skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luminoso (http://luminoso.com) - Cambridge, MA. Looking for a frontend designer.

We make an analytics and visualization platform for natural language text.

Luminoso can quantify the things you're looking for in a text dataset, and also lets you explore to find the things you didn't know you were looking for. It learns from text in your domain, but it doesn't have to learn from scratch: it starts out knowing what words mean, in many languages, based on ConceptNet (http://conceptnet.media.mit.edu).

As a frontend designer, you'd help us with visual design and user experience, to make it easy for people to upload their text data and get insights from it. This position focuses on design but interacts with the frontend code, so you should be interested in learning (or already know) CoffeeScript and knockout.js.
I personally think you do agree to it when you send an email to a @gmail.com address. It would be similar to agreeing to have your email permanently recorded when you send it to a @congress.gov account.

Can someone explain where this right to privacy in email came from? When did it become law that emails have to be protected the same way usps mail is? Or did people just start assuming that? If your email isn't encrypted then it's transmitted in plain text, one of my bosses once said "we're sending it through the public internet, that's like shouting it to on the street corner!"
I totally agree. Microsoft basically stopped innovating around 2000, when they began catering less to the consumer and more to the enterprise, because that's where the money was.

IMHO, the merging of Win 98/ME and Win NT/2000 took the life out of both. XP and every release since have been torn between the incompatible goals of pleasing both enterprises and consumers.

I think splitting Microsoft into two companies, one focused on consumers and the other on enterprises, makes a lot of sense. These two new companies should both get full access to the current Microsoft technology stack. And they can take it in different directions based on the needs of their respective target market.

We can again have a consumer Windows focusing on competing with Mac OS X/iOS and Android, leaving the boring enterprise market to the other company.
That's more a problem of unsafe manipulation. Allocating a safe length-prefixed string should not be an issue. Or, arrays. Take .NET's String.Split function which takes a char array. If you pass in a new array each time, there's a whole heap-alloc for no reason. Or Tuples. Or closure objects. Things like that do add up (GC cost, even though small short-lived objects are fast, it isn't zero), and escape analysis/stack alloc can make a huge difference, sometimes.

I've come to this conclusion while writing a "high-speed" indexer program where manually avoiding tiny allocations in certain areas provided double-digit percent improvements. I wish I had kept proper notes.
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Shitoshis, I think he was actually researching Buttcoins.
Wow, how did they manage to find a judge who seems very knowledgeable on tech issues?
If corporations are people, why do they not need to pay taxes when they go all "ex-pat?"
I would recommend you look at the work of Professor Paul Bourke at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He creates some amazing immersive environments.

http://paulbourke.net/dome/
http://paulbourke.net/exhibition/domeinstall/
Hi, I'm really interested in chatting to you and learning more about your experiences with custom-made clothing. How can I contact you?
Yes but why would you want to?

I can't think of a single long term advantage of using a language that high level to build system software. Sure it makes a cute research project but that's about it.

As for application level stuff, a big chunk of windows 8 is c#, mainly in the metro space as is windows phone.
Anyone with half a brain knows no self respecting density will sell this.

The number one they teaches kids is that you don't brush food into the gum... So any magic brush that works by biting will push the food to where? Hint: it's not away from the gum.

Would love if they worked around this problem though...
n+1 conspiracies are strictly less likely than n conspiracies, for obvious reasons. There's got to be some length of the conspiracy chain beyond which you're forced to assume that either (a) you've postulated too many conspiracies, or (b) there's a conspiracy whose main goal is the creation of ridiculously long chains of conspiracies behind other conspiracies, and it's doing a good job.
Thanks, captain!
Right, being too far ahead of the curve can become an emotional handicap all its own. Too bad we can't put kids like that together in the same schools.
Congrats to the MDG team on having 1.0 within reach, and thanks for releasing an amazing platform.

Meteor is one of those platforms that you should try. I could give you a menu of features, but the productivity boost from Meteor is one of those things you really should experience. The productivity boost is very real and its quantifiable.

An experienced developer can get a very good feel for Meteor over a single weekend:
1. Buy the book: http://www.discovermeteor.com (the book is $39...I did not purchase the other packages)
2. Spend a weekend doing nothing but coding

Come Monday morning you'll know what Meteor is about.

PS: I am not part of MDG, and I have nothing to do with the book (other than having bought a copy).
I'm ready to shutdown my taxpaying status to this utter joke of a government.
I posted something late last night. Are you planning to update it again? Great tool. Thanks!
He also did it.

