skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure what I should with this comment. It doesn't make sense to me.

Generators and coroutines are a well-known concept implemented in many languages, in particular Python and C#. It is also part of ECMAScript Harmony as far as I know. Other languages implement the more generalized concept of continuation passing (usually providing generators implemented on top of them).

Callbacks can be used to implement some of the use cases of generators. To be more precise they can be used if the callback is stateless (as in your above case). If the callback had to handle state, you would have manually implement a state machine, making the code hard to understand and adding a lot of boilerplate.

Generally PHP does not make extensive use of callback-y programming, but does make extensive use of iteration. That's why generators integrate much better than callback based producers. The same applies to Python, that's why they too have generators.

You need to understand that Ruby has a different underlying philosophy, which is not directly transferred to other languages. What might be nice in Ruby will be considered really ugly in Python or PHP and vice-versa.
I thing that content markting always works with good or poor content... But if you want really efective you need a team (or dedication) for this task.
> Apple, like any for profit business, is certainly accountable to the market.

Apple is also using the government to enforce a monopoly on some extremely basic ideas.

Thanks to the patent system the market around smartphones is not even remotely free, it requires billions of dollars and armies of lawyers to even have a chance of competing, and even then you might lose.
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By "right group of people" I'm referring to the people you work with, the parties you attend, and the people you meet - of which the investors are only one part.

People namedrop in this industry similar to what they do in the entertainment industry. Not everyone is clued in as far as how unimportant or ubiquitous that namedropping is. There is a halo that is created. And guess what if you get funded even by a firm that people in the know think is "b" list, local investors in your city or even non-clued in potential employees will still think it's a big deal. Many people are impressed when someone is a Physician. They don't always think between the degrees of impressiveness the "MD" degree gives you a certain cache.
UK link:
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Cambridge, MA (Kendall Square) (on-site, no remote)

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer at Cogo Labs (http://www.cogolabs.com/)

Cogo Labs is a company that creates companies, kind of like an incubator with a twist: all of our ideas/startups come from within the company. We don't offer investment in outside startups. Thus far we have had two major ($100MM+) acquisitions, and a handful of smaller ones, and we are anticipating more in the near future. Typically, once a startup we are incubating gets off the ground, we hire employees into that startup and assist them with whatever they need to make the company successful. Cogo Labs itself has around 40 full-time employees now in our office in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA.

I'm looking for a software engineer or senior software engineer to join my team. You should have a degree in CS or a similar field, and experience developing for the web, as most of our startups are web properties. Specific experience in Ruby, Rails, and/or Python are a plus, but not absolutely necessary. I'm more concerned with finding smart people than finding people with specific skills.

I am currently developing new features for a web site that we run that gets >50k unique visitors per day, and you'd be assisting in this effort. I can be more specific if you're invited for an interview.

We are big on metrics and analysis -- there are grids of monitors (we call them "NOC walls") all over the office showing up-to-the-minute stats about all of our properties. I can code up a new feature, deploy it, and walk over to one of the NOC walls and literally watch my change affect traffic on the site, or revenue, or profit. It's a really fun place to work. Benefits and perks are great as well (see http://cogolabs.com/careers for more info).

If you're interested, shoot me an email (cmatthias at cogolabs.com) with your resume and a brief cover letter (be sure to mention you saw this post on HN). Bonus points for including a link to your github page or other code repository where I can see some code you've written.
How many people in a household?
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I thought the android app had video ads now.

http://googlemobileads.blogspot.nl/2012/08/trueview-video-ad...
Why would I bother investing money at all then? You can expect an annual return of around 7% on the stock market, subtract 4% wealth tax and 2% inflation and you're left with nothing in real terms.

Everyone (even the super-wealthy) would spend all of their income as soon as they earn it. Sounds great ("imagine all the production it would stimulate!") until you realize that no one is making capital investments. Factories rot, infrastructure decays, and innovation stops.
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The creator of this remake gave a talk on it at the houston.js meetup this week. I was thoroughly impressed with how much effort and thought he's put into this project. He said that the Pac-Man dossier was his inspiration and seems to genuinely love the game.

For those of you who have criticisms about the game's accuracy, I suggest that you submit a new issue to his github repo: https://github.com/shaunew/Pac-Man/issues. That's what open source is all about, right?
And the average household size is about 2.3[1], while the number of people using the internet is about 51 million (82%) [2,3].

[1]: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/statistics/pdf/11721...
[2]: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/material/excel/Indiv...
[3]: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/
Additional reference information.

