skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - I was wondering about this. I've used ColourLovers.com for years, but I've never heard of Kuler until today.
If this were a blog I'd be adding it to my RSS feed.
My mother was for many years an elementary school teacher in a district that was almost entirely Hispanic, where a large percentage of the students could barely speak English and where many were the children of migrant farm workers who never stayed in one school for the entire year.

When NCLB hit, her school was unsurprisingly deemed "failing." The response was to focus exclusively on test scores, eliminating any program (art, sports, music) that did not directly traslate into better performance on the benchmark test. And yet, because the students still couldn't speak English, nothing much changed and the school was taken over by the state, which meant the principal and many of the teachers were fired.

How does this sort of thing make any sense? How are the teachers to blame for their unprepared students? These teachers are working in the hardest districts with the most students of greatest need, and our national response is to punish them.

It's distressing to see in many of these discussions exactly the attitudes described in the article: teachers are lazy, they're overpaid, they even get summers off! Never mind that their salaries are so low that many need to find alternate work for the summer to make ends meet, or that it is impossible to get all the work done during the school day, necessitating often long nights.

There are bad teachers, just as there are bad programmers and bad doctors. We should try to help them become better teachers, and fire them if that's not possible. But we shouldn't castigate an entire profession as a result, and we should acknowledge that if we actually wanted good teachers, we will have to pay for it.
Paris, France - Mimesis-Republic (creator of http://www.mambanation.com)

We are looking for a Scala Senior Software Engineer for working on Scalability/Distributed-computing/Cloud computing on your virtual universe. Ideally with experience in Scala or at least knowledges in Java but strong willingness to learn Scala.

Mimesis-Republic is young, dynamic and rapidly growing company, mainly composed of talented and passionate engineers. We are building a 3D virtual universe with high graphical quality and strong ties to social networks. In this context, we seek to improve our technology to be able to cope with growing user demands.

Email me directly: steve.gury@gmail.com
It's also worth looking at their 72 disk, 2.5" version

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/417/SC417E16-R...

Using that, and 72 1TB 2.5" drives, (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136...)

(($109 * 72) / (72 * 1TB * .75) in dollars per gigabyte) = $.15/Gb
There are quite a few nice tiling utilities for Mac :)

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ (for mouse)

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ (for keyboard)

http://autumnapps.com/breeze/

http://mizage.com/divvy/ (the one I use)
I work with both tabs, and buffers in vim. Best of both worlds. Switching to another tab quickly is easy, and opening up files becomes even easier with NerdTree (never did like Command + T). I also have BufferExplorer that allows me to switch buffers easily, but I tend to just use NerdTree anyway.

But I agree with you, I hate quitting vim, it seems like I lose my place much easier when I no longer have those files open.
Their page appears to have a single unlinked image on it, and nothing else..?
Yammer is hiring in San Francisco. We're one block away from the Caltrain station.

What do we do? Yammer helps turn the mayhem of the corporate world into return-on-investment unicorns and leveraged-employee-engagement butterflies.

We are a medium sized start-up that is battling several big enterprise software companies in this space. So yes, our target customers are in the enterprise space but we are turning this space upside down with our viral approach and how we build solutions for the user (which doesn’t include an army of salesmen). We are solving consumer type problems but also monetize like enterprise software. (i.e. real revenues with fewer users)

What's in it for you?
- Amazing group of smart engineers to work with. (Sounds cliche, but we really do have smart people here :D)
- Ability to have influence without authority. Yammer is a product-focused and user-focused organization. Everything we do revolves around that.
- We hack in Ruby/Rails, Scala/Java, Javascript/JQuery/Node.js/Adobe AIR, Obj-C for iOS, and some MSFT stuff for Sharepoint I don't know too much about. You'll probably find something you want to work on.
- Good catered lunch and dinner daily, with a 3PM snack cart. (Really.)
- Fancy Apple hardware of your choice (you can have a PC if you really want one.)
- Our engineers can outdrink anyone.
- Top of the market compensation.
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For more information check out: https://www.yammer.com/about/jobs or contact me: bkudria@yammer-inc.com

(Note: we also offer real referral fees. Sell your friends today!)
A lot of the top teams had blended submissions, but my characterization was not incorrect: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5197...
تحميل مسلسل الارض الطيبة الجزء الثالث الحلقة 18 
تحميل مسلسل الارض الطيبة الجزء الثالث الحلقة 18
What licensing issues? It's your phone, your data. I don't think Apple gets to say what you get to do with your data on your phone. If it was on Apple's servers, maybe they would have a case.

