skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Tech stack is AWS/Python/Django/MySQL/ReactJS. We have a great team full of people that really value working closely with product, customer-experience, and users. Lots of interesting problems to solve!

Apply on the website if interested, and feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions or are curious! You can reach out to me directly at phill.tornroth@elationhealth.com - I'm doing the hiring in SD and after years of remote and SF based recruiting really interested in meeting exciting people down here (I live in Encinitas/Carlsbad area). I'm always happy to chat about specific positions, the company, or healthcare in general.
Why did pilgrims voyage the dangerous seas from Europe to the Americas when they could have stayed put? In the Americas, why did groups (the Mormon pioneers easily come to my mind but there were many others) set out west into mostly uninhabited territory, with many dying on the way and when they finally stopped to settle, instead of trying to make things work where they were? How bad could the conditions have been?

Understand those motivations and you'll understand why in the current century nowhere on Earth is as appealing as Mars for satisfying the needs that previously could have been satisfied by going a bit further west. The environmental challenges of the journey and the destination will be great, yes, but the payoff will be indescribably (if you don't understand those motivations at an emotional level) worth it for those who meet the challenges.
One problem is that browser vendors are using the complexity of modern browsers to create an oligopoly. When even Microsoft doesn't want to maintain their own browser, something is wrong.

A simple browser that only implemented a subset of HTML and the good parts of CSS (ie flexbox) could be implemented easily by a small team.
The current AI is running rudimentary calculations based on what is truly required for flawless operation... The type of processing that is necessary to operate like a GOOD human driver is nowhere near what currently exists... Sure there are bad drivers out there, and that's why autonomous vehicles would need to be EXCEPTIONALLY good... Not just good enough for a few demos on youtube.

If a company's test cycles were good enough to warrant reliability and safety promises, the window on the CyberTruck would have never broken.... This is how companies work, they over promise and under-deliver, this time it affects everyone's safety, including safety of those who don't buy them.

I'm not saying the strides aren't impressive, I'm saying I wouldn't feel safe having this experimental technology forced upon me knowing the potential for historically complex human factors.
If a user doesn't exist, any code that relies on having a user is broken, and I want a guarantee that code can't be reached. Throwing does that, mapping an Option does that, but "if" doesn't.
For reference on the AppAmaGooFaceSoft pay market right now: http://levels.fyi
Small net for small fish. Big net for big fish. There's also no problem with getting criminals to go through extra steps. The more processes, the more room for error.

The point is to not make it convenient for them at all.
It seems bad form to declare something is dead when you didn't work on it directly, and other people clearly are working on it as evidenced by the latest version of the spec being less than two months old.

I don't know whether WebUSB is healthy or not -- but the OP clearly doesn't either.
> it's not fair use if you're making money off of it.

Nope. Completely untrue. Commercial use weighs against the fair use argument, but it doesn't prevent fair-use. See 2 Live Crew's parody of Pretty Woman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Acuff-Rose_Music,_....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GQ70Rf_8Y
I'm assuming "success" as discussed in the article is the standard metric and measured in currency.

Personally I've seen it all (to use characters from my story):

- The small town family lawyer who is miserable and feels screwed that they somehow couldn't or didn't want to swim with the sharks.

- The partner at the firm on his third divorce, with kids who won't talk to him, and living in constant worry of the various legally or morally dubious things they've done. Ulcers, high blood pressure, and substance abuse disorder included.

- The opposite of the other who's stayed in touch with "that guy from law school" who is perfectly happy and content only to look at the other and feel pity for how miserable the other's life must be (and often is).

I know all of them and it's pretty strange... Especially when someone will say "Yeah, XYZ is a great guy and good friend but you know... Don't ever trust him." -or- conversely "Yeah what happened to ABC was strange... Guy kind of flaked out. He seems to be doing ok, I guess."

We seem to be much better at measuring and discussing "success" than actual happiness.

EDIT: typo
And because taxpayers didn't want to pay for it.
When a light turns yellow, a driver has to make a very quick calculus of a number of factors, including estimating stopping duration and distance, traffic presence, penalties, even judgement from other drivers. Some people will place more weight on one or another of those factors. If there is any significant portion of the population that places weight on "this isn't a real red light; it is only meant as a nagging signal" then it seems that the chances of a miscalculation (and high-speed collision) become greater overall.
The author misunderstands risk premium, which is the extra reward the market offers in expected value to induce you to take a risky proposition over a certainty equivalent.

