skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tip! Were professions added recently? "Doctor of Medicine" wasn't on the list at the time we put up the ads a month ago.

For workplace targetting, it looks like none of the hospitals in our current markets (Balkans) are in the system, so it's not as useful. We had a similar problem when trying to target people with "Medical School" as education and got something like 10 people total, seems education as an attribute is counted only for US-based users.
Thanks. My gut tells me there are advantages for both, but that it's at least somewhat situational.

How do you feel about the fact that the book is quite dated. I mean our ability to be integrated into the team, information and workflow while working remotely has improved by leaps and bounds since 1996. He's referencing a time before, DVCS, team chats (IRC I suppose), shared work boards like Trello/Pivotal, DropBox, Google Docs, Github, screen sharing. The list really goes on and on.
I could not find this option anywhere, but I think I see how to do it now, going to give it a try, thanks!
That looks like the spider trap link.
The way he handles his PR is ugly. Exclamation mark in every reply. Is that necessary?
Same here, I have three hours during the weekend that are mine to hack on projects. But beyond that I have a notebook I constantly am writing down ideas and thoughts in. During lunch time you can spend it working on problems. And then there is vacation days. How about taking a day here or there to concentrate on the projects you want to invest yourself into?
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And if that works for you, you shouldn't learn it. :)

But I think Tarsnap -> Patio11's Idea is like Git -> GitHub. I think there are two separate audiences there with different needs.
I think with the market being what it is, you can probably get a great job that matches your expectations without creating a 6-month-runway-no-retirement-funds stress inducer machine for yourself. Unemployment is a great new job's worst enemy. You can always negotiate from a more comfortable position if you keep your current job.

I can't really give more specific advice with the information you've provided, but spending your retirement savings and risking your family's financial safety in order to get a nicer job seems unnecessary. You can probably engineer a solution without those risks.

I'm sure you are aware of this, but "not having time" is a relative notion.
Can anyone briefly explain what makes the lisp that the author develops unique?
In my experience, performance is dominated almost completely by memory throughput and/or memory latency (depending on whether the prefetcher succeeds).

All the instruction latencies, VLIW optimizations, and so forth have a minor effect.

However, the cases where these things do have an effect, are exactly the cases where it might make sense to go down to ASM level.

The first avenue to improve performance, though, is improving memory access patterns. Compacting, aligning and rearranging data in cache windows. Even creating and maintaining redundant copies of data which is compacted or organized in a way that aids the cache can help.

Another big improvement I've witnessed is helping the prefetcher. For example, I've had code that had to iterate a few linked lists to work on all elements. When I reorganized that code to interleave the iteration of 8 linked lists at a time (rather than iterating them all serially), I went up from being memory-latency-bound, to being closer to memory-throughput-bound. The prefetcher could predict the next 8 ptrs I'll dereference, and prefetch 8 cache lines, instead of 1 at a time.
The basic principles apply whether you're using English or not. You should theoretically be able to write a programming language in any real-world language you want.
If a third-party is always willing to buy houses (or sell houses it owns), then you don't have the awkward case where I want to buy your house today but you really really wanted to sell it a month ago.
Unfortionaly the unreal editor does not work.

Only deployment.
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We couldn't agree more! Our model is not a beat-you-over-the-head subscription. Instead we suggest products and a schedule, and encourage you to customize each shipment. Our goal is to make this a really efficient process. Give it a try and let me know if you still feel the same way:

https://www.epantry.com/sandbox/4758/

Plus we try to be pretty human :) For instance if you tell us a joke on live chat, we'll give you a $2 discount.

Anyway - love to hear more thoughts as you have them.
Cultural point maybe. I know that I want resumes I receive to have a picture: much easier for me after an interview to remember who was who if I have a photo to remind me.
The problem here is that the money is made by providing commodity services rather than engineering effort.
So the person who designs the innovative decentralized system makes much less money than the person who can throw a lot of cheap servers into a rack.
Strangely, every one of the links in the downloads page has 404'd for me. I was quite disappointed to see Wave die, since I think it was both incredibly forward looking on Google's part and, all things considered, immensely useful. I wish it could have become the email replacement it wanted to be. It suffered greatly, though, from higher latency, intermittent bugs, and lack of (very) widespread adoption.
This looks 3x as expensive as Digital Ocean. What am I missing?
Sure, under tyranny, all sorts of evil shit are possible. The parent is explicitly non talking about slavery, or situations like indentured service where you start there. I thought that was obvious.

The parent was talking about situations where you work in a free-ish market for a period of time, then can't work (for whatever reason) and then posits that these people will be discarded—as if that's the only option, or even, the most reasonable or likely option. It isn't.

I can't think of a single culture that fits the OPs premise and description of what happens to people that can't work. Can you?
Thanks!

