skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. I think this is important for the Bitcoin developer space.

I see the prices, which are very reasonable, but I'm a bit surprised that they're not in BTC. Also, are the study guides included in those prices and are they available through you? Are there fees to retake the test if you don't pass the first time?

I'm working on a startup that verifies information people assert about themselves, including educational and certification achievements. Are you planning on building a page so third parties and HR employees can enter a certificate number to verify that it was issued to an individual?

If so, make sure the certificate numbers aren't sequentially issued so data scraping isn't a concern.

Considering your industry focus, you should consider publishing proof of people getting their certification on the blockchain itself

Edit:
For curiosity sake, I went through the signup process. They do accept BTC, even though the homepage has the price denominated in Canadian Dollars. The signup process is pretty well done.

The test itself seems to be outsourced through proprofs.com

There are no links to study materials or a sample test, so I have no idea if I'll pass the test or not. It doesn't appear that you can retest. That will turn off a lot of potential applicants because they won't know if they're wasting almost 0.1 BTC on a certification that might ask them something beyond their skill set.

I'll take the test in a few minutes and let everyone know what the process is like.

There is a place to look up a certificate, but unless I'm mistaken, you have to create an account and log in to use that feature.
I love some of the descriptions from the Apogee catalog:

Crystal Caves - "Stunning cinematic sequences"

Spear of Destiny - "Breathtaking soundtrack ... for AdLib, Sound Blaster or compatible"

Commander Keen 6 - "Over 2.5 megabytes of graphics created especially for this episode"
Shameless self promotion here, but we've seen an increase in job site quote requests on our site -> http://www.dronehire.org
Report slams Twitter, Facebook, YouTube for secrecy around harassment of women
I had some electronic kits in that vein--not sure if they were Radio Shack or not. Just observing that I'm not sure how big a part of their business that sort of thing ever was.

I think your link observes though that someone could put such kits together and sell them over the Internet pretty effectively :-)
Most of coding schools would not explore full stack, as their goal is to get you trained in that specific language for that specific platform using a limited set of tools the instructor prefers.

MS curriculum is more likely to get you exposure to operating systems concepts, database theory, multiple programming languages, introduction to subjects like artificial intelligence and machine learning, so that you get a more holistic picture.
My very first computer was a TRS-80... what a joy to hack on as a wonder eyed eight year old.
I sometimes wonder if anyone regrets having awarded the JSF contract to Lockheed Martin instead of picking the X-32. I honestly think part of the decision with going with the X-35 was because it looked a hell of a lot cooler than the X-32.
Here is the best I can find on the clean air standards. I think pushing taxi companies to use hybrids, all electric, natural gas vehicles, etc.
http://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/sf%E2%80%99s-taxis-can...
That doesn't really signify anything. If you made it sound like multisig was in the current version, and he rightfully didn't know anything about multisig in the current version - because, in fact, it was not the case - then you are wrong. Obviously no one can validate your statements but you, so we've got a one-sided story from a 1-hour old account from a person who didn't get hired. Clearly this account will represent the pinacle of objectivity.

Also, since when does every employee know about all details of all products? If "olaf" is "head of risk" then he's probably not an eng and in the know of all that. At Dell a couple months ago people were like, "Oh, we make that tablet? I didn't even know." And that's hardware.

Everyone knows Coinbase isn't an exchange because there are not limit orders and an open book. This is dummy-obvious and they don't try to obfuscate it.

> Buy bitcoin and then USD/BTC crashes? Coinbase is Johnny on the spot to complete your transaction.

This is factually false. I'm not sure if you read my comment. Coinbase has an equal amount of high-risk cancelations when the price is falling. You never hear about them because people don't have a reason to complain about it.

