skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just keep applying, applying, and applying."

I know persistence is great virtue, but I was wondering if there is any way to get real work experience (team, communication, real job conditions) and at the same time getting a good salary, that seems highly unlikely now. Only way to get it if you are able to, in same way, show something outstanding of a great value for your employer, what doesn't seem easy to achieve.
Being wrong is fantastic, because it means I have learnt something. In fact I recently had to optimize a troublesome loop and got acceptable results (15 minutes down to 2 minutes thanks to branch mispredicts). Given what I saw today I can go back and see if splitting it up will result in any performance gain.
I'm thinking more of William Gibson - BTW his new novel is available - but - yeah.
Hackpad is pretty sweet.
True, although YC is a pretty special case where they actually leverage that physical proximity extremely well. They have office hours with powerhouse investors and entrepreneurs, dinners with special guest speakers, access to a large number of angel investors with whom they can have meetings, etc. These are resources that startups living in crack motels in SF aren't going to have access to. So for those privileged few lucky enough to be accepted to YC, being in SF at least for the duration of the program certainly makes sense.
After this sparked the "good old days" flashbacks, I went to http://www.winamp.com and it looks like they are working on a revamped version of Winamp. The site says: "WE ARE WORKING HARD TO REENERGIZE WINAMP!"
I'm pretty sure that those are human-selected rather than algorithmically selected.
Feds Seize Silk Road 2 in Major Dark Web Drug Bust
related recent reddit blog post about the 'defaults', changing them etc...which was not without controversy of course but ...

http://www.redditblog.com/2014/05/whats-that-lassie-old-defa...
Using R and Plot.ly to visualize my music consumption
Many years ago I had an article on my personal blog about web design climb it's way to the front page of Digg (I'm dating myself here) and Reddit. Despite my server buckling rather quickly, I still saw at least ~250K visits over a couple days (Digg then was slightly more popular) and to this day (5+ years later) that one first page post continues to deliver tens of thousands of visits a year thanks to a rather healthy Google rank and a huge network of incoming links from related tech blogs.

Reddit exposes you to a huge audience, who then in turn comment, link to, and debate your post. Reddit's memory is short however, and within hours your post will be gone. However the reverberating effects benefit you in many ways and almost guarantee traffic for years if the topic is "evergreen".
City hall != community. Eventually this will become just another tax on house, impossible to opt-out. In Germany you MUST pay for privileges such as TV or rain water disposal.

There are many community networks build by volunteers, for example CZFree had almost 1M users at its peak.
hmm really? can you give me an example?
Furnish.io – Your personal interior designer, free of charge
The best part is that the buttons are <div> instead of <button> :-P. HTML5 for the win!
Beautiful, especially the last part[1]. My youth started with a ZX-81 (10 print "notlisted"; 20 goto 10;), followed by a Vic 20 (poke poke), a Commodore 64 (6502 ASM, Pascal, C), Amiga (that demo scene! video toaster), a Silicon Graphics Indigo (rayshading) and various PCs, a NeXT, a few Suns, more PC-based (gaming) rigs, and somehow I've ended up with a Mac (Mini!) and various tablets.

[1] "Such a strange way to say goodbye. So here I am. Imaginary disks whirring and screens blinking as I visit my old haunts. Wandering through lost computer worlds for an hour or two, taking screenshots like a tourist. Shutting one virtual machine down with a sigh, then starting up another one. But while these machines run, I am a kid. A boy on a porch, back among his friends."
Silver Blade and Fennec Masqué – Official Trailer -
Because ISPs sign deals with cities for exclusive rights to provide broadband in the city. The offer incentives to the government (providing cheaper/faster service to schools and government buildings) in exchange for exclusivity.

Part of these deals prohibits local governments from becoming ISPs.

