skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money doesn't really seem like my problem. I could get good art, that would help; I could make a decent game to entice usage, help a little, I could blow a wad on advertising.

Not sure how to get money back. Doesn't matter.

There's some kind of facade in my reality.

God talks. God said it's His temple. I openly play the God card. It would seem unfair, but they are unfair.

Long ago I learned the only thing I can do is what I can do myself. In 1996, I made a 3axis milling machine that had pathetic mechanical design. I have a brother who is a millwright. He came to town for a wedding and wouldn't even look. That's how life is.

God says...
delightful feels He pitiable became forgiving Me diminution
hidden -nor makest Tonga bitter all-creating excitement
elect 4 distributing urge abhorred Coeternal initiation
Morocco LOL ocean happen imperfection secrecies inhabitants
Number ruminating feel ceasest section pieces effect figured
to_infinity_and_beyond Treasury

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So, status quo is what's on the horizon. I can continue with current funding. I have no other options. I don't work much, but I don't want anything else. A job would be a facade of a special kind of CIA torture -- oh hell no! Fuck that!

I'm sitting pretty with God's temple and romen profitability if you call getting by funding.

I bout $3000 worth of art for my video games. I could buy more. I have hymns with animations. Sisteen chapel situation actually, truth be told.
While this is cool, in a Maker/Hack-a-Day way, it also lacks everything that makes the Oculus Rift amazing (quality optics, a quality screen, quality head-tracking, and better inputs).
> Microsoft can turn off "side-loading" of software in Windows and lock everyone into their walled garden.

I think the EU might have something to say about that.
confusing but accurate :)

The ability to script Java is one of Ringo's killer features - for this benchmark, for example, we dropped in two jars (JDBC myqlconnector & connection pooling from apachecommons) and glued them together with 10 LOC of JS.
Doesn't work for the Linode Manager iPhone app.
After enabling 2FA on Linode, the iPhone app still uses only user/pass.....
(app last updated, jan 17th, 2011)
It runs ok on a Nexus S http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-ne...
Control your Droid from your Browser
Our team just built a tool that's a companion to your Android phone. It lets you send messages, browse photos, and manage apps from your browser.

It's simple by design. There are other products with more features, but for SnapPea Web we decided to focus on only the most frequently used features for most Android users.

Here's what it does:

* Photos - Browse, download, upload, and delete photos
* Messages - Send and receive text messages, synced with your own phone number
* Contacts - Add, edit, and delete contacts
* Apps - Install, uninstall, and browse your apps
The other thing is it's really handy to know vi/vim when you're logged into a remote server and want to quickly edit a file.
Looks like the Cubieboard has nominally better specs - twice the RAM and NAND), but a couple things worth noting if people are looking to do electronics-type hacking:

* the Cubieboard comes w/ male headers for its I/O pins. This is a lot less convenient from a practical perspective. There's an additional baseboard you can get but it's huge or I guess you can put your own blocks on.

* the Beaglebone comes w/ two PRUs if you need to do real-time work this is pretty sweet

* For general I/O, libraries like PyBBIO and Bonescript make the Beaglebone dead simple to program with. As far as I can tell, to access GPIO for the Cubieboard, there's a custom kernel module driver you'll need to install to access via /sys and no clear docs on PWM or other "basic" stuff.

Also looks like right now, the Cubieboard is a lot less mature and it's unclear what the timeline is for it to get better - for example, looking at the Google Groups threads, looks like there's the VPU/GPU acceleration is a bit finicky (the Cubieboard uses Mali-400, Beaglebone uses SGX530, both closed source/binary only drivers). There also seems to be a pretty active contingent of... less than helpful people on a lot of threads.
This is a good solution that I did not think of at the time. But it is no less expensive than the final (int)(f + 0.49999997f), to compare apples with apples (both still need to be guarded against overflow in the conversion).
I teach a beginning robotics class to local area kids. We were going to use RasPis this year but I could only get 2 of them (I needed about 10) so we ended up going with TP-Link WR703n's and arduinos instead. This actually ended up working better anyway with less hassle.

