skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but indirectly.

It was a relatively common theme on Kuro5hin (back when it had more than 2 stories per year...) that there was no K5 cabal (in reference to the backbone cabal)

I was never a heavy usenet-er, so the K5 reference is the one that stays in my mind.
Ask HN: Help me find a front-end dev. role that allows for telecommute/remote
Hi All,

I'm a front end UI web developer (skillset - HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, AngularJS and working knowledge of Ruby on Rails) living in Chicago with several years of experience (digital agencies and Fortune 500 companies) and looking to change my current full-time job.

I know there are more front-end roles than you can shake a stick at, but one requirement is the position needs to be telecommute/remote (I lose a lot of time commuting to the office everyday and work better at home and via teleconferencing). Preferably I'm looking to move onto an established Fortune 500 company (i.e. Amazon, Cisco etc.) or a growing startup in Silicon Valley. A few other icings on the cake that are bonus points:

1. Use of the latest and greatest technology (Node.js, Grunt etc.)
2. Competitive salary (obviously!)
3. Ability to attend conferences to keep up with the never ending tide of new technologies.

You can reach me at my username at gmail. If you have any contacts or know any hiring managers I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. Not interested in any contracts.
Twitter is like AIM away messages for people who aren't AFK.
What is the most beautiful thing you could make?
That implies that someone always is the smartest, and that person always needs a better room. If they're so smart, how come they're in crap rooms?
It was more of a poorly worded point of interest that felt like a joint condemnation. I still found it interesting in a "Connections" sort of way.
Din't realize there was a running joke about SkyDrive but just to play along:

Umm maybe because Skydrive offers 100GB (200 bing points) compared to dropbox at 2gb and google drive at 15gb. You know you need space for all these heavy uploads.
You mean a wallet on your own hardware, or your own wallet on someone else's hardware like Blockchain.info?
A History of Flat Design
If Apple uses flat design styling, it must be good!
It's pretty close to happening; they can already track your eyes fast enough to render at higher resolution at the fovea area as your eyes move around:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/fove...

Also, your eyes are very slow to focus relative to your eye movements, so it is probably doable now. It still will not feel like real life, just sort of eye tracked depth-of-field. Your eyes will still be focused at infinity, but near things will blur when you look in the distance, and vice versa.
The architect involved in the article has nothing to do with the "he" you are referring to. The are entirely independent people.
> PHP and MySQL aren't the sexy HN choice, and there are problems with both, but both will get you a very long ways before they are ever your main problem as a startup.

This is only true if you don't have your technological sights set particularly high.

We could not implement some of the things we do, reliably, with PHP and MySQL. We'd spend more time battling the tools than we would working on our actual product.
I see this as possible, if only slightly. But then again, a plane is still missing so anything is possible.

My theory: the plane never existed in the first place!
> Tip: using a spreadsheet to keep CV parts saves a ton of time.

I usually keep it all in one LaTeX file, and abuse that as my macro processor (to include / exclude sections). Text files work well with version control.
Phlisped: An Experiment in Graphical Programming
And you were born on the same planet as Hitler, as such you are responsible for the death of millions of Jews. After all, you failed to stop Hitler and as such you inderectly caused it. By your own admission people should be judged on their indirect actions as well, so you should probably go turn yourself in for your hate crimes.
I haven't attended a game in several years -- although most of my infrequent attendance had been at others' invitation, anyway.

Although I was never a sports nut, I no longer watch games on TV, at all. Recently, I told one friend I would not be attending his Superbowl party, this year. I had the prior year, with some misgivings, because I wanted to see people.

I did not watch the recent winter Olympics, and I told friends why. I shared some links to articles describing the outrageous branding practices, among other things. This seems to have gotten at least some friends thinking about the matter.

For the fellow who throws the Superbowl party, I specifically shared some recent reporting both on the ever more apparent link to traumatic brain injury (including that "Frontline" show and connected reporting) and on the enormous tax shelter that pro-sports teams have become for their owners. Also the financial shenanigans around facility financing. He has been reconsidering his attachment to the game and to other pro sports (including non-US football, aka soccer).

One friend is an auditor for the Federal government. He has taken the point that while this is not his specific purview, a lot of public money is, one way and another, going to line the pockets of specific, well-connected interests. Being an honest soul, he admits to significant discomfort with this.

I think that most people are basically "fair" and decent people. As they learn more, they find an increasing distolerance towards stomaching the situation. And they decide that there are other things they can spend their time, energy, and money on.

Again, I'm not dumping on sports. I'm communicating my strong dissatisfaction with what this "sports industry" has become.
kickstarter purchasers got around a $30 discount because it was supposed to include Doom 3 BFG with VR support, which didn't end up being ready in time.
Royalty free? So i wont be charged for Shipping the commercial game? Only the developer fees?

