skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say the same about almost anyone who runs a large corporation or government. The desire for wealth and power is inversely proportionate to moral rectitude. Douglas Adams wrote: It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If Zuckerberg had been a nice guy Facebook wouldn't be where it is today. You might think: "Steve Jobs didn't need to park his Ferrari in handicapped spaces for Apple to be successful. Surely he could have built a business without shouting at his staff and stealing from his friends." But the truth is if he wasn't the sort of asshole who parks in handicapped spaces, Apple would have disappeared decades ago.

I'm sure there are some good people gaining success in the capitalist system, and maybe even hoping to change the system from the inside, which seems to be what this article is advocating. But most see it's a cesspool and stay the hell out of it.
Yep. The fact that there are plenty of people in Germany who work 40 hours per week and still need to apply for benefits in order to be able to pay their rent and buy food is not only a big shame for this country, it also effectively shifts salaries from being paid by the employer to being paid by the taxpayer.
It never hurts to revisit this article:

The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
Similar experience here. I didn't do CS in college but used MMA a fair bit. Then ended up programming for a living in mainstream 90s languages. So when FP started to make a comeback recently it just hit me that "Hey this is just like Mathematica". But even then the Mathematica environment was better in ways than what you get with some FP languages now. I don't get all the retro fetish. I know my vi but I've no wish to use it over a good IDE. Hopefully Light table can do it for a functional language.
Bruce Schneier reddit AMA
Ha. We did it, and the photo taken by our camera with a flash showed nothing but bright reflection on the plate...
I don't know about Germany, but in the UK the minimum wage is so low that it isn't enough to live on and the government have to make welfare benefit payments so that the people on minimum wage can survive.

That is also true in many parts of the US. In California, it is currently $8/hr, which means if you are able to work 40 hours a week (likely across two employers), you make $16,640 per year. At that income, you couldn't afford to live alone in Los Angeles, where a studio apartment would cost $1200/month, which is already 86% of your income. You could, however, qualify for subsidized housing, which would pay 80% of your rent, nutrition assistance which would give you a few hundred dollars per month to buy groceries, and recently, subsidized health insurance that would give you a basic HMO plan for free. In effect, the government (federal, state, county, and city) is basically matching the employer dollar for dollar for many minimum wage employees.
> Gold asteroid mining isn't too implausible, either.

More plausible than some hacker news post 'bitcoin 2.0 is here - look it's shinier!', though? Or 'new crypto currency approved by the US govt?' You think people won't reinvent this wheel to death?

Sure, you could also synthesize gold from some nuclear reaction, or mine it from space... You pays your money (and you takes your chances)
I don't share as much as I used to but I post my work occasionally.
http://dribbble.com/mrtnmatt
Apparently there is a lot of people that believe they are rockstars and they don't need the job, the job needs them.

Here's a novel idea: both the candidate and the job need each other. If the job didn't need a candidate, then why are you looking to hire someone new?

Humility goes both ways. So does the arrogance. You reap what you sow.

I'd rather hire a junior that is committed than a senior that is not.

As long as you're prepared to deal with the difference between the output of a junior and the output of a senior, then you're okay. Word of advice, though: you'd best hold on to your own seniors.
By that argument, no physical tokens (secureid, yubikey, etc) add another factor - they also _could_ be stolen at the same time as your laptop is stolen.
TOR Bridge Nodes (relays).
Yeah, and most of the emails (that I've received) are just HR people promoting their own blog posts or something.
That's one, and banks hardly help with inflation at today's 0.01% interest rates.
scroll up and down to travel instantly and also avoid collision.
That implies an interesting argument in favour of a standard minimum wage from a right-leaning perspective; not having it greatly strengthens trade union influence and consequentially results in worse distortion of market wages.
I wish we'd just get to the core of the problem, big big inflation via the Fed destroying the purchasing power of the dollar and various other central banks following suit in their own currencies.

If you get new dollars first when they're more valuable, life is TOTALLY RAD. You get to spend the new money before it works its way through the system. So you're spending post-inflation money but getting pre-inflation prices. Yum.

If you don't get the new dollars first then what tends to happen is that your costs go up before your income does. This is not a good situation for a business to be in and it's not good for an individual either.

Imagine that you are trying to make a startup work and every month your COGS goes up 10% but you can only increase the prices you charge on a 6-18 month lag. You might run out of cash covering your increased costs long before you can raise your prices and make up the difference.

This is roughly how household finances have been playing out for quite a few years now. At least ~40 or so years since Nixon closed the gold window, but maybe up to ~100 years since the founding of the Fed.

