skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's like a cellphone that you cant call anyone with. No one really cares if it's 1000 times easier to use if you can't call your friends.

And now you know why they're unifying their account system under Google+. Being able to include everyone who has ever had a YouTube or GMail account in their social network means that suddenly, people you know _are_ on Google+.

This is nothing new. This is basically the sequel to the YouTube -> Google Account transition that happened a few years ago, except this time it's in a post Google Reader shutdown world so Google is no longer the darling of Hacker News and Reddit commenters.
Meh, there is a wide variety of rigor and selectivity in these programs. While I admit there are a lot of junk grads from junk programs right now, hiring from the top third/half of the more selective bootcamp programs (e.g. App Academy which requires no upfront payment, ~10% acceptance rate, 10% attrition, taught by an ex-googler) and you'll find people who are ready to start implementing features and adding value to your business without a lot of handholding. You'll find people from other technical backgrounds, who wanted to learn web development in an intensive environment. You'll find people from very good universities. You'll find people who have demonstrated ability to work long hours and ramp up quickly. And they're the kind of people who believe enough in themselves to go all-in, often quitting jobs and moving across the country with their life savings to learn how to build things for the web.

Bootcampers lack the mathematical rigor of fresh CS grads, but most of the value in web products doesn't come from writing proofs or optimizing algorithms. And if bootcampers are creating value, I don't see why they shouldn't be compensated appropriately. The market seems to agree, since these people are getting hired.
Yes, the gold window was closed (as was predicted by The Triffin Dillema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma ). It was replaced by the petrodollar. Oil could only be paid for in US dollars. Lately we have seen more and more counties trading in their own currency amongst one another. (Mainly China and BRICS). The fact that the EURO does revalue gold's price to it's market price and the dollar does not is also very interesting.
Really? Am I not looking in the right place? I bought during the sale and they want $99 from me. Of course, I bought the full-blown IDEA, and not one of the derivatives.
Overall some good takeaways; this caught my attention though:

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated. The reason is because I think that management’s ability to predict what to work on or what’s going to be useful is actually very low.
What would you call the middle ground between the two of them? I feel like I spend a lot of time reading, but I just can't bring myself to blog. I've had one for years that has maybe 5 posts. It's a combination of being tired at the end of the day, feeling like I have nothing useful to say (that hasn't already been said), and generally not thinking about it.

It's also a similar story with Stack Overflow. When I think to try and answer questions, they've already been answered by people more knowledgeable than me.
The string 'micr' does not appear in the article. What are you blithering about.
>If they are rejecting patches for features that impinge on their enterprise offerings and you have an issue with how the project is run now, you are welcome to not contribute, fork, or use another project.

Which is precisely what is being argued.
Check your cable modem SNR.

Also, do you have a DOCSIS 3 modem?
Ahg.

Log in with Facebook.

No vote from me.
Interesting, rigged to let Miley win?

http://www.dailydot.com/news/time-person-of-the-year-miley-c...
Well, my first "real" app in my mind was an international clock for Mac OS X. This was back when OS X was brand new and wasn't even the standard operating system on Macs, so I really didn't have any good existing options. I had a lot of friends in different time zones and I had trouble keeping track of who was likely to be available at a given time, so I made an overlay dashboard that I could glance at to see what time it was in whose area.

I'd made a bunch of little games and DHTMLy web pages before that, but that was the first one I thought of as an app I'd made.
Let's make a parallel here.

People go back and forth about global warming. . errrr. . climate change. Does it exist, doesn't it? My view is even if it doesn't exist, shouldn't we act like it is, just in case, so that if it really does exist, we can say we already mitigated the damage?

You should really act the same way with these bubble stories. Is there a bubble? Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. Either way, shouldn't you just plan like there's a bubble to protect yourself?

Snapchat is a great example. Although I can understand Snapchat's co-founder's altruistic view of life, in these time, you gotta take the money and get out while you can. If there is indeed a bubble, those billions will evaporate in a few minutes, never to come back again. At just think what other really cool stuff you could build several BILLION dollars. . . .
So it's just a nice 'screw-you' to the other people that contributed.
The point behind capitalism is making more money faster.

This is why Zynga and Lockheed Martin exist.
TIME Person of the year was never meant to be the best person, but instead the most influential person.

They picked Hitler in 1938.
JS is fine; in the same way that is fine to use a sandbox shovel to dig the foundation of a house. Languages are designed for a purpose, though they can be used for all sorts of things.

