skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is unfortunate that the SEC is moving slowly with this.

One thing to be careful with state law is that you still need to be mindful of general solicitation regulations. Right now it's illegal to publicly announce that you're actively raising money. If leaked to the press it could shut down your whole round, perhaps worse.

But state law without general solicitation can still be useful - at Wefunder we raised a crowd round from accredited and unaccredited investors on our platform using blue sky law. It's not for every company and comes with a few awkward restrictions, like only being able to accept investors in certain states and having investor limits. If anyone's interested in doing something similar, we talk about it on our blog [1] and are happy to share our legal docs which are VC friendly (for if/when you get to that Series A).

[1] https://wefunder.com/post/16-how-to-legally-crowd-invest-now
Yep Catholicism allows evolution. However Catholics fight science that says anything about sex, science says condoms are effective at stopping STDs incl. AIDS, but Catholics disagree. Science says that by almost any measure of relationship happiness same sex couple are just as loving as different sex couples, but Catholics fight that. Science says master nation can be helpful, Catholics think it's always bad, etc.
I agree. I've now worked for two companies with unlimited vacation policies, and there have been some stark differences. At my previous job, where there was previously an accrued vacation system that switched to an unlimited policy, no one felt good about taking vacation days. At my current employer, everyone from the founders on down advertise and celebrate their vacation. Same policy, different context.

From an hours-worked-metrics standpoint, the policy is a success at my previous employer and a failure at my current job.

From an employee-health and burnout-rate standpoint, the policy is a failure at my previous employer and a massive success here.

I can't advocate either policy over the other without that context, but I'm skeptical of the value of introducing unlimited vacation as a benefit over an existing accrued vacation policy that employees are generally happy with.
Can you explain why people are afraid to take a sick day?

I'm not from the USA, so this might be a cultural thing or things just work different where I'm from.

Also, since I'm moving there, does this apply to the UK?
Or the plethora of ancillary benefits to getting a university education. The actual education in many areas is negligible, instead you get up to four years to defer having to do any real work, spending a sizable chunk of your time around intelligent, like minded peers. And for a lot of people, it provides a relatively safe way of experiencing life on their own.
The Hunt for Red October: Virus Hunters Try to Catch Diplomatic Time Bomb
Catholics don't believe in what is literally the Bible says. I they have the church, priests etc to interpret it. Catholics used to not read the Bible, there were literally wars fought over different groups about whether the common man should be allowed to read the Bible.
>Sure, seeing source is fine, but what if you want >disassembly too? Mixed source/assembly? Register view? >Watches? Switching between threads easily? Viewing memory?

Disassembly: (gdb) layout asm

Mixed source/assembly: (gdb) layout split

Register view: (gdb) layout regs

Watches: There is no window, which is too bad. You can say "display foo" and it will print the value of foo each time the execution breaks. You can also say just "display" and it will print the values of all variables you currently have set to display.

Switching between threads: Say "info threads" to show all the threads in your application. Say "thread x" to switch to thread number x.

Viewing memory: Again, there is no window, which is too bad. You can, however, use the "x" command, which is pretty full-featured and allows you to print the contents of a given-size chunk of memory, starting at a given point to the console in pretty much any format you might desire.

You may already be aware of these features, but be discounting for some reason?

Edit:

Turns out, GDB also supports writing memory regions to disk:

(gdb) dump binary memory <outfile> <startlocation> <stoplocation>
CompJournoStick: a Fedora Remix for computational journalists
Don't go by it's website, which hasn't been given a facelift in at least 6 or 7 years. However, having been a subscriber of Telegraph (India) for over a decade, I can say that it is not often inaccurate. It's the leading English daily (combined sales of #2 and #3 are less than Telegraph's) in Eastern part of India.
Poland as well.
To be honest I've never heard anyone calling America that, other than in Hollywood movies or sarcastic comments.
Appeal to authority are very unscientific.
While true, I'm suspect given this setup that some layer isn't just dropping to a unix socket when it notices localhost.

