skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like in this case there is relatively objective evidence. I agree this is super tricky, but I don't think it has much to do with "he said she said".

I believe the core issue here is that the bad actor has so much clout he cannot be held accountable by anyone involved. I would expect the problem to generalize to way more than just conferences.
Interestingly, I found what caused the false-negative. If I used Vim to create the file, it was picked up. If I "echo ...EICAR > text.txt" it doesn't get picked up, at least not immediately!
Their site says '550+'. From the sound of it, this battery would not be suited to running a winch for more than a quick pull.
Your argument actually supports my argument. Yeah that's why the expression is "looks like a bad idea", not "it is a bad idea". It looks like a bad idea to others, but not to the founders because the founders obviously know (or believe) something that others don't. Otherwise, if the founders were working on something even they thought was a bad idea, that would be an idiot.
This is a brilliant point. If you look at Amazon and their radical expansion in the South Lake Union district (down-town Seattle) and the commuting capacity problems that creates - One wonders why they don't base satellite offices on the east side of Seattle (Redmond, Bellevue where Microsoft is) and give employees that option.

I think for large companies this is an excellent alternative and solves the problem where employees can't telecommute because of sensitive IP or security clearance.
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So essentially you are sacrificing your end result for an easier time for yourself, the developer.
I remember Squeak used to have a bunch of different window colors for different tools, which always made Squeak look like a toy unfit for serious work.

I downloaded the latest, and now there seems to be uniformity in the UI, with a single window style for all tools. It looks like Pharo has pushed them in the right direction.
> Sony (which has been coming out with some wickedly cool and innovative digital cameras and certainly worked its way up to become a huge digital camera company) is not an analoge camera company

It's not, but it did buy one of the (fading) high-end camera businesses to get access to an SLR system and lens portfolio that they used grant them the credibility they needed to base their current charge on.
>You joke, but trading on insider information means revealing that information.

Are you joking here? Let's say, hypothetically, Apple CEO buys a lot of stock today. When you learned that fact, did you learn the facts that motivated him to buy the stock? NO. Absolutely, purely, unarguably NO. Not unless you spoke to him directly and he told you.... truthfully.

This is not a joke. The NSA, or any spy, having access to "all" digital information, can easily differentiate between false and true information, or at least have the opportunity. But you, as an individual, can only act on what is shared directly with you. Making trades does not share any information beyond the fact that the trade was made.
> I feel like I'm sort of reaching into the computer's inner world and fiddling with things

That's what I didn't like when I was playing with smalltalk in school (in '87)
This case seems very clear but what is the more general protocol?
Kickstarter has really helped hardware startups but we need more innovation.
Yeah, those are good times. SF sucks transit-wise because Caltrain (SF to South Bay) stops at midnight. BART stops around the same time too. Heck, in NYC many events don't even start until 10 pm.

Every evening transit trip to SF (if you live in the south bay) results in end-of-day stress of trying to make the last train home if you don't have overnight accommodations. Not to mention the full South Bay route takes 90 minutes (to go 40 miles!), so you leave at midnight SF and arrive at 1:30 am San Jose.
I've watched that lecture a couple times and never even thought what he was doing was bad until you called him out for it. And even still, I think he handled it very well.

I've seen people ask questions to try to get recognition in groups, and when they don't get it, they childishly leave the meeting.

This was a moment where I gained a lot of respect for Dave McClure: https://youtu.be/25TxrhsXFvs?t=46m14s

I've had 4 different choir directors through my life. The best was a man in high school that would get angry, throw his baton down, and walk out (of band). Never saw him do that in choir but I heard about it. He demanded that we were focused. In the select choir, all members were required to perform solos. I wasn't ready for mine, but he still forced me to do it (he refused to continue class until I sang). He was, beyond comparison, a better director than the others and the choir showed it.

