skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actively encourage people to ask me questions. I never directly tell them how to solve it though, I give them helpful nudges towards the answer so that they can learn it and solve it themselves. Seeing the moment when someone figures it out is great.

If someone asks me a question looking for a discussion on how something should be done, I'll gladly have a discussion as long as it's not simply me telling them how to do it.

As other commenters have said here. Asking questions is good, asking good questions is even better.
(not talking for google) Two quick points:

- The fonts have to be hosted somewhere. And the more common the hosting site is, the better the browser cache behavior is.

- The cache behavior prevents requests from going out. If the font is cached, then there's no web request going back to google. And there's no web request on the wire for NSA/GCHQ/Verizon to sniff.

As for the terminology, I personally think that there should be some standards for defining the terminology and criteria, so that we can get human-readable privacy policies without getting uselessly vague, into a discussion of how some backend systems work, or into a giant mess of legalese.
> The banks and mortgage brokers making all those "liars loans" knew that the loans weren't going to be repaid, but they didn't give an effing eff. They knew that they would be able to sell the mortgages in RMBSs and pay their loan officers and executives handsome bonuses for all those massive phony profits. They would blacklist appraiser who wouldn't give them appraisals to fit the loan they wanted to make.

The problem that created the problem was still that people were investing in mortgages rather than companies doing R&D. You can't sell bad mortgages to investors who don't buy mortgages.
Alternative window system (Plan 9 wiki)
>companies who fail to live up to their end of the bargin in a bitcoin world won't survive long.

Yes, just long enough, like Butterfly Labs. (Credit card purchasers: could do a chargeback. Bitcoin purchasers: SOL.)

Chargebacks and reversibility in general are essential to consumers. If shit goes wrong, it's gotta be fixable.

(This is also why nobody actually wants smart contracts. They know that the plot of Dr Strangelove is literally an irreversible smart contract going wrong. Consumers want fixability, business-to-business wants the option of lawyering out of a bad deal. The only people who want smart contracts are the businesses who currently screw over their customers with mandatory arbitration clauses.)
GSoC-2015-ideas (Plan 9 wiki)
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But it also looks awful from the viewpoint of the competent candidate who already has a job. Everyone wants you to spend 1-10 hours doing THEIR pre-screening test, before you even meet them or talk with them. I don't have the free time to do all of them.

Also, giving me a pre-screening test is insulting and shows you didn't read my resume. Based on my education, various honors, and experience, wouldn't it be at least worth your while to talk with me before making me take your stupid test?
See also: Dutch Disease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

(Also from The Economist initially)
AFAIK, the fonts are hosted as regular URLs with cache policies specified in HTTP headers. So, if you host your own fonts, and someone visits your site and someone else's site with the same fonts, they will download it twice (unless the other site's referring to your site in the URL). The browser doesn't know that they're the same font until after it downloads it (twice).
What percentage of transactions, in the real (if small) world of buying things with Bitcoin, are multisig?
I Am an Audiophile, and I Won’t Apologize for It
Looks like a hyenaiger to me.
Yes, it turns out that blatant fraud saves money. The site is a stolen credit card launderer.
It is never cool to request sign in via Twitter and reserve the right to post tweets yourself on someone else's account.

Never
Stack ranking does the same to employees in elite teams in real-world companies.
Oops, we'll fix it right now.

Edit: And it's fixed rmason :)
Your SIM card is probably hacked by NSA and colonial cousin GCHQ
I've never been fully convinced by arguments on either side of that discussion. Always struck me as suspicious though.

Hell of a name, you've got to admit.

Bruce Schneier's discussion at the time:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011005071623/http://www.counter...

One of his speculations:

it is actually an NSA key. If the NSA is going to use Microsoft products for classified traffic, they're going to install their own cryptography. They're not going to want to show it to anyone, not even Microsoft. They are going to want to sign their own modules. So the backup key could also be an NSA internal key, so that they could install strong cryptography on Microsoft products for their own internal use.

Though given alternative methods of bypassing any Microsoft security, not really necessary.
Heads up that you have duplicate title tags.
After sending out lots of resumes over the years, I noticed almost zero correlation with making a careful cover letter, and whether they follow up with an interview.
No, no altcoins are gaining attention.
I beg to differ. Take the best 10 people, which are all the most dedicated, hardest working, most compentent: If these compete on the same idea in the same field, only one of them can succeed.

After all, running a startup means taking risks, and risks are just another word for stuff that you don't have under control, and which is best described by probability.
This may be an unpopular sentiment, but here goes.

