skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point is that generally people in management can be assumed to be doing their best.

This is a very significant point. The best part about building systems with computers is that their reactions to your changes are deterministic. With people, it isn't so cut-and-dry, especially in the world of cutting big-money business deals. In my personal opinion, there's really no "right" way to run a business, but there are plenty of wrong ways.

Over time, I've learned that one major origin of respect for your co-workers as well as your superiors stems from a respect or appreciation of them as people. Personally, I feel as though many of my co-workers could have been friends of mine had we met outside of work (not that they can't be even though we met at work, but you get my point), and I'm confident that they both understand and respect my viewpoints, because I do the same for them. This means a lot to me. When I see something wrong, I say something. In a small team startup, I believe I have the power to make changes that could affect the outcome of the company. Not only that, but I believe the product that we're developing is useful and beneficial to mass amounts of people. It may not be a venue by which we can "change the world", but perhaps we can make a few people's lives a little easier and bring their costs down tremendously.

So coming back, a lot of what this may be is a disconnect between the developer and the authority figures that sit atop him in the hierarchy. It's always hard to bow down to authority, but one with power who you both trust and admire is not really considered an "authority" in your head, is it?

It could "just be you", but I happen to think there are far more people out there I wouldn't want to work for than people I do want to work for.
I got a lot more excited when I read about this a while ago (2012) [1]. It also states to be slightly more accurate. It also seems less cumbersome.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/126843-think-gps-is-cool-...

I haven't tried anything, but it seems there are already lots of solutions and this is just another approach.
This article is 2 years old. This is the latest update on the research:

http://stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47/
San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
My reaction is Heroku should drop their price too.
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Since it hasn't been mentioned, Tygem is available for Windows or iPad (strange combo, I know). Not big with the English speaking crowd, but it's filled with top-notch Korean and Chinese players so it's great entertainment for dan level players.
> The cosmic bling

...is the name of my new hip-hop group
I didn't know about the KGS HTML client. Either I should hurry up with my side-project or abandon it, as that's exactly what I'm building (but obviously without the already established KGS user base).
I dropped out of a PhD program in chemistry taking a masters and have been working as a full stack web developer and team lead. I've now been offered admission to a physics PhD program and am at a quandary - I have publishable research that would almost certainly get me a first author PRL (my presumptive co-author is one of the editors of PRB) but I don't even know if I want to throw away another 3-4 years of my life earning-potential wise.
YES! That was it. Thanks so much.
Frankly, with the amount of bullshit blacklists out there that real mail providers actually trust, I've come to detest blacklists more than spam.
Ad watchdog agrees that Google customers are getting ‘Scroogled’
Great find, thanks. Key quote for those too lazy to read through:

> For the last year, many people have been working to make clinical trials possible. We are now hopeful that the first human clinical trials of anti-CD47 antibody will take place at Stanford in mid-2014, if all goes well. Clinical trials may also be done in the United Kingdom.

So it's coming soon... at least in clinical trials...

Edit: interesting that since I posted this, the post went off the front page. sigh @ opaque moderation...
I'm wondering why people in general think this is some kind of facebook integration stretch goal. Everyone is photoshoping friend requests into 3D Farmville screenshots and it's humorous and I get from a gamer perspective, but from other professionals in this industry I find it pretty shocking. Notch is vocal in his opposition, but it really just doesn't make sense to me. It's hardware and an SDK at the end of the day, and now it's in the hands of a leading tech company this is vanguarding OTHER difficult problems of their existing industry (and open sourcing large parts of it!).

I have the DK1, and I ordered the DK2 not even a week ago, I've been active in tinkering with Oculus for a while now and even did some Twitch.tv casts of BF3, DayZ, etc. and other games running through TriDef or VorpX. I'm about to start working on a project allowing MS Kinect usage to be broadcast in an Oculus compatible format for web consumption by Oculus users. So I'm pretty "in touch" with the tech at this point.

I see this move as FB ensuring a healthy portfolio and healthy future stock price for their investors by getting the jump on patents and technology of a sure fire success emerging market. I don't think you'll have 3D oculus web cam video calls or friend requests popping up in your flight sim, that's just rampant and misguided speculation.

If I had a choice about WHO bought Oculus the top of the list would be Valve. They already have Carmack, having Newell in the mix would be amazing and ensure the tech was in good hands. Facebook or Google would be next in line, and waaaaay down at the bottom of the list would be Sony, Microsoft, or EA (I would burn the hardware and pretend it never existed if EA bought it).

tl;dr The entire community is acting like a bunch of idiots, stop it, you're embarrassing yourselves and showing your business management ignorance. If I was a company that made it big in the social boom and IPO'd but was facing a shrinking userbase on my life blood product, you better bet your ass I'd utilize my resources to diversify my business. Keeping your all your eggs in a single basket is a historically bad idea.

edit: also based on these comments people think Oculus offers software... they don't, you don't play an Oculus VR MMORPG... they provide hardware and an SDK, everything else is up to content producers, the scaling crisis would be purely one of hardware manufacturing and distribution and maintaining a very widely used SDK. Which I would consider FB pretty okay at... I won't say good... but okay will suffice, especially considering backwards compatibility for hardware/software of this type isn't a big concern.
I'd love to do more to disassociate the two.

