skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quixey - Mountain View, CA - Lots of good programmers - ONSITE

Quixey wants to make the functionality and information living in apps externally accessible, like web services are today. As such, we work on ways to search, present, and link to in-app content. Our technology currently powers search and discovery tools for Ask and Alibaba and reaches millions of users around the world.

We're constantly looking for a variety of high-quality engineers to work on all kinds of stuff, including but not limited to:

- Machine-learned search relevance

- Data engineering w/Hadoop & Spark

- Android tools to extract in-app content

- Android, iOS, and web SDKs for our services

- Internal web tools

Tech stack is mostly Java, Python, AWS, web things.

We have solid funding, a downtown Mountain View office with about 150 people in it, and a sane, flexible work culture with great benefits. If you're interested email me at marshall@quixey.com and I will happily answer all of your questions and tell you more.
We're also hiring client facing consultants for the Watson Explorer Product (search and content analytics) that can work REMOTE (with travel) anywhere in the US. I know we also hire people in other parts of the world so you may still want to apply.

You can also contact me on my website for an honest opinion of these positions.

https://ibm.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/search/18483874
you know, considering I manage with 300GB / month I don't see why I should need 200MB for each website. Just keep it serialized and compressed until I need it.
Really? That seems smart to me. How often do you use the links in that drawer? Seems better to remove all that text up top and replace with a small icon for something that is rarely used.
VOGUE has actually discovered this problem some time ago. They interviewed a feminist and asked her whether she feels sorry for guys not knowing what to do: Opening the door for a girl is condescending and not opening it is rude. Similarly, a lot of people will advise you to be welcoming and offer your help to women hanging out in hacker spaces, but obviously that can be annoying (talking about annoyances, I'm somewhat tired of being called a white dude) if it happens every other day and they just don't need the help. Given that you can't guess somebody's skill level I really don't see any solution to this problem (to be perfectly honest: It doesn't sound like that big of a problem to me).
Google's new logo is fit for the Internet of Things
List Comprehensions in Common Lisp (a Tutorial)
Isn't ext just an alias for filetype?
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
As a engineer I do not have time to get into this new VM/container thing. I fail to see how it leads to anything productive ( no offence ).

Call me a simpleton but I am happy with better package management and config systems.
Or protected classes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155774/
Georgia cops attack wrong home, shoot man, kill his dog, and wound fellow cop
It's a CPU+GPU hog.
Feature request: zenpayroll integration
The benefits of having a flashless copy/cut function greatly outweigh the off chance some random site will copy something stupid to your clipboard if you interact with it.

While using Flash just for clipboard copying is not ideal, it seems easier to block Flash and stop sites from doing this (and other annoying things Flash is known for, like ads and autoplaying videos...) than blocking small parts of JavaScript APIs integrated into the browser.
> Still, Samsung is here to samsung things up

3rd time I've laughed with more than 60% intensity at something I read on the internet in the last 2 years. thank you!!! hahahaaha

for reference, my last 100% laugh that returned me to the days of cartoons and childhood was this comment about how to install and activate your non-rental-Cable-modem: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/27szuw/comcast_...
> Who keeps web logs these days? It's all spyware javascript tracking for pretty graph printing.

Anyone who needs records of what has been accessed, so larger companies and organisations.

> Plus, any notifications depend on actually instrumenting any monitoring or triggers or processing to even notice your "sensitive" content has been accessed out of context.

Yup. Hence a cron job automatically emailing its result (crude (or simple?) but it would work).

> (and this is just web stuff. imagine how impossible it is to track who forwards your confidential emails or other internal documents around without your permission.)

I don't have to imagine that. This is why DRM exists; document/knowledge management systems should have the ability to allow access to information but not further dissemination. There's still the user education aspect though (and users don't like change...).

Oh, and the insistence of wanting to using external services like Dropbox... gah. "But, but, everyone else uses it!"
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Russia used tubes in a number of fighter radars because they could use a lot of power to burn through opponent's ECM.
Request: Battleship for Slack
No, MBAs do a lot of important things and I have no idea if anyone involved in the post has an MBA. The language used in this post uses a lot of words to explain nothing. It's basic corporate bullshit. MBAs are good at it, but by no means are they the only shovelers.
The Dumbest Idea in the World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
Fighting Facebook
I agree with you. I don't care what google's logo is. AskJeeves had a good logo but their search engine was hopeless.
>Simple mechanical thermostats do this extremely well.