Connected TV in these stats is probably principally games consoles. At least the PS3 had all the streams.

All 24 streams were available on FTA satellite (Sky, Freesat and general satellite receivers should have been able to get it) and cable although these won't have been captured in these stats. Two of the streams were also available by terrestrial.

Aproximately 11 million homes have satellite (10M Sky and 1M Freesat and other). 4M Virgin cable and maybe 500K using telco IPTV. Terrestrial (Freeview) is the main service in about 10M homes and is used for second TVs in a number more.

There may be some double counting in these figures and they are from memory and it hasn't been my job to know them for over a year.
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The iDevices are NOT computers.

In contrast to 'dumbphones' or some so-called 'feature phones', the current generation of smartphones are general-purpose computing devices.
Most of that wealth (ownership of non-corporate businesses and real property, to start) is completely illiquid. You can't sell 4% of your house.
rsync.net is hiring an implementation engineer.

We created 1TB and 10TB annual "packages" earlier this year, and one of the benefits that customers receive is a concierge level of implementation support.

Basically the customer declares what their environment looks like, and we design a solution that effectively (and efficiently) performs their offsite backup to us.

So for instance a customer might arrive with a collection of Windows VMs running on Xen, and this implementation engineer would dialog with the customer and decide whether to populate the account with physical (fedex) delivery, whether to backup the images from the underlying Xen system, or whether to do file level backup from inside the VMs.

This individual should have a very broad sysadmin-style technical background, ranging across UNIX, all variants of Windows, and Mac. In addition, some idea as to how vmware/xen/hyperv environments work, as well as things like exchange/SQL Server/etc. - that is what customers have to back up.

This individual should be a "lifer". If you're pursuing an exciting and lucrative career in the field of Information Technology, don't contact us. If you're not running your own mail server, jailbreaking your own devices, running your own servers and appliances (FreeNAS, OpenWRT, etc.) at home, you're not going to fit here.

OTOH, if you're a "fixer" who can "just make things work" and can juggle a collection of high priority clients, please contact us: info@rsync.net
Obviously you haven't read the contract. As a BBC employee I can assure you we failed no obligations.
The transportation issue permeates everything though. Culture is only available if it is accessible. My parents live in Northern VA, and they've got tons of culture around, in theory: museums in DC, great ethnic food in Arlington, etc. But in practice it's a such a huge pain in the ass to get anywhere that the actual culture available to them is total whitewashed suburban dreck.
One problem that comes with that is what is "wrong"?

How can you determine if the outcome is correct or incorrect before the jury does? And if you could, why would we have a jury?
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I enjoy seeing recreations of code like this. It's educational and fun, and this Pac-Man does not take anything away from the original.

It's unfortunate that IP law is so vague and intimidating. It can easily have a chilling effect on innovation and creativity -- you're afraid something might not be ok, but you don't really know, so you just don't try. For me, that's a red flag in a legal system. Competition, creativity, and education are all great things that deserve clarity and protection, both as an original creator, and as someone adding value with the basis of past work.
Just in time for the long weekend! :)
Some people believe they should be allowed to do as they please with their device. Apple disagrees.
There is absolutely no accounting for how people will react. The obvious example is that people will move their wealth elsewhere. It also isn't fair to the poorest, unless there is a separate mechanism enabling a minimum quality of life.

And it completely ignores how you would define things. For example if I have a bridge on my property, does that qualify as wealth? How exactly would I pay 4% of the bridge in taxes? If I invest in a new factory, am I going to have to pay 4% of that investment every year before the factory is even profitable? When I liquidate things to pay for taxes, is that going to count as income?

Since interest rates are less than 4% this completely discourages any form of saving unless the returns are at least 4% plus the rate of inflation. Although it isn't immediately apparent, savings are something that enables economic growth as the money is lent out again.

TLDR:

* People adapt around scheme you have so your numbers won't work in the real world the way your spreadsheet says they do

* It gets really hard to work out what actually constitutes wealth and income once people have to pay tax based on it - part of the reason for the complexity of the tax codes worldwide

* It will greatly discourage savings and investments

* People will avoid illiquid wealth since you'll have to keep coming up with 4% of its value each year

* You'll need an army of people to work out out how valuable things are.

