skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relegating software development to a hobby
I'm a self-taught web developer in my mid 30's that, after doing web development for the last 8 years, is rapidly moving towards burnout. Over the last few years every time I changed jobs I thought the previous job was the issue (no upward mobility, e-commerce is boring, I don't like strongly-typed languages), and only in the past few months have I started to wonder if it's not the job but that I'm in the wrong career.

I'm interested in various languages and software and will do tutorials in new subjects occasionally, but never do the passionate personal-time deep dives that my colleagues do. I read The Passionate Programmer and often times thought "Yeah I'm not going to do that" regarding things a passionate programmer does. Right now programming feels like a person I want to perpetually date but never settle down with.

So for those who have gone through a similar soul-searching period, what helped you to reach a conclusion? Did you relegate software development to a hobby and go do something else instead? If so, are you happy with that decision?
Appeals court says Yelp’s ad sales tactics don’t extort small businesses
Microsoft eyes acquiring Cyanogen Inc
The paper on "heralded imaging" seems to be only available as a paywalled abstract, so I have no idea what that is. :(
> Given that LC is not a depository institution, the only way I see them providing lower interest rates is they have figured out a cheaper source of funding - or burning investor money to do this which is not sustainable and the big banks will defeat them eventually.

LC is peer to peer lending. I have $47k invested in LC notes. They save money by having fewer brick & mortar offices and mainly relying on credit score to assess borrowers.
I don't think having a standard will in any way reduce the variance of implementations and which implementations (custom or otherwise) sites choose to use. Some wont want to support images. Some won't want to support inline html.

Hell, just look at C compilers!
I suspect the key to making money off the poor is buying from them low, rather than selling to them high. In other words...sweatshops. Pimps. Mechanical Turk.

These are all distasteful, but what makes them unsuitable for the task of Helping Humanity is that these transactions are really bad transactions to be making, for reasons the financials don't show. A 3rd-year developer is worth more than a 1st-year developer---is a 3rd-year sweatshop laborer worth meaningfully more than a 1st-year sweatshop laborer?
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Maybe it's just my eyeballs, but it looks like the <1 photon/pixel result was kind of fuzzy vs. the higher photon count image (cf. wasp wing).

If the idea is getting targeted bits of information about an object, as in whether a feature is present or absent, the very low photon image might meet the need.

However, with photography as art, the requirements for image resolution would be much higher, much more similar to the multi-photon image examples.

So it would appear mileage varies: the minimal photon images suit the minimalist domain, but an ordinary high-resolution image would require many more photons/pixel to get the expected result.
Add to it that I suspect self-shipping tends to end up being more expensive than it needs to be for individuals, too. The selection boxes offered at retail shipping locations is limited, so you almost invariably end up paying to ship a bigger box than is necessary.

Maybe if you're the kind of person to save boxes you can often find one that fits well in your basement, but for the urban markets they're looking to serve most people will be living in smaller residences without a lot of space for packratting cardboard.
https://www.lendingclub.com/public/how-we-set-interest-rates...
(worth reading, tangentially answers your question, 10/10) http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
the adtech ecosystem is pretty massive - for the generic (and even more confusing) breakdown of the value chain, check this out:

http://www.lumapartners.com/resource-center/lumascapes-2/

So where to start?
it really depends on your business, will you have direct relationships with publishers? if so how will you do outreach to them + onboard them - if not will you get distribution on an exchange (if so this is capital intensive and there are usually min monthly buys $10-20k+), in which case you will then need advertisers (how will you acquire them?) - lots of questions pop out here

What's an exchange vs a marketplace?
Whenever an ad loads on a web page or in an app (this is called an impression) a bid is placed by various entities in an auction and who ever wins shows their ad - this is an exchange

A marketplace is usually geared towards advertisers looking to purchase placements on publisher sites/apps - the marketplace has the rate info + ad format/size/specs and makes it easier to purchase from a large number of publishers in a curated way without having to go talk with each publisher directly.

How does a small startup get involved?
it really depends on if you have funding or not, but adtech is one of the few places that make it easy to bootstrap

Shoot me an e-mail (in my profile) if you have any other specific questions, i have worked on the vendor and agency side.
Study: [US] Southwest may face 'megadrought' within century
Not to mention that packratting cardboard can be bad for pests and fires. Or rather, good for those things and thereby bad for people.
No names are coming to mind right now, but I do recall several sites solving the problem of what to cook with a given set of ingredients. Tracking what you have on hand would certainly be useful.
Comcast spinoff “GreatLand Connections” to be 5th largest cable company
Computing the Median on Big Data, Approximately
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Within India

Technologies: Hadoop Ecosystem, Elasticsearch, Storm, Java, Python

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandnalya

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Full stack experience in big data and web applications. Co-author of Learning Storm [https://bitly.com/amzstorm]
Rescale (YC W12) is hiring a UI/UX Designer
Rescale helps engineers and scientists develop products faster by running simulations in the cloud. Think Heroku for engineers and scientists.

