skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another old-timer here... It's all in how you define success. Various definitions of success might be:

- Someone that Crunchbase wants to interview for every late-breaking tech news story

- Someone who runs a single person company that makes $60,000 profit after taxes

- Someone who has earned FU money by building their own company(s)

- Someone who has over $1m in the bank in cash

- Someone who has built a recurring revenue stream from just an idea

- Someone whose business hasn't failed yet

- Someone who built a company from an idea and that business sustains them

- Someone who built a company that has employees

- Someone who was able to buy a company and turn that company into a better, more profitable company/outcome

- etc

There's not just one definition. So what is "a successful startup" to you? Your definition of success goes a long way to defining your happiness, I think.
Looks like more cities could use a "thinkerspace" like what just opened in Madison, Wisconsin.

http://blog.begriffs.com/2013/06/madison-thinkerspace-now-op...
IMHO, because we shouldn't have snarky jokes here. This isn't /.
I want to see main idea of article first, then decide if this text worth my time to read. Sorry, if it's offensive for somebody.

Author of War and Peace was very frustrated about size of that book :)
Add a virtual storage device to a Virtual Machine
How do you explain the $7,500 subsidy for each Tesla sold?

Also, the government would have gifted them the money regardless of their ability to pay it back. Fisker couldn't pay back theirs, as did many other energy companies that went bankrupt. No one was arrested and no personal assets were taken.
For a bit more context you can learn more from the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0213yfh/live. They have an interview with Conservative MP Bob Neill and Sir Anthony Hooper, a former appeal court judge. The links to the interview and other useful info can be found at the bottom of the page.
Sorry, I don't understand. You seem to be saying there's only two versions of the compiler, one written in a foreign language, e.g. C, the other in a subset, e.g. Gosub, called G-2. But then there's "whatever is the current version of the language", which suggests to me incremental improvements, e.g. the language develops as experience is gained rather than being fully planned on day one. So doesn't G-2 undergo changes to implement these? You may keep calling it G-2 but there are many (I never said thousands) of versions of it.
I don't know if I'd advocate death, but he certainly "knew better." It's bad enough he spent more on one day than most Americans can earn in a lifetime, but for what? Some ephemeral bullshit in exchange for lasting damage to the commons?
I should perhaps note that that isn't a subsidy to Tesla: it applies to every electric car manufacturer. It's not relevant to the question, which is, "did Tesla succeed "unfairly" w.r.t. other makers?". It's also a red herring for your previous argument about inequality: "Both the Nissan Leaf electric vehicle and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, launched in December 2010, are eligible for the maximum $7,500 tax credit." -- these are cheap vehicles.

But yes, now that you've successfully moved the goalpost, I might have to revise my estimate of seventy-five cents.
I remember seeing a lot of heated debate on this topic about a year ago... part of the JOBS actin the US. I believe the SEC is currently drafting regulations on this, but haven't heard much on what that will entail.

No sign of similar legislation in Canada that I know of.
I know that stuff goes on, but it's amazing that people put stuff like this in writing.
Jim Sanborn, the artist behind Kryptos has another sculpture in the same theme located at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte called Cyrillic Projector. It's a steel cylinder with inverted Cyrillic letters cut into it, with a lamp in the middle. At night, the letters get projected onto surrounding buildings.

It's encrypted text was decoded in 2003, and turned out to be a KGB text on psychological control.

Here's a close-up photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84602957@N00/3435941990/in/phot...
Oh I think I understand better now. Something flips and moves the attractor for the system. Like an elastic band snapping, but with boats. Thanks for your reply
How is it fair that non-internal combustion transportation has to compete with ICE based companies whose fuel source is heavily subsidized by the U.S. government through military intervention in the Middle East? How much more would oil cost if the U.S. military wasn't propping up the Saudi monarchy and constantly patrolling the supply lines?
I find it similar to the risk of an airplane death. Both of those are deemed by 'rationalists' as irrational fears, as airplanes are by and large, safer than driving cars. However, considering the outcomes the fear is not as irrational; there are a significant chance of surviving a car accident, but almost none at all of a plane one. It also comes with a bonus of a few minutes of horrifying fall into your inevitable doom, too.

Nuclear plants can be safe, but when they fail the results are often catastrophic. People prefer to live with many small dangers rather than one giant but very unlikely one, and while it may be called out as irrational in the strictest definition of reason, it's perfectly human.
Great play by IBM - do you have any experience in Enterprise, bc this statement isn't true? Unfortunately, I do (too much Big 4 consulting in my distant past).

