skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is fair -- and I don't think there's a strong positive outlook on BlackBerry's future -- there were internal discussions for years about whether to change the name of the company or not since BlackBerry was really the only product and was far more recognizable externally than RIM.
On my list of things to do: compare docker to zerovm to libvirt to ??? and figure out which one works will work best with rdma (infiniband) networks. Combined with nixos (maybe), this could work wonders for hpc data provenance.
If one is late enough that one uses an app to tell others that one is late, then yes.

If one needs to be somewhere half an hour away, one does not leave 30 minutes beforehand; one leaves 35-45 minutes beforehand, or even more, depending on importance (e.g. one probably leaves for one's wedding very early indeed, just in case a bridge drops and one's engine drops on the same trip).

Arriving late says, 'I either did not care enough about you to leave early enough, or I did not care enough about you to accurately model the journey duration to anticipate delays.'
When I was in college, I couldn't afford health insurance (no parents + financial aid does not cover it). I played rugby (generally not the safest sport) for two years, in addition to playing pickup basketball all four years. I very fortunately did not sustain any major injuries.

Six months after graduating (and getting a job with health insurance), I tore my ACL while playing pickup basketball. The costs were as insane as outlined in this post, but, again, I had health insurance. However, to this day, I'm horrified at the thought of what would've happened if I'd sustained the injury in college when I didn't have health insurance. Shame on me for putting myself in those sorts of situations, but it feels like there's something wrong when the penalty is so harsh.
I'm not sure I'm asking this question correctly, but what kind of performance hit do I take by using a Docker container within an EC2 instance instead of just running straight on the EC2 instance's userspace?

I'm not looking for any kind of concrete number, but let's say I've got a Postgres running on an m1.large. Any idea how running Postgres under Docker would change my performance characteristics?
Why revisit the issue? Modern society has evolved morally to be utterly revolted by the killing of civilians of another country intentionally and would never support the use of a nuclear weapon in this fashion. Isn't that all the moral judgement we need?
Babbage and Defective Vision
How I Grew Plugin Sales By 21% By Increasing Prices
Thanks! That link color doesn't show up well on my display; didn't realize PDI was a vendor rather than an industry spec of some kind. This is what I needed.
> "This must be an enormously stressful time."

If he's already taken (a lot of) money off the table, what's there (for him) to be stressed about?
Can you give an example of what 'trashy' is?

You could be an open resolver being used for reflection. You could be running DNSSEC and providing an amplification vector. You could be getting queries for another DNS server that used to have your IP. The possibilities are endless.
"... if you’re in a client-services business, when you visit your clients, make sure to go with them to grab a beverage from their break room before your meeting".

So true. Another good point is to ask to use the restrooms even if you don't really have to go.

I interviewed at one place where I was told over and over how well the company was doing and how the owner loved racing his Porsches at the local road track. Then I saw the restrooms, which looked like they hadn't been updated or fixed in twenty years. I figured out where the money was going... and it wasn't to employees.

Sure enough, the offer came in and it was a lowball. That confirmed my theory.
Chess isn't a skinner box, neither is Solitaire or Skyrim. Even poker is less of a skinner box than the games we're talking about.
The real thieves are the people not visiting your website.
Should this be read in numeric order (as 1 being the most important, etc.)? If not, which would you say are the top 3 most important?

In other words, how would you advise a startup CEO/founder manage their time in a big picture sense?
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I too am definitely "guilty" of giving out more advice than I probably should. However, some advice is good-natured (even if critical), whereas other advice is sometimes too much a projection of personal beliefs or unhelpful (i.e "That idea will probably fail"). I have definitely "grown up" a bit in terms of taking advice though - I used to think I was right about everything (even if outwardly humble). It is definitely not easy to put yourself in the mindset of another person.
I had ACL & torn miniscus surgery 16 months ago and live in Canada, here are my experiences (excellent breakdown btw). It changed my life in many ways, but that's another story.

Though surgery is voluntary and I injured it playing soccer, the operation is covered by Medicare (which is a mandatory $64/month as I am self-employed).

So not including opportunity costs for missed work and time for pre and post-op doctor's visits (about 8 of them), my costs not covered were:
- Post-surgery pain killers: $30 for T3's for a week. I refused the Percocet's, although the pain was bad I could still sleep.
- Physio visits. They'd have you 2-3X per week for the whole duration if they had it their way, at $70 per appointment. I can't afford that, so I went once a week for three months = $840.
- I declined the $900 custom knee brace that helps you get back playing sports sooner.
- Rental of crutches for two months $25

And crutches are NOT as easy as I once thought, when you'd hop around on hour friends crutches for a few steps. I'm pretty fit, but a few blocks in them has you sore and sweating. Take care of those knees!!
Downvotes on HN?
The fraction of patients without insurance but with enough cash and motivation to fly to the UK purely to seek savings on medical treatment has got to be fairly tiny.

