skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the UK and not the US but bad references will land the employer in deep shit.
So - don't you want to fix it?

Saying the limitation is mentioned somewhere on the page is a little lame.
Quite a number of people who are into OS development hang out around http://osdev.org/ and similar places.

I quote, from that site:

> Why develop an OS?

> There are various reasons why people choose to develop an operating system. Each individual developer may have their own, but some reasons are common among some (if not most) developers:

> * Having complete control over the machine. When developing an application or other userspace program, the developer has to take the code written by others into consideration: the operating system, the libraries, other programs, etc. It is a powerful feeling for the only code to be running on a machine to be your own.

> * Research. Quite a few operating system projects are started as homework or research projects. While starting an operating system as a homework assignment in a pre-tertiary or first-year environment is generally considered a bad idea (due to short deadlines), a long-term project is quite fine. Research projects are usually undertaken to improve on existing operating systems. A common beginner mistake, however, is to underestimate the time needed to write an operating system from scratch.

> * To replace the currently available operating systems. Maybe they don't have a particular feature that the developer wants. Maybe they just generally suck (Linux is bloated, Windows is unstable, etc). This may be for profit; although any returns are likely to be a long time away.

> * Because it's fun. Low level programming is a fun and exciting task, because you have to do everything. This may seem more difficult (it is, don't worry) but by the same reasons more fun. You know how everything works, how it all fits, and the inner-most workings of your program.

If nothing else, building your own operating system teaches you a lot about the internals of the magic suite of programs that run on your machine and makes them less mystical. Nothing compares to writing your own syscall or scheduler, and I certainly have learnt far more from my experiments than I would have if I had simply read Linux source code.
What exactly do you believe libertarians would disagree with in your post? I'm not a libertarian, but that the government privatizes gains and socializes losses, that they grant subsidies and monopolies to businesses, taking the risk out of them, seems perfectly aligned with what I read from libertarian sources.

Libertarians don't disagree that the government funds businesses, they disagree that it should do so.
There's also flexibility improvements to do with lazy evaluation, and it makes the Twisted guys not hate you.
The thesis is easy to state -- we're wealthy, therefore there should be a default payout to unproductive people, as a sign of how we differ from animals, from fascists and blind supporters of oligarchy. A failure to take this step will identify us as unworthy to claim membership in the human race.

The idea has merit but unfortunately blurs the issues of income redistribution and state power. As with many public issues, if the state administers the program, the result will likely be a catastrophe. The evidence? The outcome for prior programs of this kind.

Warren Buffett has recently argued that he and other very wealthy people should pay more in taxes, a sentiment many other wealthy people share:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-...

Quote: "... we need Congress, right now, to enact a minimum tax on high incomes. I would suggest 30 percent of taxable income between $1 million and $10 million, and 35 percent on amounts above that."

But this realistic proposal, and the idea of a guaranteed income, differ in one important way -- the former is being proposed by people able and willing to take action on their own, which they have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge

But the latter guaranteed income idea would be administered by the state, which means it would be subject to ever-changing political forces. It would be a shame if a good idea were administered by an entity renowned for doing things so badly that even good ideas can be made to look terrible in retrospect.

As tokenadult remarks in a post here, it's never been tried, anywhere. On that basis alone, it deserves a hearing. But it would be a shame if the power responsible for its implementation guaranteed the failure of a potentially successful policy.

Am I unjustly skeptical of big government? I don't think so. Examples abound that show how inefficient and counterproductive big government can be -- NASA compared to private space companies, government welfare programs compared to those administered by private agencies. But my favorite example is that, six months after the 9/11 attacks, the INS approved student visas for two of the dead terrorists so they could enroll in pilot training:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/us/nation-challenged-hijac...

This example redefines "clueless" and is hardly atypical. I would hate to see a sound public policy idea undermined by the method of its implementation.
"Hypertext" perspective shift... I like that.
What's your project called? Can I see it?

