skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<<purchased by professional buyers at Japanese auctions>>

How did you find these buyers? Are these just auto brokers (e.g., these guys are popular in SV: http://www.hammerauto.com/) or is this something different?
Ask HN: What are the best options for cloud IDEs?
Lets, be honest, it's not like academics is the only place this happens. CS labs are essentially small companies (1 CEO, 2-3 senior members, and 5-10 junior members). The only difference is that the company produces papers, producing usable code that you support is actually very hard and takes away from the work that actually matters. I'm actually much less worried about being scooped by releasing my code, and much more worried about having to answer emails asking me how to get the hacked together code to run on their machine or their dataset.
We're seeing the rise of humanity's vile offspring (to borrow from Accelerando)... ethereal ideas birthed from greed and made corporeal by law, financial machines beyond the power or comprehension of individuals.
Personally I'm most interested in quite small homes because thats what I'd likely be able to afford. Something on the order of $100k. Potentially your business model could be to build some of these, rent them out at market rates, but Acre profits based on how much maintenance/energy cost is actually saved. I know it'd be capital heavy, but it would force you to actually deliver the value you claim.
Thanks for the comment - that was a nice explanation. We will see what we can do!
How to schedule your life around working from home
Maybe it's survival bias. Explosive workers who spend a lot of time reading up on the latest industry literature after work survive longer than those who hit the bar after work? (Yes, if the death rate made a measurable difference here, OSHA would step in.)
Java makes plugin-like scenarios very hard. The kind of thing you'd do with a typeclass in languages that have them. There's OSGi (the horror, the horror) which maybe-kinda-sorta-works, or there's the SPI where you put the class name in a .service file (which will then be instantiated though... reflection). When those are the alternatives, DI frameworks aren't so bad.
Awesome news! In case you don't know - this is the technology that first started as GemFire, the in-memory data grid.
You can have a look at Eclipse Che, I tested it not so long ago and it was pretty good.
Macros should never be ugly. There are multiple ways of using compile-time metaprogramming in a nice and clean way.

Maybe even in Rust, although I have not tried it yet.
You don't know this fashion brand but you should
This is my favorite, understated, fashion brand, high tech functionality. Overall cool stuff. Enjoy.

http://siliconalley.com/its-back-the-brand-you-dont-know-but-should-is-on-sale/481/
If you mean societal shift in terms of accepting online dating, that happened a long time ago. But I think in your age range what you're talking about is access. College-educated 20-somethings are largely single and spend a lot of time around single people. As people get older or more rural the market thins out and serendipity needs a little help.

On the other hand, for people who are finding they just don't meet enough single people naturally, I do recommend approaches like Meetup vs direct dating sites, for all the reasons you mentioned plus you immediately get past all the awkward artificial BS that happens on dating sites. And I don't mean the singles groups on Meetup, just do something fun that might interest the opposite sex. We married with children types (at least young children) don't have much time for that sort of thing anyway and the attendance will naturally skew towards singles.
Do you get a good deal though?

I can't help but think the only reason dealerships would buy into this is to make the guy who doesn't want to haggle pay more
Even though those amenities weren't included in the original cost/benefit of the deal because VW sprung them on the City halfway through the process it still might have been covered by increased sales/property tax until it turned out that demand for the Passat had peak the year it opened and they had several rounds of layoffs in the following years.
My personal favorite: Cloud9 (c9.io). Includes many built-in functionalities and they have a responsive support team.
I think problem sets in textbooks already do this; you do multiple problems relating in different ways to a lesson and so you learn how to master it in different ways.
I was also wondering how they successfully rule out other possibilities. Many people seem very eager to believe. Some skepticism here can help aid a more thorough understanding.
All the more reason to choose the latter: painting the car you steal should be the more obvious choice. Reprogramming a new key, too. He's learned that lesson the hard way.
I'm doing the same, naturally. Squeezing, in general. And it indeed helps me at least over the first 5 minutes - which is my biggest hurdle.
A longer time ago I had a 40min presence on TV, and I'm giving talks in front of 5 to 100 people.
Urgh. I find design patterns the worst approach. It's just copy-paste at a slightly higher level. If you really understand a pattern, you should be able to express it formally - i.e. as code.
> We want to build a great product and to do that, you have to hire great people, so we came up with a pricing that'll hopefully achieve that.

None of that is customer value. Pricing must favor my needs over any of your company's long term goals.
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Why not post it here and get feedback from here before proceeding to a fully polished version?
That's the exact one I thought of. On top of it, there's typed assembler:

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/

And Vx86 used in Microsoft hypervisor:

http://swt.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/maus/dissemain.p...

