skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everything has to be a social network. If women want to get into cryptocurrencies, they'll do it. If men can find out about bitcoin, I do not see what is stopping women. I'm female and I had some bitcoins nearly 2 years ago, but I didn't expect it to go anywhere. I am of course a single case, the subject of my own anecdote, but all I am trying to explain that women are not blind.

It should not come as a surprise. Women typically have better things to do. Let's face it, even women that might be considered slightly "nerdy" (a word I detest) like those in UX/web design are not going to think too much about getting into bitcoin. They have cafés to attend, lunches to instagram and "meetings" to postpone.

For bitcoin, considering the prevalence of actual money and credit cards from daddy, you're looking at the small percentage of women that are like me: mathematicians, computer scientists, professional programmers, and maybe at a stretch economists, who actually have an interest in such things (not just possible salaries) and have the time to dick around with bitcoin.

Now, as soon as I specified the math/compsci/quantfin/prog interests that women would probably need to have to get into bitcoin, I eliminated a significant portion of all women. How many women of the minority left under my definition will want to get into cryptocurrencies?

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe women of this generation are all programmers at heart and just need a responsive, flat-ui website or a desperately passionate white knight on a blogspot to help them realise their potential.

But I doubt it. All of these feminists/gender-rights people are nuts, trolls or both.
Not completely in touch with mortgages across Europe, but any freelancer should know getting into freelancing is tough - not just for work, but also for mortgages, health insurance, etc
So your answer is that you have no idea what the chances of a major terrorist attack are, and no way of finding out, but you think the government does, because they have secrets.

Well, there's no way for me to argue with that. Good talk.
Can't one argue that income from rental properties is more predictable than the income from full-time employment? In the former, there are binding contracts between the landlord and tenant that guarantee the landlord income (similar to the relationship between a homeowner and a bank, which seems hypocritical on the bank's part). In the case of full-time employment the employee is not guaranteed to have a job as an employer can fire someone at any time for any reason.
One could maintain the manipulative fiction that money is unrelated to happiness above some nominal level (around $75,000) as a pretext to keep wages low for only so long.
We're currently using http://www.streak.com/

It's working fine for us right now, but I'm fairly sure that once we build a decent sized sales team we'll be struggling and looking for something else.

The pros are those good pipelines that they have. The cons are that it can be a bit tricky to manage anything other than a basic flat pipeline and if leads start with a contact or phonecall we send ourselves blank emails to build the stub in Streak.

Oh, and it doesn't work on mobile devices (it relies on a Chrome extension today, so you need to use your laptop/desktop)

Edit: Apparently there's an iPhone app, but our company is 100% Linux/Android so we're just using the Chrome plugin.
Show HN: Student project: Scan path plotter for eye tracking data
I find regardless of CRM or chickenscratch everyday you're going to have to go through at least 5 minutes of masterminding and maintaining the list. For outgoing I use sendy with SES and you can use variables in the template so your .csv of names can auto load to quickly personalize an email to each lead. If you'd like to mastermind more I'd love to! mike@crawfordandobrien.com
I've heard of close.io and the event based features make it look really promising..
Web application development. I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.
Coders at Work is great - easy to read (but long), with a lot of interesting information. Some sample questions the author asks:
"How do you design code?", "What is the worst bug you've ever had to track down?", "What's your preferred debugging techniques and tools? Print statements? Symbolic debuggers? Formal proofs?" and "As a programmer, do you consider yourself a scientist, an engineer, an artist, or a craftsman?". I think these are all excellent questions, and I learned a lot by reading all the different answers.

My full review of it: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2OV0TG7MJGXGL/
Summary is: It's really dumb that you have to take a regular "job" for a couple of months to buy a house.

And I agree.
I tried it for a few games with friends and I'm not sure at all that with the standard rules defenders can win. With many rule sets you can lock the board pretty easily and make it a draw or lose situation for defenders. I'm not aware of any demonstration of attackers winning every time or not but it's my strong suspicion.
Switching from W2 to 1099 is by no means a semantic difference. If it is, then it's probably illegal to be treated as an independent contractor.
My initial reaction to the first video was how slowly everything seems to move in London. But it doesn't seem modern day is much better.
yeah, sqlalchemy core is pretty good _if you really need to build up dynamic queries_. (I haven't used the full up orm).

But if possible, I still just prefer looking at a full sql statement.
This site is plagued with the same problems a lot of other sites have today.

