skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at anti-static tinsel, it's perfect for this type of issue: http://www.statictinsel.com/how-to-use-tinsel.html
>However, when I'm working with other people on an open-source project, I don't have time for assholes of any sort. This goes for people being dismissive or discriminating as well as those who are quick to harp about being oppressed when clearly it's not the case.

What about those who are domineering about enforcing their preconceptions of appropriate communication on others regardless of interpersonal and productivity cost, even when they weren't privy to the communication in the first place and no party involved in the communication cares for their opinion on the subject?

Me personally, I think those guys are the worst of all.
Ugh this brings back memories. After spending 1988-92 on ARM stuff (Acorn) I ended up doing something on DOS with assembly, well MASM. x86 was horrible in the 16-bit segmented mode. I finished the job off in Turbo Pascal in the end. To this day it scares me and I hadn't delved lower than C since.

Edit: I've still got a copy of MS DOS encyclopaedia sitting on my bookshelf actually. Signed by Gates. Ebay time!
Wow, this looks pretty awesome if they are able to uphold the talent bar.

Would be good to get more info of how much you can make as a developer and how much projects are likely to cost, though.
Are we sure what is being simulated here is cognitive? It seems to me merely mechanical. Not to deride the achievement of course.
To be fair, a good proportion of the blame -- and a very good proportion of my subsequent lawsuit -- would be directed at the car company whose negligent engineering made the wreck possible in the first place.

Although I do agree with you, I modded you down and the GP up in this case because appeals to emotion aren't the answer. Your post is a form of the "If it saves just one child" thought-ending pattern.
Is that true for the provision for companies in S'14 or later? The new policy will only apply to those companies.
If you volunteer extra information about what you didn't like about your last job, there is a slight chance the information will help you and a (IMO) big chance that it will hurt you. If you give a boring answer, there is no chance it will hurt you: most candidates (speaking from my own experience) don't have interesting stories about their last job.
> Because you know that the nation states who used the services of this company didn't also receive the source code to the tools, correct?

"The violation of the license, assuming the source code was not shared with the clients."

It's called speculation. Read it as "Hypothetically, if the source code was not shared with the clients, it was a violation of the license."
You know enough to make that generalization? Romania pop. 22m. came 13th in the 2015 Int. Math Olympiad while the UK pop. 60m. came 22nd. I mention this because there's a more interesting story among others which follows from that.
YC founders still see each others' names in orange, but that's it.
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"We will try to do this for every company..." If for some reason this term is not exercised, it will now unequivocally reflect badly for the company. I don't question the good nature and authenticity of a YC "try", but the sentence does naturally express doubt.
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> To another species/race it might actually seem frightening

Not sure about that. Many species do something similar for a longer period of time.
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How often are pro rata rights not exercised by a VC?
Argh, didn't realize those were shopped out. Thanks.
One function of sleep may be to clean up waste accumulated while awake. To run the cleaning process while awake may require more active energy consumption and was a way of conserving total energy in our evolutionary past when activity wouldn't be very productive anyways.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2013/ninds-17.htm
OK - fair enough! That's obviously what's happened. Not so hilarious after all.
Agreed, I hate sites that provide no information on relative pricing. I’d love a formula for weekly costs and a low-level guestimate tool for project size/scope/cost… before having to fill out any form info.
We will do it whenever we possibly can--our goal is 100%. There have been occasional instances where a company doesn't get us docs until 3 hours before a close or something.
> amazing nature (the Shawangunk ridge), tight-knit community, lots of small businesses, a tiny walkable downtown core surrounded by what feels more rural than suburban, and vocal lefty-but-not-too-lefty culture

Yes, exactly that. We like those things. We have almost all of those things in Sussex County NJ, and a good job to boot, but it's a really nice town to visit. Reminds me of where I went to school in Boone NC.
In Firefox press Shift+F2, then type "screenshot --fullpage" in the command line at the bottom of the page. No addon, plugin or extension needed.
A blockchain is just distributed MVCC (multiversion concurrency control)
The "organic" behavior you see is replaying the natural statistics of actual handwriting trajectories. I suspect that generative models that "compress & replay" human data in order to mimic humans will lead to more complex AI systems, but capturing the statistics of "internal" processes like cognition and consciousness are still far away (and may require advancements in cognitive neuroscience first).
C2k15: stsp on wifi and usb matters, and a peek to the UTF-8 future
Mom comes first, then baby, then you, then the startup.
A lot of the time it will come out as just micro aggressions. Some of the more explicit ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

After they found out I was vegetarian "Oh of course you are"

Woman in the office said she has never seen me on Tinder, coworker replys "Its cause he's on Grindr"

