skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, sometimes, a tendency on the part of young, ambitious entrepreneurs, to be overly optimistic and assume that they can gatecrash an industry they know nothing about, set up a slick website and disrupt the big, bloated, uncool incumbents.

Also, disrupting American health insurance is like "disrupting" terrorism. (It took 10 years to get one guy.) It's not something you can pull off in an afternoon. You're facing evil. Not irritating inefficiencies, but an adversary with a history of killing people to further its own ends.

Startup people think that the natives in whatever they want to "disrupt" are stupid. That they're facing accidental inefficiency instead of malignancy. In fact, the bad guys have just as many smart people as we do in tech. It's just that their smart people have been focused on building relationships, people-hacking, negotiation, litigation and loophole-finding, while we've been reading papers about category theory. Underestimating them is a bad call. Engineers turned founders make the same mistakes with "dumb" VCs and lose their shirts.
>>They are fathers, husbands, and software engineers. They love, and they like. But above all, they read xkcd.

What about female followers?
I am curious if you "know what to do" because you have a lot of experience using applications that looked this way largely by necessity.

Of course. In the "nature vs. nurture" argument, there is no room for computers. It is all nurture here. Moreover, current interfaces derive from the design choices illustrated here.

My only complaint is that it's not degradable.
As of 1921 BST on 2014 July 3rd, the BBC article in question is now second link when searching for Stan O'Neal.

So you can ask for a page to be de-linked but if you are in the public eye and the de-linking gets noticed, the results may not be what you expected.
Funding for SPICA is still far from certain, and if it happens, it will likely be toward the end of the SOFIA mission. I would agree, however, that it is appropriate to call SOFIA a precursor to SPICA.
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I don't think it negates my point. It's just that I don't follow my own advice perfectly. :)

It's also a little similar to how founders essentially work for free in exchange for lots of ownership. If, as an employee, I can work for less money now, then I'm taking a bigger risk betting on the outcome of the company.

Startups often want to minimize cash flow, and some employees are interested in helping out with that in exchange for having more ownership. So it works for both sides.

But I try to keep "doing the job for salary" and "taking a risk for equity" separate in my mind.
There are many of us on an H1-B here potatolicious. Technically I get 10 days to wrap my affairs and leave the country, not to mention losing any greencard application...
SF is actually rolling out market-rate variable parking pricing: http://sfpark.org/
Comet C/2012 K1 "Pan-STARRS" - Observed by Nasa NEOWISE Mission
Curious about the amazon random bit that was mentioned. I read the author's tumblr page but didn't see the results of the bot.
After 16 hours of no food, eating breakfast is usually an easier sell. But if it's not, force it down anyway.
I wonder how many misunderstandings and frustrations occurred because of that "z" which looks like a "2". Any of my math professors would have marked anything with that 2 wrong.
One of the earlier Snowden disclosures was that the NSA had tapped private internal Google fiber lines carrying traffic between data centers. Same with Yahoo, Microsoft, other major Internet destinations. Google has since started encrypting all internal traffic, but for awhile pretty much anything was available to the NSA dragnet.
I don't think "Must never use more than 10 MB of memory" is a reasonable standard to hold all software to.
Based on every interaction i've had with A&A, I can't think that this is needed. Always been a pleasure, and I'm not even a customer.
Github costs $0 and 0h of admin work for OSS code.
Should this be called hacker tea? Zest Tea has more caffeine than coffee
Maxymiser - www.maxymiser.com
New York City - Fulltime

Maxymiser is a leading global provider of online testing, personalization and cross-channel optimization solutions. The company’s enterprise platform allows its clients to drive continuous improvements in their key online strategic goals and financial metrics.

Named as a leader by Forrester Research in its February 2013 Online Testing Wave, Maxymiser’s platform is used by hundreds of global companies including Alaska Airlines, Avis, Epson, Harry and David, HSBC, InterContinental Hotel Group, Sovereign Bank, Teleflora, Virgin Media, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.

We're currently hiring for a number of positions, but the one below is what I do so I can speak to it best.

Position title: Junior Solutions Engineer

Junior Solutions Engineers will proactively assist in the delivery of technical support and services to clients. Additionally you will liaise with the internal Maxymiser team to continually highlight updates in documentation, training, online knowledge base and product functionality. The ideal candidate has knowledge of front-end development languages (JS/CSS/HTML) and is comfortable effectively communicating coding solutions to clients.

I was given a long HR-ese blurb to follow that, but I think that paragraph gives a nice overview of what you'd be doing. Day to day you're working with an interesting range of clients, who have a diverse and challenging set of problems to solve.