I'm hoping that BBB's (3B's?) are going to take their place in the fall. They seem much more suited to tinkering than raspis. A very exciting platform!
Fody Anotar weaving and logging combined into one package.
Even though I worked at a Japanese company, I didn't work Japanese hours. 10am-7pm were my typical hours.

Good developers are in demand everywhere! If you're a developer who has some side-project / open source contribution you can show off, I think finding a job isn't too tough.

I can't really comment on now vs 2006. I had no network back then, so that job was literally the only interesting looking one I could find. Now, I know of lots of good companies.
If you can accelerate the growth of your business by taking VC money and hiring more people, why wouldn't you?

Brooks' Law, for one thing. I if I was in the situation you describe, I would try more to use the money to buy time, not so much people.
Big data video - How will ‘Big Data’ impact your privacy
Are there historical (in the last 20 years) examples of founders who wrangled 100x investment from investors, who would now not be able to do this because this supposed information asymetry no longer exists.
Most good games are made by people who are paid to make them. Or people who hope to pay themselves when their game is finished and sold.

It's hard to get a large volume of unpaid volunteers to collectively work together on a creative endeavor. If I'm going to spend my free time working on something creative then it's going to follow my vision and not someone else's.

If you want a community driven game nothing is stopping anyone. Quake 3/Doom 3 are GPL'd. Unity is cheap. Plenty of games are incredibly mod friendly. There's been no better time in gaming history than to be indie than today.
ah! I didn't think of it like that. That would be interesting to see... at which concurrency level the environments crap out.
When you get home after having left the office at 8 PM, of course. Or during the company happy hour slash recruiting event!
Have you A/B tested the "phone/email in any field" feature and found it results in easier data entry than telling people where to enter that information? I ask as it goes against the principle where giving people less choice can sometimes result in increased conversions. Here, you are asking users to make a choice (albeit, a tiny one) where to enter the information rather than having it consistent every time.

Was there clear data which prompted you to implement this format? If so, I'd love to see the testing methodology.
It'll be extra funny when we lose the docs because budget cuts cancel the proper storage of backups and then we have to go steal them back from the Chinese.
Indeed. However, it must be said that DOTA2 runs perfectly with OpenGL through wine on a decent machine . Thanks Valve!

use these options : "-gl -window -novid -noborder -w 1920 -h 1080"
The spec sheet[1] says power consumption is 210-460mA@5V (the rpi-B in comparison is specced at 700mA right?)

[1] http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack
Well, unless you lie on your application, your track record (whether it's your academic record, your work experience, things you've built, etc) should speak for itself.
Let me see if I can get the same tone as your comment: I have a hard time taking any complaint about vertical devices seriously when the page content is responsive and the bar is not static at lower resolutions. Perhaps rotate your monitor the other way if the loss of 69 pixels is causing you such heartburn?
If they make it a meme, eventually valuations will go down, as VCs will be influenced by the general "mood"(at least a portion of them will).
Good article. As a yc alum who's idea(s) didn't succeed (yet), it's pretty much on point on a lot of things.

There is one thing factually wrong, or at least incomplete .. you don't get $100k (formerly $170k) for 7%. You get $11-20k for 2-10% plus $80k (formerly $150k) at an uncapped valuation. Usually that % will be low.

The fundamental epiphany of YC/pg is that that we are no where near the limit on the # of startups .. and that encouraging hackers to become entrepreneurs is a win-win for hackers, investors, users and the world in general. YC will (continue to) be incredibly successful as long as it remains faithful to this.

Also, never knew about pg's fear of flying .. very cool and inspiring thing to learn.
> However I am certain that we would have the entirety of what he seeded.

You guys are all crazy.. torrents consisting of this type of content already exist, and they have only one seeder. For example, the excellent Library Genesis collection. Why should I believe you when you tell me countless people will come to the rescue this time? Your average seeder doesn't have piles of terabytes, and evidently doesn't care to seed one or two parts out of thousands.
Caching at Wuaki.tv
Excellent article and nice answers to queries, Sam!

