skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disputing that the NSA stuff is real - of course they're doing it, it's what the agency is expected to do.

I'm disputing whether these are leaks or announcements. The media might not even know they're part of the plan. Is it that farfetched for the NSA to say "Hey, we want to make this information public for some reason, and we're going to do so by using a whistleblower. You're going to release all these documents to a bunch of media sources and live abroad for a while and be hailed as a hero"? There's a long history of leaking information, factual or otherwise, for a number of purposes. There's potentially no end to the rabbit hole. Maybe Snowden doesn't even know he's part of the plan.

It's my opinion that the NSA, some group, or some individual, is letting us know they're watching closely. Maybe they're acclimating us to the idea of being spied on, or worse, distracting us from or preparing us for something else. I think the big picture has yet to be revealed.
Nobody ever taught me the number of days in each month. I was well into my 20s before I had it nailed
While many people struggle to get time off, I think a big part of it is that people feel guilty when they take time off, even if their employers allow it.

Do you honestly believe people in the caliber of Matt Cutts, Jeff Dean or Simon Peyton Jones, etc would suffer any negative career consequences whatsoever even if they took a year or two off?

Many of the larger companies in the US are actually quite generous with family leave (Google has 3 months paid vacation for dads and 6 months for moms, although it might be the outlier here, it is by far the most family-friendly workplace I've seen), but it is the overachiever mentality that prevents people from taking the time off even if their employers allow them to.

Sure, you will probably not promote that year if you take 3 months off, but its a matter of priorities. I've consistently taken 6 weeks off a year since I started working 8 years ago, even though my allotted vacation time for the first few years was two weeks. I don't believe my career has suffered as a result of that.
Google's paper from 2004:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

"We wrote the first version of the MapReduce library in
February of 2003"
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You've highlighted important problems (spoilage, everyone wanting to eat meat, economics, warfare). But unless you know of some solution to those things on the horizon, you've not made a useful point.

Genetic engineering is a toolkit to solve a vast array of problems we face, and it's available right now. With a 1% increase in yield, we can feed 1% more people. 1% of 7 billion is 70 million.

Starvation happens because we're not making enough small percentile increments in efficiency.
Have you got a time machine handy? If not, then neither the specific people who stole NOR the specific people who were stolen FROM are still alive today, so there's nobody to "give back" to unless you believe in some sort of "collective guilt" which is largely antithetical to libertarian thinking.

And if you DO believe that there is a collective guilt like that, care to elaborate on how it might work? Should just anybody who moves to the US have to pay, even if they did so centuries after the crime? Should just anybody who joins or announces affiliation with an indian tribe receive payment, even if THEY did so centuries after the crime? (If so: I shall have to declare that I am a Hopi Indian. Or a Navajo. Whichever gets me a bigger share.)
Agreed. However, if you're working for someone else, in order to do that, you need to have shown value beyond the time you're taking off.

So if you take a year, it's making sure beforehand you've made your company the difference in your salary. (Assuming they're paying you.)

If they're not paying you, it's just a matter of how much money you've saved up.
These still show up on the front page (like /ask), right?
'ctrl-r' is bound to isearch-backward in my Emacs.

'meta-r' is bound to comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp
I'm surprised there's not higher accuracy along the diagonal. I learned the squares as a special case.
Reminded of this following the comments to the earlier submission "What Happens When a Healthcare Startup Leaves You With the Bill" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983281

The actual book is:

"The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corportations, and the Public" by Lynn Stout
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Shareholder-Value-Myth-Sharehold...

but linking to a review to get an idea.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: people who are not lawyers should not give legal advice because they usually get it wrong. (Yes, I know that one of the Staply founders was a "legal counsel" in Finland. In most of Europe, a law degree is a 2-year undergraduate degree and licensing requirements are very permissive.)

This blog post is filled with legal mistakes, assuming it is intended to apply to startups generally and not just Finnish startups. By the way--where's the warning that this information doesn't apply outside of Finland?

If you want legal advice, at the very least get it from a blog from a licensed lawyer practicing in your jurisdiction. Grellas, for example, has a very good selection of articles. MoFo and other firms also provide legal templates targeted at startups.
As a homework problem (University), we once had to find all such equations, in all possible bases. Turns out there is only two, and they are both in the decimal system: 56=7x8, and 12=3x4.
This isn't how vesting is typically set up for founders at a startup in the US. You'd do well to read the eBook I linked to, as well as Grellas' series of posts: http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html Pay particular attention to the stuff about 83(b) elections.
It probably doesn't matter to the artists, but I wonder how much of that business went to streaming services, and how much to BitTorrent?
Well, it was ambiguous to say the least, with all those "you"'s in it. If it was meant as an analogy, maybe you should have written it like this:

> This is also silly. That's like people who walk into speeding traffic because they have the right-of-way. They won't get to hear about how the trial turns out from their grave.
Ah, the 8$ per gallon price in Europe. And I find it affordable…
Pretty much all of it is contrary to the advice you'd get from any U.S.-based law firm (and based on my experience, from U.K. firms as well).