My impression is that medical tourism from the U.S. is not typically for cost savings, but rather because particular procedures are either completely unavailable (experimental stem cell treatments) or could require long wait times (liver transplants). I'd love some data on this. Wikipedia's rather poorly written article suggests MT is more popular from countries with socialized systems in order to reduce wait time, but I'm skeptical.
Primal Scream Therapy: it's quite prevalent in the Internet.
Out of curiosity, what kind of improvements would you like to see in Visual Studio?
Because if you sign into one, you expect to be signed into the others. If you're signed into all of them, you don't want to have to go to every Google service and log out of them.
Actually, it's offering alternative formulations of the definite. For instance, "The USSR declared war, and they surrendered immediately," and, "Even after we destroyed large proportions of the population and infrastructure of dozens of major cities, they still kept fighting." Also, "After hearing the news from Hiroshima (that a third of the population had been killed and two-thirds of the city destroyed) the Supreme Council considered meeting to discuss it but decided not to. The very next day, after learning that the Soviet Union had invaded Manchuria, the Supreme Council met and began discussing unconditional surrender."

Any formulation that takes a few isolated facts and makes a narrative out of them is an oversimplification, of course. For example, the Japanese leadership was initially deadlocked on accepting unconditional surrender, and by the time the final decision was made, news of Nagasaki had reached them and could have been the deciding factor. They were considering the totality of their situation, so every factor came into play.
Glad to see this bubbling to the top. I've been following its development for almost a decade. It will be nice to finally have some code to reverse engineer.
Couple, the app for two, is hiring Android devs and a lead designer
Interesting thought. Do you have a moment to expand on it further?

We've considered the possibility, but for the time being at least, we're aiming for this to be a tool between two people in a couple (or for a single person to use as an "angel on the shoulder"). Gamification requires pitting couple vs. couple within the ecosystem which might be odd for something that's designed to foster healthy relationships.

Or maybe we just haven't hit on the right idea for it yet...
81. Surf someone else’s wave.

Following this advice only gets you dependent on that someone (if I understood the point correctly). So if they go down (read: limit/lock their API, like Twitter did), you go too.
There is a reason people sell their time: they need money to live. Advising new graduates (most of whom will have student debt) to eschew a "job" and go it alone "making something" is dubious advice.

A professional-level graduate career gives a ground to hit running after college, and in terms of steps in the direction of one day managing one's own affairs it provides experience, connections, and a chance to build up savings.

Going straight from school to no job and making "an app, blog, table, YouTube channel, or video tutorial" is very unlikely to lead to equivalent success, and don't let survivorship bias trick you otherwise.

The people I admire are those who have worked professionally but even in cases of soul-destroying office politics, bureaucracy, and mismanagement, have never given up on their "plan", slowly moving in the direction they want and eventually being in a position (e.g. financially, domain-experience, network) to break free and do it their way.

In the case of many HNers, I observe a movement from salaried employee to consultant with the freedom to work on their own stuff to...well a tonne of interesting things. I think that kind of approach is much more likely to succeed than the extremism and anti-"job" mentality of the submitted article.
Top ten signs your CEO has been secretly replaced by a droid:

Number seven: outputs jargon-filled error messages such as "These moves, while hard to face today, represent a proactive commitment to our mission of connecting the world through games."
You nailed it - wherever people can dislike, downvote etc. there will eventually be a lot of flaming, mobbing and other bad behaviour that discourages people from using that website. We have a forum where you can like and dislike posts and some people actually spend a lot of time disliking posts by people they don't like systematically (up to 50/day are allowed). We're now considering a very low limit for dislikes/day ...
If you read the comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815128

You have to wonder how ethical he really is?
The photo was taken by someone in Kenya.

I don't actually understand how it could be better or how it's stereotypical.
Reliability, privacy, security.

When I send an email to somebody, I want to know that it has arrived, and I want to know that the only person that can read it is the recipient.

When I receive an email from somebody, I want to know that it definitely came from them.

We have SPF, DKIM and OpenPGP (all of which I use). The problem is, mail servers accept mail from domains that don't use SPF and DKIM, and more importantly, other people don't use OpenPGP.
False.

I always know when I have been shot by a police officer.

I do not always know when my data has been copied even with your assertion of Google's good will. Your conditional of "when Google is legally permitted..." is quite telling (information is fluid and ephemeral) and makes your contradiction, "False.", laughable.

