skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a few good "money burning" viruses and you would double the value of bitcoins by reducing supply. Back up your wallet!
? If you read the article, you can see that after their upgrade, the average time spent in ruby per page is 400ms.
The whole point is that you can't compare a town with 300k people with a blue-collar culture to the Bay Area. It's not even close to as good for startups. Why is this controversial?
Someday, you'll get to work in a language that has a good REPL, and you'll never want to go back to printing. :)
Delaying product security at a startup
Anybody working for free should get exactly the same equity as the founders. Or more than that if the founders are getting salary/benefits.
Much easier than http://whenthetimeis.com/, well done on the interface!
Disagree. Great domain name. "Startup but without the A and the U"
Nitpick: an empty playlist has no songs out of place, so it should score 0 WTFs (I don't understand how you got length(empty)=24). Giving Apple some WTFs instead of giving it 0 is clearly more in the spirit of the test than following the criterion to the letter would have been.
Author's uncritical fascination with those scammers makes the article quite annoying to read. Leaving ethical issues aside, spamming does not seem to be technically challenging. Especially if you live in a country where the law enforcement is too weak to prosecute cybercrimes.
The paid link question is indeed very important and I also hope get a clear answer from google. I think google should permit link buying but discourage link selling.
Discouraging link buying can't prevent "Bad" guys from buying links because they can flip junk site very fast and they have less or no worries of penalty (if exist). If good guys don't buy links, how can they compete with bad guys?
Microsoft's Skype Deal: How to Make it Work
Comment I left on reddit, with my benchmark numbers for the tornado server under PyPy: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/h7cs9/cowboy_mi...
The playlists have 25 songs each, one of which is the original, so that's up to 24 opportunities to make a mistake.
Tq: a tool to stay focused with
You know what people whose leaving a company would be catastrophic are called? Owners
Exactly. The difference between seeing something and comprehending it.
I am a lifelong insomniac recently (the last 7 years or so) transitioned into parasomnia (inability to stay asleep).

I've also "tried" everything and also feel the same when I get 2-3 days of very solid sleep in. A different person :) Strangely, I have had VERY good experiences with GABA, ZMA (both supplements, GNC etc.)Holy Basil extract (herbal pill). This combo really helps me fall and stay asleep more on Average versus most of anything else (including melatonin).

It helps as an assistant, not a knock-out Ambien like sleep aid, which I can't use if I want to be alert for work :)
Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine is a terrific novel about a guy who leaves his desk to ride down an escalator to buy shoelaces and a cookie.
You are correct that the trainer is incentivized such that he would prefer I not show up. But /I/ am incentivized /to/ show up.
26 days later, PlayStation Network returns
Yup, right up until September 1993. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eternal_Septe... Complaining might not be productive, but reminding people that things used to be nicer is a good way to stave off despair that it can never be nice again. The Internet was nice, for years and years, and if we remember how to do it right, maybe we can make it nice again.
It's doubtful this is even legal, which should raise serious red flags. In many jurisdictions, if you're not (reasonably) compensated, the intellectual property belongs to you. In California, they have to pay you if you're doing real work.

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2010/04/15/can-a-califor...

http://laborlaw.typepad.com/labor_and_employment_law_/2007/1...

Moreover, the company is being stingy. Why? They don't want to commit to you in the long term. Fair enough, but think ahead. What's going to happen after YC? They will get a company, and you will get nothing. They will either kick you to the curb or they will offer you peanuts to stay. Will you be happy with that?

Negotiate wisely so you're getting something for the work you do. If they don't want to cough up equity, they must pay you. If they can't pay you now, agree to defer your compensation (essentially an IOU) which you can convert into equity after a certain date if it isn't paid up. They should pay you a higher than market rate (double) as well because you are the one taking the risk here; i.e. that they won't ever be able to pay you.

