skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you aspire to be a startup entrepreneur, take note. Stories are the most powerful form of communication you can use. Whether its your experience in working for Amazon, or a multi billion dollar pitch for your next startup.

Great piece.
I do wonder what the effect of this is on dairy farmers.
> but with rlwrap if you're use a read-line deficient implementation; clisp has it included

Big point. The raw sbcl repl really hurts unless you use a superior mode or at least rlwrap.
PDF: http://cl.ly/cmQ6
A deep dive into how Jet.com does user engagement
Routing around would happen. But putting her on the Performance Improvement Plan was inhuman.
ChrisChristie.com spying/tracking more than RandPaul.com
Blue Zones
The parts about Theodora are suspect, as there's only one source for them: the Secret History, which was clearly written by a disgruntled former palace insider. Furthermore, the style of writing and the accusations made are typical of smear campaigns of the time.

Given what we know of high-end prostitution of the time, a good chunk of the things described in that account don't make a lot of sense.
I guess one solution is that Amazon hires a separate leader, and then puts the other employee up in a separate position.

Ultimately, the employer will have to take a bit of a hit if we want employees to have more secure lives.
This anecdote says more about Philadelphia than it does about American public transit in general. The metro system here in DC, for instance, has automated ticketing kiosks that allow payment both by cash and credit card, as well as smartcard commuter passes that can be reloaded at stations or online. My experience with NYC's subway is more limited, but it seems to offer a similar range of conveniences.
We need Uber for software developers. The gaming industry is looking more and more like the movie industry. Long term contracts no longer make sense. The industry needs to adapt.
New AppCode 3.2 release brings a bunch of new Swift features
Interesting idea - an algorithm to pick a name for you. The future is curiously recursive.
Ah, but the fingers are the part I need most. Thanks, though.
I like your `git watch` alias! That's very slick.

I like my git prompt to show me my branch name, colored with grey (no changes), red (unsaved changes), or green (staged changes), with the depth of the branch, e.g.:

gknoy@host:~/dev/foo/[bar-feature:4]$

My prompt is based on: https://gist.github.com/tobiassjosten/828432

... but I've made slight modifications:

# I sometimes have very long branch names.
# I don't assume it's a hash:
if [ ${#GIT_BRANCH} -gt 40 ]; then
# GIT_BRANCH="(no branch)"
GIT_BRANCH="${GIT_BRANCH:0:40}..."
fi

and, at the end of `git_prompt`:

branch_depth=`git rev-list HEAD --not --remotes|wc -l`
echo "[$git_color$GIT_BRANCH$c_reset:${branch_depth}]"
> Most of America is for the ACA, but against Obamacare, it all depends on how you phrase the question.

Citation needed. I can't believe that without some kind of evidence. I can believe that the wording of the question matters, but not that it's "ACA" vs. "Obamacare."
I use Linux full-time at work (Kubuntu ftw) and Ubuntu/Raspbian at home with the exception of my main desktop. I went Linux-only for a couple of years back in 2009. I came back to Windows because I got a job at a gaming startup, developing a game in Unity3d and using the .NET/Azure stack.
The thing is do you want to build something or do you want to learn every JS framework and try to decide which is going to be the very best for what you are doing then build something.

" React, Angular, Ember, Backbone, Vue, Knockout, Mithril, Jade, Django, Rails, etc. "

Oh yeah I never built _____ cause I was busy learning a, b, c, x, y, and z frameworks and by the time you have those down there are three new ones. When most likely what you are doing any of the big ones will be fine so just pick the one you want to learn, or know already or whatever works best for you.
I live in Orlando and our "public transit" is definitely "poor people with no other option transit." When I visit places like Chicago, New York, or DC I'm always jealous of the quality of public transportation there.
Per capita, we aren't the richest country in the world.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/24/what-is-the...
Closure compiler is used for a lot of their main products from what I know (gmail...)
You need people who can cover in leadership positions - this happens all the time, how do you handle a leader going on a 3-week vacation to Bali?

Obviously, longer term absences are qualitatively different, but again not insurmountable.

More importantly though is that not only had someone else taken over her position permanently, but she was put on a PIP. A PIP is usually reserved for extremely poor performers who are on the razor's edge of termination, not an otherwise good performer who just returned from an extended absence.

But of course I know multiple people at Amazon who had PIPs used against them politically - a PIP is an employment lawsuit mitigation strategy, even though it's a "Performance Improvement Plan" there is never an actual intention to follow through, it's always the precursor to firing.

Her team being taken away from her because she went on maternity leave is extremely shitty. Her being put on a PIP immediately after returning is what takes this from "shitty" to "heinous".
He says "scoot down", not "scroll..."

