skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quality programming gigs for awesome coders
we all know freelance coders are always searching for trustable sources of quality gigs, while software companies struggle finding technical talent they can trust with their more difficult challenges. obviously, there are many job boards that target this segment, but the reality is that the vast majority of them are full of ridiculous offers and amateur coders...it is a sad race to the bottom in which folks offer little money for badly defined tasks and coders compete on price.

after nearly two decades of coding and software companies, I spent the last couple of years freelancing high-end projects to help fund my bootstrapped startup. what started as a few scripts to find myself quality gigs became an irresistible scratch...and so i started giggin.com, a simple job boards for coders that is focused on quality. we charge for posting on the board which filters much of the noise. we also review all posts and remove those we find inadequate. further, we let our coders vote down posts they think are not serious enough and when an offer is voted down enough times it is removed. while anyone can sign up to the service, a company may choose to limit applications to "verified coders" - coders that provided us with access to their open source profile (github, etc) and our patent pending algorithm found to be proficient software engineers.

your input is welcome!

http://www.giggin.com
That also largely depends on if they are being wilfully obtuse, or lack the basic comprehension skills involved with recognising wider context beyond the level of single sentences, which seem to be the main two areas of confusion here so far.
What is a historical lock, and what is it used for? http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/126631/1288
A mild level of ambient noise is proven to increase creative cognition aka make you a better CREATIVE thinker.

Just saying

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665048
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At this point, I'd gladly take the leaf blower. Car stereo sub-woofers and straight pipe Harleys: Two things that, in my opinion, should be outright outlawed. Live on a street where they are frequent, and your life will be difficult. Live next to someone who tinkers on them incessantly, and your life will be hell.

Work is another problem. I wore out my health trying to cope with the "standard environment". (Which, of course, was spun as "collaboration". [Cough - "cost savings" - cough.]) No more. For my own sake, as well as to no longer support people who promote such environments.
>...people who are not philosophers lose whatever ideas their brains can carry in consequence of brutish jolts of sound.

This makes me wonder if the brutish jolts of sound being emitted from the many casinos throughout the world are accomplishing the same task (and emptying people's wallets more easily?)

"I think I should be goi.. >BINGK!< ...go win my money back!"

I can't agree with this article more, however. I should probably read it again so I can better explain myself when asking that somebody not address me while I'm working.

I sometimes listen to white noise in my headphones if surrounded by incessant noise.
The diff thing sounds good, but there are many layers of optimizations in between the top and the bottom, and so a small change can cascade into a tremendous number of changes. Also, holding the entire tree of intermediate data, at each step, uses a lot of memory.

That said, check out Julia: for any function, you can see how it looks at each step of compilation, down to assembly: source, optimized source, type inferred source (for given input types; it is a dynamic language), LLVM bytecode, and assembly. All visible and introspectable at runtime from either the REPL or scripts.
hammers are really good at pounding nails into walls. hammers are not good for turning screws.

free markets are really good at efficiently allocating resources in certain types of markets, and not so good in other types of markets
Reminds me of the packet networks that we hams used to build back in the BBS days. Most of the stations went off air with wide spread commercial internet service and operator turn over, but there's a renewed interest with newer, cheaper, radio gear come out.

Also there's many cities with a first responders mesh network.
Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed
60 $5 wrenches doesn't help the attacker if I'm not physically on the same continent. Attacker needs to know where you are and have physical access... and as we all know, once you have physical access, it's game over :)
Signed up. I've been developing online education software for a few years now, and never actually used any. And like many self-taught, working programmers, I'm very weak on algorithms. So I'm excited.

Side note, am I the only person on earth who whitelists cookies? With cookies blocked, every page on coursera.org, including the home page shows nothing but the word "loading" and a spinning gif. Blogger was like that for a while, except they had gears. Sure, you need cookies to log in, and sure, they're used for analytics, and sure, you can do some progressive enhancements if I come back. I guess I'm old fashioned, but I'm at a loss to understand how the failure to get cookies back from a first-time visitor can stop all content from "loading," including the template. Must be a framework thing.
I don't have any references, this is based on personal experience of living in Argentina and having seen what people say about his books here (he's considered the hard writer). It's a shame though, because his writing is really wonderful.
But as a leader of technology, Ballmer should have realized that in the early stage, new technology is expensive, and people (particularly fans of apple) will buy. The iPod only a few years earlier was also too expensive, and had a bunch off early tech 'flaws' ( Mac only, FireWire only, etc), yet came to dominate the market, and Microsoft couldn't catch up. Ballmer, or the other senior leaders at MS should have recognized the iPhone as the evolution of the iPod.
What is irony? With examples
Strongly seconded. If you have an ereader, this reformatted version may be more pleasant:

http://sicpebook.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sicp-marginless...
Plain Text Doesn’t Exist: Unicode and encodings demystified
Thanks for the tips, perhaps the email and the IRC channel could be promoted a bit more prominent during the submission process. I was writing on two lists b2g-dev and web-apps, and I was on IRC in #b2g sadly no one mentioned the app-reviewers channels.

