skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to say what works best since we have so many different backgrounds on the team. I think having an interesting portfolio of projects (professional or side / hobby type stuff) is important - make sure you've done some awesome stuff that you can map onto what you might do here. Also, hone your communication skills. A big part of success at SpaceX is being able to work with others in a team and quickly get ideas across. Getting an internship is definitely a good way to go - we usually give interns pretty meaty projects that are a good taste of what full-time work might be like. Good luck!
If one unethical junk already exists, why another needs to be created and specifically in HTML? Let's keep the Web clean.
Lately?

compute001-fluffy-switch-nv

Rinse and repeat!
Have you considered working with the retailers or manufacturers? I suspect retailers would love something like this if you could bring their past customers back into their store.

My second thought is that I hope you are spending most if your energies talking to your potential customers/channels. I suspect the feedback here will be of limited value give. How far we are from your target.

Good luck!
> Maybe Apple needs to go private so there won't be anymore pressure from the so called finance industry and they could concentrate again to build awesome products.

This doesnt really make sense in Apple's case since they're at a such a gigantic size. The closing market cap 381B - cash 145B is a huge number. Who's going to pitch in to buy the rest of those shares? Good luck getting that done without any input from those you call the "finance industry".
You seem to have understood this for the most part. What this really boils down to is simple economics: supply and demand. Apple says they will spend $100 Billion to buy back shares. But who's shares will they buy, yours, mine? How to decide? How does this help shareholders?

Well... as it turns out, people who know about this news will realize that there is an increased demand for Apple Stock (since Apple effectively entered the market to buy their own shares). These people will hold out to sell at a higher price. More buyers means greater value for the product -the stock in this case. Others will follow slowly causing the price to gradually rise, the stock rose ~4.6% after the news broke.

People who want to sell will take the money and sell (at the higher price), while others will hold on, and will be rewarded by a higher share price of their existing Apple shares. Thus, everyone wins!
That reminds me, a couple of my former co-worker at Microsoft founded their own startup. Was pretty nifty.

I really think government should have a program to fund say 1 million startups, I'll do one myself :)
Excellent point. We take away the previous held concept of possessing media, making money by renting it to you repeatedly, then lobbying Washington with the profits to make it illegal to not play by our rules, and you're addicted so you can't break the habit.
Fortunately your project, you know, terrifies people.

edit: typo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization
I had never heard of cooper union before, but am curious, did they have a huge endowment to fund the school for so long? The article states they own land under the chrysler building, and the founder endowed them with the buildings and land 100+ years ago. However for ongoing expenses (staff, upkeep, etc), how were they funding this prior?
Companies can take themselves private. BestBuy is in the process of doing it right now.

The owners? The stockholders. They just aren't trading their shares on NASDAQ anymore.

MaysonL's explanation is incorrect.
So it costs $99 if your insurance pays for it.

So the insurance company gets the genetic report.

And your child happens to be born with a disease that was noted with a 25% chance of occurrence.

Will your insurance balk at paying your child's health bills? Oh, who knows...
Ok! Now you know where to get the artwork if you ever want to name an open source project "Gryphon" ;)
Didn't Hinton say he was going to be working on NLP applications at Google?
PhD seeks stolen laptop for dissertation, paging Dropbox marketing
Also, note that Google is one of those companies as well. They forgot about "not being evil" with this one.
'The perfect is the enemy of the good' is the enemy of the good.
> I've never understood the subtle negative attitude towards the fact that founders get most of the equity

I think its because in some of these cases the founder(s) persuade people to work for them at below market salaries by selling them a dream that seems to involve said employees "being in it together" with them, when the equity distribution says anything but.

I think if a startup is paying market rate or above, then the employees have no reason to feel like when the company sells or goes public that they should make out like bandits too.
| He's not stupid enough to get caught either

He wasn't stupid enough to get caught. You have no idea if he will or won't get caught in the future.
They just have one building, small staff and student body, and don't have to pay taxes. The main expense is salaries.
Because when you repurchase shares beneath its intrinsic value it's accretive to shareholder value.
Consumers don't even care about content. They care about convienence. It trumps everything. Video on the web is convenient enough that you will be able to watch the TV show du jour through it, and if there is no DRM support in browsers it won't be DRMed.

Pirates are becoming increasingly professional and Hollywood gets to decide if they will spend their legal advantage on defending incompatibility schemes or making money, unless the browsers help them out with the former.

A DRM free HTML5 spec won't have any effect on you being able to watch Game of Thrones on your open source Linux browser aside from maybe giving you an opportunity to pay HBO for it.
I'm not sure where your idea about MongoDB taking "an entire server". It will use as much memory as it has available to it, but of course you can run other things alongside it.

