skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea behind Dockerfiles is to allow a source repository to be built and packaged automatically, to the exact specification of the upstream developer, regardless of his/her choice of development tools, distro or language.

Source repo comes in, container comes out. No other exchange of information necessary. The only dependencies left are 1) the hardware architecture, 2) the kernel and 3) the docker runtime (which is itself a 5MB static binary).

This makes things like this potentially possible:

$ docker run git://github.com/antirez/redis

Voila, you are running Redis - built and configured to the specifications of Salvatore himself.
Apportable (YC W11) is hiring engineers to build a better SpriteKit
The Apportable SDK cross-compiles Objective-C apps to Android. Games powered by Apportable have risen to the top of the charts and delighted millions of users through the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and the Humble Bundle for Android. The platform is built on open source projects like GNUstep, CFLite, and Cocotron as well as our own implementations of UIKit and other libraries.

Our San Francisco based team is growing quickly and we are hiring software engineers to implement new iOS frameworks like SpriteKit. We are offering both temporary contract and full-time positions. No Android experience is required, but Objective-C development experience will be helpful.

Perks:

- Work flexible hours with incredibly smart and motivated engineers.

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- Free Exec, health, dental, meals and we don’t track vacation days.

- We play games - lots and lots of games.

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To apply, email jobs+hn@apportable.com with link to relevant profiles (GitHub, Twitter, Quora, Stack Overflow, HN, etc.).
He makes the argument on his website: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html#at_pco=cfd-...

1 people think hybrids are sterile, but they're not
2 people think hybrids don't occur in nature, but they do
3 people think only plants hybridize, but animals do to

From this basis, he concludes that a chimp-pig hybrid is plausible, and proceeds to lay out his theory.

The problem is the three facts he starts with are trivial compared to the obstacles raised by PZ Meyer. To take just one, there is the difference in chromosome number. In most cases, if a human ends up with the wrong number of chromosomes, it's a lethal condition. Or you end up with Down's syndrome. With one extra chromosome. The hybrid this guy posits has a dad with 38 chromosomes and a mom with 48.

I could argue that that's not a big deal. In the plant groups I study stranger things happen. But that's in plants. Primates, as I understand it, are much more sensitive to chromosomal abnormalities.

There are many logical, evidential reasons to discount this hypothesis. Again, check out the pz meyer post linked elsewhere. Claiming I don't understand evolution because "given enough tries anything is possible" is facile. Of course anything is possible. But what is probable here?
You're right, 'tech literacy' isn't really the right words, more like 'cultural literacy' where the correct "frame of reference" in this case is MMORPG banter. Or what the courts might refer to as 'community standards'.

It's been a while since my one and only anthropology course, but the basic idea is actions and language can only be understood through a common perceptual framework between the speaker and the listener. Actions which are otherwise benign, or even loving, can seem violent or insane when the observer lacks the proper 'frame'.

One great example of this, if you're a fan of Orson Scott Card, is the humans struggling to understand the Pequeninos in Xenocide, the 3rd book in the Ender's Game series.

This is why, when I hear the statement was made in the context of a MMORPG, it immediately alters my opinion on whether Justin had mens rea (criminal intent) when he wrote the post. A hundred years ago, if communities didn't exist where this type of dialog was typical, the same words actually take on a different meaning -- one that might actually indicate a need for intervention!
BuildZoom is looking for full stack engineers to join our growing team
As a full stack engineer at BuildZoom, you’ll be creating the software that drives our marketplace: the website; search engine; workflow interfaces & user interfaces for contractors & homeowners. You should expect to move up and down the software stack, working on the infrastructure to support your products.

You should be able to develop an understanding of how our users think and behave and then translate that into simple yet powerful experiences.

You should embrace the challenges that come with an early-stage consumer-facing company. Some of the products you build will be used by millions of people. At the same time, you’re willing to pick up the slack and work on less glamorous tasks if needed.

Most of all, you should feel passion for what you build and the people you work with.

Requirements

Full stack experience with Web-development technologies (PHP & Ruby).
Experience building products with real-world usage.
Ability to deeply understand the user and build simple, elegant products to support them.
Ability to take ownership of your product and take it from design to production in collaboration with our team.

Pluses

Extensive familiarity with JavaScript.
Experience developing online marketplaces, informational sites and/or workflow support.

Applying

To apply, e-mail jobs@buildzoom.com with:

A resume or GitHub link.
A summary of the products you’re most proud of and how they work.
This is usually up to the publisher, in cases where the author has signed a traditional publishing deal.

