skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? "Zuran Orb vis-à-vis Claws of Gix"? You either need a 0 cost artifact for a combo, in which case they are the same, or they serve quite different purposes, in which case, why are you comparing them?
Not going to work well with non-caucasians. oops.
Thanks, Didn't know about this. I'll fix it.
I suspect the razor needs an addition "or backwards compatibility". I suspect many of the names remain unchanged from when they were first added to each distro. There could also have been conflicts with similarly named packages at that time, so something pragmatic is chosen. 10 - 20 years later it looks like stupidity.
Show HN: Review the latest commits in a repo with git-ribbon
Some immediate thoughts:

The featured projects and tutors on the home page could be linked so you can find out more about them without signing up.

As a prospective teacher: How do I get paid? How often? What cut does Teachity take?

As a prospective student: How do I pay (credit card, I assume)? What happens if I don't like my tutor (refund policy, etc.)?
Security Engineering – The Book
My anecdotal experience suggests that the author's point is rather accurate.

This was Spain, not SF, but I witnessed a bus filled with 50+ tech people (videogames & CGI) remain completely silent while the driver did the route speeding like mad, eventually hit a car, then refused to stop and assist. I was the only one to ask the driver to stop, the only one to offer assistance to the car dude when he followed the bus to our destination, and the only one to report the bus driver to the company. Everyone else just looked, commented among themselves, and walked away as soon as possible.
This needs a start button so it will play like a slide-down movie!
I love it. Although it reenforces that I have sunken eyes.
Microsoft’s app store was designed by engineers
Sleep Anytime between 10:15-11pm and I wake up at 8:45 to bike to work by 9.
I would buy them all if I could..
a new take on social video i think.
I believe those are consumer focused services, where as EasyPost is designed for developers to integrate shipping and postage into their apps and websites.
This sounds like 'hide in a closet'
I'll risk some karma for this, as it's not the most appropriate place, nor is it the best way to introduce my idea.

I want to produce something similar to Google Fiber. I cannot give up my life and source of income to fly out to San Francisco and pursue the "cultural" side of incubation and all things startup related. I need a non-technical guy who understands the business side. I work at a community college as a NOC. If we landed a spot in YC, while you are in San Francisco doing that, I will be taking courses which specialize in this field.

My contact info is in my profile.
The bit he was actually focusing on seemed to me to be that they started using his name to sell the books.

If _the artist_ is the product being sold, don't you think the right thing to do would have been to work out a new agreement?

I thought it was incredibly well written and quite forgiving of him.
In video form http://youtu.be/oCaCrWzFPYY
Anyone who can end up with > 1B$ in cash after taxes and fees at the end of the day is in an interesting place.

I have really been impressed with the gusto in which Bill and Melinda Gates have thrown their fortune behind their philanthropy goals. From a cultural history perspective, older families with dynastic wealth tended to get diversified as the generations spread wider and wider, but modern day generations are quite narrow, between one an four families at any given time, rarely spreading.

Many people believe that as production capacity outstrips demand at any cost point we'll enter a sort of 'star trek' like period where nobody has to work. Of course somebody has to do some work, but who that will be, that will be the economic factor of the times.

With fertility at 1.6 births per family then for a 21st century family patriarch, a billion dollars in a trust fund could probably provide a living for you descendants pretty much forever.
These articles are a dime a dozen. This popular philosophy isn't right, because look at my poorly coded example of it.

You're dry code, is only dry is the laziest of senses, and represents a lousy programmer cluttering the system. A really lousy implementation of any of these programming paradigms would make one side look wrong.

In your example, the refactored code would look excellent if it implemented OOP and the Strategy Pattern. The two different feeds can inherit their similarities from the same place, and their differences implemented in separate places. Which feed to produce can be chosen dynamically, rather than one crappy grab-all function.
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Think of it this way: due to the high costs of acquiring and training employees, companies hate to let people go, especially new hires. One has to be doing something very wrong to get let go, and employees are usually given many chances to get it together.
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Yeah, thats not been the case with me. This last job I was let go this morning, and I started Monday. Most of my time there was spent making the case of simplifying the application. The code was horribly complex, and in my experience complexity is what does companies in. If I had been a good little employee and kept my mouth shut and did what I was told, I probably could have kept my job, but then I would have not contributed to the company in a way that would have made the company stronger. Sort of a catch 22. Put your foot down and be an asshole, or don;t put your foot down, let the company make crap software, but keep your job. There has to be a better way? Is there such a thing as a company that admires developers who have the guts to say no to a boss?
Please go use them and it will become clear :)
I'd have to take issue with the idea that an influx of well-paid workers "distorts" the housing market. Do they drive housing prices up? Yes. Is that really a "distortion"? It seems like the normal process of supply and demand to me.

