skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I look at some of the people I know and my own experience, can say that consulting folks get a better deal, when working for Western companies. Also it works out better, from a work from home perspective. As local companies, even if pay as well, have the the mindset of asking you to work from their facilities.

But local Startups typically are more flexible, with sites like HasGeek[1] showcasing some of the more suitable jobs from a work-from-home/free lancing perspective.

Now to answer the question of interesting work. That depends of course. One tends to pick up consulting work on some overall factors like rate etc. In my case consulting work was mainly to support my product. (Thankfully now product is in a shape, that it can support itself. So past few months I've had the luxury of working on my own stuff). And so the work I do, thankfully, looks very interesting to me.

Thanks for asking.

[1] https://hasjob.co/

edit: minor
That's some impressive work; I've preferred a trifold wallet for almost twenty years, but now I'm thinking about whether it might be worth going back to a bifold again.
I guess many folks here work from home too. It's actually hard not having many people to talk to about your experience, but we are not social pariahs; freelancing is becoming more common.

A musical instrument is a great addition to the office, but i would go to a gym instead of exercising at home, it's a good excuse to get out of the house regularly. Ditto for walking, or getting a bike.

I wonder if there are forums where home-workers hang out to talk about their days and experiences.
I got Alden shell cordovans, which are made with Horween leather, and I can already tell that they will last years longer than my other shoes. Don't spend $100 on shoes every year, spend $600 on shoes that will last for 10 years.
Why Math Sucks
I think moot was pondering why you were claiming there are many volunteer contributions to 4chan's code, when 4chan's code and tools have been closed source (i.e.: presumably in-house developed only) since the start.
Tangential security nitpick - doesn't it defeat the purpose to display SHA or MD5 sums for downloads over a non-ssl page?

A bad actor could easily modify these in a proxy etc when serving the page.

Edit: Unless the purpose isn't to prevent tampering, but for error-correction.
Google Patents Prior Art Finder
You're oth saying the same thing for the most part, I dont think he's trying to imply that its their focus, just that its important enough to optimise specifically.
Thanks, how did he start or how did he get his first clients?
I find it interesting that this is the first I've heard of the original game. Before now, I had only ever seen/ played the Doge version. Thinking about what that says about me...
I've never understood the need for putting the source of the article in the title of the submission. It's usually not important (I have no idea what The Distance is), it can be confusing (is The Distance the name of the tannery?) and it's printed literally right after the title of the submission (thedistance.com). I see it all the time, though, mostly on other sites like Reddit (Major Political Scandal Breaking - Forbes (forbes.com)).

Why?
I didn't know about the requestor pays functionality, so it's good to know that even if it doesn't apply here.
Commercial trucking is the first market that will be overturned by self-driving cars. More predictable routes, do not have to deal with passenger misbehavior, higher total profits to absorb early-on technology costs associated with creating the self-driving vehicle (LIDAR costs and whatnot).
In the absence of instructions telling it to do something different, AR relies on the convention that instances of a class Foo are stored in a table called "foos", regardless of what database system you're using. That cuts down on the amount of configuration you have to do, and you wouldn't normally override it unless you were applying AR to a preexisting schema.

Edit: removing speculation
Since you hadn't heard of sysdig before, you might also be interested in this article posted[1] a couple of weeks ago: http://bencane.com/2014/04/18/using-sysdig-to-troubleshoot-l...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622121
>Or be the leader in urban mobility (and the revenue that comes with that position)?

Small nit to pick, Google would be the leader in SUBurban mobility. The leader in urban mobility is the pedestrian (and lesser extent the bike rider). I live, work and for the most part "play" downtown. I already walk to work but Dallas isn't walkable and mass transit dense enough for me to totally ditch car ownership yet; but it is the eventual dream, to not have a car, rather than be driven around by a self driving one.

(yes, I fully admit I probably sound like an urban hipster douche, but sometimes you just have to embrace it)
I don't think there is a "victory" here. Just an important milestone for Safari/JavaScriptCore. They have done some amazing engineering here!

