skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stock prices are animal herd logic, not science

That's not how I understand your link. The study suggests to me that analyst recommendations are unreliable predictors of short-term gain. And it certainly does not show that changes in a company's overall market capitalization are based on a herd mentality.

Note that it says that those rebalancing according to advisors achieved higher terminal wealth, but lower risk-adjusted return. Most importantly, they did do better in the end. But adjusted for risk, it's worse. This suggests to me that the analysts usually do pretty well, but when they flub it, it's a doozy.
Considering the age and popularity of the game, I'm surprised we haven't seen a solid boxed-set that includes alternate maps for different playercounts. I would expect the mechanics to work fine with any group large-enough for flowing alliances (5+) so it should be possible to design boards that work well with anywhere from 5-12 players.

The WW1-era setting of the game is interesting but really isn't essential.

But if course, this is exactly the kind of hardcore game that attracts hidebound players who scream bloody murder at things like alternate maps.
How were they 0wned? Lack of MFA, rogue API key, or something else? Are full-access accounts being handed out willy-nilly instead of IAM accounts?

AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA):

http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/

AWS Identity Access and Management (IAM):

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/IAMBestPract...

Managing your AWS API Keys:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSG...

Go a step further with your AWS API keys and use AWS' API access logging (CloudTrail):

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/

Don't get burned. Check your stuff out.
10 Questions Entrepreneurs Should Be Asking Potential Startup Hires
If the package maintainer has exposed their private key, and yet the package itself in intact, what harm is there (at the moment)? With the key compromised, you could have been MITMed, but you weren't. You could be MITMed in the future, but that's a problem for another day.
Within the criteria of robustness, robustness can be measured objectively.

You have different criteria than robustness - understood, grip is important to you. Grip has its own objective measurements.

Christ.
Highlights from Startup School NYC 2014
> In java or php, you, as a developer, can never know wether the functions you are calling will throw an exception.

That's what checked exceptions are for in Java.
Next Major Version of Android to Remove Dalvik and Set ART as Default
"Also I am have insane trouble controlling my weight ... and even with a carefully controlled diet my weight swings around madly (I managed to get 2kg lighter in 4 days, and then 4kg heavier in 2 days for example...) "

It's not pretty, but the Hacker's Diet site has a weight tracker with an algorithm that smooths out daily weight fluctuations for precisely this reason.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
This brought my app down. http://jrdevjobs.com.
Our shards were all missing from Bonsai.
We looped through each model and saved it.

We're back up.
But it still takes a while to implement, test, refactor, integrate if you're doing it at scale, distributed, and securely. I can pay $15 and have that done with minor integration. I've used it for just this. Their ability to upload from Dropbox, file system, S3, etc are really nice.
I usually wait for the interesting AMAs to show up on /r/tabled before I even bother looking at them. Much cleaner way to go through them and avoid the clutter.
Cratejoy (YC S13) is hiring a lead platform engineer to help scale in Austin, TX
This is just describing Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) -- for a better read, see Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Even if the server and both endpoints are entirely within the UK, lots of packets are going to traverse UK's borders, due to the nature of the internet and routing.

It's a good start, but ...
I hear Snapchat is quite popular these days...

But, in all seriousness, how is Peeps different from Snapchat, where I can choose who to send videos and photos to?
Could you please give an example of code using one style vs the other that showcases why someone would turn down a language for it?
From the live blog:

"[T]he claims 'do not, for example, purport to improve the functioning of the computer itself or effect an improvement in any other technology or technical field. An instruction to apply the abstract idea of intermediated settlement using some unspecified, generic computer is not "enough" to transform the abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention.'"

Does anyone have a link to the actual decision? The most recent decisions on supremecourt.gov are from 2013.

Edit: found it. [1]

Separately, no decision on ABC vs. Aereo issued today. Aereo lives to see another day, then. Good.

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-298_7lh8.pdf
At least for the startup world, it's about prioritisation of concerns. Will that disaster implementation take me to my next(or first) round of funding? If yes, I'll happily go with it. After that, I can throw money at the problem.
Overexposed model
How exactly does this work? Are the videos being sent to (and maybe saved by) a central server? Are you collecting the phone numbers for later advertising (or other) use? There are potentially a lot of bad privacy implications with this program/service.

