skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, filling in your skill gaps, or creating side projects is definitely a fun way to spend a few months. If you can afford it, enjoy that time.

However, if you want to get a job, you already have the skill set you need. All you need to do is apply to a ton more than 10 places in 3 weeks. You should be getting in contact with 15-20 potential employers each day. Keep a text file or spreadsheet with notes on who you contacted each day. You should be sending out enough emails that when someone replies, you'll have to look them up in your notes to find out who they are.

If you have a CS degree, and are a reasonably competent developer, there is definitely a job out there for you right now. It's just a matter of getting in contact with the people who may want to hire you.
This is worse than checking history in some ways. It's much easier to get a stray entry in your DNS cache than to accidentally visit a "bad" website (which isn't that hard either). If anyone links to an image on that domain's servers, Valve will use the presence of the domain in the resolver cache as evidence that you're a cheater. That's not a very reliable system, and I don't think it justifies the privacy invasion from either perspective.
It doesn't say chaos is a bad thing.
"Global warming" is dragged into this because there are other parts of the US that will face similar situations in 20-50 years if "global warming" is true. (I like "climate instability" better as a phrase, as it's not warmer everywhere and "warming" leads to barriers to understanding among the literally-minded.) Look at New York and other coastal US cities. Look at the entire nation of Bangladesh. If we could face the possible realities and start figuring out what to do about Miami, including dykes and water infrastructure or the idea of simply abandoning the place, we might have a start on what to do about the rest.
Libquantum – Simulation of quantum mechanics
Sorry, did not catch it. My bad. Thought that is a service, not a standalone app.
They're also talking about stuff other than CO2.

Burning hotter means better combustion and more efficient use of fuel. There are less particulates released.

Having said that, I tend to agree with you that this is green-wash and the stove is using a gimmick as a sales feature.
I did not even click the link. All the comments alone made it very clear you did NOT use the services of a brand/marketing expert that could have helped clarify/define your brand. Your brand is sorely misunderstood.

Why do startups refuse to hire professional design/branding people at the early stage? when we can help make your idea into a real winner?????? Sorry but come on, "It's too expensive" is totally not a good enough excuse. Even for bootstrappers. Not if you hope to earn a living/funding with your idea. If the idea's that good, the expense of using a real professional is well worth the investment. And if the idea is less than good...let us work with you to get to a good idea. All designers should include fact-finding/question-asking-probing and positioning statement writing as a basic part of the service. That's what the major multinational design firms (the ones that work for the top global companies) do.
If the Russians are developing this chip for their infrastuccture and mission critical aspects, FORTRAN 77 and 90 support makes sense. Finite Element Analysis software (CATIA, SolidWorks and the like...) are Fortran or its ilk..

Same goes for HPC.
>IE supports Java - no lock-in possible there.

IE runs Java applets through a third-party plugin, and Java runs on Windows because the Java guys write and distribute a VM that supports Windows. Microsoft already got itself in very hot water for trying to strongarm people off of its platform entirely (Netscape antitrust case), so they're not about to try that again. You can make software for Windows, but Microsoft is going to use their clout in legally "fair" ways to make sure you don't damage their lock-in. Java was a very serious threat to MS, which is why they created .NET and built an enterprise sales apparatus around it.

Sun lost its way and Microsoft ate up most of the custom enterprise software market with .NET. A pity really; the future could've looked much different if Sun had successfully and aggressively countered .NET. MS made sure it didn't happen because write once, run anywhere meant that Windows wasn't going to be very important anymore. .NET touted similar features, but the catch was they only wrote a VM for MS platforms, incidentally.

Pre-reply: Yes, Mono exists, Microsoft made minor contributions here and there to it, but it is now and always has been a second-class citizen in this space, and Microsoft will ensure that it always will be. It seems Mono typically gets support for an API just as it becomes deprecated and its new big brother starts to emerge on Windows. That's intentional.
"You're missing the point. Under the DMCA, the service provider doesn't get to make that judgment. "

Actually, they do. Look, I'm a lawyer who, among other things, helps process DMCA requests. The service provider does not have to comply with obviously invalid DMCA requests to maintain safe harbor. In particular, things that are not properly the subject of a DMCA request are invalid requests, no matter how "well formed" they otherwise seem.

Alternatively, under 512(c)(3)(B)(ii), github could have asked them if they were the authorized owner of popcorn time, or otherwise attempted to get them to clarify.

"Popcorn Time is the subject of infringing activity, and hence this would be a valid takedown notice.
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Err, no. Subject of infringing activity is talking about websites that host files for users, not source code to programs that, 65 steps later, may possibly be used to infringe.

As 512(c) itself says, it is "for infringement of copyright by reason of the storage at the direction of a user of material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider"

IE direct hosting.

