skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Libertarian I'd guess. I don't recall entrepreneurs being restricted over the past decade or so. In fact, I was under the impression that certain classes of entrepreneurs, well educated and drawn to financial services in particular, had worked like mad.

In any case, while this nirvana is being built from the rubble of excess debt, I hope that governments are at least effective at ensuring some mitigation for those at risk of losing their depreciated assets; like their homes.

What kind of entrepreneur?
The sharp turns are poorly interpolated data points from a small data set.
How does apple get away without this? Curious if anyone knows
Also, this article mentions that it is a tube of some sort:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-13/elon-musk-th...
there is so much available at the archive, and i while i struggle with "findability" (which even with faceted browsing i'm not sure we have any better ideas out there) i'm still surprised when i meet even deeply technical types that don't know the entirety of its weath.. like the 9/11 archive http://archive.org/details/911 computer chronicles (heheh) http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Acomputerchr... or my favorite is probably the polymorphics video from the ICBM guy's company http://archive.org/details/AllAboutPolymorphics
Even for ad-hoc reporting, the relational model has limits. For some requirements specialized structures are a better choice; thus we have mdolap.

But mdolap is far easier to work with if your feed is from a relational model. Otherwise you are left with a lot of effort getting the data transformed into an appropriate model.

Relational math + fixed schemas means flexible output.

I don't think that overlap is as big as you do.

Any line of business app had better start with a relational model then, as would any case where you are selling business intelligence. The other data stores work best as adjuncts to, rather than replacements for, a relational store.

Edit: Also it occurs to me that MDOLAP is only partly ad hoc. You have to set up your cubes ahead of time and that means deciding on what you are going to report. I imagine that adding a new reporting dimension to a large data set would be painful.
Dumb question: why would I use CoffeeScript over something like PyJS (pyjs.org) or even (shudder) GWT?

I've worked on enough projects that I've come to view syntax as a cost and not a feature. It can sometimes be worth paying that cost if it gets you lots of features - but all the features you list already exist in Python, and presumably can be translated just fine by PyJS. Why an entirely new language syntax instead of something that you're likely using on the server as well? Or is CoffeeScript basically Javascript with Ruby syntax?
Exept all humanoid life in the modern galaxy was the result of an Ancient experiment, when they seeded their genetic code through a wave traveling through the stargate network. I am not aware of any research on the topic, but I suspect that would scew the odds of humanoid civilizations being at a relativly equal level. Then, it could be argued, that the Goa'uld only get their technological advances from the host species, humans, so they cannot be that far beyond us.
A Xeon E3-1220 has an 8MB L3 cache and costs about $210. If you deaggregate the entire IPv4 routing table to /24s to support fast lookups and store one nibble of destination data per route (probably just a destination interface number, if you can live with only 15 or 16 possible destinations, but you probably don't have that many upstreams), doesn't that mean that the entire routing table can fit in the L3 cache on the CPU (with a bit of the L3 not used by class E space, which will leave a bit of space for code, assuming you aren't doing anything but routing on this CPU)?

Now, it's quite possible that the Linux kernel's routing isn't dimensioned to provide this sort of performance, but if you want to avoid CAM in the IPv4 world, I don't see why you'd really need CAM...

(Also, I haven't looked carefully at how the L3 cache actually works on the E3s to make sure that it's shared between code and data, etc etc etc. Also, if you're actually implementing this, you presumably do want to include class E in the table, and then hope/assume that when class E doesn't get used, the CPU will be smart enough to cache the code instead.)
For images, you can specify either multiple file types (load different resolutions with media queries), or use .SVG graphics (support is spotty in older browsers). Here are two handy guides: http://bit.ly/LzRkfN and http://bit.ly/MH1bjq.

For text, it depends on which part. For body text (paragraphs), the easiest thing is to have a percentage based container and change font-sizes based on break points with media queries (e.g. at a screen with min-width of 768px, change font to this size). Headers are a bit different, you can follow the same approach as paragraph text or, use something like FitText (http://fittextjs.com/).

Love your work. Hit me up at me@ryanglover.net if you need code help.
http://developer.android.com/design/index.html
From the vicious flame-fest that precipitated this post:

x = 'lexical'

acid = ->
alert "#{x}ly scoped"

test = (x) ->
acid()

test('dynamic')
Valid point. Although I'm on the fence about significant whitespace in CS as well; I value fixing JavaScript's glaring flaws much more highly than arguably more convenient but unproven syntax. (The boundary is admittedly fuzzy, e.g. list comprehensions).
I actually like the visual appearance of these symbols in some logos, including this one.

