skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do you get 4.1% inflation from? CPI for the USD hasn't gone up by that much in a single year for the last decade, annualized inflation is closer to 2.5% over that period.
Then why take the job if it does not pay as well as other jobs? I don't understand how it makes sense for anyone in the equation.
Concerning the Whatsapp deal
I suspect that the vast majority of criticisms I read are from people who rarely, if ever, use Windows 8. Consider the "start button problem" everyone who actually uses Windows 8 has (by logical necessity) solved the problem...and whatever the problem existed, supposing one did, is gone from Windows 8.1 - a free upgrade released last summer.

8.1 also successfully addressed the legitimate criticism regarding better modal integration of Metro and Desktop metaphors.

Most of the criticism of Windows 8 is generated in an echo chamber with a tradition of anti-Microsoft tribalism born in the dawn of the public commercial internet. Windows 8 introduces the replacement for a 40 year old WIMP metaphor and many people don't want change.
Sounds like pandering to the target crowd which is under 25 at the university and hoping some of them would come work for FB at that point of time.
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http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_pol...

http://imbo01.vg.no/users/bildespesial/images/47512aad574685...

http://i.imgur.com/ZeDmQqc.jpg?1

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/20140219_k...

Story about opposition taking hostage dozens of police is all over the news (Russian news at least, I am not sure if it is reaching the English-speaking media yet).
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Put one of the following in your package.json "postinstall" hook:

npm link lib
link -s lib node_modules/lib

Then:

require('lib/models/user')

No matter where you are.
Just about any can glide, but not necessarily well.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Scored 4/5 ... Missed #3 - the multi-column index question.
Power users who also disproportionately post on forums about things they dislike seem to dislike it but I'd bet there are a lot of normal users quietly getting on with it.
> The problem with low orbit satellites is the backbone connection speed.

Yes, and system congestion, which you also mention. This is why so many different ideas are being considered -- balloons and solar-powered high-altitude drones to name two. But satellites, in spite of their drawbacks, at least in principle would have longer lives and wold present a lower per/subscriber cost.

Because of the propagation delay you mention, satellites work very poorly with VOIP, in fact existing synchronous-orbit satellite methods won't work with VOIP at all. Future low-orbit satellites might be more acceptable, but propagation delay will always pose a problem for anything but terrestrial fiber.
The Mandelbrot set is both chaotic and deterministic. QED
If find it's easier to distinguish modules from files by requiring modules like:

require('foo');

and application files like:

require('./foo.js'); //.js extension
Facebook’s horrible, stroke-of-genius IPO
I disagree. If a food charity enhanced their distribution system in a way that allowed them to feed an additional million people internationally I think we'd be just as interested in what they changed in order to meet their goals. We're interested in any significant success. As it stands though, for any for-profit company, money is the primary measure of success.
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I'm not going to comment on the validity of this specific case, but "open source" doesn't automatically mean "protected from copyright law infringement".
> This continues to cause significant harm to WhatsApp.

$16bn says otherwise.
SQL is a reasonably declarative language in that it will give you the correct answer without you knowing all the gory internal details.

This quiz is about performance tuning, not correctness. For plenty of valuable real-people use cases, it's plenty fast without any performance tuning.
Just curious -- where did the "30%" figure come from?
Why Facebook Got WhatsApp For a Steal
Where did those numbers come from? Preflight and run-up can be done in 20 minutes once you've done it many times and securing after a flight is as simple as turning everything off and pushing the plane in the hanger or parking on the pad. That's maybe 10 minutes at most.

The only really time consuming part would be making and filing a flight plan. If you've done the route multiple times, you already have the flight plan and if you're operating under VFR (visual flight rules), you don't need to open/close it.

Source: I'm currently a student pilot and have done this process many times.
The writer James Howard Kunstler believes that the American choice of suburban-oriented development was the "greatest misallocation of resources" in history. His TED talk on the topic is worth watching.

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
Facebook’s Deal Numbers Don’t Add Up
Tipping is common in America because it is unfortunately an acceptable social practice to allow employers to pay people less than a livable wage.

There are many places in the US where it is legal to pay people $2.13 an hour (for the past 20+ years).

Of course we leave millions without healthcare too, so don't look to the US for sane, humane economic practices.
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Is it really possible that American driving manners are better than Japanese ones? That has to be a mistranslation or embellishment.

I might believe it of other Asian nations, where traffic lanes and rules are more suggestions than anything else, but I cannot believe that Japanese drivers are anything like the aggressive, presumptuous, arrogant, frankly insane drivers we have here. And I count myself in their number!
Does anyone know of a consumer product for Dropbox that does something like this?
Maybe libraries/clients would impact WhatsApp's ability to rework their backend to use FB infra now that they've been acquired?
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The best part of watching global warming unfold is watching the deniers move straight from "it doesn't exist and isn't a problem, so we should do nothing" to "of course it exists and is a huge problem, I've never denied that, but it's far too late to do anything now, so we should do nothing".
Thanks for that! I wonder whether start-ups in your position are more hesitant to pay for consulting, since they're still (relatively) new.

