skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not it is "a lot" depends on a lot of details like what price you're getting offered, how big your profit margin is, and how much you have to pay to the person who installs it, configures it, and trains you to use it. These costs may be much more than $500.

Empirically, I can say that despite the credit card industry asking nicely, almost no merchants anywhere in the US have installed pin-and-chip readers. (Of course, there has been essentially no benefit to them either.)
I would love this feature if they actually incorporated my SMS history into Hangouts, but unfortunately I can't move or sync messages across phones or view them on my computer.

I suppose they reason that it would be too confusing to the people who would then try to SMS from their computer, as iPhone+Mac users are able to do so... but isn't segmenting my Hangouts history just as confusing?
Best of luck with that. For me it was a great decision!
>Not to mention that your computer is unusable while it's mining.

Depends on your computer. I mine 42 coin and code/watch movies and there's no noticeable performance hit other than my computer being warmer than usual.
I came here to say basically the same thing. If the author uses your gem, the timezone/active timeperiod identification route is greatly lessened.

I actually think the combination of a custom domain and Github makes it much more likely he'll be discovered. Buying a domain means transacting bitcoin, which as others have pointed out, is not foolproof. And Github actually provide plots which make estimating the timezone easy... https://github.com/untraceableblog/untraceableblog.github.io...
It would be a lot easier to get their attention if there was an actual 'adb bugreport' attached to the bug.

There's very little context on what the bug is and how to reproduce it besides some vague references to PressureNET (which means very little to someone who hasn't used that before).
It was exactly double. Can't argue with that.
Thanks, i'll update the content today
I have worked with PECL, CPAN, and I find pip to be quite easy and virtualenv pretty cool. Arguably npm is better, but relatively speaking, I think it is py2/3 split that is pythons weakest point.
US looks at ways to prevent spying on its spying of 3rd party Data
It's actually worse. One is just speech, the other is stealing property from California.
These guys are doing it right.

With each new peice of news, I am increasingly convinced that Oculus is the next big platform.

I imagine that not only the film studios, but NFL and NBA are looking at this as a potential game changer for home entertainment.

Would folks pay five bucks to sit at the 50 yard line to watch the Superbowl live on their Oculus? I think I might, and I don't even care about football.
I'm actually turning my response into a full blog post, as I think many people will get something out of it. I'm not trying to argue that the methods used by recruiters are the best for candidates, but rather explain them in terms of the recruiter's perspective and motivations.

Salary range - It matters when you have candidates who have a false sense of their own value. If I'm hiring an Android dev for a client and I know the salary goes up to 140K, what is the use of telling that number to the person 2 years out of school who is only worth 80K at this point? The reason salary ranges exist is that a company realizes they will get some variation of experience. We can call people "Junior" and "Senior" all day long, but it matters little when we get applicants of varying experience applying for the same job.

The salary range, particularly when talking about those least qualified for the job, often creates an inflated sense of value that translates into potentially losing a candidate who feels somehow snubbed because they didn't get the max of the range. People aren't realistic about their value in most cases, and the range just reinforces that issue.

Reason for hiring: I see your point about replacement candidates, but most don't use job specs as a way to both screen in and potentially screen out candidates. I do like specs that screen out (if they want you to work 60 hours, I'd like that to be in the job spec).

Benefits: Again, we're advertising what is different. We could potentially write every single detail of the benefits package, including what the plan is and how much your copay will be if you go to the podiatrist without a referral, or whether or not our HMO covers chiropractic. That might be a dealbreaker for the person with the bad back, but it doesn't matter much to most people.

PTO is important to you, and to most - so that is something that is usually worth mentioning, but is only mentioned in most cases when it is above average. Most people will assume 'average' when reading a job spec unless it is otherwise stated. You'll assume 40 hours a week (probably), so if the company expects only 25 hours or if they expect 80 hours it is worth mentioning. If it's 40, should I mention it?

The job post is to get you to apply to something you are qualified for and hopefully interested enough to want to learn more (as well as screen out those who are unqualified or would obviously not be interested due to a dealbreaker), and we're not able to give every single point in it. Even if we did give every detail, you are still going to actually MEET the people, and you might not like them (or they might not like you). It's how we start a conversation with an applicant, but it's certainly not how we end it.
Those making more than $100,000 give less (proportionally) of their discretionary income than the middle class. [1][2]

"as wealth increases, people become more insulated, less likely to engage with others, and less sensitive to the suffering of others."

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/48725147
[2] http://philanthropy.com/article/Rich-Enclaves-Are-Not-as/133...
Here, from the Oxford English Dictionary:

"""A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things."""

