skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a history of web browsers that has last seen a substantial update in 2000.

I stumbled on it, and found it a nostalgic perspective on how the web has changed. The best part is at the end:

"It is hard to see what additional functionalities could be added to PC-based browsers that they do not already have with IE5 and NS6. Certainly some tidying up of standards is likely. From a Javascripter's viewpoint the ability to slice an element such as the contents of a <span> into single-pixel wide bars would offer new dimensions for scrolling and other text manipulation effects. Some web authors would like to see a greater degree of sophistications in the handling of sound, which remains relatively primitive."

The only thing missing from IE5 is the ability to slice an element into single-pixel bars?! A good example of how little we're able to imagine beyond the current state of things, whatever it happens to be.
I don't have a problem with it - in the past, at least some (if not all) are coming directly from Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/hacker-grants). They want to attract more women into their business because they see benefits of women being well represented in their workplace.
That paper makes a preposterous assertion. Here's the very simplest summary of it and its criticism:

http://themisescircle.org/blog/2013/03/19/bitcoin-and-the-re...
Hacker School is a great thing to do during a sabbatical or career break. I got pretty burned out on my previous job (of 6 years) in the Midwest. I was also a bit lonely since there wasn't much of a tech community in the area. I came out to New York for the Winter 2013 batch, and it was exactly the kick in the pants I needed. By the end of the batch, I had renewed vigor, job prospects, and a bunch of new friends. I ended up moving permanently to NYC for a new job (which Hacker School facilitated).

The Hacker School experience and community are fantastic. I'd highly recommend it to any other software engineers having a quarter-life crisis ;-)
They should've hired a mathematician to at least analyse who should not be fired.
No. At least, not one that has persuaded the majority.

http://themisescircle.org/blog/2013/03/19/bitcoin-and-the-re...
I don't see how that's ironic. It's logically consistent for a CEO to desire to layoff dead wood and simultaneously expand the company with strong hires.
I don't think making such a public comment is a wise idea in a surveillance state. I also think stealing is wrong whatever is the reason[1].

[1] I don't have kids but got at some point seriously sick and broke.
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a. $10,000
i. Save $5,000
ii. Invest $1,000 into CrowdFunding Startups
iii. Invest $1,000 into Ramen-Noodle Startups
iv. Use $3,000 for my own startup.

b. $50,000
i. Save $25,000
ii. Invest $5,000 into CrowdFunding Startups
iii. Invest $5,000 into Ramen-Noodle Startups
iv. Use $15,000 for my own startup.

c. $100,000
i. Save $50,000
ii. Invest $10,000 into CrowdFunding Startups
iii. Invest $10,000 into Ramen-Noodle Startups
iv. Use $30,000 for my own startup.
10K - put everything into savings

50K - put 40K into savings and use 10K to get a hot tub

100K - buy hot tub with 10K and use 90K to buy more land

EDIT: typo
>One of the protections we have against unjust laws is that they are unenforceable.

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." --Abraham Lincoln
Murder, or attempted murder, is an intent crime in most states in the US. Generally speaking, that means that in order to be convicted, it must be proven in court that the defendant had the specific intent to cause the death of another person when they undertook the act that caused the death. That's why most traffic-related deaths are charged as manslaughter, or under traffic-specific statutes such as vehicular homicide or DUI resulting in death (depending on the specific state and circumstances).
Where does it say it's applied to teams of 10 people? When MSFT had stack ranking, it had a minimum team size (though I'm not sure what it was).
lol, epic sixpackshortcuts reference.
Forth. Definitely Forth.

Start here:

http://www.amazon.com/Threaded-Interpretive-Languages-Design...
My mobile dev experience consists of thus far 95% time allotted to iOS and 5% allotted to Android. Thus, I'm in no position to accurately compare the two. I feel the same holds true for the author, and most of the commenters. Yet everyone's pretending like they have no bias's or they know both platforms well enough to make a fair objective comparison.