It sounds like your decision making is distorted by your goal of getting YC experience. If you want a YC experience, why not just apply yourself? You don't need YC either. There are hundreds of other startups in the Valley you can cut your teeth on. You have limited life energy. Why give it away for nothing?
There's http://ubitex.org for that.

It's a platform for local trading of bitcoin. (Sorry for the initial mislinking)
LEAP interface, made with FORTH by the original Mac daddy Jeff Rasking
Initial Thoughts On The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook
I would be interested on how the Haskell frameworks like Warp or Snap stand up to Erlang.
Downvotes? Really? Way to agree to disagree, folks.
I disagree, but I respect your opinion. I think the tablet market will ultimately look more like the mp3 player market: Apple has a head start, it's a better platform for developers (in terms of tools and profits/revenue) in general, iTunes lock-in keeps customers loyal to Apple, iPhone/iPad universal apps and app compatibility makes iPhone users even more likely to purchase iPads, many exclusive apps being cross promoted (Infinity Blade, Final Fantasy, HBO GO), and pricing--iPads are still cheaper than comparable tablets.

But I think the most important thing is that Apple has retail stores, whereas phones are sold by the carriers.
It'd be useful if the website demonstrated redeeming a card, because the process sounds painful.

Conversely, if the smallest denomination is one bitcoin, you wouldn't be able to give change in a physical situation.
Is the tuna Provençale using an alternate definition for "slug" I've not heard before? I think the conventional definition is way too much wine to put in something that's not meant to feed a small army, and a single bay leaf won't be nearly enough to balance that out.
I know this script is really simple and the technique might not serve everyone as well, but I figured I'd share it. I think there's something to be said for small homebrew ~/bin scripts like these. A nice collection of them can replace the need for larger/overkill tools. At least, personally, I've always been interested in them.
Finals are happening for U.S. college students over the next few weeks, not last month.
My great-grandfather fled Mussolini and came to the USA. Does that make me a minority, or does it still count as a majority because my skin is white? :)
Nice! I love this! Integrate Google calendar and I'm thrilled.

Another suggestion: make the available hours darker and the night hours lighter. My eyes were drawn to the dark spaces, and it was easier to visualize the overlaps when I was looking at the dark spaces.
Indeed. I'd really like to see the Haskell servers, warp and snap, thrown in, since the infrastructure there was actually built for raw performance.
Google Releases News Near You For Android & iOS
My colleague (with some help from me) created an interactive version of the 1932 French poem "Nouvelles impressions d’Afrique" by Roussel, one of the early experiments in this vein: http://withhiddennoise.net/roussel/
Whatever you do, avoid licensing costs. Licensing is Microsoft's core business, so...
I read the entire thing and still don't know the context of which it was written. (fiction?)
Near-future sci-fi, it appears, with a (large) hint of social commentary.
Isn't the TL;DR "I made tea" ?
Nvidia CEO disappointed by Android tablet sales, blames pricing and apps
Gotcha. Figured as much, but wasn't sure.
Chromebook First Looks on Samsung Series
these Chromebooks aren’t truly the first crack at the product. That was the Cr-48, a barebones notebook that Google sent to developers who signed up for a pilot program late last year. That product, quite frankly, was not very good. It had hands-down the worst trackpad I had ever used on a computing device.
How many unicorn dollars can I pay you to keep these posts off the front page?
If I own four bitcoins that are each worth $10, if I bought something for $32, the cashier would give me $8 back in cash?

If the price of a bitcoin rises to something not easily handled (e.g. each are worth $1000), what's the bitcoin answer to that? Getting change in USD/EUROS/etc? Are there fractional currencies like pennies, nickels, dimes, etc?
Near-future fiction where copyright trolls run the asylum.
Near-future speculative fiction on the increasing sources of interesting data and data mining. I enjoyed the read.
Sad? absolutely. But not chilling, at least for me.
My thoughts exactly on the redeeming process.

