skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZeroCater (YC W11) is looking for a full-stack engineer
We're looking for full-stack engineers to join our team. Our stack consists of Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AngularJS. We move quickly and deploy to EC2 multiple times a day. We're profitable and we’re growing like crazy.

About You:

- You're ridiculously in love with Python

- You’ve got experience with Django or another MVC framework

- You're constantly learning new technologies

- You’ve built and shipped a project that you’re really proud of

- You’re ready and willing to work on the full stack - backend, frontend, and everything in between

Responsibilities:

- Build customer- and restaurant-facing features to make their experience awesome

- Work on our internal tools to make our non-technical team as efficient as possible

- Dig into our data to find useful metrics or possible problems

- Automate all the things!

To apply, send a note about yourself to jobs@zerocater.com, along with your Github username, portfolio, resume, or some of your work.
I'm disappointed. He never really answered how Kraft made 2ppm vomitoxin out of the 4ppm vomitoxin they get from stopping futures.
I work at the New Yorker. If you have any questions, please reach out!

Leonard_bogdonoff@newyorker.com
Cordoba historical, cultural and religious headquarters of important events
This looks awesome and seems like a great opportunity for me to further hone my reverse engineering skills (which I only recently have been getting into). Thanks for sharing!
Emacs Theme Creator
BBC uses BitTorrent Bundle to sell a 10-episode set of Doctor Who
Does your friend want to start a mail startup and provide the service for me haha?
Oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom
OnLive Game Service Shutdown, Sony Acquirer
Back when I was a kid, with some friends we played a game where we'd try and come up with nonsensical phrases like "but have you taken into account the quality of venezuelan poultry when predicting Marseille's weather??". If no-one could come up with a plausible chain of logic linking the things together they'd get a point.

In retrospect, this (and your comment), reminds me of Pinky's responses to Brain's "are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
It's meant to make the functions built on Blockspring usable in more places - so that's how it's part of our core value.

(by the way, long time no see - hope you've been well!)
Looking at the profile of the developer who made this - he's only been coding for a year. Not a bad effort for a Makers Academy bootcamp grad
I'll agree to the jist of your "opposing argument" above, except for the uncomfortable tone, and this derogation:

> It really is a supreme sense of entitlement.

That doesn't follow. Why do you attribute such disrespect to people who prefer a different economic/social organization for creative works?

I am a content producer. By trade, by hobby, by lifestyle. I license my works as CC0 as much as possible, and use copyleft for software so that those same works can't be held against me by the copyright system I'm trying to escape. I simply value my freedom of expression, including a philosophy of sharing works, and I also think it would lead to increased economic efficiency for the society.

It's a different perspective, I don't see a reason why you must call it "a supreme sense of entitlement" when I am one of the people creating these works that I want to be shared. It's just a different way for us to structure our resources and freedoms.
I have to say, however, that the latest Apple earbuds are VERY POOR "one size for all" design, a clear step backwards for a very personal interface.
> and is cross-platform

That's not Windows-compatible, as far as I know.

Still interesting though.
Good Job; what a horrible client.
Sailing from Pakistan to Siberia in a straight line
What specifically are the issues with the YouTube API?
Hi jlees,

Thanks for the feedback. Definitely working on improving the messaging. Mysliderule seems to be course catalogging of various MOOCs around the web. Classmill lets you create the classes yourself.

Sending you an email, please do check! :)
<snark>
Listening to NPR can definitely have the same effect.
</snark>
Piggybacking off of this, if anyone would like to try their hand at contributing to Servo I recommend checking out the "E-Easy" bugs on the issue tracker ( https://github.com/servo/servo/labels/E-easy ) and hitting up #servo on irc.mozilla.org ( http://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23se... ). It's not often that you get to be a part of rewriting a browser engine from scratch. :)

And you don't need to be a Rust expert to contribute (not least because essentially nobody in the world fits that description)! It's totally common for initial commits to be the first serious lines of Rust a contributor has ever written ( https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/583755185899626496 ).
"This raises an important question, which is, who was using that wheat that the FDA considers unfit for human consumption? I worry that my dog is eating a lot of vomitoxin."

From Wikipedia:

Vomitoxin is not a known carcinogen as with aflatoxin. Large amounts of grain with vomitoxin would have to be consumed to pose a health risk to humans.

Companion animals: Dogs and cats are restricted to 5 ppm and of grains and grain byproducts and the grains are not to exceed 40% percent of the diet.
It mentions in the end in the footnotes you can mix together high vomitoxin and low vomitoxin wheat to produce the needed amount.