Plus, it's data that Apple shouldn't have been storing (in its current state, anyway) in the first place.
Five things my Dad taught me on a Sunday afternoon
Five things my Dad taught me on a Sunday afternoon:

a. Never judge someone by how they look, where they work or what they earn. Who ever they are, treat them with respect. Say "Please" and end it with "Thank you". As you stand before them, imagine yourself walking alongside their lives. Empathize.

b. Each person you come to meet will in someway be better than you. They will also be more knowledgeable than you in some ways, no matter how much you think you know. If you didn't use that opportunity to learn more, then you have lost that for ever.

c. Never dismiss kids opinions. They offer a perspective that you might not yet come to grasp, and the last thing you want them to feel is that you do not value what they have to say. They will most likely respond in kind.

d. In the scheme of things, we are a flash in the pan. Ten, twenty years after we are gone, our names will be forgotten. Do the right things not because you want to be remembered for doing them, but because they were the right things to do, to begin with.

e. No matter how much ever you love your kids, they will always love their children more than they love you. That is simply, life.
It's understandable that you wouldn't want to buy a new Mac just before they do a hardware refresh or something, but come on. At some point you need a new computer. Somehow I doubt that Apple is going to do some kind of crazy Intel -> Atom transition anytime soon, and even if they do they'll support Intel for at least a few years.

You sound like my friend who won't upgrade to an HDTV "because the price keeps dropping." :D
Nope, it was by Bell and Koren.

This one is related, but not the one I originally mentioned: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5197...

I was at the talk but can't for the life of me remember the title, sorry.
Yeah, basically 2.5" gives you the same space but twice the spindles for twice the price. Probably not worth it for archival storage.
Speaking the Same Language
How To Upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) To 11.04 (Natty) (Desktop & Server)
Hmm, could you give us a TL;DR on how this differs from model selection in statistics, e..g, choosing the structure of an HMM?
Last I heard, we had multiple openings. They try to roll them up into single postings, perhaps this is the "most important" one they're looking for.

Feel free to send me your details and I'll ask on Monday.
Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.
We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc. You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December, not to mention other trips.

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.
Agreed. It'd be faster, but that's not really what we're looking for- We want to get the cost per GB to be as low as humanly possible, while maintaining at least an illusion of reliability.
Ddar v tarsnap
Air France flight data recorder recovered
People would lose data and then blame the provider, creating nothing but bad PR.
I can imagine the release coming after sufficient interest in the current legal proceedings against Assange die down, such that the leak obtains full attention.
I look forward to the SFTP feature, a zone where Vim isn't confortable.
* The Vico "blog" does not have an RSS feed, so it's not easy to track future announcements about Vico.

* Firefox's AdBlock seems to be blocking your hotlinked Twitter icon, so there is no obvious Twitter link to follow. The "Follow Vico on Twitter" text should probably be included in your <a href>.
Try SnipMate(1) for tab-completion and autoComplPop(2) for auto-completion.

(1) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2540
(2) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1879

It took me one month and a half to stop using TextMate. Once you are accustomed to oOaAiI, rR, wWeEbB or ci( or all the rest it's very hard to open TextMate and take it seriously.
I can't tell if you're saying that examples are not enough to back my points or if those examples just don't back my points at all. If it's the latter:

[1] is an example that illustrates the complexity of C++. Show me a style guide or debates about how to use the core of the language in objc.

[2] is an example of someone unsatisfied with memory management and string support in c++. There are tons of those out there. Show me one for objc. Admittedly memory management is a matter of taste, but I retain/release/autorelease quite simple to use and I haven't found anything quite on a par with that mechanism in c++.

[3] what do you mean "it can easily be done"? There's nothing being done there, the author is just observing how the implementation of arrays changes based on the size of the dataset; it's an example of the details behind CF. Are you saying STL automatically optimizes as well?
Feel free to ask any questions you want and we'll answer. :)

Also, link to Tinfoil Security: http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com
i hope my linode doesn't crash again...

edit: reboot #1. this is like monday all over again. i'm resizing my linode to 4gb now, then will install wpcache. will be back up in 4 min.

edit: wow, that was like 20 minutes of downtime. it should be working now.
The Tone Generation: Podcast on early days of electronic music
Sure, I was just saying it's a source of irony or amusement or something for me. The downvoting hasn't wrinkled my snout.

It's a fairly short and snippy article though, isn't it? That's my succinct answer to the title. Poor crackheads.
Firefox is definitely going to have CoffeeScript debugging support in the future, though it's not yet clear exactly what form that'll take.
I like the idea. Do you want to do it just for fiction, or for non-fiction as well? There are alternatives for photojournalists and micropublishers, but reportage has lagged behind, slightly.

