skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you implying that that would be your only consideration?
For the sake of the discussion, let's say they're good just as the next engineer. Not brilliant, but def up to par.
install linux...
I highly doubt they would, however as soon as their store gains traction, it makes very little sense for Amazon to support a direct competitor on their own branded devices.

I'm not saying its a good or bad thing; it's just how these vendors operate. You don't have itunes on android devices, and you don't have the google play app available on i-devices. You can still use the Play web app on any device, of course.
This seems like a clear cut way to get developers to develop or port over their current apps to Amazon's app store.

"Sign-up to be a developer for Kindle Fire and submit your apps by April 25th to ensure we have time to review them before millions of dollars in Amazon coins arrive in customers’ accounts."

The call to action basically says: We are flooding the market with free money which developers are going to get 70% of.
My understanding is that in the big band era, you got fairly large bands (though not as large as 40 members) to play tightly together without undue precision in notation (and often without all members being good readers of sheet music).
Titles are an artifact of the same age that gave us business cards and resumes
Haven't received a verification email, can't create species, can't edit profile to check my email was correct ... want to play ...
The problem I see with the pricing is that the smallest tier assumes you have about 10-15 persons going to events on a regular basis. The tier implies "regular" to be around once every two month. Having so many employees attend conferences so often implies maybe 100 employees all in all - so this is uninteresting for a large share of the market. It's obviously a cool product, but for me at the current pricing just a no-go.
Hi, cool demo.

I would highly suggest using a css transform to move your background.

In compass something like:

@include transform(translate3d(-100px, 0px, 0px));
@include transform(translate3d(x, y, z));

It will move the already rendered pixels instead of moving all the elements in the dom, this avoids the endless number of re-flows from the browser engine which are not neccessary when the content inside the background is not moving.

this should make it buttery smooth.

in fact if you are moving anything try and use a transform when possible. You will see huge increases in frame rate.

One more thing, Chrome is incredibly fast and masks these performance bottlenecks. Try using safari or firefox and you will see a much larger difference.
for luddites, 10 Btc = $300-2000 depending on the exchange rates of the past two months, or even possibly $5000 by the time you win. Possibly a quite uncertain prize!
They are just trying to cash in on that other *coin virtual currency that's been in the news so much recently.
Wow. This is thorough. Well done!
> even Sony's CEO took a jab at his post.

I'm pretty sure the Twitter account @KazHiraiCEO is a parody.
you can set up a linux server with a virtual machine on Windows.
It depends on how you define "trick." If you're going into it with eyes wide open, you're using it to derive the benefits, and you've got good self-control, then a loyalty program can be very valuable to you as a consumer.

If you're going into it expecting benefits, and you find yourself getting carried away and overspending, then it's less valuable to you.

I wouldn't call it a trick, so much as I'd call it a loyalty program -- with all the potential risks and rewards that such a term entails. There's nothing necessarily shady or evil about a loyalty program. Indeed, if it makes Amazon a much better consumer experience for you, it can be a win-win.
The "social compact" of the USA arguably includes "Give me your tired, your poor,your huddled masses..."
I'm not a Windows user, but I'd probably suggest trying https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/ (formerly the enthought python distribution EPD) for a relatively hassle-free setup with numpy and other scientific packages. It also works on linux and mac, but I usually go with repository versions on linux.

Other comments suggest https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda which I haven't tried to compare, but also looks promising.
I've read dozens upon dozens of posts about how social fit is a deal braker when it comes to hiring. Wouldnt that be an issue?
Any plans to release the nodejs code? Coding in the browser is ok, but it'd be much nicer to be able to code in my usual editor and test locally using the nodejs version.
billion dollars in what?
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It's not just tenure, it's benefits. Many institutions are keeping junior staff part-time. Not only is the pay worse; you get no benefits.

This is not a recipe for social stability, e.g. enabling staff to raise families, etc.

When the system goes this far, I'm sorry, but I have no other word for it than "exploitative". (This is without delving into the topic of student debt, etc.)

P.S. And many people spend an inordinate amount of time commuting between multiple part-time instruction gigs.
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OP here. Sorry for joining late. Reading the comments on HN here was an uplifting experience! Thanks for all the feedback and encouragement! Can't reply to everyone but I will try to write a few follow up articles addressing the issue in further detail and depth. Thanks again!
> The one piece of data that having a college degree communicates is that the person with it did something they didn't have to do, it took longer than a few months, and it involved a wide variety of tasks. As such its a useful way to prove you can do something that takes a long time to do.

