skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets just be honest with ourselves. The biggest reason more people are willing to work on these substance-less apps is because its far easier to create something superfluous as a twitter-helper(or any of the hundreds of ecommerce sites that simply provide new ways to do old things like laundry, via your phone), than it is to cure cancer, and they get to call themselves "hackers", "entrepreneurs", "techies", etc.

There are many players in the game now who are in it more so for the hopes of striking in rich and social currency than the actual joy of solving problems, surprise surprise. This is why the app stores are flooded with endless spinoffs and knockoffs of the same things over and over again.
Lorenz art
I am curious why the focus went to ticketing and registration instead of back office systems, seems ticketing and reg are already solved problems?
That is a sampling bias caused by confirmation bias. Extreme cases such as the one pointed out tend to reinforce the hypothesis because they are more traumatic and, therefore, better remembered then the avalanche of cases where the higher probability positive outcome happens.
"It scales automatically based on load." Is it freeee?
4096 done : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7386557 :)
I'm the same way with DejaVu. I forget how I originally found it but it seems to be very light on the eyes and renders really well on every platform and looks great.
Yes. Get the company's lawyer can fill out the paperwork for you and you show up at the airport with the paperwork and receive a visa. You can't apply in general for a TN, it is company specific.
Kafka uses Linux's zero-copy transfer to move bytes between the network and the disk without going through user-space, let alone the JVM.

There's still GC from objects allocated by Kafka in the JVM, but the actual message data doesn't even go through the JVM.
I apologize. The article about bitcoin has been updated as the author posted to include some analysis.

I also shared a new link yesterday about the one above where The Surge corrected it's stance as well as disproved TechCrunch's article, you should check it out.
What? Do you even have a point? I can't understand what are you trying to say.
Ask HN: Making money as an undergrad
I have been experiencing trouble securing a summer internship. I've been looking for something in the general purview of my machine learning and statistical analysis but the offerings to undergrads aren't great for such things.

I've had thoughts of freelancing, app development, or some small SaaS venture, but all seem risky. Any tips how I might go about putting my skills to use?

Background: I can program pretty much anything in Java and Python (and other languages). The bulk of my experiences and interests lie involve machine learning in the context of bioinformatics and model development.

Alternatively, if someone just wants to hire me, shoot me an email and I'll send you a copy of my resume.
I'm a computer science student and none of your WTFs are WTFs to me. 1) the numbers don't matter much, they're just what they used to rank. they don't have any implicit meaning. Texas A&M is a decent CS program so not sure why you're pointing it out. 2) maybe they didn't want to rank some schools because they didn't have much data on it. plentyo f possible reasonable explanations. 3) I've never heard of SMU (is it Southern Methodist University or Southern Michigan University or something else?) and I've heard of UMBC several times before -- they have a decent computer science program in human-computer interaction and accessibility.
My experience as job applicant:

Who is hiring, March 2014: I received three responses to my applications. One for code samples (no follow up afterward), one for quick phone conversation, and one for phone interview (Ed: three different companies).

Seeking Freelance, March 2014: No response.

Who is hiring, Feb 2014: No response.

Seeking Freelance, Feb 2014: No response.

YC Companies /jobs: No ACK or response in last two months.
You need to differentiate yourself.

Your competition is versus.com and state.com.
Truth, Lies, and 'Doxxing' (2012)
The problem with cards and Paypal is chargebacks. You can't get your coins back if someone cancels his currency transaction.

Most people don't abuse them, but a handful does, and that's enough to wreak havoc.
Thanks a lot. This helps me think I am on the right track with outsourcing the non critical(non dev) aspects of my startup. I was under the false impression before that a startup consisted of doing the all aspects of the work by myself.
Samsung Galaxy Back-door
Continuous Integration: Going Beyond Builds
Everything you listed already exists in the private sector.
(Private roads, schools, hospitals, power plants, buses, and water sanitation). They do quite well for themselves.

