skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only concern with using Google Drive is worrying about it's future. Who knows if it will get axed like Google Reader did. At least with using DropBox or other alternatives you know what the companies MVP is.
> What is the rate of which this software has been used to investigate crimes?

Zero. It's not a forensic tool; any "evidence" collected with it would be inadmissable in court. (And, as the EFF notes, its search functions are pretty much useless anyway - most major OSes have considerably better search built in.)
TLDR - this universe is seemingly hospitable to life, but in reality it's quite hostile.
If I wanted someone to give me requirements for software that I'm making on my own free time, I'd get paid for it.
I was suggesting that it's actually not like labview at all :p

The model we have is significantly better than what we ever showed with Light Table. For example, being able to organize "code" by the actual functionality it's related to instead of files is something that happens by default in our world. You can actually create queries to show any view of the rules that exist in our world that you want (show me everything related to this button, that has been changed in the past month..)

Our model is entirely about preventing people's heads from exploding, taming complexity through a very simple set of primitives that seamlessly work together.
Bravo. I'm surprised you found that in all those hours of video!

I wonder if it's custom made or a regular diving knife. Those Orlan space suit gloves are quite bulky.
The Government Wants Guantanamo Force-Feeding Hearing Kept Secret
McLuhan: "As a result, precisely at the point where a new media-induced environment becomes all pervasive and transmogrifies our sensory balance, it also becomes invisible."

So, we're still a century or so away from this with regard to smart phones etc. TV barely reached this point before it went into decline (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/media/03televisio...). Newspapers did, quite likely, as did radio.

So long as people complain about how devices are changing us, they are not invisible, so anyone engaged in critical commentary (at least in the popular press) is proof that we are nowhere near this boundary.

Wearables may change the timeline for ubiquitous computing, but again: so long as there is hand-wringing about how the technology is changing us, this transformation is not complete.
Yes but it’s not open source. Ours is: https://tosback.org -- https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2 and tosback3
In the U.S. student loans can be very high risk. There's no guarantee your degree will help you get a higher paying job, and the loan repayment requirements are the strongest imaginable, even bankruptcy can't wipe student loans off your debt.
BabyList - Downtown Oakland, CA (2 blocks from 12th Street BART)

BabyList (http://babyli.st) makes having your first baby less overwhelming, more creative and most importantly more delightful. We have a large and rapidly growing user base of passionate parents-to-be who are making important purchasing decisions for one of the biggest events in their lives. The baby industry is massive and ripe for disruption. Our core product is an easy to use registry that let’s parents-to-be add anything they can find on the internet. Our users LOVE this product.

>> Senior Front-end developer:

We're looking for a senior developer to lead the development of our website. You know how to create great user experiences on the web using client-side code/frameworks and css. You will work with our designer and backend developer to add new features to BabyList and build brand new products from scratch. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and CoffeeScript/Javascript/jQuery. We're looking for someone who has a lot of coding experience and expert-level fluency in at least one programming language (you don't have to be great at Ruby right now).

We're offering meaningful equity, a competitive salary, benefits, and relocation expenses.

If you’d like to find out more, email me at natalie@babyli.st

>> Junior developer intern (INTERN):

The Internship:
You’ll work out of our office in Oakland for 12 weeks. The work will be a split 50/50 between admin stuff (that we really, really need help with) and writing real production code. The internship is paid and can lead to a full-time job. This program has been very successful with two interns already.

You:
You’re a junior developer. You have some coding experience. You can clone our Rails code base and start to make small changes. This is a good fit for someone before or after an intensive developer bootcamp.

You are extremely motivated to learn and become a better developer. You’re a great writer and communicator. You have high-energy and are a positive person. You are good at multi-tasking and are comfortable with ambiguity.

To Apply:
Send me an email (to natalie@babyli.st) that has:
- A very short paragraph describing your coding background with a link to something that is live and running that you created. If you don’t have anything live, tell me what the most awesome thing you’ve built is.

- A very short paragraph about what your goals are. Be honest, instead of telling me what you think I want to hear.

- What is something else, unrelated to tech, that you’ve done that was hard and is cool.

- A link to your linkedin.com profile.
I'd love a clearer indication of your mission, maybe in the tagline or an about-us page. I can't decide if you're a new-product-finder, an announcement platform, or a social network for hackers. There's evidence for each of those in different views of the site. :)
> When considering the Universe as a whole, the safest environments for life (similar to the one on Earth) are the lowest density regions in the outskirts of large galaxies and life can exist in only ~ 10% of galaxies. Remarkably, a cosmological constant is essential for such systems to exist.

