skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly no, I've chosen not to identify myself so that I can fully speak my mind. But in short, the PHP 5 interpreter (with APC) was a pig even for a scripting language, and few builtin client stacks lent themselves to making parallel requests to different backend services with timeouts in milliseconds. The rewrite was also an opportunity to jettison technical debt like support clutter for long-disused features (many forgotten after turnover in engineering). We only had to tune the GC a little; the gotchas have been minimizing exception volume (they're still extremely expensive, especially when stock Tomcat 6 handles certain bogus requests that way) and learning to avoid certain J2SE features which impose unexpected synchronization (weird stuff like creating fresh java.util.Calendar instances instead of cloning one). Nowadays we're moving from servlets towards Netty and async everything so our cores don't context switch so much.

We don't like Java, but the JVM has met our needs pretty well. I was tempted to argue for Clojure, but I'm not sure we could have taken the performance or maintainability hits for discouraging static typing.
We don’t owe them. Lying to people is just wrong.

I have contacted dead accounts in the past, a problem is that it’s hard to get contact info.

Hellbanning spambots I can understand. Hellbanning people?
oh, gods, BASIC.

my first programming experience was in unstructured BASIC. I think I've managed to reverse the brain damage from that, but I can't be too sure.
This is crazy. It's like a haunted house... but inside my terminal.
Tazed in the face
Right, but first you have to specify "the semantics of C" and "the semantics of assembly". How do you prove you did that right?
http://silverbaylabs.org/contact.html
So they haven't figured out the price for the firmware-crippled version? I wonder how well the versions will be enforced.
"How much essential nutrition does it actually give you?"

Well, let's see... a 1 ounce (28 gram) serving of Fritos contains 15 grams of carbohydrate, 10 grams of fat, and 2 grams of protein = 27 grams. All of these are nutrients, so quite a lot, actually. The remaining gram is mostly fiber, which, although not a nutrient per se, is a good thing to eat nonetheless.

I think you're using a non-standard definition of nutrient here.
This is a pretty heavy handed interpretation. Sure, the definition of agriculture is humans messing with the genetics of plants and animals. Since the first seed was replanted, we have been involved in a process of selecting and mixing desirable genetic traits.

BUT. This is all just the application of technology. And like all technologies, not every application of technology is better than the last. There was a time in the pharmaceutical industry when it was OK to mix industrial solvents and addictive substances into a deadly cocktail. Then we dialed that back, said that wasn't so good. Some pesticides and GMOs are looking a little scary, sometimes "is that kerosene in my cough syrup" scary.

There is a good compromise with GMOs in my opinion. First we do the genetic sequencing to unravel the secrets. Then we use traditional hybridization to mix the strains for desirable properties without exposing ourselves to the risk of full blown genetic hackery.

That's without even bringing up the topic of genetic patents. I find it far more objectionable than software patents but it is rarely discussed. There was a good New Yorker article on it for any patent haters that want to raise their blood pressure.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/27/070827fa_fact_...
What mailing list is this?
I'm looking at moving to NY soon myself from beautiful Boston. If nothing else, I could use some help learning about "the scene".
I'm guessing it's Perl, and some shellinabox. You can jump to memory address 151 and then jump to 7363054 to see timers

$ call -151
* 7363052g

> TH::show_starwars from src/th_starwars.pm

Etc, etc. But as one graybeard told me, it's a mix of OSes, Apple II core dump, and tons of other stuff. Just absolutely amazing.
I am actually 2 hours away from NYC for the summer. I have to find out my hours to see if I can get anytime to go to the city and get some connections.
Actually it appears that increasing working memory alone doesn't increase intelligence (from the paper). But doing the 2 tasks together does seem to do the trick.
why do my comments to a past discussion on search get auto killed?
using the new search box searching for the title, it still comes up, but when I make a critical point and link to it my post goes straight to dead??

try searching for : What's the deal with search on HN

seems there was a very different attitude towards it then...
Ask HN: What makes you pay for a service offered for free elsewhere?
For example, there are lots of blogging solutions with more or less the same features. Some will charge you a monthly fee, others are completely free. What makes people pay the fee if there are other services that offer the same feature set for free?
"Hadoop is a leaky abstraction because it crashes ? Does not compute!"

Hadoop is an abstraction over a distributed file system, that allows programmers to crunch large amounts of data using map reduce.

It leaks in the sense that you have to think about implementation details of the job tracker or you will crash it. That's a leak, right?
Not the same thing, but I remember an article, I think it was in Whole Earth Review in the early 1980s, about a man who financed his college education by selling bonds on himself or on his future income (I don't remember exactly how they put it, but that was pretty close) with a maturity far enough in the future that he could graduate and earn the money to pay them off. As a precaution the contract allowed him to return the money he had already collected without penalty if he wasn't able to get enough to get through college. I never saw anything about whether or how well it worked out.
Oh thanks! BTW is there any reason to stay away from Craigslist?

