skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Why, oh, why does everyone insist on Facebook authentication? Aren't there any people like me, who do not have a Facebook account, and do not wish to obtain one simply for a text editor?

It's a text editor, I don't think sign-in should be required.
Are these official? Judging from the icon and the description, I...hope, anyway, that the Amazon one wasn't produced by amazon.
I made the move from salaried to on-site contracting to startup co-founding, and am now doing remote contracting and/or part-time cofounding (heard that term yesterday :).

I got into contracting by applying for a contract in the SF Bay Area from Florida, did a phone interview,received an offer -- to contract at Hewlett-Packard. I believe I found the contract on dice.com, which also helped me find other contracts. I already had experience building software for my parents' company, and had built some of my own sites, including CGI stuff that I had to pay $125/month for a shared account for, back in those days! I didn't realize what my market rate should be on the first contract. I then got recruited away by a startup to help build the first online yellow pages site. HP asked to make a counter-offer but I (foolishly) didn't let them. After some time at the startup (which later turned down an acquisition offer from pre-IPO Yahoo, doh!, and finally basically shut down), I returned to contracting, this time to Schwab. Then I did some freelance, and then returned to help
the same group at HP for a short-time. Then contracting at Bank of America. Then a short contract for a web dev shop, and then got into angel investing (Napster), and co-founding startups (social networking pioneer Ryze).

Now several startups later, I've returned to a combination of remote contracting and/or part-time co-founder (heard this term yesterday :). Some companies I've helped on a cash basis (hourly/weekly rate). In many cases, it is combination of cash plus equity. I'm just wrapping up a contract where I built out the server and dev-ops infrastructure and code for a new startup, as well as helping w/ analytics, product, etc. (and where I continue to be a senior adviser).

My experience has been that the on-site contracting market in the SF Bay Area is quite efficient and dynamic, and networking is not necessarily needed. Although I did a lot of networking in the early days, which has been great in opening up opportunities over the medium/long-term, the networking was not a factor in getting leads for on-site contracting. However, it led to some resume bullet points that may have been helpful in landing some of those contracts (e.g. landing the BofA contract was helped by my experience coding some of the first Java applet ads for Symantec back in the day that was a freelance project that came from networking).
The go-to location for major protests is the Taksim Square, which is four miles from the bridge by foot. The protests need to be really widespread and populous to spread to the bridge. I don't remember that happening in my recent memory (except for a local soccer thing).
Durham, NC

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Required:
4 years experience with .NET development using C#, SQL Server and ASP.NET
Experience with .NET 4.0 and/or 4.5
Strong HTML and CSS knowledge
Experience with Javascript frameworks, such as Jquery, Backbone or Knockout
Experience building and interacting with .NET web services

Desired:
ASP.NET MVC, Knockout, Entity Framework experience
Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or other commercial project scheduling tools
Experience with cost accounting applications
Experience integrating custom and commercial applications for enterprise clients

Principals in the Raleigh/Durham metro area only, please.

edit: forgot to add that inquiries may be sent to me: adam dot haile at concretedata dot com.
Fairly disingenuous to claim we can own them, which, though true as far as it goes, really doesn't accurately describe the situation.

In most jurisdictions, it's illegal to wear a gas mask during a protest. The ostensible logic for this is that they, as with all masks, obscure the face and hinder personal identification by police (which we'd call "internal security forces" if it were Turkey or China or someplace).

If you're caught wearing one during a protest, you can be arrested ipso facto, and it will be confiscated and not returned to you, and you'll be subject to legal penalties merely for wearing it.
Norway have plenty of tech startups. It is just that most of them are in the oil technology and oil services, and very few are in the IT business. In fact, the oil technology business is the second largest industry in Norway after oil production itself, and I think that is the case even when only the part that is exported is counted. Besides that, Norway only import about 15% of the equipment needed for oil production and exploration, while many other oil producing Nations import most equipment.

The problem for Norwegian startup founders is that they have to compete with the oil industry as well as said oil service industry for the best people. Since both of these are insanely lucrative, it is hard for web and other IT-related startup to afford the salaries the oil related companies can pay. In Oslo you have less of that kind of industry, but on the other hand, bloated administrations of the government and said oil companies that makes it similary lucrative to get into IT consulting rather than doing startups.

The result is that there is little incentive for an engineer to start a web and other IT-related startups in Norway.
One of the shocking things (to those of us in the developed world) is that in many cases, human life is treated as less valuable in less-developed parts of the world. Not just by other people, but by the person themselves.
"I really think Basecamp's homepage does a very poor job of communicating what it is."

