skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember you are often storing data which concerns other people e.g. messages, address books and other PID
I think what this essay overlooked is that the choice between a "low-risk but small business path" and a "high-risk unicorn path" is not always merely about business-choices and cornering markets simply by using large sums of money. A different "high-risk unicorn path" is going through hard scientific research, which often requires external money to get anything from the ground. And it is this last type of business that, imho, deserves our respect most. But otherwise I agree with that article.
At the point Twitter was taking investments, doing so would have been a reckless use of taxpayers money.
Czech charity helps homeless by turning them into WiFi hotspots
At its core, the viewer works by just averaging the JPEG stack at varying offsets as described in this student project: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs194-26/fa14/upload/files/p...

I haven't looked into how they make everything efficient, but the source code for their flash viewer is here http://lightfield.stanford.edu/aperture.html
From my personal experience, there are too many people in Russia who are, according to your last statement, not quite in their right mind...
Ignoring the fact that this article suffers from severe lack of expertise (~"linux (the kernel) suffered from heartbleed"): The article is playing extreme positions against each other. Yes, when I am in charge of a company's security, I'd want my users to require root access (i.e. my blessing) when they want to join unknown networks - no, I would not want my parents to require my help when they want to connect to a wireless network at an airport when waiting for their flight into their holidays.

A pragmatic solution to this is a configurable policy that is determined at boot time (and immutable ever after). There is no need to discuss with the aim to reach an agreement - requirements differ and for a lot of use-cases "I don't care" is just as OK as "no fscking way" is for others.
A similar use in the US sometime ago: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/wi-fi-...
The VA (veteran's affairs)
Dwolla's new developer portal
Your comment has the structure of a well reasoned argument, but it's predicated on falsehoods.

Most large C++ projects do not unnecessarily use reference counting.

Most C++ programmers do not fear using references or pointers because of invalidation.

The Rust compiler does not tell you when it's impossible to satisfy your problem using borrows. In fact it often has false positives requiring borrow gymnastics because it is too primitive.

And your last line is a complete reversal of your previous attitude: Suddenly you are focusing on theory while ignoring that in practice you can not usually break out `unsafe` to solve your borrow problems. In fact it's Rust, not C++, that is more likely to reach for more heavyweight abstractions than necessary because it's not practical to litter unsafe throughout your codebase.
Hi there. Claim 1 is not incorrect. I am not stating executive compensation is used to claim SR&ED. I am stating it is used to suppress net profits to qualify for the higher rate. Also,

Claim 2, there is no requirement for IP to be owned by the Canadian entity for its development to be qualified for SR&ED (I’ve verified this from multiple accountants and the CRA).

As for Claim 3, you realize that this is indefinite right?
Russians treat their culture as sacred

I cannot even begin to understand what it means. Could you clarify please?
Depends on what you mean by filthy rich. By my definition (worth >$1bn), I don't know any.

I do know several people worth several hudrends of millions tho. They are CEOs of their own companies or companies they helped grow. I don't think anyone works harder than them in their companies. If there is someone, it probably is someone from the upper management.

>What they're good at is business, which is organizing and capturing the value of other people's labor and innovation.

You say that like it's easy-peasy. Everyone can do it, right?
"here" is here: http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2014/12/02/why-were-rewrit...
Thank you for the link, I've never heard about Szaz before.

But I must say that I agree with many points he makes although I disagree with some.

In my naive view (this is not my profession) many persons that are just to some degree different are labeled as mentally ill and medicated starting with children that aren't docile enough.

Psychiatry surely has its uses helping people to improve and overcome fears / tragic events or to evaluate if someone can be dangerous but it can't be right to forcefully medicate everyone that doesn't fit our society into submission.
Sounds like he was a new developer, hence no wage premium. Old but junior.
I can highly recommend https://basecamp.com - it just works and you can even invite clients to the projects so you can show transparency.

Worked with this in multiple agency settings in the past.
Why Google Continues to Dominate Apple in Services
Rob Walling and Mike Taber have and excellent podcast for solo entrepreneurs http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ . Rob Walling also wrote a book on this topic http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...
I'm sorry, continuing resolutions are now our ideal? And even then, the full process is on a similar timescale to just the public disclosure period of this treaty.

Same with respect to full budgets - they're long, they're complicated, but the period during which they're publicly available is on a similar timescale to this 60-day period.
* "over 20 years in tech ... I can count on 1 hand the number of direct coworkers that were black ... I don't believe this is due to any sort of racism, but rather due to the education system in general. ... The only way you will hit higher-than-normal diversity numbers is to reduce hiring standards, which is wrong. *

WOW. Haven't time to unpack all that is wrong with your response but mainly:
Black people in the US can be found across all strata of society, including top/good schools. The implication that they must all be poor and in inadequate schools is ludicrous.

