skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chișinău (Moldova). One of the best internet connections in Europe, lots of outsource companies have offices here. Living is probably one of the cheapest in Europe. Welcoming people, a developing country that's moving toward the European Union.
Unless you have significant pressing debt the most important thing to prioritize is learning. In my first year working at a reasonably large tech company I learned more than my entire undergrad and grad programs.

So I would stay away from freelancing since you won't have the opportunity to learn from more senior people.
Not a priority over "basic needs" like food and health.
So does this mean that engineers are legitimate targets for NSA/GCHQ?
Hate to bring Twitter up here. But this makes one even more puzzled about where Twitter's R&D costs of $90 million goes! Sure there are open source stuff they put up on http://twitter.github.io/ and there's bootstratp. But none of it is the sort of cutting edge research that the likes of LinkedIN and FB seem to be doing. Looking up posts on their blog with "research" tag also returns dismal results.
What can be done to reverse this trend? Or to create something altogether different from the current "internet"?
Sigh, there's no way out huh?
I have experienced the same thing, important content missing from the presented list. I actually prefer Facebook on my BlackBerry Playbook because the app is old and doesn't seem to support the ranking feature. I think their algorithm is worse than useless and they should provide an option to turn it off. I have considered getting rid of my Facebook account because people keep assuming I am aware of their posts and at least they would know that I am not.
Here's a recent paper: "Civility 2.0: A comparative analysis of incivility in online political
discussion" by Ian Rowe of the University of Kent.

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/epop2013/docs/Rowe_Ci...
Free Will Is as Real as Baseball : Cosmic Variance
How do you know if LinkedIn look a like spam mails was a quantum trying to insert malicious code? I have gotten similar targeted look a like LinkedIn links.
What an odd article. I have some sympathy with what I take to be the basic premise: modern life in Western countries is becoming homogenised and gentrification is 'flattening' our cities.

But identifying the sex trade as an aspect of an area's authenticity is not classy. I've lived on the border of a red light zone and it is not nice (friends being curb crawled, hypodermics in the front garden, running the gauntlet to get the milk &c). We can do without that one.
Wow, I had a flashback to 1998!

Seriously, though, great collection of GUIs. It's cool to see some aspects of those window managers that are still in our modern operating systems.
I agree with this. Whether it matters if this good will is gone I don't know, but it might - I know my opinion of google has gone from extremely high to really low, and it is partially so low because of their importance, I believe they have a responsibility to act properly.

I truly believe they are opening a gap that others could exploit. Microsoft, so late to this party, with their userbase and technical know-how, with a lot of their ill deeds from the past forgotten or forgiven. If they decided that they are going to do it right, and not try to exploit users, they could become a threat again. I wonder if they are capable of this anymore though.

Or, reddit, with their substantial userbase of young, technically advanced, and influential users - if they could figure out the scalability issues, they could launch a youtube competitor, for example, and LOTS of people would move there very quickly, even if it is not as good, because they are (so far) known to be pure, whereas google has now proven that is is not pure, and dishonest (do no evil).

It's certainly not easy, but my point is, it's a lot easier when influential and vocal technical users have turned on you, and the degree to which they've turned.
Computing does not Support its Infrastructure
Just remember, if you only give them three days like this, they will replace you ASAP. Sounded like they were over a barrel and you were fine without them, you should have offered to work full time for double the pay or some other super high price.
So are you outsourcing to these individuals or are they on your staff? Is there a technology behind the management of it or are you simply providing the human resource much like a temp agency would? I if you had to fill in the blank(as much as I hate this it helps understand) what would it be: "We are the ____ of sales"
Given your architecture is not made by alien (thus intel) it is fun.

The better the artchitecture is designed the funnier the assembly is. It makes you feel both miserable (you discover all the stuff we considered as granted as dynamic hash tables don't exists) and like the king of the world (yeh you made a led blink \o/).

I pecularly recommend it for people with bipolar personnalities, it will suits them 200% ;)
An article that had more details was submitted to HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420546

Original link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/09/20/sex_a...
Not almost. It is alive. The only fundamental difference between computers and "life as we know it" is that the computer's genetics are encoded on magnetic media rather than DNA.
> [...] the faltering and overly complex Scala

I use it everyday for work, and it's an excellent language. I think it "falters" because it's more ambitious than anything else. Kotlin doesn't look as ambitious so far. I'd rather stick with Scala and see them keep improving. There are some promising ideas in the pipeline for future simplification without loss of power: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/data-types-issues
Thanks for the interesting numbers. 20 million users but how many

1) Using Unity as opposed to another window manager AND

2) Using Ubuntu 13.04 or later and not the LTS AND

3) Not having opted out

Suspect the 0.1% is nearer 0.01% but we shall see...
Ask HN: where do you backup a ton of photos?
For years I've been dealing with the issue of wanting to backup large quantities of photos somewhere safe. I have several terabytes of them, either shot by me or passed down to me by my dad and friends.

