skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that the central idea of this post, having all application state rooted in one top-level object/structure with no singletons/globals, with the ability to set up and cleanly tear down multiple instances any number of times, is applicable well beyond Clojure. Looks like all-around good design to me. I suppose some might argue, though, that it's all an elaborate work-around for a slow-starting runtime environment.
> The Chinese have done more for the 3rd world (any my wife's country) than every Western charity and government combined. You go to my wife's country

A quick perusal of the link below and some of the associated material shows how what you're saying here regarding the wonderfulness and light coming from China is ridiculous:

http://www.cfr.org/china/expanding-china-africa-oil-ties/p95...

> What little debt remains to China is forgiven periodically (China just wrote-off 355 million in debt to this country).

Ah, yes, debt forgiveness. Always a sign that benevolent and highly effective foreign intervention is in progress.
If I lost my laptop, assuming I would have a backup of the past 15 years on it (like most devices I own), I would worry about the statute of limitations on cyber crimes regarding felonies for unlawful intrusion.

When I was a teenager, we used to toy with trojans/viruses and infecting each other and playing wargames on one another in our group. Out of context, it could seem very malicious and non-educational. There are probably hard copies of this in my backups. (When 200MB hard drives were a luxury, and Windows 3.11 for workgroups was a way of life for poor people, and 20 mile walks uphill in snow to school...punchcards...AOL CD art...).

Things really are so much different now. It seems like a couple of years ago that AOL was dominating the market. The IIS string vulnerabilities seem like months ago.
There's the not so minor point that this is a freaking fake castle being built in a redwood grove in Big Sur.

I wonder how often the people pooh-poohing this as a bunch of overzealous government regulators interrupting Sean Parker's God-given right to do whatever the fuck he wants have ever even been to Big Sur.

The fine should be closer to 25 million than 2.5.
I'm not Sam, but I have some insight;

1) The Board has to approve all new shares, so founders would have to go to a vote in order to give themselves a new chunk.

2) There won't be an option pool created. The participation clause is in relation to new rounds of funding. As new money comes on board, new shares will be added and the pro-rata participation means that Sam will be able to invest alongside the new round to maintain his percentage of ownership.
It can be done better than that.

https://github.com/mikew/ss-raspberry
Extracted from
http://mikew.github.io/ss-plex.bundle/
And the west is still endlessly editorializing about it. Excessive repetition is a kind of intellectual violence.
Except in this case the availability of this space to the middle class was supposed to be explicitly guaranteed via an agreement with the Inn. In exchange for being allowed to expand they were to maintain the campsite and parking lot for public use.

So this isn't an idle "the rich own too much!" complaint followed by populist grandstanding, this appears to be a literal violation of an explicit contract.
But it's the law in California that you can't cut off public access to the coastline or alter it willy-nilly, and has been for a long time. If you want a private bit of coastline you can look in an adjoining state or on one of the other coasts. Now it's true that most people don't find other coastlines around the US as nice as that of California's but that's why it's rigorously conserved as a public resource.

I do think it's up to Mr Parker how he spends his money and while I think $10m for a wedding seems a bit daft to me that's partly because I don't have $1 billion in the bank; at least he's spreading it around, and I respect him for just paying the fines instead of litigating the matter or attempting to evade it via an offshore business address (although in a case like this, it would be relatively easy to 'pierce the corporate veil' and litigate against the individual whom the corporation exists to benefit).

On the other hand, just because you're very wealthy doesn't give you an automatic right of purchase to things that have been designated as 'not for sale.' You're arguing for a private right of eminent domain - because an individual has the money and the willingness to spend it, should that confer the right to purchase something others (individually or collectively) do not wish to sell? I don't think so.
> A common way for investors and lawyers to model the
> fixed option pool is to use an Excel spreadsheet with
> circular references

Huh? That makes no sense.
Make android version and take my money.
It's a slippery slope argument in some ways; sure he can afford it, but if that's the case, should people with means be able to do anything they can afford? Or is there some limit where we can reasonably call it "excess" by nature of it being more than is reasonable for a person to need or desire; even if the excess in question is just disrespect for the conventions. It is an opinionated judgement, but it's not misleading.
1) work with founders you trust? or, when there is a board, it'd have to be board-approved.
2) options pools are carved out of this.
Sure those instructions are not for realtime sources but I believe it worth to take a look.

We built domain-specific scraper for http://otomobul.com . We have used python-scrapy and had to write custom crawler spider to deal with high memory usage for big sites. Also we added resuming capability so we don't need to scrape from scratch and it just travels only non-visited pages when somehow crawler crashes (I think they resolved those issues in never versions.) I found scrapy very well designed (borrowed losts of ideas from django and also it uses twisted as backend) and it is flexible enough for our requirements. For text processing, python is also my favorite language but I can not say whether it suits 100% to your needs though.

