skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you say as bad as it could have? This is a physical altercation with known gang members (if I'm properly informed). It's not going to go well.

I think the difficulty in handling a situation like that in any way other than immediate armed confrontation must be immense. If somebody tasked me with "handling" a gang member I'm pretty sure I'd want a gun, and I'd want absolutely no restrictions or post-event questioning on its use. Obviously I'm not involved in professional law enforcement in LA but even with training I can imagine it to be an incredibly difficult situation.

I think that the hard thinking to be done should be directed primarily at the underlying issues that result in (and support) organized street crime.
NO unfortunately the "two Cultures" divide in the UK is very strong!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
72,000 MySQL user emails exposed.
That's true. Companies, and startups in particular, have increasingly realized that they want really good programmers.
VC's apathy towards founders without elite college education kills a startup.
hint: base 64
Just wondering: How much did you think you would earn when you started it?
It's nicely built.
Well, in the consulting engagements I have done (about half of my career has been as an independent), all of my clients were aware of an important distinction, and that was that I was 1) there for a short time 2) did not incur the large overhead that a full-time employee would.

To achieve 100% is moderately difficult and would involve a bit of luck, or some kind of compromise.
Recruiters generally aren't interested in you at any advertised rate, or even for any particular skill. They just see Java (substitute as necessary) and contracter in the general vicinity of each other and decide to call you up and smooch you, even if the job is not a good fit and pays half what you charge. Problem is, you often have to keep in touch with recruiters to keep the flow of work, so you can't just cut them off entirely.

Burner phones and email addresses for recruiters is certainly a thing, though.
How are you finding running Linux on that machine? I use the 4,2 Air as well, but I've seen reports of incompatibilities, as well as reduced battery life, when running Linux.
Or in words: each of Google, Apple, and Microsoft make enough profit per man-year that they could double their salaries without becoming unprofitable.
So no installation instructions, the ones here don't work (it's not compiled), and it doesn't seem to work (tailing a log file that is receiving new content once per second `while true.... date > mylog; done` - /buffer.json always empty, /flush does nothing except echo "Flushed" and the web interface apparently does nothing...
15" MacBook Pro (early 2011) with 16GB and 512GB SSD. I'm satisfied :-)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote but a plus if you are in or near NYC

I need a talented, independent front-end Ruby developer who has experience with Liquid Markup and/or SCSS to create sites for Democratic political campaigns using Nationbuilder.

You should be able to have the ability and desire to work relatively independently.

If you're interested or have questions, drop me a line at msrpotus @ gmail with your hourly or daily rate.
I think your condescension is unnecessary, you know nothing about my reading (or Googling) habits.

By any reasonable definition, Ukraine is in Eastern Europe, whether you use geographical, political or historical definitions. This is what Wikipedia says, as do most atlases and the CIA world factbook, in fact I've yet to see a source saying otherwise, but you can surely provide links to one. The EU is not the same as Europe, by that narrow definition, Switzerland is not Europe. Your statement that nobody in/from Europe or Ukraine would say it's in Europe can be disproved with a simple counterexample: I'm from/in Europe and I say so, just as a random sample of my Ukrainian acquaintances.

No comment on Russia being "by no means" European. I guess you'll need to do a lot of Wikipedia editing to remove all references to Tolstoy from the pages on European literature.
I agree that there are no great world leaders at the moment but that doesn't mean we "no longer" have them. Clinton was the most recent great leader in the West, in my opinion. We could easily have another in the next decade. Blair was nearly there, as is Merkel, though she feels like more of an administrator than a leader.
er you do have to pay insurance NI is 12% its not as ruinious as the USA I will give you.
You can't argue it both ways - "government" can't be totally incompetent and overpay for everything, and also at the same time be driving such a hard bargain that the only place for drug companies to make a profit is in the U.S.

At most one of those can be true (and possibly neither). Which do you pick to be true?
That sounds good, but it glosses over the differences in languages, idioms, toolchain, development methodology, testing methodology, etc.

While you need your designers to understand both well enough to create a common design, you are going to find very few coders who are true experts at both Web and native architecture and implementation. While you can cross train people, you need experts in both.
Well if we ruin this economy we can just create a new one. :-) And I think that's what people will do. If this society offers you nothing then just start your own (see the New Delhi slums as an example). That's what Mennonites, Quakers, Amish and other groups do. They are loosely connected to the economy and aren't as affected by this as people fully involved with the global economy.

