skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an applications engineer working in the semiconductor robotics industry. I make robots run faster and more reliable so that more chips can be made. The software I maintain touches >70% of semiconductor products in the world, and that's only a guess based on our market penetration into a single (significantly) necessary step in the semiconductor manufacturing process.

I would also classify myself as a wantrepreneur. I have a few apps I am currently executing on, but I can only say that my skills in programming for web and mobile are swiftly increasing. This is only the case because HN has convinced me of the certainty of self-enrichment that comes from startups.

I visit HN for the insights into the other tech industry and for non-inflammatory(hah) discussions about current topics. I read comments before I click links, as I typically find the opinions of HN members to be as or more on-topic than the content within the link itself.
I'm a neuroscience PhD student, similar deal - I write a lot of code (matlab, python) and find it an enjoyable hobby and potential non-academic career path.
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Of course. If you actually signed a contract saying "I will abide the law of this land". But not you, not me, not the ex-employees and not even SpaceX signed ever signed such a contract. They're simply operating under a set of laws created by a system which claims to be legit, but which in reality forces people to comply.
But is it reasonable to term it "hacking", there's a certain arrogance in trying to apply one's own wording in a way that suggests a particular type of person (a particular type of programmer) as the ideal.
No, only the cases where you, you know, exploit the starving to get something out of it.

You could not commit charity without also asking them to have sex with you (or work for minimum wage for you).
Absolutely agree! Unfortunately few managers seem to have cottoned onto this very simple fact. Or, you know, they're just ungrateful so-and-so's...
While I'm not to the same level as you, I agree with your larger point. Being constantly interrupted leads to a state of unease and inability to think clearly.

My limited approach to this is to put my email icon on my 5th screen of my phone, and remove all vibrations from my phone that aren't phone calls. Texts don't vibrate, and e-mails only increment the badge counter on the icon.
Just quit properly and ethically. Tell the other founders/investors that you want out, and need to discuss a transition plan. Focus on the fact that you'll be out soon, and you want to minimize the disruption. That's the only ethical thing to do. Your resignation will be very disruptive, that's for sure. But there is some upside: the founders will get a lot of your shares back, so they can offer them to the next developer they need, and find a new "co-founder".
I can attest to this. I had to leave US last September due to visa expiration.
Is iOS the new IE?
As far as I understand, people demand money for being laid off. It's essentially the same.
I switched to a BlackBerry Curve (9320) from an iPhone. Perfect type of "dumbphone" that maintains a full keyboard for texting yet has a small screen and limited app selection that makes it hard to want to use it for anything other than text/phone. You also save a lot by not having to spend on a data plan.
That is an inaccurate summary, the patient was fine on 4L of black tea per day, it was the Bergamont essence in Earl Grey that caused his issues.

I also learned about a new thing, phototoxic chemicals.
Somehow "I'm negotiable" sounds a little off. "I'm willing to negotiate" sounds so much better to me.
/grammar fascism
Looks good, but it seems like there should be some example sites so we can see what the service is capable of. I would have liked to try out the editor too...
IBM reps have been pitching Watson to me for years, but never have we seen an implementation or a commercial offer, much less a demonstration of something of value to us. Weirdly it clearly exists, or did exist, but I think marketing and sales have robbed R&D of the budget required to create a product and until they sell the non existent I think this will continue to be the case. If I was an IBM stockholder I would be pissed off.
Wonderful article that dives into Game theory at the work place.
Ask HN: Apps asking for access to Facebook messages
Whenever I see this (http://i.imgur.com/S7SMOTq.png), I get really freaked out. Is this a normal permission? If there is a data breach, does that mean private messages will be out in the wild?
I have had conversations with them about most of these issues, but I agree, there are a couple that still need to be discussed. I'll certainly try that before quitting - thanks.
i'll bet you if you gave an hour to think about it, even you who made that comment can think of at least 3 ways that statement is wrong.

entrepreneurs find ways.
It really disgusted me when I read it. Such smart people doing such dumb things, and encouraging would-be CEOs to do the same.

Wow, just wow. I'm reading that same book, but haven't gotten to that part yet. All I can say is... we (Fogbeam Labs) would never, ever, ever do something like this. When the day comes that we have money to hire employees, we are going with a strict policy of "We will poach anyone, anytime, from anywhere. If you want to keep your employees, treat them well enough that they won't want to leave".
Also — does it mean the developers can just browse private Facebook conversations of their users?
Satellite communication systems rife with security flaws
Worse still, people can - and do - rely on behaviours that cause major security holes. So not only are some fixes backwards compatible for most but not all users, it can be critically important that those users get the version with the fix and not an older unpatched version.
Your comment is spoken from a perspective that favors the investors... not the worker who is seeking better employment.