Most notably, 600k active real TCP connections in the kernel would use somewhere around 6GB of memory assuming an average of ~10kB of memory per socket for the R/W buffers and other data. EDIT: Thats just the server side, double to include the client sockets.

Most attempts I've see at this number of real TCP connections required a lot more tweaking of kernel TCP settings to achieve.
Is this actually statistically true? Wikipedia says it's the third largest metro region in India. Apart from outliers providing anecdotes, what's the reason to say people from this particular city are exceptional pioneers and "bend the boundaries"?
Realy cool idea. Also like the hidden ASCII gem in the source code.

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Check out this awesome archive for more related ASCII art: http://geon.github.com/Programming/2012/04/25/ascii-art-sign...
It bypasses checksumming, but no not the whole stack. Although not sure in this case it bypasses checksumming as the interfaces were created as aliases on a physical interface, which may mean it does do checksumming still.
I agree that a lot of effort that is put into bioinformatics is wasted. But it's silly to say that bioinformatics hasn't contributed much to science, and naive to think that dysfunctional software development is less widespread outside of bioinformatics.
Maybe a database with immutable data, like datomic?
He has 16G of RAM so may have not tuned this, and not noticed.
I say remove the front page and have a language and an author selected by default and have it as your front page. Beside that, amazing work! Bookmarked and definitely going to use it a lot. Thanks for the work :)
Mentor's Thoughts Week 42: Social Entrepreneurship: Fashion or Passion?
SDL is a thing, I guess, but I personally have little use for it. I mean, I've tried it, of course; I'm sure most people have. But, and maybe it's just me, but if I'm going to have to do the legwork of wrapping some C API into a decent, lifecycle-manageable object model, I'm probably going to use the lowest-level one I can so I can state with authority that I fully understand what everything in my stack is doing at all times. Like, OpenGL's C API is super gross, but only very slightly less so than dealing with SDL. And while, sure, "you can commit the fixes back to SDL," you first then have to go unwind their abstraction to actually understand what the hell it's doing--which for me, given the relatively small feature set I need, is almost as much work, if not more, than writing it yourself.

Also, SDL 1.x is LGPL (instant dealbreaker, I build with static libraries on a Mac to avoid dylib hell) and SDL 2.x isn't done. So there's that, too.

In the spirit of abstraction and not having to build the object model I'd get for free with Direct3D, I used SFML for a while; the general idea of it is promising, but the abstraction is janky, it's desktop-only, and I still have a bitter taste in my mouth from the way they handled showstopper bugs in SFML 1.x as far back as three years ago: "Completely reproducible crashes on all modern ATI cards? Just upgrade to our incompatible 2.x alpha!". (2.0 still isn't out, which makes it super groovy.)

.

I now use GLFW for windowing/input, ENET for networking, and PhysFS for I/O; I can pretty easily use each of them in a way that maps pretty well to my own preferences for an object model and a mental model. Probably not scalable (for a multi-person project or a 3D game I'd almost certainly use OGRE rather than doing it myself), but nice for my purposes.

The only part of my codebase that isn't pretty trivially platform-independent right now, without any special effort, is in "platform.cpp", which does the tremendously difficult work of finding me the user directory and the appdata directory. =) I sure haven't done anything special to make it build both in Xcode (my primary environment) or Visual Studio.
There's a difference between stopping progress forever and expecting companies to perform some kind of human safety tests before bringing products to market.
Amsterdam: The Red Light District (De Walletjes)
Awesome, I just checked this out. Great idea! Can you please change the font though, I'd be happy to help if its OS? Josh
Haushaltsauflösung Wien
Haushaltsauflösung , Haushaltsauflösung Wien
Einfach einen kostenlosen und unverbindlichen Besichtigungstermin mit uns vereinbaren, wobei einer unserer Fachmänner in Sachen Haushaltsauflösungen vorort sein wir und sich Ihr Volumen ansehen wird und mit Ihnen zusammen plant. Auch bei verwertbaren Gegenständen, die wir in unseren Ladengeschäften
A lot of companies in the US either give you a fixed amount of sick days – they won't fire you if you go over, but you won't get paid – or they consider paid time off and sick days to be equivalent, and so if you're sick for a week, you're seriously eating into your vacation time unless you can afford to go on an unpaid leave (and your supervisor lets you).

