skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to all the other criticism here, the EULA for this product is terrible. There are so many silly claims (not to mention typos that completely undermine much of it anyway) that I would walk away no matter how good the code on offer was.

Also, if your primary selling point is that you are "a more usable credit card form", you look weak without a clear statement of what you're more usable than and producing empirical data to show where you convert better. You're talking about a critical part of my payments system, so I'm hardly going to take your word for it just because you've got some red and green on your web site. This goes double for any sort of web form tool, because these are notorious for actually making things worse if they don't properly support all platforms, all the edge cases in the inputs, all accessibility aids, and so on.

Sorry to be so negative, because I'm sure a lot of hard work went into this, but taking card payments is not a game, and clearly this product is nothing like ready for production use. I worry for whoever is charging for this, because if someone did buy it and then wind up losing real money as a result of problems like the ones mentioned throughout this HN discussion, liability could be a real concern.
Twitter IPO is bad for start ups because its fueled by inexperienced investors who missed out on Facebook. What they don't realize is that twitter is no where near facebook's trajectory on any of the metrics that matter(revenue, profit, user growth).
The NYT is saying what its standards of a good agreement would be and what the priorities of its editorial board are, which provides a clue to the administration about the probability of getting an endorsement from the paper. They didn't say 'it would be nice if the agreement were nice,' but rather spelled what they would consider 'nice.'
Also, since package managers seem to be the common gripe. I never used one, and I'm glad I didn't. I learned a lot by not having a proper package manager as a crutch. The creature comforts were never the point for me, inventing creature comforts that fit me was an enlightening experience and one that I think ought to be recognized for what it was: It wasn't "efficient" or "awesome" -- it was the basics. It was nuts and bolts, and so few things are these days. Sometimes it's not about nostalgia, it's about first principles.
I fear the day that the service decreases in quality. Hell bad dreams of Digg v4 flash into my mind when I saw how things went today. I wish twitter all the best but this IPO seems to be pushing their problems down a few years.
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Melting away, this is my favorite one yet.

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,2,3,1,2,0...
I'm more interested to hear why does twitter need 2000 employees?
>That’s a double-edged sword for utilities, depriving them of demand charges that help finance improvements to the transmission system but also helping them keep balance the grid and avoid blackouts or having to fire up a carbon-spewing fossil fuel power plant when demand suddenly spikes.

I'd like to see a quote or statistic that says that this is true and that the utilities are really price-gouging customers for peak demand charges. It would not surprise me at all to learn that the added cost to utilities of handling peak demand was more than the surcharge they are recouping from businesses - in which case they would be happy for everyone to install load-balancing units in their buildings.

This is supported by the article itself, in saying that the utilities are rewarding customers for using less electricity during peak times (by controlling their air conditioners).
Solid Concepts 3D prints Metal Gun
Yes, some wealth was created and kept. That doesn't change the fact that other wealth was shot into space.

Why, why, why must people assume I'm being blindly antagonistic? I just don't get it. You quote me and then reply as if I said something stupid, and "correct" me by saying something I agree with and never contradicted.
The point of the pornography quote is to demonstrate that yes, there may be interpersonal variability in the definition of the term, but there is a strong area of agreement and overlap between us all. You seem to have missed that the point is to say: while we cannot firmly affix what constitutes pedantry and captiousness, we have an innate and largely convergent working sense for it.
> but how is it that a country that has among the highest suicide rates in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan) also happens to have the lowest rates of depression

If more depressed people commit suicide, then there's fewer depressed people showing up in the stats, right?
$100 audio controlled and governed photolithographic 3D printer [video]
Do you have any write-up on the accelerometer data processing? I'd be interested. Thanks!
Only one suggestion: Fonts matter. Change those fonts
Such small numbers make terrible statistics. For instance, I could say that "the Tesla Model S is infinitely times less likely than a non-Tesla to suffer a fire which leads to a death." 0 for Tesla, X > 0 for others.
Flat design is so much better. Gradients, shadows, etc. have no practical use.
You sure dem younguns ever heard of Winamp?
> Install Slackware, you learn Linux.

Which is becoming less true since Linux as a full OS is moving to PulseAudio and systemd and has long since moved to PAM (among other things). By default, Slackware doesn't have, and probably will never have, any of those.

Slackware experience is becoming less and less transferable.
"And you thought getting support for your distro was hard now, we've provided n! combinations of software for you"
Solyent brings out the cynic in me for some reason -- Rosa Labs and accompanying boilerplate just sounds like an attempt at preemptively legitimizing Soylent as a staggeringly important food replacement; the list of investors are simply black swan hunters and not indicative of the importance of the product.

