skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No way. A CEO is held responsible for the decisions of EVERYONE under him/her by the board. A lousy programmer will cost the company a lot less than a lousy CEO.

The CEO is essentially the face of the company when things happen (good or bad) and has huge responsibilities. Managing a company is easy from the armchair.
Hey Phil. In some cases it was direct @ reachouts (highly targeted) in other cases it was adding targeted users to relevant lists, essentially generating a free impression.
Yes.

Get off my lawn, hippie.
Antivirus?
Is it because Microsoft has always invested heavily in development tools to encourage development of Windows software?
thank you for this reply. it's amazing how so many people think success is luck.
Thank you for making me feel a little bit vindicated. This is precisely how I build my current side project, I essentially mask all of the build/runtime options/tweaking behind a shell script and call all of it through that. ('./run remake', for example, or './run with valgrind' if you're in a debugging mood)

For me, the makefile itself wasn't the problem, I've been rather aggressive to keep it as pretty much just a dependency enumeration with flag lists and (arrogantly) it is rather clean, but the runtime flags/things I need to wrap the executable around pushed me to the script.

(I honestly worried that this was sloppy since it indicated exactly what it did, mask really ugly complexity behind a shiny frontend, which always makes me wonder if that complexity wasn't undue, but it does give the advantage that your last paragraph mentions, that it gives a more modular pseudocode of the various components of building/running.)
Aspect-Oriented Programming with the RealProxy Class
Rumr, Group Messaging With An Anonymous Twist, Launches On iOS and Android
This is not true. It's almost always true in most contexts, but to say that it's a fact is to encourage a false sense of security... sometimes things are that bad, and it's important to be able to realize and accept that, otherwise you never even give yourself the option to try and improve them.
One thing I should note - the difference here is that make enforces working in a Unix-like environment...which cuts out Windows users. I know, most devs will use OS X or their favorite flavor of Linux anyway, but at least personally speaking, there are occasions when I do some development on Windows.
tl;dr: Google provides the $40/month plan from Comcast/Time Warner/etc. for a one-time fee of $300.
Clojure/West 2014 videos uploaded
I've tried Backblaze, but the upload speed is only a single connection and VERY slow from my part of the world. If the uploading was done via multiple connections, it would be 10X faster. As it is, I still have about 230 days left before my existing data (and that's not even all of it) will be uploaded.

I will check out crashplan.
Hi, I am a co-founder of RiteTag. Don't worry we are not any spam bot. But unfurtunately, Twitter has only 3 types of permissions:

1) Read
2) Write
3) Direct messages

We cannot go only for Read because we need to allow users to sent and schedule tweets via RiteTag. But we do not send anything that user hasn't manually approved.

Write permission goes automatically with Update your profile even though we don't use it at all. As developers, we cannot select only Posting tweets. That's Twitter's policy. It doesn't make sense for us either.

Lastly, we were playing with direct messages a year ago. We don't need them now and we could turn them off. But in the meantime we got more than 7000 users and if we change the permissions RiteTag would stop working for them until they re-authorize it. This means all the tweets they have scheduled would not be sent.

Here is more info from Twitter, if you are interested:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/application-permission-model
"Box's S-1 revealed that it generated $124 million in revenue last year while racking up losses of $168 million"

It sounds like they aren't profitable yet. I feel like so many companies I see on HN getting VC are just like this: They are running at a huge loss with no real working business model.
Jonathan Haidt touches on this in "The Happiness Hypothesis", though not specifically applying it to TV watching.

There's the standard issue of measuring happiness, sure, since it's hard to find other than a self-reported subjective measurement for it.

But in general, the principle that what matters most to keep us happy is a steady "upwards trajectory" where things keeps getting somewhat better is getting quite decently researched from a lot of angles. According to Haidt, the studies he refers to in his book supports the claim that once basic needs (food, shelter) has been met, happiness deviates from a lot of what we people tend to think:

It is only mildly correlated with wealth, for example, and then largely because being wealthy allows for more opportunity for an upwards trajectory. However, people who suddenly come into wealth (e.g. lottery winners) report a lot of happiness for a short interval after winning, but then quickly return to "base level".

And another example of the "hedonic adaptation" is that while mental illness such as depression can have a long term impact on happiness, but most other illness does not. Amputees, people with long term horrible chronic illnesses, people who are told they have only a few years left to live etc., that we often feel sorry for and assume will be miserable, all tend to return to base level happiness fairly quickly on average with the exception of those with degenerative conditions that put them on an ongoing downward trajectory. In fact, some groups will tend to be more happy than typical: Those who are slowly recovering from a horrible situation, and who thus see steady improvement in their situation.

