skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this functioned similarly that'd be a fair statement. This is being called a currency, but it's really the same as MS Points or any other similar prepaid card. Amazon has the benefit of restricting where the outflow is and so can also ensure 30% of what comes in to buy coins is profit[1], and then make earnings off the rest. And given how constrained the outflow is this is hardly a competitor to bitcoin or any other attempt at a virtual currency. It's a lockin attempt and a play for earlier access to capital. It will probably be successful on both fronts.

EDIT:

[1] Profit is the wrong word, there are other costs involved that will eat away at that 30%. I should have said 30% was guaranteed revenue.
Agreed, I reviewed many solutions and decided that it was best to go with a team of pros. It seems more expensive but it's really not after you consider the costs and headaches of dealing with a self-serve or crowd-sources setup. IMHO
Oh, What We Could do With a Mac That's 1,000 Times Faster
In Europe you can be 49 years old and still doing what you love. How, because I bailed from the US 10 years ago!
I guess that's nothing, compared to what'd happen if he was against the ideas of own company.
Definitely relevant, but if she didn't work, it would be easier for him to work late. That they keep this schedule both with jobs that are challenging is really awesome.
Not sure how I feel about this.

>"It becomes tougher when it’s necessary to fire someone who’s performed well at their job, but isn’t able to grow with the company. For a startup to scale to a successful larger company, the people need to scale, too."

In some cases, such employees might not take seeing a senior employee hired above them well. They might dislike being passed up for a promotion, but lack the maturity to understand why.

Versus...

>'The ancient Greek aphorism “Know thyself” remains good advice for CEOs. Every manager has weaknesses. Identify them, and hire people who can compensate for them.'

Sounds like people who are admittedly good at their job could be fired for taking issue with the hiring of a manager who they're expected to compensate for.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but I'm truly sick of the notion that workers serve their manager, not the other way around.
Quora has done the same, yet their results speak for themselves.

(Brilliant people for sure, but that hasn't saved them from a suspect business model)
Proposal: Context aware CSS selectors
We added Python, NodeJS and Go boxes last month. Just click "New Box" on the box index page after you sign in and you can choose a box template.
My comment emphasized the fact that people will get more utility out of Python in a non-Windows environment. Instead of disagreeing, here we have several Windows Python users deciding that the comment deserved to be downvoted instead of simply discussed. I don't think that's the correct use of a downvote, but I expected it; not a big deal.
It's nice to see that there's something better than http://www.seattletechcalendar.com/

in the area
the link title implies one can generate a company with a billion dollar valuation while working an 8-9 hour day.

the content of the linked article contradicts that implication directly.

it's a misleading link. that is a bad thing.
...USD to buy Bitcoins to buy gift cards to buy Amazon coins to buy in-game currency to buy in-game items to build up my virtual character which I sell on ebay for USD to buy Bitcoins...
I just wrote my first Python program (a tetris clone using the pygame library). Not everyone using python is doing it for web development, as many comments to this article seem to believe. I happen to have written it on Windows, but it makes no difference because I'm sure the exact same code will work when I copy it to Linux. (I think I'll copy it to my new Raspberry Pi and see if it works. I'm sure it will.)

quote: If you're looking to learn it for any actual, practical application, e.g. any kind of development that will be deployed on the web or any kind of native system scripting

There's a lot more to computing than that. I personally have nearly zero interesting in web development at the moment.
I get laughed at for using NoScript.
Just wait until opera uses blink.
A US-only virtual currency to buy stuff from a single US merchant seems pretty pointless. Why not just do the Apple trick and aggregate credit card purchases?

Virtual currency sort of makes sense for marginalized communities (unbanked, children, illegals, etc.), but really only makes sense for international.
>, and why 7bit ascii is the standard for computing.

The US.

> Simplicity.

Oh...

> Diacritical marks (training wheels) and unicode break this simplicity, you cannot program in a language with many characters that are hard/impossible to distinguish.

