skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would that be in any way relevant?
F1 was supposed to be about the fastest cars with the best technologies, why did they ban traction control (among other things)? What a joke...
I'm not sure where you got that idea but that's not true. The standard library make heavy usage of the GC. There is talk of implementing ARC to replace or supplement the GC and the standard library will most likely soon start using output ranges to avoid forced GC allocations in many cases but that hasn't happened yet.
Are you from the US? If so, that stuff about merchant accounts isn't true. While they're backed by a bank (acquiring bank), you don't have to go to a consumer bank to get one. You can go through any company called an ISO. In my opinion banks are the worst place to get one. We do merchant accounts with a monthly fee of $5/mo and instant setup (you can start processing in less than 2 minutes from when you complete the form). All backed by our friendly customer service team in Ohio.

Now if you're in the UK...things are very different :).
Not to mention, considerably lower in cost means considerably less revenue. How exactly is that supposed to be justification for a high valuation? Especially when NoSQL databases are a fairly small niche compared to RDBMS, so it's not really possible to make up the difference in volume.
This is what PayPal have charged for as long as I can remember. I always assumed that later entrants (Stripe etc) adopted that price point to be competitive with PayPal.
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Posted yesterday (98 points, 74 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530536
You answered that question in your first sentence.
If you're interested in what Terence Tao himself has to say on the subject: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to...
What makes a great VC
> but they are clearly playing the game they are also trying to change, and this is hypocritical.

No, it's practical. Playing by the rules of the game you're currently playing (rather than the rules of the one you wish you were playing) isn't incompatible with wanting to change the rules.
I think that if I had a 0day at this point, I'd wait until May to use it - exactly because the support ends and MS is unlikely to release a patch. Since lots of people will not care enough to upgrade, that could be a gold mine :)
Because of the structural arrangement and pay-to-play financial details of the American legal system, "mostly fair" is an extraordinarily generous characterization of how you will be treated.
Why is it that the documents provided for the journalist's use were still publically accessible months after the journalist had confirmed receipt? That's a good question for starters, as it's possible the journalist could have later been hacked and lost control the password, had his laptop stolen in an apartment burglary, or any number of other legit accidents.

Proper INFOSEC involves not leaving information where it doesn't need to be for any longer than it needs to be there, encrypted or not.
For large code bases, you don't break git blame by adding in new arguments. And it's one less thing to think about when editing your code: always add a comma, never worry about errors because you need to add a comma to the line above.
You may as well make this argument against human speech. We need secure transport, not gibberish protocols.
According to Microsoft's research, 11.3% of Windows XP computers are infected compared to 0.2% of Windows 8_64 computers. That's 56.5 times more infected.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2013/08/06/the-r...
> Taxes are NOT 60% for business, it's 30%.

Oh come on, you know that when you sum up all taxes and regulations, it costs way more than 30%, it's more like 50% minimum.

> It can go up to a bit less than 60% on personal incomes.That is if your are extremely rich

How naive, when you make 2000€, you cost 4000€ to your employer. That means your real salary is 4000 € minus 50% that goes through taxes that your employer pays but really he's passing the costs on you unless you think he's paying you a free meal. So that's 50% already for everyone, then you have to subtract 20 to 30% on the 2000€. So yeah, my 60% is pretty accurate.

> Your personal (and imho, stupid as fuck, even if I don't particularly like our government) opinion.

First of all, no need to be so rude. Second, it is being insane. Their answer to everything is more tax even though this is killing the economy. It's clear now that France is governed by a theocracy, a new serfdom where God is Public spending, the clergé is the public workers that pay no taxes and get to retire early with big salaries and lots of privileges and the Tiers état is the people paying for the rest. http://leblogalupus.com/2013/10/09/charles-gave-la-france-es...

> a doctor (she's one of the best in her domain, worldwide, fwiw). This cost me 21€ the first time and 7.5€

So one of the best doctors is paid 21€ and 7.5€? Wow, that's less than flipping burgers at your local burger joint. Do you do consulting at this price too? Anyway, this is an anecdotical evidence of yours. It's a fact that Securité social does not reimburse much any more and yet you still have to pay for it and get a private insurance on the side. This is well documented http://www.securite-sociale.info/

> it's either for a non-competition contract or that you fired people without being able to give a reason. Too bad for you, workers are a bit protected in this country.

See, this is where we disagree. It is my company, my private property. I should be able to do as I please with it as long as don't mess with other's freedom, this is a constitutional right in the declaration of human rights, private property is sacred. I should be allowed to employ and stop employing whoever I want, whenever I want. This is why there is so much unemployment in France, it's so hard and costly to fire people that we'd rather not employ them. You think you're helping workers but you're not, you're creating more unemployment. Countries like Switzerland that don't have such "protection" have much less unemployment.

