skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like they're playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma. They have to compete in the same employee market over the long term. You snipe my engineer, I snipe your engineer, same net engineer count, but loss of experience. We both refrain, same net engineer count, no loss of experience. I wouldn't be shocked if this colluding policy hasn't indeed benefited the participating companies. And I could even see it primarily not being to keep salaries down, but to keep productivity up.

But it sucks for the tech workers. Not going to call me at my desk and try to get me to switch companies? Fine. But if I went to work for Google, it would suck if that put me on some kind of blacklist at all the other companies. It seems like they've crossed an ethical line here.
Shows as 110 lines in FF view source
I'm tempted to both agree with you and curse at you.

Yes, I agree with the idea of enforcing backward compatibility as much as possible and, when that fails, make it a social problem (documentation, email, advance notice...).

But being in the midst of one of those PayPal integration... oh my, what a mess!

* The sea of DEPRECATED in the documentation (hide it away?)

* The pervasive inconsistency in everything

* The choice of x-www-form-urlencoded for IPN data... (I'm
trying to figure out some charset bug at the moment)

Anyway... :) No hard feelings!
It shows how many hours the user has played, which is a very effective mechanism for filtering reviews. It was suggested on HN that this could be used for the mobile app stores as well and my own experience is that reading a review and rating from someone who has provably put a lot of time into a game is invaluable.
When I read articles like this, I feel old. Really old.

I mean, 28 years in the workforce, staring blankly in meetings when someone talks about 'synergy' and 'driving the key factors forward' as if it actually means something, when really it is a 20th century sub-dialect of English known as 'corporate bullshit'.

And here comes a brave new world of hackers and painters who are 'passionate' and who "bounced around a couple of times in corporately jobs that aren’t the right match and is ready to take the leap". He doesn't have that "founders spark", whatever that is, but he is "awesome" and "super, super smart", and seemingly importantly, "ambitious and passionate".

Apparently, startups are "cool" now, so programmers are no longer sucked into Wall Street by the evil siren songs of Vampire Squids.

Forgive my crusty old cynicism, but it all sounds like a pitch, a new sub-dialect of bullshit, to convince young software developers to work long hours for low pay with the promise of creating something "cool" that you are "passionate" about. (Personally, I'm pretty passionate about prosperity).

And always in the background is the unspoken promise of great riches (Whatsapp was bought for 19 BEEELION dollars!!). Unspoken, because that would be gauche to suggest it was about the money.
Then just make it a hex copter and do away with the coaxial arrangement. You still have 6 motors, 3 per rotation direction. With good software you could still fly with the loss of one motor per rotation direction with practically no control degradation. You could lose 2 on a single rotation direction and still likely control it enough to land.
> The optimal solution isn’t always necessarily the best solution

Actually that's the definition of "best".
Big Data Picks Up the Pace
Don't put words in my mouth - I didn't say it was acceptable! It's fucking terrifying.

And it's also very difficult to say whether the reason is that the President is incompetent, complacent, inherently aligned with the intelligence community, or threatened by the intelligence community, or a combination of any of these things.
I went through the UK education as well, did you do just E math? You can take Additional Math along with it, that covers complex/imaginary numbers as well as Poisson sequencing/binomial theorem.

The thing is, I use very little abstract math in programming. Doing analytic philosophy actually did more than mathematics. The math stuff I do in programming is super basic stuff like trigonometry (sometimes trig with differentiation if I want to be fancy and use inflexion on curves) for GPS triangulation etc. I've never had to do anything more complex than that
This point is critical. A study can have a good methodology. But if nobody tries to replicate it, you have no chance of finding out that you are missing something critical. And with something as complex as people, "missing something critical" is something that we need to figure out.

And this isn't exactly a new problem for psychology. Feynman somewhat famously questioned a lot of classic research with http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html. I say somewhat famously because people in areas like physics have all read that essay. But in my experience psychologists are a little less inclined to read the criticism.

Even at the best of times, replication of results in a complex system is hard. See, for instance, http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj... for evidence that most published medical research is wrong.

But with psychology it is even worse. We lump people together by symptom, not by root cause. It is like lumping together people with migraines, head injuries, and caffeine headaches together. Then you find out that coffee beats a placebo for helping headaches, and give them all coffee!

You think I'm exaggerating? Read http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia... for verification that the NIH considers it a high priority research item to come up with classifications based on root causes, so that we have a chance of even being able to do useful research!

