skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to brush up on the Glass-Steagall Act, which expressly prohibits these types of activities within organizations. i.e. ... "The Wall"

And with Goldman under the regulatory microscope right now, I bet they are on the straight and narrow.
... but wholesale DNS-based blacklisting could never blow up in our faces. Noooooo sir.
It was never intended to be an "answer" to wikipedia.
Yishan Wong makes some interesting points:

http://www.quora.com/Are-Foursquare-and-Gowalla-going-to-sur...
I don't think this is a very good comparison. Firing is different than quitting. I can come up with a scenario where someone leaves amicably one day after vesting, but I can't think of a nice, friendly parting where someone gets fired one day before their cliff.
An understandable response, but if I'm 3 months away from owning stock in a company that will surely go public, it would have been irresponsible of me to quit the job before the hours I'd put in had vested. Had the company not chosen to enact a cliff, I would have gladly walked away with what I'd had accrued up to that point.
I use the ipad primarily for browsing, but i miss the aggressive word wrap features on the Droid.
text doesn't wrap as well on the safari, forcing me to scroll left and right. they should definitely fix that.
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You know you suffer from FOSS-culture-tunnelview when...

...you are "astounded" that some people never heard of some less-than-a-year-old add-on to a fashionable development tool.
Well since this is HN, let's agree on a way to decide the matter objectively. If you can find historical usages of the phrase "combat troops" (as distinct from just "troops") that are devoid of the political implication I mentioned, I'll agree that the phrase is a factual one.

I'm finding it hard to establish similar criteria for "withdrawal", however, because there are so many misleading usages of that word in the media right now. I just saw "US Withdraws From Iraq" as a headline in Google News a few minutes ago. Although the transitive usage of this verb can correctly describe a partial drawdown (as in "he withdrew part of his objection"), the intransitive usage cannot. This is a fact. It's also exactly the sort of thing Orwell was writing about.

Also,

Garbage.

I hesitated to make my original comment and double-hesitated to respond to this, but I'm giving it a try because I know you're a good commenter in general. I think a serious discussion of this topic would be interesting. It may be impossible, though, even here. If we can't discuss this civilly, let's bail.
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What do you mean by "most advanced"?

* LLVM is probably the Open-Source compiler which fits your intention most.

* GCC has man-years of efforts for little bit/byte tweaks, which no other compiler does. This is not advanced, but tedious.

* libFirm is the only compiler which does not deconstruct SSA form. This is advanced in a mostly academic sense.

* GHC is probably the best functional (CPS) compiler.

* Sun JVM is probably the best Hotspot (online) compiler.

* I'm not sure which compiler is "most advanced" for dynamically typed code. Some Smalltalk or Javascript compiler? PyPy?
It sounds like git-flow removes some hassle, can anyone answer the question about adding git-flow to an existing repo?
True.

However, if you wanted scripted behavior in your generated documents then things could get interesting.
> ... your phrasing may have come across as dismissive ...

OK, noted, thanks. I'll bear that in mind.
I think we often only view the world in terms of problems. But there are different types of problems which can be further broken down. I think the quote below puts it best.

"There are three kinds of pain. You can be vitamins to someone, you can be aspirin to someone, or you can be morphine to someone"

-Genevieve Thiers
Folders as a Potential Marketing Tool
Folders have great value in terms of functionality and document management tools. They have the ability to perform multiple tasks in an easy way. The uses of folders have made them quite important in the present day world. They are a regular product a various places. They can be seen in schools, colleges, hospitals, libraries and many other places among offices. In many ways, the folders printing products offer the marketing solutions to the businesses. With their large sizes, they are quite useful for this sort of a task. They have a great value as the documents management tool as well.
This isn't necessarily the place to bring this up, but I take it I'm not the only one who finds 4sq and pals a bit creepy?

The 'scary' side of social media has long been a favourite topic in the mainstream press - and in this case, I think they might have a mild point. I'm sure that 100% HN users are fully aware of the risks of storing personal info online, and will act accordingly - but so many more web users honestly don't have a clue. I've also heard ad agencies and potential employers talking about tracking 4sq users...and I'm not sure I like that either.

Am I overreacting?
Every time ppl sent me 4square invites I would ignore after seeing the logo.

I kept thinking it was some sort of Dodge ball game
Doesn't look like they have resources on hosting the data but I'll dig around their discussion groups some more. Thanks.
I've heard the cult worship of PG trotted out here before and while I'm sure not everybody here is entirely objective I tend to see that in the light of those that are hopeful to get in to YC by being defensive of PG even though he's more than capable of defending himself. So I don't buy that.

