skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's jump into all your assumptions and how they don't apply (at least to me).

> switching countries often means leaving behind your entire social network

I don't really know anybody, so there's nobody to leave behind.

> go out drinking with to the person who cuts your hair

What? That's completely a foreign concept to me.

> sports you grew up watching, foods you grew up eating, languages you speak - don't overlap

Completely irrelevant. I can't understand somebody else because they grew up eating paella and I grew up eating hotdogs?

> until you're tired, sick, or stressed - and just want the voice of a familiar friend.

Voice is all? Voices work all around the world. tired, sick, and stress is the natural condition of life. It helps to be reminded we live a coddled cloud-covered existence.

> you'll never really feel tied to whatever place you've moved to.

I've lived in places for years and never felt tied to them. Irrelevant on scales of years or weeks.

> "advice from rich people" tone it strikes.

It's exactly the opposite.

> certain amount of financial resources before you can do this kind of thing.

Not really. It's easier traveling while you're either very poor or very rich. The problem is traveling while you have a lot of physical/capital/emotional baggage elsewhere.

> fulfilling lives on a tropical beach working a few hours a week.

Working on a beach is miserable. It's hot. It's cold. It's too sunny. Sand gets in every crevice of your laptop and yourself.

Work at a desk, play at a beach.
Similarly good experiences with setting up custom recipes that don't use the built in 'App' stack (which provides Rails, Node, and some others).

I was able to go from the 'tinkering at 2am' level of ruby experience to making Chef do my bidding in setting up alternative apt-repos, deploying config files, etc in a day or two.

My one gripe, as with the rest of AWS, is that they seem more interested in MySQL than Postgres. The opsworks cookbook repo has an included mysql cookbook as well as a preconfigured "App" layer, nothing for Postgres besides forum responses to go the DIY route.
New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA Crypto-Cracking
so a three year pre-trial detention period is OK with you? What about the right to a speedy and fair trial?
On yet another hand, as someone who doesn't smoke marijuana but thinks it should be legal, I'm more interested and clarifying the precedent so there's a better, more concrete understanding of how our state democracies relate to the federal democracy.
Fair point; I edited it to say this:

> Of course, one downside is that it’s not ideal for everyone. Some of the best people I’ve ever worked with wouldn't want to or be able to travel. We’ll get around this eventually by hiring remote employees or setting up a SF office.

It conveys what I meant to say, without implying something I didn't.
The numbers are amazing, it really puts in to context the meaning of Venture Capital!. Just a bunch of accelerators are getting exits so far.
If you're going to get people fired and don't meet the deadlines. You're going to get screwed either way.

Try to get the worst 20% off and give the top 5% a payraise, use gamification techniques. I don't know if something like that exists.

But their's a reward for doing good and a punishment for doing this bad. Most people will understand, except the once who get fired.

Slow people bring you down, good people bring you up. Motivate them, so you'll get motivated to.

PS. 120+ screens is really impressive!
Nobody else think this design looks pony?
"The NSA planned to investigate at least 4,000 possible insider threats in 2013, cases in which the agency suspected sensitive information may have been compromised by one of its own"

Assuming that each insider threat corresponds to one employee, and that the total number of employees in the intelligence community is 107,035, this would suggest that at least 1 out of every 27 employees has been considered a possible insider threat. And if you were to only consider the employee count of the NSA itself (which we don't know), it would be considerably higher.

This is... pretty staggering.
What a shitty article. I hit "back" when the article went to the trouble of putting up an entire chart to show: "spending on R&D has essentially been flat since 2011 across several countries including the U.S."
Part of the reason he's not able to charge more is the approval process for a higher rate number is much more complex. If he want's to be more than a minor annoyance he can always leave them on hold for 20 minutes, or route them through a tele-marketer torture script with Asterisk or FreeSWITCH.
Seems like flurry only gives age and gender data: http://www.flurry.com/flurry analytics.html#insight
And Flame [1] and Duqu [2]. There is of course a lot of technical discussion, but not much about the organizational side of things. So we do not know for example, how the NSA obtains 0days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_%28malware%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duqu
A landing page is a marketing site. When startups want to launch their products, they build marketing sites to help advertise. Modulz is a collection of HTML website sections that you can customize and piece together to build your marketing site.
I've heard a little about Ansible but look forward to learning more.
I'm in awe that you took the time to get up to speed on each of those tools. Some of the learning curves are... intimidating.