I think programmers’ salaries are weighed down by risk aversion. It’s tough to measure marginal impact, you don’t know want to be punished for being placed on a less productive team, etc. So salary is some function of your expected marginal productivity on an average team but scaled down by a risk premium. If you don’t want to pay this risk premium, trading is an option.
I actually did that a few times. I obviously didn't say that :) But a couple times, after putting up with a whiteboard exercise, when it was my time to "ask questions to the interviewer" I ask them to also solve a problem on the board. I remember one who completely refused, saying that he wasn't the one being interviewed, so I just left. The other 2 did it, failed, and I never got a call back :)

That being say, I definitely try to evaluate my peers as much as possible during interviews, but it's usually based on what they ask, how they react to someone disagreeing with their positions, stuff like that.
This is sad. Many of the previous generation of radio pioneers are dying off.
Don't they run all the notes through the checker?
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Yes, I know. I used jQuery for 10 years.

Now, after learning new APIs for 2 years, I can put together a quick and easy UI using vanilla UI and CSS as fast as I could with jQuery. Particularly grid and flexbox have made a big difference (they fill the role of the old grid CSS frameworks, including that part of Bootstrap).

Your mileage may vary.

Also, the majority of third-party jQuery plugins are no longer maintained. Most of the JS world has moved on.
he only links to his book. If you are interested it seems he cites a lot of his research, eg 2% of papers mentioning luck is his work:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19416520.2016.11...
Even the theory is not that clean cut.

What if two cars arrive simultaneously at opposite sides of the 4-way and are both turning left? This could easily deadlock two self-driving cars if not considered.
Bugsy Siegel look at this with the note of approval
How about everyone takes 90 days off watching youtube videos while people figure out what platforms, hopefully p2p, work best for different groups.
If you're in to period dumb terminals see if you can figure out what the hell this thing I uploaded to Wikipedia used to connect to: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/4800-52-...
Longhaul cable infrastructure is expensive. Especially in Canada where business cases are crippled by thousands of km of emptiness (no opportunity to recover investments). Providers often swap lines through IRU agreements to reduce capital intensity. I've heard but can't confirm the infrastructure in question was laid down by CP and CN rail back in the 90s. I don't know the ownership structure. But I know the railways are still involved in the maintenance.
WebUSB sounds like a truly gaping security hole. Imagine exploiting USB drivers over the web (yes, even though USB doesn't require DMA support, the drivers operate on a very low level -- https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118854/attacks-...).

WebGPU is more useful but direct access to hardware that could have coherent memory access/DMA is just irresponsible.

Chrome needs it for chromebooks. Not sure why it's needed for less constrained machines.
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Hi all, I'm Dima (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dim25/) from SF (San Francisco Bay Area). Full-stack with Machine Learning experience; AI/ML product manager.

Python: * Machine Learning: (TensorFlow; Keras; PyTorch). * Computer Vision (OpenCV; TensorFlow). * Media \ communications (Twillio; Ring Central; Kurento). * Streaming \ Workflows: Kafka+Faust; Airflow; Celery. * Web servers (Flask), and many other applications of Python.

Web Development: HTML; CSS; Bootstrap. JS (Front-end + Node.js): All the basics necessary for web development; Basic experience with d3.js and other visualizations and dashboards tools.

DBs: MongoDB; ElasticSearch; Redis (incl. RediSearch), SQLs. Basics of ClickHouse.

C/C++: Some experiments with ROS/robotics.

Most recent projects:

* Analyzing millions of job postings worldwide.

* Computer Vision CCTV Stream analytics.

Previously:

* Co-founder at MBaaS startup. 'Firefighter' from $0 to $120K MRR.

* Managed a team of 15 mobile developers to assist with the delivery of
the #1 mobile banking app in Russia (iOS + Android).

* AWM, rev-share with Kinks (guys from San Francisco Armory).

