skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article itself contradicts your first statement. It lists:
- two heists were the perpetrators were not caught and the money not recovered
- five were some or all of the money was not recovered
The thing about Mathematica (and any other math product) is that it lets you increase the abstraction level of your thinking.

If you have a smaller problem, first type it into mathematica, and see if it comes up with an answer. It means that you don't have to divert your efforts into that small problem.

That said, mathematica has a function to have it explain exactly what it did to solve a particular problem. Example:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/V9dxn.png
Faraday?
Recapping an amazing year for Mesosphere – Mesosphere
"Do things that don't scale"

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
I mean... you don't start out using power tools, right?

Every tool can't be everything to everybody.

At the beginning of my career, there's no way I could do Rails, but nowadays, I'm just not interested in anything but.
I was reading it as claiming that the government that took power after the Taliban was "defeated" was ineffective at policing opium production. A glance at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanista... seems to support the idea that production increased substantially after the official Taliban government was removed.
A) Yes, if you buy Mathematica.
B) Sure, but I think the user needs to install a browser plugin.
Why don't you ask your one user to help you?
To the best of my knowledge RetailMeNot is a coupon site. This isn't coupons at all. Let me give you an example. Let's say you're a huge fan of skateboarding. So you follow Tony Hawk on our network. Tony post a rad pic of him doing some insane trick. Being a huge fan, you like many other people may be thinking, "I wonder what board he's riding?" With our network Tony can tag the board he's riding, right down to the bearings and trucks, and you and the rest of his followers can then purchase them.

If you're interested please shoot me an email telling me about yourself, the projects you've worked on, and any examples of your work that you feel comfortable sharing. robby@sibipix.com
Product Hunt seems like it's pretty hard to post without knowing someone else who will invite you as you can't comment or post without being invited, JUST upvote. Is there any way to get in at least semi-easily?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926837 and marked it off-topic.
man I love running into you on here, hope you're doing well :)
Well in '99 it felt great, had been a acquired and my founders stock was worth quite a bit after I exercised it, of course I couldn't sell it until after a holding period ...

I always joke that if I ever invent time travel I would go back to that date and figure out some way to sell puts or something which would have locked in the pre-crash value. And I was fortunate that I could sell some stock and was able to pretty much cover the tax bill so at the end of the day after everything went pear shaped I was just sitting on a huge capital loss. I continue to feel fortunate that I came through the dot com crash wiser but without a giant pile of debt or tax liabilities.

One of my peers had taken on a huge debt to build their dream house in the Santa Cruz mountains which they were going to pay off with their stock proceeds when the house was done. They ended up basically penniless trying to unwind that. When you are in a disaster and the person laying next to you is so much worse off than you are you feel very grateful for what you have left.

Time will tell if we see some more people who have these experiences as we unwind the Unicorns which can't survive.
Society knows how. We've figured it out. Unfortunately, government is a giant roadblock to getting it done at the moment.
Your original comment seemed to be arguing that this wasn't an issue because these women probably wanted first order to be doing other things. If that's the case, then we probably shouldn't be pushing too hard to get them to do things they don't want to do. I'm sure that is the case for some individuals; I don't know the distribution.

My point was to demonstrate that it's also the case, for some individuals (I still don't know the distribution), that they were turned away for reasons other than first order lack of interest in the field; and in fact, reasons we have something of an impact on.

My wife was turned away not simply because she thought she'd be working with men, but because of her impression of the particular men in STEM fields that she had experience of. I don't know if her impression was fair - looking back, she doesn't know if her impression was fair. But we do collectively have the ability to work to make sure such an impression is not fair and to work to make sure we're giving the correct impression.

Given a negative impression of likely experiences in the field, expecting outsiders to fix it is a collective action problem. If a woman correctly judges that the existing population working in a field are likely to make that field painful to work in, and she is the only one (or part of a small minority) who "stand up", then she's chosen a painful career for herself. Those of us already in the industry can work to address the problem with substantially less risk.

I'm pretty sure "we're firing half our company and only hiring women who aren't even in the field anymore so we can even it out and attract more people down the line" is effectively a straw-man. It's certainly not what I would advocate, and I don't see how my comment would have implied it.
Having 1099'd for large institutions that were total shit at cutting checks on any reasonable timescale, I've put a lot of thought into this.

What I really wanted was a third party that would do the dirty work that I was also contractually bound to as well.

