skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can speak as someone who has burned out several times -

The key to working a normal work-day is to develop a thick skin - to understand that there are things that are possibly important, but just aren't going to get done because you don't have the time to do them. And things might blow up because of these things that don't get done, and that's OK, you're just going to have to live with it.

This is not easy and I'm still very bad at it, but I'm working on it.
Murders are WAY down from their peaks in the 90's. And that's across the board. So what violence are they encountering now, that they didn't encounter in... say ... '93 when they had no APC?
GitHub also claims to be a flat "no bosses" organization. Can anyone here who works at GitHub, or knows people who do, describe how this actually works? Can this scale to a large multi site combating?
The idea of partnering w/ someone using the same ISP is interesting. It's really offsite that's the whole challenge. If it takes three days to get 60g uploaded (setting aside the nuisance of saturating our bandwidth for doing things like making Skype calls), then I effectively have close to no solution.. because during a busy season I have at least one job exposed for half of most weeks. House burns down, and I lose recent work.. which is the most important work since it hasn't been delivered.

Really, I need something that gets a copy of the images away from my home within a day to have something I'd be comfortable with.
Here's a much better map of the underwater cables: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
The problem with VMs is that they're not a practical vehicle for shipping software, because they're not portable. Developers will always have to deal with multiple incompatible VM formats, in addition to deployment targets which simply don't support VM deployment at all. What's missing is a "common ancestor" to all these different formats, which can be exported to a VM when necessary, but also run natively in places where VMs are not available. That's what docker containers are.
Ask HN: What equity should I ask for as a first employee?
I'm the first employee besides the founder who is also a developer. We've just decided to do a rewrite of the application that we were working on and I realized I should ask for some equity. How much should I ask for?
First: Congratulations all around. Very exciting to get that much support and validation.

Second: As much as any of us can make comprehensive grocery lists, there's a serendipity to the grocery runs that I'm not ready to give up. Snap decisions can be enablers for future meals. "I need 1 lb. of chicken breast but, hey, wait… maybe I'll get 2 lb. and make double and freeze the rest for next week?" … "Oh shit… tomato paste! Definitely used the last of that a couple days ago; better get some more." It was a no-brainer to ditch the video rental store, but you can't browse fresh groceries from an Apple TV.

Third: I'm not willing to trust a stranger to pick out an avocado that's just the right ripeness for my purposes, nor do I want to type out just how ripe I want my avocado this time.

EDIT: clarity
As a photographer with a couple of terabytes of old raws (I back up to Time Machine locally, and offsite at a friend's house occasionally), I'm very curious as to what Adobe will offer in this regard with LR5.
Ramadan Micro site by Google
Also I'm not sure if it's part of the game, but I can't get the page to load after the first level.
Memorial Bike Ride for Seth Vidal, Sunday 7/14 at 10am
TOP500 leaders announce new supercomputer benchmark
Ever since the cryptocat fiasco I'm quite wary of trusting these kind of apps, that seem to be appearing like mushrooms lately.
Can anyone with any crypto know-how comment on the security of WhisperSystems?
There was a true emergency with Linode.

They've been hacked badly twice and both times withheld information from their customers. Bizarre that you would prefer this type of service than from others.
Never expected to see Dylan that big. Would be nice if this nifty language could get more attention. Has anybody here ever deployed something in Dylan?
Yes, the starting address of the 4KB of "protected" memory that we'd poke our assembler opcodes into. All us C64 programmers (loosely used term in my case, I was ten years old or so) have that address burned into our brains forever.
Rate my carousel:

http://www.kongregate.com/

In our case, the whole homepage is links to games. The real reason we use the carousel has been mentioned in this thread - there is a lot of pressure to put things in a featured position. The fact is, only the first few positions are effective, particularly the first. But everything that goes in is initally in the first position, then gets demoted.

One benefit of that is that if someone comes to the site, plays the first game, then comes back 5 days later, they can expect to find the same game in 3rd or 4th position.

I'm open to other ideas, of course.
If cash cost is your only consideration it might make sense to look outside of AWS. One of the big issues I see is that the feature-set and global footprint of AWS is pretty much unmatched.

The really sad part (for AWS competitors) is that once you get into reserved instance pricing and spot pricing, it removes a lot of the cost difference. The competition is years behind, and getting further behind every month.

