skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These two spies are irrelevant to Tony Blair's clerks who were so desperate to actually take a student's thesis (!) as a constructed "proof" for the Irag's WMD, it's documented since 2003:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgy_dossier
California introduces 'right to know' data access bill
I find that white people complain the most about racial categorizations... but also talk about racial categorizations the most.

And who made up the categories, and laws that discriminated based on categories, and who still holds the power to use those categories. It's largely white people.

It seems to me like denial, hypocrisy, or both.

(I say that as a person of color. Being Asian, I am a relatively privileged color, too, compared to black and brown people. That's just a fact. At the individual level, though, I know plenty of black and brown people who not only have more privilege than I, but grew up with more than I did and have networks that are more powerful than mine.)
Threadjacking. Bad enough in other threads, utterly without respect in this one.
This Angelfire page could be the first website of 15yo Mark Zuckerberg
If you are doing security for a Bitcoin site, your motto should be "I am an idiot and am forgetting something very basic." Then you should try to figure out how to protect yourself from your own idiocy despite being stupid.

And you should never assume you just got smart.
Amen. The fairtax.org proposal or a flat tax would appear to be much better from a filing, management, & administrative perspective.

For those who care about progressive vs regressive - the fairtax proposal actually proposes a pre-bate to families to allow for income disparities and the affect on lower income families.

One would think it would be possible to create a similar pre-bate system to assuage concerns for a flat tax.
Technically, they already have, since the Freespace 2 code was open-sourced.[1] And there have been multiple space-flight Kickstarter projects, such as Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous, and Limit Theory.

[1] http://scp.indiegames.us/
The interesting thing is that more of the anomalous results are coming from astronomical observations and in general non-collider experiments.

Colliders have been really successful where they can be applied and have given a consistent footing to build upon, but there seems to be large areas still to explore at the weakly-interacting end of the things.
pity that, professionals were suposed to be held to a higher standard then common criminals
Bitcoin is not a bank, and does not replace banks.

There's nothing stopping anyone from setting up a bank that handles your bitcoin transactions, and therefore can reverse transactions between two parties.

Replace "Bitcoin" with "Dollar" and you see how strange your statement is.
Haha, sounds like you've met a Lacanian (Lacan was famous for saying, among other things, that "the unconscious is structured like a language"). Such reductionist intellectualizations (aka "man, everything is a pineapple!") are neat to meditate on, but they alone won't give you tangible results or something you can use to forecast events and test hypotheses.
Depends on the countries laws. What makes you think anyone attorney is going to prosecute the theft of a "digital currency." At this time in the world most people when informed of bitcoin think it's a toy currency.
And the CEO of Electronic Arts.
I will encourage you like I have in several other posts, example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484850, at this point to contact the FBI. If this was happening over a 56k modem on a phone line it would clearly be wire tapping.

I do not currently see a downside, if you see one let me know.
Thank you everyone for your valuable feedback! :)
Discipline is the hard one.
You made me think "if there's a site for online storage of wallets and someone has paid the amount of money needed for decent security for it, it's probably because the government is running it."
Properly interpreting this data is hard. For instance, the relation between 'Desktop OS' and 'Compensation' suggests Windows 8 users earn significantly more, on average, than Linux users. However, if you dig a bit further, you find that Linux use is much higher in countries where 'Compensation' is much lower across the board. So the relationship between 'Desktop OS' and 'Compensation' is a proxy for the relationship between 'Country' and 'Compensation', which makes it much less surprising.
Off-topic, but I just wanted to let you know that I use another one of your sites (Lessmeme.com) everyday and I think I'm in love with you.
Bids By Pros Not Only About Biding But Is A Free Social Community.
while cryptographic hashes would fit the bill, there's plenty non-cryptographic hashes with equally good key distribution properties and avalanche behaviour, that are an order of magnitude faster to compute (some, like the FNV hash are even super-easy to implement yourself). These are the hashes used in hash-tables etc, not cryptographic hashes.
...Wouldn't that fail a reasonable definition of "early Christian"?

There may be a reasonable definition of "early Christian" that it fails, but it certainly wouldn't fail all reasonable definitions of the phrase.
I'm asking to have C/C++ compared to JIT'ed Javascript. You are explaining how Javascript is so much faster than it used to be, and that it's 10x faster than Python. The fact that I mentioned JIT'ed Javascript should have given away that I understand Javascript's current performance.

