skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually originally had something related in my post but removed it: I won't personally consider the site I work on a success unless my mom uses it. She's a physics PhD and she once in a while stumbles onto physics.SE when searching online but she doesn't actually use the site.

I think SO and Server Fault are the size they are because they have an intrinsic advantage over our other sites. People in the target audience work and live in the same tech ecosystem as a website, with something like physics that's an initial burden.

SE itself also has a high barrier to entry. Every one of our sites has it's own rules and definition of what type of content is acceptable. This is for a very good reason, seeking out absolute answers to questions. Most other websites on the internet live to foster discussion, but we're not a forum.

Making stack exchange a common name (in more than our sizable niche) is one of our company goals, but I don't really know what we can do to get past the initial issue I mentioned and reducing the second would hurt our product.

It's quite an interesting idea to be more proactive about bringing thought leaders to out lesser known sites, I don't know if we could do it just directly since most thought leaders are very busy people who already have a dozen places people ask them questions but it's something to think about. We already consider expertise of contributors in Area 51, our incubator for new website ideas.

Perhaps while we may not be able to get the top 1% of thought leaders onto our websites without giving them a really hard question to answer (my mom loves difficult questions, god knows how many times she used to run into my room and say she solved a question I asked her in passing days prior) but it might be possible to bring in up-and-coming thought leaders. A lot of my friends from the health and fitness industry (were I used to live) might want to use our Physical Fitness Stack Exchange site to foster their own personal brand.
Why Google Needs 'Don't Be Evil'
Four years in Indonesia - Part 1
Do I read between the lines that they want to remove you so that you don't get your share of any increases in company valuation? Being "uncooperative" could further undermine your chances of sharing in any future gains.
It sometimes does, but that's not really relevant when you're talking about a specific person, whose name is on the top of the page in question.
Twitter Is About To Officially Launch Retargeted Ads
I've started to sign up to sites with a unique email address based on the websites URL.

E.g. If I signed up to Myspace I would use Myspace@exampledomain.com

I have the mail server at "www.exampledomain.com" set to accept all emails under the domain so I can see if someone has passed on my details legitimately or via hacking.

Since I've started about 12 months ago I've not found any cross pollination which seems a good sign for the industry in general.

It also adds a layer of security as your sign-up email changes for different websites if you use the same password across several.
> There is no such standard for computer people.

That does not make our decisions inconsequential. And yes, we should talk a lot more about ethics in compsci courses.

As for people who work on things like PRISM, it often happen in small steps, one ethical shade of gray at a time. When you get to a PRISM, your worldview is so completely distorted, you think it's a natural thing to do.
I find this title misleading.

What this post describes is a 2-of-3 multisig, which adds further encumbrances in constructing a valid transaction.

But any transaction, once broadcast, is irreversible.
Nothing can beat a quick search and hitting the direct answer on even very basic question.

SO saves time and nerves of countless newbies, myself included from RTFM-ing through each vendor's convoluted ways of presenting messy instructions or being abused on IRC by OP's :)
Maybe our world is in total chaos compared to some hypothetical Earth where everyone is perfectly rational. We are just used to it.
Related:

World's shortest commercial flight? http://vimeo.com/72343999

Four years in Indonesia - Part 2 http://indopilot.blogspot.com/2013/11/four-years-in-indonesi...
I use this for a little more entropy:

LANG=C tr -dc "[:print:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 32 | head -n 1
Break something before you finish your day. Fix it first thing next morning.
I had a look at the group theory page. This is definitely something that should be taught more in basic math so I was glad to see it there. But I must admit i was disappointed at the notation: yes it's colourful, but totally useless for doing calculations. And why use the plus sign for combining transformations? That seems a bit shortsighted.. John Conway's books are still much better than this somewhat chaotic webpage. It's super hard to present mathematical ideas, cool widgets are not enough.
So... when you're not a consultant with a need to impress people, you instead redirect the conversation to subjects other people know, which interests you? :-)
Stop saying that someone should stop saying anything
International connections via fabulous airports, centrally located in USA, cheap labor, can-do spirit, business friendly politics, not freezing weather, and it's where JR called home :) reasonable media/advertising companies.
Veteran founded startup makes being away from home a little easier
He's been handling the San Francisco branch of the Prenda Law insanity, too. He does not seem like a good judge to BS.
This is great. I had read about the M of N multi-signature support before but from what I understood, it was half baked and not supported at all. I'm glad to hear that it's usable.

Is there built in support for paying the mediator a percent or fixed fee from the transaction or is it expected the buyer or seller would just pay them in a separate transaction?

I paid for an asic bitcoin miner using bitcoins and after 10 months of non-delivery I really wanted to just get my money back but then I realized I couldn't. I had been so accustomed to being protected by credit card chargebacks and bank reversals that I just didn't think about a bitcoin payment as being non reversible.

