skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They recruit from top tech schools of India with hefty packages.

They are not among the best paying companies.

>There is no reason one shouldn't buy from Flipkart.

Except you are not buying from Flipkart. You are buying through Flipkart. They moved to a market place model and quality has gone done since.
PGP isn't built on top of email.
I want to upvote this a dozen more times. I've always thought MMOs could "hack" the brain into doing all sorts of cool, productive things.

Somebody needs to create an MMO for language learning. Instead of "go kill 12 dragons" the questgiver would say "matar a 12 dragones" or "matar a 12 dragones verdes" or "matar al dragón en la cima de la montaña". The immersion and addiction would have hardcore players speaking 10 languages, I guarantee it.

And I think this could be extended to quantifiable human-necessary tasks, too. Like a mechanical turk, but fun.
Peeking under the hood of NPR's new mobile app
Thanks! That worked. Messaging suggestion for future version: set a countdown timer for when they can request another call.
One way might be to decrease the ridiculous amount of security theater they employ.
Curious what electronics will prevent a flow of AC electricity.
I think his point is more about clamping the value than about using sizeof. It indicates the author expected that value to vary, but it doesn't.
Url changed from http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwar..., which points to this.
That's a pretty good idea — iTunes radio for games. Too bad Apple has to be the one to do it.
"I like walking among glaciers, however, no matter how much I do enjoy that, glaciers are going extinct in certain parts of the world and there is nothing I can do about that. I may wish to believe otherwise and there may not be much of a visible change on a day-to-day basis, however, those glaciers are going extinct, even if there are some years they get bigger."

The point of the article is that suburbs are fundamentally flawed in that the tax base cannot keep up with the costs of the infrastructure once that patch of suburbia has gone past the growth phase. There simply isn't the density of tax payers to pay the bills. Raising taxes is not an option as people are mobile and will move to a more sensible city arrangement if the dream of suburbia is out of their price bracket. The developers will move to the city too.

Not mentioned in the article is the eventual problem of serious resource depletion, i.e. when every bit of America has been fracked, every Arctic wildlife refuge plundered for oil and the Red Sea pumped into the Saudi desert to get the last gasp of light, sweet crude. We no longer talk about 'Peak Oil' any more (wasn't that just grey propaganda put out by the oil companies to make their product worthy of a high price or am I being over cynical there?), however, there is no denying that suburbia can only exist so long as there is cheap and affordable motoring. When motoring starts to get much more expensive that is going to dent those wallets that pay the taxes to maintain suburbia so a lot of America is going to face the same problems of diminishing tax base that Detroit is famous for. I would not be one to bet that everyone will be driving a Tesla in between their teleconferences on the i-glasses by the time we get to that stage of the game.

Anyway, enjoy the suburbs by all means, along with millions of others including myself, but do appreciate that they are not entirely economically viable as the situation stands and, if there is a serious problem with ye-olde-petroleum-reserves, then suburbs will be very different to how they are now.
Yes, very high. Especially if the sales numbers thrown around in this thread are accurate (eg $500m to $1b in sales).

Retail companies historically get relatively low valuations (particularly compared to your typical tech company), in part because the margins tend to be very mediocre in retail.

A software company would typically have margins 5 to 10 times greater than most retail companies. Amazon has been an anomaly in this regard, while they have the terrible margins, they have been rewarded with a massive valuation.
Good Things Comes in Small Packages (Teams)
> This phrase does not have a single, simple definition that is clear and robust.

Since this is in the scope of, say, a program's source code, the implicit meaning would be "do what you want [with this code]". Explicitly stating that would help, but it's not really that necessary unless you feel like being needlessly pedantic.

Virtually all license agreements are also implicitly bound by jurisdictional laws, so "yet it is okay if i stab you with a knife" would not be a valid interpretation of "do whatever you want" - in a legal sense - unless the agreement is taking place in a jurisdiction in which stabbing someone with a knife is legal.
Great idea, but not sure US$800 price point will be attractive to a large market. At half that price, these would likely fly off the shelves though.
PGP isn't just for email.

