skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact is that a candidate who spent two years getting an MBA is at a disadvantage relative to people who spent those two years doing more useful things (e.g. getting an engineering masters, or getting real world startup experience).

But then the MBA is not a negative signal, it's just not as strong a positive signal as two years of relevant experience.

The MBA is only a negative signal if between two people who are exactly the same except for one of them getting an MBA 'on the side', you'd pick the one without.
I have a bunch of programming language theory papers here: https://github.com/jsyeo/Research-Papers.

PRs welcome.
While we are on the subject of poor comments: please do not use pseudo html tags for emphasis (italics works well for that), nor acronyms such as inb4 (if you can't be bothered to type the words, then it's not worth saying/writing).

Also, please avoid sentences like your last which serves no purposes except starting a useless drama.
This is really funny. I quite enjoyed it. I wouldn't take any serious comments here seriously. Unfortunately the distribution of sense-of-humour in the world is not even. Some get a bigger chunk of it than others.

The next time anyone mentions CoffeeScript to me, I'll send them here. Much better.
Not sure what your point is here. Seems to me that even if the FSF was happy with the app store, trivial forks and clones of OSS would reach the app store all the same, no?
Before we get farther into this, consider the results of the two. What's the worst that will happen if kids are being advertised toys? They'll ask their parents to buy them? Maybe buy them themselves? Okay. Maybe not a prudent choice, time is wasted, a little bit of money is wasted... but the trajectory of life is very rarely totally devastated because of this. This is unlikely to happen anyway, considering there are already safeguard measures set up in society to prevent things going wrong: kids can't buy Mature-rated game, they typically don't have money anyway... parents have to make decisions for them. Mentally challenged adults have very little, if any, resources and safeguards to save them from making poor decisions.

I accept that it's only a certain part of the market in which participating adults are not mentally intelligent enough to make informed decisions. You (apparently) accept that only a small part of marketing (dolls) to children is a problem (though rayiner seems to be totally against marketing to children altogether -- and it was to that point that my original reply was to).

It would seem that we two should agree on a conclusion: advertising for all needs to be re-thought fundamentally. Cut out sexism, racism, sexual appeals in ads, as well as the wide variety of carefully, psychologically constructed ads in adult market, and cut out advertising highly sexualized dolls.

I want to make a note that only these sexualized dolls are problematic. If you have a daughter you know that girls just prefer dolls and other girly things in an innate way (I'm practically a daddy of two, and despite all my trying to get them hooked on cars, action heroes, computers, they just always opt for the dolls when given the choice). There's nothing wrong with girls having dolls of all sorts, just that they shouldn't be sexualized.
You posted after I made the parent comment.
Google/Motorola initiated a patent suit against Apple's use of push email in Germany. What did that have to do with anything Apple was doing?
That's a good point. It isn't.

These jokers call my home a few times per year. They use inmates on work release, who often try to give you the impression that they are affiliated with a church/charity/etc. They sell normal household products at outrageously inflated prices. http://www.americanhelpinghands.org/ Also Known As U.S. Disadvantaged Industries, Inc.
You (and every other responder) have taken my comment completely out of context. Read the post I'm responding too. I was putting forth a hypothetical situation to prove a very specific and explicitly-stated point, not suggesting that prisons should enter the tech industry.
Front page of HN is exactly where this should be.
Significantly more regulation?

I've heard that NY has enough private buses that some areas effectively do have a private mass transit system, but I've no firsthand knowledge.

They're also slightly or definitely illegal.
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They've actually been in DC for 8 years. The article is about crunching the data they've collected so far.
They used zero-days perviously, but not this time, according to the article:

The agency's name was not revealed, but Lakhani said it was a very secure one that specializes in offensive cybersecurity and protecting secrets and for which they had to use zero-day attacks in previous tests in order to bypass its strong defenses.

It implies this time they didn't have to because christmas card from cure facebook profile was enough.

Thinking straight should not be required, that's why policies are around. If the policy is "no Java on work browsers, ever, for any reason" and "updates are installed same week they are released by vendor", the chance for somebody opening Christmas card from cute girl and getting national security compromised would be much lower.
What about iterators/yield?
We'd love thousands and thousands of these.

--Please post ideas at https://dukgo.com/ideas (we're about to migrate all the old ones from http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/).

--If you want to hack on them check out http://dukgo.com/duckduckhack/ (our whole instant answer platform is open source).

--A bit out of date, but there a bunch listed at https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/
Money
http://paystoon.com/?id=cpritcharddddd
Hey dude. I submitted this link.
I'm really sorry if you didn't want it to be here. I just saw the link on Twitter and thought it would be a cool thing to share.
I feel awful now knowing that you didn't want it to be here.
Snowden’s Letter of Appeal to Washington
> I'm not sure why you're bringing up this fact, which is not at all inconsistent with my comment. What's your implication?

