skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That should be a t-shirt slogan.
A marginal tax rate of 97.75% on the top tier does not mean that a person in that tier would pay 97.75% of their total earnings. It means that they would pay 97.75% of their earnings on income above a certain threshold. For example, if the marginal tax rate on income above a billion dollars was 97.75%, and you earned 2 billion, you'd "only" get to keep 27.5 million dollars of the billion you earned after the first billion.

I'm not saying that a 97.75% tax on any income tier is entirely reasonable, but I hope that if you had the choice between keeping 2.25% of a billion dollars vs. keeping 100% of ten thousand dollars, you'd make the right decision.
I like the intent of this, but I'm not sure I'd ask "who", specifically. I personally would not feel comfortable answering that part of the question. Instead maybe, "How do you motivate your favorite employee?" If the answer is vague or too broad, the manager probably hasn't identified a favorite employee.
It's such a remote place (literally and perception-wise) that I get that a lot :)

It is the kind of city that turns everyone into a walking advertisement — even the folks who eventually leave tend to come back to retire.

You might look into companies like Submittable (who are based out of the area) if you're looking for programming gigs. They're working hard (with what seems to be a very collaborative and willing government) to flesh out the area's tech infrastructure, so keep your eyes open for more opportunities thereabouts over the next year or two.

And happy to introduce you to some wonderful folks in the city if you're ever stopping through and want to make some friends!
Well, that's one possibility, but high schoolers were hooked on Facebook too, at least before it opened up to the general public. The generation that uses Facebook now has used it since high school or college, but the next generation didn't start using in high school and they might not start in college, either. Maybe Facebook is less of a "stage of life" thing and more of a generational thing.
Grandparent: Bitcoin could fall to 0 USD overnight.

You: Not true, it would only fall arbitrarily close to 0 USD.

Me: Not reassured.
Yea we get stuff wrong too. That was a massive balls up, but well before the time of the GDS team.

Also note that the NHS system was about building a database for every NHS health record across the country; prescription notices, medial history, etc. etc.

I'm not sure it'll even be legal now. HealthCare.gov isn't going nearly as far as that.
I would say that Houston falls in the same category. Very cheap living, no income tax, very awesome place.

And just like Austin, a great place for devs to work. I remember having a whole discussion bout how Austin was a RoR town, while Houston was a PHP/.Net city.

There's definitely a ton of jobs on both sides. You can make anywhere between 60-90K as a developer, and spend $600-$900 for a nice 1-2br apt. Midtown living is a little more expensive but well worth it :)
You do realize you've just violated that NDA, right?
Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots
I third this. Austin, is IMO, the best place right now to develop software if you want to do it for cheap. Great balance between cost of living, opportunity, and access to resources.
There goes more VC money...
In 1994, someone at Wired magazine (which was only in its 2nd year of existence) registered mcdonalds.com to see what would happen: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mcdonalds_pr.html
I live in San Diego and nothing about it fits his 'cheaply' requirement. 10% sales tax, high rents, food is expensive, on and on. I'll agree QoL is incredibly high!
What about "deep learning" combined with lots of data ?

teams using the technique have won some competitions in kaggle , while doing little feature engineering(which is usually the part which you put domain knowledge) .

And it had shown better results than current systems for big problems like voice recognition and image recognition(the famous google cat experiment).
Getting paid once a month solves the entire problem.

The only reason this whole pay period thing matters is because bills (rent, car payment, insurance, utilities, iPhone bill) tend to be due monthly and not every two weeks.
Perhaps this uses DBpedia (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/About)?

This is similar to the site Freebase (http://www.freebase.com/), which has a lot more data. Example node: India (http://www.freebase.com/m/03rk0).
Ads are not slavery, Walter Cronkite has no such evil on his consciousness.
HN should start having a "hacker of the week" or something, notable people to admire and inspire. We could start with Lonnie Johnson.
The second edition of How to Design Programs is not finished yet, but I recommend it anyway: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html
Show HN: Simulate long-exposure photography with video
The degredation of the orbit is due to atmospheric drag. Drag at such high altitudes is tricky to determine. If the spacecraft were already on a re-entry trajectory it'd be easy, the uncertainty in the exact conditions in the upper atmosphere wouldn't be significant. However, those conditions are dominant now when the spacecraft is still in orbit, also they are very non-linear. If the spacecraft happens to hit a small "bump" in the outer atmosphere which significantly slows it down that will lower its altitude, dramatically increasing its drag and hastening the re-entry.
I learned about Lonnie when I read his patent on the super soaker. Huge respect.
You're downvoted? Really? I expected more from HN.

Teenagers are the demographic that started FB. Everyone followed them. If they leave, everyone will eventually follow. It's nothing personal; it's just how this stuff works.

