skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the notion of the word as you're using it here being material, it's disingenuous to ignore that "hacker"—in common usage—is constantly fighting with going the way of "ninja rockstar". (Is this better than going the way of "cracker"? Who knows.)

It seems that as soon as a term becomes an HR draw a flood of overinflated resumes comes quickly to erase its meaning.

Hacker the way you're using it is, I believe, a term bestowed upon someone by another, more universally recognized hacker. In that way, I don't think it's possible for a company to broadcast that they're "hiring hackers". By definition, you have to know who's a hacker before you can approach them.

It's use in marketing for hires is thus pretty much dead on arrival.
An increase in transaction volume, which is what your link shows, is not a 'rally', which is a price increase.
It is based in a german project (http://www.egroupware.org/)
Thanks, it sounds like a cool project. Please do post it here when you have an alpha version, I'd be interested to see it.
I think as long as you go with modular design choices, you have the best of both worlds. You apply those three steps to each component in turn, and on the system as a whole.
"My takeaway was that they tried to present some idea as universal "

Strange apologia. This isn't about whether it was a good article or not or the relative merits of peer reviewed social science. It's about whether it's good for the community when top articles are disappeared by a bunch of dittoheads simply because pg was critical.

Before pg post: top article.

After pg post: flagged to oblivion.

If that's going to be the case than it would be better for the community that pg had not commented in that post. Which is unfortunate because pg is very insightful and I think right in that case. Insight is wasted when it's buried on page 10.

The fault obviously is the poor use/abuse of the flagging power and has been extensively documented previously. I've seen zero evidence that it adds anything to this site. Make it cost 100 or 1000 karma to flag something and maybe it can work.
I'm reading the comments on his site and he's apparently deleting any comment that goes against his radical feminist ideology. Hilarious. He's also fat.
The security audit linked in the article [1] mentions that the researchers submitted several documents via StrongBox, but never got a response.

[1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~aczeskis/research/pubs/UW-CS...
Postgres source code has been pleasure to read, and the commit logs are outstanding.
Lex: I'm a hacker!

Tim: That's what I said: you're a nerd.

Lex: I am not a computer nerd. I prefer to be called a hacker!
And which country doesn't do that kind of thing nowadays?
Those days when one of the worst companies buys one of the best...
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Social media creates a ton of new needs that it then proceeds to only partially, and unpredictably, fill.

You're just realizing again that you don't really give a shit what your mom had for breakfast, unless you're talking about it with her to pass the time over dinner:)

There's absolutely nothing that anybody has to say to me that can't wait a day (except "the site's down!")
Because promotions are generally to a new role, and have been perverted at some places to simply be a new title. Want to get promoted from a Developer to a Developer-2? Those are unlimited.

Want to get promoted from a developer-15 to Amazon's CTO? Those are limited.
Actually, she is mentioned in the introduction, along with Ada Lovelace, as a well-known woman of tech. Remember, the article is about the "unsung women".
the modal is slightly annoying, sorry :|
There's also the broader problem of just writing people's names. :/
I sure hope that is a They Live [0] reference.

0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
How to engage affluent Chinese tourism worldwide
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I have never been more pleasantly surprised with a click to the comments section, came here to post this exact same thing.
Are they wrong? Did you not just increase their liability by 0.001%?

I guess I'm still having a hard time squaring personal responsibility with this idea of complete anonymity. It's not that we shouldn't be able to hide anything, but like the article said, it's just not possible (or even reasonable to expect) to hide everything. Existing in society leaves a footprint, especially in cases like license plates - they're designed to aid in tracking, what's the surprise that they're being used to do exactly that?
It is illegal to defraud and impersonate. There's nothing illegal about using multiple names (again, so long as there is no intent to defraud or impersonate).
I see price there starting from $24/year.
Yes, there are scholarships for people in wheelchairs. I'm not in a wheelchair. My stuff is rare and has no funding behind it.

I'm glad that you think that being a sexuality studies major is a noble goal, but I'm interested in tech (which eliminates a great deal of them--most require a sociology major or something similarly specific), and I'd also like to point out that leading a gay youth initiative (as is often required by these scholarships) is hard when:

1. You're the only out person in high school.
2. Your school won't even let you into NHS because you are gay. No teacher was willing to stand up for me because they didn't want to lose their job. Can you imagine the difficulties of getting one to volunteer to sponsor some sort of gay group? It'd never happen.
3. Your parents almost send you to a gay reparation camp because they're fundamentalist christian.
4. You live in a flyover state in the middle of nowhere. (many of the scholarships are for specific states, too.)

