skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless I'm missing something, "Adam and me" looks correct everywhere he uses it.
The Snapshot Serengeti project is trying to do something along the lines of NASA Clickworkers: to use groups of amateurs to "identify the thousands of animal photographs collected from 225 motion-activated cameras in the nature preserve":
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/3745415348/sanpshot-serenge...

It's a lot of fun and it feels great to contribute to a noble project. Plus it's surprisingly addictive:
http://www.snapshotserengeti.org/
Ask HN: is it ok to accept an offer without knowing your equity?
A friend of mine recently received an offer from a series c healthcare company with ~$100m in funding. Seems the company is in the midst of raising a series d and so as a result can't (or is unwilling) to disclose the exact number of options he will be granted, nor the pricing etc. The prospective employer said that the detailed info on number of options will be disclosed in Q3 this year after the round closes. That said, there is clear mention of a stock plan in the offer letter (4-year vesting schedule, etc.) - he's just missing the exact number of shares, pricing, etc.

Is this ever a standard practice? Is this something he should be concerned about? Thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated.
It's very strange that one of the rewards isn't a copy of the film. It probably impacts his ability to sell distribution rights to the film, so it's understandable. It does limit the appeal of the kickstarter to casual fans, though.
This would seem to be a new way to monetize hacks. Go short on the market, trigger your fake tweet, wait a few seconds for the flash crash, and cover your short. You could make huge profits this way. I wonder if someone did in this case.
I'd use it.
If it weren't hosted.
And if it was Open Source.
Otherwise, I just can't bring myself to trust it.

The concept is a goldmine. You need to convince potential users of its security an privacy protection, should there be any. If there isn't any, your product is a ticking time bomb.
Ask HN: features to add to my website.
After several days of creating onetimepost.com, and got both nice and bad reviews. i know its not quite there, i need to add features both on design and concept, so i call to all those "inputers" out there to help me :)?
I really don't like that they don't do a $10 - $15 digital download. You can provide the download after the film is in theaters, it can be thought of as a preorder of the dvd only cheaper for them.
Or they start to act like Bitpay, providing payment (or donation) services. In addition they could exchange BTC against other currencies at the current market rate from a market exchange like Btc-e, mt.gox or bitcoin-central.
> Go is also the only place I've ever seen this syntax:

Do you mean

if blah {
code
} else {
code
}

as in parens-less if statement? Because I don't see anything odd in what you wrote, it's valid C or Java.

And if it's putting else, } and { on the same line, it's "standard" K&R, 1TBS, BSD KNF and java indent style/coding conventions.
>How did we end up using such easy to manipulate sources of information to have so much influence in our high frequency trading algorithms?

1) That game is about being fast and first.

2) The finance world loves to try and predict the future from the past.

A technical person likely tempers his/her trust in Twitter with some understanding of it and concludes that false Twitter news is likely/inevitable.

A trader looks for a precedent of market movements caused by false Twitter news and concludes that a lack means a future occurrence is terribly unlikely.
Doubtful. I expect this is a tactical marketing play to associate themselves with the current hipness of Bitcoin.
I agree, but that's likely infeasible because it interferes with theatres' distribution rights.
I was going to use flash as a frontend for my startup's technology. The thing is, I could already see the handwriting on the wall even a couple years ago. Adobe was running around with their heads cut off trying to figure out how to develop flash. They just had no idea what they were doing. The compiler wasn't very good and simple performance problems with the VM and flash timeline weren't fixed at all. Instead, we got immediately abandoned projects that just sapped resources from more worthwhile endeavors. You basically had to use haxe to get good performance for certain applications.

With all of these issues known to Adobe you might suspect that they would move aggresively to increase the performance of Flash in general and Flex in particular. More integrated tools would have also gone a long way in improving the developer experience for flash/flex. Instead, Adobe went ahead with the strange creation otherwise known as Flex 4. Adobe decided that the main issue with Flex applications was their poor 'skinability.' Flash catalyst made no sense, and was totally unusable for serious application development. It was another tool (bringing the count to 3) for flash/flex authoring that did nothing to solve the problems with the platform.

