skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chromatic was very big with both Perl 6 and Parrot development a long time ago. My understanding of it, having followed both projects for close to a decade, is that it came down to what was the "right" choice for one project was not the "right" choice for the other, and the schism this caused as it happened a few times left some people soured. I think both sides had cause for their actions and have cause for their feelings, but I don't really think either party did anything wrong. Such is life, shit happens, it's not fair.

Chromatic may disagree more or less on some points above, but as someone who followed along from the outside, reading blog posts and IRC chats of both parties over years, that's how I interpreted it.
The Ariane 5 failure is a little more nuanced than that though. The conversion bug was in the Ariane 4 too, they reused the IRS, so it was almost "proven in use" but Ariane 5's trajectories put it under much higher acceleration (enough to trigger overflow).

It's an embarrassing failure for sure, but it's more nuanced than a "dumb mistake"; the management, testing methodology, and code all failed when it exploded.
I agree that Facebook is funneling data to the NSA

I don't agree with that either.
git add -i is a good idea, but the interface is just /atrocious/ - confusing, poorly worded, visually unattractive and hard to read (dark blue text is not very user friendly on a black background).
Enriching Logs with Logstash – Analysing Urls
Open letter to Larry Page: Let's spin off blogger
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Frontend / Backend / Full-stack / DevOps

## Job Summary

We're looking for a sharp engineer to work alongside a small team of developers and designers committed to building a robust, performant and scalable web application serving over 350 colleges and universities around the country. You have an attention to detail and a professional curiosity that extends beyond the workplace. You will work in a mostly autonomous environment, so you have to be just as awesome at getting things done as you are at composing elegant solutions.

Most of our code is written in Ruby and runs on the Rails stack backed by a MySQL database, but we also incorporate other technologies such as Node.js, Memcached, ElasticSearch and Redis. We use GitHub for version control and our infrastructure is entirely hosted via cloud services. We care about keeping our libraries up-to-date and test coverage. While most of our stack is on Rails today, we're comfortable with other technologies and always strive to use the right tool for the job.

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- Passion for developing excellent software and an appreciation for elegant code

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- Strong understanding of relational databases including complex queries and optimization

- Experience writing object-oriented software guided by tests

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- Being comfortable in a polyglot environment a plus

- Open source project contributions a plus

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Telenor Digital is the R&D company for Telenor, a telco with $12 billion in revenue and ventures around Europe and Asia. Our team in the CTO office gets to have all the fun: we get to play with amazing emerging technologies, not in the “not going anywhere” pure research way, but instead applying it to projects that make their way into the hands of real customers. We ramp up fast, we fail fast (hopefully learning a thing or two along the way), and we have a lot of fun doing it.

Projects we worked on in the past year are launching Firefox OS devices in Bangladesh, working on the WebRTC implementation in Firefox, write patches to improve the graphics stack in Mozilla. We have a great relationship with Mozilla and we submitted hundred of patches in the past year. Most of your code will end up open source.

We're doing most of our stuff in JavaScript and C++, but one of our new projects will be in Go, we also do some embedded software, we try to use all the newest tech, and if you get enthusiastic about new technology and open source, then you totally want to submit your resume.

http://www.telenordigital.com/jobs/engineer-office-of-the-ct...

ALSO! We're hiring an engineer specifically to work full-time on WebRTC implementation in Mozilla. Same team, same fun, just fully WebRTC focused!

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Sure, that's fine. It's not about making an AI but rather implementing chess.
Making Privacy Based Social Networking a Reality
Facebook without the data collection. The idea is to make a privacy oriented social networking site that does not make money from collecting huge amounts of information from their users--giving privacy back to the user instead of leaving it in the hands of big corporations.
However, this is still just a pipe dream; thus, I am looking for privacy minded people who are willing to take a couple minutes out of their coffee break for an online interview to discuss their social media privacy problems and help make this a reality.

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Thank you :)
It's been around for a couple years and it does seem to be based on the ST-Link v2. Not sure if it will work with other tools that can program via an ST-Link v2. I liked it because it worked well with their compiler[1] (itself a decent product with good libraries).