I cannot say we did real data mining in this side project but we are using processing middleware which process raw data from spider and dumps this data to Apache Solr for indexing. Solr is really good when it comes to full-text facet search. Web api is easy enough for fast prototyping. We were able to connect PHP backend to Solr and never worry about searching and indexing again. As an alternative you may use elastic search which has great features also.
Many stores already do run similar operations themselves, in fact. Both Safeway and Giant do around here (northern VA), for example.
If you don't understand the complexities of an option pool (either pre or post money) you are dumb and have no business starting a company.
I disagree on your last statement. I think that if a reasonable base salary were provided and profit sharing was done well and was truly equitable (i.e. not more than an order of magnitude different from 1/n of profit for n employees) then it could be quite attractive. It's all about trust and track-record.
A couple of weeks ago I saw a billboard truck driving in Redwood City that was trying to get developers to consider working for Walmart.com. If you like big data... they have it.

It's a surreal place.
I would recommend using TrueCrypt volumes so you can open them on machines other than OSX.
I'm on the mailing list for a bunch of user groups/Meetup groups that get a ton of positions posted and recuiter traffic. Lots of SQL DBA/Developer/.NET jobs and stuff of that ilk.
One git commit per pull request
Lets take the m2.4xlarge reserved instance type, it costs somewhere around $2k/month on AWS, but with a "generic hosting provider" it costs about %10-15 of that. Don't forget the 5-20% virtualization performance penalty either. The tradeoff is that for $2k you can get it pretty quickly and shut it down whenever you want, but if you spend more than 80hrs a month with that in use you should really get a dedicated resource somewhere else...
I can understand how it must hurt to get run over by an intellectual tank.
that's actually incorrect. The correct quote is "the plural of anecdote is data".

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...

I take the opposite view of this statistician, because it reminds us that NO data are free of some level of collection bias. Keep in mind I'm an experimentalist, and not a data analyst.
only a percentage of those people are engineers working on the client facing component (i.e. the game). More over, people consistently underestimate the complexity of building games, including the PM's in charge of getting the game out the door.
Maybe it's just that in that case the silicon won't support it, we don't really know how the architecture is.

Indeed it is conceivable that transactional extensions wouldn't work when the clock multiplier is unlocked, but I can't yet imagine why.
I know that creating a guest account as a honeypot is the recommended technique, but I wonder if there are (Mac OS X) vulnerabilities to get access to your main account from the guest account (in which case full disk encryption would not protect the data).

I guess in the end it boils down to: do you prefer to leak the data, or lose your laptop ? :-)
How do you draw a vacuum over that much volume? How much effort is required to keep a vacuum over that much volume?

Do you have to inspect every single joint (which I assume would be welded) for air-tightness?

How do you keep the tubular structure from buckling? Do you have buckle-arrestors every so often along the length?
The apigee doc is a great resource. The PDF is also indexed directly via google if you don't want to sign up: info.apigee.com/Portals/62317/docs/web%20api.pdf
Daily backups, full disk encryption, and something like lastpass, onepassword, or keychain.
All founders equity shall be subject to a repurchase right which also reflects a standard 4 year vesting schedule.

If we were taking outside money tomorrow, this would be a point of contention. I understand the idea behind a vesting schedule for founders (the investors don't want you to walk away two days after they invest), and I might grudgingly agree to something like that. But no way would I ever agree to make 100% of my founder equity subject to vesting or repurchase. The bottom line is, I've spend 2+ years working on this company, and without the work I (and the other co-founders) have put in, there is no company, no valuation, no nothing. I'm not going to put all of that equity at risk just to make an investor feel good. If we're all supposed to "be in this together" and have aligned interests, they would have to accept that we've already earned the right to a significant portion of the company.
It is FANTASTIC.

I get about 75% of my groceries through it, and have been for the entire time it's been available.

Their default produce & meat isn't quite as good as a WholeFoods or my favorite local store (Madison Market aka Central Co-Op), but AmazonFresh has recently started sourcing certain items from local specialty vendors - think Pike Place Market fish guys, that sort of thing. Those items are great, and it's wonderful to have them delivered.

Over the years they've tweaked a few things: changed the minimum delivery size, added a "tip" for the driver (which I think is wrong - they should be paying these guys a good wage .. but that's not Amazon's style, I guess).

They've also iterated the website multiple times from an initialy somewhat poor UX into the current one, which is pretty good.

EDIT: oh, and being able to add groceries to your order until roughly midnight, and still getting them on your doorstep by 6am the next day ... magic.