One potential problem is that the receiver must be familiar with bitbills before accepting them. There is no clear way to demonstrate the bills value without consuming it.
A fictional story that IMHO illustrates a future where micro-sueing is established and done in such a manner that the friction of the lawsuits is very low.
It seems to be about a typical morning in a world where the capability to sue has been commoditized and automated to the point where everyone sues everyone else for every little rights violation all day long (nanolaw). This makes everyone a "lawyer." Tablet software makes settling the suits that matter trivial - just a tap a box to settle for a few cents or a few dollars. The father experiences this world as somewhat surreal, while it's normal for the daughter.
I'm not a good judge of these things, but it reminds me of Bradbury -- I wonder if he could be sued for that?

/seriously, it does remind me of Bradbury
This should just fall under the 'duh' category. Quite simply, Erlang is the gold standard for scalability (horizontal and vertical) and nearly everything else is far #2.

However, choosing a tech is much more than just raw numbers. There are so many factors at play and it shouldn't be taken lightly.

That being said, we did something similar about 2 years ago and Erlang/Riak came out so far ahead of the competition for our needs and it wasn't even close.

I did go back to my notes just recently and looked again with Node in mind. Though I didn't do the same bake off we did back then, I did a thorough exercise with Node to make an evaluation and, while a cool tech, would not have made the cut. Erlang/OTP w/ Riak is not hard to program (anyone can learn), takes so much of the guess work out of scalability and is easy to debug. Node isn't quite mature enough to handle this yet and coupled with the true lack of multi-core, can't quite hang with the big boys just yet.

Erlang/OTP is clearly in a league of its own.
I remember reading about an (now ex) RCMP officer from BC, Canada created an application that took all sorts of data from crimes and combined it to create kind of a heat map/"elevation" of predictions where the criminal may be based.

That's about as close as you could get to Minority Report (this was earlier than the movie) but it used ongoing series of crimes to predict where the crimes may occur or to narrow down where the criminal may live.

It's not the IBM software mentioned in the article this was from Canada and I distinctly remember it was an RCMP officer who created it.
No, it is not too long, and I did read it. Thanks for your kind interest in this matter.
The text does not collapse back...
I suppose it's difficult for him to reflect on the below par quality of the Xoom tablet, at least for the price. But yeah, $800 is sort of set up to fail.

I picked up a Xoom tablet for some work use and though it feels advanced compared to my iPad I found it to be very unreliable. Every so often the thing would completely freak out with random UI events. Sure, it will get better, but until then...
Didn't you ask this same question a few days ago? I seem to recall that this same query was previously displayed on HN.

I take amphetamines because it is part of the medication that has been prescribed to me by a doctor for ADHD. I take my medication because it is nigh impossible for me to do anything that I am not interested in for more than five seconds. The unceasing flow of ideas and internal stimuli that I generate by thinking can be rather bothersome as well. Life is difficult when you are thinking of a solution to a problem, designing parts of software systems and considering the best approach to dealing with someone you had a tiff with (and more) all while you are supposed to be listening to your current boss, wife, lover etc. Life becomes more difficult when you forget everything you are supposed to be doing because you cannot pay attention long enough to finish the three second task you meant to finish five seconds ago because you forgot what that task was.

The beneficial effect of taking my medication is that I am better able to write code that I am not interested in writing, give closer attention to detail and generally operate like a human being without ADHD would operate. There is more to ADHD than just lack of focus. Lack of focus and all of the other things, lack of organization, forgetfulness, fidgeting, non-sequitur outbursts in conversation, lack of follow through... All of those things are why I take my medication and also the reason that I stopped listening to other people telling me that I should stop taking meds.

I do not think anyone should take amphetamines for any other reason than a real medical condition. I have no idea why they would want to. When I took dexedrine for the first two weeks I felt like hell. I switched to an XR dexedrine and I feel much better.

I know that adderall and dex are really popular with college kids to help them study. I have had people ask me if I would give them my medication, I guess they do not know or do not care that giving narcotic meds to people who do not have a prescription is illegal...