I recommend you read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen which explains it all quite nicely.
It's also much less necessary with packages, where you can trivially change the order of most of the code is read.
enko claimed that "negging" is merely a universal, gender-neutral negotiating tactic. You're merely reinforcing the point that it is in actuality a deliberate tactic to undermine a woman's self esteem--to take her down a peg because she is perceived as seeing herself as superior to a man.
HIPAA is not implicated in the new health insurance marketplace. HIPAA protects personal medical information, and under the Affordable Care Act, you cannot be asked any personal health information on any insurance portals because insurers are required to cover any pre-existing conditions.
For real. Assuming monthly credit charges are evenly distributed from month to month and you max out your allowed credit charges under the flat rate plan, you effective rate is 1.32%. Anything charged in addition to this gets charged at the standard 2.75%. So please tell me how a flat 2.75% is better for the customer? Whoever wrote this press release for Square went about it the wrong way.
20 years ago was 1993. Marketing obsession with teenagers predates 1993 by decades, and with good reason--brand impressions created by age 16 can last for life.

In earlier, healthier economic times, teenagers actually had buying power too because they could work minimum wage jobs without having to pay bills.
Ask HN: Velocity program at Waterloo. How is it?
I'm interested in their Garage program. Are people there working on their startups full time? Is it just undergrads or also grad students? Anyone doing deep tech/systems?
The legal killer application for Bitcoin will not be e-commerce but rather the fluid trading of a yet unknown commodity which is currently not traded or very illiquid, between parties that can't trust each other and want to cut out a middle man.

But once that happens, investment banking with Bitcoins is inevitable and the times of "constant money supply" are practically over, for better or for worse.
yes I started as a research assistant at a world ranked rnd organisation and we where paid peanuts about 1/3 of the civil service where paid for the same role.
Greenville, SC

It's a perfect blend of small/big town atmosphere. The downtown has won awards and you can live right next to everything for rather cheap. I rented a 3 bedroom apartment on Main Street for around $1200 a month and ended up making money on rent through renting out the extra rooms. It has an incubator, code school, and lively coworking space and a ton of great restaurants. You also have a few colleges on the outskirts of town as well.

Check: http://lifeingreenville.com/
HIPAA covers far more than privacy.
It turns out you can dedupe most of your bills into one by paying them with a credit card. As long as the total amount stays under 4 weeks pay, there are zero timing issues and you get a month of float plus rewards (cash back, airline miles) for free.
The original healthcare.gov allowed for as they call it "window shopping", but a decree from the White House less than 2 months before launch demanded they change it to require a signup.

edit: fixed time period
TED Talks
For the minute-or-two I've been watching, it's actually been going upwards: from about 166km to 170km.
Maybe this helps explains why a B+ isn't worth anything any more.
You can see our first prototype – white box – at the archive link!

(You can also contribute to repairs at The Internet Archive here, just got hit by a fire: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/internet-archive-from-lond...)
Miami, FL. You can get an apartment with a water view for $1K, or by a house off the water for $100K. This is not as cheap as the middle-of-nowhere destinations others have suggested, but offers vibrant culture, nightlife, and sun.
Petition Google to stop asking for full names on YouTube
https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/ytgplus

Fill it out, pick "I don't want my full name showing up on YouTube", and write something about how you don't want to switch to using your full name.

I don't care if people are allowed to opt-in to it, or even if they present an opt-out form once. But I hate having to opt-out what feels like every four or five days.
It's the Umami – Why the Truth About MSG is So Easy to Swallow
It's true that unduly tight monetary policy can be economically ruinous, as the experience of the Great Depression makes clear. But deflation is only harmful when a currency is used as what economists call a "unit of account" -- that is, the unit with which peoples' salaries, mortgages and other long-term financial commitments are denominated. ...As for the idea that the rising value of bitcoins will cause people to hoard Bitcoins rather than spending them, that's based on flawed reasoning. If everyone holding bitcoins expect their value to rise dramatically in the future, then the price will rise now, until some Bitcoin holders are willing to part with their Bitcoins.

But the hoarding rationale is exactly the mechanism quoted for the reason why deflation is ruinous. The great depression in the US was not singularly a deflationary experience, in fact, after the initial deflationary contraction, the entire period was marked by several attempts by the government to goose the economy through inflationary meddling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvm9UgJBtg
We use Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ - works well, nicely integrated with wiki, issues, repository browsing. Wikipedia overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmine

Chiliproject https://www.chiliproject.org/ is a fork of Redmine. I have done a test install but not used it seriously.

I've used Trac http://trac.edgewall.org/ also. I like Redmine better because it has (or had, have not checked lately) better multiple-project support.

Our "front office" folks use Alfresco http://www.alfresco.com/ but their use of it is almost exclusively as a Microsoft Word storage shed.
Who do these corporate conglomerates think they are by trying to con inventors from their due? This happens all too often. These corporations love to lord their patents over everyone else but refuse to pay up when it is clear they not only have a legal obligation, but a moral one as well.

