skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I will.

I find it embarrassing in the same way as I find computer science portrayals in movies embarrassing. Hax0r the planet etc...

Making money - selling overpriced modules and branded crap for way more than marginal profit (compared to say RS/Farnell/Digikey) and shipping an identity rather than tools to solve problems.

Understanding the market - actually they created a new market full of flashing LED cube machines and crap which actually performs no useful function other than to make other participants in the marketed identity look cool. About the most intelligent use for all of this I've seen (which isn't served elsewhere) is a computer controlled cannabis farm and that isn't exactly going to serve the intelligence of the person who built it well [1]

Education - there is very little going on there. Every person I've seen jump into this comes crawling to me for advice but then shits a brick the moment something more complicated than a 4 banger calculator is pulled. You know what a complex number is right? What do you mean you don't understand why that 10 ohm 1/4W resistor smoked across a 12v source - do you know what Ohms law is? The answer is usually "no - we just googled and copied the picture".

Persistence, perseverance, timing? None are relevant.

Marketing - the bugbear of the whole thing. They created an identity which actually serves the participants badly.

Actually you just nailed it - it is equivalent to selling Justin Bieber albums.

[1] Sub-rant - the hacks I've seen people use including twist-n-tape mains cables are going to kill someone one day...
I think that makes sense.

I think what I was reading sounded like "there might be less gun violence over there, but don't look into why, it's not worth your while".

My thought was that maybe it is worth our while to look into why.

when one decides upon controlling guns, it would be prudent to grandparent people in. New rights revocation would only be applied to the upcoming generations. This way you don't alienate a population from something they hold dear, but would ensure whatever you're enacting becomes effective over time.
Likely. But, I think that coding goes beyond language at some point. More of a visual and positional experience, like playing chess, rather than just language.
Comments can be super fun. Especially if you are into fabels and can liken the purpose of your code to the journey of a hobbit or similar creature from the shire.
Please don't listen to this person, webdev is hard and you don't get anything for free. Actually, it depends if you prefer learning from painful experience or simple advice...
People will always be measuring everything by the numbers. Look at your number of Facebook friends, your LinkedIn connections, your GPA in college, your annual income. It's always a rational argument to say that bigger is better. In a world where metrics are quantified like this, this is the natural way of thinking. It's going to be difficult to seep through the bullshit metrics, especially when you're such a small startup with other numbers that are too embarrassing to display to the world -- but, really, when you think about it this is the only way to find and fix the problems that you have.
Thank you very much for that second link. The exact right link at the right time!
No, this is not the equivalent of PageRank. it could be an approximation however, and they are probably calling it a different name.

If that's not legal, then SEOMoz would've been sued a long long time ago (see OpenSiteExplorer, Page Authority, Domain Authority, etc)
Very nice. Love the responsiveness and good use of (OS-aware?) keyboard shortcuts.

Bug: (Chrome Version 23.0.1271.97 on OSX)

Expand the side panel and select a document from the RECENT list. The editor area doesn't update completely; the text loads, but there are only line numbers up to the length of the previously viewed document and it's impossible to move the cursor below the last line number (http://i.imgur.com/h9nMh.png).

EDIT: Correction, the line numbering is correct, the problem is with the line-height in the editor.
I confirm text selection is working fine for me now - in Chrome.
What a terrible and self-righteous post.

How is a test case supposed to explain why MAX_COUNTER is set to 5 or 20? Comments are the single-most important thing when writing code, in my opinion. When feature specs are lost, and documentation goes out of the date, you only have code. And if you're supposed to jump through hoops like test case code to try to divine WHY things are as they are, then you're dealing with really hard-to-maintain code.

I strongly suggest all developers to ignore this blog post, and to comment as best as you can.
Perhaps you should read the rest of the article in which the author examines the non-mass-shooting gun related homicides.

