skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really something, thanks for sharing.
> 18. Hire friends and friends of friends.

With "friend := someone whom you personally know for sure to be a able worker"

> 57. Celebrate your wins as a company. Get t-shirts for big milestones.

If you insist on making your employees cringe ...
It's more than a baby box. I do not know how familiar you are with some European countries' social system, but young parents are usually given quite a few months of vacation time and salary from the state, a sort of children allowance until a child is 18 years old (100EUR or so), tax deductions for every child until a child is 18 years old, kindergarten 'bonuses', free health care for every child and similar.

So this definitely deserves a lot of attention as it makes young parents' lives quite easier. And I am not arguing against it, just that in the end someone has to pay for it.
It looks like the baby has been photoshopped over the box...
I'm fed up with the arrogant techie-revolutionist interpretations of bitcoin...
Three's 3G data network is down UK wide
Not much worse than being influenced by the articles themselves. Science reporting is just awful, universally as far as I can tell.
Hacking into the Indian Education System
Its bullshit like this that gives bitcoin a bad name, now the spinsters will use this article to spin bitcoin in a negative light, well done :(
Google's Data Black Hole
Two Factor authentication in JSP
AWS best practices:

plan for EBS to fail

plan for RDS to fail

'snapshot early snapshot often', as snapshots will help you in case of a failure

there is no automatic snapshot functionality ( yet? )

plan how to snapshot an EBS RAID (Filesystem, uptime)
I think so. Haha. Sarcasm detector is on the fritz.
Apple devices vulnerable to attack via bogus charger
This Is the Perfect Pinterest Picture, According to Science
Why don't you openly discuss the issue with him? As your co-founder he deserves your trust and you deserve his understanding. Chances are he actually reads HN.
*isnt much cheaper if you need a server with no storage or network usage.
Perhaps every patent suit should trigger an automatic re-assesment of the patent in question. Right now, it seems the biggest weapon in a patent trolls arsenal is the über-general patent; patents so vague that they can literally apply to anything in the past, present and future. Triggering a re-evaluation of a patent every time it is used in litigation would, I think, serve as a huge deterrent.

With regard to companies like ARM, who's patents are of a very high quality and technically innovative and detailed, it would be hard for people to argue that they don't deserve the patent. But people who have essentially patented the internet without providing any worthwhile details would find it a lot more difficult to retain their patent once other interested parties are given the opportunity to call it out as bullshit.

I do think it is a little unfair to ask the patent offices to make the right call every time with regard to patent filings, simply because of the sheer volume they have to process. Giving them a second chance to evaluate a patent with the input of experts in the field that a particular patent relates to would be beneficial to everyone.

Going to an extreme: Maybe you could grant any and all patent filings automatically, and only the patents used in patent suits are evaluated. So all patents are worthless until tested. Or that might be a bad idea, I've not given it much thought beyond this.
Running it alone is pain, I can do things on my own, but that model does not scale. It takes too long. Besides I can't be expert at everything. So I need to add people with complementary skillsets.

I make sure people gel well with me, but you can't give everything you got to a new comer, no matter how genuine he appears, right?
Even those who can't be bothered to categorise their contacts can use the automatically-generated ones, based on family, location and college/workplace. It's very freeing to be able to ask only close friends in my city if they want to see a movie, or link only those that I have put in the "Techie" group to a great article I found on Hacker News.
Definition of spinster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinster
And those other countries were identical in every respect and hence perfect statistical controls?
Here's two bits:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/10/google-secretly-invested-10...

http://allthingsd.com/20110718/zynga-updates-ipo-filing-to-l...
I find programming for iOS easier. I also think the target market on iOS is better quality than the Android one, despite of raw market share they are a lot of small and underpowered Android devices out of there.

If I were creating an startup with a mobile app I would definitely launch on iOS first, test the waters and see how that goes. If it works then I would start thinking about launching in other platforms.
This seems like it could just as easily be of the same issue like the "$17 muffin" outcry for guests at a government event (which turned out to be $17 for a full breakfast).

Consider:

1) the amount a normal business spends on its employees happiness (especially tech) and the fact that the IRS likely doesn't have most of those things to begin with

2) Government pay has been mostly frozen for what, 3 years now? Would you stay in an environment where you can't advance? From a business perspective, how do you keep talent in this situation without giving anyone a raise?

3) the IRS is one of the most (unnecessarily) reviled institutions of government, even before its recent troubles. Historically it has caused people psychological stress based on this factor alone (read about it previously; I'll try to dig up some links to substantiate.)