With respect to the TV example, I find it quite plausible (with the caveat that I've not read the study either), as pacing in story-telling has already follows a pattern where you set up tension, release it and slows down the story, then set up tension again, for pretty much as long as people have been telling dramatic stories.

Pretty much all movies follow a pattern with "tension release" at least once or twice before the climax as well. I remember my English teacher drawing up diagrams of pacing a bunch of movies when I was in school even.

A perfect example of the alternative - to try to maintain an upwards trajectory as much as possible - would be Crank and Crank 2 with Jason Statham (though arguable even those movies cycle through periods with "lulls" in the action, just on a very accelerated schedule), which indeed tries to keep an insane pace throughout. In those movies it's used as a gimmick (Statham needs to keep his heart going with drugs etc. in the first movie, and needs to keep an artificial heart charged in the second, with antics that in no way try to be realistic at any point), but when you contrast the start of the first movie with the latter parts of the second, you see the result: To make it feel like the pressure is "kept up" the pace keeps accelerating to absolutely ridiculous levels. It's almost tiring to watch.

That ad breaks could provide some of the function in TV programs would thus not seem strange to me at all.
This is a visually appealing interface for wikipedia's list of cognitive biases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Show HN: Storytella – an app for authors, in development, looking for feedback
Where is this adoption curve for me to look at?
EBay Fires Off Anti-Icahn Missive To Convince Shareholders To Hold On To PayPal
One minor correction, which I'd seen an indication of and had suspected from an architectural design point of view: the plane was getting pinged, it wasn't producing the pings. Per The Aviation Herald, which has lots of details today (and isn't behind a pay wall who's visits per month I used up yesterday): http://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b&opt=0

"During the flight the ground station logged the transmitted and received pulse frequencies at each handshake."

That's in the middle of a huge paragraph describing how they did it in quite some detail, e.g. compared data to other 777s flying that day.
After I saw "Access your direct messages." I cancelled my signup & uninstalled the browser extension. That permission is a bit too steep for me.
In countries like Venezuela, where government is enforcing laws for price control and shops are shutting down everywhere, an anonymous marketplace would be a godsend.

Citizens under totalitarian regimes are the ones who benefit most from crypto currencies, crypto messaging and crypto markets.
select all still works (ctrl a), but yeah, horrid that they are doing it with css instead of at least having the decency to do it with javascript so I can easily disable that.
For what its worth, the page works fine without all the parameters. Why they are in the submitted link, I don't know.
Why 2 hours isn't enough? We're talking about voice conversation between the crew. Mot of the information meaningful to investigation would happen in a short period of time prior to the crash.
Paging tptacek; come in tptacek...
Just a layout bug caused by improper float clearing, causing the #comments div to obscure the content and the sidebar. OP, if you're reading this: Just add your "clear" class to that div, and you're golden.

EDIT: Interesting that I've seen problems like this pop up more than a couple times in recent months. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7382206
Agreed. I think maybe exposure to the Mozilla crew might even broaden the guy's horizons. He might change his mind. No need to write him off.
The protruding sheet metal on the end caps says "prototype". It doesn't have the refined quality that the price tag suggests. The edge looks like it came straight off a sheet metal shear. At least put a nice machined edge on it.
Women and the Uneasy Embrace of Power
I'm sorry I didn't see it, and apparently the link is different too!

I'll be more thorough next time I submit a link, my apologies. Oh well, more news won't hurt I hope :)
Yes, same should be true for hn as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_%28Internet_culture%2...
> It occupies a weird middle ground where you give up the capability to code to bare metal or easily interface with C functions in exchange for nearly being able to quickly and succinctly create powerful abstractions.

I'd say this ground is well and truly occupied by Common Lisp. Java occupies some other ground which is neither quick nor succinct.
I keep my code portable to Windows soley for the purpose of getting to use the Visual Studio debugger. Likewise, Windows developers should write portable code so they can use valgrind.
> I, for one, need a boss. I don't necessarily need that person to tell me what to do, but I do need someone to remind me that the things that I do, whatever they may be, should be in the best interests of our company and its revenue stream. And I need someone to give me positive and negative feedback on my work, so I can improve my own productivity.