"PGP is a bit of a hassle in terms of exchanging public keys" this is true, but it's a bit of a necessary evil. How do you accomplish this in a secure and transparent way?
Some sample Pernod-Ricard Scotch brands:

Aberlour, Chivas, Glenlivet, Longmorn, Royal Salute (Chivas premium), Scapa, Ballantines, Laphroaig, Teachers.
Her name is @HisFeministMama. The possibility of her making all of this up is definitely greater than zero.
They sent out an email last week with an explanation.
Jurvetson interviews Musk
.01 cycle was my memory of a threshold from some years ago.

Part of the problem is lower frequencies don't meet as much impedence in inductors (e.g., transformers), and another part is that interconnects can have control system stability problems keeping them synced.
I can tell you that you can rent an entire rack with power for $500-$1000/month (42U);

A decent internet connection from level3 or the colo house internet for another few hundred.

So even at $2k/month we've still got $180k/month to buy servers and storage (or $2M for the year).

$200k/month is a lot of money.
Dave Arnold on Cooking Issues tells a story from when he ran the tech program at the French Culinary about buying pure potable lab ethanol and diluting it down himself for "perfect" vodka at a tiny fraction of the price.

Vodka sucks, is the moral of that story.
I think you nailed it. If I stumbled across these I would never download them because I tend to notice something new and unique and these look exactly like more of the same. It makes sense that if you make something similar to 1,000 other games that being successful would be like getting a 999 on a thousand-sided die.

Not to imply that it is easy to make something new (and good.) I have been working on a prototype of a game and the first feedback I got was all about how it was different than others games and that's bad. Trying to create something original is definitely swimming against the current.
I knew this would be about Lawrenceburg. Back in the day Lawrenceburg and Aurora (twin towns that basically run together) used to stink terribly from the old Seagrams factory.
The swipe to unlock patent sure does sound like a simple slide door bolt with "do it on a computer" tacked on. Where's the invention here?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...
Windows comes to Raspberry Pi-style board in Microsoft/Intel project
Uber and Airbnb Welcome Corporate Travelers to the Sharing World
> Wasn't quite sure if this fit Show HN's guidelines

I think it's ok. We want Show HN to be for distinct pieces of work that people can try out, rather than feature releases, and I don't see why this doesn't qualify. Our intention is not to be rigid.
Data visualization looks intuitive and nice in D3 examples thus be something 'every programmer should know'. It's so simple, just pick it up.

Any production environment data visualization is going to run into a plethora of sticky problems. How do ensure your queries aren't going to overload and crash your visualization client. How do you handle time series and gaps in data? How do you evict data from a vis?
Ya, I am surprised by that too. I'd create one but I'd feel guilty. My ads cover my costs.
Well, I know that.
I would not "require" people to know Markov chains but I am usually surprised how many programmers have no idea what it is and how it works and how it can be used. It is a very powerful tool to model queues which is something most distributed systems deal with :).
The map splits Illinois pretty well. I was born and raised in northern Illinois until I was 10, moved to southern Illinois and then lived and worked in Chicago after grad school. It is a very different state depending on where you live. I just went back to my 25th high school reunion and after living away for 20 years I was surprised at the southern "accents" some of my friends had.
>Somebody needs to create an MMO for language learning.

Duolingo is a language-learning website where you can gain experience points.
Wouldn't your language learning MMO just be an MMO with the language switched?
My experience (back when Hired was known as DeveloperAuction) is that most of the 'offers' I received were completely impersonal and disingenuous.

