skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just have to make sure the interest of the company who owns the API and your own interests are aligned. Take two examples:

Twitter: as a client developer, your interests are competing -- you want control of the stream, Twitter wants control of the stream. Guess who wins?

PayPal: You want to process payments, they want to make money taking fees for processing payments. That API isn't going anywhere.

I think the first case can be mitigated if there's a "developer account" that you pay for, and I've predicted that Twitter and Netflix will both come out with (paid) developer accounts in a short time. We'll see.
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You ought to look at his Keynotes. http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/how-to-pitch-a-vc-aka-s...
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But there are outsiders. We all have social circles and societies of structures. My ancestors may have come over here from various places in Europe but I am still an outsider to where my ancestors may have been from. This is why I far prefer the company of anthropologists to human rights activists.

I suppose though we can take this further. There are aboriginal tribes in Polynesia which engage in rituals where boys (presumably in early adolescence) become men by giving tribal elders fellatio. After all, I suppose, you are what you eat. We don't have to prove that this is harmful, since we can just claim it's child abuse.
I don't mean to try to sum up the entirety of academia in my post, just some issues relevant to the topic at hand. Your experience, much like my post, isn't exhaustive. Have I said something wrong that should be debunked?
the sucker part is about the big picture. SSL for all it's problems still is the closest to provide http securely. This safeboot thing helps with nothing. at all.

now back to the sucker part. thanks to ubuntu, everyone now instead of complaining or not buying hardware because free drivers aren't provided, will just and gladly use binary ones. and then complain that linux is unstable. i know it's a fine line to walk since otherwise they will just complain linux is not compatible with anything... but i think the later is fixable.
"[...] before I ended up with just a broken spirit and a comfortable life."

Loved this quote.
Mozilla Firefox OS: 10 things you need to know
And/or jail people for using GPS jammers.
uh... everything* that ever shows up at ubuntu passed by my machine running debian sid. how is that leading adoption?

* excluding unity
It looks nice, but I can't help but wonder why not go all the way to Smalltalk instead?

helper := FileHelper new. "declare variable 'helper' via type inference"

files := [] "empty array literal implies mutable"
files addObject: (helper openFile: 'readme.txt'). "can group message in parens"

files do: [ | FileHandle handle | "all objects are pointers, so no '*' needed"
self log: 'File descriptor is %@', (Number)(handle fileDescriptor) ).
self handle: closeFile ].

^ 0

Of course, you'd still have to solve the lack of syntax for defining classes and methods, but there are a couple solutions to that problem out there already.
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he might not be as wealthy as you think: http://www.quora.com/How-much-is-Dave-McClure-worth
If it's meant to appeal to old conservatives surely it will be called "The Google"
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I know plenty of people that salt their passwords, that doesn't mean they have the talent to build a LinkedIn or even realize that the need existed. There's a lot to be said for vision and execution. Attention to every detail has nothing to do with talent. Every single programmer in the history of the world, talented or not makes mistakes, that doesn't reduce their talent. Talent isn't just about technical perfection. While LinkedIn didn't salt their passwords, how many other big-deal innovations did they execute and accomplish?
I think he was referring to Yammer, and their recent acquisition.
Use ELB instead of a NAT instance?
One other point. I am not convinced by biological explanations of homosexuality. I don't think it's a choice anymore than some guy goes into a bar and sits down and decides what color of hair to prefer. The development of sexual identity is a complex thing and there are societies in the past where homosexual relationships have been a lot more common than they are at present.

For example, Plutarch characterizes pederastic relationships (probably circumscribed by all sorts of taboos in order to render them non-predatory) as forming the political backbone of Spartan society--- these relationships provided young male Spartan citizens the ability, he suggests, to make the sorts of political connections they needed to be successful later in life. If the surveys of Greek vase paintings are to be believed, it is likely that most Greek citizen women also engaged in some homosexual relationships within religious contexts in ancient Greece as well. Was this bad? I don't think so. These were all channelled into very pro-social frameworks if we believe folks like Aristotle, Plutarch, and the modern scholars who have studied vase paintings and the like.

Instead I think the "born that way" thesis is actually homophobic. Our society is very aggressively hetero-normal. You can find Barby and Ken playsets, but if there was an equivalent Barby and Kendra dyke playset, well... it would be seen as sexualized in a way that Barby and Ken are not. In this context, where our society says "straight is the way normal people are" in our toys, movies, bridal magazines, etc, the "born that way" thesis reduces to "well, there is a small minority that is just different and will never be like everyone else. You aren't one of them, are you?"

