skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(I skipped over the Soylent part because I assumed it was just a paid advertisement)

This is authored by the founder of Soylent. Slightly different than a paid advertisement but most likely similar content
For people with attention to detail and notice when icons are not updated and other design inconsistencies they are probably far better suited for OS X. Typical windows users don't notice those things so imagine Microsoft didn't focus on them in this version. May take until 11 or 12 to get all those things refined. (And yes mac has had similar issues but far less in release versions).
Apple is testing its own phone service
They don't have the domain expertise, so it's comparatively easier to trick them with some startup buzzwords and a slick "vision".
If you look at GDP per person in the population, California is only 14th in the US ($58K per person -- Delaware at #1 is $112.K per person GDP), so they have room to more efficiently make that GDP per person than they do. Delaware does have a higher CO2 emission rate per capita, tho (nearly 50% more than California)
Nice post and especially your blog post "gitwikxiv". So many models & projects are already out there: PaperBricks, http://knowen.org/, https://www.authorea.com/, https://casetext.com/, https://www.sharelatex.com/, https://selectedpapers.net/, http://stacks.math.columbia.edu/, https://www.codalab.org/, https://pubpeer.com/, http://thinklab.com/publications

With GitXiv as one commenter also implied we really want to focus on building a bridge between the 2 core issues of making real research possible/replicatable: articles & code (of course with the 3th even more difficult problem to solve being "data"), as well as building a community around it.
Another point of focus is making everything what goes on with GitXiv as transparent as possible, ie by having public "issues" at github (https://github.com/samim23/GitXiv/issues), and open discussions at our wiki: https://github.com/samim23/GitXiv/wiki/Thoughts-on-GitXiv

Jess: Let's have a hangout for sure!
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Engineer, Operation Manager, Pharmacist
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Very useful! - but i'd humbly ask why any programming font set with a non-struck zero would be associated with a green indicator, (e.g. Droid Sans Mono, Luxi Mono). Perhaps the associated green/red don't mean what i think they might?
I like some aspects of the new system, including sharing payment methods, and so on. For a typical marriage-like situation, it is wonderful not having to log over to my wife's account to gain other prime benefits (shipping was shared, but things like prime video were not). Now both of our accounts are flagged prime for all purposes as far as I can tell.

That being said, when my kids are older, it would have been nice if we could grant them this stuff also, and as far as I can tell that is not the case. Only the two adults get the prime, while the kids get just the shared digital library.

What's interesting is that Amazon has been doing nice things in the kids department like the "Amazon Allowance."[0] Effectively a parent can give a kid some money, and they can use it on Amazon however they wish. So not being able to grant the kids prime on their account effectively means that a lot of the allowance will wind up going to avoidable postage charges (particularly on smaller orders of sub-$25, which I'd imagine are things an allowance might be utilised on).

I almost don't wonder if Amazon shouldn't change prime in the following way:

- Prime postage is now tied to a physical address (not Amazon Account), regardless of sender (e.g. gifts are now prime eligible).

- The prime account holder gets a certain number of prime "credits" they can use to send prime packages to other physical addresses, like friends and relatives.

Effectively this means if you pay $100/year your address is now Prime flagged. So no matter who sends the item, it gets prime postage. So all household members, or people sending you gifts.

Such a change would be controversial, but it would solve the "household problem" since now whoever lives there gets the prime no matter what their relationship to the account holder or similar.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=11453461011
I am doing my thesis (in the general area of video classification) as an electrical engineer in a Greek University and I am currently running some experiments that try to learn a video representation from local features (kernel codebook encoding) using an SVM variant and stochastic gradient descent.

I could use a couple of c4.8xlarge instances to run the experiments trying out learning parameters. I am currently "competing" for time in the lab's cluster so I end up running the experiments in whatever computer I find available.

Anyway, thanks for the opportunity, it is really generous of you.
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Doutore is an EMR software company focused on the Brazilian Market. We're bootstraped and we currently have hundreds of active users.

We're looking for an expert in Ruby on Rails to help us with some key challenges. We're looking for probably 10-hour week max.

email me: rails [at) doutore com
I thought F@H was processing dependent?
I don't know if I am allowed to use it. It's from Apple, no?
Is there actually going to be enough lithium to build the many millions (billions?) of kWh of batteries to do this?

There are other big problems too with this. Firstly, the discharge/recharge rate - are these batteries actually able to pull in all this spare capacity and discharge it quickly enough - and also there is some loss going from AC to DC to battery to DC to AC which changes the picture a bit. Less of an issue if you have them right next to the solar, as you can push DC straight in, but otherwise an issue.
Looks like all the font strings are images (makes sense, most of those aren't web fonts). I would also love retina images, since fonts can look vastly different between say, a MacBook Pro, a windows desktop at 1080p, or a low resolution remote desktop.
SEEKING WORK - Philly or remote

Clojure, ClojureScript, React.js

Isomorphic ClojureScript app in production, full stack web apps, ReactJS expert (using since released in 2013), built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops.

https://github.com/dustingetz https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingetz

Email: dustin.getz@gmail.com
Eager (https://eager.io) | Boston, MA | Full Time | Interns

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The Eager App Store makes it possible for non-technical website owners to use many of the open-source and SaaS projects we developers use every day. We're looking for a passionate engineer to devote his or her focus to creating apps (written in JS/CSS), curating apps from the open-source community and existing SaaS businesses (Disqus, Google Analytics, etc.), improving the tooling and resources for developing apps, and improving the Eager App Store itself.

