skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping this would be implemented as:

- I sign up to donate at least a dollar a day.

- There is a growing list of non-profits supported.

- I get emails with newly added ones.

- For each non-profit I get to choose to either:

a) add a full additional dollar a day for that organization

or

b) add the new organization to a list of organizations that split my daily existing donation amount.

or

c) skip it.

I dislike this implementation for a number of reasons.

* From the non-profits perspective, re-occuring and emotionally invested donations are much more valuable than a one off big shot of money.

* From my perspective I will never donate to an unknown entity regardless of filtering criteria. I have limited resources and believe I can have the impact I want to have by chosen where to use those resources.

* If this system catches on I imagine it will result in many a controversy, which may just be the price dollaraday.co is willing to pay, but it sure seems like an unnecessary distraction.
Any half-decent optimizing compiler will turn those two implementations into the exact same assembly.

That being said, that looks like Python source code - and as the default Python interpreter doesn't do much in the way of optimization, you are correct in that case. (Although I wonder about PyPy.)
1. Interesting that they showed an Apple logo on the back of the iPad (it would be hard to hide that it was an iPad), but no evidence whatsoever of any Microsoft mobile device (does a laptop count?)

2. I kinda want that umbrella.
Besides amazing videos, is there anything we can learn from having drones get close to the eruptions?

I can imagine there would be some interesting data that could come from other sensor packages attached to the drone. Perhaps a frequent sampling rate could teach us more about the dynamics at play?
I've worked in typesetting software a long time. And I've seen several OSS projects reach roughly the point this one has before dying. I can recall only one or two that made it significantly past this point. The challenge is not the coding but the domain problems. It's easy to get a core set of features with very basic operations going. But pushing on into the required capabilities for more than markdown-level formatting is very, very difficult. The issues are mirages, b/c they appear easy to explain, but they're extremely difficult to implement.

For example, footnotes. We all understand how footnotes should be placed--right there at the bottom of the page. However, placement become very difficult if you have a long footnote that appears in the before-last-line of the page. Now, if you include the footnote, there's not enough room for the last few lines of regular text, and the footnoted word is bumped to the next page. Figuring out how to get out of this one problem algorithmically involves heavy-duty backtracking work, projections of layout, recalculations, etc. Its difficulty is compounded if other factors enter in. For example, if the text and footnote appear just before a full page image, etc.

Another classic difficulty is widow and orphan control. Knuth's algorithm on this topic alone requires almost 100 pages to explain [Digital Typography, 1999].

And so on. Suffice it to say that Donald Knuth spent 10 years writing TeX, much of which he did full-time, supported by various grants.

Typesetting is a really, really hard problem domain and while the author here expects to add features like equations soon, to those of us in the field, it feels like he doesn't really grok the difficulty of the problem domain.

The odds are small that he can climb the cliff in front of him unless he's willing to work on this full time for a very long time.

Nonetheless, I wish him good luck.
If you grow out of an apparently addictive behavior, doesn't that -- by definition -- mean it was not an addiction?

OK, I know the definition of an addiction is that the behavior is having a significant negative affect, but there must be some notion of lack of control too, I would think.

I know plenty of my friends in college drank quite heavily. Afterward it tapered off. And some of had quite bad grades during that time. But no off us ended up as alcoholics after college. This was 20+ years ago, so one would assume real alcoholism would become apparent in this timeframe.
A lot of startups use this tactic, it's not uncommon. The email clearly says you're on the list, if you don't like waiting, tweet about it. What's wrong with that?
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Welcome to the new (old?) Microsoft - building software for the devices people use.
The article presents a rather stark claim that nine RNA "markers" in a blood sample "were able to diagnose depression". Unfortunately, the article is shy on the details necessary to evaluate the merit of the claim.

Since depression is a quite heterogeneous condition, it's unlikely that any particular test will give unambiguous results in every subset of depressed patients. There's bound to be "fuzziness" in a substantial portion of cases.

ATM I don't have time to discuss the subject in any depth, but I do think the problem is going to be the media reporting this as an absolute fact, not only terribly misleading to the public, but even worse, undermining the researchers' good efforts.
Swaw reminds me of http://storehouse.co
I have a server hosted with Hetzner, and they state that they charge 2 EUR per TBover a 10 TB allowance, so... yeah. $20/TB seems more than just plenty.
Since they're a nonprofit, they could simply offer the option to have that days dollar go to them instead.
That is a poor appeal to your own authority. Thom, I'm Danish and entirely disagree with pretty much everything you've said in this thread regarding analysis and solutions, and I'm really sad that you discuss as if your words are gospel.

