skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One quote that really made quite a bit of difference in how I approach problems in life:

"Good intentions never work, you need good mechanisms to make anything happen"
Stepping Out of the Search Box (new Bing logo)
my favorite: "Developers, developers, developers"
This issue was well-presented and discussed a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6375169
Which is novel enough to be a news article.
Prices in the east bay are still way over asking and there is a lot of cash. My wife and I paid $75k over asking for our 1300ft2, 1 bed, 1 bath house in north oakland just shy of a year ago. We bid on 6 houses total and every one of those was in the same ballpark over ask.

I'm not sure what it's like over the hills, but in north oakland and berkeley you'll still have to pay over asking and compete against 5-10 other bids.
I think if you're over 25, this type of environment loses quite a bit of appeal.
Amazing how the number of new languages grew, but now seem to be slowing.
So everything is about money, not doing something adventurous and exciting. zzzzz.
A kickass cloud offering could be the solution.
You make a pretty big assumption here: that anything you can invest in to earn money passively CAN be guaranteed. What you mean by "generate guaranteed income" is "to allow me to grow my investment". After all, investing $100k in a house that loses 10% of its value is worse than just keeping the $100k in dollar bills. In fact, if it is still worth $100k nominal down the line means you lost 2-3% per year on your investment. So after mortgage, property tax, maintenance, and everything else, your renters would have to cover about 7-9% of your home's value every year for you to make a 2-3% margin.

What I've found is that the reward is always proportional to the risk--otherwise people invest in it until it isn't proportional anymore.

Please investigate this for yourself, but personally, I take a two-way split-risk strategy to grow my investments:

- Very high risk, very high reward investments that I thoroughly research and believe extremely strongly in, using money I can afford to entirely lose.

- Very conservative investments in indexing ETFs that have rock-bottom annual fees and decent dividends.

Here's an article you might find interesting:

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/05/188306471/resisting-the-tempta...
The evolution of bioinspired robots
Or, "We even discovered several cases of fraud! That goes back to my point above about the importance of a crack financial team — one of their key jobs is to have strong controls in place."
Presumably it was designed that way because scala is designed to be a functional programming language, motivating a concise syntax for function definition (def), that favors immutable variables (val), but supports mutable state where it simplifies expression and to ease transition of, e.g., Java programmers (var).

> Is it really necessary to have this type of confusion?

For Scala's goals, all of those serve distinct and important purposes. I mean, sure, you could have less concise forms that made things more explicit to people who've never used scala, like:

declare a as method returning 1
declare b as fixed value of 1
declare c as mutable variable initialized with value of 1

But, I mean, think of the keystrokes!

It is something to learn, but it is a fairly straightforward distinction, and it lets Scala express a lot cleanly and concisely.
To put this on its head, the way to succeed is to start by finding customers who will pay for a solution, not to start with a solution and look for customers.
The first 30 seconds or so of this video are particularly impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmgRdFQOLPw

I can see this dramatically reducing the amount of time it takes to build 3D environments for games once the tech has had time to mature.

Imagine fitting a fleet of drones with this tech and sending them out exploring...
so i think this aphorism is borrowed from a quote by Alex Lowe (in the American Alpine Journal); For those not familiar with AL, he was a brilliant alpine climber of apparently super-human endurance who died while climbing Shishapangma (an 8,000 metr Himalayan peak in Tibet. I know very little about the context in which AL made this statement, but his remark might have been provoked by his impatience with the obsession to rank climbers (like baseball pitchers or NFL running backs), given that to him climbing was a deeply personal endeavour rather than a spectator sport.
Not true... Softlayer when they were servermatrix suspended sales in 2005. IIRC it lasted about 6 months (but that's from my foggy memory.. so I could be wrong).

Found this WHT thread:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=453...
Whereas Apple has all the old versions on their servers and can deliver the exact one that will run on your system.

"The one that will run on your system" is not necessarily "the one you want", though. It's still not in your hands.
I have noticed changes on various sites, so my general rule is to disable while shopping around.
What's Next for Apple
Jean-Baptiste Queru now works at Yahoo
but the appreciation only happens because everyone wants it to right?

I get that building a pool makes your house worth more, but trying to ride a bubble seems messy
Thanks nitrogen for the link. Maybe it is, but I'm not experienced enough with time issues to know. I'm wondering what happens when your PC's crystal is a few percent slow or fast, and an NTP client applies corrections. Sure, it stays monotonic (with CLOCK_MONOTONIC), but what happens beyond that? And, is there equivalent functionality available on Windows?
How to turn down vodka in Russia (and get away with it)
Capitalism and herd management are competing forces.

We Westerners think we're individuals, and each of us are free to make our own decisions. We completely ignore the medical advice, and want the best treatment possible. We want to take the antibiotics. We want a biopsy of that lung nodule. We want an MRI for that persistent migraine. We want to decide whether our child receives "possibly dangerous" vaccines. Statistics be damned.