I'm currently running PHP, Ruby, Memcache, Postfix, nginx, plus probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting, all on one server and it works fine.

MongoDB can be configured entirely on the command line and is as simple as downloading a binary, unzipping it and running it.
You need to install Command line tools from the Preferences pane. After that you should be good to go.

We'll add that notice probably tomorrow.
Dell is currently also in the process of taking itself private in what could be the largest of it's kind, and a precursor to what we could see coming ahead. Read this article for more about it: http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/05/dell-privatization-marks-a...
I think you'd have to be a pretty exceptional candidate. Google reportedly [1] receives over a million resumes a years as of 2010. I'm guessing there are a pretty small number of positions open to people with minimal experience.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/09/14/one-half-of-one-perc...
My understanding is that it takes all the available memory - not true?
That research lines up pretty well with my own experience in college. It haunted me until my 3rd year when I was so bogged down with advanced projects that I just couldn't keep procrastinating because I was only barely getting the minimum done I needed to in the last hours I had before the projects were due.

Professionally, I've learned my lesson and while I've had some moments of procrastination (especially for tasks that I have little to no motivation for), I tend to work more steadily than I did in those first few years of college and I rarely run up against a deadline (soft or hard).

However, I've worked with plenty of software developers who wait until the last perceived moment and work crazy hours to try to meet the deadline. I'm not sure what they would do if they didn't have that deadline. I suppose they would either get fired for lack of productivity or just be productive enough when nudged to keep their jobs.
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In theory, companies return money to their stockholders when they don't believe they can profitably invest the money internally. Large mature energy companies are a common example. Stock repurchasing is a way to hand out dividends while avoiding taxes.

For Apple, the problem is they made entirely too much money over the last decade. Apple currently has 140 Billion dollars in cash and a market capitalization of 380 billion (including the cash, so estimated value of Apple minus the cash hoard is 240 billion). That's a ridiculous amount of money, and there's no way Apple can effectively invest it, so they are giving it back to the investors so they can invest the money elsewhere.
What's wrong with it is it drives people out of the browser and onto insecure plugins which end up hosting botnets, or it drives people off the browser entirely and into a tablet app.

I don't think getting people in the cultural habit of going to the App Store for all of their needs is beneficial in the long term for the Web. The more you keep people in the browser, the better for the Web.
I think Warren Buffett supports the move:

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/03/04/aapl-whe...
The report goes to your doctor. We don't issue reports to insurance companies.
He's saying that they did a password reset twice on him in one day, and he has no idea how they were able to do that.
Men - Protect Yourself From LULU 
Men - change your gender on your Facebook profile from Male to Female, and deselect "Show Gender on Profile".

You will not appear in the app anymore (this is of course if they have not already saved your information to their own database yet - which I don't think they do right away unless a user manually does it).

As a bonus you will also be allowed to log in and use the app just as a girl would.

Did this tonight and it worked - I no longer appear in the app.
Nope you're incorrect. The shares are repurchased and cancelled which increases the stake of the remaining shareholders in the company.
And that evidence is? The IAT researchers' bibliography goes back to the mid-'80s. Have they found any correlation between changing unconscious associations and changing socioeconomic disparities over the past 20+ years?
IBM is pretty much still as big as MSFT FWIW: http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MSFT,IBM
Are you so sure? A person that is conditioned to follow an idea will behave in a conditioned way, I doesn't matter the topic. When you are conditioned to beleave and cheer a "scientific" fact, it is improbable that you'll allow new facts to replace your beleave. You have made a new religion wit a new "Idol".
Most of those resumes are ridiculous and amount to little more than spam. The candidates from the pool of people Google actually wants to hire definitely have multiple offers.
Hi timmm thanks for your reply. The long term goal is to translate this into a mobile app. Have you used netflix or pulse on your phone or ipad? Both have implemented a side scrolling UI which makes it easy to navigate. Assuming you are accustomed to online shopping would it be easier to create and purchase outfits this way?
Umm... MariaDB is slower? http://dimitrik.free.fr/blog/archives/2013/02/mysql-performa...
Think about the places where the average application uses compression codecs.

Now, think about the kinds of applications people are trying to build in web browsers.

If you were to represent these two groups as a venn diagram, you would have one giant honkin' circle.

(A few examples for the lazy: On-the-fly content compression/decompression for games; caching large amounts of application data in compressed form in order to reduce disk space usage; using compression codecs that are faster or produce better compression ratios than gzip.)
I get "color scheme installation fail" for everything.
Also I seem to recall major pain writing queries to access substructures/embedded data within JSON when using Mongo. Unless that has changed in the last 12 months?
Using a GET for this is okay, because `kill` is idempotent.
Sorry, but I can't help but remember encountering people who told stories much like yours, only to find on closer examination that they were incredibly, deeply in the wrong.