Almost always, when something's written about iOS vs. Android, the underlying reason for justification is more rooted in 'proving' their preferred OS is superior, rather than any objective reasoning.
Closely related to Lava Flow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_flow_(programming)
The analysis is a bit off in a way that's relevant to the narrative. At least when I was there, nobody at GT had Stanford on their radar. Georgia Tech is a Big Industry kind of place. The perceived competitor is MIT, not Stanford. The traditional engineering fields (chemical, mechanical, aerospace) dominate and the links to industry are places like Lockheed or Boeing, not Google or Yahoo. The net result is that GT is a conservative and somewhat bureaucratic sort of place. Unsurprisingly, the administration had a hard time with someone who played fast and loose.
For the first time in history it may seem the correct answer is neither.

The reasons are numerous - there are no must have exclusives, the current gaming season is mediocre at best, there will be glitches for the months to come and most of the good stuff will trickle down to PC anyway
The first con needs a bigger cavat because image size and number of requests play a huge part in browser rendering. This is probably why the mobile app was so much slower than the desktop app. The small minified js file that contains your app has little performance hit.
Show HN: GitChat on top of GitHub API
I don't have offsite backups yet (but read on). Currently, I auto-backup daily at 4am, my entire fedora desktop using rsyncbtrfs https://github.com/oxplot/rsyncbtrfs which does an incremental backup on btrfs using subvolumes. I have everyday backup for last 4 years and I can access any version of any file at any time with no preparation (ie just cd into the appropriate directory for that day).

I have also written https://github.com/oxplot/cloudnbd for offsite backup. It presents any cloud storage (via pluggable backends) as linux block device which you can format to FS of your choosing. You can then mount it, RAID it, etc. and do crazy stuff with it. I don't use it yet because it's not well polished (and I'm lazy) but that's my ultimate weapon. It encrypts everything on the client side too so that should make NSA's job a tad harder.
Is it installed out of the box? I think you might need Xcode (or at least the command line tools). These instructions may help: http://railsapps.github.io/xcode-command-line-tools.html
Official Amazon packaging video from that Reddit thread shows problem with lack of cushioning on bottom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHX-iHJEWM
We take this approach specifically because we don't do any affirmative action or bias our admissions process in favor of specific groups. These grants are our hack for how to have a more gender-balanced environment without negatively impacting men or lowering the bar for women. The grants work because they increase the pool of qualified women who are able to do Hacker School.

Also, to clarify, the grants are funded by other companies, not Hacker School (the most recent sponsors are Dropbox, Etsy, Jane Street, Tapad, and Tumblr: https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/26-dropbox-etsy-jane-stree...).
Ringworld, Larry Nivens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld

If you like that then finish the series (3 or 4 books), then branch out into Nivens' related Known Space stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_space

That should keep you entertained for awhile.
True, I think most snatch and grabs are sold quick for cash and not identity theft anyway.

But in a worst case scenario how quick could someone determined actually compromise you? minutes? less time than you'd wait on hold during work hours, let alone waiting till the next day?
> I've perused the website far too many times in the last several months but have held off from applying because I wasn't sure if i had the chops to work with you guys

Sports analogy: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

People who get into HS fall all along the experience spectrum. Some have only been programming a few months, and some have been programming professionally for decades. Most are somewhere in between.

You might as well apply. If you get turned down, it's not the end of the world and you can try again for the next batch. I know of people who were turned down twice and got in on their third try.
Check out the Tribes netcode model, http://library.theexiled.pwnageservers.com/file.php?id=2694
"PS4 blue light of death" returns 101 results.

If you mean searching without the quotes then that is just stupid since Google will return results that match only one of the search terms.
> a company that has pioneered DRM

I believe, before steam PC gamers had StarForce and alikes. Valve is not guilty of pioneering DRM, but guilty of making DRM bearable (which has both good and bad sides).
You'll be fine. If you like programming and it sounds like Hacker School would be fun, you should apply. The minimum experience you need to have a good time and learn a lot is very low, and if you're writing a book on Clojure web dev then I'd bet you're way past it.

