skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that point of view, and that's totally how I'd approach it, but because of the new joint program I'd be able to get the master's in the same amount of time that I would spend on a bachelor's anyways, sorry if I didn't make that clear. I definitely wouldn't spend an additional year or two doing a master's otherwise, but this program reduces the opportunity cost pretty significantly.
I would hope not, but this makes me skeptical. Does this mean that the trading engine and the website are the same entity?
Great April Fools video - Penguins in London
The difference between the Hohmann transfer orbit available every two-ish years and the low-energy opportunities is not significant enough to impact mission viability.

The reason a mission to Mars is "scheduled" for 2030's is because that's the nearest date outside of government budgeting schedules. It would take us 10 years to put together a focused effort (like the Apollo program), there's absolutely no plan to do so right now or over the next 10 years of the government budget. So by that sketchy line of thinking, the earliest this could happen is 2013 + 20 years, or 2033.

Maybe I'm showing my age, but I remember a decade ago "the Mars landing" was scheduled for the 2020's. In the 90's we were talking about the 2010's (now!). I bet you when 2020 rolls around, it'll be the 2040's that we're looking towards.
> The companies also charge the company discriminates against cancer patients because it does not accept city coupons for discount rides for them.

Wow... nice play on cancer issue there. Very dirty too. One could argue that city discriminates against non-cancer patients by discounting only on specific illness. Since city is not controlling Uber, they are not forced to honour any city-issued coupons.
Hmm, so perhaps the best, most damaging attack on them would be to attack their NOC, and open up their routing to the rest of the world. At some point they have a filter in place - if you we're to quietly remove hat filter, how long would t take them to figure it out?

Academics in North Korea apparently are trusted with some access to the Internet at large, so there is a route.
(b0ttler0cket):

I think this question has a lot to do with risk and reward. Graham addresses this (at this point, it's a bit of a blur. Whenever I hear something like this, I just randomly pull out some of this reasoning).

I may not be able to paraphrase exactly, but in regards to your question about regret and risk, the reasoning may have gone something like this:

1. Age is important. Younger people can afford to take more risks for the simple reason that they seem to have more time to mitigate any damage from the mistakes should they fail. Also, younger people are less likely to be parents already or have a family.

2. Attitude is important too. Some of this comes down to what you can better tolerate. Startups are like sprints. Employment is like long distance running. Do you want to cram the bulk of your expendable energy into a few years of intensely hard work (and stress) with an uncertain payoff, or do you want to work moderately with a very decent payoff and still have the time to enjoy family, a relationship, long walks in the park, jogging after work for as long as you want, weekend-long trips to the beach. I feel like a lot of people in HN, if given the choice between startup and employment, would say startup hands-down. But if you look at it this way, I believe the decision is a little harder for many people.

3. Maybe the most important. You have to believe in yourself, your product, and your ability to come up with ideas if you want to do this. I cannot picture a scarier situation (in regards to startups) than starting one full of doubt, anxiety, and overall insecurity. If you do this, you have put all your chips in the pot, keeping in mind that there's no bluffing and no turning back (well there might be turning back, but you definitely shouldn't be planning to). You have to have the cards to back up your all-in. Having the cards means having the guts to stick it through, having some level of smart, being adept at troubleshooting problems, and having a fairly good idea from the start even though it's subject to change in various degrees.

I believe (1-3) addresses your concerns about regret to commission of a startup. In terms of whether a startup makes you unemployable, I do not see why a startup would bar you from further employment. Potential employers could point to the fact that there may be a hole in your CV where you weren't employed for a year or two, but you can easily describe your startup experiences and couple that explanation with why that experience makes you more valuable as an employee. Remember, you still have to be able to speak on your good points with ease and decisiveness whether or not you've engaged in a startup.
It's not a stupid idea, it's a problem that smart folks have been banging their head against for a long time now. Take a look at the "TLS Snap Start" proposal to see the lengths to which one must be willing to go to avoid that round trip.

But some low-hanging fruit remains. Improvements to clients and servers that increase TLS session resumption rates would help too.
There's no advantage to them in people using iMessage. They can easily get your text messages already.

You could go high-tinfoil and claim they would rather people iMessaged than using whatsapp or some other free message service? But anyone thinking about avoiding federal intercepts would use neither of these things rendering this piece worthless.

So what do they actually have to gain?

It seems more likely to me that this is a real problem than a PR piece.
"Externalizing isn't just pictures. It's words, as well."

Indeed. In her memoir Images and Shadows, Iris Origo quotes Virginia Woolf on a visit to Thomas Hardy, in which (as I recall--I don't have the book here) Woolf was constantly aware of how she was going to be writing it up.
Even better, facebook sends me email to my old email address asking to come back on fb when I am still on fb but with a new and different email address on the same account that I updated. Go figure!!
Bitcoin makes for some great speculation, but I absolutely cannot treat it as a currency until the prices stabilize independent of the exchange used.
"The way to think about it is, HBO costs $600/year and you get some crappy free TV with it."

