skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rescue workers have a rule that their own safety comes first --- because if they don't act that way, they risk becoming yet another victim that their colleagues have to go in and save. Similar logic applies here. One of the risk factors for your startup is you falling apart. Neglecting that risk doesn't serve you or the business well.
Indeed. I avoided dental work a while back when I didn't have dental insurance. Instead of getting a cavity filled for $150, I ended up needing a $1000 root canal. But even then, not that expensive. Dental procedures are generally simpler than medical procedures, and cost less as a result.

(Getting three wisdom teeth removed did not appear to cost that much either, but my insurance paid for that.)
Has them work on fake products?
SPYW certainly seems like the only real, new issue. It seems to me like a clear case of sacrificing a product's short-term quality for long-term quality. I.e. diverting as much traffic as possible to G+ will drive up usage, which will give Google more data on which to optimize search results.

It strikes me as analogous to Apple's move from OS9 to OSX. OSX performed poorly at first, but it was a necessary if painful infrastructure change for the sake of the product's future.

Another reason I'm not worried is that Google's only lock-in is search quality. If a challenger appears and really does perform better for searches, then people will eventually shift over. I think this is ultimately what will keep Google from going completely off the rails vis-a-vis search.

Conversely, I think it's what allows Facebook to get away with a lot. Its lock-in feature is ubiquity/network-effect, which is at best orthogonal to quality of product.
I did some self-selected schedule shifting (or more often, extending) and the like. I would not recommend it as a long-term strategy. In fact, I would not recommend it as more than a stop-gap tactic.

(Meaning, when you are "working around", as opposed to choosing the schedule and/or work environment you really want, in the first place.)
http://udemy.com/ http://codelesson.com/ (from both ends, earn money as a course director, spend money as the student :-))
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Yea, isn't this pretty much what Linux and GNU did? They saw software with restrictive licensing that they wanted to use, so they re-wrote it completely and released it under a license that worked for them.
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That's certainly another plausible interpretation, but it's not one that the license authors appear to agree with - otherwise, the additional paragraph in GPLv3 wouldn't be necessary. Individual authors may obviously disagree and refuse to enforce the license in that manner, but it's something that you probably want to confirm with the copyright holders before relying on it. It's also not an argument that any of the defendants involved in the SFC lawsuits appear to have made.
Totally.
I just wouldn't make anything so centered around the idea of a startup. As long as people have reason to gravitate toward the design, people will want it. This goes beyond aesthetics, though. It's probably a difficult balance to achieve, but it's definitely doable.
"significant exposure" is, always has, and always will be a draw to teens and 20-somethings. It loses its luster as we move into our 30s and has zero draw in the 40s and later (at least in professional circles). But, it's like the line from the movie "Dazed and Confused": "You know what I like about high school girls? I keep getting older but they stay the same age." There's always new blood out there willing to exchange blood, sweat, and tears for "significant exposure".

What sites like CodeAcademy, et al have to worry about is maintaining the quality of training from one batch of "not burned out yet" trainers to the next. Because if you aren't paying people, "significant exposure" only has a short life span.
3 Lessons Learned So Far Building A Company
This looks really cool. It was not clear to me on the first reading of the document that it could be invoked these ways. The pbs.Command() example is way down in the "weird filenames" part. I just did a quick change to the README and sent you a pull request.
1-Wire File System
segfaults on opensuse 12.1 (1.8.2).
Healthcare is a scarce resource but what you say isn't all that universal healthcare provides. All healthcare systems must ration care. The goal is to ration care in the most ethical/moral way. The present system in the U.S. rationalizes care in a more unethical way that Finland and other similar healthcare systems.
I cannot stress this enough: do not indulge in self medication. I am talking about ingesting pills.

Pain is a warning sign that something is wrong. Even something dull that lasts a long time is not good. Get it checked by a doctor.
It'd kind of be interesting to introduce a device like this to a team environment. Say, five developers on a box. Any one of them has the ability to go nuclear at any time, and it affects all five. Don't want anyone to go nuclear? Everyone has to pull together and stop wasting time...
$1000 isn't enough to get into really sophisticated investments - at that level, you won't be able to create enough diversity to make investing in stocks more than a glorified trip to a roulette table. So, I'll give you some ideas, but be warned, some of these may seem a little wacky.

1. Do something that scares you. I just signed up to go ice climbing in the Rocky Mountains, despite the fact that ice climbing scares the crap out of me. Worst case scenario, something unfortunate happens and my last words are, "I should have bought stocccckkkkksssss." Best case scenario, I learn something valuable about myself and how I deal with fear. From past experience, learning about fear is extremely useful...

2. Launch something. Get yourself some server space, build an MVP and launch something. Chances are that nobody will ever hear about (or use) your creation and you'll lose money. But, you'll learn way more than you would if you did an MBA.