The reddit attention span appears to be alive and well at HN.
I don't comment usually but you've asked for feedbacks, so here is one, don't waste your time and money on something like this, it simply won't work, who wants to view others memories or pictures, no one!!!
I just started using Amazon's Product Advertising API (for referral marketing) and it too seems to be fairly obtuse. They clearly don't put as much effort into their not-as-public products.
What makes you think that non-PhDs (except for the politically skilled) are more eligible for "meaty sizeable R&D type work" in Silicon Valley?

You may be right. I have no idea. I'm not in SF/SV. I will say that I'm not convinced that VC-istan has any real edge over the rest of the business world. It's just better at marketing itself.

FOMO is real but it's not only about geography. There are just very few companies that will pay for anything interesting. It's not like every 22-year-old in Silicon Valley gets to work on cutting-edge machine learning algorithms.

Ultimately, it's hard to get decent work. I don't know if moving to an otherwise overpriced location has decent ROI. I just don't have the data to answer that question.
People are so cute when they threaten to leave California because their taxes are a little bit higher.

He is likely taking advantage of the long term capitals gain tax already, reducing his taxes from 35% or so to 17% or so.
Haskell data constraints, the right way
Another upside is that your feedback might make things better for your ex co-workers, some of whom may be your friends. And if the company is afraid enough of losing more people, they might actually take your feedback seriously.
Most people who benefit from these sorts of products don't have a firm grasp of math and engineering to start with. Our education sucks in the US. Giving them a helping hand is a terrific way to swell the ranks of STEM professionals and introduce people to solving problems they would never have considered otherwise.

Just teach them engineering! Not pussy foot around and molly coddle them.
>Making web sites that comply to customer requirements down to pixel level, across all required target browsers is a major pain.

How is that a fair comparison to native apps? A native app can run on one platform. Making native apps pixel-for-pixel identical on multiple platforms is way more of a pain than doing so with HTML5.
Opponents of gun control feel exactly the same way: they don't want to have to live in fear.
I don't mean to sound patronizing, but if you're implementing counters or banging out numbingly-boilerplate business logic for websites, comments are indeed useless.

But when you're reading an obtuse 50-line function that implements some weird algorithm acting on some weird data structure, full of magic-like assumptions, you'd wish no one had deleted comments from it, or... had written them in the first place.
Seconded! I'd like to see it as a "due date" for an email.
Almost everything I heard about Prop 30 mentioned that it would affect all income earned in 2012. It's hinted out in the summary that the OP posted and spelled out more concretely just below that overview:

"Increases Personal Income Tax Rates From 2012 Through 2018."

(from http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/30/analysis.htm).

While it is unfortunate that some feel mislead, the impact is quite small in 'real' terms. The married filing jointly bracket up to 500k will see a 1% increase in state income tax, up to $600k will see 2%, and above a million will see 3% incremental.

If you sold your company and got a million dollar check, you'd see something like $10k in additional taxes (which is then partially offset by claiming them on your federal tax forms). Price of doing business in a high-tax state I suppose.
IL GRANDE INGANNO - LE TASSE  ...
> 'Mass killings are as inevitable as lightning deaths..'

Not so.

The New York Times has referred to Australia's gun laws as a "road map" for the US, saying that "in the 18 years before the law, Australia suffered 13 mass shootings - but not one in the 14 years after the law took full effect."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-17/us-urged-to-consider-a...
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It is unlikely though. Basically if this logic have worked -- airline pilots would not have been armed (after 9/11). However many are, and many plain-dressed armed security agents board planes.

Schools, summer camps, sporting events, theaters, amusement parks, universities and other so-called gun-free zones -- are soft targets that are going to be exploited by criminals/terrorists (one just has to look at where those horrible acts were comitted in Russia (Beslan), Norway, US)

Just like the planes where in 9/11.

so training and arming a portion of the staff that is operating the facilities, as well as securing access -- is essential

Praying, reading books, closing doors and closets -- are not effective measures against evil-souled animals who are there to end their lives and to take as many people with them as possible.

There are schools that have been taking steps in this direction.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/15/5056005/one-texas-school-le...

