skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just sayin -- quoting everything related to Bitcoin constantly as if it's USD in your pocket is so misleading. For a group that loves BTC so much and eschews the US Dollar, they sure love to quote it.
"Irony" is a side effect. Haskell is pure .. :P
When I work for a company, I want to make sure that whatever I am working on will help the company succeed. I want to be part of that success. This is commitment.
I am not there just to get the pay check for my 9 to 5 hours and move on to another company because they offered me extra $5 bucks.
Yes, this. Most of these, OOP is bad articles follow the same pattern of showing how an idiomatic object based decomposition doesn't do well on algorithmic problems that developers rarely deal with. They then leverage red herring and slippery slope to show that OOP is bad in general. FP similarly falls down on stateful interactive systems in the same grain, where an object-like system emerges in the end in any case.
it's like a mixture of both. it's more like a local version of fancy. we have to curate bc to be honest 90% of local shopping is crap. so we do the hard work of finding only quality vendors. then from there users can collect and share the things they like and follow stores (to get updates on new arrivals and exclusive deals). vision is to link this browsing when bored model to geo location mobile device so whenever you want to go shopping you can see the shops you liked, items you liked (as well as your friends) and then be able to go into them.

we give options for both fb and email but i guess it wasn't clear. power of fb is that one can easily share with each other (product pics as well as comments - if you look at our comment box - you can @mention and it'll get communicated to that person so it reduces the friction to sharing).

thanks so much for your input. last question: did you think that the product catalog was unique and well-balanced? what did you like or not like?
Sorry about the first paragraph, it was late.

Interesting point about privilege being morally wrong. I hear a lot about privilege from minority action groups and was always kinda confused about the meaning of that word in the context of what they are speaking about. I think that your response here allows me to understand better. I have thought that the privileges I enjoy were NOT rights beforehand and that through more responsibility I gained them. Perhaps I have gained them back instead. Hmm, there is a lot to chew on here. Thank you for making me think today.
i think you're right that the "essense" is not lisp. Mathematica is more abstract than lisp, and it has lisp-like features built on top of it. that said, the analogy can be useful because things like "macros" are completely natural to the language:

In[1]:= FullForm[a + b]
Out[1]= Plus[a, b]

In[2]:= a + b /. Plus -> Times
Out[2]= a b
You're conflating liquidity with value.

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 doesn't mean that what's transferred doesn't have real value. Just that the assets involved aren't terribly liquid.
You have no idea how the "challenge" was completed. A candidate could have rent-a-coder-ed the project, refactored it a bit, and slapped their name on it.

Sure, if you ask no follow-up questions after the challenge is completed. However, with a few well-placed questions about the implementation and some inspection of the code, it'll be quite clear whether you're talking to the author or not.

We once gave a (non-web-dev) programming "challenge" (I thought it was a joke/insult given the candidate's claimed experience) to a senior dev candidate. Mind you, this was on-site. I even tested it by putting our newly hired grad to the test and he aced it within 20 minutes. We gave the candidate an hour to complete it (and added a 30 minute extension when he was struggling).

The challenge involved developing something against an SDK (interacting with a camera) and we gave him internet access and the SDK examples to work off of. In the end, he produced something not quite what we were asking, but he was sure to claim it as his work. Although it wasn't ideal, I was prepared to say that he "passed" the assignment, because he was close and I was sympathetic to factors of stress and nervousness.

As he was toured around the facility, I inspected the code and saw that he was completely passing off one of the SDK examples as his own work (diffs showed only two variable names had been changed). The reason his code didn't quite do what we wanted, is that he wasn't even able to tweak the SDK example to do what we asked. He was a complete fraud and never mind technical ability, we couldn't have dishonesty like that on the team.

Before that interview I thought those kind of challenges were a joke, but after this I saw their value. Of course, their value depends highly on how their are implemented and targeted, but dismiss their usefulness at your own peril.
Do some reading about J. Edgar Hoover and you'll understand why Clapper still holds his position.
Yes although Groupon was a local/coupon twist on existing Daily Deal sites such as Woot! it seams with all the groupon hype that has been forgotten. Very surprising to me but looks like it's time for me to change my messaging.

Edit:
"The deal-of-the-day concept gained popularity with the launching of Woot.com in July 2004, although Woot itself was a modified version of earlier dot-com bubble sites such as uBid. By late 2006, the deal-of-the-day industry had greatly expanded to over 100 deal-a-day sites. In November 2008, Groupon entered the market and became the second fastest online company to reach a billion-dollar valuation.[2]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_deal_a_day
Most likely yes. One of the two comments on this post was deleted.

This is the weirdest attempt at reverse psychology growth hacking ever.
I thought this was a really good post, especially considering the term "growth hacking" is bordering on "buzzwordy skill people claim to know but don't actually understand"

At the very least, you've got me wanting to follow this series of posts.