The case of personal data privacy and control is categorically different than the case of physical violence.
And from a batch of them that was only 1/4 of what was predicted to be needed.
Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X
In this case, what is likely the material difference between that "note" and a "letter"? I can't imagine this note was scrawled with sharpie onto a notepad sized piece of paper with adhesive backing and faint images of fruits or snowmen printed on it.
Hm. I'm not talking scientifically here or anything, but I've always felt the lack of any kind of depth in most Zynga games makes them feel very skinner box with little pretense beyond that. Most games have complicated stories or game play mechanics. Many Zynga games seem to be "Fill up these three bars by clicking these buttons. Watch them fill. It feels good doesn't it."

Personally I couldn't say that about many other games/work.
Two suggestions for Google's not-so-optimal CSS support
I just realized that generic titles like "An update from our CEO" always indicate bad news. When there's good news they put it straight in the title.
Easier method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859173/how-to-disable-a...
They don't support inline assembly because it messes with the register allocation in their compiler. It's likely they'll never support it because of this. :(
Don't think for a second that the U.S.S.R. (which was more than Russia) fought the Nazis to free the Jews. Before Hitler stabbed Stalin right in the back Stalin's regime had zero qualms about turning Jews over to the tender care of the Nazis.

The fact that the Soviets freed concentration camp victims as they came across the camps afterwards is admirable, but that wasn't why the Soviets were fighting, just as the U.S. wasn't fighting just to save the Jews.
I would assume that he is referring to the possibility of a confidence crash in tech companies that would affect public markets. Personally, I don't think Zynga is widely held enough for it to have much of an impact, and as you mentioned, the dirty laundry has already been aired.
Helios Bars - Transform any bike into a smart bike
> Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors.

I wonder what would happen if they try to find a way to sell that as a service?
Anecdotes about spammers abound, nobody actually spams, go figure. But lots of people talk about their spammer friends and accidents and defend spamming practices but of course they'd never think of spamming themselves.

Let me know which company would let a junior team member spend any money at all, let alone on buying link spam in the name of the company without some higher up ok'ing it.

" I, along with countless others (http://goo.gl/W1P69), have just been ignorantly using a fictional term that nicely summarizes the concept that we are trying to convey - i.e. "the building up of back-links via non-automated, traditional routes - such as those stemming from legitimate interations with other businesses and clients""

Strongly suggests you do more than just talk about it, it sounds like typical SEO marketing drivel.
Five months in, I just checked the first task on my “to-do” list: Fail
Well the stock went from $3.40 pre halt to a low of $2.87 just after the reopen and seems to have settled around $3.10.

That's not a great day but it could have been much worse. We'll see what happens going into the close but there seems to be a buy side imbalance currently.
If you don't plan on playing semi-competitive sports ever again, I wouldn't recommend surgery. It's all about the planting of the foot and changing direction, which you don't do with straight line activities like running or biking.

Forget about working the first week after surgery. You need to elevate and extend your leg constantly for the first few months, which gets uncomfortable when sitting.

Pre-surgery you need to strengthen the muscles around the knee to speed up recovery, so my physio got me to go to the gym 3X a week for two months, biking hard. Post-surgery you need to use some gym equipment as home rehab doesn't cut it.

Also it takes two years to fully heal. After seven months I could hike and bike, but now I'm sixteen months in and only now have started to play light competitive sports again. However mine is more complex as I have torn miniscus and some residual scar tissue that may be removed in the future. Let me know if you have other questions about the process, it's a long one!
Yeah, I think Zynga failing would have to be coupled with at least a few other non-social-gaming related companies for there to be any market-wide implications due to capital shifting.

edit: honestly if you are worried about market-wide implications wrt ZNGA the stock, if they ousted Pincus and started fixing the company then the short squeeze and the subsequent margin calls would probably be more of concern than the stock cratering, which is what most people expect.
Wow, so much of that is overpriced.

The medication costs, especially the fluids, are much higher. I checked a UK pharmacy for costs for buying small amounts so the discount they get for buying in bulk suggests a very large mark up in price.
This is sarcasm...right?
Different people read these things differently, of course, but it seems to me that the article's factual claims—for example, that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't of such dramatic magnitude as we think, in context; or that there weren't many city targets left to destroy—answer your objection. If the article is wrong it must be either because its facts are wrong or because it leaves out more important facts.

It's true that the Wikipedia article paints a completely different picture. I'd like to know what the OP would say about that.
Note that the blog author is part of the Team Foundation Server organization, so it's natural that he's talking about those features and not the programming language and runtime features.
No, they very much are a skinner box. Read any good tutorial or paper in the field (say, http://www.fdg2013.org/program/papers/paper06_zagal_etal.pdf ). The revenue model depends on base applied behaviorialism.
Whether or not they have heard the term before, I think that people who care about their website's google results and don't know how they could possibly find someone to help them make a text file are a minority not really worth worrying about.
Great observation :) +1
I also had my ACL replaced (hamstring autograft), in SF, about 2.5 years ago after a basketball injury.