Libre.fm is five years old now. Time for us to break the chain?
I think GNOME3 is breaking *nix philosophy: do one thing and do it well; to be highly configurable. You have freedom to use compiz in GNOME2, but not in 3. There are a lot of good GTK2 themes but gitg and d-feet have hard-coded styles so only default GNOME3 theme will look sane. Super+p is somewhat hard-coded and you cannot customize it ... and there are more annoying issues. I am happy that mate-desktop is still alive.
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And just for a comparison, here's the graph for a popular long-time KGS player, currently ranked #79 in the KGS top 100 players: http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=twoeye

CrazyStone isn't too far behind.
Features include an open controller scripting API ;)
Has anyone set up a blacklist full of random IPs as a joke to see how many people follow it?
The Economics Of Bitcoin – Why Mainstream Economists Lie About Deflation:
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/11/the-economics-of-b...

I'm not convinced either way. The main problem I have with bitcoin's supply, which it shares with many alternatives, is that supply is decreasing exponentially over time, making early adopters rich. Then again you could say the same about people who invested in google before its IPO, or even soon after.
Nice unintentionally linkbait.

But does their code looks similar to yours?
My X220 is now 3+ years old and has a crack below the trackpad area which is too thin and obviously not strong enough. It still works and there isn't any other damage but I wouldn't say the newer sleeker versions are built like tanks.
You should look at smaller companies, most of them seem to have figured out the whole package counts. If you're a hacker like I am, it's a dream. Little bit of everything across your domain (but quality). Plus, you might even learn what's necessary to run the show!
A miss is as good as a mile.
Ask HN: Anyone signup for Medicaid?
The deadline to sign up for health insurance is a couple of days away. With the 2014 changes to Medicaid there are no asset qualification checks, only income checks.

As such it seems like a good for for founders living off of savings. Basically if you're not drawing a salary (and don't have other income) then you have zero income and you qualify for Medicaid.

Has anyone signed up for Medicaid?

Any comments on using it vs "regular" insurance?

Any thoughts on whether it's worth it to instead shell out for a "bronze" ACA plan?
Wait until they are close to exiting and then threaten to sue for 5%, settle for 2%. It's the absolute worst timing for a startup to get hit with something like this.

Of course, only do it if you're actually in the right, so check with a lawyer first.
I don't know... Mistakes happen. There seems to be little to gain from faulting SendGrid, but faulting SendGrid would force them to take some kind of action such as terminating the rep. I think I'd prefer the rep remain employed, because I trust they'd never make this mistake again. Also, now all the other reps know to avoid it.

EDIT: May I ask what can be gained from faulting SendGrid in this case?
Not everyone here is American.

The US is just as much a direct threat to my countries economic interests as China. A pity my countries politicians are in Washington's pockets and are silent now when only two years ago they were yammering about the threat from Chinese government hackers and Huawei.
Amazing, I love mathematics. I want to study it all my life.
The goals of those courses are different from the goals of building complex software. Courses are designed to teach you how a language works in both theory and practice and they generally go through a language and help you understand what parts of it do and why it does what it does.

Nearly all modern languages have developed as some response to C, and Python is also studied because it has a good reputation as a first language.

Software development is about coordinating work so that it produces a product that is reliable and also on time and under budget. This is the sort of thing you can learn, somewhat, by examining the code and work done in open source, but mostly you learn it by working in a (good) software development office. It's important, but not something that is easy to teach while you are also learning how computer languages work.
> "But in our universe, people saw the algorithm as hackneyed, particularly when Justin Bieber had a higher Klout score than the US president."

Maybe Klout was wrong with this particular arrangement, or maybe your assumptions about who has more influence are wrong. Ever thought about that?

After all, "entertainment clout" can be very quickly capitalized as "political clout", as Mr. Terminator has demonstrated.

When it comes to selling products, whose endorsement will sell more products: Justin Bieber or the US President?

Remember Klout's score is used to give "perks" to influencers, the purpose of which is that they show those perks to their fans, therefore influencing them.

While I don't care about Klout at all, I have to say I'd rather bet on Justin Bieber than the US President for that specific purpose.
With banjo music playing, the chicken truck has gone off the road, through the fence and is now tearing up a cornfield.