This is a great acquisition for IBM strategically. Many big enterprises still use IBM/Oracle products because of existing sales relationships and the fact CTO"s want to point the finger when resrouces go down. IBM will sell a ton of this. Also, with the numerous outages on AWS (unacceptable to Fortune 500) - the "selling point" well be "we're not amazon - and we can scale". IMHO
Any crime or supposed crime involving children always brings out the worst in society and demonstrates just how flawed the justice system in this country is. These problems exist with most crimes but they're exacerbated when children are involved because people have this innate need to prove they care about children, to prove that children are the most important thing in the world and anyone that doesn't sacrifice everything to protect children is sub-human scum. If the police hadn't tried to prosecute this man and a year later he was caught with actual child pornography the police officers involved would have campaigns against them, demanding they're sacked, demanding they lose their pensions and some would go as far as to demand they are put in prison.

Ask the average person what a paedophile is and they'll say someone that rapes children. Ask the average person what should happen to paedophiles and they'll say they should be given the death penalty. People are not rational in normal circumstances, add children and abuse to the mix and any semblance of rationality is lost. A justice system built on the values of a society that acts like this can never be good and will always have problems like this.
"My search results page is now a lot nicer. No pointless screen furniture top and bottom of the page. And my code is a lot cleaner, as I don’t need to provide the functions that go along with cleaning. Paging search results is just silly, so I simply got rid of the concept."

Wow. Talk about missing the point.

The user is the person who decides whether or not the result they want has been returned. If I don't like any of the 100 thing the author's search has returned then what? I'm just left without an option even though there could be another result to view? The search presumably finds the rest of the items, but they're closed to me because the developer couldn't make a nice pager? That's terrible.

Any decision that's driven by how nice it makes page look _for you_, how it affects _your_ code, or how it removes features _you_ think are unnecessary is very likely to be off the mark. When you write commercial software you are not writing it for yourself. The user is the person who matters. _Their_ experience of what you're creating is what counts. If you make a decision about a feature in order to make your code prettier you've made the wrong decision.
I'm more worried about the very real and considerably more developed plans to drastically change how the legal aid system works in the UK.

In brief, the UK government is planning to stop the current legal aid system - where solicitors (lawyers) are paid based upon how much work they've actually done on the case - and replace it with a flat rate. The flat rate is the same regardless of a guilty or not guilty plea. It should be immediately obvious that this means it's in a solicitor's best interests for a client to plead guilty, as they'll the same amount of money but for considerably less work.

Additionally, the government plans to remove the right to choose your own lawyer when on legal aid, and allow law firms (or, indeed, any company) to 'bid' to provide legal aid services exclusively across a geographic area.

What's particularly bad is that these proposals are being brought in as secondary legislation, which means they don't require a debate in parliament. That's very much unlike the 'snoopers' charter', which has a very strong chance of either being killed outright or considerably watered down as it works through parliament.

The end of the blog post linked to here discusses this a little - there's also a petition that UK residents can (and should) sign: https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48628
There is one quote that explains everything:

>> Jorge Yao, the game’s undisputed champion, figures he has spent north of $2500 in real money

>> on buying gems, and according to back-of-the-envelope calculations, the cost of fully fitting out your virtual

>> village is on the order of $5000 when you include walls. It’s little wonder the top clans leaderboard is full of

>> players like “>< Royal ><” from Kuwaiti clan “Q8 FORCE” and clan UAE’s “khalifa” (presumably from Bahrain’s

>> ruling House of Khalifa).

So just make game interesting for this Kuwaiti guys and you are bathing in gold.
Hubble Telescope Spies Huge Explosion on Faraway Star
Fantastic! I'm currently working on a Mac app that uses quartz composer for certain functionality. I was thinking about the easiest way to port that to iOS once the Mac app has been released. I'll keep an eye on your project and will probably try to add to it once I start using it. Thanks for sharing!
IPhone 4 sales could be blocked in US after Samsung's surprise patent victory
Ah, that's a good point actually
I work for Tokutek. In addition to performance improvements and compression, another cool thing about TokuMX: it's fully transactional. We hope this makes development of applications simpler.
A good piece of advice I got from a lawyer once:

If you are ever arrested, don't say a word especially if you are innocent.

The cops never arrest anyone unless they think they're guilty, so anything you say -- as the saying goes in America -- can and will be used against you. It'll be filtered through that cognitive bias.

Part two of his advice was: even if you are guilty of something, don't assume you're being busted for what you're guilty of. (So again keep your mouth shut.)

