skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you get these from somewhere or are they just your opinion on how this does/should happen?

Pushing for the group members to be treated differently to recognize their intrinsic value / contributions to a society, industry, etc.

If you mean treated differently as in no longer doing whatever it was you were presumably doing before that contributed to this group's "undue burdens," OK. But I'm not clear that that is what you mean, based on what you said.

If you're advocating preferential treatment due to "undue burdens" (e.g. Affirmative Action), all you're doing is discriminating in the other direction and adding an undeserved burden to other groups that didn't have it before. That's not progress; it will only ever 'work' at the expense of creating or inflaming animosity based on this attempt to counter inequality with unfairness.

But you will know that progress has been made when we start seeing stories about women succeeding or failing in the industry and the news doesn't associate those triumphs or setbacks with gender.

This I absolutely agree with. Women are underrepresented in all sorts of areas, but firmly planting that badge on their foreheads takes away from their individual successes and failures. Defining someone -- anyone -- based on their sex, ethnicity, nationality, etc. for the purpose of categorization serves only to tacitly affirm discrimination.
The article may be awful, but the existence of other forms of imperialism doesn't detract from the reckless aggression Russia is displaying now. Your post is essentially ad hominem, except directed at an entire country instead of a single person.
Yes, they would. What's your point?
Finding the McConaughey of Programming
"You are assuming that the learner here is already a (imperative or OOP categorized) programmer who is willing to learn these two languages."

To be fair, that is not an uncommon situation.
Sarcasm aside, schemas have been implemented for JSON: http://json-schema.org/
How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids
Ad hominem can be completely appropriate if you're making a point about someone's character/credibility. I don't know why people think that ad hominem means you should never make arguments "to the man."

In this case, I think he's saying that because these are politically motivated shareholders, a reasoned answer would be lost on them. Cook could have whipped out a lengthy powerpoint full of charts and figures, or he could have done the chicken dance, or whatever ... he's saying the shareholders are not asking the question in good faith.

edit - Further, saying what you would prefer Cook do if you had asked the question isn't entirely relevant, since presumably you would be asking sincerely. Cook can probably tell those guys are only there to yank his chain and make him look foolish, so unsurprisingly he was somewhat hostile in response.
Nice. Would you mind sharing a link of your project?
Don't forget the battery, wifi and other electronics needed for fully functional system. It would make the entire device 5 times bigger. But its getting there when the entire system is as small as this.
That article is from 2010, but it is interesting that his doors hadn't even at that point been kicked down in a no-knock raid or three. It has happened to gov't critics for less.
Bitcoin is an experiment, it's not meant to be a new investment product. It should be very clear to anyone involved that this is a volatile atmosphere and anything can happen. After all, it's really just a bunch of geeks with a website. There is no liability here.

That said, I do think the author was a bit naive about the Dogecoin reference. Weren't they implicated in some kind of fraud as well? Seems as though that is the primary reason why no one would store their life savings in Dogecoin.
A large percentage of non-tech-savvy people seem to hate upgrading.

For them, an update just slows them down or leads to confusing changes. What they already have "works fine."

The difference between "auto update" and "an option to update" is huge.
Why my Nexus is fantastic and why my next phone won't be a Nexus
> The community has designated a Nobel leaurate as its nemesis, solely because he asked some inevitable questions every thinking person in his profession ought to ask.

Does someone know who he's referring to?

Edit: Thanks!
I am not sure about long-stay-working visa permits for Ukrainians in Poland, but I know that for Czech republic, it can take up to several months to have all the burocracy in order.

I know this, because I work for a large multi-national, and my boss always complains when he has to deal with relocating people from non EU countries to Czech republic.

On the other hand, it happens reasonably often, in two years we hired several people from Armenia, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine ...
Isn't his accusation true? I think Woz is an advisor on the other Jobs film that Srokin is working on. That doesn't make Woz a bad guy.
>This isn't very difficult to do.

>Take 100K.

Are you serious?
But it's not trivial to know that it's a date.

It's ok if you are expecting a Date. But when you want to write generic code that "discover" the properties, then you have to do dirty things, like trying to parse every single strings as a date.
I used to work for one of the largest U.S insurance companies. They were always behind in transitioning to new technology (Excel 2003 could be found there in 2013). That being said, the entire staistical modeling team and research department made the switch to R and Python. Only a few clung to SAS but realized they would be forced to move to R as any collabration would need to be converted to R and not to SAS.

I believe it will be R verus Python future and SAS will not be a part of it.
Who wants to discuss happiness at work in SF?
I'm no Ashton Kutcher fan but the elitism in this thread is pretty disgusting.
GTArtsy
This argument is weak and your tone is dismissive. I think you're ascribing too much intent based on your own biases.

