skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about the issues, I wish GitHub used some plain-text format with an optional UI for that (e.g. plain org-mode files), but the wiki on GitHub is just a plain Git repo with Markdown files, it's not centralized.

I don't see how you lose the community more than with any hosting method. If GitHub were nuked off the face of the earth you have all the contributors in your Git history, just send them a mail with the new location of the repo.
No but when I used svn I committed way less frequently so it ended up to be the same thing. With git I forget to push with svn I forgot to commit.
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I remember when this sort of thing used to be called SOA. Before that there was n-tier, before that client-server, before that people used to talk about terminals.

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

The best place to park different parts of the logic varies according to the algo-economics of the day. Right now people have fast client environments, so the balance is tipping back to heavy clients.
Actually Sprint and T-Mobile have never officially tried to merge. So far all the executives have done is deny that such talks are in progress.

At one point AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile, citing Verizon being bigger as why it was okay. They even put a bunch of money on the line if it fell through. Regulators decided that either they wanted 4 parties, or that Verizon would be forced to buy Sprint to compete, leaving 2 parties. (I am not 100% certain which they said was the reason)
Scala has traits, to great effect.
Yep - have filed a bug and replied with link to it. Thinking about what we should do!
The idea behind the site is to make decentralised, privacy preserving, resilient (and fun!) tech more accessible to people who don't already know about this stuff. Hence videos and user focused questions. We want to expand the appeal and plan to do podcasts and meetups too.

We hope to engage digitally literate people and show them that there are concrete existing software and app options they can use now that aren't selling your data, are interesting, easy to use and open.

However, we also need to be pragmatic - aiming to use decentralized open software ourselves when it works for our use case, but not if it stops us doing this quickly.

Please do sign up to the mail list or email us because we have ambitious plans that could use help and would love feedback (esp on stuff like if videos are really much less useful to people etc) :)

Cheers,
Ira
> For your game theory to remotely resemble the truth, you need to point to situations where the terrorist groups were able to extract concessions greater than offered; while I am merely saying that the terrorist groups extracted close to zero concessions. How is it game-theoretically optimal to always lose?

But the people offering the concessions are politicians, and it's useful to them to say "We never negotiate with terrorists", even while they are negotiating with terrorists. All these deals are done in secret, and anyone who is party to the deal will apply severe spin to any announcement. Anyone not party to the deal but interested in the process will also apply severe spin to any analysis.

For an example of where terrorists may have got considerable concessions see Northern Ireland.
Last I used Word it did not have any grammar checker for Swedish and its spell checking was terrible (though better than LibreOffice). It has hopefully improved the last about 5 years though.

I have actually only used one working spell checker for Swedish: stava. And the ideas behind it are trivial, so I guess that nobody else has written a specialized spell checker for Swedish. Generalized ones like ispell, aspell, hunspell and Word's do not work for Swedish.

http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/stava/
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I'll just assume you are and move on.
Agreed. The article poorly draws comparisons with 10x engineers and executives. This VP level compensation in Twitter would be a (junior) director level package in most large corporates. The bonus is slightly more generous (I think most would see $50k), but not out of whack.

As an SVP as SFDC he would have had a much larger base salary, and probably damn good options. His Twitter stock grant is probably worth a lot more, but it was also riskier.

Now $150k + $250k RSUs (probably on a 5+ yr schedule) for a new PhD is a lot. I assume they were working on something that Google figured could save them an order of magnitude more than that a year. (Of course the debate is, couldn't a similarly motivated, if not fiscally so, existing staff developer make the same savings? Probably yes.)
The Minds Behind 'Einstein On The Beach' Talk Shop
Tax capitalism/making money of money.
Also at what point does having money to get certain things done stop severing the community?
I love the AVRs, they are nice and simple Harvard architecture 8-bit microcontrollers, but I think, for any new project the ARM Cortex series (M0, M3, M4) are just a better option, they are 32-bit, are faster, have more RAM, more Flash, you can get DSP and other nice features, and they are cheap.
Here's a bit of anecdotal evidence (as it only takes one subject into account). http://singularityhub.com/2013/10/13/the-secret-to-einsteins...
I wonder if '/admin/graphic/../factory_reset' woud work?
Interestingly, just a couple of months ago T-Mobile had great online customer service -- you could log into your account and open a chat with a customer support person. They removed that in favour of a generic "support community" based on Jive. So now you have to "start a discussion" if you have a problem, or, annoyingly, call their support line.
Does the world need product managers any more?
Would being a witness to the first blast be a source of radiation?

