skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the next step to say the problem with American 3 year olds, is their parents?
Not as written, but it's possible that PRI_LL_PREFIX is some sort of macro expanding to a string (similar to PRIi64 which is standard C).
> Off the top of my head i think a wind farm is also more energy dense than a nuclear power plant, given all the space required around it.

I checked some facts; 2W / m^2 for wind[0], 1000W / m^2 for nuclear[1]. Even if they didn't account for some infrastructure, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't decrease that number 500 times.

Nuclear fission is one of the most powerful energy sources (in energy per unit of mass of fuel) known to mankind, to be replaced only by fusion and annihilation. Renewables on Earth don't even begin to compare.

[0] - http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c4/page_33....

[1] - http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c24/page_16...
Want to send it to me? No, seriously. I ordered one the day they came out, it still hasn't arrived. Spent about an hour total on the phone over the past couple days, was escalated twice. Still nothing. If this guy wants to ship me his phone, he can have my $350 and I can be done with Google.
I'm wondering why you say that a 'CPU core' is different from a Xeon Phi core. I've looked a bit into the Xeon Phi microarchitecture and I don't see any fundamental differences (well, I guess it depends on how you define 'fundamental') compared to other processors.
SEEKING WORK - Poland, Remote

I'm currently looking for work as full stack Python/Django developer. I have successfully completed jobs from HN before.

I also have experience with Tornado, Pyramid, C++ (OpenGL and Qt) and Java. For my personal projects I use linux, nginx, postgresql, memcached, mercurial, jQuery and twitter bootstrap, but I'm also familiar with apache, mysql, mongodb, hbase, git and many other.

I've started my own consulting company this year and I've been working on oDesk since then:
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E-mail: tomaszjama at gmail
Or it could be used for seasteading. Who wouldn't want to live on board The Enterprise?
http://www.allexperts.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.allexperts.com

Google Answers was awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
Sure, it's titled "The World's Work" and I guess it's sort of "The Economist" of its day. Here's a Google Books link (the article on education is on page 21) http://books.google.com/books/about/The_World_s_work.html?id...
Oakland, CA - Ask.com

Our SEM team operates as a quasi-startup business unit within the larger company

We're looking for senior java software engineers: http://bit.ly/TyAos4

We have a Hadoop-based analytics system, and an automated bidding system. Future growth includes machine learning for bidding, and many scaling challenges!
Perfect. Thanks for fixing.
There is the question of the competency of a narrowly-educated public deciding critical matters in a democracy... The American liberal arts education tradition has this focus at its core, and the poster above alludes to it: the purpose of the education was not only to get a job, but rather to make full, well-rounded civic-minded citizens.

On the one hand, the fact that German democracy seems to function so effectively, perhaps challenges this view. On the other hand, perhaps America needs to invest more in the civic area because the challenges that come from our diversity require extra strength in order for that diversity to in net make us stronger.
TrialPay - San Francisco - F/T

TrialPay is looking for someone to own the user-facing portion of our product. Basically, you should think like a PM, have the vision of a world-class designer, and code like a beast.

Asking for one person to be able to do all of these things is ambitious, sure, but you’d be working on some pretty amazing stuff. We put a huge premium on beautiful UIs, clean re-usable front-end code, and amazing user experience. This focus has helped us become a leader in the online advertising space, and with over 100mil+ impressions per day coming from all over the world, we conduct UI A/B tests at massive scale. Our front end is going to be your science experiment.

We also have some pretty amazing projects for you to work on and own. Specifically, TrialPay is changing the way people shop by bridging the gap between the online and offline worlds. Here’s an early demo of what we’re doing:

https://instore.trialpay.com/landing/?offer_id=3503426114533...

