skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Turned Down University to Start my Own App Marketing Company. 18 months on...
That's assuming somebody remembers where it was.
She might want to get her domain spelled correctly.
Don't make any travel/hotel reservations until you have the I/O ticket reserved, the registration is always a clusterfuck where getting a ticket basically amounts to winning a minor lottery.

Also sometimes they just randomly change the announced date prior to registration (eg. from April to June) for extra "Fuck You" to people who plan ahead.

I don't think it really matters where you're connecting from though, the servers basically just die under the load and you may or may not get lucky by hitting the right load balancer at the right time but where you're coming from and what your latency is doesn't really matter too much. It is a horrible experience for people in California just as it is a horrible experience for people in Europe.
I/ONs have been going since before they gave out freebies.
I already answered that one way http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5329829

Another way of going about it would be to allow/disallow in aggregate, not in specific cases. AKA all humans or no humans. In which case it wouldn't be allowed even with a braindead person.
The more that people use it, the more stable the currency will get.
The iPhone app is lacking. You can only view past/current transactions. The web version of the site is way more useful as it has all of coinbase's features.
Yup. There have been presales every year since they started calling them I/ONs.
Which I did. You saw what I said: the theoretical - and, in practice, relatively small - disemploying effects of a minimum wage wash out against all the other variables affecting employment.
I was talking about the last 5 years, as opposed to the last 30. Although household income has been declining in real terms for the last 30.

I'd be interested to see your link. I was under the impression that most growth has been captured by larger corporations rather than free-lancers, and if they refer to 'self-employed dividend earners' that could easily be people collecting dividends and capital gains on stock. But that's all speculation -- hit me up with the link if you get a chance.
Agreed. I have gotten many job offers and even just a foot in the door due to running http://searchco.de because its interesting to other coders and requires a degree if tech knowledge to run. Every interview I have had since I started running it has asked about it, what I learnt etc... I see it as personal marketing more then anything else.
Yes, it helps the flow of the thread. At least that way I know what line of thinking you are using. Otherwise, why even post?
>Those determinations are for the judicial branch to make, not the executive.

It seems to me they're for the legislature in the first instance. Only when the legislature fails so egregiously as to be in violation of the constitution would the courts have the power to strike down a law, and I have to hope we want to draw the line somewhere prior to "violates constitutionally guaranteed human rights" and nearer to the point of having some resemblance to proportionality and reason.

In cases like this there is also the issue that a major part of the problem itself is the cost of access to the courts. How do you argue to the court that it costs you an unreasonably large amount of time and money to make your arguments to the court? By the time you make the argument it's moot. It needs to be addressed in the legislature before we ever get to the courts.

And I'll give you that it isn't the executive's purpose to stop things like this from happening, but they can most certainly make things better or worse by making differently the decisions that are within their discretion.
Comparing Dart, jQuery, CoffeeScript, CoffeeScript+jQuery, and JavaScript
There's a natural monopoly in a medium of savings used to defer consumption. Among competing currencies, the winner is the "bubble that doesn't pop". Until the monopoly is established, though, volatility is to be expected, as it would be with any bubble.
You wrongly assume the job market is a perfect market. It's not; there are barriers to entry, barriers to exit and lots of asymmetric negotiation positions.
>>negligibly harmful

I would actually use the term "virtually harmless" because it conveys the truth more accurately.
> We didn't evolve from monkeys, we evolved with them from a common ancestor!

Yes, and (snicker, snicker) we therefore evolved from a creature that was "lower" than a monkey. :)
Visual Patterns in Source Code Arrangement
While I have always been pro-Aaron, your comment isn't true.

For a common felon, any time is a life sentence, but not for a talented techie with this kind of rap. For example, Kevin Mitnick is a very successful guy post prison. Aaron would have always been able to find work too, if not vote.
Well, they just announced an i3 version iMac for education - they might extend that to large enterprise orders.
And Holder has told him that that's not going to happen, short of an obvious military emergency. The President is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and is responsible for the defense of the US in such situations.

