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Kaggle - San Francisco, CA

We're hiring our next Software Developer - Web Platform (C#, ASP.NET). REMOTE within US timezones or E3 is a possibility for the right candidate.

Kaggle runs data competitions that solve business problems for companies and provide fun and prize money to the world's community of data scientists. We're offering an opportunity to be involved in what Forbes magazine called the most novel Machine Learning applications that are "eating the world" [1]. As a developer, you'll be responsible for keeping kaggle.com (and the 140,000+ users who play there) running: everything from front-end UI work to server-side code and DB architecture.

See https://www.kaggle.com/careers/ to apply and learn more about our team.

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[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2014/01/06/six-novel-ma...
Or you can make a count-down latch of some kind:

var num_results = 3;
var results = []
var makeCallback = function(index) {
return function(response) {
num_results -= 1;
results[index] = response;
if (num_results > 0) {
return;
}

// actually do stuff here, all results are loaded.
};
};
$.get("/a", makeCallback(0));
$.get("/b", makeCallback(1));
$.get("/c", makeCallback(2));
// etc

It's also not hard to make a generic latch-producing function so you can just write stuff like:

var l = makeLatch(callback);
$.get("/a", l());
$.get("/b", l());
$.get("/c", l());
I'm in a 2/3 French startup. We don't disrupt fashion, but here's a fashion-related example of what we do: http://wesawit.com/events/mercedesbenz-fashion-week-at-linco...

All feedback is greatly appreciated.
Love this:
"Ours is a most typical software company: we create software products and sell them to customers. In this sense, we are not quite "in the trend": we don't design mobile applications with millions of installs, or possess a website with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors. We run a, so to say, classic business which seems to be pretty rare nowadays."
Not to mention that (I recall reading a long time ago) a typical asteroid contains as much iron ore as is present in the Iron Range.

And there are a whole _lot_ of typical asteroids.

I'm a big fan of the High Frontier.

We just gotta get out of earth's gravity well cheaply and easily.
why not let the richest person have complete power. if your going to throw democracy out the window at least do it right. none of this half a*ed plutocracy crap.
Yes, absolutely.

Coincidentally I'm working on mailers today but I noticed your email on Github so I'll set a reminder for myself and let you know when I have a mailing list up.
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> There are, after all, certain functional requirements for people to live together in cities and two of these appear to be some sense of private property and protection against violent crime. Another is management of infrastructure.

Another is food, which most people agree is more efficiently produced by a competitive market than by central planning.

> The government, however defined, must monopolize them because otherwise you give tremendous power to the hands of private corporations. At least with a government there are political constraints that there are not with a corporation.

And yet, what I'm saying is precisely that private enterprises would lead to a better society not just for me, but for the vast majority of people as judged by their own personal subjective preferences. That includes most people who oppose by suggestions.

> I haven't yet met a libertarian who thought that murder should be legal absent a contract to the contrary

I haven't yet met a person who thought that. So why exactly do we need government to "make murder illegal"?

> nor have I yet met one that thought that big business should be able to control all roads and exclude whoever they want from travelling.

Depends what you mean by this. I personally believe that if you own a road, you should be able to exclude others from using it. A polycentric legal system, like any other system, would lead to a convention or set of conventions for what constitutes "property rights" that is economically efficient.

> So the argument is over a decentralized government model vs a heavily centralized government model.

This obviously comes down to your definition of "government." In the broadest dictionary sense of the word, yes, it could refer simply to any mechanism that arranges the affairs of a group of people. When I use it, I intend to imply that I am talking about states, namely nation states and the subdivisions thereof. Lots of anti-state libertarians have offered detailed definitions of what constitutes government in this context. Murray Rothbard defined the state as an organization that claims monopoly legal authority over a region and funds itself at least partially through (compulsory) taxation. I prefer David Friedman's more enlightening definition. He defines a state or government as an organization which most individuals in a region exempt from their normal perception of personal "rights." If a random person attempts to forcefully take money from you, chances are you will fight to resist, or at least consider it a wrongdoing, and most of the rest of society would be on your side (assuming the evidence is conclusive). But when government forcefully takes money from you, you probably won't be very upset, and probably won't resist even if you are upset. And the majority of society will not consider this a misjustice.

> After all, does it really matter whether a city is formally private or public sector?

I think it does, because the "private sector" (assuming you mean a competitive market) will be more economically efficient.
It gets even messier than that. What happens to the intent if it is public knowledge that a paywall has been specifically designed by the owner to be easy to circumvent?

"We did create something purposely porous," Arthur Sulzberger said of the system being implemented by the Times to begin charging readers next week for full access to NYTimes.com.