It actually made me really cautious about paying for ANYTHING on the internet with bitcoin because it is so easy for the seller to rip you off.
It should be named the basilisk bias.
I'm not completely convinced that they were genetically identical to ourselves, we used to evolve quite fast, and faster still after we developed agriculture.

Anyway, if you look at tribes native to the America, about all of them knew about agriculture (it's in their culture), but not all established an agricultural society. What we are calling "developing agriculture" probably is a much more complex phenomenon, with several different (near) contemporary developments, and probably none of them was learning that plants grow from seeds.

* Ok recent humans certainly were similar, and agriculture could probably have appeared a few thousand years earlier, I'm not sure we can extend that to hundreds of thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands.
"most people in population centers use or have used the internet" 80% is "most" by lots of definitions.
I totally respect that this is an issue that is important to people. I'm not opposed to these changes in the docs. I'm opposed to these being the only changes in the pull requests. You want to crusade on this agenda? Earn it. Submit a non-trivial pull request with a bugfix or feature and bundle these changes that matter to you in with them.

This is a perfect example of a group being it's own worst enemy. Alex Gaynor is not the group. The community is the group. If this matters to Alex then he should have bundled it with something that matters to the community like a pull request with changes of utility like a bugfix or feature.

If and only if Alex had contributed something of universal value to the community in the pull request and was still called out by people for that comment change in the pull request would he actually be correct in his accusation of misogyny and gender discrimination. Instead he led an unjustified lynch mob against someone who has contributed far more than him to libuv.

I'm staunchly opposed to the use of pull requests as a soapbox and unjustly crucifying someone who did not deserve it, and judging by the upvotes, I know I'm not alone in this opposition and support of an unjustly persecuted person.
The source is this SpiderLabs blog post:

http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-po...
Fizzbuzzing the C++ type system
As someone who can never seem to catch up on his news-feeds or podcast lists (and I've pared those down more than once), this resonates with me. I wonder if I can cut each of those in half.
Well, you can't control individuals perceptions - everyone brings a bias to the table - but you can control the aggregate perceptions by being consistent. The point being that if you are always trustworthy, that fact eventually gets out, and it then doesn't matter what your face is like.

It is the same as Wikipedia being not necessaarily right on every singe detail, but being correct in aggregate. People should aim to be like Wikipedia - not flawless, but reputationally good.
USB connectors don't have any intelligence, they're just a way to connect a few wires together. In that sense, they work exactly like PS/2, AT keyboard connectors, Atari 2600 joysticks, and headphones. The only differences are the shapes and locations of the individual connections.

The lightning connector isn't passive, it contains some active circuitry, so it's not nearly as simple.

Edit: seems I misread the meaning.
This is so absolutely true. What nobody recognizes is that most of these really fundamental systems we run on - unix system calls, our window managers, our shells, etc - were designed and implemented in an era where the supercomputers couldn't dent your Nexus 5 in terms of most computing performance metrics.

They didn't have the luxury of having an API that might be a few thousand KB big loaded into memory to act as a single redirection to your underlying implementation. They worked in the confines of bytes of memory, not gigabytes.

We can afford to be generic, to make extensible runtime programmable interfaces and runtime evaluation type dynamism, because we have the performance necessary. But our core APIs are still written like its 1980.
Yet, do you have any explanation for why that process looks like an exponential? It does not fit the "rate of change is proportional to raw size" template that normally creates exponents in nature.
Right, that was confusing. What I was trying to say is that USB was an improvement on PS2, where the mouse and keyboard ports were identical to the user.
In case anyone is interested the primary source for the article is the following blog post (it is slightly buried):

http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-po...
Rolling Hypocycloids
$2 < $30, innit.
That's not what I said at all???
Good for you! I started to do these "physical breaks" also this fall and it's been quite a kick to my productivity. Spending every break on HN / Reddit / FB is not actually a break anymore and it really starts to get tiring to your eyes.
Don't the instances of "parallel construction" already uncovered mean that the whole "restricts actions against Americans" thing has been blown wide open?

I suspect the answer to whether this was been written into law lies in secret interpretations of secret passages of the PATRIOT Acts, and that our rights have been, in secret, broadly abridged if not suspended.
Hell, you could throw a quad core Athlon and a 7790 in a $400 rig and still smoke the ps4 / xbone.

Something like $40 case + PSU, $40 8gb stick of ram, $50 matx motherboard, $70 cpu, $50 500gb hard drive, and a $100 7790 (or even better, the recent price cut 7870s for $130) and you are still under $400.
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-securit...
Some tips I've picked up include:

* Emphasize that the goal is fairness. You're not negotiating out of a sense of greed, just a desire that the transaction be fair.

