skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think org-mode can do that too (and much more I guess).

http://home.fnal.gov/~neilsen/notebook/orgExamples/org-examp...
I think it's the inverse. Disregard for engineers seems like an anglo-saxon phenomenon to me. The Germanic countries are, of course, famed for holding engineers in high regard, but so do most third-world countries, and China.

I think the anglo-saxon opinion of engineers is caused by blurring the line between engineer and technician.
> They're all saints w/o blemish

You're appealing to extremes, which is a fallacy.

> Why would you think jobs that involve killing and torture be any different?

Why don't I think an exceptional job is an exception? It seems self evident to at least consider the possibility that killing people and cooking are fundamentally different.
I mentioned TNG as best science-wise, because after long holding the first place, it was defeated for me by Battlestar Galactica (reimagined), which I now consider as The Best Made Sci-Fi Series Ever. TNG may have had much greater impact on my life, but the new BSG is a work of art in ways TNG was not.
What kind of public acknowledgement you would expect them hanging him off the Washington monument?
A word of caution from a worried developer -

Implicit in this laundry-list of technologies is that learning the technologies implies you will be good at frontend dev.

This is simply not true and encourages the incorrect philosophy that knowing technologies makes you a good developer.

Aspiring frontend devs should just practice building and maintaining stuff, not worry too much about the technology, and that itself would put them on the fast track to becoming better developers. Along the way they will encounter problems and evaluate the pros and cons of various solutions to solve those problems. That's the valuable experience you need to be a successful frontend developer - not simply knowing what gulp or angular is.
I don't know what to think of Theranos.

On one hand, it is tackling a huge, important market and appears or appeared to have something legitimate.

On the other, so many of its tactics seem designed more to increase valuation than successfully bring its technology to market. It's obscenely celebrity board completely devoid of any relevant experience. A ridiculous $9b valuation on a paltry (relatively) $400m raised. 100s of SKUs on its product list when it should be perfecting on a just a few. The incessant PR campaign around its founder. Giving Jim Cramer an exclusive? Refusing to participate in WSJ article. Spending a whole day with Harvard Fellows. Hiring slick crisis handlers. Threatening whistleblowers. I'm sure the incumbents wouldn't be that excited about a patent-protected entrant into the market but it doesn't seem like they are the ones mounting the attack. It either works or it doesn't right? And it'll be easy to figure that out. Can someone help me out?
Yeah, I would not recommend it either, but I had to see for myself. It feels like a wasted opportunity for a pretty good show.
I think that last one should just be "You are the brute squad." That is to say, it's not an expression of shock, but an insulting quip.
How does this Backtrace file format differ from Microsoft's Minidump format which is also used on Unix as part of Breakpad?
I suspect that that's a joke. The author is German and "Speck" is the German word for "bacon".
It would probably be trivial to pre-process the text with the script if you wanted to - at the end of the day it has to just be outputting DOM elements.

I for one love that it doesn't require a preprocessing step, because it means that any text file can easily be rendered without any need to do anything else.

Fantastic job OP, I think this is really awesome. Would be perfect if this was integrated with github - I would do all my readmes with this.
I'm a hacker not a doctor but I've done some research into water purification, and here is what I've learned:

The body is mostly water. The task of removing microorganisms and fungus from water has been well studied.

Science knows of effective agents which are proven to purify water of micro-organisms like bacteria and also fungus. Some of these are being utilized in public water decontamination, and others while also effective are not used because they are less cost efficient to produce.

Water purifying agents have a varying range of effectiveness and also and a varying range of toxicity to the human body. There are a couple of agents in particular however which are both well tolerated by the body and are also remarkably effective at decontaminating water.

The one which my research indicates leads the pack in this area is a white crystalline salt named Potassium Iodide, KI. KI has been used widely by both the military and by campers in portable water decontamination.

A solution of Potassium Iodide in water (known colloquially as Iodine) was a leading and apparently very effective drug during the 19th century in the United States. There are doctors today who prescribe milligram doses of KI (many many times more than the RDA) to treat a wide array of ailments but especially in dermatology. They do not typically see serious side effects although they do frequently recommend monitoring thyroid levels while utilizing higher doses.
Is there a live demo somewhere, or just the github?
And nothing like the 95% percentile's experience. Game ain't based on sympathy.
Heaven forbid we take up valuable programming space for reality shows about trucking or pawn shops :-)
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still looks pretty unreadable to me, but then it is late on a friday.
Healthchecks.io looks really interesting, both because it's an open source django project and because I was disappointed with Dead Man's Snitch. DMS forces me to live within their timing for running checks -- If you have something that has to occur @ 3am every morning, you won't know it failed until midnight UTC later that day, or when a customer calls to complain.

