skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualys, Inc. - https://www.qualys.com/ | Redwood Shores, California | Full-time | REMOTE, VISA

We are working on Log Management softwareIt is designed to store terabytes to petabytes of logs. Mainly we are using Erlang and C/C++. Qualys has many offices around the world. We can have you employed in those countries, if you prefer to work remotely. We can assist with a visa, and help with relocation. Check out our global locations: https://www.qualys.com/company/contacts/

We need Software Engineers, QA Engineers, DevOps Professionals. If you are not a superstar yet, but you are eager to learn cool things, we'd like to hear from you.

What we did in the past and what we do these days:

* Distributed programming (scheduling in a cluster, leader election and all). * Custom on-disk and in-memory structures. * Query processing and execution. * Data ingestion. * Programming in Erlang which is fun. * Too many to enumerate all them at once.

What we are planning to work on in the near future:

* Work on aggregation/reporting language and processing pipeline. * Stream processing. * Fraud and anomaly detection. * Secondary indices/materialized views. * Doing synchronization between nodes as less as possible. * Data replication. * Live streaming (tail -f). * Many many more tasks in our roadmap.

We have a lot of plans and tasks. You could choose whatever you are passionate about. We are a small team, regularly hanging out and playing basketball together.

Want to be a part of all these? Please shoot an email to ichernetsky at qualys dot com

https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oWzn1fwD&s=blog_post
Oh sure, it's not a good design, but it has no pretenses about what it is. It's what you expect from an open source project, for better or for worse (definitely for worse in this case).

However, if we're going to expect more, it should look more like the new Guile site and less like this. The black, textured background is ugly, the dayglo buttons clash, the yellow text is the shade of dehydrated urine, and the bullet points at the top are a poor attempt at a higher information density full of buzzwords that nobody visiting the site _really_ cares about.

If you want to talk about information architecture, the three bullet points at the top aren't really about why you should care. The first is unnecessary FSF wankery, everyone looking up Guix already knows what they're all about and is tired of hearing about being liberated. The next two don't strongly differentiate the product from any other package manager in previous ways. Okay, so it does x, y, and z interesting things. The switching cost of changing operating systems is very high. Why shouldn't I keep using what I have now? What tangible benefits will I receive from using GuixSD? Why is Guix unique, specifically? WHAT MAKES GUIX DIFFERENT? (answer to all four: it's declarative, though this isn't mentioned anywhere)

None of these are addressed. Nix is not even mentioned, even though Guix is Nix with a Guile wrapper around it. The nixos.org website, on the other hand, is superlative. Why do you want NixOS? It's Declarative, Reliable, and DevOps friendly. It's "The Purely Functional Linux Distribution". Those five words say more about it and why a prospective contributor should be using it (it's mostly functional programmers and declarative programming nerds who are interested in Nix/Guix, though Nix being akin to Chef/Puppet/Ansible on steroids is helping it gain ground among DevOps people) than the entire GNU Guix homepage does.
Extensive discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506422
As an alternative, check my project rockstar [0] also.

[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
I'm sure I've missed out on plenty of games that reproduced the feelings I had playing Star Raiders but ... That game felt so awesome at the time.

If you don't know the game you need to destroy every enemy on the map. The enemies need to destroy you or all your star bases. On the map the enemies move sector to sector every few seconds (30? 60? 120?) probably depended on the difficulty level. If some enemies made it to one of your Star Base sectors you had just a few seconds to get over there and kill them all before you lost a base.

To move from sector to sector you'd go to the map, pick a sector, then press H for hyperspace. The ship could accelerate, then warp to the next sector decelerating

Add to that your ship could take damage. Normally you had 0-9 thrust levels. With damaged engines the thrust would be erratic. With broken engines you couldn't go anywhere. Normally you could fire 2 shots at from the bottom left and bottom right. Damaged then only 1 short. Broken 0 shots. Then you had shields. Damaged they'd flicker on and off. Broken no shields. One hit with shields down and you're dead! Hit a meteor with shields down you're dead.