Reducing tax rates is generally an admirable goal, as is simplifying tax codes. But if you start from almost nothing like this proposal you'll soon find yourself having to add lots of complexity back in, because it is complex.
Here's an under rated reason - a night owl's schedule! Tech startup founders and early teams get most of their shit done at night when there are fewer or no distractions. When you're on this schedule, the city life is much more accommodating in terms of food, socialization, etc. Then suddenly, dinner time is suddenly like lunch time.
Usenet lives albeit long way to catch up
There is no doubt that some individuals with massive wealth will consider leaving.

However, looking at the history of tax rises and the competitive landscape, people don't move.

Broken down:

UK top rate tax was raised from 40% to 50% two years ago. They said people would leave. No-one did. Actually, more wealthy from BRIC nations came to the UK

The US is the only competitive English speaking country for people from the UK to move to. And I'm sorry to say that US taxation is horrendous and massively uncompetitive.

So while capital flight is a risk, it is improbable.
I am 25, so there's not much information for you to work with from me getting hired. At my previous startup, I was the youngest (straight out of uni); three other employees had children approaching my age. At Romotive, I look to be just about middle of the pack. A fair number of the people know each other from school, which contributes to a narrow spread.
A wealth tax? A good at 5000 with VAT is 6000 to buy that at 40% tax you need to earn 8400. With this system (assuming VAT remains, which in will because of EU law) you need to earn 6180 to buy the product a 2220 difference...but a 240 bill shows up every year for you owning said product (assume jewelry for 0 depreciation) so after 10 years you are better off on the old system.

Honestly this will simply encourage people to find loop holes in the system to avoid property ownership. And it's really what the right in the US mean when they say class warfare, it's just another clever way to shift the tax burden on the wealthy more. If that is what is wanted just shift up the 0 tax income limit and raise the top tax, no need to fuck around trying to seem like the goal is anything different.
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Yeah knowing about drone strikes may provoke the audience! No need for people to think about stuff like that, they aren't nerds!
Ecosystem 101: The Six Necessary Categories To Build The Next Silicon Valley
If you have wealth right now, you have two options:

Sit on it

Invest it

Currently, if you invest it you are penalised by income and capital gains taxes in excess of 20%. Under my proposal, you are taxed at 3% for investing.
A multicopter is going to be a lot more conspicuous than a person with a briefcase. I don't buy it.
"If you program long enough, you come to realize that there is no “one language to rule them all”"

Than you program some more and, if you're smart, you realize there's Common Lisp.
That wouldn't work at all. You'd have to be sitting there with your phone unlocked, in view of that page on Safari, watching it until your battery died (which would happen quickly).
Dunno about the others, but Flikr has a paid "Pro" option which seems both really well done (not overpriced, gives very real benefits without undermining the free option, "safe" [doesn't delete all your data] if you can't pay for a while) and very popular. The free service is great, but there's real incentive to pay, and a huge percentage of the Flikr accounts I see are paid.

So Flikr do seem to have figured it out...
The Atlantic had a really interesting article about the kinds of kids who goes to an elite school (although it was Princeton) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/the-orga....

Fair disclaimer, the article is over a decade old.
There is a stark contrast between income and wealth tax.

Income can already be circumvented by leaving money in corporations or paying out to subsidiary companies. There are so many ways people can declare lower income that the 10% becomes insignificant in the big picture.

Capital flight/wealth tax is a different ballgame, I think.
Customers are not responsible for keeping companies in business.

They're also allowed to gripe about businesses who fail to accomodate their needs, especially when companies use the "first one is free" model to gain users and then suckify their product to make money (a process I dub "zyngafication".)

OP seeks a model which already exists. The PBSkids.app is extremely kid friendly, albeit with limited content. My Netflix queue is also loaded up with kid-friendly content with zero ads.

Actually, an ad-free kidzone would be a good move for youtube: parents love trusted brands, and brand loyalty starts young (want proof? What toothpaste was in your bathroom when you were a child? What laundry soap? What brand of cola? I'll bet that one of those three brands are in your house right now.)
All these articles claiming Twitter is restricting developers using their API are all missing one important distinction: Twitter is only restricting Twitter client developers. There are hosts of other developers who are using the Twitter API with no restrictions, those building value add services in Social CRM (social media monitoring, analytics, data reselling, sentiment analysis, etc). Yes, Twitter's new ecosystem is geared towards the B2B market. But to say they're restricting developers across the board just isn't true. However, it seems most of the tech blogs tend to think only of consumer-facing client apps as the members of the Twitter ecosystem, and so forget about all the other apps out there, the ones they're not restricting.
This strikes me as a strategy to build an impressive sounding company vs. actually building an impressive company.

