skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I said no such thing. I said tribalism causes both bad politics and interest for sports.

2) Did you even bother reading about the Nika riots? It shows the deep connection there is between arbitrary tribal affiliations, sports, and politics.
Marcus Pincus is a piece of shit by his own admission. We should make a six degrees of separation where anyone who does any partnership or collaboration with that piece of shit immediately deserves a boycott as well. Yes, HN this includes even your god and lord Paul Graham...

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: "I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenues" http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...
Utah, USA - RepDrive (http://www.repdrive.com)

RepDrive is a young, VC-funded SaaS startup in Provo with the vision of empowering businesses by making it easy to manage and build their online reputations.

RepDrive is looking for an experienced JavaScript developer to join our small, collaborative and growing development team. You'll be in charge of leading the client-side development efforts, and you'll have the opportunity to coordinate closely with designers and other developers to deliver outstanding products to customers.

For more information and links to apply, see our full job listing here:

https://angel.co/repdrive/jobs
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At Talenthouse, we're building a platform that is home to the world's most creative people; Musicians, Film Makers, DJs, Fashion designers, Painters, Digital artists, Photographers, and more.

We want to help artists grow, find new audiences, and make money by doing what they love.

Our platform is a social network for creatives where they can connect, get inspired, and also collaborate with brands who want to engage with the artistic community.

We are on a journey to build the largest platform of our kind. Our bar for quality is high, and we take pride in our work (both user facing and behind the scenes).

Primary Stack: Scala/Play2.0, PostgreSQL, jQuery/Angular/ReactJS/Less; Mac/Linux friendly

We are looking for senior developers who are comfortable owning an entire feature, from the schema all the way to the CSS.

Perks: Flexible vacation and sick days; Health/Dental/Vision; Quiet, spacious, comfortable working environment; Free coffee and snacks; Flexible work hours, responsible remote work a possibility; 401K and Stock options; 15 paid vacation days

To apply, email jobs@talenthouse.com
PSP Emulator, PPSSPP, reaches 1.0 release
For some useful theory for estimation and planning of projects, Eli Goldratt wrote amazing content in the book "Critical Chain" which is an easy to read novel.

Should you find yourself developing this tool further, these books will give you an edge that most other tools lack -

http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Chain/dp/B002LHRM2E/

http://www.amazon.com/Be-Fast-Gone/dp/B004THZ9VK/

http://www.amazon.com/CCPM-3rdEd/dp/1608077349/
Primarily:
- motorcycle touring (within India)
- read
- meet people

and whenever I can, I would:
- teach and mentor (programming, electronics, critical thinking) to my nephews, son and some school students
- hack (code, diy, electronics) to build things for my home, motorcycle, and kid
This American Life: Testosterone (2002)
Here in the Phoenix area Hass is usually the only thing available. Once I saw big, smooth-skinned, lighter green ones from Florida and I bought some. I was very disappointed. I'd love to try some different varieties.
I don't think any of those anti-government types (conservatives, libertarians) are really against defense spending. Those on the left (big government types) are another story.
Last summer I planted a Blue Java banana plant, never having tasted one. I'm waiting rather impatiently for it to mature and fruit so I can see how they taste.
The Hack That Warmed the World: How Criminals Stole Carbon Credits
Yes, Pakistan was not a good example. But an octocopter would be unnecessary complex way because you will probably not be able to control it from the other end of the world. But what if you would just waited in front of the base and shoot a drone pilot down? Would it be fair game? Would it be murder?
>The best part of Haskell is that function application is just whitespace.

It's the worst part, in my opinion. Is A B C D equal to A(B(C(D))), A(B,C,D), A(B,C(D)), A(B(C),D) or A(B(C,D))? Often you need to disambiguate with parentheses, so I guess there is some default interpretation that you can assume when reading code, but in the end it just looks like an unnecessary mental translation step.

