skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I thought the safety check was rather curious really. It was also odd to use a NULL terminated string for the encoding set instead of a straight 64-byte array (sure, you only save 1 byte, and most compilers will no doubt waste that byte ANYWAY just for memory alignment reasons, but it still struck me as surprisingly... imprecise).
> I have a tough time seeing why anyone would consider In-Q-Tel a bad thing.

Wholeheartedly agree.

I take their investment as a stronger sign of success because they are closer to the customer (rather than just being one of those firms that bets on the greater fool theory).

Case in point, consider their 10gen play. CIA has been a major player in database design since the beginning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#Overall_time...
That's a great point—I hadn't thought about it, though in retrospect it's obvious.
Facebook and Twitter said to be unblocked in Iran
Doesn't matter if you have a master plan -- you got started.
2008? Lots of well-established, middle-aged homeowner professionals became unemployed for long stretches. The unemployed college graduate narrative gets a lot of play in the media because it challenges assumptions (i.e. that a college degree means you're set for life) but professional middle managers got hit pretty hard also.
Good observation but I disagree, to some extent. Technical books that teach low-level knowledge and technologies will always become obsolete quickly. But books that enable the reader to understand deep concepts rather than shallow technologies have a much longer half-life. This is similar to the complaint that engineering school is always "behind the technology curve" which is nonsense. You don't go to school to learn technology, instead, you learn the basis underlying it. This latter knowledge changes much more slowly. A good technical book should aim to teach the same.
If it drives, flies, floats, fornicates or floods, someone will launch a startup to share them.
It reminds me of michaelochurch's posts on open allocation.
I've owned cars since I was 17 year old, and never had to borrow money for a car till I decided to buy a brand new car years later Since then, I've decided to do the following: So you make "car payments" into your savings account every month, and after 1 - 3 years you can get a usable or very nice used car. Then continue to make car payments into your savings, and 5 years afterwards you can get a brand new car -- one that will last you for 15 years (at least). Then, in the last 5 years, do the same thing if you want to continue to drive new vehicles.
Because doing a startup is not financially advisable to most people without a financial cushion. It may be fun, it may be thrilling, and it may work out better than your wildest dreams, but good financial advice for the general public it is not.
10-mode device—an order of magnitude over existent single-mode fiber
small heard of goats...

Nice. You could produce organic goat cheese - island chevre - chèvre de l'île.
What other YC partners' writings do you recommend?
I think the author is missing the point. The point of games is to be fun. And games are made through constant iteration. I'm sure they had the completely random number going and then someone said hey, these poor kids never roll the right numbers, or don't roll them enough, lets make their odds a bit better.
You misunderstand. I never, in the history of ever, clicked Like on any political candidate's page, much less a guy i disagree and dislike.
Buying brand new cars is not good financial advice either. Instant depreciation, no time for problems to blow up in someone else's face first, tiny longevity gain over buying a 2-3 year old car for drastically less.
It's an excellent lesson in real-world security. Humans are a weak factor, so design accordingly. Whenever possible, do not even allow an insecure configuration of a system. When that's not practical, do whatever you can to at least default to a secure configuration.
My thought is that one of the best paths to patent reform is that all patent infringement claims must be publicly submitted, even prior to legal filings. In other words, you can't send me a letter claiming I've infringed. You have to submit it to a government office, who will then forward the claim on to the alleged infringer. This would allow for A) gathering data on actual infringement claims. B) verification of claims. C) collectivization of resources of targeted parties.
Wow, thank you for this!
The percentage of US workers with access to a retirement-benefits plan is 71%. 57% of all US workers participate in such a plan.

(Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009 National Compensation Survey, http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2009/ebbl0044.pdf)

In Table 2, it says that even 15% of the lowest income decile - people making less than 90% of workers - find a way to participate in a retirement plan.

Here's a more detailed writeup from the Bureau: http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20100520ar01p1.htm

Meanwhile, the "top 10%" of households earn $135k per year or more, while the median income is around $50k.

(Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/us-househo...)

Anyone making over $60k per year could (in theory; this is a highly abstract argument at this level, of course!) save 20% of their income without dropping below the median household income of $50k; households making over $60k per year appear to constitute 32% to 40% of the population, if I read this Census Bureau chart correctly: https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0690....

None of which says anything about the effectiveness of 401k plans, or anything else. But if you're going to handwave about numbers it's nice to hit the right order of magnitude.
Nobody is ever involuntarily sitting on bonds, they are easily liquidated at any point; you sit on bonds because you don't want to spend the money.

>If it doesn't, then it's pretty much a failure as a quantitative easing.

It doesn't do much of anything, true.
What Happens When You Freeze Flowers and Shoot Them With a Gun
Splunk Acquires BugSense
Ahhh - UFMG - solid place. I heard UFMG is why Google is in Belo Horizonte.

As for names, when I saw yours, I thought of this R Almeida. http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Ricardo-Almeida-11
We know that the Five Eyes have ISP-level taps. Why do we think they aren't reading SMTP as it flows across WebFaction's datacenter?
Days with my father
I don't think it should be anonymous. Patent claims should be required to be public and searchable, prior to legal filings.
== Backstory ==

The X Window System (known as X11 - 11th version) is currently the predominant way for Linux users to use a graphical interface, specifically a windowed interface.

It is old and was designed for a purpose that doesn't match current usage nor technology. For this reason, a number of projects have risen to replace X11.

'Wayland' is the best supported of these projects, whilst 'Mir' is similar but has much less support. Mir was started specifically for Ubuntu, and has caused significant controversy in the community.

Until these new projects are completed, and in order to support legacy software written for X, bridges that allow X11 compatible software to run on Wayland or Mir have been created. These are called XWayland and XMir respectively.

== Current Story ==

The open source Intel drivers support X11, and increasingly will support Wayland (not sure on current state of this).

Canonical wrote a patchset that adds support for Mir to the Intel drivers, and requested that this be included in the main Intel project.

Intel has, for seemingly political reasons, denied that request. Canonical will thus have to maintain the patches themselves (it is common for many distributions to maintain patchsets in this way). If anyone else wanted to use Mir, and use Canonical's XMir bridge, they would need to source it from Canonical directly rather than from the main Intel repository.

It seems that Intel doesn't want to support multiple new windowing projects, and has backed Wayland over Mir (as have many others in the community).
FTC to Examine "Sponsored Content" Online Advertising
Also drivers, which for example, aren't part of the Windows source.
Appreciate all the support. I'm on my way to Washington DC to meet with some members of Congress in hopes of influencing some legislation to minimize the huge negative effects these trolls have on our industry. I'm also on a panel tomorrow night with the chief lobbyist for "intellectual" ventures. Should be fun.

The bad news is these huge, institutional patent troll companies will be influencing legislation via "contributions" which is hard to overcome. There's billions at stake here.
Oh shit, I have learned a lot from Rich's talks... so your talks must be much more useful. Where can I find them? Please tell me you have some talks? You have such great ideas, or communicate such "extremely simple" ideas so well that others (or even you yourself) have recorded them for me to watch. No talks? So you keep this knowledge to yourself and shit all over a guy who shares his knowledge with a community?

Your comment is terrible. You shit on Rich, you shit on Clojure, and say nothing other than you're so superior that you get nothing from anything Rich says. Fuck you (yes, that's not subtle, but your comment is passive-aggressive bullshit or perhaps you lack the ability to clearly state WHY you do not think a talk is useful).
> i challenge you to prove me wrong and just make a simple game this weekend

Erm, if you take "content creation" to mean full, playable games then you're right. But...

