skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting TC publicity is near impossible unless you're announcing something big like funding or a major partnership deal, or you're already being backed by a big player / VC / Investor, etc...

Sensational Headline? Isn't that what most headlines on HN are anyway?
The second one, Michael Dell is essentially taking equity in the surviving private entity in lieu of $13.65/sh.
While I agree with this sentiment and had a similar reaction ("doesn't everyone know GoDaddy are scumbags?"), I upvoted this article. We need to scream this from the rooftops, get stories like this spread far and wide. Until GoDaddy goes out of business, everyone needs to be made painfully aware of how dangerous it is to be their customer.
I can't be more excited by this news. Michael Dell is in a pretty unique position to do something innovative in the PC industry.

Remember when Dell told Steve Jobs that he should close shop? http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

Your turn, Michael.

Let's see if you can turn Dell around like the way Steve Jobs turned Apple around!
Have you tested that landing page?
North Korea appears to have had at least partial success building a nuclear weapon. It is my personal belief that Iran is incapable of doing the same. I base this belief on the little that I know about the two cultures. One society is a communist government, that will presumably accept anyone provided that they tow the party line, and the other demands religious fanaticism, and disrespects over 50% of their population.

I am not saying I approve of the North Korean government (that said, I don't like most governments). But I do believe the North Koreans are better positioned to be a real threat.
I've been following Apple stock lately. To me It seems that stock has almost no relation with the company anymore. It's a game of buy and sell that is dangerous for a company. Apple lost a load of money within hours. I don't think there will ever be a company which is flexible enough to handle changes in value that fast.

So I think this is good for Dell. Breaking free of shareholders who just play the money game.
Exposing the Uglier Parts of the Startup Scene
Interesting, when coming to the link from Google[1], I didn't hit the pay-block.

[1] - http://goo.gl/TfUlG
You'd get a very strong puff of air. The air leaving the end of the barrel doesn't have a lot of momentum so it diffuses pretty quickly in the ambient air. You could shape the outlet to get a more focused jet, but it's still going to be a puff, not a strong sustained stream.
So what's the application of finding these sorts of primes? (I don't mean to sound like a dick or anything, I'm genuinely curious what this kind of knowledge can help us with).
North Korea was only able to get as far as they did with Russian and the Chinese help. Iran cut ties with about everyone since the revolution in 79 and has been relatively too unstable for anyone to be a true supporter.

Plus we can be assured they are making the same presentation to their own people. Remember, its far easier to stay in power when you convince your own that the bogeymen "over there" are far far worse and its the sacrifices being made by everyday citizens that keeps us all safe.

You have an economy spiraling out of control, see http://www.cato.org/blog/value-iranian-rial-hits-all-time-lo... , as an example, so expect more boasting other similar redirects. Look at how Argentina, Venezuela, and yes North Korea, all employ similar tactics.

Then shudder when you realize how our own government does the same with us and how many fall for it. People inherently want to trust their government and governments exploit that
"When you look at the processes in climate science, they aren't even close. To take just one example, in physics or engineering, the sorts of admissions climate scientists have made about losing raw data, not archiving it properly, not properly recording the manipulations they've made to the data, etc., would be grounds for dismissal of the people involved and repudiation of all of their conclusions. The work would have to be re-done from scratch using proper procedures."

You act as if there has ever been a targeted attack on the entire scientific community of physics and engineering, like there has been on the climate science community. There has not been, so therefore there isn't some single record of all of the errors and bad data in these scientific communities. When you talk of mistakes made by "climate scientist" with ther data, what percentage of climate scientists do you think have committed these errors? You are using mistakes made by individuals and organizations to smear an entire science. This is both erroneous, dishonest, and false, and is the scientific equivalent of "Asians are bad drivers because I got rear ended by this guy."
Proving climate science right, compared to proving physics/engineering is comparing apples and oranges. Unless you know of a duplicate earth-like planet to use as a control group while we proceed with binding formerly buried carbon molecules with atmospheric oxygen in our current planet to see what happens.
Instead, they are left with computer simulations, which have, so far, been too consevative to be accurate. They have failed to take into account all of the positive feedback loops, and the result is that the planet is warmer than predicted. These simulations are then challenged and attacked, other variables such as solar output variation, etc are mentioned, and the science is dismissed as being phoney, biased, cherry picking.

