skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming founders were working on this for past 10 years straight, 16 hours every single day without taking any vacations or weekend days off whatsoever, their pay rate would have been $1,700 every hour assuming they receive only 10% of this pie each. Well deserved for all the "risks" they took to avoid regular jobs, eat ramen everyday or innovations they contributed to the advancement of mankind? Multi-Billionaires typically make equivalent of $100,000 every single hour. I often joke that Paul Allen charged Microsoft shareholders $10,000 per character for the code he wrote. Next time when you type if in your program, take a breath and think what if someone paid 20 grands just for doing that. That's how it feels like to get billion dollar payout.
Yes, an API would be a great fit.
I can imagine using Transit as a format to communicate between servers, but I'm less sold on the JS story. If I'm exposing an API endpoint to the browser I'm also exposing it as an API endpoint. In this case I need a really good reason to not use JSON, which everyone understands and can parse. Adding a barrier to people using my API just doesn't make sense. It's fairly standard for single page apps to consume a public API, so I think this will be a fairly common objection.

Also, Computer Modern is so so so ugly (IMHO of course).
https://www.bitwage.co/about#t6
I appreciate your sharing that information, although it's a depressing outcome. Understanding how systemic bias can start so early offers important lessons for reducing it (and the economic waste attendant upon it).
> Seth absolutely deserves to have a forum to tell his version of the story, but I find it more than a little annoying that after everything he's done, he's still able to leverage his position as a YC Founder to ensure that his version of the story gets more attention than anyone else's.

I'm really interested to hear about the other side of the story. Any links?
It's actually the postal worker unions that are to blame for the piles of adverts you get each day. There have been a couple bills to end junk mail, but the unions fight them tooth and nail on the grounds that junk mail counts as free speech. Of course, much (some might say most) of the mail you get is crap. Without that crap there's less mail to move, and consequently less workers to do the moving.
I've had a lot of trouble here too. Too often, the languages crowd will care more about the language itself rather than the problems you are solving with it. Most recently, I designed an algebraic query language, and some Haskellers were like... and it's written in Scala?

I don't know about you, but I'd rather do real math (or at least take a stab at it) in Scala than write more routing web frameworks in Haskell. Ideally, I would be writing it in Haskell (or Idris ;)) but the lack of willingness to cross over to the other side and interact with "normal" programmers really hurts us, and I'm honestly a little fed up with the fundamentalism. There are really smart folks out there with a lot of domain experience that we alienate when we blow off stepping stone languages like Scala.
An illustrated book of bad arguments
If they wished to conceal information, why admit to bad behavior on their child's part in the first place? On hearing of the suspension of the author's child, they volunteered information about their own children, including one story of a child that caused another to be hospitalized, but was not suspended for it.
Ask HN: name-app.com or nameapp.com?
http://commitcoffee.com/
I thought that the big advantage of MessagePack was that it was smaller and quicker over networks. Network effects are the biggest cause of delay when transferring data to remote machines and are much bigger than serialization performance.

The localhost testing done in the article will not show this advantage of MessagePack.
Apple Rumors – Not exciting anymore
You can use 'exiftool' on Linux to manipulate the EXIF data, get rid of the thumbnail, or set it to whatever you want. Imagemagick's 'convert' command also has a '-strip' option that will get rid of all EXIF data including any thumbnails.
Hey Alexis - have you evolved completely from kn0thing these days? (Wow does that sound meta-physical. Haven't we all evolved from nothing?)

I find the whole 'real name online' discussion fascinating, and would love to hear your thoughts / experience. (Apologies if my google-fu has failed to produce any previous explanation on your part.)
There is one example: “My son threw something at a kid on purpose and the kid had to be rushed to the hospital,” another parent said. “All I got was a phone call.”
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Yeah, I thought it was interesting space for speculation. 'S why I tried nodding toward it. Don't really know enough of the history to get terribly concrete, but that roughly corresponds to my understanding. Both the actual history and what might be theoretically possible are fascinating.
Aside from the strategy failure case, I believe that Microsoft assumes that a large portion of the initial value will be lost in the first two years- 50% of the business is usually uninteresting to Microsoft and either shutdown or quite frequently re-sold, 50% of the employees either are not offered jobs with the transition, choose not to transition to MS, or leave quickly. Then very frequently a good chunk of the code needs to be re-written to get it working with the rest of Microsoft's stack.

