skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers,
Backend Engineers and Visual Designers for Full-time

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Frontend Engineering

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Backend engineering

We started Locu out of MIT to solve real-world problems by leveraging the latest research in computer science. If you are looking to solve some of the most challenging problems in machine learning, NLP and human computation, you'll feel right at home. [Python, Django, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, AWS, etc.]

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Yes i bet if aliens were invading they would do it via youtube... Who reads newspapers and stuff nowadays anyways?
It would be great if this was published as an npm module.
Its easier just to get referrals from local VCs you know..that is how I got my current startup job
I looked at his channel, and it is mostly what you described with one exception - every few months he seems to post some variation of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnvX3NvE5j8

Maybe it's just me, but it takes him from simply being an internet crazy to something very human and makes me a little bit sad.
> With an order of magnitude more code, one has to wonder how much of that extra code is more functionality and how much is just bloat.

Sorry but that is almost the archetypal FUD sentence of the 'micro framework'. And the more you analyse the 'lots of code must = bloat' sentiment, the more ludicrous it becomes.

Look at the docs. If you see functionality in Angular that you think is unnecessary then file an issue, or write a blog post explaining the alternative approach. Please don't spread lazy FUD like this, it helps nobody.
Labour's day project: nginx try_files as connect middleware
Indeed, those lemons don't cut themselves and have you seen the price of sugar these days?
Intellij IDEA, yes.

Android Studio seems to still have performance issues with Gradle on Windows, specially when indexing stuff.
The biggest take I have from this post is that apparently they have created go-like lightweight threads for the JVM with Quasar (http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/) which is really interesting.

If I understand correctly, Quasar uses bytecode instrumentation to enable user-mode threads for the JVM, and they claim they did benchmarks that show X6 to X12 better performance than native JVM threads: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/06/fibers-threads-st...

This is really something that caught my attention.
I don't think AirBnB has really added that much to the VRBO experience or business model.
NYC. Dublin. Limerick. VISA.

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Hong Kong and China face off in 'bladder war'
As wrong as it may seem the courts still side with the companies.

What's to stop me from directly copying what I am doing at work and trying to compete with them? It wouldnt be fair if every employee you hired could just quit then rip you off once they figured out everything.

Fortunately my company has a process where you can legally clear your side projects as long as it isnt in conflict or competes with the company.
I had certainly not heard of Isaac Roberts before today. This was interesting. Years ago I began experimenting with astrophotography using my 8" Meade Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope. I actually used a cheap webcam with the lens removed. I got the idea from http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=141.

I really never got around to improving my results, but you can see some initial attempts here: http://foodconstrued.com/?attachment_id=6663
http://foodconstrued.com/?attachment_id=6662
Which might be fixable with ART as it's an on-device ahead-of-time compiler (I think it optimizes too? can't find references...). I have no idea if it actually does work for this in practice or not, though.
Agreed. I prefer IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition to Android Studio because I like using the same IDE for Android and Java development.
> Although recruiters will probably go wild all over it and nobody really wants that, do they?

Surely if you include "No recruiters please." they will respect that? Or am I naive?
This ran as a piece on BBC Radio 4's today programme (quintessentially English), er, today.

"Do you think it's a machine producing these? Or is somebody sitting there all day producing these?", and other such questions for the non-technical.
As mentioned in the article they compared it to the phenomena of the 'Numbers Station' and suggested it might be governments communicating with their overseas spies. Priceless.

One interesting point they raised is that out of the 77,000 uploads there are two non-rectangle videos, both of scenes in Paris, France - so I bet the 'European' company is French.
NASA shows off prototype spacesuit for journey to Mars
but thats also why his tests are unreliable in this case
If mailing lists have survived to this day they must be doing something right. (We'll see if G+ survives into 2020, but that's not really my point.)
We still need to post the final logs, but you can find logs from the preview of Round 9 at the following GitHub repository:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/TFB-Round-9/tree/master/peak/...
Lombok is an anti-pattern for me. It creates a unholy mess of annotations for what should be language features.
Exactly. I'd argue C++ has a lot going for it, and I think the claim that Java's performance is only slightly slower is simply not true for the vast majority of situations where good memory organization can provide significant speedups - which includes any computer graphics, vision or audio application.

