skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) It's a "date" and on every picture they're like 4 meters apart from each others. Hmmkey.

2) Looks too much like an okcupid & instagram linkbait than real stuff.
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> "Of the two of us, I am clearly the better fit for HN."

Thanks for the laugh, nailed it.
Pretty good explanation. I really appreciate such presentation "by analogy", carefully comparing a technology with something very well known. It provides another angle from which understanding is improved.
I want to pay money for this. A chat service with built-in GitHub integration including issue and file referencing sounds like a fantastic tool for teams building using GitHub.

Any chance you can use an actual Kickstarter instead so I can throw money at you? :)
zmq is not simple a messaging framework. its more like a concurrency library. and there are a lot of reliability and high availability patterns for zmq: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Chapter-Reliable-Request-R...
As for the white, male bias...not sure what to tell you. It's real. The statistics don't lie. I'm glad that you have had success as a non-white member of the LGBT community, but as the saying goes: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

The thing is, something can be both a filter against 'underrepresented groups' AND a valid criterion for hiring.

Requiring a CS degree probably biases in favor of white and asian males and against black females. It is also a very valid filter for hiring programmers (pace the self-taught).

Not much can be done about this fact except for increasing the pipeline of underrepresented groups into CS degrees, recreational programming, OSS participation, and so forth.
Porn is a common name in Thailand.
From the screenshot with localhost on location bar I thought it would be self hosted.

EDIT: The screenshot was updated. ;D
I like 0MQ a lot, but this is disingenuous. Let's break it down:

> portability

Sockets are just as portable, more so on UNIX descendants where one can rely on relatively consistent socket APIs. Beyond that, almost every single language and runtime (Python, Ruby, Java, OCaml ...) provides a portable socket API.

> message framing

Length-prefixed message framing winds up being 10-100 lines of code in almost any language/environment.

> super fast asynchronous I/O

Sockets have this.

> queuing

Sockets have buffers. The OS can use those buffers to implement flow control. This isn't the same as queueing, but the truth is that you rarely want blind background queueing of an indefinite number of messages that may or may not be delivered.

> support for every bloody language anyone cares about

Just like sockets.

> huge community

I don't think you can get 'huger' than the community around sockets.

> price tag of zero

Seeing as socket libraries ship with everything, does that mean they have a time/resource cost of less than zero?

> mind-blowing performance

Also, sockets.

> protection from memory overflows

This has essentially nothing to do with a networking library. Plenty of environments have safe/efficient zero-copy chained byte buffer implementations/libraries.

> loads of internal consistency checks

Library correctness isn't a unique feature.

> patterns like pub/sub and request/reply, batching

Ah-ha! Here finally we get to the meat of it!

If you need QUEUES, including pub-sub, fanout, or any other QUEUE-based messaging structure, than 0MQ is better than sockets!

> and seamless support for inter-thread transport as well as TCP and multicast

Inter-thread transport of already-serialized messages at the transport protocol layer doesn't make a ton of sense from an efficiency perspective.

> ZEROMQ IS JUST SOCKETS

No, 0MQ is a lightweight network message queue protocol. It's not competing with sockets.
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Well then I guess "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is a republic with democratically elected officials.

There isn't a single communist country, and I don't think there has ever been any. You could argue that Russia was on a path to communism in 1917, but Lenin promptly put an end to it.

At most, China used to be (but isn't any more) a socialist country.
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This is something we will have in the future, a "on-premise/enterprise" solution. Though it will cost a bit more than $9 a month :)
Everything depends on configuration. Redis can be very durable/reliable if configured accordingly.
Medical world is troubled with legislation issues not innovation issues.

The robotics world is getting there but it's hardware so it takes longer and is more risky and with less room for pivots.
thanks for the feedback, i will fix that, or you could help if you could ?
If you want to comment about how bad the MS free commercial license is, you should not bundle it with your desire to redistribute other peoples software and then sue your users if they dare to do the same by copy, modify or redistribute your version.

It takes away from your main arguments and distracts.
I may be nitpicking irellevant details, but I just can't help it.

Why are they using the Norwegian/Nordic letter Ø (pronounced almost like "uh" in English) in their name, a letter most people in the world can't type, if they want to get traction?
A story from my wife's first marriage, specifically from when she went back with her Harvard PhD husband to his homeland of Turkey:

Harvard diplomas are of course signed by the university president, who for many years was Derek Curtis Bok. "Bok", in Turkish, means "shit". Turkish bureaucracy evidently requires (or used to require) showing your diploma more often than one might think.

Hilarity ensued.
As someone who loves the idea of wandering, but is always apprehensive of truly letting go, I enjoyed the concept of this article. The writing left something to be desired because the author missed the point that we the readers were looking for: did she fall in love with this stranger she met on okcupid? Did traveling without agenda with someone you barely know bring them closer together or further apart? Where is the HUMAN aspect to the story.

