skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do:

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/going-beyon...

Google and Apple both have top-notch security teams, but they also have different strengths and weaknesses. Google's relationship with the security research community is a definite strength.
In the category of "games involving Bayes": https://github.com/ksotala/BayesGame, with description http://lesswrong.com/lw/lad/bayes_academy_development_report... and http://lesswrong.com/lw/les/bayes_academy_development_report...
My Gravity lawsuit and how it affects every writer who sells to Hollywood
Another option for recording gifs is LICEcap (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/). It supports OSX and Windows.
No support for overlaid keystrokes, though.

Oh, and http://showterm.io/ and https://asciinema.org/
Look at https://github.com/ksotala/BayesGame (I've also got other links about this in my top-level comment).
RideCell(YC W12) - Senior Backend Engineer - San Francisco, CA

You wouldn't believe how inefficient most transportation systems are!

At RideCell, we build transportation automation software that helps large corporations, public transit agencies and Universities optimize, manage, and scale their transportation systems.

Our software has already moved almost 10 million people but that's just the beginning. We're working on much higher impact things that will fundamentally change the way logistics is done. Doing this requires solving some pretty interesting engineering problems ranging from optimally routing and dispatching vehicles to predicting customer demand based on historical and real-time variables to maximize throughput.

About You

- You have at least 3 years software development experience, including at least 2 years working with Python/Django.

- You have experience mentoring new developers.

- You have code samples you can share with us - preferably real projects hosted on GitHub or something similar.

- You've worked at a startup before and love moving quickly.

- Bonus points: you have experience with one or more of these: Angular.js, Django REST framework, Postgres, AWS, Vagrant, Ansible.

- Bonus points: you've worked on location aware projects before.

- Currently living in US and willing to relocate to San Francisco.

What We Offer

- A significant role on a small team working on a huge and valuable problem

- Competitive salary and meaningful equity

- An incredible team of genuinely good people

Next Steps

We don't believe in interviews full of syntax questions. We'd like to pay you to work with us for a week or two on a real project, we think that's the best way to see if we'd be a good match for each other. To get started, email jobs@ridecell.com your resume, link to your GitHub / code samples, and links to any deployed software you've worked on.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976877

paper: http://amaral-lab.org/media/publication_pdfs/PhysRevX.5.0110...
Why would I learn this rather than Haskell?
the main page (http://proofs.wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history) is from December 5, 2014 (first revision is timestamped in 2011, but that is the MediaWiki default page)

http://proofs.wiki/index.php?title=Prerequisite:Copyrights&a... shows the copyright page is from December 6, 2014.

So, I assume this started around two months ago. The sparseness of content is not in conflict with that.

I think I would rather use a site that uses a formal proof checker behind it to verify committed theorems. It may get populated slower, but it can better be trusted.
I have a Gear VR, and the recent video about Syrian refugees was eye-opening.

That said, while watching 3D video I can't help but be irked by the bad stitching, judder, and overall blurriness. This technology is awesome, and the potential is crazy, but there's still a way to go before its mass-market ready IMO.
> In short, the Croatian government and their finance ministers/advisers probably aren't stupid. They have actual data and a knowledge of their own people and situation to go on. They aren't just playing armchair economist. And though I couldn't name one of them, I'm willing to bet that they thought this move through. Doesn't mean that there won't be any of the dire consequences that you've predicted here, but they've probably weighed the odds more carefully than you think.

Or they're a bunch of politicians trying to score a win in the next election, by any means necessary.
For certain types of self employment typically IT consultants HMRC unless you pass a lot of hard to pass tests you treated as an employee for tax purposes.