I personally find C++11 more high-level than Java and significantly more optimizable for performance.

You can wax poetic about "developer time is more important than processor time" all you like, but when your application runs like a turtle on anything short of server-class hardware, it doesn't mean much.

Performance will always be of primary importance for a large class of applications. For the rest, Java is a good alternative.
It'd be cool, but would of course exclude the (IMO large) set of people who aren't trying to keep their job search below the radar.
I can not be the only person who thought that this article would have something to do with Groundskeeper Willie!
> What people see as "corporate oppression" is quite often government oppression.

I don't know what "quite often" means, but most of the times it isn't. The government is looking for criminals. Corporations collect data to increase profits. Some of the data collection is done to catch criminals, but most (actually, virtually all) of it is done in the name of profit.
i was hospitalized 3 times in a two month period in late 2012/ early 2013. a lot of people wanted me to go on social security, to give up as an adult. a few people still believed in me, so i kept going. i managed to get a job at google. i was heavily medicated and in intensive therapy for the first half of 2012

a lot of this was caused by smoking weed all the time. i stopped smoking and i've largely gotten better. i'm still taking regular medication and in therapy. daily exercise, a healthy diet, regular sleep and solid habits have helped a lot, too.
To aspiring amateur astronomers: you don't even need an expensive telescope or clear skies to explore the night. iTelescope [1] lets you rent time on telescopes around the world and is surprisingly easy to use after learning the interface. I've used it to take pictures of galaxies and other objects of interest. You can even write scripts that point the telescope and have images delivered to your email.

In fact, asteroid discovery is well within the purview of amateur astronomers [2]. Lots of interesting astronomical phenomena are observable by amateurs these days.

(I'm not affiliated with iTelescope, I just like it)

[1] http://itelescope.net/
[2] http://www.itelescope.net/astro-science/2012/12/4/discoverin...
Exa (http://exa.com) Burlington, MA (on 128 outside Boston) | Full-time | H1B welcome

We're a relatively small software company that develops simulation products that are used extensively for product design in a number of industries (e.g. automotive, aerospace, and motorsports). I manage the preprocessor group here.

Exa has a number of SW positions listed on our site, but I'm partial to the position in my group...

http://exa.com/sr-swe-engr-graph-preproccer.html
From the article:

> We’ll use the log-linear model methodology. Again see my open-source textbook if you are not familiar with this approach

Anyone have pointers to the textbook? I found one on parallel programming, but that doesn't seem like the one he's talking about here.
Uh, did you read the whole article? The author's point was you can't opt out and not seem like a criminal. This was because if you wanted to stay anonymous online and actually buy things, you need to purchase gift cards with cash. The place she went (or her husband did) to purchase multiple gift cards had a sign that said something like they're watching people that buy a lot of gift cards.

You're response sounds more like a marketing brochure to me. While I love tech and am in the tech world, the fact is, mine and everyone's private info is out there for anyone to buy and many companies to sell. Sure, we can make tools (some day) to put the equation in our favor, but this is not that day. Simply saying we can use Tor/private browsing/avoid social media is only part of it. Actually buying things not in cash leaves a trail and that info is sold to whomever pays.

Regardless if you could easily find out in the 1700's if someone was pregnant, the article was not a commentary on the past. It was about opting out in the present, which is pretty much impossible if you use any kind of connected technology in your daily life. Be it your atm/credit card, phone, internet connection - they all leave trails.

Sure, in the 1700's a butcher would see your face and maybe remember it. Maybe retain enough info to track you down if need be. But now, it's more than absolute. The more everything becomes digitized, the less anyone can be anonymous. You'd have to really be into the spy mindset to cover your tracks and do the things that would need to be done to get false ids, etc. And I don't know how much that would even help as machine learning and face recognition (coupled with ccd's everywhere) get better and could probably link up those fake ids.

Honestly, I don't care much because I'm not a very important or interesting person. So in a sense that way, I have some anonymity. And I love tech (still). Interesting experiment from the author, but we've already crossed the privacy line and there's no going back or opting out.
I've only ever heard of one uncomputable number (Chaitin's constant), so this is rather mind-blowing.
Can you guys say anything yet about how the Unix fork syscall is implemented on that architecture? The requirement for copy-on-write pages seems to conflict with a single virtual address space.
Fair enough, I have no idea how to work a chainsaw.
The whole idea of a corporation and how we generally view this strange social/financial entity is giving me pause.