EDIT: If you want to downvote me could you at least tell me why? I'd like to be a good citizen on HN and downvotes without comment don't explain anything.
No man is an island,

Entire of itself,

Every man is a piece of the continent,

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were.

As well as if a manor of thy friend's

Or of thine own were:

Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind,

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

It tolls for thee.
This is what I meant. Well explained!
Yup, this is pretty standard. The BIOS knows how to power up USB peripherals directly attached to the motherboard, but doesn't know about peripherals attached over Thunderbolt.
Did you use the same camera design as the speed & red-light cams do?

Also, the plate readers, they don't even use flashes. They are essentially video cameras.
That is the side I think many in the financial world are realizing and what hits banks the most. It hits the fees. Daily transfer fees, rates, management etc.

It could be beneficial to banks to move money more rapidly and make some coin just like funds they have do with their holdings even though it strikes the core of the business model.

If used right it could be helpful like torrent is to distribution, cheaper, faster ways to move things. It would be nice one day when regular bank transfers don't take 3-5 business days or a fee for same day.
False, and trivially easy to demonstrate.

Off the top of my head, I am thinking of ...

- A deep, pervasive culture of gold hoarding and gold wealth transfer for dowries (yes, even in 2013) for Indians.[1]

- Persians/Iranians who have a deep cultural link to carpets as a store of value that can be used in day to day life, but also transported and stored as value.

How about any middle american over the age of 50 who counts his or her "vehicle" as an asset and shops/deals in used cars every 12-18 months. A lot of people think about cars this way.

As for corporations just consider casino counting rooms and exxon tankers full of crude oil.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/gold-laden-brides-i...
Do you use code completion and to what extent?
http://popuparchive.tumblr.com/post/67634523526/pop-up-archi...

Is the blog post that explains the thinking behind it. Looks like a pretty cool solution to problem that not many people are thinking about.
I like your work, simple and elegant interfaces. How is that exercise app coming along?
Outliers exist, this doesn't make them likely, age does matter far far more often than not. Generalizations have value, but they're not expected to always be true.
More likely to be within 2014 at this velocity and no reason to think it won't be S curve adopted.
subtitle: (or perhaps just a loved but irritating old uncle)

-bowerbird
... and the government cares about that why?
> They're all problems that we've solved in the process of building out our product

Have you gotten feedback on the questions? It's easy to say that it's a valid question, but when you're close to the problem, it's easy to make a mistake since you might encounter a specific sort of problem that others might not be nearly as familiar with.

The difference to me I think is that yours are very specific, and "build a small trading system" can be very general. If it's timeboxed, there might be only so much that you can do--i.e. you might not be expected to complete the task. You want to test someone's knowledge, without being too 'in depth'. A candidate that can solve a problem on his own in 30 minutes isn't necessarily better than a candidate who can solve the problem in 10 minutes with the assistance of Google.

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> You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification

Preach.
To break EC you need to get EC public key. You can't get it unless bitcoin address was reused.

If you found pre-image for ripemd160(sha256(x)), you still need to find a private key for it.
Because the chance that Bitcoin will go down from here and will never become worth more than it's worth now is 50%? Sorry, but your comment is just bullcrap.
My friend Lee Harvey Oswald
How else would you expect Verrelli to explain what happened once it became obvious what he told the Supreme Court was not true?

It's the solicitor general's responsibility, as it is anyman's responsibility when testifying in court, to ensure his testimony is accurate. He didn't say, "as far as I know, this is what I think we might collect."

The Government made a persuasive argument that collection was limited specifically to the extent required to dismiss the case. This was not an honest mistake, it was a material misrepresentation of fact. There is no plausible deniability here.

I think it's appropriate to discuss what the ramifications should be, but it's naive to think Verrilli was not aware. I think it's also reasonable to question whether Chief Justice Roberts was also aware Verrilli was shoveling shit, seeing as how he appointed every judge currently serving on the FISA court.
Thanks. :)

I like your work, the use of tiles and angled screens.
The play store is part of that software that they pay for.
We are planning to start work on implementing code-completion and intellisense but would like to get a feel for how useful the average dev finds this much revered IDE feature.

