skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we really ready to put Facebook on the level of big banks? Many of those banks have admittedly participated in gangsterism and fraud. I think FB should be held to a somewhat higher standard than the most hated institutions in the US today.

She is absolutely free to pay "market wage." We are free to mock the hell out of her.
Really? I guess you got the tube part right.
Meanwhile, this dog is doing science. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAKS7mQTw0k
Sometimes they aren't[1]. Some are paid through agents. Those syndicates are missing their opportunity to organize and solve the journalists' coordination problems. Someone will.

[1] - https://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-lif...
Silk Road is an interesting indicator of whether online privacy can be maintained against a powerful and determined adversary. If it’s still running in five years time, that will suggest that it may be possible.

I would bet that it won’t.
Besides your graphical interface, will you expose an api?
I want to tack on cycling to this. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to solve all of the world's problems at the beginning of a bike ride. And the result is always the same. The primary problem that I end up solving is 'how the hell do I move myself over the next 60+ miles without blowing up and getting dropped by the pack.' And not falling - not falling is key. Dodging cars, cyclists, potholes, cracks, animals, gravel, basically anything that can ruin your ride, becomes a major focus. Then after you finish the ride, you are on a physical high from the exertion and a mental high from getting to take a break from your petty little problems.

Man I want to go ride now...
It has always intrigued me that we consider the possibility of other life forms in a manner that is largely relative to our understanding of life on earth and, hence, biology. But, even our understanding of DNA need not be applicable to other life forms.

I don't see why there has to be any real limitation on conditions or otherwise. As the article mentions, we have been surprised to find extremophiles near thermal vents right here on Earth (which reach temperatures roughly equivalent to the Venusian surface). There we find, for instance, bacteria that rely upon hydrogen sulfide vs sunlight for energy. This is what we consider a "harsh" environment of chemicals, heat, pressure, etc. However, when we attempt to remove organisms from that environment to study them, they usually die pretty quickly. In other words, ours is the harsh environment as far as they are concerned.

Elsewhere, we have found organisms whose DNA was thought to be composed of arsenic vs phosphorous. While this was ultimately refuted, for a period we once again thought we'd discovered something that, in an instant, completely changed our understanding of life.

So, I guess my point is that we assume life must conform to certain requirements and/or conditions until we find life forms that violate our assumptions. Given a Universe as vast and diverse as our own, I sincerely believe that anything is possible and perhaps even likely.
Let's all sit around and cry about how new technology replaces old business models.
I'll wait an hour for it to warm up, then come back and hear what it has to say.
Mailinator has been redesigned and upgraded
> CL has transformed a billion dollar business into a million dollar business of which it (as a company) is the sole beneficiary

And of course the value added to CL's users and the many markets it facilitates..
There is a reason to call out Sandberg. The reason is to point out that this "mainstream" practise is unjust. And that the market should not set the criteria on decency.

You could say that "call[ing] out" Sandberg is unjust to her because, as you say, big banks do it too. However, (a) the injustice, in concrete material terms, is negligible in comparison to the lives of those working without pay, and (b) this logic, it seems to me, would suggest that all prosecution of individuals is fundamentally unjust unless one is able to round up each and every similar violators.
At this point, who cares what words Mr. Obama uses to describe his actions? He has done things that demand his sacking; after that, he can tell it to the judge.
It takes less than an hour to learn and get used to it if you know the standard Java-style OOP already. It's worth it and it'll give you a whole new opinion on what OOP means.

I made this a while ago, see if you can figure out how it works: http://jsfiddle.net/AXTdj/
"I'm not sure what can be done about it"

Employee protection laws. A lot of countries have them, mine did too before the neo-libs dismantled it.
This is what I get. Could be totally wrong and if so, please correct me.

App.net allows app developers to use app.net platform for a fee. App developers can integrate their user's app.net logins/profiles/network/photos etc. just like they do on facebook platform. App developers can also create users in the app.net platform.
Users never see any ad. They also have good privacy settings.
It's like win-win for both end-users and app developers. The only catch being app developers pay a nominal fee.
No. It's simple to build Go toolchains for whatever your deploy os/arch target is. Then you just cross-compile.

