skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York, NY. Full time. We're looking for jr & sr python engineers and jr & sr frontend (js/backbone) engineers.

Percolate is a very quickly growing SAAS company in NYC. We are building a tool that helps brands create content across social. What makes us unique is that we're the only platform that doesn't already assume a brand knows what to say. To help them figure that out we pull data from across the web and make recommendations on interesting content (whether their own or third-party) that might be interesting at any moment.

We're looking for backend (all levels) and frontend engineers (we run backbone.js alongside our RESTful API) to join the team (the company is 25, product team is currently at 14). On the backend, we're especially interested in folks with good experience working with lots of data and excited to build real-time systems.

Here's a few reasons why you should come work here:
- Your chance to work with big data
- You come in early: We're only a year-and-a-half old
- As we get bigger, you will be able to focus on what you are good at
- We are all different and we love it
- GPL compliant company
- You choose your workstation
- You choose your tools
- No worries, free your mind: NY salary + medical + dental
- No vacation policy (we don't count the # of days you take in a year)
- Company invests in you: Fly to PyCon and other conferences
- We prefer quality over quantity: Focus on clean code and test coverage
- Your voice will be heard

Lots more info about us at our new about pages: http://percolate.com/about

If you're interested email us at jobs@percolate.com. If you have any questions you can email me directly at noah@percolate.com. Thanks.
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The code is built for non-english and international sites - if you visit from the US, we show US-relevant ads, if you visit from Germany, we show german-relevant ads - and the matching is language agnostic.

But, inventory-wise, we have concentrated on UK and US adverts so far (with some German and Swiss adverts too). This is just a matter of time - getting hold of the feeds and importing them - rather than any technical issues.

Lastly, we can't deal with AJAX sites yet - but if the system can access the content that will eventually be shown (by doing the same GET as the AJAX request) then there is a way round it - rahoul@emberads.com if you'd like to know more. Getting AJAX working properly is something we have on our roadmap, but we've not had time to look at it yet.
Ladies first: Inside the first women-only game jam
Windows 8 Security Holes
Genetic predisposition to pack living and altruism in service of sexual reproduction of genes.
Digital marketing firm HubSpot raises $35 million in latest funding round
It is a seriously annoying internet fad/trend nowadays to put "this" in comments.
Very little of what the author describes is "general usage" IMO.
I ran the search and I am not concerned at all... Google shows poll results with bright red and blue colors drawing the eye... News stories show up first, and pictures of Romney, and his website outrank these related results.

The "you recently searched for obama" results appeared below the fold and the story was quite frankly very unlikely to be noticed unless it was something I was looking for specifically, which is probably google's algorithm's intent.

I tried running the search in battleground states and the same results showed up and I tried a bunch of searches like "Romneys plan" "why vote for romney" "who should I vote for" "vote for romney" and none of them showed obama results...

P.S. I am a libertarian who voted for Romney and I approve this message.
So old.
As in cut through a forest till I see a field? Good point. I already have an idea (bad idea) cracking.
I think the dangerous part would be altering the planet to be unlivable to the current inhabitants. Which is a good reason for conducting these tests, to see if anything is there before we start transplanting life. If nothing is there, then we can move lichens etc without fear of contamination. If something is there, we don't want to destroy its habitat by introducing new life.
Actually, loading follower list via HTML page of twitter could also be a viable idea - more viable than playing by the rules, at least.
This is all true.

Carve out a new nation of only Neanderthal, and I suspect we will go at it like we were making up for old time. Pop a few Neanderthal down in the middle of London, raising the first few to be familiar with human civilization (to the extent that this may be possible), and I would be a bit more optimistic about the outcome.

How we treat others seems to have a lot more to do with context than merit.
I'm still trying to understand what you're arguing.
I just figured (until the end of the article) that it just didn't work on Android.
Oscar Niemeyer is a glorified disaster in usability; his buildings are the most wonderful and unusable crap.

I worked for 3 months in a building that is now a museum to his creations: http://www.cliquearquitetura.com.br/portal/blog/view/mon-mus... It basically looks like the scenery from "The Jetsons" cartoons/series. It is cool from the outside but is an horrible place to be inside the whole day.

It's official name was "Castelo Branco" (white castle) but everyone called it "white elephant".

What made it beautiful is that it looks like a white slab floating over a field with a rain forest park behind. What made it atrocious is that the thing had no windows or ventilation, bad water drainage and it is in the middle of the rain forest region: hot, humid and moldy; the perfect breeding place for respiratory diseases. Most people would work very little time there before leaving to treat allergies, flu, pneumonia and even tuberculosis.
DuckDuckGo is at it again, this time smearing politics into tailored search.
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I agree that religion has a place in this debate, but I don't think morality is inherently about religion. I'm not religious, but I do consider myself moral.

