skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank-you for the thoughtful response.

Yes, clearly the markdown thing is natural for developers. After all devs spend all their time in cryptic text files that get transformed into something more useful and beautiful That's their (our) thing.

And since developers are the ones who create forum software, blogging platforms, one can only expect that their personal preferences would bleed over into these projects.

But it's unfortunate because in the meantime we're not really advancing the art of editing content, which is something the "normals" would appreciate. (And I think even a number of developer-types would appreciate writing content without markdown if you gave them something that actually worked and worked with static site generators.)

Regarding IA, I don't have it but it says that it saves files as plain text?
The mobile view doesn't have the CPU crazy rendering, just an unreadably long page with a hard to read bizarrely kerned navigation menu hiding behind the hamburger icon.
> I don't see how they can group electricians in the same category as front desk clerks and parking lot attendants.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if I had mis-read that statement. It makes absolutely no sense. Financially, many electricians make more than I do (software engineer working in research).

Money aside, I'm pretty sure I could find electrical work stimulating and fulfilling. The same is most certainly not true of low level customer service.
How does one become a " <insert industry here> star"?
Why did they start a contest with a running time measured in hours right before daylight savings time? Are they trying to confuse people?
I thought the correct acronym was ABCD?

Besides the weather, two body problems are one reason why the mid-west is unappealing, but also your earnings generally scale with living expenses, meaning you have more disposable income to spend on things whose price is fixed across the country.

Seattle is my first choice for when I finally move back to the states, but I grew up in the area. You have to be OK with 3 or 4 months of rain, however.
Well, there's meiosis[0], but that's not exactly right...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech)
Former somewhat big-name-ish pornstar here (like most of you, I am a male):

A lot of what this doesn't talk about is the act and the physical changes that go on. Hair coloring, separating yourself big time from who you hang out with and what you do on social media. How you take pictures, stuff like that.

The dressers and makeup artists that treat you prior are fucking amazing. They do a beautiful thing, too. www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/vadim-andreev-before-after-makeup

Hopefully that doesn't kill your drive when you're whipping it out next time.

Would be happy to answer questions.
While I appreciate the intent behind this move, I'm curious who are the people who were paying $2400 (that's a serious amount of money) for what appears to be an introductory course that imparts no work skills (it's usually easier to convince people to pay for courses when they feel it will have a positive impact on their careers or resumes)?

https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx...

> This course explores the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and end users to achieve their day-to-day work in a Linux environment. It is designed for experienced computer users who have limited or no previous exposure to Linux.

> Upon completion of this training you should have a good working knowledge of Linux, from both a graphical and command line perspective, allowing you to easily navigate through any of the three major Linux distributions.
Well, those who find electrical work stimulating usually aren't very good at it.
It's been done.

About a year ago, I generated the Bitcoin addresses derived from single-word passphrases in the English language. I then came across a "top 1000 passwords" list from a large site hack, and added those as well.

Finally, I set up a script that watched Blockchain.info's Websockets endpoint and checked every destination address against the list.

I quickly noticed that there were a large number of ~0.05 BTC transactions to these addresses, and a network analysis showed that many of them ended up in the same handful of addresses. Those addresses were tagged on Blockchain.info as being the destination for coins used to buy off the writer of the ransomware that was making the rounds at the time.

None of the money sat at those addresses for more than a couple of minutes. I'm fairly sure that the coins aren't being stolen from those addresses, but merely quickly run through in a feeble attempt to launder coins.

ETA: I suppose I should add that I didn't take any balances. I was merely satisfying my own curiosity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_%28town%29,_New_York
Impressive makeup work
Agreed, I'm wondering what this $2400 course will give you that you couldn't get from installing Linux on a partition or a VM and messing around with it in your spare time.

Maybe the course structure is helpful in ensuring good learning outcomes, but developing the hobbyist / enthusiast habit is a good one for any Linux user.
3 million PhDs?? you have like the population of Finland in PhDs? that's crazy!
Is our universe a hologram?
That makes even less sense; they invested billions of ripple in venture capital into making... ripple?

This investment of billions of ripple gave value to... ripple?
I don't think this can be solved with book recommendations or one-liners. I bet the PM already knows it's unreasonable to ask for 100% quality. The person in question probably comes from the mindset that setting an unachievable bar forces quality; like the line manager that screams when there's a speck of dirt on the floor after a shift.

If you must continue to work with this person then you need to play by their rules. Create a manual test suite that takes about 2 hours to complete. Every time a new issue is found tell the manager that you'll add X tests and increase your test suite. Eventually you'll have a test suite that takes longer to run than the bug fixes. If the manager doesn't like the drop in performance ask them which tests you should pull out.

