skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will look at Xslate. My simple system basically combined a markdown (with some enhancements) "base" document, with custom image tags and source tags. The current source to HTML mechanism used vim to do the syntax coloring, then dump out the html with ToHTML and then processed by the perl code to pull out the actual code. Given that I've been moving code over to github my plan for the future is just to pull gists into the HTML pages.

To the extent that I can simplify steps with Xslate we'll see. It still takes too long to go from 'thought' to 'page' (and my 'schematic description' -> SVG (or PNG) schematic work is still incomplete)
hooray! So happy to see them make it this far, great job guys! Every iteration has been getting better and better.
The Data Behind Online Activism on Change.org
"justifiable" - defensible, makes sense

"fair" - treating people equally

In other words, I interpret the original question as:
"how is making an example not considered unusual?".
Why wouldn't founders take such salaries, which are not outrageous?

Saying that founders shouldn't take a fair salary - comparable to what they might get elsewhere - puts them in a untenably risky position that would limit the pool of founders to the independently wealthy and the foolish.

That limitation would not be to the benefit of the backers.
That usage with recover would be to be able to set return parameters that might otherwise be returned as their zero values, correct?
The NSA's job has been to spy on foreigners since the Cold War. I don't understand how the new revelations are some how a big surprise?

Also moving your cloud hosting to an EU country is probably going to buy you exactly zero safety. The majority of the internet traffic in the world routes through the USA regardless or origin / destination.
>I could care less what they make--to me it would be a distraction.

Are you 100% sure that you've valued yourself accurately?

I played "show me yours and I'll show you mine" with a coworker once and he discovered that we were both working the same position but he was paid $8K less than me. The difference was that I negotiated my salary like crazy and he didn't.

Information asymmetry is the best way for companies to ensure their employees are underpaid. While it could cause a bit of awkwardness between peers, at the end of the day I think it's better to know what others are making & let them know what I make, because it strengthens everyone's position.
>First, most recruiters/hiring managers ask for current comp (or at least a salary range) early in the discussion, so it should be easy for them to offer well over someone's current pay. This simply removes one bargaining tools (lying about current comp) for an employee considering a move elsewhere.

Currently this screws "Niel" (to stick with the example). He wants to move someplace else and is convinced that he is worth $140k. He's convinced he's underpaid right now. He interviews at, say, Google (random example), who does a bit of research and hey, he's only making $88k. Suddenly they don't have to offer him market rate, they only have to offer him a raise on what he makes now.

Obviously this only works if one company (Google in this example) isn't as open about their salaries.
The question however, is what if they are inconsistent in their approach?

If Coinbase refunds in terms of USD whenever the market falls, and buys BTC whenever the market rises, then Coinbase is going to make a ton of money in any form of market volatility... and the customer is the one screwed in both cases.

The question we have for Coinbase is: can we trust their policies to be consistent?
The Target Credit Card Breach: What You Should Know
I would like you to imagine the gender roles reversed in the statement you just made and see how it sounds.

While your statement may be true, it is also true that its sexist.
Since nobody here seems to have access to newegg here's the closest

CPU: Xeon E5-2697 12-core 2.7 Ghz - $2749.99

Video: AMD FirePro S9000 6GB - $2199.99 ea. (close as I could get) - x2 $4,399.98

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 64GB (8 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL - $599.99

SSD: SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE1T0BW 2.5" 1TB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $569.99

Motherboards that handle 64GB of RAM look to be generally under $400

Let's add $300 for case, PSU etc. and we're looking at ~$9000.

So even if the individual upgrades are badly priced (64GB of RAM for $800!), the entire system is actually pretty fairly priced at the top configuration. The tight integration of the parts, and I'm guessing sourcing directly from the manufacturers rather than through 3rd party parts builders, probably cuts lots of the BOM out. And there's no way Apple won't make a profit on these ugly things.
For a little more color: these objects usually live in the new generation which I've observed doesn't drop frames even on mobile.

You can pull this up on an iPhone 4S or newer (it uses the same technique with tons of allocations but doesn't really drop frames): http://petehunt.github.io/react-touch
Facebook hires former Apple ad man Scott Trattner for creative director role
zimbatm's link to http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators was helpful here. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators seems to also have some useful background on where the semantics are coming from.
I found one thing interesting is that only 4 out of 17 people choose equity over $10k salary. Even CTO chooses salary.

