skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4439900
first, I have 2 cars with a combined value of less than 10k. that's a far cry from 50k on 1 car. second, no it can't. That's the one they use to do the traveling I'm talking about. They don't take the pickup on the road trip.
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Since I'm most of the way done with the work of being the executor for my mother's estate (she died about a year ago), hopefully I can provide some perspective here.

As a practical matter, a laptop and any software purchased for it gets put as a single line item on an estate appraisal for personal effects. Our appraiser certainly didn't want to boot up the laptop and examine its contents for valuable files. The only times I've turned on that laptop in the past year have been to look for clues about financial documents, look for pictures to use at her funeral, and to make sure I had a backup of her phd thesis.

Personally, I'm thankful that digital assets are non-transferrable because in my case, no one would have wanted them, and it allows me to feel no guilt about not putting them on an estate tax return.

Also, digital media are not the only non-transferrable assets that can potentially belong to an estate. Season tickets to sporting events and vehicle registrations come to mind, but I'm sure there are others.

I guess the question comes down to: if Apple allowed you to buy transferable licenses to music in the iTunes store at $1.50/song and non-transferable licenses at $1.00/song, which would you buy? I suspect the overwhelming majority of Americans would choose the $1.00 non-transferable license. Also, I suspect estate planning would almost never enter into that decision making process.

Thankfully, at least with iTunes music, this is not an issue of DRM. If there had been any music on my mom's laptop that I wanted, it would have been easy to transfer it.
> Despite the vast attention paid to the astronauts’ psychological profiles and their ability to work in teams, the Apollo 11 crew verged on the dysfunctional. While Armstrong and Aldrin didn’t quite match Stoppard’s Scott and Oates, there was a fierce behind-the-scenes battle between them to be first to set foot on the Moon. Early plans were for Aldrin, as module pilot, to step out first, but one version reported by Smith has it that Armstrong, as mission commander, lobbied more vigorously than Aldrin, and Nasa backed him up because he would be ‘better equipped to handle the clamour when he got back’ and, more mundanely, because his seat in the lunar module was closer to the door. Aldrin paid Armstrong back by taking no photographs of him on the Moon: the only manually taken lunar image of the First Man on the Moon is in one of many pictures Armstrong snapped of Aldrin, showing himself reflected in the visor of Aldrin’s spacesuit. Asked about this omission later, Aldrin lamely replied: ‘My fault, perhaps, but we had never simulated this in training.’ Later, Aldrin put it about that Armstrong’s First Sentence might have been a bureaucratic concoction.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n17/steven-shapin/what-did-you-expe...
The latest release includes

- Image uploading with automatic resize to fit the editing area
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- Tab/Shift-Tab to navigate tables
- Tab/Shift-Tab to indent/outdent lists
- Numerous bug fixes

Please check it out and let us know what you think.
counter-productive for??????
Really sad that they gave this up to work on Makr.io
I'm really interested in what percent of Kickstarter projects end up abandoned, like Diaspora just was? Are there any statistics?
Is there a way to have a culture that supports both? I currently enjoy the "youth culture" but am increasingly getting tired of certain aspects of it. I really do enjoy having fun with coworkers, but I am increasingly aware of the marginal benefits from doing this too much.

This is something I am increasingly concerned about, as I will probably have children in a couple of years.

The thing is, the entrepreneurs with children that I know are vastly more effective than (most of) those without. The additional focus required to successfully do both has made them much more discerning when it comes to how they use their time. But there is definitely a belief among my younger friends that people with children just aren't capable of the kinds of work that lead to awesomeness.
>its much more convenient than petroleum and would potentially be a big plus FOR getting an EV.

Plugging in at home is already more convenient than petroleum.