Rescale is looking for a talented UI designer who is willing to take on the challenge of building an intuitive, easy-to-use platform for the complex process of configuring and running HPC (High Performance Computing) application workflows.

This is an on-site/full-time position in San Francisco. Please attach your resume and portfolio with your contact information.

Responsibilities

* Transform complex ideas into beautiful and intuitive user interfaces

* Work with other developers to turn mockups into web pages

* Be on alert for any possible design improvements for the company (e.g. document templates, email templates, office decorations, etc)

Qualifications

* An eye for clean and artful design

* Demonstrable design skills with a strong portfolio

* Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions

* Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or other visual design tools

* Web Development Experience (HTML/CSS) - JS is a plus

Interested? Contact us at des-jobs@rescale.com
While LC is not a bank -- and not subject to banking regulations -- its not at all a "message board that connects buyers to lenders". While it initially was something like that (and still has some superficial resemblance to it), lending is a tightly regulated industry, and there'd be a very narrow market if it it tried to actually be that, rather than being the lender itself and selling notes tied to its loans (essentially, a key part of the service LC is providing is dealing with the regulatory compliance with regard to lending.) This is the same model as is used by other superficially "peer-to-peer" lending services (e.g., Prosper.com)
Sega accuses Gearbox founder of “doing whatever the f–k he likes”
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I'd accept that. Seems unwieldily (so it wouldn't be my choice), but I don't think it's outright hostile to the original.

We've got Disqus, Stack Overflow, GitHub, and others. John has referred in the past that he doesn't mind how GitHub has GitHub flavored mark down. This new one could be called Atwood flavored (to pick a name I know is involved). Or they could have stuck with GitHub Flavored markdown and just expand the GitHub flavor.
The Most Embarrassing Dotcom Failure of All Time
It seems like most of the problems you mention could be solved by just having apps with a more friendly UI as opposed to manufacturing a new device.
The obvious business model is making the technology-du-jour accessible, not tablets in particular.
Growing Gender Diversity at Envato
That ... seems like a lot of effort to avoid facing up to the moon looking bumpy. And Aristotle? WTF dude, you saw the same thing!
Apple and Swift.

http://swift-lang.org/main/
Sounds basically like TVO Kids which I used to watch many years ago when I got home from elementary school. Children's programming does seem to have changed significantly since then unfortunately.
25 year experiment shows ants can break down minerals, sequester CO2
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After you read, there is a little treat for you at the bottom.
An ecommerce based health industry startup is looking for the right candidate to create ATTENTION-GRABBING, informative text,that describes and promotes our product.
You will be doing what you love in a fun environment;and have the chance to work directly with the founder.
As an intern you will be completing the following tasks-
Creating compelling content in collaboration with the photographer by promoting our product,offering services,and posting blog posts.
Researching the health field,and using the researched information to product compelling content.
Creating content for all social media outlets,and targeted ads.
Keeping up with current trends to help create targeted ads.

This position requires the following:
Creativity, excellent writing skills and an ability to meet tight deadlines.
Above average spelling, grammar and punctuation skills
Familiarity with stylebooks and other reference materials
Ability to pay attention to detail.
Knowledge of word processing programs and editing tools
Proven track record of content completion & conversion rates.

If those qualifications match, and you are excited please send your portfolio & a one sentence statement describing why you would be a good fit for our start up to recruiting@destressbox.com

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/gdfd45eilk/10-reasons-for-recent-grads-to-join-a-startup/
ENJOY.
I've had luck just asked for fresh fries. They always either say it'll be a few minutes and I get it, or that they just made some fresh fries. It's rare that they say it was just made and they are stale, I'd say it happens about 10% of the time.
I hope Martinis considers NV (nitrogen vacancy) centers in synthetic diamond as quantum computing elements.

There's considerable work that indicates diamond NV centers could be valuable in the next step beyond D-Wave's systems. A few of many:

Photonic Architecture for Scalable Quantum Information Processing in Diamond http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4277

Quantum Correlation Between Distant Diamonds http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6060/1213.summary

Quantum computing: Diamond and Silicon Converge
http://211.144.68.84:9998/91keshi/Public/File/34/479-7371/pd...

