skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The monthly "Who Is Hiring?" submissions here on HN are posted
automatically on the first by the "whoishiring" user, along with related
freelancing submissions. You can find them here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Typically, the listed jobs are programming and sysadmin related, but on
rare occasions you might be able to find "sales" jobs in there.
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Thanks. It turns out the coloured pictures are taken by Ralph [1]. One of the three cameras on New Horizon.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-ca...
Informative, thanks.

Is this why Google announces sweeping changes every year at i/o and redesigns the Android UI every single year?

eg. use the dedicated search button on the phone, btw this button no longer exists, respond to the menu button, btw this button no longer exists, put menus at the top, put menus at the bottom, use hamburger menus, don't use them, use swipe navigation, use swipe navigation if it fits with your app, do things to ENCHANT and DELIGHT the user. According to the UI guidelines, clicking a button should cause the user to burst into tears of joy due to the delightful experience they have just had.

Is it because they need to appear to be producing new things all the time? If so, it'd also explain why some products get released to much fanfare (and applause from the BBC Technology news team it seems) and then get no updates, maintenance and get binned a few years later. (Many examples of this). The most annoying of these was the Talk replacement for Android (Hangouts) which got rid of features of Talk and still has an abysmal tablet interface and general bugginess ("Did you not get my call???" "No").

I am not meaning to be overly critical, but the constant change for the sake of change is wearying. I have been using Android since the G1 and every i/o they have redesigned the interface. The examples of "bad UI" and "bad text" are all from their own older versions of Android. It makes you wish they'd make their mind up.
No, but it's commonly downvoted. Posting about the technology alone would attract a better response here.

It's best not to react to the first hour of voting, let the masses even it out.
The technology transfer project is fun. If you read the document from March 2015, they released a list of patents which can be licensed and used by US gov and companies.

Or... by a large number of countries for free, where the US patents do not apply.
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Probably you should not enlist in the US Military and complain afterwards about lost opportunities and PTSD because of doing pointless crimes for an overall pointless war. Thanks for your service.... hmm not really.
> This is why NASDAQ and other trading venues are exploring the possibility of using Bitcoin's blockchain to disintermediate the clearing process. The idea is to use asset-tracking protocols (commonly called "colored coins" in Bitcoin land) to associate ownership of an asset with possession of a small, low-value unit of Bitcoin, which then can be transferred in the usual way.

How would that help? The reason this was an issue at all is that the legal names on the paper certificate matter because of the way Delaware law is written. We already have a perfectly good way of tracking ownership via computer systems; this post is all about the rare case when that fails. I am genuinely struggling to even imagine how you might think the blockchain could possibly help with this. Do you think the Delaware statutes, which have such a specific notion of ownership that being the beneficial owner of a share held at DTC doesn't count, are likely to be worded in a way that makes knowing the secret string of numbers that constitutes a particular private key counts as ownership? That does not seem at all plausible to me.
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Not available for me in the UK.
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What? The Android apps are fairly easily ported.
That's a huge amount of repositories. I've been reading through the descriptions of a few and so far it's hard to gauge what this thing is in its entirety (or maybe I'm just too tired).

After working with their OWF I'm skeptical that this will be anything better than commercial but I'll keep an open mind and continue looking through docs. If anyone has a better summarization that would also be helpful (because apparently I haven't figured it out yet).
Besides look in the mirror?

But seriously, in my case, I'm determined to never become an insulin-dependent diabetic. I was over 340 lbs. 16 years ago (and believe it or not, I was not a big eater compared to male peers), then I read about low-carbohydrate eating strategies, and had slow but significant success (lost over 120 lbs in a 20-month span).

But getting back to the question: my motivators were/are:
1) appearance
2) staving off degenerative disease (diabetes, heart disease, etc.)
3) activity enjoyment (e.g. hiking, volleyball, etc... weight is a limiting factor and contributes to injury)

My biggest problem is maintaining a regimen when I am not getting results. This is how I derailed in the first place in my late 20s -- despite running 4-6 miles 2-3 times a week, I couldn't lose an ounce.

Also, keep up on current science: for example, you could expend a lot of effort doing something that isn't that helpful if you a part of the population that is a low genetic responder to cardio (see the University of Bath study as covered in Michael Mosley's "The Truth About Exercise" on PBS). In my case, I also exhibit the classic symptoms of AD-36 exposure, so I have a tougher row to hoe.
Google Drive does something very similar. Never use their Windows drive client unless you want gross permanent and/or silent partial deletion. The iOS and android clients seem more robust, but neither can handle syncing >1000 files without crashing, or handle large files like videos efficiently (iOS version at least can't do partial uploads or continue uploads). The single upload queue also prevents user-requested immediate sync. Basically, it's horrible.
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I've started contributing recently to proofwiki (https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page) which is a similar sort of collection (this one is strictly proofs though).