I could be wrong and Soylent may actually be an important product spurring innovation in the ever so important food industry.

I normally gravitate towards the middle of the road opinion after identifying polar opposites, but for some reason I just can't shake the cynicism about this. It'll be interesting to watch what happens...
Mega graduates out of beta, gets new look
The whole point of Twitter was you could tweet from an SMS wasn't it? SMS was supposed to be the primary platform...
Exactly, Ink uses media queries to modify the layout for different devices.
Depends on whether or not you believe the NSA has its own fab.
Blame bubble Ben. QE is 90% of the issue here. The market is addicted now. Great recession 2.0 will probably hit next fall
There is NO way Japan's depression rate is that low. The culture does't treat depression as a legitimate medical issue (their main remedy is along the lines of "man up!") and I have to imagine that it's being severely underreported.
Recap of the history of MIT's 2.00Gokart class
Agree with this completely. Cultural fit is (imo) the most important hiring criteria (way way more important than experience with the language).

Employees are going to be part of your team for at least two years. If your team can't stand them then that's going to be painful.

However, "Cultural Fit" used as an excuse to prevent team diversity is bullshit. Every study done on it has proven that diversity increases team productivity. If a team is mostly white middle-class guys and not hiring girls because of cultural fit, then yeah, that's bullshit.
Uh, "Path is worth $550 million" ?!

What crack is he smoking?
I don't know about that. It seems to have worked out all right for twitter :P
Engine overheating vs. accident are very different causes for fires.
We've got a bunch of example templates along with test results across different email clients. You can just copy and paste the email into your sender of choice and check it out http://zurb.com/ink/templates.php
I don't get the need for Vagrant? Are you suggesting to use Vagrant solely for those not developing on a host capable of running Docker? If my host _can_ run Docker, what value do I get from running it inside Vagrant instead?
Not really. YouTube and Instagram, for example, had insane exits while loosing money.
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Unfortunately, India does not have Hollywood to glamorize the space program. Well, it does have Bollywood, but they have other things to show :-)

Just a sample for reference which was told somewhere else, the budget for the movie Gravity was more than the budget for the Mars mission by my country.

A very good critique and explanation of why we need this mission is presented here,http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Pove...
Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords - sources
Their website also says UW. That surprised me as well. I didn't know another UW existed at all.
The really crazy one is Gmail. It does not support media queries and requires you to inline all your styles. You would expect so much more from Google.
I think lots of things are bad for startups, but Twitter's IPO isn't one of them -- and this post didn't convince me otherwise.

In fact, lots of points made in this post seem to sound as though they are factual, but I'm not sure they are and would likely argue the opposite point of the author:

"The real problem here is that we increasingly live in a world where technology companies are valued on emotional whims and promises of unbelievable future growth."

Technology companies are almost universally about promise and potential and always have been. Read Crossing the Chasm to understand why that is. At the time that the private market investors care about them, they are so early in the selling motions that their early success in a tiny subset of the market is indicative of later potential. That's why VCs exist. To see something with early potential, pay a premium (at times) to get a part of it, foster it's development, and then ride it into reality and receive a terrific return for the foresight and fortitude.

The pattern recognition there is unmistakeable. Where it gets challenged is in the fickle and finicky consumer market where externalities are more likely to cause massive changes in momentum (See: Path can't maintain the momentum of fundraising).

"A surge on IPO day is good of course, but 15-20% is more than enough; 75% simply means the company was mis-priced and that Twitter left over a billion in cash on the table."

This is also not a factually true statement. Because a small float was offered, and demand was prescriptive by the bankers, it's impossible to say that because of how it ended, trying to raise the price to $40 would have resulted in the same outcome.

If Twitter wanted to fully maximize their first day gains, there are dutch style IPO auctions that can be done to better match demand for an offering. Google did this.

I'm not going to continue, but I guess this is a great headline with a poorly made point. I'm not sure what the goal here was.
Also, there would be a loss when converting the batteries' DC back to AC to drive the hotel's air conditioning and other systems. And doesn't charging a battery generate heat, which you would need additional air conditioning to remove on a hot day?

I wonder whether it would be environmentally sustainable if every home or business in the world started using batteries for power storage and electric vehicles. For example, how much environmental damage would be incurred from mining lithium on a massive scale? Are there even enough known lithium deposits in the world to make this practical on a large scale?
>>The reaction I am seeing in the international press to India's mars mission is quite the opposite

Indian press was no different. There was 20 minute debate(These guys are still debating if the mission was necessary) on whether the mission was necessary. The next 2 hour prime time news was about Sachin Tendulkar's last test match.

