skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then they wouldn't buy the bigger TV because they'd realize it wouldn't make them happier, and the TV makers would suffer. /s
I am not totally sure it can or will really happen. I'm just a garden-variety pessimist.
At the risk of oversimplifying, I have also noted that Denmark is becoming less Scandinavian in many areas. Which is sad, as people running the country got so many things right in the 1980-2000s.

Many KU or DTU departments that ranked amongst the very best have fallen apart. As a foreigner, I have sensed an alarming increase in nepotism.
I was surprised I hadn't heard of Odoo before, but now I see it's the new name of OpenERP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoo
"For [UV-B] radiation with a wavelength of 290 nm, the intensity at the top of the atmosphere is 350 million times stronger than at the Earth's surface." That's due to ozone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer).

So we would need some really solid sunscreen. Also the oceans would turn into a big vat of plankton chowder, which would make for an exciting last few years for all of us.
Reddit disallows remote work after $50MM investment round
Well, it's not the king but the government representing the people who are paying the bills.
In Scandinavia, the universities are generally almost 100% tax-funded, so one might say it's right for the government to demand a higher "Return Of Investment". Surely there could also be private tuition-funded universities and/or tuition-funded programs in public universities for those who can and want to finance a decree in a purely humanistic field.
Website is really slow on Firefox 32 (on Ubuntu), it's like trying to run Atom. After that, hopefully it remains responsive. Maybe add a limit to how much data is shown right away? like 5 posts, then load the rest as people scroll down? Duno, feels like too many posts are being downloaded at once.
Dexmo F2 – a mechanical exoskeleton with force feedback
What does your family think about all this?
What makes those guns traceable? The fact that they have a serial number on them (which can easily be filed off)?
> And, in doing so, he focuses on not needing the guy that knows a particular language

That's a pretty narrow way of reading what I was saying. What I meant is the one guy who knows how to program and I just happened to pick Python because that's the common case in science. Do you really think a mathematician, biologist, or chemist can't think through a logical approach to solving a problem? I certainly believe they can, the problem is then in translating that to the computer. Right now, that would mean knowing (pick your programming language) and translating that logical solution. We want to make that way, way easier, to the point where it's like using the tools you already do to do this stuff (Excel).

> Its all pretty vaguem, anyway, and the further clarification on the thread sounds like the goal is the yet another app builder

We've bootstrapped the editor, parts of the incremental compiler, parts of the platform, the domain editors, etc. If you can do that in an "yet another app builder", I'd definitely love to see it. We're picking one domain to focus on because that's how you grow a product, but at the end of the day, if it doesn't suit my needs as well, I certainly can't call it a "better programming" in general.
Use facebook.

I frequently make a facebook connection with clients. As a last resort I will post a subtle comment to there facebook page.

Works everytime, and it doesn't cost anything.

I should add that I don't use facebook for anything important myself.
Director of Technology - VC-backed E-commerce - Full-Time - Chicago, IL

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RESPONSIBILITIES

-Lead and complete significant development projects (front and back end) for our existing systems
-Manage our product development cycle and responsible for project management
-Manage our small development team
-Ensure our platforms scale with our growing startup

ABOUT YOU

-Experience in project management and delivering complex projects on-time and on-budget
-E-commerce experience preferred
-Experience with Node.JS, Python, JavaScript, Django, Backbone, Git, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS
-Can clearly explain technical concepts and make decisions with technical and non-technical team members
-Can complete basic server administration tasks
-Experienced with TDD, Agile, etc., but also sensitive to balancing process and progress

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Interest in or experience with personalization
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Email us at jobs@doggyloot.com with:

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No recruiters, please.
The Toast's recipe for bootstrapping a profitable media business
If you believe some people, one day all those jobs will be automated away.
And Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye also has a fictional treatment of gamma ray bursts, if I recall properly: http://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Alex-Benedict-Novel/dp/0441...
I think that once a company comes by and has good documentation and examples of what Docker can do, it's going to blow up. An example more than "Hello World", I think it would be helpful to see how you can install/configure apache and deploy an application hosted on github.
What's the difference between a gang member and a police officer? Social acceptance. They all engage in the same behavior, have their own rites and colors, and a shared identity and sense of loyalty to bend the rules for one another.
Voice is the next big thing in mobile
But your post makes more claims than merely computers not being able to arbitrage data structures.