Lots of fancy visuals and moving parts but took me far too long to get what I needed.
Ask HN: Any one making a living selling WP themes?
buckets + donkeys
The flipside of that is that the scheme described here will take less silicon, fewer transistors and thus . . . use less power, if you happen to optimise the code appropriately.

Code size reductions are good, but for power purposes it is a case of balancing them against decoding complexity.
Try Nimble CRM. We use them at my consulting shop. The product definitely has it's warts, but can help in pulling together (social media) information about leads in your pipeline. You can log calls emails etc but it's a bit more of a pain.
I think being great at something isn't really something that you can teach. I also think that very few people hit a brick wall and stop being able to learn how to be an exceptional programmer. If you ask people that are REALLY good at something how they are so good, more often than not they'll shrug their shoulders and will probably tell you they don't know.

For me, the only way to become really good at something is to keep learning, and to ensure that you know of your own failings. If you don't know what you don't know, you won't try and fix those holes in your knowledge.

If you are aware of what you suck at, it's easy to pick that knowledge up through experience. If you are going through the motions and aren't finding yourself challenged, it's extremely easy to not learn anything of use. An exceptional programmer will have probably spent most of their careers working on problems they didn't know the answer to, and as a result have built up a huge body of knowledge.
the interest rates are too low for the banks to loan much.

Once the rates rise, they will be handing out loans on the street corner.

Right now the banks are trying to drive up home values via restricting supply of new homes. Few loans == few new homes built.

Restrictions in supply == higher home prices.

The banks are colluding with the fed govt to drive up home values so that the mortgage derivatives the banks own will once again become worth something.

it is all about lowering rates and lending to corporations that will buy older homes and rent them out at extortionate rates, and then not lending to consumers so that the home builders cannot build much new supply.

The USA is and always has been run for the purposes of Capital.
What about non-bankers in London or the rest of Europe?
If you are a fan of IBM keyboards, you can take a look at Unicomp[http://pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD] keyboards
The best recruiters – followup (Aug 2012)
Python 3.4 may help a lot with the language mechanisms (with asyncio, pluggable event loops, and composable generators everywhere), but there's still the issue of getting library support to use all of that.

Node.js isn't actually better - it uses the callback model of async programming, which should be familiar to any C++ programmer who's been writing servers since the 80s, both because it's the current best solution for writing scalable event-driven servers and because it sucks.

For ease of programming a CSP-based language like Go or Erlang is really the way to go, but then you're back to the "lack of library support" problem that you'd get with Python 3.4, except worse because Python at least has libraries for the synchronous part of the computation.
Shakuntala Devi once computed the 23rd root of 201digit # faster than a computer
broken on firefox 26, win 7

width="871" on the second image seems to be the problem.
Growth/Press Hacker
I think you're right and wrong: Programmers can be similar to mechanics, but that can alternatively be similar to engineers. It's all semantics, but the people taking part in the whole "learn to code" thing are most likely going to be the mechanics of programming: they can, if given oversight and clear instructions, build lots of things.

On the other side, there are those who are going to be doing the oversight and giving the clear instructions, who can build something from vague requirements with minimal fuss. There are also lots of people in between, but everything is easier when you put it in absolute terms.
Apparently, you have not read that that bollocks klaxon of a paper on arxiv :-) I know a lot of folks see the words, react with aversion, and stop thinking, simply dismissing it out of hand. Bots and all.

As for scientific explanations of qigong: there are a few things that cannot be explained, as it hits the limitations and nature of linguistics and narrative. There will probably be adequate, scientific models of Qigong, but by its very nature, scientific method requires a separation of observer from the observed, and is therefore simply inadequate for explaining anything related to existence or experiencing. You can talk all you want about gravity, but it isn't the same as taking a dive off of a cliff. As such, even though scientific theories may have great predictive powers, they are ultimately not essentially any different than folklore and myth.

And just to be clear: I don't particularly consider qigong as science or even pseudoscience. I consider it a method, or perhaps a strategic advantage. People try to use the "pseudo-science" to persuade others to try qigong. I have no incentive or desire to try to persuade you of the efficacy and validity of qigong.
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Isn't it better to let a recruitment company do the hard work for you?