It's great that you had the resources to land a glbt scholarship, but they're mostly unavailable to disadvantaged students. You may want to rethink your ally status if you're going to go around bashing gay people for not trying hard enough when there's already usually quite a lot on our plates.
Old people have got to get over this stigma of taking notes on electronic devices. It's the 21st century, and we have the technology, but everyone wants to be a hipster and it's just stupid.
Well be aware, 300mg of EPA means the value isn't quite as good as it may first appear. Multiply by 2.3 to get the dosage the same per $!

I have never used Swanson stuff before, typical worry about low cost fish oil is that it isn't filtered for heavy metals as well, and it may have a smell to it. Of course YMMV. :) I typically go to a local shop (more expensive of course!) and try out a brand there first, since I typically can return even the opened bottle if I feel something is wrong.
Very helpful. Thank you very much. I'll keep tweaking the kerning and consider those optical adjustments moving forward.
I think this is an issue of a semantic mismatch surrounding a buzzword. A kernel "hacker" and web "hacker" have different flavours. I can see where they're coming from against certain interpretations of the word, but they should have been more specific.
Unfortunately, a large subset of the people who wish to have the conversation, consider lesswrong.com to be sexist and that being "logical" and "rational" are part of the problem. I don't believe it is a conversation that can actually be productive, at all.
Unfortunately, the meanings of words change over time. "Hacker" in the general usage has come to mean throwing things together quickly to see if they'll work.

It is frustrating to see, but once a word comes into common use you lose control of it.
I didn't read it as ZenPayroll trying to redefine what "hacker" means. Rather, they are simply stating what "hacker" typically describes in the context of a job board. In my experience, their described usage is pretty common, especially among hiring posts for startup jobs.
While this sounds interesting and a lot of the features are laudable, it seems to me that such a language will no longer be "Ruby". All non-trivial Ruby code (like any library or gem) will not work in Rubinius X.

So why base this on Ruby? Because the syntax is nice? Perhaps it would be better to start with something like elixir, which has a syntax based on Ruby, works with existing Erlang libraries and has good (perhaps excellent) support for concurrency and immutability.
We pitched the TV figuring it would remove our temptation to be lazy and disengaged. We generally reserve computer time for supporting foreign language acquisition. (I feel like I'm rapidly turning into one of THOSE parents)
I certainly didn't know there are tags in tires

That's the first I've heard of it myself, although it seems inevitable since one of the biggest selling points of RFID tags is for inventory management. We are likely to see RFID tags everywhere we currently see barcodes.

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/press_release/10492011/why-...

But... to get back to the RFID in tires thing there is more to it than just that. Current vehicle safety codes require in-cabin monitoring of tire pressure. One way to do it is for the car to pay attention to changes in wheel rotation speeds (lower pressure means smaller effective radius). Another is to put a pressure guage in each wheel that talks to the car's computer wirelessly and gives more exact numbers so is more common. So even without RFID in the tires, most cars still transmit a unique ID number everywhere they go.

http://news.rutgers.edu/news-releases/2010/08/wireless-tire-...
The third one is what annoys me the most.
I think it's really much cheaper and faster, and we're living in amazing times. It's just so easy to abuse these opportunities.
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It's tough when they're 4. They can read a little, but too young for Google. And I'm afraid of some of the unfiltered answers. :-)
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love that you have GST and BAS statement generation. I sent you an email about dpkg errors since I only use Linux (ubuntu 13.04 Gnome Shell 3.8)
i m also curious why rubinius failed to gain traction, how it all started and why EY abandoned their support?
I find it very odd how they do not include "proprietary software" in that list. Because that is where true freedom ends. Anything offline can actually be online. And you wouldn't know. Because it are proprietary closed circuit systems which you do not know the intent of.
Sorry for the lack of those glyphs. I really hope to expand it soon to make it more useful. Thanks for the interest though.
I'm going to get a t-shirt saying "Don't talk to me unless the site is down" haha. Yeah, trying to fill that void with social media is like trying to put out fire with napalm.
https://www.mashape.com/community/rets-ly#!documentation
Excel is a brilliant tool for solving problems that can be expressed as arrays. But its not that nice for trees.
A first step to this project could be to make a satisfying experience for editing this kind of data.
Here's an example: you have a list of categories and products. In excel today, you'll probably put category in column A and product in column B. But now you have lots of duplication of category ids. You can't change the category in one place like you'd be able to it was explicitly a tree, and rearranging branches of the tree is tedious. Creating arbitrarily deep sub-categories is a mess.
If someone could make a good experience for this problem, then it might inspire ideas for the more complicated task of programming.
Ironic: I use Ghostery to block website trackers, and it identified thirteen of them on that article.
Good call, imagine you had a task like taking the input from the form for the employees wage.