In a way activities like urban farming and doomsday preppers share a value system we'll see on a rise. The value system shared between these two activities is being self sufficient and control of your own destiny. We'll see this value of self sufficiency rise as the economy provides less and less to the unemployed. No one wants a hand out.
Why does this start to work once the websocket library is "got" (sic) shouldn't go refuse to build this unless the library is there?
Patients, doctors, and payers: Usually only one of these stakeholders knows what the cost of a treatment is. It's not hard to see how the incentives quickly become perverse, especially when a health system gets involved.

I, for one, am hoping that Accountable Care Organizations will prove financially viable.
How Samsung Got Big
I'm just chiming in to say we're always hiring. Some of our best team members have come from HN.

http://www.matasano.com/careers/
Why not? Doctors are actively interested in useful new things and seek them out. Do you have to "ask your doctor today about" the new chemotherapy?
Er, what is a 62 or 63. Pay grade?
@derwildemomo (twitter) or mo (at) superflomo dot cooooom.
I have been doing mostly web during the early dot com days (1999-2001), returning to it around 2008.

With every project the conviction that the web cannot move away from the wild west development style grows on me.
Violence in Turkey unfurls on the web
You'd need some pretty iron-clad liability waivers... if you miss something, you're opening yourself up for a "malpractice" sort of scenario.
> 3. When you look at the screen, your eyes have to focus on something extremely close to your face, which leaves everything else in your field of vision totally blurred.

Not true! Completely wrong! You don't have to focus on the glass device itself. I doubt anyone here even can. It would hurt very soon and you would have an extreme cross-eyed look when trying to see the display.

The display is set-up for a focal plane somewhere in front of your eyes. Google mentioned it is equivalent to a 25" at 8 feet distance.
True, but it's not in their interest to blackmail people.
If people knew people who were being actively extorted in relation to their google searches then everyone would switch to Bing or DDG in a second.
Who said I wasn't willing to pay the price? Again, this is about just talking to engineers that 1) I would enjoy working with 2) that are currently hirable. Offers and negotiating on price hasn't entered the conversation at all. Even that is hard.
This question is so common that NOAA actually has an answer for it on their website:

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

Short, pithy answer: nuking tornadoes would just create radioactive tornadoes.
The minute that anything even remotely resembling that happens, you will find the full force of the federal government and every possible legal resource come to bear on Google. The hypothetical that you stated isn't just related to judges, it's relevant to the most powerful people in the world.

Which is precisely why it won't happen. The people in charge at Google understand this existential threat and that is why every feasible cultural and technical safeguard exists to prevent this from happening.
No. Source: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/mccarthy/tor30yrs.pdf: Finally, it will be seen that the number of strong and violent tornadoes has not varied much since 1970, and that long-track and very-long-track tornadoes as defined by the Illinois State Water Survey remain a very low percentage of all tornadoes reported.
[...]
The increase in reported tornado frequency during the early 1990s corresponds to the operational implementation of Doppler weather radars. Other non- meteorological factors that must be considered when looking at the increase in reported tornado frequency over the past 33 years are the advent of cellular telephones; the development of spotter networks by NWS offices, local emergency management officials, and local media; and population shifts.
Not true.

San Mateo, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, greater than 1,200 sq. feet house, greater than 2,000 sq. feet yard, built after 1980, not a foreclosure, sold in last 90 days, least expensive home... $900,000.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/San-Mateo-CA/fsba,fsbo,...
It's not as bad as you think. The number of applicants is lower per position outside London and the ratio of muppets to positions is higher.

If you're not a muppet, it's quite easy to land 50k+ in any major city.
We might be having an issue with the definition of the word consultant here or the Dutch market might just be different.

My contracts generally always come in 3 month stretches. In case I haven't received a signed 3-month extension 1 month before the end of a contract I would start looking for my next engagement.

I also make sure I always take calls from recruiters and let them know when my current contract is up for renewal, so that every three months all recruiters I know will call me asking if I'm already available.

I generally also have a decent number of ex-colleagues already lined up which would be interested in hiring me if I were to become available again.

Now of course I don't get 100% utilization, but in practice my holidays and illnesses have had a much bigger impact on that than availability of engagements has.
Also, there's a problem:

> cat /usr/share/dict/words | ./pipesock
2013/06/01 22:35:59 Read Line Error: EOF
2013/06/01 22:35:59 Read Line Error: EOF
2013/06/01 22:35:59 Read Line Error: EOF
2013/06/01 22:35:59 Read Line Error: EOF

This happened when trying to do "y | ./pipesock", amongst other things, perhaps you should silently ignore stuff that isn't streaming in line-based.