One would expect Google to help IMPROVE search, not hinder it.
af3's point is that you can avoid the risk of assuming bitcoin is anonymous by not buying a domain name at all...
(If you haven't ever looked at your .doge/config or attempted to run in daemon mode, you won't have an RPC password and your client is also secure, since it won't accept commands that are not authenticated.)
Whenever I have a C# problem and google it, I always skip the MSFT documentation and go straight to any possible Stackoverflow or discussion page.
I'd consider contributing if this was a registered charity. It doesn't make sense to 'donate' to a limited company whose owners will see my money returned in the dividends. Crowdfunding in this way makes me sick to my stomach. They will be laughing all the way to the bank.
...

Seriously, think about what you've just written. They're raising $38 thousand, not $38 billion.
But do any of them take bitcoin?
Linode... something that should of died long ago after the first security breach.
He says he uses google translate to cycle through two languages and then spellcheck the result in order to avoid that.
You have described exactly what I use instapaper for.

It is a crying shame that the instapaper search is nearly useless, but it means I can usually cut down my search set to my own 500 saved pages vs the entire web.
Also agreed. I do envy those with more experience with me who are doing more with current technologies, since they have the advantage of having done it longer.

But it makes me wonder what the heck are these companies thinking when they are looking to hire if they care about # of years. You can be in the industry for a long time but be terrible.
I'm sure it can, but it is all about context.

Kids are getting arrested for online bullying which has driven other kids to commit suicide, so just because something is online that could incite crime doesn't give you a pass.
Just use a different browser.
Right now my comments look like I'm wrong and I don't understand where.
He should be best known for bsd-games (package name on archlinux, I think ubuntu too). :-)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

EDIT: oops, the link is for a different package called puzzles on archlinux though he also did make bsd-games (which are text based such as boggle)
Why would you want to search Discussions or Blogs? Everything interesting is already on Google+. /sarcasm

You know, someday Google+ will no longer be the "strategory" priority. There will be a new CEO. All the hands on the corporate ouija board will shift in yet another direction.

At which point, all these moves to deprecate parts of the web, in an effort to shore up G+? They will look even more unfortunate. So much discarded, for so little gain.
> But in reality, no one — not even Oculus — knows what filmmakers will do with so powerful a tool. “Rule Number One: There are no rules yet,” Chen says. What is known is that the ways that perspectives can change thanks to virtual reality are remarkable. Movies, as Roger Ebert said, are “like a machine that generates empathy.” If a person in a VR headset can experience a protagonist’s or antihero’s life first-hand, then the Rift actually becomes that machine. (The possibilities for documentaries seems particularly appealing; Oculus Rift is already being used by artists to “gender swap.”)

I can't believe it's 2014 and a media writer...someone who, of all people, should understand the bespoke nature of content, is thinking along these lines. The same prediction was made back when DVDs came out, that the massive increase in storage allowed filmmakers freedom to show viewers alternate scenes and endings, to the point where the viewer could choose their own adventure.

Aside from DVD extras, which are often rough and unfinished, that new kind of moviemaking hasn't happened yet, and not because of the limitation of the tech. First of all, DVD extras are often rough because it takes time and money to make them as excellent as the finished film. And even unreleased produced footage isn't always a winner, as there was often a reason for that footage to be cut in the first place.

We don't have user-interaction in movies because movies are a medium in which the creators have a distinct vision. Even if it were possible to design and produce a movie world in which users had the freedom to do what they want, it necessarily waters down the director/producer's vision...

Hell, books have had the technology for "choose your own adventure" for a very long time (they're called, "Choose Your Own Adventure" series"...but such books have not become true classics. Would "Romeo and Juliet" be as fine a classic if readers/theatergoers were given the ability to choose a happier, non-tragic ending?

Oculus Rift is an awesome technology and will open frontiers that we don't yet know exist...but it's not going to fundamentally change the bespoke (and somewhat rigid) art of movies and literature, unless movies and literature themselves undergo a radical rethinking...but that kind of revolution is not waiting on technology.
Show HN: Local Live Music
I created this proof-of-concept app using MIT's app inventor as well as existing web services and API's to solve the problem of finding local live music around you. This app has one function and does it very simply. Every other app I saw on the market was either convoluted or did not include local artists. For me the most difficult part was finding a problem that needed solving - how do you come up with ideas or find ideas that you can improve upon?
My favorite thing is when vendors are too lazy to implement I2C, so you have to open the datasheets for every device that you want to have on the same bus and compare each timing chart to see if they'll work together. Scales like O(n^2).
Yeah, exactly what jurisdiction you are talking about?
But it won't. You'll still be rounding down a tiny bit more often than rounding up.
Thanks for your feedback! I'm not an Indian native but I am taking language classes in anticipation of doing something in the future. I'm hearing that it really depends on the people.
> Russia has no interest in investing in Ukraine's future.

