skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spending QT with my kids/wife, working out (MMA), tinkering with Arduino and multirotors, movies, hiking.
I would absolutely charge for this kind of thing, but like I've said before, if I was looking for contract work, I'd be a freelancer. I'm not looking for a one-week contract with a possible extension, I'm looking for a full-time job. For Jeff to offer me a one-week contract as an "audition" completely misses the point of my goals in favor of his goals.

But yes, if you wanted me to work on something for a week, I'd absolutely want to be compensated for it. But in my current situation, I just personally wouldn't take that offer.
Most European/Asian showers have already solved this, without anything that runs on electricity or needs firmware. Purely mechanical.
In similar vein to tomp's comment: if someone's interested in the bonus project of implementing macros, I've implemented a simple lisp with first class macros (fexprs): http://github.com/akkartik/wart. Moreover, you can write anonymous macros out of more primitive constructs.

Over time it's accumulated other features: http://akkartik.name/post/wart. But hopefully it's still easy to understand, because it has thorough unit tests. If you have a question about some line of code you can try changing it. Seeing what tests break is a great way to get feedback as you learn, in my experience.
Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531782
[Ruby] Padrino 0.12.1 released
>"That's not to say that they are always all sunshine and lollipops, but I guess it's too difficult for some people to accept that unions can actually also be a positive thing too."

Absolutely.

Whenever I see an anti-union sentiment from people in tech I have to wonder how many have actually participated in one versus second-hand impressions drawn from stories about autoworkers or dealings with carrier technicians?

I've been a due-paying union member and even dabbled as a shop steward. I've also been a contractor and employee for public and private sector.

I can draw on my time in the union (and out, for that matter) to match stories of sickening apathy and mediocrity with anyone, but I've also witnessed the good that can come of it.

The key is balance and bad things happen whenever the scale tips too far in either direction. As I said here the other day [0], the rank and file of tech seem largely content with allowing that balance to continue slip.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494204
I remember discovering a similar (maybe the same) bug in my typing classes. I was a fairly good typist, so I would finish the assignment as quickly as I could and then play games on the computer. The teacher wasn't very happy with this and wanted me to continue typing. So, in frustration and boredom, I just typed a bunch of spaces and was quite surprised when it accepted it as correct. I told a few of my friends about this and it quickly spread. The teacher became suspicious of the scores, and I got blamed for discovering the flaw. The teacher then decided she had to watch me complete every one of the typing excercises to make sure I wasn't cheating. Luckily for me, after a few weeks of that she let me go back to completing the assignments quickly and playing games. I still wish my school would have had a more knowledgeable computer teacher to push me to do programming excercises or something more productive than wasting that time playing games.
Saying Alice wants to sell a house, but she needs to sell the house now, and is willing to take slightly less money to get it sold. That's when the HFT comes in says, "Okay we'll buy your house for slightly less than market value, since we're taking the risk that we can resell it." That's Alice crossing the bid-ask spread, and paying for liquidity.

Suppose Alice doesn't want to pay for liquidity. She can just as well say, I'm going to wait for a buyer willing to pay the ask price. She doesn't trade with an HFT and instead takes the risk that a buyer never shows up or that the market moves against her. This is equivalent to an add-liquidity-only order. She won't be crossing the spread, and she therefore she won't pay the bid-ask spread.

It's the same thing if you're buying. If you don't want to pay for liquidity you don't have to. You state your price, say you'll only add liquidity, and when a seller comes along who's willing to give it to you at that price, you'll be matched.
I am working through this slowly - it is excellent (although I find myself referring to the Haskell report tutorial too, when I find something that needs further clarification).

A word of warning - the pdf version is not as accurate as the html version. Prepare for some head scratching if you use the pdf.
Google submits 1,928 pages arguing for a trademark of the word “Glass”
You can replace the letters "HFT" in your comment with "any market maker" and come to exactly the same conclusion.

Liquidity has always, always been subsidized by "skimming". The rake market makers take from trades is the cost of liquidity: ie, of being able to buy shares immediately without getting shafted because the only orders on the market are from large traders who are holding out for very high prices.

Have you ever tried to sell a house? That's what crappy liquidity looks like: there are buyers and there are sellers, but nobody is anywhere near agreeing about the price of the goods being traded, and so it takes months to get in or out of a position, and you sometimes have to do it at extremely unfavorable prices.
Sure. And I hope people were weighing that. It definitely meant something to me.

But Eich promising to only work against gay people's civil rights in his off hours wouldn't strike me as enough if I were a Mozilla employee. It's not the kind of promise I'd fully trust.

