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Location: Lusaka, Zambia; Manchester, NH, USA
Remote: Yes

Relocate: Maybe

Resume: https://db.tt/0rNMMaem

Email: bdchauvette@gmail.com

Technologies:

* JS: node / iojs, express, knockout, lodash, nunjucks, mocha, jQuery

* DBs: CouchDB, redis, MySql

* Frontend: HTML, Sass / CSS, Bootstrap, Bourbon / Neat

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Howdy!

I'm a former linguist turned burgeoning generalist web developer. I'm most comfortable with JS, but I have a working knowledge of PHP and Python (& LaTeX, too, from my grad school days!).

I'm an American citizen currently living in Lusaka, Zambia (GMT +2). I'd prefer to work remotely from Lusaka, but I'm open to discussing relocating back to the US.
Is a dream reminder worked for an empty guy?
Retrospective and Links from PyData Berlin
Thanks for the suggestion to measure the image processing time, that could be interesting. To be honest I haven't yet tried Tesseract so I can't make any comparisons.

However, I do believe that converting the network input to character codes (output layer size 4 bits for digits, 8 bits for letters) instead of using a softmax layer (would need 10 bits for digits, 26 bits for letters) is a novel approach that really improves performance.
Learning HTML and CSS Part One: A New Hope
I second this, plus i'm annoyed by the religious, in this case jewish, component of this all.
can you tell me the link
We also have them in Spain!
So I have just spent about half an hour looking.

I honestly can't remember where this knowledge comes from.
My feeling is i learned it on my oncology term 12 months ago. It may have even been a ipilimumab biosimilar.
Unfortunately google is mostly saturated with success stories and papers relating to monoclonal antibodies and wherever I heard about the writeup of the failure has vanished into the nether-regions of google.

Apologies. If anything comes up, put a contact email in your details and i'll reach out to you.
When you see an english tv program in Sweden or Finnish is often in english with subtitles in the country language. South European countries instead normally translate the program to the language of the country. Is as simple as this. Each system have its own advantages and handicaps.
I mean, you are commenting on the site created by a guy whose essays people read as scripture. :)
Hybrid solar and wind energy generation system available for houses
Touche, you're right.
Note that the first post I replied to said

it is more a display of courtesy to someone whom you are about to cause discomfort

which my English as a second language skills parse as unconditionally causing discomfort (after asking).

That's the twist. IF you are convinced that reclining your seat causes discomfort, would asking for permission be the right thing to do?

(Obviously I might just plain suck at English once more and fail to understand that sentence correctly)
47% of entrepreneurs expect to increase their global workforce this year
GroupServer [1] is very nice, a hybrid between an online forum interface and a fully-functional mailing list. The installation and configuration process is fairly involved, though, but turnkey hosting is available through OnlineGroups.net [2], from $2/month [3].

[1] http://groupserver.org

[2] https://onlinegroups.net/, https://onlinegroups.net/l/groupserver

[3] https://onlinegroups.net/pricing/
Finally.

I remember that the fist problem occurred to me that wasn't not solved by Google was solved by asking in the mailing list of tmux, and now it it moved to Github, I can finally ask question at the issue page.
What is throughput of the system per node?
What Bill Gates is doing is a very humane and wonderful human gesture.

But in my humble opinion, he's going about it the wrong way.

Child mortality, malnutrition, and other preventable diseases are rife in SubSaharan Africa because of poor governance and weak to non-existent civic institutions. No democracy has every suffered a famine.

By focusing on treating a symptom - child mortality - Gates is patching. What happens when that child reaches school-age? Sure, there were resources to help the child past infancy, and then? Will Gates also fund: primary school, secondary school, and healthcare until that child reaches adulthood too?

And once they reach adulthood, what sort of jobs / life can the individual build? Most decide to emigrate to Europe. So I guess you could say that EU's taxpayers take care of that...

Short-term measures are necessary - who can deny a child healthcare? But a sustainable long-term solution is needed. Gates can start by financing newspapers, basic infrastructure, and financing parties that support the rule of law.
No religious flamewars on Hacker News, please.
No.

If your server is in Virginia and you have a customer on a phone in Jo'burg... they're gonna have one sucky comprised experience.

Latency kills, and if you are centralized then your latency goes exponentially up the further away you get from that point.
I know this is not really tech or programming related, but is there anything better then playing a little bit Fallout after several intense hours of coding? :D
Bret Taylor of Quip: What's Not to Like?
Slow sort
Thamar Reservoir – Iranian Hackers Target Entities in Middle East
The video is only 240p and quite shaky. As it is published by the SoundHound Inc. company, is this a marketing technique to make it look more amateurish?

