skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try "Practical x64 Assembly and C++":

- http://www.whatsacreel.net76.net/asmtutes.html

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C5C980A28FEE68D

Covers x86-64, MMX, SSE2/3/4, AVX.

The author, Chris Rose, has also written a free e-book:
"Assembly Language Succinctly"
-- (PDF) https://www.syncfusion.com/Content/downloads/ebook/Assembly_...

HTH!
Finding developers wasting away in cube farms is quite a similar experience--there are a lot of strong hires out there that have simply been underemployed.
This is really noble and I'm glad people are doing it. However, from what I know of the "lets solve real problems on the streets" world -- you need to spend more time on the streets than in a lab trying to come up with abstract technological solutions.

Heres likely why:

You don't understand the problem

You don't empathize with the problem

You don't understand potential users from a radically different class or culture

You assume solution toolsets that users don't have access to, aren't familiar with or just are unrealistic

Sometimes I wish this money would go to funding engineers to join EXISTING organizations that have identified or are on their way to solving real problems, but simply aren't 'cool' enough to warrant google.org money.
Random JSON data generator
My girlfriend uses a spreadsheet for her engineering work. She constantly complains about Excel running out of memory and crashing, and her work won't authorize the 64 bit version.

Basically she's importing time series data from sensors around the production plant, and then doing fairly complex engineering calculations. All of the formulas are pretty much textbook or derivation/substitutions thereof (e.g. different units, etc), but it's really crazy seeing them written as single line Excel expressions. She spends hours debugging single expression errors in the formulas written by herself and other engineers.

Since you asked for 2 examples, I used a spreadsheet for hosting cost estimation.
Why do you equate discussions on mailing lists with living in the past? Sure, Google+ is newer, but that doesn't make it better. On the contrary, mailing lists are better in at least two ways: they're decentralized, and they don't require proprietary software.
Merkel travels to U.S. to apologize to Obama for NSA scandal (Google translate)
yet another outcome of the War-On-Drugs (as used by some people; results may vary by skin color and whether a corporation sold you the drug or if it came from columbia)
Every Execution in U.S. History in a Single Chart
Do you have get some profit using these strategies?
Except... they did break things today. As of now, when you create a new Facebook app, it breaks against the v1.0 (unversioned) Graph API calls.

By default, logging in with new apps (apps created since yesterday) will generate a v2 oauth token, which doesn't support all the v1 scopes.
These First-Year MBAs Are Trying to Solve America’s Food Waste Problem
That was my perception. I don't have Grails experience.
>people are intolerant

Not just people. Insurance companies can be surprisingly intolerant of people with preexisting conditions. Companies in general can also be intolerant of their own employees searching for employment elsewhere.

>Would privacy be such an issue if being gay/straight was no more interesting than your shoe size?

Yes. Until we are a collective utopian hivemind, there will always be a need to keep secrets. You cannot account for all the possible reasons.
So what? I was just saying that, in the long term, he better focuses on doing things that matter
We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript
Last week, we flew down to meet the partners for our YC interview:

11:45 am — 320 Pioneer Way, Mountain View

YC Partner: So you guys are making a link shortener?

Me: Yes.

YC Partner: Like Bit.ly?

Me: Let’s dive into why Bit.ly is not as good. We built the only link shortener that drives conversion. Bit.ly just shortens your link. We actually allow you to add a call to action to the page that you’re sharing.

YC Partner: So what would be an example use case?

Me: Let’s say I’m running a charity. I can share a CNN article on the Japanese earthquake, and I can actually add a message inside that says “support these victims - donate now” and include a link to my charity.

YC Partner: So you frame the article?

Me: Right.

YC Partner: They don’t do frame breakers anymore?

Of the top 1000 sites, 89% of them have no limitations around iframes. Typically the ones that block it are secured sites like banks, and those are not the typical sites that people share.

Me: Do you have customers? How far along are you?