I dont get it. Am i missing something?
The Witcher 2 is getting a Linux port
> In 13,000 hours I have had to wrestle with the consequences of O(n) complexity

That is what I would expect someone who has had to wrestle with big-O problems but didn't recognize them to say. I honestly don't know what you're working on if its actually true. I had a time complexity issue just this week. On front-end code, no less. I probably work on an issue involving time complexity once a month, if not more often.
Let's say entertainment companies do provide something people want. But let's say that people, even though they want the entertainment, don't want to pay for it. That is the problem that legal rules like copyright solve.

Without government to enforce fair transactions, sustainable trade and innovation is not possible. That's not limited to digital stuff--it's true across the entire economy.

Plenty of people are making money off entertainment. Electronics manufacturers and ISPs are making very nice livings by selling products and services that enable digital entertainment.

No one protests paying $200 + $60/month for an iPhone, but ask them to pay $2.99 to rent a movie on it, instead of BitTorrenting it, and all of a sudden it's a massive protest issue.
Wow, that's hilarious. Adding in that extra line makes a huge difference.
Please go back to Reddit with your silly jokes.
Segway company owner rides scooter off cliff, dies (2010)
> Also, I'm not sure I think "technical debt" is a real thing.

Can you explain what you mean by this? Are you not familiar with the term, or do you not believe it exists?
Well to be fair it will look more suspicious if he were to upload 10s of GBs in data to Google's or Dropbox's servers.
I've used them a ton for ASN.1 parsing, base64 encoding/decoding, hashing, certificate dumping and the occasional RSA decryption or signature check. The command-line interface is horrendous, but man is that a useful crypto toolbox.
PostgreSQL is one of the last things I'd describe as sexy in any way, shape, or form. It's utterly, uncompromisingly utilitarian.
If anyone would like to explore themselves at a deeper level, to try to really understand the roots of these cravings, I highly recommend Vipassana meditation. They offer free 10-day courses, where you don't read or write or talk at all the entire time. You just meditate, and they teach you to meditate. It doesn't have any religious or political affiliation - it's like boot camp for meditation. It's truly awesome, and gives you the opportunity for true, real personal growth. You can read more about it at dhamma.org
It's hard to figure out how bad this is because they don't give enough information about the other projects they compare to.

For instance, they compare to 25 construction worker deaths when preparing Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics. As far as I have been able to find with some Googling, Sochi officially involved 74000 construction workers, but an advocacy group for migrant workers says that there were around another 50000 working without permits. Let's take the high figure, and that gives us 1 death per 5000 workers.

So given 1.2 million migrant workers in Qatar, then if they were as safe as Sochi workers, we'd expect 240 deaths, so 900 does indeed look like it indicates they have some major safety problems.

The comparison to 11 who died during the Golden Gate Bridge construction seems pretty worthless. The FAQ at goldengatebridge.org says it was built by 10 prime contractors and the subcontractors, but also that they don't have any employment records from any of them so can't say how many workers were involved. It's also not a good project for comparison because it actually only had two fatal accidents. The first killed one man. The second killed 10 men, when a scaffold failed and the safety net did not catch them.

Up until that point, the project had set a record for remarkable safety. The norm for that kind of project was about one death per million dollars of construction, so getting that far with only one death was amazing, and even with all 11, I think they came in quite low. It was a $30 million project, so 30 deaths would have been normal. At that death rate, taking into account inflation, a project the size of the Qatar FIFA project would have, if safety was comparable to typical bridge projects at the time the Golden Gate was built, about 5000 deaths total for the project--which is close to what the article says they are looking at. However, bridge work is, I think, inherently more dangerous than much of the FIFA infrastructure work, and I'd hope bridge work today is more safe than bridge work was when the Golden Gate was built, so this is consistent with the Sochi comparison. Qatar does indeed to be doing something very wrong.

Conclusion: something very bad is indeed happening in Qatar.
Agreed, but creating an awesome community could be worth it if you can do it, those last for years and lead to amazing things.
Review of Crucial's new M550 series SSD, gives Intel a run for their money
Variance is currently built on Angular, but that's not part of the public API contract.
It's very likely that at a future point we will whip up a faster/leaner DOM compiler and drop 100kB of Angular features that Variance does not need.
"Following Socrates, the Stoics held that unhappiness and evil are the results of human ignorance of the reason in nature. If someone is unkind, it is because they are unaware of their own universal reason, which leads to the conclusion of kindness." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism#Stoic_ethics_and_virt...

That's often not why people are unkind. People can be unkind because of specific systems we can name, like racism. How does this philosophy (with "justice" as one of the four tenants) propose a person approaches power structures?
This is a very cool(hot?) project. I am interested to see the long term economics of it and how reliable the whole system will be.

