skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciated this post, and it's good timing considering I've felt lost in my career for at least a year. I switched jobs 6 months ago, and am already considering changing again. I've had several interviews, and in spite of the fact that everyone I work with tell me what an asset I am and how talented I am, I can't seem to find a good fit.

I'm a .NET developer, and am considering changing to Rails, just to see if that opens up better/different opportunities. But that's a big time investment for me -- having a family leaves me with little time as it is -- and I'm not even sure that will leave me much better off than I am now.

I really could use some direction, but have not been able to nail down a way to find direction. Matt, I may take you up on your offer.

I would also welcome and general thoughts from the HN community.
When I ran a retail shop in the US I never accepted AMEX because the fees were significantly higher, mostly because of the flat monthly fee and low volume of people using AMEX.

Frankly I don't know how they are still around. Since everyone with AMEX always has a back-up card there is no incentive at all for merchants to accept it.
Drawbridge Takes Its Cross-Device Ad Targeting Out Of Beta
Hey,

Yes, we're working on it! :-)
Most commercial work these days leverage several open source libraries. And once a library becomes part of your core product, it is in your interest to support further development of that library by contributing code, time, money, etc.

Unlike other OSS licenses like BSD, Apache, LGPL, etc, GPL makes it impossible to utilize the library in any way in a commercial product. My current company works on some video related stuff, and we use OpenCV, ffmpeg etc but we completely steered clear of libVLC due to the GPL licensing (even though we think it's a fantastic piece of software). We will however be revisiting this now due to this excellent work by jbk.
Oh, I don't mind using a separate table or anything, I'm just not entirely sure if, because you're storing the files, whether or not that changes the default paradigm.

I might have worded my initial question poorly: but I could very easily have seen if the FileFields field stored a link to a bucketized URL or something, or even an array of URIs. If it's one-to-one, then that's fine, and actually means less changes to my code; I'm just not sure.

Obviously, a quick prototype will show me exactly how to implement, but I thought I'd ask while the question was hot.
Scaling git: replacing gitolite with redis-backed ruby scripts
Logging in to websites without a password at all
I like the underlying customer cause here - Let's get people off their chairs, on to the streets and meeting each other. Let's create interestingness in the mundane. Let's create a world which rewards interaction. A lovely antidote to the trend for us to all walk around with heads down, checking the latest irrelevancy on our smartphones.
Yup, it's great to see that Dropbox shares our vision of helping connect online storage to online applications, so the spirit is the right one.

Our goal is for users to be able to connect directly to their online content, and we're working with Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Skydrive, Facebook and others to make this happen.
The CascadiaJS team did an awesome job of organizing the conference!
OH Judge Rejects Voting Machine Patch Lawsuit
ArmorHub’s Web Security Service Scans For Vulnerabilities and Malware
How Yoky Matsuoka created the modern robotic hand, ...
Can't wait to try this out. I've done something similar for other UX designers by taking flat screenshots and overlaying an image map with clickable areas. Instant "high fidelity" prototype!
Budget Solid State Drive Roundup: The Best SSD for Less Than $100
You appear to be right, but I don't know anything about it.

That's exciting, though - it would be really cool if Makefiles could do more computation. Maybe then we'd get an easier-to-use autoconfiguration system!
Range Retrieval for Amazon Glacier
My photos are initially and primarily on my Mac, then I upload selected albums (that I expect/intend to share) to flickr. And also synchronize a substantial fraction of them to my iDevices. If flickr gets shut down then yes, I'd expect I have to upload them somewhere else...which I can do from my Mac.

It sounds like your target audience is people who don't ever put their photos in one central location under their control (say, an iPhoto library), don't back up that location, and care a lot about preserving not just their photos but the online comments received on those photos?

When you say "Your mobile apps will continue to work how they always have. it's 100% transparent for you" - Um, what problem is it that you're solving here? What sort of "mobile apps" are you expecting would fail when dropbox or flickr shuts down?
this is why i only "like" something by consciously posting about it in my status via a link to product or article. i always found those "like" buttons to be completely moronic and entirely out of my control.
Well, when TF2 came out, it was laser focused. Every class had a role, and was strong and weak against certain other classes. So now, you throw a bunch of new items, and it loses that. The sniper is weak to spies, that's how it's supposed to be. So then the sniper gets given a shield that makes spies unable to stab him, and a jar that he can throw on the ground and reveal them. Engineers were weak to snipers, but now they can take control of their sentries and manually shoot things outside of the normal range. So the end result is that everything ends up becoming pretty okay against everything. I haven't played the game for a long time so I don't remember everything.