I find plenty of the "free" TV so offensively terrible that I'll nearly pay more for the TV I want just so no subsidization hits the rest.
I wrote the outline of one[0] a while back with gorilla and it wasn't too difficult. Be warned that some of the code is less-than-idiomatic, since I began it while I was still learning Go. There's definitely some refactoring that can be done, etc.

However, as you can see, it's not too difficult to write a basic CRUD app with authentication, even if you're starting completely from scratch (which you don't have to; I did it more as a learning exercise).

I disagree with jbooth; I find Go's templating language to be incredibly mature, and I also find it much easier to develop with gorilla than something like Flask, if for no other reason than the static compilation and incredibly thorough code analysis/other checking done at compile-time (unused lvalues, etc.)

[0] https://github.com/chimeracoder/go-server-bootstrap
I like it, it's useless, but I like useless.
Umm i think regulations came because the of the sorry state of taxis. I don't know how many times i've been ripped off in a taxi. I assume people complained and the taxi industry got heavily regulated. Just look outside the US for comparison.
The article actually means static stretching. I grew up knowing the difference and used dynamic stretching[1] pre-explosive events and static stretching at off-times.

[1] Fire hydrants, Scorpions, Iron Crosses, Skipping, etc.
Distributed Denial of Service by John Markoff
Did anyone else make the return trip and get disappointed there was no "welcome home"?
Weird. Must have shut down postgres.app by accident the last time I tried it or something.

Cheers!
That is a fantastic commit message. I try and convince anyone I work with that they should write commit messages like this. Slowly, but surely, they come around.
See "The Case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin (manned landing 10 years from project start, then every 2 years thereafter), or the various hints dropped by Musk in interviews as to his plan.
It is almost certainly just randomly created text from a tool like http://www.lipsum.com/

I just used that site to make this: http://translate.google.co.uk/#auto/en/Nunc%20velit%20erat%2....
Do You Have a Startup Idea? 29 Questions To Determine It's Viability
there is none, just like there is none in Python. PyGame is not a standard library package. Did you install PyGame by hand, or did you use their installer? Internally, it actually has a lot of moving parts; not only does Go not have PyGame itself, it'll be a while before we even have the parts that PyGame requires to make something like it in Go. Python was nine years old by the time PyGame started, and it was another few years before it achieved traction; Go isn't nine years old now, so... it's not surprising that there's nothing quite like PyGame. We don't have that level of maturity with Go. Those things will likely come in time, but for now, that's a trade-off.

Anyway, there are rumors that you can use OpenGL from Go, but I've never tried it.

https://github.com/go-gl

and if you really want graphics, why not use Processing, OpenFrameworks, Cinder, or one of the languages supported by Unity? Go tends to really shine for writing servers. Of course, you could always use Go to write a game server for a multiplayer PyGame game.
"This is the most pathetic justification for piracy I've ever heard."

Convenience is a value inherent to any product.
What kind of sources do you have to back up this theory? Never heard of that before.
Google App Engine is a good free tier alternative. You have to use their SDK or use the Django-nonrel library, but I've overall been happy.
Zero days are sold to the government by perfectly legitimate businesses, and the crap they don't buy is what ends up either in places like ZDI or eventually the black market.
Persistent emails does not win me over. In fact when a reputed company / product I may have once tried sends me irrelevant emails, I just use the spam button.

Don't call (email) me, I'll call you (visit your website when i need to).
Everybody who scales rapidly has some growing pains, so I'm sympathetic. But I agree that by advertising that as a feature they're specifically asking customers to outsource this hard problem to them.
Ehhh, I don't know. I mean, yeah, I agree with the general gist of your blog post there, but... For some startups, especially early-stage startups, they do need money...not necessarily big money, but enough money to actually start at all. Or, let me put it a different way, even for the very early stage startups, capital can be very important - in at least some cases.

I'm thinking of the bootstrapper scenario, where the founders don't have the kind of cash reserves just lying around, to enable them to quit and work on the startup fulltime right away. So they're forced to keep dayjobs and work on the project nights and weekends. Now, you can get a lot done, especially from a product standpoint, working nights and weekends. But when you need to go out and meet people (potential customers, partners, distributors, investors, whatever)... well, those people usually expect to do business during "business hours". If you have a potential customer on the table, but you can't meet with them because you're at work at your 9-5 all day, or because you can't afford to fly to $EAST_BUMFUCK, or whatever, it really puts a crimp in things.