I think there's a pretty big fascination among mathematicians to collect and organize the universe of information. It's always fun to think of mapping dependencies between all known proofs
"If it makes you feel any better", Google seems to be pretty close to making driving a taxi worth almost nothing.
I think you've mis-read the tone, or just plain don't understand/have experience of the military mindset.

This isn't a pity piece, he not expecting something from his passengers or expecting them to wonder about him. In fact, I'd say that's the whole point of the piece - how he knows he an outsider, a nobody in a world of somebodies, a dispassionate observer, one who recognises his own lack of humanity to his charges:

> A robot could do my fucking job

He's grateful for the job, grateful for the lifeline and merely telling the objective story of an outsider in a different world.

> Where I live, people are already dead. But at night, I pick up people with lives, and money in their pockets, places to go, things to do, people to see.

And yet, he reminds us throughout that people are fuck ups no matter their monetary wealth or 'social standing':

>One pick-up I had was outside a restaurant in Hayes Valley. I had my hazards on while I waited patiently, observing them passionately kiss each another. They kissed as if they were in love. It reminded me of the way I kissed, when I too was in love. Their goodbye took forever and when she finally got in my car, she pulled out her cell phone.

>"Hey honey, how's it going? Oh, it was boring, I wanted to leave the whole time. How are the kids? Good... Oh, remember that one coworker I told you about? I just found out he's been sleeping with all the associates... he's married too, I like his wife... he's a good guy..." I'm sure he is.

I think the piece is fascinating, not least because I've felt the sting of invisibility myself, but don't go mistaking it as a pining lament to be one of the chosen ones or that he's calling on his passengers to be his psychologist.
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You said Flash doesn't need to support mobile because they offer apps. And now you bring mobile back into equation when evaluating WebGL?
Perhaps the author is experiencing a bug and you are not. Your inability to replicate the bug does not prove it doesn't exist. Though many helpdesks would take your side.
Perhaps Pluto's gravitational field is not strong enough to trap meteors?
Well, c'est la vie.
Are therapists expensive?
Fair point, but what would you suggest as an alternative at this point?

Double down on windows phone, despite all the metrics saying its a failure?

Create more crippled RT devices that no one wants?

Create an entirely new mobile OS which is open source for 3rd party vendors like android's successful model?

The current approach ('If we make great phones, they will come...') has failed.

The new 'services on everything' approach is certainly risky; if you don't own the platform, you risk being turfed by the owner if you get too big / too popular... but it seems plausible. I know a lot of people who use onenote and office on their devices. Being ubiquitous is the key, not having some technically sophisticated devices that get no consumer uptake.

It's easy to critique, but tangibly what you suggest as a proactive alternative for them?
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889964
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I don't know why I haven't heard it called iFucked before but that is brilliant. Please create an entry in Urban Dictionary for that.

The same with G Drive btw, it keeps wanting to send an f'ing G Drive link. It is such a denial of reality, this pretence that email attachments don't exist.
But this is the tested, maintained solution by experts in the topic. Hopefully.
Me too! It drives professors nuts, but its just so much more fun to say.
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How do you export HTML5/WebGL to mobile apps?

I said when you write ActionScript3, for desktops you export to Flash and for mobile you export to iOS and Android. Runs the same everywhere.

So how do you get your WebGL game onto mobile platforms?
Ask HN: Remote workforce 'check ins'
I'm working on a project that aims to organise a large mobile workforce. To ease their timesheet record keeping, I thought it would make sense if, when they arrive at a venue, they could 'check in', and 'check out' when they leave.

Sending out dedicated hardware (card readers, etc) to hundreds or thousands of venues is going to be tricky and expensive - but doable, if there isn't another option. Various other technologies that depend on smart phones (NFC, iBeacon) have been mentioned as potential solutions here, but none really fit the bill.

Is there something I've overlooked? I don't expect a fully baked answer, but a pointer or clue towards something that might work would be most appreciated.
So good. I'm only about 20 minutes into it, but it addresses so many of the questions and ideas I've had about RNG.
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Sure. I think the point is that some people tout MOOCs as inherently much better than traditional instruction. In that context, "MOOCs are just as mediocre as everything else" is disappointing. If your aiming to be better but aren't (even if you're not worse), then you have failed.
How to email journalists without wasting their time
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889854
Ceres was robbed of planetary status before it was cool.
To be fair, I don't know a single person that explains things using

> "just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"

In fact, even among people who DO know the category theory necessary to understand this expression it's considered a very obtuse and useless explanation. Especially in the context of Haskell.