I think the interesting discussion here is to compare what the IRS did to what a tech company would do and then dig into why we cheer one and boo the other. Unless we think of the IRS as mindless trolls and not smart people who really do want to serve the public, we have to recognize that people don't deserve to toil in stagnant unhappiness just because they chose public service instead of private.
There are numerous mobile agencies around the world today, making apps for simultaneous release on multiple platforms. I don't buy this argument when we're talking about large teams with dedicated design and development teams for each platform.

Vine probably had the resources to work on an Android version, but a decision was made to support iOS only from the start.
Isn't that what http://tldr.io/ does?
That is because the 140 EUR grant is of significantly less value, which is absolutely wonderful motivation to do things properly.

I applaud what they do in Finland.
Miley Cyrus “We Cant Stop” SF Tour A Social Media Revolution
That's actually how newspapers work though: a big headline to draw your attention, summary to draw your interest and then the body of the article.
> I can assure you that in the real world, class is entirely irrelevant and ethics and morals are.

I believe you in your claim that ethics and morals are independent of class. But that is entirely irrelevant to the argument over the existence of classes.

> There are no classes other than in the media.

So everyone have the same economic means and same influence over their life? The owner of a factory and the worker of a factory's interests are directly aligned with each others?

> To observe both signs of wealth and signs of poverty at the same time has certain obvious implications.

I'm not quite so sure the implications are as obvious as what you claim. But that is in any case irrelevant, as individual observations are still just that.

> It's all logic.

Logic does not substitute for missing data.
Can you post your sample before/after configs? It'd greatly help me understand how Docker can help me, as I can't run it on any of my machines currently (although I just retried it and the "unexpected EOF" error seems to have gone away).
SVG pan example
Intel shows first Merrifield-based smartphone
It has been a long time since I purchased any, and I notice only so many, but what exactly is macho or feminine about a white onesie?
Not only that, but I expect the neonatal benefits amount to a public good - an expenditure of public money that saves more than it costs by improving outcomes and reducing the need for expensive interventions.
That convinces me its a good idea
I remember him saying on the same programme (NewsWipe) that people on the street used to be more serious in their responses, perhaps because they thought the News should be serious and factual.
You tell him 'here's how you access the source code.' After all, it's his company too.

You shouldn't have found a cofounder if you're not willing to do this.
> then freezing that container into an immutable, portable unit of deployment.

Doesn't doing that make a git repo of all the files currently in the container? Wouldn't it take ages to upload this to your machine, versus just uploading a dockerfile and having it rebuild the image from scratch?

I get that Docker containers are sort-of VMs, but I don't really understand the freeezing functionality at the moment... It seems to me that you'd have to freeze the entire binary image, whereas an ansible script/Docker build file would be much more portable and result in the same thing.
Fashions come and go in advice. Generations of American babies were put down to sleep on their sides, now the thinking is that they should be on their backs.
Well it is pretty simple for bitcoin to bring down the US.

1. Create a country somewhere or invade/buy one.

2. Achieve international recognition.

3. Create economy order or two of magnitude bigger than the US

4. Adopt BTC as national currency.

5. Now everyone that wants to trade with you must buy BTC.

6. Trade sanctions against the US.

And in 20-30 years after the sanctions it may even have result.
The option to know (during the second ultrasound exam) is there, we for example did know. Some people choose not to know and many more keep the gender a secret from others until the baby is actually born.
Html canvas playground
evil.js is just beautiful...
The view point of what I had in history about WW2 and the Cold War in Germany about the use of atomic bombs against Japan was that

1 - Japan was already defeated and it was only a question of time

2 - Atomic bombs didn't drop on Germany because the Third Reich surrendered before

3 - The US needed an actual use case to assert the damage and potential of this as yet unknown weapon

4 - It was as much about threatening the sowjets as it was about ending the war in the Pacific if not more so

What I know about the late days of the second world war is that they were regarded by both the future NATO allies (read the Commonwealth and the US) and the Sowjets as the basically the first days of a future conflict between these parties. Germany and Japan didn't play much of a role in this picture any more.

So what the US got from the use of nuclear weapons was much more than just the japanese surrender. It was a stronger position compared to the Sowjets and the garantee that the war in europe didn't continue on after the German surrender. In order to prevent this, the western allies even slowed their advance to Berlin to allow the Sowjets their successes. Which doesn't mean they didn't have their fair share of it anyway.

But that is just my point of view and I'm no historian.

And finally to the point about saving lives. I've grown tired of nationalistic people stating an unverifiable estimate of probale deaths as the herois reason to kill any number people right know. You don't save people by killing others and it is certainly not heroic. I know that the victors writes the history, but this argument mostly comes up in cases where some really bad things have to reinterpreted.
American conservatives adopting chomskian media analysis? What's going on here?
> And I am not arguing against it, just that in the end someone has to pay for it.

