skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the answer from rndgermandude (which is also a reason why accessing a data structure in RAM, even in a world without cache lines, would be faster and more efficient if stored in a linear array rather than a tree), SSDs are themselves a complex data structure mapping data into erasure blocks in an attempt to minimize wear on the flash memory and increase efficiency. If the size of your fragments is smaller than the size of this block, you are going to take a performance penalty, and the size of this block is large: I did a search just now to find an article for you detailing this, and http://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-5-acc... mentions 32 megabytes, and anything below that leads to a second layer of data structures on the SSD designed to map the high-level blocks to low-level blocks and incurs erasure penalties.
I'm hoping this is a 'Halo Car' kind of project for Pinterest. Instapaper has, I'd guess, a relatively large, legacy subscriber base, and their parsing and read-it-later tech is pretty mature. Hopefully, it's a product that they use for development of features to see if they are useful into the main Pinterest product, and so it stays around instead of just getting killed in 6 months.
> my steamapps folder saving 20% disk space even with the not-very-good compression that NTFS offers

Wait, you run the Steam apps from a compressed folder? Doesn't that kill performance?

Regardless, I have long felt that the right way for Steam to make this work would be to have, in addition to the "Download" and "Delete" tools, an "Archive" button that moves it to a specified path (by default, on the install drive, but configurable to another drive or a NAS) and compresses it - with whatever compression they want.

I want my Steam apps uncompressed on my SSD. I don't have room on my SSD for hundreds of gigabytes of Skyrim textures that I haven't played in 6 months. But if I delete the app, then I have to wait hours (and cause Steam some expense) to download it again.

Not everyone has multiple drives or a NAS, but a local archive would definitely be useful.
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Our stack includes: C#, SQLServer. Front end likely to be WPF or ASP.Net MVC.

Full job info: https://bms.hanford.gov/HRISJP/JobDetail.aspx?BU=TOC&ID=2861...
SimplyCredit | FT Frontend Engineers | SF or Remote (in US only)

We are looking for talented frontend engineers eager for a defining role in building a company and engineering culture. As an early employee you will be responsible for creating the primary experience customers will have with our products, thriving on incorporating user feedback. You’ll work directly with the founders who have deep experience in consumer lending, data science and business development from their work at companies FICO and Kaggle.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop web and mobile apps using React/React Native
* Write secure code and ensure the privacy and safety of sensitive user information * Work collaboratively with product and backend engineering * At least 4 years of experience with web applications * Experience building consumer products

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About SimplyCredit
At SimplyCredit, our mission is to redefine consumer lending as it is known today. We believe in doing right by the consumer: no fees, no penalties, no gotchas or fine print. We want to bring sanity back to lending and ensure that consumers get the value and service they deserve. Using advanced technologies we are creating credit and lending innovations in line with these values, all delivered through seamless customer experience. www.simplycreditinc.com
Video game soundtracks on spotify. Specifically:

* Bastion
* Fez
* Assassins Creed

No vocals, just great music designed to keep you focused.
InTech Energy | Pleasanton, Ca | Web Application Engineers | C# .NET Javascript | No H1B Transfers | ONSITE | Full Time w/benefits

InTech is a growing IoT software firm in the energy efficiency industry. We are helping owners and tenants of small/medium sized commercial buildings operate more efficiently and become more sustainable. The new software engineers joining our small team will help integrate more hardware/software technologies into our platform and help us expand our use of machine learning. The team needs individuals that will work in the office at least 4 days per week (we are located inside Innovate Pleasanton with other well funded & profitable startups).

You can apply here: http://www.intech.energy/company#opportunities

No recruiters please.
> The justification that hard drives need to work everywhere is a little weird. Most drives stay in their host machine until they die.

The article was pretty clear that the context they had in mind for this requirement was servers in a data center, not your home machine:

> Without that requirement, a hard drive might be usable only on the system that created it, which would create a major obstacle for data centers (not to mention data recovery).

Keep in mind they still thought they'd be targeting Alpha processors as late as the Win2K RC's.
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I've pretty much switched to Evernote. Its web clipping is pretty good. The pure reading experience is't as good as a dedicated program, but in return I use Evernote for more than just reading, and having the articles already in a "read later" notebook helps me keep the ones I want to keep. Note: I have a paid account so it downloads all my saved articles to my iPad.
CACI International Inc. - Rome, NY

CACI's Rome, NY office supports the Air Force Research Laboratory. We develop data visualization software and productivity tools supporting the United States military using a wide range of tech stacks. Basically we write cool software that ranges from bringing old pen and paper military processes into the 21st century to visualizing large data sets in ways that push the limits of modern computer hardware.

CACI employs a diverse range of talent to create an environment that fuels innovation and fosters continuous improvement and success. At CACI you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian clients. A member of the Fortune 1000 Largest Companies and the Russell 2000 Index, CACI provides dynamic careers for approximately 20,000 employees working in over 120 offices worldwide.

