skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone through periods where I'm not working on a startup.

A lot of it had to do with having new babies and simply not having the energy to hold down a six figure day job and a work on something else after hours.
>I think the technical nature of most members here would mean that they would quickly and easily set up a new account to troll from again,

Shadow bans are so much different!

Source: I have a shadowbanned account.
Next week:

CSV Can Give the Same Performance as JSON
One thing they don't teach in CAP theorem class is that you can be AP sometimes and CP others. For instance you can be strongly consistent within one system boundary (perhaps a datacenter) and eventually consistent between datacenters.

The CAP theorem can thus be annoying on both sides of the divide: people who think they can beat it, and people who think every system must be fully described by either AP or CP. Real life is messy, and for most real distributed systems you can't adequately characterize thier behavior just by pointing to a single spot on a Venn diagram of CAP.
Why does this Java program terminate despite appearing that it shouldn't?
Today's champions are tomorrow's losers, that's the way it is...
Maybe in a few decades we'll all have to learn Mandarin if we want to start a successful business :-)
5 Problems to Incent Million Dollar Idea Startups
Yes you can use 1111111. The chance that you win is 50%, you do or you don't.

Now the 50% is ofcourse a little joke. But there is some truth in it. Randomness doesn't mean the numbers change all the time. The probability that the numbers change is ofcourse very very high. But random doesn't equal change.
I don't know for sure, but I guess the credit ratings are not available in all EU countries. ("Paperwork" is different in every EU country.)
This is great! It would be amazing to have a list of other tools/libraries like this.

One project I'm working on I was looking to compare the word/topic frequencies of a document/text against common usage and I'm sure there is something out there like this that does this already as opposed to me doing it (poorly) from scratch.
What about Web master, from the web 1.0 days?
Picking some high numbers is good, but you have to be careful about picking all high numbers, since many other lottery players have also heard of this strategy. In a 6/46 game, of the 9.3 million combinations, only 5005 consist entirely of numbers higher than 31, while 736,281 are entirely "birthday" numbers. So if for every 150 people who play birthday numbers, there's one person who thinks they're outsmarting everyone and plays all high numbers, they're not actually improving their chances of picking an unpopular number.
No idea but one thing Germany is famous for is the low adoption of credit cards vs direct debit (ELV) etc - more so than most European countries. German's tend to find it a deal breaker (locally) if you are a payment gateway that only supports credit cards. So that could be one reason why but just a guess.
> it will not give you access to raw EEG data, which is what you need for any sort of legitimate experiment.

https://github.com/openyou/emokit
Original article:

http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol...

So his two JSON test cases are eval and jQuery. He does not use JSON.parse.

So this shows that with a lot of hand waving around cases no-one likely cares about, XML is almost as performant as JSON, even if the code is way, way uglier.

In an actual real project where you're probably passing lots of fiddly objects around we have no results.
Well, good. I guess there was always going to be a stage when they wouldn't be able to keep doing it in their kitchens.

Have they actually shipped any product from the factory yet? Where has all the product they've shipped so far been made?
I was tempted to click on that actually, then work got the better of me. I figured it was some crazy hardware.
Anyone know where the custom.css stylesheet is located on a mac?
Great news, although I work now for a somewhat competitor.

Anyway I do more and more api for my personal projects (thanks to AngularJS and mobile) and the Stripe api & docs have been my main inspirations and technical references.
Where has all the product they've shipped so far been made, and by who?
Microsoft sends DMCA notice to remove OpenOffice from search
I can recommend "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier
Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added to Call of Duty's Multiplayer
I can guarantee you the class was not offered the option of using Java 7. I'll take your word for it if you say this is not a new feature, but I'm sure the story went just about how I've laid it out.
2011? I'm curious; why was this done ten years after the original event?

And why is the declaration so vague?
Full disclosure I'm not a JavaScript programmer. I dink around with it. I can work with it. I understand it enough to maintain the code I need to at work, but I'm not a "JS Guy".

At the heart of my programming heraldry is C. From there I branched out into C++, Java, Perl, C#, etc.

In effect you are comparing JavaScript to Assembler, since CoffeeScript compiles to JS. I'm certain most people would agree that this is a ridiculous comparison, because as quirky as JavaScript can be it is far easier to work with than assembler. I wish people would stop making that comparison (I've been guilty of it myself, but I've stopped as of late).

In my view, the popularity of JavaScript comes down to two things: Interactivity and instant gratification.

I first played with JavaScript while in college in 1995. It blew my mind that I could just put some code into a text file and load it into Netscape and see stuff happen. No compiling, no linking, just text making the browser do things, and unlike Java it did not require me to upload an applet and hope that my target user had a JRE installed.