I am definitely sticking around, just the fact that I can write apps and run them on my own hardware without applying for permission every year is worth more then the money I gave apple for it. And as others stated, at Mozilla you still can talk to real people through some other channels, so you don't just have to give up.
I saw an article about this a little while ago. If anywhere in the world could support a wide scale mesh network, it would have to be the Bay Area. It would be a really cool experiment to blanket a part of the Valley in mesh wifi: I imagine it would be very doable to raise $100K and send 1,500 mesh routers to people in Palo Alto or SOMA. Open Mesh has some really cool low-cost ($50 - $75) hardware that seems to just work: http://www.open-mesh.com/. Some might be plugged into an upstream link, but if most were only powered on as relays it would still work.
Perth, Australia - WAFreeNet - http://www.wafreenet.org/
Yes, that is the same video.
That's a red herring.

It's the network that is compromised. If you operate enough exit and relay nodes, you can be pretty damn well sure of where the traffic originated.

Anonymity hinges on the nodes, if an entity controls most of the nodes then the network is pretty much an effective honeypot.

Given that the FBI has been incredibly vocal about their efforts to take down Tor, and the fact that it is synonymous with illegal activity (drugs and child porn); operating enough nodes to investigate and bust criminals seems right up their alley.
Borges use of the Spanish language was perfect. He had a very deep knowledge about the precise meaning of words native speakers use in a more careless way. And he had the accent, etc. of a native speaker. People might find it hard precisely because he uses the language with an exactitude and a vocabulary that is really uncommon.
> I refuse to believe that nobody abused this power for

> revenge against an ex or someone who didn't return their

> affections

What about vetting potential candidates? Say you met someone on a dating site, had chatted a few times, and wanted to know whether they were telling the truth or not?

Not saying it's any more excusable - jail time should still be involved - just that it doesn't have to be on the scary-revenge side of stalking. Just a more intrusive, privacy-invading version of Googling a date.
WSGI War Python Web App Competition
A little Help
Misleading title, you can use jQuery! Just follow the advice from the reviewers. They seem to be quite open, responsive and supportive. And reasonable to, if may I say so.
Why leave the most important part of the title out?

Title is actually, "Dispatch From The Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google"

It's linkbait enough even with the disclaimer built in that it's fiction.
If you are in C# land Dapper does a good job of letting you write SQL and handle the messy put result sets in to objects part of the equation.
What percentage of the techniques in this book are also applicable to Clojure programming? I don't know a lot about how the two macro systems differ.
Thanks for posting this. I'm in Melbourne and I had no idea..
IMO, the really interesting bit is this:

> The authors of the new study suggest that Rev-erbα affects muscle cells by promoting both the creation of new mitochondria (often referred to as the “power plants” of the cell) and the clearance of those mitochondria that are defective.

There's a research trend focusing on muscular strength and mass decline in aging, tied to reduced mitochondrial activity[1]. I'm hopeful that treatments along the lines of those described will produce improved physical and cognitive quality of life for an aging population.

[1] E.g. search for journal article hits on "muscular strength mitochondria aging" and similar.
Better sound insulation can help reduce the noise level from external sources inside a home, but 1) does nothing for outdoor areas of your home (a patio or porch for example), and 2) becomes completely ineffectual if you open a window.
A lot of it. Clojure has a Common Lisp like macro system. There are some slight changes where clojure tried to make things a little simple, and the syntax is a lot diffrent.

I think there are people on the internet who have implmented most of the example in clojure.
The TOR project has been doing some work on deterministic builds to deal with exactly that issue.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o...

I never thought that the whole "trusting trust" essay would become a practical reality and an everyday danger that must be mitigated. But welcome to the 21st century. No flying cars, but lots of dystopian cyber punks eager to get in your business.
Few more, with SSD RAID (found from recent survey for an ASP.NET app): Dediserve (http://dediserve.com), RamNode (http://www.ramnode.com), DotBlock (http://www.dotblock.com)
+1 great point. I sometimes leave my wifi open (I live in a small town, if that means anything) but then I consider the legal implications and lock it up for a while. ...then repeat...

