skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kate Spade didn't invent purses. Amancio Ortega didn't invent womens clothing. Jeff Gordon didn't invent race cars. Bill Gates didn't invent the software industry. It's not relevant at all that Lebron James didn't invent basketball.

Lebron's salary is the least interesting aspect of his financial potential. He would be making incredible amounts of money outside of the NBA even if you paid him a $1 salary. That salary will ultimately be a small portion of his lifetime wealth. How can I be confident of that? Because Jordan and numerous other athletes have already demonstrated how that works. Jordan earned a modest NBA salary for most of his career (until the last few years) by today's standards. In no way did that stop him from becoming a billionaire via his off-court dealings.

If you hammered the NBA's revenue figures - basically rolled them backwards 20 years - by clipping ESPN's wings through altering the subscriber landscape (which seems inevitable at this point), it wouldn't matter at all to James likely becoming a billionaire. NBA fans would tune in, that would make James famous, and his off-court endorsements (eg the big Nike deal) in this massive global economy would make him a billionaire over time. Those TV subscribers that are paying but not watching, would still be not watching, it wouldn't matter other than for the league salaries.
Doesn't matter what the guy personally believes. Science is a method, not a political platform.
Morbid thought of the day - I wonder how many of those people have died of old age and their accounts are still setup to autopay AOL?
Stock Charts Remarkably Similar to Those in 2007
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846
Williams? So...no moa? RIP
I am growing less and less negative about recruiters. They can be a bit pushy, but I think that recruiters can learn how to modulate and not exaggerate. If a company wants good candidates, it will have to go to them, because the good candidates will not come to them. Good candidates are usually already too busy to bother. That leaves the company no other choice than to appoint a recruiter and try to take the initiative in contacting the good candidates anyway.
Nonsense. Tor Browser is actually based on Mozilla Firefox and it has been alive for long. Nobody would be so mad to call the web browser vendor a terrorist organization.
China injected javascript malware into non-https traffic that joined the users into a botnet that launched a DDOS attack on Github. The "Great Cannon".
Hmm, could you use an ultrasonic piezo to aerosolize the liquid without exposing it to high heat and so get the flavor effects minus the damaging compounds?
Sure. I just think there are a whole lot of people who will be perfectly happy spending all day smoking pot and playing CoD. Assuming they eventually get tired of that lifestyle, it's still hard to imagine a 30 year old guy who's done his own thing for fifteen years actually getting up and going to work every day.
There is no likely; their truck just ran fiber in front my house in sunset. $40/mo for gigabit.
How Rich Are You? Find Your Net Worth, Spending, and Savings Rate
Rise of the Device
I'm sure you know, that a lot of hiring at that scale is systematized and (hence) heavy-lifting is done by non-technical recruiting people.

Right, this is what I'm arguing against. Doing filtering with non-technical people requires a lot of systematization and strange, low-quality filters. I suggest not doing that.

The typical response is that you need to do it because engineer time is too precious, which I disagree with.
NRE or NRO Savings Account – Which One NRI Should Open? Differences
Loony Tunes were made partially for adult consumption before the main feature or between double features in a theater which is why they have more sophisticated themes, particularly the censored ones that aren't PC today.
There's nothing wrong with this one line from a "scientific process" perspective.

I saw a reference once to a "theorem" of economics which states that it isn't possible for coins and bills of the same denomination to coexist; one will drive the other out of circulation. I was highly disturbed by this, because in China 1元 coins and 1元 bills are both very common, and in fact it's not at all unusual, when receiving change, to get some of each. What conclusions do you think I was warranted in drawing?
You don't say? . . . That's going on the list.
Depends on the type of DDoS. Traffic may saturate your internet connection regardless of there being a firewall on your end. In which case you need a provider capable of handling the full bandwidth of the DDoS sitting in front of you.
I think most people distinguish between "baseline defense spending" and "elective war" in a general sense without either term feeling overtly political.

But if we were to take the set of [Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq] and try to decide in particular which are which, we would quickly find that to be political.

So in America, the political-ness of "war" tends to shift with the times. Right now, those times are 'interesting'.
The key is first major "computer" company.
Well, ultimately, some programs must be native.

But beyond that, off the top of my head, I'd say the primary reasons:

* performance

* memory usage (think resource restricted environments)

* performance

* no extra runtime needed

* performance

* start up overhead

* predictable performance (think real-time stuff)

* access to ubiquitous native APIs

* performance

Look at programs like Nginx or PostgreSQL.

They make crazy effective performance optimizations that are really only available to native code. Of course, not every program is a web server or a database, but they are compiled for good reasons, and those reasons apply to many other programs.
I bet they just don't deliver on their promise or do so at the expense of some fundamental use case.

Security and privacy are very hard issues to address. So any solution will be temporary, very restrictive or fall short of it's promise.

