skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, this quote comes to mind:

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
Title is misleading. This is not an official Facebook app.
Especially apt considering the first libraries were corporations. Non-profit corporations, that is. But people forget that "public library" is a 20th century neologism.
Were the ad to pose a security risk, and you, a paying user of Gmail would have no way to opt out, then sure.
Debt cancellation indeed has always existed, greeks just bringed it to another level, with their magic combo : fraud the state's accountings, get as much as you can from the eurozone before the crisis, get as much as you can from other european countries after the crisis, and then 2 years later when things start to stabilize, declare unilaterally that you're not going to reemburse people, and party in the streets over that decision.

At least US banks had the decency to not laugh about it publicly.
If your pixels are a byte each and the data is 64-byte aligned in memory, you're still reading 640 * 2 + 128 * (480 - 2) = 62464 bytes from memory, not 1080. That's because you can't read less than a cache line, which happens to be almost always 64 bytes. Performance win could be a lot less than what you expected.
Maybe? I was addressing your “I don’t see the opportunity where to use C++14 outside hobby projects.”

Compilers, games, and operating system components are archetypical systems software.
Recursive CTEs are super cool! I don't use them very often for the problems I'm trying to solve, but I regularly use non-recursive CTEs to organize queries instead of using deeply nested subqueries.
The visual hierarchical structure is very helpful, both for breaking a project down and understanding it. However, I was worried for a moment that there was no way to have multiple subtasks at the same level, probably because there is no immediate feedback during the dragging. The lack of feedback requires you to guess what's going to happen when you drop the task.

The icons distinguishing guessed from manual estimates are rather meaningless to me. I suppose the manual icon is supposed to represent a set "target"? The guessed estimate could be something with a question mark in it to represent the guess.

As mentioned already, the "Delete" button is where a "Save" should be, I've found myself automatically moving towards it after editing a task.

The tasks could be slightly smaller, so that more fit on a screen (I can see only 6 in a column at most, though my screen is only 1366x768).

Overall it seems like a great tool and I'd be interested in using it. The front page would certainly benefit from a "email when it's beta/ready" box, as my email would be in there now.
He specifically said that he took multiple images of the sun and couldn't find any issues.
Ask HN: Are you using PostgreSQL with cstore
Just wanted to know how everybody is using PostgreSQL as a columnar database with cstore and what are the pros and cons of using it in a datawarehouse type of environment.
Location: Dallas, TX

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Visa: Requires H1B transfer

Experience: 5 years

Technologies:
C#, VB, XML, Desktop [WPF, Windows forms, VSTO, VBA], Web [HTML, JavaScript [Backbone.js, Knockout.js], Node.js, Require.js, AMD, ASP.NET MVC], Database [SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle]

Email: tarun10k(at)gmail.com
If you didn't borrow from a bank then banks would charge for you to store your money, making your purchases more expensive
I love that quote but it should be mentioned that it is actually misattributed to de Tocqueville. Doesn't make it any less true though.
Hi,

I have an indie game which has taken me around a year to complete and now it is nearing the end of alpha I could really do with a little advice. I would really appreciate it, would it be ok to send you an email? If so where can I find it? Thank you
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Hiring engineers at all levels for multiple roles:
-Machine Learning
-DB architects
-Full stack engineers
-Front end developers
-iOS and Android developers

Work on leading-edge mobile, internet and consumer analytics and information products (see here for an example: http://7parkdata.com/blog/).

Highly competitive comp (base, bonus, equity). Benefits 100% covered.

Looking for smart, driven people to help us continue to significantly scale our business. Fun team that is highly academic and loves tackling complex problems.

Apply on our website.
I've been reading the recently released book on this
(www.amazon.com/Marshmallow-Test-Mastering-Self-Control/dp/0316230871/)
and it has been interesting & good. I recommend it to anyone
interested in discipline/self-control.
Three Reasons Why Your Software Is So Far Behind Schedule
Yeah. It isn’t enforced, but it’s easier to mitigate.
The registered emergency rooms are catalogued on the medicare website (medicare.gov). The government has a list of all the emergency rooms in the USA. They also do a survey of each hospital periodically to keep there data up to date.

Unfortunately, these updates aren't in real time. I'm hoping I can provide people live data through my app through a feedback/reporting mechanism. It took a fair bit of time to extract all the data available and I had to do some aggregation myself.

The app doesn't yet include a notification centre widget but that's a great idea! I'm putting that on the list of potential feature adds :). Thank you!
Remote Jobs, but WHERE?
In the spirit of monthly job postings, I've scraped the jobs off We Work Remotely and showcased them on a map.

http://whispering-refuge-4514.herokuapp.com/

Even though remote jobs can be done anywhere, my expectation is that working full-time at a company based out of Italy is culturally different than one based in New York.

