skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good explanations. What's more interesting is the Amiga model of CPU + accelerators is becoming the new default in high-performance applications. There could be a revival of OS's natively supporting accelerators of a niche market that cares about that sort of thing. My favorite example is Cavium's Octeon's that basically nobody has heard of:

http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html

The Octeon II's often go for around $200 on eBay. They have 16 cores, multi-Gbps network acceleration, onboard crypto, Linux support, and use little power. That's the kind of shit that has potential. Maybe that plus a good FPGA for high-end model where main SOC is multiplexed like usual but one app at a time gets FPGA and/or GPU. A bunch of simple cores, the right on-board accelerators, and FPGA could combine in performance-critical apps to blow Xeons out the water despite being on older process nodes.

My old prediction and dream gets even closer to reality with the rise of the "semi-custom" businesses of AMD and Intel that do this on a case by case basis for their x86 lines. And Intel's acquisition of Altera w/ likely FPGA circuitry in future Xeon's. You can already buy a FPGA desktop from Pico Computing in small form factor. I envision something a bit more integrated into OS API and management systems.
People like vinyl because of the whole experience. It is very ritualistic. It's a slow and mindful process. The large physical artwork, the imperfect "warm" sound, etc.

Mathematically perfect sound is not the goal for most. It's a certain aesthetic and state of mind.
If the company isn't public, presumably you can't exercise risklessly, right?
It's the closest thing to a guarantee that they are able to give, which is substantially limited by the information, time, and equipment they are able to obtain.

As someone with a chronic medical condition that was misdiagnosed for ~20 years, I admit to having biases about this sort of thing, but I can assure you that my doubts are not limited to police-involved situations or EMTs.
Let me present an alternative scenario, if a video game developer creates a virtual world, is he required to exist within the virtual world to exert any change or "even just observe parts" of the virtual world?
AVG Web TuneUp chrome extension exposes user data for 9M Chrome users
while there are a lot of problems in higher education students are not high on my list.

I've not taught quite as long as you, but I'll add that I like to tell students that life is going to be their ultimate punishment or reward: If they don't learn how to read and write (I teach English), they'll be the ones who suffer. Not me.

Some people of course don't learn anything and are fine. Many however don't learn anything and aren't fine.
Nothing! Launched and now have profit! Going Lean and doing customer dev before product dev was a huge factor for success.
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There is one thing you can do with vinyls only: scratching. Yes, you can use timecode vinyls with some DJ software, but it's error prone and you experience latency issues.

CDs / tapes can't be scratched at all unless you load them in some form of RAM - and existing CD scratchers have a far smaller "disk" size and often next to zero resistance. It's just not the same.
Are you claiming Andresen is a criminal? If so, why?
Wikipedia has an index of programmers who were reported to have committed suicide, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programmers_who_commi...
>What prevents a member of the domestic government from being a terrorist, or having ties to terrorists?

That's a good question. I would say that nothing does. But that's the wrong question.

Imagine that the NSA found a conversation between a member of Congress and a foreign intelligence agent. However, because that Congressperson supports the NSA, they leave it alone. On the other hand, they see another member of Congress talking to the same intelligence agent. This Congressperson already hates the NSA, so the NSA won't lose any supporters by checking them out.

Then, because of the information revealed about the second Congressperson, they lose their next election, and the next Congressperson is perhaps more friendly to the NSA. The NSA looking at Congress can distort decisions made about the NSA.

I feel nervous about the NSA spying on Congress for exactly the same reason I would feel nervous if the NSA were spying on the FISA court judges. It's a separation of powers issue.
A few days before Christmas, I was emailing a friend and wrote about how it seems like the odds of a liquidity event are about equal to the odds of having at least one founder try to commit suicide. That is likely an exaggeration, but like you, I feel like we are losing too many of our people.

I'm not qualified to speak to why. I have suffered and many of my issues were due to a bad combination of burnout and 'I'm killing it' culture. Simply, admitting weakness in our field feels career ending and so the tendency is to push through burnout and depression. But, I wonder if the fear of admitting weakness is endemic of our culture of if it just a symptom of the disease.

In light of my past, I have started emailing my friends, telling them that I care about them, and letting them know that if shit looks bad, they can tell me. They don't need to kill it, or be ultra successful. They just need to be.

I've also wondered if something like that could become sort of a volunteer organization. Kind of a founders helping founders organization??
Point taken; Blair doesn't self-identify as Scottish but to be fair I've no doubt he would do so if it was to his political advantage, which I think is fair enough - he's in politics.

On the other hand, he was, as you admit, born in Scotland, spent many years of his childhood there, including (I may be wrong) the formative secondary school years (ages 13-18), and I don't think it would be crossing the line if some proud Scot were to claim him as one of their own.