In the broader context, this shows that the JSC approach of taking LLVM and using it as a JIT - called FTL - can beat Chrome/v8 on large long-running computational code. That means that LLVM is significantly better than v8's backend JIT at some things. This is not too surprising since LLVM is much larger and sophisticated - it has a more powerful register allocator, supports things like float32, etc.

Those two examples weren't random - Firefox has added an LLVM-like register allocator and float32 support (not just for asm.js code, in general). So there are two paths here: Safari takes LLVM, and Firefox implements some bits from LLVM in its own JIT. v8 so far has done neither, but hopefully has plans to do one of the two, or some other cool thing.

In addition there is the issue of asm.js. Safari doesn't detect it, and beats Chrome but still trails Firefox. But it's far from clear that is the last word - Safari's new JIT just landed, it can be tuned a lot more, presumably. So it might still end up showing that a general JIT can beat custom asm.js optimizations, time will tell.

What is clear though is that the Safari's FTL JIT took far more work than Firefox's asm.js optimizations. If the LLVM-based JIT mostly helps asm.js code anyhow - it shows little benefits in other benchmarks so far - then that raises interesting questions (if the benefit is mostly for asm.js, why not focus on asm.js specifically, if it's simpler and more effective?). But again, FTL just landed, perhaps with more tuning it will show general benefits.

Exciting times!
Iran censor bans WhatsApp, calls Zuckerberg ‘Zionist’
I like the idea and honestly I'm surprised there are that many arbitrage opportunities that aren't already taken advantage of. I guess you're hoping to outsource the cost of shipping, storage, etc. while still getting some money for finding the deal.

But if you don't want to go through the hassle of buying and selling the book yourself for that amount of profit, what makes you think other people will? Why not just make all these deals yourself and take 100% of the profit?

Edit: I guess you answer my question in the FAQ. I'm just not sure I believe you're making this service because you are "nice like that". Not that I'm against what you made; I actually think it's really cool. I just genuinely think you would able to make a lot more money for less work than you think if you scaled up the buying and selling yourself. I think it would scale, quite well in fact.
its been 9 years that I havent had sexual intercourse.

I can handle 1 bad day I guess
1) Yes it will, the tax system already relies on voluntary reporting

2) they don't want to not pay their taxes and risk getting caught

Talking about logical abilities. Taxes are voluntarily paid because people don't want to be caught and end up in jail? You can't call something voluntary if it requires threats for people to sign up.
First I've heard of project Loon, sounds interesting. Is anyone familiar with the FAA implications of flying "anything"? Example, I presumably can go in my back yard and launch a kite on a windy day and let it fly a few hundred feet in the air (your average kid spool will give you 500 feet). I don't attach blinking red lights to it and I don't call anyone to tell them I'm doing it. Now, what if I got a balloon and floated it above my house with a wire going down. Assume I'm able to make the balloon stay up hundreds of feet for a few weeks despite weather and the weight of the cord. Also assume non-commercial, could I legally "just do it"?
Putting the hashed password directly in the cookie? That's shameful. A hack was well deserved.
Is the livestream up?

Edit: I found a copy of the stream -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQPfntJm0_c&feature=youtu.be
The SBA's guidelines for defining "small businesses" is definitely not what many think:

http://www.sba.gov/content/what-sbas-definition-small-busine...

Examples:

- Manufacturing: Maximum number of employees may range from 500 to 1500, depending on the type of product manufactured;

- Wholesaling: Maximum number of employees may range from 100 to 500 depending on the particular product being provided;

- Services: Annual receipts may not exceed $2.5 to $21.5 million, depending on the particular service being provided
It's not just physical isolation, since you are the only one working on your projects, it's hard to find people to discuss your work interests (that's why i think freelancer meetups wouldn't work). It's a real problem though, i wonder if one day someone comes up with a startup idea to solve it.