Unfortunately, with antibiotics on one end of the spectrum (we take too many), and vaccines on the other end (we don't take enough), herd management is the right answer (we should all be pretty much forced to do the medically-suggested thing), and we utterly reject that.

It's the tragedy of the immune system commons.
asm.js type error: non-expression-statement call must be coerced @ http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/js/worker/fastcpu.js:927

Firefox 25.0a2 (2013-09-11)

EDIT: Interestingly in Chrome Canary it starts out running at around 50 MIPS and then at some point v8's jit recompiles/deopts some code and it drops down to 12 MIPS and stays there.

JavaScript... sigh
It's Common Lisp powered. Not exactly my area of interests and I lost quite a few minutes trying to learn about this. I wish CL people would stop pretending that theirs is the only Lisp.
Nodeschool.io
Pretty sure it has zero to do with 64-bit processors. iOS7 is still going to be running on old 32-bit chips.
I'm sure he's said it a few times. This is the one I was referring to -

> Even more so when he tells us that none of the design innovations in the rocket are patented. “Since our primary competitors are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable,”

http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/27/transforming-transportation-e...
The tenth one is funny in its own little way

"We did studies and we didn't listen to them"
We also have a cronic underdog syndrome perpetuated by countless broad opinions such as this. That only helps to undermine any kind of effort to change the culture of low self-esteem into a culture of excellence.

Feel free to demand more, but please do not undervalue every thing.
> 've come to the conclusion that I must be insane, since sane people don't notice any of this - clearly all the completely sane people don't give it a second thought.

We notice it. We just move on, since we can't do much about it.

Alternatively, our acceptance of it indicates that on some level, you also are sane.
Brazil cancels Rousseff advance team’s trip to US due to the NSA
hmm. i wouldn't jump to conclusions. I am a Serbian national. On multiple occasions I have been called Yugo, a "gypsy", Slav because of my name, and also have given attitude due to my accent. Don't talk about other people unless you know how it feels.
http://www.payitgreen.org/consumer/faq :)

it's mostly from mail i think.
In terms of #3, it's even worse than 100,000's - for LinkedIn it would likely be millions:

"In general, online social networks had the smallest seed sets - 13 networks of this type had an average seed set size less than 2% of the population (these networks were all in Category A). We also noticed, that for most networks, there was a linear realtion between threshold value and seed size"

Though, for a company with direct access to their users via the UI, it would be a fairly trivial task to reach a significant subset. LinkedIn could reasonably push UI updates only to the target population. Given they have full access in the first place, I'm uncertain as to why they would want to engage in this form of marketing, though.
You just (unintentionally) said that capitalism is the problem.

If people were willing to pay for antibiotic-free meat, then farmers would produce it. They would call the vet, and maybe destroy the pig rather than treat it with antibiotics.

By the way, you're naively presuming they're using antibiotics when the pig gets sick. Nope, they're using them prophylactically.
Happy to see this being codified - Spotify currently has an old version for <= iOS4 as a separate app, which is fantastic for my old iPod I have lying around. I was concerned that at some point Apple would forbid them from doing this, glad they went in the opposite direction.
Sugar is 'addictive and the most dangerous drug of the times'
> Add to that the homeless problem that never seems to get any better...

I was amazed when I learned that Orange County busses its homeless to SF. I often wonder how many other affluent areas sweep their troubled people under their neighbor's rug?
Still CDDL, so still cannot be included in the main Linux kernel tree?
By Paying Employees to Be Closer, Startups Take Risk
If I didn't enjoy at least some of what I did, I wouldn't still be coding after 32 years.
Definitely if you're a slacks-wearing corporate stooge middle manager, you'd rather work in an office park with a linoleum cafeteria and acres of parking. To remind yourself every day that you're not exceptional.
34yo, -9.5 here, and I prefer 10pt fonts for code.

Do you not wear your glasses and/or contacts when working? I don't follow.
Okay, I'm curious, why is rotting food is toxic?

Edit: Okay, so it's a cruise ship, and I can see that amount of rotting (or otherwise) food possibly causing problems on a reef. I was thinking it was the cargo ship that capsized that was referenced in the wired article linked in another comment, which I had read about before. Still interested in specifics of what rotting food may do to an environment if anyone knows though.
And isn't that remarkable? I think it is.
do you think it's going to hurt us? (i personally prefer Hootsuite and MailChimp to our other software because of the whimsical characters.) ;)
Or maybe you are just a person who enjoys having personal space? (That isn't a mattress in a closet)
I'm somewhat bemused by the entire thing - as effectively they're just going "look, memetic drift imitates genetic drift!" - which isn't really all that surprising. If you want to propagate a gene through a population - start with an isolated group, let them breed, then unleash them on the wider population. This is how stuff like lactose tolerance got going.