Email: dima_cv1@protonmail.com

One-page CV: https://bitly.com/dima_cv1
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Even if the bank branch is closed, they usually have private ATMs available that are much more capable than your average US-style ATM. You can do just about anything at those ATMs that you could do inside the branch.

At least, that's the way it was back in 2006, when my wife and I moved from Brussels, Belgium back to the US.

I remember many long hours sat at one of those ATMs (yes, they had private seating for most of them), paying various bills electronically using the bank account number given to us by the company that sent us the bill.
> In fact, it is their duty to enforce their copyright claims, or they risk their ability to protect their IP in the future.

That's true of trademark, but why do you think that is true of copyright?
I’ve found a single employer with a project that is not time bounded, but he wants to spend as little as necessary on it. I’m building a solar powered farming robot. It’s kind of a side project for him that will hopefully turn in to more.

So while my specific situation is rare, I can attest that this work life balance is fantastic. We really need to be talking about reducing working hours. In the past 8 months at this job I’ve built an autonomous solar powered vehicle from scratch which can drive over the tops of plant rows. I did this while working 15-20 hours a week. I’d say that’s pretty good productivity. Later in the year I will be adding weeding tools to the inside of the vehicle.

I’m hoping we can open source it, but that depends on whether or not we can get philanthropic funding. If anyone sees this and could contribute financially to open source it please let me know!
The driver is the desire by web app builders to build more and more niftiness into web apps. The browser vendors and standards bodies are attempting to satisfy this desire and that's leading down a path that is having the effect of creating an oligopoly because a browser must become this enormous OS-inside-an-OS. I don't think it's a conspiracy.

Most things that look like conspiracies are in fact unplanned outcomes that result from an unintentional alignment of multiple perverse incentives. A different way of saying the same is that most things that appear to be conspiracies are actually "emergent" behaviors in complex systems.

A different example of something similar is real estate hyperinflation. I don't think somebody sat down and said "lets make housing impossible for any family making less than 5X the local median income to reasonably afford." What happened instead was that multiple decisions made for independent and unrelated reasons created an aligned set of perverse incentives that drove the price of housing nuts. There is no one cause or one responsible party.
Mike,

Can you speak to the concerns raised about Yodlee [1] in contrast to similar concerns raised about Jumpshot [2] which resulted in the entire company being shut down last week [3].

How much of Second Measure's business model depends upon the continued availability of Yodlee data?

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/478766-lawmakers-call-...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v744v9/senator-ron-wyden-...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxejbb/avast-antivirus-is...
Thanks for the study citation. This has an accessible pdf paper available: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/255796
I thought Microsoft charged $5/ user for Office 365.
I think you can create your own acme server for that
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Email: dima_cv1@protonmail.com

Hi all, I'm Dima (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dim25/), worked on various tech (Webdev+Python+ML) and non-tech roles. Most recent projects:

* Analyzing millions of job postings. Orchestration (Airflow, Docker); Data gathering (Selenium; Scrapy; MitmProxy), enrichment, and analytics. [Role: Founder + core developer]

* CCTV Stream analytics (TensorFlow computer vision w/ Kurento WebRTC gateway). [Role: ML engineer]

Previously:

* Co-founder at MBaaS startup. 'Firefighter' from $0 to $120K MRR.

* Hired and managed a team of 15 mobile developers to assist with the delivery of the #1 mobile banking app in Russia (iOS + Android).

* AWM, rev-share with Kinks (guys from San Francisco Armory).

Especially good match: if you need a cost-efficient prototype; fix and deliver your machine learning or automation strategy; looking for an early-stage full-stack dev with ML experience; or have a remote team you don’t have time to manage.

Computer Vision CV: https://bitly.com/dima_cvcv

Let's connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dim25
I think gaps are not a big deal particularly for heath reasons. If you have some solid references from previous jobs it should alleviate any concerns.
Big Buck Bunny seems to also get a ton of mileage as a demo for 4K displays. I'm pretty sure I've seen it at Costco a few times.
Ask HN: Is there a path to employment for a 30 yr old, career-change programmer
So, after looking through the last few who’s hiring and who’s looking for work, I find myself wondering if there is any viable path for an most 40 yr old, self-taught programmer, with advanced degrees not in CS. Part of the issue may be that I am not interested in Web based programming, which seems to be, by a huge margin, the place jobs happen.

