skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was kind of unfortunate since just 2 weeks before the price drop I had paid about $350 for the Nexus 4.

Well that's life I guess.
It'd be good if your friends brought contributory conversation to HN rather than simply voting on your content when you ask them to.

Thanks for the non-video format though, I will look at it.
What Wolfram says is nonsense but what he produces is still good.

Wolfram Alpha was massively over-hyped and billed as a Google-killer. It is not remotely that, but it's still an incredibly useful and inimitable product.
Extremely unethical, the whole point of someone sending you a snapchat is that they don't want you to be able to save it (let alone save it on a third party server)
I actually think that the fact that NSA's spying isn't just used for anti-terrorism purposes but also for industrial espionage is news to some people - even on HN. And it's extremely relevant to decision makers who are considering Amazon WorkSpaces.
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Hot peppers can be deadly to people who are not used to spicy food. I bought a few raw habañeros a few weeks ago. I have cooked with jalapeño and serrano's but never habañero. Wow! Just a thin slice was hot beyond description. My wife is hyper-sensitive to spicy food. I was so certain these things were dangerous to her that I threw them away after using a couple to cook with. Here it is in numbers [0].

I can see the potential for fumes from the manufacture of hot sauces being irritating a lot of people. Sriracha isn't particularly hot. If you really want to try hot buy a bottle of Dave's Insanity. BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU DO. They ask that you use it one drop at a time. Believe me, that is good advice.

Those not into hot sauces don't believe that these sauces actually have taste. And sauces such as Dave's and Sriracha taste really good. There are many sauces that just burn. I don't know many hot sauce afficionado's who enjoy sauces devoid of taste.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
To speak to the first half of the post, I think the tweets by @betsythemuffin are the most interesting:

1. Whether free-time activities are called "work" or "play," the existence of free time to do them in is a privilege.

2. When a time-consuming activity is used as a job selection criterion, it becomes work.

I think an apt metaphor is college admissions, where Open Source contribution takes the place of spring break volunteer work in Cambodia (which requires you to be able to spend the thousand dollars for the flight) and lots of after-school clubs and sports (which require you to not work a job during high school to help support your family.) It's a veiled discrimination (and I don't mean discrimination in a loaded way -- I'm not saying people who look for OSS contributions in their employees are closet racists or sexists or anything like that.)

At the same time, I have to disagree with the second point; I think a more accurate sentence would be "when a time-consuming activity is required as a job selection criterion, it becomes work." I know plenty of people who happily leave work every night to hop onto a pet project or two and code the evening away; they're not doing it to get a leg up on the competition, they just like programming! I don't see why that shouldn't be a contributory factor in a decision whether or not to hire an employee.

I think the bigger issue is raised in the initial tweet in the post -- "Advice received on hiring software devs: reject anyone who doesn't have a @GitHub profile (the more active the better). Agree?" Open source experience shouldn't be a negative filter but a positive one.
Based on how different the generic alternatives taste, it must be more difficult than this.
Very interesting project, interested to see how you get on.
So by need you mean "want".

I said nothing about ideas. That is a straw man.

I am not presupposing the conclusion. I recognize that developer's rights are artificial. I also recognize that money is artificial as are all property rights.

The reason software as a non-rivalrous good should be considered property is because we value the creative output of individuals, and recognize that it takes individual time and investment to add value to the world through this art. In doing so, we are valuing and incentivizing creativity and ingenuity rather than clock hours of work.

Price competition can take care of making the fruits of this creativity widely available to those who want it.
I did the same thing. I freelanced under a company name, with most people not realizing it was just me.

There's no reason not you really, the benefits are so numerious in how people perceive you.

Honestly, I thought a lot of people did this. I'm shocked that this is a novel idea to many freelancers in the comments. Branding is everything as a freelancer.
Well if he isn't going further and advocating spending $300 a year to create a delaware LLC that elects to be taxed as a disregarded entity, he should be.
You don't need the oils to dissolve in water, only to condense out of the air into the water.
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Why Would Snapchat Turn Down a $3 Billion Cash Buyout?
It actually moved to Irwindale from Rosemead.
I feel like this article (and many like it) doesn't mention a key point:

Portfolios and verifiable career assets/achievements make you more valuable to potential employers. It de-risks hiring you. Even if you're just as skilled, capable, etc, if you can't offer anything to verify it, you're statistically riskier to hire.

Now all the points in the article drive home the point that the less privileged you are (due to gender/age/ethnicity/socioeconomics), you'll have a harder time building those career assets, due to time, limited job selection, lack of mentors, etc.

