skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And as someone not in the U.S. with an unreliable ISP, t.co just flat-out times out half the time unless you modify your DNS settings to point to OpenDNS or Google or something.

I understand the value of being able to track click-throughs and quantify virality or whatever, but there really needs to be a better way to do this.
A site that is not Amazon asked for my Amazon username and password. Uh, nope the fuck out of here. That account has access to my credit card information and home address.
Procedural generation isn't a magic substitute for creativity, it's a tool that requires lots of time and skill. Toady has put the work into it, and it shows.
I think that the writer has somewhat misread the situation.

Occupational health and safety is often perceived by management as little more than an bureaucratic burden. Of course in an ideal world all managers would put people above profit, but that's probably not a realistic expectation. By illustrating the real financial costs to business of health and safety lapses, this game helps drag the agenda of a business into alignment with the objectives of OSHA. The take-away message is that risk assessment and mitigation is an essential part of business decision making, not merely a checklist that needs to be ticked off to satisfy an inspector.
Sorry, meant to write seed not Series A, mea culpa. I am very sympathetic to your reasoning, especially considering I'm interviewing with other AAA companies and startups that are offering 120k+ & benefits, so it's not like I'm short on opportunities.

But being an early tech hire is quite appealing, especially if the company takes off. Thanks for the post.
The real purpose of the author was to champion "more humane" leadership, and projecting Sathya as the evil, cold, ruthless leader seems to have their way to do that. The title is link bait more than anything else.
Among Mobile App Developers, The Middle Class Has Disappeared – ReadWrite
How to turn off this feature: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Features/Application_Reput...
Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation
i got a job offer with a highly reputable startup with ~30 employees and a 50m valuation.

i am a software engineer with a top b.s., state school m.s., and two years of experience (in which i was very successful). i am currently unemployed; my last salary was 96k and i had 0.2% of a 40 employee / 20m valuation company.

i was offered 100k and 0.07%. i thought the equity offered was very low, and asked for 100k and 0.22%. the company came back with 106k and 0.07%, or 100k and 0.08% (i guess they want to keep their equity). they claimed that this offer is in 75th percentile of comparable companies.

i am talking to them in person tomorrow. i'm scraping salary data from angel.co at the moment. what else should i do/know?

thanks!
Facebook Marketing: 4 Wrong Moves You Should Stop Making On Facebook
I'd like music to get distributed via BitTorrent, monetized with Bitcoin, licensed under the Creative Commons, and formatted using open formats without DRM.

That'd be hugely valuable to me. That means I can pay for music that I have control over, that I'm not banned from remixing because of an invisible contract I accept when I listen to the music.
I liked "Midwest Dental Arts", in the group described as "The company's acronym cut in two colors by an arc (usually Trajan font)". All the other logos in the group have a downwards-concave arc; the dental logo is concave upwards, like a smile. It may be a little hokey, but it's the only one in the group that's playing with the cliche.
Fed Reserve Refuses to Submit to an Audit of Germany’s Gold Held in U.S. Vaults
Check out Universim.
Oh, but this is where you're wrong; you seem to think one only values privacy if they're scared of black helicopters, but that's not the case. I value my privacy because I dislike the everyday intrusions on people's lives. As Raoul Vaneigem wrote, "The economy of everyday life is based on a continuous exchange of humiliations and aggressive attitudes", and tracking is nothing more than an automated and therefore efficient version of this.

Besides, privacy is like vaccination - it also needs herd immunity. If everyone is exposed, the few "important" people who really need it will stand out like a sore thumb.
Yes; in fact they have videos showing the whole stack re-entering and doing a propulsive landing (one at a time, of course.)

The second stage will need a re-entry heat shield, but otherwise can land like the first. Tricky part is getting enough margin in the second stage for the landing fuel and legs and heat shield. Usually the top stage is the one you optimize most heavily. So plausible, but tricky.

