skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RealScout - Software Engineer - Mountain View, CA (onsite or remote)

We help real estate agents collaborate with their clients in more personal, proactive, insightful and accessible ways (aka, sell more homes).
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I use Goodtodo but emailing in todos is faster than using the native app.

Couldn't find any apps that worked so ended up creating a receive-only account that gets no email and using that as my incoming account. My outgoing account is my normal Gmail account. Will be interesting to see how things go without email on my phone.
I do meditation in the morning and go for work. Which is lot of concentration on the computer. Mid day sometimes I see articles on HN, ma.tt etc. To relax. In late evening look at these news sometimes on my tab.

I do have an issue with organizing imp websites for future reading, and am looking for a good bookmarking app that syncs with all my computers!
I just downvoted the GP, and not because I disagree with his opinion, but because I think his advice is a dangerous one to follow. For example, the stalker could be using someone else's computer, and hacking him back would only harm that other person.
Interesting article. I would add that in an abstract art museum or section of one, the thing to do is attempt to identify the that from which the artist has attempted to extract the essence.

Abstract art is, not too unlike software engineering, an attempt at identifying the essence or underlying of a thing and then re-representing it abstractly. The process of deconstruction and abstraction is similar in both, though abstract art has more to do with psychology, aesthetics, and universal emotions than with pure logic.
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Zoomer is building a new take on food delivery - a platform to handle an extraordinarily high volume of concurrent deliveries from restaurants that already deliver (i.e. pizza, wings, sandwiches, etc.). We’re bringing much needed change to local high-volume delivery restaurants that are still doing delivery the way they’ve always done it. It's a very interesting technology and logistics problem, quickly routing orders to optimal drivers in near-real-time. Our CEO has a substantial amount of experience in the space from his first startup.

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Apple's arrogance towards the developers stems directly from their goal of turning iOS software into a cheap commodity.

This is exactly right. What gp, and other devs, need to understand is that all of the listed problems, which have been problems for a very long time, are your (gps, our) problems. They are not Apple's problems.

Apple solves Apple's problems. It's up to us to solve our problems.
This is part of git-annex, a excellent piece of work written in Haskell: http://git-annex.branchable.com/

There is also a Web-App called "assistant": http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/

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Charlie Contacts - Software Engineer - Chicago, IL

We're looking for a developer who thrives on solving complex problems and learning new technology. You want to make an impact in an early-stage company. You write killer back-end code, but don’t shy away from the front-end.

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It's none of their business if I do or don't have admin access on my computer. If Barclays came out and said their website would only work on locked-down Chromebooks we'd all recognize it as absurd. It's actually kind of scary how brainwashed we've been in the mobile era into accepting this sort of thing as normal.
You get similar feedback when using mosh -- text that is echoed locally but has not yet reached the remote host is displayed with an underline. On a bad connection, you see underlined text promptly as you type, and the underline gradually disappears as the network catches up.
So how could people use this to, for example, access people's photo's? Doesn't the two-factor authentication kick in whenever someone logs in from an untrusted device?
Interesting article. I would add that in an abstract art museum or section of one, the thing to do is attempt to identify the subject of which the artist was working to create the abstract represenation.

Abstract art is, not too unlike software engineering, an attempt at identifying the essence or underlying of a thing and then re-representing it in abstract form. The process of deconstruction and abstraction is similar at a high level in both, though abstract art has more to do with the logic of psychology, aesthetics, and universal human emotion than with mechanical or business process logic.
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What your first-grade life says about the rest of it
I also feel it's wolves who make the best entrepreneurs.

But everything is make against the entrepreneur wolf. Even accelerators may destroy the potential of a very strong vision that wolves can't explain. Steve Jobs was certainly a wolf.
A convolution in image space is a component-wise multiplication in fourier space. As the size of your convolution kernel increases, sometimes it is more efficient to convert the kernel to fourier space, multiply pixel by pixel, and then convert back.

This is what's going on with the presets at the bottom of the article.. for example, if you took the gaussian blur filter and converted it to image space, you'd have a gaussian blur convolution kernel.
Don't stop there: think it all the way through! Breaking changes lead to version bump releases, whether the module follows semver or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244888

Do you mean to imply that breaking-change frequency should stay below some particular maximum value? That argument is completely unrelated to the use or disuse of semver.
Not necessarily; it could be, but it certainly wouldn't happen quickly. Here you have several possibilities explained by Dawkins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDCAllQgS0
Considering multiplication in frequency domain is just a convolution it doesn't really matter.

And in sound engineering the length of the signal is generally far longer than the length of the convolution filter. Thus it's far better to use convolution to calculate it (it becomes advantageous to use Fourier only when the filter and the signal itself are of similar sizes).

However I do think that conceptually things need a big simplification.
With social media, internet and cameras everywhere it seems the bar has been set very high for how a society responds to an emergency. If a cam records even a slight delay in a victim getting help then there will be hell to pay from the Internet. Everyone be on your toes! The Internet is watching and judging!
Denmark has homeless? That's not the common picture presented here in the USA. BTW emergency paramedic/ambulance help is "free" in the USA as well.
>But genes or not, I brought it up as an example of something that we're clearly NOT comfortable removing (even if we could)

Why are "we" clearly not comfortable with that?

Indeed, if "we" are all uncomfortable with that then we needn't worry about anyone doing it. You seem to be worried that some people are going to want to specify non-gay children but think they ought to have them anyway. For some reason.

