skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense, thanks. I wonder if a window of opportunity could open up if Mt. Gox service improves, or if there's a price difference at which arbitrage would become plausible. I did notice there's only a cent difference between the current Coinbase and Bitstamp prices. Just academic thinking, I don't think I'll be playing the market any time soon.
Some very exciting things there for Mono.

* SGen is now default GC

* There's an API to ask GC not to run during critical sections

* Much faster build times

* F#, RX now bundled with Mono

* Xamarin.Mobile, Xamarin.Auth, Xamarin.Social open sourced

* Zynga created PlayScript, a superset of ActionScript that runs on Mono (everywhere Mono runs including on iOS/Android), can be mixed with C#

* A new C++ binding technology called CppSharp using clang that calls C++ directly with no glue

* You can inline ASM in C# code (insane right?)
Yeah, I took a harsh tone because of the egotism displayed in the title. I don't think everyone on Medium sucks, but if you feel entitled to the same perks you'd get, say, with a magazine, then you really do need to come down out of the clouds. It's hard-ass work establishing yourself as a writer. There aren't any short cuts. Even if you get lucky and get a magic book deal, if your writing sucks you won't get another one. And no one will really respect you, either.

In fact, I think Medium is a perfect place to hone your craft. If I were looking to write professionally, I'd be working on my tone and content constantly. I wouldn't even think of the sorts of stuff the OP is thinking about until I was absolutely sure that all that's left to work on is the outlet. That's when you'd be getting comments like, "Wow, you're the best writer here!"
That's my thoughts, as well, particularly with California's architecture of at-will employment and the language that Google inserts into their offers.

It's just not worth it, and they know that, which is why they treated me like shit.
NSA and visa control: a perspective on the detention of David Miranda
Coroner: Journalist Hastings had drugs in system
That's what really bothers me about the legal system in this country. Any brush at all with the legal system, no matter what it was, how minor it was, whether you were actually guilty or innocent, or what you say about it now, gets you blacklisted in a huge swath of the professional industry.
MIC: Military industrial complex. It is a real thing.

It is not 'a real thing.' It is an opinion (a perfectly valid one, I might add) about socio-political structures. There are many such lobbies in the body politic, and the existence of such sociopolitical factions have been observed by writers from Aristotle onwards. Cozy relationships, mutual interests, and even corruption falls far short of the sort of coup you purport to describe.

Yeah, so you really are unaware of what has happened in the US.

Not in the least - I read War is a racket and studied the Business Conspiracy many long years ago, thank you. You are the one making the case for an overarching conspiracy, it's up to you to offer up evidence for it. Namechecking this or that data point in history with no attempt at perspective isn't evidence, it's handwaving; and responding to requests for evidence with accusations of ignorance isn't argument, it's propaganda.

I do not object to your criticizing this government or government institutions in general, but I am sick to the back teeth of your axe-grinding, crappy sources, and empty arguments. Pardon my bluntness, but you're an outrage junkie. You like being angry about 'how bad things are' to the extent that you have adopted it as a premise.
It's not worth bothering with filesystem encryption on a VPS. Keep in mind that the hypervisor has full, unrestricted and essentially undetectable access to the contents of the virtual machine's RAM, so they can read decrypted data, private keys and cleartext passwords.

If you want even a hint of privacy, you'll have to rent some rackspace and put a tamper-resistant box of your own in there - and stop trusting it the first time it goes down unexpectedly.
More code, more problems
I'd add that if you don't enjoy the cathartic release of sweeping the floor of your business, you probably shouldn't be running one, or aren't working hard enough.
A large? maybe. The majority? Most likely not.
The pearson correlation, when squared, gives the % of variance (in the strict mathematical sense) that is explained by this variable alone.

So how much is 'weak' or not depends on the situation. If you have something that is influenced by multiple causes, then it is impossible to have any single high correlation. But any correlation, if statistically significant (i.e. highly unlikely to be caused by chance) can be important.

The question is, how much is an 'interesting' amount of the total variance, in the given situation.

(In the topic under discussion here, I have no idea.)
Interesting. Admittedly it gets hard with employees, investors and markets, which are all prone to emotional decisions. But I think we're messing with our happiness if we conflate bravery with false courage. Courage/Bravery isn't about denying fear, it's about not letting fear lead to bad decisions.
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Intern dies after ‘working until 6am for three days’ at Merrill Lynch
"The market" you're talking about is not some natural process working itself out. It's a game played in an arena where a small number of players have an asymmetrical visibility of the field and an ability to influence the rules as its played. If our public policy is to simply do nothing and let "the market" figure it out, the result will be mass exploitation for the benefit of a few.

