skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York, NY, Local, Full Time/Contract/Part Time

Stack: Frontend, Python (rusty), Clojure

Resume: http://gr.ayre.st/s/Karl_Guertin_resume.txt

Contact: on resume

While I consider myself full stack, it's been many years since anybody's paid me for anything except writing Javascript. I'm looking to work with a group that cares about code quality because I lean heavily towards the better is better side when making implementation decisions and tend to argue with just get it done guys.
Pact pays you to live healthy, from members who don't.
Are cl.ly links OK? (Edit: It seems so — I checked with incognito mode, albeit from the same IP address)
Both of the methods on the page are easy to optimize out. GCC does optimize the first version out.

These methods are not safe and they do not ensure that the compiler doesn't optimize out a call to bzero.
In a market economy with strong property rights, complete resource depletion is extremely unlikely because prices telegraph in advance the information that the resource is becoming scarce. But what I'm saying is that even in a non-market economy something similar can happen. Suppose the resource is food. When there's a big herd of dumb animals on the land it might not be worth anyone's while to try fishing instead. As the animals get fewer and smarter, it gets harder to get enough to eat; that is an incentive for individuals or families to try fishing or farming or moving away even if there's no trade or prices or futures market.

Losing land to sea level rise - if it happens - happens so slowly and incrementally that there's plenty of time to move elsewhere or build levees or put things up on stilts. On a timescale of decades and centuries, things fall down and break; when you rebuild you do it a bit further inland or somewhere else.

We might be having problems because an ecologist's definition of "resources" and "consumption" is different from an economist's; I tend towards the latter. I fear that if we listen to the ecologists we might inadvertently create the very scarcity they fear.

(Matt Ridley briefly discussed the difference between the two in a WSJ article this week: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230427990... )
Yes.

They say you should always look for a job even if you're happy with your current job, and I agree with this approach.

The reasons are many, but the way I see it: if you aren't looking, you won't know what's out there and you won't know what they're looking for. If you look, you get the knowledge and skills early. If you look now when there's no pressure, it will stand you in good stead if pressure ever increases.

The information is useful. Deliberately turning your back on information is rarely a good idea.
The only place I noticed spelling errors was in the email from the CEO... and spelling errors there seemed to fit.
Sometimes you get too stuck in the technical details. Remember: ABB
Merkel in first meeting with Obama since revelation that US tapped her phone
The US didn't have that much of an effect. By D-day, Germany was already running out of people to feed the meat grinder. The Soviet Union, Britain and France basically won the war in Europe. I'm grateful for not being born in the Soviet Union and all, but won the war, the US didn't. Also, the US is about 2.5 times as big as Japan and 4 times as big as Germany today. I don't know what the historical data is, but "order of magnitude" sounds way unrealistic.

I think it would be very hard to spin up on demand. There's not a catalogue of talented SIGINTs lying around. These people need to be found and hired. A whole organization as big as Google would have to be built overnight. It would be a nightmare. Not to mention that this organization would be starting from scratch while its counterparts might have taps into American society already.
Software Process Standards Ensure Safe Transportation
Coding standards aren’t enough on their own. If functional safety is to be ensured, then the whole development life cycle needs to adhere to best practices. For that, we can turn to the process standards.
Haha! Thank you! I wasn't paying enough attention (or not enough coffee).
Sounds like a match made in heaven.
California, U.S. - Remote - Contract or Direct

Stack: Android Native Development, Object Oriented Development, Android SDK, Eclipse IDE, Java, SQLite, XML and Linux.

Resume: To discuss work opportunities and for my full resume please email me.

Contact: ken dot compxpress at gmail dot com

I'm seeking work as an Android Developer.

I'm an experienced Android Developer. I have developed Android mobile apps for phones and tablets and published them in the Google Play store.

My Android app project experience, includes: concept development, project planning, research, algorithm development, programming, testing, debugging, publishing apps to the Google Play store and product maintenance.
Friend of mine had Stage-IV melanoma and was told to write his will. He had an experimental treatment where they gave him tuberculosis. The tuberculosis "killed" the melanoma and then they treated the tuberculosis. He died ten years later from a heart attack.

I understand this treatment has been discredited. Nice to see that someone is pursuing this avenue again.
Isn't the point that this process can be completed with the components in the air and the energy from the sun? At ~15% efficiency we're losing 85% of the potential energy from the sun, although we were previously capturing 0% of it. It should take an insignificant amount of input energy to begin the process, and then be a net energy positive for us.
How can I get access to this? I tried to email contact@datasight.io but the address bounced
Are there any extensions that will block flash cookies (LSOs) instead of allowing them and deleting after each browser session?

http://www.wired.com/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-...