Self employment can if done via a Limited company reduce your tax rate drastically - but of course it was only selectively targeted self employed accountants and lawyers can carry on as before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR35

Most IT consultants work through umbrella companies to get round some of the disadvantages -but you cant make use of some of the tax advantages a re al elf employed contractor can.
Quit before you burn out, not after. Err on the side of caution by quitting sooner than you think necessary.
I think that the perl6 project is quite welcoming of contributors. So I'm honestly curious to know what happened to make you feel otherwise.
My claims on recovery rates of debt are based on my experience in the banking industry. There are many public sources of information on this topic that you can refer to with respect to expected recovery rates of debts based on age. Provisions for these loses are written into regulations (national and international ones like Basel II/III).

Small overdue amounts are very expensive to recover, if a letter costs you $1 and a phone call $1.50 you don't need very many contact attempts to make an overdue loan of $80 worth less than the cost to recover it, you certainly can not afford to send a lawyer after someone. (Again, this is from my experience related to debt collection work.)
You say potato, I say "Parrot was designed to implement the semantics of both Perl 5 and Rakudo in the same process."

You say "It's better to build a specialized VM", I say "Emscripten, Clojure, Niecza, Truffle, and Jakudo."
I think the difference between private and public capital is that 1) public capital is far larger and 2) private capital needs quick turn around. I can't see private industry inventing the nuclear bomb. Any time you conceive of a start up, the mantra is always MVP, fastest time to positive ROI. It's hard to do research like that.

I think I could accept that you could have motivated a sufficient number of brilliant people to work on nuclear energy instead of the bomb, but the economics are still suspicious. There are a few fusion startups in the valley, but the common question is why they think they can create something salable in a reasonable amount of time, which I assume in turn injures the amount of talent they can pull.
Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures
I'm going to apply for your "Marketing Specialist" role. Currently doing Marketing Automation :)

Also a Business Analyst / Jr Data dude currently (reports to VP's for marketing strategy decision).

http://www.swww.linkedin.com/in/salemh/
Peter Greste: Al-Jazeera Journalist Freed by Egypt
Thanks for posting, I can't recall having heard about that Swede before despite that is quite an achievement!

(Germans weren't too easy too argue with.)
Decentralization is less efficient. Instead of each piece of information being copied in a few place it would need to be copied to hundreds or thousands with a decentralized system.
National Youth Science Foundation Raising Funds for STEM Education Center
Location: Slovenia

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Maybe in few years

Technologies: Responsive Design, HTML5, Jade, CSS3, LESS, SASS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Sublime text, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Resume: http://vidakovic.si/about

Email: miha@vidakovic.si

Seeking any work related with my skillset, willing to learn anything new. My portfolio is small, but I want to make it stronger and build up some great relationships and long-term collaborations.
Worked on many projects in course of four years. Have great experience in HTML and CSS, web designing and protoryping mobile applications. Basic knowlage of PHP, MySQL and Laravel. Willing to work full time or project based.

My key strengths include:
- designing branding of company from scratch

- building web projects from top to bottom, user experience

- wireframing
Karmic Labs, Inc. - https://karmiclabs.com - San Francisco, CA - Fulltime (Design, Frontend, Full-Stack/DevOps)

We believe that everyone in the workforce should get a smart debit expesne card from their employer and that every business owner should understand their expenses as they happen.
We're building a SaaS business debit card platform that allows small businesses to have dynamic financial controls and trust levels, accountability by default, and realtime expense management. Our private beta went live with Mastercard last month.

We're a small team from a diverse set of backgrounds (Pinterest, V.C., Netscape, Thoughtworks, Amex...) based in our converted-Victorian office in SoMa. We strive to have an open and accepting culture.
On the technical side:

* We're building our APIs with Flask on Python3 and using Postgres, Redis, and S3.

* We're building our Web apps with AngularJS and Sass (mobile app as a web/native hybrid).

* Our web infrastructure is deployed with Ansible an uses Nginx, Sentry, and an ELK stack for logging.

* We use Git + Phabricator for code reviews. We like linters and unit tests.

We're looking for:

* Design - We care deeply about UX and are looking for a designer who has a passion for building great interfaces.

* Frontend - We're looking for the type of person who reads all of the new browser API specs and is excited by ServiceWorkers.
* Backend - Do you have a passion for building well factored code and designing great APIs?

