skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USAA is an exceptionally good company.
Your quant skills (and humor) sound like a great match for http://quantopian.com. If you signup for the alpha using the kozjob email you shared below, and we'll let you through. If you like what you see, drop us a line, maybe there's more we can do together.
Huh, didn't know that. I stand corrected. That Raman amplification is nifty. :D
What a beautiful git commit history on the their github account[1]. The punchcard graph is very revealing as well. Interesting that there are almost no commits on Saturdays.

[1] https://github.com/zidarsk8/galaxyCar
This is the kind of business model that I like to contribute to!
Also using a lot less powerful hardware.

The Raspberry Pi is using a BCM2835, a 700MHz single-core ARM11.

The Cotton Candy is using an undisclosed quad-core Cortex A9 at 1.2GHz. The best information I can find points to it being probably an Exynos 4412 with a Mali 400-MP GPU.

The Raspberry is a hell of a lot cheaper because it's a hell of a lot less powerful.
I am not a fan of flat out sprinting on treadmills because it seems scary, but all the ones I've used definitely have an option to stop/slow down after a set period of time. Here's an example manual: http://www.bhnorthamerica.com/BHFH/reso/bhf/ownersmanual/Tre...
10AM - 7:30PM
You could make separate areas. One for the robots, one for the humans.
If I recall correctly, it was a post by Arrington that informed me about the existence of hacker news. Which for me personally directly resulted in a reduction of visits to Techcrunch, and a sharp increase in visits to HN.

Anyone else who remembers the post I'm talking about (couldn't find it) and who had a similar experience?
It's really not... every time i go there most of the stories are by Sarah Lacy bashing google. Maybe they'll grow over time.
But than again TC is really dead to me. stopped reading it about a year and a half ago.
Looks like it dual-boots Android and Ubuntu, maybe?
Misfortune teller: predicting criminal recidivism
Wiping windows off, and replacing the HD with a clean Ubuntu install would be the first order of business. To me Keyboard, battery, and lack of fan noise are important in an Ultrabook.
I am clear I am doing something "novel" when it comes to resolving my health issues. What I do not know is how to a) promote it to others more effectively and b) monetize it. And please refrain from being the umpteenth person to tell me that either I should give it away for free out of the goodness of my heart or that it has no commercial value. There are literally billions of dollars being spent on more expensive, less effective approaches and all the info on my website is currently available for free out of the goodness of my heart while I am homeless and deeply in debt. Are there any good articles for how to figure the right way to monetize something when you are genuinely doing something unique?
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This is great. Very handy for explaining to others the differences between various languages, and surprisingly enough until you get into the array functions i'm starting to feel like PHP isn't really that messy since reading this!

Thanks for sharing, ill pass it on whenever a comparison is needed.
The culture of overwork in America in general (not just in IT) seems simply pathological, and I just don't understand it.

The crazy overtime that people in the medical profession are expected to put in is probably one of the most egregious examples, because lives could literally be lost as a consequence of errors made due to lack of sleep and overwork.

Lawyers are typically worked to death at law firms.

Wall St is famous for making people slave away virtually non-stop -- making work your life and having no life outside of work is quite common. Of course, big bonuses are promised -- and delivered to senior people -- but more junior people often aren't so lucky.

Even teachers, who many people think "have it so easy", actually spend a huge amount of time outside of school hours grading papers and making lesson plans. Their "long vacations" are also typically filled with work-related activities.

And don't even get me started on how low-wage employees and undocumented workers are typically treated.

It seems no matter where I look, people are working their assess off in America -- and suffering the consequences: burnout, a shitty life/work balance through which their families, friends, and their non-work lives suffer.

And for what? It's not like many of the companies these people work for couldn't afford to hire more people to reduce the workload to sane levels.

I'm really amazed at how highly skilled employees at prestigious law firms and Wall St firms are made to work like mad. Those firms could easily afford to hire more junior people to pick up some of the lower-level work -- but they don't.

As a result, a lot of these firms are like revolving doors, with people dropping like flies. The carrots of money are dangled in front of their faces, but otherwise the firms don't really seem to care about their employees -- and will often drop them without a second thought (even if business suffers as a result, which it often does).

And it's just so incredibly dangerous and downright unethical to make doctors and nurses work a crazy amount of overtime with little or no sleep.

Why is it so difficult for these companies to offer their employees a healthy life/work balance? Why is a big paycheck is supposed to solve everything? Why don't more companies offer their employees a healthy amount of time to sleep at night instead of just more cash?

Business will improve as productivity improves as a result (and business should know this well by now, as there have been tons of studies to show it). Employees and their families will be healthier and happier. Healthy and happy employees are clearly better employees, especially compared to the super-stressed near-burnout heart attack candidates that so many of these firms seem to prefer to cultivate.

