skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not saw that, thanks.

Although you must still prove yourself that the debt exceeds the assets, this can get very problematic in some cases (like I guy I know that AFTER he died, people found out that beside his official wife and his 2 previous divorced wives, he also had 5 other "marriages", and the 7 women did not knew each other, he had children with all of them, and each one thought he owned a different business... this case is still in inventary hell, but last I heard of it, they concluded each child will inherit 10 million BRL each plus lands... but they don't started yet counting the debts... also, all of the women were correct, he never lied about what he owned, only he never presented anyone with the full truth, to each one he presented himself owning a different business he really owned, I wonder how the guy pulled that off)
A century and a half ago, Karl Marx said the only force outside of nature which could create value was labor. This was not a new concept, but in line with what economists before such as Adam Smith had thought.

A counter-argument arose from what he may have called the "capitalist hegemons" that value arose through supply and demand and marginal utility. That if there was enough demand for something, prices would rise and a supply would come into being.

Yet nowadays these hegemons seem to be saying something different. There is a demand for IT talent. There are billions of people in the world, so it seems obvious that if you set hours at 40 a week and then raise the salary enough, eventually the demand will be filled.

The bottom line is they don't want to raise the salary.

It is possible other factors are in the way. If, to take one example, Pell Grants were higher and easier to get, maybe there would be more CS graduates. The opposite is happening with Pell Grants - they have been cut back, and are covering less college costs than they have in history.

This means less CS graduates. This means you'll have to pay more for the ones who come out, because less are coming out.

It's a strange contradictory thinking. Employers preach supply and demand, yet think it does not apply to their desire for engineers. Set hours at 40 a week and pay for them. If you want people to work more, you'll have to pay more.

There is not a shortage of engineers. There's just a flood of people who want a very accomplished, knowledgeable engineer, and want them to work on boring, brain-dead projects for 60 hours a week, and to pay them nothing and treat them like junk.

I have 10,000 jobs open right now. I need experts in Java, Python etc. I'll pay you minimum wage. You need to work 12 hours a day. See, I just added 10,000 new job openings to the shortage. How come I can't find anyone to fill these jobs?
Author here. You're right, "Awk in Haskell" is perhaps a bit misleading. The intention is not to replace Awk for the masses, but mainly to provide an Awk-like tool for programers who are more familiar with Haskell. Similar to pyline: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik....
>aren't coal plants still the most economical from a market stand-point

only in the current environment there most of the cost of coal energy (green house gas and other pollutants emissions, environment destruction where coal is mined, etc...) is socialized
Employers have to pay the industry prevailing wage or the wage actually paid to comparable US national employees. So the law already does what you are suggesting.
I totally get what you're saying, but this right here is kind of the problem:

> Maybe I was creating simple examples to teach others the basics of getting user input and working with it in a database.

I'm one of the countless people who learned PHP off of examples that do just that, for clarity, and it was years before I learned that it was not meant to be a real-world example. Sites that offer such examples (I'm looking at you, w3schools) are probably responsible for 90% of all the bad code that shows up on lists like this, because the exchange amounts to:

Student: "How do I do XYZ?"

Teacher: "It's easy! Just do 123."

Student: "Thanks!" <leaves, closes door>

Teacher (to empty room): "Haha, just kidding. You should really forget that entirely and do 456 instead."

I don't think it's valuable to learn about mysql_query("delete from `tbl` where id = {$_GET['id']}") at all in the first place, if you just have to unlearn it and start doing it the right way later. It doesn't actually simplify anything.
Did you read any of the other examples?
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Yeah, as I parent I empathize. It must have been a trying experience both emotionally and financially. But I has being sarcastic in my comment earlier...
The pricing for extra domains seems weird to me - it's more for the extra ones ($19) than for the original 3 (49/3 ~= $16).
In a perfect world people would know what they were talking about. But unfortunately that is rarely the case. Being a buzzword jockey goes mostly unpunished today, so people just keep going with it.
"he was shooting on far slower film than the digital sensors available today. "

My guess is the hype engine will focus on the idea that if 48 FPS is "twice as good" as 24 FPS then 96 FPS is even better.

In true Hollywood style I bet they'll be post processing to make scenes look like they were filmed with standard lens.
Huge fucking surprise... This is fucking tragic. It shouldn't be happening in this damn country.
All very good stuff, but this line stood out in particular:

"Video makes Waterfall software development look like bugs-in-your-teeth speed, though"

As someone who is coming to the close of a 4-year work stint on a short film, I can tell you, you ain't wrong.

Indeed, it has gotten to the point that I've started a computer game design project as light relief.
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I would be happy to be a listener, but I'm based in Scandinavia. Do you have any use for me?
> If you are in the business of producing (say) cars, you have to make capital investments, including investments in human capital - why should software be a special snowflake?