So, if you're playing on hard you have to target the ships closest to your bases and get rid of them quick. They fire like crazy! If your shields go down or get damage you have to warp instantly or you'll be dead. No time to look at the map. Just press H now. When you warp there's a targeting reticle, on hard it move erratically. If it's in the center when you warp you'll arrive at the destination you picked on the map. If it's off by 1 inch you'll warp 1 inch off in the same direction on the map. That meant if you were good you could warp to your base without using the map. It felt so awesome to get it right.

You'd beam in. Then you have to find the base in 3d. Sensors help. Once there you have to wait for some guy to come out and repair your ship. So nerve racking when you know in a few moments some other base will be gone. Then you need to warp out back into the battles ASAP.

It all added up to some of the most intense space battles I've ever personally played in a video game.
You must think whatsapp acquisition is insane and fb ran by amateurs. The fact is Twitter is of great value to the likes of Google and fb, beyond simplistic pe ratios. In fact, pe is a very poor valuation tool for tech companies.
It seems inevitable that inversion boots will be required ergonomic accessories within a few years.
I'm a bit surprised that the benefit of claiming to be Cherokee for the sake of college applications isn't brought up. But overall, the author tries heavily to not take a stand, or insult anybody.
I stumbled upon Artist Mode, but wondered what it could be useful for. Guess I have (some kind of) an answer now...
Its funny, I actually think when the picture was flipped back to how the photographer saw the scene, that it was a better composition. The road seemed unnatural in the original.

I wonder now if that is just some internal bias to it being "more real"?
That number is for all apartments (http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/06/02/san-franciscos-...). So this lumps in studios, 1 BRs, 2BRs etc. When you consider that it is (slightly) less crazy. However the median rent for a 1BR is still $3,530 (http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/09/03/san_franciscos_medi...).

More anecdotally it is basically impossible to get a studio for less than $2k or a 1BR for less than $2.5k-$3k. I pay ~$1700 but have 1 bedroom in a 4BR apartment. If you are willing to live with roommates rent can start to become "reasonable" (assuming a $100k+ salary), but you're kind of screwed in SF proper if you want to be on your own and pay less than $2k.
Rate limit EVERYTHING. I learned this lesson the hard way early on at Stack Overflow. ;)
That seems like a super high limit.
Good point. Too good to be true referring to only dealing with the App Store once.
50 charts and tables is a lot to consume on a webpage no matter how you slice it.

The original magazine presentation - 6 full page spreads with 8 or 9 charts each - is way more readable. The higher information density of paper lets you glance at 9 companies at once and spend more time with what looks interesting. We tried to preserve some of the serendipity online with the short preview sentences on the left column, but the linear scroll through the charts takes away from that and makes it feel a little too chore like.

Sometimes translating to digital invites amazing improvements through interactivity (see what is code), but here we had a tight deadline and too many charts to redo them all in an interesting way w/ d3 so the digital focus was much more on the design side.
Hell’s grannies: Souped-up simulator could help extend people’s driving careers
That's by design. It only mentions fully free OSes.
I have two samples of a websocket echo program in Haskell, and was unfortunately unable to make it not leak memory merely sending the same data back over the connections repeatedly. I will admit I haven't tested this lately, and I didn't use Network.Websocket because of this:
https://github.com/jaspervdj/websockets/issues/72

Haskell code with tester is here:
https://github.com/bbangert/ssl-ram-testing/tree/master/Hask...

(In some cases it would take some client churn to get the leak to occur, but clients come/go, a server has to survive this basic fact)

One diagnosis was that it was a memory fragmentation leak, since sure enough when I ran some debugging it reported fragmentation losses at the end. Some tweaks to the initial stack size and how much stack each increment should be done remedied it for the most part, but resulted in it taking quite a bit more memory (I believe I had to set the initial stack to at least 4k).

