skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data in the boardroom: More venture firms are snatching up data scientists
Maybe, in the future, our homes won't be filled with useless junk :)
> managers kill projects.

Rather, people kill projects.

We've all seen plenty of projects that were brought down by others than just managers, incl. developers.
What part of the parent's comment implied that they refused to listen to commentary? People can still comment; they just do it somewhere else.

I think Tumblr has it right when it comes to blog commenting: to reply to someone's post, you don't leave a comment on their blog; you make a "reblog" post on your own blog, which quotes their post and responds to it, and the fact that this happened is automatically propagated back to them.

The original post stays on the author's blog. The reply stays on the replier's blog. If the original author replies to the reply, though, then that appears on the author's blog, too, with the replier's post quoted for context.

In other words: it's called hypertext, folks.
Google is a "random" company holding all your emails, Facebook is another one holding all the photos -and many interactions- of your lifetime (maybe not yet, but very soon), Apple is one holding all your music; etc etc.
Bitcoin with central key escrow is completely and utterly pointless, unless the goal is to generate a lot of waste heat from servers.

> Most people aren't going to want to hold their own keys as most people can't stop their computers from being constantly infected by malware.

We have cheap, secure hardware crypto tokens that rely on two-factor auth. You don't need to keep millions of dollars on a Windows PC.

> Just as people don't want to keep large amounts of cash in their safe, they will want someone else to take the responsibility of securing their coin.

"Someone else" is called a bank. The bank is FDIC insured, and they and the federal government guarantee that your money will be there. They use a huge number of human, automated, and physical processes to keep money secure, and they don't just keep their entire holdings lying around in digital gold bars.

Unless Coinbase et al are going to become (heavily regulated) banks, then they're just another Paypal, and the crypto doesn't even matter.
My apologies, further research into this indicates it is fake, and a lot of the text is actually pulled from here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2289607/Amaz...
Only issue is when you press up it scrolls all the way up during the game and it gets cut off.
This [1] is the way Nick Cohen put it six months ago:

"The official justification for oppression is, as so often, religious. Migrants and employers are bound by the kafala system – taken from Islamic law on the adoption of children. "Kafala" derives from "to feed". Nourishment is the last thing the system provides, however. It delivers captive labour instead. Migrant workers cannot change jobs without their sponsoring employers' consent. As Human Rights Watch says, if workers walk out, the employers – the adoptive parents – can say they have absconded and the authorities will arrest them.

In order to leave Qatar, migrants must obtain an exit visa from their sponsor. This stipulation means that they can be held hostage if they threaten to sue over a breach of contract."

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/qatar-h...
How would you propose that we "unsupport" them?

Where does the world stand, in general, on this issue? What countries are doing something about it? Most Americans probably can't find Qatar on the map. Finally, shouldn't the United Nations be leading the way on this? Anytime that the US plays "world cop", even if it's "good cop", we still take criticism.
I like the use of non-HTML tags instead of div class madness.
Exit visas? Wow I never knew such a thing could exist. If you are a citizen of a country you should always be allowed to travel to that country unless you're arrested for committing a crime elsewhere.
Why use the emergency brake, use the real brake! Or shift into neutral.

On my Passat, conflicting inputs (ie, pushing both brake and throttle) would result in the throttle being cut. I seem to remember Toyota implementing a similar system after this.
Front-end dev for Pixate's (YC S12) new product
They are the richest people on the planet, so you are both right.
I just hit comment down voting within the past few karma. So around 775
I've been using the dform library [link] to create my DOM. I'm creating an input form used to query a database with PHP and generate a chart from the data using FusionCharts. I've been considering utilizing frameworks to help with form creation, manipulation, and query generation/execution/processing, but I've decided to stick with just these two libraries for the former and raw PHP for the latter. I also use PHP to enable/disable parts of my form via if's and file includes.

I really like dform's flexibility. I have been able to add every HTML elements that I've needed with the same syntax for every one, making it very simple to stick them into PHP loops to generate the elements based on the query results. I've learned a lot about writing jQuery functions while using it.

FusionCharts is very specific in what it does, and is compatible with many languages. I have actually learned to use it's classes in both PHP and JavaScript so that I can create any part of the chart I please in either language, and it is capable of transmitting data in both JSON and XML even though it uses XML internally. I've briefly taught myself the differences between the formats and have gone from manually creating XML, to learning that JSON is way better, to automatically converting my arrays into JSON data.

I feel that I've kept my project quite lean indeed, and was actually worried about not accomplishing a lot, not being complex enough. But I have intentionally been trying to avoid complexities so that I can make it easy to pick up and use, just include jquery, dform, and the FusionCharts.js/.php (and source code).