Really, I feel for Eich. If I had to guess, he's somebody who grew up around a lot of religiously-driven intolerance of gay people. And, like many smart people, he used his smarts to compartmentalize one set of views from another. It must be heartbreaking to be forced to deal with those inconsistencies in the eye of the national media, and to handle it poorly enough that he ended up quitting something he started and believes in. I wish he had sorted this out years ago, but I hope this serves as an opportunity for him to do so soon.
Google Is Having Trouble Trying to Trademark the Word ‘Glass’
I think the chances are "smaller" start ups are not a big target since they don't have the resources for future payoffs, or even initial pay offs. If it took the same effort would you rob a homeless man?
Listen to those here saying to NOT cash it out. I speak from experience. I kept my startup afloat for almost a year by using up all my 401K savings. I was in my mid-30s, and in that moment the worry of losing momentum on the startup was so strong that I calculated the risk with a strong bias. To make a long story short, the startup fizzled and I found myself in my late 30s with no retirement whatsoever. That was a while ago, and the short-term issues (being broke and with wind gone from the sails) cleared in about 2 years, and my income is again quite fine, and the spirit lives on. However, I will likely have to work until I die as a result of having no retirement savings. What has been built back since the fallout will not be sufficient for a long-term retirement. So now I work new strategies to transfer what I earn to safer investments (real estate) in order to have some assets to liquidate later in order to fund a retirement. All this said, it's not pathetic to me -- I made my decision, and I'm living with it. I expect nobody to provide me any "safety net" (that just wouldn't be genuine living). However, I would strongly discourage anyone from following this same path.
I'm in my 40s. I got a job at a YC startup without a Github, Twitter, any OSS contributions, Stackoverflow activity, and without even knowing the primary language that they develop here.

If you live in an area outside of SV where programming jobs aren't as prevalent, I would be a bit more careful.

Instead of using your 401k which is a terrible idea, you really should have a savings account that you should dip into. Therefore I would continue working for the next year or 2, keep working but save every dime you can so that in 2 years you can take 3-6 months off. In the meanwhile, apply to every single job you can.
Well, DO is an IaaS, wich is different of a PaaS.

CC manage the entire software stack with auto-scalability and even app-crashing (auto restart).

Basically, the level of service is not the same, that's why the prices are different :)
Never been to Japan, but from description its the same type of toilets they have in South Korea.
Yeah, feel much cleaner, I wonder how is it hard to get same setup in US
Correct that you can't do this on Linux. The Microsoft CLR (.net runtime) itself is still proprietary and available only on Windows-based platforms.
And Alanis Morissette trumps Irony. Isn't it, though?
"a relationship between two people categorically incapable of producing children together biologically, [the female of whom has had a hysterectomy following uterine cancer], can’t be a marriage."
I guess I did not make my comment above very straightforward. I actually meant the opposite side. Regard of Tencent, there is nothing FB needs to worry about.
If you think it harms mutual fund managers, can you account for Vanguard saying that it's helped them?
Viral Shaming Over Social Media
I thought the whole point of HFT was to wait for a buyer to signal interest in buying X, and then buy X before that buyer and sell it to him at a slightly higher price. If this is true, then in your scenario you would still have your house listed for months, but a high frequency trader would buy it just slightly before it would be brought without any high frequency traders in the loop.
Market cap of this company is $110b right now. Insurance companies might just want to band together and buy them.
There is one excellent book I would recommend to everybody -> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...
Those are fine looking templates, and I like the idea of using a bit of splashiness to stand out from the crowd. I just worry that the end result might be that I'm taken less seriously as a candidate than the one who used the old, traditional format.

For what it's worth, I almost wish I was applying for a job at a commercial art house, just so I could use that black resume. Print that bad boy on some heavy, glossy stock, and there's no way they can turn you down!
How to choose the right Technology Stack for your Startup
In related news:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140331194030.ht...
How did you find a therapist? It's tough realizing that maybe my unhappiness isn't due to my job, it might just be me. I'm worried that my entire life is going to spent job and home hopping in an attempt to find something not miserable.
It's medicine not some trivial app. If you have Hepatitis C, your doctor will prescribe you this drug. Allowing direct-to-consumer marketing corrupts patients and allowing drug companies to lavish doctors with food / drink / entertainment corrupts physicians.

I grew up in a medical household, you wouldn't believe the shit these companies do to curry favor. Some of it has been limited but much of it still continues.
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though did not at the announcement, nor cancellation, and my views are my own, etc. etc.

I managed to get into the beta, and was so excited about the prospect. I think one of the most serious problems at the time was scaling... A conversation with more than about 5 participants was just plain unusable due to how slow it was to update and display.

It has been five years, however, and computers have gotten much faster. I tried the test server, and while it has some display issues (flashing boxes during updates, etc.), it is very fast, and quite comfortable to use.