1. http://www.mikroe.com/mikroc/arm/
Yes, pressure can speed up government work. Typically only war or the threat of war does that, since fundamentally governments exist to monopolize force. As a result, all government culture is essentially military -- even the civilian government has a military feel and is often staffed by ex-military.
My Father-in-Law lived in Ventura and we used to get a box of avocados a few times a year from his backyard tree. The house he owned had been built in an old avocado orchard and a few trees remained. Fond memories...
I'm talking about rhetoric that's used, particularly in the countries you mentioned in the unemployment list. I didn't say I believe the rhetoric. I just say that elections are never far away, and that kind of talk - how bad the U.S. is - gets votes.
What do you do for healthcare? For dental cover?

The older I get, the more important these become, however much I'd love to live somewhere with a slower pace of life.
Looking at the release as a whole, I'd be fascinated to hear what features have taken the most time and effort? What turned out to be much harder than expected?
Looking for an internship for this upcoming summer.

Location: San Jose

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: depends on the situation

Technologies: iOS, Python, Java, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Django, Git, Google App Engine, MySQL, Xcode, Eclipse

Resume: Can send on request.

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Unpaid interns: An endangered species?
>Or the people who financed their work whose names I don't even know?

JP Morgan
A Metaphor for Abstract Interpretation
Nice !! just curious as a developer, what is the tech stack?
By the time you do that it'll be slower than just using the matrix exponentiation form.
Ball arithmetic is one way to work with irrationals. Effectively you represent numbers explicitly as a += b.
>Lately I've been leaning toward the view that "market fundamentalism" is partly responsible for the collapse of deep revolutionary invention after around 1970 or so. The timing is certainly right and the causal mechanism seems to be there. The symbolic point would be the cancellation of the Apollo program.

One of the most elegant critiques of neoliberalism I've ever heard is but a few words: "the cancellation of the long term".

Markets are great aggregators of localized information, localized in space, social networks, and time. The downside is that this means they get stuck in local optima and don't really use long-term information very well. They're really just massively parallel, distributed hill-climbing algorithms for economic production and allocation.

So when you're looking to move from one hill to an entirely different hill, you need something less like a combinatorial hill-climber and more like an intelligent agent that enacts coherent long-term plans. That's where the state comes in, and in fact, where it never left, since states enforce the property, debt, and contract laws that keep markets functioning in the first place.

The counterpoint is that companies like Google (Google X and the like) or individuals like Thiel and Musk have managed to show that once you get sufficiently rich mega-rich people, who are completely secure in their wealth, they can afford to make long-term plans that might temporarily spite the market (like starting Calico instead of buying an Instagram competitor). The problem is both that the public then has no control over the process, and that there's no particular reason for the mega-rich to make these long-term plans other than as personal hobby-horses: these guys are techno-futurist nerds, nobody made them pour their money into radical life extension, space exploration, or artificial intelligence.
Why not learn both? Realistically speaking, though, it might be easier to land a job with Haskell than with Perl 6.
Solving a bayesian parable with frequentist methods is heresy. ;)
Couchbase

Everything from core storage, to integrations, testing, mobile database, evangelism, to sales and marketing.

We are almost too big to be a startup anymore but the problems just keep getting more interesting.

We have offices worldwide and a fair share of remote workers also.

http://www.couchbase.com/careers
When did Python become faster than Perl 5?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but the last realistic comparisons I did had Perl running quite a bit faster. For example comparing ack to grin, which are very similar projects in Perl and Python respectively...at the time, admittedly several years ago, ack was an order of magnitude faster than grin. I also wrote a few log parsers in both Perl and Python (at a time when I was working in a Python shop, so they preferred everything be done in Python). The Perl parsers were much faster than the Python variant, for exactly the same work (again, an order of magnitude difference). Perhaps this is just an example of Perl's domain of expertise...processing text is a big part of its origin story, and has always been a big part of what people use it for. Or, perhaps Python has made remarkable performance improvements in those intervening years. I haven't worked with Python in that time, so haven't followed development. Perl 5 has gotten faster in that time, too, though, so I'd be surprised if Python is dramatically faster for the same real world tasks.
"Of course, if someone identifies "self" with some larger social project or humanistic goal"

Such people can be the worst of all. They would have no compunction against mass slaughter. Utopianism in general has led to great evil because it is inherently unrealistic, and because it defines itself as the paramount good, surpassing all other goals, it can be used to rationalize very evil acts.
Computers Are Learning How to Treat Illnesses by Playing Poker and Atari
Location: Currently in South America

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: At one point or another I've been paid to develop in Python, C, Perl, Java, x86 assembly, Matlab, Fortran, PHP and a few other languages. I do mostly Python these days.