I'm pretty sure Valve is referring to content at every level, from hats to in-game items to custom levels to mods.
"To do the compilation you will need the following dependencies: antlr3c Ant C runtime 3.2 google v8 javascript engine boost libraries"

It really is enterprise software.
wow that's a great summary of key points :) and thanks for mentioning that my memoir has a more objective tone than the other student's rant. i tried hard to present both the good and bad sides of academia, as viewed through the lens of a naive Ph.D. student. ah good times.
that page tricks you a bit. really, if you click through, 29K is the cheapest lot on the island:
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/hemlow-island

You get 2.14 acres for that price.
Everything doubleclick was doing is still happening. We've just gotten more comfortable with the idea—or people have forgotten its going on.
Funny - H2's slowness (either with a standard storage system or with MVStore and a standard key format) is the main reason we're moving back to a hand-rolled data storage system that's specific for our data on Android.
That depends on whether this hypothetical codebase is an asset or a sunken cost.
Having something that just works similar to the way CoreAudio just works would be a killer feature to have in Linux.
Instead, we get ALSA and Pulseaudio, the odd couple of audio interfaces.
I don't know how good the advise is to max out 401K and other retirement account. Some of the 401K accounts have very limited choice of investment. For example, you can't do real estate investment.

If you know what you are doing, you might want to retain the money outside and do the investment yourself on investment that are not available in a typical 401K account.
I'm with you on this one. I scrolled up a few time to see who Lumen View was and they had never introduced them.
Keep in mind – the people I might have called "overly paranoid" in the pre-Snowden internet era would probably advise you to secure your infrastructure just as much from internal attacks as external ones – anybody targeting you specifically (as opposed to a fly-by botnet powered net-wide vulnerability exploit) is likely to get a foothold on a less-protected machine inside your firewall via non-direct means (spear-phishing an admin's laptop or NSL-ing your OS or router vendor).

That makes it far more "interesting" working out appropriate protection against high level attacks – fortunately for me it's purely a hypothetical defense, my personal (and professional) stance is that if law enforcement or state level espionage targets me, I'm hosed and will happily turn over passphrases and encryption keys to anyone with a badge (and hopefully a court order), and I assume any of the people who I rely on for security (from my ISP to my VPS provider, my SaaS vendors, my OS vendor, through to my hardware suppliers) will sell me out pretty much instantly if the NSA(/GHCQ/ASIO) ask them to. I can _probably_ trust a RaspberryPi that's never been network connected – but it'd be foolish to assume anything else digital I own isn't trivially vulnerable to the NSA if they cared enough about it.
Ironically, "musicians should tour nonstop" is the most popular answer for how they should sustain themselves while giving away free music.
That the altruism of his business decision isn't important?

I think you're touching on the popular sentiment that Linux gaming would be a good thing for consumers. Therefor the news is interesting, as a disruption to current players if nothing else.
This is Opera 12.02. I didn't mention it because it's mostly not relevant (Opera ditching their rendering engine and all). The issue is that the site seems to rely on JavaScript to render anything at all. At least throw the body in a noscript tag or something.
What is Apple’s new Secure Enclave and why is it important?
I think it is representative of the political volatility of many commenters here that they have chosen to interpret the last line as referring strictly to government programs. The world used is social, which could easily apply to, say, Masonic lodges, labor unions, or even (quite liberally) employer-funded disability insurance.
Also nearly AMOLED in existence on a consumer device.
I'd imagine most graduates of top medical schools have a negative net worth when they receive their degrees, and probably retain that upside-down status for several years. That doesn't make them "have nots".
The Fed cannot introduce 100 trillion into the economy without taking 100 trillion in assets out; if congress were to introduce 100 trillion into the economy, of course there would be inflation.

Also, people aren't going to buy 100 trillion in massages, that is fucking ridiculous, if you start from a ridiculous set of circumstances, you're going to arrive at a ridiculous ending point -- it's not instructive of anything.
> With no employer match, a 401k has ZERO tax advantages. Because it merely delays when your income is taxed: after withdrawing it from the 401k. Mathematically you end up with the same capital whether your pay income taxes today and invest post-tax money, or whether you invest in a pre-tax 401k and pay taxes later.

