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Engaged Education

SF BAY AREA or CHARLOTTE, NC (open to REMOTE, but must willing to travel)

Engaged Education is a seed stage, funded company, founded by three Stanford GSB graduates and experienced entrepreneurs. Looking for a LINGUISTICS/SPEECH SOFTWARE HACKER.

Engaged Education aims to revolutionize childhood education with a wearable device that measures the quantity and quality of parent-child interaction. Over 30 years of research shows that the number and quality of words spoken directly to a child is the single greater predictor of educational success.

We're looking for a candidate who has:

- Speech and linguistic processing and hacking experience
- Passion for education
- Web and mobile development skills (platform agnostic, mobile or hardware experience is a plus)
- ML/NLP experience is a plus
- Front-end skills are also a plus

Contract Type:

- 3 months initially
- Open to undergraduates, recent grads, contractors, or people looking for a full time position
- Can be remote to SF Bay or Charlotte, but must be willing to travel to meet in person
- Contract is overall flexible, as we're mainly looking for the right person and the right fit

Compensation & Perks

- Exposure to world class proven entrepreneurs and investors, high personal visibility
- Attractive salary package to be discussed with successful applicant, may include equity
- Positive working environment where everyone’s unique skills and opinions are valued and challenged
- Silicon Valley startup experience

Please contact Jon Boggiano -> jonboggiano@gmail.com

Website not live, please email for more details if interested.
The U.S. is a welfare state like most of the G7. The only variance is how the U.S. welfare state is implemented. We're absolutely not a Capitalist country; maybe 30 or 40 years ago we were still a mixed economy. It's about as far away from Capitalism as you can get before crossing over into Venezuelan style Socialism. The US Government has enough power, through numerous means, to directly control every aspect of the economy as it sees fit or if it cares to. The US flavor of Socialism, is going to be Fascism (or totalitarianism, or inverted totalitarianism; whatever the case, the vague generalities are understood).

We definitely have government protected monopolies though, no doubt about that. Tons of them in fact. From defense contractors, to telecom, to banking, to healthcare, and so on. Most major industries are filled with some variation of massive corporations protected from competition by the government.
I think that winning is what is important in an on-going war that is fought on a daily basis, the prize being females/territory.

I base my opinion on the antics of the foxes fighting outside my window right now. I am fairly sure I won't find a dead fox on my doorstep in the morning and I am fairly sure tomorrow will be another chapter in the on-going duel. Their fighting is truly no-holds barred however killing is not necessary to win females/territory. A given territory only supports a given quantity of a given species, a given territory can only be defended up to a certain area, so there is no concern needed to only fight so far lest the population/gene pool be diminished.

As for us humans and how we fight, we are pack animals that can augment our fights with words. This applies okay in pub brawl situations, however, we have no hesitation at all when it comes to wiping out rival tribes. This has applied historically, I think that Hitler bloke was quite keen on wiping out the Jewish tribe and, although worded differently, Bush and Blair had no qualms when it came to wiping out tribes of people in more recent times. We also have class hierarchy so the rich have no problems sending millions of their own off to certain death, e.g. WW1, because they are a different tribe within a tribe. Concern for population depletion really matters not.
I am Chinese. In practice blocking Twitter and Youtube protects Chinese companies like SinaWeibo and Youku from competing with their American rivals. The point is that China is a market big enough to play the game on its own courtyard.
Not quite.

Windows, like Linux, assumes a certain architecture: one or more processors connected to volatile memory that holds transient data and much slower persistent storage that is required to preserve a consistent state for long periods.

You don't see "Windows for D-Wave computers" and you won't see "Windows for HP's The Machine".

Any new OS will have to, at least, have a POSIX API if it wants to be used from day one, but, from that point, HP is free to invent.

I wish them luck.
I love this idea! When I get a few hours I'll have to try porting a small coreutil... Seems like a great way to learn Rust.

Any chance of Rust taking over embedded systems programming? That's still mostly done in C and quickly devolves into horror.
Academics do love their new fancy stuff. Here's the thing: elliptic curve cryptography is not particularly new anymore. I'd buy this neophilia argument if it were concerning pairings, ideal lattices, or the stuff people are doing with these nowadays (FHE, obfuscation, etc).