Corrected:

Hi, this is senator Bernie Sanders. The good news is you're on the right website - and it's a really good website - the bad news is you're at the wrong page. Just scoot down to the bottom of the page and you'll find your way back home to where you should be. Thanks very much for being a part of our campaign.
Ahem: http://gocurb.com/
What do you mean, indie devs don't recognize this? Maybe some (or many!) of them do, but aren't interested in "putting out new, formulaic stuff constantly".

Some indie devs may be trying to get acquired by Activision or EA, the kind of indies who would grow to have 800 employees, and some may just be trying to do their thing in an environment that allows them to explore different gameplay and/or artistic choices. Not everyone's goal must be necessarily to sell thousands of copies at whatever personal cost.
The Setup – Forrest M. Mims III
Games is a hit driven industry and it is incredibly hard to predict what will become a hit. Incredibly great games can underperform for a variety of reasons. Even a bad release date could really hurt a title.

If one were to attempt to build a larger game company out of a single hit, one would have to create a company that would have a lot of variety of projects and that would be able to weather certain titles bombing. In practice it seems that this is incredibly difficult, as over the years the number of big game studios has steadily shrunk.
An entertaining video for anyone breaking into DevOps
No. I <3 React for single-page applications. Add in browserify, and you no longer have to deal with the dependency soup that is jquery / requirejs / backbone / angularjs, and you write software with far fewer side effects. It's. Freaking. Great.
I'd cast it more as looking for inefficient processes than as outright "problems" as most people who are not developers and doing their day to day jobs don't even perceive things as an issue so much as just how things are.

I've developed a few small software things that have saved people hours a week.

For example, I built a free tool [1] that lets you export a tagged subset of bookmarks from Pinboard into a nice format for inclusion in a webpage or Mailchimp newsletter. The person who I built this for wasn't really complaining about "gee, it takes me a couple hours to collect all these links, format them, etc." but when I saw their process, sheesh.

1 - http://www.bigbadassresourcelist.com
It saddens me that in the 21st century in the richest country in the world people having babies and being diagnosed with cancer have to worry about treatment and money, the last thing they should be thinking about.

What a sad state of affairs.
Anyone read Eric Schmidt "The New Digital Age", Eric talks about cyberwar, Luddites, and geo politics as it relates to tech and data collection for the government, just replace the word the future with the present.
It's making life easier for the user... this is one of the primary things that patents are here for, inventions which make life easier. And it's certainly not what would be considered "an algorithm" by any patent office - it has user interaction, in involves hardware, it is clearly not just a mere algorithm.
It's not that the idea of making your people the best they can be is lost. It's that our industry has accept job-hopping as normal, with the side-effect of limiting how much training a company is willing to invest in someone who stands a good chance of being gone in three years.

The notion has less been lost and more been re-evaluated in a new context.
I like the Aldi I used to go to in Kansas while working there. Cheap, clean and no one bothers you. It actually was a better experience than Walmart, even for this American. They had cool, better carts too!
"Germany enjoys a healthy pro capita income"

Locally walmart means absolute junk quality for poor people who wait in long lines. The description of Germany is a good fit for retail in general, but not walmart. This truth can't be stated in a commercial publication, walmart spends too much money on advertising, but I think it fairly obvious.

Now Target could have possibly made it. Or maybe walmart could have made it in far southern or eastern Europe in very poor areas.
Yes and, since I had a good manager, I was rewarded when "the next person" came along and the amount of time required to onboard dropped from one month to two weeks.

Everything in that situation came down to documentation and I spent my first couple of days just chasing down the "correct" IT person to setup all of my accounts (company network, version control, bug tracking software, customer network, remote access, email - each required a different person and I had to ask around to find out who they all were). I commented that having one IT person who can handle everything would be ideal; but I had to settle for creating a list of "who to contact for what". This still shaved days off the next person's lead time.

Simple stuff like having a development machine ready to go (installing Visual Studio, an Office suite, etc) when the new person arrives really makes a difference. There was a learning curve w/r/t the actual system but the new person didn't have to switch gears between hunting people down, installing a myriad of in-house software with which they have no familiarity, and other general "drinking from the firehose".

I took some stabs at making the firehose drinking not as overwhelming; but I didn't do as well as I wanted.

The organization's attitude mattered, in retrospect. Bringing on new people took a significant amount of time (still does but it's better) and everyone did what they could to help me document the process. I imagine if the organization had not been incentivized to help me, then I would have failed and "first write the documentation" would not have worked at all.
He has a chance, but not a good one. Hillary has weaknesses that can be exploited but whether or not he's the guy to do it is up in the air. He's had a pretty good surge in the polls recently.

His general election numbers are a lot worse than Hilary for the time being. Hillary has the advantage over every GOP candidate in the polls (Bush and Rubio are close) whereas Sanders only has the advantage over Trump (wouldn't that be a hilarious election?). A significant part of that is name recognition, but it's hard to say how much.