As long as we accept that it is one way of proving you can do something that takes a long time to do. I'm not sure that's what the author was saying when he talked about the signaling of a college degree though. It's more a matter of the acceptance of the dogma of the degree, not the signal that the application can commit to long term projects.

More directly, it's fine to look at an applicant who has a college degree and say, "this person was willing to put in the time and effort to get a college degree", so long as you're willing to evaluate other long term commitments with a similar measure. For example, if I see that a developer has a Github profile containing a handful of active libraries with commit activity dating back a year or more, I'm similarly impressed.
Valuation.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2013/01/17/surveymonk...
The article made me think about my own recent process getting hired at a startup. We certainly have mostly degreed and credentialed employees but we have at least one senior member who dropped out of college to co-found the company. I think a mix of both types is the right approach. To quote FAKEGRIMLOCK: THIS LAW 9: FIRST BATMAN, THEN ROBIN.
sociopathy. i dont think it means what you think it means.
I've seen a lot of transactions where amazon gift cards are accepted if paypal isn't usable as well.
OK, but what time do his employees leave?
I don't think breakage applies, because I doubt they can keep the the lost/forgotten coins, just like unspent gift card money is not kept by the issuer.
"Look at this debug port" is spot on, and relevant in the case of the bodega ATM. It's a WinCE single board computer behind a pathetic lock. Pointing out the silliness of the design is relevant. The theatrics that followed? Not so much.

I think it is fair to say not all boutiques play the sensationalist card. The ones that actually refuse to do this presentation clown cycle suffer some damage and have to work harder, because the showy ones grab mindshare while.

I also agree, the big ones do it, too, but it is harder to pick out against the slow lumbering noises as they rumble from one puppy mill PCIDSS gig to the next.
The FMC would make you confirm accepting a new ACARS FPL.
Ha! I thought about it, and hoped that the fact that it's publicly available on the internet and indexed by Google would clear me of the problem; I'm not posting it, I'm just linking to it. Still, who knows...

EDIT: You made me paranoid enough to edit it out and replace it with one of the dozens of other identical examples on the internet. You have my thanks.
How is elevating the corporation above humanity sociopathy, but elevating the nation state above humanity is not?
Incidentally, this is why every account I create has my full name. It's a good reminder to me to always think before I hit "reply"
As linked by Lightning this has been in the works for a while now. I don't think bitcoin is their motivation. More likely it's as others pointed out, they get to hold the cash and earn interest/dividends on investments with it until customers spend it. And they can reduce transaction costs because they're handling the transactions, not Paypal/CC/banks.
he gets home at 5:30 because he gets back online after 8:00

"Goldberg leaves work at 5:30 PM every day to spend time with his family. While he does get back online after he puts his children to bed after 8:00 PM, he sets an example that makes it easier for the company to build and maintain its workforce."
>Corporate culture isn’t your company’s ping-pong table. It’s not your catered lunch. It’s not the posters you tape onto the office walls. A real culture is the cumulative effect of productive relationships among employees. Those relationships can take years to develop. And they don’t always work out.

Probably the best statement on culture I've read recently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissocial_personality_disorder:

"2. Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations;"

Favoring those "in your tribe" over those "outside your tribe" is a classical, deeply embedded social norm.
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Ok, so I get the theory that Nigerian scammers make their outrageous claims because they want to target really gullible people and not have smart people be too concerned that others will be taken in. But what do these sorts of pronouncements due for Iran? Catering to the shallow end of the gene pool?

I've heard its for "internal consumption" which is to say that Iranians watching state television will feel good about their country given how it's equally or more advanced than the rest of the world, but every Iranian I've ever talked with never buys these fictions. So why do them? It is so far out of my experience that I can't even hypothesize a motivation for these actions.
I wonder if it's as simple as the attackers somehow getting their victims' IPs (maybe through some intelligent human-guided port-scanning?) & then firing the DDoS.

The alternative could be that there's some sort of common protocol the gaming sites are using that allows attackers to send malformed packets to other users (like a specially-crafted invalid private message packet) and there's no server-side validation of the packets.

Either way, I can't wait to see what they turn up.
As of now, they are claiming they will be paying out exactly the same as if your app was purchased with dollars.

