skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did, and thank you. Just heard that Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks released an updated version - http://viewportindustries.com/products/starkers/

Mine is pretty damned basic, very stripped down. I've had other incarnations of personal sites before under a variety of domain names, with some pretty complex themes, but in the end I wanted something very simple, relatively light weight, and dead easy to maintain. My goal is to be able to focus on writing and posting content over maintaining or styling a theme.

Plus, with a simple style like that, it allows the content to style the page when I post images, not have the page overwhelm any content.

Thanks again!
That's almost exactly the median household income for the city, so it's pretty normal to live in SF on that salary. Mostly among people not in tech or finance, though, so may depend on one's social circles (it's easier to live more cheaply if your friends aren't making six figures).
I'd suggest the Otherland series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherland
It also sounds like the right tool for making something like SVG. The vast majority of SVG data isn't text.
Well, yes and no.

If you actually USE 10gpbs your data transfer bill is going to be around $167k per month (That's for transferring 3.34PB).

Actually, a bit higher than that since I calculated all based on the cheapest tier EC2 will quote on the web, 5 cents per gigabyte.

For a one time 3TB download to an EC2 instance, priced at the first pricing tier of $0.12/gigabyte, that transfer will cost $360, and take around 40 minutes.
Higher equity is always the most rewarding option in the best possible outcome. But it's hard to leave safe money on the table. Four years from now the company could be worth way more than the current $5mm, then those $20k/year would look like scraps.

I agree with tptacek; 100/0.1 and 50/1 suit very different persons, the company should decide which type it's going after and limit that range.
>"Another thing that made this situation complicated was that Kyle and I are recently engaged"

Even if she got double (or even four times) the equity, does nobody else think this is a disaster waiting to happen?
Its cheating because its against the rules.

The question is as the designer of the rules should you design that to be against the rules?

Practicing to the test is a seperate question and a function of how useful you make the test

Another interesting question is jobs, somewhere once (I don't have time to find a good link) there was talk that the business model behind Udacity was that it could sell more accurate info on students to employers than colleges can

for instance they can track who finishes stuff early vs who waits until the last minute to turn something in
Not to mention her current salary is 140k (after bonuses), which I think would be quite a bit above what most office managers and QA people make.
A long, long time ago, in a country far, far away there was a game company that was on the brink of bankruptcy, and with the last efforts they created a game they called Final Fantasy. The series has now 14 games.
The stateful firewall is there because it is necessary for NAT. If it weren't necessary for NAT, consumers would not bother with it. Customers buy the router with the firewall to hook up multiple computers, they don't care about the security. You could argue that they should hire a security consultant to educate them on the need for a stateful firewall when setting up their home network, but you would be smoking crack.
An introduction to SceneKit
> Lisp had assoc-lists, but those were a convention, not a specialized structure.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. What's the difference, syntactically, between a convention and a specialized structure?

XML is Lisp. In fact, the XML grammar and Lisp's grammar are (almost) homomorphic[1]. SXML is a trivial mapping of XML to s-expressions which demonstrates this.

There's no point in comparing XML and S-expressions like that; they're essentially the same thing!

If you're talking about internal representation, well, that's up to the compiler. But since you have to declare the format either explicitly or by context, there's no 'advantage' of XML over s-expressions.

[1] To be pedantic, XML is homomorphic to SXML, which is a subset of the Lisp grammar, but that just means that Lisp recognizes some strings that aren't in the XML grammar, so if anything, Lisp is more powerful, but that's beside the point.
This is not gonna fly. It's replacing a quick, but dirty solution (PHP-style templating), but in turn makes it too complex to maintain and very hard to understand.

I have never understood why someone would another abstraction layer to templating.
“I think there are some pieces missing from your calculations. What’s the value of the experience you’re going to get from building a company? And you’re underestimating the value of the relationships you’re going to build, and the mentorship you’ll have through our investor network. And if it doesn’t work out, your experience here will make you even more valuable to the Amazons, Facebooks, and Googles of the world. I’m confident this is the best move you can make for your career.” -- Kyle (CEO)

If I had $1 for every time I heard that about a startup, I'd actually have a lot of real money instead of the worthless monopoly "money" a company offers you as equity. At least you didn't get common stock so it could be diluted to nothing later when the VCs and angels come in and eat up the company.