It's perfectly legal for a car company to import sub-assemblies from abroad. Why should we have free movement of capital and goods, but not labor?
So what are these Ph.D. engineers doing, then? Sitting at home with their degrees waiting for a big enough offer? I think not. They are employed somewhere, which means that actually they are not counterproof of a shortage.

Raising salary always comes up as the "answer" to the talent shortage, but it's a highly localized answer. Sure a company can fill all their openings by raising their salaries--they'll do it by recruiting currently-employed engineers from another company.

That doesn't "fill a hole" industry-wide. It just moves it to another company. If there are more holes than qualified engineers, there's a shortage.

To make the case that talent shortages are caused by low salaries, you'd need to show me a lot of people who are qualifed but currently willfully unemployed, waiting for the right offer. I'm not aware of many engineers who fit that description.
Labeling needs to be greatly increased as is, so it's hard to say anything about whether a label specifically for lab grown meat would be fair.

You should have access to information about the cow that your beef was cut from. I'm not saying it has to be all listed out in plain English on the package, but there should at least be a code you can look up that tells you who raised the cow, who fed it and who slaughtered it.

Part of the problem is that no provable difference is not the same as proven to have no difference. The number of things with no provable health risks in 1950 that have provable health risks today is large. Go back to 1900 and it's staggering. The change in recommended diet is equally staggering over the last 100 years. Yet somehow, we always think that now we have it figured out and can say with certainty what the best way to eat is and what's safe and what isn't.

So, if it wasn't obvious, I come down on the side of nature. I want my food as un-fucked-around-with as possible. There is zero chance I would buy lab-grown meat, regardless what research shows. At least not for a few decades. I have no problem with people experimenting with lab-grown meat or even selling it. But I have the right to make my own choice on the issue, especially for such a dramatic change in the way the meat is produced.
Ultimately, successful revolutions depend on two things --

1) A general level of dissatisfaction;
2) Someone or something that crystallizes the dissatisfaction into action.

And it doesn't always mean open warfare. Rosa Parks satisfied criterion #2 to launch the Civil Rights era.
So now the goalposts have moved...
>"conventional" power generation kills far more people than nuclear ever has.

and don't start on how many people cholesterol in burgers is killing
"...just hours before his death Hastings sent the following email to close friends: “Subject: FBI Investigation, re: NSA -Hey (redacted names) — the Feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates.” Perhaps if the authorities arrive “BuzzFeed GQ,” er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news gathering practices or related journalism issues. Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the rada[r] for a bit.

Notice the symmetry/irony of:

"...The SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ...captures the final moments of Hastings life and provides intriguing details of the "crash....

We should hope ES and Glen Greenwald have this.
They're paying £35,000 but will go to £40,000 for the right candidate

I literally laughed out loud at this. I'm a Yank who doesn't even know what the exchange rate is, and that is laughably, sadistically low, even for an entry level position in Podunk, Nowhere. And they're offering this for a "senior developer" in the urban metro area of London? The author is right, IT recruitment is totally broken.
"Potential listeners must complete an online training program and speak with Moriarty on the phone before they start taking calls."
We've never had a free market. Perhaps we should, but so far it's never existed.
Relevant:

"Gaining wireless access to a car’s network is old news. A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, experimenting on a sedan from an unnamed company in 2010, found that they could wirelessly penetrate the same critical systems Miller and Valasek targeted using the car’s OnStar-like cellular connection, Bluetooth bugs, a rogue Android app that synched with the car’s network from the driver’s smartphone or even a malicious audio file on a CD in the car’s stereo system. “Academics have shown you can get remote code execution,” says Valasek, using hacker jargon for the ability to start running commands on a system. “We showed you can do a lot of crazy things once you’re inside.” [1]

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers...
Yes, off the top of my head it seems that an F/1.2 lens made for full frame cameras these days would actually offer superior light gathering ability, though the quality of the final image compared with Kubrick's film stills would be doubtless a matter for discussion.