Buzz phrases like "... it's unsustainable!" really don't belong here. They're impossible to argue for or against as the data is really clouded.
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Imagine a world where everyone has access to computation
without having to become a [..] programmer

Imagine a world where everyone has access to basic arithmetic, without having to know how to use pen and paper to calculate and without having to how to operate a calculator.
I can dig it. Seems a little choppy, but what'evs. It's Free!
I can count 7 or 8 dead. I know more that died from things other than drugs, though.
That sets up a perverse incentive for their organization however.
Impressive for a number of reasons, many of which relate to the presentation/promotion of a Microsoft product:

- Not a single Microsoft reference in the entire landing
page
- Broad use of Apple iPhone and iPad devices alongside
normal PCs with no special acknowledgement
- Product focus on readability/usability across many
platforms, OS/device-independent
- Broad integration of sharing hooks across Google, Twitter,
FB, etc.

This represents a pretty dramatic departure from the siloed approach MS usually takes. It's pretty refreshing!
1. Kickstart some project.
2. Ship v1.0
3. Collect $$$$

Now what? Who supports it? Who fixes bugs? The incentive is gone. Software is a process, not a physical product.
Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend)

Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/

Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

We're looking for a highly talented full-stack web developer. On top of our robotic work cells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, Backbone, and some CoffeeScript today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

We're a rapidly growing startup (you'd be #19), but well funded ($6M) and have customers at places like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, UCSF, and Stanford. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people.

Recent coverage:

- http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5216738/inside-transcript...

- http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4...

team at transcriptic.com
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We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to play an integral role on our DevOps team at Disqus. The ideal person is obsessed with uptime and site speed and has years of experience with server hardware and Linux systems. At the same time, you are passionate about working with development engineers to get more done faster with less trouble. You'll be working at our office in San Francisco. Disqus reaches over 1 billion unique visitors a month. You'll be working on large scale challenges immediately as well as make a huge, lasting impact on all technical decisions.

What You'll Do

- Work with our server-side infrastructure, including configuring Linux systems (e.g. packaging) and dealing with hardware
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong)
Troubleshoot issues with hardware, software, applications and network
- Work with engineers on product decisions and troubleshooting, but primarily work independently
- Help improve the development organization’s ability to rapidly and safely deploy code
- Architect and build our systems for maximum productivity and scalability

What We're Looking For

- Proven ability to build large, reliable, scalable infrastructure (you've directly contributed to scaling a highly-trafficked website or web application)
- Extensive knowledge of Linux (we use Ubuntu and Debian) and 5+ years of system administrator experience
PostgreSQL, Slony, pgbouncer; also non-relational such as Cassandra
- Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish, Memcached
- Knowledge of shell scripting and Python (familiarity with Django is a plus)
- Able to join the team onsite at San Francisco HQ or NY office

Nice-to-Haves

- A relevant university degree is great, but we care more about industry experience and knowledge
- Programming experience (Python, Django, JavaScript). You'll work directly with engineers and assist in debugging/optimizing on the application-side
- Previous work experience in a startup environment
- Previous experience with a development focused operations team

Work Perks

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- Daily catered lunch and fully stocked snacks, drinks, and beer
- Weekly in-office yoga and massage
- Apple computers and a bountiful equipment policy
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- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Team celebrations: company anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, babies - you name it, we celebrate it!
- 401(k) plan, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee assistance program and flex spending accounts
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Thank you for making light table. I use it every day, and it was immensely helpful for learning clojure script.
While it's a nice plan, certainly fun to watch, implementing it takes time. Investing time on a non-paying client doesn't sound very prudent.
This approach would make sense if most charities were similar in how much better they could make the world with your dollar. But instead there are huge differences! For example, if we look just at developing world health we see a power law distribution, where a few interventions are much better than the rest. [1] Instead of signing up to give small amounts to lots of different organizations, it's much better to find one working on one of these best approaches (givewell.org is helpful here) and fund that more.

[1] http://www.jefftk.com/daly-per-1000-usd.png
People read countless mailing list digests, site updates, etc. every day. On the spectrum of "hassle-free," even if something's not all the way over at "no action needed," it's still a vast improvement for it to be at "action only needed when I really disagree with today's charity choice."
Location: Leipzig, Germany

Remote: Possibly

Willing to relocate: Yes (especially to Berlin)

Technologies:
-- Languages: JavaScript (with and without jQuery), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Python, HTML(5), CSS(3)
-- Programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
-- Other: Comfortable with Linux, Git, Vim, and the server-side in general. Professional experience with Backbone.js, Underscore.js, d3.js, Require.js, Sass, Mocha, Phantom.js, Grunt, basic Node. At my current job, I also helped with Django, our REST API (TastyPie), and hooking it up to Neo4j, Nginx, & Uwsgi.