More related to the topic: Are there flex-passes still sold for flights, trains, etc (like eurail passes)? Or do security issues prevent basically open ended stand-by flying?
It is worth looking at Sustrik next project: http://nanomsg.org/ which is still in alpha version. ZMQ rewritten. He's got awesome blog http://250bpm.com/blog where he mentions lot of things that he decided to do differently in nanomsg and the reasons behind it. Check out: http://250bpm.com/blog:23 (I hate ZMQ contexts) and http://250bpm.com/blog:22 (how we are doomed to rewrite protocols on top of existing protocols and solving same problems again). His other blog posts are also of a great quality.
Speculate on house prices just because there's a vegan restaurant round the corner? No thanks.

I don't approve of that logic. There's a potential vegan kitchen in every home, it's not a luxury, it's not a commodity, it's just is.

* edited to sound more polite, i think.
I'd love to know any news sources with a UK focus, or at least a good UK section, that aren't towing the government line on leaks from Snowden. The Guardian is the only one I've found so far.
As a co-founder of an 'Instagram' business, I completely agree with everything in this article. In fact, it's one of the best things I've read in a long, long time. There is absolutely a crisis in innovation.

Unfortunately, this is the way the ecosystem is at the minute and we can only hope that when the bubble bursts the people that have made exits from these types of startups can invest or found & fund real innovation themselves.
You have 60k passive income, which is more than most people on this site have for passive, and is more than most people's salaries in US. My point is you are very well off financially.

Sounds like you want the luxury of going into a store and buying whatever you want - that might not happen. The reason it's bothering you is psychological, not financial. Would you rather be Steve Jobs? rich ... but he can't buy anything now.

You sound young, based on 4 years in college and 8 years working, so as an introvert keep that in mind, and realize that your mind is playing tricks on you, and making things seem bad even though you are doing great or at least good. It's hard to self-inspect, but as an introvert you should be able to question your thoughts. Question them in a quite room, because you may just start to laugh.

My suggestion - don't waste your 30's, 40's and 50's chasing big score. Prioritize - get family, that's a lot harder later in life (I would assume chasing a toddler at 45 is different than at 30, and maybe biological impossible at 50). You can keep doing things on the side, so look for a supportive spouse.
I'm a little confused about a couple of the statements made in the article:

1. “If Kaiser Permanente releases a drug that cures all cancers, is the stock price guaranteed to go up? No, of course not. The stock price goes up or down based on supply and demand. It only responds to human action. And, therefore, the price of a stock is solely determined by how people think about the price of a stock." - Am I wrong in thinking that the price of the stock is correlated with the value of the company which is much less influenced by what stockholders think and much more based on what people think of the value of the product/service? Whoever invents the cure for cancer is going to see a huge increase in their stock price because people are going to buy their drugs, increasing revenue, profits, ROE, dividends, growth. etc. What is the author trying to say?

2. "Right now, the only sane choice is to aim for an acquisition. But mergers and acquisitions are on average $100 million a piece. There’s no way to have a company as large as Hyperloop acquired because it’s a multi billion-dollar company. You just can’t do it." What about motorola (12.5bn) youtube (1.5bn) and instagram (1bn) just to name a few? Just because a company is valued over $1bn doesn't mean there's no more room for growth and a subsequent exit?

Shotgun Investing vs. Value Investing - Doesn't the government sometimes fill the role of value investor? Especially in cases of infrastructure like the hyperloop?

Any clarification would be appreciated.
Github can be gender/race/age/orientation agnostic. It's just a portfolio of Code.
Some people, who don't do that, but instead tweet, podcast, conferences dislike it.
Yes, women spend a lot on cell phones. So,
that means that they are interested in
technology? Not really! Here's why:

Read D. Tannen, You Just Don't Understand:
Men and Women in Conversation -- she's long
been a prof at Georgetown. There learn that
girls and young women want to get security
from memberships in groups of other girls,
and one of the main ways a girl/young woman
can do that is to bring to the group some
juicy gossip. So, they gossip. Yes,
they do gossip. And drawing from the
movie Jurassic Park, yes, "They do form
herds.".

For technology, that's things. In
simple terms, in year 1, month 1, nearly
week 1, in their crib, the girls are trying
to get emotional connections with adults
via facial expressions, and the boys are
trying to hack the latch on the crib
and write C++
code to automate the toy fire truck on the
floor.

The girls are interested in emotional
connections with people, and the boys are
interested in things. The boys are seeking
mastery over the physical world, and the
girls are seeking care taking via emotional
connections with men who have mastery over the
physical world.

The girls are interested in fashion and
cosmetics
both to
attract men and also to fit into the groups
of other girls they want to be part of.

