skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep your head up. I am proud of you for getting that degree in CS.Don't let anyone or anything discourage you.Apply to as many places as possible. There are so many jobs for developers now.If the job descriptions say you need 1 to 3 years of work experience,apply anyway.Dont worry about it.

Aside,be ready to relocate if the need be for now.These are jobs in many bay area start ups.

In the interim,take a look at the following places and see if you can see what fits you
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=p
https://angel.co/jobs
https://remoteok.io/
And if you are really good in Python,Data Structure and Algorithm,summit an application at https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#t=sq&q=j&li=10&j...
You will be fine.
The problem is that NASA's patents may enable a subsequent technology that is also patentable that NASA will then need to licence. By holding patents they can get negotiating power on further technological improvements.
How to grow your tiny agency into a big one
Well, ideally we could measure and track the stats for both. Animal protein is generally a more complete protein. If we tracked just "protein" do we count incomplete proteins? Do we count textured vegetable protein?
>> Wonder if it pays to have every police gun have a GPS/microcontroller which uploads over cellular the GPS corrdinates and timestamp whenever the gun is discharged

There are already a myriad of procedures in place for dealing with weapons being discharged.

You do realize its standard procedure in most states that if an officer discharges his weapon in any scenario other than department training or range practice its investigated by the department? This includes accidental discharges, warning shots, and shooting at animals and other scenarios. Also, the last time I checked with a buddy who's a cop, they have to check out and check in their firearms and ammunition. Any discrepancy between check out and check in, and a report has to be filed.
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I for one am curious how much battery life you can really pull out of it. When I see 12 hours on the spec I usually don't get more than 7-8 and that's right there in the 'not enough for a day' zone for me.
What would you ask the top online entrepreneurs
With the addition of virtual desktops to Windows 10 you can keep the full-screen Virtualbox in another desktop. Switching between OSs just by pressing Ctrl+Super-Right/Left is fun.
Distinguishing between destruction of property and vandalism seems like implicit validation of the idea that some vandalism is worse than others.
So, I have a very strong opinion of this whole matter, and the person behind it. I've forced myself to ignore everything I wanted to write or reply to about it, but what struck a chord was your perspective, which is that credentials should have been revoked.

Journalism is a set of very specialized jobs. It's also a small cultural subset and after a time, everyone knows everyone. When you change jobs in news, you either go to an another news organization or pretty much retire from news (meaning you leave it and go do something else - it's rare that you'd ever come back to it and the barrier to re-entry becomes steeper.) What I mean to say is that your reputation definitely precedes you and it sticks around for a very long time.

There are some in this thread who have written or implied that "most journalists" have no ethics or self-restraint and all they're guided by is the end result. In some organizations, that's true and those places keep their notoriety all to themselves. For every bad apple in every industry, there are thousands of notable ones who do their work, and more than enough of them have self-respect to uphold their integrity.

Having said all that, I don't disagree with what you're saying at all. But here's an anecdote to help illustrate the culture and level of trust typically found in news. In early 2013 Nelson Mandela got sick. Many news organizations prepared a number of packages for the eventuality of his death - that included everything ranging from special reports, photo galleries, videos, memorials, and other special projects. A very talented colleague of mine put together a montage of Nelson Mandela's 1994 acceptance speech being read by various children living in South Africa today. It was pretty moving and showed just how things changed in those 20 years since. The project was finished, and readied in case it was ever needed. Then in mid-2013, that person left us and went to work for a large national newspaper, which was a great career move for them.

Soon thereafter, a number of staff changes occurred and on the evening (local time) of Nelson Mandela's death, no one was left on duty who remembered the tribute package existed. The ones who did weren't on duty at the time and the material they could immediately put together was very lacking and would take some hours, perhaps a day to properly acknowledge the man and his work.

That ex-colleague of mine tried to get in touch with duty editors, but was unable to get through. Given the timing and possibility that this material would never see the light of day, they remotely logged into our CMS (because none of the credentials were yet revoked), prepared the material as a draft and sent a note to the entire office letting them know it was ready for publishing. Some of the recipients on that list probably didn't even yet know the sender had left the organization, but from the email trail were very grateful to have the package ready to go.

This is the kind of hard-working journalist with integrity I'd have expected Matthew Keys to be.

He's not one.
This URL should be to the press release from the source, at http://www.cwi.nl/news/2015/researchers-urge-industry-standa... and not a PDF from a generic sites.google.com page. The less generic sites page for the project is https://sites.google.com/site/itstheshappening/ .

