skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First option: Drive downtown and write down every business you see. I would imagine 99% of them need technology, 75% of them have some form of technology, and 50% of them are using legacy software. Call them. Something is running at O(n^5) and they need your help.

Second option: Connections. Find that person that knows someone. Use your alumni network.

Third option: If you're fresh out of college, expand out of city or state. Watching students stagnate in their hometowns is a shame.

Persistence pays off regardless of the field. 'Hi, I'm wondering if you have any computer related jobs available? No? Do you happen to know anyone applying?' Build a network out of people you're only talking to for 5 minutes!
We'll wait till launch for details.
Apple shipped 29M to 32M iPhones last quarter, boosting revenue to $36B
About time we got a perk -I'm Peruvian :). Seriously though, we've had more engineers graduating schools here and more money in state revenues, we're finally seeing that translate into smarter infrastructure projects.
Transparency in Government Surveillance
Unfortunately when automation goes wrong, it usually tends to do too much - double billing, aggressively canceling things, etc.

Having built several automation systems that bill millions of dollars, I can say that it's quite challenging to build things that have no visible output, run by themselves and often sit there for years without being touched, while everything changes around them!

It's not sexy work, but when it goes wrong the shit really can hit the fan!
Good news: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-...
Well, if people don't care to get familiar with the site (checking how others use it, reading the faq and rules), it's not weird if their questions get closed..
IANAL either, but there's a obvious difference between a vehicle search without your knowledge and you knowingly handing your vehicle to someone who acts as an agent of the government in performing a search:

> We also noticed a large sign that alerts customers that their vehicle will be inspected.

I think the reasonableness of these actions basically boils down to:

> Iacuzza says it [the sign] was not there when she dropped off her car.
I'm waiting for these jokers to replace /etc with a database that requires an editor that only runs on Linux x86/x64 to modify anything.
Seen this: https://bubbleideas.com ?

Disclosure: I am the project owner for above, half-way-dreamy about what else I could do to make it happen.
Nobody said anything about a massive time investment. When I said "take the time to explore and learn", I just meant somebody who does it, as opposed to someone who doesn't.

In my opinion, putting options in a game for people who want to discover mechanics on their own and be rewarded for it is appealing. It goes along with the hacker mentality.

It's a subjective opinion...you don't have to agree with me.
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The first comment (as of right now) makes me sick to my stomach:

"Why are we providing a platform for families of terrorists to advocate against American national interests? They should have considered the consequences of targeting the United States and its citizens with violence before they walked down that path.

Our intelligence services and armed forces have done a commendable job keeping Americans safe. I thank them for their service, and for keeping my family safe.

I have no time or desire to listen to this sorry speech about human and civil rights from someone who did not stop his son from advocating violence."
I'm surprised at how the robots can work so closely to the employees without protection cages. They must have strong fail-safe systems in place. Most impressive!
Yeah, I see a lot of (completely fair) angry comments in this thread. But honestly the response has been pretty damn good for what happened, and we will see how it plays out.
Any one of us could have made this mistake and Twilio is a great service, otherwise you wouldnt have seen many people here complaining at all!
I would love to use this now, but can't until there is a license. Would love to see something added soon. MIT would be great.
I have had similar experiences.

Generally speaking if I'm going to take the time to write a question on SO it's because I can not find the answer already, only to have that question not answered, or worse edited beyond the questions original intent.
It's funny, "Not Constructive" doesn't exist any more as a reason for closing.
Is the convenience of not having to do the extra initial setup and occasional maintenance really worth the substantial markup every month?
Is that the same thing?

Yes, Arch is using systemd. So is Fedora. The argument that is linked wants to remove a syslogd implementation from the default installation.

Right now, the default is journal (cannot be removed, if you're using systemd as explained in that discussion) _plus_ syslogd. The proposal asks for journal w/o syslogd by default (but available as a package of course).

That said: My Arch systems don't run a syslogd either, so .. maybe they switched 'completely' in that announcement?
The DLG collector as used by Caml Light does what you describe.

Updating an object in the global heap to point to a thread-local heap can cause unbounded work to be done before that update as the entire pointed-to structure has to be copied into the global heap first. GC designers really hate write barriers (sections of code that are performed before a pointer is updated) that perform unbounded work.
Yea, we liberate the SHIT out of other countries.
Hm, interesting, why then they paid for "stolen" wood almost 14 million rubles?
Startup world’s little secret: Everyone’s using TaskUs but no one is talking
If only we could make resizeable screens.
This is great news, great timing and great work. I knocked together a simple angular directive for JustGage (https://github.com/mattlaver/angular-justgage) a week or so back for a dashboard I was putting together and have been looking for some nice directives for charting to add to what I already had.
They used one of those systems when I filled out the order forms for the suits for wedding. It took about 3 times longer than just typing it into the computer.
I see a lot negative comments here. Frankly, I understand people's frustration, but I think Twilio are dealing with this in the right way.

