skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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According to wikileaks you can still donate by credit card via https://donations.datacell.com. I'm not clear if the processor is based in Iceland or Switzerland.
"A Beautiful Mind", about John Forbes Nash Jr.
The linked article only talks about DRM however, as far as I can see. It says "data protected by encryption" is the target of the new law.
Women who sunbathe in a very northern country with little sunlight live longer.
> ... very useful... my mom plays Farmville for hours.

I wouldn't call Farmville "very useful." I don't think my mom's life would be worse without Bejeweled.
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Java normally isn't, either. You're discussing implementation details, not laws.

http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
One problem with Left 4 Dead is that you rapidly run out of levels (even though each level is very well designed).

I think random levels would work very well, especially for online gaming. If a team didn't know the level, it would really feel like exploring a dangerous zombie infested world.
Since even the govt orgs and economists have no good ideas on GDP growth to 2081 (!) - I'd suggest to look instead at the interests these groups represent: Krugman loves govt safety nets, SSA wants SS to look viable long term, the CBO looks at problems that may or may be occurring.

To say "GDP is obviously growing more than that" (especially while the world is in a deep structural recession) is a similar argument to Republicans pointing to sunspot activity and saying ("so theres no CO2 problem!") while ignoring all other data on climate change.
Ha! One out of two isn't bad.
I also wonder when I read these popularizations of research how rigorous the controls were. Women who sunbathe seem likely to be a) more fit than the general population, and b) much more body conscious, either of which could lead to the counter-intuitive finding.

Still, I like getting sunlight as much as possible (living in SF this is sort of hit-or-miss).
I love it! I can finally use middle-click to open stuff on another tab.
Waiter: Here is the wine list. Please let me know if you'd like any help with your wine selection.
(later) Have you selected a wine?

This common example uses "select" (correctly) with a list of items on a menu.
A modulo arithmetic error in PacMan's ghost AI?
In this particular case:

- Go is created by google
- Ian Lance Taylor, the author of gccgo, works for Google
- Taylor has worked on gcc for more than a decade
- Google uses gcc for all its infrastructure

I doubt they would object to an LLVM front-end, and I'm sure someone will create one in the future.

As to why Google doesn't use LLVM, the generated code is simply not as fast as GCC. Google (last I heard) employs about 30 compiler engineers to support gcc internally, so they're not about to switch over to a less mature platform, even though it shows great potential.
Ask HN: How does a founder judge quality if they can't code?
I am the founder of a small Canadian based startup which is currently in development. My background is business/economics and the project I am developing is a social network. I’m doing this startup by myself and with my own investment 30K. I’m not a techie so I shopped around for a company which I could hire to do the development. I eventually settled on an Indian company with a good track record of developing social networks.
So far I’ve been very pleased with the company’s work and they have done an awesome job in the design phase. But during the design phase I have been managing the Indian team, to ensure quality, that they are meeting the project requirements, and make sure they understand what it is I’m trying to create. But in about a month, starting in January we are going to be finished with designs and move into programming.
Here is my problem:
Once we get into programming, I no longer have the ability to judge quality and make sure they are meeting the project requirements. I pretty much know zero about coding so if I looked at some amazing code and some awful code side-by-side, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. This is a really dangerous position for me to be in because I’ll be making decisions that I have no qualification to be making.
I’m not going to sit back let the company do whatever they want and I’m also not going to try and manage the technical side either. I’ve been talking to other startup guys and they all recommend getting either a CTO, consultant or a tech cofounder. The issue of course is money/equity. I don’t like the idea of giving a huge portion of my company to a cofounder or CTO. Plus I don’t know any. I’m favoring bringing on a consultant who I can pay an hourly or flat fee to do some project management for me.
My project isn’t huge, only 30K fixed price (10k design, 20K coding). And all I really need is a tech guy to come in and look at the code make sure it’s good and make sure the company I hired is doing things properly.
Everyone I’ve talked to says I need to bring in a tech cofounder who is a rockstar to do the coding for me. But I just don’t get it. I already have development team, and I shouldn’t assume they write shitty code just because it’s outsourced. But I do need someone to check it for me. I agree I eventually need a rockstar development team but if I bring in cofounders after beta instead of before they will be taking a much lower equity stake. Right now I don't need a developer capable of programing artificial intelligence. I just need good quality programing so I can launch the beta, test it in market and then develop the amazing technology behind it if its accepted by consumers.Because you can have the most amazing technology in the world but if people don't like the product, then there is no point.

Am I wrong? Any suggestions how I can fix this without giving away a huge portion of my company to a stranger, or going broke paying a consultant?
Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
So What did you do this year?
It’s really ironic that history is boring as it’s happening.
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Sort of. Scripting languages cross a bit of a line in that their implementation details leak out into the language. It simply isn't possible to statically compile Python (or PHP, Ruby, etc), and still cover the full breadth of the language. You need to handle dynamic code generation (for example eval()) which means you need an interpreter at run-time, which means you're no longer really statically compiling it.