I am curious if this is common in startup companies, since I have never worked in startups.
Funny. But actually, the simplest contest that accurately describes Telegram's insanity is simply this:

::Given an unknown function f and a single output y, compute the input x that maps to y.::

Ready? Here's the output: ROSEBUD. Now I'll give $100k to anyone who can tell me x. Good luck!
Personally, i find the simple reminder that it's work time does the trick. I'd be very interested to see if it's the same for you.
In this case, Coinbase is a YCombinator company. Even if you aren't interested in BTC, Coinbase and its business dealings are very much a good topic of conversation on these forums.
I work at a pretty conservative company, and even I wish salaries were open, at least internally. I don't believe that salary should be determined by how effective of a negotiator you are, but rather what your skills are worth to the company. If you knew they were low-balling you compared to your coworkers, how would you feel?

I wish job postings more often had salary information, too. How am I supposed to know if an interview is worth my time when I don't know if the pay will be higher or even competitive with what I'm making now?
I will have to check out Rdio. Heard of it a lot but havent had the pleasure. Also I love a good UX/UI.
It's still true. When I was at SurfEasy, the guy doing Android development had to jump through lots of hoops to get the VPN working in the general case (and it wouldn't work at all pre-4.0.1, IIRC) and even then, we had to buy several specific phones because they had subtle bugs either in display, timing, or VPN handling.

iOS VPN development has its own nightmarish problems, but those were primarily handled through the provisioning process, not in getting the software to work on weird hardware combination.
[video]Investor pitches that win
Remember BrightKite? Same category.
Off-topic: thank you mods for changing the original submission title, it was quite inflammatory.

Terrorism -- or (more to the point) political expression by violence -- is not at all a means to end violence, and it would be foolish to pretend that it can ever be. As a matter of fact that is the point of the submitted article. The original title claimed that the Cookbook's author felt terrorism is "a worthless strategy" but such a title contrasts so strongly with the actual article that it boggles my mind how the original submitter even came to that conclusion.

Terrorism is just another form of political expression, and calling it worthless is like calling a hammer worthless where a screwdriver would be more appropriate.
I run HHVM on a website. I started in June (back then you had to write your config file from scratch and some API functions were missing). I refactored my code to PDO (mysqli was missing back then). It worked fine from the beginning, and the uptime and overall performance is really great.

I use Nginx as frontend and direct all dynamic request to HHVM's own webserver (https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Using-nginx-as-Front-S... )

Keep in mind, Facebook runs on HHVM too, so it's rock solid.

Btw. the devs are very helpful on the official irc channel!
I disagree, but I think I'll leave it at that, as I'm obviously not explaining my point well enough...
Scientists losing data at a rapid rate
> The anger that motivated the writing of the Cookbook blinded me to the illogical notion that violence can be used to prevent violence.

I don't see why he asserts this as if it is indisputable fact. This is one of the most debated topics in all of human history. The leaders of almost every major revolution eventually reached precisely the opposite conclusion.

The book may in fact do harm in the hands of those who are rash and quick to anger. But I don't think that has anything to do with something that is inherently illogical.
How much do you get paid? I don't see a blog post on GrantTree publishing employee's salaries. (I didn't spend a ton of time looking though, so apologies if I did miss it)
SolarCity to Provide Solar-Powered Lighting to Schools Without Electricity
This article misses the true breakthrough which bitcoin represents which is a trustless, decentralised store and exchange of value.
CNN Tech: Countdown to the Snapchat revolution
So it is, I've removed that. I need to sleep more.
I'd rather have a language where i can look at the code and decide with a glance whether it's batshit insane or not, than a language where the best code possible looks just like the most horrible and insecure garbage. :)
> there's nothing to bar the state from enacting a law that discriminates against foreign citizens

There are, namely constitutional rights. What you said only applies to citizenry doesn't only apply to citizenry. You really should read the pdf. Another snippet:

> the Supreme Court has squarely stated that neither the First Amendment nor the Fifth Amendment "acknowledges any distinction between citizens and resident aliens." For more than a century, the Court has recognized that the Equal Protection Clause is "universal in [its] application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction, without regard to differences of nationality." The Court has repeatedly stated that "the Due Process Clause applies to all 'persons' within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent." When noncitizens, no matter what their status, are tried for crimes, they are entitled to all of the rights that attach to the criminal process, without any distinction
based on their nationality.

Maybe we could argue about people outside of the jurisdiction. But it's flat out a common misconception that most of these rights don't apply to non-citizens. When it says persons and people, it means persons and people.
I think you'd be more likely to find him trolling on the ocean.