(For my minor in Computer Science I studied Java, Python, C, Unix, computer architecture, object-oriented programming and design, computational linguistics, and web programming. I am not keen on delving back into Java.)

Spoken Languages
English (native - US Citizen), German (conversational)

Resume: http://monicalent.com/monica_lent_resume_2014.pdf

Email: monica.lent@uni-leipzig.de
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I am looking for work in the coming months as a frontend engineer and/or interface designer -- my passion lies both in designing a beautiful user experience and implementing it in concise, elegant code. I minored in Computer Science in university, so I am well-versed in the fundamentals, while having almost five years of practical work experience in IT. I'm comfortable switching between front- and backend, and can debug the full technical stack.

I'm looking for a job that will challenge me to grow in my field, where I get to learn from my colleagues, and be part of a both a technical and creative process. Throughout my career, I've taken on increasingly technical roles, but have always found a way to enhance my work with my design skills.

Please get in touch if you're looking for a frontend developer with an eye for UI/UX, I would be eager to talk with you!
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I like this more for the fact that I get a better idea of what these companies are willing to say publicly about utilizing the data they have on you. TOSes are ultimately meaningless, but comparing sites with things like "your data remains yours" and "your data becomes ours" speaks a lot towards company policy.
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I worked there from 2008-2011 and always wanted to implement exactly this, but at that time we only had 5 +/- 1 employees so nobody ever had the time.

Now that they have dozens of employees I wish they'd put this high up on their roadmap. As a nearby comment points out, it would be the next step on reddit's journey toward reincarnating the golden age of Usenet.
I believe the conceptual problem most people are stuck on is the couple second at most gamma burst by itself is quite harmless to life on the surface. The guys on the ISS are likely totally screwed. Anyway massive radiation spike in the upper atmosphere has a rather well understood and very unfortunate chemical effect on the ozone layer, where its basically eliminated for about a calendar season.

A demonstration can be provided COTS from marine reef tanks, you can buy UV sterilizers which continuously zap flowing water with UV, quite effectively killing all floating algae and pretty much anything else floating in the water.

The problem in the ocean is for some months they'll literally be nothing for plankton to eat at all, and the sheer level of rot and rot byproducts would be pretty spectacular making life really difficult. And the recolonization process once UV levels drop enough to make it possible will result in some really weird blooms, and algae blooms lead to busts so the oscillations will likely be pretty exciting after the initial crash. A few million years later they'll be a lovely layer of petrochemicals to mine.

On land, the couple month UV hit would be very much like hitting the entire surface of the planet with defoliants. You might survive the lack of food, but no clean water for awhile and no harvest this season and everything green pretty much just died and started washing away in the rain might be a bigger mess. In a way the best place to hang out might be a desert. All the cacti will die, but there won't be many mudslides. A forest might be a good place to chill out too, all the leaves will die and the trees themselves might die but the roots won't rot for a long time, keeping dirt in place. Grassland areas will be pretty much screwed.
I think your analogy is unfair. A standard car does make it harder but isn't being specifically modifed to make the action of police/TLA more difficult. A more appropriate analogy would probably be an armoured car or military humvee, possibly a tank. Should the public be allowed to buy a tank? It has got other uses than evading police but it makes the police's job much harder as they need to up their technology (bazookas and their own tanks) in order to handle criminal use of the tech in question.

Just to be clear I'm not commenting at all here on the question of limiting availability of crypto-lockers to the public.
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Maybe. But the key difference is that those who "program" spreadsheets can see all of the steps involved. The hardest part about programming is constructing and executing a model of the computation in your head. Spreadsheets help with exactly that, by making a 1-to-1 association between steps of the computation, and things in front of you.
Do you just read headlines and then comment? I mean the author addressed your point within the first few paragraphs, yet you don't seem to be incorporating any of that into your post.
Well, at least I can ask a question there. On reddit, your post just gets thrown away by a bot for not conforming to the rules that are buried somewhere. It's frustrating. On SO, even though it is likely that my ? won't be seen or read or answered, at least there is a chance as it is not auto-banned. Also, real quick: shadowbanning?! I mean, talk about terrible. You don't even know you are talking to no-one. Yes, yes, trolls, but still, it's just crazy what they have come up with to deal with them.