Your second line vaguely defines a 'people' but given the context, I am assuming you suspect me as one of them, so for the record, I am English-born of a largely Scottish origin family, foolishly proud of my Scottish heritage, and do not nurse any grievance - quite the contrary. Indeed, I voted for both recent 'Scottish' prime ministers. I've never noticed a grievance in others claiming Blair as Scottish but will look out for it.

Your last sentence makes a sad but good point.
I don't know why that would be the case. Browserify can do semver comparison of dependencies and not bundle multiple copies. I would assume they were already doing this; if not, why?

I work on a client-side module loader StealJS[1] that implements the npm algorithm (2 and 3) in the browser and 3 makes things worse for us. With NPM 2 we could load a project without causing 404s (except in the cause of require("./folder")) but since NPM 3 says "install order matters" now it's no longer deterministic and 404s are more common.

It would be nice if NPM had some working group to discuss their algorithm and invited in other implementers for feedback.

[1]http://stealjs.com/
Please hang out here for a bit longer and get to know the place before deciding what community does HN represent.
That's just you being ahead of the curve. Distractions mean you aren't at your best either way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803467
In the USA, or at least in California, the employer does not pay the unployement benefits to the former employee. The benefits are paid by the state, which in California is http://edd.ca.gov. The employer pays for unemployment insurance. If the employer has relatively few former employees filing for unemployment, that insurance rate may go down over time. The concern over covering the costs of unemployment benefits are related to a possible increase in unemployment insurance premiums.

Source: http://www.calrest.org/tips-for-protecting-your-unemployment...
Found at least 2 before I quit paying attention. It's not 100% crap by any means, but there's a disturbing narrow-mindedness to it as well.
I never looked at this side of the website, but for the curious 'musician' (who player where) it's a goldmine of information.

The CD booklet Google.
They're just fishing for information. It's really offensive they even ask, as if it's any of their business at all. Just don't tell them.
Windows is very much an outlier in the world of software development. Unless you're specifically using Microsoft tech (ie .NET and all that), then you're in a world dominated by Linux and OSX.

I'm annoyed that Microsoft insists on going forward with a proprietary OS that does not conform to standards that pretty much every single other OS does. Sure, platform specific issues do happen for other OSes, but they are rare. They are extremely common for Windows.

For sure, I have no obligation to fix Windows specific issues in my projects. All of my projects are done in my spare time and given away for free. But Windows specific issues are still annoying and disappointing.

Another aspect of this that is annoying is that major, mission critical open source projects have to dedicate so many resources to Windows. For example this bug in ClojureScript: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/80d46bdb7969...

Imagine if the Clojure team didn't have to worry about file separator differences, and the multitude of other Windows annoyances. How much extra energy, time and resources would they gain? I suspect a lot.

EDIT: And I would also say I have every right to complain about Microsoft. Ignoring standards and doing their own thing for their own financial gain at everyone else's expense is definitely worthy of complaint. Also see Internet Explorer.
This reminds of a case a few months back, give or take, but I can't quite remember. Similar circumstance of altercations with police and then sudden suicide. Does anyone else recall?
The prose at the end of the universe
2010 Flash Crash
Sounds like web programming might end up becoming closer to real programming.
It wasn't in Al Quaeda territorial waters, as AQ is not a state. That's why it's terrorism. There must be better examples; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wrath_of_God ?
What the hell are people majoring in that 80% of the material doesn't matter? I'm sitting here post-MSc wishing I'd done 80% more material in undergrad so I'd be properly qualified for the stuff I want to do!
I assume he's talking about Charlie Schrem and Mark Karpeles being on the board of BF.
So, are you of the opinion that OSS projects should never be built for any commercial, proprietary OS or just Windows (i.e. because it's not Unix)?

For instance - OS X window managers suck. Do you think that a project like Spectacle should have never been built because they're just picking up Apple's slack?
We created this New Year's resolution challenge as a way to bring non-iOS people into the Mission: Pic fold in a fun way. :)

The last year on M:P has been a blast and resulted in a lot of great photography. If you have any interest in photography, mobile or otherwise, I'd love it if you checked it out and let us know what you think. Available on the App Store.
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> Are you claiming Andresen is a criminal? If so, why?

No all he did was sell them his reputation.

Edit: This is being down voted and I'm honestly not sure why.

He quite literally sold the foundation his reputation.