"Can people go around the system?" Sulzberger asked during an appearance at The Paley Center for Media here. "The answer is yes. There are going to be ways.
Maxmind.com to me is the most accurate and best priced. Did my research a few weeks ago.
Ties in perfectly with the Git + file-based CMS approach as used by (one of many examples) Asana: http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/ .

Cool feature!
Hey all,

I'm a student who is looking to join a team for the [BitHack Hackathon](http://bithackathon.com/) - are any groups out there looking for someone to help with team coordination, app testing, user experience, etc.? My background is not technical in nature, but I've found that I always find a way to contribute in hackathons. I'm not in it for the money (although that does sound very nice) as much as I am for the notoriety.

Get at me!

My previous hackathon experience includes:

●	Atlanta Govathon (2013) Finalist: Created a web app which scrapes local and state government websites to centralize public hearing and election information

●	Hack for Cystic Fibrosis (2013) Finalist: Created a mobile responsive web app called Track*d which helps CF patients track, visualize, and broadcast medical compliance

●	Random Hacks of Kindness (2013) Participant: Created a simple gradebook app for the Peace Corps which can be easily modified to reflect the language of a host country
There is: Release a piece of software that runs locally. There's no reason document-organizing software needs to be in "the cloud".

One major reason SaaS is so popular is people can't figure out how to write programs worth paying for. If you wrap it up in some vague notion of a "service", customers assume they're getting some kind of ongoing value.
I came here with the same quote copied to my clipboard to say pretty much this.

The idea that the incompetence of paywall implementers should be patched up by the law and consideration of clients' intent is worrying at best and honestly closer to insane.

If paywalls are implemented by covering page content with a white rectangle, will viewing source be considered unauthorised access?

If they are implemented by putting a large notice prohibiting unauthorised users from scrolling down, will such a notice stand up?

In both of these cases, the intent of the user viewing the content is clearly to bypass protection mechanisms that were put in place, but if such protections are implemented so incompetently, the burden (as it seems to be in real life, w.r.t. trespassing and similar laws) could well fall upon the consumer.

My suggestions get closer and closer to hyperbole but from a technical standpoint some of these 'protections' are scarcely distinguishable from some of the simple, meaningless protection schemes that have already been enough to trigger unauthorised access laws. :/
Nobody is going to decide that.
I think your idea has enormous potential, don't screw it up :-)

To quote General Rumsfeld, a solo founder usually has a lot of "unknown unknowns" because a single human being is likely to have a lot of skill gaps that they themselves are not fully aware of.

Many solo founders could probably see an order of magnitude in the success of their products if a bunch of peers give suggestions like "Dude, this page needs a link for tweeting your completed images" or "You need a call for action on this page" or "This font makes your web page look like it was created in 1998"

The dynamic of a startup is very different when you have 2-3 founders, in that case it is probably better to work as a team to try and resolve these types of problems, but for a solo founder a semi-confidential outside opinion could be valuable.

Asking "real-world friends" about these types of things doesn't really work most of the time because they may not understand startup tech and because polite society usually follows the rule "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."
recommendation: respond with fake data, based on source IP. the problem will take care of itself.
Hives are some of natures coolest entities. They do things in aggregate.

So much of what these little creatures do is senseless individually, and clever in mass. I like them. Shame they're such a pain in the ass.
Report them to their web host and the ad networks they use. Don't troll them with different content just go for the kill - some accounts like AdSense carry lifetime bans.
Google's famous experiment did something similar: it offered the machine plenty of content(from youtube) and the machine on it's own discovered the category "cat", and others.
sound negative and I wouldn't want to use it.
I was on that same wave length for a long time. But I gave it a year then rounded up the usual suspects (xfce, gnome, kde) and was surprised to see how much I missed unity.
Do you have any examples of countries where there is no murder? Would you prefer to live in a country with no murder?

You're claiming that no improvements can be made to a society that haven't already been tried in some other society. This is an absurd claim.
I applied about three weeks ago but haven't heard anything as to whether I was accepted. I'm sure you have a backlog of applications so I'm not sweating it but would love to hear one way or another soon!
I'm glad to this important headline is still on HN after all these days!
No one has solved the friendliness problem between humans, so why should it be solvable between humans and AIs.
It does not predate gnome-shell. They were first to call it stable, while GNOME shell was way more stable when we called it stable. You should check the first commits, not when something is released as 1.0. The latter is up to the maintainer and you can do that at any time (and in some cases: never).
Depends... do they pay Canonical for support?

If yes, then, yes, they're eating into RH earnings

Otherwise, it's a battle between Ubuntu Server and CentOS
Because if you bothered to read the article you would have seen it is Brazilian Portuguese, assuming you are Portuguese native speaker like myself.
But seriously, it seems like a pretty neat library. I just think your nomenclature is the suxxors and eventually we're going to look back on this trend and think, "boy, making everyone reading your code wonder which _ you're talking about is a pretty silly way to save a couple characters."
Perhaps we could have some sort of contest, like pulling a stock option grant out of a stone or something.

