skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Culture Trip is hiring CTO for London office
The Culture Trip showcases the best of art, culture and travel for every country in the world (with a particular focus on Asia and other emerging markets). We aim to disrupt pre-digital sector boundaries and the geo-cultural status quo.
We are an early stage, very cosmopolitan company based in London (UK). Traffic to our site is growing very fast and now exceeds 100,000 UVs per month w/o any marketing or PR. Similarly, our Facebook audience has expanded beyond the 100,000 followers threshold. We're attracting interest from VCs in US, Israel and UK. If you're passionate about art and culture; have deep Ruby or Python skills; and fancy heading up our tech team, please do get in touch at kris.naudts@theculturetrip.com
Huh? Why is 37 signal taking a PR based ad out of context? Its clear that the message of the advertisement is "You can" and not "You should". I could very well come up with 10+ reasons not to eat dinner late, yet I can clearly comprehend the message behind Taco Bell/Burger King's "Open Late" ads.

Ironically 37Signal's moto can be also be re-interpreted:

"Making collaboration productive and enjoyable for people every day." [1]

Sadly, this whole stunt makes them come across as a smug.

[1] http://37signals.com/
waiting for Linux as well.
First front page article in a while that made me wish for article downvote mojo.
Investigators staged the torture and killing — which included mock waterboarding according to officials — and sent Dread Pirate Roberts about half a dozen pictures, including photos depicting what they said was his corpse.

So much for the absolutely inane "it was all a face-saving ruse" theory of the murder-for-hire scheme.
You're new to Lisp and JVM? (Perhaps new even to Emacs?) The activation energy required to get going in Clojure can be a bit daunting. Cool tool that it may be, I think that kibit should wait until you can drive around with some confidence. Premature optimization and all that, y'know.
Gamer since age of 8 here. Title might be a little too optimistic. What kind of TV programs? What kind of games? Games were most probably suitable for children because they are bought by parents, but what about TV programs if not proprely supervised?
To me that was the most strikingly bizarre 'ideal' presented in Microsoft's source material.
> "Is it just me or this whole thing seems to be a big misunderstanding?"

When thousands upon thousands of people (maybe tens of thousands, maybe more) look at your ad and take the opposite reaction away from it, the fault isn't with the audience.

Microsoft may not have intended to produce a hilarious dystopian ad campaign, but that's what they actually did. There's no misunderstanding, only insanely incompetent execution.

But I mean, "Microsoft marketing fails to get message across and achieves opposite effect" is not even a newsworthy headline anymore.
I'm afraid the spot price of EC2 has never been even close. EC2 GPUs are nVidia anyway, which don't have the specific on die instruction that made ATI/AMD cards so good for mining back in 2010-2012. That's all been superseded by ASIC tech which is already in a race to smaller and smaller feature sizes.

The math can be most easily done at mining.thegenesisblock.com
You can always buy the Heritage Chemistry set bits separately. It's quite easy to obtain most chemicals and glassware worldwide.
Which is worse? Staying at work and missing the game completely, or "working" during the game and missing maybe 25% of it.

Of course attending a kids soccer game and having to check in to work is not ideal, but it's an improvement over being locked in "cell block 9-5".
I LOVE this. Are you going to add a 5 gallon option? Since I've been brewing for a few years, 1 gallon seems sort of pointless.
You could make the case that owning a movie such as Irreversible(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/) would be punishable with jail time under this law.

There are much better laws that could be be put in place, or that already are in place to protect women from sexual violence.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but the way western europe is moving at the moment. It's starting to look more and more like the morality police is taking over.
The book's subtitle is "Office not required." It's about being able to work without having to live the same city or country, and not having to work together with everyone in the same office.

Microsoft's campaign quite obviously shows 9-5 office workers getting things done while away from the office outside of office hours, when -- in 37signals' view -- they ought to be living their lives.

The full quote from your URL: "As an employer, restricting your hiring to a small geographic region means you’re not getting the best people you can. As an employee, restricting your job search to companies within a reasonable commute means you’re not working for the best company you can. REMOTE, the new book by 37signals, shows both employers and employees how they can work together, remotely, from any desk, in any space, in any place, anytime, anywhere."
That also assumes a nontrivial amount of lost wallets, which I have a feeling is not the case...
I think both companies advocate more flexibility in your work, not the fact that you should work 24/7. In fact, 37signals has a 4-day work week (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/893-workplace-experiments).

I work a total of 4 days a week, usually 1 or 2 days a week from home. It's such a great thing to be able to plan your day around your life, instead of making it about your job. This flexibility goes two ways: I get to spend more daylight time with my kids, but that also means I sometimes have to do some work in the evening. This arrangement works perfectly for me, but only because my employer doesn't think 'working more flexible' equals 'more working hours in a day'.
Interesting info! I didn't know about that.

