skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion the great benefit of PHP especially for non-coder founders is the big offshore talent pool.
Maybe I've had too much coffee so I'm not understanding your comment, but market cap is based on total outstanding shares, whether they were being sold on the market or not. 10 stocks issued total, company's value doesn't inherently change based on whether 5 stocks are sold in public vs 10 vs 1.

Sure I get the supply and demand thing you're trying to articulate, but the reality is that I as an investor am concerned that FB is overvalued at 100B marketcap, whether the shares are sold at $1 or $10000.
The point of life is not to reproduce. Life simply is, it has no point. What exactly constitutes life is a vague human concept to begin with. You can choose to make your point in life to reproduce, but that does not make other choices of point in life any less valid or real.

BTW, that's a quite smug attitude, no doubt shared by many people, but I personally do not consider reproduction a worthy goal in life or indeed an accomplishment at all. Raising a child well, yes. Getting your sperm in an egg or getting sperm in your eggs, no. To further elevate the life goal of reproduction to the only worthy life goal for humankind to the point of considering people who do not reproduce to be lifeless borders on the ridiculous (not to mention disrespectful to people who can't have children, or for whom its hard (gay people, for example), or people who simply choose not to have children).
Ah, good point, I forgot about that. As a general rule, though, Card's novels aren't very quotable, and when they are, the quote is closely tied to the plot. If you didn't know how it related to Ender's development as a tactician and thinker, "The enemy's gate is down" wouldn't be a very impressive line. Meanwhile, Gibson throws off eye-popping lines every other page. Compare these two examples:

"Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too." - Ender's Game

If you don't know what Ender is referring to, this quote loses almost all of its power. If you've read the story, though, this line is killer.

"The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there." - Neuromancer

You don't need to have read the novel to appreciate the quote. Beyond the novelty and aesthetic beauty of the writing, it's very information-dense: You can get an excellent sense of the novel's setting, themes, conflict, and main character just from these three sentences.
Can we stop calling them hashes? They're key derivation functions. I know it's a long, awkward term, but a lot of people in this thread are confusing the technical requirements for cryptographic hashes and KDFs, so I think that being precise about this is warranted.
The names that were voted on and how they fared-

Votes :: Name
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1359 :: Spherical Cow
1087 :: Halva
1072 :: Chamoy
1035 :: Pamukkale
964 :: Tandoori Chicken
930 :: Frankfurter
821 :: Pop Soda
536 :: Ketchy Ketchup

From http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-April...
42+ Secure Mobile Development Best Practices
Writing a Profiler (built into Firefox)
True, not every lane splitter is unsafe. In stopped traffic, getting to the front of the line on red (thus out in front on green) is probably the safest. I'm talking about the people zipping in and out of 50mph traffic on 580. I see it everyday.
I just wanna be OK
He is rich in terms of money but incredibly impoverished in his personal world view.
Nice. That looks like something out of a science fiction movie. More of a golf cart than a car but still, interesting to see that they are in production.
86 people upvoted the question and 5 votes is all it takes to close the question ? So 5 people hold the truth on the validity an pertinence of a question ? How many people does it take to undesrstand that this moderation system is broken ?
Frictional Games Co-Founder Jens Nilsson Talks Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
I heard some else say Perl is COBOL of the web. (COBOL is also used by banks for it's reliability)
I always do that when there's a post about facebook stock and it's quite entertaining to seem those two go side by side on the up-down roller coaster.
Bloody genius!, I'm going to steal some post-it notes from the cabinet right now!
Ask HN: How to submit a link to the bit.ly blog...
How to submit a link to the bit.ly blog (blog.bit.ly) since the bit.ly urls are banned for being shorteners ?

I've just seen a link to http://blog.bitly.com/post/23998132587/welcome-to-the-new-bitly about the new bit.ly site and interface go [dead] (the article, by the way, is not that much interesting and i wouldn't upvote it or expect it to appear on first page... but neither should it be instantly flagged dead IMHO)... And I thought that this could be a small glitch in the flagging algorithm.

Is there a way to avoid this sort of thing when submitting a link to a "banned" url that you think still is legitimate ?
MongoDB is webscale, that's all you need to know, keep in mind that webscale means a database that will fit in 16 to 256 GB of RAM, and doesn't need transaction support.
Most people go to conference on their employers dime, and the travel cost for most companies is just going to be a rounding error.
Me too! I have even drawn and assembled my own character in this "ACE" editor MS has published...