Using -N4 or -N6 (to turn on multi-core/cpu use in haskell) increased memory consumption quite a bit, as Haskell will now start juggling all those threads across real OS threads with its M:N scheduler (Just like Go has to do with its goroutines). It was drastically more memory efficient with -N1, even though that loses the multi-core utilization.

So far the most efficient implementation I've tested is of course... in C. Where a simple websocket echo used 9.5kb of memory per connection (including SSL, and with TCP kernel buffers set to 4k send/recv). I'm not really eager to write C code though, so we're using Python+twisted where a plain WS connection will take about 16kb per conn, or 23kb with SSL.

In this article's test, the kernel buffer for TCP send/recv was set to 1k, which I guess is fine if your payload will frequently be under that. But if you regularly are sending payloads exceeding that, the amount of wakes to keep shoveling data into the kernel buffer is going to be rather expensive.

As the Phoenix people note, its useful to keep in mind what you need to do, rather than merely how many connections you want to hold open.
Just scanning meetup I saw a ruby meet up on sat. & 3 or 4 other tech meetups in the next couple of days.

If you think that there are no tech networking events in Chicago, the third largest city in the US and the heart of several high tech industries, that is probably the root cause of your issue.
thankee. I appreciate that
Googling suggests that DNA evidence shows that about 5% of "white" Americans carry Native American genes (this varies a lot with the region -- for instance, "white" people from Louisiana are more likely to carry Native American (8%) and African American (12%) genes than in some other areas).

200 million "white" Americans x 0.05 = roughly 10 million Americans with some type of NA ancestry. Give that the Cherokee were (and are) quite a large tribe, 700,000-800,000 living descendants doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

Edit: corrected to account for only the "white" population rather than the whole population.
> We have the web because Tim Berners-Lee didn't raise an angel round

Perhaps, but how successful would TBL's creation be without the Kleiner-Perkins investment in Netscape. The paid web browser probably wouldn't have taken off and the VC funding allowed Netscape to invest in building a quality browser while not charging end users to download.

VC has it's place and we shouldn't write it off entirely. But we should also realize that there are other ways for important changes to develop and VC isn't the panacea as it's often presented as here.
Taxes are just one small part of the demand. The economy makes up the rest of the demand, and it accounts for a much larger share. Even companies that are not US-based and do not pay US taxes can and do demand US dollars, eg. a Chinese company exporting goods to the US and receiving payments in dollars.

The US government income (federal, state and local taxes) was $1 trillion in 1988 [1]. I picked this year because it is hard to find up-to-date data for the next number: the amount of dollar transactions was estimated at $1.7 trillion per day in 1988 [2]; this is $620 trillion per year. So taxes represented only 0.16% of all dollar transactions. At most you can argue that 0.16% of the value of the dollar comes from its use to pay taxes, but the bulk of its value comes from the economy using 99.84% of it.

Still not convinced? Here is a thought experiment. What if for every dollar owed in taxes, the government asked to be paid instead 1 grain of rice? Would it suddenly make the dollar worthless? No! People would continue using it because many other people already use it to transact trillion of dollars every year. They know it is a liquid asset that can be exchanged for anything, and this is what gives it value.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=POjfDvabbpwC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA...

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=F8DSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=...
Never heard of it before. Seems... possibly useful if they would actually tell me what its useful for then perhaps I might find the documentation more engaging.
I felt the same way, it suddenly felt much more correct.

I couldn't pinpoint why. I hadn't noticed the text on a sign by then.
There's a "hiring" post on the front page right now offering sub $100k for front end developers and others. It's in Oakland though.
A well-known example of this from the recent past:

http://elizabethwarrenwiki.org/elizabeth-warren-native-ameri...
memo to sci-fi designers: concept sketches for alternative time lines.
I'm guessing it's not there.

> removing the narrow, dark and dangerous streets of the medieval city and replacing them with parks and open spaces. This process began in 1853.
It's high because the 5,000 limit is globally shared for all non-search queries: https://developer.github.com/v3/rate_limit/
Well, I have the opposite story. I was always told I was 1/256 Cherokee, but according to 23andme, I have no Native American ancestry -- however, I'm about .4% African. .4% is pretty close to 1/256, so I think the race of one of my ancestors was, um, edited.

