skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. And for me that is positive, because creating the economical environment is easier than improving greatly the education and fostering creativity and self thinking. Basically France needs to reduce taxes on employment, and provide for better ways for investment to happen. That seems doable.
I agree wholeheartedly, and would add:
The usage of macros is something that can (and should) be avoided in most cases, but in order for you to learn when one should or should not write macros, you should write programs large (or complex) enough that you would need to develop a domain-specific language for the problem at hand. The creation and use of small utility functions which reflect your growing understanding of the problem will remove some of the need to write macros, until you need to perform syntactic transformations. (Note that this is the case where writing a syntactic transformation is the simplest and fastest solution to whatever problem you're working on at the time). You usually don't know when this will happen until you need to do so, but it seems to be the safer option to use a Lisp, which allows you to do that very quickly.
He was offering 10,000 BTC for two large pizzas. At today's exchange rates that's close to $10 million. I didn't bother to read the whole thread, but if he did eventually buy them, I hope they were at least delicious.
I'm not sure what kind of valuable information a start-up would get from this source.
Care to explain ?

Thanks.
To be fair, he’s describing “non-black, non-latino”, which I suppose most closely aligns with “white non-hispanic” in that table: 19,599/46,180 or 42%. No longer a majority, but still a plurality.

The whole argument is ridiculous, of course:

> If you want to convince white people in this country that doling out free money to the poor is a good idea, you're going to have to convince them that blacks and latinos aren't going to abuse that system en masse. The only way to do that is to try something similar in neighborhoods that are comprised predominately of minorities and cross your fingers that it is a success.

When did we have the double-blind controlled study showing that the mortgage interest tax deduction wouldn’t be abused by the upper middle class "en masse" as a tax-protected store of wealth, contributing to a wildly over-inflated housing market?

Perhaps you can point me to the literature showing that carried interest being taxed as capital gains wouldn’t lead to wealthy fund managers being able to claim zero “income”?

Budget policy in the US (or anywhere, really) isn’t set by enlightened scientists who carefully consider the sociological and economic consequences. Voters and politicians are swayed by pundits and lobbyists, not by scientific studies. Get the right people to endorse an idea with the right (specious but superficially convincing) talking points and you too can help set public policy.
We only drink tea when people visit, so the kettle does play a role. Being gas, it takes longer to boil, giving a nice period of often tea-related small talk before it's shrieking for mercy. If one is in an office or one drinks tea because one's addicted to it then yes, the kettle would be more of an inconvenience, but not everyone lives such fast, non ceremonial lives.
After Dark. Robots exploring Tate Britain museum at night.
I might have missed something (if so please tell me), but the only mention of Kim Dotcom is "Check the first album ever released on Baboom,
Good Times by Kim Dotcom", and it's saying what it's saying... and not that Kim Dotcom is actually behind the service.
I miss the days when things that gratify my intelectual curiosity where the things that got upvotes on HN and things that attract low value flaming didn't get upvoted.

Have a look through this thead for the number of people making the "we don't have programmes to get men in nursing" point. Then see that point being made, and rebutted, in every single previous similar thread. There is no point trying to hold logical conversation with people who are dishonest.

These people don't recognise their bias. Indeed, they have a weird pride in that bias, as if they have The Truth and all those other sheep are being duped by The Women.
> He plots and schemes way to put hundreds of millions of dollars into his pocket off of the works of others.

And the way the recording industry works is any different?
Its hand-waving comments like this that really annoys me when reading HN. As with anecdotal evidence, it tries to masquerade as scientific while being the exact opposite. My reply to such comment is like always: Bring in the real science (i.e. Sociology).

If women are being driven out as you describe, it should be possible to measure. For example, if they are being actively driven out, women in technology should then be naturally gravitating towards those companies, conferences and similar spaces which has an lower hostility than the average.

While some people do perform some studies like that, it still very much in a early stage.

From statistics and Wikipedia and HN have done, one shared answer that have provided is a cultural phenomenon, in which anonymous non-social interacting work is a male dominated area. I would very much like to see a study how true that is, if its located to the IT industry, and if it is true globally.
Hi!

I think you should wear whatever makes you feel comfortable. But, you should not wear a suit or a t-shirt just someone tells you too. Be yourself!

Personally, I've got a big afro and I usually bring my skateboard to interviews. That's me!
There's nothing on the site to download other than his own album in the preview. His video implies he wants artists to upload their music for free, and fans only pay if they enjoy the work. The download tab for an album in the preview has links to iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp.
He did buy them, and although a lot of people probably think he's an idiot for it, bear in mind he is most likely a multimillionaire if not a billionaire by now.
We are associated with the same group behind MEGA
(Megaupload successor as Wikipedia states), and
responsible for the upcoming music service BABOOM.

From their recruitment document
Hello, thanks for your reply. You're correct, my main aim for this question was to understand which language may be best to get the app developed in.

I'd love to learn a language too, and eventually be able to develop/maintain apps myself. But for this project, I won't have time to learn.

Thanks for the feedback.
I did the exact same thing, because of similar views (using the best tool for the job). I also switched to Windows in 1995 or so, and switched back to Mac in 2004.
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| awesome | table | drawing | speed | |
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| | | | awsome! | auto-align |
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| emacs | rocks | | good shortcuts | |
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| lots of exports | latex | | | |
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(drew that in 90 seconds)
Interestingly I live in the UK and have neither a microwave nor an electric kettle. Incidentally, I am technically an immigrant (from the US), though not with the connotations of what I assume you were envisioning.
PHP might be a lot of things, but 'obscure' isn't one of them.
Bob says "hiring women is risky because they all have babies".

Bob sets up a startup and gets to the point of hiring.

Does Bob wonder whether his earlier public comments have left him open to discrimination claims?
Real answer: depends how much you want to become technical.

Mostly real answer: Ruby, PHP and Python are fine choices. Avoid Java, C++, or C#.

Relevant answer: Assuming you want to get something done before "becoming technical" (if ever) Python, by a wide margin - but more than that, you have to pick a framework to work in: Django, Web2py are the two I'd recommend looking at.

Far out answer: Look at Tersus.com - If your app fits tersus (and many do, at least in their prototypical/MVP stage), you won't have to program anything, you'll just have to draw an annotated diagram.
Can that anti-smoking campaign be guaranteed to be financed exclusively by the taxes collected from cigarette purchases?
Some more background: http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-teases-new-music-service-...
Nice - my employers private health care insurance includes this and I had never noticed!

Mind you I wonder when it would ever apply - if you have a non-emergency then you will choose to go to a private hospital, if it is an emergency then you don't have any option but to go to an NHS hospital...

Maybe for people who are covered by private health care but aren't close enough to a private hospital to actually use it?
What are you going to do differently than you are doing now to go from $500MRR to $5k MRR to $50k MRR (if you plan to grow that big)?
Haha, until this comment thread I don't think I ever would have written that sentence.

Maybe I should go buy a bra to burn...
because you don't know our ceo yet :-) Mathilde is really nice and you'll love it I'm sure!
Credit card details on 20 million South Koreans stolen
Good feedback thks! Appreciate it!
Not really a fan of the vitriol in the grandparent comment, but yes, the record industry is different in that some of the profits accrue to the artists. Maybe not enough, but that's different than giving them nothing at all.
Origin of Entrepreneur :
French, from Old French, from entreprendre; to undertake.

I guess the irony is lost on them.
Chip & PIN only solves part of the problem: authenticating that you are you. You could still be a deadbeat.

There are three parties involved: the merchant, you, and the bank. You are ordering the bank to transfer funds to the merchant. Naturally, the bank has a say in the matter. After all, you might or not be able to afford the shiny Maybach.

To keep out hackers, the whole interaction needs to be strongly encrypted. That requires the merchant, you, and the bank to be able to communicate securely. Mag stripes are not secure. But your phone, provided you are not a complete ditz, offers hope.

Merchant presents bill to your phone. You approve (or not — maybe you stole the phone and don't know the code). Merchant presents your approval to the bank. The bank approves or declines, and the transaction completes or it doesn't. Eavesdroppers can intercept the encrpted interactions but can't replay them with any effect other than to raise alarms.

Why isn't something like the above already in place? Because it will cost a bundle to convert, and current credit card fraud rates are at the single-digit basis point level.

Actually, the reason improvements like chip and pin are not prevalent in the US is that the US has historically had better datacomm than other places, so the need to authenticate offline was less urgent. At least, that's the excuse I've heard.
CritSend was started in France.

This article strikes on one of my pet peeves, though. Calling non-startups startups. Ebay hasn't been in a startup in over 10 years. They are simply a 'company' now.
It may be that the Guardian is misreporting it, but from their description the data level is far less anonymized than what I've seen when working with UKDS data.
Maybe it's more of a handle pointing to the right? Most people are right handed so that would make sense.
I tried e-cigs last year. They weren't that robust (I ordered a Chinese package from Taobao) and didn't do anything for me besides break. Maybe I'll try again when I can find something higher end.
You can use objects and prototypes to build classes, but they are not classes by themselves. Similar to how you can use objects to create a linked list, but the language itself does not have linked lists.
And what happens if someone has medical records in the UK but no longer lives there? They'd never receive the notice and not have a UK GP to contact to opt out!
> Also, I don't like the idea of heated plastic compounds leaching into my water.

I don't like the idea to getting burned on my kettle. So if anyone is looking for a kettle that should be metal, invest in one with double walls if you want it for the "look" or one that has palstic outside if you want it for the "taste". Having cheap metal kettle is much worse than having even cheaper plastic one in my opinion.
No, he didn't. He said "smart women choose not to go into coding. Leave that to us men to handle for you". Men hate the job? Really? Then why has Silicon Valley filled up with men from all over the world struggling to crowbar their way into it? Coding isn't a horrible job - if it was, you wouldn't have such high salaries and companies with anti-poaching arrangements to prevent further inflating those salaries. It was an extremely patronising comment, and seemed to verbally pat women as a demographic on the head. "I don't discriminate against applicants on gender, but hey girls, you don't want to apply anyway"

The irritating thing is that you can only rarely group men or women together as being one way or the other. Once you get past primary and secondary sexual characteristics, there are no blanket statements which apply. Pick pretty much any blanket statement you like, and if you actually look at the men and women around you, you'll find plenty of exceptions.

I actually think that the comment was a troll, but Poe's Law applies, and plenty of people will support his view.
Apparently they're Portuguese! Congratulations, we sure need more startups around here :)
I don't think you'll follow through with the idea.

Plus the guy you hire won't slow down enough or likely won't be able to explain whatever code he's copying and pasting for you.

Start here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

Give it a month.

You'll get it.
Yeah don't give up on this, I've wanted a site like yours for years now.

But like the first poster said, there are some usability issues to fix.

Not sure if this was mentioned but for me the landing page works but I immediately click on Map because I don't know what to search for. Do place names show hikes in a specific radius? If so, what's the radius?

So map was much more straight forward to me, but when I then click on a red dot on the map I can't return to where I was on the map and the only way is to click Map again and return to the north american continent view.
thks, we're working on a new version. It's our early beta one.
Driving also pollutes the air with carcinogens, and driving a a car into yourself also causes death. That should maybe put things back in perspective.
How privacy invasive can an extension be?

If the extension can modify webpages could the extension MITM my surfing? E.g. harvesting login data, any form data, cookies and other stuff? I did not saw a discussion about these aspects but from the distance (Never developed an extension) it looks like this all these things are possible?
Baidu Translate App Features A Cool Image Recognition Feature
Hmm I'm actually experiencing Ireland as well and totally concur with that.

I don't know about Denmark or Estonia though but I guess you'd be hard pressed to find more red tape than in France (in the EU context).
That would also work, although there would be the problem of stolen key fobs.

The point is not to have replayable data streams (mag stripes) available for interception and abuse.
How about this instead? http://play.golang.org/p/hED7faR0q_
The physical symptoms of nicotine withdrawal are rather mild, you feel a bit strange for a couple of days.

Not really comparable to getting off of opiates for example.
Amazon's public cloud fingered as US's biggest MALWARE LAIR
From what Courtney Love said, that's not really true. Well selling records can actually put the artist in debt. The best venue for artist to earn money are tours and merchandise.
Russian cloud hosting provider starts accepting BTC and LTC
Can you be more specific about what you consider the "best jobs" and what your current experience is (or lacks)?

There's a lot of places hiring and willing to take chances on people with some demonstrable skills and ability to learn. Take any job that's closer (in tech, geography, or organization type) to your goals than your prior work, and go from there. Graduate degrees are not a prerequisite, and many employers would prefer seeing shipped code, on recent related projects, over formal credentials.
I think about these ideas quite often, and someone who has put this idea out there with much more eloquence and humility than I am capable of is Louis C.K - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aba_1332656862 - Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.
It's not so much health insurance companies I'm worried about, as they will probably have access to medical information about their clients anyway, and organisations like BUPA probably do take patient confidentiality seriously.

I'm more concerned about other forms of insurance, and about links to people related to you and not you personally. For example, what if people start getting a higher car insurance quote because someone in their household had an alcohol problem a few years ago? What if parents start getting refused life insurance because someone's sibling died young from an unlucky genetic problem?

Plus there are the obvious concerns if employers or their representatives/trade bodies can get hold of this kind of data and discriminate in dubious ways when making hiring decisions (sorry, we don't hire anyone who ever had a drug problem, even if they've been clean for a decade), media people going after celebrities/politicians/crime victims (that rape victim was obviously a slut, look at the two STIs she's had in the past five years), and so on.
In http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/aenderungen-2003-o... see the second heading. I have further news articles from FAZ and Süddeutsche claiming the same. Unfortunately I cannot find an English source, I hope Google Translate is enough.
What is hand-wavey, that women are being driven out of stem or that any women I have talked about the subject has repeated how hostile it is?

The fact that women are leaving stem fields is very easy to measure and has lots of reports and studies, the fact that everyone I talk to about it has hostile experiences to describe is very much an anecdote, one that I think its easy for a lot of people to share.

The reference to sociology seems like some xkcd joke, are you annoyed that I commented on an issue without doing a pdh on the subject or that you dont think it is an issue?
To be honest, we're talking about Google Chrome. the UI for Chrome hasn't changed that much (except for the Wrench/3lines menu button) since version 10.
"Hey, female coder, you can choose to be in a co-ed class or a female-only one, your choice" is hardly treating them as freaks. You're completely misrepresenting the original commentor.
Carrying medicines internationally for a friend
I couldn't even read the story on my Nexus. It amazes me that I was bombarded with three popup ad dialogs, the last of which replaced the original page somehow. On the latimes website!?!
He's not even remotely close to being a billionaire, a pretty hefty exaggeration. That would require that he mined nearly 10% of all bitcoins.

He talks about basically having 'thrown away' 40,000+ bitcoins that were easy to mine initially before he stopped and began holding onto what he was mining. It's more likely he's in the $10m to $50m range, assuming he didn't liquidate early into bitcoin's rise.
Did life start with a replicating molecule or a metabolism?
They currently 'hold' updates that have changed permissions. You must click through the menu to install them.
Don't forget Bezos. My friend who was an early Amazon employee who worked down the hall from him tells me Bezos is a fucking psychopath.
I'm not sure I understand the question: "Do place names show hikes in a specific radius?" Are you talking about the orange dots on the map? They correspond to a single hike.

That is annoying that the map doesn't remember where you were. Seems like the best way to handle that is to store your last location in localstore.
My old boss and a partner, both French (one living in the US, the other in Germany), founded http://snapengage.com/. They're doing quite well competing with OLark, Zopim, etc.
I used to work in IT recruitment, and had CV's coming at me every day. One particular candidate popped up in my database search who possessed the rare skill that I was looking for. Her last CV in our system was 3 years old. Anyway, I called her up and asked if she might be still in that field. It turns out the call was made in likely timing. She had just been divorced and explained that she was looking to get back into the workforce after being a homemaker for the past 3 years. I added a note to the call log for other recruiters who may see her record saying "Great candidate, gap in work history due to marriage. Now divorced and wanting to get back get back into the industry. Definitely worth interviewing!".

Now lets imagine that the agency I worked for was sold/aquired at some point and eventually resulted in a mailout being performed on the database.

You can imagine the result if the comment field was accidentally included in the mail-merge, or some substring of it;

"Dear Great candidate, gap in work history due to marriage. Now divorced and wanting to get back get back into the industry, have you considered funeral insurance?"

Pattio11's point is quite valid.

Edit: Sorry, hit the wrong 'reply' button. This post was meant for the parent
Travelling in the US when your boarding pass has your nickname
Slides about NSA's Upstream collection
> There are major advances happening in webdevelopment and they'd move even faster if webdevs didn't have to worry about people who refuse to let go of some old browser.

The point is precisely that we don't want you to "move even faster", because it more often than not means breaking things that used to work perfectly fine for the end-user, and the only people who are really benefitting from these changes are the ones getting paid to "fix" things that weren't really broken in the first place - i.e. the "web developers", of whom there are far fewer than end-users (or just people who want to share their knowledge with the world and write a few HTML pages)!
What does MRR mean in this context?
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Besides the points already mentioned by other commenters I'd say imperial units all over instead of metrical system being used was a big let down to me for using the site. Given only the US uses imperial stuff it would be reasonable to assume metrical units for any IP not located in the US, unless the site is targeted for american audience.

Also, I'm not sure how multi-trails hikes should be organized. I tried to add the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal which I did a few months ago (and is actually a series of hikes between villages) but I could not figure it out and gave up.

Good work though, don't give up now! I know a lot of people who have been looking for a site like that :-)
Monthly Recurring Revenue I think
By obscure they must have meant, 'yet still ubiquitous'
Exactly. I think it's part of a larger learning pattern that people go through: one starts learning about a new tool, library, or approach, and at some point, realizes that it's not perfect -- there are some cons.

I guess there are several ways to respond at that point: one is to persevere, learning more and coming to a better understanding of what advantages and disadvantages are, as well as the appropriate use cases.

Another is to just give up and write a proscriptive blog post, possibly also with a biased, incomplete comparison of the new thing to an old thing.

The latter approach is extremely frustrating for several reasons: 1) often, the authors ignore or fail to grasp both the pros of the new thing as well as the cons of the old; 2) the proposed solution is to throw out the baby with the bathwater, instead of to figure out how to improve the new thing; 3) it provides fuel for others' confirmation bias.