skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be considered burning a bridge on the way you handle the situation. I would turn down the job, but do it in a way where I make myself look good doing it. I interview for the job, then let them know that you are very interested in the job, but due to prior work commitments you have to decline at the moment. You can tell them that you are in a serious project and that you are a crucial part of it. The project would be undermined if you abruptly leave. You can explain that you wouldn't want to leave in that type of situation and could explain there is currently not a set deadline. There would be other ways to handle it as well, and always keep in contact even if it's infrequent. You never know what circumstances may arise where you will need to find work right away.
Sorry, but obviously not enough, if kneeling chairs are recommended. Or was there a scientific 180 in recent years?
I'm using cron instead of celery daemon for those tasks, but here are two advantages:

- being able to modify the task frequency from the admin

- cron needs special care with setting the environment variables like PATH
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I would say the same thing-- "it's all about being productive"-- with regard to technology wars but I take a different stance. I'm not going to limit the focus to OS projects, though it applies to them, but also to peoples' jobs.

When Ruby programmers brag about being "Java-free for 5 years", as the stereotype goes, what they would mean to say if they had more insight into the situation is that they've been in high-productivity programming for 5 years. That's what actually matters. Language correlates somewhat to low vs. high productivity, but it's actually the productivity level that matters.

On one side, there's the risk-averse corporate bullshit where you do what a boss tells you to do and you're lucky to crank out 10 LoC per day, because most of what you do is maintenance and catch-up and filling out on makework so you can be evaluated (in a years-long dues-paying period) for real work, which is allocated as a political token. Working in those jobs rots your brain, but that probably what 75+ percent of professional programmers face.

Then there's high-productivity programming, in which you write code like it actually matters, because it does. 100-500 delta-lines per day is typical. (That doesn't mean you grow the codebase by 100 lines; removing 100 lines can be just as potent.) Every day, you leave the state of the software in a materially better state than it was in when you began the day (or, occasionally, you fail to do so but you improve your knowledge).

Risk-averse manageosaurs like low-productivity programming because it's "safe" and easy to commoditize. Scaling up means hiring five times as many CommodityDevelopers. It also makes it easier to undertake Big Software projects-- monolithic Java/C#/VB programs, with bulky Despondency Infarction Frameworks attached, on which disengaged developers plug along at 7.35 LoC per day. It is, however, a horrible way to build software. It makes awful products, and it's bad for peoples' careers (except managers) because people actually decline as the years go on.

That's what's actually at stake in language wars. It's not worth it to alienate whole communities because you think Ruby is slightly better than Clojure or vice versa. Agree to disagree, and use the right tool for the job (which may be the other guy's language just because you're in a better position to adapt than he; deal with it). It is, however, worth it to fight for a high-productivity environment and to name and shame the horsemen of the low-productivity apocalypse.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who associate JVM => low-productivity programming and Ruby => high-productivity when they're only catching one slice of the story. A true high-producitivity programmer uses the right tool for the job-- sometimes Ruby or Clojure, sometimes C, sometimes Python, sometimes Scala.

I do hate hate hate low-productivity programming. God intended the programmer-to-program relationship to be one-to-many, not many-to-one. However, I don't think it's useful to attack everything Java just because of the historical association (I used to be that way; then I grew up). Corporate hell is not James Gosling's fault.
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The fact is PHP has excellent frameworks. I tried Django and Flask , and love them. But for now , i'm sticking to PHP( to much legacy code to port ). For new projects ? sure. The only thing which is a bit more complicated with serverside python is deployment on client servers, the rest ( development , testing ), is easier than PHP. I only wished Python had type hinting for functions and methods like PHP does though. Aside from these issues , Python is perfect,more consice and have awesome stuffs like decorators. And a whole lot of awesome libraries.
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I wonder if it would work on cygwin.
One of the successful Football Managers in Britan Retires.
For a "quick flip or at least buyout-as-a-business-plan" plan to work, the thing you are building still needs to have long-term value.
That's a very interesting point. I knew about this method but didn't connect it to the article. it would be interesting to have some stats on the number of stars that were probed and that were found to have exoplanets.

I have no idea of what the actual numbers are, but if we need to probe 100000 stars to find one that has an exo planet, it means that the radial velocity method might not be that efficient.
Probably because they understand the cruel joke that the WH petition bonanza really is? And because it is an easy way for smart lawyers to shake of agents for a while, forcing them to look for easier victims that they can threaten.
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I am not able to digest what i have read today. Not in a mood to work. He was epitome of success. One of the best in the job.
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This is because the industry, like most groups, values outputs, not inputs.

