skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW: The errata:
http://www.fefe.de/c++/
there are talks about skype integrating with television sets. Think its LG and more to come. Xbox sits next to that tv and is one of the successful products in it's stack. maybe msft wants to be part of your living room?
But, as the Wall Street Journal has doggedly pointed out,
America’s Licence Raj has extended its tentacles into
occupations that pose no plausible threat to health or
safety—occupations, moreover, that are governed by
considerations of taste rather than anything that can be
objectively measured by licensing authorities. The list
of jobs that require licences in some states already
sounds like something from Monty Python—florists, handymen,
wrestlers, tour guides, frozen-dessert sellers, firework
operatives, second-hand booksellers and, of course, interior
designers—but it will become sillier still if ambitious
cat-groomers and dog-walkers get their way

Handymen, frozen-dessert sellers, and firework operatives all plausibly involve health or safety concerns.

Where in the US do second-hand booksellers need a license?

I suspect that they may be counting for some of these requirements to have a business license, rather than any license tied specifically to the occupation. They may also be mixing up requirements to be licensed with requirements to be bonded.
(I'm going to have some bias here as I've done Swift deployments as well.)

One of the advantages of using something like Swift for long-term storage is it's simplicity of how data is stored on disk. Data isn't chunked up and distributed throughout a cluster. Each replica is whole and on disk. And, as notmyname, mentions there are auditors that continuously run to check for bitrot and to ensure replicas are in place. The data is extremely durable in a swift cluster if you deploy and configure everything right.

I've done most of my price modeling for petabyte-scale deployments, but it actually has good scaling-down properties as well. If you're concerned about power, 2.5" drives may be an option. Although I would avoid 'green' drives as Swift tends to keep the drives quite active (replica and integrity checks) and you won't see much benefit.
Just because he doesn't present all the data doesn't mean he didn't perform thorough analysis prior to reaching his conclusion(I don't know for sure that he does either).

You can't write best selling books that read like a paper in a scientific journal. He presents interesting and thought provoking arguments with enough data that you can't immediately disregard them. If afterwards you feel compelled to dig deeper, I say it's a job well done.
They might take issue with a couple of things like https://issues.asterisk.org/view_license_agreement.php , "commercial edition" based on the open one, deals between asterisk and skype which makes closed-source skype channels available for asterisk (who knows how would it affect skype-competitor plugins) and many others. While nothing critical, I think GNU people might not entirely like it.
When Sony started their assault on GeoHot I sold everything in my house that had a Sony logo on it. Not only have they had the info of PSN players compromised, they are now a company with a reputation of going after hackers. The best way to deal with people modifying your hardware is to embrace it the way Microsoft has, or at least understand it will happen and focus on your product the way apple does. Instead, Sony's arrogance threatens to destroy it. The times are changing and if Sony can't accept that, maybe they should go back to rice cookers.
HN: I want to trade my finance knowledge for python/django mentorship
I wanted to see if someone on HN is willing to mentor me through learning Python and Django. Below are some details on my current skill level, what I’m looking for, and what I can offer. I’m located in San Francisco.

I know what I'm offering is limited in value relative to what you are offering me, so I am open to give you anything else I could reasonably offer for this mentorship.

Current Skill Level:
I know the basics of Python and have gone through “How to Think Like a Computer Scientist” and written some small scripts. I understand how Django works and have been through some simple tutorials.

What I’m Looking For:
I’m looking for someone who could efficiently guide me through learning, i.e. what tutorials/projects/resources I should go through. More a mentor than a tutor. Maybe we’d meet once a week to code small samples. I would email you for help if I got stuck.

I do already spend time self-teaching, but I think I could learn much more efficiently through someone else’s guidance. I think this, because I have self-learned a lot of things and have found with a little guidance, things go substantially quicker.

What I can offer:
I can teach/guide you through learning:

- Account Fundamentals (understanding the 3 financial statements and how they flow together; balance sheet, cash flows and income statement)

- Interest theory, fixed income/debt/bond valuation

- M&A analysis and Valuation (Discounted cash flow, comparables/multiples, accretion/dilution)

- Options/Futures fundamentals (I think there is potentially an opportunity for adept programmers here to apply their skills).

- Bankruptcy/distressed corporate situations

- Crash course on how to dig through and interpret SEC filings (the only reliable free primary data source if you want to invest in public markets)

Why would you need these skills? I think they are crucial if you are:

1) An entrepreneur who will ever raise capital or sell your company

2) Someone interested in learning how to invest in the public or private markets – this knowledge will serve as a solid foundation/prerequisite

3) Someone in optimizing the financial efficiency of their business

I’d like to think I am at least acceptably good at teaching. I used to tutor economics, accounting, SAT prep, etc. and have received good feedback.