I mean if you feel jilted because you didn't land a spot, go be grumpy about it if you want. Not sure why they would hire someone for a support role who is coming in with a grudge about their cancelation policy. How would such a person be able to be trusted helping others with that issue? Bitterness doesn't justify FUD.
In Canada, radio shack re-branded themselves as "The Source". I found this out because one day I needed some banana plugs in a hurry and, for the first time in nearly a decade, thought of radio shack. I went to a nearby mall where I knew there was a radio shack (because I walked past it fairly regularly). I went in and couldn't find anything even resembling a part.

I spoke to a very bored cashier and said, "Wasn't this store a Radio Shack before?".

"Yes!", he said "We changed the name."

"Oh. What happened to your parts section?"

"We got rid of it."

"Why did you change your name? Radio Shack must have been one of the most recognizable brands out there!"

"Well, I guess it was recognizable for the wrong reasons."

"Ooooh".

When I thought about it, the main reason I hadn't set food in a Radio Shack store for years was because the parts section had been shrinking (and becoming more neglected and disorganized) year after year. The store was gradually being taken over by either stuff you could buy cheaper elsewhere or Radio Shack exclusive junk that would break if you looked at it wrong. Instead of focusing on the stuff that at least some people need, Radio Shack focused on the stuff nobody wants.
You can guarantee this will contain worthwhile advice regardless of whether it lives up to the title of "How to Start a Startup".
They're explicit about this:

"Pants models code modules (known as “targets”) and their dependencies in BUILD files—in a manner similar to Google’s internal build system" [1]

But I have to wonder why they choose to spell out "dependencies" :-)

[1] http://pantsbuild.github.io/announce_201409.html
How do I add a recipient and key? I've added a recipient, but the keysearch fails. What server is it looking at?
Why is that? Unless you mean port from C90 to C99 or the most recent C...

That game is perfect for C, why on earth port it to something that is not just better or more modern C?
Weird. Didn't know the CEO bit.

And yeah, the amount of time I spent editing tracks was unhealthy.

I also remember having a religious devotion to getting a certain physics bug to happen. I don't remember how we did it, but you'd end up launching the car and it would fall up into eternity.
Thanks for the interesting comments posted while I was watching my sons play soccer this evening. To answer some questions that came up in various subthreads, yes, both Robert Plomin and Ian Deary are mainstream researchers on the behavior genetics of human intelligence, the authors of well regarded textbooks (Plomin), popular books (both), and primary research articles (both) on various related topics. Their joint point of view as expressed in the review article published today is not the exact point of view of all researchers in the field, but I thought it would do as a discussion-starter here on Hacker News.

A crucial detail (Deary and Plomin would both agree about this, but it hasn't come up in the discussion here yet) is that heritablity has NOTHING to do with modifiability. It is quite possible in principle that a novel environmental intervention might be discovered that could boost most people's intelligence. It is even possible that the most effective intervention might have a gene-environment (G × E) interaction such that the intervention would most help people with lowest IQ, and least help people who already have high IQs. No such intervention that human beings can direct purposefully has yet been found, but it is clear from the Flynn effect[1] that something in the environment can have powerful effects in raising average IQ levels of whole countries, as has happened in the developed world throughout the last century (for as long as IQ tests have been around).

It is correct that people marry and have children on bases other than just shared level of intelligence. (But living in the same town, and completing higher education at similar ages, and pursuing compatible occupations for marriage, etc. is correlated with IQ.) It is still far too early to say how rapidly human populations might see noticeable effects from assortative mating by IQ. It is reasonably clear that often-feared dysenic trends probably are NOT happening--the lowest-IQ people in the world population don't reproduce at all, and high-IQ people actually have reasonable numbers of children to replicate their genes. In any event, the favorable environmental trends have SWAMPED whatever genetic trends are going on for IQ in the whole human population, and people are getting smarter all over the world, according to the research on the Flynn effect.

