jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
City Pantry | Senior frontend developer, mid-level full-stack developer, junior developer | London, UK or remote (close timezone preferred) | Full-time | Symfony2, PHP, AngularJS, MongoDB, Puppet, Gearman

City Pantry are hiring more developers to help move City Pantry from being an operations-powered business to being a tech-powered business, and to shorten the time from idea to execution. Some of the challenges the tech team have recently worked on include: writing algorithms to generate menus for companies based on their preferences; tightly integrating communication between our suppliers, our customers and ourselves via automated SMS messages and emails; and building an API to be the foundation of the company going forward.

Requirements for senior dev: AngularJS, unit testing, backend experience preferred.

Requirements for mid/junior devs: Symfony2, unit testing.

What is on offer:

* Flexible working times and location - you do have to be within a 3-hour difference with the UK.
* Work on open source code -- check out our GitHub profile at https://github.com/CityPantry[1]
* Allowance to buy a workstation.
* Annual education allowance.
* Central London main office location, with regular team lunches and a company bookshelf (recent purchases include books on A/B testing and machine learning).

Email amy@citypantry.com with your CV, and any links or code samples you think would be helpful
> You pretty much only want to do it if also get joy from the collecting itself

I think this is key. In my experience, the best (and usually most valuable) collections are by those that are very passionate in whatever niche it is. These people usually don’t set out to make money but to acquire pieces that they really want.

In my case, I collect vinyl because I love having physical copies of my favorite music. But I also enjoy seeking out rare albums and getting them for a good price, not because I want to resell them, but because I just don’t want to pay more than I can and I’m in no hurry.

The interesting thing to me is how much time it takes to develop your taste in these niche topics. It’s not something that you can even accelerate. You just dig deeper and deeper over many years until you find yourself listening to some bizarre album on repeat and then decide you have get the vinyl.
Are there any progressing issues we can follow?

I think phusion's base images solution is overkill (its own init written in python3 and force users to use runit). It will be great if I can use systemd inside container (I am a CentOS 7 user, use systemd is quite easy for most packages e.g.: yum install httpd; systemctl start httpd), but it requires --privileged. Now I am considering s6 as solution based on this article: http://blog.tutum.co/2014/12/02/docker-and-s6-my-new-favorit...

But I think it will be the best if docker solve this problem itself, then I can freely use my familiar tools like monit.
Excellent! Could you say something about her emotional life? In the podcast, she described herself to be happy 9 out of 10 times. I wonder if she experiences love. And if she does, does she also experience grief? What about fear-based emotions (such as separation anxiety)?
Probably everyone here knows all about the so-called deadweight loss of Christmas (people value gifts less than the givers spend, making the whole institution a huge waste). This article gives reasons why it's not as big a waste as it seems:

1. Ulterior motives. (I may have value for you having a gift, like if I give you a ticket to a show because I want your company.)

2. Signaling value. (There may be social value in proving our thoughtfulness.)

3. The ritual. (Traditions are nice.)

4. Extrospection. (In rare cases I may know your utility function better than you.)

5. Transactional Efficiency. (Sometimes it's easier for me to get you something than it is for you to get it yourself.)

6. Plausible deniability. (You may value something a lot but be unwilling to buy it yourself because it would seem too indulgent or something.)
I use composers for my slices: copland, glass, tallis, bach
Indeed, that was a burn of academic proportions.
For a while now I have pondered starting "hacking for good" (unfortunately, the domain seems to be taken by someone else now - .org still seems to be free, though), meaning I and hopefully others would donate some of their time to solve problems with software for free. Not sure about the setup - maybe people could submit suggestions, and the hacker group would decide which one to tackle every month.

Maybe donating one day per month would be a good idea (or even one day per week)? I haven't really started yet, because I still struggle to make money for myself. But maybe with more giving there also comes more flowing, too.

Anyway, would anybody be interested, and what do you think would be the best mode for it?

There recently was "random hacks of kindness", and probably there are lot's of other similar things (I also participated in a http://socialactions.com competition once), but it seems to be on a rather large scale, with a limited set of problems posed by large humanitarian organizations. I was thinking more small scale/local, ie how to help people without huge organizations behind them. Ultimately, I have no experience with charity work, though.

Update: just registered hackingforgood.org, I figure I'll start with just a wordpress blog stating my intents, and people can bring up sugggestions in the comments.