We launched 7 weeks ago, as of today we have around 700 users, and we’ve been tracking 13% week over week growth.

(due to character limit) Read the rest at https://medium.com/p/187312cd2cf5
For some more background on Lessig and his focus on campaign finance, check out his TED talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
> In this example, Java is rather annoying, especially when it comes to testing the type of a message with instanceof and casting objects from one type to another.

Using instanceof is an antipattern 99% of the time, easily avoided with proper API design. In this case a simple enum type would help with appropriate getType() method on the event; or a polymorphic event API with dedicated method types for each event (LifecycleEvent marker interface with ExitEvent subtype containing onExitEvent(ExitMessage m), etc), or ... or ...

Writing an intro to Java + touting your company's API + blaming Java for yourco's API problems: seems like bad form.

Which reminds me: can someone explain how actors is any different than using messages and queues for concurrent programming? Unless it also implies "magic translation of messages to method calls" which makes me uncomfortable (bad memories of CORBA/Web services)
"No one in the industry uses anymore"? Really?

Fama and French are still industry leaders, and they use the three factor model as the foundation of all of their portfolio management at Dimensional Fund Advisors, hands down the most successful mutual fund in existence. http://us.dimensional.com/process/multifactor.aspx

They continue to out-perform active fund managers, and they power a boat load of the investments for many American Corporations. And those American Corporations love to watch their money grow.

What makes you think these models don't still power successful financial products today?
Adobe Flash Player 14 Beta "Lombard"
They can fly Falcon 9 with cargo Dragons as well as unmanned Dragon 2 capsules many times before 2018. Demonstrated safety is hard to argue with.

There have been relatively recent failures with Soyuz launchers as well (though none with Soyuz FG). Russians have also been developing new things, both as upgrades to the Soyuz launcher and Soyuz spacecraft but also new developments. (Soyuz-2-1v and PTK)
John L. Sullivan Fights America
In the case of Google the search engine, not necessarily. You can still reap the benefits from Google without having your data (minus your HTTP request, of course) recorded by using services like Startpage, which proxy your queries for you.

In the case of Google the platform, perhaps. The main attraction is YouTube, assuming you're not working for a company that uses Docs, Hangouts or the like. While they can build a profile from you by your search queries, if you take necessary precautions to make sure that they're going to a bogus profile (and don't do any vlogging, plus limit your commenting, obviously), you'll be fine.

Avoiding smartphones is easy, because they're not a necessity. Prepaid dumbphones are cheap and disposable. Smartphones are walled gardens, anyway, so unless you want to develop apps, they're of not much use. It goes without saying that you will not be using Snapchat, Vine, Instagram or any services like that. That's hardly being deprived of contact.

It's certainly possible and manageable to opt out, you just need perseverance and a certain technical inclination.
Angular _was_ created at Google, by Misko Hevery and Brad Green.
Release notes:
http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/flashruntimes/shared/...
I consider #1 to be god awful, and I refuse to sign any contracts with such clause.

It would be similar to saying a book writer who's main job is a typist would have to get his book approved (and potentially denied), or an artist would lose rights to his works he makes during his free time. It's out of this world wrong.
Full-stack developer and web designer. (Full-time, REMOTE, we are based in Montreal and Mountain-View)

Listrunner, http://www.listrunnerapp.com.

Believe it or not, doctors still use paper to manage their team and their patients. Yes they have $1B EMR, but the day-to-day management stuff is still all done on paper. On top of being highly inefficient, it's unsafe and it's killing people. (Most medical errors are due to miscommunication)

Listrunner is a secure mobile app replacing those paper, napkins and post-it notes. Think of it as a synchronized todo list and secure communication tool for doctors.

We've got amazing traction. Residents and doctors love it, we've just raised a good seed round to move very fast, and we just joined the best possible accelerator.

1. Full-Stack Developer

We use Angular, Firebase, Phonegap and node.js. We're looking for a very good full-stack developer to join our small team. You'll be working with us on a super clean and high quality codebase.

