skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Whatsapp employees will become multi-millionaires
he was a very well-known and admired figure in the tech world long before he joined google. in fact his four years there are close to being the least impressive thing on his resume.
either way, if you stick to the idea of an entirely french version, fr.reddit.com/r/football will lead you to the american football subreddit, but for a french guy they would expect soccer to be there...

It's still gread that they provided a multilingual UI, but as a whole, us companies could always use to understand the foreign market a little bit better than just providing a UI translation...
There are 10 times more murders per capita in the US than my home country.

I live in Oakland, CA. A very dangerous place according to statistics. In reality, much of the crime here is in the "bad" parts of town, which I rarely travel to/through. I said "much". There are occasional murders outside the bad parts. They're rare, though.

Even people that live outside of Oakland but fairly close (Concord, 40 minutes by car) have this idea that gunslingers run amok in Oakland and it's incredibly unsafe. That is, until they actually come here a lot (for work, say).

I walk about 1 hour per day in Oakland (that's my commute from home to work). I've been doing this for 13 years. I've never seen one act of violence.

So, statistics can be misleading.
That one actually baffled me - it's in direct contradiction to the IRS FAQ on the subject.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Frequently-Asked-Questions-ab...

> If I am filing a joint return with my spouse, must our refund be deposited to a jointly-held account?

> You can ask IRS to direct deposit a refund on a joint return into your account, your spouse’s account, or a joint account. However, state and financial institution rules can vary and you should first verify your financial institution will accept a joint refund into an individual account.

Not sure if it's a state, Simple, or Bancorp policy, but it's not an IRS one.
I still don’t see what this time-distance-size relation has to say about this case. Do you mean that one could infer since arrow and title are equal in size and close together it requires minimal time to point from the one to the other? It seems like breaking a butterfly on a wheel referring to Fitt’s law here. Sorry for nit-picking, maybe I’m missing something.
I suspect being acquired by a bank makes it easier, not harder, to do things like joint accounts.
The hilarious ending of course would be the fantasy weather league correctly predicting the weather.
Really? Because Google is in the process of doubling the size of its Kirkland office.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020543320_g...
If indeed the report is that old, why not just send the offending bank the .23?
Women can’t do Pull-ups? Watch them.
No law is reasonable.
I didn't mean to imply the midwest is a swampland; I'm from the midwest. And I was serious about the a place in the desert. I wasn't comparing it to anything, the palm desert outside of LA is amazing and I literally want to live there one day.

The swampland is more of an exaggeration for the way people talk about why they don't want to move to SF, as if the cost of rent is the only reason one lives anywhere. And the San Andreas thing is another common fear I hear a lot and have myself. But why should something like fear stop one from living anywhere?

I live in SF. I commonly hear things from people in Chicago where I'm from like "yeah but I'm paying $400 for an apartment in Logan Square(which isn't true any more obvi)" or "yeah but you have to worry about deadly earthquakes". It gets kind of old because I didn't move out here to pay cheap rent nor did I move our here to wait for an earthquake to kill me.
If you're affected, you can switch your domains to their DNSv1. Seems pretty quick for most people.

See the other thread here: http://status.namecheap.com/?p=14846
> It's a fake and yet another black eye for CNN - the photo is from a movie!

As stated on your first link, the story was posted on a social network that CNN hosts, for which it is pretty easy for anyone to get an account. It's not labeled as news, and clearly labeled as not vetted by CNN. I don't see how this gives CNN a black eye.
Awesome job guys! This interface is super sleek. Can I ask what's powering the back-end?
10 Steps To The Cloud
Google's Revolutionary 3D Vision Chip Of The 'Project Tango' Phone
C# Antipatterns
I love simple. I just wish they would address concern related to how they invest my money. For example, I would prefer that they give their customer the options to invest our money for things that that we approve. For example, I want my money to be invest in local communities instead of building nuclear power plants.

Of course, if you want your money to build nuclear power plant and move large scale jobs abroad, then I support that as well. The point is to give us option on where our money get invested. I have called simple.com a few times, and it looks like it is something that they are not thinking about right now. I hope with the new investment they would start thinking about the larger pictures of how the money they collect is invested.
As someone who works 97% remotely from a mostly-colocated office, I have to agree that it's a terribly inefficient way to work. If everyone were remote, it could probably work, but if it's just one or two out of a dozen or a hundred, it's very difficult.

On balance, my current job is still the best choice for me, but there's a constant background of frustration mostly surrounding communication failures.
Can you expound on this? Is there really that much overt racism in SV?
Point of this tool is that you plug in your own projection values and it computes the best possible lineup.
Haven't found anything about pricing on their page, so didn't event bothered to register.
Everybody comes to America to make their dreams come true. They cling to that optimism to hold on to their silly dreams when the odds are against them. Naturally, the culture reflects this. We're delusional. I notice a similar optimism on Hacker News. Everyone's going for a piece of the gold rush.
Think about it this way: have you ever had your car engine die on the road? For the vast majority of people, this just doesn't happen, even though people spend much, much more time driving than they would flying. Modern engines are remarkably reliable. And if it does quit, you can glide the plane to a forced landing.

