skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, in the job posting, ask them to apply in a unique way—don't just ask for resumes. Instead, try to make the application process prove their abilities for the job.

I can't think of a quicker way to turn down top applicants, at least in software, than asking upfront for work that is likely to be rejected. Even the custom contact forms on companies' websites are a drudge to fill in and usually not worth it. Candidates know this and won't bother. The best approach is to have a connect with LinkedIn or just a simple email that can receive resumes. Anything else might make it slightly easier for the company at the expense of losing out on qualified applicant.
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That is more easily reduced to

- You can do anything you want with anything (objects)
- You have a discrete set of file operations. (files)

That is, the "object" way sounds more promising and unlimited. I think, in practice, it is that unlimited nature that actually hurts.

Though, I hate the "paradox of choice" and I think I am saying it reduces to that. :(
Nice deep dive into an area I'm not familiar with. If you're writing an extension for ios8, this seems like the right post to start with.
That doesn't seem to be actual conversation. This is just a number of quotes from the both sides picked in a way that looks like a real conversation for the author of that, I assume.

I don't think that word "joke" suits it well. It's, uhm… "work of art". Maybe not so great, but nevertheless.
At the moment I use feedly, though I may consider newsblur at some point.

I could not live without my rss feeds. :)
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> I am not offending anyone

I think that you are though. It might be a small bit of offence, but it all adds up: http://juliepagano.tumblr.com/post/46206589124/my-experience...
The event loop argument is the least convincing one for me. Any other language with green-threads/coroutines/continuations/etc lets you write an event-loop system without needing to uglify your code with callbacks or promises.

Javascript is finally catching on to this with generators (yield statement) but it bugs me when people talk about callbacks as if they were a good thing.
Yes, Tiny Tiny RSS hosted (among other things) on VPS for $15/yr
> Uber might not win the space, but I think its naive to think that self-driving cars don't shift the balance more in favor of for-hire cars.

I completely agree. For-hire self-driving vehicles are the future, I just don't believe Uber and Lyft are going to be the platform.

Off-topic: Whenever I see analysts argue that Tesla isn't making cars fast enough to compete with Big automakers, I chuckle. Elon doesn't have to replace every car, he just has to replace the door to door trips, which he can do with only ~10-15% of the current US vehicle fleet on the road. Self-driving Tesla vehicles for hire would further fund Tesla expansions (which provides additional capital for their Gigafactory to drive down battery storage costs, thereby enabling the wide-spread transition to intermittent renewables such as solar, wind, and tidal).
Why Scotland looks like the canary in the independence coal mine
I tried to keep my comment kind of neutral, actually. There are advantages and disadvantages, and the Ruby community does pretty well, by and large.
I think this just shows that Siri has fallen behind Android. On Android:

"Who invented the light bulb?": lists the 3 inventors

"Open web-page The Economist": goes to theeconomist.com

"Launch Instagram": launches instagram app

"Send email to <person>": starts an email to <person>

There are lots more, though you do have to guess/remember the magic words if you don't want to do a web-search. And yes, it is annoying that you can't enter California in a drop-down by voice (but really, your browser should be auto-completing that for you anyway). But the hard problems have been solved, and I see a bright future here.
It is quite obvious that Uber drivers operate in violation of German laws. Uber and similar companies will have to do a lot of lobbying for a change of the relevant laws … in addition, Uber should provider their drivers with insurance - otherwise, sooner or later an ugly accident without insurance coverage for the victims will make unpleasant headlines sooner or later.
It looks like they are looking for remote workers nearby

Location: Western Hemisphere.

If you want to work remote, that's cool. If you want to work near others, that's cool too. Our team is distributed across the world because it lets us work with the best people. You don't have to be located in the USA either, you just have to be talented!

1. https://zapier.com/blog/partner-engineer-liaison/
This isn't about offense. It's about stress.

You're basically telling people to not be stressed out when they're biking and cars pass them too closely, because the car had a reason to be on the road. "The car needed to get to the hospital. You shouldn't get upset about being passed." The thing is, it doesn't matter if the car had a good reason to be going fast and passing in narrow sections of the road - it's still going to stress a bicyclist out to get passed closely, regardless of whether it was malicious, and regardless of whether there was a good reason for it.
Will the Ebola virus go airborne?
Sounds like a good idea:) I'm guessing this is a law that won't be enforced too often when no accident occurs but will be something that can used to charge a driver when they collide with a biker.

In Toronto we could use a rule like this on our streets with street cars. Image a 2 lane road with a train riding on the inside lane and cars trying to speed around on the outside lane to pass it.

If you are biking on these streets you have about 3 inches of clearance between yourself and the side walk and about 12 inches between you and the car, and that assumes the car has about 12 inches of clearance between it and the street car.

It's not for the faint of heart.