Your advice may be appropriate to Finnish startups, but you don't mention any geographic restrictions on your advice.
With Oauth you should be able to use a twitter account as your account without having to sign up.
subscribe or log in :-|
> do we really need the technology?

Well, we don't need it in the sense that we could all pay more for food that is grown in less efficient ways, just as we don't really need cars to get to work when we can all ride bikes. We don't really need cheap food because we can all afford the more expensive stuff that comes from less efficient farming methods. So you're right - it's not really needed. But it has great utility.

Moving our focus away from rich westerners for a moment, there is a clearer case of 'need' when you consider areas prone to drought or poor people who can't afford the higher quantities of fertiliser, herbicide and pesticides that are needed to grow non-GMO crops. Or at least that would be true if GMO crops were more widespread and western activists had not done such a good job of telling the poor of Africa and India that they are toxic horrors to be avoided at all costs.
Sorry about that, we're in the middle of removing that carousel entirely.

In the meantime here's a link to the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ8NJOypqs
Really appreciate the detailed feedback.

* Email on generation is a good idea. Also, I don't have a Gem cache system yet which will help.

* Flickering is because some of the inputs have to compute a lot of values @ Backbone model layer. Definitely opportunity for optimization.

* Thanks :)

* A lot of users have asked for user contributed features. The problem is it's hard to extract an API from my generation system but I hope to in the future.

* Very doable. I just haven't written private repo support in because I'd have to deal a lot of auth/selection issues which isn't a priority right now.

* Vagrant would be great.

For a lot of these, I just don't have time yet but all candidates for the future.

Thanks again.
That is also implied in the boingboing.net article[1]. There is one paragraph in particular which should ring a familiar bell...

One expert suggested that the NSA's intention here was to separate the sheep from the goats -- to split the entire population of the Internet into "people who have the technical know-how to be private" and "people who don't" and then capture all the communications from the first group.

And why would that be familiar? First they came for the terrorists, but I said nothing for I was not a terrorist...

[1]: http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the...
I hope it never actually transitions. I'm one of those people who still buy CDs; I want to own what I buy, not have it leased to me for a limited time. I love music and having my own library is cheaper in the long term than paying some monthly amount. Imo that only makes sense for people who jump from artist to artist on a daily basis.
When I was in middle school, I had a book (in Chinese), teaching children how to carry out some simple calculations fast. It had a back story, with village boys trying to help out the adults when they're stuck with such simple calculations.

It mentioned some interesting facts and I can still remember them today. Like when you divide anything by 7, you get a permutation of the string 142857 as the fractional part. Also notice how 14, 28 and 57 (yes, I mean it) are multiples of 7.
Hi bleak,
Prehash helps companies to attract and engage with developers through coding challenges.
Codility is a pure code testing site IMHO. HackerEarth according to crunchbase provides a SaaS application to do automated assessment of technical and logical skills of candidates
HackerRank is going more in our direction with coding challenges to engage with and find candidates as opposed to testing them.
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will Rogers
I'm learning Python as part of a data science class and not for building web apps.

This article mentions a-ha moments in relation to Python conditionals. What is so special about Python conditionals? They seem pretty ordinary to me.
Great timing as I was recently looking for a resource like this. I've been leaning towards Flask (vs. Django) so I'll definitely check this out.
> One of the big complaints I hear about Monsanto is that using their seeds forces farmers to throw away their seeds each year

Everyone throws their seed away ever year, because genetic monocultures have a 30% lower yeild than bought-in fresh genetic material.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vigor#In_plants

(The exception is rice, which can be bred time and time again)
this is a good question. basically the total amount of shares are reserved for you (in the example - 50%)-no new shares are issued. in the article I provided our(Staply) vesting procedure-if I or my partner leaves the company, he gets a certain percentage of the total amount of shares in accordance with Vesting, other shares destroyed, so the stake of each remaining shareholder increases proportionally to the amount of destroyed shares. in the article you can find example of the statements.
however, vesting is quite flexible procedure and you can easily put the procedure, described in your comment
That'd dodging the question and you know it. Maybe the ring is a family heirloom passed down for generations. Still not sophisticated? What about the person who's father left them his vintage 1913 archtop guitar, and they don't really play it that often but have fond memories of listening to their dad noodle around and play blues music in the evening?

