jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Good basic outline. It's too bad the difficult part of incorporating is the upkeep of accounting, taxes and everything else that goes with it. I too spent a couple hundred to incorporate, but thousands for the CPA, bookeeper, lawyers, etc.. to keep you in check. My startup is up to 11 employees though.

If it's just you or you and a friend starting something basic, a local business attorney should be able to keep you in check for $100-$150 an hour a few times a year. Early on I actually found some local contests for startups and won $4,000 in attorneys fees once, and once I got bigger applied for another one and received $10,000 in fee credit.

Look around, there are lots of people willing to help young startups. Offer to use an attorney on deferred payment status until you close at least a $1MM series A or have $1MM in revenue. From my personal experience many will do this for the chance at having you as a longtime client when you make it big.

Good luck!
Which is how much? I wanted you to try and quantify the difference, because the process of doing so would lead to the flaw in your argument.

The hash table solution is O(n+m). 24 operations on the example. The array solution is O(n+m) and 24 operations. The same.

Your intuition tells you that the array is faster because subconsciously you're making assumptions about implementation details. What if you're in a language like PHP where arrays are implemented as hash tables? What if you're in C, but the hash table implementation uses a resizable array and happens to choose an initial size of 26?
But that's more because no one dared to try and actually fix Btrfs parity raid.
Misaligned incentives causing lack of funding for something as flexible and generally resilient as Btrfs.
I believe Andreas does $5 bounties
The problem here is "the bigger picture". The security guard can improve his heuristic by studying criminology (or rather just talking to other security guards who have been robbed).

what sounds were made, are sounds of the wind different to breaking glass? Have burglaries been on the increase lately? When did he last check the car park was there a suspicious car there?

What I am trying to say is that each of the examples given is really just a strawman - in each case looking for more data - you can spot truth in the data
Acer 720p Chromebook. Install Codestarter's Ubuntu package (https://github.com/codestarterorg/ubuntu-chromebook-installe...) and add more SSD Space (http://www.androidcentral.com/how-upgrade-ssd-your-acer-c720...)

Best laptop I've ever owned.
Train some machine learning model for anomaly detection, and send those to a human for final investigation/action.
LaserBlast dedication page:

https://laserblast.neocities.org/
I'm a little surprised that no one's caught on to the real business model behind Cheezburger Network.

What they're doing is pretty clever. It's more than just a bunch of silly captions under photos of cats. They're building a system that capitalizes on Internet memes that can be presented in a blog-like fashion.[1]

That, to me, is a mark of a potentially sustainable business model. To break it down in more detail:

a) They monitor Internet memes

b) They evaluate which ones are worthy of a trial run

c) They launch a site around it

d) They assess that site's success (using whatever metrics they've discovered are important, such as PVs and unique visitors for advertisers)

e) They pull the plug if the trial is not successful

It's not a new business model, but it's a clever one that's obviously working. I'm particularly impressed that they're aiming to launch a site every week, and kill only 20% of those experiments. I wonder if that number is low.

That's why they're more than just a WordPress blog with cats on it.

[1] The similarities to a blog are probably incidental. I imagine they basically want a way to display recent user-generated entries and allow other users to comment on them. A blogging system naturally satisfies these attributes. Otherwise, I don't think they necessarily need their sites to look like blogs, per se.
Somebody will own those robots and their output. Either robot owners will have to give away goods, or the government will have to forcibly redistribute it for your conclusion to hold. I actually don't think either of those are very unlikely, but it's still going to be a major change that makes the current political discourse about "socialism" seem quite trivial.
I am a co-founder in a startup (Fablo, http://fablo.pl/) that does exactly that. In order not to get wiped out by Google the day they decide to give that functionality away for free, we decided to specialize on E-commerce search, particularly in inflected languages, which is a much harder task than searching English.
Droid and Nexus were widely praised for their displays, the displays were mentioned whenever anyone wrote anything about the phones.

Seeing how the iPhone now has a substantially higher resolution and a ISP screen, it getting praise seems to me to be pretty normal.
How is this better than just using Google Maps, or Places-like apps to find local businesses nearby?
if the warlords, after having gotten billions of dollars of aid from the US and tens of thousands of western soldiers helping them, still haven't been able to defeat the Taliban, how large must the disparity be

I don't think that's a fair statement. "Defeating" the Taliban, which are basically an insurgency, in a country twice the size of Germany and filled with mountains and deserts, takes a lot more than military skill or firepower. I think that the military skill is in fact secondary in that battle. The political skill is far more important. As long as the Taliban are effective in convincing local farmers to support them, they'll be there, no matter how skilled the handful of soldiers on the other side.
I'm not sure from what standpoint, exactly, Objective C isn't a "real" language.
So, in order to do the 'right' thing, we have to make you a counter offer? Is that how this works?

