skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a PBS documentary on deciphering the glyphs of the lost Mayan language. The modern Mayans now teach the lost language in schools, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ppfC6y-5s. Corresponding book: "Breaking the Maya Code", http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Maya-Code-Third-Michael/dp/05...
Anyone wonder if this may be the final straw that breaks the camel's back?
Don't dismiss the tracking cookie so quickly. Every dirty marketing technique you've ever heard of from Evercookie to using eTags to accomplishing the same thing make it easier to get "device ids" and coalesce that information to fraudulent user ids as well as the accounts, ips and transactions associated with them.

Services like MaxMind go a very long way in identifying proxies or Tor nodes as well.

Nothing is going to be 100% perfect but the more you can do to make it a struggle for the perpetrator the more they have to decide if it's worth the effort.

The flip side of that is that actively engaged attackers become easier to identify in terms of patterns of behavior and leaving trails to alert authorities.
But, to be fair, that's not the same quote. jwz was paraphrasing Tilbrook on awk, but the new utterance about regular expressions was his own.
In my youth I was too impatient to make it far, but I remember this fondly. And Spectre. Multiplayer Spectre was amazing.
Why not a web app that is responsive so it can be used on mobile or in a desktop browser?

I can't speak for all developers, but I would hate to be forced to use my issue tracker on an iOS device (really any mobile/touch device). Mainly because at times I want to add code snippets, text is harder to type on touch, things like that.

edit: I see after reading some of the other comments that other platforms are planned. I would still question the logic of building applications rather than a web application though.
Yeah, it is, it also tries to paint it in a positive light, and makes it clear that while perhaps what Port Arthur is doing may be unsavory to some, its not illegal, and its certainly no Ferguson, MO either.
Can you describe this sponsored/organic content dichotomy?

To get noticed, you have to have upvotes. If you have upvotes, that means that users appreciated the content. If, say, a company or person is promoting themselves and the community upvotes it, I don't see any problem with it. That's how it's supposed to work.

But I don't think that's what you mean by 'disguise'. I would guess rather that you mean that some entity is paying the reddit the company to create artificial upvotes (i.e. not originating from users) and maybe even paid commenters. I personally would be surprised if there were a lot of this clearly happening (there's a number of people on reddit that make a 'career' out of debunking stories, identifying brigades, etc).

Can you point to some popular posts presently on reddit that are examples of it?
It might kill innovation in the space for a while but patents die. and no one is going to use block chain tech based patents. Kind of like a lot of the 3d print movement was about open design etc. then it died. because companies got involved, but it will come back.
That depends on the specifics of each parking tickets. Tickets for parking in places where cars are supposed to be (fire lanes etc) are safety related. City parking policies are also generally tied to preventing congestion and dissuading people from driving, both of which are safety-related.
Isn't this basically what "native ads" are?
I've concluded there is very little off-topic for HN - and if you'd read the article, it actually paints the police in a fairly positive light - aggressive enforcement is not the same a zealous enforcement.
21 Great Books on Startups and Entrepreneurs  (Read for 2016)
That's pretty wild. Sounds like main program/protocol is very true to the UNIX philosophy of tooling. My early reads on it suggested that gave it both it's power/versatility and horrific UI consequences for beginners. An opinionated UI and host like Github is a natural consequence.

I remember thinking in my early reading that git was like an assembly language for build systems. It really needed a front-end of some kind to smooth things over for new and casual users. Maybe not as heavyweight as Github but better than the main program. Can keep the low-level stuff in for advanced users.

Was that or is that still a common assessment or was my initial impression off?
You can get Lumia phones with WP10 on them, unfortunately.
Compile it:

1. Get OS X running.

2. Find a copy of Metrowerks Codewarrior for Mac OS (the .mcp files are Metrowerks Codewarrior projects) or create a project yourself.

3. Find the necessary header files for the Carbon API (Codewarrior should have them, they're also included with XCode, Apple's IDE).

4. Hope the code is conforming to a current version of the C Standard, so you can compile it without errors. Otherwise fix the errors.

Then you should be able to run it on OS X.
That makes sense. My next question then would be:
Can you use Ship or some other issue tracker to manage the software lifecycle reasonably? Planning for a sprint or release, development, code review, QA, etc. I'm used to having these as columns in Trello or Jira - is the alternative to do them as labels or similar? Or would you use some other tool for them?
A Haskell vs. Perl Performance Case
What does 'native' mean in this context?
He lost me with his first false equivalency.

To keep with his basketball analogy, imagine a basketball league with a separate farm system. There is an unspoken agreement that the farm system will train basketball players and when the major league needs them the farm system will get a percentage of the players salary. Now the major league teams are using players that didn't go through the farm system, and are only playing garbage time (80% of H-1Bs are paid on the lower 2 tiers of the DOL pay scale).

