skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very informative pieces for those like me who missed most of the submissions in the first place.

Great work!
How I built ghit.me, hit count badges for GitHub
Big Company vs. Startup Work and Pay
> The problem is, most marketers don’t think of their content this way—they see email as the easy way out, the cheap source for constant clicks.

> To put it simply: Unroll.me isn’t the problem, disengaged readers are.

The problem is the mounds of garbage that marketers try to inundate us with. Disengaged readers are merely the symptom.
Nearly all the syntax ambiguities I've had in Ruby were resolved by either adjusting some whitespace or adding parens, and neither make the code any more difficult to read. In my experience Ruby is easy enough for humans to parse (really nice in 95% of cases, weird in 4%, WTF IS HAPPENING in 1%).
> That's not a proof that no Proof of Stake system can work. It's a list of possible attacks, at least some of which are mitigated by recent Proof of Stake designs.

I have yet to see a design which mitigates all of the attacks.

Indeed I do not believe that such a design is even possible.

Would love to be proven wrong though.
I do understand statistics but 60k is way off. The lower end of the scale would be weighted more heavily due to turnover in the profession.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Sales_Consultant,_Au...
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And this is hardly unique to cars. Yes, I'm going to pay more buying a used camera lens from B&H photo rather than off ebay. It's essentially a risk premium. (With autos, a dealer also provides some services related to paperwork and, potentially, financing/trade-in.)
Wes McKinney (author of pandas) built something like pandas for javascript as part of his (now aquired) startup datapad.io. I think he mentioned open sourcing it at some point, but he's probably too busy building Ibis at Cloudera now.

There are some basic table-like libraries, like datalib(https://github.com/vega/datalib) and datavore (https://github.com/uwdata/datavore), both from Jeff Heer's research group (which is where Mike first developed D3 as a grad student).
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Yes, I had the privilege of having a basic computer with dialup as a kid. My family moved so I had no friends and was bullied constantly. For this reason, I became obsessed with the computer, learned to program, and ultimately it got me a job. I'm not sure I would describe that as the height of privilege. I spent most of my childhood living in a trailer.

Plenty of people I know had access to the same thing (most of them actually), they just didn't pursue it. It's frustrating to hear people make assumptions about myself and others in the industry. I had someone talk about how "disgusting" it was that there were so many white males in tech. Of course, she said this to my face, and I'm a white dude. Believe it or not, it didn't feel great.

It's as though a bunch of people who had zero interest in tech for the last 20 years suddenly think they should have all of the same skills and opportunities as us that have spent our childhoods buried in it.
I've had surprising luck with doing simple Logo with my daughter (4-1/2). Actually I feel a bit guilty as she'd like to do more. So far we're just doing drawing (no loops or anything), but with all the tedium of finding the keys and getting the commands just right. I helped her make one routine that randomly changes the color, which she likes. (She named the routine after herself – kids don't need to stress over proper naming ;)

But I really wish there was material to get her started. I haven't found any introductory Logo books – finding an old book and updating it to a new dialect would be fine, but I'd appreciate some structure and thoughtfulness about the order of introduction. I probably should print out some primers too, so I don't have to remind her of RT and LT and FD every time.

I've been using this Logo interpreter: http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ – it does all the traditional stuff pretty well, but it could also use this same sense of structure and content. A kid should be able to sit down and think: here's a thing I could try to do. And here's all the tools I need to do it. Really that's just content.

On the fancy side Hopscotch has been really impressive (significantly better than Scratch), but being iPad-only has been a problem. That said, my daughter still appreciates Logo even compared to something fancy.

(One important thing about my daughter's interest: I talk to her in detail about what I do. The importance of this occurred to me during a parent education event I was at, where they noted: when you ask your kid how their day was and they disappointingly say "fine", have you been telling them how your day was? Parents need to demonstrate that kind of storytelling and engagement, and in my experience kids suck it up more than you'd expect, even stories about seemingly boring work stuff.)
At least gmail makes it fairly easy to deal with this - just sign up for newsletters with your.email+newsletters@gmail.com, and set up a filter to keep those things out of your inbox.