The other issue, which is one of the reasons I stopped playing (aside from me pretty much stopping playing video games in general) is aesthetic overload. I don't like the notion of things being called "purely cosmetic" because appearances have meanings. The 9 classes were designed to be recognizable from their silhouettes alone, which is pretty brilliant. But now you can pile an absurd number of things onto your character, completely changing that. Not only do you not know what your opponent is equipped with anymore, you also have an additional psychological blocker to identifying them. And it's just tacky. TF2 was originally a 60s spy movie parody, and I really felt that. Now it's just... everything. It's just a lot less compelling to me.
Can't most languages in (1) implement forwardable patterns that accomplish (2), or is there some underlying language features in Objective-C or Smalltalk that are superior in this case?
Odd--it seems to me that US cocaine use didn't really take off until the 1970s.
Content marketing with great or massive content?
FirefoxOS might make the mobile web better. It will give web developers more access to the device's hardware, unlike a website running stock Android browser. Everybody has been saying it for years, native apps can do more than web apps in iOS and Android. I wish that FirefoxOS changed that, similarly to how Chrome pushed HTML5 on the desktop.
Drop Agile and Focus On Creating Value
I remember signing up for this service years ago. They emailed me years later, saying it was ready.

They took forever to launch, but the idea seemed novel. Sad to hear that its shutting down.
Thanks, Itay. You did a killer job of speaking at it. For anyone who's into "big data" and Node.js, check out Itay's talk here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0TVWW8316E&list=PLLiioAb...
Well, you could simply pass around data that can be round-trip (de)serialisabled to/from JSON, and if you need to send it outside the process, actually do real (de)serialisation.
Project Glass was announced only a few weeks after I finished Freedom (Second book of Daemon). I was excited then, and I'm excited now.
what business model does linux kernel have, and how much does it cost?

EDIT: OK, just to make it clear. I'm not against people asking money for they creations, I'm all 100% up for it. What really pisses me off is 'why is it free?!', and 'i would happily pay $XXX for it!'. Please, keep that to yourself - if someone decided not to take money for their work, it's entirely up to them, and that deserves some respect.
kingdon<at>tuesdaystudios dot com

I would love to get one if you get more to give out! Thanks
Then start looking at companies that primarily produce hardware. Trust me, it's getting harder and harder to find people who even know what a pointer is. To the point where we simply assume the people we hire won't and we'll just have to abstract it away for them.
As a soon-to-graduate student as well, I am having the same issue. It is a blessing but also a curse, having to figure out what direction to take from so many options.
Hi this is Wraecca from the POP team, I'm sorry about the bug, we'll fix it as soon as possible. Thanks for reporting!
I don't know why you're talking if you don't care how it is received.

I'm a professional software engineer. I work on a system that occasionally passes secrets through untrusted contexts, encrypted with AES-256-CBC. Is that a good idea? Could we improve it? Would it be worth the effort? I'm open to learning, but this article isn't teaching, it's browbeating. So are your comments.
For now, it can be only a separate table. In the future, of course, there're going to be buckets and everything, stay tuned!

If you have some specific ideas about this in mind, my email is valentin@uploadcare.com
Jader - don't want to spam this discussion, but many of our students at railstutors.com have the exact background as you. If you have 10-15hrs/week for a month, we can get you to a proficient level with Rails.
This makes me wonder how long a game Google is playing. And how good they are at playing the long game.

Does anybody know how well they did on all that dark fiber they were buying up after Bubble 1.0?
Google has contributed almost $1B to the renewable energy sector
No; according to Coke's historians, the first bottle of coke was sold in 1894. The author of this Planet Money summary probably just misspoke, or meant "the price of a bottle's worth of Coke".
Maybe folks were kinder to vending machines back then, but if I put in my last nickel and received a blank, that blank would have been used to thrash the heck out of the machine.
Money would likely get you better education. The problem stems from the fact that those who taught my age group have retired and the replacements aren't good enough mainly because Russian government abandoned educational sector just like they abandoned sports since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Everything's beginning to hurt right now because these people are entering work force and most of them don't have the skills, talent or drive to teach.
> Then start looking at companies that primarily produce hardware.

I have in the past. The problem is that I have a BS in Computer Science and most hardware companies hire only Computer Engineers for low-level programming work (among other things).
tmarthal, you appear to be hellbanned.
While I enjoyed his books, I don't think these predictions were exactly prescient. He was essentially writing about things that were just beyond the capabilities of existing technology...
Does anyone know if this is really 'multiplayer' or if your experience is in any way influence by the progress of others?

