skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but you can't compare MtGox to the NYSE. Two points:

1. Bitcoin is _very_ thinly traded. I'm speaking as someone who sold at $1100 and bought back in at $450, which at the time was very near the bottom. In a matter of seconds, the price was $500. In those precious seconds, I'd be shocked if more than 10000 BTC traded hands. That's barely enough room for a handful of traders to call the bottom. Like I said, very, very thinly traded.

2. I would never do the above, ever again. Speaking as an American citizen, there's no good domestic exchange. If you're dealing in amounts above $10,000 say hello to the FBAR. The BSA's online efiling site isn't quite as bad as healthcare.gov, but JFC. Ultimately you have to use IE on Windows, load a PDF through IE's Acrobat extension, and then fill out the form inside IE. You then have to sign the form with your given PIN, which execs some JavaScript if I remember correctly. Obviously the FBAR form isn't fun. I picked up a few more coins but at the cost of having to disclose all of my financials to the BSA, and I'm just praying that I did things correctly. On top of that, taxes. YMMV, but IMO it's not worth the hassle to sell.
What source(s) do you have for the "no threat of deportation" claim? I have known some immigrants who feared this every day of their lives, and the worry and stress it causes them is tremendous. I find it hard to believe that someone who walks over the border with no paperwork does not feel that pressure.
The author is sarcastic, but actually quite right. We don't have many games that actually explore violence, give it a deeper meaning or use it as a rhetorical device (like GTA V did superficially with the torture scene). There are many games with a violent shell, but it's actually about scoring points. Killing an enemy in an FPS gives me the same kind of satisfaction as solving lines in Tetris. The last time I played a violent game for its violence was as a teenager.
violates eu law in quite a few ways
Considering who she was detained with ("I soon found myself locked in a room with a pedophile, a woman smuggling $25,000 in cash and unsavory others"), they were right perhaps to not give her the initial benefit of the doubt.
I think I'm honestly more afraid of what insurance companies and employers would do with unfettered access to the same data. Identity theft protections / responses will continue to get better but I can't say the laws will.
Conversations at the language summit, mostly. A lot more of us use git more often than we do hg these days as well.
Thanks. I looked at the code you provided. it makes still very little sense to me.

You're right though that my using python language features like lists and file open and loops is like function, but I understand those, so I can use them.
"The vast majority of economists are horrible programmers, however most know how to script in at least 1 language, and a small number of them are actually really good at scripting. An extremely small number of economists know they're way around at least 1 entire general purpose programming language."

As an economist whose hobby is the study of programming languages, you can imagine the frustration that I feel. What I have found works best is to make grad students use basic functional programming techniques. Everything they do is just a few lines long. As opposed to a 250-line heap of garbage with three nested for loops.
Pretty shocking revelations. Was this ever revealed before? Only because of Wolfe's firing?
Yeah man, databases are so mainstream.
Sorry, my question was a bit vague. Generally SQS works with polling, and once a message has been pulled from a queue it is not available to other viewers any longer. This makes it hard to create a system where you have an unknown number of clients that may or may not be interested in certain queues, or even in messages of certain types.

RabbitMQ (and other AMQP based queueing systems) have built-in solutions for this that SQS doesn't offer. Karma solved it by sending the same message to a number of different queues, but this makes scaling to more clients harder, and reduces flexibility in subscribing clients to certain message types.

Hope this makes it clearer :-).
Apparently they've had similar issues on Mixcloud:

https://twitter.com/J0EKAY/status/484097294598275072

And even if hip hop/trap/neo-soul/etc aren't your style, if you're into any electronic music at all there's probably something for you on Rinse.fm (unfortunately they're more an internet radio station than a platform like Soundcloud, not exactly apples to apples from a user perspective).
Also, a machine with RAM that changes. Well, yes, and files that change too. I'm completely ok with that.
I hate the `<>`s, but the semantics are enticing enough for me to do all of my current personal projects in Rust. I would love Haskelly syntax, but life is never perfect... maybe somebody will make a pre-processor or something! Haha.
This needs a (2011) tag but other than that it's funny.
Approach to building a real-time Excel for campaign analysis
"If there's not a penis or an MBA involved, a decision can not be made."

So she not only reduces men to their genitals and implies that men rely on them when making decisions, but considers it equivalent to, say, their college degrees, in assessing relevancy. We're supposed to listen to this person on matters of sexism?
Quit posting X is (offline|down), definitely when it doesn't make sense ("The Bitcoin network"), is technically inaccurate ("Didn't you mean blockchain.org"?), or will be discovered by the person accessing it, and they'll find out anyway (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, etc).
There's plenty of time and effort spent harassing people coming in over the land border too. I expect there would be more people coming in that way without that effort.