The actual market is comprised of the decisions people make, given all the man-made rules and available information. It's not something we decide to adopt; it's simply the way humans allocate resources in the face of choice and scarcity. And for many reasons, it doesn't usually optimize for anything in particular, besides short-term utility. Going laissez faire is like riding a bike with no hands. You'll be stable for a while, but when you have to react to real-world changing conditions, if you don't take action, you're inevitably going to wreck.
TiVo looks to reinvent itself with new 'Roamio' service [video]
Seconded. I've been running prosody for months without any interruptions.
Fair point :)

I didn't co-found with a technical person. Would have had to bring someone on later, and then retroactively called them a co-founder (which I would have been fine with, titles are for ...). I think it's just about hiring a technical lead / peer early-on.

OH, and yeah, I don't have real muscles. One of my early teammates, a woman Liz who flew a rescue-vac helicopter in the Army, that's someone with muscles and heart.

Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
First of all, thanks for sharing the link. I love idea of doors that fold/slide into the floor.

That said I wonder 1) if Tesla's floor mounted batteries would take up the space this tech could conceivable use and 2) if Tesla's extremely high safety rating (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6240862) would be impacted by this design (not to a degree that would lower safety beyond an average car, but not up to their high goals).
YC S13 Demo Day
You can set up procmail to auto-run a program when you add/remove messages on IMAP folders. I use it to auto-train my crm114 spam catcher (by dragging emails mostly from "Maybe Spam" to "Absolutely Spam" but it works the other way too: when you drag an email from Maybe Spam to Inbox, it trains that message as Not Spam).
Yes you shoot malware itself.

You don't shoot a site that links to a site that links to a site that links to malware.

You don't label a website as malware for spamming.
...in other words, understand your customers.

Nice 'onboarding' with the call to action to tweet to get rewarded with more info
Don't reinvent the scrollbar
Bloomberg readers should want to know why, rather than assuming that Amazon is actually trying to increase it's profits, like most companies. It could have been discussed in this article.
Photos.app and Photo Stream confusion
Sourcers are under a lot of pressure, and I've noticed it not limited to Google. Rackspace set up a flight to San Antonio for me then cancelled it the evening before after their lawyers waved them off me due to my background (discussed above).

A couple months later Rackspace cold called me to work there. It's a usual thing, I think, and I don't hold it against them.
How is this defeatist? Politics is mostly shouting, elections, and even more shouting, and then, maybe, some highly inefficient process of introducing some changes. Instead it would be better if people went and actually did something.

I don't know much about prohibition, but the other things are, from what I can see, results of years (sometimes decades) long PR campaigns - in books, movies, on the streets, and now on the Internet. Especially women and gay rights are examples of this - constantly on the media; the topic is pretty much shoved down our throats, every time, all the time[0]. Legislation follows social change, not the other way around, and social change is made by media.

[0] - you can notice this even on HN recently. Just pretty much in every other thread somebody starts talking about gender, even if it's completely irrelevant and off-topic.
I love anagrams, but I find it incredibly tedious trying to find every single 3-letter pseudoword that the game wants.

Most of them aren't words, and I'd be much happier with a timed "find the anagram and move on" game.

Also, if I were able to type instead of clicking, it would be a lot easier.

Good work, though!

EDIT:

And "piing" ??? that's never a word!

EDIT2:

And on the subject of anagrams, I made http://jes.xxx/anagram/ to assist in finding anagrams of longish phrases (unfortunately still too slow on anything over about 20 letters and therefore I haven't quite finished or polished it).
Ah, this may help explain why so many sites have +1 buttons while they get so little use (often on the order of 1% of the Facebook Like activity).

So Google uses its search monopoly in such a way as to incentivize site operators to advertise its social network (in the form of those buttons), which encourages growth of its social network — and as a separate issue, allows them to track people, be they Google users or not, across more of the Web.

No anti-trust issues here, move along... </sarcasm>
> A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well. If you can only manage 1%, it's a sign you haven't yet figured out what you're doing.

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
I remember a time when this very TechCrunch article would come out and I'd read through it with a sense of dismay at the sheer unadulterated badness of every single idea.

Things have changed.

An example: Teleborder charges $5,000 per visa application, ... gathering documents, collecting information, and sending information to the government.

This is one of those ideas where you just stop and wonder why nobody has run with it before. These guys are going to make bank. I rode a dotcom into the ground in the early 'aughts that was tackling a similar problem with 10x the paperwork of a H1B and roughly 0% of the hair-on-fire demand that tech companies with tons of money have for help getting labor into the country.

That's the kind of company I wish I'd founded. Nice work.
I second this.

Every couple of weeks, ejabberd will attempt to eat all of the RAMs. Scheduling restarts was easier than trying to figure out why that was happening.

Since switching to prosody, we've seen much better stability.
I don't see how this is different from cutting the price of the 4S, except it'll have the same screen size, resolution and new connector to match the 5 and 5S.