* Download Go source

* Extract, cd go/src/

* GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 ./make.bash #this will build the linux_386 toolchain

* GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 ./make.bash #linux_amd64

* GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm ./make.bash #you get the picture

GOOS can be windows, darwin, freebsd, netbsd, plan9.

Then when you want to cross-compile your app, you do:

GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build myApp.go

That's it. Now you have a statically linked binary that you can drop on whatever your target is. As someone who has had to cross-compile a lot of C and C++ code, I find this simplicity to be a huge win.
Node and javascript. Vastly more learning resources and applicability at this time.
Indeed, there seems to be an open hostility towards that approach. It's like the greens don't want the technology to spread outside their little club, which means it will never have real ecological benefits.

I will buy a Tesla as soon as I can afford it, and it has nothing to do with a desire to save the Earth.
I thought the same thing, but it's much more interesting when you zoom into the population centers you're interested in. For example, the distribution of French Creole vs. Russian in the Washington D.C. metro area is pretty interesting.
It is an "out there" statement because it's entirely, radically incorrect. A processor thread represents a full-blown decode and issue pipeline. A core represents a set of execution resources. Each pipeline can dispatch to any execution unit equally. In case of contention for the same execution unit, one thread issues immediately and the other thread issues next.

If you don't disable hyperthreading, but instead run four threads on an 8-thread CPU, it is extremely likely that the threads will be scheduled on the first two cores/four threads and the other two cores will be shut down, especially on the newer intel CPUs with "turbo" features where this strategy can have large benefits.
Now you made me miss my time to sleep because of all such awesome jet powered things.

(but can someone explain to me the jet powered kettle???)
Thanks, the answer is great. However, with that plan, wouldn't the first layer employee has ~ 100-200 times more equity than the last layer? Would this cause some sort of division within the employees in the company?
That does seem rather odd. So what if folks offered a salary but also made it strictly probationary up front. Sort of "You are going to be evaluated after 6 months/a year on the job and if you don't meet our expectations you are out." ?

This was essentially what Google to engineers when I worked there. They worked for generally just under a year, got reviewed, and then if they didn't measure up to the "level" that they had hired in at, they let them go. They were somewhat up front about it if you pressed them. But I didn't meet anyone there who particularly appreciated it when others would hire them and not do the whole 'check in a year' thing.
Read the link you posted. The problem is with FBX's restrictive license.
Fresh graduates joining big corporation handybook
Tesla's CEO Feared Microsoft Would Make His Car Racist And Slow
Doesn't wash. Just because lots of people are unpleasant doesn't mean that you can't tell individuals that they themselves are unpleasant.

Unpaid internships and the people who support (edit - for support, read offer) them are particularly unpleasant for a number of reasons, the main one being that they are for the most part little more than a test to see if you are from a rich enough background to consider regularly talking to.
I love it. App.net is going to be messaging system for the internet. Go Dalton!
Estonian Nine-Year-Olds to Learn Java
I was kind of hoping you'd solve those problems so I could just use gifs. :)

It occurred to me once that some kind of JS animation might do, as well. But you'd need a "player" that would allow rewind. It would be too much work to build that for any particular blog post but quite handy to apply if someone else built it.

Does the structure of animated gifs allow for any control over how the thing is played back?
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For those interested in the numbers:

$200,000,000 to install 12,500 PV arrays, at a expected cost of $16,000 per array all inclusive.

The 12,500 arrays will power 500,000 households consisting of 2 million people.

Therefore 160 people will be using each $16,000 array.
That's HN for you. You're never quite sure whether it's programming related or not.

40 Days without Booze - Alcohol Abstinence or Node.js Framework?

Steam powered Blender - 3d Modeling Software or Steampunk kitchen tool?

A new perspective on Coffee and Tea: “Building” Coffee Match - Again, Beverages or Web Frameworks?