As for crime control(such as hiring a violent army, or shoplifting), companies could form unions that will turn down the business of "convicted" criminals. If you steal from a Walmart and you get caught by their union, then Walmart and every other retailer in that union isn't going to sell to you in the future. It's against the personal interests of a company to hire their own private army.
What happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
Do most games that use Lua for scripting (addons, UI, possibly game logic) actually use LuaJIT?

As far as I could tell, 100% of the AAA titles that use it that I tested (3 in total) did not. And in profiling, Lua was actually consuming a lot of CPU relatively.

That confuses me given how easy it is to use LuaJIT over the reference, and how vital performance in these environments is.

Games, contrary to the beliefs of dense hiring managers, disconnected producers, and even designers, are performance critical applications -- achieving a mere 30 FPS and > XX+ms input latency on hardware 5 years in the future in the enthusiast category, on the order of $4000+, is an absolute failure. Every gamer I've ever met (thousands, thousands upon thousands, hundreds that I know well) is extremely sensitive to performance. Performance is king. If a game looks a little shitty but runs AMAZING, it is better than a game that looks AMAZING but runs a little shitty. Hell, it's even better than a game that looks WTFAMAZING and runs pretty well. We only start caring about the looks, typically, when performance is sufficient. So if we can dial the game's graphics up while maintaining performance, we get happy. Enthusiasts love it when they can dial all the way to max settings and still play the game at 60+ fps and unnoticeable input lag. So running your render loop and lua on the same thread (a WTF in itself) and not using LuaJIT is a huge WTF.
ClearView Executive Dashbaord
ClearView™ gives executives the ability to see both historical and real-time data on the same dashboard without having to search for it. Where performance is measured and reported the rate of improvement accelerates.”
Then use git stash?
We're building a solution for this including scrambling key information and company identity from work. We work on a client by client basis to make sure that what we have in place meets their needs - often NDAs work very well.
sync.Once() instead of init(). Having the Do closed to where the channels being used makes sure we do not run into deadlock. It's a nice pattern for lazy initializing of channels and goroutine too.
Wow, you must be super wise to even know that.
You're right. Thanks for explanation.
nice service that people take for granted working at a big company. at SQ we had designers who just made keynote presentations.
gitk --all is excellent for this. I didn't really fully understand what git rebase was for until I worked through a few tests on my repository, refreshing the GUI after each command I typed.
I think it's supposed to read, "Lots of initial contact with people. I am offering them jobs with WordPress development and rails, but very little followup."
Hi!
It depends on the level of design service you require - we're getting the VGI type tasks to a fairly low cost base, however many clients want a much higher level of design than VGI would provide.
Missing Malaysian Jetliner Confuses World That's Online 24/7
> Problem is, Marx didn't advocate what was later called Marxism.

There are many things that were later called Marxism, some of which Marx did advocate, some of which he didn't (and, in the latter case, some of them are arguably well-grounded in what Marx did specifically advocate and many of them are directly opposed to what Marx advocated.)

> In fact, he famously said "je ne suis pas un marxiste" - "I am not a Marxist!".

Actually, he wrote to a particular set of French "marxists" who had diverged from his approach on a program for the particular situation in France on which he had collaborated with them, that if their view was "Marxism", then "what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist".

The context and condition are almost invariably left off by people who want to claim that Marx rejected Marxism generally.
I have a very similar system, and for the first time in well over a decade, my total inbox (spanning 3 gmail accounts) has hovered somewhere around 10-15 messages for the past 2 months.

Two questions decide the fate of every email "Is this from a person I know?" and "Will I ever need to search for this?" If both are no, then it's destroyed with reckless abandon. All others are archived immediately. No "read" messages in my inbox, ever. It's either "unread" or it's archived.

I almost always Send + Archive, unless what I sent was "I'll take a look in a couple minutes". And then I Send + Archive as soon as I send the next reply. If it sits in my inbox for over a couple days, I add it to Asana (if I haven't already) and archive the message.