"...and his first dunk story at 5'2 at the age of 13..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Todd
Yes, they are. Take a look here http://www.mosa-project.org/
We've been working on it for about 4-5 years now, on and off.
Quantum computing gets recursive
I don't know much about Wayland, but I know Mir is trying to be very efficient performance and battery life-wise even for smartphones, since it will be based on OpenGL ES 2.0. Can Wayland do the same?
Perhaps the start of something cool, but blasting it as a great way to leak something and using Snowden as an example on your main page could make you a target for the NSA pretty fast. Think LavaBit, etc.
Torus pong - online game built in a weekend using Clojure and ClojureScript
GNOME is shipping Wayland support. KF5 and KDE5 between now and next spring will enable KDE on Wayland.

It's great to watch Mir.
Don't get too hung up on the installation. I think their point was to make setup/installation/getting excessively simple.

With regard to why not "npm install -g meteor", I think the short answer is that the Meteor installation setups up/installs a lot more than just one node package.
this is perfect for small children who cannot brush their teeth that well.
Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. -Ron Conway

Most of the answer will be bounce backs from a failed startup to a surviving/successful one.
That's nice of them. I bet they just want Bill Gates to have more time available for eradicating diseases in poor countries.
They've not killed XMir, and they've not excluded anything. They've delayed shipping XMir and Mir for the Ubuntu desktop releases until they can sort out some remaining issues.
It's not a contradiction. Both are hard to keep going. Full stack ones are even harder. Hence all but 2 are gone.

The ecosystems for more open systems are also really durable.

Personally, watching for decades the most surprising thing is that MS has kept the desktop rather than losing it to Linux.

Would you say that MS has 'won' the server market because they make more money than any Linux company even though Linux has a largest market share of internet servers?
for my 4 year old son, I brush his bottom teeth and count to 100, then brush his top teeth and count down to zero. maybe it's because i started this routine when he was 2, but he sits through it A-OK.

no cavities yet, and i hope it helps him with numbers too.
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> The Lisp machine operating system was written in Lisp. In fact, it was Lisp all the way down to the microcode, or at least, it would present the microcode in Emacs as if it were Lisp, and you could modify it there. The Lisp machine OS was similar to other OSes of the age, more capable in many ways.

On the other hand, IIRC early machines at least used custom hardware with direct support for many runtime features and implementation details, e.g. GC and tagged pointers.
Ah, thanks.
Well then, she'll likely be overturned, unless her circuit feels like making another split.

Most other circuits (except two I believe) have explicitly held it to be okay for things like behavioral advertising.

See, for example, Kirch v. Embarq Management Co (10th circuit)

Given ECPA does not define "ordinary course of business" in any way, and the accompanying senate reports do not say anything about the exception being related to "for the benefit of the end user" (and instead talks entirely about the need/desires of the ISPS using the communications) , I would guess the opinion will have some trouble at the appellate level, but i guess we'll see!
The point is that "color" does not physically exist[1], it is a construct of human perception and language. Thus you cannot scientifically study color at all--if you try, what you are actually studying is human perception and language.

This is not an unscientific concept, because human perception and language are naturally occurring, albeit incredibly complex, phenomena.

Animals do not see colors, they react to physical phenomena including photons. Humans use the concept of color to describe what animals do.

Certain animals who learn human language can communicate with us about color. That doesn't mean they can't think, it just means that color is a human construct so they need human language to reason about it.

[1] What physically exists are photons across a range of frequencies, but that's not the same thing as color.
Except for deaf children, who seem to fall along the same IQ distribution as hearing children. And rich children seem to inherit their parents IQs instead of their Guatemalan nannies' IQs.

But feel free to go on believing that genes don't do anything. God just must have created everyone equal.
Thanks for chiming in here. I was going to mention it to you but you beat me to the punch.
So it's like prison. Got it. Very American.
I doubt it is going to matter much. The major toolkits will continue to support X11 backends for the foreseeable future, and systems with both Wayland and Mir will be shipping with X servers by default for the foreseeable future and likely with X servers as optional packages "forever" afterwards.

It is going to be an issue for people doing low-level/backend GUI stuff and pretty much nobody else.
Your Pre-iPhone world was different to mine.

* Everything was free phone at the low end and $199 at the top end

One of my friends bought a Palm Phone.

* Apps were pre-loaded onto phones

This may be true.

* Carriers drove handset manufacturers choice of OS

Maybe handset manufacturers, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia had their own OS.

* No one ever waited for a phone

This may be true.

* Manufacturers did not care about UI/UX

I read lots of reviews where people praised the Nokia UI over the alternatives.

* Phones sold on spec sheets

Spec Sheets?

