skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two clarifications: Image handling is rudimentary at present but I'm switching to different PDF engine (see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/166261/would-it-make-... and http://www.sile-typesetter.org/2014/09/24/Whats-happening-in...) which will vastly improve image support.

Yes, SILE is an acronym but to be perfectly honest I can't remember what for. I promise it was good. "Simon's Improved Layout Engine" is a backronym.

But if TeX does what you want, please use TeX. I don't see much point in "convincing" people who are happily using a piece of software which fits their needs to switch to something else which may not. Do whatever works. TeX has CTAN which is the product of many years of work, and it'll be a long time before SILE can even "compete" on level terms with that. But I'm not interested in competing; I'm interested in being the best in a particular niche. If that happens to be useful for others, then great.
I find it extremely hilarious since this is no different than the ridiculous data caps most american ISP's add to the contract.

Email doesn't cost more depending on the character count all email costs the same regardless of length same applies to America ISP's like Comcast.

It doesn't cost them more but they do certainly like to charge more what do they both have in common?

They are both for profit companies in an area where they are the only option due to intense lobbying and laws that price any potential competitor out of their market place.

There's a fine balance between regulation and for profit business and when the businesses are paying the regulator directly or indirectly it never ends well.
You're not obligated to make the lock unlockable for them, though.

The government can probably break many consumer-grade encryption schemes if they so choose to as well, but much like having to break in to your house through your locks instead of merely unlocking them, it raises the cost of law-enforcement doing so, and incentivizes them to make more restrained choices (eg, not taking literally everything they can get their hands on).
Lead mkting/growth for the biggest labor shift of our lifetime (Zen99, S’14)
San Francisco, CA

==Who we are==

Zen99 (http://www.tryzen99.com) is an all-in-one dashboard to manage your 1099 work. We help with tracking finances, estimating/minimizing taxes, and getting insurance. Ultimately, we make it easier to manage being a contractor, whether it be full-time or part-time.

Why contractors? They’re about to be 40% of the workforce and are growing at twice the rate of traditional employees. This is the biggest labor market trend of our lifetime, yet no one has taken the time to simplify the HR-type aspects that they have to manage themselves.

==What you’ll be doing==

We’re looking for someone who loves driving user growth in a startup’s early days. Your responsibilities will include:
* Coming up with creative acquisition and retention strategies

* Helping set PR/marketing strategy and execute on it

* Developing content for blog posts, articles, and more

* Managing SEO/SEM campaigns

* Developing and managing a social media plan

==What we’re looking for==

* A passion for thinking of creative new ways to reach users

* An ability to manage multiple tasks and change priorities quickly

* Some background with SEO/SEM, and tracking success across campaigns in an analytics platform

* An eye for creating catchy and useful content

==Why you’ll love working here==

You’ll be our first non-Engineering hire, so we can promise lots of ownership and responsibility over your work. As we grow our team, there will be opportunities to evolve into a leadership role.

Send us an email at work@tryzen99.com with a resume or sample of your work and why you’d make a great addition to the team!
Here’s what happened to that world-record in journalism crowdfunding
> Oh really, you live next to Osaka and you declared it undeveloped? What the fuck is up with that?

Underdeveloped vs Tokyo, certainly. Look at the number of companies and major industries and revenues in both areas and you'll be in for a good laugh. And in case you did not know, many large companies are leaving Kansai. Not to return.

> Japan has managed to keep its unemployment level pretty low and has had a protracted albeit mild depression over the last 20 years. This is undeniable.

Low unemployment in Asia is not hard. Ever seen how many people are working for super low salaries, doing nothing but making sure people don't go over the cones put on the side of the road? The whole service industry in Japan guarantees low unemployment rates, this has NOTHING to do with stimulus. It's just the way Japanese approach services in the first place anyway.

> The alternative (no stimulus at all / spiraling self-reinforcing depression) would have resulted in ending up like Greece or Spain. This is also undeniable.