I've been migrating from hard drive to hard drive for a long time, occasional drive failures here and there, and it's been pretty much a waste of time. I'd much rather put it up somewhere that scales infinitely, is properly redundant, and still gives me the ability to browse through the photos if I'm looking for something specific.

Dropbox is too expensive for the size I'm talking about. Google Photos tries too hard to push the G+ thing on me, which I don't care about, and Flickr offers no API to work with large sets of assets as far as I can tell.

There's Amazon's S3 and Glacier, which seem pretty reasonable for the price, and do have plenty of APIs, but as far as I can tell they don't really offer a way to nicely browse the images. Perhaps someone built a UI wrapper on top of that, wouldn't surprise me.

I can always setup a home NAS, maybe get 8TB in Raid 10, but I'm still concerned that these disks will eventually die and I'll still risk losing everything. Maybe I'm paranoid.

What are my other options? Am I missing something here? There's no way professional photographers don't deal with this issue every single day, so it must have been solved already.
He would have to be claiming to be officially ubuntu or leaving that impression with people. I dont think there was any doubt that the site was not a official ubuntu site. In my mind this falls under fair use as specifically allowed, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law).

If it would be infringement to use a trademark like that it would be impossible to write about any trademarked product.
Hyperboria focused on security, scalability and decentralization
The linked article is a very lengthy argument for an incorrect conclusion.

The real answer is due to the low level design of CPU address mode generation circuitry. CPU's with "base plus offset" or "base plus index" addressing modes always (when using this address mode) add together two items to arrive at a final address in memory. So in order to access a value stored at the "base" address, one has to feed an "index" value through the hardware adder that results in the output address equaling the input address.

Well, 2+0 = 2, so the "index" value for the memory cell located at the "base" value is "base" + "index (zero)" => "base".

The concept just stuck in the higher level languages because it mapped neatly to the CPU hardware, and because the folks designing the higher level languages were already accustomed to thinking in the "base plus index" mindset.
Tipa.li – a Tool for Easily Finding Polio Vaccination Clinics
most modern apps and frameworks dont recommend FCGI

Rails deprecated its use 4 years back ( https://github.com/rails/fcgi_handler ), FastCGI is deprecated in Django as well( https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/ )

common pattern is a reverse proxy to a C based server with or without evented loop with some reverse proxy/load balancer, or some compiled implementation in jvm, golang, beam etc
"Experiences like this led me to leave Facebook"

I would go on a tangent to this, that I never got any actionable information or other life improvement from facebook. I tried, really hard, for six months, to participate and get something out of it, but it was just a huge time waster so I wiped it.

Although supposedly youtube is only (or mostly) used for trash talking comments on kitten videos, I have occasionally gotten actual useful data and experiences from youtube. Programming screencasts and the like. Also the videos I watch and comment on are of a professional-ish level I like being associated with.

So I'm finding the outrage hard to generate. If the whole world finds out my real name liked a university video lecture about simulating a vibrating 2-D plane using multiple stack computers solving differential eqs instantiated on a FPGA as a lab exercise at Columbia, well, I'm not going to ragequit youtube over it. In fact I think thats just great.

Its their property; if they want to drastically change its culture (to something I happen to prefer) its hard for me to feel bad about it. There was a cheesy falling apart barn nearby the Interstate not too far from where I live. The new owners painted it; outrage from traditionalists who would rather see it torn down than painted. What do I care, other than I happen to like the new paint job? If the complainers don't like it, they can put up their own antique barn and let it decay unpainted, or they could have bought the old barn.

The original author didn't like that the rabbit bathing video site decided to dump him, so shout out, you can't dump me because I'm dumping you first. Well all this high school dating drama is amusing for me to watch, but I have a FPGA video to get back to watching. And if someone finds out, that's OK with me.

Unlike facebook, youtube can demand a fair trade because its content is actually worth something. OK here's my real name, now let me watch something useful.

This might be the end of youtube as we know it, as a complete waste of time, I mean. It doesn't mean the end of the site.
Actually, it sounds more like outsourcing unless my 20hrs is coming from 20 different people in the crowd. Is it?
As I understand it, the QE strategy is for the central bank to buy bonds. Bonds become overbought, so investors shift to stocks and shares, lifting the stock market. Investors benefit, as do companies seeking to raise funds through share issues, but uninvested consumers do not. As a result, the stock market goes up, and borrowing costs for companies go down, but the "Real" economy stagnates. Companies can borrow easily to fund expansion, but have no real market to sell into, because the stock market is disconnected from the underlying "main street" economy. Basic income provides another mechanism for Keynesian reflation, but targets the "real" economy rather than the stock market, so stimulates actual demand, rather than pumping up the bubble. Of course, inflation is a massive risk with both of these strategies ... and may happen more directly and more quickly with the basic income strategy rather than with QE ... so on second thoughts ... it might not be too great an idea.
"When I’m not deep-in-the-zone ahead on a project writing awesome code, ..."