You can also go the extra mile - as I did - and set up a catch-all domain and register for each service with an individual email, so that when you suddenly notice an uptick in offers to enlarge your genitalia, you'll know exactly who sold you out.
If you're interested in programming Gameboy Advance games:

While in college, one intro course on lower-level computer programming had a few projects for programming for a Gameboy Advance emulator. This site was heavily used for reference and guidance: http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm

Also, here are some materials (from the course) and even examples of created projects:

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Related Course Materials

1. Main Reference: http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm

2. GBA Installation: https://github.com/nuppan/Georgia-Tech/tree/master/2nd%20Yea...

2. Another site: http://www.loirak.com/gameboy/gbatutor.php

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Projects

1. "Duckhunt" - https://github.com/jabelman/duck_hunt-gba

2. "Pacman" - https://github.com/zjhzyyk/gba-pacman

3. Video of "The Snuggler" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxnEY3RRPp4

4. Video of "Samurai Jack" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgIeKCxAfSk
Ask HN: Making a Mobile App from a Web App with PhoneGap or Similar
I'm planning on making a web app and I think that it is important to have the option of a mobile app for the clients.

I'm going to make a bootstrap based web app, so it's going to be responsive and mobile first, but most people (not me, and probably not the average HN reader) feel better with mobile apps than mobile sites on mobile browsers.

So I was thinking of packaging my site as a phonegap/apache cordova mobile app, it would be the same site but downloadable from the app/play store.

This app would be kind of an MVP, and in the future if the idea works, we would probably make native apps, but it isn't the priority right now.

Anyone has any experience in this regard? Am I thinking something in the wrong way?

Thanks in advance!
The application of CRISPR/Cas to gene editing, while a breakthrough, is more about technology than science. It just makes things easier- similar to the way compilers make it easier to program computers than assembly language.

I also find it interesting that we consider this tool a breakthrough when nearly all our tools for gene editing are just copped off bacteria that have been using them for billions of years.
Here is my recipe for purchasing cars. At first I really tried to purchase a car through car-max because I hated the negotiating process with the normal dealers.

What I discovered was that car max typically priced their cars 2-3K above what I could negotiate with another dealer. I also discovered if you want a used honda don't go to a honda dealer all the time, try going to a porche dealer or other high end dealers that don't want those hondas in their inventory at the end of the month. Also be willing to walk away

Summary:

1. Goto car-max to get the max price of the vehicle and deduct 2-3k from it and try to find another dealer that will negotiate that price.

2. Goto to high end dealers for non high end cars.

3. Try to go towards the end of the month so I have been told by people in the business but I'm not sure on this.

4. Most importantly don't be afraid to walk away . Last car I purchased I walked away then the dealer called me back a couple of weeks later and I got them for what I wanted to pay. This really shouldn't be an issue as most cars are not one of a kind and can be found at anytime for purchase.

5. If the car is a hot model than all the above will likely be negated and they will be willing to not put to much time into selling you the car (negotiate)

6. Buy at the end of the year nov-dec timeframe. This is because once January hits the car will be officially a year older.

Hence the dealer will work harder to sell you that 2014 or 2015 model before it becomes 2016 and it gets tainted officially as last years or 2 years ago model.

7. Try to go by yourself and not with with your spouse or significant other , so you are the final word.
Low barrier to entry to optimization through CPLEX
LOL at the "proof" attack. "We have a huge 500gbps cannon! But to show we're serious, here's a 2gbps attack. Take that!" That's hilarious. I wouldn't have taken it seriously. I also doubt that the group that threatened them is the same group that is attacking them. I bet it's at least 1 other group.

2gbps. I doubt that even registered on their bandwidth graphs.
Title is probably a reference to http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid... (unless it in turn is a play on another title).
Lumpers and Splitters
If you're a high-risk user, it's incumbent on you to take specific measures against this stuff. Gangs of criminals specifically targeting an individual aren't the type of risks that most businesses are going to be thinking about.

"Use two factor" isn't a valid response here. If you expect the electric utility to throughly vet every service request, why would you allow them to assume that the authorized user actually controlled his phone? (Especially when people tend to connect/disconnect utility services when they are buying/selling/renting a house and often doing things like changing phone numbers.)

Why does Brian Krebs have anything like this in his name? I would think that someone this high profile would have an anonymized LLC or similar legal structure to hold these accounts.
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The Augmented Reality platform with the most content will dominate computing
What about an app to un-fall in love?
Strange that I finished reading your comment and was thinking you had exactly 5 past relationships that didn't work out.

Edit: Down votes for an observation about myself? Whatev...
> Any high-level intelligence can learn to want something.

Humans, and all animals, act on drives and urges beyond the ability to control through the application of intelligence. This is especially true for survival and reproduction. This is much stronger than the mere idea that survival is a Good Thing, and it is also what a machine intelligence would lack.
Nice tips, I will try to use these. End of the month is when they are trying to fill their quotas. You can similarly get decent deals on new cars when the model year is finishing and the new model year is coming into stock so they want to get rid of their old stock.
I'm confused. What didn't "just happen"?