In that case I may have misunderstood your point. What I mean is that, for a paper with 100+ citations (which, in some fields, is not rare), most of them are not verified by the authors.

> In the past decade, I've spent probably 70% of my time on scientific research. At this moment I'm procrastinating from writing a letter of support on a grant. What, in particular, do you think I'm unrealistically rosy about?

The self-correcting nature of the process is very slow in most cases. Bad results end up being forgotten for minor findings, but for things of mild interest, it may linger far longer.
If your goal is to eliminate information that can be used to identify and track you, being the only person on the internet with an empty useragent string may be somewhat less than ideal...

https://panopticlick.eff.org/self-defense.php has some strategies.
plz console.loge with 'My apologies.'
I made the switch about two months ago. IMO, Google still beats Duck Duck Go in terms of relevant results and I am curious whether Duck Duck Go can do anything about it as they are not gathering as much data as Google. I try to find my answer on Duck Duck Go first and if I cannot see anything useful within 30 seconds I end up adding !g at the end of the query which redirects to Google with the original search terms.
Corporations and their operating costs are probably about third on the list of important stuff to worry about.

First is having customers who want to pay you. 'Nuff said.

Second -- and this is where you should spend all of your time and not stop until you have it solved -- is the actual system for getting money all the way from your customer's pocket and into your bank account. Until you have that -- for realz, not a cheery pat on the head and "Yeah we can do that" don't spend any time thinking about corporations. Talk to payment processors and banks and don't stop until this is bulletproof.

What they tell you will decide what type of structure you create. If they say set up general partnerships in Burkina Faso and use the letter "K" in the name at least twice, you do that.

This is a variation on the "When Mama's happy, everybody is happy" advice. Mama is your credit card processor. Mama is your bank.

Third. Set up whatever they will work with. The cost differentials (and paperwork burden differentials) are trivial.

Disclosure. International tax lawyer. Have not set up general partnerships in Burkina Faso. Attempting to start helping the HN community with a new website at http://freelancetax.com. Suggestions for where pain exists that I could solve -- very welcome.
"At least Dogescript has reasonable scoping!"
I'm not asking this to be a jerk or anything, I'm legitimately curious--what's the benefit of open-sourcing something like a mobile app? I would think that making an app private would be help you keep a level of proprietorship with your llc or whatever company you have producing the app. I know the benefits of open source projects in the developer-sphere but I would think a small-time developer would want their app to be generally private.
Or if simple had any competitive advantage; UX isn't enough. Yes they are a simple to use online bank but the their rates are pretty much non-existent.
Haha this has made my day
Menutail (https://www.menutail.com) which generates about $300/month at the moment. The site is kind of niche as it used to generate nutrition facts labels for food packages.

I mainly get new e-mail clients from cold e-mailing contacts from the farmer's market database courtesy of data.gov.
People missed the joke. Have an upvote.
I want the Kittyscript plugin of Dogescript
It hasn't been removed because of exactly what you say; it would break a lot of sites. If it is a change that breaks a good portion of the web, they rightfully shouldn't make that change.
And this is why I've grown to love DDG. My last "wow" moment was when I needed an ascii table two days ago. Searched for it and bam! it's right here in the front page.

To anyone skeptic about DuckDuckGo: I've been there. But I've decided to give it a week worth of a try some time ago (Google is just a !g away, anyway), and it's been my default search engine for months now.
You might want to give it a try as well. Maybe you'll get hooked on the !bang syntax, maybe you'll get hooked to the 0-click information box, or maybe you'll just switch back to Google.

Some queries aren't always on par yet with Google, but I feel that it's getting here. It's mostly lacking on queries about specific errors, and local stuff. For everything else, I feel that I barely switch to Google anymore.

And, as a bonus, DDG works perfectly with Firefox Mobile. Google instead has some problems (probably caused by some webkit-specific code).
About time. The fact this can be done with "relative" safety needs to be publicized. It wont get safer or smaller until people make statements that there is a demand for such technology. And as to all the people going on about how foolish it is, right now with the legal, financial, and social barriers, this is the only way it can be done. And even smarter to do it while we still have effective antibiotics.
How completely and utterly ridiculous and reckless. I understand the thrill, but jeez... And good luck walking through an airport in future!
It's certainly possible -- I guess you could email the author and ask whether he was pitched the idea or not -- but the article says the data came from a public records request and the analysis was done by the Post. I don't think you can jump to conclusions any way.
What email service do you use that allows 200mb?
Hey, no problem! Please don't feel bad (makes me feel bad :P). I mostly said that because of knowing how HN can respond to jokes. I'm totally good with it though. Thanks for enlightening HN with doge!
Show HN: Dynamic Coupon at Startup Weekend Stanford
Manipulating the laws to generate more captives so that you can force them to work for you so that you can make more money is...totally exploitive. That you've thrown in higher pay doesn't change that; it just means they'd treat their slaves better.