If the Senator is so worried about pre-emptive drone attacks, why hasn't he crafted any legislation defining the scope of the executive's power to deploy military assets within the domestic boundaries of the United States? Or introduced a bill to rescind or amend the Authorization for Use of Military Force that is presently the law of the land? Why, in short, is he engaging in windy rhetoric but making no use of his legislative power?
Too much cherry picking and revisionist history in this article. Some examples:

Google Desktop: You sure it wasn't Apple who asked that question way back in 2004 and introduced Spotlight in OS X 10.4, way before Google Desktop?

Smart People: Kind of sad commentary about the author's mindeset. All those people have college degrees and 2 are masters. Author indirectly mocks those colleges and doesn't think to list any smart people that don't have college degrees. Maybe Google doesn't have any, which means this isn't really the lesson.

Age: Never mind the fact that that Google engineers are predominantly under 40 and there is an age discrimination lawsuit against Google.

Users/Competition: Google is too big to draw lessons. They are paying big attention to Amazon and Apple.
I realize the diagram is likely heavily over-simplified, but what's the reason for the nginx layer? It doesn't look like you guys are serving assets through those boxes, so it seems like you have an unnecessary extra hop from the ELB to the app servers. My guess is this is either nginx caching, a holdover from the pre-aws architecture or a measure to keep the system decoupled from ELB?
Logging in as a given user doesn't provide admins with any data that isn't already available in database backups and log files. If a startup only has one developer, then that developer already has access to every user's data, regardless of whether you allow frontend access.

There are many types of applications where that level of privacy would not be okay. But actually protecting the users' privacy is non-trivial. Short of encrypting all user-provided data, I don't see how you could prevent every startup employee from seeing any data.

Larger companies usually separate their operations and development teams, partially for this reason. Developers aren't allowed to access production data or servers. That at least limits the number of people with access to a trusted few, at the cost of a substantially more complicated development/release process.
Don't you mean the Mac SemiPro?
It sure makes more sense, but you need to write boilerplate code to map URL state to ng-include changes/updates. It would be nice if it was out of the box.
There will be video of the event posted on youtube afterwards.
"Sadly, I can think of no other way to address this problem than to keep this in mind for the next election."

Even more sadly is I can think of no rational practical way to address this problem, period.

What does keeping it in mind for the next election do? When the election rolls around you basically have the choice between an asshole owned by the corporate lobbyists and another asshole owned by the same corporate lobbyists but who doesn't mind if gay people get married and women have abortions. Neither is going to fix this shit.

The only way this changes is if the election system changes to instant-runoff or another system that breaks down the two-party system, but guess how popular that idea is with the people whom the current system put into power?
I don't quite understand the whole "I cripple my browser" thing. Like, if you are going to disable javascript, why not CSS, and if you disable both of those... by not disable the renderer and just read the html... or demand people write plain text websites. Javascript seems rather arbitrary...

But I do wonder about the accessibility ramifications of only supporting javascript. Do all browsers support javascript?
Pin Payments opens its doors in Australia
I use sleepyti.me five days a week.

At some point, im pretty sure that you had a notice on the site awhile back that there would be an native mobile version. What happened to that?

A mobile version could probably make a fair chunk of change. I'd buy it.
'belies' means 'does not give the impression of'. If it 'belies a simplistic understanding' then it gives the impression of a not-simplistic understanding.
If you can find the full video of this hearing on C-SPAN or something, both before and after you can hear him taking questions on the lack of HSBC/bank executive prosecutions, as well as the issue of drone killings of Americans on American soil while not engaged in activities that present immediate and clear danger. You won't be satisfied with the answers, but they are there. The man is a world-class expert at giving responses that don't answer the question.
Dollars stuffed under the mattress don't compete with other dollars, raising their value and enabling them to buy more of the available goods and services.