In gcj, they added a java interpreter, and statically compile what they can. This works great when you have all the source code. It doesn't work great for things like Eclipse, where there are tons of dynamically loaded plugins which are then slow because they're interpreted.
The only music I’ve seen taken down was from the Beatles.
Thanks. The direct link was the difference between me closing it right now, and me saying "I'm going to," and then forgetting.
What will the future of the future be like?
For the last 50 or so years, we've been imagining many of the same things about the future - flying cars, food in a pill, etc. If we were to assume that all of these things become reality, what will we then imagine about the future?
1 hour of sunbathing in Sweden = running quickly to car in Miami
That was so well-drawn that I kept waiting for it to be funny but it never delivered.
I wonder why it's only women that were studied...
For me article is missing the point. The GPU are best at accelerating small data & computation intensive portions of your program. Most of the code will be executed on CPU, usually only a few functions are bottleneck and needs to be ported.

The CPU are task parallelism while GPU are data parallelism. On CPU there is usually small number of thread and programmer explicitly control them. On GPU threads and switching them is almost free, so you can use as much as you want (make the number data dependent).

So GPU will excel in applications which require e.g.:
-float computations (speed up 10x+)
-using graphic specific functions (e.g. texture interpolation 40x+)
-memory bound (continuous access 2x+)

On the other hand there are behind CPU in:
-branching
-small irregular computations

The x86 is currently spending quite a lot of silicon for features like cache, prediction, superscalar execution which provide speed up to existing application. GPU does not have most of that features, but they spend more silicon on core logic instead.

To sum up, a good candidate for GPGPU would be image recognition. The bad one would be compilator.
To get sun on a foggy day, all you usually need to do is either 1) head across the bridge to the East Bay, or 2) go to Mt. Sutro or Potrero Hill.
He was right about the "idea" of objects on the web, that is, stuff that can be simply plugged and reused here and there. We call those APIs today.
My money's on correlation, not causation. Or would be, if this didn't refer to places with little sun.
It's a problem that a company has to obey the laws of the country it resides in?
In what kind of situations do you use topological sort?
I can't think of any scenario where I would use it leading me to think that there are problems I could solve more easily by thinking of them as graph problems.
Surprisingly i found that flowchart somewhat informative.
"Fuck I dropped my laptop" ?
PH Meter a Biochemistry Laboratory Apparatus
One of the biochemistry laboratory apparatus used to measure the pH of a substance is a pH meter. pH is a quantity for measuring the acidic or alkaline / basic nature of liquids or substances that are in a plasma state.
How large is a petabyte of data
I am also a not a techie who is founding a startup. Fortunately, I was in the position to be able to hire 2 developers locally to bring on my team from the get-go. I didn't give up any equity but if things go well, they will be rewarded. If I was not in the financial position to pay them well, I would have definitely given up equity for the right developers to come in.

If you are starting a web-based company, then code is what makes your tick. It's not like you're selling widgets in a brick and mortar store and you throw a website up to sell more widgets. In that case a website is an add-on to your business. If you are developing a web based application like a social network then that website IS your business. You need to have that core competency of the design and development in-house and not outsource it.

If you're having trouble finding the right local developer, try looking for local freelancers. I would suggest seeing if there is a local coworking office where freelance designers/developers work. Ask if any of them are willing to work on a project at a reduced rate with some equity that vests after a certain amount of time.
I like to play the "how far south down the 1 do I have to drive until it gets sunny?" game. As a bonus, I get to drive down the 1.
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This. Hopefully you've selected a component or mvc web framework that enables clear separation of roles, to minimize integration bottlenecks.

As for processes, Scrum methodologies such as the daily stand up meeting and weekly defined iterations would probably be beneficial. But take that with a grain of salt, since some teams simply don't work well with such fixed parameters. Give it a try, but don't stick to it out of obligation. Stick to it if it works.
Took and passed the two hardest math and CS courses offered at my university: advanced calculus and algorithms.

Learned OpenGL.

Placed highly in the regional ACM coding competition.

Landed exactly the job I wanted out of college.