For instance you can't have total privacy even if you never use Google and use tracker blockers, erase your browser's fingerprint etc. you are still sharing information with servers you're visiting.
Something that has been on my mind.. A lot of commenters keep saying there are two good options out there, but really the choice is more "iPhone. Yes or No?". If you don't want an iPhone you are going to end up with an Android device. I can't put iOS on my nexus 5.

There is a space there for another OS that you can put on your non-iphone. I just don't think that's Mozilla's space to fill. Really, in all practicality, this is a space Microsoft needs to fill. It's almost like the world is waiting for them to step it up. Their new open source strategy is going to produce some big plays along these lines; .net in particular. Think about the native and multi-arch work being done for it.. ARM for Windows10 and .net; where is it all going you think?

I can tell you that if I could load up Windows10 on my nexus5 even if just for a test drive I certainly would.
Breaking down barriers to tech education
There is a good reason why startups prefer Product Programmers:

If you focus on product, then you have strong feedback loop in your design and development cycle: you regularly see how users interact with your product and improve.

If your focus is on technology, then there is almost no real feedback and you are likely to optimize something not very valuable.
I live in CHICAGO.
Same here in Portland. The companies I've been involved with here tend to take pride in their employees being active. I could see this changing as the Valley types continue to move in, however.
Elmo in Caliphate-Land.
And thus it's more about culture than size.
Out of curiosity, what's so horrendous about the code?

There's been a lot of refactoring in the pipeline, and generally the community devs have done a really good job in bringing things up to scratch.
Unicorns vs. donkeys in startup world
Extensive prior discussion of original Wired article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846
There is an even stronger case for banning chemicals that are consumed in public in a way that exposes others. I think my right to not consume that crap trumps your right to consume it in a specific public setting, even though I generally disagree with the government trying to protect people from themselves.
absolutely nothing in it is community-building.

Ending the drug war would help lots of communities. (Or more accurately, stop destroying them).
I mean it is bad that people can leave fake reviews, but it is even more messed up that amazon can sue these people for essentially breaking their tos.

It is on Amazon to find technical solutions to technical problems like this, not the government.
>Economists widely agree that cash transfers are more efficient at improving welfare for the poor than transfers-in-kind. It's one of the less controversial statements in the field.

I find that baffling based on San Francisco's experience. When the city replaced its "in kind" services with cash, for the most part the homeless people went out and spent the cash on booze and drugs.

The cash system was such an obvious failure Gavin Newsom was able to build his political career on converting the system back to the "in kind" type.
> if you spread that Social Security money out across 230 million adults

Clearly that isn't the idea though. The idea would be more like multiplying SS such that all of those 230 million adults get the same payout as what the current recipients get now.

And obviously it isn't as simple as that, not least because that's about 4 times as many people as SS covers currently, and it's already about 1/4 of the total US budget. In addition, the idea is that we shouldn't be required to work, and thus there should be basic income such that you can live comfortably, and arguably SS is already not enough for that. (the total SS budget/# of recipients = ~14k)
You can't raise 3 trillion in taxes on the US economy to support that kind of program. People would see their taxes double and they'd flip the fuck out.
South Park IS the American dream. If you don't like it, you can suck my fat taint.
I guess the reason that product programmers are most desirable is that most founders are product programmers themselves.
LEGO's official site seems a much better source:
https://wwwsecure.us.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstruct...
Top comment on YouTube: "This is going to revolutionize the Tom Hanks porn industry.﻿"
...and almost 20 years of XML.
TL;DR: Elmo is the Wolverine of Sesame Street.
Apple Releases OS X 10.11 El Capitan Open Source Darwin Code
You can't really do a straight up comparison like that. The median salary for a software engineer in Stockholm is somewhere around $50K or $60K. Based on that, the rent situation in Stockholm is quite dire, and availability is atrocious.
In the same way that publishing the owners manual for the Apple II is a copyright infringement.

LEGO has zero incentive to crack down on this since the only way you can buy the book is with the set itself. Allowing fans to relive old sets is in no way hindering sales. Most likely then opposite.
At least Google admits they were down. When AWS goes down, the best you can hope for is a little "i" next to one of the green checks 6 hours after the outage is over.
Affinity Designer 1.4 adds Artboards
On the Principles of Economic Principles
Yeah, seriously. All the terminology, the ui design, everything about this is a clone of Amazon's internal pipelines tool.

I don't think that's a legal issue, but seriously, how many former Amazonians work for this company? Because it can't possibly be zero.
There are a few federated platforms that are doing pretty well in terms of development, and they tend to have distinct sets of users. Some are bigger than others, but the platforms in active use are:

* Diaspora - https://diasporafoundation.org
* Friendica - http://friendica.com
* Hubzilla - http://hubzilla.org/
* Libertree - http://libertreeproject.org/
* GNU Social - http://www.gnu.org/software/social/
* Pump.io - http://pump.io/

What's interesting is that the first three platforms can all federate with one another, and there is an established network that acts as a community - Libertree is discussing implementing compatibility with them.