I don't know precisely where we get morals from without religion. Clearly it can't be as simple as what the majority prefers: the phrase the tyranny of the majority refers to the problem with that.

We have a deep seated sense of fairness, even without religion. A recent experiment put two monkeys within sight of each other. One did a task and was given a piece of food, then the other did the same task and got a much tastier piece of food. The first does the task again, and again gets the low-value food, but this time he threw it back at the experimenter and beat the bars of the cage, trying to reach the high-value food. That sense seems likely to be where our concept of morality comes from.
There is a implied statement that cetaceans would somehow need to learn English to receive similar protections as people.

English? Where did I say that?

However, communication verbal or nonverbal that conveys agreement to participate in a society is a requirement.

This kind of communication would need to happen either individually or representatives cetaceans would need to come forward who could vouch for others of their species. From there, we'd need to observe whether or not the agreement(s) were being followed. This starts to sound silly, doesn't it? But that's what being a member of a society entails. That's what being "human" or reasonably equivalent to oen entails.
> In addition, most startups invest more time in developing iOS apps first and release android apps as an afterthought.

Can you list some startup apps available only on iOS and worth it?
I don't understand your first sentence, but I think you misunderstand where this setting is: at the top of the activity stream. Of course, visiting Facebook itself is its own set of signals, but among those who are still visiting, whether or not they change the sort criteria is a separate measurement.

Furthermore, the unspoken counterpart to "break things continuously" is "fix things continuously," which is a hallmark of software development and release engineering these days. "Release early, release often" is repeated as mantra. Sometimes it breaks, sometimes it doesn't. I'm pretty sure mostly it doesn't, even in Facebook's case.

Lastly: some time ago, months and months after the last big Facebook interface redesign ("where is everything?"), I posted to my wall, "remember back when Facebook changed everything and we all hated it?" Nobody flinched. Consider that you may be substituting your own taste for the majority's when you say people are going to visit less and less as Facebook screws with the site. It has happened several times over the past 5 years and Facebook is bigger than ever.
Hurricane Sandy donation sign on Apple home page
Good catch. You'll be fine.

For what it's worth, a little bit of fraud is a good thing. It means people are using your system and it's growing. Too much fraud and people will lose confidence and your payment processors will punish you. Too little fraud and your system is probably too complicated to be useful to anyone, including fraudsters.
Well I guess you could say that you could split the goals to things like "make a prototype", "convince some VCs", raise "$100,000", etc. That makes for bitable chunks, but the goal has to remain. Otherwise, what's the point of breaking one's ass for 4000$/month?
"People who want that growing platform for them to show off their mad magic monetization skills."

I swear after reading this I will do everything in my power never to give a single cent to this company.

Also from their homepage: "Sweat is just fat crying".

Do people really buy this stuff? I go to the gym but I don't feel the need to check my brain at the desk on the way in.
I don't think thats a good idea to outsource comments to a third-party platform. I don't like wordpress much, but one of the few things I like is the native comment function.
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I can't follow the link because I don't have iTunes installed on my work computer, but I find this really interesting because I can't remember ever seeing something like this on the Apple home page
That he has more of a point than the article? Even so, it's possible that revolution could start with a single high-ranking officer in the military, and defectors loyal to him.

I don't dispute the premise here - that in the recent revolutions of the Arab Spring, and likely a whole bunch more, popular access to modern comms technology has been incredibly important. I'm just reacting to the title - that revolution is impossible without it.

Without it revolution could take longer, be bloodier, be put down multiple times etc etc, or even not happen at all. But impossible? No.

If the article was called 'Why Revolution Won't Come To North Korea' that would be fine.
It always seemed to me that our lack of consideration for these animals as "non-human persons" only serves to demonstrate a failure of empathy on our part, solely because we are unable to communicate with them. We don't know whether dolphins have a formal language yet, but we do know they can communicate with each other, and if we ever figure out a way to communicate with them too it'd probably go a long way to convincing people that they deserve rights.

It's the height of arrogance to assume the humans are the only species on this planet that deserve these rights. And it's not helped by animal rights organisations, that preach that all animals deserve equal rights to humans, which is an absurdity that doesn't help their cause, since it drives more reasonable people away from the idea that some animals really do deserve these rights.
We host a ton of hackathons. And at every event, there are inevitably developers who prefer to work on their own, rather than joining teams. Their creations are often on par with the team driven projects. But they're still (pun intended) odd person out.