I mean, so much of our discourse is tied up in exchanging opinions of companies rather than individuals.

Feels a bit strange now I come to think of it. Having all these overbearing hierarchical organisations of people, that end up directly or indirectly controlling large parts of your life.
Ask HN: How do I bring in a co-founder 18 months later?
Hi!<p>I've invested 18 months of my time and $30k into a startup (wyldsson) that is beginning to make some serious progress.<p>Could just bring in employees now, but they don't have the same commitment as a founder. So I probably do need to bring someone in as a co-founder... with some sort of vesting arrangement, so that someone I bring in has skin in the game?<p>I'm not drawing a salary, so I guess that they shouldn't either, right? And I'm going to have to dip into my pockets to fund working capital and future growth so they should chip in too I guess?<p>What would Paul Graham say about all this?! I guess he would be all in favor of bringing in a cofounder? How would he structure it though?!!<p>Dave
We haven't figured out our plan yet, but we've found it very helpful when teams have shared their data, and I'd like to contribute back to the community.
The phrase "up in arms" means angry, perhaps angry enough to reach for a weapon. I've never seen anyone angry about what she did.

Building websites won't work, but implementing algorithms in a book like CLRS http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms will.
MAC addresses are arguably more stable and about as easily user-modified (e.g. device tokens are wildly insecure in the presence of jailbroken devices). So: yes. And for the exact same reasons, you should never use it.

I could claim client-side certificates, but nobody uses those, and certainly not cross-platform.
Smart bike can track rides and give directions
From firsthand experience I would have thought their designer hiring strategy would have read something like this:

Buy a company of 30, fire most of them and use the severance pay as leverage to force the designers into staying with Facebook. Wait a year or so until all those designers you strong armed into joining your company quit, then repeat.
We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript
> [IOMMU:] There are some gaps

Do you happen to have a link where I can read more about those?
For fixture generation / mocking API that would be great
Rails slowness just mean one thing, you'll have to spin more server instances for the same task that would have been faster in Java and would have needed less servers (though java eats a LOT of memory, so raw speed is not everything ).So it's a trade off. Spend more money on devs or on the infrastructure?

But dont worry, it's still way faster than most PHP frameworks, that have ridiculous performances,yet their core developpers dont seem to care.

I think it really depends on the kind of app one is building. Video Site like Youtube can use caching to the max,most of the hits wont touch any server-side code,only cached pages. on the other hand a webapp that actually does something and need realtime capabilities might not be the right use case for Rails(like Twitter,though it helped them build their MVP quite fast,same for Iron.io).

It's a tradeoff, do you want to develop fast,at the cost of raw perfs,or get good perfs from the beginning without scalability issues at first place?
The Language of Silicon Valley is Slowly Poisoning Our Brains
Unity provides the foundation, with the rendering, physics, and that sort of thing.

We purchased a few plugins to make GUI, input, and sound management easier.

We create all of our own assets, and implemented all of our own gameplay logic.
tried using this before (or one similar to it).

the reason I still have to use python is for generating different clusters of objects with distinct attributes (e.g. to create a non-normal distribution within objects and attributes). this system lets you create random clusters of objects without being able to control the distribution because you can't predefine variables.

unless of course, I'm missing some key feature?
How are you converting it?
Fascinating, thanks for such a comprehensive response!
Why not set the videos as private.
To stay truly private, one should also stop using email.

Even if one doesn't have Gmail account but a self-hosted email server and what not, there's big chance most of their friends will only use Gmail, so Google can gather lots of data anyway.
FYI we (Bloomberg) also want arrow syntax and are sponsoring Adrian Perez at Igalia to work on adding it to v8. Work is coming along...

https://codereview.chromium.org/160073006/

(If any other companies are wondering how to help out, I can't recommend Igalia highly enough!)
The SWIG bindings for QuantLib are quite good, no?
Great article, and nice to have clear examples of calling printf() from x64!

x86-64 ABI point 3: Variadic functions need to have the number of vector arguments specified in %al.