I'm kidding. My dog is gluten-free. Also if you buy
the high-vomitoxin wheat you can blend it with
low-vomitoxin wheat until you get the perfect amount
of vomitoxin. Appetizing, no?
That doesn't seem too entitled to me. Extreme freedom of speech, no more.
LOL, I watched that episode. It is the exact same principal but seemingly easier to pull off because it is independent of any actual decision.
OnLive had some of the best tech for cloud gaming that I've experienced, but it seems like they could not get it to take off (I'd say due to very limited game selection, nothing new coming).

Sony is clearly going to use the tech to improve their PlayStation Now remote play. And hopefully have better luck with it, since they have access to many new and old games.

The idea behind cloud gaming has many advantages, for things like instantly trying demos, to playing old school games that aren't even available on your platform, gaming on MacBook Airs, etc.

I was a huge fan of OnLive in the beginning, but given that the service was semi-dead the last few years (no new games), I hope its tech will be better utilized by Sony.
Attribution! A thousand times this. I wish twitter would enforce this policy or add a source field like tumblr on those various 1M+ reddit-scraping picture recycling accounts. @picpedant can't save the stories behind these images all by himself.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2014/02/_historyi...
It came off as explicit, not smug.
It would be extremely interesting to see any numbers that compare single-core layout (in Servo) with multi-core layout (in Servo).
WoSign is actually a separate commercial CA though as far as I know.
German property and the rent brake
And that's not the only problem:

https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/144

https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/849
> It's already informed several emerging standards.

Sounds interesting. Do you have more information on that? Any links?
CBOT says wheat is deliverable if it contains up to 4ppm. That doesn't necessarily imply that all CBOT wheat == 4ppm vomitoxin. The answer though, would be to blend it with more expensive wheat, or to clean it with sorting machines, which they do anyway.

Edit: Here, sorting machines https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=optical%20sor...
You can actually create edX classes with existing resources. The xblock spec is pretty flexible, and the existing blocks can be used with a lot of different types of content.

There are also a ton of companies that host open edX instances, which let you make your own courses. Several offer free trials -- here's a list: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/List-of-Open-edX-se... . There's a nice open source ecosystem forming. I know at one point, edX was going to open edge.edx.org and let anyone make courses, but don't know where that's at now.

Your platform has differentiators from edX, but these aren't necessarily them.
How is this going?

Are people really sending you good material through this system?
Well, jgrahamc did post a link (http://blog.jgc.org/2013/02/updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-arti...) to 38 articles that provide free information on GNU Make usage. Reading his post suggests that the new book is a properly edited and formatted edition of the older book with the same content updated to Make 4.0.

Copyright law is pretty crappy on the whole, but jgrahamc did write the articles and has been giving them away for free. Why is it unreasonable for him to package, edit, update, and release them years after they were written, with the originals still available for free?
Yeah, I'm not looking to put things in the global scope, but rather to avoid using AMD module loading. I'm looking for a way to explicitly load the individual JS files in the proper order. Maintaining namespacing is great.
SeatGeek Raises $62M
> I think you're making a logical error in applying the open-source software development model to the arts.

I am not. I have not said anything about software. I think all copyright should be abolished (slowly, responsibly). I have considered the ramifications for different types of arts. Relatedly, I think the areas to which we have (by convention) chosen that copyright should or should not apply in law is arbitrary and sometimes silly (e.g. copyright of fashion).

> Second, photographers are not fungible resources, while software developers are, even controlling for skill level.

Software developers are not fungible resources. Two authorings of software to the same requirements will be substantially different; same for photography.
>Do you think the people who think that creative works should be free are in the majority or are they just the loudest?

I think they're in the majority. They may not shout about it, but I think in terms of music consumption in this case they're a silent majority.

Only 25% of Spotify's 60m users pay for the service. People use YouTube for their music without having to pay. Others torrent. I would say that those paying for music in this day and age, whether it's streaming, vinyl enthusiasts or whatever are the minority.
Hey there, PicnicHealth CTO here. Happy to answer any questions you might have about what we do or how we do it! (Or really anything else I guess)
The way this problems change in Scala is not by using the parallel collections library, but by using Akka straight up, or using Spark.

Akka is an actor system framework, so it's extremely well suited for this problem.

Spark can process tremendous amounts of data in parallel, even over hundreds of machines if you really have the iron, and works just as well with just one machine.

You can technically use them both from Java, but being natively Scala libraries, you are really better off switching to Scala if you are going to use them.
You get diminishing returns, of course, on any kind of technology. You would just basically partition this data out to a 1000 different clusters then, each capable of supporting 1 million writes/second. That would be done through an algorithm along the lines of this:

partition_id = well_distributed_hash(normalize_domain_name(<domain>))

really don't think this would be an issue, or even a concern, as 1 billion writes per second are "Google-levels" of writes. One would likely run out of financial resources supporting an expansion of 86 terrabytes / day (assuming 1kb minimum new data per write), far faster than you would ever max out the capabilities of the technology.