That's great that you think that, but (and don't take this the wrong way), it's irrelevant. I'm fairly sure 37signals tests their design/copy/layouts and if this one wasn't working to make them more money, they'd tweak it as necessary.
Yeah, and the solution is not to only mandate safety standards at your own factories, but to impose a stiff tariff on goods produced in countries without comparable standards (and without meaningful enforcement). Yeah, I know, "free trade," but it is not a fair market if some people are playing by a different set of rules, and we do not want to have a race to the bottom.
> protesting something I call "Singaporification."

I love how people always cast Singapore as some kind of horror story cautionary tale. No-one seems to have told the actual people of Singapore, who are perfectly free to leave their nightmarish dystopia at any time, and yet seem perversely inclined to stay. Somehow this obvious, central, crucial fact gets left out of the "we don't want to turn out like Singapore!" narrative.

I think the real reason people demonise Singapore isn't because it's a bad place to live; it's because it is actually a really good place to live, and this fact causes a certain conflict in the libertarian mind, a fundamental undermining of the whole axiomic structure of their beliefs and no-one wants to face that. So, instead, they try to villify it in vague terms of being some kind of anti-freedom devil state - a North Korea that, by Satan's blessing, works.

I'll tell you the really scary thing about Singapore. It's a better place to live than 99.9% of these so-called "freedom" countries. I'd live there over any city in America bar maybe NYC, and certainly over Istanbul. The scary thing is that, when you consider the outcome, maybe the Singapore formula is a better form of government, and a lot of people don't even want to contemplate that.
Since the point values are no longer visible on HN and the sorting is based on a time decay I'm not sure this hacked poll will work. Maybe someone with higher karma can actually create one?
Last time i checked it, it contained links to old/dead projects, which seems still the case. Anyway AFAIK there is no such a similar thing to Brython for ruby, and by that I mean a ruby implementation specifically written in JS and optimized to deal with DOM and browser environment in general (if anybody knows about something like that or is working on it please inform me). It'd be such a great thing to have!
Income Inequality: It’s Not Just for Older People Anymore
> You're probably one of the people he's talking about, who think that Singapore is a model to emulate all around the world.

Assuming a lot eh?
Bank of Spain recommends suspending minimum wage to tackle unemployment
The Turkish military is much weaker than it used to be with the government having thrown many of its top leaders into prison accusing them of planning yet another coup and replacing with people that are sided with Erdogan. Still, it has a long history of stepping in if secularism is threatened so it will be interesting to see what happens in the future if Erdogan is able to stay in power and keep on implementing more and more religious policies.
No, I'm using Opera (see the log). It's possible Opera is sending such info as well (it uses Google for autocompletion), but I've tried reproducing this and I don't see evidence of it. (I do see autocompletion requests, but never for complete URLs.)
You are 100% wrong about red brick universities. Are you English?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_brick_university
Last I investigated Galera it lacked support for query caching. Over 50% of our queries are cache hits, so it made it hard to justify using Galera over a normal master+slave setup. However I could see it being useful for setups where a single server can't handle the load (we average 300 queries/sec on a single server with lots of room to spare.)
The way you've done this, (1) no one but you will be able to see any results, (2) people can vote your poll-option comments down as well as up so you won't be able to tell how many upvotes each one got, and (3) every upvote will be an upvote for you as well as for the comment, which means some people will suspect you of ulterior motives.

Unfortunately, I think it's impossible to submit an actual poll unless you've got a certain minimum level of karma. I'm not sure what to suggest...
Coincidentally, I've noticed the same thing happening in Szczecin, Poland as per the shopping mall phenomenon. I lived there from 2005-2008, and there were a few shopping malls, nothing crazy. Every 1-2 years I've gone back, there has been at least one or two new major shopping malls put up, and that's just in the few places I frequent around the city center.

Besides the philosophical question of whether it's a good thing for a city, I just don't understand the economics of it. How do all these places coexist? Where does the demand and up-front money come from? Is there actually real demand at all, or is it just completely manufactured/delusional (build it and they will come!)? When I lived there, people's shopping needs seemed fulfilled, and the population has flatlined since then [1]. I heard tell of some EU grants involved. Overall, it just doesn't seem sustainable from an economic perspective, even in the short-term.