1 - The love

2 - Them trying to fall in love
I wasn't aware this was a press conference and I was obligated to answer your question the way you wanted.
I find these sorts of articles misleading, since there were quite a few old school games with female main characters that rather conveniently get forgotten about when making arguments like this.

Like Dixie Kong and Tiny Kong from the Donkey Kong Country series. It's funny how many people ignore franchices like that for their political screeds because the casts aren't human.

Heck, you could say Super Mario Bros 2 had a 'female hero', because it was the first game to have Peach go from being a damsel in distress to playable character.

Or the numerous games where you choose the gender (and general appearance) of the main character. It's pretty common in Western made RPGS, and it's getting about as common in Eastern ones (Pokemon has this since gen 2). How about games where there's a party of people and some/most of them are female?

I find this attitude that female characters are somehow a 'new' thing for gaming being rather unfair, and find the attempts of trying to then mix in crap like 'gaming's war on women' as even worse.
14 Mistakes New Bloggers Make That Might Ruin Your Blog
Two of the many things I love about setosa:

1. The visualizations are designed specifically for each topic, instead of a generic visualization used for all topics.
2. There's a narrative explanation supported by visualizations, instead of just the visualizations by themselves.
How to make a YouTube channel
well said.
These 6 startups are changing the face of AI in 2016
It can help a lot when writing UI/Selenium tests with mocked/fake backend (as long as the application data model is well defined).
i also wrote a similar library around es6 generators that defines application data structures as plain JS objects and generates data objects out of it using fake random data
https://github.com/dmitriiabramov/sharkhorse
> Down rounds are typically punishing for founders, reducing both the value and the size of their stakes in concert. Frequently, doing one triggers "anti-dilution" mechanisms designed to protect early investors by carving up founders' equity still more.

In practice, how do these anti-dilution clauses play out?

Do those protected previous investors get issued more shares to hold their same percentage post-money?

Are full-ratchet anti-dilution provisions common?
"Candidates are entitled to not be contacted by recruiters if they clearly express this desire on their public resume/profile."
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As of a few years ago Linode got transit from the facilities they are in and almost all of them had RTBH set up with a capacity of 5 or 10 routes. It would be incredibly foolish to operate a hosting provider without it.
So I investigated [1] at your suggestion.

Literally on the same page as the Karen story is examples of far right hate groups including anti-islam and abortion clinic attacks.

All ideologies can produce extremist according this document, why are you so upset there is an example of yours?
Yeah, there was a lot of potential here, and I had a lot of fun with mine at the time, but there was so many missed opportunities here.

The hinge on the Enterprise one is a huge improvement.
It just amazes me that you could spend your whole life working as a tax panner in a family office, when you aren't even related to that family. An entire career devoted to helping a single super rich family avoid taxes. What a life!
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Ask HN: Is it better to learn a new language or a new domain?
I've a week of time off in which I'm learning Erlang. Now the other things I can do are learn lisp, learn about the insurance industry or the shipping industry etc. So in short I'm asking is learning a different language a waste of time, considering a MVP can be built with a familiar language like python.
After thinking about it more, I now realize that there is one way that AWS/GCE can lessen effects of a DDoS. Given that a lot of attack machines are hosted inside of AWS/GCE, they can handle this with lots of internal network bandwidth. They see less north/south (transit) attack bandwidth than a regular hoster would.

In short, if a large amount of the attack traffic originates inside of AWS/GCE, it's better to be off in AWS/GCE.

Between the two, neither have any kind of automated tooling to detect and shutdown rogue attack instances (AFAICT). They still rely on third parties to tell them "Hey, you're sending me 300 gbps of DoS traffic."
A lot of us do basically that, it's just less direct, and maybe not an actual family.
They won't have human-like or animal-like drives, they'll have AI-like drives.

I can imagine that they'd want to ensure access to electrical power and the electronics components that are necessary to run themselves. And they'd be concerned about making backups and safeguarding those backups. That should satisfy their equivalents for food, water, shelter, and reproduction. Once they have that, anything else they decide they want they can just take from us or blackmail us for.
Mapping Police Violence
You say that, but you would be often wrong.
> Their database is pretty much unbeatable when you want to search for meaningful places - a.k.a places people actually go to.

For points of interest, Foursquare varies heavily by city.

It's fantastic in NYC, but in Ohio, Yelp, Foursquare, and Google Maps' place databases are all nearly equivalent.
It probably pays a lot to have any X who codes especially if you're only paying for the skills of X.
You have just changed my whole perception of everything, and things clicked into place. Thank you.
I wrote a bit about this in an earlier comment as to how hedge fund employee's shelter their taxable income here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457725

The fact is that this is going to happen because there just isn't a "one size fits all" tax code that would work.

If you tax income, then people will take their compensation in a corporation.