There is a larger upfront cost to learning the right language for the right job. However, many people opt to try to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Yup. Just include the torrent file and then one or more HTTP URLs. It will use the torrent metadata to validate HTTP chunks too.
I wish I had this back when I had a job that I wanted to leave early.
The person they editors pick != the person that wins a silly internet poll.
Considering the fact that we know 99.9% of people blindly click through agreements, this is the way it should be.

This is just a bald-faced non-sequitur.
Hitler was Time's man of the year at one point; they don't limit it to people who are altruistic.
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Everyone here is well aware that TIME's editors choose the person of the year, and that the poll is a mere sideshow which at most might influence the editors' choice, right?

Cf. moot and /b/'s votespamming.
There are also entire dark matter companies. Small tech companies that just launch, run, and make a comfortable living for the employees. They are not trying to be huge, not trying for a huge exit, not trying to make news. Just trying to build and work for a good company and live a good life.

Those of us who are "dark matter" developers really like working for these small, quiet, solid companies.
They could really reduce that fee if they started accepting payments in Bitcoin!
Did you repay 0% of investment, or 100% of principal with 0% interest?
The former is awful, the latter is a bit less awful.
The only thing one can learn from Breaking Bad is you eventually get killed dealing illegal drugs, and put your family in danger.

There is nothing romantic in BB,it's a gruesome description of a world you might want to avoid at all cost.
bravo.

as much as i struggle to think of something where i would use this by design, every time i've been forced to try and use some *nix-y tools on window it has been a nightmare of cygwins and mingws... i can see the desire for this.

on the other hand i'm yet to meet one of those problems where, with a little thought and not having my hands tied, i can't remove the needless dependency and end up with a better development environment too.
The Start-Ups Trying to Kill the Credit Card
People take those disclaimers way out of context, so I avoid them. (Google my name to see how I learned this the hard way.)

Most long-time readers of HN know where I work, and I target my comments in that direction, rather than to anyone that happens to stumble upon this page. My apologies.
Miley Cyrus, the epitome of American greatness.
It's worth noting that the TIME person of the year and the 'winner' of this poll are not necessarily the same. The TIME editors will choose whoever they like.
> I'm starting to doubt that this kind of thing is hyperbole and starting to think people actually believe it.

I'll re-word what I said to be clearer.

>>But in America, with no social safety net, the alternative is not pretty.

But in America, the social safety net is so grossly inadequate by developed country standards, the alternative is not pretty. America is the only developed country that has many fully employed working people living below the poverty line and ~10% of the population with no health care. (EDIT: re-worded to be per capita, not outright numbers)

This system is such a disgrace, people are forced to take the aforementioned jobs, proving they have no choice.

Ask people from any other developed country, and they'll be shocked, disgusted and outraged that people in a supposedly developed country must live that way.
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The FDA can't be everywhere, but Coca-Cola (makers of Vitamin Water) got a Warning Letter from the FDA back in 2008 over their health claims for diet Coke!

http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2...
I've alluded to this in other comments but a lot of the mathematics is linear algebra. As gaius mentions, check out the wikipedia article. There are plenty of linear algebra books out there. Recently I've really enjoyed the book by Meyer which is free although it does get quite advanced and is mostly theorem / proof-style. It's also free so who can complain.

http://matrixanalysis.com/DownloadChapters.html

Here is a link I found yesterday which gets you solving the 2D NS equations.

http://lorenabarba.com/blog/cfd-python-12-steps-to-navier-st...

I've take a quick look through it and it seems pretty good. It introduces many of the most important ideas of solving PDEs. Obviously there are huge tomes on various techniques to solve the Navier-Stokes equations but this link, I think, does a pretty good elementary introduction. A more comprehensive treatment would require a more thorough background in mathematics (e.g. I wrote a 2D NS solver using the vorticity formulation and FFTs but to understand the equivalence requires a greater background).

As for the cool visualisation, I cannot help you. I don't know any fancy graphics programming since I normally use the built-in plotting tools of Python and Matlab.
I wanted to build my own for my website, so here it is, a command line tool released as an npm package: http://thibaultcha.github.io/Equiprose/

- It's using Jade and Stylus for templating.

- It's a commande line interface.

- Natively supports emojis, a la GitHub.

- YAML for configuration and Markdown for redaction.

- You can create as many websites as you want, they can all be configured differently and be served on test servers or build to their output directory.
There's a reason why a currency that is rapidly appreciating in value encourages hoarding. It's not a fallacy - if you have reason to believe your currency will be worth more tomorrow, you shouldn't spend it unless you absolutely have to.

