skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Thought I Knew How Big Upworthy Was on Facebook: Then I Saw This
Thanks for this, didn't expect to get advice for someone working in Ireland with options in a US company in the comments.
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Teach a man to fish. . . Purchased just to help him out, hope that 70¢ is helpful. Congrats to Leo.
If only Roku had Youtube, and if only either could do networked files reasonably at the moment...

I currently have a chromecast, a roku, and a raspi plugged into my tv. An absurd setup, I really need to invest some time into figuring out something sane.
> The situation is hopeless. The only solution is when US runs out of money. Goes bankrupt. Which is quite possible. Once USD isn't the world currency, the country defaults.

Why would it? The US dollar not being the world currency wouldn't drop the value of US industrial output, but it would (presuming that it dropped the value of the dollar due to reduced global demand for US dollars) reduce the value of US debt.

Which would be bad for entities with incomes or assets denominated in US dollars, but good for entities with debts denominated in US dollars, and neutral for entities whose income was dependent, say, on US output.

> The US has currently the biggest debt of any empire in the history of the world.

In absolute terms, maybe, but relative to the size of its economy, its not even the largest of countries in the world today.

> Impossible to repay.

This is neither true nor meaningful; as long as the debt can be serviced, it doesn't actually need to be repaid (and could, in fact, grow in absolute terms over time without limit without harm so long as output was growing apace.)
My blog at http://erica.biz makes more than $1,000/mo in advertising and affiliate commissions.

I built the blog after I bootstrapped and sold my first tech company. I talk a lot about growing your business/startup, and especially about all the failures I had while building my businesses. It became popular (1.2 million unique visitors last year alone.)

I've now been blogging there for just over 6 years. Today I'm more focused on my startup, so my blog isn't bringing in as much income as it used to (though it's still over $1,000/mo.) My best month was over $24,000 in income.
A Tale of Two Streets
How a Walk Down Two Parallel Streets in San Francisco Got Me to Think More About Inequality
zachlatta, where are you based? I'd like to talk more.
As a suggestion, I think you should consider clarifying that this is not another Silk Road. The name suggests that :)
"Let's say you're an idiot" :)

Very well written. Kudos.
Reading abut the Google Bus protesters was disappointing. Whatever one's opinion of gentrification, targeting buses seems perverse. I could not discover the protesters' point of contention. Doesn't Google (and other SV companies) already
pay the city to use the infrastructure?
Yeah, did you finish reading? He covers that. The cost of doing so might make sense for your projects, but so many people jump all the way to doing that when their "app" is still mostly document-based and it's the wrong way to go.
Yes, because of Chrome we no longer have to wait a ridiculous amount of time for new features. Do you remember how long it took for v4.0 to be ready?

Version numbers don't have to mean something. They're just numbers, after all.
Wow, that bug is over seven years old!

It's oddly gratifying to see bugs that old getting fixed...
Sad. I am the CEO of a social game with pretty big traction but with a pretty low user lifetime value (lower than in your example). With you I thought I could have a good analytics service at last. Not anymore.
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How did he do iOS development on a Chromebook?
This is way better than my first app, oh my goodness! Of course it didn't get me a ride to the gym (I live in Richmond, VA, wasn't likely) BUT it did work flawlessly.
I'm presently based in Los Angeles. Shoot me an email, it's in my profile.
Wow I am currently listening to the master of Doom is an amazingly good audiobook
I'm struck by the way that, when I lived in Tucson, it took seemingly 30 or 40 minutes to get anywhere.

I'm currently staying in Tucson for a brief spell, and I am struck by the very same thing! It's kinda crazy. I certainly don't live in a completely walkable city neighborhood back east, but I can be at the office in ~25 minutes on my bike, and most errands can be done on my bike or my scooter.

As for high costs, I think it's all a trade-off, right? We're a one car family (I've never actually driven to work in 15+ years), but we travel extensively in our VW van. So, the benefits we get from owning it out-weigh the costs. That said, I've applied the same analysis to owning a car for getting to work--it's far cheaper, and more enjoyable, for me to bike (and occasionally take the bus) rather than deal with another vehicle. I suspect most car-bound commuters (or suburbanites who must drive 15-30 minutes to get anywhere) have done similar math in their head (or on paper), and decided that the benefits of location and car ownership out-weight the costs. Of course, plenty of those folks also likely complain about gas prices and traffic, too!
Not "if" but "when" (on a long enough time horizon)
If you are willing to trust your privacy to strong crypto (something you probably would want to use even on a private network), ObjectiveFS (https://objectivefs.com) might be worth looking into.
Unless you eventually get a job as a researcher, a permanent one, or your family is rich enough that you don't really need to work, yes, getting a PhD in the sciences is a poor monetary investment.

