skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
March 5th - We signed up to the waitlist the instant we heard about it

April 8th - Received an invite. They gave up a form to fill out online where we had to upload some IDs and other details.

April 10th - The docusign (digital signature) email documents came along with a legal/tax guide. We filled that out on Apr 19th.

We ended up delaying for a while discussing the tax implications since we're moving from a low tax (Hong Kong) to much higher tax (Delaware C-Corp) area. Unlike Hong Kong, taxes in the US appear much much more complicated and intimidating. Ultimately for our startup, we weighed the benefits and decided to go ahead.

May 16th - Decided to go ahead with the incorporation and signed all the forms (via docusign)

May 17th - Get 15k AWS credits emails (super cool)

May 19th - Our Stripe payments account was opened "You can now accept payments via Stripe" Email

May 19th - "Welcome to SVB Bank" email with login details

May 25th - "Your Company is now incorporated" w Certificate of Incorp attached

June 4th - "Your Company now has an EIN", which a number ID to file taxes

June 21st - SVB Bank asked us to print out a few docs to sign. Basically to confirm we received the EIN.

And that's it. In most cases, it only takes a few days once you've signed the forms to be able to start taking payments via Stripe US (so you get the cheaper Stripe US fees rather than the more expensive international fees).

As an international, we ended taking a while to decide if a US incorporation was the way to go. There's 2 reasons we hesitated:

1) Stripe released a beta in Asia where you can accept payments in many Asian countries. No more Braintree/Paypal crap so you don't need to have US bank account to use Stripe and the Stripe API.

2) American taxes are pretty high (compared to HK), and there seems to a lot more rules and paperwork required.

For us, what pushed us to go ahead despite our reservations was that we spent 1 week in SF (for our YC interview). We didn't get in, but we scheduled a lot of meetings while we were there and we realised if we were to raise any sort of significant funding, a Delaware C-corp is a prerequisite.
Fraud, tax avoidance and money laundering fueling Vanvouver's housing market
North Korean Bans Sarcasm
Making money is the point here. It's not illegal for me to point at a guy selling bootleg DVDs on the streets of NY. But if you pay me to show you where you can buy bootleg DVDs in NY, I'm pretty sure I'd be found to be at least an accessory.
It is interesting that there is a good python interface for ArangoDB now. I realy missed it.
It's more or less become trite to say that about US politics, I don't know why you would get flak for it.
I'm in Baltimore, and as mediocre as it is, most of the danger one faces is just teenagers in groups being stupid teenagers (if you're not involved in drugs the crime from that world doesn't affect you as much, unless you're stuck living in one of those neighborhoods). Property crime is done more so by addicts looking to steal your gardening equipment.

So yea, hunger generally isn't what leads directly to crime, but the crime does exist because these teenagers have wants and needs that aren't being met, to the point that they would rob someone, steal their bike, etc. There are kids here who sell cold water and soda on the street corners to make money. If they're working selling drinks on their summer break, they probably know what hunger is.
But that does not provide any substance to the opinion that it will be good.
Additional Notes on “Drawing Dynamic Visualizations” (2013)
Tron Legacy Soundtrack (Daft Punk) - For me this has to be the all time best working music - never found something with the same soothing but motivating composure.
Funny, Rick Falkvinge took the opposite interpretation on the ruling:

> EU Supreme Court: Hyperlinks are legal, even when linking to illegal publications

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/09/eu-suprem...
The bad experiences we have had with docker have been from devicemapper bugs. Since devicemapper is part of the linux kernel I can't exactly blame docker. We really need a (limited) multi-host solution and have been using rancher.
We could create 6 TLDR threads for the 6 ideas so we could discuss them in their own branches. Any TLDR volunteers? :-)
Absolutely agree, but recent news articles suggest that many of the rural communities that contain prisons are functionally dependent on this free/cheap labor for public services (landscaping, trash clean up, etc.). When prison populations decline, there is a perception that the community suffers in excess of the potential for lost employment. Paying the inmates a proper wage would have a comparable effect.
I was also thinking a 24 hour turn game would be nice. Then I can just check in every day at the same time, no way I will find a good 12 hour routine for a few weeks. Probably would work if you just allocated more resources per turn with more initial resources. Regardless, looks fun.
What .net are you running on containers? Mono? .Net Core? Is it working for you well outside of Windows server?
> So that's the opposite of what mine said, but: definitely I think you should listen to your accountant more carefully than HN comments.

Ha! "But foobar22 on the internets said it'd be okay if I claimed X as a deduction? Why am I being auditing?!"