Would you hire a consultant at the stage you're in to help you validate/invalidate your approach? Not trying to pitch you, just want to get your point of view.
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I agree with your sentiment about sprawl being toxic, but I think that time and population migration will solve the problem via urban renewal. The suburbs seem to be (If you believe the Brookings institute) on the wane as families grow smaller and can be accommodated into the tighter spaces of a city. Few of my friends have moved outwards as they've had children, and even then it tends to be those who grew up on farms, and moved to cities for technical jobs.

Brookings report: http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/05/28-city-g...

Related, an excerpt from Hustwit's Urbanized talking about the same issue in Brasilia:
http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2012/11/05/brazillia-an...
The Facebook app can already:
-read your SMS messages

-modify/read your contacts

-read/write your call log

-read the contents of your storage

-retrieve running apps (i.e. it knows every app you have installed on your device, given enough time)

There's so much talk about how Google knows its users better than anyone else, but I think there's little doubt that Facebook gets the throne as far as data collection goes. And lets not forget that in addition to all the above data Facebook knows the 99% of your browsing activity and even when you opened a certain website.

There's really nothing more they can take from us, so I highly doubt this acquisition was meant to bolster their data collection capabilites.
You probably shouldn't be using npm for production builds. npm is good for libraries, but applications should probably be tarballed.
I had the same thought. Seems like the optimizer could still perform an index-only scan to get to 100 rows, then go to the table to filter them down to 10 rows. Yes, the second step is extra, but should still be fast. What am I missing?
What do you expect? It's a startup-oriented hacker bulletin board run by a guy that suggests that hiring is obsolete and most nerds should be able to start a new venture and make a killing.

Even if it's overly optimistic, it's a pretty reasonable aspiration compared to the wage slavery most have to endure, so I fail to see why this is wrong.

There are plenty more of stories of failure studied at HN than successes like WhatsApp. That's actually more correlated with reality than the mainstream business media that focuses mostly on success.
From what I understand, companies _have_ to do stuff like this. By not protecting a copyright or trademark you are, in effect, giving it up.

Calling your API "node.whatsapp" is using their trademark, and they do have the right and responsibility to protect it.

It doesn't make them wrong; just a jerk :)
With the poor, let's say terrible, security posture WhatsApp always had, this is really not the way to communicate the message that they care and want their software to be scrutinized. Open implementations are a great help to any reverse engineer trying to figure out the mess that is their protocol.

This is exactly what triggers full disclosure.
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Clear, objective summary. Appreciated.
This a thousands times.

You can also add in the incredible expense to lay new fiber. Like you point out, you can't just lay it in certain areas, it has to be the entire city which is a financial multiplier which usually makes this an undesirable task for most companies.

We're still seeing the effects of the regional bell monopolies. They own all the copper and fiber. If you want to get into the game, you have to go through them and your margins are going to be razor thin unless you're willing to incur incredible overhead to dig and lay all the fiber yourself.
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Not only grammar:(
Interesting. Trademark law is probably pretty strong against repositories named "WhatsApp" or something very similar. Using the logo without permission as well.

Describing a project as "working with WhatsApp" would probably not be an actionable trademark infringement. Code that works with the WhatsApp API is almost certainly not "infringing", unless there's some "encryption" going on.

Unfortunately the DMCA takedown rules are such that Internet providers such as Github have basically no direct recourse and refusing to comply is not an option. Additionally, complainants don't have to prove much of anything to issue a takedown notice to a service provider. This is a seriously broken part of copyright law, IMO.
That is a code smell. node and require works really great with small modules. npm link in development, tarball up and scp to your box for deployment.
Thanks! We've got a few people migrating from Campfire and Hipchat to us... :)
Maybe a good solution would be to request a less privileged token if the user doesn't want integration with private repos. Then, if they want to upgrade to integration with private repos they need to get a new oauth token with the relevant privileges.

I'd love to try this service out, but I also don't want to hand out oauth tokens that can read my ssh keys.

EDIT: Just read more comments and saw that my github ssh keys are completely public. I guess that makes sense since they are public keys!
It's XMPP based. It has some Node.js hooks for tying into XMPP. It uses Elastic Search too.
Oh, I can't resist.

>You disdain the love of wanting money?

At what point has my absolute contempt for "loving money and wanting more of it" been unclear to you? Because you really should have clued in around when I said "Yes?".