Everyone! Mail me money so I don't have to enable murder!
Not quite. Even if the plane had zero ground speed, and the Iknonos were offsetting the four images to account for its own motion, the effect would still appear. That's because the offsets that align features on the ground will not be the same offsets that align features on a nearer plane (no pun intended), due to parallax.
Matthew Somerville has done a bunch of cool stuff as well as this:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/
Just this weekend I stumbled onto his site again when wanting to know where the nearest postbox to my new flat is.

Incidentally there is an official "real time map":
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/im/RD-T.html
It's less cool, but actually tells you at a glance what you really want to know: where disruptions are.
I called my dad but he didn't sound particularly happy. Oh well.
I highly recommend watching. If you are unfamiliar or put off by Gary V's demeanor, give him a chance. His character is part of why his wine review show is so successful. He is a successful, tenacious entrepreneur. His thoughts presented here are valid and insightful.

FYI, there is some coarse language though.
I'm doing almost the same thing!

Homeless for a year (at least): living in 12 countries for one month each, staying mostly at places found on airbnb.com. (Staying in each place for one month each.)

Currently in Amsterdam at this place: http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/23023

Sitting on that red couch writing all day. Everything I own in one suitcase upstairs. (Except my bike, outside.)

I love it. Thanks airbnb. :-)
Personally, I'd be more okay with the fact this dude was posting some code on github had he properly credited the original author and posted a link to the original project. IMO he probably should have also asked for permission to post the author's code in the first place.

I can't say whether or not he made changes to the codebase, but it's just plain wrong that he goes about crediting himself as the author when the truth is he probably contributed a very small amount to an already functional program.
Since I use Xmonad as my window manager, I'm rather invested in you elaborating on Xmonad being "fairly buggy". Should I worry about my data?
'Proofs and refutations' is a fantastic book about the process of mathematical exploration, whose primary worked example ('What is a polytope? And what does Euler's Formula mean?') ends up being a non-obvious translation of geometry into linear algebra. It's a really wonderful read, and will give a bit of a sense of how mathematicians think about linear algebra, in a way that most textbooks don't.
If the gov only blocked google service like gmail, we can use vpn to access gmail from China.

But the most horrible thing happen last few weeks: companies(include email providers) in china can't send email to gmail, this recovered after few days, but I think the gov have the power to block this forvever. companies can may fix this by many technology, but the real problem is companies can't against the orders from gov.

You can imagine one day you can't recevie emails sent from china; include verification emails/password recovery emails for lots of your accounts registered with gmail.
Makes me feel guilty. I've been putting off a free MRI (Canada) for over a month because I'm essentially too lazy to go up the street to have it done. Knowing there is likely people who would work a long time to have it done, and probably need it more than me is a good kick in the butt.
If you're interested in this sort of stuff, I highly recommend Steven Levy's 'Crypto', which documents the rise and fall of the Clipper Chip, as well as the release of Zimmerman's PGP software amid the crafting of Biden's legislation. I read it a few months ago and was struck by how relevant it still is. Little did I know...
To buyers who had placed orders way lower than what the stock was worth.
Cancelling LinkedIn is super easy. I have a procmail entry that cans any mail from LinkedIn; I don’t have an account with them; and I have an entry in my hosts file that removes them from the internet for me.

But your story is disturbing. How might it have happened, technically speaking?
It's now an odd thing to recommend reading the source code to a skeptic on a tech site that focuses on software development? You've come to the wrong place if you believe that reading the comments section will be more informative than studying the software artifact being discussed.

You and the OP commit a category error in thinking that transactions contribute to Bitcoin's energy expenditure. Transactions are no more a source of Bitcoin's energy usage than solar panels are a source of the Sun's energy usage. The sun produces energy on a schedule that is independent of the number of solar panels around to collect it. Similarly, Bitcoin consumes energy on a schedule that is independent of the number of transactions around to be mined.
I credit beej to my first serious job. I worked through the network and concurrency guides and landed the job that started me off on my career. Thanks Beej! Please keep it up :D
The root problem here is the notion that you need to choose between "strong and slow" randomness vs. "weak and fast" randomness. If every language's random() was strong and fast, most developers would never have to think about it.

"Strong" randomness is often too slow because every time you ask for new entropy, you make a syscall. The solution is to use 32 bytes of strong randomness to seed a userspace CSPRNG. You can generate gigabytes of secure entropy per second in userspace. If you need deterministic entropy, just use the same seed.

This isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, of course. If you only need to generate a few keys now and then, it's marginally safer to make a separate syscall for each of them. If you're targeting some tiny SoC, then sure, use xorshift instead. But what we care about is the common case, and right now the common case is a developer choosing the weak, deterministic RNG because it's faster and has a more convenient API and the secure RNG says "for cryptographic purposes" and well this usecase doesn't seem like cryptography, it's just a simple load balancer...