I don't even beleive carbon reduction is viable. I want geo-engineering solutions to handle the problem. But the people who would otherwise be on my side in the debate are too busy wringing their hands about a small percentage of studies which are, ironically, themselves cherry picked by the opponents and used to dismiss the science.
Wow, great links. Been working with NumPy recently and I'd struggled to find a good introduction. Straight away these docs are useful:

np.lookfor('create array')
This was posted on reddit a few days ago and was called a giant hoax / RC controlled. Any deeper insight on this? The pilot seat looks way to small, and there are no landing or take off videos either.
I'll fourth Gandi; nothing but simple, non-obnoxious domain name registration.
I disagree with the first point, the spirit of the web is to be open. The other points do make sense though.

On a side note, I'd really like to use LESS or an equivalent, but the way I design/develop (and I'm an admittedly bad designer) is to tweak things in CSS, alt-tab, refresh the browser, and see the changes instantly. Likewise I can open up Firebug and tweak some style to see how it would look, then apply that change to the CSS file directly. LESS/SASS would introduce a compilation step there and essentially break my workflow. Am I wrong or is there a way around that while still being able to use a more-sane language to sugar up CSS?
I've been wondering the same thing. My assumption was that it was for new links so HN doesn't get spammed to death by offering do-follow links to new stories. Once the link has been vetted by the community only then does it go do-follow. But thats just my $0.02.
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I meant that GoDaddy tried ads with a lot of different gimmicks, and they discovered which ones worked best for them.
Could someone help Michael Dell buy a properly fitting suit? The guy looks like a gorilla with the cuffs nearly covering his hands. I'm not saying he needs a $10k Savile Row cut-to-fit but it'd be nice if the guy talking about a $24 billion dollar deal doesn't look like he bought a suit off the rack at JC Penny's.
A linear transformation is one that leaves the origin where it is, and maps straight lines to straight lines. It is a theorem that every complex linear transformation has some line that gets mapped to itself - an eigen-line.

Does that help?
Hey, we should be thankful that primes have cardinality aleph_0, so we can have reasonable algos for exhaustive search at all! ;)
How You Can Benefit From Open Source Natural Language Processing
About.me Buys Itself Back from AOL
I think you're taking my tongue-in-cheek reply to a troll a wee bit too seriously :-) We love open source at Lucidchart and employ a lot of people who contribute in meaningful ways to a variety of open-source projects.
It's to avoid people to post links in comments and benefit from HN's popularity to increase their rank in the search engines results. By specifying rel=nofollow HN indicates the crawlers from Google not to count this hyperlink as a reference in their ranking algorithm.
This is a common practice that you can see on other popular forums.
For anyone in a non-technical startup role... this is absolute GOLD.
Mumble currently uses CELT and Skype currently uses Silk.

The two codecs have been merged/improved into Opus, which is one of the mandatory audio codecs for WebRTC.

But all three are moving to Opus, so very soon it's not going to be the codec itself that will differentiate audio quality between them.
The OpenJDK project is run by Oracle.
His rant is entertaining.
That sounds like what Microsoft did (and got slammed for) with their Shared Source license.
Why would all those labels, like the labels on the "engine plug" be in English and not Persian? I mean, unless this thing were meant to be consumed by an english speaking audience...
First thing I thought of when I saw this web app as well.
You don't need to "hack" Android to install any app from any source you want. Same goes for Linux distros including Ubuntu. Package managers are not App-store type walled gardens.
> essentially break my workflow