3. Find a charity and donate your money (and your time). Not only does doing this feel good, but you'd be surprised the contacts you can gain by working with a good not for profit. I'd argue that getting involved with charities is the most effective hack I've ever embarked upon. It certainly has the highest ROI of anything I have ever done.

4. Go to a conference. Find a conference that interests you. Go. Make a point of meeting five new people per day. Have fun.

5. Take a class in a subject you find rather useless. Back in the mythical day, I took a painting class. That doesn't sound too admirable, but I don't have an artistic bone in my body. The class itself was horrible (I really suck at art), but I met some interesting artistic people who changed the way I look at the world.

I hope that helps! Best of luck :)

Greg
"Place where cowards live" - Dana White from UFC talks again about SOPA
No, there were a few about topics such as economics (one each?), and a ton about programming.
Certain segments of the USA have universal health care. As part of the treaties one of these groups is Native Americans through IHS. Google "don't get sick after June" for how the USA approaches universal health care. I support any candidate that would repeal what was passed and try to come up with something different. If they cannot get it right for 7 million then they won't for the rest.

A story that ties both together. My dad was visiting me. He was going to go golfing with my brother, but had too painful of a headache and was just going to lay down then drive the 7 hours home. It was so painful that we convinced him to go to a hospital. I just happened to pick one that had a neurologist in emergency. He was bleeding from the brain because of poorly prescribed blood pressure meds. The doctor in the ER was not happy. He was in surgery that day and took a week in the hospital.

Don't ignore the unusual pains.
Mayor Bloomberg was a hacker actually. He started out working in a financial company, saw a need for a better way of getting information and quit to build the Bloomberg terminals which turned into the Bloomberg company.
What bothers me is that many of the so-called dental "insurance" plans I've seen in the U.S. have quite low caps. Essentially, they work out more as a kind of "payment plan" against average expenses when measured over multiple years.

I'd rather pay for those, myself, but have "real" dental insurance for the quite expensive, unexpected stuff. Infections. Complications from non-routine extractions (particularly notable with some wisdom tooth extractions). Etc. Things where a $1000 or $2500 cap may hardly make a dent in the final expense.
Hate to buy into linkbaiting and drama, but Curebit does seem to have no ethical boundaries. Once isn't a pattern, as they say, but twice certainly starts to be.
Or we could just use Reddit's codebase, which already handles a lot of these things very gracefully.

Kind of like how http://www.thecutelist.com/ just points to a modified http://www.reddit.com/r/aww

http://news.ycombinator.com/ could point to http://www.reddit.com/r/hacker_news
Individual dental plans typically aren't available. Even with insurance, the co-pay on wisdom tooth extraction is typically 50%, because such procedures are typically (not always) preventable by proper dental care.

So even with insurance, he'd be paying 50% (and probably could negotiate 20% off with a cash payment without insurance, so insurance only costs 30% less). Did he have 50%, or would he still have put it off due to the expense. Is asking him to pay for it a "failing" of society? If so, consider the cost of dental insurance that provides 100% coverage for procedures that are generally preventable.

Insurance is about math. Because truly catastrophic dental care is rare, dental self-insurance is generally a matter of cash management, and you usually can come out ahead, even with an issue like this during a year.

Context: I am an entrepreneur "still trying to make it". I have a wife and 2 kids. We don't have some magic source of easy income. Planning for the cost of insurance was part of planning to start a company. So was planning to self-insure dental. It is possible. I don't understand why any of this planning should be anyone's responsibility other than my own. I don't believe I should be asking someone else to pay for my insurance as some sort of societal debt, and I wish the feds would quit adding mandatory coverages and regulatory overhead that makes buying insurance more expensive.

If either party REALLY cared about small business, they would have taken the simple, obvious step of making individually purchased health insurance tax-deductible long ago. But that didn't fit their agenda.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal go after phishers with DMARC authentication
I hope they have enough margin on those cars to keep making them. Automotive business is a tough business with fairly high margin. The BOM for an EV is much higher than regular cars and it looks like Tesla is running on quite a low margin to give those pricing.
On the data science models => production code problem, could PMML<http://www.dmg.org/pmml-v3-0.html>; be (part) of the answer? Anyone have any experience using it?
> The problem with this line of thought is that you've got no way of filtering those that never pay for content from those that do pay for content that they like.

Exactly. A common theme in the discussions on piracy and the like is that all the load is on the shoulders of the companies/content producers and there's even a late comment by a GiantBomb writer that they have to compete with 'free' which I find ridiculous.

I'd prefer if the consumers, or rather, would-be consumers, would filter themselves instead of the selfish consumerism most seem to live by.