Can women do technology? I don't have much
insight into what the real limits are, but
I've seen a wide range from (1) having a
super tough time with 8-9th grade algebra
to (2) work with programming languages,
starting with no real background at all,
totally blowing away some of the brightest
people
in computing.
But, I've nearly never seen a girl or
woman who actually likes something
technical.

Again, basically the women's magazines
are correct: What girls and women
really like is belonging to groups of
girls/women and making emotional connections
with other people. And that's what
girls/women use technology, radio,
TV, magazines, cell phones, social media,
for -- to belong to groups of girls/women
and to make emotional connections with
other people. For the technology itself,
the girls/women don't care, don't care
any more than they care that it was
a Diesel powered 18 wheel truck that
delivered their women's magazine,
cosmetics, cell phone, laptop,
skim milk, etc.

Just because the women's magazines
dish out material based on stereotypes does
not mean that the stereotypes are wrong.
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For those without a CS degree, Github is a life saver. But that doesn't sell Ashe's book.
You're either trolling or you have a mental health problem (depression perhaps?).
I would advise the author not to worry about this.

I recently went through a job change, and to enhance my chances, I spruced up my Github profile, and put a link to it at the top of my resume. It's not the most active profile, but all the work there are wholly self-initiated projects, all of which tackle some interesting, often original problem. One of the projects randomly ended up with a few stars without me posting that link anywhere. Having code out there would give me a little leg-up over the intense competition, right?

Of the dozen or so tech phone screens, not one asked about it. Only one asked me to talk about a personal project, and it was abundantly clear he had not looked at the Github link.

At least he asked. One phone screen was with a recruiter at a famous open source company, and even she had not looked at it. To be fair, it was a recruiter call and not a technical one, but I thought she'd at least acknowledged it.

Most of the phone screens turned into onsite interviews, and again, nobody even mentioned Github. Well, it did come up in one interview, where the interviewer was doing a deep dive into IP networking details, and I told him in an offhand manner that, y'know, I had code out there that did exactly what he was asking...

The companies I interviewed with ranged from a couple of startups to a bunch of US technology giants in a variety of fields, and many of them get discussed on here regularly.

My advice is, don't put too much stock in your Github profile to help your job prospects. For whatever reasons, maybe the same as TFA's, practically nobody cares. Instead, invest in practicing the same old Google/Amazon/Facebook whiteboard-a-problem style that everybody and their grandmother uses, even if the work involved is nowhere near the kind of work (some people at) Google/Amazon/Facebook do.
I assume it means "zero with a line through it" which was used on older computers to distinguish zeroes from the letter O on low res screens.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say (just to see what happens to this industry): On all these "job posting" sites, [Your Website] should be a Required Field for Web Developers. Period.

Show me that you take the time to register a domain, configure a host, log in to that Linux box, and build the Web.

A more pertinant question is: Why would you hire a Web Developer who has no place on the Web? It has to be Your Domain, Your Place on the Web. You. What genuine rebuttal is there against this? (There has to be a pretty Good Reason to hire a Web Developer who does not have a Website.)

Forget the "online portfolio" debate; build the Web and actually be about that.
>What happens in an acquisition where the parent company is interested in some parts of the technology you built?

One solution would be to not sell the company for the technology only. And the clause mentioned in the blog post is only valid if there is no intent of further operation. An acquisition would be considered as intent.

The purpose is to make our customers that depend on us to feel comfortable knowing that the service would still be available for them in another form whatever happens to UserApp.
This is probably the first time I've actually Godwinned a discussion, but still: Hitler is not primarily "known" for having been a vegetarian. He did some other more notable things, too.
A lot of comments here are saying things like "I wouldn't be able to persuade my team/non-technical colleagues to use this instead of HipChat". Surely one the most exciting uses for Gitter is discussion on open-source repos, where you aren't already communicating with repo collaborators?
been looking into this recently. it seems like a lot of the bindings haven't been maintained in 2+ years, but the pure java implementation JeroMQ is very active and convenient to use (https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq)

the name reminds me of jero, the american-born enka singer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9rKhVAz80)

i'm not entirely sure if i personally could come up with a good usage for zmq though, unless i were going through tons of data from sources like social media or scientific experimentation
Probably unicode support reasons, they're obviously going for a slashed zero to look old school and/or avoid being called OhMQ but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero#Representation_in_...
and preferably a reference implementation of how it would be done "properly"

Any implementation could be torn to shreds.

Because that's how the evolutionary, competitive nature of technology works. Nothing is "right" or "wrong", to use the scarequotes so in fashion, but is from a perspective and position. If things needed disclaimers around here -- as if we're all idiots, or worse jaded cynics -- then I think it would be a bad day for HN.
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To put that in perspective: I just backpacked a year abroad on a 14 country tour through Africa, India and Southeast Asia with my (now) fiancee. On our first day in Rwanda a guy gave us the entire 2007 Lonely Planet series (like 90 countries) in PDF format that we put on our Kindle. They were 5 years old and using a Kindle for large PDFs is an awful experience, but it saved us about 100 pounds of weight.
That's because average digital cameras suck at taking quick photos this way.