Anyway, I think it was a great technology -- it could work perfect just as a async-capable and timeout-dismissable replacement of all those stacked messageboxes and dialogs Office uses, and they made it a fancy help search box :-(
Yes, if you want irreversible metal poisoning. If you want to try poisoning yourself with an old fashioned treatment, then mercury -- at one time a treatment for syphillis -- is probably a better bet if only because there are well established chelation protocols for getting it out of your system. In contrast, I can find no well established, proven means to remove silver. And I have tried, repeatedly, since colloidal silver is a popular alternative treatment in the CF community and I wish I had something better to offer them than the bad news they are likely making their situation worse in the long run.
All good design comes from iteration. You can certainly do with protocols and encodings. Look at the very first published swing at HTTP, for example:

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/P...

From today's modern perspective, it's laughable. And that was just the first public bit. Surely he iterated some on his own before putting that out.
How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users
Startups Tackle Wireless Bills For Consumers
The vast majority of motorcycles are water cooled and have been for some time.

Incidentally, lane splitting isn't being abused when motorcyclists do it to go faster than cars; that's the whole point.
NO I don't have any proof. If wall street left lots of proof in their wake, people would have gone to jail during the housing crash. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe the stock randomly hit 34,32,30,29 and plateaued because normal investors put in orders for those prices.
Using OpenACC would just give you some quick benefits in development time, but I think it will not be competitive with pure CUDA in actual time taken for the program to run.

I would be really interested in these results if you can share them with me (contact@pavanky.com).
No, it won't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Adverse_...
Spherical cow is a physics instruction reference (consider a spherical cow...). Beefy miracle is just them being weird though I think.
Ask HN: What text editor do you use and why?
Wolfram Alpha for Personal Fitness
If I create high quality, high traffic Facebook content, do I get any money from advertising?
Can anyone explain to me how the P/E ratio is a meaningful metric for a company's stock price and what it "should be" at when that company does not distribute earnings to the shareholders?

I don't understand why this metric is tossed around for stocks in which the regular shareholders receive no compensation for the shares owned (nor have any voting power for that matter). Owning stock in these companies seems like a pure speculation move, as the only upside to be seen in purchasing shares is that one day other people will value the share higher than the day you bought it.
It's really frustrating how they keep doing this. Their users are begging, literally fighting with the mods over this, and they still don't allow it. If they are opposed to diluting the technical questions there, why don't they just make an programmer opinion stack exchange site?

This reminds me of the founding of Adobe, when Steve Jobs told them what he wanted, as did two other companied, and the refused, saying "We have this business plan, we raised $2.5 million, and this is what we said we're going to do." Thankfully, a man named QT Wiles explained to them that "You guys are nuts. Throw out your business plan. Your customers-or potential customers-are telling you what your business should be. The business plan was only used to get you the money. Why don't you rewrite a business plan that is focused just on providing what your customers want?"

This is the same position. SE needs to focus on what the customers want.
I remain unconvinced. Should the amount of effort that it costs to update the interpreter really be the main consideration?
fwiw, you don't need to turn it off to install unsigned apps, it can be overridden on a case-by-case basis by right clicking the app and opening it there. you are never prompted again for that app.

i can see the argument for "burying" this ability, as users will tend to just get used to clicking "OK" blindly if you give them the ability to dismiss a prompt like this, much like i find myself doing with UAC on Windows.
Spot on.

Look, I know little about Treehouse, but I read the blog when things appear on HN. It looks like a useful product, and seems to be run by sincere guys. But you're talking about attracting good talent when you're able to offer amazing benefits, salaries and a 4 day work week. That is only possible because you're swimming in cash, and you're only swimming in cash because this space is still riding the upswing of the business cycle. The market will sort this out, and one only has to look around to see that. It's unsustainable. How old is your business? Let's see if you're still working 4 day weeks in five years.

That said, it's probably a great place to work. Kudos for sharing the wealth with your employees.
And it's not like it's illegal but folk do it anyway -- I have never, ever seen someone do that in my state.
Good luck! Feel free to contact me with questions.

My big starter tip is to make the work-in-progress column physically small. My current one limits the "working" and "on hold" columns to 3 items each. Whenever they fill up that's a sign that there's a problem in my process.
I was able to buy, the seller generated a custom invoice for me. Thanks for the tip anyway. (There are some Model M's in Brazil, but it takes too much desk space IMO).
You're falling for the same fallacy that altrego99 is: your opinions and experiences are not the same as others.

