skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't expect work to come quickly on sites like odesk or elance - every job you apply for is going to be inundated, and standing out in the crowd is difficult. Of course it depends on what language and type of work you're looking for. You could go through dozens of applications without even getting a reply, or you could catch one immediately. I think the former is more likely than the later, since people looking for contractors on those sites are primarily interested in how much work they can get for as cheap as possible, so a lot (not all) are going to start at the lowest bidder.

I've gotten work by hanging out on coding forums and posting solutions - if you're good at javascript and have a high tolerance for pain there always seems to be a need for patching up Business Catalyst sites, for instance. I'd suggest a linkedin account but a lot of people here despise that site (and for good reason - if you already know your time is worth decent money it's a waste) but if you can get in touch with other programmers local to you or make connections then that might lead you to some work, also hang out in groups and call attention to yourself.

Also, consider making your github account part of your portfolio. Even going so far as to create projects to showcase the sort of work you want to be hired for.
Those interested in a positive take on 3-D might be interested in reading Thomas Elsaesser's paper, "The “Return” of 3-D: On Some of the Logics and Genealogies of the Image in the Twenty-First Century"[1]. One of his examples is the movie Coraline which uses 3-D "not in order to emphasis depth, but to construct spaces that do not follow the rules of perspective and introduce
slight anomalies into it." I haven't seen the movie myself, and my only experience with modern 3-D movies is going cross-eyed watching YouTube trailers, but dismissing 3-D outright seems premature to me.

[1] http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/uploads/pdf/Elsaesser.pd...
This point is made very well in the book How To Fail At Almost Everything by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame, an excellent read
http://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still/dp/15...
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Variadic.js - A JavaScript library for expressive variadic functions
Can anyone explain on a conceptual level how mixing can possibly work? I'm not thinking about implementation details, but more like boot prints in the snow. You can stamp a big mess in the snow, but no matter how much you stamp about, there is still one set of your tracks entering and one set leaving. When all the transactions are clear to see in the blockchain, all the boot prints are right there.
If you're a fan of Ebert's writing or movie reviews I highly recommend his autobiography "Life Itself". One of the better books I've read in the last few years.
I would probably be more concerned with what's running my routers first.
I don't understand the practical need for Bitcoin mixers vs. simply mixing via existing exchanges. If Bitcoin goes into an exchange and Litecoin leaves a week later, nothing in either the Bitcoin or Litecoin blockchain would link the transactions together, especially if the funds are chopped up and sent to multiple wallets so the totals are never comparable. If the worry is that the exchange itself might be subpoenaed, one can just hop through many exchanges in many different countries. It's only necessary that one exchange be opaque for the mix to be secure.
The demand has been increasing for like forever. The supply has never reacted to the increase in demand. The complete paralysis when it comes to rezoning is an equally valid proximal cause. The Bay Area hasn't been constructing housing to meet the demand caused by job growth, tech or otherwise, for 30-40 years now.
I am saddened that no one has responded!

Here is a list of sites made in Jekyll if that helps:

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/wiki/Sites
It's not privacy, it's trust. There's a subtle difference.
I like how Kanye is listed after Lord Vishnu.
Again, trust is what you get.
> Roger Ebert is the sort of person who believes any technology older than him is normal and anything newer is inherently wrong because it's not what he's used to.

I think you're being far too hard on him. He had seen the 3D fad come and go before. He had a set of standards and I think he was right to stand by them. As it is 3D adds almost nothing to film making at the moment: there are technological limitations and we don't have a good idea of how to use it. Right now it increases ticket prices, is usually 'shoveled-on' to a movie, and reduces the light hitting the viewer's eyes (a long-standing pet peeve of Ebert).

> We didn't evolve to blend a series of 30 static images per second into seamless motion, but we cope with that so well that no-one actually thinks about it.

There is a reason we don't see many fast pans in movies. 24fps forces some compromises. I have no doubt that 48 (or something higher) will eventually become the standard, but just like color/sound/3D we'll need to develop the techniques around it to use it properly.
I like that, but maybe instead of several pop-ups it would be just one local Chrome page showing you the extensions that got the updates along with details. Google also needs to make developers put the change log in there, too. At the very least offer them a box for the change log, even if all they put there is "New stuff". If they do that you can decide to stop using the extension if you lose trust in them.
Once enough of the employees are commuting, I would imagine that any smart business would look at the situation and think "Time to move the office to the city or at least build a satellite office there."
There isn't much incentive or motivation to think of the larger system, when you are being paid $12 million an year bonus to think only of your own benefit.
"Hacking" largely used to be about systems, including the arbitrariness of them. I guess it's become more focused on "being very good at a single thing". I think you can still see the dependency between the two by the way others view "hackers" and how "hackers" view themselves.
3D needs to die
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/3d_movies
See [4] and try harder.
Simpler solution: Leave things the way they are. It doesn't make sense to dramatically increase your storage costs and UI complexity over a feature 99% of your users don't care about and a substantial number will actually be annoyed by.

