skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sign-up flows could learn from online dating
"keep the nose to the grindstone"

LOL there's a classism component that a guy spending 60 hours in the office, 30 of them on facebook, twitter, amazon, or HN, is an office overtime hero, but a guy using a shovel 39 hours a week while being paid for 40 is a lazy slacker who should be fired.

Aside from the class problem, another big problem is in a euro country with low income inequality, it means something to divide the total pie by the number of roughly equal people eating it. But if you have a pie where almost all the pie will be going to a couple fat guys and half the "eaters" are going to starve then dividing the pie by the number of "eaters" is utterly meaningless, or at least it is not comparable to the more equal country. It is a meaningless math problem.

If I bring a pack of oreos to work and serve them at a meeting as a snack/bribe, then dividing the pack by the number of people means something. If I bring in a bag lunch and eat every single oreo by myself other than maybe giving one to my college buddy while everyone else in the dept looks on jealously, then the division result is meaningless, or at least not worth comparing.

In a "let them eat cake" scenario if 12 people eat 12 equal-ish sized slices, the average slice size means something. In winner takes all USA, one fat dude eats the whole cake and 11 get nothin and the numerical average means nothing, nothing at all.
Addepar's finance computing coding challenge on hackerrank
Oops, thanks for the heads-up: fixing! :)
And back that business model up with an army.
Looks like John-David Dalton has some work cut out for him!
Chromebook buyers were promised two years of free Verizon data, only got one
A smaller industry, to be sure, but an industry (and a fairly important one) - albeit entirely B2B. DEC was founded in 1957 (PDP-1 in 1959, PDP-11 in 1970), and of course IBM was founded in 1911 from three companies each of which made things that were arguably "information technology" although I've no trouble with drawing the line somewhere substantially later than that.
Install Redmine 2.5.x on Ubuntu 14.04 with Apache2, RVM and Passenger
Canada implements world’s first national Bitcoin law
This leads to what strikes me as a potentially negative heuristic for determining what moments in a given film have worth. Summer flick drivel aside, would RunPee assign a high pee time to, say, Drive, which has a significant amount of mood-setting long shots without any dialogue or plot-relevant action?

Excuse me for probably taking this too far, but this app seems to imply that films are merely the sum of plot-related scenes, and that doesn't sit quite well with me. Would the app consider every establishing shot in Alien to be pee-able?
This is great news for those using Stripe Checkout. Are there any plans to offer Alipay to Stripe customers who are utilizing the API for subscriptions, invoicing, and recurred payments?

As an aside, we also get a load of client requests for PayPal as an alternative simply because many people don't have a US-based credit card. If you're making the moves to support global markets, it's tough to side step them.

I really wish PayPal brought back their digital credit card which you could preload with cash and use online like a real credit/debit card. It would solve all of our problems with users who don't have a CC!
gotcha, thanks for the clarification
When you get a hundred thousand hits in an hour do they usually spread themselves nicely over that hour?
Yeah, agreed. And my friends who admit to thinking this way, also admit to the ego component (and that it is, perhaps, a problem).
What You Can Ask and What You Can’t – Legal/Illegal Interview Questions [pdf]
Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
Have you actually used the computable data functionality in Wolfram products?

If you think its a matter of just connecting to a standard database, you are missing the whole point.

People in the data business tell you cleaning and preparing the data is 80% of the work. Wolfram has done that for you. And then taken it farther: integrating it directly into language constructs.

I think SW's post did a poor job of explaining these capabilities, but in some domains this integration totally trounces what is possible in other systems. A great example of this is how GeoGraphics works:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoGraphics.html

Notice how semantic entities like countries and landmarks are interoperable with the graphics language.
..this bizarre American sense of individual exceptional-ism is really naive.

That's what I'm getting at, maybe it's exactly that belief that sets us apart, and positing a distinctly American root seems to support the exceptionalist case.

It's like you're almost saying it's naive for the poor kid to believe he can be successful. If that belief is distinctly an American thing then I'm all in on exceptionalism.
How can you design grief into something warm and friendly
I completely don't understand downvotes lately. Is it the joke? Or the use of a relation symbol instead of in-depth analysis of the pros and cons?

This is a legitim question that opens up a great topic about protocol support.
Pesticides threaten birds and bees alike
How has the return been? Anything cool come out of projects you have backed yet?

I haven't backed anything because it isn't guaranteed to get you anything and since I can just buy whatever it is when it releases for real with a significantly lower chance of encountering any of the early manufacturing/production type issues/bugs/etc.
What I find interesting about mentioning the Cadillac ad and workaholism, is how Ford actually found workaholism decreased the efficiency of his workers:

> On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
Ask HN: Transition from Dev to Manager
About a year and a half ago, I said to my boss in a 1:1, "Hypothetically, if I wanted your job, what should I do?" He didn't have any good non-snarky answers for me. We've worked on it over the last 18 months, which has led to my transition from a senior dev to lead dev of a major project.

