skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like the last bullet point on the page, so I'm not surprised that you missed it. They could definitely put this farther up the page:

"Wren is a scripting language. Wren is intended for embedding in applications. It has no dependencies, a small standard library, and an easy-to-use C API. It compiles cleanly as C99, C++98 or anything later."

http://munificent.github.io/wren/
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That looks like an extremely elaborated way to make a claim that could normally be done in a few lines.

And even if the claim would require a long explanation, for instance if Satoshi lost or destroyed the keys for the first few blocks, or the passwords to his accounts on several forums where he used to write, there would be no need for him to do this explanation himself. The burden of the proof his on him, but not the explanation of the proof.
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Where I live (NC) almost nobody has chips enabled, even big chains, the one exception being Target.
Well, and that is simply not casting a vote. Voting isn't just, as I said elsewhere here recently, "inferring preferences from behavior". It's a regular process, a structured reassessing of power.

Maybe if you said "every year on March 1st, everyone shuts down their client and chooses a new one" and there were several well-maintained clients that had different policy choices encoded into them for people to "vote" with, then we'd be a little closer to a democratic power-in-the-hands-of-the-people kind of thing.

But as it is right now? No, there's no voting, nor democratic power-sharing, in Bitcoin.
Cash and credit card?

I suppose you could always try offering him some chickens or something?
If you believe that, you should probably bet against her. The oddmakers have her as a pretty significant favorite right now.
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Ask HN: Ex VMware Support Career advice (transition to coding)
Hello everyone,

I have a very interesting situation. I completed a CS degree in 2011 and my original plan was to take some time off, then go back to school and complete a degree in Cognitive Science and do a masters/phd. I am in the Toronto area.

This plan got derailed because I found a job I loved as a Technical Support Engineer for VMware. It was fantastic and years went by. I lost the desire to go back to school as most do and learned I have a passion for working on really hard problems.

Towards the end of my tenure, I became a backline resource called a "Research Engineer" and I got to work on some of the most interesting problems and political escalations (problems that take a lot of research in order to be able to progress on). Then they laid myself and several other folks off in the latest restructuring.

I did some career thinking, and I'd like to transition to software development. Although fixing interesting problems is fun and rewarding, I'd like to work on longer-going projects and build things. I've been spending time learning web development, right now Javascript/Node stack.

I know that the word "support" has negative associations, but at the VMware level it was a really tough job. You can to be really smart/talented to be able to learn the technology and be able to solve problems with it. One year at VMware is like 3 years anywhere else in terms of sysadmin/operations learning.

Based on this experience, I think it may be appropriate to apply to Jr. Developer and DevOps roles.

Do you guys have any tips on how to make the career transition?

Note: I am in the Toronto area.
You could say that Ford is in the automobile industry and they happen to utilize manufacturing in their products, but I don't think it's a useful distinction to make.

Just like Ford's cars are made by factories, Facebook's products are made by programmers.

Even if you want to look at the "tech industry" as meaning "creates tech for use by other people" instead of just "develops tech-based products for consumers," Facebook still has some solid output (React Native, Nuclide, etc).
F-22 is an apex predator, F-35 is a multirole fighter/bomber. two different planes. I think you mean going back to building specific planes for specific thing rather than jack off all trades plane
U.S. economic data is being leaked, ECB study suggests
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It is a respunding success according to the amount of porking it generated. Is the f-22 exported?

Edit: to clarify: they're not exporting the good one which could change an actual war.
> I've been told that card processors will get charged more going forward if they don't implement the chips, or for non-chip transactions because of the added risk involved.

This is true. It's also weird, since really they should be charging less for chip-and-pin, not more for magstripes. By moving to chip-and-pin they immediately release themselves from the hook for card theft, moving the liability to the card holder. The high transaction costs in card networks have historically been defended as largely stemming from fraud costs. Yet, we're expected to pay the same fees.

It's a good time to be in the card processing business.
Wouldn't you agree that a multi-billion dollar market cap, millions of daily tx volume, and a pretty decent price of $400, all of which keep growing in the face of so much "credibility losing", counter it rather nicely?

Humans are folly but the technology speaks for itself.
We are a close-knit team with lots of back and forth between the data engineers and data scientists.
An online discussion on the startup ecosystem in India
No, because I find I'm interesting in many things I wasn't aware of before reading about them.
What guarantees do you have the president you elect will do what he says? What is your recourse if he doesn't live up to your expectations?

Being able to change one's vote at any time regarding any issue seems preferable to everyone sitting powerless for four years at a time in between scheduled elections.
Estonia is such an interesting country. Story is that after the fall of communism they built, their entire economic model off of Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" book, having relatively little knowledge of any economics. This lead to some very interesting successes as a post-communist nation, especially considering Free to Choose was likely a banned book just a few years before. It sounds like they are going even further to the right and experimenting with some of the ideas from Anarcho-capitalism.

