skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Paid for the cost" - to me - means no profit.
Knocking someone unconscious while swimming sounds difficult. I have a hard time imagining a situation where your energy is best spent punching the drowning person rather than trying to drag them ashore.
The free single dyno per app is really for development purposes. If you're not actively developing/testing, then the dyno sleeps after an hour of inactivity. The free dyno isn't meant for running a production site 24/7.

The proper way to "fix" the 30 second delay is to run a second dyno. The 'ping' solution just seems like cheating Heroku out of payment for a service.
Very early 80's maybe, but even a couple of years in most popular games had teams working on them, though not very large ones.

A lot of musicians doing game-music for the Commodore 64, for example, were popular enough in their own right that sometimes publishers would hire them knowing their names would be sufficient to guarantee sales for otherwise mediocre titles. Some of them even perform their 80's game music live today, and there's a whole scene doing remixes of the music.
Sadly, now isn't one of them: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-...
It would be interesting to hear the other side of the story here.
I was just curious about this Disney song everyone mentions. It's actually kinda' weird:

Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It’s possible she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
It don’t take a word
Not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
http://thecodist.com/article/interviews_can_be_a_terrible_wa...
We use C#, but by the looks of things it should be a pretty straight forward sample to knock-out for the common languages:

C#, Java, node, Ruby, Python (possibly PHP to keep everyone happy!) :)
Protesting can be great. But if a protest only affects low-level paper handlers with no decision making power, then what are you really accomplishing?
Depends on how much CPU you're using. Any app that is using a lot of CPU on a phone will kill the battery regardless.

So I agree that if you're doing something where using 2x CPU will make a significant difference and you've already optimized things heavily, then sure, go native. But I'm sure that most apps on my phone are already using 2x the CPU they could be, and I just don't care.
I agree,

2 time in this article you claim close.io got it better that everyone else. If you really wanted this article to be interesting you would have gone in depth without the "we better than other SaaS".

Instead you posted an overview that is not interesting to anyone
I agree completely. When I was in Art school I was working on a project that instead of using charcoal to create the darks on a white sheet of paper, the assignment was to use a white conte crayon to denote the light areas on a black sheet of paper. I had taken my assignment home and was working on it in my living room when a neighbor and friend of mine knocked on my door and he came in and looked at what I was doing. He was a Mech. E student, and a damn smart person. He told me to my face that he could never do what I was doing because he wasn't creative.

"Creative" doesn't just apply to visual arts - it's a thinking style. And every human, ever, is creative - just in different avenues. And those avenues are all obtainable by all people.
Mostly irrelevant, as Tesla was never part of the dealer system, and in most states the laws that protect the cartel do not apply to them. Yes, I would buy certain cars without a test drive, but I admit that's unusual. If a test drive is essential then Tesla's attempt to sell directly might fail, but that doesn't justify laws to forbid them from selling.
>The irony is that once (if) Tesla starts selling cars in significant volume their purely direct/internet/word of mouth model will break down and they'll probably find themselves....... establishing dealerships!

How come? In my experience dealerships provide a horrible experience, where you're always thinking "how am I being ripped off here?". What value do they provide that is suddenly required once you reach scale?
Despite what you might think, it is still very difficult for a talented developer to break into freelancing.

Simply put, GT gives developers deal flow.
And encrypting information makes it suspicious. I am nauseated.
This article really says "1/3 of creative people contacted said no". That's it really.

It certainly doesn't jive with my real world experience. I've always been absolutely floored at how far really well-known people will go to help me when I need it. Whether it be spending an hour over coffee or just exchanging a few emails, the really creative (and successful) people I've reached out to in my life have generally been willing to spend their time to help me out.

I should note that often these requests are completely blind. I don't have a business school background with lots of contacts (I went to a small state school in the south). I don't have lots of friends with friends to help me out.

I suppose my experience is about the same as the study in the article. 33% of folks fall over backwards to help me out, at no real benefit to themselves. Another 33% are kind of difficult to tie down. The rest say no. To draw a conclusion as definite as "creative people say no" is hard for me to accept.
I am quite sure that the fact that they are getting so many requests will travel up higher than the paper handlers. :)
Stop Watching Us | Stop Watching Us
Yes. The question was intended to bait Thomas into confirming his opposition to warrantless surveillance without probable cause and judicial review. He has not yet expressed this opinion and I do not see why he cannot unless he disagrees with it.
Just wanted to also share the link on NY's OpenLegislation[1], an open source project[2].