You could try enrolling in a postgraduate program, if you have the time.
Yes, but "security" isn't "overall cost", its about risk. I am more secure, even if my expected cost is higher, if I don't directly bear any risk of unconsented loss even if the overall incidence of fraud is higher and I am paying a distributed share of those costs.
Oculus respond to Zenimax IP claims: "all of its claims are false"
I can't imagine that it's more than $6,000 per month. Cloudflare's enterprise service is a flat $5,000 per month regardless of utilized bandwidth, and can be negotiated downward. The dedicated server hosting 4chan's code and UGC cannot cost much more than $1,000 per month.

I run a site with a slightly better alexa ranking than 4chan. I've read past 4chan blog entries so I know that the traffic demands are similar, and my own expenses average around $6,000 per month.
In general you dethrone companies by offering better or cheaper products. In the case of Google, the product is sold both to advertisers and to consumers so each case should be examined.

With regards to consumes, you'll have to offer better since you can't offer cheaper than free. But Google is motivated to offer better service so it'll be extremely complicated. One kind of potential better would make search so much better that people won't press on ads - which Google isn't interested in, so they might not offer such service, so you might have an opening there.

Another option is to attack the adversity side :find a huge ads inventory and create a service more efficient and cheaper than Google. But that's extremely hard because on top of advertising space you need better data than Google.
Ugh.. still mac only....
Atom is no more a shameless copy of Sublime Text than Sublime Text is of TextMate.

Having said that, I do agree that the sluggishness of many of these "modern" editors (including Sublime Text, which even at ST3 is quite a bit slower at opening large files than it should be) really is quite a shame.
Nissan Starts the Production of e-NV200 for European Markets
Now the company is all set to bring out its second vehicle that follows 100% electric mechanism. The all new Nissan e-NV200 is a light commercial van and will soon be available in European markets.
How has the world come to this point? Sympathy for evil abroad and apathy to evil at home, what happened to those who stood for truth and justice? Freedom and liberty? Do our values mean nothing to us anymore? We in the West have failed ourselves tremendously. There will be selective, endless protest from when our nations commit wrongdoings, but to be sympathetic to causes of evil that occurs outside our reach; feigning an "objective" view to give doubt to the corrupt; engaging in Whataboutism when it comes to any serious discussion; the attitude and naiveté of Europeans and Americans today absolutely disgusts me.

Putin is abusing his power changing the constitution so he can prop his regime up, crushing his opposition, jailing journalist, spreading propaganda, significant restrictions on free speech, implementing extreme protectionist measures in business and culture, illegal invasions, doing business with the worst violators of human rights. It is so sad that the Russians who want to do best for their nation are not able to speak their mind for fear of jail or death.

Russia is an extremely ignorant and backwards country, from my view. Just a few days ago people held rallies in Red Square for May Day (http://spectrumhr.org/?p=1972). There was lots of racism (sign calling Obama a black monkey), ignorance, misogyny (sign denouncing feminist), praising a rapist sociopath (http://www.suomensotilas.fi/en/artikkelit/change-game), honoring corrupt mass murders, etc.

The only thing Putin stands to fulfill is power and ego.
Most security companies do this; the term for a monitored, weakly-secured server like this is a "honeypot". It's a great way to find out about exploits in the wild, which is really valuable knowledge for every hat.

Having said that, it's amazing what OP could do with just one monitoring tool. Very impressive.
Sorry a bit of self promotion. We started a similar concept in 2009 and we launched our mHealth app in 2010 [0]. AFAIK we were the first or one of the first to do it.

We are collaborating with some amazing researchers, but we have run into a few bureaucratic issues. Some of the institutions we have worked with or been trying to work with, are keep pushing for IP ownership which makes the process more challenging at times.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/10/asthmamd-helps-asthma-suffe...

edit: typos.
DHS Announces Proposals to Attract and Retain Highly Skilled Immigrants
Generally I agree that you don't want GC in all scenarios, but the paper you cite has several flaws which makes its conclusions very far from truth.