You have bigger fish to fry.
If you're moving a unique sum of money, then it's not too hard to see X BTC in, Y LTC out, L YTC in X BTC out.

Additionally, you must trust the exchanges. Leaving your coins in a 3rd party for a week means at any point during that weak, a hack or other problem might mean you lose all your money. Needing to fully trust a third party is a failure.

On top of that, as you note, you'd need to use multiple exchanges, with significant time delays. This is not user-friendly, and will lead to people making mistakes. Not to mention, it's hard to verify if a given exchange is really operating under certain law, and not compromised. I'd be surprised if various LEAs haven't or aren't considering opening exchanges pretending to be safe havens.
The accommodation/vergence problem is well known but primarily a big deal for VR headsets like the Rift, not for cinema screens. The a/v disparity is the inverse tan of distance so it quickly fades into irrelevance at the 10ft range.

And such disparities can be solved via Virtual Retinal Displays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display) which shine laser light directly onto your retina and can simulate any level of depth and focus accurately.
I don't have stats for you, but it's been written about before:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4253014/swatting-911-prank...

also:

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/september/the-crime-of-...

Seem's to be a relatively new thing in the ever-escalating war for the "lulz"...
The proper comparison should be the difference between rent payment and mortgage payment invested in S&P 500 30 years ago, not the difference just sitting there and earning 0%.
While Thailand's family planning initiatives may have been inspired by similar programs in other countries, the people who spearheaded the movement were Thai. I don't normally like TED talks, but this one[1] does a great job of explaining the program. Although not all developing nations can accomplish something like this, it's good to see that it can be done.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL9TBKSdHXU
Watched it in iMAX and it all felt like fake. :(
>The most difficult part is the grounding of it – which metal kettles are in sore need of, lest they give you an electric shock.

Appliances like these are generally 2-prong and therefore not connected to safety ground. Rather they are supposed to be "double insulated" for protection.
They're still flat out working to expand their factory to get the Model S built. According to interviews I've seen, most of the next 2 years will be slowly growing the factory size. They'd be selling 2-3 times more if they could actually build them.
Just an FYI: that wiki link does not seem to lead to an article about the fallacy in question, or any kind of fallacy for that matter. You might have been thinking about the continuum fallacy[1], false equivocation, straw man, or red herring. In any regard, I agree that the reasoning in question falls within the bounds of one or other informal fallacies[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy
Are electric vehicles allowed in the High Occupancy Vehicle lane without being high occupancy (single occupant)?
and yet it is completely tasteless designwise. what an ugly, ugly car.

tesla is doing it right, the fiat500e is beautiful - why is it so hard to understand that design matters? the new BMW i3 is not exactly beautiful as well.
Yeah, I think Brian Krebs was also SWAT'd.
The author responded: "Everyone else in the house was asleep. But yes, you’re right, I have overlooked that possibility"
> Not even mentioning that, in case of extreme need, you'll be able to sell it.

Wasn't that the thinking behind last bubble?

The risk here is your extreme need coinciding with other people's extreme needs (economic downturn, neighborhood deterioration, loss of a major area employer, etc.) at which point you and hundreds others try to sell with no one to buy, and property prices quickly falling further than outstanding payoff quote on the mortgage.
Just one of thirteen articles in the “Software Illustrated series” on the authors "Best Of" page. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/best-of
The remaining twelve are on my reading list now.
I tried Odesk a couple of different times. My problem was either: developers from countries like Bangladesh charging $2/hour, employers posting messages like "$100 for this entire project..no negociating!!!"

The problem is that not only do you have to compete against bottom-of-the-barrel pricing, the type of person posting a contract in the first place knows this and doesn't want to spend a reasonable amount of money on a project. I actually got a couple of contracts that I had to end early, because of this.

Stick with Craigslist (I found nearly all of my contracts here) or a site like guru.com.
Tough to brag about how tight a ship you're running immediately after disclosing that server contained forum credentials was accessed. But good on them for the disclosure.
You can always strap on one of these vestibular stimulating systems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0E9llkZIU
Ask HN: What are some great game-based education companies/startups?
I am interested in the field of games being used in school education, but any innovative game-based education companies (like Code Combat) are welcome.
I am a bit confused, since reservationgenie is not google, how are they fixing these entries?
I'll be sure to check all of these out. Thanks!
And to drive your point home, Haskell code "expands" into System F. Macros in lisp do the same kind of transformation (AST rewrites), they just get to skip parsing.

I don't think the author understands that these things happen at different times. Especially because they said "at runtime" when macros expand much before that.