Such a low latency means the demo was done over Wifi in the SoundHound building - especially if the speech recognition runs on the server side. Or which speech recognition software does that demo app use? Nuance software based on the client? Android 5 voice recognition isn't that fast.
I guess what you say is actually what that means. Not a literal deathbed realization.

There is no end-game, there is no winning, no failure, no goals in life except what you put in it. The only thing that will decide if you are worthy or not is yourself. Yourself today and yourself tomorrow up to the day you die.

Financial gain is a dangerous goal in life because it very often has a very poor ROI. On the other hand, your whole biology, tweaked by million of year of evolution, made it so that taking care of people around you is very often the best bang of happiness for buck.

But then whatever, plenty of religion / philosophies to rationalize yourself into happiness almost regardless what you decide to do.
They're a G.K. (合同会社), which I believe is essentially equivalent to an LLC. Tax/legal reasons?
Responding to nastiness with more nastiness is the surest way to destroy HN. The way to help is to gently point out that we all need to follow the site guidelines.
who is the speaker
If it from the latter sentence means the derivative, the sentence makes sense, because with y'=f(x,y(x)) we wanna solve the equation for y.
From the "tmux-users" mailing list:

> Will pull requests on GitHub now be allowed as a means of contributing patches?

> No, patches still need to come by email to me [Nicholas Marriott] or the ML.

I wonder, what's the main reason behind it? What's wrong with Github PRs?
So, I'm assuming this includes support for hardware-accelerated vector graphics? There's a real need for this kind of tech on mobile; on my old iPad 3, I can not even animate a single full-screen bezier path at 60fps, whereas using MonkVG, I can suddenly do 20 or more at once! (And that's not even factoring in the "free" matrix transforms that don't require retesselation.)

There's a ton of fascinating apps and games that could be made if only vector graphics performance was better. It's too bad OpenVG never went anywhere.
Weird! Do you think this is an easter egg the developers stuck in there?
Typed Clojure: From Optional to Gradual Typing
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I see. So the need for structure mandates the need for nation-states, as there is no alternative, and there have always been nation-states?

Recommend reading Hobbes' Leviathan and Hayek's Road to Serfdom, if this topic interests you.
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Ask HN: Optimal office relocation (London) based on journey times of employees
A variant on the shortest path problem - we have multiple employees with access to underground stations around London. What would be the best way of choosing a new office location given the starting points of the employees with the primary goal to keep average transit time using public transport to the new location a minimum? And has anybody done this already? (Mapumental have an open service but it seems to be the wrong way round for my purposes). I've not been able to find anything but perhaps I've been asking the wrong question. the ability to weight the importance of various key staff would be nice as well. Of course, we might well end up just schlepping over to Silicon roundabout.

edited to clarify that Mapumentals service is not wrong, just the way I want to use it
OOT: My idea of building "linkedin for github users" using a domain I owned (github.id) got shot-down [1], so now I'm selling the domain, in case anyone's interested.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612234
In a world of near-instant feedback channels, should the public (who may become criminals under the proposed agreement) have any opportunity to comment on the proposals?

In which institutions can society debate where to draw the line between the benefits of negotiating "secretly" vs. the benefits of legitimizing the agreement in the eyes of the public?

Given that some details of the agreements are already public, i.e. they no longer have negotiating value, can a democratic society avail itself of the benefits of debating the already-public subset?
You don't necessarily need to build a distributed system to solve that problem. You could have an entirely separate centralized system which serves that region.
> When there is a local shop in a major city where I can go in and rent a ghost gunner machine for a day, in cash, providing nothing but a large deposit to guarantee I bring it back, then and only then can such things really be untraceable.

Wired has the machine, they could start running such a service tomorrow if they wanted to. I don't see any substantial barriers to it.
> Swimming pools cleaning tanks in Dammam company

Spam. Flagged.
And this is why CDG regularly wins my "worst airport in the world" award. Well, this and many other reasons like really really poor signage, the long distance from the city with transport options being limited to crowded trains or using road vehicles that have to share the A1 with about 500000 other road users, and the distinct lack of things to do to distract yourself during the inevitable long waits. It's also the only airport in the world where officials managed to lose my residency papers - lucky I noticed that they weren't handed back to me with the rest of my documents, but I had to argue with the customs officials for 25 minutes before they would even believe me that they handed given it back to me. It then took another 25 minutes before they found it on the floor under a desk, which resulted in my missing my flight. No apologies, just s shrug of the shoulders - and this after I had remained extremely calm and pleasant during the whole process because losing it just makes things worse in that type of situation, and may even leave you in gaol.
If you use their expert status to give their claim authority, it actually does matter whether their expert status is justified, even if what they say is correct.