I would also venture to say that media coverage must change the protocol in cover this kinds of events
things like
a) name of the criminal must not be announced
b) reasons/intent must not be announced/mentioned/discussed on broadcast networks
c) number of victims

so that the media does not feed the possible copy cats.
Paint by numbers is totally acceptable as a way to learn the mechanics of painting. Them, like you do with her kits, use the paints and brushes left over to do you own variations, then independent projects.
Do you know something about political problems of China? China currently is the most important country (i'm not from China, be sure).
Wow, truly is beautiful!
The real error is voting on any proposition on the California ballot, full stop.
Fortresses, particularly those without an active defense, have a bad track record. Shields don't work without the ability to hit back. Or, as the saying goes, "It takes two sides to have a battle, but only one to have a massacre."
Thank you! Makes perfect sense now.
They'd be real, but used stamps. I can't imagine anyone cheap enough to bother faking 8 cent stamps -- although apparently there are people cheap enough to use cancelled ones! =P

Kidding aside, I think it'd be awesome to get cards like that -- and maybe the USPS thinks so too, which is maybe why they're letting them through. =)
Nice opportunity spotted! You've simplified the crap out of an annoying part of the crowdsourcing reward system.

From what I can make out, you're either in the screen printing industry and spotted a great opportunity to move product, or you're a HN sort of entrepreneur who saw the opportunity and found a partner with the experience.

Either way, this is a brilliant move.
I like what you're doing here. It looks very simple and clean and I like that there's keyboard control with esc.
Whoa! Thanks for sending this in! Crazy bug.
If you can share some advice on Python 2/3 compatibility that would we very interesting. Especially things related to Unicode and testing. I see you have a single codebase for both versions. That is the same approach I took with my (much smaller) library, but several people advised against it. I also see you have very few "from __future__ import ..." Is that a conscious decision?

In any case, thank you! I will use Requests as an example to follow.
I agree that this not an optimal start point for someone who just heard of Backbone.js.

I do think, though, that if someone will still be a bit confused how to stitch things together after reading and poking around for a while, this sort of skeleton could provide just enough insight.

I released this as something that seemed useful to me and in that context should be useful to at least someone else.

If you're unfamiliar with the Ruby world, the usefulness somewhat disappears, but that's said in the prerequisites.
I helped the author edit this post for clarity, but it took all I had not to argue with him because I strongly disagree with his thesis. My main language (Objective-C) is relatively less readable (compared to his main language of Python), and I would absolutely not be able to function in a team, or even with code I'd written myself over a week ago, without heavy commenting. I do believe he's right though with respect to test coverage being effectively a runnable comment or explanation of how a particular module works. However, to me at least, tests are no more readable than the source code itself, so I still rely (and implore my teammates to rely) on heavily commenting their code. Especially when dealing with inscrutable things like OpenGL code.
Oh really? Let's take my webkit-based mobile browser then and look at an instagram picture. Hm, it's cut in half and I can't scroll. Mobile web apps are actually iOS webapps that most of the time work on Android. Stop pretending you actually care about standards and cross-platform, you're only interested in doing less work, learning fewer things and holding users firmly by the balls in the cloud.
That's true. It's possible that they will reach a licensing deal with glyphicons to use the font.
And in doing so almost certainly netted CAH more profit via the free advertising than if they had paid $5 (which, they still may have done). TBH, i wouldn't be shocked if it was an inside job.
So, a couple months back I released a WebGL Enabler for iOS with a pay-what-you-want model: http://demoseen.com/webglenabler/

I keep meaning to write a blog post about the results, but ~99.5% of people paid $0. Of the people who paid, probably around 50% paid the $1.99 I had as default, but what's really interesting to me is the way people priced it if they changed the value. I got a number of payments for amounts like $1.25 and $1.50, and I remember looking at those completely baffled -- who cares enough to pay anything for this (you could just download it for free -- I don't mind) but not enough to pay an extra $0.49? Really wish I had an answer there; maybe people just like 'getting a deal'?
> Persistence, perseverance, timing? None are relevant.

