skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in the late 70s and early 80s. I first learned about programming from my father, who worked at DEC during its prime. To this day I deeply appreciate him sharing his love of the field with me from ayoung age. My first computer-related memories are learning to program in BASIC on a kit computer we had in our unfinished basement. I loved learning in a cold basement cellar surrounded by pieces of electronic gear in a makeshit office.

My second earliest memory about computers centers around learning Logo on an Apple II (I believe) in third grade. I remember exactly what Seymour describes: being shown the basics, and then being free to explore by making the turtle do what I wanted it to. I remember sketching designs in a notebook and then asking enough questions about angles and distances to be able to implement my designs.

I think my love of programming comes from an equal mix of people like my father who I could learn from directly, and people like Seymour who created systems that made it possible to learn independently.
> But isn't that what the voters wanted? A political shift to conservatism?

Yes, electing Trump means that a substantial portion of the voters wanted conservative authoritarianism.

> And a political shift doesn't mean Trump can become a dictator.

A shift in favor of the type of authoritarianism Trump proposes means that the structural mechanisms which permit one branch to check the actions of the others are unlikely to be used to prevent the institution of conservative authoritarianism.

> It's still unconstitutional and Congress, no matter which side they are on, would never allow that.

The Constitution, in practice, means what people in positions to act decide it means at the time; Congress allows things that are arguably unconstitutional all the time (sometimes later being checked in real time by other institutions, like the Supreme Court, sometimes not.)

> The armed military would never allow it.

This conclusion is based on...what?

> The armed military would never allow it.

This conclusion is based on...what?

> The well-regulated armed militia like the Minute Men would never allow it.

The idea that the "Minute Men" (presumably, referring to the Minuteman Project [0]) are "well-regulated" in any sense is amusing; the idea that they would, as an organized mass, oppose a conservative authoritarian dictatorship with a strong flavor of anti-immigrant white nationalism is even more amusing, and the idea that they would be a substantial check on a dictatorship in any case is perhaps the most amusing element of the inclusion of this claim in your post.

> The armed National Guard would never allow it.

This conclusion is based on...what?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuteman_Project
Never under estimate the power of asking questions. Even things that are "understood" can be, what I'll call, functionally misunderstood. Basically the understanding allows you to work around the question, but the understanding is wrong. It goes back forever, consider planetary motion, for one.

That said, I'm still trying to work out whether doing this analysis in Laplace space is sufficient.
Same name as a fairly well-known security company in the IT channel (e.g. Symantec). https://www.sophos.com/en-us.aspx
Well, I was thinking more in terms of discoverability. Like if we treat Wikipedia for answers about facts, we should have a place like that for videos. If there was a video about science, and people are looking for that content. My main struggle with Youtube it's discovery page, and content creators having to do certain things to compete with mediocre content.
The IOC gets the money because they bring the value to the table.

Satisfying demand is not the same thing as providing value.
Instead of tackling legal gun sale, the government should focus more on taking down the illegal black market gun sale.
Bolt | San Francisco

- A brand new online payments stack

- Work with the best: https://bolt.com/team

- Job descriptions here: https://bolt.com/jobs

- Backend, frontend, infrastructure, and security engineers

- Golang backend, React frontend

Work with a stellar team, solve large technical challenges, and create immense value for the world. Make the internet a better place for commerce.

I'm cofounder/ceo. Email me directly: rb ~at~ bolt.com
> Then what?

If one agree with ads as a mean to fund specific sites, then they should just whitelist themselves these sites they think should receive advertisement revenues?

I don't get the idea of bringing in even more 3rd parties in between users and publishers.
All the criticisms in and under your post are valid, but should be taken in context. If you haven't started a company and raised money for it, I can tell you there are a staggering number of ways to make mistakes.

I asked investors for references and actually called them before signing, but at the same time no doubt made mistakes that others wouldn't have.

The takeaway should not be these these guys were stupid at finance, rather that all critical decisions should be vetted by an adviser with expertise in that area.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | Berkeley, CA | Scientific Engineering Associate

We use computer vision and machine learning to improve gamma-ray radiation detection and mapping. For example, we have used these techniques to map contamination, in real-time, in 3-D in Fukushima, Japan. We integrate LiDAR and visual sensors with gamma-ray detectors on handheld and aerial platforms (UAVs).