I unsubscribe to almost everything automated (besides my own daily system summaries, which I delete once I've reviewed them).

One thing I would _love_ to have is the ability to set expiration filters on my emails. For instance, I like getting travel deals in my inbox, but I never need them for more than a day (since they generally only last that long anyways). Same for system summaries: Auto-Delete or Auto-Archive after 3 days would be perfect.

Also, since I don't use a local client for email, the "Checker Plus for Gmail" Chrome extension is pretty great, since it shows everything as a unified inbox, and shows me a single "unread" number so I know when I need to dive in and do some triage.
Show HN: Get your release or pitch edited by a professional writer.
On a quick read, the article doesn't talk about the licensing for the free fonts. Several free fonts I've liked are free for personal projects or websites, but are chargeable for commercial projects - and one should be careful about selecting them.

Secondly, fonts are very easy to pirate. The commerical fonts (eg. TypeKit fonts) can be copied and reused with a bit of HTML+CSS knowledge. Anyone know of a way to enforce the font licenses?
I don't have a video, but you can play the full game online for free: http://ektomarch.com/panic/panic.html

Unity is the best thing I've found for rapid game development. I also use Lua + Löve for a bunch of quick 2D games, but it doesn't run on iOS or Android like Unity does.
1) Existing/new organizers loved the idea of going mobile for their events, but they didn't want to manage another platform.
2) Users were asking us if we could handle ticketing/reg. as well.
3) We now have an opportunity to make mobile engagement seamless for attendees the moment they check into an event.

There are other things as well, but these were the top three.
Nice writeup, but what's up with that bottom photo? I'm looking at the redchair in front of the unoccupied MacBook. If I had to work like that, I'd quit so fast I'd create a Superman 1 style reversal of the space time continuum and bump into myself on the way out the door.
Don't worry nothing is that addictive...
This is a pretty good overview: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
Is it supposed to look like this? http://i.imgur.com/mmTX2EW.png

Nah, just kidding. It looks fine for me.
Candy Crush King plans IPO valuing it at $7.6 BEEELLION
West Coast apocalypse: How “earthquake storms” could devastate California
Looks like you skipped over his argument ensure their upkeep and performance without conflicts of interest. Look at the history of coal mining, the US has already seen private companies running company towns and using their own private army to kill people. That's what unfettered capitalism leads to and most people don't want it.
Same experience here. Need to pass an online code puzzle -> a short phone interview -> No response.
I've posted many UI programmer job openings I have in my team, never even received a resume. Good programmers are hard to find.
Marxism is a society where there is no state, so it will not structure society.

Lenin on the topic:

It was solely against this kind of “abolition” of the state that
Marx fought in refuting the anarchists! He did not at all oppose
the view that the state would disappear when classes disappeared,
or that it would be abolished when classes were abolished. What
he did oppose was the proposition that the workers should renounce
the use of arms, organized violence, that is, the state, which is
to serve to "crush the resistance of the bourgeoisie".

Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch...
Why Is Donating So Difficult?
>Yes, because companies shouldn't have to work their employees to the bone to extract value from them. A long time ago, we decided that it's cruel, and created labor laws. Where have you been?

Who is 'we'? You're wearing clothes and using a computer and probably exclusively using products that were made in nation-states that have virtually no labor laws. Where were you when globalization happened?

Regardless of moralizing in Western countries, you have decided it is not cruel to work employees to the bone and discard them when they break. You decided that when you bought the shirt you're wearing and the computer you're using.

Whether or not the status quo is right is one question; but you are wrong about what it is.
This article doesn't understand what Marxism is, many of the ideas represented as "Marxism" were shared by many philosophers prior to, during and after Marx's life. They don't in anyway define Marxism.