Today you have things like Chrome dev tools and JS Fiddle where you can get even more of that.

The velocity of going from idea to web app (site) is a lot nicer for most people.

IMHO JavaScript is the programming equivalent of an LLC. It's quick to start, low capital investment, and doesn't expose you to a lot of risk.

Anyhow...that's my two cents that I had to throw in before more veins in my head popped.
Facebook to Test Its Own PayPal Competitor in Bid to Simplify Mobile Purchases
>There is zero competition of ideas in political science

I think this is because political science, to me, seems like a lagging indicator of whats going on in the political sphere of the world (at least when it comes to "current issues").

It is also very telling that established powers feel very threatened by Nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twenty-somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years, yet academics seem to not be able to clearly frame what is really going on (maybe to the benefit of those who are marginalized by the status quo for that knowledge will most assuredly be used against them).

Though Hayden hinted about it, there are some fundamental things going on here that stand in the way of such analysis, after all one cannot truly fight that of which one does not understand…
You have to defend trademarks not copyright. If copyright had similar restrictions (and I wish it did!), you would be able to get away with copying a copyrighted DVD on the grounds that it was copied a lot.
While I deeply respect what Snowden has done, I am still skeptical. I hope I am proven wrong as I have been (so far) with my fear with repealing don't ask don't tell but history tells that we should be cautious. Remember the Hundred Flowers Campaign[1].

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

Chairman Mao Zedong: "The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
Top areas with highest tech startup density
Linkbait - this is just common sense.

New companies also rent office space but at a certain point they buy/build their own. Should we say 'Why some companies say office rental is a waste of money'?
This would be an obvious next step with the recent release (?) of facebook's Reservations update. Make a reservation, throw a credit card down when you make it, No more waiting for the bill to come out; The restaurant just charges your food to the card you made the reservation with.
GoCardless is direct debit only so would be a natural compliment to Stripe but unlikely to be a head to head competitor.
I went the whole of 2011 without drinking.

The only difference was my wallet was fuller and I probably had a slightly better immune system.

The hard part was being at social events where for the most part I was the only one sober. I found I would analysis everything allot more and found that personality types I didnt like got much worse when they had been drinking. I also realized that some of my friends were really obnoxious and hated seeing them like that. When your also drunk you dont notice these things...
I tried that but treated it as a project and it didn't work.

Now I'm working in a uni project but I'm not happy in the job... too much bureocracy, and I don't get to write much software, which is what I thought I was going to do here...
It's inevitable that the rich/powerful will use it against each other too. I guarantee that because of Snowden's actions, the next presidential election will see campaigns treating electronic communication as untrustworthy and will have new strategies/policies for communicating sensitive information. Accusations of illegal snooping will be made to sway public opinion.

Eventually, someone will actually get caught with their hand in the NSA's cookie jar.
(if this isn't a joke?) you might enjoy doing these http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
New App Store guidelines
I would like some citations here - Yes there is a whole job posting section solely for YC'ers. But thats pretty clearly sign-posted. And AFAIK, the only way a post there makes it to the front page is if it is voted up. And they are clearly marked 'cos you cannot comment on them, so everyone ignores them unless its for a cool company.

Do those posts get to go higher on less votes? I don't know but some proof would be nice before I agree.

And while its in context re: Google, as a personal bugbear, please reserve the word evil for events in Syria, and the like. Message boards don't come within spitting distance of evil.
Part of the role of Reddit, HN and other social media is to motivate you, the collected developers out there, to write your own version and fix all the problems you see in the system (software + admins + "culture") as it is now.

That includes me. Maybe after the wedding, kid's baseball game, co-worker's going away party, and stuff this weekend.
EA Humble bundle with 6-8 Tripple A titles
The lack of a schema system (that is alive and well) for JSON is certainly a strike against it. (The way XML namespaces work, on the other hand,...)
A Magnetic Trick to Define Consciousness
I live in Fort Collins right now attending Colorado State in my last year and went to high school in Loveland and must say I am very surprised at this.

With that being said, over the last 5 years this area has seen a lot of growth, with a lot of college grads staying in the area professionally.

In Loveland, a start-up called MadWire [0] sprouted up while I was attending Loveland High and is thriving now. They are even looking for a $500,000 incentive from the city to expand their 5+ story building over-looking Loveland Lake, and are likely going to get it to bring in new jobs to the city.

My girlfriend also recently got a front-desk job at Propel Labs [1], a new bio-tech start up located in downtown Fort Collins that has a great company culture.

This makes me really excited to graduate as I hope to get on with a start up in the area. Colorado is a great place to live and I have no intention of leaving.

