skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, you hire a guy, he seems like he's going to perform, but then he fucks up repeatedly. Trying to get him out based on his track record is not the same thing as trying to overcome the democratic election. We're just trying to fire him for cause.

If you like his conservative position, you are probably extremely unhappy with how his behaviour constantly undermines his own agenda. You are probably extremely unimpressed by how little he has actually accomplished. You probably want someone with the exact same agenda but without the baggage and obstreperous behaviour to push it through.

Like Doug Holyday:

http://www.toronto.ca/councillors/holyday1.htm
Did you ever evaluate http://owncloud.org/ ? I have never used it, but looked at briefly awhile back and it is open source.
Looking at the source code for the IRC bot installed on all compromised system shows the IRC server it connects to. The source is here: http://88.198.20.247/k.c

The IRC server is cvv4you.ru:6667 #rails
There are currently 2164 idling bots on there. Holy fuck. Its run by a guy with the handle "ryan".

Connect to it and see for yourself: http://chat.mibbit.com/
Do these teens have access to tech training/education in theses areas?
Another Victoria dev here. I might be down for a meet-up, or at least pass the idea along to coworkers.
Correlation versus causation in a single graph
Ok, this might be a little sandbagging or serious understatement here:

the languages of my 20's were C, C++, etc. As in "I wrote compilers for these languages".

If you aren't getting calls from recruiters, then none of the rest of us will.

For those of you who don't know, he wrote, so far as I can tell, the first native c++ compiler.

ex-MWC guy: ...ihnp4!mwc!wgl
I'm just updating the post... the company didn't rescind their offer, and I'm happily employed now!!
Anybody know when this was written? (I'm wondering why I haven't seen it before.)
I'm helping a friend move to Victoria in four weeks. Great guy; family man. I know he'd love to connect with people.
One person in the photo was gunned down in a "targeted" murder [1].

[1] http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/27/homicide-detectives-...
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/sarah-hanson-seattle-man-confes...
Person B is more likely to die early. Sitting is correlated with bad health, independent of your diet and amount of exercise.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22218159

Now, I'd love to see a randomized trial over a long time period to find out whether sitting actually causes bad health, or is just correlated.
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/166869/is-10-a-magic...
I see where you are headed. The answer is still no because you won't write the aforementioned article. You're clever.
There's no way I can compete against that. It's less than the cheapest colo I could find.
The way you justify taking x% equity is by offering to improve the odds of success by at least x%. 40 million is definitely above any basic notion of success, so it would indeed appear that YC is delivering.
That's what I thought it was, too, at first glance. It would be some gnarly math to figure out how to make the storage reliable, since clients could arbitrarily connect and disconnect at any time (carrying a portion of your data with it). I suppose it would be an algorithm similar to RAID, except that there would be an algorithm that would detect damage, such as not enough backups online for a certain time, and the risk the data would no longer be available, and then in response create another RAID node.

Bandwidth could be an issue, too. Maybe clients could get bandwidth and storage karma, if they accept a lot of data from other users and a lot of changes to that data.

Interesting idea, anyway.

Edit: maybe you could even sell your processing power for karma, too. And maybe even extract that karma to sell/trade/give to others.
> If you use a pseudonym and hide your contact info or otherwise put up barriers to being contacted, you'll lose opportunities.

In my experience using a pseudonym consistently works just as well. Most people don't even realized my "real" name isn't Swizec until we start signing contracts.

Yes, I also introduce myself as Swizec when meeting people in person. Especially people who might google me.
I've given two very small gifts to kids (a 3 year old and a 12 year old) - both sent me hand-written thank you letters in the mail. I was shocked. I guess I was also shocked that the 3 year old had her own stationary. :)
Why is that whole thread full of rails people who don't know how to format code with markdown? What is going on here?
let me introduce you to: https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4U2mpZ6hazU

don't be evil is not the same as do no evil
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nudist_on_the_Late_Shift

(...and Other True Tales of Silicon Valley)
Postagile: A large scrum backlog is like a big pile of underpants
Thoughts about the analogy between an idolized backlog in Scrum and the Underpants Gnomes in South Park (originally by Jeff Patton)
> As the human body hasn't changed much over time

But its our (your doctor's) knowledge of the human body that has changed immensely every decade.
> The fad for hiding controls when you're not using them
> (looking at you, scroll bars)

Set System Preferences > General > Show Scroll Bars > Always!
I find it mildly amusing that one can use Google's search by image to find the real photo:

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZivEt7uQuw_1h05O2R...
At the risk of my karma, they don't do humour here. No sense of humour what so ever from what I can work out. Lost more karma due to humour than anything else here. Fair enough and all that, not ever where has to go with humour, but be warned.