The skills you have, how you use them and where you learned them are inputs which means that on their own they are largely irrelevant.

It's entirely possible to make a good career, delivering genuine value to organisations and individuals, doing work you can be proud of without having any understanding of CS beyond that you'll pick up during your day to day work and a little reading around the subject. I've worked with great programmers who graduated in science, history, psychology, electronic engineering and so on. These were people who could go toe to toe technically with CS graduates and in some cases they bought things to the table that added significant value which were relatively rare in people with a more conventional computing background. Why does the fact of having not studied computer science formally make them any less valuable?

Bottom line: yes you worked very hard to get your degree and made a significant financial investment in it, but what's important now is what you do with it and that's what you'll be judged on. If you can't translate that knowledge into results why should it be significant?
Yeah - they're basically the outgrowth of Kaiser Shipyards doing exactly what nostromo proposed back in the 40s, and then letting other people buy in to their network.
I saw this in a drdobbs article in the 90s as well.
Except this isn't what this is. Matlab is far more than a plotting tool, and requires heavy computational resources: the closest you're going to get to Matlab in the browser is a hosted ipython/sage-style solution (which already exists, albeit in a form that isn't user-friendly enough).
So my coverage is maximum out of pocket per year $5-7k. It's very reasonable to assume HN readers make more than $50-70k/yr, so that's better than 10% of income for the same coverage. (I also think the top US care, if you are in the right place, is better than the top NHS care, but only for cancer or very rare diseases; for everything common they're comparable, but NHS covers everyone, so the average quality of care in the UK is better than the average in the US (rather, the 25th percentile care in the US is horrible, whereas the 25th percentile in the NHS is pretty comparable to any NHS care)

(and, with an HSA, if I spend less than $3-5k/yr, I get to put that money pre-tax into a Roth IRA equivalent retirement account. I generally spend $200-1000/yr on medical care, so this tends to work out well for me; I don't think I've ever spent more than $1500 in a year. A lot of employers will just give you that money (and pay your premium) if you pick an HSA plan vs. a PPO plan, since it saves them approximately that much in premium)

I'd be willing to pay some premium to cover everyone in the country vs. just myself, and to ensure I would have full coverage regardless of income. I don't think I'd want to pay a flat 10% on all of my income without limit for that, on top of taxes, though. (although, between medicare and 3.8% obamacare surcharge on income and capital gains, it's already nearly 10% up to 100k)

In addition to HSA, what I'd really like is truly universal minimum standard of care -- not quite where the NHS is, but maybe 20% of that -- to cover preventive and "very cost effective" treatments. The problem is while the NHS is able to use QALYs in making decisions, I don't think the US government would be so rational; we'd end up over-covering dramatic diseases and under-covering less dramatic diseases. I don't believe a $500k intervention for an indigent old person with limited benefit should be paid by taxes, since that same $500k could cover childhood immunizations or preventive care for 5-10k people.
april 1999:
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/regular-expre...
See jStat for one javascript statistical library that is similar to what is offered in R and Matlab: http://www.jstat.org/

And Formula.js has javascript versions of all the Excel functions: http://stoic.com/formula/
TJ didn't even know it was written in CoffeeScript. He ignored the whole repo after finding out. Stop overreacting.

While I agree on the productivity issue, I think developing in CoffeeScript imposes an unnecessary barrier for other people. Basho guys felt the same for their Riak driver: http://basho.com/a-fresh-start-for-riak-js/
This article is also 4 years old. Move along, nothing new to see here.
Wow, yeah, the memories. 2 Advanced was the coolest thing on the internet back in its day. There are all kinds of good reasons why it's a bad website, but it's still pretty nice eye candy.

I hadn't been to their site in years. It looks like they're still doing all Flash, but have moved more toward game development.
Here are a few other Django packages that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread:

- Gargoyle: Feature switches in Django https://github.com/disqus/gargoyle

- webassets and django-assets: For minifying static assets

- raven + sentry for logging. Sentry is the server, so actually can be used with any project, not only Django.

