skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still stand by my assertion that tech in general is undervalued but the VC and angel investments are overvalued.

I think it's true that a lot of the so called startups are "just" app ideas chasing user growth not actually businesses chasing profits.

The market only works if there is a constant liquidation of these startups which means a way to check whether they are actually going to stand a chance as independent companies making real money and sustaining it's own growth.

It doesn't work when the ponzi scheme that a lot of this looks like doesn't have a way to do that but is purely based on the ability to secure next round of funding.

The irony is that the world is filled with actual problems to solve, yet money are getting thrown after young founders who might know how to get a lot of followers but are really just tricksters finding ways to "growth hack" their way to popularity.

Clayton Christensen was right after all. "Be patient for growth, not for profit"
This guy has no idea what is he talking about:

> there is no reason to believe that the SEC will be smart enough to create some form of liquidity for all those widows and orphans who will put their $5k into the dream only to realize they can’t get any cash back when they need money to fix their car

The current requirements for equity crowd funding include either 1 Million in non-residential assets, or a reliable 200k annual income (based on 2 years of income, and it's 300k if you have a spouse).

This is fear mongering plain and simple. Atleast until the SEC proposes removing these requirements.
Do you think Muslims will trust a group that is to them a bunch of random British researchers that just happened to come across an old piece of parchment with Arabic writing just lying around in a British university? Also this is coming from a country that to them seems biased against them. That my friend is just plain crazy.
It's a shame we see so much denial about this. The rational response when shown that you are dramatically underpaid should be to take steps to get one's self back up to the level of the market. Sadly, the more common response is to call whoever filled you in a liar.

I've noticed this happening a lot in the last few years, as developer salaries have skyrocketed but guys who had secured jobs before that still quote 2005 numbers as though they were the case today.

You don't need to be in Silicon Valley to make six figures as a developer. Taking that on board rather than rejecting it offhand can only lead you to a better place.
That's my point, perhaps clumsily put. It's the stuff outside the heap that appears to take up much of the space.
Haseki İlaçlama Şirketi, İlaçlama Şirketleri
While the mission is really noble, I think you could benefit from distilling your message into a simple pitch. What does UpNote do and for whom?

At first I thought it's a place where people post their problems and others try to cheer them up (crowdsouircing moral support), but after reading few stories it seems that it's the opposite way - posters are trying to cheer up the readers with their stories.

The result is confusion.

On the positive side - the design is really nice and the photos+font really made me want read the stories.
If that's snark, you've missed my point. If urandom on your system is insecure, all sorts of other software on that system is also insecure.
ahahah! sadly I don't have so much money, so you can't steal it :)
Would you elaborate on how different is the life as the employee compared to the life of the founder (in your experience)?
That's very interesting. Do you happen to know a good place to read about that (i.e., more reliable than Wikipedia)?
I just tried out some of my favorite shortcuts I know from Sublime (I'm not saying Sublime invented these, just that I only came to know them through using it) and found them all to work:

- Move lines up/down with ctrl+shift+up/down
- Cut an entire line (ctrl+x)
- Multiple cursors (ctrl+alt+up/down)
- Comment the current line/selection (ctrl+'/')
- Delete the current line (shift+delete)
- Indent/dedent the current line/selection (ctrl+'['/']')

Still looking for the bindings to jump to matching braces/parens and to select the innermost block, but I'm sold. I'll be using this
I don't know, hence my diplomatic silence. :-)

I think it's to do with predictibility: back-compatibility, discoverability. You can get new coders who can get up to speed on a codebase. Business customers - who really really want things to keep working - value that. And business customers ultimately decide what is used. Similar to your point. BTW I'm not even sure expert lisp programmers can easily maintain their own code (or, perhaps more importantly, would want to).

Operator overloading: very cool, nice for matrices, complex numbers etc. But easily abused to create impenetrable code (you must first get across all the definitions). C++ had it, Java avoided it. Lisp is so flexible, it's like everything is an overloadable operator.