FWIW the websocket library now installed, I get a single reading in the html frontend, the first message I broadcast.

Nice idea, needs a lot more work!
Which ones? The ones above? I'm not sure. Will have to contact them and get back.

I think, the links we're being penalised for - are mostly the links that come from our software widget. Check out this page, the very-very top of it: http://algonac.thebestcityguides.com/Forum/forum4195-Minneol...

We have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS links like this (I'mm looking at my WMT right now). I guess this is the main reason. Our site is hit by Penguin...
This could very well be a one off incident but is very discouraging for people who actually try to start something here in India.
These companies exist outside of finance too, which is why I made a point out of how it's not a homogeneous job market.

No, don't work on crap, but also don't write off half the SW engineering job market on the back of an anecdote.
Four dead protesters in Turkey
You can buy bricks from lego, starting at $0.10 per 1x1: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme

But you're likely better off buying bulk from other online retailers, like ebay, where you can buy by the pound (e.g., search ebay for "legos pounds"). See also http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/finding-lego-bricks-in-...
I joined Silicon Valley as a grad student at Stanford in 2007, and I've been on both sides of hiring multiple times. I'm now the recruiting committee chair for an ambitious startup. The key to the article is: "What we may have is a 'STEM majors who have the skills that Silicon Valley prefers' shortage."

For me the issue is not that schools don't teach a certain algorithm or design pattern, but it takes a lot of searching to find someone smart who is also diligent, dedicated, hard-working, and responsible.

Every university should ask their students to read the short essay "A Message to Garcia" (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17195/17195-h/17195-h.htm) that tells the story of the dependable servant Garcia. The author exclaims: "By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing"
Simplest explanation: The owners had them installed to test different contractors, designs, and/or materials. Wouldn't you have someone put a few in before you signed a contract to put them all up?
Wow, that's one of the most egregious bans I've seen yet. He has one quippy but non-offensive political comment from 3 years ago that was voted down to -7, and then a series of solid on-topic technical comments every few months. Maybe a mod could just restore him without requiring him to email asking for forgiveness? He seems worth keeping around.
Also this is great interview between the authors of the book and Julian Assange:

http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html
One last clarification: not all trees can be converted to a DAG. There cannot be circular references.
I actually thought you were being serious in your previous post. Humans cannot specialize in everything, but we can do a lot more than just one thing.
| I hate living in the US, and I was born here.

Consider moving elsewhere. Canada is close by, culturally familiar and has your health deal comfortably beat.

Seriously, if you don't like it but you are paying through the nose for it (and thus helping perpetuate it), why not take your talents and labour elsewhere?
A 3 month contract is a huge engagement for us (but then, our bill rates are much higher than the one mentioned in this thread). So, yes, I think we're talking about two different concepts of contracting/consulting/freelancing. You're doing staff augmentation, we're doing consulting/freelancing.

We probably both agree that freelancing is a way to make more money than you would on a steady salaried job. But it also comes with markedly increased risk, which is why it pays more.
The cost of living is absolutely awful in London.

You'll be fine doing a flat share etc in some of the nicer metropolitan bits, but if you have 3 children like myself, things get expensive awfully quickly.

You have to fish out £1500/month for a 3 bedroom house in a suburban area (zone 5/6) which you won't get stabbed in.

If you want something really nice, say Richmond/Strawberry Hill, try £2250 for the same.
What industry are you in?

Quantitative finance

How much are you making?

155k in salary, 100k - 250k in bonus and equity grants.

Is your income stable or volatile?

Salary's been very stable, bonus fluctuates a bit more dependent on the vagaries of the market.

Where do you live?

I live in Boston.

How long did it take to get to your level?

5 years.

What kind of work do you do?

Trading signal research, statistics, machine learning, discrete optimization. Also a lot of time working on infrastructure, operations, and communicating with different stakeholders.

Do you enjoy it, or is it the stereotypical "highly paid because it's crappy" work?

I enjoy it. The work-life balance is great(40 hour weeks), and I work with smart people on interesting problems.

Is this a short-lived opportunity, or do you expect it to exist in 5 years?

Jobs like this will definitely exist in 5 years.

What would your advice be to a 20-year-old aspiring developer? 25? 30?