1. It is based on non-production JVM and does not use the same algorithms that are used in production level VMs. There is a huge performance difference between any GC from 1990s and modern generational GC used in production-level VMs.

2. Some part of the experiment involved simulation. You must be very careful with extrapolating simulation results onto real world. Actually someone on the Internet rerun one of the same experiment using non-simulated VM and got totally different results, but now I can't find that blog post :(

3. It compares GC to "ideal" manual memory management, ignoring the fact that manual memory management is not free either. Things like heap fragmentation or computational cost of running allocation/deallocation code do exist and may cause also some real problems. The costs lie elsewhere, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

My experience with large applications is completely different than the conclusion of the paper. Unless you're doing something completely crazy like generating several GBs of garbage per second, modern generational GCs overhead is typically very small (<5%) with only 20-50% more memory than the live set size, not 3-5x as the paper claims.

The biggest pain not solved completely are pauses, but researchers are actively working on it and things are getting much better.
Food Delivery Startups Are Getting Real, Eleme Secures $80Million Funding
I'm a little late to the party, but I recently wrote something that can help with this problem. It has the added benefit of acting as a kind of reverse proxy:

http://github.com/alexose/sieve
That's not always the best advice, though. What happens if my shoes get ruined after two years? I would have been better off with the cheaper shoes. What happens if my taste changes and I don't like boat shoes (or now I only like boat shoes)? I would have been better off with cheaper shoes. What happens if I lose a foot in an industrial accident? I would have been better off with cheaper shoes.
Quick answer it would be a tough battle that would require significant amounts of cash backing.

The "play dirty" approach. Use the same technique used to dethrone Microsoft years back. Right or wrong, Microsoft was called a monopoly for including IE within Windows. What is so different now with including Chrome within Android? What has changed that nobody has the same fight in them to take that battle on.
How to promote your conference on Facebook
You always bear some risk of unconsented loss.

With EMV the risk of an incident is much lower.

The risk of not being able to recover the money may be higher.

You're more secure.

--edit-- I say may be higher because AFAICT there are no good figures on this.
Sure because Go binaries produced by Go static linking are small...

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=6853
The 4chan staff are all volunteers.
That's just the colorization. Here's actual elisp by Steve Sprang (ssprang):

https://github.com/sprang/emacs-2048

Correction: Steve's above code is another implementation.

Colorization is against Zachary Kanfer's (zck) implementation in MELPA, which is here:

https://bitbucket.org/zck/2048.el

And don't miss David Thompson's (davexunit) Guile version mentioned below.

I'd much prefer to see these core code packages in the spotlight over the OP's mere colorization link.
Visual design is important in games. Novel game mechanics are important in games.

In this case, I think the mechanics were the difficult thing to create. And the mechanics took months to refine.

Looking at the history of Threes -> 1024 -> 2048, I think the business incentive for copying and polishing existing game designs is clearly superior to the business incentive for designing a novel mechanic. Why make a novel mechanic when someone can just copy it? That strategy is too risky.

I think the story of these games is a microcosm for the game industry as a whole. More game sequels are released than original game ideas. And I think that has to do with the incentives we create for game developers.

I think the creator of 2048 has priced his value about right. He knows what he brought to the table, but he thinks his contribution is not the lion's share of what made 2048 special. At the same time, he does not really know how to create a system that values innovative games more highly. And all the while, an opportunity to make a lot of money is whizzing by his head.
Some security bad practices, but it happens to the best of us. Glad you got that figured out though.

I always tell my devs on the first day, "leaving AWS keys in a public repository is as bad as showing up drunk to work". Mainly because the last guy to leave our AWS keys in the open was drunk at work.
I'm not aware of any American dialect of English that aspirates the h in "herb."
Public Cloud Instance Pricing Wars – Detailed Context and Analysis
PiMP Portable instant Mining Platform
OK, and I then imagine the idea is that the kind of person using ActiveRecord doesn't "design their database with the idea of multiple potential consumers, only one of which might be ActiveRecord"? Fair enough.