For what it's worth, I actually found OpsWorks' usage of Chef to be more intuitive than Opscode's own. OpsWorks relies on "events" (setup, deploy, shutdown, etc.) that trigger (i.e., push) recipes to be applied to instances. Opscode, at least in its typical architecture, relies on clients pulling configuration from a Chef server at a regular interval.
Indeed, it's very unfortunate that tmux doesn't run on windows (under cygwin).
Ctrl-D/U in Vim.
With that many red flags, why would anyone accept an investment and enter a relationship with such an organization? The things people will do for funding... I'd rather have a day job or a consulting gig in a heartbeat compared to a situation like that.
I agree with the idea that we should invest more in scientific research in this country.

But the 18% considering leaving the country metric is insane. This is like the percentage of people who claimed they were moving to Canada when Bush was reelected, and the percentage of people who said they were leaving the country when Obama was (re)elected.

People talk big all the time when they're unhappy about something.

EDIT: just to be clear, because a couple of the comments sound like maybe think I'm making the opposite point: I think the metric of "18%" considering to leave is a silly metric. I think that at any given time, even when research is "good" or "better than now", you're probably somewhere near that number, especially (as one of the commenters pointed out) a lot of people who do research in this country are from other countries. The only way we could actually derive meaning from this statistic would be to have a time-based reference (i.e. compare what percentage plan to leave this year vs. 5 vs. 10 years ago), or to switch the metric - measure how many people actually left last year vs. 5 years ago.
Could this be government bots setup to intercept traffic?
and still, they run it on windows.

haven't these people learnt anything?
First, some pedantry: I love Artsy's writeups but I'm really surprised at why they use that purple for their body text color. Every time I read their engineering blog, I use the web inspector to change the color to #222...and the purple actually looks great as an accent (for links)...I might have to rip off that color scheme for my own blog.

/pedantry

I'm kind of surprised I hadn't heard of OpsWorks before, but I guess that's just a testament to how many things AWS is rolling out...this seems like the best fit for my needs, after having struggled with EBS and rolling my own EC2 deploys. But I have to really commend Artsy's team for not just sharing their experiences, but doing it in such a presentable way...The OP links to the AWS documentation, which looks like this:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/working...

It's standard Amazon documentation style, which for me, has always been too fragmented (look at all those nested menu items you have to click through) with uninspired layout and typography to boot (i.e. 100% width for the body text)

Even if I had seen the AWS info on OpsWorks, I probably would've skipped the docs. Artsy's explanation and presentation of the concepts is just fantastic and so readable...hopefully Amazon rips off from Artsy's blog as well.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but this doesn't work for me:

% explain git status -s

explain:1: no such file or directory: http://explainshell.com/explain/git?args=status

curl: no URL specified!

sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command
I get the sense we're talking past each other. I don't disagree with a single thing you said; I just don't think that rolling your own adapter so you can swap out concrete frameworks is a silver bullet that fixes the coupling problem. I interpreted the original comment to claim 'Obvious' as such a silver bullet.

My professional career has worked with codebases that have a median age of 5 years and millions of lines of code. Most projects have 50 or so developers across timezones. Say we wanted to switch out rails for sinatra, it simply would never have been possible, even if we perfectly isolated rails from our business logic using an adapter like Obvious. The concrete details most often leak through the adapters -- remember, people are sometimes hurried or sleep deprived or forgetful. We would have had to stage the work, do it in phases just to test properly, and most likely leave the legacy stuff alone -- "If it aint broken, don't fix it."
sounds interesting. I was reading some great things about ansible and am keen to give it a try. However, reading about AWS Opswork makes me wonder if it's better to stick to chef, even if it's not as easy. If Opsworks picks up, chef's likely to become the gold standard. I'm curious to know your take on this?
Perhaps he didn't say "the hot CR men" because his personal preference is for women? If he does not find men attractive why should he (or anyone of any persuasion) be required to declare them equally as attractive?
Where's Obama? Uses "Crowd-Sourced Surveillance" To Track The President
Is there no reporting for AWS?
Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo
You can also do this right in Javascript on the client side using ImageMagick.

see
http://manuels.github.io/unix-toolbox.js/
and
https://github.com/manuels/unix-toolbox.js-imagemagick/tree/...
Nicely explained in this comic/editorial:

http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly080730.htm
Google Glass may help first responders
Some of these remind me of sites I was building in the 90s. I love how design flows in circles
This story is really frustrating and sad to hear, but I have to say, in the three years I've been working on my startup, never once has anything good happened from paying for access to any type of person (investors or customers), using any currency (equity or cash).

We did YCombinator, which could be described as an "access" play, but apart from that, every time someone has offered us access to something in return for something else, we've always politely declined and then just gone and won the business or relationship on our own merits.

Gatekeepers suck, and doing business with gatekeepers leads startups to doing sucky things and pulls them down as well.

The minute I read him deciding to do a second accelerator so he could get access to "his vertical" I started getting a sinking feeling in my stomach.
I'd be more concerned with revenue per installed copy of RedHat vs. Windows rather than comparing RedHat on the basis of revenue period. Microsoft has a significantly larger customer base.