Why can't coworkers do that?
GHC is faster than scalac, and GHC is the slowest haskell compiler. Ocaml optimizing compiler completely destroys scalac (and GHC), nevermind the bytecode compiler which is way faster than that. Being tired of reality doesn't change reality. When the single most knowledgeable person in the world on the internals of scalac talks about why scalac is slow, it is more likely that he is correct than some random scala fanboy on hn.
5 things lucky people do
Registered users.

Authors.

Articles.

Comments.

Did I miss anything significant?
If you archive disks like this, you need to run software like SpinRite on them ever so often to maintain them. I'd suggest that you do it every time you update your archive on the disks.
Has T-Mobile really kicked off a mobile price war, or is it just an illusion?
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, what about burning them to 50 triple or quadruple layer Blu-ray Discs (BD-R's) then store them in a fire proof safe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable
Not the whole storey. Spending on growth (investing in the company's future) is a normal activity for many firms. It can make you unprofitable. Startups are in this mode for years. It doesn't mean they don't have a business model. To determine that, you'd have to look at their marginal costs per customer and so on. Which those two numbers quoted don't hint at.
Very good interview, I'm glad he did it.

I wonder how well trained in fraud detection are the people who handle the calls/requests at hosts are. Also, why aren't hosts implementing something like 2-factor authentication, if they have your number on file it could be as simple as calling you back right?
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It's not ridiculous. It's the first rule of all internet forums.

No one reads the articles.
$ A lot of suicides result from academic pressure and failure (plus the environment/parents hinting that you can't succeed in life if you can't do X, Y or Z properly).

Heavy debts are a significant contributor to suicide rates, fear and shame play a large part. The potential collapse of companies would heighten this risk, so here's some statistics on the Great Depression (bottom of the page):

http://www.shmoop.com/great-depression/statistics.html
What about burning them to 50 triple or quadruple layer Blu-ray Discs (BD-R's) then store them in a fire proof safe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable

UPDATE: And then I looked at pricing: As of February 2014 (approximate pricing)
4x BD-R XL disc (100 GB) US$44 each

$44 times 50 = $2200. Ouch. Which would be equal to 44 months to store on Glacier at ~$50 per month (Assuming no further Glacier price reductions).

I'd go with Glacier.
Right, thanks. Either way, it's not rocket surgery.
The hardest part about software development is to decide what to develop
I also had to hit enter several times on a few of these. It looks like there are some bugs on a few of them.
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
You're totally correct. I have just been trolled too much. The first few dozens of times I was polite.
Don't rely too much on Grunt, only use Grunt/Gulp when npm scripts doesn't do the trick. npm scripts has the same direct command invocation that make has so no need for plugins.
Github is widely used and adopted by programmers. Did it help more devs start to use git? Probably. I honestly don't know. Will keybase.io help more devs start using crypto? Maybe. We won't know for a while.
If any HN title ought to be changed to prevent editorializing, this one should. And that will justly kill this article.
Barack Obama on Quora
Grunt-generate: #gruntjs task that generates files from user-defined templates.
It's never so bad, that it can't get worse ;]
I am working for Virtru, a startup building the "mom friendly" way to send encrypted email directly from your existing Gmail account (and others!). My Mom does not understand encryption at all, but has no problem using Virtru to communicate securely with some of her business co-workers.

Basically, it works like this (for example, with browser extension client):

1) the client generates a symmetric AES-256 key and uses that to encrypt the email locally

2) Gmail traffics the email to recipients normally, except the body of the email is now encrypted before it even leaves the client (the body also includes the unique id of the key, unencrypted)

3) the key is sent to a third party key store (Virtru) which controls access to the key based on identity (OAuth/OpenID)

https://www.virtru.com/what-is-virtru

It could be interesting to do some type of mash-up with Virtru and Keybase.io so that Virtru could automatically pull recipients' public keys and use a PGP type flow as opposed to the default of a symmetric key.

Happy to answer questions if anyone gives Virtru a try.
"I'm not sure there's any workable alternative."

Me neither, but this tends to lead into some very politically incorrect territory when you start analyzing why.

However, I'd be willing to try letting the artificially created countries break themselves back down into some smaller units, then letting themselves voluntarily reassemble at a later date if they see the advantages. While it's easy to forget, since it hasn't happened in my lifetime, and our Federal government keeps getting larger and getting more of the attention, but the United States really are the United States; there are procedures for voluntarily joining it. The EU is a larger organization that provides another model for voluntarily joining a larger union. I agree the initial states might break down quite small, but if there are sufficient advantages to reforming into larger units there are models for this. This has been a relatively peaceful process. (Though history suggests that some procedures for voluntarily and legally disassociating may be a good idea. That's certainly debatable at length, but I'm not sure the one-way door model is entirely the best idea, though I'd suggest it also ought to take a supermajority of some sort.)
Worker-owned coops are the kind of Communism that a capitalist can really get behind. Good show.