So in many ways perhaps even the gay rights movement entrenches obstacles to normalization of same sex relationships. I am not saying this is good or bad. I am just describing it how I think it is.
The Google car idea was misguided, but getting involved with something as deeply personal, moral and cultural as marriage can't actually be happening.

I suspect this will be a hoax and be exposed by morning.
Serena Williams won her fifth Wimbledon title...
Doc Searls (who enjoyed a lot of success in the late 90s) once said that nobody knew him for anything he did before he was 50.
I managed to build a game in BASIC when I was 10. ..and that's about it (other than BBSing and running up the phone bill.)
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This sounds too good to be true. But if it's true I'll submit to the trials ;p

Does anyone have more details and could comment on the validity?
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The risk of picking up malicious executable from the legit server is far higher than that of picking up a malicious executable from an impersonating server. Practically speaking.
In the US, marriage makes it trivial to bring your spouse over if you are immigrating from another country. Same sex couples are split apart for very long periods of times. I have seen this happen numerous times with my LGBT friends in tech, and it frequently does bad things for their relationships (as long distance relationships often do.)
It depends on your project.
Here is the guidelines I use.

Prototype / Early Stage Project.
Avoid TDD during early stages. Focus on learning and make the project work.
Also get feedback from potential users.
At this point, only one or two developers should be involved.

Mid Stage / Concept proven but still a lot of work needed.
Concept is proven. Heavy development is going on.
More developers 2+ are working on the project at the same time.
Have unit/integration tests for most important features.
Code coverage is less than 20%.

Beta / Release stage
Concept is proven and your application is ready for consumption.
Have solid unit tests and integration tests.
May have a lot of developers 5+ and geographically distributed.
At this stage, each feature development should go with TDD.
Code coverage should be 80%.
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EA Vancouver had a hiring freeze for the longest time, thanks to how expensive it was to hire developers in a city with such a high cost of living. They may still have it, I'm not sure. EA's Canadian strategy in general is to hire as few people as possible, except in Quebec where the provincial government gives out incentives that make it cheaper to hire devs in Montreal than Beijing.
But if we knew what they were actually borrowing at

1. LIBOR would be accurate and not open to manipulation

2.

3. if a bank is weak it should find it harder to borrow. Feedback cycles can be beneficial, plus this sounds a lot like the old "the ratings agencies told me this sub prime mortgage was actually AAA". - if you are investing billions, do your own damn research. And your own damn research is a lot easier in a transparent market.

In the end I think the global finance industry is a threat as well as a benefit. We are happy to demand access to politicians finances, because it is their character that matters so much, a situation very similar to banks it seems.
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And an even worse tendency to assume those with the most successful careers are the most talented.
A week ago I had seven dollars in the bank. Granted, that was after moving the household to Europe again and I do have accounts receivable, but financially I'm at the point where when I'm not actually underwater I feel successful.

Having "a little less than a million" as a pad would reduce my stress considerably.
So much fun, thank you. Some of my earliest programming was on a C64 with the Merlin Assembler -- this brought me back _and_ brought a big grin to my face.
ME3 actually exceeded expectations, despite all the online whinging. It's the failure of TOR to achieve WoW-killing success that's keeping the stock low.
Actually, it's any platform that has a well documented protocol and open source reference implementation.

Email, IRC and XMPP are other ones that comes to mind.
HP patents transparent computer monitor screen
The only place I can see that references still have some value is for "out" parameters on functions. But, since it's easy to do multiple return values in PHP, even that is not terribly relevant.
This has been reported and commented on previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4191024
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It's fun to see people being encouraged to relive my youth. And 6502 assembly is indeed a nice, compact thing to learn.

Though I think the most valuable thing I learned from studying assembly was actually about higher-level languages: How function calls work, and the mechanism of stack frames.
This discussion doesn't reach quite that far, and actually I'm not sure how one would work such things into a discussion of 6502 assembly – I learned about them in the context of 680x0 assembly. Back in my 6502 days, I never even encountered a compiler, so I never had the chance to disassemble a C or Pascal program. (To this day I can't name a 6502-based C compiler, though I'm sure they existed someplace. I knew about Pascal compilers, but I never got my hands on one; back in the 1980s compilers actually cost money.)
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Yea, I will refer you to this post that describes the fundamental flaws:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3426201
In addition to the Hartl screencasts and book, I would recommend CodeSchool's Rails for Zombies 2 course. Pretty useful when combined with other resources.
How big is Reddit? Very, very big indeed…
Marriage benefits are a subsidy towards a particular social arrangement (and it changes all the time, mostly through the shape of tax and divorce laws). You don't have to hate anyone to be against extending it. There are supporters and opponents of beef subsidies but cow hate is not the major driving force there.

