skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The awful paradox of lotteries is that every week somebody wins, but every week that will not be you.
I want my ISP or mobile carrier to lay enough line to give me the speed I need all the time. If they can't do that, don't lie to me and tell me I'll get it, tell me what I'll get, or let me go elsewhere to get it.
Yes, because there are many people with 20 years of experience with no tickets nor accidents, and they are not all equally likely to file a claim next year. It's not proof or assumption. It's actuarial science.
You are arguing for supply and demand setting salaries. But there is plenty of evidence in the economic literature which finds that is not usually true in real world markets (in fact, it turn out to be really hard to find any market which obeys such a simplistic model. And even when it does, it is usually easy to find scenarios where that same market doesn't follow supply and demand.) So supply and demand is mostly, in practice, just a contributing factor - and should be recognized as such.
R's "everything is a vector" approach does introduce a wrinkle but not hard to work with once you expect it: https://pub.beakernotebook.com/#/publications/560b5722-f287-...

If you can find an error in our implementation I would be happy to hear about it (ideally file an issue on github).

I am not an expert in R and I don't expect autotranslation to cover every case, but I think what we have is useful,
and I look forward to continuing to improve it based on community feedback.

Thanks, -Scott
I try to do this every time they look harried. Because you know they're angry that the manager hasn't opened up more lines, or worried the people waiting are mad, or some sort of anxiety. So being friendly and acknowledging their predicament costs you nothing, but can make their day a bit easier.
A20 – a pain from the past
This reads like revisionist history. people had called the great depression of 1873 - 1896 the "Great Depression" yet here it was happening again just worse in 30 years. And in those 30 'good' years you had the first world war. Banks where and still are considered a major cause of economic downturns and even today we stress test banks on a regular basis.

Further, environmental devastation played a huge role in the Great Depression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
I've always wanted to hear a Swedish perspective on the Wallenberg family. Who apparently "In the 1990s indirectly controlled a third of Swedish GNP."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallenberg_family
Join lottery pool at work. Might lose $2, but won't have to kill myself if everyone at the office wins and I have to show up everyday remembering that fact.
Some poor lady at work got "fired" by our "ceo". She cried. She got unfired. Not sure why a scammer would try that exactly...
For you.
I did something similar for my side project at: http://skill.report

To avoid the LinkedIn issue, I crawled job ads (about 10M uk ads over two years), and applied analysis to them. I love your approach - I'm going to have a play this weekend :)

LinkedIn has so many amazing datasets locked up in the platform. I was keen to see whether I could reproduce the skill graph that LinkedIn has, and apply it to other problems, such as valuing and comparing skill sets and knowledge from job titles alone.
Generally the gravity assists act on other planets on the way to the destination. For example, Cassini got assists off of Venus twice, then Earth, then Jupiter on its way to Saturn.
They charge the 16 year old more today. Better data collection would lower his rates.
Hah, I doubt they do that, but it would be interesting. Make it double blind. Pre-select a couple of teams for acceptance to YC but don't tell the interviewers until afterwards, and never tell the teams, so that the team still feels like they got in on their merit.
if you're a small outfit, you probably don't have enough video that you need to pay someone else to transcode. You can do it yourself using freely available tools Like HandBrake and some simple scripts, and throw a few spare computers at it. I know that Apple has some tools that use QuickTime to do it - and yes QuickTime uses standard H.264 encoding.

If you care about mobile, you should be encoding for low and high bandwidth anyway.

Again, I mostly deal with live streaming but the $2000 solution I mentioned above allows you to simultaneously stream at multiple bitrates.
I started with their $100 "gift", then moved to a paycheck, then to my annual salary. By the time I was in that deep I decided what the heck and got a second mortgage on my house. TIL I have a gambling problem.
It's a safe bet that Larry Page can move a lot faster than anyone at Cisco.
Ask HN: Why aren't mobile phone cameras in the middle?
Every time I try to take a picture with my phone (Nexus 6), my left hand winds up covering the camera lens, or at least getting close enough to it to interfere. I have to hold the phone awkwardly to shoot the picture. If the camera lens were in the middle of the body, I could comfortably place both hands on the sides and use my thumbs to operate it.
>3. It's fun and exciting to use someone else's money to try to come up with a new business type.

Most startups are not able to raise money from outside investors. In fact I'd say outside of the Stanford student/graduate/dropout crowd, it's probably less than 1%. The other 99% also don't get paychecks because they can't draw from investment capital they never got.
Ask HN: Advice on a Hard Decision as First Time Co-Founder
Hello everyone, first time co-founder here. I'm at a point where I have to make a hard decision in my startup. I've been in a position where I felt like I kept giving and giving (to be fair, a lot of us felt that) but now comes a decision to give up something again, but which the result may have bigger repercussions in the future that are unclear to me.