The root of the problem is that ISPs are not classified as common carriers.
Cool! How does the color selection work? Is it just the five most common colors in a given image, or is it more sophisticated than that?
I have a couple of boxes of 5.25-inch floppies! formatted for the Apple ][. I've kept them since I had one. Mostly for their aroma; it's capable of evoking memories that nothing else can. Still, from time to time I feel like booting one. Maybe I'll try sometime soon.
Nice implementation - less is more!

What algorithm did you use for color extraction? I seem to getting colors with the correct hue, but too low saturation? (example: Ferrari)

You could also imagine to not show colors with very low saturation (ie. white/gray/blacks). I've previously used Colorific [1] which seems to address some of those things!

[1] http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/05/11/color-analysi...
It's been pointed out that it's Youtube's policy and not the DMCA that allowed this leak of personal info.
Apple devices infected by WireLurker malware that targets USB
Android sensor crowdsourcing made easy: The PressureNet Developer Program
Hey compañero, that's very cool! I wonder how hard would it be to add the query to the URL so that I can paste it to someone? :-)
On the community I have no idea, but I imagine the next reincarnation of these type of markets will have to be managed by lone wolfs out of a cave in Afghanistan.
Apple will allow as long as it doesn't involve JIT - i.e. awfully slow.
Judging by how good the comments are when it is up, I hope it recovers soon too =)
6. Be Douglas Crockford. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4&t=19m

I believe he has some experience of JS.
Creative Commons license covers copyright, but doesn't cover model release. You may have something actionable there.
> Asian-Americans are...

> my assumption is that they live in area's that Americans wouldn't want to live anyway.

yeah, real americans wouldn't want to live there, amirite? trustworthy, dependable, high standards having white americans, not like those filthy asian americans who are only pretending to be citizens.

after all we all know where they're really from wink wink nudge nudge

i've got news for you, pal. "Americans" (i.e. "white people") have been moving into black and latino neighborhoods in SF for decades, pushing them out systematically (see soma, mission) the asians are the only ones with enough money to resist it.

in fact, asians as a demographic have the highest income in the entire country, so that might explain a few things that your shitty conclusions don't cover, like why white people don't seem to be able to displace them.
Reddit doesn't have just one frontpage anymore, the defaults vary depending on country.
This analysis only works when all buyers get the same price. There are cases where more value is obtained by having each buyer get a different price.
What does this mean in the wake of Prop 47?
Political conversations that don't devolve into idiocy and hatred are the exception, and not the rule, in any forum or group I've ever encountered.

I think if your theory involves mass-exclusion/banning you could possibly end up with a place like this. But the conversation would actually lose an important voice at that point. The angry people are (often) angry for a reason, they're just usually pretty bad at making their point civilly.
From a comment at the link:

"NIOSH does not recommend nor endorse a particular commercial product. The data from our study “Evaluation of smartphone sound measurement applications” is available in the journal article referenced at http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/135/4/10.1... . The discussion section (page 189) highlights two apps — SoundMeter and SPLnFFT — that had the best accuracy over our testing range. There were two other apps — Noise Hunter and NoiSee — that were within ± 2dB of the reference sound source. Once again, note that the data results in the study do not constitute as NIOSH endorsement of any of these products."
It better have Milkdrop or it's completely useless!
For both Reddit and HN, articles/posts live or die based on popularity, not meritocracy nor karma.
Argument From Cranky Authority (Whose Lawn You Are On)
The FBI Has Just Seized the Online Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0
A deep analysis was published in http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854 (920 points, 345 days ago, 190 comments)).

AFAIK there are no filters to bind the maximal post of a domain in the front page, but some domains have automatic penalties.
Also: it's the stupidity of giving your personal info to Youtube in the first place that allows it to leak personal info.
Sounds like there are 50 subs that get spots 1-50, sorted mainly by vote count.
It looks more likely that someone's learning Go and going through the crawler example in the tutorials. Of course I may be wrong here. The trigger for me was the term "Fetcher" here.. http://tour.golang.org/#73

Fun exercise though.
So simple - but so cool. What a great idea.

