skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks for the reply, these are definitely some of the things we've struggled with the most. We have a message that is challenging to communicate clearly and succinctly. This is something we will continue to iterate on and test in the early stages.

We think the returns are excellent, "on an APR basis" as you said, which is another thing we need to communicate better. A 10% return in 6 months is kind of the same as a 5% return in 3 months, both of which are 20% in a year which is great. We don't think APR really captures this idea correctly though and may want to instead come up with some similar metric that will allow you to better compare the offerings.

We also need to better communicate the backers' responsibilities in that promoting isn't exactly optional. This is a similar transaction as buying goods on Ali Baba then putting them up for sale on Amazon and Ebay. If you do that but don't do any marketing, you can't have an expectation of profit. Some goods may sell naturally, and especially with the help of the other backers, but you should do your part to help with the marketing.
My philosophy is that it doesn't really matter that much as long as it's not Google. I don't think any other provider will be any less keen to capitalize on their user's data but at least if it's not Google they are probably working with far less other data provided by me (search, android...etc) so their efforts will yield far less success in deciphering my daily routine and habits.

Of course you shouldn't use clear text email for anything but the most trivial of stuff.
When Less Is More
>How much of planning is driven by politics vs driven by data?

I recall living in Seattle around the time the light rail route was being planned. It seemed to be about 80% political. And so you meander through everywhere before you get to a useful destination. Like transit systems which stop short of an airport.... Or take the circuitous route to the airport...
Hey, thanks for the heads up. It's likely because I was matching the host string with "amazon.com". I just pushed a change that should fix that, so you may see the modal as you should now. It's possible there are still errors since I'll need more time to figure out how to scrape other countries' Amazon pages.

If something goes wrong, we can continue this over email at swang93@mit.edu. Thanks!
Level Frames (YC W15) Launches Because All Art Deserves Its Frame
Personally, I paste the text of the headline into google, not the URL.
You nailed it. Learning to deliver was something that took years of experience at my day job, and came to me like an "a-ha" moment. Sounds like OP is already delivering maybe just not giving him/herself enough credit.
Thanks for responding, but I don't understand what you're saying. The 3rd sentence is clear (although it seems absolutely crazy to me that google wouldn't ignore it since it was their idea in the first place to combat this exact kind of spam). But I am unclear what sentences 1 and 2 mean -- care to clarify?
You mean bank transfer fees?! You cannot avoid them unless you also have an US bank account which you won't get if you are not living in the US.
Private money transfer is pretty cheap with well known services like e.g. Paypal (I'm guessing this is one of the main reasons Paypal exists, easy and cheap).
> And similarly, Google is extending it's monopoly over the Play Store app market

Are you asserting:
(1) That the market for apps sold via the Play Store is a "market" as that term is used in antitrust analysis, and one over which Google has a monopoly, or that
(2) The Play Store itself, as a product, represents a Google monopoly within some market as that term is used in antitrust analysis (And, if #2, what "market")?
Nice. Reminds me of a software monitor. Can't wait to see what other features will become available.
The problem was not with the killing itself, but that it was instant death with virtually no way to escape and no warning.
Which is why ReactJS native is so compelling.
Hey, thanks for the interest!

In my experience, I've found that the Kindle can convert PDFs pretty well as long as there is extractable text that's not too weirdly formatted (as a cursory test, try viewing a PDF and highlighting words. If you can do it, it's probably okay to convert). Otherwise, it's true that you'll probably run into sizing issues :(
> Marx was very much a political activist (if not a revolutionary in the violent sense), and pretending he wasn't isn't particularly helpful.

I never said he wasn't a political activist - only that the emphasis is definitely misplaced. In popular culture people think communist manifesto and not Capital or the rather large corpus of sociological, historical and economic writings.
I recall reading a mathematician say that after solving a difficult problem, he would force himself, now with the answer in hand, to reexamine the problem and think about what questions he could have asked, or what techniques he could have used, to get to the truth in a more direct way.
Same tension occurs in Java games for phones, at least pre-android. Instead of an array of Sprite objects, turns out its more efficient to have parallel arrays of ints, which leads to less readable code.
For those unfamiliar with the metric system of measurement, this is equivalent to approximately 75,000 unladen swallows. Provided they are European swallows, of course.
It's a starter/boilerplate.
"Insourcing" doesn't sound like it would be very simple since I don't see what incentive HP has to let the people go to GM.
Would you like to put money on whether my opinion about Truecrypt is identical to Matthew Green's and Kenn White's, or would you like to include them in your critique?