If Javascript were fast enough, we wouldn't be looking for "4-10x" improvements with ASM.js and NaCL. Are we close to the limit of what can be done to improve Javascript performance? Perhaps another 2x?
This is missing their seed stage investments
Very useful post. It's great to see these kinds of processes documented, might be nice to see some funnel metrics too - talking to some folks that also do (or need) small business customer acquisition, it seems there are a lot of sticky points in that process. My personal experience with small businesses is fairly hands-off, and from a large company, so it's nice to see the other side.

Couple of thoughts:

I'd expect that having successful vendor directories under your belt makes it more likely that someone will sign up, because you seem way more legitimate. Perhaps there are some stats from the most successful site you could use in the sales technique, e.g. "Our most successful invitation vendors see over 10 new customer leads a day from our site". (Or perhaps that's something for later on in the process, if a customer isn't convinced.)

Love the human aspect, the number of emails I (still) get at my old company address from people who clearly have no idea what the company does or what I would be interested in... It's pretty astounding.

I'm torn on the "I'll create your profile for you". I've had a few spammy emails where they effectively said "You've been listed in $directory! Here's your listing! Now pay us so you can do stuff with it". Urgh. Red flags. I wonder if there's some intermediate step that works even better, like "I can create a profile for you, here's the information I have about you" - a little more personalisation.

It also just occurred to me that to really get inside the customer's head for something like this, you could set up a vendor site yourself and see what kinds of emails come in :) Probably more useful if this customer acquisition process is going very badly, than immediately at the start.
Reminds me of the infamous compression challenge where one person tried to cheat and win the prize by storing data in filenames: http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm
Amazon is in this funny position where they can't help but compete with their clients because almost every internet company is their client.
You can't watch TV and code. You're always doing one or the other. I think it's probably worth separating those two things into separate blocks.
so rofl video
If you use Java with Thrift, you should check out Swift:

https://github.com/facebook/swift

Swift is an annotation-based library for creating Thrift types and services. It was created to be an alternative to code generation, which is generally a pain for Java development. Swift generates bytecode at runtime, so you get all the performance advantages of code generation with none of the development disadvantages.

The idea with Swift is that you own the annotated classes and can fully customize them to your liking, independent of the IDL and wire format. For example, you can name the methods whatever you want, add documentation, helper methods, etc. When implementing a client for Thrift service, you only need the methods that you actually call.

You can use swift-generator-cli to generate the initial versions of the classes from existing Thrift IDL, which you then customize and maintain yourself. Alternatively, you can use swift-maven-plugin, which is pure Java (no external C++ binary), to generate code at compile time.

This project is in active development and use at Facebook, so please give it a try and let us know what you think!
I have a hard time justifying TV or Movie prices since I am going to watch once or twice VS music that I will listen to forever. Interestingly enough they offer plenty of music services to stream audio and very few for video where (at least for me) it would make far more sense as I am only going to watch once and I don't care much about owning the rights to it.
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Did it take them three years to launch? I know there is tech behind this but if it doesn't take off then they're fairly stuck.
Ask HN: What Incentive's do you like?
What are different incentive strategies do you like that will get you to use a certain mobile app feature?

-Power (Status and Badges)
-Money (Through Points)
-Social Recognition (Badges)
-Ego
-Goodwill

I am creating an app that has a feature which requires a user to tag a venue as "interesting". but trying to figure out how to get them to do this behavior. What has worked in the past for you?
You're deploying a really fucked up stereotype of poor people being heavy drinkers and alcoholics. It's like saying let's go to the ghetto and participate in the culture by doing something self-destructive and negative. That kind of slumming is offensive.

You might as well have said go to a Mexican neighborhood and buy some weed and smoke out on the corner, or say go to a Black neighborhood and buy some crack and smoke it in the car, and then check out how fucked up the situation is.

Or how about go to the trailer park, buy some speed, snort it and check out how jacked up the hillbillies are.

I read the whole article, and even share some of your sentiments, but that one part really upset me. It kind of killed the article for me.
To replace income tax, sales tax would have to be 18%. If you exclude housing, medical, and food you'd need a 30% rate.

Even if you give credits to the poor (which means we still track all income) how would you ever take a 'fair' amount of tax from the rich? The current tax on someone making $400K from a job is ~37% with federal/state/local. So you're reducing their tax burden more than half (if they spend 100% of what they make). In fact, they spend much less than they save, so if they buy $50K of stuff a year, their taxes are nearly eliminated ($8K in taxes versus $400K income). You can't provide the lower income people enough relief without adding to the debt (or raising the sales tax to something absurd, in which case low income people would need weekly credits or something).