I'm pretty sure these prices are starting 'list' prices, whereas the negotiated/'allowed' cost that you and your insurance company actually wind up paying tends to be 1/2 to 1/3 these numbers.

My surgery was also about 3 months after the injury, which isn't optimal. It took me a few weeks to see a doctor, I didn't like the 1st doctor I saw, and by the time I'd settled on a preferred one, I needed 6 weeks of physical therapy to undo some of the post-injury weakening of surrounding muscles. (Since there's also atrophying due to surgical damage and post-surgery immobilization, it's best for recovery for the muscles to be as strong as possible going in. So diagnosis/surgery ASAP after injury, with muscles nearly at their pre-injury best, is preferred... if you suspect your ACL is torn see a doc quickly!)
You can install several versions of Visual Studio side by side - keep an old version for maintaining legacy projects, use a new version for new projects.
Well yes that's clear, I'm just wondering why there's such a gouge in the price.
The more time you spend on HN, you'll discover and become more paranoid how large the iceberg is supporting its simple visible surface. Vast lisp AI kraken and spermaceti entangle down in its knotty and murky abyss. Are you prepared to go down this rabbit hole?
Nice tool, will test soon.
CoffeeScript is the 10th most popular language on GitHub
>>Seriously? The bar to being successful is an acquisition offer from Google? I'd understand if money was the driving factor. But Jeff Hawkings has already made a bunch of that from his previous ventures and to me at least, it seems that he's genuinely passionate about building something extraordinary. So, I'm still rooting for Numeta.<<

The thing is, Since On Intelligence came out I haven't really seen any real products from them. Sure, they created some tools that they expect other developers to build projects on top of them but that is it. Honestly, with all his talks claiming how his algorithms are much better than the current state of the art I would expect really good image recognition, speech recognition or something like IBM's Watson to come out of their labs. But everything I've seen from them seems average. Not that much better than the state of the art.

If they had anything groundbreaking and I were google, I'd want to acquire that technology to further the goal of Strong AI. Google is interested in producing AI and will acquire anybody that can help it with that goal. Google is not interested in Numenta's technology, and I'm sure they've checked their technology, which makes me think that Numenta doesn't really have much to offer.

Whether Jeff is interested in selling or not is irrelevant.
this is the author here,
I really am conflicted here, on one hand im wondering what to do, just sit back and passively see his world through my stolen tablet computer and on the other hand I am pissed he didnt give me back my passport, so I want the cops to question why he sold my tablet, and not return my passport, i might still not press charges, but at the very least attempt to recover my passport and reward him that way.. what do you think I should do ?
The most recent HTM paper is here:

https://www.groksolutions.com/technology.html#cla-whitepaper

There were some earlier ones that used to be on the Numenta website (before the name-change), but I don't see those posted now.

With the exception of being able to handle on-line learning, I have a slight preference for their previous, more abstract approach. Their current approach seems to model the details of the neural connections at a lower level than what seems necessary to me. This is not, by the way, any kind of valid scientific opinion, just the views of a widely-read amateur.
Almost nothing in most cases, but it depends on what you're doing. Take a look at the benchmarks for lxc.

http://lxc.sourceforge.net/index.php/about/kernel-namespaces...

Postgres is a beast tho (albeit a cute and friendly beast), it's probably doing something weird that lxc won't like.
YES! SSL Support with Web Sites!
Even Our Ancestors Never Really Ate the “Paleo Diet”
This looks awesome! I am writing my own version of a hierarchy viewer and debugger. Its a work in progress but you can check it out @ http://hierarchydetective.com/
Where did you get that from? The total number of Stalin's victims is around 1.5 million.

EDIT: I misread. It's about double, 3 million. Unreliable figure in any case.
Metal tools seem quite simple to autoclave. That said, they should also be pretty cheap to make (unlike the $900 knife in the article).
One of the reasons why I really enjoy while reading the notes is the fact that Docker does not shut itself into Linux world and promises working with alternative technologies, like BSD Jails. That's a great news and I am looking forward to see it happening!
Hah I knew I would get called on that. Let's change it to "the first one that came to my mind"
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Fair enough, but unless you can predict the amount and terms of any future investment, you've got no way of knowing this.

I'm guessing you'd need at least 2% up front to have an even chance of having 0.66% (or $1MM + taxes, in a $200MM exit) of the company at the time of sale.
totally fail to capture the fact that you would not be seeing anything on a sunny day in an open stadium.

would be nice if you could design with lightning limitations in mind.
I've read it and fwiw it contains some great information, but only at the lowest levels of cognition. Its fascinating, but his conclusions are not compelling because they're drawn from selective facts that have already been tainted by opinions.

It reads like he's gone the long way around to learn the same things ML already knows while resisting anything that ML doesn't already know.