compass has a watcher who compiles a new css when you change your sass/scss (if you like to copy-paste css, choose the scss syntax over sass), less has a less.js to compile client-side during dev.
Knowing your system - On the road to upstream
List of extensions: Clearly, tldr.io, Pocket, RSS Subscription, TooManyTabsOpen, Buffer, High Contrast.
You realize the article focuses on debt in regards to students and young people, right? Yeah, there's a bit of hyperbole, but I think my reference to "toughest... generation... evar..." makes sense in the context of "young people have it pretty shitty right now". Clearly you disagree, so fair enough. :)
That's an awesome improvements of Chrome ! (without Google by the way)
I find it interesting that the phrase was 'a gap was discovered', rather than 'we discovered a gap' or 'Prof. X discovered a gap.'

Assuming they are able to prove it, would that rate a footnote 'We are indebted to Prof. X for pointing out ....'?

And also is there a protocol or custom about how long other guys will give them to try to fix it before they try themselves?
At least it's not a hoodie.
> A login form will be accompanied by a Login button

Forgive me for this tangent, but please please please follow the above advice. I've had it with login and search forms that replace their submit button with javascript.
I used to doubt stuff like this, but Iran did built their own uranium centrifuges.

Also seemly they did captured some drones, and this would be plenty of material to reverse engineer.
That jsperf wasn't very accurate. The ember run loop holds all changes and waits for the program to execute before writing to the dom, which is great. Angular does this too by default unless you force it with $scope.$digest(); which is what they've got here. I edited it to show what's really happening http://jsperf.com/angular-vs-knockout-vs-ember/85
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html
Bayesian Headline Testing
In a perfect world you wouldn't have to explain that this isn't meant to replace the site or justify charging money for it, but we don't live in a perfect world. I'm on a Windows machine here at work but as soon as I get home I'm going to get this. And thanks for making it open source. I honestly could never understand how anything open source could make money (besides charging for support) but your app finally drove the point home for me. I know how to get your source and compile it myself but I just don't want to go through the hassle so I'm going to buy it.

Anyway, thanks for this. I've been hoping someone would make this exact app for a long time now.
This has to be one of the best stories I've read on Wired.

You do that stuff today, you end up in Gitmo or a no-fly list at best.

Of course Jobs and Woz DID actually sell the boxes for profit with zero prosecution.
Super Retina displays are inevitable
Can someone help me understand: If the deal has been announced at $13.65 why are shares still trading lower?
Is There No Money For Startups In Canada? 'Bullshit'
Ask HN: Know any Mac device driver jobs? Will pay a $1000 bounty
Do you know of any low-level Mac development jobs? Kernel or user-space USB device drivers, CoreAudio HAL plugins (audio drivers), etc.

Must be doable remotely and I will pay you 1000 USD if you introduce me to the hiring manager and I get the job.

Probability of my getting the job? Very high. I kick ass in my area of specialization and can sell myself to boot.

Caveats? The job has to last longer than a week to make economic sense.

Who am I? Definitely not a recruiter. Please, take a look at my LinkedIn profile and recommendations. And yes, I do live on the beautiful island of Tenerife ;-).
No, I haven't done any A/B testing yet. But I know it probably needs some re-work
Just wondering, has anyone been able to get this working under Windows ?
This hardly untraceable. Everything going through the networks is recordable and the Government has access to it all.
This will make an interesting case study, in worldwide PR as much as anything. As a Brit, I hadn't heard much about Georgia Tech until now, but I'm pretty certain that if I wanted to take a global MBA, I wouldn't go to the place with the famously incompetent MOOC instructor.
> coding 16 hours a day

I think you had bigger problems than with your wrists! We've all got to live life first. Work second. Everything in moderation my friend!
That's fine. Ordinary people never really realized how irritating Adobe was being about Flash, either, but that wasn't really a big deal because it was ultimately Flash's poor reputation among techies that brought it down.