In a technical job market there are recruitment consultants that know all of the companies, what might work for you and where there might be a need. In my experience they do provide a very good service. However, we tend to dislike them when they are not needed so we might overlook them as our first point of call.
The next arms race in digital publishing will be over explanatory power
A lot of people mix profiting and preaching. If you believe in Bitcoin, you don't necessarily have to support its high price. In fact, the high price and the volatility limit mass adoption, the exponential growth makes many people recognize it as a bubble and they don't want to participate. Many just want to get rich from Bitcoin easily and secretly multiply the number of bitcoins they own times the Winklevii level of $40K or higher and go to bed with a smile. Instead of creating real value, many rush to make money from the raise by not doing much, putting their last penny into bitcoins. As companies like BitPay and Coinbase eventually drag the price down, I read many Bitcoin diehards suggesting to immediately replenish your coins right after purchase, i.e. spend your bitcoins and then pay 1% + $0.15 at Coinbase. I won't mention that the rate will be different at that moment, too! :) Loyalism to the level of idiotism! If you believe Bitcoin price will keep going up, pay with your credit card, and then pay your credit card balance 30 days later when it will cost you less Bitcoins! Or don't pay it at all - the APR will be nothing compared to the logarithmic growth, right? :)
I don't think I'll be taking typography advice from the person that designed that web site. I fired up the laptop just to check that it was just as hideous and disjointed on desktop as it was on iPad. Yup, sure is.

"Loved by hipsters and lazy designers", I dunno, maybe it was all supposed to be ironic.
We use Salesforce (combined with ecquire.com) at Mixpanel - it's not a very friendly UI but it has every feature you'll need in the future. You learn to love it. Plus, every sales person you may hire in the future will already know how to use it (or should). Salesforce, like most CRM tools, has a way to bcc your emails to keep track of the conversations you're having.

You need to start hiring another sales rep too if you're handling 100s of leads by yourself.

You should begin building a qualification framework to understand which leads are valuable and worth your time: Do they have budget? Who has the authority to get this deal done? Do they have a serious need? When will they buy if everything about your product was perfect? And any other unique factors related to your business. Then, get this information into Salesforce!

It's probably time to start using marketing automation/drip campaigns to keep your leads warm too.

Depending on how long your phone calls/meetings run - you'll usually only be able to handle 5-6/day assuming you're doing this full-time so you should consider calculating how many things you can juggle at once.

Use CRM to build a forecast so you can measure your effectiveness. A forecast is as simple as taking the amount of money you might make from each customer that month and multiplying it by the probability you'll close that customer. That'll force you to prioritize.
Time for Sweden to terminate the Assange case
thank you again for the detailed explanation. I think I have better understanding than before.
Assuming size of a pretty normal simple program is 10k LOC. Lines required to get an entry point of program, Python: 1 (0,01% of such program), C#: 7 (0,07% of such program).

Worry about the things that matter, the number of lines required to get to an entry point is not one of them. Neither is printing to the console.

And to be fair, if you are doing python seriously you would probably also have an ´if __name__ == "__main__":´ line, and a ´main()´ function called immediately from there to avoid shadowing of module variables. Assuming also you want to use the command line arguments you will have to ´import sys´ and suddenly the lines required are almost exactly equivalent short of the braces in C#.

Don't get me wrong, i absolutely love the conciseness of python but i frequently see this silly example being used which in the big picture doesn't mean anything. List comprehensions on the other hand is an excellent example of where the conciseness really shines. Really, you can do things in 1 line that in other languages takes 30. Although C# also has similar feature through LINQ so that's not a killer feature to convert someone from C# to python in particular.
A company like "Glass Door" perhaps?
I welcome this call to action and continue to believe that the open source approach provides the foundation for transparency ... though the red herring in this debate is the concept/notion of privacy.

The reasons why such systems are built and supported is that they check a lot of boxes for purely commercial reasons ... the scenarios that no one is talking about is the one where senators dip into the classified stream giving serious competitive advantage to actors in the free market.

Earlier efforts, such as ECHELON were just state sanctioned industrial espionage and what is going on now is just an extension of the same.

I am all for defending/upgrading the concepts of privacy and basic human rights, but as with many things ... the pragmatic solution is to make it very easy to 'follow the money' ...
Current slang aside, an ‘Indiana Jones’ (front-pinched snap-brim fur felt dome hat) is a fedora, and a hipster ‘fedora’ (cloth panel tapered bucket) isn't. It's like calling Crocs ‘Monkstraps’ because they buckle on the feet.
> They'll accept payments in anything, as long as anything is US dollars.

Sometimes, not even then: "One dispensary owner told me about taking seven thousand dollars in cash to the Washington Department of Revenue, to pay his monthly tax bill. He was turned away, because the teller refused to deposit his “drug money.”"

