skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The seven reasons we won't contract your SEO company
Didn't see much of the title in the article. Also, while I agree with most of it, this part seems to be the most important:

> I try to define people by their ambitions, creativity, drive, perspective, attitude, inspirations… that soft gushy core inside the genius billionaire playboy. Love, values, interests, goals.

After an article about how intelligence, prestige, and beauty don't matter, what do you define people by? I'm not seeing the pattern here. What ties these things together?

I'm not sure if this is what you're trying to say, but the only message I'm taking away is: the traits people traditionally respect don't matter as much as they think.
Note this is technically a stack buffer overflow, not a stack overflow.
"The company generates revenue by selling virtual items to a small fraction of its players who wish to enhance their playing experience" should read "The company generates revenue by psychologically manipulating players into spending money in order to progress through the game"
Associate Professors are usually tenured. Assistant Professors usually aren't.
There is a practical example where the incentive to hoard has not stopped transactions: the technology industry. Since the dawn of computers and personal electronics, the purchasing power of the dollar for technology products increases drastically year-by-year, and yet transactions continue to occur.

If a currency or commodity accumulates value, the seller's incentive to acquire it is mathematically equal to the buyer's incentive to hoard it. Eventually, they meet in the middle and find a mutually agreeable price, because people will always want goods and services.
Interesting. I recently implemented a very similar transcoding server[1] for StreamToMe[2]. I used node and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to parse and segment MPEG Transport Streams[3]. It's good to know I was on the right track...

[1] https://github.com/caldwell/stm.js

[2] http://zqueue.com/streamtome/index.html

[3] https://github.com/caldwell/stm.js/blob/master/mpeg2ts.js
Deflation rewards people with surplus income, which has little effect on those living paycheck-to-paycheck. The two bottom quintiles in the US do not have the ability to save; they won't magically start saving just because inflation goes away.

If inflation encourages those with surplus income to make riskier investments, and riskier investments benefit those living paycheck-to-paycheck (say by increasing demand for their labor) then inflation is to the benefit of those living paycheck to paycheck.

On the other hand, the upper-middle-class to wealthy do benefit from deflation, since they have excess income. If inflation doesn't benefit the less well off, then perhaps there is little reason to punish the wealthy with inflation. Those that would save more in a deflationary economy are already saving though.
"""It seems like the model is much closer to that of a Hollywood movie than that of regular software development (which in a lot of ways makes sense). At the beginning of a project, you only need a handful of people to develop the core of the idea you want to develop. You don't need a full-sized AAA game development team until later on in the project."""

Absolutely! And you know why ? Because they don't aspire to make good /games/. They are actively trying to become like Hollywood. They're making spectacles and stories. Replayablity be damned. It's a dirty word. Modern games are often sold on production values.

Trailers! Trailers are a thing straight from movie industry. Nowadays, even strategy games are commonly advertised with trailers. Even strategy games usually have promotional screenshots with GUI turned off. They don't want to show you how the game /plays/, just how it /looks/. Gameplay videos are increasingly rare, and the term is becoming meaningless anyway because of the coming of "gameplay" trailers, which dillute the meaning of the former.
Sounds good, what about Golang based tools? (considering the default static binary generation)
"Versace/Starbucks/Cadillac generates revenue by psychologically manipulating customers into spending money in order to .."
This one is pretty hilarious.
It wasn't straight downtime. For a while we were up but you couldn't submit stories or comments.
So you're saying F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong, the rich aren't different.
I don't see this going good
Talent crunch debate is an elusive one. No credible data is available and we interpret to make ourselves feel good- sour grapes. One thing I would say (in my capacity as having gone to high school in India) is that there are thousands of great engineers (I'm talking about my friends from IIT and IIT) who would die to work for a Dropbox or an Airbnb. I'm guessing its a similar situation in S.America, Europe, China (?) etc.

Now, as far as I know, these companies don't hire in most of these countries. But why don't they? I don't understand. Visa stuff is less of a concern actually.. its been thrashed more than it deserves. Indian consulting companies got like 30K H1Bs last year. 30,000 engineers moved from India to the US. Surely, Dropbox can get 20 good ones. And your startup could probably get a handful too.

These engineers grew up on hacker news - so culture is not the problem. They are moving seven seas - so they work hard and aren't dicks. Their options in India are limited - so the salary negotiation is less of a nightmare.

Not sure if there are any republicans here, so I'll not defend the "Indian developer taking away American job" phenomenon. Hopefully, HNers get why immigration makes sense.

We are trying at VenturePact.com to build a vetted international talent marketplace. We launched a couple of weeks ago in Delhi and a few tech hubs in India and got hundreds of apps from developers wanting to work in the valley or NY. Well, many applications were not suitable BUT many were.

