skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely most users of this site already knew only the top VC funds make money. The Kauffman Foundation certainly should have. But that doesn't mean the VC model is broken, just that there are a lot of lame firms using this model as well as the good ones.
Tom cruise teeth before and after...OMG
They're meant to maintain control by the people over the judiciary, it has nothing to do with "common sense". In this case particularly, the problem is lack of uncommon sense. You cannot expect non-engineers to understand that rangeCheck is utterly uncreative, because they don't understand rangeCheck to begin with, nor its underpinnings. They can't even apply a generic sense of right or wrong to it.

This sort of trial should be conducted in the modern style of civil law countries, but that would require a constitutional amendment.
Like thinkpads did... the ivy bridge models soon to be announced use a new layout. While the chicklet keyboards are largely an improvement (I've tried an E420 for a few moments and love the wider spacing), losing that row will take some getting used to.
What kind of scanner are you using? This sounds like a great idea.
As Mz mentioned, we have quite a few, at various levels of government. None of them are mandated, automatic, universal, or even slightly like the proposed "universal health care" programs.
As I see it, it's not a win (yet?) for Oracle. Sort of AP suing me for using their paragraph without permission. I am guilty of using it but it may be fair use, thus allowed.
On top of that, I will never consider switching away from my Macbook until the following things are true:

* battery will last several hours (macbook still at 4+ hrs on full charge and it is 1.5 yrs old)

* very good (open) acpi support - if I can't 100% trust closing and opening to just suspend and resume correctly, I won't use it for anything other than toy purposes. (and open because I will be using my own kernel, or at least my own install of a distro, so it needs to be supported or at least compilable for every kernel).
Were you referring to the article or is this a recursive comment called on itself?
From OpenJDK:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {

if (fromIndex > toIndex)

throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");

if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);

if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);

}

From Google:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {

if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");

if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);

if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);

}

}

Open and shut case. /s
Fertility, It Seems, Also Confuses College Students
I tend to agree with you about jury trials, but having the “real” decisions made by specialist judges in the Federal Circuit has dangers too. Many legal scholars believe that the trend toward allowing more software and business method patents in the 1980s and 1990s occurred because of Federal Circuit judges who were too embedded in the patent bar, and that it was allowed to continue without enough review because with all patent appeals coming out of one circuit, there were no circuit splits (disagreements between circuit courts of appeal), which is the usual way cases reach the US Supreme Court.

In any case it would be difficult for the trial judge or the Federal Circuit to ignore jury decisions on factual questions like the ones that were decided here, unless the result was egregiously wrong. Legal questions like whether APIs are copyrightable will almost certainly be reviewed on appeal.

[added] The dangers of judges who are too specialized was actually recognized when the Federal Circuit was set up, so the court was also given jurisdiction over a few other areas, such as appeals from the Court of Federal Claims, to prevent it from being overly specialized. I haven’t seen recent figures, but I do believe that the docket is dominated by patent cases.
And North Vietnam was a Soviet client state from the word go, that's how the Cold War worked.

There was still no invasion of Vietnam. The entire operation was hamstrung by politically imposed restrictions.
No, I've never had an employer that allowed blogging. And even then, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with the attention given the notoriety of my previous employers.

All I can say is that if you have a choice between a large investment bank and a hedge fund, always go with the hedge fund. They are more agile, more casual, and there's a more direct link between your activities and the organization's profit. Overall, it is more similar to tech.
Are you claiming that Pair Networks could pivot into being a mobile app for couples? Or that Pair could pivot into being an ISP? Because they both seem equally unlikely.
I like the pop-under ad for gambling when you visit this site. Classy.
Backtrack is used to install/host metasploit. If you find Metasploit daunting then you could use Armitage - a gui interface for metasploit.
Holmes - the Chrome bookmark search extension
Check the yellow (telephone reception) thing on the right of the ram.
David Boies reportedly asked, with the jury out of the room, for "infringer's profits" from the nine lines. Judge Alsup said it was "bordering on the ridiculous."
The yellow 'signal strength' bars under the 3 configurations -- 'Solid State Drive'.

