skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in international development. If you're looking for a career abroad and interested in working on solving interesting problems, the development sector is a good place to be. Pretty good pay, decent benefits, home leave, no issues with immigration.

Devex.com has a decent listing of jobs and companies to work for.
I'm talking about the former, the latter i guess is at least somewhat correlated with differing opinions too. Reaaly its the vast difference in size that matters -- USA has SO many differing constituencies with differing needs and wants and opinions. Norway is a municipal government by comparison.
I'm talking about might, not right. Half of Wall Street was committing fraud in the years leading up to the financial crisis, and it was a hell of a lot worse than anything Conrad did. How many of them have been held accountable the way he was? From that perspective, who are the real "rockstars"?
Does it make sense to you to perhaps not make it a black box, but basically just a "loud" pinger that can help you find the black boxes ?

I understand the vastness of the ocean but it just seems there has to be a way to at least get them quicker and closer to the original crash site, but I am ignorant of the technical side of such a thing as far as ranges etc.
Thanks. An article that long could have spared a paragraph or two for some context.
My comment on sheep is being misunderstood in the original post.

I'm not calling people sheep for liking an app. I'm calling people sheep for not questioning the lore "that no one leaves <insert social media> because all their friends are there".
wikipedia has a big "never change anything" culture that resists any design changes to the main site, but doesn't seem to care about the mobile site.

more likely we'll see m.wikipedia.org become more desktop-friendly and responsive before we see it happen to "desktop wikipedia". (and really, the m.wikipedia site is quite nice to use on the 11" screen i'm reading on now)
New cool ecofriendly water and dirt repellent spray on indiegogo
Looking at the date, this isn't that surprising.

The idea itself is a bit older: the Iowa Electronic Market had been taking election bets since the late '80s, but they exploded in popularity in the mid 2000s. HP had an internal prediction market that allegedly estimated DRAM pricing very accurately. Pfizer had one where employees could "bet" on new product ideas and there were tons of startups trying to build them for movies, sports, etc.

I haven't heard much about this since then, or perhaps the idea of crowdsourcing has just become pretty standard.
Middle Classes Around the World Grow Weary of Democracy
Exactly. But back in those days Telegram was WAY ahead of WhatsApp (in terms of features). Nowadays, the ability of logging in onto the webapp without your phone is pretty much the one thing that Telegram does better. I read somewhere (maybe on HN?) that to have end-to-end encryption for some reason it has to work the way WhatsApp does it. I don't know why, but it's consistent with the fact that Telegram does not allow encryption on the webapp. I'm not an expert on this though.
No such thing as a free lunch :)

However, as long as FM radio is still a thing... "free streaming" music is not going to end.
More info and without locked page: https://semiaccurate.com/2016/05/23/38723/
I think it'd be cool if you guys pivoted to a sort of scavenger hunt game with your friends (or strangers) and/or king of the hill game where you can tag up places and somehow counteract/tag over others markings....maybe you can have a social platform surrounded by or based on top of a game platform. This would give people more of a reason to use the app because there's less of a barrier for entry. In a social network you would need a bunch of your friends to be on it for you to join so it ends with s situation that you're seeing where nobody really joins, but if it's based off of or works in conjunction with social games then you only need a handful of friends to get started - plus you can play/meet new people.

Some other ideas: scavenger hunts and treasure maps/hunts made by others, you can make the scavenger hunt list and treasure maps yourself and also include ones made by sponsors/advertisers that take you through/by certain shopping spots or stores enable use with quadcopter so people can draw/create their own virtual courses that they can physically fly through. The benefit of this is that if you hit a loop then you're not damaging your drone because it's a virtual obstacle - great for training restaurant/travel tips and suggestions. People can draw a positive review in green or a negative review in red. One can then swipe through these reviews on the storefront or display the ratio of positive vs negative reviews which will be done by tallying the number of messages left in green vs red. I think the traveling aspect will really set this apart from something like yelp because it can be applied to anything and the places don't need to be registered/listed like they are in yelp. directions to certain places indoors. For instance if you had a trade show, you can draw a publicly viewable path to their table that people can register to see. a game similar to draw something a free draw option so people can use this to draw and map out furniture in a new apartment or rearranging the furniture