(one of the other subsections deals with linking sites, and that clearly doesn't apply either)

Please explain how github's storage of source code of popcorn time, alone, is somehow infringement of copyright (hint: there is no legal theory where it is, any more than there is a legal theory that owning the machinery to a printing press is).

It's way too remote a connection to be "the subject of infringing activity", and no court has ever held otherwise.

As for whether they get to make this decision, in order for it to be a valid DMCA notice, it has to be directed at something valid to be filing a notice for under 512(c). It isn't. It's not a valid notice, no matter how formal it looks.

Additionally, it requires
"A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."

The material complained about is popcorn time. They cannot possibly validly make a statement that popcorn time is not being used as authorized by the copyright owner, it's agent, or the law, as the use is clearly authorized by the copyright owner of popcorn time.

Instead, they made a statement that operating and further evelopment of popcorn time causes a bunch of stuff that, later on, may cause something unauthorized by the copyright owner.

Here is the exact statement the MPAA made:
"occurring by virtue of the operation and further development of the GitHub projects Popcorn Time, and Time4Popcorn (the “Projects”)."

This is not a valid claim under 512(c) or 512(d), and i'd challenge you to find a case that says "operation and further development of a project" is the proper subject of a DMCA notice under 512(c).

The proper thing for the MPAA to do, if they wanted it down, was file a contributory or indirect infringement case against github.
To clarify would they lose safe harbor site wide or be on the hook for this specific infringement if held up? If they choose to ignore, get challenged and lose do they lose safe harbor on all content after that?
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A Wave-Tracking Experiment
I think you missed the point of Google Code. Google Code was not intended to "win". Google Code was intended to provide an alternative the worsening monoculture of Sourceforge, because it was becoming actively harmful to open source. In that, it succeeded wildly.

Github does not appear to be a worsening monoculture (though it is, in a lot of ways, a monoculture).
Because a case can always be made that the lock in provides some benefit, such as providing a consistent user experience. What you are really arguing is that the benefits they can provide through controlling the experience end to end are clearly outweighed by the negative aspects. While this is probably apparent to most people, proving it as a legal argument may be much harder.
Know your guarantees, Go edition
> People like Michael Pollan are ideologues

Perhaps highly opinionated, but ideologue? How much science is he getting wrong, and how much of that is because he actively denies it?
This article is pretty bad. "Japan is weird! Some weird and horrible stuff happened... or did it?"
A big part of it has to do with the fact that this is mostly a recreational website. People come here to unwind, distract themselves and daydream a bit.

Whenever I find myself seeking distraction, I'm usually frustrated or fatigued, and in a cranky mood. Sometimes I check the site after I get off work, and haven't eaten yet. If I'm tired and hungry, my mood is all the worse.

Maybe I just got out of an argument I just lost, and I'm looking for an easy target to chew out, and reassert my ego, and feel like I'm back in control.

But how I behave on the internet towards pseudonymous strangers is drastically different from how behave towards living breathing people, with names and faces, in person. On the internet, you're not getting "the real me", or even some secret alter-ego that harbors my darkest, most terrible views an opinions.

It's just some old bullshit, while I'm spitting venom and stuck in a bad mood. Once I take a breather, and get things sorted out, I usually return to the stuff that matters with a cooler head, and treat the people who confront me face-to-face with respect.
It is foolish to look solely at savings rates. What about all the intangibles the rich, college grads implicitly pay to build their network and make them smarter?
I don't see why you can't have both declarative rule-based programming and AOP.
To me, the article plays this as slightly humorous and kitschy, whereas your comment makes it seem much darker, especially with the Dr. Tiller comparison. One thing you get wrong is, this began among workers at Tsinghua University, not rural dirt farmers. So if this be idiocy (and that seems uncharitable at best to me) it is urban and not rural in character.
So, it seems that the complaints (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024654) and (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8025561) have been partially heard.

It fixes the Pkg-Config complaint, the Werror one, the sys/sysctl.h one, the main() symbol visibility issue and the infamous signature for the release :)

It seems they're listening.
Common Camping mistakes
NTFS supports snapshots, which it calls Volume Shadow Copies.
I have had excellent experience with Amazon. In reading the reviews of a couple of high end monitors that I am considering, I see that Amazon will give a refund even when the seller will not. I imagine Amazon hammers them back into line.

My only complaint is when they ship by FedEx. In my town FedEx hands packages off to the Post Office, where two day delivery becomes three or four.
He probably means REST API as that seems to have become the default meaning of API, unfortunately.
What's the typical visa type of foreign entrepreneurs who gets accepted into YC? The startup visa is not ready yet, right?
OK...so I DID click on the link, and OK, I'll concede, maybe a professional designer MIGHT have worked on this, but it looks like some kind of nightclub/social "party" app. If that's not the intention your designer needs to go back to the drawing board and redefine this brand.
HN reliably craps on everything.
So... tell us... when was the last time you looked at how student loans work?
Took Econ 101 and got a B-. Got it. This isn't a simplistic, classical microeconomic analysis.

