skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The js.js Fibonacci Demo exhibits some weird characteristics versus the native implementation.

Native result for iteration NaN: 1

js.js result for iteration NaN: 0

Native result for iteration 46: 1836311903

js.js result for iteration 46: 1836311903

Native result for iteration 47: 2971215073

js.js result for iteration 47: -1675624448
Anyone got it working?

I managed to compile both build/circa and build/circa_d (build/circa_t is broken).

circa ➤ export CIRCA_HOME=`pwd`
~CIRCA_HOME ➤ export PATH=$PATH:$CIRCA_HOME/build
~CIRCA_HOME ➤ python tools/prebuild.py
~CIRCA_HOME ➤ scons build/circa build/circa_d

I can run the tests:

~CIRCA_HOME ➤ tools/ca-tests.py
Ran 105 tests, 0 failed, 11 disabled.

But I can't launch the repl (circa_d --repl) nor get anything from the samples. On some of the samples I get errors, on others I get nothing.

Am I missing something?
I speak three languages pretty well, two of them are of Latin origin (Spanish and Portuguese), and Spanish being my native language. I got really fluent in Portuguese in about 6 months, but those who know how close Spanish and Portuguese are, will know that that's not a hard task.
But to get fluent in English it took me some years, living in the U.S. I also know enough to understand Polish, but speaking it is pretty hard for me.
With that said, I can say with a lot of confidence that this guy is most likely to be lying.
"[. . .] search warrant issued by the FBI,”

Doesn't a judge have to issue a warrant?
That cannot have been in good faith. I merely meant to suggest I have known many who program. We cannot keep demanding that parts represent the whole. On the whole, there are serious problems with access, even for the very educated and talented (some of whom are lucky enough to create their own businesses, and some who protect themselves by doing so anonymously). But there are those who are very skilled and knowledgable and just need access.

And you're right, with those edits in place, it does make little sense. I want to assume good faith, but can't continue when it's demonstrably unavailable.
Juries decide on facts, though, not laws. They can determine whether or not Google thought a license was required, but it's the judge (or more likely an appellate court) who will decide whether it actually was.
This bubble will hurt the smaller startups by no-name people, people that invested everything in an idea that in a non-bubble environment would be laughed out of the room, but with companies like YC around (not that this is their fault) that are harping on about the value of ideas and people it's growing.

There are people here on HN daily that post links to their blog posts that have put all their savings into their startup that has no potential to ever be anything other than a furnace for their money, but people encourage them, they are the people who will be hurt.

How many incubated startups (through programs like yc) will ever go on to be anything other than shut down? With all this cultish behaviour around YC a lot of people are believing that making money doesn't matter any more. Just look at the startups people posted in the yc rejection day threads, some of them just make absolutely no sense.

There is so much money in the internet now that when everything goes wrong nobody outside of the startup scene will really notice because the businesses that matter, the businesses people rely on will be doing fine. There will always be room for businesses that make money, bubble or not, those businesses are the ones the "public" care about. How many "normal people" would care if Instagram disappeared tomorrow and would have their lives impacted a week later? How many would care if ebay went? I suspect the latter would be the worse for the general public, and the latter will never happen because ebay actually makes money.
My issue isn't so much with design but rather the fact that you have to register a new account with them every time you want to use a new service. This is almost certainly legacy complexity from the days that these services were not exposed through API's, but it is still a pain in the ass.
Surplus of capital is a huge factor. Got numbers?

When Peter Thiel started his class at Stanford, he spent the first couple of lectures reviewing the 90's. One of his argument to explain the dot com bubble was the influx of capital from around the world to the U.S., and ultimately to the valley. Could be the same here. not sure.
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I see your point. However, I keep reading it as "We don't (have to) assume you are stupid. (We know so)".
to be fair, I fixed a few real errors after I was pointed at this link; I was distracted by a meeting about more bandwidth before I could comment.
I have a prgmr instance and don't have any issues with it. It is a great box to play around with and the cheapest you can possibly get. You kinda have to know what you are doing but they nailed their target audience.
I just unsubscribed you. Sorry for the hassle.

If anyone else is having problems, we send all of our e-mails from addresses that you can respond to. The one-click unsubscribe links seem to be working fine, but if they're not, you can just respond to the e-mail and we'll take care of it.
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Instagram isn't a great example: it was already useful and successful and might well have been worth more if it had held on. GroupOn is a much better indication that a bunch of non-technical people are eager to buy overvalued tech stocks.