Good news is that the second stage is much cheaper than the first, at least on the F9. Eight fewer engines, for one.
Don't fly drones here
They used solar panels as an example. If anyone succedes
in making much smaller inverters the technology will be
used everywhere.

I applaud Google for doing this! I think Google knows there's a bunch of undisovered Einstein's in the world, and they just using the Internet to find them?

I like contests like this. I thought Bill Gates condom
contest was a great idea.
But also without subsidies and a limited selection of iPad specific apps as well as less of a defined role in between smartphones and PCs.
Your comments in this thread are about dismissing the message of the article, by reversing the roles (you talk about men being "harassed" by this article), by using rhetoric analysis (which looks to me like an excuse to share two links that have nothing to do with the article).

Sure, anyone can pick flaws in an article, especially in a piece of opinion like this one. One could go on and on about how this is biased, how that is a fallacy, how this is a red herring. That's usually the vast majority of comments you'd get on articles about women condition in our society/our communities. Thing is, this is not a mathematical demonstration or a scientific call for review.

What I didn't like about your comment is that you don't show the faintest sign of empathy towards what women in the video game industry might endure, and that you actually put a fair amount of energy dismissing what I see as a call for reflection, or help.

What I like about the other comments in this thread is the "shit, I never knew that was broken, thanks for the article, what could we do to fix it?" mentality that I generally see in HN threads about technology, hacking, health, etc.
The Driver-Focused Human Machine Interface
* Ideally it would be integrated within the hospitals EMR (really tough, given the reluctance of EMR's to work with outside solution providers.."*

Hospitals and clinics know that they need to open up and share data, but they're frozen in place by outdated technology and a (mostly valid) fear of accidentally violating HIPAA.
The best advice I ever heard about logos was from Mat Groening, creator of Simpsons and Futurama. He said, "Whenever I make a main character, I try to make them recognizable as a simple black and white silhouette". Think about Bart, Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bender, Fry, Leela. All of them instantly recognizable with just a few solid lines.

If you do the same with your logo, it will be super memorable and recognizable. Think about all the best ones -- Nike, Apple, Mcdonalds. The reddit logo and HN's "Y" follow that rule too.
Select2 3.5.1 released
Temple U Researchers Eliminate HIV Virus from Cultured Human Cells
Bob Mould: An Old Punk Kicks New Ass
I love these.

People might enjoy noodling around the Geisswerks pages which have many code snippets around ray tracing; graphic demos; and so on.

http://www.geisswerks.com/
Ask HN: Which websites do you follow for market research on mobile apps?
Social networks and learning/recommendation features are a cause of rather than the solution to this problem.

These cookie-cutter logos are churned out in "design competitions" where designers have social proof of what people actually buy and/or their peers upvote to base their designs on. The conclusion is that using the last set of successful designs as a template is far more likely to be chosen than anything genuinely original (as well as quicker to knock out when you're not being paid by the hour and the tools you have at your disposal are very conducive to tweaking). See also the dominance of the "ten reasons why this Buzzfeed article will grab more attention than your thoroughly-researched article" school of churnalism. Ultimately, lowering the barriers to becoming a gatekeeper or influencer has a far worse effect on quality than lowering the barriers to producing something vaguely competent, and both flood the market with mediocrity.

On the flip-side, many well known companies spend millions on rebranding and get similarly generic logos, and ten years ago the people commissioning most of these would probably have wound up with something involving clipart.
The initial assumption was 40 missions a year. Based on the estimated risks you might get 100 missions from a shuttle on average. So 5 orbitors * 100 / 40 = 12.5 years or ~ 10 years with an early loss. They where in service for 30 years and averaged 4.5 missions per year.

For comparison compare the matence cycle a low mileage 0 to 10 year old car vs a low mileage 15 to 30 year old car.
If you're looking to join this company that doesn't even have a prototype and has no technical people, then I would consider yourself to be a founder. If you want to be a founder, 140k would probably be too high at this point for a salary, but I would be looking for at least 20% equity.