Note: Microsoft also used a TAL, though can't recall if same as Cornell, in their VerveOS that was verified down to assembler. Combined with SLAM, it's safe to say their researchers are kicking serious behind on practical, cutting-edge verification. I wouldn't have believed it 10+ years ago if someone told me haha.
For syncing between [some] real-time systems, check out https://sameroom.io
In one sense you're practicing the wrong thing. You need to practice going off from the top of your head, not practice any particular routine or speech. How long can you talk to yourself without going blank on what to say next, or getting stuck in a repetition loop? If you have this down, then you can practice speeches, but when you inevitably forget something because memory isn't perfect, your skills at improvising and filling in the blanks and shifting topics will save you. Watch one of John Carmack's talks. He just stands for three hours talking. No slides, no notecards. Sure he goes over notes and ideas for what he wants to talk about beforehand, but he doesn't memorize his talk. That'd take way too long.
I'm personally somewhat biased (probably unfairly) against people that use a full name and photo rather than a handle, if I don't know them. I just have this gut feeling that their pull request is probably "I've rewritten this cli tool in node.js!" or something. It's a purely tribal thing, but that may explain it to some extent (then again, I feel like github is the home of people like that, so it should work as an in-group marker? Dunno)
I think it was Ford which said it was actually working on a system to orient the car based on objects on the side of the road, rather than lane lines, so that it'd be able to drive in snow. Of course, that probably works in light snow, but not Chicago "the landscape is no longer similar to what it was before" snow.
great product that is running in production in many organizations
The light is constant, which means it moves at the same speed in both cases (assuming the light is in a vacuum). It won't move faster or slower based on the gravity field (other than in the case of black hole where it can't escape at all).

What happens instead is that the speed that an object moves through space-time changes dependent upon gravity. Using an atomic clock, we've actually measured the effect of gravity to show that time moves more slowly down on earth than it does in an orbiting satellite.
> I understand if you are relying on a large portion of a library and you need to use it, but why bring an entire library in for one function.

Why not? An extra 3MB of disk space? A few milliseconds more of compile time? Maven makes it very easy to work with dependencies (and you want to use maven anyway, even if you have no dependencies, so that you have a proper release process). At this point I think of basic utility libraries like guava-collections, commons-io, httpclient and junit as part of the standard library. If I need even one function from one of them I'll add the dependency. Better that than have two inconsistent ways of doing the same thing.
great product running in many organizations, this is an excellent development
>You may be right

No... no, they're not.
I'm late to this discussion, but did you possibly miss stpcpy() and its variants? Or is something about them that doesn't meet your needs?

STPCPY(3) Linux Programmer's Manual

NAME
stpcpy - copy a string returning a pointer to its end

SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>

char *stpcpy(char *dest, const char *src);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

stpcpy():
Since glibc 2.10:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
Before glibc 2.10:
_GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
The stpcpy() function copies the string pointed to
by src (including the terminating null byte ('\0')) to the
array pointed to by dest. The strings may not overlap,
and the destination string dest must be large enough to
receive the copy.

RETURN VALUE
stpcpy() returns a pointer to the end of the string
dest (that is, the address of the terminating null byte)
rather than the beginning.

CONFORMING TO
This function was added to POSIX.1-2008. Before that, it
was not part of the C or POSIX.1 standards, nor customary
on UNIX systems, but was not a GNU invention either. Perhaps
it came from MS-DOS. It is also present on the BSDs.

BUGS
This function may overrun the buffer dest.

EXAMPLE
For example, this program uses stpcpy() to concatenate foo
and bar to produce foobar, which it then prints.

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
char buffer[20];
char *to = buffer;

to = stpcpy(to, "foo");
to = stpcpy(to, "bar");
printf("%s\n", buffer);
}

SEE ALSO
memccpy(3), stpncpy(3), wcpcpy(3)
Parse going open source is all good... But is it only me that considered one of the best things with Parse being their very generous free tier?
This is excellent news. Banks will spend time and money on hiring consultants and lawyers to patent meaningless buzzwords. If for some bizarre reason the U.S. doesn't reform patents by the time these patents are granted (a long process) they will be devoid of any value except protection.

I actually think some within these banks hate the patent system as much as startups but are obligated to due this as a matter of professional security. It is just game theory 101, most institutions would be better off without dumping resources into lawyers, litigation and goodwill writedown, but if just one other institution does, they could potentially all be skewered.

I am working at a tiny fintech company and we are trying to do business with "banks". Which I found out pretty much immeadiately, are in much worse shape than I believed.

They all have these fiserv and digital insight systems, CRMs , front end providers, state regulation, federal regulation, lead generation, analytics software, 3rd party clearing software.

A fucking mess.

Radius Bank is one that looks particularly cool and similar to Simple or something, an online bank. The fact is that, to the extent banking stays within the current monetary system, small vertically integrated technology driven companies will be able to provide more, adapt faster and just dominate.