You can't just say 'someone doesn't understand' crypto and not explain why. It reeks of an appeal to an authority and is not conducive to discussion.

The Dogecoin mentioned at the end was a joke.

It's also disingenuous to accuse someone of trying to inflate the price (without evidence) and to say that someone is 'hurting the cryptocurrency movement'. You accuse someone of speculating and and that fuels mistrust and yet oblivious to yourself doing it.
I would welcome this, as I have struggled to find a secure chat. In the meantime I've been using bitmessage, but it takes 3-5 minutes for a message to be processed (similar protocol to bitcoin). https://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf
A friend at CERN commented with this: " This is EXACTLY the same procedure we're using to correct experimental data from distortions introduced by detector effects (unfolding) - http://cds.cern.ch/record/1600778 "
Is this legit/secure?
Inventor stumped by 43-year patent delay
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I just watched the 30 minute video trying to hear his opinion without being wrapped in blogspam, and I think this article is a bit sensational.

The only reference I heard made to Snowden was in the very last question where an audience member asks Colbert how to keep people from being afraid of the government. In his reply, Colbert asked if what Snowden did was illegal, and when the audience said yes, he essentially said one of the bravest (and most morally admirable) things Snowden could do after breaking an unjust law is to face trial and accept the resulting consequences. His position came across to me as a combination of civil disobedience and traditional stand-and-face-the-music thinking. He didn't at all come across as vitriolic of Snowden or deeply offended by Snowden's actions.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP9qqdE4O1I&t=1610
I've had a start up for about 1.5 years now and we are covering our bills plus salary for a contractor. We are still growing and since this is bootstrapped, it will be a long road. But we just released a hacker news equivalent to our niche market just yesterday and are already receiving rave reviews. So we are doing great things for our market, so hopefully things will keep looking up.
There are "Doctors" of everything. Psychologists, nurse practitioners, audiologists, veterinarians, optometrists, pharmacists, chiropractors, and podiatrists hold professional medical doctorates. They aren't "Doctors." In the United States when people refer generally to "doctors" they mean physicians and surgeons with a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree who are licensed to practice medicine.

When people say "Is there a doctor on the plane?" after someone has a hear attack they aren't looking for dentists or audiologists are they?
No revenue on my current side project, but haven't yet shared it beyond friends.
This is a terrible idea.

JSON has been successful because it found a sweet spot between three factors:

1. It is useful. There is enough flexibility to represent most structured data easily.

2. It is portable. There are libraries to read and write JSON data in every major programming language.

3. It is simple and unambiguous.

Things like allowing keys to be unquoted if they're valid identifiers in JavaScript and as JavaScript happens to be defined by the latest standard save two characters, at the expense of breaking portability and future-proofing, making the specification more complex, and introducing ambiguity. This is not a worthwhile trade-off.
As an aside, do anyone here still use IRC regularly? It seems some open source projects have permanent channels, but I don't know how active these are.

Haven't really used IRC since the mid-90s, but perhaps it's a good way to connect to other developers? Is there a representative YC channel?
My personal side project, a MUD client for iPhone and iPad, is not even remotely profitable. That's right: online multiplayer text-based games. There are still thousands of them online today, set in fantasy, sci-fi, absurdist, and many other worlds!

I knew before I started that it wouldn't make much money. That's not why I wrote it; I wrote it because I wanted this app for myself.

It expands to fill much of my free time, driving my ROI even further negative, but I sure do enjoy it. :)

By Great Odin's Beard, a free copy! http://tokn.co/msvuyzp8

I have also open-sourced many of its iOS bits: https://github.com/splinesoft
Kinda shows how important your social circle is to your future success even at lower age.

It's not mandatory but it surely helps.
Baseball Card Industry: 25 Years Of Upper Deck
Definitely agree on both points, though I'm not convinced malleability has anything to do with their current troubles. They might have lost a few Bitcoin with that trick but it's nothing against half a billion dollars.
I'm guessing it's Paul Krugman. He wrote a few posts questioning the value and viability of bitcoin, and was mocked for it on a number of bitcoin forums.

Krugman post: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2013/12/28/bitcoin-i...
What if I want to join the modern-day equivalent of this group's beginnings?
I have been wanting to give another tablet a try after getting rid of my iPad. I liked the iPad hardware but the device was too hobbled in regards to file management (IMO).

A couple of days ago, I played with a Surface 2 at my local Staples and was pretty impressed by it and its type cover. The touch interface, which isn't particularly nice on a desktop computer, was pretty cool on a tablet. I also liked that is has a micro-SD slot for storage expansion.

Perhaps the only thing I don't care for it that Microsoft is only allowing Metro apps for ARM into their app store. That seems a bit one-sided considering that they are bundling non-Metro Office apps with the device.
Freescale seems to mention IoT only because it is the buzzword du jour, there doesn't seem to be anything that makes this new chip particularly IoT oriented. It doesn't even have any built-in internet (or any network for that matter) connectivity, which is kinda important for IoT.

