skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked article indeed provides genetic evidence for pre-Colombian Polynesian migrations to S. America.
Climate zealots are ridiculous on both sides. Comments like yours, while popular, are the opposite of science. Do you want to get people on board to reduce pollution, then stop insulting their intelligence with juvenile nonsense. Listen to the scientists.
Thank you for your comment.

I doubt if anybody is using the mruby handler in production, considering the fact that functions necessary to modify the requests in the handler was committed this week :-)
Linux x86_64 NMI security issues
None of that stuff existed yet. We're talking about the CP/M era companies that failed to transition to the IBM PC era, essentially pre-Mac, though some of them did last into the late eighties, IIRC.
Apple had a strong foothold in education with the Apple II, and the Macintosh had better graphics capabilities than stock PCs into the 90s giving Apple a strong presence in the design industry.
I am envisioning a clown car.
That's cute. At last, the forgery app.

The killer app in this space will be when someone figures out how to extract a vocal model from existing recordings of singers. Vocaloid already synthesizes singing quite well, but a human singer has to go into a studio and sing a long list of standard phrases to build the singer model. The next step will be to feed existing singing into a system that extracts a model usable for synthesis.

The RIAA is so going to hate this.
Have you ever worked at an outsourcing company?

That is literally how it works at many of them, just fyi. I'd strongly, strongly recommend you hire someone who does PM for one of those companies if you are as oblivious to how they work as that statement just made it appear.

> A few other differences - you don't interface with developers,

Yeah, plenty of them just want you to talk to the PM. The only time I was ever brought into meetings was when it was a very, very large customer [e.g. Bigger than Zynga] and the contract was 7 figures.

> price is guaranteed,

Prices are often fixed in outsourcing contracts at a per-project price with a list of deliverables and features.

> costs are lower because dev talent isn't in house (no holding cost).

I've worked with outsourcing companies where they paid per-project or per-hour a specific project [usually projects under $20k] as their sole model.

I worked with 2-3 at a time and just kept the apprised of my availability, one usually was the bread and butter while the other two handed me small projects [usually 80 hours or less].
This will prevent running JRuby 9000 in (today's) Google App Engine.

The project has been drifting away from App Engine support for some time now. See #2304.

https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/2304
|he is regarded by many as the father of modern cryptography

No, he both isn't that and isn't regarded as that either.
I have an old X60s which I discovered only a few days ago is compatible and indeed well-supported by coreboot/libreboot. I intend to put it on there soon. You can pick up old X60s's on ebay for not very much money ($100 or so).
Mechanical vs. Cognitive are good adjectives! Maybe cognition is more mechanical than not.
You'd need a good way for developers to reach out to those who submit beta reviews to get more details. Right now, a review complaining about a crash only alerts the developer; there's no way for a developer to request the crash log from the user.
I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find the same in Vietnam. But it's not a culture-wide attitude.
Many of the non-Apple, non-IBM-clone personal computer companies bundled machines with their own OS. Doing that may distinguish Apple from Vector, but it doesn't explain why Apple alone succeeded of the non-IBM personal computer firms of the time (being the best established when the IBM onslaught came, OTOH, might.)
"Many years"... it was within 2 years.

The entire muslim community contributed their memorized Quran together with written parchments (to double check) in the making of the "official" copy.

Making this into a community-wide project and hence nobody could say that the Quran was incorrect.

Thereafter unreliable parchments were destroyed.
I'm very interested! I was just about to start the slog of navigating ODesk/Elance to get something built but already feel more trusting towards your approach. We shall see...

BTW, portfolio doesn't seem to work:
trygigster.com/portfolio errors out
Part-time remote work that pays decently^? Ok, now you got my attention. Good luck!

^ I hope?
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Is there any guidance out there about when to use activerecord-jdbc-adapter vs this gem (for postgres)?
Yup.

Combining ocean acidification, thawing tundras, and burning forests, my hunch is the climate change has already entered a positive feedback loop.

So even if we stopped anthropocentric CO2 emissions altogether, things will continue to worsen.

(I just learned about ocean methane clathrate deposits. So I may have been too optimistic.)

We'll need to sequester carbon at industrial scale to save our civilization. And figure out how to stop the non-human sources.
How is your comment any more mature. It borders on the line of religious zealotry with the status quo who don't know what they are doing. It's like yes we produce a bunch of garbage. Sure a lot of people might die, but at least we are professional about it. Yeah people like you take this stuff very seriously. You guys are all grown up. The elite, just like all elite, are the blind leading the blind. They don't know what the fuck they are doing, but are sure damn well sure in themselves.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/03/global-wa...

11 billion * .10 = 1.1 billion

Right now:

11.3% of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.