So young people and families see that the farm system isn't really all that viable and so they either don't participate or chose a different sport all together. Ultimately the farm system dries up...

I also skimmed your views, and I'd like to address the straw man in your moral section. People that are against H-1B aren't trying to keep out other people. I'd prefer that if we do indeed have a shortage which requires special immigration visas that we have actual hard evidence of the shortage first and if the data shows it then to focus on encouraging employers and education institutions to train citizens first. If that can't be done, I'd rather we automatically give citizenship to those that we deem are vital to our economy instead of keeping them in immigration limbo that is the H-1B system.
Canned tomatoes are picked ripe from the field and shipped directly to the canning facilities via large semi trucks and trailers. My dad used to work at one of these facilities to which one of my best friends growing up is the son of then President of the company. His older brother now runs the plant.
Seamless Migration from Parse to ShepHertz App42

http://www.shephertz.com/parse-migration-app42.php
Of course those Asian languages that are difficult to type are also difficult for speech to text programs, especially ones like Japanese where understanding the context is important for choosing the correct glyph.
> Can you point to some popular posts presently on reddit that are examples of it?

http://www.redditsecrets.com/buy-reddit-accounts

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=725562.0

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/32rr56/do_peo...

You can build a small voting ring for a few hundred dollars to boost posts. The problem is all of Reddit's countermeasures to reduce spam made it hard to tell how successful these things are.

However, the fact people are still buying in 2016, implies at least some people succeed at it.

> Can you describe this sponsored/organic content dichotomy?

Really, only Reddit can say how bad this problem is but my guess its non-negligible and cutting into their monetization via native ads as its basically an end run around paying Reddit.
Nope. All sorts of vehicles drive on roads. A motorcycle will always be able to navigate a road far faster than anyone intended. Roads need some sort of speed limit to specify unseen dangers, to communicate to the motorcycle that there is a reason the designer doesn't want him moving at the speed of which he is physically capable.
Reddit is the worst. I created a sub that ended up becoming a default (/r/lifeprotips) and ended up getting banned when I tried to promote a site that I built (which was my original intention with the idea). They banned me because I had adsense on the site (funny because Imgur was/has been the golden child for reddit and they've had advertising for quite a while).

I sent them a DMCA to remove the logo that I had commissioned from someone from Dribbble (for my site, but ended up using it as the header there). No response.

Reddit is run by a bunch of leeches who rely on moderators to create content and never reward them.
> This is a race to the bottom. Most companies today prioritize the satisfaction of the stakeholders as follows:

> C-Level Management->Shareholders->Customers->Employees

That's not really true. In the end the shareholders have all the clout. Management can go against shareholder interests for a time, to the extent they can hide what they're doing, but the interests of she shareholders will always be paramount in the end. I'm not sure what you're expecting. Yes, management looks after its own interests.

But so do employees. Said nobody ever to himself: "Self, there was a big flood in Thailand this year and the company lost a lot of money, so I'll take a lower salary than my skill set demands until the company is back on its feet. Otherwise it wouldn't be fair to the shareholders."
Exactly! Although, it isn't just that assessments need to rise in tandem with values, which Prop 13 prevents, but the rates on land ought to rise dramatically which Prop 13 also prevents. And taxes ought to be eliminated for improvements.

Considering people seem to have planned their lives around the implicit expectation of the current tax structure, it isn't ridiculous for seniors on "fixed incomes" to be nervous.

But let's remember that seniors are the wealthiest age demographic, and those among them who are actually financially needy can be easily cared for while still not stifling all the hopes of young entrepreneurs.
I live in Texas, and used to love going to Port A as a kid. Now, I will not even give it a second thought to avoid the city entirely.
The Guiness World Record holder for typing can sustain 150 wpm on a Dvorak keyboard for 50 minutes [0]. Compare this to the average audiobook: "Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people comfortably hear and vocalize words." [1]

So either you speak really slowly or perhaps you should challenge the world record. I've been touch typing for more than 25 years (though not in Silicon Valley, so maybe I'm lacking some magical force as a result) and can comfortably sustain 60 wpm, bursting up to about 100 wpm. There's no way I can even come close to the rate at which I'm able to speak in a sustained manner.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Alphanumeric_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_li...
> Granting H1 to top salaries mean only big companies will be able to afford these visas.

No, it means only very profitable companies will be able to afford top talent. That's the idea.

> What happens to an H1 holder that starts off in a 200k position and wants to leave to a 150k+equity position?

It doesn't have to be based on a single form of compensation. You could adjust for equity based compensation and adjust the lower limit accordingly. Even if you didn't adjust for equity based compensation, you'd be far better off than the current lottery based system.
Reminds me of this article about the link between excessive policing of traffic offenses, police as a profit center, and getting a huge chunk of your budget from your poorest citizens:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/police-shootings...