Would love to read what people think of hiring internationally. And what would the preference be between getting them to work remotely vs relocate.
> An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism.

http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

How does this get around that? Didn't fb get slapped for this exact same thing?

http://phandroid.com/2013/04/27/new-google-policy-hits-faceb...
Or, you know... physical buttons.
A cute wordlet.
More like spinning up a few more AWS instances :0
What The Hell Just Happened In Kansas?
Investors will have to be very confident that the company is capable of producing another huge smash hit. Generally the pattern has been cashing in on the hype of the previous smash hit, then falling into a sort of sophomore slump, then death by inches.

King has certainly squandered a decent chunk of its gaming-community good will by this whole candy/saga trademark business. That probably doesn't amount to a lot of its users, however, and even fewer of its paying users.
I'm still amazed that anything was even achieved in that game!
Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism
A few hours later, I had -miraculously- access back to my account (this time with a "Go Pro" bar at the top). Managed to delete all my 1250+ drops ...
If only they were not so agressive about going pro.
Not I'm using CloudApp. Seems to me a fair, really good, alternative.
I feel its good concept and addresses current problem of UI in cars. Still, its not a permanent solution as User has to physically touch the screen which is still a distraction while driving. I feel permanent solution would be through a Voice activated controls where you have 360 Degree freedom for yourself. Till then this idea is very much usable for majority of People,Leaving few corner cases as you mentioned("People have a wide range of hand sizes, motor control skills, even number of fingers").
Quantum vibrations in 'microtubules' in brain supports theory of consciousness
Waiting for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3361212
Show HN: Welcoming Former Mt.Gox Traders
Alta Devices has been in the thin-film GaAs space for years. They've attracted nine-figure investments and posted really spectacular efficiency of ~28% in GaAs thin films. It's all very exciting, but these discoveries are not untrodden ground.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff(rev131204)a.jpg

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Sources-Alta-Dev...
Work gap is fine as long as it is right after school. You have an easy story to account for the gap, and it's a good time to take a break.
So they don't expect any additional growth anymore and have decided this is the point they need to cash in.
Zynga 2.0.
You need to cut your bills then. I'm a 40 year old grad student who's been living on less than 20K for a decade. At this point making 40K would be living large.
In their defense, T:V was mostly Thrax' doing and Irrational were just an unfortunate contractor. Even still, they did butcher just about every mechanic in the game.
> ..Maybe it's just me.

No, I think the view you state is quite pervasive. In general, it seems that in the US the view of wealth is quite positive compared to the EU, with very rich folks in the EU forced to "hide" their wealth, whereas in the US they are comfortable celebrating it.

Why this is I think is probably a legacy of some historical issues (i.e. a landed aristocracy, inherited wealth, French revolution based on mass pluralism), but would take a longer post to discuss than I currently have time for.
Not sure how to respond. I am arguing for concrete technical points here. Something being popular does not equate it being right. Does the YC community diswelcome those making critical arguments, or what?
Do you even know why the US went off the gold standard? If gold is such a panacea, then why did the US get off it? You should really understand history before you start spouting nonsense.
It doesn't. Evolve is targeted towards apps not on Google Play and Beta tests. It's useful for enterprise apps (fix security holes without bugging all your employees) and beta tests (push updates to beta testers instead of waiting for them to download it).
Are you serious? You're comparing micro-transactions in Candy Crush to Versace/Starbucks/Cadillac. Do you honestly think that's a reasonable comparison?
Seventh grader builds a braille printer with $350 worth of Lego
Why Apple hasn't made the iWatch yet.
This is true for some fields, at some schools. Median salary for an associate professor (the first rank with tenure) at my institution is 63k.
It actually is rather solidly into gambling territory. It's basically a worse version of pachinko or even slot machines. It's primary purpose is to draw the user in to addiction in an unregulated system of player manipulation. There is nothing preventing those pathetic savages at king.com from implementing algorithms that manipulate the odds and outcomes to trigger users making in-games purchases.
Actually it's related to a theoretical "zero-risk" investment. Mortgages come with some risk, therefore they need to be priced above the returns for a zero-risk investment. In an inflationary economy, the theoretical "zero-risk" investment is typically something better than just holding the cash, but it can be smaller than inflation (meaning there is no way to gain money without accepting some amount of risk), or it can be larger than inflation. It has varied over time in a way that does not match up with inflation, which disproves your statement.

Side note:

In a deflationary economy, then "zero-risk" would be just holding on to the cash. Of course, that's still not risk-free since you might have been wrong about the economy being deflationary.
My biggest concern as an investor would be whether King is capable of producing their own IP, or if they're going to need to keep going down the Zynga route of copying other designs. Integrity matters when you're running a public company, not least because investors don't appreciate controversy.
The fact that your wife is staying home with the baby is going to make everything really much easier and doable. There is no need to change roles or slow down per se.