First, just because a multi-billion dollar market exists for a product, that doesn't mean that there aren't highly profitable, multi-million dollar markets that exist in the same industry. This is especially true when the "market" is impacted by things things like trade policy asymmetry, sanctions, embargoes and national policy.

Second, there's no reason to think this "market" is motivated solely or even primarily by revenue/profit in the classic sense. If you add the "benefit" of poking the West in the eye, and the national pride angle, the alternative market decision isn't "I could make money doing other things with this money". The whole history of the Cold War proves this out.

There's a reason MiGs and AKs are common as cockroaches.

Third, it doesn't matter what a fab costs to build, unless you want to build one. This is an arbitrage issue; there's plenty of non-Western places that have first-world fab capacity that would be more than happy to crank out Russian IP all day long. More importantly, they have local, non-Western talent to do the heavy lifting associated with tailoring Russian IP to fine geometry fabrication.

Ultimately, this is a political, not economic decision. And it doesn't matter if Intel has a bigger/faster/stronger processor (I agree with you that it will). It matters that the Russians (just like the Chinese have done for a decade with Loongson) can legitimately say "we have a locally produced alternative to the Western hegemony". And let's not forget that the Chinese have taken what amounts to a licensed MIPS derivative with a fraction of Intels R&D budget and produced top-10 TFLOP supercomputers. Also see: ARM.

And I want to point out something that I don't see mentioned that much. If you read the proceedings of HotChips or one of the other conferences, not all, or even most, of those papers are being submitted by Westerners. While they work mostly for Western companies now, it's not like we're the only source of innovation in the world. You only have to look to ARM to see how a modest investment by wildly talented engineers can toss the market on it's ear over time.
To the extent that you think objectivism is inconsistent with choosing not to use a product or convincing others not to use a product, I think you've missed the point. In particular, not using Google because you think your privacy is more valuable than the value generated by google's products is pretty exemplary of rational selfishness and individual freedom.

To the extent that you're correct, you're just discrediting Rand as a true private sector authoritarian.

edit: I've read the book.
Ask HN: Junior developer interview
Hi all!

I am preparing for an interview as Junior developer. I am learning as fast as I can, using tutorials and materials online.
I like programming but this is the first time that I interview for a developer position.

I would really appreciate your input about which kind of questions would you ask for such a position and which kind of concepts do you think are mandatory as junior developer.

The technology for this job opportunity are VB.Net, .Net 4.0, SQL, Html and a bit of javascript(not a requirement)

Looking forward for your suggestions and thank you in advance for your time answering me. I am sure it will help me for my career! :)
I don't really agree with the premise, which is that drewdavismedia is intelligent enough to decide for other people what they are allowed to have.
Oh, come on -- you admit you didn't click the link but still assume that you have enough information to go by to criticize them? And start pushing your services on them?

This is a "Show HN" post. You're supposed to play with it, and then comment.
You are mistaken. Steam looks at your local DNS cache to see if you've got the DNS entries of known cheat sites (since some of the cheating tools have their own convenient licencing mechanism that requires them to phone home at a special URL, this is easy-mode detection) in your cache. They do not look at your browsing history.
We need a new hardware architecture to elegantly enable containment and sandboxing. Every application should have its own isolated virtual environment and OS for execution. Like Qubes, but with every environment capable of utilizing the full hardware simultaneously (that is, managed by the hypervisor).

Direct access to the video hardware is the main thing that holds back the virtualization of gaming or other graphics-heavy activities. We desperately need a solution to that.
Author here: It's funny that you say this because as of right now there is only one example on Grimoire that isn't on Clojuredocs :P
My portable office:
Noise canceling headphones(Linx Audio), Microsoft Arc Keyboard, Microsoft Arc Mouse, 22" AOC usb monitor (http://us.aoc.com/monitor_displays/e2251fwu) and my laptop, of course.

Rooted Android phone with Foxfi for tethering in case internet is unreliable.

Commuting is for wussies!
We have B1/B2 visa. They allow you to stay in the US for 6 months and only take a few days to obtain. YC gave us a formal letter which made everything very simple.
Yell-caps in SQL are gross. I write all my sql in lowercase.

This may not be the right battle to be fighting. SQL reserved words have been written in all caps for a Very Long Time - it is a standard. From my personal experience, when I encounter legacy code where SQL keywords are lowercase I immediately think that the statements have been written by an inexperienced engineer (probably without any formal education).