On the other hand it makes a lot of sense for vendors to accept BitCoin for the very same reason. If you are a vendor, why wouldn't you want to accept something that could appreciate in value 10-fold, 20-fold tomorrow? Unless, of course, you instantly convert it into dollars.

This is why BitCoin will eventually be useful as a currency. This produces a network effect. More vendors will accept currency because it is so valuable so the currency will become more and more useful to consumers as time goes on. The value of being in the network is enough of a reason to join the network, until some plateau is reached.

I don't think BitCoin will be particularly useful as a currency until it stabilizes in value. Until then from a consumer's perspective it is probably most used as an investment.
I was about to vote for Snowden, but the irony of having to "connect with facebook" put me off.
I am always amazed that people who blog, tweet etc. a lot think they are somehow "pushing things forward". Actually, it's people who write a lot of working code who push things forward. Maybe they blog too, but maybe not. Tweeting and blogging does not mean you are productive or on the cutting edge of anything meaningful.
Exactly. The American dollar is backed ONLY by the good faith of the U.S. government. It is not backed by gold at any Federal Reserve Bank as it used to be until 1933. After 1933 privately held gold was confiscated and it's price in dollars revealed upwards.
I know things were terrible for everyone during the dot bomb era, but just wanted to say that PhD holders often have a hard time finding the right position even in good times. They are highly specialized and believe they should command a high salary, but employers are resistant to paying a large premium unless their particular expertise serves their business need. Since PhD theses are by their nature esoteric, this leads to an unfortunate mismatch in expectations.
I think that assuming most liberals believe "Property is theft" is a little extreme.

That is a statement/sentiment I have only heard from people who self identify as anarchists.
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This is to say, lurkers can be just as thoughtful, as intelligent, and just as competent as those up on stage.
Can I ask why JS is no good? (Genuine question)

I thought the only consideration would be speed? The algebra is mainly looping. Isn't that way most languages try to handball algebra to LAPACK/BLAS?
As a person with a computer science degree and years of experience in the software industry, I would love to be chosen for a jury like this so I could do my part in smacking down a troll. However I realize this will never happen precisely because I actually know something about the subject. Sadly, jurors are chosen for their ignorance and gullibility.
thanks for introducing me to this term - and also the original blog post. :)

(no, not everybody had heard of it already)

there are a lot of these guys out there - i've worked with some, and whilst the generalisation is poorly motivated it is generally accurate. a good proportion of these kinds are in the job for money, stability, parental pressure etc. and care little to improve themselves or their work. they do a 9 to 5, just like you would if you were stacking shelves in a supermarket.

its a rare person who tries to excel at shelf stacking.
Pretty sure Amazon is pro-patent (see "one click")

You hit on a more important point: the real issue is the patent law. In East Texas there's a certain ideological slant, and it sucks for legitimate companies. But in the end, they're merely implementing the law. Pretty sure punishing a municipality because of verdicts in a federal court there would result in a fist in the mouth from the FTC. Marshall, Texas, or Boston, or San Francisco, or wherever, results in zero change - the real effort needs to take place in Washington DC.
> The point behind capitalism is the assumption that people are motivated by money but that the profit motive can be channeled toward ultimately being good for the public.

Uh... who makes this assumption? As far as I know, no economist has ever assumed capitalism was for the "commmon good". The problem with even mentioning the "common good" is that it's subjective. It's sounds great in theory, but exactly who decides what's "good" for everyone else?

imho, Laissez-Faire is like Democracy, except people vote with dollars. So the whole "adults will be adults" idea is actually more accurate.
Don't concern yourself with labels. Apply yourself, learn new stuff and meet new people who work in the industry :) You'll figure out the rest.
> but the high lifetime exemption virtually assures that nobody who isn't extremely rich will ever hit the gift tax even with direct cash gifts.

and once you pass $5M, it is simple enough to set up a trust or corporation to give the child control of the funds.
I prefer acting on intelligence (data) not speculation, especially when it comes to how I spend my life.
you're right, they don't owe anyone anything, but no one is saying "You MUST do what I say".

The story is clearly pointing out what appears to be a flaw, that has being patched, but won't be accepted, because of a conflict of interest. It's something to make noise over, and eventually, something to fork over.

People make noise so it doesn't come to that. Very reasonable, if you ask me.
I probably didn't save as much as the OP, but I saved a good $1000 of my domains. You see, domain registration becomes addictive, when you get an idea, you are so convinced that it would work and it will make you rich (probably) over night. I've fallen for this trap too, I registered some top notch domains in a span of 2 years, amounting to a total of ~50+ domains because of that sudden impulsive urge - "Oh, it's available! I should register it ASAP!"