(It appears that the submitter posted to the news announcement PDF url from the project's site, but Google sees an incoming external link directly to the PDF, and presents it to HN readers as an attachment.)
There is good detail in (SF writer) R.A. Lafferty's The Fall of Rome,

http://sentent.blogspot.com/2010/05/r-lafferty-and-semitic-g...

http://www.amazon.com/The-fall-Rome-R-Lafferty/dp/B0006CALC4

http://theevitable.blogspot.com/2009/01/ra-laffertys-fall-of...
Whoah, it's awesome to see this posted here in my native habitat! I've spent the last 8 years of my life building MUBI as Co-Founder and CTO (even longer than I've been on HN!). Please AMA.
Like Chris Rock said :

Paying minimum wage is the boss saying "I want to pay you less but I can't, it's the law".
> Yeah, another to way to put it is they aim for legitimacy so they can be the bitcoin counterparty of choice for Fortune 500s and wall street.

According to Coinbase, the total value of all Bitcoin is currently about $3.5 billion. This is a tiny, tiny market for "Fortune 500s and Wall Street" and is equivalent to the value of a single (smaller) mid-cap company. Even at its peak, the total value of all Bitcoin was only around $14 billion.

Daily Bitcoin transaction volume hasn't exceeded $100 million since July and has been as low as $33 million recently[1]. For comparison, daily volume in the FX markets exceeds $5 trillion.

Blockchain technology might be important but Bitcoin itself is about as interesting as the Burmese kyat or	Gambian dalasi.

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
You make some great points that measuring could be improved. Never the less so long as their method remains consistent, it shows the world getting richer or poorer relatively speaking.

For all the antiglobalization sentiment, I can't imagine this happening without globalization. If the workers of the developed world had put an economic moat around themselves and preserved their trend in rising purchasing power and had wages increase undeterred by labor competition from both shipping jobs overseas and allowing mass immigration of unskilled labor, we'd not have seen these improvements and those places, given the pop growth they experience over the last sixty years, would have been severely more impoverished.
Why am I getting downvoted? I just am stating that he replied.
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So explain that you think the crime in question is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad act and that you would never do such a thing, especially not in the future.
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I was going beyond measuring just "extreme poverty" to measuring general economic development. In the modern world, internet is really important because you can need it to do business, order products, look up information, get reading material, get educated, etc, etc. Many developing countries never had public libraries, or homes filled with books, so the internet is way of granting access to essential information in a digital form.
"A church will upload a database of photos of its members, and they usually use security cameras they already have in place to match the video with existing photos. Churches could use it to track regular attendance or see who’s missing."

What church is this? Our Lady of the Panopticon?

Why anyone would want to attend service at an Orwellian institution is beyond me. For centuries, churches have been able to not only track headcount but missing members (in the sense that an elderly attendee perhaps is unwell) without resorting to such Big Brother nonsense.

Disgusting.
This is an issue where there is widespread misunderstanding. Here is a great opinion piece about how the way news is reported contributes to this chronic misinformation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/opinion/nicholas-kristof-t...

"One survey found that two-thirds of Americans believed that the proportion of the world population living in extreme poverty has almost doubled over the last 20 years. Another 29 percent believed that the proportion had remained roughly the same.

"That’s 95 percent of Americans — who are utterly wrong. In fact, the proportion of the world’s population living in extreme poverty hasn’t doubled or remained the same. It has fallen by more than half..."
Writing Software is an Art
From my limited understanding:
NASA doesn't make any revenue on the licensing agreements; all earnings go to the Dept. of Treasury.

I imagine it would take a legislative / executive vote to open the patents for free to use.

That being said, it'd be an interesting economic impact study if all patents were free to use, as long as used by US registered companies and manufactured in the US.
MakerBot lays off 20% of its staff for the second time this year
The Big Shift: Static to Dynamic Security Models
What do you want from an app that you'd like on PC? If you can't get a student version of Photoshop or something, then presumably Corel Paintshop Pro, Manga Studio, GIMP would cover your needs? Manga Studio is my preference.

Personally I couldn't fathom using iOS to produce anything significant without having a large hard drive, easy access to the filesystem, and a file manager. The iPad Pro will at least have a suitable digitiser, but I don't get why people would use an iPad with the limitations it creates.
Mostly agree, but I would argue that requiring animal protein could be optional, especially with the follow-on climactic effects that raising so much animal meat causes. There are a number of cultures and sub-groups that are perfectly healthy without animal protein.
Sorry, I'll delete this and resubmit it
Is This the Beginning of the End of Coral?
> I realized just how far from irrelevant Microsoft has become

When I stay away from the media, I tend to keep this realization. I don't think people realize how nimble Microsoft can be. They've done many firsts in their labs. Microsoft never left the ring.
Easier said than done. Such a system would take at least a decade to be rolled out to every LEO in major cities, much less the whole country.