> A few cunt like Depardieu left

Are you serious? The richest man in France has left and many of the top richest famillies have left: LVMH, Lacoste, Peugeot etc. Not only that but most of our artists and sports men have left. Anyone who creates lots of wealth has left the country. Don't you see a wrong pattern here? How blind can one be. http://www.latribune.fr/vos-finances/impots/fiscalite/201112...
We actually do link back to soundcloud. Albeit small, there's a grey soundcloud icon in the middle pane under the song name where it says who submitted it.
5 Things Non-Game Devs Should Learn From Gaming's Free-To-Play Model
Mark Zuckerberg spent $30M on real estate to protect his privacy
why? Linux isn't the only OS in the word you know - and in that case its C or Assembler or possibly C written in C++
What is your experience with GoCardless? How do they handle chargebacks?
The Future of Storytelling is About to Get Wild
> On the other hand there is no evidence of open-source projects going out of their way to accommodate intelligence agencies in the same way Microsoft has.

http://blogs.iss.net/archive/papers/ShmooCon2011-USB_Autorun...
I thought the article said "People react to bias that can cover up actual innate ability." I buy that idea.
The change in WikiLeaks's tune regarding Russia far predates Snowden.

Assange was using Russian state media (RT) as a mouthpiece for a television show of his before Snowden as well. I believe one of his first interviews was with the leader of Hezbollah, of all people.
The gaps I'm talking about would mean the winner lapped up to the top 5 or top 3. A truly unlimited ruleset would be financially ruinous as well. Only a few years ago top teams were spending $500 million or more a season and that was with a ruleset that had quite a few restrictions.
What the fuck is my social media strategy? by Mike Phillips
I agree, but I don't think a budget cap would be easily enforceable which is why - after years of talking about it - it has never been implemented.
Since there's no actual link in the article as far as I can find, for those who have not yet seen the funding page (such as myself):

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gecko-make-your-smart-phon...
Of course it can drop below that mark, but that is usually a negotiation between a vendor and the payment processor. If you are small and unlikely to drive much business, you will have a hard time getting a lower number. Where I work, we get 2.3% and do several million dollars a year in transactions. We are also a government institution, so it's likely that the processor sees us as a lower risk (though most of the risk comes from the card holder) hence we get the lower rate.

I'd bet that WalMart pays significantly lower fees due to volume.
It's a shame such a remarkably terrible film had such a good lead. Now I can't watch any of his other works.
One fact that people seem to be ignoring is that SSL private keys are used for authentication. Having an SSL private key doesn't automatically give you access to a user's data; it gives you the ability to impersonate a trusted person/site, which can have the effect of fooling users into handing over their data.

Has anyone analyzed whether the government has the authority to compel you to help them impersonate you? From what I can tell, that's central to the private key issue.

[Edit: Yes, you can passively eavesdrop if you're not negotiating a TLS ciphersuite with forward secrecy. Added "automatically" to clarify.]
They "solve" it by being long running applications. When GP says CLI they likely mean things like grep or cat or other command line tools, not just interfaces, that tend to run in a very short time. A Java implementation would see a lot of extra time spent on just the startup. Consider writing a bash script that calls out to grep for each of a bunch of different files (an example, better ways, but go with it). Say it ran grep 100 times, jgrep at 100ms startup time would take 10s longer just on the java startup time, ignoring any other performance differences.
You can do cool things with immediate updates:

http://vimeo.com/36579366

The great thing about hosting on github is that people can send pull request and you have real collaboration. That's alsmost impossible with Illustrator files. In reality many OSS is abondoned and change leaders or simply die. If you have a source that is accessible by 100% of the programmers (and with icons there is a huge crows who's interested) then your project probably won't die.

Want will the kickstarter accomplish? Sure it'll give you great quality icons, but then what? What if the project is delivered and put open sourced? Is it going to be maintained indefinitely? For 2 years? 5 years? What about in 10 years? Can we still use it?

But now we're really off topic, I'm just re-elaboration why open source (and line based source code) is better. I could also argue why documentation in Markdown is better than word for highly collaborative projects....
Anyone else read this as "VB" as in, "Visual Basic"? Now that I would bookmark :)
This uses elasticsearch on the backend. The frontend is ugly, but this is great softeare
I jumped into Go bandwagon early on, even tried to do some initial contributions. Mostly because Go has an Oberon feel to it. A GC enabled systems programming language I used for a while in the mid-90's.

However, I quickly became disappointed with Go's spartan design, given my broad experience across languages and paradigms.

That is why somehow I feel it is more indicated for C developers, that could live with a GC enabled language.

