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Contorion | Senior Data Scientist | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | Full time

Contorion is a fast-growing online shop for professional industrial and trade supply. We invest in innovative machine learning solutions to support various areas of our business and to build a competitive advantage.

We're growing our data science team and are searching for new colleagues to work on projects such as ad-bidding, pricing, on-site search, and our own recommendation solution.

If that sounds interesting to you here's the full job description:
https://www.contorion.de/jobs/detail/243595?lang=en

In case you have any questions drop us an email to jobs@contorion.de.
I got surprised by Network, Battery and Vibration info APIs built-in.
I have tested on my Android phone. Cool... but any user required permissions?
So no thanks.
Mozilla used to think otherwise with Firefox OS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/B2G_OS/API
In certain parts of the Internet, OnlyFans has been a huge deal for a long time, and most definitely not because of what you'd call "celebrities" anywhere outside those parts.

It's also the primary source of income for a decent number of people.

I've never been on Twitch and am only vaguely aware that anything like a celebrity exists in the video-gaming world. Couldn't name one to save my life. (And yes I know Twitch isn't just about games.)

Edit: I have nothing against Twitch, just pointing out that it's easy to think something isn't well-known when it actually is, just not to people like you (or me).
We were using simple Hetzner 49Euro/month (SSD/NVME) Servers of the shelf (these do not include Terabyte Storage, this will be a paid upgrade (10 Euro/m ??)). The "reliability" of the servers are normal. So once every two years or so (my personal experience, might be worse, might be better) there are hiccups with ventilators or something. So if your tech knowledge is allready in-house, you should put a little effort into fallback or load balancing to not disturb your daily business. Also, a automate spinup of servers (fixed install and setup routine) should be your best practice.

Bye the way, your in-house tech (and proggers) should keep an eye on "Vendor Lock in". As soon as your are using services that are not open source, you will tie yourself to one company and its pricing scheme. Getting out of this rabbit hole is mostly painful.

Depending on your analytics needs, you might even consider having your analytics server IN YOUR office. For example, if you are doing any kind of deep learning, you can buy "little" servers and two or three top notch GPU (Graphic Cards) per server to fit your needs.

Like I said, this all makes sense if you allready have tech knowledge in-house. If you don't then I would strongly advise to use providers like AWS and such, because they are handling all the above described. Also, if your data access is critical to be available 100%, these providers often give you pre build solutions that are battle proven.
I don't know in which shit-place you live, but the rest of the world loves parks.

Homeless People in public library? Maybe ask your Government why that is.
Code Completion with Antlr4-C3
GitHub’s Feedback Culture
Listing of Over 60 varieties of Nepali Music
I made a listing and links to sample videos of over 60 different varieties of Nepali music at
http://prjoshi.com/music-list/

This is a whirlwind tour of Nepal through its music and dance from East to west, North to South and communities. Please listen and provide feedback.

While making this list I realized that Youtube is a treasure trove of contributions by people of their native culture as performed in their natural settings – raw emotion and power exposed. This give true renderings of their culture.

If we could have a s website that exposes us to cultures through such lists, it would be amazing. As we become more globalized such lists would be a good way to save as well as share our cultures to the world.

Such lists could even be used in schools, and other places of learning to allow the next billion to view, understand, preserve and carry on these traditions and cultures.

I would love to work on such a website. If anyone up for it let’s get cracking.
Haven't you heard we are now all ChromeOS developers, with the exception of iOS devices.

Many of these ideas were present in WebOS, Firefox OS already.
"The rest of the world" isn't the topic.
On the device side I've used a lot of code from the CanAirIO project: https://github.com/kike-canaries/CanAirIO. I do want to switch my code to the NimBLE stack instead of the default bluetooth stack at some point - apparently it uses a lot less memory.

On the web side I don't currently have any good public examples, but the generic Web Bluetooth samples here are a good starting point: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/web-bluetooth/

Maybe I'll write a proper blog on this if I get some spare time.
I remember that about Amiga. Everything was just smooth. I still have fond memories of Cygnus editor being super-responsive to anything I could throw at it, even with SAS C running in the background.

I was taken aback by how slow Windows 95 felt after I finally jumped the wagon and retired my beloved Amiga in favor of a PC, circa 1995. Just moving the cursor was incredibly jerky in comparison and things would randomly freeze for seconds for no apparent reason. Windows NT 4 was much smoother though.

Even today, in Visual Studio, I regularly have multi-second pauses between a key press and the character showing-up on the screen, though this probably has more to do with Resharper than either Visual Studio or Windows.
Also Mutation Observer, it's great.
Advertising? You make your money based on a few brands paying you big $$$ in exchange for you inconveniencing everyone else (who didn't ask for anything and often has no choice - very few platforms allow paying to opt-out of ads) by showing them ads.
Everyone else but you....better?
> Sony cameras have clumsiness all over the place.