I don't think I agree with the current U.S. border policy, but I don't see how we get from where we are to not having one. There is also probably some sense in aligning enforcement with stated policy.

(I'm not sure that last bit is clear, but I mean if the rule says you have to have a visa, it makes sense for the guards/agents/whatever to just enforce that, not try to decide if the visa is really needed in each different situation)
> I don't understand the appeal.

What's the appeal of action movies?

It's fun. Haven't you ever tried blowing something up when you were a kid?
Yo: A Reflection of our Internet-shaped Culture
Paper work snafus can be a big deal- or not, is hard to know without knowing the details. BUT everyone knows bureaucracy is seldom sympathetic to paper work problems in any country.

After reading:

>I had time to reflect on the past seven years of my life in America.

>The US and Silicon Valley had become my true home. The opportunities in this country never cease to amaze me.

My questions was, why didn't the author become a U.S. citizen?

A person who has no intent on citizenship is not a immigrant, should their visa expire, they are simply an illegal alien outstaying their welcome... I have no problem with immigrants (in fact I support them), all my ancestors immigrated after all, but I do have problems with people who think its acceptable to be an illegal alien. I want people like the author to immigrate to this country...

P.S. If you are going to downvote me, please do me the courtesy of explaining the error of my ways.
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Responsive is really not difficult, to the point that it is easy. And I always advocate 'doing it by default' because it's actually more of a pain to refactor later. Basically you just have to understand floats, and using fluid design in contrast to fixed-width/absolute elements.

That said, I'm satisfied by the justification: HN lacks an API, so lots of people have built apps that scrape the frontend markup. It would break many apps overnight to just flip the switch.
I have been thinking you could probably build an open ended world with a reasonably deep autogenerated quest system. there are already weak AI systems that can respond to open ended text fairly well. Start with some basic relationships and the game could decide the second son wants to kill his older brother to take the therone but needs to frame someone to take the fall... Ect.

You can Restrict dialog choices while still giving the player real choices.
The original person who started his was a Spanish business who wanted court records removed over his debts and their was a dr who had been in trouble or struck off from practicing by his country's medical certifying body.
No, it's deadly serious.
I went through Georgia Tech, and there is never any formal introduction to version control. If you're exposed to it, it's from a job or a friend (who in turn got it from a friend or their job). If you don't know it exists, you'll never seek out and learn it.

Testing was used in some courses. We had a software development class that involved UML, TDD, and everything "proper". Testing is also provided as a way of pre-checking your homework by some TAs. They might give you a basic set of tests for your linked list homework (adding, removing, etc), but then their grading script will check off by 1s, etc. It's not necessarily taught how to write said tests in those classes.

Continuous deployment is never touched. If you co-op/intern you might be exposed to it.

No one that I knew of learned anything related to "ops", unless they happened to take an interest in it.
And IP

http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1312/131202washingtondc.htm

http://www.dmca.com/takedowns.aspx
I can most certainly agree because, sadly, it's a POV that hadn't crossed my mind despite being the basis of the article.
Well, you could build a process supervisor that runs in its own forked resource (I'm sure, I don't know the language too well) - we have that in Haskell too (you can see similar code in the Cloud Haskell project where you give a supervisor some child specs and it "supervises" them with a couple different restart strategies).

Storm does it more at the machine level, while the philosophy is the same there it's not really done in the language but by Nimbus (correct me, someone, if I'm wrong).

The things in Erlang that are novel are really features in its BEAM VM, and not as much in the language. Distributed RPC, a DNS system built in for discovery, hot-reloading, heartbeat, etc...

I'm sad that Storm ended up being built on Java - Erlang would have been a perfect and probably better way to implement it.
I find Google's techie Easter-eggs like this delightful.

My favorite, by far is: http://www.google.com/#q=recursion
I agree on the details bit. When simple details are omitted I feel like the "technicality" is going to turn out to be something like "is a convicted felon with a warrant out for her arrest".
Thanks gulbrandr! We're fixing right now
Maybe a little less funny after acquiring Boston Dynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrjrgBV8K0

http://www.bostondynamics.com/img/Atlas-x3c.lr.jpg
That's the inherent risk of using a third party to host "your account" on a proprietary system. I have sympathy for all these artists, I truly do, but what were they expecting?
I love my dog, and I want my vet techs to be licensed.
All google has to do is buy an European news paper and become a traditional publisher - they could buy the independent cheaply.
Peter Thiel And The Cathedral
Sometimes a single example is enough to disprove a hypothesis. Namely that anyone holding a valid visa would be fine.
This is a bizarre tangent. An oligarch could just enslave people through brute force or more subtle means of mental and psyhcological manipulation into working feverishly in a self-defeating system of exploitation.