And what are some good meetups to join?
This article does offer little back ground argument or cite any true hard information. However the organic vs non organic debate is a large topic. The overall argument of this post is not worthless. The amount of land used to feed the maximum amount of people is significantly less using modern technology vs organic methods.
"Your Highness, the people have no bread"

Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake"

"Mr Millionare, small businesses are struggling to make ends meet despite 80hr work weeks."

DHH: "Let them relax by flying their private planes"
One of the questions on a visa application is something like: "Do you plan to attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States by force or subversion?".

Political dissidents and crackers may have an issue there, if that's their stated purpose.
I have heard Brooklyn was cheap. I am looking around that area for the fall.
I was thinking in terms of vitamins and minerals. Also 'protein' is rather nebulous of a term (though I imagine there is some government-approved definition that you have to use when generating those labels). Beans have 'protein,' but would should really have something like beans and rice to have 'complete protein.'
switch jobs, roll your 401K over into an IRA that you can manage yourself.
In NYC, I'd say 60k is too low for an entry-level computer science position, even for a kid coming out of a bachelors, unless you're at a startup / ad agency / other similarly interesting job. Even the first year investment bankers usually make at least 50k base - and that's the "don't worry about the number you'll make more in bonuses" number.

You say you have a Masters - assuming it's in computer science and you have any internship or "real programming" experience at all, I would be surprised to see you getting something less than a mid-level or strong junior position, and a salary of at least 80k accordingly.
Would have been better if he explained what he means.
thanks for the resources!
The 11th Rule: Any Greenspun commentary on a sufficiently complicated social issue contains ad hoc, appeal-to-emotion, bug-ridden statements regurgitating half of "Atlas Shrugged".
> you rid him of the ability to sell the recipe.

Copyright controls the ability to copy/distribute. It says nothing about selling. Are you going to tell me that if I copy a movie, I've deprived Hollywood of the ability to sell that movie? Are they not still able to sell DVDs in parallel with the operation of The Pirate Bay? "rid him of the ability to sell" seems rather strong language for an issue that's more nuanced that you seem to want to admit to.
Sony's problem is having people around who think storing passwords in the clear is OK.
You should read, watch and listen to Hitler's speeches. He told the German people they were different, special and they had a destiny. That it would be wrong (all of the metaphysicals) to not fulfill that destiny. That they were a perfect beautiful people and he could see that it was so by being an imperfect non-full blooded aryan looking in on what their true potential could be.

Amazingly manipulative stuff.
The LLC owning all the brands would be fine, if they are all web apps. Web apps typically have little liability risks. I have put several brands under one LLC, and then used the 'class' feature in Quickbooks to give each brand each its own P&L. I keep my building in a separate LLC from the rest to protect it. I feel there is enough liability in owning a business with slip/fall type lawsuits to segment the assets, since we deal with the public (non-tech business).

The ability to separate the financials with 'class' was the most useful part. Split LLCs force you to do this because they by definition needs their own P&Ls, but make it hard to figure out what to bill for each business. For example you may have an accounting expense - which LLC do you bill it to? Split evenly amongst the apps, or proportionate to what each earns?

If you have one LLC with many brands, if you want to sell one off then the 'class' segregation will let you show a potential buyer how profitable it is by itself.

notes: I am only familiar with QB, I am sure other software does similar functions
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Those are more along the lines of micronutrients. Your body runs on carbohydrates. In a pinch it can create them from fat or protein, but that's pretty inefficient.

The "complete protein" thing is a myth, at least in the sense that you need to eat (e.g.) beans and rice at the same meal. You do need to get all of the essential amino acids at some point, but they don't have to come in one slug.

Also, the third world diets that you advocate tend to be, to a first approximation, pure carbs. They don't get organic baby vegetables from Whole Foods in January. They get brown rice, or wheat, or, yes, corn meal, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, every day of their lives with occasional bits of other foods to relieve the monotony.
I haven't been one of those calling it a Ponzi scheme or any other con, because it pretty obviously isn't; it has problems and I doubt it is sustainable, but not for those reasons. (Megan McArdle on http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/why-does... "One study found that 32% of Groupon merchants lost money (with restaurants faring worst) and 40% said they wouldn't do it again; even people who made money had staff problems due to high volume and, er, cheap tippers")

It is usually easier to modify working code than to write something from scratch, if my suspicion is right, I expect Google will launch its own Groupon-like service integrated into its other offerings eventually.
A) It is early June. Presumably you are not going back to school until September. Make the most of the next three months. Then decide in September.