That number will increase.
I don't know of anyone who defines "rent seeking" as broadly as you just have. You're getting at saying that any sort of money-lending with interest is "rent seeking" and that's not what I'm trying to get at either.

And I agree, business owners should be compensated for what they put into a business. Forever, if they don't keep putting something into it? I don't know about that.
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Assuming the latest hot startup would apply for your H1-B transfer, and that it would be granted.
No. It was 20 years.

"The Quranic canon is the form of the Quran as recited and written in which it is religiously binding for the Muslim community. This canonical corpus is closed and ﬁxed in the sense that nothing in the Quran can be changed or modiﬁed. The process of canonization ended under the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 23/644–35/655), which was about twenty years after the death of the Muhammad"

Edit, most of it is hearsay any way:

Zaid ibn Thabit, Muhammad's primary scribe, was assigned the duty of gathering all of the Quranic text. He gives an insight into what happened during the meeting between Abu Bakr, Umar, and himself:

"Abu Bakr sent for me at a time when the Yamama battles had witnessed the martyrdom of numerous Companions. I found 'Umar bin al-Khattab with him. Abu Bakr began, Umar has just come to me and said, 'In the Yamama battles death has dealt most severely with the qurra',[Reciters of the Quran] and I fear it will deal with them with equal severity in other theatres of war. As a result much of the Quran will be gone. “ 'I am therefore of the opinion that you should command the Quran be collected.'" Abu Bakr continued, "I said to 'Umar, 'How can we embark on what the Prophet never did?' 'Umar replied that it was a good deed regardless, and he did not cease replying to my scruples until Allah reconciled me to the undertaking, and I became of the same mind as him. Zaid, you are young and intelligent, you used to record the revelations for the Muhammad, and we know nothing to your discredit. So pursue the Quran and collect it together." By Allah, had they asked me to move a mountain it could not have been weightier than what they requested of me now”. (Al-Bukhari, Sahih,Jam'i al-Qur'an, hadith no. 4986; see also Ibn Abu Dawud, al-Masahif, pp. 6-9)"

The person ordered to compile the Quran by Abu Bakar said:

...By Allah, if he (Abu Bakr) had ordered me to shift one of the mountains it would not have been harder for me than what he had ordered me concerning the collection of the Quran... So I started locating the Quranic material and collecting it from parchments, scapula, leafstalks of date palms and from the memories of men.[Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari, 6:60:201]

"So I started looking for the Holy quran and collected it from (what was written on) palm-leaf stalks, thin white stones, and also from men who knew it by heart, until I found the last verse of Surat at-Tauba (repentance) with Abi Khuzaima al-Ansari, and I did not find it with anybody other than him. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 6, p. 478).[23]
Clown car + yakkity sax
Robotic flatbread maker gets $11.5M from two venture funds
> This will prevent running JRuby 9000 in (today's) Google App Engine.

It'll prevent running it on the current Google App Engine Java Runtime.

It won't, AFAICT, prevent running it in a Google App Engine Managed VM, which is an option on today's Google App Engine.
No, what is against the guidelines are (a) taking swipes at other users, (b) calling names, and (c) posting unsubstantive comments.
Where you said...

"Rent-seeking behaviour is the attempt to increase your share of the wealth, by means other than generating additional wealth. When you're the one who owns a profitable company, you're the one generating that wealth."

When you own a company, you and everyone else who shows up that day to work are the ones generating that wealth. Ownership by itself doesn't generate anything. Activity does.
I have a hard time believing this estimate. What are you basing that figure off of? That's senior-level software engineer money for freelancers who are mainly students trying to "earn some beer money" and programmers at Google wanting some extra projects.
There's a pure-Java fallback that has most of the same functionality. But if you wanted precise POSIX function calls you probably weren't running on App Engine anyway.
> But what do you propose we do if a developer gets sick or has to travel?

I don't know what that means. Those both seem like silly reasons to add more devs to a project.

Unless you're talking about long term sickness (like cancer) or travelling around the world for a few months, but that's not really the expected usages of those phrases.
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Discovery in Israel pushes back dawn of agriculture to 23,000 years ago
Nearly the only thing that has come out of Finland in the past 2000 years of recorded history: Angry Birds
Libh2o (the protocol implementation) support both libuv and evloop (our tailor-made event loop).

The default event loop of libh2o is libuv, since libuv is popular and has bindings to other protocols (which you would need if you want to implement an application using libh2o).

OTOH the standalone server uses evloop for performance.
It weighs thousands of pounds (of aluminum!), using a 600-pound custom frame and an even more massive support structure, using 6,400 thread spools, comprising over 200,000 custom parts, and requires 24/7 temperature and humidity control, all to display an 80x80 pixel 0.02k color image. This took a year and a half to build, and it will only run for one week.