PS: My ancestry goes: Italian > Argentinian > born in Kuwait > living in Canada. "Ferrari" means iron-worker in Italian, so it's not a rare surname in Italy.
That's where something like ReactOS fits in. Right now you can legally use a DOS VM running, say, FreeDOS (or an emulator, like DOSBox). There's no freely-available Windows XP equivalent. Sure, sure-- you can run Windows XP illegally w/ a volume license product key (to skirt product activation w/o modifying the product) but that's not a solution that "works" in many cases. It's technically very easy to run a Windows XP VM-- it's very challenging, legally.
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There is plenty of attention toward making the Real Estate searching experience better.

But the data sucks.

Real Estate is the only thing you cannot research and transact online.

Working with all the companies and brokers involved in Real Estate, we build products in the gaps. The dream is to one day allow Real Eatate to be confidently researched and transacted online.

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Property descriptions- http://Proppycock.com

New property browsing UI- http://map.wigwamm.com

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Free market. Housing prices didn't go up universally. Most people were insulated from health care costs by insurance. Education was still affordable, even if we couldn't put ourselves throu school like we did in the 90s.
The logic goes like this:

1. If you're going to do something that might get you fired, get another job lined up before you do it.

2. The leverage "threaten to resign" only works once; if you don't follow through it won't be credible again; and it marks you as having one foot out the door, making it less appealing to invest in training you or give you new responsibilities.

3. Even if you use leverage other than threatening to resign, moving jobs is guaranteed to get you away from your toxic boss, whereas trying to fix things isn't guaranteed to work. And at the same time you can probably learn some new technologies and get a salary bump. Once you've got another job lined up, you might as well take it.

4. Telling everyone what you really think in leaving e-mails / exit interviews never changes anything in the company, but might make you enemies or get you a bad reference. Why bother? Instead give them some bullshit about how it's a great company and you just felt it was time for a change.

Of course, if you can confront the situation in a way that doesn't risk getting you fired, the above logic doesn't apply.
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"This can only be because we spent our money poorly - ..."

Irresponsible spending is not the only way to accumulate $17 trillion in debt.

As long as the real interest rate is negative, it's perfectly rational for the US government to keep increasing debt, as long as the debt is at a level where the US could reasonably pay down most of the principle that becomes due each year if the US loses the ability to roll the debt forward at rates below inflation. Currently, yield on the 10-year is about 2.75% and US real effective exchange rate inflation is just over 3%.

Back in... 2003? I remember one bank offering credit cards with no annual fee and zero interest for the first year. I got a credit card for $2,500, maxxed it out on tax-deductible charity donations I was going to make anyway, paid it off a year later, and never touched the card again. One friend told me there was a loophole in the bank's promotion for rolling debt from another credit card, where you could for free turn that credit limit into a one year interest-free personal loan. Depending on one's risk appetite, one would then either buy US treasuries, 6 month CDs, or some high grade commercial paper. As long as one had enough savings to easily stomach a $2,500 loss if things went sour, it was perfectly rational to max out one of these credit cards for an arbitrage opportunity of about 200 bps. (* This should not be construed as investment advice or solicitation for any investment.) Then again, that's a fair amount of work for a free $50.

Now, it seems the US government doesn't have a plan for dealing with this debt if the world stops charging the US insanely low interest rates on its debt. That's irresponsible spending.

Debt isn't the problem. The problem is the lack of a good plan to reduce debt when the world stops paying the US 25 bps for the privilege of holding US debt.
or they will put you in temporary house and send back to syria just so you can be presented to officials.
The zoo where the HUMANS are kept behind bars
Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you like it.

My cofounder is working on full offline support right now, as it's been a much requested feature.
In UK law being fired for you bosses misdemeanors is a non starter the op is not liable.

If the company looks like its going to make people redundant as a result of this project going bad don't resign as you will miss out on any possible redundancy.
I only wish the Chinese used 10^3 when writing large numbers, I have a hard time translating wan into million for large prices....
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I think that dependency on argument evaluation order inside zip function smells a bit.