Some channels just gave a passing reference. All that was shown is that ISRO had launched a mars mission with a 20 second clip of the rocket taking off.

There is no popular demand. The general public is not in any position to understand what the mission is or why its important. How much effort was gone into it, and how it was done.
Fast track expired in 2007, so yes, if the TPP were introduced today it would come up in Congress under regular order.

It's possible that Congress could choose to renew fast track, but that would not mean they are being bypassed--since they themselves would be putting the restrictions in place, and they obviously all know that the TPP is coming down the track.

Also--Congress could not even pass a budget to keep the federal government open. Personally I am not worried that they will move too fast on anything in the foreseeable future.
If that part of the informal FAQ worries you that it might be interpreted in some strange way, just look at the actually license and read it.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version

The definition of Corresponding Source code is listed earlier in this HN thread.
Can you post a Litmus test result or post the code as an issue on the GitHub repo https://github.com/zurb/ink
Let me rephrase. HTML email is often required due to the requirements of the marketing department at many companies.

As for "look better" - yes, it is subjective. However, given that html email capabilities are a super set of text email capabilities, anything you can do in a text email you can do in an html email. Anything you can do in an html email, though, you cannot necessarily do in a text email. Quite simply, an html email can look better and often does.

Edit: Given that an email can contain both text and html versions, and given that best practices dictate sending both, is this not good enough? You can always set your client to show you the text version by preference. You get your text version, most everyone else gets the html version.
>Snapchat and Pinterest are worth around $4 billion dollars each. Evernote and Airbnb are each worth over $2 billion. Path is worth $550 million. By comparison, Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the world which owns almost 10 billion tons of coal, is worth about $5 billion.

I see fewer and fewer comparisons like these between tech companies and brick and mortar/commodity companies and I think it is a shame. To me such comparisons do more to highlight how broken the financial markets are, though I am not exactly sure why. It seems like investment priorities or consumer demands are out of whack when electrical utility companies (PEPCO) are valued less than social media platforms (FB).
There's no factual evidence to back this statement up. See my other comment on this thread.
The part of the world where professionals who are able to write high-quality code are well paid for quality work.
I'm getting a ton of errors trying to register for RFPEZ. Everything from timeouts to 500 server errors. Feels like the Healthcare.gov issue all over again.

Also, why would one need to "provide a link to an image of your best work"? That seems very contrary to the point of procurement - especially given that so little of the opportunities are for actual design work. Furthermore, how does one link to work performed on an intranet, etc. (as most government work is)?

Seems like it needs to be thought out a little better. Is the "best work" link part of the selection criteria? How does this work with FAR requirements or simplify the RFP/RFQ process?
If Airbnb is currently priced at about $2 billion, that's about 1/4 of an IHG Hotels (they own the Holiday Inn brand and another dozen or so).

That sounds richly valued to me, but not insane. IHG (disclaimer: shareholder and double super platinum for life due to often staying there for business travel) has been trying to move, for years, into a capital structure which Airbnb had from day one: they want a cut of every night's stay without actually owning any hotel property because that's a capital-intensive location-dependent slow-growth business. They've got a substantial scale advantage on Airbnb (~600,000 rooms which each rent 300+ nights per year, whereas Airbnb does about 50 million nights a year at systematically lower price points), but 5~10% a year is great growth for them, and Airbnb is growing at about 100% every 6 months.

There exist significant risks to the company, from the legal issues to merely not sustaining the hockey stick for long enough to justify the valuation, but the people with money on the line are mostly rich and sophisticated. If they lose their investment, oh well, capitalism happens.

It's categorically better than when $X00,000 of pet food sold at a $Y0 million loss was valued in the billions.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/16/path-is-raising-50m-at-a-50...
Seems to be an issue of his age there. He claims to be much older on Bitcointalk. He owns a $750k house and previously rented a $500/week apartment too, so I highly doubt he is truly 18.
This kid is 18? And people trusted a million dollars in untraceable money to him?
People don't fully appreciate how long the tails get on power pricing when alternate sources have to come online. Not uncommon to see 10x base pricing a few times per year: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9510
I'm absolutely fine with the debate being about whether to accept or reject it. There's so much bikeshedding and logrolling in Congress these days that I think they're more effective when confronted with the necessity of an up or down vote. YMMV of course.