Workers should be free to seek to improve their lives without old white men making back-room deals against them. In this regard the tech industry is no more progressive than any other, and that's incredibly disappointing. We're supposed to be such an intelligent bunch.
Pinning in development is equally necessary if you hope to bring sanity to your development team all using the same codebase. Not pinning may be great for a one person 'team' or modules where you control everything, but can be a major time sink when one person is seeing a bug in a patch version they have and another developer is not seeing the same bug because they are on a newer patch. Allowing developers to "clone" consistent versions of the codebase is as important as deploying consistent versions to production.
I think unmanned systems will augment, rather than replace manned airplanes. In one way of thinking, we've been using drones for decades...a tomahawk missile is an unmanned vehicle with a warhead.
When opportunity knocks, who wouldn't want to have the experience of riding in a Lamborghini? Rich guys are likely exciting too, so there's potential exciting follow-on dinners, mansion visits, etc. That kind of wealth subconsciously changes their dating behaviors, making many into gold diggers who must be wined and dined before believing he's interested in them. A few wealthy people keep modest looking accommodations to more easily find partners.
Of course I don't suggest SpaceX ignores the law. That would put them in a lot of trouble. What I'm saying is, people should stop and think for a moment: wait a minute, why do we have this monopoly on law which many people exploit and why can't we allow people to freely sign employment contracts with the terms defined in advance?

If, for example, 100% of people who SpaceX could hire would express concern over a possible layoff, then SpaceX would have no choice, but to put this into the contract, specifying potential payouts in the case of such a layoff. However, I think people would actually compete to get into SpaceX, thus the actual terms of the contract wouldn't include that. In short, let the market decide voluntarily, what are the best terms.

What's going on now is one side (employees) taking advantage of the other side. I don't care how rich Elon Musk is. If he made his money honestly, he doesn't owe a cent to those employees.
Police arrest operator of torrent site proxies
Android to come in the next few months. Getting all the feedback first on iOS.
I wonder if/how this relates to premature births.
What do you mean by IE?
And terrifying...night carrier landings behind the carrier are pure insanity. After Every single one at least one of my legs was shaking uncontrollably!
Thanks man, great to hear the support. My email is blake@venteo.co if you ever have any ideas/feedback!
Hey, thanks a lot for your response. I will definitely look into the C corp. I have been told that before but kinda forgot when I asked the question. :)

Right now, my apps are basically free consumer stuff, so there probably is very little liability. That being said, there are some ideas in the backlog which would involve money and then I would think the possible liabilities would be much more risky.

The series LLC is interesting, I've never heard of that. I'm ok with the risk/liability being shared across all of the different apps I make for the time being, so I am thinking the C-corp is probably the thing to look into as long as I can have some document that I can update and resubmit with a new website or app added to the assets.

Thanks again!
Systems where people seem to live under the assumption that if they don't get the latest patch updates or security updates their code will somehow be inferior and they will instantly be hacked. They think that semver will magically solve the problems of having to keep your application dependencies up to date if you want the latest changes/features/fixes.
Hey Getsaf,

Agreed, we are busy adding the new page about the app now which will also include the email. Just made the site quick but quickly realized we need to tell people what the hell it does! Thanks so much for the like on the logo, took many nights to come up with something we loved.
Hashes are supposed to change a lot with small changes in the data source. I wouldn't call this hashing, but fingerprinting, and there're plenty of fingerprinting algorithms for images, some related to steganography.
Thanks for responding too! You are definitely hitting on the main idea I'm hoping to accomplish. Enough basic protection/structure that I can proceed without much worry but not so much that I'm focusing a lot of effort on legal things. The idea of having everything under one umbrella and spinning something out if people are ready to invest sounds like the best idea.
I used to work at Epic. I don't think that we had shills. I think we had more farmers employed than marketing staff when I was there, honestly.

All jokes aside, I think the passing of the ACA has changed things drastically. With insurance companies no longer able to make more money by charging more money/denying coverage to the sick, they are slowly becoming more active on coming up with ways to be innovative on making patient care more streamlined and affordable. Sometimes they'll work with startups (Aetna CarePass comes to mind), and they definitely should. But, sometimes they'll go it alone as well. It's exciting to see it all play out right now in the industry.
I'm just leaving this comment so I can find this article and read it later.
Duplicate dependencies affecting client side "size" is highly overrated. We can make tools (and have tools) that can compare files for same content and only include them in client side bundles only once. De-duplicating the same could should be a tooling issue. If I want to use client side modules that depend on two different versions of the same library I should be able to do this. Disk space is cheap and we can do the rest via post processing.
There adding features to the application beyond the typical scope of Facebook API [ie. Publishing]. Unless you are willing to allow access to your account it would be advice to stay away.
The top schools are private. They are only interested in their bottom line.
Author here. Just to address the point that just because these logos are based on stock templates, doesn't mean they are rip-offs:

1. If you read the original article, you'll see that the second designer assured me in writing that their artwork was original (I had my doubts so I asked).