Actually I am currently donating time to a project, http://blog.energy-streetfight.com/ , so it is not completely true that I haven't acted on my idea before.
The Congress shall have Power...
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;"

It's not really a matter of living versus dead trees. The US judicial system has just plainly ignored the "among the several States" caveat for the last 100 years. I'm not advocating either side of this example, by how does growing and consuming marijuana on your own property fall under regulated commerce "among the several States?" I understand it was originally banned using taxation powers (i.e. charge a stamp tax on it, but don't sell the stamps), but that pretext seems to have now been dropped.
>>> 2+2

4

However,

>>> import gc

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>

<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>

<p>The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.</p>
I don't really understand the logic behind chip and pin cards. Do you really want me to disclose my card and my PIN to a completely untrusted machine a stranger hands to me? How do I know the vendor won't just record both and replay them, charging me for things I didn't pay?
One can also take a look at Crunchy. [ http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/ ]
Very cool, I've actually been doing this lately in a slightly different way and the performance differences are just monumental.
Basically a duplicate (different article discussing the same source): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8910476
Here's a 2 part video of Sutherland demonstrating SketchPad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKM3CmRqK2o

My favourite Sutherland quote:

When asked, “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?” Sutherland replied, “Well, I didn't know it was hard.” -- http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987
I didn't downvote you. I merely expressed my dissapointment after reading the article and looking for interesting discussion that yours was the first comment which spawned a whole unrelated side-thread.

It's great that you can eat at 2am.
Yes I think it needs to be noted that V8 in node 0.10 is very very far behind when you take into account how quick the pace of development is. I would be interested to see these comparisons with bleeding edge node vs stable node.
There are case studies also: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Case+...
While I don't think he should be flipping the bird, his technical arguments are absolutely spot on.

An aside question for readers: How often does RAM error, and is it a significant problem in practice?

I don't have any direct experience with this (that I could tell) using consumer computers for the past 15-odd years of programming.
Screening has been shown to be effective for lung cancer. With enough data, we can improve the posterior enough for certain applications that we don’t need the stronger prior of complaints.

Over time as AI improves, more and more diagnoses can look like this.
I think the problem is the business model where the strategy is to grow big enough so you can sell to someone that knows how to abuse a monopoly. How do you grow big ? Give away stuff for free, pay gatekeepers like ISP's so users can use your service for free, and pay platforms to have your service as the default.

Why do users use it? It's cool, it's free, and others are using it.

What happens when you sell? The founders get a lot of money, the software become uncool, and users will be leaving to another chat app that is cool and free.
In iMessage, before one starts typing, the text field says either “iMessage” or “text message”, so one knows how it’ll be sent without relying on the blue/green color scheme.
iPads have found many niche uses, e.g. in retail, and for people on the road who use only a few apps (e.g. sales or health professionals)

iPads are also great educational tools where kids can interact with the device but don't have to contend with a full blown OS.

It's interesting also that the iPad is kinda growing up to be more of a full blown device for more content creation, since the hardware is clearly more than up to the task, the OS can be kept fairly simple and secure - clearly Apple are responding to what customers have been asking for, and what they're asking for is more iPad.
Unlikely. Even in these troubling times the fed likes to have assets backing loans. Maybe an SBA program could be competitive but not in the near term.
Pretty much, yes.

It’s not so much that Microsoft or Apple’s business model is harmless—I certainly wouldn’t describe them that way—but their business models and their forms of influence are comprehended by most people.
Really, the Fed has something called "raise interest rates" in case that happens. Something they've been wanting to do since the housing crisis and the primary reason they can't is that there hasn't been enough inflation, and raising interest rates against low inflation causes deflation (which is very bad).

Congress could do everybody a huge favor right now by printing quite a lot of money and handing it out. Which would address the deflationary forces created by the demand destruction of the coronavirus in the short term and allow the Fed to actually raise interest rates after the pandemic is over.
And then you have VCs like this: https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1241382507226050562
Who want to take the opportunity of the crisis to inflict pain on workers. Here, a VC suggests 10 or 25% paycuts for employees so "employees feel a bit of the sting that their customers are feeling"
Platforms like Zwift give professional cyclists a platform to practice their skills. It's widely used and fans ride with professionals on a daily basis. You definitely can't feel the wind, but you can get the benefits from the simulation.
“75 people across all four, ranging across both technical and nontechnical job roles”
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Hamburg, Germany

I am a penetration tester with 5+ years of experience in security, plus a few more years doing system administration. I discovered several zero-days, and with the help of a colleague, we have recently audited TinyTinyRSS uncovering multiple critical vulnerabilities.

At the moment, I'm building a new business (draft website: https://digeex.de/) and I'm looking for freelance projects until the company is up and running. I want to focus on web applications security only, for now, to improve this service before offering anything else related to security.

