skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, what? So now it's a feature that Google Drive can create an offline version of your cloud files? Here's a suggestion -- why not eliminate the middleman and only have offline files?

The reason Google is offering this option is because people are pushing back after stories of lost / inaccessible cloud files and no Google customer service to remedy the problem. Why isn't it obvious that a better solution is not to have your files in the cloud in the first place?

AT a time when you can carry around a 64GB SSD that weighs and costs next to nothing, what's the point of the cloud? If it was perfectly reliable, that would be different, but we hear too many stories about cloud files becoming inaccessible for one reason or another.
"Numerically speaking, terrorism, especially homegrown terrorism, is a minor threat to public safety and public health. It pales in comparison to gun violence."

Numerically speaking, mass shootings using semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15 are also quite rare. Most gun violence in the US is carried out with handguns by gangbangers, muggers, drug dealers, and other such criminals, not by unhinged psychopaths.
I agree that one doesn't need to know all that stuff in that book for this area. You are right that leasing, taxes, mergers, or corporate governance don't apply. Those chapters in any corporate finance book should be considered the sandwich for the meat. If you don't like those chapters, be a picky eater and just go for the meat and leave the sandwich alone.

But if one has no clue about how stock markets work, how risk is quantified, the intricacies of call and put options, the various types of bonds, etc. than I would suggest a corporate finance book is a good place to start.

Why? It starts slow and builds the concepts on top of each other. These books take a long time to put together and they are usually pedagogically well put together. Just for this along I would recommend such a book. The effort that has been put together to make sure that students have the best opportunity to easily pick up the knowledge is really high.

I especially like the above book as it builds the concept of the law of one price and arbitrage very well.

I have made the assumption that kevincrane is at this starting point.

The reality of all this is that this stuff is hard.

It's quite amazing much the study of finance is so complex. A corporate finance book let's you gaze into the window without actually stepping inside.

As I suggested, its a starting point.

In my opinion, if one can't get their head around the knowledge in a corporate finance book the rest of the material in the more technical focused books on that book list will not be very accessible. There is a reason why people in the field have Masters and PhD's in strong heavy math focused specializations.
Whether future demand for lithium includes less than 1% of the new cars sold in the US, as is true today, or near 100%, is in large part a function of the price of lithium. Most car buyers would probably love to have an 85kwh battery pack like Tesla sells in the Model S, but are only willing to pay a fraction of what Tesla is currently charging (no pun intended). But if an electric Toyota Camry equivalent with an 85 kwh battery pack were available that had a lifetime cost equal to a gasoline Camry, we'd probably see little demand for the gasoline version.
No, it's a royal dick move to announce it right when the competitor just switch hands, especially in this case when your competitor happens to be -up to this moment- an independent guy that has done this project for years on his own.

The service is not being terminated, that info has been posted for a long time... so again, unnecessary and unasked for. That's all.
Singapore prawns in a Malaysian restaurant? What madness is this?
Did you click play button?.. I have tested it on iPhone and it works.
You clearly aren't the "computer whiz" in your family, who has to field all the "can you help me? Microsoft isn't working. I think I've been hacked, do you think it's a virus? Why is my computer so slow? Why is fixing it taking so long?" issues.

As for your ubuntu issues - you booted off a liveCD. Good for you. Now, how many liveCDs have you seen of Windows? How widespread are they?

Anyway, the same problems apply in setting up the system regardless of Windows or *nix - you need a power user to get you through the humps. Good luck installing XP as a normal user when you run into the ever-present problem of no appropriate network drivers. Basically you're comparing apples and oranges.
Google Fiber Scares Old-School Net Providers Into Action
Substituting Information for Interaction
More like the farmers who grow the food we eat would be begging the cyberwarriors to look at the footprints the bandits left behind.

But hey, what's accuracy when you've got passion!
The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
This is so true, but I think a lot of people haven't had the opportunity to find good role-models in life and something like this could be a first step in the right direction.

