skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a similar service over at The Daily Water Cooler http://www.the-dwc.co/ so I definitely agree with your line of thinking regarding email as one of the most easily accessible platforms.

My service might be closer to Dave Pell's NextDraft or a more general Term Sheet by Dan Primack though because it's really just me curating the content so I generally add more personal flavor and don't really have an algorithm to help source the content.

Kind of curious where TheSkimm goes though. They got some nice funding recently from Homebrew but clearly are aiming to be more than just a newsletter. They also used to be more young professional woman-centric, but have started to slowly downplay that.

I gotta wonder though, why the Ivy League focus?

Anyway, good luck with the venture! Happy to see more people informed about the news.
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- Make informed decisions and be comfortable learning from failures.

- Protect the separation of concerns and ensure expedience of delivery is not the enemy of quality.

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- Experience with highly available, multi-tenant, cloud-deployed applications.

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- Experience with Git.

- Understanding of distributed systems and large scale engineering challenges.

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Absolutely – one of my favorite examples about the importance of visualization, and why summary statistics often don't do a great job of summarizing a distribution.
Reop – reasonable expectation of privacy
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A bit meta, but for those who were not previously aware of Real World Tech, if you enjoyed this article then do dig into the archives. David Kanter does awesome writeups of (mostly) CPU and GPU architectures. I consider them a step beyond Anand Shimpi's write ups, the most recent of which was recently shared on HN, concerning Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture [0]. They're published very infrequently, with the front page of RWT still having two articles from 2012 appearing.

Although it's not exactly relevant to the type of programming I do, I still find it useful to understand how modern processors actually work. At the very least, reading architecture articles helps me to understand exactly why certain processors are faster at specific tasks than others.

While I think it's great that David is being paid to write what he is good at, it's slightly disappointing to me that his long form writeups are going to be behind a pay wall at Microprocessor Report, which is covered in the recent article "Splitting my time between MPR and RWT" [1]. The submitted article is likely one of the few more in-depth articles he talked about being release in the next several months.

[0] http://anandtech.com/show/7910/apples-cyclone-microarchitect...

[1] http://www.realworldtech.com/mpr/
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Nobody's personal beliefs should be representative of the company. If the guy was a Catholic, would you say that Mozilla is a Catholic organization, or that he's going to make Catholic decisions?

You may not remember that President Kennedy was accused of being "controlled" by the Vatican when he was elected because he was the first (and remains the only) Roman-Catholic president, and people were freaked out he'd take orders from the Pope. Turned out not to be the case.

To address fears that his being Catholic would impact his decision-making,
he famously told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on
September 12, 1960, "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am
the Democratic Party candidate for President who also happens to be
a Catholic. I do not speak for my Church on public matters – and
the Church does not speak for me."[46] Kennedy questioned rhetorically
whether one-quarter of Americans were relegated to second-class
citizenship just because they were Catholic, and once stated that,
"No one asked me my religion [serving the Navy] in the South Pacific."[47]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

I understand the problem for Buffer, but this isn't the solution.

I've heard of companies who offer people to consult on weekends for a predetermined total number of hours to accomplish much the same outcome. Annoying, but I'll play ball.

...but really. I seriously doubt any high-end dev talent is willing to take such risks. And if you think this hiring strategy would be successful in attracting high-end dev talent that really cares about Buffer, well you haven't examined the hiring market lately and are likely high off your own supply.
Then get the $300 Asus Vivotab Note, instead of spending $60/month on a lease on a new laptop. Within 6 months, you'll have made your money back and then some (Especially since the $300 tablet can do everything a 4-year-old computer can do, while having superior battery life, significantly less weight, support of a Wacom Active Stylus and a touchscreen)

Yes, I have run Photoshop and Gimp on a $300 Baytrail Tablet. Yes, they work. I can personally verify that fact. On the other hand, I do notice significant performance increases when comparing these cheap, tiny computers against my beefy Desktop. Regardless, I speak from experience.

Benchmarks do not lie however, these $300 Baytrail tablets are faster than Macbook Pros from 4 years ago.

Regardless of how you slice it, computers depreciate significantly faster than cars. For those where "just enough" performance is good enough, you might as well buy these modern $300 netbooks / tablets than lease a top-of-the-line laptop for $60/month... unless you really throw away your laptops after less than 5 months of usage.

A brand new cheap computer is better than a top-of-the-line computer from 4 years ago. And for those who are chasing the top end, modern premium computers are released too often for this lease business model to make sense IMO.
I’m confused... I bought this in January 2013. This doesn’t mention an update... is it that it’s now a book that’s new?
Incredibly cool but seems to have a lot of trouble in the Nexus4.
I don't think that was it. They sent the whole of every datagram twice:

> Our solution was simple and surprisingly effective. Every packet would send copy of the last packet. This way if a packet were dropped, a copy of it would arrive with the next packet, and we could continue on our merry way. This would require nearly twice as much bandwidth, but fortunately our system required so little bandwidth that this was acceptable. This would only fail if two consecutive packets were dropped, and this seemed unlikely. If it did happen, then we would fall back on the re-sending code.