On top of that there is the issue of costs, of which there are many. Ranging from procurement and training to insurance and maintenance, no city councilor will want to take this one.

And I haven't even touched on the political implications, namely that no politician wants to appear to be scrutinizing police officers too much. The number one question on many officer's minds is the general populace aren't subject to the same restrictions.

There's also the issue of where the data (and related systems) is maintained and stored, with many preferring data remain under state control rather than federal.
Researchers urge: industry standard SHA-1 should be retracted sooner
sure, it just makes you an hypocrit.
Sure, the poverty line is somewhat arbitrary. Poverty and general well-being are multi-dimensional concepts that are hard to reduce to a single number.

I think you're being a bit pedantic, though. The absolute number of those living in poverty can change with the stroke of a pen according to an arbitrary definition, sure. My interpretation is that the point of the article, and the thing that should be celebrated, is that life is on average getting better for the world community (even if only according to one metric).

I'm sure the data scientist in all of us wants to see "well-being" broken down by vertical. For one, I'm sure the data you're looking for exists, is likely accessible, and it would be intellectually satisfying to our curiosity (who wants to do the legwork? :)). Two, I'd be skeptical of the assumption that they'd show anything but a trend in the same direction (though maybe not all at the same rate).
(Volkswagen)
Woah, thanks for those links. All very useful.
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There might be people who think reducing extreme poverty is more important than telling the truth about it. That is certainly the case with several other issues...
That's because the experience for the American middle class has during this same period been wage stagnation coupled with inflation in food, energy, housing, medicine, and tuition. The American middle class finds it difficult to believe things are getting better around the world because for them it's been getting worse since about 1970.
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It's fascinating and sad to read these articles, about some cities struggling with the effects of tech wealth while other cities would see it as an almost unqualified boon.

We constantly hear about a desperate shortage of software engineers from tech companies, as well as talk of "six figure" salaries. But the median price for housing in SF is well over a million now, and if you're hoping to have kids and raise a family, trying to buy a SFH or 3br apartment, even in the remaining unfashionable and mildly blighted areas south of 280 (not really unsafe, but a bit depressing in spots, lots of dumping, garbage, paved over front yards with abandoned cars), even that you'll be lucky to get in for much less thank 900k unless the house needs a lot of work or is very small with no expansion possibilities. A shortage of young people who are willing to work for salaries too low to put down real roots is not a shortage of workers, it's a wage vs cost of living problem.

SF needs to build (certainly the bay area needs to build), but I don't see construction in the bay area as more than part of the solution. We will eventually have to accept that it isn't desirable or possible to cram all the programmers into a 7x7 grid and a narrow corridor down the peninsula.

Truth is, there are a lot of interesting old cities in the US that are pretty much neglected.

I thought Patti Smyth said it best:

"The Godmother of Punk recalled coming to New York in 1967 when she was broke and the city was "'down and out,' and you could get a cheap apartment and 'build a whole community of transvestites or artists or writers.'" But today, she says, "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."

I don't think that it's realistic to expect a coordinated effort from the tech "industry", which doesn't really speak with one voice or have one opinion. Market forces may eventually create the change we'd like to see, but for now, the tech industry really has obtained a subsidy in the form of control over the immigration system that prevents these market forces from working as they should. The first step is to stop taking claims of a worker shortage seriously, and don't give tech companies a crutch that allows them to avoid making the adjustments that will help everyone in the long run (in other words, don't allow tech companies to control visas that force workers to work in San Francisco or the valley, make sure all members of the workforce are free to chose their job, field, educational and career path, and where they live, in response to market signals).

Just to be clear, as I have in the past, I feel positively about general immigration, I believe that immigrants must be free to choose their own path in live, including what they study, where they live, who they will work for.
It's not so much about internet access, but information access (to wit: why public libraries were invented). Using his example of 500MB/month, that could easily cover a box set of the Foxfire books (extensive details on how to live off the land) one month, canonical classic literature in one's language the next, etc. Part of being "not poor" is qualitatively having the means to improve one's living condition, which very much includes means to learn how to improve.
> The biggest question I have is what's going to process the GraphQL query on the server

It's really not much different from processing a REST-based API request. In theory, you could parse the request and then just execute the necessary SQL to fill out the result.

However, what Facebook's GraphQL library lets you do is define a schema that specifies how each piece of the result is fetched. It's like a declarative API builder. ("GraphQL" is a huge misnomer; it's neither graph-query-oriented, nor is it a query language — it's a protocol.) GraphQL-the-language doesn't make much sense until you look GraphQL-the-library and understand its design.

