skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about it though, if you are assuming people are operating at that level and don't understand what the "free" means in this context, do you really think a simple explanation will all of the sudden enlighten them?

Using the analogy and talking about common knowledge in computer industry, this is basic enough that's the equivalent of "most computers need an electrical supply to work". If you are talking to someone about building a data center or scaling out a database and then you need to remind them that computers don't work based on unicorns but on electricity not sure if it makes sense to even remind them or continue the conversation.
I got the axe at a job a few years ago at lunch on a Thursday. By 3pm I had a new gig lined up start the following Monday.

Networking and contacts (and I mean legitimate networking) really play a big part in your overall success.

I'm in a large city, but nothing like NYC or the Valley either.
PubNub Messenger (Pt 3 of 3): Appifying, Responsive UI, and Future Improvements
"We need to take our industry back from the leeches." Hence, my recommendation to create his/her own company as an effort to "take back the industry."

I never mentioned or implied that one would need to be an entrepreneur in order to criticize others in this field. And if you are going to criticize others, do it constructively, which the original OP obviously didn't do. Thanks.
Thanks, dad. Leadership and life lessons from a pre-internet entrepreneur
To become a whitehat. You have to know the trade in blackhat. Know your enemy. And that goes both ways in network security.
NASA: Rare Stellar Alignment Will Help Hunt For Planets
Google Analytics Becomes A Robust Testing Platform With Content Experiments API
A repurchase right can mean different things - you'd need to go to the specific language to really determine what it means.

In the case of Sam Altman's founder-friendly term sheet, what you're describing is covered by the 'ROFR/Co-Sale Agreement' section.

The repurchase right here refers to what happens if a founder leaves before their four-year vesting schedule is up - the company has the right to repurchase their unvested stock, almost certainly (although his term sheet doesn't specify) at the original near-zero issue price.

Since founders typically own 100% of their stock for tax purposes (hold it for a year, only have to pay long-term instead of short-term capital gains), the only way companies can subject founders to a vesting schedule is to have the option of buying the unvested portion back.
There's nothing really wrong with RPC-like APIs. They're often much simpler to use in modern web development, for developers with access to documentation.

Hyperlinking has a few benefits, the biggest being discoverability without the need for browsing some documentation that explains how to build URLs, but it's not always the best possible solution for every application -- and it typically leads to chatty applications.

The only thing that bothers me, though, is when these RPC APIs are called "RESTful" just because they use HTTP verbs correctly.
Congratulations, he realized the advantages of monadic composition of computations.
Wikipad finally arrives, gaming tablet goes on sale June 11th for $249.99
(Shrug) I'm guessing the rest of us can get along OK without this enterprising young gentleman. It's not as if he's likely to cure cancer or start the next Google.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable about these things can answer this for me: when they say that this resulted in the loss of $370 million, is that number the entire mission cost or simply the actual rocket plus Cluster cost? I imagine the r&d cost far outweighs the cost of the actual build. I've been wondering at the same time why we don't send another one or two rovers to mars based on the design of curiosity seeing how it worked, as how expensive would the entire build be to replicate considering there's no more r&d costs?
It was abuse, using a misogynistic word, in a department where there is already a dearth of women due to the hostility they face. Brushing it under the carpet by denying her experience isn't helpful. You don't need to read this story to learn of sexism in CS departments, just ask any woman who does computer science and you can hear plenty of stories.
Someone took that bet?!
> Smart/complex code that works is a great intermediate step though, it's way better than no code. :)

I'm totally with you on that. Often, the way to solve a problem is to first solve it wrong. In the process of doing that, you can see the way to solve it right. Trying to reach the endpoint in one fell swoop of envisioning and coding is actually another beginner move I've seen a bit.

What I'm totally not down with is complexity as an end goal. And yes, I've seen this mentality in programming.
Node GH - All the power of GitHub in your terminal
Making a lot of assumptions about the job and yourself, obviously, but that strikes me as a $150K position, if not higher. I've seen a few roles like that go for $180-200K total comp in the NYC area.

It may a little bit of negotiation finesse (or more realistically, holding several offers in hand at once and willing to play them against each other).
Definitely. I'm left with no idea how Go actually helps. You can trivially implement 'pipelines' in any language by making a handful of queue structures and using them to feed your functions. Why were there callbacks in the first place?
This is off-topic, but I find bootstrap dropdown menu code to be lacking in several areas:

1) I haven't been able to figure out how to have the same dropdown pop up on multiple triggers without cloning the menu for each trigger.

2) It doesn't automatically drop up or down based on the location of the trigger in the page. For example if the trigger is near the bottom of the page the menu should pop up, otherwise down.