This doesn't mean that an acquisition is an automatic failure, just that it needs to drive more sales to become a success- either by direct sales or complementing other products. Know how to create a $200m business? Increase Windows sales by 1%. (steveb).
Are We Ready to Use Flexbox?
The coming dictatorship in the USA will be established via Executive Order. Mark my words.
Along the same lines, I remember an MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle once where there were hidden clues in a PostScript document. If you didn't think to look at the PostScript source you probably had no hope of solving it.
OP said "invest", not "speculate".
Leave generous margins. JPEGs can have compression artifacts that leak information outside the boundaries of the object.
Probably not. Here are enough public mailing lists to use as training sets I think. They could have used company mail to train on as well.
Personally I think its absolutely ridiculous I paid $3000 for my Mac Book pro and I don't have a numpad with crucial keys like home, end, page up and down because they wanted the the track pad in the center. My old vaio laptop that was the same size fit the numpad just fine. I ended up buying having to buy one just because I was much slower at programming without it.
If multiple providers were leasing the fiber, they could compete on how they handle the data on the other side of the last mile: how they're connected to other networks (peering and transit), price, oversubscription rates, acceptable use policy, willingness to install caching boxes provided by content providers, what services are included and their quality (dns/mail/vpn/homepage/news/shell).
If you're an employee travelling on business, your company might have a per-night budget for hotel accommodation. If your budget is $150, then you can't stay in a $160 hotel. You _can_ probably stay in a $150 hotel which charges $15/night for internet access. You'll expense the hotel (within the budget) and expense the internet access fee (reasonable expense whilst travelling).

The hotel gets an additional customer. The employee gets to stay at a slightly more expensive place than the official budget allows. The employer loses.

I'm ignoring the speed/latency/packet-loss etc., of course.
Kalid, I just read your article on Prime numbers (not-quite randomly selected from the homepage). I just wanted to say how well written I found it - even beyond the technical side of things, your writing style, tone, and humility ("if I didn't mess it up") are fabulous.
>But looking at that graph, especially the non-smoothed light-grey line, I'd say we need another 10 years of data to be sure that we are in a new pattern.

Ok, imagine it's a decade hence and we're all "sure" the Western US is in a new climate pattern (most likely because it's gotten worse).

What happens then?
The Concert Programmer
Yes and no.

Yes, costs naturally will be lower after the initial large capital expenditure.

No, this so called modern cabling has not resulted in cheaper and faster access fees. Americans pay some of the highest fees for comparable speeds. [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24528383

Lastly, the flip side of the coin is that if the ISPs figure out they can still make $$$ from not having to invest in upgrading infrastructure, then there is very incentive to do so.
Salesforce's Apex language is case insensitive. It leads to a a lot of confusion, frustration, and distress when different programmers have their personal preferred style of referring to a class or var or when the lazy ones just write everything in lowercase. Never again.
>A Postfunctional Language

Is it a web-scale cloud big data language?

>The essential parts of functional programming were all absorbed into Scala

All the "essential" parts of functional programming are present in assembly (i.e. none of them). How can one possibly quantify "essential" here? A purely functional languages has a lot of benefits over a mixed-paradigm language, and vice versa.
Yes, an interesting definition of failing (I'd be happy to fail like that). Incidentally, you may be pleased to know that I continue to use the FogBugz homepage / website as my go-to example of great 'websites that sell stuff'.
Didn't have time / resources to find out. GAE consumed a lot of my time (until I realized it).
Joel is definitely a hero (to me) but I think this is unfortunately very far from conventional industry wisdom. Conventional industry wisdom is SW is easy, all SW people are interchangeable cogs, stick them in a cubicle and micromanage them...
This is very exciting at one level. We need a project like this to accomplish a "Species" level map of our biology.

Knowing a little bit about how data moves thru the Labs &
clinics systems however, and the widespread tentacles of bad actors like the NSA, this could be too juicy a prize to ignore.
What is to prevent the Feds (for instance) from knocking on their doors with an NSL for the data based on some trumped up link?
You'd have to use hydrogen. It's more dangerous of course, but it should be doable.
nameapp.com seems to be the preferred option in my circle, because its more pronounceable, and can be easily mentioned in a conversation without the "yea, thats a hyphen..so name hyphen app dot com..yea, the little line is the hyphen.."
That doesn't answer my question. A non-Canadian contest runner how no legal reason to ban Quebecers, correct? Obviously it's not good practice to let people into your contest if their government forbids it, but some contest runners might lack integrity and others might lack the legal knowledge/experience to even be aware of the problem, so it's certainly possible for someone to at least attempt payout to a Quebecer. What happens then?
>> or a company like Bitwage builds some other part of the ecosystem, bitcoin becomes a little more useful.

>I suppose this is all great if you want to use bitcoin because of your political persuasion.

I expect so. It's also great if you believe that the legacy financial system is inefficient and may improve if it is threatened by external competition. From your comments here, you do believe that, I think?

As you've said, casting this as a discussion of politics or monetary policy distracts from the practical issues. So let's avoid that. Your comment, which I cited above, seems to be assuming that my interest in this is political or ideological. It's not.

In fact, based on that comment, you appear to be assuming that anyone who 'supports' Bitcoin does so purely for political reasons. Is that really how you feel? I think that is far from the truth, anyway.

