skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a workstation, how is 30Hz refresh a problem? I could understand that wouldn't be ideal for gaming, but if your daily use is that if reading static text that doesn't move around, is it really a problem. If this were a CRT, I'd agree with you, but as an LCD panel, I don't understand why the lower refresh rate is a problem. It isn't as though the screen will flicker.
My theory: The recruiter may have a few spots to fill and several candidates. So say, there are 5 eligible candidates and 2 spots to fill. Knowing that not every one offered a position will accept it, the recruiter tells all of them they'll be given an offer. That way those candidates are less likely to accept an offer elsewhere and 'stay in the pool'. Recruiter offers the position to two and waits to see if they accept. If either doesn't accept, they make an offer to the next candidate. In this case, the spots filled before getting to all of them. Since they had been told they would receive an offer but no spots were left, the recruiter decides to end all contact.

If they were more honest, they would have to give offers to only two. The others candidates are likely to move on while the recruiter waits for a response. If the two formally offered jobs don't accept, the recruiter finds the other eligible candidates have moved on and has to go interviewing more people.
Are you in a metro area? You can get a lot of mileage from local web development groups. Maybe not a gig coding up the next cool thing in Haskell, but hammering out brochure sites or customizing WP blogs certainly pays the bills, and in addition helps you build up your network to lean on in future dry spells.
I work in the Industrial sector - we do not have the requirement of supporting hindered folks. Rather, the GUI has to be operational in extreme conditions ..
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TX has a lot going for it. According to the census bureau [0], lots of people are finding opportunities there (nearly half of the 15 cities in the link are there). It helps that there's no (state) income tax [1]. It's a right-to-work state [2], I tend to favor that but YMMV. Lastly, while some areas are seeing looming bankruptcies of major municipalities [3], Texas is seeing surpluses. Yes, some of this is oil, but that's ignoring a host of other factors.

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[0] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax#States_with_no...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law#U.S._states_w...

[3] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/15/ten-cal...
I also think that the recruiter want to hedge their bets, sort of keeping candidates in their baskets for a "just in case" situation.

I know that in some companies that if a candidate is rejected, than they are automatically filtered for any other positions in the company for a next X months, sometimes permanently.
I approach the issue with the assumption that learning basic sorting algorithms and the like has very little to do with them perse'. It has to do with imbuing you with the mind frame to think along those lines - which takes time to master. As a confidence booster I've been prepping myself to internalize the material in the link below. These are all computer science concepts written in Javascript. This should blend well with your web background if you're interested.

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/tag/sorting/
Oh, it certainly existed. Conspicuously no stricture on unwarranted spying for purposes of investigation was stated and that had to be read into it later by the courts (which I consider juristic legislation.) It's not clear to me that the framers didn't intend to reserve that right for investigation.

I'm not saying it is wrong to restrict it, just that the constitution should have been so amended for it to be considered a constitutional question.
Check out this thread for the many, many reasons how this can happened. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040382

Good luck!
It increases the latency for displaying the mouse pointer, so you may find it harder to quickly and accurately move your mouse.
There aren't thousands of validating nodes. All nodes are computing on jobs in the system. The incentive is you get paid for processing code for someone. It's a trusted cloud framework with payment built in. The Dagger page is down. That'll have the detail on the rewards details for compute.
Ahhhh. The Ada Initiative. That should have been a huge warning sign to all involved.
You need a central agency ATM for trading coin. Those guys have to run wallets and do the transactions in non-trusted space. This skips that.
This, along with the M7 motion co-processor in the new iPhone 5S, and Apple's pretty substantial investment in iBeacons, tells me that Apple sees the future of the iOS ecosystem as a series of experience-enhancing physically-aware ambient apps.

(The kind of apps that require a good notification center - like the one in iOS7 - cuz they're spewing so many little bits of suggestions at you.)

I suspect Apple will tread carefully in these waters, but initial signs are worrisome. Let's hope that they can figure out the personal analytics thing and work in some privacy with it too. They're not an ad company, so it's possible. :)
Everpix's product was loved by their users. They absolutely built "something people want". Unfortunately the promise they made their users was very expensive to deliver.
Be interesting to see how these compare in the real world to my current favorite headlights, the Hella brand units fitted to higher end Volkswagens since 2009.

They're a much better "daylight" approximation than comparable systems, e.g. the units fitted on the Jaguar XF are pretty jarring in comparison.

The beam shape adjusts based on roadspeed and window wiper activity, the rain pattern is excellent when snow is falling.

For the manufacturer the part is cheaper than comparable high end units, partly due to removing the need for external ride height sensors. Most HID setups have a ride height sensor on the front suspension and one on the rear, the Hella units have gyroscopes packaged inside the cluster removing the need for external parts.

