skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur, doesn't feel right.

I think at the very least, have a message saying "This information was shared when you did X" so it's at least explicit.

Possibly just not at all; methinks the github crowd, unlike the facebook crowd, are sufficiently privacy sentient.
Neat - I would love to see/read about how that's determined (especially for repos with many or few forkers/contributors)
Obviously everyone has already covered the "money won't make you happy" angle. So I'm going to take a different route on this comment, just for the sake of it.

Right now you're rich. Your objective is to become super rich. Ok, fine. Make a plan to get there and execute it.

Luckily, you're in a perfect position to turn your million into a hundred million, as you've got a runway of at least 10 years, potentially more if you already have a reliable passive income stream and don't need to dip into your principal. This lets you try out multiple ideas with no immediate need to monetize them. Apply to YC / go to San Francisco, build a team of top engineers, and try to build the next Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. You've obviously got basic needs covered, so there's no reason not to go for the big win. Billionaires are usually made from the big acquisition / IPO, not the little guy chugging along (in tech at least).
Thanks, this is a useful complement to github's network graph. The ability to sort repos by last update would make it even nicer IMO.
Yeah, while I agree with a lot in the article, I also agree with your generalization. Most companies are still looking for the boring "CS degree + 2 years experience, HR doesn't know what github is".

But there are also a lot of "hot" companies, of the sort that are talked about a lot on HN, that are pushing github as the end all be all.

The real point isn't about what the average company is doing, it's about which attitudes are sensible.

(Bias: I got my first job as a developer based on a combination of a non-technical friend's contacts and my github repos looking acceptable. I was three years out of grad school in the humanities at the time).
Makes sense.

Many different factors need to be used as part of a full portfolio. Look at their resume, their github (if any), their formal education and self education, their work projects, and so forth.
s/professor/postdoc/g

(also, my first job out of grad school was in industry and had nothing to do with my Ph.D. work)
I think with some hacking you could offer a bot that did some of this, perhaps together with client-side plugins.
I thought it was strange that such an article made it to the frontpage. I guess I assumed a lot of people on Hacker News play dance games...
Do you have the code for it? I didn't see the code on your blog? I would be interested to see how it worked.
The best way to reduce human fertility (without child abandonment and forced abortions and other human rights horrors) is to educate the population and make them wealthy... at least to somewhat middle class standards. Then fertility drops to replacement level or near it, sometimes even below. This has been validated countless times in many cultures and seems to be a general pattern in human behavior.

China is slowly doing this, and will do so better if it can get its political corruption issues under control.

China's pollution is definitely a problem, but that stems mostly from corruption, lack of concern, and heavy industry that is largely done in service to customers not in China. The one child policy would not impact this much.
In that case they should use the unicode-character or HTML entity designated for empty sets[1], and not the letter Ø.

Believe it or not, even in the Nordic part of the world we do have empty sets, and we are able to distinguish them from Øs just fine :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98#Encoding

Anyway. If that's the underlying logic... How does communicating "empty set MQ" to your visitors work when you want to market the product with the name "zero MQ"? What do I search for when I remember "empty set MQ"?

To me this just doesn't add up. It looks like an attempt at doing "something cool" gone a bit off target.

Edit: The replies to my original comment here also seems to back up the point that this is not very clear or universal communication.
Yann LeCun about Vicarious. "AI hype of the worst kind"
Forced abortions generally happen in the countryside enforced by local village officials who follow goals but with little oversight or direction by the central government. I can guarantee that this doesn't happen in cities, and most educated Chinese are as outraged as we are. The central government really isn't that strong, and lots of crazy stuff happens outside of the big cities driven by misguided ideology. Dictatorship is the wrong word.

Its not clear if the central government has the ability to eliminate reeducation camps, but letting up on the one child policy will primarily affect the cities as farmers are already aloud to have two.
> Yes, all the complaints about how you can't tell a story with your github profile seems to completely ignore gh-pages

Yeah... that's not what they mean, and you know it.
For the moment it is as simple as using the stars from GitHub. I just wanted to do a quick prototype to see if people want more or not. And now, I'll try to enhance the rate algorithm.
I think we can just kiss goodbye the hope that the world's population growth will be curbed anytime soon...
> In interviews where I've been the interviewer, we've used it as a filter to determine if a candidate cares enough to code on their own, if they contribute to open source projects, what their coding style is like, what languages they gravitate to writing in, and just as a general personality guideline.