They also deliver certain Amazon items (they call this "Amazon.com NOW"), so I've ordered things like digital cameras and had them arrive within hours. AWESOME.
One reason I like a system where fines are x% of income like in some nordic countries that can result in 6 figure ($) speeding tickets[1].

[1] http://www.trafficticketsecrets.com/speeding-ticket-news-fin...
Sexism can manifest itself in many ways, and the subtle ways arent less legitimate concerns just because it could be worse. "At least youre not getting beaten, be thankful for that".

Sexism can totally be if you are a "nag" and get called a "bitch"!

Talking about an isolated relatively minor situation with the lens of sexism becomes difficult, because without establishing a pattern of behavior, its hard to determine if the situation is sexism or not.

What happens when many females encounter similar attitudes in many CS work spaces. Will we still deny that society isnt perfect?
This is really quite offensive.

One thing that I hear from foreign aid groups is requests for money. And some hardworking person is giving most of his money to them. Well and good. I hope he can choose groups that are corruption-resistant.

And this cad from the NYT claims its better to go be another aid worker and beg money than to execute what you know and leverage the power of money gained from that?

Absolute claptrap.
So, What's in an Agile Story?
High School Student Takes Down Twitter's Vine With Rick Astley Video
As someone who lives in Seattle, let me tell you about the service (and Ill even compare it to safe ways delivery service!) You schedule a time, and pick out your groceries. You can attended or non-attended deliveries (Id advise attended), and you can basically order anything from the local area and its reasonably priced. You tip the delivery guy (usually like 5$), and they come to your house and deliver. The review of it is that the produce is hit or miss (most of the time a very big hit, and its usually very good), and most of the stuff is as advertised. The prices are very comparable to stores in the local area, and if you dont have to pay for the delivery fee, can even beat them. In comparison to Safeway's service, it blows it out of the water. My safeway experience has been plagued with bad produce, and out of stock items, with amazon this is never a problem. Most of the same, Amazon can deliver everything the next day, but sometimes it can take 2 days. Its VERY reliable in terms of times that are set (if I say I want between 7-8 in the morning, the dropoff guy is always here during that time.) Overall, I enjoy using it for getting fresh produce delivered to my apartment with little to no hassle. I also have an amazon credit card, and it gives me 3x points on my order (which is better rewards than most rewards card) so that is an added bonus. Im excited if the rest of the country can get the same thing. As someone who moved from Ohio, its a service that I never knew how badly I wanted till I used it.
If you're just renting dedicated server - nothing is going to change for you.

If you're big enterprise-grade customer hosting private cloud with softlayer - you already know the answer :)
> An iPhone is not going to do very well for sports photography

Though it would be amusing to see the attempts... ><

[Seriously though, it sounds like they're simply going to use freelancers for photos from now on, many of whom will presumably have all the fancy kit you need for sports etc...]
Sounds like a study worth funding - if that data doesn't already exist!
I don't get why Amazon would want to do this -- it's always been my impression that grocery stores' margins are razor-thin. Am I wrong about this?
CoffeeScript pushed Objective-C off GitHub's top-ten list. Let's fix that.
You're right, it's not always a bad thing.

That being said, cars are often "written off" or somehow declared illegal to ever be driven on the road again once they have a certain level or kind of damage. This is done to keep everyone safer by removing vehicles that don't meet an acceptable minimum standard.

If I chop up 5 cars declared illegal for road use, and make one car from them, is it safe enough? How is that tested? Usually, people that are "re-birthing" cars are not interested in telling the new buyer the history, so nobody will even know the particular car has a questionable safety history.

Would you be happy driving your young family in a car that I welded together from other cars?
Map of May 20 and 31 Oklahoma Tornadoes with Population Density
That really doesn't offer feature overlap with FileVault2's full disk encryption. Though using TC is a great alternative for specific disks and folders -- not an entire system from preboot through log-in.
"Scuplting" implies something being carved away from a block of larger source material. 3D printing builds an object by adding layers of material in the exact pattern of the object.
The object is from the bottom up by layering extruded plastic. The nozzle that dispenses this plastic moves back and forth, just like a printer that has the ink nozzle slide back and forth on the carriage.
Not sure if this is a real email or a bad and rude joke
Great article, I've read many like it, BUT what I can't find is information pertinent to how one should host their API. I submitted an "Ask HN" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820761) earlier, but could some folks please advise me on the hosting side of "Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API"?
Yes. The buttons on the bottom give it away.

Critiques:

The site looks bad on a sideways phone due to premature responsive design. I had to flip to vertical to actually see anything.

