skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time for someone to create the most advance and far reaching global communication network using satellites, towers and other methods and charge everyone a small base fee for unlimited, global use. No contracts, no need for text, data etc packages, no need for roaming fees. Just one simple payment a month. Unlimited roaming, calling, data, texts, multimedia messages, voicemail, call forwarding, etc. Big communication companies of the day will die, as they should. Easy communication for all, no bs.
I've done some work for a competitor so feel free to call me out for being biased.

Stripe rocks.

Documentation, interface, team, vision, customer service etc, it's all a notch above the expected. If there ever was a company that I wished that I could have invested in early stage this was it. Dropbox, Airbnb & Heroku are all great companies, Stripe has the potential to be an awesome company (no offence to Dropbox, Airbnb & Heroku intended).

That I like the founders on top of all that makes it an even better story, what's not to like about Patrick & John?

Stripe is a story worth knowing about, even if you're not in the payment industry, this is how you do a start-up tackling a tough problem.
This is the best actually implemented approach that I know for general dominion.

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/DominionAI.html

There was some pretty good discussion on our dominion strategy forum by the author at
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=7036.0
Is that generated text? Mostly unreadable.

Let's review. First article states, perhaps poorly, that snow will become less frequent and more extreme. Pretty much in line with all predictions.

Second, I learned that it can snow in the UK. Terrific.

Third, it actually snowed in the UK. A lot. Everyone's shocked. You cite this as bad PR or bad predictions or something.

I'm going to call this one a push. I'll now give you the benefit of the doubt. You blame the scientists for irresponsible reporting done by the corporate entertainment industry. I think that's unfair. But you probably haven't ever tried to get "the media" to cover an important story, correctly, much less at all.
Unfortunately it's interchange + 0.9%, not just 0.9%. Interchange ranges ~1.2-2% so the difference gets much smaller.

With a 100€ minimum the 10c transaction fee becomes 10c only after the first 1000 transactions (1000*0.1=100). If ignoring the variable part of the fee (%) then the break-even for this 10c vs 30c transaction comparison is at ~333 transactions. For a new company it takes a long time to get the first 333 monthly paying customers.
If you're in that situation (can crash at your parent's pad) you should take advantage of it.

Remember now it's not just about "not getting evicted", it is also useful to have working capital.

I have a project I'm working on that will probably cost $600-$800 of computation in a Hadoop cluster in Amzazon AWS assuming I don't screw it up and have to do it twice.

In my situation I can "just do it".

To make an analogy with Poker, you do not want to be short stacked.

I know many "entrepreneurs" have an idea which they could move forward with personal investments in the $50-$5000 range. Instead of making a cool demo or any kind of prototype, they go talking to angel investors and they wonder why they get nowhere.

Somehow though, they manage to find $150 to give to Time Warner and $150 to give to Verizon every month.

For a while, for instance, I was talking w/ people in NJ, CT (imagine a donut centered around NYC) about applications of text analysis in financial services. Lots of talking to investors, but no demo.

I spent about 40 hours and about $12 (domain name) on a demo over the course of six months, which failed. It's material for a blog post. I can say I didn't know anything at all about the problem when I started and now I know something.

Also you really gotta pay attention to taxes when you're self employed. I lost about a year because I owed the IRS and NY about $15k of estimated tax I didn't pay, so I took a job I shouldn't have taken. I can be philosophical about it because I met one of my competitors at a conference and he was bouncing off the walls because he'd spent a year fighting with the technology transfer (prevention) office at his uni.
Mesosphere Adds Docker Support To Its Mesos-Based Data Center Operating System
The article says that. The need for a uninterceptable interrupt to reach the OS login screen is obvious.