What I'm taking issue with is the underlying hypocrisy of folks who want the benefits of this influx (higher taxes, more city services, young people moving to town and spending their money) while complaining about what they perceive to be the negative effects like higher rents and Google Buses. They fail to note how many negatives would come from _not_ having a robust industry locally - fewer city services due to less tax revenue, more crime and an aging population that earns less and leans on city services more.

SF spends more per-capita on social services and non-profits than just about any other major US city. That budget comes in large part from the paychecks of these single young people who are choosing to pay some of the highest total federal/state/city taxes in the nation. That's why I find these kind of pieces hugely objectionable. Their underlying message is "we'll take your money, but you're an outsider that's not really welcome here."
Data Analyst, Internal Finance
The Analytics Team at Palantir analyzes our company’s financial and operational data so we can scale and operate our business more effectively. We are a combination of entrepreneurs, engineers, and finance geeks, brought together by our passion for solving complex problems to support data-driven transparency. What worked yesterday, needs to work better today, take less time, and provide further insight. Our small team is full of autonomous self-starters, and we tackle unstructured problems everyday with little to no oversight. Our projects are flexible and tailored to our superpowers; we analyze data using whatever program and method will generate the best results. Everything in our workplace is designed to let us rock a project from start to finish with no red tape to hold us back. This team resembles the rest of Palantir, not anything you’ll find in traditional corporate finance.

Responsibilities:
Transforming financial operations, always striving for impact
Taking projects from start to finish, and in the process automating and setting them up to scale
Analyzing, structuring, and presenting data
Planning for the sake of execution, optimization, and efficiency
Tackling structured or unstructured analyses without obvious solutions
Collaborating with other Palantirians, across the company and around the globe

Requirements:
BA/BS or MA/MS in Finance, Math, Statistics, Economics, Engineering or another analytical field
Strong experience with complex data modeling in Excel; work with SQL a plus
Demonstrated ability and desire to learn quickly, and make an impact
Entrepreneurial mindset, with proven ability to be resourceful, and experience improving and streamlining processes
Ability to work independently and as a team member in an unstructured environment

Preferred:
Startup experience / work in a low structure high autonomy environment
Data visualization experience
Einhorn Case Against Apple Rests on Rarely Used Legal Tactic
You can curl those with EasyPost! https://geteasypost.com/docs
I love mashape. I'm 100% biased: I've used them to host Lambda Labs API from day 1.

The team is amazing, fastest customer service in the west.
Guys this is old.

It's Aaron Koblin's work.

He speaks about the project on this ted talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

His Johnny Cash project with Rick Rubin and Mr Doob is breathtaking.
Absolutely. Eric lived through the Dot Com explosion where he had multiple millions of dollars in Sun stock that had he borrowed against he would have no collateral today.

The first mistake made by young people who are suddenly 'rich' on paper because the one stock they own is worth a lot of money, is borrow against it as if it was money. Only to have the stock value vanish and they end up destroying what savings they did have repaying those loans.

There were a number of stories in the Mercury News about people who built dream homes starting pre-bust, only to sell them for pennies on the dollar post-bust because they couldn't afford them any more.
Well, you could say the exact same about every currency.

There is an online market (of goods) built around BTC because of its particular properties. This market wouldn't exist without it. You can't sub in barter or gold or most other forms of money, and especially not anything that leaves a record.

The nonsense argument about BTC being a fiat currency is confused. There is an authority in a sense that dictates the mechanics (but I see it much like the 'rules' for determining what is and isn't gold.) However there is no authority that confers value of any kind to the currency.
Some suggestions:

- populate the FAQ page

- create pages for specific platforms like Rails, Django etc, (right now it looks too generic), add a blurb for those in the front page

- reduce friction for the "contact me": add a "subscribe to newsletter" email field to start capturing people interested. Send a newsletter from time to time with relevant developments in the project

- promote your project in the (Rails etc) platform niches (forums etc), also in DevOps area

- Write blog articles with examples of how your project helps (starting out with a real problem is better) or even write about anything related (say deployments) and plug your project at the end. Good luck.
This is a cool visual demonstration of the concept.

The concept of herd immunity, and how it breaks down, especially due to personal opinions, is my main research interest. I've published a couple of papers over the years, for those who are interested (all are open access):

The effect of opinion clustering on disease outbreaks
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/29/1505.ful...

Assessing Vaccination Sentiments with Online Social Media: Implications for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Control
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...

Complex Social Contagion Makes Networks More Vulnerable to Disease Outbreaks
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0518
Pagination buttons aren't working (current page isn't highlighted).

Logging in as a tutor, and then returning to the home page throws up the Stripe flash behind the Featured Projects and Featured Tutors titles.