But that's looking at it from just a cash perspective. If your time is worth money (and you have funding), setting up things on AWS will save you a ton of money since you can take advantage of pretty good services like RDS, ELB, Elasticache, SQS, Route53, etc that will allow you to get your product to market faster with a smaller team.
You don't need to comply with the blue sky law investor limits. And the 500 investor limit has been increased to 2000, which doesn't include non-accredited investors (once that part of the JOBS act is implemented).
I don't think the new design is "super fancy", it just plain looks good to me.
I agree with everyone that this should be open-source, but at least this has one benefit over the other proprietary solutions out there: This is not just a secure messenger, but also a beautiful one. If you want to convince - and I do - those who use Facebook Messenger and iMessage and don't necessarily consider their privacy, it needs to have a great user experience on top of the technical foundation. On the other hand, if it gets that and ends up being open-sourced, it would be a great fit for Aral Balkan's Codename Prometheus: http://aralbalkan.com/notes/codename-prometheus/
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Sure, it's from the Washington Post's reporting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

Search for 51.
The country alluded to in Kafka's Trial had secret laws and secret one-sided courts and secret charges.

Doesn't sound so far from reality now.
> > the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has for years been developing what is effectively a secret and unchallenged body of law on core Fourth Amendment issues, producing lengthy classified rulings based on the arguments of the federal government — the only party allowed in the courtroom

It seems to me that we are doing a disservice to the terms 'law' and 'court' if we call a "secret and unchallenged body" of decisions 'law' and we call a place where the federal government is "the only party allowed in" a 'courtroom'

Let's not give this travesty any more legitimacy than it deserves

> It is sad indeed, but perhaps every political system sooner or later becomes a tyranny and dictatorship. It may be just a matter of time.

Quite possibly.
"Work smarter not harder" is a false dichotomy. Someone working hard and smart is going to accomplish more than someone just working smart. And equating "working hard" with "putting in empty meaningless long hours" is ridiculous. Working hard is about effort, not time. As someone who was praised for being smart and developed a habit of putting in very little effort as a result: working hard is great. Work hard. Just don't work hard and stupid.
This discussion is interesting, because I just recently listened to an interview with Tegan And Sara on NPR regarding their new album that almost perfectly emulates this (minimalism vs polish). They wanted to make their music more approachable to a wider audience, and their hardcore fans revolted because they just wanted to hear more of the same stuff. In the end, they were right, and the new album was successful.

Musicians (and artists in general) have to evolve, and there is a risk of alienating people with that evolution. I certainly don't want to make people not like NeoCities because the design changes.

However, having a good design makes the site more approachable and accessible for more people, which is the goal of NeoCities: to get people to start making web sites again, even if they aren't a member of the skilled web design crowd. HN has an appreciation for minimalism (that I almost always share), but I want to involve and inspire all users, and not just make it for our demographic, if that makes any sense.

If you had any suggestions specific to the design to improve it, I would love to hear your thoughts, but I do think it's a good design. It has site screenshots on the front page, a great top backdrop, good colors, and an awesome site mascot.
Its not lying and cheating nor illegal to say "I will build you a purple widget for your website, you can have it by Friday. The widget will cost you 1000 bucks"

Get away from selling your time please. Sell something else, sell a feature, sell a widget, sell a service. As a "bum on seat" I have charged by the hour, the day, the week or even a month. And each an every time I was expected to, contracted to do 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

I was an employee.

I could not supply them a simple single product, custom built for them because I had to wade through meetings and politics and inertia and everything else we all know and love. They were too disorganised, too chaotic, too out of control to know what they wanted at a level below "months of work from dozens of people", and so the ride continued.

This is where the Internet is opening up new opportunities - because now it is dismantling (read automating) traditional marketing and even management. One guy can reach a global audience with good SEO, and one group of people can do away with 80% of industrial world management (including geo-co-location). And all that will dismantle the chaotic crazy world of contractors selling their time inside corporations who need software but are not able to deal with the implications.

The contracting world will look very different in ten years. It will look a lot like what patio11 is selling.

So, stop selling your time - instead sell a packet of something, for about the price of a week of your time, to do something that will take about a week of your time.

It looks a lot like selling a week of your time, except
that

* it does not say so in the contract

* it is something you can and will automate.

Selling a product is 80%+ automated and 20% custom.

Selling a productised-consult is 20% automated and 80% custom.

The more that 80% dives down, the more profit you make in your "week". However the more it looks like a product, the less you can charge :-)

Do I care that my accountant only spends an hour looking over an annual return he got by pressing a button, yet charges a grand? No, because I make up for it on chats over coffee and the knowledge that he would catch the horror of a mistake and fix it. No horror, good for him. However that week he did tackle a horror for someone. Next time it will be me.
that's fairly irrelevant, i think, since most of the cost comes from the per-item markups.
At least in California, I was under the impression that there was really no question--they're totally unenforceable unless you plan to pay your employee full wages for the entire duration that they're not allowed to work for the competition.