Also, a 'solid state drive' is mentioned in the feature details under 'Turns on instantly'.
If some law/issue can't be understood by 12 random people and multi-million dollar legal teams... i don't want to live in this world anymore
I also have a lot of respect for djb. That is why I thought it was strange you did not use his name when you were clearly well acquainted with who the author of netstrings and curvecp is.
Toyota/Tesla Electric Rav4
Has there ever actually been a recorded case where someone has used this against a Node.js webserver or application? And if so, what did they accomplish?
An intelligent way to insult.
The mobile web is dead
I think this is different from just normal articles as it explains how to do stuff with js. I still think that someone who is new around here(ay news.yc) or there (in js) will find this significant. I have had people asking me about logging javascript stuff and I thought instead of me blogging a replica, I should just paste the existing one
For those of you who don't know, Sahil applied for YC and didn't get an interview [1] (I think this was before Pinterest and turntable.fm) - a great reminder that YC can help you succeed, but isn't necessary. [1]: http://askolo.com/sahil#4f96a68bebceb8b92300000f
Actually, the STOVL variant of the F-35 has exactly the low-speed loitering ability, not of the A-10, but of the Harrier. That's what it was designed for.
This Is where about.me really missed the mark - they could have done something much more amazing in this space.

Their pages were so damn one dimensional though, that it is useless.

But they STILL got bought for something like twenty million.
I am happy to see IRC here. Way underused communication method! Certainly are things that can be improved with the protocol and services, but few people understand how useful it can be for business aswell as personal chat-needs.
Git-wtf
Ask HN: How does the shift to mobile impact online advertising?
I'm asking this in light of Facebook's IPO.

In comparison to computers, smart phones and tablets seem to be less friendly to advertising. I don't know whether this has an empirical basis, but to me screen estate is precious, and the same could be said for potential advertisers. I also noticed that a lot of the official mobile apps of established online services often lack advertising completely.

More importantly, unlike the internet connection at home, mobile data plans are usually limited. So you have a situation where the user ultimately ends up paying for the delivery of advertisements. How tenable is this?

How do companies like Google and Facebook plan to uphold their revenue streams in such an environment?
I didn't encounter any errors; my comments were just from browsing the source.
No disrespect to the founder, but it is a strange world where 19 year-olds raise 7 million in 4 days...
This comment would be meaningful if it even contained a hint of an anecdote. "Well deserved" how, exactly?
I wonder what happens when a site wants to use the service but already has an existing payment gateway/merchant account? I think they'll need to de-couple, or offer alternatives, if they want to go further up market.
If you use a NoSQL database in production for an extended period of time, you will definitely end up writing code to explicitly manage schemas. Either in the form of data migrations or in the form of DAO code with giant suppurating piles of conditionals.
The End of the Myth of the Messianic CEO
Following the thread: I posted my extension called "HNHance" two days ago but no one saw/cared. It doesn't change the style, just adds hover parent links - something i find immensely useful in long comment threads.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/132359.user.js http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3923150
Brand Management, Lively Everyday Health, and More Togetherness in June
That sounds like a good idea. Maybe not the best for me, as I always had trouble with drawing a line "our contract does not cover that" and I'd probably lose negotiations about how many points something is worth. It's still better than having no safe margin at all.
"which means that one VC's opinion influences the multitude."

But if the idea is to make money and spread the risk among many "bets" that makes plenty of sense.

"If there were more independence among VC decisions, we'd see an order of magnitude more good startups getting funded."

I think you are overestimating the influence of any single person. PG trying to get USV to invest in Airbnb comes to mind.

Taking an investment that others have decided is good and deciding if you agree is much simpler than doing the same without that social proof. Added: and filter.
Not just college students. Most Americans seem to really have a poor grasp of this topic generally.
I know there is a lot more to a nice laptop than proper software integration. However, proper software integration goes a long way. I bought an XPS m1330 "N" with Linux pre-installed 4 years ago. I have had zero funky hardware/software dances with it through the many re-installs I have done. I don't relish the idea of replacing it.

So this is good news to me. I looked into recent Dell's and found that there is almost always something slightly "wrong" with them when you run Linux on them. Either weirdness in power management or the touchpad or some other random thing. Just being able to buy a computer and not have to worry if it is going to work with my OS is very nice. I have too much to do and don't want to spend a week futzing with drivers and other nonsense (I have done enough of that for a life time).
How to setup fax server
Retarus is one of the largest global messaging service providers for enterprise companies. For more detail visit www.retarusblog.com
As the other posters have said, it has been around forever, but was rewritten to be much faster and support a payload in 9.0.
To be blatantly honest, that is exactly what I'd write. The implementation is trivial and obvious therefore the probability of them being the same is high.
From the source of the app (https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan), it seems that it doesn't check for authorization -for now-, so be aware that anyone can signup to your own private instance if they know your url and do nasty things like deleting channels.
"sort of is like artwork" isn't artwork.
For what it's worth, I run hiring at a startup, and, based on some running stats I've kept, historically, candidates with EE degrees have not performed any worse in interviews than candidates with a more traditional CS background.
I understand that and it's pretty awesome. Have the frontend on Github and I can help you tweak it out. Open source stuff should look awesome as well.
All of those things except presence detection can be done by tapping one key or another. For example, most computers have keys for controlling music players, they're just not integrated properly. As the article says, it feels a bit silly to wave you hand in front of the screen what you can just move your finger a couple of inches from whatever you were doing and achieve the same result with a lot less energy.