Improving the life/work balance seems like a huge win-win situation for both employers and employees, and a no-brainer. What am I missing?
Development is mostly prototyping -- you may work on a big project but you end up prototyping a solution to each of the small problems that happens (you know exactly how to solve a problem? great it takes little time to actually write the code, which means you will spend most of your time working on what you don't know) during the development.

There's a difference between hacking it and doing it right. You hack something to see if it works, and if it does, you discuss it with others and decide the best way to do it right.

One of the largest features I wrote for x264 took 80 minutes to prototype, but a couple weeks of on-and-off work to make it work in all cases, find most of the bugs, and make it efficient. This involved discussing it with other people!

After you have tryed different approaches to solve a particular problem and selected the best one, you want to hand the authority to decline that solution over to somebody who hasn't worked closely at the problem and has looked at only one solution for a few minutes? That can only end badly.

No, that can only end well. If you think that changes to code are better if you don't discuss them with other people, you're simply a terrible programmer. Programming is a team activity, and if you don't trust the other people on your team to read it over and talk about it with you, you or your team are completely dysfunctional.
I just got Machine Learning for Hackers, Designing Data Visualizations and Think Stats for $20 - steal of the month!
Dell servers and enterprise storage are second to none, in capability and price. This isn't an "announcement" from Michael Dell, it's a statement of fact: they are a major player in the enterprise IT equipment game.

If you're an IT infrastructure geek, you should check out the way their EqualLogic storage works.

This is why companies like HP are suffering greatly: Apple is hitting into their consumer division, and Dell is hitting into their enterprise edition with capable solutions at a great price point.
As someone with a traditional CS background who's learning JavaScript & HTML5 right now, I have to agree that learning JS in the context of a web browser feels like a poor choice for beginners. There are way too many gotchas, hangups, incompatibilities, etc. with browsers and a big domain of knowledge to learn with the DOM.

That said, I think if you teach JS in the context of Node.js with liberal use of quality npm packages like mocha for unit testing, etc. it could be a fantastic environment for beginners and ease a lot of frustration. Just having a REPL is reason enough to use Node for beginners.
We are in the process of completely redesigning the site and it will look a lot different soon, so we haven't spent time trying to improve the current design. These pics will be going away. Beer and cans are bad for dogs, we don't encourage this.
I did get some flack that it's a can of Yuengling and not PBR, the preferred beer of choice for hipsters in San Francisco.
I have modded 15" pro

1) I have a 128gb SSD for the OS etc where the optical drive was and a 750gb SATA drive replacing the stock one

2) 8GB ram if you use parallels or eclipse etc this a no brainer for the price/ease

3)the hires matt screen (1680x1050) means you can use outside

So whilst not as portable as the airs, it never lacks power and is user upgradeable, my slight fear of the air is you would always be waiting on Apple for an upgrade and it might not quite fit your requirements (large disk or ram)

I also use a backpack anyway so really apart from when I ram it full,to avoid having to check a bag on a plane, the air wouldn't really make that much difference personally, that said its a tough choice especially if you don't need the ram
I also use that configuration in Firefox, with cookies expiring at browser close by default. I use the Cookie Monster add-on to easily whitelist sites like HN, my banks, etc. where I want long-lasting cookies:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...

I browse with Flash disabled (tip: there are ways of bypassing the Flash Block add-on, so disable the flash plugin completely when you don't need it, it's easy to re-enable and reload a page on occasion) and have the Better Privacy add-on cleaning up Flash cookies on a timer and at browser close:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...

Also, the Ghostery plugin is a nice lightweight alternative to AdBlock to just block tracking scripts without wiping out ads everywhere. It kind of side-steps the tracking issues this Firefox Collusion plugin is highlighting.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
I hate to be "that guy" but how on earth with such experience and credentials you resort to HN to find a job? Does not compute.
I love this line from the first essay:

>Your résumé would look better on
top of a funding proposal than under a cover letter.
We had a library project that we shared between the tablet and the phone app. The only problem we faced was that eclipse didn't always update the lib correctly and we had to clean the projects every time we added a new public function/class to the library.

Apart from that it worked out great. Writing a simple Activity for the phone took less than 5 minutes and we could work on the OpenGl part without the tablet. But it all depends on the application that you are trying to build.

Also I hear you can run a x86 version of android inside virtual box, which is way faster than the emulator, check it out.
Probably something to do with the HAARP research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_R...
"Drawing from criminal databases dating to the 1960s, Berk initially modeled the Philadelphia algorithm on more than 100,000 old cases, relying on three dozen predictors, including the perpetrator’s age, gender, neighborhood, and number of prior crimes. To develop an algorithm that forecasts a particular outcome—someone committing murder, for example—Berk applied a subset of the data to train the computer on which qualities are associated with that outcome.