For example, let's say the GraphQL query is:

query {
story(id: "1") {
text
}
}

Your schema might be declared like this:

const storyType = new GraphQLObjectType({
name: 'Story',
description: 'A story.',
fields() {
id: {
type: new GraphQLNonNull(GraphQLString),
description: 'The ID.',
},
text: {
type: GraphQLString,
description: 'The text.',
}
}
});

const queryType = new GraphQLObjectType({
name: 'Query',
fields() {
story: {
type: storyType,
args: {
id: {
description: 'ID of the story to fetch',
type: new GraphQLNonNull(GraphQLString)
}
},
resolve(root, {id}) {
return SQLDatabase.findStoryById(id)
}
}
}
});

You declare static fields as well as resolver functions that take arguments and are expected to furnish the query with the actual results. You then "execute" the query, which will cause the resolver's to run as they are triggered by parts of the query. For example, if the storyType contains resolvers, any nested queries will invoke them.

I recommend looking at the tests [2] in the GraphQL JS library, because they show some useful examples. There's already a Ruby [1] library for declaring schemas in the same way.

If you're doing SQL underneath, optimizing a GraphQL query into the fewest possible SQL queries might be tricky. For example, let's say each story has an author; doing an author query per story isn't going to cut it; you're going to want to join the authors table. But the outer queryType doesn't know if the query will be asking for the authors. I don't know if the library provides any way to solve this yet.

[1] https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby

[2] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/tree/master/src/__test...
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When it comes to policy that drives the funding of social programs and wealth redistribution, everything is an accounting trick.

One example is that the US Census Bureau's reporting of poverty statistics based on income has changed to NOT include the income of many benefits including food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit. If you include these benefits prior to counting the poor, the poverty rate falls to nearly zero.

This is why the director of the Census Bureau's report now answers to the White House instead of the Director of Commerce. Bending the numbers is essential to maintaining and expanding institutions.

The switch was made when Obama nominated Rebuplican senator Judd Gregg as Commerce Secretary. Given that Gregg had previously voted to abolish the Commerce department, it is likely that his influence would have brought the numbers in line with the facts. But, had Gregg accepted the nomination, it would have opened up a senate seat that would have been filled by the Democratric governor of his state. So to have his cake and eat it too, Obama took control of the number reporting. Gregg did not accept the nomination.

Talk about accounting tricks.

Another example is the disparity between counting income vs. consumption. Again in the US, when the money spent by poorer classes that are studied is counted it is far greater than what is calculated as their income (which is what policy is based on) This indicates that in-kind gifts and other non-reported income is substantial, but not counted.
Right. The relationship between SHA1 outputs and the IV seemed important to the concept of this being a building block for multicollisions.

Also: I think it's pretty surprising to generalists (it certainly was to me!) that the SHA1 hash is literally the transformation of the IV, and that you can pick up the results of a SHA1 hash and keep hashing with it. If you grok this, length extension attacks are obvious, as is the benefit of the truncated SHA-2 variants.
> If you write software for a living (or for fun) ask yourself this: When was the last time you calculated the Big O on something you wrote?

Two or three times this week. While writing software you should always be asking questions like this to yourself. To mirror an analogy in the post, "Imagine a composer who didn't know the difference between an 8th note and a 16th note. Could they create some music? Maybe. Could they be great? Probably not."
Yes, I did that on my desktop, running Arch Linux.

In retrospect, it probably wasn't a very good idea because my / is on an SSD and ZFS on Linux doesn't support TRIM (I'll probably go with XFS if I ever reinstall), but it's totally doable.
I'm not. I have one, albeit for a personal blog. Got it here:

http://scaleway.com

I'd say they need to get a bit bigger and faster to challenge x86, but it's on the horizon. ARM64 will help.
With some creativity, reducing poverty can be a profitable enterprise.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02008/may/21/technology-empowers...
Yes. It's usually not even accessible through the hash function's exposed interface.
I've found that moving the kickstand to suit my position has become second nature. And although this does mean having to move the kickstand every now and then, you have a benefit over a laptop in that the screen wont budge a millimetre as you're using it, which is a benefit I wasn't expecting and makes reading/watching more pleasant.
Doesn't this basically just show that there has been inflation?

No, because the poverty lines are all expressed in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Why not use some stuff like infant mortality or literacy or deaths from starvation or deaths from communicable disease? You know, stuff that actually indicates whether someone is impoverished or not.

Those measures are all improving dramatically too.
One of my examples, dengue, is vector born, like Lyme. That's no promise the vaccine will be easy to develop. In the case of Lyme, I'd assert there's very few drug development paradigms that are robust to anti-scientific hysterics (says the person at a conference that regularly gets chronic Lyme picketers).