At the first test explosion of an atomic bomb, Feynman was the only scientist who eschewed protective goggles and watched the blast with unshielded eyes — he wanted to see the explosion clearly, and had researched the danger and confidently concluded that the risk to his vision was negligible.

http://www.nndb.com/people/584/000026506/
The CIA Didn't Trust Snowden, Even Back in 2009
I read zero German and it was obvious.
Wow! That looks very interesting
Actually what i want to point out is, what's the rush?
I think humans judge time based on passages of emotional state. There are cycles that are linked to the rising and setting of the sun and that gives us the sense of days. There are passages that are linked to the waxing and waning of the moon and that gives us the sense of the months. There are similarly seasons that suggest years. But we have gotten very good at media and riling people into heightened emotional states, to attempt political change. And that ability to tap into emotion short-circuits our understanding of time. So where we would usually go through--to throw out a number--5 emotional upheavals very closely linked to time between each technological innovation, now there are several artificially induced emotional responses that are completely unlinked from time, and we have no true sense of the amount of time that technological upheaval now takes.

It is not possible that technology is progressing slower now than before. The more we innovate, the more innovation becomes possible. What can only be true is the changing in our perception of the amount of time between innovations.
Ask HN: How could non US based developer guesstimate his market value in US?
Disclaimer: I'm going through job application process, and next step will be a salary negotiation. I've read awesome http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ article by patio11, and trying to prepare myself for that.

How would you recommend to estimate market salary?

Given an SF startup company looking for a senior software engineer who's good at Python&Django and is a full-stack. They need help in renovating their saas solution.

If you would have to hire someone for similar position, what salary range would you think of?

Given you consider remote workers for this position also. Would you expect to hire them at lower price?

Thanks!
What country is that?

Edit: Looking at some EC website [1], these are the countries with median gross annual income < EUR 10,000:

Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania

1. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
One of the biggest benefits I see to API-first is that it encourages you to document everything well, and that process usually leads to better organization and greater consistency.

As far as fat vs. thin, I worry that this article could be a bit misleading. It's great if you have an API that responds in 20ms as very few people can achieve that. But it doesn't matter much in a world where mobile network latency can easily be 200-500ms. If you're worried about app performance, I'd focus first and foremost on the number of requests you are making and making sure none of them are blocking. The network is the slow part. I know a lot of companies with blazing fast API's and sluggish apps, because they're optimizing the wrong thing.
Ah but the real story is that like sophisticated math systems, in relation to any fixed axiomization, set theory involves provably, provably false and unprovable/independent statements. And in relation to any fixed model, set theory involves true and provable, true but unprovable, false but un-disprovable and false and disprovable.

And when you're math as a human endeavor, you can also add "provable but not yet proven" and "proven independent"

So, learn some stuff, see how far from black and white higher math can be.
Do alot people reading this react in this manner in their professional life as well, or is this just the usual kind of knee-jerk reaction when someone suggest that something needs to be changed, or rethought, on a much lower lever then the usual superficial alterations we're used to see in the political field?

It's just sad and juvenile.
Basically any ex USSR country.
btw, Python 3.3 introduced ChainMap for "merging" dicts.

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections#collections.C...
I was just reading about spambots filtering without captchas, maybe you'll find it interesting too: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html
I'm not sure you've worked with a 10x developer.

They see the mess, and they see the way out. Any change they make is a refactor with the end goal in mind. Before you realize it the codebase is cleaner, concerns have been separated, interfaces made extensible, concepts more clean.

They use a number of tools, from creating facades of the previous interfaces/implementations. From judicious use of aspects, annotations, functional elements. And just plain old better coding.

Of course, sometimes they are too clever for their own good, and things quickly slide backwards when they move on, because no-one else understood the grand vision, the master plan, and quickly things fall back to hacks-upon-workarounds-of-kludges.
TED talks are lying to you
I'd have to concur. I highly value both kinds of experience, for this diversity actually.
There are also chips that have a Forth as their instruction set:

http://www.greenarraychips.com/

Gotta love having 144 Forth machines in a $20 chip.
I don't know.

Ofek seems to be a male given name, or a surname. But I don't know enough about Jewish culture to understand naming conventions.

Here's an editor for Biology Online calling Ofek a male (http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/post-157185.html...)

Facebook searches return a few Ofeks who are not male.
> The article fails to mention these people are also exploiting the system collecting welfare.

