skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refers to a startup that is funded by the founders and from reinvesting the profits of the startup, rather than funding from angels and VCs. It comes from the term bootstrap used in computing.
Do your research and show how you can contribute. If you know what my products are, who my users are, and have insights for how to improve the products to better meet their needs I'd give you bonus points in the interview.

Working with teams is also important. I'd definitely look for a portfolio like the other commenters suggested, but also that you worked with others on some of these projects. Going from hacking something out yourself to managing a product built with other busy people is a big step.
Direct link to the demo: http://neilj.github.io/Squire/
lol when will people learn not to drink & make stupid jokes in public ;)
I think the reason the hacker community doesn't bother with it is based on a culture of efficiency. It isn't entirely out of order to assume that folks have some other support system in their lives (family, social groups, etc) to offer the praise they need to motivate them (or maybe even intrinsic motivation is there in some).
Before ABS brakes were ubiquitous this was more important advice. Most cars with ABS standard advise against engine braking in the manual.
"Used by Facebook and Google" ? Citation needed. AFAIK, at least Google has an internal homebrew solution, that automatically scales to large clusters.
> What oversight mechanism can possibly protect users from themselves?

Never using VC backed services seems to be the first step.
Looks like a valuable tool for Airbnb hosts, although it's not clear to me from the site exactly what it does (the 3 boxes are more 'how it does it').

Am I correct that this site allows Airbnb hosts to dynamically change their price to reflect market trends, similar to hotels, in order to maximise their income? If so, looks great, but you might need to spell that out better.

Good luck!
I've never bought "it happens all the time" as an argument against "it shouldn't happen."
Good point. Not sure how to avoid bias or if it's even possible in this case. All I can do is let him know that the second design/attempt would have been easier in just about any language.
Well, he'll never be able to add generics now.
To provide some context, an Uber driver was arrested on rape charges in Delhi today. Uber allegedly hired a repeat sex-offender driver without a mandatory police background verification. [1]
And, I agree that a decentralized system without any regulation or oversight could probably improve privacy but is definitely not the solution.

[1] http://www.firstpost.com/living/cab-driver-a-repeat-offender...
I know distributed neural nets are 10000 miles out there for most, but I just want to add a few nuggets for those considering it.

I work with distributed deep nets quite a bit. It's a different animal than training on a GPU.

I am working on benchmarks with my framework deeplearning4j now.

That aside, a few neat references/projects that will be digestible for people.

For those of you already in neural net land, there's a few key takeaways when doing distributed neural nets:

parameter averaging across mini batches

(depending on the algorithm) adagrad

momentum

[1] Project Adam: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/microsoft-adam/
[2]: Associated Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

[3]: Hogwild algorithm: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/papers/hogwildTR.pdf

[4]: A variation of this I use called Iterative Reduce done by my partner Josh Patterson: https://github.com/jpatanooga/KnittingBoar/wiki/Iterative-re...

[5]: Sandblaster LBFGS by Dean and Co. http://research.google.com/archive/large_deep_networks_nips2...
There's a lot of different window managing tools on OS X. I personally use Optimal Layout, but there's a number of open source ones as well, such as Slate [1] (which unfortunately hasn't been updated in a while), Mjolnir (nee Hydra) [2], and Spectacle [3]. Both of the last two were updated a few months ago.

Spectacle is a bit easier to use than Mjolnir, but it looks like Mjolnir is more flexible. In comparing Mjolnir to things like Divvy, the Readme states:

"Mjolnir is intended for programmers who want to write programs that customize their environment. It's not intended to be a drag-n-drop solution; it's meant to allow you to write your own personalized productivity enhancement suite to keep and to use long-term."

[1] https://github.com/jigish/slate
[2] https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir
[3] http://spectacleapp.com
Lots of useful info about ImageMagick, ffmepg, etc. in the comments.

Thanks everybody.
If the choice were between safeguarding the right to privacy and slowing the rate of innovation, I would pick privacy every time. It's the whole "trading liberty for security" thing: Civil liberties are the prime mover in any society, and losing it has a much more far-reaching impact.
There generally aren't all that many apps written in interpreted languages.
I am inclined to agree with much of what you said (though, not all of it). However, you are making a lot of claims without supplying us with supporting evidence. Can you please provide names of books, studies, or links, etc.?

Specifically, for statements where you claim it is empirical fact:

> but the empirical facts are that (a) promiscuity hardly requires money, social skills and tactics ("Game") being more important, and (b) most people who are socioeconomically comfortable have little interest in promiscuity after age 25.

If you can't supply external evidence of your claims, then please refrain from making such claims in the first place. However, if you do have evidence then I am genuinely interested in studying up on this. :)
> perpetual motion machine to me

Yeah, but it's a perpetual motion machine in the same sense that everything is; all particles evolve in time, i.e. the values of all six quantum fields change ceaselessly. The controversial (imaginary) perpetual motion machine is one that you can extract unlimited amounts of energy from.

