skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSA can't trust 'brilliant' people, will automate sysadmins
10 Clues You've Lived in Bangkok Too Long - Bangkok.com Magazine
In the first place, you should set the salary as if the employee was from the expensive place. So no cuts or raise because of moving to other places.
HRL Laboratories - Malibu, California - http://www.hrl.com - Contract - works on cutting edge research as a prime on DARPA and other ARPA-style research programs and for Boeing and GM. We are about 400 strong, mainly consisting of engineers and researchers.

My team is looking for a talented developer. Experience in building development tools and plugins would be a huge plus. We use Haskell, Java, and Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow.

Please contact me at my username at hrl dot com.
I used to work at a large telco in Australia, and one of the most infamous support tickets in the system had the summary "Bird attack at the Hellfire club".

The Hellfire club is a BDSM club in Melbourne, and apparently a bird had attacked the cabling leading into the building, bringing down the phone systems.
I think you fundamentally misunderstood my point.

The examples I gave were situations where people did something against their own interests because the current system of welfare provision is broken. Maybe that is inevitable; maybe the system we have is better than any alternative.

But ask yourself if a BIG were implemented:

Would my friend still live with his elderly parents?
Would my colleague's secretary have quit?
Would my acquaintance have been forced into a degrading simulation of a job search he would never succeed at?
Sr. Software Engineer / Al Jazeera America

We use: Ruby on Rails and Adobe CQ/Java. We support/encourage test driven development, pair programming and have a first class pair programming environment / stations, but we also have the private/solo desks and laptops.

We use XP. We love innovation. We built stuff for TV using Quartz Composer + XBOX Kinect.

Email me - I'm VP, Digital Engineering:

Gal Steinitz - gal.steinitz (at) aljazeera.net

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San Francisco, CA. Full time.

Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. 4.1m academics have joined Academia.edu, and over 300k join each month.

Many people believe that science is too closed, and too slow. We are trying to make science faster and more open. There are 4 things we are trying to achieve with Academia.edu:

- Instant distribution. Right now there is a 12 month time-lag between submitting a paper to a journal, and the paper being published. We need to make publishing a button, and the distribution of scientific ideas instant.

- Better peer review. Currently two people peer review a paper, which is too small a sample size. With 50,000 people worldwide in a research community like Machine Learning, or breast cancer, what 2 people think is not statistically significant. We need a broader-based peer review process, one that surfaces the opinions from the entire scientific community.

- Data-sets. Scientists don't share their data-sets right now. The data remains stuck on their hard-drives. The main reason for this is a lack of incentives for the scientists to share their data. We need to introduce the right reputation mechanisms in science to facilitate the sharing of data. -

- Open access. We need to bring about a world where a villager in India has the same access to the world’s scientific output as a professor in Harvard. When you open up access to the world’s scientific literature to the 2.5 billion people who are online right now, magical things can happen.

We're a 12-person engineering-driven team based in downtown San Francisco. Technologies we use include Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, and Mongodb.

We have raised $6.7 million from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu), and others.
We are looking to hire software engineers to help build a faster and more open science.

There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring. There is more on TechCrunch about our mission here http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/ (The Future of Peer Review) and here http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/the-future-of-the-scientifi.... (Reputation Metrics in Science)

We will handle re-location, including visas. We are not currently hiring remote employees.

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Maybe they don't want drug pushers and users to know they have this either?
You pay a lot of taxes for education, healthcare, etc... you should seek larger gross salary to end up with more disposable income on your end.

And yes, not everyone lives in rural areas or small towns. Stockholm is one of the most expensive places out there.
> This is also why we won't automate, say, barmen, or waitresses.

Hold on there -- it's already being automated in Japan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Z1EaFFICI
), Germany (http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/27/fully-automated-restauran...
), etc. Here in America there'll be some resistance but I'm pretty sure we'll go through automation in restaurants/bars as well. The driving force is economic benefit, sooner or later when these robots keep get less expensive, it'll start to make more economic sense for restaurant owners to have a robot server instead of a human server (no wage to pay, no health insurance to pay, no pension to pay, no risk of accidents or inconsistencies, no fear of getting things stolen, no fear of tension between BOH and FOH (common problems in a restaurant)). Savings will likely be passed on to customers, they won't have to tip, and so ultimately a large subset of consumers will eventually accept it. Except of course, a very small minority that is interested specifically in the human interaction... so, much like the lady in the article, the server job will not completely disappear, but it will be heavily minimized. And like there are tools with which customers can buy tickets by automation, customers will be able to order on things like E la carte ( http://elacarte.com/ YC-funded by the way). A server's job is cut in half with E la carte. Restaurant owners will realize that servers are doing half the work, so you need half of them now anyway (or alternatively, they now need half the pay... which will make the server job half as attractive).
When told there are only two options, always choose the third.
Just because of a few bad apples (immigration officer), you think we should remove all airport screening?