"I'm very sorry to hear about your problems with the billing firm. Unfortunately I cannot call them off, discontinue using them or even bill further hours until your account with them is current as they function as both a billing agency and a creditor. If I do so, I risk a significant financial and legal exposure as part of the contract I signed with them."
No personal attacks on Hacker News, please.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927789 and marked it off-topic.
For a long time, Undo didn't work properly on the notebook interface for Desktop Mathematica. In fact, a lot of their tooling is pretty terrible. It's a shame, because it's a really interesting and powerful language (a lot different than matlab).
Dick Costolo has been a startup person since the mid-90s; one of his first companies, BurningDoor, was hosted at the ISP I ran tech for. He's a good guy. Or, I mean, he was last time I talked to him.
Right now, it's a tool that emails you if a new port opens up on your site. "Pingdom for open ports". I built it in response to a couple friends who got their sites hacked after deploying updates with mongodb or elasticsearch ports open.

The site is http://www.scriptcat.io (I submitted it to HN previously).
Color boxes, Phreaking, ASCII art groups, zips broken up at 1.44m, LOTD and other door games. That was my youth. Donation sent.
If the incremental cost makes sense for 30 users, it makes sense for 30,000.

And you have to put it in perspective: since their business is driving jitneys around the peninsula, acquiring thousands of vans per month would be a much bigger challenge than setting up the routes.
MUDs are still a thing! There are heaps of little bespoke ones here and there, and lots of resources on Reddit [0].

I played one called Major Mud back in the day. When World of Warcraft came out, I thought, it's about time!

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/

EDIT: Check out this MUD, which won MUD of the Month on the subreddit above: http://www.luminarimud.com/FMud/FMud.html
Sure, Mathematica is great. But showing the formulas does not mean showing how the code was interpreted -- ie, translated into machine instructions. So it's good for exerting power over equations that have known algorithms for solving efficiently. Not to knock his achievements. I mean, what have I done that's so cool?
He made a snarky comment about Andrew Bartbeit's death, so conservatives gave him a slew of one star reviews. If you filter by "verified purchases", it's not as polarized.
It's just subjective and unproductive noise.

The strict moderation and categorization is what makes stack exchange useful in general.
Why not use a free-form forum like Reddit for that kind of question? Because you know the answers are going to bullshit opinions and holy wars, mostly by people that are trying to solve different problems than you, or are actually less knowledgeable than you.

Given the fact that Reddit and similar forums suck for finding solutions to specific problems, why should a Q/A site that is good for finding solutions for specific problems try to emulate it?

Quora and Yahoo answers also suck because the questions are almost entirely anecdote and opinion based, and it seems to be acceptable to cite "experience" as a source for bullshit opinions. "Being a pilot with 10 years of experience" is not an adequate reference for a response to a question about the safety of using a cellphone radio on a commercial flight, nor does "being a veteran" count as original research into Iraqi popular support for the 2003 invasion.

Of the good "answers" from Quora that I've seen shared, all are basically long form blog posts that have found a "close enough" question to answer, rather than been motivated by the question, and I would have actually preferred to read them on medium or some other blog site. However interesting they are, they aren't answers.

I think projects like Rosetta code are useful for comparisons of programming languages, because they keep it concrete.
You can also look at big high-quality projects on github or whatever and directly judge the subjective qualities of a language for yourself, based on how readable the code looks to you.
> you are some much smaller percentage of 1 billion less wealthy, and the recipient is still receiving 1 billion in value.

Would you mind explaining how one can create value merely by donating?
I read that! It was definitely a catalyst for this question. I emailed my one user and let them know I'd be happy to personally help in any way I could. No response yet :)
Almost all software has a primary platform. There are a lot of free software apps where windows is either not a priority, or where the devs refuse to implement patches that improve how it works under windows. Additionally, this is just one engine that node supports, in addition to v8, and I assume that with this, other engines can, or could be added in the future. Node's goal is to be a javascript server platform, and that means having hooks both upward and downward to make developers' jobs easier.
First: full-height maximisation is sufficiently useful to me that I gravitate strongly toward environments which allow me to hotkey this. WindowMaker's remained my go-to largely for this reason, along with a handful of others.

Second: less-than-full-height windows can be quite useful. Being able to specify a "stack" into which, say, I place a video (or video-chat) app, various A/V controls, and possibly some monitors or other smaller windows, perhaps a shorter terminal window or three, is easily something I'd like to do.

With WindowMaker I can _arrange_ windows in a pseudo-tiled state. Unfortunately it's too easy to accidentally drag one off somewhere. Generally, though, this can be quite handy.

What I'd really like to be able to do is to specify roles for certain window locations. Say, a browser, image editor, and audio editor all occupying the same larger window space, which I can tab between.

And I think you're quite right about applicability of tiling metaphors.
I'm not sure if it's the right word, but EFF's stuff reeks of... triumphalism?

Even the tiniest improvement is always hailed as this massive victory.