I have one question. How were you able to manage a 23.5 ms time in the mini profiler over Internet? Were there no database queries involved while rendering that page?

Your website does load fast, no doubt about that.. :)
Weird that a contractor has a employer provided computer. Providing a computer could qualify the contractor as a full time employee.
>> He said the mounters wouldn't buy them for him, so he didn't have any.

Somewhat tangent, but don't they get paid?

Not sure how common that is, or all of the circumstances, but it did not sound like the mountaineers regarded him as more than a donkey in human form.

Looks like helping climbers and carrying stuff is their job.

However, this sherpa thing seems like cheating, you have others carry stuff for you, lay ropes and what not. Maybe since everyone uses them, all climbers are in the same position but still.
The Forbes article was posted so we could all trash it and circle jerk about how much better we are.
His main example was Facebook. But really, you should read the essay in its entirety and get his arguments directly.

Looking further back, Bill Gates managed to steal the future right out from underneath IBM through information asymmetry. Venkat is drawing large arcs here, and he would consider IBM an "investor" for the purposes of the discussion.
How would a failed actor (huh :)) take down the thread? All exceptions thrown by the FJTasks tasks are caught.

The shared data structure was a reference to my previous post, not to STM: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/44146699200/spaceships.
It would be excellent to have the Definition available online. MLWorks originated with a contract to develop a very strict implementation of the Definition, and we were quite proud of being truly Standard ML.
As a cypherpunk, when I first heard of bitcoin I was incredulous. But after many months of research and experimentation I became satisfied that the bitcoin protocols don't have any obvious flaws. God how I wish I could have saved some of that time with a nice summery video.

However, far more importantly then bitcoin I want to know why the hell we don't have proof of work as an email spam filter yet!!!!!!
We're doing this for our high school robotics club and it's great!
I think we're past the point of needing to prepend "republican" or "democrat" to that particular noun.
Oh, you live in Tokyo? We should meet up sometime. I'm a big fan of both akihabara and shenzhen. Both have pluses and minuses.
Télécharger le Firmware IOS 6.1.4 pour iPhone 5
It says a lot about the endurance of the human spirit that in the midst of a catastrophe like Sandy, you still found the inner strength to chug a gallon of milk like a true meathead frat boy and presumably upload it straight to Facebook.

The disco ball is fitting, I think. You should keep wearing it.
I'm not sure about the MIT, but I believe nothing stops them from doing that. It's like WordPress themes or plugins licensed under the GPL. Most of the time, you pay for support and additional features.
My Skype account is hacked
The password was changed and the registered email address was changed to thecarlosross@live.com. This happened 12 hours ago. Does anybody have the same problem?
My original Beaglebone has been stuck in a colo facility for a while now (18 months?) and has cost me about $20 of hosting fees so far.

The power consumption is stupidly low, the colo company had to find a different meter to measure it from their normal server oriented one.

I use it as a DNS server, and SSH tunnel destination.
If you can afford it, I would recommend buying one (or an Arduino or RasPi). Even if the most you ever do with it is run through some simple tutorials, it is still worth it. I have a few Arduino's and RasPi's, and to date, I have yet to make anything noteworthy, but going trough random tutorials has been fairly educational and entertaining.
Whoa - I'm not advocating for people to work unpaid. Don't know where you got that idea. I just don't think anything can really honestly advertise itself as being "mod friendly" or "community friendly" unless it's GPL.
Facebook's leverage was growth, not information asymmetry. Zuckerberg's personal strengths are that he is savvy, and he had knowledge gleaned from Sean Parker et al. If anything YCombinator and others help make acquiring that knowledge easier. YCombinator's strengths are as much in its alumni sharing information within the network, much the same as Sean Parker shared information with Zuck, as in anything else that happens physically at YCombinator.

