skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a broader semantic navigation technology that is driving this site. Shortly we will be doing apps for books, video games, and business.

We think that why movie recommendations are so hard is because people might like the same movie for different reasons. For example, if I told two friends that I liked the movie "Titanic", and asked for a recommendation they might separately recommend "The Perfect Storm" and "Avatar". Two very different movies, but both would count as good recommendations for different reasons. The problem, is that when a person recommends a movie to you, they have already filtered it according to what they thought was interesting about the movie.

Having said that it is still the best way to discover new movies. We believe that easy to use semantic browsing is a good middle-ground for any information discovery.

nanocrowd is very cool. I have not heard of the company before, but they have a very interesting take.
So apparently a mere starting place, which may or may not yield any actual profit (in an unspecified amount) via an unspecified method at an unspecified date in the future, is worth $10,000,000,000, about four times as much as Google's IPO, keeping in mind that Google had a real profitable business plan at the time?
Honestly, it's even simpler than that: it's the default domain in the email address dropdown when you go to sign up for Outlook.com/Hotmail now. The fraudsters aren't bothering to change the value in the dropdown, and they tend to create new email accounts frequently, so you'll see whatever the current domain is overrepresented.
For those interested, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab runs a telnet server that provides information about objects like this via its HORIZONS system.

To avoid an onslaught of HN traffic to the telnet server, I will just say to go to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov, and click through to find it. Once you're telnetted in, enter J002E3.
Good suggestion, I'll maybe write a follow up with a specific example. Thanks!

I've included a few pictures of stuff I recently used, maybe it can help to give more context.

- http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YA10ftXFFQ0/U6-iAdAUtGI/AAAAAAAAAn...

This one was done for debugging, as I do often. The code that I was debugging took some geometry and generated some texturemaps from it, it's really hard to debug why the maps are wrong when they are, what happened to the geometrical calculations. So I just added a std::vector<float> debugStuff and pushed values from various locations, then wrote it as a CSV. In processing I load this bunch of floats I know the meaning of and plot them in 3d as a point cloud. Each point in the cloud is clickable to show more of what happened at that position.

- http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFgdBffKEU0/U6-h9QweujI/AAAAAAAAAn...

This was for performance. A particular system computes tens of thousands of generated code snippets according to some rules, that will then used in runtime in various ways. Testing in runtime is hard because it's hard to cover all of them and it would take a long time. So I rigged the system to extract statistics about the generated code and save them to a CSV. Then in Mathematica I categorize and plot these datapoints and I can compare what changed between two different runs of the system. When I see in the data that a given change seems promising enough, I do the expensive test in runtime
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We are hiring for data science, front-end engineer, and product design roles.

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> ...the object's electromagnetic spectrum was consistent with white titanium dioxide paint...

Isn't this just a fancy way of saying that it was white?
Ruby developer at theScore in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (no remote -- local)

We're a sports company (please, you don't have to like sports to work here)! We provide real-time push alerts, news, and scores to our users. We reached 5.5 million users this quarter (up 33% compared to last year's quarter) and we need more awesome people like you to keep it scaling up! I could go on, but it seems like that would take too much time. Check out the website[0] or contact me through twitter (@Nitrodist).

You would be working on the team that processes and provides data to our mobile and web clients (mostly Android, iOS, and an Ember app).

Our stack is basically this:

* Ruby (some sinatra and non-rails focused projects)

* Rails (a lot of projects)

* Python (one project)

* Angular (one project)

If you understand the importance of caching, have heard of Varnish, have used HAProxy, etc., we want to hear from you! If you've worked in distributed systems before, we want to hear from you!

Working here is pretty awesome... things off the top of my head that are great about this place:

* Personal top-of-the-line Macbook Pro and Thunderbolt display

* Foosball, ping pong, TF2 Fridays, beer, FIFA 14 (PS4) and Mario Kart 8

* Outdoor patio

* Watch sports games (liking sports is not a requirement!)

* We are publicly traded and make money[1]

If you're interested or want more details, hit me up with an email (mark.campbell@thescore.com) or tweet me (@Nitrodist). Also, please don't apply if you are junior, sorry :(

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[1] - http://mobile.thescore.com/2014/07/thescore-inc-reports-fisc...
Temper.io is awesome and that type of feedback across different channels is super smart. I think being able to come up with specific responses with CI will give you some great data on really specific things among your product and service. I haven't heard of promoter.io but looks like a solid implementation for NPS. I'll be sure to get you guys in asap!
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Resume: Several years of full stack web development.

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$10k for 60 hours, $5k for 40 hours?

Here are a few choice words for Lyft:

Fuck you.
Experience Prague through the eyes of homeless people
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Gentoo Linux Project – Gentoo Prefix
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Smartsheet.com is a well established and rapidly-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company, offering an enterprise-ready cloud app for work management and collaboration. The award-winning tool is trusted by more than 40,000 businesses and millions of users in over 160 countries.

We have several open technical positions on our core development team including a team lead role, a QA Engineer position, and are also seeking a mobile developer (Android). Smartsheet is mostly built in JavaScript with a Java backend. We're seeking engineers who are interested in building rich, real-time collaborative client experiences, and the backend systems to support these features at scale.