Elliptic curves were proposed, and have since been studied in the context of cryptography, in 1985. They're 30 years old! For comparison, finite field discrete-log Diffie-Hellman is 38 years old, and RSA is 37. The latter have been severely beaten down in the ensuing decades that followed, whereas elliptic curves have stayed (modulo special cases, but those also exist for DH/RSA) resistant to every non-generic attack so far. I would say ECC has a better track record, and could be considered the conservative choice.

It could be argued that the underlying problem, integer factorization and FF discrete log, has been studied for much longer than the ECDLP. Maybe. Some basic algorithms go centuries back, but I would argue that the field has only seen real progress starting in the mid-1970s, with CFRAC and Pollard's algorithms. It can be counter-argued that elliptic curves as a subject have only existed for around 100 years, so they are still underdeveloped. Again, maybe.

There is indeed a new wave of interest in elliptic curves, and it is still fueling many publications every year. But these are mostly performance engineering at this point: Edwards curves are not fundamentally different from what Miller proposed in 1985, as far as the ECDLP is concerned. I would not recommend the wonkier stuff like GLS/GLV curves, though, nor curves over extension fields or of higher genus: that would be too neophiliac, even for me.

(I realize that I'm not gonna change your (or probably anyone's) mind, but you make it sound like elliptic curves are much more of a novelty than they really are. I don't disagree too much about the AEAD vs CTR+HMAC issue.)
So, in C# I think I can do a one-liner:

p.OrderBy(s => Regex.Replace(s, "[0-9]+", x => x.Value.PadLeft(25, '0')));
...
Calls for the overthrow of the political regime are frequently considered extremist in Russia.

Oh, and in my opinion, Communist Party of Russian Federation is about communism as much as Liberal-Democratic Russian Party is about liberalism or democracy. That is, not really.
Just out of curiosity, can you go more into detail about "Also, living on a Caribbean island is not actually as much fun as you'd think."?

Is it the boredom and bureaucracy? Or something else?
Well, there are auditable voting protocols which don't suffer from this problem (David Chaum has done lots of work on this), so you don't have to choose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
Human nature. Hoarding, speculation, pain-avoidance ("could have/should have" 10yrs from now)... emotion. It's wonderful! The price is a reflection on our thought processes.
Zynga's stock is lackluster but CEO's pay is not
Excerpt:

By measuring the speed of the waves at different depths, the team could figure out which types of rocks the waves were passing through. The water layer revealed itself because the waves slowed down, as it takes them longer to get through soggy rock than dry rock.

Jacobsen worked out in advance what would happen to the waves if water-containing ringwoodite was present. He grew ringwoodite in his lab, and exposed samples of it to massive pressures and temperatures matching those at 700 kilometres down.

To me, as someone who knows not that much about all this, that sounds like it could well be hooey. It could be voodoo. It could be a Tall Tale.

Can anyone explain to me (like I am 5 years old) how such things get vetted or taken seriously or whatever?

No, I am not trolling.

Thanks.
How would you rebuild Windows into something that runs on a machine where there is no volatile memory and no distinction between memory and persistent storage?

Whatever results from this would only be called Windows for marketing reasons.
It doesn't seem to be in any way related - the system described in your link tracks the ballots and "proves" (actually, reports) that they were counted.

It, at least as described, doesn't in any way allow to verify if that vote was counted as you intended, it's a proper closed vote with all the related assumptions about trust and need to physically monitor the voting and counting to prevent fraud.
This is only what is currently being minted every 8.2 days. I predict the price will go up due to the media attention - this is a very cool story, expect lots of news coverage. When/if a Silk Road based movie ever comes out, expect "the moon".

You couldn't ask for a better story - the opposite of what Bitcoin really is when you think of it - finance, computers - stuff that bores the hell out of most people. Instead: drugs! conspiracy! magic internet money! Now, add "Satoshi" - mysterious inventor who's vanished. Seriously, you can't write this stuff!
Which is one of the reasons major communication systems should be distributed and standards based like email, rather than proprietary and run by a single company.
There is plenty of rational argument allowed and currently taking place on this matter, so I rather doubt that's the source of your "emotional molestation". Please do not use this as an excuse to take a moral high ground in order to win a debate if you're unable to offer up a rational counterpoint.

Your points about celebrity losses versus personal losses is valid, but has a very simple answer: we don't know you. People well-known in communities or cultures can touch many lives, and people can and will form emotional attachments to them even if they never meet.

We are allowed to feel sad for someone else's loss. I'm sorry I never had the opportunity to feel sad for the people you have lost.
I see a long haul future for bitcoin, but you made my day with that link :)
I recently just made what I think is a pretty neat pattern for reporting on a project that we need time series data calculations for.