If we worked like Tom Cruise does in The Minority Report, we'd have a far bigger problem than carpal tunnel syndrome.

But maybe we could use something like this to bring mouseover effects back to tablet computers? Hover your finger above a button and watch it spin before you tap it!
Leaving hooks to testflight in your app isn't particularly nefarious behavior. Bad form, no doubt, but nothing overly nefarious.

The article seems to imply the author has no idea what testflightapp is, and a simple google search would explain precisely what it is and what it's used for. Rather than a seemingly sketchy "bad behavior" article bordering on paranoia, a simple "SocialCam's author forgot to turn off TestFlight in a release build, forty-two lashes with a wet noodle" would have been sufficient.

I'm sure this is not the first time Apple's approved an app release with TestFlight still enabled, and most certainly won't be the last.
Cached copy of the page: http://www.joezimjs.com.nyud.net/javascript/the-lazy-mans-ur...
ok sorry for confusion! I stand corrected!
They raised a $1.1 million seed round for Gumroad in just four days, though obviously the service and the people have been around longer. Three months later, Gumroad is announcing a $7 million Series A investment.
The Internal Situation at Yahoo Is Spiraling Out of Control
LOL. In my defense, those are extremely crappy UI signalling.
I'll chip in for him. They're made of cheese, unreliable, have shitty bios implementations, crap battery life and horrid screens and keyboards.
The app update I've been waiting for: rate interstate bathrooms
On every single Dell I've used I've hated the keyboard within 10 key presses at most, and I've tried a good 2 dozen over the past 15 years.

And there in lies the problem, every other spec is fucking useless compared to 'does this keyboard suck'. If it sucks you can have 32GB of RAM, a draw that spits out toast and Knuth built into it and I still won't buy it.
Good point - we wanted to keep it as open as possible, and as easy to get started as possible. Hence the (literally) copy/paste instructions to get running on somewhere like Heroku, with no need to provision other services.

But obscurity isn't security. We'd love to hear what people think about how this should be handled - https://github.com/cloudfuji/kandan/issues
The sparse Fourier transform is also probably not useful for any of that stuff, because accurate results are needed (not just getting one or two of the main tones). Transforms are not the bottleneck at all in video encoding, and even in audio encoding, split-radix FFTs and the like are very fast.

High-res Dirac video encoding is definitely possible in real-time, you just need a very optimized encoder, which doesn't really exist. Dirac's main speed cost comes from the overlapped-block motion compensation, not the transform.
Why My iPad Is Not My Laptop
I’m An Article About The Internet That You Repost On The Internet
I'm not too sure if it will. Majority of the people who pirate do so simple because they may not use it so often or they do not have sufficient funds to buy it. However, when for example, college students do get a copy of the crack and then they get used to using photoshop, and then when some of them grow up to work for a big firm, the big firm has no problem spending a few thousand on design software.

What I'm trying to say is that, even if they get 10x the sales with the copy of photoshop priced at $100, they will not make as much money as opposed to selling 1/10 copies at $1200.
Self-reply: That's only C99, by the way. Compared to C++11, C11 adds anonymous structs, and incompatible handling of atomics, noreturn, and even generics.
On devopsangle.com or somewhere else? We don't do any sort of banner advertising, popunder or otherwise so unless our site has been hacked (I'll look into it) then it sounds like you've got malware on your computer.
I obviously know who is behind bittorrent that is why I mentioned it as a possible alternative. But you yourself state that Stanislav Shulanov is the man behind utp. More importantly shout-outs traditionally explicitly reference the person/thing in question. I was not sure if there was a longer/muddier/more-controversial back story that would not be appropriate to discuss in an acm article.
It may be worth finding a company you admire and working there for a year to get a feel for things like source control, the dynamics of many people working on one code base, design patterns, why people make the architectural decisions that they do, how systems scale, what makes a team work well together, etc.

None of this stuff is as easy to pick up on your own. Then, after you get a feel for how others do things, you can make informed decisions about how to run your own projects.
Given a method signature, especially one with the parameter names, and a listing of the exceptions it could throw, I think the only thing I would do different would be comments and {} on the if's. I hate if's without braces, that's just asking for trouble in the future ;)
You seem opposed to universal health care in principle.

I suspect your opinion will change radically when you are faced with a life-threatening condition that requires medical attention. The probability you will have one of these increases steadily with age and will eventually reach 100%. There is no escaping it.