I've toyed with a similar ideas but the problem was that your GPS location doesn't guarantee you are really there. There are plenty of ways to spoof your location. So, my point is it will only be a matter of time until there are bots that walk around for you. If this is purely a 'single player' game then personally I think it's a neat idea but I don't see it being that entertaining.
Chromatik nabs $1M from Bruno Mars to help musicians harmonize
How many times have you searched Google?
It looks like a self-extracting CAB file, 7-zip can open it and maybe some other archivers as well.
"I was actually experimenting with how these “like gates”, as they’re called, work because for my own company we were also playing with creating tools to encourage people to like someone’s Facebook page."

Sounds a little hypocritically for criticising facebook about these dirty tricks and then building a business around them. That feeling you get when you see these adverts with your name on? That's the same feeling I get when I'm forced to unnaturally 'like' something on facebook in order to see something else.
Thank you all for the replies, I guess what I learnt that freelancing is the way to go. I also learnt about Voomly, nice thing.

I always thought that if I could make my own Android or iOS app I could make that much too.
The measuring distances thing is not really a big deal in my opinion. Many apps do the same thing. Yelp does a search in this area view, which I've used and thought was a good implementation of searching in a map. Foursquare has a similar feature as well. The distance may not be entirely accurate, but it is good enough, and probably a better UI model.
Be careful which you choose.

You'll be shown specific ads on google based on it.
How long before Twitter goes the same route? You are asking for people to follow you "safely" on Twitter. Don't hold your breath, you have not seen the future, nobody has.

These are the reasons I don't click on Like anywhere, certainly not on brands.

Facebook has been a mess since they have introduced the promoting stories. They have even added an additional Page Feed, which in my case, has been sitting idle gathering unread counts.

Update: IMHO, the best is to use Facebook publicly in a read-only mode. If you must follow the updates from someone, follow their RSS from their website or their email newsletter, they must have one or the other, or else they are not worth it. It is also better to keep yourself logged out of Facebook when you don't need to use it. Twitter is not that bad right now but it still shoots spam messages with bad links without you knowing about it. So your actions or inaction on any social media can directly or indirectly affect your relationship with your friends/contact.
http://hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com/post/35274152116 (Same amount of justification as Melinda gave. To the point of traveling to open one's eyes, I have a friend who gave up on the African continent entirely after learning more about its countries.)
Anyway you can send one after joining? xshoppyx@hotmail.com
A friend of mine who used to live in NY thought it was crazy how much work and time and money was spent sorting mail, loading into bags, put onto trucks and carts, and then delivered by humans and sorted again into individual mailboxes (e.g. in apartment buildings). Probably 80%+ of the material was junk mail that would be thrown away immediately.

I've lived in a few countries and there is a special simple pleasure in having a mailbox where (rarely, it's true) only "real" mail is deposited. The USPS should be renamed the United States Junk Mail Service as that seems to be their primary function.

I needed a first class stamp a few years ago in NY and I asked at the local newsagent if they sold them. The owner said yes, but they cost a few cents more than at the post office. I said "That's fine, it's worth it not to have to go there" and he said "That's what most people say."

The service I have received in e.g. French and Japanese post offices is an order of magnitude more polite and efficient than in the US. I don't know what is going on there, but the USPS is broken. I suppose that's what happens when one spends all day processing junk mail.
I hardly go on Facebook anymore mostly because of all the advertisements that get interleaved into the news stream. It's definitely a case of, if you don't like it then don't use it. There is no one forcing you to use Facebook and if they have a user base that is willing to put up with an Ad supported experience then so be it. AdBlock helps a lot in keeping at least the right hand ads to a minimum. It's funny going on a friends computer who doesn't have AdBlock and being surprised at the amount of advertising on Facebook. As an aside, I love my Nest thermostat.
awesome if you get any more you could spare. I sent you an email.
Out of curiosity, why do people use Watt-hours instead of Joules for this purpose?
Not Kraftwerk's Numbers? :)

Or perhaps Boards Of Canada's Aquarius, I wonder what the factorization of sixty-ten looks like :)
Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs Movie
I was looking into Dropbox integration in a Web applications just last night. Fantastic!
Chromatik - Music Education Startup is Backed by Celebrities and Celebrity VCs
For what it's worth, Sketchpad is described by wikipedia as a program and not a language, and moreso it "pointed the way forward" to OOP, in that Sketchpad included the concept of "master drawings" (read: classes) which could be instantiated into duplicates, such that when the master drawing changed, any previously instantiated duplicates would be changed accordingly.