Part of why the diversity issue is so aggravating is because the # of qualified candidates may be relatively small, but it still significantly exceeds the # of Black candidates hired.

Likewise, stating that the only way to improve diversity is by lowering of standards is wrong. It communicates your obviously flawed perspective that Black candidates in tech are inferior.
This is a taste of the future. More and more people are creating things using tools and frameworks but not really understanding the underlying concepts. When I pick up a bookshelf at IKEA and put it together, I don't start calling myself a carpenter because of it.
Of course there was a change, but that does nothing to tell us if the way it was activated was accidental or intentional.
It is obviously true that it is easy for powerful few to make laws and rules that only they benefit from. The question is whether it's right and just.
Not having to implement the dom state updates and rAF update batching are fairly big wins.

I agree, and these are two of the main reason we're interested in React. We've had in-house code doing some similar things for a long time, more the batching than rAF in our case, but for much the same reasons. Now that mainstream libraries are offering similar tools and with reasonable trade-offs in terms of functionality offered versus level of dependency, there's not much reason to maintain our own in the next generation of the UI.

In case you're interested, our model code also presents its interface in the form of immutable data structures, with quite fine-grained events available to monitor quite specific parts. But even with that, in something like our small multiples test case, where we're plotting a number of interactive SVG charts using modestly derived data but thousands of underlying data points, it appears that the indirections and tests do still add up to a noticeable level of overhead. Of course that's more demanding than what a lot of web apps will ever need, and our conclusions for our project won't necessarily be anyone else's conclusions for theirs.
What makes the Chicago Boys unique, to a large degree, is that they seem to have made a choice to trade analysis for position advocacy. A lot of them are better thought of as taking part in politics rather than academics.

If you want sources, just scan Brad Delong's blog; there's a decent chance he's making this point at any given time. There was a wonderful example I can't take time time to dig up right now in which an (Chicago-aligned) economist published a paper with outright deceptive priors and when confronted, explained that his goal was to promote an argument, and it was the reader's problem to make counter arguments. You can call that a lot of things, but academic inquiry isn't one of them.
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This reminds me of how philosophers seem to spend 50% of their time writing about how important philosophy is. The other 50% is often spent writing philosophy based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the topic (see: any philosophy of technology book)
If you're concerned about either of those RHEL is not the distro for you. It has a bunch of running processes, some of them are even written in Python! Talk about unoptimal. Similarly it's not the smallest Linux distro by far.

I think this whole line of argument is just some misplaced nostalgia for distro micro-optimization. It's not the mid-90s anymore. Space and CPU is cheap, you're not going to gain anything significant by trimming down your distro.

If those things were actually important you wouldn't be using Azure in the first place.
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Apples to oranges. Ubuntu is an open source project, Stripe is a billion dollar company.
How a Pull Request Rocked My World
Cele mai tari faze cu animale sunt acum aici
Walk, run, in unknown territory; turn dog food into energy...
No, all my banks/CC companies have free access. I think most if not all banks (at least major ones) do, you can check this site [1].

[1] http://www.ofxhome.com/index.php/home/directory
I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords
Mars press conference: Nasa reveals solar winds stripped red planet's atmosphere
It's really up to you to go out and find them. I suggest looking for local meetups and talking to engineers who are working in those small businesses. Get to know the people in your community running these small businesses.

Most of our hires were introduced through people I know. In a small business this is often the only logical way to hire because you already have some level of trust with the referrer and thus they've acted as the first gateway for a candidate to get through (and they usually can vouch for the candidate's work).

Also, many small businesses are concerned largely with staying alive and making a profit, so that may mean they will be focused on "non-interesting" problems of making the business operate well. Factor this into your decision as to who you want to work for as well.
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Here's a recent summary ...

> Concerning the variability of beta-decay measurements

> (Submitted on 20 Oct 2015)

> Many experiments have been carried out to study the beta-decay rates of a variety of nuclides, and many - but not all - of these experiments yield evidence of variability of these rates. While there is as yet no accepted theory to explain patterns in the results, a number of conjectures have been proposed. We discuss three prominent conjectures (which are not mutually exclusive) - that variability of beta-decay rates may be due to (a) environmental influences, (b) solar neutrinos, and (c) cosmic neutrinos. We find evidence in support of each of these conjectures.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05996
Here's a modern transistor: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/attachments/content/attachmen...

