skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's invaluable.

I run a consulting firm in Ohio (http://infincia.com). We build and maintain new and existing iOS and Mac apps, and create highly available server backends for them.

Everything from short term contract requests to full employment offers at well funded startups in SV have hit my work email address, specifically mentioning the freelancer thread in the initial conversation.
A really interesting bit is this photograph:

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/03/education/edlife/0...

Note that the currencies are local, and costs are listed up front.
The guy who started this site is a good friend of mine. Here he's interviewed at the Coin Congress last week in SF by Money & Tech's Rebecca Ahn

http://moneyandtech.com/david-silva-smith-of-so-whats-bitcoi...
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I am looking for a data scientist who can help me create an algorythym which can help predict who would be the "best members" based upon certain data points, including answers to questions, personality test like questions, and basic career and education background, etc
> What are you going to do with [1.0, "abc", True], besides throw a TypeError?

for x in [1.0, "abc", True]:
print(x)

Of course, all the legitimate things you can do with it illustrate ways in which the collection isn't really heterogenous, its just as collection of elements which have different types that are all within the same sum type.

The thing is that in dynamic languages, there's one universal sum type, and every function effectively takes arguments and returns results of that type. In Haskell, you have to plan more for the specific sum types you are going to be using, which in certain situations makes some things more complicated. Of course, it also means that things that would be in documentation or approximately verified in tests can be statically verified by the compiler, so there is a trade off.
Tape emerges of Hilary Clinton day before 9/11
The same as locals: you dont get anything you dont ask for.
I watched Avengers and thought it looked old - a 1940s Hollywood vibe but with 2010s CGI. RDJ has made a brilliant career out of rebooting Errol Flynn.

I'll give GOTG a go out of interest.
P.S. This could clearly have many applications.
Well the author may be a clever computer scientist but he knows nothing about physics and LIDAR equipment. Pathetic I'm afraid.
Your view is completely distorted, that's just my personal opinion and since I really don't wanna argue about it anymore (I don't see any point)... Let's agree to disagree.

As for being up/down-voted. I don't really care, I just state my views, some people like them others do not. It's what makes this community great.

Have a nice evening (it's 22:02 here! GMT+2)
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UI/UX,
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Specialize in iOS.

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This kinda goes against a popular theory that Microsoft mine JetBrains for Visual Studio functionality improvement ideas (or more likely the blog author just doesn't work on VS or w/ the VS dev team all that much)

Awesome read btw!
Unbelievable. Way cooler than any toy ever! I take it this dad doesn't have a job?
Pardon Snowden Now.
Emulator for iOS (With out having to Jailbreak)
Sorry, but I still disagree.

It's the flexibility of Python that makes it great for writting CRUD applications with diverse data types, at the same time that it's the rigidity of Haskell that makes it great for writting a complex specialized server. It's the unsafety of C++ that makes it great for directly interfacing devices, but you really does not want that unsafety in any of the other examples.

None of that is a matter of maturity, it's the other way around, the available libraries are good for different tasks because the languages allow them to be. You can't just compare those languages without context.
you might find this interesting
http://gselevator.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/meet-jack-the-plu...
Show HN: People search engine built on top of the blockchain
Explaining News Recommendations to Users (2012) [pdf]
Scopely/Los Angeles, CA/Server Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Server Engineer to join our team and work on a huge new title we are releasing this year

What will you be doing?

- Developing server-side features and APIs for Scopely's multi-million user games that generate significant revenue for the company. Examples include matchmaking, tournaments, in-app purchasing conduits, etc
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On the other hand, a defense of NIH: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html
So we know from recent history that the US Justice Department thinks accessing a computer network without authorization is worth 35 years in prison.

I was going to pose the question what the over / under line would be on charges for those members of the CIA who did this but then I realized that it would be a silly question. When it comes to the US Government the corollary of too big to fail is too powerful to jail.
Ask HN: Learning Swift beyond basics
Hello HN! I'm a CS student, I have been learning Swift for a while now and I'm pretty comfortable with it.

Now I would like to incorporate what I have learned into a rather simple App, what are some good places I can learn Advance stuff, like views, view controllers, IBActions, making simple UI's , cocoa..
Thanks!
Also the dropping of pensions, and increase in cost of healthcare. It used to be that some portion of people could get 20 yrs in a their first company then have the option of having a fairly secure foundation from which to take risks.
Verhuisdozen om te verhuizen en te knutselen
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Mission Statement
It's still pretty easy though - except when the bars let out in the bowery.
The regulations that have harmed new businesses and (non-software) start-ups are not related to anti-trust enforcement. OSHA, EPA, healthcare, and IRS regulations in the last 30-40 years have greatly increased compliance costs, and severely complicated matters for small companies, this has crippled many, either preventing them from growing, or killing them entirely. The agencies may be taking more or less enforcement actions on various different subject matters, but they have greatly increased the complexity of compliance and the volume of documentation required to stay within the bounds of the law. If you need proof of this, please take a glance at the federal register, and you will see that the rate of regulation has greatly increased in over the past 30-40 years ( the FR more than tripled in length from 1970-2000), with few of the FR entries being repeals.[1] Please also keep in mind that the FR does not contain all the existing administrative rules, so the integral of all the FRs is a more relevant (and horrifying) statistic (~3 million cumulative pages as of 2010).[2]

[1] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/www.intellectualtak...

