skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider reinvesting a portion of the profits from your tech company and later selling equity at long-term capital gains rates. (n.b. This advice is isomorphic under any possible opinion regarding hedge funds if one's goal is to minimize taxes.)
Well, not so much a myth as research and theory that has since been refuted. Good link.
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on Bloomberg you called us [tech nerds] job creators, and said "more government isn't the solution". Please, for the love of god, run for office.
TLDR; people are more likely to comment when their true identity is masked.

This is, IMO, likely due to the fact that people can't be held accountable for their comments if nobody knows their true identity.

Personally, I have made it a goal to only use alias variations including my name for the sole purpose of being held accountable for my actions online; good or bad. It's a better moral compass than acting on behalf of some made up "pseudonym" (i.e. alter-ego). If I wouldn't say it in public, odds are I shouldn't be saying it online.

Note: In the case of my HN alias, I've always included my full name in the profile page. The alias references a domain I started years back and was originally intended to help push traffic. It slowly morphed into my personal account as I bridged the gap between reader and contributor.
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What options does the community have to compel Barnes and Noble to satisfy their obligations?
Lots of alternatives listed in a similar story about a similar project here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3315931
Extending this to the representation of current technology in TV and film, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror[1] (particularly the first of the series) has, in my opinion, the most accurate depiction of it I've ever seen.

[1] http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/4od
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)
Added a fork, use it if you like, that checks to see if you are already on the Hacker News site, and if so, redirects you to the first page. Not sure why you would be checking it on Hacker News, but seemed like it should know that and response accordingly. Feel free to ignore or close the request if deemed useless.
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One of the things to consider when moving your images to CSS data URI's is that unlike images, CSS blocks the rendering of the page. While it's smart to move small images (think 4kb or less) to data URI's, bigger images should be kept separate. That way you aren't blocking the display of text or other elements on the page, while those larger images are being downloaded.
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You'd probably want a stepstool or applebox anyway when you're standing, just to vary your feet positions. That could be used as a footrest when sitting.
The idiots are eventually the public. Pension funds are major investors into hedge funds.
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"If I wouldn't say it in public, odds are I shouldn't be saying it online."

I've been working on social sites for years, and I disagree with completely. There are many reasons, but here's one. What I think when I'm 20 is not a good indicator of who I am when I'm 40. I remember I posted with my real on some pantheist site when I was young, about why I was a pantheist, and for many years that was one of the top results for a search for my name. I regretted it, and luckily it's falling off of google.

Or, here's another example. I've made a small little community site (yakkstr.com) and lately there has been a lot of talk about non monogamous relationships and our feelings about them. I doubt people would be honest about this if they were using their real names rather than pseudonyms, and the value of the conversation is much greater when people are being honest.
How can the messaging be improved? How can it be made more compelling to resonate more with laypeople?

The major social networks could protest by temporarily disabling the profiles of politicians that support SOPA. Might be a good precursor to a larger voluntary blackout.

edit: hmm, downvotes. Would anyone care to elaborate on why such a protest would be a bad idea?
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> Anyone who paid attention during introductory statistics will recognize that your probability of survival to age t would follow a Poisson distribution, which means exponential decay (and not super-exponential decay).

Small correction: survival to time t under the lightning bolt scenario follows an exponential distribution. A Poisson distribution, besides for being discrete, has factorial decay, not exponential decay.
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You can try my site http://wheatt.com/

Its a work in progress, and a few people already use it. I always welcome some feedback.

Its basically a command line-ish search for web pages you add. So you can search by, oh heck, I'll just paste the Help page below, if you'll forgive me:

Search Guide:

Bare words to search content of web page potatos "brussels sprouts"
";" (semi-colon) in front of a word searches your tags ;news
Combine search elements to narrow search ;favs ;work
domain.com All pages added belonging to domain.com
Date searches:
today Pages added today
yesterday Pages added yesterday
week Pages added this week
month Pages added this month
saturday Pages added last saturday
4/5 Pages added April 5th
jan march Two dates is a date range, inclusive

Edit Guide:

Use "+" to add a tag to search results ;today +work
Use "-" to remove a tag from search results ;today -work
Check to isolate results for editing
"delete" will delete search results permanently ;today ;work delete

Edit Examples:
Adding tags - find all entries with domain allrecipes.com and tag with "food"
allrecipes.com +;food
Renaming tags - retag everythign with "food" as "recipes"
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I don't work at Google, but I have heard that there is a lot of pressure to show some good results on your 20% project. It is pretty hard to do great things in a day a week, so there is a lot of pressure for this project to bleed out into evenings and weekends.