Email me at daniel (at) digeex.de to book a free appointment so we can discuss the details, and I'll come back with the quotes for your project.
You want them to be born in September or October (or, more generally, a month or two after the school year starts). Probably October, so that there's no chance they're born in August. They'll be more developed than their July birthday brethren at every stage of their education - it's a very easy boost. For example, exams at 16 in the UK (GCSEs) that by and large everyone takes, you'd expect 54% of autumn birthday children to get 5 grades A*-C. You'd expect 48% of the summer birthday children to achieve this.
At age 11, the gap is a slightly larger 8 points in terms of percentage of children who meet expectations.

This is a nontrivial difference, which makes it a trivial decision.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
I'd say typing is probably the sill that's easiest to optimize.

Muphry's law strikes again :)
It's actually called "Page title" though.
MAS's CDN that is. The same CDN they were using before the hack even happened.
My local newspaper stretched it a bit further by saying that the website was defaced bt "sympathizers of IS". Which is doubly funny, because they obviously took the bait.
what .. why ..
I have a friend that is emphatic about the benefits of what he terms 'realm-role' security[1], which I do prefer over some of the more byzantine approaches I've dealt with.

The levels of complexity stack up on the user side too, especially if you try to accommodate wandering contexts in multitenancy scenarios. His model doesn't try to address those requirements, which may be for the best.

[1] http://www.bivio.biz/bp/Realm_Role_Task/Diagram
Install sl(1) and teach your 3 year old to type s l ENTER :-)
Usage wise it is nothing near a subreddit, although it is nearly identical to IRC.
Actually discovery on Google Play is getting a lot better. I get recommendations based on what friends have reviewed all the time. Most of the interesting apps I find and install are because someone I know on G+ installed it and +'d it or rated it.
The app wasn't shut down, but one feature (auto-follow) was cut off. Periscope does not use this feature either.

All the other spammy app practices remain.
Hold on there as much as you can possibly tolerate. This toxic environment is indeed building up your personality and you will end up being a better professional (would you do those "intense study sessions" otherwise ?) and a better person (you are learning how to not treat people).

Embrace those rotten attitudes and bitter words. Feel joy when you get them, for it is for a higher goal. Feel sad for them, for they are pretty much worthless human beings.

Don't let them make you quit. Stay there, learn as much as you can and quit, with pride, when you feel those dumb asses have nothing to offer you anymore.

And then, you win. They lose.
True, it's not the cheapest but EuroDNS is more service oriented with a free mailbox, a free ssl certificate, 4 name servers with Anycast nodes. And the renewals remain usually at the same price, and not the first year under the real cost price as some does in the industry.
"the terrorists that have power in Gaza". You start from the wrong premise. You're defining them terrorists because that allows you to dismiss their fight as "terrorism". Given that Israel is an occupying power in Gaza (yes, "in January 2012, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General stated that under resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the UN still regards Gaza to be part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory") the combatants in Gaza are freedom fighters.
seeing its parents so rarely, they wouldn't be exactly a role model parents for their kids. could be much worse, or course, but having kids is arguably the most important thing in lives of many people, so if doing it, let's do it properly and raise (at least try hard, i mean HARD) a confident, balanced issue-free happy people. i've got the feeling this planet & mankind needs more of those compared to uber-competitive self-centered workoholics.
This is a good video on the topic:
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
> More information is better than less

False positives come at a cost. For example there is considerable debate about the use of routine mammograms, because of the potential stress caused by false positives.
> but are they a golden ticket to good health

No, building a ventilator is like building an engine because you need to go to the store - you're missing so much of the solution to the problem. I've also posted before [1] on why they are a terrible idea to waste time on "designing".

That said, ventilators I believe are already a solved problem for COVID. We have tens of thousands in the strategic stockpile, and production capacity is being ramped up hopefully to meet demand. This is exactly how these stockpiles were intended to work.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22581652
I think Climate change, population growth, travel, antimicrobial resistance are all good candidates in increasing the risk of this happening more often.
Is it open source or will it be at some point?
>> there were actually more people out viewing yesterday than last year.

Incorrect from my close observation of three Tokyo hanami locations with which I have become familiar over a long period.

The density of picnickers has been lower than I have observed over previous years. Furthermore, the respect for mutual distance through eye contact has been new and noticeable.
Does someone know how much of this needs to be injected to be effective?
Wow, we have come so far from the Ebola response that it has literally become inconceivable there would be more active international cooperation. This doesn't bode well.
Working on https://www.tricoda.com/ - Multi-cloud management tool that organizes all your providers servers into a single pane of glass.