- django_extensions: Provides some helper management commands, for example manage.py shell_plus which automatically imports your models

- dbbackup for backing up your db to S3 or Dropbox
What about mathics? http://www.mathics.org/

(just to be clear - I know mathics is a hosted solution, and uses Sage. I'm asking, does this meet your 'user friendly enough' criteria)
"Don’t collect data. If you know everything about yourself, you know everything. There is no use burdening yourself with a lot of data. Once you understand yourself, you understand human nature and then the rest follows." --- Kurt Gödel

I have no need for the the notion that my act of living constitutes an object ("my life")... that would be burning down the village in order to "improve" it.
thanks!, you are totally right. I have reworded the text to make it more clear than the kneeling chair should be used in short periods as one of the sitting alternatives between standings.
Checking a laptop in your luggage? Forget being stolen, it seems like a great way to get your laptop broken.
Very professional work. Now Twitter bootstrap has DESIGN.

Very good responsive, impressive.
Not sustainable to game the system like that. I think the whole system will strain at the contradictions in place, but that is what was politically viable. Now that we have to live with a new reality, the contradictions will be solved eventually.

This kind of system works very well in Switzerland, but the swiss system is much more mature and they've figured out all the kinks (the people are also responsible enough to vote for it directly).
Agreed with the UX criticisms -- scroll wheel is essential. And dragging isn't discoverable enough.

Interface generally is still a little rough: it wasn't clear to me how to enable scatter points (as well as lines) because it looked liked I'd chosen the scatter type/size/colour etc, but it turns out I hadn't enabled the "line+point" mode.

As far as I'm concerned, any graph element should be clickable and should bring up options to change it, e.g. the axes format. Lack of font options (webfonts maybe?) also a problem.

I clicked one of the examples, clicked "show data" and then clicked "plot data" expecting it to go back to the graph, but instead it wasn't really clear how to do that -- and then I saw the original graph was still there as a tab. I don't know if it was still linked to the data or if the data tab was just a copy -- I tried changing a random data point to test, when back to the graph, and it was stuck updating.

I only took the time to type up these criticisms/UX issues because I really, really like this product. The web is sorely in need of a great plotting solution and this looks really cool. Just a little rough around the edges, that's all!
Don't mean to be rude, but why on earth is this on Hacker News. I really couldn't give a fig about popular interest news like this, this isn't what I come to this site for.

I can understand why people might be interested, but it would be more appropriate to post it to r/football or similar.
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Mr. Destiny: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100201/
I'm getting the same feeling now that I have to work in python/django after having used scala. So it's always worth trying new languages, even when you've found one that seems great at the time.
Our economies are finally about to collapse under the weight of their impossibility, and that's likely to cause some kind of upheaval. That's not about Ethnic Group A hating Ethnic Group B, even though something like that may well happen all around Europe, for example. Economic rebalancing/calamity will come first though.
In the tropics we had some pest control for cockroaches but down south we don't really bother.
I believe there are employers who do that. (it's really hard to google for right now). It's done in cooperation with some kind of integrated organizations like Cleveland Clinic or something I think.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/cleveland-clinic-wal-m...

Says Walmart, Boeing, and Lowes have this for certain things (heart care, which is expensive and fairly predictable demand and common enough to be worthwhile)

http://www.employerdirecthealthcare.com/solutions/employers
seems to be one model -- for employers that self-insure, they have negotiated cheaper case rates for common planned procedures.
Here's our offerings on the shared hosting front: http://www.hartserver.net/hosting/shared/

They are offering better webspace and data transfer by the looks of it. We offer unlimited features where they don't as well as a telephone support offering. We also offer free setup on everything.

In terms of VPS comparison we offer unmetered transfer on all packages and a bit more flexibility in terms of customisation.

We can do even cheaper VPS servers also in Europe and US on request, starting from £6/month for a 1 core, 512MB RAM 20GB SSD with unmetered transfer.
It always baffled me to hear that quote, and then notice the examples in the art of programming are all done in ASM.

We live in a an age where computers are so fast it's considered acceptable to be an engineer and just blurb out code and show people that "shit just works".

That quote is indeed very misleading, because at the time, CPU were still getting faster frequencies, so optimizing problems were solving themselves.

Today we face a problem where the faster algorithms are the one we need, because multithreading is hard, and also because there is no real tech to do clustering out of the box.

I'll always smirk when I look at this quote, and look at spidermonkey, v8, chrome, and carmack's
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Comodo not really getting the concept of HTTPS
You're missing the point.

