skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling all machine learning experts
Are you a machine learning expert? We're a YCombinator-backed startup bringing machine to the masses, and we're looking for you. Yes, that's right, you!

We're a team of of ex-Google and ex-Zillow engineers who previously worked on speech recognition, ads targeting, sentiment analysis, and more. In our past jobs, we’ve learned that the challenge is no longer storing the data, but sifting through it to discover interesting patterns, correlations, trends, and anomalies.

Our product is an API paired with elegant visualization tools to help domain experts apply large-scale machine learning to their data. The first application of our technology is to battle fraud online. Last year, there was $4B in credit card fraud, 70% of it from organized crime, and it literally kills companies (see http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/brandstack-heads-for-the-deadpool-blames-credit-card-fraud/). Our system uses a combination of supervised classification algorithms, anomaly detection, and good ol'-fashioned feature engineering to ferret out the bad guys, all running on top of open-source tools like Hadoop, HDFS, MongoDB, Vowpal Wabbit, and d3.js.

We're fresh out of this summer's YCombinator batch, backed by top angel investors, and have huge plans beyond fraud. Our team includes two former CTOs, the tech lead of Android voice input, and the tech lead of Google's A/B test analysis framework. We like to laugh, push each other, and keep things fresh by doing fun events with other companies in the broader San Francisco startup community.

As the fifth engineer, you'd become a pillar of the team. You should:

- thrive on responsibility and freedom

- be a rock-solid hacker

- have prior experience with machine learning, data mining, or related applications (e.g., machine translation, computer vision, search ranking)

- M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience preferred, but we're flexible

So if you think P(you, us) > P(you)P(us), then shoot a resume over to: principal.components.wanted@gmail.com .
You should read Your Mother's Tongue: Book of European Invective. You'd be surprised (and in your case, probably shocked) at what people call each other without any intention of actually insulting them.

For example, here in Portugal and in informal situations, it's reasonably common for a person to use an expression that essentially calls their mother a whore because they made something that somewhat annoyed you. Of course, no one is actually insinuating their mother sells her body for money, it's just an expression.
Boy, it's a good thing the burden of proof still lies with the accuser... oh, wait.

Thanks again, US government, for handing over more of our rights to the wealthy and powerful.
Two things I don’t like about Hacker News
I'll go out on a limb to disagree with most of the comments here and say that I think JS seems like it could be very effective. The Stanford CS101 course page has already implemented decently well: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs101/

The language you learn doesn't have to be the language you end up using, or using to learn CS. It just has to get you off the ground.

So many people get turned off from a subject when they "don't get it" at first, so really, the challenge is providing the least painful intro to programming. Personally, my first languages were Logo and Pascal, and since I almost wrote off programming before Pascal as being too hard, I'm glad I saw C++/Java only afterwards.

One thing that enamors me about the JS approach is that it reminds me a little of Logo -- not only are the results are very immediate, but the visual output gives us a constant second avenue of insight into what we're doing. I'm sure many have seen Bret Victor's talk "Inventing on Principle" (http://vimeo.com/36579366), and he underscores the benefits of direct feedback to what we're doing. I have a friend taking CS10 at Berkeley this semester, and the Scratch-based environment also seems equally cool.

That being said, I don't use JS much (haven't really touched in it 10 years), but I believe it when people say it's (still) horribly irregular. In that regard, it might be on par with some other scripting languages (e.g., Ruby). So the distinction to be made here is that JS might be easy, but (as we can see) not simple.

As people who program seriously, we need simplicity in a language in order to build up large apps that we can easily reason about and don't bite us in every corner. (Note: simplicity in a language doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be easy at first.) But I wonder if we've been so used to programming that we forget how it can be hard to learn at first, and we're just ruling out the easy approach, which would exclude just what some newbies need.
Seems to be part of the free OS culture. Everyone trashes someone. Theo and the OpenBSD devs think Linux is garbage written by people who don't understnd Unix. All of the free OS guys have someone they make fun of regularly. It's a bit silly I think, but that's just how it is.

"Look at them, they use C++... ha ha ha idiots. Oh look at them, they use Linux... utter and complete bloated garbage compared to real Unix."

Wash, rinse, repeat.
In systems research, it seems to mean something slightly more specific: how do you architect systems that can cope with crazy amounts of generated data? Being in the middle of academic job talk season, we hear people talking about a petabyte of total data and issues with generating and dealing with terabytes of data per day.

Some of the problems:
- It can take you longer to transfer off the data than your data acquisition source will allow you to store it there for.
- Even if you could transfer the data off, now you have the problem of storing it on your site and distributing it intelligently among processing nodes.
- Even if you could solve both of those, the projected power costs assocated with that scale of data are infeasible.