http://www.blueanarchy.org/holdfast/
I have yet to find an OS, including a wide range of the *nixes, where 'compile something major' doesn't fill me with dread.
You missing the point. It's not about "phone and elevator" discussion. It's about being a person. And communication. And feelings.
Indeed.. Hopefully the VMs of tomorrow will be aware of immutable values, since no pause/coordination is required to GC them.
The difference between the 1980s and now is that people now can use the Internet to learn about Bitcoin for themselves, from the source, instead of basing all they know on hype. It's a shame that so many people seem to love to talk more than they learn.
I've had it since launch, and it's always been pretty buggy. But for the last 12 months all issues I had (libraries getting weird on one device, streaming choking a bit sometimes) have all been fixed, so I'd gladly recommend it now. 18 months ago? God no ;)
No, the fear would be that employees look at someone with a 3x salary differently than they would if they didn't know what his salary was. It's just a distraction. I don't know how much my boss makes. It could be half what I make, it could be triple. I don't really care. If I found out suddenly that it's triple what I make, then maybe I'd look at him differently. Does he bring in 3x value to the company compared to me? Maybe in my opinion he doesn't--do I talk to the CEO to say "hey, we can replace this guy cheaply"? It just seems like pandora's box at that point.
Inside the Code of Ripple Client: the Newest Mobile Payment App for iOS
> Downside of single (exploited) mistake in bitcoin wallet management: total loss of value.

...is a lot less damage than 40 million exposed credit cards
I'm an iOS developer who has to use xcode on a mac, I'm pretty much the only forced customer of this kind of hardware. Graphical professionals, who they seem to be targeting more with this computer, are free to use cross platform software.

I am disappointed in the mac pro because I don't care about graphics cards, I just wanted a dual socket CPU computer with the pci-e ssd. 12-cores for $3500 more is way more expensive than the dual socket near-equivalent of 2x 6 core CPUs. It becomes about a $4000 difference in the end.
I've been expecting this after seeing a few of your teaser tweets and as expected I absolute love it! I've been waiting for something like this ever since I read up on persistent data structures and functional reactive programming almost 10 years ago.

I'm wondering how this compare to the Javelin library as that seems to offer the same functionality when combined with hlisp. Would I be correct in saying that Om achieves the same by using ClojureScript's data structures and core.async to offload the FRP part to React?
This is an excellent answer. You get right to the core of it, quite clearly, which is that this has naught to do with the crypto itself. But that:

> If this counter-challenge cannot be broken, then it shows that the challenge issued by Telegram is no proof of security.
Glad you're liking it! I'm one of the backend engineers who designed the system. We devoted a good chunk of time this year to improving our relevance algorithms, and I actually gave a talk on exactly this at Strangeloop in September. The video is at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/machine-learning.
So far its not a big deal. I haven't seen perceptible GC pauses, not to say they aren't possible for some use case.
I feel that all-to-often, these articles fall into the same trap that other prejudicial viewpoints do. If the summation of your viewpoint is "He/she must be acting this way because they are _____" and the blank is race/gender, then you are judging an individual based on stereotypes. This shouldn't be acceptable, and it's hypocritical.
I'm one of maybe 10-12 architects at some stupid company and I make more than everyone at Buffer including the CEO.
What if the company is profitable? Should CEO co-founders still be paid the bare minimum to live? (living expenses + 25% works out to living expenses after taxes) If they are burning investor money and will require 2-3 more rounds to become profitable, then it would be a pretty big negative.
Free Software Foundation Endorses Its First Laptop
Which means it could face the one of the same challenges as BB10 - these global gestures are very demo-unit-unfriendly. You go to a store and pick up a BB10 device and you're freaking lost with no visible buttons or UI to use.

A non-discoverable interface on a device this late to the party is not going to be good for market-share.
I think the fear is that it will create animosity by making the information so accessible. On some level, the junior-level dev knows he's not making as much as the guy with the PhD in an esoteric mission critical topic, but he has a kind of plausible deniability that lets him avoid thinking about it. If everyone's making 80k and everyone knows that Jane The Expert is making 300k, there's going to be friction. "Hey Jane, why don't you pay for the dinner."
I used to work in government (US municipality) and every single employee's salary (10s of thousands of people) was public record.
And it's one package on GitHub "for now" also... Tomorrow it might not be there, or be incompatible with its previous API.

But go get will hapilly try to use it...
I upvoted you, but now I regret it. Not because this was a bad comment, but because I realize now that I disagree.

"Chief" and "highly compensated" are not necessarily joined at the hip. It should be possible to have a C-level exec with most of their compensation variable and dependent on company performance or certain metrics, rather than a whopping base salary.
That's exactly it. Lots of small products with microtransactions targeted towards niche markets that i barely have to touch.

Passive income generation is one of the pinnacles of what we as software engineers can do.
This matrix makes sense if you hire your team to be of roughly equal performers (within the seniority range) who value honesty. I doubt they will ever hire a 200K person, because they made a business decision that they don't need one. Even if they need one, they can always review the matrix and add flexibility. It takes a specific approach to hiring when using this structure.