The best solution would be allowing people to risk free run grid networks (which would be, I think, very low bandwidth) and have communities also supply separtae low bandwidth Internet connected wifi for free. We would then use a paid for service for anything for more than text or other low bandwidth uses. No one would download large mp3s, watch Netflix, etc. from the very low bandwidth community wifi, and the separate grid network would be local and likely not have anything to attract "Imperial interest" (sorry about the Star Wars metaphor :-)

Local grid networks could be part of support for local libraries, community centers, etc.
and have observed that my current office sometimes averages 75-80 db.

Is that A-weighted ("dBA") or linear? If that result is A-weighted, that noise level is dangerously loud - it may meet OSHA but it's almost certainly causing or contributing to hearing damage.
The question will be "can they beat Intel" once Intel gets its shit together and becomes serious about mobile. And the answer would be an unequivocal "no".
You're reciting how things are supposed to work, not how they are working. The provided jQuery version did not work. I do not believe you carefully read the entire blog post.
> Crypto that gets used has to be easy-to-use, MySQL style. I think a project like tcpcrypt is great example, in theory. Simple is good because the pain of setup has to be least. (Tcpcrypt is opportunistic encryption that needs no additional setup and is different from SSL.)

The off-the-record (OTR) plugins for various IM clients spring to mind as easy to use.
From a clojure perspective it is somewhat true. The clojure community tried to avoid macros as much as possible and doing to much with macros should be avoided.

There are of course still tons of examples in the book that are very useful for clojure as well.
Mac DVD Ripper for Samsung Galaxy SII
Galaxy S II was considered as a classic model, which used to make very good reputation for its master. Now let me ask you a question, do you usually watch videos on your Galaxy S II? If yes, you might be very interested in getting to know how to convert DVD movies for this smart phone, on your Mac computer. The answer is that we should bring in a third party software which is called a Mac DVD Ripper software, like DVDFab DVD Ripper for Mac, which converts all your DVDs into Galaxy S II playable videos:
Interesting that Instagram is still running on Amazon - I wonder when they'll be hosted off of FB's in house servers.
While this is a great solution for places without easy last-mile connections, it seems to me this would still be vulnerable, as one compromised connection would essentially allow the same kind of snooping that we've got going on now.

Does anyone know whether this is so, or how to protect against snooping, as I would assume there is some implicit level of trust required for a network like this to stay secure.
When you look at how much other devices cost that are comparable but are not mobile phones, then over a grand a year does seem excessive. Comparing the cost of a phone to a cray-2 is fairly meaningless. It would make more sense to compare it to a Raspberry-Pi.
Yahoo board strife as Dan Loeb splits from board
Kind of hope they stay dual-core and keep improving the work done per clock. Right now, too little software will use four cores. They could add distinct low-power cores (e.g., so Siri can listen while the phone is sleeping) or other specialized stuff, but four identical cores just doesn't strike me as the best use of die area in a mobile device.
How much of the system is this even? A kernel is not really enough to run software on, not easily at least.
Of course their ability has taken a hit. Congress now has their eye on the NSA and they'll be looking to put a new set of policies into place so that they can look good to their voters. Even Snowden said that all the NSA's activities were dictated by policy. So yeah, maybe at the moment everything is running as normal, but that won't be the case for long. Just remember, if you're a senator banging 14 year olds, you don't want the NSA snooping through security cameras in your office. So in addition to the above point, congress will want to put a leash on the NSA out of self-preservation.
Tell me how to stop ruining your city.
This sort of works but the feeling is very artificial. You know it's not actually quiet.
On a related topic: If you're in the Denver area this week, feel free to drop in on a Free Public Workshop on Noise in Communities and Natural areas: http://www.naturalquietworkshop2013.org/ which is being held in conjuction with Noise-Con (an annual conference for noise control engineers). The workshop is mostly geared toward noise in public parks, but it covers a lot of the same concerns in the NYT piece.
A couple comments mentioned wanting to build this in the Bay Area. I've been wondering for awhile why there's not an active group here.

Let's meet up to discuss more, how about a Google group to organize? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sf-meshnet
It's not just that Vista was poorly adopted. It's that Vista took WAY longer than expected to write and release, and then it was terribly flawed anyway.

It's still very early in W8's life cycle to call the game. XP was not very popular until SP2.
I don't know where you live, but in the USA it has long been normal for pro-Israel jews to claim a sort of ownership of judaism. Ariel Sharon once said, "Israel is not only an Israeli project. Israel is a Jewish, worldwide project."

One of the most destructive stereotypes is the self-hating jew - that any jew who criticizes israel is incapable of making a principled argument, instead he's just internalized anti-semitism. So it isn't necessarily anti-semitism for people who have picked up on that cultural norm to assume that any random jew is in favor of israeli policies.