They do when they come out of the mattress. Hoarding money means playing a zero-sum game: "This won't circulate, so the currency won't inflate, but whenever I want, I can selectively release such huge injections of cash as to buy whatever I want at whatever price it's going for."
I'm not sure if you're being serious or just sarcastic, but no - that's not at all what I'm suggesting.

OSX provides a POSIX environment, and OSX is obviously not a Linux distribution. In fact Microsoft already provides SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) which is basically a POSIX environment, but iirc SUA is only available in certain versions of Windows, and only as a download from Microsoft, post installation.

So no I'm not in anyway suggesting Microsoft re-architect Windows as a Linux distribution. I'm suggesting that Microsoft make POSIX tools an integral part of the OS, like they are in OSX. For example, making bash the default shell, providing cmdline tools like powershell cmdlets to manage the system from the command line, providing a useable terminal etc. Basically similar to what cygwin and msys provide today, but better and with deeper integration in the OS.
Isn't the largest identifiable chunks of government spending defense?
PS4 Used Games helps the industry.
I'm excited to try out your dating site given that it's built with Meteor and I'm a fan, but having to sign up three of my female friends to see it first is a buzz kill.

Perhaps you could consider a limited preview account for us HNers that doesn't let us date anyone but does let us check out what you built and sort of inspect things. That will help shine some positive light on Meteor with our crowd, many of whom will likely be unwilling to share an experimental Jewish dating site with their Facebook friends on a whim.
> Natural selection only chooses from existing variations.

No, this is wrong. What we call "natural selection" includes the effect of various sources of genetic mutation. It is by this process that selection (the entire process) does create new genetic information.

Another way to say this is that, without identifying and addressing sources of mutation, natural selection would not be a complete theory.
Yahoo Mail still being hacked, says tech site
The Forecast is Cloudy...with Cloud Computing
The poster you replied to didn't say anything about economic welfare. Being disenfranchised is nothing to be taken lightly -- especially when it happens at the scale it currently does, to the point that it could actually alter the outcome of elections.
Guy buys a Ferrari, rents it via Adwords, grows to a multi-million company
It is a life sentence! For the rest of one's life, a convicted/admitted felon may not vote, has his 2nd amendment rights stripped away. For. Life.

ETA: This makes me think that perhaps there should be a law to prevent 'placing oneself into the status of felon' (by admitting guilt, taking a plea deal, w/e) and that one must be convicted of a felony to be labeled "felon" and thus be required to live with the lifelong restrictions.
So you want to hack a TV station?
That's why you grant a smaller basic income stipend (say, more like $15k/year -- equivalent to minimum wage at full time), but take away nothing for working. So if you grant $15k and Wal-Mart pays $15k (same wage levels as now), the worker has a total income of $30k.
His concern is explicitly that there has been no clarification that drones will not be used to kill non-combatant citizens on American soil.

'[T]he US Government has not carried out drone strikes within the United States and has no intention of doing so.'

That sounds pretty damn clear to me. That's why I say Senator Paul is pandering; he has had the clarification he asked for. Holder can't very well cite laws that Congress has not seen fit to write.
jspot dev here. fixed speed issue with help from Nick Martin from Meteor. Turns out I was running a dev-mode proxy to auto-reload code, but Nick figured out we could bypass it in the nginx config. Should be much faster now.
It probably hurt small independent shops much more than it would hurt Costco, due to economies of scale - if you have 100 workers and you had to raise wages 10%, you probably could do the same with 90 workers or cut a little service here and there without too much effect, but if you have just one worker and you don't have enough money for 10% raise, you're toast.
STRaND-1 Satellite Preparing to Activate Onboard Nexus One
Indeed - I found this article to be even less of a guide, per se, because the actual plans were hosted on a completely different site:

http://aeturnalus.com/robotics/poor-mans-breadboard-arduino/

... which, in turn, reminded me of a similar guide which was even more explicit about wiring in the 5V power supply:

http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/physical-computing/breadboar...