It seems like that's a major part of this push - if you want to receive any of these free Amazon dollars, submit to the app store.

https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#AmazonCoins
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The reason that Dave Goldberg can get home at 5:30pm is most likely because of this which comes at the beginning:

"SurveyMonkey is an atypical technology company. They’ve been profitable from almost day one."

If you've got a company that clicks from the beginning there are many things that you can do that won't follow a typical path. Most companies aren't profitable from day one. They need every advantage they can get. And you do need to work long hours. (Noting where Mark Cuban didn't take a vacation for 7 years and guess what I didn't take one for about 6 years iirc.) This isn't to say that you can't carve out time for family (you may be able to and it may give you better results it's possibl) but the reason you are successful has to do with many things that are beyond your control.

Goldberg could build Survey Monkey differently because he was on to something that clicked and, apparently that was highly profitable as well. A rising tide floats all boats.
Wow, you used to work on avionics software? What was it like? Were the software development practices different? Did you use any static analysis / verification software to prove correctness? What were the software people at your company like? Were they all old guys with really conservative software development practices based on their battle hardened experiences? Were a lot of the people you worked with pilots?

(Apologies for taking the thread OT, I'm just getting my pilot's license now and have always been fascinated by avionics.)
I'm an avid Python user. A beautiful aspect of the language is that, once installed (often as simple as running the default python.org MSI under Windows), the experience is essentially homogeneous whether the machine I'm running is Windows, Linux, BSD, OS X, etc. In short: preferences and politics aside, who cares about the underlying OS? Let's get things done!
Worked pretty well for Google, no?

While reading "In the Plex", one fact stood out: nearly all of their early hires were well-respected CS figures from 1st grade universities. Not only you had to be smart, but you had to have good grades from a good school to get hired by Google early. The only exception I could find was Salar Kamangar. At least that was my impression from reading the book.
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Can you go into some detail about what parts of that social fit do you imagine to be a deal breaker? If transgender engineers like to play foosball and guitar hero, and like to read Ender's game, just like the rest of your heteronormative teammates, what part of them being transgender makes it a bad social fit?
Yeah, likes were a mistake. But replying on your own blog is not a mistake.
While it's definitely useful for production, test, and dev to all match, it's pretty easy to write Python that runs everywhere. In my experience the Python community is a lot better than most at making libraries and extensions work across platform.

I've written GUI apps with PyQT where I developed them on Linux and had them run without change on both Windows and OSX. Similarly, I've done some web development on my Mac, deployed to a Linux server, and everything's worked.

On the other hand, IMO, developing on Linux is far easier and faster than developing on Windows, so there may be other benefits to using a VM.
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I wonder if they'll let you transfer coins to other people easily.
Great tutorial -- but this is exactly why we built Action.IO, so you don't have to deal with these long posts. We have preconfigured Python boxes that you can start coding on with your web browser, with full Linux terminal access.

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Cocoa is just an umbrella framework for Foundation, AppKit and Core Data. It has nothing of its own. Literally, this is the entirety of Cocoa.h:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <AppKit/AppKit.h>
#import <CoreData/CoreData.h>
I prefer to install the 64-bit Python 2.7.4, then use the pre-built packages for Win64 at
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ .
I primarily use Python for scientific calculations, plus a little bit of web development, and I have chosen the following packages:
Base, NumPy, SciPy, MySQL-Python, Mathplotlib.
(NOTE: "Base" is a bundled collection of Python packages you will find at the above site; it is not a package that you will find at the official PyPI repository.)
I also installed pip, but since I am behind a corporate firewall and have another program named "pip" (part of Strawberry Perl), it was a bit tricky.
If anyone can find links to an original source in this article, kudos to you.

While I do not agree with the political views of Iran, this is obviously just ridicule. To an extent, ridiculing our enemies is funny. Take the late Kim Jong Il for example. Quite an easy target, and deserving as well.

Iran, on the other hand, I feel bad for. Because, frankly, the reason Iran sucks now is because the west overthrew their fledgling democracy and installed a dictator some 50 years or so ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%C3%A9tat

I don't know if anyone else remembers a few years back when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University, only to be ridiculed by his hosts. This journalism is not far off.

There are nutjobs in the US too, and certainly nutjob scientists. Even if this article does have a shard of truth to it somewhere (I have yet to see a link to the original Iranian news source it cites) it's really unfair to target Iran specifically for ridicule. This is why we have disagreements. This is why we don't all just get along.