That said, of course, these lenses are marvels and any photographer would be delighted to give them a try — we do value novelty and and uniqueness in this sort of thing.
Unfortunately we are still in beta, but this is exactly the problem we are tackling. Hopefully within a couple of months we will be helping you or similar people. In the meantime, I agree about the good comment below about advertising. And also you should be pushing it to friends and family first. Although a language barrier seems to be an obstacle, I am sure you can find at least a couple of friends to use/recommend your app. We think of it as a tree, first branching is hard but possible, the rest is just growing the tree. Advertising as well as active participation is key here. Needless to say, good quality product/service is essential too. All the best with your endeavour
NSA blocking the SSL version :-)
Yep, and she was backed up by hundreds, then thousands, then millions of average citizens all talking, attending, spending, and voting.
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The US is becoming more like the USSR or East Germany every day.

edit: Dangerously going in that direction. I realize things are still way, way, way better.
If nothing else it is frustrating to know that there are people out there being paid to do this and that their salaries are clearly taking a chunk out of potential HR payrolls.
I expect the primary reason there are practically no vegan power athletes is that there are few power athletes and few vegans.
There probably should be some sort of requirement where the H1-B visa holder's peers are required to anonymously rate the abilities of the H1-B visa holder relative to themselves after something like 6 months of employment. This wouldn't prevent the hiring of workers at a lower rate but would provide a quick enough correction to such fraud. It would also make sure that H1-B visa holders are paid a fair wage relative to the value they bring.

Prior to getting an H1-B employee the employer would be required to register a minimum number of employees that will be a peer of the new employee (no bosses or anyone else that may be in cahoots). After 6 months, the government agency responsible for such visas would send a survey to those peers asking them for their title and salary and stating the title and salary of the H1-B employee. They are then asked to rank the title and salary of the employee against their own as well as the skills of the employee relative to their own.
You can only sell firearms face to face to an individual who resides in the same state as you and with whom you have no reason to believe is a criminal. The reality is most people are VERY careful when conducting such transactions as you are exchanging firearms with someone! I know the media would have you believe everyone is very laissez-faire about the whole thing but that is not the reality as I have experienced it.
Does that have anything to do with my not having received an email for the 7 day trial? I signed up over an hour ago.

Also as a side note, you privacy statement link is 404ing.

Edit: got the email! thanks
Swiftype is fantastic. I've been using their service to power search on my Octopress blog since last May when they were still in Beta, and I've loved every moment of it.

Their REST API is also fantastic; I've modified my deploy Octopress rake task to automatically hit the endpoint that requests a recrawl of my site so that the results are always up to date. At first I felt a little dirty doing it, but I engaged them on Twitter (this was last year when I first implemented it, too lazy to find the records) and they actually encouraged it. A great team, and a really awesome product.
How to decline a search without getting hostile or "looking suspicious" (pick one, or invent your own):

- "I'd really prefer not to, if that's okay. It just makes me uncomfortable, it's nothing personal."

- "I have a cousin who's a lawyer, and he said I should never let myself get searched or questioned without a lawyer. I feel like I should take his advice. I'm sure you understand."

- "I watched a video on the internet saying it's a bad idea to consent to a search, even for innocent people, and it made a pretty convincing case. Sorry to be so difficult, I know you're just doing your job."

Above all, stay calm, friendly, and respectful, all while standing firm.
A bit of an update -- 4 days later they took my money at least (not PayPal) successfully. So hopefully they'll actually provide the service I've now paid for somewhere within this coming week.
Seems like a service to provide medical care without a license. I wish we had people working on ways to streamline licensing and efficient uses of licensed resources, and fewer end-runs around the safety protections that licensing provides. (See also: AirBnB, Rover, Lyft, Sidecar, ....)
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> It was a preventable accident.

Was it really preventable? How should we know when to make a quick decision and when to A/B test?

[Clarification: it seems to me that it's better to decisively get things done]

Considering that the most widely known A/B tests are based on 41 shades of blue and pixel-perfection, I'm not sure that this is as obvious as the article claims.
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This is simply unrelated. Fossil fuels are worth a lot of money and are frequently located in areas controlled by unstable regimes, hence wars. There are also wars over water, diamonds, gold, arable land, and any other high-value commodity located where the local political environment is unstable.

Using a lot of nuclear power would not alter this picture in the slightest. It might alter the landscape in terms of supply and demand, perhaps shifting fossil fuel demand from heavy nuclear users toward developing or lower-tech countries, but the basic equation of high value resources plus political instability remains intact.

California is highly oil-dependent and Texas has a lot of oil. So far California has not invaded Texas. That's because both are politically stable.
We're not using much in the way of renewable energy for good reasons. Simply: low and inconsistent output.

Solar: The absolute maximum upper limit is 1.3kW/m^2, the total solar energy hitting the Earth's disc. Realistically, you'll max out around 130W/m^2 under ideal conditions, dealing with atmospheric absorption, night, clouds, conversion efficiency, breakage, etc. Realistic norm is somewhere around even a tenth of that. Output storage & buffering is problematic, batteries using environmentally unfriendly materials requiring manufacture & replacement over a less-than-you-want lifespan. By the time an installation has become cost-effective, it's done and you'll have to re-install diminishing-return components. On a large enough scale to compete with other energy sources, you're performing "solar strip-mining" on the local environment.