Yes, psychology has a lot of well-meaning people, and they stumble across a lot of interesting stuff. But it should be read with a critical eye, because the field as a whole does not perform reliably enough to compel our trust.
It would be the FBI, as the military cannot be used for internal policing functions.
Subaru WRX vs Stick Bomb (Video)
It's not really "in progress" for the moment since I've essentially solved the problem for myself, but I examined several different techniques to enable real-time transliteration in OSX (in the vein of http://www.translit.ru — "chego" turns into "чего" as you type) and implemented most of them to varying degrees of completeness. I'm now happily using technique #1 (input method binary) in my everyday life and it's so, so much better than the default or phonetic Russian keyboards. Eventually, when I have some free time, I want to generate pre-compiled binaries, do some refactoring, create a pretty home page, fix the documentation, and add some extra features. But if you'd like to use it now, you can pull the code and compile to your heart's content. You can even change the transliteration input/output map to anything you want — the format is simple JSON!

https://github.com/archagon/cyrillic-transliterator
We've all had a laugh but I hope whoever found this is helping them correct the problem.
You are correct - VaR is a measure of financial risk. I was using it as an analogy.

Theft from one's hot wallet appears to be a common risk of Bitcoin businesses. Traders use VaR to quantify one of their own common risks, financial risk. Capital is then held against the risk. Bitcoin businesses should quantify and reserve against the risk of theft from their hot wallets. Part of this involves limiting the risk (thinly capitalising the hot wallet). Part involves holding reserves (in cold storage or U.S. dollars). That metric and reserve would not be VaR, just inspired by it.
Not CloudFront, but ELB - sorry for not being clear.
If you took additional math along with basic/elementary math, they do go into more detail about the branches of mathematics. There's also further mathematics and combined mathematics, both are A level subjects.

I think basic math focuses more on arithmetic than math theory, which could explain your frustrations a little.
Sad to hear. RIP.
You kinda sound like a jerk.
It's totally fine for anyone to charge to install Firefox -- the software is open source. They cannot advertise their services as a Mozilla Firefox Install Service -- Mozilla's trademark is not free. At the very least, you would have to be very clear that you are not affiliated with Mozilla in any way.

It's pretty clear (to me - IANAL) that Dell is using Mozilla's trademark without their permission. If they called it Open Source Pre-Install Service, and explained that it includes Mozilla Firefox and some other software, I think it would be fine.

https://tldrlegal.com/license/mozilla-public-license-2.0-%28...
Well, given the "liberties" taken with Noah, I don't think they've learned much. Also, I find the authors dismissive narrative probably puts this article in the poorly researched end of journalism.
I just did! Thanks!
"Sceptical" is actually the British spelling of the word "skeptical."
Just because there is a large existing installed base does not imply demand for new installs. If you were able to start a business selling XP, I'd say you would have a difficult time.
I literally agree with you.
Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers
that is a really fantastic point

I thought I was good at it until I hit 17-18, doing advanced mathematics. I really didn't understand Taylor series, and I just froze up on the calculations. You fall behind, and then the class just moves forward and it stops being fun anymore

I don't know the solution, but as you said - I went back into it later and it was much easier. Catching up those years inbetween was hard though!
Yes, make task chaining.
Show HN: A small IPython notebook on Russia, Ukraine and the military situation.
In 2013 $133B in ecommerce happened on mobile devices. In 2014, it will be $204B
so does hacker news ;)
Great viral marketing!
>> A critical test? He doesn't have enough power to do anything about it.

If this is indeed true, then it would mean that the US political system (which is regarded as the best example of democracy, globally) is corrupt from the core and the idea of checks & balances is completely bogus.

If this is case, and if we as (Americans? people?) tolerate it, then I guess it's our implicit way of saying "corruption is indeed the best way — it keeps everyone happy" (pan e circo).

If we don't tolerate it and change it somehow, then maybe our particular multiverse trajectory goes another direction.

Who knows if Obama is actually the one to do this. I'm not expecting much of anything from him, no more/less than I do of any other past President. I have no clue what it's like to be POTUS, but I assume it's like inheriting the CEO/President role at a super old, well-known established company, with an even older and power-hungry Board. Sure, they'll let you be the CEO, but they hold all the political "preferred stock" and can make sure the CEO is ousted if he doesn't do what they want.
Would hiding via CSS work?
Chemotherapy Works Better With Short Fasting Periods
This website handled HN traffic like it was nothing, i'm taking notes
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From ABC’s “Shark Tank”
even my non-programmer wife found this page to be hilarious
> Apple has held the mantle for the highest profit per employee for several years - coming in 2013 @ $500k/per.