How do I see the virtual classroom without bidding on a "project".

We have hundreds of expert tutors, teachers and advisers from around the globe standing by.

Really? I'm user 38.
'Privacy killer' CISPA is coming back, whether you like it or not
Perhaps I'm approaching this from a different perspective which is why I think my comments came across more abrasive than I meant them.

I'm certainly not trying to blame users for ignorance. I personally, however, have a strong aversion to coupling myself to tools and services whose future I have low confidence in. What I was trying to impart to mnicole as a consumer was this aversion. The lesson I'd send to the rest of the development community is that if you structure your tool or service in a way that it is not possible for me to either have a low dependency on you or a high confidence in your future, you fail the sniff test.
git-encrypt uses AES in ECB mode. You're right that it's not as bad as reusing a one time pad, but it's still insecure. The pictures here speak volumes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operatio...

It might not be crippling in most git-related use cases, but as a user you should not need to worry about your cryptosystem potentially leaking information. My project, git-crypt[1], is similar to git-encrypt but uses AES in CTR mode with a synthetic IV, which leaks only whether two entire files are identical. This is the bare minimum you need to leak to make git diffs work, and there's also a security definition called "deterministic CPA security" which CTR with a synthetic IV provably meets.

[1] http://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/
Twitter's Vine App Raises Questions About Social Media Age Restrictions
This is not a feature unique to a CDN; the same result could be achieved by simply hosting jQuery on a single server and pointing all your websites to that copy.

My point is that when people talk about using "a CDN", usually what they are really talking about is caching. Whether that caching happens at the origin or the edge makes a very very tiny difference (the lightspeed difference).
Does Google have non-executive jets? I ask because Intel maintains a fleet of planes to ferry normal employees between sites called the Intel Shuttle.
I stand corrected; I guess it's just the traditional old-fashioned form of xenophobia then. In that case, the irony is that she waxes nostalgic about SF's history as a place that welcomed everyone in the same breath as she's making fun of and rejecting the latest newcomers for being different.
Violence dynamics and the Monkey Dance
you sound bitter.
Jx9 - An Embeddable Scripting Engine for C/C++ apps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/27/users-gui...
Public comments considered harmful
You're assuming that a large share of those riders would take public transport, but most of them would probably drive, since that's what the large majority of people in SF who don't have access to a corporate bus do.

The bus provides an appealing (relative to the Caltrain) option that's appealing to people who could also easily afford to drive. (They're more convenient than the train or driving, to boot, whereas taking the train is much less convenient.) In doing so, they take tens of thousands of cars off the road each morning.
The thing is, you are actually assuming the risk that your work is not profitable.. if the work is your personal work, your employer may sack you or withhold a raise. if the work is your team's then you share the risk, unless your team is the only team and then your employer goes out of business.

It is (usually) an exploitative relationship, most just don't know it. The fact that this arrangement is the norm speaks only of the power differential and nothing of fairness. Could you imagine what would happen to management if employees got a fair share of the work they produced.. for that matter, how much of Don's profits came from his hand and how much from the advertisers and how much from Disney's distribution network? Why are advertisers paid so much and box packers paid so little?

The fact that so many of us accept this system is because we don't have the power to demand profits (or we don't know any better) and we need to eat. We just tell ourselves that we prefer to earn a little less so we don't have to worry about risk. It makes it easier to sleep at night.
Pinterest Releases New Version of Android App
I was getting around 500 KiB/s for the 1080p version just a few minutes into the download.

You could also just rip the 1080p version from YouTube with "Easy YouTube Video Downloader" browser add-on, or a similar add-on (there are tons of these). The YouTube servers typically support downloads of around 1-1.5 MiB/s which is better than torrents in most cases (on residential Internet lines).
The Elsevier boycott one year on
Lol. I was debating whether to spell it out because I got a feeling someone is going to pop up saying what you just said. Well. more precisely it was derived from BSD.

And that is some strong feeling you just expressed there. Why so much hate? :) Overpriced or not is based on what it can do for you and how much your time is worth. Of course, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinions.

By the way kido, don't just take our advices here. On the Internet, you have no ideas who is behind the typed message. See if you can find someone in your life who is successful in the field and you admire. Go visit their work environment and see what they use. That may be a more beneficial start for you.
Yeah, I don't think JB Chrome handles position:fixed well for large elements. Firefox renders the page nicely, but in Chrome it ruins the experience.
Worst job I ever had was at Starbucks [1] in the early 1990s. I had my liver cut out and fed to me every single day.

I could not reconcile the positivity put forth by CEO Howard Schultz (and conferred thru HR's training regime) with the miserable treatment we received. A fish is rotten from the head down and all that.