To me, the parent post just smacks of blogspam (mostly links to high rank domains and content developed by others).
On the third page it says "(c) Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008"

It's just wrong to turn HN into pirate bay.
I prefer to be interested in things that are ACTUALLY interesting; think Google's Spanner, SpaceX, etc, developed by neckbeards who know what they are doing.

Not some silly NodeJS/MongoDB API.
What if they are used against combatant US citizens but there is collateral damage? Is that acceptable? If not, why do we accept it overseas?
Some do. Hopefully that will happen more often.
This is the best book on algorithms I've ever read. Highly recommended, but please buy a copy. Perhaps the mods can change the url to point to Amazon instead.
More people are using it. Economics 101.
>>In cases like this there is also the issue that a major part of the problem itself is the cost of access to the courts. How do you argue to the court that it costs you an unreasonably large amount of time and money to make your arguments to the court? By the time you make the argument it's moot. It needs to be addressed in the legislature before we ever get to the courts.

This is exactly the problem actually. In the United States, the expensive nature of the legal processes make them tools the powerful use to intimidate, manipulate and disenfranchise the weak. And the real sad part is that if this wasn't the case, large parts of the system would simply crumble.

Heck, forget about federal cases. Think about something as simple as traffic tickets. If you get a ticket for $100, and it was wrongfully given, how much would it cost you to contest it? Well, not only do you have to figure out how to appeal it, but you also have to go through the official process (which in most cases traveling to a courthouse). In most cases, it will be much more costly to have the ticket thrown out than to actually pay it, which is what most people end up doing.

But what if this wasn't the case? What if the contest process was incredibly easy and efficient? Suddenly you would have a ton more tickets invalidated, which would cause police department revenues to plummet. Imagine the (beautiful) chaos that would produce.
1. The only other cases available for the prosecuting attorneys with the kind of legal background needed to prosecute cases like Aaron's were of even lesser likely jail times (i.e. the "they'd be twiddling their thumbs otherwise" claim).

2. Or maybe, the seriousness of a crime is not actually completely correlated to the likely prison sentence. The prison sentence given should be based on what is required to prevent recurrence by the suspect in this particular case, and to prevent new occurrences of the same crime by others. E.g. if you could prevent theft of $20 million with a $5 padlock you'd normally call that a wise investment.
Walmart, IKEA, Carrefour should Act on India right now
Except, that analogy is true: purportedly, doping is really pervasive in pro-cycling and is basically necessitated to be anywhere near competitive. The same is true of the app store.

It's not optimal, but it's the status quo that tens of thousands of developers face: you can't win if you don't employ dubious means.
>purposefully disingenuous

Can we have a civilized conversation please? Criticizing my arguments is one thing, accusing me of dishonesty completely different. Thanks.

I agree with your comparison of Aaron's deeds to trespassing. What is the statutory maximum for trespassing with a hoodie? Why does trespassing onto a network fit into a category of crimes for which prosecution can (and does) seek worse punishment than for actual physical assault? Pretty much for the reasons I've outlined in my comment: entrenched interests, desire to hit novel kinds of possible crimes with excessive punishment rather than reform the system to deal with them.
I don't understand bitcoin (any links for newbies?). Why can't they just make it equal to the US or a Euro but use the bitcoins for the actual transaction which would still grant you the anonymity you want and not have this bubble behavior?
In the space you have to keep clicking the logos very fast to see the effect.
> Oh, and when it comes to press, I really don't have any good advice. Try to find some small outlets to work with because the big guys will ignore you, and do so in a mean and churlish way.

With nearly 600 upvotes, 250+ comments, and the front page of Hacker News, he shouldn't have trouble finding press coverage.
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His repeated statements are designed to mislead you, and they seem to be working. Holder told him the administration has no intention of doing the thing he says he's concerned about, so why is he still concerned about it?

