skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how many people would stop using javascript because of this. Given all sorts of ads & analytics are all served up with it, I bet many people won't.

It's a slippery slope if we try to paint people as "wholy-bad" or "wholy-good" based on one or two hot-button issues. Human's are flawed, complicated creatures. Trying to pass judgment on their entire career & capabilities based on one or two actions not related and/or affecting their job is a dangerous decision to make.
But surely making stupid statements or performing harmful actions isn't consequence free? And we should not give equal platforms or "balance" to every statement, should we?

Aristotle believed women had less teeth than men. If someone states that belief now, is it wrong to say "no that's wrong", and then laugh/ignore them?
1. If I want a confidence interval, I want to know the end points of the confidence interval. Trying to guess them from a plot like this is annoying and not helpful.

2. This doesn't work for bar graphs, lengths, etc. The uncertainty is often going to be symmetric around the point estimate, but your opacity forces an asymmetric representation of the uncertainty.

3. Box plots are great. If you want more detail than that, a thin vertical histogram or density is going to convey much more information than shading.
I know that & get it, but by choosing that word itself, it becomes a loaded & inaccurate word which hurts the argument (because which many anti-gay marriage people can easily refute the accusation by simply saying "that's ridiculous, I'm not scared of gay people").
Well, that goes much further than I would go in defining "half decent". To me, that comes off as a real Type A, game the system type approach. If the market was really as hot as is often claimed, that would not be remotely necessary in order to be noticed.

What I think is going on, having observed from outside for many years, is that a certain subset of companies are fighting over the same small subset of engineers (self confident, type A shameless marketeers who happen to already be located in SV, NYC, or Seattle) and complaining that they can't find people because this subset is too small to satisfy them all.

I have had a LinkedIn profile for almost as long as LinkedIn has been around. I have had a website with my own domain name since 1999. I do not have personal or professional experience in $FLAVOR_OF_THE_WEEK. Despite all the talk here and elsewhere about how its fundamentals that matter and anyone competent can pick up $LANGUAGE or $FRAMEWORK in the time it takes to become familiar with the codebase, everyone still seems to hire based on the buzzwords.

No one ever taught me that I should be treating my resume like an SEO problem. In fact, I have received so much contradictory advice about how to structure my resume over the years that I am almost ready to throw up my hands in disgust. Plus, the idea of keyword-loading my resume and LinkedIn profile makes me feel dirty; hell, SEO in general makes me feel dirty.
Ask HN: looking for a roommate in SF?
Hi all-
I am looking for a roommate in the city. I found a great 2bd/ 1ba in Nob Hill and looking to sign now and move in mid- or late- April.

You can check me out at http://kevinkimball.me and email is kevin@ that domain.
Yes, because who wouldn't want to use the services of an appraiser who is going to sell your company's most sensitive financial information to third parties?

I for one refuse to work with an accountant who refuses to sell my tax returns on Scribd.
> We should live in a world with correct ideas, full stop.

You would have thoroughly enjoyed living in the USSR.
I think it's like being a man in an all-girls gathering. You can either be awkward or the center of attention. It depends on your perception and how you would present yourself.
You seem confused about a couple of things. First, you don't understand what a PhD represents. It isn't a measurement of how intelligent you are. It shows a meaningful understanding and contribution in some specialized part of your field.

Second, I agree with other replies that brought up the Dunning-Kruger effect. You feel that you were on par or better than a teacher of yours that has a PhD. Does your teacher agree?

Third, if you really want to do well in business you should improve your communication skills. Judging by your cultural references I'm assuming that English is your first language. Your post and replies have several typos, grammatical errors, and areas where your meaning is unclear. Why do you point out you don't have a PhD when the reality is you probably haven't graduated high school yet? What does "by choice" mean in reference to JavaScript? Did someone hold a gun to your head and make you learn PHP?

I've worked with good coders that didn't have a degree but having that piece of paper opens some doors. If you're as smart as you claim to be you should be able to get into a pretty good school. Once you're there you'll be surrounded by other smart people. Spending time with smart people has lots of benefits. If you want to learn to run a business you can start one while you're in school. It'll probably fail. Figure out what went wrong and try again. In four years you'll have learned a lot about running a business, made good contacts with smart people, and have a nice piece of paper. If you get lucky and the business works out you can always just drop out.
That case refers to a company defrauding its own shareholders by withholding material information from them during a buyback.