This is a perfect example of childish journalism.
There is a reason the latin alphabet is the most used in the world, and why 7bit ascii is the standard for computing. Simplicity. They are highly distinguishable characters consisting of mostly straight lines and simple curves.

Diacritical marks (training wheels) and unicode break this simplicity, you cannot program in a language with many characters that are hard/impossible to distinguish. Or with crazy characters that can switch direction of text and other nonsense. Unicode is a luxury to pretty things up for end users, not something to do serious work in.
> Those in your country are bound together with you in the social compact. Now, it's good and necessary to allow immigration to a certain extent, but in doing so the only consideration should be what maximizes the prosperity of those who are already part of the community. Anything else undermines the social compact

Please keep in mind that what you're writing bears strong similarity to America's long history of nativist sentiment. At various points in our history it has been very popular to try to keep out French, Irish, Jewish, Chinese, and all sorts of other immigrant groups. "They're not the same as us" and "How do we benefit from them coming here?" often have strong appeal in the moment and end up looking foolish and small-minded in hindsight. I think that "Give me your tired, your poor" is a perfectly fine immigration policy, not just for feel-good sentimentality but also because eking out perceived benefits for the existing members of our "social compact" might be at odds with both ethics and what's healthy for the future of the country.
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Is this well regarded among people working in data science? For me, the exam would be a good motivator to learn, but I'd like HN's views on the qualification or whether there are alternatives I should look into. Thanks.

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There have been large sequences of micro-transactions of 0.01 BTC, all on the heels of one another. That points to market manipulation/DDOS.

I'll see if I can dig up sources.
Why do people trust MtGox again? Didn't something similar to this happen a year or-so ago where everyone's money disappeared and the ops were like "Yeah we don't know what happened"? How do we know they aren't fleecing everyone?
Dan Ariely mentions these types of products (albeit in the context of cheating): the more removed the product is from real money, the easier it becomes to justify all kinds of actions you normally wouldn't perform: stealing it, spending it, etc.
Article fails to mention you would need a HUGE transmitter, not just your phone. They wouldn't let you get enough transmitter on to the plane to do it. And from the ground you would have to have a strong directional transmitter with enough siting capabilities to keep the plane in line of site for hundreds of miles.

That's not something most people have access to, and in most places someone would notice that you put up a 30 foot parabolic with auto-aligning mounts on your house.
Thanks for sharing simonw. I'll def. be looking into this for my (similar) project Podium (http://hellopodium.com), which aggregates talks going on in Toronto.
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You are correct (albeit substituting "class" for "source file" since runtime Java has no concept of source files), although the guarantee is stronger than that. Any two identical literals will refer to the same object, since literals are interned, regardless of what classes "own" them.

Chapter and verse: JLS §3.10.5, http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-3.html#...
oh, then it must be real. kind of like kevin rose 'making' $60MM in 18 months.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-08-13/cover-image-h...

unreal, do people still fall for this bullshit?
But it does sit in their bank account generating interest until used.
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well said.
You should submit this to the Mozilla dev derby (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/devderby). This month's theme is Web workers.
It's more analogous to an indefinite, interest-free loan to Amazon.
One thing the new government did in post revolutionary Iran was cater to the shallow end of the gene pool. Poor, uneducated and underemployed people were given jobs in the police or other bureaucratic positions where they could lord power over the educated middle classes who they already resented.
> People everywhere are not the same.

Yes, they are, fundamentally.

I am an American living in Italy, and I'm confused by all the nationalistic blah blah. I have friends here who are a lot more important to me than people in the US. Am I supposed to consider people who happen to be born in the same country somehow more important? I can't manage that, sorry.
I made $19 an hour at Radio Shack in 1997. I would hope things have adjusted since, but My exGF made $26 an hour working at Ann Taylor. You can totally make $40k a year equivalent in retail.
Do those rules apply if the balance is not denominated in dollars?
Driving down labor costs is evil until we transition to a post-scarcity economy where profits from reducing labor inputs aren't strictly returned to Capital.
I suspect that the slant to some of this could also be to make it seem that this type of behavior is applauded and encouraged by First Round as a way to get people to see First Round in a more friendly light.

Almost as if you were applying to a part of the armed forces and had heard horror stories about what was required and then found out that "members of the coast guard get generous leave time to spend with their families".