skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were a fake PR firm who made up a claim that they were trying to get 4chan shut down. It was hoaxes all the way down.
Still can't figure out what the heck this company does.

Guess it plans to sell hype.
I love the new design, it encompasses many modern design patterns, it's clean, flat and all the elements have room to breath. My biggest issue with the redesign it that I and many others have huge difficultly reading black text on a white background. If anyone would like to find out more about visual stress then this link provides a quick, easy to digest overview http://www.crossboweducation.com/articles/visual-stress-symp....

I hope it's a problem they acknowledge and provide a solution in a future iteration. Until then, I'll have to install a browser extension to modify the background colour.
Pakistan Taliban school attack kills 132 children
>just because you're Neal Stephenson doesn't mean people will give you money to make a sword fighting video game.

Infact, that is specifically why I funded that kickstarter.
Cicret Bracelet – Smartphone on Your Skin
15 SaaS predictions for 2015
I wish we knew what their estimated timeframe on having some MVP of this tech available. 2 years? 5 years?
Alternative modes of operation that would be useful:

* Send SIGUSR1 if TERM doesn't work

* Send SIGCONT if TERM doesn't work

* Attempt to reap the process

* Attempt to ptrace the process

* Give a hint as to why it can't be killed (like blocked I/O, a zombie, etc)

* Kill the process group (dangerous!)
Bitcoin but without the audit trail! Now who could possibly want such a thing besides criminals...
> Spending big money and organizing meetings with many people does give you right to prevent others to invent their own codecs?

No, making a novel and non-obvious contribution to the arts gives you the right to apply for a patent on your invention, which then gives you the right to prevent others from using that specific invention. Spending big money and organizing meetings may or may not be involved.

Nothing prevents others from inventing their own codecs.

Now commercializing those codecs may be another matter entirely, probably requiring resolving licensing issues depending on how much they rely on other patented methods. Ostensibly, pools like MPEG-LA exist to make this easier.
There are a few ways around this, depending on the use.

The owner of a wallet only cares about transactions relevant to the wallet. From the beginning, Bitcoin has had a method called Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) that uses block headers and only those transactions needed for the wallet to work:

https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#simplified-payment-ve...

This is also described in Satoshi's original white paper:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

This takes advantage of the fact that a block header uses the Merkle root for the transaction set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUwXCt1qkBU

For nodes and miners, efforts to "prune" the block chain have been underway for some time:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability#Storage
HireArt (YC W12) is looking for a full-stack engineer
HireArt is looking for a full-stack engineer to join our product team. We're a small, nimble team of three engineers and a designer, looking for another engineer to join us.

We are trying to solve one of the biggest problems in hiring: how to effectively measure a person's fit for a job. We want to do it in a way that is intuitive and transparent for both employers and job-seekers, and which scales to support organizations of any size. We believe that the right solution requires both algorithms and human judgement, and we are developing technologies which incorporate both. We believe that by building a product around new standards for assessment in recruiting, we can dramatically improve the accuracy of hiring decisions, as well as the job-seeking process.

We've already helped build teams at hundreds of companies, including, Facebook, Google, and airbnb, and helped hundreds of thousands of applicants in their job searches. You would help build pieces of the employer- and job seeker-facing apps, as well as internal tools we use in our back-end operation. You would also contribute to our R&D effort, working with domain experts to incorporate their knowledge and experience into our web application.

Some of our current projects include:

- a data model for assessment that includes human- and computer-generated
input to render decisions about job applicants
- testing our assessment model using data about hiring and retention
- optimizing and automating applicant sourcing to yield high-quality
candidates
- creating actionable feedback for job applicants
- integration with applicant tracking systems

Ideally you:

- are interested in the hiring process and excited about improving it
- can communicate clearly and precisely about technology and product
- are comfortable in the full stack, and very strong in a few areas
- have at least one year of Rails experience
- are located in or willing to move to NYC

Our technology stack includes Rails, Postgres, Git, and Heroku. We each own specific product verticals, and enlist each other’s help to get them shipped. We like to have thoughtful discussions together on a range of topics, from software architecture to company strategy. We make sure every voice is heard and every opinion is considered.

Please introduce yourself to developers@hireart.com (with a resume or GitHub url, if you have it) to get started.
Off Target on Toy Gun Regulation
I ran a company in the college employment space for 7+ years. I recently shut it down. At our peak we had 150-200k unique visits per month and an email list around 10k. I was scraping by and making a living, but we weren't selling job postings directly for the most part. I've watched many dozens of startups in the space die. Although I learned a lot and helped a lot of people find jobs, I realize now that it's an exceptionally difficult space.
Mobile Search on GitHub
Bundling and Bloatware
I had no idea what the company does until I bailed from their site and read a comment here. Yes, I could have dug deeper, like the person posting that comment did (thanks), but damn, gimme a reason. And no, having $CELEBRITY in your company is not enough reason.