Feel free to send me any questions via the email in my profile. If you're interested, you can send your resume in to careers@maxymiser.com

You can see all of our openings (including the full description for the Solutions Engineer) here: http://www.maxymiser.com/careers/
> Which is actually an ethical quandary when you think about it.

You're right, of course. But whether a study is scientifically valid and whether it is ethical are two orthogonal questions.
Similar concerns are why most cancer therapy trials end up looking more like A/B testing than classic experimental/control experiments. The point I was trying to make, though, is that you need at least two groups which differ only by a small set of (ideally one) known variables to draw any real conclusions
How we scaled to generate personalities for 200 million people
There's an EFF fair use test case involving a YouTube takedown of a toddler bouncing around to a 29 second clip of a Prince song playing in the background: Lenz v. Universal. It was filed in 2007 and has yet to be resolved.

The fact is that while section 512(f) of the DMCA provides consequences to misrepresentations by those making takedown requests, it is damned impossible to actually enforce that.
Because in real life, you still end up with nothing of value. :)
I wonder if the sentiment here is that the NSA used to be known for being a highly intelligent group of people trying to solve hard problems but now they seem like a bunch of D-level bureaucrats snooping through everything hoping they'll get lucky.
If your business model is anything like MonkeyParking's, you're a fucking parasite. Good riddance.
Grade schoolers don't fly on SOFIA. The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program is for grade school teachers and other educators. I can't think of any obvious way for the general public to fly on SOFIA. If you are a professional astronomer, apply for time, and you may be invited to fly. If you are an educator, apply to the Airborne Astronomy Ambassador program.
I started http://mammothology.com last year and was profitable within 3 months. I create software for small businesses, mainly WordPress plugins but other things too. It's not a (comfortably) liveable wage yet but slowly increasing month on month. I'm not much of a marketer so it's difficult to figure out how to get sales up to that next level.
"More than half of the distinct genes", is what I would have written if I was thinking more carefully.

If the notion of "extinct" is as fuzzy as you propose, that implies Homo erectus is not extinct, as we descend directly from them.
I instantly tried to use the arrow keys as well. Hopefully it becomes an option. Having the scroll/refresh rate adjustable would be neat too, it seems 2400 baud, but 9600-14.4 was common too. Very cool otherwise!
Anything from a audio amplifier (a crap one at that) to a audio filter, to a analog buffer, a comparator, many things are possible. For more information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_amplifier
The absence of data is, itself, data.
And the moderators of HN can still choose to use their discretion to remove certain articles, without necessarily banning an entire news outlet.
Love it. I'd love it more if it worked w/o js -- but at least it renders ok in w3m -- so I guess I can live with having to enable js in Firefox...
It's Powerline: https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/introduction.htm...
1) Possession is 9 points of the law was the original quote - it's just been bastardized over the years.

2) If it's "okay" for your machine to receive and keep the misdirected email message, how is it "not okay" for someone sending a correctly directed message asking your MUA to remove the message? Your MUA allows the behavior; you allow it by use of that MUA; no access control mechanisms were broached. To look at it literally, all email is "reaching into your machine to suit the sender".
I have a somewhat related question for anyone with chrome devtools experience.

Is it possible to control the size (width and height) of the chrome debugger panel using the devtools api? I want to build a chrome extension that provides window management like Hydra or spectacle, but for the developer tools window. Building hot keys that could do things like send the console window exactly half screen in any direction or full screen, and also the same controls for the second console window. I spend a lot of time in the developer panel (as I'm sure many people do) and think a window manager could be a huge help. I read the api docs fairly thoroughly and also posted this same question to the google group and the stack overflow group with no response to either. Anyone out there know?
A person I know quite well explained to me how his company hired a team of six or so developers to work on a project full-time. They worked on the project for about about two years before feeling ready to showcase it to clients. Once they showcased it to clients they realized their solution was far too generic for its intended application and it had to be scrapped. Huge amounts of time and money lost due to bad project management and inability to meet market needs. The solution ended up so generic that it could not really fit the specific role it was needed for. Its intended market requires a high amount of attention to specificity and detail.
I actually rolled my own WM with some AppleScript. Here is one of my scripts that divides the screen between the two frontmost applications.

https://www.refheap.com/87844
I'm honestly not sure which word you're referring to.
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Nice insights from a technical standpoint, though I'm more interested in the machine learning aspect. Was it dictionary based? How does the system account for sarcasm or the billion+ meme/BuzzFeed posts?
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Conrad Egusa is not a VB writer. He contributed a couple guest posts in recent years, and he may have done some other writing for us, but it was more than 3 years ago.