The last time I encountered SQL statements with lowercase keywords, the individual included a table named user in their schema, causing all kinds of havoc, and reinforcing the stereotype.
+1

Branding is critical for any business. The "startup" industry needs to get that. I'm not convinced that it (as a whole) does. And that fact is both encouraging and shocking. Job security for me as a design/branding professional.
So there was a competitor to Biolite (PowerPot) on Shark Tank a couple of months ago, they claimed a patent filed in 2010[1] on the technology, Biolite filed in 2012 [2]

Grepping around the patent database doesn't turn up anything for the Powerpot, or assigned to Power Practical, or invented by Dave Toledo so I'm at a loss to know where they are on that.

That said, the tool, which requires boiling water only so that the correct temperature differential is maintained, seems a bit too specialized for back packing. It raises an interesting question on the weight budget for power though. I am guessing that a white gas fuel cell would be a much better answer from a practical point of view.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5LAZJU2t0

[2] http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Author here. I'm definitely aware that there are many pitfalls to Clojure than just the standard library docs. There's an open issue for adding a syntax guide and a macro guide, I'd be delighted to add a destructuring guide.
"the super pan was developed by astronauts who quit the space program to devote their LIVES to developing PANS!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQAFv1sI6TU&feature=kp
Claude Shannon: The Man Who Turned Paper Into Pixels
Ah yes, I forgot about Gates. (And Elon, and a number of other such CEOs I'm sure.) Good call!

But you're definitely completely right about medium-sized companies. I had totally forgotten about that category.
Sparc isn't a derivative of MIPS.
Better yet, server admins could ask for screenshots of players. (I just don't know if it would refuse to take screenshots outside the game)
Lots of harsh criticism in here. I think you guys have done some great work. Innovation is made incrementally, and you guys have taken two different models and blended them. Sometimes that works very well, sometimes it doesn't.

I'm not going to try and predict what's going to happen to this app, but I would say that your biggest challenges will be in getting users to understand that Sobrr fills a different need of theirs -- if it is a need at all. With Facebook and SnapChat and Hinge and Tinder it'll be hard to separate yourselves from the crowd, but I'm wishing you luck.
Some providers don't allow free-tier customers to respond to DMCA to have service restored. It appears from GitHub's policy, they do (https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy).

The ideal, since notice can be email, is to notify the infringer of a DMCA complaint and let them counter respond very quickly, to minimize any service interruption.

There are maximum response times, but no minimums. The entire process can be turned around from notice to "dude, you have DMCA" to "oh, hell no" inside an hour. (EDIT: Actually, this is incorrect. To do this requires various hacks, or accepting liability as the service provider.)

The secret is usually providers actually want to get rid of their DMCA-attracting clients for commercial/cost reasons, so they rarely are willing to make the process of response particularly efficient.
The most important part of branding is empathy. Same goes for product management, usability, design, marketing and even programming. I don't think Sobrr would have been better off hiring you or your firm, given the lack of empathy displayed in your post.

Would you be willing to post some of your work, so we can get an idea of what you provide clients?

EDIT: Link to his portfolio was posted in a previous comment by him, for anyone interested.
Interactive scientific computing: Goldilocks languages
This is probably the nicest looking Windows application I have seen in a while. The website is pretty slick too. This is the kind of detail that you usually get to see for Mac applications. Great Job. Seriously.

Right after I saw the animated details (you know, the one that pops up when you click "Change") I wanted to see its source code :/

Can you please tell us what language? and/or 3rd party controls are you using? Please?

I'm guessing it might be on the work in progress page but the page looks too detailed, so I have bookmarked it for when I have more time than I currently do.
Not that strapping a heat exchanger to a pot is a new idea among the sort of people that would be on mountaineering trips

http://www.esbit.de/en/products/72/2-35l-pot-with-heat-excha...

http://www.cascadedesigns.com/msr/cookware/cookware-accessor...

http://www.jetboil.com/

http://www.cascadedesigns.com/msr/stoves/stove-systems/categ...
Presumably Popcorntime could counter file and that would then free up Github from responsibility under the safe harbor clause.

When I first learned about Tor and the way it worked I always figured there would be a Tor equivalent of Github out there. The recipe for building such a site is pretty straight forward. Add a tor:// URI to git and there ya go.
Ah, I misinterpreted your comment. Sorry.

> It's relevant to working for a private, for-profit business in the sense that the alternative is often doing an internship for a private company.

I still think there's a pretty significant ethical difference between not-for-profit research and a for-profit business. Even without the student-teacher relationship, unpaid internships in CS are pretty ethically dubious and uncommon.
Ask HN: What percentage of scientific grants would VCs choose to fund? Any?