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I'm a new grad full stack developer scoping out opportunities with data-driven startups, looking to shift towards the data-end of the full stack pipeline, hacking on huge datasets, Hadoop or relational.

I'd love to work with a data scientist or ML/NLP guru in some capacity in the future, but it's not a dealbreaker. I'm more of a data hacker at heart.
On the other hand I've been happy with Wunderlist after Astrid was shut down. It's pretty neat in maintaining daily lists/reminders and sharing lists with family/friends.
This just illustrates how arbitrary the concept of a "10x programmer" is. Is a programmer 10x because they are individually extremely good at programming? Or are they 10x because they always couch their decisions properly in a sustainable corporate strategy?
+1 this was also quite funny:
http://sandhill.exchange/blog/sec-analysis
Domain isn't that important for me. But HN and most (?) clients have it, so it immediately felt odd to not see it.
Two week free trial on an app this simple? I'm surprised there's no free version, it's just a glorified counter.
> Well in all (sad) honesty, that's probably the only sort of violator they can go after.

Well, lets check that by looking at the SEC Enforcement Division webpage [0], and a couple of the news for the past week:

* Merrill Lynch Admits Using Inaccurate Data for Short Sale Orders, Agrees to $11 Million Settlement [1]

* SEC Charges Deutsche Bank With Misstating Financial Reports During Financial Crisis [2]

[0] http://www.sec.gov/enforce

[1] http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-105.html

[2] http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-99.html
ironically, teslamotors.com still will ONLY show you prices with incentives subtracted, if they apply for you or not.

also, like a 90's blog, they have javascript that does not allow you select text on that page. way to go! not even dealership sites are that silly.
The thing is, I don't care how much it costs the SEC to do their job. Their purpose is not to be a profit center based around prosecuting financial law violations. And actually, I'm very happy about that, because profit incentives in law enforcement creates very perverse incentives for the individual actors involved.
Ask HN: Who is Selling? (June 2015)
I like the idea of posting who is hiring and who wants to be hired. In addition to that there should be monthly post who wants to sell their (side) project or business.
And this:

"Without a corporate barrier to protect us, the penalty was personal. How high would the fine go if we did not settle?"

Doing this without an incorporated company is just clown shoes. Surely they must have had one, but a quick skim of their TOS doesn't reveal a company name or Doing Business As entity. I don't understand why an SEC fine would be against the people and not the entity.
"…ability to encrypt the messages from Facebook so that only you can read them is an actual security benefit."

Except it isn't really "only you", its whoever else has access to the key or keys facebook uses to encrypt such messages and if one distrusts other mail providers that they use to such degree, but trusts facebook, I'd really start question what threat model they are contriving…
Windows Mobile 10*

(Which is completely different than the old Windows Mobile brand, obviously)
In case this news makes you feel like it's time to move on, here's a link describing how to delete your Wunderlist account: https://support.wunderlist.com/customer/portal/articles/1641...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/netapp-moves-ceo-i...
As I said earlier, spying on the US government is a crime in the eyes of the US government. I think many a caught spy that was convicted for espionage would disagree with your statement that it is not a crime.
I think you're making much the same mistake Diamond does, assuming that domestication is inevitable, and that if it doesn't happen, somebody "failed".
Considering what happened to Mt. Gox, I'm not sure that using Bitcoin as an example of innovation being stifled by government is a good idea.
This is true, but their ratios are remaining relatively the same.

"Soylent 1.5 has a 94 percent increase in omega-3 fatty acids (DHA, ALA), a 92 percent increase in the omega-6 fatty acid, linoleic acid, and a 17 percent reduction in the already low saturated fat levels."

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"A lower ratio of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids is more desirable in reducing the risk of many of the chronic diseases of high prevalence in Western societies, as well as in the developing countries, that are being exported to the rest of the world."

Link to source for inquiring minds: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12442909
i'd take the stairs. with able legs or a wheelchair... no way i'd get on those things.
Do people who use this call it "peacock" or "pico see"?
Interlocks are usually fairly crude safety measures, normally in hardware, to make sure that particular combinations of events cannot happen.