Dunno about the UK.
The other question is -- do you want to be Top Gear or Consumer Reports? I'm pretty sure you don't want to be Motortrend.

i.e. -- opinionated and interesting. or, totally bland and impartial and sometimes "wrong" from the consensus, but due to picking different metrics; accuracy within those metrics is always unassailable. The bad case is motortrend, which is just PR + idiocy + pay-for-play.

I guess you could be Edmunds, too (longitundinal research, etc.)
From my experience in the research department of my university you are quite mistaken.

"External scrutiny" usually means "publish N papers per year and don't get into trouble". Hence the most conservative projects get funding (also because they're more likely to be successful - or better said, easier to do)

And by the way, the majority of the work is done by the graduate/PhD students, and of course their advisor's name is on every paper they publish.
Not sure about that. What about buying phones from a vendor that doesn't locks them instead?

That said, if I buy something I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
Just Upgrade
Malta, Honduras, Venezuela, The Phillipines, Dominican Republic, San Marino, East Timor, Andorra, Italy, Poland, Paraguay, Ireland and probably (lots of) others besides.

You can basically take the percentage of the religious population in all countries and sort by that, the exceptions will be the ones that have a > 80% catholic population where it does not have a dominant influence on politics. I'm not too current on Spain and Portugal but those would be good candidates (Spain > 90%, Portugal > 80%).

The good news is that in lots of places the church is still powerful but that its influence is waning. The bad news is that it is still pretty high.
Great app, kind of tldr for stack overflow :)
Cambridge, Cabs and Copenhagen: My Route to Existential Risk
Sweet. Yeah, I had a hard time settling on which one to use.. would be happy to get some help. It's on GitHub -- https://github.com/nirvanatikku/stack-ed. Thanks!
Nice! I just have one or two remarks about the UI: it is really annoying that when you click the text of an answer it closes it back, and the font is two small.
$300 to go see this joker? https://waza.heroku.com/2013/speakers/aaron-patterson

Have these people lost touch with the value of money? If Im paying $300 for one day I better learn a shit load not have to listen to some dude bull shit me about his "street dance offs".

I mean maybe that guys actually legit and is just trying to be funny. But im honestly frustrated at how expensive all these conferences are, for a free lance/startup person its way too much.
author here:
Java part:
1. Java NIO's performance is amazing: event driven r/w bytes
2. maintain state machine when parsing HTTP from bytes buffer need many local variables, I get used to do it in a C style code.

Clojure:
I like this language. It's brilliant. So I write a fast http server/client for it. Clojure is also write in JAVA, great interoperation
Dolci di Carnevale: ricetta torta Arlecchino con foto e video
Why do people call the 'pro life' movement the pro life movement? They're clearly not pro life, they use that self chosen label as a misdirection. There must be a better way to describe them.
Comprehension in Python
In the UK, stalking is now specifically a criminal offence (since late last year):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20482930
In France we get 5 weeks minimum (some companies give more). If you don't take your vacations, that's not good for the company.

The accumulation of vacations is considered a debt in the accounting book, and if you leave they need to pay it cash.

In a previous job I remember seeing the accountant sermoning my boss (the CTO and cofounder) because we was not taking any vacations.
Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? (Updated 2013 Edition)
> theres still no proper audio apps in linux

I don't know how anecdotal that is, but I've heard about pro audio users downright loving JACK [0] (not an audio app, but they must be using this toolkit for something).