To be honest, I know very little about Bitwage. I replied to you because I think you've made some very broad assumptions about cryptocurrencies, which differ from reality somewhat. As I have used cryptocurrencies extensively, I've tried to explain how I think reality is more nuanced than these assumptions.
I'd like to see a European country that tries to censor where its citizens can go, where money determines the outcome of elections and that's not an actual democracy go out and preach to other countries about how 'free speech' is more important and therefore its citizens are more free than those of other countries around it.

Freedom is an absolute in theory only, just about every country in the world loses out on one or more dimensions of it but somehow the US has the general idea that it and it alone is somehow the bastion of freedom.
The point is that the price will move to reduce demand to some level that's sustainable. That probably means critical infrastructure.
Decoding the Google Answer Box Algorithm – a SERP Research on 10.353 Keywords
You don't think that surviving for 8 years without raising funding counts as "bootstrapped"?
Smarter clients (and I agree that there are plenty of not-so-smart clients), will actually double-check on these things before buying in various ways. They can, for example, request an evaluation version to use, check with the support department exactly what's actually supported, or simply have them demonstrate exactly how the product can meet that requirement.

I'm sure there are more ways of doing that too, though, so these are just my observations. And yeah, don't trust the sales guys :)
>Additionally, you're working with the knowledge that once you install Haskell Platform, you need to update cabal-install

Well, you don't really need to. It will work fine even if you don't (and I think it notifies you to upgrade if an upgrade is available). You don't even need to use cabal to get started.

> there's still the issue of dealing with package conflicts which happens frequently in Haskell and is non-trivial to deal with for a newcomer.

How strange. I've done quite a few Haskell projects and never run into this. I didn't start using Cabal sandboxes until recently.
Outlook grim for orbiting Russian zero-G sex geckos
Isn't the current battle that municipal fiber is a government overreach into an area that should be managed by the private sector? /s
Well, not on my own server but yeah. I'm planning on making a Linux and Mac versions since this is basically Node-Webkit and an embedded website, and can be easily done, but I'm experimenting currently. I will make something like that soon. Also Android App is in the works too.

Edit: Also if you want you can download Node-Webkit and the source code of my app and probably build a release. I don't have a mac to test.
It's one of the most frequently required libraries in individual files, too. So it's bigger than just being a dependency that's required by rails.
Also, HN doesn't have a private messaging feature. If users don't put their email in the free-text field on their profile, there's no way to get in touch with them privately.
Don't worry, you probably already are, as "person that worries too much about his privacy, most probably has something to hide" ;)
Tell that to people of Eastern Europe, where 10 years ago it was a free-for-all build-your-network without any regulation or state intervention.

At one time I had half a dozen ISPs at my door to choose from, from companies with 100 subscribers to corporations with half a million household customers. Thank you, Capitalism, for offering me a gigabit connection for $16.8 per month (btw, my ISP just reduced their price from $18 per month a couple of months ago).

Seriously, how the hell do some people think that local authorities imposing restrictions/roadblocks on building of new last-mile alternatives is "capitalism"?
I had this exact issue - my entire workflow revolves around GitHub (and by extension, GitHub Issues). Eventually found waffle.io and have been using it ever since, as it's quite Trello-like.
So true... I've stayed at the fairmont in SF and San Jose, both of which charge $15 for slow internet (unless you opt for the club where they usually bill you anyway and use your information to bombard you with ads). They even charge for the crap gym haha. I tend to steer clear now
Hyphen/minus. ASCII 0x2D or EBCDIC 0x60.
Interesting, if honest mistake: railsmachine.com is hiring in "Remote, USA". If you look that up, it actually exists as an aptly named wide spot on the road in Oregon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote,_Oregon

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Remote,+OR+97458/@43.00594...
Thank you Jacob, I really appreciate it. I try to imagine that I'm writing to a younger version of myself, who hasn't seen the material yet. It helps me remove potential anxiety about not knowing everything, or trying to impress -- there's no reason to deceive yourself about what you do or don't know.
Yes, you're right, I really appreciate your tip.
Other apps l usually generates fake content, and I didn't want to do that.
Show HN: Taptain Colors – My First Android/iOS Game
>I am all in favor of low water gardening, but you are not going to save us from the drought by getting rid of lawns.

That's why you replace the lawns with zero-maintenance[1] food forests.

Water? Rainwater irrigates the garden, suburbs having an abundance of 100% runoff surfaces like streets, roofs, etc that are usually mismanaged. Reforestation is critical, since ~80% of inland rainfall comes from transpiration.[2]

In deserts (read: much of California), minimizing evaporation is key. You also need to harvest the infrequent (and torrential) rains that do happen. If you have a floods followed months later by droughts, that should tell you that your water system isn't set up correctly. ;)

Global warming? How about instead of driving to the supermarket, having the produce section is right outside your door? Since an acre of farm-land is now CO2 positive, this is a big win.