It's amusing that you feel you've "wrung out" of me something one of the few things I've recently blogged at length about.
also, if this is an open source workload, any chance you could submit it to https://github.com/hhvm/oss-performance ? We generally optimize based on those benchmarks, and Facebook itself.
The number is wrong so using it to make a point about the number of times a phrase appears on the Internet is sub-optimal.
I've used Paypal because it was very simple to setup, until I realised how much I was losing, then I setup a bank to bank international wire, which took some time because most account managers I have talked had no idea how to do. It still takes some fees, but a lot less compared to Paypal.
Are there any tutorials at all on how to use ASM.js's Foreign Function Interface (FFI)? The specification lacks examples, and seems to be very underspecified. :(

Note that the FFI is a crucial component of ASM.js, as everything in the browser is external to ASM.js (DOM/any strings/any objects/etc). It seems weird that there's so much hype around ASM.js, yet there's very little written about the FFI or how to use it. Any project that uses ASM.js is going to need to interact with it.

Also, are there any projects besides Emscripten that use ASM.js, or is the push to put ASM.js into these browsers due purely to Emscripten?
I'm definitely not an everyday user of Track Changes, but isn't that the very use case for it, version control inside a manuscript?

The biggest caveat I've seen to its use are ballooning file sizes (meh), and (more importantly) leaking information. But I also thought recent versions of Word made it more prominent to discard tracking information when doing a Save/As.
Small point: Is it really considered "scraping" (" I scraped approximately 84 million comments") if you used a Python library that uses the Reddit API, not the actual site directly?
NumPy in the browser
I've been thinking that Spartan will probably go cross platform at some point, an opportunity for them to get a few more Microsoft accounts created and it's not like it being Windows only is going to convince people to switch.
300 awesome free things: A massive list of free resources you should know
Then why are any of you three working on it if you all think it's dangerous to promote its use?

You've blogged, "Don't use TrueCrypt"?
Two suggestions:

*

Number 1 - Stop trying to build the final 'Solution' and instead build a prototype or proof-of-concept.

The difference is that the Solution (imagine it said in a serious movie voice) needs to be well thought out, needs to be built on the right platform etc. etc.

If instead, you approach it as trying to knock together anything that will just about work to try your idea you might find fewer mental obstacles.

The PoC doesn't need a VPS, you can demo it served on your workstation. Your PoC doesn't need requirements, it probably doesn't even need tests to start with, it just needs to do something.

From there you'll either know it's a crap idea and throw it out, or you'll have something that you're excited about doing more to.

*

Second point - structure your time a bit more. You sound exactly like I used to be as a student. In theory the flexibility is great, work time can be whenever you want it to be and everything else is free time. In practice, it doesn't take much procrastination to never actually get any work done.

These days I have an office job, and it's great. I have work time, at the office, when I work. And then I leave and have free time, not being stressed because I should be working.

This obviously doesn't apply to you, but you can simulate it to a certain extent. Pick the days and times that are 'productive' time. Don't let weekends blur into weeks (if you want to do a 6 day week that's your call, but don't do a 7 - that way madness lies). Pick the hours in the day that are useful time, and then spend the rest in a bar, watching TV, whatever. And if at all possible, pick a place that's not your normal chilling out place to work in. It can be bottom of the garden, different room in the house, coffee shop, whatever.

Use all that to separate screwing around time (reading about Magpies on wikipedia, fiddling with Text Editor colour scheme) from useful productive time.
Oh well, we will not agree.

Again, I will say, especially to your concluding remark, this is a distinction without a difference. Because (eg.) if someone is prejudicial against a human with breasts, that does not make them simply "breast-ist" because to boil down to that level is ridiculous and entirely context-free. SImilar to everything youw rote, because all of this is occurring in a particular context.
I've already answered that question, directly, on this thread.

And no, I blogged "don't use sector-level crypto". In a post literally titled "You Don't Want XTS". Under the subhed "Disks Are The Last Thing You Want To Encrypt". As in, "the last thing in the world".
No you haven't.
Show HN: An Example for Every IPC Method
I would suggest reading this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1j5b28qqwb8m9xl/OverThink%20(1).pd...

I'm typically not a fan of the whole, "I started a business, buy my ebook" but this guy seems* successful by starting local businesses and building up revenue quick.

This page/paragraph really sums things up:

RESIST THE URGE TO COMPLICATE THINGS. For technical folks, it seems
like the inclination to complicate things is overwhelming. So a problem
like “find people that need lawn service and connect them with people
that provide lawn service” becomes, “well how about we use Zillow’s APi to pull
a picture of the lawn, and the customer confirms it by drawing an outline of the
area to be serviced and we tie that into Google maps and feed everything into
a pricing algorithm”.... and on and on. Unfortunately, many of these guys do not
make it. More often than not simplicity wins. Get out of the customer’s way.