Wow. That's an interesting side-effect.
I'm against Condi because she is partially responsible for the deaths of at least 100,000 (that 100 thousand) Iraqis. It was her job as NSA to temper Dubya's intransigence, but she did not. Such a person should be shunned and not given positions of status.
Is there really no way to find whether Earth got hit by gamma-rays? Nothing geologists can find, we have to guess?
If there’s something you think is wrong, you can discuss and participate. Can you point specific examples which you think are "subjective"?
> Any way, two of three people have just wasted their time writing code

When I first imagined this project, I didn't picture it taking all day, from start to finish. An uninstaller doesn't do much.

> The way it works currently, people will tend to see it as your project.

Hm. Hold on.

https://github.com/ComputerCOP-OpenRemover/ComputerCOP-OpenR...

Yes?

> It wouldn't be a problem be there a big name or much publicity associated with that

My end goal is for my local police department to pass this uninstaller out to citizens, in a similar manner to how they passed out the installer. That will never happen without the support of a big name. I'm hoping the EFF will take an interest (I've already put my name on their volunteer list some time ago).

> humans don't enjoy the idea of being given orders from [random] people. Your requirements sure looked that way, though.

...I'm sorry. :( I'll look back over the README for use of the imperative voice. ...Honestly, I've heard this feedback once or twice before AFK and I wasn't sure how to change then, either.

Thank you for your candid feedback, goblin89.
I just think theirs a higher chance that you'll stay in the area where you took your education. so in that regard some areas might go short on workforce in a few years.

Apart from that you are all right. I get "paid" for studying, which of course comes at the cost of my earning being cut in half or well less for the rest of my life, do I decide to work in Denmark.

I think and have thought for a long time that you should lend the money instead, so that you won't have any people just studying to "leech". But maybe that's a discussing for elsewhere.
$1MM Revenue; Only $5,000 Marketing Spend
Was gonna say this now that I've seen it work! From a first inspection this makes me think of producthunt but maybe for projects in progress or not launch-ready?
Why should the king dictate what Who does with their time?
“Do you wear pants”: T. S. Eliot’s first magazine
Google to offer schools, students unlimited storage for free
Sometimes, the computer serves merely to ensure a yak in every yard that needs shaving.
Uhuh. And how much in federal taxes + social security + medicare + state tax etc do you pay working in California? That's pretty much European levels.
qewrffewqwfqew does seem to be difficult to pronounce and spell.
Hi! I am a 16 year old developer looking for internships for the Summer of 2015. I have experience with Java and the MEAN stack (currently learning iOS). I'm super willing to learn and have previous industry experience and want to grow my skills even further.

Location: Chicago, IL/San Francisco, CA

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: MEAN, Java, Android, iOS (1/2 year)

Resume: Please send me an email :)

Email: nirajpant7@gmail.com
It's not that Perl would be more popular and used if only the version number changed -- it's that the not-obviously-iterating version number fools people who don't look closely at it into thinking the language is moribund.

(This problem was a major topic of coffee stand discussion at YAPC::NA this July ...)
The same can be said of almost anything that young adults do. Entering the working world is certainly a maturing experience, and I don't necessarily believe that 4 years of higher education is better in that than 4 years of labour.
Is it even covered for international students?

In Canada international students pay much higher rates for tuition. About $10k for a program that might cost Canadians $3k. It's a huge racket. I'd be surprised if Germans decided to do the same, as well as taxpayers being will to pay for foreigners education.
Isn't that what GitTip^W Gratipay is? The reward/prioritization mechanism could easily be added on top of that (or be entirely informal).

https://gratipay.com/
And, for comparison, the latest server I installed in our colo on the host system (with Corsair M500 SSDs):

[root@srv3 joe]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.310283 s, 3.4 GB/s

And, from within a VM on the same machine (running KVM with an LVM volume):

[root@joe2 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=~/test.bin bs=1M count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.967834 s, 1.1 GB/s

So, Atlantic.net isn't too bad, I guess. My newest system isn't very heavily loaded yet; only has three VMs and a couple dozen websites on it.
Link to thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...
It's intrinsically difficult to argue about the probability of life on a sample of one, and so I can't adjudicated between the Rare Earth hypothesis and the Common Life hypothesis any more than the next guy. But I do think I can say that the sneering dismissal of the Rare Earth hypothesis I've sometimes seen is unsound. The Copernican Principle that "we are not special" may have carried us a ways, but it is ultimately only a heuristic, not a scientific law, and it may have limits.
Also worth checking out is Bugs:

http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/

Issue management, Kanban board, extremely simple to setup (Apache, MySQL).
why people down voted such good idea ?
Looks interesting, but I couldn't keep the site open for long because it was eating both of my two CPU cores.

