skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was a wee art student, I had a phenomenal printmaking professor who was an expert in inks. One of her projects was a monotype, and mine included a cloud background, but I couldn't get the colors right: a dusky yellow cloud background. You've probably seen the hue following an afternoon thunderstorm late spring.

I'd mix, and mix and end up with a dark yellow, that when printed over blue turned green, or reddish or some other stupid hue. And my printmaking professor came over, and she said to use gray, and some yellow, and some brown (please, don't ask for the exact ink mix). When we were done, the ink sat on the slab as a puce, but printed slightly yellow.

However, when printed over a thalo blue, it was exactly like I needed: yellow-blue. Not green, yellow-blue. It was the damnedest thing, and not lost on the other students: I had to remix it at least six times within a week for other people.

The color doesn't reproduce at all on screen, so I have to assume it's partially an optical illusion.
Tragically locked - I'd add "Real World Haskell" to the list. Completely changed the way I write code, in a way that books that more directly advocate readability and testability failed to.
This is a super common question and there are many events in each city that facilitates this connection. However, Don't go to these events with the sole purpose of 'finding' a technical co-founder. Just build relationships with everyone and anyone. Get involved in non-profit organizations, or just other activities. Heck, even try organizing the events yourself.
I think I've fallen into an alternate universe. I could swear Warren Beatty died just after 'Dick Tracy' came out.

Who did die at about that time?
Remember, it's cool to affect a proud lack of knowledge in many areas ("football, what's that?") but to not know about famous people or things in computing is simply a sin.
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I think people you know are the most important resource in terms of finding a business-savvy co-founder. A lot of VCs/angel investors are willing to help smart hackers find co-founders or even interesting projects. Also, going to marketing/product related meetups is a good way to network and meet new potential co-founders.
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joyent is enterprise grade and doesnt have this sort of downtime. its probably a break in your app.
well, sounds like a progress. Linus, the top-geek, finally got invited there. That means recognition if not from Hollywood circles, yet from a circle near it.
First, I would have the response in your pocket when you walk in to an interview. That's a question you can expect.

Second, if you do get another job and you have the luxury to, maybe ask the company if you can consult with them for a week before deciding (get a week off of your current job). Nothing worse than moving from something you don't like to something you think you do, only to find out that it's the same or worse.
Unfortunately, the button's content is not what this article and the subsequent discussion is about: the article is about the behavior of the Tolkien estate and your response will be interpreted as relating to that. In that light, your argument makes little sense, as chc pointed out, but that is not generally a reason to consider a different interpretation. You should realize that most people don't know you're a guy that usually tends to post arguments that makes sense. You may as well be one of the many silly people that does post this kind of nonsensical argument, trying to argue the Tolkien estate is allowed to behave this way because you feel what they targeted was wrong anyway.

Subsequently insulting the intelligence of readers is uncalled for and fails to acknowledge a possible failure on your side. I would argue this is not about our reading comprehension: you failed to make clear that you were deviating from the subject under discussion to make some remarks about a related issue, because you were assuming people would understand that you were not arguing in favor of Tolkien's behavior. That assumption has been proven unwarranted: people don't understand that you won't argue nonsensical things. Which is entirely understandable, considering the amount of people that do argue nonsensical things.
This is an interesting question, because it implies that commodity hardware isn't good enough for day to day tasks.

If that's true, do you think the software developers have done a good job?

And if that's not true, then why shouldn't they use commodity hardware?
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If you create an account, they have a buy one get one free ebook deal running all the time.
As I define it: No packet shaping based on what service users are accessing; all packets are created equal.

Wikipedia also has a quite good definition. A key line from it: "The principle advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers and governments on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and the modes of communication."

Sadly, it's a term which is used to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean. Political language does horrible things to words.
The Oscars, On Twitter: Over 1.2 Million Tweets, 388K Users Tweeting
Related - my wife and I cracked up last night that the special effects engineers were relegated to a 30 second montage with Marisa Tomei so as not to ruin the rest of the show for the beautiful people :)
I agree. I always want to pronounce it H-G-Barry instead of H-B-Gary, for some reason that's how it flows in my mind. They should just stick with HBG.
"since geeks in general are seen as the crème de la crème of society". Strange statement, my impression is that geeks don't receive at all enough credits. Every average legal or doctor is a super star compared to a geek at least in Italy.
It is also embarrassing for a society to put on the TV screen everybody but not the guy that created software that really is running the internet. Linux and Git are huge.
Now, I am probably wrong but am asking this due to curiosity.
Could they conceivably use HTML5 to render dynamically thus reducing resource/load cost?