In fairness, this is something many political groups are prone to.
1) FF still seems to require explicit locking

Actually, it's main claim to fame is being lock free (on Intel architectures). At most it requires a fence on weaker architectures (e.g. ARM) for one of the operations.

You don't use a mutex to communicate between workers, you send a message over a (lock free) queue.

Anyway, the auto-scheduling stuff in RaftLib looks pretty cool. Thanks for the response.
J.C. Bose and the Invention of Radio
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=p_trumpet
PH isn't great because of lack of transparency. See related discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827

There's OpenHunt, it's slowly gaining momentum www.openhunt.co
If you have Mathematica installed on your own server, then yeah, you can do both. If you just want to share a graph, then convert it to an image and host it on your own.
Strava shows the spent moving time by default. If you want the overall time to be shown you have to tag it as a "Race". https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/22428904-Using-Strava-Run...

I also want to point out that when running barefoot/minimal you reduce the stride and increase the cadence. In my experience the result of it is that speed its generally reduced, specially downhill and flat surface.

And by going completely barefoot the surface of the terrain it really defines the speed you can go. When going fast the pressure on the sole its greater and if the terrain its harsh you are forced to slow down. A lot of time until the point of walking, or even slower.
In complicated terrains the potential outcome for stepping over the wrong stone it really makes you to be conscious about every movement, slowing down as well.
Why detach it?
I initially thought about PH, but was scared off by the recent posts about needing an 'insider'. Maybe I shouldn't have let it deter me, but I'm also not sure my site is 'right' for Product Hunt and I'm definitely not an active part of their community.
. u already started by asking for help

- invite folks you know on an "sure to open your email/answer ur slack/im/sms" message and

-- invite folks you know little bit outside of that circle

--- invite folks in forums your' involved with (give/take)

--- invite folks on ur mostly active social media account

---- you can submit to betalist.com if it's beta private only

---- you can submit to producthunt.com if it's live and ready to be used
Why developers should be allowed to roam free
That's why when I build a company, I'm going to use a hash table.
We can still get the best days back. If we can help those who can't afford an education to get a free or discounted education in order to get the good paying jobs. In the old days a college degree was not required for a lot of jobs, and all a person had to do was show up for work and get trained to do it. These days a bachelors is required for entry level work and they screen people out by education and where they went to college.

As websites, AI programs, robots automate jobs there grows a demand for technology workers, while less skilled jobs vanish because they are now automated. Technology changes so fast that what I knew in 2002 is outdated in 2016 and keeps on changing so there is a constant learning cycle to keep up with technology.

The cost of a college education has gone up over time as well. Many find themselves with a high student loan and if they can't find work they struggle to try and pay it off with a minimum wage job. Even worse in order to live on campus they must have saved up money by working before going to college and student loans cover tuition and not books and room and board and meals.
Most of his comments were from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

FWIW, you should not use Paypal donations. Use payments instead. Otherwise that account will probably get locked again.
Shrug. And which central government issues laundry detergent? Your argument is circular-- if it's issued by a government, you call it a currency. If it's not, you don't, regardless of how people use it.

By the way, the position that you're taking that taxation creates money is called monetarism. It peaked in the 1970s and has been discredited in mainstream economics ever since. The reality is that people create government, and people create money, not the other way around.

Just to be clear, I'm not some big bitcoin propnent. Bitcoin is an interesting experiment but I'm keeping my US dollars.
We are in a similar place right now. I'm looking forward to seeing what people have to say.

Blight of the Immortals only has about 50 daily active users. We would like to grow a little to get a better idea about what people like and don't like about the game.

https://blight.ironhelmet.com

We've run some Facebook and Google ads and it looks like it costs around 35 - 40c a click. We only get about 10% sign-up so we are paying about $4 a user. (From what I have read that's about what to expect)

We still have a lot of cool stuff to add, but we make about $2 per new account, so I guess that means we are about halfway there :)
A total collapse of this bubble seems inevitable at this point.
I'm still waiting to hear if:
1. This story is verified legitimate and then if so
2. Where's Tesla's response?
This is true for lots of programs. Try installing TeXLive or a similar LaTeX distribution from a package manager. Usually it pulls in a *-docs package that takes up well more than half of the download.
“It feels like the security theater of community safety.”
https://matt.sh/howto-c
I've used both dynamic and statically typed languges, and also dabbled in some of the more flexible static languages like Haskell and Scala. While I personally prefer statically typed languages, I find Perl 6's gradual typing to take an interesting approach. Perl 6's type checker operates differently on functions and methods: functions, roles, and private methods are checked at compile time, but public methods are checked at run time. As Jonathan Worthington wrote in a presentation on Perl 6's approach, lexical scoping is "your language" but a public method call is "the object's language": "it's for the receiving object to decide how to dispatch the method," which might be familiar to people who have used Smalltalk. This approach also allows easy interoperability with libraries from dynamic languages, such as using Perl 5 or Python code in Perl 6.