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We're a team of 15 engineers (21 total) building an Open Science platform to bring the world's research online, available to all, for free. With over 23M registered users (that's a user-to-engineer ratio of 1.5M to 1!) and growing at 10% per month, we're looking to reach to 60M registered within the next year. We're currently working on products which accelerate the speed of paper peer review and publication.

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It's impossible to win with converting a fossil fuel X into something and then to convert back to fossil fuel X, because of basic thermodynamics. If you want to convert fossil fuel X to something to convert to fossil fuel Y, you may be able to "win" over the current situation but you will very likely never get to get zero emissions in the system as a whole, because of the first step. It isn't necessarily impossible to burn X tons of CO2 and pull X+delta tons of CO2 out of the air, depending on the exact binding energies of the chemicals involved (which given that both are fuels, probably don't have an advantageous difference you can exploit), but you'll certainly be paying somewhere else to do it. And given that pulling CO2 out of the air at scale is quite challenging even on its own merits, it probably can't win in a practical manner.

If you're going to pull CO2 out of the air you pretty much have to be using a non-CO2-generating power source to do it if you want to net CO2 withdrawal.
Canadian companies should mention USD or CAD salaries I feel?
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Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies:
- Web development (advance): Python (Django, Flask, Numpy, SciPy), Javascript (AngularJS, JQuery), WebGL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Other languages/technologies C++ / OpenGL (intermediate), Racket, Octave/Matlab (intermediate), Torch (basic-learning)
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Email: r.canepa.g@gmail.com
His point I think is that collective cooking/eating is more efficient. I don't have the numbers, but it makes sense.
If I recall correctly Marco Arment started Instapaper all by himself and kept working on it all by himself until it was not feasible anymore, and that's when he sold it.

I think the solo-programmer startups are usually something among these kind of projects:

- a webapp for simple or largely automated service

- smartphone/tablet app

- smartphone/tablet game

...
I qualified my statement with "typically". Here's some whalesong:

;; Set the background green, and show some content
;; on the browser.
(void (call-method body "css" "background-color" "lightgreen"))
(void (call-method ($ "<h1>Hello World</h1>") "appendTo" body))

I love Racket. Yet, I'm not enough of a masochist to use Whalesong instead of Javascript just to prove my love.
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Experience: Wordpress installation, child theme and plugin design, PHP/MySQL and JS. Interned for a small social media startup, improving hairy PHP code dramatically. Worked briefly for an online lawnmower parts group and designed part of their catalog backend.

I also have academic experience with C# and built a small desktop application for my college. Currently about to finish with an associates' degree in Business application programming.

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There is a whole group of tools for transfers when your data is big: http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/HOWTO_move_data.html
> If there's a "small" or "simple" FORMAL language specification, it means there's a "large" INFORMAL language out in the wild.

This is exactly right, pushing language features into user-land just leads to a load of competing equivalent solutions that developers must learn. The language is simpler but it becomes harder to actually use.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9974374
> Dania Beach, FL

Not a job location I ever expected to see on HN. :) I would like to come by and see y'all when I'm back home again in December.
Location: Philly

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript

Isomorphic ClojureScript app in production, full stack web apps, ReactJS expert--using since release in 2013, built two enterprise grade frontends in ReactJS (designed and led implementation - 50 to 100 pages of wireframes), two open source React libraries, multiple conference talks and workshops. Looking for Clojure and ClojureScript work. Javascript gigs = contract only.

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I wouldn't mind seeing other ones you have on the subject.
Interesting! It would be cool to see this applied to other websites like Reddit and HN.
The red/green are anti-alias indicator. They're stay red for bitmap fonts even with AA toggled on to signal that they cannot be anti-aliased. Maybe I should make that clearer
Tutorial: Assets management done the easy way
The News on Java 9
Amazon was generous enough to give you the credit trying to help your company, and in general is extremely helpful to the startup community as a whole with AWS credits. Maybe you should just give it back to them so they continue to be so kind in the future.

(On the other hand, the main reason AWS gives out these credits is to get startups hooked on AWS, then charge borderline outrageous prices once the credit is done for, profiting billions) :)
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Interested in working on crawlers and distributed systems? Interested in functional languages like Clojure and Scala? Gracenote is hiring a senior software engineer.

Gracenote is the top provider of entertainment information, creating industry-leading databases of TV, movie, and music metadata for entertainment guides and applications. Our technology serves billions of requests daily to hundreds of millions of devices around the world.
You’ll be working a set of crawlers responsible for discovering, acquiring and storing data and applications that make use of that data.

If interested email me at this username at gracenote. No 3rd parties, no recruiters please.