Did you find any articles that explain the rational behind the way "varargs" argument passing is done? Or better specifications for it? It feels like a total mishmash.

For example, why is the number of vector arguments specified explicitly, but the number of total arguments is not? It seems so obviously useful to pass that total that you'd hope there would be a good reason not to do so.

And since printf() is using the format string to determine the number of variables anyway, why can't it just count the number of vector arguments itself? What does it do differently when the wrong number is given?
The way I see it, Snapchat as a unique fun little app that had a very specific use case. That's what users loved about it.

But VCs aren't so keen on quirky little apps... they want an app that everybody uses all the time. This release is an attempt to take Snapchat more into the mainstream messaging market, even if that means losing its original appeal.

VCs would rather pursue a small chance of being number 1 in a major category to a big chance of being a popular niche player.
So was CitySearch 10-15 years ago. Yelp has been stale and their recent "zoom-and-hide" changes to their map-search has made Yelp fairly useless for discovery to me. Yelp has long needed to hire new UI & UX leadership, like years overdue.
Recently, my wife and I took over the youth group at our church. When going through some of the materials, there were references to the same stories in different gospels. Each gospel had specific details that the others may not have. The youth were having to flip back and forth in their bibles to find all of the details.

This lead me to realizing that having the stories side by side would make their bible study much simpler. Over about a weeks time, I through together para-gospel.com and hosted it on Azure.

I figured I'd post here for comments on making it better and also incase someone else would find it useful.
And here's the NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-compe...

It's a shame the photo is missing.
Do you have a knack for learning? – Then you have a knack for teaching
If nothing needs to be built, my statement still stands. The build system needs to cache its dependency computations.

Empty build would be same time as git status.
Contrary to popular belief a lot of people in this community do not know VC's. Extending this to just using your network to feel out different companies is definitely a good suggestion though. I for one am interested in seeing something like a "Who's looking to help out open source" post once a month.

edit: added the word "though"
The Structure and Interperetation of Computer Programs will teach you to think more clearly about the fundamentals of computation and programming. A free PDF is here: http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.S184/sicp.pdf
It is foundational though: you won't likely write lisp in real life.

Good books to read about practical software engineering are sold here:
https://pragprog.com/
I'd start with The Pragmatic Programmer.

By copy-pasting things, you've gotten yourself into a habit of just banging things until they work. Now, you should approach things from a scientific prospective: try to understand why they work, then write something to test that understanding. Build coherent and clear mental models.
Never thought a video about lifts would make me laugh, but this one did. "This a project?" "No, I actually do elevator reviews"

Dover Traction Elevator At 302 N Second Street (W…: http://youtu.be/SUnJt3LaFRo
The audio reminds me of some of the slower digital modes used in HF ham radio... Would be interesting to see if there is any pattern to the frequencies.
DFW Dallas Plano Frisco TX

Alkami Technology

https://www.alkamitech.com/job-openings

Looking for a few devops to help support our production environments, looking for a few developers to ... develop. If you wanna look me up on the twitters I can be found @jcolebrand and can give more details after you look around our site. I can buy you a beer at the Gingerman or something and we can discuss what's up.

Stacks: MSSQL, ASP.NET MVC+Razor, iOS (mostly wrapped), Android. All the good stuff. VS2012/VS2013, etc.

Bonus: Daily catered in lunch, MacBook Pros for devs (or an Origin laptop which is a tad beefier if you just can't handle OSX), Herman Miller Aerons, etc.

What the hell do we do? We write online banking software for credit unions. Think: really fancy reporting app, as we don't manage the pennies, we just show transactions and do rollup reporting.

Seriously tho, if you're devops, and in the Plano/Frisco or commuting area, we're in need!! :D
Indeed, but for 9 months of pregnancy she still wouldn't have feared being outed by her Facebook contacts.

Facebook 'delete' is in itself an oxymoron. I believe that they logically delete everything, and then everything gets analysed and archived for posterity.

As I was in the process of deleting my Facebook account last year I noted several bugs that suggested that the counts of checkins and photos did not tally with the things I had deleted. I.e. Everything.

I have some screenshots somewhere on imgur I should dig out.