One current option: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...
San Francisco Bay Area, Local, Full-Time

Stack: Ruby on Rails, MySQL/Postgres, Backbone Marionette, SASS

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perspectivezoom

Contact: hn@perspectivezoom.com

I'm a full-stack web developer with significant Ruby on Rails experience. I have a history of pairing and TDD. Looking for a good team to join and to challenge myself a bit more.
It's funny how they slowly realize that value types without better Generics are as pointless as better Generics without value types.
Hi, I'm an EFF staff technologist and wrote most of Privacy Badger Firefox (though I didn't come up with the idea). It's often hard for us to find projects like yours, so we appreciate developers contacting us and telling us about them directly. It's possible we can find a way to work together, if you'd like. Email me: yan at eff dot org.

Disclosure: I didn't work on Privacy Badger Chrome but at least I can fwd you on to the right people. :)

Sorry, that does sound frustrating. I joined EFF partly because it was a good way to make software that people would actually use.

(One constraint that most people may not realize is that EFF has very strict privacy policies for our tech projects. There's lots of projects I'd like to do, but the lawyers probably wouldn't approve. So there's plenty of room for other developers to do projects that step over lines we wouldn't cross.)
Oh it absolutely is, but if the chamber is under pressure (which they don't mention, but probably affects yield), there still will be a lot of stress. Syngas solar receivers are one of the unicorns of the solar industry.
CLPython – an implementation of Python in Common Lisp
You can replace "Elon Musk wants X" to "Elon Musk will achieve X" ...
One thing almost nobody knows about gcc -M is that it is wrong :( And for 2 different reasons:

A) If the headers are supposed to be auto-generated, it will uninformatively fail

B) If everything is successful, it will not tell you about all the paths it depends on not existing.

gcc -M -Ia -Ib foo.c

Will tell you about b/x.h being a dependency, but will not tell you about a/x.h not-existing being a dependency.
We have the majority of our s/w developer hired as contractors. They have their own company, often a sole trader (one man company) in the country they live in.

We treat everyone as equal as we are able to. Contractors or employees. The way we define this: if you do the same job and have similar experience, the cost to the organisation will be the same. Salary+taxes+benefits costs are the same. This works quite well.

We have four s/w developers hired in the organization as employees. The other dozen are hired as contractors, including me as CTO & co-director.
Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy died the same month as Jobs. Whenever I see articles about Jobs I always wonder about these two guys and their contributions.

Will the NYT write an article about Ritchie or McCarthy? Does the public know anything about them?

To me it just says something about American society that we obsess over Jobs yet forget two great men, without whom, Jobs never would have done anything interesting. Is it just because Jobs was rich that we care more? Is it because of his leadership, or place in the public eye? What does it say about our definition of success?
The economics of political correctness
Fred Brooks statements are like 40 years old and it's important what he said :)

I am on the things sucks side. IT seems to be in it's dark age

And it's negative that teams don't scale ;)

And the single one genius (that he proclaimes to be 10 times more productive) leads to a lot of trouble

Everyone thinks he is the one
Building a Two Sided Marketplace and Outsourcing with Justin Cooke
I've always looked for some harder data on how to tell the difference (effectively) from these different tools. Really appreciate the data you're providing here.

My challenge is that I looked at this data and the web page on Github and I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I'm not certain how to interpret the data and understand the real world implications. On the GitHub page it states that "The most important figure in my opinion with regard to privacy is the 3rd-party Domain count" which is a good hint but if I look at Disconnect 5.17 for example I see 93/94 which is "3rd-party count / total count". What, exactly does that mean? Does that mean for the 15 web sites visited that 93 http requests were from 3rd parties and only 1 from a first party? And that with the specified tool it is blocking those 93 requests?

Thanks for any additional explanation.
Jet fuel sells for $2.88 per gallon (76 cents per liter), http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=jet-fuel

If the entire world worth of jet fuel was obtained from Nevada, it would inject around 4 billion dollar per year into Nevada's economy, or around $1500 per capita every year. I can imagine them choosing the money over the land.
Odd, I have them both all the way on the right and it still feels slugish to me.
Seeing so much stuff about Haskell lately, but there seems to be a curious dearth of actual software written in it, if it's so great. How is it that janky hacked together languages like JS and PHP have huge numbers of projects built with them, while a supposedly superior language like Haskell is mostly academic? If it really makes you that much faster, where are the apps?
It is highly likely that CO will be a possible residue. Could it be considered a lot more harmful in a different way?
A coworker described programming as a one minute long repetitive kick in the balls followed by 59 minutes of enlightening lucid euphoric acid trip but most of that was wasted working out how to avoid being kicked in the balls again and that he didn't know if he was enjoying it or not yet (after 20 years of doing it).
I used a pair of HD 280 Pros for about a year before I got my 558s, and I have to say, isolation is the only area in which the former outdoes the latter; in particular, as far as comfort goes, the 280s made me feel like I was wearing a bench vise on my skull, while the 558s sit so lightly that I barely notice I'm wearing them at all.

