skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed with all of the above points. What it suggests to me is that the idea of bypassing college and going straight into entrepreneurship may only be testable in a limited number of fields, notably programming.
Running Appium locally and on the AppThwack device cloud
There's a big difference between a quote someone wrote down and a video of same. Plus, with YC talks there's an assumption of audience discretion.
Well, first and foremost I assume, to make for a better story.

However, wolverine's consciousness was "sent back" into his alternate timeline body. At least, that's the idea.
I realized I should have expounded a bit to actually make why this is a red flag a little more apparent.

A 'normal' year of work nets you 2080 hours of work. Thats 52 40 hours weeks.

Mastery of a given topic matter is considered to be around 10,000 hours of work. At that rate, if you have worked a 40 hour job doing something, for 5 years, you should have mastered most of the skills. When I see 'junior' developer, I am used to it being a developer with less than 3 years of experience. I hire people like this, but only for specific needs. My expectations are inline with their experience, and I look at their past work history to get an idea of what level I should expect them to perform at.

Not all people doing technical hiring are that fair minded though. There are many that will see junior, and will move on, because they need someone with more team skills, or skills in architecture, large application development, etc, that they do not expect to see from 'junior' developers.

If someone tells me they have been working on web development related tasks for ten years, but consider themselves junior, then I worry that they have not applied themselves, or stuck to the same job long enough to actually improve their skills, etc. THESE worries...are why I wouldn't hire them. I would have concerns around their ability to grow and learn within my organization, and whether or not the time and money I would pour into their training would pay off in the future with a well skilled and well rounded member on my team, rather than another trip to the well of talent for another junior developer to try to help 'level up' to a different role.
Except that they use it for everything, including mail messages and help texts, some of which are very long.
I appreciate your being frank. The problem is despite your interest to be open your personal network already makes you and the site bias. In all likelihood your are missing great products that come from other technology hubs. I'd much rather it open up and become more international. Until then it's a clique
Right. Instead they have small orders placed. As soon as that order is fulfilled on that exchange, depending on algorithms, the HFT will look for opposite orders on other exchanges, and buy, very quickly. If it can do so before the matching engine gets there, then the price can be driven up.

For example, you want to buy 10,000 shares of X.

Matching engine finds 100 at 9.98 - it’s the NBBO (best buy offer), it’s required to execute that, and carry on looking for ways to fulfill your order below or at your bid.

Meanwhile, the HFT offering those 100 shares sees this, decides its a parcel of a large buy, and if it has a quicker route / algo than the matching engine to other exchanges, goes there, executes immediate buys at say, 9.99, then immediately raises their price to make a profit on the spread.
Here is something that'll blow your mind: lots of technologically savvy people don't think surveillance is a policy so bad that it destroys the governments overall credibility. Some even don't see a problem with it.
Who Gets to Graduate?
New NanoTech May Provide Power Storage in Cables, Clothes
I would like to hear other members' opinions on this.

The concept sounds like something that could be done by high frequency charging - by increasing the frequency at which you switch the electricity on and off, you could theoretically decrease the charging time of the battery.
However, the Kickstarter project doesn't mention anything about that and about the fact that you cannot put more power into the phone that is coming out of its charger.

What I suspect this device is doing is simply increasing the voltage by some small factor. Thus it would trick the phone that it is charger faster than it really would be. It would also explain why it has an iPhone and Android mode - presumably the use different algorithms to determine battery charge and selecting the right mode helps the device cheat better.
If that is the case, then this could be very dangerous for a phones battery.
Tinder Moments
I miss Windows. You could change the UI fonts, and there's nothing I'd rather do than escape Helvetica Neue. It's a terrible, terrible font.
Virginia orders Uber, Lyft to stop operating in state
None of the links work for me.
I started using Mac OS X at version 10.4, and over the years it's becoming really apparent when part of a style change is to appeal to perceived obsolescence.

When a reviewer says "this is definitely an improvement over the last version, which looked and felt awkward", I recall how in their review of the last version, they said the same thing.
That might make you in violation of your security clearance agreement, which might be a crime. But it doesn't make you a traitor.
I'll just leave this here:

https://sites.google.com/site/structuralreality/
I've used both, although not Solr 4.

Elasticsearch has easier config, especially for clustering. It is designed to be schemaless so you can push almost any JSON data into it.

Performance is adequate in both.

It's not a big advantage either way, unless you need clustering.
First, thanks for the book recommendation... the quickest way to my heart is giving me something interesting to read.

While I mostly agree with you, it's important to realize that a single administration (speaking directly of the President, his close advisors, and officials he has put in place) has both encouraged the NSA in their actions and also produced the ACA. At what point do we write off the machinations of a political machine as the intricacies of a complicated system, or vice versa? Do we merely ignore common threads that point to a single motive as conspiratorial thinking, or do we act assuming the worst?