Requiring OSS contributions to interview doesn't mean you're getting better employees, it just reduces your risk of hiring a bad employee. It does mean you're filtering out skilled people w/o career assets. It's about reducing false positives, not avoiding false negatives.
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In general, presenting yourself as a professional is essential, but it’d be disadvantageous to act like a dev shop if you’re an individual.

In technology, there's a general distrust of "general contractor" style operations. No one wants to hire a developer for $200/hr, only to have him turn around and send the work to an off-shore developer for $20/hr. In fact, most freelance contracts have "no sub-contractor" clauses that explicitly disallow this.

Because of this mistrust, some clients don’t even consider working with out-sourcing firms and instead actively seek out individual contractors. They want professional contractors (you should have a LLC, a tax ID number, real legal contracts, etc.), but want that professionalism to come with a human face. Any individuals that are trying to compete with the dev shops are missing out a big market that’s a more natural fit.

We’re actually running a startup (http://getlambda.com/) that represents professional freelance developers and helps them find precisely these sorts of hiring companies. If anyone is looking for help starting or expanding a freelance business, we’d be happy to chat about what we’ve learned.
xanthan gum is likely for texture, so why remove it then go for the texture after that? You can buy xanthan gum. I know it's also used in gluten free baking.
Really? Thats your take away? That the word hacker has many meanings? Sure the word hacker has different meanings to different people. Thats not really up for debate. What's interesting to me how its slowly becoming acceptable to be a hacker and what might be driving that change.

For example the UK government saying they want to hire hackers to the point of saying that a criminal offense in hacking might should not be a barrier to getting hired; while on the other hand back in the US, in Idaho, just describing yourself as a hacker is enough to erode your protection against unreasonable searches (4th amendment rights.

Another contrast, in the UK, when you say "Hacker" almost without exception people understand you to be talking about someone who breaks into computers; while in California in the US a Hacker could just as easily be interpreted as a clever coder.

Etymology in real-time :)
My god, this is unreadable. Paragraphs exist for a reason.
Stats + football. What could be better.
I don't buy it. More regulation surely would change how software companies are valued, but I don't think lack of regulation is why they get valued so highly. Whether regulation here is good or bad I will not touch.

My first inclination for why things like Facebook and SnapChat are valued so highly is because investors operate under the delusion that reaching many eyeballs means profit. What they seem to not grasp is that there is a fundamental difference between things like print and TV ads and ads on Facebook. When Facebook was bought, I did a rough calculation that given their valuation and number of users they'd need to extract $50-60 on average from each user to justify the valuation. That's a huge number. Most I know people to date have given them exactly zero: they don't play the games, click on ads, etc.

Once the idea that having a huge number of inert users comes under test and we realize that it doesn't hold up, the valuations will plummet.
Posting about it on HN isn't going to do anything. Have you called your congressman? Your senator? Your president? If you can't answer yes to all 3, take 5 minutes to do that instead of posting another comment on HN.
I think that's a bigger problem for finding angels than finding VC. A little angel seed fund can give a startup enough traction to register with the VCs (and afford a trip or two to Silly Valley). But in Silly Valley itself, angels are easy to find and quick to commit.

Those of us out in flyover country have to deal with no local angels at all, or tire-kicking committees that want traditional 50 page five year business plans and take six months to make up their minds. And I'm sure the situation is far worse in places like India.
Offer a Contract-to-Recruit service?
No need, I'll just wait until they publish the Ecuadorian and Russian secrets that they're documented to be sitting on.
In fairness to the factory, every resident everywhere to ever live near anything they didn't like, from power lines to roller skating rinks, has developed burning eyes, irritated throats and headaches. It could be true, but half the time people don't even realize they have symptoms until a "spokesperson for the community" reaches out and informs them of the terrible conditions they're living in.
Can you provide more data on that?

I don't know anything special that hasn't been all over the news anyway.

Basically, the US government seems to be actively trying to compromise data held by US businesses on non-US citizens. That same US government has made it clear in public statements from the highest levels that they don't consider foreigners to have any privacy rights at all that should prevent this.

Given that this all happens in secret, any promise made by any business operating in the US that they will safeguard personal data of non-US citizens to the standards required by European law is now known to be worthless, even if it was made with complete sincerity.

This is now common knowledge, and anyone controlling personal data in Europe would have to take it into consideration when applying the general data protection principles. In other words, any legal cover afforded by the Safe Harbor scheme may not be worth anything any more. (In case your question was intended to be about the Safe Harbor programme itself: This was created so that US businesses can be used to process personal data from Europe, as long as the US business promises to uphold similar data protection standards to those required by law of European businesses.)

So the bottom line is that as a European business, if you don't have adequate disclosure when you collect any personal information that basically says it might be exported to somewhere without any safeguards on how it's used, and you don't get prior informed consent from everyone whose personal data you are dealing with, you might be on the hook legally for regulatory non-compliance as well as for any actual damages that result from any breach. Whether it's possible to give prior informed consent to a carte blanche handling of the data is itself debatable.