Kudos to the marketing department for giving BREAKFAST (WHY IS IT IN ALL CAPS?) employees a super fun job for a year and a half, but holy cow, this is a huge waste of time and money. They could have gotten more out of Facebook ads.
Now that you mention it, it would be great to have a browser plugin that would gather links to several discussion sites (HN, metafilter, the subreddits, etc.).
As I mentioned, it doesn't sound like you've been to Europe. In a larger city in Germany for example, trains are running up to every two minutes around town, while long distance trains to other cities are every hour.
Jython doesn't use advanced functionality like invokedynamic.
how does it work with frameworks? f.e. Symfony? there are usually lots of unused framework's code in almost any project
Travel.state.gov disallows Congress in their robots.txt
I will order the book. really appreciate your advice
Exactly. Given the choice between inventing the future and writing the next myface-for-hamsters, which would you do?
I think the author is more concerned about the source of the links rather than the style.

A file separate from the content could contain links and each one could be anchored to the top, bottom, or a particular phrase using ordinary regular expressions.

/ordinary regular expressions/href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
/$/text="This link is at the bottom";href=http://news.ycombinator.com

An observation: promoting 3rd party links to first-class status need not deny the author the ability to create hotspot links. I, for one, would configure my memex to always show the author's own links (of any style, as an overlay) and also any links that my friends and family might have created.

I'm not sure how my memex could locate links made by people I don't know. But, I imagine that the federated wiki people or the DHT people or the BTC people might have some ideas.
“That's not a compiler, I don't pay you to design”
Apple has had a longstanding but unstated policy that the deletion, destruction, or damaging of a user's data during any sync-like operation is perfectly acceptable. Because I've been burned by this policy repeatedly over the years -- not just in Apple's cloud services but also with local USB syncing -- I avoid such services like the plague. That Apple Music carries on this tradition is no surprise.
`Your Skills` section needs review:

Rails but no Ruby

MySQL but no Postgres

Docker but no chef nor puppet

etc.

Might be good to sort by either type of technology or alphabetical etc.
Traffic signs? Sure. But what was shown in the article was a replacement for confusing parking signs which would be much less critical for passing cars to immediately be able to discern.

I really think that regardless of how much you need to squint to make out a parking sign it would still be better than some of those monstrosities that have about 20 exceptions depending on the time of day.
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So LGBT people, and women are now the powerful people in society, as part of a 1,000 year culture struggle? What next, blame the Jews?
Yep, I've put up money for it myself, and regularly be on twitter for other folks to do the same. I wish a big company that uses jRuby would step up and support the tools they use :/
>>But 100 hours a week, for years? There's something bigger going wrong there--either you're trying to sell something people don't want, you've hired a lot of the wrong people, or whatever, I don't know. That's not typical, and it's certainly not praiseworthy.

You really need to get back to us after you've tried starting your own company. Even when you're not officially on the clock, it's impossible to put it out of your mind. I do not envy start-up founders; I'm quite happy with my inflated bay area engineer salary and up-to-date skillset that allows me to simply jump ship or swim to the next luxury yacht when the current one capsizes. (Honest) founders really pour their heart & soul into the business and have probably made some personal-life sacrifices and trade-offs.

Founders more than deserve the lion's share of any benefits yielded by the company.
You can disagree with the scientists but they sure as hell are not the elite.
I read the GP post as complimentary out of admiration for their work ethic. But perhaps that's because all of the individual Romanians I work with happen to be skilled and hardworking people.
No, its just a drag to TDD with.
I worked with the author the day this happened. The developer was working on an architecture diagram when his manager screamed at him to stop drawing and get back to coding.
You're right. It kind of depends on whether you look on the DB as a datastore, that is the DB and the Rails app are the same "system" with regards to other parts of the infrastructure, or of the database is system by itself, that provides services to other systems.

It depends on what the DB does, really - eshop app + db might be the first one, while operational data warehouse would be the second. Usually you end up with something in the middle - like the eshop app, that provides views with summarized data to be ETLed to reporting.
As a consultant/freelance engineer, this might be useful. It always takes way too much of my time trying to wrangle the non-product details from clients. My solution so far is to have a partner deal with that so I can focus on the software.
Thank you, I will try this. And I would love to see such a post.
Unsurprising, since verification breaks things users want and provides no security in return.
"Why do you want to leave?"

"Oh, I'm not sure that I do, but I've always thought that your team at Acme Widgets would great to work with, so you can only imagine how excited I am to actually get the opportunity to talk to you about this exciting position."

Bullshit questions deserve bullshit answers.

If the question isn't bullshit, "I don't drink" is enough...and a useful tool for screening future employers over their work culture.

Good luck.
The flip side is that whilst "contributed everything I can and need a new challenge" is a perfectly good, if uninteresting answer for leaving GenericCo after two years, it's an obvious dodge of the truth for someone keen to leave a notionally key role at GlamourousStartup before options vest. How can that not be a massive red flag with any screener?