Yup. As a quasi-professional advertiser with a medium-depth background in search, I'm glad to hear that I'm on the correct track.
I like the look of Codeplex, very clean design, feels more 'professional' than Github.
A local news outlet in the town of Springfield doesn't typically need to place the town name in absolute terms. The locals know what they mean. Springfield is the place (right here) that they all know and love.

The onus falls on national/international news outlets to make those clarifications when necessary.

Also, for accurate weather, you should tune your radio accordingly:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrbro.htm
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Because they'd be buying and selling when there isn't a buyer or seller.

Imagine if you could have the house off your hands, at market price, in a day instead of listing it for months. That's b what liquidity does for you. Almost all HFT is market making, there's plenty of information about what that means...
If Wendy's raises the price of their chili because they use an overpriced supplier of beef, nobody would argue Joe Sixpack's stake in Wendy's was hurt.

Instead, Joe Sixpack eats his chilli at another store that is more competent in managing their supply chain, and the Wendy's Corporate takes a hit.
> Why cannot KGTV note * ON ITS WEBSITE * its geographic affiliation.

They do. Click the "10news" icon, and look at the titlebar.
I'd love to see some kind of typeclass support in F#...

In the meantime, honest question: what are modules in OCaml? I tried to read up on it online, but my understanding of the topic is still murky. Regular modules don't really seem that interesting (they look like modules and/or types/classes in F#), parametrized modules seem to be something that is missing in F#.

Second question, do you have that proof of concept code laying somewhere around? I'm just curious how it would look in F#...
>Can you dedicate an hour a day to OSS? Or perhaps spearhead an project at work to be open sourced?

He mentioned that he is not allowed to do these types of things while employed at his current employer. I always find that kind of clause crazy. If I want to spend my evenings playing video games the company would be fine with that, if I want to spend it creating video games no dice?

I imagine it is going to be harder and harder for companies to create anti-moonlighting clauses as time progresses.
I haven't looked closely -- my assumption is that despite this string of announcements we are not really any closer to simply running pkg_add or apt-get to install a real MS development environment (i.e. not Mono). I could be wrong though, of course.
I remember when Google Wave was hyped up to the point where people were begging others for a beta invite. When I first got access, it seemed pretty interesting but oddly enough, nothing really motivated me to use it again.
2) If you're willing to quit your job to make contributions to GitHub, you might not care if the company

--A) makes the unlikely discovery that you are putting non work related projects on GitHub

--B) cares that you are coding and posting online in your spare time

--C) decides to terminate you for this.

--If your IP is questionable, you may not want to contribute to large open source projects - or you could ask your HR for an exemption for specific projects.

3) If you don't have time (and especially if you are in a job that you want to quit), make the time. Segment your life as much as possible while your work / hourly expectations are met to a reasonable standard to which you want to work (at any company)

4) This is additional, but if you want to work at a company with a great culture, remote work, and reasonable expectations, it's important that you understand how to do the numbers above in a forward and friendly way.

--A) If you are familiar with working too long, you especially need to learn to segment yourself when working remotely.

--B) If you are familiar with working too long, you especially need to ensure that you don't try to encourage others to not segment their lives. (There are always things to be done, but everybody should be able to go home and spend the evening / weekend with their family)

--C) You will be much happier in your life / job if you have the ability to not have to use your 401k to work a few months.
This may sound crazy, but Blogger has all of the above. You'll have to theme it a bit to make it stand out and should host it on your own site without the blogger bar, but I think it could be a good way to get what you want.
If you like Cygwin and Package Managers, checkout the wonderful Cyg-Apt: https://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-02-04/
How will Apple respond, if at all?!

Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be an open protocol... never happened.

AirDrop is yet another closed protocol.

XPC is a new protocol for sandboxed processes to communicate with each other, it's basically distributed objects. Again, a secret even though things like CORBA, Java RMI, etc. have been around for years.
Developers put these kinds of bypasses into login code quite frequently. When you're testing and fixing bugs typing in a password over and over gets old. As the poster above noted, the code is usually surrounded by conditional compilation directives, or otherwise marked as not being permissible in a production build.
Can you clarify on your statement "I'm not allowed". Are you barred from moonlighting on OSS or creating software of your own? Or are you not allowed to do these things while at work?
> there are also many who genuinely believe that they are doing a service for the market

You make it sounds like HFT is some sort of non-profit, community service vocation, like teaching, or fire fighters. Do people actually think this?

Regardless of the merits of HFT, that kind of argument seems very disingenuous. I haven't met a single person engaged in HFT who is doing it to smooth the function of the market or "provide liquidity". They may think it has that effect, but no one is in it for that reason. If anything, it's what they tell themselves to justify skimming money from the other market participants.
I don't really disagree with you. The entire situation sucks, and you're right. To quote a quasi-famous mad scientist, the status quo is... quo.