Then again, if you're sleeping with the CEO, you actually get that option. You also get the option to create a place full of nepotism that's doomed to fail. Just my experience.
Yes, I think web apps is a significant part of it. Looking at projections of software sales, web apps and web app support are on the horizon for almost everyone.
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I am not sure if this was AOP though maybe I'm committing the no true Scottsman fallacy here. Side note: decorators were not present in Python then, so there was no easy way to do the cutpoint thing in a visible way.
It might for non-text document structures, perhaps.
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"rent subsidy"?

Are you kidding? Man, I must be living in the wrong town. In Florida, the fact that we offer medical insurance and matching 401k sets us apart from most business here.

Though we do have a few other perks.. you cell service is covered by the company. Also everyone gets an ipad (it's yours once you past 6 months). But really though, these "perks" help us (the company) more.

But this just proves, bubbles exist.
OpenBSD's second remotely-exploitable hole relied on being on the same network segment (AIUI from a quick read it involved sending malformed IPv6 packets). Such vulnerabilities aren't particularly common, but you're always going to be exposing a somewhat wider attack surface to the local network than to the internet at large.
I hope so. The strange effect has been it has up-leveled my community impact for the developer communities in New York I care most about. Learning this stuff has definitely helped me converse better with my own kind.
I see it more being about power profiles and Moores Law than anything else in respect to how Desktops are tapering and laptops are still going with tablet / phone going strong. The plateau is around a 2.5ghz dual core that supports the bangs and whistles when appropriate, be they branch prediction or atomic math or layered caches. The laptop space is now getting there, the tablet space is still 2 years out from that, and Desktops hit it 4 years ago. The reason is that the Desktop system could push out 125 watt cpus consistently without a hitch. Today, the real inroads in the Desktop space are not in core count (which nothing consumer grade saturates) frequency (which hit the ceiling on Silicon) or "cheats" (using transistors to accelerate instruction handling) they are coming out in significantly lower TDP demands. The modern i7 chip runs at 77 watts where the 920 in the article runs at 130 watts.

Meanwhile, laptops are maintaining their 20 - 40 watt profiles but are gaining performance. They are converging to that low power threshold. The tablet space is even lower, down to 5 watts in some cases, averaging from 3 to 10, but still, that is a convergence point.

It also doesn't hurt that AMD tripped over their own feet for a while and Intel is resting on its laurels pumping out higher performant CPUs without AMD to compete with at the high end.

Meanwhile, the graphics card business is heating up, the 7000 and 600 cards are upwards of 30 - 40% faster than the previous generation at much lower TDP, the Kepler architecture is extremely vector processing optimized to a fault in that it is worse as a gpgpu device than the 500 series, while the AMD Southern Islands chips are very generic cores optimized for GPGPU when their last few generations were graphics optmized, but in both regards they are markedly higher performant and consume much less power than many older gpus.

The advances are still there, they are just going in divergent directions. Nothing is stopping Intel from making a 32 core i7 with hyperthreading on a 500mm die besides the heat associated costs and tremendous production costs, but nothing on the market would utilize that. So they invest elsewhere.

The next generation of consoles isn't looking so bright either - they all seem to be targeting AMD gpus, and the WiiU will probably be using a modified 68X0 and the Sony / Microsoft camps will use the 78XX cards. They even are considering using FPUs. The gaming performance on the new hardware won't be that radical as the last time because the lower margins means they can't make extremely customized gaming hardware like back in the RSX days.
Should a person's vote be weighted based on how well they comment, or how well they vote? Either could be argued, both might be tried.

Making a dataset available, even to a limited set of folks under NDA, could allow some interesting experimentation.
Edited: I didn't realize at first this is just pickem and doesn't really compete with the bigger fantasy leagues.

I completely agree that there needs to be more information on the front page. What do the kick ass tools look like, why is this better than some other service etc. A video or some more screenshots at the very least would help to draw me in. I'm not typically going to sign up for something without at least that.
This particular post is about replacing human moderators with bots, whining about SE moderation policy is actually quite related to the post.
Other than the Wii, that is often true. The business model is selling licenses to game developers for the games to be sold for that console. Maybe, just maybe, they'll make money on the hardware at the end of its cycle.

The licensing deal is also often why sometimes the PC version is five to ten dollars cheaper than the console version. You need no one's permission to publish to the PC market.
No particular section, it's the entirety of what the book shows that's remarkable: "This book presents the results of Project Oberon, namely an entire software environment for a modern workstation. The project was undertaken by the authors in the years 1986-89, and its primary goal was to design and implement an entire system from scratch, and to structure it in such a way that it can be described, explained, and understood as a whole. In order to become confronted with all aspects, problems, design decisions and details, the authors not only conceived but also programmed the entire system described in this book, and more."