The younger generations of American jews don't feel that sort of affinity with Israel, and the Israeli government's policies have played a big part in that disconnect. It is such a big deal that the Netanyahu government ran some tv ads a couple of years ago that basically amounted to telling israelis not to marry american jews because they weren't jewish enough. That went over like a lead balloon, even the ADL criticized the ads. All in all, I think that sort of response is important progress in decoupling judaism from zionism.

And, fwiw, I'm a born athiest who married into a mixed family of secular muslims, secular jews and cultural catholics - my grand-niece is a mix of all three, although she's too young to know it.
Yes, I agree that using a password manager that auto-generates random password is the way to go for protecting against the attack of a compromised hashed password database table.

Here is the thing I'm wondering though: in the case when brute force attacks is not practical, is using human generated password/passphrases really that bad when compared against randomly generated password? Most decent and important sites would throttle the number login attempts one can try before at least throwing up a captcha or outright blocking.

This implies, to me at least, that in such a scenario using something like 12 character human generated password would give about the same effective security as a longer randomly generated one (e.g. 24 character random password). Yes, the randomly generated password is objectively better from a theoretical standpoint but I am thinking the effective difference in reality is negligible in the case when a brute force attack is infeasible (due to throttling of attempts). Thoughts?
This reminds me of another article from a while back which advocated 6 items in decreasing priority.

1 -> big item
2 -> medium item
2 -> medium item
3 -> small item
3 -> small item
3 -> small item

I can't remember anything specific enough to find it, though.

Either could be beneficial, and choosing only the next three at first may be a good way of forming a habit.
Which web browser do you trust?
If you use the printable representation of the hash, the dictionary of characters that the hash uses is only digits 0-9 and a-f. While they likely still won't guess this, it's better to use 40 characters of the printable output of /dev/urandom directly, e.g.:

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=1 | strings -n1 | tr -d '\n'

Edit: the original question, before it was deleted, was whether using a hash of data from /dev/urandom would result in a good password.
I like everything about Windows 8 except Metro.

Personally, I think MS should have kept Metro to touch devices and the regular Windows UI for desktops/laptops. There was no need to have to two merged.
it's the grandfatherly tone...
Nick Herbert (physicist)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
The reason interest is going to be so low is that, generally speaking, it is pretty easy to just have software that runs on both Linux and OSX, cross compile for both, an use the Linux kernel instead of trying to use a binary compatible kernel... which lacks anything resembling a proper environment.
The burden of proof certainly is on Intel right now, not Apple.

But even if Intel was to make great mobile chips, Apple sells because of the whole package, not just the chip. What does Intel have on the mobile side, except the possibility of being one more supplier for semi-anonymous Android and Windows phones?
What kind of argument is this.

> constraint logic programming, logic programming

The book you comment on actually implments a logic programming system.

Both common lisp and clojure have implmentations of high performance logic systems.

> Static functional programming

Both Clojure and Common Lisp have type systems that can do most things ml and haskell can do. Its arguable that some of this (in the CL) are even more powerful then what haskell has.

Im not sure on what the other types of programming are but the do not at sound like things that a library can not do. Can you give a example of something that you can not do in clojure or commen lisp that is possible without in these other languages that you have not actually provieded.

> Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming

It is a very good book. However 99.99% of programming today are not done with these modern concepts. It are actually langauges like clojure that push some of the technics like constraint logic programming more into the mainstream. Check out core.logic.
If a person chooses it freely, how can you say it's not the right thing for them to choose? Epistemologically, how could you know this?
He's saying that rolling your own with functions designed to run as fast as possible, with or without salt, is not going to give you much security.

What you want is functions that run slowly, thus increasing attack cost.
Consumption is a synonym for tuberculosis, nothing else.
No, I agree, which is why I said I was being hyperbolic, pedantic and overwrought.

I think my tl;dr sums it up. The article wasn't particularly bad, and it was an opinion piece, but the linked research was more interesting, yet didn't support the claims at all, so why even link to it?

I didn't mean to imply that you have to answer all of those questions in a piece of research, but that trying to answer any one of those pieces would be more useful and interesting than the speculation.

Even absent rigorous research, when I have a conversation about this kind of thing with friends, we pretty quickly try to hone in on some reasonably precise definitions of what we're talking about. Defining the question is half the fun of the discourse for me a lot of the time.

edit: and besides.. listing all those criteria made me look super smart ;)
This page should keep you entertained for a while:

http://metacalculus.com/prose.html

It links to several manuals (most likely including the one you read) and has links to papers about PROSE and it's predecessor, SLANG.
A group of us are already well on the way in Oakland, stop by some time!

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
The gray art of not quite insider trading [pdf]
There's a project started in the East Bay http://510pen.org/
I am seriously looking forward to see what you guys come up with!
Open sourcing my workflowy clone
Genuinely want to kniw what sequence of letters was intended in stead of "cbino.