But they don't have api with which to auto post your daily temperature to tumblr. Or security vulnerabilities.
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The bunnies are being rendered on your GPU, but the final frames are being slowly composited in software. There is no fast path to quickly composite WebGL output on Linux yet.
I second all of the above. For me, though, the major regression is the priorities of the search field. Prior to the redesign Maps seemed to know the exact location I needed regardless of the amount of detail I included in the query (i.e. tossing in the name of an intersection without street/ave/blvd info). Now, I seem to need to almost always include exact details (zip, precise USPS-blessed street address) for it to find what I'm looking for.

Not all the time, but enough of a difference that it feels seriously hindered post redesign.
I would rather see the most able taking the risks, because they'll be the ones most likely to succeed, and we all benefit.

Assigning resources to the most able is, of course, an immensely difficult problem that nobody really knows how to solve. But it should be the goal, and I don't see affluence as a good substitute.

How many people are out there right now with the personal ability to change the world in some large beneficial way, but without the necessary finances? What are the rest of us missing out on because they're stuck working a 9-5 job to pay their rent, while some idiot with money is building Twitter for Cats and talking about how much of a risk taker he is because he's living off $50,000 in savings until the VC money comes in?
I'm not saying I find it a need. (And I can check my phone if I want to know, regardless of what room I'm in.) But that's why they did it.
Location: Bristol, UK
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: NodeJS, Python, PHP, Ruby, JS, ExpressJS, Django, Wordpress, Rails, KnockoutJS, SQL, REST, Linux, git, CI.

CV: http://adomasven.com/cv/

Email: adomas [dot] ven [at] gmail.com

I can build you your next RESTful API, integrate with existing systems, work with existing codebases, improving, refactoring, implementing new features, etc. I am available part-time and prefer working with a free schedule.
For sure. Why you're getting my response, and others like it, is because well, this is a tech circle and we're talking about tech jobs, so in this context, it's certainly nowhere close to being a school no one has heard of.

edit: Your original comment (paraphrased) was, 'I go to this school no one's heard of, but my classmate get offers to <top-tier tech companies>', but the reality of this is that all of these top-tier tech companies are without a doubt quite aware of Waterloo and it's quality. The same can't be said for, what, I don't know, Cleveland State University.
Sure, a really smart implementation (coalescing reference count updates, concurrent de-allocations to get pauslessness, etc) could have some nice properties.

However, while the amount of virtual memory needed for a tracing GC might seem large, it is not active memory. Reference counting on the other hand will significantly increase the amount of active used memory, especially if many small objects are common.

As for GC vs. manual memory management, both have their uses. For most systems I would argue that GC is the way to go since it is quite efficient and is much more productive. On the other hand, I actually like writing code that has manual memory management. My current interest is learning more Rust for that kind of development.
This is a false comparison. Logos for clothes sit on the clothes which are themselves judged entirely on their appearance.

Google's search engine has a separate function that stands on it's own two feet irrespective of a change to an 'e'.

> If you don't have a good logo you don't have a good business

Come on my good man, get a grip!
This sounds like an interesting exercise. I'd love to see your results. Getting meaningful negative feedback from recruiters might be a neat trick.
I make a text editor that runs in a texture on a 3D object in the browser. I have a text area hidden in the background that technically holds focus and all clipboard operations go through it.

I was hoping this would let me get rid of that crufty text area. It's a serious quality and performance liability, and in certain special cases even ruins the UX. But it looks like that is not the case. Le sigh.
Well, I for one used those links to navigate between Google properties: from Gmail to YouTube, for instance.

Now I just don't go to YouTube when something on Gmail piques my interest.

That one click was a huge amount of effort for casual browsing, and forces a re-evaluation of idle browsing between properties.
You should use ON-SITE over NO-RE-MOTE to help searches ;)
See, descriptions like this make me think that many people do indeed see clearer mental pictures than I (grandparent post) do. I'm going to have to do some informal surveys of friends and family!
Brazilian wasp venom kills cancer cells by opening them up
Unofficial Google data science blog
That's a silly question. Of course it doesn't have AirWave. AirWave is Nest's trademarked name for the very simple technology of continuing to run the fan a bit after the compressor has switched off.

But even old cheap digital thermostats with chicklet keys know to run the fan after turning off the furnace or AC[1].

[1] http://inspectapedia.com/heat/Thermostat_FAN_Switch.php
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Full Stack Rails Developers at Bonanza work across a variety of projects, gravitating toward those that are most stimulating for them. Our philosophy is that developers are most productive when they are given projects that best combine their talents and interests.