Most of the jobs those fresh PhDs are getting are postdocs. They're temporary jobs that pay about as much as a high school teacher. High school teachers will get tenure eventually. Most postdocs will eventually leave academia.
I agree there are far more options if you look outside your small field, but I think it's not uncommon for employers to be skeptical of hiring someone with a PhD. Some of their reasons may be borne from experience and some may be simply due to stereotypes of PhD holders (e.g. too easily bored with "normal" work). My personal experience has been that many prospective employers seem to think that someone with a fresh PhD is both over and under-qualified (which is twice as scary?).
You whole argument is based on the premise that these early miners have not already sold Bitcoin and still hold it. Besides, even if they were holding it, the market could not absorb them selling it all at once so those miners would be very wise to sell slowly over time and at the demand.

In my opinion I think most of the early miners have already cashed out and what we are seeing now is the exchange of already "used" bitcoins.
Nifty! I'll have to try this out.
My wild card guesses would be Lenovo and Dell (which, out of nowhere, made a pretty solid piece of hardware with the WP7 Venue Pro)
To make the argument less compelling and more realistic, you have to make the rankings multi-dimensional and draw large tolerance bands around each person's ranking.
Just be aware I completely oversimplified the tax calculations here :-)

Happy to pass on details in Dublin for some folks I got advice from. I'll stick my email in my profile
Further discussion here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neo4j/nflUyBsRKyY
My work VPN blocks this as porn. Ha!
>> The combination of Russian Doll-caching, Turbolinks, and SJR is an incredibly powerful cocktail for making fast, modern, and beautifully coded web applications.*

I'm personally not against SJR and I haven't really gone whole-hog into any JS framework (Angular/Ember/Backbone) ... but almost every RoR developer I've talked to is disabling Turbolinks on all their Rails 4 apps. I personally find it slow to load/render in dev mode, which leads me to believe it would be confusing for users in production.

Is anyone using/liking Turbolinks for Rails 4 apps?
He might have used one of those cloud services that compiles your code on a Mac mini, but I don't know about him specifically.
Since it's available simultaneously on Android, I'm assuming it's using one of those write-once build-anywhere mobile frameworks.
Well, a universe with constants that make non-local/relativistic effects common doesn't seem like it would be very good at hosting intelligent observers.
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idk, was it an html5 mobile app?
Would leaving a coding job for a teacher job typecast me from future coding work
I've been talking with a recruiter about a potential instructor role at a private company (not a college/university). It's great pay and 3 months vacation...which sounds like fun because I'd really enjoy teaching and learning new things. However, if I'd leave there 2-3 years later for a coding job, I'm worried the 2-3 of teaching years would be looked upon as 'non-coding' time, even with working on side projects. I'm curious to anyones thoughts. Thanks
I fully agree. Private industry, as well as fraudsters and criminals who were somehow armed with all of this data could probably end up being far more nefarious than anything the NSA is actually doing right now.

Imagine if a Russian cybercrime gang gained access to NSA's Quantum Insert method, for example.
I lived the earlier part of my adult life with a car (15-30), and have now been car free for 8 years or so.

I live in a dense city where you have to win a lottery to buy a car. So I take a taxi most places, which is just as convenient and environmentally probably the same impact (sans the need for parking, taxis are nice in that way).

Our city also has great delivery services, which my wife takes advantage of. She ordered some stuff one morning on Taobao and they were delivered that afternoon, no quadrocopter drone necessary.

> It would be a lot easier to rely solely on public transport if you never had to carry anything.

Amen. American public transit advocates should start looking at this aspect: even if we get density to enable public transport, there are a bunch of other services that are necessary to make car-less practical (local grocery stores, deliveries, etc...)
This analogy sort of works because despite what we see in media, men aren't typically the choosers when it comes to relationships, especially when there's an oversupply.

In this case PhDs, like women, aren't choosing to settle either.
Add this to your userContent.css: <http://db48x.net/MDN-fix.css>. It fixes the whitespace problems, but I haven't touched fonts. Font size is best corrected by zooming in; Firefox will even remember your zoom level across the whole domain, so you only have to do that once.
The regulators would never allow it. If an AT&T - T-Mobile merger can't happen, neither can a merger of two of the biggest tech companies in the world.
For most hauling cases, you can rent a truck/van from Home Depot for $20/hour or so. It takes about five minutes to do. Obviously that isn't everyone's use case, but Enterprise will pick you up, or Zip Car or even cabs is a valid possibility. None of these are all that difficult.
It's not unnecessary. It's an appropriate response. Why is it that uneducated voters are worse than libertarians?
Yep, I finished reading but I disagree with this approach. Even in a mostly document based project I would recommend using frontend templates. Fire and forget type actions are just really easy to do and the whole thing just makes more sense IMO
I hired him for our company's holiday party.
I got some estimotes and my experience is that the signal strength doesn't change consistently based on the distance. I was planning to do a program using trilateration... but I don't think it would work.
You could also bike there in 30 minutes and get some excercise as a bonus.
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There seems to be quite a number of people who embrace the reasoning that it's more ethical to eat animals if one kills them themselves. (I'm not sure if I'm not reading this into what you're writing, if this is not your position I apologise, but anyway this is for the purpose of discussing said position in general.) I disagree with this in general. The act of feeding oneself is necessary for survival, whereas killing animals is not.

