skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus Christ, (and I say that as a Buddhist) thanks for that rabbit hole. Thanks. I have spent 45 minutes so far on it, and it just keeps getting deeper. If I had enough karma I would downvote you for effectivly killing my evening, but as I don't I upvoted you instead in the hope that you will read my message and think twice in the future about posting such a fascinating, interesting time sink that will kill people's productivity. Cheers
That's a very long posting based unfortunately on an entirely false premise.

The act already has exclusions for national security. That seems unlikely to change for foreign citizens.
specific to dropbox type of sites, including external email sites that company data could be dumped out of a secure environment.
> Resigning over office plans sounds like a last straw sort of thing.

It can easily be a deal breaker if you have a family to consider.

(Not that I know anything about this case.)
Have you done a search on Craigslist lately? They're still going for a basic-HTML4-user-agent "theme" (since that's basically their brand now), but the implementation is actually quite dynamic/AJAXified and CSS-heavy. (Also, apparently they use Redis everywhere on the backend for Matryoshka cashing, among other modern practices.)

Also, Digg's failure had nothing to do with a visual refresh; it was that they changed the dynamics of the "social game" the site implemented to make previously "winning" users suddenly irrelevant in comparison to sponsored posts by companies. It'd be like Youtube doing DMCA takedowns on all the "celebrities" with million-subscriber channels.
Show HN: Setup a Ghost Blog Using Docker and Nginx
Google Wallet API for digital goods will be retired on March 2, 2015
>We can treat everyone equally by treating everyone like shit, or we can treat everyone equally by treating everyone well.

Either are better than valuing American lives as multiple orders of magnitude of the value of Afghan lives.
Unexpected Senate Action on NSA Reform Bill
> Other devices that claimed to be so resistant haven't really fared that well when someone actually bothered to look.

The popularity of these things seems to be growing pretty fast, so I'd expect someone will take a look pretty soon.

A lot of these tokens, or similar models, are used by large, famous high-tech companies for their employees. That's bound to attract some school-of-hard-knocks probing from 3rd parties (beyond what the googles and the facebooks of the world did before they deployed it to their internal users).
Okay, thanks. (I'm not really sure why someone's downvoted me for asking the question; it's not like I said "ha ha, OP is stupid for saying this." I was, in fact, missing context.)
"If the bill is passed, it would likely end the political debate about NSA surveillance of American citizens."

I can't say I agree with that.
Yes, thank you for your explanation, it was great.

That is why I've started with Haskell too (6 months in now), because it teaches you the fundamentals about FP, and is strict about it (a good thing in my opinion).

That being said, I will continue to use Haskell. I know C# and I'm sure the jump won't be too difficult if I ever need it.
Well, the efficiency was as low as it was because of an implementation bug on Amazon's side. It didn't work the way it was intended to. If it had, who knows, it might have done well. The campaign certainly makes sense to me in a vacuum.
To be fair, you have to pay per unit for these services, so as long as people are using them, Amazon is making money. Putting a service out to pasture in maintenance mode probably wouldn't cost that much.
That probably should have said 'search advertising'. YouTube is a different type of advertising. Google needs to plan for a day when search advertising comes under attack from the next big thing. Maybe traditional search fades away, etc.
I logged out of reddit about a month ago. I changed my password to something incomprehensible. To me, reddit has become a link aggregator over being a social place. I still visit about a half dozen subreddits daily, but only insomuch as to get my news.

I think that will be its demise. Reddit's volunteer moderation and vote gaming makes it a poor non-biased link aggregator unless you want an echo chamber. Some people certainly do, but as HN has shown, that can only last so long. There's already talks about the way /r/iama is monetized and the changes to the default reddits (as well as the removal of some reddits as defaults) destabilized the site and trashed some of the more long-standing communities on the site in favor of more inter-subreddit traffic.

I think that the reddit technical model is fine. It worked for years before reddit was even around, and I think it can still work now, but reddit's business model is working behind the scenes to sabotage the integrity of the technical model. reddit as a social experiment seems to be coming to an end.
Apple Pay and Full Service Dining – Here's How It Works
2 months after a $50 million round of financing and the lead investor of said round steps in as temporary CEO. You would have to be very, very naive to believe that this was solely a dispute on the cost and location of a new office. It seems fairly obvious that with the new round of investment Wong saw his control of reddit significantly reduced and his decision making second guessed and overturned finally culminating in his resignation. He likely already knew his days as the CEO of reddit were numbered.

This is purely speculation, but it's definitely not just a dispute about the office.
Of course, once everyone is on site, it's very dangerous to be the one employee left offsite.
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"then replying aggressively on fired ex employee's post to justify the reasons."