I really don't think this was true for people I knew. People I knew bought phones as Jewelery. They wanted small size, and long battery life.
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Really impressed by how customer-friendly the licensing is:

> How many licenses do I need to buy?

> Every organization that runs Sidekiq Pro for their own benefit must purchase a license.

> GitHub runs *.github.com. They need one license for their entire site.

> GitHub sells GitHub Enterprise to various customers. They need one license per customer because the product is installed and run locally by the customer.

> Pivotal Labs builds websites on behalf of customers. They need one license per customer because the customer is the one getting the benefit of Sidekiq.
I'm a big fan of Sidekiq, and the model he's chosen. Some of the features implemented in the free version (retries with logarithmic logic as to timing, scheduled tasks) could possibly in a paid version, and the price point for the Pro version ($500) is a bit bold.
I think there are likely a variety of contractual options other than "24/7 phone support" which businesses would be happy to pay for, on an ongoing basis. For example, you could charge $500 plus $100 per year for "maintenance", and not be any more specific than "the software will be maintained in an ongoing fashion", and now you won't be starting from $0 next January 1st. As someone who has started from $0 every January 1st for the last 7 -- don't do it! It sucks!

Congrats, though -- Sidekiq is one of the few commercial OSS offerings that I know of doing well in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem. Most of the others just act as friendcatchers for consulting, too.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20128013-75/the-inside-sto...

As an example, it was Gates who killed Courier not Ballmer.
It might be that intelligence is a plastic ability ("software"), while many other abilities are less plastic ("hardware"). We agree that the human brain is highly adaptable, people loose half their brains in early age and can still function. It doesn't seem that far fetched that such small differences as those between someone bright and someone not so bright is about adaptation. And perhaps the right type of curiosity.
Is there a good data source of open source-based jobs and how to get them?

Clearly there is a massive open source economy. I would like to understand that better.
Ignoring the problems with the authors title. I've found this article sums up and describes a very robust solution to this sort of problem using Haar Wavelet Decomposition and Locally Sensitive Hashing.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/206507/Duplicates-detect...
Yes, absolutely, allocate everything possible on the stack.

But strings are the poster child for dynamic memory allocation. We only very rarely know a good upper limit on the size of the actual strings at the time the code is written, yet C programmers have shipped endless numbers of bugs thinking they did.
When you say it is quantifiable - can you actually quantify it for us, or is this just hyperbole?
> charge $500 plus $100 per year for "maintenance", and not be any more specific than "the software will be maintained in an ongoing fashion"

I work at a mega corp, and I cannot echo this enough, we have tons of "maintenance" agreements for hardware and software of all sorts, $100 is not even in the noise level for some of these agreements! Software needs to be maintained, get this done upfront, it is a total pain in the but to have something fail, and then try and push through a purchase for "maintenance" after the fact. This means that I have to get a quote, get my boss to sign off, get purchasing in the loop, etc, etc. Just have this as an annual agreement and it will get processed like everything else. 10 years later, someone will ask, who uses this, and no one will know, and it will get renewed, just because they don't want something to fail ;)
Yes it failed (other incubator). Maybe 7 or 8 months after. I started working at a another startup where I knew one of the cofounders. It was definitely the right choice.

Sometimes ideas just take a while to take off and will be ultimately successful. Sometimes ideas are just bad, and you need to kill them and move on. Sunk costs can be a bitch, but you're not getting that time back, so make the most of the future.
You could argue that if you send an email to a gmail user, it's no longer your email. You've lost all rights to it.

Like sending a postal letter, the paper is no longer yours. You've given it away to the recipient. Along with the rights to open it.
I've been using Meteor since its release and its been great at making apps at maximum velocity.

You mentioned that some people are already scaling Meteor across multiple servers.
Looking at it, round robin load balancing won't work given requests to a server seem to be stateful.
How is that being done as of now? Do you guys have any guidance on how to do that?
Apple had to give a price drop merely two months after it went on sale.

I speak as someone whose first iPhone was a 3G, but I think it's possible that the price drop was part of the plan all along. It was be a smart price segmentation move: get everyone who's unbearably keen to pay a whole lot, then move on to people who are bit less unbearably keen at a slightly lower price.
Other incubator. 2004-2007. We had a good product, but didn't focus enough and instead pivoted twice to arguably worse products. The company barely scraped by until last year, when it was sold to a well-known market player. We founders were so diluted by then that we only got a minor amount. Was a great journey but won't be repeating it until I find a product I believe 100% in. You have to be in it to win it. Working as a consultant now and one thing I can say for sure is that running a startup gives you one hell of a headstart competence-wise.
Looks like most people will be around SF on Friday 18th already, what about we arrange some kind of meet up? This sounds like a great opportunity to get a bunch of interesting people and ideas together!
They say in the video: power training (e.g. jumping with weights).