My only "critique" would be to make the hex codes copy/paste ready in the results. I like the links to dribble, but I'd really like to just be able to quickly copy/paste the hex codes.
I'm dying to see some more details! What model plane, how does your stabilization algorithm work, how is everything placed on/in the plane, how do the ARM microcontroller and the original controller work together, etc!
I speak to people in "the office" via Skype regularly throughout the day.

I have a daily 10 minute team stand-up via conference call (our team has a good microphone in the main office).

My code check-ins are there for everyone to see. If there was a lack of them, it would be pretty obvious that I was not pulling my weight.

The people in my co-working space are heads down busy. I go for lunch with some of them, but other than that, there isn't that much chit-chat whilst we sit at our desks and work.

That's not to say that I'm never distracted or procrastinating. However, the cause of my procrastination is the same regardless of environment. Whether it is my old corporate cube environment (surrounded by by co-workers), my co-working space (surrounded by random people working), and my home office (surrounded by my cat) the root cause is that the work is uninteresting and uninspiring. A change of project is the best way to change that. A new feature rather than support another. A walk around the block and some fresh air a short term fix.
As opposed to Angular? Not sure what you're trying to say here.
Python and Ruby aren't a suitable comparison, because they lack AOT compilers to native code as part of their canonical implementation, which is not the case for Swift.

As for access to the language implementation, Swift is Apple's creation.
What about currency's that fluctuate? The rate can change a lot in the several years a card is in consumer hands.
The city government in Boulder is claiming that they intend to lease out the 100+ miles of fiber in the city to interested ISPs so that they can provide fiber to the citizens. Right now, my understanding is that the majority of the fiber is dark.
Another really good idea - I just sent this to some of our design guys and they love it. Having a link for specific results could be a great addition for sharing.
I feel like you explained why it's wrong by completely agreeing with how almost EVERYONE actually understands the phrase.
Sorry if I've used the wrong term. I'm picking them from intuition, but I haven't studied the field. If the proper term is surplus, just use that instead.

The question of how to divide that surplus is very interesting and especially relevant to judgement of price discrimination.
S-corp or llc? that sounds a lot like your income tax or equivalent (you pay something very much like income tax on profits for pass-through entities) - which is to say, if you were farming out this work to someone else, most of that tax bill would follow the money you are paying someone else to do the work.

At that much, I'd guess you are paying income tax at a rate that would indicate that you have significant other income.

Income tax/fica are the hardest to get around (and most regressive) tax you have to face, but if you wanna stay in America, there's not a lot you can do. (you can shave off something around ten percent if you want to leave California and move somewhere without a state income tax... but there's no getting around federal income and FICA tax.)
I've using Js for quite some time, and the behavior of prototype chain and instanceof always give me headache when I'm trying to do simple inheritance...

For now, I'll keep using `_.create` to do Inheritance. Of course it means another library to keep using and more verbose. But whatever...

var Person = function(){ User.call(this) };

Person.prototype = _.create(User.prototype, { 'constructor': Person });

var p = new Person();

p instanceof User //true
p instanceof Person //true
The Pincubator? Former Zynga CEO Mark Pincus Starts a Startup Factory
North Korea: surfing the net in the world's most isolated nation
Apple owns C++ and Swift compilers.
Face facts, as a friend used to say, your company will probably fail before it makes enough money to pay significant taxes.

You're correct, but that's all the more reason not to move to a crazy expensive city like SF from wherever you are in order to start your (likely to fail) company. What I was saying is that if you feel physical proximity to the Valley is necessary and you are planning to relocate anyway, then Reno is probably the ideal choice. If you are successful, the upside is dramatically higher because there are no state taxes on your success. If you fail, the downside isn't as bad because your expenses are dramatically lower. You also have a higher chance at success if you aren't burning through your startup capital on monstrous expenses associated with being in the Valley.
Very cool project and website design!

Which shop did you use to print the PCBs and how much did each of them cost?
Is there any differentiation between the two on API stability?