> The law doesn't require motorists to stay behind cyclists until a narrow road ends or widens -- but allows a driver to pass within 3 feet if he slows to a safe speed, said CHP Officer Mike Harris.

I think this is a very reasonable compromise. That way car's aren't forced to be stuck behind a slow biker, who probably doesn't want the car tailgating them anyway.
How to do it
How do we get the control systems? :P
Growth, Engagement and Monetization at Dropbox
I think he should have gone with "a leash" instead of "my leash". The latter sounds like one is looking for an animal to put on their leash.
Oops, missed the greater-than sign in ">1GB/s". That's what I get for reading via text-to-speech with a lot of punctuation excluded.
Sounds good, hit us up at support@jamkazam.com if you run into any trouble. I just saw this post go up, am the co-founder and CEO.
Looks very simple, but I don't see things like DKIM/SPF or milters (or some equivalent way to hook in spamassassin, for instance). Am I just missing it, or is it deliberately missing those features?
Apple: where is your #AppleMoonshot? Open letter
Dear Apple Leader(s),

As longtime users, fans and stakeholders of Apple and its products we continue to be drawn to every generation of upgrades, improvements and of course every 'one more thing'.

While that has worked steady and delivered great results, we believe the time is NOW to take your innovation to a whole other level and truly attempt to rock our world like nobody else can.

At almost 2/3rds of a Trillion Dollars (!) you are the worlds most valuable company, not to mention one of the most profitable companies in the world sitting on one of the biggest piles of cash any company has ever garnered (more than Canada, Norway and Sweden's cash reserves combined). As things stand your profit margins will allow you to grow this ever more.

So dear Apple Leader(s): GIVE US YOUR MOONSHOT project that dares to take on the risk and tackle a challenge that ONLY an institution of your financial resources and brain power can. Your Research & Development budget is a mere 3% of revenues, a fraction of what other companies spend (ie. Google is close to 13.5% of revenues). If you can drop $3bn on headphones & music streaming, why not take some reasonable portion of your resources and go for something that has the potential to, we’ll say it, actually PARADIGM SHIFT HUMANITY. To give you a few hints we have a starter list and poll that will help you set the course:

- Cold Fusion
- Global Equal Health & Care
- Global Equal Education
- Quantum Computing
- Anti-Gravity
- Teleportation
- Holography

Go for the impossible, do the audacious and pursue a dream of mankind.

We appreciate you not only pursuing the great but also considering the Moonshots for the greater benefit of our species.

Yours truly,
Elion, Lacy, Herve & Haydee
SILICON BEACH, Playa Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
September 16, 2014

#AppleMoonshot Poll:

1. Would you like to see Apple pursue a Moonshot Project?
2. If yes, what do you think the Moonshot project should be?
I second inoreader. But I think their mobile site is a bit weak comparing to the olg GReader. It doesn't mark items read when I scroll down.
> And that is a patent-eligible application* of the abstract equation

I think we've come to the heart of it here. The heat output of a particular reaction is a law of nature. Its calculation is a mathematical operation. The discovery of that mathematical formula E=mc^2 is non-obvious. It took centuries of scientific minds before Einstein. But given that law of nature and its mathematical description, the decision of how many steam turbines to build for a given energy output is preposterously obvious.

So the problem is they're granting patents on obvious applications of computations just because the computation itself is non-obvious.

Which makes it a simple rule to clarify things: a) Computations are not patentable and b) obvious applications of unpatentable computations are not patentable.

> And similarly there are potentially infinite applications of a mathematical operation. Patenting one application does not provide a monopoly over the mathematical operation itself.

The problem is they aren't issuing patents on applications, they're issuing patents on algorithms. It doesn't matter what application you use the software for because the software itself infringes the patent. The so-called application devolves to "run this algorithm on a computer."

> But even algorithms are too specific a word for most software patents. Consider a patent on a mobile app (valued at, say, $10 billion) that claims sending photos over a network that are auto-erased at the receiver after a time period expires. What is the algorithmic complexity of that?

Let's see.

recv_file(image_url, filename);
set_timer(time_period, bind(&delete, filename));

That's about it. Obviously each function has its own rabbit hole to go down, but so do all mathematical operations, even the seemingly fundamental ones that programmers treat as intrinsic. You can make any mathematical operation arbitrarily complex; it's turtles all the way down. And each of the individual functions above exists in the prior art.
Disclaimer: I am not part of the hackful.eu founding team but I have had a coffee with them and I tried to help them spread in Berlin by organising a hackathon the same day they run one in London.

My thoughts about what happened - and what will eventually and inevitably happen to any similar community - is that unless you offer very specific content about the area you want to "represent" there is no point in being location-specific in the first place. And the tricky part is that this content is rarely in the form of a news piece or a sideproject submission: it's mainly opinions about things happening in that specific location (eg: I live in Berlin and I am interested in what is being discussed about startup taxes). So in the end you have to actually offer the things that one can't find in Hacker News anyway (eg: information about events, jobs, etc). And then, why build a hackernews clone?
>I cherish Microsoft for its work in Windows, it is the only mainstream OS that can save us from UNIX monoculture.