To be honest, this is what he should have done. One-sided stories without any sort of opposition on Reddit end up starting Internet mobs and people get fired over it (or forced to quit due to threats). This is exactly what happened with the Mozilla CEO. The culture of Internet mob mentality has created this environment.

"first by requesting company's global employees to move to SF"

I can see his point. I've worked remotely and not remotely more than a few times. When you work remotely, you really don't feel connected to the rest of the time and communication and overall progress does suffer over time. No matter how much you try to stay connected, it's just not the same.
Don't run the memory-heavy JVM on ram-based machines. That simple. JVM eats gobs of memory, so if you're in a constrained environment, don't use it!
Was he being completely honest? It was really a case of his words against another's words, and we don't know which parts were true or half-true or plain lies, from either party.
Of course, Buffett did also make a fair amount of money on his $5B purchase of Goldman Sachs preferred stock during the crisis – it paid 10% dividend for a few years, got bought back at a 10% premium last year, and he got a couple billion worth of GS stock by exercising the warrants he got given to sweeten the deal.

Josh Brown works with Barry Ritholz, who's one of the more perspicacious commentators on the market around, so lumping him with cnbc and business insider is really a low blow.
If the efficient market hypothesis is confounded by moves like bailing out Coca Cola, what good is it?
Reddit is a magnet for people who have an unhealthy appetite for over dramatic "justice porn." That's all I'm going to say about your feelings.
Philae's Bad Landing Turns the Rosetta Mission into a Race Against Time
Making enough plutonium is pretty difficult from what I understand. In WW2 some of the biggest buildings ever built were necessary to house all the equipment to make just enough material for a few bombs (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-25). Nowadays you need a nuclear reactor and fancy equipment like uranium centrifuges. See the Stuxnet worm and how it targeted Iran's uranium centrifuges in an attempt to disable their ability to make bomb material.
From hearing the details it seems that there is no real limitation to what you can execute as long as it runs on the instance. I get the feeling that if you zipped up all of the parts of python or ruby you need to ru you could execute a script using either of them as long as you initiated it from your node script. The key word here is probably "support" and that may be more of an issue if you want to edit your scripts with their web IDE.
That's fair. It's certainly not my intention to astroturf.
Agreed, but it is very very uncharacteristic to show up and just respond in kind.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603845
At Atomic we're trying to build a better way of designing websites and apps, by letting you design interfaces, explore behaviour and get feedback seamlessly in one platform.

We've just started testing with real users. You can visit https://atomic.io/ to find out more about what we're building, watch a video of some of the features we have planned, or sign up for updates.

Some of the team from Atomic will be on Hacker News to respond to any questions you have. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
The disagreement about "location and amount of money to spend on a lease" sounds like code for "disagreement on whether we need an SF office big enough to consolidate all our remote workers or not."
Yep, also enriching uranium to anything near weapons grade is a cumbersome process.
After reading the description of AWS Lambda, I expected SQS to be first in the list of event sources. Huh.
The boy with the lego hand
And yet, they don't. Compare that to Oracle. Plus, when Amazon makes a new cloud architecture that gets popular, others copy it. OpenStack will have this if need be in a year or two and then you can port to OS in 5 years when the rent goes up.

Oh, and FWIW, when has AWS raised a price? My servers have gotten cheaper every year I've had them with AWS (3).
It made me think deeply about my decision to be a CS major and in the end I am grateful. It became one of my favorite classes at Cornell.
Rabbit and celery is the backend system I have now. I was doing a lot of things on demand, event driven, but this resulted in overloading the database ( currently my system constraint ) or in elongating the queue too much. Some event would flood the queue with thousands of tasks. Now I have a periodic task that on each iteration chooses the most pressing task. And the system is stable but I have a bad backlog.

So I'd love to have a reactive task system where I didn't have to worry about the resource usage. Think how much precious developer time I've wasted just managing resource expenditures. Much of my coding this week has been just trying to optimize for this stupid constraint. How many processors do I have, how much disk io, is the memory getting close to swapping ?

I for one welcome our new cloud overlords.
This is really cool, is there anything similar for hydrogen bombs? I've always been curious how they are different from fission bombs (although obviously a lot of their true workings are still classified).
This. I've been back multiple times over the years to run some small campaigns for some big startups there and can't believe how bad and rough around edges their tools and processes are.

If I didn't love reddit so much there is no way I would've put up with them to run a small campaign.
When you're never going to be profitable, yes.
Yes, in fact the website in the OP is for a book which advocates for a disarmament approach based on eliminating weapons-grade fissile material stockpiles:

http://unmakingthebomb.com/sample/
How Wikipedia reading habits can successfully predict the spread of disease
Not sure where I side in the larger debate, but on this point it's perfectly plausible that Buffett (correctly) guessed that the banks were safer than they might appear. He may have believed a bailout would be inevitable if things went badly for them.
> ...based on the culture of the community (i.e. "no bullshit").