Idea came about from having my own servers across so many providers and wanting to make it easier to manage.
Sure, I don't disagree - I meant only to add context for anyone reading who was unfamiliar with Haskell, lest they come away with the impression that the lack of a .get()-equivalent was some kind of egregious oversight.
Well the pretty girl wasn't going to sleep with you anyway...perhaps you just need more practice talking to pretty girls until you realize they're mostly just regular people, too. I say this as someone who used to have the same problem.
5.3 is dead. Acknowledge that, upgrade and move on.

The very last thing you should be doing is pandering to infrastructure that "cannot be upgraded". That's BS. Even if you have legacy systems, there's nothing stopping you having another instance of PHP or even another server running current software.

Infrastructure management is very much a part of modern web development. If you want to deploy stuff, be ready to educate your clients every so often.
Toggl is always looking for remote workers http://jobs.toggl.com/
That is very sickening.
Personally, when I first read the spec. for time.Format, I thought "well how bleedin' sensible is that?!" The only thing that annoys me is that it isn't in ISO order (I'd have preferred 2001-02-03 14:05:06 ), but all that you need to remember is "2006-01" and the rest just falls naturally into place. I've seen a couple of "complaints" about this over the last few days, and I just don't understand what the problem is. It's logical and neat.
There are two thing I don't like in IT:

1- Using names for software that is confusing with names of real things that have nothing to do with it, like Cocoa for a user interface library and so many others.

2- Using the terms a two year old will use when she discovers it is funny and gets attention just for saying dirty words.

In this particular case, this combines both in one. The first thing I thought was: This will have something to do with dating and having casual sex or something. Then you discover that no, it has nothing to do with it, it is just a two year old like mindset creating a "funny"(for him) name for their pet project.
There is this repository[1] but I am not sure of its proper functionality plus it hasn't been updated for a long time.

[1] https://github.com/r-willis/biten
"As is typical of most bitcoin/fiat intermediaries when promoting their products, the new exchange is being touted as a first and a means to bring legitimacy to Bitcoin." - Qntra. We've heard that story many times before. Kraken makes similar claims. (Kraken uses the same address, 548 Market St, SF, as Coinbase. It's a mail-forwarding service. Few people know where either exchange really is.)

So what is this "licensed" thing? "Licensed" by whom? The US SEC? The State of New York? Some other state? FinCen.

There have been many exchanges registered with FinCen, the anti-money-laundering regulator, including Mt. Gox. That provides no investor protection. A few have been licensed as state money transmitters. That may provide some investor protection. Nobody as yet has been licensed as a broker, dealer, or exchange with the Securities and Exchange Commission, something every stockbroker and dealer in the US has to do.

Being licensed as a broker/dealer means SIPC insurance for investors up to $500K per customer, FINRA supervision (they fine a few brokers every month), outside audits, exams for personnel (even the people in a call center have to pass an exam, so they know what they can and can't do) and exams top management (yes, even top management at a brokerage has to pass an exam).

There are significant advantages for being a real broker/dealer. You can plug into the financial system at a higher level, and moving money around becomes much easier.

An existing broker/dealer could set up a market in Bitcoin if they wanted to. So far, no one has bothered.

When a Bitcoin exchange gets licensed by the SEC, let us know. Until then, it's just hype.

Edit: the article says they claim to be licensed in California. Here's the list of money transmitters licensed in California: http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Licensees/money_transmitters/money_tra...
Not seeing Coinbase on the list. Silicon Valley names on the list include Google, Square, AirBnb, Xoom, Paypal, Intuit, etc. No Coinbase, or anything in SF that looks like it might be them.
Site appears to be down due to load - https://web.archive.org/web/20210116071649/http://lambda-the... worked for me.
Interesting to see the intersection of the right wing anti-media agenda with a new appreciation for cancel culture. If you don’t like something don’t buy it, but starting a campaign against it makes me think your not interested in a free and open discourse. For the same reason I’m not going to condemn a blogger for a couple of poorly considered comments or a podcaster for an exaggerated story about his daughter, I’m not going to endorse campaigning against the NYT because of some cockamamie idea they dictate public discourse.

Cancel your subscription, stop trying to stoke up a mob.
At the Bondo landslide in Switzerland 2017 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41036851), a lot of water came from glacier ice melted from tumbling down.
Except most likely it wasn't bash shell, or maybe it was, but it was written on an HP-UX and never ported to anything else.

Likewise the C code might eventually be written in K&R C still, make assumptions of byte ordering on the MIPS and memory access semantics of workstation it was originally targeted for, and with luck use SGIPro extensions.
Yes they are more expensive to develop. With a winforms or wpf gui you can iterate much faster than with a web one while supporting rich interactions, thinner tech stack, faster feedback loop.