[1] http://www.citypopulation.de/php/poland-zachodniopomorskie.p...
No, I'm using Opera.
Phusion Passenger Enterprise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5662569
Now _that_ is hyperbole, congrats!
There's always charging for membership.
Yes, though I've tried testing for this, but I only see requests from my browser (Opera) for incomplete URLs.
> They knew there was a slight risk the ground wire would be hot once disconnected

Is there some way you could measure that before touching it or messing with it? And then call in the power company if its properties are not what they are expected to be?
It used to be disparaging (compared to Oxbridge) I don't think it has those connotations any more - the few red brick universities in the uk place highly in rankings.
> They are "better" in that they are, in fact, more constrained; only when the error case arises will there be any accessible error value; otherwise, the actual expected value will be found. Since go uses an ad hoc product type, you always get an error value and the return value, even if they are mutually exclusive most of the time.

But multiple return values are there for much more than returned result and error. You conflate that with the specific use of returning result and error, and based on that, you claim that sum types are better. That's a straw man par excellence.
It cost about 20k for most "big" companies to move you, between visa costs, move costs, etc.
Then, they know you're going to accept a lower salary and they have no reason to propose you more - companies almost always propose you the minimum that sounds serious. You'll raise it a bit and leave it at that, or at least that's what is expected.

most young engineers (h1b target) are paid much less than in the valley, so given the quality of life, the adventure, etc - AND that the salary is anyway higher, they know very few will refuse.
I started programming for iOS via the same route, playing around with Objective-C in Xcode, but have since learned C. I have found that an understanding of C proves to be essential if I try to do anything reasonably complex (e.g. https://github.com/conradev/BlockTypeDescription).

I have also found that another area in which newer developers fall short is understanding how Xcode works. Those familiar with interpreted languages do not have to compile their code. While they may understand the concept of 'modules', they don't know the difference between static and dynamic libraries, what 'linking' is, and how the compiler finds header files. Someone not knowledgeable of how this works will come upon innumerable headaches down the road, especially trying to integrate third party libraries.

I would suggest a supplementary post entitled "Learn How Xcode Works, You Cheater"
They are absolutely allowed. [1] You can have anonymous structs in a similar fashion.

[1] - http://play.golang.org/p/tHYLcdbPSS
F-250 diesel gets 22mpg on the highway. You can easily get dual 25 gallon tanks, and I've seen them with extra 60-70 (yes, this is absurd). With 50 gallons you'd have about 1k miles range. (I've driven one with dual big tanks, but it also had about 3000 extra pounds of weight and run-flat tires and modified suspension, so it wasn't really comparable, and never went above 50mph)

A VW Jetta can get 45mpg if you're really lucky, with a 14.5gal tank, so about 650.

ML350 is about 700 miles, and the old TDI VW Passats were about a 20 gallon tank and good for about 1000 miles stock.
Denver, CO - WeedMaps / Bonfire

Ruby on Rails: It's a RoR job, so please be proficient in Ruby and Rails.

HTML/CSS: Your HTML and CSS skills should be good.

Javascript/jQuery: You should also be proficient in JavaScript & jQuery.

MySQL/ActiveRecord: We use DataMapper in favor of ActiveRecord.

Github: We use Github, so you need to have a GitHub account and be comfortable with git.

Backbone: A lot of the work were doing is being done in Backbone, so that will be a big plus.

Mobile: We have Android and iOS apps. Any knowledge of mobile app development is a plus

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, send your resume to careers@bonefire.com - we will be conducting interviews starting this Tuesday, June 4th
Never used them, but heard good things about them. Bet Google would tell you
Hackers are Humans as I know so they have interest in other stuff as well, does this mean we will be expecting posts about Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga in near future?
uhmmm.. because there is something called 'file extension' that will sort pictures from say .docx?
> Essentially, you're saying that the point is not to use
> DSL's. The benefits of DSL's are explained everywhere,
> so I don't think I need to repeat them here...

DSLs aren't a gimme. In production code, produced and maintained by a team, and iterated through a lifetime of morphing business requirements, DSLs are almost always more of a hindrance than a help, because they impose an additional cognitive burden on their manipulators.

They're lovely to write, and elegant in a closed system, but in The Real World(tm) where we all live and work, we don't generally have the luxury of writing software to solve those classes of problems.
This makes it crash

1000000.times{|i| puts "hello #{i}"}
h1b requires you to stay employed at the same company. There are some exceptions to change company but its a complicated process.

You need 5 years in the US to be granted a green card. h1b are valid 3 years. Generally you need 2 h1b to get a green card (of course you start the process much before the h1b ends)
if you are in a gc and you stop working in the us for a certain amount of time (i forgot, but its not longer than a year), then you start over and the gc is terminated (you need a h1b again)

For citizen, its 10 years.

h1b specifies AFAIR that once you're unemployed you have to leave the country immediately without citing numbers albeit 30 days sounds reasonable.
Show HN: Can you see a single pixel on a retina display?
@dclaysmith:

"Be charitable with your time. Be willing to meet people for coffee and provide free advice. These sort of meetings often directly or indirectly turn into work."