Contrary to popular belief, there is (in my personal experience) not much (monetary) value for domains as the registrars and the others might want you to believe. I registered some really short, cool names that were estimated by 'domain experts'/appraisals estimating some of my so called premium domains for $1000's of dollars, yet in the end, I had to pay money to domain marketplaces (like GoDaddy) to list my domain for sale, only to discover that the demand isn't just there at all. A few scammers contacted me about their domain appraisal and brokerage services and that was just it. And unless you have a really really valuable domain that has some actual traffic in it, this is not worth investing your money in.

So, I just let the domains expire one by one. At first it was kind of painful, but after two painful years and after losing $1000+ dollars, I can tell you that when you have the actual product ready, the domain will be the least of your problems.
I'm wary of equating "care little to improve themselves" with "do a 9 to 5". The two are not related.
>They may still know the latest design patterns, tools and techniques just as well as you do. They just choose not to talk about it.

I don't think this was the original "Dark Matter Developer" definition. If you read the original article (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen9...), you will see that he specifically says they don't keep up to date. They just do what they know, go home at the end of a day, and live a life.
Exactly right. This looks nothing like the '90s, and I wish to god people (and media outlets) would stop crying, "bubble!"

If you honestly think the current Silicon Valley looks anything like 1999, you don't understand what happened in 1999.
Am I the only one who thinks that "dark matter developer" does a terrible job of describing its intended meaning? I had never heard of the term and I certainly couldn't extrapolate what is meant by it just based on the name. What's more, it has a built-in negative bias due to the term "dark". As a developer who falls somewhere in between "dark matter" and not, consider me not a fan of this terminology.
my co-founder is one such dark matter developer... but, sometimes i feel its good... cause it actually keeps him more focused on working than hacking for fun !!! But, yeah..it does bring in a lot of demerits
Elon Musk for sure.
That's similar to saying "don't get a mortgage, save up and pay cash for a house when you can afford". It is an inefficient way to allocate capital.

Proof: Nearly every large (and many/most small!) business in the world started with a loan or investment.
Yeah it's not a bad point. If you care about it (feature, product, whatever), that's at least 1 person in the marketplace who would want it :)
Much better to use actual data. Snapchat is one tiny company in a vast ocean, and trying to pretend that its behavior somehow means we're in a bubble is ridiculous.
That infographic is truly awful and I feel sorry for the poor guy who spent a few hours putting it together and carefully aligning stuff until it's 'just right'. Know when to kill your baby - it's never too late to walk away from something that isn't working.
It makes sense when you look at historical development, but there is no reason to learn separate notations now without learning all sides :).
Yeah, like I'm going to use that in a production environment.

The libevent bindings are pretty wobbly in most languages other than C, with the exception of things like NodeJS. Plus, that project is pretty much abandoned.
this is really cool! it's not just for GIF's, but all video though.
I hope someone makes a bot that skews anyone's votes but Miley's to stop her from winning.
Social Media or Search Engine: Which Is the Best Source of Traffic for Blogging?
Update, Cyrus is now ahead of Snowden with a comfortable lead.
I would argue that the original definition isn't even about lurkers. It's about the developers that aren't even reading the latest tech/programming news. They have been using the same IDE/language/environment for the last 10 years and are just happy where they are at.
Actually capitalism has no point. It's just the natural system free and selfishly motivated societies develop overtime--it needs regulation to ensure that the utility produced is allocated towards the common good
Regarding the banners, you say that the banner will be on the scalenpm.org site, anyway to get on the npmjs.org site or somewhere else with greater visibility?
actually i heard he was rejected for man of the century/millenium for precisely this reason.

without a question he has had the largest impact on modern history of a single individual from the past 100 years.
A company that is successful enough to still be a going concern 5-7 years later is generally in good enough shape to either pay off the original investment (not converting the "convertible loan"), or make interest payments, or raise new money to buy out the original investors[].

[] In a case like this, buying out the founder's mother is less of a red-flag than buying out the Angel investor.
0% it is awful, but at that scale, it is very frequently how things are done. The other common off-off-scale money raising method is to make your actors agree to take responsibility for N# of tickets per performance, so they either sell them, or it comes out of their pay if they can't. Lot of pestering friends to buy tickets to your shows. I was never willing to work for a production that did that, as I wasn't comfortable mixing the work with sales in that way, but in asking for money from friends and family, I don't know that investment was the proper word.

In addition to asking for money from family, I also filed grant applications, and both were treated similarly. None of the people giving had any expectation of a return, but I think they similarly had no expectation that they would ever be asked again, or that we would squander profits as we did.