This is covered by the OP, but if you are using Github as a part of your hiring decision, you are going to be putting at a disadvantage many different kinds of people who do not or cannot contribute to open source or personal projects. The OP argues that Github is not necessarily a useful indicator of the things you mentioned and if Github becomes a very influencing factor for many companies hiring decisions, then it becomes de facto required and means you must work more as a programmer than you already do. This extra work is more able to be done with those that have free time and more personal resources (e.g. income), so some types of people are probably being excluded from your hiring process, leading to more a of a developer monoculture.
Yes it is an asked thing and will be done this week end:)
Any reasonable estimates of (investment, maintenance) costs per joule of capacity?
10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First
What is a better proxy for military power: manpower or manufacturing capacity? I'd argue that war has become as high-tech and automated as everything else, and you no longer need a large standing army to dominate.
This is just a large physical battery. The only way to win is if storing the energy in a weight system is more efficient or has more capacity than storing it in a chemical battery. It's certainly not as scalable as a chemical battery and requires a lot of infrastructure to pull off.
>but nobody is willing to pay $6 billion for Hyperloop (which was Musk's estimate, although many people took issue with it).

Hyperloop is not a product that needs only $6 billion to get to market. It needs $6 billion to test the feasibility, and God knows how much more to commercialize it over years or decades. Worse, there is no guarantee that anything will come out of it, that you won't get ripped off (once you prove the concept, why wouldn't GE, Lockheed or any some State corporation simply build it themselves), or that it is any better than high-speed trains or airplanes.

Snapchat is one in-app ad from generating revenue to cover operations and probably 3-5 years from a $5-$15 billion IPO valuation.

I'd respect anybody who puts up the money to fund this moon-shot project, but the risk profile between Hyperloop and Snapchat is like night and day.
The Cone of Silence lives.
> The hating on Coin is unbelievable. It seems like a great first step towards backwards-compatible card consolidation.

It's a great first step towards consolidating the worst and most insecure aspects of credit cards.

It's not going to work with modern cards, because it can't copy chips. And if you have an old mag-strip card, you should really get a new one, rather than consolidating the old one.
You can find a washer and drier pretty much everywhere. Most hostels have facilities for washing clothes, and hotels usually provide this as a service. And then there are laundromats of course.

The only problem is what to wear while washing stuff, and of course the fact that you need to handle this quite often if you only travel with one set. This is why I always travel with one or two changes in my backpack.
Equity/profit sharing could easily be a 6th point in the article. In Europe, that's a lot less common than it is in the States though but you make a very valid point anyway.

On the other hand, isn't a CEO mostly driven by cash/profits only? For me personally, I would trade in cash for more flexibility and freedom at any time.
You would have to factor the efficiency motors that raise the weights, and the generator that lowers them to get a more accurate estimate.
NDAs
The last time infrastructure investment's been sexy was the 1800s. That was the last time you could build large scale transportation projects with private money, and that was only because there was a huge frontier to conquer. Now everything is owned by someone whose got powerful friends, rather than natives you can just shove out of the way. It took the political might of a wartime hero president to build the Interstate system.

It's utterly silly to look at the Valley's reluctance to fund the Hyperloop as some kind of failure of the sheeple. The authors should crack open a history book sometime and learn how hard stuff like this is.
...and you generally meet a lot more people. Traveling alone is awesome
Realistic Google+ Simulator
> Asking if the Chinese still perform full-term abortions a very loaded question.

Questions that go to revealing systematic infanticide are by their nature loaded.

> I believe the different regional bureaucracies and officials implement the rule differently.

You're telling me that a country that uses the death penalty for people shipping contaminated milk can't keep regional bureaucrats from murdering newborns?
I haven't heard that the Great Firewall is gone. Seems you forgot about how the Arab Spring threw China into cringe mode, and arrested people like Ai Weiwei.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2011...
It also has a lot to do with their terms. All content must be 100% original.
I am definitely one of those people who dont "get" snapchat.
But as far as I can tell, running a social messaging service is not a long term business with the way the internet iterates currently.

Wouldnt it make more sense to take the 3 bils and start the business with more meaning and a longer term outlook?
> I understand this is a fact, but how this can be used against Github as a resumé or against OSS on your free time, I have a hard time seeing that. It comes off as incredibly stupid.

The OP is arguing that if a company values or gives extra weight to candidates with OSS and/or Github contributions, they are by definition skewing their candidate selections towards white men. The main criticism is that the desire for easier metrics to make higher decisions has built in bias problems that will exclude whole groups of people.
Are you familiar with Ian Banks and his Culture books? This is basically what happens - people created "minds", computers which run their societies,but every person is provided with an infinite supply of anything they desire(it's fabricated on demand) and everything(and I mean everything) is allowed, with the exception of killing other people.
Is It Worth having an Email Optin Form at the End of the Page?
Tweeted about password sent in email - Adyen claims it damaged their reputation
While I think the idea in general is very good, it does not guarantee "continued operation" at all.

