skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the dollar value of an individual share or their market capitalization? Their current market capitalization (after the crash) is about $20 billion, which is less than $400 for each monthly subscriber they currently have. That's not too bad of a price, especially not for a company that's still growing at a rate of several million subscribers per quarter.
At this point I'm convinced at least one cryptocurrency is going to be very valuable in the distant future, I just have no idea if it'll actually be Bitcoin.
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My thoughts exactly. "witai" also is a word in czech, so maybe a reference to etymology of the word "robot".
The thing that initially attracted me to Quora (to the point of being one of their power writers in 2012) is that it's a way to publish things online that feel evergreen, without having to worry about maintaining or marketing a personal blog. My engagement with the site has declined a lot, but I still can see that people are reading the stuff I wrote several years ago, which doesn't happen with forums like this one, or with an untended blog.
How do you get this data from the USGS? Is this what you're referring to?

http://ned.usgs.gov/epqs/
> However when it's all said in done who else is competing with against netflix?

Amazon already with Prime. With HBO announcement, that's another big threat -- and if it means that more of the existing content producers (on whom Netflix relies for much of its library) are also going to take the same route, its a big problem for Netflix. Once it got real streaming competition (and thus, competitors for titles and exclusivity) and stopped even trying to big a universal library (because that wouldn't work anymore), Netflix -- and its competitors -- were essentially limited to being HBO but without the burden of cable (and without having yet built up the library of first-party content HBO has). But once HBO gets into that game, the opportunities got a lot narrower.
One option might be to go to sites that only display startups, eg. CrunchBase (crunchbase.com), AngelList (angel.co/jobs), Startupers (startupers.com), StartupHire (startuphire.com), and just apply to or cold-email companies listed there.

Beyond that, feel free to e-mail me (my address is in my profile, slightly obfuscated)...I'm founding a startup that's aimed at people like you, and I'd love to get your feedback on a new product concept.
LeetCode has a great collection of problems that you can practice with and test your solution in the browser (https://oj.leetcode.com/). The discussion sections were helpful as well.

GeeksforGeeks also has a collection of problems and analyses (http://geeksforgeeks.org/fundamentals-of-algorithms/).

So after refreshing yourself on the fundamentals, practice, practice, practice. Hope this helps!
Maybe "there must be an everlasting, immutable record of everything anyone has ever written or shared on the Internet, regardless of when it was written, the state of mind of the author, or how that author's (or society's) views have evolved over time" is not a nuanced enough point of view.
This[1] post was on HN about a year ago pointing to the Data Science Toolkit[2] for getting elevation and performing other geographic data lookups.

[1]: http://petewarden.com/2013/09/09/why-you-should-stop-piratin...
[2]: http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
Why 4096-bit SSL certificates are pointless
The tilde (~) is also invalid in a URL according to the RFC, but that doesn't stop everyone for using it for user names. I doubt your browser will escape that one either.
Are those teenage writings being dragged up specifically via the wayback machine? Did you try removing/changing them only to be thwarted by 3rd parties who'd made copies of the old material?

You may be sympathetic but I'm guessing that this situation is not really comparable.
I had the same assumptions about Amazon Prime's video offering being a replacement for Netflix. In fact, that was my motivating factor in buying prime. Since then, I have used Amazon video only a few times and Netflix pretty much every day. Netflix has such better selection and platform support; Amazon video is a pain to use. Ironically, I now love Prime for the 2-day shipping and would happily renew it without the video offering.
Ask HN: Would you stay somewhere just for money?
Short story but it gives context.

I got laid off and took over a year to get a new job I accepted an offer for what I think is a very low amount (< $40k). I am not as confident in myself as I should be, despite high praise from coworkers/managers. So fast forward 16 months. No reviews/raises/anything in that timeframe.

It's a small IT consulting company (< 50 people total) that when I started had 2 programmers and myself. One left ~4 months ago. The other left this week. So now all the work falls on me. So I know have a lot of leverage.

Problems:

1. the money; I felt like I had to take what I could get after such long unemployment and probably should have brought it up a long time ago but it's low. Second part is I don't know how they would react if I asked for too much.

2. the size; I am not going to be able to move up from here. The company is small and local so it does not offer any of the things I need (or think I need) to advance to where I want to be. '

3. building on the last thing...I had started to look for a new job (starting with those companies that I thought would be ideal for my goals). It's only been a couple weeks so it isn't like I have to reject an offer but I have been trying to be more confident in my skills and applying.

I am very lost on what to do. I understand that I have to ask for a raise. There is no way I can be the only programmer and for what they are paying me. I am conflicted though because I am actively trying to leave, which, I think looks terrible if I ask for a raise and leave anyway. On top of that I would be leaving them with nobody.