Of course, politics is not about policy http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/politics-isnt-a.html so it's very difficult to successfully argue anything because the argument (on any political topic, and in any direction) will almost always be disingenuous.
Well put. Environmentalism's opposition to nuclear power will go down in history as one of the most tragic ironies of all time. It would be funny if it weren't so horrible.
Yup, all that lobbying to be able to carry on polluting air and waterways, to keep tobacco sales and advertising legal, the people doing those things thought they were good and pure too - right?

There's lobbying that's evil, and the people doing it know it's evil, but it affects their bottom line so they do it anyway.
Apple Sued for Siri Patent Infringement
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/58688-hidemyass-say...

http://www.securityweek.com/vpn-service-snitched-alleged-lul...
Can you briefly summarize what distinguishes foxes vs. hedgehogs?
Head mounted iPhone?
Vancouver has a clusterfuck for the real estate market.

It is simply unaffordable. The prices has been inflated through speculation to insane levels, mostly driven by Asians dumping boatloads of US cash back into the North Am economy. Talked to a realtor lady few years ago - she would show 5-6 houses to a Chinese buyer (on a two day visit here) and he'd end up buying 4 of them, 1 mil a piece. Things gotten worse since then.

Here, have a look - http://www.crackshackormansion.com
I suspect it is about as much of a choice as which hair color you find most sexy.

Seriously I wouldn't call it a choice. Nobody goes and reads up on hair color and then decides "you know, I think from now on I am not going to prefer blonds, but rather readheads." To reduce it to a choice is just silly.

But the anthropological consensus is that sexual orientation is a cultural construct. These can be binding. For example, I suppose I can choose when spending a $20 bill that it has the same value as a $5 bill but there is no reason when I am being paid to choose that a $5 bill has the same value as a $20. So in this regard, I suppose one may argue that sexual orientation is as real as the difference in value between a $5 bill and a $20 bill....
You sound like a man who has found his centre - even if you still Want to go find it somewhere else. I, and many others here appreciate the honesty, and I certainly feel the same way on a daily basis.

I wish you good luck with the business, but much much better luck with your family.
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It's far too dangerous to put either heat or a chisel anywhere near a Lithium ion battery.

So, yes, it's completely unrecyclable.
As far as your preference of company, I don't think that human rights activism and anthropology are particularly mutually exclusive.

But on your other point, it is one thing to dispassionately note the behaviours of others, however this does not preclude having an opinion or forming a personal moral judgement on those behaviours.

And if you have formed a moral judgement on a behaviour then it is perfectly ok to express your opinion, even if the people you are judging are far away or long dead.

Everyone judges everyone, all the time, and this is not a terrible imposition that should be stopped, but rather is the main mechanism of social evolution throughout history.
Err, sounds like a weird thing to do, and as they mentioned, is more likely just a limitation of their inferrence engine. Preventing variable shadowing leaks implementation details from inside functions/blocks and mos tlanguages do just fine with appropriate warnings and so on.
Incest 'relationships' in the real world are mostly coercive, abusive relationships. Often similar to real world polygamy where young (usually highly religious and often underage) women are married to older patriarchs and young men are shown the door.

There are reasons that some things are banned, and it's not just because of inbreeding.
The author is already extremely successful, and not only in his career:
" and at 40 hadn’t accomplished much other than finding a good woman who was foolish enough to marry me, and somehow managed to have two wonderful children that I was vastly unqualified to have fathered"

So all he needs to enjoy the spoils of his success is to change his point of view. It can be done. But if it is not done, then it may be impossible to truly enjoy life.
The more we learn, it looks more and more like obesity may be a general indicator of poor health. While there are genetic contributing factors, there are lots of other factors such as when you eat (do you eat breakfast), nutrition, and even quantity/quality of sleep can have an impact. Obesity may be the product actually of a large number of choices, not a single lack of self control or anything.
Everyone can create a community website
Yes, this is TRUE. It has been really very very simple to create our own community website. It doesn't matter what you are - doctor, lawyer, college, sports club you too can create a community website for your members and peoples. You must be thinking whey need to create a community website where we already have facebook, linkedin, google plus, myspance etc? But let me ask you one thing, are you really happy with them and feel any special? Does it provide all the control and everything you need? Are you the one like me who hates shabby ads at everywhere on the site? Then you must check out this extremely wonderful community builder tool.
Go to DuckDuckGo, click "add to firefox" and tick "start using it right away".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell
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This is a very good article - must read for entrepreneurs who are evaluating various problems as the basis of their startup.
> by heating them to a certain temperature, putting them in a microwave just long enough

Are you kidding? You want to do that to a Lithium ion battery?
What the hell does LGBT issues have to do with incest? There are VERY real reason why we as a society don't practice incest.
unless there is a plan in place for the aftermath

Ooh! I know a good plan! How about we investigate and prosecute fraud? The idea is that this would create an incentive not to commit fraud in the future.

