skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, anyone is free to not be acquired. And there is not usually any guarantee that everyone will be acquired. There is usually going to be some sort of retention bonus offered to people to stick around a few months beyond the acquisition period. But if a team is working well together (regardless if the actual product was a success or not, or the circumstances around their acquisition) and people enjoy having a job and the buyer is not a complete train wreck, many people will go with it (if nothing more than to have a job while you start looking). A good team that is used to working together can have a slight edge over a new team built from scratch.
Keeping clients in sync with a REST backend
Interestingly enough, that's an incorrect expectation[0], which makes it a great example of how poorly understood privacy rights actually are, both in physical space and the virtual space.

[0] http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=ifissues&Template=/C...
Funny story. This almost mirrors exactly my experience in affiliate marketing probably around the same time. Got out for the same reasons too, extremely fast competition and it got to the point where you had to have no ethics and basically commit fraud to profit. As a person trying to remain ethical it didn't make for very good profits.
I don't doubt there are coverage issues, but I don't think any carrier is immune. Verizon may get close, but I'd have to pay 4x the cost. I was challenging "network you don't," while T-Mobile receives a lot of praise for its value.
Data could be leaked from the system by encoding it in the timing of legitimate packet transmission.
These are not the futures you were looking for.

Move along.
Isn't the tracer bullet analogy from either code complete or the pragmatic programmer?
What do you see as the difference between a scripting language and a programming language? All scripting languages are programming languages.
Very simple library and execution! Thanks so much!
Discover the Exotic Beauty of Bali
Isn't it a little self-defeating to make indentation visible? The whole idea is that it's easy to pick out blocks by the shape of the left margin, i.e., where the first visible character is.

If your indentation scheme only works when configuring your editor to mark whitespace, we might as well go back to MUMPS and indent with dots.
$4,300 apartment lease.
$1,000 car lease ($700 lease + $300 car insurance).
Huge sum spent on high end restaurants.
Taxes
Also ended up hiring a few contract workers to take care of misc work such as customer support.

$20k was at the peak.
$14k was average.
Show HN: Journal Your Life as Data with Thyself.io
>The question is why 7 years?

Because we have no beaming technology and it needs a safe place?
Better app switching and text selection would solve a lot of the complaints. Users can already get a physical keyboard for their iDevice, but standard text selection and editing is incredibly annoying. Also alt-tab to switch applications plus a group of apps that are "running" would make life good.
> Specifically: correcting Smith's descriptions of pre-money economies as being barter based, which Graeber replaces with gift-based

That's not really a correction; there are pre-currency societies with both barter- and gift-based (and there's not really a clear delineation between the three, there's overlap between barter- and gift-based structures in pre-currency societies, and overlap of all three once currency is in the mix.)

> There's the point that's raised by many (Richard Heinberg and Chris Martenson in particular) that fractional reserve lending and monetary supply growth mandate economic growth, which I haven't fully subscribed to, but that would suggest one primary source of opposition to sustainable, zero-growth economic paradigms.

The human desire for better things demands economic growth; zero economic growth literally means things never get better (currency-value-based measures of economic growth are proxies for changes in experienced utility; zero economic growth means no increases in experienced utility. That's not really a desirable goal.)
Working on boats and cars with my dad, we always cleaned up using sugar and dish soap. Never salt! Because it'd make those scraped knuckles sting! :)
Related discussion on codeplex (typescript specific): http://typescript.codeplex.com/discussions/401549

And a ACE/typescript integration with code validation and autocomplete: http://guillaume86.github.io/ace/kitchen-sink.html (switch to typescript mode in the left panel).
I think this is a well intentioned student project that is just easy to misinterpret. It seems to be related to Miami Ad School Europe.

I think the intent is to target programmers and suggest that men who use Axe body spray will be popular with girls, although I can see how it could also be interpreted to suggest that if you can understand pseudo code then you should stop programming so much and get a girl friend.

Having said that, it is clearly sexist by assuming that a person who understands pseudo code must be a man (or a lesbian I guess).