Similarly, I think Java's worst nightmare scenario wouldn't be end users deciding they don't like it. (Heck, like with Flash most of them don't even know when they're using it.) It would be some massive headline-making Java-related security breach at a Fortune 500 company convincing IT departments around the world to start thinking that it's time to migrate to a less risky platform.
Not sure what you mean when you refer to a company being flexible enough (or not) to handle fast changes in valuation — I wouldn't imagine there has been any significant change to Apple's operations or strategy during their recent stock price movement.
Just as an aside, I think he's specifically referring to that particular instance on the front page as opposed to some of the newer posts. New posts seem to have rel="nofollow", but it doesn't explain why that particular job posting has rel="nofollow". Perhaps it's a combination of being a new post but auto front-paged due to it being a YC alum job?
In my area I pay ~$140/mo for the HD channels, DVR, and only 20 megabit
If you read the article you'd have found out more about the device. Specifically the tube is about 12 ft long. The actual dimensions of the pressure chamber isn't really important here it's the design of the nozzle. Which they do have a proper schematic for as it happens: http://www.gizmag.com/how-to-build-a-supersonic-ping-pong-gu...
In fact, this "last stakeholder" problem is one of the game theoretic reasons for things like eminent domain.
Did you actually look at the pictures?
http://Lync.com – IM/audio/video/screen sharing/keyboard access
you mean "nothing" ?
In my experience the best way to ramp up on NumPy is to just dive right in and attempt to translate a modestly sized Matlab program to NumPy. The documentation, at least as it was a year ago, seems more geared towards that kind of learning
Because there is a small chance that the deal will not close. So the shares today are worth close to that, but not quite.
Well lets say a company is planning a big investment and suddenly stock value dropped like stone. I think that can be very dangerous because suddenly you have to rethink your strategy.
Gandi rocks. You also get the free DNS, 5 email boxes, basic blog and site installs and web redirections.
The 'plug' at the back seems about the right size for an ICBM. Maybe the idea is to fit this contraption in front of an ICBM and then crash it into targets while people are still confused why the plane is angling for the ground.

Can't see how else it would work!
There are many tools that automate the compile step. I've used the "guard" Ruby gem, the built-in compass watcher, flat out built static sites in Rails which recompiles on demand, and played with JetBrains WebStorm which can even do some tricky live reloading stuff (cutting out both the compile and refresh browser steps). In the past I've also used emacs, which could be set up to have a key combination save and immediately compile.
Large primes are used in cryptographic algorithms as well. http://math.stackexchange.com/a/43120
You can get 100% OSS virtual machines through MS Azure. There's a whole division set aside to pimp the MS cloud to folks that don't do MS software.

(As an aside, my Dell laptop runs Ubuntu and keeps the Windows OSes caged in VMs... :) )
Why do people still continue to push the myth that using event driven style with callbacks and a huge unmaintainable mess is the only alternative to native threads? Userland threading has been around for a very long time. The only difference between using an event driven style and using a userland thread lib is that with userland threading the complexity of managing the state of the various computations is done by the thread lib instead of by you.

The sooner people stop promoting the false dichotomy, the sooner people will realize every language should do concurrency as well as haskell, and the sooner that will actually happen.
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To them, that would be like someone wants to exchange integers with us.

- Fifteen THOUSAND!

- Uuuh...
> I am genuinely nervous about it bringing someone else to work on the product for this reason alone.

You gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

It's just my opinion but I believe that sometimes the fear can cause more damage than the thing you are afraid of. Yes, be careful... but don't overdo it. Someone might steal your idea but if you get all paranoid you will focus on preventing the bad stuff instead of building something great. You can force everybody to sign NDAs and set up the whole bureaucracy protecting you from idea-stealers... which will probably drive the best people away and your great idea will go nowhere. Just my $0.02.
This is another "remote-working" meme - which is a Good Thing.

If you can work from a coffeeshop securely and productively, you have abstracted enough of the deployment processes to work well anywhere.
if I could upvote this +1000.

I am in the US and this is great advice for handling this.

Also, they may threaten you with all sorts of stuff (like taking your furniture, car, etc). This is illegal to do and COMPLETE scare tactic. Tell them to come and try it.