* DevOps - We're obsessive about infrastructure automation...

Want to help businesses by solving company expenses? Send us an email: jobs at karmiclabs dot com; be sure to tell us a bit about yourself and include a link to something that you're proud of.
Docs make fewer diagnostic mistakes in teams, study finds
> We have plenty of bandwidth.

Smartphone users might not have lots of bandwidth and GIFs are incredibly inefficient compared to H.264 and WebM videos. Why waste bandwidth when you don't have to?

For example, the following GIF of a CD in a microwave is 8 MB, but when converted to a WebM by Gfycat is just 369 KB.

http://gfycat.com/GrimOpenDutchsmoushond
Big data text analysis is an approach, not a method.

They merely showed that Latent Dirichlet Allocation is not the best method to solve the specific problem of classifying human language from unstructured text.
New techniques will always come up to be more accurate and reproducible, and eventually become the new most used one. TopicMapping sounds promising. :)
This might be a failure of imagination on my part, but I'd love to know how you think private enterprise would have been able to find a way to spend the money to accomplish the same things. Say the US government didn't fund these things. How would private enterprise have done it? Write me the alternate history.
Yes hat made me smile - though I would have said that elint started in ww1 and came of age in ww2.

And doesn't mention the beam wars in the early war where the Uk was attacking the bomber targeting systems the Germans where using.
Why wait? I assume it will be similar to Rakudo Star, which packages[0] Perl 6 for regular consumption on a semi-monthly (quarterly now?) basis, which you can download windows installers for here[1]. If you aren't on windows, compile, it's not that hard, directions are included in the github repo for Rakudo[2] under INSTALL.txt. You can see more info on that at the Rakudo website[3].

0: MSI installers for MoarVM and Parrot, I assume JVM bytecode it includes is in there as it stated it ships with "experimental JVM support."

1: http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/

2: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo

3: http://rakudo.org/
MoarVM is the closest to "ready", and seems to be what most of the developers actually using Perl 6 today are using. But, as the prior post mentioned, Rakudo-JVM and Rakuda-Parrot are also getting closer to ready. All of them will likely "ship", as long as the developers keep working on them, and Perl 6 code will likely run correctly on any of them.

Here is the current feature test statuses of the Perl 6 compilers/runtimes: http://perl6.org/compilers/features

Note that the Rakudo-MoarVM runtime is the closest to feature complete, with Rakudo-JVM close behind.

In short, you can expect you'll get whichever runtime you install, and if that runtime is ready for production you can expect that Perl 6 will work on that runtime. MoarVM will likely be the first to be ready for production.

You may have other reasons for choosing a runtime; if you have a Java/Clojure/Scala shop and wanted a powerful scripting language to integrate into your systems, the JVM runtime might be just the thing. If you wanted the fastest Perl 6 for standalone Perl 6 applications, MoarVM will likely be it (I think, I haven't looked at benchmarks, just guessing). The FFI may be easier to work with in MoarVM, if you need C or other compiled external libraries...but maybe not. I'm not at all familiar with how that works in JVM runtimes, but it seems like it would be more convoluted.
Interesting. In my part of the world, a pawpaw is what you call a papaya.
Doolittle Raid is probably the biggest disaster caused by wrong date calculation. But it is practically unknown in hacker community.

It was first bombing of Japan in 1942. Bombers were supposed to be refueled in China. But they crossed international date line and arrived day earlier. In result airports were not ready and bombers crashed.

15 bombers crashed, 3+8 crew man died. Soviets got American airplane technology.