Note, this post was cut short due to 2000 char limit, my full "write-up" here: http://pastebin.com/fjQfiqp8

Background:
In my startup of 5-6, we have a founder (CEO) and I'm the co-founder (CTO). So far, I've worked on this project for about 9 months and I do everything technical (server setup, back-end [our core technology], front-end web design).

Problem:
We need to make payroll two more times before we can close a large seed round which will put to rest money problems for a long duration, but the problem here is getting these last two equity-for-cash lots before we get the big relief.

Now with options running out, one particular solution came up. Two contributors to our startup offered to put up the next lot, but in exchange they want "co-founder" status on top of the equity.
What I want to avoid is to have our say and leverage in the company not be proportionate to effort level put in when these two new "co-founders" are put into play.
Now the founder is okay with this because in the end, he still has the final say on everything (and it's his wife), but as an "outside player" I have to go to bat for myself and make sure I don't get screwed by letting these decisions go too easily.

TL;DR
As core co-founders, will giving up additional "co-founder" titles have potentially nasty consequences in the future (when everybody has their own opinions)?

If there's anything else I can clear up, please let me know. Thank you for any advice or input!
21st Century C (published by O'Reilly) was recommended by myself and one other elsewhere in this thread.
Netanel Rubin – The Perl Jam 2. Perl Is Dead (simple to Exploit) [pdf]
Apologies, I had a friend in mind who has a mild case of OCD resulting in excessive cleaning because it makes her feel calm.

Obviously, it's excessive so a net negative and there are far more serious cases than that.
I wanted to sell used lottery tickets for half price. The expected value of each ticket is higher than the regular lottery and it isn't gambling.
Competition:

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=tB6QVsOuHPHS8AeM0YuwC...

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=tB6QVsOuHPHS8AeM0YuwC...
I think a better analogy might be Berkshire Hathaway.
Not just nearly identical to each other, they're nearly identical to zero. So your odds of winning are effectively the same whether you play or not.

It approaches 1.0 as you buy more tickets, but even at $800m, the lump sum payout of $491m is still lower than the cost of buying all possible $2 tickets ($584m).

And even if you could buy all tickets you still might have to split the winnings...
How scalable does a simple checklist app need to be? Especially when that checklist app has next to no users?

I just don't think that managing your own SSL cert and backups are worth $250 a month for a tiny application that no one uses. Logging into your VPS once a month to install updates is beyond trivial. That might not be my strategy if I had hundreds of paying customers, but the author of the article didn't have hundreds of paying customers.

The moral of the story is that you should choose the right tool for the job. A $250/mo. Heroku app for a developer who wants to fiddle around with it for a tiny side project is not a good value as far as I'm concerned.
I recently purchased a OneRNG trng and decided to give it a chance at guessing the right number with its quantum-noise super powers. Reading from it overnight produced 24 million guesses and no winner. Though several were just one number off. Too bad so sad.

I'm really curious what RNG the registers use when people say "let the computer guess for me". I'm pretty sure they don't all have a TRNG installed on the circuit...
Nice write up, Justin! I was one of the first engineers at a competitor of TeeSpring's, and we tackled the same problems. We used Fabric.js in our second iteration (first was jQuery).
I don't think "Sharing is good" is true in the real world. If you apply that as a blanket statement, you'll end up in trouble.

What is legal is not always ethical. I think there's an interesting story there about how Google is legal, if someone doesn't automatically assume it should be just because it is.

The text online isn't always similar to a published text of the past. There is a personal overlap today that changes the rules. Such as this text I'm publishing right now. Forgetting about all the legalities and technicalities, I still feel like it is different than a page published in a book. I still feel like I should have the power to edit or delete it whenever I want in the future, yet Hacker News disagrees and removes my right to modify it, forever capturing it as if it owns it, not me. I still feel like this text is more transitory, where its relevance is mostly right now, and if it were deleted in a month it would be fine, because it's mostly just chit chat.

Certainly we could live in a world where everyone has microphones transcribing everything they ever say, which is transmitted to Google, and provided to researchers, where all kinds of uses could emerge. But that's a different world than the one where we've developed rules for today. Right now, I feel like most things I say are in passing, and should not only disappear, but won't spread where someone is capturing and propagating it beyond my control.

What control do I have over my text that is in this Common Crawler database? What if it captured information that was considered to be ephemeral in the website's context, and ripped it out of its home where it's now part of this collective publication, where anyone can use it for anything?

