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NOKIA - Sunnyvale, CA
Principal Engineer- Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics (Z Launcher)Candidate must be located in USA*
Responsibilities:
- As a part of our Z Launcher team, you will work with engineers, product managers, and designers to build the best predictive technologies to present what users want, when they need it

- Design, implement, and experiment with predictive statistical models and machine learning algorithms

-Make objective assessments on the quality of algorithms with data and communicate the results to stakeholders

-Take product requirements and translate them to actionable items for building and maintaining an algorithm development road-map

Qualifications:

-PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or MS with equivalent experience)

-Minimum 3 years of research/engineering experience in the field of machine learning, data mining, or statistics

-Experience with algorithm design, prototyping, data-driven experimentation, and product implementations

-Fluency in one or more high-level languages, such as MATLAB, Python, R, and Julia

-Experience in object-oriented software engineering with languages, such as Java or C++

-Research background in machine learning, data mining, or statistics with publications in top conferences and journals is a big plus

-Solid implementation skills, and clear communication skills are necessary as you will be cooperating with cross functional teams of engineers

-Passion for making a big impact on a mobile product that changes people’s lives
To apply follow link: http://linkd.in/1wqx9oe
China officials would probably deny that it was them if the US publicly accused them, saying it was some isolated hacker acting on its own, or maybe a foreign country routing its traffic through a VPN in China, AND they would point out that the US is doing exactly the same in China and elsewhere (Stuxnet, etc...).
1. A Microsoft distributor != Microsoft.

2. Every major tech company is involved with IV, so stop shitting on just Microsoft. Go troll and derail someone else's comments.

3. That's called selling.

I'm not going to argue with a nutjob anymore. I'm happy you're happy, and your original comment wasn't offensive. What is offensive is people like you (including you) constantly pulling this shit. Just ignore it. Just move on. Go comment on articles that are interesting to you, involving companies or people or organizations you don't despise. Just stop fucking dragging down legitimate discussions with the line "they're evil", and stop pulling the defense "I just don't like evil companies, that's all". You're not innocent. You're just being an asshole.
Counterparty Jumps After Recreating Ethereum's Smart Contract Platform
Introducing Essence#: A Smalltalk-based Language for .NET
Wow. Great news!
What I find amusing is how Silicon Valley's hubris grows inversely with its achievements (and everybody mentions Tesla and SpaceX, but they're clear outliers): Back when people built Intel and all the way through Google, they knew they were advancing technology -- and changing the world through technology -- but that's pretty much where their aspirations ended. Now when people build Snapchat, there's talk of changing the world's currency and seceding from the US, as if Uber and Groupon were the missing pieces to figuring out whatever there was left to understanding how the world works, and now SV can take over.

Obviously, I'm exaggerating. People have always built toys, and it's always hard to understand what's important and what isn't. But the culture -- or religion, if we wish -- around computer technology is new (or at least at an expansionary stage). I think there's more of a political[1] change in SV than a technological one.

[1]: In the sense of how society is viewed, and how the powers that comprise it are understood and manipulated.
Partner Action Pack + Visual Studio Pro without MSDN is your best bet.

(or visual studio community if you qualify)
GitColony (communal code review)
Yesterday I would have said they don't care about other platforms and compatibility issues. Today I'm not so sure. Anyway, looks like at least the GitHub has alternative font values:

wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI",Segoe,"Segoe WP",Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif
I am excited about this, although I imagine it would be difficult to migrate away from.
I know people who are pissed because Microsoft bundled in their own TCP/IP stack, which killed the companies that were selling TCP/IP stacks for Windows.

When I ask them "can you imagine any OS delivered today without that bundled in?" they change the subject.
One big thing: Immutability by default. That's possible in C#, but it's hard to be sure everything is immutable => http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5097287/how-to-create-imm...

A lot of interesting aspects of Scala are possible only because of immutability.

And a lot of smaller things:
* Typeclasses. In Scala you can implement them with implicit parameters, I have no idea how you would do it
* Case classes. Again in C# you can implement something that kinda looks one with readonly and just a getter, but it's not as good as you won't get stuff like equality and copy, you'll have to write the boilerplate
* Pattern matching, in particular with case classes
* Option. You can create your own, or use the Option from FSharp, but all the lib you will use will be returning null all the time.
* And more...

Additionally there are aspects that are more of a personal preference, like how the "map" function is called "Select" and "filter" is called "Where", and so on. All functional languages use the same names, the SQL-like naming for manipulating collections is just confusing for me.