To each their own I guess. If you want to take drugs to code that is your deal. Why not just code without the meds if you can? I wish I could.

I guess I got a little ranty here. Sorry about that.
I only carry a small amount of cash at any time. If bitcoin is only as secure as cash, then no one will maintain any more bitcoin currency than a few hundred dollars.

It would be irresponsible to entrust tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to the integrity of your hard drive and its backup(s).

Or is bitcoin not meant to become a currency that people would hold in values larger than a few hundred dollars?
Ryerson pair creates brain-powered prosthetic arm
Re: your knock on Cucumber – isn't Cucumber explicitly designed to enable human readability so that non-programmers can collaborate on features in quasi-colloquial English? Can you expand on what you dislike about it?

I'm not trolling; I'm genuinely curious about this.
Request: change the title by appending "fiction" so that folks like me don't start reading to try and figure out how the hell a person can be sued while in the womb.
At some point people may switch to mBTC (1/1000th of a BTC). And you could call 0.01 mBTC a "bitcent".
The example seems bit off: shouldn't the first "tq pop" print the same line as the "tq peek"?
Seemed almost like a concept out of a Charles Stross novel to me.
How Piracy Made 'Go the Fuck to Sleep' a No. 1 Amazon Best-Seller
Good reality check for Node's fanboys. There are literally no advantages in Node, except it is cool and it is Javascript.

It is like web-server written in PHP just because we can and php is so "widely used" language.
Only if you believe in the people (and to a lesser degree the project) then I'd say it'd be good to consider it. Or if you're independently wealthy enough and value the y-comb experience that much.
Don't waste your NY Times click through on this zero content article.
Reminded me a lot of 'the right to read' http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
I fear this will lead to bitcrackpots giving bitbills to people who don't want them as a form of evangelism.
Its interesting to look at the whole Visual Basic / VBX market and how those apps were assembled. I am not a big fan, but I wonder if there are some lessons that have been forgotten from that era.
That's a somewhat inaccurate summary. Reagan had also explicitly asked for it, and the 1996 bill was introduced and mostly supported by the Republicans, who you may recall had a Congressional majority at the time. Senator Bob Dole, who introduced the bill, was the GOP candidate for president in the same year, and one has to wonder if its introduction was partially aimed at burnishing his credentials as an opponent of pork-barrel politics. There were two attempts to bring it back in 2006, both sponsored by prominent Republicans.

Any president would like more authority over the budget, but the GOP does seem to have invested the most political capital in it. The general public seems fairly indifferent to the niceties of constitutional law so I'm not surprised the proponents haven't suffered any major electoral rebukes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_St...

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...
On the one hand, I should technically complain that the title given here is not the title of the story.

On the other hand, I think this title is a better one, so please disregard the previous sentence. ;)
That's why I liked it. Made you think and put it all together. IMHO
You are wrong. Very wrong. You just come across as trying to raise the value of web designers. I don't think its worth that much to most people and never will be.
aka "How to annoy your friends on their birthdays"

Personally I just give 'em vouchers for free personality tests at the Church of Scientology.
This is how I think about it.

Imagine you have a block box that calculates a interest rate futures convexity adjustment. That is for an OTC forward you have one fair value and for a future you have a different fair value because the future is has margins and the function calculates the difference between the two.

Now you have some useful code that works out margin payments for various trajectories of prices for the future/forward based on some model for price movements and and another model for interest payments/reciepts on the margin calls.

Now you have a simple change where some exchange changes way they do margin calls.

One way to resolve this is that convexity adjustment function takes in a margining function as a parameter. But if it was not known that this was needed from the start maybe another part of the model was parameterized rather than this.

