skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that people in big cities can get pretty provincial in their thinking at times. At least with NYC, this kind of isolated thinking doesn't cut you off from too much of the rest of the world.

I live near D.C. and it's hard to fathom that people have lives that aren't in some way connected to the Federal Government or Government Contracting.
I also don't agree with the sentiment that the intellect of these people would lead them to turn the tables on their captors. Are you really going to risk having your whole family eradicated? I think it would only take a couple surveillance pictures of all of their family members for them to cooperate even if they realize there is no way they will make it out alive.
You can analyze data and use R and not be a programmer. Less than half of the students in my advanced stats classes at college which used R were CS majors. Granted, for me, knowing how to program made things a lot less frustrating.

Spreadsheet programs are built for analysis without deep programming knowledge too.
As an Original Series Star Trek fan, I regret the absence of an M5 series.
6 Great Reasons to Watch Orange Is the New Black on Netflix
I agree. The main thing working against C++ is that bugs in the software, which (by luck) have no bad effects, might behave differently with new versions of the runtime. I think that Microsoft's SxS runtimes might even help that not happen either.
I think the movie is good as well, but the article uses a really hard to read font.
Founder here. AMA.
In the UK it's basically if you work for wages and/or in low skilled or manual labour.
Yup, the Nucleo F411RE is my current go-to board for starting a new project ($10.44 in singles from Digikey with both an 'Arduino compatible' connector on the top and a bunch of other I/O from the chip on the 'outer' connectors.
None of my friends are programmers and hardly anyone I meet at parties understands what I do or what my job is. I live in NYC.

I chalk it up to being late to the game and hardly going to any meetups.
See? that's what we need helicopter moms for. Surpassing 5cm obstacles with bikes.
Breaking changes used to be the norm. These days, I think it's less likely, but no way it stays that way for 20 years.
Why should anyone dislike Notch for what he is doing now when what he did before was so wonderful? Not so sure he's a hero but he is certainly worth celebrating. And I think he did the right thing getting out because he had reached the point where Minecraft had so much momentum that it didn't need him more, the creative moment was over. He made millions of people not only happy but creative. I just hope he can put his life together and be happy too.
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No, he means the combined (fee/tx * price * tx/block) metric must increase by 250x.

So if, for example, average fees increase by 2.5x and price increased by 10x, then transaction/block only needs to increase by 10x in order to raise this metric by 250x. Not only this is possible, but this is likely. This metric has increased by 1,000,000x in the last few years, why would it suddenly plateau right now?
Follr Featured in ‘Online Footprint’ Magazine
http://twitter.com/rapemachine5000

looks suspended to me
"You don't have the power to enforce fairness in the interview process"

I can though, I can choose to not participate. While this hasn't always been the case, there is no position that I'd want so dearly that I'll let them treat me like dirt during the hiring process. If it pisses them off that I expect them to treat it like a 2 way street, c'est la vie.
In the dichotomy between workers and capitalists it does. Though I doubt that's what was meant.
IANAL but last time I went through compliance training, it was suggested that I could be personally criminally liable if my boss tells me to delete emails that I know have a legal hold on them.

I've also only seen this story in IBT, not elsewhere, and they carefully don't say that these records are part of the investigation, just that an investigation is happening and that emails are being deleted -- leaving it to the reader to connect the dots that don't necessarily exist.
I am not, nor have I ever been, a CS major. Yet I am a programmer.
I'm too busy to disrupt the hater market. Anyone else is free to take that idea.
Related: https://github.com/RhysU/c99sh
This is a free of charge beta release - in other words, no way to figure out if their pricing model is going to be attractive for your app.

https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/pricing
How to get Girls into coding
So much of this comes down to how a particular team uses git and the handling and organization of commits. The only thing you can really "do wrong" with git is push prematurely. Before that, you always have a chance to fix things or tidy things up.

git allows you to package commits up with the interactive rebase before you push them upward to the source. What you commit now isn't necessarily what gets pushed upward. It doesn't matter if you broke the compile with the commit, you still have a chance to fix it before a push. If it hasn't been pushed, no one will necessarily ever know or see it.

The whole point of git is that you can break the crap out of your local repo/branch and still have a chance to fix it before the changes ripple outward and become permanent. It also sounds like you're describing a workflow that entails working off master instead of using feature branches, which is going to create a lot more pain than there needs to be.
The working poor holding down two jobs are definitely doing that.

Most blue-collar & white-collar middle class are working less than the average startup. Recall way way back before startups were what everyone and their brother wanted to do after graduating, the premise was 'if instead of holding this easy job, I worked my ass off to my full potential, I could cash out at 35 and retire'. Admitting that startups were a huge amount of work, but something you did for a few years only, was part of the narrative.

Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast. - Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Yeah so one idea we are hoping to push with Ghostnote is to use it to store notes for sharing.

So if you are using ex. Dropbox ghostnote will detect that and and the notes to the actual asset itself. That way others can see those notes and dropbox handles the syncing issues.

You could even send attach files to emails and send them with notes embedded if you wanted. We are looking at some of these things and I am thinking with a little bit of luck this might be a good way to promote it.
I can't see something about the antarctic without linking
this: Alcoholism in Antarctica http://www.funraniumlabs.com/2013/06/alcoholism-in-antarctic...
I'd say that by virtue of using R, regardless of your major, you are a programmer.
I think that people talk past each other a lot, and part of it is understanding that 1% is not 1%.

Like, if I'm joining a company that has started to get traction, is well-funded and pays me say 80-90% what Google would pay me, and is likely to either fail or experience a monetization event in the next 3-5 years, and I get 1% of that company, holy shit guys that's amazing. Maybe still overall less compensation than Google would've given me, but more likely to change my life.

If I'm part of the founding team of a company with no product out right now, that's paying me 20-50% of what Google would pay me, and any monetization event is clearly 7+ years off, 1% is a lot less exciting for four different reasons: 1. Obviously I'm giving up more salary. 2. Payout is less likely. 3. Payout even if it happens is farther away. 4. (Crucially) My stake is very likely to be much further diluted before any monetization events.

If you ACTUALLY get 1% of the monetization of any reasonably successful company, you're probably doing pretty damn well. A medium-sized acquisition at $300 million, 1% of that is $3 million. 1% of WhatsApp would've been around $200 million. 1% of Facebook would've made you a billionaire.

Trying to get more than a genuine 1% isn't very important. Trying to figure out what the percentage that they quote you in your job hire process will turn out to be during a monetization is very important.
This reminds me of "How to become a hacker" from Eric S. Raymond. There is a part in that essay where he talks about common hobbies for hackers and after a few examples he concludes:

> "Why these things in particular is not completely clear, but they're connected with a mix of left- and right-brain skills that seems to be important; hackers need to be able to both reason logically and step outside the apparent logic of a problem at a moment's notice."

Link: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Just the title of this is along the lines of "check if the crocodile is real or plastic before sticking your head in its mouth."
Depends on the individual and how they accrue their income. Someone with a six figure income, which includes investment income and income from selling their time, would fall under middle class but someone who makes that six figures from working alone would qualify as working class. It is not the amount that matters here, it is how that amount is generated.
The presentation of Websites is to HN as "sharp knees" are Fark.
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Companies have multiple definitions of profitability which they use for the desired effect.
> What if a child is kicking and screaming because it is not their parent that is holding them and taking them away?

Haven't you read TFA? This happens so seldom that defending against it causes more harm than good.
HTC and Valve Have Cracked the VR Code
I agree, this is the best horror film made
Implicit index and renaming several things to try and be more consistent.
>Find someone that’s not using a Mac/iOS device and strike up a conversation.

This is good advice if you're looking to meet people with different perspectives.
Here's a cool Hugo-nominated story based on "The Thing": "The Things" [0] -- it's retold from "The Thing's" point of view.

[0] http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
The fall of capitalism and the Internet of things
Same, actually
What's the collective noun for a party of lawyers?
Isn't human reasoning mostly a bunch of statistical correlation? We see a ball drop, think "things fall when dropped", and that's our model, reinforced by thousands of everyday experiences. It's purely based on outcomes.

We don't naturally reason through potential causes like "Mass exerts a gravitational force which attracts other mass."
Interesting responses here. Maybe I could suggest to do a little more research on the company's standing (I really don't know myself). A lot of times when companies are seeking to sell, they start interviewing folks to create a perception to potential investors the company itself is doing well. In reality perhaps they can't afford to hire and are simply trying to sell the company off. There could be any number of reasons outside of the interview itself that you are unaware of. E.g - Another candidate (which doesn't sound like the case here). Don't beat yourself up to much over it. It sucks that due to stupid legalities, we can't get the full details for why we were rejected. Perhaps the issue we really need to fix here is creating a better more transparent interview process.

Also to the person whose interview took 5 months. Is this really a company you would want to work for? Sounds like they don't have their shit together.
For a "roll your own" approach I use Pushover on iOS (I know people using PushBullet on Android) and then either use the Email->Push gateway and/or I have a simple bash script "push" that I can pass a subject and message so that I can very easily setup shells scripts to send me push notifications when they finish (great for long running processes that you might run in screen). All the time in a screen I will do something like:

cp /source/dir /target/dir && push "Moved" "Source Dir"

So that I'm not constantly checking screen or worse, forget about it and come back 1-2 days later.
Yeah, some talented thinkers could come up with some pretty good schemes.

The real problem lies in the numbers: To put it simply, the cost (salaries + funding) to research this issue and evaluate a good scheme and then implement it could be much higher than several years' worth of "noisy" police calls. Add this up with the opportunity costs (what those thinkers/researchers aren't doing while they're busy with this) and it's probably all the way down to "Will Do This Only If My Next Election Depends On It".
Why we built ActorDB
Try this:

http://www.readability.com/m?url=http://www.theparisreview.o...
Being pegged to gold and being secured by gold aren't the same thing.

The gold that backed the dollar had already been dug up. It was already in the hands of the government. Whatever the costs were to get it, they were sunk costs based on the value of the gold, not the currency system layered on top of it. The dollar was secured via tricky-to-duplicate printing techniques and police powers.
Open Source Software and University Intellectual Property Policies
This is a general big problem, especially with the moribund post-SarBox IPO environment. Before those days, my father made more than a little money arranging cash-outs for founders of such companies, and there's absolutely no assurance you'll ever see a cash out.

But this strikes me as a problem your company ought to care about, especially if your options were part of a compensation package with below market salary, so maybe bring it up with the relevant people? It does them little good to get people like you upset, take a reputational hit, etc.
Is there a reason you frame every argument as a hyperbole?
It seems obvious to me to bring up "correlation does not imply causation". Just because a lot of programmers like X, doesn't mean that they like X because of programming.

With that said, I dont really understand confusion with social groups forming of similar people. I understand a desire...even a need...for diversity, but people who like X are naturally going to want to be with other people who like X. Seems pretty natural.
Snowden gave countless interviews where he admitted to a litany of crimes like running a bot on a classified network. They don't even have to try him for leaking intel because he admitted to so many other things, on camera no less.

They will give him diesel therapy the moment he enters BOP to prevent any media getting at him and after a few months of that stash him in a CSHU where even guards won't be permitted to talk to him. He's not going to get magically pardoned and appear on Ellen to show off his medal of freedom.
The // reminds me of JCL.
I can guarantee you that it does not work in my house, and yet my kids still do it.
Nice idea and beautiful execution. One question though: If I detach and move between tabs in Chrome / Safari by keyboard shortcut, the note does not recognize the change of tab. Is this because I'm using 10.9 or is it a bug?

And you have a typo at http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/appsuggestions/ ("mailingist").
Exactly. I find tech people to be, on average, more rational and share more of my interests. It makes conversations much more enjoyable. As someone who isn't a great conversator, trying to come up with small chat with a lawyer or an accountant is rather stressful. Talking about programming languages, video games, or comic books is much easier.
The other two films in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy" are also well worth watching: "Prince of Darkness" and "In the Mouth of Madness". Neither has aged quite so well, but both are good and interesting horror films.

I feel that "Suspiria" and "Don't Look Now" are actually the best horror films ever made, but de gustibus non est disputandum, as they say.
By far the biggest thing that surprised me after entering into the CS field 3 years ago is that being a programming just like a white collar version of being an electrician or plummer.

Looking at the from the outside it seems like a career with a lot more power there really is.
You can get clearance to store classified information at your home. For the vast majority of people it's nonsensical, but the Secretary of State is one of the few for whom I can see it without much trouble.

But this issue isn't (yet) about handling of classified material; it's about government oversight.
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Thanks Stef. This explains a lot. Its great that Ember responded with best way after many started comparing with the performance lag of Ember. I was lil' skeptical when you declared this in December, but now I am looking fwd for the release.
Pending Home Sales Rise in January to Highest Level in 18 Months
I think you're kind of missing the point. There are not nearly as many MBA, liberal art, lawyer, etc people on here as techies and programmers.
> Running dog-Thing has earned its customized bass lurk, composed by Ennio Morricone, which, in fairness to your ears and mine, could be an expensive John Carpenter imitation.

> Carpenter’s Thing, for its part, discouraged the future of dog whispering, if not mankind in general. Running dog-Thing was played by Jed, a half wolf that neither growled nor barked. Richard Masur, who played the station dog handler, remembers how Jed would just give you “that look” when he grew uncomfortable on the set. That Thing look. So watch Jed closely. Watch Jed pad down empty hallways. Jed nosing the door open, looking out of windows. Jed listening to Stevie Wonder.

> In the film, Wilford Brimley’s Dr. Blair supposes this while performing an autopsy on Norwegian Two-faced Thing, his eraser head traveling directly from an astro-parasitic entity to his own bottom lip. A clear violation of Thing health code.

> Rob Bottin, who played the ghost of a vengeful seagoing leper in The Fog, was in charge of special effects for The Thing. ... Bottin would do such a thorough job—literally ending up inside the Thing, for the finale—that he’d check himself into a hospital after the shoot completed.

> Meanwhile, I’m left wondering if the Thing can retain the dream memories of those it absorbs, turning to Freaks and Geeks for answers. For it was the great leveler Millie Kentner who once cried, “Life is not that dog’s dream!”

I was able to follow the author's meaning in parts but it's certainly challenging.
You're doing nothing wrong. At the same time, I wouldn't walk just because they aren't being candid. Usually what this tells you - especially for later-stage startups - is that your options have very little expected value (think a few thousand a year in the best case), and you should act accordingly. Sometimes it's not because HR is full of evil monsters - sometimes it's their way of telling you an unpleasant truth that they aren't allowed to say directly.

Assuming if you're truly ready to walk if they don't share, this could even carry over to your negotiation. At this point, it's just business - if this company is willing to give you $XXk more than a competing offer with more candid numbers, then the cash could be worth it to hedge that risk. Depending, of course, on how much you value the upside.
... You are simply a nerd/geek/techie surrounded by likeminded people. Nothing wrong with that.

I am a programmer that has met most of his friends in bars, raves and other music related places. Guess what? All of my friends are musicians or DJs.

What happened to all the non-musicians?! ... Well, I am simply not going to meet them in the backstage of a show.

I was under the impression that this is general knowledge, no need to make a blog post about it.

Go meet people outside your work circle if you are tired of talking with techies.
I guess fuzzy search also allows for substitutions like "csrtwheel", but neither you nor the OP does this.
Yes, the example uses callbacks, sure, but the point was intended to be that not everything is callback based, like in Node, you can use it where it's appropriate.
@pdrummond

Some feedback, all related to solely to the frontpage web site of www.openloopz.com:

1. openloopz.com doesn't resolve (heroku error message), only www.openloopz.com.

2. there is no clear message stating what your products does (I'm still confused) besides simply stating that it help people "communicate better and get things done quicker."

3. Is the product still in "BETA"? What does that mean nowadays in 2015?

4. When I click on "Pricing", how do I sign-up? When I click a plan (e.g. Basic, Premium, Business) - nothing happens.

5. I don't understand your pricing strategy. You have free, you have $5/mo and then you have "contact us" which implies to me super expensive. How do you go from $0/$5 to super expensive with no middle ground?

6. I'm confused, is the product ready to be used or not? I see that I can sign up for a $5 plan (under Pricing tab) but I also see I can provide my email address when the product RELEASED (under the BETA tab). So which is it ... is the product available today or not?

7. What the heck is a "loop". I read the "What is a Loop" but am still confused.

Please don't take my comments as being harass. I'm simply trying to provide my personal opinion on how you can be successful (which I believe all of us at HN want).

I fundamentally see a complete lack of focus on the homepage.

I'd suggest you reconstruct the homepage to be more focused, something more similar to https://campfirenow.com/ where you get a quick screenshot of the product. The home page is simply (mainly all "above the fold"). Sign up and pricing is clear. etc.

All the best. I wish you well.
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Yeah... it is documented here
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Multiline_shebang#C
Various news reports say that Clinton literally did not have a state.gov address, so everyone she communicated with professionally for 4 years, including people at State, knew that she was communicating with her personal account. Not all of them were reporting to her, either.
So it's, what, 180nm?
Bought it, pretty cool.

The demo video shows notes contextual based on the current directory in a terminal. It isn't clear to me how to configure that to work - it doesn't seem to by default. Do I need to configure my terminal to change the window title based on current folder or something like that?
The author of the article seems to mainly be concerned with being in a really homogenous social group according to job title.

You're right that everyone who programs is a programmer, but 'programmer' in the article means someone for whom programmer is their job title.
Evolution didn't know, too. But it happened. And we easily find criteria saying that thing doesn't behave like a toddler. It would be a huge step forward to see a list of positive criteria.
Are you invited to board meetings? If not, considering yourself a "potential owner" when you're not invited to the meetings where owners decide things means you are very confused about things. There's a reason why when a company goes public, the quarterly minutes at board meetings become public as well, because you aren't really an owner if you're excluded from even learning about the biggest of decisions.

What you should do depends heavily on whether you have common or preferred shares. If you have the options to buy common shares, which you probably do, they're worthless so don't even bother exercising them, the people who are invited to the board meetings have all sorts of routes they can take so that your options will become meaningless, so to spend the money to exercise and pay the capital gains on them is madness.

My advice is to recognize that you have a sunk cost (look up sunk cost fallacy) and jump ship. Keep applying to companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and other larger companies until one makes you an offer, and those companies will give you real compensation packages and stock plans that you will be able to easily turn into American dollars in a year.