It's great that there's so many people abandoning their pirating habits (This includes myself). I stopped not when it became easy like with Steam and whatnot but when (I know this will sound trite or whatever to some) I began to value myself and what I consumed more so and began creating more.
Blame for the inability to afford any viable healthcare coverage can't be pinned exclusively on the individual.
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Amen! The concept that your own health is somebody else's job to take care of & protect has always seemed strange to me.
If healthcare is an inelastic resource, the private sector won't make any more if you throw more money at it, and will just re-allocate it to those who can pay the most.
The next obvious step is to attach a shotgun to it.
Very broad question, but some tech. stuff I use:

1. Chrome's inspector (or firebug) - devs have to know this!

2. jQuery and related plugins - super useful for animating, making stuff work cross-browser, and whatnot.

3. Notepad++'s find-in-files, find-count, and others. Notepad++ in general.

4. WinDiff is pretty useful when you want to compare files/folders.

5. Nice Date utils.

But what type (category) of answers are you looking for?
... how can that prevent you from getting a new license to a new version of the software? How are those connected?

They are connected in the way that the same people whose license you violated are the ones granting you the new license. And I'd say they have reasonable doubt as to whether you will comply with the new license, since you didn't before. They don't have to grant you a license to use it, you know. Using someone else's IP is a privilege, not a right.
Are you talking about this site? Submitting the same link twice will not create a new submission, it'll redirect the submitter to the existing one. If there's a duplicate, there's some difference in the URL.
Perhaps you misunderstood me, so let me state it another way: you must pay people who work for you, even if their title is "intern." To do otherwise circumvents the minimum wage laws.
A T1? Can you even get hosting that slow these days?
At hundreds of dollars/mo for a T1 (or more, depending on where you are at), you can get a dedicated gigabit connection and hardware colo'd somewhere. A T1 in an office is laughable these days.
Your Interview with the President - 2012
Startups:

Your product must be something people want.

Your product must be something you can make.
It also depends a lot on what team you wind up picking. Just speaking for the interns in our infrastructure team, we try to make them develop things that have an impact. You should let me know what group you were with so I can deliver the anonymous feedback :)
Linux tends to break hardware drivers occasionally as things get updated and they don't have open source drivers or hardware to test on. Especially when the OS is built from testing releases. Best thing to hope for on Ubuntu (and Mint) is partition /home by itself and run a clean install when you need to upgrade distros.
I agree. I fail to see what is different here.
So, if they switch to (say) a full BSD-licensed stack, what is the problem? They can use it for whatever, modify the code for whatever, and there shouldn't be any problems.

Why is this a bad thing, other than that it weakens the importance of the GPL?
Yeah... It is somewhat slow. And for some question, I was trying to comment, but it just wouldn't let me for some reason. It just kept me redirecting to some "/r" page. I logged-out, logged back in, but still had the same problem. But it worked after someone else had made a comment.
This is probably true for dental, for a lot of reasons, including the routinization of dental care, the degree to which dental expenses are preventable, the fact that fewer people have dental insurance than health insurance (and so the market for dental care is less distorted), and the extent to which dental care can be cosmetic.

The same isn't true of health care. The health care market is totally distorted by insurers, who collude with providers to set prices. Services fall into two buckets: routine "checkup" type stuff that costs so little it's not worth arguing about, and hospital/specialist services for which there is no pricing transparency and which, purchased by anyone other than an insurance company, is catastrophically expensive.

It is perfectly reasonable to advocate for single-payer health care even if one believes firmly in moral hazard. There are other interventions one could advocate for instead. But any way you slice it, the "market" we currently have is busted.
Having been with WordPress since v1.5 (2005), I have never once had a plugin break after a core update. Some didn't mesh well with the current interface years later so I'd replace them with something newer, but nothing ever stopped working. Plugins I wrote for WP 5 years ago, designed for a totally different admin interface than exists today, still work perfectly in 3.3.1.

I have a feeling this isn't a real problem, it's an imagined one based on misunderstanding of the "compatible up to" label on WP's plugin directory. Most plugin authors don't log in to the site and edit their plugin to bump that number, but the plugins still work fine.

Most WP core updates are just security fixes. You don't have to worry about breaking a plugin or theme by updating; security fixes don't add or remove any features the plugins use. There are 30 million sites running on WordPress, millions of those at organizations like yours, not just blogs. One reason it's so widespread is that this isn't an issue.
on Two Things:

1. There are only two things you need to know for any subject

2. When there appears to be more than two, divide the subject
> But in practice, it's easy to make a simple mistake in implementation and accidentally throw your proof out the window.