We're looking for full time systems administrators ranging from entry level to senior candidates as well as current students looking for college programming internships skilled in one or more of the following:

- JavaScript (full stack: client-side and Node.js)

- WebGL or OpenGL

- Java

- C++

- *nix skills

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CACI also has lots of job openings in other locations too. If that sounds more appealing, I will be sad but my employer will be happy. You can find those openings (as well as our Rome, NY office openings) at http://careers.caci.com
OP here: For the record I'm a Sublime / Emacs user. From this earlier post: "I philosophically disagree with the idea of looking at your keyboard to comprehend its interface."
I've got a colleague who had the P50 4k display, who said the only annoying part at the time was that moving Chrome or IntelliJ from a lowdpi to highdpi display meant you had to relaunch those processes (and this was some time ago). While I agree this is annoying, Fedora 25 launches this month with Wayland, which is supposed to fix these issues.
There are several third party apps - I'm using Pinner, and it means I can save pages on the go from the usual share menu, and of course access my saved links.
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> Maybe that makes more sense? Totally anecdotal.

It does, and I appreciate the clarification. Do you know why your Christian friends have spent more time reading translations? Is it related to dmreedy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12847680 )'s hypothesis about reading the Bible in translation?
I beg to differ, Razer hardware far exceeds the MBP (IMO) and matches (and somewhat exceeds) build quality:

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade

Here is a thread about running Linux on the new blade:

https://insider.razerzone.com/index.php?threads/linux-on-a-n...

Also, there is always the Dell Sputnik program and I find the XPS 13/15 series to be comparable to Apple build quality these days:

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

Now if you want first class support for Linux (at least Ubuntu) and don't mind some build quality compromises, System76 has been a great experience for me:

https://system76.com/

TL;DR: The options for Linux laptops have never been better.
Oh man, I deserve the down votes.
If you think about the costs and dangers of surgery as a whole, I don't think it's worth the risk trying to completely automate something like anesthesia.

The personnel really has to have a holistic understanding how the patient is doing and not just look at one number on a screen.

I would go the exactly opposite direction.

What better monitoring and tools should provide is better quality anesthesia, which is a whole big story in itself with many interesting components.

For example if you can monitor better, you don't need to give so much drugs "just to be sure". This has all kinds of benefits like faster recovery for the patient.

(Disclaimer: I've worked in a very related field.)
What is worse? How is it worse? And what evidence do you have that its systemic?

I've had one MB break the first month and one last a year before I sold it. My current Sony VAIO (VPCZ21) is running like a champ since 2011 and the build quality is stellar.
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SimplyCredit | FT Backend Engineers | SF or Remote (in US only)

We are looking for talented backend engineers eager for a defining role in building a company. As an early employee you will be responsible for architecting and building key aspects of our platform, work autonomously guiding the technologies we use and create, and help develop our company and engineering culture. You’ll work directly with the founders who have deep experience in consumer lending, data science and business development from their work at companies FICO and Kaggle.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Build RESTful APIs that will power the user-facing website and mobile apps * Write secure code and ensure the privacy and safety of sensitive user information * Interface with financial system APIs such as the credit bureaus and payment systems * Architect the backend to allow for sophisticated deployment of machine learning algorithms and data science * Design and build the data warehousing infrastructure * Define key workflow infrastructure including automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployments * Experience with PCI compliance, payment systems or other banking applications is a plus * Language/stack experience in Scala or Clojure * At least 4 years of experience with web applications * Experience building consumer products

If you’re itching to get in on the ground floor of building a new product and company, then we’d love to hear from you! Email: jobs@simplycreditinc.com

About SimplyCredit
At SimplyCredit, our mission is to redefine consumer lending as it is known today. We believe in doing right by the consumer: no fees, no penalties, no gotchas or fine print. We want to bring sanity back to lending and ensure that consumers get the value and service they deserve. Using advanced technologies we are creating credit and lending innovations in line with these values, all delivered through seamless customer experience. www.simplycreditinc.com
In this case it's actually done pretty tactfully, you're not effectively just paying for a new hoodie. I was more speaking in the general sense as a loud thought, in hindsight it's not really relevant to bring up in this thread.
Skyscanner | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA | full-time senior hires

We're one of the biggest travel metasearch products in the world by traffic... and we want to 10x that, again :)

Hiring at an experienced level in lots of key disciplines: backend with microservices & distributed systems, big data & data science, full stack (modern frontend + api skills - particularly Node or Python), designers, product, iOS & Android. We are growing in all of our European offices - London and Barcelona being the two newest. In short, if you've got good industry experience, know what best practices look like, and have the drive to make things better, we're interested.

We want to hire people interested in large-scale challenges and building new products. We have an incredible amount of historical data and a unique position in the market. What should the future look like? How do we best use our data, our scale and new technologies to our advantage as we grow? We're particularly interested in data-driven personalization and recommendation, exploring new travel products and experiences, as well as developer enablement and tooling.