In comparison Atmels use of IoT in that case seems more justified by the fact that they are marketing a solution with network connectivity. And imho the integration of connectivity and microcontroller is far more significant than 15% reduction of already ittybitty package size.
I think he just wants a coherent ui. Like visualstudio13 "evolved" to be coherent with the metro-modernui style

In short, he wants that any os program looks like something created expressly for that version of the os
As recently as 2012, 80% of the Tor budget was funded by the US Governement...

Originally sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory,[11] which had been instrumental in the early development of onion routing under the aegis of DARPA, Tor was financially supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2004 to 2005.[13] Tor software is now developed by the Tor Project, which has been a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization [14] based in the United States of America [1] since December 2006. It has a diverse base of financial support;[13] the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation are major contributors.[15] As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government, with the Swedish government and other organizations providing the rest,[16] including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors.[17] One of the founders of the project, Roger Dingledine, stated that the DoD funds are less similar to being a procurement contract and are more simiar to a research grant. Andrew Lewman, the executive director of the Tor project, stated that even though it accepts funds from the U.S. federal government, the Tor service did not necessarily collaborate with the NSA to reveal identities of users.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
Quote: “But he couldn’t: there was too much ice closing in, like a big vice [sic].”

I'm seeing much more of this class of error as the years go by, as people give up on reading, then become overreliant on how words sound to choose the right one.

A vice is a character flaw.

A vise is something that exerts a mechanical grip.
I work at Booking.com. We don't use RoR but yeah, we have plenty of frontend positions open: https://workingatbooking.com I'm also happy to answer any of your questions, my E-Mail contact is in my profile.

But aside from where I work more generally there's lots of companies in more stable countries in Europe (or elsewhere) that would be willing to hire a competent developer of whatever skills you might have.

I just wanted to point out to you that you'd have a much easier time if you could get a work visa and work your way towards permanent residence or citizenship than starting out trying to request asylum.
That's EXACTLY what was being suggested! Delaying replies to avoid conversation.
This is probably the most rigorously honest comment here :)
Hm, and what is the runtime written in?
It's weird the way like-minded people somehow all find each other. There are several HN members along with myself who have ended up running bootstrapped SaaS businesses to make their living, who all played the same MUD (the text-based precursor to MMORPGs you could telnet into) in the 1990s/2000s. Creating "zmud triggers" to automate parts of that game was probably some of the earliest programming we all did.
I created my first Ruby on Rails SAAS few years ago. My goal was to earn $5 and call it done. But within 2 hours I made $12 and I was ecstatic. That year I made $2000 from the site. My overall expense was just hosting on Linode and time I took to learn Rails and develop it.
I no longer run the business actively as it was very hard to reach the ideal market.

its still there!
http://www.residencymail.com
Flash memory used for program storage is much much cheaper than ram. One of the only wins that 8 bit code has over even thumb code is a faster instruction bus, but for a pipelined processor that doesn't matter anymore.

8 bit would be dead if the 32 bit parts included all of the peripherals engineers actually need to build stuff (SPI,analog,timers,etc).
Paul Krugman, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, has been very critical of Bitcoin. See, e.g. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/
This site seems to be down for last weeks. Is there any other daily HN email service?
I've been on IRC non-stop since 1997; it's where the majority of my closest friends and I keep in touch. I also run an IRC channel for the class I teach, and it's the primary communication means for most students.

As for YC, there's the ##startups channel on Freenode, unofficially.
Surely you're aware that moving graphics are regarded as distracting to those who visit for the words? And that a way to easily disable animations is still the accepted etiquette?
I think this year and the next few years should be promising for Windows in the Tablet/Phone market. They were behind in specs for a while but their products are improving and are getting harder to ignore.

I recently ordered Lenovo's ThinkPad 8 and can't wait for it to arrive. I think this is the first good alternative to the Windows Surface (it's lighter, higher res, better battery, smaller bezel, usb 3.0, sd card slot + hdmi out). There should be more to come after this as well.

I really think the tides will start to turn in favor of Windows' mobile devices if they continue to improve they way they have recently.
I'm a solo founder on www.rocketlease.com, which gives landlords an online rental application for screening prospective tenants.

It's profitable but my total investment still probably hasn't been recovered. I'm probably just over ramen profitable at this point.

It's been about 2 years since I started focusing seriously on it around jan 2012), it got to around cash flow breakeven in q3 2013. I haven't received any outside investment.

