skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This document uses a bunch of jargon that I couldn't find good explanations/definitions for. Is there a good GC survey out there? If I wanted to write a modern GC and knew nothing about it, where would I look to get started? What should I read to get up to speed?
Enjoyyy Boston Celtics vs Miami Heat live stream
Match schedule:

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You have a keyboard with a start button on it don't you?

That activates the start menu, which no longer exists in Metro. It has nothing to do with the Start button itself not existing as a little circle in the lower left -- it's that the whole launcher / hierarchical list no longer exists.

Microsoft is a usability disaster. They have gone through so many aborted abandoned half-efforts that this adds another cluster-f to the mess. But never all the way (Metro most certainly isn't. The half-baked shell is missing the enormous bulk of core functionality that requires you to delve through the history of abandoned prior efforts. And in Windows 2015 you'll have to fall back to the Metro interface to do the small amount they implement in it), so you'll still have the control panels and the MMC consoles and the managed consoles in the server manager and the metro consoles and the.... jesus, that company is a catastrophe, desperately trying to solidify inertia, but only turning it to jello.
I've seen worse. Agh, I can't find it now... but some Microsoft website for developers... can't remember which one though.
People are not idiots. Those who say we are just don't understand how human behaves. You expect most people will remember a 8-letter random strings consisting of letters, numbers and underscore?
Some of the most entertaining movies I've watched were 'rated' as a failure (<50)

'Professional' critics suck.
Mozilla's reaction: http://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2012/05/31/do-not-track-its-...

"There are three different signals to consider in broadcasting the user’s preferences for tracking:

User says they accept tracking
User says they reject tracking
User hasn’t chosen anything

Firefox defaults to state 3: we don’t know what the user wants, so we’re not sending any signals to servers. This causes the presence of the signal to mean more — the signal being sent should be the user’s choice, not ours. Therefore, Firefox doesn’t broadcast anything until our user has told us what to send."
I paused learning Objective C to focused on .Net for my new job, but will be picking it back up shortly. Python is next on my list.

And I don't blame you for the C/Perl sentiment :)
Back To The Roots: Two Fun Guys Help You Grow Your Own Mushrooms
the NYT (a paper that doesn't have the best track record reporting about cyber events and control system security issues to begin with)

Do you have any citations for what you are referring to here? I'd like to read more about this topic (and the NYT) if you have the info available.
Oh nice tip.
I think that's what I was trying to say, but apparently didn't make it clear.
This is a good argument against DRM and e-book-related cloud services but not really against e-books generally. I own a Nook and have never bought a locked-down e-book, so the publisher really can't edit the copy I own short of breaking into my computer.
Another example

r = 0;
outer: {
foreach (x in a) {
foreach (y in b) {
if (condition(a, b)) {
r = 1;
break outer;
}
}
}

return r;

instead of

foreach (x in a) {
foreach (y in b) {
if (condition(a, b)) {
return 1;
}
}
}

return 0;
Ah, disappeared from the frontpage for a solid 5 minutes. Back on now!
Las Vegas, NV
(+1 position in San Francisco, CA)

Zappos (http://www.zappos.com) is an online retailer, a subsidiary of Amazon.com and has multiple positions open. I'm not a recruiter, I'm a current employee and I can speak honestly to the work environment here being a great place to be.

For technical people concerned by public images of the crazy offices with parades and so on, that is not the environment you will work in. In our building, you will be free to express yourself and you'll have a great time, but it's a place you can concentrate and learn from others too.

Front-End Developers there are 3 positions open right now: http://jobvite.com/m?3omIlfwx

Lots of other opportunities including Information Security, Data Architect, Java Engineers, Software Engineering Manager & Senior Developer:

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I'd rather not generalize this as Facebook's war on privacy moreso on the fact that, Facebook has a problem with generating ad revenue and this feature doesn't really make sense.
Sure, but don't try to hack this metric too much. Manufacturers use it and don't try to game it. They actually want to improve it. Apple partners with Foxcon to get this number at 5, and wouldn't have it at 5 if they didn't believe Foxcon could manage demand. Apple would maintain inventories in their warehouse if that was the case.

This metric speaks as much about Foxcon's success as it does Apple's.
Focus is a good thing. Having it just be movies means he can make a much richer experience.
London, UK

BetStars is a seed stage startup working on a social football competition for mobile and facebook.
This is an exciting project with a strong concept - aiming for a large potential market.