Also, if you think that JVMs and JIT'ing compilers are cool, take a look at Michael Franz's PhD thesis at ETHZ: "Code-Generation On-the-Fly
A technique for representing programs abstractly and independently of the eventual target architecture is presented that yields a file representation twice as compact as machine code for a CISC processor. It forms the basis of an implementation, in which the process of code generation is deferred until the time of loading. At that point, native code is created on-the-fly by a code-generating loader. The process of loading with dynamic code-generation is so fast that it requires little more time than the input of equivalent native code from a disk storage medium."

Talk about "roads not taken". :(
I did nothing to popularize that quote. I made a throwaway remark in a usenet forum in the early 90s, something along the lines of "someone smarter than me said...". I wanted to point out that X11 in general is not any less "intuitive" than Mac OS9 user interface conventions. "Intuitive" was a big thing in 1993, believe it or not.

Someone else picked it up, put the saying in a Linux quote-of-the-day file, and it took off from there. Misattribution at its finest, if you ask me.
BlackBerry Enterprise Server development stopped
That's just the beginning - if you've ever been in a ediscovery process, having large amounts of historical data is actually a liability - if instead of 100GB you have 10TB, you'll need to hand that over, and before that, to cull it so you don't inadvertently hand the opposition a huge lever to be used against you. Processing and reviewing 10-100x the data can take inordinate amounts of time more than you expect.
It would be really interesting if Go could be used in the browser! I think client side programming is suffering from the Javascript monopoly.
Honestly, I missed the rent subsidy part which makes it a bit easier. Still, thanks for the breakdown! I guess I waste a lot of money or something because I somehow manage to spend a lot more here!
Although saying that, I prefer to put a lot more away towards savings and retirement and like to travel a lot too.
The good in the post is obvious, someone has to stand up for taking out the bad parts too.
By the way, Node.js does an awesome job of keeping documentation (and landing pages) online for
every version: http://nodejs.org/docs/
This just isnt true. Esspecially not for new releases of windows. I dont think you ever build a system. Getting decent drivers is hard, and the support on components is as bad for windows as it is for linux.

And lets not even deal with the fact that the majority of high performance components target linux servers.

Yes, on the very low end, youll find hardware that is not well supported on linux. But the only reason it even works on windows, is because the system builder bothered to make the effort.

When you are building a machiene yourself, linux is much more plug and play than windows. But you can not honestly expect linux to compete with "preinstalled" large-volume windows systems, on hardware compatibility.
It was 350x350
http://json-ld.org/

> JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linking Data) is a lightweight Linked Data format that gives your data context. It is easy for humans to read and write
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It means that it can learn by its own - so you don't have to program every behavior and data that it has access to. Of course, it's way easier said than done.

BTW, horse-robots do exist[1]. 4 legs are very useful on a rough terrain.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3G-UE1HwGI
If nobody is grading you (a professor, a tutor, a supervisor, a boss, a customer), how do you know if you education is correct?

Your education is correct when you are sure about your education. If you do an exercise, and you are not sure you did it right, then it means you need to practice more. Having the answer to the exercises is useful to accelerate your learning, but you don't need anyone to tell when you are prepared.
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How to Win Engineers and Influence People
I've recently switched BugMuncher from PayPal to Saasy (http://saasy.com/) so far it's been awesome. You don't need a merchant account, integration was far easier than PayPal, good tech support, and a bit cheaper on fees. Highly recommend them.
I think JSON is more popular than XML for a lot of things simply because it's so much simpler to interact with. No querying attributes, elements, elements inside elements, text inside elements, etc. You just look up the value attached to a key, or look up an index in an array, and that's it. It's simple every level down. And it's also simple to construct.
Betaworks, Y Combinator Share What Works At Disrupt
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I bought that book to support him after his shitty customs experience. Turned out to be one of the greatest novels I've ever read. Totally fascinating.
I had skimmed the post earlier and came back because I thought "hmm, I wonder how he got the Arduino publicly accessible…" and didn't remember seeing anything about that.

But thanks to things like Pusher, you don't need that!