This idea is insane.
I tend to put stuff on that I've already seen, that way I don't have to concentrate on things, partly it's there to have something to stop it being quiet
while your comment hints at lying and omitting information, i have some concrete anecdote on doing exactly that.

when i moved to the US, ernerst&young (the most incompetent financial firm i've ever worked with) besides doing several things wrong out of incompetence, told me to fill a form listing my overseas banking account. i checked that it was almost mandatory (the wording is not very clear) so i filled and submitted it.

then now, a few years later, checking the IRS website, they call you to fill that form and boast that "since some 3 years 30.000 people informed the IRS of their overseas accounts"

...really? 3 yrs... and there's 30.000 people in the US with overseas accounts?

So yeah, i can understand why people do not want the IRS to be informed of everything. it seems that trying to leave it in the dark is the way to go.
Think About This
Indian ISP 'BSNL' launches In-Car Wifi (Hardware Cost: 100-120$)
Exactly! It is very easy to think oh, I'll do this now and carry on later, then later get distracted with things.

At home especially, dishes to wash, rooms to clean, always something that could be done but separation is a must
Terry has Alzheimer's, not cancer. Arguably more tragic as it's slow and lingering, destroying your mind long before your body goes.
If you adjust for COL, it's not close. The U.S. dominates. AUS has very high minimum wages which drives up costs. Look at Steam games in AUD vs. USD.
where are these numbers coming from?
Are they regulated as though they are a bank?
When I look at such summarized reports of AWS, it occurs to me how mature and comprehensive their platform is. Does any other commercial cloud vendor offer such a plethora of services under a single unified umbrella for startups?

Even their prices are extremely competitive when talking about the small to mid range scale. It is amazing what this company has done in terms of innovating and bringing frictionless cloud services to individuals with about $100 in their pocket.
Ah! It's back. No need to downvote me on this, I wasn't on the attack. Try hitting "reply" to say that's not the case. I merely wanted to see what was happening!
I think they rely heavily on their sterling brand for that consistency. Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 have done very well commercially, but most of the enthusiasts I talked to were fairly disappointed, and some of them even remarked that Blizzard has left their "autobuy" list. They were one of maybe two developers on that list for me, but I think that explains their very consistently massive success - they used to turn out games that were consistently much better than the competition's, especially in terms of replay value, and so they got on that list for a lot of people.
They are probably hoping this will be the basis for their Tizen browser.
I want to write about this in another post, but previously I spent a lot of time going to events like barcamps and meetups and even though I wasn't going with the express intention of selling myself, I'm still getting leads and emails today from those meet ups.

There is so much of 'not what you know, who you know' and a lot of work these days that I get is through recommendations, I'd highly recommend taking some time each week to go to local meetups (not so much business related ones) as not only will you find people in a similar situation, you might find you can work with some of them later
What are some awesome mobile games? The vast majority of the ones I've played have felt extremely shallow, and couldn't hold my attention for very long at all, so I'd love to find a few consistent go-to's for when I'm on a train and don't feel like playing a puzzle game.
I don't know what point you're trying to make here. People will mine Gold on asteroids as a byproduct of mining for everything else. And they will mine Gold because it has value (as jewelry, in industry, etc.) And over time so much Gold will be mined in such a way as to vastly change the value of Gold and transform it as a medium of stored value.
And then a 17 year old launches before you and takes your customers.
It reminds me that it wasn't so long ago that the thought of traveling from New Zealand to California in a few hours was inconceivable.

Thus, to assume that we have reached the pinnacle of knowledge, be it regarding physics, or any other school of thought, is similar to religious fundamentalism, and seems to be rather restrictive instead of "enlightened."
I'm sure there are more than two ;)
It depends heavily on the specific area of biology. I have friends making $35-40k in the LA area doing pharamaceutalogical research, and others making $250k+/year (also in the LA area) in some specialized areas of biochemical research that I don't understand enough to describe.
Re profile visibility, I think they need to separate Rdio and Vdio. I might want to share the music I listen to, but not the movies I watch. Currently you can set both public, or both private, but not a mix.

Even if you set it "private", the opt-in seems a little "scary". They seem to want you to consent repeatedly that they're not violating the Video Privacy Protection Act[1] regardless of what they do?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
Ah yes, the good old days when we got to argue over the fine points of the differences between an "Interrupt" and an "Instant" effect.
I'd say do both. If you can get a job with just the developer boot camp then that is probably worth while. I haven't done a boot camp so I don't know what they cover but there is quite a lot to computer science. Yes you may be able to program and do some software jobs but you would probably be constraining yourself to a small set of jobs.