In your first example, while I don't have any experience with Scala, any competent compiler for C++, Haskell, Rust, etc. will inline a function like "map", so there is no "function call overhead" whatsoever. (This example is too simple to benefit from stream fusion as such.) The resulting machine code will look fairly similar; if there is a performance difference, it would be far more subtle than your 10x, and would probably have to do with whether the map implementation in question is specialized for the Array->Array case. One that is will allocate the right number of elements up front and perhaps even skip bounds checks that the compiler might or might not be able to optimize out from the explicit version, but one that isn't will not only include bounds checks but repeatedly have to grow the result array and copy the elements so far to the new allocation.
This has nothing to do with threat models and everything to do with usecases that make no sense on OpenBSD.

With OpenBSD on bare metal, you are not vulnerable to other users of the same bare metal, because there aren't any.

With Linux on bare metal, you are not vulnerable to other users of the same bare metal, because there aren't any.

With Linux on Xen, you are reasonably resistant to other users of the same bare metal (and XSA-108 wasn't even all that severe).

With OpenBSD on Xen... oh, wait.
Ugh it's horrible. Reinstalling now.
Show HN: Liquid - Data collection, analysis and collaboration for scientists
When I first moved east, I was enamored with MIT and Harvard and the whole east-coast-prep-school-thing. Then I worked with a bunch of grads from these schools and was underwhelmed. I was expecting that they'd be smarter and better at what we were doing. That's when I figure out that you go to Ivy League schools because of the doors they open via the people you meet and network with, not because you're going to learn more in the History 101 class or even your intro to Data Structures class.
Not when I grew up ~10 years ago
A more informative link -

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/517366447253643264
I'd kill for some of the connections I've seen elite school graduates get. For instance If you go to Harvard Business and get your MBA the connections you get may very well lead to riches. The fact that you made it into a such an elite institution leads people to believe, rightly so, that you are capable of great things. So it's easier to get backing or get people to talk to you.

I'm not a graduate of any college but the two guys I work directly with have advanced degrees from MIT and Harvard so I can see first hand how that experience has already helped them.
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TXN:
We’re building a market research analytics tool for businesses based on consumer credit card transaction information (think “Nielsen for transactions”).
We’re well funded by great investors (A16Z, Homebrew, Bloomberg Beta, Slow Ventures and more) and are looking for our first engineering hires.

We use AWS for all of our development and production environments. Today, we use Scala, Node.js and MySQL but we’re always evaluating new tools that can help us build more awesome things.

We are hackers at heart - crazy about using technology to create something valuable.

Looking for full-stack software engineers. A lot of work around data and visualization.

I'm the co-founder and CTO, please email me to apply - pasha@txn.co

More detailed job descriptions: http://txn.co/jobs/

Why join TXN?

- Be in the front seat building a company and product from scratch.

- We are a small team that believes in ownership. You’ll have a huge part in everything that we do and own your projects, not just be a small cog in the machine.

- Learning: we strongly believe in learning and personal development. We’re building a culture where everybody is encouraged and supported to learn and improve every day.

- Doing your best work every day: at TXN, we’ve decided to build something truly great. With everything we do, big and small, we’re striving to do something that we’ll be proud of.
And if any thinks that the awesome perfection of OpenBSD's authors outweighs the vastly smaller attack surface of something like Xen, I think that they're deluding themselves.
The Psychology of the Call to Action
Flamingo for Mac is looking for a new home
I switched to Google Drive just because it works better with Gmails and Google's other apps.

However, I just reinstalled yesterday because a partner on a new project I'm working on shared some files with me via Dropbox.
Your move, AWS and Microsoft: Google’s cutting basic cloud compute prices 10%
Here are my suggestions (in order):

1. Get the CEO on phone. This worked for me TWICE. If you face the person face to face and tell him that you need the money to operate, odds are he is going to pay.

2. How much can you sabotage him? Can you get/have access to his site/business. Don't tell him that you are going to shutdown the site if he doesn't pay BUT "in case of non-payment, the site might go under-maintenance because of lack of blablabla"

3. See if you can reach some of his friends/clients and if one of them will pressure him to do it. This is very effective if 2 and 1 doesn't work.

4. DMCA notice. If you don't have access to his login/servers, you might want to shutdown the site or a part of it.

Email me if you need help with a cold call.
Yes, you can compare, let's say, average income of graduates over a certain period and see that they're bigger for Ivy League graduates

But of course averages lie more often than not, and I suspect that, income curves are double peaked for the Ivy League graduates (meaning that'll have the "mere mortal" avg salary and the "exceptionals" forming another peak)
This is neat, but I wonder what the actual resolution of this device is (and how stable are the measurements)? Is it useful for anything other than just novelty?