I'm not aware of such research on lisp; but the only successful lisp projects I've heard of are with hot-shot coders. BTW: reddit was originaly written in lisp (inspired by pg, who gave them the idea for reddit); they switched to python.
If there are thousands of people for whom it would make more sense to set up Wordpress to do this, there are millions for whom it wouldn't.
Wholeheartedly agreed. The ethnic cleansing by the Buddhist majority of the Muslim minority in Myanmar is horrifying right now.

I'm very disappointed in Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership thus far. I suppose we'll see what she does after the election.
Check out Upstart, LendingClub, and Prosper for a quick, reasonably priced loan.
The calorie value is an absolute upper bound. But some people have a gut flora that helps them extract more of those calories than the regular population. And some people have a gut flora that helps them not extract some of those calories.

And since gut flora can change over time a person eating 2000 might be maintaining weight one year but gaining weight the next year with no change in food intake.

I agree that people who say "I eat very little and I'm not losing weight" are mistaken.
I hadn't heard of the Buddhist Army, so I looked at your link in wiki. Kind of undermines your point.

> Though the majority of Karens are Buddhist, the Karen political leadership and leadership of the Karen insurgency have been overwhelmingly Christian, as a legacy of American missionary influence over the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Usually it's handled by putting some "nice words", like "encryption", in the copy text. Here they don't mention it at all, at least that feels a bit honest. Instead they chose to tell us that the phone is:

> supercharged with the cloud
This is old news.

A while back I was running out of space so I was selling old books and other things and thought auctions on Ebay would be a good way to get rid of the stuff since the stuff would be gone in 7 days.

Unfortunately it wasn't. Many of the auctions had no bidders, so this was not a working discovery mechanism.

One issue with eBay, the Amazon Marketplace and many other online marketplaces is that you don't get to see the bid and ask spread. That is, you might see somebody selling a book for $135 but you have no idea if anybody will buy the book at $135 or even $35 for the matter. This uncertainty creates conflict for anyone who wants to participate in the marketplace.

I did some searching on the web and found a market maker, who had me type in the numbers for my books, movies and video games and gave me a quote. I put the stuff in a box, and they paid me by e-check.

Another ebay killer is the emergency of Etsy. It used to be that you could find quirky things on Ebay that you could not get in stores, but now so many stores list inventory on Ebay and the quirky stuff is on Etsy.
great guide!! Did not know everything there.
The link between an asset's intrinsic value and its market value is elastic, and the elasticity depends on how quickly the money supply grows and the available rate of real returns elsewhere in the economy. In theory, a fiat-based monetary system can have unbounded monetary growth; in such a system, there is always a "greater fool" and the link to intrinsic value is broken entirely. Not saying this is actually happening, only that it can; it's simply the degenerate case of what we actually observe.
73% of Java Devs r more degree-driven. Swift and Python  54% and 55% respectively
You've essentially listed all the tasks that have been/are currently on my mental to-do list. I'm procrastinating by reading about procrastinating.
On the plus side- I've now registered for and posted my first HN comment after lurking for the better part of two months. See: PROGRESS!
probably you want to read the books by Charlie Hunt or Oaks if you can't find the vid
Once you know it is the first awakening, the probability of it being the first awakening is 100%.
From across the pond, I can tell you we do have heard of you.

I don't follow the Shangai listings (because to me they are kinda pointless) but if pressed to list canadian universities, University of Waterloo would definitely be there....
Amazon beats Netflix to offline movie and TV show streaming
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter Issue 146
It would seem that for people reasons Haskell isn't a good choice. However I would say that right now, for people reasons, Haskell is one of the best choices you could make.

Haskell is a very good flag for the kinds of people that make good programmers:

* It's hard to learn.

* Chances of getting a job are minimal, therefore people learn it mostly for their own self edification, and have the kind of grit that keeps them studying for a year or two with not external reward.

* Learning Haskell teaches you some fundamentals that aren't readily discoverable elsewhere.

No one is hiring Haskellers right now, so what you have is a pool of very able programmers, who would love to do Haskell (in fact many would love the chance to use Haskell so much that they'd take a pay cut to do so) and very few people offering them what they want.