It is still a hard problem to identify anything at all meaningful and replicable about how gene differences influence IQ differences, even though it is now settled wisdom that they do. Human IQ, as the article says, is influenced by MANY genes, and many of those genes interact with one another in ways that are not understood at all yet.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/james_flynn_why_our_iq_levels_are_...

http://blog.ted.com/2013/09/26/further-reading-on-the-flynn-...
Pipes are also related to the IO monad, similar in a way with the jQuery syntax which is another hugely popular case. I am utterly amazed how they invented such a powerful concept of functional programming for the shell (well, not 100% pure functional, if there are side effects)
Personally, I increasingly find very little I need (or even want) in shopping malls in general. Though plenty of chains still have a business there.

That said, I do think Radio Shack/Tandy has come and gone. In a way, they've actually done a pretty remarkable job of at least staying somewhat relevant through all these years. But the clock seems to be running out.

Speaking as a data point of one, I certainly have headed there less and less over the past decade or so.
Just to fact check you a bit:

- Facebook is trading at $76, IPO'ed at $40

- Twitter is trading at $51, IPO'ed at $42
Yitang Zhang, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
Don't be fatuous; you knew exactly what he meant. Pretending to be an idiot makes you look like one.
How evolutionary psychology went viral
The only industries that won't be demolished and rebuilt, are those in which it's nearly impossible to compete by design / by law, or for which there isn't a great business opportunity.

Nobody will be disrupting JP Morgan this century. That's by dictate of the US Government that will never let go of its direct control over the financial industry. Try and you won't be tangling with some annoying city board.

Airlines won't get disrupted until new technology comes on line to make it drastically less expensive, or something like Hyperloop is built. The problem there is not lack of competition. Not to mention, software is already sucking the best profits out of that industry: Priceline & Co. The airlines are the commodity box makers to Priceline's Windows.
The Unglowing
Am I the only one finding iPhone 6 to be the ugliest model so far? Just compare it to Moto 360, for example.
The truth that security is a very expensive illusion.
I'm sure many people regret it, although I don't know enough to know what the 'right' decision was. For all the F-35's faults (notably its recurring failure to get off the ground...) at least it doesn't look like a giant frog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32#mediaviewer/File:Bo...
A tab does not have spaces. It's a tab, one character. How it is displayed is the choice of the HTML spec / your browser.
Why Apple Didn't Use Sapphire for iPhone Screens
The Tim Cook Interview (with Charlie Rose)
I was taught that funner is not a word, but after reading a debate about it I came to the conclusion that fun has transformed into an adjective in the modern English language, and it is therefore acceptable. It's just difficult to hear it because of years of rejecting it, but I can get used to it (I don't think there's anything inherently wrong sounding about it). Just don't use "more" or "most" with "-er" or "-est" (they already imply it), that still really irks me.
I'm fairly sure my ancient copy of Teach Yourself C in 21 Days came with a CD including the book text and Borland C++ 3.1, which is mentioned on github as working. UPC code 0672310694, or:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-21-Days-Sams/dp/0672310...

You can get yourself into trouble trying to use a newer version of the Borland compilers. 3.1 was the last to support native 16-bit code, or something like that, I believe.

However, I'd take a crack at making the Turbo C in the Embarcadero Museum work:
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20841

I honestly don't remember what the difference between "Borland C" and "Turbo C" is (the former includes more) so I don't know if that will work. But the museum download is free...
At least in Orlando, the new Bank of America ATMs have a slot loading mechanism that takes your card in automatically (as in, you gently place the card in the slot and a motorized mechanism pulls it in).

I wasn't sure of the reasoning for this initially, but my assumption is that it makes it more difficult to skim. The actual 'swipe' in which the mag strip is read seems to occur inside the machine, so a skimmer would need to be mounted with the machine opened up.
Having lived in many such homes... yeah, can confirm. Single-family residences are very generic, with very minor differences in design nowadays, at least in the western half of the States where I am.

I have a feeling these architects feeling "discredited" are the ones whose work in the field of single-family homes is very much discreditable. Unless you're going for some fancy one-off custom architectural job for your home, you're buying something that's already pretty cookie-cutter.
ACM Awards 2014 Knuth Prize to Richard J. Lipton
> A kid ... with all of the tools (soldering irons, etc.)