wow, that's some self confidence.
I very much enjoyed it and hear myself speaking the exact same sentiments in my head daily.
The Next BYOD: Glass In The Enterprise
This is a bit of a tangent, but having seen TDD fail more often than not ("fail" meaning it just seems like writing tests is busywork for no real benefit, and eventually as the deadline looms devs just stop writing tests) I'm wondering if there's an approach where the tests are NOT written by the person writing the code... e.g. a senior lead or QA person of some sort writes the tests, which become attached to the stories that the devs implement.
I think we just have to modify our brains to think a little bit longer term than we do right now.
RFC 1087: Ethics and the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA
Lets not forget the incredible articles in the Tandem and Digital archives. Including the famous 5-minute rule paper.

HP, Digital, Tandem archives
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/journal.html

5-minute rule paper
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.1.pdf
For certain values of "preferred". Python bindings for Nokia-specific subsystems (contacts, location etc) were released months or even years after their statically-typed counterparts. You just couldn't build serious applications on S60 with Python, just the occasional script; on Maemo/Meego you could, if you'd waited several months for the eventual release of their largely-undocumented bindings, but you couldn't release them through the Nokia appstore anyway.

Python was simply not a first-class citizen on Nokia devices, 99% of development was done in C/C++. That's one of umpteen huge boats they missed at the time.
It says "it has been estimated that Earth and Mars have exchanged on the order of 100kg of material a year"

Does anyone know where I can read more about that? How would that process be happening today?
New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century
3 Biggest Mistakes I Made Launching My App
Ask HN: Live translation via Siri + Google Translate?
Dear HN; does anyone know if there have been any efforts to combine Siri's voice recognition technology with google translate to allow live on the spot translation to any available language which Siri could then read back aloud? How has this problem been addressed, and how could it be implemented given the inherent difficulty of combining technology from apple and google?
"Now there’s one less egg in my Google basket, and I never have to pay attention to anything that has the word “Google+” in it again — just like I did with LinkedIn (stop inviting me, everyone in the world), Pinterest, and a number of other things I had no use for."

Enough said. The dude is a typical Facebook user who is addicted to his only social network and upset about integration between YouTube and G+. Better commenting system and difficulty of creating fake user accounts will increase the quality of comments. I guess the people who complain like to troll or post some obnoxious comments, this explains the frustration.
> Right, and simply stating that taxes constitute theft isn't an argument either.

1. I made observation X.

2. You argue observation X is wrong because Y and Z.

3. I claim arguments Y and Z don't negate observation X

4. You claim I don't offer any arguments besides "waaah taxes"

I just want you to realize how ridiculous your method of communication is. Your communication style reveals that you're more interested in being "right" than understanding why an argument is made. That's fine, but I'm not really interested in scoring fake debate points here. This isn't a debate -- and if it was, you would be in trouble. Instead of asking why I hold an observation to be true (thus, allowing me to make an argument for it), you immediately go on the offense, forcing me to rebuttal your arguments. I stopped responding because it became clear you're here to reaffirm your own ideology rather than discuss ideas.

X = If you do it, it's theft. If they do it, it's a tax.

Y = I will personally buy you a plane ticket to Somalia (or any other place with limited government)

Z = Imagine if the government hadn't invested it's tax revenue back into national defense and infrastructure for the past three centuries.
Why would anyone consider using Google Code?
Is this article for real? The wording is so terrible it was cringy to read. Is The Register some sort of tabloid?
I'm not sure that we're participating in the same conversation. They were medical terms, yes. They have an every day use, yes (that was exactly my point). They became outmoded and less useful, yes. But, no, not everyone who has used or uses those words is a proponent of IQ-based euthanasia, rape, and segregation.

Any reasonable people will criticize someone who bullies others who are in a weaker position. It's the bullying what is to condemn, not their particular use of words.
Just one data point here, but I effectively switched to Bing for search (actually, DDG, but they use Bing among other things to get their results). In all honesty, I think that google's results are slightly better, especially when it comes to technical type of searches (maths, statistics, academic papers, etc..), but for the most common types of searches, DDG does just fine. Reasons for the switch? I was getting a bit upset by all these privacy things, and the NSA stuff got me over the edge 4 or 5 months ago. Not that my new setup is anymore secure, but I think that DDG does an honest effort to not actively screw me over, which is more than can be said of the other tech cos so I'm willing to encourage that type of behavior by giving them a shot.
I love TED talks as well, and like everyone most talks leave me with a whoa! But TED talks aren't a good model to emulate for formal presentations. It's great if you have an awesome punchline with a jaw dropping assertion, but most presentations don't. Just think about it how much of the details from the TED talks you have watched do you really remmember. That's not what TED talks are for. They are meant to push the viewers into deeper self research by attracting them with just a tiny dose of hyperbole.