The mistake was making it a three-key chord rather than something simpler. Compare to the single home button on iOS devices, which also goes straight to the OS and can't be intercepted by user space programs.
Yelp review fraud [pdf]
I agree with that, but it's still a Samsung problem.
2.1 changes how the method cache works. It is now hierarchical as opposed to the old global cache.
I totally forgot about that poster - it always felt haunting when I was younger because of how far away it felt.

http://www.changingworld.com/catalog/images/CW-906.jpg
Burner announces $2M seed round and iOS 7 redesign
Hangouts is realtime and shows "now typing" indicators, which aren't present in SMS.
It's hard to see whether someone left, in which case better asynchronous communication should be used, or whether it's a lull in conversation.
You bring up a great point--my desk is none too large (20 sq. ft. tops), and still it's pretty sparse: phone, keyboard, mouse, laptop (stand), monitor, picture of the kids. Nothing that requires 30 sq. ft.

However, I think the closest contemporary analog to the desk space of the 70s would be screen space. This association totally bolsters the 2+ monitor argument.
Wow. You have no capacity to listen to what I'm saying at all, do you?
This isn't news. It's been known for decades the government spied on the Civil Rights movement. Which is what makes the reaction to PRISM so laughable. The only reason anyone cares is it has started to affect white people the same as minorities.
"[...] Ctrl+Alt+Del because it was impossible to press with just one hand."

At first I thought, "Well, not impossible, really...", because you can "play the chord" with your right hand:

Pointer (Ctrl) + Thumb (Alt) + Middle (Delete)

But...

The older keyboards [1] only had a single "Ctrl" key and a single "Alt" key. They were located on the left side of the keyboard, while the single "Del" key was located on the right side.

So, with that configuration, it actually was impossible to perform the combination with a single hand.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22IBM+5150+Keyboard%22&tbm=...
You're thinking about a company that started off with all private offices, then an MBA decided to cut costs and moved everyone to an open plan. But that's not how it happens in startups.

Startup companies start off as 2-3 people, who are all good friends and don't mind working in a room. Then they hire another person, and it still works fine in one room. Then they get a bigger room, and hire a couple more. And so on. At any point, moving to separate offices would be a big change in company culture with negative effects on morale and communication as well as positive.

I need quiet and privacy and uninterrupted 4-hour coding sessions to be productive. Yet, I myself ended up putting 10 people in a room I once had to myself. It was a slippery slope.
I think it's better to count in time rather than dollars... I just quit last week with approx 14mo, but I'm just starting so who knows if it was a good move :)
The point is that this ranking factors in the number of copies of a card played, but that use as a metric can be misleading.

Would Vendilion Clique rank higher on the list if it weren't legendary? Probably. It's not that it's a less powerful card than others higher up the list, it's that you get diminishing returns for playing more than one.

The card text on Ad Nauseum prohibits playing more than a few copies in order to make it powerful. If the card worked a different way, such as if you paid 1 life for 1 card, you would certainly be playing four of them. Would it rank higher than the catalysts? No. But that's not the point.
I can't speak as to the agenda of the average climate change denier. However, the fear spread by the anti-AGW lobby is that of a global climate change conspiracy. Uncertainty and doubt are created by casting aspersions on the science.

Unfortunately some AGW proponents are guilty of fear-mongering, but I would also draw a distinction between predicting a bad outcome and spreading fear for fear's sake; it's hard to predict a catastrophe without inspiring a little bit of fear in the audience.
Fuck poor people am I right? They should be forced to live in anguish because of their poor decision of not being born into a well off family.
I think he means back-end service, rather than Angular's notion of services.

>> It's a good example of an AngularJS application that's not completely trivial and yet one that does not depend upon having a service it has to connect to for getting and persisting data.

Edit: Updated with relevant quote.
Projecting without a projector: Smartphone content on display
So, basically, the main difference is the language they're implemented in. I started working on s3sync cause I found its code easier to read and I really needed to practice my ruby skills.