So that's cool. I'm super grateful to my boss for doing what he can to help me. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll move much further up here. This project is about as big as it's gonna get. If my boss leaves, I don't have enough political capital at this company to move up into his position. It seems that my next step is to find another position elsewhere.

As I've mentioned in other HN threads, I get recruiter emails all the time, as I'm sure many of you do. Most are for front-end developer positions, despite the fact that I'm primarily a back-end (albeit full-stack) dev. (Sound familiar, guys and gals?) However, I never get anything that even remotely looks like a leadership role or something that could potentially turn into a manager-style role.

My question is this: What do I need to do with my resume, LinkedIn profile, and other job search efforts to best put myself out there for something that's more of a Software Engineering Manager role and less of a code monkey role?

When I respond to a recruiter and suggest this, I get "I don't have any positions like that. With your background in Java, though, it sounds like you would be a perfect fit for this Javascript Engineer role" instead. Sigh.

Are there even jobs out there in the Bay Area like this? How do I seek them out and apply? How do I convince them that even though I've never had a role like this that I can do the job?

Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments? Bad jokes?
If you guys would do this exact same thing for PayPal, I would be so happy.
Templating systems have an inherent tension between power and security. A lot of them will cough up straight code execution if you can phrase it nicely. (e.g. I've seen Markdown which does YAML syntax highlighting. This happened to be implemented by actually parsing the YAML. And that's the ballgame.)

Or, for ones which only let you access methods on an object passed to you, sometimes the person implementing that feature is not on the same page with the guy who added User#promote_to_admin!
Thanks for your post. We should try to get this out to the major news outlets too. This guy is so f*cked up...why is it that rich people are always so stingy
You guys deserve your money
fuck i hate this investor guy
>Even if they make the same on all of their standardized tests, make the same grades, and go to the same college, and get the same degree.....

>Who's going to be more successful with the same amount of hard work?

Success is tied more to education than anything. Good education just also happens to be tied to wealth as well. So by framing it with them getting the same education, you have actually eliminated most of the advantage the wealthy kid had. Unless you are just defining success as 'being rich', in which case the wealthy kid doesn't even have to be educated.
It's the cheap Android phone everyone expected Amazon to make. I didn't know Nokia had an Android store. Is it better or worse than Amazon's?
You can buy a pen mouse on Amazon. A friend of mine has one and he swears by it, but I find it more difficult to use (or at least get used to) than a regular mouse for everyday things.
I don't know how everybody else gets their nests, but I pay flat rate for power and my power company gives them out for free because it works out cheaper for them in the long run. So no, I probably wouldn't pay extra for a nest thermostat and the small amount of convenience it offers, but I like having it.
Solid Legal Ground For Open Source
When Should Your Driverless Car From Google Be Allowed To Kill You?
Capitalism solves the problem? Let's say a company is based on a highly successful concept (say, like Paypal). Couldn't their potential advantage over their competitors in other regards than employment practises offset the cost of only hiring drinkers?

I really don't think that handling this on a "free to do that" basis is practically useful. If you don't feel like excluding non-drinkers is an issue, feel free to entertain that opinion. I just don't think that capitalism is a viable solution.
So I just watched it.

> Work hard all your life and when you're cynical, white-haired, old, fat and balding, you'll have a gaudy apartment and the ponciest car to ever ponce out of the poncing factory. And a barf-grey suit, a colour I didn't know existed until now.

Also, you guys would totally be going to the moon every weekend if any of all those money you're making year-round went to NASA and education.
The silicon band gap is ~1.1V at room temperature. Mainstream modern processor core voltages are around 1.2V (maybe less for the very latest parts) and "ultra low voltage" processors operate as low as 0.7V.
How To Remove My Computer
We'd be very happy to support PayPal in the same way. If any PayPal folks are reading, I'm patrick@stripe.com :-).
The OpenSSL Core and Development Team
What does being famous on twitter have to do with creating an education accreditation system?

Maybe Twitter could use a better accreditation system for being famous - is that what you're implying?
How well does this deal with conflicts with DayOne?
I see nothing in there having to do with criminal charges. Only credit and financial records. Am I missing something?
Oh, okay. Sorry for posting then.
Simplicity never meant easy. Doing something complex on a simple platform may as well use simple constructs and benefit from no edge cases.

For example, Haskell provides only a handful of constructs but allows the developer to build sophisticated systems.

Though I agree complex platforms are not necessarily complicated.
Yes, this will be so much, much faster when your app calls this functions 1 million times!!! Awesome!!! You can probably save a whole millisecond or two!!!