Since I was working in a cubicle environment at the time, I figured I'd keep the 280s at work, primarily for their excellent isolation, and the 558s at home, where I maintain a quiet environment in which open headphones' lack of isolation doesn't pose a problem. That lasted about a week before I started carrying the 558s to work, because I could simply no longer stand to wear the 280s.

It really is a shame the 280s are so big and clunky, because they are, as you say, quite good headphones otherwise, albeit IMHO a little weak in the lower part of the frequency range. HD558s being as cheap as they are, and from all I can gather being also the price/performance sweet spot of the Sennheiser 5x8 range, my experience leads me to suggest that it'd be worth your while to consider picking up a pair.

(And I hear elsethread that the 558 foam mod makes them effectively indistinguishable from the twice-as-expensive and even more neutral HD598; I can't speak to that from personal experience, as I have yet to do the mod, but if true then the HD558 is most certainly the standout performer of its range.)
An account was banned on 2012-Nov.
We did sign a contract with Google as partnership publisher at that time. No reason, and no invalid activities.
This is a preference, not an optimization.

I have very high key repeat and mouse speed on my laptop, and when coworkers pair with me they don't say, "Wow, your vim is so much faster than mine!" They say, "Geez, your computer is crazy!"
Fully populating a 128 bit memory pool would take enough energy to boil the oceans[1]. This requires a branching factor of 26 to address.

So the absolute worst case scenario - even if we get science fiction computing - is a small, constant number of indirections.

The whole purpose of this type of analysis is to get an intuitive approximation as input size grows. The graphs for log32(n) and 1 will be essentially indistinguishable, and most programmers have a much clearer understanding of constant time versus O( log32( n ) ).

It is not misleading, it is a simplification that is absolutely valid to make.

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/128_bit_storage_are_y...
They say that it's a strawman syntax, i.e. it's an intentionally terrible syntax that isn't meant to be used for real to get people to focus on the concept instead of bikeshedding syntax.
Thank you for the transparency here.

Can I respectfully suggest that, in the future, consensus among HN readers is not always sufficient to judge whether certain facts about nature are actually true or not? I don't know whether it's the fault of our Chinese not being as good as this gentleman's English or just a bum draw on software security commenters today, but my read of this thread is few people understand the claim well enough to state whose what is at risk, to say nothing about judging its severity.
Munk Debate, live at 7pm EST: Gen. Hayden (ex-NSA) debates Glenn Greenwald
> I'm on a W530. It's a beast and everything works.

Same here: Quad-core i7, 32 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD + 500 GB SATA, 1920x1080. This thing is mostly going to waste. :(
Sure... I agree it's domain specific... I have several ideas that need validation... So basically, I was thinking if people would use a service that would help them validate their ideas.
Are you holding down hjkl or something?
How Programmers Comment When They Think Nobody's Watching
Ah, I didn't intend to come off that way. In fact, I've only been out of school for a year now. What I was really getting at was that while in school, it's easy to allocate time to learning, since enrolling in a course effectively locks you into a schedule. That, and you have the benefit of having peers and teachers with whom you can discuss any thoughts or questions that come up.

As far as mathematics go, I took the bare minimum classes that were required for a CS degree: Calc 1 & 2, Linear Algebra, & Discrete Mathematics/Structures. Of course, I can go through text books and online courses on my own at this point, but dedicating regular time for this seems to be the hardest part.
We have a couple of resources to help you with that in our community:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-you-...

https://digitalocean.com/community/tags/security

Thanks!
Moisey
Cofounder DigitalOcean
I post about LANL's "Green Freedom" every once in a (long) while, so I really enjoy more articles about manufacturing liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2.

One issue I've found is that it can be expensive to concentrate CO2 from the air to feed into this process. For the first version, I would recommend putting it on the smokestack of a coal or natural gas plant, which is putting out majority-CO2. It's not getting us carbon neutral fuel, but it gets us double-use out of each CO2 molecule, and it makes the first version much easier to build.
Oh the X61t. It was hilarious how many times i'd hand mine to a friend and they'd be completely lost without the trackpad.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abxtester/id427554135?mt=12 works great. Turns out I can barely tell the difference between 96k and 128k.
Akvo.org - UI designer / developer - Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam; EU, or REMOTE +- 2hours CET/CEST

If you are a UI designer / developer wanting to contribute to make the world better, please read on!

We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated, pro-active and energetic UI developer / designer. Reporting to the lead designer, your primary responsibility will be to create and ensure a consistent and beautiful UI throughout our software platform, which includes web applications, desktop applications and mobile / tablet applications.