> Planners in Washington, DC, also had made a ridiculous blunder, forgetting that the ships would lose a day (April 14) crossing the International Date Line, putting the planes in China a day earlier than anyone expected. Because of this mix-up, when some of the bombers flew over Chuchow Field, which was supposed to have been their main refueling base, an air raid alarm sounded and the lights turned out.

https://books.google.com/books?id=FkEeVAf-U7gC&lpg=PA43&ots=...

http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/the-impossible-raid/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
Plethora - San Francisco, CA (Well funded by Founders Fund, and other top firms)

We're building the "Full-Auto Factory of the Future" - giving you the engineering superpowers to make hardware as easy as software. We currently have our pilot factory in operation in SF, CA, using our software to fully-automate CNC milling machines to make prototypes and production parts - more processes coming soon.

- Who we're looking for:

+ Computational Geometry Engineer - You'll work with several teams to build software that: analyzes customer parts, generates/simulates cutting paths, controls our manufacturing / robotics equipment, and much more.

+ C# / COM-Interop / WPF Engineer - You'll help our CAD add-in team build our geometry debugging (Design For Manufacturability) system into Solidworks, Inventor, and other CAD systems.

+ Front-End Engineer: You'll be a central part of our growing web team building our customer-, admin- and factory-facing UX for both desktops and tablets.

+ Dev-Ops Engineer: You'll be our first DevOps helping the whole team get its process into shape and be able to have real control over our whole architecture.

+ Many more below:

See us here:

https://plethora.bamboohr.com/jobs/

https://angel.co/plethora
Sometimes this is true. But lessons tend to be more memorable -- and thus more likely for us to internalize them -- when conveyed through an already-happened story that's remarkable.
During the first Iraq war, the partiot missiles was presented as a great success that prevented Israel and Saudi Arabia to be hit by Scud missiles. The facts was very different.

Not a single Patriot missile manage to hit a Scud during that war, partly because of the bug mentioned in the article and because anti missile defence is really hard.

The reason the Scud missiles did not do more damage, was that Iraq had modified them to extend their range, and this modification made them unstable, and thus their accuracy really poor, so that they would almost certainly miss the target. On the other hand, as mentioned on the web page, one of the Patriot missiles that missed a Scud did hit something else, while the Scud itself missed.

All in all, the missile defence caused more damage than if no defence had been installed at all. This fact was only revealed several years later, and did not reach the headlines.
We try to :-). Specifically, there are designs underway to implement e.g. hyper operators - those things that apply an operator to an array of values, irrespective of order - by SIMD instructions on the hardware level. If you're interested you're very welcome to come and check it out.

[edit] - there is also some progress in speeding up list operations, because as it turns out making all lists lazy is not a really good way to do fast list computations. This is known as the 'Great List Refactor' (GLR) in perl6 circles, and spoken of with awe :-)
What are you talking about?

"Horrors like that rich people only live in compounds surrounded by walls and armed guards, and the poor are dying because of no health care and no food, and the middle class does not exist."

The poor have essentially universal free healthcare in the US and have for a long time. I should know, I've used it before, and it's very easy to use. The poor also have the benefit of the one of the largest welfare states on earth, including the largest food and subsidized housing programs.

The US has the world's largest true middle class, with a median income among the highest of any country. A mere 1% of US labor earns the minimum wage, and the majority of those people are below the age of 25. The US also has a higher labor force participation rate than nearly all of Europe - while simultaneously having a high median income.

The US has a lower unemployment rate than: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Greece.

And while Europe rolls around in a near depression, with Europe's GDP still at 2007 levels (since 2007 the US has added $3.5 trillion to its GDP) and high unemployment, US wages are expanding at the fastest pace in a decade, while unemployment keeps falling, which will drive even faster wage growth in the next few years.
> Converting a 64-bit floating point number to a 16-bit int is something a first year computer science student would be embarrassed about.

Try enabling compiler warnings on a legacy system sometime and let me know how many of those embarrassing errors you find :)
Oh, I'm a big fan of Haskell! It's definitely a language worth learning. However, if you want a pretty nice but still "dynamic feeling" (as opposed to Java-ish) object system, Perl 6 has you covered there. I'd look at P6 as similar to Scala in that it mixes both OO and FP ideas, but with P6 leaning more towards the OO side than the FP side, with not as much type safety as Haskell/Scala/OCaml but with more type safety than, say, Clojure.

