skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several factors driving the bitcoin prices up, including people from European countries converting their money to bitcoin because it makes it harder to seize.

But since the beginning of the year bitcoin has doubled nearly 3 times, and this past month has seen additional acceleration. Bitcoin has been in the news a but I don't see any legitamate reason for the dramatic spikes of the past few weeks... except for speculaiton.

I posted this because I think that today's extraordinary spike is preceeding a crash of the market. At some point, all of the serious speculators will have put all their money into the coin, and they will be looking to cash out. A huge spike like this would seem like an optimal time to cash out.

And if there aren't enough people to buy the coins, the market will plummet.

Bitcoin has been succesful recently because the value has continued to go up. When the price takes a hit, people will lost confidence, and non-speculators will also start to sell. I don't know how hard the initial hit will be, but the last time that Bitcoin started losing value, it spent almost 3 months declining.

I believe that the same thing will happen again, and bitcoin will (after the initial hit) decline for several months before starting to make its deflationary recovery.
Posting this on a throwaway account, but I would like some feedback. I'm currently making $60k in Boston as a front-end developer with just over a year of working experience. I've wondered for a while whether I'm underpaid, but I am getting a lot of experience, so I figure it evens out. I mostly wonder what I should ask for when I start my next job after I pass the hallowed "two years experience" mark, and whether I should ask for a raise now.
But it seems they had no problem with the WHERE clause when making those pay.
My husband and I traded in our old car two months ago for a Model S. We love it.

That said, the first month before the charge station was installed we could only charge 5 miles per hour with a regular wall outlet(we hardly drove the car). Finding someone to intall a charger and getting the approval of the HOA was a huge hassel (and we're in San Francisco). The cost of the charger / installation was 2500!
Figure what you'd be taxed at that salary and add 10-15%. Freelancing also comes with some tricky challenges of maintaining consistent work. There's either too much or not enough at any given time. And if you have multiple jobs going at once, finding time for vacation becomes almost impossible (try lining up a good time to take a break from 3 different projects on 3 different schedules).

In short, more money from freelancing isn't the simple thing it looks like from this article.
I've heard that the reason for this is the XCode project format. The purpose of AppCode is to be a better IDE for iOS/OSX development. But if the future version targets cross platform development, not meaning cross platform on the host side, but cross platform on the compiler target side; it would probably mean that the project format support should support Makefiles and other build systems; and hopefully that would be integrated in IntelliJ.
Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing
The 71 people affected were early adopters and had been enjoying Instacart's service for quite some time. I live just outside the area, and with 3 kids and both me and my spouse working, it'd be a godsend to get this service (right now we subsist on the occasional foray to TJs, Sprouts + Safeway deliveries when my parents are around to receive them). Safeway is costly and limited in choice. Our supermarket weekly spend is well over $100, so a single $99 charge might go unnoticed for a while.

If I had the service I'm not sure I'd be ready to quit over a $99 unless my inquiries met with bad customer service.
Your data is never stored on our servers in an unencrypted form. Moreover, the data is never stored on our servers at all.

In some scenarios (when two clients are both behind aggressive firewalls, for instance) the data may be _relayed_ by our servers, but in those cases it is encrypted (end-to-end) between the devices syncing using their respective public/private keys, so we can't eavesdrop.
Is there any similar product for Clojure?
> This is code from someone who has no idea how to program

That's a quite strong assertion. What's wrong with your first example? I can think of very few criticisms (s isn't needed for example) but there's lots of things they did well:

- It follows the best practices for an OO constructor (doesn't return the object, just sets properties of `this`)

- All temporary variables are local. No global pollution (besides the "Browser" function itself, but because you're quoting it out of contect, I can't tell if even that's local or not)

- Degrades gracefully (everything is null) instead of picking a default incorrect choice

Sure, I would have written it differently, but so would everyone else here.

As for your second example, sure, it's not great, but I can sort of imagine some sleep-deprived developer coding up that to interop with some auto-generated DOM elements from an old PHP script left behind by a forgotten intern. We need more context here.
I feel like HN's focus has changed in that regard. Call me crazy, but I feel like it was less "get-rich" focused a couple years ago.

I dunno... considering that HN was originally "startup news" and that it's run by a company that funds / incubates startups, there's pretty much always been a certain segment of posters who are very into the financial side of things.

What gets me is the people who come along and (seemingly) present this viewpoint that "making money is evil" or "wanting to be rich is a Bad Thing". I don't get it and probably never will. As long as you play by the rules, behave ethically, and are honest, I see no problem with becoming as rich as (you can | you want). What's wrong with, say, wanting to have "fuck you money" so you don't have to live the rest of your life under the thumb of a boss, or worrying about how to pay for repairs if your car breaks down, or what to do if sudden medical expenses arise, etc? Even more so if you build a company, create jobs, and improve the standard of living for others along the way. To me, it's the greatest thing in the world.
Ask HN: Need some start-up career advice.
I'm currently running a solo start-up right now after about 4 iterations through 3 years (the product line changed, and my partners went their separate ways).