That's far different from what OP is suggesting -- a wink/nod to a third party indicating to buy or sell.
And what about online shopping, where you just typed in your card number into a site?
That's a more unfortunate part of the story than the registrars' inaction? Or the theft itself? I don't think so.
how would a bookmarklet be able to crawl & scrape a website?
Yea. PBS's content is truly unrivalled and unimpeachable. Its a wonder they've maintained it for so long now.
Bashyal - sorry! I found your email. Expect a reply shortly.
I get the feeling you haven't actually bothered to read anything I've said on this subject, because you're arguing as though I'm calling for Brendan Eich's head, when in fact I've said multiple times that I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and wait to see how he actually acts, rather than draw conclusions based on a personal action he took 6 years ago.
I like the idea, and the objective it aims at fulfilling, I am not aware of the US regulations, but I think if you can hack a wristband like wearable gadget to work with it (of-course it needs to have a vibrator in it), then you can overcome the problem of keeping the cell phone close to your body.
>There is really nothing tangible which compels an informed PC user to 'upgrade' to Windows 8 from Windows 7

There are loads of things! What a silly thing to say. Try reading any article about Windows 8 which doesn't focus on the metro aspect
Whoops, you are right. Reading comprehension fail on my part.
"This site uses cookies to improve performance. If your browser does not accept cookies, you cannot view this site."

Guess I'll be sleepless tonight wondering what this article was all about.
At one marketing-overrun startup, the suits were calling two hour meetings every afternoon and then wondering why I wasn't getting any work done.

So I installed a cuckoo clock in that meeting room. The CEO loved it; he even helped wind it. I knew I'd succeeded when one of the marketing types looked at the clock and said, "I hate that thing." I don't remember if the meetings got any shorter or less frequent, but they were a little more enjoyable.

[I invested some money in that place. They pulled some shenanigans, and my piece of a billion dollar company got zeroed out. But I still have the clock.]
I'm not very familiar with their policies. Does that apply even in the case of theft? Didn't the article's author recover her domain within a few days?
Perhaps people have a problem with hypocrisy? He's "committed to inclusivity", but we know from personal actions that he isn't really, and would be happy if governments and society continued to discriminate.
DS Domination Review
Box wants to let businesses control cloud encryption keys “this year”
If it was possible, we'd have ditched JavaScript a long time ago. People seem upset over the fact that Mozilla leadership is choosing a person that admits to wanting to discriminate. People seem far less concerned about what assorted engineers might think or do.
Have you met the people you have been pitching to beforehand? Did you get any hint whether they like you or not? (We all make snap judgments.)
"We do not have a general purpose tree editor because trees are quite the complicated structure, and most valuable operations on trees require quite a bit of knowledge of what the tree represents."

Definitely...Also, trees are pretty abstract data structures. You can imagine a min-heap as a tree but for practical purposes you can also think of it as an array where there are special rules for interacting with elements (adding, removing, finding the child of a node, etc). It could be a pain to try to generalize something so abstract and with so much room for complexity by making a tree editor...

It's the same reason why UI's for software development haven't taken off. When something is that abstract and complicated, it's almost harder interacting with an interface that tries to 'dumb it down'. Not to mention the lack of control such interfaces would introduce.
Love it. A few years ago at a place I was helping out in, one of the devs had built a clock for the conference room that, at the start of a meeting, you punched the number of people in the meeting into. It knew the average company salary (this was a ~15 person software house) and would count up the "money spent" given the number of people in the room and the time on the clock. Very motivating.
Just watched this and it was hilarious. (engineer here) I guess people can be smart enough to take things light-heartedly and be open about laughing at yourself or the situations we face.
"The lines should pop"
Well, they do have an algorithm. That's why this service works.

Unless you were selected at random, no one reads the paperwork you submit until someone thinks you've done something wrong. They're just evidence that will be examined in the future, so it needs to check out.

For one accounting is fiendishly complex but I would also bet that there is some tiny, irreducible step you need a human being to glance at the paperwork and say "it doesn't look like they're trying to scam us".
Is no one else pointing out that this is part of a SCHOOL PROJECT? Of course they're asking for the moon! This is a sandbox project for her. What should you do? Scalp her back! Why? Because sandbox!
I would prefer just calling it the 'Free and Open Society' (ala Karl Popper's book The Open Society and Its Enemies[1]). IMO any political philosophy that says things "must go this way" or that somehow their ideas are handed down from a higher power is harmful (i.e. authoritarianism). It's not about trying to promote inequality either, and using the free market or something as an excuse, it's about promoting criticism and transparency. And I truly believe political philosophies like Marxism are against critical thinking and anti-science. Most people who espouse some kind of Marxist beliefs have never bothered reading any Popper which is quite telling to me.

inb4 "but that sounds like libertarianism which everyone knows only rich bigoted fedora wearing assholes like!"

[1] https://archive.org/details/opensocietyandit033120mbp
Debate btwn Michael Lewis, Brad Katsuyama (IEX) and William O’Brien (BATS)
I have never met Tyler. I said hi to Jason once but never had a conversation with him. I have exchanged a few emails but I doubt that's the problem. I hope not anyway, it never crossed my mind.
Firefox here.
Livereload, Pushbullet, Adblock, HTTPS Everywhere
> You can either be awkward or the center of attention.