There should be a global disclaimer when you sign up for an HN account that tells you to listen to your lawyer, your doctor, your accountant ...
As a person who almost never drinks alcohol (that stuff tastes nasty) an alcohol-lock would just be a big annoyance.
Can anyone tell if this is transitive? Let's say you link to a picture or download you don't own. This ruling says you are guilty of infringement, right? Now what happens when I link to your site? Am I guilty too? And when someone else links to mine? Am I now responsible for ensuring the entire web of links downstream of mine is not infringing? Or is there a criminal intent thing here, so people like Google can still link to the pirate bay because it's simply part of the internet?
I think the parent poster is misremembering. Economics in One Lesson isn't by Thomas Sowell. Not sure it should be characterized as a libertarian textbook either - most would class it as coming from the school of classical economics.

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/04/economics_in_on.html is worth reading.
It's a bit of a failure on our (gravitational) side as we are moving fast and haven't submitted PR yet. We will definitely try to merge upstream soon though. We've added several features and changes to the code compared to Simone's version:

* S3 backup restore feature
* RPC to communicate with controller over API
* Refactored client and updated the CLI
* Updated and slimmed down base images
Lexing and Parsing Inside the GoLang Compiler
You could also wrap your output in a struct, or tuple if so inclined
What nostalgia-- I loved this game as a kid, and haven't seen it brought up for a long time. Technical details aside, I would love to play this in widescreen.

Edit: wow, I just checked out the domain, they are completely updating it?? Everything looks true to the original. I love it. http://www.thedragonstrap.com/
Spark's MLLib is pretty weak compared to other options.
always reminds the listener (and himself) that he is also subject to confirmation bias.

I really like Econtalk and I don't really have any reason to doubt his sincerity, but I've realized that to people like me who dislike pundits, that kind of self-processed humility could be a really dangerous manipulation technique :)
Similar situation, I found working remotely and remaining stationary make me lead a happier life. Every time I find myself around others I tend to start losing myself and it takes weeks to 'realign'.

Working towards building a remote studio and resigning myself to music for the rest of my life.
As far as I can see from the rest of the document, the reason why profit motive is clumsily forced into that sentence is because it was argued that the act of posting the link itself was an attempt to increase the site's revenue because the owners were aware the public would be interested in visiting their webpage linking to the material because it wasn't authorised for publication anywhere at the time. Hence their decision to draw attention to it with "leaked pics" headline and post-DMCA-takedown followup headlines referring to the copyright holder whilst linking to new copies of the material. In other words they're saying that a publisher that has demonstrated awareness that a particular piece of material is so difficult to find that they can generate extra pageviews and revenue from communicating the fact they have a link to it, they can reasonably be expected to have carried out some checks to the provenance of the linked material. We're talking about a situation where the existence of the link and intimation that it might not be authorised was the subject of a headline, not an entry in a directory or search result. A natural reading of "links are provided without the pursuit of financial gain" is that if the posting of hyperlink(s) to copyrighted material is incidental to the profitability of your site you're probably not in danger of falling foul of that particular directive.

There are other more unambiguous statements acknowledging existing case law which appears to rule out webmasters falling foul of websites' mutability like:
The user makes an act of communication when it intervenes, in full knowledge of the consequences of its action, to give access to a protected work to its customers, and does so, in particular, where, in the absence of that intervention, its customers would not, in principle, be able to enjoy the broadcast work
Perhaps it's time for a campaign to rename type 1 diabetes.
Haskell has been around for over 20 years. If it hasn't set the programming world on fire yet, there are probably reasons.
I would much rather be safer than a few seconds faster.
Elon Musk Borrowing $150M From Goldman Sachs to Buy More Tesla Stock (2013)
> Despite the huge success of deep neural networks, nobody is quite sure how they achieve their success.

Is that true?
After reading Jeff Hawkings - "On intelligence" book (2004), for me it's pretty much clear why they are so successful on that set of tasks. Despite of HTM model built by Jeff being kind of different from DNN, the idea and origin of brain and consciousness described pretty well.
All modern advances in neuroscience just prove how strong the theory in this book is.
Absolutely. I had a computer and internet access growing up, now I have a high paying computer job. A lot of people did not and do not have that. I'm happy taking from someone who is making a decent income and giving it to those who are not.

A lot of my coworkers have the opinion, "Ok, you donate but don't tell me what to do with my money." They'd love to privatize roads, just live on their land and forget all else. It's silly though, we're in a society, the people at the bottom support the people at the top. The people at the bottom don't have the same opportunity as the people at the top. Give me the chance and I'd be a benevolent dictator and rather than give computer guy a chance to own a Tesla, make sure no one at the bottom knows what hunger is.
ZEIT – The Now CLI goes open-source
You find a problem to solve.

http://000fff.org/the-problem-with-problems/

If you don't know what you want to do, send me a mail I have plenty of need for a technical cofounder so perhaps we can figure something out.
It's interesting to read this as I've had instances running on servers for years without having to be restarted. That's on Ubuntu. Maybe the binaries they distribute aren't adequately tested on other distros?
This conversation is awful. This seems like a bunch of armchair developers with really strong opinions and no real world experience.