Firefox 32.0.3 on Ubuntu

About 62 % of time is spent in FFS.CanvasRenderer.prototype.render()
Microsoft developer explains why Windows 10 is called Windows 10
Those tools are hard to build. Sure, parsers are easy. Incremental parsers that can deal with half-edited text are hard (that's basically the entire function of Intellij MPS). Running static analysis on half-edited text is hard. Keeping text in sync with runtime state is hard. Even diffing text is hard.

If we were talking about any other coding problem and I suggested you keep all your data in a complicated text serialisation spread across several hundred text files and resolve conflicts by diffing the files line-by-line, I would be laughed out of the room. The vast majority of work in any IDE, including Light Table, is just working around the fact that plain text is a terrible storage mechanism for complex, concurrently edited data.

That's not to say that you shouldn't use text to write or view the program or that we should all be coding by drawing pretty pictures and connecting lines. Just that we should keep the code in a sensible, networked data-store with support for concurrent editing and ACID transactions and then the way you choose to present and edit it can vary from person to person.
The Criminal Indictment That Could Finally Hit Spyware Makers Hard
Linkedin College Rankings
SVG Pattern Generator
A graduate tax would be worse, because you would never finish repaying it.
Theranos - Palo Alto

Visit a lab for a Doctor’s appointment recently? Two vials of blood is a lot isn't it? Theranos is looking to completely redefine healthcare by solving speed and accuracy issues of current lab testing by combining SW engineering and life sciences using 1/1000 less blood than what is typically drawn today; our process have results in Doctors’ hands in as little as 2 hours allowing them to provide significantly more accurate treatments in a timely manner.

http://theranos.com/press/jon-shieber-gets-some-blood-work-d...

An advanced stage startup, Theranos primary stack is .Net - We are looking for engineers who want to make a positive impact in healthcare.

Looking for .Net, Senior iOS & SQL Server developers. http://talent.linkedin.com/blog/index.php/2014/10/most-indem... (Hot off the presses!)

VISA & Relo assistance (for those already in the US) - Sorry No remote – No International Relocation.

For more about each position: http://www.theranos.com/careers/software-development

email michaelw at theranos dot com
I'm not here to have a "discussion" with someone who's desperate to defend the powerful from facing their own malfeasance. Your remarks and lack of self-awareness show that you're part of the problem. I don't see any benefit to investing meaningful time in reaching you.

I've provided a case and actionable suggestions here, at a length of 745 words. I'm not going to give you 745 more.

http://danilocampos.com/2014/09/y-combinator-and-the-negativ...

I'm not here to convince you. Your education is your job.

But I am thrilled to continue documenting how, say, software engineering leaders at startups contribute to a culture of exclusion and alienation by making it the jobs of marginalized people to "educate" their more privileged counterparts.
That is good to hear, for both personal validation and my hopes for your project. Thanks.
Hello, hugo from tosdr.org here!

Just wanted to point out that everything is on https://github.com/tosdr and there are easy stuff to work on to help us: https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-build/labels/LowHangingFruit

Everything we make is Free Software (and open data) and we’re a not-for-profit.

We recently put online: https://tosdr.org/submit-point.html which is supposed to help increase contributions to the site so that we have more data and more relevant information. Please help us test, debug and contribute :-)

One last thing, we’re also running https://tosback.org/ -- all of this is a lot of work, and we definitely need more contributors :-) (opened another discussion about Tosback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8396361)
[HIRING] Norfolk and San Diego http://bit.ly/1hQD1ST InnovaSystems International, LLC. Seeking software engineers and systems engineers immediately. We will relocate. Great pay, awesome work life balance. Come work at a 48 million dollar company with a start up mentality. We love big data, agile development, and fast iterations. Seeking A players!

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You will also be paying for students who are getting degrees that end up making them no money. When I was in school there were so many people getting fine art degrees focusing on ceramics, oil painting, etc. who are now working at grocery stores or getting some sort of education in new field. Their debts are now on everyone else.
Yes, I already wrote that I'm biased. For me the essential progress is only when it results in: less writing than in C, less memory used, less CPU cycles used, more predictability in the execution, easy mixing with C or assembly code. Basically, allowing me to have everything I can get in C, but to make "easy cases easier" like that I can have type inference etc. That's why I like what Rust is trying to do, but even more what Swift is doing, as in the later easy things look more elegant.

As soon as you don't care for any of these, I can see that you can like the languages with VMs, GCs and JITs.

I use dynamic langauges too. But it's hard to have me impressed by some, because when I compare it to all which already exist, I must really see some major benefit, not only in the "sugarcoating" but in the work it can do. E.g. Python is worthy because of SciPy, Lua for the increase in the executable measured in kilobytes etc.
Travis-CI has a huge open source offering and started out of that.

Gitlab and Gitorious are open source and for profit as well.
Reddit to force relocation of remote workers
I cant understand this should part of your answer ? why should only applicable for domestic students?
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Depends.