Agreed, especially in terms of UI. I shoot A7RIV and Fuji X-T3 and the Fuji is so much nicer to use. Technically though, it's fairly good these days.

> Can you confidently count on getting 14 bit RAW files, or will you sometimes only get 12 bits?

On the latest generation they've largely fixed this [0]. 12-bit if you use compressed RAW, 14-bit if you don't.

> Are their RAW files losslessly compressed like every other manufacturer's?

No. Turn off compression, problem solved.

[0]: https://phillipreeve.net/blog/an-upgraders-guide-to-the-sony...
>If you aim for lower temps than 80C, you aren't going to get better performance

You're not directly going to get better performance, but you can run higher clocks for longer before throttling, leading to higher performance.
The algorithm was the same one used for decades, and previously published. It pretty much says:

> You get your exam grade. If that isn't available, you get a grade set by averaging your peers from the same school, with the set of peers decided by a ranking set by your teacher. If that isn't available, you get a grade chosen by your raking in class selected from the distribution of your schools past performance.

There isn't really any fairer way that doesn't lead to grade inflation when there is an element of dishonesty/optimism on the part of teachers. We already suffer an element of grade inflation, which causes employers to say things like "You must achieve grade A* in Maths to apply for this job", and applicants from years ago before that grade was even introduced are automatically excluded.
Many of these don’t work on iOS (or outside of Chrome for that matter.) I would add Web Share API to the list as it is well supported and provides a nice native interface for commonly needed website functionality.
Obligatory mention of Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge
https://github.com/ReScience/ten-years
> If you're making a claim that we are in an economic bubble, you can't claim victory if there's a stock market crash after twenty years.

What's the timeframe then? If you are the person who decides what the person actually meant, you're no longer evaluating facts. Perhaps it's better to just leave out such vague claims altogether.

> if you're saying that only X years left before things take turn for the worse

That's not what any of the examples said though. The examples said "we have only X years to take action, otherwise we may pass the implied point of no return, which will become apparent much later". Unless those examples specify what the point of no return is, they are effectively impossible to evaluate as well.

> I don't see what climate models give such a definite timeline

> There's absolutely no scientific reason to think that Britain will turn into Siberia in four years.

Of course you can evaluate the claims according to your own opinion, but then you will lose the claim to objectivity (at this point I lose interest personally), and then you risk unwittigly making your list political on top of that.
A description of the algorithm and its shortcomings:

http://thaines.com/post/alevels2020
European universities actually profit from letting the government meddle, and most of us do have much more opportunities for attending universities than the average American, from the available information.

In some countries it still is free (or has a symbolic price), go figure!
Like all algorithms it had bias built in - one of which was to inflate private school grades, making grades even worse of a measure of quality than normal.

What was particularly inexcusable though was the government response - the implications of the algorithm were available to the government weeks before the results, and the public backlash from Scotland having similar problems happened a day before.

Now you could argue that to avoid grade inflation as a while the government should have proceeded regardless, however wen the inevitable backlash occurred (predictable since July and known since the Scottish exam results earlier in the month) they turned round.

This u-turn came too late for many students to benefit yet wiped out all benefits of grade inflation prevention - literally the worst of both worlds.
DevRelChat: The Beginning, My Vision, and an Announcement
Concerned about why any of those APIs don't require user permissions.
I've known very few teenagers who wouldn't prefer statying at home, to going to school. School is hard for so many reasons.

I'm not sure that makes it unecessary, or bad.
> very tightly interwoven

Perhaps this is your problem.
An Open Letter to Hobbyists (William Henry Gates III, 1976)
I have been contacted multiple times from HN Hire me threads. I would say the quality of job requirements coming through HN is very good. I ended up doing multiple contract projects with these monthly Hire HN threads.
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It’s a hugely exciting time here at Snowplow. Over the last 7 years, we’ve grown to a brilliant 50 person team that is spread out over 14 countries with nearly 150 customers and many, many more open source users. Snowplow is growing fast, having recently closed its Series A fundraising with MMC Ventures.
Snowplow is the ideal platform for data teams who want to manage their data in real-time and in their own cloud. We collect, validate, enrich and load up to 5 billion events for our customers each day and help them on their data journey through our management console.

1) Data & Systems Lead

2) Head of Product Marketing

Apply here: https://snowplowanalytics.com/company/careers/
It's monetising incels.
Well I wouldn’t worry, given Google’s track record they’ll probably be discontinued just as an ecosystem has developed around them.
How many are we expecting Supernovae detection are we expecting to detect ? What percentage of these are the neural network able to successfully detect ?
> There isn't really any fairer way that doesn't lead to grade inflation when there is an element of dishonesty/optimism on the part of teachers.

