skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine has a great idea about how to approach marriage: don't unless you've dated for several years AND want to have (or already have) kids. If either condition fails, don't. Just don't.
I'm creating a leangains diet planner and exercise+nutrition recommendation system. I'm nearing the end of my cut, during which I've lost 15 pounds and gone from 20%-13% bodyfat in about three months with significant strength improvements. After I'm done I'll go for a few months bulking while I finish up the documentation (lots of scientific studies to comb through!) and then I'll be launching. I use the software I've written for it everyday.
Installed, signed up, app crashed. And now it crashes every time on load.

I uninstalled, sorry. Good luck.

iPhone 4S / Latest iOS
Could have been rolled as an oracle. Although glass strikes me as not the best material for that. Especially ancient glass that didn't have all of the chemical strengtheners that modern glass does

It might have been just an object of contemplation. Like, you can see how all of the heavenly bodies fit snugly into a perfect geometric figure and just wonder at it.

If there's any rhyme or reason to how the symbols are arrayed on the sides, it could have been a mnemonic or instructional device for casting horoscopes.

And, while it's probably too opaque to have been used for scrying, there's that too.
I'd say that reading a book is absolutely no better than screwing around on reddit or playing a computer game. Apart from both both being leisure activities, they are entirely different things. Reading a book is not in any way a 'better' activity.
I work in a digital agency serving corporate clients. We have build Costlocker (https://costlocker.com) a tool for monitoring our project costs and profitability.

We desperately looked for such tool to use it ourselves, but found nothing. So we decided to build it. Only in the process of making it, we have realised that there must be other agencies that need it too.

In the end we have a product that we use ourselves everyday and sell it to other agencies too. What's interesting, we are still learning how to use it in the best way possible and we then share our knowledge with other users. So the benefit of using the product yourself is not only in requirements specification and testing, but in workflow and usage best–practices.
Honestly if autonomous cars can reduce even 10% of accidents caused by drunk driving and other human errors then they will have payed their way and more.
The Network of Things to Come
People are free to coordinate their trades as private players on the market. While it may be illegal I see nothing unethical about it.

The entire point of the fucking market is to amass enough capital that you're not 'picking' stocks, if you're trading without an edge I really don't know what to tell you.
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I don't feel like I'm wasting time when I'm on Facebook or HackerNews (I don't really use Twitter at all, and not super much on youtube except when linked something).

I get a great deal of information through HN, be it articles, discussions or whatever HN might throw at me. Sure, if you do it while you work, I'd probably agree it can be considered a waste, but everywhere else, the wealth of information on HN, I wouldn't call that a waste.

As for Facebook, that's a little harder to not call a waste, but I don't particularly feel it is though. It keeps me updated on my friends and events in a quick manner, but can be sort of a waste if the information I gather from "the wall" isn't of use to me.

Summed up: I don't feel what I do on my computer is a waste of my time. I'm not hooked to my computer, programming is my hobby, and it's not like I have trouble being social without my computer.
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Married people can and do cheat on their taxes all the time. I know at least a dozen married couples where both file as single and only one claims the dependents.

Married people are allowed to file separately, and the law is that only one can claim each dependent. Maybe I'm misinterpreting your statement, but I'm not sure how that's cheating on taxes.

the intergenerational continuity concept breaks down (and already has) when an unusually large older generations' votes and financial means allow them to skew the balance in their favor.

How does that break down intergenerational continuity?

This idea that I'm selfish because I haven't had kids yet

You seem to be making this very personal. I'm not sure where you get that from the official sources. Simply put, having a younger generation is beneficial to society. It's also a strain on those families that decide to have children. As a society we subsidize them because they provide a long-term benefit.

I've already worked out the math: If I could manage a cheap enough birth or adoption, I would save a significant amount of money by having a crotchfruit. Of course the former requires a willing co-conspirator.

I suspect you are vastly underestimating the actual costs of children. For example, the cost of daycare (unless you want to forego one of your incomes) is ~$1000/month where I live. Additionally, the requirements for certain jobs are not longer acceptable, which limits opportunities to some degree. If you are needed to help raise children at home, working for a startup that requires long hours or a job that has you away from home for significant time most likely won't work out well for either your personal or professional life, take your pick.
It seems like Adobe checks a lot of your boxes. The pay, from what I've seen personally, and tracked on Glassdoor seems pretty competitive. They've got great 401k, benefits, RSUs, bonuses, etc.