I have heard of similar systems that use salt as the heated fluid in the towers. This allows for the towers to 'trap' heat and continue creating power when the sun is down. Maybe NRG (and the other companies) next build.
Society is capable of addressing more than one social issue at once. The social issues in Qatar that make it possible for these crimes to take place should not be neglected because there is oppressive poverty in the countries that Qatar sources their slaves from. Both need to be addressed.

I would like to stress that slavery in Qatar is not a mere symptom of social issues in the Philippines. It is symptomatic of deep flaws in Qatarien. How can I assert that with confidence? Because many other countries that are not Qatar do not condone keeping Filipino workers as slaves. How many passport deprived, exit-visa restrained migrant workers died during the construction Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London? It sure as shit wasn't 900. It was none.
Thats more of a beginner program. Also its very strength focused. I started with something similar but later shifted to slightly higher reps and splits. More size for less work.
Part of it is the Javascript that they're using is really heavy (I think they still have an open bug for poor performance on Android) and part of it is the backend is really really really resource hungry.
I thought they were showing the Linux version at GDC?
This presupposes YC discriminated against older founders in the first place.
Of course, but neither was your point. You were rebutting that algo & bintree knowledge are unnecessary in the vast majority of companies, in favor of the pursuit of O(n) knowledge in candidates. None of your examples validated this, and "should" became merely "helpful."
My initial thought is that there was a cushy deal and someone higher up was getting kickbacks, and didn’t like it being called out.
But bots can click on that too, so soon there will be captchas but then bots will do captcha solving or they will outsource it.
I would love to see answers to this comment from people that have used it.
I'm sure cryengine is great, but the methodology in those videos looks pretty dodgy... It appears that they're comparing random completely different scenes in each engine, whose only similarity is their general subject ("scene with palm tree!").

There are a lot of variables that go into how the end result looks, only some of which have to do with the capability of the underlying engine, and they don't even seem to be trying to account/adjust for such factors....
This is just silly. One fifth of the world is on Facebook, they are aware of Facebook and that it makes ton of money, they are aware of the industry. Interest ≠ Privilege. I grew up very poor but was always VERY interested in technology every way possible. I got a 20 year old computer used for very cheap in my early teens and learned to program on this. Almost any child is capable of this. Its not privilege, its interest. Anyone with interest is perfectly capable.
As another data point, there were no deaths during the construction of London 2012 Olympic Park: http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2012/hse-olympics-research.htm

There was a single death during the construction for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and 10 deaths during construction for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

http://constructiondatacompany.com/olympics-world-cup-constr...

(As you speculate for Sochi, there may also be reporting issues for the Beijing Olympics, but that is nothing but speculation on my part. I don't believe that the same could be said of the construction projects in UK or Canada.)

There is something _really_ wrong going on in Qatar.
250k fine is very misleading:

> OSHA has subsequently forced Dish to pay $157,024 in back wages, $100,000 in compensatory damages, as well as the former employee's legal fees.

so 157k was paying a debt, not really a fine.
I started reading a little about stoicism after seeing it on Mr. Money Mustache a year or so ago. That might be what you're thinking of.

Like a lot of other people, the philosophy was something I had been practicing in a raw form for a while, but seeing it codified makes it much easier to really put it to use.
It would be nice to know your own user #.
Where "narrowly missed" is "23 million km away." (For scale: the distance to the core is ~6,000 km and the distance to the moon is ~400,000 km).
This seems to bode well for a Witcher 3 game being multiplatform right from launch.
Per the Wikipedia article, the term "waterfall" has always been pejorative. It was first described in 1970 as "this is a software development model which doesn't work". Everyone that has ever sold a commercial software development methodology has sold it as "not waterfall".
"...also alleged to have stolen Microsoft’s “Activation Server Software Development Kit,” a propriety system used to prevent the unauthorized copying of Microsoft programs."[1]

And another expansion on what the leak could allow:

"According to the reports, not only was Windows 8 leaked, but he also leaked Windows 7 files and the Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Kit which when reverse engineered, could allow hackers to crack the Activation process within Windows, meaning that pirated copies of Windows 7 could continue to function without the nagging presence of popup messages warning users about their copy of Windows."[2]

[1]: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Ex-Microsoft-employee...

[2]: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/03/microsoft-employee-responsi...
Working at a big-name tech company definitely makes you more marketable. It won't help you much, if at all, in the interview, but it will absolutely help you get your foot in the door. "If Google hired him, he's worth an interview" is a fairly rational thing to say, and a lot of employers say it.

So if your resume is lacking, that's not a bad reason to take a job. If your resume is already getting you interviews regularly, a job at Google might not help you much in your next job search.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Its not that complex.
Seriously, kids. You don't remember the good old days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Unio...