Why some people insist on referring to all leftist critiques of the status quo/capitalism as Marxism and then complain about the intellectual babbage attached to that term is beyond me.
We've generally been very resistant to outsourcing anything and this is the first time we've ever done it. It didn't come out flawlessly (we had to tweak a lot), but it paid off so we could launch quicker.
you are essentially trolling spritz and it's uncool
Ah it's probably then that I am on IE9. The worst of all the browsers... except 8. I read the article now, thank you for sharing :)
Facebook hacked by NSA, injecting malware into their users computers.
... due to force pushing multiple branches?
You must not find a lot of wisdom on here.
> Most games these days (with a few exceptions) are GPU bound.

Most AAA games are GPU-bound, you mean. It's very rare to find titles from indie developers or smaller publishers that come anywhere near taxing a modern GPU -- due in part to the massive expense required to create engines and assets that are capable of doing so.

(Which is also why the AAA game business model seems more and more to be teetering; AAA titles have differentiated themselves via graphics for decades, but the cost of being cutting edge is so high now that if the title sells at anything less than blockbuster rates it's a financial failure.)
Usage-Based Importance Score For Freebase
Have a look at this book:

http://practicaltypography.com/
Are there no opinions on Twitter?
Crowdfunding Real Estate
JavaScript: the High Road and the Low Road
Dribbble and Behance freebies gathered in one place
lipstick on a pig usually
So it seems our biggest worry, that the modem firmware could be backdoored was very warranted indeed. We need to push OEMs and modem makers to open source the firmware for their modems.
The total loss with Mt. Gox was, what, 450 million, right? Freddie Mac bailout was 72 billion, and that was just one of the banks that got bailed out. Whether it was a goodmthing for the banks tomget bailed out I guess we'll never know for sure!
How do you plan to prevent event organizer churn? Since each event's data like scheduling, speaker list, sessions change from year to year, there is no real incentive for organizers to keep coming back to your platform.
Syntactic Sugar for Chef
Show HN: A Cards Against Humanity App Raising $ for the Make a Wish Foundation
I think the most detrimental thing in communism (or socialism or whatever the local variety) versus most other forms of government was the lack of risk management. Wealth is alwas the end result of an exponential growth process.

But there is no growth without risk, and especially Mao has been guilty of all sorts of bad ideas "tried out" on a grand scale, ignoring risks and just aiming for the newest get-wealthy-quick scheme. That's why China today is extremely conscious about their growth. Not too high, not too low.

The only way to achieve this risk-managed growth is through a large and lucrative financial sector.
We had three team members working on this and only two good chairs, so we rotated. What you can't see is that we have two couches around the work area.
Critics Say Andreessen’s Analysis of the News Industry Is Broken
Okay, if you actually need an app to help you get some ass, I suspect there might be another significant underlying issue there, and the app probably wont help you anyway. Besides there being hundreds of these silly things out already, I don't see why you or someone else getting sex should necessitate some brilliant programmers help who could otherwise be spending her time on problems far more worthwhile(e.g. perhaps aiding in curing STD's is more enticing for you).
If done skillfully, it makes some of them go full tilt to the extent that they get themselves disbarred for insanely stupid things. Then you have to deal with being hated by a crazy unemployed ex-lawyer, so think twice about doing this if they live nearby.
For something so obviously well known you seem to have difficulty providing evidence of your specific allegation (microsoft giving NSA advance notice of unpatched zero days.)

I don't doubt it happens, so much as I expect extraordinary claims be backed with extraordinary evidence.
I paired Playfair with Lato for my personal site. I'm happy with the results, particularly given that my web site is pretty much just unadorned text.

http://steveasleep.com/
I guess eventbrite.com wasn't available...
not to the rest of us.
Paywall'd
With the registration component, we now have a lot more data and value that we can provide to the organizer. Over time we'll give them the right tools to leverage that.
I find the translate function, though very simple, rather elegant JS:

AI.prototype.translate = function(move) {
return {
0: 'up',
1: 'right',
2: 'down',
3: 'left'
}[move];
}

Ref: https://github.com/ov3y/2048-AI/blob/master/js/ai.js#L230
There's a certain joy in the reward of having taken the coins before you knew for sure you needed to that would be lost.
My theory is that the next giant hit to the economy won't be the automation of the service industry. Those jobs require hardware and software, machines and the tools to run them.