Most of the talks I see and papers I've come across seem to be focused on better scheduling and more experiment/gather-side filtering based on what you are planning to do with the data. But take this with a grain of salt, as I'm a compilers guy, so I just see the systems stuff secondhand and only know enough to talk about the languages-related issues with people who work in this space for real.
use it on servers at work, it's gotten horribly confusing in terms of configs. real scary, inconsistent mess.

i don't use it as my primary machine or dev machine any more.

i'd say i'm pretty up to date with it (and alternatives) and still disagree with you. "whole lot"? i disagree.
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Sorry. No aspersions on your mental health were intended. I was using "you" in the general, hypothetical sense. You and I are not the only ones reading this thread.

One of the things I learned from depression was that one (not "you") could intellectually realize that a stimulus was trivial and yet still have a near-overpowering emotional response. People in such a situation would be well advised to deal with the underlying electochemical issues instead of thinking their depression is merely the result of circumstances and something they can just conquer with more will power.
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Global Online Shopping for Cisco XENPAK Transceivers
Find detailed product information for Cisco XENPAK Transceivers from China manufacturer.
http://tengine.taobao.org/faq_cn.html
From the chinese faq, they said nginx rejected some of the features like "syslog/pipe support".
Learning a language is an investment. People defend their investment strategies lest they be considered a fool. Attacking alternatives is a form of defense. I fear it's as simple as that.
My "weekend" project: a simple monitoring webapp
I was looking for a lightweight, simple to configure monitoring webapp for my work environment. Written in PHP and jQuery.

Screenshot: https://github.com/wcchandler/pinger/raw/master/Screenshot%20at%202012-02-28%2020:45:44.png

Demo: http://chandler.mooo.com/pinger/
"... Even after they get paying jobs working 70 hours a week, good developers can’t stop coding. For
example, Phil Greenspun started Ars Digita, yet he wrote lots of free tools on his home server (I use
two of them on my own weblog). Paul Graham ran Franz and Viaweb (now Yahoo! Stores), yet he is busy developing a new language, Arc. ..." @raganwald http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/07/how-to-get-your-first-jo...

franz? I looked up franz and stumbled on this article on "T"
which mentions some history on franz lisp. More here ~ http://franz.com/about/company.history.lhtml
I really don't like Oracle software, we are forced to use it at work and it's a horrible horrible mess...from the crusty Oracle database to the crappy enterprise software it powers.

However, we pay a lot of money to Oracle. There are very few alternatives to Oracle in our market (Telecom) with most vendors requiring an Oracle database.

I don't see us paying less money in the future...but I can dream.
Maybe the problem isn't with you, but with the things you're being required to do. Maybe ideally it would be better for you to focus on doing the things you're especially good at and enjoy doing, rather than following arbitrary and impersonal directives on what you should do.

That's up to you to decide, but currently you're required to meet expectations in your life that maybe you're just not personally suited for, not out of any disability, but because your strengths are elsewhere, or maybe you're just not interested and would rather learn or focus on something else at that time.

The problem comes in thinking something is wrong with somebody just because they don't conform to expectations or are caused angst and turmoil through their nonconformity. It doesn't matter if it's the sufferer or the society that seeks it out. It is still misguided.
That's when you check-in and get your boarding pass issued. After that, many countries (not sure how it works in the US now) have an immigration check point where you're supposed to show your passport (probably to check if you've overstayed on your visit). Some places don't have this check - I noticed that London doesn't.
I'm guessing America started enforcing this check as well recently.
TigerLabs in Princeton: $20k/company, this summer
While reading a bit about these cables I found this unusual fact on Wikipedia:

> Because the [TAT-8] cable was the first fiber optic cable and not coaxial cable, the electrical interference shielding for the high voltage supply lines was removed. This removal did not affect the fiber, but it did cause feeding frenzies in sharks that swam nearby. The sharks would then attack the cable until the voltage lines killed them. This caused numerous, prolonged outages. Eventually, a shark shielding was developed for the cable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-8
How about Google? Happy to start the process for you if you send me an email (my-hn-username AT google.com).
Thank you for that extremely useful explanation. I never did quite understand the scaling of quantum computational power - you just blew my mind!

Now, how on earth do you find or restructure problems to solve appropriate for such immense parallism?
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Crusty old building. Smart people.
I was looking for a lightweight, simple to configure monitoring webapp for my work environment. Written in PHP and jQuery.

Screenshot: https://github.com/wcchandler/pinger/raw/master/Screenshot%2...

Demo: http://chandler.mooo.com/pinger/
Yeah, suprised me quite a bit really. Thanks.
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what are you working on? I'm not looking for work, just have a fascination with the space. are you guys stealth mode?
I don't see advertising on HN an issue, since we are the target market for this type of situation, but so long as it doesn't become a job board.