3) It seems like the popup needs to be in the same container div as the trigger so depending on overflow you sometimes end up having to scroll to see the menu.

Am I just not using it right?
Are there other jQuery / javascript popup menus that have these features or add them to bootstrap?
This is a point worth considering that the other comments seem to ignore. If you embezzle a million dollars from a charity and give half of it back, that doesn't make you an altruistic person. (Saying that just as a thought experiment, not saying that's what's hapenning here.)

For the justification to hold up, you probably need to believe some mixture of the following:

- high frequency trading adds value to society comparable to the amount of money you make

- more money should be transferred from the first world to the third world than people are currently voluntarily willing to give
Pretty neat. Flatiron School is definitely one of the better programs out there, but if you're not prepared you won't get in.
Man, just when I thought we might agree on something.

A DSL? SQL IS a freakin DSL. Why would I put another layer of abstraction between me and it? Just more places for things to go wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

Anyways that particular problem yesterday wasn't a compilation problem, it was due to my own misunderstanding of some pre-existing data.

You're proposing a more-complicated way of doing things with the idea that eventually we'll get to the promised land and things get simple again. I've just never seen it happen. Seen the opposite plenty of times.
Well, floorplan financing is a finance vehicle like any other, so terms are different among participating providers. Also, I'm a bit unsure of what you mean by "sunk costs".

Each vehicle ordered into inventory is an advance on the line of credit that has repayment fees and interest. Each vehicle sold then translates into paying the floorplan provider the advance amount + fees.

In your example, I'm unsure of how you fail to see that Car B is already costing the dealership more money. But let's work it out anyway.

Car A just arrived. Car B has been sitting for 100 days.

Car A cost $20,000 and is on the lot for 0 days @ $10/day.
Total repayment? $20,000.

Car B cost $20,000 and is on the lot for 110 days @ $10/day.
Total repayment? $21,100.

If you were the dealer, would you want to lose that additional $1,100? I'm willing to bet it would matter to you.

Complex case:

You're in a floorplan agreement that requires repayment of advances in full (including accrued interest and fees) in n days. You damn well better sell enough specific inventory to cover this without losing profit. The longer specific inventory stays on the lot when you're repaying each period, the more screwed up your numbers become.

It is about both moving inventory and moving specific inventory when that inventory is costing the dealer as much money as 10 other cars that sit on the lot for 20 days each.

Moreover, the typical expected time-on-lot tends to be between 30-90 days. Floorplan terms are usually negotiated for these typical cycles. If a dealer is in a floorplan setup that is built for a 90-day max turnaround, and then has vehicles that sit around for 200+ days, that can add up to significantly higher fees per old car that eats into the profit margin. This is especially important with dealers who are selling based on a profit-per-vehicle basis, as opposed to the profit-per-level basis in use by volume dealers. Last thing you want to do (as a dealer) is strike a deal on a 200-day-old car that you had to strip to invoice price or below to sell, and then repay a floorplan advance + fees that exceed the sales price. It happens, but you still don't want it to happen.

More important still, if a dealer is unable to keep moving inventory off their lot (whether through consumer sales, fleet sales, or dealer trades), then they have more inventory eating up their floorplan, diminishing the amount of inventory they can continue to purchase to replenish supply.

Now, to balance all this out and try to create new profit centers that both put more cash in the bank and provide another opportunity to make money off a potentially negative car sale, we have the Dealer Finance Officer. An absolutely disgusting professional. But that is a different kind of discussion. You may already be familiar with how finance officers help increase dealer profits-per-sale.
Last weekend's episode was a followup to one from two years ago, so there is possibility that their work has affected public discourse.
The most likely thing is that the car is disassembled and sold as spare parts, which usually brings in much more money than selling the car itself, especially if the body is old and beat-up. For example, you can probably sell the car's computer or ignition control unit or ABS controller for hundreds of dollars. If someone has a car that runs well and is worth thousands of dollars, he probably won't just give it away for a tax deduction; he'll try to sell it or trade it in. (This is also what happens to lots of stolen cars: they get taken to a "chop shop".)
I can't believe you're even talking about the same company. This runs contrary to everything I believe.
There are two actually:
http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/zombie-startups/

and
http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/04/double-tap/
So 88% of reexamined patents are modified or invalidated. But how does this lead to the conclusion that 88% of all patents would be modified or invalidated if they were reexamined?