Once you lose sight of 'Protect and serve', things can go very wrong.
Obama outlines rules for closing gender pay gap and giving women 'fair shot'
> The DOL approves LCA based on minimum wages

Is this true? I thought that the salary of H1b worker must match an average paid for this kind of position in this area. In fact, I'm fairly certain that the company sponsoring H1B must supply documents showing they did the research, on both wages and the fact that they couldn't find anyone in the US to do this kind of work.
Ah, I missed that. However that doesn't mean increasing the speed limit would be bad. Instead of speeding tickets they could focus on aggressive drivers constantly changing lanes and other more serious maneuvers that could cause more danger.
I've worked for two failed early startups. Gained a lot of knowledge in a short period of time, wore a lot of hats, did work I was passionate about, but also stressed out about making the right decisions or the company could shut down (the final decisions were made by the management, but I had influence over their decisions), extremely long hours, no social life, rapidly deteriorating health, screwed up my finances, etc.

But I'm a few years away from it now, and I don't mind admitting it. The startups failed for reasons outside of me for the most part (although it feels a little funny knowing you're at least partially responsible for a company losing two million dollars), and I don't regret having that experience.

If anything, working for a corporation again and working on stuff I'm not too passionate about makes me itch for going back to a small company again, but I still need the stability to get my finances back in order and start losing the weight I put on during that time, plus I have a social life now, which is hard to give all that up for someone else's 'grand vision'.

As for misjudgment, from my experience, a lot of the "bad decisions" made in those startups actually made sense at the time and with the information available at the time of the decision. It was only with the benefit of hindsight and perspective that you can see why ultimately they were bad decisions.
I don't think he's talking to you. If you are under 40 and are saving for retirement, have no debt, and have 6 months of expenses then you are lightyears ahead of most people in the US and you should call your parents and thank them for teaching you well.

I think he's referring to how most people do it - carrying debt, little or no savings, paycheck to paycheck no mater how they make. And when they do get a raise, instead of putting the extra money towards getting on track financially, they just bump up their lifestyle so that they're always living right on the edge of what they can manage.
I'd have no problem with aggressive enforcement so long as the fines and consequences were light - as you noted, both the fine structure and the way external agencies (insurance companies for one) treat moving violations assume for light enforcement
Can't they just get another payment processor? Aren't there dozens, if not hundreds, of payment processing companies out there? Surely someone will pick up these gigantic clients.
http://blogs.shephertz.com/2016/01/29/migrating-parse-pushno...
http://blogs.shephertz.com/2016/01/29/seamless-migration-par...
That's true, but if an app, say, is running on 4 hosts doing some boutique thing for a small unit of 20 traders, then the practical reality is that they might not want Chaos Monkey bringing down 25% of the throughput randomly, and interrupting whatever actual cash money requests are in progress on a host.

Itsa lot easier to promote that if it is thousands of servers doing something fairly mundane where, worst-case, it not working means a tiny tiny proportion of your customers have to restart their video stream. So what?

But for a small hetereogenous business where what's happening has a much higher cash density, the actual practicalities of randomly killing things in production and the risk that represents rather get in the way, even though in theory you should be able to kill anything in production with minimal impact, you are much less inclined to take that risk when the stakes are higher.
No. If Fedex won't deal with you then you can always go to UPS.

Free is the kingmaker. If Fedex is free, you will do whatever it takes to get on their "good boy" list. You cannot afford to pay for shipping if your competitors are getting it for free.
It's a shame that so many people fall for the trope of the anti-science hippie when it comes to criticism of modern farming.

Believe it or not, most of us who criticize industrialized farming techniques are not tinfoil-hat antivaxers, and understand very well what you describe. Thing is, there's no reason why modern techniques can't be used to produce foods that are more varied, nutritious and flavourful.

Instead we're getting bland produce, all the same two or three varieties, and increasingly devoid of any nutritional value because our backwards practices are destroying the very soil we use (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and...).

It's like in terms of food, we're moving towards an "everybody wears a silver onesie" future... scientific progress doesn't have to mean monotony.

In fact it's not progress. It's laziness on an industrial scale, and it's costing us our health (and one of life's greatest pleasures: food with real friggen flavour). So many of us have never tasted a real vegetable or piece of meat. (Ironically, in poorer, less industrialized countries like in South America, the meat is absolutely delicious -- visited last year with some friends; it was like they had never tasted meat before. Then I realised... they really hadn't!)

For a glimpse into what is possible using modern techniques, while still embracing flavour and variety, I highly recommend the Chef's Table episode on Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture.