Of course we are in a bubble. Not in the real estate bubble sense, mind you, but in the 1999 tech bubble sense. Tech and health care are the two industries actually growing.

Right now no one knows which companies are really creating value and which are just hype. The last bubble created more value than money was invested, but the investors don't discriminate well between valuable companies and those that are just taking them for a ride. That doesn't mean that all the companies are overvalued, just that some of them are.

Plenty of companies emerged successfully from the last bubble. Plenty of companies will come out of this one by creating actual value. Just don't be an idiot and invest your money, don't believe companies that tell you they'll get you rich, don't take jobs that seem to be too good to be true, and who cares what investors are doing?
This guy's method is a very solid approach to learning languages especially for Romance and Germanic languages, even if his claimed results (C1 in 5 months) are hard to believe for ordinary people.

Two other resources which are inline with his approach are the Assimil series, which is highly regarded by non-academic linguists (and some practical academics), and the LingQ words-in-context language learning website.
I'm not sure I buy that. Obviously it's true that "outsider" startups will see their funding dry up faster than YC companies and other "insider" groups will. But I don't think that's the right metric. In fact access to "big money" funding is if anything anti-correlated with success among these companies. Almost all the big YC exits so far were from the early rounds, and those happened during an era of very limited VC cash.
I just recently had to find a job. I started looking on Monday and accepted a job by Wednesday afternoon.

If you are interested in working with a recruiter let me know and I can put you in touch with the person that helped me. I won't name drop but if you would like me to put you in touch I will be more than happy to.

Questions:
- What technology stack(s) are you comfortable with?
- What type of development are you interested in the most?

Suggestions:
- Do not just take a job for the sake of moving out here. A means to an end is simply not enough in the bay. You need a life too and that costs $$. Make sure you take a job that will fulfill you financially and professionally. (I moved out here 2 years ago).

- Get in touch with a recruiting agency about 1 week before you arrive. They will fill up your schedule with interviews.

- Stay anywhere you can that is cheap and near Caltrain. You'll probably have to travel all over the peninsula for interviews so a central location does not apply.

- Check Meetup.com and other user groups of interest (if you are into Node, find the node user group meeting in the bay and be there). Fill your evenings with networking events so you can meet people. Once people hear your story they will take a vested interest in your success and they will help you find interviews and network. This I cannot stress enough. Use your personality and make people want you to move out here. A lot of people are transplants and will go out of the way to help a fellow transplant out.

Other than that - good luck. I think 1 week is enough for preliminary interviews but I would plan for 2 weeks if you can. With 2 weeks I am confident you will find an offer.

Regards
No, war on drugs is causing thousands of fatalities a year throughout N and S America. The people pushing that have a shitton more blood on their hands.

I say this not to be disagreeable, but to highlight how bad the WOD really is.
Can you expand on this? If I get my indentation wrong then it will be obvious very quickly. I'm guessing that it will only update if the basic syntax is correct though.
"Each incremental company, to some extent, dilutes the values of others."

I take issue with this point in the article as it assumes competition. While there is competition obviously, many start ups are actually complements for other companies. It is entirely possible that many of the start ups "competing" with each other actually thrive on the success of others and even increase the success of other companies through their existence.

As an example, think about a company like Heroku, and Amazon. Heroku makes using AWS easier, so Amazon rents more time and servers to Heroku while Heroku also makes money that otherwise wouldn't have been made. These relationships exist all throughout the business world and are good, not "bubble" influences.
I really like this! One thing that wasn't shown is having variables in the CPP code get modified from in game. Would that be possible?
I don't have a written source, but according to my Russian friend, the position of the Russian govt on Bitcoin goes something like "We will have non-technical solutions for your technical mumbo-jumbo." Interestingly, Russia and Ukraine rank #1 and #2 on http://www.google.com/trends/?q=bitcoin
The UK government publicly apologized in 2009. There was an official statement from the Prime Minister. The latest dust-up is over a pardon.
Do you have cookies disabled? The page won't load unless you allow cookies for blogspot.com. Annoying, I know.
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Social is a bubble. Sharing information is going to continue to get easier, and i agree that distinguishing the various services is increasingly difficult. But i do not buy the x of some market argument. The ebay of space has built a new type of marketplace.