And how exactly do you know this is the case?
I've used those two as well as GetJar and Nook and Samsung Apps. Does it matter, though? Anything other than the main ones tend not to have enough user traffic to matter anyway.
I'm not sure why you would term this fabrication. She could've had that macbook from her days in Chicago (after all, as the article mentions - she only moved to NYC last year). Nowhere does it say that all her possessions were purchased with that $1000/month budget - just that her current living expenses are within that number.
Lucky for who ever bought one, Im sure they could sell it for 50X what they bought them for.
Very rarely is a picture or painting interesting just by looking at it, but the story behind an image is much harder to sell on the street. As to "people don't recognize art when they see it" type of posts, there are plenty of Banksys out there you've never heard of. In addition to that, what would the appropriate reaction have been according to the poster? People fast-food shopping art at a street corner, like that's any better?
Hah. That's a laugh. Never gonna happen.
sz4kerto -(fixup)-> szakértő -(Hungarian to English)-> professional/expert

so I can safely guess Hungary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_Europe_by_...
I live on $15k/year in silicon valley and consider at least 2/3 of my spending to be on luxury goods, so this is definitely possible.

Why do I do it? Well, for one, I don't care too much about having a porsche or some armani suits or filling my belly with $80 filet mignon and lobster every night. I'd much rather save my hard-earned dollars so that one day (in the near future) I won't have to work at all if I don't want to. Or I can start my own company or do whatever the fuck I want really and never have to worry about anything. I wholeheartedly believe that stress and worry are the causes of unhappiness, and they in turn are caused by spending money on stupid shit
The article mentions how most of us are introducted to math and the reaction most of us have to math in later life: "Oh no, I don't want to hear about this, I was so bad at math." The article continues about how wonderful math is and what not.

The article is wasting our time.

Those of us who were force-fed useless mathematics since 1st grade have already closed our minds completely to any attempts at beautifying something that we normal people, after +-/, see as completely fucking useless, boring and hate-inducing. At least I feel that way, but I assume I'm not alone.

I was force fed not only simple +-/ but several university level courses. Why? Because I wanted to get myself a programming degree and for that one, somehow, needed a whole bunch of weird-ass algebra and shit. I could see no reason for learning that at 15, when I was writing Pascal and PCBoard PPEs, no reason for learning that at 20 when I was writing C/C++ shit and no reason now at 30+ when I'm writing webapps in PHP/js/html5/etc. But time and time again I was told that without that complicated mathematics I wouldn't become shit.

Well, now I'm making a living programming, without a degree, and without being able to derive x2 from god-knows-what. My mind has PROVEN to me that I don't need complicated math and therefore cemented my previously belief that advanced math is necessary to program.

Not once during all my years of school and university was I ever shown a use for that advanced math, even though I _begged_ for at least some connection to reality, some proof that the math is going to be useful for anything else other than passing an exam. Do my SQL queries speed up if I use cosine? Will my code autoindent properly if the square root of x^y is used? No. Instead I was told to just learn it because I'd use it "some day".

My brain is now completely, 100% closed to advanced math. So what this Edward guy in the article should do is not try to change our minds, or even change the minds of the kids of today that are being force-fed math. Instead he should concentrate his efforts on bringing the teachers (and curriculum) down to earth. Change the way math is taught. Bring in real-world examples of why derivations are somehow important. After that is done then the NEXT generation won't fucking hate math, and mathematicians, as much as use older folk do.

Fuck I hate math.
Currently using Arch and loving it. My Linux distro progression has been Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian -> Crunchbang -> Arch.

I highly recommend starting with either Ubuntu or Crunchbang and then moving to Arch. Using Arch will force you to learn much more about Linux and will make you appreciate many of the things that you take for granted.
I don't dislike it. I think that what's intended is that instead of just orating (loudly) about the sorry state of affairs, as any of us can do, these people actually walk the walk and go out of their way to make things better. Quietly, by hacking away at great projects, and not by occupying capitol hill or something.

But for some people 'quietly' hints at 'sneaky'.
Weekend Reading: Startup Investing Links from Last Week’s Mattermark Daily
Yea not when it cost $634M to build that site. Think of a startup with that much money in seed funding tasked to build that site within three years.
You're agreeing with csense without realizing it. He said "this website" to refer to the site with the videos (not the comment above him), and saying video is "lower-bandwidth" to mean that is less quickly communicative, not that it somehow takes less internet bandwidth than text.
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Do you know who the best person we can interview about this is? Looks really interesting / important.
Not very much, no.

Were cancer rates among those witnesses much higher than in the general population? (Note that the goggles really do nothing when it comes to cancer, so that bit is irrelevant.)

The immediate radiation dose from a nuclear explosion is generally low. It's the fallout that gets you, hours or days later. Even then, the risk is acute poisoning, not so much long-term cancer risk.
That this story can thrive on HN every few months is a strong indicator that a nontrivial chunk of the userbase is 16.
Go and see how much they are paying for your kind of position in 3 of the sites below and take the average and add 30% more and start negotiating from there.