The world is your oyster if you can master the following:

- doing difficult technical things
- knowing the business side of things well and always working towards good outcomes for everyone involved.
- communicating well, both in person and in writing
- working independently on original, important ideas that are germane to the business activity you're involved with
- being friendly, positive, and easy to work with

It also probably helps to pick companies and industries where you're appreciated for all of those things.
Yes. Charles is a perfectly valid go-to solution for all problems solved by proxy, too. But Proxy aims to be more user friendly – Charles GUI is a bit messy and outdated.

The core of Proxy are it's filters and modifiers. Filters give you the ability to select specific requests/response pairs from the list of all of them, and modifiers make it possible to change the behavior and data a request/response pair carries. Modifiers are implemented in only a few lines and the idea was that they could be done in almost any language (read: ruby and other lightweight stuff), so the low-memory footprint along with simple, extensible filters would make a powerful developer tool – or the most configurable ad blocker that there is.
Google Glass From the '90s
Wow. IMHO, towing my car from a legal parking place because I left the windows down (or -- Gott bewahre! -- the convertible top open) is a crime.
Imagining Success for Today's Startups: cheap space travel and AI
I'm sorry, isn't that the same thing?
This is something that sites like 99designs are probably pretty good at.
Its not like Bay Area, software engineering salary is bit lower than other fields here. As far as I found,it starts with around 38K(Euro). And it grows with certain limit and also there is no other perks, some startup give free drinks and coffees but its rare. And also have tax rate around 35%(depends on your family size), but in Germany have better social security than US.
A better solution would be to move people out of harms way quicker. You can't stop them, but you can certainly avoid them.
Perhaps Culture is now the Counterculture
A lot of my colleagues have said it's not just about the money. That is important, and OK when your on your own, <30 and trying to make a name for yourself. But I know of some SHIT and I mean AWFUL programmers who get paid thrice as much as I and some colleagues, it often seems experience, or years count more than actual talent sometimes. I'm between 20-29k.
This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon
Emails that users put in public profiles?

How is this interesting?
Very cool overall. However:

> Searching for hay in the haystack is not a common use case for a regular expression matcher.

Where'd that conclusion come from? Surely "does this pattern exist anywhere in this string?" with the answer "no" can't be that that unusual...I'm pretty sure I do this fairly often, in fact.

EDIT: just realized I probably misinterpreted. Looking at the context more, I suppose they're referring to the frequency of matches, not their presence or absence. However, is 'grep -v commonpattern' (another not-too-unusual use-case) kind of equivalent?
Please clarify - Euros or Dollars?
Backbone vs. Simple JavaScript Inheritance
> May I ask why you have not doubled your rates?

Because they're not going to go in and cause a huge increase in revenues like Patrick does.
1 GBP : 1.5 USD

(I assume people answered poll in GBP?)
You need a big stock of cash, a hard skin and a good accountant.

The uncertainty is a problem, particularly when you end up getting booted early (it does happen), but occasionally you get to sit on your arse for the last 3 months of a say a 6 month fixed term contract being paid to play solitaire because they can't get rid of you early.

The agents are all asshats and will screw you for a penny if you're not careful.

The hiring companies treat you like a disposable tool. Don't expect to make any friends at the companies - the permanent staff know you're making more than they are.
Ok I admin, this is more of an reactive post to the today's headline about oklahoma. Even if they are not happening more compare to past, they are still very deadly and kills hundreds of people.
Wow, this post is crazy enough to deserve its own DSM V entry.
Boston, MA - FlipKey

We're hiring for basically all experience levels and positions. Check out http://www.flipkey.com/Pages/careers/ for more information.

Email me at my username at flipkey.com if you have questions or want to apply.
If the only qualification for not being evil is abiding by the law then jay, Google could be considered not to be evil. As long as their tax evasion practices are deemed legal that is.

But that is just a reflection of the low moral standards Sergey and Larry have. Instead of imagining what they could do if they committed senseless stupid evil on irrelevant perverts, imagine what they could do if they would actually do good.

They wield a terrible power, and worse the faceless public owners of Google wield it with them. If they truly were good, then the world would be a different place from what it is now.
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The team includes a YC W '10 alum, the former CIO of Sonic Foundry, the youngest graduate in the history of Harvard Law School, and lawyers from a variety of big firms. Tech stack is Lucene, RavenDB, C# / .NET for application, and C for machine learning.

We are hiring for engineering (work on classifying documents based on features of the documents, data set, case, primary law, and lawyers' past classifications of other documents), operations (handling collection and ingestion of data and interfacing with customers), and sales ($60k base + 10% commission, first month commission only).

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I went through your sign up flow but I still have no idea what skrive does