I'm particularly intrigued about #4. I'm trying to get users to Tweet or FB about http://cheergram.com after they order christmas cards. I'm considering offering a "bonus gift" if they do, but I'm not sure it's worth it since the free gift would actually cost me money (physical goods).

Keep up the posts.
Haha, that's great to hear. He's just such an upbeat guy all the time, his enthusiasm is always infectious.
Exactly this! What the heck would you do with $150 million in cash... stick it in a $250,000 FDIC insured bank?

Most people with this level of wealth diversify their holdings, which makes the total amount less liquid, but much more secure, as well as providing protection from inflation or returns on investments. Real wealth often does not have perfect liquidity, and I would argue in these amounts, almost never does.

Selling 100s of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins a year for USD would hardly put a dent in the markets, and is probably the most anyone would want to do. The purchase of an asset would instead be made directly with bitcoins in a transaction such as this.
Wow, I'm just now seeing this news. Initially, I had that sinking feeling set in... I mean, like you, I have been impacted by his story, his games (not just the Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake franchises... I'm talking Commander Keen, boys and girls), his code, reading Masters of Doom, etc.

I can see my copy of Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition sitting here, which was such a treat to read when it came out, because it has so many great chapters on the development of Quake and little stories about John's discoveries and thought processes throughout the development of the game.

But, then I thought... wait... this is a new beginning. I wrote about this previously, but, look for gaming to start heading in the direction of VR with technology like Oculus Rift. Also, with someone of the caliber of John Carmack involved (now totally focused on it because of the resignation announcement) with not only his passion and skill, but his ability to work with graphics hardware manufacturers and driver developers to effect change and garner the necessary support and backing, expect to see vibrant, compelling developments in this field.

In case you missed it, check this video out of John discussing some of his VR work. It is from E3 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYa8kirsUfg

That momentary sinking feeling has faded away now... great things are ahead!
It's not instantaneous, therefore you have to have faith in the system (as opposed to faith in your bank). Sender sends $150 million and receiver needs to wait 30 minutes for enough verifiers to trust the transfer went through.

In the meantime, the $150 million is in limbo.
"I'm pretty sure it's priced individually against many currencies"

No, it is not "priced". Nobody sets an "official price" for gold. Every actor in the market who sells and buys gold is free to set his own price, via "asks" and "bids" in the market. This is what gst highlighted for you: Bitcoin functions exactly like gold, their value fluctuates freely on international and national markets via trading, and nothing else.

"if you took the amount of gold and multiplied by its USD price to arrive at some figure of how much the "gold pool" is worth gold traders would laugh their asses off at you"

Actually, no. Analysts do this all the time. Google for "gold reserves". Here is the latest data from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FI.RES.TOTL.CD
i keep going back to bitstream vera sans mono, personally.
Maybe it's because I used to work at a venture firm, but I'm always happy to hear a founder who's enthusiastic talk for a few minutes about what they're building.

See my above note about using the term "recruiter" to mean anybody who's looking for talent (eg, lead engineer, CTO). Maybe that wasn't clear.
Just FYI: I've had a recruiter book and pay my ticket to London in advance, after I told him I was quite skeptical about whether this would be a good match after a phone interview with the employer.

And it was just one of those CV-mill recruiters. It's pennies compared to what they make if they score, so I'm guessing it's just a matter of being assertive.
I wonder whether the same companies that insist that job candidates spend a day of their lives on a "code challenge" are the same ones complaining about good developers being impossible to find.
Warren Buffett: How to teach your kids about money
I am sure the IRS could bust you for tax evasion even if you were the world's only completely honest person. The tax code is so needlessly complex that there is always some hidden land mine that could be used to nail you to the wall.

Just don't reveal your Bitcoin activities to the authorities, purposefully or accidentally, and they will never find any reason for their flagging algorithm to elevate your account to human scrutiny. Nor will they have evidence that could be used against you.

Anything passing through an exchange that follows state banking rules might get you into trouble, but you don't necessarily need to use an exchange to turn BTC into USD.
Another thing I really love about Dominion (from a purely aesthetic standpoint) is that the cards are, like chess, mostly archtypical. It doesn't have any of the sort of fantasy or sci-fi lore that permeates a lot of tabletop games and which can easily turn people off.
Woot! doesn't actually liquidate so much. A lot of their sales are on products that are not available in the market yet. Plus their own products such as their t-shirts.
My understanding of the Louisville RFI is that it is to be an open access network. The prospect of a local fiber plant providing last mile connectivity between various ISPs and customers excites me greatly.
Not true. The transaction has to be verified by multiple other people before it can be trusted. If you spend the same bitcoin twice in a short time period, it's a toss-up as to which one gets accepted into the official blockchain.
If someone asked me to write an iOS app for them for free as a test I'd offer them to download some of my work from the App Store. Otherwise, no.
The context of the thread was on fonts, the other stuff has been covered :)
Tip: A 6:49 promo video is not a good promo video.

