacing it yourself; hire a professional". Thanks, guy-who-desperately-wanted-my-jumper-cables-and-jump-box-out-of-the-back-of-my-car. Real considerate of you.
I don't live in CA, and have been to many places both in and out of the US. I 100% agree with the statement that San Francisco is in a uniquely beautiful natural setting. Yes I saw the encampments, the people shooting up in the street, and some of the negative stuff you hear about, but I also saw the bridges on the bay, Twin Peaks, Lincoln Park, Golden Gate Park, Hawk Hill, and I could go on.

On the other hand, I kind of understand the sentiment of not appreciating a place if you grew up there. I'm originally from Miami, FL, and it took moving away + a few years to be able to appreciate the beauty of that place for what it is.
It's not always terrible. I've seen doubles appropriately used in cases where performance was paramount, and floating point error was either not relevant or less important.

That said, yeah, when working with money in situations where money matters, some sort of decimal or rational datatype should be the rule, not the exception.
It was a Black Friday special.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that when DDG sends a search request to Bing, it doesn't include the ip address of the user making the search request. The fact that I have read many articles and hn discussions of DDG, and none of them claimed that it does send the ip addresses on to Bing makes me think I am right.
It has! See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21687225
With or without the opening statement being true, which is a matter of opinion, it's a pretty interesting city sociologically.
Yes they absolutely do and AMD vs Intel is more than a matter of branding. It's fundamentally switching vendors. If something goes wrong it's on the head of the person who pushed for the change. There's also some things you can't do seamlessly between two servers that don't have a processor from the same brand.

Enterprise if anything has more inertia than say the custom PC market which will turn on a dime to chase the best deals.
Sorry, but that link points to "not found" page.
Because it's tiktok. Tiktok is Chinese so whatever they do they will be criticised.
Let's say your neighbors build great restaurants, bowling alleys, and office parks, making your location more desirable and increasing the market value. As a result of a (high) Land Value Tax, your tax bill just went up significantly, but your earnings have not. So you are incentivized to put your property to productive use.

Of course, you could alternately just sell your now-valuable land. However, the higher the ongoing tax bill (due to the LVT) the less people will want to pay for your land. The LVT captures some or much of the value currently accruing to landlords (depending on how high it is).

High property taxes can serve a similar function. Taxing the unimproved value of the land removes a disincentive to improve the land, though. If you knock down your house and build a much better one on the same land, your property taxes would go up while LVT would not.

LVT vs property tax is not the main point, though, in my opinion. The real issue is moving from heavy reliance on income tax to heavy reliance on property tax or LVT.
Sounds like how social media works in general: highlight what is most aspired; tuck away what deviates from these ideals.
Of course they did. Parents grew up in a former communist country and smuggling in goods, stealing, were all pretty common. The reason you don't hear about it is because if people did those things that would mean that communism is bad and doesn't work. I wouldn't trust the data coming out of a communist country.

During the chernobyl disaster the USSR kept providing false numbers to the world in order to downplay the significance of the event - to the point of sabotaging the cleanup effort and themselves.
Personal attacks and name-calling aren't allowed here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.