skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who got confused and though for a second that testmunk.com was the engineering blog of hipmunk.com?

Very similar logo/mascot.
Considering Instacart now offers its couriers an option to sign up as employees, I'd be curious to see how many take them up on that offer.

A part-time employee status (vs contractor) generally comes with loss of control over one's working hours, 30-hour weekly caps (to avoid the ACA penalty), and compensation setup that involves some kind of (likely minimum) wage + bonus instead of straight-up 1099 income.

Most of the gig economy (Uber, TaskRabbit, PostMates) is built around flexibility of hours, and freedom to not only accept a gig, but to refuse one (which you lose if you're in an employer-employee relationship and the boss is simply assigning it to you).
Even Sam Altman became furious and started talking trash to Yishan.

Though to be fair it was after Yishan accused him of perpetrating a "long con" to regain control of reddit.
Greece functioned "OK" if a low standard of living, rampant inflation and pervasive lack of access to credit for businesses or individuals is "OK".

Of course is better than blowing up a giant credit bubble and then popping it when it goes wrong, but it's not very nice.

> debt spent mostly on buying military equipment and other unnecessary stuff FROM GERMANY

I hope you realise how ludicrous this sounds. Granting them victim status because they just couldn't resist those submarines and tanks despite not being able to pay... If you are looking for large unnecessary contributors for Greek debt, why don't you start at the $15bn Olympic Games (no doubt they were forced on Greeks by the German manufacturing firms, too).

> Germany is not exactly a stranger to corruption

Sometimes orders of magnitude matters. It does matter whether the rate of tax payment non-compliance is 5% or 50%, even if it does not fit the narrative of moral equivalence.
What we need now is a real-time play-by-play by Carl Sagan. . e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8eqYVFgzIU

Or Larry Soderblom on Triton. Try to dig up the full "Encounter with Neptune". . . classic. . . first ten minutes - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zzlq_encounter-with-neptu...
Congrats guys!!! I love AeroFS!
There are so many subtle factors working against non-white-men that it's impossible to be totally aware of them all. Making a point of correcting (even if it's somewhat of an over-correction) is not a perfect solution but realistically its better than pretending there isn't an issue, or saying your for equality as if that's all it takes.

You'd vote to remove Steve because he said one are to improve is in having more women (i.e. more diversitiy of opinion and experience) in leadership positions?
As long as quality of life remains the same or improves, the value of a currency is meaningless (ie Japan).
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Seems like an interesting premise.

However, I don't know how I'd feel about being introduced to a potential romantic interest by a female friend.

I don't claim to be an expert on dating, but I intuitively understand how social dynamics work.
What I find intriguing is that fact that they have 160m unique visitors and over 7 billion page views each month, yet they generated less than $8.3m in ad revenue last year.

That just feels wrong, somehow...
im absolutely the cause, and fair enough. wasn't trying to get into the whole story and I probably did provide an overly favorable context for my overly-personalized question. I did not mention that I was begrudgingly the CEO despite the fact that my partner was a good 10 years older than me and had a lot of experience in the space, whereas I had just graduated college, was a relatively unproven commodity to the VCs, and had an unresolved legal matter lingering over me, as well. I certainly made a ton of mistakes throughout the venture. It was not my intention to question or make excuses for that. I am sorry my question came across that way to you. I might just need a change in scenery!
It's not the IoT that I'm arguing against, it's the reputation system. I think that it's fairly dystopian and unfair, and even if it comes into play as you've predicted eventually a significant percentage of people will just abandon or ignore it just like they do with many other reputation systems.
Read the cables.

The US does prefer puppet dictators. But most dictators do not stay puppet-like without a reason.
I'd read this as "The US is not good at cleaning up after wars" more than whether the US is good at "kicking ass"
I admit it is a little link-baitish, but it does one important thing: it explains why this is interesting at all.

(Its actual title, "Web Experiments on Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets", is so incredibly buzzwordy and opaque that anytime I want to cite or link this paper, I have to think to myself 'ah yes, those fascinating Yahoo music experiments... let's see if I can refind it in Google Scholar or not, because I certainly do not remember the title and even if I did, it would probably be buried under thousands of other papers with higher buzzword concentrations'.)
why's guide, Learn Ruby the Hard Way, and The Bastards Book of Ruby are all good if you don't have any experience with it.
You'll be pleased to hear that she really values you being fine with it, as do we all.
To be fair, the title was a (not-so-subtle) "twist" in that you thought it was going to tell you not to go to hackathons, but it flipped it by saying "Don't attend a hackathon... if you're just looking for devs to implement your ideas".

It was telling the "ideas people" to go away, not the devs to avoid them.
I find it extremely rare that the board is not involved directly in every hiring/firing for startups under some sort of business duress.