Regardless, the primary question that my post was leading up to stands: a table with the name "foos" will still have what is effectively an implicit column with the name "foos" that is a record value of type "foos".
You can get that with PyPy and Cython.
Would you argue that ideas like "family" would not engage at a subconscious level for extremely social animals like humans?

I would argue that there is a concept of "relatedness" encoded into Homo sapiens on the instinctive level. The notion of "family" is at least in part a cultural construct on top of that. Also, who said I was arguing against "mine-ness?" I certainly didn't. I'm just highlighting possible unacknowledged/unsupported assumptions in this thread. (Like your apparent assumption of a particular stance on my part.)
I think board games on table touchscreens would already be common if there were an open platform/framework to program them on, and they took advantage of additional phones/tablets over IP. The manufacturing cost on big touchscreens is already pretty low.
Just follow the instructions in the README on GitHub. Builds and runs fine on Arch Linux. Haven't tried building on a Win machine yet.

https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/README.md
How to improve your new user onboarding process
Have you tried Love Letter?

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129622/love-letter

It's dirt cheap and many people create their own custom themed version. I have a super mario love letter clone deck that was printed via an online service and it's great. Your young kids should be able to pick it up and it's playable with 2 but good with 4.
I didn't interpret it as snarky, nor did I downvote it. I also (apparently) missed the email indicating I had a response until just now, to which you've already replied.

Yes, raldi pointed out that the 'apartment houses' provision, which does render my claim incomplete, at best. That said, I thought it was more wide-spread than that, and it's possible that the portion of the code I cited is only applicable to those types of dwellings, and there may be another such provision elsewhere in the code that applies to other types of dwellings. I dunno, and honestly, I'm not going to search all of San Francisco building codes to find out, so let's assume I'm wrong there.

The point I was making wasn't to insert some nefarious agenda into the workings of SF government as much to point out that San Francisco is crowded, and there have been at least some attempts to mitigate the problem of traffic through legislation, so it would surprise me if there wasn't some other law on the books that exist to mitigate the same problem.
2 Months of fighting and got my first app released
Too Tacky. Anonymously share photos that are nearby and look tacky. Tack a photo to up vote it.
So a DO/Rackspace/AWS VPS with a guessable root password can expect to be cracked in ~4 hours?

That's terrible!

AFAIK, AWS defaults to ssh-key logins with password logins disabled. Can someone comment about Rackspace/DO?
Keep in mind it's standard to do medical research and fiercely guard privacy (HIPAA). At Neumitra, we build-in anonymity before we get a single bit of data.
While NASA Idles, Commercial Space Revs Up
My son asked me yesterday if he could play 2048 on android. (I showed him the js version on my computer)

I hope there is the option to tilt the phone to make the tiles slide...
Based on the wording of the title ("Google Patents Prior Art Finder" at the time of this comment) I thought this would be a link to information on how Google had patented a prior art finder service, which would be... pretty funny.
I have been thinking of trying out Soylent. Are there folks here you have tried it consistently for more than a few weeks? If yes, then how do you feel about yourself?
The Piketty Fallacy
Clean your sink
Garbage collection is not acceptable in some scenarios, because garbage collection implies unpredictable performance, slower performance, and comparatively heavy runtime dependencies. This is all fine for many applications, but not for stuff like operating systems, JITs, layout engines and other stuff generally called 'systems programming' where performance and lack of runtime dependencies is key. Those languages generally do not require garbage collection (although Rust does support it optionally) and therefore must provide memory management semantics.

Rust is a language that caters to the oft-neglected field of systems programming. It does so by solving many problems of C++ which is mostly used in that area, and introducing/combining many features newish to systems programming languages and programming languages in general. ExpiredLink is being downvoted for missing that point.