Edit: No to Now
Reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
Is anybody who is interested in CUDA also interested in the idea of GPGPU computation in the browser using webGL? Here is a link to a proof of concept I did a while ago http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828

I think the concept is pretty compelling but I don't get that much traction when I bring it up. Any thoughts?
And there are electric hair driers, hair irons, shavers and various chemical products allowing one to change hair shape and color at will.
Some people get paid a lot of money to come up with names like Altria.
Get over to Reddit. They're good at making things like that happen.
You're saying the goal of government is to "return value" to the people. I'm saying its goal is to "serve" the people. I think we can agree we're saying the same thing.

Here's the thing about your second paragraph:
There is self-confidence, which is an absolute requirement if you want to start/run a business, a political campaign or even a war.

Then there is hubris. Hubris is when you haven't bothered to vote (the most basic civic duty) for 28 years, and then run for Governor of California based on the fact that you've been CEO of a Silicon Valley company. To me this is worse than asking a non-technical manager about writing coding standards.

Its like a non-technical manager TELLING you how to write a coding standard.
I'd just like to brag that I still have my Code Complete first edition. One day it'll be worth millions of microdollars, mark my words.
I imagine the potential of the arduino analog inputs means you could create some pretty novel interfaces for the games (i.e. beyond joystick and buttons)
Take a look at Sam's Club they did extensive A/B price testing when they were launching. There is a case study on it, looked at it during my MBA.
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For us, it was never about which approach was more lucrative. We want RStudio to be the de facto IDE for R. How could it be anything but open source?
Actually, I want packet shaping as long as its under my control (my netflix is more important than the download of software updates).

"Sadly, it's a term which is used to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean. Political language does horrible things to words."

You nailed the words to my biggest problem. I see how bills are named, and really won't say I support something unless I have a real definition.
Yes, he did a fantastic job. Here's a link to the Disqus blog where Chris talks about @font-face http://blog.disqus.com/post/2944356158/introducing-houdini-t...
I hope they don't try to sue me for this post.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+%2B+5

(oh noes!) gives an image containing '7'. They could just freaking put a 7.

Granted, not all of their queries could be done this way, and some of those could indeed be done with canvas, for example. Dunno if those would be faster. But all of the numbers and tables could stand to just be numbers and tables.

This is more of a gripe about copy/paste than performance, really: I'd imagine their calculations take a lot longer than making a .png
It has always worked.

Tallyrand, Napoleon's Foreign Minister, observed that one of the functions of a government is to rename institutions which have, under the old name, become odious.
Anyone remember Blake Ross’ reaction blog post to the Time 100 dinner he was invited to? His website (blakeross.com) has been taken offline and I wasn’t able to quickly find the post via the Wayback Machine.
This is some sort of bizarro Erlang Day, right??
"So, are you excited? That movie about you is up for quite a few Oscars!"
I'm surprised she didn't spit on A-Rod.
Woah. Didn't realize that was there.

That's really a random bunch of stories in my feed. I can't believe I upvoted some of them. But hell, I'll trade the lot for a photo of RiderOfGiraffes doing just that.
"Many of us, myself included, often think of a person’s intellectual capacity as something that’s fixed, a feature of their innate makeup.

Intellectually, we may know that this is not so, but we take it so much for granted that it’s built into our language."

We do?

"It tells us that intellectual capacities aren’t innate, they can be dramatically changed by shifts in our perspective."

It does?
We need websites that track _individuals_ for their reputation instead of just businesses.

I recently had a moving company move my car across the country. I picked the #1 rated broker in the United States the last 2 years running. They're just the broker, though. They pick an actual trucking company to move your car. I found out that the individuals involved in the company moving my car had opened 3 other companies in the past 4 years and closed them all. I dug more and found that they had absolutely horrible ratings on the biggest rating site for car-hauling companies and also horrible ratings on the BBB site. Luckily, I got my car without incident, but we need a good way to track scum.

If you tried hard and played by the rules in business and didn't do shady things and failed, then I can understand trying again without serious stigma, but if you're forming new companies all the time, you should be informally punished through lots of information/transparency. It's easy to say "don't go with a company that hasn't been around for X years", but that's really unfair to legit startups trying to innovate.

We need a better answer to this problem.
I'm sure you could pick up quite a few bitcoins with it.
I was surprised to find 'Purely Functional Data Structures' so far down the list.
Oh man... the Rhino is a good reference, but lacks all kinds of best practices and essential style pieces.

Between 'proper' OO style, short circuiting on falsey assignment (var a = b || "default"), checking existence to avoid errors ( if (myObject && myObject.getJSON()){//block to deal with JSON} ) and the DOM, I feel like this is only useful to look up the Date() and Math() methods.