He received salary of approximately $200k in 2013 from the foundation.
So the idea that citizens should be monitored, but not gov’t officials, is intuitive from this point of view

Shouldn't it be the other way round? If I have the power to do something that will affect others, I would want someone to monitor my actions to keep me in check. For example, if I had access to production boxes, I would absolutely want to have some processes/checks and balances in place so I don't mess up, even unintentionally. So why should these govt officials not be monitored, when they go around poking other people's lives, often without any permission and repercussions? Not only their access be controlled/monitored, they should be subject to more scrutiny than normal Joe.
Probably a lot of overlap, but they're separate projects with different versions and release schedules.
Now tell us where all the money went...
https://youtu.be/6Px0livk6m8?t=245

i found this to be articulated perfectly..

the notion that our current abilities in regard to interacting with complex networks: ~monte carlo; is analogous with copernicus's abilities to interact with planetary trajectory without calculus

i only have a tangential familiarity with scale free, but as i understand it scale free is more of the same in regard to interactions with networks

but i do agree that wholly understanding network trajectories will have a significant effect on our understanding of cognition, neuroscience, ai, and some yet undiscussed consequence

https://youtu.be/6Px0livk6m8?t=4551

von nuemann anectdote and quote..

as remembered:

however, if the brain uses any sort of mathematics,
the language of that mathematics must certainly be
different from that which we explicitly
and consciously refer to by that name today

from the book(o):

However, the above remarks about reliability and
logical and arithmetical depth prove that whatever
the system is, it cannot fail to differ considerably
from what we consciously and explicitly consider
as mathematics.

.

it took me some time and effort to find the lecturer's name: David Dalrymple; so i'll link it here(i)

(o) http://www.amazon.com/The-Computer-Brain-Silliman-Memorial/d...

(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dalrymple_(computer_scie...
You might wanna disable debug in your Laravel config. There is a debug bar that shouldn't be there.
Did you get the cash and options the wrong way round in your example ($100k + 5000 options / $110k + 3000 options)? That bit confused me for a while. Or maybe I'm missing something about how they work!
He's not a criminal but he stopped being the lead contributor to Bitcoin Core to join the contentious Bitcoin XT project. The motivation for this project is a debate about whether increasing the Bitcoin blocksize is an acceptable way to address scalability. In general, it showcases dissent in the consensus policy that governs the way Core changes are made.

More background on this: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/gavin-andresen-i-might-...
Oh boy.

The problem of wealth inequality is a prickly one. On the one hand, I'd very much like to be not in debt and not making 7.55/hour for the work of three people (shout out to all the cashiers who called in sick today).

On the other hand, there isn't enough money in the world to pay every cashier, janitor, and burger flipper what Trump earns per hour.

To further complicate things, if you raise the minimum wage, you lower the number of workers that a given company with a given budget can afford to pay, and that just makes it worse.

A Basic Income Guarantee might help--or it might give people extra money to spend on their crack habit while they sit around with no job. Taxing the rich and paying the poor could help, if it doesn't lead to the same issue that raising minimum wage does. Welfare is a whole other ball of wax, as well, and is full of rules that cause people to end with a net loss if they try to support themselves.

The list goes on and on.
Being attracted to healty adult humans, female or male is obviously part of human nature as a whole, DNA, normality whatever you want to call it.

You might say that homosexuality is when these ingredients get flipped, or mixed in some ratio (bisexuality).

There is quite a difference to being sexually attracted to, let's say ceiling fans, children or whatever. I think it's unfair when people put homosexuality in the same bucket as these.
No, you can't just say that without backing it up. The Guardian (good, left-leaning UK paper) can't go more than a few days without a deadline like "We're all [name of someone who just died and who you've never heard of and won't again] now" or whatever. People get forgotten and all that matters is how much people have changed reality whilst alive (or what impact they have after they're dead). Just printing their name or a little slogan or icon or whatever...it literally means nothing, either at the time its printed or afterwards.
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Does that really change anything, if your C-suite is too stupid to understand how companies work?
but how exactly is that understandable in a representative democracy? They act as representatives of their constituents

It's easily understandable if you spend some time thinking about who their constituents are. If you think that group includes you, then you are thinking just like the "gov't officials" mentioned by the grandparent: believing your society is one that is different in kind.
It's sad that people who implement computer systems keep on assuming that they can somehow "validate" names:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
The rise and decline of Wikipedia [pdf]
You don't have a right to know, because you weren't born with the right and nothing grants you that right. Your option, if you don't like not being given the information you request, is to not sign the contract.
These general QA datasets wouldn't work, because their system can only do word analogies. And some similar tasks like antonyms. It can't understand a sentence or anything.
Doesn't seem like a non-pay wall version is easily accessible.
I would encourage you to examine the role of Israel as America's lightening rod. It is my personal belief that America's leadership is very aware of the usefulness of Israel and at least sometimes postures accordingly.
I've got a pretty good idea..

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1pxiy3/peter_vesse...
If it's a preference, then that's perfectly reasonable as I already noted. People prefer Subway to French Laundry but you can't argue that Subway is "better".

