skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been taking advantage of these from the day they went beta. It's a shame they're finally switching on the full price, we had quite a savings in the interim (they had been priced at the same level as "1X" dynos during the beta period, the last few months).

Our apps (Rails) tend not to be incredibly hogging, so we've been running 8-9 Unicorn workers per dyno, depending on the app, up from 4, and it's worked fantastically. With one app, we were able to scale down from 12 to 6 dynos, which helps with the routing mesh "issue" that begins to really present itself with that many dynos.

Per aculver's post, I'll have to take a look at Adept Scale - it sounds killer.
Prenda buys a $100,000 bond, while former lawyer Gibbs pleads for leniency
voluntary response data is flawed I agree, but I hesitate to call this worthless.

I'd plaster warning signs all over the place alarming people to think through their reasoning and consider all the biases that would have taken place in the poll. (come to think of it, if the poll data incites that kind of skeptical thinking in some of its readers, that in itself might make the endeavor worthwhile)
Ask HN: Best question to ask business owners?
I work as a consultant, and semi-regularly have the opportunity to interface one on one with many small business owners. I realized that since I would like to start my own business one day, that I am wasting a golden opportunity by not asking at least a simple question of the owners. Even something as simple as "So how did you go about starting your business?" is better than nothing. How can I make the most of these opportunities? These are people that I have built a good working relationship with and would feel comfortable asking such questions.
The equity isn't nearly as relevant as how much money the company is raised. It should be no shock to anyone that a job at Google / Facebook / etc. is going to pay significantly more than the equivalent job at a company with a year of runway.
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I'll consider it when you support your claim with evidence.
Interesting. Some time ago we had to regularly clear a directory with many files in an ext2 file system. We ended up mounting a separate small volume at the point in the VFS. When we needed to clear it, we would just make a new file system on the volume.
I think you can reasonably distinguish between having laws and having a criminal justice system as currently implemented. For example, you can have laws without having police officers or prosecutors or prisons. This is effectively what the civil court system does.

That does leave the question of what to do with those who commit the most serious crimes like rape and murder, but those are a small minority of the crimes currently prosecuted and are generally not the ones that best exemplify the failure of the existing justice system.
What's a good website to directly target skilled workers in Spain / Greece / Italy / etc? I'm always on the look for good design, code, marketing, writing, really just about anything (even with a little language barrier).

oDesk and similar don't seem to attract what I would consider to be 70% of a country's workforce. Any sense of if they have training / skills?

Where are these people looking for work (online)?
>Whose reality?

The reality of western life. The reality where both genders are in the workplace and where people visit the homes of others. The reality where single parents are plentiful and where both parents working is common.

You could perversely wish all of these things were not so, but that would not change the nature of reality.

This is absurd before we even get into the fact that it is not only newborns that benifit from herd immunity...

> Deciding to not get vaccinated is not deciding to be a greater risk

Of course it is. It is empirically.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BLYSVLsCEAAn8-T.jpg:large
Congrats! That sounds like a great compensation package. I'm just trying to understand though how does tax effect the overall amount that you eventually earn ? Does it come down by 35% or 40% or does it depend on when you decide to cash out your capital gains (for the stock part..) ?
Would it be possible to recreate font awesome in pure CSS? Or would it just not be worth it?
Just because I'm a massive nerd and anyone else is wondering this.

It looks left the left suit is modeled after the God Gundam (Burning Gundam in the US) in G Gundam.

The right suit seems to be the Abyss Gundam in Gundam SEED Destiny.
My base salary is $220k; this year my bonus plus equity will be around $200k, so my total compensation will be over $400k. I've been out for a number of years, and the bonus plus stock is performance based, and of course the value of the stock compensation may change depending on the future direction of Google stock --- it's climbed very nicely since the beginning of the year!

The main point is that ignoring the stock and bonus portion of the compensation leaves a huge portion of the story missing. And stock at a publicly traded company, whether it's Amazon, Facebook, Google, or IBM, is quite different from equity at a start up....
Arbitrary scaling makes images blurry, even vector graphics. It's a difficult problem to solve because computer graphics are highly aliased - they have many details only one pixel wide.

We have solved this problem with fonts, which have hinting and subpixel antialiasing. But we don't have software to do this for graphics. There is no image format with hinting, and no rendering library to do subpixel antialiasing. Hinting is difficult to do well, fonts are hinted by hand. It is a very time-consuming process and most graphic artists will not be good at it.

If your screen is sufficiently high-resolution, say 300+ dpi, you can get away without these tricks. But if you have a 140 dpi screen, and you want to scale everything 150%, it's necessary or everything will look blurry.