Or you could, say, not radically alter your behavior based on the genders of the people around you.
Huh? Or you can just be comfortable and act normally, contributing where appropriate.
The people behind Bitcoin, a personal story
No, insider trading is not limited to public companies. Indeed, it's more of an issue with private companies precisely because the danger of unbalanced information is so high.

You should read up on the insider trading case law--a good number of the cases involve companies which are not traded on a stock exchange.

Assuming that the SEC regs only apply to public companies is a common misunderstanding. These regs actually apply to all companies which solicit investment, unless a specific exemption applies (i.e., solely intra-state, limited placement private offering, etc.)
It's satire, not derision.
I'd lean towards saying a complaint without ends to improve is whining. On the whole though, we agree.
Agreed. Many times when you are approached with nonsensical requirements it is wise to try to figure out what problem the asker is trying to solve. This is doubly true when you receive technical requirements from non-technical people.
XML is a meta-format.
Also I posted a few photos of the place to check out on my site, and the rent is $2900 total.
The disappointing part: "For Box, the service would likely be aimed at only the most security-conscious organizations and not made available to individual consumers."

Still, I hope it becomes a popular area to innovate for competitors.
8yr Old Boy in a Fight for Life
I've been using an old android phone on airplane mode for the same reason. I just end up snoozing it and sleeping so the bed shaker sounds great.
Please implement line sharing & gifting to Facebook & Twitter.
Thank you! This was a horrible tax on startups -- not just the cost, but the cognitive load before every transaction, and sometimes delaying grants or onboarding at (not very well run) companies due to confusion.
No, that's precisely what insider trading is--trading by any person based on inside information they have acquired through means covered by a fiduciary obligation (i.e. employment, service provider, etc.).

A company can trade on inside information with its own shareholders, since the company is using information it has access to which its own shareholders may not.
I am aware of multisig, but multisig precludes realtime trading, which is usually the main point of an exchange.

It'd be a good idea for Coinbase to implement, though.
i only click 'spam' or 'junk', and never,ever click any link in the mail itself.
I'm with you in this. I would just like to add that learning calculus, statistics, quantum mechanics etc is important learning to apply it from young age is equally important.

I had a friend in school who was so very good in physics, he could just grasp every concept and get top grades. Once, we decided to make a video game or two in the computer lab during the sports periods (we bunked sports periods). We started with implementing simple projectile motion of ASCII characters, Simple Harmonic Motion of an ASCII gauntlet and lots of cool stuff and effects. I remember, even with his top notch knowledge of mechanics, he was unable to do simple things, and I ended up doing the games alone. Then after he avoided interacting with me, and rather completed his school homework during the sports period. He would come to the lab just to say that the game is not looking good, and I could have done this or that. I think he had inferiority complex. I scored lesser than him, and all the teachers heavily favored him. Our friendship became more formal.

I am sure he will get a very nice job.
According to our president, 5 are dead (she's live on TV right now).
Girls? Like 8 year olds? Who says 'girls' anymore?
Sarcasm doesn't really work well on HN.

The issue is someone could conceivably sell the information without your knowledge, or create aggregated data products from that information which aren't so clearly "your information", like "this is where you are compared to your industry as a whole, based on deals we've seen" (which is probably ok).

Because of this, there needs to either be a regulatory control to prevent it, or serious effort from the valuator to convince customers their data is being handled safely.
Moving beyond the exaggeration of the sketch, the irony here is that being the only engineer in a business meeting puts you in an incredibly powerful position - if you see the opportunity and know how to take advantage of it.

Learning to interact with non-technical stakeholders and finding ways to deliver solutions perceived as adding value to a business is one of the best ways to make real money in this industry. For the average person, it is quite literally the difference between making $150,000/year as an employee "engineer" and practically as much as you'd like on your own terms/as your own boss.
Also clarify at the beginning of the meeting (or preferably before), who owns this meeting and what is the agenda or decision to be made.
But isn't that a good trait in law enforcement if through experience gained on the street they can tell the difference between 'good' and 'bad' people, as defined by whether they're breaking the law or not? Then they focus their time on cases most likely needing attention?

If they profiled only on race or on class that is obviously bad. And I imagine in some areas there's a correlation between race or class with crime.

But in general I'd expect the police to develop good judgement in being able to read people on sight using whatever cues they can pick up on.

I never get 'harassed' by the police nowadays, but as a middle class white teenager I was being stopped all the time, usually because they could tell from body language or how and where I was driving that I was up to something. Usually they were dead right and usually it was alcohol related.
Mythbusting through mobile A/B testing
I think my machine had 32mb, so that was probably it.
yes. actually,its older than 18/19th century. check out chaucer, for example.
A week before its end of life, 28 percent of Web users are still on Windows XP
How to save your request from inbox death
What exactly is the use-case for this? Can't quite get it from the site.
> Is the Mozilla community asking him to represent their views on marriage?