Firstly, the user has to invest a massive effort to get the whole infrastructure running and host the service themselves. This is a major hurdle for a non-technical user, and even for a technical user it may actually be quicker to migrate to another SaaS than to set everything up...

Secondly, your license does not guarantee that the users will also be able to export and re-import their data. You should a) add that to your paragraph and b) have that code ready. A simple DB backup would contain the data of ALL users... and, in case you have to shut down, you may not find the time to write export/import functionality.

Anyway, good luck with your SaaS! Let's hope you won't need the clause ;)
I decided to humor you b/c such antisocial behavior is unusual on HN and I thought maybe you had a constructive argument (one that could possibly persuade someone) lurking behind the trolling.

Give HN a chance and please desist from deliberately polluting it.
I'd be curious to see the immediate/longterm ROI for something like this. It seems like there would be an incredible amount of resources spent on initially building a powerhouse like the one in the picture.
At larger scales, these are called pumped-storage hydroelectric plants. There are currently more than 100 GW of pumped-storage capacity in the world, with efficiency ranging from 70% to 87% [1]. They are, in fact, some of the largest batteries we've ever built.

They store electricity by pumping thousands of tons of water uphill when demand is low, and letting it fall back down past a bunch of turbines when demand is high. Water is much easier to handle than a solid block of steel, and it's much more scalable as well. You just need a hill and some water, possibly an already existing reservoir. Pumps can be turned on and off almost instantly to meet fluctuating demand. There's one about 10 minutes' drive from where I live. It's marvelous, and the two artificial lakes (one at the top, one at the bottom) also make nice parks for the public to enjoy.

Since pumped-storage plants seem to work so well, I wonder if there will be any need to install smaller versions in each home. It's probably going to be difficult to match the efficiency of much larger units. Maybe these will be more useful as backup batteries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Original 0MQ author here. Pretty good analysis. The only real difference between 0MQ and sockets (i.e.traditional L4 transports such as TCP or UDP) is that it implements messaging patterns such as pub/sub or req/rep. You can think of it as a L5 layer designed to orchestrate communication between N endpoints (as opposed to 2 endpoints as is the case with TCP).
I take it that the secret key is visible in the requests within Charles?
what's your game?
> That is, GitHub picks your most popular repos and puts those at the top. You have no say about what you consider important, or worthwhile, or interesting, or well-engineered, or valuable

Well said. This is also valid for stackoverflow, where your "top" questions are often silly ones that everyone can understand, while the ones you consider valuable are buried in anonymity.
Some sort of showcase feature would be nice, in both cases.
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There are large collections of drawbacks; books have been written about it. The two I can remember the name of are “Against Intellectual Monopoly” (http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht...) and “The Case for Copyright Reform” (http://www.copyrightreform.eu/).

I would rather not argue specifics, but instead get you and people in general to understand what the argument is, and to get people to honestly investigate whether the cost is worth the drawbacks.

I called your reply “theoretical” because it talked about principles, not about what society would gain or lose with any available options, without which no cost-benefit analysis can be made. Are you wedded to the idea that the principle should outweigh all downsides in this case? How much would you be willing for this principle to cost society?
I'm really sick of hearing about this idea. At least this one doesn't make the same mistake of suggesting it should be human powered, but the energy density of gravity is ridiculously low compared to practically any other technology we have. It works for hydroelectric plants because they have HUGE reservoirs to supply them.

Assume one of these gravity batteries uses a 100m deep shaft with a counterweight the mass of a Cadillac Escalade. The energy stored is 100m * 2700kg * 9.8m/s^2 = 2.6 MJ.

The first deep-cycle battery I found through google (retail price $260) is 90Ah * 12V * (assume 80% discharge cycle) = 3.1 MJ. It just doesn't add up!
Undemocratic ≠ socialist. This should be a fairly obvious statement, in the Year of Snowden.
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Trademark note it seems.

Define "top" IBM.
Official JEDEC specs only go up to 1066. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM#JEDEC_standard_modu... Other speeds are possible, but compatibility is very limited.
Any resumé screening and interviewing process boils down to only 3 essential questions:

- How well can you do this work?
- Will you blend in (can you endure our work environment)?
- Is it easy to work with you (you are not a dick, are you)?

So get over it, everything you do online IS more real than your resumé. Why? Because we are an online company and your online reputation is more important than a single document traditionally written in a corporate mumbo-jumbo style where the author tend to exaggerate his accomplishments.