Two utilitarian sentences on what your thing is, and then all the literate prose you can produce. But gimme those two sentences.
well nobody but advertisers is paying for that.How can you expect anything serious when your client isnt the reader?
This is supposed to be a list of the top "websites". A visit to tumblr.com or to flickr.com should not be counted for yahoo.com. I think the title of the article is probably not accurate.
The biplane starter sound was instantly recognizable, pretty cool.
I think that's exactly the idea. This gives them a native (owned) storage engine with far better concurrency and compression.
There is one transaction block issued every 10 minutes. It can be no larger than 1 MB in size. Miners typically prioritise transactions with higher transaction fees. When block space becomes scarce, transactions with low or no fee will have to wait in line longer.

The current plan seems to be to start increasing the block size limit by 50% per year in order to allow higher transaction volume. Block size limit has always been a contentious issue.
I like the idea you've developed here, it's a really interesting take on the multi-page browser interface.

However after testing your browser, I think I'm probably not your target audience as I primarily use a rather old laptop with trackpad only (no mouse) and a screen that isn't touch sensitive, which didn't lend itself to an easy experience of the panning and zoom controls - right-click and drag is unwieldy for me regardless of the target software.

Apart from that, just a minor comment on your website code - the Google Fonts stylesheet link element should reference the https rather than http link. Otherwise Chrome refuses to load it: https://i.imgur.com/GaW3Vay.png.

Also this is possibly a transient Cloudflare problem, but I received this error on first visiting the website: https://i.imgur.com/inugvt0.png. It resolved itself upon refreshing the page.
I wouldn't make postings outside the 'Who's hiring' thread on behalf of our clients. In this case, since they opened up their hiring doors to anyone without a resume I took the liberty of breaking the news here before it slowly trickles through their channels.
Google Ventures Shifts Focus to Health Care
Yeah, me too... Unfortunately neither of us gave him nearly enough to make a difference.
I have been thinking at alternatives modes of operation that don't require an explicit install (it's in the TODOs), I'll probably improve the whole in the next days. Thanks for your suggestion.
> Charismatic falsehoods are a real problem in the media,

No, printing false information is a real problem in the media.

Charisma is a whitewashing of the real problem - honesty in journalism. By failing to do the most basic topic research, or any fact checking of any kind, they are simply publishing falsehoods and lies in the name of profit. Essentially the same motivations that drive the issues above.
Exactly, you are spot on. Leverage you can get either through options on the futures or margin.

A high school kid from Queens wouldn't have the type of collateral and in the amounts required to get that type of leverage. Heck, he wouldn't even pass diligence process for account opening at a prime broker that could provide him with the level of leverage required.

That's why I thought of options as the only way the story could maybe perhaps work. At the core, challenges with options strategies are similar regardless of whether they are credit, equity or commodity options.
Hehe, true about direct mail. A scrappy approach is clever. I've reached out to my alma mater and they're generally not too difficult about posting items around campus.

Thanks a bunch for the tips!
As it's an Eclipse plugin I would guess it's aimed at JEE / enterprisey developers.

I code similar apps to that which you describe and tend to agree that up-front testing is hard to justify a lot of the time. However when some obscure but does arise I do try to write system tests (selenium, webrunnners etc) or beefing up the operational monitoring so I can avoid them recurring.
Social graph vs. interest graph, which is the future of social media
Elephant #1 is that google.com is clearly #1 and facebook.com is #2. No way yahoo.com is above them in 2013.
Mordor, We Wrote
Might that not incentivize law enforcement officials to hire a series of scapegoats?

"Listen, Mike, we really need this drug dealer in prison. Break into his house, and get use the evidence we need. Penalty for that is, what, a year in county lockup? Plus we're just about certain you'll get out in six months for good behavior. Plus, hey, it's Christmas time, couldn't your family use a nice bonus for presents?"
Yes, of course that would be useful, something is already in the TODOs. I don't want to overcomplicate what is a simple shell script by the way. Reaping may be interesting, ptrace may be a bit of overkill. Thanks.
Technically, yes, that's what they are. Tonally, though, "Hatred" is in a different category. From an Ars Technica article:

"This is the time for vengeance, and no life is worth saving, and I will put in the grave as many as I can," the protagonist says in the trailer. "It's time for me to kill, and it's time for me to die. My genocide crusade begins here."

(full article link here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/12/controversial-shooter-...)

Yes, other games -- particularly FPSes -- focus in on killing enemies as a driving mechanic. The difference here is the mechanics vs the focus: in many/most other FPS games, killing enemies is the (still very problematic) mechanic by which a story is told. It's the thing that makes the story into a game.

In "Hatred", the story is "you hate everyone, make them all die." The FPS mechanics here exist in service of the player acting as a genocidal psychopath, with zero condemnation of said genocidal psychopathy -- in fact, it seems to be condoned.
Delighted to see Ebay losing out to Amazon, their terrible site design/layout + all sorts of Paypal horror stories must have driven millions of users away
Absolutely.

One of the most interesting books I've read in the last year was Engels "Origins of the Family, Private Property & the State":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Family,_Priva...

There is a lot of bat-shit crazy in there, but a lot of very interesting anthropology and ideas as well. Not that those are mutually exclusive.
I literally have no clue what Magic Leap does after reading through a few pages on their site. It's pretty absurd IMO to have a site like this that says so much but says so little. Honestly, why bother at this point?
Ask HN: Hypothetical acqui-hire scenario
So let's take this scenario.

Currently employed making $150k as an engineer at a well known tech company, but you're not in love with your position and want to move in a new direction.

You have developed some type of mobile technology in your spare time that demos super well, but is hard to productize/scale. Now your goal is to leverage that technology into getting a new leadership position at a different company and getting 1 million dollars in your pocket in the process possibly through an acqui-hire.

There are three potential companies

Company A) Small private company that has similar mobile technology 50 employees, $30m venture funding

Company B) Large public tech company (Yahoo/Google/Microsoft)

Company C) Established private tech company (Uber/Spotify/Etsy)

What would you do and why?
Yeah, the breadth of positions they have posted is pretty telling. Android developers, embedded systems, pcb engineers, optical engineers, cloud API, and the list goes on.

I wonder how far they are away from going to market? 24 months minimum?
There's quite a bit of work being done in this area, particularly with respect to the Counterparty.io project. In the case of Counterparty, monetary value/tokens are literally stored 'in decentralized escrow' on the bitcoin network. A spender merely attests to a spend by way of their signature on the transaction, subject to release by way of a small bit of code (Serpent is the language, it's very python like). At this time the code executes, miners release the funds. A miner can't 'lie' about the release, as all other nodes validate the work of the miner. Lies are not syndicated around the network, as the numbers simply would not work out upon transmission. I've paraphrased a bit, but that's the gist. If you decide to look down this wormhole, you'll be shocked at how sophisticated these systems are getting.
>but now the lie is in every mainstream media publication I can think of, from CNN and The Telegraph to The Guardian and the New York Times. And ISIS wins.

I've just been googling for a few minutes and I can't find it in any of those. Maybe it was and they took it down? The most mainstream source I could find that still has it is Yahoo news uk / IB Times (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/isis-militants-brutally-execute-co...)

I think the internet's power to debunk things must help a bit.
Haskell Cast: Conal Elliott on FRP and Denotational Design
You're right, I was talking about LevelDB. But in your benchmark MDBM is 2x faster on the code path it cares about, random reads. Lots of people pay attention to a factor of 2.

Any idea why it is that much better than LMDB?

I actually agree with you in that hashes sort of suck, just look at Git when the repo gets big, a hash is a miserable way to traverse all that data, very cache unfriendly.

But the use cases for MDBM are the same, you have lots of keys and you want to get to any key very quickly. It appears to me that it (still, 20 years later) wins that race.
Yes I do, it's slow to load, there is no search from the browser (which is a show stopper for me), it's not as good as "Ctrl + D" kind of bookmarking that you have in Chrome.

And if it's not adding anything on to the bookmarking and comes with a worse UX, why bother?
... but, uh, what is the technology? What are you giving your money for? The website is pretty mystifying.
I'm sure they'd appreciate any feedback & examples on accessibility issues. If you've got some time consider raising it on the issue tracker.
http://www.faqs.org/patents/assignee/magic-leap-inc/
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Serious situation: Oil will not come until 2008
So they are a holographic augmented reality company?

From their site:

>Imagine being able to generate images indistinguishable from real objects and then being able to place those images seamlessly into the real world.

Sounds like you generate a hologram anywhere. And project it into the real world. Think Star Trek holodeck, but everywhere, or anywhere from what they are selling. And the holograms they're projecting would be almost indistinguishable from other objects (I highly doubt that honestly, subsurface reflection takes A LOT of processor horse power with 1 view alone n).

It will be interesting to see what they cook up.
"I sometimes feel that the creative minds who make games have done about as much as is possible in two dimensions. It’s hard to imagine how the current crop of games, for example, could be more finely tuned to deliver that particular kind of entertainment."

Well PCs powerful enough for proper amount of voxels would let us do interesting things. Dwarf Fortress with a voxel-based high-res graphics could be interesting.
Probably because fact checking can be a time consuming, and therefore costly process, and by skipping it, mainstream news can push more "live feeds" (news from Facebook and Twitter), in an attempt to be First and Exclusive.

There is a negative ROI on research for the media, and thus they have no incentive to be accurate or factual, because consumers lap it up even when it is sensational, unbelievable, or just plain wrong.
The Odd Math of Medical Tests: One Scan, Two Prices, Both High
Thanks everyone for the feedback, that is extremely helpful
MagicLeap is so secretive that it looks like their eye projecting tech. is far from being ready
Is the blog down? I only see a picture of a submarine hovering above a street!
Apparently it's a surprise to Wired that a group that engages in hacking uses a tool commonly used for hacking.
I was in the middle of checking the docs, so that was a little odd, but I like it so far. It is different without being TOO different in terms of layout so the familiarity sticks.

It looks slightly blurry on Chrome for me, seems to have been tested primarily on Safari? Also, the redesign may be a bit bland, but overall it's a pretty good job. Now if someone could apply those design cues to Django-Admin that would be awesome!
And that section is HUGE for a company that appears to be a startup. I don't know if they just have a wad of cash and are on a hiring frenzy, or if they already have a large staff but no products commercially available. Not that either answer would be a deal-killer, but I just have no idea what is really going on here, aside from R&D in the virtual space.
The article says that it's based on comScore, which groups all properties owned by one company under that company. So really "top web companies."
Augmented reality - hardware and software. Kinda like Google Glass, except it draws realistic-looking stuff in your face that fits seamlessly with what you can see in the real world.

(Source: if you read EVERY page on their mysterious web site, you can eventually suss it out)
I would imagine that this sets the precedent of requiring a warrant to either set up a camera, or to access an existing camera's records.
How have attitudes to privacy changed post-Snowden?
They will basically replace customer's eyeballs with a couple of optical fibers wired directly into the visual regions of the brain. (just kidding)
I presume that there maybe something to replace it in the future but its anyones guess.

From http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/announcing...

"Google Earth has a proud legacy, which continues with the new Google Earth for Android, powered by a brand new renderer. 3D is in our blood, and while we can’t announce anything just now, we look forward to sharing more exciting product news in the future."
> “If I showed you their cash-flow statement, you would not compare it to a real-estate company,” said Henry Ellenbogen, a portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price. “You’d compare it to a brand or tech company—maybe Chipotle or Uber.”

> WeWork said its December revenue puts it on an about $150 million annual revenue run rate. It also said the month’s annualized operating income puts its valuation at roughly 100 times income. It expects to grow significantly in years ahead, which would lower that ratio. Landlords typically trade between 18 times and 20 times earnings, according to Jed Reagan, an analyst at real estate consultants Green Street Advisors.

> Price depends on location. In the company’s Financial District headquarters, it charges $400 a month for a desk and $1,400 a month for a small two-person office, well above the area’s rate for such space.

> The business is a risky one in which its costs, fees paid to landlords, are fixed, but its revenues from startups and established businesses can fall quickly when the economy slows.

> “The small-to-medium-size businesses, they get particularly impacted in a recession,” said Jon Halpern, who ran shared office space firm HQ Global Workplaces in the early 2000s.

> HQ grew rapidly in the run-up to the dot-com bust. But in the recession that followed, its value plummeted. It ultimately sold itself to Regus.

Let me guess: this time it's different?
My local news station likes to do these specials about the "supposedly homeless" where they follow people who ask for handouts by the highway and film them going in to their homes and also film them through their front windows. I challeged the reporter on the ethics of this and she told me, 'It's perfectly legal.' While technically true, is that really a good source of justification?
> I would easily pay a bit extra to have another party fact-check it

As would I, and likely many HN readers. But I expect most of the NYT subscribership who would be willing to pay extra are a small minority.
I see. Thanks for the numbers. Ugh I hate ads so much, but clearly they're pretty lucrative in the right situations.

BTW Assembly is a very interesting concept, and your pinned tweet is hilarious. Might have to investigate it more once I get further.
eye projecting tech, THEY KIND OF WANT TO REPLACE OCULUS VR BY A COMPLETELY NEW VR TECH, where u'll see an elephant in times square because it'll be projected to you eye from somewhere, stuff like that, VR IN REALITY
Sorry, in my experience white South Island culture is generally pro-hunting and anti-Maori. I've also met plenty of rural North Island people who are cut from the same cloth. I take back the implied characterisation of you but I've seen it many times that when Aotearoa is discussed among foreigners online, Pakeha apologists come forward and start pushing their agenda in a way that sounds very reasonable and benign to those not in the know. And hunting seems to be one of those issues where the apologists feel like drawing a line in the sand.

People tend to assume NZ is this cute little nation where everyone agrees on everything, so everyone is on the same page when it comes to stuff like hunting, environmentalism, etc. So I would say it's useful to have it pointed out that there are big differences of opinion.

Anyway it's interesting to know that there are Maori who hunt, that's something that I'd like to learn more about.
Apple Pay Ropes in 'Dozens' of New Banks and Stores
No mention of Smart Contracts?
What was your differentiator?