Babies just want to sleep, poop and cry for the most part in the first few months. It's around months 8+ that things start getting interesting. Typically, most of the work is going to be done by your wife regardless of how much you want to be involved.

Whatever you can do to help your wife then that's what you should do. So do the extra chores around the house, pick up the grocery shopping. Schedule time for her to go have some "me" time doing something (if she needs it - some mothers will want to be with their baby no matter what). Pay for house cleaning or add another shift to it.

In your case, sleep is going to be important. Expect to wake up 3-4 times a night for a while. If you snore, save your wife the hassle of you and the baby and sleep in the basement or another room some nights of the week. For your own sanity, you may also want to do this.

It might make sense to start bringing work home and do it at night if you want to spend more time at home. You need to be home early evening to provide help and support but it doesn't mean you can't do work after the baby is put to bed.

Also, you'll have a bunch of appointments that you'll need to go to during the day. These are spaced out and are check ups.

Overall, if you are a workaholic and work at all hours, that's going to have to change because the baby will dictate your schedule to some degree. In terms of spending time with the baby it becomes more relevant when they start to crawl and get into the toddler years.

Changing jobs is a bit drastic with one baby and when the wife is going to be home.
Ill get my team to incorporate this in their lexicon and include it in post mortems.

Minimizes perceived downtime.
‘We need the iPhone of guns’: Will smart guns transform the gun industry?
There is a comparison. Both companies purposefully attempt to persuade people to pay money for their products. Like every other company that has ever existed.
Nostalgia and Nimbyism: Rebecca Solnit's San Francisco
WH: Without Net Neutrality, The Internet Would Be An Inaccessible “Toll Road”
The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup (2011)
Which new technology market is expected to reach $177 billion in five years?
"Wait til I get my money right, then you can't tell me nothin, right" - Kanye West

"Cash rules everything around me" - Wu-Tang Clan

In America money rules everything. Anyone with an Ivy League education and access to Billionaires obviously is not going to be intimidated by other status symbols.

It's only the people who need access who are intimidated by the gatekeepers.
Not even. Zynga had more than one hit to its name before IPO.
Clearly broken. Say's news.ycombinator.com sentiment is "Positive". All jokes aside, really cool; love the accessibility of the demo.
Snapchat Poaches Google Veteran in Engineering Push
Sell this racehorse before they need to give it away to the glue factory.
Um, it's already all about "false advertising and misrepresentation"! It's all about disclosure. Any company can choose to comply with the reporting requirements and thus "go public", whereupon anyone who wants to buy shares in the company is free to do so at any time, even with their last penny.

Even without complying with those requirements, companies can still, to a limited degree, receive investment from a certain number of non-accredited investors.

What is it, exactly, that you think the SEC regs say?
Good stuff! I absolutely see it's usefulness for the enterprise crowd.

I wonder if the non-compliance with the Play store policy should be stated a little more boldly and clearly in your readme, so as not to put unsuspecting devs in jeopardy of having their apps unpublished.
A cousin of the Googlewhack.
What Silicon Valley Might Look Like If All of Its Employees Actually Lived There
Elqnt | Arbitrage Now Integrated With Kraken Exchange
"The air conditioning knob is a different shape and size from the stereo's volume knob, and located in a different place (ideally)."

You've nailed it sir. Shape coding[1]. If it's good enough for F-14 fighter pilots, it's good enough for my Toyota Camry.

I echo the sentiment of others. The OPs heart is in the right place here. Mimicking sight free displays on a touch screen is laughably terrible. Take this picture [2] from OPs post. Why are the media buttons ellipsoids? They're just smaller targets to hit compared to squares!

In academia, we've been researching this problem, eyes-free mobile interaction, for a very long time. Particularly in the context of interaction while walking.

There are numerous approaches (e.g., Flower menus [3], utilizing pressure [4], utilizing motion [5], the list goes on). The big takeaway is that it seems like more successful systems result from the multimodal approach.

OP, you've done some good work here, but consider incorporating other sensors. Voice? A camera for in-air gesture recognition? A biometric sensor that gives reasonable defaults automatically based on learned use of the driver? Touch is only one part of the problem if we move away from shape coding, and we will very likely need to utilize multimodal input if we hope for success...

...or, you know, we could just stick to that whole buttons and knobs thing.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Chapanis

[2] http://matthaeuskrenn.com/new-car-ui/images/statusquo.jpg

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRSASiEBw5k

[4] http://www.mobilevce.com/newsite/sites/default/files/infosto...

[5] http://katrinwolf.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MobileHCI2...
One could argue that the fundamental flaw in their business organization was a reliance on credit in order to survive. It's a different way of thinking about the world to be sure, but that doesn't mean it's wrong.

