skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I charge $65/hr, but that's because I'm just starting to get into the market and I'm not yet swamped with work. From what I've heard in the community, you can expect to pay twice that for someone established.

edit: if you'd like to get in touch with me, my email's in my profile.
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Just an FYI:

http://rpy.sourceforge.net/

"RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R Programming Language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions). All errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions. Any module installed for the R system can be used from within Python."

I haven't used rpy, and perhaps you want a pure-python port for other reasons (e.g. performance, overhead), but rpy might give you what you want - immediately.
I don't see how that's related at all. I'm not saying Bank of America needs to work hard to prevent automated access to their online banking system. Right now, automated access counts as "undocumented behavior" at best. Bank of America is not likely to face public ridicule because someone hacked up an automated interface to their site which was not intended for that purpose and shot themselves in the foot. If, however, Bank of America says explicitally, "Hey, come use this API and applications built off it to access your account," and then one of those applications starts shooting people in the foot, people are going to wonder why Bank of America thought it was a good idea to let people access their accounts like that in the first place.
And retire before 2038.
It's fine writing, but upon visiting the linked article, I had no idea what it was. No indication of author or intent, or even if it was fiction or non. I was half-expecting an Asimovian plot twist revealing that the Nemesis would next appear later that very day!
Also General Re in the same year.
It's an open directory. You can find more on the story http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/Nemesis%20Chapters/ (among other files)
Re: "Need for 'strong backing'":
I think this goes back to the seriousness of how you take the discussions here. For me, forum/msg threads are just causal discussions (one level lower than blog posts), it would be nice if the person stated where they get their backing for the idea or assertion, but it's neither "necessary" nor "too helpful". If every idea/assertions needs backing, there would be almost no discussions at all. Innovation often comes from idea/assertions that have no backings.

It is not "necessary" because to me, if I believe in it and it's important to me, I will test it out. It doesn't matter if the idea came from Steve Jobs or Joe Doe. It's not "too helpful" because often the research being done on it is flawed, outdated, or just really not too trust-able. An example for example I remember reading some group has done research on max width of cell phones people like before feeling discomfort. The Motorola design team was the first to ignore that when they designed RAZR.
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As I was reading I though I could just replace software engineer with knowledge worker and it would stay valid. Then I remembered Peter Drucker wrote an article for Forbes in 98 called "Management's New Paradigms" basically covering the same thing. Software engineers are knowledge workers much like marketing specialists and must be managed as such.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1005/6207152a.html
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Agree, but still be aware of leap seconds. Probably you want to choose to ignore them (as “unix time” does), but know what that means.
You don't die when you aircraft engine stops. You glide.

Every pilot has shot hundreds of landings w/o power.

And, compared to a brake-seizure on a car, you've got lots of time to figure out what to do.
I just played around with it for a few minutes, but I really enjoyed the web icons on the left allowing me to immediately identify if I was looking at a video result from YouTube, a news site, etc. I also like that you let me choose the meaning of the word I searched for.

I love the name, too. But I also love ducks and making duck sounds, so perhaps I'm a bit biased.
Small usability nitpick: please make the search box wider. On more specific searches, the search box does not show all the search terms, forcing me to select text/drag cursor to make sure I spelled everything correctly.
Silly, but worth it if only for this quote:

"Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader."

:D
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And retire before 2038 if you still define time_t as a 32 bit signed integer.
So, do you think their take on manycore architecture is doomed?
Here's the thing -- I could come up with individual answers to those questions based on arbitrary decisions that I make ("the user selects the source", "it's implied that a WiFi network already operates in the house", "the position is only synced to the source computer", "you can listen to the podcast at a different computer"), but you're totally right -- arbitrarily-decided-on answers doth not a standard make.

Like I said in another thread, I am just a peon with access to a keyboard. I trust that there are developers and system-setter-upper-ers much smarter than I who could put this into place.
Nice. I've always thought HTML was suited for more than just web pages. The browser is a sophisticated and flexible rendering engine sitting at our fingertips. CSS is much simpler than formatting in any office program I know of. I'm glad to see progress in the area of using the browser for other types of content.
I just can't understand the attitude that good programmers should be expected to voluntarily always spend 10+ hours a day, just because they love the work.

