skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't firsthand, but I would suspect it to be the exception, not the rule.

When there is a real risk of this kind of thing happening, you would expect VSs and lawyers to advice startups against going into the deal. Otherwise, they're not doing (part of) their job.

The VC who wrote the article made a point that an unusual level of reassurance was needed before the technology sharing took place.
Great post.

It sounds like the penalties are severe if you are detected making omissions during discovery - but how would that actually be detected?
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Oh, yes, exactly right. I apologize for my telegraphic speech.
I'm a bit clueless about network resilience, but doesn't using the url status.github.com imply the status and main website share a DNS service? We have seen name resolution problems in the past so would a DNS problem that affected github.com would also affect status.github.com?
Do you have negative letter-spacing on large counters? "662ms" under "98th perc. web response time" has virtually no spacing between the glyphs. Looks messed up, border-line illegible. That's on Mobile Safari.

Looks great overall though. Nice job, guys.
I sincerely doubt that the E stands for income.
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I feel like it starts off a little bit on the wrong foot by introducing basic types as scalar variables. In reality R has no scalar variables, everything is a vector, list, and scalars are immediately coerced into a vector eg:

> is.vector("a")
[1] TRUE

This might seem like nitpicking but it leads to a world of confusion when programmers used to languages with scalars start trying to use R that way and it took me several months of confusion and weird bugs before I finally clicked and started understanding R better.
[NUIRenderer renderButton:myButton];
Lawyers and governments haven't strangled those bootstrapping methods - scammers have.

Selling a few shares at a time to individuals is a really expensive and time consuming way of raising money, so the only reason to do it is if you can't raise money from larger investors. Now, sometimes there's a non-shady reason for this, but more often than not the reason is that small-scale investors can't afford the same level of due diligence to detect scams and can't afford to take legal action if the whole thing implodes. (We saw this with the Perma-Pave ponzi recently - it took one of the larger investors investigating, finding evidence it was a ponzi, and suing for anything to happen. The smaller investors were stuck flailing around amongst misinformation from people involved in the scam.)
Claiming to recreate the physics engine implies that somebody remade the Source engine on a calculator. This is a massive exaggeration.
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What cases do you reserve /dev/random for? SSH keygen?

Do those functions just read from /dev/urandom?
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There is already a discussion on this same thing posted 12 hours before this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875723
some of the best devs I know loved the challenge that banking software presented. However, the majority of them could only handle a few years of it before needing fresh air
Can we sustain a ecosystem capable of sustaining human life in a desert without atmosphere or other protection from background radiation yet then? It seems like figuring this out should be the first step.

Then again, sustainable colonies on the moon might be the most efficient way to establish that.
I've been using it to write production code for almost 6 months now. Over the last month, they've eliminated all the minor annoyances. It's solid and works. I couldn't complain even if I wanted to. The codebase is also very approachable. I needed a feature, wrote it, pull request, and they accepted it.
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Nothing wrong with learning Javascript and Ruby or Python off the bat instead of starting with something like Java or C/C++. But you might want to start the course with stuff like programming language basics, database basics, and SQL if they're coming from non-programming positions.

It's also a little overkill to cover Django, Rails, AND Node.js in one course, isn't it?

I guess I'm not sure if the ad is targeted at Citigroup's software/IT people (who already know a lot of this stuff and are probably not the folks getting laid off) or the other (finance/accounting/admin/sales/customer service/operations) people (who probably need to start from the square-one basics of web programming).
There are lots of companies focused on "electronic discovery". It's a very lucrative market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_discovery
Yes, surfing has become unimaginable without one for me. And for the ads that didn't get removed by AdBlock like the Vevo skin around music videos on Youtube's VEVO channels, I made my own: http://www.bitfalls.com/2012/11/deskin-hide-vevo-ads-from-yo...
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I'm really glad this is open source. I intend to make use of it in any new apps I start, and contribute back any bug fixes or improvements.

