skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money"

http://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene-...

Alternatively, one can spend a few decades saving money and then try something on one's own. Very far from optimal, but it's all some people can do.
You can do all of this today without their branding though. Or their permission. It's not like being associated with them is going to get you much credibility when it's an open system.

Nothing is stopping you from making a total rip off of their show and its format today - and you don't need to get permission or pay royalties. That's how it should be; it's not like anyone is using copyrighted characters.
Show HN: An app search engine that can filter out fake reviews
Dataflow/Beam and Spark: A Programming Model Comparison
> The bankruptcy prohibition is why you even see loans in the single digits.

No, the reason you see loans in the single digits is because the government is both the sole lender (since the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) and sets the rates by law.

What private lenders would accept was only relevant when there were private lenders.
It actually has. Atom became unusable for me, but the most recent version fixed a bug involving the .git file. It's not sublime fast, but it's enough that I enjoy using it now.
Can you give an example of 'more complex regex searching'? I thought the JS regex engine would be at par with whatever sublime uses.
Most Tennis Grand Slam winners won their first major at the French Open
> are they represented in the UN or any other kind of international bodies constituted of member states?

FIFA, UEFA, World Rugby.

Regardless of the comparison with Alaska being flawed, I wouldn't see anything peculiar in an Alaskan newspaper referring to a Russian plane over Alaskan airspace, so I don't see an issue with Scottish people or entities referring to their country as Scotland.
Some of the stuff it does:

- Detects app reviews that likely should be ignored and recalculates an overall rating with those ones excluded

- App search engine with multiple filters such as how recently the app was updated and review trustworthiness

- Reviewer stats, e.g., how many reviews a given reviewer has submitted and what his average rating is

- Recommendations of similar apps based on multiple factors, including scikit-driven review analysis

More info here: http://apprecs.com/blog
> The dream of not worrying about servers AT ALL isn't exactly tangible, I think.

Devops here. My bread and butter is people who start with "not worrying about servers" who eventually have to transition to "year, I'm gonna have to worry about servers".
I've heard this claim being made for as long as I've been alive, and I'd agree that it was probably true 10, 20 years ago.

Since college prices have risen so fast, while wages have gone down, there's a good argument for forgoing school.

The average 18 year old paying $150K for a Sociology degree at some expensive non-ivy private school is going to be making $30K a year with or without his degree, for many years. Besides the loss of 4 years of income, the $150K (which will end up costing 2.5x-3x after interest) would have earned a lot of money invested in the market.
I use it regularly for editing the front-end portion of our project. Granted it's not the biggest project (36 folders and 158 total files.) but it performs quite well. I have some problems using git from the command line as atom seems to lock random files from time to time. I really have no complaints. I enjoy using it and find the community packages that are available quite useful.
I wonder if there could be a way to abstract this for testing gem version upgrades.
I don't work at Amazon anymore so I thought maybe they had open-sourced it
I think that metastore will become much more valuable tool, when some planned stuff will be implemented.

https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/6

https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/7

Drafts described there are not finalized and my view on some matters changed a bit. I'll try to update descriptions one day. metastore needs also some modularization to provide better OS-dependent stuff like xattrs.

All in all metastore will need more or less substantial reworking, to the point where rewriting it and providing converter from binary format may be a simpler solution and leading to cleaner (and thus more maintainable) code.
How about they adopt an everyday dialect that's not choke-full of metaphysics and New Age scents?
Bank transfer or certified checks. This is quite common in France when selling expensive goods.
Rust seems like a nice systems language, but is it really best suited for non-system programming? I may be too risk adverse, but it seems too early to make that bet at this point.
> I can care about doing a good job and keeping a tight ship without having to care about company politics.

In this case, no you can't. Company politics has placed a superior of yours explicitly tasked into order you to do a bad job.

I do completely agree with the "just find another job" line. What I don't agree is with that "cheer, your job is less stressing now".
Everybody has to queue for toilet paper! The economy has ground to a halt! Unless you use the (entirely unregulated, utterly laissez-faire) black market, nobody can buy anything. Not toilet paper, not food.
> Heroku limitations (i.e. 30-second HTTP request timeouts)

I see this as less of a limitation and more as Heroku forcing you to write your app in a scalable manner. Likewise with Heroku servers/dynos not coming with permanent storage and not letting you SSH into them.
I was a bit confused when it looked like the presenter was introducing Angela Merkel and then Sibylle Günter from MPI was the first speaker (Merkel herself steps up roughly half-way through).

But yeah, it's rather uneventful to watch if you're not intimately familiar with what's actually going on in that one second. Definitely not worth watching for the speeches.
It even worse: good candidates will avoid expensive application procedure.