Personally I like PulseAudio which has worked just fine for quite some time here on Arch Linux, while it always seemed to be a bloody mess of an integration on Ubuntu.

[0]: http://jackaudio.org
Are Medium & Quora Just the Rebirth of Content Farms?
Do you have proof (or reasonable doubts) that the person described in an article doesn't?
Just pulling it now ill submit a pull request :)
People take time off when they want to (one of the guys on my team is on a 2-week vacation

What if I wanted a 2 month vacation instead of a 2 week vacation? I've yet to hear of a place that would forbid you taking two weeks off once in a while. Using the word "unlimited" and then talking about days and weeks seems kind of counter-intuitive.
Invites and meetings probably fit in this category too. After the event happened, the message has lost a lot of its value.
Without assuming Fred Chang or his associates share my views, in my position I'd be willing to bet the whole company on a principled stand like this. In other words, I don't always take the game theoretic rational local maximum – lots of business is like that.

If for my company to survive I must pay "rent" to a patent troll, taking a stand against them would be my first choice. (Obviously this only works in a position like Fred Chang's where he can unilaterally make such a choice.)

Just like more trolls may appear out of the woodwork after settling with the first one, Newegg gets a karma boost for defeating one. But consider that it might just make it all worthwhile to go home at the end of the day smiling.
I suppose that could be true, but would you look up the developer before actually using the app for the first time?
Blackberry 10 Cascades is also based on QML syntax, though they implemented their own rendering engine instead of the QML implementation in Qt4.
I think it's "Scapple". Thanks for the tip, it looks good!
How about video interview producer? I would pay for someone to make weekly interview videos with my clients.
Also a legal line, since this is probably identity theft.
It's not that the critics of this article didn't get it, it's that there's nothing there to get. If anything it's a Rorschach test that commentators like you and kevinalexbrown can read their own thoughts and biases into.
and I don't know about .NET 4.5, but .NET 4 was not
optimizing tail-calls on 64-bits Windows.

Actually there's a .tail CLI Opcode in .NET for tail call optimization which is not usually emitted, but the JIT does tail call optimization on 64 bits (not on 32 bits though). You can witness this when you have a C# getter calling itself. On 32 bits, you get a StackOverflowException, on 64 bits it keeps running happily forever. For the specifics: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clrcodegeneration/archive/2009/05/11...

It's lower level and more limited than full blown FP aware TCO and it may not catch every call pattern, but it's been there for a while.
Agree, completely ignore a stalker, BUT save a record of every contact made. If you have a trusted third party, or two, periodically give them copies of everything, so that if things escalate they can vouch for you and the ongoing nature of the harassment.

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Edit: Thinking about it more, I retract the "ignore comment", and replace it with "use your judgement", as the best response will vary with the situation. I stand by the "keep a record" comment.
You can't guarantee an author's integrity. Period. Commission doesn't factor into that base case.

Assuming there's full disclosure, one might make the argument that writing on commission would lead an (ethical) author to think even harder about being balanced, since the bias is recorded fact, rather than something the reader has to guess at.
Then again:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I find this article to be in the "crime without any interesting new perspective" category, since the phenomenon of Internet stalking is old news by now, even for mainstream media.

Then again, lots of politics and crime stories seem to be making their way to the front page nowadays and there's no way to vote against them except to flag. So maybe I should just hope we at least stay clear of sports articles, or switch news sources ;).
I liked the article but would agree that it may have benefited from being more explicit in its writing. Here's what I got out of it. Maly asks, "Why would you continue to wear a hoodie even though you're hot and would feel better not wearing it?" The answer that @kevinalexbrown implies and I'd agree with is that fashion is an advertisement about yourself. But that's not all.

When the advertisement is more important than the person, even if you would feel better without the hoodie, you keep it on, to feed your image. Whether that's right or wrong in the general case is beyond my scope to say. Maly is using Zuckerberg's choice as a prism on facebook and modern tech in general, saying that those who adopt facebook will have to make similar decisions, that people who always believe they are being watched may elevate the need to project an image over other more human needs.