[...]

Philadelphia’s parole officers were surprised to learn, for example, that the crime for which an offender was sentenced—whether it was murder or simple drug possession—does not predict whether he or she will commit a violent crime in the future. Far more predictive is the age at which he (yes, gender matters) committed his first crime, and the amount of time between other offenses and the latest one—the earlier the first crime and the more recent the last, the greater the chance for another offense."
For sure -- personally if I was a teacher I'd start any course I taught with that models quote :) And if the students find the holes in what I'm teaching them then we can go to the next level of complexity.
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I suppose it's more a cultural issue - no Finn would read that post as seriously as you did. Many would consider it hilarious. It's quite typical in informal Finnish way of speaking to use "dark" metaphors, and granted they come out a little bit clumsy in English, but I know a lot of Finnish coders who express themselves with similar language that Torvalds does. I remember a few incidents from my Nokia career where this caused "issues" when we were communicating with Nokia employees in US over the email.
> (we won't spam you, we promise)

It's a nice touch, but honestly, it just reminds me to use a wildcard.
So, looking over at Houston there are all kinds of crazy datasets for both energy exploitation and energy trading. There's a thriving if quiet startup community, and a local private university of some note in applied math (Rice). It's pretty unpretentious, but that's the city--we are all about the bidness.

Besides, it's a chance to crunch numbers for something other than selling ads and cat pictures. :)
The prospect of teaching the JavaScript language as a first language is actually really exciting. Teaching prototypal inheritance to experienced classical-inheritance-using developers is normally rather frustrating (and results in many libraries springing up attempting to replicate the classical style of inheritance in JavaScript, which is a whole realm of weirdness in-and-of itself). Teaching prototypal inheritance to someone who has never seen any form of inheritance before will decidedly be an easier task.

But does this result in a better outcome for the student?

How many other commonly used programming languages use prototypal inheritance?
I can't get behind this mindset. First off, who are you to say that these sorts of devices don't enrich people's lives? For this conversation, I'll concede that tablets are largely for consumption. At what point would it be enriching?

Under your rationale, if you always think of who has it worse than you, you could never have a valid complaint. "Man, I will be so disappointed if the iPad 3 doesn't have LTE." "Don't you think about starving children in Africa?"
D _was_ decent until D2.0 started to get a serious case of feature envy. I'm not too happy with that new direction.
I love it when discussions turn meta. Bravo! ;-)
This was reported on WTOP radio this morning as, "Wealthier people more likely to take candy from children."
fellow Kenyan here! (in the US though)
'Call of Yudkowsky: a group of Christian adventurers hear disturbing rumors of abominations being programmed in SIAI House! As they penetrate to the core and pass various obstacles of cognitive biases, can they maintain their FAITH points, frustrate the sinister computations, and escape mentally intact?'
We put on a great show because we all gonna die.
PHP5.4 also has the short syntax array initializer:

$array = [1, 2, 3];

Edit: While PHP still has it's fair share of issues, a lot of the same complaints people had 5-8 years ago aren't valid, and it probably has no more or less oddities than any other scripting language at this point.
Umm, then where do they run? They can't float in the middle of the water.
I'm one of the founders of Yapsie (sorta like pet Yelp) and think this is a neat project and it looks really well executed! We considered this problem as well, but decided to go in a slightly different direction. How do you plan to monetize and keep people on the site and using the product? Hope you guys do well!
I paid $10, so you can consider me as having paid for you if it makes you feel better.
The allnighter on Wednesday was fun and we tried to have a social life on Saturdays!
Correlation versus causation, guys. We're better than this.
had some dell latitudes but i wasnt really impressed by them. Build Quality was okayish, touchpad was horrible and it had CPU whine. Much happier with my consumer-macbook pro now.

But Dell had awesome service for business customers, if you have a problem theres a technician the next day at your doorstep to fix the problem, that was really awesome.
Well, strictly speaking, it's not the usual Mercator projection, but the "Google Mercator" or "Spherical Mercator" projection, EPSG 3857 or EPSG 900913.

This is a Mercator-like projection that assumes the Earth is a sphere instead of an ellipsoid. Many online mapping systems use this projection because it is a much simpler calculation than than a more correct Mercator projection would require.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html
There's often a serious communication barrier between Asian open source developers and Western communities; partially a language barrier, but also other issues. The end result is that a lot of projects end up being de-facto forked by Asian open source developers -- this is where outreach can be very important, to help integrate the changes back in as soon as possible and start that necessary contact.