I write quite publicly about it and am happy to answer questions for anyone curious.

http://blog.ezliu.com/rocket-lease-update-sep-2013/
Facebook Growth Hack: Flash in your Post
Pixelising vector art
Eh, I hear that a lot but it's fairly far from the reality. It's a two faced presentation from that community, when the price of dogecoin goes up they get behind "doge to the moon", if the price goes down it's "all for fun". To pay for the amount of mining that is going on in altcoins, people must be treating it as an investment vehicle, otherwise miners wouldn't be pulling upwards of 400BTC[0] a day out of the retched things.

[0]: Based on Middlecoin.com's performance a few weeks ago, before their hashrate dropped, they were pulling a clean 400BTC from dogecoin and friends (and this is only one single pool!). For them to be pulling 400BTC a day there must be considerably more volume going into the altcoin markets beforehand. No doubt "investors" getting in on the "next big coin" and losing out.
GCC's -Waddress triggers a warning on the use of a function in a conditional expression like in that X bug.
It's too early to tell for me. My mvp proof-of-concept was front page on HN and has had a ton of signups, but the manual payment process I'm using really sucks and no one has actually paid yet.

I'm currently writing the automated backend to enforce payment (along with some improvements), and then we'll see how much revenue it brings in.

http://www.manualviableproduct.com
I'm building http://test.gmbl.io as a side project - it'll be a nice stats site, I mainly built it for my own use and then decided to make it accessible on the web, rather than just replacing my spreadsheets. Might monetise it eventually, but I just want to finish it off in the end.
(Excuse the designed-with-a-potato look, the prototype designs are at http://test.gmbl.io/static/prototype/1/index.html though!)

Edit: worth pointing out, I learned to code building this the last 4/5 months in my spare time.

Double edit: Eh, it's pretty clearly Definitely Not Finished. Lots of placeholder text and stuff, but yeah.

http://test.gmbl.io/matches/Arsenal/Newcastle/
You'd think, right? Luckily the ARM dudes came up with Thumb-2, so most (all but 6) of the Cortex-M0+ instructions are actually 16 bit, not 32. (Nice chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M .)

But what's even more interesting is to actually compile apps and compare code size. Miro Samek did this for a couple of RTOS-like framesworks and compared across a mix of 8, 16 and 32 bit micro architectures (PIC, 8051, M8C, 68HC08, AVR, MSP430, M16C, ARM7 Thumb, and ARM Cortex-M3 Thumb2). For his test, the MSP430 was the most dense, but Thumb2 wasn't far behind. (http://embeddedgurus.com/state-space/2009/03/insects-of-the-...)

Of course, there are 4 bit micros out there...
That is what is wrong with this situation, someone with a camera chooses what to show or not show maybe there was an accident, maybe an inexperienced new employee or some technique that seems cruel but is necessary (de-horn, castrate, shear wool, horse shoes) but the film maker from a city finds disturbing.

For example near where I live there is a "slaughterhouse" that use the same techniques as other similar slaughterhouses but the one near me gets a lot of press and outrage.

The slaughterhouse I refer to is open to the outside it's on ice and it's seals not cow, bulls, pigs or chickens but it's the same process a bash on the head and then chop up the carcass. It just seems worse due to red blood on white ice and being out in the open not in a building.
Counting all my side projects I can say I would die for starvation if they were my only income. :P
I can't say for certain, but I don't think that's something we've split tested in isolation. We've found with typography testing that you need to commit to fairly long running tests to see anything statistically significant.
You see that ".js" in your example? I don't want it.

I would like to know how to implement and deploy a scripting engine that has no dependencies on Javascript whatsoever.
The digital pen part is the one that keeps tempting me to check out the surface pro 2.

I'm no artist, but having a digital notebook would be really nice. I want something that really comes close to the fidelity and feel of a notebook and a pen. For instance, when I'm sketching out a design or an idea, I like to jot down the ideas, connections, etc, and move them around. I like doodling random notes during meetings, and I also think it would be nice to have that while I'm working through math books.

The Surface Pro came up when I was reading the review of it as an artistic tool written by Gabe from penny arcade. Really tempting now, as well, since I need to get a new windows machine to do some side .net work.

In your opinion, does it feel as good/natural as others have said for hand-writing notes?
"Hackers of the world, unite".

Seriously, it's time the resistance starts to coalesce a bit, and hackers get to work mitigating the damage that this stuff does. Hack the facial recognition cameras and scramble the data so they don't recognize a damn thing... hack the license plate database and and change every recognized plate number out for a random number.

Better yet, let's develop technological means to counter this crap. Treat it as damage and route around it, to use an analogy. Let's create wearable devices that blur your face out of video feeds, or a license plate frame that can keep your tag from being read, etc.

The political system has failed us and it's now a technological arms race. And while the NSA may hoover up a lot of the best mathematicians, I'd still wager that there are more smart hackers who don't work for the govt. than ones who do.