Of course I guess I'll now be told that is my fault, my humour doesn't work, how dare I suggest a lack of humour, and get down slapped, but there you go. Of course, I will then have to say that proved my point, as some sort of reply, that will also get down voted. And so on...

So, there is is in one post, figured it would be more efficient!!!!

Now, can the humourless work out any of that is supposed to be funny?
Forbes had an interesting article about some of the tax implications of crowdfunding - http://www.forbes.com/sites/suwcharmananderson/2012/05/23/ki...

As far as using the donations as a tax write off, I don't think I understand your question. Are you asking if Gawker could take the money they received from crowdfunding, turn around and donate it to a registered charity and then claim a deduction??
There is no best place to start a company. Only a best place for you.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
Interestingly, another candidate (George Smitherman) who ran against Ford for the 2010 municipal election in Toronto admitted to being addicted to "an illegal drug" before running for political office.

I wasn't living in Toronto when the election was going on so I didn't really pay attention to the media re: the election, but I wonder how they portrayed him at the time
i just looked at your comments on a hunch and i was right: most of your comments have to do with shitting on san francisco. cool hobby
So what's a good backup plan as you age?
The same that distributed VCS systems liberated development from a single point of failure, this protocol allows any computer to become responsible of acting as "the always-on server". Now you can use a Dropbox-like thing paying someone else to do something much simpler: run an application to provide the service. Whoever provides the service can even offer redundant service very easily.
https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4U2mpZ6hazU I 'll leave it here again. do no evil is not don't be evil
Only if they took the money as income and, possibly, paid taxes on it. I presume they would be very careful to never take custody of the money, even in trust.
This is definitely interesting. It makes me wonder if there is a possibility to crowd-fund more "information retrieval" like this.
I doubt we learned anything from the study above, bc your end conclusion is the exact question that the person before you led with.
Ask HN: I can't focus on one project. What should I be doing?
When I began learning to program 2 years ago, I started with Perl. I wrote small Perl scripts for processing text and data and such until now, and now I want to go into something new.

I want to learn a new language, as I really hate Perl. I started learning Python for web development (being the I have made a few webpages with just HTML, CSS, and Javascript). I went through with that for about 2 weeks, and then I was like "I want to learn how to create native apps too!". Then, I started looking into that. The next week, I was like "Maybe I should focus on the algorithms and data structures...". I did that for a week.

As you can see, I'm all over the place. I have no real pieces of software or code that I can show or post on Github or anything. My goal is to be a "jack-of-all-trades", but I can't seem to focus on anything because I thoroughly enjoy all aspects of computer programming. I'm going into 9th grade, so I don't have a job or class that structures my learning.
So, what should I do? Is there a recommended order that I should be learning these things? How should I stay focus?
Add enough pressure and you can even get metallic hydrogen, which has been predicted to be a room temperature superconductor.

Not that you'd want to be in any room with that kind of pressure (250k atm).
You're probably right. But SV's startup culture is pretty unfriendly to 50-80 year old enployees with family and financial obligations and less risk tolerance.

I suppose SV companies are going to tend to solve young adult problems because they are composed of young adults. It's what they know.
I think you are referring to redstone, and I personally find it somewhat painfull to work with. Don't even think about making that a thing.

I'm kinda thinking of turning concrete into solar cells.
> You have to be clear about the relative rate of change

The exact rate of change is moot. The rate of change is "enough" over the course of 5-10 years, that it makes an impression on me.
>I doubt that. At least I am a young German and I prefer my trains to be clean. And I'm absolutely certain most young people here think the same way.

Were? In squareville? Because the young Germans I've talked to in Mitte sure didn't think that way.

>Also, there is a slight problem with people feeling insecure when using public transportation due to repeated incidents where people were beaten up or stabbed in trains.

That's orthogonal.

>Having graffiti all over the place makes especially older people less likely to use public transportation and therefore reduces the income.

Huh? How is that conclusion reached? I hope not with the "broken window" theory -- there are graffiti in affluent and well maintained city districts too.
Major compatibility changes coming for Firefox 25
"These involve components though that are unacceptable in modern warfare. e.g. the threat and execution of collective punishment against large populations. The smaller force doesn't need to subdue the entire population at once, just a chunk at a time."

In other words, be the Taliban.
How does it pick up the packages? Is there a registration to get on board? I have some PyPi packages that aren't showing up in search, how would I go about adding said packages to this index?
This is not about age, but about staying current and sharp.

Yep. I don't know why these types of posts get so many comments. It seems really obvious.
I've come to count on another thing too: someone on HN comments will always point out the answer is 'no' and then point out this generality, and then you'll often have a comment like mine point this out. :)
Is that the number of people working on that level, or the number of people who've finished that level? My guess was the former, but if so, how many people have finished level 6? And if it's the latter, how many people have started level 0 but not finished?