More importantly, after scrolling to the bottom and clicking the 'up' button, it took about 25 back-button taps to get back here. Don't mess with URLs, please.
If the founders have been working on the company for awhile I'll usually agree to a shorter vesting schedule. That said, one of my favorite things in the world is when a founder proposes 6-year vesting for a company they've already been working on for awhile to set the right standard for everyone else.
Prepaid cards are rejected?
How do you generally do issue tracking, particularly when a project you join has already picked a system?
Uh, you didn't actually read the article, did you?

If you did, you'd understand that yes, it was shoplifting. He was apprehended after the fact, at which point the shoplifting was discovered. When asked if he had anything else, he replied that he had a knife, but didn't actually show it.

In other words, there was no violence committed or even threatened in the course of the crime. There was no violence committed or credibly threatened after the fact. There was simply a statement, which could easily be seen as a confession, that he had a knife in his possession.
Nevermind the fact that this whole pseudo-utilitarian premise is just a nice way to ignore the harm

I'm curious why you claim that. It seems to me the goal is to redress the harm, not ignore it. You can't claim to know Jason Trigg's true internal motives, can you?

The whole premise rests on the assumption that the benefit of his donations outweigh his share of any (likely indirect) harm done by his firm or the industry as a whole to those same areas.

Nor can you claim that this assumption is false, given that you suggest a utilitarian analysis is impossible.

I find the general premise of "work like a sociopath to make so much money you can do good with the money", whatever their forms, to be a textbook example of feeling good rather than doing good.

By what logic? Do you claim that good isn't being done? You're of course right that harm is being indirectly done, but you have stated that there's no way to show whether more good or more harm is being done. So what exactly is the source of your cynicism?
Did you read the paper? They cited a case where crimping occurred in printers even though IBM and HP were competing. Also, ARM and AMD are producing chips, even if they don't target the same subset of the market.

Regardless, the point is that by crimping Intel may be making themselves and their customers better off. Sure, we could posit that with an even more competitive chip market we'd be even better off, but that doesn't negate the fact that we might be worse off than the status quo if crimping were disallowed given the current competitive landscape.
Apple is not a non-practicing entity. Regardless of your feelings toward them, they're actually selling products that use many of the technologies they've patented. They're nothing like Intellectual Ventures and their ilk.
Until you consider how the US Government runs any program into the ground, is blanketed with regulations and bureaucracy, and generally hurts the people who it's supposed to help.

Here's a few examples just in case you need some evidence:

The US Postal Service: http://www.economicfreedom.org/2012/12/12/stamping-out-waste...

The War on Poverty: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062612-616212-war-o...

Medicare: http://www.aei.org/article/health/entitlements/medicare/why-...

Cash for Clunkers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020488440457436...

You can also add these to the list:

Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, AmTrak, No Child Left Behind, and the Fair Housing Act.

I would be more in favor if the government had a good track record with some of these programs, but when you see how horrible these programs are run, you feel like we really can't seem to fix anything. Sad but true
A16Z gets touted as an order of magnitude smarter than the rest of the VC's out there, and my opinion of them has dropped after looking at their portfolio's recent performance. Yes, they have made lots of money, but that firm specifically was supposed to be about recognizing long term opportunities, and not just following growth and fads.
Of course, its always easy to comment with the benefit of hindsight.
I didn't realize anybody did 6 year vesting! It's weird, though... I get what you're saying about setting the standard and keeping things consistent, but founders are a bit of a special case, in that - in at least some cases - they've already put in a big chunk of their time.

I guess what would make sense, to my mind, would be a standard N year vesting (where N is 3, 4, 6, whatever) but give the founders credit for "time served" so to speak.

In any case, thanks for sharing this, and for promoting the "founder friendly" approach. It seems right to me, since you want the founders to be taken care of, so they remain motivated to work as hard as they can on building the best possible company. I feel like it's short-sighted of investors to try to squeeze the founders too hard. Worst case, you wind up with founders who have no real incentive to bust their ass building the company!
If he has an air-compressor already, he could do it for under $20. Air tools are pretty damn cheap on the low end. ;)
I'd pay maybe $50 a month for a service like this if it offered same or next day shipping between 7:00 and 10:00 at night, had an equal or better selection than the grocery stores by my house, and the quality of produce was good.

If they could integrate with some popular recipe sites to add little "Buy this on ..." buttons to each item in the ingredients list it'd be even better.
Functionally most of the electronics you buy are capable of more. Take a look at this: http://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippli.... Okay, so what happens? Either everything's great and you got a free upgrade or the thing has a bad shader or memory chip and now you have an unreliable card.

Another thing you might see in a substantially similar hardware product line is that resistors indicate the hardware model, but the lesser models are missing essential components that are present in the higher models. Sure, the firmware will think it's running on the higher model if you swap out the resistors, but it'll promptly crash when it can't find that DAC and EEPROM that are supposed to be there.