"Startup" is a way to say an organization that does not follow the rules of the industrial revolution. Social technologies are a bubble, but there is a distinction between social technologies and technology in general, and startups aren't exclusively business models of the former.
This is because I'm converting to an i32 rather than a double. It should be able to be fixed relatively easily.
Talking into a communications device at normal volume makes you look like an asshole? O_o
The rise in the inequality of wealth has led to an excess of capital and a lack of demand for it to fill. It's not just the US: around the world there is more people who want to invest than there are people with money to spend on the things they might make.
A full, working clock built in Minecraft (with explanations of its construction)
Still missing my point. Software industry profits by making things more efficient. This removes jobs. Robotics is a great example. Whats the difference between packaging a magic trick one uses to make their living, and a manufacturing skill?
As a personal exercise please go and watch this documentary:

Startup.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

And then ask yourself if what happened then is anyway similiar to what is happening now.

For starters, I think you will realise that most startups circa 2000/1 were nothing more than litteral "thin air" -- compare that to the likes of Facebook who actually have revenues, hell, they even have a product.

I know that some of the valuation numbers being thrown about can be unreal, but I'd rather have a converation about whether FB is worth $1b or $10bn or $100b, instead of whether is has any value at all.
Yes, imagine a website where you post step-by-step instructions to a goal. The work of discovery is done by the curator and the student can wander through the paths just a link away from the necessary material. Match that with a quora-like information architecture and you've got something going.
That is exactly what I found interesting. Reading hn one might be tempted to think that only three latest new thing matters. Think Trello : they use only post 2012 technologies and everyone says wow.

But in reality it takes 20 years our more for a "real" technology to mature and get serious recognition. The OP should remind us about this fact when we get too hot about something too new.
That's correct. You get to whitelist the files we allow the user to choose. The mimetype should work for things like "text/" or "" if you want multiple, but I'll look into adding something that takes a list, if that's something that you would want.

Thanks for catching that typo. We were debating if just to write 'callback' or to have a simple function that calls alert. We ended up with neither :D Fixed.
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Traditionally "real-time" in the context of computing means responding to events within a guaranteed time interval, usually milliseconds or microseconds.
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> On the other hand, this caused some problems-- people consistently over-estimated my language abilities, and as a result said a ton of stuff I couldn't understand.

I don't see how that's a downside of Pimsleur...
From where I sit you are correct - which makes it a non-starter.

They'll have to bite and open source their backend (ala OpenStack) or this is going nowhere beyond toy apps.

Otherwise, if their platform is viable, a third-party OSS clone will pop up and eat their lunch.
We'll return the validation data when you attach a card to a customer as well.
Haha. No doubt. I'm on the w3c mailing list :D
Sparrow, primarily. Mail on iOS, sometimes. Otherwise, Chrome.
Yup. big problems in that department. Most things are semi-automated. I do have it setup so that once a user is setup, they can boot into a rescue image, change the kernel, access the serial console, etc... without my help, though.

But, it is a pretty big problem if someone needs a new instance right away, or if someone needs an upgrade right away, and for system problems that don't hit my pager (though we're working on improving that one.)
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By folder watching, I mean: when I put a multimedia file in in a folder (which I've assigned to be 'watched'), iTunes updates the library. I'm very certain Windows has APIs for exactly this kind of situation. In fact, if they can do it for one folder, I'm having trouble seeing a reason why they wouldn't be able to do it for several folders.
Right, some of the business going public at that time seemed like they where written on a napkin two nights before. They where not even at the pivot stage. It was absolutely insane at the time and everyone knew it. I remember working at some companies on contract and thinking there is no way this is going to last. It seemed like the only people that where making money last go around where the ones providing infrastructure and services, everyone else was just drinking it up at the party. Make no mistake I think we are bubbling but I thing today looks a lot more like 1996 than 2000. It can and will get a lot crazier especially with the crowd-funding bill.
I'm not sure what is being contested in the case any more. Larry Page testified that their implementation of Java was a clean room implementation. Is Oracle trying to assert that an API is something that is subject to copyright?
We completely agree. Nailing cross browser issues, more services, and looking to mobile is what can make this valuable and, as you correctly point out, we aren't quite there yet.

We just wanted to loop the community in early to help us build a product that you all want. Thanks for the feedback :D
3 squirrels and 1 microbe?
Email validation in play. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Wow... 17 unattached GPIO pins off the CPU. I wonder if they just ran out of room to put them on the board, or if they have lack alternate pin-specific capabilities that the used pins have.

I kind of wish there was a harder to use card edge connector for these - they could likely implement an additional 2 SD card slots or similar I/O.
would love to see this technology go mainstream
It's like a sensationalist link-bait title, but more visible. I really dislike that opening industry news has a high probability of looking like I'm reading a tabloid to anyone who walks by my cube. Seriously, if someone walked by and sees a 30 in monitor with a large picture of some girls cleavage do you really think they'll buy that I was reading about open source photo editing software? It reminds me of the old joke: "I read playboy for the articles."