[1] http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/A7844A-2013
[2] https://github.com/nysenate/OpenLegislation
Need An Artificially Intelligent Robotic System For Sorting Trash?
Respecting people's physical boundaries does NOT mean verbally requesting permission to enter their personal airspace! Why must you guys pretend non verbal communication doesn't exist?
Communications for Y Combinator Companies
Do the Y Combinator companies have a Google Group style app or service that is used across companies for communications apart from Hacker News?
Not necessary docs, but what I have been observing in a lot of OSS is an absence of one-liner explaining what the project exactly is; especially ones without descriptive project name.

Good "feature list" would probably help, but it's just a pain when reading through 5 paragraphs down only to find that it's not what I think it is.
I don't care how little trust you have, it's stubborn and wrongheaded to believe in hideously impractical conspiracies. Just because 'they' don't tell you the truth doesn't give them magical powers.
Today I learned that Google's brain teasers are internally known as "estimation or market sizing questions"!
Probably yes, but you won't get caught (at least over here).

I fear what will happen as data collection gets better, I know the local IRS is cross-examining data to catch the usual evasors (lawyers, dentists and others that regularly under-report their earnings, though to be fair the local taxes are abusive). They look at sports club affiliations - "how can you afford such a posh sports club on your paltry income"?, luxury buys (golf clubs are a giveaway), etc..
No you are misreading it. The author is saying do not think that she does not want to have sex. As in, get rid of any doubt in your mind.
>And, of course, he overpacked. 90 liters is way too big. 40 liters is probably still too big, but at least realistic.

There's a sub-reddit dedicated to "ultralight" camping. Most of the knowledge applies to traveling in general. It seems 15lb is the sweet spot if you plan on doing a lot of walking.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ultralight
I hope so. Thinking about it some more: I suppose they don't provide an efficient online form for motions to quash, do they?
> Law is code. Why haven't we fixed this yet?

Properly drafted English-language laws do read as code. It's like how you can describe formal logic in English: "All Americans wear hats. I am an American. Therefore I wear a hat."

I take it you're arguing for something like Lojban, though. I see two problems there. First, it's not the (de facto) national language, which infringes on one's fundamental right to read the laws of the land. Second, and probably more incurably, these types of languages don't remove the most important kinds of ambiguity in laws.

Most disputes over ambiguity in legal text do not arise from syntactic ambiguity. It's not usually confusion over what words the "not" modifies, or which "if" is nested within which. Rather, most problems arise from semantic ambiguity, i.e. the meaning of the individual words. What constitutes a "bank," exactly? What does it mean to do something "in a reasonable period of time?" If you're "bearing" arms, where exactly are you bearing them?

You might argue that the problem then comes down to defining your terms well. That's certainly a noble goal when drafting legal text. But one of the principle goals of legal drafting is to make the text flexible enough to apply to specific circumstances that the authors could not have foreseen. This, of course, is in constant tension with the need to be precise. The more precise you are, the easier it is to interpret the law, but the more likely it is that someone will find a loophole arising from the excessive narrowness of your language.

A language like Lojban won't alleviate these difficulties, unfortunately.
"We've worked to resolve this and to create a mutually beneficial solution" - well, go on, what is it!?
Ask HN: Coffee in SF/MV? We want to see your startup
My friend and I will be in the Bay Area next week (Thurs-Sat). We'd love to grab coffee and chat software, meet startups, and such.

A bit about us: I'm one of the co-founders of Chime (chimeapp.com) which was recently acquired by HubSpot. My friend is a HFT software engineer.

Shoot me an email: f[dot]ananta[at]gmail[dot]com
Some people might not realize there are different types of nodes you can run.
"He" is commonly used as a gender neutral way of referring to a person of unknown gender. It has also become common to use "she" as gender neutral so as to not be exclusive.

I don't think that in this case the author is making any comment (explicitly or implicitly) about who is or should be coding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He#Gender_neutral
The New York Times is making ads for the future
I agree. It strikes me as insane to swap out a ten-to-twenty thousand dollar piece of your car on any regular basis.
"The Guardian understands that a total of 850,000 NSA employees and US private contractors with top secret clearance had access to GCHQ databases."

850,000 employees/contractors?? - That can't be correct can it?
It does seem like the mechanisms people have come up with for this so far are counterproductive. But the underlying problem seems to me a real one, and a hard one: how can you tell whether someone will be good to work with? The only way to know is to actually work with them. So (the argument goes) rather than relying on bogus predictors, let's just test the hypothesis "this person will be a good addition to our team" directly.

Since you think about hiring a lot, I'm curious: do you think the above is accurate? If no, how would you phrase it differently? If yes, how would you recommend testing that hypothesis instead?
Touchy, touchy.

No, you didn't say "We don't have hot sex". I didn't say "You don't have hot sex" either. Now that you're feeling validated, please consider what was written again, but without getting offended.

You stated what worked for you, and you measured its "workingness" by unambiguousness of the process, the lack of bad feelings on rejection, and (ostensibly most importantly, seeing as how you put it in italics) the quantity. I'm happy for you.