No, it would have resulted in unprofitable businesses going bankrupt, followed by a short recession and coming back to a period of growth. Instead of that, the Stimulus is making the recession last forever, and there's no end in sight. But you are probably one the guys who think devaluating 40% of the Yen value is the best way to increase Japan's productivity. Abenomics all the way !
Really? We might have said that on January 8th 2007 too...

It's always tricky anticipating the point of sufficiency. Probably because it's a moving target.

Besides I'm not sure that the iPhone was such low hanging fruit. It probably cost Apple a tonne of R&D and effort to research and build and was ahead of its time by at least a good couple of years.
On the contrary, some of the best people I've ever worked with were people I bonded with over cynicism and an equal hate for most things. It made it incredibly easy to sift through the bullshit.
And the meaning of "color wolf" in Chinese is... pervert.

[actually more like lecher]
w00t! Looking forward to receive it!
It can't even get consistent line spacing in the table of contents. See http://imgur.com/ejg2FTS
That was really fun to read through actually. I hope this pulls them in some great candidates.
The state tends to reserve a great many powers for itself that it will not permit the people to have. Congress itself routinely excludes itself from laws it writes with the full cooperation and support of the Administrative branch. It is rare if ever that the Judicial branch steps in because each loves its ability to act outside the law.
So what? Those are completely different situations. One is a human doing intentional harm to a bunch of innocent creatures. The other is mother nature vs. mankind. One tugs at the heartstrings, fills us with protective emotions for the poor doggies. The other is just another natural disaster. "Thank goodness it didn't happen to me", we think. I don't find this surprising or depressing.
I've always been a HUGE fan of the PowerVR tech (the GPU inside the iPhone/iPad), even going so far as buying shares in the company when I was a kid (I was an odd kid).

From what I understand of the technology it was built with efficiency from the ground up as opposed to the nVidia tech of the time such as the TNT and Geforce which were designed for raw performance.

Good article about it:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/558/4

I think Videologic/Imagination Tech patented the heck outta a lot of the techniques they came up with so wouldn't be surprised if they're ahead of the pack on efficiency.
I agree there could be a wide initial spread, but I really feel that it would be contained much more efficiently in, for example, the US or UK than is possible in the outbreak areas of Africa, so the outcome would be a lot less catastrophic.
On Thailand’s immigration police targeting digital nomads
Durability should be an important part of assessing a phone's quality. I think the issue here, is where do we drawn the dividing line on what's "reasonable" and "unreasonable" performance in that category.

I think it's reasonable to ask for phones that are water proof and shock proof. That is, a phone should be able to handle a dunk in the swimming pool, and should certainly be able to handle being dropped on a sidewalk. Both of those are every day events that happen to everyone. Until phones get to the point at which they can routinely handle both (neither of which any iPhone has ever been able to do), they come up lacking.

In addition, a phone should certainly not deform that much if it sits in a reasonable pocket.

On the flip side - I'm not expecting my phone to handle 200 pounds of force by me sitting on it on a hard surface repeatedly, particularly if there is hard edge/corner involved (which greatly increases the PSI the device has to handle). I also absolutely do not expect a phone to not deform if someone tries to bend it. People can bend freaking rebar, and I'm not expecting a phone to be structurally stronger than rebar.

That isn't to say you shouldn't be proud of your device if it can handle that amount of stress - I think it's definitely an advantage, it just isn't what I would consider the "minimum bar of performance for a smartphone."
Nice to see sikuli on the front page. I'm currently using it to test a legacy application.

Sikuli is good at image matching. For me sikuli broke when I started to take images of text. The font would render differently in gnome and the vm (vncserver/twm) jenkins ran the tests on. I ended up creating docker images of the test environemt so the docker image would be the same on jenkins and the testers machines.

Debian has a sikuli package libsikuli-script-java and sikuli-ide. I've also written a docker file for sikuli on debian wheezy [1].