Credentials:
I’ve worked as an M&A/restructuring analyst at a reputable investment bank and have had offers from well-known financial institutions/hedge funds. I’ve also had the fortune to have some excellent mentors in my past. I can provide more details if you want over email.

My email is in my profile, I look forward to hearing from you.

ADDITION: email added to profile.
That's it, I'm getting the band back together. It's a quartet: vim, emacs, pico & elvis.

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Well, I guess if you're already paying for the music via that tax you're entitled to pirate it.
So you have a memcpy() call in vector_push? I wonder if that's less efficient than a straight-up assignment for small objects such as integers. The C++ equivalent can be further optimized during instruction generation by keeping things in the CPU registers as long as possible. In your C case, the int has to be written to memory before memcpy can load it into its buffer.
That's why it would be an interesting acquisition / merger. It would be a transformative event, changing both companies in radical ways that would require a true leader with vision to take the reigns and recreate both companies.

In my opinion, buying SAP would be Ballmer's worse nightmare - he wouldn't even know where to start in harnessing the energies of both companies, and that's why we'll probably never see this happen.
I would've thought it'd be the other way around. Why would you bother with a text editor if you're not motivated enough to learn how to type?
Sure it is, it's called a "lie by omission." Whether this matters in a given situation is determined by the person's ethics.
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Which would also not be justifiable for a lot of people. Well, unless they were veggie burgers ;-)
But, there is going to be pressure on those that make the judgments. What happens when someone figures out how to game the doctor rating system? I'm just very risk averse when it comes to surgery (and I want my doctors to be vetted by experts in their field, as well as my social circle).
ended up working extremely well for metafilter, though
> Microsoft basically invented the hardware-agnostic software platform

Digital Research did that. You could run a CP/M program on any CP/M-capable computer. Microsoft tried that with MSX (and failed) and then with MS-DOS (and succeeded on a different hardware platform). Only then, different graphics cards and printers became relevant.

> Other than that, I don't think Microsoft invented much

Visual Basic is one thing that comes to mind. I don't remember anything like it before. Hypercard and Toolbook were huge and heavy in comparison. VB allowed BASIC programmers to write compact Windows programs. That more or less doomed DOS.
Two months ago I got a form letter rejection from the semi-final round of the Knight News Challenge on my proposal to do exactly this. It was based on what I'd learned about news forums from working at the Washington Post, machine learning, and a bit of secret sauce. It seemed like an acute problem worth solving and so far the responses on their site are about 80% ideas I included. Validation, I guess, but I'm sort of a mixed bag of emotions about seeing this.
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I could give you some of the stats in my head for a problem space I think a lot on. I don't know if it would be meaningless gibberish to you or not and what I am doing is not some proven tech or some such at this point in time.
> 50Mbps cable line using wireless (N) from a Macbook Pro.

The folks at FLOSS Weekly recommend interviews to be conducted over cabled networks. You may want to try it.
So are you saying that leaving risks unspoken means they don't exist? The risks in this case are there regardless of whether the guy talks about them or not.
There were no less than 10 houses for rent in my neighborhood when I moved, and it's been full ever since. The market for some place to live is endless, and arguably more competitive than the buying/selling market.
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> paying $1,100/mo ... sure beats the $1,200/mo I was paying

Yeah, but you have a huge pile of debt hanging over your head. Before you could punch out anyone who needed punching at work, or at least gone all Jerry Mcguire. Now you're kind of a slave to the wage.
For what it's worth, it's "an online retail store for digial goods" and it says "WARNING: If you don't like profits, this is not for you!!!"
Even if we have never met before? A social network for torrents?
From what I've seen, it's very easy to do poorly, but not so easy to do well.

One might say graphic design is easy because you are simply drawing colored shapes, yet many of us suck at this easy job.
it's more like '.net'.

Remember when this was the latest buzz words and nobody really knew what it meant?
Take a look at CL, there are no shortages of handymen.
$37 would be more common for that sort of book, BTW ;-) (Coincidentally just yesterday I noted there are 10x the results for "$37 ebook" than for "$39 ebook" on Google.)
Give Ballmer a couple years and SAP may be able to buy Microsoft.