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* Next to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company which is DuPont.
Have your programming interviews changed at all in the last while? The list sorting thing isn't necessarily the best way at finding good candidates.
Well that wasn't really to present to a board, but really a quite straightforward application of the rift. VR is used today for scientific visualization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environm...) but it's veeery expensive. The rift and companies that will make rift-based products for scientific, medical etc... visualization are going to make money
If you took it seriously, you wouldn't break the language with every major release, and you'd spend more time not shipping things that are obviously poorly thought out.

No design process can guarantee perfection at first try, but that means you have to invest the effort to maintain what you produce that's imperfect. Simply accepting that you'll produce garbage is how you produce more garbage.

"Stagnation" is what happens to the hundreds of thousands of lines of code in the world that you bitrot with every breaking changes. When you invest more effort in craftsmanship, you're not stagnating the language.
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Can you give us some background on that? What is this island? Isn't it on Google Map?

The website works great, but I am curious!
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Cassidy Stay Shooting Hoax Texas – Must see this new evidence
I’m not quite convinced. If I understand you correctly, what you’re saying is the following:

Suppose we send out one photon ν of momentum p_ν. We hence gain momentum -p_ν. This photon then randomly hits a particle X of a particle-antiparticle pair and transfers its momentum/energy to the particle X, creating/altering it into a particle X'. When X' and ¬X collide again, this momentum/energy is lost and doesn’t hit the opposite wall of the cavity (where it would be transferred onto us again, causing us to lose the previously-gained momentum -p_ν).

But this would require that when X' and ¬X annihilate each other, the extra momentum of X' is also annihilated. Intuitively, I’d expect it to be sent out as a photon – with momentum p_ν.
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Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Full stack from PCI-ISA bus vhdl to javascript (no frontend design though)

Resume: I learned programming after starting to reverse engineer in my free time in high school. I have a masters degree in computer engineering with a focus on communication networks and algorithms and architecture. I really enjoy doing new stuff. i've been at some early stages of a few of the most successful european startups and i've review code for the department of homeland security too.

In some off chance that someone has a cool neuroscience tech company and is looking for someone that is extremely flexible and quick at understanding and solving problems shoot me a letter.

but even if not i'm interested in other cool opportunities. especially for jobs in the US

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I think you also have to provide details of the licence/licensed components alongside your distributed software, so that users know they can actually request the source-code.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html - "And you must show them these terms so they know their rights"
Note the restrictions in the terms of use, which prevent redistribution of the data or any summaries "on any website or other electronic media not covered by this agreement."

Would this prohibit making a blog post on an analysis of the data?
You point us to the Blub essay as if that settles the matter. It doesn't. I think the Blub essay is wrong.

Here's the Lisp people. They're sure that they are at the top of the power curve (including compared to Haskell), and they can tell you exactly why. "How can you get anything done in Haskell? It doesn't even have macros."

Over here are the Haskell types (pun intended). They're sure that they are at the top of the power curve (including compared to Lisp), and they can tell you exactly why. "How can you get anything done in Lisp? It doesn't even have a decent type system."

This situation - two different languages each looking down at the other - reveals the problem in pg's Blub Paradox. The problem is this: The idea that all languages can be ranked on a one-dimensional axis called "power" is wrong.

You can see this with hardware, for instance. We know what power is in hardware - it's MIPS. But once you think a bit deeper, you might remember that your workload contains a fair amount of floating point, so you have to worry about FLOPS... and there's that one data set that doesn't fit into cache, so you have to worry about memory bandwidth... or would it be worth lower MIPS to have a bigger cache? Now "power" has at least four dimensions (MIPS, FLOPS, memory bandwidth, and cache size). Even more (but for the same reasons), it's naive to say that programming languages can be strictly ordered according to on a one-dimensional "power" axis.

So now you have to start asking "power for what"? I think this is the right question, because nobody ever writes a general computer program. We always write specific ones. We want a programming language that has the most power for that specific problem we're trying to solve.

Once you crack open that door, in walks (for example) a Fortran person, who asks, "How can you get anything done in Haskell or Lisp? They don't even have decent matrix packages!" And before you say "of course they can do matrix math", by "decent" the Fortran person meant a package that can, for example, efficiently handle a banded hermitian matrix with complex elements, and still get good answers even if it turns out to be a stiff problem. I strongly suspect that Lisp and Haskell matrix packages aren't yet up to that standard. (And if you're going to say, "Well, that's just a niche", I suspect that niche is at least as big as the entire Haskell universe.)

Then a hard-real-time embedded programmer comes through the door, and says that their world needs a language that not only doesn't garbage collect, but doesn't cons either. (That niche is probably also as big as the Haskell or Lisp universe.)

And so on.