Thoughts?
After two years, I disagree with this. I have to consistently concentrate on the physical act of typing and not what I'm trying to write.
Stop whining. Call and write your representative, be a part of the solution.

We know it's bad, we know the going will be tough. We need to get off our collective asses and put the pressure on to fix it instead of ranting and perpetuating self-fulfilling prophecies.
I am trying to find out what problem does Rockmelt solve. Does anyone know seriously?
I found this in an article of theirs: "This feature, called Save Search, will essentially let you make your query results persistent. “We have a patent on this,” says Howes." So is it that they allow you to persist your queries?
It's plastic. They sell it in the form of "hurdles" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_particle_water_pollutio...), small plastic particles, which are mostly standard sizes. These are then processed into their final form as required by simple machinery. Typically these are fed into an injection molding machine to make plastic parts, but could be used to produce plastic bags or sheet plastic for thermoforming.

Unless they're adding something to the plastic, or coating it in something, they could absolutely just ship it back as smaller than usual nurdles, or make use of it for something else in their manufacturing process, like making bottles or caps.

In any case, do you really think they have a two year supply of this stuff? That'd be crazy.
The $5000 day stood alone. There was another day that I would have done just shy of $5000 profit but the affiliate network refused to pay out. I had to fight with them to get them to give me half my earnings for the day. If I didn't do that I would have lost almost $5000 that day.

I spent the whole year chasing $5000 days and could never replicate them. A lot of affiliates earned that and even more though.

With that South American campaign, AFF paid the full 14 cents per click but then said that they would only pay 6 cents a click in the future. My profit was cut, but it continued for months, slowly tapering off as the ads were clicked less and less and FB gave me less volume.

I saw someone further down saying that this would sound like someone telling tall tales if not for it being the affiliate marketing industry.

I'm not trying to brag, all of you senior SV engineers make more per year than I did that year, with far less risk than I took on. I didn't get rich doing this, in fact I went through a good period after this finding out what life is like in America at the very bottom of the economic heap. There was even a time when I got on a plane and moved to Austin with just $900 and was almost homeless. My AirBNB rental turned out to be infested with cockroaches and I couldn't get a refund, my Boulder landlord refused to return my security deposit and a client wasn't paying me.

I pulled myself up by the bootstraps though and learned Python/Django web dev, real horatio alger style, and now I live the life of a well paid consultant in Astoria, NYC.

Affiliate marketing was pretty good for me though, being just out of college with no marketable skills in 2009, when the job market stood in ruins all around me and I was terrified of the prospect of having a real job.
http://lifeboxes.neocities.org/
John Arundel on DevOps
Giving in to terrorism does not end terrorism, it only ends the violent expression of it. If you do this, you end up living in fear (i.e. terror) that if you do not continue to do what the terrorists want, there will be more violence.

Anyone who cooperates with an abusive power does so because they have been sufficiently terrorized by that power and they don't want to risk further abuse. That kind of cooperation is not a good outcome; it's only the acceptance of coercion, because the alternative is worse.
Dave Thomas and Pragmatic also have a tracer bullet analogy. But in that case it's more about "prototype" code being used as a tracer bullet instead of requirements and specifications to figure out what people want.

http://www.artima.com/intv/tracer.html
Yahoo has a long history [1] of crap acquisitions.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yahoo_acquisitions
Been waiting for this for a long time
As long as they aren't in crunch time 365.25 days of the year, or of course all that often, it's OK.

In fact, by specifically calling out such a thing as "crunch time", you can ask them "how much of the month/year do you spend in crunch time?", the answer to which should be very telling.
And electronic bidets are the most awesome of toilets. Once you get used to them (and they are fairly affordable as long as you don't go for Toto), using paper feels so... primitive.
You Don’t Need To Be An A$@hole to Be Great
Put up a few million dollars as the prize to solve said problems and I bet you get a fair share of applicants. What are you waiting for?
Pay closer attention, sir--this isn't American politics writ large, but a small section of issues that has deep and far-reaching consequences for our customers, our businesses, and (without meaning to sound too grandiose) nothing less than the future of privacy and exploratory computing.