That's an entirely sensible thing to do, but why does the whole blog world think it signals a big drive down market from Apple?
I don't understand the use-case you're trying to solve for.

Lets say I want project management software I'd just google for market reviews or product comparisons which will give me a much better understanding of the differences between the products and how they'll suit my needs. Where does your list fit into that ?
Unsocially - A new way to organise and share your online presence.
There aren't JS games close to this yet, right?
Do recall that Mark Zuckerberg founded his company from an illegal website scraping operation and violating his own TOS.
It may be worth a free half-hour conversation with a lawyer about whatever is on your record, even if you don't want to sue. Maybe they can make it go away.
I expect that it has to do with the fact that building a shipping infrastructure takes a lot of time to ramp up. Amazon has a sweetheart deal with FedEx and if FedEx thinks that Amazon is going to try to replace them, FedEx can make it very expensive for Amazon during the transition.

This is why Amazon Grocery is so important - it lets Amazon build out a shipping infrastructure in a way that seems uncompetitive to UPS/FedEx
I manually created the tokens. Machine learning fell through the cracks on this first version, I'm adding multi word concepts. The top ten were those that had mentions both this year and last and saw the biggest change in either direction. I need to add some minimums though so going from 3 mentions to 2 doesn't register as "falling"
Why US College Teams Can't Win the ACM Programming Contest
One huge problem with deleting or eliminating geographic records, is sooner or later something will happen there and its "a lot of work" to reinstate, especially if it was deleted by the deletionist jerks.

For example, a couple years back a dude went nuts and shot several northern WI hunters for no apparent reason. Not in Reeve but somewhere up there. Screwing around with wiki to make it harder to use and contain less information (why?) merely makes it harder to add actual real news when it later happens.

Deleting today creates a pointless load dragging down the future when it inevitably becomes notorious. Boring individual human beings might fade into obscurity, but geographic locales will inevitably "someday" be front page news for some crazy reason or another. Reeve WI will someday have its name up in lights. Maybe not today, maybe not this century...
Carmack is this living legend of programming, hacking, making magic happen with the computer. And yet his writing and the concepts that interest him are often simple and approachable.

How does he manage to look at this pile of hacks with beginner's eyes? Somehow he does, and he sees it for what it is without judging it too harshly or prematurely. I love reading his blog.
I suppose that's fair, but I still find this line of thought tiresome. At least the article is arguing that App.net's problem is that it's too much like Twitter when it could be used for more, rather than the usual tired argument that Twitter's success is simply network effects, therefore App.net cannot succeed. After all, as a business, App.net is already a success; it doesn't need runaway growth to be sustained.
Signup flow exploration - Strikingly.com
It's strange that they are using a version of "and" and "or" that doesn't short-circuit the evaluation. They have macros, so it's easy (I'd say even standard) to implement "and" and "or" with a macro that expand them to "if".
I don't know what proprietarian means, and I tend to call people what they want to be called.
Thus my use of the word 'proper'. =)

I've had a lot of non-conforming USB stuff pass my door and it's all really really awful.
Good idea, I'll add some bounds as I make some changes going forward.
La muerte no siempre es un adios.
Right. But at the same time, you don't see any of the forklift upgrades that have gone on behind the scenes. All the GSM<->POTS or long-distance POTS calls? They're all being converted to VoIP at some point (private network, but still IP).
The point is really that they could just change their mind. It's already obvious that the gov't will go to great lengths to violate privacy and what we assumed were constitutional protections, so why would they respect your 5th amendment right and not just demand keys in the future?
I hate, hate, hate the floating share widget overlapping the content on the left side. Yuck.
For developers interested in a Lisp that cooperates with Objective-C (and C), I always recommend Nu -- http://programming.nu.
Ok, well, here's how I'd approach it. There are three classes of companies: those that will ding you for your past, those that don't care about your past, and those that will embrace your past.

One strategy is to try to hide your past, figuring it won't hurt you with the latter two and might incrementally help you with the former. I wouldn't adopt this strategy.

Instead, assuming it truly is "minor," I'd own it. Write a blog post about how your past has made it harder for you to find work. Talk about what you did, specifically, and all your feelings about it then and now.

Don't name names of companies, but perhaps share some (anonymized) stories. Whatever you do, it can't sound like sour grapes. You have to be magnanimous to the last drop. You have to swallow every last bite of indignation you have. You need to say and believe things like, "If I'm honest with myself, I can understand why Company X made the decision they did even if I felt they handled it inappropriately and ultimately made the wrong decision for the wrong reason."

Try to tie it into a larger story, perhaps raising questions about whether the tech world is really a meritocracy, e.g., "Silicon Valley is a Meritocracy, Unless You Broke the Law as a Kid." Maybe try to reach out to other folks who have had similar experiences, e.g., "Are you an engineer whose past makes it hard for you to find work? You're not alone."