Going back to Paul Graham, even if he didn't handle that as well as you think he should have, his overall personality certainly makes up for it. Anyway, it's good to see that he'll be honest and you can trust him to do that.
Absolutely. It strikes me as odd that these days it is not only acceptable, but encouraged as a virtue, for developers to focus on making their own jobs easier as opposed to delivering a good (fast and efficient, among other things) product.
Disclaimer, it's my project, but I run an open source project called deeplearning4j, who's algorithms have a hardware abstraction layer built in to them called nd4j. You get numpy on the jvm and hardware as a jar file. Deeplearning4j itself is built on top of that. Would love to help spread deep learning to different runtimes.

Here's the current work being done on opencl:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/tree/master/nd4j-jocl...

We'd love to get this finished. Bit more to do yet though...definitely looking for contributors here. You'll get opencl neural nets for free.
Letting Computers Choose Which Startups to Invest In
Building maintainable step-by-step tutorials with Git
How to Install Nginx on Debian 8
Cooking oil fumes (not smoke) are toxic as well.

Butter in cast iron is toxic at 260 degrees. Teflon isn't toxic until 280 degrees.

Check out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4723395

> Abstract: Japanese quail and parakeets were exposed to the pyrolysis products of: (1) commercial fry pans coated with Teflon® finish, (2) plastic fry pan handles, (3) corn oil, and (4) butter. Other materials used in the test were commercial aluminum fry pans and cast iron fry pans. A four-hour Approximate Lethal Temperature (ALT) was determined for each test material for each specie. All products tested were lethal to Japanese quail with ALT's ranging from 260° C for butter in cast iron to 370 °C for a plastic handle in a glass container. The ALT for a fry pan coated with Teflon® finish was 330°C. All products were also lethal to parakeets with ALT's of 260°C for both the pan coated with Teflon® finish plus butter and the cast iron pan plus butter. The ALT for a fry pan coated with Teflon® finish was 280°C.
He's not including inflation. The S&P 500 achieves that. Vanguard total stock market does better.
> Minimizing and storing nuclear waste are the far greater challenges than just running the plants.

Yes, but they are political challenges, not engineering challenges. It's well-known how to keep nuclear waste secure for the length of time one should reasonably care about. Keeping, say, Congress from killing the storage facility due to anti-nuclear ignorance is what needs to be overcome here.

But that being said, "ignorant people are preventing this problem from being solved" is not an argument against solving the problem, it's an argument in favor of educating and convincing the people.
Neat. I'm a regular Sage user, and this seems to be an interesting tool for when I don't require the full power of that tool and just need to make some quick calculations.
Huge explosions in China's Tianjin port area kill 17, hurt 400
> I guess that depends on what you think the value-add is of offices versus remote working.

Right, which I think is a calculation people need to take seriously. There are real benefits and trade-offs on either side and articles arguing that one is uniformly better than the other always come across as terribly misguided to me.

The physical and social environment that a social animal like a human spends the majority of their waking day in has a profound impact on almost every aspect of their lives. We should be thoughtful about how we arrange it.
Haha, I'm pretty sure tweets and DMs have been recently moved out of MySQL, although AFAIK the social graph is still there.
As far as cable companies go, they're kinda low on the telephony totem pole anyway. Probably best to ditch them and go with AT&T/Frontier/whoever your local phone company is.
It does list itself as "extreme temperature tolerant" and suitable for snowmobiles. And to be honest, a 2 year warranty from a long-established company is worth more to me than a 7-year warranty from a company founded this year that could be gone next year, no offense.

Just trying to share some of the challenges you face.
So it does algebras and geometrys too?
Taxing used property in dense areas would likely just increase the costs further, although I assume that might be intended in the long run to push for more use of vertical space.

More useful would be a tax which increases the longer a vacancy exists on unused lots, vacant or secondary apartments/housing, and property sales that have been unsold for X number of days.