Basically users get instant rewards online for offline actions, and for the first time, brick and mortar businesses can determine the efficacy of their online campaigns (social media, pay-per-click advertising, etc.) at a granularity that’s never been possible before. You’d be making significant contributions to the user-facing portion of this new product as well as that of our other initiatives in the mobile and social spaces, from initial design to prototyping and implementation.
I'm not saying that multicore programming is a solved problem (far from it), but scientific computing seems to work reasonably well with OpenMP and Open MPI.

Personally, I like the Cilk[0, 1] approach, and it is simple to implement in most cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Cilk_Plus
> That feels so wrong. It is still floating and could be useful.

It's also an extremely old ship, maintaining it can't be cheap.

> Why not at least sell it to a friendly country, who could use such power to defend itself from neighbouring enemies?

A carrier is a force projection tool, it's for attacking stuff (or make clear that you can attack stuff), to defend a country an airbase is cheaper, simpler and more versatile.

> I'm sure Israel or Japan would welcome the gift - they sure could supply their own planes and weapons.

And fuel supply and crew and maintenance? For a unique ship? No other country on earth comes close to having an Enterprise-class carrier (let alone Nimitz-class), I'm really not sure they'd have any use for it. Not to mention a carrier on its own is basically dead (or a floating museum), you need a carrier group around it which costs the same as the carrier itself.

Also Japan is definitely out, they are not allowed to get weaponry for any other purpose than defense (Article 9 of the 1947 Constitution), and as noted above an aircraft carriers is anything but a defensive platform.

> It's a real shame to destroy so much investment

You do realize the Enterprise has been in active use for more than 50 years right? It's the very first nuclear-powered carrier in human history, and the one and only ship of its class (so replacement parts have to be custom-built, where there are 10 bigger, better, more modern Nimitz-class carriers)
The Shadow 200 TUAV has been flying in AZ near and all around Ft Huachuca, AZ since before 2001, when I was flying them there. It has an "experimental" FAA designation and we would frequently hold for civi aircraft. Look it up if you don't believe me :)
What do you think of my simple startup landing page?
Facebook will be able to buy them for the price of a taco soon.
- I think you misspelled the name. Shouldn't it be "World" not "Word"
- I like the idea. Good luck.
Oligopoly with monopoly market segments (handsets, geographical, demographic (what family and friends have -- at times, more relevant in the past, providing more favorable pricing and usage caps)).

And yes, poor and uninformed purchase decisions. But not always.
Brooklyn, NY | bondsy | Ruby on Rails BACON-end Developer

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bondsy.com is growing faster than our Founder’s beard, so we’re looking for a killer Ruby on Rails BACON-end Developer to join us.

If you f@cking love coding to a point that it almost hurts. If you love developing to make people feel good, to make them smile. If you love breaking down a problem to its core, only to build it back up again. If you’re always looking for a different way to do things.

If you hate long meetings and bureaucracy. If you want to work at a place where lunch time is sacred (No joke, at bondsy we strongly encourage our team to take a break and have a great time over lunch. Sometimes over dinner as well, we won't lie. We work hard, but we have a good time.).

If you want all that, every single piece of that, we’d love to talk to you.

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* An experienced Rails developer with mastery of all of our back-end stack elements, including Ruby, Rails, Git, Redis, PostgreSQL, and Heroku

* Interested in taking ownership of the server-side component of our product

* A good communicator who can collaborate closely with technical and semi-technical team members to design and implement RESTful APIs and architectures. Ideally you will have experience creating systems that scale for long-term growth.

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bondsy is a graduate of Techstars NYC Spring 2012 class. Our investors include Thrive Capital, Betaworks, Chris Dixon, Josh Stylman, Peter Hershberg, Patrick Keane, Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci.

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Get at us jobs@bondsy.com!
> While I understand entirely why the Enterprise as is was originally commissioned (dick waving with the USSR) the kind of missions the US Navy performs today require more flexibility and less brute force.