Long flights over water, mountains, or in poor visibility is a different matter.
> Like transferring money to another bank. Or transferring money to another bank to an account that isn't mine.

These sound like good avenues for fraud, i.e. places where a bank would need to put in a fee so they can afford computers and people to watch for fraud when someone attempts one of these transactions.

> Or a savings account

My Simple account bears interest every month. I suspect they implemented this automagic movement of money without actually exposing it to the user.
Cancer Researchers Believe Fruit Flies May Hold Key to Finding Cure
It's a tip, it's supposed to reflect how well you were treated.

That may be how the practice started, but that's no longer how it works. I mean, you can clearly tip however little or much you'd like, but, culturally, the tip is nothing more than a formality. And like any formality, you're free to ignore it, but you should be aware that that's what you're doing.
Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS
Actualy I would think Java is a better technology to bet on if enterprise and neckties are your cup of tea. While things like AD, SQL Server and Windows are ubiquitous, there are lots and lots of companies that prefer Java over C#.
>the government controls all media outlets and suppresses campaign ads from opposition parties, nationalizes huge chunks of the economy and turns employees working in those areas into public sector employees who are required to vote for the incumbent, further buys hundreds of thousands of votes with giveaways

Citation needed. These are the same criticisms that Romney had about Obama, and for the majority of Chavez's presidency, the Venezuelan (and American) media was entirely and hysterically anti-Chavez.

>Not for nothing, but the notion that the opposition is calling for violence has been reported as Maduro propaganda:

I'm not referring to that criticism (why is all criticism propaganda when someone that one doesn't like is delivering it?) but just the fact that these are traditional upper-middle-class "law and order" protests.

If they win, the white terror will begin.
if anyone is still reading this thread, i found this link had a pretty good description of what i happening (i don't live in venezuela, but i do live in chile and the link below sounds reasonably consistent with the kind of thing i have heard about the unrest here - it sounds believable to me).

http://feministing.com/2014/02/20/toward-a-nuanced-feminist-...

ps despite the title it doesn't have much to do with feminism - it's a pretty general article.
I visited Seattle and Vancouver for the first time recently.

I was surprised at how similar they were. I was expecting Vancouver to be a lot different than it was. Vancouver was even more high-rise, glass-everything, gated-community than Seattle. I spoke with the locals who informed me that was Vancouver's MO, and if I wanted a culturally interesting Canadian city, I should head over to Toronto.
Why do you say the turbine situation is completely different? Turbine engines are if anything more reliable than piston ones.
i was about 16 or 17, and I sat in front of my freshly reformatted computer with a copy of windows NT4 and the latest version of slackware at the time. I was going to do a full partition install of one or the other ...

Even at the time I realized it was a crossroads. My entire career and future pretty much grew organically from that point outwards. I don't think I would have had even remotely the opportunities had I not committed myself to open source.
Drivable is different from requiring a car.

(See the looks you get walking round some of San Diego to see what I mean: pavement ended.)
Whereas Vancouver is not? Vancouver is the most congested, racists, incestuous and overpriced market in Canada.

Toronto might be more congested in parts, but it's much less racist and incestuous, and perhaps equally overpriced.

Halifax might be more incestuous.

Calgary might be more racists.

Montreal might be more elitists, but he didn't mention that.

Whereas, in defense of San Francisco, San Francisco has Oakland. It has Fremont. It has Berkeley. It has Richmond. So when you think about San Francisco, you don't have to think about the congested, racists, incestuous and certainly overpriced part. You can think of the whole. Which is far from that. Especially when compared to Vancouver. A rather depressing, squat, shabby and moist city.

My thoughts when I was in Vancouver were 1. If it wasn't for the border ending right here, there'd be no city here. The city here would be Seattle. 2. Vancouver stopped thinking in the 70s. Everything is just a short 70s convenience store building. 3. Yes, the natural beauty is amazing, which is why the city sucks so much. People would rather leave daily. 4. The natives really got it bad here. Never were they defeated like their eastern and southern counterparts, but still they were simply taken over. You can sense their deep frustration with their lack of autonomy and it's a feeling that I think is completely justified. and finally 5. No wonder Heroin is so popular here. I'd do heroin too if I lived here.

But I guess people love where they live. Even if that place is god awfully moist and moldy like Vancouver.
I grew up in Vancouver, lived in Seattle for two years, and agree with all the digs about passive-aggression and the such.