I spent month on Crossover for senior position: 3 days for test case (dumb but large), then waiting for interview, then again waiting for interview, then interview with a middle which asked me questions "Do you know singleton pattern? Do you know factory pattern". Then they refused me because "unit tests are failed" :-/
I just wrote to my colleague that I am free and got hired. It took about 1 minute. Difference in hourly rates (after taxes and bank commissions): about $1.

Will I try to use Crossover again? Never. It is too expensive for me.
The GO gc is not generational, those 20ms are for a full gc. Certainly the details of the heap usage of the application is going to affect gc times, but this is not the time for just a nursery collection.
It was 1000 Euro in Italy, recently raised to 3000 (to be pedantic, it's 2999.99)
> Why do you put "investors" in scare quotes?

Business 101 - the Assets of a company.

Machines: anything that enable the production of deliverables and thus, value.

Materials: raw materials (obviously), applicable for traditional industries. Solar and wind farms could qualify in the tech sector, tough.

Money: can also be shares owned, debts that others owe you, or future revenue.

Men: engineers, technicians - everyone that makes the company a business that makes money, and everything they know, including the company's past struggles so they don't repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

Being an investor implies that the people doing the investments have an actual knowledge not only of the current revenue sources of a business, but also its past history and its future potential, to be able to extract the maximum value from its operations.

Being an investor implies that there is a minimum amount of trust in what employees do, security in their past experiences as employees so that future mistakes can be avoided or mitigated, and faith in their future potential.

People who see employees only as expenses or numbers to be deducted from quarterly profits along with benefits, insurance, social security and other normal operational costs of the operation of a company do not deserve to be called investors for they have no plans for the future of a company and no interest either in the work of the employees or their success.

If they see a company only as a set of numbers and only focus on their returns, they fail to see the history, the potential and the future impact of that company. Thus they are more like vultures picking a rotten carcass than investors.

I'm done.
Saying there should be a standard number for the first employee is like saying there should be a standard valuation for every startup. Sure, YC throws out a fairly generous standard valuation, but they are choosing top notch startups and trying to cultivate an entrepreneur first mindset.

To roll into any random startup and say, “I guess 1 percent seems fair” is silly. 1-3 percent is fairly standard for the first employee of a well-backed (YC / VC / Quality Angel) startup, where professionals are taking a calculated risk because the payout could be huge. They are really overvaluing every startup, but know that 1 out of 10 will pay off enough to make it up.

One percent probably isn’t fair for someone taking a reduced salary at a “startup” financed by someone’s uncle targeting a niche market. The limited upside will never pay enough to justify the money lost. If the startup isn’t financed by professionals, I don’t see 1-3 percent and reduced market as reasonable. Even then, I think it’s questionable and really depends on the product, market, founders, how far along things are, and what you bring to the table.

Certainly the value you provide and what you can negotiate are the critical parts, but I feel that a lot of startup pay is exploitative, taking advantage of younger workers who don’t understand what is going on, that the real payday in a startup is the equity and they probably aren’t getting a large enough percent to justify the risk. Why do startups payout so handsomely for founders and investors, but employees are supposed to be learning and doing it for the love?
Not trying to troll but wouldn't it be easier to just use Elixir and Phoenix with OTP to run microservices for IoT?

IoT typically will have long lived connections and Erlang was built on computers much smaller than raspberry pi's.

Perhaps i'm not fully grasping the library though.
That's a totally valid counter point about the reading. Also as I said the recruiting work I do(which is about 30% of my job) isn't hiring programmers. In the field I'm in I doubt the last book you read question comes up too much.

To be honest I'd have favorites go either in an executive summary in the top or a cover letter, not a resume. I'd mention like I'm really excited to work at XYZ because of your use of a React.JS combined with your Fortran to JS transpiler, in fact I worked on this project that uses that Fortran->JS program when I was at ABC company.

You bring up an interesting point how the needs of a recruiter(internal or external) are different from a hiring manager in terms of detail/information.
Sorry but I have to disagree with this. Just because I am using a tool to do something doesn't mean I lack the skills to do that thing without the tool. IMHO, it is entirely justified to use as many tools as you want and not do things "by hand" if that saves you time and increases efficiency.

As for this specific case, note that the user still would write stuff in sections detailing his/her profile or experience/education etc (which all take markdown as is). The app only really helps with generating the markdown in a pre-structured format, which is easy to edit as well.
Microsoft’s Project Natick goes undersea for solution to keep data centres cool
I haven't seen a cheque in almost twenty years... Do people still use them?

The answer is bank transfers. I can send someone money within minutes from my phone and it will arrive within a couple of hours.