Also, that's how the Senate votes on judicial and other nominees (Y/N, rather than having any control over a shortlist or setting criteria), and Article II says that treaty votes come before the Senate the same way. I have the impression that you and several other posters would prefer a more parliamentary system of government where the executive was a member of the legislature and directly subject to its authority* but that's not our constitutional scheme.

* A key difference in a parliamentary system being that a vote of no confidence in the executive can force a general election.
Static eats an ordered state:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,1,3,3,0,5,3,...
Flywheels would be a great solution here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage#Compari...

Someday they might be commercially viable....
A little bit, but reminds me more of Stephen Wolfram's 'New Kind of Science', which are also finite state automata like game of life...
Here's a link to his Kickstarter (sadly, we're late to the game): www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-printer-the-first-100-3d-printer-and-sc

To me, this guy is a genius and a true hacker -- a genius, because he approached a complex problem with existing solutions, and found another solution that is orders of magnitude simpler. A true hacker because he brilliantly exploited existing mechanisms to achieve his goal.

Obviously, the tech is v1, but I can't see what he does given the funds he got. Godspeed!
Yeah, I was going to say -- I can't even type a credit card number in correctly without the form mangling it (Safari 6 on OS X 10.8.4). All the fanciness in the world isn't worth anything if you can't _type in a credit card number_.
A kid offering spamming and hacked twitter accounts using the same account on the forums too, so I doubt anybody did any real research into this person before sending him money.
India as a nation is not poor , its the political class and public administration which is involved in corruption is poor. Here is the list of scams : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India . Coal scam is over $25 billion , CWG scam is worth $29 billion.

Now I wonder if international media would have criticized such administration and if this amount of money which is equivalent to GDP of few nations would have been used to eradicate poverty.

>"India's Mars program promises to return useful engineering and scientific data for a price that puts other space agencies to shame!"
Even after so many scams and corruptions around , Indian scientists are able to launch this mission at such a low cost, it's really appreciable.
Please stay civil.
It is the same on a varying scale with ALL cultures.

India is is similar. A person who goes to a therapist is a mad person.
Wow. This is a great question. Not just for interviewers, though.

I manage a small team and was wondering what I would say if asked this question--probably that our pain points are our server hardware/software, which are a bit, shall we say, "antique". Some of the other pain points fall out of that one.
Actually, I find a lot of developers who don't care for Windows who very much like C#.

To your questions:

1) Professional level decrease? Not hardly. If anything, I found strong professionalism in Python. "Pythonistas" are huge in principles such as DRY, which isn't about something terribly complex but rather keeping things simple and clean. It's about being organizationally effective and not coding one's self into a corner. The fact that the language seems so easy to work with shouldn't give the impression of it being simplistic.

2) I didn't land a job writing Python, it's just a tool to get things done. From a career standpoint, I don't want to be known as a {language/platform/thing} guy, I simply want to be known as an engineer. Tools, languages, platforms, services, etc. will come and go. As long as I recognize how to use those in combination to get things done efficiently, I'm doing my job.
I mentioned New Kind of Science below, but also relevant here, he did a lot of quantifying these kinds of patterns and islands of complexity in cellular automata... I never finished the book, so unsure how or if he really connected it to other disciplines, but a good reference point if interested in this stuff.
I think the Twitter IPO is very good for startups. The wealth event for a lot of employees unlocks a pool of talented employees who are flush with experience, ready to take on new challenges, and armed with a network. A bit of money in the pocket is that they're less dependent upon short-term income and are willing to take on a fair amount of risk and more focused on long-term goals. Many will start a new company or join as an early/senior employee at a fast growing one. Some of them will go on to be angel investors and VCs. Some will just drive Porsches and play golf.

This cycle has renewed itself many times in the Bay Area, with recent examples likes Nescape, eBay, PayPal, Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I feel this refertilization is not nearly as strong in many other cities like NYC.
> Well for comparison, the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf have never had a fire.

The volt had one, rather famously when it was tested by the NHTSA. In that test (which was pretty ludicrous if you dig into the details) as in the recent Tesla crashes, I don't think they're really reflective of the engineering quality of the car.
Snowden Persuaded Other NSA Workers to Give Up More than 20 Passwords
Nice idea but the pay isn't high enough to get my ideas.
Zhou Tong was 17, when his Bitcoin project was hacked (this is the thread where he announced the project, and was astutely pointed out (concernedly, not mockingly) that he was destined for spectacular failure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973301 ).

I really don't know why we keep trusting very young individuals on things that require implementation of _really_ good security. This is one of the places where ageism probably /should/ exist in some ways -- but the other way around from how we know it, because experience is one of the things that is really important here.