skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gotta agree with napoleoncomplex - Mozilla has truly hit its stride in recent years and for my money is an example of the corporation of tomorrow - code literate and transparent, yet still kicking arse and taking names

Edit: even corporations of tomorrow will not be immune to politics it seems - rereading the post and blog makes it sound much more like a Eich/Baker coup than a well planned transition. It will be very odd to have him stay on the board - two ex-CEOs on your board makes for a lot of looking up not down for the next one
It's not a matter of being up $40 in 5 minutes. The spread is actually $40.

Edit: Erm, the above was true a while ago. More recently there were standing orders on both sides around $190, but only 20 btc of liquidity on the bid side between $190 and $150.

Edit more: Seeing this again, $44 spread from $106 to $150.
GM Really Likes Facebook - Reverses Ad Decision
This is pretty much the argument for the other side of the coin. Google probably designed the service understanding that situations like these would arise and would represent a small but acceptable amount of outrage.

Altruistically for Google it's probably better to not have support for non-ads-monetization (as in, a product that isn't interfaced with buying advertisers) products.

edit: some clarification.
Note to citizens of the USA: This is what you get when a government is afraid of it's citizens. Freedom fries, indeed. Guns not needed.
Bitcoin down 60% to $100
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Clojure also doesn't support TCO, and from what I can tell the explicit loop/recur is sufficient, which also has the advantage that it is very clear (i.e., the compiler will tell you) when TCO is not being invoked. With implicit TCO you might think you're getting the benefit, only to have a stack blow up unexpectedly at runtime with an edge-case input.
> Arguably we've had "fusion drive" for spaceships ever since Project Orion. Very simply, build a ship with a big shield in the back, throw nuclear bombs out behind the ship, detonate, the shock and radiation hits the plate (some ablates, but it's still fairly study and safe), and some kind of shock absorber system pushes the spaceship forward. Repeat. You can feasibly get to 0.10c with this, using 1960s technology, and really big ships.

I never understood how the blast alone can propel the ship. Don't you also need to eject mass from a nozzle to move forward - in which case, it's just like a regular jet, you just replace part of the fuel with nukes?
I actually know and have worked with Tom Black extensively. He was an instructor with me at General Assembly in NYC and, after being in the Ruby education space, it's clear there is a market for great developer education courses. The target market isn't the typical hacker news reader, it's the job seeker looking to expand their marketability. There are plenty of 'free' resources to learn cooking, yet there is still a huge demand for cooking schools. Many of us don't think twice about paying for Railscasts or CodeSchool because they provide value to the user. I don't think there is anything wrong with selling a high quality instructional product to people who make be overwhelmed by the variety of free and occasionally dubious offerings. When I was getting started, the Rails Tutorial was a bargain at around $100. I can't speak for the quality of Tom's product (yet,) but there is certainly a demand and a need for quality programs for new developers. Given some of the utter nonsense I've seen on kickstarter, this is a worthy project.
I don't hate Bitcoin, in fact I think it's a really cool idea, but I think the mindset you are portraying is very bad. Ignoring all but positive speculation is pretty much the definition of a bubble.
Mendeley is not going to stop working all of a sudden. It's still the same tool, developed by the same people, with the same roadmap and vision ahead.
No, whatever the current highest bid is will get executed, and you'll sell at that price, instead of $157 (assuming your offer is through the bid).
The interesting thing to me here is that the IRS is not claiming Google/Microsoft, it is claiming all email. Including that which is served by private servers that goes to other recipients on the same private servers.

The fact that you own the box that email was delivered to and that email never left that box has no bearing in the matter for the IRS. They still claim the right to inspect it, without a warrant.
Great!

But, one issue. It appears to not support @import of Compass extensions: "File to import not found or unreadable."
As the article suggests, science is a methodology, not a field of study.
You can apply scientific reasoning to computers as well as anything else that is sufficiently stable to be studied.

So computer scientist makes some sens... Computerist? I am not sure.
It's the speculators! Where have I heard that before?
From their site:

Payouts are quick

Get your money out of Ribbon every two weeks via wire transfer, check request, or PayPal.

Every two weeks. That's a great way to create float, but not very useful to the average Joe/Jane. Even though Paypal stinks, I can, at least, get some money out of it in a couple of days, or instantly with their card.
It's not about being free or not. You shouldn't operate with loss only to drive customers away from competition. That being said, I don't believe these laws should apply to online services. It's entirely different market. I was mentioning it because the example with Starbucks couldn't happen, thus it was a bad example.
Congratulations to the Optimizely team for raising such a huge round. We (Visual Website Optimizer http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com) regularly keep getting mentioned in most of the articles that talk about A/B testing. Just as a current comparison, we're growing at a breakneck speed. Here are some stats:

* 2400+ paying customers across 75+ countries. We have added 1000+ customers in last 9 months alone

* Millions of USD in annual revenue

* Serving 10 Billion+ pageviews/month across all our customers

All this we have been able to achieve with a team of 17 people right here from Delhi, India and without raising a penny of external funding. We have consciously chose not to raise any VC funding so far as we're very happy with the organic growth we're seeing and the product that we're able to build. Our company vision extends much beyond A/B testing and as an independent company, it is very exciting to see where we can take it.