Although s3cmd is older and has more features, s3sync was designed to grow stable and well tested. I'm definitely planning to write benchmarks to s3sync and improve its performance as much as I can.
When you say "misunderstood requirements" my read on that is a failure of functional testing. Unit testing is good at testing small chunks of code for things like valid inputs/outputs, but not for validating whether the software performs as specified. Functional testing is hard to automate initially, but can be automated for regression testing. Performance testing, on the other hand, is easy to automate. Sounds like your organization is pushing automation as a way to control costs, without perhaps fully understanding what can be automated and when.
Six new health apps aim to improve systems, awareness |
Reminds me of my Brother Printer/Fax/Scanner. Once ANY of the 4 ink carts is empty, you can no longer do ANYTHING. No scanning to a SD card, no outbound faxes, etc, until you replace the ink. Of course, there is a simple "tape over the holes" hack to get around this, but it's still lame.
Nic Gambia Hacked
Famous Turkish DeviLzSec the operation of the Group Leader Nic Gambia's website hacked hacker RootDeviLz.
Mirror : http://www.turk-h.org/defacement/view/524555/nic.gm/
Logo : http://k1309.hizliresim.com/1f/h/sr60n.jpg
Given this, many of the hacked website
Hyundai Bolivia : http://www.turk-h.org/defacement/view/516462/hyundai.com.bo
Kia Hong Kong : http://www.turk-h.org/defacement/view/522811/kia.com.hk/sys/images/sup..
Suzuki Malaysia : http://www.turk-h.org/defacement/view/522835/suzuki.com.my/v3/images/
İsuzu Taiwan : http://www.turk-h.org/defacement/view/522838/isuzu.com.tw/
Casio Taiwan : http://www.turk-h.org/defacement/view/527007/casio.com.tw/webimages/
An interesting part of the article is that he was actually demoted after averting nuclear disaster. This is because admitting that there was a fault in the nuclear defense system would be tantamount to admitting that top Soviet military and scientific minds were capable of error. Rather than embarrass the regime, the military quietly moved Petrov out of the spotlight.
I thought this was really interesting. I haven't ever seen an examination of the acquihire that is this detailed. Most pieces deal with starting a company or path to IPO, or focus on the largest acquisitions out there.
An Interview with Riley Newman, Head of Analytics at Airbnb
And what percentage of all 'rich people' is that number? I would venture that it is quite high. Certainly a much higher percentage than the number of poor people responsible for these wars (which I think was OP's point).
It would only be a scam if anybody but engineers thought there was a real distinction here. But nobody is, and the language is defined by use. This tiresome argument is never raised by "real" engineers, just software engineers who feel like impostors. Relax. You're not scamming anybody.
Releases API
Update on the Homeless Man Taught To Code
I agree they seem like an awesome company, but that doesn't mean there aren't other equally awesome (or almost equally awesome) companies. Balanced Payments is an example.

Recognizing one's merits while disregarding another's merit (whether by malice or ignorance) has similar effects to just undeservingly trashing a company.
Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis - Free Book
Google In 1998
As far as I remember, GMail was announced on April 1st, 2004 and was considered by most (all?) an April Fool's joke.
A tool that could do parallel downloads of small files would be a winner. We have a lot of small files and use s3cmd. It downloads one at a time. You can finagle it with some xargs magic, but it would be nice to have it built in.
Yea, cool, ping me on twitter @aldanor? Don't feel like sharing my e-mail here :)
Those concerns voiced with 2.0's refinements before release were why they were marked as experimental, and were the driving force behind the changes made to refinements between 2.0 and 2.1.

On the 2.1, non-experimental version, he has said: "What we’re going to have as refinements in 2.1 is a paired down version that I think still provides the bulk of the functionality people wanted out of the feature without most of the pain that I was concerned about originally."

http://rubyrogues.com/124-rr-jruby-with-charlie-nutter/
Ace Hotel x Clinton Foundation x Tumblr x Jawbone Codeathon in NYC Tomorrow
Hampton Creek's making fake eggs: disruption in Food
Yes. and IBM had precisely the problems another poster points out that caved in offices cause[0]: people had no idea what others were doing and it led to some problems. Which is fine if you're IBM,make mainframes, and run you company vaguely like the military. But good luck adapting quickly if you have that management style.