I genuinely enjoy my programming job, and it provides me interesting challenges. I think I am at least an average programmer, depending on where you're putting the "average" bar. But I enjoy many other things, too. I want time to read, play chess, go out places, study other fields, and spend time with friends -- and I don't even have a family and kids, like many professionals!

Given that I'm programming a minimum of 8 hours a day, why would it be a red flag that I usually prefer to spend the other 8 doing something else? I'm already spending as much time programming as all the other things I also love, combined!
While TheKnot has a free and premium option, I'm pretty sure that most of their monetization is advertisers and other ways of selling marketing information.
Apple.com XSS attack
I think he's making the point that car engines of today are very reliable, as well as efficient (compared to aircraft engines, that is).
It's a shame but I don't think I'll ever see digital systems in widespread use in my lifetime. Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) systems are out there but they're generally not trusted. People understand mags and vacuum pumps and the peace of mind it brings to know you can lose your entire electrical system and still be flying.

Most of the FADEC systems have dual alternators, dual controllers and dual sensors, but people still don't run them very often. Probably the most popular one I know of is in the Rotorway Exec series helis.

SDS also sells a (non-redundant) EFI system that's used in a couple of aviation applications. My dad is using a SDS system in his Jenny.

You also can't run a modern closed loop EFI system because of 100LL (avgas). The lead in it will destroy an oxygen sensor. So you're still stuck with a mixture lever in most cases.

And that's just the experimental crowd. The cost of certifying an EFI engine into an existing airframe would make a retrofit cost prohibitive. Most people won't spend an additional $20k at overhaul time to add fuel injection and digital ignition. It would take a bunch of hours at +20% efficiency to make that back.

A couple years ago I heard about a company selling a modern ignition system packaged into a mag. The idea was to replace one mag with the digital ignition and leave one mag as a safe backup. I don't know what happened to them. Last I heard they were selling units and working on certification for the Lycoming O-320/O-360 and Continental O-300 engines.

Also, I just looked up the guy in the article. He sells his digital ignition systems for around $2k. He's managed to get a STC for a heli, so that's some progress in the right direction.
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Pretty much anything works; such as this. :)

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=...
Another theory for the periodicity of the extinctions has to do with crossing the galactic plane: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/perturbing-the-o...
Awesome, you don't happen to have published the patch to github or Assembla have you? I have a suspicion that Rich will not replace the existing memoize with a SoftReference version as it is quite specific of the underlying architecture to provide this functionality. Rich is currently focused very much on CINC (Clojure in Clojure) and probably wants to avoid exposing implementation details to increase portability to other platforms (such as .NET). All the same, it would be great to have a SoftReference memoize in the contrib library for example.
It's not weird, it's self promotion, and PR.

If you said "I use an alarm clock", no one would care or read any more. Saying "I wake up naturally at xx:xx" draws people in. Even if it is utter bs.

37s are very good at PR. I'd say it's their primary business.
Interesting. I always thought "Google" was just a clever mix of "googol" (a huge amount) and "Go Ogle", (go look/search/etc).

</disillusionment>
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I like the way it looks and works. One slightly weird thing is that on pages with incremental display if you select the text you see white boxes where the text is. This means that they must not be using transparent coloring.

Also in Safari if you click on text it sometimes highlights the text rather than advancing the page. I guess that is fine for copying content off the slide but it makes it is slightly irritating when you want the slide to advance.
Easy. One of the arguments to the create_email call would be a phone number or IM or existing email. The captcha would be mms'ed/im'ed/emailed (along with an explanation of what it's for), and the account would be created when the person replied with the correct response.
Yep you can do just about anything that you want.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=...

I'm sure that when Apple finds this they'll close the gap pretty fast though.
Text files are just a wire protocol. It would be nice to have a standard (similar to http) for what you send over the wire in general.