Unit tests are arbitrary magic to non-developers whereas tests written down on paper are tangible. They can see the document grow in size and they'll start to see their name appear on the document (Added 25 more tests by direction of Joe Manager). Managers can hide from unit tests, they can accuse you of not writing enough unit tests, it's harder for them to hide from physical tests.

It's not fun. Really I'd say find a new job.
In the adult industry, it goes through a few phases:

Starting out (at least these days), it's about doing grassroots marketing. Cam models are great examples of this and how they form their cult following.

Once you attract enough attention from ... consumers ... you'll start to get offers from some of the bigger companies. I worked with a few of the major studious, kink.com in particular. (disclaimer: not safe for work. at all)

Should you choose to accept the offer, you need to either do some really outlandish stuff to get the attention and go viral, or work with someone who already has a name (and still do something really noteworthy). I could go into detail but I'll try to leave this hn-worthy.

tl;dr It's not about being a star but becoming popular. I know lots of models who I'd rather not have sex with, but they're popular because they dominate a niche and they're attractive on video.
In semiconductor companies, that danger is very real. It's a common practice to license major parts of chips such as the silicon IP for peripherals or even entire processors so the teams that intimately know the system design of an entire family of chips can be very small. If the 20 people on the flight were even half the team working on one of Freescale's products, they could have just lost six months to a year.

If a startup designing silicon lost that many people, it would probably be irrecoverable.
The name is a bit confusing. I have seen dec32 and dec64 numbers in some mil std ICDs. I can't find any of the documents online but here [1] is a discussion about dec 32 that links to a pdf which briefly describes the dec32 and dec64 formats.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1797806/parsing-a-hex-for...
That line might not mean a lot to you, but it says a lot to me. They could have left it out, but decided it was important enough to leave in.

My job is an example of such where it was left out. I only have to communicate with people on my team. I do not attend meetings, my work has so little to do with the actual business the company is in I'm effectively in my own little world.

In my interviews, my future boss asked about communication, but emphasized that all of my tasks were going through him. There was concern about the programmer getting mad at people asking me for stuff that they don't understand. Apparently that's happened before. What was important was my independence and ability to solve problems, because nobody else is going to be able to help me. Suited me just fine.

What this requirement tells me is that my work is going to intersect significantly with other people who don't do what I do and I'll be a part of planning meetings and such. I might also be called upon to give reports to people who don't know what I do.
The fair comparison is probably to some data structure (list/array/whatever makes sense) and its rich companion library.
Brainwallets are secure, but need to be more than just words.

"foo bar baz" is a terribly passphrase, for instance. "foo bar baz lyndsy@lyndsysimon.com" is a much better passphrase - it's trivial to use a bit of personal information as a salt, thereby providing substantial protection against non-targeted attacks.
Don't walk. Run.
Glimpse joins the ephemeral messaging battle
I would tell him that this can be achieved, roughly, as long as you follow a process like this one:

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Now, the question becomes if they can afford the headcount & time in order to implement such a process. Unless they are actually coding up avionics, defense systems, etc. the answer is probably "no".
First of all, what manifold said is exactly what I have said to people for years. I am 24 years old and the mindset of you any all others like you is completely ridiculous. All this does is hurt our whole society. Who do you think is going to take care of the place you live when you retire? Other retired people? You know the answer and so do I. I am looking for work currently and while I have not been looking long I see that there is a problem and it is that people don't want to hire entry level positions or young people they don't trust them. When someone like you says this it just makes me think there is a much bigger problem. I see that companies want people with experience and the pool is shrinking constantly. Companies and people like you need to work with our generation to create an experienced pool of workers in all industries. I work hard and I know it. I have had plenty of things handed to me but I have also worked extremely hard. I know this because of the levels of success I have had I the face of many failures. If you need references for my work ethic I have too many to count and they are all from older generations. I am smart, strong, and confident and your type will not get in our way. So why not help us all understand your perspective instead of saying we are wrong and you are right and there is nothing we can do about it?
"Sure, it'll just take me infinitely long to reach 100% confidence."
I didn't create it, but Pinboard (https://pinboard.in/) is a great example of a successful one person business.

Founder Maciej Cegłowski wrote about it here:
https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm
Yes, who would think that the eleventh-largest city in the US would have taxis.
I agree that static prediction would be nice. I wonder if the new Intel bounds checking extension can be abused for that.

My main problem with writing it out is code size, since ideally you want every single integer operation in your nice fast C-like-language program to expand to that kind of sequence. But maybe it doesn't actually matter that much.
> Second, while IQ and mental illness actually don't correlate, creativity (which is very helpful for getting a PhD in many fields) is correlated with mental health issues.