I just think you can give me a programming assignment that I can do in a few hours instead of an entire week, and still get the information you need to determine whether I can code well or not.

I personally love my degree. It's actually in theatre (not CS), and I really, truly believe that it taught me a lot about how to contribute to the workplace and to society in general. If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably do the same thing. But I guess we just got different things out of our degree programs. I do wish that there was a better alternative, though, for those like you who would (I assume) rather just go straight into the workforce.
That's a particularly uncharitable way to put it. Another way to put it is this:

Regulations encouraged a fragmentation in exchanges (a good thing, since they used to be monopolies).

For multiple exchanges to trade in the same instrument, some force needs to synchronize the prices between the markets.

The regulations specify a mechanism by which this might work: quotation feeds for different products replicate the NBBO ("current" best bid-ask) across the markets.

But the NBBO feed is only an approximation of the best feed --- and it has to be, as anyone who has ever built a distributed system must know.

Fast electronic trading can synthesize a BETTER NBBO. If you know what the better NBBO is, you can trade against it, in effect forcing prices to synchronize through arbitrage trades.

The net effect is that the markets synchronize on a more accurate BBO, and electronic trading systems get compensated for doing this based on the profits from the arbitrage trades.

In the ABSENCE of that trading, the delta between the SIP NBBO and the "real" NBBO still exists; it's just money in the pockets of a different set of entities.

In neither case was this money likely to be helping firms that hold long-term positions and make money by allocating capital; the previous crappy NBBO profits were just going to a different set of sell-side firms, who are now angry that they'd been obsoleted.

To me, an extremely telling fact here is that Vanguard's Chief Investment Officer went on the record and said that HFT trading, and latency arbitrage in particular, had been helpful to their trading costs. If that doesn't mean anything to you, do some research into how Vanguard works and is structured.
I wrote a post about this for Mozilla Hacks a while ago that you might enjoy/find useful :-) https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/how-to-spread-the-word-abo...

In short though, preparation, homepage, copywriting, social networks, influencers, bloggers, niche media, user curated news sites, user group meetings.
In Highwire's case, they typically have a robots.txt blocking everyone but Google ... and the reason is not malice, it's inefficient software. Fetching a page once every few seconds is enough to overload their system.
k, I'll bite. Lets say you want to sell your house in 1935. Luckily, there is a buyer, but he won't be ready until 1946 when he gets back from fighting WW2. Luckily, there is a real estate investor who is willing to step in an buy from you and sell to him. He'll hold the property from 1935 to 1946. During that time he takes the risk that housing prices may go down. He also has to pay operating costs in the form of his office and assistant. This is essentially what HFTs do. They intermediate markets.They have cost and risks. Some of them take advantage of special knowledge of market organization. They know the hot neighborhood. The real question is: Are market intermediaries being compensated fairly for the risk they take? i.e. do HFTs make too much money for the risk and expense they incur while intermediating markets.
I'd love it if they added console tabs and text reflow / resizing to powershell

I use PS all the time - and it's killing me that I need 4+ windows open to account for all the different projects I've got to work on at the same time.
Any particular reason why this was posted today? It seems to have been incubating at Apache since 2010. Is there a roadmap?

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html
The problem of DDoS in high tier gaming isn't a new one, probably 10 years or longer. What I don't understand however, is why these players who are affected by DDoS are still leaking their IP with Skype all the time.

Uninstall Skype, get a new IP, and it'll probably never happen to them again.
Do you have a company in mind that you would love to work for? Have you contacted them and did they reject you for any particular reason?

Start with the end in mind. "I want to have X job" is a decent start but you should narrow that down to "I want to have X job, in Y industry and here are N example companies I would love to work for."

Investigate these companies and look at the developers they hire. Do they all have github accounts? Chances are you'll see a lot of blank profiles and the occasional blog last updated in 2008.

If you do see many people with very impressive online personas then start working with these people. Start working on the same OSS projects they are working on. You might find you don't like these people as much as you think you do. On the other hand after a few months they might say "Hey this notarockstar guy is pretty good, maybe we should hire him".

Oh and don't cash out your 401k
Genuinely curious, what is the evidence to support this claim? Why do you think massively low latency trading speed is required for ETFs to exist?
Anyone interested in the game should read http://www.filfre.net/2011/11/the-prisoner-part-1/ and its part 2.

Anyone interested in the history of interactive fiction in video games should read the entire series of essays. They are excellent.
I've similarly found SCOTUS opinions to be really good, and easy, reads.

Thanks for the links.
Not sure it really solves forum's problems.

Have you seen/tried Discourse[1]? They do try to solve them.