Look, if you REALLY want to get featured on VB (or any other site), connections are almost beside the point, anyhow. It all comes down to your product (is it important? does it work?) and your story (is it interesting? are you available to talk about yourself and your company?). There's no special trick to getting press other than being press-worthy, press-ready, and respectful.
Hack the Art World
I write for Linux Journal. Imagine how I feel! I had no idea that I was participating in subversive activities.
Yes, I am aware of that. I am also aware that the NSA does not being criminal cases even if it does give data to the FBI.
Show HN: Continuous delivery of a Java app to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Was it here or somewhere else, I found a very interesting piece about the price of free parking. And how too much parking makes a downtown even worse than it could be. Because it makes it too cheap to use the car.

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/04/13/donald-shoup/who-shou...

It also said that SF wanted to introduce a demand based system for parking, which meant it would be a few cents if nobody needed the space and $6 if everyone wanted a space. Of course such a system wasn't realized.

BTW, they could just build a parking space and auction those parking spots, at least it wouldn't be rent seeking. But I guess the prices for a square feet in SF are a little too bit for such a project.
I'm starting to feel like the entire equity offering model is broken.

While I agree that you should take a job at a startup for reasons intrinsic to the job itself, and not just the comp (or possible comp) - it is still part of the offer.

If someone is offering you a form of compensation, that means you should be able to evaluate it. Otherwise the offer might as well come with a guarantee of two unicorns after four years.

Additionally, almost EVERY startup trying to entice people to work for them mentions the equity as part of the sales pitch. "Meaningful equity", "Ownership in the company", "Shares of a pre-IPO company", etc, etc.

So if you're pitching people based off of an intangible, almost meaningless number, that smells like a problem, to me.

I understand all of the complications, the effect of future rounds being an unknown, etc...but is there a way to improve this?

Perhaps if, at the time of offer, and with each change in funding - there was a clearly spelled out, given possible outcome at this time, here's the breakdown of what you get - that could help?

I.e., If were were bought out at $100M right now, the founders would receive $12M, and you would end up with $37k...maybe people could evaluate better how "worth it" it is to them.

Additionally, when things happen like founders getting cashed out for some sort of comfort effect, like "OK guys, you each at least got a million out of this, run the company now with some security behind you"...employees should be made aware.

I guess I just feel like there needs to be more transparency, but I'm not savvy enough to know a good way to offer that.
Sucked by the Google Vortex. His last big post was the amazon rant (https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX).

Blogging takes too much time.
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It can get worse than that ;)

I originally come from Serbia, but I spent the last 14 years in Chile, where most people seemed to choke on my name: Vojislav. When pronounced correctly, it's "voice love", but nobody outside the territory of ex-Yugoslavia knows how to read it correctly.

When it came to buying coffee and stuff like that, I had the choice of explaining my name ad nauseum or adopting an easier one. I decided to call myself "Boris", thanks to telemarketers who would recover from my name by changing it to something they could deal with ;-)

Anyway, that worked quite fine for years and years, until it started failing, ironically at the Starbucks inside a mall with the highest concentration of tourists and immigrants. I would say "Boris" and two times out of five they would write down "Maurice".

The cherry on top inevitable came five minutes later, when a different barista would call out "Mauricio".

Fortunately, I moved before I gave in to temptation to do what a friend of mine did on a regular basis: give "Spongebob" as his name :P
If you don't include "regaining access to your code because you upset somebody and they filed a false DMCA complaint that GitHub blindly obeyed" as admin work then you're indeed correct!
One of the things I love about using edX, which I wish would become a standard for everything - synchronized transcripts for videos [1].

1: http://i.imgur.com/sYHfGHe.png
I think my comment is going to be that, from reading the parent, I understand that functional programming moves the code to the data and not the data through the code.

I can't do the mental gymnastics to think about the code that way.

When I think about the purpose of the code, the result of the code, before the code has been written, I do this by "compiling and running" in my head. Of course, there's no actual compiling. There's just thinking.

When I reason about the code, either code I'm going to write, code I wrote, or code other people wrote, I execute the code in my head.

I'm currently building a web-scraping system, to look information on partner web site. I'm using python 3, selenium, pyodbc to sql server. I'm also developing the same in C# (3.5) using the webbrowser component in systems.forms. It's got a lot of moving parts, lots of languages involved. I read the documentation for the tools, then I assemble in my head, essentially "running the code" in my head, and then, once all the edge cases are dealt with (are there iframes, popups, ajax async calls, flash and pdfs) then I design on paper, with boxes, and then, later, later, if it all works in my head, then I code it.

Can't do that if I can't reason in my head about what the program is going to do, exactly.

Functional Programming, for me, does not fit in my mental model, so I can't use it, regardless of actual implementation.
>Way to side step the fact that MonkeyParking was basically a service that encourage people to hoard parking spaces for money.

