skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but think of a Simpsons episode. ... but who will eat all the Darkling Beetles?

Oh, no problem for that we brought in Malaysian bats.

But what about all the bats?

Oh we have a plan: we have Indonesian tree boas that love to eat Malaysian bats.

And the boas?

That is the best part, come winter, they are not used to the cold and will all die off...
Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior (2010)
I completed a program sort of like this one. My opinion is that it is probably not worth it overall. I learned a lot about how to build things, but I am very lacking when it comes to CS fundamentals, and I would struggle to build something complex from start to finish. A technical interview would be a real struggle.

I benefited greatly from the structured curriculum, but it didn't go much deeper than Hartl's Rails tutorial. Once you've got the basics, you're really only limited by your imagination and your desire to make interesting things that have a range of practical applications that might get you job ready.

I'm still quite lost in any conversation with advanced programmers, but I'm doing alright helping my sister learn to code at the moment. I've got a lot to learn, and I'm doing that on my own now. The program was a decent jumpstart.

Midway through the course I adjusted my expectations for where I'd be by the end, so I'm not really disappointed with how it turned out. Now, I'm basically a marketer with much stronger than average coding chops for someone in marketing.
>I'm interested in why you consider it shady for a retailer not to sell a product. I don't see Google or Apple selling products from anyone but themselves (mostly. Apple does sell a few accessories and Google has some pure editions which they have a hand in). Pick any retailer, and there are brands and products they don't sell.

That's because google and apple aren't the Walmart of the internet, they make electronics. Amazon specializes in selling stuff, google and apple make stuff and also happen to sell them on their website, or you could buy it from somewhere else (in google's case)
I guess. I dunno, I just always see lots of comments about how the EDTX judges are awful/pro-patent/getting kickbacks/whatever. So the idea that, hey, they just needed to be educated by presiding over a few cases... it's odd.
I know someone who went who I also helped through the process. My opinions based on observations of her experience:

1) She didn't learn anything she couldn't have learned on code academy or learn python the hard way.

2) She didn't like the social environment. Quote: "I thought it would be frat boys calling me sexy mexy, not passive aggressive hipsters basking in the glow of steve jobs style superiority. At least some brogrammers are hot."

2b) GA is all about group projects and public demos. She wanted to do coding because she'd rather sit with her computer alone than deal with hipsters.

3) She said many interviewers looked down on the GA name after experience with underskilled GA leavers.

4) She got a coding job and the pay hike has probably paid for the cost of GA by now.

tl;dr; If you can just learn the new skills and post code to github, you probably just saved $12k over what GA offers.
DIY Smart Mirror with React Native
But you need to go deeper. Amazon hasn't built apps that support those devices because those devices manufacturers want a cut of their profits off of subscriptions or rentals because those device manufacturers (Google / Apple) want people to use their own services instead.
Software patents are pitched as a policy choice that encourages programmers by giving them some financial incentive to invent more software.

That's how they have been pitched to programmers and the American people.

However, after having worked in the patent industry for a few years now, I can tell you software patents are really just a mechanism to redistribute the wealth of engineers to lawyers. Period. That's the end result. Nothing more.

I wish this was some sort of exaggeration. But it isn't in my opinion.
Agreed completely. My deepest passion is aging biology. What I learned however in studying type II diabetes and obesity, is that the molecular mechanisms are hugely aligned. Its all the same core metabolic genes that the aging biologists focus on in worms and flies. Those are the genes that seem to be related to insulin signaling and diabetes.

My core vision of this project is to better understand this overlap.
Yeti Campus Stories | San Francisco, CA (On Site) | Full-Stack

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Students use yeti to see what's going on around them visually. There's a deep love for our product and we've been growing steadily for the past 8 months. We're ready to expand the team :)

We are looking for a full stack developer to join our 8-person team in our SOMA office (two blocks from Twitter HQ). We are VC-backed company and we offer medical benefits (including dental) & flexible hours. Our team is an eclectic bunch of smart, hard-working, and fun-loving people and we can't wait to meet our next teammate! Please email me at ben@theyetiapp.com with a description of your coding background and experience and we'll go from there.
Experian Says 15M Have Info Stolen in Hack of T-Mobile Data
Thanks for the feedback! I've adjusted the colors so hopefully the contrast is a little better. I was trying to differentiate book categories that have not yet had any discussions in them. The idea being that if people are interested in a specialized category say "Computers > Programming > Elixir" they could easily identify categories where there is no content.

