skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. The IPO market has almost dried up (at least compared to back then). But the M&A market has almost replaced that. See Facebook's $19,000,000,000 acquisition of Whatsapp.

It's a little like the housing bubble. As long as I find someone who'd pay me even more than I bought something for, everything goes well and dandy and no one asks about the real value of a product/house/company.
My blog http://jquer.in was briefly (about 3 hours) on the front page.
I got around 1500 Unique Visitors according to GA.
Moby Dick - Herman Melville

A Gamut of Games - Sid Sackson

Good Math - Mark Chu-Carroll
I did something like this for linux, basing it on vim's modes. I had great plans, but really struggled with trying to learn C++ at the same time, so I eventually gave it up. It developed a bug where it crashed randomly, and because of the way window managers run I could never track it down.
Finished that recently -- great book! His "Annotated Turing" is pretty great too, for machine heads.
Not only that but ThemeForest users now demand support for their investment. It mostly means keeping up with the rapidly updating Wordpress framework but most of the highest rated themes have some sort of post-purchase support. I think that is why most of the coders are from areas where the cost of living is lower (Eastern Europe/Asia).
Sure it is; it's just impractical. If you force the entire network to play by certain timing rules and mangle the traffic in a uniform way it'd be very difficult to analyze the network to discover unique patterns. But this might also make the network impractical to use for anything but Twitter and e-mail.
Minimum Actionable Dataset (only enough data required for decisions)
A "few days ago" was a weekend.
Is speed becoming a commodity? UX is dead. Long live UX
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood - Martin Booth

http://www.amazon.com/Gweilo-Memories-Hong-Kong-Childhood/dp...
An article about Perl invoking Slashdot discussion certainly feels anachronistic. I quit Perl relatively soon after Python's debut, though I still miss the feel of the whole Free/Open Source software movement during the Age of Perl. No doubt Perl and CPAN helped build the house we now live in.
Palantir is a private company whose product's development was incubated and developed at taxpayer expense following 9/11 (they essentially researched all of their technologies on the taxpayer dime on govt contracts, then took those technologies and created their product). It's an asshole company that doesn't give a shit about the constitution or human rights.

They also use Congressman Hunter as a paid shill to push their product all over the government as if its a panacea to every data integration issue. Its not.
Moscow Exchange suspends share trading on main market
I would like to think there will always be a frontier, and there will always be people driven by their curiosity to seek the frontier out. Some of them will be called 10x engineers, some visionaries, some pioneers.
I went from working at Silverlight shop to a Perl shop two and a half years ago. The experience has been great. The article hits the nail on the head in terms of pros and cons.

The learning curve going from C# to Perl wasn't that bad. Both are expressive and share a number of idioms. Moose is easily one of the best parts of the toolkit and the one thing I miss most when doing Objective C and C# projects.
Telluriya by Vladimir Sorokin.

Very interesting, especially with current development in Ukraine.
Slowly making my way through The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. Also reading Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and Influence by Robert Cialdini.
Lawsuit threatens to break new ground on the GPL and software licensing issues
"The Devil's Cup" is great! He also has "In the Devil's garden", which is quite good as well. It presents the history of food in terms of the seven deadly sins.
The Experimenting book is really nicely put together. I bought it a few months ago and have enjoyed it. Thanks!
I started BTC donation, but they ask you for your name and address... what! Anyway I found out you can go through with a bogus name and address.
Do you have someone managing the rental or do you do that?
LSM, LXC, chroot, seccomp have well defined APIs for separation. My comment was referring to ptrace.

Interposing (i.e violating API contracts) with ptrace is great for debugging or research prototypes, but the knowledge gained from that research needs to be made interoperable with existing APIs that have been battle tested. Paper said that ptrace/debug overhead is 100%, seccomp (an existing, non-debug API) reduces the need to use ptrace, halving runtime overhead.

Separately, a kernel exploit could break the "sandboxing" of ptrace or docker, hence the need for AppArmor and SE Linux. Here is a year-old Windows article about breaking out of Adobe and Chromium, principles are similar for Linux:

https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2013/03/15/blackhateu2013-d...
Currently reading Cibola Burn - the 4th in the Expanse series by James SA Corey. Very good hard-ish SF series.