Total tangent: I did not understand the outrage at reddit. The management clearly let her be thrown under the bus by the conspiracy wackos.
So it was just random luck that all their nexus 4 devices demonstrated the same fault ?
"486" with "80"% of them being Intel... yeah, conspiracy theory! :)
Yeah I thought about including AWS in my comment :) but I feel that Azure is the default choice for .NET cloud platforms so I (and I think many Windows devs) benchmark Google/Amazon against Azure.
Kickstarter failed us, an answer to CEO Yancey Strickler about the Holus scam
In what browser? I find Safari with HTML5 video much better than Flash.
Will this one feature deprecation kill Java?
When your brand isn’t broken: elegant error handling for sites with red logos
Isn't that what a hackathon is about? Maybe, "Don't work for free at a hackathon".

Writing code for one's own idea is play. Writing code for someone else's vision is work.
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No. Long before Yishan's post, Ohanian posted on Reddit saying he both owned the reorg of AMAs and flubbed the transition with Victoria Taylor. It's not speculation. Consider also that by Ohanian's own direct words, the chairman of Reddit had an operational role over one of the most visible parts of the site. Pao was in a situation that would have been difficult to manage even if things had been going smoothly.
Does it have to have a different domain or would a `src`-less iframe also work? You'd have to write the ad code into the iframe from the outer page, but that's not hard.
That's exactly how large donors think in the US.
I don't know much about Meyer's history and the history of Design by Contract, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say, "quite a bit." The major difference that I can see, with my limited experience, is that DbC seems to be focused on the boundaries between functions and is more closely related to assertions (which are probably also related to Hoare).
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Because that's what their supporting base wants to hear.

Must be said that such supporting base wasn't much big, and was losing people very fast until the second Bush said he'd invade the country. Then things changed overnight.

Today Iran is getting progressive again.
Congratulations! I see that it was over two years ago since the A round[1] so I guess that the business is going well :)

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/a052c0385588a052cbe...
I've witnessed this app at techCrunch, such a simple yet so powerful tool for safety.
I'm not discounting the value that PoF provided to its users. That's important, and to be commended.

Do what you enjoy, ensure someone is getting value out of it, but don't spend too much of your life on any one thing. Everything in moderation.
The port numbers are used to identify connection. If you make two connections to a web server from the same machine, the packets for each stream are separated by the source port of the client.

If you got rid of the port numbers, you wouldn't just need an IP address for each service, you would need one for every outbound connection you make, and this address would need to be announced and stored in routing tables, checked for collisions, etc. Allocating ports is a lot cheaper, since only the endpoints (and stateful NATs/firewalls) need to know about them.
What's your take on TiSA prohibitions against data sovereignty, http://www.innovationaus.com/tisa-threatens-data-sovereignty?
The solution is to add functionality to html5 to support all the major features offered by flash, and then replace flash with interpreted javascript players such as Shumway.
My ResMed S9 machine detects exhalation (configurable levels) and backs off of the pressure. The mask that I wear (covers mouth and nose) has small holes that vent both exhalation and the pressurized air. The air flow out of those holes is relatively stable during both inhale and exhale, with the machine adjusting pressure to keep fresh air flowing through the mask and maintaining the pressure.
>> and dig deeper into foreign policy journals

What journals do you read? I find it hard to believe you are reading mainstream foreign policy journals. Is there an issue of Foreign Affairs that supports your take?

To support your argument I think you'd best be served by referring to history books, not foreign policy journals. I think your argument generally fits with a dated foreign policy regime where weaker nations were seen along lines of resource extraction (see colonialism all the way to the first Gulf War) and ideological domination (see '53 Iran coup, Bay of Pigs attempted coup, VOA).

Fast-forward a few decades and energy security for NATO states has become quite strong primarily due to fracking. Key threats consist primarily in non-state actors radicalizing people abroad and anarchic environments abroad enabling the export of terrorism. Key opportunities consist in stable energy prices and opening new markets for goods/services. It's a lot easier to square the recent Iran deal with that world view.
It is true, though. Bankruptcy (or its polite cousin "debt forgiveness") happens when the money tap gets turned off.

If you want the tap to keep running, you have to be able to compromise with the guys at the source and at least pretend to care about repaying it.
> Off by default lets everyone choose to turn it on if they're interested.

It lets more sophisticated users choose. Less sophisticated users however will more likely switch to a different browser the moment a site doesn't work before poking through settings.

I think a better way than a separate setting would be to go in the direction of many software firewalls and present it to the user as a choice when an application requests it as many browsers currently do with the location APIs. This would provide individual domain-level control over what permissions sites are granted by you. I don't know why this sort of policy seems to be restricted only to the location APIs...
Related article in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/where-the-roads-have-...
You should be able to implement those effects with either simd.js or a WebGL shader, no?