We are looking for an engineer who is interested in working with computer vision sensors. This can include: building multi-sensor packages with small computers, designing and implementing algorithms and analyzing data. We use ROS, Linux and scientific Python. Some interest/background in physics could be helpful.
https://lbl.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&...
Zedge | Trondheim, Norway and New York City, NY| Full Time/Onsite

Zedge (NYSE Market: ZDGE) is a content platform, and global leader in smartphone personalization, with more than 200 million app installs and 30 million monthly active users.

We are looking for:
Android Developers - http://corp.zedge.net/join-our-playground#senior-android-dev...
Backend Developers - http://corp.zedge.net/join-our-playground#senior-ios-develop...
Data Scientists - http://corp.zedge.net/join-our-playground#senior-ios-develop...
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More positions at: http://corp.zedge.net/join-our-playground
(Our Early Tech Blog: http://corp.zedge.net/developers-blog)
To run a centralized video platform you need lots bandwidth and storage [1]. Paying for this will be a challenge if you rely only on donations.

If you run a peer-to-peer video platform you are competing with other peer-to-peer video platforms, most of which are not very well-known [2].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/cheaper-bandwidth-or-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-Peer_Assisted_Streamin...
> Interesting way to present information.

The NYT manages to foul up the Safari browser's Reader View again. This is getting tedious.
Is this in-house only or remote capable?
When I had Sprint, they did in fact scale down and recompress all images in lower quality JPEG.

Some carriers even attempt to realtime transcode video into a lower bitrate. The implementations of this are universally poor and produce rather broken files.
Uber Technologies | Louisville, CO (just outside of Boulder, CO) | ONSITE

Hiring: all levels of backend focused software engineers and specialist software engineers who have significant experience in machine learning, computer vision, SLAM and/or LiDAR.

The Uber Maps engineering team is partly based out of the Louisville office and we're building next generation mapping technologies. The teams here work on a variety of different projects, made up of specialists engineers as well as general, core software engineers. On the general software engineering side, we’re building out image processing software, the data store that houses all maps data and the infrastructure that all other maps engineering teams build on top of. Some of the specialist work we do: building SLAM and LiDAR algorithms from sensor and street level image data collected by the team as well as developing machine learning algorithms to extract useful information from this street level image data. Unfortunately, the majority of the projects here are still confidential but it's mainly either specialist type projects that I mentioned above or backend, big data related projects using Java, Scala, Go, Spark, Cassandra and Mesos to name a few.

A recent article was published that talks about the work, and the impact of it, that we're doing in Louisville: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/ubers-...

Interview Process: one 30 minute informal call with me, Two 45 minute technical phone interviews, and one onsite interview.

Contact: nathaniel@uber.com
Why the heck are you still using a DMZ segment??
Making Business Sense of Natural Capital
Hmm, I think it's a dangerous thing to be skipping portions of code in analysis just because they're impure. I think you'd be better off just taking the code produced after processing and running that through your static analyzer as is. That's what's going to be running in the end anyway. Maybe I'm not fully understanding the problem though.
I wrote a couple line bash script wrapper around a brown noise generator using sox + coreaudio. It works well for me, especially with overhear headphones.

https://github.com/tedmiston/zero-noise

Before that I used SimplyNoise (https://simplynoise.com) which is good, but still uses Flash and so is resource hungry if you're running on battery.

I also work from my home office as much as possible which has a very consistent AC fan that blocks most outside noise.
Another popular account of the idea (via Loeb) that life (especially simple life) may have been more common earlier:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/mysteries_o...
> which side of the filter are we on?

Well, since we can never know that for sure (even if we identify a filter, is it the filter? Is there more than one?), the best we can do is try to move forward and make it increasingly unlikely that the things we think are candidates to being a filter can effect us. First and foremost, get off-planet, which brings us full circle to Musk, who is on record as stating he started SpaceX to spur Mars colonization.
Well, sort of. It makes sense to bundle language and display features, such as date and temperature formats, into a single locale. That's what other Unixy operating systems do.

However, a locale is a display formatting issue. If the entire system needs to be restarted after a locale change, that's a sign that display issues are too tightly coupled to stuff going on in non-display code, perhaps in kernel space, and that should not be the case.
Again, though, it doesn't need to be the best idea, it just needs ONE civilization somewhere in the galaxy to have done it ONCE. We can't be the only species with a tendency to derp on occasion.
The corruption aspect is because politicians, rather than doing a proper job of trading off taxes and services [0], are essentially selling off capital assets to shore up the balance sheet in the immediate term by creating a new ongoing liability. They individually take the credit, and their successors are left with the mess.