I also just finished Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull's book about Pixar. Extremely valuable insights about running a creative organization.
"Not tech" as in no sessions focusing on how to maximize your CoreData performance, or how to use Metal in your new iOS8 game. No talks that are technical in nature.
Plowing the Dark-Richard Powers

I have tried to finish this book three times, but I have had to start at the beginning each time. The plot is dense and I can't jump back in after ~150 pages and a month of not reading it.
Coming from shops that were all about Java, Rails, and C# (but using Python myself), I was surprised at how much new (performant) Perl my current company generates. This is probably part of the reason for my new found love of Awk.

Perl is still a viable language, and a lot of the choice comes down to taste.
Definitely interested in the details. ~16% ROI is excellent! Does you have management company that takes care of the property?
Exactly. Government contracts don't require the number of people to get the job done. They require the number of people they SPECIFY are required (whether or not that number is correct) to get the job done. Translation: Government contracts are by their very nature overstaffed as fuck.

Butts in seats baby, butts in seats.
If you enable the fallout option, you will see a much more encompassing effect that would have rendered a lot of land unlivable.
> ResMaps lets you to create a sleek web resume that captures where viewers spend the most time looking.

What viewers are looking at is not the same as what hiring managers are looking at, which may make the results misleading in a real-world scenario.
This seems to be pretty specious reasoning which has at its heart the principle that acquisitions are the final goal, not a functioning enterprise. I think the acquiring companies would tend to disagree.
"Good Math: A Geek's Guide to the Beauty of Numbers, Logic, and Computation" by Mark C. Chu-Carroll

"Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement" by Eric Redmond and Jim R. Wilson

"The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition" by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
Reality-based revision:

Two young entrepreneurs graduate from college, and go to YC. They pitch PG on a low cost version of Dentasoft, which will be built on a modern software stock and include mobile apps for the dentist to remotely manage his office from the golf course. PG likes the idea and they are accepted into YC. Their company, Dent.io, gets their product in market quickly and prices it at $5,000 per year per office. Dentists might have good reason to like this new entrant, but the Dent.io founders have no relationships in the dental profession and they don't know how to sell to the more than 100,000 dentists practicing in the United States today. Because of this, and because dentists are reluctant to change the software that is used to manage their operations, which would require staff retraining, Dent.io fails to make much of a dent in the market.
AMD Announces the Availability of 64-bit ARM Opteron Developer Kits
How I grew up in Maine and ended up here (in progress)
Bingo Card Creator is still plugging along, though both down from previous years and an increasingly small portion of my business. I spend under 20 minutes a month on it on about 2 to 5 issues which make it past T1 support.

As for numbers: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month Historically, multiplying by 60% usually gets a good approximation for profits.
Personalized kids books for the iPad:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-heroes/id477247738?ls...

We're completely revamping the app because it's very hard to be noticed when all your books are in one app, so we're splitting the app into individual books. But this "library" app does quite well.
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold and the rest of the Vorkosigan Saga
There is mention at the very bottom of this article that a great way to improve your Perl skills is to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) or the Outreach Program for Women (OPfW). I've been involved in the selection process of both of these programs for The Perl Foundation this year and in the past. This year The Perl Foundation is participating in both programs.

I spend a lot of my open source time working on Perl and specifically https://metacpan.org We have both a GSoC and an OPfW participant currently working with us. They're learning a lot and contributing a lot of really great work back to the project.

If you do want to get involved in something like this, my advice would be to get to know the project you want to be involved with well before the deadline. Reach out to one of the project leaders. Find out how you can get involved. Start contributing patches as soon as you can. When the time for applications comes, ask for feedback on your proposal _before_ you submit it. Writing a strong proposal is a skill in its own right and something that will benefit you in your later professional life as well.

Conversely, if you lead an open source project, don't wait until the call for submissions to start trying to recruit students. Get the word out early so that you can better judge who would be a good applicant.

Having this kind of experience under your belt can help a lot when considering Perl (or other languages) as a career option. I'm happily coding Perl full time, but even if that's not the path you eventually take, it's still a great tool to have access to.
Love the idea of it. However, I threw some random Swedish at it, and it didn't fare too well. http://imgur.com/nZLtoj5 Kudos for the effort though!
Interesting visual analogy.
I live in Padova, and it's nice, although I think if someone isn't going to spend a long time in Italy, and wants "the Italian experience", I'd go with somewhere like Perugia, even if it's harder to get to. It is a beautiful area, things work pretty well compared to farther south, the people are friendly, and it's not too touristy.
Which was my point when I referred to the realtime constraint...
Replay: Ken Grimwood (Second time reading is even better)
It's out of my area of expertise, but you should probably find information searching for "chip skimming" and the like.