The brilliant can be left to blaze their own obscure bildungsroman.
AFAICT, if you were to write in Lisp-like purely-functional style, you wouldn't need any semicolons in your Rust code either.
ZFS vs. EXT4 On Linux Multi-Disk RAID Benchmarks
Listening to a recording made in 1885. Mind blown.
This article is premised on a redherring, and its also factually incorrect on a few things. The first thing its factually incorrect on is that even if the legislation had passed, it would have done nothing to prevent this. If the FBI agents investigating the older brother found nothing, there is nothing legally saying these guys are different from anyone else in the US and they are granted the rights and liberties of all americans. Background checks are useless when you're dealing with sleeper cells or psychopaths.

My personal feeling is that small bombs are the tools of cowards and terrorists, and cowards are unlikely to pull out guns and start shooting. Crazy people yes, but cowards, no.

I also usually ignore arguments involving "the NRA has herpaderpa yadda yadda". The NRA has power because there are millions and millions of gun owners in the US who are tired of the negative story shoved down peoples throats. Gun crime is so miniscule in this country compared to other types of crime, and those comitting the crimes don't even fall under the veil of legal gun owners anyways, so NRA members are being demonized because people don't understand how the world works.
> a search warrant on every single American's internet activity? As far as I understand it, that is, in effect, what CISPA proposes.

no.

no.

not at all. please read the bill. it says nothing of the sort.
C++ is awesome, but I kinda went the other way with my stuff for more flexibility. JavaScript as the main programming language and C++ only for the performance and driver access bottlenecks. (More info: http://multiplay.io)
Actian buys Amazon database partner ParAccel
But, It is a source, of a first hand account of who P. Bush was. Regardless of Mr. Hennessey's Political associations he did deal directly with Bush on a near daily basis.

Also stop for a moment and think about your former and present bosses, how smart do you think they are, do you like or hate them, do you often defend them? I think it says a lot that Hennessey felt compelled to defend Bush.
I submitted the original source, namely the actual paper that appeared
in the Journal of Service Research and is presently locked behind
an academic publishing paywal (sigh) [1].

This is a quick description of the work:

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20130225

[1] http://jsr.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/10/29/109467051246...
Hmmm, I think that's an extreme opinion. I don't blame anyone for wanting beauty, it's gorgeous. Nor do I oppose evolution or natural selection. If the unhealthy and unattractive are not preffered, that's just nature. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to enjoy our time on this planet. I just wish people weren't so harsh. Same with gays, people may not accept them or want to be like them but they should still be treated equally.

It's funny how I'm getting emails from other fellow uglers who understand "the way things are". Yet there are others who just refuse to believe that being ugly has such an impact on one's life. It's kind of like being black on a white continent, or a woman in a man's world, or a homosexual in a heterosexual world, you won't understand the issues or struggles unless you yourself can experience them.

Your looks impact your whole life. Starting with middle school onward to collage and into your adult life. Ugly usually becomes your identity.
> Why do you people hate suits so much? What's wrong with wearing fine clothes and looking sharp?

I don't think they make you look sharp. They're a uniform, stick a suit on and you're just another person dressed in grey or black. It doesn't exactly do anything interesting with the eye.

Now, granted, there are various cuts of suit, and different pockets, ways of making them roll the shoulders to make you look broader or... but I don't really find that a well made suit is dramatically more interesting than a poorly made suit.

Perhaps to other people it is, and then I could understand better why people would choose to wear them if given a choice. But to myself a well made suit's not really more interesting than a grey T-shirt and has additional social connotations of being subservient to whoever's enforcing the dress code at the time.

> People who say we should do away with the suit are arguing to do away with centuries of evolution in professional men's attire.