I think the only problem at this point is a social one... I can really only imagine two scenarios where this takes off. 1) The non-federation case gets incredibly compelling (e.g. if for internal company collaborated editing) and eventually there's so much use, people start setting up federation. 2) Niche (meaning targeted, not meaning inconsequential) federated use becomes common (e.g. if open source communities were to switch to this en masse in place of listserv), and people get so accustomed to using it that outside organizations start picking it up.

I'd love to see that happen, but at this point, I'm not holding my breath.
This is true, but generally speaking, most companies aren't working on open-source projects like Jeff's Discourse is. Most companies that want us to do this "real" coding assignment are in corporate dev environments.

I have no doubt this process works well for Jeff's company which is open-source (as far as i'm aware), but it doesn't work so well for, say, Stripe or Kickstarter, whose codebases are NOT open source and likely have complicated dependency requirements.
I'm a *nix/FOSS guy with 15+ years of experience.

I spent a couple minutes trying to figure out what MSYS2 was from the project page/the project wiki/Google, and then just gave up.

Really, a single sentence on the summary page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2 and the wiki at http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home/ would go a long way.

For anyone else in the same boat, I assume this is a replacement for MSYS, which according to http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS, is a "collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present."
great and insightful article
He is careful to distinguish market-making/liquidity providing functions from the multi-market latency arbitrage

I don't think the distinction is as clear as you think. If I'm making markets on several of the US equity exchanges, and I see my entire order on one side of the market at one exchange get taken, I will adjust my quotes at the other exchanges. That's not front running. It's a reasonable market making strategy.
"Why do I have to give a reason to stop paying for a service?"

You don't have to ask to stop paying for their service. Taken from FAQ:

"Can I cancel membership anytime I want?

Yes. Absolutely. All users may cancel their membership on the site at any time. Simply go to Account settings and under Membership status you’ll see your club subscription with an option to cancel."

However, I still find it odd that you have to contact them in order to delete your account.
Does anyone take any of this activity as being indicative of some interest in opening the runtime, at any point?
looks like there are some issues with cloudflare/your server

https://cloudup.com/cJLT_TN6ZsX
This sounds pretty great - would you mind if I ask you a few questions about the kind of work you do? I checked out your personal website and it kind of piqued my interest! My email is in my profile.
I don't think this is surprising at all. You're brought up through primary/secondary education where there is a very definite requirement of when and where to be. College hits and that requirement is softened, and procrastination works out a-okay for all sorts of people. Finally, you land a tech job with flex hours and where remote is okay - suddenly you have to exercise self control in a manner that hasn't ever mattered before.

While it seems to me that the 'ideal' (hugely qualified and highly subjective, that word) answer is to practice that self-control (and with that, go through the ups and downs of succeeding and failing at exercising it), the solution that Jesse has found is effective and doesn't have too much overhead. I like it.
You're a radical who doesn't accept the common premise of private property.
You've essentially just waved your hands. Conditional complication is not an issue at all; anyone working on a large portable program is going to have large swaths of conditionally compiled code. Phrases like "resource management responsibility" and "substantial indirect overhead" are pretty vague, and aren't really helping me understand why O_DIRECT can't be used.

It turns off a lot of OS features most developers take for granted.

Yeah, like OS buffering. What else?
Here's a clue:

There is only one country in the world where the advertising of prescription medicine to the layperson is allowed. Can you name it?

For bonus points, can you name why?
If they're inclusive and diverse, then they should welcome people with different political perspectives. This isn't about tolerance and inclusiveness. It's about satisfying an angry, vindictive segment of the population that demands a sacrifice. Whether morally right or not, they have stepped in some deep doo-doo, and offended a broad swath of Mozilla supporters.
working on a fix, sorry! EDIT: fixed.
Hey Lesiki. Even if your friends don't 'suck', the fact that its spammy still makes the platform far less effective. Even if your friends aren't spamming you, its very likely one of your friends does have friends who do. That person is less likely to respond to your event invites because they have either turned off notifications or it gets lost amidst the spam.
That's fine, my comment/explanation could have been clearer.

I was trying to explain that there is two markets for backups/Tarsnap and trying to shoe-horn it into the GitHub comparison led to confusion.

GitHub sounds like it is a SPoF for you is the only reason I'm adding this part of the comment:

If you can't 'imagine' a suitable replacement, I'd try GitLab. They are similar enough I think you'll be surprised how easy it is to replace GitHub in your workflow.

I'm not suggesting you actually replace GitHub, I'm just suggesting you expand your options so you have a backup plan in case GitHub disappears one day.
Bitcoin itself is possibly one of the first exceptions to that.