Many languages get by with their communication in spite of having things like "spots over the o's" or whatever. I have no problem distinguishing them. Do you have experience with reading such languages? Or are you simply blowing hot air?

Ever looked at typewriter font for l and 1? Yeah, these things are not historical accidents at all...

> Unicode is a luxury to pretty things up for end users, not something to do serious work in.

It's a luxury for end users... yes, non-English users should count their blessings when they are able to use their whole alphabet. Part of this issue was correctly spelling the name of an Austrian physicist, not someone trying to write "cat" with some esoteric Unicode that looks like a cat.
You missed the point entirely. This is a convertible debt deal and as such is not dilutive to common/employees. If FourSquare fails they lose everything. If FourSquare hits a homerun they benefit greatly. It's a very very smart move. (They meaning employees & management)
I did not say "hey use Linux lol." I'm not one of those people. I made a considered argument for learning Linux for people who actually want to get the most out of Python, so the very least you can do is not lump me in with chatspeakers.

Also, your assertion that we (whoever that is) "want more people programming" is not one that I accept.
I think we need a Godwin's law for "Wake up", though I guess we should be grateful you didn't say "sheeple".
I don't rob banks, run a slave trade business, etc. I'm fairly confident I'm not an interesting person, as far as governments are concerned.

If you want to try, I wish you luck in figuring out who my employers were/are.
We have some ideas on how to attempt to solve the multiple unrelated overlapping conversion issues but getting the ui right is non trivial.
Like CarWoo For Used Cars, AutoRef Raises $850K Seed Led By AutoScout24
Sweet.

Now, is there any way to code in ones editor of choice and deploy from the command line? Chrome tab crashed on me while I was editing my species and I lost all of my changes.
Here's the thing: for the typical job listing, there are dozens, or hundreds, of applicants. Maybe more.

You do not have the time to do a full-fledged investigation of every one of them, or bring them all in for a lengthy interview. You just don't. You need some filter to reduce the number to something more manageable, and degree/school is a straightforward way to do it.

Also recognize that 99% of jobs, even technical jobs, do not require (1) a one-in-a-million technical skill which is (2) easy to identify and measure.

Is filtering by degree flawed? Absolutely. But that's an academic argument. The question managers face is: what's a better way, subject to real limitations of time and resources?

Last but not least: in my experience, most jobs require navigating some amount of bureaucracy and difficult people. Someone completely unwilling or unable to make these "compromises" probably would be better working for himself, and not within an organization.
I already checked Vagrant (at that time they did not support other thing than VirtualBox). And now the KVM provider seems to request libvirt
> The American government has no business caring about the "huddled masses" elsewhere.

I'm sorry, but I consider myself first and foremost a human being, with 'American' down the list a few notches.

Granted, there are practical limits, but realistically, there's still tons of room in the US.

Also: the economy is not some zero-sum game with one single "lump of labor" to go around:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
Yes, but some of that is also about how speculative your ambitions are. Lots of small companies start with relatively conservative models that are designed to "click" almost immediately. That's not a fashionable model among SOMA startups, though.

Which is to say that there are some impediments to feeling much sympathy about the unfairness of it all when people in the SOMA startup orbit talk about how they don't have the luxury to get home for dinner with their kids, because they're metaphorically trying to keep both feet on the gas pedal. Well, they chose to do that; not only that, but statistically, they're probably going to fail like the rest of new businesses. There's no valid imperative that demands that they make that choice.

Mark Cuban's BROADCAST.COM seems like a great example of the "speculatively ambitious" model.
> In any case, my tribe is not defined by where I happened to be born.

When push comes to shove and your security is threatened, it'll be Iowans and Nebraskans that go to war to fight for your security, not Indians or Chinese...

(Not that an Indian or Chinese person cannot be an Iowan or Nebraskan, obviously).
Nobody wants to receive e-mails like this.
Are you hiring? I'm in your neck of the woods, looking for new opportunities, and your problem space looks interesting.
Lower fraud risk. Extending the time from credit card charge to goods being delivered lowers the risk of chargebacks.