Your grief is reasonable but what recourse do you suggest?
We're discussing basic income, so the point is more the survival and freeing up time to do anything one ever wanted outside of work.

Depression is a valid point though, something that's frequently omitted in such discussions, which center on the fact that if only you provided people with ATM cards, things would be nice and clean and drug-free.
I think we can all agree this is a problem in the startup world. But in doing so, we'd all be suffering from Groupthink.
aaaaaand it broke again
Yes, I read the license ... in fact I read both of them ...

The license that you pointed, is for the 64bit version.

However the MenuetOS 0.85C, for which the news item is about, is the 32bit version, and it is licensed under the GPL: http://www.menuetos.org/M32.htm
Somebody commented that there is a nice tool called 'jump' for bookmarking directories. https://github.com/flavio/jump

You can use both 'jump' to jump between bookmarked directories and 'bd' to quickly go to a parent directory in the same shell.
Wrong, most women are whores.
Yeah, if they took that $40 / week and invested it in an index fund with a 7% after-expenses return, then after 47 years of working from age 18 through age 65, they'd have an inflation-adjusted $185,000. Combined with Social Security, that would provide them almost $20,000 / year to retire on.
JavaScript framework du jour
Out of curiosity, in what ways is Rust that much less uglier than C++? I've only looked through the docs and the code provided and it seems to be riddled with the same type of "ugliness" inherent to C++ - namely the ugliness symbolized by the need for all of the special characters like * and &. It seems like Rust has some nice syntax for pattern matching, but what else?
Taxing them on what? Profit? Sales?

The scheme I've described could very well apply to the US. Company A in China is doing the manufacturing with virtually zero human labor. It sells its product to Company B, located in a tax-free zone, which then resells the product to the US importer, Company C, which then sells it in the US. It just so happens that Company C makes a tiny margin on the profit it receives after buying from Company B, so it's happy to pay an exorbitant tax on that profit margin.

Company B is the one who makes a killing, but hey, it's in the tax-free zone, those lucky bastards.
I bet I could read a script and tell you if it's shit or not. Why do you even need a pilot? And the funny thing is, good shows get watched. There's a huge market for quality television. Just look at what Mad Men, House of Cards, Game of Thrones, etc have done for their networks. Is it really that there aren't enough writers coming out of Harvard who can write a Mad Men script? Do we only have writers who can write shitty sitcoms? I doubt it. Or is Mad Men that expensive to produce? Watch one some time. Most shows take place in two locations and are all dialog. They could almost be plays. But for some reason NBC, CBS, and FOX only buy shows with a laugh track or a panel of judges. I don't get it at all.

Sorry, only those first two sentences are an actual reply. I got carried away...
I am a regular brainf*ck programmer and very interested in esoteric languages but this is beyond my expectations.

Maybe writing some kind of compiler would be a better idea. Or at least add a comment support and character check and more user friendly labels. They probably did that though (I hope they did).
The main advantage would be performance, plus maintainability for complex UIs. Navigation can be nearly instant, since you're only making specific requests for data from the server, instead of shuffling html and reloading dozens of assets all the time.

There are trade-offs, of course: it is a tad more complex than the old way, but that is offset by simpler implementation in the server. Network round-trips are minimized, but you use a lot more memory and CPU on the client, and need more extensive testing. It's a great fit for webapps, not so much for more content-oriented websites.
> Mass surveillance is watching everything and fishing for illegal activity. That is not the same as filing subpoenas for data on persons of interest.

There are several cases of exactly that, fishing people's online movement profiles for illegal activity, e.g.:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/googling-how-to-murde...

> If you think everything that generates records the government can eventually access is "real harm," what exactly are you doing on HN?

I post my comments knowing full well that anyone can read them. I do not think my web browsing and searching behaviour is quite the same thing. I cannot decide what to share and what not.

To come up with a stupid analogy, it's like saying: "If you don't like being watched, why do you go to the supermarket?" It's not the same as being watched in my bedroom.
>I reject the idea that there will suddenly be a shortage of jobs due to automation and technological advances. It didn't happen after all our agricultural advances, it didn't happen after the industrial revolution, and it hasn't happened in the information age.

Many people believe it's happening now.

>We can't possibly know what the jobs of the future might be, but I'm pretty sure there will be enough for everybody.