And while Vancouver's tech scene is rising, you should really stop by Seattle some time and see how wide the gap really is, and how far Vancouver has to go to even be within the same league as Seattle when it comes to tech employment.

> "Amazon? In Vancouver now. Microsoft? In Vancouver now. Facebook? In Vancouver now."

Amazon is the only real dev office out of those. Microsoft and Facebook are waiting rooms for Canadian citizenship to permit easier access to the US. It's funny how often these exact companies are trotted out in defense of Vancouver's tech industry when considering why these offices exist in the first place (tip: it's not to access Vancouver's existing tech talent).

> "Sorry, but Seattle just doesn't make sense if you're not already there."

I don't like the city much at all, but where else can a fresh CS undergrad fetch a $100K+ offer without paying $2K a month for a dingy studio apartment? Vancouver's rental market just as expensive as Seattle, and salaries far, far lower.

The tech industry gets better the further south you go along the west coast. Vancouver is not an exception to this rule.
But that's just not true. In the NE, I can get Smuttynose, Harpoon, Long Trail, Sam Adams, etc in 18 and 24 pack boxes. I have difficulty imagining it's that different for the rest of the country. And whatever you think of those beers, they're certainly not of the Bud/Miller variety.
There is actually a neat web app for mobile devices: http://hn.premii.com
Pricing is dynamic depending on the exact specification of your circuit board. We extract hundreds of parameters from your design and use them to figure out how much it's going to cost.

We should probably do a better job of explaining this on the homepage though!
If so, there's no reason to call Maduro a dictator until he fails to do that.
I guess central CA would get to keep the bear on their flag. West CA could use a Range Rover as their symbol. South CA might use the Joshua Tree. Silicon Valley would have the iFlag...
Flying Zé – Flappy Bird with a Portuguese Flavour
>> I suspect we're indeed looking at the same site,

Ah, but we weren't.

I'd like to apologize - I didn't mean that to sound sassy.

When I was viewing the site earlier, I was doing it on a high resolution widescreen monitor, rotated 90 degrees so that the page was very, very tall.

On the python page, I had pretty much the whole page visible, and it was all useful stuff. On the Ruby page, about 70% of my screen was dominated with the blog feed.

So, the way the pages looked to me was actually quite different, and about the only other people getting the experience I was are tablet users reading the site in portrait.

In the weird portrait view, the python site is better than the ruby site. The way normal people look at it, the ruby site is better.
It's not quite that bad as quite a lot of those 40h will be flying solo.
Why not do both? I did C/C++, then C#, and now C# plus PHP, JavaScript, or whatever is needed for the job. Sure it takes some ramp up, but not that much.

I wasn't a fan of the MS Web stack for a long time. ASP.NET MVC fixed that. It's still overly complicated but it gets better with each release.

From a language standpoint, it's night and day. C# is a real programming language. You can use it to write web apps, desktop apps, mobile apps, daemons/services--even embedded apps. PHP is a templating tool that has tried to evolve into a language and has been hampered in the process by horrible legacy. It's actually pretty decent now but it is still only useful for one thing: web apps.
Vancouver's poverty is kind of odd and I think not entirely comparable to other areas. It's concentrated in just a couple of blocks on hastings, in a highly visible area. The overall homeless rate is actually higher in less populous municipalities like Abbotsford. It's also not a "violent" ghetto, I've never felt unsafe walking down that stretch of road, compared to some of the places I've been in the US.
Figuring things out is great, it's how we all learn, and it's an essential skill. But if you lack curiosity and/or respect for the specifics of the technologies you're deploying, the systems you build by intuition alone will ultimately fail.
I probably misused the word ghetto there (forgetting some parts of America have real ghettos).

The word I should be using is poverty. It's rampant and seems to be everywhere. You can mostly avoid it if you stick to the very central downtown core which I always did as a tourist.

But that was definitely just my impression of the city. I'm not damning the city for it, everywhere has problems. I just can't imagine living around that would have a positive long-term effect on anyone's state of mind. It's not where I would chose to be.
A cool idea for reforming the Tax System
Stacking small states until you have CA's population, you have enough senators to sustain a filibuster. We have 2. This is both undemocratic and unreasonable.
More than a week for a transfer sounds weird; I've done a bunch of transfers to and from Simple and it's the standard ACH time (2 or 3 days I think?).
Can you prove that they do?
How does DuckDuckGo make money to support itself?
> Such 100 random IOs will cost 0.5 sec on 1 iron platter HDD for example.

That's an incredibly, incredibly, iffy and mostly wrong statement which depends on arguably a corner case which doesn't often reflect reality (factors include which DBMS, row ordering, table size, cache size, block size, page size, RAM size, Hard Disk seek time, HDD throughput.

The only case where that's likely is performing a very cold query on a very large randomly distributed table once (and probably only once).