Essentially I already have a giant precalculation service for all the needed calculations on all the data underneath a parent entity. So, I serialize that using ruby marshall and then use lz4 to compress it before storing to db.

Its actually faster and smaller than using json strings in ruby. The whole tree structure for each entity was 200-400k as raw json strings. It took something like 300ms to serialize to json. I was able to do the ruby marshal and the LZ4 HC compression in something like 20-40ms and it drops the size down to more like 15-30k.

JSON is a pretty cool format, but it's a lot slower in ruby than you might realize and it takes up a lot of space.
It would have been clearer for me to say that judicial branch does its own administration, which includes rules on everything from procedure to publication of court decisions.
core patent?
It's only a race to the middle in the short term. In the long term, you tend to get two parties as a defense against vote splitting.....that's where the polarization comes from. The collusion causes it. That's not to say that collusion always causes polarization, but this particular type does for very direct mathematical reasons. (see Duverger's Law)

Proportional representation is not a great solution, in my opinion, since it actually assumes parties rather than making them unneeded.

That's not to say there won't be collusion under a different system -- there will and that's ok...but there won't be a particular type of collusion whereby the Nash Equilibrium is two diametrically opposed camps.

The main point, though, is that the rules are important. People cooperate better if the rules reward cooperative behavior.
Maybe they just have a spam filter. The words in that URL sound like they could have come right out of one of the e-mails in my spam folder. It's also possible that the domain itself has been associated with spam.
This seems at least as likely to be the point of concern as the public caring about it. The public has hardly cared about the NSA spying, at least not enough to lift a finger in protest about it.

Most people I talk to say the same thing, something like this: well, the NSA spying seems a bit extreme, but there are dangers out there, and what do I have to fear from the government anyway they're not interested in me, so this is all probably helping to keep me safe.

Their line of reasoning always starts out with concern and fades into some version of a shrug (meant to say: what can one do anyway).

I suspect it would be much the same with the stinger & local police issue.
Weird to title this as steps down. It kind of implies they actively said something to the eff rather than passively changed their behaviour.
Who needs both though, when the family already asked for very specific things?

It seems to me like "the community" needs to do this much more than the family needs it to be done. I don't see one article on Hacker News notifying folks about the donations that the family mentioned. Kind of backwards, don't you think?
"Transfer Fees. Any transfer fees associated with the transfer of the bitcoins will be paid by the buyer."

Dear officers, these are zero fee transactions, if there were any :)
How valuable are CS graduates in startups?
What are the salary ranges one could expect?
AT&T: We need to buy DirecTV because U-verse TV is a failure
If you mean not always connected to IRC and that your solution is to run Irssi in a screen/tmux session on a server somewhere, it's considerably easier to use ZNC.

http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.
I doubt that Elon Musk would do something like this without heavy consultation with Tesla Motors' legal team.
This is what one of my Skype contacts suggested too. To back it up further: the link works fine in group conversations.
My God, it's full of stars. This is a joke, right?

Please?
There are more ways than that to compete when selling products that are tantamount to commodity.

With Cisco they have a head start on quality or at least the perception of quality, their products are tried and tested. There is also brand value, Cisco is the real deal, it looks dead posh in the rack for 'nobody got sacked for buying IBM' reasons. They also have supply chain advantages, e.g. a dealer network and short lead times for those dealers to get out of stock items. There is also the matter of warranty/returns.

Sure, another company can put together the customer service aspect, however, manufacturing is a very small part of the retail price of a product and it is normally the wider customer service aspects plus brand identity (which includes advertising/marketing) that makes a product succeed in the marketplace.
I don't think it's fair to compare on the basis of years alone. Elliptic curves weren't getting nearly as much attention back when there were a dozen patents covering everything.
For the record, I've yet to see any North Koreans respond to my comment... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886916
Water trapped in crystals as hydroxide ions far underground do not exactly constitute a gushing source of floodwater. You'd need divine intervention to get a flood from this stuff -- and if you're already bringing the Hand of God into it, do you really need a geological mechanism to complete the story?
Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are vital to successful democracy. I don't expect any police work to be associated with a nation-wide political protest movement.

