skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in tech I think it's easy to overstate the level of dynamism. A lot of the buzz is around startups, but a huge amount of the industry is owned by fairly old companies.

Digging through the Forbes 500 list, there are 10 companies of the top 100 that I would consider "tech". They are (with year of founding): #5 Apple (1976), #17 HP (1939), #23 IBM (1911), #34 Microsoft (1975), #35 Amazon (1994), #46 Google (1998), #53 Intel (1968), #55 Cisco (1984), #69 Ingram Micro (1979), #82 Oracle (1977).

By decade that's: 2 from the '90s, 1 from the '80s, 4 from the '70s, 1 from the '60s, 2 pre-WW2. Looks like the '70s were a good time to do a tech startup. :)
Forget Potato Salad, let's make a Tanzanian Astronaut
NPR calls him the world's most amazing teen. His kickstarter offers a much more meaningful potato salad. At 15 he's already wildly accomplished against massive odds, and now he wants to be Tanzania's first astronaut. Hey Interwebs, you know what to do.
No, it is using FullContact APIs.
(Edited) Android users can Hodor from any app: This replaces your Android keyboard with one that only types "Hodor". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.richapps.h... It costs $0.99 and has over 1,000 installs.
LongCal seems like quite a nice interface for writing a theme based biography (of self, project, company, etc) with a super nice way of zooming in to detail and out to big picture. I like it. Someone like NYT could well use that type of interface for a long-form article, obituary of someone particularly prominent, a country or government, etc. Coloured themes / tags run on the y axis, time on the x.
I actually don't like that Apple acts as arbiter of what's considered 'useful'. Especially since I don't have a choice of App store. I'd rather they just check for malicious code or use of private APIs and let the rest through. Alas, that's not the choice they made.
Judge Rules That Microsoft Must Turn Over Data Stored in Ireland
This is my understanding: say you have a spring which is just two positive particles. When you compress it, bringing the particles closer, you're storing energy in the EM field (E²+B²) near the particles. When you accelerate the spring, you're also accelerating the energy, which requires extra energy. This feels the same as the spring becoming heavier.

This is just a microscopic explanation for the general principle that energy has mass. I've never done the math to confirm that the extra energy to accelerate the compressed spring corresponds to the extra mass from stored energy.
Thanks for the thoughtful responses.

This post wasn't in consideration of suicide myself, just interested in the dissonant thoughts on it here. There is probably a visibility bias in who would feel compelled to answer this question in the first place. There was a suicide recently at a Burning Man event in Utah that had spurred a lot of thought as well. The reactions were so widely varied and intensely personal, I found it intriguing.

I used to react with scorn towards suicide, as though the person had taken something from anyone that cared for them. I've relented from this attitude though. A few examples of the act (Hunter S Thompson and Socrates, in particular) made me consider it in a different light.
Or it could be a symptom of an increasingly risk-averse society which encourages its government to promulgate ever more regulations to keep us "safe". Big/rich companies are favored by that, so the causality isn't obvious.
I'd love to have fiber dropped to my home but this article glosses over the privacy implications of having a government entity have direct access to everything you do online.
I was talking about the Hodor "Yo" clone. Instead of saying Yo, it says Hodor. I've got it on my iPhone
It seems great, but...
if the mitro.co server goes down? I misunderstood or is not possible to copy passwords on your computer?
So the negation would be "Learning Haskell is worth the effort for everybody". I think it is arrogant to say that when there are thousands of skills to learn and a limited amount of time.
"You do not tell them this is a language for smart people. You do not tell them you are smart because you use this language. You tell them that types are for fallible people, like we all are. They help us reason and catch our mistakes, because while software has grown more complex, we’re still stuck with the same old brains. If they tell you they don’t need types to catch errors, tell them that they must be much smarter than you, because you sure do."

This tactic is used a lot in evangelism talks and it doesn't work. A lot of the non-FP people listen to these talks and come away thinking, "this person is obviously really smart", and then it comes up in the discussion afterwords, so not only is it unhelpful, but it distracts from the message and perpetuates exactly the myth that we're trying to dispel. We have to calibrate to the audience's understanding of relative words like "smart".
The second paper is somewhat of a canard. There are fewer "firms" than 30 years ago largely because of fewer small players in areas like retail and construction (for example, fewer Mom-and-Pop shops and more market share to WalMart, etc).

Noah Smith wrote a good rebuttal: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/declining-us-dyna...
> But innocent civilians are NEVER OUR TARGET.

I'm getting for granted that you are the USA. So in order to avoid never-ending discussions here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

They look pretty much civilians to me.

ps. You know, the guy who released this video... Is hiding in an Embassy in the UK because he is terrorised by someone who call him a terrorist, food for thought!
Our app revenue in three years
Hm, i feel for the ones who used GoInstant as their BaaS. I mean, 30 days to migrate to a another service could potentially be pretty rough.
> why is it OK for the West to support regime that kills Ukrainian civilians en masse.