Technologies: iOS, Objective C, HTML5, Javascript, PHP, CSS, HTML5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Laravel, Ruby on Rails

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrojscardoso

Email: pcardoso at gmail

I’m a iOS and web developer. I am happily employed but a new project to tackle would be interesting. Willing to travel.
I expect Australia has a relatively efficient system for settling small claims, assuming you have a reasonably solid paper trail involving signed contracts, dated invoices and evidence of work undertaken. They certainly have decent law firms who should be able to advise on a much more effective way to get noticed and paid than making probably illegal threats involving glassdoor reviews.

There's also likely to be an Australian debt collection agency willing to buy their debt at a substantial discount (again assuming a paper trail) if you've reached a situation where you just want some money for the work done now.
I doubt many of these companies are hiring non-programmers for engineering roles. Sometimes people post designer jobs if you're into that though.
Many deep-water marine ecosystems are dependent on their neighbors in near-surface environments.
> I would not have taken a loan to the tune of $1000/year because that would have been too risky. I would have opted for the less risky option of herding cows.

What if the loan repayments were a percentage of your salary, rather than a fixed rate? I wonder why these types of loans aren't offered...
Ah, thanks for the clarification! I guess that still means they were rebooting our machines in case the malicious actor was us. :-)
I get more and more of those recently... unfortunately I'm unwilling to fire up Chrome specifically for any site
Sadly I'm not enough of an expert to say for sure. It would certainly depend on the specific form that it took, and there are a multitude of options in this space. Of the current contributors who are willing and able to push the boundaries here, I believe that quasiquotation is the preferred approach (motivated by use cases for compile-time codegen in Servo).
They say things like, “Nature is so wonderful; things are always better in the countryside where there are no people around.” They imply that humanity and civilisation are less good than their absence. But I’m not in that school,’ he said. ‘I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future.’

Agreed that humanity can have a more positive impact of the world/universe, but this seemed to be a statement that humanity is above all things, including nature. Nature should be respected and we should have our boundaries. It is dangerous to think that human can play god, or have some kind of superior ownership of the universe.
Are Ivy League schools overrated?
Bigger version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Social_m...
Ask HN: How much will practice improve your coding efficiency?
I'm a coder for 30 years now. Lately I went on a "startup spree". Starting new mini-web-startups as quick as I can. My last one took me one week to make. The current one, Im one week in and expect to invest another week. Im coding almost around the clock.

If I keep doing this and do - say 30 - startups in 2015 - will my coding speed go up? Will I create the same kind of project in 1 week that at the moment takes me 2 weeks?
So You Want Another PostgreSQL Database? (Part 1)
Location: New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: After I graduate from college

Technologies: C, C++, Python, C#, PHP, Rails, JavaScript, HTML/CSS

Resume: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32170031/RyanResume.pdf

Email: linr2 at rpi dot edu
The terms of service tracker
Red Hat's communication on their distribution of Florian's patch was sorely lacking, especially after http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/09/bash-bug-apply-unofficia....

It was in no way clear that Red Hat's second release included Florian's fixes - I found out from Mark Cox's post on this Twitter thread - https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/516297412579581952
Love the PublicLab's enthusiastic embrace of open source hardware and software licenses. If you don't want to 3d-print your own, you can get an awesome bluray laser spectrometer + webcam at their Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publiclab/the-homebrew-...

Participatory citizen-science FTW!
Every kernel (not named seL4) has vulnerabilities. The question is not whether OpenBSD would have been vulnerable to this specific issue, but whether Xen generally has fewer bugs than the OpenBSD kernel - or, for that matter, the Linux kernel, since the grandparent mentioned a bunch of Linux sandboxing technologies.

edit: To be absolutely clear, per the grandparent, I'm assuming an environment where unrelated people are running software on the same hardware, either using their own kernel under Xen or user processes under jails.
Rails dev needed to help build a community in the video game space
Hey guys - We’re an NYC based company building an online community for the video game industry, and are hiring a rails/full stack developer on contract to build V1 of the application. You’ll be working off of front end product designs, but will have technical flexibility to build out the back end. This will start out as a contract job, but has the potential for more if its the right fit. Pay will be based on experience.

This will be an exciting and new approach for the video game industry, and we’re looking for someone who shares in our passion for the space.

Who we’re looking for:
- You’re comfortable working with a very small team, and with building a web application from scratch
- Have a passion for video games
- You are an expert in Ruby and Rails
- Have a very solid understanding of databases
- Experienced in deploying to a test environment
- Expert in HTML, CSS and JS (and relevant frameworks)
- Ideally are local to New York City, but not a must

If you’re interested and a serious candidate, please include a sentence about grabbing coffee or getting on Skype in your reply. Feel free to email me, ron@cartrdge.com
Anonymous but possible confirmation; http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...
The polls show that it was.