As they would mostly getting type safety and a few more features, whereas developers from other languages are mostly giving away features.
Looks really cool.

I would recommend expanding the tutorial significantly; I got to the point where I placed my first infantry guy, and then didn't know what to do next.

My second recommendation would be to have small NPC enemies analogous to the barbarians in the Civilization games. It would give players a chance to try out combat without engaging a possibly game ending enemy.

EDIT:

I played for a few more minutes, here are some more thoughts/observations:

- The 'tax offices' window is blank before you place your first tax office. Consider explaining what it does before it is filled with items.

- Consider decreasing the tax collection timer, 8 hours is a long time to wait.

- I used up all of my cards/items, now what?

- I would recommend create a universal, newbie help radio tower/chat group

- What is the black square when I zoom all the way out?

- How do I find other people?
My feeling is that you really have to try it out for some time to see why it really makes a difference* . And, although C++11 indeed has caught up in some areas, there are in fact many smaller and some larger things that still do make a big difference in practice. But in general the fact that it's not just one or maybe a few primary features indeed probably makes it more difficult to judge the actual benefits from the outside.

The drawbacks today are in my eyes mostly the relatively minimal support for non-PC platforms and that a number of language features are not yet completely finished. But if the main target are x86 based systems and the use of cutting edge features is not the primary concern, D2 is a great development tool today.

* I can only really talk about my experiences going from C++ -> D, but it was a long process where my way of designing systems and solving problems was gradually altered in many areas - much to the better. And the immediate reward of course is the extreme gain in productivity due to concise syntax, fast compilation times and, last but not least, the lack of a need for header files.
> US Brig. Gen. Robert Carr – who was tasked to investigate this matter by the Pentagon – in fact stated under oath when examined by the defense counsel that there was no harm whatsoever

Not being able to prove harm is different from proving that one did not harm someone. Especially when, in this case, the U.S. took measures to pre-emptively mitigate any harm as a preventive concern. Was the U.S. supposed to let their informants be killed by the Taliban just to be able to say that Assange is an even bigger asshole? Please.
Apparently it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNode

Then there's the history thing about Java being designed from the start to run devices: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javah...
Nonlinear speedometer
I recently did a challenge of 100 days of commits to side projects and I'm now at day 96. I think this was awesome for me, as it kept me really focused on my projects, even if some days I had only small commits.

I think my next challenge might be even more focused and look to launch one of my prototype projects in a specific amount of time. This will force me to focus and launch something, even if it isn't perfect.
Validated Learning - My startup's hypotheses on the legal industry
I was looking for a lawyer in a specific niche area of concentration a few months ago and was really unhappy with the traditional legal directory services and their user experiences, so I came up with the idea for this 'dating'-style matching service.

With this being my first startup, I wanted to publicly document my attempt at applying the lean startup methods to an idea, and this first blog post outlines the two main hypotheses I want to test with the initial MVP.

I would love any and all feedback on my ideas as well as criticism / support about the current minimum viable product.

Here's to hoping to continue blogging about trying to grow this startup, making new features, interesting conversations with lawyers, and lots of other fun stuff. My next post will probably be about using MeteorJS and a few other technical decisions I made during development.

Thanks!
I wonder if he can now start printing the parts that he had to purchase? For sure, having an operational 3d printer and a pile of e-waste means that extraordinary new things can be built.

3d-printer + e-waste pile = working Drone fleet in a month.
Well, Unix and Windows systems are the most widely used OSes and Windows is, currently, of less interest to me.

If It's C hands down in Unix systems, what are the use cases for D/Rust/Go?
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I don't have a desire to provide a citation because I'm exploring, conjecturing .. I mean, after all its not infeasible that the satellite-launches that the NSA has been progressively making, over and over, are to support a network of CPU-sipping listening posts. This had been discussed even in the 80's, in certain circles ..
You are right. From my POV their problem is that you cannot use them for international projects (non US customers cannot use ACH; non us businesses cannot get their money out of Dwolla)
Correction: Their raison d'être used to be transparency. They are certainly willing now to hold onto documents that do not advance their own political agenda.

Likewise the memo is sitting on a public folder on wikileaks.org, I'm pretty sure Assange or his troops could hack together a private intranet if that was what was actually desired here. This is a PR release that is just as transparent as when the U.S. "leaks" positive news to the NYT.
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They would also be able to decrypt intercepted traffic.
By the same technical semantics parsing, it is either impossible or trivial for anything to "make you somebody you're not", depending on how you parse it.

If it means that you aren't the person that you are after taking it, then that's obviously contradictory. You are always the person you are.

If it means that you aren't the person you were before taking it, then the medication is not necessary for that. At any given moment, you are always a different person than you were in the previous moment.