(Assuming you can get the pixel data; but getting the pixel data from HTML content is actually a security nightmare…)
The Dawn mission went to Vesta and Ceres, so I guess you could get funds for a dwarf planet mission to Pluto and Charon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)

(They are closer, so probably the New Horizons mission is more expensive.)
Fear of radiation can be irrational
Interestingly, in hexadecimal there end up being three largest numbers of length 39:

0x34e4a468166cd8604ec0f8106ab4326098286cf
0xaa44ce207c78fc30003c3cc0d8382e2078d07ef
0xfae06678c2e884607eb8b4e0b0a0f0603420342
A Peek Inside Autodesk’s Pier 9
Disclaimer: "ancient" = "surveyed in the 1790s"

Edit: For some reason, I was hoping for a catalog of American Indian trails. Otherwise, pretty interesting article.
I drive a car with a current value of about $2500. The other family car is worth about $1500.

We're getting pretty close to trading up the lower-valued car for a 5-to-8-years-used one with around 100k miles on it, costing us about $13000-17000. That requires planning and savings, and maybe a bit of financing. $15k is serious business to a middle class household, and we would expect that purchase to last us at least another 5-8 years, whereupon we can pawn it off on a kid as their starter vehicle. We want to ride it all the way down the depreciation curve, then take whatever is left in it as a charitable tax deduction.

It definitely is not chump change, but it isn't entirely out of reach for the middle class, either. It is, however, well beyond the ken of lower-paid employees.

The range of $10k-30k for new cars is completely bogus. You are looking at a bare minimum of $12k for a glorified go-kart and $16-18k for a decent sedan with automatic (or CV) transmission. Those used B-Mers going for $15k are probably about the equivalent of a year-old Honda Civic. If you can afford that, you are well off, and very much above the median household income for the US.

Ancestor post shows a serious lack of knowledge of the economy outside the Bay Area. For huge numbers of people, the value of that car is still well above anything they might be able to get for themselves. Deprecating $15k as not being all that much money is somewhat insulting to all those people for whom such an amount would exceed their entire net worth. By that perspective, the guy driving the $100k car in to work, to fire some people, is lucky that so many people in the US respect other people's property, even if they are hugely self-centered assholes. $100k can buy an entire house in some places, complete with rooms, floors, and indoor plumbing.

Furthermore, if anyone with a net worth of $25k is driving a car valued at $100k, they have no business whatsoever making business decisions at any company that employs me. If they make shit decisions in their personal life, they will probably make worse decisions with other people's money.
Yancey Strickler answered. Here's my response: https://medium.com/@sableraph/kickstarter-failed-us-e7b6d98f...
Original author here.

I did a followup on this post here: http://clarify.io/blog/howto-be-successful-at-a-hackathon/ and just linked it from this post.
She may well just have no confidence in reddit's current leadership, of course. Given the recent amazing behaviour by the founder and various ex-CEOs, that would hardly be entirely unreasonable. The whole thing looks like a complete mess.
Meaningful global problems, even, not just coffee and bicycles.

Managing water. Tracking disease and promoting vaccination. Tracking government corruption. Funding nonprofits. Modernizing education. Etc x 100. These aren't even third world problems any more.
Exactly! I recall earlier a thread in which Mozilla employees claimed there is nothing new about Pocket as proprietary search engine UI has long been bundled. But Mozilla gets hundreds of millions of dollars annually for that placement. If Pocket were paying at least tens of millions annually, advertising it by default would be comprehensible. As is, it is totally incomprehensible. It should be returned to addon status and Pocket should pay to advertise through the sponsored tiles/adsinnewtabs program (which I think is great BTW; I'm not a Mozilla basher).
>If you don't use it, then it is not doing you any harm. If somehow the presence of a button annoys you, then you can click the "customize" menu item and remove that button.

That's extremely condescending. Program defaults, as you are aware, are very powerful. Pocket was shoved in millions of people's faces. Most won't bother or don't have the technical skills to remove it or understand the privacy implications of using it. Someone made that decision. Mozilla encouraged users to submit data to a closed source, US-based company, completely betraying its core principles on openness and freedom. If pocket was built on a generic API and I could host my own (like Sync server) I would maybe have been okay with it. Pocket, as rolled out, tarnishes Mozilla and its image.
I built something similar called Formdown: https://github.com/bradgessler/formdown

If you're wondering why something like this would be useful, it's great for prototyping interactive web pages of UIs. A non-technical person can easily write out their ideas and a more technical person can covert the markdown into real form markup.
Whatever, same argument as cash enables crime. Cars enable drive-bys & bank robberies.

I'm thinking of automated industrial supply chains. Robot delivery cars for mass factories, automated checking on deliveries.
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Congrats, AeroFS! I'm glad to see more proper enterprise software making progress in the startup world.
Remember this graphic, much shown in the media?