Meh. It's not like the Navy is decommissioning the Nimitz-class or scaling back the Gerald Ford class. The Enterprise is at life's end (it was originally planned for scrapping ~2015), and it's a pain as it's the only ship of its class.
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Enterprise application developer with specialization in Java, Spring, Flex, .net and MySQL.
I have 7+ years of experience working on Java, Flex, .net, MySQL and Spring based applications. I believe in Agile and TDD driven development.
One of the projects which I had developed is at http://bit.ly/Uj42Ql .

Give me a shot, I wont let you down. :)
QuickLeft - Boulder, CO

We're a web and mobile software consultancy in sunny Boulder, CO. We work with a lot of different types of clients, but our focus is on early stage startups, helping to refine their business models and push an MVP out the door.

We're looking for a couple senior or mid-level devs that hava a strong background in Ruby and Javascript.

http://quickleft.com/careers/senior_web_developer
http://quickleft.com/careers/web_developer

We're also looking for another designer if you're into pretty things.

http://quickleft.com/careers/designer
Any chance you could provide an actual Viewport.js file for people who don't want to set up a full Nodejs env just to get this?
You are thinking of BufferBox.
Of course? Really? Maybe if you think there is a problem with the analytics then it is a problem, but there are clearly lots of people who don't have a problem with the analytics. I personally don't have a problem with either as both a user and a dev. To say that ads are unethical without even any discussion strikes me as absurd.
Right, a nuclear-powered 50 years old seasteading frame...
I keep getting 'geolocation is not supported by this browser' js prompts every time the page loads, which is _extremely_ annoying.
A virtual Facebook taco, at that.
Codiqa.com

Madison, WI - Full time, (REMOTE possibly)

We are looking for our first engineer hire to help us build the future of HTML5 app creation tools in the cloud.

Codiqa makes it easy for anyone to build HTML5 mobile apps with an intuitive and powerful drag-and-drop builder. You may have also heard of our Twitter Bootstrap interface builder called Jetstrap (http://jetstrap.com/), which makes it easy to build HTML5 desktop websites and responsive sites.

Both products fit into our dream of making it easy for people to build applications with web technologies and with minimal coding required.

We are looking for a generalist that loves Javascript or CoffeeScript but can handle backend development too (we use Python). We also have a specific exciting opportunity in front of us that we would love you to join us for (I'll share details if we chat).

If interested, please send an email to me at max AT codiqa DOT com.
Hopefully they bring back the name for the 3rd Gerald Ford class carrier (CVN-80). It's scheduled for service in 2025 so presumably they'll name it in the next 5-7 years.
Programming Language Competition - Turing Tarpit
Thanks for your reply. It sounds like what you are doing is admirable but not along the lines of what I'm after.

I don't think that there is really any weird power dynamics in this kind of coaching, at least not in my experience. On one hand we are dealing with a domain in which reason is the ultimate method of arbitration, and a good coach would not be presenting me with opinions or ideas that I could simply disagree with due to some difference in personal belief. Instead, they would be challenging me with different ways to think or different ways to approach a problem, and be able to explain its benefits if they weren't obvious to me.

On the other hand, the trust that can be built in this type of relationship can be quite useful for the learning process. Having someone that I respect as a programmer as well as a coach allows me the comfort to know that I could come to them with either a specific problem of general deficiency and get the kind of response that will give me the most enlightenment in the long term, which is often different to what you'd get when asking a question online.
Atlastory, Inc. | Salt Lake City, UT | Full time

About: Atlastory visualizes history on a map, allowing users to explore the world through space and time. It’s like Google Maps with the ability to look 10, 50, or 1,000 years in the past. This is an application that has the potential to change the way people around the world learn history and interact with the past. This is a seed-stage startup with funding.

Job: this is an employee #1 position for a generalist back-end developer. You will be involved in developing the back-end map rendering, data organization, and system buildout. We use Ruby, Python, Node.js. You should have experience with DevOps/AWS products, database design (SQL, Postgres, etc.), HTML5/JS/front-end a plus. Most of all this set of problems requires someone who can learn as they go & figure things out that have never been done before. A few of the problems you'll be working on:

* PROBLEM: How to design a git-like system for collaboratively editing data that spans the history of the world.