Payscale.com
glassdoor.com
salary.com

Yes, they tend to pay less for remote workers. But again agree with them in front asking to raise the salary after couple of months once they are happy with your performance.
Fossil is written by Richard Hipp, the same guy who wrote Sqlite...
A strong accusation with little to base it on.

MacBook Air? Bottom end refurbished model costs $900. That's a dollar a day for 2.5 years; in NY you can recycle soda cans for $0.05/each, so 20 found cans a day keeps her tolerably up to date. There's enough free wifi around to manage connectivity.

Extreme frugality is viable if you put your mind to it. Our advertising-driven culture is guilty of making most think it isn't.
I just happened to finish it today. I already knew throughout the book that it would be a very important read, in several aspects. The very end is about the cargo cult in science, and it looks like he put this collection of anecdotes of his life in the sole point of illustrating the cargo cult problem, only exposed in the end. It's almost the sole time he talks extensively about science in this book (and it's why it's so awesome). Cargo cult is the result of a trap that our own brain seem to be wired to fall in. We all know or knew at some point how to avoid the trap, but it gets another perspective when reading about someone that put it in practice his entire life.

Question everything, discover everything, take nothing for granted.

If it's seems unrealistic, just read the book, it'll just teach you how it happens. If it's intimidating, it's by its ruthless simplicity.
Assuming he is flying to Hawaii, that would set him back at least $600. That's 12% of his yearly budget. Not to mention the fact that actually living in Hawaii is not cheap, and the article said he does this all winter.
It doesn't always work because there are too many tax havens. If you increase the taxes too sharply, the rich will simply take their wealth elsewhere, and then the government gets nothing. The recent situation in France (which ended up being averted anyway) being an example, many of the countries rich debated moving their assets and businesses to Belgium or Switzerland...

Taxes can be an effective tool, but they have to make sense. You can't kill a businesses ability to compete, nor can you remove the incentives to build wealth.
So was everyone though.

The big difference demographically between hunter-gatherers and farmers is that farmers could store enough of their food to eke out a harsh winter or even a lean harvest in a following year. It would be tough but it would let more of them and especially their children survive. Hunter-gatherers had a higher quality of living on average but during the winter their kids died more often.
Nah, it's possible if you think the way poor people think. They get a second/third hand macbook from ebay for $200-300.
I think csense meant bandwidth in the sense of rate at which the audience takes in the information, not network bandwidth. You're in agreement with one another.
The problem isn't just "information bandwidth", but also an audio problem in a public environment. If you're in a public place, do you want to put your headphones on, or would you rather have everyone listen to what you're watching?
Why, do only 16-year-olds read interesting stories from famous physicists?
Suggest HN: Help the NSA out by donating computing hardware
Idea: The #NSA data center in UT is having issues, so help them out by shipping them your "extra" computing hardware.

I'm thinking, send them old broken surge protectors, 50MB IDE HDDs, floppy drives, old ISA, EISA & VESA boards, anything to help the cause!

We could even start a kickstarter to raise money to ship the hardware to the NSA to help them out!

I can donate a couple of Sun Ultra 30's and a box of old hard drives. Who else is in?
Where can I find parents?
Hello,

I am creating a startup called LilyMedia, where we are creating educational apps for kids from 2 to 6 years old and parents can check what kids are learning and what skills are developing through a report.

Right now I have a first version on iOS and Android called Lily and the Animals and I am trying to grow the community of parents.

I have tried going to schools, meetups, google groups, etc... do you know what can I try to find parents to grow my community? Do you have any ideas?

Thank you!
Consistently crashes MobileSafari on an iPad mini with latest iOS 7, just like the Google Translate webpage.

I'm really getting tired of these MobileSafari crashes.
I recall walking through a street of San Francisco (though I can't remember which one - maybe the Haight somewhere) when I saw a big spray-painted piece of art on a wall above the top of a building. I instantly recognized it as being in the style of Banksy. I doubted it at the time because I'm a London expat and it seemed too much of a coincidence to have your "local" artist suddenly turn up in your new neighborhood.

It was only later I looked it up online and found it was actually his work. I'm actually a little surprised that stall at Central Park didn't at least get a few people questioning who the artist was. Perhaps they did, but for brevity the video doesn't show those interactions, because they didn't end up buying anything.
Nonsense. My wife and I are an example...
The only thing that saved coursera for me was VLC. It all makes such more sense at double speed; if I miss something I can always pause.
If any language dominates the desktop it would be c++
What phones from the 2009 still have a serviceable battery and USB/charge port? And what are the 2013 versions of these phones?