Believe it or not one of my aims in doing this project was to put my knowledge of Haskell to use on a practical pet project. However my Haskell-fu is not strong enough yet so this is built on the language of the (lesser) Gods :-) http://xkcd.com/224/
I have a question about raising VC money earlier. If you want to grow fast and push some free platform out to change the world, what is main danger in raising VC? I'm talking about the VCs these days who invest in companies that make open source like NGiNX, MySQL etc. And you need resources to grow, if you want to beat competitor platforms.

I mean logically, if they've already given you the money and there isn't any way they can take over governance of the company, then the only leverage I can think of is signaling in future rounds. And if you weren't even going to raise one VC round, then at that point you may as well raise exactly one and then signaling is irrelevant. Yes you've diluted yourself 20% and now you've got a board member that wants you to grow fast, but so do you. Of course, I'm assuming here that you failed to raise on Kickstarter, and you aren't making enough $ to hire people to do development/testing/security/evangelism/PR/marketing/operations/etc. anytime soon. Why waste years of your life when you can hand the project off eventually to a community you've built, and move on? If you want to retain control over the project forever, can always be BDFL of the community, at least until some better-funded company forks it. I just really want to understand, what is the reason that guys like DHH say VC can control you after you take their money?
Confluence used to use markdown and wysiwyg, and about 5 years ago abandoned markdown to reduce development costs. They have a lot of non-developer users using Confluence, who aren't good with things like markdown. Our shop didn't like it, of course, since we were all capable of markdown and wysiwyg is never actually wysiwyg.
The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret
Probably this is because I'm being daft but I honestly can't figure out what Tonic even is. It seems like a data visualization framework, but then it seems to be a package manager or something? I clicked around and tried to find a simple few sentence summary and then gave up.
Trac is still around, Django still uses it. I thought rtorrent was using it too but a google search seems to indicate they migrate to github.

Company I work at was founded in 2007 and we used trac up until around 2009 I think, then we switched to jira.

I am a big fan of jira. It's definitely more complicated than a simple bug tracker like bitbucket or github issues, but it is waaaaay more powerful than those.
And this is pure bullshit. Do you eat macronutrients, or do you eat food ?
If everyone then and now was eating Soylent, yeah, it may have some sense.
In the case of cql-rb, patches are most certainly not welcome.
> same mentally as guns i guess.

Is it really the same? I struggled over this a bit and I think I agree that the mentality is the same, but disagree on the nature of that mentality.

Moneyed interests want patents because it is easy for moneyed interests to acquire patents and more difficult for others. Such interests do not need to go to war. They only need speak softly and show their patents. Their hegemony is not threatened, even if they must fight amongst themselves.

Likewise, guns. Make it impossible for people to acquire guns and those with the guns remain in control. There is no need to go to war when those who would disagree with you are under your control because they cannot defend themselves.
It always helps. Some people just need to try harder.

Much deeper, and more valuable, would be information on the optimal time of day to eat, exercise, etc, and more information on the specifics of the exercise needed (in terms of intensity or heart rate zones).

TLDR, exercise matters, so does genome, but what we really want is more specifics. This might inform better lifestyle adjustments.
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> Or in the case of Apple they didn't want to give Apple their 30% cut?

As a data point, when Amazon bought ComiXology, the in-app store was immediately removed, and replaced with syncing purchased made on the ComiXology website.
> reformed rules would have forced trolls like eDekka to actually explain how their targets infringe their patents. However, that's not currently a requirement

How is it even possible to sue somebody for something you can't show that they did?
On the other hand, I've seen plenty of CS graduates that _can't_ code. Even Master's students.
What do you mean by "if you want any other async model you can't use it"? I know you can write whatever code you want, but promises are supposed to be the standard way of signaling completion of asynchronous operations in javascript.

This is the same as saying that "arrow functions only works if you want to represent functions".

Also, promises don't eat errors. It's the code using those promises that forget to handle them.