Do you have any sources for this? I would like to read the some of the studies.
Yes.

I have been thinking of running a floating-point school just for this reason. Lots of gotchas.
Like has already been said, the right answer is to find a new job. That behavior is not the mark of a perfectionist, that's just someone who isn't cut out to be a manager. And they likely know it, too.

Also, just like columbo said, the next best answer to dealing with a micro-manager is to bury them in status reports, requests for approval on everything short of putting more paper in the printer, and as many emails every day as you can possibly justify. You're not ever going to convince them to stop micro managing, just try to give them what they think they want. They'll usually leave you alone after that. I don't know if it makes them face their own incompetence or what.
This article doesn't seem right to me. At least 90% of my friends studying Ph.D. only because they couldn't find a decent job. They just postponed their misery for five years living with the grant they get every month for researching.
To be really precise, it's encoded base58check.
Ask HN: Have you tried this productivity hack from John Carmack?
This blog post suggests that John Carmack uses a timer to measure his productivity - http://bookofhook.blogspot.in/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html.

I wonder if a substantial number of people do these kinds of hacks. Do any of you use some kind of timer or application to keep track of your productive time? Do you maintain logs of what you got done today? And if you do, how much do you think it helps you.
Because not everyone observes DST and the challenge probably isn't meant to be US centric. Even in the US, Hawaii and Arizona don't bother[1].

[1]: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2014.html
This is an unbelievably stupid request.

Nobody writes bug-free code - people in the comments on SE talking about how this can be done with automated testing are utterly delusional. All developers, no matter how talented and/or cautious, create bugs from time to time.

So if you are to say you have 100% confidence in your code, you are either:

1) The first developer ever to write all bug-free code, all the time (hint: you aren't)

2) Willingly overlooking the fact that no matter how hard you try or how confident you are in your code, you will introduce bugs every so often.

Neither of those is an even remotely reasonable stance to take. This project manager is a total moron.
Oh crap I totally lost track of when it started this year. Dang, I was planning to take the week of it off so I could go completely absurd with it. I wonder if I can do a crunch week at work and 7drl at the same time..
One exception may be the new Cornell NYC Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, once it's ready. It explicitly mixes academic space and corporate office space. More details in this NY Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/nyregion/cornell-nyc-tech-...
Right, if I could subscribe to a Circle with all of the kernel devs in it I would.

G+ is actually a great place to read long form messages and comments, but doesn't really have content discovery down.
Abd is "all but doctorate". ABCD is an american with indian parents.
Passport Theft Adds to Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
They can, if you recreate the primary feature of Git on top of them.
Getting paid more in a job is about providing more value to your employer.

Getting an advanced degree is about test taking, writing papers, and research.

They are not necessarily correlated. This is akin to wondering why excelling at juggling doesn't make you more money in a programming job. Juggling just doesn't add more value to that particular job.
How to not feel bad when one's ideas are not accepted (by co-workers or bosses)?
A co-worker (and friend) has this "ego-problem."

When he offers ideas in work meetings or up the hierarchy (at work) -- if the ideas are shot down, his feelings get terribly hurt. He feels so bad that he shuts down and eventually stops proposing ideas.

What are some ways in which he can become less invested-in and identified-with whether or not his ideas are accepted? How can he get his ego out of the way? How can he learn to focus on the process (offering ideas) instead of the result (whether said ideas are accepted or not)?
We may be speaking across each other here. Ruby is lying in the sense that there are multiple distinct float values that it will print as 0.3 – in particular, confusion ensues when two values look the same but are unequal. These other languages print each distinct float value differently, using just enough decimal digits to reconstruct the exact binary value. Ruby doesn't give you enough digits to reconstruct the value you have. Nobody actually prints the full correct value because it's fifty digits long and is completely redundant given that you know you're dealing with a 64-bit float.
Agreed. Sounds like a big waste of tax dollars.
I agree with your points whole heartedly. But when I say "bs" jobs I mean working 7pm to 7am at the gas station where prostitutes will offer to blow you for a cup of ice cream. And the manager acts like its a sign of the end times that you didn't wear your name badge or that you didn't shave.
I keep getting "Username and password mismatch" when I try to hit my space's dashboard. I've reset the password twice so I know I'm typing the right password. Any ideas? Looks like a cool app and I'd like to try it out.
I'm doing http://justaddcontent.com solo and self-funded. It turned into a bigger project that I anticipated, especially for my first product.

I started working on it full-time in October. It started as a hobby project about two years ago. It took particularly long because I have a non-technical, military background and had to teach myself to code, design, write copy, marketing, etc. It's been a fun challenge.