Also, as your sibling points out, most chip and PIN cards still feature a magstripe to downgrade if necessary.
First off it's very exciting and cool to see a company like Facebook release an open source persistent data structure library for JavaScript.

Mori just has more stuff and the benefit of 3 years of development and production use. This becomes quite apparent on the metrics you asked about:

- mori is a 32K gzipped browser dependency, tons of helpers functions
- immutable-js is a 10K gzipped browser dependency
(with Uglify and aggressive mangling), mostly just data structures

ClojureScript (and thus Mori) has been continuously tuned for 3 different major JS engines - JavaScriptCore, V8, and SpiderMonkey. Running some basic benchmarks overall Mori comes out ahead on most operations. But there's nothing surprising here, immutable-js is brand spanking new :). Also there are micro-optimizations (which add up) in ClojureScript that are impossible to expose to JS users w/o a compiler.

In anycase this is great stuff and I'm excited to see how JavaScript and more specifically React devs leverage these to explore the ideas currently be played around with in ClojureScript/Om/Elm/etc.
If I uploaded my own picture of the Taj Mahal and it told me it was a Mosque, I wouldn't be surprised, and I'd probably be reasonably impressed. The dome and minarets do rather give that impression, and I wouldn't really expect a computer to be able to tell the difference.

The reason I find it odd is that I would expect the first example on a demo to be carefully chosen to show off the system in the best light. It would be one that has perfect or near-perfect tagging. Maybe later on, I would show the shortcomings with a tricky image like this.
The US doesn't follow these standards, so using metric units would alienate the majority of this website's user base.

The developer is following the standards and customs of the country he or she lives in. Do you also disagree when a Chinese developer doesn't use English for a website?

It might make sense to have a toggle switch, but then again maybe 95% of the user base is from the US and the developer didn't think the extra effort was worth it.
Great idea, but I can't find any information about healthcare?

It might be great to live in Thailand where you have to spent just a little for living but what happens if we compare this with their healthcare system?
Don't forget the great firewall of China.
I hoped my French would be up to Proust, but sadly it wasn't, and I didn't want re-learning French to be an impediment to the enjoyment of the story. So I've read the Enright versions.
I love the idea, but I imagine that there are cease and desist orders on their way to you right now. :(
Also, you can try http://quickmvp.com to gauge interest, etc.
My website usually has very little activity (about 100-200 visits per day for an open source project) and out of nowhere I went #1 on HN last week-end for a blog article.

From saturday to monday: 80,935 unique visits with peaks of 600 simultaneous people on site. Out of those 81K, 24,661 came from HN. The average time spent on site was 2:11. No real pattern, things started going viral as soon as the article hit the front page (which took a couple of hours). Things died off very quickly after 3 days of intense load.

Now I had never expected that type of load... In fact my blog is hosted on the cheapest shared hosting service NearlyFreeSpeech. I want to mention that they held the charge perfectly. I wrote a quick article about it with more numbers: http://www.nicolasbize.com/blog/and-the-best-shared-hosting-...
Taipei is my top choice. The healthcare is excellent (and free) if you are a Taiwan resident.
Show HN: InsuraMap – Insurance rates across Canada visualized
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Oscar Wilde
> So if i understand your argument, because you are required to do nothing under the license, it is not a contract for lack of consideration?

Yeah, that's like the first week of Contracts.

> Let me turn it around then: Why, in your view, do most public domain dedications then include disclaimers of warranty (including CC-0), if they are pointless?

Standard-form gratuitous licenses (incl. public domain declarations) often are written under the assumption that the transfer of the covered work may occur as part of a sales transaction (e.g., sale of media containing the work) from the licensor to the licensee, which is a situation in which implied warranties may be applicable.

WTFPL is absolutely not suited for that use case, at least on its own, though nothing prevents you from including both the WTFPL and a warranty disclaimer.

> B. You can sell something for zero dollars.

You can't have a sale without a contract, and while you can have a contract without money changing hands, you can't have a contract with an intended two-way exchange of obligations. One party merely offering a limited waiver of some of its exclusive rights without asking anything in return that it wouldn't be entitled to anyway isn't a two-way exchange of obligations.

> The gratuitous license argument is interesting (though from what I can tell, legal minds greater than mind still feel the urge to disclaim warranties in that case), but the contract/sale one is just completely uninteresting to me

I don't think you understand -- they are exactly the same argument. A sale involves a contract. A license without a contract is gratuitous.