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http://www.bonanza.com/jobs/
I'd be frightened to see the world run by people like me, but I'd love to see the world run by the best of the best, as long as we can somehow select for morality as well as intelligence.
US House of Representatives Office of the CAO | Washington, DC | Full Time

The CAO's Web Systems group manages websites, APIs, and a multitude of web applications for the US House of Representatives. The position is for a non-senior developer, so we are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated willingness to learn and proven ability to synthesize technology solutions from business problems but may not have a deep work experience yet. We work on fun problems that have the potential for significant impact for constituent engagement and open government.

http://www.house.gov/content/jobs/vacancyDetails.php?Positio...

(position closes 9/4...)
The rotated 'e' reminds me of Pac-Man, eating everything in reach.
Tennessee execution procedures? lovely
I ordered http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0876781180?psc=1&redirect=t... a long time ago.

This: http://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Self-teaching-Handw...
seems to be updated.
Dtrace was, and still is, awesome. Linux has come a long way in this area in the last few years, but DTrace was one of the hottest systems management capabilities I'd seen in forever, particularly on the very large SMP systems that had become Solaris's sweet spot in those waning years.
might be 5.0 mem leak issues and general bugs
Feature request! HipChat integration!

Shoot, I'll just do it myself.
Hg-number: refer to mercurial files by numbers instead of filenames
It is too late to brake, the decision has to be made between the 3 options, no other options exist.
Syllabus for Monetary Theory and Policy
I've never, ever used Google maps on a computer and had it work well. It's always at least a little laggy/slow even on a 60Mbps connection on a nice laptop.
The BDB mmmap cache actually worked fine for many years, on older OSs. They didn't keep accurate track of which memory pages were dirtied or when, so they were pretty lazy about flushing changes back to disk. This made an mmap'd file functionally equivalent to a SysV shared memory region. I remember when Linux changed in the 2.6 series, and suddenly using an mmap'd file got incredibly slow, because the kernel was proactively flushing dirtied pages back to disk. We started recommending SysV shm for all our deployments after that. You had to be careful in configuring this, since SysV shm wasn't swappable or pageable.
The only thing you really need for a perfect thermostat is a 10GBP PID controller, thermoprobe and SSR.

And your Grandma won't even have to use it because it will maintain perfect 22C all year long due to its dual cooling/heating outputs.
You are technically right on all counts.

But we live in a new world. A world of BYOD and now, in 2015, Bring-Your-Own-SaaS. Employees put content up on company platforms, on third party platforms, on high heel platforms.

The problem of solving data privacy at a _competent_ level across every organization is intractable with so many "just do whatever you want" vibes in the air.

Now, that obviously doesn't happen everywhere, but it happens everywhere until it doesn't. Biggest offenders are usually non-technical offices: sales using 8 hosted platforms for metrics, email, surveys, project management, job hiring, etc. All impossible to actually control at any sane level outside of 340 UI clicks of the mouse across webby webby land.

tl;dr give up and go live in a cave for the next 30 years until all this gets sorted
Mine. Pick Basic, with only an ed-like line editor, in all caps, on Pick OS running inside an emulator called VMark UniVerse on HP/UX. I lasted a year.
Two of the forces are intuitive to grasp. Two aren't. And?
Ditto and I have a gigabit connection. Slooooow. I just profiled the maps start page and it transferred 2.5MB in 182 requests and took 2.56s to load. This compared to 544ms for the Google homepage. It's like their optimization team never got invited to Google Maps.
Timeline of the far future
Would any of the font-aficionados call this a slab-serif? There's a slight serif on the second g but other than that it looks kind of like comic sans.
McDonald's all-day breakfast is rolling out nationwide
15 Design Tips for Your API
can you open that up more? I'm skeptical. Which instructions?
Location: London, UK
Willing to relocate: EU
Technologies: Flexible (Web ; systems)
Email: in profile

I would love to hear from ambitious startups or companies, pref. London or UK based.

Commercial Experience : Blocks Wearables (smartwatch prototype) ; Oxride (web developement / transport) ; Quadriga Worldwide (set-top box) ; Imagination Technologies (mobile GPU); Cambridge Microfab/ European Space Agency

Open source : X server ; Minix/Linux bridge ; Various smaller projects inc. machine learning, data visualisation.
Recurse Center alum.

Github: https://github.com/pyb
Dear %recruiter_sig%

Thank you for your interest. I am currently accepting ColdFusion contracts at a base rate of $385/hr.