Of course, I'm not saying it can't be done... In fact, I'm in the middle of doing this myself, and we find workarounds: I meet people over lunch, or come in early and leave early at the $DAYJOB so I can meet early afternoon (or flip it around for a breakfast meeting), and I use Skype, chat, etc. to do remote meetings. And we solve the travel expense problem by focusing on customers who are geographically close to us. And for us, the advantages of bootstrapping justify doing this for now. But I can see where many startups would really need - at a bare minimum - enough money for the founders to be able to work on the project fulltime, and maybe some money to cover incidental expenses from going through Customer Development.
Bitter Apple: A History Of Apple's Apologies
Heroku Postgres Databases Patched
I think crowdfunding is an excellent idea but it's too early to see how it plays out. It could fail; it could be The New Thing. Too early to tell.

One idea I've had, which I think has major steam, is passive payment. Given that my consulting rate is high (full rate I don't disclose but it's well over $200/h; however, I give lower rates, sometimes zero, for businesses I believe in and non-profits) it really isn't a major cost to pay $2/hour for websurfing. That's a rounding error. I have no problem paying $0.25 for the time it took to write this post because the value of the time itself is an order of magnitude greater.

People would need to have the ability to calibrate their passive payment, obviously. For me, $2/hour is nothing; for the developed world, it's far too much.

Right now, advertising is the only passive payment system we have and it's extraordinarily inefficient.

Passive payment would make living by blogging much easier. For example, I get about 1700 hits per day (2.5 minutes each) on my blog. If we assume the average web user sets his passive payment level to $1.00 per hour (median would be lower; mean might be around that) then I'd be making $70 per day. Not enough to live on (in New York) but it would almost cover my too-damn-high rent.

Passive payment would also be great for time-tracking. I probably wouldn't waste as much time if I realized "holy shit, I wasted $0.73 reading that garbage!"

Finally, it would obsolete those damn paywalls. I don't mind paying 95 cents to read a good NYT article (again, the time is much a greater expense) but bringing out my credit card is a hassle.
So much cheaper than a medallion...no wonder they are mad. Everybody gets mad when they have to pay a bribe and then find out they are the only ones that paid.
It's mostly luck.
I've never used Facebook, but I'm flooded with messages from Twitter and LinkedIn which are identical to these.

Personally, I'd be much more likely to read and consider re-signing by way of less frequent messages which suggest how the product has been improved and why I might want to come back.

Incessant "FOMO" pressure just trains me to ignore that pattern.
Facts don't change.
What is bad is that sometimes you can't cancel a bid or an offer and you end up selling or buying something you didn't want.

Well that's actually bad if you day trade... which is kinda bad for the currency anyway.
"It’s not real life, of course, because people overwhelmingly post about the good things whereas all the crappy, dull or deep stuff doesn’t get mentioned."

I think social media is what you make of it and who you stack your social media accounts with. If you stack them with people who only post how awesome they are, this is what you will get out of it.

My Twitter feed is a rollercoaster. I have people who share their awesome moments and their horrible moments and their thoughts and hopes and dreams and their humour. If you "follow" just anyone just because you want to be popular and have a lot of followers, you ARE going to get a lot of junk and no real content. Rather than "stopping our externalizing" I think that we, as the viewers of our social media feeds, need to take responsibility for the kind of people we choose to have in our feed.

Honestly, trying to tell people what to or not to post is like censorship. Stop burning the books and instead make a choice not to read them. Fill your life with content that makes you happy.
20x performance for the same HW price: GPGPU-based Machine Learning at Yandex
A few years earlier, and the only copy of this stuff would have been on a 3.5" floppy.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later
Actually for them it's a feature, and there is an API call for that: http://mtgox.com/api/1/generic/order/lag
Currently: "lag_secs":85.319123
Comparison OrientDB vs Titan and Neo4j?
Pranking a hackerspace IRC for April Fool’s Day
Apple can get access to the keys because they control the platform. I have no doubt in my mind that Apple can produce end-user keys and traffic if they were served a warrant from any US court.
I am actually not a supporter of a custom parser. But yes, it might end up happening.
Nope, the medallion systems exist to block new competition. Sure there are some regulations that seem to favor consumers-- such as price controls-- but these are a short-term benefit, and at the cost of reduced innovation. Far better to allow competition, and customer service will improve through market action rather than government rule-making.
I'm not trying to say that I'm entitled to steal it. But I can and there is a small chance of any consequence, so, yeah, I'm going to.
Hack on ClojureScript, Python, and AngularJS in Tutorspree's NYC office
It's really cool, but last time it was posted I used it and found it a little sluggish.
Healthy food is cheaper than junk food, except by the only metric that matters
Look at it from the other perspective: I really like to check Facebook or Twitter and see what my friends and family are doing, what they're enjoying, what they are thinking. By sharing these things, they are also making me happier.
It wouldn't be a problem if taxi's weren't limited by the government. Personally I think a taxi should be able to go wherever/whenever they want, even if that includes turning down fares or charging a surcharge to go somewhere they don't want to go.