The async/await fixes that by unwrapping those errors for you. Any errors in an "await expression" will be thrown as exceptions up the stack.
If you look past the common rhetoric against ED Texas about bring patentee-friendly and look at the data, this is not really surprising.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597919

ED Texas did get a bad rap for being plaintiff-friendly early on, but that didn't last long at all, as the data shows. These days it seems to be favored for being a relatively fast docket and having judges with more patent-expertise.
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Makrs (www.makrs.io) | Locations: Canada | Job: Full-Stack MeteorJS Developer. webRTC/Kurento experience is a plus. | EQUITY/INTERN

Keywords: Livestreaming, video, webRTC, linux, MeteorJS, Full-Stack, web development, android, iOS, eLearning

Overview: Makrs is twitch for Makers. You can live stream anything maker related, from development and design to 3D Printing or woodworking. Your role will be a Full-Stack developer who is comfortable with MeteorJS and webRTC. You will be implementing webRTC with Kurento media server so broadcasters can stream to users. This is an equity and Co-Founder based position that will be salary based post-launch.

Our website is about 90% done and we are looking for one more member to join our team! Remote is okay as most of our team is already remote. Just shoot me an email at hello@makrs.io if interested.
My official diagnosis is "atypical cystic fibrosis." It predisposes me to CFRD -- Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes -- which is neither Type I nor Type II diabetes, or so I have heard.

I did read an article on protein and the role it plays in insulin resistance. I have no idea how you think that connects to inflammation. Care to share?
Also, I'm looking for a feedback for the page itself, literally any feedback (I have thick skin)

Critique is welcome. Please ping me here or mail@whoishiring.io
It's actually quite hard for instructors to deal with classrooms with very uneven advantages between students. Given that these courses try to get the most of such short time periods, I'd imagine you'd either be unhappy with the pace or perhaps lead other students to feel like they're lost.
So far as I can tell, they did have one common markup syntax for all applications... but then Confluence users wanted a WYSIWYG mode, so Confluence now uses an XML-based format internally, and Stash is a Git tool and 90% of the Git ecosystem loves Markdown, so Stash had to use it too...
ECMAScript Shared Memory and Atomics Proposal
The toyish version showed in tutorials, yes. The real stuff, no, it's just .. integers.

And anyway, my point was that you can do much much more than type level arithmetic.
Good, but slow. Even most of the autocomplete solutions I've used in VIM fall in that category. The only one that doesn't is exuberant ctags and that's because it's not intelligent; it does tag lookups and nothing more. If you have two classes with the same function name, it can't tell which one you want. Which is too bad. It doesn't seem like asking for fast autocomplete is unreasonable for 2015. Then again, between PHP, html, css and JS, Zeal takes up many gigabytes of my hard drive. The wordpress docs are even bigger. Maybe it's not that autocomplete is slow, it's that the data set it has to operate on is increasing at an alarming rate.

Slightly OT food for thought.
I don't think you follow. Programs like Photoshop, Maya and 3DSM don't merge.

Period.

Your only option in this case is to throw away someone's work and force them to redo the work on the file that you decided to keep.
No offense taken. I used the word belief because this is my own personal perspective. Up to this point, everything that Amazon has done, it benefited me (personally), as a customer. This is one instance where I can't fathom a guess as to how it benefits me or any of their customers. Especially when they give an insulting reason, like customer confusion.
Seems Microsoft made the patent "deal" with Google just in time. Soon they wouldn't have had any leverage to "threaten" companies with patent lawsuits.
As an avid player of both video games and board games, I'll say one thing: video games have really fallen afoul of the diminishing marginal utility of interesting decisions. A 2-hour game of Agricola, to me, has far more interesting decisions packed into it than 20 hours of Civilization V, despite having orders of magnitude fewer options per turn and turns per game.
SOCi, Inc. | https://www.meetsoci.com/ | San Diego, local only

SOCi is a new age social media management platform that is reinventing the process of managing hundreds of social media accounts in a time-efficient manner. Winner of the San Diego Innovator of the Year (http://on.mktw.net/ZULfCc) and named a San Diego Venture Group 2014 and 2015 COOL Company, SOCi brings Big Brand social media campaign and promotion capabilities to small businesses and their service providers. PHP / MySQL / Backbone / Jasmine / NodeJS.

Software Engineer

We’re looking for someone who considers programming an art form; someone who loves writing elegant code and has an innate need to create components that are easy to reuse and work well together. The thought of copy-pasting coding should cause you to shiver in horror, and badly formatted code should give you nightmares.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/94361/software-enginee...