That way we'd know that the ruler had the divine right.
But why not spend $20 right off the bat and get plenty of gems to enjoy the game? That's the point I'm bringing up.
Man gets banned from Internet for 18 months by judge
> You could make a better choice.

But you can call it whatever you want, so... who cares? The choice is yours... Being a pedant is hardly constructive.
This is fantastic!

Version control is a killer feature for writers, particularly those working collaboratively.

There are actually already a few projects out there that offer version control for writers. Draft and Penflip come to mind.

Draft: https://draftin.com/

Penflip: https://www.penflip.com/
It really doesn't matter how many votes you have if you're dead.
Do you have any citations that mandatory charity work are beneficial for the psychological condition? Also are there data about negative or positive externalities of forced charity work?
> It is a huge pain and tons of extra code to write a program in functional style in python, it is lacking basically everything

I've had the exact opposite experience. I write my Python code in a functional style by default. I use mutation as an exception rather than the rule. I find my code to be much more terse overall. When used effectively I find functional Python requires less code, not more as you imply.
Free 3D printable parametric art bracelets for Valentines
And presumably this service is just repackaging such an existing system. My old company had a tool to figure our what widely used geo db was used for these services (to properly judge it's value), but I no longer have access to this tool.
I don't think this discussion is going anywhere productive. If it's alright with you, I'd rather just leave it as is.
Exception performance in Java
>>One man wrote TeX, albeit one exceptionally talented and driven man, and to this day a whole industry uses it in preference to anything else because it does what it differently and much better than the mainstream product.

I'm assuming that industry is academia? LaTeX was almost all I saw in university but that definitely changed once I entered industry. I don't know any professional technical writers that use it. I'm not dogging it and think its great (my resume is in LaTeX) I don't know if its comparable of the other programs (Office and CS) that you mentioned that aim for a much broader appeal. It has a market but it is a small niche one.
I agree; what I personally wonder is why Underscore and similar libraries don't make use of Javascript's prototype business and add methods to the array and object prototypes? Probably things I'm overlooking here, but, [1, 2, 3].map(stuff) is much nicer than _.map([1, 2, 3], stuff) and the like.
Basic income wouldn't take work away. It would assure that not working when there isn't work to do wouldn't leave people impoverished or lead to an economic collapse.

It would allow people to participate in the economy and pursue productivity or creative pursuits without worrying about starving.

I doubt it's coming, but I don't see its downside in a world where per capita productivity is trivial.
To be paid in Bitcoin.
Google admits data mining student emails in its free education apps
FAA Grounds Valentine's Flower Delivery Drone
The reactive manifesto is 'not even wrong'
i tried using gimp. hell i spent more than a decade using linux as my main os. but why does noone ever mention the lack of non destructive layer effects in gimp? it's probably the biggest showstopper i can think of.

yes you can simulate them with script use[1]. these scripts however are destructive. meaning you can't on the fly adjust or change your effects at a later point.

pick up a random ios or web design tutorial, and chances are a decent amount of the tutorial is all about setting and tuning layer effects. yes, maybe this is not what professional graphics artists do, but if we're talking consumer facing products pixelmators last major release 3.0 was all about layer effects.

and yes, I could build it myself, like i built other things i wanted to work in linux like webcam drivers, various things in mplayer, but something i might use every now and then? i got an old cs4 license lying around and am very happy with it tyvm. works in wine too, not as smooth as gimp, but at least i got the basic stuff that's needed hammered down.

to be fair i think for a long time gimp was almost a one man show, and i applaud them for it, but i fear gimp never got the traction it needed.

[1] http://gimpscripts.com/2011/10/gimp-layer-effects/
Yes. We are working on cert pinning on the origin side as well (and some other SSL enhancements that I'm not sure I can talk about yet). We really want to lock down SSL on CloudFlare as much as we can.
You raise an interesting point on 'work'. The value of work is increasingly less atomic in context of a knowledge economy. Ideas, research, art, sports--these are typically either completely ignored or wildly successful. Marginal differences in 'work' and effort are inconsequential. This is unfortunate because like you've noted, many skilled people will never get what they deserve in winner take all markets on the off chance their choices do not work out. The incremental differences between the top 0.01% and 0.02% are negligible but often lead to disparate rewards.