* Focus more on having a good BATNA (best alternative to the negotiated agreement) than on being good at negotiating. In particular, this means try to have multiple offers before you start negotiating any of them. Some of my most stress-free negotiations have been when I essentially just acted as an intermediary middleman between two (or more) parties.

* The outcome of the negotiation is dependent on the least skilled negotiator, not the most skilled. Some of my most stressful negotiations have been against people who cared more about getting the proper respect or not losing face vs getting a good outcome. It's gotten to the point where it's just too stressful negotiating with bad negotiators. It's easier to just say no.
> I am someone who reads the man pages and does a lot of experimentation before turning to a Q&A site

I feel similarly. I'm uncomfortable asking for help on stackoverflow, a mailing list or IRC if I haven't tried everything I could think of to work something out. I always have this[1] in mind when I do end up writing a question. I almost think it should be required reading.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
An hour a day of focused work. I'm approaching a hundred straight days of work on a Kickstarter that, as my first, brought in almost a grand last week.

Sleeping more. I remain under-rested, especially since my day-jobs have always frowned on naps, but I'm making slow improvements. You may not realize how much of a difference it makes until you actually get a good night's sleep.

Getting better sleep. Get tested for sleep apnea. Avoid blue lights for at least an hour before bed. Find someone or something you can cuddle with in bed. I'm serious about the latter; we're a gregarious species and sleeping alone is unnatural and stressful.
Hi! Welcome to the english language, is this your first week?
What's the protection against double spending given that the transaction isn't yet broadcast? Imagine that I am the buyer and as soon as I receive the goods I double spend what was on my key. If the third party signs the transaction, wont it fail because the funds will already be spent?
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> 1. Linux Mint is Linux. People who run it say "I'm running linux." 2. Linux Mint does not run steam. People who run it say "Steam doesn't work on Linux Mint". 3. This means that the linux market is fragmented.

Hmm. perhaps you'd like some reality:

1) Person who says they run it says "steam doesn't work on linux mint" 2) others come out and confirm that it does actually work on Mint. 3) you argue with person that makes original claim, and ignore that it actually does, in fact work. 4) When pointed out that LM does work with Steam, you reply that you don't follow the argument. 5) you then decide to expand on this false premise that something isn't working with a specific flavor of linux by comparing it to Android fragmentation, even though there isn't a case of fragmentation actually happening.

You still are unapologetic for your ad hominem, and decided to double-down on the fragmentation issue to move the goalposts.

To reiterate: Steam works on all reasonably-current flavors of Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Arch, Slackware, and even Gentoo.
Well sure, but all that seems to indicate to me is that things are always getting worse.
My resolution is poor. It's all I can do. It's God's temple.

God says...
chill_out oh_oh stuff Wow sex you_shouldn't_have genius
on_the_otherhand you_do_it cracks_me_up bummer hype you_see_the_light
hard_working overflow I_can't_believe_it hobnob I_made_it_that_way
perfect husband That's_my_favorite fer_sure climate Burp
you're_fired huh catastrophe ahh_thats_much_better envy
if_and_only_if do_it Greek_to_me arent_you_clever Mars
commanded do_I_have_to Greece eh praise you_don't_say
scorning experts Oh_Hell_No ahh happy_happy_joy_joy Shhh
birds I'm_busy look_on_the_brightside Percival God_smack
I'll_get_right_on_it overflow beep_beep You_know liberal
Venus you_are_my_sunshine ROFLMAO Dad rocket_science manufacturing
conservative how's_the_weather catastrophe heads_I_win_tails_you_lose
I'm_beginning_to_wonder tiffanies Yes_you_are clever crash_and_burn
it's_hopeless now_you_tell_me blessing in_a_perfect_world
genius peace merry_christmas husband nasty no_more be_quiet_bird
rocket_science could_it_be___Satan tree_hugger hard_working
test_pilot
I'm not bikeshedding on the topic of gender. I couldn't care less about that topic. That's not my battle[0], which is why I keep focusing on other aspects of all this that are important to libuv and open-source. I'm defending an unjustly persecuted person of great value to the community and the antisocial open source behavior of using pull requests as a soap box. If debating those two issues are bikeshedding, then I'm happy to bikeshed about them.

[0] but people seem to think it is and that I'm opposed. I don't know what I've said to contribute to that illusion.
A big problem with this is that the government does not specify how the matching is to be done, so everyone errs on the side of flagging people who clearly (to a human) do not match. It's just "here's a list, match it or anything similar." The worst product spec of all time.
you are referring to monetization of debt. monetization per se is the process of becoming a money. Mises is a good read.

> (which isn't just _a_ marketable commodity.)

You got that right. It's _the_ marketable commodity.

> What is that even supposed to mean?