Homoepitaxial Growth of Single Crystal Diamond Membranes for Quantum Information Processing
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/11859326/Homoepit...
> It was neat in the beginning, but it's a pain to report taxes on, and the decreasing risk adjusted returns make it much less attractive than it used to be.

The taxes are the biggest issue right now I think. There's no faculty in US tax code for reporting earnings on this kind of investment. If I heard right, I think some people lost all of their returns in 2012 due to written-off notes? I believe all of my returns (over the past four years) were taxed at my normal income rate. People have just been guessing at how to report their earnings in TurboTax. Haven't heard of any audits thus far...

Also, as far as risk-adjusted returns go, it still beats equities, right?
And also be able to implement the idea. Not that I'm saying that you couldn't. But in general, I think having a great idea is not really worth all that much on it's own.
Enough RAM? That's about the only thing why 64-bit processor is not needed in a phone. 32-bit ARM can support up to 1 TB of RAM.
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> I always wondered why big banks didn't get into the business that Lending Club started.

LC didn't start it, it followed a number of other generally similar "peer-to-peer" lending services (Prosper.com is the first US one I'm aware of -- about two years before LC -- and ISTR there was at least one UK one about the same time as Prosper).

And banks don't get into it because it would involve risking the resources on a new business whose success outcome would be driving customers to account choices where the bank keeps less of the income from lending.

If the quasi-peer-to-peer-model becomes popular, banks will grudgingly get into it because then the choice will be between giving up all of the money to competitors rather than giving some of it up to investors in quasi-P2P loans, but they'd rather not stamp their imprimatur on the model while it still might fail to become a significant factor in how people invest and seek loans.
Ah...seems to work now. Thought that was supposed to happen. Very good.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/with...

might be a good start. These are images auto-extracted from public domain books at the Internet Archive.
I have zero experience, but MyHDL[0] seems interesting. No idea if it's close to solving any sort of practical problem though.

[0] http://myhdl.org/
Banks are actually all about "peer-to-peer" loans, where do you think their massive funds come from? You deposit money, the bank lends it out. In reality it's a bit more complicated than that but that's the essence of banking.
But they tried to contact the guy and never obtained an answer. I'd vote to call it MarkAbove!
"Standard" carries with it a significant heft in meaning, especially authority, that "Something" else is unlikely to carry. Authority that is illegitimate without the original author's involvement.
There are several online banks with no brick-and-mortar presence.
> Banks can raise funds cheaply through deposits

Well, for now -- if the higher yields of Prosper/LC-style quasi-P2P loan investments draw investors out of savings accounts into that model, then there'll be a pretty big exodus out of the kind of stable depository accounts that banks most rely on.
I remember this story, though I forgot exactly how deep it went. I thought it was just compromising certificate authorities, or sneaking in physically to catch part of the stream that's not encrypted like they did with Google. That's irrelevant here because the only computers that would hold decrypted info in the case of Blackbox are those computers which would anyway hold it decrypted without Blackbox.

So there's still the part about compromising the encryption software. Well, GPG is not proprietary so that's a lot harder.

As far as somehow brute forcing the cyphertext, I guess that may be possible, though they don't give clear details about that here. That being the case, they still don't say anything about GPG. Perhaps the biggest argument of all is that Edward Snowden himself uses it, knowing everything he knows.
Hey there, I'm intimately familiar with the poultry industry in all aspects. What you're referencing is for egg-utilizing companies, like unilever, who need eggs in their products (ice creams, etc.). Unilever is requiring their egg producers to adopt new technologies to detect male chicks in the eggs and prevent them from hatching, leading to only the female chicks growing into hens, which lay the desired eggs.

The chicken-producing industry (very different from the egg producing industry) does use males. They're differentiated for some products (Perdue's Oven Stuffer Roasters, for example), but 95% of all producers in the country now run "Straight-run" operations, meaning they dont differentiate between male and female birds (no sexing the chicks and separating them). Originally this was a problem, conforming your machines to process two different sized birds (a double-bell-curve, so to speak), but streamlining the selective breeding over the years has brought the females and males together as far as feed conversions and weight gains go.

Always happy to shed light on the poultry industry and it's many quirks :)
This is super helpful, and I am going to create a "How it works" page to break it down for people. I will also probably add in a few more questions to the FAQ.