If anyone cares I can talk a bit more about this (as this was an issue with x264). There was also a session (with notes online) on the topic at last year's GSOC Mentor Summit.
in related news:

iPad 3 Event Announcement Propels Apple market cap to half a trillion dollars

http://www.cultofmac.com/149350/ipad-3-event-announcement-pr...
Good luck man, fellow Iowan myself.
Email marketing site iContact acquired for $169M
This mentality is a little bit crazymaking (but it may just be that I'm crazy). It's always bad for someone out there. The market is not great for SPARC assembly programmers, or for Turbo Pascal programmers, or for Motif UX specialists.

I don't believe the market actually is bad for people with a modern systems programming skillset (not least because we have trouble hiring those people), but I don't doubt that there are systems jobs that used to be common that no longer are.

Nobody has a license not to adapt. If you're stuck in a crappy job working overtime solely because you're stuck maintaining AIX database applications, it's hard to blame the structure of the job market on that. Get thee to Github.
It's because writing a research paper, making a prototype and putting out a cool 3 minute video is much, much easier than developing a reliable, affordable, usable, consumer friendly product that fills an actual need. MS is good at the former but poor at executing the latter.
Please. kozjob (at) Yahoo (dot) com.
Pitchfork's music reviews with 3 more significant digits
As a Leanpub co-founder, can you let me know which of the following would have worked for you:
a) Google Checkout
b) Amazon Checkout
c) Credit card (via Stripe or similar)
Very, very thorough. A great resource, thanks!
Apigee - a console for interacting with a range of APIs
Yes, but I think it's more to indicate that you have to go somewhere [Maps] on Wednesday the 7th [Calendar] for a presentation [Keynote].

The "Let's Talk iPhone" invitation used the Calendar/Clock/Maps/Phone application icons to present the same concept: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/03/apples-lets-talk-iphone-e...
Aside from the idiotic title (maybe some people are simply jerks, but rich jerks are less scared of consequences of their jerkiness, so they do more of it), this article describes mostly the studies/experiments that have nothing to do with real ethics.

Cutting of pedestrians? Cheating at an exam for $4 (I doubt that the cash prizes were more than $5)? Lying at a role-playing job interview? Hardly behavior that deserves to be qualified as unethical.

Would you call a surgeon who does a pro-bono medical procedure on some poor child, but cuts of pedestrians, unethical?

Does being not greedy, not taking candy, make a serial killer ethical?

I was once part of an experiment on risk aversion. We could choose to take the sure bet, and get $3, or a risky bet, and get either $0 or $6 (with 50% chance for each), and the bet would be repeated twice. I chose to take the risky bet. I mean, it's just $3, who cares, lets risk for fun! However, if it were $30,000, I would sure as hell take the sure bet. Lesson of the story: contrived psychological experiments don't tell you a lot about real life.
Why Programming Is Like Dancing
How Awesome Would Life Be If Everyone Enjoyed Their Job As Much As This Guy?
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"Acked-by" (or these days "Reviewed-by") most definitely doesn't mean "this can't have a bug"; it just means a second person looked over it and didn't see anything obviously wrong with it. As for why I'd do it: because it makes the software better, why else? Code review frequently catches bugs, and if they don't get caught now they'll have to get tracked down and fixed later.
The FlashBlock plugin for Firefox provides "click to Flash" functionality.
Map of race, poverty and education in the Bay Area
I disagree. The obvious benefits of Javascript in the browser are that it is distributed universally, can be deployed to others easily, and has a reasonably powerful API (but not powerful enough to shoot your foot). I think the ease of applying the code to real projects can provide an extra amount of motivation to a lot of people who may have no interest in learning either some toy playground or the console.

Remember, the introductory programming class is all about teaching students to talk to their computers in a methoidcal, step-by-step fashion. It's not about the finer points of language design.
I hope they are small phones. I dont want 6 Galaxy Note's in my pockets.
Wait... there's more on the homepage! http://hyperpolyglot.org/
Correlation might be useful, but how about causation?

The most likely "cause" of criminal recidivism is sending millions of people to prison for minor crimes, where they spend months learning from other criminals, and then are released, upon which they find it impossible to find a job (because they're marked as a felon) and are forced to return to crime.
Make sure you check out Addepar - they're developing a wealth management platform that seems like a good thing for you to work on given your experience. Only negative is that you'd have to learn Java, but it's a small price to pay to get involved with an up-and-comer.
This looks nice, but it has a few problems:

-first, relying on DNS for certificate distribution might not be a good idea. It adds complexity, would not be secure without stuff like DNSSEC, and places too much responsibility on DNS.

-second, you could have gained a lot of CPU time in 1995 when static pages were the norm, but right now, for apps using AJAX heavily, you will not gain much.

-third, it does not prevent MITM. I can mount a server between you and the website, and keep serving you outdated content with its valid signature. Or serve you prepared content that I received earlier.

-last but not least, TLS certificates are cheaper and cheaper these days (not necessarily a good thing, though), and encryption doesn't cost much anymore.

Apart from that, I agree that would have been a cool idea :)