The point is that in many cases, you should optimize for readability and simplicity first, and optimize for performance only if it's likely to become an issue. If you optimize for performance first, you may well have massively increased your cost of development for incremental performance gains that you could have got by throwing a bit more hardware at the problem.
with asm.js

Did you mean with emscripten to asm.js
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How did you manage to find someone willing to pay £1k for an iOS app? I'm an iOS dev myself and am looking into possible freelance ventures such as this to bring in some cash over the summer / university period.
But if Gatsby is not in the public domain, who owns it? If Fitzgerald has no living heirs, who owns the property rights? These would normally transfer to the state of his heirs' residence at the time of their death like any other abandoned property. In the U.S. at least, intellectual property owned (as opposed to licensed) by states is in the public domain. So wouldn't Gatsby be in the public domain by this method, regardless of copyright? In other words, copyright is a property right, but when there is no one left to exercise that right, the property escheats to the state and thereby becomes property of all.
Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies
Agile web design and the agency model
google have a whole competition devoted to the basic idea.
it's called pwnium.
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.ie/2013/02/exploiting-64-...
Not open source. Its a paid product?
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I wanted to know what the differences were between "Personal License" and "Business License" but eventually had to click "Buy" in order to find out. Except I couldn't find out because it hung so long I got bored.

High load at the moment because of HN?
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Because the communications become useless if they do not accurately reflect the state of the server. Sending anything other than an error when the client does something it shouldn't (for example, calling DELETE on a resource that no longer exists) leaves the client in a state where it doesn't know what's going on.
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Well, it's somewhat comforting to know it's mostly about user input. Thanks! Not that it's easy to secure input handling either.

I've seen that kind of timing attack discussed somewhere, and the solution there was to do some kind of byte-by-byte comparison that would always take the same amount of time. It makes sense.
I guess the only way to fire them is stay completely clear of them and id that's not enough maybe write a blog post exposing this behaviour.
So while loading the seal over standard http is not a security issue in itself there is the problem of mixed content when loaded over https.

This could leave the site open to a MiTM style attack since security fatigue means the user just loads insecure content. The http request could then potentially be redirected to load an alternative content.
Of course he will. Bureaucrats only have one objective: Increase their political influence/power. Anyone who goes to the polls thinking otherwise is naive.
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Combination of summer internship as a web app designer in Austin, TX, and graphic design work for my college's alumni office and my professor in Pittsburgh, PA -- all in 2000.
> my coverage is maximum out of pocket per year $5-7k. It's very reasonable to assume HN readers make more than $50-70k/yr, so that's better than 10% of income for the same coverage

You're not comparing like with like. Comparing a figure (presumably) calculated by taking the GP's effective tax contributions and multiplying by the proportion of UK public spending that goes to health (~19%)[1], with a figure of the direct cost of insurance, is not an accurate way of comparing healthcare costs between countries.

Most actual comparisons I can find between effective cost of healthcare between the US and UK, e.g. [2], seem to conclude that the US pays just over twice as much as the UK per capita (~$7k vs ~3k).

(Also, it's not a "flat 10% on all your income", you misunderstand the GP. Our income tax system is progressive, just like the US's. The NHS is funded from general taxation (including NI payments)).

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/mar/20/budget-2...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2012/03/01/why-are-u-s...
It also works in Melbourne (just tested my daily ride) for when you get back.

NB: you can change the endpoints graphically. Though it's gotten caught up on an unnecessary roundabout, as if it were a way-point (even retracing the route to include it...).
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Really? I think it's more subtle - fraud detection is big business (Palantir et al) and presumably companies have to find a cost / benefit compromise between building their own solutions vs. contracting it out to experts. It might well end up cheaper and easier to add a .5% APR penalty to all their customers and take the hit on retention; it's not THAT competitive out there (at least here in the UK) IMO.
I looked at it a while ago and it seemed abandoned.

Going to take a stab at using it in WP-CLI: https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/pull/437
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From their Twitter:

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Work at a place that has to deal with regular external audits, and you'll start to get an inkling of what complexity really is. Besides, while Eve Online is certainly interesting, they're hardly a representative sample of MMOs.
> Medication is always exactly £7

Except in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales where since 2011 it is always exactly £0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12928485
Where's the solution that enterprises can use to build their remaining desktop apps into the browser? People still write native Windows apps, for example, to get performance in large grids with filtering.

A solution is missing that fits between C++ and Javascript.
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Very neat design. Is there a Wordpress theme?