skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a huge fan of Pinboard. I like that it has a clear I-am-the-customer profit model, and it's performed flawlessly for me for several years now.
> we need to be posting regularly about how HC is breaking the law

This article details an interesting technical investigation by leading security experts and also it bears more analysis, resulting in some interesting discussion. Clinton's email servers were also discussed. When Trump or Clinton do something non-technical, it's not discussed.

> and how Google, Facebook, and Twitter are suppressing free speech

That topic is frequently discussed.
Location: Alberta, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML / CSS, JS, Bootstrap, Unix / Linux
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Email: mccada@gmail.com

Looking for web development experience, junior to intermediate roles, preferably within the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. Would consider front end work.
Compress any larger piece of data on your own computer, and watch the CPU bottleneck.

Even on the fastest CPU's, writing a file that must be compressed first, will always be slower than the same file on the same hardware, but not being compressed before written to disk.

It may not be magnitudes slower - depending on the data, hardware, and algorithm, of course - but it will incur some write penalty. So, with disk compression, you get a write penalty and a read boost.
Is that increasing write amplification to a meaningful degree? Compressing already compressed data is generally only slightly less efficient than just compressing the data once, isn't it?
I am super happy with my Lenovo T450s - it's sturdy, has a super crisp, beautiful IPS display, very long battery life, trackpoint. The only bad thing about it is that the speakers point downwards into the table, but I rarely use them anyway. I run dual-boot Windows 10 and Linux because I need both for my work. The newer Linux kernels support everything and work perfectly with this computer.
​Apple just handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom
This smells like an app that will be shutting down in about six months.
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Our interview process begins with a call from the owner to get to know you, then a first general technical call follows. We then provide a sample project which you can do at your leisure. Once complete, we then have a second technical call to review the sample together, and ask more specific technical questions.
I don't have to remember. I have recordings. Things like 'r' are a bit of a puzzle. What determines when a letter is silent? I don't actually believe pronunciation is absolute or fixed in time. But I don't believe its perfectly relative, either, or that "standard" does not have a meaning. Most accents sound like vowel sounds aliasing as other vowel sounds. I think the standard accent just doesn't alias nearly as much among all the vowel sounds, and I think that's meaningful.
We have a lot of email addresses provided for certificate accounts but we'd prefer to use them only when necessary, because that's what people had in mind when they gave them to us. When we collect email addresses via marketing efforts we may use them for future marketing efforts (with the appropriate opt-out options, of course).
+1. Been using Pinboard for a couple years now, it's worked perfectly.
So load the clips from disk and pre-decompress them before firing the main engine up.
Sequential access is still faster than random access.
Exactly. This is a list of everything the new MacBooks already have. It sounds like the author should just get the new MBP.

Some of the listed attributes are just odd too: only 16GB RAM? No HDMI? No SD?

Guessing from the relative volumes of complaints that I've seen, a more useful list would probably be something comparable to the previous MBP, but with more RAM and a better CPU, and bonus points for a dedicated GPU.
If you read the details, that doesn't describe what happened.
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Front-end developer
http://www.noip.com/careers/frontend-developer

UI/UX Designer
http://www.noip.com/careers/product-designer

We've got a startup vibe at an established company in business since 1999. Still a small company at ~15 employees, we currently serve over 23 million users and need all the help we can get! http://www.noip.com/about
Funny, many people say this, but iPython notebooks have been around for a while (now called Jupyter Notebooks since they are not Python specific anymore) and it didn't spur a massive migration to Python...at least as far as I can tell.

Not a bad thing, it's just R Notebooks kind of seem like old news to me.

Addendum: I looked it up and it appears that Jupyter Notebooks actually have an R kernel (https://irkernel.github.io/).
Already lost my business when they paywalled me out.
You are in a hole. It is dark. You can hear noises above.

There is a shovel here.

>
I find fountain pens so much nicer to write with than ballpoints. If I need to write anything longer than a sentence, I would always choose the fountain pen - it's much gentler on your hand, so you don't tire as quickly, and you have a finer degree of control, so your handwriting becomes more legible.
Dell XPS 13.

Got it preloaded with Linux, which isn't important but felt nice.

It's super light, powerful enough for everything I do (giant pile of chrome tabs + one of gimp, gaming, or webdev), has incredible battery life, and is well-built and generally sturdy. Also the tiny bezel is amazing - it makes the laptop smaller, makes the screen feel bigger, and lets you see more of the rest of the world behind the laptop.

My next laptop will probably be an XPS 15 to see what those are like.
I like pocket a lot. Been using it casually for a few years.
Tropare Inc.|Full-time|ONSITE|Laguna Beach, CA, US|$65K+ USD DOE|http://www.tropare.com

We are currently seeking a Perl programmer, that has experience developing back-end Perl applications running on mod_perl2, under Apache2, on Linux. This position is on-site, and our office is on one of the most beautiful stretches of the California coast.

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Duties and Responsibilities:
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Position is on-site at our office in Laguna Beach (we are two blocks from the beach).

Desired Skills:

Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon)

Open Auth/Openidc (The ins and outs Google, MS, etc) .