And, if you want to see a post-Facebook example of how hypergrowth can enable favorable fundraising, just see Github: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/github

I have no idea how YCombinator, the lean startup movement or any of the other miscellaneous "villains" Venkatesh identifies would prevent a new Zuckerberg from raising money at the such favorable terms again.

Re: IBM/Microsoft - As Jobs did with Xerox, as Jack Dorsey may do with Visa one day. Savvy players beating non savvy players is a trend that has happened throughout history. I do not see how any recent developments preclude that. Venkat is framing this into an elegy for the savvy entrepreneur when there is no necessity for that.

I did read the essay - all 3 parts of it. There are some interesting points about return to city states and an understanding of politics being a huge strength for entrepreneurs towards the end, and several valid points about acqui-hires becoming more and more mainstream towards the beginning. I wish he had stuck to making those points instead of trying to weave a grand theory of entrepreneurs as the new labor which does not hold.
Not to mention corporate customers with inhouse business applications.

Perhaps WindowsRT will become the consumer OS and Windows (x86) will be the 'professional' OS
I really like Haskell, but I'd settle for Rust.
Mozilla launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0
Technical recruiting: what we can learn from the NFL
Looking for MVP users for ratlink.com
Hi all - we are looking for users for our MVP version of http://ratlink.com . We are aiming to build a social bookmarking app that helps users discover and share links in a fun way, and also helps them synchronize and organize their bookmarks efficiently.

We're looking for early adopters to use our MVP and help us shape the product. Your feedback/questions are more than welcome!

PS: This is not a beta release. This is a raw, work-in-progress MVP.

EDIT: if you are interested please join this google group: http://groups.google.com/group/ratlink-mvp
Ok, I've raise an enhancement for wrk https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/31

Perhaps you could upvote or something?

Thanks for all the great work in these benchmarks. A useful resource.
Cool. iExplorer even has a Fuse module which would be perfect except it is extremely buggy. You have to use the gui to mount, and can only mount an application sandbox not one level up. If the app is uninstalled/reinstalled they lose the plot. (They never responded to my bug reports and inquiries. The iFunbox folks didn't either - seems to be a pattern with these kind of tools for Mac.)
If you know a bit about web security (think Stripe CTF 2.0) and would like Bitcoins to try this, you can visit http://bitcoinctf.com
$100,000 is typical and it is not a lot of money: consider that it will be split 3 ways. This will leave you under the median household income.
You'd figure the linked article would include an open source link to download. Duh.
I'm also not sure, but there is a lot of well poisoning about that.

Usually, if someone physically healthy decides that (s)he doesn't want to live any more, we automatically declare that person mentally ill (even if no chemical imbalance seems to be present). It's implicitly stated that ending one's life is a decision that can't be taken rationally (unless a terminal physical illness is present). I find that quite disturbing.
Thanks! Very interesting. Are you running the VM only on the Workstation and ssh into it from the macbook or do you somehow sync it to be able to work from home as well ?
Out of curiosity, where do you have it hosted?
How historical figures would have looked today
I never speculated on the reasons, just that I wasn't allowed in.
People hoard all sorts of data, if they are made aware of it and want it. I for one certainly would have seeded the dump Aaron made, had he seeded it himself first. And who doesn't have piles of terabytes these days?

What is your objective, give it to people that don't want it, or make it available to people that do? The later is not rocket science, the former impossible and pointless. If you are telling me that nobody is interested in your content then I am not going to argue with you... If people are interested in having your content then the only thing standing in their way is your weird objection to attempting to distribute it.

If I am so wrong, so what? Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
git clone git://github.com/reddit/reddit.git

Done.
What are the new big ideas in tech?
Deep learning?
Massive adoption of mobile and Internet?
Big data?
Software eating the world?
The tone of this article is in fact a little different than most of what's on HN - as are most articles from the NYTimes Magazine.

The magazine enjoys a much wider audience than most of the technology articles found here. Articles from the magazine are often framed as stories, following the path of individuals to show the purpose of the article. This also helps hold the attention of the reader through the article's longer length.