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/18/131118fa_fact_...
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How could the UI be improved?
that this article is written by a male is a sad testament of the fall of Western civilization.
Unfortunately there's a massive outbreak in Syria right now, big enough I was encouraged to get a booster shot before I went to Israel.
Lift maybe? https://lift.do/
In the US there are highly predatory lenders who get away with things like early payment penalty charges and up-fronting the entire loan term's interest so you end up paying the full amount no matter when you pay it off.
My experience with curing loneliness is very contrary to what the article states in the sense that I found a way to not feel lonely by being more disconnected from other people. I realized that I only felt lonely when my expectations as to how other people should give me their time/attention were not met, so I purposefully decided to decrease the number and intensity of interactions with other people.

I haven't felt that soul crushing loneliness that cripples you in about a year now, and I like to think that that only happened because of lowered expectations (over time as you interact less intensely with people you'll naturally come to expect less of them) and because of learning how to be alone (being alone and being lonely are not the same thing). The article states you should be around people you know every day and I find that pretty weird. I think the best way to learn how to not feel lonely is to learn to be content with yourself, otherwise you'll always rely on other people and so your feelings of loneliness will fail to go away as soon as other people fail you.

Kinda related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c&hd=1
> Assuming size of a pretty normal simple program is 10k LOC.

This is a pretty big assumption, no pun intended.
Here are some interesting figures on that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income
I cite a host of CS students that I've tutored who have "learned to program" (as in, they know what the symbols mean, and if given prompting can write them), but can't think logically.

They can write code, but not by themselves, or not without it being really messy, convoluted, and not doing what it's supposed to.
Python may be slower than C# but it is good enough. More importantly, it has a thriving, immensely popular ecosystem and great documentation. That's largely about all there is to it.
Without getting into the tests, I suspect he checked his code against the Symfony Routing component[0] instead of the entire framework stack. Symfony is build from stand-alone loosely decoupled components[1].

[0] https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/routing

[1] https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/
Some alternative titles: "People with a bitter taste for life are not making money" or "People who make a lot of money tend to be pretty pleased with themselves" or probably most accurately "People with a lot of money are pleased because it turns out our economic structure favours their particular skills or interests"
Serious Science: The paradox of chronic infections
This poll is bullshit.

They are asking people to imagine what their life would be if they have more money. Of course they say they would be satisfied (up to a point).

However, what people say they want are not necessarily what they need or feel. Contentedness doesn't come from having everything you need, it's a feeling that can be generated from within and rested upon, whatever the situation you are in.

What generates a lot of confusion and suffering comes from the difference between the imagined happiness ("If only ...") and the ability to be content in the present moment. (And sure! "Present moment" can be anything from sitting quietly outside and listening to skydiving). As long as you have an imagined happiness, that "if only X, Y, and Z happens", then you will never be satisfied.

It's totally crazy. People can just be happy right now, and go on with their lives, instead of twisting themselves up inside.
This is actually something worth mentioning. Very nice UX concept.

As expected from HN, no upvotes, no comments.
you mean like the POPS emulator that the PSP used to run PlayStation 1 games (to correct the common mistake, the PSX was a completely different Japanese console, which only had the PlayStation as one of its parts).
As of lately, Google has only been good at shutting down things.
There are lots of CS students who haven't learnt to "think better". They can type out symbols, and know what those symbols mean individually, but they can't combine them in meaningful ways without lots of prompting.
Leases almost always have a provision for breaking them, typically with 2 months payment as a penalty fee.

So you're guaranteed some income, but all of your tenants can leave at any point.
I extensively researched CRMs a few months back. We were looking for simplicity, cost, and a few key features. Pipedrive was the best we found and it's been really effective for us. If we had a larger sales team (just one person now) we'd consider moving to Salesforce - every sales person you'd hire should know how to use it.
Taleo makes a great job making it as painful as possible to search and apply for jobs. I find it pretty funny a "hack" of how to look through taleo listings is in an article about unadvertised jobs.
>CEO spent months trying to destroy my reputation.

What company? I feel at this point, public shaming via stating a sequence of events isn't morally wrong and it might keep one of us from taking a bath on collaborating with one of his future companies.
>Fuck Futura.

>—Mike Blumenthal

Ah, hell no... Futura's awesome... it's so... round and... futury.

Why do you hate and fear the future Mike Blumenthal?
Modern plumbing stuff is designed to be economical. (Which just limits the usefulness of extrapolating from there)

If the mechanics of using the stonework to hold the water were well worked out I would think clay would work well to seal small cracks (and for the scale we are talking about, the 'plumber' could just crawl on in). Or pitch or other sticky stuff.
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