- You are a team player and can communicate fluently in English.
- Passionate about new technologies, happy to learn new ones.
- Expert in Javascript, bonus if experience with Firebase or Angular.
- Desire to work on a meaningful and challenging problem.

2. Web designer

Doctors are so tired of ugly and non-intuitive tools.. That's where you jump in.

- You are a team player and can communicate fluently in English.
- Passionate about web and mobile design. You know all the latest trends and can't
wait to put your knowledge and experience into solving a meaningful problem.
- Expert in html/css.
- Bonus if experience with Javascript and Photoshop.

Contact me directly: phzbox at gmail, please write "HN Job" as subject.

Also, feel free to contact me if you think you're a good fit even if you don't exactly match what I described.
I thought so too, but it's possible they were living in an expensive house and they got some money back from it and bought a cheaper place. Maybe, I don't know that much about the whole foreclosure process but I know of someone that did something similar.
I'd argue that Congress has not done a good job of anything (at least not anything that the majority of Americans would care about) because our motivations are not aligned. That's the point of this campaign - to remove the motivation for Congress to act in ways that our not in the best interest of the general public, by removing the financial incentives for them to do so.

This TED talk from Lessig gives more background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
Or Hitler's demand for a jet bomber which forced Messerschmitt to hang bomb racks on the Me-262

Apparently, their insistence that new types be capable of dive bombing delayed and compromised many new designs, including the jet powered Arado bomber. It's interesting to note that the Nazis engaged in typical "Pointy Haired Boss" behavior. (Of course, the US did the same with the Space Shuttle and is now doing the same with the Senate Launch System.)
I quite enjoy this game.
> The point is that you should not have to make sacrifices for privacy.

I don't see a realistic way for that to happen. Sure we could change things, but there will be a sacrifice by someone in the system as a whole.

For example, we could pass laws banning targeted marketing. That will make advertising less valuable and companies who sell them will get less revenue because surely an advertiser won't pay the same price to show an ad for a diapers to a pregnant woman than to show it to a random sampling of society? So now my ad-supported website will make less showing ads. I'll have to compensate somehow. Maybe I'll start charging for access to make up the difference. Some people will be fine with that -- they'd rather pay more for privacy. Others won't. This kind of a solution would improve privacy. But there is still a cost.

Some people won't mind the cost. Others would rather pay by losing privacy instead. Passing laws takes away that choice from the consumer. Personally, I'd rather decide for myself than have someone make that choice for me no matter how much they think they have my interests at heart.
I did that as well. Find what makes you code. For me it was coding games and websites. I could show them to my friends and that was pretty cool :) motivated me a great deal.
Its data but not information. What is the rate graphene naturally occurs? How much of a spill is significant? Its largely impossible to guess if this research is at all important without knowing the context.
I finally switched off of eclipse for intellij. It's light years ahead of eclipse in terms of speed and response times.

One of the things I liked was how easy it made things by allowing eclipse keybindings to be used. Ever since I enabled those, things have worked exactly the way I would expect.

I also like the work flow with git. A common example I like is the prompt for adding files to your repo automatically upon creation, this way I don't have to think too much about it.

Just my 2c as an eclipse user converted.
Want To Scale? Empower The People Who Power You
It seems reasonable that people would adopt schizophrenic hallucinations that are in line with their demographics.

As an anecdotal counterpoint, my girlfriend is schizophrenic, and is mostly afflicted with auditory hallucinations (she hears voices).

Weirdly, despite coming from a Vietnamese family (and being a blend of Đạo Mẫu and Mahayana Buddhist), the voices she hears are of a Christian-like "God".
Damn. RIP, Al. Loved the mag for many, many years and still take a trip down memory lane when I find one sitting around the house during holiday.
Modern Spring is quite nice, and after having tried Play, I go back to Spring MVC, but use Spring-Boot with Jetty was the embedded container.

Its much like Dropwizard, but better integrated with Spring if that is what you are used to or like.