Also, Arizmendi Bakery is in fact delicious.
That makes very little sense.

Adding the bento: should have removed all the other items from selection.

It sounds like you are explaining a selector such as *:nth-last-child(4)
Good question. Think of it as a "gentlepersons" agreement not to actively poach someone from another startup with common investors. Similar to how investors generally don't invest in competitors to their portfolio companies (but it does happen-- See KPCB investing in both INRIX and Waze).

It was more of a guideline, rather than a hard fast rule.

This agreement didn't prevent people from recruiting friends, or from people actively looking to join another company.

Also, if the person is/was unhappy at one startup, the investors would prefer they join another portfolio company rather than not.
I would use npm scripts as the first way to execute build steps in a package and only fall back to Gulp when it's not powerful enough https://www.npmjs.org/doc/misc/npm-scripts.html
This is incredibly open to abuse by both vendors and their competitors. A rater's "realness" is probably much better judged by other measures of marketplace activity or simply equal weighting than by their willingness to pay to bias the ranking of a particular review. I'd tend to defer to what's worked in other (semi) anonymous markets -- it's pretty easy to tell when someone is real or not based on their activity patterns.

A better policy is probably to keep raw information available and let people parse it in different ways, rather than baking in a risky and probably fragile system we hope will work.
> Get all the brains around the table

An important addition to this: get everyone involved, but also listen to their ideas.

Having been a part of a sinking ship, the most frustrating thing about having everyone pour their blood, sweat, and tears into reviving the company is when the top brass decides to ignore all of the hard work and carry on with their own ideas that were never cleared with anyone else. They were their own iceberg.
How does one go about editing the display parameters?

I am a complete neophyte at this, but tried pressing F12 to access various debugging tools. I could not find any reference to the comments.

Also interested how you discovered this in the first place?
BASE jumpers gain access to Freedom Tower roof - first-person video of jump
> Unless the vote was rigged, then what's the problem?

To let people vote so long till they vote what you want to be the result is a classical method from the toolkits of authoritarian regimes. It is the embodiment of democracy as a façade. It is the same as rigging the vote.
React intelligently in real time five light-minutes from Earth.
I'm not sure I follow where THEY introduced the SPOF. Having a central repo is convenient for many people's workflow so there would probably be a SPOF (In that sense) for the people using github anyway. The difference becomes would you have a team dedicated to maintaining your git repos if you didn't use github?

Is your qualm with the fact that many people share the same SPOF?

Sure Github has their outages from time to time, but it doesn't prevent me from sharing code. Git is still distributed. It might be inconvenient when it is down, but its not a full-out failure of the system.

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Warning HN: AT&T is charging international rates for long-distance FaceTime.
Beware everyone. AT&T is charging long distance rates for international FaceTime calls.
I have read one of his books and somewhat agree with your assessment of his "reflexivity" ideas. However wonder why you think he is a lunatic, and if you have examples of how you think his success is attributable to connections rather than intellect?
Because it's proprietary, and other debuggers aren't allowed to copy it?
Sorry to hear that. We don't really use this permission at all. See my explanation above.
Arrogant physicists – do they think economics is easy?
The amazing thing is that Hollywood and the US government managed to make a colourful racing identity like Kim Dotcom look like the good guy.
When has this ever worked in the real world? I mean, in theory parts of it are nice, but conflating it with the spam problem is probably not accurate; merchants will just pay for positive reviews for themselves and negative ones for competitors. I ask honestly: are there examples where this has worked?

I feel like the much better system is to increase the available information about transaction and/or review volumes associated with a particular account -- that makes it much easier to filter out bullshit, and mimics the way fakes are detected on the rest of the internet.
There is Sokoban in sed too.

For who is interested in other games written in sed.

http://aurelio.net/projects/sedsokoban/
Droplet Is A Robotic Sprinkler That Knows Your Soil Inside And Out
I am 39 and I would love to work with someone like that. I would learn a thing or two and it would give me hope :-)
The speed varies with Crashplan as well, but I usually get around a couple of megabits per second at least.

I run it on my home NAS though so it's basically just set-and-forget, meaning that I don't have to remember to keep my Mac online. I just add my photos to the NAS share and it takes care of it from there.