So, am I stuck in my current job (which isn’t horrible or anything), or is there a place for people like me in the industry.

The following are a few specifics about me, in case that would alter your advice or opinions:
- Currently a practicing lawyer in the US
- Competent in several languages, like C, Assembly, Haskell, ML (not Ocaml fluent though), and at least familiar with vanilla JS
- non-professional experience is mostly in graphics, compilers, and language design/implementation
- I live in the Southern US
I imagine if enough self-driving cars were on the road, that would be less of a problem, because more regular speeds & distances between cars would allow for more opportunities for merging. Perhaps even between-car negotiations of merging or 4 way stop type of behaviour.

I think we're quite a ways away from that though - hopefully not as far away as the flying car thing :)
I really wish this is the direction the web would go. This "browser as OS" stuff isn't something that I'm even a little OK with, and I'd love to have a browser that simply didn't have the support for any of it.
If he gets really excited about something, it's usually worth checking out. That makes him a useful critic.
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By "taught this" do you mean kill a kid?
>Even if there is no ongoing cost for the ship, wouldn't the owners rather have sold the furnishings rather than leave them to rot?

Organizations with more lucrative things to spend their man hours on tend to let abandoned projects just sit rather then liquidate them because the ROI of whatever they usually do is better than the ROI of liquidating a failed project. Property tax and other upkeep costs often wind up buried somewhere in a long list of similar costs from all the other real-estate the organization owns or leases or has to otherwise pay for. Things tend to finally get liquidated when a property needs to be sold or turned over like happened here.
To be fair, in Romania I was refused too, ~5years ago. All cards have a percentage fee - when you spend tens of thousands on something, even a small percentage adds up. Thus the car dealers require a bank transfer, which is generally free of charge for both parties.
Companies typically do this to censor reviews. Is Picard really so crappy of a show that they have to resort to this?
If you're on the JVM, and if you're compiling J down to JVM bytecode (much as April compiles APL -> CL -> machine code), and if your data is stored in primitive Java arrays, then you'd get pretty close to C speeds. Or at least J speeds (where J is implemented in C).

That's a lot of conditions, but it's not completely crazy. :)
from TFA this was a manual takedown, meaning CBS had someone in meatspace take this down. If i had to guess why this happened its two reasons:

- Joe had a negative review of the show, and made several valid points about its lackluster writing and dialogue.

- CBS' streaming service, "All Access" is getting hammered by critics on reddit and blogs. Even after gobbling up Nickelodeon kids programming its still underperforming. A week after Picard aired, CBS released the first episode on Youtube free of charge in order to drum up business.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/09/25/cbs-badly...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16862278/cbs-all-access-s...
Don't you know that all threats to individual freedom have been eradicated forevermore? Now the IC just runs around terrorizing innocent people for the fun of it. (Sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious).
That's more true for early 1980's and earlier electronics with through-hole caps (though a shorted cap could easily ruin your day), but I've seen a lot of mid-80's and newer vintage computers and game systems destroyed due to leaky SMD electrolytics.
updown.io https://updown.io/ has a pretty generous free tier and (in addition to checking if your service is up) sends you a warning when a cert is expiring within 14 days
What we do and don’t know about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus
I'm referring to vanilla JS and CSS. Literally just write a file and go. No packaging. You can even use modules on modern browsers.

A lot has changed in the decade you've been away from JS. Yes, there's a whole build infrastructure now for large-scale project, but bare, plain, vanilla JS and CSS have more or less built-in most of the features of jQuery and the old CSS grid frameworks.
Contrary to what most people are saying here, I would advise to not mention medical issues. People are weird: they will be understanding and have sympathy, but when it comes to who gets the job, there's a good chance this will work against you. Not openly (it's illegal, after all), but subconsciously. Don't see this as lying; remember that it is your right to not mention this. Of course, you shouldn't conjure up some fantasy story of what you did during that time either, but in my opinion, labeling this as a sabbatical is OK.
when getting a site/API on its feet, enabling https and the cert is usually the last thing to get done and an afterthought. Certs are easy to forget about but when they expire they shut.down.everything.