Which is really funny to me, since energy is essentially defined as the constant that does not change in time (well, excluding general relativity).
> The attitudes in Detroit are far more toxic than the minor class warfare in SV.

Currently live downriver from Detroit - I disagree that the attitudes are more toxic. We have yet to have protests in front of our busses (then again, we don't have very many buses, and the 'mugger mover' only goes in a circle). Unfortunately racial tensions still exist (especially when you leave the downtown area), but anecdotally I believe things are getting better.
It does. If you click through to the DMCA takedown request, there's a list of removed pages. It's more annoying to use, but the information is still there.

(For what it's worth, I'd prefer if the results weren't removed at all, but the current legal environment doesn't allow for that.)
Or you could just step over Node, and grab on to Elixir[1]

Why Elixir - http://www.theerlangelist.com/2014/01/why-elixir.html

[1] http://elixir-lang.org/
I use Pocket, Instapaper may work aswell.

http://lifehacker.com/5894995/bookmark-and-read-later-apps-c...

http://pieroxy.net/blog/2014/10/05/reeder_and_its_companion_...

http://recode.net/2014/06/09/read-this-when-you-actually-hav...
Tom's rescue boot disk is what I remember as essential for system administrators for some time... http://www.toms.net/rb/ (1.7 MB floppy), but I can't find a working download.

But tux.org has "pocketlinux", which seems to be similar. http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/tinylinux/pocket-linux/, with a 1.44MB download. (in Virtualbox add a Floppy controller, rename floppy image to ".img")

Here's a screenshot: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1iF0BQtIdQ3hPXUAlwfpg9...

EDIT: OF COURSE I should have used Qemu for the screenshot:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DPVXIuWlDKTSEan-5TY9xN...
> "in a very public forum"--he said it at a private dinner party where comments were understood to be off the record, but someone brought a +1 and didn't read him into this so he ran with it.

You know, I never did go back and find out how the Romney 47% leaks actually made it out the door. I wonder if it's public knowledge at this point.
There's also better embeddings than word2vec now:

http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/
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It has some glitches on iOS.

We need better WYSIWYG-API implementations for HTML5. Sure, it would mean competition to web office apps from Microsoft, Apple and Google. A Word-clone web app could be a single HTML5 code line, but at the moment due to the broken API e.g. Google Docs renders the page line by line as seperate divs, even the blinking cursur is a div - it's a complex full page render engine based on divs!! And no similar open source project exists.
Your SAMURAI name on your iPhone – Shoname
> Indeed. I would also add GPU programming, and also a number of features of modern processors such as hardware STM and some other such things tend to be things that C supports only poorly or as an afterthought, despite the fact Intel generally has to keep C compatibility in mind as a design criterion in the first place, an advantage shared by virtually no other language. (Perhaps C++.) It has also long had the "aliasing" problem which is the reason Fortran kept its position as a math language for so long.

There is a lot wrong with this paragraph.

1) The comment I replied to mentioned CPUs

2) the "S" in STM is software, "hardware STM" is a misnomer, it is rather "Transactional Memory" and isn't a particularly modern feature. Hardware designers have dabbled in it for decades, and I don't think it's particularly more popular today than previously

3) C89 already had fairly strict aliasing rules that systems programmers hate so much that every modern compiler has a flag to disable it. Furthermore C99 added the restrict keyword which eliminates this problem (though yes, the motivation for not including "restrict" in C89 was braindead.
sudo -f
Internet Giants Threaten Legal Action Against Ad Blockers
I think it may actually be from the idiom "to pull yourself up by the bootstraps" meaning to succeed depending solely on yourself: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pull_oneself_up_by_one%27s_boo...
UI/UX Designer -- CareMessage (YC W14), San Francisco, CA

CareMessage is looking for a UI/UX Designer, who will work closely with healthcare providers to learn more about their needs and the needs of their patient populations. The UI/UX Designer will represent the end users at all product meetings, and bring the voices of clinic staff and patients to life in order to improve our product.

Our patients/users come from all walks of life and various ethnic/racial backgrounds. On a daily basis, they face barriers such as homelessness, unemployment, food insecurity, language barriers, and multiple chronic healthcare conditions. We are looking for someone who may already understands the populations we serve through personal or work experiences.

YOUR QUALITIES:

- You have a natural curiosity for people’s stories
- You can turn stories into insights
- You are not happy with delivering the minimum and continuously ask yourself, “How can we make this better?”
- You understand human/user-centered design principles
Something in your background already enables you to connect with our patients

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

- Make recommendations for new content based on community needs and trends.
- Work with CareMessage leadership to identify the most appropriate methods for communicating specific health messages to targeted group.
- Assist with product brochures, advertising materials, and provide editorial support on relevant documents.