If you only allow pixel doubling, none of this is a problem. You can scale any graphic by 2x without ruining fine detail like thin lines.
I think that's a good question. I would support similar views in other countries. However, the US is my home, and I would not presume to dictate other countries policies to them, knowing nothing of their circumstances.
Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police
Neither or both. The market is ripe for the taking by one or many smarter solutions than the status quo.

There are more than enough locks in the work that could benefit from a smart lock. And network effects are unlikely to matter since at the end of the day there will be multilock apps that can unlock any manufacturer's smartlock via API.

Why does it always need to be a battle? In fact, they possibly could do better by teaming up to develop the market instead of compete over it.
Huh.

Given how loose the disks were, I don't know if that would have been much of an improvement or not. Probably would've been, but not by much.
Breaks on mobile devices. When I zoom in I see pixelation... Images?
Political outrage of the day that has no business being on Hacker News.

Flagged.
> the probe is much much bigger than 1 atom

I guess I didn't clearly state an additional assumption of my explanation. I assumed the oxygen atom has an electric charge, the rest of the probe structure is electrically neutral, and the electrostatic attraction/repulsion of charges is the mechanism by which the oxygen atom on the probe reacts to the sample [1].

So while the rest of the probe structure does exist, it's effectively [2] electrically neutral.

[1] I think we can agree that the gravitational attraction of the probe and sample to each other is way too small to matter.

[2] I think the large probe structure is close enough to neutral and/or far enough away from the sample to have an effect which is smaller than the effect of the oxygen atom. The structure may contribute some nontrivial amount of noise due to being neither exactly neutral nor infinitely far away, but not enough to totally drown out the signal from the oxygen atom.
also no need for seq(1) binary, in Bash for i in {1..1000000}..
I don't really buy revenge as a distinct thing from punishment. Revenge is just the lizard brain's conception of punishment as a general method for social behavior modification without the benefit of statistics or specific evidence. Which is the reason why it isn't a legitimate goal. Punishment in proportion to the offense and targeted using evidence to achieve the desired results can be socially beneficial. Revenge is nothing but undirected violence rooted in irrational anger and fear.
This isn't a particularly constructive comment, especially the sarcasm.

I can see that you've been on HN for a while, but in the future it would be great if you could consider stating your concerns directly. (Unless you're just trying to make a joke, in which case it doesn't make complete sense to me. We're talking about positions that require college education.)

Or do you genuinely believe that allowing a greater level of immigration will have more drawbacks than benefits?
They have an iPhone app which makes the whole process very slick, including taking pictures. I haven't tried selling with it yet, but it looks nice.
An unstable Turkey won't help the stability of the region any. IMO, it's news. (and no, I didn't downvote you :). )
depressing, midwest software engineer here, 6 years experience 60k.
voluntary response data is flawed I agree, but I hesitate to call this worthless.

I really don't mean to be rude, but that might just be because you don't understand statistics.
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I'm a bit surprised that Heroku doesn't give you the option to do bigger instances on EC2. It seems incredibly obvious that in many cases, going vertical makes a lot of sense and can be cheaper than going horizontal.
> It's insane how powerful CSS has gotten, can you imagine building something like this 10 years ago?

Yes, but not in CSS. Actually, the fact that CSS has evolved to do this is really an indication of what a failure CSS is. Or rather, a failure of the idea that a separate language should exist for text markup. If you're going to use CSS for this kind of thing, why not use a real, powerful language that has years of experience solving problems and has lots of libraries? Why should we ignore the past and waste time rediscovering old problems and, so we can add slower, buggier kludges?
Fuck this is awesome. Can I invest in them?
Since the author assumed everyone was clicking the second link (wikipedia), I'm surprised he didn't check to see:

http://stats.grok.se/en/201305/macro%20recorder

Not sure that these results are conclusive either way. They're somewhat higher in the last week (even ignoring 5/30 and on due to the meta-attention).

Chalk me up as another data point that thinks I'd be less likely to click on a link if I saw the face there.
You may improve the results if you started at $30k and went in increments of $10K. I doubt anyone is making $30k, but it is possible that people at the lowest level listed may not even click the arrow. If they feel like there are people coming in below where they are, they may be more likely to.

If nothing else, it makes the distribution seem to make more sense.
I know there are probably a lot of factors, but why don't you move out to the bay area?
People do click on ads too. That part is easy to test.
Actually you were the 23rd /unique/ committer - we made the authors list in order of people's first contribution :)
The only people in the world that I have ever heard say they would not think on a link with the face because they thought it would be a social link or an ad are the people on Hacker News. Why this is I'm not really sure. But I have to agree with this article, Google authorship did not make their rankings decrease at all. It was other factors that they did not want to admit to.
Hah, be thankful you're in America. Third-world programmers get half that if they're good.
I'll save you some time:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-eng...
Seriously? :( this sucks.
Update your font-size to REM units
Oh, this is just hysteria. The kind of software engineers that Amazon, Google, Facebook, et al are importing are all above the six-figure threshold, many of them well above it.