When I ask for your github profile, I'm not asking for free work - FOSS is not about free work. I want to see your pull requests. Why? Because from time to time we do pull requests, and do it not because we are good Samaritans but out of sheer greed.

We use an open source technology stack. We push it's boundaries, we find bugs, we fix bugs. We find components lacking, we implement the desired feature and contribute back. We port code from other languages or create it from scratch and open source because it is cheaper than maintaining a closed source library. Is it free work? No, it is cooperation, and it makes sense economically.

Do you have a patch accepted in a high profile FOSS project? This means:

- You are doing serious work based on FOSS stacks
- You have some communication skills
- You have coding skills, can write tests and documentation
- You can fix bugs and implement new features

I want to see the issues you open: are they well documented, with reproducible test cases?

I want to see your stack overflow profile: do you write good questions and good answers? Because a good question is 90% of a good answer, and good answers is what our customers demand.

Do you write really odd blog posts or troll around in online forums? Sorry, I guess you will not fit our work environment.
Which is comparable to 10 kg of lithium-ion batteries - not terrible efficient.
That's why I used a kilometer. There's little need for an accurate estimate, capacity for such a system is very expensive, either in dealing with huge masses or huge distances.

By way of comparison, a thousand dollars of lead acid batteries would have more capacity (and despite the issues with lead, such batteries are quite recyclable...).
As we've all read here, past a certain level of security more money doesn't make you happier. You have more than enough money and savings for what passes as security in the US. My guess is that you're sad or depressed about one thing, but looking at the rich issue instead of whatever it is that's troubling you.

Fundamentally, as you can see from other comments, you don't seem to have an obvious reason for depression just from what you wrote, in fact you look like you have a pretty good situation. Yet you feel like you do, so there's likely something else going on.

You should make contact with a counselor or similar, and do some exploration as to what might be bothering you. Many times we don't know what's bothering us, we just feel bad. The result of counseling could be identification of some issue and how to address it, and additionally some idea of things you can do to make yourself feel good, independent of any issues.

Mental health is not just fixing what's broke. Promoting what's good is just as important.

You sound mentally unhealthy. You wouldn't hesitate to set a broken arm and put it in a cast. Go talk to a professional or two, and get yourself healthy.

EDIT: This should have been a reply to the OP. Weird that I put it here. Recalibrating brain ...
That wasn't the intention at all, it was more to save you having to type those details in again. Sorry if you felt wronged by it.

We're developers ourselves and value our privacy too/
The problem is the poor density: power stored is just mass * gravity * height. So if we want to store 1kWh, using a hole 500m deep (about the max for elevator cables, which seems analogous) this would need a 750kg weight.

Storing the same amount of energy in a lead-acid battery would only take 21kg, a LiFePO battery only ~10kg. And those don't require digging out a 500m hole, or the supporting equipment to winch a car up and down a skyscraper.
I tweeted about password being sent in clear text from Adyen (a payment service provider). They called me up and told me I could not be a customer since I had damaged their reputation.
The "it doesn't happen in cities" dog won't hunt. That's the excuse people give when women are stoned in Pakistan and Afghanistan for adultry, but western newspapers rightly refuse to buy into it. With China they buy it hook line and sinker.

While the Chinese government may not have the ability to micro-manage rural areas, they certainly have much more authority to implement top-down measures than the essentially non-existent governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Certainly, the Chinese central government seems to do fine when it comes to implementing economic policies. Heck, rural counties in the U.S. often flail around attempting to implement federal policies, but somehow they manage to avoid killing newborns in the process.

Also, I'm not sure your premise is even true. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng ("In 2005, Chen gained international recognition for organising a landmark class-action lawsuit against authorities in Linyi, Shandong province, for the excessive enforcement of the one-child policy. As a result of this lawsuit, Chen was placed under house arrest from September 2005 to March 2006, with a formal arrest in June 2006. During his trial, Chen's attorneys were forbidden access to the court, leaving him without a proper defender."). Shangdong is one of the most populous provinces in China, with almost 100m people.
What breaks my heart when someone claims that JavaScript was inspired by Self, is how Self was all about the wonders of multiple inheritance and dynamically mutable parent slots. JavaScript totally missed the boat on that one, with only one prototype slot, and the only time you can set it is when you create the object with "new".
Indeed, I was about to point this out. I visited the Drankensberg one[1] in South Africa a few years back. It's amazing how big the complex was for such a simple concept (if memory serves me correctly the turbines were 50 or so stories underground).

I'm very interested to see if graphene supercapacitors may eventually have a role to play here. Using gravity seems a bit "primitive".

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakensberg_Pumped_Storage_Sche...