At the same time you are also expected to be doing great things on your 80% job, surrounded by brilliant people who are also doing great things.

I can't speak for Steve Yegge, but the energy that he put into blogging before going to Google seems to not be available now (unless he is getting internal pressure to blog less).
I think this is an industry wide problem, and not just Twitters. It's more the norm to see bad or incomplete documentation than to see stellar, up to date docs.
Arrays are not sequences in Scala. They are Java arrays, not Scala sequences.
TLDR; people are more likely to comment when their true identity is masked.

No, the data doesn't support that conclusion at all.

The data shows that most comments are made under pseudonyms. While it would be correct to say that the hypothesis that people are more likely to comment when their identity is masked would produce this data, the hypothesis that more people post using pseudonyms (though possibly less frequently) also supports this data. Therefore, the data as given can be said to support neither conclusion.
Yep, I sure did. Damn, I shouldn't post before 2 cups of coffee have been consumed. Sorry guys.
I have no idea what you mean by "adding it (which "it"?) as an "instance" method to a collection". You can do this:

(defmethod filter-map (f (c (eql some-particular-collection))) ...)

but I suspect that's not what you meant.

I also can't make heads or tails out of "expecting that it (which "it"?) is usable by something not being a collection at all." I'm not even sure that's proper English, let alone semantically meaningful.
I am an expert coin tosser :) If you have 1000 people tossing coins some of them will become experts at tossing heads every time.
Actually falling back to ugly imperative and super-fast code in Clojure is extremely easy, and its integration with Java is a pleasure. But I don't want to pit a specific language against Scala. My point is that it isn't clear (to anyone possibly), what Scala IS, other than a kitchen-sink language for programming concepts.

Some things in Scala are easy and some things are hard, but it's not always clear why. I'd expect the "good" things (whatever is considered good by the language designers, their expert opinion, that is) to be easy and the "bad" things hard. But in Scala it seems that whether something is easy or not depends on how well it fits with the language's algebraic model, and not how well it fits with recommended practice. Immutable is easy (that must be good, no?), but mutable is just as easy (so, wait, I'm supposed to... what exactly?); functional is easy, but so is imperative; implicits are easy but extension methods, as the blog post shows, can be really hard; type inference is easy except when it's not. See the problem?
Any advanced language worth his salt will allow you to link libraries from other languages. It may require some work, but at least it can be done; whilst you can't expand the capabilities of your programming language of choice as easily.

I think no language is advanced enough to be used alone for everything. Steve Yeggie said that once a time at Amazon the only languages allowed were Lisp and C. It makes sense: an high level language plus a low level one. Those languages which try to encompass too much become too complex and hard to use effectively (think about C++).
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Ask them if they've ever seen one of these:

74.125.224.49

Then tell them that if THEY have seen IP addresses, then the pirates that are trading copyright material online certainly have, and that with just an IP address, SOPA can be circumvented.
Completely sure. My Australian superannuation/pension was heavily tied up with various hedgefunds and it lost about 50% of its value in 2008. I can't tell them how to spend my money and I can only change between a very similar set of funds. Many pensions around the world are in similar arrangements with hedgefunds and investment banks.
One thing to keep in mind when generating sprites is cachability and the various paths that people will take through your site. You should consider the probability of those sprited images being served together on a page. I've seen people blindly sprite all their images on their site, even if only a small percentage of those images are used on a key landing page. This can cause a bad first impression with a slower experience than necessary. Worse still, I've seen people create a separate sprite for each page on their site and complete lose the benefits of local browser caching. While this might look good on a single WebPageTest, it's terrible for your overall performance. A good method is to identify your top landing pages, then look at which images always appear together and might make sense to be sprited. Keep in mind, if they are small and are included on every page, it may make sense to use a data URI instead. You'll also want to make sure to sprite your images in the same order vertically that they appear on the page to allow for progressive loading.
Very nice article comparing how to use the BeagleBone to the way you'd use an Arduino.
Alexis, please consider explaining why Congress has not heard what you and the other experts are there to say. If I was to say it myself, I would say "I'm sorry for putting you in this position. You're in this position because Washington does not undertand technology. And that is because technology does not understand Washington. We need to change that."