Edit: There's also the fact that interviewing is a two way screening process, and anyone that thinks is capable of taking offence at homophobia is a "no hire" red flag could and should fail the OP's own personal screening process (assuming they're not working in a country or period of history where few firms aren't actively dismissive towards the concept of homosexuality). Sure, over-elaborating on how bad the place was to work (any competent interviewer won't press for details) is a red flag, as is appearing to be more desperate to leave than interested in the job on offer. But "they're an excellent company in many respects, but I feel I'd be much happier in an environment where I didn't feel I was constantly having to turn a blind eye to several coworkers' derogatory remarks about minorities" doesn't sound like it should alarm anyone the OP might actually want to work for
This is very clever. I remember first coming across this problem a long time ago when improvising my first "vector"-based program on the 286, which I programmed in Pascal at the time. My "solution" was to pre-calculate the values and throw them into a lookup table - which in hindsight was pretty clumsy compared to this.
F6 focuses the address bar (or rather, different "panes" of the application in order; you can use it similarly in Explorer, for example). F4 indeed works in the way they described by focusing the address bar and opening the drop-down.
> What made Apple SO different from all the others that failed?

Others have given decent answers, but, honestly, I don't think Apple was all that different. As you noted, "... even then, just barely."

We tend to think of Apple rather differently, today. But remember that Apple wasn't really such a big deal 20 years ago. The Apple that just barely made it through the 1980s and the Apple that reworked NeXTSTEP into OS X, brought out the iPhone, etc., are rather different beasts. They share a name and some corporate infrastructure, but not a lot else, really.
With regards to corruption in Romania, contrary to the implication of the article, there has been a big push to eliminate it. Some articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/opinion/romanias-anti-corr...

Romania anti-sleaze drive reaches elite:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-31537338
Abu Bakr - the first Caliph - compiled the very first copy. Uthman "standardized" it.
One potential problem is that instead of assessing problem objectively, since the payout is based on "most popular" answer, people will choose which answer they expect to be most popular, rather than the one they necessarily believe in. This drives down the value of the crowdsourced data - because it's not real "insight", is already tainted by the very gamification you're looking to monetise!
The same bug still exists in JRuby 9000, and was in fact the first thing I ran into when trying it.

Considering threading is the main selling point, one of the commonest patterns of regexp use being completely and dangerously broken with them would have seemed like something of a showstopper.
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Oops. Misread "survive to the 90s" as "survive the 90s"
well we are Europeans and were on the vacation. dealing with court and police is the last thing you want to do on your holiday
Yeah, its not even about having that disqualify me, I'm just trying to keep any information about the social conditions of my current role quiet so I don't burn any bridges.

I'm unfortunately not in SV and the tech community is much smaller here. The startups founders are fairly well connected with other founders and I don't want it to become a they said/they said that gets me black listed.
>His words bear extraordinary prescience today, as we face a swelling tide of political unrest, ethnic violence, and global conflict.

Doom sells but that doesn't make it true. Someone should send him a copy of Pinker's book.
No, we interviewed lots of people from "GlamorousStartup", and I can't remember hearing a single negative story. In our warm-up calls, we did ask some things about previous jobs (mostly to calibrate how much help we'd be offering for the technical interview).

It's just not true that a boring answer to this question is a "massive red flag". That's terrible advice to give.
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The irony is that YC would never invest in a startup that had its technical side outsourced through a service like this. But I can definitely see the market potential. Good luck guys.
True, but many teams running Ruby in Managed VM will use opt to run YARV directly.
RMS advocates such a law.

In the meantime, to increase the amount of software that does come with source, he decided to replace critical proprietary software with free software that requires any derivative to come with source. Decades later, the law is still nonexistant, so the workaround has turned out to be quite important.

Copyright is just the tool that happened to be useful for implementing the workaround.

Freeware is irrelevant to the discussion, it is just proprietary software that happens to have a zero price.
> (Fully encrypted DNS can only fail in even more ways than dnssec.)

The main reasons DNSSEC fails frequently are:

* pre-computed signatures, rather than online signing
* a demented, overly complex protocol
* signatures that expire rapidly

Maybe tptacek can name some others.

The only DNS encryption people are currently using (DNSCurve/DNSCrypt) does per-packet encryption, with a very simple protocol involving only a single ciphersuite designed by djb, and no signatures. This makes all the difference in the world.

If encryption were so bad then people wouldn't be using TLS, SSH, etc. It's the terrible design of DNSSEC that has poisoned efforts in DNS security.
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Hold on. I'm not saying candidates shouldn't qualify culture before accepting jobs. I'm saying they should do that after the job offer, when they have the most leverage and the least to lose.
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