I'm not sure how well that will work in today's overprotective environment where some parents won't even let their kids touch a pair of scissors. Whoever starts a DIY shop nowadays had better have billions of dollars' worth of insurance as well as a highly competent PR team.

I went to elementary school when they still allowed fourth graders to participate in AM radio assembly contests. Kids were expected to bring their own soldering irons and (gasp) lead. The vapors probably gave a bit of brain damage to all of the brightest kids in the class... but hey, at least nobody made a fuss about kids burning themselves (or one another) with those irons.
According to http://www.tomsguide.com/us/chip-and-pin-credit-cards,review... "U.S. retailers have until Oct. 1, 2015, to install chip-and-PIN compatible card readers at stores. After that date, merchants will be held liable for any fraudulent charges resulting from misuse of magnetic-stripe cards."
Not sure why you're being downvoted a bunch for this post (seems like you're just stating facts that have happened, as well as your opinions, albeit in a somewhat negatively biased tone, but nothing out of reason).

So here's an upvote. I'd forgotten and/or downplayed these issues and your post made me reconsider and start using Lyft for the first time (been lazy thus far), so thanks for your post. :)
The quote is about Emacs.
Slate Why Greenland’s “Dark Snow” Should Worry You
The design is all open source software and open source (mostly 3D-printable) hardware. A detailed bill of materials with part costs and suppliers is posted in the repo. The 10K price-tag is for white-glove support and consulting. (My time is expensive!)

When you consider all the devices coming out now that are 1/2 software, 1/2 hardware (e.g.smart watches, smart glasses, etc.) that interact with the real world, I believe robotic testing will become more common in the future.

Besides, compared to the cost of a product recall due to inadequate quality control, 10K is nothing.
There Are Two Types of Speakers
It's costly to switch apps, migrate data and triage new apps. If you've found an app workflow that's good enough, why change?
Whats so amazing about RadioShack to me is how long they have stayed in business. For the last 10 years they have sold nothing but junk. I remember trying to use them out of desperation for a electronics project I had got on short notice. I think they sold me a tiny piece of solder for $15, a truly awful soldering iron that went straight from first use into the trash and a pair of wire cutters that I kid you not, broke on the first cut. The metal blades broke. Grossly overpriced bad tools. Thats what RadioShack has meant to me for the last decade. Never shopped there. Why would I ever buy a cellphone at RadioShack ? They should have cleaned house a long time ago.
Ayn Rand was a brilliant thinker that most people are incapable of understanding today. Here are the essentials of Western thought;

Plato => Kant (Primacy of Consciousness)

Aristotle => Rand (Primacy of Existence)

Kant took Plato's work and removed all Aristotelian influence. Rand took Aristotle's work and remove any Platonic influences. The future of Western Civilization depends on rejecting the Platonic line of thought (which is dominant today) for the Aristotelian line of thought.
Agreed on all the above behaviors. The sf taxi system is abysmal. I was on crutches for 9 months and they made getting to work hell [1]. Between their unwillingness to tell you if they're actually going to come get you and their inability to keep to anything like their estimates, they treat customers terribly. Hell, people jumped to uber when you used to pay significantly more, just to avoid sf taxis.

Some cab drivers were nice, but they simply aren't part of a functioning transport system in sf.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8135934
I think nothing will turn them around. Look at all the local bookstores and video stores that are gone. There are lots on online DIY electronics websites. Want cheap cables got to monoprice.com. Times have just changed for Radio Shack. A lot of what you mention above are niche activities that will not substain them much longer.
And you can do it from almost anywhere in the world, including countries that would be very hard to extradite you out of.

Pre-modern Web it would have been far more difficult - nearly impossible - for someone from eastern Europe to steal money from me in any manner.
>Not to totally disagree with you, but there's something to be said for walking into a store and holding stuff in your hands before buying it.

In general, sure.