There is also a wider effort by a W3C group to develop a protocol that could work across all of these platforms, provided that they all follow the same privacy standards.
I was referring to the amount of money the employee makes for the company.

Does the employee get near what they make the company? I doubt it.

Does the company need to pay the employee near what they make the company? No.

So a company does not need to pay the CEO the difference that they supposedly make the company. They just need to pay what someone will accept to do a similar job (I am not saying worse in any way), just like other employees.
Who said anything about working for free? The only work trial I've ever done was paid in full at the same rate as I would be making if I had already been hired.

It was fun, and more profitable than a free boring discussion-based interview.
Behind the Scenes: How Technology Turns Consumer Data into Actionable Insights
I think "scripted" is the right word in this case.

"Procedural" refers to a specific type of scripted television, typically but not always a legal, medical, or law-enforcement drama. A procedural show follows the same format every episode: a mystery of some kind is introduced (medical, crime, or what have you), and the characters go through the procedures of solving the mystery. Law & Order: SVU can be described as a procedural; South Park cannot, unless you're using a very very loose definition of the term.

If you're looking at this in terms of nested sets or categories:

- Scripted vs. Nonscripted

- Comedy vs. Drama (usually also means half-hour vs. hour)

- Episodic (every episode is self-contained) vs. Serialized (the show follows an overall, evolving storyline that builds each episode)

- Subgenre

So a show like L&O: SVU would be a scripted, one-hour drama in the crime procedural subgenre. (We could also describe the show as episodic, but given that all procedurals are episodic, this would be redundant.)

South Park is a scripted, half-hour comedy in the animation subgenre that typically follows an episodic format, with occasional serialized story arcs spanning multiple episodes (and in the case of this season, the whole season).
http://brickset.com is the source I see cited most often around LEGO communities such as /r/lego.
I counter this. I am not disputing your observation.

When I interview people, I start by asking the interviewee to tell me his/her background, then start conversation about things they just told me. If they mention Ansible I expect them to be able to answer a few technical questions regarding Ansible. If the mention they have Python experience, I expect them to be able to read some code and tell me if they spot a bug or if they knew a solution to the problem. I expect some side conversation like "actually there is a bunch thunder methods in Python, etc" (which is actually related to the question). If you just answer the question, that's boring. There is a skill in interview. You need to make the person enjoy talking to you at work. We are not robot.

I don't care if the person can implement heap or not. If you use a tool enough, you need to go beyond syntax. If you can't show me how you would debug the code, the interview would end there. print, dir with print, pdb, interpreter, whatever. Coding question can help eliminate candidates who are strong in communication but with weak technical skill.

Some candidates think they can code, but they cannot structure the code to make the code usable, and that's a red flag. For the position we want, we are not looking for scripting monkey.

If I am hiring a senior position for the team, I expect to have system design conversation. The last thing I ask is whether the interviewee has done any side projects. I don't penalize people for not having a github/bitbucket account, but would be a huge plus during the evaluation.

Anyway, mileage is different for different position.
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I always liked Peeron[1]. They have a great selection of the old instructions booklets scanned in, and half the time I've lost my old instructions or my nostalgia-driven Brickset order didn't come with them.

[1] http://www.peeron.com/
>It's not a "Tech company thing" it's a "junior engineer who doesn't know how to interview" thing. It is an indicator of a low quality company.

I guess Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Dropbox are all low quality companies, then.
I'm not sure that I would hold up King.com as an example of either engineering or business talent.

On the technical side, I've not seen anything very impressive about their games, and their business practices seemingly consist of ripping off (later settled out of court) an indie developer who built a game in memory of his late mother, and dragging him into a protracted legal battle.

Edit to include sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_(company)#Trademark_and_c...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/candycrush.asp
The city got a blank check for 300M to make the problem go away (but it won't because they dont want to be NYC, so they limit supply, but then demand with money exceeds so prices go up)
Now Comcast is scared.
Funny. I pay $45/month for 155 in Chicago.
Haha, forgot about Mathman, that show always freaked me out, that creepy tornado guy always kills him...
It's Time to Stop Head Start
github supports file downloads through the releases feature.
That's probably not that common. Much of their membership attrition likely comes from the inverse of that: people passing away and as their estate is wound down their account will be shut down.