And I'm also pretty sure that PG is more than capable of puncturing right through such nonsense and that anybody that thinks they can get in to his good book that way is going to find it either neutral or maybe even negative.

And it's not as though someone here will name a day for PG if he decides to stop being an investor, or shuts down HN, and I'd be surprised if someone did.

And PG is as much or more a mentor to a large number of people and in a more general way than this _why character, no matter how nice he may have been.

I detect a parallel to the kind of grieving that goes on when someone passes away, but in this case that grieving is misplaced. Nobody died. Some guy did a bunch of stuff, decided that he didn't like the amount and kind of attention that he received and took his toys back home, which was entirely within his rights to do.

Judging by the kind of comments here _why's followers appear to be mostly in the third stage at this point, though there are still a few of them that are still in the anger phase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

Now go and do your own stuff, amaze us all and try to show the world how to deal with that attention, both negative and positive in a better way than _why did.

I'm sure there is room for that.
I thought this was a pretty good article.
This to me is one of the best arguments for a new language that takes over the traditional role of C++ - writting programs in it is just too slow.

I can't even imagine what it would be like on a 100hz computer.
>2. When he took down his repos without any warning, the serious people felt as though _why had breached some kind of un-written contract, and the parade folks felt like the children of divorcees: abandoned, and wondering if somehow it was their fault.

I think he knew that they were in git, so nothing would really be lost.
Ask HN: Game Project on Kickstarter to Raise Money
Hi HN,

I quit my corporate job to start a game studio a couple months ago. I have been trying to bootstrap the company as much as possible without outside funding, while at the same time keeping an eye out for alternative funding sources. I discovered Kickstarter a few months back. After meeting with a few people who have successfully funded their projects on it and also people from Kickstarter, I decided to put my first game project on it. (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pepwuper/the-giant-of-the-river-thames-little-megans-giant). It's also on the Recommended page (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/by/recommended).

So far it hasn't really been very active, and I am not sure how it will pan out. Does anyone have any experience with kickstarter or this type of fund raising? I'd love to hear what you think about this model, and what you think about my project on Kickstarter.

Finally, if you like the game (playable demo on the project page), please support the project! You can make a pledge (and get awesome rewards!), or forward it on to people you think might be interested. Thanks! (Project page: http://kck.st/cNnvZS)
Right tools?
Post about using the right tool for the right jobs (making tech decisions with lasting impact)
I found this description of the passes and intermediate languages used in mlton: http://mlton.org/CompilerOverview

Another candidate for the most advanced compiler is Stalin.
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Friedrich III, right? I was confused there for a moment.
The most advanced dynamically typed code compiler is either Self or Stalin.
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She's a wildly successful entrepreneur and UX person, she's probably spoken at more conferences than you've attended.
How big is it if you gzip or bz2 it? I've found compression to be pretty effective for datasets like this.
I tried and it looks good. But what is the main difference between other similar storage sites? Asking just because how it's going to be competitive and make money.
One of the most often forgot story of Ford was the failure of the Edsel. They designed the hell out of the product. They researched design, interiors, market segments, price points, ect. At the time, it was known as one of the best designed prodcuts.

They 'launched' it and it was a complete failure.

It was a unexpected failure - they thought it was going to be huge. But, the information they obtained from the failure was that the market changed. Their assumptions were incorrect. Instead of blaming it on a 'irrational customer', they "pivoted". They went out to research why and found out that customer segmentation had changed. Instead of based on economic customer segmentation ('low', 'middle income', ect.) there was a change towards a 'lifestyle' segmentation. They incorporated this new information into their development, and shortly after they successfully released the Ford Thunderbird - an American classic.

Great story.
Great, inspiring post. Thanks.
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Just downloaded and played a bit. Seems very nice, but I definitely think you could use some better filtering options. Search alone just isn't that great. I'd love to be able to toggle options like platform, job length, type, remote work etc...
It's very hard to comment without making some assumptions here, since we don't know the particulars...

But I don't see anything necessarily underhanded about quitting on day 366. He didn't take the job with the intent to quit at the 366th day. I don't know the whole picture, but let's assume he produced good work, slowly became disillusioned as the job turned out to be something other than what he reasonably believed it would be, and finally decided to leave. If some of your pay is in the form of deferred compensation (ie., for staying a year), and the writer continued to work honestly at the job (even if he was not highly motivated anymore) I don't see anything wrong with deliberately quitting on the 366th day (at my last startup was 25% vesting per year - in this case, this scenario is anticipated as part of the employee agreement).