MySQL, Postgresql

AWS

Javascript

jQuery/jQuery-UI

AJAX

Mobile Application Development all platforms (IOS, Android, Blackberry)

Surfing (water based)

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I Love Travel is a collaboration of travel companies that offer the best and most innovative youth & travel experiences in the world.

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We're hiring someone who wants to make the world a better place with us through working on the code that servers www.kiva.org. We're a non-profit helping to alleviate poverty through connecting lenders to borrowers across the world and here at home. We offer awesome benefits including a partner trip to anywhere we work for a week to meet our borrowers and partners. We're looking for people with either strong Javascript skills for our front-end position or DevOps candidates with strong AWS skills for our Ops position.
If those aren't your thing then we're also going to be hiring for back-end engineers, especially those with a financial systems focus, just shoot me an email and let me know!

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It's not so hard for backup service to ensure users can undo any changes (XX days back) no matter what way files are removed/overwriten.
I don't think many people find the OS better. It's the main reason people are still (stuck) with apple. I think most people want to jump ship because of the hardware -- despite it having a great polish.

Maybe we need a MACE emulator. How hard could it possibly be to run macos apps on linux? ;)
If I configure the 7510 with the 3840x2160 LCD, it doesn't let me select Ubuntu as the OS instead of Windows. Do you have any info on whether it works, but just isn't supported?
HP Spectre 13 (v021nr) has quite good build quality in my opinion, coming from previously using only Macbook Pros.

It has 6th gen Intel i7, USB-C (one gen 1, two gen 2 which are also Thunderbolt 3), it was $1100, weighs 2.4 pounds. It's been the best Linux machine out of the gate I've had. Trackpad works, wireless works, the one glitch I'm running into right now starting with kernel 4.8 is suspend.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185521
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan
I've posted in a couple other threads. But Thinkpad T430. My only complaint is the screen at 1600x900. But I have it docked with 3 24" @ 1920x1200. Every day I use my macbook pro at work, I curse under my breath and wish for my Thinkpad.

It's maxed out, I bought it back in 2013 used from ebay base was 500, with dock and extra parts ~900 total. The specs outside of GPU for gaming are still more than adequate. I5 dual w. hyperthreading. 16GB Ram, 2 SSD (2.5 128GB, M2 256GB). Spare battery in optical slot, or 1TB sata. About 10 hours battery life. That's one of the biggest things to me, is the flexibility and expansion.

It's the best Linux laptop I've used. Everything on Arch works flawlessly. I haven't done a full reboot in months, opting to suspend. The dock with a custom script, is a breeze. The keyboard, almost as good as my Unicomp.

Lastly ease of maintenance. I replaced the screen after leaving earbuds on the keyboard and cracking it (60$). Dropped it down a flight of stairs, toasted I don't know what [wouldn't boot]. New motherboard, CPU, and stick of ram (80$). Dropped a box on it, broke one hinge (15$). There are also some HiDPI mods floating around replacing the screen with either 2560x1440 or 1920x1080.

I'm either waiting to build a gaming rig, or a laptop with external gpu at this point. There are pain points, the screen viewing angles are atrocious. Speakers are tinny and useless. I gutted them on a rebuild years ago. But I mean when I'm at work or on any other laptop I want my think pad.

I feel I'm an outlier in what I want. I want the old used car of a laptop. Something that has good bones, and I can maitnain myself. Rice it up, soup it up, and use it for several years. I don't mind heft, 6lb is max for me. Give me expansion and good battery life, with linux support. Also things happen, so durability is key.
Banks, hospitals, airlines, rail systems, and automakers are all on the hook - if their system does the wrong thing, someone will notice the unbalanced books, bodies, or wreckage (other banks, Treasury, NTSB, NHTSA), and the institution will suffer serious harm.

How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?

Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold?

I don't think so.
To answer my own question, it seems to just work on recent ubuntu releases, which is great.
Location: San Francisco

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies:

Frontend: HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, SASS, LESS, CSS

Backend: Ruby, Python, Node.js

Framework: Ruby on Rails, Meteor, Express

Database: PostgreSQL, mongoDB

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Email: hn12846146@skywritr.com

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I've spent the past two years building a variety of freelance projects for clients, and my Github account contains Ruby, Python, and JavaScript repos. Prior to that, I held roles at a couple SF startups in marketing and analytics. If you have a smart team and an ambitious project, I would love to talk with you.
Save the source of https://web.archive.org/web/20160506180535/https://letsencry...

Edit it and remove the /web/20160506180535/ and /web/20160506180535im_/ from the PayPal form at the bottom.

Open it and click the PayPal donate button. (I would just paste the HTML code in this post, but I suspect giving people a PayPal hosted_button_id in an editable HN post would feel kind of sketchy, as opposed to getting it from the Internet Archive.)

I'll also ask to have the PayPal button put back somewhere during the crowdfunding campaign, which would be a lot easier.
I'm not sure that a single sticker for $50 really qualifies as a large reward. I'd be very surprised if these cost more than $2 per sticker, including distribution costs (note: the entire process from production to distribution is very likely to be outsourced).