Source: I'm a current Hacker School student
I have a question:
is it just impossible to get any kind of monetary help (scholarship) for the living expenses? as someone who does not live in the U.S. My application would depend on this, and I would not like to give them more applications to read if there's no chance of that.

P.S I read the FAQ and I am not a women, that's why I'm asking.

Edit: "Our great crime appears to be the fact that we have not yet found a way to additionally give money to everyone who can't afford to come to Hacker School."
So I guess that's a no, in case someone else is wondering, that was answered by nicholasjbs.
How much traffic would be required to get $600 a month?
I yield to your superior knowledge of statistics (I have none), but that's not the point.

Layoffs are about speed, not accuracy. The faster they're done, the less damage they do. The only thing that matters besides the number of people to lay off is not losing your best people, which comes down to speed (the longer the mess lasts, the more likely your best people will leave) and being accurate enough to not accidentally lay off your best people.

Seems to me that stack racking, however awful it is ethically, emotionally and statistically, at least covers that well enough.
That would be hard to pull off. The cockpit door is rarely open during flight, and when the cockpit door needs to open, the flight attendants barricade the front of the plane using the food service carts locked diagonally across the isle. The door itself is only open for a few seconds, and the barrier is enough to shut it quickly if anyone even attempts to move towards the front.
Very busy is probably the only way to describe them. I work not far from where some of these photos were taken where its frustratingly busy at times.
You would never think this was possible.
I own a small Drupal development shop in Minneapolis. I have 7 employees, and we recently started being more Agile than we used to be, which means we have a scrum at 9:30am every day. In the past, people came in whenever they felt like it. Now that people are in earlier, my wife actually had the great idea to have a breakfast bar available to everyone. So, we got a bar fridge in addition to the office fridge we already have, dried fruit, organic granola, yoghurt, fresh fruit, bran, flax, jam, and more and we keep it stocked. Everyone is welcome to have any amount from the breakfast nook in the mornings as they want, and we've been figuring out what people like and adjusting the contents. I think it's working out well -- people don't have to worry about eating before getting into the office, they can just do that when they get in, usually it's after the scrum.

Here's our breakfast nook: http://instagram.com/p/fqkYtYhnqe/
> The same cannot be said of paper money as from the moment of its inception and for many long years thereafter it was redeemable in gold

But since the dollars themselves had no inherent value, its value was derived simply from the cumulative belief that they could be redeemable by gold. I could even say that when the dollar was first created, the rest of the world was wary of it since it was so new.

I don't see how bitcoin is much different, except for the fact that a large organization (e.g. government) didn't state that it had value when it was first created, which is actually one of the strong points of bitcoin (a currency by the people for the people.)
Nice writeup. But a large part of the main point seems to be surprise that client-side rendering isn't going to be indexed by search engines:

> It occurred to me that the hype around client-side rendered apps
> is still alive and kicking. It’s not the first time I’ve heard
> server-side rendering negatively referred to as an “old school” technique.

and ...

> Chalk that up to my ignorance, believing the client-side rendered
> app-of-the-future hype, and not caring about SEO until the organic
> traffic numbers came in.

This should not be a surprise. Obviously, if you only render content on the client, then search engines aren't going to see any of it. Client-side-only-rendered applications should only be for private pages, user's workspaces, and web applications — pages that a search engine will never see, regardless.
At least for now, you CAN delete only your Google Plus stuff without also removing your Gmail
No, but they are those most easily demonstrably good at what they do.

I mean, if you had a Ruby job opening and you got applications from Aaron Patterson and 20 other people, would it be unfair to put Patterson's application at the top?

There might be another applicant as good, but 1) you have to look harder and 2) you can't really tell until after you've hired them.