[link] https://github.com/daffl/jquery.dform
> Google is a "random" company holding all your emails

Yes, that's a problem, and it's not even money. I don't use GMail, and it irks me that so many people willingly share our mutual correspondence with Google on my behalf.

Now, what if Google was holding my savings account and the only thing protecting me was ... what? A digital key, which they hold in escrow?
We called them 'script kiddies'. I don't think they qualify as hackers any more than someone who spends time on 4chan and runs LOIC.
Before we look at 2022, just look at 2014's World Cup.

It is known that the Brazilian government is still behind their schedule delivering stadiums and basic infrastructure.

Personally, I am proud to say the new NYC Mayor has made an excellent decision not bidding Winter Olympics (http://theweek.com/article/index/256746/hosting-the-olympics...). Multi-years of preparations before and after selection is going to take away energy focusing on real domestic-city-wide issues.

The Beijing 2008 Olympics was a great success given the amount of new stadiums and infrastructure added. Though the main stadium (Bird Net) was officially, completely finished sometime around March 2008. London's main stadium was completed in 2011 and under budget. Clearly if the government really care about the event, they will everything to stop corruption and prevent delays. I don't know anything about Brazil's local politic, but press has been criticizing Brazil government its poor coordination and corruption.
Creating Modular View Components with React and Grunt
The question was asked on a different thread earlier today, and I think it deserves asking here too:

What does this has to do on Hacker News?

Both articles are about groups are the lagging edge of development; both groups are made exclusively of one gender (although, unsurprising, only the other one used that aspect to hammer victimisation). Both issues are connected to an existing hardware technology that could be, but is not of interest to HN.

I read that kind of article (both) in my daily rotation outside of HN, so I don’t mind -- but I was wondering if HN commenters had felt the parallel, and would have reacted the same way on both.
Department of Justice lawyers are not on commission.
Scientists Say Destructive Solar Blasts Narrowly Missed Earth in 2012
Paypal isn't pretending to be a cryptocurrency.

It's not much of a cryptocurrency if you hand the plaintext keys over.
I agree completely. I put my phone number and email address on my web site, then I don't enable comments. You want to say something to me, you know how to reach me. You want to write something for the web, pay for your own hosting, and use hyperlinks. If you can't be bothered to host your own words in your own domain, I can't be bothered to read them.

Of course, the irony of me writing this on HN does not escape me, but in this case, I think we write the actual content.
Yeah I would never travel to a country that requires "exit visas"
No library, at least in Firefox it's defined by devtools and only works in the console (provided the page doesn't have it's own $ and $$ globals).

[0] http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/devtoo...

[1] http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/devtoo...

Edit: It works in the WebKit devtools too:

[0] https://mxr.mozilla.org/chromium/source/src/third_party/WebK...
Vice did a documentary on similar shit happening in Dubai :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU

There are so many issues occupying the world currently that I doubt anyone from governments will raise an eyebrow for 'just 900 deaths over 2 years'.
> Its going to be interesting to see what happens when either the US economy takes a dump, or interest rates rise and VC funding dries up...

We just had a financial crisis 6 years ago in which the U.S economy "took a dump" and caused a global panic/recession/depression (pick your favorite euphemism). Investors poured their money into Treasury bills, and in such numbers that in 2008, monthly T-bill rates were actually negative. Don't count on people rushing to Bitcoin during the next financial crisis.
The handful of cars I've checked (after Bob Pease wrote about it) won't lock the column unless you remove the key. Some might lock, but only when the tranny is in park. Worth checking out.

Do you even want/need power steering assist in a runaway situation?
MP3Tunes Founder Michael Robertson Found Liable for Copyright Infringement
I already do that!
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with passing journalist trade secrets
Apply that to tools collecting dust in a garage and I think you have a good business model. Need a tool? It will come to you and you just pay for it. Don't need a tool that you already have? It will leave you for a slightly lower price.
Asteroid 45 miles wide will blot out a star tonight; watch it live
A Guide to the Good Life has its issues, particularly around complicating simple ideas (for example, his "trichotomy of control" adds nothing at all the the basic dichotomy, other than confusion).

However, he does a good job of giving a basic introduction and framing for Stoic concepts. I think it's easier to digest the Romans (particularly the concise and acerbic style of Epictetus) if you are somewhat familiar with the subject. I got much, much more from Epictetus than I did from Irvine, but he is, I think, a valuable on-ramp.

I'm also not sure what the big deal is with Marcus Aurelius. Compared with The Enchiridion and even Seneca's letters, it's haphazard and dull. I'll give it another shot once I'm done with all of Seneca's letters.

Personally, I would start with Irvine, then the George Long translation of The Enchiridion (it's more poetic than the Carter translation, IMO). I'm about half way through Seneca's Letters, and while enjoyable, he takes a long time to cover the same insights as Epictetus.