At the end of the day, Microsoft tried to build a better Java when they designed C#. And it is indeed better than Java, especially because they moved fast in their versions while Sun/Oracle was terribly slow (why did we have to wait that much for lambdas??). But C# mostly sticks with the same concepts as Java (OOP) while Scala truly embraces both FP and OOP.
Yes but "Storage is automatically replicated across three AWS Availability Zones (AZs) for durability and high availability, with two copies of the data in each Availability Zone."

Is that included in the server cost? Or will you actually be paying ~3x the server + storage costs?
Interesting, I generally have a fairly positive opinion of the Imp. In particular the integration with Squirrel means that much more complex things can be done, more easily, and without touching the running hardware. The Spark (Core) on the other hand is much like an Arduino in that you have it in your presence to code its behavior, and then release it to the wild. Slightly different target apps, hugely different user experience.

That said, this is a pretty interesting price point. I find myself unable to resist ordering a couple :-).

Oh, and to answer your question, when folks say "Spark" they generally think of the "Core" which was $39 (or twice as much) so this really is saying, "hey a new cost reduced version of the Spark core."
Test for possible major requestAnimationFrame bug in iOS
I wonder how much effort it would be to support C# as well, without Xamarin. Would they ever do that? Or would they prefer to not hurt Xamarin (or maybe Google/Apple) too much by offering their own C# crossplatform development?
I've contributed a bit to Wikipedia, including a couple recent new articles, and I have never experienced this. Maybe I'm so extraordinarily skilled that nobody would inflict ham-handed moderation on me, but I don't think that's the case. Probably it's just that I'm not so glaringly awful that I should be discouraged from contributing again.

I think the drop in new-contributor retention is an intended effect, an example of the system succeeding.
I have a knee-jerk inclination to agree, but when I think harder about it, I'm not sure if that's just a bias towards the technologies that I had the most free time to spend on -- when I was a kid.

I want to say that Reddit is a poor imitation of IRC, and IRC wasn't really anything new because there were BBSs ... but I probably spent more time on BBSs and IRC than I've spent on Reddit. So, for me, those things have left a greater impression. For younger people who've never dialed up a BBS, Reddit seems amazing.

In general, yeah, the early 90s seems like a whirlwind of technological change compared to today. But, I bet if I asked my dad, he'd say that the 70s and 80s were moreso, because he worked in television distribution systems and has never been really comfortable with a computer. And I bet if he asked his dad, it would be highways and transportation ... and so on.

2014 is the "social" age, and that's not something I've participated in very much. So I'm probably less likely to see Snapchat and whathaveyou as a really big deal.
I suppose there is a lot of windows and C++ black magic going on under the good in VS, but since all the editing and compiling tools are all managed in VS 2015 (The OSS "Roslyn" tools are used for compiler, syntax highlighter, refactoring etc.) and those bits are free for anyone to use, it should be quite possible for the community to make an IDE for Linux/MacOS that feels a lot like VS does on windows (Maybe the SharpDevelop team will take on Roslyn? Haven't heard).

Of course VS is a huge beast of an application and there are thousands of parts that will be more or less impossible to port straight over because of ties with windows (Profiler for example).
jQuery leaks too much memory. Not a big deal on desktop, but it's a tool of last resort on long-lived webapps.
Right, but you can also get much smaller MySQL instances. It's not necessarily an "ouch" given the capacity, but it is in combination with the fact that there are no smaller instance types.
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Sure, but that's not technological innovation, but mere gradual evolution. Things were moving a lot faster in the nineties and the oughts. I think most people who remember the advances in computing in the nineties feel that we're in a technological slump. We hoped that with more people going into computing things would speed up, but that hasn't happened. That's not necessarily anyone's fault, though. Maybe the low-hanging fruit had already been picked.
That's extremely interesting. What if you could get game addiction to supplant drug addiction?
I always appreciate how the US are able to pin every network compromise directly back to China. And not just China but the Chinese government in particular.

Almost like VPNs, proxies, TOR, compromised machines, botnets, or similar do not exist in this arena and that a reverse DNS lookup will tell them 1337.mss.gov.cn.

When the US talk about cybersecurity/"cyber wars" in general they're talking about something more akin to a Hollywood movie than anything you see on the ground on either side of the "fight."