(Just to be clear, my comments in this thread are based on the perception of the current situation as I have encountered it anecdotally in a few cases. Some of the people I've spoken with may have taken legal advice, but what I've described here is not based on formal legal advice I or any of my own companies have received. Please consider these notes as food for thought only and for goodness' sake don't rely on them instead of taking proper advice if these kinds of issues might actually affect you.)
I would have asked why they need to put preservatives in a chili sauce. Most have none and yet can sit on a table for years.
Hmm. I have mixed feelings about this. I do agree with the sentiment but my experience has been different. I think it depends on your target audience. I've found when working with Start-Ups they prefer the personal touch and want to deal with me as an individual. I can email from my gmail account, conduct consultation over skype and even put smileys in my email.

I've found it very easy to attract and nurture leads.

When dealing with a conventional business however, everything changes. I need a corporate email address, a limited company name, VAT reg and everything has to be done in person. Even just getting a reply to my email is hard work.

Not to mention, even if I do get my foot in the door with an initial consultation, convering that into paid work is seriously hard work because i have to deal with things like being on an approved supplier list etc.

So yes, if your target audience is B2B (traditional) I'd agree, but if it's consumer or start-up - not so much.
So far I have seen no mention of Article QQ.G.10, on TPM.

"The US wants this separate cause of action to extend even to cases where there is no copyrighted works" [1]

Even the DMCA only protects copyrighted works. The provisions of QQ.G.10 for example would make it illegal in enough countries to distribute dvdcss that linux would not play my DVDs.

Once implemented, this will have a significant impact on linux users.

[1] http://keionline.org/node/1825
Default cases can be helpful. Unfortunately, with generated serdes (as in Thrift, Avro, or Protobufs), you may not have control over the decoding or ability to customize the default case. For some of the details WRT Thrift in particular, there's a related discussion underway on the user mailing list now:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/thrift-user/201311....
I actually think that Moto G offers bigger value for the avg consumer than S4 or HTC One while costing half as much. It doesn't have shitty software addons, it will have quicker updates, the design is better (and the color options is a nice bonus), it looks more comfortable to hold. (And for me, the not-huge size is big plus. I have relativeli large hands but I'm baffled by the appetite for 5" or even more massive phones.)

If I had to choose between G a S4 and both costed $200, I would immediately go for the G.
It can be legal – with information and consent. And it's done all the time. Of course, customers don't pay for using crappy and expensive European IT solutions. Dreaming of a European cloud is great but the leading providers are American.
My 2 cents: I recently needed to run some .NET code which (1) relies heavily on floating point math and (2) constantly creates and destroys lots of objects in the course of said number crunching. A typical run would take from several hours to more than a day.

Doing this on Linux with the latest Mono proved painful: it kept crashing at random points, with native errors suggesting the problem was in Mono's memory management. The same code never crashes on Windows/.NET, and it runs 3-4 times faster (same hardware booting off a Windows partition instead of Linux).

This is not what I would like to report, because I really like both Linux and .NET, and I would love for Mono to be competitive. Maybe today's news will contribute to that happening.
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> (and boy does this code look ugly)

At least to this dev, it's pretty clear what each line is doing and how -- certainly clearer than what you mean by ugly.

> your meta-programming doesn't have to always be only eval and .bind in various incarnations

I don't think this statement makes a whole lot of sense except to the degree all meta-programming could be argued to be eval and bind in various incarnations. Certainly there's literally other options available for JS.

> unsafe, inconvenient and slow

Someone holding up Ruby as an example while complaining about safety and speed in other languages is... interesting.

> the "with" usage on which this hack is based is actively discouraged by everyone using JavaScript as it basically mixes in the object into the current scope

"with" gets a bad rap, and its blanket discouragement/deprecation may be as big a mistake as its original design. It's true that using it takes some thought about the potential scope ambiguities, and it's true that it could have been better designed (personally, I think an optional de-ambiguating dot-operator would have been a nice lightweight way to go), but it's also pretty useful, and once you take the time to understand what the possibly ambiguous cases are and what the decided-on rules are, it's not hard to work with.

> In a sane language, you do .instance_eval, and you narrow the scope to whatever the object contains.

The right instance scoping construct might've been one of several nice ways to go too, but certainly not the only sane option.

> this doesn't make them great.