Years later I was in middle management. I couldn't believe how hard it was to change things, get people to behave better, etc. I was all about learning organization, empowerment, democratic decision making. Stuff that really pulled people out of their comfort zones. Any successes I had, mostly thru will power, came at a very high cost.

I then became a lot more forgiving of the Howard Schultzes of the world. He was doing pretty much the most any CEO/President can do: Stay on message, nudge the needle, hope for the best.

I will note that friends in other departments had very different experiences. Some are still there and loving every minute of it.

So I also learned you can have a good job at a bad company, a bad job at a good company, and if you're very lucky, a good job at a good company.

[1] I was the CAD guru for the Store Planning dept, which did all the retail architecture. Performance was measured in "sales weeks", meaning how many weeks all the stores are open per year. As a publicly traded company, the pressure to hit the projected sales weeks was intense.
Reddit does have some subreddits that deal with this. And Nuuton will have that functionality once it gets out of ALPHA (in about 6 months).
I understand that for a new company or a private company, but Google's stock is hardly comparable. I'm just curious how much it'd cost to lock in the value of his shares and then borrow against it.
what if I can tutor in some topics and student in others? Should be able to see the list of topics w/out signing up.
When you display a tweet embedded in your page, you have to display it exactly as they do, which takes up a truly ridiculous amount of space and is intentionally prohibitive.

And as a sidenote, Twitter would very much prefer if the API would just disappear, as they get non-linear benefits from users going to twitter.com instead of accessing its services through a third party. Internally, it is spoken of as a liability.
Considering people buy for convenience or to support the artist, I'd say a small label benefits more from piracy. The big labels with extensive marketing are going to gain less fans from piracy. While I might torrent a well-known group to try it out, chances are I'm already acquainted.

Whereas with a small group, pirating a torrent of stuff might be a way I actually discover an artist. I know I've downloaded big "mix" torrents, come across some stuff I like, then went to Amazon and bought all the downloads they had for that artist. Without the piracy, I'd have never found them.

On top of that, I think (perhaps incorrectly), that when you buy from a small label, you're promoting more good than buying from the big labels that will use my money to campaign for things I'm against. I know I have a few artists I like, but I'm not going to give money to folks that push for less due process.

Of course, actual data is hard to come by: it's not like you can accurately track torrent downloads/disk swaps and compare conversion rates.
Preparing for generalist technical interviews
Agreed. Borrowing against stocks is akin to playing russian roulette with your financials.
You might want to extinguish your hair! =)
Not me personally.

If Facebook Search even remotely takes off then that will siphon away a significant amount of advertising that Google relies on. And Google has shown a worrying inability to monetize any of their recent projects. Docs/Gmail/Youtube/Android aren't making much money, Glasses is niche, none of the OEMs are interested in their self driving car technology and their Motorola acquisition has been an unquestionable disaster.
People do that? Maybe it's just that I lived through the dot com explosion too, but that seems astonishingly foolish - it might as well be gambling. If you want to acquire some asset, like a house, sure, sell your stock and buy the asset - but you don't get to have it both ways! You can't have the security of a slow-appreciation asset like a house and the upside of a risky, high-appreciation asset like tech company stock. Use one to back the other and you just amplify your risk.
A little bump in the road...
One easy example: no higher-order functions like `map`, `select`, and `inject` because of no lambdas, so I wind up repeating the same looping code all over the place.

I took a look at a few "functional programming in Java" libraries, but their solutions were still pretty verbose, and it didn't seem worth adding a dependency for a tiny smartphone app.
I went to the same school, and this reads like an ad, which is amusing. It's not false at all, or misleading, but it's fun to see he had such a nice view of his school years.

But the thing is, the issue of college in the US is very different from the issue of college (or equivalent) in other places, and notably France. One significant difference being that Ecole Polytechnique and most high-profile French engineering school are free or almost so (automatically for French students, it's a bit more varied for international ones). Consequence is, most of the points revolving around "should I go to college and put myself in a huge debt" don't apply to us. In France, you should study at least until master level, given the opportunity, because it gives a very big edge afterwards.

Corollary: nobody (or almost nobody) would hire someone without a degree here. Emphasis on diplomas seems even higher than in the US.

I'm not saying one is better than the other (we have our own issues), but the situations really aren't comparable.
one of the most promising companies around.
Mashape means quality and reliability!!
Great job
I really like slide #7, in how it discusses that most "corporate values" are just these ambiguous ethereal ideals that don't necessarily mean anything.

> "[Enron's values] were chiseled in marble in the main lobby, but had little to do with the real values of the organization."

I wish other major employers would see this and realize how self-parodying they can be.
TL;DR:

Disney sucks to work with.