* PROBLEM: How to organize a huge amount of GIS data so that it can be easily accessed, fed into an image renderer, backed-up, etc.

More details in the full posting here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bbbWWp7oPHcwbrqKlgJrp7i1...
> I would think that a replaceable battery also extends the life of the device in general for people who don't necessarily need the latest and greatest every year or two, since it's easy to just buy a new one and pop it in when the old one starts to lose its ability to hold a charge.

This while logical turns out to not be true. Most (99.99%) people will never buy a new battery for a phone. Instead, they might sell the phone to a store which may refurbish it or give the phone to a friend or family member who dosen't need the latest phone. In the latter case the lack of battery life is typically irrelevant as the user is using the phone all the time anyways.
A Hacker Con in the Bay Area
A livestream of the inactivation ceremony is here: http://www.livestream.com/usnavy
Parse - San Francisco, CA - F/T

We are hiring on all fronts:

* Software Engineer

* Site Reliability Engineer

* Web Engineer

* Solutions Architect

* Developer Evangelist

* Inside Sales Representative

We're building the mobile application platform, and we're growing like crazy. We're now powering over 40,000 apps, including big names like The Food Network, Armani, The Travel Channel, Toms Shoes, and Band of the Day.

We will dominate mobile, and we're a small, smart, and passionate team swinging for the fences with many happy customers. Come join us!

https://parse.com/jobs
Klout is hiring in San Francisco, CA (H1B is fine)

We’re looking for a seasoned product engineer to help us deliver great user experiences at great speeds. Our web applications stack is focused on JavaScript, driven by node.js on the server and Backbone.js on the client. You’ll be working with talented designers, platform engineers, and scientists to bring our 9 billion data signals to our customers, who are a mixture of brands and social media users like you.

Apply here if this sounds like you: http://bit.ly/11gKHU9

We're also looking for a seriously-talented operations engineer to help us create cutting edge systems and tools to manage, maintain and monitor all aspects of the Klout production, staging, and development environments. Our environment is an intense combination of modern software and tried and true technologies including and leveraging Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, HAProxy, redis, memcached, Node.js and Scala. We'll challenge your scalability chops with our high volume consumer site traffic coupled with the Big Data challenges of processing over 9 billion data signals a day for over 400 million users on multiple petabyte clusters.

Apply here if this sounds exciting: http://bitly.com/SAkkFL
SCC was an experiment to see if people could program an intentionally "broken" multicore and not surprisingly they can't. There are plenty of apps that can use lots of cache-coherent cores, e.g. Postgres: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-i-say-32-cores-how-abo...
A static website generator in Python
The problem is this. Any coach who you want to listen to can make more programming for themselves than you can afford to pay them.

Getting the incentives right is tricky. Money is often not going to be the right incentive here.
This (tldr.io) feels like the future.
Generally when talking about how safe a given sort of nuclear power is the most important thing to consider is whether it has a positive void coefficient or not. That is, if the reactor starts to overheat will that make it generate more power or less. In light water reactors, such as pretty much all existing commercial reactors, you need complicated feedback systems to keep the reactor under control. And if those are damaged, as at Fukushima, you're looking at a melt down.
i use utterson: http://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/utterson_v1.0.html
Russia sold their part-damaged aircraft carrier for a reported $2.3bn to India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Admiral...
McAfee Interviewed in Secret Location
"They were big years."

Perhaps the best summary one could achieve.
Trondheim, Norway | Python developer | freelance/remote

contact: jobs@atbrox.com
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Agreed.

Also, this is the first I've read that thorium reactors can also use up (dispose) waste. (Not an expert, or even an informed layperson, just a news junkie.)

We need to reduce, reuse, eliminate waste and weapons grade stockpiles. Something less evil than using depleted uranium bullets to convert foreign countries into uninhabitable radioactive hotspots.