This is exactly the sort of useful stuff I'd like to see here.
Of course, thank you for checking it out.
It's harder to mitigate than CRIME, but CRIME was leaps and bounds more useful. Since you were guaranteed to have control over some reflected plaintext in the request, life was much easier. With BREACH, you have to first find a plaintext reflection, and there are certainly many page where one simply does not exist.
I have a $30/mo unlimited (5GB at 4G) data/messaging (100 min talk time) no-contract plan with T-Mobile and I use Skype for lots of calling. Works great for me in LA. Almost always have LTE access. No problems whatsoever.

http://consumerist.com/2013/06/07/t-mobile-has-a-30-unlimite...

This just makes me like them even more. Competition is forcing them to actually think about ways of making mobile phone/data service not suck.
They tried to hire me but I thought it a pointless product and turned them down.
This is why HTTPS certificate pinning exists. Having a standardized way of requesting a pin would be a very good thing right now. (See: HPKP and TACK)
It's passive because of the kind of stuff I work on.

FB ads are a fun game, cloakers are even more fun. It's a lot of list maint, but once you get a nice ad management system running, things get fun.

I can't (won't) go into details, but I'm currently a dev on a project like this.

edit: Passive in the sense that much of the tedium has been removed, not in the sense that you still don't have to do proper marketing.
You think Levi's wouldn't accept payment in gold?
I sometimes work on the SP, but only on a desk connected to a second monitor and mouse. There it's basically just like a desktop tower.

http://www.dangrossman.info/2013/07/14/summer-workspace/

On its own, the kickstand and not-quite-rigid keyboards make it a pretty subpar laptop for actually coding on a lap.

I have it mostly so I can throw it in my car whenever I leave and know that if a server goes down, or some other issue comes up, I can handle it wherever I am -- it's a full computer but more portable than a laptop. I don't feel the need to carry a backpack or big bag to haul it around in, and I get ~5.5 hours of battery writing code so I don't carry the cord either.
Due to Firefox and Chromium both being open source, this won't be an issue. If the browser companies remove the ability to remove root certs, we can just fork and add it back.
IMHO, typing on iPad is stupid not necessarily because of the typing experience (I'm actually not terrible at it), but because the screen size above the virtual keyboard is too little. I want to write with a sufficient amount of text around the area where I am writing to give me full context. That's how I have been trained and and so have most people. I'm not sure why this would baffle anybody.
So, no tern.js for them until it's open source :)

I'd love to know their motivation for writing their own instead of contributing to Ace or CodeMirror.
A team that built a failed product is not the same as a failed team.
This title is a bit misleading.

It should be 'don't plug your iphone into a charger you don't own'

the other 90% of us are unaffected by this hack.
I do find myself offended by that code. This looks much better IMO

if(you.understand(this))
{
return get.a.girlfriend();
}

Also what is the point of having one more girlfriend? I have barely time for Fallout: New Vegas with my current :(
SHOULD != SHALL

And, no, this scheme doesn't break the go parser because there isn't a typeshift between the "comment" fields, they are all strings.

http://play.golang.org/p/bxcIIyAeph
That's a good question. I've used ruby-prof before, but for me that requires a cognitive load and steps I don't always want to preform in many situations. This just seems simpler. Install gem, sprinkle tb's in my code, and oh there is that dumb block of code I hacked together that doesn't perform very well.
Andrew Mason (of groupon fame) had an observation a few years ago at startup school that says activism is currently how long someone will inconvenience themselves. The longer the inconvenience and the more infrequent, the more seriously it's treated.
So what exactly happened? Did things just dry up? Have you been able to find any new leads lately?
"They elected me to lead not to read" - Rainier Wolfcastle
Hmm..this might be enough to get me to try Ruby. Looks neat and I've been wanting to learn the language. I hate dependency plumbing but this looks like it might work out of the (my) box.
1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In A SOPA-Style Protest
The target demographic of a computer language is people who program computers. Python is as old as Perl. Ruby, at a spry 20, is only five years younger than Perl. Java is pushing 20 and JavaScript is not far behind.