He related a case of someone busted for trafficking drugs. (Turns out he was.) He wound up being charged with murder. (He didn't do that!) Apparently someone had been killed in a way that made the police suspect it was drug-related, and there was circumstantial evidence linking the suspect to the scene, so...
This is very cool. Could have needed than in my last project where in our load-testing with j-meter everything was fine and in production our nodes would fly out of the cluster like flies.
I haven't looked deeply at it but I think session support would be very important, so that you don't just forward the requests but take care to maybe rewrite the session cookie to the server assigned one and when rate-limiting make sure to prefer to keep existing user sessions. From my expirience the problems we had on production were often because of some weird steps user took, which you might not catch if you don't make sure to exactly keep the users sessions in sync.
I'm happy Bitbucket is doing great. Their free private repos helped me —as well as the classmates I've introduced to Git— working on our university projects efficiently.
Thank you Bitbucket. :)
we can expect more in coming years.
I don't understand why they offer an Enterprise version of Stash, but not Bitbucket! I do SCM migrations for companies, and I find people pick up Hg a lot faster than Git. But no enterprise customer is going to use an externally hosted solution.
How Darwin Seduced the Christian Asa Gray
if I lose connection and the form is unresponsive I have to f5. often forms have some custom js selectors and after refresh some elements (or even whole formsets) lose their data.

of course an error would be nice, but the main goal is to submit the form I spent the last minutes filling in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Nuclear_prolifera...

"Many technologies and materials associated with the creation of a nuclear power program have a dual-use capability, in that they can be used to make nuclear weapons if a country chooses to do so. "
And so by then, the habit is strong enough to get the casual player to start forking over money? I wonder what the balance there is...I would've guessed that users who were used to playing consistently without paying would have a strong psychological reaction toward having to pay...but I guess if you warm the water in the cooking pot slowly enough....
I am an engineer at Tokutek. Just talking about TokuMX, I have only seen MongoDB beat us on single-threaded, read-only workloads on extremely small data sets (like under 8K, or one MongoDB B-tree bucket).

The statement is really pretty much true. The best B-tree indexes (InnoDB) beat Fractal Tree indexes a little bit on in-memory reads, but we're not done tuning our implementation. On out-of-memory reads though, we usually beat B-trees because we compress so much better that we simply need to read less off disk.

Benchmarking is a tricky business though. Workloads can be varied, and you can probably find some corner cases where InnoDB beats TokuDB. I think we have some outstanding issues where the MySQL optimizer doesn't plan our queries properly, and we're still working on that. I'm a little out of touch with the MySQL side these days though so that could be wrong. But algorithmically, there are no cases where a B-tree index has a significant advantage over a Fractal Tree index.

Generally though, the read performance advantage we see is that if your indexes are Fractal Tree indexes, you can afford to maintain a richer set of indexes than you could have on InnoDB or MongoDB, and these extra indexes make your queries orders of magnitude faster. I think this is the most important (non-obvious) point to understand. I gave a talk about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6BnG74FZMQ
Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
App puts porn on glass, Google vows to block it
Somebody needs to plant child porn on the supreme court justices' computers, so that judges understand the implications of "possession is 9/10ths of the law."
All DjangoCon Europe 2013 Talks are online
Here ya go mate, caching, fallback, all in a 15 lines of javascript. If you want to extract jquery out of there that should be easy enough.

No need for extra servers, the OPs guys don't even need to know it's there. Take an extra performance hit that is equal to loading another image per page (yeah image requests, while probably served from CDN, also include an accurate Date response header as I checked), cached for 7 days (remove the cookie during periods of daylight saving times etc). Just have to make sure the server time is reasonably accurate. I'm sure a few seconds inaccuracy wouldn't matter.

window.getLocalUnixTime = ->
(new Date()).getTime()

window.loadTime = (callback) ->
if $.cookie("time-drift-delta")
callback(getLocalUnixTime() + parseInt($.cookie("time-drift-delta"), 10))
else
$.ajax window.location,
type: "HEAD"
success: (data, status, jqXHR) ->
datetime = new Date(jqXHR.getResponseHeader("Date"))
$.cookie("time-drift-delta", datetime.getTime() - getLocalUnixTime(), {expires: 7})
callback datetime
fail: ->
callback getLocalUnixTime()
DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 5: A Precise Garbage Collector for D by Rainer Schütze
Zynga had (and I assume still have) a 'platinum purchase program' that let players deposit money for in-app purchases via direct bank transfer. It was kept rather hush-hush, but it was definitely targeted at those spending thousands of dollars. It also offered things like referral schemes. A sort of 'high rollers club' for social games. I wouldn't be surprised if Supercell (who make Clash of Clans) had a similar thing going.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-dealer-for-farmvil...
What is wrong with build-in textarea resizer in right bottom coner?
And how much more awesome would Clash of Clans be if the effort of squeezing every last cent out had been put into improving the game itself instead?