Store value without storing money for small transactions. Some countries are finicky about storing money, and its a tight balance to avoid being covered by banking laws.

Lowering the barrier for micro-transactions. Customer avoids to repeatedly have to make the decision to spend money, he has spent it once, and now he is just using "virtual credit".

Avoiding cost of processing payments. One processing now covers several purchases.
90% of US Mistakenly Believe Deficit Is Rising - Actually Shrinking
No thanks. Too expensive.

I plan to show it can be done quite cheaply, and with a relatively cheap vehicle.
Reminds me of how, back in the day, software would look for the letters "IBM" at a specific ROM address (it was in their copyright message) in order to identify the video card as a VGA card (or maybe it was back in the EGA days, can't remember). One of the clever clone card manufactures put in the ROM "There are various pieces of software that expect the letters IBM to appear here".
Interview questions for Cocoa developers
Amazon is killing it. Any chance they'll become a direct competitor to bitcoin anytime soon!?
LEDs could soon light the way everywhere
5, 5:30 seems to be the norm.
This article fails to show what benefits this has for either the company or the employee. I did, however, end up slightly creeped out.
I received a similar lecture from a former employer, except it was by email, after I had handed in my resignation.

He wanted to make it quite known that I wasn't qualified to work in the industry (even though I worked for him in the industry just fine for several years and I was the one leaving the job on my own accord?) and that I wouldn't be able to find another job without a degree. Even though I deep down knew everything he was saying was not really based in any reality, the things he said were actually pretty hurtful at the time.

I had no trouble walking into another job that provided far more interesting work, and paid considerably more, for people who showed a much greater appreciation for us to be able to work together. I still don't know what the purpose of that email was. Sad to see me go, I guess?
So XBOX is to Kindle Fire as Microsoft Points are to Amazon Coins?
I liked Barnaby Jack's presentation, but I have a bias for people who came up at eEye.

I think there's room every year for 1-2 theatrical security presentations --- not that I want to give them! --- and that demonstrating that it's easy to jackpot an ATM or pop open a hotel room door is a perfectly valid bit of theater.

I also think some topics become theatrical without sacrificing technical value. For instance, Nate Lawson, Peter Ferrie and I picked a fight with Joanna Rutkowska a few years ago. There was a lot of drama. But the drama was about the accuracy of HPET timers, the AGP GART, and whether we could probe the branch translation buffers to detect hypercalls. I don't think it should have mattered if we got on stage in clown suits and shot nerf guns at the audience; if you're giving a talk about address remapping chipsets, I think it's all fair game. (In fairness: Rutkowska did not agree about the value of the drama.)

I agree that the theater gets tiresome, and, in particular, I think if you're going to shoot for theater, you'd better be right. Your exploit should work. It should work in the real world. It should be repeatable. The problem with the hype cycle here isn't that "taking an airplane down with an Android app" is a bogus topic. It's that you don't believe it's actually possible.
> If that were true, we'd be seeing dollar deflation.

I disagree. There are a number of benefits to inflation - particularly to those who have large amounts of debt on the books. Mortgaged real estate benefits greatly. Interest rates go up. Who stands to gain the most by decreasing the real value of loans and increasing interest rates?

> I was just pointing out that the USG isn't "backing" USD

In the abstract, nobody can back anything, because all you're relying on is their word. You could back a currency with a precious metal, but even that assumes the metal is intrinsically worth something (which has compelling arguments both ways).

The USG backs the USD fundamentally because they have power over the USD. They could instantly crush the value of the dollar if they chose to. Personally, I believe that if/when that happened, we'd have a great deal more to worry about than our wallets.
At least it's 1 coin = $0.01 USD. Far better than Microsofts "Points" where it's I think 79 points = $0.99 USD. This makes it really hard to figure out the actual cost of something listed, for example, 600 points. It also makes things seem cheaper than they really are.
http://www.musictheory.net/

This place has helped me a ton with memorization and theory.
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Can you pull from the ColourLovers API for me? I want to find a palette for #0f8790.