It's OK here, but may bite you with a different function.
> Huh? What stops anybody from registering a company at the Handelsregister and start working?

Maybe not really applicable for us tech nerds but the "Meisterzwang" is a real obstacle for many people. But aside from that arcane institution there's not really anything forbidding you to start a company.

The problem I have with Germany is the time and bureaucratic burden it takes to get a Gmbh up and running. You're looking at a procedure that takes multiple months and visits at a notary office for the paperwork.

Compare that to the UK where all you have to do is log into a website and fill out a form to have your Ltd up and running.
I agree completely re: "the opportunity cost of government innovation?" and partially re: "if there is truly a need for it have been invented anyways".

But (and yes, I'm cherry-picking just a bit here). . .was there a "need" for the internet and GPS? Had anyone in the private sector identified those needs AND found deep-pocketed investors willing to wait patiently for their return on investment? Maybe not. If that had been the case, surely they would beat the government to the punch, since the government has notoriously long product lifecycles.
The Centro news post[1] has costs. £50K for the prototype. Planned timetables don't change that much around here, say twice a year. West Midlands buses are tracked, and you can send an sms message with a code to get the 'next bus' times, so there is some real time information on the displays. I might pop over and have a look next weekend.

[1] http://www.centro.org.uk/newsroom/PressReleases/PressRelease...
just wondering what's the difference between the different builds http://emberjs.com/builds/#/release. In particular what's the difference between stable/ember-runtime.js and just stable/ember.js
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Put your menu bar code in your 'master' template (wherever you're defining the location for your ng-view). Use a separate Nav controller for the menu bar.

It seems like your biggest issue is just data sharing, e.g. each page needs different menu items or something. Just create an Angular service that provides the backing data for the menu bar and exposes an API to other controllers to change things in the menu bar or get the value of a search field in the menu bar, etc. This type of thing is exactly what angular services are for.
Well, when I'm living in Germany I still have to register the branch of the Ltd here. And I still have to register with the Handelsregister, put up with the IHK and the stupendous tax system.

A Ltd. doesn't really have any advantage in that scenario besides fast incorporation times.
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Leave. Now.
I think he was referring to statements like this:

"In this era of obsession with reducing public debt—and the size of the state more generally—it is vital to dispel the myth that the public sector will be less innovative than the private sector."

where the implication is that we should continue to let the state fund innovation via procurement and internal research

I personally think a mixed economy is great, as long as there is a balance.
Conversely, what is the opportunity cost of dipshit innovation? The answer is clear: lack of break through innovation.

How did you arrive to that conclusion? That's not clear to me at all. In fact, it's not clear to me that break through innovation would even be possible without incremental innovation, and vice-versa.
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but, from what i can tell, _Bool actually prevents mistakes. it works consistently and logically like a boolean type.

the mistakes come from pre-C99 code that calls things boolean, but has unexpected dependencies (that _Bool removes) on bit-level structure.

the more i learn from this thread, the more i want to use _Bool. which worries me, because Linus isn't dumb. but i think(?) the point he is making is related more to legacy code that is "broken but works". or maybe to programmers that rely on/use/exploit bit-structure/implementation details in "bool" types because they don't have experience with more strictly typed languages. [edit: or as mbell said in a reply to me elsewhere, because at os level you often do need to care about bits]
All that's missing from US borders now are the pneumatic flechette firing motion detectors...

Think nail guns with motion detectors...

Your travel papers please, Komrade!
luu, are you open for applications from abroad, concretely, from Pakistan?
Q42 - The Hague/Amsterdam, NL

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We work on all kinds of stuff, from websites and applications to smartphone apps, games, and our own products. Some of the projects we've been involved with include the new Rijksmuseum website, national transit platform 9292.nl, the Philips Hue lights, and the Staatsloterij. We have a published game, Quento (quento.com) and a product, Handcraft (handcraft.com). We love working with C#, App Engine, and Java, but whatever works for the client works for us. We also host meetups about all kinds of topics, from how best to use ElasticSearch (we're a partner) to Meteor (our website runs on it) and which JS MVC framework to choose.