Otherwise, (local politics, human rights aside) one shouldn't cross a frontier without considering the risk of being denied permission to come out again. Whims, national and personal, abound. Check in with your consulate -- remotely, if possible -- if that'll make you feel better.

And I'm not even pararnoid. Been there, done that. (The international travel, and jobs/labor (on and off the books) when it could be scary, that is.)

Crapshoot always. The odds change. Do the math.

Not to belittle desperate migration in search of a better life.
Under no circumstances should you trust anyone to have access to your bitcoin. Do whatever it takes to accomplish that goal. Philosophically, that's one of the core reasons bitcoin is a big deal, because at no point in history has it been possible to do that until now.

If I had followed the above advice, then I wouldn't have lost a lot of money.

Given the nature of human greed, what do you think the chances are that someone who has access to >10% of a currency will simply let it sit there and do nothing with it?

Given the nature of computer security, what do you think the chances are that Coinbase is impregnable under every imaginable circumstance? What about a rogue employee? What if the founder himself steals?

Now, the question is, what's the best way to accomplish the goal of "Don't let anyone else have access to your bitcoin, ever"? There are solutions. Find one, use it. Please. Don't make my mistake.
2048 game for Windows Phone
I wouldn't start with Epictetus just because I think some of his lines can be easily misinterpreted, for example, the line about kissing your child and thinking about his death can really put people off.

I had the same initial reaction with Marcus, but honestly it might be because I didn't have the right translation (pick Gregory Hays's!!) and not enough background on the man. I would highly recommend watching this short series that mentions both Epictetus and Marcus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLD09Qa3kMk I truly think you'll see the Meditations in a different way after watching this. Also, Pierre Hadot has a very good (but scholarly) analysis on it in The Inner Citadel.

And for Epictetus, I always introduce him with the story of the Vietnam prisoner of war James Stockdale who in a way relied on stoic principles to endure the tortures he was inflicted. He wrote and lectured about the lessons there, Google him around.
Check out Hadot's Inner Citadel if you haven't, also an amazing book.
One alternate possibility is to use a lightfield display. The problem with these is they are currently extremely low resolution and require consistent rendering at all focal lengths.
I think he was. I also enjoy that fantasy, truthfully I think I'd do quite well in a post-apocalyptic society. For one thing; I have a friend who worked in a medieval troupe, and he taught me some of the basic routines they use with swords. Also I participated in http://irlshooter.com/ which was amazing, a similar level of thrill that I got from skydiving.

So forgetting all the messy business of day-to-day life, just running around with pointy weapons and fighting zombies seems appealing.
There's a surprisingly active community at /r/ithkuil with people doing translations.

The loper os thing is currently two guys playing with fpgas, but the one knows his lisp and knows what he wants and has supposedly written most of the OS code already, so I'm hopeful. I'm not sure if anything other than a networked lisp machine would work for the kind of verifiably-not-backdoored software/hardware that everyone wants. Aside from the obvious smell of a lisp hacker trying to do his own full stack, I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten more attention.
Thanks for spotting base rate neglect.
I really like that my phone has replaced my watch.

No disgusting strap, no having to take it off to code, no watch tan, no stupid thing on my arm to fiddle with and besides, the really important thing is I really don't need to know the time most of the day (the same applies for tweets, sms messages, missed/incoming calls, the latest in game ads I forgot to disable and google chat pings) Smart or dumb, a wrist mounted realtime information monitoring device is kind of the last thing I want from technology.

Sad thing is.. they're going to be mandatory to own in order to live in cultured programmer society in 3 years. So, I hope they at least make them as nice as my old Nixons that are now sitting at the farthest back corner of my dresser.
Scrum is micromanagement collectivized.
One of the biggest benefits of Postgres is WAL-E (https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e), which allows you to perform streaming backups (based on Postgres' WAL) to <location> (i.e. S3, an file server, etc) and also perform base-backups at regular intervals (so you can replay your WAL backups on top of it).
I did not read your original post, but I guess by "should be fixed where the modern slaves come from" you are talking about poor countries or poverty in general. If so:

Poverty is not the cause of slavery as a symptom, the symptoms of most poverty in the world today are bad working conditions, low pay, etc which workers do voluntarily, they mostly don't have another option than taking mean jobs, granted, but they can switch their employer, try to build a small business, etc. They can't do that if they are de facto slaves, living in a country where they have almost no rights and which they can't leave. My point is: bad jobs are a symptom of poverty, slavery is a symptom of very bad politics, despising human rights.
Ask HN: LogMeIn alternatives
LogMeIn.com is about to end its free service. What's your favorite remote desktop/administration alternative for Windows and/or Mac?