I was one of the customers affected. Luckily for me, my credit card automatically blocked the transaction after the 10th time I was auto-recharged, meaning I had a cap on how much I paid. I can totally understand the frustration of people discovering that they suddenly have 100's or even 1000's of dollars worth of charges to their credit card.

On the other hand, by the time I noticed that something strange was going on, Twilio's status page already said they were looking into it. I contacted their support right away, and they answered within 20 minutes, during what must be a customer support crisis.

And now RobSpectre is on HN giving very helpful answers.

So, no, it's not their finest work (as RobSpectre has said), but at least they're dealing with it quickly, and hopefully professionally as well. Let's let this play out before we jump up and down on a great company that we all love.
It's not just that you need to produce less garbage - you want to produce less live objects in general, as a large part of the cost during GC is determining which objects are live.
Interesting choice of questions.

Neither of which have an answer. Unless you want to discuss the fine details of the problem. In which case I'll hire your site to do the architecture for free next time I have a major project.

Questions like that aren't unanswerable. They are however unanswerable without knowing a lot about your specific case (requirements, skills, staff, infrastructure, etc). So they tend not to be QA because they either get surface treatment (leading people to make bad decisions on partial information) or they lead to abuse (people taking advantage of it).
not sure what the opposite of graceful degradation is, but that's pretty close! They're right not to support it though.
Making a 60fps Mobile App
Not quite. Buying server hardware requires a substantial up-front monetary commitment. Once we have a good self-hosted PaaS package like Flynn, setting up an instance on an IaaS provider should (in theory) require a very small amount of time.
The race to a $100 human genome
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Who would have guessed that this submission's comments would be dominated by 9/11 truthers? Fascinating.

Keep these great posts coming!
Since everyone in EVE is primarily competing against each other, this type of information is often kept close to the chest and used as leverage against others.
So because valets sometimes "abuse cars," a government agency forcing private citizens to unlawfully search private vehicles is "manufactured?"

There is no rigorous or coherent logic in what you've posted.
"Majority" means over half. The word you're looking for is "plurality".

Mao's government was strong enough, within just a few years, to fight the US military to a standstill in a foreign war. What's the excuse for the millions who died after that?
I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick, but in my mind, community-driven sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, Wikipedia, are prone to the noise of do-nothing armchair experts (especially in this economy with the unemployment rate) who have nothing better to do than stir philosophical debates over nothing.

As a person with a job who actually needs answers rather than reading through pages upon pages of discourse that goes absolutely nowhere, I appreciate StackOverflow's approach to moderation. StackOverflow is a place for specific questions and specific answers, not subjective nonsense questions like "how secure are sessions in PHP?" that, on this "Not Constructive" website, I imagine will be flooded with answers ranging from "PHP SUXXX LOL GO PYTHON" to "In my opinion, sessions are inherently broken blah blah blah". While the moderators may be able to mitigate these issues a little bit, the problem isn't so much with the answers as the question itself, which has no "correct" answer.

So, while I can see why people with a lot of free time might want to go to NotConstructive as a diversion, I foresee this site as little more than an informational black hole of back-and-forth BS.
He had to settle on Russia because his first choice, China, sent him packing.
Response is not good until everyone affected has their money returned to them and we explain what happened.

Very much appreciate your support through a difficult night and morning. More to come.
Most of what you say here is just nonsense.

1. In the vast majority of cases, if you see something not right on Stack Overflow you can fix it yourself. Anyone at all, regardless of reputation, can suggest an edit to any post.

2. You can challenge moderator decisions on Meta Stack Overflow, which is linked at the top of every single page on the site. (Or, if you have enough reputation, you can just vote counter to most moderator decisions directly on the site. It is democratic.)

3. There are over 1,600 questions about security with sessions in PHP on Stack Overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[php]+security+sessions+is...
Honest question - do you genuinely believe someone (or a group of people) without 100% understanding of your project will be able to definitively tell you what language/framework is best for building your application? These types of subjects have been debated to death with the general conclusion ending up with "use the tool you are most comfortable with".
I see this complaint an awful lot considering Stack Exchange literally tells you to go somewhere else if you feel that way: http://unix.stackexchange.com/help/editing
Agreed. We actually gave mono a thumbs down as choice for a recent project because of similar concerns. Xamarin support for the project seems to have slowed as they have moved into mobile dev tools. As examples there has been no official release of version 3. The last stable version is 2.10. Second there is no indication they will add Web API support, arguably the most important recent ASP.NET addition for those looking to do a REST interface in .Net.
Is Adobe Creative Cloud going to kill freelancing?
I'm not sure 1. is relevant anymore. Almost all JVMs default to generational GCs, which would make all those allocations basically free.
> Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today.