From my casual reading, that's meant traveling wave reactors. Having another energy source is just a happy side benefit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor
According to my Dad (who is clearly the most reliable authority in the world :-() the reason the Concorde failed is because Boeing lobbied the government to get it banned over the continental US so they could sell the 747.

He's basically saying all that stuff about noise is mostly bunk pushed forward by Boeing to get rid of the competition. You'll note BTW the 747 and Concorde both came out around the same time and you probably also know the 747 was never designed to be a passenger plane. It was designed to be a military cargo plane but lost the contract to Lockheed's C-5A so Boeing needed it to sell as something else.

He, my dad, claims the NYC to LA route was the most lucrative and that without it Concorde didn't stand a change.

I have no idea if there's any evidence to back up his story. Maybe someone else out there has more info.
OT: does anyone else notice that the Japanese text doesn't render correctly (in Chrome and Firefox on Linux & Windows) unless they manually change the encoding to EUC-JP? Why doesn't it work with Unicode, for the Ruby ML, of all things?
Agreed. With a great product, you'll think even better things about the company. If you have a buggy, not-so-great product, more can be forgiven. Lesson: always have great communication regardless.
Wind and hydro does not begin to address the need for exponentially more energy and neither of them are the future in any important factor.

Furthermore. It is estimated that 100.000 people die from the use of coal to generate energy every year. More than nuclear power have ever done ( 4,000 people ever).

The only thing that is problematic with nuclear is storing it, a problem which can be solved.
Referly - San Francisco - F/T

Referly is looking for an entry-level web developer, either recently out of college or switching to the software development role full time for the first time. You should have some front-end development experience with HTML/CSS (more skills are fine of course) and be prepared to learn the rest on the fly.

You will work primarily in PHP, HTML/CSS, and Javascript and our small team of 5 (all coding) will make sure you ramp quickly, ship public-facing features, and have a ton of fun doing it. We have a track record of helping talented ambitious people get started as developers through our intern program and we love to coach, teach, and learn with you.

Our company makes it easy for individuals to express their expertise and make product recommendations, and when they generate online sales they get rewarded for it. For businesses we provide simple tools for running a dead-simple Dropbox style referral program "refer a friend and you each get $10" through our API. We graduated from YC this summer (2012).

We are happy to talk to more experienced engineers as well, but I'm putting this role out there front and center because I hope some inexperienced folks who might be daunted by the level of competition in the Bay Area will be excited that we are supportive of their "new-ness" and send us a note. You can apply by emailing jobs@refer.ly (goes to me, just helps to filter) with a bit more info about yourself.

You can see our full list of hiring needs here: http://refer.ly/jobs

Marketing Interns, iOS Developer, Web Developer, Senior Engineer (e.g. could manager entire engineering team)
When I played poker (at reasonably low-medium limits) I think I paid $100/hour for coaching if memory serves me correctly.

I don't mind paying for quality coaching at all. I see it as a worthwhile investment in terms of both productivity and happiness (I love learning!).

On the whole, I think high level education is very undervalued. When you think about it, how long is the payback on a $100 coaching session if you get just one really good insight that improves either the efficiency or quality of your code?
SEEKING FREELANCER / WEB DESIGNER / Austin, TX preferred (remote).

I am a freelancer specializing in application development and systems integration for medium sized and enterprise customers with limited in-house IT resources.

I am frequently asked to recommend and/or provide a web designer for projects. I would like to develop a LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP with another freelancer that I can pass these projects to and also utilize to polish my own deliverables.

I primarily need UI/UX, HTML, CSS, and graphic design assistance.

jamesa.hn@icloud.com
Out of curiosity, any observation (casual or formal) of what happens to neural health when you eliminate cholesterol?
Perhaps you should consider http://devbootcamp.com. I'll be graduating in a week, and it's been a good experience.
Hm? MUD is older than Habitat, right?