There's many more ideas related to what you currently have. These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure if you got the team together you can think of many more/better options.
Strange how the website did not render properly on mobile for me. Is a responsive website part of perceived legitimacy?
Can you imagine the repercussions today for a sportsman or woman who said something like[0]:

"no intelligent white person watching this show, or no intelligent white man in his or her right white mind, want black boys and black girls marrying their white sons and daughters, and in return introducing their grandchildren as half brown, kinky haired black people"

"It ain’t sad because I want my child to look like me, every intelligent person wants their child to look like them, I’m sad because I want to blot out my race and lose my identity? Chinese love Chinese they love the little slanty eye, pretty brown skin babies. Pakistani love their culture, Jewish people love their culture, a lot of catholic wanna be with Catholics and want the religion to stay the same… who would want to spot up yourself and kill your race? You’re a hater of your people if you don’t want to stay who you are. You ashamed of what god made you? You think he made a mistake when he made you?"

[0] From a 1971 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Y693cSF7E
We really need is more immigration here. That will fix all of our problems.
How do you measure ideological diversity?

Also how do different parts of the US have different needs?
as I reflect on the sentiment of this message, I am brought to tears.

these soldiers won't fight to save their own asses, much less will they risk their own necks. their friend's just wound up here.

it's not my fault.

it's not my fault.

we failed before we tried.
> MVP (Version 1.0) expected to be shipped this summer

Yay!
Better to phrase it as: "Are you open to the idea of a 4-day work week for me? How would that affect my overall compensation?"

I think it's unwise to reveal your willingness to be paid less. Mostly because you should never reveal your willingness to be paid less. Never leave money on the table.
Fishing Superstars Hack
> just install Messenger...to limit distractions

Interesting. I have been much happier since killing the Fb app'a notification and badge permissions.
One root problem with the ad-funded model is it places an upper limit on the value of the content that you can access. The ads have to be worth more than the content costs.

With freemium and one-time purchases, individuals can choose to pay more for more valuable content than can be funded by ads.

Some content remains too expensive to fund with the ad model, such as major motion pictures. Numerous product placements and the ticket don't pay for the entire movie; even concessions profits are needed.
New Android apps do that too. Unfortunately older apps ask for all permissions from the start, but I assume they will deprecate that eventually.
Common Lisp has (always had) a rich type system. You hardly pay any attention to it at all when you're prototyping but once your code has taken shape you can start adding type annotations and then it can really fly.

So yes, types do get in the way while prototyping but it's great to have them available when refining code.
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What device are you using? We definitely made it responsive and tested. Will fix the glitch. Thanks for letting us know!
I disagree. This article had several interesting points.

El Reg have a wide ( tech ) audience. Some articles are for noobs, fine. Like other places they need filler content when there is nothing organic happening.

They also have their finger on the pulse a lot more than stars-in-their-eyes tech coverage elsewhere.

Rather than Daily Mail I think of them more as New Scientist
A Weekend in Chicago
More: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/oct/30/muhamm...
> Before Napster, to hear whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, you had to pay for it.

What?? Before Napster, we made tapes. I still have tons of them. We exchanged tapes and copied them, and also we recorded the radio.

It was exactly like Napster, only much slower and complicated -- and also, in a way, nicer, because putting a tape together was a form of expression.

I don't think free streaming can go away without being immediately replaced by increased piracy, but we'll see.
> not scientifically useful

This isn't a peer reviewed journal, we're just a community chatting about stuff, so that's not really a germane standard. Anecdotes are a perfectly reasonable input into our personal Bayesian inference filters, since no one has all the answers yet (not even close).
Is this much different from Diffractive Optical Elements in use today?
Mobile Is Eating Media, and Facebook Is Eating Mobile
The post doesn't advocate for "limited-transferability tickets", whatever that might mean.
Qvestions of Love, and the Ansvvers (1566)
If we're in a bubble, the opposite of what is listed in the article will be happening: investments will be increasing, VC backed companies will be splurging more etc.

It is amazing that they'd list a bunch things that support the position that there isn't a bubble and draw the conclusion that there is one! It is sunny and hot out and people are walking around in shorts in Seattle, clearly this means it is winter because people would click on an article about winter.

Who knows if we are actually in a "bubble" or not, but if anything we have to reach the opposite conclusion from the facts listed in the article.
The numbers I used are salary only. Total comp negotiation is an entirely other animal.
Marc Andreessen is a bubble, or a couple of them.