[2] http://politicsandprosperity.com/2012/02/17/lay-my-regulator...
Quill maintainer here. Yes Quill will live on. It was originally open sourced at Salesforce while I was on the GoInstant team but is not dependent on either for continued existence.
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Its also interesting to note that this is how Nintendo has handled backwards compatability for every gameboy generator. In the DS the GBA's arm was used for sound processing. And the GBA has a GBC's z80. The GBC itself was just a GB z80 with a higher clock and special memory space for color palettes.
According to the HN guidelines[0], it seems that it would be more appropriate to write a blog entry regarding the outage and link to that, rather than to link to the site experiencing the outage at the time. Providing a link to a non-functional site is itself of no value, after all.

Also, while not stated in the guidelines, I imagine a text submission would also be appropriate for this sort of situation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Obama Signs Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Into Law
Is there a point of contact I could employ if I have questions about a position?
Proposed experiment:

1) Provide a matrix of all 32 colors and a list of the 16 color terms. Ask people to pick the tile that best matches each color term.

2) Provide the matrix of colored icons/logos that uses the new palate, and the same matrix using the old palate. Ask people to pick the prettier matrix.

I don't think the new palate has any chance of winning the first contest. It might win the second. Perhaps that's the point.
> That makes it sound like the investigation is politically motivated, which I find disappointing.

No, what's politically motivated was that the chain of command that authorized and enacted torture was never prosecuted. This is not just a simple violation, but a Grave Breach as defined in the Geneva Conventions. In an effort to avoid what would be an inevitable partisan shitstorm, the heinous acts committed by the CIA and authorized explicitly by the White House were whitewashed. This report was the only thing that remained in the arsenal to hold these perpetrators accountable, and the CIA was actively attempting to thwart its work.
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The namespace appears to have changed or something, I found it here:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Core/Microsoft/...

Note: also MSFT employee, don't work on .NET though.
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Talk about the barriers faced by people trying to get access to academic literature![^1]

Anyways, here are (freely accessible) slides of a talk by the author(s) -- http://www.slideshare.net/ifsteinm/oss-2014-systematic-revie...

[^1]: Google does make life much easier.

EDIT: I guess the main link is downloadable now, but I still kinda prefer slides.
Heh. No :) Remember that my main point here was simply an experience I had facing suicidal. I came to faith in Christ back in my early 20's after thrashing and lashing out severely at many different faiths. My illness came to bear back in my 30's, and it is my belief that what happened in my 20's saved my life in my 30's.

Now I'm in my 40's. I have a phrase that I use a lot. I respect a person's right to believe whatever they want, all I ask is they respect my right to believe whatever I want.
Facebook is down
seems facebook went down for couple of minutes
Ask HN: What are unconventional ways to get people to attend a tech event?
What are unconventional ways to drive traffic to our website (thecreativecoast.org) and boost sales in tickets for out tech conference Geekend?
"
Argument: Don't use black because nothing in nature is actually black.

False Conclusion: Don't use black on a web page because nothing in nature is actually black.

False Assumption: The black on a web page is actually pure black.

True Conclusion: Use black if you want to - it won't be pure black, it will simply be the darkest you can get.

PS. This is also true for paint: Black paint is also not pure black.
"
-ars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581935

Kinda unrelated story:
I ran into trouble using "true black" (A combo of CMYK) on a van wrap. In all the testing I did, it looked fine, but outdoors, it looked green. But photos of the wrap looked fine. (the camera has a uv filter?) Figured out that the cyan ink fluorescenced in daylight with that combo of ink and material at least. And converted it to just black ink for the next ones.
Unread wasn't an indie failure, the business model was
Or that tech geeks get enthusiastic over Disney products despite Disney's recurring efforts to lock-down the Internet.

There is some serious marketing magic happening here.
This is nice to see a relatively brief introduction to the essential features.

Steve Yegge wrote: "Go look over Paul Nordstrom's shoulder while he works sometime, if you don't believe me. It's a real eye-opener for someone who's used Visual Blub .NET-like IDEs their whole career."

Does anyone know of any public video of Mr. Nordstrom using emacs, or can someone who knows him request one?
[edit: properly attribute the quote]
Lyft in NYC is such a shit show. First they refused to follow the rules that Uber was smart enough to follow (every driver has to be registered with the TLC, and Uber often pays for that registration for Uber-exclusive drivers, at least in the early days, mind you, Uber also maintains its own livery companies for its drivers to be under, Hinter, Weiter, Schlinkel, etc.), then they finally do a mea culpa, but realize very quickly that they didn't have enough licensed drivers (Uber smartly partnered with existing liveries for the black cars early on while it built out its Uber X line).