You can't be interested in the argument of whether p is true but not be interested in the argument of whether ~p is true.
This article fails to mention that our expectations for software have increased. We expect more from apps than ever before. This has lead to new specialities such as Front End Engineers and UX staff. Surely we can build more with less with current technologies as compared to the past but we also expect more. If our expectations outpace technological improvements this could lead to spending more time/money on developing apps.
I hope you don't get offended by this question but are you doing this legally? I know in some areas renting a vacation home is legal as long as you do the right paperwork.
Publish a friend's political writings at MetricHour.com, split the AdWords revenue. Learned a bunch about Handlebars and the Ghost.io CMS in the process.
A computer algebra system written in Python
If this donation is tax deductible, I expect it is so they can send you a receipt.

Still, an anonymous option would be nice.
Great job and good luck to you in the future! I'm all for interesting textbooks, math was difficult for me in undergrad and the textbook we used was so hard to understand!
This is true, but usually you can tell who is visiting based on where you have sent your resume and city, network of the visitor.
This seems to be ignoring entire classes of software. I can't imagine the enterprise development world will be taken over with easy to snap together software packages any time soon.
Considering "a few" means at lesat 2, then he could have gone on monday?
How to use Chef to create your Vagrant box
The article suggests that, as super-human programmers build ever-better platforms/languages/tools, those building apps/whatever on top of those will be less differentiated in terms of programming ability, because it will be so easy to develop stuff anyway.

I'm not sure this is true. Are 10x programmers really 10x because they can grapple with technology stacks, or because they're really smart and experienced at problem solving? Programming will always be about problem solving, no matter how easy you make the final implementation of the design.
Project Wonderful has been doing a similar thing for a very long time: https://www.projectwonderful.com
Its funny I've always thought that Twitter could really be run by 100 folks (heck I've said 40) and be hugely profitable and it a lot of ways more efficient. Instead they've got 2300 employees to allow folks stream 140 character tweets.
Consider Bootstrap and the uniformity it offers in GUIs with little effort.
Getting fired may be THE BEST thing that ever happens to you
Hey, there's a simulation I'd like to see.

"It appears that two weapons targeted on a silo must arrive at least 10 s apart to avoid fratricidal fireball effects, and less than 1 min or more than 1 h apart to avoid fratricidal nuclear dust cloud effects."

Anyone for Missile Defense with a 50-100Mt Tsar bomba?
I don't have much to add but just wanted to say that IMHO, this is an example of hacker mindset at its best. Great Job. Congratulations!
Looks like coinbase.com is not loading at the moment. Is it conceivable that this crashed their site?
It's already happening. There's an incredible difference (in personality, tooling, skills) between your typical full-stack web developer and kernel programmer, as there is between the kernel programmer and chip designer. They're each difficult in their own way, but one definitely has a lower barrier of entry.
Just started The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17660462

It's been pretty good so far.
Why do you think enterprise development is different?
Nicely done! $1K on revenue for that? Are you driving traffic toward that? I do photography and feel like stock images could be a nice way of getting traffic, but don't know how to optimize AdSense.
In multi-threaded environments, immutable objects are thread-safe.
When multiple threads are sharing data, you would normally have to worry about synchronization. However, immutable data structures guarantee that the shared data will not change, so synchronization issues simply go away.

That said, I'm not sure how this applies to JS, which is single-threaded.
It annoys me to see the language called Golang, when it very clearly is just plainly Go. That said, the only way to find anything on Google is to search with "golang <issue>".
“F-bombs” in GitHub Commits
Why Andrew Ng left Google and joined Baidu
Find the key to your app’s growth without an army of data scientists
Awesome! I had no idea about this. I'm a little confused as to what kind of ads it serves after reading the site, though.
Detour – Andrew masons new company
Before you edited it I was going to ask you about this statement: "Instead of dogfooding it, these dentists should hire professional software developers and tell them what features to build based on their knowledge and experience. Then again, everyone is a critic."

Isn't that against the HN mantra that everyone should do the development themselves? Perhaps that is why you deleted that part?
Well put. The more software you write, the more you need. http://www.timrosenblatt.com/blog/2013/04/24/the-more-softwa...

disclaimer, that's my blog! ;)
The Expert [the best example of a developer/marketing meeting]
Currently re-reading "Escape From Reason" by Francis Schaeffer. Interesting as a history of western thought, even if you don't buy his conclusions. It's concise to the point of terseness, though - you're going to have to fill in some blanks that he doesn't.