Someone should write a site akin to
http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
or http://steakhouseorgaybar.com/ regarding HN post titles.
More than anything, I am bewildered by the general attitude here. Steam is the good guy, and Origin is akin to a malware? Pepsi and Coke, in my opinion. (I have never used Origin, but I intend to install it for this bundle)
Have you tried the method that video show? HINT: it doesn't fucking work.
Thanks for you comment. I was trying to keep everything as simple as possible, so you could easily bootstrap your python project with code examples. You must explore the topic further yourself! It's very easy to keep adding more and more stuff to the post to the point where nobody will ever read it, or the information just becomes incorrect. So yes, you need to drill down on your own.
Doesn't Cisco routinely rank people and get rid of the bottom 10%? There are so many layoffs in Cisco over the years. It's no big news.
Gallium melts not much higher than room temperature... Is that explained by orbitals as well?
You have no idea who pmarca is, right?
I like how you changed "breaking rules" to "non-risk-adverse" :P

Although it does make me wonder the degree of correlation between troubled teens, lack of moral compass, and entrepreneur.
> That does seem rather odd. So what if folks offered a salary but also made it strictly probationary up front. Sort of "You are going to be evaluated after 6 months/a year on the job and if you don't meet our expectations you are out." ?

This is exactly how it works here in Australia, for graduate and "normal" positions alike.

3 months probation with minimal notice, option to extend to 6 (but no greater due to workplace regs). Works well and means the employer doesn't have to take you on as a "casual" just to avoid the risk that you might be shit.
Could it be added that this is just in Windows, in the title? Sure it links to a Microsoft.com domain, but there are plenty of research projects hosted by Microsoft that are not necessarily on Windows...

This had me worried I would be spending time checking to make sure all the OS's I admin are secured against this "threat" somehow...
Why do you assume that?

The SDL developer works at Valve, and he just released 2.0. I don't see why they would do such a move on Blender...
Why Are We Settling For This In Clojure?
Link to the paper, rather than another bloody g+ plug: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3781.pdf
Vog's comment (like my blog post--thanks for linking, vog!) is directed at your friend, not you; it's trying to tell him that he shouldn't be storing your personal info in his Google account without getting your permission first.

this is unworkable.

Only because so many people are sadly unaware of the implications of posting data to the cloud. That's why I thought the issue was worth blogging about.
Not to bag on the write up, as it was well done, but does linear regression really qualify as machine learning? Almost every stats 101 course covers the topic, and probably 99% of people who use linear regressions in their day-to-day work would not call it machine learning. I know that linear regression is sometimes presented in Machine Learning courses, but I always thought is was done as a refresher, and not as actual course material of any significant weight.
DRM always has a risk of spyware

There is also a risk of centipedes.

Let's not forget what FUD stands for: fear, uncertainty, doubt.
I'm in pretty good shape and alcohol always makes me tired, no matter what time of day I drink it. So I avoid drinking it, which probably contributes to these symptoms in the first place. I'm not sure if they originate from the exercise but that's an interesting observation.
This happens in every single fucking version of Windows. Every time, since 3.11, they find another remote DoS using just ICMP. It's insane. It's like they plant it there to force people to apply the next service patch.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6183869
Interestingly those two are not mutually exclusive. It is indeed possible to be both a better entrepreneur AND a better felon :D
Most states in the US have at-will employment [0]. They don't even need to state a "probationary" period, they can simply fire anyone if they aren't performing.

[0]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
I assume it isn't done knowingly in most cases, since very few people will read the fine print.

In the particular case I wrote about in the article, there's not even any fine print to read: Facebook built the "shadow" profiles of people based on other people's contact info for them behind the scenes, without the users even knowing.
"you could say that unpaid internships are extremely empowering"

You can say lots of things. Doesn't make them true. If the prospective employee needs to eat this month, unpaid internships can be as empowering as they like, however the prospective employee will not be able to indulge themselves.
I agree that he (and you) shouldn't be getting down voted.