Why do you try to imply that identifying pro-Putin shills is equivalent to supporting "a [Ukrainian] regime that kills Ukrainian civilians en masse"?

Assuming your supposition is true for now, why do you not go further and think to imply that these civilians would not be getting killed en masse if Putin would withdraw forces of the Russian Federation from the sovereign territory [1] of Ukraine?

History shows that the truest way to harm civilians in conflict between groups that are not trying to kill civilians (either directly through systemic action or indirectly through things like famine) is to prolong the armed conflict by interceding on behalf of one side or the other.

But even if you're completely right and not involuntarily affected by propaganda yourself, just because someone tries to keep a comment board free of "shills" of all types doesn't mean someone is necessarily aligned with any side, which is an issue you appear to be conflating here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty
I've fixed that. I only wanted something simple for new users to try out the new feature (Macro).

This manual is only about stock Emacs features, not adding complexity with 3rd party packages. When I first introduced on Reddit, someone advised me to stick to stock Emacs (which I did) because they see this section using an external package (ggtags) for browsing kernel source code: http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html#sec-8. When people are good with the basics, they understand what they need and find appropriate packages.

If you want advance techniques, the primary resource should be Emacs Lisp Manual, Emacs docstrings, and learn code written by package maintainers.

EDIT: Even before working with Emacs Lisp, using 3rd party packages already makes Emacs much more advanced.
So SalesForce acquired GoInstant to shut it down? 10/10
Maven haters gotta hate. Same goes for a lot of Java detractors. The tech works just fine, but you can't grok it with a two paragraph blog post. Not as bad as PHP however, where it's far too easy to learn just enough to be dangerous and the lurking dangers are manifold.
So you need to process your events linearly, but you don't need to store them linearly.

Here's a way you could achieve this:

- keep sqlite

- use Pouchdb on top of it to sync your data to your server, typically Couchdb

- Since you know the order of events, tag each of them with an application-level sequence number

- On your server, when you receive an event, check all events that happened before, in order. For each event, if it has not been processed, process it
I'm sorry, but that sounds like a bit of a cop out. One would hope that an idea with the traction to be successful in the way you're describing would be hard enough to replicate to merit that value, or stand alone in such a way that if someone replicated it it would be VERY obvious and difficult for the clones. Perhaps I'm being exceedingly naive to the aggressively cutthroat world of mobile game development, but "competition" seems like a very unsatisfying reason to not want to communicate a shared understanding of what people want in tech at this point in time.
Ask HN: What interesting trends would you like to know of from a Recruiter?
How can Recruiters make their communication more informative and beneficial to possible candidates?
Compiling stellard on Ubuntu 12.04
Also where is 'Who wants to be hired'?
Think lazy.

The most successful technological innovations throughout history have come from making a manual or longer process automated or to take less time. Start with things in your life that you feel are unnecessarily complicated and map out the possibilities from there.

The other issue is that the techosphere is plagued with solutions that solve the problems of the technocrats that populate it. Start talking to your family and friends outside of our bubble and ask them what is on their wishlist. Find someone in a flyover state that still has a flip phone and has no reason to upgrade to a smart phone because there aren't any solutions to problems they have.

We are in the infancy stages of what computing and wireless technology can accomplish. Those that bring something new to the table have the greatest chance to succeed, and the odds are best when you tap into a market that isn't currently being served.

It isn't sexy, but it is profitable.
I'm a manager these days, and I think it's two very different roles. While I was never the best developer (and probably will never be), the managerial role is kind of awesome because it's about amplifying others' ability to be great.

Management is much more of a service role (and much less of a directly creative role), but I've found it to be a good fit because you get to serve a bunch of wicked smart people, which is super fun.

Good management is all about reducing total cognitive load for your engineers: keeping stakeholders off their back, taking heat when things go awry, being a crap umbrella for the team so they can work, etc. Done right it's immensely rewarding, but definitely not in the way programming is.

Also - in my experience the number one thing you want to look for in vetting a 'good' management job is the quality of the executive you'll be reporting to. Are they a strong, fair leader? If yes, go for it. If no... you're gonna have a bad time.
This shouldn't matter here, if you regularly rotate passwords and KeePass itself is regularly updated to fix security vulnerabilities.
One thing that I think is true (and maybe this is what Ono-Sendai meant) is that compared to many languages, Haskell's syntax is relatively close to the notation used by mathematicians. And notation can strongly influence the way we think about things.

