skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some recruiter was after me for six months to apply for a symantec c++ security perm job. finally i send him my resume.

im sorry i cant submit you theres no c++ experience here.

actually there is fourteen years. i spell it out quite clearly.

if interviewers would so much as lift a finger to read our resumes all the way through there would be no talent shortage.
Those of us in California are jealous of your ability to have decadent, long showers!
There was a thread on reddit a while ago about companies that take these logs and parse through them sudo anonymously as well.

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/siri-google-now-cortana-c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2wzmmr/everythi...
they are sharing your most personal financial information with lenders and creditors; best of both worlds for them... Skin you once, flip you over, skin you again.
I can easily carry a power brick. Or a hydrogen fuel cell like they use for power tools.
Great case study by nbhartiya on how Mayvenn used SMS to really drive home the personal touch for a huge community of stylists.
How USA Freedom Impacts Ongoing NSA Litigation
I'm pretty sure the Google Play Music web app can respond to media keys, at least in Chrome. Here's someone describing how to disable it:

http://www.omgchrome.com/chrome-google-music-media-keys/
If that's what it was used for, I would have less of an issue, but often it really just seems to filter popular/unpopular views. Creating an echo chamber, where only the views shared by moderators and high karma users are allowed to exist.
Alternative energy also causes massive environmental damage and areas rendered unfit for life. See for example rare earth mining in China:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-rar...
> They amount of solar energy entering the atmosphere won't change

True

> The only thing that changes is instead of the energy being wasted

The solar energy that is falling on earth and that is not yet captured by the solar panels is doing a good number of direct things, such as Photosynthesis (not that Photosynthesis is stopped by putting solar panels, but one example of direct things Sun is doing), and an unknown number of indirect things such as Heating the atmosphere by scattering back from earthly-surface (causing many ecological reactions). Would you consider all these effects waste?

If we do know all these effects and also know that redirecting this solar energy into our energy needs won't significantly annihilate the effects, then it's good. I am curious to know about studies in this regard. If there are no studies and my question itself is pointless, I want to be enlightened, because I haven't had a satisfactory explanation yet.

One argument might be that, all the solar energy that's captured and used by us will also generate heat back into atmosphere and thereby not changing the ecological reactions in earth atmosphere - but I just made it up
On Windows I use Outcold Player. Pretty good Software that seems just limited by Googles non-official API.
> Economically, most immigrants are willing to work hard.

`Hard' as in `cheaper' ?
> guess I was hoping to see functional improvements, where they address the pain points of ruby: performance, tooling, dependency hell, unicode support, lack of things like co-routines or generators

Performance and Unicode other people have mentioned alreaedy, and have been areas of improvement. Explicit library support for semi-coroutines and coroutines was added in 1.9 via Fiber and Fiber::Core, and Ruby already had generator support in 1.8.

So many of the things you say you were hoping to see have been addressed since 1.8, and at least one was already addressed in 1.8.
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Isn't SMS using the cellular infrastructure as well?
I'm just glad these heroes are keeping us safe.
"Guarantee void if a substantial portion of the Klein bottle leaks into the 4th dimension."

And he's funny. Mostly. ;-)
Unfortunately still region locked where I am (Japan).

All the other various streaming services seem to work here - I wonder what the issue is for Google's?
People keep saying we're in a bubble and yet seven years later, since 2008, I can only think of three major VC implosions off the top of my head: fab.com, zynga, and groupon. Fab was a train-wreck that anyone with a pulse could have seen coming. Zynga... way too dependent on Facebook and a fad. Groupon is the better of the three, only seeing its valuation fall from $30 billion to just $4 billion - but still well over $1 billion. These valuations, as lofty as they seem, are not falling. It's kinda weird, but not surprising considering how much wealth is circulating in the silicon valley. Then you look at twitter and it held up very well after its IPO despite its very high valuation.

The problem with using the past to predict the future is that there are often subtleties that can produce wildly diverging outcomes. These app & web 2.0 companies seem to be doing something right to avoid the valuation chopping block that afflicted so many of the earlier internet startups. web 2.0 companies retain value better than a CD lol

One reason why app companies, as opposed to sites that that sell physical stuff, are doing so well is that they have better profit margins and can use network effects for added growth.
Well they did add YouTube Music Key (no ads, background play and offline access for many music videos) pretty recently, but they've done their typical terrible job of publicizing that.
I listen to metal and stoner rock, from the top of my mind I can think of only 2 bands that include women (Acid King and Electric Wizard).

> I somehow doubt that you play guitar, so I should also point out that playing a heavily distorted guitar is tremendously fun for anyone.

Wait, what? How the hell you concluded that from my simple assumption (which might be correct or not) that there's a boys-like-distortion gender norm?

