skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the banks also got an option to buy an additional 10M shares at $26 in the next 30 days. By keeping the price low, the banks made a $500M profit on top of their fees.

The banks are triple dipping on the IPO: the fee (3.25%), their options on 10M shares, and their ability to limit IPO access to clients that give them profitable business.

That said Twitter extracted some sweetheart loans from their underwriters and the fee is much lower than the usual 7%, so it's definitely a two way game where both sides are trying to take advantage of the other.
I think bolder88 has a problem with the idea that an IPO creates intrinsic wealth, or somehow increases the overall "wealth" of the entire system (either global or within a given country).

Yup, and now the word "wealth" is just a random series of letters when I read it.
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Naturally, extensions that block certain kinds of Google ads (such as Youtube ads) are not allowed in the Chrome Web Store.
If I received your resume and the last page was literally cut to just contain those four lines, I'd certainly remember it. :)
Another cross-platform UI toolkit. Which using CSS.
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You mischaracterize one of MongoDB's main draws. It's not just indexing, but indexing over a schemaless dataset. Mongo isn't unique in providing this, but combined with other features it is compelling for certain scenarios.

That said, if Postgres matches/exceeds enough Mongo features, it could certainly outshine Mongo for those scenarios.

AFAIK, map-reduce is relatively expensive on Mongo... typically recommended only for background execution, nothing synchronous.
I would have said that's only crazy talk and the laws of Murphy would require that there be another event as soon as possible after such a silly statement would be said.

So far I would say the most common link between all three events is that people were driving them. People should stop driving them as to prevent these fires.
While this article raises a valid point, its arguments are often used to brush aside real concerns on important topics like workplace safety or product reliability. I'm sure many HNers have found themselves on the wrong end of a conversation where they're told to 'just make it work!' by someone who isn't interested in understanding downside risks.
The rise of Docker is fascinating. How did you get people to care about it initially? Did everyone immediately see it as a good idea? Congrats.
Unless you are published, a page is enough. Seriously.
I think current best estimates are that the most efficient charitable donations you can make save about one life per $2000 donated. If you're a decently but not extravagantly paid US software developer (I'm not, but the money is in the right ballpark) then maybe your salary is $100k/year; let's say you donate 5% of that before tax, or $5k/year; that's 2.5 lives saved per year. Most things you could do by volunteering full time probably do less good than that.

(Of course "lives saved" is an unsatisfactory metric; something like QALYs would be better. But the lives-saved figure is the one I happen to remember.)
Sure, nothing can replace a big community.

OTOH, it looks like the Poster did have bad experience with Haskell community, though.

A small community is superior insofar as they are more motivated to help, and are more likely to take (critical) feedback into account.

I think it is fair to say that the Frege community (currently about 6 more or less active contributors) does its best, judging from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/frege and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/frege-programming-la...

Of course, if someone demands, say, to implements GADTs or multi-param type classes by tomorrow, the answer will be gentle, but not affirmative.
Ha! That's a hilarious analogy. What would you do instead?
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No. As the value of the position (price times size) approaches the cash balance in your brokerage account, your broker will close out your position (buying back the shares) using the funds in your account. This is known as a "margin call."
Presumably Chromium has no such restriction.
It's important to remember that the "x pages" rule of thumb is a hang-over from when we had paper resumes.

Current reading behaviour is somewhat different and tends towards scanning/skipping because the breaks between pages are much less significant with a resume on screen.
Is the Internet Good for Science?
> Also like pornography, I think most of us would disagree at least to some degree.

Hint: You're that guy.
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Looks like we need a new "Road Debris Hitting the Undercarriage" safety testing.
Opportunity cost is the equivalence of wealth lost.
I think you grant too many favours... Or perhaps you are that guy!
This won't work for everyone or for every position, but I've converted to something more like:

<Very position-customized and concise cover letter intro>

Github | Blog | Project sites | etc.

<Quickly highlight position-appropriate or interesting repos/posts/projects>

Resume available upon request.

If a company actually needs a resume for whatever reason, I tend to side with the OP. If you send more than one page (with reasonable formatting) then you are just sending over data that will likely be ignored.
When you get into a new car, do you want all the controls neatly laid out where you know them to be or do you want "originality & creativity". I think most people would find it less stressful and taxing and more comforted if they knew how to navigate it.

Same with a website. I always want to know where the navigation is, how to login, where the call to action is - the basics. The value isn't the website "design" - it's either the product or the content.
Building a Transaction Tracer for Node.js the Hard Way
Ugh, this I am not okay with. You already have to jump through a number of hoops to sideload extensions; when you do so, you're assuming the risk associated with it.