It looks like Prentice Hall has taken On Lisp out of print. After publishers do that, they often let the author post a version online, since they are no longer selling it anyway. ANSI Common Lisp, on the other hand, is still in print.
Calling Five Guys a 'downmarket' anything is silly. They're probably the most expensive / up market fast food burger place out there.
And they don't do shakes (at least here on the East Coast, where they started). Burgers, dogs, and fries (well, and some 'veggie' versions of sandwich).
is it a crime if I say: hopefully her fireworks are defective?
Some diet habits are harder to persuade, and many won't stick with them. So anything is something.
It's like an Inca tradition, agreed.
I am going to go with "20 years old". The current shrine is scheduled to be torn down this year.
Nope, possibility is never enough evidence (disregarding likelihood). The old tale from thermodynamics: "Entropy tends to it's maximum. In reality there is a chance that all air in the room will concentrate in a small spot and entropy will decrease; how often did you see that happening?"
Rubbish piece even by Falkvinge's tabloidesque standards.
This is an interesting idea. As posed though, I don't think it is workable. As noted other places in the thread, equity for contract dev work is pretty silly.

Posed slightly differently though, he could be a technical co-founder for someone else who is also still working a day-job. Helping do bits of work for a "startup" with full-time founders does not deserve a large piece of equity. (I know the article said "small", but 8-18% as noted elsewhere in this thread by OP, is not in fact small.) Being a technical co-founder though would deserve this kind of equity or more, depending on how many people involved and what the work/money requirements were.
Are you sure about that? Comments like the one this kid made are rampant in certain immature areas of the internet. If you're used to that sort of thing, it's more of a bad taste issue than an actual threat.

I.e. Oprah and http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-over-9000
Theseus's Paradox
They use the old bridge to bootstrap the new bridge, by pulling the new ropes across. Each bridge is a descendent of the previous bridge. The continuity makes a "500 year old bridge".

These bridges were intended to be temporary, whereas stone or metal bridges are intended to be permanent. You are comparing apples to oranges.

The new bridge and the old bridge are actually the same bridge, just made with different materials.
They could use their illegal NSA spying programs and bring out some proofs that he was not kidding?
Was not this how Thin-thread was supposed to work?
Patriot hacker 'The Jester' attacks nations offering Snowden help
must we focus on the genders of every party involved in these types of discussions?
Thank you for the links - exactly the kind of thing I was looking for :-)
EU increases penalties for cybercriminals and hackers
If it's really crackpot then it should be easy to point out a clear flaw without taking much time.
Inflation, or cost of living raise imply's that you are simply doing the same entry level job for 24 years and you never ever got a real raise. Never got a single promotion, or moved companies to a better job. And started at a below average wage. Of course this is a good deal for that person.

If you want to be that person, you should totally support this plan or one like it. However, if you'd prefer to be even a little bit successful, this plan doesn't turn out as good. The math works quite differently if you start out at a better wage, as I imagine most people on HN did. It also works differently if you ever get a promotion in 24 years.
>\Sounds like the sort of programmers who are inclined to blame "cosmic rays" for odd behavior that they don't understand.

In fairness, they go out of their way to harden they computers against cosmic rays. I am sure that they make a decision about what an acceptable amount of cosmic ray induced error is, and design the system knowing that it will happen. Having said that, I agree that having unexplained problems on the ground should get an explanation before being launched. Even if it was a hardware glitch, they should either have told the hardware people that there was a glitch, or the level of error was within the designed for range and they should not have been suprised when it happened in space.
Cold for an engine block and timing belts and cold for a person are two different things
Wouldn't it be interesting if one of Snowden's projects for the NSA was to be on a 'red team' testing its security... and what he discovered both enabled and motivated his later actions?
Yeah, this has been a common topic in any embedded job interview I've had since the 90s, and not just on VxWorks jobs. The Pathfinder case study is pretty well known.
Is it? I got mine second hand via Amazon (amazon.com).

edit: It would be reasonable if it is back in print after BBC did the tv series follow up, I guess?
I strongly suspect most people living on $10k/year are enjoying a life of leisure.

Not working for someone else is not the same thing as enjoying leisure, at all - you've built a castle of logic on a deeply flawed assumption.

Look, if you only have $10k a year you can not buy a lot of stuff. That's just about enough to supply yourself with an adequate amount of food, clothing, and similar basic necessities if you are in some low-rent area - in short, for a single person to keep body and soul together. It's not enough to go out to restaurants or purchase more than necessities unless you enjoy some sort of additional subsidy from parents, spouse or wherever. You'll be cooking your own meals, carting your groceries around on foot, doing the same with your laundry (or washing it in the bathtub) because you can't afford a washing machine, and so on and so forth. You won't starve, but you'll have to work at things that other people pay to have done for them. This is, believe it or not, time-consuming, and effort-consuming too. It's not too bad for a single individual who's educated enough to have a meaningful inner life, but for a lot of people it means both boredom and a significant exclusion from social activity, and for an awful lot of other people (the sort you think chose to have vaginal sex instead of giving you a blowjob), it can mean dealing with children, which is extremely time-consuming.