Part of the problem is that the RIAA and MPAA have active lobbying efforts. We don't need to frame it as "buying influence," just that if one set of people are the only ones around explaining a problem and its solutions, that's all they're going to know. The technology industry needs lobbyists heading off these sorts of issues by actively explaining to Congress people the implications of doing this sort of thing.

I imagine that something they will think is, "If what these people are saying is true, and the consequences are so dire, how is it possible that I didn't hear this before?" This explanation answers that question, and, I think, makes the technical explanations and their wider implications more believable.
Not sure why this is being linked again, but it's a good read.

The real value lies in the recognition that certain workforces wax and wane. To be ahead of this curve you need to be aware of the macroeconomic forces at work behind it. And you need to be prepared early on to change streams if you can detect a problem coming along. Like any long-term trend, they are likely to overshoot in both directions (zero unemployment to industry bust). And you need to teach your offspring these skills as well, because ultimately career selection is more important than actual academic performance when it comes to income.

The other interesting thing that pg doesn't cover is the tight correlation between government jobs and unions. Most unions have shrunk to what seems like a minimum size - is the future of union participation a function of the size of the public service?
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The author's assertions about code size are a bit misleading. Backbone is 4.6k minified, and 41k normally. Most frameworks provide minified versions of their libraries, because in web dev, you don't own the page.

Also, unlike server code, which is run on beefy custom-configured servers, client-side code is run on your grandmother's old desktop computer in IE6, and the entirety of the source code is sent over the wire. You can see where the ethic of 'micro-frameworks' comes from.
It's not a coincidence that the amendment only exempts domains that the US can already censor via ICE. Hardly a concession at all, really.

http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1011/101129washington.htm
Thanks for the feedback, this helps :)
That's not really a 'trick' , the question is asking whether you want to stick with FOSS type licenses or whether you want audio & video to work.

It's easy enough to remove flash player later anyway but it seems a sensible assumption that if you want MP3 and video codecs you probably want flash.
you can't , but his text was quite pale so I assumed more than 1.
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Contrary to the title, it looks like Barnes & Nobles did release some sort of source code. The fact that the author wasn't able to compile them into something doesn't mean BN is violating the GPL. I'd cool down before making such accusations.
A copyright lawsuit requesting damages and a cease and desist, I would imagine.
just found the "Daruino" pages - Google had been not-so-helpfully redirecting me to a search for "Arduino", assuming "Daruino" was a typo. Perhaps a more unique name would improve your searchability?

Your 28-DIP plug-in board seems like a great place to start. It's a useful gizmo in its own right, as an ARM-breadboarding tool, but the "just swap this in to make your Arduino run faster" angle is a great gimmick. I would definitely buy this, if only to play with it.

What scale of manufacturing do you have in mind? If I decide to order fifty and want them in two weeks, is that likely to be possible?
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There's at least one big fallacy in this post: "This is a tiny fraction of the 1% fleecing the rest of the 1%."

This is dangerously inaccurate. A significant portion of hedge fund assets are from institutions not wealthy individuals. This includes government assets (from local to federal), college endowments, pension funds etc.

If the analysis is correct, this is a tiny part of the 1% fleecing all of us, and your parents too.
I agree. Where I work, we run weather and climate models, and These models generate 100's of gigabytes of output in a short amount of time. Regarding "data being generated", these models output 3D data sets of weather/atmospheric related variables (4D if you include time).
Well that is the beauty of it.
In Scala methods/functions that come after the dot are privileged. In a language with multiple dispatch they are not.

So CL solves the problem without adding more complexity, whereas in Scala you have to extort yourself to shoehorn some functionality after the dot.
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There are advisors and fund of funds just to hedge your bet on hedge funds - and like you said - it's only going to get harder. Picking a hedge fund is going to be like picking the next hot pharma company.
Technically, anyone who has contributed to the Linux kernel can drag them to court. Probably not something an average developer will jump into :) That said, Harald Welte has a dedicated site for this : http://gpl-violations.org/ and he is pretty active chasing violators. Personally, I believe if there is straightforward evidence that the sources they are providing is incomplete, spreading the word around is a good start!
I'd argue it didn't go far enough in this direction w.r.t. automatic datatype promotion rules (particularly where signedness comes into play.)
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Thanks for the comment Suyash.