The embellishments you list out here are other tools the writer and editors use to appeal to the magazine's reader base.
You can't put arbitrary data in a transaction, at least not very easily. The bitcoin devs are pretty clear that the bitcoin network and blockchain should not be used for messaging or store non transaction related data.

What actually is happening here, is that miners have the opportunity to put a small amount of arbitrary data in a block when they mine. Ideally this is should be random data, its purpose is to change the data being hashed so you get a different hash each time you try.

In my view the author of bitcoin set a bad precedent by including a newspaper headline referring to bank bailouts in the very first block. However I can't begrudge him for that too much. Since 2009, people have included prayers and accusations of illegal activity (trolling) in blocks.

Assuming increased bitcoin adoption, I see mining getting more and more centralized, already I don't think any of the major mining pools would be silly enough to include CP or other illegal content. It would take many blocks to store a non trivial sized image in the blockchain, and if they put a link in instead then of course the host could be taken down.
Jump networks are the company, but it's in one of the Telehouse buildings in London

http://www.jump.net.uk/
I used the original white beaglebone to build something to alert us when the dishes needed doing
http://imakethin.gs/blog/the-great-opencv-washing-up-detecto...
Stealing for $200 gives you one year in prison? Ouch.
Growing new fingers, kidneys, teeth?
15 Natural Language Processing APIs
Regenerating body parts
Drupal has always been slow out of the box, so it's not news that it must be heavily optimized.
Some stats from the benchmark running Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 on Asus Zenbook UX21A (Intel HD Graphics 4000, Intel Core i7 3517U, 1920x1080):

OS Browser Avg. FPS Min FPS
Win8 Fx 20 26 16
Win8 Fx Nightly 46 34
Ubuntu 13.04 Fx 20 17 16

For me those numbers tell that if ams.js does not catch on in other browsers, browse based games just will not fly. Also, graphics drivers on Linux still suck and that's why I still need to double boot.
I work from home so I am cheating :) Stuff lives on the VM but I have a second identical setup on the Mac just in case I decide to take it out somewhere.

While at home I ssh from the Mac to my Ubuntu VM. A huge advantage of Linux is that mvim will not run over ssh -Y but gvim will.
I can't scroll on qz.com unless I enable Javascript. Please fix the CSS!
If that image was based on a picture of a Soviet leader then I do think it would be odd.

However, as its clearly based on an image of the Soviet people then I don't associate anything negative or inappropriate with it. After all, a lot of people in the UK still remember that it was mainly the Soviets who defeated the Nazis - resulting in incredible suffering and hardship for the people there.
If he wanted data transferred to China, why on earth would he bring a complete laptop?

The whole thing is so retarded. If he actually wanted to get data to china, he would have already done so, using the internet. Stopping him on a plane for a suspicion like that is just absurd.
Fans know it's WordPress, not Wordpress.
HTML5 presentations with narration using Markdown
If this was the only reason, Snap's performance would be closer to Yesod.
I remember stories like this from previous Windows releases.

The narrative goes something like this:

1. Geek decides to install/upgrade to newest version of Windows for some reason.

2. Geek encounters many technical roadbumps in doing so.

3. Geek discovers that once installed, newest version of Windows has $major_user_interface_drawback (no start button / is slow / looks designed for children / etc).

4. Geek concludes that the masses will reject this version of Windows (and perhaps adopt $Linux_distro_of_choice instead).

This fails to account for:

a. The increased likelihood that a geek's PC (-v- a non-geek's PC) will encounter problems upgrading Windows due to

a.i. having another OS installed (dual booting);

a.ii. having relatively esoteric hardware installed.

b. The vast number of Windows installs out there; and thus the relatively high number of failed installs/upgrades that can occur based on a low failure rate.

c. As geeks we are relatively likely to hear about problems other geeks are having.

Tldr: this is not the sort of anecdotal evidence that will persuade me Windows is dying.

(Am I saying that there are no problems with Windows 8? Or that Windows is categorically NOT dying and NOT being superseded? No. But the linked blog post is not terribly relevant to that debate.)