Lisp has weird syntax, but lisp has a reason to have that syntax. Haskell has a weird syntax because it wants to either be different for different's sake or to just be plain inaccessible.
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/moarvm/search/?nick=&q=pypy
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/search/?nick=&q=pypy

I think that the initial port of Rakudo to JVM was done by jnthn single-handedly. I don't know how PyPy compares with JVM though.
More at its core is that it means that the expansion exceeded the cosmic speed limit, the speed of light. Two of the competing theories have been a rapid expansion (inflation) and another that two branes collided and the big bang started in an expanded state. As of late, it appears there has been more confirmation of the former rather than the latter. From what I've read, it is as another commenter noted -- the universe in it's earliest state did not yet conform to the rules of physics as we know them today. This early state is something on the order of the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.
Can include this advice if you let me know your name and affiliation. :)
Well, with Inline::Perl5 and "use p5", that may not be entirely unfeasible. You can read more about Inline::Perl5 here[1], but the TL;DR is that it uses a Perl 5 interpreter along with Perl 6 to pass code back and forth, allowing pure perl modules and modules that interface with libraries to run fairly smoothly in Perl 6. There's also an Inline::Python that works the same way...

1: http://niner.name/talks/Leapfrogging%20the%20bootstrap/Leapf...
Thanks! First time seeing this.
The author of the article seems to think that those involved are all unique butterflies simply because they write software in an academic environment. Sure, writing software in academia is a lot different than in a business setting. But guess what?! There's a TON of software written in academia!

The vast majority of all models that ever get written are done in academia like nuclear simulation models or geological models or whatever. In college I worked in high performance computing which led me to write software in academia for blast simulations and for genetic sequence alignment. Both share lots of the traits that the author outlined, but neither had to do with climate.

Just because your situation isn't a business doesn't mean you're unique.
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

hiring+david@longshotsystems.co.uk
Honestly I'd like to see something in the vein of TACK [1] over the other various key pinning methods.

[1]http://tack.io/
don't know if I really want to know the drama, but what did Zdziarski do to attract these threats?
And what a disappointment that was. It turned out that DNF was socially more valuable as vapourware than as the actual product.
Can you shed a bit of light on the details or motivation? It's always bothered me how we never got a full picture of what happened. So they clawed back a portion of options from people who had been awarded options at one level then demoted? Was their motivation just for money? Because it seems like absolutely the worst possible thing for morale and recruiting and I can't imagine them getting back more than 50mm.
The Best URL Shortening Service in the Universe
Is AngularJS fast enough for large apps?
I wonder if the {uni|multi}verse might aggressively de-dupe entities within itself.

Kind of like the One-Electron idea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe), but on a larger scale.
I mention in a separate thread but the 'clumsy' proof in step 8 is done much more cleanly using the Levi Cevita form.
I thought the whole implication of MWI is that every possibility does happen and universes are constantly splitting off. So there's an unlimited number of copies of you, some essentially identical, others experiencing inconceivable suffering or pleasure.
Personally the code is confusing to me - the author jumps between OO and non-OO. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing - but from what I've seen is that stuff he has as functions might be better suited for a class.

I do like the concept/design of it though.
> CEO of Cyanogen makes claims about people wanting use CyanogenMod without the Google Apps.

You know, China exists; Google apps are blocked in an entire country that just happens to be the largest single country market for mobile.

> The only company that has had any success with a forked Android is Amazon

That is definitely not true. Xiaomi? Anyone selling Android in China (which excludes Amazon)?
I'm not the OP, but I am a Windows Phone user, and I love it. Obviously, it may not be your cup of tea, but it has an appeal other phones don't for me.

First, I don't think MS is "copying Apple". Using Live Tiles is a very different experience than poking at icons on the iPhone. And MS isn't marketing to "narcissists" -- the best selling Windows Phones are all at the very low end of the market. The fit and polish you can get on a low-end Windows Phone are absolutely phenomenal. I bought one just to play with because Amazon had the Lumia 520 for $29 during the holidays, and got hooked on the platform. Now I'm buying a slightly higher-end model and passing along the 520 to a relative who is still using a flip phone.