Says the guy who gave up the space way back in the 90's while others get magazine stories. Sour grapes are rough man, I'm sorry. But you only embarrass yourself went you vent it so publicly.

I won't bother with the rest. You're deriving a lot of self-esteem from your knowledge of things that others don't have. But rather than rejoicing in the spread of that knowledge, you resent anyone who dilutes its scarcity.

People start small. Things aren't easy. Not everyone gets to the end. But I'm glad there are those who are willing to roll the dice and hope they can make a bit of money bridging a very wide gulf of knowledge and know-how.
I don't see how they will differentiate themselves. Kindle Fire was the first $200 android tablet, their new version is super cheap and comes with a $50/year data plan. But with phones? They can't compete on price (already many free recent-generation Android phones out there), they won't compete on quality (Amazon is all about making things accessible price-wise).

Seems to be the only possible thing they could do vis-a-vis a Kindle Phone would be to sell it with an incredible wireless plan -- which I can see them doing. $50/month, 2Gb data, free data for all Amazon media? Watch Amazon Prime Videos without using your data?
As long as you are up front with the people you are interviewing with, I don't see any harm. There's the rub though; who will want to waste their time to interview you if you have no intention of joining their company?

If you want more money you can talk to your manager but other then that, you just need to get another job. It sucks but that is reality.

The raise-by-counter-offer strategy rarely pays off. You may get your raise but only until they can find someone to replace you.
Mark thanks for your feedback - value your advice. would love to hear some more feedback if you have time and are interested - shoot us an email info@washioapp.com
how rare are fires in schools? We extensively prepare for those

Teachers/staff prepare for those by knowing how to evacuate students from the schools and calling 911. They aren't expected to actually fight fires, aside from using a fire extinguisher.

"Readily available" can be addressed by concealed handguns that aren't too easy to get to; you might have to give an attacker a "first bite of the apple" in favor of making them too accessible. On the other hand, a few M4s in a quick to open safe in the principle's office ought to be doable, as long as the staffers there have the right attitudes, to "march towards the sound of canons".

In order for that to be effective and safe, those teachers/staffers will have to regularly train with those weapons in addition to their other duties. Look at the NYPD - we have a population (police) that are trained to use firearms and have to qualify at certain intervals and yet their rates of accidental firings were so high that they needed to have their handguns modified to reduce those accidents. Despite their training, their hitrate when they actually use their weapons on duty is abysmal.

Unless you have teachers/staff that are already firearms enthusiasts, they are probably going to be reluctant to add range time to their calendar, and putting a firearm in the hands of a poorly trained user will end badly.
How's this? http://i.imgur.com/P5MxB.jpg Courtesy of iPhoto (I appreciate it's technically incorrect, but I think it captures the spirit)
Grails Spacecraft to Crash into Moon -- 20 Minutes [video]
NASA will be crashing the Grails spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) into the Moon in 20 minutes.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grailstatus20121217.html
Wait, what? There were tons of people exploiting buffer overflows to upload code into running processes before 1988?

I call shenanigans.

Like you, I'm personally acquainted with a pretty good cross section of the best known people in vuln research in the '90s, and I was in the room with Peter Zatko and Dave Goldsmith and, at other times, San Mehat, Tim Newsham, and Ivan Arce as they figured out various ways to exploit overflows. This stuff was (weirdly!) new when 8lgm published it in '95. I sincerely doubt that it was old news to anyone when RTM used it in the worm.

If this was in any sense old hat to anyone, where are all the overflow exploits between 1988 and the Lopatic NCSA HTTPD exploit from 1995?
(I'm a different user)

For a reliable universal private notepad like this, I'd pay $2 per month. That sounds cheap, but I'm talking personal use, not business.
You think parents and grandparents care that little about their descendents' future? That they're that selfish? (Do note we apparently have very different worldviews, my side sees widespread gun ownership as a good thing; you don't have to agree with that, just agree that there are 10s of millions like me.)