CANDIDATES WITH THE FOLLOWING SKILLS ARE PREFERRED, AND STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY:

- 2+ years of relevant experience as a UI/UX designer
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Degree in Product Design, HCI, CS or related fields
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Work experience in start-ups, or start-up like environments is not necessary, but preferred

To apply, please send a resume and short cover letter to jobs@caremessage.org and include ‘UI/UX Designer’ in the subject line.
This article mixes up a couple different issues.

First, internal controls: what can employees do when they access the user database? Beginning startups probably don't have a lot of formal policies and you're relying on good judgement of the founders and first employees. As a company grows, they need to guard user data with access restrictions, restrict root to a few trusted sysadmins, and put in place clear rules about what what employees with legitimate access to the database are allowed to do. (And of course if your database gets owned it's all for nothing, so you can't protect privacy without good security.) It sounds like Uber might be behind on this, relative to their scale.

Second, what can you do with aggregate reports generated from user data? Facebook and OkCupid and Uber posted research articles to their blob summarizing some of their users' overall characteristics. When it's okay to do this sort of research is debatable, but it's a different issue from invading the privacy of individual users.

Unfortunately taking a regular taxi may not help [1]. That was screwup rather than intentionally revealing user data, but by now everyone should know that publishing anonymized records is really hard and probably shouldn't be done at all.

[1] http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars...
It has nothing to do with ISP greed. There is no shortage of IPv6 addresses, and, ISPs have every motivation to encourage their customers to use their IPv6 space.

The reason NAT doesn't go away is that customers don't want to use their ISPs IPv6 space, they want their own provider independent space.

The easiest way to do that, is to address all your devices from RFC 4193 ULA space, and then, on your perimeter, do RFC 6296 Network Prefix Translation to the ISPs IPv6 space.

Then, when you change ISPs, you simply make a single change on your perimeter rather than having to renumber hundreds of internal devices, DNS, configurations, etc...
A staff member of the catering company. It was very fight club.
I'm a recent mesos convert but I think "first" is a tad inaccurate if you consider Joyent's SmartOS and it's recently open sourced Smart Data Center.
> Even though Squire isn't meant as a drop-in replacement for web page editing, it still suffers from the same endemic issue that plagues all editors: browser inconsistency.

Squire's purpose is to make things look on-screen and in email the way the user expects it to look. The actual HTML generated is secondary to that. While its nice if it can produce the same HTML every time on every browser, its not especially important.

In terms of UI consistency, its intention is to provide a simple, pleasant editing environment that the user is mostly familiar with it (keyboard controls etc). Again, it doesn't have to be identical everywhere, as long as it does what the user expects.

(Note: I'm a FastMail employee, but not directly involved with Squire).
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I guess because he'd like to see a better internet
Not sure what's about either. Like many rich-text editors, it can handle embedded images, but the attachment stuff proper is handled in the surrounding application.
What happened in Delhi is tragic -- and no one would want such a dreadful thing to happen to anyone, anywhere.

Yes, Uber did not vet the driver enough. But "police verification" in India is a big joke. You pretty much go to one station and find out if there are crimes committed by a person in that locality. There really isn't an exchange of information across stations across cities about a person's criminal record. So, you can only do so much in this country, where a lot of such information needs to be made more easily accessible even to law enforcement agencies themselves. In fact, the government itself is mulling doing away with such verification requirements for government jobs as the police reports are often perfunctory (link: http://bit.ly/1lJ1vRy ).

Regarding Uber's service in India, I have taken over 40 rides in the past year and find it to be the most reliable taxi service in town. In fact, I find it to be far safer when the women and kids in my family ride an Uber vis-a-vis other transportation services. I know fully well that endorsing Uber when a lot of folks are outraging about the firm over the latest controversy du jour may not really come across well -- but I personally feel that the alternatives in India are far worse and definitely not 100% crime free.
So, the commoditization of on-demand and highly scalable virtual computing infrastructures, together with the rising popularity of "containerization" for app and service composition, seems to be creating an "orchestration crisis", or an "orchestration business opportunity," depending on your vantage point.

Are we about to see the emergence of what might be termed "new wave mainframe" computing?
I understood all that, that's why I mentioned -fsanitize
> The New Delhi rape case could have just as easily happened to Lyft. The infrastructure for background checks and criminal records in India is more or less nonexistent,

It's not about non-existent prevention mechanisms. It's about how difficult it is to contact Uber (at least in India), whether they took the responsibility of what happened, and whether they are going to invest time to take preventive measures instead of immorally running after competitors in India. Having a bad automated support at a company like Uber that deals with transporting flesh around is a sign of being morally irresponsible.
> The infrastructure for background checks and criminal records in India is more or less nonexistent, so I doubt that Lyft would've been able to catch this driver before he committed a crime any more than Uber would've been able to.