Bully for them. It's been working for them in the past, and it's nice to see a government that (at least seems) to have their act together trying out some weird and out there stuff.
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Well, as the article illustrates, just defunding without actually changing any of the rules won't help.
That's a runtime benchmark, not a compile-time one.

Sure, the Nim post includes compile times, but no information about benchmarking methodology; warm caches? How many runs? Percentiles? etc. Also, the program being tested is just a few dozen lines (75 in Go, 73 in C++). Not exactly exercising compilation speed here.
When viewing the F-35 through the lens of a defense project, it looks silly. You must also realize that this is also an indirect federal jobs program. When the F-35 would replace other aircraft and their roles, the bases, parts suppliers, and ...sub contractors those people had to be kept employed. No member of congress wanted to say don't add that or build that if it would hurt their district. So much backroom dealing goes on with projects like these its embarrassing.
My theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11612261 (I believe Gavin is telling the truth, but was duped by sleight-of-hand.)
You're not really missing anything. WSJ is pretty much a clickbait mill; just skip the link and go straight to the comment section for actual interesting information and discussion of the topic.
GaaS
The F-35 is a 1.5 Trillion black hole; a stark lesson on the sunk cost fallacy. The F-22 exists, and works. We already have bombers, and frankly it seems less useful to put humans rather than robots in harm's way for a bombing run.
I reached out to this employer during last month's Who Is Hiring thread. They sent me one email saying they really thought I had a strong background, then another email asking me for times when I would be available to have an interview.

I listed several times in my reply, but then I did not receive any follow-up communication of any kind. No confirmation, no rejection, just no response of any kind.

Hopefully they have addressed and fixed this unprofessionalism in their hiring process, but it is good for others to be aware that it is possible to simply never hear from them after they have asked you for schedule information.
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They say it's conclusive evidence of useful communication. I say it's just compelling evidence.

Still cool and exciting though!
Off topic of course. The gun registry was very political and had many people who wanted it to fail. Then it did fail. I always wondered if the two were related.
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* tldr: Python and C++ (or Java) developer for public-facing services and APIs in astronomy

Officially, please refer to the HR-mangled job posting:
https://chk.tbe.taleo.net/chk01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...

Unofficially:

We are part of the Data Management team for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST, lsst.org); an extremely important telescope for astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. The camera for the telescope is 3.2GP and will be continuously scanning the sky every night.

We're looking for a strong python developer to join our Data Access team, which develops APIs and services to enable access of data for our science partners and the greater astronomy community. This involves developing APIs and services for access to datasets, images, and our in-house developed distributed database which will contains 10s of petabytes of data and grow throughout the tenure of the survey.

Ideal candidates have a background in Physics or CS (preferably both), development in REST APIs, and extremely strong database knowledge. The person can also architect new systems on their own based on abstract requirements (i.e. the initial work will be straightforward, but this probably isn't a position for just-finished-my-PhD). Ideally, you know what it takes to deal with a petabyte of data. This position will be multi-faceted, and the ideal candidate would also be able to switch to development of our distributed database if need be.

Employees of SLAC are also Stanford employees, and receive most of the same benefits. If you also care about working on open-source software, the entire LSST stack is open source (GPL) and, as a DOE employee, you are almost always free to open source all of your work as well (typically BSD).
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Makers of the Open Source API Gateway Kong: https://getkong.org/

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We are a young fintech company working on fixing payments in India. We are looking to grow our engineering team to improve the current state. We run using PHP7 and Laravel in Production on AWS. Currently open roles:

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* Security Engineer (We are looking for someone with a development as well as security experience, preferably web-related)

* Senior Android Developer (https://razorpay.com/jobs/android)

Even other than these, we are always open to hiring smart and talented engineers. If you are someone who places equal emphasis on writing correct code and shipping things, we might be the right place for you.

Interview Process: We will never ask you to write a Binary Search Tree during an interview. We typically do a phone screen followed by an optional coding-assignment (take home). The onsite-interview process is around 4 hours including a lunch and 3 interviews; 2 of these are usually hands-on coding rounds where we let you code on restricted real-world problem (in a language and editor of your choice). The entire process takes around a week from the date of application.

We also do a lot of open source stuff. Look us up on GitHub: http://github.com/razorpay
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Jobs: https://market.mashape.com/jobs
Do you have any more information about the company beyond the website. I would like to better understand the products being developed, who the founding team is and understand the vision of the company and how it intends to compete against the behemoths in the access control business.
RAND published a writeup of joint acquisition programs recently: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/MG1200/...