Has location (i.e. culture) influenced your remote job experience? (workflow, travel, promotions)?
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C++, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/igmnv9otcyonjmq/shubina_cv_no_pers...

Email: daria.shubina at gmail.com

----

I did my PhD in physics, where I developed software for data processing and analysis, then I developed software in automobile industry for control of mechanical systems, now I am interested in algorithms and looking for a job as C++ or Python developer.
Cool app, I like the way how is possible browse my Facebook photo...would be nice have the same feature for the videos...
Good on them, really hope they make the release.
The fact that "here" is a widely used word does matter. What Nokia's trademark buys them is the right to name a product or business "here". It doesn't given them ownership of the word "here" when used with it's descriptive meaning, whether or not that use occurs in a similar product/business context. Given that the offending app allows people to notify others that they are "here", it's open to debate as to whether or not their use of the word is "merely descriptive". It's unlikely though.

I agree that it probably would have been wise for the startup to avoid using that name, but they could well be within their rights to. Own the downside: should that be permitted, it guarantees that they won't be able to protect the name themselves either.
Grio - San Francisco (SF) - INTERN/JUNIOR
http://grio.com/

Apprentice Developer

Grio is offering the exciting opportunity to be an Apprentice Software developer. An apprentice is a person who has training in building software but lacks experience due to being new to the field. Our apprentice program is a 3-6 month position where you will be mentored by some of the best Software Engineers in the industry while working on both internal and client projects. You will receive frequent feedback and support from others at Grio. At the end of the program an apprentice will be ready to become a regular software developer at Grio.

The apprenticeship is a full-time (hourly, 40 hours per week) contract to hire position.

Qualifications

* New grad w/ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related degree

* or bootcamp/code school graduate

* or <1 year experience in software development

* Ambition to learn and grow your skills

* Ability to communicate in person as well as over the internet (email, chat, voice)

Helpful skills (not required, but a plus)

* Experience with HTML/Javascript/CSS

* Experience with a full-stack or backend web framework such as Ruby on Rails or other similar framework.

* Experience with a frontend JavaScript framework a plus (Angular, Ember, React, etc)

* Android or iOS development experience

* Have used a version control system such as git

Contact me about this position: rschultz@grio.com

We are also hiring mid/senior level Software engineers: http://grio.com/engineer-mid-senior-mobile-web.html If you apply mention "Ryan's post on Hackernews".
iMatchative - San Francisco

We are looking for full stack Python and Java developers, Data Engineers & Data Scientists, Elastic Search Experts, Angular Experts and more.

Help us build a state of the art, two sided, cloud-based network that uses innovative algorithms, behavioral AND traditional financial statistics and analysis, to help investors and funds alike find stickier, more satisfying investments.

Find and apply for jobs here: http://imatchative.com/careers/
Never said it's official....
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - San Francisco or Remote

UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer with a penchant for designing and building clean, responsive layouts using a mix of HTML/SCSS + Compass, and JS. Also have varying experience finding my way around Rails, nodeJS + Express, and setting up AWS/Linux server environments.

Founder of Designers Who Code - http://dwc.io

Personal blog - http://robertnealan.com

Company portfolio - http://atomidesign.com

More recent projects are non-publishable/public by contract and available upon request.

Contact: rob@atomidesign.com
Explicit returns are not frowned upon. I don't know where you got that idea. The only thing I can think is that this:

fn foo() -> bool {
true
}

is preferred over

fn foo() -> bool {
return true
}

But that's more of a style issue.

As for `;`, it's just like Standard ML. `;` is for sequencing expressions. I love it.
The fun of a modern-day scavenger hunt
SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or part-time remote.

I'm a full-stack web application developer looking for new opportunities to expand my skills and boost my resume.

Tools I'm most familiar with:

- Python: Django, Flask, werkzeug, numpy, pandas, SQLAlchemy
- Javascript: Ember.js, jQuery, backbone.js
- Postgresql: performance tuning, backups, and high-availability
- Redis, zeroMQ
- FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux (Ubuntu, Arch)

Things I am interested to learn with side projects:

- "Big Data" or "Data Science" tools
- Python Blaze
- Apache Spark, Cassandra
- Scala, Clojure, Haskell
- React.js, Reflux, io.js
- Ansible and Docker with CoreOS

Contact by email in profile.
Would truly help to know what kind of code echo272 wants to run faster. Language and environment.
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

Highly experienced Web Developer (65% Back end, 35% Front end).

Skill set:

* Wordpress/Drupal/CodeIgniter/Kohana/Yii (Components, Hacks, Themes)

* CI & Unit testing - Jenkins, Mocha & Karma for JS, Toast for PHP, as well as Selenium

* JavaScript (jQuery/BackboneJS/AngularJS/Phaser)

* Django (general Python too)

Seeking: Challenging projects. My most recent experience is working with Core WordPress contributors (WordPress VIP) on a global News/Media website.