We're one of the very few unicorn companies HQ'd in Europe who are profitable, and have been so for the past 7 years. Our CTO Bryan Dove joined us from leading Amazon S3 - in London you would be working closely with him alongside some very experienced industry figures in a cool and central location.

Please ping me an email at alex (.) treppass [at] skyscanner.net for a referral. Happy to answer questions or pass you to someone who can. CV in Word / .doc format would be ideal, pdf is fine.

On a personal note, I see a lot of freedom, responsibility, accountability. Engineers have a lot of room to make decisions and move fast, and the encouragement to make us better. It's exciting.

We have a bunch of info up on our jobs site, too: http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/
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Bali
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> I find it ironic this article cites Snowden while literally sounding like the very spying that Snowden exposed and fought.

I agree, but at the same time Snowden also fought conspiracies of powerful government actors, such as the Russian government and Trump, against the public's interest.
It's almost like everyone was suddenly imagining to see quantum processors in those Macs.
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Google discloses Microsoft exploit before patch released
https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/disclosing-vulnerabilities-to-protect.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37833146
I can say that's true from empirical experience - doubly so if you're targeting an environment where the data's likely to be stored on a NAS or some other fairly slow storage.

(And yeah, natch, insert recitation of the Liturgy of the Optimizer as a charm against the appearance of a certain Knuth quote.)
yah, Tsarnaev in massachusetts comes to mind most recently.
Didn't you get this week's memo? Apple will vanish into a puff of smoke early next year. Discuss.
Peek.com | San Francisco, CA | DevOps | Full-time | On Site

Do you want to work in a fun, vibrant environment where you're excited to get to work every morning? Are you excited about travel and activities? If so, then you're perfect for Peek! We're revolutionizing the travel space with the peek.com web and mobile apps to help travelers find and book activities that they love, and at the same time building the Peek Pro platform which empowers tour operators to better manage and grow their businesses.

We're looking for a DevOps engineer who can help us plan and execute the next phase of our platform's growth. We run a Docker stack on AWS that is managed by Kubernetes; the services themselves are written in Ruby, Elixir, React and Ember.js. We are also moving towards building an event stream architecture, so experience with (or interest in) working with an ELK stack or similar would be great.

If you can roll up your sleeves and also help with technology strategy and planning, then you'd be perfect for the position. You can find out more on our jobs page:
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Or the direct link to the DevOps posting: http://peekpro.com/jobs/?gh_jid=232280
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This is in theory a good track to start with. However there is one small hole in the theory. Self reporting by security companies on breaches is very tough to impose. We have seen what self regulation/reporting did for the banking industry. If security companies sidestep accurate self reporting on breaches they have no incentive (in fact they might be motivated to let things slide for economic reasons) to create rock solid security solutions because they know there is an insurance company who will absorb the hit.

However if you had an independent entity that rated the security companies' products that might work. Or the insurance company has a division that rates the security products and provided different rates based on which product a company decides to use.
WeakMap holds a weak reference to the _key_, not the _value_. That's not enough to do weak event handlers, for example...
I was a heavy user of Instapaper and switched to Pocket.

The reading interface for Instapaper is much better. Pocket has more clients, browser plug ins, etc so you can take it anywhere (When I switched Instapaper Android wasn't available).

Both are lame when bookmarking things like github repos.

I really want these services to open up their engine so that I can write a plug in for displaying bookmarked gists or repos.
Imagine the epiphany striking us non-native English speakers when we realize at some point during teenagehood that almost all the Sci-Fi we've been reading thus far wasn't the author's actual words.
I’m reminded of these, from Dresden Codak:

https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code...

https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code...

https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code...

And also these, from Scary go Round:

http://shop.scarygoround.com/product/don-t-tit-about-on-ladd...

http://shop.scarygoround.com/product/rules-of-the-pool-print
Guys, this isn't new. They've been selling Server as a standalone app for $20 for years. I'm currently using it on a 2012 Mac Mini to provide directory services and device profile management for about 500 users and 65 devices, and it works terrifically well.
The principle is no different, but the practice might differ significantly. With vehicle safety there's a reasonably common, agreed upon set of vehicle conditions which can be checked with a inspection; do your brake lights work, tires aren't bald, etc. There is also a framework of regulation (at the product level vehicles have to pass a set of design-level safety tests), as well as policing on actual roads to execute vehicle maintenance checks as needed.

I'm not sure we know what a similar framework would look like with consumer devices. I can see the utility, but I would also worry about regulatory overreach, and giving big brother another point of control to latch onto.
You can use Steam's backup feature for that, at least for games that manage their updates through Steam: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8794-YPH...

Also useful if you don't have fast internet for your gaming PC, but access to it somewhere else.
I know that it was one of my great delights in reading Borges when I realised that I trusted Andrew Hurley, and could feel confident reading anything that he had translated. (I've never read the original Spanish, so the best that I can say is that, if Hurley isn't faithfully representing the original, then at least I enjoy his representation.) Do you know any 'reliable', in this sense, translators of Chinese science fiction?