I believe it's the second episode of the first season (available on NetFlix right now... the whole series is worth watching really).
JIRA does this now.
In all fairness I think that would actually be a tougher situation, all things considered :).

It's a sort of weird testament to the efficiency (not efficacy) or inscrutability of computing that it's hugely in demand even if there's little evidence that it actually matters for anything important.
Did you completely miss the study he was talking about?
Finally the government is taking action against these companies. Think about it, these guys provide the ability to wager on the outcome of a basket of performance statistics. The government is totally right to classify this as gambling and not skill based wagering. Plus, these things have no underlying value at all, just structured binary outcomes based totally on short term results.

What other institution in America is allowed to create non-collateralized chance options markets out of thin air and float them to the public? This is unprecedented. These guys are clearing millions. Could you imagine what woild happen ifit was billions or trillions? I bet that would make for a pretty volatile environment.
Follow the money.

Israeli sources claim that the reason that this information is published at this timing is a German-Israeli drone deal in which the US Predator lost -
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/international/europ...

They also claim that since 2011 (The last "hacking" incident) there was a major change in the way that drone communication is encrypted.

Edit: changed 2010 to 2011
I could care less about what the State Department, which was involved in this and has all the reasons to protect itself, decides about the emails. I want to see what the FBI has to say about them.
I think a lot of it is the pseudo-intellectual nature of the site to make people feel like they are more knowledgeable. If it's already a pop culture topic, like Tesla or Netflix, the topics will drive interest and thereby upvotes. John Oliver did a similar episode about Native Advertising.
I didn't realize the sarcasm until near the end. Well done.
Nothing jumps to mind but search http://alternativeto.net/software/toggl/
9) Not a problem, per se, but it's the expectation that JS is a great language. This erroneous belief is misleading and dangerous, drawing in people who don't know any better.

10) As I said, while you can't get JS out of the web browsers, you can transpile to it as an assembly language. That was my main point.
If spying on allies sounds appropriate to you, then I'm not sure you understand why Snowden is even an issue.
Visa, MC, et el will simply cut them off. That's how Congress killed online gambling previously.

It looks like there's enough evidence to do so:

“As you are aware, an increasing number of state attorneys general have determined that daily fantasy sports (‘D.F.S.’) constitute illegal gambling,” Jonathan Ellman of Vantiv.com wrote in a letter obtained by The New York Times. “Although in recent weeks D.F.S. operators have raised numerous arguments to the contrary, to date those arguments have been unsuccessful and/or rejected.”
> But that's not what this is, there is no shortage that we need to address.

If believe that makes you feel better, then fine. It is not true for all sectors. Not remotely true for many specialized job descriptions. And not all jobs can be performed after a 6 month training period.

Now, these cases have nothing to do with "shortage", but rather, replacement. Disney's H1-Bs were not hired "in addition to" the existing workers, existing workers got replaced. That's bad.
I do what every other employer serious about attracting talent does, I increase my compensation package until I get the skills I am looking for. That is typically how labor markets work.
“Fine Bros Entertainment” attempting to trademark the word “react”
Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?
So far we've supported OpenAI and we will soon start the basic income project. We have a few ideas about what to do next, but we'd love to hear from the community about what we should be considering. Thanks!
It can and is done. Place I last worked at built an in house data model and lookup engine on MS SQL Server to find relations between arbitrary data points on edges. I know that it is currently used live in production and handles real time fraud evaluation at a large scale (it's a private company and not a liberty to disclose actual payment volume). With proper indexing and careful design it is scalable, but as with everything, you need to dedicate time to performance analysis and design work.
I was able to fill 7 technical positions last summer.
3 new graduates (all CS degrees), 1 with an Assoc degree in unrelated field (plus a really good interview, and persistence), and 3 experienced (2 with MS in CS as well).

Was it effortless? No, not remotely. But, hiring an skilled employee shouldn't be effortless. And the positions were filled in time to meet objectives.

edit - formatting
All allies spy on each other. A lot. Germany's biggest espionage issue isn't Russia; it's France.
Kind of hoping facebook's legal team gets on board in opposition to this. This is an unbelievable abuse of the copyright system.
How about never deal with Goldman. Period.

they are criminals.

For those that down vote me; prove me wrong. They. are. Fucking. Criminals.
So does this mean you could listen to police/fire radio and such like back in the old days?
In Retrospect: The Selfish Gene
It really depends on the nature of the fines levied, on its face, you'd not convince me that speed enforcement alone is disproportionately levied on the poor.

There is another class of fines, like Failure to Appear, fix it tickets resulting in a warrant (warrants shouldn't be issued for non-moving violations ever), unable to provide proof of insurance, and failure to pay fines - that are very likely levied excessively on the poor.