I have a blog post on "quality" coming up: whilst I care a great deal about originality, for my purposes animation is a vector for story, not an end in itself.
Coin: innovating around novelty, not misery
This hyperbole is pretty extreme. Google embodies dystopian fiction because it

1) Didn't fall on its sword to spite the federal government.
2) Wanted to unify the identity systems across its products.

Are you serious?

The third party doctrine is something out of dystopian fiction. Congress and SCOTUS's behavior regarding national security is very 1984. But Google? Really?
Seriously give it a few years. At 4, they'll eat the components when you're not looking.

8 is a much better age to start electronics.
The sentiment that democracy is perverted by economic interests seems legitimate. I don't think the solution is throwing out democracy with the bath water, but I can understand where they're coming from.
Donate Now scoops $100,000 top prize at PayPal’s global hackathon
I'm worried because there is nothing in your voice that speaks to love, art, or beauty.

All I'm hearing is hate, distrust, and of failure.

If you and your technocratic visionaries really want to build a new future you're going to have to do it with love in your hearts. We need a system that expresses compassion and acceptance of all walks of life.

The rhetoric of Thiel and Page if of escapism. Of leaving the system behind. Well, guess what dude, the only system in the known universe capable of supporting life is Earth. Any sort of idealized community in the desert or floating around on a barge is going to need an umbilical chord to the rest of us. You can't leave and start your own brand new world.

It is also "anti-hacker" to not engage with the system in place. An important quality of hacking is to learn the system and how to work within its constraints.
The Art of a Question: How to Begin in Programming
It would be nice if the norm for these "X in N lines of Y" posts didn't count comments toward the line count. (I also wish people would use more descriptive variable names, but I suppose that would make the code longer.) Compact code is a neat trick, but compact, easily readable code is something we can learn from.
Newegg hurtles toward Texas showdown with famed “patent troll”
Need to import from feedly, any suggestions?
I realize this is too late (I've been away from the computer for a few days), but I'll respond anyway.

NO that's NOT what I meant.

I meant that I wouldn't release software that was designed to run on, say Windows XP/7/8.x/..., without running it natively on a machine running those operating systems.

I was NOT talking about virtualized Linux systems. I was talking about desktop software (since we were talking about Cygwin, I guess I thought that would be obvious, but perhaps I should have spelled that out).

Yes, people do still write software for desktop operating systems (I realize that's a shock, and "how 1994 of them!", etc). Yeah, it is nice to have Virtualbox or VMWare, etc to test and debug on (so if something hoses the OS, you don't have to reboot the hardware, and stuff like that), but if the app is targeted at a desktop OS, I'll be testing it in a non-virtualized environment at some point. I wouldn't rely strictly on testing in a Windows VM running in Virtualbox under Linux. Call me paranoid if you want, but I still think it makes good sense.

I do production stuff that runs on a Linux VPS also. That's an entirely different ball game. I'd have absolutely no problem releasing that software after only running it on a virtualized system. Of course, in that case, the target environment is a virtualized system, so the production environment is the same as the development environment.

So, that's my response to you if you were being serious. If you were just trying to be funny, then ... oh never mind. :-D
If you like games, check out the RetroPie project. I just finished mine yesterday. I've got the entire NES, SNES, and GBA rom sets on it.
Hey Clarry, Sorry if it comes across that way. I'm just a fan of Eric Thomas and found the video as rather fitting to the blog content. There's nothing in it for me. - Cem
Congrats, you have thought this through in more detail than any UK official has.
Hi bbx,
Sorry if I could not make clear the market for the product.

Frontend is suppose to be an open-source general purpose web editor.

Beginners can use the visual mode, expert can access the source code to make things better. An ORM database plugin is on its way, along with other many cool features.

I am waiting to see how the project goes before I release the stretch goals on Kickstarter.

We hope you join us too.
Looks really nice! Too bad there's no support for bitbucket...
I don't know, maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think posting personal information online is a good idea.
For Crate, you can either use the standard Alembic C++ or Python API or you can use our Python extension.

For clara.io, you can access the data, run commands or even run scripts on the server using a simple HTTP API. Our examples use curl which should be easy to translate into your language of choice.
I agree and disagree. I think legging into positions is a great way to ensure lower volatility and is a good for psychological discipline. However market timing works in the Buffett sense, when you make a purchase that immediately makes sense no matter (almost) what the asset price does after that. If you could hold forever, you'd simply make money off the dividends. Like buying a house - you can't lose due to price fluctuation (barring a ghost town event) if you planned to make money from rent. But if you bought hoping for capital appreciation, you could get really hurt.
That's a common scam in large companys a while back I did the course in handling discipline cases in BT (a large telco) and the course tutor commented that corruption in letting relatively small contracts was the most common form of fruad/corruption.

Ie. giving a contract for small civil engineering works to your mate for kickbacks.