I think amttc is on the right track, but needs to take it a little farther.
Transform JRXML File to PDF/A, Doc, DOCX, XPS, HTML SVG, Excel and EPUB
Be careful with alignment. On architectures where it matters, the caller may pass in a "char* out" which is not suitably aligned, and doing an "unsigned long long" store into that address may fault.
xpost from the other thread because I'd welcome any insight on this:

What confuses the hell out of me regarding the TPP - and maybe it's just because I'm in the HN/Reddit echo chamber on this - but if the TPP is so damn important to reigning in China in the 21st century or whatever, then why did they load it up with a bunch of unrelated antagonizing bullshit?

It doesn't seem to me that the intellectual property provisions of the agreement are all that important to the overall stated goals of the TPP. Yet they are so fucking regressive and antagonistic that there is some chance (I guess? Again, echo chamber...) that they will sabotage the rest of the agreement. After SOPA, etc., if it were me and I wanted to be sure that the TPP passed in enough Pacific Rim countries to make it effective, I would keep anything remotely like SOPA as far away from my precious treaty as I possibly could.

Instead, the IP portions of the agreement are basically the language that was in SOPA all over again, which pissed a whole lot of people off last time. It's really hard to take seriously the claim that the TPP is so important, when the people drafting it are including language that is pretty much guaranteed to stoke vigorous opposition, for reasons that are mostly orthogonal to their goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy
Results don't scale linearly with effort. I don't know if it's worth it.
They mention later in the article that the second figure is also visible, but much less distinct. The first figure is unmistakably a person, but if you remove the first figure, the second figure loses context and isn't so clear.
Echo of Soul Indonesia – Guardian Classes Part 1
Well I guess what I am saying is not that they don't exist it's just not many. For example I went to 4 Ruby meetups and Chicago and while fun, they're essentially Dev Bootcamp events where people learn things like writing blocks. The weird thing is, I went to a Ruby meetup in Ann Arbor, and there it was all industry professionals and coders. I tried to find other non ruby meetups, but they're few and far between.
Lucky?

They were desperately buying anything they could on the secondary markets. That isn't luck, it's seeing an opportunity.

It's like Pinterest 2 or 3 years ago (say around the time of the 27M A16Z B round). Putting as much money into that as you could isn't being lucky, it's seeing an opportunity. Their 2014 and 2015 rounds are basically just ways to print money.

That's the whole crux of why people don't respect VC.

Um. Some people don't respect some VCs. I don't agree with everything Marc Andreessen says, but I'd be pretty silly if I didn't respect his opinion on technology.
I can't say I don't miss types, but if you use ESLint and FlowType it's not as bad as you might think. Hopefully I'll be able to start using Typescript on React projects soon.
Swimmers hate him
It's super smarmy, but pretty much par for the course for how TNR and other bastions of American literary tradition treat Amazon. They published an op-ed arguing that ordinary readers (as opposed to trained book reviewers) shouldn't be reviewing books.[0]

[0] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119875/margo-howard-amazo...
Hold the phone. You're hoping to write the bootstrapped SaaS playbook? I know it'd be wrong (and futile) of me to ask you to put off Starfighter to write it, but I'll drop my email (again) into whatever form you'd put up to get an idea of public interest in such a work.
This is absurd for many reasons pointed out in this thread.

The broad brush is especially problematic. If "programmers" should stop calling themselves "engineers" because of the prevalence of poor quality software, couldn't one argue (equally speciously) that "writers" should stop calling themselves "journalists" because of the prevalence of things like listicles and clickbait? In journalism as well as software, the garbage seems to far outweigh the good stuff (by volume). And in both fields, some professionals are trained, but many are self-taught, and neither skills nor ethics are uniformly incorporated into all practitioners' work.