The bullshit made up nonsense about mobile WMD factories? Yes. I recall that the thinking was that there were entire convoys of these driving around in deserts somewhere. They had to exist, right, because that explains why we can't find the WMDs.

The decision had been made. Access was irrelevant because the invasion was going to happen anyway. Any number of "smoking guns" could have been found, or just plain fabricated as necessary.
Ha, good thing what's "interesting" is entirely subjective
$79 octacore hacker SBC runs Ubuntu and Android
No, but its a phone from 2012 and its battery has reached or is near EOL by any reasonable metric assuming daily use. Of course you're going to have some battery issues. How many three year old phones work flawlessy? I find by year two they're all fairly roughed up in some way, especially if they're owned by techies who run they harder than most people. Its not surprising considering the age, and perhaps being from the same batch, that they're having issues today.
If a non-coding participant in a hackathon has a great idea and a great pitch then I totally expect that engineers will join in the effort. That's the point.

I guess yeah, don't be a 'I just need a developer to build exactly what I say' dick about it, but I don't think I've met many of them.
The problems the author describes aren't limited to just hackathons. Developer-entrepreneurs are constantly bombarded with requests for free labor from idea people. Don't code for free!
The change.org petition got to 213,446 supporters when it was stopped shortly after her departure. Not need to exaggerate the facts to express an opinion.
That blog is from 2013. Github now does browser sniffing to see if it can use native APIs instead of flash: https://gist.github.com/jonrohan/81085b119d16cdd7868a
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Any actual engineer will probably find this comment painfully naive, but here we go:

If it's infeasible to slow down to get into orbit or land on Pluto, what about the feasibility of designing a probe to impact Pluto at XX km/sec and survive well enough to send back data.

Like, fire a (metaphorical) bullet full of scientific instruments directly into the surface of the planet.

Is it simply that we have no way to build something that could both survive such an impact and be complex enough to do anything useful afterwards? Or might it create too much destruction on Pluto's surface? Or some combination of those?

Edit:

I mean, it worked when we went to the Moon: http://gallerytpw.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Georges-M%C3...

Edit 2:

Not literally a bullet. I'm aware of the speed difference between NH and a bullet. ;-)
Gaudí’s Great Temple
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Libraries are usually older than the applications that use them. New libraries can be, and often are, written in new languages.
Microservices Architecture for Enterprises
Your post is mostly accurate. Yet, the number of maintained implementations doesn't tell me anything about whether it's mainstream or worth using. Brainfuck language has a whole page worth of variants, implementations, uses, IDE's and so on. I doubt anyone will argue that we should use it for commercial projects. ;) A maintained, active implementation is only a start for a language.

For LISP, the market is small and fragmented. They've always had the problem of siloing off from each other while mostly not building enough standardized functionality to get momentum. The language also has lots of warts from the old days that it should eliminate (Clojure does a bit). They've mostly ignored all this and that's why the language doesn't go anywhere. That Python, inspired by LISP, lacks every one of these problems is probably a reason for its success.

Far as LISP's, I thought about relearning it and taking another go at it. Racket is the most interesting to me in terms of power, available libraries, community, and IDE. My old trick was doing imperative programming in LISP for rapid iteration and then auto-generating equivalent code to be handed off to a C or C++ compiler. Let me macro out the hacks needed for portability, performance, and security in many cases. Plus, interactive development + incremental function compilation is AWESOME.

Thinking on two lines this time. One is to redo my old approach with C and Go as the new targets. That lets me piggy-back on all their momentum with rapid prototyping and zero-to-low-overhead abstractions. Another is to reimplement Python & its standard lib in LISP in a way that integrates code in both. That should give a performance boost, a way into LISP for Python developers, and let me use Python code/libraries. Ton of work going into the latter.

Really busy so not sure if I can do either. What do you think about the options?
I know basically nothing about how CPAP devices work, but why does it need to move so much air? There are snorkels on the market with little check valves so your exhaled air goes out a different pipe than your inhaled air. They cost maybe $20. I can't imagine that a super-expensive CPAP machine doesn't have a similar pair of valves.
When I run into people like this, I always say the follwing:

"I also have a great idea, I'd like to start an electric car factory in india. I just need an engineer who plans the factory, designs the electric car blueprints, manages the building of the factory, organizes the machines, and implements the structure for mass producing cars. Shall we do a 50/50? You build the factory, I do the rest."
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It really matters a lot more if an employee finds his or her own job interesting than if you find it interesting. I can personally attest that at least one employee finds his job in software development interesting, even though it involves little to no theoretical math. In fact, I find it a little disparaging that you call my career uninteresting so unequivocally.

However, if you yourself are so dedicated to pursuing mathematics (which does sound like an interesting topic) know that there are mathematicians in industry. Tech companies and government agencies hire huge numbers of math majors, and although the work can stray into the realms of applied mathematics, your interest in pure math could serve you well.