We have a lot of interesting plans for this year. Stay tuned!
I think my title would fit better if it was "Error Scientist."

All of my best hypothesis crafting, experiment design, and data analysis seems to be done in the name of figuring out why my code is broken.
I haven't had a chance to explore the ZenPayroll features and layout but can you comment on ZenPayroll vs. ADP/Paychex? I saw in the article that "these legacy solutions just don't work" for many small businesses but what really differentiates ZenPayroll from those two? Price, ease of use, presentation of payroll data? I haven't worked with Paychex but I know ADP offers fairly hefty referral bonuses to accountants so it might be tough to break through there.

How soon do you expect to have full coverage in the United States?

Thanks for putting together an accountant specific dashboard. I will be looking into it shortly and wish your team the best of luck.
Just ignore the high/low prices and focus on the weighted average (223$ right now) which is a much better indicator IMHO.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to private carriers like FedEx or UPS. The expectation of privacy only extends to First Class USPS mail, under the consideration that extra protections are needed given that the USPS is an organ of the federal government and that USPS workers are bound by the 4th amendment just as any other agent of the government (and unlike private mail carriers!)
Of course, indeed. How many impossible feats do you expect Tesla -- Elon Musk -- to tackle on behalf of humankind? I can't imagine why you think Musk should fight for an industry he does not believe in, of course!
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It's the same. They're just differentiating themselves.
Google Does the Right Thing Opening Several Closed Generic TLD Applications
I'd add that you should always respond as quickly as possible. If when you receive something you immediately write a thank-you, for example, it always gets done. If you wait you can more easily lose track.
Make/model of said car?
Pandora hits 200 million customers
Seems like there are two architectures that are commonly adopted. One is to make the server ever larger and more modular. E.G. separating processors/memory and storage as separate entities that are individually configurable (like this article). The other is to make the server smaller and more parallel. E.G. 1000s of single socket/single hdd servers running in aggregate.
Especially with destructors. Whenever you have a destructor in the frame, you're not in tail-call position. This means that tail-call positions in Rust are going to be few anyway.
I'm not sure why the OP links advance compiling specifically to mobile. It's good to have smaller, faster code on any platform that isn't quad Xeon with a fiber connection.

The Closure ecosystem has their own templates (soy) which are compiled in Advance Mode (with renaming) by the Closure Compiler. It's not possible to do that with Angular attribute's which reference JS names.

See this conversation about Angular support in Closure: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/angular/hePiqQA-MCI/uT...
Yep! The Persona implementation of BrowserID is already built into FirefoxOS. It should come to Desktop Firefox later this year.
Yes, there is manipulation of the price via DDoS. MtGox has said so. But the exchange rate would still be highly volatile and momentum-based without that manipulation. Almost all of the current exchange rate is speculation, not intrinsic value. It is the first successful cryptocurrency, and no one knows what's going to happen.
This is an economic assault against bitcoin underway by large invested players (ie, governments and big banks).

Next step: crash the BTC economy with massive sells (but for the saboteurs involved, take profit at the top before flooding the market).
So, about 0.2% of its actual value.
G.E. Has Teamed Up With Quirky to Let You Play with Its Patents
Having been primarily a backend developer for most of my career, I generally view these services with suspicion.

But the rate of new entries into this space makes me wonder if one day I'll be considered a luddite for thinking this way.
I'm opposed to treating manufactures of automobiles and the automobiles themselves[1] differently. So, I guess that means I would want it to apply to all (since there are other ideas for alternate energy cars) or none.

1) I am still waiting for the equivalent of a "gas tax" on energy used by electric cars to pay for the roads
So you're arguing that because the government has a monopoly on force, anything bad that happens anywhere in the US is their fault because it's their guns backing up the law?

Laws happen because a variety of agents (lobbyists, legislators, public interest groups) push for them. They're not enacted by some amorphous specter of 'government'.
The Software Revolution Behind LinkedIn's Gushing Profits
Welcome to "capitalism." Do some digging around, you'll find that many, if not most, of the industries and companies and even professions you view as successful only exist due to lobbying for anti-competitive regulations in their favor.
I guess it's subjective then because I like the new compose and how I can refer to other emails/do searches in the same tab.
I have a single 35lb (16kg) kettlebell. Usually I spend 10-15 minutes doing kettlebell snatches and swings (switching between them as I tire, trying my best to keep moving continuously). I throw in a few other assorted exercises too, but those two exercises are the core of what I do and seem to have helped significantly with my lower back in particular.