I was just picturing the request going to Twilio and then pinging the Sinatra app on the Arduino directly… But Pusher and the like really help so much to put things "online", albeit indirectly. But between a free Pusher app and a free Heroku app, it's easy to get going without worrying of your home router configuration or anything anything like that.
This is a great idea! I just signed up.

So let me ask you, where do you read up on how past winners have won?

How did you decide on algorithms to try out on a contest? How did you find promising academic papers?
Anything by Vernor Vinge. Fucking love that guy.
Livesheeting YC Demo Day
I think .NET seems a bit heavy for what I've got in mind. I also probably don't understand .NET as well as I should either.

Can I get some more clarification why .NET should (or shouldn't) be included in a modern, practical curriculum?
> I guess, but Zookeepers could also potentially talk about "What are the pros and cons of Gorillas vs Sharks?"

And on an appropriate forum with as many readers as SO/SE you'd likely get well-thought out responses going far into detail regarding purchase cost, habitat maintenance, prevalence of skilled keepers, etc. Someone who actually was deciding whether to add a Gorilla enclosure or a shark aquarium would find it a very enlightening post.

I understand you created SO/SE and want to see it move in a certain direction, but closing and deleting questions you don't like because it threatens your "science-in-the-small" goal is, I think, a terrible way to go about it.

(FTR, I understand Jeff is not personally going around deleting stuff on the site)
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No. It wouldn't. The kids would be smart and might be able to overcome the adversity of going to an "excellent" school. But that's not the same thing at all.

"Excellent" US schools have excelled at cheating and looking busy. Most "excellect" schools have amounts of homework that are nearly impossible to finish in an evening. Why do they do that? Because the main window into school that parents have is homework. Ratchet up the homework and you make your school seem "excellent".

My daughter is going to a dual-language public school and the way they teach involves constant collaboration, language, math, and art. The school is 67% economically disadvantaged and is doing fantastically on standardized tests.

Diversity is not the problem. The market is. It's providing the most attractive education. It provides an education with "excellence" that confers status upon the recipient.

But that should not be confused with the education that educates the best and has the most benefit to society.
Signed up as well can't wait!!!
9GAG? Really? I don't want to live on a planet where 9GAG gets into YC. The others look pretty innovative. It would be nice to see some more robotics stuff. And work place collaborative stuff. But internet curated memes? sigh
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I saw this site last week or maybe the week before, and to be honest, I was put-off by the obnoxiousness of trying to get people to buy the "least popular" t-shirt. To me, it came across as you trying to unload your shittiest product through some clever trick. It had a Zynga-esque feel to it, and I didn't like it at all. The fact you give a clue like "this was the worst selling t-shirt in the last hour" makes me feel like you're tricking me, and I'd rather do business with someone else than risk getting played or ripped off. Sorry, but that's the feeling I get when I see this site.

If you want some additional feedback:

Instead of the gimmicky "you lose I win", I think you need to make it some sort of win-win type gimmick. Like the price goes down the more people buy it, and whoever buys it earlier will get some money back on their next purchase.

You need to make the "game" shorter, I don't have patience to wait a week until I know if I "won".

$25 is something I would pay if the t-shirts were good quality, like American Apparel, but you didn't list the manufacturer.

You need a lot more designs. I was looking for the button for additional designs, but I finally figured out you only have those 5. If I hate all 5 of them, then I won't likely remember your site, and won't come back.
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That's true (re: quality), I've spent $50 on a few t-shirts from my favourite quality companies (http://jinx.com t-shirts wear like a dream)

An idea that might fit with your site would be to offer a shirt of the month deal (bustedtees example: http://www.bustedtees.com/shirtofthemonth).

$200 upfront for 12 months of shirts (works out at about $13/m), every third week of the month you generate a random shirt for me from that weeks shirts and if that shirt matches the least popular I also get a bonus shirt (fits with the theme of the main weekly sale) or maybe if I am a subscriber I get double the chance of a bonus shirt (maybe least popular and most popular or least popular and second least popular) or something.

You could even do it like a loss leader type deal, have a yearly subscription for $100 (which would be ridiculously low and pull lots of people in) and then use the marketing from that (people telling their friends about the cool shirt that just arrived, tweeting about it etc. every month).

Although I guess as you're doing t-shirts on demand there's probably not much financial outlay so cash up front might not be worth potentially losing profits.

If your shirt quality is good (I'm going to order a shirt later to find out) then I'd sign up to that sort of deal ($200, or $100) without a second thought because there's nothing better than getting a surprise t-shirt.
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