I was introduced to programming before abstract algebra, and when I took my first algebra class the comparison to Haskell was inevitable. Actually it turned out to be quite helpful: strongly-typed functional programming can be a good supplement to learning algebra.
Is today not a "workday"?
Par for the course when dealing with the Federal government, whether as a direct employee or working as a contractor. If you are a full-time employee, you must record 40 hours of butt-in-seat work time on your timecard, billed to the appropriate charge numbers. At least now I have 40 hours of actual work to do.
brazzers for all!
Well, going from 3.8% to 2.7% surely isn't the right direction. And laying off half of Nokia after buying it maybe neither. I wonder what will be in store for Windows Phone. Pity. I think it's a really great take on the mobile experience and has lots of potential.
Microsoft needs to get it together and launch new high and mid-range phones (seems most new Windows Phone 8.1 Lumias lately were low-end) and update the OS more often.
Couldn't agree more. It's not necessarily apps like Yo that are at fault, but the ensuing media circus around these apps (OP case in point) that contribute to people thinking this is a viable "startup idea" or startup strategy.
The bulk of business activity in the USA has seen a decline in dynamic new formation. The decline started around 1980 and has gotten worse over the last 30 years.

Income inequality seems one of those things that is "capitalistic" and beneficial, but it actually (a) provides an incentive for self-protection and corruption at the top, and (b) makes it far more likely that bad actors get away with it, because their superior resources allow them to move faster than they are discovered.

The problem is that capitalism requires inequality of results but the persistent, generational type of inequality that the world has now (and the US, post-1980s) is fundamentally anti-progressive.
No they are not the same as Russia's but are they any better?

Forced registration vs. forced de-anonymisation.

At least in Russia's case there is some input required from the blogger. With the NSA you just have to sit back and let them do all the hard work. Better customer service I guess.

Either way, arguing over whose government is less tyrannical is probably not the conversation we should be having. But the OP certainly had a point when he stated that preemptively calling out "apologists" is a bad debate technique.

EDIT: Also he wasn't complaining about false equivalences (the post he was replying to was doing that). He was complaining about certain genuine equivalences routinely being called out as false.
Dealing with useless people at work
Can Runners Really Get Struck by Lightning and Keep Going?
I've seen it on weekends, so I don't think that's the case. I just think that the bot has some issues this month, that explains why the "Who wants to be hired" is also missing.
Inside BitFury's 20 Megawatt Bitcoin Hashing Center
the bot doesn't do "who wants to be hired", thats a community effort.
I think that django needs a new admin frontend code, however, this code improve a lot the admin ui. Thanks!
Or it could be that there are fewer anti-monopoly laws, and that's resulted in huge megacorporations, especially in areas like banking.
Import from Icebergs to Dropmark
Same question for Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer.
if there are such tight stipulations on that thread then ops should be responsible for posting and moderating it.
2004 called. They want their Microsoft prejudice back.
No, they don't, because it's a buyer's market.

(My dad is an AS/400 programmer. There's a lot of competition and not much work.)
Alas!

> Worst of all, the hilarious Yo, Hodor!, clearly a parody of Yo, has also received the notice.

If I were you, I'd get Hodoring like it's the last night on earth.
Why not keep all of your notes in your head?

You get the audio and images (and even video!) for free, searching and sorting are much faster, and you'll never have to buy pen or paper again.

And as a bonus, you'll stop polluting all the time (all of those empty pens and pieces of scribbled-on, crumpled-up paper) - when you die, your notes will just vanish with you.

Sounds like I just saved you a ton of money and time, and my advice can help you save the planet a little too.

Switch today!
Just addressing this sole point.

>to any person, his religion can't be wrong //

I disagree with this quite strongly, at least as far as "religion" is a placeholder word suitable for "Christian faith".

There is an oft repeated aphorism in Christian circles that says if certain proof of God's works existed then faith wouldn't be needed to put one's trust in Jesus, as the way back to God and on in life. Doesn't the idea of faith require that one considers such a thing could be wrong?

When I became a Christian I spent some time trying to explain what I'd experienced in a way that was consistent with my former world view. My view then was perhaps best described as Pyrhonic Popperism [I think that's not a common description!] - nothing is certain but everything falsified should be held untrue so long as this forms a consistent view. That's pretty much as I am now. I'd say there is a tiny element of post-modernism in there but the majority of my thought has held to the position that there is a single discoverable truth about the nature of the universe; since my formative years however I've held that science creates a largely consistent view that is not necessarily true (that's built in to scientific method) but is mostly useful for describing our interactions with the true universe.

That said, my point is that there's probably not a day goes past when I don't consider my faith could be misplaced (in one aspect or other). There is a common thread of doubt that forms a central part of most Christian's lives AFAICT too. Saint Thomas's doubt is not a reason for chastisement but a simple reflection of his humanity.

It's the same in physical and spiritual worlds - I doubt the existence of m-branes or axions (and CDM in general) and that causes me to reflect on their true nature and enquire as to their being.
There's a difference between "I don't want to share some or most of my notes" and "There's just no easy way to share any of my notes, even if I wanted to".