It seems interesting, but I'm wary of it for now.
Thanks a lot for putting so much thought into this. You have pretty much laid out all the steps for us! I am not looking to make any money of this, so that's not an issue.
I doubt I would use it personally. It's not something I would use often enough to justify adding another icon on my phone. Especially when I can just look on google for movie quotes. If it added functionality to find quotes by actors or attempt to find quotes from an incomplete quote (I forgot the actual quote but know the gist) and the ability to drill down by quote subject I might use it but I'd likely still prefer it to be a website.
Well it is South Florida. I worked with a German software company that for strange reasons opened their US office in Miami. We had a terrible time getting people, although a lot of that was on us. We eventually moved it somewhere else and things were a lot smoother.
Looks like they want to build a open-source discussion API with identity management (so people can be anonymous) and good moderation tools. So you can spin-up a forum, a comment box or even an HN-like community with the same API (ala Discourse/Disqus).

I don't know if I would bet on their success (see Persona, another great idea that flopped) but, a least, there are trying something big.
Breaking the Borders of IndexedDB
While completed projects almost always take longer (git is still under active development, Facebook obviously is still paying developers to come in every week, etc), it is probably a sign of good project planning to be able to get a functional prototype out the door in under a week. It's the difference between a project with realistic and obtainable goals and milestones, and a project with a pie-in-the-sky grand vision but no idea how to get there.
Betterment launches Tax Loss Harvesting+
Thanks. Indeed a great source to extract info from!
A comic : IT projects and how to make them "successful"
Advantages:

* You only need to learn to use one hammer for everything.

Disadvantages:

* Eventually you'll realize the things you've beat into shape tend to fall apart.
I am in the startup because of the debt... where I live jobs that I could find don't pay enough to pay the debt.

stupid, stupid, stupid decision to take that debt to do university, I should have started to work without a degree, I would be much, much better now...
The Pipeline is Full of Acid
http://goodliffe.blogspot.com/2008/10/madness-of-glibc.html

Tarballs are a completely outdated concept.
Awesome Nico! Hughs from Chile!
Résumé (CV) writing scams
Ask HN: Isn't it time to fix App readability
Sorry friends I can't read your Content/UI and that's my problem and believe it or not it yours too.

My question is very simple, when web fonts have become substantially larger in last few years (see medium.com types) why the hell app text & interface sizes, shapes and colors have become obnoxiously painful.

I can see the gray text on white on my mac book, but when I am on the move, sometime under the sun, do you really think lightest & tiniest gray text on whitest background makes sense ?

I have given up few apps cos I simply hate them and those weren't free, they were paid.

1. I hated Tinke' devices iOS UI, I never used more that 2-3 times. I had paid ~100$s for it
2. I don't appreciate MY BASIS ios app either
3. From pure software perspective, I installed Reporter. It's by some facebook guy at 4$+ but I never bothered to check again or even provide feedback.

I gave paid examples above just to illustrate that this abandoning will be of course must faster and higher in free and more affordable products.

Are you going mad as well ? Does app readability needs to be fixed and how ?
sounds like "in Mars" is the proper expression...he wants to bury them there :)
I just have a script that downloads all of unsplash's images. Much easier to glance through locally.

Also, a little shameless self promotion... I've been trying to give this image away for a little while now: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jscheel/13069799215/. Feel free to use however you want.
The Real Seller: What it Takes?
This is their competition: http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-7000...

Zynq has been out and working in industry for a couple years now.
In my experience:

Accurate comments and confusing code is better than no comments and confusing code, which is better than confusing comments and confusing code. Clear code is better than any of these, regardless of the comments. Necessary comments with clear code is better than no comments with clear code, which is better than superfluous comments with clear code, which is better than inaccurate and confusing comments with clear code (in which case the easiest transition is to "no comments with clear code).
Extracting, Transforming, Loading data into a warehouse database
First things first. It's a great post. But just because you can doesn't mean you should.

The growing pains and the transition to a "real" solution later on will be a huge pain in the.... It's literally a duct tape hack more than an actual app. The database models and security of apps built on top of WordPress are horrible most of the time.

I agree that WordPress is enabling for a lot of people who bootstrap this kind of things and are not tech savvy or don't have the funds to build an application. I also know that it's scary to tackle these things when you don't know where to start. A false assumption people fall for a lot of times is that it'll be cheaper that way. It won't. If you consider starting with WordPress you should keep in mind to change the framework as quickly as possible. A good time to change it is when the idea is validated. But in reality people keep patching and patching until it collapses.
The Onion's take on this kind of stuff

http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc...
The discussion is what Google's "core business" is. Google makes less than 1/5th of their revenue from their ad network in third party products and sites. The overwhelming majority of their money comes from monetization of their own services.

Apple operates and promotes its own ad network, and its lack of success in that market doesn't somehow separate it from that reality. No one would claim that Apple's core business was iAds.
The Court has begun to limit the scope of software patents, but has not eliminated them. This ruling is a step in the right direction and the unanimity of the Court should be taken as a positive sign for future cases.
If they include work derivative of a GPLed work they don't have to change the license. The license just has to be compatible and redistribution has to conform to the requirements of the GPL.