If you don't want to be a founder, then keep looking.
FAA tells U.S. airlines not to fly to Tel Aviv
Facebook Ads Risk Operation : This decision is final
So we're a startup from Toronto, with in-house developers from Sri Lanka (2nd base). We tried to advertise a completely legit website on Facebook. After sending several Government Photo ID's to facebook, they enabled our Facebook Page but kept our Ads account blocked. We wrote to them once more, and we got back an email saying this.

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Hi Wojka,

Our records indicate that your payments account was disabled due to suspected fraudulent activity. In the interest of protecting our users, we will not be able to reenable your payments account. This decision is final.

Thanks for your understanding,

{{removed the name for privacy}}

Risk Operation

Facebook

---

That's all.. so Facebook doesn't want our business because we have people who use the account from overseas? Even after showing government ID's from two of our co-founders from Toronto.. that's a shame.. guess I will just have to look elsewhere.. Err (Google Adwords)... Oh and I love the fact that they said "Thanks for your understanding".
I would imagine if the rocket weren't traveling so fast, they could put wings on it and glide the thing back. That would save a lot of the 30% extra fuel if the weight penalty wasn't that significant. Adding more fuel definitely seems easier.
>It should also be noted that the odds of startup success (to an extent where you literally never have to work again) is quite unlikely.

Eh, I mostly agree, if you mean the typical "swing for the fences" kind of startup. But, I think there is awareness of this, for example, the PG essay I linked to a couple messages back mentioned that a 100% chance of a million bucks, to someone without money, is worth a heck of a lot more than a 20% chance at ten million bucks. (obviously, the latter is worth rather more to people who have enough money to amortize out the chances.)

The thing is, you don't need to do a swing for the fences kind of startup if you don't want to. Before this latest investment craze, HN was very big on bootstrapping. I've been running my own bootstrapped company for the last decade or so, and while I am right now attempting to recover from some very bad choices, and thus am doing poorly, for a while, it was pretty nice. I had a very flexible life. I have been able to hire nearly all of my siblings, at one point in time or another; as far as spending time with friends and family goes, my company has been quite successful. I was able to work as much as I wanted, or scale back to very little.

Being your own business, even if that business is, say, contracting, is one way to get a lot more flexibility out of your life. When my income was mostly selling my own labor, I'd sometimes work for other people one year on/one year off. (Timed so I worked 6 months out of each tax year)

Now, I mostly worked on my own stuff on the years off, but the strategy would work just as well if I wanted to work a tax-minimizing half-time schedule. As far as I can tell, it's way easier to get a good-paying part-time job as a contractor than as a full-time W2.
I rolled every page for a while. But after I had fifty pages (most migrated from old blog), changing the template was a waste of my time. Strictly speaking, a tool like laser[0] could have helped, but I am young in clojure-fu.

I currently use piecrust[1] to statically generate my markdown through twig (templates) and push these to my site host nearlyfreespeech via ssh. It's pay as you go; I've not needed a dB or CGI, and those are not forced on me. Perhaps I'll be punished if I ever get front paged, but YNGNI.

I am trying out metalsmith[2] instead, as I'm more familiar with javascript than php and hence can make plugins for the various bits I need.

0. https://github.com/Raynes/laser

1. http://bolt80.com/piecrust/

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7361824
LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. LMDB for In Memory Datasets
How'd you pull the video? There's a couple on there I'd like to cache
I went with "un" refactoring last night. But yeah, maybe a longer name is better.

un.Map, un.Reduce have a certain ring to them.
I think the "constraints" he had in mind were more like what we would call "implementation details." What if someone told you, "sort this list of a million words as fast as you can, but the constraint is you have to use a bubble sort." Think of a CEO with $50M in the bank telling his CTO, "build a best-of-breed product, but you can only hire two new engineers this year."
Jekyll with GitHub Pages is a great solution, but it's worth mentioning that other static site generators serve the same purpose and may be a better fit for you, depending on your preferences. Hyde is a very flexible static site generator based on Django, and Metalsmith is a very promising static site generator built on Node. Whatever static site generator you use, hosting on S3 is easy and cheap, and it's easy to automate deployments via Grunt or Gulp.
Not really. Even Apple will tell you that Excel is the best software to do serious spreadsheet work on a Mac. Numbers is for consumer oriented / home budget applications.
Here in South America, usually is more money, devs aren't paid that high.