Now, here's Conway Twitty...
I agree. If facebook were sticking to the web/mobile, their value as a company would be a bit limited, and there would always be the possibility that they will eventually be disrupted in the same way that they disrupted MySpace.

Zuckerberg yesterday was talking about building new computing platforms. That doesn't necessarily increase the value of Facebook, but it takes away a lot of the caps that would otherwise exist on their future valuation. Now no one knows how much they might be worth in 5 - 10 years.
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Look at the code as the author suggests; you will notice that a part of the code( ~40 lines ) is identical, including the comments.
The "freedom" that GPL gives is qualitatively no different than the notion of "freedom" in a free country. Freedom in a free country does not legally allow me to take away the freedom and rights enjoyed by another citizen. I can still do so, but that comes with legal consequences. GPL is likewise.
Agreed - Desktop with a nice multi-monitor setup is great, but getting out and working somewhere different really does help refresh things and gets you back in focus.

The only problem with laptop is the small screen and it's harder (/more expensive) to do a multi-monitor setup. I don't know how people are listing an 11" laptop to do any dev work. I guess if its just a straight editor and not an IDE that works.
They could always just do what Microsoft did with the first Xbox. There is nothing stopping them from putting a PC in a fancy box if that is a better product (VR versus no VR) than what they would otherwise do for the PS5.
I share your sentiment about facebook. They might know how to program, but their business is shady as hell.

I had such high hopes for the Oculus and now I could care less. Maybe Sony's product will be better.
Someone done goofed. Google Analytics and other KPI chew-toys and gadgets are what keeps executives busy while people get work done.

This will not go unnoticed.
Rational investors don't sell shares punitively, although if they believe that they'll continue to be diluted at a rapid pace, that could account for some of the downward valuation.
My first thought was that just getting a min and a max was the right answer, mainly because I having something hard-to-borrow is the edge case; and that the general case is that you can short.
The minimal-ui thing was just added in iOS 7.1
We just launched Peak. Quit distracting your team.
FYI (the author, if they're here), your site doesn't load in Firefox for Android. Not sure why.
I'd second that! It's not complicated, especially for smaller entities. "I'll use your services, but don't go
over ths amount; without authorization." If my wiz, bang app, website has that much potential--I'll get the money to
you. I don't want to wake up to a big bill. To be honest,
if they were very clear about pricing, and stop/loss orders; I think more people would sign up. It's about honesty, and
a minimizing the variables. Oh, and fire any MBA advisors;
they think they are slick, but your average dude us starting to look at the fine print, and has become very sensitive to
being taken advantage of. By the way, off topic, but relevant. I looked into esurance. Very good price. Then
I realized the premium was only fir six months. I always wondered how they could afford all those rediculous commercials.
Safely predicting Rob knows more about me than you do.
The idea that culture fit is just a catch-all for personal bias and -ism's recently occurred to me, and kind of freaks me out. Right now I think there are three things I'm most looking for in a quality Sr candidate: restless learning, pair programs well with my team (we do it on all production code), and focuses on solutions not problems. I'm afraid though that "culture fit", especially around pair programming is just a way for me to cop out on someone I don't like, but I can't prove it.
iOS (and I'd assume Android as well) is a grab bag of technology. To learn it correctly, you'd need to learn about memory management, enough graphics to understand how to draw to the screen, interpret touches, etc. All of that is wrapped up in a complex API.

Web development has many layers to it, but each layer is pretty straightforward and it all starts and ends with producing a text string (the web page) which is a much easier concept to get your head around when you're first learning.
Visionary or Looney? Zuckerberg on Spending Spree
That's because google gives it to you that way.

Much more likely this is a typo in the ID number.
That was only for people who have attended every I/O.
Oh please. A good developer cares a great deal about analytics. To do otherwise is to arrogantly presume you know your user when you likely don't.
Personally I would not use the Amazon CDN. It's not as cost effective as others, and CDN services are basically commodified at this point.
NSA critics express 'deep concern' over route change for House reform bill
Il "lavoltabuonismo" di Renzi and Co.
Non albeggia se Renzi non twitta ma non basta la poltrona a palazzo Chigi e l’ossessiva ripetizione di un hashtag ignorato per celare l’assoluta mancanza di un “programma” vero.
I hesitate to even post, as offsite backup is very different than the use case for S3, but we're the opposite...

That is, our storage is expensive (10c per GB, per month, with the HN-new-customer discount) but our usage/transfwer costs are zero.

related:

ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsynctest/mscdex.exe

interoperability!
I don't mean pro- or anti-, but rather my sense of what you thought the most interesting questions were. And not that you were wrong...
I work with SendGrid frequently because of my day job, and they have hands down the worst software and design of any company in the industry.