This community really makes me facepalm sometimes. It is the only group that can, while getting free massages, catered meals, free shuttles to/from work, get paid well into the six figures, and enjoys an incredibly high standard of living even by its own country's standards, still make noises as if they're the exploited proletariat that can't make ends meet.

Whatever the effect of skilled immigration - some argue it raises all boats, others argue it suppresses wages, "down to poverty levels" is dishonest hysterics when applied to our industry.
The script just fetches the project's git submodules which you can see here: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.objc/tree/master/External

I'm not sure all of those can be set up as CocoaPod dependencies though.
I've actually been waiting for the Stockholm riots to settle down a little before I analyzed them, but the results I'm expecting is a disproportionate amount of immigrant participants.
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It is always sad to lose someone in your community. The Oculus Rift seems like a pretty cool invention and hope things turn out well.

What do you even say when stuff like this happens? He was a developer and in a way we never know when each of us will meet our ends.
my heart goes out to his family and friends.
This is exactly what 2X dynos do. They've also mentioned - somewhere, having trouble finding it - that they're exploring further scaling (ie. "3X", "4X", etc.).

EDIT: Here's the mention of "4X" dynos - in the "FAQ".
https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/5/2x-dynos-beta
Where have I seen that before... Oh yeah, http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/files/2011/11/article...
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pg, please disable polls. They seem to give no useful info whatsoever, while taking up valuable front page real estate.
I'm not going to lie, I am a little bit geeked out to have Matt on the thread.

On a related note though, is there any chance of releasing any data around CTR improvements with Authorship pictures displayed.

I can think of a couple of reasons why you might not want to do that directly but I think you guys have a good history around the ability to confirm something without really saying too much that might be considered sensitive.
upvoted for style
"It's news" isn't the criteria for posting things here. Read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On one hand you're trying to invoke the emotional imagery of a wave of immigrants coming through Ellis Island, but with the stipulation that they are college educated. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses - as long as they have a STEM degree. You've managed to come across as both populist and elitist in the same argument, so sarcastic replies aren't completely unexpected.
I would say no, but the routergate comment could be a case of sockpuppetry, which I would personally classify as a type of trolling.
Before this thread I thought bay area might be 100k - 120k and cost of living / uprooting the family wasn't worth it. Also worried about the competitiveness of the market out there for software engineers.
Do they work in the bay area?
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I don't understand. Why can't you mention Rap Genius's problems with Heroku routing if your name is attached to your account?
The Chinese Wall that Isn't
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You know, you're essentially standing when walking...

Most of these trips are relatively short, somewhere around 5 to 20 minutes. Nobody is touring on a scooter.

The Segway form factor is remarkably maneuverable and space efficient for one person. But it's not $3k better than a bicycle or cheapo electric scooter. People are also familiar with riding bicycles, so there's no learning curve for scooters.

It's also hard to do this on a Segway: http://starburst.hackerfriendly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/...
Have you job shopped much? I'm from the midwest as well and my first offer out of school was 65k, I hadn't done anything particularly crazy awesome to impress anyone either.
Move to Kansas City. You can easily get 80-100k.
They don't have money to throw around. Probably would have given you meaningful (lifechanging?) equity tho.
During the whole Rap Genius fallout, I posted here a few times about the things I was bothered with on Heroku based on my own experiences running a large >100 dyno setup in production. Adam reached out privately and invited me to the offices for a free lunch and discussion about the issues I was having. He was super nice and I gained a huge amount of respect for the way he dealt with things himself. I wish him the best of luck in whatever he does next. Funny enough, I'm now working on the team that is creating CloudFoundry and seeing just how hard it is to build something like Heroku.
I have been working on something like this. A home server (called Amahi). See my profile. There is one app that one can run in a home server that is sticking out for this kind of behavior is ownCloud. We have packaged it for distribution in Amahi servers and it's resonating well with the users. I am not sure it has all the elements you would want, but many of them are there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_cont...
Doing good is indeed something that can be done all the time but he's not optimising for doing a little good all the time but for doing as much good as he can.

Every litle bit may matter but ten lives saved is ten times better than one.
Youths with nothing to lose are how bloody revolutions start, rarely turning out well for any involved.

I find one thing about the unemployment rate in Europe truly scary:

There are a /lot/ of youths there with nothing to lose.
This kind of thing a meaningless waste. He didn't need to go this way. Really a tragedy.
I usually don't feel anything when I hear of a innocent person dying on the news, but maybe because he's involved in tech, I too am very angry.