No XML, and I can produce a usable web API with a minimal amount of boiler plate (its all wrapped up in Spring boot, much like Play wraps up a lot of stuff for you).
What?

"When a proposal to change a certain parameter is thought to have bad overall consequences, consider a change to the same parameter in the opposite direction. If this is also thought to have bad overall consequences..."

How is speeding up kernel build times a "bad overall consequence"? Thats exactly what Linus is trying to do.
BookBub Raises $3.8 Million in Series A Funding
It's only out of your control because we don't have any cultural standards or laws on what is considered to be acceptable.
The point of this issue, campaign finance, is that it spans political issue and effects everyone. It's more about the type of government we want to have than any one particular issue.
write() guarantees that the bits have been sent to the disk, and the disk reports that they have been written (or, if a nonvolatile cache is available, it is in the cache).

At least for Linux, I think that's dangerously untrue. On my machine, 'man write' even includes an explicit warning:

A successful return from write() does not make any
guarantee that data has been committed to disk.
In fact, on some buggy implementations, it does not
even guarantee that space has successfully been reserved
for the data. The only way to be sure is to call
fsync(2) after you are done writing all your data.

There are ways to configure a file system so this is not the case, but they are rare. Is there a reference you could point to that would clarify what you are saying?
Understory Raises $1.9M from True Ventures
Neat to see the community and parental support a kid who's willing to go outside of the usual methods of learning (school) and do things on his own. Not a real fan of the article though, seems unnecessarily patronizing to me: "His braces give him a charming little lisp." Really?
Software Developers Are The New Investment Bankers
Most people would have to walk through smog and traffic, and literally enjoy a cold concrete paradise. This doesn't sound enjoyable for meandering. I long for a rural life.
Hmm, reading the Harmony specs, an arrow function asserts ' typeof () => {} === "function"' and 'Object.getPrototypeOf(() => {}) === Function.prototype', but is not subject to `apply` and `call` (for obvious reasons).

Isn't this an issue with patterns, where an object is applied to a callback? It would introduce extensive testing, whether the callback was supplied as a regular function or (erroneously) as an arrow function (which would raise an error). Using try-catch for this would send the whole construct out of JIT-context at the other hand, so it isn't a favorable option.
Profitect Announces Motorola Solutions Investment
Part-Time in St. Louis, DevOps JR. Engineer

Remote / Intern welcome

Backup Parachute Software LLC is a small business, committed to developing high quality mobile and web applications with a focus on usability and design.

We leverage open source and the newest technologies to rapidly deliver value and high quality software to our customers.

### Job Description
This is a part time, year round position. This position begins immediately. Pay will vary depending upon experience.

### Duties include:
- System administration/management of Linux servers within a mixed physical/virtual environment
- Managing and monitoring server and client backups
- Troubleshooting network and application issues
- Monitoring and updating our issue system in a timely manner

### At least 1 year of experience with the following:
- building and maintaining Linux/Ubuntu servers
- scripting (bash)

### Preferred Experience
- Amazon AWS (EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch, ElastiCache)
- Experience with high-availability, high-performance, open source web technologies.
- Experience with cloud platforms, open source databases and caching layers.
- Virtualization (VirtualBox)
- automation (Chef, Puppet or similar)

### Education:
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Some College or equivalent experience required

### Application Process
Reply to jobs@backupparachute.com with relevant work samples, and anything else that will make you stand out. Extra effort and personal touches will be looked upon favorably.
Intralinks Acquires docTrackr
True but there is enough money in apps to make it fun and worth it as a hobby. I make Android apps and while I had a big flop with a game my two non-game apps have made me a nice chunk of money. I enjoyed making them and there's enough money in it that I'm not wasting my time. Plus it helped me get my job.
Oh, MBAs seeking to reduce waste eh? I'm sure this'll turn out well.
MacBook Keys With Built-In Displays, Touch Sensors And Haptic Feedback
SEEKING FREELANCER (Contract, Part-Time or Full-time).