I'm also curious what the stats look like for how long people are taking to complete each level.
Can you give some examples please? I use wordpress a lot and just want to know what my other options are.
Silicon Valley is interested in finding solution to problems that make money, just like every other industry.
This is a very dangerous question. Thinking like this leads to huge security vulnerabilities in important systems. A better question is "What is the worst thing that could possibly happen if this system were successfully attacked?" If the answer is anything bad, it is probably best to assume someone will try to attack it.

As for the second part of the question, are we talking about the same internet? Because the one I'm on appears to be full of technically savvy people with loads of free time.
Seconded. Engineering salaries have jumped significantly recently. With 2 years experience out of college I've seen people getting offers of 120k - 140k.
It implements full text search without repeated strcmp() over half a gigabyte of strings, so search completes in reasonable time.

Compare that to PyPi which does exactly what I described, and even during off peak periods, searches can sometimes take up to 20 seconds
What passes for "salaried time" in the US and SF is called unpaid overtime to everywhere else in the world.
Tern's static analysis is based loosely on SpiderMonkey's type inference, which does well with most JS libraries.

Yes, some overloaded octopus methods fall back on Object. What helps the SpiderMonkey type-inference-driven JIT is online live-data profiling, as Marijn notes. This may be the crucial difference.

However, new algorithms such as CFA2 promise more precision even without runtime feedback.

And I suggest you are missing the bigger picture: TypeScript, Dart, et al., require (unsound) type annotations, a tax on all programmers, in hope of gaining better tooling of the kind you work on.

Is this a good trade? Users will vote with their fingers provided the tools show up. In big orgs (Google, where Closure is still used to preprocess JS) they may, but in general, no.

Renaming is just not high-enough frequency from what I hear to motivate JS devs to swallow type annotation.

/be
Not all the guidelines make sense in all situations.

They are "guide"lines.

If someone doesn't believe this story belongs on HN and politely gives valid reasons, I see no problem.
Especially since the closing line implies he hasn't seen any tweets after a date during on Barack Obama (or at least, no Republican) will still be President no matter what for another 8 or 9 days.
Sometimes this is because the status links to a website and the owners are running an ad.
Why I invested in SmartThings
All the studies so far indicate sitting (or other forms of inactivity) are bad no matter how much you exercise at other times.

The best natural experiment was the London bus driver study which showed huge differences in heart problems between drivers (sitting all day) and conductors (standing all day). Both were drawn from the same pool of employees and randomly assigned roles, so the experiment was naturally controlled for everything except the difference in behavior.

There were some other differences such as drivers having a more stressful job and conductors having more social interactions which might explain some of the differences in outcomes apart from the sitting/moving difference. But in any case, sitting for hours a day at a stressful job with minimal social interaction is incredibly bad for your health. Programmers take note!
Weren't they originally claiming that his drug dealers shot the video? If so, isn't it actually more harmful to society to give a bunch of crack dealers $200,000 than it is for the mayor of Toronto to smoke crack?
This happens all the time in civil courts, and in criminal courts in the pre-trial stages (i.e., evidentiary hearings and other pre-trial matters). The judge's actions were unusual only because the article was written by an Apple blogger with no legal background.
okay I am talking about the outlook, not landing page optimization and the stuff under the hood.

sorry but his website talks to me: "hey I seel software to plan tables and i know how it works, but i am not a designer and wont spend money for a coll website". which is fine with me. again, I didnt came there to appreciate his website apperance but to see if his software is good enough for me (had I been in the business that needs his software)
Next steps for Tributary.io
Is there a good resource online that gives the best practices when sitting on a chair to minimize damage per second to ourselves ?
A similar question I wanted to ask: "Who are all this skaters, hip hop singers wannabees, surfers, brooming indie artists" and such BS that 99% of ads, videos and startup media material seems to target to?

I've been all around the US (literally: the 48 states), and those are like 1% of the youth population, if that.
Same here. Really happy with the service and though I don't make intensive usage of mail I have the Enhanced account[1]. Everything works like a charm, it's very customisable at all levels, I've imported successfully all the emails from my old gmail account and is fast as hell. The service really looks promising.

And about the tech support, I've sent a few mails and they have answered me properly. Sometimes the mail was the tipically pre-made made one though. But it have detailed information about how to solve my problem, so that's cool.

[1] I'm using the 2 month trial. I haven't introduced the credit card yet. Even paying an account is sooo cheap.
Facebook: a Swiss army knife is good but a tool set is better
Wait until Bootstrap gets in the way…
Exactly! Contribute, be visible and relevant. If you're not putting in the effort, at the end of the day, no one will hire you, old or young or whatever. It's a classic story of where circumstances are to blame in the case of you failing, and it's all you if you're "winning".
HN digs insightful, intelligent, or insightful humor. We're not so hot on flippancy, hyperbole, and unnecessary sarcasm.