And frankly most day-to-day presentations and even most pitches understandably don't have something jaw-dropping to talk about, or else they would attract a TED talk, no? If you're giving a pitch, chances are you have to convince the investor/audience with an almost complete narrative. Having a story framework is useful, but it has to have enough information that backs your assertions, which is not true for a TED talk. Data is important, but the art is in the way you present them. Having no data might point that you don't have a strong case, or just didn't care. So have one or two convincing data representations.

And slides are important, to help you say what you wont be able to say verbally and the second to guide the audience about the structure of your presentation. Most people aren't great story tellers. It's an art which few can be trained in. In those cases you need to use your slides to complement what you are saying and keep the audience engaged.
I believe the existence of other coins with different algorithms is important, even to point out possible flaws in Bitcoin and the way SHA-256 is used.

But Litecoin hasn't pointed out any flaws in Bitcoin, so it's pointless in that respect. It even introduced new flaws like claiming to be GPU-hard even though it wasn't.

Also, when a flaw in Bitcoin is discovered, attempting to fork the Bitcoin economy by deploying an altcoin is a very expensive and disruptive way to fix it. But it's par for the course in a world where you disclose security holes by stealing people's money.
check out http://realpython.com for more tdd
I'm very interested in this. Can you name some of these strategies?
> Choice.

Are you by any chance a Kiwi?
If you really want to keep your consulting business, this is a great opportunity to bring on another person.
Wow, I used this website for my school-assignment on GUIs a couple of years ago.
It's funny to see it again.
Anywhere but "the cloud."

I desire actual control over my backups and who might have access to them. I spend money on redundant external drives, and spare parts for said drives. I keep track of the age of my drives, the degree of usage/wear-and-tear they're subjected to, their warranties, and failure rates for sister drives of same make and model purchased at the same time.

I don't worry about having a convenient interface to facilitate browsing through my backups. All I want is a bulk file system with no meta-data (no xml files, no db files). When forced to resort to restoring from backup, one is already faced with degrees of inconvenience. If the backup media is more convenient than the normal general-purpose everyday-use storage, then why is the backup media playing second banana to the day-to-day system?
Meta (YC S13) is hiring 4 roles in the South Bay (Los Altos, CA)
meta is a Y Combinator startup with a world class team led by CEO Meron Gribetz, with Chief Scientist Steve Mann (the inventor of wearable computing), and lead advisor Steve Feiner (pioneer of 3D user interfaces and augmented reality). You will work with the most advanced technology in the world from our augmented reality lab in Los Altos (South Bay, San Francisco).

Our fast growing team is now 27 people and we have 4 new openings.

All openings are 1-2 month contracts with the possibility of full time.

Interstate and International applicants are encouraged to apply. Travel, meals and accommodation are included for all positions.

Optics Specialist
* Masters/PhD in Physics
* Experience with Lenses
Please email 1 page resume/career highlights to:
careers+optics@meta-view.com

Senior Unity 3D Engineers
* 3-5 years+ Experience in Unity 3D
* C/C++ Experience Strongly Desirable
Please email 1 page resume/career highlights to:
careers+unity3d@meta-view.com

Unity 3D Artist
2-5 years+ Experience creating real time graphics
* Unity 3D experience
* Player Interface Design
* Dynamic Effects
Please email 1 page resume/career highlights + link to show reels + annotation sheet specifying which parts of the work are yours to:
careers+unity3dart@meta-view.com

Web Designer & UI/UX Specialists
4-5 years+ Experience creating cross browser compatible websites
* Modern Web Design
* Experience Creating Responsive Sites
* Experience building dynamic effects in (HTML5/CSS/JS)
* 2D print skills a bonus
* 3D skills a bonus
Please email 1 page resume/career highlights + links to design work + annotation sheet specifying which parts of the work are yours to:
careers+webdesign@meta-view.com
Facebook Research Publications
> Mao/reduce systems

Well, that certainly sounds like ...

puts on sunglasses

... a Great Leap Forward.
Are these fields still valid? The reference for the friend table[0] doesn't listen anything but uid1 and uid2.

[0]:https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/friend
The reason I purchased mine today is that I will never purchase a Windows 8 machine because I hate them and I can't afford a Mac. So the only other OS and that is supported and is cheap is ChromeOS. Its all well and good saying Linux, However you have to buy a Windows 8 laptop before you can even put Linux on it.
Obviously you should throw out the solution that worked for you and start over. 20GB just isn't cool enough to use M/R.
Plantly is shutting down
It doesn't recognise the following sentence as incorrect - "George and me went to the shops"

It should be - "George and I went to the shops"