Seems like it does, based on the bailout money it offered. Even then, Russia and (Eastern) Ukraine have strong cultural/historical/etc connections, so these issues are quite sensitive to many people, and should not be seen as an EU vs. "evil Putin" matter. Neither should one blame ordinary Russians for having a different opinion on this.
I have the impression that if I started out as a complete newb now in EVE, there would be no way for me to get up to speed and be one of the big guys, running a titan(?)

That's the beauty of Eve - everything is for sale, including pilots, ships, loyalty, and power. Grinding won't get you anywhere. Being one of the big guys is a reflection of one's ability to navigate the social and power structures in Eve more than anything else - a relative newbie starting from scratch can climb the ranks much faster than someone who's been playing for years but lacks the right metagame skills. You're probably right that you'd be unlikely to be one of the big guys, but that's more because of the time commitment than because everyone else has a big head start.
I hope this works out for the guy, but can't help feeling it is going to be a mistake.
Open source licenses are a form of copyright.
You mean being promoted from tiny dick with nothing to massive dick with private beach? :)
That would be a no brainer.

In Vinod's case he bought an investment property and probably tried to minimize general public's pooping and loittering activities that always comes with a shared territory.

At least I understand his angle of view after spending $20+M for something.
Oh funny.
> The majority of the people I talked to pined for the days of the Soviet Union, when bread was cheap, everyone had what they needed, etc.

This seems to be the thing most Westerners find hard to grasp. For many people communism was good.

If you didn't want too much you would get everything you wanted without struggle, which for many was heaven.
Isandlwana: The defeat that stunned Victorian Britain
Because programming isn't cool and never will be. I know we try, calling our more productive autistics "rockstars" and such - but no, never gonna happen.

It's something to do with the process I think. So narrow. Insectile even. Not pretty. It warps people, or attracts warped people, or both.
The future of movies is games.
You can use this url* although it seems to me it's inferior to what they offered previously. Maybe it's just my imagination.

* https://www.google.com/webhp?tbm=dsc
I'm just not sure about the Oculus. People don't generally like having things strapped to their head (and especially their face) unless absolutely necessary i.e. glasses, goggles, helmets.

Oculus may be really cool to use, but I'm not convinced it will ever work its way out of a very small market segment that is willing to strap a viewing device onto their faces.
The really nice thing about Objective-C, of course, is that you can just dip in and out of plain C as the mood takes you (e.g. where speed matters, or perhaps where you're just doing numerical stuff and C is less verbose). I've come to C via Objective-C, and (like many other commenters here) have found it incredibly satisfying.
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Let's say we're hiring for a Ruby Dev. My client needs talent, and we're not the kind of place that is going to say "Must have 2 years with X and 4 years with Y", because we're smarter than that. So I know we might get someone with 1 yr, or we might get someone with 5 yrs. So the range might be, realistically, 70-120K.

I tell you our range is 70-120K, and you tell me you are 1 yr out of school. Then you try to negotiate to 120K. I tell you that is for someone with more experience.

This happens all the time in the business. 15 years recruiting, saw it most of my first 10, and now I don't get into ranges.

When I'm working with senior level folks I respect their time and let them know if I think they'll need to take a haircut on compensation or if they are underpaid and might expect a nice bump. Most recruiters probably don't do that.

Giving the lower end of the range doesn't really provide any benefit to either party (that I can think of anyway). If the candidate is making more than the low end, he/she is likely to ask for a high end. If the candidate is making less, he/she is probably happy that they might get a bump.
Cool app, thanks. Is there a place where I can see an explanation for all of these permissions? I have no idea what the difference between "location" and "monitor location" is, for example.
A full day of open source at Tretton37
Totally subjective concept. This person knows of a lot of chefs and not a lot of app designers, and has projected his worldview onto everyone else.
Escape from Parameter Hell
Never put yourself in position asking for money from hardballs.

Build yourself in a position for others to come to you for money (exclusing IRS :) )
3D TV did not catch on at home. I'm not sure the mainstream market is ready for this. Personally, when I'm watching a movie I don't want to be wearing a headset the whole time. It also feels like it would serve to make me feel more isolated.