If you're a start up, you want to hire a stellar team (possibly at a bit of a discount) and your domain is a good fit then you should seriously consider hiring some Haskellers and letting them write Haskell.
I understand this issue perfectly. In the referenced comic strip, I am Paula on the right and my children are on the left side.

What is left out in that strip, is that because of the way I grew up, I am left with a drive to accomplish things that I simply do not see in my own children. The hunger, the drive, the ambition are all from a crappy childhood. The drive is where my success came from, it is what gets me off the floor when life knocks me down. It is the drive that provides the "I refuse to lose" mentality.

I don't claim that this drive is all good. A lot of times I think it makes me a little obsessive and crazy in my need to succeed and reduces the number of days I relax.
I think you have it the wrong way around..

Anyway, the only way a tester can prove their point is by running the tests at their own expense and they need a fair number of them.. but Randi restricts them to just a few and set the rules on who, how its done and who witnesses it..

Which means even on successful tests, he and his skeptic friends will assume that they were tricked and then use fraud to mess with the results.. They are judge and jury, no witnesses. Randi is self-confessed fraudster and has been caught red handed as well.

This was an extract from a Randi Volunteer who saw the light :)

I realize that there is almost no interest in holding Randi and the MDC to the standards that they claim for themselves. I’ve always been in a ridiculed minority when I make these suggestions. It is clear that the Challenge is not about allowing people to demonstrate their claims, but rather about providing examples for our ridicule – partly for education, partly for group-bonding (my guesses). I am in the process of moving on from the idea of trying to persuade anyone to care to that of trying to get the JREF and Randi to be more upfront about this instead, in order to thwart criticism. I fully realize that this will be a futile effort as well. I also continue to tell people to quit smoking. (…)
Perhaps then it turns on a view of whether the nature of the universe is beautiful / compelling / inspirational. Sure, archimedes spirals are awesome. Pi is awesome. And, to me, golden spirals (about which, by the way, Fibonacci had no idea) are really really awesome.

The fact that other shapes, patterns, sequences, and algorithms exist (an utterly impotent and self-evident assertion) does nothing to diminish my appreciation for Fibonacci numbers or the golden ratio.

And there's nothing "flim flam" about that.
> The first known formal text of the Koran was not assembled until 653 A.D. on the orders of Uthman

Hence the predating. It was memorized and written on leaves, stones etc. before that. Even if it was assembled before the said date, still a large portion of official Islamic history is at stake.
The White House / Me
That famous Platforms rant was supposed to be Google-internal, right? Implication: he's still writing, but you have to be a Google employee to read it.

Google really does have the best benefit program in tech.

EDIT: I'm kinda joking, and kinda not. Maybe it seems silly, but this really will be on my mind next time I hear from a Google recruiter.
Your assertion requires an unbounded number of consumers, which last time a check the population of the earth was still finite.

You can fool all of the people most of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time - A. Lincoln
Because a) it's a hot topic b)it's an example of fallacious logic and bad conclusions
Don't forget the independent hacker hotrodders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQjcukphpA

There is a lot of interesting electric motor stuff in the junkyards now.....
> That the one where someone owned your machine or at least read everything in ~/.ssh and ~/Application Support.

Not if they didn't combine it with a sandbox escape, and Safari is sandboxed too. (The profile is less restrictive than that of Chrome, but both would disallow reading your SSH keys.)

Also, counting vulnerabilities like this is pointless, given that the two browsers share a very similar rendering engine and there's a not-insignificant chance that vulnerabilities in one engine apply to the other.
I think the real key is to accept that with well-defined interfaces, polyglot environments really do have an advantage, because different languages really do have sweet spots.

And fortunately, POSIX gives us those well-defined interfaces. POSIX process boundaries, pipes and Unix & TCP sockets are excellent interfaces to separate tools written in different languages. A well-written RESTful service listening on a Unix socket can work wonders.

