skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said it was an insultingly horrible job in the context of the software world. And requiring someone to do the job of four and paying them for less than the fair market value of one is insulting.

insulting to 99% of the world work population (who have much worst jobs)

Many of the benefits you listed are standard in Europe. Full medical coverage is provided by the government, and they have ~30 days of paid leave.
> Anyone who has been in the industry for more than 2 months knows that the "work is family" thing is a nonsensical feel good catchphrase thrown around by manipulative managers.

That might be true in general but in this case it is not.
Anyone can get into the property market with $10, there's lots of managed funds out there that deal with property.

But the reason people don't see the value in these is because you want to gamble low and win high.

These managed funds more accurately show the real market, not the in your head looking at the few people who bought really low and sold really high while ignoring people who have lost money.

(Yes housing is a little different since in many places there are tax advantages on property you'll only get if your name is on the dead.)
App Engine is not just a place to run your code. It has a nice deployment system with the ability to flip between versions instantly. It provides a few great pieces of core infrastructure: the datastore, task queues, and memcache (there are many others, but those are the essentials). The SDK gives you a stand-alone development server for testing locally. If you want to build web apps (or a backend for mobile apps), App Engine is a great way to go.

Compute Engine is for all the other stuff that you can't run on App Engine.

Incidentally, the datastore is now available as a stand-alone service, Google Cloud Datastore: https://developers.google.com/datastore/ This should benefit Compute Engine users.
A friend created some *actually* useful self-help content. It's now only $39.
One Startup Tried Every Marketing Ploy From Ellen to Twitter: Here's What Worked
TLDR: inhouse blog, inhouse PR, SEO, Affiliate blogs, Google adwords.
you are going to get a more intuitively realistic trend-line mapping bytes per dollar rather than dollars per byte.
I just started this web audio app to see if I could make something that translates well to tablet devices, and help me learn php. The server isn't hooked up but the front end works. http://helpknow.com/snd
"Not sure what you mean by 'poorly researched'."

I mean that it was poorly researched. There was no definition of security, no mention of the vast body of related work in digital cash or secure multiparty computation, a weak security analysis, no mention of the fact that polynomial time attacks are usually considered to indicate that a system is not secure (one would think that a different security model would require at least some justification), and so forth. That is not the mark of a solid research paper; the fact that Bitcoin has become so famous or that people are making money with it has no bearing on the quality of Satoshi's own research.
I'm new to these tools. Given your explanation, how does Docker replace a packaged Vagrant machine[0] with all the software already pre-installed (without using Chef)?

[0] http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/package.html
They don't have to.

There are 2 "little ones" they can buy from (and often do without telling folks. Lots of Straight Talk / Net10 / TracFone devices buy from Sprint or T-Mobile without explicitly telling you)

While these smaller carriers aren't always a great replacement (in a lot of areas, for a lot of reasons) they provide enough competition to work well most of the time.

For instance, both AT&T and Verizon now offer $60/month prepaid plans for smartphones with LTE data.

That didn't exist a year ago. If AT&T had been able to kill T-Mobile, it probably never would have happened.
Reminds me about this [0] about why (some) psychopaths make create CEOs.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/06/14/why-som...
Brutal and incisive comment. Both in terms of the (non) value of the comic (I would extend this to every web comic I've personally ever seen), and in terms of its audience.
Not too long ago there was a lot of talk about depression in the startup community, and this is full of real, pragmatic ways to live a happy and fulfilling life.

The creator is an ex-colleague and good friend, and has created some genuinely good content here.

You could technically call this an ad I suppose, but I'm sharing it because I know it can make a difference.
+1 As a general point, illegal activity has entertainment value. Goes for all sorts, especially killing and violence.
Given all of the new investors

How many people buying bitcoins are investors and how many people are just trying to buy something with a transaction that can't be traced back to them? That's a big draw to Bitcoin right now.

To investors, the price you pay matters. To people just trying to buy goods and services with it, it doesn't matter if Bitcoin is at $50, $100, $2000 or $20000.
Do you realize that you are trolling?

Why should they? What's in it for them?
Not sure where you see "spec" mentioned in there?

As you say, Google included asm.js code in Octane 2, and you can see progress on asm.js benchmarks as Google optimizes in ways that help that style of code on arewefastyet,

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=11&view=breakdown&suite=asm...

This is also not something new, Google has optimized for asm.js code since the IO keynote much earlier this year where Google reported a 2.4x speedup on an aggregate asm.js benchmark,

http://culturemass.com/2013/05/17/google-io-2013-keynote-par...

There are many ways to optimize for different types of code. Firefox uses the asm.js type system for asm.js, and does AOT compilation, while Chrome chose a different approach. The two approaches have different benefits. But both browsers certainly optimize for asm.js, they both announced doing so and the numbers are proof that they are succeeding.

edit: add link to Octane 2.0 and the asm.js benchmark added there, http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/announcing-octane-20.html
Your outlook on the world makes me sad. There's such a defensive attitude in this community — for some good reasons, I can understand — but it paints the world in black and white.