I can think of a few others but I don't want to post anything thats too identifiable.
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I think that's definitely true if you're on a team like Glass v2 or self driving cars.
VisiCalc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visicalc
This is not going to be a problem. The company either needs 50 mln or it doesn't need it. if it needs it, then talking about how 10mln cash is plenty is pointless. And if it doesn't need 50 mln, it really shouldn't be raising it in the first place. In practice, YC will probably stay away from maintaining pro rata in some rounds, especially if there is no issue with negative signaling
agrep is approximate GREP for fast fuzzy string searching
It's ironic that PHP might be surpassed by the only language people seem to hate as much as it (javascript.)
How bad would it be to to always run the ribbon past the homing strip each time a move is called for? In the worst case you'd have to make just over a full loop instead of a small move, but the stepper motors could probably make the full loop pretty quickly at full blast.
Awesome project, congratulations!
This can be read as a story of what happens when management becomes divorced from engineering... literally.

>Lore Harp and Carole Ely of Westlake Village brought along the Vector 1, a PC designed by Lore's husband, Bob Harp.

>In 1980, the partnership began to crack at the seams. The stresses of the company took a heavy toll on Bob and Lore's marriage, prompting them to seek a divorce.

>Bob fought with Vector's board of directors, insisting the company should sell an IBM PC compatible machine, but Lore and the board resisted. [...] "I felt that I had to leave the company and start another one based on PC compatibles," says Bob. Vector's board granted his wish, firing him in 1981. The following year, Bob founded Corona Data Systems, which created one of the first IBM PC clones.

>Lore became the first female founder to take her company public on the New York Stock Exchange. But the celebration was short-lived. IBM PC's jump into the personal computer market in August of that year had a clarifying effect on the industry.

>In 1982, Lore married tech media magnate Patrick McGovern, the founder of research firm IDC and publisher of Computerworld and InfoWorld [...] She sought a new beginning with more time devoted to her marriage. [...] Between the grueling daily commute and a lack of love from the board of directors, Lore had had enough. She stepped down once again, this time for good. It was 1984; she was 40 years old.

>The company filed for bankruptcy in 1985, ceased operations in 1986, and a holding company liquidated all its assets [...] in 1987
I get your meaning now, fair enough. I think most of what you are interested in are financial/accounting terms, I don't know how specific they are to startups, other than most startups are built upon promises of finances.

How about http://www.accountingcoach.com/stockholders-equity/explanati...
I'm going to give you conflicting data. When applicants tell me they are looking for a new challenge, or some other non-answer, I wonder if they are just going to flake out and leave our company after 6months or a year.

When I ask why people are leaving their current position, I am actually very curious to hear the answer and it colors my impression quite a bit.
It must be hard to be associated with SETI.

"911, what's the nature of your emergency?"

"Well, we're here at the SETI Institute, and -"

"What, SETI? Are they here? What should we send? All of it?"
Hillary Clinton just called out the economic problem of the next decade
There are questions that you can ask without getting them in legal trouble. Asking "Would you hire them again?" is a way to do this.

Also, the recipient of the call doesn't need to answer anything they don't want.

I think the bigger ethical issue is asking references who the candidate hasn't prepped. (You can hurt them if they're interviewing in confidence)
I didn't see that mentioned in the article - can you paste the precise line you mean?
Of course the first computer was a loom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
The (collection of) six sessions lasted around 8 hours.

It doesn't say that they lasted six hours each. :-)
The default SAFE docs [0] already have pro rata rights agreements in them.

[0] http://www.ycombinator.com/documents/
"If the project is behind schedule, Gigster just assigns more developers to it or fires under-performing ones so it gets done on time." - Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.
To put this in perspective, that's several engineering hires worth of equity at that stage on average.
I think the Bush essay is totally fascinating. I have never seen it before and it's amazing to think it was written such a long time ago. However, both it and the Federated Wiki both miss an important part of the how textual information is created and linked on the web, by talking about "articles". In the essay the user reads through articles and links between articles, while in wiki systems the contributors' goal is usually to build an article. IMHO the focus on creating articles is the cause of a great many problems on wiki systems, and it also influences the discussion of linking.

Taking Wikipedia as an example, readers build up an article piece by piece to create a long text article. However, much of the information inside the article can be better represented as data. Articles are rigid, and the text inside them cannot be manipulated easily. For example, instead of a long article, a biography can be represented as a timeline of events. That timeline of events (as data) can then be manipulated (filtered and sorted) by the end user to give whatever view they want. It's not just a matter of following a trail (as the Bush text says), but of collecting the information as you go.

Instead of acting as a database of facts or events, Wikipedia acts like a book (a paper encyclopedia). Sure it has interlinked pages, but that's where it stops. Because it acts like a book it seems acceptable to have its external links represented as footnotes in a reference section under the main text. Federated wiki runs into the same problem too because it's focus is also on articles -- the result of collaboration is a page that cannot act as data.