If you're familiar with another OO dynamic language like Perl 5, Python, or Ruby, you can probably get up to speed more quickly in P6 than Haskell, and you can gradually introduce more advanced P6 ideas as your ability grows.

But yeah, I'd still recommend you learn Haskell... and Erlang, and Lisp... and...
I've already written about that at length several times here and elsewhere.
I love this. Thanks for sharing!
It depends when shit matters they can move very fast eg the crash program to fit sidewinders to harriers for the Falkland's war.

or say the production of the U2 by the CIA
Wikipedia is totally mainstream, and it now has sister-sites like Wikiquote, Wikia, etc.

There are also a lot of smaller niche sites that use wikis in one particular domain, eg. A Wiki of Ice and Fire, Wiki 24, Hunger Games Wiki, etc. And Wikis are often used inside corporate networks as well - Google certainly had one that was quite active.

I don't think Wikis have been supplanted at all. They're just no longer at the top of the hype cycle. They get used when they're appropriate, people are productive with them, but emotional energy is directed instead to newer technologies.
It was interesting to see a take on the problem from the researchers outside of NLP or ML fields, but the authors only considered classic LDA and PLSA for comparison. I am not currently involved in topic modeling, but I know there exist techniques and modifications to classic models that improve topic discovery (like tf-idf weighting).
Can you suggest any modern methods from NLP and ML communities that address the same issues and can rival the authors' findings?
Well, that's a good point, really. The JVM and the CLR do run many (dynamic) languages quite efficiently. On the other hand, that is in no small part due to the man-centuries spent trying to optimise both the JVM JIT and the language-to-JVM compiler.

And as a counter-example, luajit2 was built by one man (mostly) over the course of a few years, and runs very efficiently indeed, in no small part due to the lua-specific choices that have been made.

So what I'm trying to say is that there is a second tradeoff, somewhere between programmer efficiency, runtime efficiency, and running time, and that MoarVM is making a better tradeoff for perl6 than parrot is.
It is more subtle than that. The original code ran on the Ariane 4 rocket, and there the engineers had proved that the error could never happen with the first 80 seconds of the trajectory of that rocket, which was the period this code ran. The management of the Ariane program decided that the unit was going to be used in Ariane 5 as well, without certifying it for the new rocket. The Ariane 5 rocket is much more powerful, and will get much further in the trajectory than Ariane 4 in that time, so an angle big enough to get overflow will happen. This was never discovered, because the trajectory of the Ariane 5 was never tested with the code. Thus it can also be considered a management failure.

The code was also for stabilizing the rocket on the launchpad, and made no sense after that, but it was not shut down before after 80 seconds.
The point is that they are commonly abused to provide error handling and reporting.
مواعيد قرعة الأراضي الصناعية والمخازن بالمدن الجديدة – تراخيص
Once Splunk was about to break the bank, we abandoned it and started looking for something in the open-source world.

We've toyed with and pretty much failed using Graylog2. Although it has been coming along steadily in features and stability, we just found that the interface-although pretty-was not intuitive to us: lots of links and multi-click scenarios to get to what you want; and creating filters and streams was difficult and prone to failure.

After watching a couple of very compelling presentations by Jordan Sissel (Logstash founder), we decided to test it out. Once I realized that creating a filter (Grok rocks!) that searched for a term and reorganized the log to my liking only took a couple hours, I was sold.

Another selling point for us was that Logstash has over 2 dozen ways to suck logs in, including the usual suspects - syslog, files, tcp, udp and *mq. You can also perform a bunch of log parsing on the client (i.e. the servers with the logs) before sending them to your central ELK server/cluster.

At the end of the day, there is nothing magical about any of these systems. You alone know your logs best and have to figure out how to read/parse/search them. Our switch to Logstash from Graylog2 was our failing, not Graylog2's.
/u/anarchoCB of Reddit provides several points in understanding Marx/Marxism