Sharing could be good in a world where people are not selfish and malicious. But in this one, many people will use whatever data they can get their hands on for selfish and malicious purposes, that do not benefit you, the author, in any way. I bet a large percentage of use for that Common Crawler database was harmful to society, such as for helping spammers generate fake content.
Everything here except for the engineers question can also be solved by simply hosting these things yourself. You don't need 3rd party code hosting on Github, just use Gitlab or JIRA. You don't need some external CI service, run your own Jenkins node. Chat and email should also be internal (we use XMPP, a local Mattermost instance would be an alternative) and SSL-only. You can do all of this with basically 1 docker command per install on your own dedicated hardware with a fairly underpowered machine. And this prevents leaking of all sorts of information, not just production database passwords.
Only if you are only picking two sets of numbers. If you are doing 10k sets, the last set has a 9999/292M chance of being the same numbers as one of the other sets.
Amazon’s New Jets Represent a Serious Threat to FedEx and UPS
As a woman, I think so. At the minimum, you need to make your own money to be independent, and independence is necessary to be an adult. I can't imagine feeling grown up, and at the same time asking my husband for some money each time I need to buy something.

(Financial) dependance infantilizes a person. There is a reason why unemployment is depressing even if you have a roof over your head and food to eat.
tl;dr paraplegics and others who can't survive without the care of others are eternal children
DoD operated the Military Air Transport Service from 1948 to 1966. It was DoD's own airline, with routes to US military bases, using civilian-type equipment. By the 1960s, civilian aviation was providing better service and using jets, so the MATS airline-type operations were shut down. Since then, DoD does only tactical airlift itself; trips between routine points are commercial, sometimes using commercial charters.
Cross breeding does not induce mutations. Cross breeding mixes genetic code that already exist on the original plants.

Random or induced mutation like they do in GMO has lots of unintended consequences(for example radiating it). It is like a program that has not been debugged, only that a crash could be people dying or getting ill in the thousands or millions.

Also mixing genes from species that have nothing to do with each other like creatures that live in deep ocean that emit light with those that live on the surface will also have unintended consequences.

Human beings could be cocky and arrogant. I have a river near my house. Someone had the brilliant idea of introducing an alien small fish to help native fish as food. The unintended consequence was that the new small fish ate the eggs of native fish and made them disappear completely from the river.
He tripped and fell into the solution-- and then didn't recognize it.

Everything conveyed in a standup is covered by your project tracker (what you did, what you're working on, and where you're stuck) and discussion can happen in your team chat.

Async development is the way to go. If you're having a standup, you're wasting time. And it doesn't work if you're distributed.

The issue tracking really shows what the status si. IF you're stuck, you assign the issue to someone to help you fix it, or you ask in the team chat room.

Keeping abreast of what's going on in the chat room keeps you abreast of the status of the team. The kanban board records it.
You are an adult when people stop caring for you and you start caring for other.

There is a transition when people stop caring for you and you care for yourself but for no one else yet. We call this teens.

Call it what you want, it's not really age dependant. We have simply put words on psychological changes and tied them with age.

Some people become adults at 12 years old. Other at 40. I've met "adults" that are only tall children and children that are short adults.
Question for hongboz and Drup about F-lambda:

OCamlScript does some cross-module optimization it seems. That's really cool, and js_of_ocaml does several optimizations as well, but for both approaches, it seems we'll not be able to take advantage of all really great f-lambda optimizations to come because they happen at a compiler stage after OCamlScript and js_of_ocaml have already intercepted their intermediate representations. Do you (or Drup) have thoughts on that?
How to live blissful and free? Without physical and emotional clutter
Women are adults the instant they sharpie a mustache onto their finger and place it under their nose.
So quadriplegics and other people with insoluble medical issues that make their lives dependent on others can never grow up?
I like this one, it lets you play hundreds of simulated games per second, and even over thousands of years you still don't win.

http://powerball-simulator.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem

Certain observations are probabilistic, and the correlations in them predicted by quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced by ascribing them to the traits of particles.