How do you know that's how it is? For most companies, "work is family" may be hyperbole, but how do you know it's that way at PA? I don't profess to know, but I don't find it unreasonable that there are companies out there that are different than the ones that I'm accustomed to. Just like I accept that there are people out there that have lives very different than how I've lived mine.
This isn't right - the Chrome team have explicitly said they're going after general optimizations that just happen to help asm.js performance greatly, but are applied regardless of if asm.js is being used or not.
Say Hello to the Apple of Linux OSes
> You should have no problems working in a creative and potentially offensive environment.

For some people, talking about the latest South Park episode can be extremely offensive, for others it's epic fun.
The twins are expecting it to go to a $100 billion market cap, so I don't see them selling any time soon.
Why wouldn't it be real?
You could buy a fraction of a company that rents out houses.
This is not, as far as I can tell, actually supported by the job posting itself.

They literally tell you that you'll work far more than a regular job.

http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522?trk=job_nov

-We are quite literally looking for a person that can do four jobs: Web Development, Software Development, Sys Admin, and the (dreaded) GENERAL IT

-being pushed to your limit is part of the job

-and don’t mind having a really bad sense of work-life balance, this is the job for you.

-We’re terrible at work-life balance

-work is pretty much your life

And here they tell you that you'll be paid poorly:

-We’re more likely to spend less money on salary and invest that on making your day-to-day life at work better.
FlyKly: Electric bike wheel makes commutes no sweat.
Nginx Pro is a bit expensive. I haven't looked into their licensing, but usually with paid software, the biggest issue is activating licenses and stuff, which can't work nicely with autoscaling. One example is when wanted to buy the commercial version of s3fs back in the day - it required running some tool on your server and emailing the guy the hardware signature so that he can email you a key for that server. I'm not saying this is the case with Nginx, but in general, the more strict you make your licensing, the less revenue you're gonna collect. FOSS that charges you for extra features is pretty much doomed - nobody wants to use the less capable version and subconsciously or consciously starts looking for alternatives. Charging for support I truly accept - that's the way to go and it keeps the attitude positive.
Satoshi is a perl programmer
What's a perk in USA may actually be standard in other countries.
When I was involved in sub-contract engineering (more than 10 years ago) our firm had a weird setup. If we sourced the parts we'd charge a 10% fee. The customer avoided that fee if they provided the parts.

It's weird because when we buy off our BOMs from our regular suppliers we'd get well packed components that were easy to goods-in inspect and put to kit. If we needed 250 surface mount resistors we knew we either had a reel, or we would buy a reel because we'd probably use them.

But when the customers supplied stuff it'd come in horrible little bits and bobs. You'd get a strip of exactly 250 SM resistors. (Which is horrible for the P&P machine we were using, and resistors get dropped by the machine a lot). To us it should have been the other way round - "Supply the kit yourself? We charge you 10% (of something) because we still have to goods in inspect it and kit it and etc".

Most manufacturers are happy to do a mix. So, if your product uses one weird IC and you happen to have stock of it, but nothing else, feel free to tell them that you're supplying that part.
Ad hominem is attacking the person rather than their position on the topic at hand. This guy has played his hand and shown us his position.

Now what you want is us to take your personal view of this person as read and ignore his clearly laid out position. So really you're the one being ad hominem, though unusually being supportive (I prefer 'enabling') rather than attacking.

Let's forget who this is and discuss this person's job ad.

EDIT: A pre-emptive clarification: The fact that one could do research on this person makes no difference. The ad is the ad, the details of the person who wrote it are actually irrelevant here.
What you say is true, Chrome is using a general approach to optimize asm.js code, but that does not contradict what the post says. It says that both Firefox and Chrome have optimized for asm.js, and that's correct. For example as reissbaker's comment mentions, Google even added an asm.js benchmark to Octane 2.0. That shows it is optimizing for that style of code, among many other styles of course.
Keep in mind that BB is ultimately a fiction. The bad traits WW poses does not necessary means if you follow that path you will do exactly the same bad things.

I see this story as cautionary tale for underdogs to not try to break free out of grips of existing "natural" state. Try and pay for the consequences. Just get second job and try to be happy
Microsoft to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic
My dad came to the states with 8 bucks in his pocket and not speaking English. He was nearly deported twice and went to Mexico and then Canada finding random agricultural work before returning.

When I started my small business, even with customers in the queue, I didn't have the heart to ask him or anyone else in my family for funding.

I remember hearing stories about 'Patels' who came to the USA. The small but robust tribes of Indian(not Native American) families in each community would then each fork over $1000 to the new family for the purpose of starting a business(hotel or convenient store). One of the older families would then coordinate payments and ensure the new family made payments back to the loaners. It was a zero interest loan.