Love the idea of getting a bunch of these solo hackers together in the same room to see what they can accomplish.
I have a feeling Microsoft will be back in that Kasperky's top 10 list very soon.
That's not confirmation, that's a public relations response. Confirmation of limited duration would be actually running the experiment until the effect actually disappears.
Changing the results of later searches based on things I searched for in the past is the complete opposite of what I want a search engine to do.

Really? If I search for Python stuff, I want it to learn that I mean the language and not the animal. I want it to learn that when I type "Socrates", I mean the Greek philosopher and not my ex-Prime Minister.

Learning from the the user is all about changing the results based on past searches, and I think it can be very useful. Just not always.
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than
dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel,
New York, wars and so on... while all the dolphins had
ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that
they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely
the same reason.
It's really a shame how AMD's per-thread performance has been lagging Intel. Maybe it's just their postition as an also-ran in a basically monopolized market (desktop CPU manufacture), but I've always seen them as ahead of the curve. They were optimizing per-cycle performance with Athlon while Intel was still pushing higher clocks. They moved to 64-bit while Intel was still pushing higher clocks. Now that Intel has turned their attention more fully to optimizing their per-clock performance (and pulled ahead by a full generation in fab technology), AMD hasn't really had a leg to stand on. Price and low-power are OK, but ARM is already strong in those areas, and ARM servers are becoming more likely by the year. AMD needs something more transformative than massively-parallel chips and high frequencies.

I know it's a long shot, but could they try to go the way Intel did with Itanium, and invent a new architecture/instruction set specifically designed for server workloads? People have broadly expressed interest in ARM, but the support isn't there right now. If AMD had a new RISC architecture with awesome support and incentives for developers to target it, they might be able to steal share from x64 and ARM chips.
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I don't get how this is anything more than a quirky stunt.

We want a friend, a neighbor, a random stranger at a coffee shop, even an online buddy who’s never met before to email us about you.

How can any of the above provide an appropriate professional recommendation? It makes no sense. Sure you want someone "different" but surely the appropriate candidate wouldn't need to be instructed on how to be different.
I must confess. I read this title as "MacBook Air".
Unfortunately with clock speeds, we wind up bumping up against fundamental laws of physics.

At 10Ghz, something moving at the speed of light can only go around 3 centimeters per clock cycle. Take out gate delays, and you wind up with something that just isn't practical.
^ This. The author of the page has obviously no idea what he's talking about.
I would just focus a little more on the notion that cruelty to animals is usually a clear indicator of a lack of empathy, which is dangerous to the rest of society when persistently manifest in individuals.

It isn't the general presence of animal suffering in the world that is a problem, it is the intentional infliction of suffering that is the problem, because it means the one doing the infliction is skirting close to the outer edge of empathy.
Where does psuedoscience come from and how does it become popular?
Kim Dotcom now plans to give New Zealand free broadband pipe to US
I suspect that "We" have agreed. That doesn't mean everyone has. It is unlikely that everyone will, unless of course we exclude some people from our definition of everyone. Shirley, this is not your intent.

Philosophically, placing human rights first is inherently inconsistent with the foundation of extending "equal" rights to other species.
Maybe we're engineered to die out after kickstarting post-evolutionary life on earth.

Hmmm. Kind of a bummer Monday morning thought.
This doesn't seem to be a case of money laundering, but credit card fraud. Thanks for the share!
Peter Thiel, Khosla, Bill Gates back air energy storage startup LightSail
Google, Microsoft Extremely Interested In White Spaces Spectrum In The U.K.
The first dedicated sales hire in a tech start up often gets a Director title. He'll be a VP in 18 months if he is successful. Been there, done that. Having just hired a sales rep in DC, I don't see how you will get anybody decent for $32K in Manhattan. The number in DC is more like $45K base for somebody with a year or two of tech related sales experience.
There are two barriers to entry: the network effect, s.t. the utility I derive corresponds to the friends I have on the social network, and their utility derives partly from me being on the social network, so at a critical mass it's hard to justify going onto another social network.