Healthchecks handles this a lot more sensibly. I might throw it on a linode and give it a shot. Thanks for releasing it.
DrawIt for Vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 . I think I started using this in the previous millennium, and if not, not much later. It's awesome. Not all (former) coworkers agree with that sentiment though, to be honest.
In the context of a programming job, everything else.
In late 90s/early 2000s (around 1997-2005) the standard practice was to go to a specific marketplace in the city to get games and software for $6 - $7 (around 25 PLN); this was a standard price for a CD of anything, the content didn't really matter. I was a kid at that time, so I don't remember how it was before. Maybe we had a floppy market as well; someone older would have to chime in.
Startup L. Jackson has a good tweet about it:

> 4/ You'd likely do better financially, on average, joining a Series A company, AND have more career upside.

> Source:
https://twitter.com/StartupLJackson/status/65515425472269107...

Why anybody would want to be an employee at a unicorn company is crazy to me, especially in the world of ultra-inflated valuations.

If you join a huge public company you'll get liquid stock, at a real valuation, along with lots of salary and perks. The stock can't 10x, but companies will generally give you pretty large grants so if the stock goes up 20-50% you'll probably get a nice bump in your total compensation.

If you want to join a startup, you are much better off joining a ~10-20MM one. You still get a salary, though maybe not as high as at a unicorn or public company. However, it is much easier for a ~10-20MM company to 10x in value than a 1B company, and if the smaller company does 10x you'd be a somebody at a ~100MM company rather than a nobody at a ~10B one.
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My sarcasm detector is busted, are you for or against control group in this situation?
> I can speak from first-hand experience that this is exactly how matters of this nature are handled.

> i.e. the heroism of the SEALS vs that our "ally" was hiding a terrorist.

Perhaps I'm a jaded New Yorker with a family member having, at one time, a "high title" in an international news corporation. They worked for many companies, this isn't a liberal/conservative or democrat/republican comment.

I do not trust what our politicians or news corporations say at face value. Nor am I naive to believe that US "allies" would tell "the whole truth and nothing but the truth". Every story is laced with certain amount of spice - this goes for news, company lines, startup elevator pitches, etc.

I'm not sure how you are framing your initial sentence: are you being fastidious or attempting to be cordial in calling straight bullshit. However, why is anyone surprised? Everyone spins the truth to their benefit.

The most eye opening experience I've ever had was being in a news room, reading a live report from Baghdad reporter while listening to an anchor a few feet away. The disparity between the two was so staggering that I renounced all news instantly and felt disgusted. I understand news companies have to make money but what they say isn't "news". In my opinion, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, and TMZ are all flavors of the same marketing machine.

News/Politicians = Convenient truth which sells ads.

edit: spelling, clarity.
Congrats man! Your IRC Q&A sessions (even on weekends!) were always a huge help and very appreciated. Thanks for such a great product and good luck in the future.
Nice writeup, and congrats on the launch of Stacker.

It seems like any app that needs some flexibility in the data model evolves to contain a spreadsheet-like UI. A lot of CRMs in particular head in this direction; look at RelateIQ or Streak.

The app I'm working on, Fieldbook, is also spreadsheet-inspired. Not a CMS (yet) but it is good as a tracking tool (for tasks, recruiting, investor conversations, etc.) Still in private beta but here's an invite for Hacker News folks: https://fieldbook.com/?bc=HN0816
> Text is completely and utterly unsuitable for this, I don't want to have every change require me to reformat everything.

You need a better editor, that's all. Emacs has picture-mode and artist-mode; no doubt vim has something too, although a quick search didn't help.
Blindly following what other people have done for a situation rather than the appropriate path for your country/status/education/etc. is a fantastic way to get deported or denied entry.

OP should consider himself lucky for the contextual information rather than a stats dump.
You're missing how startup equity works. At these multi-billion dollar companies, employee shares are priced way less than the valuations you are seeing published in the media. So you're almost guaranteed a nice payoff even if the company merely treads water.
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You open in rural France in the late 1950s. Andre at 12 is the size of a large adult. The driver has banned him from the school bus, so to get to class he depends on rides from a neighbor, Samuel Beckett, who has a truck. Yes, that Samuel Beckett. You can be the author of Waiting for Godot. It’s still useful to have a truck.
Great read and definitely will keep this in my toolbox, the whole article is explaining why the below good when you need use cron:

15 * * * *
( flock -w 0 200 && sleep `perl -e 'print int(rand(60))'` && nice /command/to/run && date > /var/run/last_successful_run ) 2>&1 200> /var/run/cron_job_lock | while read line ; echo `date` "$line" ; done > /path/to/the/log || true
The logic behind keeping OBL's death a secret has some facets worth examining.