In other words, if you say: "listen to what they say, because they are experts", questioning their expert status is entirely justified. It's different if you were to say: "listen to what they say, because it makes sense".

In this case, I think what they say is correct, but if it's true that Israel is the only item on their agenda, their credibility as experts is still suspect.

And I do agree that Israel has a terrible human rights record, but they are indeed hardly the worst offender. (Was Qatar member of this? They have enslave migrant workers, working them to death for the 2022 world championship!)
Just tested it. It fails all of the above and just returns a websearch.
Passion Is the Fruition of Your Life
Can't you run Mapumental for each home and then combine the results somehow to find the best location?

Actually, do they already support this? They say "Mapumental handles multiple start or destination points too."

I was thinking just overlaying the maps as semi-transparent PNGs would reinforce the color gradient of the nearest places.
What is the date and time?
Do you make your own furniture? Grow your own food? Learning skills is great, but there's a place for buying things off the shelf.

And that's the point of this machine: it's intended to be equivalent to buying a gun off the shelf, just while avoiding the registration requirements that would go with actually buying one off the shelf.
SF was highly reputable back in the day - why else do you think so many projects which have roots back in the 90's are hosted there?

Never say never. 15 years ago nobody would've dreamt SF would have gone this way.
The comments section.
Something else I'd like to add: Many european universities, including TUM which is highlighted in the article, also have exchange arrangements with U.S universities. These are mostly top-tier engineering state schools like UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech.

Because of the exchange agreement, tuition for the semester or year you are there is waived. You can have your cake and eat it too.
I don't know what issues tmux has, but these are the reasons Linus also refuses to use Github PRs:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
It's on Friday, 5th June at 7:00 pm Paris Time / 10 am PST/ 12:00 pm CST/ 1:00 pm EST.
I don't have a Mac at hand and the best effort I can do is to finish the 90 seconds. I would suggest an attempt to include more info in the stock view... Even the metro map have station names. :-) People do not recognize commits with just graphical patterns(especially when the patterns are just pulled in from remote).
Don't do it!

It causes crash in some clients.
http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2015-05-with-controver...

"10 organizations representing more than 10 million Americans called on U.S. Trade Representative -- USTR -- Michael Froman to publicly release all records of communication between himself and representatives of the ten largest U.S. financial institutions -- including his former employer Citigroup -- while he has served in the USTR position."
You forgot to mention that it's only for Windows users.
Playing Dota 2 :P
I like how that little ball in the upper left includes a thin strip of the 1.1 billion (!) people whose data was not included in the study :-)
nothing happened. v6.19 on Mac
My agenda template for a sales meeting (as a web guy)
Just out of curiosity, don't you consider homebrew "decent" or do you want official package manager from Apple? (App Store effectively being Apple's solution?)
Its a whitelist. It is "verify the string is a 24-character alphanumeric string".
Senior Python Data Scientist or Computational Biologist

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We’re a small and fast-growing biotech startup with an amazing set of advisors including the Broad’s Anne Carpenter, and we're using high throughput genetic perturbation experiments in human cells, automated image segmentation and quantitation of hundreds of features for every cell, and machine learning and statistics to find new treatments for rare genetic diseases faster than anyone has previously thought possible. If that sounds like a lot of biology, don’t worry—you’ll be up to speed in a week or two. Just know this: there are more than 5,000 rare genetic diseases, in total affecting more than 10 million people in the US alone, and only a handful are treatable. We aim to find treatments for 100 of them in the next 10 years. See who we are at http://www.recursionpharma.com/team

We’re looking for exceptional computational scientists to help lead our analysis efforts, with the following criteria:

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- A track record of outstanding projects, publications, or presentations that demonstrate successful application of the above talents.

- Motivation to tackle some of the most challenging data problems around, to work with other sharp and highly-motivated individuals with diverse backgrounds, and to make lots of patients’ lives dramatically better.

- Biology background not required; intellectual curiosity and motivation to learn is critical.

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> I imagine Clooney's also had more access to finer coffee than myself..