And I believe you are wrong, in that most people, > 90% I would wager, WOULD prefer mathematically perfect sound quality. Are you too young to have witnessed how quickly records and cassettes died once CD technology became available to the masses? We went from always having to hear a humming from the background noise of the cassettes and records to almost perfect silence when the music wasn't playing. I wager most people if they listened to every single one of their songs played over record would prefer the sound quality that a CD brings to the table.
The fact that legislators have a different legal status from the general population is documented in the Constitution -- they can not be arrested or detained while in session, or on their way to or from a session. There's a clear legal doctrine that each branch of government should be free from interference from th others.

Not to say that it's OK for the NSA to spy on American citizens in general ...
Haven't read a single one. Frankly I think some members of this community share a preoccupation with pg that borders on being problematic.

Perhaps as a reflex I actively avoid such things now.

>I am quite new here, but I am in love with HN's culture and content.

Granted, HN is a lot better than it was even just a few years ago, but the rose-tinted outlook will pass with time, and you'll see as most of us do that it is a hodgepodge of both gems and utter trash (and everything in between). People here are just as susceptible to groupthink and bias as people elsewhere.

If you love javascript you'll fit right in with said groupthink.
>tapes can't be scratched at all unless you load them in some form of RAM

Unless you're Mr. Tape, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xuy0GAsnNQ
2016 Will Play Out Like a Bible Prophecy?
Stories of equity working out well are rare in these comments. I think in part this is because contentment is silent, so I'll share a bit. I joined a private company with over $100M in revenue about 3 months before IPO. They couldn't say they were in the process when I took the job, but it was hinted at strongly. I got an options grant with normal 4 year vest that amounted to an actual face value of about $50k. Being successful, I imagined they could be worth $100k, or a $25k/year bonus on top of my salary. All of my actual negotiation was of the salary component, and I was very happy with the outcome.

The company went public, and the following year there were a couple events -- a nice earnings beat, some positive news, etc -- that pushed the stock up. Around that time I hit my 1 year cliff so I had 25% of my grant vested. I sold every vested share and used that as a down payment on a house in the bay area. I had a very large tax bill the following year that I paid by selling a bit more equity. But, I have a house that has appreciated since I purchased it, not to mention a nice place to live.

In year 2 I started receiving add'l RSU grants, and I usually sell them as they vest. Here's the test: If they gave you a cash bonus would you BUY stock? If not, sell it.

In the end, my initial option grant will end up worth $300-400k, adding almost an entire extra salary to our household income.

We've been fortunate, have given back a lot to charity and especially to family. Oh, and I've truly enjoyed working there.

What I've learned is that there is a probability curve. I chose an offer that had a high liklihood of buying me a down payment on a house but zero chance of buying me a whole house. In the end, this is a pattern I would repeat and I think if you can do go work for Uber, Pinterest, Airbnb, etc, where an IPO is very likely, go do it.
This Venomous Snake Is the First Animal Suspected to Be Completely Scentless
With out a foundation, how do you suggest the direction of the Bitcoin project be managed? (Is not only about promoting Bitcoin).
Cool library! I think there are a lot of researchers who are interested in using bayesian models, but need to see them in action in a very gentle way first. Implementing a demo in the browser for a bayesian approach you're trying to sell people on seems like a nice, low energy way to give them a simple, working example.
HTML5 WebSocket: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web
Agreed - there's probably a business reason for it. Perhaps the fact that it's now a bog-standard financing arrangement forces them to allow it to be paid off separately?
I like "How to Make Wealth" because he doesn't beat around the bush, he just come out and says that "wealth" is nothing more than an "object of the desire to possess" and if you can do something that increases some else's desire-to-possess something that you have or control, then you are creating wealth.

> Suppose you own a beat-up old car. Instead of sitting on your butt next summer, you could spend the time restoring your car to pristine condition. In doing so you create wealth

Whether or not you agree with this "metaphysics of wealth" it is a good read because it illustrates some intuition behind economic theory.
I guess that answers my question.

FWIW Developer/Enterprise versions are free to try and Community doesn't expire.
Lighting 10,000 Sparklers at Once Is the Best Way to Ring in the New Year[video]
Surprised that DigitalOcean isn't on this list.
How to spot a psychopath revealed by a man with the disorder
Cleveland's Terrible Stain
Looking at the subthread spawned from this comment, I'm partial to flagging all of it. Some of your responders may end up later regretting the things they said.

Seriously, comparing two deaths like this is not a good idea, not when it's so fresh. Both Ian and Steve impacted the computing world in a huge, if different way, and both deaths are tragic. We've honored Steve Jobs then, this is the hour of honoring Ian Murdock. Black bar be damned.

We can sort out who did more for the world later.
I played Tennis for Two yesterday at the New York Historical Society museum, nyhistory.org, where it's part of the Silicon City exhibition, http://nyhistory.org/exhibition/silicon-city-computer-histor...