The final winning point for me is the freedom left to the manufacturer in designing the rest of the headlight cluster around the HID unit. Consequently replacing any other bulbs in one of these units is complete child's play. Contrast this with 0.5 hours "book time" for the new BMW X5 - the front bumper has to be removed (involves disconnecting headlight washer pipes and plenty more besides).
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Even better examples than the employees at Twitter are startup founders. They start a company and quickly raise 500k at a 2M pre money valuation. Suddenly, they own $1M of a $2.5M company. A millionaire, at least on paper. Not much changes in their lifestyle though. They still can't make a down payment on a house and generally don't drive nice cars. And that's the point of the title "paper millionaire". It doesn't mean much if you can't do anything with it.
It's about screaming 187 on the motherfucking cop
I'll be the first to admit it's not perfect. But it's damned good.

Hitting Google is a "!g" away -- just prepend / postpend that to your search and hit enter, you'll get Google's results (as I've noted elsewhere here: I usually try "!sp" first, as it's close to, but not quite, Google. What I noticed in my first weeks was that usually the initial results were actually very, very similar, if not identical. Since DDG has the same search syntax ("site:example.com" restricts to a domain or host, "quoted words" are searched together, (either|or) will do booleans), if you're a Google search power user, it's all familiar territory.

DDG's information and support pages tell you a lot, and the !bang search syntax is very much worth knowing about. If you want to search !so (stack overflow), the bang syntax is great: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

There are things DDG doesn't do, which I've also noted. Date-restricted searches and localization are two of the big ones. I don't avoid Google entirely, but it's way down my list.

I did enter into this with the mindset of intentionally taking a choice that's not Google, and that I'd have to make some compromises, but that I'd get better privacy as a result. The compromises really have been few, and I'm saying that as a long, long term Google user (since 1998) whose been increasingly disturbed by the company's direction.
"BMW says its laser system is 1000 times brighter than LED headlights but uses half the power." Yeah, that's bull, unless they're using some very creative definition of "brighter". LED headlights put out about as much light as do standard halogen incandescents, about 1000-1500 lumens per fixture. A million lumens? You'd be hard pressed to tell that apart from the sun. Also theoretically impossible, as LEDs are already at 10-25% maximum luminous efficacy.
I don't think anyone associates ether with a drug first.

From Thesaurus: "ether - the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies"
Did you guys look at bare metal at all? (either dedicated or colocated)? Spot gets you in the same ballpark of price on a "unit", which can be mentally deceiving since an AWS unit is pretty weak.

In our experience with CPU or IO intensive workloads, Spots are still 2-5x slower than what you can get at decent dedicated provider..
Ripple is also working on the same thing and is supposedly releasing them "soon": https://ripple.com/wiki/Contracts
I interviewed at Amazon for a product management role in 2010. I also got the whole travel / hotel accommodation thing.

A thing that stuck out at me was ego. There was a lot of ego on the other side of the tables I sat at.

I had one guy interviewing me say he had been recruited by the CIA but chose Amazon. It seemed important to him that he tell me how good he was at his job.

My lunch interview was totally fine and not awkward.

At the end I spoke with a department head who's job was apparently to make sure I wanted to work for the company. I kind of needed work then, so it was a pretty boring end to the day.

My understanding was that Amazon was using an interview model style similar to Microsoft's, where you can be 'let go' from the process at any point during the day. If you make it to the 'closer' type person toward the end of the day, then you've done well. I don't know if this is true.

Ultimately, I wasn't offered the job, but I did get good closure and apart from some of the personalities I encountered, I was pleased overall with the experience.
Ask HN: Why do people who work harder get less pay?
The above question might seem a bit inane and it probably is. But here goes...
How come field workers, industrial workers, janitors etc all get paid less than programmers or CEO's, etc ? I mean if someone is doing more backbreaking work that's physically demanding wouldn't it make sense to pay these people more?

I have my own answer but I thought I would ask and see some of the responses.
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You can only determine which deserves more weight by your ability to change an outcome or your level of devotion to that outcome being changed.

Interesting. This sounds a great deal like the corporatist aspects of Fascism - in order to achieve your goals (whatever they are), you choose to ally with powerful subgroups and engage in governance based solely on maintaining the coalition of powerful subgroups.

A fairly machiavellian philosophy, and not one that is commonly admitted, but definitely interesting.