A: I am concerned that you are going to do [something bad]. Are you?

B: What? No, I have never done that, I am certainly not going to do that.

A: WHY WON'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER?
A Unix system intended primarily to run on X86? May as well be a Linux distribution. At that point it probably doesn't make economic sense to maintain your own kernel.
https://wei.sos.wa.gov/agency/osos/en/voters/pages/felons_an... (TL;DR: Felons can vote just fine in Washington State once they are out of prison and/or community custody).

And that was the absolute quickest of Google searches.

If you don't know something about what you're talking about then why are you making claims of fact instead of couching in terms of opinion?
Zoidberg probably would not hold up if challenged, because the opportunity to decline the license and return the software does not materially exist. But I realize that until someone tries it in court, it's just a theory.
When do we teach debugging
We could make prosecutorial bullying an issue in the next election... right?

Sigh. Maybe that's just me not being jaded enough :p
The fact is only 0.66% of overall workforce get minimum wage, but 22.8% of working teens get minimum wage or lower [1]. Most of the people on minimum wage would be either teens or people just entering the workforce. Of course, there are point exceptions, but numbers say fifty years old working at min wage is a very uncommon occurrence, both among fifty-year-olds and among minimum wage earners.

[1] http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/the-real-tragedy-is-that-ma...
Monologue: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
Fantastic tool. We've used it a bunch for remote collaboration and it really adds an element of 'togetherness' that really isn't possible with other tools.
Facebook Is Looking For Office Space In Cambridge, Close To Harvard
You can more detailed charts for the past few hours here:

http://bitcoin-analytics.com/
Doom on the Commodore VIC-20
I don't really understand the argument against what Rand Paul is talking about. Even if you think he's being ridiculous, what's the problem with declaring due process applies to drone strikes on American soil?

Personally, I think this is exactly what I want from my political representatives.
Yeah, I found it incongruous and strange to have that picture on top.
There are some irksome mechanics issues, and the game is far from novel, but it is excellently implemented and aesthetically pleasing.
Yep, it's about Poisson distributions.
The issue is the price is not set by anything. Someone could set up an exchange where they sell bitcoins at 1 US dollar but then everyone would buy all their bitcoins and sell them at other exchanges. Right now the only thing saying that bitcoins are worth $40 each is that someone is willing to pay $40 for them.

edit: link for video http://www.weusecoins.com/
> I'm not sure how people so ignorant and blind wind up in positions of authority, but it scares me.

When will you run for office so that we may vote for you?

I'm being snide but the fact is that it's not at all a mystery how these people end up there. The self-proclaimed "best and brightest" go off to less annoying/higher paying/etc. jobs. QED.
On using CSS "helper" classes
For a 'currency' that has gone up from $4 to $45+ in the last 10 months and the last 50% in a month, a 20% drop isn't really that unexpected.
You should monetize with paid hints. I've got a similar game in the App Store (I'll be polite and skip linking to it) and as of this morning, 53.8% of my total revenue has come from hint packs.

To see what I mean by hints, see this HTML5 port of my game I've been doing (work in-progress): http://noisytyping.com/NCT6745/index.html
More Businesses Use Crowdfunding To Finance New Products
Anyone knows a real time trading platform for doing some BTC/USD forex?
My app KEYBOX (shameless plug - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keybox-password-manager-secr...) encrypts everything, not just the passwords.

It goes without saying that you'd want to keep all the fields of a secret encrypted but it's also important to note that the plaintext fields can offer clues about the nature of the encrypted parts.

Calling a secret "Bank account" (plaintext) and only encrypting the PIN code tells an intruder that what is encrypted is a 4 digit code ranging from 0000-9999. If instead you encrypt the entire record the nature of the contents is entirely unknown.

I have respect for the fine folks at AgileBits but I don't agree with their approach to security and took the more thorough approach I mention above in KEYBOX.