Has anybody been in this situation or one similar? I can't see anything good coming of any of this; either I sit in this job and maybe I earn more or even the number I want (unlikely), or I leave and they are high and dry and probably burn the bridge forever.

Thank you if you made it this far and I will take any advice I can get. Ask questions of me if it helps.
One of the issues with academic journal reinvention is mostly organizational - getting the buy in from a large variety of stake holders across academia and the industry, to take a stance on publishing only to open journals. So far, there hasn't really been a concentrated effort on this that I've seen.
"Its simply too large for the average user". That's what iPhone users told. "Anything over 4-inch is too big". Now every one is happy with 5-inch and more. People just adapt given a choice. I know people with small hands just fine with 5.5 screens.
I agree the price is a too much though.
That would still be a snapshot. There is no monthly data, or even yearly on the same date by the sounds of things, nor does it backfill up to 1979(when we started actually collecting data)
Google Testing 'Talk with Doctor' Feature
Perhaps, but they seem to be more up to date than the maps I bought from Garmin for my hiking GPS a few years ago. I bought the 2008 version of their 100k maps for the U.S., and found that Lake Nockamixon (1,450 acres) and Marsh Creek Reservoir (535 acres) were both shown as the tiny creeks that were present before they were dammed up to create the lakes in 1974 and 1973 respectively. Imagine that you are hiking along and encounter a lake that is a few miles long that is not supposed to be there. Those lakes are showing up just fine on the USGS site.

When I complained to Garmin, their response was that it was not an error and I should buy the (more expensive) 24k maps, which do show the lakes. They claimed the 100k maps don't have enough "detail" to show the lakes, yet they do show the tiny little creeks that were there 40 years ago, and they show other lakes that are only 22 acres. So, Garmin will happily sell you maps based on 40-year-old data and then charge you more to upgrade to newer data. By comparison, the USGS maps seem stunningly timely.
Mechanical Turk: The New Face of Behavioral Science?
I don't know quite what you are referring to. Giving away shares of stock in any public company could possibly be compared to it because they're liquid like BTC is. BUT I don't see it as being similar to giving away shares of a private company which are not very liquid.

The risk of getting paid in BTC does exist as far as price volatility, but it's not a far cry away from being paid in cash being as it's liquid and many merchants accept it as payment.
Yeah, looks like they're aiming to attack Surface at the same time as iPad. Might be time for an upgrade...
Derailing the thread a little.

"Always do the math" is a very nice piece of advice that I got from who knows where. More often than not you nail it.
It's too small to be A15. I found the information that the companion core was A15 in Tegra 4, but it's similar size to other cores[1].

[1]http://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2013/01/06/318d69ea-fdb7-1...
Yes clearly we hide in our rape caves and scheme in our Legion of Doom headquarters about which female dev to harass next.

Let's repeatedly ignore the countless people of every race, gender and creed who are sick of game journalists and instead focus on the bad apples within the group that GG has repeatedly reported and denounced because "they're all the same people." Then in the same breath claim you aren't responsible for the bad apples in your group who have done crap like send rape and death threats to Boogie's wife, doxx people and get people fired like one of the members of #notyourshield who was a genuine minority sick of having his racial background being used as ammo against gamers for somehow not being inclusive which is completely false.

Oh and FYI, people left 4chan and moved to 8chan because the talk was being censored just like everywhere else, they weren't banned.
That doesn't seem very impressive - a 12W charger can do that for any of my smaller devices regardless of OS.
Humans are exceptional. No other species has cities, wars or agriculture on a remotely comparable scale, not to mention art and science.
Feedly works great. Press too.
Why won't some investors just say 'no'?
Batman in Hong Kong
Sounds good look forward to it. Btw I think I found a typo on your site:

http://www.codelitt.com/technologies
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Good point - the reason for that is probably that as indexing and search systems go, Quora has done an exceptionally good job in on site retrieval of information as well on SEO - their autocomplete+search feature is especially well done.

HN atleast doesn't have the same visibility into the discussion threads that thrive here.
Water as in a public water works is quite the public good.

Given that water and sewage are closely related ( you can have sewage management without it, but it's riskier - we're talking outhouses, which require some management ), I'd be perfectly willing to help pay for poor people's water out of purest self interest.

There's the problem of identifying who might be eligible, but I'm ignoring that for now.
How to Dominate the App Store
It's the secrecy. Apple can't test things extensively because the whole world is trying to get a pic of their latest devices. That coupled with huge scale is bound to create hiccups, the real test is how fast and how well they address the issues.
Don't know why you were down voted - this is exactly what is in the press release.
I must just be crazy.
The thing is, that's not necessarily true in war. Little of it happened in Vietnam, to the USArmy's eternal shame, LBJ and McNamara showed little if any signs of learning, etc. etc.