Note, Robert Kearns, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns.
I think you are both right. D even takes it to the next logical step: Present the unit tests as examples in the API documentation (like Doxygen,Javadoc). It means the API examples are kept in sync.

http://qznc.github.io/d-tut/testing.html
The truth of the matter is that Bitcoin isn't at a price even a fraction of what it will ultimately be worth if it becomes a currency in wide use. If it becomes a currency in wide use its market cap will start to resemble those of national currencies, and since there will only ever be a limited number of BitCoins, that means that if this happens a single BitCoin will be worth thousands, and it won't be meaningful any more to talk about a single BitCoin as a denomination of casual expenditures.

Just because something is highly valued doesn't mean it is in a bubble. It just means it is in demand. A single share of Berkshire Hathaway is worth $173,201 at the moment. Is that company in a bubble? Most people would say no - it is worth so much because the market bears that price, because Berkshire Hathaway has generated an enormous amount of value for its shareholders by investing in companies that are themselves inherently valuable.

If BitCoin is capable of being traded for valuable goods and services, that means it is exactly as valuable as the market says it is. The real problem we have to contend with is the fact that it makes more sense to hold on to BitCoins than it does to spend them. And this will be the case until the BitCoin reaches some kind of plateau of value.
I agree that there is a need to keep other OAuth options + username/password based registration - this will be added surely :) I just didn't answer again as I had answered in another comment thread - and then the threads got reordered
You read our minds. We're going to launch with the Kano books translated into Spanish and Arabic, to start, and then continuing to add languages. Really important IMO to recognize that next digital generation won't just speak English, live in SF, London, etc.
Who does this? Seriously? I've been on probably a dozen interviews where I would rank my performance from dismal to awesome, gotten offers. I was never, under any circumstance, expected to write syntax perfect code on a whiteboard. I have written plenty of stuff on whiteboards, in a few cases until my hand was cramped, but never did anyone bitch about the kind of issues you mention here.

A good white board interview question asks about a concrete problem like, "How does code complete work?"
Ha, awesome to know that the Super Soaker came from such a brilliant inventor and businessman! Lots of good memories with those things...

As a kid I hacked my own extra powerful version using a bicycle frame pump, soda bottles, pvc pipe, copper tubing and brass valves, and ruled the neighborhood "battlefield" for a summer :)
I think the end of the article summed it up pretty well: the signal to noise ratio dropped too low. (even if teens wouldn't use the term signal to noise)
Switching from Android to iPhone 5s — the first night
Also – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_Jigoro

(Primary schoolteacher, judo inventor.)
I have to respectfully disagree. I try not to take sides in these issues because the software I make all works well and co-exists with Puppet, Chef, etc. But I feel I need to voice my opinion here.

I _love_ the explicit ordering of Puppet. It is one of my favorite features over other options. I'll explain why I think it is a good thing.

For credentials to add some sort of credibility to this post: I worked for 4 years as an ops person managing not small (but not big) infrastructures for multiple companies ranging from 10 nodes up to 200 nodes. Some organizations used Chef, some used Puppet, and I even used Salt once. I created and maintain Vagrant and Packer, both of which integrate deeply with all major configuration management systems, so I have to know how they work decently well to be able to maintain that.

Let's use Chef for the remainder of this post, but please don't take this post as saying "Chef is bad. Puppet is good." That is false. I'm just using Chef as an example where ordering is implicit (based on the order resources appear in a recipe and run list).

The explicit ordering of Puppet makes it very clear exactly what a resource depends on. When training junior ops, I was frequently asked "so I use requires/notify/etc. to tell Puppet what order to do things?" And I would say NO! That is the _result_, but the purpose of requires is to list what the resource has as a logical _dependency_. For example, a common problem with junior puppet devs is to say "Oh, I'm making resource C which depends on resource B and A, but since B depends on A, I'll just put 'B' in the requires list." That is _wrong_. Logically, C depends on B and A, so put both there! Don't think about ordering, think about requirements/dependencies.

Given this, Puppet is so great. You can look at any resource and say "oh hey, this depends on ONLY these list of things." Sure, the dependencies may have their own dependencies, but the resource in question doesn't care about that. Example: this file requires that this service is installed. That service might require, say, RubyGems, but the file doesn't care! Its not an immediate dependency of the file.

With Chef, on the other hand, I would see "okay, C happens after B and A, but does C _really_ need to happen after A?" I don't know. I can't answer that. It requires much deeper domain knowledge of that infrastructure to answer that question. This leads to more of a nightmare [for me] months down the road, when I don't quite remember if something needs to happen after something else.

With Puppet, as a style rule, I require all ops engineers list _all_ requirements (exhaustive require clauses) whenever they're working. Then, months down the road, you can move around anything you want. You know if you broke something because Puppet will tell you (before it runs, during the 'compilation' phase).