This is one of the huge ironies about contemporary conservatives. They practically worship the founding fathers like gods, but they would have hated many of them if they met them today, as many were godless radical liberals.

The most extreme example of this for me was when D'Souza and other republicans accused Barack Obama of being anti-colonialist [1], specifically in the context of British occupation, and they meant that in a bad way(!) Surely if nothing else, our country was founded on the principle of opposition to British colonialism.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10...
Your code has bugs, my code has bugs, but when our organization fails to implement a system to effectively catch bugs - particularly catastrophic ones - it's a bit dismissive to throw a "shit happens" at it.
"The best hires I’ve made or seen other companies make are usually friends or friends of friends."

perhaps this is confirmation bias -- that by hiring friends your actual relationship becomes the interview and therefore by the time you actually hire, you have pretty much minimized your risk of a bad hire.

The other problem is that that this is not a secret. And therefore everyone "networks" and nowadays more and more people see their relationships as a form of currency. When you meet someone new and "interesting" there's a subtle hope for some sort of payoff into the future.

Then again, anything I say isn't from experience, just my inner internet troll offering unsolicited criticism. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Obama has demonstrated, with this and other acts, that he does not hold civil liberties in high regard. I'm disappointed in him, but the pattern has been consistent enough that I am no longer surprised.
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I assumed this was what quora was for. But let's see how this matches up? If this just a clone then probably its going to have a hard time.
Outlook.com does not yet offer IMAP access, but it's OK because Gmail does support IMAP and can pull the mail via POP.
I grew up in rural Virginia in a home built in the 20's. We had no air conditioning, and my father refused to purchase a single window unit because of the cost of electricity. Our rooms were hot enough that our fish/turtles my brother and I tried to keep as pets died until we figured out they would have to be kept in the basement.

Understand that viewing people as miserable in public at a certain temperature implies that they are outside. Living within a home, especially upstairs, is TRULY miserable in high humidity at 90 degree plus temperatures. The humidity seeps into everything. Your bed feels damp, and so does any couch or chair that isn't made of wood. My friends refused to stay at my house in the summer. They had AC at home, and they weren't used to sleeping in the heat. My cousin came from New York with my aunt one time. They left for a hotel rather than try to stay in our guest rooms.

Fans help immensely, and I doubt fans were widely available for large swaths of the public in NY in the 20's. In this way, they had it much, much harder than I did.

One nice thing we had going for us was that our house was designed in a time where AC didn't exist. Windows were large and placed on opposite sides of rooms to support cross ventilation. Ceilings were high also, and the walls were made of plaster, which prevented them from fluctuating with heat load as rapidly as dry wall.
His gear calculator is terrible! Use this one instead: http://www.andrusia.com/gearseer
The entire premise of this is ridiculous to its core. The reason for suspension of the 4th amendment before boarding a plane is that the plane itself could be used as a weapon to cause disproportionate damage, like on 9/11.

The reason for 4th amendment suspension on airport premises is... what? The parking area in front of an airport is no more or less vulnerable than any other parking lot in front of any other building. I suspect that the real reason is "because we can".
From the site:

"Ever notice how small flourishes and subtle transitions dramatically increases the value of the experience you enjoy with an app or site?"

I agree that a very slight fade or slide can help reduce the jarring effect of a contextual transition (such as the appearance of a modal, or a menu), but what value is added by the not-so-subtle effects like the 3D transforms (that incidentally cripple mobile devices and older browsers)?
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I just went to gmail, because I was just sure Gmail had this feature — if not before, then surely by now!

Nope. POP3 only. I am disappoint!

BTW, nice username. :-)
Indeed, he did announce that. He had a good chance of winning this election (even with outrageos cheating from the Putin's part (another candidate is just Putin's puppet who uses his mayor's powers to embezzle money from Moscow's budget)).

He exposed the ruling party, or, to be more accurate, the "cream of the crop" of this party who, through numerous schemes, suck money from Russia and from taxpayers' money). He was widely regarded as an annoyance to Putin and his friends (all of whom became billionaires).

Navalny did nothing wrong and is a real patriot of the country, but unfortunately the Law doesn't work in Russia because Putin directly or indirectly controls it all.