I suppose we have a different understanding of what a gender norm is.
I just finished a rant on a certain tex forum about how LaTeX adds 10x complexity (to TeX + plainTeX) for making end-user's life about 10% easier.

My two cents:

- Once you become a moderately advanced LaTeX user, you need more control over your document.

- This almost exclusively leads to a preamble that is a complete mess of spaghetti code.

- Putting that mess in a separate file doesn't solve the issue, only hides it.

- Another view is that if your preamble is a mess, your document is screaming at you to create your own documentclass (or rename the class you're using and modify it).

- But that requires you become familiar with LaTeX (and TeX) internals.

- But that is way harder than becoming familiar with TeX + PlainTeX.

Therefore, as an intermediate to advanced TeX user I'm beginning to believe that TeX + PlainTeX is a much better approach. Although you'd sacrifice advanced functionality of hundreds of LaTeX packages, but people who wrote those packages could've easily written TeX macro-collections. LaTeX is used more only because it has more momentum behind it; otherwise PlainTex is a much cleaner approach.

If you're willing to get under the hood of the whole system, I highly recommend Knuth's The TeXbook.

P.S.: Just for comparison, LaTeX *.ltx files are about ~10,000 LOCs compared to ~1200 LOCs of plain.tex (which is fully documented in Appendix B of The TeXbook).
Redmine – Release logs plugin
The difference between a corporation and startup
Corporation: 90 % of time talking about the problem, 10 % working on it. Small Business: 10 % talking about it, 90 % working on it.
And, once again, how do you know you disabling all that actually turned listening off. It could easily still be listening and just not reacting to OK Google because that component was disabled. You have absolutely no guarantee that what you did works, and that your device is not spying on you, but you somehow have a massive problem with the Echo (which also has a "turn off microphone" button) spying on you.
Right now the efficiency over oil is enormous. At current market price youre getting over 3x the energy per dollar for natural gas, IIRC. Methane is also by definition the cleanest burning hydrocarbon, with the fewest CO2 molecules per energy provided. In the US alone, it's estimated that nat gas has the average household pocketing $800 yearly since the fracking boom. In addition, a geoscientist recently told me it's estimated that we're only extracting about 10% of the natural gas available per well, meaning there's tons more down there. It has serious potential, and at least the US's electric infrastructure is rapidly changing to accommodate it. Anyway, what I'm getting at is maybe we shouldn't count out natural gas.
How to lie with graphs: use a log/log plot. In this article the GDP/capita vs the energy consumed/GDP. I know they did this to cram a lot of data onto one compact space, but it's very misleading. Overall the trend is to the lower right, which sounds great, and it's mostly straight lines. But on a log/log plot, all polynomials are straight lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%E2%80%93log_plot

Second, the energy consumed per capita is not _going down_, it's actually still going up--it's just going up slower than GDP. The fact that GDP keeps going up would also seem to be a good thing, but it isn't always, e.g. if the economy is producing superfluous goods that don't actually improve the quality of life, and if life demands ever more services for basic necessities, this is also not a win.

The simple fact remains that the total resource consumption per person is still rising. And the population is still rising, too.
Not quite an equal comparison: Visual Studio Code uses only the very core of Atom which allows you to package a browser-based app in a native shell (sort of like Cordova/PhoneGap). Nuclide actually uses the entire Atom editor.
You have a microphone, camera, GPS tracker and wireless transmitter on you at any given moment how much different is this really?
The effect measured was about -5%. On the other hand, for many, immigration is a matter of life and death.
It probably needs a catchier name and more marketing
basic income, basic income, basic income. In the US there are a lot of cliffs in the support system. make over 10k? ok, you get nothing for support. This creates a terrible effect where people are unwilling to even try.

I think the key is picking a bare minimum standard, and any work beyond that is better. People need the incentive. Maybe it's just to buy booze, who cares? Working 5 hours a week must be better than actively avoiding work.

(perhaps not basic income, but that captures the idea of incentive to work while providing a worst-case floor for people. Perhaps the Scandinavian floor is unsustainably high.)

The non-workers still contribute to the economy with rent, food, bills, they're just horribly inefficient. Furthermore, 1 J.K. Rowling offsets a whole lot of people who actively avoid contributing. The possibility to live in poverty and create art has some pretty profound cultural effects.
It's license to print money..these card offers pay enormous commissions because they will make even more money from the applicants
Thank you, Arjuna!

I'm really glad you enjoyed the post and the software. :) I'm sorry I neglected to utilize the "Show HN" feature. I'll be sure to utilize it in the future!
You're missing the point. Birthright citizens have nothing but "geographic location of birth" to qualify them as citizens of their country. They literally (in the real meaning of 'literally') did nothing to become citizens. Their children will also likely have to do nothing to become citizens, as long as they're born within the same borders. What motivation do people who expended zero effort to become citizens currently have to help or vote to make immigration rules more sane?
The simple solution is to ignore illegitimate laws.

The legal process no longer concerns itself with the average citizen, why then does the average citizen show concern over the law?
There is a lot of research into this. The terminology is the energy return on energy invested, or ERoEI. And yes, wind power is definitely self sustaining. Wind turbines are pretty simple, cheap, and tend to last a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_inve...
You can use the Google Play Music Chrome extension[1] to fix that.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-play-music/...
Thanks. I've seen that, and plan to test with an old Nexus.
Yeah, that's why I really hate rules like "all commits must have a user story attached". I'm not going to make a jira story for "function is poorly named", so if that's the rule then the code will fall to entropy.
YES, EXACTLY, I feel like this project brings me full circle--OHRRPGCE got me into programming, and now I made my OWN game engine. :) Communities are beautiful like that.
ClanHR: microservices and clojure
I'll loosely group them in the 'nuclear containment failure' and 'meltdown' categories, if you don't mind.

The first was 'human error', the second could be said to have been caused by 'human error' also insofar as, well, Fukushima wasn't built by whales.
Am I wrong to think that this new Ruby feature is just an inferior, more confusing version of what is found in Python since forever?
With HN being architected the way it is (in LISP) it might be possible for them to implement a different ranking system for a specific thread. I know pg has talked about hacking HN from a repl before.

Probably more effort than YC planned to put in though.
It's very possible but unlikely until the next version of the device. Basically you would need an IR transmitter that had a web endpoint and could control your TV/set top box. I have ridiculous hacks where I set an alarm/reminder to say "Xbox turn off" around bed time.
VC BUBBLE
If you take classes for 4 years then you'll have to stay 5 to get your education fully paid off. If you took 4 years of classes and worked for 4 years then you'd owe them 1 year tuition (the previous year)

That being said, this deal was to further your education for your job. So you couldn't get your masters in finance unless you worked in finance. A software developer couldn't get their finance degree paid for.

This was for a company my friend worked for.
Ah, that's great to hear. :)
I would hope their ARPU is higher...otherwise they'll never be profitable. Mint loses a ton of money. There are reasons why it makes sense for Intuit to fund that, but if CK can't be profitable, finding that kind of acquirer that will continue to operate them at a loss will be hard, especially with that massive valuation.
1) as I understand this, the the judge's decision is not that these are threats, just that you can have a subpoena. As popehat noted, that's different: everyone acknowledges that there is some legal authority for a subpoena. It's just that it's been said to be an abuse of it because these are not true threats.

2) The "reasonable person" standard is not "what Aqueous, HN commentator, thinks a reasonable person would view as a threat", but a legal construct. While reasonable person is an ordinary language term, as these terms are used in courts, they establish precedents and criteria that are used. Ken White mentioned some criteria, tptacek mentioned some others. I don't see you offering any guidance beyond "seems reasonable to me".

3) As for the appeal to authority, you don't understand what that means. If you were citing actual evidence of anything, it might be appropriate to argue that dismissing it was an appeal to authority. But both you and White are basically saying "trust me, I know how the courts treat threats". In that context, the fact that he is a federal prosecutor, and therefore intimately acquainted with what courts do is quite relevant, and the fact that it really sounds like you're just making this up as you go along is also quite relevant. As I said, I do acknowledge that you could be right. It's just that you have absolutely failed to give anyone a reason to think so.

If you assert first order logic is complete, and I say it's not, then it's a good question which of us studied math. If we both try to give proofs/counterexamples, then it's no longer relevant. But this case is much more like the first than the second.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~jkennan/research/OpenBorders.pdf?ne...
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This is a great initiative, I'm positive about having competition for Rails, but this just still too far. They're just announcing features that have been part of Rails for more than 5 years now.
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The Mystery of the Missing Planets
I am in the situation you are suggesting.

People like the author and me are not surprised, but rather disappointed (and sad).
I definitely agree. I normally use Songza, but while out of country I had to give a different service a try. I did the one month trial, and it was fantastic.

Compared to every other service I've now tried (Songza, Spotify, Grooveshark, Rdio), Play Music is great!
Going for 7 years doesn't prove it's not a bubble, especially when many of the externalities people have suggested are causing a bubble have not changed (low interest rates, for instance).
> It probably needs a catchier name

What's not catchy about "Google Play Music All Access"? ;)
Yeah and then you go to a company, where guys doing Python only programming for 3.5, 10, 15 years (really!) and never heard of context managers, or decorators...
DigiCert Acquires Verizon's SSL Business
That's okay, this is a project of love. :) If it isn't absurd I'll start supporting iOS with Kivy, which I happen to know absolutely nothing about.
this? https://babeljs.io
CK is much more than just lead referral program as Mint is. CK gets access to your FICO and credit report when you check your credit score at CK. These "qualified" leads are sold to financial services companies for several hundred dollars per lead. There is a huge demand for their leads because of the quality and amount of information you get with the lead.
I tried this for a while and it was slow and crashed pretty much every time I used it. Sucks because it was exactly what I needed.
Similar but CK looks to expand theirs into more lucrative territory. It's the difference between referrals and commissions.
The problem is that our system is incredibly racist and classist. Here's an example of a teenager who spent 3 years at Ryker's Island before his trial: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law. If he had plead guilty, he would have spent _less_ time in prison. The poor don't get to sit at home and wait for their trial, they get to sit in prison and wait for their trial. The rich get to go home and live their lives while their lawyers push back.
I mean, what else could they use the information for? I think it's obvious to everyone what the deal is.
Ahahah, I'm comfortable with JS, TypeScript and Babel might be a solution to "hide" this, although personally I would have liked to know if there's a way to improve the way we write plain JS.
It seems they are going out of business soon as the Auth API they based their business on is getting deprecated. :/ its moments like these where i hate how the web turned out.
Personally, I look to integration. Does it work on the devices you want to use it on? Does it integrate with some other service you want to use it with?

From my experience, most of the large streaming services out there are roughly equivalent on music selection and sound quality, so all that matters is how I can use it, not what I can play on it.
Why would one be afraid of immigrants because of past treatment of original natives when chances are the immigrants are descended from people who did similar things to the original natives of their homeland? As an easy example, I'm fairly certain the original natives of the southern portions of the North American continent weren't speaking Spanish when the conquistadors showed up.

I would disagree that is is for the better of mankind. In some cases, it could be, sure. In most cases, it eventually is not. How is it good for anyone to move from one stagnant area into a prosperous one to the point of dragging it down to be stagnant as well? Never mind the affect this has the people who are currently inhabiting the area.

Plus, it would seem to be that once a level of immigration has happened in an area the newcomers no longer feel the need to respect or to assimilate into the local culture, so they maintain their own. Hopefully they are carrying over their bad habits that led to their homeland sucking enough to force them to move, because they'll eventually want to move again. In the long term, that eventually makes things worse for those that lived there before, much like you pointed out in your first statement.

We have a long road to travel before mankind as a whole can, in masses, move about freely throughout the world without there being local consequences.
Thank you for this. I know janitors, housemaids, and carpenters, as well as engineers and college educators who managed getting a green card just fine. People come here not speaking the language and make their way through the system. It's a byzantine, insane system, but that's government for you.

There are people screwed by the immigration system, by Homeland Security, and by pure bad luck. This kid does not sound like one of those people. He left the job tied to his work visa - awesome, that's your choice. Your altruistic job fell through, leaving you high and dry? Where was your back up plan? I find it very hard to believe someone with an Ivy League education can't find a job in this country.
This is really great. We talk a lot about reducing friction. Have other company's experience been similar to Mayvenn's in-terms of conversations?
I've always held a quite different view of startups. Namely that enterprises hold a lot of responsibility, they provide stable products, long support windows, quality customer service and a lot of their money, time, and effort goes into ensuring that continuity. Yes, they spend a lot of time talking, but that's because getting it right is an imperative. "Just doing it" isn't going to meet their customers' needs.

Meanwhile, startups have a lifetime generally of "until they get bought out", and hence are apt to start and shutdown products with little to no warning, provide a minimal amount of long-term support or assurance, and with minimal or basic customer service. Sure, they operate with a lot less overhead, but they provide a much less reliable product.
Their revenue is nowhere near $800 million.

They'd have a $15-$20 billion valuation today if their revenue were that high in the private stage.

LendingClub is growing incredibly fast, is tracking toward $350 million - $400 million in annual revenue, and is valued at $6 billion. The public market is harsher on valuations than the private market as well. Were LendingClub still private, its valuation would probably be twice what its public valuation is.

Credit Karma is more likely in the $50m to $75m range on revenue.
Google bought Songza last year
That link is to a welcome page. Forbes uses a system where when you go to a page, it redirects to that welcome page, with an ad, then after a pause lets you go to the original page. Looks like you copy&pasted in the middle of that.
The best solution that I've found is Bearded Spice (http://beardedspice.com/) which works with most web music players.
On a somewhat related note, what is the meaning of 6a and 6c? I suppose 6g is the go compiler and 6l is the linker. Is 6a an assembler and 6c a c compiler?
We(tryfuel.com) are working on quantifying nutrition and personalizing it so people can eat healthy and understand how their bodies respond to diet. We have traction and very sticky product. We are raising our seed round.

The biggest problem we are having is finding angels who will not only lead this round but help in future rounds with introductions to VCs and serve as social proof. Any ideas on how to solve this?