Think of programming languages as a tree. Think of your problem as a vector. Use whatever branch of the tree gets you the furthest along the vector of your problem. In other words, the best tool for the job. It's not always Haskell. It's not always anything. Learn more than one tool.
The word "offer" is used misleadingly here. Its a guarantee that if you work for 60 hours a week you will earn at least $10,000 a month.
Location: Curitiba / Brazil
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
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Can you elaborate on compressing node-webkit with UPX? I've got a nw app which feels somewhat fat at ~70mb and shaving some of that down would be of interest to me.
Hey Michael, I loved your book on Quantum Computing, but don't get me started on D-Wave or as I see it: $15M for a huge magic box that might be faster than a $15,000 GPU cluster for some problems.

But seriously, the book rocked, and this one's coming along nicely.
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco bay area or remote

I provide one very specific service: implementing custom tools, features, and integrations for Literally Canvas[1], my open source HTML5 drawing widget. If you need a drawing feature in your web app, I can help you make that happen.

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I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL
It looks like it's some kind of revenue guarantee, which might be attractive to some people if they worry about hitting those revenue targets, although it depends on expenses and other opportunities. They're guaranteeing effectively either $38/hr revenue if you commit to 60 hrs, or $28/hr revenue if you commit to 40 hrs, in both cases prior to expenses (gas, maintenance, etc.). Not sure how to estimate what that'd work out to as income post-expenses.

Conditioning the payment on a 60-hour commit seems questionable, although I assume they had their lawyers vet it. Independent contractors are exempt from a lot of labor law, but things get dicier if you contract them in such a way that they become de-facto employees working full-time for you and unable to take other work.
Can someone put this into context. It sounds like a huge sum? What would someone with a taxi license & without Lyft typically earn?
I don't mean this to sound snarky but remote developers are paid whatever they can negotiate.

If a company wants remote workers for "off shoring reasons", then pay will be low. If they want remote workers that are perfect for their needs, they'll pay what they think is fair and within their budget.
A bit off topic, but there's a quotation I find so compelling that I post it in my office and on the front of my website:

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy as an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." J. Gardner

I'm in a field (academia) where it is very easy to allow yourself to get away with doing shoddy work as a result of pridefulness.
> I wonder if his attorney cost more than the actual citation?

Doesn't really matter -- getting a[nother] point on your license can be more costly log-term (insurance rates, having to re-take drivers test, etc).
The blog post states TJ moved it from his personal visionmedia account to strongloop's company org. It was never in the expressjs org.

Because of that, it reads to me like TJ saw it as handing over his personal stake in the project to StrongLoop, which consisted of the domain name and the root repo.
Idiots use click bait headlines on HN, you won't believe what they did they did next!
Most games have all of this info in the credits, and if you get a manual anymore, in there.
= Tascout - Rome, IT =

REMOTE: Yes, but preferably Rome, then preferably Italy, then preferably Europe.

== About the company ==

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- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Angular
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== Contact us ==

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SEEKING WORK - Boston, can also work remotely

Python/Linux/Web developer available for freelance projects. 20 years of programming experience, 7 as a freelancer. Also have a degree in physics from MIT.

Most of my recent projects have been Python web apps (e.g. in Django) or Python scripting (e.g. statistical analysis, web scraping). I can do full-stack web development and have worked with lots of other things as well: C/C++, Lisp, machine learning, OpenGL, numpy/scipy/matplotlib, systems programming, image processing, etc. I'm also interested in learning new things. I am a U.S. citizen.

I'm looking for small to medium-sized projects.

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Get in touch if you'd like to chat about your project!
if 'fancy way of saying' means it has a specific chemical composition then sure, yes it's a way of saying it was white.
Location: Washington DC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: I'm a technical project manager with an operations background. Currently at an agency, looking to move to a product-focused company or media organization. I'm the person that keeps the trains running on time, can learn new things quickly, and have several successful side projects.

Resume: I'm currently employed, so I can't post this. (This probably means I won't have anyone reply, but it's safer than someone from my company seeing this!)

Email: If interested, please comment and I'll email you.
It's a good read for many older non-Haskell programmers, too.

I'd go so far as to say it's a good read for many humans, whether they're programmers or not.
That is sort of the opposite of abstracting over the type but I get what you mean. I totally agree that interpreting values as soon as possible into the appropriate types is superior. I'm a big proponent of fail early. PHP, as with many scripting languages, are designed for short-term programmer convenience over long-term programmer convenience. Which given it's history and the original tasks it was designed for, that makes sense.

But PHP is moving in the direction of interpreting types quickly and failing early. Specifically, scalar type hinting seems like an almost certainty once there is an agreement on the semantics.
You can mitigate some of the perceived speed issues by defaulting to show: false in package.json and manually opening your first window after the full runtime environment loads. More info here: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/1962#issueco...
Yeah, right now my workflow is just to use silver searcher in my (non-emacs) terminal which is always in a window right next to emacs. Eventually I'll take a few moments to integrate the workflow into emacs.
How to Take Your App Beyond the Accelerator
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Thank you for this comment, I don't know why but I decided to do a google search on dysregulated and the first link was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_dysregulation

Hours of browsing similar wikipedia articles to find out something but nothing describing exactly the issue only to come across an unrelated comment on hacker news unexpectedly that helps a ton.
Thanks. We changed the title to the first sentence of the article.
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