What's fascinating is that Verizon purchased AOL for $4.4B this year. With AOL's publishing business only raking in ~$10mm per year, I'm really curious how they valued the dialup business. Did they just straightline membership attrition percentage and assume it'll decrease steadily? Or did they do an in-depth analysis of members ages and life expectancy and assumed lifetime membership to calculate a more granular remaining CLV? Now that's a morbid thought...
I would love to hear at least the basics for a non-US/Canadian citizen:
1. you get an interview with YC, which visa should I get? B1/B2? purpose of travel?
2. you get into YC for 3 months, again, what kind of visa? purpose of travel?
3. you get +$1M in seed round, how do you stay?
4. you get $5M in series A, how do I live there?

Thanks!
When did they start?
->Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about.

I call this the "Five minutes of hate". If you don't get that reference, read 1984 by George Orwell. I think you'll find it very illuminating.

One week, it was Chik-fil-a and how we should hate them because their CEO gave money to a cause I disagree with, the next it's some baker in oregon who dared to refuse to do a wedding cake for a gay couple. (I'm queer, I believe in gay marriage, but just because you have the right to marry doesn't mean you have the right to make some business sell you something.)

There's a lot of other stuff from 1984 that have become real-

The memory hole-- how everyone forgets the past (and the media-- our big shouting head-- pretends like it doesn't exist.)

Double-Speak is Double-plus real too. Etc.
Chicago mayors have a bad track record too.
It set off the flamewar detector (which could perhaps more accurately be called the overheated discussion detector). We review those and turn the penalty off if the discussion is a substantive one, and did that in this case a few hours ago.
Tizen (https://www.tizen.org/) is open source and is keeping up.
Uhh Seattle has fiber offerings already though? For example http://gowaveg.com/
You criticize people for _premature optimization_ while in the same breath advocating rolling your own, shitting implementation for page views? Right...
Looks familiar.

Left: Distelli Pipelines

Right: Heroku Pipelines

http://imgur.com/2z5TArg
It is very common for sites to allow non-verified purchasers to leave reviews. Amazon works this way. You'll see reviews on Amazon all the time where people specifically mention that they bought it somewhere else. I've always wondered why someone would leave a legitimate review on Amazon for a product they didn't buy from Amazon. Maybe the answer is that they aren't legitimate though.

Some review software notes when a reviewer is a verified purchaser. I look for that when reading reviews because at least they have the product in question.
Just to be a bit pedantic, he's estimated to have ~1.1M coins, which at current market prices would be worth $440M (9 figure wealth isn't a billion, but 'only' in the hundreds of milloins). Obviously he'd destroy the book on any exchange if he tried to cash out so it's probably worth much less than that.
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Is the linked site using their scans? They seem to be about the same lowish quality
Each Unique Challenge Demands a Different Strategy
It's a fine article, and no doubt the studies are fine studies. There's lots of room for both.
The founder and the lead engineer are both former Amazonians, so its definitely not coincidental.

https://www.distelli.com/about
Why Emerging Channels Should Be Part of Your Channel Strategy
Naw, just learn a new language or two when you quit.

Haskell is a particularly good choice. After fighting with Java generics for decades I found it really nice to work with a real type system.

Also, go is trivial for an experienced Java programmer to master.
Google appears to be pirating web content for its rich search results
It's a technical problem that people commit fraud?
Yep. https://github.com/mkusher/padawan.php/issues/1

Project started after mine. https://github.com/cweagans/theforce

Just ran out of time, so mkusher did his own thing. I disagree with his direction and I think it's overly complex from a user's standpoint, but he disagrees and isn't willing to change it, so I lost interest in that project too.

Using the actual AST from the PHP interpreter is going to be a) much faster and b) much more accurate.
Part of the philosophy of libertarianism is the idea that if you allow people to cooperate (eg: build a community) they will advance faster... and looking at what happened in China and India when those countries legalized capitalism, the libertarians have a good point.

This is, of course, an economic perspective, but the history of economics generally agrees with them.
I think the main argument against this is the risk of running out of battery while you are using the computer. Forcing the user to stop using the mouse to charge is not very great.

That being said, I think Apple's (or Ive's) justification for the port on the bottom would come from the design issues with a front-facing port (asymmetry), and I guess for them the trade-off is worth it. It probably is for me, too.
According to the article the researchers think they'll be able to achieve a 5m range. Seems like the possibilities for many other kinds of microsensors like these are endless.
Fun fact: In perspective of file size, in Chrome's final bundle, a large chunk of bytes were the libicu, and 80% of libicu are chinese characters. So everyone must download extra megabytes of software for modern CJK word segmentation
Whether he is Satoshi or not, the only rational thing to do at this point is say he is not
Querying a database of every Magic card ever made
Rockstar:Supernova Winner Lukas Rossi Cover's Adele's 'Hello'-It ROCKS – Video
Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police[0].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-fo...
"of whom can most, disproportionately bully others with their micro pain"

That reminds me a great deal of the situation at the "Twentieth Century Motor Corporation" in Atlas Shrugged, when the workers were paid according to their need- they focused on needing more.