Why does the police have to chase anyway? Why can't they just identify the car and silently follow it until it stops. Damn it.
I disagree. For example, Gandhi and Mother Teresa had no money and did orders of magnitude of more good than many others with money. They did more than many others who had money and good intentions.
Do you expect that to still hold if you account for income level?
Vim-c-cr, a super simple plugin to give ctrl+enter a little magic
If you live in the future, you and everyone you know is healthy and fit. This is due, in large part, to a food delivery system that uses your medical data to plan and deliver meals for you.
Probably plan to, or St.Louis, or Chicago in the next half year or so
Because it's more fun for them if they chase. Really, very rarely should it make sense for cops to endanger countless civilian lives to catch a criminal.
You DON'T have a public Bio-API? What the hell kind of deviant behavior are you trying to hide?! Freak.
Corn based ethanol subsidies do a hell of a lot more damage to the third world in any one year than futures contracts do. Futures contracts reduce price volatility in agricultural markets. Compare onions (futures are illegal) with other agricultural commodities.
To the extent Gandhi was responsible for the poor economic performance of post-independence India, as well as the Partition, he is responsible for millions of deaths.
Elusive Entropy
"I'm sure testing games is far more demanding and tedious than kids imagine it to be."

Everything is more demanding and tedious than kids imagine it to be. :-)
"Lifechanging" only if you win the startup lottery. 95% of YC startups fail.
And another thing: austerity is all that stands between Europe and total collapse. They can't keep writing checks they cannot cash.
Y U NO PYTHON? :(

I am disappoint
Nice. Chicago would easily be 100k+ but the COL is substantial there. KC is awesome yet extremely very affordable.

STL maybe in the west burbs. Not the best city, especially for a family.
SVG seems more 'natural' way of doing logos ?

[ Also more amenable to editing tools ]
Interesting. Would you mind revealing your level?
Simple solution to the password reuse problem
Not having to uproot the family is understandable, but if you're worried about the competitiveness of the market, know that there are a ton of jobs as well (ask anyone on HN about recruiter spam, which seems to serve as a proxy to this fact), which perhaps balances things. Six years of experience is non-trivial, I'm sure if you wanted to you could find something.
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I like your UI, although the links don't give enough hints to be clickable. It reminds me of my hobby translating iOS app: http://travelparrot.ch/.
Have you applied for remote positions? I work remotely for a startup in SF and we're hiring :)
But also consider: those who don't read HN are probably great engineers who think reading HN is a waste of time.
I miss the old square-ish monitors!
Before being down-modded...

cool demos, had no idea you could do that, and its obvious once you rollover, which is a nice trick!

I see this as a clever hack.
I think you're blowing his comment way, way out of proportion.

It isn't "dismissive", but merely pointing out that as any field advances over time, we see expectations tend to rise. What was once considered innovative or revolutionary can eventually become commonplace, if not trivial and uninteresting.

This has been true for mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering and even cinema. There's no reason why software development should be any different.

While people were amazed by radio in the early 1900s, it wasn't really a big deal by the 1950s. It was well understood, and something that average people could use. This doesn't mean that people were "dismissive" of radio at that point, but rather just not surprised or impressed by it any longer.

It's the exact same case in this situation. A lot of us here have seen things like this done with CSS before, in some cases many years ago. It just isn't something to get excited about any longer. Having seen it been done before, our expectations have shifted, and we require something more novel in order for it to be considered interesting.
Because he's tuned his body and mind to machine-like efficiency and calculated that hitting the shift key is an unnecessary ancient relic of the past.

Basically he's disrupting capitalization, which I've been thinking about a lot lately.
Amen brother. As a wise man once said, it's not what you earn, it's what you keep.
Elon Musk Has Plans For The 'Hyperloop'
It's the present day version of machismo.
False Realities of Being Self-Employed
More fun? Imagine you're a cop chasing the car running though several red lights. That would be terrifying.
If I may, I'd like to log a difference of my intent with the word simple, as opposed to the word easy.

Simple is conceptually clean, while easy may be accessible to those familiar with related concepts.

My description was, I hope, simple: it has very high fidelity and is not prone to many of the misinterpretations of the other explanations. What it may not be is easy. One may indeed require further explanation to really understand the relationship I'm proposing. Sometimes, though, there is no shortcut to knowledge.
It would certainly be nice if there were a specialized function to do this - no need for a million context switches, and the filesystem code can probably delete things more intelligently than individually removing each file, with accompanying intermediate bookkeeping.
Great point - Id really like a way to flag 'svg only, no scripts' say in the img tag.

I use both heavy SVG apps with a lot of javascript, and also small svgs for icons etc.
This is a great competitor to Gazelle, a Boston-based startup that is doing really really well.
Horrible news. He seemed like a brilliant guy,