There are a lot more exercises you can do if you have two kettlebells. I'm probably going to get a second sometime in the next few months; right now I'm still going pretty strong with just one though. Also, the 35lb kettlebell I had was probably too heavy for me for the first week or two I had it. It is the advised starting weight for men but it was a rather difficult ramp-up for me. I don't really have trouble with it anymore though.
What are you talking about? $150 ≠ $100
You don't need to run queries, you subscribe to queries. As the data updates your app will be able to react to it without having to run a query. For really "big data" you are probably going to want to supplement your application's architecture with something specifically designed to work with "big data" just as you would have to with any web framework. The new smart package feature in meteor.js was intended for adding new things like this into your app.
Lol. Tell that to every SilVal wannabe startup begging for seed funding. Being entrepreneurial IS about gathering reasorces to make your idea happen.

Kickstarter shouldn't exist so some guy can raise money to sell 3d printers either, but that happens all the time.
Aside from the fact that nobody knows how to value BTC?

A large number of early adopters probably have no experience trading large volumes of any security, and the of Bitcoin is likely to look very different from any existing currency/commodity.
Returning my Nexus 4 was a traumatic experience. It took over a month, with far too many emails and phone calls. Sadly, the customer support staff are probably trying their best, but the information and systems they have are completely inadequate.
All bitcoin sites, whether they are forums or exchanges went down. It was a widespread DDOS on pretty much anything bitcoin related. For example: bitcointalk.org was also down.
No, around 2000 years (third millennium B.C) before him. ;)
Hopefully someone has already said this:

Computer science is about research in the theory of computation. When you do your CS degree it is designed with you becoming a researcher/hacker.

Software engineering is about the practical application of that theory executed in a disciplined way.

No need for new titles!
It's great to see a solution to using larger payroll companies, the experience is generally terrible and their massive market share gives them no reason to improve.

I'm more concerned with being able to integrate payroll with Expensify and Quickbooks. Typically the biggest headaches come from having to move this data from one application to the other.
I've seen many in Houston.
I've seen a number of mutiny attempts - some were famously successful, some worked out exactly as you would guess a "mutiny" would when their leader discovered.

In one mutiny, during a pretty significant re-org/layoffs, part of our organization had been sold to another (perceived to be inferior) company - the majority of the organization (that hadn't been laid off) - was just happy to still have a job, but a select group of technical employees decided (under the direction of a strong ring leader) - that they would not go to the other company. The ringleader was able to get five or six key technical employees to mutiny with him, and that would have been sufficient to jeopardize ongoing operations. His demands were met, and they were able to stay with initial company. No retribution ever occurred, and they had several successful years as employees.

Another attempt at clear-cut mutiny that I've seen, was a technical leader who was not fond of his manager, reach out to a competing organization (In a clear cut Red/Blue scenario) in the company, and volunteered to "take all his employees over" to that organization. The manager, for whatever reason, forwarded the email to the technical leader's manager, and that technical leader was then terminated the next morning for "insubordination." - Over the next two to three months every single member of that team resigned their jobs in protest, causing disruption for the next several quarters at the company. Mutiny both failed, and caused great disruption to the company.

The OP article is pretty good - it captures pretty much all of the elements that make for mutiny, and the circumstances in which it can be successful, and how it takes place.
No, that's stupid. That's equivalent to claiming telephone calls aren't private, because they're transmitted in the clear by third party exchanges accessible to authorized users. (email servers generally aren't publicly accessible, rather they're only accessible to authorized (registered) users)
Could you try going back to the crossword and trying to log in?

If that doesn't work, it sounds like you hit a bug -- could you file that at https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues, please?

The password stuff was because your email provider doesn't support Persona's protocol, so it fell back to asking Mozilla to validate your identity with a challenge email (and a password, so you don't have to use a challenge email when you come back next time).
Sure! Zotero has been available as a standalone application for several years (and even when it only ran within Firefox in the early days, it was still a local application):
http://www.zotero.org/download/

Zotero retrieves PDF metadata using a Google Scholar lookup, a method that Mendeley later adopted:
http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata

This process can also be applied to a watch folder using the third-party add-on ZotFile (Zotero supports extensions):
http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile.html

Zotero has always allowed all kinds of searching of metadata and content:
http://www.zotero.org/support/searching

Zotero also includes notes (and these notes can be pulled from PDF annotations using ZotFile):
http://www.zotero.org/support/notes
Did the Bitcoin bubble just burst?
"Withdrawal Details -
Payouts are deposited into your account at the end of each month"

Not clear that it's 2 weeks yet , 2 weeks starts being manageable , but having 1 month worth of sales tied up...
>"service designed to help accounting and bookkeeping service providers manage the payroll for multiple companies."