Real estate speculation and housing as financial instruments are basically contemporary feudalism.
Yeah, igraph's visualizations aren't perfect. I've explored using d3 a bit in some of my other work (e.g. http://markallenthornton.com/blog/price-of-flavor/). It's great for interactive graphs, but it starts to tax the browser pretty heavily for larger ones (though perhaps that's just my poor coding). Thanks for the visNetwork suggestion - I'll have to check that out!
GitLab we always talk about GitLab the company and GitLab the project as separate things. This because the open source project is bigger than the company. Hopefully this helps us keep thinking like a project.
So:

In the writer's own words, she did not respond honestly to his advances as she hoped to advance her career through his acquaintance:

> While I tried to politely decline his advances, he was in a position of power over me in this industry. He said he knew my bosses, he knew where I worked, and he promised he’d help advance my career. I felt it best to stay in his “good graces” and not be flat out rude.

She did finally realize her mistake:

> I now understand how wrong this dynamic is.

And responded as she should have first. With the result that he stopped pestering her:

> We haven’t spoken for over a year, as the last time I saw him I finally had the courage and support system to be direct, cold, and tell him to leave me alone.

In my book, the guy's a bit of a thickie and a more than a little creepy. Eww. But she, by her explicit admission, did not let him know his advances were unwanted in a "direct, cold" way because SHE HOPED TO GAIN FINANCIALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY BY DOING SO.

In a nutshell: He clumsily tried to get laid and she strung him along for what she could get out of him.

Eww.

Running book on how long that post stays up before she edits it.
The people interested in that sort of thing left for Pharo long ago. The Pharo platform seems much more practically-minded, and the website has some case studies of businesses built using it: http://pharo.org/success
Just recieved today a cactus micro rev.2 .
Arduino+wifi+recognized as mouse/keyboard.

Pretty crazy little board.
I have no problem with he said/she said, because I am willing to take a woman at her word when she says "he harassed me".

On the extremely rare occasions I've heard of men complaining of being raped by women, I don't think I've ever heard anyone dismissing his complaint as she said/he said.
Agreed. I've been gaming for about 30 years, and Crash Bandicoot is one of the games that stands-out as best-all-around for its time. It's really hard to convey how good the game looked in '96, and the gameplay was just fun.

The combination of ahead-of-its-time graphics with really fun gameplay is rare, particularly after the 80s.
She turned him down, and you're saying she didn't turn him down firmly enough, and did so to string him along? Why does that sound like a variation on "she was asking for it, she didn't fight back hard enough" or any other kind of victim-blaming?
Check out Concrete5 - I haven't used it for a few years, but it worked pretty well for exactly that kind of use case for me a few years back.
There's a double standard for women in many jobs, even in the most bike friendly city in the US, as a biker I've observed most of my fellow commuters are men. Its easier for me as there's less expectations placed on my appearance. I put on a fresh set of clothes, a hat and I'm good to go. I'm lucky I live where biking is easy, working a non-client facing job, as male and a company with an indoor bike rack and shower.
Walking to Excelsior? Are you joking? I work in SoMA and live in Excelsior, and it takes me half an hour to bike each way. And I'm a relatively fast biker, in a good location with major roads near my house. Most of Excelsior is narrow roads on steep hills. Parking is one of my less favorite activities there.

Bayview is not very pleasant. My friend's home was burglarized. My brother was mugged and his G1 stolen, back when that was the only Android phone. There are noisy trains and a smelly sewage treatment plant. There are reasons people aspire not to live there.
And something that you suspect (or even of which you are convinced) but can't prove is a decent starting place for trying to find the data to prove or refute it.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0002889738506828

Exposure of Japanese Quail and Parakeets to the Pyrolysis Products of Fry Pans Coated with Teflon® and Common Cooking Oils

Lethal temperature:

butter: 260°C/500°F

Teflon: 330°C/626°F

plastic handle: 370°C/698°F
Personally I'd suggest the cities getting Google Fiber. Having lived in Kansas City, I think it's in a ripe position to foster a solid startup community, while still having a pretty solid nightlife, great restaurants, walkable neighborhoods, a many-nonstop-destinations airport, and an incredibly low cost-of-living.