Also promoting a video on Hacker News in general is not a good idea.
He was always excited about VR. One of his life's ambitions is to create the Holodeck from Star Trek. Games were an important stepping stone along the way.
Does anyone else get:

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Request forbidden by administrative rules.

I had to go to https://gist.github.com/kanmei/ first, and then click on the gist.
Yeah, that's some real passive aggression there. If Willits ever gets tired of living in Texas, I'm sure he would be well received in Seattle.
And for those who care to look, it's AGPL and uses angular.js as the front-end: https://github.com/PRX/pop-up-archive/
Two questions, two answers:

1) There's a such thing as decorum.

2) One step at a time. "The mill of justice grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly fine."
Most cams allow you to flip recording itself. No post processing needed. Simply activate "mirror" in your camera's settings.
The worst thing about code-challenges, is they never give feed back.

We're sorry, but what you produced is not good enough. We're not going to tell you what you missed.

At least technology tells you what you missed. If you have a standard, have it documented so that I'm not firing a bullet into the dark. Chances are I'm just as good as you; but you won't know because I haven't seen your coding style. You're on my project, you code like me. I'm on yours, you better believe I'll code like you.

And then there is the times they like to dismiss you for it but have some other reason and use it as a cover. So you worry about your code not being perfect and you develop a ritual to validate yourself before it goes through a compiler. Yep, I write my code three(avg) times now. 10 lines, over and over until it's a effing poem. It's called ocd.

Coding challenges, pfft, worthless. There is only one company that I did a coding challenge for in the past year and it's because they were really awesome people. - I'm here to make a product and work with a team. I'm not here to explain shit to you just so you can tell me to look up the documentation. If I take the time to explain my code to you, you better well explain why you think something is better rather then telling me to google it.

fufff, I needed that.
Attempting to strictly enforce tax on such transactions would probably cost more than any revenue generated.
SeriouslyException
How to delight customers and win partners with your platform
Your perspective changes when you need to find that extra 15 hours of time while also working full time. Apply to 2-3 companies at once, and all of a sudden 30-45 hours are added on to your normal work week.
Mystery Code
smells like vesting and/or end of golden handcuffs period (in the context of the prior Betheseda -> iD acquisition)
I don't think it's flippant at all.

It comes across as very succinct and matter-of-fact to me. His focus is elsewhere, so it's not a great fit for him to work there anymore, even if he is the founder.
The legislators can make whatever they want illegal, but that doesn't make it necessarily enforceable.

Thing about mixing is, since any person (or autonomous process) can generate wallets and send BTC to those on the fly, how do you prove that you used a tumbling service and not that you gave coins to a guy who gave coins to a guy who split them up into separate wallets who each gave coins to a guy, etc etc etc.

As Bitcoin picks up steam, this problem only gets harder. Remember that the block chain only consists of hashes and signatures. Proving who owns those is a much more difficult process.
There is very little which is less private than a license plate. They are explicitly designed to be as public as possible, as they should be.
This list lost me at W3Schools Certification
Could also just be careless writing by someone not trained in the art of writing statements that will be dissected by the media and public.

It doesn't read like a statement that has been carefully crafted by a team of copywriters, PR flaks and corporate lawyers.
I have found that when dealing with people who don't care at all about you, it helps to include 8 or more progressively harsh credible threats in an email.
Mobile WebGL Tips
Exploring Twitter influence with Jaccard similarity and Python
Dead link. I get:

403 Forbidden

Request forbidden by administrative rules.
Say hello to Safeplug, Pogoplug’s $49 Tor-in-a-box for anonymous surfing
It was a post by a developer recounting his experience with a particular recruiting agency. Basically, he was given an interview through an agency TestDriven Recruiting (or something similar) for a job outside his home country. The agency agreed to split the costs of travel. The interview was in January, and he hadn't been reimbursed by March. After multiple attempts at contact and requests for payment were ignored, the OP threatened to post on social networks. At this point Test Driven finally replied, stating "no timeline was agreed upon, we pay at our own discretion" or an equivalent message. It's unclear if the OP has been reimbursed at all at this point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

Cold welding is a big problem, and a debatable one, in spacecraft engineering due to the lack of oxides and the out-gassing of the oils in space vacuum.
A requiem for Winamp, the best MP3-player ever made
Since the bulbs last so long, and it would be prohibitive to wait until a death rate of 50%, they use 6000 hours as the laboratory test time which has good correlation with information known so far from LED manufacturers. By that age they tend to be in a main sequence of life.
Yep, and I suck in comparison to real designers. Still fun to be part of the community and try my best to keep up :)

http://dribbble.com/rockymadden
Genuine question: why the obsession with gigabit? What applications demand it?
$10 million for New Years - I want to party with you. Monaco 2014? ;)
Fantastic point, thank-you! Yes, totally agree. I think we, as developers, often forget this. I think it's definitely about addressing things that people want to do / be.
I may just have to write this above my monitor for the next few weeks, to correct my focus!
Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the tips.