ThingLab is described by wikipedia as a programming environment implemented in SmallTalk. In both cases, I think you are describing environments to play around with user-created objects moreso than languages.

Do Sketchpad or ThingLab have grammars?
Someone join with me on buydealz to create a Comparison tool
We are planning to have a powerful Comparison tool on www.buydealz.com site under each and every retail product. If someone have already started any ground work can join with me
Thanks for the suggestion. Fixed.
Idea suggestion:

Freely distribute a PDF that has unique border patterns so when people use/print it out and use that paper, and proceed to take a photo, the program can detect the borders and auto zoom in/out so you end up with a nicely fitted screen shot on the phone. Then users never worry about getting the heigh/width ratio right or bother with the cropping step. And you get to plaster your branding all over the desk of those that uses it :)
Do UPS, FedEx, etc. pay separately for the privilege to use these roads? No. The money to pay for these facilities comes from gas taxes (mostly), sales taxes, income taxes, etc., all of which are paid by the Uber/Lyft/Sidecar people too. Their cars don't run on air, you know. In fact, Uber's limos use much more gas than the Priuses that the cabs drive, so in fact at least Uber people are paying more for the use of these roads.
That is a bug in Vagrant itself that I thought I had worked around. Please email me at khaines@engineyard.com. I'd like to get some additional information from you. Thanks much!

You can work around this issue by doing the following:

ey-local down

ey-local up

It will come up properly the second time.
> Further there is growing evidence that viruses are a change agent for evolution as they physically re-write the genetics of a cell to propagate, and even after the virus is conquered sometimes their structure lives on.

Retro-viri do this. (Not all viri are retro-viri.)
Unfortunately, people are sensitive about this subject, often fiercely defensive or even in denial about their own chronic lateness...

Still I wish them the best of success and I hope this changes lives in a big way like I know it has the potential to do.
As much as it's good to "fight the good fight" against FaceBook, it's fast becoming an expected means of communicating. Believe me, I deleted mine years ago and finally had to come back because I realized I was actually hindered in real ways by not having an account.

I personally think FaceBook will reach an inflection point where public interest will wane and people will use it less and less... but still have accounts. Then something better will come along and there might be a mass migration. For now though, the reality is it's somewhat essential.
Delusions of Bosslessness
For those saying it breaks or ends at 10000. It doesn't if you append infinity like so http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization...

I also like how you can enable turbo by pressing the fast-forward button several times...
Indeed. If you're a republican those questions might seem odd.
It's mainly because (a) sales taxes are much less than these occupancy taxes, and (b) socking it to the visitor has no political repercussions; they're not going to vote in the elections anyways.
A better question is how much do you have to loose if you are sued.

If you own a house or fancy car, form a LLC today. I would also sign agreements with any partners to use binding arbitration in your home state if there is a dispute. That way neither side can exploit an advantage with expensive lawyers in the event of a dispute.

If you rent an apartment and only have $18 in your checking account, it is less of a risk.

You will certainly want a company before you start having customers.
Siri Is a Gimmick and a Tease
“Outwar” outlaw hacker indicted over gaming attack
Airship Ventures Ceases operations
Why are they rerouting here.com to here.net? Why use the .net if you have the .com?
"Measurements of CPI during that time point are of more questionable accuracy"

I am not sure what you mean here - "of more questionable accuracy [than CPI measurements today]", or "of more questionable accuracy [than gold in reflecting the cost of producing a coke]"? If the former, I grant it, but not (automatically) that it's enough to make a difference. The latter seems absurd - as I elaborate on a bit below.

"CPI measures many different types of goods (not all go up together)"

Coke is made out of many different types of goods (in terms of everything it takes to put a bottle on a store shelf), plus labor of people who want to buy many different types of goods. CPI should be expected to track the cost of producing a coke quite a bit better than a single commodity that isn't even involved in the manufacture and which experienced changes in supply that had nothing to do with coke.

"[A] doubling of CPI over that many years is relatively low inflation."

Relatively low, but not absurdly low, and certainly not completely flat; and note (!) that the end points picked here are not representative. 1930 CPI is the start of the depression; inflation in the 1920s was higher than anything we've seen since (says wolfram alpha) and the price of coke did not move.

To the general, implied counterfactual - "would Coke have raised it's prices sooner if there were much higher inflation?" - I think we have to answer "of course", but that doesn't necessarily mean that unusually low inflation was a significant part of it. Earlier periods have experienced less inflation, but coke's price lasted an unusually long time.