I believe in this case I like it because the ™ slightly reinforces the 3D effect, and because it's a rather bad logo to begin with. I.e. almost any change is an improvement and the small pictograms give it a bit of an "organic" touch.
Is meeting the deadline the same as defaulting? I was unaware a timeline in a Kickstarter promotion was part of any contract - its more like salesmanship.
My PIN number is 8+ numbers long, and to my chagrin, I discovered in 2006 that most ATMs in Europe didn't accept anything more than 6, and most accepted only 4. I'm not sure if things have changed since then, but in the 5 countries I was in, the only ATM that accepted 8 was in Amsterdam, near the end of my trip.
It's always been that way. Remember the Windows 95 and Windows NT startup screens? Take this for instance:

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/winnt40

In particular:
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/startupshutdown/spl...

It wasn't uncommon for Microsoft to have their name mentioned 4 or 5 times on a single screen, alongside copyright symbols, trademarks, and other crap.
Good to see that there is real structural change afoot at Yahoo. </sarcasm>
> [Those] who are not ready to address its consequences, should refrain from speculating on what is and isn't possible

Really? Do you hear yourself? I hope you're taking down badge numbers because I'm not sure that all these guys are qualified to address the consequences of faster-than-light travel.
If you end up going with a diamond, you might consider a company like Brilliant Earth [1], which offers "conflict free" diamonds (and other gems), and recycled precious metals. Their gems come from mines that employ adults at reasonable wages. I'm not associated with the company, but they made my fiance's engagement ring and we're very happy with it.

[1] http://www.brilliantearth.com/conflict-free-diamonds/
The amount of piracy of console games is minuscule compared to piracy of movies , MP3s and PC games. If you force people to jailbreak or hardware mod their equipment it drops the rate dramatically.

The issue is that the lower price point in the case of piracy appears to be free. People still pirate $1 iphone apps.
It's an easy mistake to make - to assume two things with the same name might be similar. Especially when paper documents have been called thus for a very long time.

It seems like another instance where all the good names were taken.
http://jcooney.net/post/2012/04/03/Transaction-Argument-Clas...
I'll focus on women for a moment:

http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportuni...

http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovat...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/women-engineers_n_1...

The proof is in the pudding: There are less women in STEM fields and in STEM programs in college. Even making the grandiose assumption that women have the exact same opportunities as men (see above, they don't) fewer women are accepted to universities, they matriculate less, and even less stay in the field. Males on the other hand seem to do just fine. This reveals to us that there is a disparity at each step of the way that is causing women to be unable to compete or desire to.

When one person drops out, it isn't a trend. But when you have industries full of this data combined with a history of sexism and racism, you don't throw your hands up in the air and say "oh the boat will right itself".
Now ditch the exclamation point so you don't have to say "Yahoo!s."
You are expected to work 8-12hr or longer days,

If you're working 12-hour days (and not getting a C-level equity slice to compensate), month in, month out, then it doesn't matter what hardware you'll have, because you'll be reduced to an unproductive puddle of flesh after enough time, anyway...
How AT&T paid Andy Zaky $173.82 to go to Verizon
I don't know why you are getting downvoted: you are absolutely correct.

You can't just walk away and hope the problem will go away.
Guilty -- saw Chicago in the headline, had to click.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

maybe they couldn't for a while?
Most difficult CEO skill? Raising money.

Seriously, have without a HUGE network or traction/lots of revenue it's almost statistically a miracle to make it happen.

Great article though, just pointing out the obvious.
MS pushes software subscriptions on home users—whether they like it or not
I just finished the summer class. I think the average age was somewhere between 25-28 yrs old.
Congrats on presenting a diamond-alternative to her. The diamond trade is absolutely disgusting and unfortunately many people seem to equate "love" with a shiny rock. If it came down to it, I would have to reevaluate marrying someone that refused to believe otherwise.
In this case it actually works because he's looking at the 'numbers behind the PINs' :)
Yup, a little bit disappointed they didn't go any deeper than a simple geographic comparison w/ a photoshop overlay.
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At first I thought this title said "The Most Difficult SEO Skill?"

I was thinking someone's conscience finally caught up with them. Only to discover this is just more Internet VC gibberish. Oh well.
I don't know the specifics about quantum entanglement, but any means of making information travel faster than light that can work reliably in two different inertial frames (thus communicating four different points, two not moving relative to each other in space in each) can be used to break causality
or relativity. This is achieved by constructing a loop in which if the second pair of devices is used to disable the first you have a time paradox.

This is the clearest place explaining it I'm aware of, but I bookmarked this a while ago and maybe now some video or animation explains it better: http://www.theculture.org/rich/sharpblue/archives/000089.htm...
awesome, next up the "!"
Typically if you have some polymorphic data attached to some other data, a hybrid approach works. After all, you can't report on what you can't easily quantify.

My tools elegantly map database fields to my objects; doing this with serialization formats is incredibly crude and brittle.

Build tools to do it.

A schemaless datastore does not mean a schemaless app.

That's actually a problem in most cases.