That decision should never need to be made.
How are Teslas eco-friendly? I had to get a lower panel near the bottom of the door replaced, and they literally had to take apart the entire car. Literally my backseats and front seat were taken out just to get to this piece.

Teslas are about as eco friendly to repair as iPhones, which is not friendly at all.
Really too bad that after another minor version, I'm still seeing:

Warning: can't set `control_brace_style = ClosingNextLine`, unstable features are only available in nightly channel.

It seems like a trivial and desirable feature but it's only been available in nightly for over a year now. The poor (and rigidly enforced) default on this same issue was why I ripped prettier out of every project I work on.

Also, I don't know how hard it is to contribute to this kind of issue, but I'm glad to put in some time (with my still newbie level of Rust skills) if that can help resolve it.
I know, but that is reason for suspicion, not evidence for a conviction.
Yeah, so I'd write just as much (or likely more) C code to interface with the library and BEAM as just writing the implementation in C.
Tell them that you're really focused on customer development or building product right now (which I'm sure you are anyway) and that you'll reach out to them later ahead of fundraising. You don't owe them anything!
I think you're too suspicious in the case of developers reviewing books. There's just no where near enough upside in Amazon affiliate money, compared to what people in our profession make normally, for anyone to ruin their credibility with bogus reviews to drive affiliate link traffic.
Just viewing the ad will subtly affect us all, however 'immune' we think we are. If anything, the ads will enhance brand recognition...
I was expecting the Landsat images to be something like satellite view in Google maps. I realize that close-up views in Google maps are collected by airplanes, not satellites. I'm not expecting to see individual cars and houses in the Landsat images, but the images I looked at were very disappointing.

The ones I downloaded were TIFF files, 8k x 8k (or sometimes 16k x 16k), 16-bit grayscale, covering large areas (~100km square), and if I zoomed-in the image quickly became blurry.

With photos that I take with a digital camera that are only 2k x 2k, I can zoom in quite a lot and see a lot of detail. The Landsat images seem to be much larger than they need to be for the level of detail they provide.

EDIT: To give an example, here's San Francisco that I zoomed-in on and cropped:

http://imgur.com/IoRFgCu

You can see that zooming more will not make it better. Is that the best we get from Landsat?

Also, why does the download contain a dozen files (named xxxB1.TIF, xxxB2.TIF, xxxB3.TIF, etc.) that seem to cover the same area?
The API specifies how to poll once and use the streaming data feed to keep an accurate state of the order book on the client side.

So it's not really a polled API, for serious clients.
> I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)

Probably closer to training than fighting. It may also be close to whatever sport they made of it back in the day.

I'm comparing modern day martial arts. Pretty much all training and sport.
Parsimony.
I think that what should happen is that the courts will use the same rules in slander cases for facial recognition of photos: if it hurts you, and you're not a public person, then you just need to prove that they caused you pain in whatever form (financial, legal, physical, etc.).
If you're a public person, (i.e. celebrity, elected gov't official), then you need to prove malice on behalf of the people who hurt you.

At least, that's how I hope the courts will treat these issues.
"If they can kill it, others can too."

Cryptographic science is mature enough to provide a robust solution to that problem.
Perhaps this is something they can get a micro-volunteer to help them with.
I find that attack awesome in the true sense of the word, I am in awe.
The issue of it not being free is part of it, but there are some other reasons as well:

-Not built in - python is included by default on all major Linux distros and OSX, as well.

-Interpreted languages have instant gratification, which is helpful in encouraging beginners.

-C# isn't often used for web programming, which many people on HN are focused on.

And you do have a good point; once you start, you become miles ahead of never learning anything about programming.
Pricing without knowing what you are selling is hard, but I guess you are charging too little.
Yes, she has probably been reading too much Deepak Chopra - but the comments saying things like "scientists should keep that kind of sloppy thinking to themselves" seem to be off the mark in the other direction.

If a serious researcher, like she's trying to be, has an idea that there may be even a slight chance something amazing might be happening, they should talk to everyone she knows in the field - not keep it to herself.

If a journal is willing to publish - it must have past some muster. It's not like this is going to clutter the field.

Most of the amazing ideas in science where heretical in their time (even to other scientists) - we should encourage this type of thinking in science instead of encouraging only those unwilling to take any risks.
One thing I've been doing is working on a fun side project. (I'm currently building software for a new business, and I would never work on that during office hours -- FYI). However, I found another cool idea for the guys in my office to use, so when I need to get off the problem I'm working on, I typically work on my little utility for a bit. Helps me clear my head and it still looks like I'm coding -- because I am.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted either, but I suspect it's because you weren't very nice in your (very true) presentation of the pitfalls of using C# as a general purpose, learning language. Many people on HN don't respond well to anything that sounds angry, I've found (through being thoroughly downvoted myself).
Thanks for the reply. That explains about the submissions.