Maybe it'll be like the person who wrote the article where they get in a wreck and end up dying not because they weren't responsible or lacked insurance or expected a hand-out, but because it was more convenient for the insurance companies to ignore him until he just went away.

Sometimes shit happens, and when it does a functioning, civilized society will help you through the worst of it so that you can either recover and be a productive citizen once again, or at the very least live with a measure of dignity.

It doesn't benefit anyone to constantly lose productive workers, family members, fathers and mothers, scientists, researchers, artists or even those in less glamorous positions to what could've been treated in the early stages at marginal cost.
It has become a lot easier to "learn by doing" without breaking any rules.

If you are looking at web application security, there are a number of "simulation" games. The first that come to mind are Damn Vulnerable Web App (http://www.dvwa.co.uk/), The Hackme Bank (http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/hacme-bank.asp...) or OWASPs WebGoat (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat_Proje...)

DVWA is probably the best choice for somebody with no prior knowledge.
A quick google search on "dvwa walkthrough" will get you started.
The Top Research Papers In Computer Science By Mendeley Readership
But when the jackpot is bigger, more people buy tickets, too, which makes the EV for that week go down. It's not at all clear to me which effect is bigger. (Indeed, I wonder if your best bet is to buy the first week the jackpot rolls over, but not when it has rolled over multiple times.)

At any rate, if the expected return over long periods is $.58 for $1, I sure wouldn't expect it to even get close to $1 on the best weeks.
Polish Architects Build Stereotype-Reinforcing Upside-Down House [video]
Basically I see it as a useful product for certain situations. But what I question is:

- How big is the market of people who A) have something they want to sell and B) have a pre-existing audience who would buy it in significant enough volume to move the needle for both themselves and gumroad?

- How often is this actually the best tool for the job as opposed to using sales tools that tie into external distribution channels?

Again I'm not saying they're wrong, but nothing in any of the articles that have been written so far convinces me that they're right either.
No chicklets on mine!

Also, the SSD is an option, not standard, in case you want that. (I certainly did.)

You can call them on the phone with any questions -- I found them responsive and helpful.
Twilio makes big moves to penetrate the Fortune 500
What I noticed later alarmed me, however. SocialCam posted on my behalf that I watched the video.

Blame Facebook. They encourage this kind of behavior.

Not that SocialCam should be doing it, but really this is something Facebook should simply not allow.
The Samwer brothers don't seem to like waiting, and see the hell that they are getting.
If aside from entertainment value it makes sense to buy one ticket,then it makes sense to buy two. And three and four. But in fact aside from entertainment value it does not make sense to buy one, because that change from 45,379,619:0 to 45,379,619:1 on a windfall is accompanied by a change from 1:1 to 0:1 chance on keeping your original dollar. And in the vast bulk of lottery scenarios, it all multiplies out to a negative expected return.
They were both written by Joshua Bloch, while working at Google. The first was for TimSort, which he donated to Sun/OpenJDK. He then reused the rangeCheck code in Android.
(edited)

I think the jury did just fine. They have punted on the hard problem, but I think the rest of their determinations are quite fair. This doesn't look like the case that will impeach the jury system to me.
I tend to be much more productive on days when I work from home, but after a 1.5 year stretch with an out of state company I found it harder to stay focused at home.

I've found lately that occasionally varying my work location – maybe 3 days in the office, 2 at home or at a quiet cafe – is refreshing and helps me avoid the slump.
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That's an approximation of a review, but "shitty" is a relative thing. Compared to what?

Nothing is more annoying than opinions like "I hate X because it sucks" without an insightful counter-point like "You should try Y because it's much better for reasons A, B and C."
because it was more convenient for the insurance companies to ignore him until he just went away.

Why can't we just fix this part? Why do we have to throw out everything and start over?

get in a wreck and end up dying not because they weren't responsible or lacked insurance or expected a hand-out

Is it less of a tragedy then? Does dying with a different kind of disease make you feel better about it?

Edit: I'm not against it in principle. I think it looks fine on paper. I'm against it because it leads to massive conflicts of interest and corruption. I don't think it's a solution to our current problems.
I agree that savvy rogue contractors can skirt the law and build crappy, unsafe stuff (like came to light in Miami FL after hurricane....Hugo, I think...). But what regulations do well is make sure the honest guys know how to be safe. Whether they go to their conferences and learn best practices is optional, and they have to decide if they want to bear the expense.

If they ignorantly (not maliciously) wire the bathroom in an unsafe manner, however, they will fail inspection and be made to fix it properly. This is useful to the individual homeowners. In a way it's similar to the adage that "locks keep the honest people from breaking in." With both regulations and locks, they are less likely to stop the criminals.