Is it more reasonable to say that nobody should attach emotional value to any inanimate object, or to say that people have the right to decide by which name they'd like to be referred to, and that as a matter of basic respect you should put some effort in to learning how people want their names to be pronounced?
Thank you for the compliment (I am the developer of the app). The FREE version is many many versions outdated inc. the name. The paid version will be going Freemium soon so everyone can experience the new UI/UX and features free of charge.
Living in Seattle and having worked with numerous companies I'm going to happily contest this: Your statement is simply not true, all the way around.
I was thinking of "make something people want" and "move fast and break things". But you're right, that's another. No claims to originality here.
Thanks, I'm in now. I used Chrome, and during the loop, I clicked the create a goldfire account button before it automatically forwarded. Then I created an account, and it gave me the option to select one of three games. I selected the casino game, and it loaded and went back to square one, in the casino room, with the create character button. I clicked that button and went into the loop again, clicked the goldfire button once more, and then it loaded the game and I was suddenly logged in.

I played around for 20 minutes, but I don't think I'll return. It's clear a lot of time and effort went into this game. It's missing the two most important things I enjoy in a game though, it needs to be fun, and it needs to be simple. I'm likely not your target user though, since I've never been too involved in online casino games. Congrats though, I'm impressed at how much is built into this game, and how much you achieved here.
I finally bought a mitre saw [0], and it makes me want to build things. I built a set of rolling carts for my kid to store books and toys in, and I made him a swing last week. I think the next project will be a kid-sized picnic table.

Those are small projects, but they're getting me back into the habit of building simple but useful things. I think next summer I might build a little dory [1] with my son.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-C10FCE2-10-Inch-Compound-Miter...

[1] http://www.spirainternational.com/tipsandtricks/tipsandtrick...
I'm very impressed, in any case!
Like everything, this will take a bit of time.
Recording your name, attaching to your email signature and allowing people to hear it a few times, in their own comfort and on their own time, will help them to get it eventually.
Once everyone will have their name recorded, it will raise the issue and get people to make an effort and realize it is important.
Now, there is only nothing, so...
Indeed, PTT has a lot of beautiful screens, and for those of us used to the CP437 character set, it looks quite exotic!

For those interested, here are some captures of some of the menus (there is a lot more posted in conferences) :

- Taiwanese BBSes and Unicode ANSi Art : http://www.cambus.net/taiwanese-bbses-and-unicode-ansi-art/
- Taiwanese BBSes and Unicode ANSi Art - Part II : http://www.cambus.net/taiwanese-bbses-and-unicode-ansi-art-p...
Part of the problem is that it would be a significant amount of work to create and continue to support and maintain it, and all it would get you is the ability to run Mac OS applications inside of a container, and there aren't a huge number of users who want to do that. Most likely people would want to run Linux in their Docker containers, and that requires some form of virtualization.
I use the same technique as TrainedMonkey and it has worked really well for me.

I actually have a great dislike for the rote memorization of multiplication tables. During school I had everything up to 12 * 12 burned into my brain, but it was as words rather than numbers and wholly sequential. So, when asked 7 * 8 I would have to run through the whole thing up to that point in my mind - "seven times one is one, seven times two is fourteen, ..., seven times eight is fiftysix" - before I reached the answer and could speak "fiftysix" to show I knew it.
Happy to answer questions about this, if folks have any...
We actually do support Docker on OSX and Windows :) It just requires a small gateway VM called boot2docker (25MB on disk). It's perfect for development of Linux application on an OSX machine. Typing "docker build" and "docker run" straight from the Mac terminal is pretty magical, you definitely forget there is a VM involved.
Google mail is evil (2004)
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The "tens of millions" (for outliers) is exaggerated, I'll give you that. What I meant to say, perhaps a bit more tactfully was that if you're an above average software engineer capable of getting a Wall St/Hedge fund type job, you will also have options of riding "rocketships" where your equity package can turn out to be several-millions to tens of millions. And your base pay these days will also not be anything small, although perhaps not as large as Wall St.