If you are paying a higher marginal income tax rate now than you will be when you retire (before considering the income from withdrawing retirement investments), you are better off with a tax deferred retirement account.

If you are paying a lower marginal income tax rate now than you will be when you retire (before considering the income from withdrawing retirement investments), you are better off without a tax-deferred retirement account.

For most people, the former is more likely than the latter.
you are wrong. I was saving money in an IRA when I had a salary of 25k. 2011 Median income was $50k. That may not be much in the SFO and ATX and LGA's that HN populates, but for the majority of the country where the majority of the population lives, that is a good salary.

I know that HN is full of tech people who think that six figures is slumming in SFO, but you are desperately out of touch with reality. If a family of five (my dad, mom, and us kids in the 80's) can set aside money money on $22k a year, then the median family at $50k can set aside money in 2013.
If this were the case, then why is a large swathe of proprietary drivers supporting only Surfaceflinger?

If it's the most popular display framework in terms of use, then why not simply make it the default? Not Wayland nor X11 could garner the numbers required to overtake SF.
Doh! Thanks for pointing it out. No matter how many times you proofread something always slips by.
We're trying to cover exactly those kinds of questions - http://www.slant.co/topics/871/~best-linux-distribution

Not trying to compete with SO, but we think those questions need a home, and share eterm's view that maybe they're not a good fit for SO's format.
I guess Italy would be a better comparison, because that didn't used to be a nation. Germany was united by culture and language for a while. (Only 1 in 40 people spoke what later became standard Italian upon unification.)

But I guess Germany is the more aspiring role model.
Having just gone through the exercise of picking an embedded key-value store for a project, some things that would be nice: how does it compare to other things besides leveldb (which, to be frank, isn't a stellar performer)? In particular, how does it compare to Tokyo/Kyoto Cabinet, Lightning MDB, or Sqlite4's LSM? Does it support data compression (either with a single pre-selected algorithm like LevelDB and Snappy, or in pluggable fashion like LSM)? How does it deal with concurrent access by multiple processes?
A wildnerness first aid kit and training:

http://www.outdoored.com/community/risk_management/b/wildmed...

And an AED
> With up-front taxation you still end up paying additional capital gains taxes at the end of the day on your total capital gain.

Not true if it is a Roth IRA, which is post-tax contribution but tax free on withdrawal.
I'm going to reply to myself to clarify my harsh words. It is very easy to say something sucks. Windows sucks. Linux sucks. Lisp sucks. Apple Sucks. Google Sucks. It doesn't mean anything to say it. It is not useful to say something sucks, you cannot fix "sucks". Saying what is wrong with something is useful. Saying Rich's talks are "simple" is something, except most people don't seem to agree, so it would be much more useful to cite the things you know beyond the "simple" things Rich has talked about... "Rich is ok, he says simple things, but read X, or watch Y" is useful. I may disagree with you but at least I have something to investigate. In a better mood this probably would have been my first post, but HN seems to be about shitting on stuff these days so I guess I just went with that.
Thomas Mueller, the author of H2 / MVStore, gives some thoughts on H2's performance issues under Android here if you are interested:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/h2-database/Q8K-nbCh...
Yes, I know about Bismarck. I was curious about the background behind choosing him.
I have a client to deploys IE in IE7 mode...
I wish I could get my money back, but I don't think Amazon does refunds for ebooks.

There is a one-week window to return ebooks in the U.S.
Ask HN: Rapid fire style questions for startup beginner
So basically I 've built a service for people who do lots of drafting/model making. I did a lot of interviews and face to face meetings in NY and SF. People in the segment I'm targeting like the idea. They're willing to pay.

So what I have now is a beta, a bunch of subscribers to my non-existent newsletter, and 0 marketing efforts. Bull, I actually started a blog. I have a bunch of posts queued up.

1) I hear I should use Facebook to find my audience. Do I use FB ads or do I "promote my page"? What's the difference.