Résumé/CV: Some things I've recently completed:

- RESTful API for a mobile app (Relational database design, PostgreSQL, psycopg2, Flask, Jinja2, collaborative filtering, NumPy, SciPy, json, Sphinx)

- A couple of scrappers for large amounts of data (BeautifulSoup, lxml, PyQuery, pdftotext, pdfminer, requests, MySQL)

- Concurrent, asynchronous, scalable tool to check wide variety of responses over HTTP (Python 3, XML, ElementTree, concurrent, requests)

- Scalable, non-blocking proxy for Android/iOS/BlackBerry push notifications (Tornado, Supervisor)

- A couple of mobile-optimized websites (jQuery Mobile, SQLite, PHP, Symfony)

I'm partial to FreeBSD, Vim and the command line, but adapt to whatever I have to use to get stuff done.

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Thanks for the feedback..

Note that you can use the
--no-launch-browser option to give you a easy cut-and paste option for headless servers.
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/auth/login

Also, you can use service accounts rather than personal accounts with gcloud...

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/auth/activate-...
Remain loyal to reinventing the wheel, if you can stay on that track to fuck the moon and go for the portal, and keep your motivation, you'll be discipline
It's complicated though. In the UK, for me, it's cheaper to buy and run a car than it is to use public transport.

We used to use hire cars for special trips and use public transport for other things (for a time having no vehicle by choice); then we got a scooter (as a couple) to help with going out and doing shopping trips and such (definitely cheaper than getting taxis).

Then work necessitated having a van, once you have a vehicle then it's only ever cheaper [where I am] to use public transport for long trips for an individual - once a couple or more travel together it's cheaper in a car (including a proportion allowed for road tax, ongoing license costs, depreciation, repairs and petrol [using Gov mileage allowances; not including learning to drive!]).

Problem is, as with many things when you're poorer, the upfront costs for a car mean that those less well off can be barred from ownership and so barred from the per-mile savings and convenience.

Having a car for our family now means I can't afford to take the bus and watching near empty buses go past as you walk home in the dark, cold and wet, isn't much fun ...

Scrap values being high has pushed the price of the lowest costs second-hand cars up a bit. Not so long ago I had to pay to have a still usable car scrapped to avoid paying the license fee. Bangers then were essentially free.
Exactly.

Reading my Facebook feed is like watching a theatrical performance, the stuff people post is not what really happens (it's often glorified), i assume because they want to present themselves to the world as if they are having a perfect life or something.. but meanwhile i know for a fact that they are sitting at home being depressed.
Although I found discussion interesting, I feel like there could have actually been a few concrete applied examples in this article.
Per capita car ownership:

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

shows the US at 809 cars per 1000, vs Italy at 682, Germany 588, and so on. Which I would interpret as "Europe has slightly fewer cars per person", not "Europe has NO NEED for cars". It's hard with a straight face for anyone who's visited Paris or Rome to observe there's not serious traffic. (And, in fact, woe to any pedestrians who get in their way.)
Pygame does support hardware rendering. The newbieguide is just recommending (newbies) not to use it because of all the drawbacks mentioned.
I agree about real name policies, but my goal is to make anonymity unnecessary most of the time.
This post has no connection with reality, I have no clue why it's upvoted.

a) Regarding the state accounting fraud: first of all, using the past tense ("was") is misleading. As of last year, Greece was still cooking its books[0]. It remains to be seen if they have actually stopped.

You say the difference was minimal. When? When they brought in Georgiou to fix the Greek statistics service, the 2009 deficit was revised from 3.7% to 15.8%. The reaction of the government? Prosecute the guy because he refused to continue lying.[1]

b) You say banks correctly assumed they would get their money. This is nonsense. The banks lost nearly 80% of the value of their loans in the "PSI".[2] The word you're looking for is "incorrectly". They screwed up and paid dearly for it.

c) Pure nonsense. I have no clue where you're getting that from but it doesn't even deserve a response.

d) The troika has zero power when it comes to "ruling" Greece. How do you think Greece has been able to completely avoid structural reforms and pro-growth measures for 5 years now, if the troika is ruling the country? Almost none of the reforms the troika asked for in exchange for the loans have been implemented.