I didn't realize Reddit has the same culture as Bill O'Reilly.

In all seriousness, the Reddit culture is "only my bullshit", just like any "no spin", "no bias", "no B.S.", "straight talk", etc. community/person out there.
I was expecting this to be an article about why "I Don't Always X, But When I Do I Y" type image macros have a short shelf-life before we tire of them.

The internet and its attendant peculiar uaage of terms has killed my brain.
I can say that there are employees of major silicon companies already working on contributing all of this to upstream Docker. I was shown a real proof of concept already, it's very promising and not at all vaporware :)
It would be great to see google diversify their business model as well as their technology so they weren't getting most of their profit from advertising.
Here are the last few words of the 1934 Securities Analysis:

More satisfactory results are to be obtained, in our opinion, by confining the positive conclusions of the analyst to the following fields of endeavor:

1. The selection of standard senior issues which meet exacting tests of safety.

2. The discovery of senior issues which merit an investment rating but which also have opportunities of an appreciable enhancement in value.

3. The discovery of common stocks, or speculative senior issues, which appear to be selling at far less than their intrinsic value.

4. The determination of definite price discrepancies existing between related securities, which situation may justify making exchanges or initiating hedging or arbitrage operations.
and police entrapment is a hell of a practice in some countries..
How are you responsible for your customer's bad code?
And let's be honest, AirBnB will go the way of Uber, regulated out of existance. I honestly don't know why it didn't happened yet, for both.
He resigns over the location and price of the new Reddit office?

That is not a very good or logical reason to resign. There must be more to it than that.

Creepy that they linked to a Necrophiliac Subreddit, there are also XGoneWild Subreddits that are offensive but not as creepy.
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Although my 8 days as the CEO of reddit have been sort of fun, I am happy they are coming to a close and I am sure the new team will do a far better job and take reddit to great heights.

Heh.."sort of". But seriously - good moves @sama. This part of your post seems to be getting less attention but it should be highlighted. It's tough as hell to jump into the middle of a fire when a top executive resigns, and it's commendable that you rolled up your sleeves and did it. At some point, if ever possible, a post about the past week would be hugely interesting.
What about the office location was so contentious that the CEO would quit?
Hydrogen bombs are basically this plus extra stuff nearby that undergoes fusion when exposed to the fission explosion. Wikipedia has pretty good illustrations and explanations, although not quite to the same level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
Philae comet lander alien ‘cover-up’ conspiracy theories emerge
That was a thoroughly classless move on his part. The reddit or HN community might eat that kind of thing up, but it's recruiting poison. Anyone contemplating taking a job at reddit would have to think twice about working for someone who would permanently and capriciously destroy the SEO of a former employee like that.
Ellen Pao is a former VC, true. She also was involved in a nasty situation with her former VC firm.

She's also one of the best consumer-product operations people I've ever met, and generally brilliant, honest, and helpful. While I know a lot of YC founders, partners, etc., Ellen is the person I'd go to for advice about whether a product/company direction is a good idea or not.

Bringing a founder back is great, but Ellen is amazing in her own right.

I think that makes up for her being a former VC :)
I realize that this sounds non-credible (and it's certainly one of the craziest professional things I've ever been a part of), but it's actually what happened.

Yishan wanted to move the office from SF to Daly City. The board pushed back but said we'd agree to it with certain data (we wanted Yishan to figure out how many employees would stay with the company through the move, get a comparison to other market rents, etc.--all questions I think a board should ask when thinking through a major commitment).

This is certainly not what I was expecting to be dealing with so quickly after investing in reddit, but we'll make the best of it.
Plutionium is one problem, but AFAIK not the greatest for this type of device.

Greater problem is precise machining and fuse technology necessary, which makes it an enormous and expensive project even today.

The rifle design is just the reverse. There technology is a lot simpler, but rich enough Uranium 235 is a lot harder to come by.
I'm not sure what scale you are operating at but for me the guy trying to test an MVP the self serve ads were great. I picked:

An ad spend ($5)

My Target subreddit

When it runs

And then a few days later my ad was live.

For $5 it was ridiculously simple and easy.

Can you elaborate on what you were looking for?
> Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home.

Is there any evidence of that? Seems quite interesting..
Being a HPC sysadmin, I was in a similar kind of situation. More often than not I get crazy requests for implementation + dev + debug support. This started to severely interfere with my other attributions so I decided to change things.

1/ Set a strict line in the support provided:
I'm happy to give a hand as long as it is mail support and whenever I have the time to reply. No direct interaction with the user code whatsoever. Otherwise we agree on a number of hours I would spend on this and they would be charged for it.

2/ Use the liberated time to set up a knowledge base:
Currently I've set up a wiki, a FAQ and I'm giving free courses (101 + good practices). I try to keep everything up-to-date by adding the questions/answers I get to it.