Picking a sure thing over a gamble is pretty understandable.
Exactly. I notice this pattern of thinking quite often on HN: X has some flaw (according to shoddy armchair analysis and vague anecdotes), so X is terrible. If you want to argue that X is bad, you should at least discuss an alternative Y and make a convincing argument as to why Y is better than X. There are pros and cons to everything.
The same people who hired the dead wood are hiring the strong hires, so ...
It's great but it gives you enough knowledge to be dangerous without sufficient warnings of the dangers or about modern best practice.

As part of broader reading it is deservedly a classic. Alone pretty terrifying.
undergrad? Wow...
True, but it only underscores the point that confiscating, e.g., nail clippers* is stupid when one can build _grenades_ in the airport. Sure, maybe you still can't take down a plane or kill a lot of people with a "fraggucino", but you can do a lot more damage than you can with nail clippers!

*Edit: Nail clippers may be permitted now. This point may still apply to scissors greater than 4 inches in length, or screwdrivers greater than 7 inches. http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/prohibited-items
- How long does it take to make a profit off of BitCoin?
Why would anyone harass someone who's eating bacon in their profile picture? On the other hand, I think she nailed the description of the typical (90%) YT commenter.
You're late: http://xkcd.com/651/
And how do you know they haven't revised their hiring standards?
I agree, and I think that's true with startup / spinoff ambitions as well. The perceived peers aren't really Stanford+Valley, but rather the clusters of engineering/biotech/etc. spinoffs that top engineering schools accumulate (UT, UIUC, MIT, etc.). Those tend to have less of a "do whatever you want" view, and more of a view that spinoffs are good, but need to take place within a set of rules that ensures that public money and payroll isn't being abused.
Spot on! I skimmed it very quickly and I also got the feeling that portraying "shiny metals" as something that, in the beginning, only "a few crazy ones" liked to possess (attempting to draw a parallel with BTC's origins) does not stand to scrutiny. Desire for shinny metals and, in general, beautiful objects (diamonds, pearls etc) is hard-coded deeply in the human psyche, is found in myths since the dawn of time and is part of our human nature and our ability to appreciate beauty and being drawn to it. It's preposterous to claim the same for random strings of bits.
Good idea, but when you focus on personality, by showing faces, then show the subject and reason to take the "workshop".
Also make signing up easier, by allowing one to try it out, before joining in. Maybe with a "simulated partner", that would be novel. Nobody offers simulated partners. You could use code-metric tools and nlp to make the simulated partner useful. However concentrate on the main idea: let people in, as easy as possible. Make them actively seek the signup button, instead of showing it into the face, without convincing arguments.

Please follow these guidelines: http://www.goodui.org/
> our country risks marginalizing the humanities and social sciences. We cannot allow that to happen...

Ok then lower the price of humanity degrees, i'm sure more people would sign up then.
Which is running on in the palm of your hand, on battery power.. How is that not awesome?
This. There's been a lot metrics growing in bitcoin beyond the large price increase and VC funding.
"The Challenger Disaster" - A.V. Club Review
Moglen: "Pt III: The Union, May it Be Preserved"
You should definitely apply.

Hacker School has created a really productive space for people (of a variety of skill levels) interested in programming, and I think two things have made that the case:

#1 is definitely that interesting people apply (which is why you need to!)

#2 is that it's in really good hands: in all my interactions with the founders and residents, I've consistently been impressed -- they're smart, they're thoughtful, and they're passionate about the mission.

(Our startup has hired two Hacker Schoolers so far.)
I thinks this is a good approach. Checking most of possible exceptional cases while following regular learning course.

Errors = safety nets are usually the main reason to make stiff learning curve. This would be a great help for them.
Times Square is in Midtown. Downtown is the Financial District :)
He uses big ball of mud is a software system that lacks a perceivable architecture.

Lisp BBoM is not lacking architecture. In the Lisp use of the term it means that you can extend the system incredibly without losing the "Lispiness". It looks and feels the same after extensions (if those extensions are done right). In Lisp building complex framework don't suddenly turn your programming xml-file configuration and annotating for code generators.
> Do you have any data to back this up?