It means that at the lowest level, the universe is (barring faster-than-light communication, generally regarded to be false) "truly random". (No concept of an "observer" needs to be devised in order to arrive at this conclusion).
Really I didn't even enter the office pool for years, but then started. $2 is worth the bonding with your coworkers.
Oh, perhaps I misunderstood, then. Is it not likely that the vast majority of C/C++ userspace programs could survive this change-in-compiler-output-to-meet-restriction without functionality impact?
Writing more legible SQL
Europe will send humans back to the moon by 2030, ESA says
It evens out on expected payout. There is a chance on 10,000 sequential plays that you win the lottery 10,000 times.
I tried to read the website, but it just decided to scroll in ways I didn't intended it too. The tool itself seems nice.
Blackwell's growth calculator can be fun to play with and perhaps provides insight into the advantages of investing in unsafe fast growing companies (aka "startups" as used in Silicon Valley). Note that the growth rate defaults to weekly.

http://growth.tlb.org/#
I think it isn't clear what the standard means here. If uint8_t exists it must be a typedef to unsigned char (edit: unless to3m is right that there could be a distinct 8-bit implementation-defined integer type, which I didn't think was allowed but maybe it is), so the question is if a typedef to a character type is a character type. My reading is that it isn't, but I've heard enough good C programmers assume that it is that either I am wrong or hopefully compilers will always allow uint8_t to work in this case. It certainly makes more sense to use uint8_t than unsigned char for that usage, but ideally maybe there would be a standard byte_alias_t or such.
You seem to have rose-colored view of startup and what it takes to succeed with a startup.

Your odds of succeeding at a startup may not be better. With powerball, you are risking $2 for 292 million to 1 odd. With startup, you are risking several thousand multiples of $2 in opportunity costs for potential return that might be at best 10x.

As a founder you don't get a paycheck unless you raise decent amount of OPM. There are 100s of founders who fail to raise any funding for every one who raises some. You just don't hear about such founders. Same applies to your point 3. You should talk to people who have raised OPM and the handcuffs they operate with.
It may even out from an expected value for the purchaser point of view, but the profits keep climbing for Powerball the more people that hop on the bandwagon.
It is much better, that's why insurers try their best to do so. The more data is available, the more feasible that is.
Thats the best reason to do it.
Not only that, but everything here except for the engineers question can also be solved by simply hosting these things yourself.

You don't need 3rd party code hosting on Github, just use Gitlab or JIRA. You don't need some external CI service, run your own Jenkins node. Chat and email should also be internal (we use XMPP, a local Mattermost instance would be an alternative) and SSL-only.

You can do all of this with basically 1 docker command per install on your own dedicated hardware with a fairly underpowered machine.

And this prevents leaking of all sorts of information, not just production database passwords. If you don't trust your engineers, you have bigger problems, as another poster pointed out, if they can modify your software to simply report the password back to them, or just login to production and decrypt it, you're dead in the water.
> In my opinion, companies like Google build one hit after another

Wait, what?
Do you have any idea how many ideas they've churned through to get the relatively few hits they've had?
Wave didn't do all that well.
Orkut had a decent run before they dissolved it (almost 11 years)
G+ is still in question.

Yes, they've had some success with some products. And made some excellent purchase decisions (you didn't think they wrote everything they released, did you? Urchin? Writely?).

They've also killed software instead of fully developing it: notebook, reader.

And that is to say nothing of the large numbers of 20% projects. I've personally heard engineers (as a whole) at Google being chastised because the success rate of 20% projects was too high.
I could actually use something like slacktail -F. Does this exist?
Right, that's the birthday problem.
Include some ad fliers and this could actually work.
That sounds more like a co-worker or someone else with a grudge, not a scam
We also need a media summit, with a keynote from Adobe on how they will stop terrorists from using Premier Pro to create propaganda videos.
I'd buy Flickr. I would not buy Tumblr. Tumblr is worthless.
Piping output from Slack into your shell program would be a lot more fun.
I can understand your reasoning, but once you learn it you'll realize how this is exactly what you've been looking for. For starters, the main concept of Vim is its "Command mode", which is used exactly for the scripting you're talking about.
This thread makes me eager to get back into the minimal C programming that I left behind in my college assembly class.

~1 beat~

Yikes!

~leaves self-shaped dust cloud behind as hurriedly runs toward higher [level] ground~
Or, closer to home (my home at least)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_British_Columbia_B-36_cra...

There is some debate as to how many years any bomb parts, including the important bits, may have sat open and unguarded on Canadian soil. There is even the possibility that the core still lies somewhere nearby as we have no definitive answer as to its recovery.

[Cores at this time were transported separate from the bomb. Arming involved manually inserting the core while in flight. It could be anywhere, even thrown into the sea.]
I wonder if they'll include militia groups (i.e., Y'all Queda) as their targets.

And here's the relevant text "...how to make it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to identify militant operatives" translating to "allow us to decrypt your users' private messages"
Hardly a week goes by without news of an advance in this space. The ability to grow at scale transplant-able organs would be a huge lifesaving breakthrough.

Here's a recent news item from MIT> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/545106/human-animal-chi...
So do you sign your outgoing mail with GPG? IF not, why not?