(aside: on my 3rd or 4th reading of The Enchiridion, I wrote brief notes on each part, which you can find at http://thiscodinglife.com/dissecting-epictetus/intro)
America car companies issue recalls all the time. That is what's getting Toyota in trouble from the start. A company I worked for was involved in those decisions made with days of discovering a slightly wrong raw material grade was shipped. Because that wrong part didn't meet the spec and MIGHT cause a problem in the part after it wore down five years from now. They paid for testing and proved the raw material was equivalent in performance and didn't have to recall. But it happened in days/weeks long before the parts would have had any failures.

American companies took to using recalls as "preventive" measures decades ago. They learned to have a lot of them without the government forcing them so that the really nasty ones get buried in the shuffle and the mechanic just replaces the parts he's told...

Toyota fought the government hard every step of the way, even in making the design materials and manufacturing information hauled off to Japan... mostly because the pedal issue already had large lawsuits before Toyota even acknowledged looking at the problem. If they issued a recall, all that was going to hit the lawsuit train.... Not to mention in Japan companies just don't get hauled over the coals like this... They thought they'd fight it.
If you apply the emergency brake at highway speed and full throttle, you're guaranteed to have an accident. (if it engages fully)
Safety is far from a binary thing. People used to build extremely unsafe toasters that changed over time in large part to government rules and regulations. We accept cars and trucks killing 30,000+ people in the US every year, but even that number is much smaller than it could if we let company's sell cars like they where designed in the 1950's or let people drive like they did back then.

We accept that cheap electronics are going to be somewhat less safe, but we don't accept people selling cheap electronics leaching off the reputations of high-quality brands. Not just because it can kill people but it also creates bad incentives where there is little point in creating quality if nobody can tell the difference.

And no they did not just randomly chose to have a yellow back it's a deliberate imitation of a quality product which could easily cause confusion in the marketplace and kill someone.
Boycott FIFA. Call on the Architects and Engineers to end their working relationships on the projects. This is outrageous. We know better. It can start with Ms. Hadid. Speer the Younger and Arup.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/25/zaha-hadid-qata...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/german-architect...

http://www.arupassociates.com/en/case-studies/qatar-showcase...
Every olympics or world cup is preceded by stories about how construction is far behind. And in the end, with some exceptions, most olympics and world cups work out fine.

These labor abuse stories are another issue altogether and a much more serious one.
It's a tragic story, but it doesn't seem a good fit for HN. This is the sort of story that major media outlets should be reporting, and there's no technology angle.
I never noticed I had topcolor enabled. Is there a list that details what gets enabled when? I'm at 566 points and I've just recently been granted downvote access.
I read something like this, and wonder, "ok, maybe I can't solve all society's problems myself, what can I do to survive such an upheaval?" Any suggestions?
If Rev. Jackson (or anyone) knows of an untapped pool of talented developers with some combination of skills in C++, C#, crypto, network security, and/or machine learning, my team is hiring.

Even the degree could be negotiable if (as in my own case) the candidate has acquired a solid understanding of CS principles some other way.
Those concepts are in the '7 habits of highly successful people' - but introduced as the circle of influence and the circle of concern. The idea promoted is that stress will result when you try and deal with things outside of your circle of influence, and you have to keep operating within that circle.

Obviously, very few pop-self-help books like 7 habits contain genuinely new ideas, and the concept is borrowed from much older ideas. Nonetheless I think it was helpful to me when I first read it. It has a message of both keeping perspective and also reducing useless stress, but at the same time telling you that the only way to take action is to increase the amount of influence you have.
Well...can you give a recommended translation?
They'd indicated that they working on some kind of integrated audio as well.
From CSA: Confederate States of America:

"Government agents simply told West Coast employers that the Chinese workers that they employed, they now owned. What had been cheap labor now became slave labor."

It's an alternate history of the USA where the South won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJtH_5vcmM
I'm personally very encouraged that YC is open to civic data startups. I think there's still a lot of low hanging fruit in government for hackers to solve.
compare to that, Russia starts to look almost like civilized country. Some displaced people, some unpaid salaries, nothing serious :)

http://www.bwint.org/default.asp?Index=5192&Language=EN
If only the neoconservatives would make themselves useful and lobby to liberate countries like Qatar.
You mean the "Emergency make the car smell funny lever"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUhJEvHP9xY
Most of these services fail to clarify whether they are web-based and rely on so-called "secure" javascript crypto: eg, where their servers are sending the ephemeral JavaScript code that they claim -- but can not under any circumstances guarantee should they be compromised -- will not send your private keys to the server.