I myself wouldn't want to walk around the streets with 5K+ in cash anyway, just asking to get ropped.
I was nodding so much to this comment. Been there, done that. Been on both sides.
I love the symmetry with AWS. I pay them for one minute of compute, they pay me for one minute of eyeballs.
"country" in the UK has a meaning not entirely dissimilar to "state" in the US (in both cases, this is somewhat distinct from the usual use of the term internationally.)

The term does, in fact, have concrete meaning.
I would not want to do it that way but maybe most people would.
I can't speak about the transaction aspect, but the banning of the €500 note is an old idea. Most regular folks do not use that note period. So much so that occasionally you hear the nickname "binladens" for the €500 note.
Waging a war by not supporting artificially low quotas enacted by a cartel? That makes no sense
Yes, but a contract isn't.
Not really. "The irony of this approach is that the lower interest rates are, the more people need to save to reach their retirement goals."

That statement doesn't necessarily assume people are just socking their money away in a savings account while working. The goal of saving for retirement is that you need your money to outlast you. If your can expect much lower income during retirement, you'll need to have a bigger pot at the beginning of your retirement (i.e. you'll need to save more while working).
No. I really dislike Greenwald and, to a lesser extent, The Intercept as a publication, and think they spread more disinformation than journalism, but it's hard for me to see what crime any of them could possibly have committed.

(I answered your first question upthread).
I use betterment for automated investing. It's pretty straightforward, they provide a tech wrapper around vanguard index funds. I agree with their portfolio allocation, so it works great for me.
In recent history, Venezuela defaulted in 1982, 1990, had a banking collapse in 1994, 100% inflation in 1996, defaulted again in 1998 and 2004...all bad luck of course.
We also have a similar limit in France, 5000€ too I believe.

> Imagine trying to sell a used car or other high asset items like fully loaded computers and Swiss watches. Who is going to take a check?

Happens a lot for houses, cars, ... Usually:

- Bank transfer

- A regular check and wait of the clearance time period before getting the good

- A "chèque de banque", translated to "bank check" I guess, aka a check that is in the name of your bank rather than yours. The banks delivers those in limited amount and/or for a fee, and since the bank issuing that check is the one who owns the customer's account, they don't have a problem checking for the funds.

Eg: you A want to use an account from you bank B to buy a car from C, instead of making a check marked "A pays C", you go to your bank, ask them a bank check, they take the money from your account and give you a check "B pays C".

Having recently bought a slightly expensive car, that was the rule: either give us a check and wait 3 weeks, or give us a bank check and leave with the car immediately.
Perhaps the amount of money you're allowed to borrow should be proportional to one's age (starting at 18). The fact that a 17 year old can sign a promissory note for many thousands of dollars just doesn't make sense to me (ignoring the fact that 17 year olds can't sign most other kinds of contracts).

Some of us were extremely knowledgable about the world at that age, but most of us had no idea how anything worked. We had no experience, and our parents didn't do us the service of teaching us. For many of us our maturity level wasn't enough that we could be taught what we were doing. At that age our biology makes us reckless.

So why should it good for society to allow this? Putting aside the ideas of free/subsidized tuition (not because they don't deserve consideration), perhaps this is too young an age for people to be choosing their life's vocation, much less signing away their financial future. More and more I think we should focus on getting young people out into the world into a variety of jobs and apprenticeships and internships and community service.
> It has few serious military threats from its neighbors

The U.S. military is 'full spectrum dominance', including coup attempts, as in the 2002 coup attempt. Team Bush has not been gone long in the bigger scheme of things, and Team Bush 2 (Obama) seems to have sanctions on Venezuela. Sanctions is tantamount to a blockade or a siege, seen by some as an act of war even if no guns get fired.

Venezuela's problem is that it wants to be a proper country rather than some Goldman Sachs managed vassal state.
Checks are hardly ever used in Europe for the past 10-15 years, and can be expensive to cash.
FutureCalc: radial mobile UI as a possible future
I had applied for the iOS developer position a while ago. Got an email saying someone will get in touch in 2 week. It's been more that 1.5 months.

Not complaining or anything, but it would be good to set the expectation straight beforehand.
I've been using Atom full-time for about a year, after switching from Sublime. I'm happy with it as an editor, and like the momentum behind the plugins ecosystem. Performance has been completely adequate, and I've seen none of the issues that always seem to crop up whenever Atom is mentioned on HN. There may be a platform difference - I use it on OSX, but friends of mine on Linux have been less satisfied.

I do still resort to vim on the command-line for some things, but as a "daily driver" code editor, Atom has been excellent.
If you're going to send structured records and care about knowing the structure: use protobuf. If you're going to be binary JSON: use RFC 7049 CBOR. http://cbor.io/
I'll work on this tonight, EST, but if someone beats me to it please don't hesitate to link to them first. Thanks for the reply.
The Supreme Court is no fan of the First Amendment. Notice that Citizens United was a 5-4 decision in the clearest core political speech case since the First World War[0]. And at least two of the Citizens United justices will probably be replaced by the next president and no likely presidential candidate is a big fan of the First Amendment.