I'm very interested to see how this approach works out in practice. Slides for Jonathan's "Getting Beyond Static vs Dynamic" can be found here: http://jnthn.net/papers/2015-fosdem-static-dynamic.pdf
How to Identify Incompetent Managers
I wonder how much of his programming know-how could be attributed to the high school curriculum.

In the 1970s Tasmania was the best equipped Australian state for computer based subjects. A lot of the schools had terminals to a central computer[1]. Buses, I/O devices and assembler topics were covered as early as year 9 levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E
Good question. I'm looking for someone US based, and preferably in a startup hub. As with a lot of startups being nailed down to a location is a bit of a negative because you often have to move based on where your investors are, or if it's decided that an accelerator is a good route to go. Where are you located?
The most interesting gang I've come across recently are the Pink Panthers. They specialize in jewelry and high-priced/luxury items.

Check out this Wikipedia summary:

>Named after The Pink Panther series of crime comedy films, Pink Panthers is the name given by Interpol to an international jewel thief network, composed mainly of ethnic Serbs, Montenegrins and Bosniaks, which is responsible for some of the most audacious thefts in criminal history.[2] They are responsible for what have been termed some of the most glamorous heists ever, and one criminologist even described their crimes as "artistry".[1] They have targeted several countries and continents, and include Japan's most successful robbery ever amongst their thefts. A film documentary based upon their thefts, Smash & Grab, was released in 2013.

>Some law enforcement agencies suspect that the group is responsible for over US$500 million in gold robberies in Dubai, Switzerland, Japan, France, Liechtenstein, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Monaco. Law enforcement authorities suspect their involvement in the robbery of the jewelry store Harry Winston in Paris, on 9 December 2008. The thieves escaped with more than €80 million worth of jewelry.

Fascinating!

Rest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Panthers

So to answer that rhetorical question whether "it is still possible to get away with a heist"... well, yes, if you are are really, really good at it.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "hobby" project but if prospective got a whiff of such a thing, I suspect they'd pass. I would at least try to exude more seriousness about the product, unless it's a game or something frivolous.
focus on channels u r familiar with and gradually learn about other channels/build rep and help others.
Thank you for the recommendations! I'm always up for a good book.

The book seems like it's targeted for rapid growth rather than the small/steady growth I'm looking for. Is that the case? I'd be interested in reading it either way, but I'd like to hear more.

The URL is http://www.scriptcat.io :)
That's from Independence Day(1996)[0] for anyone curious.

[0] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/quotes?item=qt1534129
From Kansas as well. Some parts are worse than the others. Topeka is like ground zero and I wish my family there would move. But it should be expected because the political situation has basically frozen the state employees paychecks for 10+ years and all the blue collar manufacturing jobs there have slowly dried up. KC area is better than the rest of the state. Wichita area not great but not as bad as other parts from what I can tell.

I don't think you can pin all of this on interest rate hikes and it is not all tech, or at least all Silicon Valley startups. It's a combination of globalization, a much more service oriented economy than before, and some political decisions that ate away at the middle class (especially lower middle) in favor of wealthy interests.
For the current stage, this is the most important piece of advice. Everyone else is right: promotion is important. Sharing the product here, on Facebook, Reddit, etc. are all fine ideas, and asking your co-workers to try it out will be a great step as well.

But you want to present the best possible version of the product to your co-workers, friends, and family. So ask your one user a couple questions, along the lines of:

* What do they like about using your product? What problem does the product solve for them?

* What do they dislike about using your product? (What problems does it create, or leave unsolved?)

Beyond that, make sure that the UI is good. Then start promoting by the ways that other people have suggested.
Touch screens obviously aren't the answer here, but a good trackpad setup might be okay. I used to use Apple's "magic trackpad" when I had a macintosh desktop, and it did gesture inputs really well, though I always seemed to run into discomfort/strain issues earlier than I did with a mouse (which is part of why I switched back.) That could be unique to me, but I'd guess that the need to hover your hand above the pad is not good for anyone. I'd be up for trying that setup again if someone had a good idea to solve that problem.
So, I just read the readme and haven't even fully digested that, but the tool I'd have used in the past four this kind of problem space was tcpdump + tcptrace (http://tcptrace.org). To help me understand tcpdive, how would you compare the two?
Next-generation network time-servers are FPGA-based
That's a really interesting point. Maybe "hobby project" wasn't the best word choice. I just wanted to emphasize that I'm not looking for rocket-ship growth (or even money), just a way to slowly get users who will find use in my app.