A pity that for the average call count for this functions, the browser will expend much, much more loading and evaluating this code, rather than executing the function.
Wow, very cool. It seems to be linq for javascript, moreso than libraries that actually advertise themselves as linq for javascript.
MRI didn't follow semver up until recently, and even now it has some caveats about it.

Ruby as an ecosystem doesn't really care for semver. Some projects follow it anyways, which I can respect, but they aren't the norm.
aren't other processes on your machine going to effect these scores?
Interesting, especially if you built on top of it. Pretty sure that doing this is violating something, though.
This is my first backing, I have been looking for something to back for a while but this is the first that has tempted me.
Using a Recruiter Part II – Setting Boundaries
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Can Anyone Build a Quality Android App – Rheti believes so
Thanks for the explanation.

A clear link to documentation on the bitbucket page would be helpful.
Similar for Iron 30.0

They've changed something drastically recently in SpiderMonkey. When I tried my application for FOS on desktop Firefox Nightly performance was much better than few months ago.
15 days vacation isn't unheard of in the tech world.
A lot of them are "employee in name only" contractors. Doesn't mean much. I've done it myself. There are tax implications when you get 1099'd, as long as you go in eyes open it'll be OK. Don't forget to file your quarterly estimated payments, the IRS isn't amused if you skip one.

There's a lot of talk on HN about the natural evolved tribal size of human orgs being only XYZ people so when we inevitably have a larger than XYZ group its epic fail. Well... it goes the other way too, and its quite possible that natural evolved civilization etc requires more than 2 guys on a "tribe" long term. It doesn't have to be the end of the world or apocalyptic, merely suggesting encouraging microfirms might not be a wise policy decision.
This is awesome, and you are awesome Patrick. Gotta have serious respect when the founder of Stripe, who I have to assume is quite a busy guy, shows up to personally respond to comments, encourage new features, and drop his personal email.
The Lean Startup was a real eye-opener for me, even though I thought I understood all the key concepts (I didn't). For some reason I always assume everyone on HN has already read it!

Made to Stick looks great. Added to my wishlist, thanks.
Pot (fairly high doses). Never at work. Gray area as to whether or not it's a problem but have a hard time not using. Don't want to admit to myself that it could be a problem. Extremely secretive about it. Sometimes still enjoy it.
What? Because they don't have insurance?
Rheti launched its first product, an Android App, a day before Google IO. Coincidence?
Facebook doesn't have a teen problem
I'm starting to believe this complaint just stems from people that don't actually want to take vacation and are just upset because they don't get an extra fistful of cash.

I work for a startup with unlimited vacation and know several others that do as well. Anyone who wants to take a vacation can take it at almost any time and for weeks at a time - no questions asked. The only time I've ever seen any conflict is when there was a major release planned at the same time as the beginning of one vacation, in which case the employee just pushed it back a few days.
You mean when DayOne has a sync conflict? That depends on the method of syncing, I guess, which is different between DropBox and iCloud as far as I know. If I remember correctly, in iCloud the conflicting file will be ignored, while in Dropbox you'll have two entries. None of these is perfect I admit. If that's important to you, I'll look into it and we can come up with a well-defined behaviour for that, just open an issue on https://github.com/maebert/jrnl/issues !
It would have been nice though if they would have documented exactly which edge cases they're neglecting.
It may be premature optimization to use a faster library when the faster library has known places where it differs from standard behaviour, and almost certainly lots of bugs.
Until the various OS package managers stop pretending they are a universe unto themselves, this problem will continue. Languages have to distribute libraries across all of their host systems, so focusing on support for any particular package manager (or small subset thereof) doesn't buy much.

Hopefully the cargo team can come up with a solution that works a little better here, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Fixed the rawgit link to use the rawgit cdn

http://jsperf.com/fast-vs-lodash/3
If I don't pay my taxes, then it's not the army I'm going to be fearing.
HTTPie now installable via Homebrew
What a fantastic suggestion. I've used Coursera on technical topics in the past, but it hadn't even occurred to me to look there in this instance. Thanks.
In the United States, success is much more tied to how successful your parents are than anything else. "Social mobility is dying" isn't just said for one's health.
>they sold and developed for Unix throughout the 1980's

Even into the late 90s. I remember trying out MSIE 5 for Solaris circa 1999. It ran like crap, but that was probably just as much a function of the SS20 I was using at work at the time as it was IE's fault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
Fantastic! I made a quick and dirty BASH solution two years ago and I've been meaning to rewrite it in python ever since. It's uncanny how similar this design is to what I was planning, though.
(I work at Stripe.)