Are you suggesting that when Mats created Ruby, he was thinking to himself, "I can't wait for the all the first graders to grow up and use my language?"

I rather think that the creators of computer languages think in terms of present, rather than future computer programmers, and not in terms of "My language will make all the Beliebers want to become software engineers."
Announcing iFirefeed, An iOS Twitter clone, built on Firebase
For those keeping score, this gives another win for Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, a16z, and First Round. Here's the tally for those who invested in companies that have been acquired by Y! since Mayer took over:

CrunchFund - 3 (Stamped, GoPollGo, Tumblr)

True Ventures - 3 (OnTheAir, Snip.It, Lexity)

Khosla Venture - 3 (Snip.It, Xobni, Rockmelt)

SV Angel - 3 (Snip,It, Xobni, Rockmelt)

Google Ventures - 2 (Astrid & Stamped)

Spark Capital - 2 (Tumblr & Lexity)

Jack Herrick - 2 (Qwiki & Astrid)

Greylock - 2 (Tumblr & Qwiki)

First Round Capital - 2 (Xobni & Rockmelt)

Also to note, Lexity & Jybe were founded by former Y! employees.
Yahoo basically IS a long history of crap acquisitions.
The difference is one of interpretation, not of representation; i.e. it's determined by an application, above parser level. When looking just at the written down form, data and code are the same thing.

Code more Lisp and read more Hofstadter ;).
I still do not understand what this is for? If you go to some appurl.org sub directory in a mobile web browser a native mobile app opens?

Also, what is with the http? Or rather lack of https.
Scaling Buffer in 2013
The best answer to the question "Can I ask you a few questions?" is "Sure! Just give me your card and I'll have my attorney set something up."

Gives them nowhere to go but home.
Rabble rabble Reader rabble rabble!

Oh wait, 'tis Yahoo.

crickets
He would have been quite lucky to be deported. It's also sadly a much different game when you have access to funds--most people don't call a lawyer because it's expensive.
I don't have anything useful to say, but: "Serge figured, it was a matter of unfolding the box, turning a three-dimensional object into a one-dimensional surface"

Now how does one do that? :) And he shouldn't have had to used the Pythagorean theorem on just a one dimensional line...

Sigh. Just thought it was funny, since the article was about how programming/technical jargon goes over the heads of jurors, the FBI, etc. but seems like the article writer isn't immune to it either :)
> Adjusted for our socio-economic demographics, the U.S. performs about the same on international educational tests as western european countries

You've been very perceptive in recognizing the situation on US educational system, but you overlook the fact that the socio-economic class who's doing poorly is increasingly getting bigger. I think therein lies the problem -- and, the continuing streak of anti-intellectualism has this peculiar feature of worsening everything around it ten-fold, and it's extremely seductive because of the capitalistic factor (dumbed down movie/shows dialogues, dumbed down news, etc.). A vast amount of data at this point portends social unrest in terms of class warfare, politics, etc. What'll happen when unemployment keeps going up, when the clamor of "entitlement programs" gets more agitated, when school systems get even more stressed with funding issues? I really think that's where shit will hit the fan.

> The solution is all the middle class people from the Detroit suburbs moving back into the city, stabilizing the social structure of the city, sending their kids to Detroit public schools so as to dilute the influence of social phenomena like gangs that thrive in low-income ghettos, and to build functioning integrated communities with broad parental involvement. Butt hat will happen when hell freezes over, and until then people will complain ceaselessly about the government's failure with regard to education.

Right, exactly. So, the way I see it, there are a good many reasons for alarm. I spent my teenage years in American inner cities, so yes I know just how bad it is, I saw at least 2 fights per week or so breaking out in high school that would end up in police involvement.