Not sure that I really see the point of 3d printing the parts (although scratching many geek itches, yes) when your optics are going to be a much larger cost than the mechanical mounts, and the quality of the mechanical mount is so very important.
The Internet of Furbies
> To reduce the cost even more, the government could automatically give you a "nominal loan" that was automatically canceled when you finish your study, so only people who study and don't finish would have to pay, and you'd also have to pay for any additional years you need

Watch out; independently of being an effective idea or not, this would create a strong incentive for extensive corruption.
As a fairly new (4 years) programmer with an avid interest in comparative language features and tooling, this looks like the direction that every cool new thing I've read about or attempted to create myself seems to be going. The LISPers have always been there, preaching freedom from syntax and a focus on semantics, but it has never made it into a readable form for your average new aspiring programmer.

I keep thinking what we need is for the structure of programs to be something saner than the one-dimensional byte stream that we keep pretending programs aren't by splitting them into lines, functions, classes, and files. Tables aren't fundamentally different than those other constructs, in the same sense that programming languages aren't fundamentally different from each other - BF is Turing complete and all that. But usability and learning curve, as someone said on here, really matter, and tables have a far more clean and rigid structure than a mess of braces.

The most difficult problems in programming aren't the low level algorithms, they're the social problems along the lines of how do you involve large numbers of new programmers in a project without ruining it, or how do you empower users to create their own features without starting over and building a custom rules engine?
That's assuming that poor people attend university at the same rate as wealthy people, which is not and will never be true, even if fees are abolished, as poor people can't afford to postpone full-time work for 4 years.
Dollar a Day
The thing is, parallel construction won't work out unless there's another legitimate path which exists anyways.

Scream it all you want, but if there's no other way to the conclusion, there's still no way to use the evidence short of outright lying and falsifying evidence.

I don't think parallel construction is nearly as big of a threat as people seem to make it out to be. It gives law enforcement nothing more than a hint and some unusable evidence. There still needs to be a path that works legally.

And that's not even getting into the fact that iOS is heavily reverse engineered, often searching for backdoors and cryptographic vulnerabilities and Android is open source and publicly reviewable. I've reviewed some of the key derivation code myself as I was curious if it was being done properly.

I'm all for paranoia, it just need to be useful paranoia under a given threat model. Beyond that, it's nothing more than speculation and a waste of time.
That's what The Market should be for, to make those jobs compensated attractively. Plus, people will be more likely to take a part-time job flipping burgers to fund their writing/music/open source project/whatever if they don't have pressure to pay back debt or don't have to worry about health insurance (another can of worms).
Databricks is hiring for front-end and devops, full stack types
Databricks is a small, budding, 1.5 year old startup of 35 that is focused on building out a unique Big Data cloud platform based on Apache Spark. Funded by Andreessen Horowitz (series B).

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/06/30/lured-by-the-promise-of-big-data-investors-pile-33m-into-databricks/

We are made from the founding team of Apache Spark -- one half open source team, one half product -- and are seeking out those with front-end and dev-ops exceptionalities, with a well rounded programming aspiration and background.

More than anything, we look for smart confident highly effective people who know how to collaborate well. Then we look for specific technical talents, thinking processes, and creativity.

A background in (big) data processing (SQL, Scala, Python, Data Analysis, Data Visualization Science, Hadoop, Spark, etc.) is super cool but not necessary.

Regarding those on the Front-End:

-- Good programming basics and algorithmic thinking is key before all else. Just knowing the tooling won't be good enough for us.
-- Good eye for the visual and some interest in the design is also well looked upon.
-- Backbone, Angular, Ember, Websockets, Jetty, Stylus / SASS, Node, Selenium, Mocha, etc? What's your front end toolkit like? Our webapp is a heavy duty front end project. Can you write in vanilla Javascript as well? What do you know about htmlhttprequest? xmlhttprequest?

This is the best company I've ever worked for. I am not a recruiter (software engineer @ databricks), so please be serious and do not snail-mail me your resumes with no thoughtful intros, I don't have time to read those. Contact me at amy@databricks.com with your introduction, what you're interested in, and what specifically you are looking for in your next job.