Is that "creating demand" for labour? Or for the products?

Is demand for slave labour a good kind of demand?
"Solving a problem with someone looking over your shoulder and forcing you to talk to explain what you are thinking is a skill that I've never seen used in the real world."

I'm often in the position to have to explain my reasoning while developing software. Code reviews and pair-programming come to mind. It's about being able to communicate complexity and being more rigorous about the software development process.

That said, this style of coding interview brings up a level of stress that I'm rarely under at work. It's an unfortunate condition of interviewing, but I don't think it's completely avoidable no matter how comfortable you make the interviewee.
By running a service - a lot of software today isn't valuable because of the product, but because of the service it provides. Facebook, Twitter or Drobox software is not particularly difficult to clone - many companies built clones. What sets the popular sites apart from clones is the service they provide (community, reach, availability, easy access). I guess that's one of the failures of G+ - the software was there, but the service wasn't.

Our code is in the open[1], and anyone could install it and run it, but there is a convenient web site[2] out there that lets people get the service easily without bothering with an install. We make money from subscription fees for higher capacity.

[1] - http://github.com/mindmup

[2] - http://www.mindmup.com
s/firing/lawsuit
Interesting quirk - under felony murder, you are responsible for any deaths that occur as a result of the crime, not just murder.

If a guy has a heart attack and dies while you're robbing a bank, boom, felony murder for everyone.

If a guard, police officer, or armed citizen shoots dead one of your accomplices during the crime, felony murder for you.
google is a joke
Where can we play it? Wikipedia just describes it.
What does killer-robots.txt mean. And what do /+LarryPage links point to? (His google plus profile?)
> "it's actually about scoring points"

Right -- you can replace all of the humans with mechs, and the ak-47 with some sort of power-sapping stun beam (that disables, rather than destroying, the mech) and many AAA games would play just as well.

There are people who seem to really like "ultra-realistic" gore instead of exploding robots or de-summoned cartoons, but that doesn't change the fundamental basis: most AAA games are about scoring hits against hitpoints, not really about violence.
I use a Trello board to organize my reading. This is it.
What about Schmidt? He can fight T-1000 and T-800 by himself?
I'd rather just use password manager. Site saying "I have passwords of up to 8 chars" just makes me feel uneasy. Also creates a bigger barrier for fixing it to do the thing right.
Its not straightforward to acquire US citizenship. There are many hurdles to be crossed, for example, moving from a Student Visa to a work visa like an H1-B, after which your employer can to apply for your Permanent Residency (which again is a long process depending on the country you are from) and then you have to wait 5 years before you can apply for Citizenship. You may be able to apply for permanent residency based on relatives in the US or apply for asylum, and I'm assuming the author couldn't use any of the latter methods to get a green card.
The author had done an article on Tinder last year: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-05/dating-app-t...

It's likely that current events help explain some oddities in Tinder's past.
ZenPayroll is hiring software engineers to make payroll delightful and fun.
Comic Sans hate literature is the new Comic Sans.
We have all services running inside a VPN (see one of our older posts: https://blog.yourkarma.com/building-private-clouds-with-amaz...) and we also use HTTP Basic token auth that are configured upon deployment. Every app gets its own token, so we can trace which app does what.
It's interesting that you bring up Mortal Kombat, which wasn't the first fighting game, or necessarily even the best fighting game, but it certainly was the one that looked the most like two characters punching each other to death.
Interesting that Tinder is owned by the company behind Match.com.
The merge stage of merge sort will only work if the input lists are already sorted. In this case they are unsorted.

I'd ignore the fact that there were initially 2 lists and just concatinate them and sort. I.e sort(unsorted1 + unsorted2)
I don't think getting into conflicts with people that wreck your life is a male or female thing.

I have a cousin Tony who gets bombed from time to time and gets his ass kicked so bad he comes back with two black eyes and he is moaning on the couch despite Perocet and the ice packs on his face.

When he lost his girlfriend to a black guy it was just a matter of time until he picked a fight with a black and got the worst of it.

If you go out of your way to piss people off and you always have to have the last word in an argument, internet fame isn't for you.
The "Tinderslut"[1] comment says a lot about how Rad and Mateen view the women who use their app. It's consistent with Wolfe's claim in her complaint that Mateen told her it would be "slutty" to be a female Tinder co-founder, because it was an app people used to hook up.

As an aside, Mateen exhibits the textbook Madonna-whore dichotomy. To him, women are either someone he can see being a wife (Wolfe pre-breakup), or a whore/bimbo/slut (the women on his Instagram feed). When she rejected him, in classic fashion she went from the former bucket to the latter. This is a case study for a gender-studies paper.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tinderslut
Saccharine.