Most importantly, started a relationship with the most amazing female hacker I've ever met.
Women who sunbathe more have a lifestyle (money, time, desire to take care of self) that involves being healthier and having better access to medical care.
Learn to Write on the History Research Paper Topics
Writing research papers on history research paper topics can be boring and time consuming. Most students would rather be doing other things than writing any type of paper. However, with the right topics and interest in them, students will be able to handle their assignment.
http://www.bingocardcreator.com

I wrote it in eight days with a budget of $60, and recouped that within three sales. It has been profitable since. I don't know if you would call it a lot of traction -- by Twitter accounting I have something like two hundred thousand users. Anyhow, 4 years and 3,500 odd paying customers later, it was paying my full-time salary, and I quit the day job. That was about 7 months ago. BCC (and consulting) gave me enough time, money, and smarts to get my next project ready.

http://www.appointmentreminder.org

That launches in 48 hours. Depending on one's optimism in counting promised orders prior to the cash physically being in one's hand, it is already profitable.
The Gift of Information
PayPal went over board with this, as the Wau Holland Foundation just gave money to Wikileaks for a specific purpose holding them accountable for any spendings. It is impossible to argue that the money from the foundation was used for any illegal/criminal activity.
They go from "sunbath" in the first paragraph to "extended periods in the sun" in the second.

I'm not exactly sure if that mean that the test group itself was "sunbathing" or were "extended periods in the sun" - but if we assume the latter, then sure: People that go outside to jog or do any other physical activity do live longer than people working inside an office.

If they're specific about "sunbathing" I'd like some more information. If "sunbathing" does not include tanning beds then the results do not amuse me either. Swedish people cannot tan during autumn, winter or spring without going on a vacation (either to Swedish mountains or somewhere south). People that can afford a vacation are in general wealthy, and that wealthy people live longer than the average human is something we already know.
I've heard that called the "Spanish waiter" trick and seen it done with full plates. It's cool.
I've used it to drive a bunch of independent makefiles, when I didn't need an overarching makefile. I've used it to sort dependencies in a simple work queue thing I wrote in the shell. It's not generally all that useful, but being able to grab it and do a quick tsort on paired strings is significantly less painful than writing a Python or Scheme script to do it, and it fits neatly into a pipeline.
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Can modern tails stop following and search back up the buffer? That's why I use less +F, personally.
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In 2007 after few failed attempts with my crazy startup ideas I read lots of articles about how Google Arbitrage is dead. This inspired me to actually tried it out and I got profitable from day 1. This success led me to focus solely on marketing PPC-affiliate arbitrage and eventually building sites and domains. Now 3 years later after lots of hard work I have successful business with over $1 million in revenues that is well diversified across portfolio of sites and software products.
surely one of the side-effects of a Dyson sphere, for instance, would be to render the star almost undetectable to our telescopes.

No. A Dyson sphere would just emit a lot less radiation in the region that we happen to perceive as "visible". This is a special case of "Stealth is (close to) impossible in Space"

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/spacewardetect.php

http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2010/03/while_doing_som...

http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2010/03/stealth_in_spac...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthInSpace
We're a team of three working on a web app and we use Pivotal Tracker. We use it more as an agile-y way to do project management instead of something like Basecamp.
Solo Entrepreneurs: Big Bucks From Tiny Computing Startups
My only guess would be that you can search inside less if your terminal emulator doesn't support it.
FYI: EasyDNS had nothing to do with this, it was a misprint by some online journalists.

Source: http://blog.easydns.org/2010/12/03/wikileaks-takedown-fiasco...
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/magazine/05Football-t.html...
remember the last Declaration was important, made by people with political power and influence. This is merely an idealistic essay rather than an action--it describes a movement, it does not _compel_ movement.
You will find that virtually every habit of rich people is positively correlated with living longer. (In related news, collisions involving a Prius are disproportionately likely to kill Democrats, and people who speak Japanese are murdered by yakuza more than a hundred times more often than people who do not.)
There would be front-end developers for print design…

HTML really is like postscript mode for emacs, as far as a designer is concerned.
How to Create Business Value Out of Master Data Management
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and Pink Floyd
Wired Boxee Box Review is just terrible - most useless review ever?
It's a problem that the laws are such that obeying them or being considered ethical by one's customers is a double-bind.
Highway 1 is awesome -- I like your game. (cough cough it's Highway 1 up here; Norcal people don't use 'the' when referring to highways cough *cough)
less allows you to stop and resume easily, without losing any of the output of your command (useful if you are watching the output of a process as well). Also less doesn't clutter the scrollback of your terminal with output from tail.
How many of these are actually "easier", in the sense of reducing friction for your customers? I'm curious, more than anything else.
Prediction: Apple is going to move away from the notion of Hard Disks for their consumer-oriented mobile devices. The Flash chips in SSDs are already somewhat like dynamic RAM, though not quite as fast and with some extra requirements and limitations. One could easily give the illusion of a laptop with 256 Gigabytes of orthogonally persistent RAM by using 8 Gigs or so of dynamic RAM as a cache into Flash RAM. No need for any notion of a separate persistent store like a Hard Drive. No need to even boot up! Laptops would only have "hibernate" and "sleep". (You'd need ECC, wear leveling, and ways of transparently "retiring" sections of Flash RAM that go bad.)