It's also a silly hypothetical, in that it misunderstands the motive for prisoner labor. Replace "prison" with "community center":

> Imagine an hypothetical situation in which a community center teaches its occupants to code, pays them market wages, and turns a profit.

Compare potential outcomes. Wouldn't that be a lot easier to run and couldn't you expect much better outcomes? Of course. And it's also true for any other kind of labor; equally paid non-criminals with specific inclinations to the work doing it by choice are going to outperform prisoners if you're paying them equally. Which leads us to the actual reason why prison labor is even a thing at all: because it's coercive and thus artificially cheap. There's no other reason to do it! If prisons had to pay prisoners market wages, there'd be no reason to employ them at all; they could just employ other people. It's just not a valid hypothetical.

It's like saying, "we could get rid of traffic problems by not allowing any vehicles on the road."
Have been using it for 3 years and the occasional problems pale in comparison to the utility I've gotten from it. Have recommended it and set it up for less tech savvy family members.

Simple on the other hand is pretty useless to me. The rates are awful and it's just a nice looking app - really don't get it. But suppose I don't fit the use case they pivoted to before launch since I don't set budgets and more just keep tabs on when money comes in or out. Will probably end up closing my account there but your idea of becoming more like Mint (linking accounts) could make it useful.
Variables Limit Reusability
I have heard there was a French mafia inside Apple, was he part of this? His name sounds French.
This is a concept of a coupon that can change values based on how many people shared it. The coupon is a fake one on the testing website. Criticism and suggestions welcome! Several problems we are facing: How to avoid being scam while providing values? Will user ever share?
Powershell and the command prompt use the same underlying console subsystem, that handles character-mode programs running and displaying their output in a window. It's a core part of Windows, rather than something supplied by each program.

The console system doesn't provide a TTY, as in Unix, but instead uses a CGA/MDA text mode metaphor: a matrix of (character,colour) pairs. This leaves no information about the text that's been printed, per se - it's more like the text equivalent of a bitmap. No carriage returns, no tabs, just an arrangement of characters that happened to have been put in the right places. If you widen the screen, there's not much Windows can do except for leave the new area blank, because it has no idea at all which line breaks are significant and which were just wrapped. (And indeed, if you resize the buffer in the console window's properties, this blanking is exactly what it does.)

There's sort-of nothing wrong with this system, in that it makes sense for a certain style of text-mode GUI console program, that were at one point exceedingly popular in MS-DOS - but unfortunately, it's not so hot for the TTY style of console program that everybody uses these days :)

(Fingers crossed for a much-needed shakeup, but this nonsense has stuck around for so long - I don't think that console properties dialog has changed one pixel since Windows NT 4 - that it's probably a bit late now. Meanwhile, one solution might be to run cmd.exe with a better class of terminal emulator - emacs will do this.)
I'm a CEO of a co that's doing well.

This comment resonated with me.

Started blogging a few yrs ago, then dropped it.

1) ain't nobody have time for that.

2) too fraught in general. Supposed to be face of company so can't really say anything interesting in a blog.

3) and that Dalton kid posting the millionth "MBA and startups" article: who gives a fuck, what's the use, hire good people that fit... Don't engage in navel gazing analysis.
I like the syntax! Reminiscent of http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE but probably more usable.
We are currently making a few hundred a month on Doccy (http://doccyapp.com) its not something you go looking for but once you do it makes sense to use it. Its also only a few months old
An Attempted Entrapment
Yes. Absolutely!

I'm getting so sick of "sprints" and Trello cards and test-driven-hubris... The Internet is falling apart; economies are going ape-shit everywhere...

The least we can do is preserve this beautiful craft of programming, and have fun with it. Rather that deluding ourselves into believing that we need yet another Search-for-the-Thing-in-our-Company's-Metadata app.
The medical community is working on systems that are far superior to this one, and they are brilliant. Some are already on the market:

* Pacemakers / Artificial hearts (Heart diseases)

* Cochlear implants / Bone anchored hearing aids (Deafness)

* Insulin pumps (Diabetes)

* Deep brain stimulators (Parkinson's)

* Wireless gastrointestinal probes (GI disease/cancer)

They don't sound sexy, but these devices are now wireless sensor nodes with years of battery life. There are some next generation devices that are making their way onto the market as well, such as the Proteus Digital sensor[1] which was approved by the FDA last year.

I'm excited about progress in implantable technologies and also understand why their progress is seems slow--it takes a lot of work to ensure these devices are safe. That safety also necessitates a level of closedness for now: devices are only validated under carefully controlled conditions.

Efforts like this one, however, are incredibly unsafe. They endanger individuals while also making the DIY community look stupid.