No experienced developer I want to work with has the kind of dogmatic views that most of the people in this chat log have. FP and OOP are both just tools, how you use them is way more important than which tool you choose.
They mean unauthorized copies of copyrighted works, not all copyrighted works.

A previous ruling of the CJEU covered a similar situation to your hypothetical, and ruled that once something is made freely available to the general Internet by the copyright holder, they lose the right to control who can link to that content. Of course, they retain the right to control who can copy it.

YouTube has a system in place for reporting infringing content. It's not necessarily very effective, but it's better - from a legal standpoint - than being told repeatedly that content is infringing and but intentionally and knowingly republishing links to the content each time another set of infringing copies gets taken down.
Your comment makes a lot of sense.

A friend of mine, now over 50, still struggles with his mother's rejection throughout his childhood. He and his siblings have confirmed stories of malice (bleeding after being beaten by his mother with a whip, euthanising a much loved pet out of spite, etc).

Despite enduring years of torment, he still seeks his mother's affection. She died a long time ago and he never came to terms with the loss or the lack of love or the malice his mother frequently demonstrated.

It leaves me with a feeling of deep sadness when I see how cruel some parents are to their own children. It also leaves me even sadder when excuses are made for some of these abusers (she must have suffered depression, poor woman).
From the YouTube link:

Extended transcript with more results and full references can be found here:

http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2016/07/23/correctness-and-c...
"Anyone feel like breaking their legal documents for my personal curiosity?"
New chip could bring highest level of encryption to any mobile device
Surely there are reasons. And those reasons need be nothing to do with whether it's worth using Haskell in 2016.
Dell Fires 3000 US Employees, Requests 5000 Visas for Foreign Workers
Try the web link in an incognito window?
config(8) is a utility that has two purposes, the first is to turn a kernel configuration file (GENRIC/GENRIC.MP) into a build directory for compiling, second to modify a resulting ELF kernel binary using an interface similar to the boot time kernel configuration prompt UKC>

For example, when booting OpenBSD you can type boot -c in the bootloader to enter the UKC> prompt to disable integrated drivers from attaching, i.e:

ukc> disable acpibat

ukc> quit

..continues booting the kernel, but this doesn't work with USB keyboards as there is no USB stack before the kernel is even loaded, this works better with PS/2 keyboards and serial consoles.

You can also boot the same USB flash drive on another computer, run the config utility against an OpenBSD kernel, repeat the same UKC commands, and save a modified kernel with those changes so that a boot can proceed on the HP Stream 7.
Yes, monitoring requires a lot of tuning until you find a sweet spot, but it doesn't sound like this is something that would've been buried deep in the annals of monitor. CPU/load data on your web servers should be pretty visible/accessible and one of the first graphs that get pulled up (and your alarms should've pointed out the issue anyway).

I'm not sure what you're using for dashboards but Datadog makes it pretty easy to find this stuff. I'm not a Datadog shill and I actually am not a huge fan of the product, but it's what we use and it's been a big help over our previous Munin installation.

Other process changes that could prevent this are good load testing in a stage environment and getting your company using the real prod code on the real prod infrastructure as its main/default install. A lot of the benefits of "dogfooding" are lost if you're using alpha code on dev-only boxes (as you state that you are in another comment).

As another commenter said, I'm not sure that postmortems like this are valuable unless the problem was particularly complex/interesting. I'm sure that a lot of people at Asana know how to fix this and that it's just a matter of getting management to allow them to do so. I'm sure you owe your customers an explanation of some sort, but I don't know if you need to get into details that say "Yeah, it was just a pretty typical organizational failure, we really should've known better". Everyone has those, but it's best not to publicize them too much.

I'm not going to hold it against Asana because I've worked at a lot of companies and I know how this goes, but when people come here and analyze the cause, as a postmortem invites the readers to do, you seem a little defensive. Perhaps it's best to keep the explanation more brief/vague when it's not a complex failure.
I really believe the future is a mixed OOP and FP world. I think we will see industry use languages like Scala and F# more and more.

In mission critical portions of systems people will use a functional style and try to isolate state, while most things in an OO style will be just fine.

I also believe the crazy complexity of OO languages like Java is slowly being reigned in. With other languages like Go explicitly making trade offs towards simplicity.
At this day and age people should be familiar with multiple paradigms. Whether procedural, functional, or Object-Oriented they are all useful. This is why you see languages like C++, Java, and C# adding support for them all.

It is useful to express a particular problem domain in a way that is efficient and makes sense.

I would be more interested in a discussion about concurrency because it becomes more relevant across the programming-language or paradigm barrier. Because at the end of the day we are confined by how the hardware operates and concurrency is very much a modern way of thinking as developers.
I agree Bayesian techniques are important, and satisfying intellectually.