[1] https://github.com/jesg/sikuli
I think your CV is fine. My advice is to just make yourself more visible. It's been a long time since I got a job by applying for it; these days you're in the best bargaining position if they approach you, not the other way around.

My top 5 strategies are:

1. Be active on LinkedIn, make sure your specialties/skillsets are all filled out. Comment in the group-forums regularly.

2. Be active on Angellist, fill out a hiring profile completely.

3. Make as many of your Github repos public as you can. Add more projects in your spare time.

4. Be active on stackoverflow (and careers.stackoverflow)

5. Be active here! (HN). You'd be surprised who is reading these threads.

No actual 'applying to jobs' should be necessary. Just being visible should be enough; you'll be beating them off with a stick in no time.

Normally 'attending meetups' would be near the top of my list, but I have no idea if there is an active meetup community in your locale. If there is, go to as many as you can stomach!
So true, while neglecting UI and usability. I guess developers hate that for people UI is your product.

Spend months rewriting the most beautiful backend and nobody care, redesign a button and everyone is excited.
First thing I noticed was how many authors it took to write that article. Believe Anand used to write past iPhone reviews solo - think they're gonna find it tough to replace him.
Ask HN: Kickstarter Funded Companies in YC / Other Accelerators?
I remember reading a while back of a company that funded through kickstarter and was also at YC - but for the life of me can't find it anymore; just wanted to ask if anyone knows of it or any others?
Yes. Metafilter. The reasons are simple: no voting, heavy moderation, linear discussion.
I think that mutability should also be recorded in types (i.e. even a &mut would not allow you to modify an immutable type). Then, programmers could control whether variants/enums are "fat" (use the maximum amount of memory of any variant in the same type) or "thin" (use the minimum amount of memory for the given variant) by changing the mutability of fields they are stored in.

But I totally understand that you probably have other, well thought-out reasons not to do that.
If you would like to see an example for a command line invoice tool I wrote, have a look at this:

https://github.com/emson/invoicerb

I wrote it because I used an invoice app, that went bust and I needed something really simple to send out invoices and I was in complete control of.

Also I didn't want to use a database so just used Ruby DSL meta files that described my invoice.
Admittedly it probably needs a bit more work... but it was fun to do.
> often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and new user experiences.

Every time the topic of a heavier moderation comes up people refuse to hear about it because "free speech".
In the EU this would be considered extortion because you have a right to a family life; unconscionable profit at the expense of this right might be considered illegal, especially if it was the only service available (e.g. banking, family visit, letters etc)
Gold costs ~$38,000/kg [1], lead costs ~$4/kg, and launching 1 kg to LEO costs ~$4,000 [2]. It would be an extremely profitable venture.

[1] http://goldprice.org/gold-price-per-kilo.html

[2] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1989/what-is-the-cu...
However, I would not get an MBA with a goal of middle
management as the focus of most programs is on getting
you ready for upper management decision making. For middle
management in a large company skills
such as project management, people management, scheduling,
delegation and communication are more
important than high level strategic thinking.

Perhaps it would be better if the training were divided into different (shorter) programs undertaken at different stages of a career. There might be a short program of basic business skills, appropriate for people just starting out and taking worker/analyst jobs; another for people stepping up into leadership positions, dealing with project and people management; and a final one for senior management, focused on strategic issues.

The military typically does it this way. What you learn in Officer Candidate School is different from what they teach you at the War College.
> There's no practical educational solution here.

If an account is new, perhaps it would be worth pestering them with a modal with a "this is the first time you're posting to this sub, have you read the rules for it? Here they are. Oh, and if you're wondering why this is on your page, here's how to remove it: ..".
Show HN: Invoicerb, a simple, command line invoice tool
I agree, I opened that PDF and the first page has two off-centre lines... not particularly impressed. And the line heights and kerning are all over the place. It's actually straight up terrible. Sorry, OP.
I actually take the Wuhan Guangzhou route often since my wife's hometown is on it and lacks an airport. It always seems crowded at least.
Personally, I think this is a feature. It's nice to know that a third party cannot socially engineer them into access to my site.