I'd rather eat macaroni and eat canned food for a month than consider asking mom and dad for money.
Can we also have the discussion that forcing everyone in to competing private entities based solely on profit motivation has some serious downsides to consider?
> E.g. providing a service online that requires a limited amount of processing time and could be packaged in a fairly small program when provided for offline processing?

You mean something like optipng: http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ or pngcrush: http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
I stand corrected and I apologize to Dr. Ron. I am still not sure how much Shamir is responsible for the flaws in this research given that he's not the first author.
For instance, both AT&T and Verizon now offer $60/month prepaid plans for smartphones with LTE data.

And T-Mobile offers a $30 prepaid plan with LTE data, though they don't try very hard to advertise it.
you throw money at Parkinsons thinktanks, and can appraise them on an individual basis for their merits, and put money where your mouth is for the things you care about.

Historically, the "throw money at it" approach to solving problems has not been particularly successful. We're not just talking about a single disease, we're talking about thousands upon thousands of illnesses. Markets are the most efficient mechanism we have yet discovered for the productive allocation of resources. Unless you can show how you'd bring that power to bear on practical medical research in the absence of IP, you're stuck telling a story about how this time, some bureaucracy will get the job done. I'm shocked any libertarian really believes that.
So it's ok to be an abusive arsehole as long as you're honest about it? The only crime is to be a dishonest arsehole?

How about being a decent reasonable human being/employer? Or is that just off the table altogether in this discussion?

With limbo-like justifications like this I'm not surprised these kind of diseased company cultures exist.
It will, if the timeframes for these fluctuations are rapid enough. Imagine converting $1000 of USD you've converted this morning, and by tomorrow when you actually go in to place the order, the price has dropped to $800. You've lost $200 worth of purchasing power overnight!
Either compete or go into a different business. Don't take a bad job.
JSCombiner - GUI tool to combine several javascripts on the same folder
Yev w/ Backblaze here -> Yea unfortunately when we shuck the drives the warranties are voided, but we add that factor in to the costs that we are willing to pay for the hard drives. Truth was, it was cheaper for us to buy the externals and shuck them, even with the voided warranty, than pay the larger fees for internal drives.

Part of the is price sensitivity. External drives are geared towards consumers, who simply will not buy the drives if they go up too much in cost. The internal drives we were buying are targeted at business' who have a choice to make, either buy at the higher price, go out of business, or get creative. We try to go the go creative route because we really don't want to go out of business, and paying the higher prices for drives, especially in this case, would have gotten us there.

As for the negotiation, BrianWski mentioned it in another reply on here, but we keep getting weird answers from vendors and manufacturers. Typically they want a minimum order of about 10,000 hard drives in order to work directly with them and we're simply not willing to buy that many at a time, especially since normally the price goes down monthly, meaning carrying inventory is leaving money on the table.

Love that you enjoy your blog posts, stay tuned ;-)
+1 for these too, I've had mine for over a year now.
At first they were a little un-comfortable on my ears in terms of listening but they're now perfect.

The best part is that you can get any spare part for them from http://spares.sennheiser.co.uk/pro-audio-headphones/hd-380-p... . You could probably build a pair of headphones from the spares site alone.
I'm not sure that the volume is reflecting an increase in demand, at least not a tenfold increase in demand in just a couple of months.

The increment in volume can be the consequence of increased daytrading activity. Once the price started shooting a lot of volatility was introduced in the system, which allowed daytrading. Many arbitrage opportunities also opened up, which probably moved the volume up as well.

Yes, it seems like bitcoin is catching up some speed, but I don't think that this sudden spike in price is demand driven.
HackerNewsOnion MOTD in your Terminal
Adds the latest tweet from @HackerNewsOnion to your Terminal
"Which one is correct" is a philosophically hilarious notion!

but, the prices are different primarily because of cost (in terms of fees for wire transfers and third parties) of getting money in and out of the exchange, ease of doing so (gox is pretty cheap but is taking like 30+ days to get paid), and just access (much harder for chinese to be on gox than btcchina and china also has strict capital control laws that bitcoin seems to be an easy loophole around).

Similar to why cocaine is cheaper in colombia (or miami) than NYC or bumfuck kentucky.
> Frankly, there's not really that much to know

I'm interested in what leads you to believe that.

> other than "Don't pay full retail"

I don't understand what this means in the context of business to business deals. Also, sometimes component suppliers have you over a barrel, and they know it. You'll end up paying way more than whatever retail used to be because you need that component.
I use Mynt [ https://github.com/Anomareh/mynt ] - it's got a small community of users, but the primary author is active and responsive. It uses python and sass.
"Engineering for manufacture" would probably be a useful, money making, website.
Meanwhile, Charter cable's IPv6 page hasn't been updated in over a year, including hints at business test deployments in Q42012. I'm sure there is someone behind the scenes working on it, but nobody I have asked (I'm a fiber business customer) seems to know who to talk to, or when its getting rolled out.
Red Bull and Renault give their V8 one last blast
Google Maps stores a 'tiny' amount of data per person. The surface area of the earth is a little less than 200million square miles or a little less than 2/3 of a square mile a person. at 1 foot accuracy that would only be two 10 megapixel pictures per person not that we actually have maps anywhere near that good of most small towns let alone the oceans or arctic. The only thing that really spit's out data is raw scientific data, but even Nasa just dumps well over 99% of what they collect so it's more of a short term problem.
Comcast should give you up to a /60 if you ask for it, no matter where you are:

https://secure.dslreports.com/forum/r28725662-IPv6-ALL-areas...

Indeed, I can get a /60 here in the Bay Area.
There is a much lower burden for confiscating currency than beyond a reasonable doubt.
I really like the layout of the controls, it's a mix between infographics & some movie-like GUI and it works pretty well.
Pretty sure no human is buying BTC at $1k, this spike has got to be HFT bots arbing across exchanges or making tiny trades, every human is thinking "cool im smart so ill buy when it crashes"
I am pretty sure that just running UPDATE is enough. If an UPDATE happens to get stuck waiting for a lock it is re-evaluated.

EDIT: Found where it is explained in the documentation. I do not see why this should not also apply to JSON.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/transaction-iso.ht...
I read hn a lot on my phone; I super-zoom when hitting any arrows to give me a huge triangle, then zoom back out.
Given that demand started from near zero in China, tenfold growth after legalization of Bitcoin doesn't surprise me at all. The movement in the BTC-USD market looks like arbitrage catching up to the Chinese activity.
Twitter Continues Tweet Recommendation Experiments With Fav Happy Magicstats
Visualization of 500 Startups Investments
How do you think App Engine works? AppEngine runs on the same hardware and the same process described as a how to is nearly identical to what is obfuscated and provided to AppEngine users via a GUI.
I would argue that those that blogs demonstrates their written communication skill, whether it's good or bad is another matter. But I would definitely more likely to hire people that can demonstrate this over those that are unknown.
Ask HN: Do you consider people buying into Bitcoin today as 'early adopters'?
This reality is just a plane ticket away:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
Exactly. This is not left vs right, this is old vs new. The author has (literally) a PhD in Medieval Studies.
Man, the people complaining about this shit are hilarious. I bet half of you people are "libertarians". Nobody has to take this job, and if it means they don't get a good employee, then so be it, that's their business decision. I get worrying about McDonald's employees, many of those folks are living in poverty and have few other options. Anybody who can do this job has a lot of options and even if underpaid will be far from poverty.

When I was 22, I was a small businesses best programmer, IT guy, server admin, CAD draftsman, document writer, butcher, baker, candlestick maker, etc. These kinds of jobs are extremely common in small businesses and honestly it was an amazing and formative experience. You people are being babies.
Man, that was exactly an ad-hominem attack. Exactly.
This whole article is written from the perspective that dark matter developers are by nature worse than the alternative, with the exceptional one amongst them.

"They can be just as capable as you."

It has been my experience that those with the loudest voices are rarely the best at what they do. Far more often it's the people who prefer to spend that time experimenting or learning from others who are the best.
There are other ways to encourage innovation besides creating legal weaponry which are suppressive to individuals and small companies, and provide wide motes against competition to giant corporations. The Nobel Prize, Pulitzer, Fields Medal etc. The X-Prize (a private space craft!) Open source software has resulted in companies achieving billion dollar plus market capitalizations for the companies which created them (orders of magnitude more in businesses based on such sw), successful kickstarters which raise millions for a great idea... In the technology world that we live in, what has created more wealth and technological velocity, patents or open source software? The right to restrict the use of an idea is a terrible idea. It's a global lock on thought.
I'd argue that it WOULD be okay to repost sound files. Just because someone was the first to string together a set of information means that nobody else is allowed to share it?
Which is why I didn't say "child protective services".

Many states have adult/elder protective services, too, not to mention police involvement with general abuse cases regardless of age.

Obviously, PA isn't really doing something worthy of that sort of response, but I'd want to be treated better than "shit wages, shit work-life balance" by a family member.
Would someone please explain how to interpret this or link me to explanation? The y axes are not labeled, and I am not familiar enough with exchanges to infer. Thanks!
I think your analysis is correct, but I'm still downvoting you.
I'm okay with that as long as it cuts both ways.

For example, I will work for you under the understanding that I will keep giving you shit about the "dickwolves" thing until you finally understand what you did wrong -- and no, you don't have to give your kids' entire college savings away to charity.