The problem is that it is entirely possibly to build perfectly good models without ever touching anything Bayesian (excluding naive-Bayes classifiers perhaps!), and then adding Bayesian techniques will rarely improve the accuracy in anyway.

But I'm happy to admit my understanding of Bayesian techniques is incomplete. It's something I'm working on (https://probmods.org/ is great), but I just haven't found anywhere to use it in anger yet.
I feel for her.

What can we actually do to help, beyond upvoting and discussing it?
Is the disassembled and annotated code online somewhere?

I've had a lot of fun reading disassemblies of Pokemon Red https://github.com/pret/pokered
Those are not screen space reflections. For one, they are impossible to do without a z-buffer (which that game did not have), not to mention it would be an extremely stupid idea to do such an expensive computation for a flat mirror.
I don't think Dropbox is listed on the App Store (I doubt it meets the sandboxing restrictions)
I strongly recommend "The Undercover Economist" written by Tim Harford, A Financial Times columnist with a BS and MS Economics from Oxford. It is fun to read and focuses on microeconomics (market inefficiencies, market failures). He has a chapter dedicated to the failing economy of Cameroon which he visited and the growing economy of China.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199926514/

Harford also as a book on macroeconomics, "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/159463291X/

Harvard Economist Eduard Glaeser is an expert on cities and he will help to explain (as does Harford) that the reason for the high cost of housing in NYC, London, SF, SD, LA, DC, Boston, and other cities is because of "economic rents" which is a market inefficiency that in this case uses politics to create artificial scarcity in housing through zoning density restrictions. These economics rents benefit landlords by transferring wealth from apartment renter to landlord.

Glaeser: Build Big Bill:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

Glaeser book: "Triumph of the City"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143120549/
Sublime Text works well for me as a Postgres query editor.
Rock solid super fast, unlike all alternatives, (I've tried them all) except psql, which is solid but ugly.
ST3 has for me a much nicer interface and has amazing search and replace ability, attractive themes, syntax highlighting from pg specific plugin.
Remarkably it even copes with queries that return millions of rows.
You can control it's behaviour with the same config options as psql, full feedback error messages, line numbers etc
Easy to setup build system, see
http://blog.code4hire.com/2014/04/Sublime-Text-psql-build-sy...
Haskell might be bad, but its unofficial slogan is "Avoid success at all costs" -- so I don't think lack of fire necessary implies it's shitty (which is I think what you were implying.)
Unfortunately you did it in such a way as to excuse a failure to meet the most basic of the basic expectations as a financial problem, when it's really an ethical problem. As if we have no right to expect someone who calls himself a journalist to hew to standards.
Got in at the initial beta. Super smooth, took us about a month from getting approved to having everything sorted out (bank account, AWS credits etc).
realist contrarian question: why? If you didn't receive a formal education but you got good at OOP js or php, your expected salary gets pretty close to six figures. No understanding or even theoretical appreciation of other paradigms required. And I say that as someone with a formal education in programming and decent understanding of most programming paradigms.
Like we only now see how bad large OO systems can be? :D.

Seriously though I think that people are becoming interested in FP because they see the limitations of their current tools. That's what happened for me anyway.

Also I don't know that Haskell will become mainstream, but something that looks way more like Haskell than Java will.
I once wrote a similar OpenCV application [1], but in my case I needed to detect a closed contour and evaluate how close that contour was to being a circle. To provide a "score" I took advantage of the fact that in a circle the ratio C^2/(4piA) = 1 (where C is the circumference and A is the area). This is a unique property of the circle (it is equivalent to saying that the ratio of perimeter to area is maximized in a circle) and it's always lower for any other closed shapes. And it also provides a nice 0..1 result which can be interpreted as a percentage score!

I followed pretty much the same image segmentation/binary threshold as in the article, but found that the gaussian blur step was unnecessary in my case, so I skipped it. Also, the closed contours API in OpenCV provides the area and perimeter results so it was very easy to get it all working. Most of the code was actually just writing a simple UI in Python.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6D5j2RfX0
It's not that easy. What if the MPAA, Playboy, etc. send file filenames to Google and say "It's illegal to link to this file and if you do so, you are willingly and intentionally violating our copyright" Is that really what we want? It's a slippery slope when courts make these rulings without really understanding the impacts.
> The suggestion is that the iPhone 4 was a watershed in cameras on smartphones

Whilst it was the first iPhone to use a contemporaneous sensor, rather than cost-saving with previous-gen, it was still only a 5MP OmniVision OV5642 at the same time as Sony was installing 8MP sensors of a similar backlit configuration.

Ironically Apple switched to using Sony's Exmor sensors for later models.
This ArangoDB seems pretty interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpP2X6-ia4

Excellent remix of the theme for the game .... its Saturday evening after all :)