I'm not saying Microsoft could make more money through open-source, but it might be a way of making less money over a much longer period of time.

Companies will eventually ditch the Microsoft stack when there's more affordable alternatives to pick from. Google, SalesForce, Oracle, IBM and others are working relentlessly to make these things happen.

Making Windows "free" would certainly mess up their plans. After all, this very strategy worked amazingly well when they decided to give away Internet Explorer.

Just imagine how entrenched IE would be now if Internet Explorer 6 had been open-source and had been continuously upgraded like WebKit. It's arguable that rendering engine would be at 90+% market share to this day.
I am a backend dev, my front end chops suck (although I am improving); I am a huge fan of boostrap, and http://wrapbootstrap.com (we used them for http://makeropspro.com )
If you have a crazy family, then crazy often seems tolerable, until it really isn't.
Customer First: The PayPal Way
Being a little more friendly could help their cause.
I don't know that it's that cut and dry. People don't exist in a vacuum. New people show up, and they still need to eat, live, buy TVs. Some of them will probably start companies and increase the labour demand. etc etc.

I'm not an expert by any means, but it didn't take much to find an article that supports this idea:

--cut--

We find that the increased supply of non-EU low skilled immigrants pushed native workers to pursue more complex occupations. This reallocation happened mainly through movement across firms. Immigration increased mobility of natives across firms and across municipalities but it did not increase their probability of unemployment. We also observe a significant shift in the native labor force towards complex service industries in locations receiving more immigrants. Those mechanisms protected individual wages from immigrants competition and enhanced their wage outcomes. While the highly educated experienced wage gains already in the short-run, the gains of the less educated built up over time as they moved towards jobs that were complementary to those held by the non-EU immigrants.

--cut--

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/29/immigration_a...
Schoolbooks are full of stuff that is copyrighted. The photos explicitly are.

We still have Norton's Antologies, right? Many of those are 100% filled with copyrighted works they need to pay royalties on. And they do. And everything works out just fine.
>There's nothing to stop the next administration from challenging it.

The current administration hasn't shown to be all that friendly to marijuana laws, so it could be a blessing in disguise.
In my lifetime there have been plenty of plane hijackings and bombings that killed hundreds of Americans. They just mostly weren't on continental US soil.
I donno, Modulz looks well designed and built. I like the professional feel it provides. Hiring designer to build something similar would cost a lot more than 99 bucks. It's not that much to spend for someone who's serious about their startup and want something other than standard themeforst/bootstrap. (That is until everybody starts using this, I suppose by then there might be a lot more versions/tweaks).
So buy it. The same way they would study Shel Silverstein poems.
The book "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Software-Really-Works-Believe...) has a section on this.

Chapter 8 "Beyond lines of Code: Do we need more complexity metrics?" by Israel Herraiz and Ahmed E Hassan.

Their short answer is that, in the case they looked at, all the suggested metrics correlated with LOC, so you may as well use LOC as it's so easy to measure.

IIRC they believe it's only good to compare LOC between different employees if they are doing pretty much the exact same task however, but since LOC is correlated with code complexity, there is some measure there.

I recommend the book, as really focusing on the science of computer science.
What the fuck, Yahoo?
Why is Yahoo hijacking my (Firefox & Chrome, though I mainly use Firefox) browser and how do I ban them from taking over my default search? I set my browser up THE WAY I WANT IT and it pisses me off that Yahoo constantly changes my stuff. I've done countless searches about how to fix this and going back many years people seem to have a similar issue.

I've tried all of these to no avail:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/952305

Is it possible to have my browser (AND YAHOO) respect my wishes and stop hijacking my browser?

Edit:
I don't even use Yahoo for anything, nor ever visit their website, so it shouldn't be some sort of random leeching software that they attached while visiting their site, which is the most baffling aspect about this.
You don't know the size of their dataset, or the number of queries per second they need to support, or the latency requirements they have to meet. They do, and found that the obvious solution -- prefix queries on B-trees -- was too slow in practice. That their actual measurements trump your sarcasm, and you would know this if you'd read beyond the first paragraph before contemptuously dismissing the whole thing.
Wow, I said mimeograph entirely as a joke, I didn't think anyone had used them this century.
While Moore's Law clearly cannot go on forever, everyone in this trade should remember its end was prophesized many times before, every time backed up by good science.

Time will tell.
This should not be an issue. Men and women both should be able to voice their opinions on people they find appealing, especially in casual ways such as this.