What's the selection pressure supposed to be? Cutlery serves an obvious function. It's not clear what desirable function suits serve.
I'm disappointed that we don't see more games taking from EVE

Well, it doesn't surprise me. A "true MMORPG" as you are picturing it is a strong natural monopoly. Nobody wants to live a second life in five different games, and the more people you have the more sophisticated the economics etc become.
I've said it in the past, we need to block Business Insider links from HN.
You could elaborate polymorphic values to type functions; and if you were compiling ML to System F or System F-omega, that is certainly what you would do. But in practice this might produce performance problems (I shouldn't have to call a function every time I use the empty list just because it has polymorphic type!). I must admit I'm not sure what SML and Haskell compilers actually do.

So in some sense the value restriction is there to prevent us from having to make the ugly choice between unsafety on the one hand, and inefficiency and unintuitive behavior on the other.
That sounds an awful lot like Quora. Especially considering that Quora has an ask-to-answer feature where you can expend points (karma) to ask people questions. There are also a lot of really well-known SV investors/entrepreneurs/engineers on the site with really high quality answers.
> I'm not sure that's how RTM works.

Actually, yes, that's how it works. An individual person who is smarter (or dumber) than his lineage isn't likely to have children equally or even significantly smarter (or dumber).

Think of a person as being the offshoot, not of his parents, but of 1000 predecessors including his parents. Now think of that person's children also being the offshoot of 998 predecessors plus his 2 parents. Work out the probability of inheriting any significant percentage of the high intelligence of the 2 compared to the 998.

This example is meant more to convey the idea than be exactly representative.

> while people might trend up and down, over time the aggregate is going to be persistently higher for some than for others.

Yes, but as explained above and accepting that premise, statistics argues against the idea that a smart person will have children significantly smarter than the population as a whole.

Also, bottom line and in the long term, intelligent starving children are still starving children.
Godaddy demanding $199 for one spam complaint
Professor wants to test benefits of nose-picking
Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night (and how crappy UI saved his life)
>Passing a Pocket link to someone without a Pocket account leads to a sign-up page.

uhh… No it doesn't
No, it's a royal dick move to announce it right when the competitor just switch hands [sic]

Really? This is an interesting post on what is ostensibly a website about entrepreneurship, especially one that constantly discusses customer acquisition.
I don't know why, but I really like that he pronounces his middle name "Gray-am".
Not everyone wants to play EVE. There could be plenty of people that would be interested in some fantasy mash-up of WoW and Ultima Online, for example.
by the time a company reaches $65 billion market cap, the time for a complete reinvention is over. businesses of that size should be mature cash machines. if the plan is to generate cash by offering b2b services, whereas up until now everyone thought it was advertising to slavish users, I think now might be a good time to run as far away from possible from facebook stock.
How to Tell a Joke on the Internet
> It seems that these days it's not unheard of that hundreds or even more than 1,000 people work on a game

That's ridiculous.
This is why I don't use Ubuntu anymore. Every single release they roll out has serious issues interrupting a normal user's workflow.

Ubuntu, if you're reading this: please consider testing your releases more thoroughly.
A suit doesn't make you look subservient - a t-shirt saying Hollister or Linux or some other corporate entity does.
Looking at Facebook’s Friend and Relationship Status Through Big Data
So, a "hacker's distro" should have bugs in it? No thanks, I'll take functional software.
What are you worried about? Both Loren and Marco are independent developers who need to put food on the table. At some point you need to make sustainable decisions; sometimes that means leaving VC-funded companies, and sometimes that means joining them or selling to them.

They've demonstrated an ability to produce excellent work. They probably won't go away, and if they do, we get a new, strong voice for independent developers. We win either way.
Once again, java could stand to learn from Ruby. Maven is terrible for automation (XML is a lousy scripting language).