Yeah, I would be skeptical of any claim that conflates introversion, being humble, and having bad social skills, which are three completely different topics.
Easystar.js - Pathfinding for HTML5 games
Well, compiling an empty file is a piece of cake. An empty file is valid C, just not a complete program.
Wouldn't you agree that what gives LISP unbounded extensibility without changing it's form is exactly because it lacks an "architecture", the code is the AST itself?

It's not like McCarthy purposefully architected LISP to be minimal and immensely flexible, it naturally followed from implementing the simplest thing possible capable of manipulating lambda calculus; it's extensibility is a desirable emerging characteristic.
Device Uses Light to Split Water Into Clean Hydrogen
Brilliant people are often recognized as such and don't need self-promotion. I think GP was referring to good-but-not-brilliant people (which I think there are plenty of).
Is there really an exponential growth in transactions per day? The last I heard it has been constant for months:

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

[edit] I see he's excluding the 100 most popular addresses. Is there any justification for that? I'm sure he would have left them in if the chart looked right.
Great tool. Great founders.
I'm honestly surprised they didn't learn their lesson with the whole Buzz fiasco. Didn't they get sued over basically forced social connections?
You make it sound as if user-submitted content didn't exist before 2006. There were still forums at that time. Gamespot, IGN, and GameFAQs all had forums. NeoGAF existed, as did Joystiq, Kotaku, and 1UP, and they were all just as news-savvy as they are today.

A lot of things have changed since 2006, there's no denying it, but the gaming industry has always been ahead of the curve, and the social circles are much the same today as they have been for the last fifteen years.
Because the whole concept that massive monitoring leads to reduced crime is just one of those seductively simple authoritarian fallacies.

At best it is a tool that lets you "rewind" time to look at events that were coincident to a crime. But that doesn't necessarily get you new information, often its just a different way to get the same information that 'old-fashioned policework' would have turned up.

At worst it becomes a distraction for the police, a mental box that they are stuck in. Kind of like, "if it isn't in google, it isn't on the internet."

I'm not saying monitoring never improves the situation, I'm saying that its kind of like a glass of water - you can only pour so much water into it until the excess just spills out and starts making a mess.

(BTW I have a similar opinion about the utility of 'targeted' advertising.)
That's the point I was trying to make. This dude was rejected at Msft, GOOG and FB. One would think yahoo would be hiring rock stars who'd blow past these.
Assuming your question was serious: Because she displays a very minor amount of cleavage in the picture, with a pleasant smile.

In other words, her picture is fun and completely unobjectionable.

Unfortunately, if that picture is shown outside of her private context it's also liable to generate hordes of crude come-ons from lonely men who see it while browsing Youtube. This is different from a facebook profile picture because she can't comment without showing it.

If you know any women who use OK Cupid, ask them how many creepy messages they have to filter through. Or if you truly want to be horrified, make a personals ad on Craigslist pretending to be a woman. You will get pictures of penises.
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I don't see how firing underperformers and other dead weight is evidence of a lack of long-term strategy. To me that sounds like a good first step in a long-term solution of making Yahoo! once again a place that talented people work.
I've got an especially unique last name as well. So much so that I'm absolutely sure nobody in the world has my full name, and, as far as I'm aware, it's possible my dad and I are the only people in the united states with the same first/last name (of the 7 total on facebook, only 3 are in North America). My brother and sister are in a similar boat, thanks to unique spelling of their names. From my last name alone, I'm sure you could track me down with just that and the information that I've been on hacker news.

Probably because of that, I've always been fairly paranoid about using my actual name on most things online, but graduating from a college, participating in research, and having a facebook account pretty much made it impossible to ever be truly anonymous.
Did they? Details please!
Check out the nasa link. The colors are not entirely accurate.
How nice of her to give credit to the original. If it wasn't for your link I wouldn't have found that. This smells very IFLS-y.