It's nice to have some sort of recognition to people who give you money, it seems perfectly reasonable to me.
maxes out at 32GB of memory on Dell's web site.
Note that this would only end it for crimes that fall under the state's jurisdiction. For things like transporting people across state lines to kill them or using a weapon of mass destruction in a manner detrimental to interstate commerce, the death penalty could still apply on a federal level.
You mean via crouton? How do you deal with the issue that silent updates to the chrome-os can screw up the linux?
Or decompress them on level load or otherwise idle time.
I don't understand how you'd "miss" some of those. I use Windows (10) and love it and use Photoshop, Lightroom, and Spotify daily.

Support for high density displays on Windows is a lot better than it was 2 years ago, thankfully.
If you're considering upgrading then you might want to ask yourself whether you really need a laptop instead of a desktop. If you work from home and currently have a laptop that you can use while traveling (or for miscellaneous web browsing, media, etc) then a desktop might actually be a better fit.

I recently started feeling like it might be time to upgrade my 1st gen Carbon X1 and after doing some research I found myself really disappointed by how little the laptop landscape has changed over the last four or five years. After giving it some thought though, I realized that I do virtually all of my work at one desk anyway and decided to look into some desktop options. I found that you can put together something in a mini-case with an i7 processor, 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, 2 TB of SSD, a 28" 4k monitor, a mechanical keyboard, and a high quality mouse for less than about $2k dollars.

This made a lot more sense to me than spending a similar amount on a laptop that offers only marginal improvements over my current one. The obvious trade-off is portability but I would guess that most of us here already have laptops that are "good enough" for most purposes and which could still be used as necessary.
Location: Oklahoma City, OK, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, SALT, Linux from
kernel 0.82

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/dPQ1HV

Email: Mark@Grennan.com
MM.LaFleur - https://mmlafleur.com/ | New York City, NY | Software Engineer | ONSITE + REMOTE

We're a small engineering team in need of more engineers to help build out not only new features and a better experience for our customers, but internal tools that will allow us to continue to scale and grow at the fast pace that we are growing.

We're looking for engineers that love what they do and aren't afraid to tackle difficult problems. We use a variety of modern programming languages and tools like PHP, HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Objective-C.

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Our hiring process usually consists of a phone conversation and one or two technical interviews. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and other perks.

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Weissmaler | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | Full time

Looking for a Lead Developer (JavaScript) who wants to paint it black!

WEISSMALER is Germany’s first tech-driven painting company. Our ambition is to build the largest and best painting company in Germany, using technological innovation to manage our painters better and more efficiently than traditional painting companies.

We are looking for an experienced developer who likes the challenge of building up a tech stack from scratch (well, almost). We’re talking about customer-facing applications that allow for accurate pricing and generating quotes, as well as tools to manage painters, automatically order materials, and communicate effectively with painters and customers. So far we only did the groundwork for some of these tools, so there is a lot of freedom to build and design. Our current stack is based on NodeJS, Express, RethinkDB, React and Redux.

In addition to building software, we are also looking for someone who can build teams. You will be the first employed developer in our team, and we want you to bring your most talented friends. We will immediately look for one junior developer to complement your skill set and build up a larger team in the next months.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

As our lead developer, you will have the freedom to shape the technological direction of our company. It will be up to you to choose what we will develop, how we do it, and what our tech team will look like. The choices you make will have a major impact on our business, team and success. We offer €45-70k salary plus equity. An awesome team of young and ambitious people to work with and a great office in Neukölln.

If you are interested you can mail me through my profile or directly to HR at jobs@weissmaler.de
Really, I thought all the basic decompression was handled on silicon by the "sound card" now, integrated or not.
I second this, I have the 2015 XPS13 with 8GB of ram. It has been a champ, I too had to ditch the broadcom wifi and replace it with an Intel one.
China is bound by international treaties the same way.
This might be a better article if it was proofread before posting... This looks like a draft due to the obvious typos: "ob" vs. "of", "last not least" vs "last but not least". Also the glaring "Johnny Ives" typo.

Maybe the message is good, but it looks hastily written and could have been significantly better if it was proofread before posting online.
Nature is under no obligation to comply with mathematical analysis.
Not a typo, just a poorly expressed thought. I'll attempt to re-express it here.

My thought is that reading translations is a skill that takes time to develop, and my Christian friends have spent a lot more time developing that skill, even if it's not a conscious development. When I've talked to people about books they have enjoyed, I've found that my Christian friends seem to find more enjoyment reading the translated works than my non-Christian friends do.

Maybe that makes more sense? Totally anecdotal.
Are there apps that work with Pinboard? I'd like to support it, but I want to be able to background sync my saved stuff to my phone, like I do with Pocket.
>We live in a post-file-system-compression world.

says a guy working for a company shipping system with >6GB (often 10GB in 100K individual small files!) of redundant NEVER EVER touched data inside WinSxS. Data that cant be moved off the main drive without serious hacks (hardlinking). This fits in the general pattern of indifference to user hardware. Another one (my fav) is non movable hiberfil.sys that MUST be on primary drive, cant even move it with hardlinks. There goes 16GB of your SSD for a file that gets used ONCE per day.

This is what happens when you hire straight out of college programmers and put them on top of the line workstations.