[1]: http://www.discourse.org
OT question: What's the editor you use in your intro video? Looks like it's running inside tmux AND has a cool Go mode with auto complete?
Have all of my up votes. This. A thousand times this. The short answer is, "no, do not cash out your 401k."

The long is answer, is that there is probably another way. Make it a goal and put savings away for specifically that purpose. Find another job that may not be your dream job is friendlier to out of the office work. Maybe consulting?
I used Wave quite a lot, it was great to arranging meet ups of groups of people as you could all have an active conversation and use the "Poll" widget to say if you where coming or not.

I also used it for other things, but organising groups of people was the main use. Once it was discontinued I tried to run the open source version, but it was never really that stable and in the end we swapped back to emails.

It's a great shame to see this dead
Point 1) wasn't about adoption numbers but functionality in terms of clients. TextSecure are the only OSS ones with an easy to use client I know that have as one of their goals to create iOS / Desktop clients. That's why I wrote we're at stage 0) right now, with some hope at reaching 1).
"Marriage is something a lot of people have strong and (from my point of view) old-fashioned opinions on."

One of those "old-fashioned opinions" has historically been an opposition to "miscegenation".
From the FAQ:

How do I delete my account or cancel my membership?

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Standard and Premium users

You need to send us a request with the reason why do you want to cancel your membership.

^ WTF? Why do I have to give a reason to stop paying for a service? Why not just have an optional feedback form next to a "Delete Account" button.
Mavis Beacon? They charged schools an arm and a leg for that back in the day.
It is a witch hunt. He didn't do anything illegal.

Your moral judgment concerns no one but you. It is binding on no one but you.

You are a bigot. Everyone that is complicit in disenfranchising this man of employment because of his political opinions is a bigot.

Political persecution doesn't just happen in the third world. It also happens here. And it's a crime against humanity wherever it happens.

You are responsible for what you did. I am holding you responsible for your actions. I am holding you responsible for what you did to this man.
We're not talking about crossing the street, which is pretty unavoidable.

We're talking about an expensive gadget that introduces new risks, for a questionable return.
WebOS Mochi design language released as open source
Please don't go by the echo chamber that is the Bay Area based Hacker News. A Github profile is nice, contributing to OSS projects is nice, yet those aren't the only things that matter to acquiring a job. Unless you are targeting specific companies which are so overwhelmingly biased towards hiring people who only fit a certain demographic. There are loads of people, for example who work in Finance, who don't have all these things. They make the transition to tech just fine.

Source: I worked for two years in SF. I am currently working in NYC. A bunch of my co-workers are incredibly smart ex-finance folks who are good at Math and C.S. I am willing to bet that most of them didn't start a github profile until they joined us.
My chat-bots keep breaking, I know they are working to make the service better overall but it's a tad frustrating :D
Thanks for the link. This appears to be simple forward selling. I'm not suggesting that it is a subscription model but you will need to keep selling this every month.

Also, I'm in the UK (not your target market but anyway) and we already have massive amounts of online delivery services like this (Tesco, ASDA, Sainsburys, Ocado, Waitrose). Ocado in fact pretty much have exactly the same model for pre-populating baskets but the scope of the service is considerably larger i.e. it covers all groceries and not a simple subset of consumables.

Unfortunately the only way to market this method is having your supermarkets stalk you heavily which I find objectionable (and many others do I assure you).

Disclaimer: I worked for one of the online supermarkets in the UK for a period of time and thoroughly distrust them.
Fyi, GitLab and GitHub both provide similar services. One is open source, one is not.

You can buy on premise support from GitLab or GitHub for their respective products.

So, it isn't rolling your own...or even being on your own [unless you choose to be].

The confusion is probably my fault, I'm not the clearest of posters.
Don't cash out your 401K. You will get hit early withdrawal penalty.

To get to where you want, live way under your means and save up your fuck-you fund. When that can last for 12 months, then you can spend 4 to 5 months to do whatever you want.
What is your proof that he was discriminating against people, or a "known supporter of discrimination?" Donating $1000 to Prop 8 back in 2008? You do remember that Barack Obama himself was anti gay marriage/pro traditional marriage then. Right? So, are you saying Obama had an epiphany and has suddenly discovered the errors of his ways? Where were you calling for his resignation as a bigot?

You also realize that there are many gay people who are against gay marriage, right? So, now, leaders in the business world have to conform to the most vocal group or else face professional harassment? Because actually agreeing with 50% of the population and the current political leaders isn't enough?

So, when the illegal immigrant situation blows up, are you saying that anyone that supports "legal" immigration and isn't outspoken about it must be professionally disgraced?
That's actually a very good point.
Also, what is a young founder? Under 25, under 35?

This is the article I was talking about: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top...