[0] http://www.madwirewebdesign.com/loveland-web-design/

[1] http://propel-labs.com/
Could the exact same arguments be made about a nuclear dyad or quad? What makes three so special?
Right -- those are per-charge, not per-day.
This is a pretty good list!

It does, of course, exclude titles that are not specific to the web industry:
- CEO
- salesperson
- HR person
- accounting

There is an argument for adding "customer support" to this list, as a person doing customer support for web-based products/services generally need a specific skill-set.
Facebook confirmed that they are testing a paypal like mobile payment system
Good job on this list, for decades titles have been really lousy in this industry.

I didn't see Technical/Web/Application Architect on the list. It's been very common to add "architect" to the end of a title, even to go as far as to have Application Architects under Sr. Application Architects... I wonder if eventually we'll have "Sr. Principal Application Architects".

I'm curious to see what HN would consider calling an Application/Technical/Product Architect and if there is a better name or more clear description.
Glad to hear they're finally coming over here!

Somewhat unrelated but:

https://stripe.com/jobs#eu_developer_evangelist

This is my absolute dream job description, unfortunately as a CS undegrad I think I'd find myself somewhat under qualified for it.
We don't support making our daily transfers via wires, but if you have a US-routable USD bank account we can transfer USD to that without conversion.
Well if you're eating out a lot, you're getting bombarded with salt anyhow.

Cooking is pretty simple, FWIW. With a slow cooker and a rice cooker you can pretty much eat as much as you want with 10 minutes of actual prep a day.
Ruby symbols explained
I have no idea. The kitchen bench idea scared the shit out of me too, but given the amount that's been ordered I don't think they had any choice but to outsource.
Ah, it's not really like that. Explain the change that occurred in U.S. government policy when FDR succeeded Hoover.
Out of curiosity, what's the issue with PayMill? I always assumed they were a decent alternative?
More than that. Individual operations in a system could be AP and others CP. If you have something like dynamic quorum sizes, making quorums a majority would work towards some form of CP, while making it smaller than a majority could work towards AP constraints.

There are of course more mechanisms to consider when positioning yourself on the spectrum, but nothing would keep you from requiring CP for operations that have to do with subscriptions, and AP for operations that show how many people are online on a website, for example.

Then you have to consider 'refinements' over cap such as PACELC, where you can decide to switch modes depending on cluster health. For example, you could decide that when there is a (P)artition, you are (A)vailable, (E)lse, you are (C)onsistent. Nothing also stops you from providing, if you want extremely low latency, no consistency at all. For a cache, choosing latency (which would be PAEL, where L stands for Latency) would make sense.

CAP is just the very basic set of rules to consider when going distributed.
Offtopic: I loathe it when people project agreement on their "opponent" like this: "We believe you will agree [you shouldn't use our slogan]". If he agreed, he wouldn't have used that statement in the first place.

I've had it a few times where people who disagreed with something I wrote or did start their statement with "Surely you understand that [you shouldn't do what you did]". No, surely I don't, that's the reason we have this disagreement in the first place.
We'd love to hear from you. We're hiring in the US, UK and in a few other countries.

https://stripe.com/jobs & jobs@stripe.com
If you allow your government to declare war on indefinite objects and actions you allow your government to declare permanent war. This is fucking dangerous.
The weird thing about online communities is that at some point they transition from being promotional opportunities owned by the promoter to online communities owned by the users and promoters alike.
FounderDating Success Story: Blujack
I think you're partly right. The risk is much higher with the SEC, and I agree that SEC regulatory capture is a virtual certainty at this point.

But with drugs I don't think it's the dealers we have to worry about. The dealers are the little fish. It's the financiers, the money launderers, the ones who profit. They -- if they are smart -- never touch the stuff. They invest in it like they'd invest in any other venture.

My suspicion is that a captured DEA would behave not as an actual facilitator of drug trafficking but as a selective turf war tool to take politically unconnected competitors' drugs off the street. All you need there is enough influence to ensure that the DEA targets the other guys, not your bread and butter. That also helps to support the price of drugs, increasing your margins.

Actually it could be even simpler than that. If you have enough spies in the DEA you could be one ahead of them, have intel about how they conduct searches, etc. Then the DEA would act for you like a passive turf enforcement army. With your advantage you could fly under the radar, allowing the DEA to mop up your competition and prop up your margins by creating scarcity. Spying on an organization is orders of magnitude easier than influencing it, and requires the compromise of lower-level personnel. There's far more field agents and mid-level paper pushers than there are higher-up agenda setters and they make less money, making them easier targets to flip.

This is why the drug war is so bad for democracy and why prohibition encourages corruption. Put simply it creates a massive financial incentive for every kind of political corruption imaginable, and in so doing begets a "corruption infrastructure" that can be used for other kinds of crimes.
I am lucky enough to live in a city with a large variety of food both from grocery stores and restaurants and I take advantage of that, perhaps too much.