>Looks like you have some personal issues, you're taking this way too personal.

This is banter while I fold my laundry.

>some people love making money and there's nothing wrong with that.

See, you just keep on repeating your disagreement with me as if it's going to change anything. Moral imperatives are, well, imperative, you know? I'm just going to reiterate: there is something wrong with that.

I'll rephrase you: some people hate the love of money and there's nothing wrong with that, or at the very least, you can't do anything about it.

You're wasting your own time and giving me more opportunity to bash greed, which is, as I said, making the folding of my laundry more enjoyable.

But I guess it might bother you that someone might think your moral compass is off center because of your position on money.
This is a great idea and I will definitely be downloading this app. The only issue you might encounter could be, like Tinder - there are too many dudes trying to get laid (people trying to get jobs due to the 1K bonus and $500 referral, and because it is easy) and not enough girls reciprocating (companies looking to hire due to the 5K finders fee).
I think the key point here is that corporation using your data doesn't imply that their CEOs or high executives are personally looking at your activity.

On the other hand the fact that a specific person within those companies is not tracking your web activity doesn't make the privacy problem go away.

Nevertheless, I just find it silly when somebody just alludes that some actual person (e.g. Bill Gates, Sergey Brin) might actually track your specific searches; although I know nobody actually believes it, it's just a figure of speech, just to give a human body to our fears. That's the problem: corporation aren't humans, yet they have a life of their own.

EDIT: thanks to acheron for the name of the figure of speech I was mentioning. My point is that this personification is misleading and causes endless discussions about what can be expected by this or that company, and what you can expect from their employees etc.
I can see VR being a dramatic improvement for flight simulators, but you'll still need a good flight model.
So, you made an assertion about what Mt. Gox is doing that is entirely unsupported by any knowledge on your part, I pointed out that you couldn't possibly know that, and your counter is that because Mt. Gox hasn't wiped out the entire order book in a particular direction, they must not be participating in the market at all.

Such brilliance.
@midwest living

I pay $450/mo for a 1000 sq ft, two bedroom townhouse apartment (turned the second bedroom into a theater). Gas is < $3/gal. My commute in peak traffic is 15 mins. Parking is free everywhere. If you can tolerate living in a < 100K population city, Midwest is extremely livable:
Density is returning to American cities, seemingly because the roads could not keep up with what they promised. Houston has typically been a perfect example of urban sprawl, but as of late it has been rapidly getting denser and land values are skyrocketing the closer you are to these areas.
They used bait & switch in Europe (at least where I was) to entice SMS adoption. There was a multitude of free SMS services: online sites where you could send someone a message for free or SMS a service that would forward it without being charged. Then, in the span of a few weeks, the services disappeared.
4.1% is the 10th root of 150% minus 1.

"OMG, this cost went up 50% over ten years!" sounds like a dire situation, when in fact it's a tiny margin over whatever inflation measure you prefer.

If you take 2.5% as the annualized inflation, that's 28% over that 10 year period, meaning the other 17% increase is 1.6% "real dollar increase" per year. Hardly frightening, IMO.
i was headhunted and interviewed for an erlang position (working on chat). i 'failed' a technical interview when my interviewer insisted i provide sample code in php, python or c++. i offered erlang, c, ruby or js and he dismissed me
They have to do it to protect trademark, but not copyright. I'm not sure there's any real copyright claim to be made here. The DMCA does have provisions against reverse engineering etc. It's not clear to me from this notice exactly what's believed to be infringing other than the Trademark claim, which is pretty straightforward (and easily gotten around).
Awesome article depicting our exploding student hackathon culture.
AMD - $2.7B
Barely usable, yes I agree.
So use Startpage.com. They also say they don't spy on you. It works just as good as Google, because it uses Google (see it as a proxy).

DDG is especially terrible if you are used localized versions of Google. I was used to "Swedish Google", and using a localized (Swedish) DDG was totally unusable.
And so I found Startpage. Works better than the real deal for me. There are a few differences though. A search operator like site: is named host: as an example.
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> Money is a poor measure of value. Plain and simple. Are you drawn to the volume of the transaction because you think it signifies true success?

Money is just a number. I can't quite tell if you're suggesting that value can't be quantified, or if you believe we could quantify value some other way that would be more functional than capital markets. Do Tell.
and not everyone likes premium microbrews either.

sometimes I wish I had the gif "stop liking what I don't like" on a hotkey.
You haven't been to Santa Monica then...
DDG is excellent.
a) Because there aren't an unlimited number of jobs to choose from.

b) Employers are required to make up the difference if you don't make the real minimum wage (7.25) with your tips.

c) In practice, waiters do much better than the rest of the kitchen. I worked as waiter and kitchen staff for six years at a cheap buffet. Servers pulled $150 for a five hour shift, on average. Everybody in the kitchen made minimum wage.
You could always be hacked. It's a danger to provide those permissions. (I understand that there's not much more you can do about it.)
666 github stars for the repo :)
A 3D simulation would represent a big improvement for formation flying or landing and taking off, but not so much for flying at altitude for obvious reasons.