I still work on it 12-14hrs a day on average, but I still love it and I love the problem I'm solving. The last few months I started focusing on product again and my customers absolutely love it, which is awesome. Now I'm turning my attention back to marketing.

Like the other guys, I'm not making millions yet, but I'm 100% self-funded and in no danger of running out of money. I continue to put 100% of what I make back in the business after my essentials.

I'm not sure when I'll start hiring, but I have some pretty major plans that I'll need help executing. It's just one of those things where it'll completely change the game, but it'll also change the dynamic of the business.
> I bet the PM already knows it's unreasonable to ask for 100% quality.

Yes. It sounds like a "give it 110%" sort of thing.
Typical cognitive dissonance playout. Know you aren't perfect, don't want to say you aren't perfect because you care more about what someone else thinks. Post on the Internet asking how to resolve dissonance. Get a bunch of answer saying find a new job. Continue to try to downplay your fears. Rinse and repeat.

Frankly, what this guy needs to do is to stop being afraid of what others think. Especially others who are clearly exploiting the guy's tendency to cater to others feelings. That may or may not involve finding a new job and/or boss, but if he doesn't fix himself, he'll just repeat it all over again.

I'm making blaming statements here, but I'm tired of narcissists fucking things up for the rest of us.
Reminds me of the approach taken by Xmonad where the configuration is compiled into a new executable and then run.
'I was bullied and beaten every day. Programming saved my life'
The lack of cabs in Austin is a normal situation; they just don't exist. There are something like 250 licensed taxis in the city. You really can't hail them down like in other cities either; most drivers have scheduled pickups for most of the night.

You really need either a car or a shuttle bus for SXSW. It's just how it is in the US outside the northeast, Chicago or San Francisco.

Also, even though the "minimum price" is $55, Uber's "surge pricing" is requiring a $125 minimum fare.
What in the title made you think this is about legal matters and not about the experience of a porn-star?

I'd rather read this essay than some opinion of the "legality of online personas". I found it interesting, easy to read and actually thought-provoking.
> That behavior is not the mark of a perfectionist, that's just someone who isn't cut out to be a manager. And they likely know it, too.

That's why they're a project manager. It's like being a rug doctor.
I get your sarcasm, but I live in St. Louis, which is a much bigger region than Austin [0], and the cab situation sounds pretty similar to what I've experienced here. There aren't many places where you can just hail a cab; you have to call. And on big cab days -- e.g. New Year's Eve, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day, etc -- it can be quite difficult to get a cab at all. I called for a cab this past New Year's and the largest companies weren't even answering their phone.

Austin's downtown is growing, so I'd expect this to change, but my point is that you can't just hail a cab in most U.S. cities.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistica...
There are no taxes for businesses that start up on the moon, so why don't more businesses start up on the moon?
I think it was one part aimed at Belle Knox saying "grow up, your real identity was never safe anyway" and another part aimed at the public saying, "grow up, people have more than one identity".

We have different identities in different contexts, as in online forums (ahem), and ideally the public would respect those different contexts, even when it comes to famous people.

(That seems unlikely to me, though, since seeing a famous person is indeed a thrill (heck even famous people report being thrilled at meeting other famous people for the first time, which I tend to believe.))
A lot of points the article makes seem pretty relevant to me beyond porn and into the wider world of the internet, particularly in light of the recent Satoshi fever.
I got really excited for a moment, then I read the fine print. But, I think is generally a step in the right direction.

How terrible would it be to collect no taxes from startups for the first year, nationally?
Sorry about that. Can you send me your details to support@sproute.io? can you try creating a new space?
In my view, the idea of escalating the amount of work has a pitfall, which is this: The manager isn't really looking for 100% perfect code. He or she is looking for someone who promises 100% perfect code, and can thus be blamed when a bug crops up. If you don't fulfill this function, she'll find someone else who will. The boss wants to play the game of demanding unrealistic promises.
"College Degree" is a meaningless phrase. I run a business which employs engineers, electricians, mechanical hardware designers as well as technical writes and so on. Now, if any of those hotel front desk staff or Janitors had any monetizable skill I would hired them for a price higher than that of Janitor but less what what I have been paying to my current employers and thus increase my profits.

A lot of those hotel front desk staff and janitors simply wasted their money on college degrees and the so called Phds. They should have taken a bit more realistic education.
Facebook’s F8 Agenda: Deep linking for mobile apps
A lot of times it is just "paying fees".
Ah, I'd always thought of EM as iterating over the parameters given a model, but I suppose it makes sense to see it as a search for a model, including parameters, that fits the data. Cool.