We needed a meetup tool for all of the awesome Community Meetups that we throw around the world, so two of our engineers (Raph: https://github.com/Raphomet & Horace: https://github.com/warpdude) built an Airbnb Meetup tool. We like to dogfood, so we use it for our nerd meetups as well.

As for the meetup being on a busy Thursday, it just happened to be a time that worked for everybody.
So for every bot you have to purchase a minecraft license to get a dedicated user+password?

Do you risk to get the user/bot banned by Mojang? usage violation etc?
Why wouldn't they have the right? The DNS servers in question are physically in US territory. And due process is part of the bill: in the current version a domain takedown requires a court order. Weak protection to be sure, given the army of lawyers the MPAA has lined up and the tendency of some judges to rubber-stamp legitimate-seeming orders, but not strictly speaking a due-process issue.
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Better sand that down some if you don't want splinters.
The render is OS-dependent. On which operating system do you experience this issue?
What a dolt. It's possible to tell the compiler that two pointers aren't aliases: the "restrict" keyword. Unless I'm mistaken that is really his sole argument against "pointer-based languages".
I wonder what other areas the all or nothing funding model could be applied to? I've been kicking around the idea of trying to use this model for NPOs with the goal of encouraging innovation.
Maybe you should try to understand the actual issue first, _before_ claiming that "but it is easy in my pet language" stuff ...

Additionally, last time I looked Cl wasn't really statically typed. Has that changed recently?
Is it ideal to be bending down (ever so slightly) to look at your monitor from an ergonomics point of view?
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I love this, and I've bookmarked it to email it around when I need to, but I'd love to read something that simplifies setting up git on the server side as a central location for repositories.

But that aside, coming from SVN it makes sense to me, and I've played around with git without really reading into it too much. It's of added interest because deployment and branching seems much less of a hassle with git than with svn.
CL isn't even statically typed. Everything is easy if you don't expect that the language gives you any useful guarantees.
Been working from home since early 2008, and found one of the most critical things to do is to separate your work space from the rest of your "normal" life. For a while, I was waking up 24" from my laptop. I'd work non-stop all day, and much of the night. There was no separation, no respite even in my dreams. I don't care how awesome your project/business/start-up is, you need to occasionally come up for air.

Having a separate work space I could leave and return to was great. When I was "at work", I got stuff done. When I needed a break or was spending time with my family, I wasn't sucked in by work laptop screen within sight and was able to be, for the most part, fully present.

The best of both worlds.....
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SOPA provides for DNS and IP blacklisting. In fact, there was even a failed amendment to take the IP blacklisting out.
That sentence made me wonder if the author had never been to California. Speaking as a Brit, that sentence could so easily apply to any non-American's perspective on people in that state (I've only really spent time in NY and CA, BTW, so I acknowledge that my perception of life in the US is just as skewed as the author's pereception of life in Japan, but in a sense that's exactly my point).
The data presented in this post doesn't support the conclusion. The data do not show that pseudonyms are the cause of more quantity and higher quality, they just show a correlation. I hope that the full blog post that's been promised addresses this.
Hey no age bracket. It's not for teenagers only, one of the founders is in his mid twenties and should have a diverse age range.

We want to start a meetup that doesn't identify with some of the 'old business' trends that are a part of many tech events in the UK and focus on bringing together people working on cool web products or just interested in tech.
I don't know enough to be sure one way or another but when Bernie Maddof's fund collapsed it did seem like it was mostly just rich people who lost money. Also it seemed like clients were obtained via personal relationships, not any kind of market exchanges. But I don't know if that fund was typical or not.
Is there really an obvious 1st-amendment issue here? SOPA is a censorship tool with great potential for abuse, but as written and intended it targets IP infringement, a very narrow category of speech that our society has already decided to censor. The 1st amendment will come into play when Congress wants to censor more, not merely censor better.
Wow! I never knew that Amazon was a Lisp company. I'd like to know more about their infrastructure setup with Lisp and C.
I know -- the problem is the syntax. You can't safely apply this to any document, because it may change the meaning of it. Such things should only exist as unicode characters or character entities.
Please, for the love of god, run for office.

He could. Alexis is one of the few people I've met and within minutes thought "oh, so this is what charisma looks like" (and as pg has observed, charisma is ultimately what gets people elected).
Ok So you found 1 missing line of comment on the API docs for twitter. Suddenly the whole API doc is garbage. You do a very good job generalizing.
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