The Therac-25 is a famous comp.risks cautionary tale. Among the many, many design misfeatures (if you haven't come across it, it's worth a read) was the one that killed people:

It was capable of providing two kinds of radiation therapy; electron beam radiation and X-ray radiation. It worked by having an electron beam generator which could be operated at either high power or lower power. Low power was used directly. High power was only used to irradiate a tungsten target which produced X-rays. (I'm simplifying here.)

You can probably guess what went wrong; people were directly exposed to the high power electron beam. Several of them died.

The obvious interlock here (which apparently previous versions had) was to have a mechanical switch which would only enable the high-power beam when the tungten target was rotated into place. No target, no high power. Simple and relatively foolproof (although it's possible for interlocks to go wrong too).
> Except it isn't really "only you", its whoever else has access to the key or keys facebook uses to encrypt such messages…

No, you are giving FB the public key, and keeping the private key. So anyone with the (public) key you give Facebook could send you messages that you can decrypt with the private key (which is why FB also lets you publish the key on your profile page), but could not read the messages sent by someone else with the same key.

Only you -- or someone else with the private key that you don't give to Facebook -- can read the messages. Of course, if someone breaks PGP so that they can use one half of the key pair to recover the other half, they could read the message just by knowing the key you share with Facebook ... but that that is intractable is the whole foundation of public key cryptography.
Why should the founders of SHX be punished for trying to make a little bit of profit? We like to whine about how burger-flippers don't get paid enough to literally lift a spatula but we're happy when the SEC goes after a few creative entrepreneurs trying to get ahead? Why shouldn't they be entitled to the profit their product can generate?

As long as they weren't actively making misleading or fraudulent claims (e.g., leading users to believe they were actually investing in the companies), they should've been left alone.

And by the way, a lot of people make money off of jokes. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian
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I get your point, but profit has nothing to do with it.

The SEC has limited resources. I think the grandparent is questioning whether this is the best use of them.
Hubble Spots Incredible Collision Inside Black Hole Jet
So.... you really are trying to avoid writing any code, then?
Everything Is Happening: Attempting to Express the Inexpressible
I can see 10 posts at once on my 4" phone on the HN home page, only 6 in the app. This is a cons for the app. The number of lines of comments is about the same, but a little more in the browser.

As a browser I suggest Opera because it reflows text after the double tap for zooming in (Android, no idea if it's available for iOS and/or it has the same feature there). It's a really nice feature on most sites, much more on HN. Given how good HN is on Opera (I mean it) I don't think I'll use the app, still it looks good. The image previews are a nice idea.
I like the idea of the pneumatic whistle. A pressure vessel with a sprung loaded valve held closed by a solenoid, maybe? However it works, it's a really neat piece of lateral thinking.
insane! thanks for sharing!
Have languages been written that are designed to be maximally orthangonal to each other in regards introducing bugs? If so what combinations are used?
Cool. Energy storage certainly counts. It's a nicely left of field concept, as a bottleneck remover.

If energy storage can get onto a rapid improvement path, all sorts of options might suddenly be feasible. But I have to say that the idea of a flywheel storing enough energy to power a house sounds scary, never mind anything bigger. What happens if the stabilisation fails somehow?
Assuming that one is a fan of the sort of abstract computer-scientific approach to programming embodied by Lisp (and I am!), then it should be a good thing when people discover it.

Is there a benefit in spreading this discovery to others, even after it's been known so long? Certainly I think so; it's new to everyone at some point, and, since I wasn't originally motivated to read McCarthy's original papers, I wouldn't have discovered the ideas of Lisp without recent expositions of it. Granting the benefit of this, who can better communicate with the unenlightened, in terms familiar to them, than a recent convert? (Although, as braythwayt points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9641279), he is scarcely a newcomer to the party.)
Shameless self promotion of my work in progress C compiler https://github.com/andrewchambers/cc which is attempting to create a modern cross platform C compiler.

One of my goals is to make the entire toolchain rapid to port and hack on. I am pretty sick of gcc and llvm taking 20 mins just to build from source.