But what if what you are suggesting can come by following your advice //is not what I value//? What if I can achieve what is optimal for my relationship in a different way? What if, and this is crazy but, what if what works for you and what is best for you, isn't best for everyone? -> False consens effect.

I was remarking that I find it interesting that you're defending a particular strategy that works in your relationship and is not a cultural norm (hence, atypical), while at the same time suggesting that all men should act more like you. Too fast there cowboy! If all men woke up tomorrow and acted like that, there might be a few (million?) women who find their choice of mates underwhelming all of a sudden. Why? Because it violates our cultural norms. But at the level of one couple, you and your partner, sure, you have the luxury of making such "optimizations" and being "absolute" about what is best.

There is no need to defend yourself, your sex life, or your relationship. I'm sure you're in a great one; may you two be together forever. Communication is great and key. However, please consider as well that I am not going to follow your advice, and that I, too, am delusional about how awesome my relationship is compared to everyone else's. :) :) :)
there are lots of smart people with good ideas. there are very few smart people with good ideas who have MADE SOMETHING based on one of those ideas.
Today "creative" usually refers to originality, not the act of creation. It's no worse than using "engineer" to mean computer programmer rather than someone who works on something with an engine.
Asking "how would you estimate the number of cars sold in a year?" is not a brainteaser. It's an estimation / market sizing question. You can deduce a reasonable estimate from the population size and other assumptions.

A brainteaser is something like "A man pushed his car to a hotel and lost his fortune. What happened?" That's a brainteaser -- and nothing Google would ask.
>Consent is assumed in the situation because of all the stuff leading up to it. Like the getting the number, the going out on dates, talking a lot, and finally ending up alone with them in their or your own residence.

Consent should never be assumed. Just fucking ask. This chapter is explicitly talking about transitioning from a non-sexual to a sexual relationship. Assuming that your partner wants this to happen is a recipe for sexual assault.
Hi Garry,

With all due respect, isn't your headline a bit backwards? Crowdtilt is just the platform. Soylent raised most of this on their own, due to their own efforts and the press they've been receiving. Even the original headline is: "Soylent raises $750k on Crowdhoster." Why switch that around?

I'm not trying to diminish Crowdtilt and their efforts, but your headline makes it seem like Soylent didn't do anything.
To extend the dating analogy a bit further: rather than putting all your eggs into a single basket, you can date multiple companies and find the best fit for you.

In this market, if you are a good developer, the company will most likely want to hire you. In my experience, it is the company that needs to court the developer.
Maybe he could do the same thing he did to fund NATO attack on Libya, reroute Pentagon discretionary funds. I don't know if that's feasible, but I find it funny that he can find ways to do a double backflip to fund things he really really wants to get funded but then just throws it back in our faces on Guantanamo.
> only a few kilometers? That's something like 67 thousand times the length of a honeybee

Which is what they do routinely. Bumblebees have been known to fly up to 8 miles (13 kilometers) from their nest. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientists-Map-the-Flight-of-...

> a creature that has to violate physics to fly

Nonsense. http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp
>Do you think that women just want men to randomly walk up to them in the street and kiss them?

This is the absolute most obtuse reading of the situation you could have mustered. And this is the problem with this entire debate: those who are arguing against these "seduction" techniques must resort to strawmen and imagined scenarios to show how awful this is. Unfortunately, this is the stuff that social interaction is made of. You're not going to change it by suddenly defining normal interaction as assault.
"inspiring" and "planning" are two completely different things. You can, quite easily, inspire something without knowing that you will inspire it quid pro quo demonstrandum.
I used to teach scuba, and people would occasionally freak out and grab me as if they were trying to drown me. I wasn't too concerned about my own safety in those cases, because years of play in the ocean had taught me not to panic when unexpectedly shoved underwater. You always have some air in your lungs. Stay calm, and it will give you the time you need (unless you're in extreme conditions).

Just swim down when you are grabbed. If you kick and thrash to try to raise yourself to get your head above the water, they will feel you raising them up and try to climb on top of you for safety. So you shovel water with your arms to push yourself farther down, pulling them down just enough that their heads go underwater, too, and they'll release you quickly. They are struggling desperately to keep their heads above water and won't hang on to something that's pulling them under. Your head is already underwater, so it won't hurt you to go a little deeper, but if you panic and try to fight toward the surface, they might hold you under until it's too late for you. Go down.