And, maybe, for a lot of complicated audio interconnections, a physical RS was helpful for tying your cables and connections together. I'm less convinced that's especially important today. Nor are the TV antenna displays.

I sorta agree with respect to all the various buzzer/motor/etc. stuff but those are all ultimately loss leaders--and always have been. The problem is that RS doesn't have any real cash cow business now to support all that stuff.
Even if crime is up in SC, it's almost guaranteed that some locale will have rising crime even in a nation of falling crime. It's just a stochastic process where the system boundaries used for reporting crime are more or less randomly determined. I'd be more surprised to hear that there was no such city in America with rising crime.
I have universally blocked Svtble kudos using the custom Adblock Plus filter `##FIGURE.kudo`. The kudos circle no longer appears on the page; I didn’t even notice that this page was supposed to have one.
I think this would be a cool store, but I'm not sure the market is big enough (certainly not with the number of locations they have).
The thing is that the Radio Shack model is viable, or at least it seems to be viable in the UK, as Maplin http://www.maplin.co.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplin_Electronics seems to be doing well for itself at present. And the UK market conditions don't look all that different to those in the US, or at least not all that much easier: Britain has online electronics wholesaler/retailers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnell_element14 , and Amazon, and specialist online IT retailers http://www.dabs.com/ , and fairly-big-box electrical/computer retailers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_World_(retailer) , and a big chain of mainstream catalogue shops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer) and a famously aggresssive supermarket landscape. So I assume that Radio Shack is either less-well-managed, or maybe just overly burdened with debt.
Uber's recently disclosed behavior has been incredibly disappointing. I still have fond feelings about them for their original innovation (a taxi that came! How fucking remarkable exactly nowhere but in san francisco.) But the way they comport themselves to their competitors and drivers makes it tough to continue using them. I just installed lyft.
Thank you! I've been watching the downvotes, too, and wondering the same thing! Cynical lolwutf wants to think it's tied to yet-another-overly-aggressive Uber suborg, but who knows.

Glad to provide the perspective! Thanks for the upvote.
Your dad isn't alone in using "some variation" of Norton Commander:

https://www.midnight-commander.org/ Midnight Commander: A NC clone for Linux/Unix/etc.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Sunrise_Commander Sunrise commander: NC clone for GNU Emacs.
Ten-year-old goldfish undergoes brain surgery to treat tumor
Selling an item for 70% more that others sell at a 400% markup ≠ 70% markup.
Yeah, I always had a love/hate relationship with Radio Shack. As a kid I loved looking through the catalogs, and I also liked going there to buy semi-obscure parts. It was the only store I knew of in bike-ride distance where I could get any of that kind of geeky stuff I loved. But even as a kid it was annoying, with the sales people who either didn't know what they were talking about, or were more interested in signing you up for the battery club than actually helping you buy what you wanted. As I got older, the stores simultaneously got more annoying (especially when the cell phone stuff started) and less useful. Now I can't remember the last time I bought something at a Radio Shack. I go in occasionally, hoping to find some part or component I need, but these days I always walk out disappointed.
We can see echoes of this in the current mad dash by the Silicon Valley giants to become conglomerates. Google, Facebook and others also fear that their original mission will become obsolete and so they are buying anything new for billions of dollars to avoid a fate like RadioShack’s.

The article lost me on this point. I think Google and Facebook are trying to aggressively expand the reach of their original mission, and not acting out of fear that they will fail like RadioShack has.
I think you may be onto to something, a good model to look at is Sparkfun (sparkfun.com). What you describe is very similar to what they are doing and they have been very successful, and they have a great model for combining brick and mortar with online.
Better yet, if only the USA banks would finally get to this millennium and start using chip-and-pin cards. Then there would be no need for this nonsense. My European credit card still has a magnetic stripe just because I might go to USA. In this side of Atlantic Ocean many stores, bars, gas stations etc. have a card reader in which the card goes only a few centimeters in to read the chip.