SF-based.
A ‘Tetris’ Movie Is in the Works
They are opposites, in that the vessyl site strictly discusses apps and salesmanship without mentioning how it works whereas this project is strictly how it works and what it does and you figure out what to do with it.

I enjoyed reading the vessyl site because it explained nothing at all about how it works, so I immediately applied my engineering gut sense to trying to figure out how I'd make one if I wanted to. Small scale calorimetry heating and cooling with a peltier device a couple degrees at a time? That works for metals and phase transitions but probably not enough to tell diet sodas apart. Some kind of high res ultrasound to analyze waves and thus viscosity and thus density/composition? Personally I'd go all EE on it and shove a modest AC signal thru a big capacitor and get the dielectric constant of the "stuff" in the cup. A really accurate capacitive sensor to tell exact volume with a really accurate force sensor on the base to read weight/mass and a decent thermistor to calibrate for temp and you've got density at a specific temp. Once the raw data is in there, I'm guessing its all just lookups and best fits and the like.
How to analyze cart abandonment rate (CAR) to prioritize your ecommerce efforts
It's not a non-problem its a big problem especially in a country where education is free.

Unemployment is low because the public sector is huge and take a lot of those people in. But a smaller and smaller percentage of the population pays for that and so they can't continue growing it. This is the main reason why they are cutting down.

With some of the highest taxes in the world and also free health care plus very liberal social welfare model this is unsustainable.

And you could might as well turn it around. How big a problem is it really that they minimize their approval of humanistic applicants.

Denmark is doing bad when it comes to building companies. It's very easy to start a company but growing it is extremely difficult and not financially as rewarding. They need more people to start doing stuff not just getting hired.

And then we haven't even touched on the more fundamental issue with the way Denmark thought and still think about education.
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Another point: US universities look very different from German ones. I live in Corvallis (OSU) now but grew up and went to school in Stuttgart Germany. Compared to the German universities our US schools are country clubs: dorms, restaurants, coffee shops, fitness clubs, green spaces everywhere. Don't even get me started on the sports, it's an outrage how US schools have become sports franchises.

I'm guessing most US students would be shocked by the reality of German public universities which basically consist of giant rooms with blackboards and there's not much general ed to speak of. At the graduate level it gets more interesting but that's in years 5-8. My first 4 years studying ME in Stuttgart were almost 100% lectures with a final exam at the end of the semester. Virtually no tutoring and very little corrected homework.

You don't get what you don't pay for. On the other hand, you don't really get what you pay for in the US either since the universities have become so good at sucking up more and more student loan money without really improving on their core mission of providing higher education.
IBM launches an online directory for the NYC startup scene
The Downtown Project Suicides
Show HN: OrderCircle – Wholesale ordering software for small businesses
> Next I tried rearranging the tabs around and it took seconds? for the drop of the drag-n-drop motion to register.

Not seeing that, at all. What you've described just sounds like the default delay OSX puts on tap/three-finger drag motions though.
Seems not to support animated GIFs.
Seems like confirmation bias. It might just be Ivy League kids (with their most high school performance and/or wealth access) are more likely to be attend events like startup school or start a company. The same factors that attract people to Ivy Leagues may the same as those that attract them to YC.
My Experience as a Male Designer at Startup Weekend Seattle Women
Hey all - I'm the founder and have been working on this for months, solo (all bootstrapped). Would love to chat with anyone from the community and hear what you think!
That wasn't the point. The point is the default reddits draw people in specifically by magnetizing them on an issue and getting them to discuss it vehemently.

Also, I've been a part of reddit for 7 years now, and was a part of digg before that. I've watched reddit grown.

about 3-4 years ago, IIRC, there was a rather large bucking back from the "old hands" onto the new because they viewed reddit as the "smart digg". uber great content, blah blah blah. They lost that fight and history has shown that reddit was right (it's still continuing to grow).

The post I was responding to is just another person from that era who is still salty about it. But here's the thing:

A large community cannot give that to you. That's the genius of subreddits. That experience is absolutely on reddit. I enjoy both types of content, and so I enjoy doing either. I think most people do as well.

It's only the pretentious pricks who really have a problem with reddit's lighter content.
The site is definitely too slow. Thanks for the tip! I'm going to reduce the number of posts downloaded and then also lazy load the images.. hopefully that will help.
Hold on now, there are a lot of very stable options. Rich reportedly uses CursiveClojure:

https://cursiveclojure.com/

and there's also vim-fireplace:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace

By all means, if you don't want to use emacs then you don't have to!