Great post by the way, very thought provoking.
Ok so basically make them feel at home so they stay there and earn you lots of money.

In the EU, particularly the UK they can fuck off.
I want to watch this, but I can only watch the postage stamp-sized video linked from the first paragraph. If I actually visit the video's page on Vimeo, it tells me that the video is private. :(
I guess the profit margin on each transaction is so high that the criminals can afford to lose a lot of them.
still works. Jeez that is pretty bad. How does one go about reporting something like this? Wonder how long it will take to fix...
As I mentioned on proggit, that URL doesn't actually demonstrate cross-site scripting, but it looks like the page is vulnerable to iframe and scripting insertion too. Example:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=<iframe+id%3D"frame"+src%3D"http://www.microsoft.com/"+style%3D"width:+600px;+height:+400px;"></iframe>&thumbnailUrl=http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20090501/windows7-microsoft.jpg&itmsUrl=http://www.microsoft.com&albumName=Better+Operating+System
Good question, but I don't know enough about this problem to say. It'd be interesting to see some benchmarks comparing a search of a document indexed this way versus, say, a Lucene full-text search.
JackTheDonkey.com. A Socially Responsible Social Network
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David Katz
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Apple promotes Ubuntu Linux:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=...
That's not a belief, that's a fact.
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That is really bad. If you can insert code then you can probably do other even worse things.
Speaking of tabs, I often use the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab. While you can left click anywhere on the text to open in the current window, the only place you can middle click is on the small link itself. This feels a bit inconsistent.

Also, the search box is too small for entering anything more than a few words.

On the positive side, the expanded text summaries are nice to find relevant content faster.
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And don't store birthdays of anyone older (currently) than 39. I had a bug where I was enforcing epoch time for birthdates (Why? Long story) It worked when I (born in 1976) tested it, but it totally exploded when my more senior (in years) comrade tested it.

Embarrassing, that one.
Probably steal session cookies, then hijack sessions and grab any personal data etc :/ Not good.
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I was thinking more about multiple brokers working together.

Also, hmm, I didn't think rabbit was so significantly behind other AMQP implementations like zeromq: "4,100,000 messages a second" - http://www.zeromq.org/
It looks like the "XSS" bug is mostly client-side, I think that the GET contents are presented using JS: http://grab.by/exu (that's with the given URL).

It doesn't allows any kind of <script> tag, so yeah, it's fun and a bit insecure (may be used for phishing?? dunno), but it's not the worst at all.
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Someone could make an iframe with what looked like the Apple login and trick people into "logging in". Then they distribute the URL via shortened URLs through Twitter and grab a bunch of Apple logins.

Free iTunes until you get caught. Chances are Apple would be able to track who downloaded what onto what Apple devices. I'm sure retribution would be swift and thorough.

In my opinion that does count as an XSS attack, though it perhaps does not use the traditional techniques. (This for those who have said that this is actually not an XSS attack.)
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=...
It allows you to put javascript in a click handler:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/download/?artistName=...
Exactly - if you look at the numbers, you'll see that BRK.A is a very low-volume stock (today's volume was 1,700, which is quite high for that stock). It's also got only 1.5M shares outstanding, in comparison to (for example) IBM's 1.3B.
Forgot about that. Looks like soft references are tied to the JVM as well (IKVM emulates them by waiting until a full run to collect).

http://github.com/fanatico/clojure/commit/aa78d57476806df10f...
Have people passed you up for serious projects because they think they can find somebody "better" for more money?
They have a bug reporting mechanism for people who are ADC(free) members or iPhone developers: http://www.devworld.apple.com/bugreporter/
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Looks like they fixed the glitch.
I was wrong, you're right! Now that's medium-insecure. But still not to panic at this, just XSS and client-side (everything is inserted by JS). Well, there are worst things, right? :)
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On Safari the click handler works but the image just shows up as an error, not a "Click Me" message.
No they haven't, not as of yet.
"Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer [...] is now in charge of not only Mint.com, but also all of Quicken’s online and desktop products."