It seems like using 40% more energy to charge your car is an inefficient way to avoid plugging in. Project Better Place is already working on robotic plugs that plug themselves in.
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Kickstarter link[1] for the lazy. They raised $200k as of June 1st, 2010.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p...
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Jeremy Ashkenas provides the "tl;dr:"

Python decorators are a hack around the lack of proper lambda ;) Just pass the function: decorate -> … Where "decorate" is a fn

https://twitter.com/jashkenas/status/235012485009248256
except for the part where they didn't actually make it to their destination. And since most people aren't going to have the charging station 4 miles from their eventual destination, everyone else would have been screwed. Not too mention they now have to wait 30 minutes to get their last 5 miles.

still an impressive car :-)
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Well at least they stuck with it for 2 years, about as long as the money lasted.
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It seems as if the group were the only ones keeping the project going, and without them there won't be much more work on it.
In rails you can just do:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
around_filter :pry_rescue if Rails.env == 'development'

def pry_rescue
Pry::rescue{ yield }
end

I'm hoping to get a Rack middleware out at some point; which will make this even easier.
My startup, in hindsight, was one of the biggest factors contributing to my divorce. I don't blame anything other than my own choices/mistakes (and certainly not YC). I don't think it's impossible to do both happily, in fact I probably would have pulled it off had I been married to a different person.
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Could a sort of escrow be setup to manage these kind of issues?

By this I mean that if the gene researcher finds something significant she can post it to a secure site with pre-established anonymized ID.

The anonymous donor can check this site with their special ID ... if they so choose so.

I'm sure there are flaws to this, but it seems like some sort of solution could be devised that allows sensitive information to be passed on to the anonymous donors without the researcher knowing who that donor is.
mine too. hmmmmmm.
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As far as I can tell that's a mistake. At least that page is perfectly clean, but now I don't necessarily want to go hunting around to see why it was classified like that ;)
The 23andme results aren't an exact prediction, right? They tell you if you have the genes that could lead to a condition from what I remember. Also, how did you deal with the results on a personal level? I've thought about getting it since they opened, but always dreaded the bad reaction I could have. I vacillate between wanting to know and knowing I'll freak. :-)
https://joindiaspora.com/ – where are the screenshots? I click around to see other Diaspora installations, and what I get is stuff like this one: https://pod.pubis.se/

WTF is this?
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This could be a timesaver overall, but looks like too much work upfront, which only some highly organised people might use. Are you pivoting Streak from a sales CRM to a general purpose productivity tool?
Ok, apparently you read a different article than I did?

Because the implication of what I read was that the founders are still working Diaspora, but that they're preparing to make the project more community oriented.

Now, that could just be their way of spinning it. Are the founders leaving to work on other jobs? I don't know much of the background here -- does it have something to do with this makr.io thing?
About.com is quite good for content IMO. The ads are kind of annoying though. I don't think they are $300m good, and they have lost a lot of value due to open content like Wikipedia.
Wow, that's really weird. Do you know what software it is?
SQL in Clojure looks very much like you are used to in other languages. Take a look at either the Clojure JDBC wrapper library or Korma for more syntactic sugar and composing SQL fragments:

https://github.com/clojure/java.jdbc/
http://sqlkorma.com/

There is also the Friend authentication library that you might want to take a look at:

https://github.com/cemerick/friend
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Unless you are currently very old or very ill I seriously doubt that even you yourself will be able to access your iTunes library by the time you're on your deathbed. The funny thing is that you probably won't care either.

As successful as iTunes and Apple currently are, media distribution is still undergoing massive disruption. It's likely that something completely new and utterly amazing compared to any current online media store will win out in the end. Distribution services that provide a sub-par experience on the majority of hardware out there are doomed to fail even sooner. i.e. iTunes does not provide a good user experience under anything but OSX, and even there it's love/hate. Amazon and Google Play are serious contenders despite the artificial iOS obstacles Apple is heaping in their paths.

One might argue that iTunes will live on even if other stores win out, but legacy support only goes so far. Once iTunes stops making Apple money they'll wait a respectful period of time and then quietly shut everything down.

I know many will disagree with me on iTunes' fate, but all I have to do is to live long enough and I'm virtually guaranteed to have the last laugh!
There was a debugger posted here to HN awhile back that actually displayed structs and pointers graphically. What was the name of that project, and is it still around? I was trying to find it the other day. I thought that was a dynamite tool for students.

With LLVM, we should be able to have a REPL for C. as a pedagogical tool.
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You said: Someone with high IQ can develop strategies to ameliorate essentially every aspect of their autistic symptoms - learning social and communication skills, structuring their life to deal with overstimulation, participating in behavioural therapy to minimise repetitive and autostimulative behaviours etc. <End quote>

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There are severely depressed people with very high IQ and they are fully intellectually aware of their depression, they try hard to compensate for it, doing all the types of things you mention in the context of autism. Tragically, for at least some of them, nothing seems to work.