To sum up, if Adobe had:
-aggressively targeted 3D gaming from the start
-built powerful authoring capabilities in the flash ide rather than supporting multiple development environments
-addressed performance, security and cpu issues with the plugin
-developed the as3 language
-not wasted time on mobile browser plugins
-trust the flash ecosystem to fill in gaps as they worked on the platform

the story might have turned out differently. Of course, they didn't do any of those things when they had the chance
"We're thinking about it" - They better be, because if decentralized payments hit the mainstream, PayPal's 3.9% fee is going bye-bye.
Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView in under 10 minutes
RTFC is the New RTFM
David Marcus, president of PayPal, shows interest in bitcoin in an interview
The same-line convention comes from automatic semicolon insertion at the end of lines. A semicolon is inserted if the line ends with "}", but not "{"... hence, "} else {". This is also the reason multi-line lists require a trailing comma.
More Than A Million Canadians May Have Had Data Compromised
I can't see the rational as to why you think that Market makers are a problem.

You could argue that High frequency traders and other hedge funds might be a problem for the market but to lump the market makers in with the high frequency or even prop shop funds i think is being a little harsh to them.

What don't you like about the lowly market makers? Hell the Canadian option market would be a lonely place without them:)
Tried mining AngelList for contacts? I suspect you're going to have trouble recruiting people blind if you can't even say what the opportunity is.

(NB. On the NLP for code quality analysis front: there's a startup {well, going a couple of years now, so now exactly startup} in Oxford that's been doing something related: http://semmle.com/ code quality analysis is supposed to be one of the selling points of their product.)
On the flip side, if this is sufficiently adopted, it could present motivation to driver developers, thus improved drivers. Perhaps this and the linux gaming movement could mean some symbiosis for driver development.

Ignoring Windows as I guess I don't really take Windows servers too seriously.
I believe he's referring to the latter -- as opposed to:

if blah {
code
}
else {
code
}

Personally, I don't prefer the K&R way but I don't think it's either strange nor troublesome enough to worry about for more than a few seconds.
McDonald's filed a complaint against Fidilio for its recent April's Fool
If you are going to WWDC to just watch the lectures then you are missing the point.

The point is to have Apple engineers look at your code, ask questions of the presenters, give feedback to Apple execs, network with fellow developers, attend the various BOFs etc.
I glanced through the reward levels and I think he's done a smart job of pricing them.

A lot of people make the mistake of setting the reward levels at store pricing levels rather than rewards. Printed t-shirts are fairly expensive, especially when you add in shipping, so it's easy to end up with very little margin on a reward level that includes a t-shirt, especially if it's near the $15 dollar level (which is pretty much cost). It's smarter to use intangible rewards (like digital goods) that have near zero incremental cost or to make sure that you have at least 100% margin on anything else. Assuming that you're running your kickstarter for financing and not as a pre-order store.
Nice, this is a really good list. You should put this up on Github (or something) so others can submit feedback/requests/corrections/etc.
Bloomberg is a news organization too. Them not covering financial news like Bitcoin would be the weird thing - it'd be like FOX News not covering terror attacks because they're anti-terrorism.
Protecting Java Source Code From Being Accessed
So you've never purchased anything from the internet before, ever? Honest question, not trying to sound snarky. I'm just wondering how else you could pay for something online. Paying directly with a checking account, by entering your routing/account numbers, etc.? There are also pre-paid debit cards out there.... but it sounds like you're opposed to that too.
Scientists Find Way to Turn Stem Cells Into Brain Cells
it is weird they made that the only valid syntax
Tips how to protect your privacy and security online
Finally! I was trying to get something like this made 6-7 years ago for distributing CRL's. I'm glad to see it's up and running, now all I need is a buddy to test this out with.