I saw an interview where he mentioned this (probably Inside the Actor's Studio). Words to the effect of: "realistically the studios are not going to fund a biopic about Edward R. Murrow. So if I can fund it by doing coffee ads, that's something I can live with".
And Cyberduck also supports Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3 containers.
I believe, and I might be very wrong, that tmux is developed in the OpenBSD CVS tree, and patches are then merged from there to Github. The patches would need to be applied to the code in CVS, so a Github pull-request would be useless.
I didn't mean that. AFAIK, nation states are quite recent development. But structure was always there, since the beginning of civilization. Sans full-blown digital fluid democracy I don't see how a society can be managed without a hierarchy. That probably reflects more my lack of imagination than something about the real world though.

I have a copy of Leviathan sitting on my desk right now, but I haven't got around to reading it yet :).
But this applies to software telco team, right. Other teams can use different stacks.
Because enough(or potentially enough) businesses are willing to pay for their technical support?
More than a line terminator, it's an expression separator, similar to the comma operator in C.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator
Developing for Android V
That sounds unfeasibly dull, compared to the nice text explanation. You can see what someone's typing but that really isn't what's in their head.
thanks for answering with facts
Skype is, in terms of performance, one of the worst apps (actually, currently, the worst) I have to deal with on a daily basis.

I actually upgraded my slow, old but otherwise fine android to a Nexus 5 specifically so that Skype would open in reasonable time (it was the company chat app of choice back then, and I needed to be in the loop). I preferred paying a few hundred dollars, and not wasting 30 seconds every time I needed to talk to my team. It crashes all the time, it's slow to refresh, has erratic, unpredictable behaviour that causes me to simply restart it instead of waiting when I want to check if I have new messages. When you use it alongside Whatsapp and Telegram, the difference is painful. No wonder Slack etc. are growing so fast. I'll give Skype one thing: call quality is usually alright.

Now we see all these bugs coming up for various versions, this one for Windows, the weird arabic characters for Mac, it's further proof of the codebase decay that must be going on over there. It's amazing how powerful network effects can be, that everybody is still stuck with Skype. Because everybody has Skype...
Since we're going off-topic: what's the difference between selling a domain name for higher than nominal ICANN price and domain squatting?

I'm not being facetious, honestly if you're not using the name right now, you either let it go at registry price or you join the ranks of domain squatters and don't get to complain about them anymore.

Or am I missing something? I'm always open to changing my opinion, please help me find some good arguments against it.
Android M and Lolipop 5.0
Thanks for the nice laugh :)
Problem: Indentured servitude of H1B visa holders

Solution: Make any sort of "lock-in" illegal. No fees paid to employment agencies, no penalties for leaving early, no posting bonds, no contractual periods of work. Anything that keeps an H1B locked to a particular employer should be illegal.

Problem: Getting brightest engineers without causing wage suppression

Solution: Leave the cap where it is for now and bid for H1B talent so market forces can work. If the lowest bid is over say, $100K, maybe consider raising the cap.

Engineers are the raw material for tech companies and naturally, they'd like to keep their costs low. This has nothing to due with "keeping America competitive" and everything to do with sharing less of the value created with the engineers who created it in the first place.
Hacking Product Hunt – A Data-Driven Approach to Win at Product Hunt
Actually only brilliant if you can talk most of your colleagues into doing the same, and Disney goes for it…
If you now have many centralized systems...

Don't you by definition have a distributed system?

Or are you saying these are isolated units that never talk to each other? If you say yes, I would again question the legitimacy of the UX.
Except that the download links on wkhtmltopdf.org send you on Sourceforge...
80bola and Google's proxy problem
All good universities have unique accomplishments.
Wonder How Groupon Automates App Performance Testing?
True, but this doesn't invalidate my point. Its more of an argument that non-public or founder-controlled companies enjoy a competitive advantage.
Please don't do that. The issues page is for issues, not support. Even if TMUX is one of the few projects where the maintainers don't mind answering support questions on the issues page (not likely), it's a bad habit to get into.

Please ask support questions on StackOverflow, or the mailing list, or IRC. Not the issues page. It makes life much harder for the maintainer.

(God, I'm such a greybeard now)
In my opinion "the art of electronics" is more of a hands-on book, that explains things qualitatively, and in an unstructured way; and thus it is quite different from any scientific textbook.
Show HN: Free Reddit submission scheduling and vote potential estimation
Straight from Shenzhen: HAX Spawns Cool Tech Projects
Machine vs. Machine
That might be true, but not everybody can get into Harvard or Stanford, and for most people, those universities are prohibitively expensive.

If you're part of the tiny elite for whom Harvard and Stanford are an option, by all means go for it. But for a lot of people, studying abroad might be a better idea.
Interactive coding tutorial on R (intermediate level)