And here's what it really does: http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FFQ/1E5K/H5JVXPW8/F...
Well, guess what, that's exactly what helped in the US, ending the prohibition. Violent crimes, corruption etc. happen because people (drug users and drug sellers) can't conduct business legally. When they can, they use the police to resolve problems and generally abide by regulations, because it's simply cheaper to do business that way.
Education main goal is not about any practical skills, and most definitely not about "employment" and all that. Education got a far more important role.
Maybe you all can help me, but I've just agreed to do a Startup Weekend. I did an "Ask HN" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10515984).

Any ideas, including what I've asked?
Exactly. The courses I keep returning to in my mind are the ones outside the scope of my degree. Everything else melded into some form of career preparation.

On a side note, I think many fail to recognize what "liberal education" means. I've seen the concept attacked by some right/libertarian friends merely for having the word "liberal" in it!
Use Nim
What good is our society if survival is so difficult that we can't afford to spend a few years cultivating ourselves? I'm well into economics but you're describing a society where we invest a great deal of effort in the manufacture of better sticks with which to beat ourselves.
Yeah, but the advantage of OFX is that it is read-only and can use different credentials for authentication (depending on the bank.) Another advantage I forgot to mention is that I couldn't use my bank's 2FA with Mint.
Lifestyle business is a dirty word somewhere? "Lifestyle" business is a significantly more rational choice in comparison with VC backed startup if one considers their personal happiness and psychological wellbeing as an important metric.
We work in higher education, where we invest in people, not throw them away like yesterday's pizza.
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I would guess that the cost of bringing an aluminium smelting plant online is quite a barrier to entry.

Your competitors will already have moved along the cost curve, gradually replacing equipment as they green.

On top of the capital investment, margins will be thin in a commodity industry too.

A new entrant in this future scenario will basically be saving the expense of shipping. If right now $1500 + shipping from China beats out $1800 made in the USA that means a capital investment for 10-15% margin.
If you say these are major issues, how often have you seen these two instances in the real world as a percentage of total SRED claims? Are these theoretical concerns or do you know that these are very serious practical concerns about SRED?

Regarding Claim 1, you are advocating that company will sacrifice its growth in order to live off of SRED. The larger one’s SRED claims and the larger they are in respect to total expenditures, the more likely to gain scrutiny and audits. I’ve been SRED audited, it isn’t fun. If a company could make $1M, why couldn’t it make $2M? This seems like a contrived scenario.

Regarding Claim 2, if a company is not going to act in its own best interests, it doesn’t matter who owns the IP. The company could license it for nothing to other companies even if it owned the IP.

In both scenarios you are outlining companies acting against their own best interests. Maybe it is possible, but it doesn’t seem like a very common case.
Do you have numbers to back it up, or just the theoretical possibility that it could technically happen?
Unlike the DHH rant linked above, I'm not condemning the Big Startup / Growth / VC approach. At a societal level, it has managed to spin up many game-changing companies very quickly. I think it's a movement that will go down in the history books for creating a lot of rapid progress in the first half of the 21st century.

But I'm also not convinced that it's the best way to be happy as a technologist. The system produces two things - incredible wealth and power for the few winners and a large amount of (a certain kind of) technological innovation. And it produces a lot of bodies, empty hype, churn and overpriced housing in the process. You can enjoy the innovation without joining up, and if you do join up then statistically speaking you're way more likely to be a body than a winner. I marvel at this machine but I'm aware that my happiness (or that of my loved ones) is not something it's likely to produce.

To his credit, Sama's post hints at this when he says that starting a startup actually "sucks." We should listen to him.

And I would be a card-carrying member of the "slow tech" movement, where do I sign?
Do you not think a similar thing was said when Cobol came out and young, new developers started abandoning assembly? I don't think being disappointed or scared is necessarily the most reasonable reaction to have in light of the fact that this is just the way technology works. And in the end, it probably is a good thing.
The 1971 genocide you commemorate in your username might not have occurred if your culture was a bit more invested in that 'humanities nonsense.'
> Why is this relevant? The proximate cause for the decreasing life expectancy is massive alcohol consumption.

IIRC, this is not true. It's a contributor, certainly, but Russian life expectancy is substantially lower than other nations with similar alcohol consumption.
Do you mind sharing your company? I love these kind of stories.
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The first point about firing fast reminded me of this quote:

“One irresponsible programmer can keep any five top-notch programmers busy.”
— Eric Evans
Because the high level business model remains the same. Seeking perpetually increasing short term profitability instead of long term sustainability. Carrot on a stick.
> You have presented a logical tautology. Killing another human being is always collectivist according to your definition.