The guy was a programmer (no insult, so was I) who wrote, while young and enthusiastic, a derivative copy of well known software idea... he got rich, good for him (no sour grapes, so did I) but that hardly makes him a genius of business savvy and economics. His name and commentaries started popping up everywhere a few short years ago which to me smells strongly of having a PR agency (insult+sour grapes, I don't have one)

So, when I say Marc Andreessen is a bubble, I mean his money came from a bubble, and his portfolio has expanded in a bubble, and so has his apparent influence, but I don't myself see evidence of extra-technical genius or being able to see the future. I have no problem with his living the dream; and if you're living the dream, it wouldn't even be surprising if you fell in love with sniffing your own farts (sour, not grapes!) that's human nature. What I have a problem with is, why is everybody else always hanging on his every word, what is notable in what he purportedly says?
Make it every 5min or 15min and most of the technical problems drop right out. And it's still super useful for this kind of thing at 20% or 7% of the bandwidth.
misleading title. what Andresssen said had nothing to do with valuations . so tired of click bait
I love how every HN thread about Facebook's scummy forced engagement tactics always turn into Fbook addiction-denail support groups.

Just drop Fbook guys - trust me, you'll be fine without it. If someone really wants to talk to you they'll get your email or phone number through a mutual friend/family member.
I'm trying to find the source, but I remember reading something about allergies appearing in people later in life, and overexposure in that case was also a factor, IIRC
Anyone can give me the source code of agar.io
i want the source code for agar.io on my website does anyone have it if you have please give me
That's a minority view. Most people think it's OK as long as the animal is raised and slaughtered humanely. I edited my comment to make it a little more precise.
> To name a popular non-Linux OS, take a fresh FreeBSD or OpenBSD install. No bash to be found, unless installed via ports and rightfully so.

And even if you do install it, it still won't work with scripts that specify /bin/bash (which is a lot of them, thanks to sloppy tutorials), since it will be in /usr/local/bin and not /bin.
> I think I cannot trust you with C.

You really don't get it, but your arrogance is overwhelming. I don't care who you trust.

> I mean no offense by this.

Yes you do.
Royls Royce sends performance data of its jet engines over satellites.

https://youtu.be/_30T6MqdSlw?t=43m19s
reddit rate-limits new posters to something like 1 post every 15 minutes until they've accumulated some positive karma.
If only they had treated him before
It's nice that they can use hydro power for themselves but if they are still exporting oil and gas they are still contributing to the problem.

Its like a drug dealer that doesn't do his own drugs. You're still part of the problem. Out of sight out of mind.
he's batting 1000 in life..not bad for someone who wrote a 'derivative copy of well known software idea'. Everything he has done has worked out perfectly, which reflects some luck but also genuine skill at understanding markets, trends, etc. Timed the Netscape exit perfectly got into the best start-ups early
On QNX all you get is ksh, which has little support for bash-isms.
I wonder if the drop in popularity has to do with title bouts moving to pay per view. I've never been interested enough to pay to watch but if it was on network, I probably would have...
For those interested in a more technical dive into the system, see this blog: http://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-persp...
Out of curiosity do you really think the prime minister just made a decision to reject help without consulting other people in the field?
Using go doc for REST APIs
> "Hey did you check out that app I asked you?"

- "Installing an app is always so complicated"
- "Why not stick with WhatsApp. It works fine for me"

> "Hey, the other day I wanted to text you and it's so much more comfortable if I can type from my laptop, would you please install it? It's just like WhatsApp, you won't even see the difference."

"What's wrong with your phone?"

> "Hey, remember that app I told you about the other day? Turns out that the founder is this guy who cloned Facebook in Russia, and the government went after him and stole his company, how insane is that? He's now cloning WhatsApp, but better, could you please check it out?"

"What's better? And why would I trust a Russian more then WhatsApp. I don't really think it is a good idea to install it"

I haven't even made up those answers, I've heard them one way or the other. For most people, their phone just has to work and unless they mean a lot to you, they won't really bother installing it. If most of your friends are tech savvy, then your chances are good they are curious to try it out, don't mind it at all, or even support you. But most just don't care and are afraid they break things if they installed a new app.

I can even fully understand their decision. A friend of mind decided to ditch WhatsApp altogether and now I can only call her because I'm not willing to pay 15¢ just for a normal text message.
She only did it because she wanted to have to deal less with social media but I don't want to. I turn off notifications for WhatsApp every now and then if I don't want to get distracted but all in all, I ust WhatsApp for 95% of all my personal text conversations.
In retrospect, I realize I should have said that it is time to retire professional boxing, not boxing in general, but it's too late to edit my original comment. Amateur boxing, where protective head gear is worn and the object is not to render your opponent unconscious, is fine with me. What makes professional boxing barbaric IMHO is that it is designed to maximize the possibility that the participants will get injured. The goal in professional boxing is to render your opponent unconscious. That is IMHO barbaric.
Android Galaxy phone with Firefox browser. Btw, now I realize my previous comment seems snarky. It's not meant like that. It not rendering properly made me think this was a sort of joke.
A guide for the perplexed - this basically a FAQ related to sex and romance from 1566. Posted it simply because I found it to be interesting. It's written in a question and answer style with the questions demarcated by a ¶. The text is typical of 16th century English, hence u=v, ie=y, etc. Hence:

¶Why were Oysters consecrated by the auncient to Venus?

Bycause Oysters doe prouoke lecherie.

Becomes:

"Why were Oysters consecrated to Venus by the Ancients?

Because Oysters provoke lechery."
Hacker News Highlights, the Alan Kay Edition
Why would I pay hundreds of dollars to work in a noisy public environment when I could do that for free at a coffee shop? Presumably you're paying for the social aspect of like minds or something. As a freelance IT consultant in NYC the value proposition felt very weak. If someone had a $400/mo private micro office with a desk and a window I'd be on that like white on rice.
Luxembourg takes first steps to 'asteroid mining' law
It's inconvenient that they got rid of their XMPP compatible backend so they could lock us into their privacy destroying app ecosystem.

Fortunately, vendor lock-in breeds resentment and dissidents. Hopefully, a better alternative will come from this.
Sometimes people don't know their interest until an opportunity presents itself. Sometimes people imagine details into a question like this which are orthogonal to what the questioner imagines.

Future interest is going to be more a function of an implementation than a high level description.

Good luck.
Except we don't need a stable global oil supply. We WANT a higher oil price so we can sell our supply outside of the U.S. Following Neocon logic, the best outcome for us is a war that closes off access to Middle Eastern oil, forcing more countries to purchase energy from us.

The old Neocon argument is no longer relevant.
I'm not worried about safety, I'm worried about having to buy a new battery every year (at a cost of >$500) because I would use an electric bike only 6 month a year at the most, and it would destroy itself during the time I'm not using it, or if I forget to charge it for a week or two, etc.
Do embedded systems count? ;)
It is possible for people to be good at self promotion without needing a PR agency. Some people have the hubris to put themselves out there, and are skillful enough to be successful at it. Not everyone is like that, and we do dole a great deal of praise and attention to good self promoters, but no reason to be resentful of it or ascribe it to a paid professional service. It's a skill like anything else.
But beyond being a humblebrag, it's also bordering on a just-world view of the universe that's basically superstition.

Without reference to a larger dataset, the inference "I"m never sick because I played in the woods and ate weird stuff. If you get sick a lot, it's partially your fault because you didn't do that." could easily be replaced with "I'm never sick because I prayed to the right god every day. If you get sick a lot..."
here is a list of some of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreessen_Horowitz

Facebook, Twitter, Skype, AirBNB are why it's so valuable. All you need are a few huge winners.

The ones since 2012 don't seem so great though. Maybe too soon to tell
Sarcasm is a valuable tool in the human communication arsenal. If you want to do without it, be my guest, but don't try to dictate your subjective preferences to others who have what I would claim is a more mature and more healthy attitude towards the beauty and variety in human language.

And the "petty" is all in your head. There are too many people who blame others for what's in their own head.
..and he married a billionaire heiress (no sour grapes!). If this whole "VC thing" doesn't work out for him, he can always be a kept man ;)
Previous long-time Facebook user here, but forgive my ignorance - what is Messenger? An instant message app I assume? How does this differ/improve upon the instant messaging built into every phone?
Bring the B Quotes to Rock LGBT Pride Month
How could we make #2 much, much higher than #1?

It sounds implausible, but I like the idea of some kind of subsidized access to music.