The hyperbole over this kind of reasoning threatens the very fabric of the Web. Snowden did the world a service in revealing all of the NSA hacking going on, but the paranoia that is resulting from this is breaking the original spirit of the Web.

It is, after all, a Web of links, and those links were intended to be not just between siloed content, but between different sites owned by different people. Links by their nature, permit tracking. All you need for for sites to pool their web logs and collude, you don't even necessarily need fancy JS tracking.

When Web 2.0 was ushered in, there was an early euphoria in the community, of everyone offering transparent data and APIs to their sites, and people being able to easily compose content and services between multiple actors to make new sites and services.

It is one of the things that makes the Web better than native -- the ability to compose parts of the Web. No need for stuff like OpenDoc, or other notions of document composition, all you need are URLs and semantic elements that import or interface with external resources.

In the pursuit of paranoia levels of "privacy", what will we lose? Will we balkanize everything into content silos?

I'm not against trying to make things more "private by design", e.g., proxying to scrub requestors before the CDN sees the hit, or replicating resources locally. But if we take this to the extreme, we end up making local copies of everything, and the Web loses some of the semantic information from it's graph that I think is valuable to retain.
Thinking about what it was like selling ideas (or, more accurately, failing to sell ideas) in meetings on a marketing team, all I can say is:

Whoever came up with that billboard is awesome at their job.
> Mocking the job. Often a big circle jerk we have to moderate

That's pretty much what I would expect to see. Ever clicked the link to discuss an ad on reddit? It's rare that someone commented because they had something nice to say.

What if job postings were a weekly thread here, where people could comment on all of them/talk about other positions, etc? There might be more useful discussion to be had in a general jobs thread.
And get anything, no matter how small it seems, in writing. Even if the people involved seem like the nicest people you know and you have BBQs at their house every weekend. Just assume that at some point, though matters outside of anyone's control, they turn into agents that only seek your demise. Hopefully you won't need those provisions, but even for a few hundred K, it's surprising what people will do or turn into.
The flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis
yep. you are in the minority. This whole thread reeks of web devs hating on native mobile for no reason other than being web devs. the only website I use regularly in the browser is reddit and that is because I don't like any of the native solutions.
Did pretty bad in HS, which I graduated a few years ago. Mandatory work is the worst way to introduce fields of knowledge. In this way learning conflicts with school's prime directive watch the kids. At scale that means keeping a person occupied for 12 years, means worksheets. Leaving school I had associated learning with a loss of agency, which might have lasted if I hadn't the time to follow personal projects and interests.

Assuming the school day couldn't be shortened a more progressive education system would maximize ability to self direct study, while using funds on the modern components, facilities, and experts that would best enable students to participate in study relevant to the world stage.
There are definitely a few drawbacks. For one GitHub is actually designed around a monolithic repository mindset, may be because it's all built on Rails :) which means that it gets harder to find things. So we needed to build directories for finding stuff, since no good option exists.

There's also an interesting balance for things that technically should be their own repository, but shouldn't for workflow reasons since it actually means they will be more quality if they are grouped and updated at the same time. Where splitting things out can actually discourage updating if the cost is too high.

There's also a big open question around what should be a separate repository, and what is separation just for separation's sake? A similar kind of question that has to be answered for individual functions in a codebase. We've made the wrong call sometimes and split things out that should have really been together.

I tend to think that the drawbacks are worth it, since it means things are actually decoupled and generally more parts of the codebase are able to get to a "finished" state. Lots of the modules we've built haven't been touched in months or years now since they do exactly what they need to do without any bugs now.

In general I think that in programming we talk a lot about building things that are decoupled and simple, but we haven't invested anywhere near enough in tooling to quell the drawbacks to things being more spread out. The pros are extremely valuable, and the cons are solvable, we just haven't done anything about it.
That is interesting. Since it's private, do you think that there is something about the community that leads to that? Aside from being discovered by a current employer/coworker or fearing that a question is bad, I don't really see any cost to asking questions. Maybe people feel protective of their process (i.e. they consider those questions private or proprietary).
I did not say "rape", I did not say "terrorism", I did not say anything about morality or ethics or politics.

You're making some pretty big assumptions as to the motivation for my comment, and they're wrong. I do not appreciate having my concern trivialized or dismissed as "political" when it's nothing of the sort.

My issue with the name "Gun" is that it's violent imagery. It has nothing to do with gun control, or anything political. It's about the glorification of violence. Our culture is already oversaturated with violent imagery. Objecting to unnecessarily violent names is not the problem. Immediately dismissing anybody who raises a concern about naming is the problem. You are contributing to the problem, not me.
That's awesome. I have a friend who's really passionate about this stuff and has some development experience in the area--are you guys hiring?
All of the things mirmir mentioned are considered money laundering when done with USD, so they either solve that problem for both or for neither. Neither result is an argument in favor of bitcoin, so whether or not they do is immaterial.
Have a look: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads

If you don't trust that, then a great way to find out what any advertising company knows about you is to act like an advertiser and look at what user data you can get. I don't mean call up google advertising and pretending that you're head of marketing at $BIGCOMPANY (you could, but it's not what I meant), but try looking at the product pages made for advertisers.
I still don't understand why don't the major browsers ship with at the very least a copy of jQuery installed locally, and then create a way to replace that URL for the locally installed version. No request made, faster access times, is there any downside?
Why is the choice to accept bitcoins client-side? If I want to force a payment in bitcoins, I can add the attribute myself.

Some businesses have legal ramifications for accepting bitcoin or not, even if it's through Stripe. Is there a flag in your Stripe merchant account on Stripe's server to refuse bitcoins?
Maybe a 'flag as not meeting Show HN guidelines' thingie on the thread page will be enough? With the only penalty for accumulating too many flags being the removal of the Show HN prefix.

It also seems there's a lot of genuine lack of familiarity with the guidelines, perhaps there's some simple, not-terribly-onerous way to encourage posters read them when they try to post a Show HN.
Sounds like what the cellphone makers were saying about Apple when rumors of the iPhone began to circulate.

And I would disagree entirely with your argument. An iPhone [1] is truly a masterpiece of engineering and programming. An Apple watch will have a lot of that heritage, and will sell accordingly.

[1] I would classify most of the highend Android smartphones the same way.
In real economics, the word "fiat" simply means "not backed". So Bitcoin is "fiat", and to a considerably greater degree than governments (who can declare a currency legal tender in a given geographical area).

The special Bitcoin usage of "fiat" stems from goldbug pamphlets from a century ago. But it is a misuse of the word.
Just reading out of my notes, the only non-highlighting detector I was looking at was https://github.com/blakeembrey/node-language-detect, but it's not widely used or developed as far as i can tell.

If you have Ruby in your stack, it's easy -- use github's own https://github.com/github/linguist

You might also be able to use just the language definition files from https://github.com/syntaxhighlighter
It's good-looking. The discussion here alerted me to Layers and to give it a test drive. I'm working in the trial on a tablet. The layout's cutting off a lot -- can't even h scroll to it. http://m.imgur.com/RggaJgr

Site building on an ipad's an edge case, but updates from one will not be.
But by tying in good and quite obviously bad customizations, you're attacking the entire value proposition of a vendor preload.

It's why I've, in general, never trusted them.
This is not quite how it works, despite the claims of Austrian economics (which doesn't actually work).
There are general jobs threads posted monthly (two of them — "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?"). These comment-less job posts are a special privilege of YC companies that offers greater visibility.
Here's an alternative theory: Lower productivity in an economy causes a larger finance industry, not the other way around.

The financial industry is the “marketplace” where people (supposedly) figure out the best places to deploy capital when the decision is not otherwise clear, or access to such investments is difficult, or the capital holder does not have expertise or want to learn to expertise to deploy the total amount successfully. If that’s true (and I’m not sure it is but that’s the sales pitch anyways), the finance sector grows as productivity in other industries decreases, because then (a) the decision to put capital into other industries becomes less and less clear and (b) the financial services therefore become more valuable.

(If you want to change this, you need to modify the incentives to either (a) make the finance sector less appealing, (b) make other industries more appealing or (c) both - but that's another issue altogether)

(The biggest problem with the theory above is of course that prices and returns are often a function of things other than actual productivity and instead rely on future potential productivity, which is another word for speculation, and so there’s a huge opportunity to manipulate the markets which happens all that time, resulting in people making $$ without actually being more productive)

For the HN audience, the good/interesting thing is that we are currently in a market where tech is one of the industries with (relatively) high productivity (for extreme example, see WhatsApp, Instagram, etc., where very few individuals created very much value), and therefore you see interesting trends: more institutional money is pouring into the market which leads to more money competing for fewer start-ups which leads to higher valuations.

See: http://www.wsj.com/articles/venture-capital-fundraising-jump...

On a human capital level, talent is also moving (relative to historical trends) from finance to tech, and on an anecdotal level, the number of former bankers turned MBAs turned Product Managers has been pretty astounding to me - fair amount of press addressing the issue as well:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mbas-abandon-wall-street-for-s...
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/22/investing/wall-street-silico...
This is inspiring. I hope to one day do work that matters in this kind of way.
I too received an extraordinary lowball offer from a YC company, at least $40k below market.

I'm not sure what goes through some of these companies' heads, but if they can't compensate adequately, then as a leader, I would not be able to assure employees that the company would be competitive hiring the best, unless the company had a particularly special angle such as being in the edtech space.
Frank Zappa's book, maybe.
Snapchat's New Funding Round and the Magic $19B Figure
Imho code that is not touched is not living and cant evolve.

If you consider evolving a part of maintaining, it's really hard to understand why touching code would ever be a bad thing.

In my personal experience team should optimize for confidence - eg explanation, refactoring for confidence, automated tests - without confidence bold and fast moves are not possible.
I'm at the level of hardware trust issues myself.
> "I also rewatched Alien, and my god, when they show the whole Alien's body it looks like a guy in a rubber suit. Without CGI, that's the best you can do. A guy in a suit or a crappy puppet."

You should compare Alien to its sequel Aliens. It too used people in suits and puppets to portray the xenomorphs, however due to improved creature design I think it looks miles better.

I recommend watching the entire movie instead of clips of the effects, but even on their own I think Aliens's hold up very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7SNoYOQmY
I'm not sure if this is a minority opinion or not, but since I don't see anybody saying it: the job postings would be better if they could be filtered out or at least throttled. I am so tired of being asked if I'd like to disrupt the big telecom companies or build drones in SF that it makes me contemplate writing a filtering RSS proxy whenever I see them.
It is kind of surprising actually. Scientists create more wealth than managers. If they aren't better compensated it indicates an economic inefficiency that someone could profit by eliminating.

There are obviously structural reasons why this hasn't happened or it would have already, but given the amount of money on the table, someone who figured out how to do it would stand to profit immensely.
Virtual reality sickness
(Another theory as to why financial services become larger as economies develop: as markets advance and become more and more sophisticated and fluid, capital gets rapidly deployed in industries where productivity is high such that the prices in such industries get driven up quickly and the ROI lowers, rendering the productivity less financially rewarding, UNLESS you are the first one there, which is another selling point of the finance industry (aka. finance will find the deal and get their first) - really another topic though)
What about Lois McMaster Bujold ?
4 Hugo Award gota count for something !
The Vorkosigan serie is space opera so not hard scifi but it's damn good.
Curating the Q's could help here
Do you have a source for that? The origins of money?
Hasn't the internet taught us that there are quite a lot of idiots out there?

(And no, I'm not excluding the possibility that I myself am one of them)
I'm not sure how that's relevant to this. It's bad, as I allowed in my statement, but I'm not seeing other parallels.
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VCs actually select against financially stable founders?
And here we see the contempt for privacy that some employees of Google hold.

What would you regard as private, pray tell, if it's not being able to access a web page without telling Google (and other advertizing companies) that you're doing so? You regard a pursuit for that freedom as "paranoid"?

Linking is the great power of the Web, and is why it is what it is today. That's all. Scripting is sometimes useful, but more often than not, it's used to enable an industry of services-as-software-substitutes ([1]) to thrive. Cross-site resource requests are not important or valuable (I think they're detrimental), and they are totally replaceable anyway, as you mentioned. As HTTP2 becomes more commonplace, cross-site requests will be replaced in favor of same-site requests. I look forward to that.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
There's probably a crossover point when the finance sector's focus shifts from efficiently allocating capital to extracting economic rent from financial activity
Didn't Craigslist throw a wrench in things by totally closing off "adult" ads, to which LE had backdoor access?

And isn't the illegality in the states (like the "seizure" of RedBook) just causing all sex work to go more underground?
What the hell is wrong with the fonts my browser already has installed?
Can anyone verify if this is also on Chromebook? I just noticed today after I did a google search on my girlfriend's laptop, a few seconds later a section appeared called "Visual Results" she has the Chromebook Toshiba 1080p. This would be insane if in fact it is the same MiTM.
What so few people realize about the NSA spying debates is that the issues will extend into everything.

This private company is building a mass surveillance database to track people. They're scraping and archiving what used to be considered anonymous postings. Their current goal is to go after sex trafficking, but they could easily expand into spying on people for any reason.

They're not the government, so I think they have a strong right to do this, but don't let cause of "the children" confuse the issue. This is a new kind of spying, unlike anything that has existed in the history of American society.

Just imagine how much crime we could stop if local police had full access email, phone, and social networking data. There's no question that we could save thousands of children per year. You would have to be a monster or a terrorist not to consent to having your data searched.
In other words: show, don't tell (a well honed rule of good writing).
This is completely irrelevant for almost any content I watch. Live events like the Super Bowl are a very special category.
I wonder if peening might be sufficient. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peening