Can you think of a solution? The best solution I can think of: boarding schools, that are run like military schools, that get teens away from the bad neighborhoods for at least 8 months of the year, that give them some tough love treatment to discipline them.
Wow, didn't know that is so simple. Can't wait to play with iBeacons and iOS 7.
The US has never been shy about using its military power, but to fight two wars of aggression simultaneously with only limited opposition speaks to how passive or passively supportive the population has become. Killing hundreds of thousands is just the cost of doing business, apparently. At least it wasn't Mexico where things would be awkwardly close to home, right?

> ...[America] let in huge numbers of low-income Hispanic immigrants...

They aren't low-income immigrants, they're immigrants who are paid low incomes. This is exactly the same as happened to the Irish, the Polish, and the Italians.

Your arguments basically boil down to race being a huge factor, but maybe it's more a case of racism than race.

As for unemployment, the United States is not as bad as the worst basket cases of Europe, but that's hardly worth celebrating. Unemployment has doubled according to the numbers you've provided. Isn't that a bit worrying? Isn't nearly 20% unemployment just a little high? It's like Spain was in 2005 and look what happened then.
They should switch to a better cipher suite to enable PFS[1] (ex: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256). Right now they're using RC4-SHA:

$ echo | openssl s_client -debug -connect en.wikipedia.org:443 | grep "Cipher is" -A 4
depth=1 C = US, O = DigiCert Inc, OU = www.digicert.com, CN = DigiCert High Assurance CA-3
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:0
DONE
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is RC4-SHA
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy
I think Yahoo has much improved after Marissa became CEO.
> or coating it in something

Toothpaste and facewash?

I find it very plausible that they have a two-year supply of particular products, that can easily happen if demand does not meet expectations, or if they planned limited campaigns of particular products.
This is so ridiculously cynical.

If this were the first in this long line of crap-quisitions, I'd disagree with you, but I see Yahoo as the Island of Lost Startups.

Tying multiple disparate teams into a cohesive product will be really hard. I don't see what good will come of this, except getting Yahoo positioned to have early access to a16z and Khosla startups.
read his name, noobplusplus
Unless you live in a multiple-party wiretap consent state, in which case you've committed additional crimes.
I have a hard time thinking of a single single male IT in my surroundings. When you get older than 25 the above average salary and brains do wonders for successful dating.

Nothing offensive, but I would have appreciated using Solarized, Source code pro and writing actual compilable code. It shows attention to details, research and respect to the community that you advertise to.
Sure. And I don't object to a few articles with a lot of meat. But what I don't need is every pundit's reaction, to see every breaking story about which company cooperated and which did not, followed by a story summarizing the tally, followed by two reactions to the summary from two more pundits, followed by a guy who has a bone to pick with one of them, followed by a new revelation about a fifteenth company, ...

The guidelines clearly make an exception for new, interesting stories that have wide-reaching consequences. I agree and am glad that I found out here about the major abuses, the amendment and the more recent bill. That's four stories of real value. What the guidelines do not make an exception for is the kind of fine-toothed-combing and navel-lint-cataloguing that is going on surrounding these issues. Stories with titles like "People don't care about these stories anymore" are great examples of what isn't a new and interesting phenomenon.

I definitely grant that some of this is desired. I think you and others should grant that some of it is not desired.
Getting fired for breaking policy is fine. Calling in favors to the Feds and nailing someone for 8 years is not.
I feel the need to comment as I also had the same bleak slightly amused face.This was better than all the funny stuff I've seen on the Internet today.
I know, but I think Marissa is trying to improve this.
I posted a patch to change Firefox's Wikipedia search bar from HTTP to HTTPS, but Wikipedia developers said their infrastructure was not ready for load. Maybe they will be more receptive now. I'll ping them again. :)

"We're still waiting on some core changes in MediaWiki to switch logged-in users
to HTTPS. I'd prefer to have that happen first."

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758857

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45765
Vote your conscience and so will I.