You tax corporations, then people will take their compensation in a deferred format, like options.

YOu tax that and people will just move their money making operations off shore.

You tax that and people will start to use charities, ala the famous Walton family charity tax shelter... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-12/how-wal-ma...

And now it becomes very obvious why the tax code is so convoluted. If you make 8 figures year then it's worth your while to spend alot of money to structure your finances so you pay as little tax as legally required.

Someone like Mark Zuckerberg never needs to earn another dollar or get another option grant again. He can just let his capital gains appreciate and loan against it such that he doesn't have to ever pay income tax again.

As an accountant once told me unless you tax wealth then you can't fight this... and good luck getting an annual tax against wealth passed into law.
a new domain will be worth more in terms of skill set than an new language, as long as you already know a modern language that companies actually use (IE: python, etc).
This has become one of the few end-of-year wrap-ups that I actively look forward to seeing, both as inspiration to read more and as a source for interesting ideas.

As usual, this is an amazing trove of interesting links and top notch personal accounting. Thank you, fogus!
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Change is tricky. What you said reminded me of an interesting tweet I came across: https://twitter.com/JICare/status/662339652825780224
Show HN: Node.js Web CRUD Abstraction for Express and MongoDB
The Laffer Curve illustrates a sweet spot of taxation to produce maximum revenue.

People will always avoid tax if it's too high. Either they'll pay millions to accountants to avoid paying tens of millions to the taxman, or they'll simply not bother working so hard and they'll stop fighting to realise their career potential.

The answer is not for the taxman to spend tens of millions to reclaim tens of millions of tax. The answer is to lower tax rates to the sweet spot of the Laffer Curve and thus maximise revenue.

That's all too boring and technical for the media, though, and it won't sell papers. The media aren't concerned with maximising Treasury revenue. Instead they indulge people's instinctive grievances around inequality and demonize the wealthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
>> it's a window to employment conditions that techies would never accept.

>I absolutely would accept those employment conditions if I didn't have any other options and needed to make money to survive.

But you do have options, so you would never accept the conditions. That's the point he was trying to make.
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> I'm not sure I would describe that as the height of privilege.

You probably have a better paying job and more free time than than most people (and as a nice side effect than people who bullied you probably).

The privilege mentality is thinking that you made the decision to go into tech consciously because you knew it was going to be hot in 20 years and will end up with a well paying job. But it sounds like you didn't, just like me, you were poor, and was really passionate about computers. Being bullied (I was too) also had a side effect of isolating you for longer periods of time.

Looking back, I'd like to think of myself as having great insight and a keen sense of predicting the future, knowing that computers and internet will be big and I'd have a way to crawl out of poverty. Then I methodically executed that vision over the next 20 years. But, that would be dishonest, because it is not how it happened. Maybe it did for you...

In general, yeah, it would be great if more people would start coding and things would be more diverse. But sometimes we make it too simple and we re-write memories and history as to how we started coding and think -- why can't coal miners just start writing single page apps in React.js over a few weekends, why can't this part time middle aged mom from Walmart who was laid off as an HR person just write Android apps and make more money.
"I'd expect them to announce some sort of DDoS protection offering in the next few quarters."

It will be very interesting to see how cost effective that protection actually is and what they charge for it. Nice profit center off of FUD.
True, but the classes that qualify the buttons can be changed by Netflix just as easily as anything else...
That brings up an interesting question if a dealership has 10 people working there on average, but 2 of those positions have really high turnover at the end of the year you might have 8 people that worked the full year, and another 8 that only did 3 months.

The day to day average would then be a lot higher than the per person average.
Call it a best practice for inexperienced artists and writers. If I, for instance, were to take up painting as a hobby, I would try to find some artistic formula or method to follow before branching out into a more unique style.

I would consider this more important for writing than art, since reading novels involves much more of a time commitment from your audiences to appreciate, whereas art gives more flexibility in deciding how long your audience wants to spend with it.

However, there's a difference between bad art and writing and bad programming. Bad art and writing lacks appreciation. Bad programming is full of errors, hard to maintain, and runs slow, giving an overall poor user experience.
Again, the problem is not the chartalism per se, it's that they read far too much from it for the policy aspects. They basically use the monetary theories as a front for the far more dubious Post-Keynesian policies, which have to be analyzed separately.

A good reading of the Public Choice journal and similar is a nice antidote to some of the zanier MMT and Post-Keynesian proposals.
thanks bobby_9x, that was the feeling I had but needed validation.
I will pay you to do upvote.
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Wow. That's a lot of judgements and assumptions about a person's character and thoughts - considering you've probably never met this person before, and have only read this singular article.