If it's profitable to go from manhattan to brooklyn that need will be served, if it's not profitable then they need to raise the price - why should manhattan riders subsidize brooklyn?
actually, IE has comparable performance to Chrome (at least in webGL), but they tuned it by silently dropping frames. ;p
so yes, Im pretty sure M$ technologies are written really well and could not be trivially optimized by as much as 20%. :)
The Times They Are A Changing
It's thursday.
I could cite multiple reasons, but the main one I see is that the people who pay for and specify the requirements of a project are often nontechnical and don't delegate any decision making authority to technical personnel, no matter how much talent is in the pool. Repeated attempts to bring up issues are met with blank stares, as if a foreign language is being used (and to nontechnical people, it is). I've gotten calls at 5 PM on a Friday that "Our new site (hosted on a third party server) is going live on Monday! We need a domain and an SSL certificate." In a corporate or institutional environment, bureaucratic obstacles can make such a request impossible. Throw in a VIP who won't budge, and you're about to ruin the weekend for multiple employees who will remain gun-shy about disclosing any problems in the future.
Thank you for the link, this one actually has a worth. However, I think it is too derisive.

I found "the Web" page interesting. 4 years before "The Facebook", it seems like the idea of showing real-life people connections was already vivid in his mind.

Direct link to Mark's website: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/
When you're talking about encryption pessimism is the default. The whole point is lack of trust.
This is just a side note, but on april 2 every cab in my city was suspended from service for safety violations.

http://www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/All-Manchester-taxis-suspen...

The taxi industry is not a good thing to leave unregulated. If you think uber wouldn't operate just like the rest of them because they're a trendy startup, you're delusional.

I acknowledge the call for regulation is over travel destination, but in general I sense some free market idealism here that needs to be squashed.
>It seems more likely to me that this is a real problem than a PR piece.

You don't mean that a reputable tech news site would ever use 'Apple' and 'iSomething' in a headline for SEO bate?
Sounds like a much simplified version of Douglas Lenat's Cyc project [1], which has been going since the mid eighties and is attempting to build a structured knowledgebase/ontology of everyday knowledge. They have freely downloadable subset called OpenCyc [2]. It seemed pretty impressive last time I looked at it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

[2] http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc
If you start gdb without -tui, and press ^Xo, it will switch to tui mode. I don't know if they've "fixed" this in newer versions, but I've found it useful.

That key sequence is emacs for switch to other window. If you're an emacs user but use gdb in the console it's the kind of thing you'll discover by accident sooner or later.
Has Anyone Checked the Code to make sure its not a Great Way to Serve some Wicked 1990s Java Virus...
How does this affect the ability to run staging vs production environments? We had been looking at using dotCloud thanks in large part to the ability to run as many staging environments as we needed on the same infrastructure.

With that said the possibility of using the open source variety - bringing along with it the ability to use it outside of US East - sounds pretty promising.
Stop building social networks, and solve a f***ing problem
Why do you assume the regulated entity will be better? Private carriers UPS and FedEx deliver to the doorstep of my farm, whereas the "universal service" US Postal Service won't come near us and requires we have a PO Box in town.
I don't think you have to have a database starting with - for the bug to work.
I deleted after reading the article and realizing that it was talking about HBO in Europe, which apparently does run ads during the shows.
We can convert apps (including staging servers) to Live pretty quickly, usually the same business day. Or you can create a Live app yourself and re-push the code there, still talking to your staging database (giving you more time to copy the data on that database to the new application).
Do it, it involves about 3 seconds of downtime per server to run sudo aptitide update and sudo aptitude upgrade . Other package management tools should be equally speedy. If you've rolled your own postgresql binary, get the new sources, re-build, stop services, replace binaries, start services (the old drill...)

The upgrade (on Debian based systems at least) is for libpq5, postgresql-9.1 and postgresql-client-9.1 . You shouldn't need to do anything else unless, for some strange reason, you actually do have a database starting with "-".

Also, I wish you a fine hike!

(probably commented too late, but I hope you had a nice hike, nonetheless)
Ex-Zynga employees lament bungled OMGPOP acquisition
One of the reasons that I got into photography is that I found that people around me were doing a piss-poor job of capturing those "important moments" (especially the important moments of my own life). So at many events with friends, my presence with a camera lets other people keep their phones in their pockets to enjoy the experience while I'm the one capturing it.

And it's a really cool experience to upload an album and see everyone instantly forming a web of interaction within a few minutes. Not just liking and commenting, but sometimes 40% of the attendees using your photo(s) as their profile pictures; all identifying themselves through your viewfinder.
I liked the looks of http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596804381.do when I browsed it in a bookstore. But I got my start with the book citizenkeys recommends, and largely I get by with the on-line documentation.
China is overfishing its official catch number by 12x, report shows
More Bitcoins, more problems