On the contrary, something like Rails is what I'd call extending the language arbitrarily at runtime. So the very lack of macros is what motivates shaky transformations at runtime.
that invention was improvised? that is astounding!
The author alluded to some non-currency related applications of Bitcoin, i.e., a decentralized eBay.

Given the way Bitcoin and variants have been used so far, it's always been so exchange of some monetary value (i.e., shares, assets, funds, currencies, etc.). I'm having a really hard time picturing how Bitcoin can be applied in a non-monetary context.

Could someone explain?
How I make a substantial income flipping items from thrift stores.
Centreon have their own fork of Nagios (Centreon Engine) [1] and a pretty nice UI (Centreon) that beats the pants off of the crusty old Nagios CGI interface [2]. We've used the Centreon front end (but keeping Nagios as the underlying monitoring engine) for about three years now and have been very happy with it.

[1]: http://www.centreon.com/Content-Download/download-centreon-e...

[2]: http://www.centreon.com/Content-Download/donwload-centreon
Glen Park doesn't really have apartments; 99% of its residential buildings are houses.

If someone's advertising an apartment as "Glen Park" it's almost certainly going to turn out to actually be in Sunnyside or Diamond Heights.
I was recently at the Exploratorium in SF (Embarcadero). They have a mirror there that tricks your brain into thinking you are seeing an upside-down reflection of yourself hanging in the air about 5ft in front of where the mirror actually is. I actually tried to touch the 'reflection' and my hand just met the air. My first thought was why don't we use these to create 3D images. Would your domed mirror proposal work similarly?

http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/central-gallery/giant-mir...
Yes. California previously allowed hybrid cars in single-occupant HOV lanes, too.
I've always wondered more about Woz than Jobs! We get plenty of shrewd businessmen; they aren't a dime-a-dozen, but they aren't an enigma either. Kind of an understood phenomenon. People like Woz (at least based on the myriad recountings; I have not met the man) seem to actually be rare. I wonder if there was an interesting aspect to his youth, or what. Maybe the same way that you can have a psychopath, you can have the opposite? Someone whose brain is hard-wired to be more empathetic than normal?
I'm pretty confused about how shuttle buses became the preferred metonymy for corporate evil. As if replacing each bus with twenty cars would make SF a better place for anyone?
I wish more people would've commented because this is an excellent post. I think in the future the same will be said for those who learned programming at these bootcamps popping up around the country as they also want to prove they have ability too.
Beijing, last I checked ;)
Perhaps because there's such a clear symmetry with public transport.

Symbolism has its own logic, and the thing that becomes emblematic usually is not the most important one physically or rationally.
Lastline’s Innovative Anti-Hacking Service Detects and Protects Malware Code
Suppose an ill meaning website sends some nasty code to a company computer.
Traditional anti-virus software is designed to detect the malware, or malicious software, before it disrupts and then distributes sensitive, personal information to unintended recipients.
The trouble with some of those software programs, however, is speed and accuracy.
You are using logic. Stop where you are.
Yes, a fact which will make any bus rider want to reach for his bazooka. Man, there is nothing more irritating than being stuck in the HOV lane in a bus in a traffic jam consisting entirely of teslas and leafs.
Someone came up with the idea of using the bitcoin network as a notary service.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039705/could-the-bitcoin-net...
It's not that surprising given that stuff in America is far apart, and public transportation is terrible. A Leaf supposedly gets 70-100 miles on a charge. That's just barely enough for a daily commute for many people working in the East Bay or Los Angeles. And for anyone else who wants to travel, it can only be a second car. Until an electric car can be reasonably used to travel 500 miles in a day, I can't see one becoming my primary vehicle.

EDIT: Note that many Americans can only afford one car at a time.
^ This is the right way to critique a language: here’s my experience, here’s what frustrated me, and most importantly, the humility to say that the problem comes down to a mismatch between mental model and implementation tool. More like this please.
I've noticed the high Leaf density in Seattle as well. Perhaps we received more because we are closer to Asia.
It is still based on Linux kernel: http://translate.google.com.hk/translate?act=url&hl=en&ie=UT...

“Wu Yanjun said, COS system is more concerned about the nature of the underlying technology and security, on top of the Linux kernel, our researchers were developing for nearly ten million lines of code, can now maintain, create, publish our own version independently.”

Actually, China companies and academic institutions are developing several Linux kernel based OSes these years: OPhone from China Mobile, UPhone from China Unicom (now called Tongzhou/Coship 960), YunOS from Alibaba(famous for clashing with Google), Tianci OS from SkyWorth for TVs (there are other OSes for TVs including NGB AOS, STVOS, etc.), to name a few.