Sorry, just griping because it was the first 'real' programming book I got, and I feel that it misled me for quite a while. </rant>
URL shorteners aren't necessary.

The 4-Hour Work Week: http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Work-Week-Anywhere-Library/dp/0...

Book eibrahim wrote: http://www.amazon.com/ASP-NET-Test-Driven-Development-Proble...

Blog: http://www.emadibrahim.com/2009/03/09/i-quit-1-year-annivers...
Ok, thank you, completely missed the point :)
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I have no idea if a startup working within these constraints could possibly work. I’m even not sure what the benefit, if any, of doing anything like this would be. But it’s got a kind of crazy logic to it and I have decided that it will be fun, or else, so here goes: On day one, the open startup has no secrets…
As someone who enjoys both pesto pizza, and red wine, I can safely say that reddish-green does in fact exist.
It's not without cause.
FCC is creeping further into the free market by trying to regulate the Internet
I guess I can agree on that. My point is that the both companies and governments are organizations formed by people without much difference in goals.

I get your definition of hubris, and go along with that in one case, but read the writing in the article makes it very much sound like all business people should stay out of politics. I am very sure that is not and has been shown to be a bad idea.
This seems like a huge waste of money to me.
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Pretty sure he intended sarcasm when he said that.
Readability (https://www.readability.com) also loads up all 3 pages at once.
I will be moving from joyent. I am paying 15usd per month and have not been told to migrate. now I read the founder saying it's my fault that I am suffering so much downtime because I should have searched the forums and migrated years ago. Well I am going to migrate now.
I don't think he makes justice to original phrase. The original was "(good) perspective is worth 80 IQ points". It is not just changing the perspective but having the right perspective.
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I used to work at a newspaper.

This person is known as the "subeditor". They also have influence on page layouts in their section, so they have the power to highlight or bury some stories.
All you need is an Airplane Parachute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8cntPdRtk
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Ask HN: How to conduct due diligence on a web hosting company
I'm not talking about exactly a mom-n-pop operation here. On the other hand, I'm not talking about a hosting company with > 100k accounts either.

I am aware of the fact that web hosting companies have been traditionally acquired by about 2.5/3X of their annual revenue multiples.

My question here is (as stated in the title of this
thread), what are the different ways to conduct due diligence on this?

They give you X number of accounts, Y revenues and Z costs (and some other things) to look at. Now, how do you independently verify these? (We already know about running a Whois on their primary and secondary DNS servers).

I'll highly appreciate any input from HNers with experience in such matters.
And I find that, hilariously, my visual system actively fights the merging of the boxes. When I successfully look at a real stereogram, there is a point at which my eyes snap into alignment and the stereogram pops out. In this case, it's like the opposite: I try to steer my eyes to the point where the blue and yellow boxes overlap, but if I get close they skitter apart. It's like trying to bring two identical magnetic poles together.

I'm sure this stuff is highly idiosyncratic. Everyone's visual system is different. It develops via visual feedback at early ages and so is different for everyone, sometimes to one's detriment:

http://www.lazyeye.org/
My point wasn't that it didn't use to work, but that it shouldn't work anymore now that everyone has access to history instantly...
I know it was sarcasm. Why are you pointing that out? And what does it have to do with my response?
This only measures a person's ability to act on certain keywords. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Even my dog can perform an action on a given keyword.
PCIe can be a limitation, but there are a lot of ways to amortize the latency of copying data to/from the GPU. Overlapping transfers with kernels, direct load/store from system memory to a kernel, multiple kernels running on the chip at the same time--there are a lot of things you can do. But in general, you're looking at a runtime of at least a few hundred microseconds before you're going to be able to get a benefit from the GPU.
There should be an option on here... "if you provide me a quick script to run, then yes, I'll provide the data"
The rendering is not the hard part - the mathematical calculation is.
Unless short-selling gets banned again.
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Currently, ISPs serve their shareholders. If net neutrality or anything similar to it ever does pass, ISPs will still largely serve their shareholders, but will have slightly less freedom to gouge consumers, and to censor content they don't like.
Who are their customers? It seems that the crux of the issue is that the ISP's want to extend their reach to include websites owners as customers as well.

I'll never understand the ideology that all regulation is bad. It's not only laughable, but demonstrably false.
Major points to her.
It's not a true unified address space in the way I think you're getting at. We carve out the address space, but you can't just directly dereference a GPU pointer from CPU code or vice-versa. What we guarantee is that you can determine the location of a pointer based only on the value of the pointer so you can make the appropriate API calls to do a copy if necessary.
How to win friends and influence people, Carnegie.
Boo. I hate Python 3. Hate. hate. hate.