Former bank regulator William K. Black says that the agency he worked for during the 1980s S&L crisis made over 10000 criminal referrals to the Justice Department, producing over 1000 felony convictions. That crisis was 1/70th the size of this one. How many criminal referrals have been made in this one? Zero. How is that possible? The answer Black gives is: total gutting of the investigatory system. What you don't look for, you don't find.

That's a long runway for due process before anyone needs to dust off words like "crucify".

(I'm not giving a citation because although the above is easy to google, I don't know which of the websites are any good. I got it from watching interviews. Is Black credible? His experience in the field seems exemplary.)
There's a mouthwash that aims to do the same thing, and is conducting clinical trials in the US.

The link I found says that they were starting in March, but I can't seem to find anything about the results or if they actually started the expanded trials.

http://www.dentistry.ucla.edu/news/new-mouthwash-targeting-h...
> Move to the valley

I've got the same advice from at least two Vancouver VCs. I also worked for a company that was forced by their VC to open second (and completely useless) office in Seattle, because the "presence in the US" was said to be essential.
This is a very important concept which many miss, so it's a shame it's being downvoted.

Marriage is not a contract between two people, as many people think. Marriage is a contract between a two people, and society. The way you can tell is exactly because two people can live together all their lives, by their choice, without being married, but they don't get any of the societal benefits of marriage. All the marriage rights, fore example, but also social acceptance of their having children.

In fact, that's mostly the point of marriage. The contract benefits society by making more stable family units that will raise children, and be permitted to do so. The contract benefits the couple by giving them many legal rights and recognitions, including monetary advantages, that they couldn't get otherwise.

In fact, it's only in the last few years (relatively speaking) that marriage was even necessarily between two people who choose to be married to each other out of love, and it's still not that way in all cultures.
More than "improve the world", it's "improve the part of the world that matters to Google". They've done the same thing with advocating for a free and open Internet for over a decade--a better internet makes a better Google.

Let's look at what this might mean for Google, in practical terms. Some 10-15% of people are LGBT. It stands to reason that the same holds true of engineers. Now, it's well-established that the well is running dry in SV; talent needs to be imported.

So if I'm a gay engineer thinking of moving to SV, how does this change my thoughts about where I want to work? It stands to reason that a significant number of LGBT engineers would be motivated to work for Google by this announcement.

Let's look at non-gay immigrants. Outside of places like China and India, most of the countries Google is looking to recruit from are way ahead of the US on gay rights. So much so that the mere fact that gay marriage is an "issue" in the US serves to perpetuate the bible-thumping moron stereotype of Americans. So even for non-LGBT engineers from Europe, Canada, Australia, etc, this would be viewed by the majority as a reason to work for Google.

Now, how would this hurt them? The argument can be made that, among more conservative (read: Indian and Chinese) societies, where gay rights are not accepted as human rights, that some percentage of potential hires would be put off by such a move. Perhaps, but I think that there are a number of mitigating factors, here. First, gay rights aren't nearly as big a political issue in those countries as in the US. It's frowned upon, but you don't have presidential nominees from one of the two parties proving how much they deserve the candidacy by falling over themselves to say who thinks gays are worse.

Secondly and generally speaking, "culture" is simply nowhere near as big an attraction for people from those countries as status and income. So while it may deter some people, it likely wouldn't be many.

Now for advertisers: will anyone really drop Google for online advertising because of this? Somehow I doubt it. There may be some of the Walmarts and whatnot who drop them, but I find the prospect unlikely.

To sum it up: advantages for Google include easier, more effective recruitment. Disadvantages include potential loss of customers.

I think Google wins this solely on the bottom line, let alone the fact that it's just a good thing to do.
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If a library works like it should, then you may never have to look at it - that's great. But if you're working on a team, you'll have to read and understand other people's code all the time, and even if you're not, someone, somewhere, is going to eventually want to make that library do something different.

I agree that, of the two, good test coverage is more important than pretty formatting, but a good code style is going to make the code easier to debug when those tests fail and easier to extend when the library needs to do more. It's a simple matter adopt a coding style that works and stick with it, so there's really no good reason not to do it.

By comparison, it does seem like a trivial thing to obsess over. There are a number of coding styles which are all fine in their own right. I think people should worry less about the specifics and more about the overall intent-to write consistent, clean code. How many blank lines you have after block of code or where you put the opening bracket doesn't really mater in the end, as long as you follow the same structure across the whole code base.