Another factor is boring projects, but as you grow older, you start realizing that boring projects pays the bills.
I agree with this mostly other than the huge salary in relation to the amount of equity.
You could use a SWATH style ship - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_waterplane_area_twin_hull

They get very little wave loading due to having semi-submersible hulls, much like an oil rig.
There are several kinds of infinite. The kind where assuming the universe can be arbitrarily large would eventually allow you to encounter a parallel or subtly divergent Earth, with a historic Napoleon and where people speak Hindi, probably isn't the kind of universe we inhabit.
Some people have a problem with t.co but remember, Twitter builds 100% of their anti spam and virus protection into t.co, so bypassing it exposes you to security issues.
Redis fork that supports Graphs
F# at least pushes you into a functional style; its support for classes is just interop; this is as opposed to Scala, which really innovates on Java OO. OCaml is specifically OO (hence the O in the name), though with lots of functional features. SML and Scheme...are SML and Scheme. They don't fit nicely into OO or FP buckets.

Would you consider C# to be a functional language? It has lazy streams, generators, and good support for list comprehensions? Or is it just an OO language with functional features?
I was madly loving svbtle until one day someone pointed out that you can't access or even export your list of email subscribers, so essentially you are building a mailing list for Svbtle not you.
Thanks for that. Context is everything with these explosive words.
Google Play Store rating/recommendation system is broken and how to fix it
My Three Hour Hack got featured on Gizmodo (As well as Mashable, BI, Huff Post)
Tel Aviv's Tech Hub Scrambles Amid Disruptions
Where is this company located? If it's Silicon Valley, those numbers are very low. If it's Idaho, that's a different story. So we need to know that, and more importantly, we need to know what salary you want (is the $100k and 0.22% what you really want, or what you thought they'd agree to?).

First of all, I hope you didn't tell them that $96k number before they offered $100k. If so, you screwed yourself by anchoring your offer to a low previous salary.

Second, if they are even discussing salary, it means they like you and they have already mentally committed to you. Going back to the drawing board will mean weeks or months of reading resumes, interviews, negotiations, and possibly recruiting fees which will cost easily $20-40k. In that light, giving you $20k extra would be a bargain. The fact that they went from $96k to $106k proves that.

Third, I wouldn't let equity be the deciding factor (that could just be me), since it could be worth $0 (and 90% of the time it probably is).

As far as negotiating, I suggest you read this post in full: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Hadapt Acquired by Teradata
Why it's ironic when a spreadsheet is used to do computation by people who do not understand different software?
Another piece of advice, you might want to look into the other two founders' background and investigate how long they have been working together. You don't want to deal with a founder breakup.
Depends on the rig. There are plenty of rigs in 5000' feet of water and I assure you that they are not mile-high building. They are semi-submersible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-submersible

Oil rigs are really only for drilling, not for getting the oil out of the ground and into whatever container there is. So that means they move around all the time. Like every couple of weeks.

What you're thinking of is called a jack up rig. They go in water up to a few hundred feet deep. Nothing over 1000 feet for sure. That's because the entire truss has to come out of the water when the barge is being moved from one location to the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackup_rig
"Strong" means 7% less than last year.

Source: BBC Business
"The current reason is not so much to do with the UI"

It has a great deal to do with UI.
Argentina Photo Gallery: Walking the Black River Valley: Route of Apple
> Take an example: How many of you have Apple laptops? Is the operating system open for you? No, but what was it originally built on? The BSD operating system which was open source. But BSD was licensed under its own license which didn't require derivative works to be open, so Apple could take it, modify it, add their own stuff and keep it completely for themselves.