But I don't think that "Move Fast and Break Things" necessarily means not striving for excellence every time. To me it or more of, since in Programming there is (usually/almost) no bad side effects of breaking the code, go ahead and try new things. Worst case, revert to your last committed version. And I have to assume that SpaceX has most definitely had ideas that didn't work, or in other words 'broke'. They just hopefully never make it to the actual rocket testing phase!

So in my opinion, you can both "Move fast and break things" and strive for excellence every time out of the gate.

And to comment on the original video, I think it's really impressive seeing a toy helicopter do stuff like this on it's own. And this is a fucking ROCKET!!
As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City
If Quentin Tarantino is surfing HN, he needs to contact these guys right now.
You could also say that unpaid internships at fancy employers empower only those with parents able to foot the bill for their "on the job training."

Those who need to work to pay the rent will never be empowered to get on that ladder. The government does not offer "unpaid internship loans."
No. It's because there are legitimate hurdles to going 100% green, mainly power storage. Because both solar and wind generate lots of power sometimes, and no power at other times, there needs to be a way to generate electricity when the solar panels aren't producing, and a way to store it when the panels are producing too much.

On a small scale this is do-able, but not on a massive scale.
As a big fan of the GPL, ...I'm skeptical. I don't think Valve would benefit from keeping any potential modifications (or even plugins) secret, given that these would be far removed from its bread-and-butter.

A friend once suggested that outside of licensing pressure, maintainership is a huge driving force behind open-source contributions: you find something that does almost what you need, then you make the changes you require, and if you get these accepted upstream, they're maintained for you for free, pretty much forever. In many situations, that's far more important than any IP you're trying to conceal.
Basically he's just using the mini-pulse jet's waste heat to boil the water.

(Pulse jets are sort of primitive jet engines, though they operate on a different principles. Most famous for being used by the Germans with their V-1 "Flying Bomb".)
For a lot universities and colleges, if you're doing an internship for academic credit, you cannot be paid.
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Marc Andreessen. I don't mean any offense to him - trolling was a harsh word - he's not trolling. I would love to debate the original point with him, him being who he is, but I will defend my comment on the grounds that it derides my point just because I'm not a founder. I don't think it's fair to reduce someone's argument just because of their level of authority without examining the argument itself, no matter who is questioning your authority.

I guess I'm saying this: I respect Andreessen a lot, but if you read that comment from a name other than pmarca, would you defend it?
I don't drink either! all my friends think it's weird :-)
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> still-very-easy algorithm for parsing things like infix operators

You would be interested in the shunting-yard algorithm[1], to start with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting_yard_algorithm
As long as the result is less than 9007199254740992 (9 quadrillion; 2^53). Who uses numbers that large? Regardless of the practicality, you can use a library if you need support for bigger numbers (e.g. crypto's BigInt.js).
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Thanks for the bootstrapped podcast I'm always looking for new ones. May I also suggest Bootstrapped with Kids. So far I've enjoyed it quite a bit.
It seems you haven't read Mr. Dawkins yet.

Start with "The Selfish Gene", his best IMO.

Have fun!
Good business idea - How to get one?
Nice write up! I'd caution just checking for an exactly-zero determinant. Read up about ill-conditioned matrices, and maybe check that conditioning number (or a determinant below a certain threshold) first. Also, work hard to never, ever have to actually fully invert a matrix.
You referred to sex as a "romp".

ALERT: Virgin Detected
What Do You Do With A Failed Product?
This is why we should have more progressive taxation. The lower rungs of the economic shouldn't have to depend on the largesse of the wealthy few.
You ignore the definition. DRM means - publisher doesn't trust the user and the user doesn't trust the publisher. So DRM by design dictates the risk of malware and privacy violation by the publisher (as a natural mirror towards DRM assuming that users are potential criminal infringers by default). It's a good reason to avoid using any DRMed services - i.e. lack of trust inherent in the DRM by definition.

If you prefer to call it FUD, start with the DRM itself. It's FUD towards the users. Naturally users should have a symmetric FUD towards the publishers who shove DRM in their throats.
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