As for good readable introductions, I consider Wadler's paper "Monads for Functional Programming" to actually be a pretty good introduction. Another good intro is "You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)" http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
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It's interesting notice that the white heart and the black whale could be found on these maps.
The guy who did the video and blog post, Oliver Kreylos, has tried HoloLens himself too http://doc-ok.org/?p=1223 .
> I think Windows Phone will never be able to compete with Android/iOS.

I disagree.

A "one" Windows strategy where you can write for the desktop and automatically have a Phone, XBox etc app is incredibly compelling. It's going to mean developers will have this massive market. And it's a market that is far, far more lucrative. Why write an iOS app that you will sell for dollars when you could write one Windows app that sells for $30 on the desktop, $20 on HoloLens, $10 on tablet and $3 on Mobile. And having a truly intelligent cloud behind it ie. not just a dumb key/value store or Hadoop stack but rather deep analytics as a service e.g. predictive modelling etc will make Windows apps far more compelling.

You can really see where Satya is taking Microsoft and it's pretty damn exciting. And I would never bet against them especially in the cloud/analytics space right now.
I'm become a bit hooked on Levine, good thing he pushes out articles often.
I think you misunderstood the statement about "visiting every single planet in the Solar System with this mission".

It's not meant to imply that this specific mission visited all the planets, just that this mission completes the achievement. (In his opinion).
Seems like it's dying out.

For Puppet, Chef and other stuff it's Ruby. Python ate most of it's share in biogenetic. Php took over Perl in web dev.

Python is much more readable in general imo.

Plus whoever taking over your script may have to maintain it and they're most likely to know Python than Perl (if you're looking at language popularity). The counter argument is that any good programmer can pick up languages but there is a down time still.
Argh, I was just preparing to write a rant about this. No, it is absolutely not true-color -- although this is something which NASA insists on claiming, to its detriment. It annoyed me when they used the same technique to show a "true color" view of the surface of Titan[1], and it's annoying me again now.

What this image shows is the average color Pluto. The colour information comes from a much lower-resolution image, which was unable to resolve color differences between regions. In truth, Pluto could be wildly multi-colored -- but these kind of images, tagged with the "true color" label, lead you to think that that Pluto (and Titan) are a boring uniform sepia.

To understand just how wrong it is to label these images as "true color", try the following experiment:

1: Find a nice colorful picture of, say, a rose garden.

2: On a satellite image, find the color-value of that rose garden at, say, a spatial resolution of 50km per pixel.

3: Take the color-value of that pixel -- which, on earth, will range from a muddy greyish-brown to a muddy greyish-blue -- and apply that hue to the entire image. You will now have a very sorry-looking rose-garden.

4: Release the image accompanied by a press release claiming that this is a "true-color" view of said rose-garden.

See the problem with this?

Honestly, the folks at NASA are geniuses, but they really need to stop doing this kind of thing. One thing they don't understand very well is human perception and psychology. If you show people a greyscale image, they will assume that it represents something which is actually more colorful, and their imagination can take it from there. On the other hand, if you show people an image which is colorised with a uniform color, they will assume that is the actual color -- especially if you've then gone on to tell them that it's a true-color image. In truth, it's no more "true-color" than the final image in the rose-garden experiment above. This, unfortunately, convinces people that they're looking at something far more drab than they actually are.

Tl;dr: Where NASA lacks actual color imagery, they really shouldn't colorise pictures with a uniform hue and then call them "true color". It's bordering on false to do so, and results in images which are much more drab than a simple black-and-white image would be, and possible much more drab than reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)#/media/File:Huyge...
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I actually would like to see Microsoft go against popular wisdom and build their own PC desktops/laptops. The quality of the Apple experience e.g. keyboard, trackpad, build quality, poorly coded bloatware, stickers etc blows away anything in the PC space. Let the OEMs own the cheap and nasty space but actually build something that enterprises would want to roll out and workers would love to use.

The Surface is nice and all but for those of us that use a PC on a desktop for 95% of the day it isn't an optimal choice.
I/O is not the only thing monads are useful for, far from it. Having the concept of a monad lets you write generic code that will operate on any monad (just as e.g. having the concept of a collection lets you write generic code that will operate on any collection, or indeed having the concept of a number lets you write generic code that will work for any number rather than having to write your program as a big lookup table with explicit cases for every number).