I'm extremely sceptical every time they claim Chinese responsibility. I am sceptical not because China wouldn't have the skills or motivation to do so (they do/would) but because they jump to these conclusions unrealistically quickly and if their adversary covered their tracks even modestly pointing fingers like that would be quite hard (e.g. send it through Russia).
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One possible solution is for Wikipedia to have two versions - one with a very conservative editorial policy, and a second with a very loose, liberal one. Occasionally material that has proven it's worth in the second gets merged into the first.
> I wonder why nobody has forked Wikipedia yet.

Wikipedia _was_ forked, several times. The reason you dont seem to know about them are:

1. The added utility was not sufficient to make an impact strong enough to pull people away from wikipedia.

2. The added no utility to the fork at all or made things bad at Wikipedia even worse.

Wikipedia is like democracy, it is the worst free encyclopedia we have, except all the others.
It had the opposite effect on me. I saw that I missed out on free shipping so I didn't order one.
Yes the Deis router only supports HTTP at the moment, sadly no TCP. I hope/think it's something they are going to work on after v1 is stable. It also has no persistent storage; the database you are referring to is for the deis application itself. You could use it, but it's not wise. Realistically you should use something similar to Amazon RDS or Rackspace cloud databases, as each deis node is ephemeral.

It's still really early days, I have seen a few mentions on their github page that outlines the features you're wanting, and I can't wait for them myself.
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I think much of the last decade has been about streamlining information accessibility. Whoever owns information dominates the market.

It's like in one of those third world countries where a dictator coming to power would manifest his control over information channels (tv, print, online, etc) as a first thing. But here corporations are in control in a pretty way.
Uh, I think they mean meaningful innovation, not mobile apps.

When we look back at the last 100 years of innovations, something tells me Dropbox photo sharing won't make the list.
Taxation might not fit the strict definition of theft (easy when the gov creates its own jargon), but it is the threat of force to take property from someone against their will. I mean, how many of us are giving money directly to the gov by our own volition? I don't know of anyone. We were born into this system and we never agreed to it. Let's at least be honest about that.

> There are no examples of large populations of humans (many millions for the definition of large) living well without government.

That there are no examples means nothing. Would you say if most of the world were enslaved that because there are no examples of a free people, it's not worth while to try? You end violent institutions because they are immoral.
I've seen a lot of complaints about Wikipedia here on Hacker News over the years. Yet I also see a lot of comments and even submissions of new stories that come straight from Wikipedia. This love-hate relationship suggests that Wikipedia has plenty of strengths along with its weaknesses. May I ask a question of everyone here? Suppose an Elon Musk or another philanthropist established an Online Encyclopedia X Prize, setting up a financial incentive to try to build something better than Wikipedia. If there were a prize for a new-and-improved free, online encyclopedia, what criteria should be used for awarding the prize? What could a new project do to show it is building a good encyclopedia, and that it deserves a cash prize to keep its growth going as it wins user acceptance? What specific goals would show that the project passed a reasonable "finish line" in a race to build a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

I am a Wikipedian. My experience as a Wikipedian suggests that Wikipedia's administrators need to be much more alert than they have been to the possibility that the Wikipedians motivated by money (or by ideological bias) will stay with the project and persist in making edits contrary to Wikipedia policy. They edit more articles, and edit in greater numbers, than most admins guess or notice. And the point-of-view-pushing editors often inject so much wikidrama into discussions about how to improve articles that they drive away the participation of conscientious editors who know reliable sources about the article topics. A new effort to build a free, online encyclopedia with lots of user input (which I would enthusiastically support) would have to figure out how to deal with this problem.

In respectful disagreement with some comments posted earlier in this thread, I think that most Wikipedia articles on many subjects are terrible, actively misleading and very poorly sourced. I am trying my best to fix articles on the topics for which I have the most reliable sources. (I have an office full of reference books for writing projects I do for my paid work.) It has been a long, slow slog since 2010 for me to improve the sourcing and make more neutral in point of view some of the most-read articles about the psychology of human intelligence, for example. Many Wikipedians don't read books, but only look up information on Google University, and think that anything that isn't found in an online source is not a verifiable fact. That makes the editing process very slow.
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Really? Just you saying they are defensive weapons makes it so?

You remember that news story from a couple of years ago in Seattle (I think)... Four professionally trained and armed policemen sitting at a coffee shop and one person walks up and shoots them all dead? Their guns were useless...