edit: The UX needs a bit of polishing. I don't think my Mom is going to be able to figure this out.
We’re designing this thing so that even we can never access your recordings. Building it with actual security in mind poses some UX challenges (don’t lose all your credentials at the same time!) but we’d rather have that problem than any amount of privacy risk.
For a fun conspiracy theory (or at least, future conspiracy theory), consider that the "hackers" could have been paid by someone to take control of the AP's twitter feed and post something that might cause such a reaction. The temporary dip could make a lot of money for someone who was expecting it.

I'm not saying that's what happened here, but it wouldn't be surprising to hear about some fund or investment firm employing such a tactic in the future. Just imagine what would happen if organized crime got into the HFT game? That is, assuming they're not in it already.
Now that Bloomberg has built and rolled out their <TWTR>GO feature you're going to likely see more of this.

Traders now can get tweets directly into their Bloomberg news feeds.

Alternatively, twitter will start to be ignored as an unreliable source of news, but I doubt this will happen anytime soon.
Amazing idea, now imagine this with Google Glass. It would be just like in the third episode of Black Mirror.
I think it's a good idea actually. Kickstarter is about funding projects, not necessarily about getting stuff.
I heard this store more than 20 years ago. I had always assumed "won the money in Vegas at Blackjack" was a euphemism for getting a loan from the Mob.
JS Objects: De"construct"ion
The main line:
"So I've been spending a lot of time looking at it. It's truly fascinating, actually, the way the currency's been designed and the way inflation is built-in to pay for miners and all that, it's truly fascinating. And I think, for us at PayPapl, it's just a question of whether Bitcoin will make its way to PayPal's funding instrument or not, and we're kind of thinking about it right now."
Don't forget $500 for kickstarter and about $200 for amazon.
I was impressed that he could qualify as a doctor at the same time as playing top level rugby.

I know a few people who've gone on to succesful careers after playing rugby at a high level - but they did one then the other.
http://osvdb.org/79460
Does it really have to fit in the right/wrong classification?

Can't it just be an evolutionary survival mechanism?... One of the things that primarily is designed to help people come together and stay away from danger.

I'd imagine at the core of it there is a neural network (that you're born with) that categorizes things into - "like me" - "not like me".

In of itself, it's not something that's right/wrong in a moral sense, but how it's further consciously used can be.
This seems more like a list of things developers need to know if they've only ever used python.

Go has different syntax and rules than python, but so does C, Java, Erlang, and so on. I don't get why this is such a surprise. Don't approach a new language assuming you can directly translate from your last language du jour, and you'll be much happier.
LNEC Promove Curso de Projeto de Estradas de Baixo Volume de Tráfego
The Psychology of Marketing
> It drains it just as much as watching a video on the YouTube app will drain the battery.

I very much doubt that this is true. Most modern smartphones have a dedicated video decoding chip. Flash, on the other hand, is entirely in software. This means that to play a video the system in question has to load up not just video codecs but a full-stack VM -- Flash -- as well, and the CPU is responsible for most of that responsibility. At that point the power efficiencies gained by offloading functionality to a dedicated chip are lost.

Now, Adobe might have pursued a route wherein those functions were offloaded to the AVC chip and/or the GPU, but they were not apparently successful in being able to do so.

> Although I do agree with your comment, I think that Apple's reasons for ditching Flash went beyond their public words.

Why? I think at this point history has shown that those publicly stated reasons were entirely valid. Efforts to make Flash run efficiently on tablets and smartphones failed, despite energetic attempts to do so.

Evidence tends to support the view that Flash failed on mobile on its own shortcomings.
Very nice, hadn't heard of that one. I've spent some time on SETILive [1] which does something very similar for signal classification and found it to be almost meditative.

It's not quite the same thing, but also I get the same kick out of foldit [2] and eterna [3].