My point is that it is more complicated than what you are asserting.
Nice analogy!

Kent Beck, rediscoverer of TDD (who surely can't be expected to have analysis paralysis on how to do TDD), actually wrote about exactly this a while ago: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/JustShip.html
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Here's a basic middleware...

pry_rescue.rb
require 'pry/rescue'
class PryRescue
def initialize(app)
@app = app
end

def call(env)
Pry::rescue{ @app.call(env) }
end
end

For rails you need to require the file and use the middleware...

application.rb
config.middleware.use "PryRescue"
I currently work for a polyglot shop so I guess I can chime in. We employ about ~90 engineers now and have been in business for around 25 years now, so I consider that successful.

The discussion of focusing our scope and becoming more of a single stack shop has certainly come up, and some engineers are in favor of it because it certainly has benefits. Company wide practices can easily apply to all projects, engineering resources are far easier to exchange when everyone uses the same skill set, and knowledge gains are applicable to all projects.

It's a lot harder for my custom tools I write for managing a Perl/WinForms/.NetMVC website to provide benefits for the guys downstairs working on embedded systems in c++.

Personally I prefer the variety of a polyglot shop but I can see where the appeal is to streamline company wide and specialize.

Our spread of technologies is mostly due to self motivated engineers learning new technologies and working on gaining experience to the point where we feel comfortable charging a client to develop a solution using that technology. For example, 4 years ago we'd done no mobile development. Around that time a few engineers dove into personal projects in Android and IPhone development and we've since released several products for both platforms. This was completely facilitated by employee efforts and interests. If no one wants to work on your technology stack we probably won't offer a solution and will just help you find another company.
Maybe ddd?

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
Of course there will be data even if people cannot make money with it. Just less data, and sometimes of lower quality. There are plenty of examples of people writing novels in their free time. Or people writing free software as a hobby, while working in a company developing internal software for which copyright is irrelevant.

But anyway copyright is just one way of monetizing one's creation. People will pay to see their favorite bands, or to have the original of a painting or sculpture even if copies can be freely made. There are free ad-supported newspapers. Many artists get public funding. Many projects are supported by donations, and so are some individual programmers[1].

I'm all for deprecating copyright-dependent business models and encouraging the development of alternatives. Kickstarter has some good examples of what can be done through donations, and I can see similar models replacing much of the copyright-based economy.

[1] See http://ardour.org/node for an example.
I won't speak for all runners, but for me, running with incorrect form is a fast way to make myself immobile.

I've had bad knees since I was 16, with surgeries to boot. Even 20 minutes of running used to require an ice pack for half an hour, and walking would be difficult for at least the next two hours. I suspect it's somewhat genetic, since both my father and brother also have frequent knee injuries.

Barefoot running has allowed me to increase both my range and my speed without causing any pain or swelling.
Mid-range is typically around 250 miles, which the Tesla can do.

As for budget, sure, the Tesla is a bit on the expensive side, but it is not difficult to afford for middle-class families.
Aye. I'm publishing a book soon. By using Lightning Source to list on Barnes and Noble, I can make amazon discount my book, which doesn't affect my createspace royalty. I should be able to have the book sell at $26, and keep $21.
I think part of the problem is that if you know what a Bernoulli sequence is, there's no need to read that. It's a useful abstraction for building things at the next level, but not for teaching things AT that level.

(I have a EE degree and disagree that CS is particularly far behind it; it's not like they're solving problems in hardware that are just way beyond our ability do in software are they?)
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I just got back into C programming after a long absence. Programming with Eclipse CDT is the way to go, at least for starting out. The debugger is great.
Finally, not sure how this works, but it seems that "running out of gas" would be a much bigger problem.

The scheme I was thinking about involved gas powered generators. So running out of gas is closer to the problem with a regular car.
Correct, it'll be dual licensed.
> That's why we write papers. Plain English can be more coherent than a pile of code.

"Plain english" doesn't analyze data - software does.

If the software is a mess, how likely is it that the "plain English" description is correct? How do you know? Why should anyone believe that the description is correct?