But the absence of body accelerations in a simulator is a big obstacle standing in the way of realism. Big, expensive simulators have a cockpit mounted on hydraulic actuators to partially address this issue -- the cockpit moves around to provide some accelerations and try to improve the subjective sense of being in motion.
But they are third party libraries; WhatsApp has no obligation for backwards compatibility.
Banning e-mail after work
I don't think they are that stupid. Would surely lose a chunk of their user base.

But you never know with companies becoming overconfident...
I don't expect different, but pointing out that the technology sector is no less rotten than the financial sector is a pastime of mine.
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I made a module to solve this issue a while back.

https://github.com/hellopat/prequire
Guidebooks invariably do a terrible job of explaining US tipping. They try to handle every possible nuance, when a tourist can ignore 90% of that. They should just focus on "how do you tip so that people don't yell at you."

And my version of that is:

* Tip 20% at restaurants if you have a waitress.

* Round taxis up to the nearest $5.

* If someone handles your bag or car, give them a $1.
Tipping is a quirk of the culture but it doesn't mean that anyone is getting off the hook paying the employees. That money is still going from the consumer to the waiter, just not via the employer. If it was factored into the bill, it would still be moving from the consumer to the employer, just stopping off in the business checking account first.
You know what was pathetic? With all its security and authentication loopholes people still used it. I gave it up for time but friends still won't listen and then I had to come back. Now, Facebook is sth I can't tolerate. At least earlier I didn't run the visible risk of my very intimate messages falling into advertisers' hands.
Because the serving industry is a huge job market in the US. I was at a random restaurant / diner having breakfast, which in the Netherlands would have maybe one or two serving personnel running around - wasn't particularly large, maybe 30-40 seats. They had five or six people running around.

I have to add though, the serving and attention to customers was much better than over here. You're frequently out of drink in restaurants/bars over here, and the serving personnel doesn't seem to have the time or will to take care of that. Which is a missed sale, of course; over the course of an evening out, that adds up to 1-2 lost drink sales.

And also because a lot of people just can't get a job in the area they want. I know of a lot of people online that went for a degree in game design, but the jobs just aren't there. If they do get a job in the game industry, it's often as tester - bottom of the ladder.
If proportion X (between 0 and 1) of the population knows the right answer (we'll call A, and the wrong answer B), and the other half guesses evenly, you would expect:

A = X + (1 - X) / 2

So to calculate X, given A,

2A = 2X + 1 - X = X + 1
X = 2A - 1

The author implied the formula

X = A - 0.5

which is not correct. In particular, assume everyone got the answer right (X=A=1). Then the assertion that half of the answers are correct guesses is absurd.

The correct lucky guess fraction (amount of the right answers to discard) is:

A - X = A - (2A - 1) = 1 - A

If A is near to 0.5 (which we would expect if our model is accurate and few people know the answer, the 50% approximation the author used is about right.)
> I might believe it of other Asian nations,
> where traffic lanes and rules are more suggestions
> than anything else

Haha. So, true.
I've been using the AngularJS dependency injection module for all my application code, [1] which means I am now only requiring libraries. I find it makes for much cleaner code and easier to test as well.

[1] https://github.com/FungusHumungus/pongular
> That's extreme.

Yes, it is extreme, not the average. I should have added that the pilots I knew were largely instructors, stunt pilots and skydivers (and pilots who flew skydivers to altitude). So not a typical population.
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Probably his intuition.
I've lived in multiple states in the South my entire life and have never seen anyone do this.
As Litovians/Latvians/Estonians were saying 25+ years ago fighting similar fight - "For our and yours freedom"

It is not Litovnians etc who were saying that, but Russians who were dumb enough to support their fight for independence just to be locked up in ghetto after that.
Really :-) try working with the preceding tech which in my case was raw ISAM where you had to build your own ACID on top of a very basic API.

doing Map reduce with non of your fancy pants hadoop malarky

Ps and we had to build our own build system using CPL (prime JCL)
Why do people on video wear non-military boots, yellow identification stripes, use outdated weapons and can't hold a gun right? I mean with left hand, there are no left-handed versions, especially so old, used rounds will hit user's face. And that "sniper" actually doesn't shoot at all. And leaves only _after_ everybody moved back, leaving him exposed. That's ridiculous.
I wonder in 10 years how many students will participate in hackathons. I think it could be a majority by then.