The response on this thread alone should be good enough evidence that folks would be interested in the story.

This will do a few things. First, it gets you exposure. Second, it immediately gets the attention of folks in the neutral and positive camps. The former will go, "WTF? We don't care about this. How stupid of people to reject a candidate for those reasons; let's interview him." The latter will go, "Holy shit! This is our kind of guy; let's interview him!"

You have nothing to lose, really, because this information is going to come out over the course of any interview no matter what. Turn it into your armor rather than resign yourself to having a sword in your belly.
The last hour now goes back from 22:45:03.435123897 (remember, nanosecond timer, but now it is from 22:46:07.223981453. Unless you can round the time when the last second, the last minute, etc start, you have to keep the full history of increment events up to the nanosecond for the last 24 hours. That's O(246060*1e9).
Is this a part of a (very slowly) building trend towards a chrome-less browser?

Long ago we used to "login" to a site using BasicAuth and the browser defined login box.... it wasn't flexible/pretty enough so we started using <form>s and integrated them into the page.

We had a path-like URL structure that we used to get to our documents, but our documents became more complex and the path-like structure became less human friendly and more like a unique id that should be under the hood.

We had back (and forward) buttons to navigate through our mainly hierarchical sites, but our sites became less linear so we used javascript to jump around.

Our complex non-linear documents became so complex that we didn't want to reload them all at once, so we started fetching parts of the page and needed to build our own progress indicators within the page.

Soon: Very little of the browser chrome will be relevant to the way we use the web.
I wasn't necessarily targeting Groupon, but what's makes them different than any other company?

The fact that he has a degree doesn't mean anything. Check out that LinkedIn profile you linked: sports, sports, sports, in both his personal life and background. If some of his other reported past-time activities are true, I'm sure he partied hard in college. He's a typical college kid if he partied, played, and walked across the stage rocking a 2.7 GPA. Nothing extraordinary about getting a degree, other than to say you crossed the finish line. That in no way suggests you have the persistence to succeed - rather than performing daily, plenty in college cram enough during finals to get their C. Maturity: college can help with this, but I know plenty of jock bros who're little more than a 15 year old inside when they receive their bachelor's degree.

Plenty of kids graduate and continue their college life: Playstation and beer, living at home with their parents instead of the dorm. They search for a job, but with no experience (didn't get a job in college, that would take time away from the frat) and little maturity, they often end up waiters, or at an entry level gig like the mailroom.
If I recall the history correctly, it wasn't the subsidies as much as it was the tariffs on sugars. The state (of being) that US farmers are in isn't what it used to be.
I need to do some work on identifying go, hard to tell the difference between "go" meaning golang and "go here to apply" or similar.
Actually, I'm not sure if you are rather not contradicting yourself as most of the more technical projects - or the core technologies used by them, for example, webkit for chrome, dalvik for android and so on - (which the parent was presumably talking about) - correct me if I'm wrong here - were not developed at Google but at other (i.e. the developers of these projects, typically, didn't come through the Google's recruitment process) companies which were later taken over by Google.

It seems disingenuous to have the achievements of those companies be co-opted by/as Google/'s
I saw in another article that Erhardt had been reportedly died due to a seizure. What happened to him is absolutely horrible. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable about such matters can chime in about whether exhaustion actually might have triggered the cause of death.
Been looking for a good load spinner for my AJAX. This looks perfect. Thanks so much.
On the contrary, the font size on many sites is too small[1] (in the case of HN or Daring Fireball, far too small). I need to increase the size, or zoom in when using Safari on my laptop/iPhone/iPad, to have any hope of reading them without straining. Medium is one site where I don't have to do anything to read comfortably on a desktop or laptop.

I have a 23" 1920x1080 monitor and a 13" 1440x900 Macbook Air.

[1] There's a web book on typography that was just released, which details how to make type legible: http://practicaltypography.com/summary-of-key-rules.html
How is "Dalton Caldwell express[ing] his distaste for Twitter's decision to restrict its API" a product?
Mat Honan deserves credit for one of the clearest, most concise descriptions of what App.net is (or intends to be):

> Imagine this. You sign up for Vine, and build up a robust friend network and library of videos. But then you try out Instagram’s new video sharing, and decide you like its editing features a lot better.

> Normally, this would mean starting over, with no friends and no files. But let’s say that both of them were just applications that ran on top of App.net. Instead of starting over, when you fired up Instagram for the first time, your friends and videos would be there waiting for you. That’s App.net. Or at least that’s what it wants to be.

Up until I read those two paragraphs, I couldn't shake the notion that it was really a Twitter clone that didn't want to be pigeonholed. Now I get it.