IMO it's much better just to swallow the grade inflation for a year. It will naturally reset itself next year (when exams will be sat again), and the negative effect from it are pretty minimal.

The algorithm is based on the assumption that performance of successive school years at a given school is roughly consistent, not only as an average but as a distribution. And that assumption simply doesn't hold.
and made it impossible to get a high grade if no-one fromm your college got one before

Well that is unlikely. If you are going to handle it algorithmically then what else would you expect. Clearly the teachers can't be relied on because now everybody is getting an A*, the grades are effectively useless as an indicator.

I was disappointed although not surprised that the government caved on this.
And don't forget the totally illogical situation of awarding someone a higher grade for advanced maths then they got for basic maths.

I had a passing thought of a different system - using basically the same calculation of a school's predicted grades, allocate each school a 'budget' of marks they can distribute as they see fit, based on whatever criteria they pick. Just to be clear, I don't think that's a particularly good system either, but a canny government could have deployed it to avoid much of the direct criticism.
>IBM jumping into the battle

They did not...the opposite is true, they shat their pants because shortly before they said "yes" to Linux, that's why SCO came...first time you had really big money (IBM) behind Linux, please don't change the timeline...it's kind of important.

>And as information, during the early days, the Internet ran on commercial UNIXes.

What do you wanna say with that? During the early days of Smartphones they ran on commercial OS's??
This is a misleading headline by the BBC.

The study is for anxiety of school, not anxiety in general. Now that people are at home, of course they are going to be less anxious of schooling.

Quote:

“With children and young people having been out of the classroom for so long, and with many students in this study seeing improvements in mental health and wellbeing during that time, the case to address issues weighing on their quality of life at school is stronger than ever.”

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/anxiety-in...
Show HN: Moneyed – be your own financial adviser – built with Quart and React
Vice vs. Sexy Cyborg: How US Journalists Nearly Ruined a Chinese Maker (2018)
Hi Hacker News,

I’ve reached an age now where I need to start thinking about my retirement, in addition to buying a house, saving for a wedding, starting a family, affording to pay for childcare, amongst other things. Frustratingly, it is really hard to know if I’m saving enough, or even how much I should be aiming to save. The best tools to solve my problem model cash flows and are only available through expensive financial advisors. I’ve built Moneyed to solve my own, and many other people’s, problem.

Moneyed, at the core, takes into account personalised financial goals and models cash flows i.e. the growth of assets, savings rates, and spending. Difficulties arise in the details, especially taking into account tax rules, and building a plan that is fully optimised (i.e. one where you minimise the amount you save whilst still being tax efficient and meeting your goals).

Moneyed also utilises Open Banking to give a full financial overview (UK current accounts, credit cards, savings, investments, pensions), to understand current spending, and to make it easy to know if you’re on track.

The backend of the app is built in Quart, an async version of Flask (Python), and utilises React for the frontend. The site also uses Quart for the backend but uses Svelte for the frontend. I’m the author of Quart, so it is an obvious choice for me. As for the frontend, React works really well for the app given the complexity, but I find it too heavy for the site. Fortunately Svelte exists, which I think is perfect for the site.

To build an optimised financial plan, we’re implementing SciPy’s minimize function as it enables us to model both linear and non-linear constraints and is relatively quick to solve (provided the initial first guess is good). We’re planning on leveraging more data science techniques: building a recommender engine to help people decide where to save/invest and cohort analysis to give for social validation and insights.

As for our go-to-market, we’re targeting young professionals working in tech as part of their employer’s benefits and wellbeing strategy as this enables us to create a “trigger” to get people thinking about their financial future.
My degree was 5 years with professional Software Engineering accreditation (legal title in Portugal), and it had a level of data structures, systems programming, distributed computing, graphics and programming languages that I still find people missing out in online discussions.

So naturally there are bad ones as well, it is a matter of doing the research, and in Portugal's case, having the required grades to get in.
Just be aware that using the Pi to broadcast FM like that (without additional filtering hardware) produces a lot of noise (it doesn't just broadcast in the intended frequency, but also a lot of harmonics) and may interfere with legitimate signals.

Having said this, we used it for a challenge at a local conference last year to great amusement. :)
There is an objective difference, but there is in my opinion not an "objective" better way to live. (There are certainly healthier ways, in the sense that it optimizes the ages at which you die, which is...good ?).

It seems you value a certain psychological state, so, good for you, but this psychological state is not necessarily sought by everyone, and claiming it's better seems a bit rude.

If I'm to play the devil's advocate, I could you're seeking social ephemeral experiences to keep you distracted because you're not able to achieve the better state of being satisfied on your own through the objectively better activity of...meditation ?