A melt-up is the opposite of a melt-down.
Being an angel investor in bubbly times
Do you feel that way about doc changes in general?
http://nekovm.org/
I've noticed this - the lie only sticks if it seems plausible. People believe that Al Gore said he invented the internet because he's made several fantastic statements, is self-aggrandizing, and while what he did say about his role in shepherding the internet was not unreasonable, it was just a slight overstatement of his role. So instead of getting the credit that he deserves, he gets laughed at.
Otherwise known as the 1000-1 split.
Well, a yum repository would have to be maliciously modified to cause bad things to happen. Piping curl could end up with fatal consequences even by accident, if the shell script is cut off at the worst possible moment by accidental connection loss...
I'm glad to see so many new goings-on in the world of CouchDB. As an outside admirer, I was starting to think that the project was languishing.
That is the single best thing I've ever seen Gruber write. His blog is so pro-Apple that it often fails to express their genuine merits and instead betrays his contempt for their opposition. Meanwhile that is a very incisive synthesis of each perspective that brought clarity to the legitimacy of Apple's position and the situation as a whole.
Not to be pedantic, but that's not necessarily true; we've had 1 major chain split before that killed ##'s of blocks containing thousands of transactions.

And also transactions that don't make it into a block will just die if the original node doesn't rebroadcast it. So after 1 confirm it's mostly irreversible.
Seconded on pomodoros.

I can credit it with getting me through seven novel drafts, through a successful Kickstarter campaign, and even with helping me find this new, much better-paying job.
To add on to what kohanz said, I think it is important to find out concretely what "more autonomy, using more exciting tech, solving bigger problems, working with movers & shakers, and generally more of a challenge." mean exactly in terms of this startup.

Let me explain:

1. What does more autonomy really mean? Do you have product level decisions? Do you have decisions governing the architecture of problems? Do you have the kind of experience that means they will eventually trust you with that?

2. What does more exciting tech mean? Is that a question of you using a new technology, new paradigm or new space? If so, have you considered what will happen in a year's time when the tech is something you get used to? Also, if more exciting tech means the prospect of working on fancy new tools all the time, there is a drawback to that too. As a company grows, you have these bits and pieces which don't fit correctly and don't scale properly.

3. 'working with movers & shakers': Again, it completely depends on the company what this means. Being able to sit next to your CEO or grab a beer with him could mean nothing more than a 1 degree connection on linkedin or something, it all depends on how they perceive you too.

4.'solving bigger problems': Again this completely depends on the company's scope. Scaling up a web app to ten thousand users at a startup vs working fresh out of school in Amazon scaling up to millions and millions of users are two different sorts of bigger problems.

A few years back I was faced with these two caricatures of companies two: a startup being a romantic place where a bunch of cool people sip beer and change the world and big companies filled with engineers who dress in blue shirts and slacks and are generally "cog" in a wheel. Again, the truth is that every company is different.

Oh, yeah, I can't agree more with what _kohanz_ said there. Team matters more. In fact, when I make my decisions, I would care more about the team than whether the company is considered "prestigious" or "exciting".

Also, lastly, unless you are interviewing with an early stage startup, asking the startup to be relatively competitive is not out of the realm. I know there is this perception in industry that working in a startup automatically means lower pay but that doesn't always have to be the case. There are tradeoffs always obviously, in that a small startup won't be able to say match Google's benefits or whatever but having said that, you can surely make sure that your family is not left high and dry if things blow up.
I gave up on Google yesterday, when I tried to log-in to my account, from home, with the correct username and password, and they decided to lock me out. They said it was a 'new location', and to recover, I needed to know the answer to my 5 year old security question. That wasn't possible, so the other option was entering the month my account was created. The month? I can narrow it down to a 3 year window at best. Needless to say, recovery failed, and I can no longer access my account, because Google just decided I'm not me.
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Flippable connectors were always considered, but deemed secondary to minimizing the manufacturing cost [1]. Considering that billions (trillions?) of USB ports and plugs in the world, I think they succeeded. After all, step 1 for creating a universal connector is to make it universal.

My question is: why is now the right time to presumably increase the cost per unit?

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588104-humble-...
If a company isn't worried about fallout from negligently designed mains equipment, they certainly aren't worried about patent lawlers.
That's how I read that sentence the first time, too, but you can parse that sentence so it's true:

Two USB ports which are electrically identical are superior to two PS/2 ports, one for keyboard and one for mouse, which are electrically different.
You don't have to use closures in JS if you don't like them.

Have you looked at http://selflanguage.org/ that evolved from Smalltalk? It is prototype based, but not curly brace syntax.

Are you looking for an interpreted or compiled language?

Have you looked at the Wikipedia entry? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming
I believe it. And that's not even counting looking up answers or getting your questions answered.

When I am truly stumped, I immediately start drafting a comprehensive SO question. Nine times out of ten, clearly enunciating the problem leads me directly to the answer and I never even post it.
Think of it rather as redenomination.

There has been no change in value. We're just talking about it with smaller numbers.