This distinction is important because someone could take the non-GPL part and distribute it separately under the original license.
It has very nice pictures to use, thanks for sharing, I was saving money to buy stock photos to use in my product.
Today I mourn the end of Groklaw, where I would have gone to get the very finest in public discourse and debate about the ruling.
It's worth noting that one can hack together some machine-checkable documentation orthogonal to typing, too. As a limited example, I do this with inline TODOs (in a greppable format) while I'm working my way through a problem.
The best part of this is that Mozilla is getting money from a source other than Google.
"Held: Because the claims are drawn to a patent-ineligible abstract idea, they are not patent eligible"
You're expecting people to take your word for it.

Even if you're telling the truth, when your security is compromised, so are all your users' email, because you have full access to it.

Bottom line: Yet another "web 2.x", proprietary, "beta," SaaS, subscription, third-party, unrestricted-privacy-compromising tool without a business model that might be around for a few years before being bought and ruined or going bankrupt. One would have to be nuts to trust it and to build one's business processes around it.

And why? Seriously, it could be done client-side without compromising account credentials or email privacy in a bit of Perl or Python, maybe a browser extension, and throw in some Bayesian analysis to reduce the need for manual templating and scraping. A few hours in Emacs/gnus/etc and no need to hand over ALL OF MY EMAIL to yet another "but we're only storing your patterns!" third-party web site.

Someday people will wake up to the insanity and stop trusting these ephemeral convenience services. The question is, will it happen naturally, or will it take more massive security/privacy breaches before people stop being so lazy and nai...I mean, trusting?
Ask HN: How to get hired by small web dev/branding agency
I’ve spent 4 years working for a web dev company I started with some friends, and while things are going ok, after moving to a new city I’m ready for something else. Over the past 4 years I’ve self taught HTML/CSS/PHP (Wordpress etc)/Javascript(jQuery, Backbone.js, Ember.js)/Ruby (Rails).

I have my eye on another fairly small web dev/branding agency, in my new city. They are more established than my company, and I believe would offer me a chance to focus more on development, and less on running a business.

While I think I’d be a great match for their team, they don’t currently have any openings posted.

Any advice on how to go about opening a conversation with them and getting hired? Should I walk in to their office with a resume? Email them? Call them?
I see you are needing some design help on the modal windows etc. Are you interested in a designer coming on board? my email is in my HN profile ;)
"The first wealth is health"

I urge you to rethink your priorities. Very little things come before health in this world.
(Decided unanimously.)
I was recently (am?) in a similar situation. It took 4 hospitalizations before I let go of the startup, and asked my family for help getting back on my feet. I'm on the upswing now, recovered while working less demanding jobs, and after 6 months started another company.

If I learned anything, it's that my priorities had gotten pretty twisted- and that there will always be another startup.

This time, I'm keeping reasonable hours, and doing whatever I can to stay on top of my health. If I can't afford something important to my care, I'll contract on the side to pay for it. The current struggle is that it's "so hard" to exercise as a founder- but that's just a lie we tell ourselves. It doesn't take any more space than you already take up to keep fit. Due to the details of my medical stuff, I can't run anymore, but I can still walk, and do situps, pushups, and wall sits. If you're okay with looking ridiculous, you'll be surprised at how many places you can find to get a couple exercises in.
Aren't "dangerous" and "common" different values of the same type?
You do know Hacker News shadow bans users, has a list of certain domains that are outright banned, and has a moderation team that occasionally kills stories, right?
OK, I should have written "if you optimize for read-access latency". Better?
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With a lot of people out there looking for jobs it pays to be vigilant when dealing with agents you've never met before.

The article provides a brief rundown of how the scam works.
Microsoft's Android patents will face challenges
I can't find a single question about the rape accusations. Am I blind, are moderators removing them or are people simply not interested?
There may have been Postgres inside when Microsoft purchased the company whose technology ended up in PDW, but the last two versions shipped by Microsoft have definitely been based on SQL Server.
Did anyone else here think this was something like bash or zsh, except that the commands were in Javascript?
All (recent) chinese people are supposed to know English (it's a mandatory subject at all levels of schooling), but fluency levels vary widely. It's generally not a big focus for engineers. At the startup I worked at last year, the founders had decent english and the employees knew almost nothing. The college students I know can communicate at an acceptable level, but (a) they are still highly prone to misunderstandings unless I make the effort to use simple phrasing and (b) there's a huge selection bias in which people I'm on speaking terms with.

I do find that for almost all the chinese people I know, it's more effective for me to communicate with them in written chinese (but, sadly, spoken english, as my spoken chinese is appalling).