Maybe I'm unreasonable, I'm open to that conclusion.

I just find myself think "really guys, how does that picture say anything about this article" incredibly often. It seems tacky.
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That's a shitty excuse to reboot; sounds more like they didn't want to bother. If you do your job properly, errors can be handled. If you do your job properly, errors aren't simply hex values.

Maybe people were used to reboot their computers 7 years ago but these days, you can entirely work and reboot only for system patches.
The tech companies in question (e.g. social media) are not worthless, but they're almost certainly overvalued. Eventually, the market is going to realize this and then they'll be undervalued for a while as a reaction.

It's probably going to go back and forth in cycles between overvalued and undervalued for a long time because no one really knows what the market value of an intangible digital asset is. Can anyone explain how much money the data in the Facebook databases are worth?
Take my answer with a grain of salt as its clearly just my own experience and what I do.

That said, outside of friends I already know and go with, I really don't network or mingle with people at the conference much with exception to lunch time where you're sitting at the table talking to other attendees or staff. I pretty spend the majority of my time there in sessions and of course the keynotes.

So, as you said, the talks eventually get uploaded online so why go? In part because of the experience I guess, and in part, I go with friends so its a good way to meetup and hang out at the conference together. Swag is just icing.
make sure you are comparing to the KVM prices; OpenVZ is cheaper because allocated ram is... not comparable to allocated ram in xen or kvm.

It is a fair criticism, though; the KVM prices are comparable to Xen prices, and in that department, they have me beat for guests smaller than 1024M.[1] And you are right that it is time for me to increase my ram per dollar (and my transit per dollar) to remain in the niche where I live. I'm working on it, and you can be sure that existing customers will get that upgrade before I offer it to new users.

[1]I price things at a flat fee per customer ($4) then a cost per unit of ram ($1 for every 64M ram) - I find that there are many providers that beat me on the low end but that I beat on the high end. This is in part an artefact of my manual processes, (or rather, an artefact of how manual per-user processes altered my pricing choices.)
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I find myself often texting people, "where are you?" so I wrote this little iPhone app that lets me text them a special link. When they click the link, it uses the HTML5 geolocation API to report their location and shows it on a map.

http://whru.at/

It's only as accurate as the HTML5 geolocation API, but I've been finding it pretty useful. What do you think?
HN has got dedicated hiring threads each month. You can also use this handy tool: http://hnhiring.me/

^^ Credit to whoever built this!
I found a taker! Thanks.
>> And then ask yourself if what happened then is anyway similiar to what is happening now.

The US property bubble had nothing in common with the Tulip bubble either. Tulips don't even pay interest but property paid rent!
Perhaps, but those allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't. The blink tag just made annoying blinky text.
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Just because it isn't the same size or type of tech bubble, doesn't mean it's not any sort of bubble. I'm not saying it is a bubble (I haven't done enough research to form an opinion) but you can't look at previous bubbles and declare we currently aren't in one because the circumstances aren't identical.

For a further personal exercise I would recommend reading the first half of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" which gives some insight into early economic bubbles. I think the fact that things have changed so much since it was written allows you to easily see the things that don't change, namely the snowball effect of hype (madness of crowds).

Edit: The Tulip Bubble that meric mentioned is in the book. Really insightful stuff.
I find it annoying that this whole "piracy is harm" thing gets accepted. Pirating content does not cause harm. We are locked into a mentality where we think content producers need the protection of the government. They do not. Content producers will continue to produce content when it becomes totally infeasble to charge money for content.

These threats of piracy causing a cultural dark age are nothing more than the shrieks of greedy bastards throwing a tantrum because the world has moved on but they have not.

I, for one, think the quality of the content will increase when actors, not business people, run the show. And I look forward to that day.
I'll second this. Udacity has the best courses I've taken for CS stuff.
My intent was to say, in a positive way, "If you are unwilling to learn how a serial console works, or how OpenSSH public key authentication works, I'll refund your money and send you to Linode."
Hi there, I'm interested. Emailed you.
And let's not forget blinquee http://bugzil.la/163050
While I agree with you that there is a ton of automation, it's a bit flippant to suggest the manual work in biology is because of old-timers. You can't exactly automate necropsy on a rat liver to see if the compound you just gave it caused liver failure. There are a ton of experiments that are not automatable with current robotics technologies. Plus, even when you can automate, biology can't be rushed. If you're waiting for a tumor to grow in a mouse model, you have to wait real wall clock time.