Requiring all extensions to go through the Chrome store seems like a step down a very dark path to me.
a great read for a novice like myself
Since there are so many types of errors,the usual recommendation is to use a higher level library, like NaCl.

I wonder if using similar approach shown in this research ,one could determine if apps are using NaCl(say, for all outgoing communications). Such knowledge would be pretty useful to end users.
No there really are people that just bring up problems that aren't problems.
We spent 3 months going door to door, making demos to people I knew were working on similar projects or looking for one. We had a good reputation in the ops and systems engineering community because of our work on dotCloud over the last 6 years. Then we bootstrapped the open-source community with that initial group of 30-50 people willing to federate efforts. By the time the project was leaked on hacker news, the github repo and mailing list were already very active.

Early members of that "seed" community included engineers from Twilio, Heroku, Soundcloud, Koding, Google, Meteor, RethinkDB, Mailgun, as well as the current members of the Flynn project.
Looks wrong without a question mark.
I think you can tell the captious people from those who aren't by whether they behave that way in every day meaningless conversation.

The type of person who responds to everything opinion regardless of how meaningless with "not necessarily" is probably going to have the same problems at work.
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Meaningless unless you were rich AND lucky enough to get into the actual IPO. All the retail investors that bought as fast as they could at $46 didn't really reap and benefits.
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What bridge or power plants programs have been defunded because of the IRSO?

The reason the IRSO is able to accomplish so much is because it is so efficient and damn good at what it does. The reason why other agencies and organizations in India have such a hard time keeping bridges safe or the lights on is because they are massively inefficient in comparison. These other programs, given the IRSOs budget, would have accomplished approximately "fuck all" more than they did without it. The IRSO should not be punished for the failings of other aspects of the Indian government.
Heroku created almost as many new terms as Tolkien, and they seem to have made out just fine.
Indeed a good article. Right on the spot on mostly all things.

Just to add, that investment in Space ventures is not profitable today, and hardly few people see it as a race at the moment, but if you look at what Deep Space Industries is doing in the US, you can say that this is a race itself. Which will turn highly profitable, when you can harvest resources in the future from places beyond our earth.

Additionally, Scientific discovery is not your "buy in the store" thing, that one nation can just expect technologies to pop out of thin air, if they pay the price. Its a hit and miss, since ages. During renaissance, multiple scientist lost their whole empires of wealth, for what appeared to be only small advances back then. It took 1000 failures, and cost of those failures in time and money to build a bulb. And look today. Where we are.

Well its a good thing that these critics are powerless to stop science, else India would have been still living on the preached ideals of these critics like " food to mouth" ideology.

EXAMPLE: Imagine you have certain amount of money, and you have two choices: Buy Seeds or Buy food. Yes if you are about to die, you wouldn't even wait to have this question, but, otherwise when you are just hungry constantly, you would invest your money partly in seeds as well that is, if you are aware, that constructive measures like growing crop has its risks, takes time, and has no immediate return. So, if you can just hold on until the harvest even on a shoe string budget, like ISRO has over here, the seed that grew into the grain will surely fill you beyond your current means!

May I even need to requote this? This is the best to describe space exploration to, such critics.

"One small step for man, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND"
Let's start betting on when Google starts to squeeze ad blockers through feature changes or right out of the web store.
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This is ridiculous. I saw hundreds of comments denouncing all the negative things about India's space program but have yet to see one actual negative comment about the program. Every one seems to be praising it and then there are these articles and comments (even on HN) some how defending the space program and their mars probe launch. Too much karma whoring going on.
So far.

I believe that part of Goog's motivation is to stop malware, but part of their motivation is platform control. I just don't know the proportion.
Random thoughts:

Projects: If they are open to the public, link to them. Show, don't tell. If they aren't public, then they go under the job history section as brief descriptions.

Schooling: One line, degrees and years separated by semicolons. If your last schooling was over eight years ago, drop any non-national-level honors/awards.

Start dropping details of jobs that ended over five years ago. They get two or three lines only. More recent jobs can have 5 to 8 lines of details each.

A resume is a conversation starter, not the conversation.
There's a comment on the Chromium blog [1] (via magicalist's comment [2]) that nails this: if security is all they cared about, a signed certificate is all that's necessary.