At this point in my detailed WWI study I think I can say little happened in the French army, which mutinied with justification after several years of horror and was then useless for offense for a long time.

The Japanese in WWII didn't particularly learn in critical areas when, e.g., they used up their air power in the futile for them South Pacific campaign (the one that started with Guadalcanal). They didn't learn that disdain of non-combatant specialties is fatal in modern war. Their admirals never lost their taste for insanely complicated battle plans that depended on the other side doing what they expected, or at least that's a lesson to be learned from Midway and the much latter just about final action in the Philippines.

How much learning went on in the 30 Years War? Heck, I gather it's generally accepted that the lessons of Gustavus Adolphous were not properly learned until Napoleon applied them a century and a half later (!!!).

I can go on and on and on ^_^.

I mention this in part because the US has a tradition, if you can call it that, of starting out very green and shaky, and then getting really good. We're seeing the "very green and shaky" in Dallas right now; I'm hoping it and the rest of the country that's not ultra prepared (i.e. everyone but those four specialist wards) will follow a similar pattern.
Gnome looks nice, and has it's "own" look - but is nowhere even near the quality of Yosemite IMO.

And talk about quality issues! Any given thing is way more likely to break on a linux desktop environment. I love FOSS and have been a Gnome and Ubuntu user for years but integrating a thousand FOSS projects together presents many challenges to quality.
My main consumption of its content is through their weekly email digest, and I have to say, it generally piques my interest enough that I click through and read a bunch of articles I might ordinarily never have gone and looked for.
I am in a completely unrelated field (SAP ERP), and I enjoy your books. I really, really love the whole "soup to nuts" emphasis of your books, even if I have no interest in being a professional RoR Developer, it gives me a perspective on how and where the industry as a whole is going that you can't get from reading a bunch of websites.
It doesn't seem like a lot of people actually use Amazon's video thing, though. But besides that, I think Netflix has a real problem in that they are a thin layer of tech (OK maybe not so thin) over a huge amount of intellectual property. Not only do they not own that IP, the companies they license from can just keep increasing their rates as Netflix makes more money. They were really cleaning up for a while after their deal with Starz a few years back, but Starz wised up and demanded more money when the contract was up for renewal. I don't see how they get around this.

On the other hand, people do seem to just watch whatever is on Netflix. So, maybe they can get away with licensing a less-expensive mix of content plus of course their in-house stuff.
The announcement clearly states that Microsoft are becoming "Docker people" -> they're contributing the code in the Docker ecosystem, which means precisely that our problems become their problems.

This isn't any different than Red Hat contributing the Device Mapper backend to Docker so it can run unmodified on RHEL. Nothing about the UX changed/fragmented from there.
I'm not in a position to share what my rate was at Matasano, but now that I've moved on from there: my personal daily rate is $3k. I'm more likely to do work for free than to work for a single day.
Central Premise of Polywell Fusion Experimentally Confirmed
There is evidence[1] that Jimmy Carter was going after the water rates Central Valley farmers owe the U.S. government. This cause Ronald Reagan's campaign to be better financed. Don't know if it can be credited with costing Carter the election, but it was a factor.

[1] I recall the story as being from the book "Cadillac Desert".
How is this an improvement over Cloud Formation and/or troposphere (a python DSL to generate Cloud Formation templates)?
I don't know, I still know a lot of people who don't order anywhere near enough stuff online for Amazon Prime to be worth it. Honestly, these days I probably don't even buy something online more than every couple of months, although it probably only takes a few bigger packages a year to break even. As a "free" value-add to Prime shipping, Amazon streaming is nice (although I've never used it despite having Prime for years and not even having Netflix), but I don't think the package is anywhere near nice enough to immediately threaten Netflix.
Google ruling is not about not giving them information but about stopping Google from linking to already published articles for some keywords.
Show HN: Limelight - Responsive, beautiful theme for jekyll
Surely you did not disregard all the warnings on the download website and the installer itself and installed it on the main partition of your primary work computer?
You can't stop progress just because it alters your cash flow. If you don't make the product, someone else will, and end up positioned to take the future cash flows. No (rational) company stops investing in new products just because it challenges their current offerings.
why not archive the information after "anonymizing" it by removing all usernames?
I agree that I think I would prefer a 5" phone to a 6" phone. That said, there's no law requiring the keyboard to scale with phone size. For example, this[0] iOS (software) keyboard only fills the screen where it is easily accessible by your right or left thumb. Now if you're stochastically ambidextrous, well... I don't know what to tell you!

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/14/iphone-6-plus-one-handed-ke...
I think Quora's intent was more to replace Yahoo Answers than Stack Overflow, understandably so - lower hanging fruit, wider appeal etc.
This is why the concept of defining rights exists. I don't think the right to not be annoyed by your neighbor is one of the ones everyone agrees on.
I know someone whose Quora account was disabled a while back because he refused to use his "real name".