I got burned last fall trying to build an app with Ember as they kept making breaking changes, even between release candidates (!). Technically Ember was stable, but Ember Data (which is separate I guess?) was doing major refactoring on their API, and it cost us quite a bit of time just trying to keep up. Even today, their GitHub has a disclaimer that it's beta quality and under active development[1]. Ember CLI also says it's very much WIP[2], even though it seems to be the officially endorsed way to build Ember apps.

Does Angular make stronger promises about their stability? Is this sort of thing just the cost of doing business with cutting-edge frameworks? Or am I missing something?

[1]: https://github.com/emberjs/data#api-stability
[2]: http://www.ember-cli.com/#community
Because everyone develops on trunk, migrating a >200k commit repo isn't high ROI. Works great for us! (Newer repos, like our real time web messaging and our C++ WebGL game engine, are in git)
How to launch a business in 5 days? Inside Google Campus' Launchpad
We have mandatory code reviews. Anyone can code review anyone else's commit. This is working great for us, even junior programmers are being able to make some good points on other's code.
This can be meta-gamed. Suppose you create a Youtube account and use a fake identity: that of someone you would like to be targetted as terrorists. Then post videos which make them upset, and so it goes.
Absolutely nothing at all. Transporting, or aiding in transporting, drugs across state lines brings in the big guns.
They do, but they reassign some of them to other parties: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-8-0-0-0-1/children
I don't think it would be weird if they developed OSX/iOS applications in Swift.
Show HN: How a Few Guys Over-Engineered an AppStore Indie Game Success
Nothing. Prop 47 is a state measure for simple possession. This is conspiracy to traffic, interstate wire fraud, federal crimes prosecuted under federal statutes. Even if these were state charges Prop 47 didn't really change much (or anything) sentencing for sales.
Reddit is internet power - I cant recall a day in the last 5 years when I haven't checke reddit. When people ask me what websites do I read I can't recall any other than reddit. So funny. And I grew up with slashdot. People dont even know what slashdot is anymore. Reddit is the internet explorer button for me.
The article says there's only 4 iPhones, but shows a variety of MacBook configurations and says there's 10 different models. There's really only 5 (2 Airs, 2 Retina, 1 non-Retina). To count storage and memory differences as new models, you'd have to do the same for the iPhone (3 storage options per, to say nothing about different colors)
s/H1B/LCA

I'm in that data, yet I have an E-3, not an H-1B.

One unintended consequence of moving to the US that I wasn't expecting is that now my friends back home roughly know what my salary is. I understood when moving here that the LCA (which has salary details) would be posted in public spaces, but I didn't notice it was also a matter of public record which in this day and age, means global public record.

I work in a smaller city, so while I may have been relatively anonymous in somewhere like Silicon Valley, my location, company and role and year of employment is more that enough to uniquely identify me. Such is life.
Given there is Android for x86 (atom), it should not be that hard indeed.
Datasheets and revision guide publicly available for all AMD chipsets.
> I assume that these things should be obvious.

I'm glad that you've gotten so many takeaways but be very mindful of this. As you've said you didn't see a lot of these things when you just started out. It's through experience that things became obvious.

It'll take time but if you focus on teaching and improving your team you will get there.
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Actually, google does a lot of iOS development and has dozens of shipping iOS apps (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/google-inc./id281956209), and thus has a pretty sizable community of Objective C programmers. So Google will almost certainly be shipping apps containign Swift code as soon as the tools stabilize enough for them to do so.
Exactly my reasoning. I love hockey so it's much more fun to me than building the canonical todo-app, etc.
Oh sure, the product they sell is the integration between hardware and software. But saying they are "much more" a hardware company than a software company is selling them pretty short.
Relevant XKCD comic "Map of the internet": http://xkcd.com/195/
Sometimes it's more about learning clever architecture than clever, or better code. Clever architecture can often help keep your code an order of magnitude simpler.