And even if you (erroneously) reject the latter, you would still have to concede that you are not the same person, after "fixing" yourself through non-pharmacological means, as you were when you were depressed.
Man, Bleachbit sure took no time at all to put up his "testimonial" blurb on their site!

> "Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using [...] BleachBit" -- Bruce Schneier
I favor having an unlimited tier for all sports. Anything (safe) goes.

That's the problem. F1 cars that travel 500mph are not safe.
Nate Silver: Takeaways From the Government Shutdown
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I guess the only safe options are CDRs and one-way ethernet connections.
This isn't really a fair criticism because:

1. You picked probably the most verbose way to do it.

2. It's not valid C++ because you're assigning a pointer to a value.

3. Idiomatic C++ doesn't use `new` explicitly anyway

4. The `d = {}` of Python is not really equivalent.

My feeling is that python gains brevity in exchange for putting a heavier mental load on the programmer, which is manageable for small programs but becomes unwieldy for larger ones.
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The Indie Revolution: How little games are making big money
> We are literally being lobbied for patent reform and patent-trolled by Google at the same time.

Filing for a patent is not patent trolling. Patent trolling is using a patent (particularly one you are not practicing and/or one of dubious originality or dubious patentability for other reasons) to try to extract money from a competitor via suit or threat of suit. Merely filing a patent is not trolling.

While it might be reasonable to assume that a filing is for the intent of trolling when an the entity filing for the patent has a past history of trolling, as the article notes:

> Google has a relatively long history of not suing over patents

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> but they are clearly playing the game they are also trying to change, and this is hypocritical.

No, its sensible. If you pretend the law is what you'd like it to be in a competitive environment, rather than what it actually is, you die before you get to make any changes.

If you want to make changes, it is prudent to make the case for the changes, while still acting in a prudent fashion to protect your interests given the existing rules. (If nothing else, this avoids creating an additional disincentive for your competitors to support rules changes, since if you are acting in a way which makes you weak under the existing rules, your competitors have an incentive to protect the existing regime in order to profit from your weakness.)
I am talking about BACKslash (REVERSE solidus). This says they are the same:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash
An analogous situation would be an NSA member sitting on a committee developing an encryption standard. The NSA member suggests a change that the committee members do not fully comprehend the implications of. They accept the standard and henceforth the NSA can crack the resulting cryptosystem. By your reasoning the NSA carries no moral fault here.

Man, the mental gymnastics people will go through to justify tax avoidance is astounding. Those with greater knowledge in an assumed non-adversarial system have a moral imperative to disseminate that knowledge to the others in the system. Otherwise taking advantage of the information imbalance and the other party's implied trust is unethical.

Just because something is legal does not make it right. Those who would outsource their moral thinking to laws are a sorry lot.
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Just because something is legal does not make it right. Those who would outsource their moral thinking to laws are a sorry lot.
Well that sounds promising, but I don't think I'll go back to it - maybe I'll see what's going on out of curiosity though. Thanks for the update.
Ask HN: Using Flask for the product
I want to build MVP and I'm thinking about the tech stack that I should choose. The app will be basic CRUD application that gather data from 100 e-mail and show a report to the user. Later on there will be analytics, sharing etc. B2B, max 2000 Users.

My first choice is Flask + Heroku + PostgreSQL. Ideally I want something that is very easy to build MVP, but not totally to throw away later on. Hoodie is interesting, but I need backend.

Any Java, Scala, Python, js, Go suggestion?
Most ARM SoCs have a few hundred kilobytes of "internal RAM" (which is obviously SRAM) used mainly by the ROM and bootloader before the memory controller is initialized and can usually be accessed with the same latency as the L2 cache.

It's usually unused once the kernel has started but it can be mapped by the kernel later on if there's a use for it.
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It's important to remember that responsible researchers on behavior genetics (such as the researchers that I am about to quote here, from a review article) point out that just because an individual difference is "inborn" (heritable) does NOT mean that it cannot change under environmental influence. "Moreover, even highly heritable traits can be strongly manipulated by the environment, so heritability has little if anything to do with controllability. For example, height is on the order of 90% heritable, yet North and South Koreans, who come from the same genetic background, presently differ in average height by a full 6 inches (Pak, 2004; Schwekendiek, 2008)."

Johnson, Wendy; Turkheimer, Eric; Gottesman, Irving I.; Bouchard Jr., Thomas (2009). Beyond Heritability: Twin Studies in Behavioral Research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 4, 217-220

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

Indeed, there are psychologists who are fully aware of the research base on heritability of the "Big 5" personality dimensions you mention who nonetheless research interventions to change people's personality along one or more of those dimensions. It is already well known to personality researchers that personality changes over the course of life (from early childhood to old age) much more than most people think it does.