1: http://setilive.org/

2: http://fold.it/portal/

3: http://eterna.cmu.edu/web/
"In fact, I would guess that the majority of people hurt by this volatility spike were market making or algorithmic traders."

I think it's the other way around. I guess it depends on the volume on either leg of the spike, but the market makers who were buying on the way down would have been accumulating inventory at reduced prices and could have made a tidy profit when things bounced back. On the other hand, any trader with a stop loss order within the range of the spike probably got hurt by being forced into selling at a reduced price.
Over 25% of Verizon Wireless Traffic Is Now Over IPv6
I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry :/
http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5WP3M0A8VA.html
The syntax is pretty explicit in not inserting the ';' after some characters; eg. '.' (which is why you can go:

blah.Go().
Go().
Go()

Which is equivalent to:

blah.Go().Go().Go()

I don't see why it would be significantly breaking to allow a } to similarly avoid the automatically inserted semicolon for if statements.

This wasn't a 'consequence'; this was a design decision.
Back to Back Bay: Support retailers affected by Boston Marathon bombings.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say this is a counter-example to, exactly. wting said "represents functional style in an imperative language"; that's all this seems to be. And as the author of that code themselves all but says, you'd be crazy to use that in production code, so it's not a particularly "good" implementation either.

Nobody's questioning that a map-like thingy can be implemented in any Turing-complete language you choose, the question is whether it's actually useful in the context of the rest of the language. I can in fact write a generic map function in Go, by using reflection, but it'll be very slow, and it will still absolutely require the user of the map function to cast the result into the proper type manually since the Go compiler can't do it for you.

(You actually can do something like closures in C, though managing the lifetime of the closure data struct can be tricky. And that's actually the problem with functional programming in C; the functional style does not technically "require" GC to work properly, but it sure does encourage it awfully strongly. Or you need something like Rust, with strong support for explicit lifetime management. In C you're just begging for memory leaks with a functional style.)
The 23andme founder talks about this here on quora: http://www.quora.com/How-do-the-tests-conducted-by-Counsyl-d...

The Counsyl CTO gives the tl;dr response: 23andMe is recreational genomics, Counsyl is clinical genomics.
'Perfect Is 5 Times a Year'
That if/else syntax is used in K&R's The C Programming Language, the source of Unix (and thus of FreeBSD etc.), and it's pretty common in JavaScript. It may not be the most common syntax in modern C, but it's hardly weird or obscure.
Garden State was one of the most enjoyable movies I've ever watched. Kind of amazing it was made on a shoe-string budget.

Backed. Hope there's more like it.
Two following links should be sufficient to prove the point that just because you have never head of any security issues with the Unity Web player does not mean there are none.
Editing draw stream is creation. Once you parse the original the only real way to update the original stream is mark invalid and push in the updated stream.

If you are only looking to edit xmp/meta/comments then you could possibly use an edit or amend but would still need one of the pdf libraries to post process.
I expect this news alone will make Bitcoin go up $30 - $40 today.
0, 1 and 144 are the only perfect square Fibonacci Numbers
Article includes:

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

An irritating quote. I keep doing the same thing over and over again because I keep getting different results - at least where people are involved.
inflation? I think he means DEflation
Right. Will do.
When it comes to people, doing the same thing is rarely doing the same thing.
He's quite active on "the internet" I believe, shouldn't be a problem even without cult following. But who knows. And I still think they shouldn't be on Kickstarter.. those are not indie movies in any way.
Agreed. It is just not clear what guarantees my privacy. This wouldn't strictly keep me from using it - perhaps in working environment - but I certainly would not use it in conjunction with personal aspects of my life.