The last time ZenPayroll made the front page, I (and others) were skeptical about the ability to usurp some of the bigger players. Targeting second party payroll providers is a superb idea. In fact, as someone who dabbled in low-key book keeping services to help me pay for school, something like this would have been wonderful. This is how business becomes more efficient. Waiting on Canada...
The price changed.
Exactly my point. Is this 'pivot' basically the provision of a fat finger friendly interface to existing technology?

PS: I'm not against this, I'd really love to be able to dock a phone and use it for desktop tasks with a 1080p monitor and proper keyboard. Sort of the Rob Pike approach.

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
> I think Mendeley had more advantages over Zotero than the social aspect
> (which I never used). Mendeley could automatically incorporate your
> folder of orphan PDFs into your library

So can Zotero.

http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata

> automatically fetching the bibliographic info.

https://github.com/zotero/translators

https://github.com/zotero/translation-server

(Those two repositories are the greatest things about Zotero, in my opinion. Holy crap.)

> It had a nice dedicated desktop client for searching your library

Zotero standalone seems to be listed here very prominently:

http://www.zotero.org/download/
The price is flailing wildly due to the DDOS against Mt Gox.

They talk about it here: https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130404.html

...but as mikebo pointed out that link is from an older incident.
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Tzachi
There is a significant change at this time (it was at $80 20 minutes ago)
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The PDP-11 wasn't a mainframe. It was a minicomputer, which is how Unix came to exist for it in the first place: A mainframe would have been too expensive for such a small project, but a PDP-11 minicomputer was within the budget.
Mozilla's "phoenix" legacy is alive and well. I have been very skeptical of Mozilla even very recently as Firefox's many performance problems seemed insurmountable. But here I am after many years of using Chrome typing in this box using Firefox. I also hope they don't change direction. They're on fire and rising once again.
Oh man, I would love to see this integrated with http://www.rhymezone.com/. Awesome stuff!

Edit: just realized, double clicking on a word shows some possible rhyming words. It was a little unintuitive, but pretty cool nonetheless.
Thanks for beinging that up. The specific implementation at OrionHub is Not Ideal -- they should kickstart account creation when you sign in with Persona, like at https://voo.st or http://sloblog.io

I'll reach out to the folks over there and see if that can get that fixed in their next release.
When the stock market drops more than 10%, trading is temporarily halted. This addresses technical issues and stops a potential panic.
Bitcoin has no such controls. It looks like a grand social experiment. For everyone clamoring for a completely unregulated, decentralized free market, you got it with Bitcoin. Enjoy.
7.0 - 15 years
Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone
Its not the 9-5 part about a job that I don't usually like. 9-5 jobs usually imply that you are working for a mid to large size company for which you have little say in the overall direction and decisions of the company. Additionally, you may not believe in the overall mission of the company. Those are the two aspects that make working a typical 9-5 not the place for me.
That press release is from 6 days ago
(boom) It was only a matter of time. Awesome stuff. We'll definitely add this to our Stash RTE add-on (firepad based).
that seems to fit with me as well, i was flagging a spammy subset of articles on a subject that were being relentlessly promoted by a rather small group of people.
I have had the same reaction. I am not sure what customer pain these services are addressing. Even if it made prototyping and MVP developing vastly easier, what happens if the product starts to take off? The lock-in seems dramatic, but I could be off-base.
An important aspect here is the fact that the coffee shop employee is powerless in this situation - they could lose their job if they reply with equal rudeness. How we interact with those who have less power in a situation is very revealing of our character. I can't stand it when a person is only polite to people who have some kind of leverage over them.
My ideal work environment would be small co-located teams of 3-4 really smart people. The team should be colocated together with easy access to Product people and should consist of design, frontend, and backend developers.

The reality is I have only been in this situation once in a 10 year career and it only lasted 6 months. Most of the time I've had to contend with the following:

1) Not really hiring the best developers you can find.

2) A noisy "open office" environment.

3) Product people are unreachable and don't clearly define work well enough for the team to just go at it.

So these days I've started working with distributed teams. It eliminates many of the problems, but introduces new ones (like communication issues, tendencies for bad situations to seem worse than they are, managers with trust issues, etc).
> Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I prefer:

Computer science is no more about computers than thermodynamics is about engines.
Yeah, that's a bit ridiculous. That makes me operate on a de-facto net30 standard. Lots of businesses/people don't have enough cash flow to operate like that.
The two largest exchanges are under DDoS and everyones panicking. Once the lag issue resolves itself, I'm sure the exchange rate will adjust itself accordingly.
When you have no order book depth, the price might as well be random.