Personally, I prefer this sort of explicitness.

I understand that some don't like this, but I like it. And people can like it. I don't believe either way is STRICTLY better/worse. I felt my opinion needed to be shared.
Realities of Performance Appraisal
ESA has more information about the reentry: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/G...
Books and Usenet.
And if you look at sites like http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ there's a lot of employment practices in india that are almost pre Victorian in their harshness.

I am not surprised that a lot of Indians want to move to the USA.
What will Samsung announce with mysterious circles? Any idea
This is a trend that stretches well back 50 years, some say to the establishment of the postwar DoD funding system. I recommend Paula Stephan's How Economics Shapes Science[1] for a comprehensive view of both the underpaid and increasing budget trends you mention.

(The bottom line is that the money goes to administration costs as mentioned, leading institutions to expand to stay relevant, thus building more buildings and hiring more PIs with full expectation for them to be funded via grants. Meanwhile, the average researcher's earnings are mostly unchanged.)

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Shapes-Science-Paula-Stephan...
Hi, I downvoted you, and here's how I think your comment could be improved:

You seem to be implying that this is not a good use of their resources. Note that $1500 is approximately 1 week of developer time. If they have any interest in developing RVM for their own use, this seems like a good investment. It also directly buys them a year of advertising with their name on the RVM website, which may well attract people who are currently looking for hosting solutions. Given these potential benefits, you need to explain what would be a better use of $1500 for them.

Furthermore, your comment also seems to be implying that DigitalOcean is showing a pattern of wasteful spending (the 'more' part of the "There goes more"). I hadn't heard of any indication of this, can you cite examples of this happening?

By adding these components to your comment, although I might disagree with your analysis, you've at least staked out a position, and provided information, thus contributing to useful conversation (or at least an informative read). Without them, unfortunately, your comment is mostly mean-spirited silliness. Of course spending money results in VC money being spent. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; It's the whole point! You need to explain why this isn't a good use of money.
Who needs a real-deal, old school product manager?
To create a rich 3D world, you need to model and texture a LOT of objects. Usually, this means hiring an army of 3D modelers and texture artists and having them do that all day for three years. Paying them needs a big budget.

To create a rich 2D world, you probably can get by with one or two talented artist/animators. Yes, they may be in a class of their own, but you don't need nearly so many. Paying them does not need a big budget.
Why Is Being Late To The "GitHub Party" Bad?
I recently read a "response article" related to a programmer's difficulty in marketing his product.

There was a line that disturbed me:
"If you think you will “buy your way to visibility through ads” then, in marketing terms, you’re like the programmer who just discovered Github ... in 2013."

What is so wrong with waiting on joining Github? What if I wanted to wait, or just didn't see the point of "socialized programming"?

Response Blog-Article In Question:
http://www.chrisle.me/2013/11/dear-clueless-about-marketing-programmer-yes-its-hard-but-not-impossible/
A study into dedicated bold and italic web fonts
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> Code folding in a IDE goes a long way to make this bearable.

Code folding in IDEs is an indication that we are doing it wrong -- that is, we human beings are programming computers "wrong."

I'm not saying that code folding is a symptom. I'm saying that code folding shows how primitive our means of managing code is. It's as if the mesopotamians somehow invented computers, and because of tradition, all code has to be written as cuneiform on wet clay tablets, then fired in ovens before being read. At least text files in directories are digital, but they are as static and behavior-less as clay tablets, and all of the important relationships therein are expressed as implicit correspondences which programmers have to keep track of in their heads.

Code Bubbles is a beacon in the direction we should go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k
Thanks for the interesting answer!

As for the engine - Cocos2d-x is already cross-platform, including the platforms you've listed, I believe, so I didn't quite understand where does Marmalade fit?
What's interesting to me about this story in light of current events is that Johnson Research and Development Co., seems in many ways like an NPE. He doesn't make products directly, he simply licenses the patents to other companies that do make the products, and sometimes sues them.

Obviously, he's not a patent troll, but what's the bright line between what he does and what a patent troll does? This is a critical question in the patent troll discussion, because it is absolutely the case that every Intellectual Ventures, Lodsys, and Rockstar thinks of themselves as being innovative inventors like Lonnie Johnson. They'll hold independent inventors like him up whenever legislation is proposed and say that it'll hurt good old-fashioned American invention, and maybe they'll even be right.

It's critical that there be a clear division there, or else reform will never go through, or worse, end up hurting actual inventors. How can that line be drawn?
I'm guessing New Relic's website was not built using your tool. Posting a screenshot of their website on your marketing site implies that your tool was used to build it. A bit misleading in my opinion.
Most of the history is irrelevant - we're talking a few centuries here. Also, overseas wars don't count.
interesting! what is it for?