Has MonkeyParking been around long enough to determine if people are "hoarding" spaces to broker the info? After a certain length of time the four or five bucks you could earn is offset by wasting time sitting in your car waiting for info purchaser. I don't live in a city as congested as SF but I could never imagine waiting more than about 5-10 minutes (even that's a stretch) before deciding "fuck it, I don't need 4 bucks that bad".
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The 10,000 Hours Myth: Practice Predicts Only 12% of Performance
Louis Zamperini, inspiration for 'Unbroken,' dead at 97
I'm British and in the US I have to deliberately say "Daaayn" so as not to be called Don.
I was more thinking they need to highlight the first character and allow Alt- shortcuts to work...
while ; do kill -s USR1 $(pgrep '^dd$'); sleep 5; done
They'd rather you just not call at all (and waste your own time figuring out how to fix it yourself or get around it).

Time Warner Cable has started charging $5 for anybody who wants to talk to a human being regarding billing[0]. They even told me once that their billing department couldn't take a credit card over the phone (I kid you not!) so I had to go to their in-person store the next day[1]. They really just don't care about optimizing their workflow that much - they already have a profitable monopoly and a captive audience, so why rock the boat?

I'm fairly certain they actively increase the minimum length of support calls specifically to discourage people from calling unless things are really serious (impossible to fix themselves).

[0] This may not be everywhere, but I've received the message when I've called

[1] To be more complete: it actually required several phone transfers, and when I finally went in-person, they told me that I should have just done it over the phone.

EDIT Changed "at all" to "that much" - obviously they do in some cases, but the question is how much effort (and therefore money) are they going to spend on what is essentially a work-free cash cow?
> It also said that SF wanted to introduce a demand based system for parking, which meant it would be a few cents if nobody needed the space and $6 if everyone wanted a space. Of course such a system wasn't realized.

Demand based parking meters exist in SF. They've been tested in various areas since 2011. They also have an app that helps you find parking using the same sensors that adjust the price.

See: http://sfpark.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFpark
Nintendo seems like it's firmly attached to a narrow business plan and wants to ride that into the ground. At the very least they could be toying with the phone market by releasing mini-games or something under a "nintendo mobile" name.

Tons of people would download that stuff. It would at least get their feet wet, get some developers up to speed and get them some idea of what they can or can't do with the mobile market with probably very little risk.
the ironic thing about that site is that it's run by calm.com :)
'Seriously, the difference between "last founder" and "first employee" is so huge that people who can derive their day to day motivation from equity should be founders.'

I think this is spot-on.
Well, even common names have many variants floating around, that's the point. I tend to cut people slack on things like names given that I can never remember how to spell things like commitment (two ms? two ts? both?!) without a spellchecker getting my back.
I don't actually hold the view expressed. I've just been trying (and failing) to find a compelling way to articulate the following point: "The FISA court's warrant system is flawed because the validity of its warrants or their execution are never checked because the warrants aren't actually used to bring criminal cases."

So, I thought I'd try sarcasm. But I couldn't come up with a concise way to address the fact that parallel construction means that their info actually is used in criminal cases. Oh well, back to the drafting board...
I would amend that to: "Is it any surprise the bureaucracy wishes to protect the bureaucracy?"
Is there support for saving/restoring window layouts? I find that feature very handy in Slate when removing/adding external monitors.
In the U.S., insurance is regulated by the states and each state has a regulatory agency where one can go with complaints about insurance companies. I find it surprising that the abused customer in this story didn't file a complaint with the government. That would have probably made the insurance company stand up and take notice much more than complaining about them on Twitter.
Proud?
Policy restrictions on using instruments for open-sourcing independent work?
Most companies give away laptops/mobile phones etc to employees while they join.Some of them ask people to sign specific legal documents to mention that , one would use them only for official instruments.Some prevent people from working on an open-source project ,labeling all such work as their intellectual property.This prevents people from officially contributing to open-source projects.This prevents people from learning and growth.Is there any solution for this?
Everyone is making decisions about spending their capital every day so decisions are quite distributed.

I think you meant that it works better when capital is evenly distributed. I don't know if that is true but there seems to be lots of evidence that it doesn't work well when its distribution is largely determined by who can steal the most (as is the case with the current system).
Indeed, looks like GNU coreutils dd responds to SIGUSR1 on linux and SIGINFO on linux. That's good to know. What's the reason for this discrepancy?
And the best in software make tens of millions. What is your point? If we're comparing outliers, software engineers at software firms win by a long shot.
If we are to accept that some who seek privacy and security are good and innocent, we also need to accept that some who seek those same things can also be bad.
Telling you total outstanding number of shares is required before you can have any idea what level of equity you are receiving. If they can't tell you that, then you have one problem. If they won't tell you, then you have another. Either way, I would be concerned.