This is so true.

In 'Smarter Selling' by Keith Dugdale & David Lambert, which is mostly aimed at sales people, I took away one nugget (I'm paraphrasing here):

"Don't position yourself on just trying to sell something to the customer, because, they might be pressured and they'll eventually buy it. But they'll wait until the end of the contract and then go to somebody else.

Instead position yourself as somebody who is helping them and give them a real solution. The relationships that you build that way will take longer, but they will be the ones that will last a long time, where the client will keep coming back to you."

When I thought about it, I was doing this anyway, this just made it obvious.
The Powerful People Arguing for U.S.-China Free Trade
I think fairtrade suppliers are all cooperatives. Though in many cases I've found fairtrade brands not to be significantly more expense (sometimes cheaper even) than mainstream brands of similar quality.
We have a lot of similar restrictions in US workplaces, mostly driven by unions. They are equally as ridiculous.
Next Macbook Pro could be even lighter
> He's holding up Singapore as a shining example of the end-state of affairs that the government of Turkey is trying to emulate.

> I find Singapore to be the scariest dystopia in the world today.

What?

Anyway, Singapore is the greenest city on earth. It'll be more likely to see people here protesting the demolition of a shopping mall to build a park than vice versa. It's ridiculous to compare this to what is happening in Turkey now.
Warmly wakes you up sans alarm
> But most people from
western culture won't probably get it.

This is the easiest, most cowardly reply to any argument.
For me it's not about being born in a western society (Eastern Europe actually) but about not accepting something just because that's the way it's been, or because it's better than the alternative.

Question everything. Why are things the way are? Why can't you live by yourself? Why can't you marry the person you want? Why can't you make yourself a cup of tea? Why can't you drive?
Yahoo eliminates classic Mail
Dont mean to hijack this thread or anything, but as someone who has spent many years researching pattern matching, I was intrigued by this posting and comment. I decided to put my own library (dClass) to the end-to-end performance comparison:

https://github.com/TheWeatherChannel/dClass/wiki/dClass-vs-g...
What kind of restrictions?
В пыли, средь шума городского
This conclusion assumes that employees have to also be from Norway, which is emblematic of the insular and narrow mindset that is the real cause of the problem.
PHP's naming of functions is really horrible.

For example the random usage of underscores:
strtoupper(...)
substr_compare(...)
str_split(...)
str_word_count(...)
Turkey does not (currently) have a robust media. It has a very high rate of incarceration of journalists.
To follow along, there's also Flickr and a search for "Istanbul" and "Gezi" : https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=istanbul+gezi&s=rec
A social interest in gardens and mother nature is one thing, but what about pollution regulations? The New York times suggests that there are significant problems with pollution in China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/asia/as-chinas-envir...

"China’s state leadership transition has taken place this month against an ominous backdrop. More than 16,000 dead pigs have been found floating in rivers that provide drinking water to Shanghai. A haze akin to volcanic fumes cloaked the capital, causing convulsive coughing and obscuring the portrait of Mao Zedong on the gate to the Forbidden City."

The article lists a number of specific problems, such as (1) oil companies not improving diesel fuel quality (2) coal power plants violating emissions standards (resulting in sulfur levels at least 23 times the US levels) (3) non-compliance by power and oil companies with existing regulations.

The typical Chinese citizen might be very concerned with the environment, but until the government gets corporations under control, pollution may run amok.
I wish they had protested when the government started imprisoning generals, although admittedly it is harder to get worked up about the army than it is about the press.
Taro Fukuyama wants to bring Google-like perks to every company
Heartwarming read. Glad to see that people with disabilities can truly benefit from online education.
I hate to say this but I really think ignorant statements about Singapore need to be nipped in the bud.
What if drone warfare had come first?
"Add some scripts/utilities and you get Github with all their "social" stuff, wikis and issue trackers ..."

It's crazy how GitHub's entire product is so easily marginalized by comments like this. I don't know if you meant to do it, but I think it is a serious problem with hacker culture. It's the kind of thinking that tricks startups into "knowing" they can do a better job than established competitors in spaces they know close to nothing about, because they "know" they can execute better. I speak from personal experience here.

I can guarantee that no amount of "adding some scripts/utilities" will get near what GitHub's service offers.
Pairing Is Not Code Review
How does a musician without any formal CS education and a admitted lack of understanding of some very fundamental software things, such as pointers and memory, land a San Francisco dev job? I thought those jobs were in very high demand