That's the thing, there aren't enough jobs for the unskilled and semi-skilled right now. And those that exist provide dramatically lower pay (relatively speaking) than the unskilled or semi-skilled jobs of our parent's era.

It's hard to quantify unemployment, but it's been historically bad for more than half a decade now.

Of course, you are going to have a hard time pinning that down on automation (or any other one cause) - but the point remains, there are a lot of folks who would like jobs, who would have had jobs in the '90s, who are unemployed now.

The valley is a huge exception right now.

Now, on your overall point? I... am sympathetic to your view; My view on the unemployment problem (and I recognize that this is... insulting, and that my view comes from a place of privilege.) My view is that something is wrong with the economy; Nobody has spent enough effort figuring out how to make money off of semi-skilled labor.

I also think that we have a cultural problem. We have generations who were trained to "do your job" - e.g. the boss will tell you what to do and how to do it. You follow those steps, and you make money for the company, and the company pays you.

Most job growth that I've seen has been in jobs where the boss kinda waves in the direction she wants and you do something reasonable. Sometimes, you get to participate in deciding which direction in which to wave. There's a big difference in the way of thinking.
Another dumb-phone user checking in- it could be a big city or suburbs thing. I've seen the phenomenon like crazy in the Bay, but in my town it's really actually not too bad.
Re: theory #1- there are commodity solutions to the queriable data warehouse problem, e.g. Vertica or Greenplum. Looking at these can give you an idea of what might be hard. You've just described Vertica pretty accurately (column-oriented storage, materialised on disk for particular query patterns, ad-hoc deletion comparatively costly). And ageing out in Vertica is easy- you just drop a partition. I can't imagine a custom system would be built without so e provision for this.
yeeeaah, i'm going to go with everyone else on this one, and agree that groupthink is bad.

;)
Tell me again how taxation is theft.
Take a look at what happened when the drug dealers were doing the exact
same thing:

In a police raid, Cali cocaine cartel leader José Santacruz Londono was found
to have assembled a database that contained both the office and residential
telephone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Colombia, along with
the entire call log for the phone company in Cali, which was leaked by
employees of the utility.

A $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining
software. It cross-referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the
phone numbers of American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law
enforcement officials. The computer was essentially conducting a perpetual
internal mole-hunt of the cartel's organizational chart. Santacruz could
see if any of his lieutenants were spilling the beans.

They were. A top Colombian narcotics security adviser says the system
fingered at least a dozen informants -- and that they were swiftly
assassinated by the cartel.

Ref: http://www.mail-archive.com/eristocracy@merrymeet.com/msg000...

Longer story here: http://cocaine.org/cokecrime/index.html
This looks and smells like propaganda.

Only a single post, this one, has ever been posted on the account.

http://thehowardbealeshow.tumblr.com/archive
a cross over cable, sure I've got one :)
Things I did to improve my English and reduce my accent
> Overall, people living in poverty do not have the same opportunities as the wealthy.

This is the basic issue every argument against any social program needs to address.

The last time basic income came up I saw a poster strawmanning it by claiming that the "producers" would be financing everyone else to have daily parties. Actually nobody is suggesting that we give enough money for people to throw parties every day. The suggestion is to give people enough money to survive in a way that eliminates government waste on the program. Then we will see what sort of jobs or tasks they create for themselves. The majority will not be content to watch TV all day.
Have you tried merging those scenes? Even if the format is structured and in plain text, it does not mean that a human can manipulate it as a patch. The format is so convoluted and full of magic numbers, it would require a lot of experience to really merge them; or support from Unity itself, and then the choice of serialization is not really that important.

You can manage team work somehow with prefabs. But I would like to see something like Havok Vision Engine's layering system, where every layer of a scene is it's own file, thus with file locking you can work on a single scene as a team. For example, you could split the scene in layers by developer, and then have someone integrate them in proper layers. Or you could just split specific work between people with lighting layer, static layer, collision layer and so on.
Though it is not exactly the same, it is a closer substitute than you might imagine; http://Counterparties.com.
Directed government action in China led to 20-40 million people starving to death. Relaxing government control of the economy led China to an amazing economic boom.
Too bad the whole post fell short at the end with the Syrian model picture. So what, if people were ugly there, you would not care as much ? That was a really bad way to finish the article, which was otherwise well written.
The weakness of this contribution is often cited as the reason many types of software patents should be invalid. Putting a shiny wrapper on an old idea in an obvious but slightly different context is something upon which many software hackers would normally cast a jaundiced eye.