Once they release, you push back out of reach, get your air at the surface, and figure out how to help them.
Saying a web browser is an operating system is like saying a car is an engine. Sure, you could put the car on a dynamometer, convert the dyno to an electric generator and use the power to run your home entertainment system. It'd be kind of ridiculous though.
The best way to avoid paying for fruit is to steal it from your local store.
pretty much. the only time you can really use income to try and glean the quality of a developer is if they have alot of years of experience but still aren't being paid very much.
Rasmusen responds to the CBO report on immigration reform bill
This is really cool. What's your tech stack look like? Are you using Nginx to serve up the static files?
I'm not sure I see the difference between the freelancer->fulltime and contractor/probation->fulltime progressions. Is is just because in the latter case they weren't already a freelancer/contractor? Is there a big terminological issue I'm missing?
Even God has a documented history of turning on us...
the criticism is that some people believe they can correlate talent with abstract measurements. Tucker is saying you can only reliably correlate talent by evaluating the works of the person.
If this topic interests you, please consider engaging with Colin's Hope if you are able. I used to work with a member of their board of directors, and I know from direct experience that the organization is incredibly passionate about their cause.

https://www.colinshope.org
He's playing Monopoly!

So, do I get the job?
My phone interview with Google had something I would probably describe as a brain teaser (which is probably why I didn't get a follow up interview). It was something along the lines of explaining how an insect in a bottle could jump out if the bottle was frictionless. Something like that. Anyway, I don't remember specifics well enough to make a strong statement, but I would argue that this isn't an absolute in either direction -- I bet a certain class of question is used less, but some that border on brainteaser are still used.
So, what are you measuring? I don't get it. You made offers mostly to people with few typos in their resume. Is this evidence that people with few typos are good, or evidence that you have some kind of bias against resumes with typos?

I find the action words particularly disturbing. Every resume that crosses my desk has people that 'drove' a 'process', and they 'innovated', and so on. Buzzword crap. I'd bet my company on somebody that "implement an image algorithm" (all bad words apparently) over somebody that "enabled client connectivity" any day (all good words).

And what is the actual relevance of worked for a big company? Again, I suspect bias on your part. Explain how working for Microsoft is a good predictor for how a person will perform in a 10 person startup?
Is Tesla going to be trapped in a walled garden?
> Are you saying there are programmers in Somaliland earning $50-$100k? They must be living like kings!

Yes its possible though most folks here don't flaunt wealth considering the widespread poverty.

I'm not really worried about making more. It would be nice and I certainly look out for opportunities and you're probably right about the cost of living. I literally put half my pay into saving as I have nothing to spend it on.

There's no income tax. Though I do lose a bit of my pay automatically as payroll tax but I'm pretty sure it's been reduced than the amount it was supposed to be, though I could be wrong since I've got a weird contract where a significant portion of my income isn't my salary but from other benefits.

Nobody like paying taxes since no one trusts the government (even if they voted them in) so people always look for way to avoid or reduce the amount they pay in taxes. Mostly that means just simply saying no until they accept a lower amount or finding someone you're barely related to working in government. Big part of the reason why I don't see much of a future for myself here.

There was an campaign for a sales tax. I don't think it was implemented since I didn't notice an increase in prices of stuff due to it.

All of the above was with regards to Somaliland, I don't know about the situation in Somalia and Puntland.
The Bush and Obama Justification for Mass Surveillance Has Been Debunked
Ask HN: What do startups do with millions of funding?
Almost every day I read a post on Techcrunch saying 'X has raised $Y million from...' - almost all of these are primarily online businesses/services, do they really need all that money?

If you were to give a rough breakdown of what they spend it on, what would it be?

This is something that I've always wondered, so if you can shed any light on this that would be great, thanks
I would use this, if it weren't restricted to people who make smartphone apps [1]. That seems to be an extremely narrow focus, even in Silicon Valley.

[1] This might not actually be the case but their info pages only talk about apps.
I don't like this at all; you're basically screwing Heroku out of what they should be paid for providing a good service.

Secondly, you could set up a DigitalOcean server ($5/month) in about 10 minutes with Rails and this wouldn't be a problem.
Calling it a "probation" period is creating a loaded discussion. It can be in the developer's interest to find a job that really interests her rather than give a full-time commitment based off of an interview.
I completely agree. The point I was trying to make is that there are wildly different variations of what is and is not consensual behavior. For folks who actively participate in the BDSM community the social norms are very much in favor of clear, adult, responsible communication. However, there exist lots of men and women who have inclinations towards BDSM and are turned on by BDSM practices who have never been introduced to the community and have not learned these "best practices" in terms of communication. This means that there are many men and women who enjoy and like aggressive sexual advances who have never been taught how to communicate their interests as an adult, and that entire population of people who are inexperienced create a grey area. BDSM and other non-vanilla interests going mainstream would go a long way to raising the general level of discourse and communication about sex in general.

Just to be clear, please don't take my comment as excusing the problems people have raised here, but as simply an impartial anthropological description of the reality of the world.