They will also tell you that they cannot accept payments. Hold strong and tell them that is the only way you can make it work.

Also, if you need some time to get this underway request 'original proof of debt'. This takes them a bit of time to get to you. You are entitled to it and gives you some breathing space to get ducks in a row.
The elements of a great API demo.
It's not really clear to me that without my help, the forces of evil patriarchy will prevail and women will be sexually harassed in the workplace forever. I know these kinds of narratives are popular because of some kind of siege mentality, but it simply doesn't match the reality that I can apprehend.
Yes, it should say "perhaps more so for our generation than the previous"
I have the 560 Ti mentioned in the article. It's a mid-to-high grade card, better than most $200 cards IMHO but if you're willing to spend the cash, it's not at all difficult to find a card with more horsepower. Dropping a cool kilodollar will net you a GTX 690 which seems to be the right relative speed. http://www.hwcompare.com/12683/geforce-gtx-560-ti-vs-geforce...

Edit: since Dubslow's reply, here's the comparison for the GTX 580: http://www.hwcompare.com/9133/geforce-gtx-560-ti-vs-geforce-... It's also about $400.
First, well done. It's hard doing this kind of thing in a vacuum, and this is a great start.

From my perspective, the inventory management piece needs some work. Think about it this way - you get a half dozen boxes in with four different styles of shirts in three colors and four sizes. What's the fastest way to get this information into inventory? Example: the long-sleeve shirt with piping arrives in two colors - in green you receive 1xs, 2s, 4m, 4l, 2xl, and in blue you receive 2xs, 3s, 3m, 3L, 1xl. Styles are rarely available for more than a season, so this is a process that is repeated again and again and again. Customers will also want to be able to track product cost, associate products with a vendor, and enter the vendor's sku. Otherwise, it's "We need to reorder those pink shirts. Where did we get those?"

I'd ditch the customer photo. It looks nice in the demo, but I don't really follow why an ecommerce customer would provide a photo. It also makes the rows on the Customers page really tall, which means that you get many fewer customers on a page. The same goes for the products page in the control panel - I'd keep the photos, but reduce the thumbnail size.

On the Products page, I'd want to be able to sort by sales for a given time period. I'd want to know which products are selling well, and which aren't.

Finally, I didn't see any shipping settings (apologies if I missed them)? You'll need to be able to calculate shipping cost for a given shipping provider (FedEx, UPS, USPS, etc) from the point of origin to the customer. Shipping costs are pretty much what makes or breaks an online retail company. Ideally, you'd allow for more than one carrier, since small/light items are usually much cheaper to ship via USPS.
The paper mentions that a numeric suffix scheme works fine if "you have a lot of machines and there are no reasons for any human to distinguish between them". I’d say modern production setup with a ton of configuration managed machines that no one logs into should be named this way.

This is more advice for "snowflake servers" and workstations.

As for geographic location I had (viewed) a bad experience college when a server in the main server room started DOSing another box in the same room. The culprit was ruled out for a very long while 'cause it’s name claimed that it was all the way across campus - so it couldn’t be the problem. Because of this I’m with the paper on the no geography in names point. Geography in names causes thinking errors in people.
Haven't tried it, but from the screenshots, it seems you need to open the url in the browser.

If your goal is so the app allows users a quick view of the stories, having a built in viewer would be nice. Personally I hate switching between apps a lot, and I'm guessing using this would mean - Open story; Switch to Safari to read story; Switch back to Hacky to see next story which if you read more than 1-2 articles would get boring quickly. Just an idea for a future version.

Aside from that, good luck and good job.

Bruno
The most shitty looking part is that canopy. I wouldn't want to drive a car looking through that, much less a plane.
You can't use

vim

anyway in git: you must give it the full path.
The deal is not guaranteed to close. Merger Arbitrage funds help support the price, but most stock holders are happy exiting with the upside they just gained while not risking a few pennies per share on the possibility of the deal not closing.

This is common price action during M&A.