The Alipay integration with Checkout works just like Stripe.js, in that it will return a token that you can charge instantly, or attach to a customer and utilize for subscription, invoicing and recurring payments.
As Brian's partner in crime as co-founder and an old time DB hand, I do believe modern distributed databases have to not just support scale and performance but also attempt to provide the best ACID consistency possible in the presence of failures. Hopefully, database systems programmers will be interested in learning the details of how Aerospike works, benefit from this, and even help improve it.
Downvotes? Sheesh, calling a spade a spade, folks. I don't think the OP would even disagree that it was manipulation.
No, JS is executed in single thread. If you have at least two cores and don't have running antivirus full scan or searching for prime numbers, background processes shouldn't affect the score.
Keeping the J-O-B out of Work with Office Pranks
While some automakers have lane keep assist on the market, in most cases it just vibrates your steering wheel or, at best, lets your hand wander away from the wheel for up to 15s and only on mostly straight roads.

Cruise is meant to operate hands-free for nearly the entire highway segment of your trip and over a speed range of 0-80 mph. No product on the market does anything close to this.
Why the ad hominem?

I can make the implementation simpler if the underlying specification is simpler. If a language is full of edge cases, it was not designed carefully. If there exists a significantly faster implementation in a significantly slower language that covers 99% of the specification, I'd look for opportunities to simplify.
I love this idea and support it!!

Sort of PhD marketplace.

For smart people who can teach themselves there needs to be some sort of validating and credentialing of the knowledge they have!
Those articles sound really familiar and I'm pretty sure at least one of them has spawned a pretty sizable HN thread. Might be worth searching for if someone wants to dig.
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Hospitals are not required to treat people regardless of ability to pay. Hospitals are merely required to stabilize a patient before dumping them.

The U.S. spends around 16% GDP on healthcare. This is by far the most of any industrialized nations. Americans have among the worst health care outcomes of the industrialized nations. Americans spend far more for procedures than citizens of other countries. Medicaid only kicks in for the extremely poor. Medicare kicks in for the old because it is unprofitable for insurance companies to insure elderly. Medicare is a subsidy for the health insurance industry. It allows that industry to dump unprofitable people and socialize their care.

That a person in the U.S. can go bankrupt and lose their home due to medical bills is obscene. The U.S. has an uncivilized health care system.
ok - ta.
Trying living in Oregon on minimum wage vs living in the Bay Area on minimum wage.
Thanks, but I was just looking for a better way to convert a string to upper case, not an arbitrary collection of chars. I've never yet needed to upper-case anything other than a string and unless I get the urge to write a text editor (unlikely!) I doubt I ever will.

And yes it's trivial to wrap this in a function, but in my opinion it really shouldn't be necessary. It's such a simple and common-place operation, why isn't it in the standard library?
Which is amazing. Serious kudos for making it so darn easy. Once you have a token, you no longer have to care what the original payment method was. Absolutely how it should be.
REVEALED: Google's proposed indie music-killing contract terms
Living in a country where a large part is located below sea level, I can assure you that a rising water level concerns me. But you're right, in the grander scheme of things global warming isn't necessarily a good or a bad thing, it just is.
>It's frowned upon to take any time off in the US. I've seen it viewed as a sign of a lack of commitment or even laziness.

Bullshit. I'm tired of seeing this same thing echoed. I think half of the reason this is even said is that someone reads this sentiment on something like HN and then becomes self-conscious about the vacations they are taking and starts to spout the same garbage.

Everyone I know working in the tech sector takes at least one multi-week vacation every year and doesn't think twice about it. Perhaps Silicon Valley is not part of the US anymore?
There are plenty of SaaS/infrastructure providers that don't provide phone support until you're spending $5K/month with them, even for outages.
Drive Animated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
I wish there was a non-JS version of Stripe Checkout. Rather than throwing up the modal window, I'd prefer to redirect my users to a Stripe hosted checkout page where they can make payment and we can deal with it via webhooks. Similar to how PayPal works really.

Currently I'm integrating with the API directly to do this but I'd have preferred to use a page hosted by Stripe, especially considering they are starting to open up to other payment methods.
Kind of disingenuous to have a search form on your landing page that doesn't even allow one free search. Should at least load maybe a handful of data points and then have the "register to see more" form show.

Or you can link to a demo account or demo data. Just something better than the current bait and switch setup you have going on, will almost definitely help with conversions on your end.
HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config
Where I work is transitioning to this style. It's not affected me, yet, but for the employees who have been moved over to the program thus far I've gotten mixed reviews. One told me they were able to get the time off, but were told to make sure to maintain access via email.

That's not vacation in my book. When I leave for vacation I don't touch anything related to work. With vacation time, I just request it and as long as there are no conflicts the time is mine to use. I have no responsibility other than not being at work. I worry I'll lose that disconnect with 'unlimited vacation.'
Marx's theory of alienation