Other than that, this looks pretty handy. Consider it bookmarked.

[edit] Maybe I should read the bottom of the page before making some dumbass comment on the internet. I guess ColourLovers has no palettes for that particular color
Anaconda is a great install, especially for those dealing with data analysis, but the conda upgrade process from one version to another (1.3 to 1.4) has been hit or miss under Windows. But I still love the packaging and such they and others do...
I don't know what is wrong with CRUD apps (never worked on one). I just see people complaining about working on them so I felt lucky to have never worked on one. I meant no offense.
I live in Italy, not the US, so no, it won't be Iowans and Nebraskans. Or maybe they will be. Who knows.

Also: you seem awfully sure that the US will not be involved in threatening my security. I'm pretty sure of that too, but not 100% sure.
I'm always amazed how much HR filters before it even gets to the relevant manager who actually needs the hire (and knows what he/she needs from them).
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Sorry to cause you this great sorrow. And thank you for the ridiculously awesome suggestion. I've been thinking cannon balls... but keep an eye out for ramming in V3! I smell a massively multiplayer CSS based naval title on the horizon ;)

Pull requests welcome, the code is on github https://github.com/webpop/css-pirate-ship
(I lost my reply on a copy-paste / expired link, let's try again)

Sensors 'broadcast' the information across the systems in a very simple way (electronic but not hackable). Everyone get its data directly from sensors.

The FMC is like a pilot without hands. It is a client of the flight control system (another computer) like the pilot itself. When the pilot connects it (this is physically controlled) it can change the parameters of the AP, but it stills not controlling the airplane.

Hypothesis (this is wild): you physically get to the FMC and hack it. The only thing you will be able to do is to change the route (only if) it is engaged. But under a class A/B airspace, this will be immediately be noticed by air controllers that will notify the pilots. Anyway, the pilot should notice it right away. The FMC functionality is very restricted, really.
None of these "traits" are traits of startups. They're traits of failures.

A startup is simply a new business that has not yet begun its permanent, revenue-generating business operations. That is why Foursquare is (still) a startup, but AirBnB is not (anymore).

Legally, the two requirements for a business "starting up" are (1) the business is a new business, and (2) the business has not yet begun its permanent revenue-generating activities. Indeed, it is these provisions of the tax codes from which the term "startup" originated.
Top Nerdiest Cities in America
From context I can guess SOMA but what is it more precisely please?
You can't get a formatted treeview of raw JSON post data in chrome inspector, only the response can be inspected in this way. Makes debugging broken uploads difficult at times. That's pretty much the only feature of firebug I miss.

The only chrome inspector feature I know of that firebug doesn't have a real equivalent for is the heap snapshot and compare tool. Really handy to track down memory leaks.

Other than that it's indeed down to personal preference.
More on Sky-High Valuations: Palantir
What's the repository URL? I can't seem to find it.
Well if people read them and click on the links from these emails, then you must be wrong. Surprise! Did you even read the post?

If you don't want them, it doesn't mean nobody does. There's also an unsubscribe link at the bottom.
Occupy Wall Street: Staggering Court Victory
If your 'culture fit' doesn't allow this, it's time to build a new culture.

Assuming equal skill levels, sure, I would.
Sorta, not exactly, maybe. It's complicated. :-) Shoot me an email and we can chat... prhodes (at) fogbeam (dot) com
I'm slightly confused about what this product does. From what I could gather, you have a central auth-hub, that gives one integration point to a multitude of OAuth services (Facebook, Twitter etc.), which makes integration easier for developers. But then you have an analytics/crm system built on top of that? It seems very potent, but also slightly scary in the sense that your platform has a huge lock-in. Am I understanding this right?
Normally I would agree with both of these because they seem to be the reasons other companies introduce currency schemes. But in this case I think it's telling that Amazon first made the announcement on a blog for app developers. My guess is they are trying to attract developers by guaranteeing them a market.