For some people, having children is not worth it. For others, having children is.
Only after I got a Macbook Pro I realized how much time I had wasted dealing with all kinds of linux configurations before. Macbook Pro lets you focus on what you do.
Sketchnotes book - visual notes of 100 talks
Health Month for Sale on Flippa
I get it from a third party repo, but Awesome works great with Fedora on my eeepc.
http://robots-everywhere.com/site/robots/underwater/ Please note video dates.
JRuby is still going to be slower than clojure, due to the semantics of ruby. All function calls are resolved at runtime, while clojure resolves as many as possible at compile time.

Foo::Bar.method() vs (foo.bar/method)

The ruby version does three loads from the heap, at runtime, while clojure does zero.

invokedynamic in JDK 7 will help narrow the gap, but the fact remains that Clojure was designed with more performance in mind than ruby.
Just an amateur, so speculation abound. But presumably, on the basis that other investors that you hope will value it higher will use the P/E ratio as a metric as well, and that it gives a comparative metric between "similar" companies. E.g. it's an often used metric just because it's an often used metric.
1. The definition of life is fuzzy at best. Most of these definitions operate on populations, not individuals.

2. Population fitness can be optimized by many activities: food gathering, art, research, supporting peers, etc.

3. Meaning is a mental construct. Arguing over the absolute "point" of life is pointless, because the epiphenomena of "value" is a chemical cascade in our brains and can be coupled to almost anything. At best we deal in probabilistic generalizations, like "most people find having children rewarding". It's equally valid for someone to find deeply rewarding value in rebuilding engines, and many do.

More directly: I'm gay. I can't reproduce naturally. If you think that makes me less human, let alone less alive, kindly go fuck yourself.
Nah. The company controls the software, which gives them plenty of ability to change the game dynamics. The only problem is a lack of will.
Thank your for quoting it.
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I've worked with developers that went days without committing... it was maddening.
As a techie, what I would love is "A Technical Guy's Guide to Marketing/Sales" that basically talks about the various concept and jargon a techie should know to run a business.
> And marriage can only be good if the parents know and acknowledge that they together go first, kids come second. Period.

Eye-opener for me. This is very true, and a harsh truth at that.

You made me finally understand what broke my parents' relationship. One of them focused on children, with "at all costs" mindset. And the cost was great indeed.

> and you won't even have much control over theirs for more than the 10-15 early years.

That much just as well.
> Also, are there a lot of developers who work for hours without committing?

I manage maybe an hour at a max, and then have to make extensive use of commit -p to tease apart all the changes I've made.
Unless the person you crash into is also driving one of these, in which case you both win, relatively speaking.

Safety does remain a very important consideration here, and I'm also wondering how safe those heavy gyroscopes under your seat are in a collision. They had better be extremely well-shielded from the passenger compartment.
I guess Dwolla need good PR right now. They've just changed their TOS to allow them to arbitrarily freeze or close accounts and hold all the money in them hostage in the same way that made Paypal so unpopular.
Part of the problem is that diagnoses and treatments are expanding faster than the ability of humans to memorize and learn about all of them. IIRC there are close to 14,000 diagnoses—just diagnoses!—that we know about. Combine that with the numerous drugs, treatments, and other changes, and it quickly becomes apparent why people with unusual conditions are better off making themselves experts than in relying solely on the expertise of doctors who aren't specialists in whatever they have.

EDIT: Here's the article I was referencing: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawan... :

Half a century ago, medicine was neither costly nor effective. Since then, however, science has combatted our ignorance. It has enumerated and identified, according to the international disease-classification system, more than 13,600 diagnoses—13,600 different ways our bodies can fail. And for each one we’ve discovered beneficial remedies—remedies that can reduce suffering, extend lives, and sometimes stop a disease altogether. But those remedies now include more than six thousand drugs and four thousand medical and surgical procedures. Our job in medicine is to make sure that all of this capability is deployed, town by town, in the right way at the right time, without harm or waste of resources, for every person alive. And we’re struggling. There is no industry in the world with 13,600 different service lines to deliver.

Note that this was published in 2010. By now those numbers have probably grown.