I agree that it's not as bad as COINTELPRO. That doesn't make it right, though.
Penetration Testing with the Bash shell
A great lesson to all tech entrepreneur . http://www.fishgaga.com
It is not theft, it is sale of abandoned property as they offered for people to claim their BTC and no one did.
Well, opencongress.org goes a long way already.
We're carrying cultural inertia from simpler times when people didn't have easy access to the entire world to air their feelings.

It's culturally accepted to share your pain with people you know, and it's culturally accepted not to question or tell people they should keep it to themselves.

The problem is that with the Internet and social media the circle of "people you know" may easily turn out "the entire world".

Quite obviously, our minds are not equipped with the capacity of feeling for everyone's tragedy. If we could truly comprehend the tragedy behind a simple statistic like "thousands die in car accidents every month" it would render us depressed and unable to function.

As we feel more and more like a small village online (with a few billion people in it), the currently established "normal" cultural behavior in case of death will eventually start breaking down.

You are detecting the anomaly of following cultural patterns in a global online community where those patterns are ill-fitting. But most people don't detect it, they just follow the patterns.

Your thinking is not unique, but it's rare. Not many people stop to think and analyze why they're reacting the way they're reacting to your statements. Don't feel bad about the downvotes. We're merely machines running the program (culture) we've been loaded with. We do what the program says is right.
It's not a continuous mass of liquid water either, though. It's mostly rock with water in between the grains.
Look Out for a Hidden Test at Your Next Job Interview
Nice.

At the time that the Hancock was going up, there were lots of Trib articles about the engineering aspects of the braces.

Chicago does have such a great architectural examples. Matasano has offices in the Monadnock building, at one time on the 18th floor of a 17 story building. Marvelous building.
Nasa's Star Trek Like Space Ship Design
> Any chance of Rust taking over embedded systems programming?

I don't know about 'taking over' but there are some people who are using Rust for this use case.
This is the wrong mindset.
Isn't the ultimate socially-optimal answer for the "guess 2/3rds of the average" game be to convince everyone to answer 0? Because 2/3rds of 0 is 0, so everyone wins.
This kind of thing is almost a caricature of itself.

He waits to see if the applicant throws away the cup at the end. If they don't throw away trash, he says, they aren't a good fit for the company
And after that: a concerted effort to open up those fountains, flooding the Earth in order to make the prophecy come true.

Sorta like how a lot of them support Israel for the sole purpose of instigating the end times.
This. Why do you need the NF permission, status updates permission, photos permission, or all of those for friends?

FB platform policy says "Request only the data and publishing permissions your app needs."
I'm sure if your grandma had (directly or indirectly) touched multitudes of people around the world, she'd have gotten her hashtag.

I won't get a hashtag when I die. Heck I'd be lucky to get a social media mention at all. But I'm not going to demand that nobody else get attention that I won't get.

I don't know Meyer or his family personally. But he is a long-time web hero of mine, I lost my mother to cancer recently, and I have a young child, so I followed his journey as he blogged and tweeted it. It was painful, sometimes so much so that I considered unfollowing him on twitter to avoid the depression that followed reading a tweet.

For all Meyer has done for the web, he deserves a little monument built for him one day. I'm sure he'd appreciate this particular one more than one to himself.
That's a great idea! Did you find a good app? If so I'd like to hear. I just looked at a few free ones, and they didn't have enough control to be able to read off frequencies in the relevant range very well.
I agree that political protest doesn't provide a license to do absolutely anything. But when laws are selectively enforced against people with particular political views because of their views, that's a big deal to me regardless of the views.

Because of that, I believe that political activity should be given relatively wide latitude for anything that is basically related to freedom of speech or freedom of assembly. For example, here in San Francisco, a person blocking traffic for the hell of it might get ticketed for jaywalking. But if a group of protestors takes to the streets, the police will just direct traffic around it and keep an eye on it as long as it stays peaceful. And I think that's about right.
You don't even need to go to organized crime; there's your parents, boss, church, friends, help group (e.g. AA), etc. Essentially everyone that holds some influence over you.
We actually use a storage format very similar to the FriendFeed schema in Dari. Dari is a open source Java persistence layer with a full query API that stores all it's data in a JSON blob in one table with a few extra tables for indexing the JSON data.

https://github.com/perfectsense/dari

Here is the SQL schema: https://github.com/perfectsense/dari/blob/master/db/src/main...

We've used this model for almost five years now with great success. It's simplified rolling out "schema changes" since no tables need to be changed. It's also been optimized to a point where it's extremely fast.
I hope they find the dinasouars like in Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth