skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite the same as an ultrasonic bath. This device creates standing waves, so the antinodes (parts of the wave where the amplitude is 0) will not move. I'm pretty sure the waves created by an ultrasonic cleaner are moving. If the wavelength is large enough, you should be able to feel where there is vibration and where there is none.
Currently, I use a bunch of index cards, one per TODO item. Easy to reorder and rearrange things. For items that aren't doable yet can be hidden behind ones that are, and it's quite satisfying to tear up the card when an annoying task is finished.
No, but it would be nice for 3rd party developers to have an API available to implement into their own products. Since Apple doesn't provide an API for platforms other than Mac OS X / iOS, I'll likely use the Dropbox API in my next product, since I will be able to use it on an Android phone, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente
What is not being addressed here is that different people can take varying levels of stress before they "burn out." From a simply practical standpoint, it is a competitive trait to be able to work longer without being able to burn out.

The fact that you are competing with people like that in every marketplace means that not needing, or even desiring a break or vacation may be a key determinant of success in a highly competitive market.

I think that is why you see this no rest attitude so prevalent in very competitive schools, elite military units, wall street and other hyper competitive markets where razor thin distinctions can mean big differences.
Big Data/Distributed Systems Software Engineer

AppMonsta - Palo Alto - REMOTE

AppMonsta collects massive amounts of data about mobile apps and turns it into actionable metrics for a wide variety of business customers ranging from investors to health care companies to startups. We really love data, building distributed systems, and helping people understand complicated market dynamics through our data.

We're looking for a distributed systems/big data software engineer to join our distributed team. You'll take ownership of our crawl & data pipeline, keeping them running with high uptime, scaling them up to handle load, and adding new data sources and new features to help our customers make even better decisions. Experience with distributed systems and/or big data is a huge bonus - we're looking for people that have a good intuition about what good architecture looks like, and who can grow into leadership roles.

Our current tech stack is mostly Python, Linux, AWS (EC2, S3, & EMR mostly), MongoDB, Celery and Redis. If you haven't worked with individual pieces of this before it's fine - we like working with smart people that are comfortable working in a distributed systems/big data/cloud environment. We're happy to help you get up to speed with anything you haven't seen before. We practice peer code review and continuous deployment on all our code and systems.

Our entire team works remotely. We're very flexible about where and when you work, as long as you ship code, keep systems online, and are reachable by other team members for part of the day. We stay in touch via a team chatroom and weekly team video chats, with impromptu 1-on-1 video chats whenever there's a detailed issue to discuss. To make this work, you'll need to be in a compatible timezone (between PDT(UTC-08) and CET(UTC+1)), and be very fluent writing and speaking English. Like getting out of the house to work? Ask about our mobile Internet subsidy:)

This is a full time, longterm opportunity. If this sounds exciting, send me an email at luka@appmonsta.com, and we can get the conversation started.
There is a gold mine for Jolla here in Brazil:

* Big market

* Iphone is too expensive because its built outside of Brazil and have heavy taxes because of it

* Android doenst actually have a strong brand.. its good looking and the hardware is more cheap, so people buy because of the lack of options (actually to be fair, samsung is pretty good, as everybody knows) - People dont buy a phone because its a android like they do with Apple

Map for the gold mine:

* Find a good brazilian partner with good relations and well stablished in traditional industry

* Ask for money in development banks like BNDES to build a factory(or use some part of one already built) in Zona Franca de Manaus (with tax incentives) (it will be easy for a project like yours as long Jolla have well conected people here)

* Use the factory to export to other south american countries with tax incentives for exports

...

I think Brazil is a unique market to launch this things because of the unique environment you have here..

Once Jolla made a pitch and some hits here, they can start to launch in more saturated and sophisticated markets (read apple fanboysm here) like US and EU

Really, Jolla should be very serious about that possibility..
An intelligence that smart would likely understand what you are saying and what you want. That doesn't mean the AI would want to do what you tell it to do though.

I haven't yet seen any evidence that a concept like "wanting" or "desire" have any meaning outside the context of humans.

I agree that if we could produce an AI with various blind methods, it would likely be a dangerous thing.

I simply also doubt we could produce an AI in this fashion. I mean, you couldn't train functional human by putting him/her in room with just rewards and punishment.

I would note that even the animals of the natural world are constantly using signs to communicate with each other and other functional mammals receive a good of "training" over time.
For sure, the blog in question is not one that many people would find palatable. And, WP.com has the right to deny service to anyone.

But it strikes me the wrong way for an employee to publicly and actively seek to shut down a blog because he personally disagrees with it.

From my perspective, with bloggers, the idea of Justice Brandeis is a good one:

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. "
QA is Dead. Long live QA
Ask HN: Moving to Poland and Working in Germany?
Hi all,

I may soon be moving to Europe from the U.S. I'd like to live in Poland and commute to Germany. However, it's very difficult to find information about relocating to Poland that is in English. Can anyone point me to some resources?
Short version: they have an extra "blackhole"/archive list for every team that every email is cc'd to. Also anyone can subscribe to anything.

The problem with this is, opacity is not the biggest problem with email. It's inbox noise. Reading through tons of emails that should have a more limited audience or have already lost their relevance.

I don't see how this approach reduces noise. If nobody is really expected to read the archive list, why bother sending something to it? If anything, transparency might actually make things worse, because they way you get it is by spending even more time digging through email archives.

To solve the Email Problem I would look to "newsfeed" style systems like Yammer or completely different models like chatrooms. Those can do a lot more to prioritize attention.
wow

7 days a week and canned for a day off? That should prompt anyone with self respect or integrity to walk out the door and drop emails asking for help or pointers with the codebase.
http://i.imgur.com/Kcerv5S.jpg
That would be horribly abused (people sending things other people don't much want to look at).

Allowing the friend based on phone numbers might be ok (but you still have to somehow make sure people don't get a bunch of garbage requests).
Half their team including the CEO has already worked at Apple. They want to be the next Apple, not part of it.
Musk's next target for Tesla: Its own 'F150' pickup
No, it's $10MM per key/year. Or, it was, back in 2001.
Thanks for checking it out! I agree it's awkward to have the temperature unit selection on its own page, but it seemed like something that wouldn't change much so I wanted to hide it away.
there's a large body of postgresql-specific knowledge. Don't be that guy.

Yes... and the OP was very unspecific as to what exactly was the problem. Maybe he/she just doesn't get SQL, I don't know. If the question was PostgreSQL specific, then that is another issue.
He indeed was the victim of an assault, which IMHO is not mutually exclusive with his behavior being idiotic.

There is a good argument to be made for this being civil disobedience in that he was refusing the orders of law enforcement officials, but in this particular case the evidence later showed that (roughly) A) the officers ordering him out of the car had no legal authority to do so and B) the officers who did have the legal authority to do so didn't actually order him out before breaking in, tasing, etc. At his later trial he was found not guilty of all the charges against him based on this - I don't know if civil disobedience was even brought up but I doubt it.
You weren't a waste of their time. You gave them the opportunity to have a worthwhile conversation with a potential customer. Ideally, if you were talking to a useful salescritter, you came away with a takeaway or two in addition to "Scratch them off the list."

It didn't pan out, but some percentage of leads not panning out is baked into the model.
I'd be surprised if you couldn't get some kind of disability insurance on a student loan. It's certainly commonly available for mortgage loans. But can't say I've looked into it.
You make a pretty bold claim here that working more days in a year is a significant competitive advantage. Well actually you specifically say razor thin distinctions but go on to further claim that in things like entrepreneurship they mean big differences.

Both are pretty bold claims actually and I'd be surprised to see someone back them up, but I'm pretty dubious there is any merit to them.
"It is unfortunate that so many people are stuck in jobs that don't offer sufficient time off."

If only there were some kind of national organization that could mandate that all employees receive a certain minimum amount of time off per year!
I initially read the title as "Drawing fractals with PostScript," which is also fun. Here's a fractal fern in ps:

/t0 [ .85 -.04 .04 .85 0 1.6 ] def
/t1 [ .2 .23 -.26 .22 0 1.24] def
/t2 [-.15 .26 .28 .24 0 0.44] def
/t3 [0 0 0 .16 0 0 ] def

/rmax 2 31 exp def

/map {rand rmax div dup .81 lt {pop t0} {dup .90 lt {pop t1} {.99 lt {t2} {t3} ifelse} ifelse} ifelse} def

/plot {2 copy .001 dup rectfill} def

290 50 translate 70 dup scale
0 0 2000000 {plot map transform} bind repeat
showpage
You could also just invest in companies that you know will succeed rather than inventing anything. That's harder to look for.
Well, half of them are correct (assuming a normal distribution, which IQ tests have by design).
By not acknowledging the rest of the comment, do you mean to concede the point?
> Total productivity is actually maximized (for most of the work we do) around 6 weeks off per year.

How do you measure this?
If I Launched a Startup in 2014
I'd say it's more a "because we can", but isn't it interesting anyway? Exposure to new ideas, or new ways to implement existing ideas, is usually interesting.
Here in the US we have been convinced that we are getting a good deal with our 3 weeks PTO (mine includes sick leave), but European countries just have far more.
The variance is sometimes due to RVM troubles. The benchmark is partly a test of the entire Ruby ecosystem. If RVM is bugging, then people are installing sub-optimal implementations. For example: https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/issues/1418
To be fair, I wasn't canned. I did quit. And I did give them the rest of the week (Tuesday - Friday) on a strict 8 hour workday.
So in a nutshell they are saying that some of their users are risky enough to use a feature that discloses their phone number to them, and they consider this information as non-sensitive data.

Snapchat is and will always just be a fad, it's the current social network flavour of the time, and when something more interesting comes along, I will bet that the 4.6M users will be inactive in no time.

This is also why their users aren't concerned with this leak, because the premise in snapchat is a sort of leaking of your good and bad moments, with no filter.
But i'd be pretty sure that if it turns out they save the images and videos, it would be much bigger of a deal, because it ruins this premise.
Leave out the snap sending part, just make it a friend request. Don't expose to the sender whether the number is not attached to account, it is accepted or rejected. User can or can not send snaps then.
Also: I expect Apple.fi sells many more iPhones in Finland than Jolla.com sells Jollas.

But it _is_ good that they can boast about this. Unfortunately, they will need all the good press they can get. It will be a hard fight to survive.
Both of you could do the rest of us a favor by not responding to each other anymore.
I implemented a "find friends" server side functionality for a mobile app (due to a similar business requirement of allowing new users to locate friends).

After prompting the user for the ok, the mobile app would upload the entire address book to the server. I would check for matches and return a maximum of 25% of total contacts as being valid (randomly so you wouldn't know which numbers really didn't exist). If there were more hits they would be placed into a queue and sent periodically as "your friend has joined!" notices which also increased engagement.

Subsequent checks were done by again uploading the entire address book, however I would check against the previously stored phonebook (numbers only hashed with a per user salt) and limit the number of valid hits returned based on the delta of the address book. So if you kept sending 1000 new numbers every time, you wouldn't get any new matches.