The conventional political wisdom is that he has little chance, but of course the conventional thought is only right most of the time, not all the time.

Be careful when people try to compare 2016 to Obama in 2008. Right now Hillary has double the support she did at this time in 2007. She never once broke 50% in the polls during the entire 2008 primary. She's been riding at a steady 60-65% so far this primary up until this month. With that said, Obama didn't surge ahead of her until February of 2008 so we have a long way to go.
Good. Such stuff should never have been patentable to begin with.
This is timely, as I’ve just gone through the worst onboarding I've ever experienced. It took two very long days to install an OS on a machine and get it to boot (I had to assembly my computer and then use the corporate installer, which failed multiple times with errors like “an unknown error occurred”). It then took me about a week to run the local project’s “hello world” (I was initially pointed to documentation that had been deprecated for months, and then when I found the right documentation it was incomplete and out of date). The actual process to get there was hilariously baroque; for example (if my email records are correct and I didn’t get duplicate emails from the system), I must have clicked through 18 EULAs to get a subset of the permissions I need. I promise, that’s worse than it sounds since the form to do so took more time to click through than you can imagine. It was a month before I could effectively do any work at all.

I originally thought that I was just unlucky, but when I asked around I found that I had an above average experience, at least among people near me who started recently. Unlike many other folks, I was actually able to get a username/alias, a computer, and an office. I don’t know what folks without a username do since they can’t even start clicking through the necessary EULAs to get permissions to do stuff, let alone do any actual work.

I’m not sure how it is in other parts of the company, but if you imagine that it’s similar and do some back of the envelope math on how many people get onboarded and how much losing a month (or more) of time costs, it comes out to N million dollars for a non-trivial N. And that’s just the direct cost of the really trivial stuff. It’s hard to calculate the cost of the higher level stuff that’s mentioned in the article, but I suspect that’s even more expensive.
How to Solve RC Delay
Ask HN: When compensation includes equity, can I ask proof of valuation?
Say a startup (early stage, no technical team yet) wants you to do consulting work or become their first technical employee and offers you a compensation package that includes cash + equity. The equity is based on a valuation that they (verbally) claim was established from their initial seed round. Is it appropriate to ask for confirmation/proof of that valuation and, if so, what would be the polite way to go about it? What would be other important things to ask/consider.
I never understood the appeal of the original game; it was just not interesting for me to fire birds to destroy ever more elaborate pigs' structures. I found Tiny Wings to be a much more pleasant game about birds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Wings

Maybe I am just less angry than most people? It would be nice to not lose touch with the other people if I hope to make something with mass appeal some day.
Bloomberg does this for its software engineers. I know a few of their software developers (one was EE, one ME) who were both very sharp guys that they trained while paying them for six months while they sat in classes (at Bloomberg from a current Software Engineer) to develop for the Bloomberg terminal. Great way to introduce new talent to the company while also training them for the role.
Take a look at the permissions before you install. Remember it can install or alter any software it wants to. And remember that the regular old Amazon app on Android (that was banned from the Play Store for sneaking in an app store) is automatically installing this for you without you asking.
My team is moving in that direction. Client-side React for our admin interface, server rendered React components for our customer-facing stuff.
Researcher catches AT&T injecting ads on free airport Wi-Fi hotspot
I think the documentary Taken for a ride(1996) [0][1] which showed up

on /r/Documentaries [2] is perhaps relevant to this discussion.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236785/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/3iflv6/taken...
This hammer is a little hard to screw things in with, but man I'm good with hammers!
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It's more important to have bounds checked access and to disallow pointer arithmetic. If you do that, pointers (addresses) are fine.
They certainly seem to love their Social Security.
Perfect Homemade Pie Crust Recipe (Video Included)
Build iOS apps using declarative json – from Apigee
Pretty nice UX, actually. Even a stereotypical grandma with no knowledge of the internet would probably have a high change of getting being told to scoot down to the nav below with a hand gesture and head back. Bet it retains users on the site better than a 404 without the video would.
Continuous Discussions: Ep. 24 Recap
I interpreted it as the distinction between someone who presents themselves as a political expert and someone who actually is.
New Uber Service Sounds Suspiciously Like a Bus
10 Essential Characteristics of Your First Employee
Specially with Google: "Bugs in Lollipop ? Check out M, it's going to have 923 bazillion new APIs, coming out soon™ !"
> If you have a highly dynamic application that needs to rerender frequently, and you want to avoid the heavy weight of template diffing, you’re looking at a grass-type opponent and ReactJS’s virtual DOM will be super effective. However, if you’re site doesn’t have those needs, CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE!