This is the best thing I've heard about the acquisition.
for anyone who hasn't seen it, http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.htm... provides a nice context
When will the rest of the industry start to bundle a battery on every server, a la laptops and Google servers, so that PDU glitches like this would be no big deal?
It should be noted that this isn't new, at all. It was published in 2005.
Have you considered PGP's web of trust?

PGP's web of trust shows that you can have a decentralized system without going full-blown peer to peer, and has many of the same issues with regard to trusting people and trusting people to trust people. It also shows that even this model - which is simpler than what you propose - has difficulty gaining acceptance.

I also don't see in what context you want to use this protocol, but there are a lot of fora that would be improved if only one had the ability to write Usenet-style killfiles (which can do a lot more than kill by author!). However, NNTP and SMTP clients largely already have these abilities to a sufficient level that you'll have a hard time displacing them, and web fora are very different and hard to script client-side.
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You are absolutely right. Sorry about the false alarm.

Seems like it doesn't work in latest WebKit?
When someone says "Just Duck It", though, I always think they got their consonants wrong and want me to give up.

"Bing" has similar issues - is the past tense "bang"? "I bang her on the Internet"?
Awesome, thanks for the content-rich reply.
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well, run a busy loop and something that works the GPU and network activity
If you believe CSS is simple, than Microsoft Office is not for you. I believe that 99.999% of people do not think CSS is simple, self included.
Flash on every device is not diversity.

And Apple's walled garden does nothing to promote either diversity or interoperability.

Separate your dislike of Flash from your reasoning on this subject for just a moment. What if it were Sun wanting to deploy a JVM for the iPhone? How about a .NET CLR? These certainly promote both interoperability and diversity.

Now, would Apple allow them? Why not? Because they'd impact battery life? Hardly. They'd disallow them because it would loosen their grip on the iPhone software ecosystem. The bottom line is, Apple's business model with respect to the App Store relies on being the only game in town.

Downvote away. No matter that I'm on topic and making reasonable, if contentious, points. My karma isn't so important to me that I'll let y'all's fanboiism gets in the way of actual discussion.
Maybe I'll do penance by posting such a review.

Ok, I did: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3TQFQYY3B3WNE/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe...
Complexity kills. Rich Internet Apps will kill all operating systems... except for OpenBSD.
Five nines is impossible Really. It’s just not going to happen.

Actually, it is going to happen. One individual part may fail more than 99.999% of the time, but overall system integrity can certainly be designed with greater than 99.999% uptime.

Just get a second datacenter, get a second transit provider. Just as folks scale horizontally, you can built out reliability into the many many 9's such that when one component fails, the overall system integrity isn't impacted.

It's not easy, and not always cheap, but it's quite doable.
I too think that CSS is simple, but I also like to write webpages in a plain text editor rather than Dreamweaver.

I like to have more personal control rather than having to rely on some other program to interpret what I want and write the code for me.
Why will OpenBSD be immune?
And which accident is more likely probable? I think that everything should be taken into consideration.
He has ten acres in Eastern Washington that he has an orchard on and is planning on building a cabin on. If/when the society collapses, there won't be any shortage of clothes, he could always just walk into a department store and take some, because no one owns them anymore.
Parasitism causes a reduction in fitness to the host, if anything most of these strategies would be better defined as commensal, i.e. beneficial to the fitness of the symbiont but having no positive or negative effect on the host.
I've heard that the completion rate for kit planes is less than 20%. May the force be with you.
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Honest question, would a normal battery be able to keep a decent server running through a 5 minute outage? I was under the impression that google adds something like 9v's to last a few seconds through a flicker, not any sustained outage.

(And all of that's assuming your network stack stays up, and things like routers/firewalls survive...)
I was referring to the Criticism section on the website that was linked to in the previous comment. And yes, the author claims that Africa's problems "are caused by development".
> You guys should see the evilness that is Access, the inconsistencies there make this look like nothing. And it's a black art with almost no documentation anywhere.

Are you talking about MS Access? It's about 15 years old. There should be a lot of documentation. You need to look for old books form the last decade though.
Innovation in people's hands (open source can make business less bureaucratic)