It was also rate limited per account (which required a verified phone number). All the logic took less than a few hours to think up and implement. Here you go Snapchat, now fix your shit.
It would generally seem they've silenced all but a few of their most vehement critics with the latest round of publications (which seem to suggest they are doing better than some of the best CSAT solvers on uninteresting problems). There is some suggestion the next round of hardware will have enough q-bits to do something "really interesting", but I'm still quite skeptical that the device, even if a truly functioning quantum adiabatic machine, shows any sort of true entanglement in a way that would satisfy the non-adiabatic QM aficinados.
"Narrow networks" are a problem in a lot of states.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2013/november/25/sta...
The biggest evil of labor unions is the fact that in many cases, they are a necessity. It's not that I'd rather not be part of a union, but I'd rather have the type of employment where unions aren't needed, or even beneficial. But this only happens when the work you do is both skilled, and in short supply, unfortunately.
I preordered and recently paid, but I'm still stuck in the shipping queue. Seems a bit silly to make the preorder customers wait longer, but it's probably to get as many devices out in stores as possible.
The "quantum cryptography" you describe here isn't a defense against quantum cryptanalysis; it's more like a novelty act.

http://rdist.root.org/2008/10/24/quantum-cryptography-is-use...
The Brave, New World For Startups, Filmmakers, Musicians, and Other Artists
In the last year I've taken about 10 weeks vacation, travelled all across the States, Hawaiian Islands, Fijian Islands (Yasawa's), Australia, Sweden and Snowboarding twice.

Contracting (think on site day rate) has allowed me to do this but only because I engineered it this way, I looked at Job boards a few years back and saw the qualifications I needed to get to get to the position and sort of rates that would allow me to take that time off to strike a good work/life balance.

I work 6 month contracts (sometimes longer) and take a month or so off at the end. Doing so not only allows me free thinking time and the opportunity to meet new people, travel to great places and experience new things but I also find I'm a lot more refreshed and valuable to the hirer for the next contract.

I know this isn't possible for everyone, hell, people need to work permanent roles right, but striking a good work / life balance is possible if you look for it.
>People can understand concepts without having the words to express them, and if need be, can always find new ways to express them in words, coining new terms if necessary.

You can find some very interesting examples of this from Chinese internet terminology. In an environment where "thoughtcrime" exists in some form, Chinese internet users have developed a lexicon of strange-sounding euphemisms for things that are forbidden to be discussed.

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/The_Grass-Mud_Horse_Lexic...

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Grass-Mud_Horse_Lexicon
Comparing across languages was originally part of the long-term goal. However, I haven't yet come across any good, multi-language, real-world benchmark.
Quantum cryptanalysis doesn't meaningfully threaten SHA256.
It might cost you $39K to crowdfund $100K under the SEC’s new rules
How doubt grows with knowledge
Not the OP, but the one full book I've read on the topic is Scott Aaronson's "Quantum Computing Since Democritus".

It gets a bit laborious walking through the entire "complexity zoo", but does a good job of laying out the general space in which quantum computers may (and may not, as far as we can tell) be useful.
The father of batman is of the people of riddick , the joker had no chance
My Galaxy Nexus never did that either, and I used it for a good two years. Which phone do you have that works so badly?
1) There have been a few white male presidents before Barack Obama, in case you didn't know.

2) Many people voted for Obama at least in part because he was black, including myself, because they felt it was time to demonstrate we could and should elect a non-white-male president.

3) The president is a very special singular office, whereas there can be an almost unlimited number of coders. Affirmative action for the role of president or elected political office doesn't make a lot of sense (unless it's done by choice of the electorate.)

4) Indeed Barack Obama is a role model for black men. He showed that a black man (and a non-white-man) CAN be president, something hardly anyone thought was possible in our lifetime prior to his rise to prominence.

5) While a white man could be a role model for a black girl in some sense, people identify with those who share a cultural and racial heritage.