All the engineering teams I've worked with are fairly forward thinking in both process and technology. Most teams use the hosted, enterprise GitHub for source control. There are a bunch of technical problems across the company spanning everything from researching photo/video manipulation, open source projects like Brackets, to a bunch of cool stuff going on as part of the Creative Cloud (or even analytics/big data in the Digital Marketing part of the company).

The company will definitely be around in 3 years and is on a good trajectory. A lot of teams have an unofficial work from home day every week, and while "main" HQ is in San Jose, a lot of fun stuff is going on in the SF office. In general I've found it to be a great culture in terms of work-life balance as well as encouraging volunteer activities.
Google is full of stories to keep you reading for hours, such as
http://m.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espionag...
Even when I was a kid, such stories were common enough; this isn't new.
So if you triple the population of SF without any updates things will work more smoothly? I use an extreme example to highlight the fact that those studies talk about incremental gains not hyper growth that SF is or will experience (if all this new housing was approved)
The interface looks very nice but no thanks, I'm not going to install PHP on my servers to have it. I'd totally set it up if it weren't for PHP. The risk is just too great to ignore.
Ummm, lots of things? To start with, access to the source code, the legal ability to modify and redistribute said code, and no requirement for permission renewals from someone else.

What gives you the idea that this is anything like DRM?

Given the long history of spin-offs like gcc-xml (which started in 2000), there's nothing which prevents you from adding this design yourself. This is a social contract issue, not a legal one.
Consulting has no long term value only if your goal is to build a 100% product based revenue stream.
Actually, I had a paper some time ago already on the issue of combining preferences with optimization (shameless plug).
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16703681/homepage/mabrams...
I hooked up a Xbox 360 controller to our wafer handling robot for fun.
I'm not sure why it's on HN, but it's real.

It was originally happening in the public channel #dogecoin-market on Freenode but was then moved to the private channel #marketmakers, which seems to have spurred people to start sharing it everywhere since now it's private.

Wolong is the guy who brought the Dogecoin price to where it is now by investing a ton of money into it, and due to that and some charisma he's attracted a cult following. He's now using that cult following to have them do pump/dump ops for him (with their money).

Here's his manifesto: http://pastebin.com/RdRAULtT

It's entertaining, I'm waiting for someone to do a solid article on the story.

Bear in mind that cryptocurrencies are currently an unregulated wild west, where activities like these are both common and legal. Do not invest anything you are not prepared to lose.

edit: just for further corroboration, here's logs from a few days ago: http://pastebin.com/1NTTBCXM

You can check the charts at http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/cryptsy/dogebtc and see how that was responsible for a drop to 212. From memory they were using about 36million dogecoins, which comes out to approximately 78btc or $65,000.

My pet theory is that wolong is just building trust at this point so he can eventually have his army of followers buy all his dogecoins at inflated prices, but who knows. No matter what happens, it's very entertaining to watch develop.
As long as population stays manageable, which sounds feasible in developed economies, and the owners of capital accept being taxed to fund that, or go the Bill Gates way.
The media both in Russia and West like to play up the East vs. West angle, which I believe is inaccurate. While there are foreign and cultural factors in Ukrainian politics, this is a much more boring story of corruption, mismanagement authoritarianism and human rights abuses of the current rule.
I love the irony of the term selfish that keeps getting thrown around by these hypocrites.
The guy with the firehose is clearly going for their heads. There would be no point banging on the shield anyway. If you're going to support this, you have to admit that eggs are going to be broken, and that the ultimate motives are far more important than the physical integrity of government actors. Can you do that?
Moving to the Bay Area could potentially add $100K to OP bottom line, but it's not about what you make, it's about what you keep.
Our product is an IDE, so we use it every day to develop the next version of http://c9.io.
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Found it http://twicsy.com/i/vTY5E
That you choose to dismiss others' humanity (as a hand-wave about "feelings") in favor of inert things is to me troubling and I'm pretty glad HN has not done as you'd like. People are important. They're much, much more important than One Weird Trick That Makes You Love Haskell.

"Tech" isn't a thing except in how people--people--use it and are affected by it and how they, in turn affect the world around them. It's natural that, yes, HN turns to discussions of how the tech community marginalizes some who'd like to be a part of it (and some who never had a chance to).
No, the implicit assumption in my question is that US-sourced industrial espionage tends, at least at some remove, to benefit US citizens.
Yes, by the governments.
We are more connected but the vast majority of people are using that new connectivity to gossip about other people, post photos from parties, and tell people what sort of restaurants they like. People who were not particularly interested in discussing current events are still not discussing current events. At best what you can point to are people clicking "like" when they see a negative comment about the NSA, if even that much.