That's not what ctlby said. Nor is it a reasonable interpretation of his/her words.
Holy BBS flashback, Batman....
For sure. Like, my microeconomics classes have been invaluable in being a good planner and manager. The friends I work with (most of whom I've known for a long time, and some of whom in college I got to take econ seriously) use that vocabulary, and those principles, every single day as software developers and product people. Sociology and political science--the studies of groups and the distribution of power and resources within them--are more valuable than my databases class ever was.

Computers are easy. People are hard. A liberal education helps recognize and come to grips with this.
The amount of sheer ignorance in this thread is astounding. The political-myopia of tech culture is on full display here...

What is being argued here is that there should be more to an education than a vocation. The purpose of a higher education is to make one a thinking, learned human being. It doesn't matter if you're Knuth when it comes to CS, if you don't have a working knowledge of history and philosophy and political theory, you're uneducated.

Another theme I see is that people have to earn a living so they must learn ONLY STEM. That's false for 2 reasons. The first is that one can do non-utilitarian study in philosophy, for example, while also learning CS to get a job. It is also wrong because it is a reflection of the high cost of an American education that forces people to think about "return on investment". That is the very notion that is being criticized here! Education should not calculated solely in economic terms because there are social returns to it.

The fact of the matter is that it is absolutely disastrous - morally and culturally - to uncritically accept the views of our neoliberal system. The humanities and non-utilitarian education helps you examine the system. That's what ultimately makes the world a better place.
And I'm really glad that it is.

At the end of day that's precisely the joy of this field. Else it's just a job.
You're spot on. Holograms, as in the images like on a credit card, do actually record light fields.
Yeah but wage premiums aren't the only reasons for age discrimination -- there's also a perceived lack of current technical expertise, or lack of malleability/flexibility, right?
Check Point Discovers Critical VBulletin 0-Day
The Psychic Tapes
I don't think it's a bug in Go's http stack. The TCP FIN from the client just says "I've closed my write end of the connection". In this case the client actually did a full close of the socket, i.e. it's actually closed for both reading and writing - but TCP doesn't communicate that fact. And HTTP says that in this situation (the other end closed its write half of the connection), you should still send the response back and then close your end of the connection.

The server can't know[1] that client has fully closed the connection until it tries to write something to it - I'm guessing there is some sort of long polling going on here, so the server has parked the http request somewhere and isn't going to write anything to the connection until something happens (if ever). After all, at this point the server doesn't know the TCP connection is fully closed, it thinks it's half closed.

[1] Unless you also enable tcp keepalive, the keepalive would discover that the socket is closed on the other end (after a couple of hours by default).
There seem to be a lot of questions on what a light field is. Lytro just put up a great blog post that gives a good introduction to them http://blog.lytro.com/post/132599659620/what-is-light-field
If you are thinking on using vBulletin, that disclosure timeline should be a big red flag to look at alternatives.

Note that exploits are happening in the wild already:
https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/11/vbulletin-exploits-in-the-wi...
I think it's a really good path to follow and would love to do the same one day.

You might like this article if you haven't already seen it. It's been doing the rounds lately. https://medium.com/@dhh/reconsider-41adf356857f

As for a term... I can't think of one apart from "business". :P Heh.

edit: Just noticed someone else already commented with a link to that article! Ha!
> You can't. Particles that interact only via gravity can't "do" anything. Unless you theorize there is some other force that only affects dark matter.

There was a story here not too long ago about the possibility of a Dark QCD - meaning that it's possible that Dark Matter interacts among itself just fine, in ways similar to the way that we do. (Meaning that it's not just one type of invisible garbage mass out there.)

> All the gravitational detection we do is by detecting particles via light, not via gravity.

Yup; I meant that if there is a Dark QCD, which means some sort of Dark Matter chemistry (and probably a Dark Matter light), they'd be able to observe the effects of gravity in the same ways that we do - by seeing gravitational lensing (of Dark Light), or by observing orbits, or by observing tides from fly-bys.
Ricardian Comparative Advantage of Nations.

Keeping agrarian societies in their place since 1817.
Yeah. I actually really liked Mint, before it I had no idea where my money was going. But the security stuff started to bug me, and there were mounting frustrations with Mint's inflexibility that finally pushed me to go a different direction.

Also, the first link I posted isn't my work, just a nice utility I found. I did roll my own Python for converting OFX to Ledger though, been meaning to clean that up and post it but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Relatively high compared to what? With GHC we have a single-word header on objects, which compares favorably to C# which usually has two-word headers, or Java, which similarly uses one word. Of course, GC-less languages like Rust or C++ have usually no tags at all, but I think it makes more sense to compare among GC-d languages.