That number doesn't mean anything though. Employees' salaries aren't based on profit unless they are paid entirely in company equity. You can't have it both ways where you get income when the company isn't making money and you get the extra profit when it is.
Hate to say it but this is awesome. Exactly what I was hoping to find as soon as they announced. Change the name, or perhaps give them the code and they can release it if they see fit.
Irresepctive of the language, what's scary is how many people would accept high chance (2/3) of total extinction for relatively slight chance (1/3) of total success. It gets extra scary when you consider that politicians are presumably thinking this way about war, including nuclear war.
The only critique I've ever heard of Silicon Valley is not of silicon valley itself, but of California. Honestly, from my experience if you said Silicon Valley to many people they really just don't care about it.
I second this. This book should be required reading for anyone considering a pharmaceutical approach to depression - a path that has apparently been engineered to make life-long "customers". Changes in diet and exercise may not be profitable enough to warrant mass advertising, but do the research on it, and, most importantly, try that before walking through the revolving door of the "mental health" system.
makes me understand more how h3 tag works
Actually most good writers ( as in book authors ) are FE-doms (Feeling Extroverted) which makes them extraverted and not introverted. They are good at it because they are naturally good at consciously think and reflect about how they affect other people and how other people affect them, which is good for making believable characters.

It still amazes me that people on this board stick to their (hero) introvert/extravert dichotomy instead of actually researching the subject which you would expect engineers and techies to have an inkling to do. Search words, MBTI, Keyser, Jung, Big Five.
Well, hard-coded styles don't get cached by browsers, so that's probably not the best example.

That being said, there are a lot of things people can do to improve performance that they neglect to. Sometimes it's just the pressure to get things done. Still, it's worth going back to revisit these issues.

I saw this on Twitter earlier today, and I found it to be a fairly interesting read on the topic: http://yeoman.io/blog/performance-optimization.html
1. Computers think faster than you

Not yet. But they make calculations faster.
Responding to senator’s bid to ban Bitcoin, congressman calls for cash ban
It is actually pretty bizarre. If you point Chrome at a .jpeg that does multipart/replace it will stall, giving you roughly 0.2 fps. Point it at a. .html that contains an <img> tag and it works fine. Found this out while hacking on Hawkeye: https://igorpartola.com/projects/hawkeye/
Just got an update about activity in the thread :)
Exhibitionism and existentialism are not the same thing.)
With languages like Python, PHP, JavaScript, Java, or C#, sure -- they're fundamentally very simple languages with a handful of gotchas to learn, they're easy and fairly interchangeable, and your overall programming skill is what really matters.

But there are other technologies or "languages" which, paradoxically, many developers think are trivial to learn, like CSS and SQL, but in which years of experience matter far more than any kind of natural programming aptitude. CSS and SQL are heavily implementation-specific, with edge cases upon edge cases upon edge cases that often wind sucking up the majority of your time. If you want complex queries that are still performed efficiently, or complex layouts that don't take weeks to get working properly in all the different browsers, no astronomical IQ or general programming aptitude is ever going to win against years of experience.
There should probably be a way be a way to contact you, if you're going to invite people to message you.
Thanks.. looks interesting.
>> A critical test? He doesn't have enough power to do anything about it.

> If this is indeed true, then it would mean that the US political system (which is regarded as the best example of democracy, globally) is corrupt from the core and the idea of checks & balances is completely bogus.

Ever since someone asked me if I thought GWB was "a good president", I've been mildly interested in what the president is (a) supposed to do, and (b) empowered to do. It turns out both questions are quite difficult to answer, and in particular the answer to (b), as best as I've been able to tell, is "almost nothing". At this point, I'm a little confused as to why the position is so prestigious.
In this case polyglot seems to mean, "has experienced a lot, traveled the world and is primed for stuff." One can get that and still only have Java or Python or C++ on their resume. We don't litter our CVs with all the stuff we dabble in. Exposure and priming matters, but most of these labels, using github as resume all seem like shortcuts to actually interviewing and talking to people. There are no shortcuts, building teams is difficult and shit is always way more complex than we make it out to be.
The argument would be that the custom build of Chrome (or other malicious software) is harder to create, but not so much harder so as to be not worth doing for the attacker.
It's a new technology called "static HTML page"... I hear MS FrontPage can export this newfangled format.
> Otherwise all that Hope & Change sloganeering will be empty rhetoric.

But not yet? We've seen the full first term, and the destruction of the nation's economy and everyone's civil liberties, but umm.. we can't tell if the Hope & Change sloganeering was just empty rhetoric or not?
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> Sewing and Embroidery Warehouse

finally
These guys live in here Melbourne, cost of living is pretty crazy high. Sure, you could get away with paying yourself less than that, but 60k (less business expenses) puts them in the realm of basic office clerk.

Maybe the startup founder's lot in life is to be poor while they are starting up, so could probably do it with less. But they are hardly overstepping the mark.
For what it's worth here's a whitehouse petition.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-senate-int...
Since the parent said "solely" all it takes is a single counterexample :-)
This felt really revolutionary! I love it.