An ex parte reexamination requires a fee. People don't randomly choose patents for reexamination, they only challenge the weakest ones.
| I mean legitimate networking

Are you trying to distinguish relationships vs. contacts/acquaintances here (i.e. "knowing people professionally" vs. "knowing people from going to a couple of meetups")?
Ask HN: Anyone in Portland - What's the job market like?
I'm seriously considering moving to Portland, OR next year and working on a Comp Sci degree. When I finish it out I'd like to stay in Portland. Just wondering what the job market is like there. I hear it's hard to get jobs even in tech - but I find it hard to believe.
I'm a little confused by the conclusion that "It is up to donors to do their research and donate in a way that will maximize the support they provide for charities." I gave a 10 year old Honda Civic with 198,000 miles on it to KQED. A truck showed up and took it away and I got a tax deduction. The car ran okay but didn't pass the California smog test and the chances of me selling it to a third party were small. I got what I wanted, an old car taken away for very little effort. I chose KQED because I'm a big fan of public radio. It was up to KQED to maximise the amount of money they got for it.
Yes, you're right. I'll remember for next time!
What prevents selling cars over internet and then just ship 'em?
Mongo Shell Cheat Sheet [pdf]
Zynga Reportedly Shuts Down OMGPOP
What if I lost my laptop?
Here's a few:

Alan Jackson - "Where were you when the world stopped turning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj6zdWLUuk

Pete Schmidt - Lost in New York

Darryl Worley - Have you forgotten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU

Springsteen - The Rising
(lower link includes plane impact footage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnB4dkVRJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmSllqr6Qzs
From what I understand of the patent office, the problem with their methodology is the test for obviousness: has this already been patented? No? Then it's non-obvious.

Which of course ignores the possibility that a typical engineer working in this area would assume that the idea is obvious and therefore ineligible for patent. So the ethical engineer doesn't apply, but giganticorp's legal staff pesters their engineering team to patent every possible idea, obvious or not. Which they dutifully do.

Of course, how would the patent office know that the idea is non-obvious to an engineer trained in the state of the art, unless they employ engineers who are trained in the state of the art in every engineering discipline?
I keep it simple and use the Pomodoro technique:

- 25 min non stop work (try e.ggtimer.com for a timer to keep track)

- 5 min off (free time)

- After 3 or so pomodoro's, reward yourself with a 15-20 minute break and repeat

This technique has been very effective in everything from writing my master's thesis (which I hated) to learning web dev frameworks (such as RoR).
This is why I've never been a big fan of using environment variables for app configuration. It seems like a clean enough abstraction, but when you start investigating the differences between distributions, applications, and even different packages of the same application, it can get pretty unwieldy. Everyone I raise this argument with replies with something along the lines of, "It's easy if you do it <this way>!" Where <this way> is some prescribed method that works in their environment. Change one aspect of their stack, and that method no longer works. It's a failure of portability that drives me crazy. I don't like marrying myself to a specific platform to that degree.
Can someone translate this for me? I'm not sure what it would mean to have 'Parse Hosting', 'Cloud Code', etc... I've only recently started to learn nodejs and didn't have any trouble pushing my tutorial made app to Heroku. Is this just an alternative to Heroku that hosts your app?
That demonstrates a problem not just with the patent system, but the legal system itself. There will always be a number of people who will cave to a legal threat if they have enough money to pay off the threat and not enough money to fight it... unless the legal threat has some sort of risk associated with the one making the threat, there will be people who take advantage of it.

As horrifying as it is, I'm actually kinda happy this nasty crap is going on. The best way to get a problem fixed is to exploit it relentlessly.
We are definitely using HIPAA-compliant methods of data encryption for transmission and storage within the cloud.
Sparking Innovation with Open Data, APIs and Legos
Great. We agree to these terms. Thanks, Sam. Welcome to Team Earbits.
Does anyone know if there's science to back this up?

The brain is a malleable organ. Every time you do an activity, or have a thought, you are changing a piece of yourself into something slightly different than it was before. Every hour you spend with others, you become more like the people around you. Gradually, you become a different person... You will become more hedge fund, less malaria.

I've read studies that show the more you expose yourself to a song or a person, the more you'll like it/him, even if you started off hating it/him. But that doesn't mean you become more like the person.
And the whole point of my question (re: arguing in fact) was that the parent was not arguing with facts, but was advancing suppositions with no provided factual basis. I was not rebutting any claims made.

To that end, and as I stated clearly, I did the same, offering guesses at what might be going on in the dealer opposition based on experience working with dealerships before. But, ultimately, even my surmising lacks evidence, and so neither of us are arguing with facts--we're simply not advancing a metaphor.

EDIT: Attempting to clarify that my comment was not intended to dispute anything the parent said, but to add another potential view. Apparently I misunderstood the parent's meaning of the phrase "argue in fact".
He really tied the company together.
Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation
The bet was:

Mine - refer.ly would die and a new company would arise. The new company would be about business meta data. Then as she published the blog articles, I modified to state they would be selling data to VCs. I knew the so called pivot to compete with medium was a bluff, because there was no financial incentive to do so. Plus this team had always been very data driven.