The key to the article is that Maly believes Zuckerbergmay have kept his hoodie on because it was more uncomfortable to take it off than to experience physical discomfort, and that people who are being watched may do the same. I enjoyed the vignettes but Maly could've benefited from highlighting Zuckerberg's choice as the "strange thing" that his article grew out of and then using the history of the hoodie as a layer on top of the "strange thing" instead of juxtaposing the two threads.
And they wonder why the anti-American sentiment is growing. I don't like these trends of US dictating EU policy one bit. Sure, US has always had "great relationships" with some European countries after WW2, and many European countries liked US for its culture etc, and have been friendly towards them. But this is getting pretty absurd, with US getting access to EU citizens data and having them dictate the whole EU's privacy policies, too.

This is why we need to move towards having everything encrypted locally, before sent to the cloud, and make it brain-dead easy for most people to do that. Or maybe we'll all start using Bittorent Sync for our own devices.
I can't tell whether or not you're facetiously spoofing the style of the article here.
I also wouldn't rule out Microsoft - some of their high end enterprise products (Dynamics AX 2012 in particular) are really rather nice.
Because it allows another thread to run. Yes, they actually are coroutines, but that is an implementation detail. Just look at it as an optimization for the case where at most one of the two threads (the one producing the values and the one consuming it) runs at a time.
Cool, the show must go on!

Would CSS4 (much prefer) consider stuff like luminance media queries [1], better contrast/color controls to the designer etc.?

[1] http://fremycompany.com/BG/2012/Ambient-light-sensors-and-CS...
Agreed. Most articles that try to make the argument "these great successes dropped out of college, so college is superfluous" fail to recognize that these great successes are unusual people. Whether that means they were much smarter than their peers, were more tenacious or hard-working, or just ended up at the right place at the right time, these stories are not common.

By all means, if you're a Gates, Zuckerburg, Carmack, Ford... drop out of college and do your own thing. But for every one of those, there are scores of people who would fail hard, to their extreme detriment, if they followed that path.
Very well done! bookmarked it. This would be a wonderful resource.
I have an easy solution to that, personally: I don't share my deepest darkest secrets on social networking sites.

I can't imagine anything I've posted to Facebook being a problem if it was all printed in tomorrow's New York Times. Maybe other people should take the same approach.
The paint that lets you draw electric circuits
We sat down with Bare Conductive co-founder Matt Johnson to find out just how their electrically conductive paint works.

"You can imagine having the ability to interact with a computer through a piece of paper just by touching it."

http://bit.ly/Yb88eU
The difference, for me at least, is effort.

There's a vast difference from if people can do a search for your name, and get page up and page down of stuff from every forum you might post on, vs. if people need to track down your nym's.

In my case, my HN id is trivially easy to connect to my full name, but unless you go to the effort, these comments won't show up.

My Reddit comments are still easy to connect to my full name if you try, but it does not reflect my name directly, and it will take more searches for most people. I don't care if people who know me figure it out - I've e.g. often made clear statements that identify me in comments there, by e.g. replying in threads when posts from my blog has been posted there. I don't care if the odd person here and there make the connection, with or without my help.

I don't care if people who care enough to put effort into figuring out the connections figure it out (though I'd find it rather creepy if someone thought that worthwhile) - they'd find other avenues to get information about me anyway.

But I do somewhat care that off-hand comments I make that are more like a casual chat than a serious debate or public statement does not end up ranking at the top of a Google search for my name.

I "curate" my online life that way, by deciding what I post and what usernames I use, depending on how much or little I care about tying a specific service to my public identity.
Pentagon cybersecurity force to grow fivefold under multi-year expansion
Don't confuse fashion theory and the fashion industry. Geek culture, especially in SV, seems to have a quite specific anti-fashion with trickle-up influences. While many swear they aren't fashion conscience, they actually have quite strong connotations to things like suits.