I would love to find serious collaborators.
In my experience after reading her book and some of her articles I think Gayle (and many other interviewers) underestimates the effect nerves have on certain people. She may be a little too quick to classify certain people as "dumb" when, in fact, some people's brains just totally freeze up during traditional coding interviews. I suspect more outgoing, extroverted people have a hard time fathoming what that's like or even that it is possible.
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I was interviewing with you guys and we got about 3 rounds in, then contact with your org completely disappeared. I figured it had to do with a the big launch you just had, but still nothing after following up. Is that normal?
Actually, plants have analogs to neurotransmitters and other similar chemicals to sense their environment. I'm not saying you're eating Groot's cousin, but I would caution you not to assert that plants are not aware of their environment.
Smarkets uses erlang extensively.
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Indeed, a quick Google for "Prediction Markets" popped up, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market#Legality

But then, tie that to real Securities ... its a miracle they got off with only $20,000 in fines.
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"that only HFTs could bring about"

That is a very high bar to get over for any industry. For instance you could say the exact same thing about the internet generally and not come up with too many answers.

Another way to reason about it is A) how does HFT compare to the system it replaced? and B) what would we need to give up to not have HFT (if we decided for some reason we didn't want HFT, though I'd love to hear someone enumerate why we wouldn't want it).

A is trivial to answer. It is much, much cheaper for nearly everyone to trade with HFT than it was in the world of specialist market makers or pit traders. In the modern world there are much less middle men for every trade and they take a dramatically lower percentage of the value than the system they replaced. This is the obvious and expected outcome of replacing expensive humans with cheap computers.

B is also pretty trivial to answer. We would have to go to a monopoly exchange with no electronic communications into or out of it. I hope the downsides of that are obvious.
Making your webapp 10x faster
I wonder what the racial profile of the red-teamers are (the ones assigned to try to smuggle stuff past the inspection points)? I'm really curious as to whether or not the skin color of the red-team agent played a part in getting caught.
When I first saw it I thought "pico see".

The "peacock" interpretation is funny and went unnoticed by me. Cheers!
C# is an odd choice for avionics software, surely? It's got a really heavyweight runtime and nondeterministic behaviour due to the garbage collector. I assume this is the satellite's application layer and isn't real time?

...and what are you running it on? I wasn't aware of any embedded operating systems which supported C#!
An Insider’s Guide to Convertible Debt vs. Equity
We're talking about Backbone + templating here, and that is what happens with those libs.

Obviously there are other libs / frameworks that can do that, all of them using some sort of shadow DOM.
IMHO, any interview (phone or onsite) for a tech job that rejects a candidate because of some deficiency is found in technical skills during the interview, whoever scheduled the interview is at fault. That manager/HR-person just cost the company easily a few hundred dollars.

Such determination of one's technical chop should've been made well early in the screening process, from past work or online tests or coding example (like take home project type).

Interview process is expensive. It takes 1-5 hours of manhour from your company. It takes similar or more from the candidate. Think about how much you pay each engineer.

just my 2 cents.
I imagine a good chunk of that value is being placed on the team they acquired. They're a proven mobile dev shop with a well recognized name in an "up and coming" Berlin startup scene, who already have a major success under their belts. I'm also sure a sizeable percentage of the amount isn't cash but options with 2-4 year vesting periods. edit: also often the team salaries over the course of that period are included in the amount.
Touch-friendly buttons. Have you tried to vote on a mobile web browser? It's horrendous.
> I suppose in a very broad sense "pointwise" could be seen as analogous to sampling

Indeed, I don't understand how it could be otherwise. To multiply functions pointwise, you need to know their values at points. It seems to me that 'sampling' is a very good word to describe the process of evaluating a function at a lot of points.

> as could "with respect to x", but the Calculus Gods will smite any who think of dx as a sample of x

Indeed not! It is the spacing between sample points. That is, the `dx` in an integral literally stands for the "ghost of [the] departed quantity" `x_{i + 1} - x_i` (and, in an infinitesimal approach to calculus, it doesn't just stand for but literally is such a difference).
I can say from experience that white guys often simply do not see behavior that is discriminatory or harassing.