QA Engineer

We’re looking for someone who is meticulously detail-oriented. You will need to have a natural itch to try to find new and innovative ways to break things and test for scenarios others can’t think of. Willingness and patience to execute manual tests repeatedly, coupled with an innate drive to try and automate everything so the former is not needed will make you an excellent candidate.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/94362/qa-engineer-soci...
mPath - http://mpath.com - Palo Alto and San Francisco

mPath is a new type of mobile productivity platform for businesses. Most people don't need all of their business data on their phone – just the pieces that matter to them. With mPath, business folks (non-developers) can modify the app for their needs (without coding). All of this takes between a few minutes and a few hours.

We launched recently, and we're getting quite a bit of traction inside businesses. We need help building out our suite of productivity apps and extending the platform.

Our stack is

- React/Sinatra web app

- Swift 2 using MVVM on iOS

- Java/Dropwizard and Phoenix/HBase on the back end

- Java on Android

Right now, we have a small but very talented team, and we'd like to add more curious, intelligent people who are interested in solving challenging problems. interested [at] mpath dotcom

The two high-priority roles are:

1. Senior Backend Engineer - Java and Phoenix/HBase

2. Android engineer

Check out http://www.mpath.com/about#positions
"More and more analysts, though, are pointing out that this claim is little more than an accounting trick: UN officials have massaged the numbers to make it seem as though poverty has been reduced, when in fact it has increased."
http://ssir.org/articles/entry/using_design_thinking_to_erad...
Was that really the xkcd you wanted?
Inside the CIA's New Digital Directorate
What I Learned About Al Qaeda from Analyzing the ‘Bin Laden’ Audio Tapes
Reminds me of the "Cowboy Bebop" universe, in which a large portion of the moon was shattered during an early test of hyperspace-gate technology.
There may be a niche for enlightened managers or startup funders to promote such a thinking. If successful it will lead to a clear competitive advantage.
Humble Monthly subscription service launches next month
I'm not a student, but I do think it's in general a terrible idea to go to a coding school. It's not only quite a bit of money for something which you could get for free online, but it's also a strong negative symbol on your job application. Most of the people who are hiring for tech positions either taught themselves or got a CS degree (frequently, both) and this leads to a significant anti-bootcamp bias which is compounded by the masses of incompetent bootcamp grads.
See US Army.
Would rent control fall under this? Rent control creates artificial pressures for people not to leave housing, which restricts housing from being opened up to people moving in to a region, which causes rents of non-occupied units to rise.
It's a REPL for Node.js.

It has data visualization features, and it also manages npm packages for you, but those are just features. Another way to think of it is, a different (hopefully better) version of the thing you'd get if you just typed "node" in your terminal.
Sometimes, there's a comment that just so tersely and poignantly coalescences my objection to a public policy of enormous import but minuscule attention. This is one of those.
Just speaking in general here, I can't think of any specific examples. Are there civil (not criminal) cases that have a heavy racial component where it would be favorable to file in an area with a particular demographic mix?
That's the per-instance price, so multiply it by the number of nodes you need. We use about a dozen, so the difference for us would be around $7000/month.
Ruby, Perl, and Python weren't meant to be in-house languages created to support a commercial product. Not to mention that in their infancies as hobby projects, they didn't have to hit sales deadlines.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language for more instances of this phenomenon and a good discussion. My understanding is that whistled languages often arise on top of tonal languages where tones carry a lot of information. The Turkish example is interesting since Turkish is not a tonal language but they still figured out how to do it.
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You'll work directly with me (founder) to grow our US team and get sh*t done.

You can shoot me an email directly at ronan@wiredcraft.com.
Even if the numbers are a little bit off, I agree with the main point of the article that if we don't think it is hopeless there is a better chance that we will continue to work for the betterment of all.
Ripple Labs: San Francisco, Lead QA Engineer, Full-time

https://www.ripplelabs.com/careers/

Ripple Labs is the global leader on distributed financial technology. The team supports adoption of the Ripple protocol, an Internet of Value (IoV) that enables the free and instant exchange of anything of value. The San Francisco-based startup is funded by Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, IDG Capital Partners, Core Innovation Capital, FF Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bitcoin Opportunity Corp. and Vast Ventures.

We're looking for a Lead QA Engineer with greenfield experience to be our first QA hire. Great opportunity to build out a QA program and grow out a team for a radically different product. Should be experienced with backend systems and testing at the protocol level.
absolutely in enterprise SaaS.

beginning with Salesforce.com downwards you have vendors releasing on a fixed schedule.

your valve is scope, but even that is fairly fixed as customers drive what needs to get released when (not "stupid" managers).
It's not your fault. Amazon's branding is confusing.