We're looking for a back end software developer to build the structure and work with our designer/ front end developer and marketing guys.

This is in exchange for an equity stake. 5 team members are already on board and have broadly defined the core product. The role could work in conjunction with a day job, if you're prepared to put the time in.

You should have experience of creating software apps using the latest technologies, be London based and be up to speed on social media developments - and like football!

If you have a the right background and are interested in our project then please get in touch.

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Have a look at tiddlywiki with the fold headdings plugin. It does a much better job.
Viral Growth Pisses Me Off
Understand the Power of Sass and Why You should use CSS Preprocessors
Vastly superior UX at http://torrentbutler.eu/
I am probably in a minority but I find it more terrifying than the Cold War. At least in the Cold War when the balloon went up everybody died. In this scenario we could be alive and under increasingly onerous affronts on our civil liberties. During the Cold War I might have been called up to attack and kill Soviets, if internal threats were used to install a police state I would be called up to attack and kill my own government. Not a good choice, just ask the folks in the middle east that have been called to do that.
If you say everybody cares about privacy you should back that up (unless you are using privacy in the general term and not for this specific example). I, for one, do not care about site tracking; in fact, I would gladly opt in to any such service if I see it fit. And I know a lot of people who also do not care about tracking.
I like arottenqueue name as well. Also could be rottenstreaming.
We bought http://shows.io/, which is the logical next step for us. Music is a lot trickier, I don't think we're going to attack it.

As for 'why it's limited': gotta focus on one thing at a time. We want to improve this one as much as possible, serve the community, improve content discovery/suggestion (that is personalized from your friends, not from some oracle rating stuff from 1 to 10)
Mobile hardware and software are separable
San Francisco, CA

Disqus (YC07) is hiring front and back-end engineers in San Francisco.

On the front-end, you'll be pushing the boundaries of what's possible with distributed JavaScript. We're currently deploying what might be the world's most trafficked Backbone.js app - over a half-billion visits per month.

On the back-end, you'll be help scale the web's largest Django app as part of a tight-knit team of pros.

If that interests you, send me an email: ben at disqus dot com. Or check out our jobs page: http://disqus.com/jobs
Why do you think Blizzard and Facebook both allow you to log in using multiple variations of CaSe of your password? Why do you think Rackspace can look up your password in plaintext for you?

When the real world and information security research collide, many of the largest and most Internet user savvy companies take the pragmatic approach that usability wins.

An surprising percentage of new signups forget their latest new password between their signup and their first return to the site. Letting them look up that password in the email they just received helps these new users get back into the site.

This site is hiking info, not a secret stash of gold bullion. I think the approach they described in answer to you here is a reasonable one for this kind of site.
Yeah, it's definitely more attractive to me right off the bat.
Life360, San Francisco SF, CA

Director of Engineering: come help us scale out our engineering team as we scale out our user base past 20 million users.

alex@life360.com
On the Mac, LibreOffice has not found its rhythm yet (and the same goes for OpenOffice).

Just one example: Mac OS X 10.7's fullscreen mode is still far from being implemented:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39983

On the other hand, LibreOffice is good enough to replace NeoOffice that seems to be stuck in its Java foundation and the need to pay for up-to-date versions. And I like in particular Writer in many parts better than Word.

Kudos to all LibreOffice developers and supporters!
New Relic has revolutionized app performance analytics with an enterprise-grade SasS offering. And as a result is growing like crazy. Oh, and is certifiably a Best-Places-to-Work (#2 in SF)!

If you are a talented Ruby, Java, or PHP engineer or QA specialist, and you want to work in Portland OR or San Francisco, you can find out more and apply at
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We are also looking for
* Very talented software managers in Portland
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Hmm then what's the use of efficiency to us personally, if we still work the same amount of hours?
Jane Street - New York (H1B ok), London, Hong Kong

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The atmosphere is informal and intellectual. There is a focus on education, and people learn about software and trading, both through formal classes and on the job. The work is challenging, and you get to see the practical impact of your efforts in quick and dramatic terms. Jane Street is also small enough that people have the freedom to get involved in many different areas of the business. Compensation is highly competitive, and there's a lot of room for growth.

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I once had a large chunk of my user group using acronyms followed by a symbol and the three letters of the previous month.

Not the best, but better than 'qqqqq' followed by 'wwwww'.
http://developer.netflix.com/
http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote.