The newest product line being launched is a menu service where restaurants can easily host their menus online, and use a raspberry pi to create a digital menu billboard in the restaurant so when they update their menu, their signage in the store is updated instead of having permanent price menu facades. The goal is to charge a subscription fee.

The menu service has free nutrition formulation in it, so restaurants can help develop healthy healthy menus and eventually choose to display calories if they want.

To make ends meet, I have been doing some part time rails consulting on the side of about 10 hours a week. Recently, I got the opportunity to do a 3 month full time rails opportunity.

After running the start-up for so long, and not having a successful product so far, I sometimes have doubts on whether it will succeed or not, and if I should hedge my bets to make some more money on the side.

I have been struggling whether I should just go ahead and do the 3 month gig, or still stick with the 10 hour a week deal and really really try to get the new start-up idea off the ground.

The only thing which is so painful, is after working on a prototype concept for about 2 months, I go out to the businesses, and see that what I made isn't something they wanted.

I know I am rambling, but any two cents on this situation would be appreciated.
I think we disagree on the extent to which "desire to become wealthy" should be a driving factor. I think the state where founders are primary driven by short-term wealth is not appropriate (it is easier to be wealthier in other areas like finance), whereas I take your comments to suggest that you think it's acceptable for making money to be the primary motivation. The views aren't mutually exclusive (timing factors, etc)
I totally agree that the fluctuations are no good for a currency. People like to say that bitcoin is a currency, but it really could be a lot more than that. Even with wild volatility, it can still work great as an international funds transfer system (assuming the conversions to/from national currencies are smooth enough), and it can still take on Visa, Mastercard and paypal at the online payments game. It also acts as a hedge against bank account confiscation, as a speculative bet against inflationary monetary policy, and as a direct (although more risky) competitor to precious metals. Moderate success in any one of those categories would be huge for bitcoin. Acting as an everyday currency can come later.
Thanks Chris, I'll look into this opportunity.
There are entire categories of databases that aren't wired up to a web framework or the web itself. There is extensive logging options and performance counters and whatever else for everything but having that wrapped up inside a newrelic style install-and-enjoy service would be amazing.
Any opportunistic encryption would simply be blocked by the ISP that wanted to do this kind of thing, so the clients fall back to plaintext.
I've actually been thinking about putting together a book/list of checklists.

1) Launch
2) Onboarding employee
3) Firing employee
3.5) Firing cofounder(s)
4) Getting hacked
5) Trolled
6) M&A offers
7) Running out of cash
8) Raising (per type of round)
9) Board meetings
10) Annual reporting
etc.
Honest question: Why is everyone so cynical and brash here?

Is it because we don't like Comcast?
> At some point, all of the serious speculators will have put all their money into the coin, and they will be looking to cash out.

You are assuming that the price rise is due to short term speculators looking to make a quick buck. I think a lot more people are buying into the philosophy, politics, and revolutionary technology and won't be so quick to sell.
Nice job guys! You've built a really nice product and it's great to see you expanding your user base!
Atlassian goes from $10 to $1500 from 0-10 and 10+....
Setup a business entity in the US. Work from your country. No need for a visa.
My experience with IntelliJ on Linux is that after a short time spent in the IDE, the software maxes out the OS open files limit (even if you've bumped it up to, say, 4096) and crash horribly (usually blowing away some percentage of the IDE's own configuration each time). Fonts are the least of their problems.
Whatever the hell it is you're talking about with mindshare and flops in peoples minds, I'm pretty sure GM and Nissan have sold a lot more electric cars than Tesla.
I think this is totally dependent on the position itself. If a company has a good base and needs one super duper person to fill a specific need, they may be likely to pay that one person really well. If a company has a bunch of crap that needs fixing (legacy codebase, lots of context switching between front end, back end, sysadmin, etc.) then that might be the person they want to throw the cash at. Seems to me its a good idea to focus on something and get experience, start to generalize as you gain experience, and then start to specialize again as you find a niche/see what the market demands.
I'm curious to read the criticism on code.
soooo is there a browser plugin to block stuff like this yet?
Ha, nice! Sorry about that--you caught me skimming the navigation bar and making/projecting assumptions. :-)
Everything is always valued in relation to something else, including bitcoin. USD/BTC is about $120.xx right now, right?

Dollars are valued against Euros, barrels of oil, rents and a six pack of beer. The same applies to everything else. When you talk about what it is worth it is always in terms of some quantity of something else.