Responsibilities:
- Write well-designed, well-tested code that performs well

- Design, implement, and own new systems – from design to operations

- Occasional on-call operations / support
- Reduce technical debt in existing systems (refactoring, testing…etc)

- Proactively look for ways to make our software more scalable, reliable and fun

- Help change the way we think about solving problems

Requirements:
- Strong background in Java, Ruby, Python or another OO language (our current stack)

- Solid understanding of the full web technology stack

- Familiarity with a variety of (relational and non-relational) databases/data stores

- Experience with AWS (or another infrastructure platform)

Pluses:
- Experience with web crawling, scraping

- Experience with Clojure, Scala, Hive, or Go

- Experience with functional programming, functional architectures

- Experience with data processing architectures with Kafka, Storm, or Spark.

- Experience with ZooKeeper, etcd or similar

- Experience with Chef

- GitHub repo / Open Source
"I haven't watched TV in more than a decade."

So it seems like you would be the worst possible person to ask if TV has objectively gotten "worse".
This is great but seems unsurprising - It would be weird if wind turbines supplied less power than the year earlier.
My family and I moved to Bend. Even 35 C here is pretty tolerable if you're not out under the direct sun, because the humidity is so low, and there's often a bit of breeze.
If he stands by his principles then it should be OK.

For me it would be OK as a “counter-measure” against an ad blocker.
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> Most sites, almost all, would break if browsers suddenly disallowed third party scripts.

I don't find that to be so. I use Firefox with AdBlock, NoScript, RefControl and Disable WebRTC. In NoScript, I've flagged third-party ad servers and trackers as untrusted. In RefControl, I block third-party referer by default. I use private browsing mode, and accept third-party cookies from visited sites, but all cookies are deleted when Firefox closes.

I do allow useful content from third-party scripts. But that doesn't include crap from Facebook etc. And it's very rare that I need to enable other third-party scripts to get what I want from sites. If there's something truly evil that I want to read, I fire up a LiveCD VM.
I still don't understand why that policy's fair.

I recently left one company and joined another, and am trying to convince all my former coworkers to apply here as well because I genuinely think it's a way better place to work.

If you can't compete on the labor market fairly, you deserve to lose employees. Policies like the one you describe are just a market inefficiency that doesn't have a real justification for existing (outside of your own interests).
An example use case: shuffle terabytes of plant genomic data to a TACC supercomputer, crunch data, and shuffle gigabytes of results back.
How do you know that works?
Fair confident this is all satire. Read his post on dating. Same vein of humor, but more obviously a joke.

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1005
I am imagining that what they're going for will be biotech problems that can be addressed as software problems in disguise (since they would most certainly be in the right place and connected to the right people for that). Those connections may be worth more than the $2M or from SBIR (assuming they reached phase II), for companies that are fundamentally software shops.

Otherwise, I'm very curious what their strategy is for breaking into the bioscience and technology space in a broader sense, and if that would lead them to opening shop in other metro areas outside of the bay area.
Talking and writing about data with WALTER
This really isn't that impressive in my eyes. LINX in the UK offers a 100gigE peering port for £6,000/month. What am I missing here?
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> To me that appears to be the strangest way to express a loop in any language I've used (and I've used a lot of them).

Well, given that repeating some piece of code N times involves only two "entities", the code to be repeated and the number of repetitions, i see it as a very natural OO design decision to put that looping logic on a method on one of those two entities. The other possibility would be to make the "code" object respond to a method that tells it how many times to execute:

{ puts "Hello, alternate Ruby" }.do_times(10)

It might be more intuitive to do so if the first object you have is the code you want to repeat, but it doesn't read as nicely :P

> It also really bothers me that in ruby you can invoke a function on a null value to see if its null (myvar.nil?). That's really messed up...

Can you elaborate in this please? I personally think that making nil something else than an object on OO language wouldn't make much sense. It would be an unnecessary complexity to stipulate "the way we interact with objects is through message-passing, except with nil, on which you cannot pass any message, but instead you have to compare it by identity to a global value named nil". Nil being a regular object that responds to things like .to_s or .nil? is pretty handy.
The problem is that non-retina images get doubled in size on a retina display, so it looks blurry. I suggest providing 2x sized images. You can use media queries to show different sized images or rely on down-sampling. There's a few different strategies.
Location: remote
Remote: yes
Willing to travel: yes
Willing to relocate: maybe
Technologies: art communication language inter-dimensional interfacing
Résumé/CV: askme
Email: mmphosis at yahoo.com
Thank you! Nice you highlighted comparison of little nasties like lowercase "l" (ell) nearly indistiguishable from a "1" (one) (like "Envy Code R") (horribly burnt by that in a Fortran program long ago with "k = l" instead of desired "k = 1" (i didn't write that, just spend days of debugging it))
After I had landed my first job out of college (10 years ago), I got an offer from a company like that in the midwest.

It took them 9 months from the interview to get back to me with an offer (which is why I was already working somewhere else) and the offer was $30k for a one year contract.

If that's still typical of their hiring process, I'm not surprised they're having trouble hiring people.