I'm not so naive as to think the NSA has become what it is through the directions of a single person or group. I mostly agree that you hit the nail on the head, but the fact remains that many people in our current administration were given a high level overview of current processes, projects, and operations and gave the O.K. to not only continue in the current direction, but intensified efforts, brushing aside the consequences and ramifications that only a stupid person would have ignored. And I refuse to believe that these people got to where they are via stupidity.
That said, Yosemite does look really pretty, and a part of me is excited to use it.
Interesting to see that adding a useless drop down card type selection has a positive effect. Would be curious to see A/B results for that aspect alone.
In my experience the best way to answer this question is by asking a different question: How do bank transfers work? That is, when you, as a regular person, transfer money electronically from your account to somebody else's, what's actually happening on a technical level?

Obviously, both banks that are involved adjust their databases to reflect the change in balances. But now your bank owes you less, and the other person's bank owes their customer more. This is only fair if some form of settlement occurs between the banks.

In principle, this settlement could happen in cash, but that would be extraordinarily wasteful (because of the overhead of handling cash). You really want some form of electronic settlement.

As a first approximation, the electronic inter-bank-settlement works by all banks having an account at the central bank, and transactions at the consumer level are reflected by corresponding transactions at the level of central bank accounts. (Obviously, reality is more complicated both because it makes sense to aggregate lots of small transactions into a few bigger ones, and because the whole system has grown organically without anybody designing it from first principles.)
Ryan Carson of Treehouse, on When Titles Get in the Way
I'm really surprised at how similar their new checkboxes are to the ones I designed for my music player Bahamut[1] last year.

Which makes it kind of ironic and upsetting that the UI APIs they provide for writing Bahamut (AppKit) made it so incredibly difficult to make it look that way.

[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut
It seems there's no way to send private messages here at Y Combinator. Send me a mean of contact to twaway00 at gmail if you wish to continue conversation.
They'd obviously just move to the new USB 3.1 connector.
Why Mark Zuckerberg's Donations Aren't That Morally Impressive
Ah, I misread that. Sorry.
It does factor in location for regular profiles. Normally, people in the same city and field make predictions for Salary Fairy profiles. For fictional characters though, we relaxed that limitation.
Spooking potential hires
I can tell you our lawyer is looking at this very carefully and making sure we're in compliance. That entails going through our mailing lists and scrubbing anyone who was opt-out, which I've always felt was a shitty and shady practice. It won't hurt us much, and it will make Canadian businesses treat our customers better.
Interesting how digital rights, when they apply to privacy and outrage about eavesdropping it's "just the USA", but when they refer to liability in an out-of-control justice system it's as if does work the same way in the entire world.
God... I hope he doesn't teach them to code as horribly as show the in construction of Git...
I would trade cash money for you two to do a podcast / text interview.
You'll cut one kind of bloodsucker out of the loop and let another in: the kind that thrives building fiefdoms in bureaucracies.

And you're not addressing the main issue: projects being way too big and unwieldy (if now somewhat less expensive) even before they go over budget, over time or flatly fails altogether.

If the CGIs of the world actually delivered a functional product on time and on schedule, the fact that they earn handsomely in the process is at best a secondary concern. Next to the cost of the staggering embarrassment that was the failure of the first Obamacare website, whatever CGI quoted is a rounding error.
To be clear, I do think it's a valid concern -- my point was that "what if log location isn't writable/disk is full" is pretty basic concern that any daemon should account for (what happens if somehow mount -oro /var/log?). And writes failing shouldn't be that much of an alien error condition.

In sum, if fuse/loggerfs together can guarantee that every possible state will result in sane (error) state on writes -- this shouldn't be worse than a disk dying/fs corruption/disk-full type failure.

It will obviously be another point of failure.

On a side note, mounting this under eg /var/log, and then having a strong guarantee that failure will result in an unmount, revealing a writable /var/log seems like the best of both worlds. Would probably have to HUP all writers though...
* Kibana on ElasticSearch. This is huge. You get a polished Search & Graphing UI with very little effort.

* Much more approachable config.

* Its clustering is easier to setup.

* Eventhough logstash is a bit heavy for my taste, the whole ELK stack is really nice for aggregating server logs.
Probably none, given: "echo hi|logger".
Great article! I would love to see this model applied to other industries. Unfortunately I think the only way to drive this change is internally.
..But Only a Handful of the Pieces Are Longer Than 100 Hours (2009)
I'm not sure a quote taken out of context actually is so easily corrected within the realm of American media and politics. Falsehoods are quoted and quickly reprinted, and the truth might not be so juicy as to get the same level of attention.
Why single Mormons out? Why not exclude Rastafari who also consider themselves Christians (but are not considered Christians by many non-Rastafari Christians)?