What people will learn a few years from now is that almost every part of the human experience is a speculation; death and taxes excepted, of course!
The easiest way to combat this is to use SSL. You should be doing that on your website anyway.

Another effective way of combatting this is to detect what's happening and add a "This ad was sponsored by Comcast:" message.

I can sort of see the intent behind this. I just wish they'd tell their customers about their service usage out-of-band, like sending them a text message or an email.

One part of me realized "OMG they're going to track which websites I visit by looking at the HTTP Referer!" But then I quickly realised that as my ISP, they already have access to that information anyway...
Pimsleur is also great for making you more comfortable speaking the language. You can memorize thousands of words and expressions, but you need to be comfortable with them and be able to speak with a somewhat conversational speed for it to be useful.

I also feel that the implicit grammar learning works fine for me. I had to memorize German grammar in school, and although I can still repeat my "durch, fur, gegen, ohne, um" and "an, auf, in, hinter, neben, uber, unter, vor, zwischen", and I was very good at grammar at the time, that hasn't helped me at all. To this day I can't speak German even though I was probably the "top" student (read: the only one who was motivated enough to care).
A sweeping generalisation in the title made by a tech blog is always a success.
If you're making $100k in say, San Francisco, about half your paycheck is gone to federal, state, and local taxes, social security, retirement plan, etc. Say you're left with $4200/mo. Take a look at house prices and rents there. There goes half of that. Now half of what's left on food. Now you need transportation, clothes, a phone, insurance, etc.

Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty good life. And you can definitely spend a lot less money by having roommates or living in a dangerous neighborhood or eating only noodles. On the other hand, good luck raising a family. All in all, it's not nearly as much money as people imagine when they convert it to local currency and cost of living.
>Are you envisioning a monastic-like group

No, I did not think about it that way. I was thinking more on the lines of honest work and honest pay. Though if money was not a constraint many of us would be monks(as far as work is concerned).
'As long as you play by the rules, behave ethically, and are honest, I see no problem with becoming as rich as (you can | you want).'

The rules are questionable at best and we've seen many startups (including some that are funded by YC) act in a manner that some would not consider ethical (I'm reminded of InstallMonetizer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 -- I think a made a few comments there). That suggests people are it in just for the money, which makes the situation worse for the rest of us who are doing startups for something more.
Also checkout http://breaktimeapp.com if you like this sort of thing.
Who needs health insurance when the government -- with a triple-A credit rating -- provides free public healthcare? Hmm, wrong country ...
What Americans believe about conspiracy theories
It's really all about curation. Early on, it was yahoo's attempt to put all web content in a big hierarchy. dmoz after that. Then RSS let people curate their own content. Now people subscribe to friends that post interesting things. I don't think the appetite for curation has decreased - it's just that the best method of curation subtly changes as content generation styles change.
There's nothing wrong with making money. The problem is that most tech companies focused from inception on high growth never earn their founders or employees anything remotely resembling "fuck you money."

If you want "fuck you money," go into finance. If you want "fuck you money" and still want to be an entrepreneur, start a financial services or legal firm in one of the many niches in the financial industry. And if you want "fuck you money" and you want to create jobs, tech is probably one of the worst fields to be operating in.
Also, for as long as there has been an App Store, there have been apps specifically for letting you overlay message over images specifically for this purpose.
That sounds about right to me, or just barely on the low side of right.

Asking for a raise is something you can consider, but I'm not really going to say if it's a good or bad thing to do. If your job has changed and you've taken on more responsibility, that's a good way to stand up for yourself and ask for more money. On the other hand, doing it persistently might make your employers think you're unhappy and likely to jump ship. Then they'll be more interested in replacing you than developing you.

Anyway, in this industry you generally start earning more through changing jobs, not getting raises/promotions within a job. Ride your job while you learn, and see if you can get some more money out of them in the meantime. Once you've grown to the point you're ready for something new, then that's when you can really expect to try and make a play for something bigger.

At two years of experience & a new job, I'd probably try and get around $75k or so. Depends a bit on what sort of company you're working for (startups tend to pay less, for example) so at a larger company you might be able to swing something more like 80.
Best commit message:

Day 1: Learn Haskell, write a parser.
I think you're dead on. The apology is interesting for what they don't apologize for and one could fairly presume they'd do again: raise prices/fees as they feel like it and on an opt-out rather than opt-on basis.

No company deserves to have my credit card details tied to an account which may at some point arbitrarily charge me $$ which they notify my of via email on an opt-out basis. There are countless reasons why I might miss such an email not the least if which is simply email overload.

This is a terrible practice for your customers.
I collected some resources on this here: http://www.zappable.com/2012/11/chart-for-learning-a-program...