I disagree with your arguments that we lack a system for competition. Markets do (did) a pretty job of deciding whether an idea or invention is truly valuable. The problem is that most markets are relatively zero-sum, and people are dictated by myopic concerns like bills, quarterly earnings, etc. What this means is that ideas tend to cluster along similar branches as players react to one another rather than engaging in truly 'free-form' exploration of ideas. Basic income will help in this respect, however for every ambitious dreamer there is a gluttonous, entitled individual who blows his money on himself and contributes very little. Coming from a econ/finance background, I can tell you that people can be very selfish in contrast to the comparatively idealistic tech and research community. Unfortunately, current economic systems are obsessed with the stability of quantifiable targets such as inflation, unemployment, etc; i.e. we have a system that promotes incremental growth rather than a system that is more likely to experience creativity/innovation shocks.
http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/education/digitalmedia/us-vot...

1776 - Only land owners can vote.

1789 - "George Washington elected president. Only 6% of the population can vote."
I am absolutely fascinated with this tool. I only with I had the ability to write something like it myself. I'm really satisfied others have the same thoughts.

Thank you!
"The seven companies with the youngest workers, ranked from youngest to highest in median age, were Epic Games (26); Facebook (28); Zynga (28); Google (29); and AOL, Blizzard Entertainment, InfoSys, and Monster.com (all 30). According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only shoe stores and restaurants have workers with a median age less than 30."

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/technology-workers-...

Of course, it depends on the company/product/founders/etc.
> Why work on a manufacturing line producing required and high-demand materials and equipment

We're rapidly reaching the point where 'manufacturing' will be what farming is today.

Farming employes (iirc) 3% of the US population. Yet they feed _everyone_. No one _has_ to be a farmer: people _choose_ farming.

Automation allows fewer people to make more stuff. People will choose to labor in a factory for the same reason they choose farm work: it's challenging, fun, and an interesting way to make a living.
> Point is he took classified intelligence documents to China, then Russia.

The same is true for any embassy courier. If he's not providing the decryption passphrases, who cares?

> His disclosures also frequently seem to cause strife among NATO allies.

That's only because "US spying on Russia/China/etc." was a given and hardly a surprise.
You found out the right first step yourself: Block the source IP address. Sure it will turn into a game of whack-a-mole with them changing their IP but eventually, their customers will get fed up with their downtime.

Second idea: Javascript redirect all of your pages to your own subdomain. Again, its just a step in an arms race, but this would be a little too hard/expensive to take to court. You can win an arms race if you try.
Neat, I'll definitely use this with LaTeX.
You know how every site has a "Terms of Use" link at the bottom? That's where it says "You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our Web pages or the content contained therein without prior written permission of an authorized officer of Fandango."

Also, there are restrictions on linking to Fandango; you may only link to their homepage.
Christmas music botched it for me. Polluted all my stations so I left.
Gnome is likely to be the first DE to run on wayland. Gnome 3.12 is being delayed to release lockstep with wayland - especially to support some of the gnome-settings-daemon stuff.
>need to have some Work to feel like their lives have meaning.

Agreed.

Vaguely relevant story time for 1st world crowd: In my country (South Africa) it is illegal for the public to refuel their own cars. There is dedicated staff that does nothing else all day - essentially behave like restaurant waiters but for petrol stations.

Realistically the law is only in place for job creation purposes - it is by most measures unnecessary. And yet I've come to appreciate it: I don't need to leave my car. The people handling flammable liquids do this all day long & received training - much better than random McDonalds munching idiots. Credit card speedpoint gets brought to my car window, windscreen washed, tyre pressure checked etc. I end up (voluntarily) tipping 0.5 USD - a drop in the ocean. I have a million problems so a guy making my life easier there & smiling whilst doing so...I'm totally ok with carrying him on my tax/fuel bill.
OS package managerd can't keep up with programming language packages. Use the Langauge community's package manager.
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Look forward to it. If you meet me online by Grubb's tavern, I will show you where the treasure is hidden.
How often is the AS info updated? What source do you use, and how do you handle multi-homed IP addresses?
In context, that statement sounds like he's talking about Russia's actions with regard to his case. I wouldn't read the quote as "Russia's really nice to gay people!". I'd read it as "Russia granted me asylum rather than throwing me to a possible execution/life imprisonment for whistleblowing."
> Even if you were to erroneously say that, it isn't type classes that is the problem.

I'm pretty sure it is. For example, see section 3.7 of "Type classes: an exploration of the design space" by SPJ et al.
Maintain a sorted array in O(1) while incrementing one random element at a time
You're not a terrible nerd. Star Trek just isn't that great a show.

I blame Roddenberry. He sold the network 'Wagon Train to the Stars' but what he deliberately _produced_ was an episodic morality play.

Good fiction and a consistent universe were just not going to happen in that kind of a deal.
Maturing Your Vision
Twitter's Dick Costolo on being a good CEO