Apparently this guy doesn't realize that a good chunk of OS X actually did continue to be released under FOSS licenses. It's basically Darwin[0] (which in turn contains XNU[1]), plus some closed-source userland stuff and libraries in order to make it pretty.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29

[1]: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/arch_xnu....
How is the Starbucks scanner different from a traditional barcode reader?

From the looks of it, the Starbucks app + iOS passbook integration uses a regular barcode.
Cell phones usage in restaurants slows service
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter – Issue 88
Lumia device sales for the period of April 26 to June 30 was 5.8m. Doing a simple extrapolation to full 3 months gives an estimate of 8m Lumia smartphones in the quarter.
I cannot tell them apart, other than length.

Be nice to have one solid, the other dashed or dotted.
According to a report by EMC, current global storage capacity is around 1.5 zettabytes (1.5 million petabytes) [1]. With Commercial off-the-shelf hardware, storing 1 PB of data carries a fixed cost of around $100,000 USD [2]. Thus, the cost of today's storage capacity is around $150 billion USD. (About what the United States government pays every year in interest [3].) Those numbers are expected to increase an order of magnitude by 2020. Thankfully this does not apply to the interest payments.

With numbers like that, and with cloud storage prices sitting very far away from marginal costs, protocols and incentive structures like IPFS and filecoin are going to be of great value to enterprises, governments, and consumers. I would not be surprised if, by 2020, a majority portion of the data online was stored in such a system; with exponential growth, a new majority share is created every ln(2) / rate years. In the case of the "data universe", which grows about 40% annually, doubling time is about 2 years [1].

[1] http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/exe...
[2] http://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-...
[3] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44716
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No, not at all. I'd be hard pressed to get a hold of one where I lived in Sweden. Yes, I could go to the bank and get $20 or $100. I have a stack of standard sized cards in my pocket.
Survivorship bias.

"If all our airplanes keep getting japanese bullets in the wings and tail, don't put more armor there--that's were we don't need it. Put it where the airplanes that don't survive get shot." - Abraham Wald
Which settings are needed to make firefox preserve my privacy (if there are more things )?
Careful. Liberal economists support reducing or eliminating the corporate income tax if you offset it with drastically higher personal income tax on wealthy people along with an elimination of the capital gains tax rate, and you prevent corporations from becoming vehicles for making pre-tax political contributions.

In other words: liberal economists don't support eliminating the corporate income tax in the real world.
Tablets are cheaper than current laptops in almost every way:

- hardware cheaper

- software is cheaper

- cost of ownership is cheaper (time spent keeping it working, security costs, etc)

- tend to be cloud oriented, and cloud services are often free.

All of the above applies to Chromebooks, which are laptops of course.
30% sounds a bit extreme, especially since it is unloaded. I think they could probably do with 5% or less since the vehicle is unloaded (all the propellant is burnt out) and burns for only a few seconds for soft landing, with most of the braking from peak velocity provided by aero braking.
We almost went with DC. So, yes DC would have been great, but the politics at the time went with AC. I'm just an
Electrician, and the only downside to a DC electrical grid
is Voltage Drop. Maybe an Electrical Engineer can chime in?
There are all sorts of specifications/requirements listed (box size, ripple allowed, EMI limits) but the most interesting that is not mentioned is cost. There is no upper limit set on the BOM cost.
I wouldn't say that's procedural content, I would say that it's emergent, or even less impressively, combinatorial.

I would probably call it emergent, in that the designers likely could not test the entire state space of all strategies.

What's impressive, in light of that, is that the game ends up balanced, or at least not fundamentally broken.

To your point though, is that the "content" (cards) introduces mechanics. Most procedural gameplay content doesn't necessarily introduce mechanics. That's why it's easy to feel "boring".
MIT Media Lab's You Are Here project