As a developer, there are a ton of opportunities on the Windows Phone market. It's relatively small, but the key word there is relatively. There are a lot of open niches and a userbase that is hungry and appreciative.
I think most of the downvoters believe the studios are equal opportunity screwers and have demonstrated that fact on far too many occasions.

I did not downvote.
Agreed. This plus Certificate Transparency (Google) will go a really long way.
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Keith Rabois about Venture Capital and Business
No. It's because only top players get gross. Anyone can ask for it but few get it.
That's one way to think of it, but when dealing with infinity, one event isn't time dependent on another. Think of a reality (or infinite realities) where you remove the dimension of time entirely out of the equation.
Plenty of people don't take points on the gross. Very few people get such points on gross.
She would indeed get such a bonus.
Maybe, but I didn't feel inclined to give it the permissions it was asking for.
> No, if you buy a company, you buy it lock stock and barrel - that includes outstanding debts, existing deals, and obligations.

It depends on what you mean by "buy", and what you mean by "company".

Companies can assume the assets of another in a number of ways. The two most common are share purchase and asset purchase. If you buy assets, you do not assume liabilities. Whatever you use to purchase the company may pay off the selling company's creditors, but the new company assumes none of those liabilities. In a share purchase the obligations generally travel with the company.

The assumption of liabilities can also depend on whether the company being purchased is bankrupt or insolvent, as in those cases the shareholder rights often cease and in any case with very few exceptions lower in priority to creditors. It is often left to agreement of the parties (selling company, purchasing company, and creditors) or a bankruptcy judge to determine the rights through purchase.

The above is an oversimplification and somewhat jurisdiction-dependent in the commonwealth, but the gist is that a company can (and many often do) assume the rights of others without obligations.

Readers may find the story on Old GM and New GM interesting. Here is an article by my friend and colleague David Skeel, who testified before Congress on the unfairness of assumption of assets without first satisfying obligations in the case of the GM/Chrysler bankruptcies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023037453045763616...
"Never trust what you read on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln
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Our vision is to become the core service for social context on the mobile/internet.

I will quote a blogger and one of our early users:
"We've seen this same concept before, either built on top of your browser email client (like Rapportive) or your phone dialer (like Contacts+ and CallApp), but Blinq takes it a step further, implementing it where it makes even more sense: on your phone, with your chats, where you probably do more than 80% of your everyday communications already. None of the aforementioned apps ever appealed to me, but I had to install Blinq as soon as I heard about it. It didn't disappoint."
I think they're referring to this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_D

"System D (in French, Système D) is a shorthand term that refers to a manner of responding to challenges that requires one to have the ability to think fast, to adapt, and to improvise when getting a job done. The letter D refers back to either of the French nouns "débrouille",[1] débrouillardise[2] or démerde (French slang). The verbs se débrouiller and se démerder mean to make do, to manage, especially in an adverse situation."
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We're hiring for the following positions: UX Designer, Software Security Engineer, Software Engineer, Production Support Engineer

See http://www.rightscale.com/jobs for more info.
Isn't this how git works? I would have thought bit torrent did this all along.
Sure, but looking at:
Current inclusion status in major CA certificate stores:
Included by default in NSS 3.16.3 or newer (Mozilla Firefox 32+).
Included by default in Microsoft Windows since September 2014 on Windows Vista+ (should automatically update as mentioned here).
Included by default in Android 5.0+ (no source, but on my Nexus tablet with Android 4.4.4 it is not yet included but on my Nexus phone with Android 5.0 it is)
It is not yet included in the Apple certificate store. This is not a big issue however, since the WoSign root CA is cross-signed by the StartCom CA which itself is included almost everywhere since >5 years.

SNI isn't included in Windows XP, yet the SSL won't work in XP anyway.
Words can be either less or more precise, that's their power.
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"it provides an answer for how we ended up with a universe with just the right combinations of gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear forces."