Those people who do want to discuss current events are no more empowered to do so now than they were in the 90s. Take a look at where the discussions are happening: forums (including websites like Hacker News), mailing lists, and personal websites / blogs.
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This is a silly question. It's like saying, "Do US citizens support their troops? Well, do they support Iranian troops? If they don't support the Iranians, why should they support their own troops?" It's the kind of argument that only makes sense in the airless vacuum of a message board.
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Is the main idea behind this scheme to get other participants to lower the price and since the orchestrators got their positions earlier they profit or do they simply need the volume of the masses to make their scheme profitable? If it's the latter, couldn't they just get a large enough loan and move the markets with their own funds seeing as Dogecoin is still a relatively small market?
> Of course not, I never said that. I don't support discrimination in any way.

But you offer tacit support to exclusion, which is not exactly better.
30 years of Macs: Up close and personal
Cgminer and bfgminer are focused on usb based ASIC miners now. Bfgminer still supports cpu and gpu mining, it's just unsupported and not compiled by default.
Russia has not accepted the fall of the Soviet Empire and has been trying to roll things back at least since 1999. Ukraine is very important for them and they will not let go of it easily.
You can go a bit further back. For the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about correlation between income inequality and various negative social outcomes.

Recently, a number of economists have discovered that if you run the exact same analysis but substitute single motherhood for inequality, you get much stronger correlations. For example:

http://www.economics21.org/commentary/great-gastby-curve-rev...

Now the argument which economist sorts are actually making is a more complicated one - an argument by contradiction. Specifically, if (a) inequality mongers believe their analysis is valid and (b) single motherhood is a bigger factor than inequality according to the analysis, then it logically follows that those inequality mongers should focus their efforts on the bigger problem (single motherhood).

But obviously an argument by contradiction is too complex for the political process.
"And it's certainly reasonable to analogize contemporary attempts to level the 1% with the corollary attempts in Germany in the 1930s"

Yeah... I don't think you understand what the words "certainly" or "reasonable" mean if you feel that statement counts as "certainly reasonable".
This is in part why I inserted the "invited back" clause. :)
The Google Play Store app has a hidden debug menu
And here's one for you. People who work for Google are there by choice. They couldn't be happier to be working with a bunch of like-minded, innovative people. Surprise!

(I don't work for Google. I know several who do.)
That's pretty common in my social circles. Could just be a Scandinavian thing, but mostly people get married when some legally relevant change in their lives is coming up. The two most common are having kids, or moving to another country where visa issues might be more complex if you're unmarried. It's not the only time people get married, and I do know married couples who don't have kids and don't plan to move abroad. But most of the couples I know who don't fall into those categories (including some who've been together for many years) haven't gotten married. To be honest even a number with kids haven't gotten married, despite still being together and raising the kids together.
Who's suggesting you need to police everybody? Think of it like being an ally or a spotter, not an enforcer or inquisitor.
Because we treat them like machines.
Content owners can see Netflix's share price. As soon as they start doing well the price will go up on content licenses. Unless Netflix negotiate 5, 10, or 15 year terms they aren't going to be able to avoid arbitrary price hikes.

this has been claimed for a couple of years now. It hasn't played out that way so far. I haven't looked closely in 6 months but generally their content costs have been flattish rather than a sharp escalation (this is after the ramp up to make their initial content acquisitions).

Furthermore, I think there are 2 reasons why content providers won't be in a great bargaining position.

1. Part of what makes a show a success is the built in audience. Think Friends or Seinfeld ... Thursday night prime time slot used to guarantee an audience in the millions. The networks don't have that advantage anymore. It's Netflix that has a guaranteed audience of millions.

2. If content providers push for major price increases, Netflix has the option of producing their own content, which they've shown they are capable of.

Netflix has been disciplined in their content spending. I don't think content providers will be in a position to change that.
> how do you prevent yourself from wasting hours on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews/YouTube

Have kids.
Not entirely unrelated to the discussion, it's the usual time of year where I get furious about the large financial penalty that I pay the government for being single and without child.

For single folks, getting a house and deducting mortgage interest is a great way to reduce your tax burden. Of course, that means taking on a mortgage, which may or may not be possible (especially in the bay area).
A friend in SF who was the prototypical "startup designer" just got tired of it after too many failed projects and too many unstable positions and got a job with General Electric designing extremely technical user manuals. He loves the rhythm and by his account it seems like a great job. Not sure that he can ever work from home though. Otherwise it fits your criteria.
I had applied to work at Google. A few years ago, Google would have been in my top 5. This time the experience was disappointing. Their offer was low, a little lower than what I make at a startup. When I tried to negotiate with my recruiter, she said "we think this offer is good enough" and that was it. Instead, they offered me a small signing bonus if I responded yes WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS.