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My previous experience includes C/C++, VB.NET, and HTML / PHP. Feel free to get in touch -- email is theo---AT---bricolsoftconsulting----DOT---com.
True. But sometimes I like the "one stop shopping" things. When I want to look for a torrent, I go to my "go to" site regardless of what type of thing I'm looking for. I would love to see a UI like this that scaled to other stuff.
"You have to take Peter Thiel as an ala carte buffet" - excellent good point. Paul Graham is a little bit more of a set meal.
look. you're wrong. just admit it and move on.
Just heard of torrentbutler a few hours ago. It's interesting, and gets a few things right, but it's not what we're going for.

Hopefully the minimalist side of movies.io attracts a different kind of people.

Also, the whole watchlist+sharing aspect is missing in tb.
I avoid quizzing people on CS, but I do have a practical problem that I pair program with candidates on where most (but not all) say "hmm, I guess I want to store this in a tree structure", and then start implementing one - so they quiz themselves.
My imaginary ideal would be a genetic algorithm that mutates the HTML and CSS in random ways. You'll probably have users with completely unusable pages but that's the price you pay for finding the optimal solution as it converges over time, probably a really, really long time.
Doesn't this already exist?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dvd/netflix/

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Edit:

The rottentomatoes version also returns way more results (given the same parameters) -

Abetterqueue:
http://abetterqueue.com/movies?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query[rati...

2 results

-------------------------------------------

Rotten Tomatoes:

75%+, Action Adventure, 2010-2012

29 results
Thanks for posting this :) I wrote HN Showcase as a weekend project last summer. Glad to see this being used. I'm going to try to push an update in the near future.
BERLIN/GERMANY, FULL-TIME, LOCAL

We have several open positions, you find all of them on http://urge.io with full text, requirements and contact email

OPEN POSITIONS:

=> Lead Software Engineer Ruby on Rails

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Not yet. I'll try to include that in the next update.
Darth Vader: the most successful SW character, but no 'Jedi' residuals for actor
Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Twenty Year Media, we're an early stage funded startup, and we're trying to change how you find movies to watch.

We're currently looking for a full-stack generalist developer. Someone with a good work ethic and a willingness to learn new things. We follow an 80/20 rule for functional over OO programming.

The stack:

* Python
* Flask
* Redis
* Riak
* Linux
* uWSGI
* Nginx
* Javascript/HTML

With aspirations towards mobile development in the future. You don't have to know everything up front as long as you can pick it up quickly. If you're interested please send your github, bitbucket or anything else you're proud of to william@20yearmedia.com with a bit about why you might be a good fit for us.
Not as unlikely as many people would like to think! If the two drives are from the same production lot, they may suffer from a common manufacturing defect. And because they are in the same chassis, if a server fan fails, both drives may subsequently fail due to thermal damage within a very short interval.

Even if they don't fail simultaneously, the mirror drive may fail (or even more likely) have read errors or flipped bits that will corrupt the restore or render it impossible.

Personally, I don't place much trust in any RAID configuration other than RAIDZ2 (ZFS; you can lose two drives and still recover all your data; every block is checksummed to avoid reading or restoring corrupted data).

But even ZFS can't protect you against accidental deletion, fire, theft, or earthquake.
Baltimore, MD / New York City, NY

http://www.lotame.com/about-lotame/marketing-technology-jobs

Lotame is hiring across the board. Web app devs, data scientists, big data devs, infrastructure, support, QA, account exec, etc...

We've created a SaaS solution that enables publishers, brands, and marketers to manage all of their audience data from any data source (web, mobile, CRM, off-line retail, etc...).

Great, challenging environment where you get recognized for doing great work. It's a complex industry that lets you use all the big buzzwords in day-to-day conversation without feeling ridiculous.

If interested, e-mail me at my HN username at lotame dot com.
San Francisco, fulltime systems/ops and engineering, Causes - http://www.causes.com/joinus

At Causes, use your programming powers to help nonprofits effect change on the world! Ruby on Rails + jQuery stack, 12-ish person engineering team, the usual startup perks (catering, snacks, soda, etc), gym membership reimbursement, etc. Ways we're trying to make ourselves better engineers:

- deliberate practice with our tools. If you are a vim user, we have the programmer who wrote Command-T on staff and he's a great person to learn from - every changeset gets pushed to Gerrit where it waits to get a +1 from our build suite (that runs in 3 minutes) and a +1 from a human reviewer

- over the last 4 months, we've upgraded from Rails 2.1 to 3.2.3 and are using the static asset pipeline, SASS/Compass, and HAML. We're the largest site I know of on Rails 3.2.