A rough rule of thumb: If you can't find paying work in software, or at least get yourself on a road that will obviously lead to paying work in software in short order (i.e. build and launch something!) in the next three months you'd probably be wise to go back to school.

B) What are you studying? Might you rather be studying something else? Are you at the right school? There are other schools: Cheaper ones, larger ones, smaller ones, more serious ones, less serious ones.

I have no experience with being unmotivated towards school, so I'm a lousy source of advice. ;) But I'd say that it's better to take some time off of school and search for your true motivation than to go into serious debt in order to spend four years being miserable, earning lousy grades, and barely graduating. You should certainly change something, right now -- your major, your school, your enrollment status, something -- rather than try to just muddle through. College is too expensive to not take seriously.

Ultimately, though, I'd be wary of the folks who encourage you to skip college altogether and forever. Anecdotes from successful people are great and all, but by definition not everyone is above average, and the stats continue to tell a different story: People with college degrees get jobs more easily and earn more money. Of course, if you find yourself getting jobs and earning money you can always put off school until the time when you're not...
The problem is that now Sony's laughable security has become a meme that's growing in strength with every breach.

In the last week I've mentioned Sony's situation to a number of lay people who've never owned a Sony gaming machine but have all heard about these security issues and insist they'll never trust Sony with personal information ever again.

Every time a new headline is printed it strengthens this image.
"...if you suspend your supposition then you see that religion 'offers truth in advance of reason'"

This statement is a tautology, and also completely beside the point. It matters not whether a belief held religiously is actually true. By definition, a belief held religiously is held without regard to reason or evidence. The extent to which reason and evidence intrude is the extent to which faith is obviated.

This entire process, this way of thinking, is and should be entirely alien to science. And the anthropic principle is not science. It's not even a principle -- it's conjecture. It's not testable, not falsifiable, and it has no material effect on any scientific research, influential though it may in philosophical terms.

Your last statement is ..., it's ... no. Just, no. There is nothing alike about those two things. The constant c is, again, eminently isolatable in experiment, quite testable, and part of part of a quite falsifiable theory. The statement that following Christ has worked well for your life, even if true in whatever sense you like, is everything science is not: anecdotal, unfalsifiable, and untestable if only for the presence of millions of variables that cannot be isolated, controlled, or even known. You're conflating two completely separate things.

btw, I'm a big fan of this anthropic jazz. It is aesthetically pleasing to me, like the thought of any finely crafted machine, but it is in no way shape or form scientific.
Washington Heights is not that dodgy (neighborhood by neighborhood) - the problem is that it could be a 30 minute subway ride to midtown add another 10-15 to downtown.

For less than peak rents, consider the cities along the western shore of the Hudson River. Hoboken, Jersey City can be a 15 minute ride to midtown.
For the record, I don't think Groupon is a Ponzi scheme. At least, not any more than I believe Social Security is the greatest Ponzi scheme of all time. But I have an issue I can't yet resolve.

Could someone explain to me why someone who stands to turn $1,000,000 into $4,000,000,000 would ever find it wise to cash out a measly $300,000,000 out?

The only thing I can think of is the following thinking. If Groupon isn't that successful, I'll be very rich. If Groupon is successful, I'll be very very rich.

My problem is that I still don't see why someone with intimate knowledge of the company wouldn't believe in the concept hard enough to justify a little patience for a much higher payout.

Series A-G investors cashing out might make sense - with funds having time limits, investors selling small shares, or other reasons - but I don't understand company insiders and co-founders (Andrew or Eric) cashing out tens of millions and hundreds of millions respectively.

They know the company. They've worked there. Do they sincerely not strongly believe in its success? And, if that's the case, why are they asking the public to believe?
Then the spec is wrong, and there are no correct compilers.
It is true that the first generation of GMOs are mostly directed at that sort of enhancement. However lots of newer GMOs in the design or testing phases are aimed at a wide variety of benefits that will improve things for both the growers and the consumers. For example that big cuddly corp Monsanto has a Soybean that has had omega-3 added, as fish stocks dwindle planet derived omega-3 will be more and more important.

Think of it like we are at the same stage as computers were in the 1950s, what is happening today is nothing compared to what will be happening tomorrow. And it will happen in less time than it took for us to get the internet.
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Brooklyn is a great idea. Also "Long Island City" in Queens. Hoboken, Jersey City. If you live near the subway in those places you can have a 20 min ride to midtown/downtown NYC.
If you want to go a little further back in time, there's a GBBS bulletin board running on actual Apple //e hardware available at telnet://aor.retroarchive.org

For added effect, use Cathode.app [1]

[1] http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
>I remember reading a science fiction story...