Most reasons given mention OBL's propaganda value - but was he really that popular? Did he have t-shirts or something similar a la Che Guevara? Would stronger proof of his death have attracted more people to his cause?

Could not mystique in the end prove stronger than martyrdom? At least a couple of religions describe the return of a prophet.

Isn't it also possible to have very good reasons for either releasing photos of his death or not killing him? The kind of terrorist who might emulate OBL would probably prefer death on the battlefield to capture or execution. So it's not clear what kind of deterrent effect all the secrecy has delivered.

I can however think of a few reasons to kill him quickly and release as few details as possible. Independent verification of anything might produce inconvenient facts, that would cast doubt on all other claims. A commenter said Pakistan does not act as a single entity, which is true, but neither does the US. So who knows what a debriefing might have revealed?
Thanks for the question.

Most businesses using credit cards in USA are "in retail business", which means that "client is always right" (even if they're not).

Google or 23andMe is not different when it comes to work with Merchant Service Provider. And not many know that in the USA, most MSPs require company they provide CC services to, to respect a refund request despite what their TOS says. Most companies will tell you they don't accept refunds but that's not true according to their MSP statement.

Frankly, I couldn't care less what is unreasonable or not, given that 23andMe already accounted % of refunds/chargebacks they encounter into their services' price.

ps. The kit wasn't wasted. It came in hard to forge metalic-type bag with some sort of hologram on it. The kit wasn't even unsealed.
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My father brought me to see him wrestle around the same age as you. This would have been during his days wrestling in Houston. Andre picked me up and commented how small I was. I remember him being really nice to us, very friendly. I was scared at first but left with a great impression of him.
Personal experience with physicians has been my primary way to gain this bias against physicians.

You could also do research on, say, Lister or checklists and get the bias that way.
We use OpenVPN at work to provide layer 2 access to a management network that uses a /24 out of the 10/8 range.

How else do you think we should do this?
Just the github. The live demo would just be the bootstrap starter template. But you think it would be better to have have pictures and breakdown what it all does with a info website?
Seems to shut down quite a bit. Plus, they seem to update the app pretty frequently.

I would still recommend usage of a multi-prong approach: firewall rules, hosts file, registry fix.
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The way I deploy Go apps at $EMPLOYER2:

- go get

- go test

- go build

- copy to target

It's possible with Python, it's easier with Go. It's a place where we could use a lot of progress.
In my view, AMEX will not survive, unless it innovates by creating new 'types and ways' of credit card usage.
Eg offering multiple currency balances, digital currencies, using a card for non-payment functions, integrating with phones for security/etc.

Their network is small and getting smaller, and I think soon corporations will just stop issuing AMEX to its employees for corp expenses (this were AMEX is still strong (guessing)) -- as there are enough attractive business-friendly alternatives are out there.
>Overall they sound thoroughly nasty and I cheer their demise.

They're wonderful as a consumer, and I would be quite sad if they were to go anywhere. I've had multiple large companies try to screw me over, and I went to Amex and they went to bat for me and took care of the issue.

I have 100% confidence that I will be taken care of for all purchases related to my Amex card, which I cannot say even for my other "prestige" cards such as the Chase Sapphire Preferred, etc.
Too complicated for its time or in absolute terms ? It surely did a lot.
Typically employees get options for common stock, which is discounted to preferred. Media report of valuations, though, typically multiplies the per-share price of latest preferred round by total number of shares outstanding, ignoring the layers upon layers of liquidity preferences, board seats or ratchet provisions thrown into the deal.
A low strike price only matters if there is some eventual liquidity for the shares. For common stock this means IPO, acquisition or some other share buyback. Both IPOs and acquisitions generally don't apply to companies "treading water", only the extremely successful and growing ones manage to IPO (and even then it doesn't work out so great for shareholders: see YELP or BOX) or get acquired. Get acquired for less than your ultra-inflated valuation? Then the common shareholders get killed by liquidation preferences.

And as for other share transactions, you'll need to find a buyer. Most savvy investors aren't going to be willing to pay huge valuation premiums for common stock. And if they aren't going to pay a premium, then you really haven't gained anything by issuing common shares at a lower strike price.

So basically, common shares have lower strike prices because they are worth less.... It isn't some magic trick that automatically benefits employees.
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Yeah, take a look at the USCIS Visa Guide: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/

There are lots of different options and none are all that good a fit for founders.

If you've got a year advance notice, you can set things up for the L-1. If you've got the ability to generate old media press and can raise $500k (rule of thumb), then O-1 is a good fit. If you're from the right country with $50k-150k, then E-2. If you're from Australia, E-3.