Knowing that option exists and persisting with their store-only approach means they must have an ulterior motive of some sort, most likely control and money. Ad blockers that target Google Ads will be no more, as well as anything else that the user might want to use to subvert or circumvent. Extensions will also have to adhere to Google's moral code, and developers will once again be beholden to a greater authority in order to operate their business.

Just like with Facebook and the Apple app store, if you build a business on Google Chrome Extensions you now face having the plug pulled at any time for any reason, with absolutely no recourse.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-fr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=magicalist
The leading comment stated that expenditure is not cost. In that context the response is to the point. Your argument that it is a cost-benefit analysis is of course correct. But that is consistent with arguing that one can not simply wave the cost away as if it is not real.
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Of course it is terrible for the unions. It exposes the true cost of pensions which will weaken their position in future negotiations.

It is in the union's best interest to hide the cost of the pensions for as long as possible, with the likely result of taxpayers funding pensions.
But if you host your site on your infrastructure, and it goes down, you can't post status updates to tell people what's going on/ when you will be back online.
Its quite reasonable to not host your own homepage or mechanism of updating your customers IMO.
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Well said.

From another perspective... I often look up at the night sky and think to myself: how many civilizations are gone, simply because they failed to have the vision to leave their home planet?

A great line from a t-shirt:

"Asteroids... are nature's way of asking: 'How's that space program coming along?'"
My point is that the old IT position of updating slowly is being attacked on multiple fronts. From users who want to use modern technology, from SaaS companies who are increasingly dropping support for old-but-not-that-old browsers, and from browser vendors who are all moving towards rapid release cycles. Even IE.

I'm saying that the IT head, when it eventually gets to IE11 in 6 years and turns off automatic updates -- a feature that is on by default --, is going to find himself rather isolated and in my opinion a new crop of IT is going to form that's more nimble as a result.
Except that the analogy is off, given that paypal deals in established currency that you don't first have to generate or buy (via a convoluted process that involves handing over your ID etc to trading websites, or selling post-order drugs).
The real question is why Sun didn't succeed in leveraging this technology with their implementation of zones.
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Ask HN: looking for a writer, beginning game development for developers 
Basically I would like to know if there are resources for developers getting in to game development. Or if someone is interested to write a book on the subject. I can imagine that it would be a great kickstarter project.
The opportunity cost of giving money to the ISRO is lower than what they would have done with that money otherwise. Money sent to the ISRO is an investment in India's domestic STEM talent. There are few better ways they could have possibly spent that money.
yeah right. It is beta-quality unfit for pre-packaging in distro's. ABI incompatible with libstdcxx and deliberately OS X only. (It works sure (i mean kinda) no one is actually a linux port developer or maintainer not yet)
Stupid chrome bug. It should be fixed now, and here's the direct link to signup: http://gum.co/letsworkshop
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What details, specifically?
The format can be determined from the first one or two numbers entered in the field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_N...

edit: which doesn't change your point that initial format could move around after you type the first digits. I'll leave this here for trivia.
I'm a fan, but it's ironic to hear about this on the day that I discovered that Boomtown, one of my favorite Houston coffee shops, has switched away from Square to Revel.
My mistake, thank for the correction.

The 16 node limit I was familiar with is not a hard limit. You can request more nodes.

http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/#0080

It would be interesting to see performance comparisons on these huge datasets. I would expect to see new and interesting problems at that scale.
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You can call captious derogatory, but I'll call it a compliment.

I'll also be around to say "I told you so" once my nit picking proves out.
Doesn't support credit card autofill via Safari or 1Password plugin...
"That guy" noun : any person who has any disagreement with me or raises any objection to anything I say.
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I Love the idea! really. I just don't like all the UX yet. Some things feel ... off. It might be something personal. I'm not sure. But I guess it's interesting to discuss. "Drops are distilled Decks" The words feel semantically mismatched for some reason. If I think "Deck"I don't think "Config". If I think "Drop" I don'think "Deployable stuff" and I don't see how a "Distilled deck" is a "drop". Also it feels odd that I can create a "New deck" in the "instances" section.

though adding "cards" to a "deck" sounds intuitive.

I'm trying to come up with better terminology. something with ships and containers...
First thought: omg awesome!

Second thought: wait, is this just an essay contest?
Hi realcul, we're hosting on AWS with elastic load balancing.
>"and also no big benefits"

I think there are several benefits in using clang tools. You might find useful the Chandler Carruth's talk on Going Native on which he demoed some great tools that doesn't really have alternative on the gnu toolchain.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/The-Care-an...
So you'd actually be happy to lower education standards, health standards, transport, infrastructure, etc. etc. - all those things that taxes pay for.