2. Most stock template's terms of use explicitly forbid using them as logos (presumably to avoid legal issues).

3. At no point in the process was any hint given that the logo would not be original artwork. Here's the blurb from the logo designer's page:

> I will design a killer, high-quality, effective and custom-made logo for your website, company or business.

And I may be mistaken, but the word "logo" itself carries connotations of uniqueness to me.
In short btw, the app puts all the pictures you, you're friends or anyone attending the event into one album. No more asking your friends the next day "hey can you send those pictures from last night" NO MORE!!
A follow up question: Could people point me to any semi-simple online resources that might help me get started?

I used legal zoom once in the past, not sure if that is an ok way to proceed. I remember going through the process and getting to a place where there was a bit of an up-sell portion. I had no clue whether I needed what they were offering but it either doubled or tripled the price. If I recall, the up-sell was related to them promising to handle all of the follow up paper work with the state. It was a little while ago, so I forget the exact details. Sorry :/
Backbone and Angular sitting on a tree
Sure there are implementations- See darkwallet.
I'am part a hypnotist, performer , fire breather , bouncer, and part tech guy and other jobs notably as a fixer in the underground in paris.

For me a hacker is someone who see something and want to mod it , dig in it. A hacker is someone who is curious and is active and don't take things for what they are given for. And a hacker is also someone who doubt. There are mechanical hacker, even grandma tips are hack for me. So it would be more relevant to ask who is not a tech guy. Or consider himself / herself a techguy.

Hn give me interesting inside and news. And it's always good to be on the edge than other people on different subject. I always have one day or two in advance for the news to other people thanks to HN.
I'm pleased to hear this advice, we got a cat a year ago and she has been indoor-only since we got her. We do let her out on a harness with us alongside to sniff around outdoors, and she loves it (and is sad to return inside). I feel somewhat vindicated in making her indoor-only.
Or if you must drink 4L, maybe don't drink exactly the same tea; try a variety of different teas.
What would you be hashing, on a text file? What the text "looks like," e.g. particular density and repeated patterns of alphanumerics?

Or would you be hashing the content, the language, the words used, the meaning of the words?

Stylometry is the study of written style. It's used forensically to see if two texts were written the same, to identify anonymous/pseudonymous authors, and there's "adversarial stylometry," which is intentionally changing a writing style to make it look like someone else wrote something.

This deck seems to summarize a lot of these points and issues, but offers no "stylometric hash" solution: http://wiki.uni.lu/mine/docs/RDPresentation.ppt

Plagiarism detection is another forum that might do these sorts of analyses. How many metaphors do you have to change, and synonyms do you have to replace, before it's an original work, or would it always still hash nearby?

Textometry tries to make texts more analyzable. Wordprints or stylometric fingerprints, seem to turn up more results than "hash".
Raghuram Rajan warns of another global financial crisis
In my opinion, this is the most interesting paragraph:

>In primates and mice, it’s a different story. Cells from the invading placenta digest their way through the endometrial surface, puncturing the mother’s arteries, swarming inside and remodelling them to suit the foetus. Outside of pregnancy, these arteries are tiny, twisty things spiralling through depths of the uterine wall. The invading placental cells paralyse the vessels so they cannot contract, then pump them full of growth hormones, widening them tenfold to capture more maternal blood. These foetal cells are so invasive that colonies of them often persist in the mother for the rest of her life, having migrated to her liver, brain and other organs. There’s something they rarely tell you about motherhood: it turns women into genetic chimeras.

The whole article sounds so creepy. I never thought you could describe one of the most natural processes in that light.
Simple and good solution for the hightailing https://highlightjs.org/
With age people start to consider opportunities from the Expected Value perspective.
Preeclampsia, a state of too high blood pressure in the mother, is discussed in the article and is one of the leading reasons for medically induced premature births. However, this in only one of several causes of premature birth. A large number of premature births are spontaneous (starting with either labor or membrane rupture) with no known cause and little forewarning. Infection of the membranes also contributes to a large fraction of premature births. If you are interested in this topic, my lab is looking to hire a database specialist (postgres) in Nashville.
I doubt that the phrase "masculinity vs. femininity" means the same thing to modern eyes that it did to Hofstede. It would probably be better to call this dimension something else, although I'm not sure that the alternative "quantity of life vs. quality of life" label is helpful either.
Any news on windows compile?
I'm a sound engineer, working mainly in Indie film with some electronic music and instrument design on the side. Working in film requires wearing a lot of hats so I'm conversant with most aspects of film development/production. Also, frustrated law student.
Demonsaw – Decentralized Sharing Application
I've recently met a few people on beta.meeet.co