So summing up... there might be a decent population of chinese programmers who can communicate in written english, but there's a much, much larger population that can't.
Blackphone new post: What it Means to be a Security Company
This pairs well with the recent AirBNB fraud detection article. Airbnb has a lot of people to construct a robust machine learning architecture. For small start ups trying to make a recommendation engine, why not do sciencebox+ yhat cloud/enterprise? Especially for data science people that are don't have great dev skills.
Heterogeneous lists are not "generics."
Yes, it is a more efficient way of doing science.
Is the list of banned domains public? I'd love to know what is ban-worthy on HN.
He replied a related question [1] and seems to be quite supportive of Ed Snowden.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28js8v/i_am_julian_ass...
Ha, I bet the main design goal of this system is to figure out how to make sure comments they don't like aren't right under the article. It's been typical that a highly upvoted and articulate top comment blows massive holes in the political agenda of a given article or oped. This is why so many of these publications have yanked comment sections altogether.
Realistic weight loss goals better than quick fixes
Our company uses PTO and open-plan offices, and while they're not ideal solutions, nothing is, and I think they get a bad rap around here.

As for PTO I appreciate my boss's explanation: "I just don't want any sniping over sick days. If you don't feel like you can come in and work, it should cost something. That way nobody will complain when someone calls in sick."

Similarly, I've heard a lot of complaints about open-plan offices, and frankly, I do think they're collaborative. Initially I didn't love the fact that I have to hear everyone's discussions around me, but it's certainly helped problems get solved quicker than they otherwise would. When two devs across the office are discussing a weird bug they're seeing it can have a lot of implications. Maybe you happened to see it two days ago it gives you the opportunity to chime in, or it allows the product manager to say "Guys, that feature isn't super important, if it's really hard we can just cut it", or it allows the QA guy to say "Let me know what area that affects so I can make sure to write some extra test cases". All of those situations seem innocuous when you're all working together, but if you're in separate offices or working remotely people will end up wasting time trying to figure these things out by themselves before reaching out for help.

These aren't ideal solutions, so you just have to be sure to take steps to mitigate the costs. With PTO you have to be generous with the time granted in order to account for the fact that it's employee's vacation + sick days, and with open offices you have to have a space employees can go to get serious work done without distractions. If you DO take those mitigating steps I think they're both good systems.
Not to focus on this when they are experiencing downtime, but Bonsai has been one of the least reliable service providers I've ever used.
If there were a hole in the AWS security model for this, I think it'd be pretty obvious pretty quickly, given what happens when US-East takes a dive...

This happens constantly, and it's almost always through lack of best practices (as mentioned in higher up comment - IAM, MFA, etc.).
I am flattered that so many of you read my piece and felt the urge to respond. To begin with, I hope I did not come through as claiming a monopoly on the truth (and fair value). I tried to make my best assessment of what I think Uber's value is today, given what I know about the company.

It is true that I valued it as a car service company but that is the only business where it has a business model that works right now. As many of you argue, there are potential markets here (moving, car rentals and even car ownership) that Uber could enter. If that is the argument for the extra $12 billion, the pieces are in place to estimate whether you can justify that addition. These additional markets (especially car ownership) could make the potential market much larger, but the question then becomes whether Uber's business model can be expanded into these businesses, while preserving the its profitability. Take, for instance, the driverless electric car market which is the alluring possibility. Even if you are an optimist on this development, I am still grappling with the role that Uber will play in this market and the profitability that will ensue. Will Uber continue to play the middleman role, and if so, who will it be negotiating with? If the electric cars are owned by Google or some other large entity, will Uber have the bargaining power to demand a large slice?

In closing, here are three beliefs that I bring to the table. First, I am a believer that DCF is a tool that can be expanded to cover almost any narrative you may have. Second, I have no illusions about being right, when there is this much uncertainty about the future, but I would rather be transparently wrong (where you can see the assumptions that i have made and change them to reflect your narrative) than to be opaquely right. (I think that providing absurdly large valuation ranges as your base valuation is a cop out, as is making fluffy statements like "I think Uber has lots of potential and is worth a lot") Finally, I think that there is a big difference between pricing (where the number you attach to an asset is what people are willing to pay for it right now) and value. I have a great deal of respect for the pricing process (which is what delivered the $17 billion for Uber) but I also think that pricing is driven by mood and momentum, both of which can get ahead of the facts.
This is as close as we've got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

As pg says at the beginning of the comment, if you want to know if a particular domain is banned, just submit something and see if it's dead immediately.

FWIW, this comment and my previous one aren't a complaint: I think that most of this is a good thing. I _do_ think the mods kill some important stories, and I think the flamewar filter is terrible, but I'm glad for a lot of it, and wish there was more.