So they made me the offer on thursday, I responded on Friday afternoon, and they demanded an answer by Friday at 5pm. I ended up rejecting the offer but the whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth.
It's really easy to try Julia by just downloading it: http://julialang.org/downloads/.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Julia is the future of technical computing. We've just started pulling together a BioJulia team - if anyone is interested drop an email (in profile).
IIRC, AppJet and Meteor folks.
Pity the British museum doesn't make a nice replica of that I know a few gamers who woudl buy them.
Intent, and context, matters.
Yes but not as much as I like to. The guys who build a project management tool may benefit the most I think.

We are building a site to engage people to write daily (in English), www.dailythem.es, and while I know using the site more is very useful, I have to keep thinking about the business direction and figure out user demographic before I spend all days using my own product.
There isn't an ethnic angle - although Russian-speaking, the majority of the population of the east is also of Ukrainian ethnicity. Even the language thing isn't that big of a deal, almost all Ukrainians use both languages to some extent.
Ask HN: How to productize a freelance consulting business?
I've been working freelance for a few years and found good success in attracting and retaining well-paying professional clients and delivering high-quality work in return. But I'd like to scale this work beyond myself and find out how to generate more revenue on an ongoing basis, without being limited by my weekly working hours. What advice would you give? Do you have ideas for products/services that freelancers can "productize" and scale beyond their own working week?
It's fun to hear many people saying: "Jamaican bobsleigh donations raised Dogecoin prices", while it's just series of small speculative attacks on cryptocurrency happening.
Except that 'supporting the troops' is held to be a positive thing and can be expected of any group toward their own, be them Americans, Martians, Nazis, etc.

While 'Industrial Espionage', or Espionage in general, has a negative connotation (in the same way theft has a negative connotation). The analogy you suggest is not strictly similar.
Monoculture is bad no matter what group it is. I think there's just a different perception of language. Those of us who post often about class struggle issues (clearly the group I'm in) aren't always blaming white people (at least I'm not) but just trying to identify that it's a problem.

If there's anyone in SF who deserves blame for the current situation, it's stakeholders (people with land who don't want zoning changed to preserve their "views") and NIMBY types, who are often the same. None of this would be a problem if responsible zoning and development could be done.

...but I see things from the perspective of a poor white person rather than a rich one.
It would be shocking if there was not manipulation in a completely unregulated market. We can't stop manipulation in regulated markets, without any rules it's the wild west.
This brings up very interesting ideas and questions that will happen with autonomous cars.

Routes and retail along those routes will enter a new era. Building a store you have to take into account algorithms of the vehicles. Slight changes to a widely used system could shut down a business faster than individual human choice (although it may also make other businesses seen more as it distributes traffic across more roads - hot spots could become medium and less travelled areas could become more lucrative).

Also, wouldn't it lessen ad hoc pulling into McDonalds on the way home? If the machine is in control then you might not go get a donut even if it is along the route, you'd schedule it in more ahead of time. In the same way e-commerce is more direct, traveling will be more direct and the items at the checkout are not as distracting, same as passing other stores, you'll be busy doing other things like passengers possibly.
After 9-10hrs behind a computer at work, I don't have much need for computers at home. Wver since I started working, I've noticed my social network usage has gone down mostly because I don't want to stare at a screen some more. Same goes for my iPhone. I wanted to upgrade, but seeing I use it for nothing more that calls and messaging, I've opted out.
Take this discussion to MumsNet or something?

I don't see how it's befitting Hacker News.
interesting. this is exactly what i do when i'm on vacation.
I'd look at NetApp. They're consistently listed as one of the top places to work (in the US and worldwide) and have a variety of software projects (hardware/firmware work to web management tools).
I think every personal rejection to Google would be a hell because after all the hell interviews... there comes the moment you have to reject the offer. I find that pretty sad :(
Why did you have to ask HN for this you sad idiot?
I feel sorry for the people participating in this market manipulation. I made a good chunk of BTC thanks to wolong's forewarning of his upcoming pump he made days ago but left it at that.

The character started insisting 10k doge tips for him to answer questions on irc, then moved to a private channel where to get an invite you basically have to prove you at least have 10 BTC and are willing to let him ultimately execute trades on your behalf. There are lots of fools in that channel who will soon find themselves parted with their money.
This seems to be the channel in question [1].

[1] http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/details.php?net=freenode&roo...