I have known several people who were competent, professional, pleasant, open-minded, and kind in every interaction I ever witnessed--but who were eventually fired for well-documented abusive interactions with women or minorities. As one woman colleague said to me, "well of course he was always nice to you. You're a guy."

This comment is just to say: no one is omniscient. It's possible (I would argue likely) that there are negative interactions within the industry that you might not be aware of, because they don't happen around you.

There are a lot of stories available online from people who are women or minorities, documenting many implicit and overt problems they have faced in the tech industry. So, there is a way to learn about these things, but we have to be willing to believe that these people are honestly recounting what they have experienced, even if it is unfamiliar to us personally.
Only pursuing large-scale financial crime because "opportunity cost" just tells the crooks to play disposable, small-scale games.
TAKE THAT YOU DAMN TECHIES

(whatever they are)
There is also http://mirakel.azapps.de/ , a fork of Astrid
>Remember, she tells me, most Iranians’ priority is economic wellbeing. Political freedom is the concern of a minority.

The great tragedy of modern society.
China Unveils World's First ATM That Can Identify Faces
I suppose a little metamucil could fix it? Or maybe kale?
I realise thats beyond the point though.
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Because it is flatly untrue? Memory safety is rather a binary thing. C# without /unsafe is safe. Same for Java and Rust. Not true for Nim or C/C++. Rust is unique in doing this without any GC or other runtime overhead, AFAIK, which makes it a bit special.
Aside from the written in python making it more natural and extensible and amenable to messing around with the models, pymc 3 can sample directly from discrete parameters and STAN cannot. Pymc3 has more sampling routines.
This is an excellent comment. To be a bit more clear on jdmichal's point, the reason for the SEC is to allow any - real - startups to be funded at all. If you didn't have the SEC, you wouldn't be able to be an accredited investor and invest in all the startup offers in the world, who all have to play by the rules. It really is a good thing. If you're a startup, it's a good thing because you can just build something and monetize it, and then when you're doing well, you can get investment in a protected investment market in a regulated way. If you're doing something normal.

I mean just juxtapose this (from the article):

"For added credibility, we randomly generated trading histories for each company going all the way back to last year.....

We pasted descriptive text cribbed from the websites of banks and registered exchanges to make our website look like a serious business."

Source: https://medium.com/@eiaine/how-startup-growth-hacks-resulted...

With what Ivanplenty said in this thread:

"'Sand Hill Exchange' accepted items of real value (USD and BC) that could be used to 'purchase' (or bet on) things named after real securities that trade (or are expected to trade) on public markets for a profit."

(Source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642353)

What a scary world if the SEC didn't shut these guys down with a slap on the wrist! (Assuming Ivanplenty is correct and they monetized as he stated.)

I mean they are literally inventing trading histories and collecting bitcoins and dollars to trade on them. That's the kind of market that sends real investors scurrying away from it, and I'm glad the SEC protects investors from that happening, by simply shutting it down. It is positively a good thing. (Also, the history of investor protection is because snake-oil salesmen really did take advantage of investors, selling them the clear blue sky:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_sky_law

So it's not like this is some theoretical thing. The problem happened first, and the solution simply solved it. There are a lot of areas where the legal system can improve, but the existence itself of the SEC and the fact that it shut this exchange down is not one of them. This is absolutely warranted and called-for. Yes, you need to register if you want to do this type of thing, and you need to play by the rules.)
I like this one, touting the benefits of microcap stocks got someone fined $4.6 million. I can only think the shit that would have come down if the founders had a stake (exercised options) in one of the companies on their exchange then created 'fake historical' data about it.

http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-100.html
Well I think sending subpoenas to everyone behind the site and their mentors, and then fining them, is a bit disproportionate as a first step. I think (from the Medium writeup) part of the issue was that the site broadcast itself as more professional-​looking and “in business” than it really was. I personally hadn’t realized when I’d seen the site earlier that most of the ‘users’ engaged in ‘trading’ were actually bots for example.

Accepting Bitcoin without figuring out regulatory issues was an unwise step for sure.