Once you have a library of functions that work with any monad, custom monads are really easy to work with. So you can do things like http://typelevel.org/blog/2013/10/18/treelog.html or http://michaelxavier.net/posts/2014-04-27-Cool-Idea-Free-Mon... .
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Thank you for sharing the code! I read through your documentation and noticed there is documentation of server-client but not server-server. How do you achieve a multi-server architecture? Is it simply to scale the Postgre database and connect more server frontend to it and load balance over those frontends? Or is there some inter server protocol as well?
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I think the NSA is also behind the EDP Audit, Control and Security Newsletter. I was once invited to contribute a paper but had to cancel because I get a little loopy sometimes.

There is the CIA World Fact Book. The CIA also has an online library that I haven't really looked into other than that someone posted a link to some advice for intelligence analysts, on the general topic of avoiding personal bias.

entertainmentliason@ucia.gov will send you real spy stories that you may Feed The Monster, that is, write movie or TV scripts.

Both the CIA and NSA have "For Kids" sections for those of our younguns who want to grow up to be spies.

One of my very best friends is an FBI agent. A former girlfriend endangered national security by listing her work address on our alumni website; she's heavily into math and there aren't many reasons one receives mail at Ft. Meade. That's what post office boxen are for.

My second cousin Glenn Thobe speaks better Russian than Vladimir Lenin. Because he had "some connections in the State Department" he was permitted an unescorted five-month visit to the Soviet Union at a time when the Commies feared the Free World far, far more than we feared them - and for good reason.

Glenn is a soft-spoken, quiet, good-looking guy, he was young at the time so I expect the Soviet chicks were hurling themselves at him like beached whales.

He is also a physicist and an electrical engineer. If you want to win a Cold War when it suddenly grows Hot, you want lots of Physicists and Electrical Engineer but then Uncle Sam launches an Intercontinental Ballistic Vegetarian who doesn't even have a driver's license because he prefers public transport.
Safe level of radiation (or lack of thereof) is a subject of discussion, see "Linear No-Threshold": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

But even if the relation is linear, for some doses the effect in negligible, comparing to other diseases/accidents/...
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previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804349
22 condemned on Israel

0 on Al Nusra (Al Qaida rebranded for leftists to love)

1 on ISIS.

It's not uncommon to hear Israel is worse than ISIS... in Sweden.
I know this may seem obvious to most Silicon Valley people, but here in Belgium, it's really hard to find software engineers ready to get away from the usual jobs in big companies and into startups. Here are some of the reasons that make it worthwhile to me, in the hopes that some Belgian people are reading HN.
That's exactly the thing that pushed me from Android after 5 years. If I'm a paying customer, I want to be treated as one, not a beta tester with $currenthypedthingwedemoedatIO. That's why I'm still convinced that Google doesn't make products, but tech demos.
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But not by many of the countries we actually trade with. :-D
One of my friends built a project that included a library called "library". You would link it with -lrary.

It was funny for about 30 seconds and then just frustrating when debugging the build.
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The contents of the NSA Tech Transfer program are also quite interesting:

http://m.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_technolo... [pdf]
When finding a new bug, isn't the best thing to report it to the software provider (rather than blogging about it) ?
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You could make a GPLed APK available. Not user friendly but it will allow those who really care to get the most secure possible version.
Content doesn't have to be against rules to be downvoted. I disagree with the opinion in it, so I downvote. It has nothing to do with rules.
If you listen to Satya's mission he couldn't be more spot on. Microsoft doesn't need to be a competitor to Google, Apple or Amazon.

Building a truly intelligent cloud e.g. analytics as a service that makes AWS/iCloud look like toys and focusing on reinventing day to day home and office workflows is their strength, the future and still poorly serviced.

Their acquisition of Sunrise and Wunderlist shows they have the sense to recognise their weaknesses and acquihire if need be.
At first glance I read that as "...but Eclipse is not a great product"

Android Studio is based on IntelliJ which is a far more polished IDE.
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Apart from the points that you mentioned in your posts, that are commendable and actionable, one should try to get into radar of the journalist by following him on Twitter and replying to his latest tweets.

What I think is as App development takes time, therefore, meanwhile one is developing his app, he/she should make a list of potential journalist that he/she is going to send email later.

After making that list, consider following them on Twitter, reply to their tweets for quiet some time and then if you will send email to them, your odds of getting through increases.
I implemented the mersenne twister to generate 2d planets in a galaxy of a game I am working on a while ago.. I didn't know about this pcg and it's an interesting read!

I had been limited in selection on the random number generator reproducibility (so that each planet is only stored as the seed for the generator)

I'll have a try later on, it'd be interesting how a sampling of planets turn out from both rngs, if they are visually different - the rng is used both for features and for the perlin noise that generates cloud&land textures, so any artifact should come up easy in the textures