The best ones i made were all made by an old film point and shoot. Digital is still inferior in some regards.
Or empty set as noted by Bourbaki. I can't help but read it that way anyway.
If you have a passive income enough for survival (which you do), but you have feelings of desparation about a need to re-invest more + thoughts of spending cause panic then this is a sign that your worrying is hurting you, badly.

Try investing part of that money not in savings, but in psychotherapy; improving on all that anxiety will make you much happier and you'll have an easier time making decisions about your financial goals after that.
I do very much appreciate the intention, but I feel like this should be mentioned:

While it may be realistic for UserApp, it doesn't take much to make it difficult, complex or even impossible.
There have been similar discussions on HN at least a couple of times. The first that comes to mind is the release of the DOOM3 engine source code by id Tech / Carmack[1]

On a personal level I can see the excuse of saying "screw license, we'll just email the source to our customers and what they choose to do is up to them", but there may be unlicened changes in dependencies.

While some ideas fail, some of those are carried on to new ideas, and you may have written code as part of the failed startup, which would be a significant IP to you, and might be an integrated part of your next idea's success.

Yes, the latter comment is not very "open source" minded, but given how many projects start out as proprietary (or at least partially), it is a scenario one should keep in mind.

So overall, the intention is good, and can work for some projects, but you never know what the future brings (which, ironically, is why you draft pledges like this.

Thanks for your willingness to take responsibility and I hope you'll go the distance.

[1] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/13661445988720230...
I used to cheat at SongPop using the multi-finger multitasking on the iPad (pausing the game a fraction of a second after a song started playing, having plenty of time to guess the song properly). I could beat anyone using this technique, but it required manual work.

I expected a similar "hack" with Candy Crush, and was surprised by how "high-tech" their solution is. Good stuff.
London to get its own gTLD in 2014
The first Sailfish OS smartphone will be released in 12 days from now
As long as it's not Pound coins. Those things are heavy!

Thanks for the feedback. Our Clickstarter (tm?) is doing quite nicely. I don't think we'll need to Kickstarter it, we've actually built a lot of the tech anyway and could put this together pretty quickly and start charging too.
Hello, Would you mind sharing about front end libraries (js, css) you've used. The interface is beautiful and efficient. I'd love to hear a bit more about it.
Another effect of "single child policy" is significant prevalence of number of men over women. And it's known for making society significantly more aggressive.
Yes, we'd like to release it someday, but it won't be any time soon unfortunately. There are a lot of dependencies on other parts of our codebase, e.g. for configuration and monitoring, which would need to be cleaned up.

We will probably at least publish a report describing the work in more detail, some time in the next few months, on our blog (http://blog.scalyr.com).
Can be SSL or not to the origin. Plus there's the Railgun option that also uses TLS.
It looks like a great project. I had been dabbling in yoga for fourteen years, and it has done great things in my life. The 30 day yoga challenge is what made yoga a habit for me. Now every day, without fail, I do some yoga and try to live it throughout the day. I can’t wait until this project launches.
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You either missed the point, or do not think it's a problem.

> determine if a candidate cares enough to code on their own

Which he is arguing that you are not a bad developer for doing other things outside of work. The vast majority of people need to not code to regenerate.

I can use myself as anecdotal evidence: I'm the goto guy when it's particular difficult to solve a bug, when it's a new framework, or when the teams are unsure how to solve a problem. I love coding, I constantly get compliments for my code and solutions. I do rarely code outside of my work. I used to before I got a "real" job after my degree, but now I (almost) only code at work. I usually think about solutions and architectures outside of work though, and I write a lot of pseudo code on paper if I get an idea for an algorithm - but I do not make binaries or contribute to OOS or a public Github repository. I have a spouse, children, friends, and hobbies that simply doesn't get as much of my time as they deserve.

I would never pass the bar at a startup that's looking for the typical startup stereotype developer. I'm 100% certain that I make more business sense to hire than all of your average workoholic startup developer, but I would never be considered. I have seen so many developers with great personality and glowing Github repo fail so miserably because they have poor work ethics and are unable to do "the boring stuff" that needs to be done in a business.

I can make a sensible plan, estimates that aren't completely bonkers, and I can tell when we're no longer on track to meet the deadline the same week it starts to slip. If I make a promise I keep it, or let you know that I'm unable to. I can also work completely agile, and not some "agile-but" that is so prevalent in the industry. In short there is soooo much that you need to consider when hiring. Screening based on a Github account is excluding developers that would be just the guy/gal you're looking for.