I feel obliged to point out that America is already severely behind the rest of the developed world in those things.
I usually list HTML and CSS as office skills next to Microsoft Office and LaTeX ;)
http://i.imgur.com/1Yx5PY1.png (I haven't updated this CV in a while and I think I should downgrade my Java and Eiffel experience again since I haven't written any Java and Eiffel code in a while)

For bonus points: Can you guess the university?
History. It's rare to put a lot of smart people on the same program and not produce something with enormous social and commercial benefit. DARPA's little side project still produces new things decades after the initial investment.
On the flip side, nothing ticks me off more than large companies who think they are so desirable (they're not!) that they think they can get away with making you fill out pages of propriatary website application forms and upload your resume into blocks of text that never format properly. When I see that... It immediately turns me off and I walk away. Not interested in conforming to BS.It speaks volumes of how you run your company and intend to treat your employees.
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Money is the wrong thing to look at.

You can observe this by how easy it is to fall into the trap of thinking that destroying the money would be a huge waste. It wouldn't. Money, by itself, has no value. It's only useful in how you can use it to obtain goods and services. Destroying money reduces your own ability to obtain goods and services, but doesn't actually destroy wealth, as everyone else's ability to obtain goods and services increases to compensate. While wealth is typically measured in money, wealth consists of goods and services.

The fact that the money recirculates in the economy is irrelevant to the question of waste. If they wasted the money, it essentially means that the goods and services purchased with it were squandered.

So, forget the money for a moment. Analyze it like this: a bunch of engineers and technicians spent thousands or millions of collective hours. High quality aluminum, steel, electronics, etc., were used. And the result is a spacecraft. That time and those resources could be used to do something else. Perhaps something better, like build schools or factories.

That is the argument being made. I'm not saying it's necessarily correct (this mission doesn't seem like it's very expensive in the grand scheme of things, and the benefits for science, technology, and just plain prestige seem well worth it) but it is at least sensible in its foundations.
I fear that the "Great Filter" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_filter) is less likely to be a big rock or hunk of ice whacking planets full of the uninspired, but rather the speed of light necessitating dense civilizations to minimize communication latency. The sooner we expand, the better, because we are only going to become more addicted to information and instantaneous species-wide communication.
Ensuring that programs use NaCl should be much, much easier than verifying that they use the JCE properly, especially if you adopt the constraint that you only need to analyze JCE crypto.
That's not cynicism. That's just reverse engineering a content business.

I worked in publishing in the 90s, including doing some print design. I've done a fair bit of UI and information design since then. And I helped start a successful modern content business. Plus I write pretty much every day.

I'm not saying anybody there intends to be evil. I'm sure they're all very nice. I'm saying that they're embedded in a business context that shapes behavior. The incentives work strongly against thoughtful, sober journalism, and toward high-viral, high-click, high-engagement content that stimulates a need without ever really satisfying that.
That would be a great thing to cross-sell!
In my first "real" job, I worked at a publisher manually entering orders from paper and email into their production system. Multiple orders for multiple products required A LOT of repetitive typing: menu button pressing, addresses, costs, products.

I installed AutoHotKey (take that corporate security!) and over a few weeks wrote up a script that would let you supply an excel file with summarised stats about the orders you had that day. It would then physically automate the rest of the process using mouse/keyboard macros, like the office equivalent of a player piano.

It even had a little finite-state machine that knew where it was in the production system. For each order it knew where it had to be, and thus it could get from/to every other area of the production system by sending simulated keyboard/mouse-clicks.

I don't care what anyone says, sure an actual program would have been faster, but that wasn't an option.

In full flight it was awesome to behold. Like all the promises of labour saving technology made manifest! Of course, I soon learnt that labour saving was not the point of a corporation, but for the next few months until I quit, it was pretty cool...
You should probably rename the bookmarklet from "Drag This To Your Bookmarks Bar" to something else
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... apart from the IM chat interface
It turned out that porting Haskell code was a nightmare when the (.) did not work yet. (You can't just replace each . with • unless you don't have any qualifed names.)

Today, it can be quite easy, in the best case you just Ctrl-C Ctrl-V
Someone called "Google OS" posted[1] this about installing extensions not in the web store:

The developer option will still work: replace the crx extension with zip, extract the files to a new folder, go to the Chrome extensions page, enable developer mode, load unpacked extension and select the folder you've created.

Sounds like a huge pain in the ass but at least people doing this are less likely to be in the same group of people that are complaining about malware.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-fr...