Spoiler: they're a bad idea.
It is also worth considering that the reason given for merging three aircrafts into one was to save money. I know the F-35 has a lot of defenders, but even they have to admit it is unlikely that the F-35 will ever be seen as a cost saving measure.
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Digg pretty much died when it was co-opted by political players. Even /. took a hit when they allowed politics free reign

when it comes to tech sites and geeks the last thing you want in intelligent stories and conversation is politics
I would use it as an extension language for a larger system. These commonly are used in games, databases, web servers, and text editors. You might:

• Link Wren (or Lua or a little scheme interpreter) into your larger system.

• Add some functions to Wren to access and manipulate the state of your larger system. (The sections on how to accomplish this are sadly marked as TODO in the Wren Reference manual.)

• Add a mechanism to your larger system to invoke Wren scripts.

Now instead of having to invent your own scripting system, or your own configuration system, or your own commands for every conceivable function a user wants, you can just expose the basics and let them build what they need.

Sometimes you might even use a scripting system where the main program is much smaller than the scripting system. For instance, I have a daemon which manages power allocation at a remote installation. It is written in go, and includes the functions to turn various systems on and off, measure current and voltage at different places, and the bare minimums of getting in and out of failsafe modes. All the rest of the decisions about what to turn on and off when and which system depends on which other system is all specified in a Lisp interpreter extension language and a config file. The end result is I wrote no lines of code to handle configuration, and extending the configuration involves no changes to the server. (Except if it needs a new function, like I had to add "time of sunrise" and "time of sunset" to the server since that was more Lisp than I was comfortable with.) Even in my simple configurations there is logic which would either be a nightmare or impossible in an Apache style config file but is simple in Lisp, even for a non-Lisp programmer like myself. (I chose the Lisp because it was a tiny implementation and written in Go so it was easy to build in. Not because I like it.)
It's because companies hate it when people discuss salaries, because it erodes the advantage they have in negotiations. And it's because they have so much power, and so many are afraid to stand up to them.
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Me: I am the latest member of the DA dev team, and have now been with the company for 6 months. It's a close knit team where new ideas are always taken seriously, as a small example: some things I've suggested are now integral parts of our automated test framework. If you're in the Birmingham area, or are willing to relocate, I'd recommend checking us out.

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> Why not have embedded computers in a decent plane?

Oddly enough, Fairchild Aircraft was formed when Mr Fairchild decided to build a 'decent plane' to carry-around his aerial cameras...

Back to the F-35 it is interesting to contrast how Dassault in France has been slowly expanding the mission scope of its Rafale by adding additional software, without affecting the actual flight-control systems. After 12 years of gradual updates they're also starting to update hardware, such as converting to an SDR instead of traditional tuned radio.
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($160-$250+ depending on experience)

Amazon's New Product Demand Forecasting team is responsible for one of the most challenging problems in supply chain optimization: predicting sales on new products that have no sales history. This is a uniquely creative space in Forecasting that requires our models to capture both the nuances of the global consumer marketplace as well as customer behavior on Amazon. Our team works closely with top research scientists to invent new ways to make use of novel data, solves hard engineering problems in machine learning around scaling and performance in predicting for tens of millions of products, and is endlessly focused on iterating quickly and failing fast to stay on the cutting edge.

In a field that's in constant renaissance, we're looking for a senior software development engineer who loves data, thinks analytically, and is prepared to design architecture that will provide a stable base for the next 3-5 years of evolution. If you have 5+ years of experience in software development, with experience in ML or big data applications, and want to learn more about a team just getting started in mining the vast datasets of Amazon -- I'd love to chat or buy you coffee. Email smai@ (amazon.com) with your resume and a brief introduction.

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We are a small dev team that works mostly remote, tries to be agile and try to be a good place to work. We are a self-funded SaaS company for a niche industry and a lot of growth. We work mostly from home, but try to get together monthly or so when we can. We run ASP.NET, C#, and everything is on AWS.

You should be able to work by yourself, but have very good communication (big deal for remote teams). Full stack experience is a must.

We don't have a job posting page up yet, but reply to the posting with an email and we'll talk.
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I think it's clear we're talking about realized potential here, which is why I said it hasn't actually done anything yet. Beyond a few edge cases, it's gotten a lot of attention and hype but solved nothing so far.
Google lets everyone create own Android apps
This is how the retail industry is dying
Quoting myself from my own FAQ[1] feels a little weird, but here you go:

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There are a few scripting languages used for embedding in applications. Lua is the main one. TCL used to be. There’s also Guile, increasingly JavaScript, and some applications embed Python. I’m an ex-game developer, so when I think “scripting”, I tend to think “game scripting”.

Lua is nice: it’s small, simple, and fast. But—and I don’t mean this as a criticism—it’s also weird if you’re used to languages like C++ and Java. The syntax is different. The semantics, especially the object model are unusual. Anyone can get used to 1-based indexing, but things like metatables really show that objects were bolted onto Lua after the fact.

I think there’s room for a language as simple as Lua, but that feels natural to someone with an OOP background. Wren is my attempt at that.

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[1]: http://wren.io/qa.html#why-did-you-create-wren
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