It's more a finance/business exercise to determine if revenue inflows would actually meet, cover, or exceed revenue outflows on a project like this. You can always make the technology scale and meet the demand.
Replacing with a blockchain is a horrible idea. If the certificate gets compromised, how do you handle revoking the old certificate? How do you handle someone having a domain name like paypa1.com? There are a lot of cases where having a human in the loop is a good thing for overall security. Now, this isn't to say that the current system isn't broken as hell, but a bitcoin type solution is definitely not the way to do it.
I don't think he was trying to be a dick with that quote. He expressed an honest and natural reaction: how does this monster problem get solved by someone unknown?
I'm pretty sure the Amiga couldn't have run Zarch at anything like the smoothness that the Archimedes managed.

And the difference was purely down to the stripped down Acorn RISC Machine chip running at 8 MHz, compared with the 8 MHz 68000 CISC chip.

There are so many if-only's about the Amiga. If only it could have managed 640x480 un-interlaced, and if-only someone with even a modicum of taste had worked on the Workbench GUI. If only they'd used a decent disk drive, like Apple were forced to on the Mac.

Commodore's pivot to selling to Business was doomed when selling a games machine, though the cost-pared A500 was very successful as a gaming computer in (non-UK) Europe.
Copyright law is being used both for 'good' and for 'bad' purposes in roughly equal measures. Some creators make some money, plenty don't, quite a few non-creators manage to get their hands by hook or by crook (or even legal transfer) on some rights and seek rent on them for all those rights are worth or more if they can.

Copyright is a very double edged sword at best.
Programmers were using cooperative threading for decades before Go made the concept popular with the web crowd.
Concrete Mathematics is also a good background.
Expedia latest big employer to make beeline for liberal Seattle
Check out the source code...it's surprisingly good!
Suckless gets a bad rep (probably because of their openness about their opinions of the projects of which they create alternatives); but, honestly, they have made some of my absolute favorite utilities. dwm, dmenu and st serve as the foundation for my whole workflow.

I'd love to see a whole suckless OS someday. I know it's been around for some time, but it seems like this might be the first step towards that.
How a Case of Stolen Corn Seeds Shows the Problem with the FISA Court
Surely the Chinese in all their Wisdom know the futility of these threats ?

Besides, I'm sure it is easy for them to manipulate US senators by giving them campaign funds.
Everyone should learn a Lisp early in their career. Anyone who actually cares about performance will learn quickly that auto-parallelizing or 'parallel collections/streams' is a joke, with Amdahl's law being the punchline.
BabyList - Oakland, CA

BabyList is making it easier for expecting parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. These parents-to-be look to us to help them make decisions about what to buy for their baby and where. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly, making real money and building new products that will take us to the next level.

We are hiring for two positions:

1. Frontend Developer - Lead the development of our website. Obsess over user-experience, A/B testing, code maintainability and page-speed. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Backbone/CoffeeScript/Javascript.

2. Supply Chain & Operations Manager - BabyList is a platform on which $2.5M products are being purchased every month. We are starting to experiment selling products ourselves. We want someone who can get us from our first sale to our 1,000th. Your initiative and experience will take us through this new business vertical quickly and efficiently.

Why should you consider BabyList?

We offer:

- fascinating work that users actually notice and love

- extremely smart, diverse team

- actual work/life balance

- benefits of an early stage startup (autonomy, fast pace, many hats...), without the risk of the an early stage startup (i.e. our revenue is paying for our growth)

- great office location - Old Oakland neighborhood (3 blocks from 12th street BART)

If you’re interested in hearing more, email me at natalie@babyli.st
Just got to level10 of Nebula, literally 15 minutes ago. Been doing levels in bed before crashing out -- It's really good fun so far! Highly recommend.
> On more serious note every resource that is copyrighted should carry plainly visible note about like warrnings on cigarette packs so mildly creative people can stay away from it.

Warning: If you're in a nation that has signed the Berne Convention, everything that's copyrightable is copyrighted unless otherwise noted.

Warning: Copyrights are known to the State of California to cause reproductive harm.
Right, but then you have to raise income taxes again once the revenue stream from petrol dries up.
> If so, do typical webpages need this level of
> performance for a satisfactory user experience?

Servo on desktop is certainly interesting, but a primary use case is mobile devices and other devices that have multiple CPU cores that aren't very powerful individually.

> draw a webpage

Drawing a webpage on your screen entails a few different primary tasks.

Some things like alpha blending and animation can be offloaded to the GPU quite well and this is already being done extensively today on various mobile OSs.

Other things like layout, DOM manipulation, and scripting involve a lot of branching logic and need to be handled by the CPU. That's where Servo comes in - the goal is to better spread that stuff out across multiple CPU cores.
It looks well written.
The historical way lots of content came into the public domain is death.