Of course in Mexico you run the risk of ending up dead if you dont go along with the scam.
BTC does have inherent value.
It is valuable to vendors because it is frictionless money transfer without regard to borders or regulation and very small transaction fees, making it very inexpensive to accept payments from anywhere in the world. It is valuable to authorities because of the public ledger and because it neutralizes the threat of foreign control over money supply. It is valuable to consumers because of its easy divisibility (it is far more divisible than gold) and the ability to spend it quickly and anonymously.

Think of the BitCoin network as a financial superconductor - the resistance to movement is so small that its negligible. Is that not inherently valuable to our economy as a whole?
Where to begin when learning C? Part 2 - Entry points
Tim Schafer, Edmund McMillen, and more crash into Owlchemy’s Dyscourse
Show HN: Use this to pitch your startup over distance
I greatly appreciated all the feedback I received last time, hopefully this article will show for that.
> At 4, they'll eat the components when you're not looking.

This is highly dependent on the kid. My experience is that some are "eaters" and take a long time to outgrow it while others just never really get into the mode of learning by mouth.
That is so far from the article's actual title of "The ultimate OpenBSD router" that it masks what the article is about.
I don't think it takes 3-4 times longer to do something in a web app versus a WinForms app. It all depends on what you are doing of course. Simple grids and data entry type input stuff is simple to do in web apps.
Obligatory (sorry, its a bit off topic):
http://www.amazon.com/AutoExec-Wheelmate-Steering-Attachable...
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Sorry sorich87, I've never heard about your project. I did not create Frontend using Bootstrap (you can plug yourself anyways). The project is built using AngularJS + NodeJS + Vagrant + MongoDB (with support for other databases).
Need a Google App Engine Expert
Trying to switch my app to Google App Engine. It needs to supports an iOS, Android, and web app. I just need a NoSQL db, push notifications, OATH Google User Authentication, and some small compute servers to run jobs.

Can someone advise me on the easiest way to architect this on GAE? Or if there's a better service for this?

Known Languages: Java, Python, Obj-C, A little Javascript
This is the same setup someone might use with Vagrant. Just much faster, thanks to lxc and docker.

Other projects with same functionality:

http://vagrantpress.org/
https://puphpet.com/
"You can" tends to turn into "you should". Accepted norms and all.

I submit that in the given examples of being at the kid's soccer game and family movie night that we should throw away the "you can" and instead think "you should NOT".

You should not be gabbing away on the phone about work, facing away, while your kid is scoring a soccer goal. You should not have your laptop open working on work-related spreadsheets on the couch next to your family during family movie night.

If your job somehow requires this, perhaps it's time for a career re-evaluation. And of course it ultimately comes down to it being your right and your choice, but if you do this, examine the real effect it has on your family. Don't be the dick parent who gabs away on their cell phone during their kids' soccer game.
The best freelance clients I have worked with have been from personal recommendations. Tell every friend who works in software that you are free for work - many of them will be approached by people looking for developers, and can refer you.

Also, look for technology-specific mailing lists, forums and job boards (and stackoverflow careers). The people looking for developers there tend to be more familiar with the process, cost and expectations of hiring a developer than people on "outsourcing sites".
> Is there really such a thing as "other people" when we talk about society?

Are there only ever not "other people"? A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

> Also, Uber's attempts to battle Taxi drivers is a perfect embodiment of preferring the consumer experience over the worker's dignity.

I'm not sure how having an exploitative monopoly is dignified for anyone. I've met plenty of cheerful and dignified Uber and Kabbee drivers (and rude and undignified black cab drivers).
Agreed. Had a brief "aww" wash over me that quickly turned into "but what if... oh no..."
How about a native app for iOS & Android with a big red button that, if they click it and confirm, puts the user immediately on the phone with a suicide prevention counselor.
Reddit Manager: “You have no control - and that's good”
Episode 011: The Gateway Drug
Yeah, brew in a bag is awesome.
Probably caused by someone that was trying to find an SQL injection. It's not really that big of a deal, it's a pretty big edge case to filter out non-relevant searches.
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I've never seen MS shooting themselves in a foot that hard. I didn't believe it was MS original, but it really is! Unbelievable. In many european countries it is illegal to force employees to work overtime without prior agreements or overtime pay. I wonder if that poster will be banned in EU.
Remember "Don't be evil".

The growing up of google felt like story line of Starwar.

Judi night grew up and felt the power of the dark side.
:-)

Also remind me of another line: If you're young and you're not a Democrat, you don't have a heart. If you're old and you're a Republican, you don't have a brain.

Google has "mature" now. :-)
Once you enable companies with the means and the norm to make people work while they are on the toilet, companies will use them and you won't be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
That's close to wha the idea is, except it kind of prevents suicide at a more early stage. But the idea can change, that sounds interesting as well...
The craziest thing about this is that he/she (Cem?) is both correct and a perfect caricature of the thing they are describing.