The network effect kicks in at a certain critical point. If you created a really compelling social network and added the feature s.t. people could say, "import from facebook", choosing your facebook login/pw, then if enough people did this, critical mass would be reached. The network effect just states that this critical mass might take awhile to reach, but it's not impossible. Facebook disallowing you from exporting your data makes it so competing networks cannot reach that critical point quickly enough.
Interesting. It's always important when talking about "rights" to distinguish between negative and positive rights. Thanks for giving me a more fleshed out version there.
Sounds great for the future of America
You may be right about his mistake in quoting the statistics but his point holds that wordpress is not THAT friendly for bloggers who just wants to publish their ideas.
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>"Not that I know of"

Well their experience has changed, and in ways they are not made aware of. Smacks of censorship, even if not politically motivated. There is danger in not knowing.
That doesn't explain the 500 USD markup per _device_
>If this was the case, then we would be as tolerant toward the house cat who plays with the bird before killing it without eating it as we would be toward a human who acted likewise.

I don't think that's fair. It's more that we recognise the futility in punishing a house cat, which is incapable of changing its ways nor of comprehending the pain it inflicts.
You're thinking 2-dimensionally ;-)

Our future CPUs should be tiny cubes, not flat chips.

Distance to each point in 3 dimensions is shorter.
> Never use delete. Ever.

...

This is horrible advice. There are plenty of things you want to delete, like references to elements when you don't need them anymore. A quick search of the Closure Library, jQuery, Backbone, Knockout, Angular.js, and ember.js found many uses of delete. Burn this article in a fire.

As for the supposed performance difference, let's see a jsperf on that.

Edit found one:

http://jsperf.com/delete-vs-undefined-vs-null/6

Delete is a little slower, certainly not enough to warrant the 'never' emphasis.
You can schedule them yourself. Try the 'start event' command.
It's more historical at this point. Chrome doesn't use DirectWrite because it uses Skia on Windows. At the time, the choice was between GDI+ and Skia, and Skia was much faster. But DirectWrite on Vista and 7 is extremely fast (it's GPU-accelerated, unlike the Skia backend Chrome uses).
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Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency. (Bill Gates made this comparison in a 1998 issue of Fortune Magazine.) No wonder Microsoft offers the first dose to children at a low price. Microsoft aims to teach poor children this dependency so they can smoke Windows for their whole lives. I don’t think governments or schools should support that aim.

http://bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php
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"When you place dolphins in a situation like that they respond in exactly the same way humans do" – I doubt any human would just play along with this boring game.
> My heuristic boiled down to the following:

So that's that for that heuristic. They will adapt now.
I see you're point, but when I look at the history of promotion and communication; companies have always had to pay to advertise. From commercials, to newspaper ads to those dreaded dinner time phone calls; Every medium charged promoters to communicate with customers.

Facebook was allowed to run a hobby until they went public and realized that they need to make money. This strategy of charging for using the communication medium just falls in line with what older traditional businesses have done for decades. At the end of the day, either the content creators and/or content consumers are going to have to pay--Facebook chose to charge the creators and I think that's good. If they charged me as a content consumer, I'd shut down my account.
I'd love to see something like this for Apple's mobile Safari browser (on iOS).
AMD has already announced that they'll be selling ARM chips under the Opteron brand. They're going to be used in SeaMicro servers.
I just hope AMD doesn't go away or Intel pricing is going to go through the roof (again).

If you can settle for "only" 2ghz, you can get a 16-core AMD 6366HE for $600 ($38 a core)

Bring on the price wars.
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Not sure what fully communicate would mean? Do you suppose that dolphins have some untapped literary and rhetoric ability that once man figures out how to decode, we will be exposed to the a whole host of new great works?
I don't agree with your speculation that WordPress is in trouble. Though their may be decreasing amount of interest in blogging but WordPress is still used vastly as a CMS.
I wonder why are there no stats involved in such posts. Like: What percentage of "successful" tech entrepreneurs had a business degree?
I think a deadly virus would do the trick.
> (actually was after I went to Apple's website to see the apology thing)

This is a fascinating example of "no such thing as bad publicity" :-)
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Certainly a potential example from the past

Sorry, my question was rhetorical in reference to existing species, not a search for prior art.

If Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon did recognize each other with special status, that would be more of an example of the level of equality that would need to functionally exist between two species in order for there to be a real "understanding".

That level of relative equality in no way exists between humans and cetaceans, so proposals to pretend that they deserve equal status seems illogical to me. What's next, chickens have eyes like humans so we can't eat them? Green beans react to stimulii, humans do too, no eating green beans?

Slippery slopes, thy name is PETA.
Springer Science+Business Media acquires the reference manager software Papers
I'm impressed at how quickly the criminal underground pivots. To identify Gittip as a potential money laundering scheme while it is relatively unknown even with Tech circles is, in a slightly discussing way, actually quite impressive.

It does make me wonder, did the bad agent happen across Gittip independently or are they active within Tech communities?
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