As it happens, I was going to build something like that for an app I'm due to start tomorrow, but now I don't have to.
One thing I like about finance is that they are better than most corporations at respecting and evaluating intelligence. They don't reject the 140+ IQ set outright in the way that most corporate environments (even some startups) do. Financial companies may restrain and underemploy such people with bureaucratic nonsense, but they also pay for the pain.

The problem with the developer economy is that paid work has very low career efficiency. There's just a lot of glop work to go around, and most engineers don't have the political pull to get past it and on to the interesting stuff, which they're perceived as underqualified for because of their track record of crappy work (even if done well). Most engineers have about a 75% slack ratio in their careers, which prevents them from ever getting really good. But give a decently smart and motivated engineer 5 years of full autonomy and you'll have the guys and gals that people make Chuck Norris jokes about.
Considering that customers generally get to choose whether and when (within a certain window) to ask for a refund, refunding the same amount of BTC gives customers a license to steal.
I'm more worried about licensing issues, as mentioned here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104771776404197897488/posts/HAik...

I actually bought a VPN service and am now paying $7 per month to fake being in San Francisco, when I would have much rather given MySpace that money.
To be fair, New Zealand is also the top of the world (1st equal), and Australia has a respectable score. I love the idea of a European Union, but I'd prefer a union of Australia and New Zealand. We've got so much in common.
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Adblocker is one of the first things I installed for my mother on her new computer. For me seeing ads is an annoyance, but for her it's a real problem. She can't instantly distinguish adverts from content - particularly things like Adsense.
These seem like the kind of things you'd end up using once in a blue moon. No point in memorizing them.

Am I alone in using git extensions? I've been very happy with it and its ability to display git's "state" right in the window. I usually have one monitor with VS and one with GitExtentions
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My understanding is that if the judge thinks one party is not cooperating in discovery, or is purposefully hiding evidence, he can issue a default judgement solely on that basis (regardless of all the other aspects of the case). Since the penalty for playing games in the discovery process can be so severe, it's very rare for parties to try to conceal evidence (hiding saved emails or chat logs or whatever).
Multiple times a day I read the Google News technology articles. In the past 6 month alone I can not tell you how many times I read "______ a YC company got funding/purchased." A couple days ago it must have clicked that YC was not the parent company behind all these successful start-ups. That same day I submitted a late application to YCW2013 and embraced the entire HN community by reading submissions that caught my eye and contributing where appropriate.
Would you mind sharing a poster or slides?
Ah. People here are being rather negative so I took it as a sincere criticism.
You are almost certainly not reading this correctly.
What benefits would a Australia-New Zealand union provide, beyond the very close cooperation that already seems to occur?
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#1 does not mean "perfect".
Welcome and congratulations on finding your way here!

There are only three rules:

- never give up, never surrender
- get back to work
- no, really, stop reading this and go make something people want.
http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/031242...

I am generally sympathetic with the aesthetic choices of this school. But it is necessary to note that Bauhaus's approach, as informed by socialist ideology of its core members, is dehumanizing at scale. And when 'it' -- it being the logical conclusion via Corbu et al -- was embraced (at scale), it resulted in the backlash that was Post-Modernism and the rest of it.

Finally, it needs to be pointed out that the 'problem' that informed the ideological 'solution' of Bauhaus maps far more sensibly to software methodology rather than software manifestation.
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I am assuming you are American but your profile doesn't really say. You might get more response if you note your country of origin. ("Foreign" does not actually mean "outside the U.S.". It means "outside my own country". I know us Americans think the world revolves around us, but for clarity's sake, it might help you get feedback to actually state your country of origin.)

Just sayin'.
Many of the "e-discovery" software suites out there now include digital forensics capabilities that will scan for signs of tampering.
I've found that balanced is the best and easiest service to get payments to our clients at a very rapid pace, with no non-sense. Their support team is excellent as well!
Whenever I see requirements like that it almost always changes my mind about the app.
PyCrypto.Random doesn't magically gather sources of entropy that aren't available to the O.S. Ideally, the O.S.'s non-blocking randomness source would be an implementation of Fortuna or some other CSPRNG that will eventually recover from compromised state.