That story was "To See The Invisible Man" [1] by Robert Silverberg. There's apparently an adaptation in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_See_the_Invisible_Man
this reminds me of another alternative to captchas i'd seen, something like kitten captcha or something..

the premise being, you had a 3x3 grid of thumbnails of animals, and you'd have to pick out of them, which were kittens.

less invasive captchas are something that i'd really like to see on sites, but despite the alternatives (of which i'm sure there are many) they never seem to take off..
GE Sees Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Power in Five Years
Pretty amazing, I did the same thing and found myself and a few old friends as well.
From the images in the video, the blogging from last year and the fate of previous missions, it seems likely that a major factor in the shutdown was dust on the solar panels[1] which combined with low-light winter conditions to compromise the health of the electronics when they could no longer be heated. Future rovers may be able to self-clean the panels[1], giving a much longer theoretical lifespan (at least for this component).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_event

[2] http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.asp...
If someone quoted Jesus (or their favorite spiritual icon) on HN in the same positive and relavent manner that Steve Pavlina is being mention in this thread, and nobody flipped out, it would come close to a watershed moment of maturity for tech forums everywhere.
Rubbish. It's about inflicting a punitive measure on those who violate the community's rules.

I don't really have a problem with that right up until the point where you wittingly waste someone's time because they previously wasted yours.
My company is looking for Ruby developers as well as backend engineers:

https://careers-collective.icims.com/jobs/intro
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If you want domain names in other languages, you could spend a bundle on translations. You could also get some copywriting done in several versions, and then a/b test with them. You could talk to a patent lawyer and try to get some of your tech patented (file provisionals at this point), file trademarks both nationally and internationally, ... and spend some money on design. If you learned to code by yourself, did you design it too? I have been amazed at what a good designer has done when they have remade some of my creations.

But mostly I agree with customer acquisition. That is the best place to put your extra cash.
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I think it depends on what you want to do, or more importantly, what you're able to offer a startup. You're obviously in a much better position if you're an engineer or have a marketable skill.

I didn't go to school, instead I went to work at a software developer out of high school. Sadly I can't compare it to college, but it was a huge learning experience. Being the youngest, by far, at a company of 30 people, especially when I had moved all the way across the country to Los Angeles is a something that took an adventurous spirit and the ability to listen. I thought I was going to conquer the world be the time I was 25, but being among a group of incredibly talented people taught me to go with the flow more, and appreciate the ride.

Anyway, if you find the right situation, it'll be the best thing that's ever happened to you.
Kitten captcha is stupid, because you only have to classify kitten images once (manually, mechanical turk), and then it will be broken 100% of the time.
Free versions typically have only forum support. Paid versions usually have better support, and often can handle large surges of traffic better. It all depends on how critical the service in question is to your operation. The more critical it is for you to operate, the more you will pay just to be safe.
what justifies taking ~300 million off the table (and that's just 1 person) and then going back to ask for more a short time after? sounds like the investors were keen to exit and make their buck ASAP. i don't think that is a good sign in general. andrew mason took a much more reasonable payday.
maybe i'm missing something here but the biggest issue i see with this is it does not effectively prevent spamming/robots. the libraries which this is based on were not created with distinguishing humans and robots in mind. especially checking the $1 gesture recognizer (https://github.com/josscrowcroft/MotionCAPTCHA/blob/master/j...) i don't see if this could be used in real life (for captchas).
You miss the point of the cow manure. There is only so much of it to go around, we can't feed the world's population using it.
The Cat/Dog captcha was broken because dogs are very likely to be photographed on grass while cats are not. An attack that simply calculated the amount of green in the image broke the captcha to a very high accuracy.
Oh, it's venturebros, the guy with the cool name! :)

Once you're in NY, drop Hackruiter[0] a line. They're YC alums [EDIT: and apparently YC funded again as recruiters] and based out of NYC, doing recruitment for startups (mostly YC alumni themselves). They got me my current contract and they're all-around great guys that, as both recruiters and engineers, understand the scene as well as anyone. They also run a weekly meetup called BrainDump[1], which is about as techy as a meetup can get (in a good way), and a mailing list "LinkedList".

They seem to be all about meeting smart, motivated people and making meaningful connections, as opposed to just playing matchmaker - so even though you're not looking yet, I bet they'd be up for a chat. Heck, if you're interested, I'll point them to this thread.

[0]http://www.hackruiter.com/
[1]http://www.hackruiter.com/about
The semantics of the dialect of C that CompCert accepts are precisely defined, as are the semantics of the assembly outputted (that is, it's not strictly x86/PPC/ARM or whatever but some subset with defined semantics which happen to line up perfectly with observed behaviour). The first is fine I think (accepting a subset you define formally); the second is an issue but it's currently impossible to do any better. Still, if you look at this compared to the backends of LLVM and GCC it's certainly an improvement.