What is Windows doing differently than UNIX monolithic kernels? Drivers and filesystems run in NT kernel space.
how do we get the control systems?
>> United Launch Alliance is expected to counter that tomorrow by announcing that Blue Origin, the space startup founded by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, would develop an American-made engine for the Atlas V, according to another person who is close to the situation. ULA is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Here's hoping Bezos doesn't blow the barnacles off the F1 they fished out the ocean and pass it off as a new 1.5 million lbs thrust engine :)
The Age of Code
> Amazon and Google say they pay all the taxes they should. Analysts say competitive pressures force companies to seek to minimise all costs, including tax.

Amazon and Google do not have competition. They seek to minimize all costs because that's how they can free the most resources to invest in the product they're offering to consumers. Also, there's no competition when a company gets big and starts lobbying.

This is really bad news for everyone; we all lose when bankers steal money from those that provide us goods and services.
"That is a conspiracy theory."

You could call it that, but to be clear I don't think these people got together and planned this out in advance, I think a confluence of events occurred that resulted in a situation which was beneficial to them and now they act (perhaps even in a mostly non-coordinated way) to maintain and strengthen it... rather predictably.
Yes, the Owncloud News Reader: http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/News?content=15843...
The way the license information is presented is a little misleading. The Community edition is described as for 'Open Source & Hobby Projects', giving the impression that its not possible to release a commercial product using that. Thats not true of course, its LGPL licensed and so can be used for commercial software as long as the license obligations are adherred to.

The desktop app I sell uses Qt, against the LGPL license. I would probably pay for the commercial license from them if it was more reasonably priced, but $295 per month to distribute on Mac and Windows is just too much to swallow.
NASA to announce private space shuttle deal
This! I dont feel like I spend a lot of money so I can treat you like shit. I feel like I spend a lot of money so you can at least be able to get me a tracking number. You people that feel like you can't have an opinion once you have spent your money must be working for corporate america. If they are going to wine and dine you before you purchase it, they can at least be kind to your face post purchase, especially if the item is not there but your money is gone.

Funny how not too long ago the top story all day was the aol/tech crunch guy's audio from comcast support. I consider that to be bitching out customer support for what its worth, thats as aggressive as I get as well. But I'll take the downvotes from the hypocrites that apparently treat customer support agents like kittens.
I can make available the source for an iPhone app that could be compiled with XCode.

How is this in violation of the GPL?
I guess it's not just physicists: http://xkcd.com/793/ :)

It's more likely we'll see domain experts in X learn sufficient programming (possibly leveraging custom tools and DSLs), rather than see programmers mastering X.
Startups are not HN-worthy?
> the opportunity

Everyone has opportunities, just of different natures.

If, for example, someone had gotten a 3.5 GPA at a state university while working 40 hours a week and caring for an aging parent, I would judge that they had done something extraordinarily impressive. Whereas just the bare 3.5 GPA wouldn't impress me all that much.
He mostly claims other people's work for himself. I suppose he's a good salesman and a good huckster, that much is demonstrably true. He's also apparently competent as a mathematician somewhat, but it's doubtful how much of Mathematica really is his own work. He puts everything under his own name and sues anyone who disputes otherwise.
Yes - they should go out by midnight Friday PT.
He should instead just have said "Have you tried iMessage?? Its a disaster, we couldn't pull messages out of there even if we wanted to. Be thankful anything shows up on the screen at all!"
This is actually how many bands stay in business. So yes, buying a t shirt at the show is the best way to help them out.
Why would you get the warrant or NSL?

They could still give that to DigitalOcean, and simply see your VM's filesystem through the host server, see all your traffic, etc...
you're right, you are not an expert.
Yep. I use Digg Reader - it's clean and simple, despite a few minor features missing from greader.
Cyclists will always argue for more rights and space on the road. Car owners will always argue cyclists have no place on the road integrated with 3 ton metal cars. Both groups not realizing the problem lies within government own roads/land. Moving roads into the private sector (just like railroads tried) would improve the quality and standard of conditions for both Cyclists and Car owners alike.
For this position, yes.

For other positions, no.

The reason this position is western hemisphere is because most of our partners are western hemisphere so it'll be much easier for you to work with them.
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It's interesting how HN is valley-centric ;) BTW such laws are quite common in EU, for example in Poland you are required to give 100cm of clearance, so about 3.28 feet.
> As you can see from the doc, functional programming is completely underspecified in Mathematica.

That inference is not correct. That doc is one of many hundreds of 'guide pages' that collect together various functions by domain/concern. It's not meant to be the exhaustive proof of "WL is a modern functional programming language with all the features you expect".