I'm afraid you're wrong, and are proposing just another way to spark the 2nd American Civil War, which I'd rather avoid. (I'm assuming you won't repeal the 2nd Amendment first, since I can't see that happening politically in the foreseeable future.)
I believe he's actually arguing "Regardless of which cause is more worthy, my cause needs the money and Wikimedia doesn't."
The letter that actually describes the proported decoding: http://www.scribd.com/doc/117088896/Letter-to-UK-PM-pdf (scribd)

The decoding (see the letter for a more detailed justification for the claimed decoding):

AOAKN - Artillery Observer At "K" Sector, Normandy.

RQXSR - Requested [Head] Quaters Supplement Report

PABLIZ - Panzer Attack - Blitz

NLXKG - Now loading [e] X [tra] {sector] "K" Guns

WAOTA - West Artillery Observer Tracking Attack

LKXGH - Lt. Knows [that] (e) X [tra] Guns [are] Here [Some Brits Artillery or Infantry Officer might be with
him. Now or with the other observer. In any case, the Lt. has been in touch somehow....maybe by his own courier
dog.]

KLDTS - Know [where] Local Dispatch Station [is]

HVPKD - Have Panzers [in] "K" [sector] Determined

DJHFP - Determined Jerry's Headquarters Front Posts

RBQRH - Right Battery [Head] Quarters Right Here

FQIRW - Found [head] Quarters Infantry Right Wing

FNFJW - Final Note [confirming] Found Jerry's Whereabouts

GOVFN - Go Over Field Notes [this is the same short form as WW-1] Stott is asking UK to compare this note to
his "drop note" and his "noon note"

CMPNW - Counter Measures [against] Panzers Not Working

DJOFM - could be "Determined Jerry's Other Field Mortars

JRZCQ - Jerry's Right Battery Central [Head]Quarters [here]

AOAKN - Artillery Observer at "K'-sector, Normandy Stott is confirming he sent the above information to UK's
XO2 operator and not the Germans.

YIDDC - Yanks Infantry Division [now in] Direct Contact

MIAPX - Mortar, Infantry Attack Panzers eXtra. Stott is probably telling England that they are attacking Panzers
separated from the main body of tanks.

HJRZH - Hit Jerry's Right or [Reserve] Battery HereOR - Hit Jerry's Right or [Reserve] Battery Headquarters

AKEEQ - Already Know Electrical Engineers [head] Quarters

TPZEH - Troops, Panzers, Batteries, Engineers, Here

FNKTO - Final Note Known To [head]Quarters [here implied]

27 / 1526 / 6 [June 27th @ 1526 hours or 3:26pm]
have done quite a large volume of t-shirts over the years. ran an eco-friendly clothing company that was distributed by AZA-accredited zoos.

http://support.teelaunch.com/customer/portal/articles/888849...

thanks!
The ones named to the lists (and their family/friends) do ;)
I don't think it's lazy journalism, it's just how the PR world works. YC gives people credibility and a soapbox. It's probably one of the greatest benefits at this time.

Also, consider the source is forbes, this isn't the top 30 technologists under 30, or scientists, it's top 30 technology entrepreneurs under 30.

Sure there are many who probably deserve to be on this list and aren't, but how would they be found.

Do you have any suggestions on who you'd like to see on the list?
Really cool, kinda like brackets.io, but online!

Is there anyway to make the text editor pane resizeable?
> It's not a competition among countries, it's about making the US better.

But you conclude there is no need to fix the current problem. Comparing America to other Developed countries clearly shows there is.
Failing Fast Means... Failing a Lot
Yeah, there are a ton of us old farts that have been sniffing solder flumes and flipping switches for years. :)

Adafruit and newer companies of this ilk fill a need for us oldtimers and the newcomers. Many of my old sources of various parts and kits are dead, evolved or just didn't handle the transition to the internet well.