- everyone is encouraged to take one hour from their day to learn about something they wouldn't otherwise

- every story is scoped so that it can be completed in less than a day. We don't branch, we just work on top of master. We've found that the closer we stay to master, the less needless work we create for ourselves

Causes is a great place to better yourself and better the world. We're particularly looking for a systems/ops/network engineer to help wrangle our colo. Apply through the site or adam@causes.com if interested!
For some reason, I expected this to be a discussion about society at large, rather than just tech companies. It made me think of Keirsey types, actually. I wonder if it can be usefully generalized?
Design Humor Roudup
Then do something like hxa's example. Maintaining a return variable isn't always bad, it's just weird to think of it as functionally better than multiple returns. I tend to find a lot of errors and bugs in heavily nested code because it involves tracking a lot of variable state.
How do I read this? I just get a "sign in" wall... like all other "Google Groups" posts.
Nope. It's using PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/).
It's nice to see a bit of humility in a market where posturing is so prevalent. It's true that commercial AV can't be expected to pick up these well-funded, targeted attacks. But mom and pop can't be expected to know this from the advertising the AV companies put out.
Cisco (RTP, NC preferred but location flexible)

Systems Test Engineer - Massively Scalable Data Center Architecture

We're looking for an engineer to join our Massively Scalable Data Center team in the Systems Development Unit. Help develop scale-out data center architectures (network, compute, storage, operations, distributed app workloads, etc), build them in the lab, and test them to validate the design. Work in a small team on a mix of technologies including Software Defined Networking (SDN), Big Data, network overlays, routing/switching, DevOps tools, open source software, distributed systems, and more at scale. Raleigh-Durham, NC preferred but other locations (New York, Boston area, San Jose, Seattle, REMOTE) available to well qualified candidates. For more information and/or to submit a resume, contact mvoelker at cisco dot com.
What social music really means
Sure, but the 99 cent edition in question almost certainly is the Project Gutenberg edition, mangled by a third-party file conversion.

(On personal note, a few months ago I decided to read Les Miserables. I read a few chapters in one of the modern translations and the same material in the Project Gutenberg version. I concluded that IMO the Gutenberg version was clearly the superior translation.)
I can't argue with that. I'll certainly keep this one in my mind when I am looking for a movie. Good job. Stay focused.
Haystack real-time updates with many-to-many support
I can't remember ever having read a legal document that pulled me in as this one most-definitely did. I found it fascinating and educational. Every time I had a question Judge Alsup answered it. In detail. It clarified many points and questions I had about some of my work and upcoming projects where the question of interface vs. expression was surely going to come-up. The other thing it did for me is further clarify the demarcation line between copyright and patent. I had a very good idea, but this document explored edges I didn't know existed.
Downvoted for telling the truth? Come on.

http://i.imgur.com/P11Ai.png
Not sure about the individual component scale lag, but in terms of cross-ocean transit, Apple flies pretty much all of its inventory. Minimal packaging isn't just good for the economy, it's good for the bottom line as well.
Sure - so I prefer to ask people to write a small program that solves a small, practical task. And I try to make it feel like we're pair programming, instead of just me watching them code, so we can see what it's like to collaborate.
Kellogg Launches Part Time MBA
You know why they are called edge cases and exceptions? Because they are (sometimes) uncommon or (usually) rare. Statistically speaking, you are not at all special. You probably will never have a thought no one has thunk, and your opinion of what is great and awesome about how you are different will turn out to be nothing special in retrospect (like most people who ever live discover). Try taking some advice and actually be the outlier you are trying to be, not "rebelliously" rejecting it like every young person ever has done in some fucked up attempt to be unique the same way everyone else who ever lived has done.

You are not special, get over yourself (oh no! command... best rebel and complain, its lazier and easier than learning or thinking about it).
Reporters make up unnamed government officials all the time. While I agree the scenario they're painting isn't difficult to believe, calling it "confirmed" is going too far.
Thanks for the feedback! When I wrote this, I only tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For the next version, I'm planning to use twitter bootstrap, so hopefully the compatibility will be better.