What I mean is that it seems the companies 'bid' on anyone who met some minimum requirement and relied on the initial phone screen to actually vet the candidate. The three phone screens I had the person on the other end displayed no knowledge of the experience and skills I listed on my profile and one did not even have any preference what division of the company I should work for (was just looking for another somewhat competent software engineer, not caring much beyond that)

My point is: personalized messages are more likely to result in a hire BECAUSE the person writing the message knows what they are looking for. Conversely the recruiters I deal with on a regular basis are only looking for a 'python engineer' or something similar. They could not possibly write a personalized recruiting message.
The median per capita income in India is around $650. That places them around #100 in the world in that regard.

The bottom billion people in India have less disposable income than the five million people living in Norway.
That's a fair suggestion and we changed the title accordingly.
I've seen Markov chains applied to language generation - producing sentences that make sense grammatically but not literally. Anyone know what the connection is here? I think I have an idea but would like to see if it gets independently verified by someone else.
It can't be done. I could get the data from FB with javascript, and If I'm using it, I can sent it to my server with another request, so there is no way to block that.
Especially #3. Amazon is willing to let themselves be scammed before denying free replacement products to customers.
There's a secondary goal here in that it benefits them to have a pool of skilled individuals out in the market who are familiar/expert on the Google platforms/technology.

So if they get a few hundred startups to use Google, most of them fail, a few hold steady, a few become heavy users of Google adn they make some money.

But - there's people from every one of those startups who now are familiar with how to use the Google platform and will potentially recommend/use Google at their next startup.
The nagasaki bomb was actually only 2% of a megaton (21kt).
To be clear, most of these (Aberlour, Glenlivet, Longmorn, Laphroig, &c) are totally separate distilleries run in some cases by people who were involved in the process since before Chivas bought them out. There are also several distilleries operated by Pernod that don't sell direct to the public, but instead contribute to Chivas blends (the Craigellachie distillery grounds were literally our backyard on vacation a few weeks ago, and despite it being essentially an industrial distillery, you wouldn't really have been able to tell it apart from Benromach by the exterior).

So this is a situation not at all like the MGP product situation. Aberlour and Longmorn aren't selling the same distillate (although they probably source the same malt).
Yeah, you beat me there too. The best game I ever made is barely half finished (no matter how much I work I do it seems to stay half finished.) Plus you got a really great article about download numbers out of it.
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I created a Markov chain generator: https://gist.github.com/grant/561834963dc526495c45

var numNodes=10;var roundNum=100;var a=[];for(var i=0;i<numNodes;++i){var connections=[];var sum=0;for(var j=0;j<numNodes;++j){var randNum=Math.random()/numNodes;randNum=Math.round(randNumroundNum)/roundNum;connections[j]=randNum;sum+=randNum}connections=connections.map(function(e){var t=e(1/sum);t=Math.round(troundNum)/roundNum;return t});sum=connections.reduce(function(e,t){return e+t});connections[numNodes-1]+=1-sum;connections[numNodes-1]=Math.round(connections[numNodes-1]roundNum)/roundNum;a[i]=connections}console.log(JSON.stringify(a))

Copy and paste the output into the side bar.
…I imagine a dystopian future in which tourists are fluent only in topics relevant to medieval fantasy.
Darn. I'll keep my fingers crossed they don't sell out until I get a little more cash on hand and can buy one then! :)
Not necessarily, because things like robots.txt will still prevent it from ending up in search engine results.
You came here after it was fixed. It is fine now. Also, it was just NYC2, maybe only part of it.
Show HN: WeatherGIF – Reactions to your weather in GIFs
Bill Gates Honored with an Honorary Degree
Yea, we got on Product Hunt and HackerNews at the same time. Ouch.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

1) This is a great idea. We'll definitely chat about it.

2) More themes is our top priority. We built the platform in such a way that theming is super easy.

3) Right now it's free if you don't mind yourcname.appsites.com. If you want to use your own domain, the plans start at $9/mo per app. Or $39/mo for 5 apps.

Really really appreciate the feedback!
"Angel investors" and "angel investors in the valley" are not necessarily the same thing. Also the idea was not to invest in the particular product but in the entrepreneur and his capabilities.
It's nested, but it's real (albeit not at $65k). See, for example, http://www.galvanize.it/gschool-boulder
This first and foremost problem with these screenshots is they just don't look good, and this is primarily due to the use of a tacky dark-to-light gradient for the background.