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Stop it. "Don't be a stranger"? Fuck.

(Artsy picture, probably from Tumblr, with inspirational quote on it.)

Somebody shoot me. We've gone plaid.
Tons of kits like this still exist now a days if you are into guitar playing. kits to build copies of long defunct pedals, or old school tube amps. a lot of fun to make your pedal board, and you can learn as much or as little as you want.

As a kit I cut my teeth on building a hero 1 robot from heathkit before I even learned to write cursive. I often tell people that just to up my geek cred. Luckily the drive to do nerdy things has never really left me.
What are the biggest flaws of Obamacare and How would you fix them?
I'm using feedly but their android app is horribly unreliable. Anyone have a better alternative?
Why wouldn't I want the people who made a product I like to be compensated? You might argue that the actual creators of the show or whatever get a small percentage of the cost of the box set, but that's more than nothing.

It's funny that you brought up Futurama, which is a show near and dear to my heart. I loved that show when it was on Fox and I bought the box sets for every season after they came out. So did a lot of people. The DVDs sold so well (not to mention that the healthy ratings rebroadcasts were getting on Adult Swim) that they made several direct-to-DVD movies. Those sold so well they made several more seasons of the show.

Futurama is far from the only show to be saved by brisk DVD sales. If counterfeit DVDs were tolerated, if nobody bought the first run of DVDs and the direct-to-DVD movies, the show probably would have died.

(The fact that the latter seasons kinda sucked isn't important...)

The point is, if a content creator makes something I like then I want them to be compensated. Buying counterfeit DVDs costs me money but the buying power of that money does not go towards supporting the stuff I like.
This is a simple idea with big potential.

You get to be a superhero to a few people, and that's good for everyone.
Big Data Changes the Metadata Point of View
The system has a code editor for your convenience @alco. I will try to make that more clear.

Also, you will be able to select multiple elements and parent elements and apply the same actions.
Ask HN: Best companies in London to do internship?
I'm doing master degree in distributed computing in UK. I'd like to apply for an internship in London. What are the best companies to apply to? Preferably with the possibility of working on project which could serve as a basis for my master thesis.
Porting a Python Web Service to Go
It's hard to get any detail of the proposed changes from the tabloid Metro (a paper distributed for free, usually by being left on the seats of public transport).

Usually the laws are nuanced. Thus, you can still buy American Beauty even though it has the uncovered breasts of an underage actress.

But this government has done stupid things - and it wouldn't surprise me if they ban pornography of consenting adults with clear disclaimers (and paperwork) that the scenes are simulated and the films contain pre- and post- scene interviews with the actors.
I couldn't agree more. This has something like 4chan spam written all over it. They have done much worse, from much less. It's messed up, but it's a sad truth.
No, you would have $1500 in bitcoins. This feels completely different to having the same in $, because you've already made the leap.

Only if you had invested and cashed out would you have $1500. And then you might feel exactly the same as you do now in a weeks time. Then again bitcoin might crash and you would feel good for getting out now.

If you want to invest you have to be entirely willing to lose all of that money. You can't lose money that you didn't invest so it is pointless thinking about the past.
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I have a copy of Sergio Leone's "Once upon a time in America" on DVD, which has two rape scenes.

It also has a sex scene involving a minor and shows Robert De Niro's character smoking opium.
A tour de force article by SEO's cryptic genius. Michael Martinez loves to write headlines that everyone wants to read then tear apart all the assumptions usually associated with said headline. This time he drops the bomb on link building, a huge part of SEO consulting.
Former Mozilla intern here. I started contributing to the codebase since a few weeks ago. There are good bugs to find and I can tell you from person experience that contributing to large open source project like Firefox is satisfying. Though contribution is no brainier: it's difficult because there are things you can't understand. A lot of classes are not documented and you literally have to read multiple files to just grasp 1% of what that class does... hopefully we can do better on that part. But IRC is useful most of the time (to get a quick answer), espeically #security, #mozwebqa and #extensions. I am still waiting for review and landing my patch...

If you want to do some testing not direct firefox development, consider #mozwebqa.
Postmortem for "Papers, Please"
I guess Racket amongst other things makes me want a lisp system with languages as lib-dsl sharing s-exp syntax.
Netflix has plenty of these animations, and it's hard to keep my son off them. Some of them are real bad, like this one - Legend Of Kung Fu Rabbit - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1876517/
> But there are, I'd suggest, a fair number of people who'd like to attend the game but don't have that choice.

Even more nefariously, I've worked (mostly in DC) with a large swath of people who would prioritize a work meeting over their kid's soccer game. Something like this allows them to add in some work-life balance to their (ahem) lives without forcing them to miss a business opportunity unnecessarily.