Any comment regarding somebody is objectifying that person. Just don't be an asshole when going about it, and everything is fine.
I think the bit from the letter about "billed as campus, community, accelerator, and more" will probably narrow it down. That seems like a pretty distinctive way to brand your accelerator.
The US Is By Far The Best Place In The World To Be An Entrepreneur
They're just business records after all, often with nongovernmental corporations. No expectation of privacy there, nope.
It occurred to me the other day that it should be pretty simple to write a script that gets loaded first on the page and removes all subsequent scripts, then loads them itself, checking the MD5/SHA1 of the script against a known good value, stored in that script's attributes.

<script src="scriptloader.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.min.js" data-md5="a1b2..."></script>

Then you could decide to not load scripts that do not match the correct hash. It could even ping the server to alert it to broken scripts.
Very cool. Considering that the core functionality you want is done in less than 500 LOC (https://github.com/argusdusty/Ferret/blob/master/ferret.go) it seems a great way to go :) instead of depending on a large external library. OTOH you could have probably just as easily written it in another performant language. But since Go happens to be performant and is already used in other parts of your project things just turned out great for you.
Let's work on it together.
Careful, keep talking like this and you're liable to be informed that cursing someone out is efficient communication by the HN crowd.

It's hard, but I think what needs to happen here is a culture of mentoring like in most successful software companies. If there is such a thing for aspiring Linux devs, I've never heard of it.
I agree. We should invest more in science and the metric's kind of insane. I bet more than 18% of people in ANY industry consider leaving the country for various reasons... Maybe the 18% referenced in article will leave the country with the fed-up 99% of the rest of the country...
Probably a rare-metal catalyst that makes energy generation or storage extremely efficient (or, at least, comes nearest to the efficiency of chemical fuels.)
No Wordpress, no database stuff to set up/maintain.
And he will probably win, too. Nevada is a modified comparative negligence state, but to make that argument the defense is going to have to argue that the victim should have known the bag was inadequate to hold the quantity and type of the items within, thus upholding the plaintiff's major premise. From there it's simple for the plaintiff to argue that a grocery bagger has far more knowledge and experience of a given retailer's bag capacity than the customer who shops there occasionally, and that's before subpoenaing Walmart's training materials.

considering the compensation sought is modest the smart thing to do for Walmart would be to pleas guilty or settle.

The lack of predictability that a gashed toe would result in a painful death is beside the point. There's a long-established principle in tort law that you take the victim as you find him/her, and there seems to be a fairly straightforward causal chain between the injury and the death, so if the report is accurate then proximate causality shouldn't be a problem.
seriously, why subject yourself to that kind of acidic ridicule when you can make more public contributions working on things closer to the frontend. doing the systems engineering work to make the kernel go is very important, but unless you're at the very very top (linus) nobody is going to care about you.
Genuinely asking: Why not just stop at "tell two independent groups to implement it"? That is, why constrain to the same amount of time?
Exactly. The whole notion of relying on someone else's good graces to not be considered a criminal by your own government is completely absurd. Especially an individual(s) who supports whatever position they think will get them (re-)elected.
Consider CDNs and static content domains. It's generally easier to break or MITM a CDN or static content server without people noticing. This way, you could trust that the code you received was what you were expecting.
Bristol physicists working to bring quantum cryptology to our phones
Wow, if I'm reading that table correctly, the odds of playing the slots are still better than funding startups blindly:

http://wizardofodds.com/games/slots/
My wife uses Yahoo and sometimes logs in on my machine via Chrome. No issue here.
Ah yes, I love it when "Hacker News readers" becomes a thing. Just like, "Redditors have pointed out via YouTube comments..."
That's not skeuomorphic. It's just a few shadows. It doesn't imitate reality.
The RU increase is relatively minor compared to the 50-60k user increase in the US. I find it very difficult to believe that these increases represent new actual people using Tor for web. The botnet-theory seems far more likely.
They already have farms, equipment, and sales/distribution experience too. Sure, there is a lot of difference between the two products, but they would have to be pretty incompetent to be completely unable to leverage their existing assets to dominate the pot market.
Since when is Linus the only middle aged person working on Linux? Your comment reeks of ignorance and cargo culting.
remove yahoo products from your computer, may be that will help
Really? I've always used it over SSH without issues.
Came here hoping for a particle accelerator horror story. Bo-ring.

For anyone else who thought the same, here's an article about a russian who got his face caught in a proton beam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski#Particle_acce...
You will like this story from Apple, when they for a time required engineers to report LOC produced that week.

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Neg...
That's a big risk. If it's not done by 2016, and a conservative or someone interested in playing the "drug war" card gets into office, we could see a totally new Justice Department filing cases against all of these (and whatever new) States.
Glutamine 500g Dymatize
I think observers have long assumed NSA is some number of years ahead – say, 2-30 years ahead – of openly published results in cryptanalysis and cryptosystem vulnerabilities.