Someone started a "Who's looking" thread a month or two ago. It would be nice to see that become a regular fixture alongside the "Who's Hiring" thread.
True, I think it is a valid point for arguments about language features though. Fair enough to say that anything in 5.4 isn't production ready yet or had the time to trickle down to hosts but you can't judge PHP on versions before 5.3 as anyone can put a small amount of effort in and have everything 5.3 has to offer.
Citizen Science publishing badly in need of your support
I'm happy to reply - it's about the only way I can help right now.
If you don't think you can make the week, it seems like you should seek a homeless shelter.

Monetizing a web site is an option I guess, but it's not easy and not something you do in a matter of days. I would highly recommend http://www.warriorforum.com/ if you want to learn how to create and market an 'information product' but beware of scams, and again this is not a get rich quick kind of thing. It sounds like you need quick, immediate help, and every community has local resources for that kind of thing.
In defense of tracking cookies
I don't have close to what you have as a background but I've been able to get interest in my resume and just landed a position in sf, I havev the fortune of having family out there so maybe that helped, but you should be able to get a lot of interest I would think... Have you been applying like crazy and networking on linkedin, etc, posting resumes?

Id be happy to help in any way I can, my email is rick_developer at gmx dot com
As the Stephenson article linked elsewhere in this thread says, cablelayers hate and fear shipping lanes. Anchors kill underwater cables dead. Additionally, canals have to be dredged fairly often, which are similarly incompatible with seafloor communications cables.
The Shrinking Expanding World of CI
Feature #1: "Input body filter support. It is quite handy to write Web Application Firewalls by using this mechanism."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but "Web Application Firewalls" sounds like an API for censoring content to me. As much as I loath the idea of internet censoring, I would love to get a peek inside the technical workings of the famed "Great Firewall of China".
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Apple has a lot of contact information that's easily available. http://www.apple.com/contact/

sounds like someone did a charageback if they didn't do it one of the financial institutions did one.
It's not because something is technically possible that it should (or can) be done.

Why go through all the pain of setting analytics such that: it uses per analytics domain first party cookie, serves the javascript and the tracking gif on google-analytics.com (no google.com cookies are transmitted), but they would then try to reconstruct user behaviour based on IPs?

That would be quite deceptive (and might not allowed by the FTC and the privacy policy).

And they can already do global tracking with the doubleclick cookie. But it is explicitly not allowed to link it with other data without consent.

Edit: by the way, thanks for your questions, I never really digged into this and also at first assumed they would have access to a lot more information. But analytics is actually pretty well designed.
Check out the history of Shebaa Farms, which Israel occupies and believes belongs to Syria, but Lebanon and Syria claim it belongs to Lebanon. Old maps play a significant role in the official UN findings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebaa_farms
I said for those who don't have to worry about money, from a student. But thanks for restating that.
Pay for your own cables, then.
Thanks for the book. I downloaded and read it this evening. I identified quite well with one of the bad examples, and felt puffed up because your suggestion for learning communication skills was just what I was telling myself to do.
Now I just downloaded Ed's book, perhaps it will help fix my procrastination. :)
The original question was -- why do some communities seem to be more oriented towards language wars than others?
Even so, for someone like Google with their scale, even identifying users for a short amount of time would work better than not identifying them at all.
Exact same experience. Wandered over here, and haven't looked back. I know that anything Techcrunch puts up that's worthwhile will make its way here.
About 6.002x
This story was reported in 2010. Is there anything new in the 2012 NYT rehash, or other developments?
Talking Pens
What's the same? Not trying to be rude, but what point were you trying to make?
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It's the mixergy interview. You can find it there.
Am I the only reader who was disappointed that there is no thick line of undersea fiber leading to the island of Kinakuta in the Sulu Sea?
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I was very excited but doubtful until I noticed "Tell" in the title.
I'd say it's more like testing; government agencies and enterprise organizations have formal ways of doing them, and you don't have to follow their processes, but if you don't do it at all that's bad news.
JIRA and text patches are anti-open-source
> sounds like an API for censoring content to me.

Does all web frameork URL handlers or case statements sound like web censoring to you?
Also of note: a border dispute between Canada and Denmark took place using Google in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island#Google_fight
In the case that Dell (or someone else) had better hardware at a better price. It doesn't look like that's the case with the Ultrabook just yet.
Not every community has resources for that kind of thing. I am in a small town in Texas and was delivered here by people in even smaller towns, towns too small to have such services. That is just where I happened to be when things suddenly fell apart.

I will check out the forum. Thanks.
Meh, I got to level 4 but didn't go any further.