A good developer with no knowledge of IEEE754 might do something like this:

float hourlyWage = hourlyWageTextbox.text.floatValue();

While a hacker with intricate knowledge of IEEE754 might insist that everyone do the following:

string hourlyWage[] = hourlyWageTextbox.text.split('.')
int hourlyWage = hourlyWage[0].to_int * 100 + hourlyWage[1].to_int

It's essential to get rid of all these hackers who just slow down the dev process with extra unnecessary code. After all a quick unit test will show that there's no benefit from all the extra work of storing currency values as cents.
@prirun is Hashbackup open source? Or close source and filled with backdoors?
Even if you paid cash for that house, the tax records can be public.
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If someone is looking for an alternative to a closed-source product, I don't see why another closed-source product would be the answer (according to Hashbackup's FAQ it won't be open-source).
Usually the goal of replacing a closed-source product is to have something that you can fully control / tweak / audit ...
Good post.

No doubt there are better ways. If there were no useful data points (e.g. stolen then mixed via CoinJoin, traded atomically to another chain with less traceability then back again) then maybe it would be helpful. But then again, if it was a sophisticated user they probably wouldn't propagate the tx from their own IP. I brought it up only because it would be slightly more expensive then some other attacks.

Regardless, you are right. Absolute anonymity is not possible in Bitcoin at the moment. If offline transactions become more adept, then perhaps. But for now... not quite.
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This is going to be the main issue behind that argument. The burden of proof has shifted.

The tech industries reaction to the Snowden seems to the outside very lukewarm. Sure, they are giving all sorts of "trust us" statements, but truth is we don't have the slightest clue if this is their honest opinion or just an opinion that a secret court forces them to uphold. Reality might be much more nuanced, but to the outside there is very little reason to give anyone any longer the benefit of the doubt.
That was a problem when I first started a few years ago, so I used a very simple algorithm that didn't have non-alphanumeric letters. About 3 years ago I came up with a better algorithm, and now I use both. The simpler one on throwaway sites, which tend to be the same sites with insecure password requirements, and the more complex one for everything else.

The only problem I still occasionally run in to is when a site requires a password change for whatever reason. I have a couple of minor permutations on the algorithm that I use in those cases, but sometimes that does trip me up.
If this works, it could be a new model for software. There's something about accounting that seems more appropriate as desktop software. I like avoiding the monthly fees and it's probably more comforting to the developer not to be serving the app (I realize they are offering cloud storage).
I did community college while working. It took 6 years to get my associate of science this way, only to find out that my state engineering college would "accept" the credits but I'd still have to enter as a freshman in their engineering department.

Luckyily I have access to enough loans/savings now as an independent student to move to another state (if I'd been born here, with their $5,000/year tuition, I'd have graduated with an engineering degree by now...), but I really wish people would stop recommending community college for tech people. Some states just see it as another way to waste your time and make more money off you. If you're a transfer student, many colleges won't give you any institutional aid, either, which means you're limited to places you can afford on a $5,000 pell grant (if you can get one) and yearly stafford loan limits.

I loved my cc profs, I just wish the four year colleges couldn't get away with so much snobbery/bs.
Some feedback:

- I really like the concept. Medium for Photography, basically.

- Great design.

- Is this mobile yet?

- Your design seems to assume really large monitors.

- Hovering over an image to see the title makes things slower (because it's less scannable so it takes me more time to find out what to read next). Slow is almost never good. Make it fast.
The NSA’s giant Utah data center will probably hold a bunch of spam
I'm amazed you believe that's what Americans will be reading into this article - it's not what I read. FWIW, I grew up in Appalachia and it ain't nothing like the Russia the article discussed - plenty of food for the most part, water, decent roads.
Anything you'll be able to get above $500 will be a bonus.