You have to be able to adapt to a fast changing environment where multi-tasking is a must. You will be required to design and develop functional user interfaces as well as keeping the brand consistent across the organisation and a range of different products.

Akvo creates and runs open source internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development work online. We focus on project and programme dashboards, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and making data easier to share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world.

We are looking for someone to be based in Helsinki, Stockholm or Amsterdam, but could also be REMOTE. You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.

Please send your CV along with a cover letter to loic@akvo.org Looking forward to hear from you.
Why did you pick an example that does not use DNSSEC? It seems your thesis would be a lot stronger if you used a top and second level domain that actually implemented DNSSEC:

root@fw:~# unbound-host -t A -v bit.ly
bit.ly has address 69.58.188.39 (insecure)
bit.ly has address 69.58.188.40 (insecure)

More: http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/bit.ly and http://dnsviz.net/d/bit.ly/dnssec/
How A Career-Ending Injury Brought Out A Portuguese Footballer's Disruptive Side
Where will the water come from?
If you want to automate this:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12
Awesome!

By the way, you say no one claims to love Excel. I claim to love Excel! I loved it since the first time I saw it with the embedded Windows 2.0 runtime in the late 80s. When I saw that I immediately deleted all copies of 1-2-3 and Quattro and never looked back.

So, you made an old Excel user happy by adding Octopart, which I've already loved as well.
From Wikipedia [1]:

a persistent data structure is a data structure that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified

So when you do an insert, you get back a new array with the inserted value, and the old array is (as far as external visibility) untouched.

An immutable array is just an array that never changes. A persistent array allows you to do operations on immutable arrays which returns new immutable arrays that is the old immutable array with the operation performed.

[Edit]
As sgk284 pointed out elsewhere in the thread, my last paragraph mischaracterises the situation slightly.

An immutable array with any operations defined on it will necessarily be persistent, so it was misleading to say 'is _just_ an array that never changes'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
I'll add a +1 for that. I love the SRH440's sound, plus they are closed-back so I can use them at work. Like you I found them to be so-so comfortable so I got SRH840 replacement pads for them on ebay. Cheap and they are super comfortable now.
Table of deprecated HTML tags
parents and non-parents are such different creatures my wife and I call them vampires and non-vampires. it's hard being the only vampire working with a bunch of humans!
Going through Y Combinator as a Nonprofit
>To me it just says something about American society that we obsess over Jobs yet forget two great men, without whom, Jobs never would have done anything interesting.*

I have to disagree with this. You have absolutely no idea or proof what Steve Jobs would have done without Ritchie or McCarthy. Your entire line of reasoning is predicated on unprovable assumption. For all we know, Steve Jobs still would have been successful without Ritchie and McCarthy and that's why he's a more interesting figure. But that scenario is just as impossible to prove as yours.
You definitely bring up some good points here. By nature, I think this site is intended to be sort of spammy. It will be a place where people can post their content at will and tout not only their websites (in numerous locations that make sense), but also their thoughts (and eventually media). I guess it was intentionally designed with the thought that users/clients can control where their content goes, so if they control where it goes, it is on the right page as they see it.

Sure, there will be abusers and I have thought about implementing community driven strategies that allow for removal of that content. Also, I have considered approaches for arranging popular items at the top of the page, or arranging items by date, or expiring the data after a certain timeframe, rate limiting submissions, flagging explicit content, having only trusted clients call the APIs, enabling/disabling links (if you notice, all are disabled currently), etc. I have not settled on one particular approach yet.

With respect to discovery of content, the thought is this would mostly be exploratory based the user’s desires and reliant on the existence of posted content. I can definitely implement some sort of full text searching capability for the site, but that sort of cancels the inherent logical mapping of the content to the indexed host and path. It may be inevitable, however.

Your point is well taken that it may lead to a new specialization of SEO and I wasn’t suggesting that there wouldn’t be some optimization involved. What I was suggesting is that perhaps the site could be useful in eliminating the “industry" of exploiting people’s need for online recognition but their inability to receive it due to lack of technical knowledge (the API makes it quite simple to post content) by giving them control over where content is posted. Anyway, that was the hope.
My favorite stories are here -> http://multicians.org/multics-stories.html

I used to work with this guy -> http://www.multicians.org/thvv/

He was really fantastic to work with, a great project manager, great stories, and a good example of how to stay relevant in the tech industry for 40 years.
High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV)
Does anyone know about the methane emissions associated with this? It sounds like a cool / compelling way for individuals to sequester carbon but methane emissions from decomposition of the wood if they're anaerobic may dwarf the carbon gains (because methane is ~28x worse of a greenhouse gas than CO2).