On the other hand I admit it might make me queasy to think of parents deliberately engineering their children to be gay. As in "Oh honey, let's make our third child gay, it'll be fun!"
FIX, not intern CDI, full post
I'd say it's part of the same discussion if colleges continue to use metrics after they have been gamed of predictive value and now measure something else.
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I'm not a fan of the examples as both have the "lower status" person initiating the conversation. This further makes me wonder if looking at this in terms of word-level usage is going to miss the true causation sources. Consider "I think this article has problems" versus "This article has problems". The former seems (to me) to be much less confrontational than the latter, but I don't think that's really a function of the appearance of the word "I".

Going back to the examples, maybe the usage of personal pronouns is not directly related to the status of the email participants, but instead, is based upon who initiated the email. If the person with lower status is more likely to initiate the email (seems plausible, particularly in academia), then you might see the same results.
Most of the sentences can be trivially rewritten without the use of "I", but the author still chose to use it anyways.

I have been contacting a large group of people and many
have specifically asked if you were attending.

Versus..

Many people on the contact list have specifically asked if
you are attending.

And likewise, there are sentences the "more powerful" person could have written with the word "I", but did not.

The idea of a reunion is a nice one

Versus..

I think the idea of a reunion is a nice one
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If You Only Do One Thing – Part 6
I tried Kotlin to write the first version of a small internal application used at the company I work at. On the plus side is IDE support and the fact that you can mix and match Kotlin with existing Java code.

In the end though, I found the syntax "funny" in some places and slightly less verbose than Java but not enough to justify using it. The underlying Android API is so verbose that Kotlin by itself is nearly useless.

We ended up dropping Kotlin and rewriting the thing in Java. In terms of lines of code both versions are nearly the same.
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If you are rooted, you can get this behaviour by installing the Xposed Framework and then getting the XPrivacy module that is available for it. It allows you to permit/deny any requests for your information, and if you choose to deny them, it'll return empty/fake data (which is configurable).

It feels unreasonable that you have to go to these lengths to get this behaviour that should be built-in, but it's the best available currently.

Another method of getting similar behaviour is to enable the App Ops functionality which is built into Android 4.3 and 4.4, which allows you to enable/disable permissions in a granular fashion. The downside to this method is that if an app tries to use a permission that you have denied it access to, it might crash the app.
> On the other hand I admit it might make me queasy to think of parents deliberately engineering their children to be gay. As in "Oh honey, let's make our third child gay, it'll be fun!"

Yes, especially given the fact that the only reason people have children is because nature intends to replace the parents with their offspring, using rules crafted by natural selection, not the parents' tastes.
Essentially we agree, most people should use coding as a tool for their job, few people should code as their job.
This reminds me of a scene from Bad Grandpa where Johnny Knoxville (dressed as an old man) gets his penis stuck in a vending machine at a gas station and cries for help. The hidden camera records many people either ignoring, laughing or taking pics with their cellphone cameras.
There is a great award-winning short film (11 minutes) about this, based on a true story, Bus 44[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK4TUP0VKLY
I believe Recycling and Refurbishing of E-Waste Management might be one of the most undervalued business opportunities in Brazil today.
It's not pool-wide, it's vdev-specific. You can add new vdevs with more optimal ashift values. With my pool, half of the vdevs have sub-optimal ashift, the other half are good.
Connecting the world
Also it would seem (to me) to be more polite (mainly in that it would allow more polite ways to disagree).
That is a nice not-so-subtle reminder. When a PRNG says it is insecure, it is insecure. When a PRNG says it is secure, it might be - get someone very clever to check it first.
How will that work for the companies? Will each company have to register and remit payment to every country in the EU that they have customers for?
Fuco – A Coloring Game
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Dextro - Senior Backend Engineer (NYC full-time)

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// What we do

Dextro is a venture-backed AI-as-a-service company building an API that recognizes brands, objects, and scenes in photos, videos, and live streams. Our technology powers the next generation of vision-enabled apps, robots, smart devices, and data analytics tools.

// Who we are

We are a small, highly technical team of vision engineers and researchers from the UPenn GRASP Lab, IIT Delhi, Microsoft, and iRobot. Python, CUDA, C++, and Ruby are our core languages. We have 10^~14 FLOPS of compute on-site regularly being maxed out by experiments and performance testing.

// Who you are

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// More information

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How do you know how many times I have pulled the phone out of my pocket and fat fingered a hang up? Lets not resort to speculation because it doesn't happen to you.
Was he? I have't read his biographies but my general impression is that while Steve Jobs was certainly a visionary and an entrepreneur, he was not really an engineer. Did he write a lot of code? Did he really engineer anything? Or did he surround himself with excellent engineers who could create his visions?
I really like the idea and agree since I've met a couple of people who could meet that description. The problem always seems to be identifying the Wolves from the Cowboys. ie. Telling the difference between a "10x" coder who will live outside the rules and get things done, versus a "10x" coder who lives outside the rules and leaves you with a humungous mess of undocumented, unmaintainable spaghetti code when he leaves. Resulting in potential negative productivity by the end.

Does anyone know any reliable ways of telling the difference? Beforehand I mean; it's easy to tell in hindsight. Or is it better to avoid hiring both Wolves and Cowboys, but count your blessings if you accidentally get a Wolf anyway?
Ask HN: Good book about marketing and localization for mobile game?
I know there are lots of resources around the web about this, but I wonder if some of you know about a book that covers all the aspects of promoting, localizing and selling a game app on the App Store & Google Play. Please feel free to drop a links of resources if you don't know a book about this.
In Praise of Idleness (Bertrand Russell)
I think it's more like ceasing to wash your hands after using the bathroom while continuing to shower and water your lawn.
I agree that is a little weird. It should at least be configurable if you want that behavior or not. 9.4 introduces the ALTER SYSTEM command which may make it easier to automate the process of disabling synchronous_standby_names when a failover happens. There are some other improvements to replication in 9.4 as well.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...
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