No, but why does that matter? The community doesn't want anything to do with him because he's a bigot. He's allowed to do what he wants and the community is allowed to shun him if they want.
gotta love blog spam
Presumably the person dumping names and emails (PII/PID) on pastebin has little regard for gag orders. (And no motivation not to reveal such an order, if proof were readily available.)
TSR #181 – Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z Review
How’s Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z? Should you use Feedburner? What about video, should you do it? These are some of the things Andrew addressed in this episode and much more!
WebScale, you say? o.O
Glad to see this finally making it on the front page. I'm particularly impressed with the actors' ability to capture the subtle facial expressions and other mannerisms that the various characters tend to make in real life under various situations.

Direct YT link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

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My favorite bit...

PHB: "That's it. Now you've confused everyone. So what exactly is stopping us from doing this?"

Anderson the Engineer: "Geometry."

Client: "Just ignore it."

PHB: "We have a task. Seven red lines. It's not 20. It's just seven! Anderson I understand you're a specialist of a narrow field; you don't see the overall picture. But surely it's not a difficult task to draw some seven lines."

Walter the PM: "Exactly! Suggest a solution. Now, any fool can criticize --no offense-- but, you're an expert. You should know better."
Or you could, say, accept that in most cultures the shared experience of associating with a specific gender while growing up leads to topics and conversations that are easier to have, sustain, and enjoy while talking to people of the same gender. This doesn't require you "radically alter your behavior", just that you understand that different groups of people often accept and find topics interesting at different levels.
Udacity – Machine Learning 1–Supervised Learning
Mind-mapping is useful, though I've yet to find a tool I really like and can use 1) intuitively and 2) for very large models.

Online, there's Text2MindMap[1] which is quick and easy to use, and offers a rubber-band like ability to reposition nodes, but in my experience, once past a couple of hundred nodes (I do some fairly large maps) performance gets really laggy, especially if you've got an otherwise populated Chrome session running.

Offline, there's the FreeMind[2] tool, Java based. My main problem with it is that editing is incredibly fussy.

What I prefer mostly is GraphViz[3], which is not just a mind-mapping tool, but can be used as such. The advantage here is that what you're editing is a simple text file, with graphic output created by running one of the graphviz commands over it (dot, neato, twopi, circo, fdp, sfdp). For a traditional mind map, the 'circo' command is probably what you're looking for. While not as interactive as other methods, if you're working on a complex space, the lack of constant overhead for graphical presentation is a plus, as is the simplicity of the base language. What I'm still looking to do is to write a simple outline -> GraphViz converter which sets up edges based on indent levels and parent, which would further simplify the input problem.

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Notes:

1. http://text2mindmap.com/

2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Freemind

3. http://graphviz.org/
That makes perfect sense, but it isn't owning equity in the companies that is valuable, rather it is the knowledge of both the current value and change in value of a material number of startups in a particular space.

Today there are a number of research companies that use this exact same information, as reported by public companies as part of those company's obligations to the SEC, to evaluate investment risk and opportunity. Their services go from 'free' (as in Charles Schwab will send you a copy of their research department's report on a company or a segment if you're an account holder) to 'extortionate' which some of the larger trading houses keep in their back pockets to help them pick winners and losers.

As a collection point for this information about privately held companies, it puts you in a nearly unassailable position to do research on which of these companies are likely to be successful or not (your own sort of buy/hold/sell ratings) This isn't even possible today because, as the article mentions. everyone goes to different places to get their 409A valuations. So no single entity has enough of the puzzle to assemble a recognizable picture, yet by offering this valuation service, and attracting a very large number of customers, you create the opportunity to be that single source of information.

I would venture a guess that there are venture capitalists that would pay handsomely for a 'peek' at the state of the industry 'yet to come' as it were. That would not involve you (Preferred Return) owning any equity in any company, all you'd need to do it offer up research reports at $500,000 a copy describing the state of the industry :-)

I am in awe of how amazingly clever this whole scheme is!
Absolutely. And it's not just a powerful position, it's an extremely important one.

Some engineering teams so effectively resist meetings that they worm their way right out of any decision making beyond "how do we deal with the mess we've been handed THIS time?"
Making a JavaScript app with type safety guarantees. Also the pleasure of haskell in general. Same reason people use CoffeeScript. It compiles to JS, but you get several advantages of not using JS directly. Either syntactical, or abstraction of idioms.

Haste of course goes WAY further than CoffeeScript. But the rationale is the same. I enjoy writing Haskell much more than JS. If I can write Haskell and convert it to JS, I'll do it every time.