Anyway, use OpenSSL's CSPRNG or the system's cryptographic random number source. The weak link in your system is almost certainly not going to be either of these, and they've received a lot more auditing and review than PyCrypto.

The theoretical weakness in /dev/urandom is that it generally hands out more entropy than it gathers, so if there are other exploitable flaws, eventually all of its state will leak. It's important to note that most implementations of /dev/random suffer from relying on estimates of the entropy present in several inputs. The nice thing about Fortuna is that it has the very nice theoretical property that it will eventually recover from leaked state, without relying on entropy estimates. Entropy estimates are a fiction to help some people sleep at night.
I don't get it, is the value of hosting projects on your own servers worth the substantial leap in cost over GitHub.com?
Ah yeah, good stuff. I was always partial to Gemini and Wolf on the 83+ (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/247/24742.html, http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/277/27767.html). Wolf even had an on-calculator level editor!
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I don't mind ads. What I have a problem with is animated graphics, autoplaying videos, and pop-ups. Blocking Flash mostly stops this for me, but as HTML5 becomes more popular, I worry that I will lose the ability to stop these kinds of behaviors.
GF seems very interesting, thank you.
Shucks! It won't let me type '=' in Opera! :(
I actually unintentionally started using one by installing Ghostery. I was under the impression that it was just for blocking invisible beacons, like buttons, that sort of thing, but it also took care of virtually all normal display ads. The effect was surprisingly nice, so I've left it enabled.
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You don't see the contradiction in your post? Startups arent fresh air and flowers, the ones that succeed are the ones that power through the tough times for uncertain reward. You need to love the thrill of the risk in and of itself.
Ask HN: Best place to celebrate New Year's Eve.
I've realized that it's only 25 days left and I still don't know where to celebrate New Year's Eve. Where are you going to celebrate it?
That can work.

Or even a static scale at the low and high end, with the slider calculating a score in the background. That way you're not distracting the rater with changing numbers.

Or even more simply, why not just have a Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down icons (with "no selection" being a neutral score) instead of a slider? You either like a design or you don't- do you really care about how much you like or dislike something (unless you're tracking exact scores in the background for some kind of a ranking system)?
Setting up AdBlockPlus (along with Ghostery, LastPass and HTTPS Everywhere) is a must after installing a browser on a new box/VM.
We use Balanced as well, having migrated from PoundPay. Everyone in their team is attentive and pro-active. Support is fantastic.
If you're looking for architecture-inspired design manifestos for web and software design, check out A Pattern Language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language

The ideas in that book helped create the notion of "design patterns" in software and engineering. The book provides hundreds of insights into the way people use their environment: marriage beds, child caves, dancing in the streets, staircases as stages, sleeping in public, spaces for self-governance...

Pattern Language is a more humanizing design philosophy than Bauhaus. It brings the emotional and sociological aspects of design together with technological complexity.

The concepts of vocabulary, syntax and grammar are applicable to programming language and API design, as well as visual design and architecture.
Eclipse has suffered from plugin hell from the beginning, and probably it's biggest failing.
Congrats Brian! I'll be integrating this on https://openexchangerates.org pretty soon (as well as including the BTC rate in the OXR API)

#edit - just wondering, would it be necessary to include another BTC checkout button, e.g. from mtgox? Or can any BTC user anywhere use this button to checkout?

Also - a big one - is there/will there be support for recurring payments? Actually, is that even possible?
Yeah that doesn't really make it drop-in either though does it.

The fact you have to litter you code with NUI references is a non-starter for me.

They should have leveraged the UIApperance proxy. I know they have some reason about gradients or something for not using it, but that shouldnt force a compromise in the design.
What I want to see is a comparison of total value of corruption - not volume as seems to be case here.

For example, the UK government has consistently refused to investigate British Aerospace's winning a 42Bn pound contract in Saudi - despite the USA basically handing out proof we bribed the ministers involved.

I think that claiming impoverished island X is very corrupt when customs agents are snaffling the price of a meal is disingenuous compared to projects won on bribery that total more than the impoverished island X GDP

Edit: One Afghan in seven paid a bribe in 2010, and the average bribe is equal to one third of the average Afghan salary.