And this one was good as well:

YOU DON’T GET GOOD AT RUNNING MARATHONS by reading about
running marathons. And you don’t get good at business by reading about
business. You get good by doing. And doing it over and over again. But
just like you wouldn’t expect to win the first marathon you entered, why put so
much pressure on yourself to win at the first company you start? Or worse yet,
paralyze yourself with fear into never running at all because you’re afraid you
won’t win? It doesn’t make sense with marathons and it doesn’t make sense
with business. So while a lot of folks over-analyze every minute detail about the
thing, I would have already downloaded a training regiment, bought a pair of
shoes, and hit the bricks.

That "book" is so short you can read it every morning and it will inspire you to get passed all of this.

*operative word
Your troubles seem to stem from the fact that you want to use the best tools for your project (react, sublime, design patterns etc), and I see the same thing with a lot of my developer friends as well.

I'm kind of an oddball in that respect - I don't really care for the best set of tools, just the ones that get the job done quickly. Tools, for me, are just means to an end, my goal is to get the prototype up and running so I can get my friends to try it out and get some feedback.

I think changing your mindset - understanding that the tools are just a means to an end, and staying focused on getting the v0 out - might be helpful to your situation.
Yes, transfer fees etc. Also I found out my bank takes a cut on currency exchange!! Eg they take 2.5% vs the market rate. PayPal fees seem high.
Or feed the marker's liquid reservoir from a larger tank.
There is almost nothing to the FFI interface: Basically, the asm FFI can only have asm types, as you would expect. Then you can just call normal JS methods that were imported. So stuff like

function asmFunc(import) {
'use asm';

var externFunc = import.externFunc;

function asmFunc() {
externFunc(123, -0.5);
}

return asmFunc;
}

What extra info are you looking for?
I always wanted to be a tech lead, but have kept falling into "flat organizations" where "everybody is a tech leader!" Yay!
>> It's hilarious how while it's writing it looks like two small arms cupping the marker.

I was thinking the same thing. I envisioned a Muppet head and arms would do the trick.
Thanks. Not questioning the cost of your service - that's for you and the market to decide! Just trying to get a better understanding of how the bitcoin transaction works.
Detroit, MI; Atlanta, GA; Phoenix, AZ; Austin, TX

I work in the GMIT Austin Innovation Center.

http://gmauthority.com/blog/2013/03/why-did-gm-choose-arizon...
This is interesting. I've always been a fan of Art Deco, but I didn't know there were any Japanese examples; I've mostly seen French and American. I feel like some of these have a more timeless appeal than some of the typical western examples.
Troll.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qbtybjnxwfu7i0/Screenshot%202015-...
Please stop calling me names.
Is Apple Pay’s Biggest Competitor Right Here in Boston?
Simple for the employees changing employers; whatever GM did to facilitate the transfer has not been made public.
In most cases a competitor is not doing exactly what you want to do.

If your idea involves some sort of a gimmick or very specific point of attraction and that is already being used by a competitor, then sure, maybe you should pick a different idea. But otherwise there is likely much room for competitive advantage.
Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit against the US government
This is pretty cool. It would be awesome if at some point we could enter any problem and find generalized approaches towards solutions, but enabling search of this kind must count as a first step in that direction. Bravo.

For example: I'd like to be able to look into understanding 4D objects (hypercubes), but I'd have a hard time finding trivial (recreational) puzzles about them, let alone their solutions and mathematical formulations.
We can feel that inside the company, too. I joined the company right before we launched Windows 8 as a Developer Advocate and I have to admit that there was a bunch of stuff inside W8 that made Windows devs need advocacy.

Shortly after Satya took over, a bunch of things quickly changed. We founded an open source team. I'm contributing to and writing open source code full-time. My team is literally tasked with 'building epic stuff and putting it on GitHub". The common reaction is of course "Wtf, Microsoft paid you to hack with us here? On GitHub?" - which makes sense, because such a team wouldn't have existed three years ago. There's definitely a different vibe in the company (at least in the developer-focusses teams I'm working with).
New Technique Holds Promise for Hair Growth
The first sentence of your own article says:

> This piece is written for software designers, not end-users. If you’re an end-user looking for crypto advice: use Truecrypt, use Filevault, use dm-crypt
Probably preferable to layoffs (cheaper, no bad press) if a major project is shutting down and they have nowhere to put them.

Also, could have been wrapped up in all sorts of other agreements about termination of contract. This was probably a major deal for both companies.
Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance – And You Can, Too
With all of the recent layoffs that HP has had, I'm glad I'm no longer there. Working directly for GM feels considerably more secure than HP ever did. As others have said, I suspect it was an easy way to shed a bunch of employees without having to pay severance.
You aren't worried about the certificate itself being forged, all it contains is details on the block that the document was signed on and the hash of the document, you can't forge this since you still have to make a SHA256 hash of the document and verify it against the blockchain. The whole point of this transaction is the blockchain itself records the time that a specific block was mined, if the hash of the document was in that block then that means the document did in fact exist at the time.
They're going to be the face of the lobbying because they're local to legislators being lobbied, but I wouldn't assume that means anything about who pays the bills.
The "No you haven't" was in regard to the fact that you haven't answered why you're involved in TrueCrypt at all, if you don't think it should be used.
This is apparently where you stopped reading.
> Not sure why you made this about me personally.

Your comments in this thread come off as ridiculously aggressive. I'm not sure if you're aware of that.
That's how supply and demand works in a capitalist society
Yes, that's what I thought you meant. Perhaps reread the thread.
Paypal's cheapness varies by country, here in Costa Rica they only work with one bank who charge 0.5% per transaction with a generous $11 minimum fee.
I have a guarded respect for Jeff Vogel's games, but having played the Avernum series quite a bit, I'd say part of the trick here is being closer to "making the same game 22 times" (or the same 4 games 5.5 times each). Certainly Avernum feels like a rogue-like with a better story, better UI and a more solid gameplay mechanic. However, it never really rose much beyond that for me.

I'm glad he's doing what he's doing and doing well at it, but this is a very conservative approach to making games and IMO rather redundant with commercial game development. If I just want to trek around a big, semi-open world and do the same damn thing over and over building a character, there's a half-dozen Bethesda games that let me do it in 3D or approximately 3000 Roguelikes.

Generally the effort of playing an indie game to me is only rewarded when they show me something I haven't seen before - and there's real possibility in these kind of lo-fi games for emergent behaviors and cool gameplay that isn't being strangled by the huge content pipeline of a commercial game (where anything that happens has to be brilliantly animated and at least reasonably voiced by someone, making it unlikely that too many emergent 'surprises' can happen).
Technology Predictions for the Second Half of the Decade
I think being a tech lead in a flat organization is more of a matter of being the techy that other techies want to talk to. Sure, those other people aren't your direct reports... but there are still plenty of leadership and mentor opportunities.
What does Yay! mean? You don't like this? Pardon me, English is my first language.
> - I liked the easy drag and drop for a picture, but sadly I have to put my signature into the picture which takes away all of the drag-drop convenience. It would be more convenient if it worked by me drag-dropping the picture and then typing in free-form text into your web site, such as "Copyright (c) DenisM aka foo@bar.com", and then you hashing (picture + signature), detailing the procedure in the PDF.

EXIF metadata is embedded in images and would be calculated in the SHA256 hash. Just add an EXIF tag including your copyright and you're done.
It seems Gizmodo has learned the success formula for being featured on the front-page of HN after a long period of essentially being banned from the front page just for being Gizmodo: Add more "Fucks" in the headline.

I suggest an even better one to boost the effect:

Fucking Microsoft Is Really Fucking Turning It The Fucking Fuck Around.

There. That should guarantee the #1 spot on HN and 1,000+ votes now.
I would be unsurprised if it was for legacy reasons. Both of those programming languages were written over twenty years ago. Furthermore, arrays play nicely with C extensions.
You also completely changed the comment I originally replied to. I much prefer your new comment, though my fundamental issue with the fact that you're working on the audit of software you think is dangerous to promote remains.
We often joke that with the turnover rate we are essentially a University for people offshore to learn from when they are doing IT. It takes so much hand-holding and rote instruction to get things done, once they learn and are proficient they want to move up.

Generally speaking, are the vast majority of folks offshore just doing their time before moving up? I sense this is culturally what people want to do - you know move into ever increasing status job titles. Trying to find senior technical people that want to continue that is hard.
I remember wondering if the Joy Division album cover was related to one of the computer displays shown in the movie Alien. Here's an image of the two side by side (scroll down a bit):

http://asiwyfab.de/2013/02/04/random-music-fact-30/
Latest financials here: http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

It's a little tricky to read the Windows impact since (as I read it) it falls into both Commercial Licensing (for business sales) and Devices and Comsumer (for consumer sales). Some articles which break it down a bit:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8936/microsoft-q2-fy-2015-fina...

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/hardware-surprisingl...

So while the exact percentages aren't obvious, the big picture is that Windows is definitely significant, but Microsoft has become a lot more than Windows.

[I work for Microsoft until they notice I'm wasting time on Hacker News and "fix the glitch".]
my experience is the opposite: there is a bunch of vc money available. the problem is that it is hard to find because there isn't much infrastructure set up for initial introductions, like in the valley. there is no easy way for a startup to get introduced to vcs, but once you've met one they tend to introduce you to others and finding potential investors becomes much less of an issue.