We could see more opportunities for distributed services to be monetized in similar ways. It needs to be done carefully, as there's a strong bias against "pre-mined" schemes.

Read up on DAO/DACs if you're interested ("Decentralized/Digital Autonomous Corporations/Organizations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Autonomous_Corporation https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Distributed_Autonomous_Community_...). It's still mostly theoretical stuff, but Ethereum, ProtoShares, etc are working on these ideas.
Scientific publishing is not just weird, it's sinister.

That said, ACS is pretty sinister, too. They opposed PubChem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubChem#ACS.27s_concerns) and in general don't behave like the nonprofit scientist trade organization that they present themselves as.
Anyone know why clang on mac os x doesn't know about edit/history.h? The line editing portion of the book requires it.
Policeman Fired for Dancing in Gangnam Style Parody
> We should be keeping the machines, not the other way around.

Completely disagree. I want to build machines to "keep me", to provide for my wants and needs. Why is that wrong?

And why the hell are we having software/robotics eat the world if this isn't what we want?
New link: https://medium.com/p/e32d3955115
At Mindcamp in 2009 we had a session to try to figure out how/why to use Wave. We tried to use Wave to facilitate said conversation. In my opinion, it was a wash.

Wave had amazing technology and perhaps a "before it's time" communication model, but it needed a better narrative or training step.
The problem is that market making is different than the critique, which is that having privileged access to exchange data centers is an unfair advantage that allows rent-seeking. To access information before the general public allows traders to inject themselves into transactions that don't require a market maker.

That fact that no one will defend this practice while vehemently defending "HFT" speaks to an impedance mismatch. We're not talking about the same thing.
If you're up for a little fraud, get a list of faculty and undergrad e-mails and send e-mails to undergrads purporting to be from faculty saying, "Please read this and be ready to discuss in class on Monday." The hit rate will be low, but you're bound to get a few students who really do have that professor's class on Monday and will click it.
My low paying, early morning, exertion requiring job
A case study on how not to do PR
Market makers provide liquidity because a lot of the time when you want to buy a house no one is actually selling one. Rather than waiting around for someone else to show up to sell you a house the market maker is always there with one to sell.
No.

You are going to fail.

You'll end up broke, pissed off, and unemployable (because you tasted freedom, and you don't want back in).

Sorry, statistics, history, and personal empirical evidence is on my side.
Have you ever had a night like this?
I use Chocolatey quite a bit now and can definitely agree with the hack aspect of it. It's not always clear when a package will need your input (since they couldn't automate that part) but for the most part it works.

I am hoping that since package management is now an official Microsoft effort, a large gain will be to address these "hacks".

The long term potential of this is that enterprise can build their own repository and push changes out as they wish. This would be the real value. Also, companies that already provide package/software deployment solutions will now have another tool to help them do this.
You should yell at your accountant. They should have seen this coming. (Early in my relationship with my accountant, while he was getting his head around the jurisdictional issues, he spent about 5 minutes grilling me about every business trip ever to California and all of my clients there. "Look, you know you're not a California business and I know you're not a California business but the question is are we sure that California will come to the conclusion that you're not a California business. They're real bastards about some of the edge cases so I want to know if you're going to hit any.")

You have an accountant, right?

With regards to fighting the penalty: there's often a bit of play with government offices particularly if you happen to bring the honest mistake to their attention first and try to come in out of the cold. You might find that tax offices take a sort of dim view about not filing taxes. I have yet to have ever heard of a tax office which thinks "If you're not aware of the existence of taxes, whoops, that was our bad."
Definitely the wrong way to educate. It sends the wrong message. For a lot of people, it has exposed the ugly side of political correctness and the cowardice of the organization, that it would toss overboard one of its founders.
The shock is in the short term costs, rather than those costs being amortized across the long miserable sickly term of the patients lives.

So it's not a show to the health care system, it's a shock to the system of companies who sit between the health care system and the patients, and siphon out money.

I don't knoe about your health insurance, but mine would just declare this drug to be 'not on the formulary' and refuse to pay for it, like they did with the newer anti-clotting meds that were more effecting and safer for patients.
You've been able to target professions as interests for a very long time, but it wasn't obvious in the UI, glad it helped :)

And yeah, I imagine some countries will be under-represented, sadly
Find a side project you really like; ideally it should have some kind of goal attached. My recent project were:

1) Build a pair of kevlar canoes and explore the local waterways.

2) Hiking, often just to stay in shape for vacations. My wife isn't a fan of relaxing vacations.

3) Gardening: has the added benefit of producing amazing vegetables for little money.

4) Writing iOS games, or working on the data acquisition system for my "business". This is looking more like a hobby than a home business every day.
PlantUML can't be beat IMHO for UML diagrams. It's the Markdown for UML.
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