I had hard time selling cool 1-letter domain so market for that stuff is quite specific.
You're probably not serious, but for the OP this was the reason to start Rubunius X, as you can see here:
http://rubini.us/2013/10/15/introducing-rubinius-x/

discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6553767

Personally I believe in "the best tool for the job".
That link was meant to show a suspiciously large jump in the volume of Chinese bitcoin exchanges relative to other exchanges. It wasn't intended to show the price increase.

To see the price increase, you can look at any of the charts at http://bitcoincharts.com. But since the exchanges strongly influence each other because of arbitrage, price charts won't tell you anything about the role of Chinese exchanges in the increase.
Good question. Some things I will have answers for, others I'm not 100% on. I'll go point by point.

1. The spin isn't really intended. GoDaddy is a huge fan of our services, and they intend to keep it independent so that our team can improve on what we currently have. We'll also be able to hire better people (not putting our team down), but it's always been the motto here to hire people that are smarter than us.

2. Existing customers- nothing is changing. Seriously. Prices aren't going up, control panel isn't changing, and we're not going to be emailing you every day.

3. Our team said yes to this merger because they like the direction their new team is taking. If we can inject some of our flair into what they are doing, even better. In the end though, you aren't going to see a combination of the logos.

4. "winning out" - If i could predict the future, I'd be traveling the world comfortably right now. :) I've been here for three years now, and I trust that things aren't going in that direction.

I appreciate the concern, and we're impressed that so many people care (even if sentiment sways negatively). We're not here to ride our horses into the sunset with bags of money draped to our saddles, we're here to compete in the hosting space. We have always been known for our stellar service, and we are ready to be known for a stellar product.
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This is clearly a case of semantic disputes.

Hacker in the MIT definition of the word emphasizes cleverness and playfulness, and I think this is how most people (including the HN crowd here) usually mean to use the word. I should note that the term 'kernel hacker' has more or less developed on its own, separately, as a phrasal noun. One could very well argue that the definition of 'hacking' extends to sloppy implementation methods, so calling the logic in the submitted post 'nonsense' may be going a little overboard here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture)
Cool. Since they think that project is more secured than MS Outlook, I wonder if the government has requested to audit or not.
Maybe the problem is promotion altogether? Work your ass off for 1 year and then, you may or may not win the promotion lottery. I guess a more flexible style of salary increase could be created?

Work on a project for 3 months. If it attain its goal, everyone on the team receives 0.20% increase. This way you want to make sure your team will succeed.

I'm just thinking outloud here. It could be a rubbish idea.
That is ridiculous. What we are doing is perfectly legal. Do these people think it's fair that a health-conscious individual should pay the same premium as a crack-addict? Remember that we are not going after your average Joe, the ones most affected by this are outliers with dangerous alcohol consumption patterns. Studies have shown that increased premiums for undesired excessive alcohol consumption actually decreases risk for excessive alcohol consumption. In fact, it'd be more shocking if we didn't use these purchases to set premiums.

I just made that up, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that in an interview 10 years hence.
Hilariously, this article appears to be flagged far below it would naturally score atm.
Who said anything about `rich'? Neither I nor the parent ever used the word.
Problem is that even though you visually deleted all that social stuff, the data still exists. There is no escape.
Or it is just a crude "this person flagged too often" filter, and he was actually being helpful and was punished for it.
These people? I am one of them. I understand the in's and out's of just about the best you can do when it comes to living off the map.

The article says they are living off the map, which they certainly aren't.

Like I said, minimizing your footprint is one thing, and that is good, but saying these people are "Offline" is absurd.
Make sure you mention this on your website.

I'd also suggest you create a bitbucket account for issue submission since:

1. You can enable access only to issue tickets
2. you can keep your source code private
3. it's got a low barrier to entry (you don't actually need to keep source code there, but git is awesome and so is bitbucket)
Yeah, it's simply linkbait. It could just as easily be called "A blog where I try out new technologies!"
Seems like you could put the *.manager file into dropbox or another "sync service" and put a symlink into the Users/... folder to point it to the dropbox file, which would probably allow multiple users to all access the same data. I feel like this would sort of be bypassing your cloud service
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this on HN.

This one line is simply bang on at so many levels:

...we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

And seemingly relevant in the current climate of 2013 again.
There are other indicators that this might be legit trade volume. Things like state-sponsored media exposure, the large number of Chinese bitcoin miners, and also that Chinese are already familiar with another very popular digital currency (QQ).
out of scope because they haven't done anything yet? Perhaps the issue is visibility and mindshare to do something civic, in which case, this would help - no?