skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who switched from python to node.js, I can give a few reasons.

1. npm is extremely easy to use and has a lot of traction. Language X is going to be a tough sell if it lacks good libraries.

2. node.js devs tend to be religiously adherent to the idea of small modules. While not everyone like this, and some would prefer large frameworks, it is definitely a more flexible model.

3. Speed. I happen to write mapping and geospatial analysis software. Most of the existing solutions are python based. I spent months optimizing one particular algorithm in python and was able to get processing time down to 70 seconds. This was not acceptable for a web app, so I wrote a new geostatistical engine from scratch in node.js. New operating time: 35ms. Sure, there were probably ways to optimize the python code further, but it was never going to touch the node implementation.

https://github.com/morganherlocker/turf

4. In data analysis type applications like this, async IO is a huge help. More connections with less servers means huge cost savings.

5. Syntax is just syntax. When I was a python dev I would look at javascript and cringe, now I find myself doing the reverse. I fully expect to look back at both and cringe when I am a few years into my next language. We all experience that feeling when we see something different than we are used to.
I started working at TrueCar last year on the SRE team, after my own startup failed to hit the moon. I'll be working with some former CarWoo employees I believe. TrueCar is good. I'd be very proud if I grew a startup to ~350 employees with $X revenue and it operated this well. The work environment is nice, the hiring bar is high, the product is the best available on the market, growth is essentially uncapped, and the CEO seems to actually know what he's doing.
It most decidedly does not suck that our offices are right on the ocean, with a view of the Pacific.

Disclaimer: I do not speak on behalf of my employer or anyone else.
The Minnesota starvation experiment
Agree, whether it's startups or politics, those born into a lower social class don't really have advocates (obviously politicians pay lip service to the poor). That said, if a group of upper-class women want to have a founder conference where the attendees are primarily upper-class women no one should begrudge them.
I wonder how much this loss compares to other public transit on a per ride basis? Though they've lost $30 million (assuming that is in the last year), is that a significantly greater loss than other public transit initiatives?
Yes it's quite possible, as long as the don't lie about and belittle the position they are attacking.
It's hard for a public, respected company to statistically bash the quality of another public, respected brand. It just ain't gonna happen, what with all the lawyers and money and connections.

Glad to have smaller entities which are less prone to being swayed.
2 Vegas hotels to accept bitcoins
How about this?

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/fiatjaf/8551280
Historical events can cause effects that span multiple generations, effects that can manifest in ways not immediately traceable to the inciting incident. Black kids don't drop out of high school and cite slavery as the reason.
It's open source:
http://svn.saurik.com/repos/cycript/trunk/
I agree 100%. It's a pretty epic idea they had, but I know few people who need it.

I also found the government bashing at the end to be pretty weird, given that they failed to explain why the USPS should want to partner with them, let alone how the entire government is backwards.
Tumblr's Traffic Isn't Growing
Admins: what happened to this post? It's been bumped from the front page twice, is there something wrong with it? If it's my account, I'd love for someone else to re-post it - you can even take the text and put it on your own blog I don't care. I feel this is worth discussing.
spikels, The authors most likely see your point (and hear it all the time), but I'm not sure if you see their arguments and perspective.

Yes, philosophy can be less than useful at times. But sometimes it simply doesn't get credit because other disciplines borrow its ideas, simplify them, and use them on a day-to-day basis. In doing so, other fields often create orthodoxies (e.g. practices where certain beliefs are so baked in that you don't think about them). That's fine for getting stuff done, but it can be dangerous when the ideas really aren't resting on bedrock and need reexamination from time to time. The key point of the paper, as I see it, is to talk about why the field of economics is missing the boat on simulation.
This does not deserve to get downvoted, you're right in pointing this out. I mean, applications are accepted on February 10th, and then IF you get to go, you have nineteen days to get there? I know a lot of attendees will already be in Silicon Valley, but that's cutting it pretty close for those who need to find a flight.
I love the idea of annotation. I don't love the idea of Rap Genius. Here's why.

AFAIK Rap Genius has to host all of the content that can be annotated through their platform. That means a copy/fork of it has to be put on their servers. It also means they decide which content can be annotated.

Immensely valuable stuff.

Unlike Quora or StackOverflow, it's a collection of thoughts around works which can date back in history - predating Rap Genius and not created on Rap Genius.

Being a VC backed / for-profit venture I don't see how Rap Genius can make changes that would measurably change my view. Happy to be proven wrong!