I think you should go vertical and integrate with something like OpenCalais for subject-matter tagging which you can use as the basis of a recommendation engine, and some sort of document-based CDN.
The closest equiv. would be Amazon's EBS, but they're pricing on this is through the roof. Storing 70TB would be 8K/month, without ANY bandwidth fees..
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503677
Airpush Wants to Destroy Android
You are making an assumption that PSN is not storing the CVV code, and may be incorrect. Though PCI guidelines explicitly forbid storing this field, there are some who flout the guidelines.

To answer your question, it is similar to places like Starbucks, that do not require a signature when you make a purchase. In such cases, the merchant has cut a deal where they agree in advance to accept all chargebacks without dispute.
I'm kind of curious why non-Europeans (such as myself) are barred from participating.
Founders: Mature But Don't Grow Up
My sister was Teacher of the Year for LAUSD, and if she doesn't spend her own money on supplies for her students, they simply have nothing to write on or with. She has never had a class size under 35 that I'm aware of. Yet, her job is on the line based solely on the test scores of her kids, many of whom are mainstreamed special Ed kids. In what way is this a recipe for success?
cache - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wHndBgg...

Congratulations to the author, I would love to hear some reviews from those of you who have already read this.
To the downvoter: "A notable example is bottlenose dolphins, where at times, a pod of bachelor males will 'corner' a female.[43] Furthermore, in a zoo where it is common practice to put newly captured dolphins in with dolphins who are established in their enclosures, other species of dolphin are never put in together with bottlenoses because the bottlenose dolphins frequently torment and rape them.[44]"

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Animal_sexual...
analyzes users’ everyday reading habits — what stories are bypassed, what stories are clicked on, and how long they’re read for — to give users a magazine smartly tailored to their interests.

So, say goodbye to stumbling on anything new out of your tailored sphere of interests.
They weren't, if memory serves. I think Applebaum (ioerror) confirmed it, but I'm not sure.
That's pretty interesting. Similar to www.parallelkingdom.com ?
That's not exactly true. You'll get torched on a chargeback if you didn't match the CVV code.
You can use dwm/awesome/wmfs & co under XQuartz, installation and configuration work almost like in Linux.

That said, I use ShiftIt(1), it's free, keyboard based and does EXACTLY what I want it to do.

(1) https://github.com/iamteem/ShiftIt
I would be a lot more sympathetic to teachers if their pay system wasn't seniority based, or if it wasn't so hard to fire teachers.
The OP is including a lot of different concepts under the neural network umbrella. Things like restricted boltzmann machines and hierarchical temporal memory are technically neural networks, but many computer scientists would consider them to be different enough in approach to think of them separately. ie, you wouldn't say "let's use a type of neural network to solve this problem" you would probably say "let's use a restricted boltzmann machine".

It is true that these things are becoming more popular. I've found in practice that a modern computer scientist is still more likely to solve a simple learning problem with some form of regression, if only because it's faster than training a NN.
Are these positions for local candidates only? Im a Front End Developer but not in Austin (at the moment).
You don't even have to cite poor districts to see this. In Bloomington, IN, the presence of the University also ensures that you have a large number of non-English speakers every year, and every district everywhere has a certain number of disabled children (who have mostly been mainstreamed now for lack of funds for special care).

Teachers work as hard as any human being can, and directly affect the lives of everybody in the country - and yet they're routinely despised and asked to sacrifice just a little bit more. It's no wonder so few people are still willing to do that work.

The same applies at the university level, of course, with increasing reliance on no-benefits adjunct workers paid chump change for a chance to "get into the profession" (as if there will ever be well-paid positions afterwards), and even full-time lecturers are not exactly paid huge amounts of cash - my wife has a PhD in physics and was just paid $35,000 for a one-year visiting professorship.

Argh.
That's a curious idea. How would you access the raw storage? iSCSI? And then you run your own RAID on top? What's the advantage to you? It's ever so slightly cheaper?

Backblaze (no affiliation) is $5/month or $50/yr. That's pretty hard to beat.

Also, running a static web-server is fairly trivial to setup these days, what would a service not running a static web-server do/have?

Every online alternative has a vested interest in both A. saving money, and B. not losing your data. As much as you trust a business to perform B adequately, you implicitly trust it to perform A at least as well.
I don't think that's what the OP is asking. Why would someone take the time and effort to post on this unknown site, when there is another, much larger site with millions of dollars' worth of investors?

A talented author can build a fan base anywhere, but it's easier where there are already potential fans. This site looks like there are six (6) story pitches total, and probably as many users.

I'm not knocking the idea, I'm asking what you intend to do to compete with the incumbents. "Different features, more focus" is not sufficient.
you're too fast...and I'm slow
Teachers generally have yearly contracts. It's not hard to fire them.
Dude, their pay system is seniority based because otherwise they'd never get a raise at all.
I like the editor, but I don't like the fact that it is time limited to just 5 days. Yes I understand that you want people to download the latest and greatest for testing, it just seems wrong.