Since you don't go into any actual details about what set the situation off, it makes it really hard for me to take your anecdote too seriously.
Yes, you have the right idea. Check out our (open-access) paper from last fall: http://www.nature.com/gim/journal/v15/n3/full/gim2012114a.ht...
Had a pair of extranet firewalls once... Romulus and Remus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus
>Humans have been identifying and separating themselves by color/race since the beginning of time, even before we could talk. It is the first category... before rich/poor, beautiful/ugly, young/old, etc. It's almost primial.

How exactly does proving that something has always existed also show that it is right?
It is indeed the case. The sharing mechanism depends on cascading assignment of license of publication rights, and the thumbnailing/cropping for timeline/feed entries requires rights to create derivative works (which, unfortunately, has the side-effect of permitting almost any sort of derivative work that wouldn't be covered by libel). Although you still retain copyright (and can separately license works outside of Facebook under other terms), you are granting extremely broad and transferable rights (the "friends" chain can get to be pretty long once sharing is allowed) to a work by posting it to Facebook. If you don't want to relinquish control of a work, don't post it on FB. Never post images of value in a valuable size, and watermark the hell out of anything that is low-res and commercial.
>What's wrong with it is it drives people out of the browser and onto insecure plugins which end up hosting botnets, or it drives people off the browser entirely and into a tablet app.

Again, what's wrong with that? DRM shouldn't even belong anywhere to begin with. Now suddenly one needs to worry that DRM mechanisms imply security risks because of some native plugins? DRM is insecure and malware/spyware prone by its own definition! You can't have a "healthy" DRM. So there is completely no point to worry about a minor sickness (native plugins), while there is a major one in place (DRM).
When a company is taken private, what happens is that one group of shareholders buys all the rest of the shares, and removes the company's shares from public trading. This is what Michael Dell and his group are currently trying to do.
The only practical, field-tested way to get more women into tech is to lower tech's prestige. Once that happens, men will flee to other careers, thereby creating vacancies that can be filled by women. Problem solved.
That's the same thing, so yes, if foo is unaligned then it will cause a bus error. It causes it because the code is generate a store word assembly instruction (as opposed to store byte) and if the address is not aligned to 4 bytes then the memory controller hardware will raise a bus error.

Notice I keep saying "if the address is unaligned". The insidious part is that it probably will work for a while since it's likely that your "foo" array will happen to be aligned. But add one uint8_t variable to your structure or stack frame or wherever "foo" is defined and things could shift and suddenly it starts causing bus errors. It can be a very annoying type of heisenbug.

And bus errors are actually a good thing. I believe I've used hardware (an ARM or an SH2, can't remember) where the memory controller just ignored the last 2 bits during whole word reads and writes (which works fine as long as you only read aligned words). So if run your code on that hardware it doesn't give you an error, it just subtly "corrupts" your data. Yay!
Technically speaking, you're right. EME is not DRM, it's a facilitator. From the spec "facilitating the development of robust playback applications supporting a range of content decryption and protection technologies [read DRM]." I may have inserted that last part. Using a new acronym affords Hollywood more time to get implementations in major browsers while we try to raise awareness. Most consumers don't know about DRM, fewer still about EME!
Yes, I can and do estimate accurately, as can many others. Estimation is a basic engineering skill.

McConnell's book, linked to by the other contributor, is a sensible introduction to doing reasonably accurate estimates for projects that aren't incredibly huge (10MLOC+). Very accurate estimates (within 5-10%) and estimates of incredibly huge projects are also possible but require specialist estimators with extensive training and practice.
I agree with you that the shareholders control public companies (mainly by the stock price). In a free market this would mean that the stock holders have indirectly indicated that it is best for Apple to give back cash instead of hoarding it because they feel Apple has no better investment they can make. IMO Apple has so much in cash reserves that if they tried to invest most of it they would be very loose and would make not so lucrative investments, so it may just be best that they return some of it back the way they are, and also invest some more in R&D.
Transfers being peer-to-peer doesn't prevent them from collecting statistics in the client.
There is, but young people are lazy and preoccupied with playing video games. They like to pretend it's because "corporations are in bed with the government, etc, etc" but only because it's easier to rationalize it that way than to admit that the country's policy looks pretty much exactly how you'd expect it to look when all the voters are old people.