Compare this to signed, native applications produced by third-parties who do not run the service in question, where code signing guarantees that the code distributed to you was validated by a responsible building party, and the signing key is not accessible from compromised front-end web servers.
Almost as much as I love Java
I did Z80 back in the day and I think x86 is a mess, ever since 286 at the very least. It's absolutely terrible. Not just because of the ASM itself but because of the whole OS/computing paradigm it grew with.
Human rights and social wellbeing are generally of interest to educated people. Furthermore, quirks in the global legal system are interesting. I see nothing rendering this article unworthy of attention, other than the fact that it's perhaps old news.
Could Flight MH 370 Have Been Hacked? Probably Not, Most Experts Agree
tl;dr

Please read the comments... because i have just spent a lot of time on a new product that is entirely focussed around comments.
IME there's a massive but not that often discussed overlap with Stoicism and Buddhism. I'll have to look into Taoism a bit too now.
Myself and others that have been writing on this recently aren't bashing the original values and principles that are in the Agile Manifesto. We are bashing how far we have all fallen from what matters and the industry of crap that has sprung up around it. These days, declaring you are Agile usually means you are a cowboy, but it sure sounds good to say anyway!

People, and usually these are managers, are what kill projects ultimately. But the methodologies, or lack thereof, are the weapon the people use to kill projects.
There are several similar stories of people not being able to leave the country, or life threatening situations like this in Dubai. It's a very similar case there as well with expatriate workers.
How Virtual Gaming Worlds Are Revealing the Nature of Human Hierarchies
Agreed 100%. Sometimes it feels like some people are trying to define every regular human action and emotion as some disease that needs to be medicated.
Interesting theory, but sounds like there isn't much support for it. Of course, at this point none of the theories have much support for them.
Our FAQ https://greenaddress.it/faq

we have a chrome app non minified and open source on github.
That client is local and no JS can be injected as it connects via ws.

Furthermore it verifies data against the electrum network and provides nLocktime transaction unlocking your funds.
> Kibkalo "uploaded proprietary software including prerelease software updates for Windows 8 RT and ARM devices, as well as the Microsoft Activation Server Software Development Kit (SDK) to a computer in Redmond, Washington, and subsequently to his personal Windows Live SkyDrive account."

Wow.
It is artists!
Dammit. New I'm reading the comments in Lister's voice. Actually this is kind of nice.
For many people, hacker news is the only source of knowing shit happening in the world, be it innovation or injustice. Hence, if once in a while such stories do pop up, I like that.
Good eyes. The author fixed the title.
Holy crap. If I'm not reading this wrong, the German architect in question is the son of a Nazi architect, a member of Hitler's inner circle. This guy made his career in such bastions of human rights as the Middle East and China. Who'd have thunk it? Not looking good for Germany really, is it? Architects depending on slave labour... runs in the family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer,_Jr%2E (His father was the Nazis' principle exploiter of forced labor. http://www.auschwitz.dk/Speer.htm)
It's shorthand for document.querySelectorAll: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/co...
have a link or a name? sounds interesting.
you are rendering from two different angles. its not the same as taking one rendered frame and cutting it in half
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the color of the 'Y' logo gif by using custom CSS or Javascript? I'm wondering if it is possible to make an extension that automatically changes the color of the logo to match the color of the top boar.
Can the authors somehow back the statement of MySQL's popularity vs. PostgreSQL? If anything, the latter seems more popular, judging from the frequency of its appearances on HN.
Bitcoin is respectable technology compared to the excesses of the first dotcom boom. Any VCs who are worried about embarrassment have probably left the building long ago. http://www.cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-sta...
Author here, just pushed a Firefox version! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/github-selfie...
Does this work with custom domains, or are all the lists @treadable.com?
>I refuse to have anything more to do with professional sports.

Genuine question, what exactly have you stopped doing? I guess not watching FIFA 2014 world cup is on the list?
Not only that, but DOJ fines go straight into the Treasury, not through the agency:http://traceblog.org/2009/02/13/fcpa-fines-where-does-all-th....
You changed your message about the economy, to which I had an answer. It's petroleum based not tourism. Unless the world agrees to embargo their oil, we can't stop them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Qatar

As for your neocon remark, I don't see any reason why we're going to invade another Middle Eastern country in the near future. The US is probably going back to supporting the current "stable" government.
http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
You can wash the dirt off a carrot and you're left with a tasty carrot.

Sometimes people are being told by hundreds of other people to "go hang yourself"; "put your face in a toaster"; "get raped"; and so on. Sometimes the threats are from a few people but more direct. "I know where you live and I'm going to rape you".

Please don't underestimate the volume or unpleasantness of modern online trolling. People find it significantly stressful, and some people die as a result of it.

I would turn off comments for any blog I had, but include some kind of email address. This would increase the amount of junk in my inbox but reduce the amount of useless pointless crap (which is what most Internet comments are).

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/sep/13/internet-troll-jai...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/twitter-trolls-jailed-o...

http://spyhollywood.com/charlotte-dawson-australian-televisi...