Location: Germany

Contact: admin (at) kidsil.net
Phoenix, AZ

GiftcardZen.com - we buy and sell numbers.

Funded. 20 people. Fastest-growing company in Arizona, now opening a Phoenix office.

Looking for:

* Developers: RoR, Heroku (see Stack below)

* Community Person

* Data-driven Marketer

* iOS app developer

* Android app developer

* CFO

Our stack: We use Ruby on Rails backed by a Postgres database running on Heroku. Because we're constantly outgrowing our systems, we are moving to a service-oriented architecture, both by moving process to service objects within our existing app, and creating microservices which run in separate applications.

All positions are full-time, in our gorgeous new downtown office where developers have both windows/light/views and also doors that close. ;)

How to apply: hiring@

Edit: Formatting
15 years late...
FYI, if you interview with these guys, be prepared to be left hanging. I did a coding interview with them and heard absolutely nothing back afterwards. Whether or not a company wants to hire you, it's common courtesy to at least respond with "we've decided to consider other candidates" or whatever. Saying nothing is poor form.
Here is an example where Lloyds TSB offered to strike off a 100k debt after it became clear they had likely broken the banking code (the banking code is voluntary, but it does not go much further than legal requirements), and it is by no means the only time UK banks have written off loans because they were wrongly given out to people who could not afford them:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4528567.stm
Alpha Theory is looking for a DBA with experience using both MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. (REMOTE available but prefer candidates near Charlotte, NC office if possible)

https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Alpha Theory, an award-winning leader in improving investment decision discipline and performance for some of the world's most respected investment managers, is looking for a Senior DBA with experience in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Alpha Theory provides SaaS which allows investment managers to optimize their position sizes and the composition of their portfolios. We're a small company and have worked hard to create an entrepreneurial work environment that challenges and enriches. If you're a skilled DBA with a focus on PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server who is proactive, take initiative, works well without supervision, and identifies problems and solutions and takes action before issues arise, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior DBA reporting to the CTO, your core responsibilities will include:

Keeping our existing production and development databases running optimally (and get them running optimally where they're not currently).
Ensuring our database environment scales in line with the rapid growth in our client base.
Monitoring production performance and taking quick action to remedy any problems, including after business hours.
Taking part in DR planning and testing.
Assisting developers in optimizing queries.
Deploying schema, index, and procedure changes across our different environments.

Additionally, we have a number of significant projects starting:

A phased migration from SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition to PostgreSQL.
Design and implementation of historical data marts, including investigation of tools, system design.
Introduction of private database instances for each client.
Required:

Experience in monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting and resolving database problems.
Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Experience with backups, restores and recovery models, particularly across geographically disparate data centers.
Knowledge of High Availability (HA), Replication and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server and PostgreSQL.
Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics.
Strong ANSI SQL, T-SQL and PL/pgSQL skills.
Good communication and documentation skills.

Desired:

Experience with big data platforms, tools, and technologies.
Experience designing analytic queries for large volumes of financial time series data.
Experience with administration and deployment of schema changes to large numbers of database instances.

Apply here:
https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position
If you personally drive close to 80 miles/day on average, you're driving twice what the average driver drives. Work it out for someone who averages only 40 miles a day. It's not interesting that a small number of drivers drive a lot!

BTW there are fast chargers, check out CHAdeMO and the Tesla Supercharger.
42Floors - San Francisco - Full Time -- http://42floors.com

Growth Hacker / SEO

42Floors has complex content generation, SEO, SEM, and link building needs. We're looking for a jack of many trades to build on our strong existing foundation while exploring new areas of opportunity.
no, US are great case
If you actually named it "Facebook Drive" you'd get the world's fastest C&D ever.
I think the Olympics is slightly different, the IOC normally requires host countries to enact laws giving them special privileges for the event.

"Since the Sydney Games in 2000, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has required bidding governments to commit to introducing bespoke legislation to offer a further layer of legal sanction."
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr/13/olympics-2012-b...

"Expressions likely to be considered a breach of the rules would include any two of the following list: "Games, Two Thousand and Twelve, 2012, Twenty-Twelve". Using one of those words with London, medals, sponsors, summer, gold, silver or bronze is another likely breach."
Alpha Theory is looking for a DBA with experience using both MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. (REMOTE but prefer candidates near our office in Charlotte, NC)

https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position

Alpha Theory, an award-winning leader in improving investment decision discipline and performance for some of the world's most respected investment managers, is looking for a Senior DBA with experience in PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Alpha Theory provides SaaS which allows investment managers to optimize their position sizes and the composition of their portfolios. We're a small company and have worked hard to create an entrepreneurial work environment that challenges and enriches. If you're a skilled DBA with a focus on PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server who is proactive, take initiative, works well without supervision, and identifies problems and solutions and takes action before issues arise, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior DBA reporting to the CTO, your core responsibilities will include:

Keeping our existing production and development databases running optimally (and get them running optimally where they're not currently).
Ensuring our database environment scales in line with the rapid growth in our client base.
Monitoring production performance and taking quick action to remedy any problems, including after business hours.
Taking part in DR planning and testing.
Assisting developers in optimizing queries.
Deploying schema, index, and procedure changes across our different environments.