[1] http://www.proteus.com/proteus-digital-health-announces-fda-...
You can fake it with a number of extensions, but there's a load of fingerprinting options that are sneakier than the user agent. The Tor Browser project has a document outlining changes they had to make to make things less fingerprintable.
Without knowing the specifics or the absolute truth about the situation on his side, I can say it's possible those things really did happen. And consider that in the alternative scenario where you had to have him on payroll as a FT/direct employee, you'd be paying regular paychecks + benefits to him this entire time. You're lucky to have the option of engaging someone only as a temporary "disposable" contractor. And for every scenario where the client appears to have been "screwed" by the developer, I guarantee you the reverse scenario has happened. Possibly even with that same guy, with the shoe on the other foot. It's truly a jungle out there.
There is no real causation between blog posting and the success of an entrepreneur but there may be a correlation between success entrepreneurs and whether they are likely to blog. At the end of the day, I don't think it matters. The CEO's transparency and image is all depending on what company it is. The CEO of IBM is less likely to blog than the CEO of Airbnb (I don't know if either of them blog, it's just a comparison).
Thanks, that's a relief. :)

Congratulations on getting to number 1, anyway.
Wave is much better than Mint for business.
I agree. Hence why I didn't join them. I told them I'd sign up if I could get Ally-like rates, or if they offered a credit card option with 5% cash back categories like the competitors.
Show HN: [Pyrate] Easily connect to RESTful APIs in python
One thing I found out recently is that you can de-horn a rhino without harming it (much), and it's reasonably effective against poaching, for obvious reasons. I wonder if we wouldn't have more success conserving the species if we allowed licensed de-horning in exchange for the licensees contributing to the preservation, with both money and/or resources.

http://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/issues_for_debate/de-...
This is most likely due to the high taxes and regulations required for companies there. General employment rules are pretty strict as well.
> If you have someone doing cheap work and doing well, keep the payments flowing. If you are happy, then make the developer happy as well.

THIS

x 10
If not pseudo science, then still more a wishful thinking and placebo than a proved method:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23084964
Better security because Intuit is a larger company? No one is invincible, see Adobe's latest incident.
My major complaint with Mint is I don't get email alerts until I log into my account. Nothing gets sent to me when the event triggering the alert occurs. That is frustrating.
Jason Fried, 37signals in SVN? I'm not sure that's a good example. It's a bit of an outlier and SVN has components which go to their bottom line (selling books, jobs board.)
I'll up you: NyanScript.
I think it's legitimately awesome.

I really want to see a language that does away with even more symbols (like replacing period with "of") - and your use of lulz speak or whatever you want to call it makes the symbol replacements short and accessible.
Eh, but aren't they all? Fitness tracking solutions, weather information, feed aggregators, photo apps - are they more "exciting" problems to solve? It's a matter of perspective - to someone, making a nice photo app is boring, to someone else, financial problems are irrelevant.
AIWorld6: A predator-prey relationship
Who said the military industrial complex doesn't create anything of benefit? LOL
Well, arguably, if I see some startup that just started doing business, I don't think I would feel as secure with them as I do with Mint - but like I said, "arguably".
but the reverse is also true. many/most good developers stay away from it because of the bad/cheapskate clients that are rife there. "I have a great idea that will make me millions!!! just need a developer. oh but my budget is tiny, so sorry! and add this and this and this and I need it by next Tuesday."

case of a market-for-lemons, plus race-to-bottom
I've been a mint user for over 5 years and actually love it. The web ui isn't amazing, but it is pretty good. The IOS app is excellent and let's me quickly get a grip on my financials. I couldn't disagree more with the author of this post. I've often had mint send me alerts when I mix up something stupid and get low balances or forget to pay credit card bills. To me, mint is simply a life saver. It isn't something I use every day, but when I need it, it really helps. I'm about as big of a mint fanboi that there could be.
There's still a lot of differing behavior in modern browsers that a feature check doesn't expose. Bugs, quirks, performance characteristics (e.g. slow SVG animation in Firefox), and just plain divergences from the spec.

HTML5 media is my favorite example of this: mobile devices will actually straight up lie to you when you call certain methods.

If you're making even moderate use of any HTML5 features, you're going to end up doing user agent sniffing.
This is the original article: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-diy-cyborg (which would have been better to submit than the Time magazine blogspam).
For people complaining it's big, the guy on reddit's futurology subreddit who helped design it said it was just the first step, it will shrink in size and grow in features.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1ohqpl/this_is_t...

He also said it's just temporary, for 3 months.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1ohqpl/this_is_t...
The irony of this is that Mint was once a startup that simply asked you to trust them with your bank account's credentials (or at least that was my impression). I joined them way before they were owned by Intuit.
I use this - https://www.personalcapital.com/ - it is Mint minus all the ads and let's you add private equity and custom vesting periods