But this wasn't about no-compete clauses, this was about the companies having an off-the-books agreement not to give unsolicited job offers to the competitors' employees.
I just tried signing up for a page, and at the bottom of the signup form is instructions for entering two words. But no two words show up, and there is no place to enter them. Is this due to load issues?

Edit: The re-captcha works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, but not in Chrome.
The point of the mark III isn't megapixels. It's image quality, less noise, higher iso, better highlights/shadows, more images per second, better autofocusing, movies, etc.
1200 screenshots of computer interfaces from old movies
If the problem in OTR is we can't rely on users to verify who each other are, then any solution is going to inherit exactly the same problem because the only solution to it is external trusted parties.

On top of that, PGP is exactly a step backwards if you're worried about just observation of metadata because PGP with web-of-trust cryptographically ties every message you send forever back to the key which sent it. OTR on the other hand treat the keys as inherently disposable and relies on the only correct verification protocol which is user knowledge of each other.

You have to choose which problem you find more important: either you can be very anonymous, or very sure of who you're talking to but never both.
To be clear, I just went to that first URL, copy and pasted the key to the end of the URL, and I listened to you leaving a message saying "This is a test. 1,2,3".

I did not need to know anything else. This is not good.
Five-year-olds to learn programming in UK schools
If only "hacking" was as easy as finding passwords within JavaScript. Got bored after level 6 or so, meh.
I don't believe the club would have to meet the requirement. I think if you do your investing via an LLC or Corporation you could subvert that rule but I'm not really sure.
You can't make this shit up.

> Police in North Dakota borrowed a $154 million MQ-9 Predator B drone from the Department of Homeland Security to arrest a family of anti-government separatists who refused to return six cows that wandered onto their farm.
At ${PREVIOUS_JOB}, the director of another department tried to recruit me. One of his selling points was that they often worked insanely late nights and slept at their desks. Considering I was already thinking about quitting my job due to long hours and unrealistic expectations, his pitch didn't exactly woo me.
Show HN: an API to pull Facebook-style thumbnails and abstracts for a URL
What happens when there's an earthquake? Or theft? Or fire?
All of these new services that enable poor or lower-income people to serve rich people (Uber, TaskRabbit, Instacart) have been enabled by two main things: an economic recession that permanently eliminated a lot of jobs and the recovery which drove economics gains to the 1%, and smartphones, which allow the customers or workers to send or receive requests at any time.
David Simon and Ed Burns wrote the following passage for the TV show, "The Wire" spoken by Bunny Colvin:

<<<<
I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors. They gonna be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fucking enemy. And pretty soon, damn near everybody on every corner is your fucking enemy. And soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policing, that's just occupied territory.
>>>>

This was written in 2004. With the passage of time, it seems more and more prescient.
I hope your business model doesn't rely too heavily on the "monetizing" aspect. I know there are lots of photo hosting services with a "sell prints" option, but I get the impression not very many people actually use those in enough volume to cover the hosting costs. I'm imagining a non-pro track that's targeted at the enthusiast who just wants backup and sharing, but won't actually sell any prints. I'll be watching.
This is http://codenow.org/ in NYC, by the way. The organization partners with my employer, Jumpstart Lab.

This particular iteration is six weeks, all the kids did a weekend with us during the school year. Last week was reviewing very basic programming concepts in Ruby, then this week, we did ruby-processing, and then Sinatra, so the HTML came into play.

I think it's because it's a more graphical medium; many of them can see how it's 'neat,' but when doing just textual stuff, they get bored easily. The processing was kinda interesting, but I think the simplicity of making something graphical was what really made them get pumped. Then, now they're more excited to learn more Ruby so that they can build more complex sites, but (at least with this group) it's a means to an end.

We haven't actually deployed anything public yet, so they haven't been able to share, I bet that'll be another huge leap in interest.
Is it actually a good idea to put less politically/socially savvy people into powerful positions?
Make it cheap and no one will care any more. Make it shiny and the tech pundits will slobber all over it.

It concerns me for reference.

The device is dangerous to say the least.

I wish Stallman would write about them as people might start paying attention to those of us who can see what is coming.
First of all, it's none of anyone's business what some individual wants to invest their money in. It's a moral obscenity to forcibly prevent him from investing.

It's not only presumptuous to say "if someone's not rich, they must not be smart enough to invest", it's a self-fulfilling kind of thing, isn't it?

Nothing prevents people from gambling in Vegas. So clearly these laws are not about protecting fools from their own foolishness. No, the laws are about only one thing: making sure that the people who are in charge of the economic system, stay in charge. And it's not just these SEC laws, there are a wide variety of laws that secure the elite from competition by the peasants.