Go one step further, and use the cloud as a backing store with an always-on mobile broadband connection. The 256 Gigabytes of Flash RAM would act as a local cache to cloud storage.
Is this a serious post? The government can exact capricious petty revenge on your business, so it's not the business's fault for exercising cowardice?

It would be unbelievably easy to rightfully Godwin your perspective on this issue, but I won't do it.

The United States is a nation predicated on a set of inviolate rights that are supposedly protected by the charter document of the nation itself. Among these rights are the right to hold property, conduct affairs freely, and speak freely. The courts have repeatedly defined rights that are derivative of our constitutionally-protected ones, and that among these are the ability to conduct business free from the threat of arbitrary governmental coercion( e.g. absent of a "chilling effect" ), with obvious exceptions made where the business has committed a crime.

PayPal, Amazon, et. al. Have not broken the law by providing services to Wikileaks, and are, therefore, not in danger of retribution by the government specified in the US Constitution. The salient point here may be that the government we have is possibly NOT the government specified by the US Constitution, and these companies ARE in danger of capricious revenge by the government. And if this is the case, we as a nation are living under the thumb of a truly illegitimate government - and we have bigger issues to worry about than the cowardice of companies.

But whether or not we exist in a nation of arbitrarily exacted State power, nothing changes the fact that Amazon and PayPal are corporate cowards, in the absence of an actual, honest-to-god court order. To say they should be held harmless is, well, an "interesting" perspective.
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Paypal bans Wikileaks
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True, mostly what I see at a lot of networking things are entremanures... thats why I stopped going, as a developer none of them seemed to have any actual work for me.
Thanks, I know the splash page needs a lot of work and your suggestions help.
On a related note: 'side project' != 'start-up'. Though it may become one.
That was worth it just for the preview - I don't remember seeing it when I was a kid. Pretty intense.
One of the things that happened after Steve's infamous Xerox PARC visit, was that he saw Smalltalk, thought it was massively cool and declared that to be the way everyone should program. When he went on to found NeXT, they were pushing Objective-C, which is Smalltalk style message passing layered on top of C. (Trying to get the best of both worlds, though the combination is a bit awkward to me.)
Ahh yeah, did most of my dev on Chrome and forget to fully cross browser test. Thanks for this.
The same thing goes for saying "I have a startup." I wish I could write as clearly and persuasively as Jolie O'Dell, but I can't, so let me just say ...

All due respect to those of you putting in time, effort and sweat into your project, but being a project does not, of itself, make it a startup. I'm not going to provide a checklist as O'Dell does, but a project, although worthy of respect, is not necessarily a startup.

ADDED IN EDIT:

I should also have said this: I don't care. The labels people use are largely irrelevant, including the labels you give yourself. What matters is your drive and intent to make something, and in doing so, to make the world a better place. I don't care if you are, or are not, an "entrepreneur" by whatever system of labelling someone uses. I also don't care if what's taking your time is a project, hobby, startup or complete time-sink.

What I do care about is that people who can should be encouraged to use their limited time to build something that matters: to them, to others, possibly to the world in general.
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She's got a good point; I'd take the same stance on the word "startup". I see a lot of statements here like "take a look at my startup!" with a link to a little webapp that's brand new and either has no revenue model or no customers.

I wonder if Jolie is going too far in creating a strict definition -- many side projects have made people into true entrepreneurs. Is Patio11 an entrepreneur? Absolutely. And he was when he was selling Bingo Card Creator while still working as a Japanese salaryman.

Many entrepreneurs do indeed "go through hell" to succeed. But correlation != causation; you don't have to go through hell, angel rounds, funding rounds, or huge public launches to qualify as an entrepreneur. Peldi is an entrepreneur -- one hell of an entrepreneur if you ask me.

There certainly is a limit to the legitimate use of this word, I agree. The bar is probably a bit lower than Jolie suggests, though.
And so, we begin to see the far-fetched narrative of Sandra Bullocks 'The Net' start to swing into full effect.

Who'd have thought it would become so prescient ...
Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks?
We've all been watching Wikileaks take a beating from the powers that be, and even though I might take issue with the way in which they handle some of their information I think their cause is important and I find it deplorable that the big guns (Amazon, Paypal, EveryDNS, etc.) would try to essentially kick someone off the internet rather than at least allowing free speech to take place.

I don't have a lot of money right now (bootstrapping a startup while my last one sits in the clutches of an evil marketing megalomaniac), so donating to Wikileaks is not really an option. I do have a fair amount of technical expertise (as compared to the general public, at least - maybe not compared to the community here or the staff at WL). What can I do to help them, and does anyone else want to get on board?
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