Wind: Big turbines are costly, last about 20 years, annoy neighbors (I almost had a wind farm dropped on my town), and by the time those huge expensive generators wear out or burn up (!) nobody will have a financial interest in replacing/dismantling them. Likewise, inconsistent power output is a problem few seriously address. Converting large amounts of atmospheric movement to heat will itself result in "manmade global warming" type issues.

Old-form nuclear sucks. Between lousy ancient designs and sheer paranoia over "weapons-grade" phases, coupled with vast construction handling high-pressure extreme-danger contents, yeah there's a disaster waiting to happen - and as noted it just takes one to make the savings moot.

New-form nuclear has real potential. Small sealed units incapable of self-destructing, highly resistant to deliberate damage, and easy to transport make it entirely possible for a community to purchase one turnkey reactor and run from that for decades.

Oil/coal will remain a major contender precisely because the energy has already been gathered into convenient pumpable-haulable form, is shelf-stable over usage fluctuations, and has little discernible waste.

Renewables are just not viable, at least not yet. Despite huge piles of money thrown at it (by the current US administration in particular), nothing of marketable substance has emerged. If it were viable, it would be in widespread production. I'm looking to run my HVAC off solar if you disagree.

The bashing of nuclear is mostly limited to old-school hot-water active-cooling designs. Yes, they suck. Get over it and move on to modern designs held back mostly by regulatory concerns which apply those fears to inapplicable reactors without further consideration.
You deserve kudos for your efforts so far. Every failure will breed some type of insight. The statement, "I believe that my previous two ventures failed mainly because of the founding team (which I’m included in)." - may be true, but could probably just as easily be said of solo founders. Especially after reading your list of deficiencies in the founding team members, they may be the same short-comings as the person staring at a solo founder in the mirror! It is sometimes harder (or impossible) to find that rare person who can wear all hats.

My major concern about being a solo founder would be the possible loss of productivity- how much more a team can accomplish over one person, and collaboration. Also, and this may seem horrible, but if we crash and burn, we can do it faster as a team, and pivot or move-on without the time equity that one person will have invested.

To answer the questions you posed at the end of your article, my two cents is that I have found it impossible to succeed at scale without an agile team (one mans opinion).
I hate to preach process and organization, but if a team follows the resources available to start-ups, such as business model generation, etc. You can identify holes in the team, or where someone needs assistance.
This leads to the second part of your question and the most important attributes to look for in a co-founder. They should already have expertise, but the two attributes that I would look for are Objectivity- nothing ruins like the inability to be flexible, and Leadership- in the sense that leaders tend to be people of action, they bring people along, and they celebrate success wildly.

Not that you cannot achieve success alone, but it is definitely a lot tougher to celebrate alone.
Yeah, I go one step further - if I ever get cold-called by a recruiter I stop them mid-sentence and tell them that I do not take cold calls, and that they are welcome to email me.

If they try to keep talking I hang up.

Most recruiter contacts are woefully far from anything that might even remotely interest me - neither I nor the recruiter should be wasting 10 minutes of our lives to find this out.
The problem is that you have no way of letting in just the "really smart people" and end up letting in a whole bunch of people who aren't better than the ones you already have, who will have trouble finding work when the next tech bubble pops. Tech is a highly cyclical industry, and it's shortsighted to start letting a bunch of people immigrate on every bubble cycle.
You can't think of how a person with a mental illness could exploit the name and address of a caregiver?
That's $54k a year to $61k a year. Absurdly low even for a college hire.
It had competitors before it launched (about a dozen of them) and has been cloned at least 3 times due to my forum participation over the years.

At the risk of stating the obvious:

a) If one is sufficiently skilled to duplicate e.g. the Bingo Card Creator SEO strategy, all one has to do is apply it to a higher-value niche like e.g. distressed real estate, like one of the gents at the Bootstrapped With Kids podcast did, and you'll make radically more money.

b) There are probably easier competitors in the world to take money from than me.

c) Even supposing BCC revenue were to be materially impaired, I'd barely notice that. In point of fact, it is (down 40% or so this year) and I am still not more than peripherally aware of that.
It's a surprise there's a video of it.
Listen to wikimon, bleep blop bloop
The industry needs an "IT recruitment horror stories" website.

I got contacted once by a recruiter offering me a job in my company, the same position I was employed in, and the recruiter told me I was "a good match" for that role. Yes, looks like I could get that job if I wasn't already hired in that exact same position.
Submit without an email address, and you get this error:

"The email parameter should include an email, euid, or leid key"

Wow, for something targeting those who aren't yet coders, that's a scary error message. (I've been dev'ing professionally since 1998, and I'm taken aback)
HN just wouldn't be the same without a conspiracy theory on the front page.