That was unfair - Microsoft's demise is not completely Ballmer's fault. The market has been changing in directions Microsoft was not able to follow at speeds they were never able to match.
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I'd say you may want to look into a celebrity endorsement or partnership with the likes of someone such as Jimmy Fallon who has a strong tech following (e.g. he and his writers create fun worldwide trending Twitter topics each week) and also is a comedian who can bring the type of brand recognition to your app that might set it apart form others and introduce it to folks who may never find it otherwise. Admittedly, he already has his own "Late Night" app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/late-night/id399052778?mt=8) but there are plenty of big name comedians who are likely looking to get into the social/mobile space and you could provide them an avenue to do so.
5% is a small amount to pay for that type of money. A good entrepreneur can make much more than 5% off of their own cash reserves.
If you ask around, you'll find that most of the people running Google Groups either hate or dislike Google Groups, however when their groups were first started it had a low-entry cost: it was free of charge and Google handled most of the annoyances of running a mailing list. New groups get added because it is still simpler than running your own mailing list.

http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/

One should never underestimate the power of inertia.
This is an awesome idea, I love the fact it allows both learning parties "skin in the game", without a financial incentive.
They have begun taking on Oracle and SAP after buying Navision and turning it into Microsoft Dynamics. From what I've seen, it's a very strong product and I'm expecting it to do well.

EDIT:
Link here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/default.aspx
Video tutorial on how raising money for a startup works and valuation
If you have never met before but can exchange data physically -- why not! The requirements of this (summarized) are: 1. Common content, 2. Ability to exchange data physically. And if you are in a LAN, not even that.
In cs61a, it really takes one or two lectures to teach Scheme - that's the beauty of it, there is not much syntax to learn. Like almost every other CS class at Berkeley, it's not a language course; it's a computer science course.

A major part of the class was writing a Scheme interpreter in Scheme, which I imagine will not be possible in the new 61a (writing a Python interpreter in Python, that is). Considering how utterly jacked up Python's syntax is, compared to Scheme, I can't wait to see how they manage to pull this one off.

Really, if any Berkeley CS student can't learn Python on their own, their job prospects should be nil anyway.
If only that were the case everywhere. As far as I know from the teachers among my friends and family, in my state budgets are being cut, class sizes are increasing (there are more students than desks in many classes), teacher count is decreasing, the curriculum is being dumbed down, etc.
I remember watching the anti-trust tapes of Bill G's deposition.

The prosecution was absolutely clueless about the technology in question, to the extreme point of trying to link Windows "shortcuts" to some type of anti-competitive behavior.

With a large organization such as Microsoft, you will generate a lot of "dots" (random internal memos/conversation and other other points) that will then be further connected by "lines" (in the court room), and your guilt will be obvious.

I'm not saying that Microsoft did not engage in anti-competitive behavior, but just that the courtroom is the last place you will find the truth.
Do they see this as a problem? The most successful 8 and 16 bit game companies have been finding ways to capitalize on their past library on all the current platforms. They'd much rather have you pay for a Virtual Console than plug in your 25 year old hardware and have a go.
It is interesting, but it reminds me of the TV vs no TV argument. Very strange division here.
That doesn't rule out the existence of third offer. Just saying.
Just a heads up, the "Email" field in your profile isn't publicly visible. Instead, you'll want to put your address into the "About" field.

That said, I spent a few months last summer teaching some interns how to use Python and Django, with reasonable success, and I'd be more than happy to spend a few hours a week helping you out. My email address is in my profile :)
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The brain is shaped by bacteria in the digestive tract
Link: http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/

And its in London, so unfortunately no.
This is a frequent pattern in many contexts. A wave of immigrants gets demonized, they integrate over the course of a few generations, and then they turn around and demonize the next wave of immigrants. A school of art or literature survives the scoffing of the old guard, only to become the old guard themselves, et cetera.
If you find someone to pair with you, great.

If you don't, finish the django book http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/ and start fiddling with Practical Django Projects http://www.apress.com/9781590599969. It's a decent book and gives you a feel of some real applications.

There always is stackoverflow and mailing lists if you get stuck.

You can also hop in #django on irc.freenode.net. Sometimes people on IRC can be a bit hostile but if you do your homework before asking questions, they are generally answered.

You also need to know if you are taking up on a real world project, you would need to learn other technologies - Javascript for client side interaction, html/css for UI. Django/Python are just one piece of the puzzle.
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When we first got married, we lived in an apartment and were feeling a little cramped. We were then able to rent a house for a great rate, but at a price that would have likely exceed a month's mortgage on a 30 year loan. The benefit for us was the flexibility to be able to move to New York when a job offer came along.

Now that we're in NYC, our apartment is, um, "cozier" than our previous two dwellings and we have a baby! The flexibility at this point in our lives is really important.
To a big part the ability to optimize stems form a static and very detailed type system.