But the web is not a book and both articles and footnotes (and lack of other multimedia features) are not native to the way it functions. I think there are many better solutions to this problem than going back to footnotes. The medium is the message and solutions need to stop trying to make the web work like a book, but to make it work for the web.

I have been working on much of the above on my site. I got round the footnotes issue by placing the source link on the verbs in the text, while internal linking is handled by nouns. http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-broken-links/
I think the issue with "agile" is that, in practice, it is something different than what it claims to be.

In the field you often see an "agile" practice pasted on to an organization that doesn't really work, where most importantly there is a lack of trust between people. Instead of management making up a bullshit deadline 6 months out, thinking it will make people work harder, there is a bullshit deadline every 2 weeks and we're supposed to be "sprinting" (if any word should die it is "sprint") so somebody key is going to burn out in 6 months. The advantage of agile is that at the end of every 2 weeks they have something that will build and that sorta works, whereas often in the non-agile bad shop after the 6 month project you try to integrate the pieces and find they don't work together and before you know it you've spent 6 months figuring out how to build and deliver your product but you haven't institutionalized it in tools and documentation.
What is /r/SubredditSimulator? (and how does it work?)
We actually do not make you fill out any forms is the great thing and we do have an engine that figures out a pretty detailed cost within minutes of chatting with you. Sorry if this isn't clear! What might you be looking to build?
Intelligence officer commits suicide over HackingTeam leak
I agree entirely. I've had all those issues, and a few more: For a week until this morning, half of the UK (and a few other non-US locations) were unable to play any music at all, due to a CDN DNS issue; and starting new custom radio stations has never worked either, and still doesn't.

Both of those two issues bizarrely affected iTunes only, and not the Apple Music app on iOS.

The complete silence on product issues from Apple only adds to the frustration. That plus there doesn't seem to be a way of reporting Apple Music bugs yet, I went looking only to find iTunes Store was the only thing you could report a specific issue about.

It is such a poor product, it makes me think less of Apple generally, is this the sort of enterprise I trust to make payments? Also, this is made worse by the gap between the iOS and OS X experience, it just highlights how little focus OS X gets these days, not that it was in much doubt.

I might keep trying it occasionally until the three month trial expires, but no more than that, I'll be very surprised if this can all be fixed by then.
Nah, I move to add a bit of history in to show that the U.S.'s evil is at the root cause of a series of events that lead to the current Iran situation. I also point out that our wonderful media and educational system have worked to prevent Americans from connecting those dots when the topic of our response to Iran comes up. Americans realizing our impact on the situation might realize sanctions and Stuxnet aren't going to help us in the long-term. More debate and better ideas might happen that undermine the imperialist activities still going on in Middle East.

They certainly don't want that. Mainstream media continues to dutifully vilify Iran without context and make it look like our actions are purely self-defense against aggressive, religious nutjobs. Military and spooks continue playing games over there. Problems and potential blowback continue to add up. And so on and so forth.
>Dickey runs me through the process. “Say you want to build an Uber for pizza delivery. You get [a Gigster sales engineer] who’ll ask about the details. ‘How do you want to handle delivery?’ ‘Are you going to use your own fleet or a fleet service?’ Does it have to show exactly how long until the delivery?’ They figure out figure the budget and work schedule, and you pay with Stripe. On the backend we assemble a team for you , algorithms and people. 1 PM< 1 or more eng, and a uX UI designer. Team get started and you get weekly updates. PM is the single pout 0iof onset they take full responsibility. after 4-8 milestones and then it’s finsih and we handle maitnaencae for life. – bug fie. fi people want upgrades or additions, we price those out al a caret. IF you want to add a pizao f the day feature we say we can do that for 1k, how does that sound. All on-demand.

Did the writer have a stroke? How did this even happen?
I'm the admin for one of the rare instance of Stack behind a corporate firewall, which doesn't have votering detection - I've noticed this happening among a few co-located sprint teams. I created a d3.js Sankey Diagram to show the volume of people voting for other people and posted it on the site to let the community discuss it and it died down.
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Like what? They both benefit from the lack of GIL (Jython maybe moreso) as well as the portability and other benefits of JVM as a platform.
It's true! SV has a great brand for PM's. Customers love knowing they are working with great talent, especially with all the noise out there.
I don't know why we get dragged into these arguments. It's not natural. I strongly doubt the stress is healthy.
I think we may be reaching a point where the line between mechanical and cognitive get blurred slightly. While I feel that this falls into the mechanical end of the spectrum because I understand how the model was created, RNN's demonstrate some very fascinating emergent behaviors that will become more complex as computational power increases.