There are some significant advantages in building an open team like this. People know what's their pay-grade and what part of the company they actually represent. If they don't think their cut is fair they can signal it. Many companies have confidential salaries so even when you know you are underpaid you can't argue it without throwing peers under the bus for revealing their salary to you.
$150k is middle class in NYC. If you work in Manhattan, it's a small place with a short commute or a normal-size place (by national standards) with a long commute.

If you don't work in Manhattan or can work from home most of the time, you can have a pretty luxurious lifestyle, yes.

Also, being single with no one to support isn't the average case. I'd argue we should assume that each working person supports one other person. That lines up with American demographics much better.
It's that time of the year. Steam Sale, hold on to your wallets
http://spoilerwarned.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/steam_sale_time_wallet-240x300.jpg
I love how the company didn't get mentioned in the headline, but Uber did.
Prismatic is the only app/website that claims to be relevant and actually finds relevant, fresh content. I don't know how, but it does work damn well.
My had done training in Israel for RavenDB, the big NoSQL database for .NET.

Earlier this year we reached an agreement where I'd work on RavenDB as a part-time dev job. In particular, I'm porting the RavenDB Management Studio from Silverlight to HTML5, see http://debuggerdotbreak.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/ravendb-stu...
thanks for the headsup i was going to do a 1300$ bc exchange on coinbase... aint gonna happen..
No, it doesn't. http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
Yes, I wasn't referring to this service in particular, but meant flying in private planes in general. The biggest problem with this company is that small planes don't get the economies of scale that larger aircraft get. They don't get reasonable seat costs per mile (the pilots cost the same flying 10 people vs. 100 people, you still need baggage handlers, etc.). The second you scale up to a larger plane, you're not giving the same level of service (you need security, have to corral more people, etc.).

There's a reason why Warren Buffett calls his jet "The Indefensible". There's no way you could ever rationalize the cost, other than flying private planes is freaking awesome.
Newsflash - young man is rash and inflammatory & old man sees error in his ways.
Yeah, that difference definitely exists now, and accelerates the learning process quite a bit.

I think most people don't generally go to the source when learning about something, though, even today when it's easily possible. Usually what people do is learn what is fed to them from whatever outlets they prefer (TV, news websites, reddit, etc.) and hear about stuff in passing.
What's wrong with named return parameters?
Those cubes with square holes remind me indie game Fez :)
It doesn't need to be, but the fan is circular, making it a slightly more efficient shape. They probably made the first one aluminum color and thought it looked like a trash can, hence the black color.
I may be appealing to emotion there, but it's certainly not misleading (nor is your claim about Satanists, though I think the proportion going to them is very very small). It's true!

Do you disagree that it would be better for the $10/mo a subscriber pays to go only to the artists they listen to?
I do love software dev. Building things is a superpower. :-)

http://judahhimango.com/presentations/startup/#2
I actually love the radical transparency here, even after reading all the warnings in the HN comments.

What I like less is the salary formula. What's going to happen is that all of the negotiation is going to get packed into the experience and seniority multipliers. It creates the illusion of rigor and possibly does more harm than good.
It's there but relatively light compared to what's going on at sea. With no natural barriers and higher hot:cold temperature gradients the wind is typically stronger over the ocean.

Also, click on "earth" to change altitude (bar).
> It is reported by Business Insider that the money will be distributed between the Zuckerberg Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and The Breakthrough Prize in Life Science.
AirWeb - Web Browser for Apple TV on the App Store on iTunes
Can 4sq help track where taxis are? Or even just friends or people on their way to meet you? That'd be killer. Combine that with cryptocoin payments and you'd have something that could compete with Uber or some taxi apps.

Would be good if it could predict meeting times.. how long for A,B,C to meet with D according to certain parameters (time of day, mode of transport)? .. C has lowest travel time. How long for A to get from point 1 to point 2? What's the probability of A being close to point 3 in the next week according to prior travel? How close? When is best time to go from A to B this week?

Also tracking fleets of cars/trucks.. create logistics apps, track travel times, optimal routes.
Above the fold has been wrong and deprecated for about 5 years now:

http://iampaddy.com/lifebelow600/

http://uxmyths.com/post/654047943/myth-people-dont-scroll

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/analytics-testing/w...
Does anyone have an easy method of testing HHVM on your website?

I was thinking of recording the production requests for x amount of time and replaying them on HHVM so you could see if responses are identical, there are no crashes, state of the database is same afterwards, etc.?
I think saying a sysadmin 'cannot work on developing the product itself', is silly. I think it's a given that anyone joining at such an early stage of a company is going to be developing the product. You will definitely need a sysadmin that can develop the product and move fast. Your architecture is part of the product, and the sysadmin should help with the design and implementation of the architecture, as well as possibly parts of the codebase going onto that architecture.
Think like a reporter: Startup stories they want to write