Does this not raise privacy concerns similar to Google Glass? Is it not possible that people may be recorded without their knowing and without their permission?
Because within the scope of that for loop x has been declared.
I'm not going to call that "Perfectly fine"
Does this mean that I can store the only copies of the recordings on my machines, or that they are on your machines and there is some step you cannot perform that is required to read them?
The thing about languages is that you can write other languages inside them. You can implement garbage collection in C. You can compile it to Java bytecode. You can convert Java bytecode to x86 assembly. You can write your own preprocessor to allow C++ style templates in Go. You can make a shim that will allow you to make calls to the Go networking library from a shell script.

The question is not whether you can do something, it's how many hoops the language makes you jump through to do it.
GE invests $105 million in Enterprise PaaS Pivotal
Come on, those are the two weirdest things about go syntax, especially for new comers.

I don't really understand your 'come on'. I wasn't disagreeing with the OP about point #1, I was merely correcting what he said to make it clearer and I even agree with you (see my note about 'silly) that where you can and cannot use var and := is odd and unclear.

As for the concern about Go syntax and brace positioning, it will really depend where you come from. If have any experience of any note in any C-derived language (such as C++, Java, JavaScript, etc.) you will have seen people writing code like that for years.
Sales and stats of a small indie RPG: Darkness Springs
Doesn't want to take money because it alters his vision of the movie. $10K - have a line in the film. $7K - name a character.
This. Most people I know, myself included, have loyalty cards only because you get something in return. With supermarket loyalty cards, it's the only way to get the sale prices each week.
Multi-color iPhone 6/5S is my guess.
The killer feature for me with Google+ is Google Picasa. The fact that I can choose which of the zillions of photos are my favorites and only sync those to Google+, and then share them with my friends and family is awesome. Dropbox is missing the photo application on the user's computer.
Speaking of David Cross, I'd gladly support another season of Todd Margaret.
Posterous shuts down in 6 days; Archive.org mirroring at 8.5TB
Heh, the good old "Kickstarter is not a store, it's just a website where you give money and get stuff in the mail later."
I think that's incidental, it's also shaped like the icons on iOS.
Very interesting idea!

However, while you do address the privacy of the user themselves, what about the privacy of the other unwitting participants who are having their conversations being recorded and stored without their consent?
PayPal seems to have justly earned their reputation for frustrating many developers. Having said that, this is a new President and he has done nothing but say the right things since coming in. They've also realized major improvements to their API's/Docs etc. I'm not saying it's kumbaya time just yet. But I do think some reciprocal open mindedness from the developer community is appropriate to encourage further advancements in PayPal's approach to the web dev world. At least until we see that the leopards spots are no different.
Stop standardizing HTML
I would be surprised if Nokia maps didn’t allow offline navigation. It does on my N9 and did on the E63 (Series 60), and I found it generally much more usable than anything Google has come up with.
He say's: Bitcoin is truly fascinating. For us at PayPal it's just a question of whether bitcoin will make its way to PayPal as a funding instrument or not, and we are kind of thinking about it.
This Is What Teachers Have Learned in the Age of Testing
I'm unsure that Tor networks are viable in the long term for the same reason - they're subject to traffic analysis. Japan's police have been asking for Tor networks to be blocked over there: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22248692
What you stated is not just that (which is not actually weird), but — quoting you

> Go is also the only place I've ever seen this syntax

compounded by

> Maybe that's popular in some obscure places

(thus calling Java's coding conventions or the K&R "obscure places")
Instead of Coinbase being the Paypal for Bitcoin...Paypal could be the Paypal for Bitcoin.
I tend to hear this quote brought up by people who are either really eager to name drop Einstein or excuse themselves for being insane.

The quote makes much more sense within the context of scientific experimentation. Applying it to a typical, mundane set of experiences, to me, is pretty crass.
Venture Capital Investors Look Beyond Your Startup
This looks pretty cool. I really like the idea of having different graph papers, esp. the isometric ones. I've tried several iPad notebook apps. They all seem ok. I think it's just me but I have difficulty writing clearly on an iPad even with a stylus (my handwriting is crap). Nice work on this.