That's why plenty of artists - plenty of nature photographers among them - died relatively penniless.

http://europeansectionlgm.typepad.fr/photography_and_cinemat...

That's a friend of mine who died 3 years ago, he made the most amazing pictures. 50,000 of them in a archive in his home in Suprasl, and we can't even find the funds to properly digitize them so they will likely be lost sooner or later.
I very strongly disagree. I believe a shotgun is very much the best home defense weapon.

Most people are poor shots with a handgun, especially if woken up in the middle of the night. A shotgun is a point in the general direction and shoot kind of thing. It also has a lot more stopping power than a handgun.

Also, with a shotgun, you can use larger gauge bird shot or something like #4 buck shot and it is less likely to penetrate walls and hurt someone you didn't intend.

A 12 gauge pump shotgun is also an intimidating looking and sounding weapon. Much more so than something like a 9mm handgun. Finally, the laws regarding shotguns for many area of the US are likely to be much less restrictive than on handguns.

I understand your comment about the unwieldiness of shotguns, but in my particular case, my shotgun has double pistol grips and no stock. I would be much less concerned about loosing control of it than I would a pistol. I have a top mounted light that triggers when the front pistol grip is grasped. It is (almost) as short as the law allows... the entire weapon is just over 2 feet long (28 inches to be exact). I hope I never have to use it in defense or worse yet, shoot to kill someone. For this reason I have 5 shells in the chamber. The first two are birdshot... deadly at close range, less likely to be so at a further range. Then I have two rounds of #4 buck, then a slug. I have 5 more rounds of #4 buck in holders at the top. I've considered having the first two rounds rubber like the police use.
The Rediscovered Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem [pdf]
A nicer way to do that is quote a fee 50x more than you'd reasonably charge.
This article seems to ignore cost. I think a pretty fundamental benefit of a simple latex condom is how cheap it is.
Thanks :) He even had that tough guy voice. HEY YO! Cringe when I even think of it.
Here's a draft of an experience report regarding Servo that was submitted to this year's ICFP: http://kmcallister.github.io/papers/2015-servo-experience-re...

Table 1 seems to give some relevant data:

Site | Gecko | Servo 1 thread | Servo 4 threads
-------------------------------------------------
Reddit | 250 | 100 | 55
CNN | 105 | 50 | 35

Table 1. Performance of Servo against Mozilla's Gecko
rendering engine on the layout portion of some common
sites. Times are in milliseconds, where lower numbers
are better.

Given the promising numbers here, I feel like the following bold quote from a Servo-related job opening at Mozilla is relevant:

"Our goal is nothing less than building the fastest and most secure browser engine, and we aim to succeed by miles, not inches. We aim for double the performance of current engines, with no crashes."

http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/ollA0fw0
Major congrats to one of the most outstanding teams I know
It's a slide show. Is the talk its self available somewhere? Link anyone?
To those who think this is blatant self-promotion ... follow the link anyway! I find the puzzles there more entertaining than video games.
Worth a read for sure...
Building Encryption to Withstand Quantum Computing
Mathematicians build code to take on toughest cyber attacks
Are you sure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons seems to disagree with you and talks in terms of depeleting a resource.
What I'd really like to see is research on a a male version of The Pill. The Pill was introduced in the 1960s. What efforts, research, has been done to bring a similar product for males?

Though it wouldn't help on the disease transmission front.
Surely you've heard of Versal?

I'm looking forward to seeing what Classmill can do! I've been personally thinking about these sorts of things too.

Do you have any plans for adding assessable items and making things more adaptive, or do you guys think you'll be more focused on static content materials?
This is a really good idea. Bravo.
I can't believe I never thought of typing f🚢 instead of friendship before reading this.
Here it is. Very cool:

http://www.newmalecontraception.org/vasalgel/
Simple NLP tool to analyse FB conversations
This article presents a side to intellectual property rights that it's all too easy to overlook when you are constantly hearing about patent trolls, the MPAA/RIAA, and so on. Copyright is intended to benefit people just like you and me for whom content creation such as this is how they feed their children and keep a roof over their heads.

This does also highlight the need for due diligence if you're using images that you've found on the Internet though. This is often easier than you might expect -- you just have to upload your image to Google image search, and it will do a pretty good job of helping you track the original creator.
I think this is a great advantage of Rust. Even with code review, you won't want to contribute your first C++ code to WebKit. But it's totally possible to contribute your first Rust code to Servo (I witnessed this multiple times), and damage you can cause is quite limited.
Too bad they didn't offer a migration path for existing games to either Steam saves or PSN.
Yes, Chintan Bakshi from Jaipur helped us during pre-YC days.
Couple Reveals Life-Changing News Through Funny Video