Do you have ideas for better ways it could be implemented beyond the current approach (which is really a holdover from an earlier era)?
Ask HN: I am a CTO of a startup, should I drop out or defer school?
Hey HN,<p>So backstory, I am a university Student in my third year of Systems Design Engineering and also the CTO of a tech startup that is starting to gain a lot of traction. So much so, that we pretty much got our first customers before we even finish building the product. Now as we are nearing product launch we have gotten so many calls from various companies and clients wanting to use our product that it almost seems possible we are going to be the next big thing to revolutionize the industry we are targeting. <p>Now here is my dilemma: I want to drop out or rather just defer my education and work on this full time because I am certain that we will succeed. However, I am afraid that in the off-chance it doesn't succeed, that I will have trouble finding employment there after due to an unfinished degree. Of course I could still go back to school...but then again I dont know how that would look to potential employers on my resume. In terms of skill, I consider myself quite a qualified full stack developer(I have been handling front end, backend and some mobile development for my startup).<p>SO here is my big question, should I drop out/defer my education or should I try doing school while doing my startup? Also, does any one have experience dropping out of school running a successful company then leaving it and finding a job/starting another company? I would really like to hear your thoughts.<p>Thanks
I'll send you an invite when I get one. It might take some time though, so be patient.
'Why I am not canceling class tomorrow'
What I find most hilarious in hindsight is that the parent poster, myself, and everyone in this thread except the article poster seemed to miss the first line about "ironic answer" yet we're all insisting that it was a serious example meant to really show off something awesome. I've seen some really out-there code that was really instructional, such as Urbit http://www.urbit.org/2013/09/24/urbit-intro.html, in spite of its admitted uselessness, but CSS transforms were all I expected to see and all I got.

Now that I understand the author's intent, it's furthermore impossible for me to go along with a narrative that every experiment has equal or potential to lead to some mind-rattling insight. If anything, the posts about how someday shaders might build entire games etc just demonstrate how, behind the wall of basic comprehension of how GLSL's inner workings and things like Chomsky grammar concepts create fundamental limitations, the barriers one will encounter are both insurmountable and undetectable. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...

CSS itself has annoying limits that can be summed up with the existence of tools like LESS and Stylus that add expressions to generated CSS, giving us an infinitely more capable styling system, albeit still suffering from annoying limitations that keep me sour to many CSS uses. Quite simply, everything in CSS transitions has an API so far from how animation is dealt with programmatically that I find only the most basic utilizations to -ever- be appropriate. This doesn't even mention the fact of shims, fallbacks, and the JS that deals with them. The idea that we're "pushing limits", much less making progress with examples like this is not one I'm buying into.
Disney's Frozen - A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation
It also doesn't matter if what you own only went 'up' in value due to inflation, thus you're in fact taxed just for living.

And they say we have a free country.
I pay attention to the innovative UI designers. I like to feel the pulse of the times but add enough of my own vision to make it unique. I think it's blasphemous to copy anyone 100%, a little artistic integrity goes a long way.
Yep - the default client won't let you send to an invalid address. And even if you used client software that was broken and performed the check incorrectly, the transaction would still be rejected by the other nodes in the network.
> What I do have is years of experience building mission critical applications that move millions of dollars per day in transactions, and I have a solid track record of being easy to work with.

> If you can't be good enough to figure that out from a conversation and looking at my track record, why would I work for you?

Just because you can get something done, that doesn't mean you did it by writing well-thought-out, sanely structured, maintainable, readable, useful code. I mean, you probably aren't bad if you're bragging about yourself like this, but who really knows until the code is visible?

The language and environment we work in isn't known for high-quality coders. Quite the opposite. Filtering out the wheat from the chaff is basically a requirement, even for the people that seem good after a phone screen and an in-person interview.
Just to clarify did this happen at the Salesforce hackathon? What project were you working on?
Both actually. They might need access to your internal network to access your file shares and whatnot, but you'll want to make sure they can access only the parts you want them to, and nothing else, so they can't for example log onto your unsecured printer and collect a list of most recent print jobs, including filenames.

And they might need to access the internet to download firmware updates and stream video, but you don't want them to "LG phone home" and report your midget porn viewing habits, so you'll block that.

Of course all that requires quite a bit of knowledge, time and equipment to set up and is therefore quite unrealistic, so you're better off just hooking up your laptop via HDMI and putting the damn TV into monitor mode, "smart" be damned.
This seems odd as you haven't actually gained anything, the market's relative values of different things has just changed. As opposed to like actually making money from getting dividends from the stock.
"You have reinvented Brainfuck but non-ironically" - brilliant. :)
Well, good for you. It's nifty.
AeroFS in Go? =)
Glad to help! (also I meant "through*" in the original post, but you got the point...haha)
Python 101: An Intro to Object Serialization with Pickle
Nice idea and lovely music
The same is true of any foreign currency. I could send $150 million in Russian rubles to my sister, and she wouldn't be able to do jack with it until she finds someone willing to give her dollars for it. With the amount of money involved, getting it all converted at once would be extremely difficult.

That's exactly the point. If you had $150 million in rubles, you could transfer it for only a nominal fee ($20 for my bank, although you can get a lot cheaper if you regularly did transfers like that) to any account in the world that could hold rubles. Exactly the same with bitcoin.