There is a reason open plan offices happen: it's not just a cost cutting measure, it's a management style decision as well. Sure, it might be the wrong decision, but there is a reason to it and it's not just screw the code monkeys to cut costs idea people are suggesting. It's a value judgement that dev's personal comfort and productive is not the sole or primary concern of the company and that the company is better served with more communication instead of productivity. The value judgment seems correct: companies make money from good products, not from merely producing code. However, it's not clear the communication is worth more than the added productivity.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6450733
I wouldn't even know what to do with more than ~20sqft of desk space. Even 15 (5'x3')is pretty roomy.
Do we currently appear to be on a catastrophic course? No.

What measure of evidence do your require?

Ditto the case for anthropocentric (human caused) contribution to climate change.
I do not know how the specifics would translate to India, but here in the U.S., I found this book a good collection of recommendations:

http://www.amazon.com/Yes-You-Can-Financial-Life/dp/14019112...
It's a matter of degree. The difference between a thief who steals bread, a thief who steals cars and a thief who steals %10 of GDP through political and financial trickery.
Well, I don't see any custom ROMs for iPhones. These are magnificent at times. CyanogenMod users know what I'm talking about.
Indeed! Even according to Wikipedia which waps was citing: "The Qur'an and Hadith, the primary Islamic texts, make it a praiseworthy act for masters to set their slaves free." goes against his/her claims. Furthermore, most, if not all, of those claims for the status of slaves were cited from Orientalist Levy's book. The bias is very evident.
What do you call newsstand? It's a purely magazine advertising service. Would PizzaHut app be acceptable if it was called PizzaStand and allowed you to select from multiple pizza vendors?
> My understanding is that refinements are more of a limitation of existing monkeypatching functionality though.

They are an alternative rather than a limitation, since you can still do regular monkeypatching, you just now have an option to do things that are less intrusive.
Hornet attacks kill dozens in China
Inbound Marketing on a Budget
This is disappointing -- I really like my barebones brother laser printer, I thought they might be one of the few honest printer manufacturers.
The status quo is disgusting, isn't it? We need rallies like this across the country in every major city to show our elected officials that domestic spying is unacceptable.
Heh... as a pianist, I'm used to unusual hand positions. I use my left hand, put the thumb on the right-hand [Alt], left index on the right-hand [Ctrl], and then left flipper, ring, or pinky, depending on where [Del] is located. I'm amused that people think you have to use two hands.

On my laptop, [Ctrl] and [Alt] are next to each other, so it's right thumb on both of those, and right index for the Del key.
I seriously doubt that. Most times I see that it refers to using your phone as a phone so as not to disturb other people. I would guess it doesn't prohibit people from reading or web surfing.
The pilot's job is about to be automated away. Worsening compensation is the first sign of this.
If you're using a mobile device, for the most part (iPhone and Android, they don't load data until you play the video. Other than that, why would you care about bandwidth use (it's practically miniscule) if you're on broadband and on Chrome?
Good point, it can be a symptom of something larger. I think with ubiquitous communications and globalization, the world is just more competitive. This is very stressful, and can cause anxiety and depression.

Anecdote: I was just playing board games with my friends the other night. After 1.5 hours, I started panicking and feeling anxiety, so I excused myself. It felt wrong I guess, taking that much time off of work/study. Someone else might be outdoing me, right? Heh. I gotta say, I definitely didn't get this a decade ago.

For anyone who feels similar sometimes, it's important to develop methods to bring your mental state to something more manageable. I like to remind myself that even if this is true, the anxiety feelings aren't going to help me "compete" anyways, so might as well be calm and move on.
We need this. Happy to support a group of activists standing up for the constitution and accountability. Also, cool t-shirts.
The recently-released pandoc 1.12 (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc) supports reveal.js as an output format. I've been using it for some time to give talks, and it works well. The 2-D navigation structure makes it easier to find slides when there are questions.
That's why you get pre-paid SIM cards when travelling...
So you're saying Microsoft didn't make a mistake. The keyboard manufacturers did.
When the IBM PC was being designed, that wasn't so much of a problem.
Blogger is a good option.
When I started college in 1999 I remember talking to cute girls at a party when we were both there to socialize, not on the bus interrupting her book to find out what she was reading.