Gradle? It's better than Maven, but they picked the wrong scripting language. Builds should be interpreted, not compiled. It's painful to leverage code that you need to build as you are in a catch 22 situation - can't reference a class in a gradle file that hasn't been built yet.
No, it's an obvious plea for attention. He wants to get bought or hired; or perhaps he wants to trade in his business for notoriety. Obnoxious either way.
Gee, that's funny -- I'm pretty sure that is how it's pronounced.
Maybe Canonical is releasing bugs on purpose to compete with Microsoft.
What grade did your professor give you for this project? Wasn't there any other interesting behaviour changing project from your class?
Academic journals. It is not hard to host PDFs, I mean look at arxiv.org/.
I think replacing the URL with "link" was the right move, but I'd kill it (and the pronounciation of "http") entirely...because, what's the point?
Concur, upvoted. There seems to be a deliberate effort to push a BusinessInsider presence onto HN, far beyond its actual value.
Did Loren Brichter confirm he was moving to Facebook or is he just "helping out?"
New podcast hosting/analytics/advertising platform
Ask HN: Is it possible to build a browser that would behave like a VM?
If the browser is the ultimate sandbox, why not build a browser capable of using all of the system's resources just like a VM would. It would be sort of like this: http://www.janusvm.com/chromium_vm/

but in reverse.

It would ultimately be a Virtual Machine, but it would look and behave just like a browser.

Has something like this been done/attempted before?
Chandeliers with prismatic glass are another problem area for LED lighting. My home has two such fixtures, previously populated with nine 40-Watt incandescent lamps each.

That's a lot of power dissipation (360 Watts), particularly since one of the fixtures was on up to 12 hours per day (4KW-h almost daily for that).

So I replaced all nine bulbs with TCP LDCT3WH30KCC 3-Watt (15 W incandescent luminance equivalent) 3000-K 80-CRI bulbs. 27 Watts, down from 360.

Excellent energy savings, excellent dimmability (better than the incandescents), but all those beautiful violet, green, blue, gold and other various facets of color from the prismatic glass were just gone -- collapsed down to a cold white; as if the glass weren't prismatic anymore.

I do not understand why I don't see at least some narrow-band stripes of some few individual colors.

So I put back just two 40-watt incandescent bulbs. That was enough to bring back a nice refractive color spread from the prismatic glass. The dissipation is up to 91 Watts from 27 Watts, but it's beautiful again.

Energy problem resolved satisfaction (75% reduction), while keeping the aesthetics alive too.
Let me start by saying I may be biased as I live in the city of Boston.

This article is ridiculous and utterly worthless. There are glaringly obvious differences between a crazed shooter who goes on to commit suicide and an unknown criminal(s) with the demonstrated capability (and I'm not talking strictly technical) to plant and blow explosives. I firmly believe that in either case, were the assailants unknown, it would have resulted in a man-hunt.

This article simultaneously exaggerates and undermines the efforts of the "man-hunt" that took place here and it's crass and insulting. Life here was largely uninterrupted by police action. The costs associated with the additional police action will, I'm certain, be greatly dwarfed by the damage directly caused by the bombings. The city was by no means shut down. Friday involved a voluntary lock-in that most people abided by out of respect, but that was it. The rest of the week was, by and large, business as usual. Do you not think a city would be at the least equivalently "locked-down" were an unknown shooter on the loose?

And while we're here, I'm absolutely fed up with the kill-count being used as a speaking point. No one seems to acknowledge the medical tent 100 yards away, or the many world-class area hospitals (and the sheer number of physicians that live in the neighborhood that hosts the finish line) as the reason for a "mere" 3 deaths. In any case, who cares? The fact of the matter is this was a tragedy and, sure, in that sense it is not unique. It is fairly unique (at least, in the US) in the way that they executed and in the sense that there were two suspects on their way to being identified yet on the loose. That's what is notable here.

And don't speak on behalf of the foreign world. They're doing a pretty good job of it themselves and I haven't heard much "looking on in astonishment" as the author has described it.