Heck, why even include Protestants? Historically, "orthodox" Catholics consider them to be heretics as well[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari

[1] and among some pockets of Catholicism, this belief holds strong to this day
Inside the course?
There's a big difference between great UX and looking pretty and polished. Something can look like shit at first glance, but still be useful and well-designed.
> That is to say, if Netflix is really the sole driver of Network upgrades, why does Verizon have to subsidize their costs of business?

Because that's Verizon's business: to provide internet. That's not up to Netflix, who is an internet-based content provider. If Verizon wants to charge the fuck out of their customers to beef up their network so they are the best Netflix streamer out there, then they're free to do that.

People want Netflix because Netflix is doing its job. People can't get Netflix because Verizon's not doing its job. Simple as that.

To put it another way, if Netflix was the bottleneck (and thus, the problem), Verizon would only have to show that their bandwidth from Netflix is bottlenecked by Netflix' lack of serving capacity. Of course they can't show that, because that's not the case, and thus not the problem.
Seems like lead generation services are up shit creek. Glad I got out of that long ago. Is there any way for them to legally transfer the ability to email someone to another company?

If not, I assume users filling out the wrong country (so you can filter out Canadians from your lists, except those who put in the wrong country) doesn't protect you either.
So Wolverine at the end of the film wouldn't remember anything that happened to him (and his body) between 1973 and the present in the new timeline which he created, right? He would just remember his original timeline, plus the stuff that we see him do in the film.

You see that in the film, where he meets some characters he previously knew but didn't expect to see. But we don't see the other side of this: there are surely characters in the new timeline that Wolverine is very close to that he will have no memory of. I guess that sucks for those characters.
Disclaimer: I'm a developer at OpenGov.

The city of Los Angeles' financial data is also up on the OpenGov platform. https://losangeles.opengov.com

It's a positive trend for governments to share their data and be more transparent with their citizens.
This seems like a very strange startup to me, but the solution is interesting.

The article says that processing of the MPEG2 (?) feed couldn't be done on an Atom processor but I wonder if hardware decoding would have helped here.
How is privatising health care a good idea?
Except that's not how the latency arbitrage trade actually works.

What is actually happening is that the HFT is offering shares on all the exchanges on both sides of the bid/ask spread at the same time. When they get filled on an order at a price on 1 exchange it is used as one of many signals to indicate if their pricing is accurate. If their algorithm thinks that fill indicates a price movement (for instance if the entire level was removed) then they will update their prices on all the other exchanges accordingly. If the algorithm doesn't believe this indicates a long term price movement they won't (or they may even re-up at the same price on the exchange they got filled on).

No one is going out and buying ahead of someone else because that is too expensive (you have to pay the bid/ask spread to do it) and too risky (you might be wrong about your price determination).

Finally, just a detail, you can typically opt out of NBBO matching if you want.
Pretty cool! I agree the home page is confusing and if you click on the titles it reloads the page. The number next to the story are the contributors?
> But it also makes sense to define religious groups such that each member of a group considers all other members orthodox.

Hah. Good luck with that—you'd just end up with a million little groups of one or two. The whole point of forming a sub-religion is that new people consider the old people heretical or unorthodox or vice versa.
Oh. That's weird UX. They put these little play buttons next to everything and don't tell you that you need to sign up/login first.
As it so happens I've just launched a service built on top of SoundCloud. voliyo.com (non-mobile for now) aims to help musicians and photographers expose their content to a larger audience, and on the flip side, allows you to find new music whilst sitting back and enjoying a photo slide show!

If any photographers/musicians are interested in trying out the private beta, PM me and I'll happily dish out the invite links :)
Show HN: Udemy course on learning Swift by examples – free for the next 24 hours
I will be adding new videos everyday until the content is finished. I have 50 videos right now https://www.udemy.com/swift-learn-apples-new-programming-language-by-examples/
How the MindMeld API uses context and voice to find the information you need
As to the shareholder--Max/profits argument I use
my ISP as an example. I own shares of stock. I will
never by a share of Comcast stock for these reasons: I hate
the company. I have hated the company since it's inception. I believe it should be split up by the federal government--
it's a monopoly in my house. Comcast employees hate Comcast. Comcast got much worse when they found out they
could overcharge/lie for accesses to the Internet. Many
investors don't invest in companies they Hate.
Performance.lacity.org
"Changing it from the inside" is a carrot dangled in front of people to make them think that they can effect change by becoming a cog in the machine. First off, cogs don't change the machine specifically because they're limited in their function.

The people who join the government to try to change it from the inside are the same people who, five years later, complain that their hands are tied and they can't effect meaningful change for the better and must continue along the well-trodden path of obedience. I think Obama is a great example here, but I'm sure there are many others.
That quote doesn't say anything about non-concussive hits.