Learned a lot, but I'm still not sure if there wasn't a much simpler solution that I missed. Was return-to-libc really required to exploit it, or was I trying to kill a fly with a sledge hammer?
Nice.. looking forward to the meetup.

In the meantime, if anyone wants tips/tricks or just to chat about it, feel free to contact me (email in my profile). I captured the flag late last last week.

FWIW, Stripe has a campfire room setup for this as well - http://stripe.com/campfire.
I'm not suggesting something like an app to solve legal problem just by plugging in all the data. I just wonder if there isn't a better way to make the law more 'user friendly'.

Maybe the problem is the firm system - what about a way for people to engage 'freelance' lawyers, while simultaneously making 'freelance' law more attractive? What about arming people with more information about what they should look for in lawyers to make firms more competitive?

It's quixotic to look for a way to replace lawyers, but obvious market failures such as cases where one party was in the right but simply could not afford to fight must have some kind of solution.
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I've just (about 6 hours ago) bought a Macbook Air 13" i7.

I've been using Ubuntu with a 1920x1080 monitor so the screen size is a concern for me. However, the Macbook Air can easily power the external monitor so hopefully things should work out okay there.

The reason I chose the Air over the Pro was cost vs performance vs size. As you started to get into the higher spec'd Pro's the cost started to get far too high for me.

The Air is fast enough (especially with the i7 processor and SSD drive) that I'm comfortable using it as my main development machine and still has the benefit of being (almost) an ultra portable. (I'll be biking around with it a lot).
In my experience of working for companies that justify overtime with discretionary bonuses, the bonus is always less than what I'd expect to earn if I was paid overtime.
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If only this was Friday instead, I really wish I could make it, sounds like it would be interesting :(
Your anecdotal evidence isn't very strong support. If someone had instead stood up in the group and told the manager he was wrong, would you believe the opposite, that not blindly following leadership was the norm?
Return-to-libc (a.k.a. ret2libc) is usually used to bypass NX-bit / DEP, but NX was disabled for level04 - the solution does not require return-to-libc.
Is it USA-centric of me to suspect that most of Anonymous is located in America, and therefore limited effect is demonstrated by arrests internationally?

Honest question.
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I explained to the manager and the group how they were wrong about that and got fired.

The business about it being a normal group behavior is really a side issue though, and I'm not trying to make a scientific case.

The bigger issue is government suppression of dissent by the misuse of psychiatry or just by suggesting theories involving criminal activities of the government are signs of insanity.
You know, it's annoying to see people that post in order to promote their own web site. Rather, since "wappworks" all you've ever commented on, I assume you're connected with it somehow.
I don't think writing a huge list of banned keywords in nginx conf looks like a good idea. But it can be used in that way.
Slightly off topic, but there are some insanely convoluted borders in the world, the worst of which is Cooch Behar: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21160?page=all

Also, the border between Belgium and Netherlands: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/baarle.htm
I'm not shocked and if you were working in this division, you had to know to start looking for another job.
As explained in the FAQ (which is in Chinese I'll give you that) they created the fork for a few reasons:

- Patch have been historically slow to be accepted in NGINX,

- Some of their patches have been specifically rejected, including the syslog/pipe one (and it's probably a crucial feature for them),

- They needed a place to share their pool of patches and enhancements,

Overall, I don't see anything wrong with that; isn't the hacker culture nowadays prone to forking (Github anyone?).

We are here in front of a big player of the Chinese Web space (Taobao is massive in China, we use it on a daily basis at the office as do hundreds of millions of other users) committing resources to release and maintain code in the pure spirit of OSS, in a country where that very specific behavior (sharing and openness) is still in it's infancy.

I applaud the guys at Taobao and hope this will help foster the OSS movement in China.
Pardon me for doubting the EFFs claim. Just for grins, I took my stock laptop (as handed out by my company, so I _know_ they're identical), fired up a completely unmodified Safari (not my normal browser, hence nothing installed), and it still claims I'm unique.

At which point the word BS comes to mind.

But just for grins, I repeated the test with a Chromebook fresh out of the box, and of course it's flagged "uniquely identifiable".

I'm not saying the underlying claim - browser characteristics can be used to track you - is bogus. I am saying that I think that site is intentionally exaggerating for effect. Or, more realistically, that while they can extract 20+ bits of info from those strings, the values in that 20+ bit domain are far from uniformly distributed.
since most of the browsers have moved to use a common parser based off Java code

err, say what?
Because it was asked: I downloaded it for free. No guilt was felt.
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> and always procure a separate, pirated copy of your purchased software so that nobody can take it away from you.

Don't pirated copies of software usually come with all kinds of nasty spyware and trojans?