If you can't think of a reason why sharing a note might benefit you, you either lead a very solitary life (nothing wrong with that) or you have a very limited imagination (nothing wrong with that either).

And even if you were the one-in-a-thousand (or higher) that simply has no need for any single feature of any modern note-taking app, saying "Well chiseling my notes into a rock works for me" really contributes zero to the discussion about the software.
Can I have an optional "Nice" response as an IAP instead of ads?
Yes, they do get heavier by virtue of changing their arrangement. And yes, pushing a rock up a hill makes it - well, the rock will get slightly lighter in weight by virtue of being further from the Earth (classical inverse square law of gravity) - but the total mass of the rock-Earth system (assume you used solar power so you didn't take the energy from a terrestrial source) will slightly increase.
I see. And if I mention how you can't copy and paste from the CLI to your notes, or back again, you'll probably make up some reason why that isn't something you'd ever want to do either.

Good talk. Thanks for contributing your important view point about this software ("I don't need it") to the discussion.
I had roughly 6 years of experience before I made the transition. I had spent a considerable part of those 6 years thinking about all the things I'd do if I were the manager of my team. Whenever I interviewed for an IC role, I made my intentions clear that I wanted to get into management long-term. I was offered a management role 5 months into a job and I took it. All those years of thinking about management enabled me to transition nearly smoothly.

Looking back, the 6 years I spent coding were extremely valuable. The only way I'd have become a manager after 2-3 years was if I had had a good mentor. My advice would be to spend the next 3-5 years building a lot of things and observing your leaders closely. Read about what great managers do and don't do and play out scenarios in your head.
I dont believe this to be true. The IDF STRONGLY discourages social media posts about anything military related. Posting something like this I imagine would land you in military jail for some time.
> So all businesses cheat on their taxes.

Wow. This is a perfect place for "[citation needed]". Same for the rest of the message really.
"Community fiber" is working towards a practical implementation of ambient connectivity that Bob Frankston's been talking up for years through IEEE and elsewhere. Some of his essays lay some good groundwork for governance and expansion. http://frankston.com/Public/
The Simple Intro to SVG Animation
The bot is "whoishiring" so I have been refreshing the search page all morning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Oops.. you are right. They are using rapportive.

var LOGIN_URL = 'https://rapportive.com/login_status';
var LOOKUP_URL = 'https://profiles.rapportive.com/contacts/email/';
var API_HOST = '104.131.218.68';
var API_URL = 'http://'+API_HOST+'/api/profiles';
Good point. Programming should be explained at the right pace, and in rather small digestible chunks. Then Haskell is not harder than anything else. The basics of Haskell are very easy actually. Function is just a function, it maps values and you can call it recursively. And then, advanced topics are hard in any big language, and in my opinion C++ is the queen here, yet it's taught to freshmen in some schools.
Unfortunately there isn't a single publication that does justice to what I've pieced together. By that I mean, because I had such a poor understanding of math, every little bit of knowledge and intuition that most people learn implicitly, I had to learn explicitly. The downside is that it took me all this time to realize how useful math is, but the upside is that I now have created several explanations (both in text and video format) where I explain all of these intuitions in a piecemeal way, slowly building up a model of the world, but without any math notation and without ever talking about numbers, just objects in general and relationships between them. You can go from scratch (things you see around you) all the way to category theory without realizing you got there, all without notation, just building intuitions. That's what I do in the videos, I use the idea of a caveman looking around and starting to discover these relationships, and building on top of them.

I must have more than 15 hours of material that I recorded as I was piecing together what I was (and am) learning. I should put them online - I haven't done it yet because I think it drags on for too long, but maybe I should put up one or two and judge from the comments and go from there.

Mostly I gathered these ideas by first finding out that Set Theory is at the beginning of math. Then I found out how categories and types and sets are all equivalent. Then I read some papers that explained that and for that they needed to step back and give some intuition of each and how they relate to each other. I explored so many links, but the knowledge is scattered.

I will publish some of the stuff I made, now that I know there's interest, when I'm back home on Monday. If you want to know about it, send me an email (it's in my profile page) and I'll let you know.
We have been experiencing sudden weirdness with out PayPal Pro payment processing integration with our Magento cart over this time period. I have spent hours looking over logs and on support call with PayPal integration support. You would think that since PayPal and Magento are both part of eBays X.commerce that they would work together well.

I received a lot of "hmmm that's weird" and "well i've never seen the API do that" comments from the integration support specialist at PayPal."

What is happening for us is that Paypal is simultaneously sending a authorization and then a second later a capture.
the results are weird some transactions process and other get a duplicate invoice it error.
One thing I've noticed is that vc backed companies in my field don't last more than 5yrs. Maybe 2/3 get acquired, 1/3 get shut down, but I see so few survivors I won't offer a probability estimate.