Full-stack developer and web designer. (REMOTE, we are based in Montreal and Mountain-View)

Listrunner, http://www.listrunnerapp.com.

Believe it or not, doctors still use paper to manage their team and their patients. Yes they have $1B EMR, but the day-to-day management stuff is still all done on paper. On top of being highly inefficient, it's unsafe and it's killing people. (Most medical errors are due to miscommunication)

Listrunner is a secure mobile app replacing those paper, napkins and post-it notes. Think of it as a synchronized todo list and secure communication tool for doctors.

We've got amazing traction. Residents and doctors love it, we've just raised a good seed round to move very fast, and we just joined the best possible accelerator.

1. Full-Stack Developer

We use Angular, Firebase, Phonegap and node.js. We're looking for a very good full-stack developer to join our small team. You'll be working with us on a super clean and high quality codebase.

- You are a team player and can communicate fluently in English.
- Passionate about new technologies, happy to learn new ones.
- Expert in Javascript, bonus if experience with Firebase or Angular.
- Desire to work on a meaningful and challenging problem.

2. Web designer

Doctors are so tired of ugly and non-intuitive tools.. That's where you jump in.

- You are a team player and can communicate fluently in English.
- Passionate about web and mobile design. You know all the latest trends and can't
wait to put your knowledge and experience into solving a meaningful problem.
- Expert in html/css.
- Bonus if experience with Javascript and Photoshop.

Contact me directly: phzbox at gmail, please write "HN Job" as subject.

Also, feel free to contact me if you think you're a good fit even if you don't exactly match what I described.
The Power of FOCUS
I notice she spells it correctly a few paragraphs later. Does that reassure you?
I think this out of the Blue Ridge Foundation space in Brooklyn which also houses Datakind, http://www.datakind.org/ they do exactly what you are talking about. Pairing up engineers with NGOs to help them better use the data they have now and tackle the problems they are facing.
In the financial services area (brokerage accounts, etc), there are real consequences for employees in the industry who don't comply with anti-money laundering laws.

If "Abdul al-Qaeda" makes hundreds of all-cash deposits under the $10K reporting limit into his brokerage account, that still represents a potential red flag. Employees who are servicing that account could face serious penalties (from the government) for their failure to look into potential money-laundering for nefarious purposes. The laws are written vaguely, so such employees can never be 100% certain that they are in compliance.
Great response and something I've been thinking a lot about recently. It is also the best argument for diversity in tech you can make because different people come with different experiences.

I would love if someone could better link journalists and hackers together. There are hackathons and data projects but I feel these are too cursory to tackle real big problems.

edit: upon more searching it looks like http://www.datakind.org/ is doing that just with NGOs instead of journalists
Could you make the error log accessible? Some of the frameworks appear to just bleed errors left and right. Be interesting to see if they are real errors or just misconfiguration
Empirical - San Francisco (remote maybe ok)
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We're a spin-out from the MIT Media Lab building a "social filesystem." We're the easiest way to organize all your app data in one place, shared and socially playful.

Example: plan a trip to Germany -- mix existing calendar events, web page links, and emails before you get there. Everyone automatically gets events put in their phones calendar. Add photos from everyone's phones while you're there. Add photos from the SLR via Dropbox. Reminisce and chat about any of it later when you get back.

Oh and it's gorgeous and with extreme attention to UX.

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We've raised a 1mm seed round from Floodgate, Greylock, Ben Ling (former fb platform), and Scott Belsky (Behance now Adobe).

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Looking for smart devs with great design sense or appreciation to build the next Dropbox.

Our stack: scala+redis+Postgres on backend, iOS and later Android (also scala).

Looking for people for any part of the stack, ideally full stack engineers.

Email: aaron@empiric.al
Some people, even smart people, might disagree with your politics about campaign finance, and we're right back to square one of all political debates.

"No, this political debate is really super important!" is what you will hear from every single-issue voter.