Spot on! So much onanastic talk on "flourish" and "delight", and so little concrete evidence on which of these expensive gimmicks, if any, effectively guide user atention and reduce confusion between screens, or the exact opposite.

Blame the dribbblization of design [1].

[1] http://insideintercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/
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'Ignorantia juris non excusat'

This would have been logical with short and understandable laws.

Nowadays, however, it's impossible to know the law in it's entirety. (Nor is it possible to deduce logically from similar known laws).

If it's literally impossible for an expert to know all the laws (let alone a common citizen), 'ignorance of the law excuses no one' is a meaningless sentence used to dismiss a much, MUCH bigger problem.

Try saying it this way:

"Well, you should have known what no human being is able to learn. You're not a super human? Too bad."
All of the things mentioned in the article have been justifications used to explain why games about social dynamics haven't happened.
Not at all. It's not even clear what rules they were even applying here, other than their own discretion. My point was that if "security" and "threat assessment" were the operative parts of their decision, they couldn't possibly been doing it right.
Looks interesting, I've often wanted to find old pages I've visited. Though I'll wait until it has a track record, before I trust it with my history.

It would also be important to rank searches well, since otherwise an entire history may have too much. Though this will be a hard area to take on Google...
Yes people. Please flag [EDIT, as in write "NSFW" when applicable. Thanks shawnz]. The article feels that is going to be serious, which it kind of is, but then the pics. What was the point of that? The writer could not have simply mentioned the pics?
The secret to change your team habits
Old doesn't mean it is bad. Still ant is so much faster than gradle and maven.
This is pretty exciting stuff. Several months ago I had made a Chrome packaged app that used Chrome's USB API to get Rift orientation data ( https://github.com/DanAndersen/cupola ), but it's good to see work being done to integrate it into the browser itself instead of the hackish way I had to go about it.
See, we're having trouble even testing for competency. I passed a pen and paper interview recently (did confidently well on coding, blew the SQL part because I had only used APIs and still thought I should put that on the resume) and still got the position. I'm still scared shitless that I'm going to flub day 1 and I've been cramming and exercising basic knowledge for the past two weeks. I'm worried that the test was just a screen and the real requirements are hidden.

On the other hand, everyone's favorite anecdote: "senior engineers" not passing basic tests like mine.

I still don't feel qualified for entry level (and other peoples' interview experiences don't help!) and that's because entry level and other competency levels are subjective right now. What knowledge should you know from memory? What knowledge are you safe delegating to Google to remember? However, my feelings about my skill could just be nerves.

Lines in the sand would really help the self taught crowd and could be used to bring outdated, lagging CS programs and their graduates, up to speed.
Not just owned, but incubated by their employees. That completely blows me away that IAC is so, so good at rebranding for different audiences.
For a girl
Story in the sense a game of football has a story.
In the case of Rust, I think the hype actually is well-founded, technically. It is aiming for a niche that I have seen no one claim that any other language has accomplished to fill before. So unless you know of some languages that have memory safety with no form of enforced garbage collection (it's part of the library, but completely optional), I'll say that Rust has merit on its own, no matter what organization is backing it.
There's no empirical data, at least not in the fortune 500, that show a company with more than maybe ~500K employees. So the headline point is easily rejected at that level.

If the concept is to "create an ecosystem" that has 1x10^6 employees, than this seems almost trivial. In that case its just a series of logical optics on starting new industries. But again, what is the empirical data show?

Would facebook meet this test? Did they invent social media? Probably not, so they are a "failure". Are there any companies in the fortune 500 that would? Maybe RCA and the TV industry? or the early Hollywood Studios? Silicon Valley itself seems have created more than "a million jobs" if you abstract it out to "the computer" industry, or "the software" industry but its largest companies don't get that big and its ecosystems are simply abstractions both in their point of origin and their ultimate threshold/boundary definitions.

Having a company that employes people for "freelance work" is simply just an outsourcing shell company and nothing to be proud of. It also doesn't seem overly original, in the more dramatic way the the headline would suggest.

I too want to have a million people doing my bidding for me, cheaply. (BTW, The fastest way to get this dynamic is probably to make the poor poorer, and the rich richer).

suggested edit:

New RFS: One Million Careers

(McJob creators need not apply).
Just checked the new version briefly. Scrolling performance seems to be much better, especially on a large display with fullscreen editor. Atom is getting pretty decent for daily use.
I am going to wait for the local version for this one. I am working on a project that needs the full browsing history including content. You might have read read it here on HN[1]

The goal is to make my computer a search engine that can also recommend articles based on the ones I have visited. It can also check websites to see if there is any new content.

The project is still in its very early stages and any tool I can use will be very helpful. This looks just like what I need.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822859