Existing startup community can be found mostly via http://siliconprairienews.com/ or incubators like http://betablox.com/
There are several fundamental reasons why it's incredibly difficult to optimize a Plutonium breeding reactor for anything other than Plutonium production. Which makes it an incredibly poor choice for safe, cost-effective power generation, and increases the proliferation risks immensely.
DropBox fit that category. It was a solved problem for the people on HackerNews. "Oh we already have rsync for that". They had a very critical reaction here, most people thought the idea didn't have any value, but now look at where they are.

I also think that back when Amazon started, a lot of people laughed at the idea of selling books online. In fact for many, many years with Amazon making huge losses people predicted they would fail.

But I agree there are always exception to the rule. The question, I suppose, is which one is the rule?
You didn't look very hard.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0002889738506828

Exposure of Japanese Quail and Parakeets to the Pyrolysis Products of Fry Pans Coated with Teflon® and Common Cooking Oils

Lethal temperature:

butter: 260°C/500°F

Teflon: 330°C/626°F

plastic handle: 370°C/698°F
Be sure to check the origin/return address before you blame the Economist.

I receive multiple Economist spam emails a day, and none of them are from <>@economist.com, or a marketing firm. The TLDs alone give them away: <>@<>.faith, <>@<>.date, and so on.
The links in the emails also go to the odd TLDs or to clearly bogus domains.
Understanding time and relativity: “Tempus Fugit”
"The author doesn't seem to get this - if remote workers were so amazing, and had been so amazing in practice, companies would use them more."

A nice idea in theory but it doesn't hold up in practice. In fact the entire premise of startups is that large companies are run incredibly inefficiently and get stuck in local optima.

Managers typically stick to known practices and rarely experiment unless they are forced to or there are clear personal benefits. It is very difficult to move against entrenched corporate culture and pretty much nobody does it "for the company".
I find these assembly demos that rely largely upon system calls lacking. I know much stuff cannot be done without system calls, but there's got to be a better "Hello, World" for assembly.
You're sacrificing performance, not the end result. However, a lot of the performance tricks do carry over (such as object pooling for example.)

But for 99% of the web this doesn't matter at all. I'll take declarative over imperative any day if it means I can spend the saved time polishing the product instead of debugging or optimizing.

You have no idea the amount of debugging and optimizing which goes into developing a video game. Having worked on both I can say time spent debugging/optimizing is at least an order of magnitude more than for web applications. Its much worse when you're using an in-house engine as well.
That is also the promise of nuclear breeder reactors, an ability to turn natural uranium into nuclear fuel, which will increase the availability of fuel by over 100 times. If you also consider thorium cycles, multiply by 4.

Nuclear is a huge and yet untapped energy source, which is unlikely to be depleted even with constant annual increased demand. Nuclear is more feasible at least up to the point we start to cover non-trivial percentages of the planet in solar panels.
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I'm a male that's been raped before, and I've told maybe 5 people. And the reaction was very supportive from all but one of them. Interestingly enough, the four supportive point of views were from women, and the one "oh you're just lying to try and find an excuse for cheating" was from a man.

YMMV
Goldman Sachs open-sources its trading technologies (for clients)
Fukushima was a half-century old design that was hit with a record breaking natural disaster and yet despite all that the disaster has resulted in a remarkable lack of death and catastrophe. Meanwhile, other methods of power generation continue to kill people by the wagon load every day and nobody seems to care much because we're comfortable with those ways of dying whereas we're creeped out about the spookiness of radiation.
You bring up a very good point about the rent "alternative" not leaving much space for savings; particularly these days. I was able to rent a 2bdr house in a very desirable location for $2k in 2011, but by 2014 when I bought a house, this was considered at least $1k under market value (even though they never raised the rent). And, of course, 3 years isn't really enough time to save for a down payment!