The one thing politicians are more about than campaign contributions are votes, and there are no votes in being in favor of open internet, etc. The people in that demographic are too busy considering themselves too good to participate in the system to be a source of votes.
[Insert joke about how if you don't reap their children they just won't die]

I know two people who have suffered prolonged periods of no heartbeat by being cooled. One of the things the article points out is how much we don't know about life function vs non-function. As the mechanics of our bodies are deciphered the ability to "fix" them gets better. The Department of Defense published a paper on one of the differences between battlefield casualties in Vietnam vs Iraq and Afghanistan is that there are a number of things available that would otherwise result in death.

So at some point Intuitive Surgical or someone else is going to have a 'medi-doc' type device where you get stuck when you have major trauma and it will stabilize and 'fix' the trauma to the point where you can recover. Not necessarily a good place, sometimes its ok to die.
I'll point you again to the Baby-wise book. Honestly after the second child, we stopped looking to the book and just went remembered the general advice and modified it to fit the child.

> I will talk to the pediatrician about it ...

By all means do, but also realize that the "science" of child rearing is anything but settled, and your pediatrician may have personal bias toward one method over another (not that that's a bad thing, just be aware of it).

> does it harm the baby in any way ?

I'm speaking here from experience, not academic study, but I'll say in an unhesitating voice, No. Our babies, as well as friends' children who have followed similar techniques, have all been on a regular eat, then wake/play, then sleep schedule as advocated in The Book. My older three children all have incredibly different personalities, from the goofy intellectual, to the excitable thespian, to the Little Annie Oakley who is currently stealing my heart. We've let each of them go through periods of self-soothing, and none of them appear any worse for the wear.

As I said, newborns are immediately adapting to their environment. Whether you're intending to or not, you're conditioning them to "the routine" of the house. If the routine is "I eat for 30 minutes. Then I am awake for 30 minutes. Then I am held while I sleep for an hour and a half. Then I lay down on my own for 30 minutes. Rinse and repeat" then they will adapt to that routine, and the crying you are hearing is their way of saying "Hey, you aren't following the routine, you're supposed to be holding me now."

There are people that let their children cry when they do have genuine needs. I'm not advocating that you do that. I'm simply saying that if you know their needs are met, and many times you will, letting them cry is OK. If you're in doubt, feel free to err on the side of picking them up and holding them.
not sure that's actually a question...
Absolutely, and the best thing that can happen when a company is repurchasing its shares is for the shares to be as cheap as possible, so as to create the most value for shareholders.
It uses memory mapped files, which is different from malloc()ing a whole lot of memory. If you do a "top" or whatever, it won't show up as taking a lot of resident memory, but "free" will show it being taken up in the "cached" column.

The end result is that it will "use" all available memory on the system, but if you want to run anything else alongside, the kernel will just de-allocate memory from MongoDB and allocate it to other processes.

The only downside is that it's not very tuneable -- you are at the mercy of the kernel and its algorithms. In my experience if you have enough memory to hold your "working set" (which has a fairly loose definition), you should be fine. We have also disabled swap on our servers -- I would recommend trying it, but do so carefully, you don't want your database server being OOM'd while serving production traffic.

We have 2 DB servers each with 24GB RAM and the whole database is about 90GB but that includes a bunch of logging stuff that is truncated periodically and it's not in our "working set".

We are running other processes on the DB servers as well (the ones I mentioned) and everything is running fine.
https://squaresend.com/mailto:5tzgrwg is a featureless gray window with no content at all. Please use progressive enhancement (put a valid mailto: anchor in the markup and then replace it in the DOM) rather than shipping markup that's unusably broken without trusting js from some third party nobody has heard of.
Ask HN: Whould you be interested in an PDF customization API?
We are building an API which allow to integrate some external data (POST request) to an existing design. That allow to integrate easily web2print feature in any website.
It's actually the first. My other comment was added later. But yes, I agree with you, I do overpromote at times
I clarified this in an edit to my previous post, but this is actually a somewhat dangerous attitude.

If you don't have a senior or executive level title from the beginning in an emerging startup, you face the real risk of simply having people hired over you rather than getting those increases in responsibility that you want. If you are VP of Engineering from the start, then the founders will struggle to hire too many people above you, if any, because they don't want to sacrifice the sanctity of that title. If you are brought on as a junior engineer, however, you can't count on getting the promotions you deserve.

Of course, not every startup is going to do this. I'm just mentioning it as it should be part of the decision making process. Joining a startup does not equate to guaranteed increases in responsibility and leadership.
If people are set on doing bad risky stuff, having a safer way of doing it is a social good. I don't do heroin, but if people are going to do it anyway, I support giving out clean needles for them.