It's definitely "beta". :) But it seems to have attracted a pretty good group of people. The idea is the post projects you are working on and then other people can "like" or "apply" to the project. I have a couple projects on there "sososwift" and "nualt" if you're interested. hahah.
If you build emails based on these, please make sure you send them multipart/alternative with a text/plain version as well. And in particular, make sure that text/plain version isn't just "go read the HTML", or worse a copy of the HTML complete with tags.
Men are not as affected by status manipulation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19302732
As far as I am concerned, there can never be too many online memoirs about carrier night landings. Please write up your stories for us chairbound types!
> That is an inaccurate summary

Not inaccurate. Merely imprecise.
(Only tangentially related) If you're a space exploration nerd working in the space industry you'll realize one day that your salary and benefits are space exploration costs. This produces the following dilemma:

Accept a small pay and benefits. Space exploration costs go down. More space exploration is done per dollar.

Demand a good salary and benefits. Space exploration costs go up. Less space exploration gets done per dollar.

Damn it.
GNU Linux-libre 3.16-gnu is now available
I don't work on truly huge sites, my largest is only about 10kloc. But it scales very well for the all of the sites I've tried, and I think based on the architecture it would scale to much larger sites.

Your workflow with Rack->Ramaze should work similarly when using Roda. Roda scales down well:

# config.ru
require 'roda'
Roda.route{'Hello world'}
run Roda

There is probably some level of complexity where Roda may not be a good choice. I'm not sure what that level is, but I don't expect to hit it on sites I work on. In any case it's probably best to split up such an app into multiple apps/services before that level is reached.

In terms of battle readiness, it's new and currently I think I'm the only person using it in production. I hesitate to call something battle ready until there are more people using it, but I'm very committed to it and you can expect the same level of support for Roda that Sequel receives.

Thanks for the tip on embedded gists, I'll look into that.
Renaissance Paintings Make for Hilarious GIF Mashups
Tim Wu is running for Lt. Gov of NY. He is fundraising to fight a Cuomo lawsuit
The very essence of free speech is that somebody will hear it. Otherwise you'd call it free monologue.

To my knowledge there is not single shred of evidence that the NSA used their surveillance to suppress free speech...

I would go one step further and proclaim that modern information technology has not only magnified our ability to speak freely, it has also enabled us to have a better picture of local, national and international politics than ever before.

This means that freedom, even and especially in the democratic western countries, is actually climbing. The NSA surveillance, even with substantial "there's got to be more" factor, does not even begin to threaten that freedom.
Linus's big observation is that "debugging is parallelizable". Product development isn't, though - Linus had to release an operating system on his own before he could recruit volunteers to help with it. And many of the outside contributions come from corporations who would like to use/support Linux but need to modify or extend it in some way, and so they contribute the patch themselves.

There are big companies that work the same way. Cisco actively encourages employees to work from home. However, Cisco's product-development strategy is "buy startups that are already succeeding in the market", and so if you work at Cisco your job is generally bug-fixing and incremental improvements to existing products. If this is the sort of work you want to do, there are a bunch of options that will let you work remotely. I suspect that much of HN wants to develop new products though, and for them, empirically you need the team to be colocated in one location.
That's one of my biggest use cases: bookmarking individual recipes. That's a perfect example of something I'm not going to be looking at every day but do want a list of to browse occasionally, or to find specific ones.
Although the article dramatizes the conflict, the tug-of-war over resources is real, which probably is why the placenta is one of the fastest evolving mammalian organs in terms of morphology and genetics. The conflict probably shapes the rate of preterm birth quite a bit. If you are interested in this topic, my lab is looking to hire a database specialist (postgres) in Nashville.
Not clear how dense it is. If I brew the tea with0 4x density, it fits in a 1 liter.
"They" could. If there weren't laws against that kind of thing. If that doesn't work, believe me there are larger temptations for anyone in power...
That paragraph also triggered the thought "Are humans biologically wired only to love through conflict?" As a race, can we never be rid of the need to fight one another? Are we fundamentally designed to do so?

This article tugged on my strings in many ways. Philosphically, scientifically, emotionally, artistically. I liked it a lot.
These templates are really nice, but the license choice confuses me a bit. Apache 2.0 requires attribution, but there aren't license headers in any of the templates. How should I properly attribute sendwithus when using this template?
Thanks. I'll figure it out somehow. I agree, I like being happy too.