The only real cost in transferring sums of money is either extreme convenience, transferring to a country with an extremely poor banking service or exchanging currencies. None of which bitcoin solves yet.
Anyone know of any genius graphics programmers who have had access to lots of high-end GPUs, who might be retiring soon?
Well apparently he didn't really have the time/energy to keep AA going.
Many companies butcher their interview processes, so it's not surprising to hear this story. That said, OP's refusal of code challenges all together seems every bit as silly as being asked to jump through the hoops described.

If we were to take a moment to think about the purpose of interviews at a high level:

Initial Interviews (Phone/HR/etc)

- Determine mutual interest
- Estimate likelihood of match
- Check for red flags

Follow-up Interviews (With team/Code Challenges/etc)

- Confirm initial impressions
- Evaluate finer points of fit (skills, etc)
- Determine final interest

Each of the interview goals above apply to both the interviewer and interviewee. Failures happen when either side tries to monkey with this formula too much.

If your job is to write code and be an engineer, it's not outlandish to think that you'll be asked to write code as part of your evaluation for a new position. It's also not too much to expect that as an interviewee, you should be properly sold on the job by the interviewer before being asked to invest time to prove your skills. (Both sides should estimate high likelihood of match before confirming impressions)

If the company's preference is to hire full-stack engineers into front-end jobs, fine — more power to them. But those expectations should be included way up front in the process, so candidates like OP can mark a "red flag" and opt out of additional interviews.

TL;DR: Properly setting expectations in the interview process is ultra-important, but rarely practiced.

Note: I'm the founder of Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com), an anonymous, passive job discovery site. Part of our service is to help our clients (companies) hire more efficiently by coaching them up on interview process improvements like this. We're in private beta now, but send out new candidate invites regularly.
I was on the hiring side before I had my first encounter with a recruiter. They're worthless. Floods of bad candidates, almost never anything worth pursuing. Promising candidates come almost exclusively through some form of contact that bypasses any form of in-house or external recruiter. Being-hired experience is the exact mirror: Contacted constantly about positions utterly unsuited for me, and good matches only produce interviews if the recruiters are bypassed.

Recruiters have negative value. They are parasites.
I have a right to record when I see you. Everyone has that right. If you're free to act, I'm free to record that act, assuming you've acted in public.

Also, what's "horseshit" about "you don't have privacy when you act in public"? I'm not recording your conversations as you're in public, only what you do. Why is that horseshit?
Power Quotes, how blogging reveals truth and meaning
Well, I give that a few years before the government takes those dreams down to size, just like the NSA did of the entire internet. Keep dreaming.

/ super jaded
i would excuse it if they didn't make such a big deal that you had to show source and that you should start a month early. when you do that, you OWE people a run. the way they did it, you didn't even get a little screen time to shine for your sweat. this thing needs to get rejudged in the open.
Given that incognito doesn't obscure your IP address (not to mention the myriad other ways your identity could be leaked to Google), I wonder if incognito's enough to get a "clean" page of Google results. On this search, I get different results from you but ones similar to djur: http://imgur.com/7KTqZFV (on Firefox in private mode: http://imgur.com/Jn400wX). For reference, I probably would only visit a page on Go if it were linked to on a blog; I don't use it or (normally) search for it.
Personally, I spend a lot of time in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This post was interesting to me because I was able to see the techniques that were used to accomplish what was going on in the snippet. What may not be relevant to you could be relevant to others.
> This checklist discourages people from writing their own programming languages.

Rather, this checklists mocks common discussion-board dismissals that discourage people from writing their own programming languages.
Not if the private key is stored in a secure hardware token.
yeah good service to point out.

the playlists on turntable were an organic composition of the community in the channel. the user was directly involved in the creation process. the playlist changed to reflect the people in the channel. it was an entirely social gathering (when it started anyway), as if you got 50 music heads into a room and asked them to rock out.

songza is purely curated. for that reason, it misses the social aspect. songza is more like hiring an extremely inexpensive dj. other users dont get to interact with the playlist content.

different approaches to the same problem, but i believe the real innovation is in combining humans minds and experiences in searching the song graph. songza does not do that. turntable did.

songza still cool tho!
Why I Won't Ever Work For Free
our team of senior Linux administrators get 7 EUR per hour each in Prague

Wow. Just wow. Wikipedia says that they're making far less than the per-capita income for the Czech Republic. Presumably they speak English - why do they stay, rather than move elsewhere in the EU? (In Silicon Valley, the same job would pay multiples of the mean income.)

More selfishly, assuming you aren't there yourself, how do you go about finding Eastern European technical talent, which everyone speaks so highly about?
Marc Benioff has no credibility