If you want to propagate a meme through a population... you get the picture.
Show HN: OneSwitch - One Click Unsubscribe from paid subscriptions
I've not touched them for some time having moved all the domains I used to have through them elsewhere (mainly due to opinions I have of them as a company than any technical issues as a registrar) so things may have changed.

Back when I did have domains registered through them I found the interface to be very busy and cluttered, full of opportunities to be upsold to, and there was not way of just registering a domain without actively saying no to a small pile of upselling related questions. I remember setting up private name servers being relatively hasslesome too (possible, but the options not obviously easy to find).

I think I pay a few cents (maybe even tens of cents, oh! the humanity!) per domain per year extra elsewhere (or did at the time of the move IIRC, I've not compared prices recently) but that isn't exactly going to break the bank for those I still bother to not let expire.

> they are a top domain registrar

They are certainly a popular registrar with a large customer base. Opinions on them being a top registrar vary widely especially as "top" could mean many things! But as I've not used them for a while I can't judge on technical matter or their current UI, I'll have to defer to you judgement on that. Other things would stop me ever moving back though.
why is it "64 bit iOS7/32 bit iOS6" ?

iOS 7 is 64-bit only on the iPhone 5S.

iPhone 5S will run 64 bit iOS 7 and can run both 32 bit and 64 bit applications.

iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPad 4, iPad 3 (or whatever they are called), iPad 2 and the iPad mini all will run 32 bit iOS 7 (kernel, libraries, drivers and the Applications themselves).
I've been with OVH for a few years now. Historical when they have advertised the server will be ready in 1 hour it is. The problem with the new range was that they were simply too popular. So much so that OVH's hardware partners could not deliver the hardware fast enough. They got something like 15,000 orders for just one type of server in about a day. That is 10% growth in their total server count in just one day! Sooo maybe you could cut the a little slack?

Actually the cheap servers are suppose to be for personal use. They lack hard disk raid, proper support, and have the lowest priority for hardware replacements.
The rich get richer through the recovery
"The terms and conditions did not seem to forbid this."

Why would they forbid that? Do you realize that you are paying basically nothing for a dedicated server with a 500GB harddrive and an unmetered 100Mbps connection?

You got in on the server deal of the year and yet you are still thinking about canceling when the three months are up?

You come very close to being an example of a pathological customer.
Brazil's ninja reporters spread stories from the streets
Thats a pretty good definition of speculation not investment.

Its investment if you can oil the wheels as a landlord such that you can rent money from a bank cheaper than renting the land from the landlord. That of course is a mathematical impossibility at this time in most areas.
Why Women Should Skip Business School
The Authentic Social Identity: Challenge or Evolution?
You have struck the nail on the head. I have wished for this exact thing - a better grid-oriented text capturing device - so many times. By inverting the focus, you have helped me look at it in a way that might just be the thing I needed. Thank you so much.
Instacart (YC S12) expands to Chicago
Are they going to reconcile incompatibilities with GPL by adding additional license? Since OpenZFS is not associated with Oracle, who owns it (as in giving it a new / additional license?). It's a really silly situation since according to the authors they never intended to use the license to exclude Linux. But that's what happened.
It depends on how you define 'smartness'.

If it means intelligence (which is what I think it means in this context), I do believe it is not yet possible to "choose" to be born free of debilitating mental conditions.
Google releases a new version of Google Wallet, dumps NFC requirement
Hawaii will actually spring for a one-way flight to the continental US to reduce (relocate) their homeless population.
"The goal of the Phase I study, which is expected to conclude in 2015, is to assess the safety of the vaccine in humans."

This is a fairly written press release, which besides the hopeful language common to any university press release about science research[1] manages to mention how preliminary this research still is. Many treatments that show promise in animal models do not ultimately have clinical usefulness for human patients. It would be wonderful if this approach to treating cancer is shown to be safe for human beings, which is the issue explored in a phase I clinical trial. Then further research will have to explore whether or not this approach is effective in human patients--which is not a sure thing even if it is effective in mice. After that, doctors will have to evaluate the treatment's overall safety and effectiveness compared to all other treatments available by the unknown future date when some new treatment reaches clinical use. There will also be the issue, of course, that two kinds of treatment may have similar safety and effectiveness profiles but differ radically in cost.

All in all, good news at the first step, with a lot more to be found out before we know whether this will help us dodge the bullet of cancer in our own lifetimes.

[1] http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
"Related, it is remarkable how we developers routinely cite Knuth's advice about premature optimization to justify our decision when the shoe fits, and then turn around and flatly ignore the advice when it doesn't fit."