This trial is a theater and was only done to deprive Navalny of any future political activities (several weeks ago the very same party passed a law that prohibits convicted people from being elected anywhere). The judge built this trial on top of the words (with no proof) of an executive of this company (who obviously have been forced to slander Navalny and who said during the trial that "I don't remember the exact details, but Navalny is guilty". It became so funny that the prosection had to read to this executive what he has to say during the trial). The judge barred more than 10 witnesses of the defense, and basically didn't allow the defense to present any evidence that implies Navalny's innocence (independent audit reports, for example). Judges who find guilty otherwise innocent opposition members get awarded with appartments and get another luxurious incentives.

It wasn't a trial, it was a circus. But hey, even circuses have better and more professional clowns.
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> And the reason is simple, look at the people who answer these questions! Some have a reputation in the hundreds. Rep farming at work!

I was confused by this statement. Doesn't a reputation in the hundreds put you distinctively in the lower end of reasonably active users?

You'll need to go page 1300 or so before you see users with three-digit rep: http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
Programmers.SE originally took "not constructive" questions, but that turned out to be a mess, so they had to refine their scope multiple times until a viable model appeared. Now their scope is more or less "whiteboard" questions, which can be partially opinion based (just like almost every question on SO), but that is not the focus. The FAQ says:

> Specific issues with software development, for instance:
- algorithm and data structure concepts
- testing and quality assurance
- development methodologies
> freelancing and business concerns
> software architecture, engineering, or licensing
Blogger deleted my blog after this post .. WTH !!
Maybe I'm not on HN for years now, but about 6 months ago, I assume it wouldn't have been dead that fast. I remember some articles during this hole SOPA / PIPA thing that went along similar lines.

And this "goofy" comment was marked as "tin hat" by the author himslef, so I only took it half serious.
When ksystemd is released they'll have no choice!
My hunch is that the recruiter got an answer from someone sooner than you and is pushing that one candidate hard, leaving you as a backup if that other person doesn't work out. They're always hedging their bets.
There's more to "the heat" than the temperature. I live in the NY area, and grew up in the DC area. I just spent a few days near Dallas, Texas, where it got to 104 F one day, but spent most of the days in the high 90s. But it was a dry heat. That was far preferable to me than the NY area in the high 80s with high humidity.
Prison Break, anyone? :-)
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+1 for Trove. Recently when working with collections with 10s of thousands of primitive elements. We saw substantial memory savings by using Trove.
Thanks for the link, this clears up a lot:
http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/images/sabre/sabre_cycle_10...

There is no nitrogen in the system (not as consumable, anyway). Shoddy BBC reporting, as usual.

The heat exchangers use chilled hydrogen fuel they have to take up anyway, before it is burned in the rocket motor.

That makes a ton more sense.
Let's see, what we have conclusively is:

- Lots of CIA agents who have testified that they knew about the hijackers but were prevented from stopping them, e.g.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/13/1016585/-Frontline-...

- High level FBI agents who have testified they would have stopped the attacks, but were purposely kept in the dark.

- The fact that on the morning of 9/11 the guy who wired 100k to Muhammed Atta to pay for the hijackings was having breakfast with the two guys who ran the official investigation into the attacks.

All this stuff about whether it was or wasn't a controlled demolition is just a red herring.
It's syslog-compatible: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-jour...

I'm not sure why they don't also write a text log. I guess it would mean giving up their nifty cryptographically-verified-authentic binary format.

I may be wrong, I haven't booted up my fedora machine in a couple months.
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Small nitpick but you don't need the coma after "trolling" and you have the conjunctive "or" after that.
I don't really understand what is low about it. Systemd didn't just appear one day; Poettering has written and advocated for it strongly.
The pressure peaks in a sound wave don't really equate to a pressurized tunnel.. just a localized pressure gradient moving at the speed of sound.
When Calvin & Hobbes shut down in 1995, Bill Watterson wrote a letter explaining why:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson#End_of_Calvin_an...

His two stated reasons were the pressure of coming up with seven strips a week and a distaste for the tiny space newspapers gave him to work with:

" I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels. I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace, with fewer artistic compromises."

Then, almost immediately after this happened, the web took off and solved both his problems. For years I waited for his announcement of his webcomic. But it never happened.

I guess he wasn't so eager after all.
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These kinds of optimization/"hacks" articles need to include benchmarks. How does using one StringBuilder compare to using the implicit three or five? How many strings does one need to append before you should've used a StringBuilder? Etc.

I imagine that there's going to be novice programmers whose takeaway from the article is "Hashmaps with ints as keys are slow" or "String concatenation in Java is slow".
Which founding fathers were godless?
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