The other bet - They would pivot into a medium with social features (AKA a social blogging platform(whatever that means)).
Can someone tell me why this article spends 90% of its wordcount talking about the rocket used to launch the spacecraft rather than the spacecraft itself?
I'm no expert on the US IP system, but it seems to me like a big part of the problem is that the USPTO grants patents for ideas which are both obvious and not novel. Some more ridiculous examples are the patents on making toast and the server patent mentioned in "When Patents Attack" where over 5000 patents for "the same thing" were in existence when that one was filed. Even then the patent was invalidated on the basis that the filer failed to mention his co-inventors rather than on the basis of prior art. I'm confused as to how those could ever get through the approval process in the first place, am I missing some finer points here?
I believe s/he's saying if you invest the effort to learn Node (considering you already know js), you could find yourself in a significantly more marketable position in the near future (thus increasing the chances of making that 100k).
Does anybody know if Amazon partners with large grocery chains? Seems to me that if Amazon.com was the last mile delivery/fulfillment service for already existing brick-and-mortar grocery chains, then they wouldn't be competing and maybe the grocery chains might actually go for it?

Maybe there is a first mover advantage for a chain who partners with Amazon. They could piggyback the service on top of the grocery chain's existing infrastructure and exploit Amazon's infrastructure and scale at the same time.

Maybe that way, the physical grocery stores could still keep their doors open, lower prices, perhaps be reduced in size and become more of a local warehouse.
So some back of the envelope calculations here...correct me if I misstep:

They average 5.70 per product.
Assumption - 1 product per hour.
Assumption - 20hrs/day (leaving time for adding more plastic and down time)

This totals about $114/day and at 7 days a week this would take approx. 16 days to pay for the box itself.
Now include expense of filament (again, approx $20 per day for 20 pieces or so, this is a guess and highly depending on the product and I am assuming they took that into account) for a total of about 20 days of constant 20hr/day operation to pay for just the materials and printer. Now include the costs of creating a queuing system for procrastinators who don't pick up their stuff right away. And technician time to manage errors, refills, maintenance, etc. If you can get 250 people to buy a product this sounds like a decent idea.

Now just make sure neat things can be printed and you are a winner.

I may have to try this.
I would think the sentence reflects more his continuing criminal career than the immediate crime at hand.

I'm not sure about this case, but it could much like the three strike laws mentioned above. He only got five years for the robbery, five years for the threat, and forty years for his habitual criminal activity. As stated, in three-strike territory he possibly would have gotten life simply for the robbery of $35 worth of ribs.

I agree with the above, singling out Texas as some kind of outlier for this type of thing doesn't seem quite right.
I know this isn't exactly a constructive post, but...
https://www.google.com/search?q=why%20zynga%20sucks&hl=e...
isn't exactly short on results. The company and how it is run are fairly widely considered examples of everything that can be wrong with social/mobile game development.
Search as Communication: A Personal Journey
Why is it terrible? Sure, money was lost. But terrible it is not.
It's amazing the dogged persistence of the west in digging up events from more than 20 years ago and trying to carve the narrative of Chinese history of 1 billion people over the last 30 years around this event that lasted maybe two weeks and involved a few thousand. Think of the billions of people, their lives changing, the greatest mass migration in history to the cities, the greatest uplift in economic standards of people in world history and all that matters is this one event. The issue here is focus. What events are picked out of the trillions and magnified to encompass the whole expanse of our understanding about a particular topic and which ones are completely ignored yet hugely significant to people's lives?
> Send a message to the server to process all approved cases, which has no connection to an individual resource.

"Individual resources" are defined by the needs of the API. If you need an endpoint that can be given a command to process all approved cases, then that is an "individual resource".

The particular kind of resource I'd normally model it as is one which is or has a collection resource in which individual command instances are the members of the collection.

> It's an action, but it's not really a post.

I disagree. Submitting a new request to initiate the action is exactly a request to create a new command resource subordinate to the collection of commands subordinate to the command processing endpoint resource, which naturally maps to an HTTP POST action to the collection. The processing of approved cases, and the resulting changes to the backend data store, are consequences (side effects) of the creation of that resource.

> This may not be a document-based API like REST expects

REST doesn't expect a "document-based API". It expects a resource based API. Commands, collections of commands, and endpoints which have collections of commands as well as other subordinate resources are all, themselves, valid resources, whether or not they are sensibly described as "documents".
Think Hedge-funds.
understandably a company would want to pay less for higher quality work, but at the same time if the process was rigorous and assuming many tech recruiters are also trying to poach the employees - i would think 'on the cheap' wouldn't really apply given supply/demand here
Actually one more as well: http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013/03/numbers-in-action/