Ultimately I don't really like living in a society that has so little slack in it. I'd prefer (not that anyone gives a shit what I prefer) one where most businesses have large equities built into them rather than debts. A business which owns outright the building it occupies is more likely to weather a storm than one which rents or is still paying a mortgage on. That's because it can afford to accept lower yields (not paying an extra $X per month in rent-equivalent to the owners/investors/etc) in the short term for the benefit of still being around.

Slack isn't efficient on any time scale that economists or MBAs care about but over 50 years I think it's quite a good idea. I'd rather own a business which lasts 50 years even if 10 of those 50 years don't pay the kinds of returns I'd like than one which makes better returns for 12 years and then folds.
You don't need face-to-face for everything. A lot of communications would be better off being rerouted to asynchronous, low-fidelity mediums like chat. When you try to jam everything into face-to-face + email, you create a lot of flow-destroying side effects, like meeting hell and frequent "do you have a minute?" drivebys.

For remote to work, the company should be remote native or majority remote. If 95% of the people and conversations are onsite, the remote team is going to end up being second class citizens.
I've had one of my WeMo switches turn itself off when I didn't tell it to. I always wondered if someone was scanning the internet for them and found it; I updated the firewall to block outside access even though that probably also blocks me from using the app if I'm away from home.
Sure, but now at 65K, I can barely afford my rent. You're asking me to live paycheck-to-paycheck for the idea that you MIGHT make it, and we all know the statistics for startups: most of them don't make it. So now you're asking me to take a 55K salary cut, promising me imaginary money that will be (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt) worth the difference in 4 years, and in the meantime, I can barely pay my bills, barely have a social life (because I'm working so hard to make your company successful AND because I have no money).

I don't mind working at a startup, but like OP said and like I've said before, I would really have to believe in the company, and it would have to be a C-level position or better. In my experience, I get that 55K cut and 0.5% equity, which just isn't quite worth it.

But again, like OP said, the goal is to "pay market rate as soon as you can," and I'm merely pointing out that equity is not a replacement for salary -- my landlord won't accept equity as rent. You still have to pay me enough to not feel like I'm drowning -- and the equity has to be enough to make me want to work my ass off to make your company succeed.
How Hitmen Operate
I am betting on voice. I don't think you should be looking at a screen while driving.

Http://plexinlp.com is building an eyes off interface for cars (and other things) to me the ui should work while looking at it or via voice. Just like conversation s with humans. They work over the phone, but they can be reinforced with visuals.
Password leak in WeMo devices makes home appliances susceptible to hijacks
I liked the article.
I'm in the process of designing a home automation system for my own cabin and news like this is giving me gas. Granted, mine probably won't be nearly as sophisticated (heat, lights, coffee machine etc...), but surely, it can't be an impossible task to combine convenience and security.
What category does HN karma fall into?
Giving vague feedback to disqualified candidates may be necessary to cover lawsuits against the hiring company, but does nothing to make the would-be candidates grow or improve.
Ah, thank you for this

sudo sed -E -i.bak 's/^#?(PasswordAuthentication|ChallengeResponseAuthentication).*$/\1 no/' /etc/sshd_config
From the FAQ:

"Also a security issue with dynamically linked libraries are executables with the suid flag. A user can easily run dynamic library code using LD_PRELOAD in conjunction with some trivial program like ping. Using a static executable with the suid flag eliminates this problem completely."

Have the authors actually tried this? Using LD_PRELOAD with suid programs won't work.
Thanks! I'll make it clear in the readme
> King has certainly squandered a decent chunk of its gaming-community good will by this whole candy/saga trademark business.

Ironically, I was about to say something like "I guess this explains the recent trademark business; they're trying to look like they're protecting their IP so they look better to investors.". And here you are saying the opposite. Is it possible that the same move could increase the perceived value to investors while actually decreasing it by squandering user goodwill?
Are development bootcamps lying about their average graduate salaries?
Interesting juxtaposition of those two lyrics. Wu-Tang's is too often misinterpreted.
This includes new inductees (neophytes) who were ostensibly preparing and performing said skits to prove their worthiness to be inducted into such a fraternal group.
While they've come a long way from implementing security on the client side, they still do not appear to take it very seriously:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/dear-asus-router-use...
A friend who works at a similar casual gaming company has told me exactly this. They a/b test giving the player a "run of luck", to see how that improves conversion.
> Its just unregulated capitalism with no damping.

Bullshit. Nobody's forcing anyone to go and work in the games industry if they don't want to.
One program I missed when I moved from Windows to Linux was Freename - http://freename.sourceforge.net/ - which does exactly this.

My solution was a bit hackier, a bash script that did spit out a bunch of lines for each file in a directory, each with "(mv|cp) 'foo.bar' ''", ready for me to edit and then paste back into a terminal window.
It's a Disassembler - Ida Pro

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
Not Inveted Here Syndrome
Or the the renter stuck paying if the price of bitcoin goes up massively. (and would that count as an increase in rent if there is any sort of rent control or limitation on how much rent can increase by?)