Of course now it all hinges on the social engineerability of my email provider, but they're getting better and better at this too.
Perceived control.
As Ebola confirmed in U.S., CDC vows: ‘We’re stopping it in its tracks’
I'm seeing exploit attempts against some very rarely used cgi programs that I happen to have installed: Clearly there are people out there who have trawled the entirety of the open source archives looking for potentially exploitable cgi scripts and are directly targeting hosts where those scripts can be found. Presumably they're using Google or other search engines to obtain lists of potentially exploitable hosts for a given vulnerable cgi script.

In this specific case, the exploit route is via the darcsweb.cgi python script which calls os.popen4() which in turn spawns /bin/sh. If /bin/sh had been bash it would have been all over for my server. This is not a cgi script in wide use (Debian popularity contest says that 22 people have installed it & registered with popcon!) yet it's still worth poking my server, which implies to me that this is an automated search of all the exploitable code they've found.

There's no security in obscurity here...
> Am I one of the minorities who believe that this hype about Ebola is more sensationalism and news than an actual pandemic we should be fearful for?

If you only care whether the disease is going to hit at home, or (even worse) only if it hits a "western country", then yeah.

Hundreds of thousands are dying, and it could hit millions.

I'm pretty certain it won't hit that bad "at home", maybe a few isolated cases, we have the infrastructure(s) to contain it adequately.

Not in Africa though. As you may recall, Africa is really really big (depending on map projection). May not literally count as a "pandemic", but this is a disaster of incredible proportions.

... and then there's people suggesting, only half-joking, to "nuke it from orbit". Would they suggest that if it was a "western country"?

It's fine to worry if you may get the disease yourself, personally. The answer is "no / highly improbable". But just because its wreaking havoc mainly in non-western countries, doesn't mean news about the terribleness and spread of this epidemic, that is going on right now (also it's not just some flu, it makes one bleed from their internal organs o_O), doesn't mean it's "hype" or "sensationalism". This is actual human drama and suffering at a massive scale. And it's probably going to get worse before it gets better.
Forum software war continues
I left my corporate job which I have been working in for 3 years to focus on my startup (www.voise.co). So I have been on both sides & I need to say It is a choice you make. Some people it fits them to be in a corporate job while others would excel with something they do on their own. Obviously not everyone will succeed but if you are still at a young age and willing to take the risk, try a different path that might be a better fit for you, I do not see the problem. Life goes own and you still can prove yourself. Also the reasons for failure of a startup would make a difference. Sometimes it is just out of your hands. I have gained tremendous experience with my startup. As I have learned to be multi skilled, which is something a lot of multinational jobs look for these days. I believe it always comes down to you as a person. How you represent and how confident you are with what you did, doing and will do in the future.
SSD performance data:

dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.7785 s, 386 MB/s

hdparm -tT /dev/disk/by-uuid/50543a27-2cb6-4d68-9ab4-e09493f946d5

/dev/disk/by-uuid/50543a27-2cb6-4d68-9ab4-e09493f946d5:
Timing cached reads: 14362 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7189.28 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1770 MB in 3.00 seconds = 589.21 MB/sec

really nice.
Even though it's just a website, I think of HN as a community that I am part of. And as such, I am always saddened to see how people in here talk about MBAs. Sure, there are those that just want to get into business to make quick bucks but there are also smart, good people who want to create a business that just happen not to be technical. But who have skills that many developers don't (and often, I think, skills that developers don't realize that they lack).