While on a certain theoretical level, what you say makes sense, it is not true in the actual world in which we exist.
Hey Sacha, I'm a huge reader of your blog and follow your work. I completely agree with what you're saying but I think you might be misunderstanding me. I agree that email to download is not a bad system. The problem I have is that in order to be apart to download the theme, you need to opt into his newsletter. This is different from registration because when you register, you are not forced to opt into a newsletter. This product isn't free. The cost having any theme is to be apart of an audience this creator is building. This is a weak cost admittedly but I think that it turns a lot of people off that they have to join his news letter because that doesn't fit in line with many people's definition of free.
Software Engineer - Seattle WA

Join one of the most dynamic companies in Healthcare software. MedBridge is the premier online education provider for Rehabilitation Professionals in the Allied Health Care market. We have revolutionized how medical education is provided to clinicians, and our customers include major clinic networks and hospitals as well as smaller health care providers. Our company has experienced exponential growth over the last 12 months, and we are expanding our service offerings to a rapidly growing number of clients.

The MedBridge development team is dedicated to beautiful, usable, and valuable web applications. We’re highly collaborative and can ship features in hours. We believe in getting customer validation early and verifying with real data.

We are seeking a motivated engineer with a desire to substantially increase their knowledge and experience within both front-end and back-end development.

You should be passionate about:
User experience
Ongoing Learning
Style, presentation, and design
Coding best practices
Test Driven Development
Quality

You should be very strong on all of the following:
HTML/CSS – Extremely good at implementing markup from PSD
MVC principles
OOP Languages
PHP and similar backend technologies
Ability to own projects end-to-end
Relational Databases

Bonus skills include:
Git
Backbone, Coffeescript, JQuery
ActiveRecord/ORM principles
Unix/Bash/Vim ninja
Ruby
Codeigniter

Our team is a group of motivated individuals who love to innovate our product and increase its reach within the healthcare community. We're moving extremely fast, and every day offers the chance to learn and grow professionally with a fun group colleagues.

Please email Phil[at]medbridgeed.com with questions and resumes.
I haven't used it in years but this reminded me of TiddlyWiki [0], which will work whether you have Internet access or not.

[0]: http://tiddlywiki.org/
Website author here. On the contrary, you have nailed it. Noob-friendlyness is a valuable part of a language ecosystem.
Typical tug-the-heartstrings piece, find a couple of cases where people who seem to legitimately deserve a "hardship" exception had trouble getting it, and make it sound like that's the norm.

I suspect that the norm is that most people who are delinquent on their student loans are just simply not paying them.

Professor Cole added that if it were easy to discharge student loans in bankruptcy, lenders would simply not lend money to students without clear assets or prospects.

Now there's an idea! </sarcasm>
At least you ask the user for permission- Snapchat doesn't even alert the user before uploading the ENTIRE address book!

I take issue with this new generation of developers who seem to have no moral or ethical boundaries on the invasion of privacy.

The whole "viral/social marketing" trend is also to blame, in addition to the way that startup valuation puts so much emphasis on "traction" rather than the actual tech or even a viable business model!
But remember: it's not because it's possible that it's a good idea. ;-)
I don't think Messages.app converts emoticons into graphical smileys on the recipient's side. It's that the sender's text is autocorrected into emojis (which can be cancelled out of).
SeaWorld's Popularity Tanks As 'Blackfish' Documentary Makes A Splash
iMessages is completely broken for me across devices. Group chats just miss messages entirely on my mac. I need my phone around to use iMessage on my mac, in case I get a message that doesn't make it to the mac somehow somehow.
Anarchy and Explosives : Jolly Roger's Cookbook
I found that vacation was the least flexible part of negotiation, because it was explicitly tied to tenure with the company.

It was enough to make me decide to stay in London when my H-1B came through. Very short-sighted for a CA company trying to attract international talent too, since the biggest cost of moving is the lack of ability to easily visit loved ones, and short holidays make transatlantic trips uneconomical.
Can you provide a reference about the fact that 100 qubits would enable qualitative advances in cryptanalysis? I'm also not sure what you mean by `qualitative'.
Read and re-read. I never said "Innovation without profit would be success". Oh and in case you didn't understand the first part of this reply. Read and re-read again.
totally worth the read and thorax is totally worth a try, especially if you want to simplify your backbone app (current or planned)
How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World
I just used the "See Your Folks" site. Wow. That's really eye-opening.