First impression lasts. Steep grayscale gradient is firmly associated with an amateurish Gimp job and it's an exact opposite of polish. It's something that a noob designer would throw into an image to spruce things up.

I read his post, I went to the project page on his site and the app there indeed looks really good. It is polished, a total beaut. Then I followed a link to the AppStore and what do I see? A set of typical programmer-made screenshots. All that "polished" impression goes quickly down the drain and I leave the app's page in 2 seconds. Because the screenshots I see don't look good. Because of the cheesy background gradient :-\
I don't have enough friends to even fail. 2/5 and then it alerted me I'd have to get more friends.
How to Turn Yourself Into a Programmer
rm -rf /home/tsa/
Just sharing my side/art project .It's the weather, and reactions to it in GIFs!
Some beautiful GIFs from some great artists, and a few pop culture reactions I thought were funny. Each GIF is in reaction to the current, and forecasted weather. You'll get a different reaction each time! I put in some Easter Eggs too! Works on both desktop and a Smartphone. Thanks for looking/feedback!
Can Startups Help Fashion Brands Battle Amazon?
To Track or Not to Track: User Reactions to Longitudinal Health Monitoring
These seem like incredibly generous payments for such small commits...

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/commit/...

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/commit/...

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/commit/...

I was going to donate today, but it seems like the donations are being wasted. I work hard for my money and if my donations go towards a trivial (and arguably unnecessary) 2 line CSS change that would really piss me off.

Can we donate only to certain apps? I want to see TextSecure for iOS out as soon as possible, I couldn't care less about CSS changes on your website or escaping some readme file.
I did relatively little reading when I was playing WoW hardcore. Although quests had a load of flavor text, I would just key in on the how many and what I had to kill.
This is a great checklist!
16 Ways to Get Your Email Past Spam Filters
I see Wladimir Palant has again commented on µBlock in his comment section [1]:

> clear tendency to trade performance for memory use

This has been a pattern with Wladimir Palant with regard to my work. Outright misrepresentation [2], or criticism through vague statements while never specific enough to understand what part of the code he is referring to.

Nowhere in the code did I trade memory for CPU, both have always been of highest concern. Given that my benchmarks show µBlock does significantly better than ABP on both memory and CPU count, vaguely stating that "clear tendency to trade performance for memory use" is just plain nonsense. [3]

I did ask him to be specific about his statement regarding how I implemented element hiding without injecting gigantic CSS stylesheet in every page and frame, but never received a response, and it is understandable why: he was misrepresenting. [4]

[1] https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adbl...

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Adblock-Plus... (bottom of the page)

[3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...

[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988266#c39

Edit: added reference to CPU/mem benchmarks
Great article! This will have a huge effect! I can't wait to see the first buesinesses which take advantage of that awesome feature!
Thanks again for the article!
That isn't true. I've had to issue chargebacks when Amazon's vendor and Amazon couldn't come to an understanding and I never received the software product w/o a revoked key.
I don't think he means gamify language learning I think he means adding useful language learning subtly as a component of a real game
Apparently, if pro-patent advocates are to be believed, this arcane knowledge would be lost to the mists of time if we didn't grant Apple a twenty-year monopoly in return for their deigning to disclose it, Prometheus-like, to us poor mortals.
Thanks, we just put this in the roadmap last night :)

Try any URL to test it out. Here is one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-story/id513474544?mt=...
The App Store is EXTREMELY clogged on the low-end. If it's your first game, if you use "puzzle" to describe it, if it's a spin on Tetris or Threes or Snake or match-3 or anything well-known, if someone could clone it in a week...that's the low-end. Not only will you have trouble getting customers to notice you, but you'll also fight just to get any kind of review.