In practice in this case assumptions about the margining are baked into the mathematics of the black box, and handling arbitrary margining systems is not done and you write a whole new function.
The plan is to just move the decimal point as needed to keep it reasonable. (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#But_if_no_more_coins_are_gene...)
What information is here that would even possibly be a surprise? The author says current Android tablets suck, have started to stuck a tiny bit less, and he hopes that in a month they won't suck. Nothing here demonstrates either a quality product or market traction, just a whole lot of wishful thinking. Maybe Android tablets will be successful one day, but the article certainly does nothing to demonstrate that.
I actually like "first dips" in this context. It's a much more vivid mental image.
Agreed. I think a key aspect of this sort of fiction is that you are not quite sure at first if it's real or not. It is interesting to see just how crazy a message can be communicated before you realize that it's not real.
"First dips" is pretty funny too :p
Very interesting story. I am reminded that tax software made it feasible for governments to make much more complicated tax codes. Legal software combined with the increasing acceptance of arbitration for civil suits could create this future.
I find it odd that you would think piracy was popularized 10 years ago. First off, commercially pirated publication has been popular ever since publication was invented. Pirate editions of books have been widely available for hundreds of years.

Individual copying of music has been popular since home taping became available from the early 60's on. My friends and I had lots of home recorded compact cassettes in the 80s. The youth of that day felt perfectly entitled to tape whatever they wanted. The coming of CD's meant that the first generation tape was perfect with no additional hiss.

Digital copying became popular as soon as home CD-R came along. I remember being amazed when $1.50 blank CD-Rs and $500 burners came along in the mid 90s. I soon had a pile of bit for bit perfect copies. No generational loss, nothing missing but the cover art.

Even if the internet or peer-to-peer had never come into use, there would today be a huge casual piracy scene based on MP3s, FLACs, portable hard drives and burned discs. If the publishing industry somehow manages to stuff the P2P genie back in the bottle, that's where we'll end up.
Panic — The True Story of Audion
It seems you're trying to work with a universal definition of "lamer,"

Just the opposite, actually. Your point about being a lamer in context of something you don't understand or like was precisely my point. My point was that a community full of "lamers" is a community that has somehow attracted posters or commenters whose tastes, opinions, knowledge level, interest level, and/or posting intent do not mesh with those of the majority of the userbase. To the extent that these lamers -- as defined by their context -- exist, that's usually a function of a community's having lost focus (or never had proper focus to begin with). Because lamers are defined by context, the only way to eliminate lamer presence is to sharpen content or context focus around the set of users you want to keep.

I think we're agreeing more than we're disagreeing here. And if it doesn't sound that way, I'll concede that my post may not have been worded clearly enough.
I got a t-shirt...
Don't you find using callbacks for everything to be a straightjacket?
Or maybe just write the article, and present the most-important bits first, starting with the headline. Then, the first paragraph or so would cover the important points, and as you kept reading, it'd get less and less important.
As it stands, the script prints out the next item in the todo list, not the one just removed. Maybe it's not quite the standard expected result in this case, but I figured it'd minimize the amount of commands/work that needs to be done to manage the queue.

Of course, since it's a Gist, you're welcome to fork it ;p
Yes, but (not having seen the text of the bill), the reporting implies...

That doesn't strike me as a very reliable basis for discussion. I have an extremely low opinion of the media's ability or desire to accurately report on legislative or judicial matters. Regarding this bill (which I have read), I'm struck by the poor reporting of the new procedural safeguards for defendants and checks upon the activity of law enforcement. I don't think I'd support this bill, but reports so far are giving readers a very lopsided view of it.
Looking for a sql crash course
I have limited experience with mysql databases because of my work theming drupal and wordpress sites as well as building php forms, but i'm looking for straight sql course / book / resource so i can mine a large sql database and output those sql qeries into a usable excel file for further data analysis. Thanks.
Ask HN: Legal status of bitcoin exchangers in the US
I was thinking of launching a competitor to Mt. Gox. But I don't want to end up in jail on counts of money laundering, being an unregistered money transmitter, or anything like that. What are the relevant laws here?