My theory is that the next giant hit will come to engineers in all areas. Once software gets to the point that it can automate dishwashing, serving, driving, retail and all those other service jobs in a super efficient manner, it will be able to automate engineering without the need for the extra hardware to physically do a job. All they'll need is a set of sensors, computer and a printer to send the construction/design/etc. blueprints to.

When I went to college, the message was 'go to college'. Now, the message is 'go to college to be an engineer'. We've seen how well the flat message of college is going for many, many people with, for all intents and purposes, unmarketable degrees.

It just makes too much sense that this will happen in engineering in the next twenty years. I work at a college now, the swing that direction has started, you watch, I'd put money that I'm right.
>>which are the main Go primitive.

When it comes to protecting a structs state, in most Go code (including the standard library) RW/Mutexes are the "go to" synchronization primitive. Channels are more commonly used for communication between longer running goroutines.
¿El fumar cigarros causa cáncer?
"Take them" is still a direct instruction to take the coins. I wasn't confused.
It's a YouTube video? Will it run on Linux? I still have UT3 in the box new, the promise of it running on Linux evaporated even though UT2004 ran better on my machine on Linux than when I ran on Windows on the same machine.
Satellite eyeing missing Malaysia flight detects 'suspected crash area'
Since you seem to have thought about this quite a bit, do you happen to know something you think works better?
It has a steep learning curve. It is not optimized for novices. In my opinion, it does exactly what it should do internally, while I consider other tools to be deficient in some respects.

In the common case, undo is provided by git commit --amend. For anything more complicated, I don't think that there is an explanation or GUI which could be considered "intuitive". I've used gitk and git-gui, and a variety of other visual interfaces before Reading the Figurative Manual, and while I'll be the first to cry my own ignorance, I have not found any of them to give much information about even the available options. What is cherry-picking? What about reverse cherry-picking? When would you want to use either?

It's not impossible to design a user interface which would translate all of git's graph manipulations into a simple visual system. However, its current textual interface is extremely flexible, and it exposes a very useful scripting interface. It is a tool that rewards knowledge and experience, like emacs or vi(m). Which is not to say that it's necessarily a good value proposition to you, but it is (imo) a good time investment. One of these days I need to invest in vim too :(
Thanks for the feedback.

I know the market is pretty small, but I think there is potential in it.
It is an interesting experiment for me.
Data Mining the Internet Archive Collection
So.. It's still on GitHub right?
Seems too good to be true...
Is this an attempt to get published with one of those autogenerated gibberish papers?

http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120...
#iamsatoshi
It looks kind of cluttered, like you're using too many fonts. I would limit where you use the serifed font to mainly the headline.
Oh, not on my HP. Any of the arrow keys (specifically in this case the up key) has way less push to it than the spacebar.
In fact, it tracks whenever you use it and sends the URL along with all GET parameters of the page that you are browsing, including the referrer(!), your user agent and your IP to Keen.io: https://github.com/cameron/squirt/blob/gh-pages/bm/squirt.js...
Thank you, I appreciate that.

I would have understood snarking at my original (admittedly somewhat snarky) comment. I'm not sure why you felt the need to snark at my constructive criticism, which you actually took-
On the last level, there's a part where you have to get coins on a ledge with three reds, two up and down, and one horizontally moving.

I kept getting hit by the horizontal red even though I didn't go down the ledge.
Measuring performance by framerate is tricky actually - it usually maxes out, and it's an inverse value, etc. It's a good quick measurement perhaps ("game X gets 50fps in Y but 60fps in Z", then clearly Z is better) but it's not an accurate measurement in many senses (for example both could get 60fps but one might use less CPU cycles).

Measuring execution time for a fixed, deterministic non-stop workload is the best thing in my opinion.