If one's using POSIX, then one's team can work on each tool in the language which best suits it and in which the primary lead is most product. If someone moves on, then the rest of the team can support it because a) good programmers can pick up good languages quickly (I don't want to hire or work with mediocre programmers) and b) each service is small enough that anyone can understand what it does by looking at a small amount of code.
Link[0] to the platform rant for those wanting to see it. He then posted an "oops" post publicly[1].

[0] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

[1] https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...
The Third Generation Nest Thermostat
is it just me, or did this link kinda suddenly disappear from the first page and land on the third?
Don't forget the unpaid internships. Only wealthy kids can take advantage of those.
> How does it handle VAT MOSS on digital goods in the EU?

They don't. See: https://filesprout.com/support/what-do-i-need.html

"If after talking with a professional you are responsible for paying sales tax for your items, you'll have to add this into your pricing manually."
It looks like I agree entirely with you, just not the guy that started this whole thread by saying VMs are a security necessity.
There's two other major factors beyond rent control and zoning. One is cheap credit, insured by the government, and the second is the massive flow of foreign money coming into NA real estate. If you don't take care of all those factors together, you won't get true price discovery.

The other thing is, the moment you do get true price discovery, you're popping a giant financialized bubble, and potentially triggering another self-reinforcing downward cycle (we'll be facing that soon anyways though).
Ask HN: Does anyone have an exhaustive list of IP ranges for MS Telemetry?
I'd like to block MS telemetry at my network edge router in addition to registry tweaks / group policy / disabling services on all of my PCs.

Now that this has been out for a while, does anyone have a final / working list of IP address ranges to block (not hostnames) that won't also break things like Windows update & Bing search?
Ask HN: Where is the who's hiring thread?
It's 11am on the first weekday of the month and I'm not seeing the who's hiring or the freelancer thread.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE.

Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2015)
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your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015)
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3 Types of Software Architecture for Connected Devices. A Smart Light Bulb Case
Wow, very informative!
There's a bunch of information hidden away in University libraries.

These things get rediscovered every now and again.

Isn't it exciting, interesting, that there's a bunch of knowledge to be gained from stuff we already have?

Isn't "finding out about this stuff" relevant to hackers?

A bunch of Victorian authors were recently de-anonimised when we found notes by Charles Dickens. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/charles-dicke...

Here's an HN discussion about the possibility of dinosaur feathers being discovered in amber https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10145685

And here's how Al Jazeera reported the discovery of this Quran

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/world-oldest-quran-man...
I was wondering about this, so Interactive Brokers was still pretty solid during last Mondays market swings?
Practice without Talent might still produce useful output. Talent without Practice just makes for frustration.
Because C hasn't been a subset of C++ since C99, there are plenty of case where trying to do C in C++ is awkward or just not possible with standard C++:

First, you'd have to wrap your header inclusions in `extern "C"` to disable mangling, then you would have to make sure you static_cast all your pointers where normally `void*` conversions would have done its job.

Furthermore, all interfaces relying on designated initializers and compound literals are broken unless you decide to compile in nonstandard GNU C++.

And there are more incompatibilities, such as using `static` or `const` in array parameter declarations or using VLA in macros which are not recognized by C++.

It's all about using the right tool for the right job, ultimately.
How much we actually spend on forgein aid might surprise you
I could easily believe a large number of women signing up if the vast majority of them are either:

* people signing up with fake details to look for people they know (their friends/colleagues, local politicians, their own spouse, etc)

or

* sex workers who heard on the news about a great site to advertise their availability on that they were previously unaware of
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I'm an excellent communicator, and I will provide clear and concise status reports through every phase of the project. My job is to make sure you never have to worry about how your project is going.

I'm good with Ruby/Rails, JavaScript (plus many js frameworks), C#, Java, Go, CSS3, and HTML5.

I also have a strong foundation in computer science (B.S. in CS and constantly learning), and experience with many other languages and frameworks. I can handle anything you can throw at me, so don't hesitate to contact me if you don't see your technology stack listed.

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how are you handling redownloads later?

I used to offer my books through my web site directly, but I moved everything to leanpub because I didn't want to respond to 'bought six months ago, want to download again' emails any more.
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