Even a table of 1 million rows with ~30B per row could easily be read into memory in about 300ms (100MB read time + ~5ms seek time, or ~= 5+(1e6*rowsize/ (100e3)) )

Query Optimizers do exactly this.
Ask HN: Best (Home) Office Desk?
I'm on the market to replace my home office (I work full time from home) Ikea Galant (which has served me admirably, admittedly - especially with the right legs and a nice cable management system).

Something that can easily "support" lots of leg room underneath... a desk phone, pens, some writing space, 2 27" displays, (iMac and Thunderbolt Display), some room to place a laptop... so, "expansive" (but not crazy-so).

I'd like something good quality. Old wood / texture would be really nice, or a very modern style (somewhat contradictory, I just happen to like both styles).

Also, any thoughts on a good desk chair?

This is what I had:

- https://whatimg.com/viewer.php?file=Rk8suJ.jpg

- https://whatimg.com/viewer.php?file=mISJVr.jpg

- https://whatimg.com/viewer.php?file=rdhPMY.jpg

And now: https://whatimg.com/i/biYYMQ.jpg - forgive the mess.
We love it too!
Ehh. We could go back and forth on Goose Island.
A few examples could also be helpful to get a better impression of cost without uploading a finished design.
I don't like to disclose such information on the internet, even if all of our posts are easily indexable and identifiable.

I've lived in several cities both EU and US.

But my personal experience shouldn't be the driving factor here: I have different preferences from others. Some people love NYC, others hate it. Some love LA, others hate it. (I love both, but couldn't live in either long term)

My point is only that the motion to villainize driving and sprawl is bad. You don't have to like sprawl, but you should allow others to live it should they so choose.
How WhatsApp Onboards New Users
Because the Altamont Pass isn't enough of a parking lot during the commute.
Just because something is a possible attack vector for fraud, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. Other US banks offer the feature. And, at least in the UK, it's a standard thing to do. If they combined with two-factor auth, then it's no less secure than the debit card and PIN they offer.

The interest of a Simple checking account is no more than the interest on any other banks checking account, so I don't think they're doing it at all. Checking accounts usually accrue some tiny amount of interest.
It is my experience with Haskell Arch packages, as the lack of forum feedback suggested to me, with my troubles with dependencies for pandoc or git-annex-bin,[0] to go and cabal it.[1] That is just me.

I know that goes against the point of this whole post, but I wanted to learn more about Haskell and part of that for me was leaving the farm and running wild, so to speak.

[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/haskell-setenv

[1]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=173781
Not to mention that for every dollar they are holding they can lend out a lot more. Deposits give them more investment/lending power.
Having worked as a vendor to the financial space for many years, I think it is easy to underestimate how hard it is get off the ground in finance (either banking or money management). There are many obscure regulations, and often the numbers just don't add up. In the end, this probably was a fair deal for Simple.

I think WealthFront is another good example of the difficulty. I like the direction they are going, but they had to pivot many times to get to were they are now, and they are still a fraction of the size of established players in the market. It still isn't clear if their business model is going to work.

With that said, the inefficiency in the money management business is pretty ridiculous. I think companies built from the ground up on new technology will eventually replace existing players in the market, but the margins will probably be a lot less as well.
Postgres is a fantastic database.

That said, I've also used Oracle quite extensively in the past when clients have needed it and it has some features that would be great to have in Postgres - as well as some features which we won't see in Postgres as they don't match the Postgres philosophy. Lack of one or more of the features below have driven the choice for various clients to use Oracle despite the cost, so having them would help grow the Postgres ecosystem.

Features in Oracle I'd like to see in Postgres :

1) Flashback. This name encompasses lots of ways to see data as it existed at a previous point in time.

If you drop a table, make a big (wrong) change etc, being able to flashback to just before it is brilliant. Or if you have a multi-terabyte sized performance test database, running a test and then a flashback to before the test is much quicker than restoring from a backup.

2) More robust partitioning - Postgres is quite lacking in comparison here.

3) Better backup options. PG really needs an in core incremental backup to start with, with something like Oracles block change tracking for backups thrown in to do quick incremental backups of a large database.

4) Replication - the lack of something like Oracles switchover which is used in a lot of architectures where you have a application and DB replicated across two sites, with one site being the active one at a point in time. When you need to take one site down for whatever reason, in Oracle you can just do a planned "switchover" to the replica DB and then switch back whenever you want without having to do anything as the DB knows it was a clean switch.

5) The diagnostic and performance monitoring built into Oracle are more extensive than those in Postgres.

The one other really useful feature Oracle has which will likely never be in Postgres is RAC (Real Application Clusters) which lets you create a multi-node active-active DB cluster quite easily.
They say in the article that the public transport system costs 1 Euro a day for a annual pass.
Jesus there are a lot of haters in this thread.
Facebook is probably going to get the history of all of the above. ;)