What's also happening is that developers (myself included: http://appstore.com/daisypop) think "Wow, I shouldn't have spent so much time on that; I need to make something simpler and more rapidly so I have a better chance of turning a profit." This accelerates the problem.
I'd buy whiskey made by robots in the old Detroit Cadillac plant. Artisanal Crafted Robots programmed in core.logic.
So is memrise.
Help me please to understand the following transactions:
https://blockchain.info/address/1HcBw7XNKm6NoVJ4s5sSZPL9JGeB...
(look from bottom to top)
Send 0.0001 to 1HcBw7XNKm6NoVJ4s5sSZPL9JGeB8a9STj , then spend change to 1HcBw7XNKm6NoVJ4s5sSZPL9JGeB8a9STj, then spend change to 1HcBw7XNKm6NoVJ4s5sSZPL9JGeB8a9STj... etc 9 times. And the last transaction is sending 9 utxos to 1Q76cQw9Rmw4TathPdYdR34GXSGKZKnLQy - the address of private key which was published earlier on page https://www.npmjs.org/package/simplebtc

wtf?
No. An ideal implementation would train you into the new language, such that, for example, part of the quest is figuring out what the quest actually says. Instead of needing a language dictionary next to you, you have NPCs teaching it to you within the context of the game.
Thanks, we just put that in todo list last night. Try this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-story/id513474544?mt=...
Are there certain bikes that this is compatible with? The photos don't make it look like it would fit on my current bike. Is it just for road bikes, or would it work on a mountain bike as well?

Also, has anyone tested this thing out on steep hills?
Yes, I'm sure a lot of work went into that graph, but it makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
Wouldn't front running as a broker be illegal anyway, or is bitcoin somehow different? IIRC the SEC has already showed that it won't ignore financial crimes just because they're done with bitcoin.

It's not their own explicit policies that prohibit traditional brokers from front running or through trading, it's regulation.
Good catch, we'll fix this today.
What if your usage isn't evenly distributed across a month?
Argentina Photo Gallery: The beauty of the Camino de los Siete Lagos
I think it's rescaling all images to fit the training size. If that is the case, then when your image has very different dimensions it gets distorted and confused. Try something with a height/width ratio like the samples.
Optimizely is next on our list of integrations to support. Right now we support Google Analytics, but it's pretty trivial to add more. Any other services you think we should support?
More reading on this:
http://betaboston.com/news/2014/07/29/hubspots-head-of-produ...
The Weird Reasons Why People Make Up False Identities on the Internet
did you look at it on desktop? on the phone i chose abbreviations which fall short (no pun intended).
the idividual letters are the months.
the white curve is total friends' birthdays over months,
red and blue curves are male and female birthdays per month respecively.
the lavenderish curve compares the number of males and female friends.
and the bottom (strong blue) curve compares your age to the age of your friends.
We've gotten 1100+ companies to disclose salaries upfront on our marketplace, which is what all the numbers in the blog post are based on...

I definitely agree that keeping salaries secret until the very last second - when you've spent days or weeks in an interview process, and become emotionally vested in the outcome - is a tool that's been wielded against the benefit of Engineers.

Our goal is to break that cycle, and shed some transparency on this otherwise opaque part of the hiring process and get better alignment upfront about comp. expectations before time gets wasted by either party.
Had this occurred, I wonder if it would have immediately been interpreted as a Soviet strike and started WWIII?

Stuff like this makes me wonder about quantum immortality. Maybe we just inhabit one of the slices of the multiverse where we didn't die.
You can do this with AdBlock for Chrome - just unsubscribe from all the lists and add your own custom filters. The simplest way to block something yourself is just to right-click it and go through the menu.
Not to mention EVERY time I put an SD card in my machine dropbox does the pop-up and offers to store my photos in their cloud.

Its actually more than a little annoying.
We changed the submitted title ("Global literacy rate over time (and more)") to what seems to be the author's phrase for the key idea of this piece. Better title suggestions welcome.