You really shouldn't be indignant to be told "your humor doesn't work"-- if you get told that, it's because it's true. Playing to your audience is the foundation of effective comedy.
Compare who has more influence and therefore potential for harming the public - two dealers with $200k or a crackhead mayor of a city with 2.6M inhabitants.
> Do you trust BitTorrent ...

Note how the company knows how much was synced as reported in the article, although it is unclear exactly what was measured (original file sizes, data transferred, tracker statistics etc). With true privacy the BitTorrent company would have no clue what actually happened.
OAuth.io - OAuth that just works.
Show HN: Scraper that retrieves emails based on Google searches
What does one do if in a desert, with nigh unto no food available and conditions oppressive? MOVE.

Most of these "food deserts" are that way because harsh socioeconomic conditions (to wit: disinterest in quality products, coupled with prolific theft) made commerce in suitable foods untenable. Complain about "food justice" all you want, but the next meal is just a few hours away as is the next bus ticket. Demanding someone provide a balanced meal is both unproductive and unfair, so figure out a near term solution.

BTW, some of us are trying to help by finding what is viable at low costs in nearby stores. Strange how many deride the attempt to help.
Ha, it's been a while.
I'm 42 and I did, working part-time at a bank during college. For 3 days, at least. Then I designed a DSL and wrote a C tool to generate the COBOL programs from templates and DSL files. Then my boss decided to never again let me near the mainframe and bank accounting systems. But many of my coworkers spent 3+ years entirely on COBOL.
I think it was more the fact that he was being violent without being a player.
Also, any constructive criticism on my documentation is more than welcome. I was aiming for terseness.
I love these hidden stories. Reminds me of the comp.basilisk faq at http://ansible.co.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html
A nice little article. But I think it misses a noteworthy issue.

> Context-sensitive languages are something that you will rarely encounter during “normal” programming.

In my experience, context-sensitive languages, as a class, are never encountered in programming. Certainly, one might need to deal with a formal language that happens to be context-sensitive but not context-free; however, the fact that it lies in the context-sensitive class does not ever seem to be a useful fact.

The concepts of regular, context-free, and recursively-enumerable languages are obviously useful ones for us. But I think the only reason programmers ever mention the class of context-sensitive languages is that they feel obligated to, having mentioned the other three classes in Chomsky's hierarchy.

If anyone knows of an instance where the fact the concept of context-sensitive languages/grammars was useful in a computational context[1], I'd like to hear about it.

[1] Heck, any context. Are context-sensitive grammars really useful in the study of natural languages? I wouldn't be surprised if the answer turns out to be "no".
Upvoted for the title, but the content is a little thin.
Even with your "Before this gets misinterpreted" sentence, your post is essentially saying: "Oh yes, well, internet in Africa would be nice, but those Africans, you know, they mainly use the internet to try to scam people in the first world". As such it is inaccurate, smug, racist and ignorant, and reflects an implicit assumption that the world should be organized so that it is benign to the interests of affluent westerners.
I like the near suburbs of Seattle. Cheaper than B.C. and also home to a lot of tech talent and some VCs and incubators. Also a lot of tech jobs at established companies to fall back on if your startup fails. WA also has great schools and lots of family/outdoor activities.

I honestly don't understand how anyone can afford to live in B.C. Victoria is beautiful, but I don't see how there are enough high-paying jobs to support the prices there. Unless the locals somehow pay much less for everything than tourists do.

Vancouver, fuhgeddaboutit. The Chinese investors have driven the prices for formerly middle class homes into the millions.
Doodling and the default network of the brain
That's funny cause it was my understanding that watching an hour of TV would cut an hour from my life span, not 22 minutes...
Teenagers' mistakes will stay with them forever, warns Google chief Eric Schmidt
An Ubuntu Riak #devrel | Composite Code
Introducing Panolapse - a new tool for adding motion to timelapses
You've hit the nail on the head. Every website these days has widgets, for lack of a better word, that are reused all over the place. Anything we can do to make it easier to package up those widgets so I can drop them in place on a new html page is A Good Thing IMHO.

Opinionated frameworks are great, until you need to do something they didn't anticipate. If you're lucky it's easy to work around, and if you're not then welcome to your latest nightmare.

The whole polyfill concept is exactly what the world needs to allow browsers to grow and mature at different rates.
success used to come after a series of failures. i guess it's not as easy anymore
Karma inflation
Adding to the other comments, I've encountered similar on shared hosts. The first time, when I encountered something similar through a PHP program, I reached out; I did get a response from support (who were responsive and did on their own escalate to a higher level), along the lines of, "We know. It's not ideal, but it's the best we can do within the current systems design."