No, we just ended up with a universe with the gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces that we know. That definitely doesn't make it "right." There could (should?) be an infinite combinations of those that would be "right" in other universes.
> It's a good lesson, but it also goes against the grain of how humans operate.

Which is why they need to learn to think better.

> A humane computer system will tolerate ambiguity and imprecision better than any modern day programming environment currently does.

I have no interest in such a thing, it's a fantasy.
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contact details in my profile. (This post is pre-launch and details will change)
The impact of errors in climate model software engineering that causes the software to fail safely (crash, return no output, fail to compile, etc.) is zero, which is different than other industries—effectively, a climate model is only needed insofar as it is predicting something with higher precision than any other model we already have, and, when it fails (in essence, when it provides output with zero confidence), we simply fall back on what we were doing before we had it—sourcing our predictions from some other model, or perhaps relying on the "model" of our own intuition.

Of course, there are also software engineering errors that cause incorrect outputs from the model to be provided, and incorrectly high confidence to be attached to those predictions. But, given the kinds of errors commonly seen in similar fields (e.g. physics engines), I would expect the probability of those kinds of error to be far outweighed by the other kind, the 'clear errors' where the model encounters out-of-tolerance data, and can then either bail out or "taint" all computations going forward.
Show HN: High performance JDBC connection pool
Right for sustaining life and that you and I are here and are having this discussion. This isn't a judgement of good or bad (though I'm glad to be here), just accounting for the the odds of arriving at our universe on chance alone. :)
People said this about Clojure and I never fully understood why. I've dabbled in Rust and while I've always loved Ruby for it's aesthetic I never had a problem with Rust. It suits the language. Feels like you're writing serious code in a serious language. Which is appropriate.
Wikipedia already has this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave_equation
The nice thing about working within science specifically, though, is that one paper standing on its own is pretty meaningless. If you get your model wrong, that'll show up when a meta-analysis of your paper (with its model) against several others (with their own models) drops yours as an outlier.
All the social updates of your friends in one place. No need to look in many timelines of many platform. Blinq is all in one.
You mean net systemic value? You've only described a gross local value, and you haven't fully examined your contrafactual.

For net systemic value to be better than a world without advertising, you would have to count not just your personal positives and nothing else but individual positives and negatives both in the actual world and in the contrafactual.

For example, a lot of people have died from cancer caused by tobacco advertising, and things like the car accidents and liver failures that result from alcohol advertising. That's the actual negative side. You've assumed that in the contrafactual you just never would have heard about those products. But people hear about products all the time without advertising, so that's unproven. Perhaps in a world without ads we'd have more things like Consumer Reports and The Wirecutter, yielding better-informed decisions.

You also ignore the not-as-good products you're using because you never heard about the better ones with smaller advertising budgets. Think of all the folks using inappropriate Microsoft and Oracle products just because their bosses saw an ad. Similarly, you ignore how you've missed out on the products that don't exist because their companies were crushed via large advertising budgets. E.g., all the good beer that wasn't drunk because Budweiser out-advertised the small breweries.

And you also ignore the opportunity cost of advertising. I know a lot of smart, creative people who devote their lives to trying to shift market share from one essentially equivalent product to another. And for the most part, their work is canceled out by people from other advertising agencies. What if that money was spent on R&D, or just given back to the customers? What if those people were doing something that made the world better?

For net systemic value to be positive, the social benefits (product discovery is the only one you mention) would have to be greater than the costs. I don't think advertising actually helps, in net, with product discovery, but if it did I don't believe the value created even covers the $1 trillion or so in direct costs, let alone things like MS SQL Server and lung cancer.

Even if the benefits did cover all that (which I deny strongly) then I don't think it justifies the opportunity costs as compared with a world where people found their products through Consumer Reports and we spent the spare $1 trillion on something useful.
I see and share your pain. No filters exactly but you can use millionshort.com to filter out most media/newspaper websites.
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