2) I hear I should use AdWords to direct people to my site. Worth it? Is there a guide on how to do this without wasting my hard earned? Seems tricky.

3) What about Twitter? Ads? What would I even tweet?

4) Actually, what's my goal right now? To see if people will pay (use the service), or to get as many "likes" on FB as possible, get traffic from AdWords, and use analytics to figure out who is who?

5) Should my pricing page be on my website if I'm just doing marketing? (aka, if I'm only marketing, what should my website look like? A description and a sign up form?)
At what point do I link to a pricing form?

Thanks
> Poor people: save money and pay off credit card debts.

So, "poor people, get surplus income".

Or, equivalently, "poor people, stop being poor".

> And saying poor people couldn't save even a dollar is nonsense.

If you can reliably meet the requirements of life without charity or depletion of reserves, you arguably aren't meaningfully poor. Poor people can save sometimes, but that's mostly saving a reserve for the bad times that will come (usually fairly soon and frequently), not net savings over the long term.
> But let me ask you a question: isn’t $520 a ridiculously exorbitant fee to pay to get your own car back? ... the $520 tow fee, plus the $100 parking ticket, plus the $20 cab ride to get to the car lot before the $56.50 daily fee kicked in.

You answered your own question. You calculated it was worth risking a tow. Now, after getting bit, when you do the math, will the math be the same? I guess it depends whether you feel you can afford it.
Linux already is mainstream, just look at the success that Android has had.

And there are still competing frameworks out there that are objectively better than the decided on counterparts.

ALSA replaced OSS, then OSS4 came out. The latter is more stable and can do more things than the former can do alone, such as per application volume controls, yet it's only used in the BSD sphere.

Likewise, OpenRC is a great replacement for SysVinit without changing the overall structure of the init system, unlike systemd which attempts to consolidate all of those parts into 'optional' modules that other projects are making compulsory e.g. Gnome Shell has a hard dependency on systemd as logind cannot be used alone any more, not to mention the large changes to the init design.
I'm curious now what it takes to become a sovereign nation, and issue your own passports, which will be recognized by other countries. Does anyone have any experience/knowledge with that? :)
Best thing to make sexy tables since the beginning of time
Quora contents tend to have bad search engine ranking, so probably Google still cares about that
For Samsung, more is more
SKYNET: neural network training tool for machine learning in astronomy
Wha? This is not visualizing any data in particular.

It's an astonishingly clever piece of self-reproducing code. Did you miss the code and think it was just a crappy animation of the earth?
It mentions that RICO cases against patent "troll" companies have been tried twice before, and both failed, then moves on without any other information. I feel like that information is relevant to this story.
Use AdSense on your HTTPS sites
The New iPad (iPad 3) DVD Ripper
It's Not the Morphine, it's the Size of the Cage
Yes, the city bulldozed these buildings: they were home to gangs and crack addicts and were targets for arson.
What is a spreadsheet, really?

It's an interactive programming environment with an interface optimized for data entry and some other things. The difference between Excel and, say, Matlab or R, is excel's strength at data entry, visual/intuitive nature, and total lack of accessible higher-level programming features.

So the ideal solution in this problem space, to me, looks not much like excel at all, but more like a high-powered computation environment a-la mathematica, except with roughly the execution model and visual/accellerated/intuitive interface strength (and then some, as you suggest) of spreadsheets. For example, the whole grid thing might have to go, instead making tables first class objects in the language, and then have a strong visual representation with an accelerated (not plain text) interface for manipulating them.

But maybe you want to take it in a different direction than I do? In any case, excel can trace a pretty direct line to VisiCalc, with very little fundamental reevaluation applied since 1978 or so. So you might want to consider not being bound too closely to the "this is how spreadsheets have always been done" thing.
Yep. Life is fragile. One subtle mistake can be game over (McCandless)

Non-nonsense survival guide:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0762448180

Also: man vs wild (television)