Started testing it on 200 WPM, but quickly went to 500. Tested out 750 WPM and was amazed that I got the entire text at this speed.
Puzzle: Garbage Collection
Actually that alone won't work in a Chrome extension because of isolated worlds. You have to do a bit more gymnastics.
You need some lines of JavaScript you can basically copy 1:1 from the docs (or if you scroll down the linked page there is also an example).
But you also need some backend to handle the actual payment. The widget generates a token which you can use to create customers, charge them etc.

One implementation from Stripes docs https://stripe.com/docs/checkout/guides/flask
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act might apply in that case.
Same thing happens in video games with anti-cheat systems.
Reread what you just posted. You just said that the poster's comparison to the NSA is invalid, which is exactly my point. Why does everything around here have to be tied to the NSA (see Gruber's ridiculous conspiracy theory about the Apple bug for a recent example), and why does half of the stuff posted about the NSA have to be hysterical nonsense like that they're recording all our phone calls? It removes legitimacy from the rest of us who are complaining about things the NSA actually does.
Wireless Spectrum: How You Use It And Why You Might Lose It
If the only thing keeping your people from leaving is lack of opportunity, there are many, many things wrong with your organization.
Backend has become simple enough that you wouldn't have to pay much attention. The great design of this website has anything specific to do with its Rails backend?
Congrats to Todd and the team; this is a positive outcome.
It's hipnotic. I absolutely love it.
Actually, chewing bubble gum is apparently very good for stimulating your brain.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/chewing.gum.benefits/in...
> But with psychology it is even worse. We lump people together by symptom, not by root cause. It is like lumping together people with migraines, head injuries, and caffeine headaches together. Then you find out that coffee beats a placebo for helping headaches, and give them all coffee!

This happens (in medicine, not just psychology), and there's definitely room for hypothetical improvement. But in many cases, it's hard to blame people, because there's no way to do better without doing an unknown but gargantuan amount of research. For example, lupus is (or was when I had the discussion with my mother) defined as exhibiting X of a list of Y symptoms, where Y > X. This leads to situations like the following:

1. You, the patient, present with X-1 symptoms of lupus. By definition, you don't have lupus, and treatment for lupus is not warranted.

2. Time passes.

3. You, the patient, come back to your doctor with one additional symptom of lupus. Medical doctrine now states that you have lupus (not so interesting) and that, more interestingly, those X-1 earlier symptoms are symptoms of lupus (which you didn't have when you developed those symptoms), not of some other yet-undiagnosed problem. You can now be treated for lupus.

Obviously, that satisfies no one and is crying out for a more "reality-based" definition. The problem is that no one has a candidate for the actual physical causes of lupus. The best anyone's ever been able to do is recognize that the same set of treatments are broadly effective against a constellation of symptoms, which may seem to be related to each other or not, but which co-occur to some degree in people who respond to these treatments.

Of course it's a high priority to learn what the root causes of symptoms are, but that doesn't mean it's easy or even, in the general case, possible. You have to start somewhere.
Ahh, CSS. The hardest language to master.
They do, and they should. Truman made the gamble that using nuclear weapon would end the war early, and he was right.

Millions more Japanese would have died defending their homeland if there were a land invasion.
This sounds like an exact clone of the German company flightright, which has been around for several years now. http://www.flightright.de/
Getty Images are now "free" to embed, but they are awful
What the...that tweet is over a year old!
You Should Start a Blog
The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie
Every single troubleshooting tip is of greater urgency than the last!
I thought we'd already cracked this nut thanks to content negotiation. Obviously not.
I love the writing, I love the anecdote, and I love the self-awareness it shows.

Almost just as much, I love the comments here - they're just so incorrigibly HN. Not everything is a problem that should be taken literally, dissected, and solved. The story is not the author asking for help with enjoying parties, relating to others, or troubleshooting bugs. It's a beautiful example of an internal monologue that shows not only how people approach social situations differently, but to what extent they think differently. I'm not sure the author needs any of the pseudo-analysis being offered to him (however well-meaning it is) - the writing suggests a lot more awareness of his perspective and that of the people around him than most of the comments rushing in with the most literal interpretation.

Either way, great piece of writing that seems to hold a mirror up to the reader more than anything - it clearly strikes a chord but each reader appears to be taking away something different.
I think there are current court battles playing out over the employers who didn't settle. That being said, everyone is acting like this didn't happen and ostensibly stop five years ago.
Policy Based Memory Allocation
I am not prescribing a cure. My advice is for managing a Bitcoin business's exposure to the risk of theft.

I do not own Bitcoins; I am not trying "to convince" anyone to "adopt" them. That said, bubbles and gold rushes make millionaires. I respect the people who are trying to intermediate the Bitcoin market. This advice, dispassionately, is for them.
arguably this kind of early adoption is always necessary

the first iphone was $499, nowadays the price is less than half of that (both on contract)

space tourism will never get cheaper if there aren't early adopters