(Never mind the deep-rooted federal corruption that has destroyed steady returns from debt and thus caused all of this dumb money to be scraping for returns via home run equity investment)

[0] which requires pushing back against growing middle management bureaucracy, which consumes resources while providing no services.
That is too much friction, it creates a non-monetary transaction fee that is too high. People don't want to think hard about whether each article (or even website!) is worth reading before they read it. I think this is why Netflix and Spotify is successful.
Peter Thiel Is Interested in Harvesting the Blood of the Young
> energetic internal discussion

so - not discussed on HN then. I was wondering if it might go against HN "ethics" because it risks everyone posting these and then Who's Hiring gets spammed. One of the best things about Who's Hiring is that you get close to the person actually offering the position.
Completely agree. Its easier for kids to learn through stories and examples that accompany the story.

One fundamental aspect of functional programing is that it specifies the use of functions as arguments.

I like the chapter suggestion. Maybe each chapter builds upon a function that the kids can relate to. The subsequent chapters can use the previous functions as "arguments" or objects so that they understand this concept.
Let's assume that the total revenue (not profit) for a 4 year Olympics stretch is 4 billion US dollars. The article shows that the annual revenue is 1.375 billion, but we'll drop the 375 million dollars as expenses (and to make the math easier), and we'll consider a 4 year stretch since some years are going to be lower revenue than others.

Now let's say that they give 50% of that to athletes. That's 2 billion US dollars @ 500 million US dollars per year. Split between the 10,200 people, that you quoted above, gives about $200k per 4 years, or about $50k per year.

So no, cutting the salary of a handful of executives is not going to help, but that's not really the whole story.
The sexist remark rocking the ad world
You can't reliably adblock vertically integrated sites like Facebook and Google search who sell and serve their own ads on their own domains. There's a scenario wherein monetization as we know it dies for the majority of long-tail sites and content creators migrate en mass to the large platforms in order to survive. Not a great scenario to think about if you love the decentralized nature of the early web but a plausible scenario nonetheless. There a few startups out there trying to "defeat" adblock by allowing smaller sites to mimic the vertically integrated nature of the largest platforms, and counterintuitively the web might be much better off in the long run if they succeed.
Fueled | Senior Front End Developer | London, UK | Full Time

You are a passionate developer with an eye for quality. Your fluency in HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and other front end languages allows you to translate code into elegant, responsive design. You can collaborate and lead, showing strong communication and problem solving skills. You know how to use the right tools to develop the best product possible. 21 Days Holiday, The Coolest Office in London, Performance Bonuses, Your Very Own Apple Watch, Monthly team dinners and activities, Bi- annual meet ups/ trips abroad.
Apply Here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/fueled/jobs/106364#.V5-Us5OANBc

Fueled | Senior Android Developer | Noida, India | Full Time

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Fueled | Senior Product Manager | New York, NY | Full Time

You understand what makes a strong digital product. You know what a mobile phone is capable of and how we can push it to its limits. You know what makes a compelling, interesting idea for a mobile product. Your role is to sit down with potential new clients and hear about their idea at a very-high level, and then turn around and present our implementation vision.
Apply Here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/fueled/jobs/107542#.V5-U7ZOANBc

-- Who We Are--
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Find out more: http://www.fueled.com/about
Why don't you read the article and research the system before commenting on it? Almost every single thing you say in your post is wrong.
I'm not even that tall and I learned that growing up, learning just how to do a front flip on a trampoline was tough being a "lerpy" kid.
How so?

<form method="post" action="...">
<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE"/>
</form>

has been the standard workaround since like… 2005, if not earlier, and works quite fine without JavaScript (assuming your server-side supports it, and most or all common frameworks do).
Do you actually have a choice which ambulance and fire truck you get when you dial 911?

Markets only work in the presence of consumer choice, agency, and evaluation. If there are no consequences for bad service, you will continue to get bad service. Similarly, if the consequences for bad service fall on people who do not have a say in which service is chosen, you will still get bad service.
oh, the irony.
Springshot | Lead Mobile engineer, Android and iOS | San Francisco Onsite

We're looking for a Lead Mobile Engineer to spearhead development of our Android and iOS applications. We're a small but growing company providing task-management for the aviation industry and a foundation for branching out into other industries. We solve real-world problems in industries underserved by technology, such as mobile apps for aircraft cleaners and smartwatch apps for airport baggage handlers.