I've also had personal experience with the doctor-doesn't-know problem: I had an unusual disease seven years ago, and the first specialist I saw said that she Googled it a few hours prior. Her partner gave me completely wrong information; he didn't even know how to treat what I had. Fortunately my family found a research center where some of the major researchers in the field worked, and the treatment I ultimately got had been published a few months before I started (it had become standard two or so years prior). If you're curious about specifics, send me an e-mail—it's in my profile.
MUD: Minimum Usable Design
Anything Buster touches is awesome! Sad to see that it needs a new home. Hopefully someone in the HN community can pick this up and run with it.
Which are websites that have enabled Cross Object Resource Sharing?
> incredibly impoverished in his personal world view

Translation: I think X is important, he thinks Y is important, therefore it's not merely a matter of having different priorities, but "he is wrong" and - worse than that - "his worldview is impoverished".

I love how "tolerant people" can't tolerate people.
Can we all work on this? Somehow nobody seems to treat writing crappy commits (messages like "work since Tuesday" or "it works now") like they would writing crappy code. Version control is fundamental to our job.
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Well deserved, congrats to the Flightfox team!
I don't mean to be rude, but I think your comment illustrates the attitude prevalent in countries with 50% marriage failure rates. Your ideal is simply unsustainable and impossible.

First: Are you married now (or have you been) and do you have kids? I'll assume you are married/committed but I'm not sure you are a parent, given your views. This is a tremendously important point to help frame this discussion. I fear you probably won't understand my points at all with out first hand experience.

What you are saying isn't technically wrong, but it requires precise compromise in order to be successful. That's exactly what jasonlotito is saying: You can't get what you want all the time, especially with your partner, most certainly with your children.

You and your partner need to understand, respect, and tolerate each other, first and foremost. Some people are simply incapable of doing this, period. Some people conflate this with making their life completely about the other person. Both of these people will be miserable regardless. For the rest of us though, simply understanding that statement means the marriage is a compromise - sometimes you get your way and your partner tolerates, sometimes you tolerate and your partner gets to do their thing, most often you are both getting your ways, as they are the same, but sometimes both of you are tolerating, for the good of the family/marriage.

Of course, with children, that last point becomes a vast majority of your life. Kids are the centre of their worlds and don't really understand how to be anything else. It takes literally years to impact the knowledge that life is better when they look outwards towards others into their little heads. Until then, you and your partner will do a lot of tolerating in your lives. How well you can do this (and when not to) will pretty much define how successful a parent you will be. It's an approach governed by the exact opposite thoughts that you are presenting however: Child first, couple second, self last.

Be clear than I'm not suggesting your entire life should be one of self-sacrifice, That doesn't work either. But it must be the last of your concerns 90% of the time if you are to make raising kids and marriage - especially marriage - work. Ensure the kids are alright (not necessarily that they get their way all the time), ensure your spouse is alright (happy wife, happy life after all) and ensure you are alright in that order, and you have a winning formula.

Looking out for yourself first is a guaranteed path to conflict. It's very rare that you can do this and remain in sync with other people, even best friends and spouses aren't going to want to do the same things all the time. Your children will never want to do the same things as you in any consistent fashion, which is way most happy family spend time in parks during the day as opposed to bars late at night.
"Inexorably". Yes. Now, if we believed that any consistent trend over a period of about a decade would last forever, where would we all be? Buying multi-million dollar 2-bedroom homes in Detroit with our pets.com investment proceeds, I'd imagine.
What about a law-enforced, sealed jumper under the battery? You break it with a screwdriver and a gadget permanently enters "open" mode in which original, proprietary OS performs suicide and decodes the bootloader. Hostile jailbreak is hard and won't get unnoticed, producer software is safe and advanced users can't be ignored.
New Chromebook and "Chromebox"
Since there is no law on the books that really defined the "rules" of lane splitting, back when I drove a classic Mini I often wondered what would happen if I just started driving in between cars that I knew I could fit between. I suspect I'd be getting tickets for that. So bikes are allowed to do it for what ever reason. I wonder what a biker would think if I just pulled up along side them on the freeway. I suspect they would not be keen on that. But I wasn't trying to debate the merits or legality of lane splitting... just that "not able to lane split" is not a very compelling argument against this vehicle (at least for me anyway).
Interesting, now that you've mentioned protein folding, even though I've very vague understanding of it, I instantly recalled donating some cycles to http://folding.stanford.edu

Hope that helped a little.
I guess I meant why so much. I understand that on any particular day, a stock can be up or down by some small percentage on no news. But it's now down 10% for the day.

I'll buy the "options trading, short sellers" theory. Thanks!
Sublime 2 - lightweight, speedy, nice theme options, plenty of syntax compatibility, and 1000-foot code view.
All in good time Isaac :)