[0] yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/04/24/greek-statistics-are-back-primary-deficit-presented-as-surplus-with-eurostats-seal-of-approval/

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/chief-greek-stati...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_sector_involvement
The psychology of why sports fans see their teams as extensions of themselves
My company in Minneapolis Minnesota is looking for a new senior front-end/UI web developer - HTML CSS JS jQuery. Reply with an email address if you'd like to hear more.
Tried Kivy?

http://kivy.org/#home
Testing Phoenix controllers
Why is this insulting to you? Things happen at their natural pace :-). I got my first job knowing a bit of PHP. It's still not a pretty language, but I don't find that insulting.
The best architect I've worked with was previously a developer and then developer lead. He kept current with new technologies, development principles/tools and frameworks that were relevant to our stack. He helped with development occasionally and was pretty much the go-to guy for not being able to come to a solution on our own.

Without a deep understanding of the moving parts of your systems, I don't think an architect can be very useful outside of taking meeting time from the development team. They're great for handling bureaucracy in a large environment, however a lot of that role can be done by your manager or their manager.

Unfortunately handling bureaucracy isn't very high on the list of job satisfaction of someone who's role is in draught, he moved onto greener pastures shortly after I signed up.
Give them a chance. Duke Nukem Forever came out eventually, after all.
I see a lot of talk (hype?) about this, but I've used IBM keyboards in the past and I don't miss it. Am I the only one who actually prefers low-profile keyboards like the Mac/MacBook ones?
Google’s Mission to Create a Cancer Detecting Wristband
> If you're going to get people to switch, you'll need
> both some killer feature that sets it apart from Facebook
> and some means to mitigate the loss of that user base

Something which integrated your facebook feed in a nice way (nice for the user, hostile from FB's perspective of course) could work well.
I wonder if this has anything to do with attempts to tamp down Russia's influence in the region. Poor people without a lot to loose are destabilizing force in a society. 31 Million is peanuts to help insure order. Maybe banks and corporations were convinced this way?
There is something I want to tell you, s/lets/let's/
I'd agree with 100% of that.

Thiel, Musk, Brin, etc. are oddballs.

I have a good friend who works as an interior designer out in The Hamptons(tm). She's told me stories -- basically the mega-rich out there act like petulant toddlers but with lawyers and millions of dollars. They're constantly enlarging homes they never use, buying even bigger yachts, and suing each other over the most inane things you can imagine (dog poop, etc.). The vast majority of the mega-rich just use their money to masturbate in increasingly sophisticated ways.

The few mega-rich visionaries we have look so super-humanly exceptional because they are indeed exceptions.

I also like to say that the aristocratic elitism you sometimes hear in Silicon Valley circles is a bias from living in ValleyBubble -- your rich people are better than most other rich people.

This is more typical for what you get when you give a hairless monkey this much power and wealth:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/jeffrey-epstein...

Mindless short-term dopamine chasing... all too human, and in no way exceptional.
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Maybe it was the banks idea? Keep the society banking rather than seeing it destabilize and Russia come in with an "answer". 31 Million isn't much.
Nothing to do with subsidization, it's (attempting) to ensure a continuing revenue stream and lock in the ecosystem.
Ok. Thanks for all the tips!
The scope of networking, at an introductory level, is large. It's increasingly important too, as more and more systems become distributed, and rely on the network. For example, HDD's with ethernet interfaces!
The Poetics of Football
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Come and influence the direction of one of the world's most popular benchmarks. Primate Labs is looking for a skilled software developer to join us and contribute to Geekbench. As a developer working on Geekbench, you will help design and develop future versions, as well as maintain the current version of the Geekbench application.

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Your primary responsibility will be to develop and characterize workloads for future versions of Geekbench. You'll also work on features that will be included in the cross-platform core of Geekbench.

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- Extensive experience with C++ and the STL.

- Experience with at least one of: Java, Objective-C, Python, Ruby

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A cursory skim leaves the impression of just how alone Haskell is on many syntactic choices (though supposedly with alot in common with "Merd".) I never took the time to learn Haskell, but it always looks beautiful on an aesthetic level, which differentiates it from the other loners in the list.

Can anyone point me to any papers/documentation/discussion on WHY certain syntax decisions were made? Many could have been arbitrary choices to match the constructs, but the way the community presents itself makes me think there's more to it.