What if I really like the programming model behind React? My UIs are so easy to reason about now, and that's why I like it so much.
FreshBooks and Bigcommerce Support in Devart Excel Add-Ins 1.2
Hmm.. seems interesting. Could this potentially be a more easily understood and adoptable method of encryption? Although, I am not sure how secure it would be to use accounts from twitter or facebook, as they contain personally identifiable information.
I hadn't known what glove liners were made from. A set or two of silk liners underneath nytrile gloves might be just right.

I'm going to check out the photographer's gloves, too!

I never re-adjusted to cold climates after the service. I spent so much time in Asia/Africa that if it isn't 85 or 90, I'm looking for a sweater. You'd figure after more 20 years my body would have would reset.

Thanks for the leads!
Who DOES DevOps? Replay of the Video Chat with Gene Kim and Speakers of DOES15
Amazon Underground | Free apps, developers paid based on app usage
Unfortunately the market doesn't support selling a premium game at prices that allow anyone other than a small studio to keep the lights on.

We've been in the game since the beginning so I've seen the transition from selling a game at $4.99, then $2.99, then $0.99, and finally free with IAP. Despite being very successful we didn't enjoy that trend, but instead just adapted to it.

It's purely a response to the mobile consumer's spending habits and their complete unwillingness to psychologically accept the "risk" that the $5 or $2 game they bought might not be as fun as they hoped.
Seriously this is old news 20 years too late and not even good enough, checkout Phrack article, "smashing the stack for fun and profit" written in 96. This is what unleashed the flood gates. With sample codes to boot.
If recent events in the UK are any guide, they get really unhappy over low prices.

Your basic economic forces take it from there. Dairy farmers are like any other business in that many can stand to be more efficient.
That's my main gripe with this inclusion of every service and charity under the sun in government.
Sure, most people consider these things important, and sometimes many people could stand to benefit if it all goes well; but ultimately the problem is that everyone is expected to simultaneously have opinions on every policy in every sector at once, and come to some voting decision based on that, furthermore that their preferences should affect their entire jurisdiction or riding.
This is just unrealistic.
WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D
There is plenty of info, namely that the service doesn't exist now, and that we can recognize and allow its crawler if it ever becomes successful. It just doesn't make sense to allow every tom, dick and harry's crawler on the promise of some future benefit. That's like delivering and opening every spam e-mail in case there is a nugget in there.

The idea of saying yes to everything is comically explored by Jim Carey in the film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_%28film%29
Google's Secret Interview Process
What do you mean by a "spontaneous way to evolve these cells back to their original code"? The cells' genetic code (DNA) itself not changing, but not every gene in a genome is expressed in equal amounts or at the same time. In addition to encoding genes that "do stuff", the genome also codes for helper molecules which regulate the expression of these "action genes/proteins" in response to stimulus and environmental conditions. Modifying or replacing these helper molecules can therefore change the fate of the overall cell without even touching the main "action genes".
I did this, sort of, but had an interesting problem. Once i'd rewritten the onboarding documentation (because it was given to me as four or five different PDFs, which really isn't that useful, and doesn't tell you what you specifically will need to have set up), there was no place to put it; there were 3 wikis, none of which anyone really looked at other than for their own stuff. New hires wouldn't know where to look to find these onboarding docs and nobody else would know either.

So it just floated around and new hires basically started with the PDF all over again.
Agreed. I'm using React on a project that it is a bit heavy weight for simply because we're also using it on two projects that it is awesome for. The server side rendering is the excuse we're using, but the real reason is to maximize knowledge transfer.
Good for her that switched jobs and carried on.
In terms of Amazon ... who knows .. another company that don't give a shit about their people.
>What will likely happen is the same thing that happened when Sweden implemented their own financial transaction tax

I'm not going to argue for the efficacy of the tax your talking about, but the differences in Sweden and the US are too large to make a valid comparison.

The US is the largest economy in the world, a small tax that pushes people out of Swedish markets may not do the same here--US markets may be relatively more attractive.
YouTube Gaming
Very good clickbait, very little useful content.
Why?

React brings sanity to the web UI world. It brings reusable components! It brings composition. It brings modularity.

... and it's written by adults who know CS. Your UI is a pure function of your state. Who knew?

Why would I use anything else? Really? Do I want state-management spaghetti and over-engineering?

The only way I'd give up React for dynamic sites/pages is if the web standards groups made Web Components into something that was actually as good as React and baked this into the stack. But somehow I doubt that's going to happen. Web Components might turn into something good to compose UI but you'll probably still need React to add dynamic behavior to it.
15 Most Read Data Science Articles in 2015. So Far
Ask HN: What do you think of “Text for X” invisible services?
Magic blew up a little while ago and I feel like the topic has been a bit more quiet. Magic as a service is still going strong and there have been some more texting services that have appeared.

What do you think about this space in general?
What do you think will be the biggest challenges in this space?
Biggest questions to ask about products in this space?