What if it turned out that the baby pays for it because the improved average upbringing allows the baby to earn more and consequently pay more tax in absolute terms, though not in percentage terms?

Would it be a cost to the taxpayer then?
[video] CSS preprocessor performance - Nicole Sullivan presentation
Mind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk
Want that job? Just recall a time you felt powerful
Thanks for taking a screenshot; I'm only on a 1680x1050 22", so I really have no good way of testing large resolutions! :) What's your resolution? Is it any better now, care to take a new screenshot? (Proxy debugging/designing through HN ftw)
I'm curious as to how were they able to poach. Money, equity, working conditions, all of these, none of these...?

Working conditions in some of the big companies in the real games industry sound pretty bad to me, but I am only going on lazy reading of articles like "EA spouse", I have no experience in the industry itself. I think I'd be pretty outraged to be on a Farmville death march, for sure.
What if he tells me the next week - "my dear friend, I have some other priorities in life, I won't be able to focus on building the startup anymore??"

And 3 months down the line I later realize, some friend of his, is running a similar startup??
The sushi chef was leaving his apartment when he noticed the stranger outside.
He could tell by the man's suit—black and badly made—that he was North Korean.
Right away, the chef was nervous. Even in his midsixties, the chef is a
formidable man: He has thick shoulders, a broad chest; the rings on
his strong hands would one day have to be cut off. But he'd long since
quit wearing his bulletproof vest, and the last time a North Korean made
the journey to visit him in Japan, a decade ago, he was there to kill him.

Incredibly well-written first paragraph, it's been a while since I've read such an engrossing opening to an article.
... but young parents are usually given quite a few months of vacation time and salary from the state, a sort of children allowance until a child is 18 years old (100EUR or so)...

In the US we earn 30% more money than Finland (adjusted for cost of living, which is quite high in Finland), so we can just pay for these things with savings if we want to. Most of us choose not to, suggesting these benefits are worth less to us than money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
Don't worry, there are several permutations and combinations in the world.
even apart from the difficulty of "fire fast" that you point out, how does one reconcile "Hire friends and friends of friends" and "fire fast" without bringing rampant destruction in relationships and personal life?
"I have successfully used Python's threads to perform concurrent database fetches, http page getters, file uploads in parallel. Yes, there was almost linear speedup"

Yes, for that, the Python threading model works fine.

The problem is if you're doing a lot of processing on the threads and/or passing data between them.

For CPU concurrency, go with Multiprocessing, works like a charm (maybe using ZeroMQ between the processes)
Of course he doesn't mean every single American - he's making a generalization. But kindly note that in the weeks after 9/11, fully three quarters of Americans supported a military engagement against countries that harbored terrorists - even, explicitly, if thousands of innocent civilians of those countries would be killed.
Other people have already commented on the trust and business issues. But regarding:

> Since the business has not picked up, all the worth that my startup has is the source code.

I believe this worth is zero. Unless you have built a solution to a cutting-edge, patentable Computer Science problem (for example a face recognition algorithm that beats all competition), the source code itself has no value.

General web/mobile/desktop app source code is too specific for the particular purpose to be useful for other apps - and a competent team could rewrite the common parts faster than it takes to understand and adjust existing code. You will not find anyone willing to pay for the source code unless you are also selling patents, the team or user base along with it.
I would also like to know what a "pure continuation" is. Would you post a link or two that explains pure vs non-pure continuations? I've had no luck with web searches.
Good book but I'd like to see more detailed explanation of MCMC inner workings. I'm very uncomfortable with using mathematical blackboxes I don't understand. Can anyone suggest a good introductory textbook into MCMC?
What I see when I stand outside ASDA are a bunch of normal people, and then some poor people who struggle to buy food and pay their rent. I don't see fancy clothes and designer pushchairs, I see old tracksuits and second-hand pushchairs, I see people who don't have jobs and feel bad about themselves.

Demand for food-banks in the UK has soared. But if only they didn't spend it on fags and wide-screen TVs they'd be able to eat.
Being a freelancer and student
Stirling engine and Minecraft
>Even assuming that Google is trying to become Facebook and that everyone is "trying to get acquired", why do those situations preclude trying to create something that you believe has actual value[?]

well, assuming you honestly believe that facebook creates enough real value to justify it's valuation, sure, you are right. My take on the matter is that it's myspace 2.0. I mean, no question, it's worth something, but not nearly what it's valued at right now. I personally have a very difficult time believing that anyone who was working in the industry during the first dot-com can honestly believe that facebook is a sustainable business.