Overall it looks fantastic, but I am pretty dead set on my MacVim ways with my various plugins that it is going to be hard to get me to switch.
Auto Transport Anaheim, California
OPOWER: Green start up that's beginning to mature. It's a great place for nerds that value work life balance and want to work on software that makes the world a better place.

http://opowerjobs.com/engineering

SF & DC offices (both in excellent location, btw)
Java, Ruby, Scala, Mysql, Javascript, HTML5

H1Bs welcome.
Ganeti: cluster virtual server management tool from Google
It's worth noting at this time, that most SSDs only come in a 2.5" version. (Not for cheap bulk storage but because that's arguable Supermicro's intentions for this chassis.)
Sounds like you've developed a great system/process here. Are you a developer or QA? Are there two groups or even just a person with testing as their responsibility?

Have you ever had people mark tests @flaky just so they could deploy (and that later caused grief)?

I would love to hear more.
The pizza is an example of what not to serve. If you look at the entire image (which is unfortunately obscured by the poor page design), you'll see that the girl took one bite out of the pizza, and then tightly crossed her legs.
Sometimes the VC brings in "adult supervision" in the form of an experienced serial entrepreneur, which can be great. Sometimes the VC brings in "adult supervision" in the form of an MBA with many years of experience as a consultant or investment banker and zero experience founding or even managing a company, which can be not so great.
PiCloud (San Francisco, CA) is hiring software engineers to develop its cloud computing platform.

Quick description: We allow developers, scientists, and engineers to leverage the power of the cloud with only a few lines of code. We do this by abstracting away individual servers, in favor of a simple language-integrated API.

We do extensive amounts of systems work, from scheduling algorithms to user sandboxing to bytecode introspection.

Apply @: http://www.picloud.com/jobs/
Ask HN: What's up with tech internships?
"Ideal applicants will possess:

1-2 years experience working with: HTML/CSS, XML, integration and template design on a CMS (such as SharePoint or Kentico), JavaScript libraries, Photoshop or Fireworks, ASP.net, C#. Knowledge of Windows Server 2003 and 2008, IIS. Experience with SQL Server queries and stored procedures; Oracle PL/SQL knowledge. Experience with Visual Source Safe (or similar)."

This is for one 'programming/web development' internship, and it's not even asking for as much as most other ones I've seen (they usually mention C or C++, AJAX, PHP, Ruby and Flash as well).

Am I making too many lofty assumptions about the level of competency they expect in all these areas, or are employers just looking for ridiculous qualifications in college students (who may or may not be paid)?
Would be interesting to install OpenStack Swift on top of Backblaze storage and see how it works.
I'm not sure if it's the norm but I know SEOmoz are desperate for top talent and are willing to pay for it. Their web-index is pretty complex and so the engineers they hire need to be highly skilled.
i think the concept is interesting. Would be extremely helpful to get more information about an article and also the publisher..
They're looking for EU-based talent.
I'm enjoying reading it. =)
not an expert either, and indeed, the Hinton papers on RBMs are the last thing i remember reading about. But their invention dates back to the 80s. I 'm just noticing that if you search "neural network" on google scholar for the recent years, you will find many neuroscientific results. Of course i dont have the data to back it up.
SEEKING WORK - In ASEAN (GMT+8) - Remote mainly, but willing to travel.

I'm trying to do the whole electronic nomad thing, but work has been fairly chaotic lately. If anyone thinks they are a trustworthy individual with solid paid work, I'd be very interested.

In order of preference: Chrome Extensions, jQuery, JavaScript, Python, CSS, PSD->Product/HTML, Screen Scraping, WordPress, Django, PHP.

ABSOLUTELY NO unpaid work, internships or revenue shares. Email in profile.

I'm also currently tutoring someone that would be very interested in doing PSD->HTML work under my supervision (it'll be good but slow work).
Im a Front End Dev/Designera(3 years exp.) living in outskirts of Baltimore. Might you guys have an upcoming need or position for my current skill-sets?
Toronto, ON

EventMobi is looking for front-end engineers excited about mobile development and pushing the boundaries of mobile web app performance.

Who are we? EventMobi is changing the way attendees experience events, conferences, tradeshows, and festivals. From social gaming to attendee networking, we’re revolutionizing the way smartphones are being used at live events. With happy customers from around the world, we’re looking to build on our success and truly offer the best web apps available to event organizers.

Have a look at our job posting for more information! http://www.pophire.com/jobs/view/2yp/b3
false. in the united states, as a result of the teachers' unions, it is very difficult to fire a teacher.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/05/why-we-must-fire-bad-teac...