That being said, there's http://hypothes.is/
I wish you were kidding. Very few people who care about these issues are confused about the difference between access and control over published cultural and scientific information and other inherently public things versus private unpublished personal things. The Free Culture movement is totally aligned with valuing privacy. It doesn't say everything should be public, it says that the public must have freedom regarding things that are in fact public, i.e. things that are published and otherwise necessary for democratic transparency and such.
omigosh, so sorry, I'll be more pleasant next time..
That's not what that article says. It says that those 85 people own as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people. The article and accompanying paper say that the world's richest one percent own 46% of the world's wealth - the 71M people who make more than $35K or so.
I've been using cycript for a while now for reverse engineering iOS applications, and it's absolute witchcraft! You can tab-complete your way through objects, call arbitrary functions, -- it's a fantastic tool for any pen-testers doing work in the mobile space.

It's nice to see this project get some much needed love, I tried to compile it from source a while back and it was a nightmare.
Agreed. I feel like everyone will just keep limping along with OpenSSL 0.9.8...
Honestly I think that, like version control, time estimation can be a very useful feature for people working on a project alone if they use something like Joel Spolsky's evidence-based scheduling[1]. It would be nice if GitHub provided a way to keep track of that. I agree with you that there's a point where there get to be too many features, but if they're building a project for teams to work on things time estimation seems too useful to pass up.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
Intuitive location-based search allows you to easily find relevant information
The car generation is really strange. I just generated an occupational therapist aide who drives a 2001 Ariel Atom.
Yes, I lived through the dot-com bust where I honestly thought my livelihood was disappearing. It was eye-opening and probably the basis of my beliefs on requiring absolute financial stability. Friends of mine were out of work for 2 years, and had to move several times until they found a permanent work in Texas and SoCal.

As well, the 2009 financial crisis had me scared as well, but I was a lot more financially prepared for that.

Now that we have kids, the equation changed once again, and my requirements for financial stability have changed even further.
Who am I? You told me what I am in your comment, so I guess I'll have to bow to your superior expertise on the matter. Interesting how you think you know all about what sort of person I am without knowing anything about my background, my life experiences, or the circumstances and fields of work that I have/have not encountered sexism in.

SJWs always think they know everything about people who disagree with them, just by the virtue of the fact that the person dared to disagree. Perhaps it is for this reason that you and others of your ideological persuasion seem unable to resort to anything aside from hostile yet awfully generic (and as result--often hilariously inaccurate) personal attacks.

Rude remarks and mistaken assumptions about my genitals aside, no, I am not in the 18-22 year old age range, and haven't been for some time. Sad as it may seem to you, there are indeed people of all ages who believe in egalitarianism.
I've got a colleague who's legal first name is "G". He's listed as "Gee" in about 50% of the places he needs to register (including some important places where there might be future legal ramifications of not using his proper legal name - I'm looking at _you_ Crazy Domains web/database programmer!)
For 2014 I'm hacking myself
Have you (or someone else) been using your algorithm for at least a year before the patent application was filed?
If so, can you prove it?

That would invalidate the patent due to prior art...
I used CarWoo for my first dealership purchase. I was not even considering buying a new car, so I just signed up on CarWoo on a whim. However, I was shocked at how low one of the offers was, only about $1-2K more than I was willing to spend for a used car. (I was also having major problems at the time finding a decent non-shady "newer" used car.)

I ended up buying new rather than used, and with only minimal hassle at the dealership. That said, if I had done a lot of legwork I could have found the deal independently, since it was advertised in the dealership's flier.
Male Nurses Conference.
And the "trusted brands" links just before the fold looks a lot like the end of a page (probably because of the small font and gray colors).

On the first visit I didn't even realize I could scroll down, until someone mentioned there was more genuine-looking content further down.
This comment is garbage. Do you think the CEO of USPS wants to decrease revenue? Hell no.
As I understand it, the conference isn't female-only, it's female-prioritizing.
The old gentle man club of the past was considering sexist and a cause for the glass ceiling. Mechanically, its no difference with girls nights out, but to be a problem, it depend on what such time is used for. Networking and work related discussion?
Facebook & Google Won't Sell Ads For Legal Weed
I guess that's true if you consider being for legalized sex work the exact same as being against legalized sex work. She's pretty explicitly pro legalized sex work.

Let me quote the relevant part again:

"She views prostitution as violence against women and favors laws like those in Sweden, where the sale of sexual services is legal"

If you interpret viewing prostitution as violence the same as viewing sex between consensual adults as violence you're totally right on that one too.

In what ways do organizations like NOW actively fight against equality, and scream hate at men for daring to want to talk about men's issues?
The addresses it generates are generally non-existent (if they do exist, it's a coincidence)
9 Ways To Survive The Shit Storm of Developer Evangelism
I didn't think about it that way, but now that you sum it up, I think this is relatively accurate.

Like I said, I'm not against donating money whatsoever, and I definitely have plans to donate in the future. Besides donating more of my income later on, some of my more ambitious plans are to take on foster children, and give them access to the good schools in my area once my children have grown a bit older.