If we were living in movie world I would say guns are great defensive weapons because the good guys always know the bad guys are coming and have their guns drawn (or have super human reaction and aim). In real life? Not so much...
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Xamarin is IntelliJ, and Mono is OpenJDK
Seems dangerously close to SparkFun (https://sparkfun.com) trademark and space. I had to look hard to figure out it wasn't a sparkfun product.
would rather governments subsidies science then 95% of the other crap they throw money at.

science benefits us as a whole while most subsidies programs benefit a particular group or interest.
> looks like I'm banned from commenting

For anyone who's wondering, we haven't banned this account. What happens is that when karma gets low enough to be in outlier territory, comments get auto-killed. This is a longstanding anti-troll measure.

In the future, we plan to have a "moderated" status for comments, rather than "dead", so that the community will be able to fix cases where the commenter is not a troll or has corrected their ways. In the meantime, if you ever notice something being [dead] unfairly, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is usually enough to correct it. (Edit: but do please allow for the variable latency of our email stack. We will get back to you, but there's no SLA on when.)
Actually it goes back to 1999 and was a project that involved HP, Microsoft and Intel. The first release was in 2002 and it was public knowledge in 2000.
Exactly! You will get an open source platform with 120MHz STM32 CPU, 128 KB RAM, 1MB Flash, BCM433 802.11b/g/n with SoftAP for half the price. And you can easily attach an external SD card: https://github.com/technobly/SparkCore-SD or https://enabler.tilt.com/usd-fram-shield
Held back from what? I mean, I'd love it even more if it had higher kinded types, but it's a pretty great language as is.
You're right. That part of my comment is wrong.
The last ten years have not been that notable. The biggest change has been the speed and power of mobile devices - the advent of 3G (then LTE) has opened up a lot of opportunities. But that has nothing to do with Reddit, Facebook, Twitter or any of the other startups Sam mentions - it was technology developed by boring old large companies.

Ten years ago I had a Nokia Symbian phone that (if I recall) could only connect over GPRS. Could still check e-mail fine, though. I was using MSN Messenger to communicate with friends instead of Twitter. I uploaded my photos to Photobucket instead of Dropbox. I ripped CDs to MP3s instead of paying for Spotify.

Yes, there has been innovation. But it's nowhere near as remarkable as Sam makes it - it's simply easier to do things than it used to be.
You can see notable changes in performance if your database gets fragmented, and tweaking the .my.cnf script seems like a massive distraction from my actual work. Having somebody handle these and improve performance for long queries would be wonderful.
haha, nice.
Rocket science for the Europeans, still miles and yards for Americans.
These tools actually do exist for Go, they just aren't packaged in an IDE. The biggest problem with them is (in my opinion), a lack of documentation around the usefulness and use of these tools. Tools like gofmt allow for automated formatting, mass renaming, and import moving, for example.

One of the things I think it great about Go is how easy the developers of Go have made it for other people to tie into the Go compiler's lexical analyzer, giving it an easy API to work with and making it a core package, which is why there are so many mutant compilers built for Go. Using these, I think it would actually be very easy to write a powerful IDE for Go, it just hasn't been done yet because I think Go's target audience (systems programmers) are not all that interested in IDE's, but that is just conjecture. Right now, the closest you can get to an IDE experience is to use the faith's vim-go set of plugins for vim, which allow you to map keys for all of the basic IDE functions and even allow you to browse compilation errors and formatting errors in a seperate pane with controls to navigate to the line in files where those errors occurred. If you are not comfortable with vim, however, I do not know of any alternatives at this time.

I haven't done this myself, but I have read that you can use the gdb to debug Go code.
I'm pretty sure they were just deleted because the poster is terminally embarrassed at discovering that his edits were reverted because he was inadvertently vandalizing them due to a browser plugin, rather than fixing problems like he thought he was.
That form factor is just as useless without a breakout board so I'm not sure what your point is.

I mean, to be pedantic, they'll also sell you the chip by itself, sans FCC certification, which is even more* useless.

* http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/LBWA1ZV1CD-TEMP/490...
Network support has been an OS feature since before Microsoft even existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

Yes, there are people that probably would have preferred Peter Tattam's company to be bought by MS. (It was shareware, see thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875). But it definitely wasn't an obligation.

Very few would argue that an OS has to have a browser to be functional. Just like very few would argue that all networking should be done in a user space process not part of the operating system.
They faked being kind of opensource so many times that I'll believe it when I'll see it.
I really wish they'd make Visual Studio run on other platforms as well... I suppose they'll work on making Office run on Linux next, or at least a full version of Office that's entirely web enabled would be nice too.
From a Spark of Inspiration to “Oh Sh*t, We’re Launching”