Ok I take it back - thats not what I was thinking.
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That's the biggest issue with jazz. It's for jazzers. But anyone, jazzers and newbies alike, can dig Take 5 or much of their other output.
I don't, as a web developer/marketer I feel it is important to see what others are doing. I barely notice them, the sites where I do are typically dev related and potentially of interest to me.
As an Apple fan I stand by it not mattering if there are fewer apps. If the iOS App Store only had crappy apps in it, having 700,000 would be no consolation.
conroy, thanks for your comment!

Can we open an issue on https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api so we can track this?

We'd be happy to help with the code contribution as well.
There used to be lot of hype on HN around the new statistical language Julia, not sure how far ahead and how good that thing actually is.

You can do a lot of good with scipy (especially scipy.stats), but I feel like matplotlib's plotting is still behind R.
Will look into this. Scary stuff.
If the prognostications of a 2013 Flight to Substance following the implosion of social media are correct, enterprise startups will be increasingly popular. However, the enterprise is a notoriously hard place to sell. But someone needs to do it. Who better than someone who was in the enterprise for 5 years?

Also, don't stereotype. There are a lot of IT people in banks and stereotypically boring financial companies like Bloomberg and Reuters who think the way HNers do, who would love to torch their 1980s-era version control systems in favor of Git, and who spend half their time on Coursera boning up on machine learning.
I'm not quite sure what the advantages are between one protocol or another, but I'm also not sure why there have to be two camps of development when one standard can be hashed out.

I do know that the status quo of having a single private company dominating the space is not ideal and would love to see any alternatives take root.
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People always laugh at me when they notice I use a paper sheet with one time passes instead of sms notification, but this is the precise reason I do it. The coupling between your pc and your phone is too great to really rely on it for being the second phase of your authentication.

I even like to check my bank account on my phone. Completely removing the use of sms as a second phase.
Do I vote yes because NoScript and RequestPolicy block many ads? Or do I vote no because they don't block all ads? I think I'll go with yes.
Yep, I think Brubeck had a place as a cultural signifier in that time. I think of this little verse from Donald Fagen's (voice of Steely Dan) reminiscence of his days growing up in the late 50s:

Have you got a steady boyfriend
'Cause honey I've been watching you
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier.
An interesting point re HTML5, perhaps we will see the advent of CSS3 animation blockers and the like.
Ok, but then there's no reason to suspect it would necessarily be higher rather than lower.
For the poster session, we were only allowed 1 slide and 60 seconds to "pitch" our poster. Here is my 1 slide from that day: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3aImz1VYfNwMU1XT1hBb1k5Vlk

Otherwise you can see some of the stuff I've tried to do at 2 websites I own: (1) www.econpy.org, (2) www.economics.io

I haven't updated either site since leaving grad school though.
Sometimes being a privileged position allows one to do tremendous things. As Brubeck did countless times.
You missed the last part of his point, which was that Brubeck was ashamed of that fact, implying that he wished for a world with more racial equality, and thus bolstering the case that he was a good human being.
To be fair, PG is the one advocating that engineers satisfy their immediate, and often extraordinarily boring, needs.

There are 300 startups that are funded doing newsfeeds, even while those startups might be a tiny minority of exciting ideas.

On the other hand, the role of business is not to realize and finance science fiction. Become a writer (or perhaps a Researcher) rather than a programmer if you genuinely have a great imagination.
Looks like they emulated some features of readline in their javascript shell! ^A and ^E work (but no support for ^T, ^W, ^U...)
if they tried to perceive my level about Brazil 69 would not be it... My homeland is just a mud pool in terms of corruption.
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> Cheating is not a reasonable strategy over the long run.

That might depend on what you mean by cheating. Microsoft did pretty well back in the day with their anti-competitive practices. Likewise, Intel managed to kill AMD.
Yes. I'm excited about the future of ads, actually, as Adblock Plus takes off with their new "only block evil ads" approach. A web where nobody feels the need to block ads because the only ads are innocuous and clean is a web we can dream to achieve.
In which I learn I-29 and I-35 are a Hadrian's Wall.