It is especially bad when people uses Knuth's advice to forgo the conception part where you think about what technologies you will use and why.
Yes I read the article too.
It's probably significant that the 3GS is not getting iOS 7. The original iPhone was fairly underpowered, and the iPhone 3G changed essentially nothing besides the case and the addition of 3G cellular data. The 3GS was the first real upgrade, the first iPhone with a decent camera, a decent amount of RAM, and a decent CPU. It ended up as the longest-lived iPhone model yet, starting out as the high-end model in 2009, then dropping down to a secondary model in 2010, and it was only discontinued with the release of the iPhone 5 in 2012. It was on the market for almost three years, and while sales no doubt dropped off after a while, it must have sold a ton of units.

Prior to this, the only iOS devices that stopped receiving OS upgrades were the original iPhone and the 3G, the roughly corresponding iPod touch models, and the original iPad. The addition of the 3GS to the "no more OS upgrades" category probably vastly increases the set of people with devices that cannot be upgraded.

In addition to the numbers, there's also timing. The last new 3GS was sold less than a year ago. To already lose OS updates is a blow to those users.

So if I had to guess, a large part of this move is probably the 3GS, due to it suddenly contributing a large number of devices to the pool of those that the latest OS doesn't support, and due to it still being sold until relatively recently.
Take the risk. It's enough.
So, some things to consider when doing this:

Who am I working with? Am I comfortable with those same people having free access to my person and belongings while I sleep?

Do I trust these folks not to do something stupid that could damage the capital while partying? (I once had somebody spill a beer into an SGI workstation because we were using an apartment as an office, and one of our dudes threw a party.)

Can we deal with the weird interpersonal dynamics that spring up in a group of mixed sexes that is also collaborating on a business--presumably the same one paying rent?

Do I have a place I can go to to get away from work/home if needed on a reliable basis? Is it going to cost me all my money?
"If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness."
houses are depreciating assets. The land they sit on can often be appreciating assets. Why is this? Because there are only so many acres of land within walking distance of downtown, or the major office complex.
I tried this the last time I traveled. The stewardess gave me a big smile when I ordered it, but when I got the drink, I didn't notice any taste difference. I also regretted ordering it since I'm not a fan of tomato juice in general.
year-2024 Banana statement to its customers: "As a sign of the commitment of the Banana Inc. to its customers freedom in a uOS App Store near you, the uOS no longer controls where are you going, and gives you complete permission to go to the grocery store or to play with your kids.. talk badly or curse Banana Inc. is expressely forbiden of course, as usual, and you will receive an instant eletro-shock (from the spy app you can never remove).
Therefore you are completely free. only in the next versions of the uOS in a store near you"

its in times like these that i miss shows like Monty Python..

Those guys could show with a good dose of intelligent humor, how stupid people behaviour are sometimes..
Interpreting Cohort Data
>Like moving/removing their ssh keys

/root/.ssh/authorized_keys

>installing your own kernel

option during installation. You can also configure your own ssh key and set a post-install script under the expert check box.

>turning off their monitoring ping so they don't reboot your server if you are doing something that blocks the ping for too long

option in the control panel
Nice. I've been looking for something similar to this, so just begun poking around the source, looks clean & well written. Will submit bugs for anything I find
I sense something of a "Dead Sea Effect" at work here. Even the writer of the article migrated out of Kansas.

I guess the only thing that remains is to figure out how to deal with the loss of I-70, and how to compensate for falling wheat production. And maybe a minor refugee crisis.
This looks great, and I encourage you to keep working on it and make this a reality. I've thought along the same lines and I think a language like this has real potential.

I'm pretty surprised I haven't seen J. Paul Morrison's "Flow-Based Programming" mentioned anywhere in the post or these comments. I first read this book years ago as a undergrad and it made a big impact on me. It discusses ideas very similar to the ones proposed for Glow. You can read it free online here:

http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/

You can find links to several existing implementations of flow-based programming on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming
Bezos is a contender for the best manager of my generation. That being said, don't take these statements as absolute truths. They reflect the very successful strategy at Amazon, but they are by no means absolute.

Examples:

- "(...) keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term." This is violated by luxury goods. Louis Vuitton purses must be expensive, it's part of their "contract" with their customers.

- "There are two kinds of companies: Those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second." The alternative is to deliver ever increasing value, at constant prices, which is the very successful strategy at Volkswagen.

Don't take this as it being my opinion that Bezos is wrong. He's my ideal CEO: long term oriented, customer focused, innovation driven. There are faults at Amazon, but in the grand scheme of things, Amazon is a great feat in itself.
It looks like the more interesting part of this article is the accelerated process to move from early research to human trials. We have lots of ways of curing cancer in mice that never panned out in humans, but we have a better chance of finding solutions that work if we can remove some of the impediments to moving forward with trials. Faster progress is dependent on decreasing the time each iteration takes.