If you're interested, I wrote about it in IEEE Spectrum when they first announced Amazon Coins in February.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/amazon-c...
No, the right analogy for them would be "ban the specific android phone the researcher was using".
The South of Market area in San Francisco.
The main difference being that the FAA would never let such an "upgrade" happen on any consumer airplane.
This quote is great: "There are the people who don’t have any experience but are just really smart, talented, and motivated. When you get those people right, they’re your ‘homegrown talent’, if you will. These people are your farm team. These people are, for the most part, the best people who will stay long term at your company. They’re the carriers of the culture. They grew up there. You took a chance on them. They’ve learned how to be in the business."
it'll be Iowans and Nebraskans that go to war to fight for your security

It will more likely be Texans and Arkansans.

http://www.heritage.org/static/reportimages/E8F05D884C7E78E4...
That's a good point. Fully agreed that the misdirection is in bad taste.

But I do contend that being able to work 4/12 hours at home versus all 12 hours at work is a substantial improvement for both yourself and for your family (especially if you have young children).
Still use Linux as the host\development box and test the Windows version(s) in virtual machine(s). ;)
>We are in the midst of an immigration wave unprecedented in length and volume. The number of people who have come here since the late 1960s and their more pronounced differences from historical immigrants do not compare.

What percentage of the population is currently foreign-born, something like 10%? Is the late 1800s it got up to almost 15%, so this certainly isn't "unprecedented".

>I also can't wrap my head around people being OK with the idea of the US population growing to over 500 million. Why are folks in a hurry to turn this place into India?

Without even considering the differences in infrastructure, we have more than 3X the land area with about a quarter of the population...I think we'll be fine!
TFA is great. But it seems like a lot of work doing it that way. Just use Google as a login provider and get all that stuff on top.
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Is this any different from how Facebook Credits work(ed)?
I prefer to support Newegg when it comes to computer accessories for example because of patent trolls busting, and surely not Amazon who promote DRM. I'd buy on Amazon only as a last resort, if there are no other options.
Problems in education
Microsoft paid developers to build apps for their new store. They got a bunch of crappy apps meeting minimum requirements.

Amazon created this currency and gives some of it out to users, who can use it to purchase apps for kindle fire. Now Amazon gets to subsidize app development while letting the users decide which apps are worthy.

(This analysis isn't original, it's one I read a month or two ago.)
This is sort of a very different situation - whether or not you agree that their offer to be featured as the free app of the day is valuable, they were upfront that the rev-share in that situation is 0% when they make the offer.

In this situation they are claiming that it's exactly the same as cash to developers - that is, you will receive 70% of the purchase price. I have absolutely no reason to believe that they're attempting to mislead or be dishonest.
I know the issues around this, including brain drain from elite education, losing American dominance in the tech sphere, and the broad abuse that has been caused by the current set of regulations. I even have a colleague caught in an immigration snafu with his H1B right now, for leaving the country to visit his extended family. I fully agree with this program!

Still, the optics of this campaign in particular are terrible. The headline and lede on all of the articles isn't anything wrong with the current system - it's that Zuck has signed on with it. The splash page is a shot of 19th century america, and then you can scroll down to see a list of billionaires. If the page was literally intended to produce a conspiracy focused follow-the-money response it wouldn't look much different.
VCs funding up 17 percent, deal activity highest since dot-com days
Restangular: Restful Service for AngularJS
RestAPI from AngularJS without even using $resource. Pretty awesome!
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> “We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error,” Tyler Winklevoss said.

Well, I don't even know what to say about that. Bitcoin is pretty awesome tech but I don't think anything can take care of human error...
What percentage of the population is currently foreign-born

12.9%

http://www.census.gov/how/infographics/foreign_born.html