It was not easy especially at first (convince someone non tech-savvy that their model was at fault when the error logs displays 1 error coming from the model and 80 coming from MPI processes was quite hard) but now in about 80% of the requests you could see they've started looking for stuff by themselves before contacting me. Which is really pleasant!

In your particular case I would involve the customer support in the documentation writing (at least a FAQ) so that they actually see how painful and time consuming it is to write those things. On the dev side, the technical documentation should have some good practices nuggets here and there, for example in the part where you explain server cnnection by showing the actual command line to use you could add a comment like "#connection using hostname to keep it IP independent". Which might lead a couple of newbies and junior dev to the right path. On API level ideally it should enforce good practices by enforcing more strict rules (connection only possible using hostname f.e.).

But as soon as you actually touch the system or machine of the client you should at least be legally covered. And given the set of skills involved and how the time spent here won't be available somewhere else they also should be charged for it.
The trend that finally sent me out was when good subreddits focused on specific topics started turning into show and tell for adults - and usually just amounted to, "Hey I bought that expensive thing that all of the group says is THE one to get, here is a picture of it in my house, it probably looks similar to the one you have". I suppose in a way, the recent investment might match that consumerist focus.
> The UI is a complete mess.

Isn't that kind of subjective?

And as long as we're being subjective: It's got my favorite comment UI of any given news site - built in comment collapsing, ability to link to specific comments with parent context, flexibility in URLs, etc.

HN could stand to borrow some of these improvements.
> Although my 8 days as the CEO of reddit have been sort of fun

Sounds like he didn't give any notice at all, and they had to scramble for a new CEO? Is resigning (or being fired?) with no notice typical for CEO positions?
Not too much slack. It's true that space flight is hard. But it's also true that Virgin Galactic is a company based entirely around sub-orbital space tourism. The level of risk we should consider acceptable for what's essentially an ultra-high-priced amusement park ride is rather lower than the level of risk we should consider acceptable for space exploration.
This looks lovely. Requested an invite. All signs are green for the race to the 1€/month server.
Ask HN: How much should I charge for building a website for this startup?
Hello everyone,

I am a student in college. I was recruited by a group of business major friends to build a website for a notes-sharing web-business they are creating. The problem is, I'm not sure what is considered reasonable payment. Currently, the group of creators have been speaking to me as if I'm in their inner circle of founding members. I'm not sure that's the best though.

I'm meeting with the two guys who are in charge (the CEOs I guess, though they don't call themselves that) of the business in 80 minutes to finalize what I'm getting. Something to keep in mind: there's a good chance the company won't take off, but I can see it as very possible for them to rake in several hundred or even thousands of dollars at first. Some things I need to decide are

* Should I ask for a large percentage of first year profits, a smaller percentage of all profits made using my site, or a flat rate?

* How much should I charge?

* Should I consider myself a part of the company, or not?

* Who owns the code, them or me?

I spoke to them briefly about this before and we were kind of hovering around 45% of the income made during the first year. I thought this was reasonable, but I am inexperienced. When I mentioned this to my parents as a side remark on the phone, they instantly became angry and said I was selling too low. According to their view, I should be making 45% of all profits indefinitely while the site I made is being used. They have a lot more business experience than I do, although not with startups and webdev.

What do you think is a reasonable offer? I think it's important to note I have a bargaining advantage because they had a difficult time finding someone who they thought was a competent webdeveloper and they would have a difficult time replacing me
Phrenology was debunked long ago.
Morpheus lessons: best practices for upgrading MySQL
8 days.
That's funny but there are actually several forms of the EMH.

Strong from: There are no $100 bills on the ground.
Semi-Strong: By the time you hear about a $100 bill on the ground someone has already taken it.
Weak form: You cannot predictably find $100 bills on the ground.
But The Times, they are a-changin'.
Happy to see a successor for the acquihired/killed Readmill. Readmill offered a ton of free (public domain) books, right after signup, allowing new users to try the app’s full reading/highlighting/sharing/commenting experience, before having them purchase books just to get a grasp of, say, the basic typographic look and feel. It drew me in, I bought some titles, and own the epub files still, even after Readmill went to the deadpool. What’s Glose’s offering as regards long-term preservation of my electronic library investment?
I've found that HackerRank is a great place to practice. The site doesn't really teach you anything, it's up to you to look up how to code, however it's a good place to learn by solving common problems in cs. They provide you test cases you need to satisfy and you get points for it. It's somewhat motivating to get graded.
I'm not saying that any of the stuff suggested can't be done with git. The point is that this is not the use case git was designed for, so it doesn't accommodate it easily -- you must write all the exceptions and special cases into your repository, which is cumbersome.
I really liked the "move to Daly City" idea. Millbrae also seems like it would make sense.