Namedropping, attending parties, hiring non-clued employees, etc all seem like very non-core activities that people trying to build real businesses would not engage in a whole lot (if at all). Those sound like activities that the increasing class of "wantrapreneurial" folks engage in.

If by namedropping you mean talking about actual customers you have then I definitely agree.
Dell Inspiron N4050 here, running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Everything works as expected, great performance for the price.
I guess the nuance he brings is that working on your bad idea hard enough can lead you to "pivot" towards a better idea.

The other implied argument is that focusing your efforts on ONE project is often the key to success.

How many of us are project A.D.D.? ...as I love to call it
Awesome, can't wait.
That's the thing about content marketing.. Of course it works! Duh.. if I had a Twitter follower base of 10K people, or an email list of 10K users, if I provide them something useful, they'll share it!

But all those content marketing experts fail to answer this:
How do I get those people to listen to my content in the first place?!!
"You're sitting at Starbucks one day, sipping your grande non-fat double shot mocha latte, reading the Huffington Post on your iPad and idly checking Twitter on your white iPhone 4S.

And that's when it happens.

A push notification from Drones+: Another drone strike in Pakistan kills 17 suspected militants.

You turn to your friend, but he's already looking at you (he also has a white iPhone 4S). "They've done it again", you say. "I know, it's absolutely terrible isn't it? We live in such a terrible oppressive country", he says.

You take another sip of your grande non-fat double shot mocha latte and nod in solemn agreement with your friend. Having completed the ritual, mutually acknowledging each others enlightened sense of worldliness, you return to reading the Huffington Post and checking Twitter.

"Thanks Drones+!", you say silently to yourself."
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The value of those illiquid things will go down and you'll get less tax for them all. Which tax will you increase when there is a revenue shortfall?

If a rich person owns properties worth 100 million GBP, or even a regular person owns a 100k GBP house at the start of this tax scheme, the value will go down because tax is essentially writing off 4% a year. Economics already covers topics like this - see discount rate and net present value. Heck there is even a Black-Scholes formula for how to value things in these kind of scenarios. And people with liquid assets can move them out of the country.

You talk of economic migrants, but remember that they need to actually have the money in the first place to buy things. And since others would be reluctant to make investments (eg factories) or savings (which provide loans) it would reduce the overall amount of work available.
Your analysis is not wrong. The UCI/The Tour DeFrance, Lance Armstrong were just as bad. You highlight lots of good issues (including - other people making money off it regardless of who wins, the act of not doping was arguably dangerous, given the exertion levels of the pack, etc). The conclusion of this section is fine I'd also agree with (It is true). But ultimately you fail to provide a framework for analysis. You conclude This is to say that simply saying you have certain values means nothing

If you were a CEO of UCI and the Board asked you: 'How would you "fix" the pervasive problem' would your really come back debating "doping" and "problem"? Or would your come back with something more like: Here is my Answer X,Y,Z. While itsn't perfect, we've identified things that are clearly wrong that we can fix. First, we need to draw lines between doping and legitimate theraphy. Second, we need to have the science to fairly test between the Two. Third, while maintaining privacy and fairness, the athletes and the teams will need to co-operate with the [XYZ] league to make sure it doesn't damage the credibility of the competition and abuse our position of trust amongs the fans....etc.

I'd actually be interested to hear your views on that. Your analysis pointed out the analogy to the Armstrong case (was not something I thought of before hand, but it fits perfectly). But when I see a huge, intelligent analysis thrown up then ends the way yours does, it seems like a waste of all the energy that you put into writing it. (Unless you are a lawyer -- with a point to defend =D)
This might be a stupid question, but does the product generalist position require you to code? Or is it more on a product manager role?
Seems to me that notifications were essential to the functionality of this app, you can't get that with a web app.

Of course the "web app is sufficient" point is irrelevant though, it's fundamentally weird that someone is making arbitrary decisions on which apps are allowed and which ones are not.
This isn't really PHP's fault. These generators and the generators that are creeping into Javascript are based on Python's, which have the same issue you mention:

>>> def other_cool_function():
... print "Hello, world!\n"
... yield 7
...
>>> other_cool_function()
<generator object other_cool_function at 0x10081b140>

Of course, I would prefer to have coroutines or call/cc, but generally these get shot down as terrible ideas by the people who are actually in charge of making decisions. In Python you can get around this using greenlet. I'm told HipHop has these goodies as well. No dice if you need to write Javacript or non-Facebook PHP, though.