John Cassidy, you're a hypocrite and a truly offensive human being.
Ubuntu is spyware
It would be a mistake to link the rise to Mayer without specific evidence, given that the market has been rising overall.
"JavaScript as the main programming language"

Using node (or the v8 shell directly) javascript is competitive with python or perl for most common scripting tasks
I was a little bummed to find out about Facebook's acquisition of Parse. Luckily, I came accross Deployd.com and this iOS matching iOS library: https://github.com/clooket/DeploydKit

This covers most of things I used Parse for.
Dick move?

Hmm, last time I checked this is still business and it's a good tactical move to take your main competitor's customers/users when there's a good opportunity.
Maven is ideal for when teams of programmers work on a number of projects. How do you build this project from long ago? How do I set up a new dev machine? I'm moving to this new project, how does it work? We've got a new guy starting tomorrow, how will he know what to do? etc. etc.

I suspect most people who criticise maven haven't worked in corporate environments where there are just a lot of projects, a lot of people, and a lot of churn (both in people and projects). That's where maven is a life saver.
congrats, this would help me on finding a mentor. it seems its harder to find one on a developing country.
> It's not clear what desirable function suits serve.

It marks you as a team player, sort of like a sports uniform. I say it that way intentionally to show how a suit can be interpreted in both positive and negative ways.

Wearing a suit means you belong to the group that wears suits. Belonging can be overrated, but it seems many want to belong to the suit-wearing, six-figure-income clique.
Most incidences of gun violence end with the shooters dead on the scene. With the Tsarnaevs it was questionable whether they would ever be found. We don't need to conjecture about what would happen if a "terrorist" was on the loose with guns--it happened 2 months ago. His name was Christopher Dorner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner) and they assembled multi-agency taskforces and set off on a manhunt equally resource intensity as the hunt for the Tsarnaevs.
Turns out we need performance on the front-end, and ease-of-development on the backend, not the other way 'round.

Really, though, the strong motivating consideration is that while backend code scales horizontally (i.e. you can throw money at an app and get more concurrency), the user only has one computer, so you have to optimize frontend code for performance. If we could just pay money to make users' computers faster I guarantee we wouldn't be worrying about browser JITs. :)
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How long should my resume be?
The only people who disagree with this statement are people who are simply not informed.

What you see from groups like the ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, etc. is opposition to the specific language in CISPA, not opposition to the concept of a cybersecurity bill in general. They did not oppose the Senate bill last year for instance.
Oops, thought Home Depot was implied by replies/context, guess not
NYC now recycles all rigid plastics
But what exactly did you buy them for? It can't be infrastructure, you already have that. It can't be app development libraries because you already have your own. Seems plausible you want to become a storage platform for their user data, which will ultimately mean tight FB integration. I don't think Parse can survive that. You might not intend to kill it, but how are you going to use it and prevent that from happening?
I'm honestly disturbed that one of the United States' greatest foreign policy disasters may be remembered because some guy involved was an accomplished gamer.

I really miss the GWB days. Had this happened on his watch, people wouldn't be talking about Eve or WoW or whatever the fuck.
What exactly are you picturing as such a mash-up? The critical element of EVE that makes it what it is isn't the economy: it's the ability to take ownership of land by force. That's what creates emergent politics. AFAIK, neither UO or WoW have this. The only fantasy game that has considered this was Shadowbane, but they had a bad release.
Make it more like the Parse documentation.
That's really interesting actually. Is JavaScript still considered a scripting language or given it's modern web development application, is it now a fully fledged programming language?
What is Time?
$42.50 for 24 is just sloppy shopping. I get about half of my intake from Ensure (and its competitors), not by choice but because of a medical condition that often precludes normal eating, and $28-32 ($7-8 for a six pack) is an easy target to maintain consistently. The cases of 24 are aimed at institutions, are priced accordingly, and never go on special.
I hope that the next social network will be real life and that online services will go back to what those things used to be: websites that do one thing good (see Flickr) rather than trying to buy our mortal souls. Or giving me (us?) the feeling this is is what they're trying to do.