The issue you may run into is seasoned developers are the ones who learn this over time.

Conversations based around "why" help a team understand the importance of:

- creating a codebase that they will still want to / be able to work on without dealing with poor decisions of the past, o

- being kind to your future self

- realizing not everyone has had a relationship with a codebase for 3, 5, or even 10 years and what that might look like. In the real world, existing code bases are a reality. Optimizing for that reality, instead of the clean slate that university assignments, or startups provide can also be an important light bulb.

- peer reviews, and teaching the why you do things a certain way are far more likely to get the lasting result you are seeking.
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I'd be surprised if they didn't use Swift for their iOS apps.
I'm not sure how being skeptical of feminism is an inherently non-liberal view. I'd say it depends on whether the feminism in question is oriented around civil rights, or around some form of critical gender theory. "Feminism" alone is not descriptive enough to make any judgment over.

Pro-military? How? I haven't visited it in a while, but a common sentiment on AskReddit was a total disillusionment with the chauvinistic "support the troops" mentality and a belief that military service does not make one righteous in of itself.
Does that kinda imply that gpgagent would be usable as a building block for programmable access to gpg, ie next-gen gpgme?
My comments and data are more on NYC. (I moved to Silicon Valley in part based on the terrible public schools in NYC, and picked my new location based on zoning)

The school I was zoned for had ~90% of the kids failing the state math and reading exams, with ~50% getting the poorest scores possible. When I publicly questioned the education department officials, they said, "The tests might not be measuring the learning that's occurring." I applied to 20 non-charter public schools, and we didn't get into any. I applied to 20 gifted and talented programs, and 40 charter schools as well. It's insanity.

To the point of SF... There is a very high switching cost whether you buy or rent. If you move somewhere and don't get into the right school, there are costs ($ and hassle) for changing your mind a year later. This is why people lock in.

And I'll throw out the question - why shouldn't the majority of the schools in large cities be good? It's not easy making it happen, but the awful quality is a societal failure.
You Can Never Use the Lean Startup Machine and Fail
this is very old...lot has been changed for better in Ember and some what in Angular as well..
Hardware Transactional Memory.

EDITED: Sorry for the inflammatory comment. I deserved that downvote.
I've been out of the loop for a few years, but no the votes aren't manipulated.

But the normalisation algorithm https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma... does prefer to get one at least of each subreddit. This means that if /r/blog has a post it will probably be placed on the front page immediately. That action gets it a lot of votes just because it's very visible.
Ah this brings back so many good memories. Looks like http://nullsoft.com/ is still up (for the most part). As a young developer I used to go through this site for little ideas of things to build. Justin always built awesome applications.
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Was there any reason for that beyond ideology?
Out of curiosity, and I apologize if this is radically off-topic, do you have a list of "usual suspects" for auditing crypto libraries (GPG, OTR, etc.)?

(Or is the answer simply: the modern-crypto list subscribers?)
What happened to the patent issues around ECC? I thought Blackberry/Certicom were holding that tech pretty close.
"Benthall should have known that those who hide behind the keyboard will ultimately be found."

What a weird tone...
A longer runway is, indeed, a very good reason for doing a startup in a low cost of living area, assuming your runway is primarily limited by cost of living expenses, which it often is.
> They already compress the votes so that it only looks like there are ~10,000 votes maximum, when in fact hundreds of thousands of people have probably voted on certain posts

Again I'm out of the loop by several years here. But to my knowledge, no that's not true. There are just fewer voters than you think there are.
I agree. It's shorthand for people who have heard/read the longer version. You're not going to walk up to a high-school student, say, "Fail fast!", and then walk away.
stop misdirecting, you know damn well he implied that asians aren't really american.

race matters, but not for nationality. nationality means the country that you are a citizen of

you can't run these stupid verbal tricks on HN and expect to get away with them.

for example, i know white people of south african nationality who would take great offense if you considered them to be american, or european in any context other than a simple mistake.