That's not to say there's not potential here, but I don't think the world is ready yet.
Tl;Dr. OpSec is hard. Like really hard. So hard you'll mess it up given enough chances.
Intrapreneurship Case Study: Angie’s List and SnapFix
DevOps Best Practices: Artsy
Ah, the Tu quoque fallacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

"To clarify, although the person being attacked might indeed be acting inconsistently or hypocritically, this does not invalidate their argument."
How this nomad girl made it to Hollywood: A Success Story
While agreeing this is a useful feature, it can be offered by marketplaces just as good, if not better. For example, Silk Road (where everyone was necessarily anonymous) had an escrow service which worked just fine.
So it's simple... Don't screw up and the days of anonymity on the internet are not over. The fact that it's possible should make us all happy: now we have a very low-level techy-only solution to anonymity. Like all low-level techy-only solutions, this can be built upon to make more general-purpose solutions and hey-presto - we're back in the game!
Thanks for the hard numbers. That also makes sense.

It should be easy to rationalize that SIGKILL recovery is slower than SIGTERM shutdown for such a database. If your in-memory cache is empty, it won't be providing any speedups, right? Thus you'll need to go back to disk for everything.
Silicon Valley "didn't think a designer could build a company"
have you ever tried one? The effect is extremely impressive. I think people would be willing to put on (relatively) heavy goggles to get the entire panoramic 3d effect the system offers (which I'm not sure there'd be any other way of doing).
Maybe they were like "of course it works for simple cases like 1, let's just test some more difficult numbers".
I dig Oren's candid feedback from operating within a large tech company. "Frustrating at times" but they shipped a pretty cool product with SnapFix
I can't read Ukrainian so maybe you could extract a relevant quote regarding anti-protest laws?
Things We Forgot to Monitor
ICANN CEO sets off explosion of new Internet names (Q&A)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57617899-93/icann-ceo-sets-off-explosion-of-new-internet-names-q-a/
This is a feature the tux3 filesystem also has, and I hope it will be merged into Linux when it is stable.
PHP 5.6.0alpha1 released
Being seen helping people establishes helping others as a societal norm, and thus promotes the practice generally.
Yes, isn't that possible with direct hiring instead of paying more to go through outsourcing firms? My understanding is that roughly $500 monthly puts an Indian in the middle class. Double that and I figure we would be really attractive to young, entry level programmers.
Some people do both - in the most literal sense. One of the top Eve players was killed in the Benghazi attack in Libya in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Smith_(diplomat)
If I every get Facebook notifications on my mobile phone you are authorized to shot me in the head...
It affects the Nexus 5 (and to a lesser extent Nexus 4), shouldn't that be stock Android?
Why is it fair for Linus to get tips for Linux kernel commits? My understanding is that he rarely (if ever) writes code for the kernel anymore. He just takes code from his lieutenants and merges it. Maybe he doesn't feel right taking the money for other people's work.
Assuming you're in the northern hemisphere, this is a horrible time of year for depression. Short days, cold weather, etc. You can fight this with exercise, diet, getting outside, getting as much sunlight as you can (or using those full-spectrum lights), etc. So that's one cause.

Then there's the general case of getting stuff done. I try different things and a few have worked for me. Go work somewhere else. Like I go sit at a McDonalds or a sports bar and I can focus on just code for an hour or two. That's not enough to get stuff done but it gets me started again. When I'm stuck I like to find small tasks and just start completing them. No matter how small, the act of crossing anything off of my list feels like progress and I can get going. Then I also like to end my day by writing down small discrete steps for me to do first thing in the morning. Not big "build a new version" stories but small stuff like "fix X bug" or "resize icon Y".
This will avoid startups feeling guilty or shameful for using HN to promote themselves.

As someone whose startup failed, and someone to whom marketing is a dark and mysterious art, this is a problem I know and understand well. And my advice to such startups would be: damn well hit the submit button. Sacrifice your sentimentalities, your fear of ridicule, your rightly held belief that the HN community will likely ignore you or worse ridicule you, and just get the word out now.

Rather than curating a list of 10 worthy startups, we should all browse /newest and give honest, positive feedback to startups that dare to climb upon the HN pyre.
I haven't used Truecrypt, but couldn't you create a hidden volume within the hidden volume within the hidden volume?
Why would you assume that? These are people who might be using their own computer for the first time ever. Do you really think they are going to jump straight to the point where they are storing valuable, sensitive information on there? Moreover, they appear to be extremely poor, and therefore poor targets for digital thieves.

No encryption and the problem is solved.
Yeah, this pretty much. A misconception when one looks at the game from outside is that "bigger = better", i.e. a Titan is the best ship in the game and one should strive towards it, just like someone should strive to the max level in WoW or any other MMO because that is the goal of the game.

Not so in eve. Usually, big ships can't hit smaller ships, or do effective damage. A Titan on its own is pretty useless, and it needs a support fleet of all kinds of ships to be effective (or survive).

This trickles down the ship class tree, all the way down to the lowly Frigate-sized ships, which cost a thousandth of what a titan cost, or even less.
We can go home now: Majority of teams already DevOps, says Puppet Labs