My point was largely that e.g. MapReduce had literally been used in the HPC world for quite some time in countless variations. Something similar occurred with Spanner where it was a minor variant implementation on a concept that existed in many systems decades old. I worked on systems that used both of these "inventions" in the 1990s; no one thought it was novel then either. When I think of "invention" in computer science, I assume some hard problem in computer science was solved. That is not the case for most of what Google is credited with in the realm of computer science.

The absence of meaningful novelty in Google's systems strikes me as a good basis for being skeptical of claims of invention. Relative obscurity of computer science does not confer invention claims on the first to popularize it.

People frequently attribute more computer science invention to me than is warranted (I do a lot of high-end algorithm work). I always try to make it clear that much of what they see as "invention" is their first exposure to obscure computer science that I happen to be familiar with and know how to exploit. Much of what is attributed to Google is similar in character; people conflate the source of their introduction with the inventor of the concept.
What has he done that you don't like? I'm not going to read through a dozen or so articles and try to guess which one you have a problem with. Going from the titles I see a lot of stuff about cancer charities, and a few articles about religion in public schools.

If its the latter, he lost that battle, just like all the other Christians.

I'm just going off of his personality. He makes a lot of USO appearances, and my best friend actually got to hang out with him and his family a few times as a teenager when Chuck rented out the bed and breakfast he worked at.

He seems pretty down to earth and nice, that doesn't mean that he doesn't hold ideas that I disagree with.
For me and my fiancee it was Reddit. We'd spend hours each day on there just meandering away the day, and not even realizing it. I blocked Reddit on our network at home about 6 months ago and we haven't logged in since. We're both much happier people now. I think Facebook and texting need to come next.

We've talked about this several times and came to a pretty surprising conclusion: in today's world television is actually pretty "healthy". It involves truly turning off the brain and actually relaxing and escaping, and requires an attention span of 22 minutes or more. With Reddit, Facebook, texts, etc, you constantly shift attention every 20 seconds, and never really allow your brain to turn off and disengage. You're neither relaxing nor being productive; at least tv has a level of relaxation to it. Kind of frightening.
I am a CS student who interned last summer for a typical megacorporation and I made around $20 an hour... and I barely have any of those required skills. I just wanted to point out that you guys, especially at a venture capital firm, are not going to get many people to apply if you continue to lowball them like that.
I once got an email from them rejecting me for a job there.

I had never applied...
If you use Guava, you even get Optional<T> for Java. It works pretty well, but is obviously something you have to work into your API and can't easily use after the fact.
This story alone is reason enough to seriously start working on a program and schedule for:

- legalizing drugs and

- selling them in a controlled environment,

- taxed and

- accompanied by a heavy investment in related education in schools nationwide

...instead of throwing billions at killing our most basic rights.

The example of Portugal: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-d...
Can't they be? I read the autopilot can land a plane in an emergency, and engineers have got them to fly model planes with a whole wing broken off.
Smartphones - making even non-geeks aware of how boring people you meet really are.
This makes me want to start a JavaScript framework called "Groupthink." It'll basically be Golang syntax that somehow magically compiles to JS. (Full disclosure: I actually kinda like Go)
Perhaps you would be interested in the tiger-repelling rock I have for sale. It works on terrorists too!
> Mainly because increasing quality to be competitive with piracy would generally require breaking tax and import laws everywhere.

I'm not exactly sure why so? Take for example gaming. GOG sells DRM free games worldwide, without regional restrictions and no inflated pricing for countries like Australia for example. Why can't video be sold on similar terms?

>So decent DRM isn't about stopping piracy, really. It's about slowing it down just enough that it's still worthwhile to jump through the hoops required to bring that content legally to other regions.

In my view it never pays off. The downside of reduced usability is always worse than any potential gain in slowing down piracy on the period between some new DRM scheme is introduced until it's broken. Usually that period is small, and ever since that DRM becomes obsolete, while usability stays crippled for legitimate users. All those involved in production and distribution should always keep in mind that DRM means their voluntary reduction of quality for practically absent gain of shortly slowed down piracy. How are they planning to compete, when instead of increasing quality, they cripple their own products?
Minimum wage is £5.03 - on a 35 hour week, that's £9k a year. I you're over 20, that rises to £12k/year.

So, better than minimum wage.

If you have several years experience, it's probably not the job for you. If, however, you've just left school or are taking a break from university - I think it's a pretty fairly paid way to get your foot in the industry.
> Capitalism has been given a bad reputation

This is vastly overstated. The ascendancy of the US over the past century is generally considered as proof of the supremacy of capitalism over all manner of controlled economies. Belief in capitalism is the default among people who are considered educated and reasonable. The anti-capitalism consensus often conjured by libertarians is an imaginary straw man.