[0] When villain Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote a majority opinion that arguing in public that military conscription was bad policy should be a criminal offense and the First Amendment didn't apply. There's no reason the Supremes can't just abolish the First Amendment for political convenience again.
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The shortages are extremely serious at this moment. We're having a humanitarian crisis because medicines can't be found, people use social media to ask for medicines.

The government limited the days where you can go to the super market to the last digit of the "Social Security Number". So if yours end in 0 or 1 then you must buy on Monday. And nothing guarantees that you will find what you're looking for.

Lines outside supermarkets take 2 hours or more and they only sell you a limited amount of items. 1 Chicken per week.

The government also installed finger print scanners to make sure that you don't buy more than you're allowed.

All this measures are failing and will fail, because the problem is that they destroyed the private industry making us heavily relay on imports. Now that the price of the oil is down there is not enough money to import, so there's simply not enough food, medicines, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001169
What you see in the tweet is the code which runs in the animation loop. The animation loop is provided, along with all of the abbreviated function aliases, by this base file [1].

I've reproduced the guts of it below -

d3.timer(function(t) {
g.d([t]);
if (window.tweet) {
tweet(t);
}
});

The important bit is the t argument which is provided to the code you see in the tweet. Most of the animations are driven by this value, normally passed through a trigonometric function to provide some easing.

In the case of my Hello World example, the tweet code is as follows -

// Perform a data-join [2] with the parent set to the root node provided
// by the base file, the data defaulting to [t] as above and with a
// built-in behavior of appending an SVG text element in the enter selection.
T()
// Set the following attributes on the text element -
.a({
// Affine transform the element using a sc-ale transform.
// The scaling value is a function of the data item bound to the element (t).
// s is an alias for Math.sin and 1e3 is just shorthand for 1000 (saves 1 character!)
transform:d=>sc(4+s(d/1e3)),
// Make use of another alias to offset the text based on the normalised mouse position.
x:d=>mo[0]*10,
y:d=>mo[1]*10
})
// Set the text content of the text element
.t('Hello World')

This is by no means an exciting example but it should provide some clues as to how the more complex animations work.

[1] https://github.com/chrisprice/t-d3fc/blob/master/public/base...
[2] http://bost.ocks.org/mike/join/
So you're selling your car, the buyer initiates the bank transfer, and the two of you hang around in a coffee shop for a few hours waiting for it to clear?

Or do you actually let them drive off with the car before the transaction clears?
> Scotland is the UK.

Scotland is a country in the UK (as are England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.)

Its also a country with a fairly strong independence movement and which is frequently at odds with the central government on important policy issues.
There are numerous private lenders that offer student loans. A google search will easily lead you to dozens of them.
1. The definition of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are not that wide. Racism is pretty clearly defined in terms of treating racial minorities as subhuman both in legal and social terms. The same follows for sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. The individual incident in question can be assessed pretty clearly by this standard. For example, if you insist on calling a POC "boy" when they're 20 years your senior then you're probably being a racist. Also, if you insist on calling Caitlyn Jenner by her old first name. Then you're probably a transphobe. And so forth. This isn't rocket science. If you can't determine what's bigotry either you're not observant or you're being dishonest. Either way, it's not the job of the marginalized to coddle you.

2. Having your event canceled isn't equivalent to censorship. No one has put a gag order on Smurthwaite to not perform. You're not guaranteed a platform to speak either beyond the voting booth or to petition. It's not the onus of individual organizations or individuals themselves to listen or debate you. The freedom of speech also implies the freedom to not listen to your speech. Or to not associate one's organization or self in regards to that speech. If you don't like this either, then IMO you're demanding to be coddled.

So, all these false claims of PC being out of control smacks of social conservatives demanding to be taken seriously by their opposition. Guess what? They don't talk their opposition seriously either. DEAL WITH IT is my motto. If you can't then you're a brat.
The point is that money laundering is already illegal, everyone who's doing it is already breaking the law. The only purpose this serves is to create a new law that is easier to prove violation of. A law that makes it easier to indict criminals at the expense of making legitimate acts illegal is fundamentally at odds with the physical underpinnings that give us the "innocent until proven guilty" doctrine.
The US pronounces "chèque de banque" as "certified check", for anyone curious.
I miss the point with this entirely, but for those that are looking for a "input markdown -> output web-friendly/pdf-friendly resumé" head over to my CV repository at https://github.com/andreineculau/cv and fork it!
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009022
That's getting much more common, apparently:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-21/if-your-pa...

"If Your Parents Are Still Paying Your Bills, You're Not Alone"
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