(To head off any silliness, let me be clear that I'm not calling your views Fascist, you merely seem to express this one aspect of your philosophy very similarly to them. I have no idea whether you share the fascist belief in a strong central government, the rebirth/decadence myth, etc.)
> We decided that we were about 95 percent certain that if it had been 2 guys applying with this idea, YC would have at least given us an interview

What gives you that certainty? There are a lot of teams with similar credentials to yours that apply to YC and don't get interviews. Perhaps you didn't convey yourself well in the application or they simply preferred other applications.

It's crazy that people take their rejections from YC so personally (even posting Facebook updates like "we'll prove them wrong" etc). If there was something astonishingly impressive in your app that's different .. but just in my batch there were published PhDs, people who've written novels, sold companies, personally knew celebrities, some with millions of users already .. etc. For most "regular" competitive applications, there's a decent chance you'll be missed just due to randomness.

> It's an emerging green-tech niche in an industry beyond primed for some technical disruption.

That's what you think .. You can't just assume everyone (and the YC partners) are going to think the same way (and perhaps they didn't buy your line of thought).
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almost seems as though they (or maybe some of them) are somewhat ok with the message.
Being an investor for Path (and potentially have some say to their roadmap) is not the same with Obama 2008 digital campaign team. I doubt Abu Bakrie can utilize Path (since it's a close/private social network) the way Obama team did with social media back then and most recently.

This is Bakrie VC group, not Bakrie himself. More like his sons/daughters (second generation) using Bakrie's wealth, not him.

This is more like "my cars are better than yours" among the rich in Jakarta. Follow the startup scene there and you'll realize a pattern.

The richest family in Indonesia not too long ago bought kaskus.co.id (one of the most trafficked website in Indonesia) for $60M (rumour) and I'm almost sure the ROI is Mission Impossible (^_^).

It's more "I've got lots of money, gotta spend some somewhere...".
In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history.

Funny ... no mention of CISPA, which interestingly was not heavily protested like SOPA and PIPA were, is reputed to be worse, and while initially passed in November 2011 was passed again in April 2013 after SOPA and PIPA were defeated.

Thankfully, it never passed the Senate ... but I wouldn't call that a "win" compared to the victory over SOPA / PIPA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...
Yes.

Something else I think people fail to consider is what I would call a hybrid approach.

For example, even if you mostly operate on your own infrastructure, keep a replica of your data tier going on EC2, along with freshly configured images for the rest of your moving pieces. This way you have an instant pop up B site for disaster scenarios.

There are a lot of other possible concepts. Keeping a dataset at amazon to use for map reduce jobs is convenient. Or even if you want to keep your infrastructure virtual, being able to price arbitrage across a couple providers could be a powerful cost reduction. The price of entry for all this is devops automation, but I think people are now mostly convinced that's worth it.
While it can give you some insight, I'm wary of this kind of state-level analysis of migration, since the conclusions aren't necessarily the same if you look at movement on a more fine-grained scale. States are big places (well, some are). Texas is not very wealthy on average, for example, but some parts of it are much wealthier than other parts. And people are generally moving to the richer parts, not the poorer parts: the largest population increases are in counties that rank in the top-50 highest-income counties in the country (Collin County, Fort Bend County, etc.). Therefore assuming someone moving to Texas is moving to some kind of 'median Texas' is an oversimplification that might produce misleading conclusions.

It's possible people are still typically moving from wealthier to poorer areas (e.g. from Manhattan to Dallas), but we'd need more specific data than state-level flows to conclude that.
I assume people with blinding lights are willingly acting malicious against others on the road knowing their overpowered lights reduce visibility for others. Lines like yours don't do much to break this mentality.

Keep assuming drug usage while the reality of you blinding others is readily observable by peers around you. Self leveling projector lights beaming straight into my cab.
Yes, I agree with you, I don't think there is much specially in startups (although I don't have any proof to support this claim).
- I would think that physical work is less hard than mental work. I mean anybody can clean a toilet, sweep floors. or lift up boxes but it takes more thought and intelligence to make a website or design an app. Like check out the wealth of nations by Adam Smith ~> http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/adam-smith/wealth-nati... . People are paid depending on their value. If we all can do the same job, why should I get paid more than you? But if I can do a job faster, better and with more accuracy, of course Im going to want to get paid more.
They are bothersome, you see this comment saying they are bothersome.
> 6) A full-scale on-chain stock market. Prediction markets are also easy to implement as a trivial consequence."