I wouldn't say that this is cognitive but it definitely learns to perform a skill in a similar fashion to intelligent beings which is remarkable. Extrapolating that behavior to self-awareness isn't likely however (of course this could lead to a philosophical debate)
Out of curiosity what did you think of findings described by the article?
Hi! A good developer can expect to make $10K - $20K per month on Gigster :) The developer also can expect to do no sales or management work on the project. You just write code on interesting projects and get paid :) Much like Uber hands drivers rides and they just have to accept them.
Linux distributions are not the worst offenders of over-complicated software. Instead, that would be Windows. Linux is there for the people who need/want to understand and manipulate their system. To a greater degree than any other system around.

No one is recommending Linux software to people who don't need or what this level of manipulations.

What I feel is the greatest abusers of these types of over-complications is Windows. I used to volunteer at a library helping elderly people (plus anyone else that needed help). No one came in with a Linux computer.

What the majority of these people came in with were Windows laptops. Laptops that were just too complicated for them to get a hand on.
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Hi Ryan,

While I have to take your word that you tell people not to ask for votes, that's not sufficient to creating a fair system without manipulation. The Product Hunt demographic is "growth hackers" and scrappy entrepreneurs who want to do anything to get their startup to succeed. These are the same people who want to "move fast and break things." The flip side of that is that they know that what they do is wrong, but they can get away with it without much consequence.

Case in point, there's a lot of meta discussion on "how to tell people to vote for your PH submission without getting flagged by the voting ring detector" (http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/36hsfc/product_hun... ) and "how to get upvotes on PH because you know an influential investor." (https://medium.com/ferris-life/zero-to-featured-how-ferris-c...).

Voting manipulation, not limited to but including voting rings, completely compromise Product Hunt mission to "find the best products." A one-liner in the FAQ will not resolve it, and I don't believe PH is doing enough to facilitate awareness and enforce that voting manipulation, in any form, is very bad.
> It was merely encouraged by the government,

Not unlike in Pulp Fiction, Jules "encouraging" Brett not to say "what" again.

> DNS hijacking certainly is not mandated by law.

As others have said already, unfortunately it is, just not for adult filtering.
I love hearing the stories about the also-rans of the computer business. Many fortunes to be made and lost back then.
It's funny how Muslims claim it's a "miracle" of Koran that it hasn't changed since it was published. Of course it hasn't changed, technology was at a point that it was possible to keep a book from forgers but publishing it heavily and also, there were many muslims trying to protect Koran from day one.

P.S. I born Muslim so I get to be critical about Islam and I think everyone should be able to do so.
Unicorn is usually used to refer to pre-ipo startups with billion dollar valuations.
It depends. I could see myself doing this as a side gig in the future if it's managed well and the price is right. That's really the rub: my current job at a major tech company pays great, if Gigster's hourly rate is significantly less than what I already make then it won't be worth it.
On the contrary, I'm considered a 'good' developer by the normal standards (education / company / title / projects / etc.) and I would consider moonlighting. I usually work another 40-50 hours a week outside of professional employment on my own projects, so doing an app or website for some extra cash once and a while isn't a stretch. I applied.
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First, brilliant idea.

Second, 10-minute guaranteed quote? Would you share with me this amazing estimate technology? I've been at it for 10+ years, having helped build a popular website from the ground up and can't estimate the dev time of project with that kind of conviction given 10 hours.
A short history on “the cloud”
Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics coming next month
Gigster was actually designed from the freelancer's perspective first - no bidding, no interfacing with customers all specs are in a standard format, reliable/regular payments, etc. I don't know of a better place to freelance.
For things like Rails, that are going to be running all the time, does the JVM warm up time really matter?
I think the downvotes are due to the fact that we haven't seen any evidence of actual racism or sexism in the tech industry. We see lots of stories like this where it seems open to interpretation.

And yes, I myself have some personal experience of real racism. If this is the worst that is happening in the tech space then things are pretty good.

Anyway, this is an important topic, so if you do have any experiences with racism/sexism it would be good to write an article or blog post about it.
Not really seeing how this is anything more than a fancy outsourcing company. Yes, they can say "We're different because we have the best developers," but really, lots of outsourcing companies say that.
If you feel insulted by a link and an animation leading to helpful information then the problem isn't with the link and the animation.
Now it becomes a true loopback
"Archaic" Austronesians, Malays, Polyesians, etc, were remarkable sea-goers. Not only did they populate Madagascar from Borneo, it now appears that they populated South America as well... mind boggling.

Previous data on the matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Migraciones_austronesias....
Exactly. Ubuntu is the worst offender of nix based "Easy" systems. By trying to make an uncomplicated system, they have instead done exactly what all these other cr*py systems have done. Made things more complicated.