In Haskell you happen to know about statelessness from the types, which is an additional bonus. But other statically type languages like Eiffel are also pretty well optimizable.
This happens all the time in the technology industry...
It's a constant struggle and for the most part the only way to deal with it is through marketing. See luxury brands as examples.

So we need premium carpenters/coders/electricians.
It might be worth posting to http://startupguild.net
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Where I lived through 2004-2007, my rent never increased, but that was a much less active rental market than Boston.

Since moving to Boston in 2007 I've only been in the same place long enough to have 2 opportunities for rent-raise requests, and it was raised both times. I don't recall the first (I decided to leave, the company was horrible), and the second the landlord asked for 3% and we haggled it to 2%.

I think some landlords try to balance turnover because there are benefits as well as costs and hassles. Turnover gives you a chance to thoroughly clean and do lots of minor maintenance that a long-term tenant is likely to neglect.
You are correct about the facts, but you have your prospective worng. Bitcoin's are not just handed out to people. They have to be made first which take time and money. Bitcoin also needed to build the network infrastructure first.

Bitcoin has only been capable of being used for about 2 months. Now with a more realistic prospective you can see that bitcoin has come a Vary long way, and is sky rocketing in the currency exchange market's. Bitcon has more then quadrupled in value in the pas 30 days.
Out of curiosity what opportunities do you see for programmers in options/futures? Anything besides algo/hft stuff?
In some places, yes, but not everywhere.
"P.V.T. is tedious but simple if you’ve been sleeping well. It measures the sustained attention that is vital for pilots, truck drivers, astronauts. Attention is also key for focusing during long meetings; for reading a paragraph just once."

I can't say how true that is when you're doing a ton of email all day or research, and its more a function of the sum total of small delays in re-reading that build up over the course of an entire day. Contrasted with a day when your mind is so clear that you require no re-reading, it feels like you are so much more productive.

Additional sleep links:

1. Sleep: How to hack your brain (http://www.dustincurtis.com/sleep.html)

2. The 4-Hour Body: Engineering better sleep (http://techcocktail.com/book-preview-the-4-hour-body-enginee...)
Thanks very much for the detail. I think the next step might be to identify some under-served niche. Though, given the Internet, I have a hard time thinking any interest is under-served, at least for long.
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Thanks.

> running your own mailing list

As I understand its key feature is posting and reading via email?
But does it make sense in the era of StackOverflow and Quora?
I'd personally find a recommendation from a friend

You would, but so would a bunch of stupid people with stupid friends. I think licensing doctors falls into the same category as mandatory school attendance, i.e., stopping people from hurting ourselves so they don't drag us down with them. To think we worry about doctors following decades-old traditions instead of evidence-based medicine, or being influenced by drug companies. Those are good worries to have! It could be a lot worse. Everyone knows you're supposed to see a doctor when you need medical care, got to take your kids to the doctor when they're sick, etc. That magic word "doctor" results in people actually getting competent medical care instead of going to a faith healer or an herbalist, which is what they'd do if anyone could call themselves a doctor and people had to discriminate for themselves.

Let people screw themselves all they want if it doesn't screw me, but we should take some measures to make sure people get more competent medical care than they would be able to choose for themselves, just like we force them to educate their kids instead of putting them to work full-time when they're eight.
The name is important.

I know of at least a couple companies that used non .com domains and later regretted it because people were confused or couldn't remember it.
I looked at the rebuttal and I couldn't make past the part where he argues against this point - It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it ... Even if the choice of C were to do nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C*

As someone who had substantial exposure to interviewing and hiring C and C++ programmers to add to a team of 250 it was bloody obvious that a lot of pure C++ programmers are the pompous know-it-alls who think they know C++, while C people are those with far more realistic self-assessment who actually do know the language. Linus got it absolutely right.
Many of the complaints have become irrelevant or at least much less relevant with C++11 and huge progress also on the compiler side (most notable clang but for example GCC also has improved many of the unreadable error messages).
"...virtually guarantees the ultimate failure of Bitcoin due to government action."

Owe ya, I sure do miss "Bittorrent".. boy do you remember that. Too bad the Gov shut it off.

Also,

"why would you offer it only via a currency no one uses?"

You would not that would be vary stupid. That is why Apple take EUR, USD, and so on....
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Yeah -- the question I have about why Lockitron did it the way they did is if there were patent or other considerations which forced them into doing it that way. If not, I think it would be technically pretty simple to build a small quantity which behave the way I (and you, and some others) want; it's still hard to build for mass production, and gets even harder once people get picky about the color, material, design, etc. of the actual locksets.
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Not as screwy as the government. See http://www.economist.com/node/18678963?story_id=18678963&...