"there is no available evidence that occasional, isolated or well-managed concussions give rise to CTE,"

He said there was no evidence for occasional concussions, he didn't say anything about repeated non-concussive injuries.

Here's a quote from the BU CTE center

"We believe CTE is caused by repetitive brain trauma. This trauma includes both concussions that cause symptoms and subconcussive hits to the head that cause no symptoms." [1]

I'm a big guy and I live in the south, so you can bet I played my share of football growing up--there are definitely a lot more repeated hits to the head in football than any other popular youth sport.

[1] http://www.bu.edu/cte/about/frequently-asked-questions/
So I've had #1 happen before (the rattling - I have never found a paper bag of p0rn!!!) It was legit - the hotel gave the wrong room number - but in my case, the guys key worked. Startled both of us :)
Awww, good guys Zuckerberg and Nadella. I wonder what they're really after.
Dealing With The Loneliness of Working Alone
There is an easy and practical solution to this whole problem: If Verizon doesn't like the amount of bandwidth their customers use watching Netflix, they can always choose to block Netflix completely on their network, and inform their customers that they've done so. It would be honest, clean, fair, etc. Customers would be paying for exactly what they are getting, everyone could be happy with the arrangement.

Of course there would be a massive revolt of their customers if they did so. Because their customers WANT Netflix. So instead, Verizon will try very hard to make it "sorta" work and blame Netflix while trying to get money from them.
"The organizers and all the speakers left the event. For the speakers dinner."

Fwiw, the speakers at microconf (more of a bootstrapped conf) are assigned tables during lunch. You just pick whatever table to talk a bit more closely to a given speaker.
Conferences are almost always just another business venture. While they often look like friendly get togethers, it's more often than not just somebody making money off of you, some with better value, some with less. When I worked for one of the big four, I was sent to conferences costing $5.000 a ticket and wondered who would ever pay for this craziness other than the big corps? - And there I met so many young CEOs from various early stage startups with mostly mediocre ideas trying to make the most of it. And all they could do was talking to other startups. Usually, best advise is to fly out to a conference but don't attend. Arrange meetings for breakfast or dinner with those attending and meet them outside, that's where you'll get close to most of the big guys - not at the conference. Had my best meetings always outside the venue.
On your LinkedIn profile you have written the salary requirement as "65,0000" (with four zeros). As others have recommended, I highly recommend having some people proof-read your resume / profiles, and following all the advice you've received here.
Crittercism, Bugsense, Crashlytics and HockeyApp are all commercial providers that capture applications crashes and upload them to their backend. A few of them have built their SDKs on the open-source PLCrashReporter. You can also look at KSCrash and Google Breakpad. KSCrash may be the most advanced. Google Breakpad captures the closest thing to a core dump (it gathers only the stack and registers though).
I'm hugely interested in the restaurant business from afar so I was really, really impressed with this writeup. It's too bad that folks in the actual tech industry don't get this deep.
I hope they're performing load tests this time, which apparently was not done properly for the first version.
It would also be interesting to see the volume that produced a %15 uptake. That's not statistically significant as a number in itself.

Also, enough things seemed to have changed at once that its hard to measure what the true impact of any one change is.

Now, if they are sustaining 15% in 6 months, and it drops if they roll back, then I'd be sold.
Some extra background on `$`, for the curious:

Function application in Haskell is expressed like so:

> f x

Where `f` is a function, and `x` is it's argument. Function application is left associative, so

> f x y

Is equivalent to

> (f x) y

In this case, `(f x)` yields a new function, to which `y` is then applied (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying).

The function `$` that you mention is just application:

> f $ x = f x

So, using `$` infix like so

> f $ x

Is equivalent to

> f x

And likewise

> delay (1/4) $ p1

is equivalent to

> (delay (1/4)) p1

with extra parenthesis to make associativity clear.

This begs the question: when is `$` ever a useful function? There are two cases that come to mind:

1) Precedence. `$` has the lowest precedence of any function, and can thus be used to omit otherwise necessary parens; this

> f (g x)

is equivalent to

> f $ g x

2) Use in higher order functions. Imagine you have a function `all` that takes a predicate function `f` and a list of values `xs` and returns `True` if `f x` returns `True` for all `x` in `xs`. So `all (> 3) [4,5,6]` returns `True`. But, imagine now that you have a list of predicates and one value: can you still make use of `all` in this case?
Yes, you could do something like this:

> all (\f -> f 42) [even, (> 3), (< 100)]

But that's a little verbose. If we look at `(\f -> f 42)`, all it's doing is taking a function and immediately applying `42` to it - hey, that sounds like `$` if it was partially applied to `42`! Here's a simpler version of the previous expression:

> all ($ 42) [even, (> 3), (< 100)]

So that's pretty much all there is to `$` and why one may omit it in the original expression.
try clicking for a ticket. it's an april fools joke