Is there a particular reason why people feel that I should be donating immediately, given I have pretty specific donation plans in the future?
Except in most fields where women dominate demographically, men face few issues (men are actually, in my experience, praised for doing carework) and are actually paid more than women on average. FFC is obviously more than just "women are sparse in tech"
ICANN Unleashes Deadliest DDoS Attack Vector of 2014
Costco (supposedly) has pre-negotiated, no haggle pricing. I used them in the past, and the experience was great (except for the trade-in). Also, there are still car brokers that you can hire to do your bidding.
That (combined with your comment right above it) is completely and utterly surprising to hear from someone on HN.
You realise this only blocks connections from the abusive address, not all connections? If so, please enlighten me about how this enables a DOS.
I don't feel I lack perspective. I'm well aware of how blessed we are relative to other people in the world or even in my immediate area. I just feel like my time to donate is later, when I'm financially more comfortable, rather than now. Is there a reason why you feel I should be donating now rather than later?
Show HN: Snippet Repo - Stop rewriting code
They also tend to word much of their social outreach in ways that imply they are releasing it, not the community. I know they have some talented people who work hard on core, but their marketing is pretty slimy and purposely misleading in my opinion.
I think this is the same test that once made it impossible to get an A if RC4 is not on top of the ciphersuite list.
I don't think that's the right way to look at it. The VC money you spent is a sunk cost; it's part of the past and the only question is how to make the most of its assets. That VCs are no longer interested in the business makes sense, but it doesn't follow that it needs to be shut down, eliminating its remaining value. They could write it down as a loss, stop thinking about it, and let the founders run it at zero cost to themselves. So I don't the bar you're being held to is a real thing.

What I do think is real is that a bunch of equity is missing, and for the company's cashflow, that might make it non-viable. You may have also built in a way that makes its operating costs too high to turn it into a lifestyle business. Or perhaps you just don't want a lifestyle business. All of those (and others I haven't even thought of, I'm sure) are great reasons to call it quits. I'm just objecting to the "bar" part of it.
It is worth noting that while Kiva is a non-profit, the loans go through potentially for-profit middlemen who may charge very high interest rates.

Additionally, money is actually sent to borrowers before their story is even posted to Kiva.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization)#Pre-disburs...
Angular ng-conf 2014 videos up on YouTube
The Sahara memorial seen from space
Damn, I have a draft of an idea that is similar to this that I want to dedicate my time to later this year. I haven't even heard of DrawQuest, and it's not essentially like it, but is rather similar. However, I can see at least 10+ ways to monetize it. I wish there are/will be more details why this failed.
men face few issues

This is certainly not the case for the male elementary school teachers I've heard speak about their experience. Unless you don't consider being accused of being a pedophile to be an issue...
That code is old. http://gitweb.saurik.com/cycript.git. (This link is on the website in the menu at the bottom.) (I should probably put a "code now in git" notice on that Subversion repository, like I had done for most of my other projects.)
Show HN: lightweight window manager for OS X scriptable via JavaScript
Best way to get good attention from a techie audience IMO: provide useful information with enough background data that we can to a certai extent verify how you've derived your assertions. You've been useful to us while proving you know what you are talking about in your chosen domain, so on two counts we are more likely to trust you than the next fellow if we need services like those you are offering. And you've done the above without ramming your services into our faces in the agressive manner many a marketting manager might ill-advisidly suggest.
Yes. It does say he didn't access the data. There is a difference between passive and active attacks.
The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day.
It's a sjw themed joke.
San Francisco approves tech shuttle bus pilot program
If I may pick a nit, the test to be used in this case is not malicious intent, but negligence. In other words, in order to convict her of defamation, the jury must only be convinced that she acted negligently, i.e., that she failed to take a reasonable level of care to determine whether her published statements were true.

In contrast, the malicious intent test looks for either "reckless disregard" for a statement's veracity, or positive knowledge of its falsity (is that a word?). This is a much stronger test reserved for situations where the victim is a public official, which the appeals court found was not the case here.
Aren't transaction costs being "paid for" by all those people running mining rigs? All that processing power used to confirm your transaction cost someone real money. Transaction fees ostensibly pay for this, but I haven't seen anyone do the math on how much to charge to make transactions break even. As the difficulty gets higher and higher, miners will have to rely on these fees to make any profit.

As a side note, is it possible to build mining rigs optimized for transactions vs. mining? or is that the same job?
For someone without the time to compile OpenSSL and nginx/apache, what is a recommended Linux distro with support for TLS 1.2 and PFS?

I'm normally a Debian Stable and CentOS6 guy, but both fall flat here, last I checked.
That's a fucking beat sentiment. Keep it real, brotha.
> What are you implicitly stating here?