Feel free to email me with questions: nick.geiger@springshot.com
Totally disagree that this is "damage control". It had all the signs of a good faith postmortem that others can learn from.
I am experiencing the same exact combination here. Chrome OSX as well.
Teachers Pay Teachers | NYC | Full-Time | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econo...).

Our engineering culture focuses on our mission, curiosity, learning, and autonomy - read more about it here http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/mission-values.ht...

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at nhurst@teacherspayteachers.com.
Those settings are likely to be derived from Mozilla's recommendations with the same names:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS

You can read the details, rationale, and information about supported clients there.
Show HN: Secure Linux Apps on the Mac Desktop Through Docker
Bankruptcy Filing of Nick Denton of Gawker
dynd is next generation numpy for language-agnostic usage: https://github.com/libdynd/libdynd
Segment – Engineering | SF (local)

Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We’re processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Zenefits, and Atlassian.

Where we're at:

- built with Go, Node, Containers, NSQ, Redis, AWS
- just over 100 people, and growing actively
- we <3 open source [1]

If that sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you. Apply: https://segment.com/jobs/

[1]: https://github.com/segmentio
private equity specifically does mean stock that is not publicly traded. BUT (and I may be wrong here, so apologies if I am!) I think some of the confusion may be that the term "private equity" is more commonly/generally used to describe private equity funds and their investment strategies.

In that case, private equity funds are essentially investment funds with a strategy something like this (and I'm trying to be as bland in description here as possible, as private equity fund strategies very often result in some unpopular results - ie. mass layoffs, selling for parts, etc.): purchase a controlling interest in a company (often times financing the purchase with debt acquired by the company they are purchasing), operate the company with a super focus on some sort of efficiency (usually profitability or revenue), and then re-sell the company 3-5 years later at a 2-5X return (ideally, of course sometime that doesn't happen).

the reason they are called private equity funds is that in order to get a "controlling interest", PE funds almost always either target (1) smaller private (usually industrial) companies that are operated by their owners (my cousin works at a fund that focuses on oil-services companies that are private but have $100m+ in annual revenue) or (2) public companies that they think are undervalued by the market or poorly run that they can "take private" by purchasing all the stock and then running more efficiently (these are the big sexy PE deals, biggest recent example is: Dell - http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/10/30/you-w...)

there's a WHOLE lot of other details that I won't get into on how PE funds work, and about how PE funds are now so massive that they almost act like unregulated banks and have a bunch of strategies other than the one I described above, but that's the traditional fund strategy (at least based on my experience) and I think a good place to start.

Another good way to learn would be to learn more about the biggest PE funds themselves:

KKR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
TPG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPG_Capital
Silverlake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners (work in tech a lot, did the skype deal where they bought from eBay and sold to MS)

Another way to learn more might be learning how a leveraged buy out (LBO) works, as this is one of the more traditional PE fund financing strategies for their deals: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/lev...

If you really get into it, the book "Barbarians at the Gate" is considered a classic book written by two WSJ journalists about KKR's takeover of RJR Nabisco, the largest PE deal in history ($25b in 1988), I enjoyed it!
The Burrito Index: Consumer Prices Have Soared 160% Since 2001
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We are making premium TV shows and movies available for streaming everywhere and to everyone, 100% free. Join Tubi TV and reinvent the way consumers discover and consume premium content. With over 40,000 movies & TV shows, Tubi TV has the world's largest catalog of premium content, all made available to consumers for free. Some of our studio partners include MGM, Lionsgate and Paramount. We offer very competitive pay, full medical, dental & vision benefits, catered lunch, gym subsidies and your choice of hardware. At the moment, for all positions we are looking for engineers with a few years of software development experience in the industry.

Target comb for these positions is $130k-$170k + options + full benefits. We are hiring for:

- Senior ML/Data Engineer: Come and build out the next iteration of our data platform. Full autonomy and end to end ownership. Work on your choice of algorithms using Spark/Flink or any other stacks you deem suitable. See: https://tubitv.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk06xpn/?referer=hn

- Senior Backend Engineer: Work on NodeJS v6, design APIs, architect video encoding pipelines, experiment with ad payloads and help build out our media delivery network. Previous AdTech experience is a major plus. See https://tubitv.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk067d5/?referer=hn

If you'd like to chat more first, shoot me an email and mention HN (marios at tubitv dot com)
On another note, I've found I have much better focus and mental clarity when my physical desk is empty. I find piles of papers, mail to process etc, to be discomforting.

The only things on my desk every day are a minimal coffee mug and a wind-up timer for timeboxing.