Additionally, we have a number of significant projects starting:

A phased migration from SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition to PostgreSQL.
Design and implementation of historical data marts, including investigation of tools, system design.
Introduction of private database instances for each client.
Required:

Experience in monitoring/alerting, troubleshooting and resolving database problems.
Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Experience with backups, restores and recovery models, particularly across geographically disparate data centers.
Knowledge of High Availability (HA), Replication and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server and PostgreSQL.
Knowledge of indexes, index management, and statistics.
Strong ANSI SQL, T-SQL and PL/pgSQL skills.
Good communication and documentation skills.

Desired:

Experience with big data platforms, tools, and technologies.
Experience designing analytic queries for large volumes of financial time series data.
Experience with administration and deployment of schema changes to large numbers of database instances.

Apply here:
https://www.alphatheory.com/home#/dba-position
The Untold Story of Larry Page’s Incredible Comeback [2014]
I want to be as open as possible about where the data comes from. It's pretty darn important to understand potential flaws in the system and I'm hoping to identify and (help) fix it.

The data comes from http://www.medicare.gov/. If you dig deep enough you'll see that the government does extensive surveys on each hospital and tries to catalog everything.

Two important deficiencies in the data that I am thinking about:

(a) Data is updated in real time.
(b) There is no existing mechanism for Health Scout to help updating the gov data.

I agree the above will take some work and I intend to try through Health Scout :)
Ambulances do take you to nearest ER but more and more health insurance plans do not cover the cost of the ride (which is $1000-$2000) or have a $500 deductible for such.

Unless you're in real trouble, its often cheaper and simpler to have someone drive you.
Hmm. Perhaps the line can be drawn a little closer to the truth, but i'm happy with the bias toward false negatives over false positives.

In death penalty cases, when you'd expect the justice system to work its absolute best, 5% were overturned when DNA evidence became reliable. 1 in 20 on they way to die because of false positives.
You're right, but undershooting it by a lot. $50k couldn't even open a Subway franchise in a really cheap location. And Subway has really cheap franchises. Most fast food restaurant franchises will have startup costs in the $250,000 to $3m range. (I use franchises because the numbers are easily available. Independent restaurants vary, and if you're doing an indie-feel coffee shop or hole-in-the-wall you might be able to swing $10k, but $100-200k is what you'll start at for the type of restaurant that might actually make money. Heck, your signage might cost $5k.)

The sort of capital needed for most businesses is beyond the ability of most people to save. For some businesses (like software or various types of personal services) you can pay a lot of sweat equity, but there's lots of other types that just plain need money capital. If you're just saving, most of these would be out of range for even the upper middle class.

Financing is even more important for business expansion. I can get a loan or raise money to buy equipment/rent space/hire people that'll let me expand my business to meet demand now. It'd take ten years to save that much from current profits.
Exactly my thoughts. I didn't finish the whole article but I felt that it was raising Hoffman too much. Could not continue.
In some cultures 7 is told to be a lucky number. Perhaps people internalize that after hearing it many times and start to prefer this particular number.
But nobody does, is the point.
I still think it's too bit high after reading through the comments. Don't get me wrong, I like DO and where they're going, but they're not there yet.

Ok sure, mention the $5 droplet being 1.25. Let's go to the opposite side, $128/month.

What' more annoying is that a snapshot costs 2c/gb/month. A backup is literally a "scheduled" snapshot. "Scheduled" as it's seemingly random, and not even guaranteed. They explicitly mention that you won't get charged if their service fucks up and doesn't work. The fact they even mention it seems to mean they expect it to happen.

So, the service is $128/m for "automatic" + $12.8 storage. Do the snapshots manually and you save $128. Yes, I realize you can't make a snapshot while powered on making it useless for production environments.

That being said, they still don't even offer floating IP's, so it's not suitable in the first place. Personally care a lot less about backups than this point since you can implement your own backup system. DO articles say to rely on DNS LB with low TTL for HA - lol.

Not surprising, but another negative is that there isn't a way to view anything within a backup prior to restoring.

One more vent - they don't even guarantee you can keep an IP address if you recreate a server from a snapshot.

Short of adding latency using some external service like Amazon's Route 53, DO really isn't suitable for anything if HA is a requirement. The backup cost is just another straw on the back.

Add basic HA features and I'll shut up about the backup cost. The base prices are very competitive.