And I have to say that one of my MBA friends who frequents HN (he might be reading this but I won't name names) frequently laughs at blog posts about great insight that some developer-entrepreneur had about customers or markets etc. that is considered really basic knowledge to him.
Yes that's a point I was expecting to be raised after I wrote the above comment as is normal with any Apple post, "Hey there doing great why change anything", but I'd argue that yes things are working out great for them now but it's clearly costing the employees a portion of their personal life and I feel that given how well off the company is it shouldn't be needed.

In the podcast these ex Apple employees also mention being glad to be out of Apple because of issues like this, so provided that they move away from this culture they may see better employee retention for mid tier employees rather than having people burn out and leave the company.
I was thinking the former, but the latter is also of interest. Thanks!
You have an excellent point about who is willing to moderate versus someone who is actually fit for the job. I feel the concept it lost on a lot of people and too many look at it as another webforum or social media. There is something to be said about using curated link aggregation instead of a blog or forum. Ultimately expressing myself through other people's submissions is pretty cool and I like to think my ("my") subreddit has gradually reached that point.
I put my site on GitHub pages, HostingDetector detects this on Fastly. I don't know GitHub uses Fastly yet, thanks!
http://www.fastly.com/customers/github/
I completely agree, we are natural creatures. That doesn't mean that wiping out species and destroying ecosystems by our activities is OK.

In many cases it has long term detrimental consequences far in excess of the short term benefit of the economic activity causing the damage. Personally, I'm an advocate of factoring in the environmental costs of our economic activities and taking those costs into account. However the idea that we can live in balance without having an impact on the world around us is a fantasy.
Can you clarify what you mean by that?

Article said they got 2.2x improvement using their parallel method compared to STL. Trade off was having 100% CPU utilization vs 12.5% with STL.
Make an appointment and try to talk to your teachers in person. Maybe they can guide you in the right direction, give you some pointers on what projects are suitable as a graduation work.

Don't quit!
Are the bots scanning for anything besides HTTP-based Shellshock vulnerabilities?
It seems, from a first-hand report [+], that the police thought the renters of the coworking space were employees of the company running the coworking space. i.e. They were looking for garden variety "immigrants working without a work-capable visa" rather than digital nomads specifically.

That said, I've run into a lot of folks like this over the years (something about the combination of being in software and being a white guy in Asia), and my advice is always the same: go the extra mile and get your paperwork in order. If you cannot do this in your country of choice, find a new country of choice. Business is stressful enough without having to be constantly worried whether today is the day you're going to get arrested/deported.

+ http://www.johnnyfd.com/2014/09/live-updates-immigration-cra...
The headline editing is one of my pet hates about HN. I'd loathe seeing it spread to Reddit too.
They do.. but the trouble with allocating and utilizing all available bare metal ram/cpu/bandwidth is clearly built into their price at the lower end

1 core, 512MB, 20GB ssd = $19.84/month or $13.89/mo prepay compare to DO at $5/month

4 core, 8GB, 80GB ssd = $124/month or $86.88/mo prepay compare to DO at $80/month

Anywho.. multiple reliable hosting options always good :)
> You asked a question, I provided the answer and example code to the actual question that you asked.

No, you must emphatically did not.

This is the question I asked:

> Heartbleed was scary because modern, highly secure websites were vulnerable. Is that even remotely the case with Shellshock?

Put more clearly, I was asking for an example of a modern, well-developed website which would be vulnerable to Shellshock. (I don't think anyone would characterize CGI scripts as modern.) Your question didn't get anywhere near providing that.

I don't need a condescending explanation of why Shellshock is bad if you open a shell. I need an explanation (preferably with an example of actual code) of why somebody is actually shelling out in a modern web app.

Put another way, Shellshock could literally cause a computer to explode anytime a shell is opened from the app. This doesn't change my opinion that there's no reason modern websites are opening shells—and nothing you've said provides evidence of that.
I use cookie based authentication, like houndci.com https://github.com/thoughtbot/hound
I think token based authentication (rails-api) is better, but most of my technical background is rails.