I use Mandrill for my private projects, and it is so much better it's shocking SendGrid has a single customer.
Good thing the author didn't ask for "express written permission" to use his code. The irony would have been too much for me to handle.
Tabs are not a record separator. They are a formatting code. That's why a mess is created when they are used to separate records.
I could provide some assistance, I've did the scala driver and was making it work with java . When I get some time I'll submit a pull request.
Some investor got his klout score up today
Every 10 Mins You Don't Touch Your Phone A Child Have Clean Water For Entire Day
That's not static.
BCC every message is evil, as it can be misused as in this case. SendGrid should never allow that, or at least should flag such behavior. At the minimum, they should notified account owners of this change.
That's where I'm currently looking. My biggest problem is identifying the companies. Being in the Bay Area, it's more a problem of how and where to search than limited number of companies, though.

I think I'd fit in with a company far enough along to have built its MVP (so they're not always in that perpetual crunch mode), but which has fewer than 10 engineers. I really value work-life balance, so I don't want to work insane amounts of overtime all the time, but I could totally live on a below market salary if the other aspects of the job were right.

I'm considering working with a recruiter. Anyone know any technical recruiters in the Bay Area who are worth working with?

Oh, and as always, my email is in my profile if anyone wants to take this discussion offline.
It loaded in FF for me. V28 Linux.

Have you tried turning off your machine and turning it back on after 5 seconds?
If you're typing that number in by hand, my WAT flag is flying.
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I suspect V28 Linux is different to the mobile Android version.
If it is a typo in the ID number, thats understandable. But the social tracking id seems to be wrong too and that also points to the authors id. Can't be wrong twice and have both mistakes point to the same person
Oh agreed, analytics is everybody's business, but even more so for higher-ups. Specially for an organization like MLB, with a tall org-chart.
They copy-and-pasted from Google and then changed one of the characters in their ID? Possible, but Occam's Razor and all.
The old saying is: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
No I don't ... because the GNU GPLv3 guarantees, more than any other license, user freedom. The only other license that might guarantee more user freedom in this case is the the GNU AGPLv3. Sorry, but the MIT license does little more than protect a developer from being liable, it does almost nothing to promote freedom.
Well okay, it's not just a terminal server. But the purpose is for several dozens of users to connect with their "think clients."

It's a virtual host that has a terminal server + a few other servers.
Chrome is immensely worse because it is proprietary and has spyware included.
I've known plenty of CS majors that couldn't write good code when they graduated. There are plenty of people with years of experimce that also aren't very good. I don't know anyone that can judge your abilities just from reading your résumé.

For the written screen my current company uses it does take time from an experienced engineer to assess it. It doesn't mean you're not worth 15 minutes of time. It means we'd like to spend the 15 minutes deciding if we want to put you on the phone with two engineers for an hour.

Interviewing and hiring is expensive and time consuming. Can you blame companies for trying to weed people out as early and cheaply as possible? If you can't write a production quality version of fizz buzz why would I want to talk to you? When you end up on the other side of the table asking the interview questions you see that those stupid programming assignments, that any second year CS student should be able to do, have value.

Knowing you're INTJ isn't useful. Obscure language gotcha questions aren't useful. Knowing if you comment your code is. I think you've been through some bad written screening tests. That doesn't mean that they can't have value as part of the interview process.
Puerto Rico, the whole island is covered by AT&T LTE.
AirBNB listings span the gamut from obscenely cheap to $150ish gets you a luxury accommodations.

Rent a car, get the ezpass for tolls as well and you can see the sights.

Direct flights from the east coast are as cheap as $150 one way, pick and choose your days...

Oh and no customs or passport for US residents!
As I see it, the problem is more on what to expect when supporting a project thru Kickstarter, than the deal itself.
Now if you can get them to steal your AdSenseForContent code you are golden!
Yup, my guess is the ID is a variable in some templating system or CMS that MLB uses, and someone (for some reason) was typing it.
IF those characters are actually displayed on the corresponding keys. If it's like the # on the Mac keyboard - not displayed anywhere - it's a right pain to learn in the first place without any visual cues.
Wow that looks like the most boring, un-inspiring group of people I've ever seen. You are a lucky man (or woman) to have walked away without a job.
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Water Ice? Looks like a breadcrumb to me.
If you're going to start accusing folks of 'robbing' the State of California, you should carefully investigate the morality of compulsory taxation.

I think you'll find that the State does a damn site more robbery and extortion than any group of tech companies.
I am going to love not having to type out 'clear' all the time - thank you!
Please don't confuse the personal views of the CEO outside of work with the views of the entire organization. There are a lot of genuinely good people at Mozilla doing good work, and I would bet that the overwhelming majority working there do not share the same views as the CEO. You're comment not only does a disservice to yourself and the HN community, but everyone else at Mozilla working to make the world a better place.
Google recently thinks I'm in India and has been serving me up Indian YouTube adds recently. I work in Beijing using a Japanese proxy, so I don't really get how that works.