Our work is primarily technical, so you'll be expected to be able to dive in wherever needed - frontend or backend - and contribute whatever skills you have to our diverse dev teams. Earlier this year we were awarded the "best workplace in the Netherlands" prize by Great Place to Work.

See q42.com for more info and our Dutch blog post about the position: http://q42.nl/blog/post/57695336048/knappe-koppen-gezocht (Dutch fluency not required, but you must be willing to learn)

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It's company size and politics dependent.

I've seen people at small companies, where the boss wanted to save money on redundancy payments, instead start firing people for violating policies that had gone ignored for years.

I don't know about you, but I violate corporate policies on a daily basis; I see it as something everyone has to do to be able to accomplish their jobs.
I wouldn't really call the 24-cell "a strange version" of the octahedron. It really isn't anything like any of the 3d Platonic solids. (It does have octahedral faces, though.)
The Uganda experiment is rather different - it provided a large capital investment to individuals in a capital starved economy. Basically, it allowed people to invest in their business. The US is not a capital starved economy, so it is unlikely that the same would occur.

The actual report about Dauphin Canada would be useful here rather than some reporters interpretation of it. Among other things, the drop in work related injuries strongly suggests work did go down, as do the anecdotes of people who "could wait for something [work] that better suited them." Anyone know where to find the real report? It does sound interesting.

The example of linux contributors compared to the development world is not really indicative of the economy at large. Software is infinitely reproducible, unlike most goods and services.
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Emcien - Atlanta, GA

We are looking for a developer with significant experience developing interfaces using modern js/coffee frontend frameworks.

Emcien develops interfaces into intricate data analysis information, performed on graph structures and visualized in several applications. These are built on D3, backbone, rails, and mysql, with a dollop of other technologies where needed (The core science is performed in an extensive C library built, tested, and used via ruby FFI.

The environment is pleasantly community-focused, combining the nicer features of an established company (like job security and solid benefits) with much of the feel of a smaller start-up (tech-focused atmosphere, significant developer control over process and direction, and opportunities to pay down technical debt before it becomes crippling).

http://emcien.com/jobs/frontend-engineer/

It can be hard to tell if a company would be a good fit from a job posting, so feel free to make conversational contact first - you can reach me at emueller@emcien.com (I'm an engineering lead) if devjobs@emcien.com seems too impersonal.
As the article points out, it is easy to see that there are at most five platonic solids in 3 dimensions. One thing I've wondered about is why all five possibilities actually work.

As an example, consider the icosahedron. You could imagine trying to build one as follows. Take five equilateral triangles, and attach them together so that they meet at one vertex and the respective sides adjacent to the vertices are shared. This gives you a sort of cap-like shape consisting of the five triangles.

How, attach more triangles to the cap as above. This will create a strip of 10 triangles around the "equator".

Then, keep adding more triangles. This step will end up creating another cap at the bottom of the icosahedron.

The question is, why do things inevitably match up on the bottom if you fill things in this way? You can do the same construction with 3, 4, or 5 triangles, 3 squares, or 3 pentagons, and in all cases things line up exactly to give you a complete polyhedron.
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Here is one of my angular projects:

https://github.com/polyfractal/elasticsearch-inquisitor

I'm not sure I would classify this as a "big" app, but it has four tabs and is slowly growing in functionality. The menu bar (and highlighting) is a very simple controller and service.

Obligatory disclaimer: I'm by no means an angular expert.
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I'm hiring an Android Engineer and a iOS Engineer for my team to help build tools for developers to make mobile advertising better.

As the first ad management platform dedicated exclusively to video, VINDICO allows advertisers to serve, track and measure all of their online video ad activity. Since 2006, VINDICO has been the gold standard in online video platforms, providing standardized reporting and analytics for the online video industry. The power of online video isn't just the audiences it reaches and how it reaches them. Its strength also derives from its ability to track an ad campaign and precisely measure the campaign’s effectiveness.

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