> I fear these are all dirty hacks and performing very poorly.

Why do you fear that? From my experience we're about on a par with CPython.

> Why isn't it better specified?

There is a gargantuan library of documentation, available both offline and online, that covers every area of the language, including core language areas like scoping.

> Why isn't it better specified? Because Wolfram wants to prevent competition?

We don't need to obscure how the language works to prevent competition, we can rely on the fact that it would take hundreds of engineers (with a full spectrum of domain knowledge) a decade to replicate the kind of functionality we have.

The exact thing you seem to want, which is "what does a LISP programmer need to know about WL?" doesn't exist, but perhaps it should! It might make sense to add Block, Module, and With to the functional programming page, though the Scoping Constructs guide [1] is the place to start understanding our scoping.

> > Compiled code does not handle numerical precision and local variables in the same way as ordinary Wolfram Language code.
> This is a huge warning sign.

Again, you seem to have little patience for documentation. The notes in the function page are a summary of salient points, rather than an essay about every detail. The tutorial goes into more depth [2].

And specifically: precision tracking is something almost no-one else does. BLAS can't do it -- so yes, the semantics have to change if you want speed. Lisp and the FP community would have the same problem if they represented quantities with the generality we do.

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/ScopingConstruct...

[2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/CompilingWolf...
It is hard to recall a more beautiful corporate name morphing into something so hideous.
1. Show them technology they can't (or haven't made themselves)
2. Build a team that has a history of making the industry money - my co-founder was the first person to sell rock shirts in mass retail (read: $$$)
3. Make something artists want.
Good remote work is more of an employer's market than a typical position. Someone looking specifically for remote is generally willing to jump through more hoops, I think.
Without QnX's network transparency, reliability and message-passing features this project would not have existed. The OS was absolutely instrumental.
Interview with David Mitchell
Let's not. That's stupid too. Not as stupid as wilfully doing something to one's own children that has a chance to negatively affect their future without even bothering to question oneself, but still pretty stupid.
If you look at university research papers that have studied this domain, and if you look at first-hand experience of watching musicians play with different amounts of latency, they can tolerate just a little latency. From research and experience, we'd say 0 to 20ms of one-way latency between musicians yields a tight session we'd label as "green". This is like playing in the same room. In the 20ms to about 35ms range, you start really feeling/hearing the latency more, but it's still manageable and can yield a fun and productive session. Somewhere up in the 35-40ms range and greater, it gets increasingly sloppy until it's just not fun or worth it . These are general rules of thumb. It also depends on the tempo and the level of precision required. And some musicians are more or less sensitive to it. But if you consider the speed of sound, playing with 20ms of latency is like playing while sitting 20 feet away from someone on a stage or in a room.
iPhone 6 Plus might be limited to 1GB of RAM
Yes, feedly.
Companies have a LEGAL obligation to their shareholders to pursue profits, and to be fiscally responsible in that regard. Using a "real portion" of cash to attempt to do things not related to making money would result in a very large class action suit.

Its a nice thought, but its not how publicly held corporations work; they have a responsibility to shareholders.
1. Yes of course, they should pursue at least one crazy good moonshot.

2. Holography + 1
EPA, farmworkers need better protections now
Architects and structural engineers' jobs have been augmented by CAD software for a while as has the CNC technology cutting building units to shape the middle part of the article refers to. Architects and structural engineers aren't at all worried because drawing 3D shapes and having the important angles and dimensions calculated for them actually makes life easier (and arguably their design process less like software engineering).
One consequence of the CNC process is that you can build to tolerances much tighter than the 20mm errors the builders tend to introduce, assuming they're at least confident enough to build a level foundation.

Ultimately traditional building processes survive because they're fit for purpose and don't require any investment in technology though; provided you have humans around and don't want to build anything too curvy, concrete can be poured between boards or cinder blocks stacked at a speed which compares favourably with the 3D printer.
Thanks! It's linked to in the post, but we've also created a GitHub repo containing all of the same information: https://github.com/tumblr/ios-extension-issues.

Seems like a better way to solicit feedback and provide updates than a blog post.
If the Earth was a closed system it could be indetified as having finite resources. Unfortunately for the authors of the story, that basic premise is false. ET solar radiation is 1367 watts per square meter [1]. Added to that the (current) high interest in space exploration/exploitation and I think we can put this theory to bed.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight
Your post is a bit ironic seeing as the Moto X does differentiate between voice (if you're good at imitating someone's voice you can set it off, but sending a command is unlikely) and the power usage is not as bad as you assume (it's got average battery life but can easily make it through the day), but I will agree that the "Ok Google Now" being inflexible is a niggling point.

The new Moto X is always listening as well, but allows you to change the trigger phrase via some magic they've worked out.