Similarly, I'd see nothing wrong with you firing an employee prior to vesting if it turned out his performance was far lower than you reasonably expected it would be. The underhanded thing would be intending to do this when you hired him (then again, this seems like such a loser move... I know projects start and stop, but it seems like the startups that are going to make it have the opposite problem with talent - how to I keep this guy here now that he's vested?)
I already use free fonts from FontSquirrel, so I don't know what extra value they add?
How to Land a Killer Job at a Tech Startup Out of College
I think he emphasizes the joining of verification and optimization too much. No doubt verification may get easier, if they use the IR and all analysis info the compiler already did. SSA makes this stuff easier for example.

Just tell me what optimization could learn from verification? Everything verification does is too slow to do within a compiler. Sure, you can produce better code, if you are allowed to use NP algorithms, but in reality i have never seen any algorithm more complex than O(n^2) in a compiler. Usually O(nlogn) is the most one can afford.
Very true. My point was that this just seems like a bad idea to me, and it would scare me from holding the stock if management keeps making deals like this.
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Ownership not as a percentage of equity, but as a measure of your ability to change things for the better.

I found this succinct expression to be the most valuable (perhaps even the tldr summary).

A percentage of equity, as laughably small as it tends to be for non-founders, might not even serve as an alignment of financial interests.
The source article's headline is declaring the war already over.

The article (with a tamer headline) you cited is summarized quite well by the author towards the end with this statement "My gut gives it a 50-50 chance". Not exactly the same type of statement as the former.
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The interesting thing about the peephole superoptimizer paper that he linked is that the actual peephole optimization process is not necessarily slower than a regular peephole optimizer, as all it is doing is looking up faster equivalent instructions in a database.

The difficult (compute intensive) part is training the database, and you only have to do that once for each optimization...

I am a little confused by why he stated that the results of the super optimizer were not very impressive. Presumably, man-years have been invested in defining optimizations for compilers like GCC and the intel C compiler, by human experts...

To have a machine that even gets close to those results is impressive to me. If the technique were used for an actual compiler, it would mean that no one would have to write peephole optimizations, instead, the compiler would just get better and better as it ages.

Combined with aggressive in-lining (or maybe dynamic recompilation? e.x. lisp style function compilation rather than C), it seems to me that this sort of technology could be incredibly powerful. Am I wrong?
Xmonad can be used on OSX: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_on_Ap...
From what I understand of Warren's tax numbers: They're higher because its the income of 2 people required to pay for all the necessities, which is in part of the tax scale designed to catch higher earners.

Basically, the stuff costs more, but the lower end of the tax brackets aren't adjusted for inflation based off household income, as the tax burden has shifted to the middle class from the upper class.
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Hack your travel: 3 Reason You're Doing it Wrong When Your Flight is Canceled
If it gets some momentum behind it then I feel GO could be that language.
Ask HN: Best place to register a .ly domain?
I'm trying to purchase a .ly domain name, but I can't seem to find out HOW to do it.

I found some web site based in Libya which you could search, but couldn't register for, .ly domains.

Can anyone offer any insight into this, particularly with regards to getting the cheapest registration possible.

Thanks!
They key difference I think is that Google accounts or gmail accounts were not used as the hub of social interaction (like Facebook) when Google launched Buzz. All the hipsters had built these huge networks on Twitter and Facebook already and now suddenly had to re-assemble a social network from scratch based on their GMail address.

If history was different and everyone used their Gmail account as their social identity, things would have been different as Twitter would have just been a 'feeder' service like 4sq/Go are now.
As soon as Microsoft does.
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That, and the fact that concurrency without garbage collection has been shown to cause brain cancer.
I don't use any language other than Blub, because Blub works just great.
And Walter, of course, has his answer to this. dmd is very fast (IIRC according to Walter it's faster than Google Go compiler) thanks to parallel compilation, asynchronous I/O, etc. enabled by design of D.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616752
I've been with the same company almost 5 years now. While I occasionally have times that I'm incredibly frustrated, I can deal with that because I know that I work daily to make things better. (A co-worker would laugh at this because he thinks we don't do enough better-making. He's leaving.) I've seen this company's software turn from 'oh ---- that's crazy' to 'man, this sucks' and it's continuing to get better.

While I'm making it better, I'm also adding features and pleasing the users of the software. And despite the state of the code, it ALL works. That's very important.