They are all struggling in making phone vendors and end users' adoption. But it is a highly risky game with high return. China is a big market. Even you juse got 1% market share, you will have tens of millions of users.
Because if Jack does't want to build the bridge and he holds enough of the company then he gets to say "stop building the bridge."
Do you (or anyone else) know a decent Bluetooth dongle that works on Windows 7 and will find and pair with LE devices?

I picked one up last week before a local hackfest, but in a room of a half-dozen BLE devices (one about 10 inches away) my laptop detected zero.

Could very well be I was doing something wrong but it seems there shouldn't have to be a whole lot to do after plugging it in and loading the drivers.

I think I just got the wrong thing. (It's a Kinivo BTD-400 Bluetooth 4.0 USB adapter.)
The difference is that people strive to live in the Silicon Valley and think it's one of the greatest place to live.

Also, we have suicides too: http://abcnews.go.com/US/palo-alto-struggles-rash-teen-train...
They are: http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1086720_california-exten...

(As a side note, kind of defeats the purpose of the HOV lane to me, but maybe the "if it sells more electric cars..." excuse offsets it enough.)
Yes, with the right sticker:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/decal.htm
The theory is that without buses Silicon Valley employees would stay in the valley, causing less competition for housing. Of course, this theory ignores all the tech companies with offices in San Francisco.
You paint "Clojure people" - I'm one - with a pretty broad brush. If one of us has said something you disagree with, then please cite it along with your rebuttal.

It is unlikely that you have an informed opinion of "Clojure people" on the basis of a few posts that give you heartburn.
>the Chinese government wants this to be the standard OS in China.

That is misleading. The IT market in China is more demand-driven. Impact from the government is limited in government sectors.
We're not certain that Feinstein is fucking lying scumbag but she may well be.
How can a US Senator get away with suggesting that Snowden is a Russian spy without any evidence. Feinstein needs to go.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/us/politics/congressional-leaders-suggest-snowden-was-working-for-russia.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/01/19/feinstein-we-dont-know-whether-russia-helped-snowden/
Maybe tech companies don't have to live in overpriced, overhyped coastal cities.
well yep, but that one has the advantage of using the lightfield already reflecting off of you and simply redirecting it back with relatively simple, shall I say, macro-optics.

The kind of system I'm talking about needs a 2D image with enough "pixels" to fill a volume convincingly instead of just a 2D plane, and the optics would need to be far more complicated, precise, and created at a very small scale which would appear as a textured surface like a fresnel lense or one of those 3D lenticular stickers you sometimes see. Then once you've figured that out, you need to get the projection and the optics to line up precisely- unless you can figure out a way to build in some tolerance to the alignment of the projection.

Aside from that, the goal is essentially the same. To produce a field of light coming out of some "window" with the same directional qualities as the light coming out of a real window.
Do I complain about not being able to afford living in Manhattan? No. It's historically one of the most important areas in one of the most important cities in the world.

In the same way, why are people constantly complaining about not being able to afford living in San Francisco? It's one of the hottest cities on the planet right now. I don't get where this entitlement is coming from that people feel that they SHOULD be able to live there without paying the price?

I'm not saying there aren't real societal issues in San Francisco, but I think the entitlement from the people who can't afford to live there doesn't make sense to me.

Yes, we should try to make San Fran affordable as possible. Yes, more housing should be built, etc, etc. However, the entitled way in which the less fortunate approach this situation is what baffles me.
>3D will eventually become standard, simply because the world is 3D

I don't disagree with you at all, but if you're using the term "3D" in the same way as the article, the first "3D" in that sentence is referring to stereoscopic displays that are driven by our specific animal biology of having two eyes, while the second "3D" in your sentence refers to the external world, which would still have three dimensions even if we only had one eye, in which case stereoscopic displays would not be necessary.

If instead you meant holographic-style displays, then nevermind :)
I met a local Chinese guy in Beijing several years ago who knew the Red Flag people. Based on what he told me, it sounded like Red Flag positioned themselves as the official Linux of China, which meant they would be specified and required by Chinese government agencies and state-owned enterprises. Red Flag then told the Chinese government that to make Red Flag Linux successful, they would need government funding. With a nascent team, simple product, and this funding in hand, they they went to the big players in the PC and server ecosystems (Intel, etc.) and said that if those companies wanted their hardware sold in China, it would need Red Flag Linux, and Red Flag could provide consulting services to make sure Red Flag Linux ran well on their hardware.

According to the guy I talked to, the Red Flag management team then embezzled most all of the money from the government and US, Japanese, and European companies and left an understaffed team of developers to deliver on the contracts with the foreign companies.

Another Chinese friend said years ago that many Chinese tech entrepreneurs were "just making money off the investors." It didn't make sense to me until I heard the Red Flag story.
Nope, there are N entering and N identical leaving (in this case) so there's no way to know which outgoing transaction belongs to which person.
How to capitalize on the Super Bowl without spending the money
Dad gets OfficeMax mail addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash'