skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMA worked fine before all the organization and planning of celebrity appearances. If you're a celebrity or politician or whatever, just hop on, make a post, message a mod for verification or post something to twitter and have at it. The only reason it became so ridiculous is because the mods themselves wanted to feel important, like they were "running" AMA. If some "important" person can't use the internet, then don't do an AMA or find someone to help you. Why there needs to be an employee and all this formality is beyond me...
> Do you sponsor new H1B's and do not require US citizenship (for US based roles)?

We sponsor new H1Bs and have no citizenship requirements for US roles.

> Also, any prospective C++ positions in Europe (or home-based)?

I'm not sure if there are any positions open in Europe at the moment. We're not currently listing any on the Europe jobs page on our website (http://www.ghs.com/jobs_europe.html) but our European team may be interested in seeing your resume. I suggest contacting them - details are listed on that page.
Yes to your second part. Working with COBOL at a bank was soul-crushing to me. I think the combination of COBOL+bank is deadly: obsolete, boring technology combined with an utterly conservative environment, unwilling to take risks.

I fully agree that no overtime is great -- that's why I'm not arguing anything about startups! -- but when you realize how many hours a day you spend in your day job, working with something that sucks cannot be compensated by a hobby. For me, at least. I fully understand someone could find the trade-off acceptable.
This begs the question. Why haven’t ecosystems that rely on Cobol been extinct or at the very least moved on with times? I can understand that some of those are mission critical systems where you just don’t mess around but there are some very stable frameworks out there that are also modern and have first class enterprise support behind them.
The world would be a better place if we could run "rm -rf ./comments/*" on YouTube.
As unpleasant as working with recruiters can be, at the very least they do seem to be able to get interviews consistently. You may want to give some of them a try (I'm sure others here can give you the names of a few good ones).
This is a great idea. Can the founders shed some light on how they came up with it?
The correct thing to use is AppKit on OS X, WPF on Windows, GTK+ on Gnome, and Qt on KDE. Yes, this requires more code, but it results in a much, much better experience. As an OS X user, it's so obvious when an app isn't properly using AppKit.
Turned into Google+
I still fiddle around on my spare time with modern tech just for fun. I just don't have to learn every new "tech of the week" to stay relevant. But yeah, suits some better then others. I'd imagine it's the perfect area to work in if you have kids or such.

Finance is however a huge field on its own. And a huge part of the work is implementing new regulations.

If I end up getting bored, I know multiple other languages quite well. And if I decide to leave the finance sector, having a job as a developer on a bank is a positive thing here.
Whatever you think of Ellen, she's been ceo since Nov 14. How exactly does that makes her personally responsible for ongoing failures from multiple years beforehand? Did she borrow a DeLorean and order the team around during Yishan's tenure?
>There is an STD pandemic. Multi-drug resistant STIs are rapidly spreading.

As a happily, permanently monogamous individual who knows nothing about this... could I get some sources on that?
To me it seems clear that they've decided to dislike Ellen ( they have sub dedicated to portraying her as Hitler, for fucks sake). So whenever her administration makes a mistake their reaction is going to be bloody murder.

Yeah firing the woman without a backup plan for the scheduled AMAs or whatever else was going on was a mistake. But what does someone have to do in order to be fired in that manor? Are we to assume that Reddit didn't understand the woman's daily duties and what affect her immediate/un-planned absence from the company would be? We don't know why the woman was let go, could had been worth the potential of missing a few scheduled AMAs (or even this backlash).
MasterCard Eyes Facial Scans for Mobile Purchase Security
Three Pillars – What to Expect from Firefox in the Future
I've dabbled a bit in the past as live & studio sound engineer for a few bands, and can understand where you're coming from.. I wonder though how things like the kind of rigs artists like Kraftwerk use (for wavefield synthesis) compare to 'normal' rigs (I've not enjoyed the experience yet, so just do not know).
I was a freelancer for nearly 6 years, but eventually got tired of the inconsistent income and the type of work I was doing also got boring, as well as time and energy spent dealing with issues like invoices, taxes, accountants, etc.

One of the things I also missed was being part of a development team, where I could learn from others and work on projects that would be difficult for me to take on alone. Being a freelancer for so long, I also found my skills stagnating, and it was hard to try and pick up new skills when working on new projects that always had aggressive deadlines.

Fortunately, health insurance wasn't a problem at the time as it was available through my wife's job, but being older now and with a growing family, it's definitely something that is a much more important factor.

I've been in a regular job for just over 3 years now, and it's had both good sides and bad. Although being a freelance developer is not something that I particularly miss, I do want to be the master of my own destiny. For that reason, I can't see myself remaining an employee for the long term, though I'm not sure whether that will mean returning to freelancing or something else.
See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling
If one of my employees wrote something like this I would never have accepted it.

Actually that's the typical corporate apology. The whole team gets the blame when you're playing the blame game! However CEOs and executives like pushing shit downward.

Employee vs CEO is a big difference in status and the type of apology to write.
Asimov didn't portray any revolution because he was, in his day, a socialist. He simply assumed that clear-thinking human beings would deliberately employ the best planning instruments they had available for their governance, those being the robots.

I at least partially agree with him on this one! Mid-20th-century American "libertarianism" aside, working in government, and even political "freedom", is simply not the terminal goal of most real people! Yes, we want our Mind overlords (paging Ian Banks) to leave us our free choice in personally-important situations so we can have responsibilities and achievements, but when it comes to keeping the supermarkets stocked, the health clinics open, the data-centers buzzing, the budgets balanced, and the trains arriving on time, automate away!
That is a mob justice issue.
How to build and launch a web product
According to the bug tracker there's still some work going on: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WAVE/?selectedTab=com....
In the author's language, Clojure, it's trivial to print the intermediate value at every stage of a threading macro so you can watch your data as it transforms and pinpoint the problem, ex:

(defn debug-it
[x]
(println x)
x)

(-> input-value
debug-it
function1
debug-it
function2
debug-it
function3
debug-it)

Debug-it could also take a custom message at each line if you wanted the output tagged with names/numbers.
TourDeFrance Slack Bot
Given the concerns over lack of communication, I wonder if that was the right move. I can see how hard this would be to manage on-site communications with everyone mass-downvoting anything from /u/kn0thing or /u/ekjp though, so I certainly don't have any better ideas.
>As a casual user I have no need to dislike Ellen or feel slighted by the woman being fired.

Supposedly she helped with setting up a lot of IAMAs as well as fighting to keep their integrity up (i.e. identifying when an actor's agent was posing as that actor as part of a marketing ploy). Even if you really liked IAMAs and what I've heard is completely true, these are benefits you wouldn't directly notice. It is like the average computer user feeling slighted by the Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish or the average voter feeling slighted by the TPP. These have nasty effects, but they are not at all direct in the harm they cause, and as such people do not feel slighted even when they have been.
I think there is a material disconnect from your experience of "idiotic harassment" and the experience of most victims of harassment. For many, perhaps most --- bearing in mind that you don't hear lurid details of most peoples' experience! --- it's not a game, at all.
Why does Google want it? It's simple. Google is an advertising company. The more free time you have where you have nothing but your phone or computer, the more time you'll spend searching for things, and therefore clicking on their ads. An average person with a 30+ minute commute would sure as hell do a lot of shopping if they didn't have to drive. While we are all waiting on self-driving cars, this is another step in that direction. They want to validate the idea that having people drive less means more profit for them.

Apple is not an advertising company, they are a consumer electronics company. You won't be buying more iPhones by driving less, so they don't benefit from self-driving cars or car pooling quite as much.
from Bloomberg[1]
"Under cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Roper, Malyshev said that Aleynikov would have been the second-highest paid person at Teza, and that he was the only employee that he had offered to pay three times a former salary"

I can't find a citation, but he was worth that much to Teza precisely because of the HF trading models he was bringing with him. I've worked at hedge funds where quants did have rights to their own trading algorithms and under their agreement they could leave and take them to the next shop. If Sergey did not have such agreement, taking anything (even his own code) would be considered company property.

I am not familiar enough to say he did or didn't steal company property, but I would certainly not say that "there is no market for stolen code". If all he really took was open source code than this is indeed a witch hunt, but I don't see why any company would pay so much if they could just get the free open source code.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-21/goldman-co...
Porting Docker to FreeBSD
I just don't use any chinese software wherever possible. Even the games contain malware rootkits that start at os boot, ring0 (tenprotect).
sqb's primary argument in that thread is that the FBI should have done more investigating instead of believing what GS told them. That doesn't appear related to the analysis in the submitted article.
Highlife Rocks, iTunes Sucks
As mentioned in the opening paragraph, this is a repost from Pat Shaughnessy's blog[1] from 2013. Might be worth linking to the original and adding the year to the title...

[1]: http://patshaughnessy.net/2013/10/24/visualizing-garbage-col...
I've found that each incremental language I've learned typically improves my ability to write code in the languages I already 'knew'
I'm one of the founders of Replicated, would love your thoughts on what we're building.
Why do people moderate large subreddits? They don't get paid... what are they actually getting out of it? Why continue to do it?

"fuck you, pay me"
That woman has single-handedly killed Reddit. I've never seen so much incompetence in a CEO of a major internet site.

However, the true blame should also go to Reddit's Board of Directors who have installed her and are still supporting her. They're clearly destroying shareholders' value.
I've actually heard this before; for locations such as Amy's Baking Company you really do get an inside look into the day to day operations of the business. During the preview you can only have one location but when I complete the product users can have unlimited locations. There would be a fee for every additional location.
I don't understand why you assume that most threats are empty. Are people who mail you rape threats actually going to rape you? Probably not. Are people who are unhinged enough to send a rape threat capable of harming you in other significant ways? Yes, they are.
Why do people talk about Google being an advertising company when, while it's a significant fraction of current revenue, it's also only a small portion of their interests and investments.
Absolutely nothing, it offers crap and it is crap. Just there is standard set every mainland chinese uses (if they're not expats), I often see QQ, PPStream (which at one point ran an open unauthenticated SOCKS? proxy to the world), 360 Antivirus/Suite (which is apparently awful), etc
You could say the same about Twitter's hosting individuals who espouse toxic views. I believe that Reddit essentially wants to be a Twitter for communities (as opposed to individuals), in that they aren't interested in guiding the moral ethos of its userbase (beyond removing illegal or harassing content). So, honest question, would you apply your criticism to Twitter? (and if not, why not?)
PHP is an utter failure. Why on earth would one use "secure" as a subdomain? I can tell it's secure because it uses HTTPS. Also get a grip on reality and stop using SHA-1.
Thanks, Roy. I believe that the Index Fund approach is a good one - especially for novice investors - and Instavest definitely does not replace Index Funds.

What we are, however, is a better to invest in the stock market. The problem with investing in the stock market is (i) where do I invest? and (ii) when / how do I get out? The Instavest platform is a curated research base that's meant to show you the ideas that our out there. There is no obligation to invest (or follow, as you put it). You can poke around and if something strikes your fancy, jump in.

To come back to Index Funds for a second, I think that ~85% should be in Index funds unless you have an edge. The balance of your portfolio should be in higher returning assets. Its hard to do that buy yourself, however, and that's how Instavest adds value.

On the topic market efficiency, I think Warren Buffett said it best" "If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I’d be fully invested. Anyone who says that size does not hurt investment performance is selling. The highest rates of return I’ve ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It’s a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.”

The reason why retail investors have a structural advantage is because they can invest small dollars in relatively inefficient parts of the capital structure. A large hedge fund or Goldman Sachs can't invest in a small cap company because that doesn't have high average daily trading volume because they have to put big dollars to work. This leaves a part of the market that is relatively uncovered with an opportunity to make substantial returns.

Folks on Instavest are not investing in Google or Apple, they are looking for overlooked stocks or opportunities to make incremental return like this (scroll to bottom of this link): http://blog.instavest.com/the-17-investment

Hope that clarifies things :)
nice blog list also the networking top down approach is a really important book also a book on how linux works with the networking is great as well (http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Architecture-Design-Implementation... )
"she's too" implies the relationship between her and boyfriend is already broken so you don't exactly know if you're truly falling in love with her or if your falling in love with her current emotional vulnerability due to the problems in her relationship...in order to keep your friendship and this startup you should completely avoid her and even have a private discussion with her letting her know that this should no longer continue...
People privileged enough to have $400 to throw at a game.
I asked this on twitter and Mark J Cox from OpenSSL answered that it is not:
https://twitter.com/iamamoose/status/618085591922679808
Hacking Team source code on GitHub
They're unpaid contributors to very general interest content, of course it's going to be full of low quality submissions and commenters. Hell, even blogs on general entertainment and "news entertainment" subject matter are full of catty assholes for paid writers. That's just the territory of targeting a wide audience on the internet, and you sorta have to accept it for what it is, because it isn't changing anything soon.

The worst thing you can do is let that behavior poison the well for you. There is always going to be someone who shares your opinions but you don't like their reasoning or the way they choose to share their reasoning. You don't want other people to write your ideas off because some people that agree with you are assholes, so extend the same courtesy to people you don't agree with.

I can't even get a straight answer as to why they're upset.

Yes, you can. There is more than one answer, and 10x more people that are just into bandwagon shouting than thoroughly articulating their positions, but that doesn't mean you can't find it. It means you don't want to try.
The Real Student-Debt Crisis
As it happened, the Russians made a clone of the Space Shuttle, called the Buran[1].

It was the first space shuttle to perform a totally autonomous flight, even landing on a runway without any human intervention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29
I made an account to play around with, I don't have too much money to play with at the moment so I wanted to start with a $50 investment. No dice, this requires a >$1000 initial investment. Maybe when my student loans are paid off I'll come back to this.
I never thought much of Derek Smart, especially after being suckered by the promise of no less than three of his hideously broken excuses for games, but writing for a shitty neoreactionary Gamergate site[1] is perhaps the absolute low of his abysmal career (congrats, Derek, now you've literally shared a banner with such gems as "Why We Need To Fight Against Transgender Acceptance"), to say nothing of the massive pot-kettle color comparison involved.

[1] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/11/12/rooshs-reaxxion-dou...
You have a very, very, very odd definition of "free."
They won't even take the upload, so we need not worry about the transcoding part.

trying to upload a pdf file :
"The video has failed to process. Please make sure you are uploading a supported file type."
You're just describing what sits underneath the XUL or HTML.
Exactly. Just walk away and make it someone else's problem. Someone is always there to fill their shoes. I suspect that being a "mod" boosts one's internet ego and letting go makes you just a "pleb user" again.
Agree. Music Library management ought to be the cornerstone of a music app, and iTunes has been getting worse and worse at it with every release. 12.2 is downloading for me now ... "we'll see", but I have low expectations.
20% of the profits at a hedge fund is divided among the partnership with the owner of the hedge fund getting substantially all of the economics and the junior analyst receiving nominal basis points. On Instavest the 10.3% is for the one lead investor (with the Instavest transaction fee, of course :). Also, the lead managers on Instavest have an opportunity to build their track record and brand.
And to be fair to her she does take responsibility:

> and the buck stops with me.
True. Instances of "survival" in my original statement should probably be read as "reproduction". There are, of course, more selection criteria available than just "survival to reproduction age". And selections can work opposing each other.

But, in all, the original statement still stands: Selections only work negatively. That is, a peacock with better plumage might get more chances of reproducing due to sexual selection, but as long as he gets at least one chance of reproduction, he has not been selected against.
You probably have better insight in to that than anyone here.

There could be a couple of reasons that have nothing to do with financials. Perhaps there was a high level of waste and therefore one person simply made a decision to just stop. Could also be that one person always took care of it and they are out on holiday or otherwise away. It could be they're waiting for someone to comment on it.

Then it could be the beginning of tightening down on incidental spending. If this is the case you should also begin to see this in other areas such as less paid for lunches or paid for after work outings etc....
And note that they launched it once and never refurbished it for a second launch.
Counter-argument: Old apps, of the sort that are written in COBOL, are often ones that there are good reasons to replace anyway.

The reason they tend to still exist, where they do still exist, is that businesses don't want to dedicate the budget to the replacement. But that also means that they don't want to dedicate a huge budget to maintenance, either. If COBOL actually gets rare enough that COBOL devs start getting high-end wages, it makes the "replace this thing" option look that much more appealing, which pretty much puts a ceiling on the demand for COBOL devs.

If you are a purely mercenary developer, don't learn COBOL, because it's not where the money is.
>It's the internet; one person steps down, there are thousands to replace them...

But they still are part of the backbone. No single mod is, but the ever changing group of mods as a whole are very important. Cease all moderation and what will eventually happen? Some self moderation by means of the voting system will keep everything from going completely crazy, but smaller communities could be crushed. Consider how making twox default would've worked if there were no mods.
Thanks! We both worked at Salesforce, which is a huge events-driven company, and room blocks were always a huge pain point for attendees and also for planners. I also organized group trips in college and high school which I think planted the seed.
The faster deployment thing seems pretty vague and free of actual content.
Someone's gonna do it anyways? So the choice is whether you do something and profit off it (and possibly use the money to accomplish good things) or if you let someone else do it and make the money and perhaps do bad things. Pretty easy choice for me.

In fact, I've written software to analyze VoIP networks (troubleshooting) at scale, and now I'm wondering if I can retarget that and sell to larger entities for much more money. I hadn't really though of it before, but I guess some of these shittier countries wouldn't be able to simply do the engineering themselves even if it's really not that hard.

On a separate note, we should be free to pursue scientific and engineering knowledge without having to deal with consequences of idiots that misuse such things. At least in this branch, imagine if all physicists last century had avoided furthering physics over nuclear weapons concerns. Now it's nowhere near as cool, but the challenge of indexing multiple 40G+ connections at linerate? It'll be fun at a minimum.
If you can't think of buyers for Googles secret sauce you should think again, just about every two-bit SEO guru would be willing to pay for that (assuming they could understand it) to be able to better game the system. Obviously this has value.
All I remember about RPG was hating it with a passion. When I was learning COBOL it started off on a Sperry Univac and the school transitioned to an IBM/36 so for a few months I got to code on the Sperry which at the time did feel a bit dated.

Then again my Amiga at the time had about as much ram as the IBM/36.