Even with all of that variety the closest I seem to come to mindfulness while eating is when I pay a lot or go out to eat with foodie friends (but I repeat myself).

It comes from a very utilitarian approach to food that I've (perhaps foolishly) taken my whole life. Eat fast and get on with important work. That's probably another reason a Soylent type product appeals to me.

I am curious about the book but trying to maintain mindfulness while eating every meal, frankly, seems like an extravagance. Of course, that is just a guess on the advice it contains based on the title.
It would be nice to know which sites those are, so we don't try to submit links to them. I submitted an article last week from i-programmer.info that went dead immediately. I assume this is the reason, but I was very confused as to what happened.
Similar: http://superfocus.com/
I actually think 'Architect' is a pretty good term, when used correctly. Someone who plans out the architecture of an app, maybe lays the groundwork, but leaves the actual development to others.
Youtube.com gimmick
Go to a video on youtube.com, pause the video and type in 1980 :)
And that is the real issue. We are now in permanent war. The constitution is a dead letter.

Wasn't it helpful to have a "liberal" Democrat in the White House to make the final stroke of the pen and abolish the constitution? Could you imagine if Bush had done this? The outcry? But with Obama in there the left is largely silent, and the right are ever-obsessed with irrelevant "culture war" crap. Culture war dog-whistle terms distract Republicans like moving objects distract cats.

Not saying Bush was innocent of course. Just pointing out the continuity of the decay of America's ideals regardless of which party sits in power.
My least favourite are product titles that are completely unrelated to the use (which is fine), but when titles are modified, it becomes completely pointless:

"Goose - A JS library for 3D graphics" --> "Goose"

Yeah thanks guys.
Plus, if it's the baseline, how do you use it for punishment?
It would be fairly awesome if the page parsed params to put x's in the appropriate spots, so you you could use the appropriate link to customize it for the recipient you send it to.
Early Humans Lived in China 1.7 Million Years Ago
Well mounting skimming hardware in ATMs is illegal as well, do you think that will stop criminals from abusing this?
> There's nothing "offensive" about pointing out realities, even if they may be painful for some people to accept.

The problem is that your comments about JS tend to contain more hyperbole and opinion than undisputed reality.

JS obviously has flaws. But so does English. It's good to have a natural language that a large percentage of the world's population, across nationalities and ethnic groups, can speak. I think the same applies in programming. Programming languages are not just for telling a computer what to do; they're also for collaborating with other programmers. And once a code base is written in a particular language, it's often hard to make a case for rewriting it in a different language. So why not use a language that is popular, is cross-platform, is vendor-neutral, has multiple optimized implementations, and is likely to remain popular and well-supported for many years to come? JavaScript is that language.

FWIW, I have much more experience with Python and Lua than with JavaScript. I also do some work in C++. Yet, despite JavaScript's flaws, I'm defending it as a general-purpose programming language.
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6216910
Sent you an email as soon as I typed my comment.
Please look out for an email from "Khuram Malik". It should have landed in your inbox just now.

Thank you for responding :)
Kyle Bass is pretty bearish on the Japanese economy; has been for several years. If he turns out to be right, the Japanese are in for a bad time. I get the impression that a lot of it is due in part to the demographics (lots of elderly, at least they are healthy).

04/08/2013 - http://thecommonsensecapitalist.com/2013/04/08/kyle-bass-on-...

06/31/2013 - http://seekingalpha.com/article/1473301-should-we-allow-kyle...

01/21/2013 - http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenharner/2013/01/21/whither...

05/23/2013 - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-23/boj-bond-buying-to-...
Yes, but if you're using javascript you're probably not aiming for long battery life or high performance per dollar. Tessel is not like an ATmega 8; it's like a BBB.
Those who believe in cock-up before conspiracy would say there is a 'bot running round changing submission titles to <title> tags, given a certain SOUNDEX gap (ie if the title is close enough, leave it, else call it editorialised)

It might be feasible to test this by changing titles a lot. A mean person could build titles ("AAA AAA") to discover the algo.

Whatever. Bit of a tangent.
I'm confused as to why you would expect good writing. To me, if it were polished in that regard, that would indicate a constructive effort. That it sounds like it was written by a 16-year-old makes perfect sense.
Thanks for the feedback!

In order to answer the various questions raised on all the outlets where I asked 'what about this idea?', I created a faq here: http://howtocode.io

Let me know what you think (I know it's ugly but the purpose is served)!
I disagree that everybody knows this.

Cloud services are marketed as extremely scalable solutions that grow with your business. I doubt that everybody starting out realizes that the costs can grow at a much faster rate than your revenue.