Very inspirational.
Modern email spam detectors definitely read the contents of the email and even try to extract context through certain words appearing together.
Think again about what you are saying. I am sure Ballmer would hold a press release admitting he is clueless about technology and relies on Gates to make those kind of decisions for him. :)

See my response to previous comment for one such example where Ballmer deferred a really important decision to Gates.
What I want is a seed batch of probiotic flora (possibly even GMOs) that compete with S. mutans for nutrients and are better houseguests.
It is greatly beneficial to me. It keeps gmail free.
my 15-month daughter runs to her high chair when she's hungry. sometimes she skips the chair and runs directly to the fridge. i don't think it's unusual, i hear the same things from my friends.

one related anectode: my boss' 3-yo son said to him, 'dad, i'm not stupid, i'm just small' :)
In fact, I was thinking of alloca the whole article and I really don't see the benefits of implementing a "custom solution" in detriment of a well working existing one.

It would be great to compare the results they give against alloca =)
Given that one of the stated rationales for Mir was the ability to deliver quicker than Wayland, that's a fairly significant decision. Fedora 20 is going to launch with Wayland as a preview, after all.
As I understand it, if you ar a resident of the another country as defined for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (330 days a year outside the US _or_ have permanently settled with no evidence of intention to return to the US), you are exempted from the insurance requirements.

This really sucks for people who leave the US long durations (8 months in my case) at a time, but return occasionally. Have to either get insurance for the 8 months that isn't usable, or pay the fine.
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I love the DDP as a concept. It's akin to REST-on-steroids, over a websocket with pubsubhubbub sprinkled on top. I really wish more people knew about it, I hope drivers are adapted quickly (some have been). Interoperability & extensibility will make it a killer web feature.
Designing in the browser [UX, NoPSD, Continuous Design]
Zipmark (https://zipmark.com) - New York, NY (Remote Possible)

We are looking for awesome people to come work with us and help build the next great alternative payment network.

Zipmark is a mobile and online payments company that enables people and businesses to pay each other using their real bank accounts through the digital checking infrastructure. You can read more about our business in this recent Entrepreneur Mag article (http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/227979)

Come help us solve problems like:

* building the safest and fastest way to make or receive payments via checking account

* operationalizing and automating remaining manual processes to help manage our growth

* protecting our customers and company from financial and security risks

* increasing organizational transparency and fostering open communication

* building and supporting official API client libraries in languages we don't use everyday

* supporting and troubleshooting with customers who are integrating with just about every other language/platform

Using tools like:

* ember.js

* Ruby/Rails

* Objective-C for our iPhone app

* postgresql, redis and memcached

* cloud and bare metal infrastructure

While learning and creating expertise around:

* advanced cryptography

* web and/or mobile application security, threat modeling and pentesting

* risk analytics

* identity validation

You should care about creating and improving operational processes that contribute to high quality, low defect software, and you should want to learn more about and become an expert in automated testing, continuous integration, and monitoring everything. However, you still want to work with an organization that is agile enough to respond to change quickly when it is warranted.

If any of this sounds interesting, we would love to meet you. We offer a generous salary + benefits package, with the ability to offer generous equity grants for the right teammates.

Email me with your details: jake@zipmark.com
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You will own the mobile client for fitmob and be responsible for it's technical implementation. You will mentor other members of the technical team so they can help with client development. You will work with backend engineers and designers to help craft an amazing fitness experience.

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Wow cool. Wouldn't have though about this, but the arm swing seems to add 9cm to one's jump:

Participants jumped higher (0.086 m) in the arm swing
compared to the no-arm swing condition ...
--- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15519601
100% of probability doesn't make it a certainty either.
It is not an poor excuse. When I use my bank site via a browser or try to book an airline ticket, there are lots of distractions or offers etc. The app is more usable with minimal distraction and often can retain information offline. I travel extensively and use booking.com app to book all the time. The app stores my hotel booking offline so if I show up in a country where I have not had time to buy a local data SIM, I can still access my booking. As someone who is always converting money, I could use something like xe.com but try using that site on a mobile browser, it is not a good experience and certainly not something you can do with one hand (you are in a cross border town and your other hand is holding your bags or maps etc). Compare that to this new app I am using called Converted. The developers must have really spend time understanding the situations where someone is changing money and the importance of doing your calculation with one hand. And yes Google Play has shoddy apps but Windows is more terrible. Try finding a half decent podcast player on Windows.