Yes, blame it on the system. Never mind that Uber performed NO checks; never mind that the guy's record was revealed shortly after his arrest, indicating that had Uber performed a check they stood a good chance of finding the same out.

While India's police system is not perfect, Uber's attitude is downright arrogant: "it is you natives and your cops who are to blame". The law mandates a background check, you didn't follow the mandate. The least you can do is to own up to that.
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Mesosphere's stack is in full production at major companies, including one of the largest financial services companies and one of the largest consumer electronics companies. General availability is next year, but paying customers are using it in production today--at very large scale.
That part of the article stuck out for me. The authors then draw a comparison to OKCupid "experiment[ing] on its users", but Uber is writing blog posts with anonymized data. I do agree that Uber should be extremely careful with securing its data, but I'd be interested to read more data analysis.
But bitcoin will not help you at all, when there is no delivery. Bitcoin has no charge back. Bitcoin is in this sense mor like Western Union.

The credit card system gives much better consumer protection most of the time.
People in positions of power are held accountable when they don't take things they're responsible for seriously.

You could joke about fucking with people's privacy because you don't have a huge database of abortion clinic visits and one night stands and children's daycare locations. As soon as you did, people would start holding you accountable.
Obama’s Net Neutrality Bid Divides Civil Rights Groups
It's very similar to mainframe computing, only now it's available to every business and, frankly, every business needs it to be competitive.
Uber have all of this info on where you came from, where you are going and that we should not trust them because they do not have processes in place to ensure users information on trips taken is kept private.

Sadly, the same can be said for Google, Apple, AT&T, and Verizon. At least one of those probably knows where you are right now.
As a New Delhi resident, the latest incident is the last straw.

They advertise that they do background checks and that they are a safe transportation option. But clearly, they don't.

Based on this, I have recommended Uber to several friends of mine. One of them could have easily been the victim in the recent case.

This is inexcusable and unpardonable and betrayal to the point of no return. Sorry Uber, I'm deleting your app and will tell EACH and EVERY person I meet to do the same.

If the Indian government does not cancel your permit (which they should, for flagrantly ignoring laws), I hope the consumers vote with their wallet and drive Uber out of India due to lack of customers.

This is the only way companies will learn that "move fast and break things" is acceptable only if you are a social networking website where breaking things does not result in someone's life being completely ruined.
There are many reasons. Yummyfajitas mentioned two very good ones:

"Marriage is cheaper than being single due to economies of scale (a lot like having a roommate) and having a more stable income source (assuming 2 earners, it's unlikely both will simultaneously lose their job)."

I would also add, as equally important: support network.

I'm sure that there are more I can't think of, although they are likely related to one of those listed already.
There is a large elephant in the room that was barely touched on in the article: gravity. How does QM relate to gravity? Wikipedia puts it thusly[1]:

Gravity has yet to be successfully included
in a theory of everything. ... Theoretical
physicists have not yet formulated a widely
accepted, consistent theory that combines
general relativity and quantum mechanics.
The incompatibility of the two theories
remains an outstanding problem in the field
of physics.

The best attempt that I've seen so far is from a slashdot[2] discussion:

Your momma so fat even if I'd entangle
with her no information would be able
to leave her event horizon.

Nobody has managed to put gravitation
and QM together yet, and you want to
do it in a your-momma-so-fat-joke? Wow.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory
[2] http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/02/19/2338245/human-eye...
Unfortunately Schneier first guesses that in reality nobody came out because they didn't have the full picture, instead of the reasons the companies actually gave, and then he goes on about how the reason he is guessing to be the real reason is not a good reason.
I wonder if there's a discussion about net neutrality somewhere in there.

Although I really think the real issue with the internet right now is its monolithic, centralized, html oriented architecture. I want more decentralized technologies.

I'm curious, but I don't think the amount of websites increased like the amount of internet users did.

Also the fact that people are alone despite the success of social network, is the proof that the internet is failing.
Nanobuds could turn almost any surface into a touch sensor
Shen[1] is a powerful language built upon Kl, which have only 46 primitives[2].

[1]: http://www.shenlanguage.org/
[2]: http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/shendoc.htm#The Primitive Functions of K Lambda
That design is really shit. I preferred the plaintext.
There are a lot of components to an operating system. It's not just the technology components, it's the product components and the business components. E.g., Does it have an API? Does it have an SDK? Does it have a user interface? Does it have an init system, a chron, a storage system, service discovery? Does it have an ecosystem of third party developers? I posit that the OS Checklist is fairly long and that no of the other systems you mention have the complete OS package.
Posted two days ago, with extensive comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708396
I'm in my late 20s and started the same way. Ended up leading to my first entrepreneurial pursuit - I made money by coding games and getting friends to pay me to put them on their calculators.