No idea if they still have that policy; my own account is evidence that they don't enforce it across the board (and really how could they?), but if it's still nominally in place then that leaves active users forced to choose between using a pseudonym (and living in fear that access to their account will be stripped from them) or using a name that can potentially be used to identify them in other contexts (and living in fear that being candid will come back to bite them later in life).

Not a particularly good decision to force on someone, IMHO - even if you do promise them an "out" by letting them retroactively self-censor.
I can somewhat empathize with the author of this article because in the end, transparency and willingness to share knowledge are historically good things to do.

However, I also respect Quora's commitment to user privacy and requests to delete content. Content creators power Quora's success, and to me it signals appreciation on Quora's part to watch out for them.

I have gotten a significant amount of utility from Quora for free in the form of it answering questions I had and thought provoking content. Its a bit hyperbolic to say Quora keeps the world's knowledge for itself.
I really hope this doesn't distract from Linux development - there are a number of bugs that have been hanging around for some time without updates now.
I think the point isn't that companies should decide what you can buy, that makes no sense...

I think the point is more that just because people seem to prefer a product at first glance/first use doesn't mean that that's the product they will prefer in the long run.

Something like the pepsi challenge ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Challenge ), if people are given a sample of pepsi and a sample of coke and not told which is which, they generally prefer pepsi if they just take one sip because of the extra sweetness, but if they drink a whole can of each then coke (the less sweet beverage) is usually preferred.
Prankster Terrorizes Noe with Sign Announcing a Hooters Location
Where are you located? $40k is low for the US, but maybe it's good where you are. So I can't advise you on the specific numbers, but I can give you general advice.

I don't know how they would react if I asked for too much
You won't know unless you ask. You have to get over your confidence issues and just ask for what you're worth. If you make $40k and market is $80k, then ask for at least $80k. You should actually ask for more since you are doing the work of 2-3 people.

I am not going to be able to move up from here
If career advancement is important to you, then you should probably look for a job at a big company where you can move up the corporate ladder. Unfortunately, you can't let that big company know your current salary because they will start you there, and you'll be locked into 5% a year, and you'll never get ahead.

I think looks terrible if I ask for a raise and leave anyway
This is business. If the tables were turned, they would have no problem asking you to take a pay cut and then lay you off right afterward. You may actually need to ask for the raise, stay for a little while, and then find a new job using your new salary history. I personally never reveal salary history when applying for jobs, so you may not have to go through this part.
That is in line with general impression. I just find it really weird that after all the high-tech nuclear stuff is working the next stage is an old-fashioned water boiler like on a steam engine of hundreds of years ago. (Well, obviously these turbines are not old-fashioned or simple boilers, but you know what I mean.) It just baffles me that we don't have a way of efficiently generating electrical current directly from particle radiation, eg through pressure fluctuations in a magnetic field, instead of through heat transfer.
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I know comcast is more diversified, but wouldn't this be a threat to them too? Why no effect on their after hours price?
do you have a ref for the differential regulation of dopamine synthesis by amphetamine and cocaine?
What happens in this case? Is the money gone to the incorrect account, or is there a way of chasing up that person to get it back (and does it depend on the amount in question?)
I think it's fine that you're using Go. Lots of developers use it personally and would like to use it professionally, so you're going to have an advantage when hiring.

However, I'll say that some of your "cons" of using Go are pretty huge cons that all add up to lots of lost time:

- "not as many libraries" is a huge time waster because you'll be writing lots of libs that exist in mature alternatives like Python. It's generally preferable for your coding time to be as specific to the project as possible. In Node, for example, 90%+ of my code is not reusable in other projects because there are so many libraries available.

- "none of us is a seasoned Go developer" is again a big time suck. I think it's really cool that your team is learning Go professionally, but it's going to make you slower.

- "migrating our early prototype to Go" seems painful.

But considering there are two Tisch's on your team, I'm guessing funding (and therefore time) are not a huge problem for you. I can certainly see the appeal of being to Go what Twitter was to Scala, except much earlier and more cheaply.

Anyway, I like Go and am looking forward to seeing what you guys put up on Github!
Ask HN: A practical use for bot traffic
As a by-product of I do in my day job we detect paid bot traffic. Just thinking there must be some practical uses for them - maybe in testing? Any ideas? Just curious
We've Raised Our Fair Value Estimate of Microsoft Significantly
The difference is that nobody uses Windows Phone, so it hasn't been worth Amazon's, Google's, or Apple's resources to build their media consumption services for that platform.

Android (minus Fire), on the other hand, has a huge install base, and it's ridiculous that Amazon Instant Video took so long to properly support that platform.
The reason for this is their EPS being down by about half of the expectations: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-15/netflix-obliterated...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization?