skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
International Labour Organization: 5 reasons for working 4 days a week
Non starter. Requires merchants to install palm scanners. Apple Watch works with standard NFC terminals.
I don't know how strong that fear is, considering that 12% of the US population lives in California.
Thanks Jacques! It's nice to hear from you, I've enjoyed your writing over the years.

I've spent most of my life in Vancouver BC. I've recently relocated to California to work for a startup.
The article says, "Thus, from the size of an animal’s neocortex, the
frontal lobe in particular, you could theoretically predict the group
size for that animal". So I did a bit googling and found another article, here

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1626378/

This one has another interesting point:
"These analyses show that while relative neocortex size is positively
correlated with female group size, it is negatively, or not at all
correlated with male group size. This indicates that the social
intelligence hypothesis only applies to female sociality."

Perhaps after a man gets married with a woman, he could shift much of
his social function of the neocrotex to his female partener, and free
up that part of the brain for some other interesting stuff...
It's difficult for me to comment on this.
Ask HN: Is it always advisable to work for a startup before starting up?
I have around 5 years of experience of corporate job and now I am thinking of starting my own venture, but wondering if it always better to get a hang of startup culture by working in one or it'll always be harder than one presumes and thus makes no difference? (I am a developer, if that matters)
Submitted the google cache link, because the original link is not available (404)
It should be pretty obvious to anyone that short term renters are undesirable for a variety of legitimate reasons. Which is why no landlords or HOAs allow them. None.
The SSA (Social Security Administration) is concerned about the quality of their records, and in general want you to double check them against what you think is correct.
Real 3d images
25x is another way of stating the commonly-cited 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate. It wasn't invented by MMM, it's from the well-researched Trinity Study[1].

If you're planning on a higher withdrawal rate you're probably heading for trouble. One big market downturn and you'll end up eating so much capital that you won't be able to recover. It's sort of like playing blackjack without a sufficiently large bankroll - if you hit one bad run of luck you're done even if you should've won according to the averages. A good way of visualizing this is playing with numbers at FireCalc[2].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
[2] - http://www.firecalc.com
People always talk about how AirBnb is ignoring consequences. But other than a very few high-profile cases, I haven't seen much evidence of these supposed consequences.
> I pay 10 USD/month for this insurance

In EU it can be easily 1000 USD/month. Compulsory!
No I spend ~700 a month but about 100 of that is insurance and gas which is entirely me going to and from work. I live in Austin TX.

But yeah I know some college towns where I could get down to 3-400 a month with out too much deprivation. And I could probably get a grand out of my car.

Which okay is more like 2 and 4 years I guess. Although I'd be due at least some tax return and a couple paychecks+unused vacation if it was me quiting to pursue the great american novel.
No scrolljacking, beautiful colors, product screenshots, nice imagery and typography.. this is a successful execution of the ubiquitous "startup site" style. Not a comment on the product, but I had to commend you for getting this right when so many others get it wrong.
Congrats Guys! Doing it right is more important than doing it fast. Awesome!!
Entertaining!

It only lacks the whoosh-rush-boom I recall from turning my Sunfish sharply across the wind.
It's easier to tell if the project will help your external career. Will you get to put some of the work into open source software? Will you be able to present it at conferences? Is it going to make an interesting line on your CV?

For internal career prediction, that's harder. My advice: just talk to people. The reputation of the project is a better indicator than any technical details. A project that is technically excellent but poorly sold internally is still going to be an effective failure.
Thanks Morgan! It has not been easy as you say, but it certainly beats the alternative. :)

I've had a quick look at the book you recommended and it's gone on my "to read" list. I'd like to think that I've gotten rather good at ignoring religious overtones with my time spent in Alcoholics Anonymous.
(full disclosure: I'm seasoned with Go and haven't used Scala past playing with it in a REPL)

I would argue that Go is far more readable, and simpler to grok, than Scala, and that's without adding Akka on top of it. That's with respect to the level of this project - how much it does, and what it's doing. If you have a huge, distributed system project, I'm sure there's a lot of things Scala would make easier over Go's rabid simplicity.

You're also ignoring the points he made WRT portability and dependencies. Scala/Akka still need the JVM, and potentially a bunch of other dependencies.

When all you have is a ..., everything looks like a ..., and what not.
We live in a world of contradictions - I think it's both.
People will presumably want to pay more for an apartment they can monetize as a short-term rental.
Two years ago, I gave up all of my securities and shiny things to experience life without depending on finance from a moralistic/philosophical point of view from someone who has had the privilege to ignore such. For the last few months, I've been considering changing that as it's getting cold again and I'm losing energy, technology, patience, and motivation to continue, given this depression I'm beginning to fall into. I'm 25, and looking at job postings everywhere, I've become really discouraged by the insane requirements for what I presume, Human Resources, have managed to standardize in some weird way, and the fact that I'm becoming older and less ideal in the managerial sense.

I had thought finding remedial work would help me out whenever I needed cash, and it could still be true, but I didn't realize how insanely closed off the world has become given the openness(lesser so) of the internet. These days, if financially secure, it would be very helpful to have a good $15k in the case something strange consumes your focus for the only way to advance securely is by needlessly consuming. It's lamentable in living without the imposed means of finance means we're going to constantly audition for our existence, but refusing monies is increasingly starting to remind me of few religious themes.
I think for many people 'freedom from inexplicably slowing down after 6 months' might be preferable to 'freedom to reskin my custom window manager' ;-)

My Dad loves his Chromebook and it's the first computer he's not managed to bugger up.
This looks great. I've also been exploring path rendering and timeline playback in the browser, see here:

http://mattdesl.github.io/path-illustrator/demo/advanced.htm... (path rendering)

https://github.com/mattdesl/keytime (generic timeline)

IMHO the best thing for these tools to do is give more control to the developer. Things like JSON export, custom plugins, etc. This way we can use the timeline and UI tools to drive canvas, WebGL, and even generic animations like audio volume or gravity in a game.

Otherwise you risk the tools "fading away" as the landscape changes, and running into the same limitations as Dreamweaver/Macaw/EdgeAnimate.
What Does Ethical Social Networking Software Look Like?
I believe most people would say that when they agree to take money with a promise to repay it, they are under a moral obligation to do so.
also .io will seem pretty dated in a few years.

its okay for conferences and dev related things, but I wouldn't start a business on it now.
I don't really know what will happen with this case but cases like this are the reason I never try to contact anyone on security flaws.

Sometimes just when browsing the web, I click on a wrong link or a button in an unexpected way and I see what must be security flaw. When you studied a bit in this domain, you _know_ that there is something. I never tried to contact anyone anyway because I have absolutely nothing to win. After all, if their server is exploited I'm not liable in any ways but they can try to sue me if I contact them.
Many of my savings are illiquid. The amount of folks on 3 months or less should be very careful. You never know when disaster can hit. (That said, it took me 9 years out of undergrad to get a cushion)
Yes, you misunderstood how tracing garbage collection works. Cleanup of data allocated on the heap occurs during tracing phases, not when a reference goes out of scope. Otherwise, imagine if before it returned f copied the object into some global structure g--how would the garbage collector know it was safe to close?

(Some garbage collected languages can do automated "escape analysis" to figure out whether an object "escapes" the scope, and if it doesn't place it on the stack instead of the heap and deterministically free it when it goes out of scope. But that's surprisingly limited in real world programs and is generally speaking an implementation / optimization detail, not a core guarantee of the language).
I'm able to access repos for organizations I'm not an admin for. That's very strange.

I'll have to look into it. Feel free to hit me up at hello@diffmatic.com with your account info and I'll see what I can do.
Hey, if I had my way, everything would have been star wipe. Scroll -> star wipe to next page. Scroll -> star wipe! Scroll -> star wipe! It could have been AMAZING.
>Only if they never experienced the freedom of a proper OS.

I'm a consultant, and many IT departments I've worked with have started deploying Chromebooks as clients for their VDI environment. When the VDI side of things is done correctly, the user experience is very, very good.

Chromebooks are generally cheaper than traditional thin clients, and offer basic productivity tools and access to mail if VDI is down. They're more or less disposable, and easy to provision. I only see them becoming more popular in the enterprise as VDI grows more popular.

Edit: I'll also point out that "freedom" is pretty much the antithesis of what most enterprise customers are going for. The space where VDI + Chromebook is growing quickest is within sales departments/orgs - places where the business has a vested interest in keeping a very tight grip on information.
Good point! The original article compared by PPP not GDP, but both would be a reasonable way to make a broad comparison.

Here is a link on the same subject with GDP

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-30/china-set-to-overta...

Either way it paints a picture.
I highly doubt they use their own micro architecture. It'd be a lot cheaper to license Cortex-A5. Using their own micro architecture for the main processor gives them a huge competitive advantage. For the security co-processor, COTS would work fine.
Or unless owner/tenant is present? Or unless price=cost?
Huge! It's always been a pleasure to work with Segment, and they've made our lives at Amplitude a lot easier. Glad to see that their hard work is being valued :)

Congrats to the team!
I can attest. It supports both "one shot" cards as well as multi-use (with a time limit, up to one year), both with a limit on how much they can be charged.

That said, I don't think it has an Android app, just a mobile website. The app that shows in Google Play is just a shortcut to the website (built by an unaffiliated developer).

And of course, it doesn't even any of the notification stuff, it's just a gateway to your regular bank account. Nor does it have physical cards.
You don't even need to get to 40---I have mini burnouts all the time!

I keep saying to myself this is the last epic push, and then I'll take it easy and work in a civilized way from this point forward. Now's the time...
Very similar to Ramsey's advice (as I understand it), I use and love YNAB, which encourages zero-balance budgeting and a month of "buffer", which boils down to paying this month's income into next month's budget. There are no religious overtones as far as I can tell. It is designed for people working their way out from under debt (especially from credit cards), but it's very useful outside that use case as well!
I'm brand new to C, but wouldn't this from the hello world example always eval true?

if (__JCR_END__ == 0 || 1) {
return;
what about the presentation of facts and evidence is insane?
Say hey to matt for me.

Why would I use this over something like ApplePay?

Do I need a "final card" for each of my credit cards? Or can I tie it into 1 final card (Mostly for online purchases). Or complete new credit card?

What do costs look like? Or if it's a new line of credit, do I get reward points/etc?

-JT
+1 to this sentiment... I want to use this service, but it requires I give it way too many permissions. I actually couldn't click "authorize" when I looked at how much access it wanted (probably an oversight, and nothing nefarious).

Hopefully it gets fixed, because this is sweet. I'd happily pay $20-$50 a month for my team to get an overview of github activity for our organization.
> Perhaps we shouldn’t be cynical. Instead, maybe we should just marvel at the velocity of Silicon Valley in all its absurd glory, and at a 10-year-old who has raised millions for two separate businesses and may also help change the way we look at charity.

I missed the part where a 10-year old raised millions of dollars. The previous NYT story[1] by the very same author presented a slightly different narrative of the company less than a year ago:

> Vivienne’s success was spurred by a heart-rending cause, a cute face and a good tagline in the form of “make a stand.” But she would most likely have just been another lemonade stand if not for her father, a social media expert. Eric Harr was president at the time of Resonate Social, and his clients included CBS News and Lexus, among others. He led a media-savvy Twitter campaign that attracted national attention for Vivienne’s cause.

> What makes this feel-good story really interesting is what happened next. Instead of moving on, or even forming a nonprofit to continue those goals, Mr. Harr and his wife, as well as Vivienne, formed a business around this cause.

> Mr. Harr raised $982,000 in financing and incorporated Make a Stand. He quit his job and is now the chief executive. Make a Stand sells fair-trade, organic lemonade.

If the author wanted to make a point about "the velocity of Silicon Valley in all its absurd glory," I think he could have found plenty of better examples.

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/in-a-lemonade-stand-a...
Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors
Is anyone else experiencing "jumpy" page on the website?
Would never overcome the degradation for the rest of the tenants.
Way to go Peter!
congrats Peter!
You don't have to, and it will always be harder than one presumes, but I think it's still beneficial to work for someone else's startup before starting your own. It gives you time to get acclimatized to the pace of change in a startup, to learn to roll with the punches, to make technical trade-offs that are expedient in the short term but mortgage your long-term code health, and to function in an environment with high ambiguity. All of these are very stressful, and when you combine them with the lack of a paycheck and the sole responsibility of driving the venture forward that being a founder entails, you frequently end up with founders that quit or worse.
How to get people to stop at your startup’s Tech Day booth
Usually cost, also people often need to pay to get them recycled this often causes problems.
I'm not saying your solution wouldn't work, I'm saying that any implementation of your solution would be an unreasonable burden. AirBnB is not a real estate agent and does not act as one, there are no laws against them listing properties nor should their be.
IDA Summer of Code 2014: Summary
Do you really need to have eMail verification before the user is allowed to do anything?

In my application I let the user use the service for a week before actually doing any kind of blocking, simply displaying a bright red banner at the top of the page will prompt the majority of people to login to their eMail and verify, and for the ones that are waiting for an email it's no bit issue.

May be also think about sending an email and have a button/link for people that are still waiting, then use something like Twilio to verify them via SMS or Call if it really is vital to prove their identity before any kind of access is given.
So when an individual borrows and fails to repay, there is a moral hazard, but when a business declares bankruptcy and restructure, that's smart business?

Debt is a contractual issue, not a moral one. As HackerNews entrepreneurs should keep in mind, its the ability to easily shed debt (and not be shackled to those debts for decades) in the US that creates the environment for startups to take the risks they do.
I hear you. For the sake of completeness, here is the other side of the argument from students that use IDA for reverse engineering. Those activities are really about cracking freemium/shareware apps and the associated subculture is a little... well... special. I have heard countless times that IDA should cost $200 and the author should work with the community to improve the tool...

My stance is that the tool is very specialized, unique and the cost is reasonable for professional usecases.
Congrats! That this comes 3 years post-cycle shows good tenacity on the part of the team.
Presumably it can make money be operating every night though, which is where it would end up if solar expands to the level where it replaces conventional generation.
Congrats guys! We at Amplitude are very lucky you guys exist.

For quite a while, a majority of our new inbounds mentioned that they first saw Amplitude through the list of tools at Segment. A lot of companies see Segment as a recommendation platform- so they’ll go to them to get a list of vendors. It's definitely huge for us that you guys are around.
>Funny you mention Germany though. It is one of the few countries that tried to outlaw "hacking tools", broadly defined as including a lot of reverse engineering tools you would use for the purpose you mentioned. I don't know what happened with that, perhaps the situation have improved?

No.
Need a < 1 day option
Thanks Andreas!

1. Yep we've grandfathered all the old customers as we've updated pricing, they keep their old pricing.

2. We're thinking about ways to handle this, and may have some updates soon. There's actually a low API call threshold (5k api calls I believe) where we just won't bother you about payment no matter what integrations you're using.
some people only need (and are perfectly happy with) what is essentially a "microsoft office appliance" (or: google-docs + chrome appliance). that's fine. I just wish they wouldn't call it a "computer"
I'll throw it on Github right away. I basically just used IBMs Node sample code which had it all there I just hooked it up to the HN api :p. https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#starters/nodejs/index.html#...
mbed seems to insist you use ARM's online toolchain, and appears to be very difficult to just use with gcc or llvm in your machine. So no thanks...
> This might seem naive, but honestly, why is this tolerable by so many people if the words are said on the internet rather than on the streets?

It isn't tolerated, but there is no recourse for response. Words said on the streets can be met with physical response, meaning directly removing the offending individual by force, or even physically harming them for their behavior.

Words said online can only be met by moderator response, which is always delayed, easily shrugged off and rarely an actual punishment.
If the interviewer was satisfied, are you sure the linked list question was the issue?
The 30 patches are the number of total patches on that version of bash (bash's version release cycle is major.minor.patch), not the number of patches related to shellshock.
Ah, it's just hosted with IBM right now so they must limit.
How Mainstreaming Bitcoin makes it more like Wallstreet
Upvoted grandparent based on this post.
Yes it still requires flash. I use it on a regular basis for most of my one-off online purchases.
I see references to Dave Ramsey and Mr. Money Mustache (MMM). I would add financialintegrity.org and for the Entrepreneurial type, Robert Kiyosaki's RichDad.

As seems usual to me, the more I read of different approaches to a given task, the more similarities I am able to sift out, what I consider key underlying truths. My wife and I have been following Kiyosaki's recommendations, but we see similar ideas in the other three references above, as well as other sources of financial management.

We are accumulating cash-flowing assets, while maintaining a service business for basic income and tax benefits. We hope to retire in 6 more years or so, if all goes well. At that point we will be independently wealthy, which basically means our passive income is greater than our expenses.

Retirement for us just means working on different things and no longer being attached to a financially profitable outcome. I have discovered that I am a perpetual student, so this seems to be one of the few ways I can support that without debt for tuition.
I didnt realize gyroscope info was available that easily for the browser. From the PDF there is some sample js code, try the below from your phone

EDIT: http://jsfiddle.net/axjdgb6g/1/

http://jsfiddle.net/js14s16z/
The APIs can be used for all of the types of apps you mention -- there's nothing limited to, or even targeted to advertising. Here's an idea for an app: Imagine that you're a non-native English speaker, and you want to communicate with English-speaking friends on Facebook or Twitter. Language identification can detected your language, machine translation and translate it to English, concept expansion can automatically generate potential synonyms, message resonance can select the synonyms that best capture your message, and user modeling can tell you what kind of emotions your message is communicating. This technology can and will be used to bring people together, but ultimately it comes down to what types of apps people make.
Is it only for US residents? Do you have an Android app?
What you do when waiting for some computer operation to execute can determine
if you are a zen coder, or distraction junkie coder. The main idea here is to:
Not lose focus, and Take a micro break.

[...]

-- http://www.componentowl.com/blog/zen-coder-vs-distraction-ju...
The problem here is that the first 40 hours of work--which the author believes has low utility--are the hours which generate the money to pay for the author's job. The author places higher utility on the next 20 hours, but those hours don't generate money, but prestige and scientific advancement.

The situation is similar to an artist who cannot (yet) make money off her "artistic" work. Instead she has to do commercial work to support her "artistic" ambitions.

Utility seems to have several dimensions. It's easy to say that the first 40 hours of commercial work have low utility, but without those first hours, you would not able to survive to do the rest of the work that you are more interested in.

At the end of the day, you have to pay your bills. The work that pays your bills is not automatically lower utility than the work that you do for fun/prestige/skill/art/etc.
Didnt paypal used to have virtual cc#s years ago?