I created the company because I had to do all this for myself and I was too lazy/technical/lazy myself and saw that a bunch of other folks were just like me.

Also, I wanted to send Cease and Desist letters but then I would end up stuck without important information (like pending lawsuits) so I created the email system so that there was a safe way to communicate that wouldn't give me PTSD.

When the phone would ring off the hook I would literally have an anxiety attack every time. I also missed important phone calls because they came from blocked numbers.
STARTUP Marketing/Journalism Position
After you read, there is a little treat for you at the bottom. An ecommerce based health industry startup is looking for the right candidate to create ATTENTION-GRABBING, informative text,that describes and promotes our product. You will be doing what you love in a fun environment;and have the chance to work directly with the founder. As an intern you will be completing the following tasks- Creating compelling content in collaboration with the photographer by promoting our product,offering services,and posting blog posts. Researching the health field,and using the researched information to product compelling content. Creating content for all social media outlets,and targeted ads. Keeping up with current trends to help create targeted ads.
This position requires the following: Creativity, excellent writing skills and an ability to meet tight deadlines. Above average spelling, grammar and punctuation skills Familiarity with stylebooks and other reference materials Ability to pay attention to detail. Knowledge of word processing programs and editing tools Proven track record of content completion & conversion rates.

If those qualifications match, and you are excited please send your portfolio & a one sentence statement describing why you would be a good fit for our start up to recruiting@destressbox.com

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/gdfd45eilk/10-reasons-for-recent-grads-to-join-a-startup/ ENJOY.
> about 1% better than Lending Club forecast they would. I attribute that to an improving economy.

Probably just statistical variation.
I think avoiding behavioral incentivization is impossible. You have employees. They (hopefully) want to excel in order to get things like promotions, raises, bonuses, praise from the creator of Ruby on Rails, etc.

You're inevitably going to incentivize their behavior somehow. I think it ends up simply being a matter of mitigating the worst possible outcomes, while angling for something that seems reasonably decent.

* Incentivize number of bugs fixed, and you'll get shitty code up front

* Incentivize number of features shipped, and you'll get a hodgepodge of features jammed into a product

* Incentivize peer reviews, and maybe you'll end up with a culture of glad-handers and politicians (I don't actually know about this one...I've never been in a corporate culture that embraced this)
Can you invest in Lending Club if you don't live in the US? It doesn't mention anything in the terms of use but they ask what state you live in when you sign up. Can I just put a friend's state or something?
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This article actually makes it sound like webOS is the best thing to happen to LG, at least on the software side, in a long time. And not because of the software, but because the team understands how to build software, and so if they start having success despite LG's culture, some of those models might rub off on the larger LG software organization. Then again, knowing how silo'd and difficult it is to change large companies, it may be that LG destroys webOS instead (in terms of causing such a huge culture shift that the team entirely disbands, or at least those responsible for the culture do).
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 looks and feels like a premium device (hands-on)
Having you tried kramdown? I find it well implemented & has table support. We use it at our compamy.

http://kramdown.gettalong.org/
This is great. And this bit:

"mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breaths life into ideas both old and new"

generalizes pretty well into:

"Understanding only exists in a living community of thinker/practitioners refining and breathing life into ideas old and new."
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I think the lack of the author's involvement in _anything_ in the last 10 years has cost him any authority he would have had.

Some names are descriptive, some are prescriptive. Just deal with it.
> Have you had any interest from others in seeing your commercial project unencumbered from legal restrictions?

I have, yes. But currently it's my only source of income, and I need to maintain said income, otherwise I will not have the resources to devote to development of the app (both the closed source parts and open source parts).

If I could make the same amount of money (or more) by open sourcing the entire app, I'd happily do it. I know that theoretically at least, there are strategies to do so, and actually I'd like to take this approach if I can find one that works. If you have any suggestions I'd certainly like to hear them (and yes I'm serious).

I'm a strong believer though in the "hybrid" approach, whereby parts of a product are open source (and used by other products), and other parts are kept proprietary. KHTML (now known as WebKit) is a perfect example of this. If it was GPL, there's no way Apple could have built Safari on it, and the project would have continued to struggle as it had been for some time and probably gone nowhere. But because it was under a license that allowed Apple (and later Google) to build a proprietary product on top of it, both companies had a strong incentive to take the library and improve it. Granted, it was LGPL (not Apache), so they were legally required to contribute their changes back to the community.

A proprietary product that brings in money that can, in part, be used to fund development of the open source components of an application is something I see as a good model. But certainly there are others that could be made to work.