I think you can see how obnoxious this is to see your own activities denigrated. And really, I don't think meditating is better than playing a game or than watching a streamer. All of these activities can lead to pathological behaviours (with varied rates I suppose ?), and when they do not they all sound great and all have a purpose.

So, I wouldn't engage in classifying activities as good or bad, but I'd rather have psychological support available to all practicioners.
Fair point about objectivity. Thank you! Yeah, I think it's best to assume nothing at all and be completely fact-driven.
Link to the article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
Royal Australian Mint releases coin designed to be given to charitable cause
Grammatically yes, in terms of relevance to the topic no.
Sport, at least in principle, if you squint, has more to do with education. After all, grade schools have a physical education subject but no gambling subject. (Elite, pro, spectator sport is different though, that's why the squinting is required).

Generally, Americans have an obsession with what they call "well-roundedness" and a "holistic" approach which I don't see elsewhere that much. For example in European university admissions nobody cares about subjective stuff like volunteering experience, musical talent etc, when doing university admissions. It's all focused on the narrow academic subject. You also don't take generic subjects unrelated to your study program as in American undergrad.

The whole culture and concept of what a university is supposed to be, is pretty different in the US overall
DevOps Myths – Busted
When did the algorithm get used in the past? I imagine it being applied to individuals when they had an accident and missed the exams, but did it get applied to entire schools?
Lot of self help content can also be more about feeling good while you're consuming it, than actual lasting change. Even if it's generally good advice. This guy made a video about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLTLkCBSN8.

And it's natural to blame the consumers for any failure rather than the material ("you're just doing it wrong", "it's your fault you didn't apply it correctly", etc.), which makes selling mediocre and just plain weak content very easy.
Not sitting well with the HN hive mind, but I love it. Thanks for a fun and well-executed idea. I predict this comment will be at -4 points by 10am PST 9/2/2020!
Having written my own CommonMark parser, I often wonder if I should have used some kind of parser generator. Can I use this to parse CommonMark (in 100% compliant way)? – And, can I parse it such that I can recreate the original Markdown based on the resulting model?
Ah, thanks. I was under the impression that this was something that each contact tracing app set up separately, but I guess not.
I'd also check with InnovateUK what they accept as 'in kind' funding contributions of resources/time, particularly if you already have an third party potential future client lined up to test the product/project
Personally I’d expect assessment of an individual to be about their performance not their schools past performance. Any system not predicated on that is doomed to fail in assessing students performance as this one obviously did.
How did they deal with this problem in other countries, say Ireland or Japan?
Yeah, good points–it seems even armed with a 3090 we'll be limited to 8K/120hz/12 bit over HDMI 2.1...we'll have to wait a while before we're actually driving 8K at higher refresh rates.
There's more to it. The system being used will lead to grade-inflation, [0] as there are two grade-estimation systems in use and the student gets to keep the better of the two.

The two systems used are teachers' grade predictions, and the grade-prediction algorithm.

We discussed this two weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191882

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655
I personally use glances for our ML RnD machines as it is pretty extensible and I can get all info at a glance.
My opinion on school, coming from someone living in Europe:

- Homework should be abolished

- School should start at a reasonable time. In my opinion, 8AM is too early. Kids that live far away have to wake up at 6AM, which is not a normal time judging by when kids wake up during summer break (9-10AM). 9AM would be acceptable. Not sure how much it would affect teachers' lives though.

- Kids should be made aware of the psychological help they can receive if they have personal issues. We had a psychologist at school, but I don't think anyone consulted them.

- Kids should be taught practical life skills over random trivia. Housework (fixing things, cleaning etc), finance, time management, how to actually learn/study effectively, mental health awareness, working out with correct technique and not ruining your body, how to eat healthily are all things that I value more than knowing the intricate details of how the European Union came to be (knowing history is useful and interesting, but I'd have rather spent that time on the aforementioned things). Of course, a lot of kids are going to complain many things in this list are boring, but they will value them once they grow older. PE in my school didn't teach any theory, which is just stupid looking back. Our body is with us for the rest of our lives, we should have the knowledge of how to take care of it.

Also, certain degree of freedom is something that everyone wants and values in their life. It would probably be expensive and hard, but if possible, I'd try to give kids a way to choose a small part of their study path.
It's highly dependent on the domain.

If you're in a web startup, software won't last 3 years, the next team will systematically rewrite.

If you're in the bank, logistics, defense sector, it's very likely the software will go for a decade, as long as it's not killed the first or second year for being a pet project (initial manager left) and having no customer.
Congratualations on never actually bothering to block JS and find out - you know, facts. From actually doing so over many years, and so from actual experience I'd say completely non-functinal sites are about 25%.