Which is why I am not worried about the patent scenario. If a big bank wants to patent blockchain, and then hire consultants to hire a CTO to hire a team to build it they will discover 5 years from now that not only is it hard to do, but it is tough to sue a decentralized network.
I'd been using Cloud 9 c9.io. It's really good since it gives you a terminal and repl shell to play with.

The only issue is that c9 seems more suited for web development.
Show HN: Excalibur: the best way to explain your open source project
Let's just forget about the entire ethical argument around breaking an existing policy/legal condition of doing business, as important as that is wrt health insurance.

Who in their right mind thinks taking the time to design, then publish, a way to defeat a relatively straightforward education requirement is in any way a worthwhile thing to do? There is a level of ego there that goes beyond rational decision making: you aren't cheating the system for an advantage; you're cheating just because you can, because it makes you feel better than others. That's some borderline psychopathic behaviour really.

Did Zenefits employees really gain anything from not having to complete the required 52 hours? Was it really that big of an ordeal? Or was this a matter of just being smug about 'not needing' to do some very basic requirement they felt was beneath them? There is an element of hubris there that is unbecoming in and of itself.

These are (very minimal, really) licencing requirements. There is a minimal amount of effort that an employee should be expected to put in to do their job legally. The assumption is that exposure through time to the subject matter will increase knowledge. That may not be true in every situation, but it likely is in a majority; the rule exists. The exposure generated from choosing to "fight this battle" and losing is miles greater than any particular payoff achieved in victory. That alone indicates to me that the person in charge has a poor grasp of weighing risks/rewards, regardless of personal ethics.

Some things just aren't worth fighting because the risks in losing are so disproportional to any net gain from winning. This is a perfect example. A good CEO needs to know how to pick and choose the hills to fight on.

Lesson learned here: Not every component of your business needs to be disrupted. Some things aren't worth disrupting at all, really.
I'm involved in a project that uses Parse, and by this point the client SDKs are so thoroughly embedded into our codebase that changing to another backend system would indeed be a fair bit of work. Apparently modular design is a thing.

Fortunately, Parse has provided us with more advanced warning and open-source support that I could ever have expected. This is consistent with my experience using the service; you probably don't remember, but you personally responded to a tweet I sent regarding an outage, and followed up to make sure that the issue was resolved for me.

Many thanks to you and your team for all your hard work.
Ask HN: Any Advise on Filing for an SBIR Grant?
I am looking to file for an SBIR grant, but I really have no idea what I am doing. If anyone done this before, I would appreciate any tips, pitfalls, or any advice you could give.

I also noticed this article: http://johnwhale.tumblr.com/post/137379311027/grants-aka-using-government-money-to-do-good

It makes it seem super easy, but upon some digging this seems like a massive mess for my teams startup.
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I really hope you're talking about taxes. That's where half of my salary is going to, not to some mythical "evil rich", but to pay for beurocracy and welfare programs.
That sounds like a tractor beam to me.
At my startup, I've dealt with ~4700 reports on my own over a few years. So to me I'd guess 2500 between 5 devs, even part-time, is manageable.

The #1 most absolutely key aspect of the way I deal with this volume of issues is: have clear, specific bug report guidelines, and instant-close without investigation any reports that don't follow it to the letter. The goal is to (somewhat ruthlessly) train users in to making useful reports. This does frustrate users sometimes, but it's actually in everyone's interest: if they make good reports their issue is more likely to be fixed, and as the developer I can't spend hours every day figuring out how to extract information from a relatively uncooperative non-technical user. In fact at a startup there's simply not the time.
See https://www.google.com/loon/
I did similar, but instead of Spotify, after a trial period with Google Play Music decided to keep it. Much happier with the stations and ability to play some full albums I'm interested in. Cancelled the digital portion of Sirius XM to help justify the cost. Pandora was good for a long period of time, but now I hardly ever listen to it.
We should have the second design with 3 new sizes up next week and a 3rd design in March.

Check out the news section for a home we just completed with video of the build process. Maybe we'll push that up front a bit more. It's at a different price point, so have to battle that, but its good example.

We'll also have a model home complete late summer and available for people to AirBnB. It's hard to map out all of the differences online and in text, but the open house we had for the last home left fantastic impressions.

It will still be an early adopter audience, but we can add content to build confidence.

Homes were designed for the Kansas City climate initially, so will handle most weather. Easily adapted for northern and southern extremes. A custom, architect designed home of this nature will cost much more and be a long process, we are trying to amortize those costs over many homes. Maybe a couple of comparisons would help gel the differences?

It's tough trying to qualify buyers in this context with out being too blunt or too wordy. Experiment away!

Thanks for your analysis!
Hehe, I once tested a MPI program intended for a supercomputer on my 2-core ARM chromebook.