1) I've got a page up at http://www.phpbeyondtheweb.com, as well as the publisher page at http://www.leanpub.com/php. I hope to add to and improve both as I go along.

2) I'm definitely looking at the blogging suggestions

3) No, just my wife (although she was definitely critical!). It's definitely a route I want to go, when the book can pay for it.

4) I'm planning on doing that, when the content has settled some more after I get feedback from readers.
Besides healthcare, taxes, foreign policy, evolution ...
The Mercenary Position: Can Amazon change its predatory ways?
Excuse me for not putting a "trigger warning", as seems to be the recent trend.
it's often straightforward enough to backtrack out a legal vector to investigate the target, and "discover" the information you already knew

This is the general idea behind the technique of Parallel Construction.
What application would demand more than 640k of RAM?

Or, to quote: “One day sir, you may tax it.”.
There is convection off of the bulb, but no flow from any other source. They want to make sure they can sit and take it.
It's a little sad news but exciting as well. I'd rather see John's mind helping push VR/AR and 'cheaper/nimbler/entrepeneurial/hacker-maker/DIY' aerospace forward than churning out yet another 3D FPS game. We have tons of great games/engines of that type already to choose from, and lots of great people continuing to work in that space.
Ask HN: How are you managing your passwords?
I just got an email from Evernote saying that my email/password combo were compromised in the Adobe hack.

Needless to say, these types of compromises have been happening too often. Using the same password for multiple services is becoming increasingly risky.

So, HN, how are you managing your passwords?
I told FB the same thing, too!
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It's like the AOL search-data leak. It's anonymous until you do a bit of research; then you can narrow it down to general area, maybe gender and perhaps eventually who exactly it is. Now, since one person can have multiple wallets and addresses... I'd recommend this person to never use this address again! ...because people(and authorities) will be watching and gathering clues on it from now on. I'm sure the folks at 4chan/neogaf/reddit would love to put on their sherlock-homes hat and find this person.
have you had a chance to check out the site? any advice there?
7,000 sign ups since we launched at noon but conversion ratios not that great. wondering what i can do to improve that (i.e. where should the sign-up modal pop up)... maybe that should be it's own thread.
my earlier comment was for another post! but
i had this open because it looks interesting.
so i'd second the suggestion for a demo site.

-bowerbird
Your td;dr: should go at the top.
Having started working at a company that asked me to do one of these, it was different specifically in that it was paid. This means it's not a waste of anyone's time. A time-constrained, feature-rich project shows a number of things about a programmer including how they handle pressure, how they prioritize their tasks, whether their estimates are reasonable, and whether they know about what you're hiring them for.
Thanks for buying it! If you have any more thoughts or any feedback once you've had a chance to read some, please do let me know (author@phpbeyondtheweb.com). And thanks for mentioning it on your blog. What's the URL (if you don't mind sharing)?
Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA
> Engineers seem to have a certain predilection to talk over people

That's overly general: a lot of programmers may be socially inept, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient. Both the examples from above are pretty anti-social, but they also don't happen to have these skills. Likewise, I know some very good programmers who are also good at requirements gathering and collecting domain knowledge, which entails learning from experts and listening to them.

> The tools we've created for computing are heavily dependent on symbolic logic.

The whole notion of computers, for better or worse, depends on symbolic logic. You'll have a hell of a time building a microprocessor whose instruction set is paintings or dance moves. The best case is that we build an interface from symbolic logic to this new, more approachable paradigm.

> They make amazing interactive art pieces.

How much logic can you put in an interactive art project? Can it model anything in the real world? The biggest problem with other paradigms is density: if you want to program via something other than symbolic logic, get ready for incredible fatigue as you try to turn a 10K LOC program into a 500MP painting. Or an 18 hour long dance.

I guess I should clarify: I don't think non-programmers are lesser beings, or that they can't model anything in their heads. But for the sake of programming, the only thing that matters is if you can model a computer. If you have other types of intelligence, that's fine, just know you're going to have a tough go of it when it comes to understanding the code you write.
Building Pinterest 3.0 for iOS
Big plane, tiny airport
Live music doesn't translate well to a live Internet experience.
I thought the post was good. The short descriptions and images made most of it easy to digest and not so long I got bored.
I certainly will do, if I'm not too busy cruising around the world on my new yatch bought with the profits from the book...;)