It's a poorly designed mistake.
> Defendants of the current system argue free market but the result is the most expensive health care I've ever seen.

Interesting, but the current system in the US isn't "free market".

It's communistic.

- 80%+ of health care expenditures are made by a 3rd party not the person requesting a service. (employers, insurance, government)

- 40-50% of health care expeditures in the USA are made by the government. (free market usually doesn't mean paid-for/run by government)

- There are thousands of government regulations and incentives which created the current system we have.

That's a free market? You must not understand the free market- either that or you are intentionally misleading people.

Those in favor of a free market, including myself, are NOT defending the current system - they are against a complete government takeover of the system.
That's a pretty good life actually, not being bothered by people outside of his field constantly.
This is one of those deals that make absolutely no sense to me. Even less sense in fact then the Time Warner/AOL debacle.

Can someone explain any drop of rationale Intel might have for doing this? I am coming up empty.
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Fine, I'll elaborate. Didn't have the time when I posted it.

Creating a family, one learns quitting is just not an option. No matter how bad things get, no matter how beaten down or frustrated you get, no matter how much you want out, there is no "quit". Contrasted with that the notion of quitting for lesser reasons, say because a customer's buyer is being a pain or because a long-term goal is draining, is relegated to pathetic. Doesn't mean there is never a reason to stop or change course, but "quit" is no longer a viable option in one's personal philosophy.

Enduring heart surgery puts a new perspective on life. Going to sleep knowing you really might not wake up, and being at peace with the fact, means anything else can be endured given some time and effort. Waking up knowing your heart stopped beating for several hours - to wit you've been dead - means you _have_ endured the worst that can happen. The pain (having had your chest pried open with a car jack) raises the bar way above where it was, so you know no matter how much it hurts you can get thru it.

I have a dependent family; quitting is not an option.
I've been dead; all frustrations pale in comparison.
So yeah: there is no quit.
Corporation are MADE of individuals.

A corporation is not a person and does not think. There is an actual human on the other end, and it is that human to whom you are giving that freedom.

People have a tendency to anthropomorphize corporations. A corporation did this, wants that, etc.
I'm planning to write a follow up article that will explain just how to do that ;)
Yes... if you give me a button to click that will do it.
Wow, this is really nicely done. This system is a love letter to the best game consoles of the 80's.

It looks like it would be great for building small-scale interactive museum exhibits. You want something durable, easy to program, hard to mess with and self-contained that can output video simply and is able to connect to highly custom inputs.

I'm a little concerned it might be hard to replace, though, considering the Gameduino is a custom chip.

Museum exhibits often have very long lives. The legendary Charles and Ray Eames exhibit for IBM, Mathematica, is now 50 years old but still on display at the Boston Museum of Science. Okay, not really relevant, but I totally love that exhibit:

http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/mathematica.html
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I have a friend who has always had slightly skewed social graces. On the other hand, he has been roleplaying since he was 14 and can tell you the odds on any 3d6 combination off the top of his head.

When he became a salesman, we were all rather surprised and chortled amongst ourselves at how, with his underwhelming social skills, he would surely flounder.

He then proceeded to be the best salesman at his company, by wide margin.

How? He minimaxed their system. It was as simple as that. He sat down with the product list and the comp rules and calculated the best possible combinations of items and only sold those combinations. He would sell other items too, but when customers bought them, he would not ring up the sale himself -- he would send them to the front counter and ask that they not mention his name.

My own path to salesmanship was to study the psychology side. Influence by Robert Cialdini was my bible and it propelled me into the top of my own company's ranks by applying some modest mental judo. I made it a rule to never lie or fabricate, but I still sold up a storm in a completely different way from my friend.

When you look at selling as a game, geeks with a roleplaying background are going to dominate because they will experiment, minimax, tweak and study their way to maximising returns.
People often underestimate how important regular car maintenance is for safety. Just because it statically holds on ground or casual speed doesn't mean it'll grip in a quick wet corner or handle safely in an emergency situation. Hence (partly) car death+accident rate is abysmal compared to flying vehicles. In addition to weekly maintenance checks, I personally always run quick pre+post drive checklists on my car, but then that may be because I received flight education :)
Another stroke of awesome!
Nice point. I've modified the post, adding a footnote pointing out your objection, and suggesting an amendment in response: to offer a dollar to whoever of Alice and Bob offers the best summary of the talk at the end. I'm confident this will work to make the point needed for the post. On a few occasions friends have asked me in advance to summarize a talk they know I will attend, but which they cannot; this certainly makes me focus on the talk much more effectively.