Maybe your friends suck
Wrong link? Doesn't seem to mention Hyperloop.
The Eightfold Path of Data Science
Denying yourself something is an effective way of getting out of an addiction. If the problem with phones is indeed addiction, that's the way to do it.

It works because the more you avoid doing something, it gets easier to not do it again. If you force yourself not to use the phone for a while (even if by extreme means), it becomes easier to just say no at other times. That is, (it's worth repeating) if the problem is really addiction.
Americans Spent $2.6bn on Unregulated Gambling Websites in 2012
Go nuts: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
Actually it's just Shift-Tab. Unless you want to switch to the next tab to the left in Firefox, then yeah. Edit: oh tabs! Never mind...
I pressed that too many times on my PC... Macbook, haven't had to do it once!
I hope Dolphin can take a look at iOS 7 and see how complete Apple's implementation of OpenGL ES 3.0 is:

> OpenGL ES 3.0 includes as core functionality the features of many extensions supported in OpenGL ES 2.0 on iOS. But OpenGL ES 3.0 also adds new features to the OpenGL ES shading language and new core functionality that has never been available on mobile processors before, including multiple render targets and transform feedback. You can use OpenGL ES 3 to more easily implement advanced rendering techniques, such as deferred rendering.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General...
So Google's 'Help' button in 1998 was not working....Hmmm..
Remember that PC keyboards were modeled after these things called 'typewriters' and typewriters often had a caps lock or shift lock key, so it made it onto a computer keyboard.

Things like copy/paste or cycling through currently running applications had to be keystroke combinations since typewriters had no idea of clipboards or running applications.
They're a little hard to find in the list of perks, but these two are particularly awesome:

- Signed copies of the first PRISM story by Glenn Greenwald.

- Signed copies of the cover of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52330e4deab8eaef7ac...

I also wanted to post this screenshot and then saw your comments...
So you are a rockstar programmer
First of all you aren't using the word species correctly. Different types of barnacles and birds that were observed in the nineteenth century were different species as were the different species observed on tropical islands that were related but clearly distinct from those on the mainland or from the fauna on other islands. In all of these cases only a hypothesis that they were related to a common ancestor could explain (1)how geographical variation seemed to imply corresponding changes in the fauna (2) how different species had 'adaptations' that provided advantages in their environment (3) why geographical variation seemed to be compounded the farther you got away from the mainland.

There is no other explanation besides natural selection that could explain these basic facts. Besides Darwin other scientists were independently converging on the exact same solution.

In the same way only natural selection could explain the existence of vestigial features among related families of species such as the existence of hind limbs in whales or the curious why that the eye of the vertebrates is constructed. This was recognized immediately in the 1860s once Darwin's work was published.

DNA evidence supports evolution 100%. Hypothesized descent from two families can be easily verified from DNA evidence. The whale really once had an ancestor that walked on the land with four limbs. There is simply no other explanation could produce DNA in the exact way that would be predicted from natural selection.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.
That's a naive perspective. AGW Opponents spread FUD about how the proponents want to eviscerate industry and business to serve their feel-good agenda.
Censored by Google
How did you come to that conclusion? It could similarly be a joke out of a ringworld novel too.
We worked pretty hard to get some unique perks for the campaign. PRISM articles signed by Glenn Greenwald, Pentagon Papers signed by Daniel Ellsberg, worth checking out I think.
I find it somewhat off-putting that the author keeps pointing out how homeless the guy is, while the subject is clearly trying hard to get the message across that he's just somebody learning to code.

Still, a great 'feel good' piece. Here's hoping that he can find something interesting and lucrative to do with his new skill.
For some reason, cartain PC clones didn't let you do CTRL-ALT-DEL with the right-side ctrl and alt keys. I can remember the early models of eMachines not allowing it, not sure if it was the keyboard itself, the BIOS, or what.
Because you posted it once and then deleted it when it didn't get traction, which is cheating.
Anticipating Tumblr by a decade.