I also happen to know quite a few finance guys at top tier shops who are not quite cracking google-level compensation, even all in. But this is all anecdotal, and may not be representative of shops you're talking about.
...which has nothing to do with high-pressure interviews with people you've never met.
in my case I built the product and got sales going on my own. Lived EXTREMELY frugal for the next two years and stashed away six figures of profits. At that point I decided to bring people on at market rate salaries. Investors were impressed and since the need was on their end, they gave me quite a sizeable first round of investment, which I used to hire more people at market rate
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Seems like you're moving the goal posts. I acknowledged luck in the equation, but how the sale happens has a lot to do with the founders, that is the people you decided to fall in with. Again, it's different from a lottery ticket because you can have knowledge about the founders, their track record and there modus operandi. The average first time startup employee might not have a clue, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to gain good insight that you can apply in your decision to join as an employee.
Same here. I want to be able to rip it to FLAC, archive the rips, convert it to Ogg Vorbis for my portable device and never have anyone take my music away from me because they revoked license keys, or the service died, or because I happen to be in Australia...
Could you enhance the character slider to allow a user specified "recipe"? Like a setting for the ratio of of vowels to consonants?
That might reduce the occurance of 'yy' like results.

Pretty cool project - thanks for posting!
Sorry you had to go through all of those hoops, had never seen that issue or had it reported before. I think I've found the problem and fixed it now anyway. Our early player flow certainly has some issues that we are putting a lot of work into redoing right now (mainly it takes too long to get into the meat of the game). If you don't enjoy casino games then true, you probably wouldn't enjoy the early gameplay. Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it!
Not necessarily, it only starts the long term capital gains clock: you still need to hold the stock for a year and have the grant be at least two years in the past to qualify.

Also, the company may not allow you to early exercise. Ask them before accepting an offer!
Here's my feedback, as the developer of the Rails Composer tool [https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer].

I got started with "automated Rails development" (as you call it) using Michael Bleigh's RailsWizard. He built it at RailsRumble 2010 as a website that generates Rails apps. I forked it as Rails Composer when the project was abandoned, and developed it further, purely as a command-line tool. It's been the most popular project I've worked on in the Rails community, and also more work than I ever expected.

I've had a huge community supporting Rails Composer as an open source project so I get a reliable stream of issue reports and pull requests. And I've built a business model to fund the project, by asking supporters to pay $19/mo, and offering my in-depth Rails tutorials as a reward for subscribers. That's the RailsApps project [http://railsapps.github.io/].

Rails Composer is popular because developers really like a tool to build starter apps, and it's a lot of work because changes to Rails and gems constantly introduce entropy. I think you'll face a similar challenge with Prelang, maintaining the product as gems change. Developers want an automated Rails development tool because a good starter app will give them a reference implementation, code that is properly configured and guaranteed to work with the latest versions of all the popular gems. You'll have to keep checking and tweaking as gems and Rails versions change. That job will be easier if you limit the starter app to use only the most popular stack and a small set of popular gems, as you've done so far. You'll also need to monetize the project to be able to maintain it (I doubt it can succeed as a spare-time project). As a gauge of time required, I work fulltime on RailsApps, splitting my time between developing Rails Composer and writing the tutorials for the project's supporters.

Erik, I hope you do well with Prelang. You've created a beautiful interface, the project is ambitious, and judging by Rails Composer, developers will want it.
>I honestly have not bothered memorizing times table. I always found it easier to compute correct answer each time I need it

Easier, but slower. It pays off to memorize and know instantly -- and of course you can use the partial multiplications from the times table for larger problems involving calculating the correct answer too.
So this is:
Get a [(Domain Name) + (Google Apps) + DNS + (Starter Web Page Free)]

I read it as:
Get a [(Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page) * Free]

Was I the only one?
"If I filled a one square light year cube with plain chobani greek yogurt, how many calories would it contain?"

> Sorry, I don't know.

Come on man. If you're not going to optimize for the important questions, why bother? /s

Haha. Good job. This will be fun to play with.
> non-Indo-European names

Are Persian or Polish names easier than Hawaiian or Japanese?
There are lots of BI products out there that are designed to be easy for end users: MicroStrategy, Tableau, etc. Or are you looking for something open source?
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Yes, there are exceptions, and the converse doesn't hold. But it works as a simplification when you're hunting for a job. You're right that the underlying problem is finding work where you're valued and, I'll add, where you work with great people. If pointy haired boss did the hiring, your coworkers are likely going to be inept to add to your misery.
Well, with comparable usage I was getting perhaps 20 extra min on OS X. It's very good I think. It's pretty clear when you check sensor temperature: both machines are equally cold.

In the old (and not so old) times, laptops with horrid Linux power management would be extra warm due to all components being powered up all time. Far from it right now, if you cherry pick hardware. There's still room for improvement, though.
That's alright, wolfram alpha tells you the date the raincoat was invented when you plug in that question. (google gets it right)
"Who are you?"
- I am a natural language question-answering engine.
Cute remark!, I suggest to the engine makers that they detect this type of situation and suggest some form of consolation
Media that publishes information from credible sources?
I'd love to try and get gfycat support for this.
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