It ran. It was not very fast.
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Uh the article seems pretty effusive in its praise for tall buildings. It also had two words about his faith and 2500 about his engineering abilities. It's fine if you didn't read it.
I'd take fewer people online in general. The number of people that are glued to their smartphones because of all this supposed progress frightens me.
Also don't trust Microsoft.
Wow, I totally agree. The anguish and discomfort I felt at reading the story was far greater than seeing the clip.

As a totally neutral outsider I just saw a guy having a bad couple minutes, still confident in himself but fumbling with the tension of being in a high pressure situation.

Reading the story of his feelings behind the moment was fascinating and oddly comforting having faced one or two situations of extreme pressure myself!

I'm really glad he had the courage and fortitude to write about what happened.
Offensive Security's PWK course is probably your best bet. In-depth training and a highly-regarded certification. Online mentoring via web forums and IRC and they are great folks.

I went through PWK and its predecessor PWB.

It's pretty damned cheap and you can get from 30-90 days lab time. I recommend 90 days, though.

It is kinda boot camp style and pretty demanding. You will learn how to chase the EIP CPU register and write your own exploits, as well as web vulns, sqli, etc etc.

https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-trai...
The real reasons Facebook shut down Parse
The situation isn't really the same; these are valley sales-types making decisions about how to provide medical insurance to thousands, and it's likely that they haven't had any formal training on what (and what not) to do.
It's still better than using centiinches per millihours.
Thanks for taking the time to write that up. It makes sense from that perspective.
> I'm pretty sure a graviton generator would just be a novelty device that weighs more than what it's mass would lead you to think it weighs

Which would make space travel a lot easier - no more worrying about bone density loss!
Simplifying Legalese for the Internet Age
Any good suggests on where to learn how contract law works?
Of course we don't: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeed.com. Two of the biggest HN stories from the past two days alone were from Buzzfeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075336, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11061992. Usually the complaint I hear is "why is Buzzfeed on HN".

Buzzfeed is one of a class of sites that produce a lot of dreck as well as the occasional high-quality article. There are many such sites, mostly media outlets. HN's solution is to penalize them (a little) by default, but take the penalty off under different circumstances, such as if a moderator sees than an article is good or the submitter has a solid track record.

This has proven to be a reasonable compromise. The alternatives—not penalizing these sites at all or banning them altogether—are a lot more problematic, which is how we arrived at this strategy in the first place.
Have you listened to the paid subscription high quality streams from pandora?
"Modern" C is char16_t and char32_t. The old wchar_t type has many issues. You can read more here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1286.pdf
I think they do both , in the spirit of competition.

One thing that worries me - i think that they chose this versus pc-based because they don't want to help or depend on microsoft.

But using pc's have financial advantages for users , and wireless low-latency connection between the headset and the pc seems possible , and i'm sure some startup is working on it.
While numbers may seem like they give empirical data, this kind of comparison has no benefit because it is out of context.

There's no way you can draw any conclusions based on these numbers, aside from that they are different projects with different rates of code activity.
Are there any good data sources on how much money is actively in play for this scenario across the industry?

I hear a lot of doom and gloom "the apocalypse is upon us" headlines, but I have yet to see numbers that show that all of these overly-funded startups without sustainable businesses going poof will have a massive impact on the broader picture (or the public markets outside of a few edge cases that are already seeing corrections).

Sure some people will be out of jobs, and that really sucks, but the market is still hot and they will be scooped up into companies that are doing just fine. Are there really enough people employed by unsustainable startups to do sizable damage to the economy or the housing market should they all disappear overnight?

Serious question--I've seen lots of hearsay, but little actual data on this specific aspect of things.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Can you elaborate?
Smart quotes in code that's meant to be copy-pasted. That's a paddlin'.
Yes, pretty close.
A couple of weeks ago, researching options for remote pair programming I signed up to Cloud9... and I was quite (positively) surprised! They give you a full VM/container so you can play with a proper Terminal..

I only disliked one thing.. I couldn't install yeoman for scaffolding some apps.. I don't know why! I'll need more research...
Pixelated joins Rails Girls Summer of Code. Go hack a usable privacy solution
Also, http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Martin Shkreli Offers $10M for ‘The Life of Pablo’
> There was absolutely no downside to growing as fast as your imagination could manage - despite an accumulation of red flags, technical debt, and unhappy employees.

I worked at LivingSocial early in my career and this is so true. There is a limit to how quickly organizations can grow (given our current understanding) and still be healthy.

Employee happiness and related metrics (e.g. retention) is the biggest indicator of health. I don't care that you hired 400 people this year. Can you retain 40 world-class people?
Very promising. Love how you can set the color of attributes: <button twitter>Hello</button>