For me, the key to job happiness is simply to be making things better. For guys like at this article (and my co-worker), it apparently means having everything be perfect from the start. I don't know how people can live like that, since they will always be disappointed.
That's the best anybot use case I've seen. Conference attendee bot. GENIUS!
http://uxmyths.com/post/712377283/myth-9-design-has-to-be-or...
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Asked previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1594967

Also:http://searchyc.com/submissions/best+register?sort=by_date
Why isn't this person just a consultant?

There is nothing wrong with just being a sprinter, but isn't there something to be said for being able to run the marathon?

If the spark is gone after only a few months at a company, seemingly no matter what the company, maybe the problem is within and not with the companies that you're working with?
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Among Catholics as well: Saint's days are on the anniversary of their death, not birth.
From what I've heard, Intel HQ was hit by this as well.
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Visual C++ has had things like profile-guided optimization for over a decade internally to MSFT and nearly that long shipping externally (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2008/11/12/pogo.aspx).

In general, the Microsoft and Intel C++ compilers have pretty incredible performance on the x86 platform. The last time I talked to the Intel folks, they didn't really consider GCC to be competitive. It's possible things have changed in the last five years on that front; apologies if I'm misrepresenting the state of GCC optimization quality.

The PGI Fortran folks are pretty incredible in the parallel space.

On embedded platforms, most serious companies seem to buy the Green Hills C++ compiler.

One of the program-management types from the Visual C++ team could probably do this much better justice than my quickly-fading memories. But, I think the HN crowd would be quite shocked by the market share that commercial compilers have, even on *NIX platforms.
The game aspect is just to get traction and frankly, it's a waste of time. However, I imagine travelling to a new town on vacation and seeing suggestions and tips from friends of mine that have been there before. Or looking for something to do on a Friday evening and seeing that there's a new Thai place down the road. Once the game has done its work, the real benefits will emerge.
Depends on why people check into places. Is it their daily human need to publish their location? Or is it that they saw a silly idea and decided to have some fun playing along. If the latter, why wouldn't they use 4square for that instead the serious FB?
I agree with his first point in the article - it's hard not to have iOS4 loaded up.

When they launch the iTV are they going to have three different devices with three different system cycles to support?
I've done some playing around with a dummy "existing" repo and it seems to adapt well. Upon "git flow init" it identifies existing branches and proceeds with the questionnaire in the article above associating.

Here's a gist I created showing how an existing repo (although very basic) can be adapted to use git-flow - http://gist.github.com/538326
Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user?

I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?"

Who is this man and what is his setup?

UPDATE:

His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak.

http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html

Anyone else have more info?
Facebook and its 500 Million Users Join the Location Game
Just in case you have not yet noticed, no one wants privacy anymore. Facebook is dominating the Web with its whopping 500 million users, Twitter is flourishing with people sharing every last detail about their lives, Foursquare and Gowalla are booming in popularity, and now, this whole lack of privacy is reaching totally new levels.
Lost all remaining respect for Intel with this bone-headed move. McAfee and Intel headquarters are within walking distance of each other. Perhaps the CEOs met for a few drinks at Birks and decided to do this. Make absolutely no sense at all.
Would infochimps.com be useful for this?
This is similar to my experience - a paypal alternative that doesn't suck would be awesome.

One problem they have is being Dutch and not being supported by many services because of that. I believe anybody in the EU can start a UK company (cheaply) and company directors are allowed to live abroad. Your company needs a UK office address but that be provided as a service along with mail forwarding.
Four square is a dodgeball type game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_square

The name for the service was a consequence of it being the follow up to a social networking service called "Dodgeball" that was bought out and killed off.
I work at a small antivirus company. I'd be interested in knowing how helping people whose computers are infected get them uninfected is a "sleazy business".
4. Be a member of the airline's frequent flyer programme. You will get priority over non-members on the next flight.
KEA Keyphrase Extraction as an XML-RPC service (code release)
Cubicles are the worst of both worlds, where you have the noise of open floor plan, but not the collaboration. You have the social isolation of private offices, but not the real focus-inducing solitude.
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Thanks for clarifying what I suspected. If you don't need high concurrency, it's a champ.
Asynchronous image loading is something that most sites can benefit from, and the YUI has a simple and elegant solution for this. If you're in web development, I highly recommend looking at it, if not using it.
I had a chemistry teacher who used to say "Consumption does not equal comprehension" during the materials review the day before all of his tests.

His point was that memorizing notes wasn't going to help you pass; you had to actually work on solving problems in order to really learn the material.
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This article struck a real chord with me too. I stayed far, far too long at my last job and it's only after finally getting bored enough to quit that I've realized how corrosive it's been to my motivation for everything.