Take a look at these for an idea of depth of software development:
http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...
http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/
This tl;dr totally misses the point of the article about a new innovative incubator model. Read the article , it's interesting.
It's almost as if what was first written as a Magic the Gathering Online Trading platform isn't a bulletproof banking website.
Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...
GitHub Style for Large Screens
A staggering number of people in any large organization are basically working as a sort of "information filter" to simply condense information and report it up the organizational food chain. A sufficiently clever combination of OCR, NLP, and ML could automate a lot of those jobs. In other words, the executive set needs a Summly for industry intelligence. (Startup idea that I'm sure someone with VC connections has thought of already)

The trouble with PDFs is they're designed to be consumed by human eyes only. Any attempt to automatically extract information from them is fundamentally a hacky scrape-job.
if you spend enough time in industry hopefully you will cross path with some "mythological creatures"
Looks like it's just Stripe without any CMS-type platform
It's even easier in Finland, you don't need to do anything, it's all automatic. If you want changes to be done to the prefilled form, you can do it online.
That's because they're not the target audience. It's a call to action for everyone who may have witnessed a scenario like that one and didn't tell the guy to fuck off.
> Copy-on-write DOM. In Servo, the DOM is a versioned data structure that is shared between the content (JavaScript) task and the layout task, allowing layout to run even while scripts are reading and writing DOM nodes.

Wow
>Personally, I don't want filing to be simpler. Every time it gets simpler to file, it also becomes simpler to add more taxes and people don't notice the difference. It's only when people have to do their taxes that they realize how screwy our system is. The 1099 independent contractors understand this one.

Empirical evidence from countries where tax forms are prefilled doesn't seem to support this notion very much.
Google Announces Blink, Its Own Rendering Engine For WebKit
> "Intelligent routing is hard, so fuck it"

Ok, let's really dig in on this. Is this truly a case of us being lazy? We just can't be bothered to implement something that would make our customers' lives better?

The answer to these questions is no.

Single global request queues have trade-offs. One of those tradeoffs is more latency per request. Another is availability on the app. Despite the sentiment here on Hacker News, most of our customers tell us that they're not willing to trade lower availability and higher latency per request for the efficiencies of a global request queue.

Are there other routing implementations that would be a happy medium between pure random (routers have no knowledge of what dynos are up to) and perfect, single global queue (routers have complete, 100% up-to-date knowledge of what dynos are up to)? Yes. We're experimenting with those; so far none have proven to be overwhelmingly good.

In the meantime, concurrent backends give the ability to run apps at scale on Heroku today; and offer other benefits, like cost efficiencies. That's why we're leaning on this area in the near term.
edit you made my day, thank you /edit

Thanks. In trying to boil down the article, may have over boiled. Hard when all I'm thinking about is executing ignition next month. They did a nice job, and I'm quite thankful for it.
If the Earth were 100 pixels wide
2.5 pound brick! Glad we don't have to carry those around anymore.
Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine
But there's no point to linking to a website that's not responding.
While I agree with the author's general sentiment here, he doesn't offer any evidence for his claim (besides anecdotal). Many successful people do put work first, plain and simple.

I choose to spend time not working because I value things other than wealth/power/work (as most people do). But if you want to make a lot of money, working 100 hours a week is a pretty obvious way to do that, IMO.
Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump), only to drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop), then jump to US$1.45 in 2011 (20% jump), only to drop back down to around US$1.29 today.[3]

Are these movements different than a historical norm? You provide numbers with no context - it seems as if a movement of 100% in 6 years is meant to be shocking because 100% is a big number.
A big difference then was that you could expect to reliably sell your used game back after you finished playing it, if you didn't want to hang on to it. So if you were into playing a lot of games and only keeping your all time favorites, you could reduce that cost significantly. And at the same time, if you were willing to wait a little bit after a launch, you could have the game for a nice discount. How often are you able to sell a game you pay $60 for today? And it doesn't help that the same game is repackaged and sold 10 times over a few years by the same company, each time for $60. At best that's a DLC, maybe worth $10 or $15, not another $60. :|
>The fact that I mentioned JIT'ed Javascript should have given away that I understand Javascript's current performance.

Sure, but "understanding" is different than appreciating.

After all, a JIT is not some magic wand. If a language is very dynamic, memory hungry, less prone to optimizations, etc, JIT code will still be slower than C/C++. Plus, not everything in a JS program is getting JITed.

>Are we close to the limit of what can be done to improve Javascript performance?

With Javascript as it is, yes. Maybe some 2x at best. If we add type hints, contiguous storage, and frozen object guarantees though (some of which ES6 has, IIRC) that can be improved further.
And this ladies and gentlemen is the reason that Bitcoin has a lot of work to go before it will be accessible to the non-technophile community.