First of all, the animal couldn't care less if someone treats its corpse with respect--it's already dead, so I don't see how the animal benefits from this. Second, I'd say that the negative effects on the killer's mind from the act of killing far outweigh any positive effects from mindfulness in handling food produced from the kill.

Killing desensitizes, you become accustomed to taking life from another sentient being. The meat industry is likewise taking care to use every edible part of the animal, they're not producing any waste as far as that goes. Further, I don't think eating everything in the plate is making any measurable difference in terms of total meat consumed (if that's the implicit idea behind this). It's like the “think about the starving children in Africa” routine, which never made sense: people in Africa aren't starving because kids in the West aren't eating their whole dinners, and what good does cleaning the plate (i.e. making the food gone) do to remedy the situation. :)

> It's a highly rewarding and enlightening process which I highly, highly recommend to anyone that eats meat.

The bottom line of what I'm trying to say is I just can't see anything enlightening, let alone rewarding, in a process which necessitates killing other sentient beings. Of course, there is absolutely no doubt that hunting is infinitely more ethical than what is being done by the meat industry. It's really incomparable, so if you have to eat meat do take care it's from a reasonable source like hunting or “organic” (I hate that word) farming. However, that likely doesn't scale at all at the current levels of population. In my mind the best thing to do would be to just stop killing animals for food.

Some time ago I came across this interesting Youtube video[0] but never got around to post it here, and this discussion reminded me of that[1]. Basically, this guy (a Theravada monk) summarizes almost perfectly what I'm trying to say. Because of the horrible things industrial meat production does, I can't quite agree with him that it's OK to buy meat in the supermarket (as long as you're not specifically desiring meat), but otherwise I think he is spot on.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zisXgVnv-cI

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884572
You are being overly pedantic. Try s/every day/frequently/g and see how you go...
I love a lesson that doesn't include ANY real world examples. What's the purpose of this document? Does it accomplish that purpose?
I don't understand what's the advantage of using SJR.
> For example, I took about half of my savings and bought bitcoins - all my bank can see is, that the money "vanished"

Nope. Your bank can see that that money was transferred out of your bank account and where it went -- quite likely, to another bank account (possibly, even, at the same bank -- so many of them being global institutions).

Currency isn't consumed when its used to buy things, whether its a car or a bitcoin.
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..who (God) stretchest out the heavens like a curtain. - Psalms 104:2 (pre 537 B.C)
The janitor could write a program for logistics ... I don't mean this in a mean way but ... just stop. We're going too far this point.
Isn't the website payment system vulnerable to MITM without without using https?
Is it too soon to say they should have closed their seaport?
Even developers may not need PCs for much longer...with the emergence of browser IDEs (my startup is working on one), especially for web development, PC becomes unnecessary...Even Microsoft has taken a baby step in bringing visual studio to the browser.
Worldwide report on the rights of the non-religious
Backbone does in the docs recommend "bootstrapping" your data to eliminate the round-trip to get the initial JSON. I personally don't usually do that myself since the call to the server for JSON doesn't have a significant visual effect (to my eyes anyway). Whereas two different ways of loading data creates more testing and maintenance (on the server as well as the client)

Something about sending Javascript from the server seems like mixing up the application layers and creating dependencies that shouldn't' be there. I can see it perhaps if the code that you "own" is 100% on the server. Maybe I'm old school and it's just something that will have to sink in a bit before it makes sense to me.
You're assuming ebay wouldn't take 14% of bitcoin sales. Hell, since they don't owe the credit card tax they could probably make it 10% and still make more per-transaction.
Yes it is odd. I would expect someone to at least say "I'll let you know." Asking for the Cap Table on the otherhand, I think it's okay to hand-wave that (imo).
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Technically, no. The payment happens within an iframe secured with https: https://www.simplegoods.co/embed/PKGTEISN
What's disturbing is that even though they know which data is from US citizens, they still won't discard it, and can even use it. I mean, maybe I can understand if they "incidentally" collect the data of some people - although doing that for tens of thousand of people a year is really pushing it since all sorts of people could be in that "incidental" collection, and US persons could actually be targeted this way, and then masked as being "incidental collection".