Line 283 of http://pastebin.com/NCGRv74u
Money isn't related for sure. Bakrie is on their own.
- I just hustle harder, that's all I can say.
"composing all heavenly bodies"

Perfect name.
I'm not too familiar with Python, but this is case sensitive unlike benhoyt's examples. Would this be case insensitive?

lines = [line for line in open("bible.txt")]
words = [word.lower() for line in lines for word in line.split()]
counts = {word:0 for word in words}
for word in words:
counts[word] += 1
Does this mean that arbitrary software can be run in "trusted" way? So that everyone knows for sure what software is being run?
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Why can't they just write some long term options and safe guard their value. Or may be they are already doing it and wired may just have ignored it.
Well done. I adore the logo placement and URL. Good job.
And I did hundreds of them.
Do you have the text for the dagger page?
Interesting story. The ingenuity prisoners display is often remarkable. Of course, this goes pretty much against the current mood in Japanese politics (or at least what I, as a foreigner living abroad, reads about), which goes more along the lines of "our brave soldiers never did anything wrong when they were expanding the Co-Prosperity Sphere".
Or someone could start up a Bitcoin-specific FOBO-like service. It's not exactly rocket surgery.

I'd be very likely to use it.
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I tend to agree but take a look at Adam Curtis. He is not perfect but his documentaries give you a lot of insight and ideas to think about.
That's exactly what I'm doing here:

https://github.com/existentialmutt/lt-ruby.git
>The critics I've read aren't saying pg has a hateful nature. They're saying that he hasn't fully accounted for his unconscious biases.

I've seen a lot of Twitter rage that is rather like this one: https://twitter.com/monteiro/status/416728196503973888
Pittsburgh, maybe?
supply and demand. all those jobs will eventually be replaced by robots anyhow.
I've spent the last 2-3 years teaching myself the minefield of technologies around web development and I have 13 years experience as a technical trainer. last week I did two days working at an industrial factory that makes vitamins (don't ask). I did the compression, grinding, cleanup etc and all on a treadmill that you have to keep up with. Its dirty, you need to wear a face mask and a hair net. You need to make sure to be polite to everyone as their are many gang members that work there. The machine I was operating was literally manufactured in the 1950's (I heard the owner doesn't want to upgrade as the company is profitable and growing thus he is afraid to change anything). After the ordeal my legs and back were completely fucked and I was miserable. Everyone who works there does this for 40 hours a week. They do it for $8-$9 hr. I'm convinced they should all be getting $30-$50 and be given a free yearly pass to a gym. I disagree that this type of work is 'easier'. It may be culturally perceived as less valuable as it's not specialized, but it's not "easier" by a long shot.
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Unfortunately, Ripple is a worst-case example of pre-mining. I would really hate to see it take off.
I agree with you 100%, reading is a much better way to absorb information with fewer emotional strings available for the plucking with yer brain in a more rational state.

We all however know people who got through university without ever reading an inch of their set list, wrapped in a bubble of uncaring, who could do with a jolt again, a boost to remember why they want to be alive and that money is not the only reason to be alive. For these people, recommending a good documentary is your duty.
It could kickstart a moral highground for a month or so in them!
No, it adds up. There are a lot more available workers than positions in SV.

The problem is finding good people. Good people that are a fit both technically and socially. Superstars get hired. That's it-- everybody wants a superstar.
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Well, the heading of the article itself points to paper millionaires and the first line of the article refers to the 1600 millionaires number..
A $500 million dollar valuation based on being strong in Indonesia? Something doesn't add up.
> what you use for my other cases.

For local searches, I use my GPS. Google often errors by 100 kilometers when trying to localise me, so local search is a pity. Otherwise, I use pagesjaunes.fr which does not work in your country.

I don't search recent news! I read news on some newspapers websites. Whenever I want to search for news, it is for old articles I remember having read but cannot find anymore. ddg is good enough for that.

I discovered stackoverflow through ddg, so when searching for answers to technical questions, ddg is also good enough for me. For your question, I believe that clicking "more from stackoverflow" gives an answer in the first five results.

The case where I used to bitch about ddg's search results was when pasting error messages, but either ddg improved, or google degraded as recently, whenever ddg did not answer satisfactorily to such requests, google did not either...
> I mean if someone is doing more backbreaking work that's physically demanding wouldn't it make sense to pay these people more?

There's more, if we were to build and live in a rational/logic/just system:

Anybody who produces something that somebody is willing to buy on the market should get the same salary per hour worked, since every life has the same value (and therefor every hour of a life, too), where everybody would have the right to the same amount of education, "for free"/paid-for by taxes.

Now you might say "but, shouldn't the stronger/more intelligent/however better guy be paid more?".

No, because, it's not his merit/fault that he is the way he is: Everything in our lives is a function of 2 variables:

a) Our inherited/given genetics that were b) planted in a given environment, to logically lead to the result that is "us", today.

But we don't live in a just system. We're still stuck in the "money equals power" state of evolution, like some kind of a Middle Age of rational thought.