But there are many applications that are better suited to alternatives, especially with large-scale consumer-facing web apps. These threads annoy me; we should all be looking at new tools saying "wow, I wonder what this is good for" rather than smugly burning all the heretics that turn away from to the One True Idol.

Certainly that last part is true, but the best uses I have seen, including uses put forth by NoSQL proponents, have been as adjuncts to a relational approach, for example handling data transformation on the way in or out. Otherwise you end up with two fundamental problems:

1) How many other apps can your application support? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495377) Where is your public API? Basically you can do this in your db layer and/or your app layer, but you get a lot more flexibility by doing it in the db. With a schemaless app, you can't do it there without intimate knowledge of innards...

2) Strict schemas with validated input and a declarative query language buys you flexible output. Rigid schemas are thus an investment in the future. If your data is sufficiently polymorphic that output can't be flexible no matter how you do it, then I suppose that's not a huge issue. However for many cases where NoSQL is chosen wrongly it is a huge issue.
It's been done before:

http://pyjs.org/
The trick is to turn a less luxurious good into a luxury good.

Which is rather like what they did.

Cars are an area where this is really common. BMW doesn't bring their lower end stuff into the US. Toyota created Lexus to be a luxury brand.

Or there's the pricier sorts of bottled water...
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> "I don't want something fake!"

Symbolizing the triumph of technology and human progress is not really the ideal for an engagement ring, but it's a lot better than symbolizing blood and oppression (depending, I suppose, on your views on marriage, but given that you were looking at engagement rings I expect yours are favorable...)

My wife has a lab-grown emerald from GreenKarat (http://greenkarat.com) on her finger, and she's very happy with it. She was even more opposed to diamonds than I was, going in (I think they look nice, just not worth the money or ethics, she doesn't like the look either). But yeah, for the record, "That's what everyone gets" is off by at least one!

If her heart is really set on the diamond, the best option is a ring in your family or hers, if one exists. Failing that, vintage rings you can find at estate sales and the like may be a more ethical approach than buying new diamonds. They'll have a bloody history but at least you're not adding to demand that will spur new bloodshed. "Ethical" diamonds sold presently in jewelry stores, per my understanding, are better than they were 10 years ago, but the Kimberley Process still has issues.
Agree. When they invent a new language to fix some problems of the old one, if same problems (even more) appear in the new one, then why you need the new one? That's funny they try to fix some traps by introducing more pitfalls. What's the point? Those problems can be avoided by design, but they didn't.

In short, it was badly designed. Pointless to use it.
When establishing a consulting relationship with a client, what do you typically do contract-wise? Do you call up your lawyer and have something prepped on a per-client basis, do you use a slightly modified template, or do you operate on a more casual handshake sort of agreement? How specific are the terms you generally work out?
Eventual consistency however provides no guarantee of consistency unless it is backed by absolute local consistency on every node. Don't you run into CAP theorem problems otherwise?
Agreed. I find the Web site itself to be quite poorly designed, too: I often find it difficult to parse out the pieces of information I want from an itinerary from the pieces I don't (such as automatic directions).

Also, the permanent nag-bar at the top of each page because I haven't set up automatic importing (and don't want to) is particularly irritating. Plus, it can't remember my Google Apps domain, let alone my login.

I love the itinerary parsing, but wish I could love the rest of the service as much.
Microsoft really don't need it. It would be very hard to argue in court that you released a product called 'Windows' without knowing that a similar product from Microsoft already exists, or that you didn't know that your Windows logo is the same or similar to what Microsoft produce.

Microsoft really should just have a subscript in the EULA or splash screen with "Microsoft® and the Windows Logo ™ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Inc. 1 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA, etc."

That is what startups should do as well. The best way to estalish your intellectual property is through soft enforcement, just sending out polite letters whenever somebody uses your marks in their own products. If they don't change, then pursuit further, but this works well with Facebook and in a lot of other cases.
Google Buys Nik to Lure Photographers to Google Plus
[OT] Apropos the recent discussion on third-party requests and Adblock Plus, Ghostery and NoScript:

Wow, just wow. This website pulls in requests from 28 third-party sites and wants to run javascript from 21 third-party sites.

This abuse is why users have NoScript et al.
Very small type at the bottom of their ads. Despite what people think, you are not required to stick a trademark sigil right next to your mark. I have been having this argument with people for nearly 20 years, and don't blame the lawyers so much as the managers who won't take the time and effort to actually think about what the lawyers are telling them.
I think it would be interesting to see the operational semantics for a very small subset of the language. Applying that type of formalism would likely suss out or highlight the corner cases like the ones highlighted in the article.
Shouldn't it be Yahoo!'s anyway?
What happened to the flag feature?
Few weeks, maybe a month ago, my flag feature disappeared. Hadn't flagged anything recently, so assumed it was a new feature test...now I'm thinking it was more. Is there some sort of threshold?
How am I supposed to get fined for sustained loss of traction in an autonomous car?
Many a true word is said in jest.
Ruby vs. Python - A n00b's perspective
And on the perils of developers not hooking up:

"Indulgence may hurt the body, but nothing except suffering hurts the spirit; it is self-denial and abstinence that maim and deform the soul.”