I believe there _is_ a legitimate issue around the quality of software. But I don't see how demoting the class of people who build software brings us any closer to improving that situation. Rather, I'd be interested to read a thoughtful article about _why_ low-quality software remains prevalent. (I have a feeling it's because bad software remains economically viable -- in turn because it's still actually useful to people. A bridge that falls down is useless. An app that crashes every day is very frustrating, but potentially still worth the price. I'm just guessing, of course, but that's why I'd love to see a well-researched article that seeks to understand the problem before prescribing a solution.)
I am so glad I am not the only one to think that. I was rolling my eyes through the whole thing and I only skimmed through it.
Fair-Use Economy Represents One-Sixth of U.S. GDP (2007)
Any stories / blog articles you can share?
Thanks for the insight.

On another note, I already have code to reduce SAT instances to HCP.
I don't think you actually understand what a liberal arts education is. It has very little to do with being an "artist", it has to do with a broad and humanistic--opposing mechanistic--education. Such an education, in my experience, tends to make one interested in creation, and perhaps thus art, but isn't directly related. I have a CS degree and was fortunate to luck into a liberal education--one with grounding in literature, history, economics, sociology, and political science. Not only does it make me better at my day job, because much of it is easily applicable, but it makes me able to meaningfully parse the world around me. Most engineers I know are not particularly good at this--they do not have a liberal education and it shows when one gets outside of a narrow band of small, usually very self-focused interests. (It shows, in the aggressive disregard of history and the corpus of human experience needed to think that the Austrian school, or even your garden-variety libertarian fantasy, has bearing on the real world.)

Your "merely utilitarian" person is not equipped to understand (much less solve) the causes of the problems that she describes. That's her point entirely.
Booming crypto ransomware industry employs new tricks to befuddle victims
Show HN: Triage for GitHub – Manage your GitHub issues (electron,redux,level-js)
One of my coworkers used to work in food service and showed me the glory of good mats. I have a treadmill desk and walk most of the day, but when I'm standing, having a good floor mat makes it much easier.
I really like the idea of this, great work!

Unrelated, I'm pretty sad that there hasn't been further work in packaging shell extensions like this. Most of it is adhoc, and people usually tend to stick to `curl | bash` (I'm guilty of this as well with dokku and other OS projects).
My father (who is nominally 1/8th Cherokee; his well-remembered grandfather was half) has been working on our family's genealogy for decades. He believes that many of our ancestors not directly tied to his grandfather were partially Cherokee, and consistently under-reported. There were penalizations for various degrees of Indian blood, not just a binary thing, so this was quite common.

There were also apparently a lot of mixed-blood Cherokee/Scot or Irish ca. 1800 in southern Appalachia before Removal, and some of them were very successful. One of our ancestors, Chief Vann [1], became very wealthy though he was allegedly quite the drunken terror. He lead a sort of clan or tribe of Cherokees, mixed-bloods and some slaves that were associated with a Moravian mission/school (who took civil records that my dad has found on ancestry.com). Apparently there was a fair amount of mixing, as well as a lot if first-cousin marriages and possibly closer interbreeding that may have been a bloodline-perpetuation thing or may have been due to geographical or cultural isolation. I think the setup might actually be similar to modern small chiefdoms in Afghanistan. Vann was incidentally killed because of his bad behavior, in a way that reminds me of the fate of western Florida's Edgar J Watson [2] that Peter Matthiessen wrote so masterfully about[3].

But that's digressing a little bit...

By now, though, there has been enough dilution in my family that I don't think I would be any more than 1/8th; I think I'm probably more around 1.5/16ths. My mother's family, though having been in the Ozarks since the 1840s or so, has no indication of non-European blood.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vann
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokoloskee,_Florida
[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/23/home/matthiessen-wats...
Good thing he's a professional american cook, not a professional scientist.
Curious, which one? I think only the last two are intentionally for children.
Yes. It can be embedded, however, since it is a Scheme, it is also general purpose.