But that's not how a proof of correctness works. You have an implementation (of an algorithm, say) and you prove mathematically that it is correct with respect to a formal specification. The implementation and proof aren't separate things.
Most of the "forks" are forks from Twitter employees' personal repos that were created before things got consolidated under Twitter's account. A few aren't and are called out as such. Which ones are missing proper attribution?
My buddy and I have always wondered how it would be like to launch a company. In September 2011, he quit his high-paying job in Silicon Valley, traveled 10,000 miles to Indonesia (which has the #2 largest facebook user base, btw), and bootstrapped a startup. This is his story.

The company in question is www.urbanindo.com - the easiest way to buy and sell properties in Indonesia.
Yes, assuming things haven't changed since 2007:

In particular, as of December 31, 2007, our two founders and our CEO, Larry, Sergey and Eric, owned approximately 88% of our outstanding Class B common stock, representing approximately 67% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock.

https://investor.google.com/documents/2007_Google_AnnualRepo...
size_t is actually 32-bit on some 64-bit platforms; you want uint64_t.
... candidates who want to repeal universal healthcare in the US

Wait! The US has universal healthcare?
Wow -- no, I entirely missed this (and just happened to end up with the same name). Thanks for clarifying.
Awesome work. I'm most impressed by how they've set up a way to get quick validation by testing their products in classrooms as soon as possible.
Do you want it to take up the full screen width? I find that reading incredibly long lines is difficult, because when you finish one line and move to the next, you lost track of your position.

This is why systems like LaTeX default to wide margins and narrow columns.

Now, as for the font size, it could definitely use some expansion.
The article made it clear that it's _expensive_ to enforce the license, and time consuming. Most software developers don't have the kind of deep pockets, or the time, required to chase down Sony. You may be both wealthy, and have lots of time on your hand - in which case, it would make sense for you to chase down Sony violating your copyright - if you are so inclined.

Nobody has a problem with Sony writing their own version of BusyBox - good for them if they can do it. But, if the reason they are writing their own version, is so they can, without worry, violate _everyone else's_ copyright - then that's somewhat shady behavior.

Ironically - from a "Game Theoretic" position, Sony's approach is entirely rational. Take out the opponent who can stand up against you, and crush those who can't.

So - I'm simultaneously impressed by their strategy while offended by their attitude.
Before the Twisted/Tornado bridge existed, I made a rest-api for my DB in Twisted. There are a bunch of good async DB clients implemented for Twisted Python. It also made for good MVC separation.
I like the design, but what does it offer that Twitter's GitHub page doesn't? It's just an alternative layout with less information and much less functionality.
I did something similar to this on android but opted for sqlite for metadata and file system for the image. The sqlite data is "master" and the file system is treated as "volatile" as it can be deleted by a user at any time.

Here were my opinions:
1) Using a combination of caching techniques (access time, etags, etc) was easier to manage with a structured store.

2) There was no perceivable latency writing to the database. This could be because of the difference in payload size writing the image to a file instead of into the table.

Some thoughts if people start out in this direction.
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If they were going to switch to a full BSD-licensed stack, there would be no problem.

They want to switch to a mostly-GPL stack, except for the one component that causes them to have to live up to their GPL obligations.
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on The Correctness of Two Things:

1. There are only two things you need to know for any subject

2. Sometimes there are exceptions
For me, unit tests are to assure that if I refactor the code, the places where the code is being used won't be affected by my changes. If I have to rewrite the tests, I've lost this assurance.
Yes they do.

It is still pretty new, and from what I understand upgrading can be a bit of a pain, but pacman 4.0 has package signing.

Been using Fedora for a bit now, so haven't actually tried it yet...
If it's about violations, or money, I can't strictly tell;
it's one of those things that depends on who you talk to: http://lwn.net/Articles/475901/
Wow, 4.4 0-60 is really fast for such a big car. Worth the extra $$ for the bigger battery to win a few drag races.

The styling seems like a melange of Aston Martin, Jag, and Maserati -- too bad it's not something truly distinctive, but it still seems like a lot of car.
We bootstrapped our company as well and did not get (couldn't afford) health insurance for the founders until about 1.5 years in. By that time I was too embarrassed to go to the dentist and put it off for another 2 years. Worst decision ever. By the time I did go last year, it had been over 5 years since my last dental visit. I needed a root canal and I'm still getting my cavities I piled up in that time period filled (though I'm almost done).

Our insurance plan is not cheap, (we live in Hawaii and pay about $500/month each) but its essential. You worry about so many things when choosing the startup life, your health shouldn't be another thing on your mind.
No, this is not what Linux and GNU did, because they rewrote all the software they wanted to use. The linked article accuses Sony of only wanting to rewrite the software that gets them caught, so they can continue ignoring the GPL obligations on the rest of the software they use.
Xorshift RNGs [extremely fast PRNGs]
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Do you think it was because they were uninterested in teaching, or were earnest but inept at communicating concepts that were already firmly established in their minds?

(My pardon, I meant to upvote you, but clicked wrong. :( )