No, apparently just... useful. Useful enough to build something like this. Certainly not great, though.
More like a common assumption.
may be you are looking for sublime text 3 http://www.sublimetext.com/3

If that's not your issue, please state clearly what your issue is. Not many people here are clairvoyant.
He (twiceaday YC14) is following these comments closely. He's using his literacy to enable real-time text-concept-memory translations, with the ability to verbally communicate the contents later, or simply re-type them if the ideas are relevant to later comment threads.
"Advances in AI are made because of consumer driven services."

Not necessarily. IBM's Watson doesn't seem to have been aimed at consumer driven services. IBM's market is primarily large companies.

And while we may not have seen much RDF or OWL based stuff on the public web, that doesn't mean that it isn't being used in proprietary services, such as searching legal documents.
That's literally Apples and oranges.
Likely risk management. He was working with two other people, but the sudden change in that dynamic obviously didn't sit well with them. It's hard to realize it sometimes, but doing something on your own even if you do have customers can be pretty difficult and the probability of failure is pretty high.

What if something happens to you? Can you keep going? Is there anyone else available with intimate knowledge of the inner workings to keep things going with customers?

These aren't easy questions for a solo founder. It's certainly not impossible for one person to create and run a successful company, but the fact that you have no support and no one to bounce ideas off of obviously creates more risk. VCs don't just want to spend money, after all, they do expect you to succeed.

Edit: A few typos
I remember sriracha being a thing back in 99/00 we were eating boatloads of the stuff on ramen noodles. Of course I had friends who were waiters and bartenders, so that might have had something to do with it.
I'm not American. And awareness is first step.
While this makes sense logically...logic has a funny way of being built on false premises and anecdotal evidence.

You wrote,"Even if investors didn't start out with this bias, they'd soon learn it from experience."

Considering the core value proposition, and biggest driver of YC's success is it's introductions it promises... I feel a need to question this second part of your statement purely from a potential bias perspective.

It may be true, but can just as likely be built on a false assumption from anecdotal evidence.
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It smells pretty bad, but by the end of a day I just don't notice it anymore. Unless standing right near the manure pit.
how comes that governments are allowed to destroy international relations, just to keep "control of everything"? I can't find any reason that would give the government an advantage for doing so. Ok, one maybe, selling insider data to traders, companies and enemies. But we have no proof for that.
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A white blank code editor - A cry for help.
This is nice, finally a company large enough to push out a heavy adoption of thin clients.
> Because if it smells like the product, I'd love to live next door!

It would smell like that for a few hours, and then you wouldn't smell it anymore.

After that even if you ate it you wouldn't get the proper taste, so I'd think you'd stay as far away as possible.
Ruby vs Javascript is a poor example, that comes across as somewhat scented with sour grapes.

The requirements of the work to be done keep changing as technology grows. Ruby is dying because, right now, it makes more sense to do the work on the front end.
Is MOSAD more efficient than the NSA on spying?
NSA saves it anyway :). I mean once your unencrypted bits hit the wire/waves, all these statements about who can(not) read/see/save/etc.. are just fog.
> Is SnapChat's product really worthless?

To Facebook, yes. Facebook managed to throw together a Snapchat clone (Poke) in a couple of weeks. There is no IP, no technology worth acquiring, nothing that couldn't be done in house at very low cost.

What Facebook doesn't have is the brand. I suppose you could argue SnapcChat's product is the brand. That's what's valuable. Personally, I think it's a foolish play. As Facebook know well, there's no guarantee SnapChat users won't flock to another service in a few years (let me rephrase that: SnapChat users will flock to another service). And SnapChat currently has no business model to speak of in terms of per-user revenue.
I sat in the front row. I asked questions non-stop. I did all the homework. I did extra practice problems. I raised my hand to answer questions so much the instructor asked me to stop.

Oh no, you're THAT person.

https://twitter.com/MatureAge
It's hinted at in the video linked in the email[1]:

> Over the past year we've been looking at how a uniform, performant, synchronous programming model can be implemented across all of Google's core languages (C++, Java, Go, Python), while maintaining compatibility with existing code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
A rat scurrying by on camera just looks worse than what frequently goes on....

Currently in NorCal, there are rodents infected with both Bubonic Plague and Hemmoragic fever. And their <shit> is an effective vector that can get you killed. Even if they are nowhere in sight. So, its best to be somewhat educated and conscientious on the topic.
A friend of mine who is an industrial photographer got an assignment to photograph an anchovy processing plant. He said that you could smell the plant from over ten miles away. Part of his contract was to have all of his clothes and equipment replaced since there was no way to get the smell out.
Snapchat is cool and tomorrow it can be uncool. They have around 30 million users and valued $3 Billion is insane. Instagram was worth $1 Billion because of it's system and users but SnapChat doesn't deserves to be a Billion dollar company.

It a good investment for investors because they can always use exit strategy. SnapChat will eventually use advertising and then diversify to other products if it doesn't gets buy out.