There are some programs for kids or to make games for various languages:

Java - Greenfoot

Python - Invent Your Own Computer Games (book)

Ruby - Hackety-Hack, Ruby4Kids

Javascript - CodeAvengers

If they're not yet ready to write real code, they can look at these programs from MIT:

General - Scratch

Android - AppInventor
What I found is that if a company has a problem and you sell yourself as the solution, you can ask for the moon. This highly depends on the company. If the company is simply looking for bodies, avoid :)

Even for the exact same job, I've seen pay difference of beyond 50% (even within the same team!). I helped this guy raise his salary from 85k(?) to 130k simply by showing him a piece of paper. (Don't ask)

Oh, another tip, discuss salary with your co-workers, only good can come out of it.
It doesn't happen like that though. Natural gas, sure. Power bill, definitely. I've never had natural gas or electric service where I entered a contract for a service at a fixed price. My cable and cell phone service are on a contract, they can't increase the cost during the contract period.
Take the 3 month job, canvass your existing customers on Saturdays and to get ideas for your rev 2 product. Financial anxiety is a major creative drain; I think having a day job with a short time horizon will help you sleep a bit better at night and also give you some useful perspective on your restaurant product, plus it's on a short enough time horizon that you won't get too comfy.
Wow, you are underpaid. Do you have a CS degree? The smartest graduating students are starting their careers off at 100K at least.
Because Tesla do not have the privilege of printing money like banks do. Banks do not directly loan out money from depositors, they keep that money and print(punch in numbers in a computer) 10x that amount for loaning out.

That is a powerful privilege and the reason why it is smart to partner with a bank, even if you have money to spare.
I'm in southern Ontario. My experience: A few years mostly doing development on a LAMP stack and admin stuff on Linux/Windows systems along with some iOS dev thrown in there.

Salaried at $50k from my day job and doing some part-time work.I've yet to met anyone who has made over $70k/year here doing this kind of work. (at least, they won't say how much they've earned)
Also, unlike the $250 laptops, it doesn't feel like garbage in your hands.
Those figures seem a bit inflated. I'm in the Portland/Hillsboro Oregon area and I don't see that many breaking over 100k, unless it's as a contractor / temp and you're hourly. We have a pretty big IT ecosystem here and big players like Intel, Nike, and a ton of healthcare providers.

Then again our cost of living is quite a bit lower, so maybe it evens out pretty well in the end.

Still if you feel you're underpaid you need to do something about it. This is one of the rare industries where you can truly command more pay simply by improving your skills at home without a large monetary investment. So stop making excuses and change it!
Absolutely nothing wrong with being rich. It's about goals.

When you learn to ride a motorcycle, there is a phrase: "Look where you want to go". At least to me, it seems like when you are looking only at your exit, you might make that exit, but you won't really make much else of value along the way.

In other words, when your goal is not to build a sustainable, profitable company with lasting value, but rather just to get out as fast as possible with as much money as possible... just how far away is such a person from "scam artist"?
> Even C++ realized this fact (badly) with iterators.

would you mind clarifying that a bit (or a bunch) ? afaik, STL cleanly separates the notion of structures and algorithms that operate on those structures via iterators.

thanks !
The Secret Behind Oreo's Social Media Marketing
I think they have already improved battery technology and adoption of electric cars.
No, I was just feeling grumpy :)
By mail, not by using a browser popup.
Interesting stats from their S-1 (http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1303652/00011931251...):

- $127.7m 2012 revenue

- 749 full time employees at end of 2012

- 70% of revenue from product licenses; 30% from services

- 11,000 customer accounts

- No customer represented more than 5% of total revenue
In all honesty, my guess is the "flat" design for iOS is going to be no different than the evolution of OS X.

Compare 10.2 to 10.8. Gone are the pinstripes, much of the jewel-like gleams and candy coating, as well as many gradients and brushed metal. Mountain Lion is far more "flat" than when I started out with Jaguar.

You can walk through the past 12 years of OS X to see how the design language has evolved since the turn of the century: http://www.iotechie.com/macintosh-2/the-12-year-evolution-of...
That is a good point. New is not always better but consumer products need to be "new and improved!" in order to give the customer a sense they are buying something better than the model from five years ago.

But at the same time I can't help but feel that progress can only be made with change and at this point Apple can't keep relying on minimal hardware advances to keep their marketshare.
That's an attractive option iff you're training non-programmers and, when you say "pay them more", you are prepared to more than double their wages after they reach journeyman proficiency in Rails. If you expect people to have a CS degree prior to year 1 or react to a 10% raise in year 2 as generous, you would not find the Silicon Valley hiring market offering you as many candidates as you desired positions.
[Tutorial] How to get Unlimited Linkedin Connections