Thanks,
%prospect_name%

(That should cover my therapy bills.)
Willie and the Weed Factory
How did you do RAC on AWS without shared storage?
Marissa Mayer is expecting twin girls
Much more interesting if you limit the search by time.

Less than a month old? A single screenful, mostly Australian.
Summer interns realized how crappy their code was
The reason iPhone was designed for this usage pattern probably has to do with the iPod, with which they owned mobile music consumption for half a decade. A PDA would have been a radical re-think.

Fans wanted a phone in there since day one. The only reason it took them six years to do it was Jobs commitment to getting it exactly right (or "his way" if you wish) which meant technology had to become available.
I was homeschooled my entire life. I taught myself how to read as a toddler, so my parents decided that I needed to have a great education. However, they had no faith in public education and no money for private school. I'm currently finishing up a Ph.D. and have a healthy social life, so I consider homeschooling a success in my case. My thoughts, in case anyone is interested:

I imagine it is much easier to homeschool now that PCs and the internet are ubiquitous. My mom had to do a lot of work assembling curricula and sifting through textbooks that would be much easier today.

Homeschooling works better in groups. It ends up being like a regular school environment but with much smaller class sizes and heavier investment by the teachers. In my teens, my group met on Saturdays for a long intense literature class, Mondays for most other classes, and individually for math. Naturally we had lots of reading and homework to do the rest of the week. Some of the "classes" I took were more in-depth than my university courses.

Homeschooling taught me my most valuable skill: how to teach myself. I taught myself algebra because I didn't like the way it was explained to me (textbooks offered more rigor). I read lots of classic literature in my spare time, taught myself how to touch type, play guitar, etc.

The biggest downside was not having a guidance counselor. No one in my family had been to college, and that led to me making dumb mistakes in the college application process (like not applying to top schools because they were too expensive, not knowing they offered substantial need-based financial aid). I also struggled to learn to program on my own.
No, that's the opposite of how it should be.

In an ideal world would be everyone would be free to take business risks, and customers would reward the ideas that offer a real benefit.

What we have now is a world where hardly anyone is free to take business risks, and the people who are tend to share the same political and social values.

Politically, that makes for caste perpetuation and monoculture - which is the exact opposite of the entrepreneurial mythology.
Would it be ethical to program an autonomous car to drive its passengers off a cliff to save for example a normal bus full of children? Would it not be the most logical and ethical thing for a computer to do in such a situation?
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Intel, Cisco Launch Alliance for Open Media
Ask HN: How do you talk about your software projects – without pitching?
Edenworks Is Building the Future of Food on Urban Rooftops
Thanks - that's what I was looking for. I'll read more about the deep class hierarchies to see if it would be a problem. Shame to hear about the importing, I kind of like Python's importing (sans the circular dings).
The most beneficial app no one knows about
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That's precisely the point. :)

Take at your statement, and pretend a frustrated/easily embarrassed/grumpy person is hearing it:

"You look like you could use some help" --> "You look like you don't know what you're doing/you look frustrated"

"I may be able to offer relevant expertise" --> "I assume that I both have something to offer and that you are having a problem of this particular way/shape/form"

"in the interests of addressing your apparent problem" --> "whatever you're working on is clearly broken, and needs fixing"

My formulation is intentionally very gentle and indirect, precisely to avoid any of the above misinterpretations. Working with people experienced in the field or who are known to be open to communication, obviously, we want to be more direct; for a novice, or for somebody who is looking for any excuse to take offense at what you're saying (perhaps because they're frustrated at their work and want to vent at something), it is useful to take a lighter touch.
It's unfortunate how quickly some people resort to threats of violence. "The police" is just an abstraction layer. It's personal violence outsourced, and no less insidious.
Are you asking how much someone would have to pay me for me to stop? The answer's nothing, leaving Google is it's own reward.
I can't find the download of the data with an open license, could you help me find it? The Developer page only lists APIs for single lookups and the license page says things like "Please don't store any of our data."?
Yeah, exactly like that :P
So quickly checked out Gumroad's fees and it's 5% + 25 cents per transaction.

This is a similar a similar service but you can just store the files locally, minus the 25 cents transaction fee.

Does it matter if files are hosted on their server or yours(3rd party) if they can access them via links anyway?
Adobe Flash: Kill it now
https://www.edx.org/course/scalable-machine-learning-uc-berk...!

It's one of the assignments. (The collaborative filtering one)
Study: 100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are 'Shady'