But even after they know they are Americans, they still keep it? That's just unacceptable. This other story puts things in an even scarier perspective, because of what they can do with that data if it gets trickled down to other agencies (parallel construction, etc:

https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-a...
I love the story here.

While the PR is strong Leo should put on his conversion hat to generate actual downloads and turn this from a story into a success.

1) On the landing page, http://www.treesforcars.com, he needs as strong of a brief headline as they have in the article eg:

"Trees for Cars is a mobile application that aims to save the environment by helping users carpool to their destination."

2) Ditto on the app store description which, instead of the description, starts with a 3-liner clarifying Leo coded this himself.

More pictures / longer description on the description will also help.

Great primer @ Copyhackers on writing effective App Store copy http://copyhackers.com/2012/06/how-to-write-an-app-store-des...
It's not like last year they passed the evil-fascist-police bill that allows the cops to buy tanks. This is all happening within the preexisting legal framework. (The Patriot Act has been around for already 12 years) There has been no significant expansion of the power of the state over the past decade.

If you think the existing framework is flawed (and I would strongly agree), then definitely fight against it. Vote for people that support your view, and write to your representatives.

The fight against surveillance is essentially defeatist and fear mongering. It assumes the government will turn evil and it'll start trying to make your life miserable. It's all part of a collective psychosis. We think that it's an inevitability that one day the US will turn into an evil dystopian nazi regime.
I think Macdonough was smart to offer $100 or the opportunity to learn to code. It was a good way to screen out unmotivated people -- if someone is homeless and turns down $100, it's likely that that they're very motivated.
I never realized until recently how the high mobility of goods, flexible trade system etc. brought about by the rise of the Mongol empire a few centuries before, allowed the Bubonic Plague to spread from south-east asia through to the middle east and europe in a relatively short time. Your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness.
I can only speak for my personal preference but if you could show good works for that period of time I don't see it being an issue. Use the few years and huge vacation to contribute to major open source projects, stay current and keep coding. I don't see why it should be an issue. It shows flexibility, aptitude, and a drive to better the self.
This isn't something that happens to all users. Ever since Firefox 4, I've been able to open literally hundreds (400 to 600) tabs without suffering much of a hit at all. This is on Linux, and with several addons.
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For anyone who doesn't get it: http://www.kongregate.com/games/DarkRealmStudios/pandemic-2
I can't say I understand how that demonstrates that his position is incorrect. "We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias"...

Neither race or gender are fields that even CAN be filled out on Github. An individual's propensity to integrate into the programming community is still their own. Your life is yours to create.

Although it may be true that existing social and economic circumstances add obstacles to these individuals finding the endeavors of the open source community attractive -- it straddles absurdity and comedy to address these social and economic forces here.
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It's interesting to see how 1st world-ish are the problems that are being solved nowadays, even by a (hopefully not for long) homeless guy. Anyways, I'm really glad he managed to finish it, he's obviously a guy with lots of unused potential.
The layman is going to be familiar with "Know Your Customer"?
> Couldn't you essentially short by borrowing bitcoins?

In theory, sure. In practice, if no one is lending bitcoins based on the promise to repay more bitcoins later, then, no, you can't short them.

And the fact that one of the selling points of bitcoin is that it doesn't rely on trust might explain why even with a fair amount of money from enthusiasts chasing present bitcoins, there might not be lots of people with bitcoins lending them against a promise of future bitcoins.
Simple Goods (our provider) does use https via an iframe, so it's secure although not best practice - that said, we'll be moving to Stripe soon!
The difference is you can actually use your cash bonus to pay out the taxes on that bonus.

For restricted-stock, you cannot sell the stock, and thus have to pay taxes out of pocket.

If the company is public, you can sell some shares to cover this cost (typical for stock bonus awards), but as many tech companies aren't public, their stock is restricted such that you cannot sell it to other individuals.
Oof, good to know... Any other false positives you've had so I can maybe figure out why?

Edit: Never mind, I think your censorware might just have a more inventive sexual imagination than I do when it comes to domain names...
http://pizzacodes.com

My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
White noise is an enormous source of entropy, by definition. For example, take a stream of samples and record whether the least significant bit is 0 or 1. That'd be almost impossible to predict or influence from outside the system.
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Usually the Employee Share agreement has a clause that states that when you leave the company (or even in change of control scenarios) any vested stock options must be exercised by 90 days, otherwise their forfeit back to the company.
It's not much work to include the "first page" of data as a JavaScript variable declaration embedded in the response to the initial page hit to avoid that second round trip.
"Wait, what do you guys do again?"