The only people I know who honestly espouse the view that facebook is fairly valued are facebook employees. (Interestingly, I know no facebook employees who were working during the first dot com.)

I mean, maybe these people all really believe exactly what their paymasters want them to believe? Personally, I find that thought far more creepy than the idea that they are just faking it because that's what the employer requires. Certainly there is some selection effect; you are more likely to apply for a facebook job if you believe the company is going somewhere? but it's weird. I remember one guy who is probably the staunchest facebook advocate I know now, he was extremely cynical about facebook before he got the job. Of course, he's also pretty young, too young to have worked through the first dot-com.

The weird thing is that I know a bunch of people who work for defense contractors, too... a place where you'd expect a certain level of brainwashing. None of those people believe their companies are doing good things for the world. Not one. I mean, they generally think the work is really interesting, but they don't believe at all in the end goals. (and I do have some conservative friends... it's just that none of them work for defense contractors.)

But then, what do I know? I find that what I consider to be 'spammy crap' is a pretty good heuristic for what most people want. I don't use facebook because it consists almost entirely of what I would call spammy crap. Spammy crap and baby pictures.
I will say, that in some countries NDA/Non Competes can be problematic to enforce. TBH If you can't trust him with source, I would not have him as a Co-Founder
I've got exactly the same feeling. Could you suggest a good introductory textbook into MCMC? They left it as a mysterious blackbox and I'm not very uncomfortable with using mathematical blackboxes I don't understand.
Leadership: Power vs Influence
There are two forms or dimensions of leadership. One is power, the other, influence. Often we confuse the two. After all, those who have power often have influence, and those who have influence have a certain kind of power. In fact, however, the two are quite different, even opposites.

We can see this by a simple thought-experiment.

Imagine you have total power, and then you decide to share it with nine others. You now have one-tenth of the power with which you began. Imagine, by contrast, that you have a certain measure of influence, and now you share it with nine others. How much do you have left? Not less. In fact, more. Initially there was only one of you; now there are ten. Your influence has spread.

Power operates by division, influence by multiplication. With power, the more we share, the less we have. With influence, the more we share, the more we have.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “The influence we have lives after us; the power is oft interred with our bones.”

People still contend for power. If only we would realize how narrow its limits are. It is one thing to force people to behave in a certain way; quite another to teach them to see the world differently so that, of their own accord, they act in a new way.

The use of power diminishes others; the exercise of influence enlarges them.

-Excerpts from http://www.chiefrabbi.org/2013/06/03/covenant-conversation-korach-power-vs-influence/
I do this at home. Chrome is for me and Firefox is for my wife and kids. It's partly for historical reasons though. Originally we all used Firefox, but when I switched to Chrome they didn't. The benefits to them, versus having to learn a different UI, wasn't there.
I'm saying that so far, compensation has not stagnated.

...relative income (and wealth) growth of the working/middle class has dramatically paled in comparison to that of the wealthiest.

Since I'm not the jealous sort, why should I care? Life has improved significantly for everyone. Why worry that it has improved for some more than others?

That is, as the economy has expanded, the former group has not--by any measure--participated proportionally in the rewards it conveys.

The former group has also not--by any measure--participated proportionally in expanding the economy.

Here is a somewhat dated quote by a rather famous economist describing the 1980's (but it applies equally well to the 1990's and 2000's):

"...growth in inequality is not a simple picture. Old-line leftists, if there are any left, would like to make it a single story--the rich becoming richer by exploiting the poor. But that's just not a reasonable picture of America in the 1980s. For one thing, most of our very poor don't work, which makes it hard to exploit them. For another, the poor had so little to start with that the dollar value of the gains of the rich dwarfs that of the losses of the poor..."

Paul Krugman, The Age of Diminished Expectations, 1990, p. 22.
As it happens, I am one of such tax payers, since I live in a country with similar arrangements for young parents as Finland. Also, by having two kids, I have been twice a beneficiary of this system. To repeat, I completely support such system, I just don't agree with ProcessBlue's statement, quote, ".. bit fuzzy but if I remember correctly the FREE tier of forming babby in Finland includes ...".
What's amusing (for me) is the first I heard about this was via their Twitter account - I was on the internet at the time using their data network, having just turned my phone on!

Three seems fairly reliable, with a decent signal strength in my area, compared to O2/giffgaff (which my friends like to use).

Their support on Twitter is fairly quick to respond, but I suppose that's more indicative of the way support over social media is nowadays.
It's in the name, of course: Elastic Compute Cloud. If you need a static cloud, it's not for you.
Page bookmarker with JQuery
Nordic countries gets it, in more ways than just this.