For the O-1 in particular, the three criteria we tend to use are media coverage, mentorship/conferences, and high salary for those who have been employed previously to becoming entrepreneurs.

YC asked the White House to make some tweaks to the O-1 to be a more straightforward path for founders, but the White House went in a different direction with something yet to be announced.

We have the Global EIR program which might be of assistance. Our flagship program in Boston: http://masstech.org/innovation-institute/projects-and-initia...

We have a pathway that takes advantage of cap-exemptions built into the H-1B program and partnerships with universities. It's pretty straightforward, and in exchange for a few months of part-time work, you'll draw a runway-extending salary and be sponsored for a work visa, after which you'll have a visa runway to raise capital more easily and then switch over to 100% startup time.

www.globaleir.org will have more in a short while.
a successful frontend developer is more than just the sum of the tools he/she knows. the individual needs to have an interest (dare I say passion) in art & design. Needs to continuously evolve his design vision, and have enough of interest of the subject to peruse work of his peers to get inspiration.
Just out of curiosity, what languages do you use today?
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I think you give us guys way too much credit!
How are these scraped websites charging you for leads - do you have an official affiliate program?

If it is not your official affiliate program, then you need to stop paying for the leads. You probably have an enterprising black hat who is getting his site ranked with your content purely to sell traffic to you. Disabling the reward mechanism would help stop this

If it is an official affiliate program, then you should set the following rules for your program.

1. No content scraping allowed. Let the affiliates create their own content that adds value to the potential customers.

2. All affiliate sites should link directly to your website (i.e. traffic is not sent via javascript or any other method) Doing this will ensure that Google know which is the main website and which are affiliates.

3. No bidding on your keywords related to your brand.

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> I don't think so. Google Glass proved that tech, fashion and social cues are all deeply related.

That's very true.

> I think the same people who wore glass around in public and didn't get why people called them assholes would be the same people who buy sexbots and don't get why people call them perverts. A few dorks with calf-high white socks with birkenstocks would go nuts for them, and most of the rest of the world would look on with a mixture of disdain, amusement and repulsion.

It's interesting how this polarizes people. Because you see, I consider everyone who called Google glass wearer 'glasshole' to be a total dick. I understand the reason for their hate and I think they're stupid and they should get over themselves and their jealousy and fear of technology. It doesn't warrant hostile behaviour to another human being.
Also of interest, "How do you fix a bug you can't replicate?"

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1268464/59087
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Languages-Politics-Arnold-Kling-...
Incorrect. The employee shares are priced lower because they are for common stock. If the company merely "treads water", then ends up getting acquired for lower than its previous valuation, it's likely that your shares will be worth little if anything (after preferred stock liquidation preferences).
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That assumes that the company reaches the IPO and its value holds. And still I don't get how lower they must be priced to be comparable to a growing startup, even risk adjusted. (And consider that the IRS could have something to say...)

If the company doesn't reach the IPO and get acquired, well check what liquidation preference means. Check this post to understand better how stocks in a startup works: http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/118473647305/how-to-build... (it is focused on founders, but employee get the same treatment).
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Install a exception reporting tool and get a stack trace for it. My favorite (disclaimer, I now work for them) is Rollbar.
Are these fungi from Yuggoth?
I suppose there's the relevant blog post https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...
In the linked comment, dang writes:

>> We use a combination of software filters and human review to find good-but-overlooked stories. "Good" here means by HN's definition of "gratifying intellectual curiosity".

Hopefully that answers your first point. Second, HN mods are hired to work full-time on improving and polishing HN. This requires that they be professional, and professionalism in this sense requires ignoring your personal views. Having any kind of motive not based on improving HN would be unprofessional.

This is a way in which HN is distinguished from Reddit: YC puts money into guaranteeing that HN works well. Only well-known people can be mods, not everyone on the Internet. These people have reputations for being "good," being fair and impartial.

Mods have something at stake (jobs, reputation). So does YC. They're not going to make a mistake.

And in my experience, (although I realize that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data") dang et al. have been nothing but totally neutral in every action (that I've seen, so far) on HN.
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I don't know the details, but the memory difference was almost certainly due to the different approaches to concurrency. Python coroutines just need to save their exact stack frame while a Go goroutine will spawn a "massive" stack that likely has much more space than needed. The first case might only need tens or hundreds of bytes for a dozen local variables, while the latter case is a fixed overhead of several KB (8 previously, but 2 with Go 1.4 according to the slides).

The JIT memory is constant at runtime (proportional(-ish) to the amount of code, which is fixed) while it is desirable to have the number of coroutines be as large as possible.