What happened to my latest comments on the following threads which are not showing up for others?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041547

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038590

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038732

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038079
If they had put it there themselves, I'd agree with you. They haven't. They have an automated system that accepts content from users.

Vimeo from conception made an ethical stand to get rid of all content that wasn't directly uploaded by the creator.

YouTube from conception decided to not only allow but to itself seed the network with content that its submitters didn't create.

YouTube ended up having more content than Vimeo and thus more users even though Vimeo was first to market and had a much better product and user experience.

YouTube won because it decided to ignore the ethics of distributing content that it had no rights to.

They were from the very beginning and still remain an unethical company when it comes to profiting from other people's copyrights.

Bear in mind that there is not and is unlikely to ever be any kind of system that can determine what color your bits are with any kind of reliability.

There are many forms of smart contracts and decentralized digital asset management systems that could be utilized to create an open platform for publishing and claiming ownership over digital goods. All it takes is software willing to opt-in to these contracts and people who would rather use an honest system over a dishonest system.

Systems that subsidize the storing and distribution of digital media with advertisements never allow for the creators to have any power in the conversation about their digital rights. They just get blanket contracts written by the largest rights-holders.

YouTube is designed for consumers and not producers. It is in the DNA of the product. It can't be removed. It will be its undoing.
The plans listed on that page are:

Storage / Transfer / Price

10MB / 100MB / Free

300GB / Unlimited / $20

400GB / Unlimited / $40

500GB / Unlimited / $80

You must realize that these are absolutely NOT true commercial offerings. They don't even list what your commit bandwidth is!

Also you can't run your own applications there! Do you really think Netflix runs off of a shared server like this? They're a HUGE AWS customer running many thousands of VMs. How do you access control things, how do you deploy your code, how do you do basically ANYTHING with this offering from Comcast? I suspect that you don't.

Here are some legitimate commercial offerings: http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated

If you notice, they have a page dedicated to their network. What familiar names do we find on this page? Cogent and Level3! http://www.hostgator.com/network

Notice that there is no mention ANYWHERE of ANY COMPANY that might even a LITTLE BIT be considered a consumer ISP. Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Cox, etc, none of them are mentioned.
Not really. Several studies show people who perform in these ways are disliked heavily by their peers it.
In cases like this, being "handed a legacy system [with] no idea what the code does" is already a red flag. I've developed on plenty of legacy systems and the ones that went the best were the ones where I was given time to become familiar with the code first. Preferably with the going-out developer still around.

The fact that POs and stakeholders don't try to protect this knowledge exchange, and often see it as unproductive, is a major problem in our industry.
The Python Software Foundation ordinarily raises funds via PyCon sponsorship, but PyCon was online last year and this year and who knows about next year, so in-person booths are much less valuable. Therefore, the PSF has been trying to switch to direct sponsorship. Google has been sponsoring PyCon at a high level for a long time.

Also, Google uses Python heavily and employs at least one Python core dev off the top of my head (almost certainly quite a few more), so there are engineers there with a sense of the PSF's finances and enough seniority to influence folks who decide on donations.

That's the most obvious angle to explain this. It's a strategic investment - Google cares about Python and they know the PSF needs money.
I find the design minimalist, not boring or infantile.
I would argue that the accessibility of seeing these magnificent creatures in a SeaWorld or equivalent has done a lot to help the environment by educating people and making them familiar with something precious. Children who visit zoos and aquariums cherish the animal kingdom and grow up supporting environmental protections. Yes it is terrible for the affected orcas given how social they are - but I am not sure I agree the whole practice is a net negative.
Stocking one's mouth with many, though, not.
Vegetable artillery.
It appears that when you wrote:

> Ah, global cooling - the conveniently forgotten scientific consensus

you said it thinking it is essentially meaningless.

Obviously everything that you and I have written can be viewed through the same lens of manipulation.

There is therefore no point in continuing. I'll leave with a pointer to Asimov, who was writing about global warming since at least the early 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6tSYRY90PA&feature=youtu.be .
This is debatable I think
Does anyone else remember those amazingly epic flash sites? I even learned Flash 3 because of those... wow...

- http://www.thefwa.com/flash10/gabo.html
- http://www.eye4u.com/home/

There are others (manoone) but I can't find archived copies.
Here's a link to the non-mobile version:

http://www.rferl.org/content/how-to-guide-russian-trolling-t...
http://www.lousycanuck.ca/wp-content/uploads/atheist_chart.g...