Code is truth.
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No, GPLv2 is not fine. GPLv2 software can only be legally distributed via the iOS App Store if the owners of the copyright to the GPLv2 portions grant Apple a separate non-GPL license.

This is necessary because the App Store TOS imposes restrictions on the user that conflict with GPLv2 section 6.

This is also the reason GPLv3 doesn't work for the App Store, although there is a common misconception that the GPLv3 incompatibility arises from the anti-Tivo provisions. Those provisions are not applicable to the App Store, since the App Store is only distributing add-on software for the device. The anti-Tivo provision in GPLv3 is narrow, only applying to GPLv3 software that is distributed WITH the hardware.

Yes, there is GPL software on the App Store. That can happen in two ways:

1\. The copyright owner of the GPL code is the party that submitted the app to the App Store. In this case, they are in effect dual licensing their GPL code. Apple gets a non-GPL license to make and distribute copies. Everyone else gets a GPL license.

2\. Some developer took third party GPL code and used it in his app. The copyright owner of the GPL code has not agreed to dual license the code for Apple.

In the second case, Apple WILL pull the app from the store if the copyright owner of the GPL code notifies them of the violation.

Note that the above analysis is specifically for the Apple store. I don't know how other stores work. A key aspect of the Apple store is that Apple makes and distributes copies of the apps on its store. The developer uploads one copy, and then when Apple approves that and users start purchasing copies of it, it is Apple that is making and distributing those copies. Hence, Apple needs copyright permission.

A store when the store operator did not make and distribute copies would require different analysis.
The goal is to make this an entirely community-driven and community-run project. This part sounds like they're leaving.
The SNP matching told me a lot of things I should look out for later in my life

The SNP matching by 23andme has not yet been validated for that purpose.

http://www.genomicslawreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/...

Background reading:

http://www.ashg.org/pdf/Lynn%20Jordes%202011%20Presidential%...

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012....
Owners of digital products want the same kind of protection like products you can touch have but they don't want to give anything back. Such as right to loan, lend or resell their products... it's wrong on so many levels.

(I know Amazon somehow let's you lend books for limited time but I'm talking about industry in general)
It's probably better to use a <link rel="business" href="/business.txt" /> than a meta tag.
Diaspora seemed to be heavily focused on the presentational layer of a social network, rather than the actual social network itself. That seems to have been premature. I like the approach of "Tent.io" much more. Simply work on building a consensus for a protocol that people can start working with.
If founders got the same deal as other employees hired via regular channels then that might be the same level of "failure" as ones you described (depends on how much they got in debt or similar).

So the main question is: what is percentage of acquihires that got better deal on employment than via regular channels? Is that common?
I can't imagine NYC, but we already have some in SF: http://216.119.104.145/index.aspx?page=516 (yeah, I don't know what's up with the address--this is how it showed up in Google).

I'm not sure if you have to pay for it, but I've certainly seen people use them.
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It is funny you would mention this, I've been on the advisory board for a couple of startups and find the ones who do this, actually bounce things off their advisers, are much more successful than the ones that don't. You brought your advisers on board, perhaps you offered them equity, use them for more than networking to other people!
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Thanks a bunch. I didn't think you were asserting causality; just thought you might know if Fine was instead.
A little nitpick, which may be a misconception deserving clarification:

> Our decorators work just like Python method decorators, only we don't need any magic syntax for them because CoffeeScript, like JavaScript, already has this idea that functions can return functions and there's nothing particularly magic about defining a method, it's just an expression that evaluates to a function.

Python also has this idea (called ‘higher-order functions’). The difference is in syntax—function calls require parens in Python, and anonymous functions aren't that well supported. Therefore the need for special syntax construct to make decorator use convenient.
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we've had gas gauges for decades, yet we still see people trudging toward their stopped vehicles with newly-purchased gas can in hand.

In Germany, they write you a ticket for that.
Actually we're expanding our scope. We found a lot of users were using us for more than just CRM. Bug tracking, product dev, todo lists, hiring, fundraising, etc. all make sense within the context fo your inbox.

We have several templates to reduce workload upfront (we dont have one for apartment hunting yet) but if you have any ideas on removing the friction, let us know