Depends. If they were aiming to earn $182 million a year, then it's clearly pretty awesome. If they were aiming to build a great game, then perhaps not as much.
Wow, I cannot believe your comments along with other comments claiming that it is so that Tesla got a loan. All that negative energy in your comments. You must be really angry or jealous ar Ellon Musk. Thankfully trash like you do not get to decide what the rest of us can do.
Would the LLC structure also protect him in case they decided to fine him $100 million?
It'd probably protect him in case a wild animal bit one of his guests.
It's relatively cheap protection when so many things can go wrong.
I am not interested in arguing about whether Zuckerberg, Parker etc. deserve their wealth or not. That was not my point here.

I just wanted to point out what I think are the dynamics behind attack pieces like this.

I dare to claim that if some popular rich people, say Hollywood stars, had done exactly the same thing there would be no coverage outside of the gossip section where the writers would only fawn over the romantic scenery.

I think this is not about the actual event itself. It is about the things I mentioned earlier.
Obligatory link to the "Don't talk to the police" video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

It's one of the most profoundly revealing videos I've ever watched on the Internet, certainly the only (non-movie) video I've watched for 50 minutes. But I can't think of many other 50 minute periods in my adult life where my mind was so thoroughly changed from beginning to end on something related to politics and civics.
In eloquent praise of the fifth amendment:[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
So I'm a bit confused by the title. Is the game going to teach people how to play musical instruments or is it going to teach musical theory?

Or, more likely, is it just a game that uses music as the power aspect for the PCs? So in the end you are still just clicking mice and mashing keybindings.
To Read Or Not To Read, That Should Not Be The Question
W3C releases new HTML5.1 Working Draft
.. The problem is that the economic "moats" around the incumbents are largely due to state intervention and protectionist policies anyway. How much protection does Detroit get from Washington? A lot. So, you have a bizarre situation where the "solution" to market dysfunction caused by government protectionist policy is ... wait for it .... more government protectionist policy. My goodness, this sounds like your tax dollars are being spent wisely .... Not. And all this from a country that trumpets free-market idealism like the rest of the world doesn't already get it. And practice it. And do a darn sight better at it (than the North-East at least).
Yeah, this version have lack of smart rate limiting. But i want to implement "buffering", so requests will be send in same order, without loss, from buffer. Smth like video streaming. Session loss in this case will be only when i need to re-fill buffer.
From what I remember from a few years ago (quotation needed or the loan part may have changed), they make a few hundred dollars on new cars, bigger margins on second hand cars and about 40-50% of their income from car loans.
afaik, technically that picture depicts a small front-loader.
Well, the really radioactive parts of the waste will decay after a fairly short number of years. With regards to the less radioactive, slower decaying part I'm not sure why we worry about it so much more than naturally occurring radioactive substances. There are streams in Colorado that are measurably radioactive because they interact with natural Uranium deposits but the levels are low enough to not pose a real public health hazard. I don't see why buried man-made radioactive substances are unacceptable when buried natural radioactive substances aren't.
FreedomPop Will Take On Carriers By Offering Smartphones And Freemium Phone Plan
It might be useful, but I find it will be overkill for most use cases where you can solve this with a simple if/else checking the type of the argument. At the end of the day this is just a weird syntactic sugar implemented through a standard-library decorator. But it's cool anyway because it's just there.

Python, by design, will never have real function overloading so emulating it will look ugly.
Your legislators have decided to model the new system after heavy dose of LSD and Kafka I suppose?
No, not really.

That article would indeed be a problem, but only if it ignored either Volvo manufacturing deaths or BMW driving deaths. An article comparing total Vovlo and BMW related deaths as a measure of the make's cost to society would present a valid argument. Granted, generally when someone calls and automobile make "safe," they mean safe to drive, and that's what matters to car buyers, but part of the point of this article is that's not what matters when discussing power plants, which are payed for by 'society' rather than individual buyers.

Total deaths from Coal power generation vs Nuclear Power generation is indeed a meaningful comparison.
Apple's Folly: The story of the pippin