-- Frank Harris, "Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions"
Wow the comments on the site there make this even more concerning.. rules on that limited set of numbers and even recommending to users that they should use their birthday as their PIN...
I actually had this argument as well recently. She however did agree with me and is now sporting a Sapphire engagement ring. It does have some diamonds on it but the main stone in Sapphire. She wanted it because she didn't want what everyone else had.

Not sure how old you are, but I have also noticed this trend in Gen Y (friends like myself) starting to get colored gemstones. Of course this is totally anecdotal but maybe De Beers stranglehold is finally going away?

Congratulations as well by the way.
> I think that whenever a new participant enters the market they find that the most profitable path is to collude with the existing cartels. After all, if diamonds are really worth nothing, why would you enter the market unless you planned to keep the status quo?

Also, DeBeers has diamonds and cash enough to sell below your cost of pulling things out of the ground for a lot longer than you can stay solvent.
http://www.logodesignlove.com/trademark-symbols
Yeah, an embed feature like with mixcloud could work, having it remember and display what I've played, a friendly email (or tweet) upon new release, and a site changelog would all be useful!
Thank you for the link! I've been trying to find a decent source for conflict-free diamonds, and this seems to fit the bill. I hope I can convince my girlfriend to go with an alternative, but this is likely a battle that I will lose.

The issue centres around the social stigma of not having a diamond ring. Friends and family will ask what the stone is, and need to be educated. And no matter what you tell them, the perception will be that I was too cheap to buy her a real engagement ring. Nevermind the fact that I'm not actually saving any money, I'm just spending it somewhat more wisely.

It's actually a little bit of a stressful situation for me. I'm in the Royal Canadian Mint's MintChip Challenge, and I'm hoping to win some gold from the competition, so I can melt it down and make an engagement ring for her from that. In my eyes, that has more meaning behind it. Moreover, she's going on a trip with her sister to Prague & Rome in a month, a few days before our 7 year anniversary. Since she knows a proposal is coming, I was hoping to surprise her by showing up in Rome and proposing to her there. May not be the wisest way to spend my money, especially when I'm not exactly swimming in cash right now, but I felt it would be worth it for the memory and moment. To me, that's a better use for my money than some artificially-valued diamond. Seems like I'll have to scrap that plan and save more money for the ring she wants.
I feel like a lot of people here misunderstand the speed of light as a cosmic speed limit. The speed of light as a speed limit is a local constraint. On a larger scale there is no such speed limit. Just because you travel faster than light on a non-local scale does not mean you break causality.

For example, light "travels" more slowly through water than vacuum. Well, actually, photons travel at c always -- it's just that light gets bounced around by water molecules, getting absorbed and reabsorbed many many times before arriving at the destination. It's like driving to a destination as opposed to running to it. If the roads are curvy enough, the runner will win because he is not constrained by roads. Could it be that the Alcubierre drive gets past the roads of empty space in a way light cannot?

For a better example, consider the expansion of the universe. Link: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=575. I quote:

The fact that galaxies we see now are moving away from us faster than the speed of light has some bleak consequences, however. Astronomers now have strong evidence that we live in an "accelerating universe," which means that the speed of each individual galaxy with respect to us will increase as time goes on. If we assume that this acceleration continues indefinitely, then galaxies which are currently moving away from us faster than the speed of light will always be moving away from us faster than the speed of light and will eventually reach a point where the space between us and them is stretching so rapidly that any light they emit after that point will never be able to reach us.

In other words, vacuum fills in between us and far away galaxies faster than light can traverse it. Again, locally, the derivative of position with respect to time is c, but the universe is able to "cheat" by messing around with the definition of position. If the Alcubierre drive messes with the fabric of the universe in a similar way, I don't see any reason why it cannot succeed.

Here's a related link: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=56. I quote:

Technically speaking, the speed of light limit only applies when you are in an "inertial frame" -- that is, sitting where you are, without any forces acting on you, and measuring the speed of an object that moves past a ruler and clock that you are holding in your hand. Across the large distances in the universe, however, we have a very different set of circumstances. No one is in an inertial frame, because everyone is being accelerated with respect to everyone else, due to the universe's gravitational field and the fact that the universe is expanding. In effect, the universe's expansion isn't really due to galaxies moving "through space" away from each other, but rather due to the stretching of space itself, which isn't governed by the same limits that we are.

I'm not sure whether the Alcubierre drive contradicts causality, but if it does, I highly doubt that it is because of the arguments presented on this forum.