I think you mean well Chris, but you seem almost comically ignorant about the difficulties faced by other people who didn't have the good fortune to be you.
Cheating at a Flash game by reverse-engineering.
Edward Snowden receives marriage proposal from ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman
Your link [1] is FSF correcting a false representation of what they said:
"In July of 2003, Slashdot published a story claiming that I had claimed that the LGPL did not function as intended in the case of Java. This story was based on a misunderstanding of a response to a question sent to licensing@gnu.org, and many attempts to clarify the issue in the Slashdot story did not get across. I have received numerous questions about the story since, via both licensing@gnu.org and personal email."

It would not be complete without an explanation of why their posisition is correct, even if it is obvious to anyone who read the license.
I really can't recommend skipping a KDF for encryption on the basis that AES-CBC is "already secure." Use of a strong KDF has a direct bearing on the compute time required for an attacker to brute force the key.
Along the lines of a traditional royalty model perhaps? I could see that being an interesting third possibility, versus either equity (as monkeymeister suggests) or deferred compensation (as tptacek suggests), or just plain cash. But yes, it seems like a good fit mainly for cases like an iPhone app where you have a specific delineable product to apply royalties to, roughly like you do with books or music albums.
Totally off topic, when i see ")))))))" it makes me want to run the other way.
Not sure if anyone will see this, this late, but someone else recently posted this presentation on Rakasha, a malware based on top of coreboot open bios and friends -- so if you know the type of server, you might just pop up the cover and switch out the BIOS...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpilXPv8pU
> handle the below average people who are both unnecessary and not well suited to the life of ibtellectual pursuits.

indeed
Parents who are grownups are too busy to fool with nonsense like Facebook and Twitter.
Yeah, Gotham city.
You guys are funny. Half of you are voting this stuff onto the frontpage, and the other half commenting on how awful it is.

Let's get it together, people! :-)
Just incase it interests anyone, New Zealand has competed its census. >>A total of 8785 married couples divorced - about 10.1 divorces for every 1000 estimated existing marriages - and just over one-third (35 per cent) of couples who married in 1987 had divorced before their silver wedding anniversary.<<

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...
How To (Humorously) Complete Selection Criteria Form After CV Is Shortlisted
I want to say this is a relatively common practice. Kudzu is an invasive species in most of the southeast United States that spreads along roadside. We got rid of a lot if in Tallahassee, FL by using goats. I don't remember the details but there was a single pack of goats that were regularly moving throughout the city.
Tweets of the Tour De France Riders
Phys.org ain't a newspaper.
Most of the time, when people are talking about getting tough on crime, they are talking about stuff like murder, rape, child abuse, selling crack to kids, or DUIs. They generally adopt this attitude after seeing people commit horrible crimes and get out of prison almost immediately to do the same or worse.

We do lock more people up than any other country, and it is shameful, but that doesn't mean that everyone who wants to get tough on crime is talking about locking children up for making bad jokes, or imprisoning their neighbor who occasionally smokes pot. That, my friend, is being out of touch with reality.
I never said crackpots are guaranteed to be visionaries, though I'm sure it made a convenient strawman for you to argue against. My only point was that you can't be certain either way a priori, to be sure you must actually investigate it (and history tells us even then that's not always going to guarantee certainty).
Wasn't racist in the least.

Arguing over technological superiority or lack thereof has absolutely nothing to do with race.

Would it be racist to say that cavemen were primitive because they lacked the steam engine? No, it's merely acknowledging the fact of their state of technology. And it should be noted, primitive in this sense exists on constantly shifting sand: Americans from 1776 were primitive as well. Saying so is not racist.

By our standards today, George Washington was killed by medical malpractice, having been bled to death. It all sounds so barbaric by comparison to what we take for granted now. I'm sure our chemotherapy of today will sound like primitive barbarism tomorrow.
It would be amazing if someone could do more historical documentary type work on early pioneers in computing. I've learned a ton about Doug Englebart since seeing this post about his passing, and I now regret not having studied his work more closely earlier. It also reminds me that there are many others who probably had / have insightful things to say that could be lost to the sands of time. Ted Nelson seems like an obvious candidate, but who wouldn't want to learn more about people like:

Herbert Simon[1]

Norbert Weiner[2]

Marvin Minsky[3]

Richard Greenblatt[4]

Bill Gosper[5]

John McCarthy[6]

Barbara Liskov[7]

J.C.R. Licklider[8]

Edit: and, of course, we can't neglect Vannevar Bush[9] or Claude Shannon[10] either.

etc...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Greenblatt_(programmer)

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosper

[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scien...