The protocol i remember specifically send some parts of datagrams, the most critical messages, twice.
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Portability frameworks are OK for games, but not for non-trivial non-game apps. If you need an expedient implementation, in most cases I would go for a Web wrapper rather than a portability framework. <-- Advice does not apply to games.
See footnote at this: http://open.bufferapp.com/two-more-happiness-heroes-join-the...
> You need to reduce the parallelism in your build.

I looked at your blog post and it recommends using /MP and setting num. parallel project builds to num. cores.

In other words, you recommend exactly what I was doing!

We do use precompiled header files. And we get great build times. It's only with /analyze builds that the system locks up.

Yes, 144 parallel compiles is excessive, but as your article says, 12-way parallel compile and 12-way parallel project builds are both necessary to expose all possible parallelism. Otherwise there will be times when many CPUs are idle. Until VS gets a global scheduler to avoid over subscribing the CPUs there is no way to get full parallelism without sometimes over subscribing.

I'm surprised that you find SSDs that helpful. With enough RAM they should offer only modest improvements to compilation, because source files and header files get cached.
The thing I don't get about this whole faux controversy is since when is it professionally acceptable to discriminate against someone for their private political views and esp. those that might be informed by religious beliefs so long as they don't bring them into the workplace? I mean by the time everyone is done investigating who believes what and donated how much to who there won't be anyone left to work anywhere. This whole thing is just really slimy.
Yep, I know. I check their Glassdoor reviews every few weeks. I didn't expect it to be an easy-going place.

I've worked at far more grueling places (Citadel).
>Reading is, and has always been, an individual activity.

That's not true. Novels written in the 19th and 18th century, which featured long and complex passages, were often read aloud. Poems with meter are usually read aloud as well. Religious prayers are still sung and chanted.

>The rise of social media just cluttered our attention span

A generation ago, people said the same thing about a kind of social media: television. The generation before that worried about movies, as well as the decline of letter writing because of spread of telephones. The generation before that was worried about the telegraph destroying the art of letter writing as well.

Movies, telephones, television, and texting do not have permanent deleterious effects on your attention span. All you need to do is make a commitment and set aside time for reading.
Are they all intermittent?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHJ7WnXbDc
If there's any indication that Eich acted unlawfully in his role as CEO that's an issue. If his personal opinion* simply differs from what's popular in the community, then it's just that - different.

What if he donated to the NRA or a pro-GMO campaign for example? Would there be similar uproar? This is just mob rule.

* I'm making no statement as to whether I agree with either side.
We exchanged 47 emails from the 24th to the 28th. If I can grab some time I'll put a different kind of post together... more about the interactions, which were very up and down with this guy. I don't write a blog or anything so not sure where I'd post it though.
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Sure, whatever. Have it.

...but that still doesn't negate the fact that expecting anyone worth their salt to give up a current level of security for a 45 day gamble with Buffer is a smart hiring strategy.
Top Best-Selling Cars: March 2014
The final month of winter continued to be a challenging one for many automakers. Poor weather through large swaths of the country dampened sales in many regions buried under snow and ice. March capped...
But do you hire remote workers?
Or an open source 486! :)

http://opencores.org/project,ao486
LibSass maintainer here -- it's really great to see another project pick it up, and although we're aware that we still have a fair bit of catching up to do, things like this give us all the more incentive!
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What if he donated to the NRA or a pro-GMO campaign for example? Would there be similar uproar?

No, because noone see those causes as being founded in fear and hate.

EDIT: changed wording for clarity

Also, to the downvoters Do you really think we would have heard about all this as much if it were related to other issues?
I see no Java in this repo?
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"Cote d'Azure" should really be spelled "Côte d'Azur"; don't mind the ô but please use Azur and not Azure... ;-)
Minor nit, but your linked reference notes:

[VK] is 8th most popular social networking site in the world

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-networking-websites

[This list itself may be open to question, however. See for example some major exclusions:

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-quick-guide-to-chinas-socia...]
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I guess it's a kind of FEC. To me, FEC usually means that (a) the error-correction information is smaller than the message it covers and (b) the error-correction information is included in the message it covers. The Header Error Control field in an ATM cell is the canonical example for me.

But, yes, sending duplicates in another datagram does allow errors to be corrected without being reported to the sender, so it corrects errors in a forward direction, which i suppose makes it FEC.