Fertilizer? Municipal-scale composting of human wastes[3] can safely close the nutrient cycle. In a zero-maintenance system the "weeds" build soil, fix nitrogen, eat minerals, and attract support species like pest-eaters and pollinators (which are really "seed spreaders", since they let the plants re-seed themselves).

One challenge is that zero-maintenance food systems can look "messy" to the suburban eye

[1] Do you have time to tend a garden?

[2] http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~jjgibson/mypdfs/nature11983...

[3] e.g. http://www.milorganite.com/Using-Milorganite/What-is-It
iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/app/taptain-colors/id883199209

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated :)!
Sad to think I remember the days when you just wired D0 to D0, D1 to D1, D2 to D2, etc.
Segment.io (YC S11) is hiring success engineers
In most cases that's not really an advantage at all. We already have a system like this: public transport.

Public transport seems to be generally rather bad in the US, which might make self-driving cars seem useful but other parts of the world often have better public transport and self-driving cars seem a lot less exciting here.
Hotel chains are in a far worse situation: I stayed twice in a Novotel and I had to pay for a crap wifi, I'll never cross their path again.
Ask HN: % of time idle of a router wifi?
Leaving aside the fact that it depends on factors such as the network traffic or the quantity of clients, how much time is the router wifi just.. you know, waiting?
Image comparison slider with pure CSS
Honestly, that sounds like a sad place to work. If the name just sounds "silly" you must not be working around software people that are very knowledgeable about the industry, otherwise they would know about FogBugz and Joel by now. I imagine many "enterprise" places are probably like that.
Thanks! I am indeed quite pleased when the Creekers get recognition for all the great work they do.
Barycentric Coordinate Systems
They're trivial to learn. I don't see how people can use that as an excuse. Imagine someone saying "I don't understand traffic lights, they're so confusing."
Wthr Innovative World Weather Forecast and HD Radar App Continues to Top iTunes
Skinny Nude Girl Selfpic (April 26)
I believe it's a Photoshop thing, rather than something common to all images. Photoshop in general does unusual things.

See also: http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/exiftool/forum/index.php?topic=451...
Understanding Design Patterns
Sounds less like an oxygen problem, and more like a carbon-monoxide problem. Which are somewhat similar.
We can thank our lucky stars that those in organised cybercrime never have access to vast troves of credit card information...

That's, after all, just an permutation of the 'use scraped email addresses to create realistic-looking fake email addresses'. I think anyone wanting to use this for damage wouldn't be stopped by some CC requirement, especially if it's not charged.
Same here. I always was super interested in mathematics and still am. To have this resource to learn about where it all "came from" and how it actually works is great. Will read it on my commute as well!
It's partially lossy, from the look of it (you can see circular artifacts), but you're right that enough is recoverable to make it meaningless in terms of hiding data.
Ethereum is undeniably innovative (the first crypto currency that incorporates a Turing complete language). It certainly is a very risky investment but a scam?
When you say "If a country starts censoring the Internet, more servers will spring up in response." can you confirm that you (or I, as the person running the servers/service) would have to initiate the spin up?

I want to read "more servers spring up in response" to mean that the program automatically detects censorship using proxies in each country (or some other magic?) and creates new servers if it detects blockages, but I have a sense that that would be too good to be true...
"Wthr" Accurate Weather Forecast App on iTunes Store
Very interesting. I'm now wondering if Travis CI is collecting any code usage statistics? I'd imagine that they would have a more application-centric view on the rubygems ecosystem. Also, since they are actually executing code, they could potentially collect data on constants and method calls, I believe.
Amazon employee buzzes Seattle's Space Needle with drone
It's not completely fixed. My guess is that only certain Airport Express cards are affected, as I have some machines that fail to reconnect and others that are fine.
Not really.

The problem was traced to a faulty Breathing Regulator/Anti-G (BRAG) valve. The value issue, combined with breathing technique issues caused the problems.
>Too often, the languages crowd will care more about the language itself rather than the problems you are solving with it.

If they didn't, you'd probably not call them "the languages crowd" and we'd never get any new inspirational theories and principles out of them.
No, actually that's roughly the original definition of the word. But then word definitions change over time, and it's now come to be equated with free market capitalism where the capital is privately held. So you're not entirely mistaken in pointed that out.

Then again if we go by the common usage, communism is an entirely useless word, as it has come to mean "whatever china is doing".
Are there other resources like this on Math?
BundleWrap. Decentralized configuration management system
I found about BW from Python Weekly and want to know if anybody here is using it and how it compares to Fabric.
Sad also that I've still got pristine 6116 2Kx8-bit memory chips at home, and maintaining the delusion that one day they might be useful.

http://web.mit.edu/6.115/www/datasheets/6116.pdf