Good question. Actually, let's ask more simply "what are you stating here?"

> Women aren't good enough to stand toe to toe with male founders so the only way they will ever be able to succeed is if they are given special treatment.

It seems unlikely that's what they're stating. What other possible interpretations could there be? Or do you sincerely believe that the organizers of this conference are denigrating women? If so, how do you go about warning your female founder friends that this conference is denigrating them?
Finally: the jQuery basic arithmetics plugin.
Sounds fair enough. I suppose we're really on the same page after all. :)
> Is there a particular reason why people feel that I should be donating immediately, given I have pretty specific donation plans in the future?

Yeah. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Rsync.net uses a warrant canary as well:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

I've actually found it kind of surprising that they haven't had any warrants yet.

But you're going to be served with an NSL if you get big enough to be interesting. It seems to happen to everyone. An then you won't be able to update the canary any more. That's a good idea, but I don't think it is enough.

I don't mean to be negative, I just guess I don't see why you'll succeed against the government when the others have not.
I donate 10% of my after tax income, not for religious reasons. I've done this at every stage of my life, no matter how "poor" I may feel compared to those around me. The nice thing about donating a percentage is that it's never more than anyone can afford (unless you're doing something wrong).
I can try to imagine I'm a woman, for sure, men are capable of empathy and compassion after all, but do I have to be a feminist?
Or male nanny (I hate that people call them "mannys" like it would ever be ok to say "womengineer")
There's two big missing facts that I've never noticed Murphy in particular acknowledge: the 1980s peak in global births -- population growth is now driven entirely by decreasing mortality -- and the late 20th century decoupling of energy consumption from economic growth.

Both point to an obvious counter-theory: That industrialization was a centuries-long process, involving exploding populations and energy consumption, that in much of the world has come to an end. The nice little exponential lines are overfit to a particular span of human history and stopped being predictive somewhere in the 20th century.

Also, most of those peaked resources are not even vaguely scarce. I'm not even sure what it would mean to run out of iron ore or bauxite -- a large fraction of the Earth's crust is iron- and aluminum-bearing rock, and the definition of "ore" is "the particular chunks of rock and dirt that are economically viable to extract metal from". Production peaked because of limited demand and lowered shipping costs that made foreign supplies cheaper.
Collapse and Expand nodes as an option (maybe ctrl-space) would be incredibly useful..
It's stuff like this that makes writing perl like writing poetry. It's amazing how smoothly and with a minimum of friction you can jot down thoughts into code and have it work.
>the facts are all against what you were saying

This would probably be more convincing if actually you provided any, instead of just vaguely referencing anecdotes. Without it, you have just an opinion, not an argument.
Debian Stable (Wheezy)'s OpenSSL has everything you need: TLSv1.2, elliptic curve crypto. However, its Apache doesn't support elliptic curve crypto so you'll have to use the slower discrete log Diffie Hellman to get PFS with Apache. I'm not sure about the version of nginx in Wheezy.
100 years? I thought the max ICANN allowed was like 10 or 12. If you sign up for 100 years its going to be 100 years strictly through NetSol auto renewing. Ugh. Stuck with NetSol! Then after they pull the crap they did to OP and you decide you want to transfer you'd lose all those "years" you bought.
You can't see the irony in this.
That discounts the fact that in-app purchases works phenomenally for many, many companies. You may personally not like it, but the fact that IAP drives billions of dollars a year in revenue probably makes it non-idiotic for companies deciding how to monetize.

No one cares about getting your money. They care about the rate at which new users convert. Some segment of any new group of users will be violently and religiously against IAP. That's fine.

Some segment of users will also be violently and religiously against a credit card form, because they think software should be form. That's also fine. That segment just isn't going to have very much overlap with the segment of people that pay you money for services.
I highly recommend reading the new manual: I have added tons of new features in the last few weeks. Example: you can now query live objects given a Class (I scavenge the heap looking for live memory ranges that are the right size and shape for that Class, or any subclass).
You should use this tool, IMO. It creates images with your commit history graph :-)

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
You are talking about the aggregate demand–aggregate supply model, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD-AS_model

Here's my take: the paper would say that solving the AD-AD model with a computational technique with specific choices for parameters would not be considered a theoretical contribution.

I think that is an accurate characterization of economics, based on my experience of what 'theoretical' means. Why? When you use a numerical technique (i.e. not a symbolic manipulation) with particular values for the parameters, few would call that theoretical work. They'll call it applied economics.

(Side note: I can't speak from experience if the AD-AS model is usually solved with dynamic programming.)
> You can already get paid in BTC too

Unless your salary is denominated in BTC, i.e. you make the same BTC every paycheck, I'd argue you're still being paid in USD and just using a third party service to hide the exchange from you and deliver your paycheck in BTC.