That Google tail loss stuff is nice, thanks for the link. It's cool that thirty years after RFC793, we're still making significant improvements to TCP.
So You Want To Write Your Own Language?
But they should be scared. Why? Because it could be the tip of the iceberg. If you are able to sufficiently answer the inquiry they are generally done with you. Otoh, depending on the inquiry, if you are not you then possibly open yourself up to further scrutiny in the current year or future years.
Really hope this doesn't sound like belabouring the point but...

> tpope is one of only a few driving forces over on the Vim side of Clojure

tpope is indeed one of the few, but I'd hate for people to dismiss https://github.com/guns for his work on vim-clojure-static, vim-clojure-highlight, etc. Both have done a great job on those projects, but also with engaging with the community.

And let's not forget Meikel Brandmeyer, met him once, lovely guy. But also spent a lot of time delivering VimClojure back in the day. (I'm glad I don't have to suffer nailgun any more!)

I think there's plenty enough willing people (I'm one - I've contributed 1 or 2 line snippets here and there). But the environment is actually pretty damn nice already. No complaints.
I found this to be the most interesting page:

http://iac.com/about/leadership

One group. One dream. To own a bunch of random websites, together.

edit: With the help of Chelsea Clinton and Michael Eisner!
Well, the NRA is at least partially responsible for perpetuating an unhealthy gun culture in the USA that is responsible for thousands of deaths every year. There's plenty to fear and hate about that.
As someone who just made it through the Matasano gauntlet, I can't recommend it enough. It was fun and challenging. If you're interested in doing security, get in touch with tptacek. I can't wait to get started myself.
well, I'm just feeling a bit burned after a presentation I sat through the other week on the topic.
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We are looking for bright and talented individuals as we advance our cutting edge proprietary technology.

LEAD ENGINEER JOB DESCRIPTION

To be successful in this role, you must be a quick learner, have stellar software development and communication abilities, and work well in cross-functional teams. This is a great opportunity to enhance your cloud computing skills, while simultaneously gaining intimate knowledge of InvestCloud products and services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with the CTO, Chief Architect, and Head of Product to deliver on key architectural features.

- Research, implement, and find ways to leverage new technologies to increase the scalability and performance of the platform.

- Design, defend, and implement the way forward.

- Make informed decisions and be comfortable learning from failures.

- Protect the separation of concerns and ensure expedience of delivery is not the enemy of quality.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience and ability to work in multiple programming languages and frameworks; more importantly, you’re not afraid to research a new one if its the right tool for the job.

- Appreciation of storage tools; for example: you have an opinion on them, and enjoy discussing when and where to use NoSQL vs relational.

- Experience with highly available, multi-tenant, cloud-deployed applications.

- A BS/BA in Computer Science or related field.

- Experience with Git.

- Understanding of distributed systems and large scale engineering challenges.

View other job openings here: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/InvestCloud/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20dolm/psa_xapo_doe...
yea been wondering about this as well.. basically usage in general.

i've been thinking its a cheap-skate way to get private repos for free on github... XD
but really the ideal use case would be to be able to keep passwords & sensitive info in the repo but have it make it to production without having to manually re-config.

i'm assuming if you put the key on your webserver it would be able to do this? also assuming you are on a service where you can actually access the filesystem outside your repo

(o and the reason this relates to your comment being.... would be nice to have it pass through github on way to prod. then it could be a nice dev+github+AWS kindof deploy process)
That sounds like a good idea. How do you do it?
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gsfgf says:

"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."

"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."

"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."

"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."

"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"
US didn't occupy Yemen and claim it's "local self-defense forces" and then rushed through a fake referendum to make Yemen part of the US, last time I checked. So I'm not sure what is here to compare. Each major country has intelligence and clandestine operations which are not publicly acknowledged, but it's different between cloak-and-dagger stuff and occupying a part of neighboring country and trying to present it as if they did it to themselves.
The article tries to make out of thin air an impression that Kremlin took over VK by force, or something like that. Which is a complete bullshit IMHO.

Durov and others just exchanged their shares to cash, that's all.

Trying to mention this together with the fact that Durov disobeyed traffic cop order and hit him with his car (he did, that's a proven case, there is a video), doesn't make it a "Kremlin forceful takeover of VK"
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Before making conclusions, this graph needs to be controlled for at least one outside factor: the overall geographic distribution of companies.

If one were to take the complete bipartite graph of [All Startups, All Fortune 500s] and plot the distances between connected vertices, I would not be surprised to find a distribution graph similar to the one shown above. Most companies are in population centers, and most population centers are on the coasts.

I have no reason to doubt that the subset of that graph that contains acquisition relationships is, in fact, more heavily skewed towards proximity. But, that is currently a conjecture, and the data does not support the conclusion (although it does not disprove it, which is something).