Whenever someone claims they're keeping you from doing something for your own good, who pretends to be your parent, they really are your master.
Open Source Bio-Tracking Software
That's no laughing matter.
Why own a washing machine when you can rent one at a laundromat for a small monthly fee?

Why own a phone when you can rent a payphone for a small monthly fee?

The answer is a combination of convenience and personal status.
Because it's against their rules and the rules of pretty much all the other private trackers too.
My own cloud? It's not really hard to get your own service up and running. All my shits auto backed up to my dedicated which has terabytes and terabytes of storage.
Confessions of a 'job hopper'
Glacier retrieval pricing has a strange and un-Amazony economy of scale. If you're just backing up your own data you'll be charged a ZOMG huge amount to ever download it. But if you're backing up 100 people you pay nothing to get data back.
I'll let the crypto guys comment, but my understanding is that Moxie is no pushover in that arena.

The following are the protocols used by WhisperSystems:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Protocol

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Encryption-P...
Does anyone know if the other companies emulating the Valve corporate structure - particularly I'm thinking of Github - also have cliquish dynamics?

The only company I've seen in-person that was trying it is Basho, and while I got a really bad impression of their culture, I think that had more to do with their "Topgrading" cargo-cult hiring practices than with their structurelessness
I just donated [1] $10 to the project and I haven't even setup an account yet. I just think providing an anonymous account on the internet is very important, especially in today's world of constant monitoring and eavesdropping.

I hoped others on HN donate what little they see fit.

[1] > Confirmation number: 1PC46364PK792033N
Your parent's point was that 99% of people do not own a license to the file.
Fix the 3 silent performance killers for IIS & ASP.NET apps
Thank you. This was my favorite book up to this hour. It's painful to realize the messages I aligned with, subconciously, when I would never align with them if I had seen them presented in a different way.

Sometimes its nice to be wrong and have the chance to reconsider. Thank you.
You can do this sort of metaprogramming in Python just fine, and then some. Things like metaclasses and abstract base classes give a lot of power to hook and modify the type system.
I threw this together to scratch my own itch, but I'd love feedback. It's only hosted on a personal VPS right now, so be nice :)
Because it is news about a hacker
I feel that way too. In fact, it makes me kind of unhappy that I'll have to miss Ender's Game in the theater, I just can't give that man my money when he might use it for something I disagree with so much.
Another terrible title edit by the mods.
I don't care how good you are at programming
How the Word 'Hacker' Got Corrupted
Love the project et. all, this would be very helpful!

I have to comment on the name as well... brilliant. Kudos for something creative that has already stuck firmly in my mind.
Blech, you all can keep it. Just let me do enough to be useful, but not too useful, give me my money, and go away. Feel free to bash each other's brains in for a chance at imaginary glory when I am at a safe remove.

As an American, if I am in love with battle, then it would be the sort of battle where the guy makes a big blustery show, charges toward me, and trips over my foot.
how do you think it comes by that image quality? It's a total waste of money to use a 5Dmkiii in 5MP mode. You'd never notice the difference between nouse, shadow detail, highlight clipping, autofocus if you used an entry level canon. The 5D MKiii is for pro's, not weekend amateurs. You did your part for the Economy, but you wasted your money.
The whole point I was talking about is that as soon as you're in monad, referential transparency becomes a bit a "lie", and a <- getA, b <- getA becomes non just analogous to a = getA(); b = getA();, but even worse in "referential transparency" sense.
Cop/Soldiers are banned from thinking out of the box
Maybe I'm daft, but it doesn't add up to me. Perhaps you can point out the flaw in my thinking? Apple already had a marketplace, the App Store, that let sellers set their own prices — Apple just wanted their hefty 30%, regardless of consumer price. It seems that was and is acceptable to the law and the world at large. In fact, before iBooks, publishers were already selling their books as stand alone apps under this model. When Apple created iBooks, they continued this existing model in their newly created ebook marketplace — that seems entirely natural and unprovocative. It can't be that the agency model is only illegal for books.

It seems to me if an offense was committed, it was committed by publishers in renegotiating their Amazon contracts, in unison, towards the agency model. How is Apple implicated?
Coding in the Rain
Link for those who want the details:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/abc-asks-st...
Jarvis also owns/runs Raw Thrills, a game design company outside of Chicago.

http://www.rawthrills.com

DeMar owns/runs Leading Edge Design, a slot machine design company. He also cofounded Spooky Cool Labs, a social game design firm. Spooky Cool was sold to Zynga late last month.

http://www.spookycool.com