If 1/3 is $4000, that leaves $8000 to pay taxes (call it 2400 on 12k/mo), which leaves $5600/mo to live off of. I could deal with that.
Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws
That may not have been the kindest way to make his point but if that was my benchmark to determine whether or not I interact with someone, I would never talk to anybody.
I'm not angry, I'm saddened that you are going to destroy the only functioning distributed consensus because you can't see that the ecosystem is already bleeding under the weight.
"AAA" doesn't mean "very successful." It is a category for the games with the very highest development and advertising budgets. Minecraft was built and released with near-zero budget and is, therefore, not a AAA game.
Lead is also pretty bad for people. From some research on Wikipedia and with GNU units, an adult can get clinically significant lead poisoning by absorbing about half a milligram of lead into their bloodstream. (You would have to eat, breathe, or touch more than that in order to get it into the blood.)

If you took all of that non-recycled car battery lead waste and distributed it evenly across the whole U.S. population, you would have 6 orders of magnitude more than the absorbed dose required to give everyone in the country clinical lead poisoning.

(Obviously most of that waste has no likelihood of being absorbed into someone's body, so this calculation isn't necessarily that meaningful.)
I know! (I didn’t mention it because my comment was getting long enough already.) It seems if you can’t sell to the low end you absolutely need to show off your analog film chops in some way to be really taken seriously. Or at least you had to. (I mean, Sony’s current cameras are certainly thoroughly modern and you can’t really accuse them of nostalgia.)
No PMI on jumbo loans. They just require cash reserves. (which, yes, is more money on top of what you have to put down, but there's no requirement that you not spend it once you close). So take that $200k, put down 100, and keep the rest in the bank.
Can we get a leaderboard for "libraries sucking in all the crap"? :)
This could be so much easier if Microsoft hadn't f---ed up their Bluetooth Low Energy implementation in Windows.

BLE is a much better fit for a lot of these applications than WiFi, but by forcing users to deal with pairing, Microsoft has completely blown off its biggest advantage. Very frustrating from a device maker's point of view, and consumers literally don't know what they're missing.
Perfectly legitimate answer. Most importantly you're wasting pg's time w/ that question, but also important you're wasting other people's time who are interested in learning about startups, not about economics.
So we'll be able to use Twitter DMs as data storage?
What would a "better" "Hello, World" for assembly look like?
> Does a limo service as a startup idea

Does a mobile optimized, GPS optimized, delivery service startup idea sound good to you?

Uber didn't solve the car service problem, they solved the getting you in a car right now problem.

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

edit: further reading suggests my comment is more or less in line with the parent's point - call it a wash :)
No, you're missing the point. The idea was obvious to plenty of others (Box in the case of Dropbox, Lyft/Sidecar in the case of Uber).

The difference for Uber was that they were able to raise an enormous amount of funding, then use it to subsidize their service to the hilt while expanding to as many locales as possible. It's still not clear that the business is sustainable: http://gawker.com/here-are-the-internal-documents-that-prove...

In the case of Dropbox, they just eschewed profitability and instead pursued consumer traction, whereas Box pivoted to enterprise. And it's still not clear that Dropbox is a better company than Box, especially if Box can get its CAC under control. After all, most people are using Dropbox for free, which is one reason Box pivoted to enterprise: http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-grow...

The differentiating factor between the founding teams wasn't knowledge of some secret, but the social capital needed to raise the financial capital to run a lossmaking business for years on end.
Maybe not his nicest moment, but really? that's the worst you've got? That leads me to think he's pretty awesome without the filter on.
Brett Victor's reactive documents http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/, may not be seminal but good nevertheless.

It should be noted that this kind of thing has been available in Mathematica, ipython etc. for literally decades.

Not that the tool is not great, it is.
> I don't know if the editor changed after 2004, but me and many other readers have the feeling that after 2004-5 the quality dropped incrementally.

Bill Emmott resigned as editor in February 2006.
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Even if you ignore climate change (which is, frankly, irresponsible at this point), coal pollution alone kills something like a million people per year worldwide.