[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov

[8]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C.R._Licklider

[9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

[10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
I think we agree it's highly improbable, but then all major leaps of life and evolution have been. From that ground, I don't see why you seem to be angry at the guy for making a (minimally plausible, not because of the obstacles, but because of what the theory would explain) leap of faith and then wanting to prove his way there scientifically, tagging the whole ordeal 'absurd' and 'ridiculous.'

Sure the hybrid has parents wildly different genetically. But if two individuals who have a high chance of producing fit offspring may by chance produce unfit individuals, then we also agree the hybrid would have to have been a minimally fit individual by chance born from two parents who have a very low chance of doing so. A person with Down syndrome is not a catastrophe of nature, and not fundamentally a disease, such that through successive backcrossing (women with Down syndrome are usually fertile) it could theoretically produce a different kind of Homo that would be fit for some imaginary environment conditions. Or at least would still be a far more intelligent creature than all other animals we have on this planet.
And I'm left with the same question I always have for these arguments: Mr. Article Writer, how much of your income would YOU like to give to the heroes of these stories?

About 25%. I'm OK with a tax level of between 35-40% on a moderate (>$50k) income, and I'd like about 75% of that to be spent on helping other people especially through education and healthcare) and the other 25% to be spent on things like defense, NASA, cops and so on, that's meant to benefit everyone. I'm willing to negotiate these various percentages, within reason. When I can, I pay a bit more tax than I absolutely have to because it makes me feel good, although some years I don't earn that much and I just pay what I have to. I'm not demanding that you must pay much more tax, but I am happy to pay a moderate amount and then a bit extra if I can afford it.

Does that answer your question?
European Parliament votes to investigate US surveillance of EU residents
Yet, kids do scream such things in public at one another. Constantly.
Local meetups are a good resource. Most have mailing lists and they're often quiet, but from my experience questions are generally answered within a couple hours.
In some areas, such as agriculture, modern technology still has much to learn from the achievements of the Incas. The amount of land under cultivation in the Andes is still a fraction of what it once was.
..and one hand makes no sound, obviously.
Barrett Brown Update: New Defense Team, Feds Fish For Activists
I'll add the classic response of "once you let your editor just handle it for you you forget about it entirely". Because, really, truly, when you code in lisp you're just traversing a very simple syntax tree. If you use emacs/paredit you literally stop typing and start using keyboard commands to "descend down the left branch" or "prune upward 4 times" or "delete this entire branch".
or, better yet, use crypto/rand to seed it.
Ask HN: How would you monetize this idea?
Hi,

I just submitted this idea to Firespotting:

http://firespotting.com/item?id=1790

It's an app to help catch criminals in the act. I'm thinking about how I'd monetize it and I'm not too enthusiastic about what I come up with because it rubs me the wrong way morally.

I was thinking to write in the ToS that the company gets copyright to all the videos submitted then require payment to license the videos for use in courtrooms.

But if I'm someone who wants to make the world a better place, I'd make the project a nonprofit & let it all be free.

So I'm wondering how I can make the prosecution of criminals be free, to ease my morals, and still monetize it somehow.

So I figured I'd present the question to HN readers & see what you come up with.

Thanks.

Regards,

-c
ByteMail - Decentralized P2P Messaging Protocol
Microsoft and Motorola's Briefs on RAND and Fair Dealing
You are correct. I don't.

EDIT: On second thought, I see I am somewhat in error. Let me amend my statement to say "Central and South American peasants".
Forget World War Z. Bring back World War II games
The bridges are in the same location, but they are not the same bridge.

One references location ('the bridge that crosses the river over there'), the other pertains to the physical composition that makes every thing unique (the bridge made of those specific fibers).

It'd be like claiming the different people that inhabit the same house over the span of 100 years are all the same people, because they're all humans. They're all people, and they all inhabited the house ('the people in that house'), but they in fact possess different unique identity.
Yes - we did have "weird" interpretation of our constitution. Like putting of Japanese Americans in concentration camps (the Supreme Court called it "military necessity"). But eventually public perception changed and the interpretation of our constitution was corrected.

So as first step I want to hear from Supreme Court whether this is constitutional. But NSA says that what they are doing is secret, so ...
Unicorn, nginx, production environment.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
I feel like I have those exact pains, but I'm not sure about racing flats.. I usually run 5+ miles (not racing) and flats are more for shorter distances (and racing).

What shoes do you wear for marathon training?

p.s. Are those exact flats still purchasable anywhere? Can't find them online (size 11').
France Accused of Spying on Citizens' Communications
shoot us a link to the feature / bug tracking!
Are they blocking Jingle as well? I hope T-Mobile won't do any such lunacy when they'll roll out their LTE.
AngelList Now Has More Than 100K Startup Profiles
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