THEN they launch, but have no cars, have insane surge pricing - you can't apply a free trip to a the tip pricing, the app doesn't make it clear how much extra you'll pay with the surge stuff.

Oh, and the drivers from what I'm hearing (and my one experience) are seriously lackluster.

Fail. Total fail. Uber FTW.
The words "gender", "sex", "women", "female" don't appear in that doc...weird.
How is the main link downloadable?
PUT YOUR NAME ON EVERY LINE OF CODE

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Actually you can check if an account is verified!

Here's a snippet in Ruby I use to check. It's not perfect, but it catches a lot of cases:

# ...

def initialize
@request = PaypalAdaptive::Request.new
end

# ...

def verified_status( opts={} )
begin
opts.assert_keys! :first_name, :last_name, :paypal_account_email
result = @request.get_verified_status(
emailAddress: opts[:paypal_account_email],
firstName: opts[:first_name],
lastName: opts[:last_name],
matchCriteria: 'NAME'
)
Rails.logger.debug "PAYPAL VERIFICATION: #{result.inspect}"
return result.success? && result['accountStatus'] == 'VERIFIED'
rescue
return false
end
end

Here's the API docs: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/adaptive-accou...

What I can't stand is that accounts in some countries (at least India) can't send payments from balance. So you can't get your fee. This is mentioned nowhere in the docs, a customer just hit it one day and that's how I found out. I asked paypal what other countries can't send payments and they said... wait for it... they "don't have a list". I kid you not: https://twitter.com/rfunduk/status/412980259001102336
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We have an open position for a DevOps engineer.

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ZXing.JS – Zebra Crossing in JavaScript
Kind of sad the kick starter for some similar technology was closed recently. Would have been exciting to see if it worked out.
Tesla’s battery ‘Gigafactory’ could change everything – not just electric cars
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Do Goals Prevent Success?
Programmers Tools Group Test: Linux Text Editors
It's a pity the lectures are not accessible any longer. How i wish i could find them somewhere!
Tandem does implement OT and can handle rich text. The dependency on diff-match-patch is just for their diff function, not their sync system. We actually recently switched to jsdiff as well.
I agree that making an intelligence organization effective yet responsible is inherently challenging, but I also think that our government has made plenty of garden variety stupid choices w/r/t the CIA as well.

At this point from a simple costs vs. benefits standpoint I just do not see how even having a CIA (or at least the Clandestine Service portion) is worth it. They have wasted probably billions of dollars on countless blunders over the decades. They constantly embarrass the State Department by lying to and stealing from our supposed allies, and getting caught doing it. And they get informants killed. Now they're spying on the US's own democratically elected representatives. Meanwhile, what imminent dangers to US security has the Clandestine Service ever prevented? How do they justify their own existence? The Cold War ended decades ago, I don't see how their mission is relevant anymore.
I take cabs around NYC a lot. Never had trouble except around closing time near some bars on weekends.
Right now just movies, but if there is interest TV shows would not be a problem. The underlying technology can work with most semantically related data sources.
توقعات الابراج مع جمانة قبيسى اليوم السبت 2-8-2014 ,
Fuck bro, that's hard-core.
"I didn't find the CGI distracting, nor is Rocket treated like Jar Jar Binks (he is actually one of the more "serious" characters). Although I will admit that Groot (the tree) has some Jar Jar Binks style moments, but it isn't as distracting/jarring as Episode 1."

It's really sad that the star wars prequels may have hampered the adventure/scifi genre for the better part of a decade.

I have no problem with the gimmicky, comic-relief character if there's some actual substance there.
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Combining with the comments below, there is a note that the test worked even when they changed a vital configuration (seemed to be a control test).

When a control fails, the conclusion is that the experiment is buggy and you need to rethink things. Unfortunately, it seems from the article, the conclusion was that some new physics was at work here.
IMAP server written in PHP
I ran a similar but smaller network back in high school. I was in Bulgaria but the setup was exactly the same. Me and several other kids wanted to play Starcraft and dial-up was bad. We bought a lot of cable and connected 3 apartment buildings.

Soon our neighbors learned about the network and started asking if they can join. At the peak we had wired about 20 families, this was all supported by me and a friend. The incentive for me was free internet and some side income.

In retrospect I find it amazing that such DIY approach brought us in the top of the internet speed rankings surrounded by the most developed countries in the world.
Wow. There is a fortune to be made for a company to support a commercial fork of this project, as there are a tonne of corporations locked into IBM mainframes. If this z/Os emulator does it right it might just be a pathway for those corporations to move to modern systems.
US acquires legal right to grab data in overseas servers