skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was mostly referring to the style of programming the languages encourage. Things like multiple return values instead of exceptions are extremely significant in what they imply about how you're intended to code in the languages.

Go tends to be written like a low-level language with very good high-level libraries. You don't have huge class hierarchies; instead you have functions. You don't have a million custom exception types; you just return error codes. Go is obviously closer to Java with respect to some of the things you can do with those concepts (things like switch statements being very general are features of much higher level languages than C, etc.), but as a programmer, you're still writing a switch statement, not a series of polymorphic methods dispatched at runtime. That's what I mean -- Go is very, very unlike Java if you're writing idiomatic code in each.
What is the absolute best book on BD advice?
I am in my early years pursuing a career in business development. Looking to expand knowledge and skill set. I am curious to see if there are any fantastic books on this matter to provide advice/lessons/stories. Any book providing insight on being a 10x BD hustler is strongly suggested!
I'm working on a project to create a more humane channel of scientific discovery using human volunteer testers from around the world.

It's collaborative like open sourcing, but I call it "open suffering". Many hands make light work, as they say.

Visit http://selfexperiments.com to find out more. I can be contacted using the email in my profile. I have several interesting experiments in the works.
Slight exaggeration: according to iTunes, it has 552 5-star reviews at present. http://imgur.com/dGDk3CG
Great point. The way I see it, the journey will always be better than the destination.
Success is easy to sell as it is most often what someone believes they need. Perhaps it masks a flaw in their character.

The example in the article relates to money but success to a lonely man may be love. Perhaps success means only that which we most feel we need to be complete.
Very well done to both intern and MGWU!
and there is a price to pay for that,it's called debt.
A trust for your children that you don't want them to be able to access until they reach a certain age.
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Gwern posts articles, but not in blog format. If you look on the sidebar for this page, for example, you'll see it was originally published in 2011, and just recently modified.

This is the closest thing to what you're looking for:
http://www.gwern.net/Changelog
I thought the entire point of "interns" was to give young people (i.e. teenagers) the chance to work in a real company and get experience, usually over school holidays etc.

I think SV (and maybe modern capitalism) has corrupted the term "intern" to be "an excuse for us to not pay you" without the other benefits experienced by the "intern".

[EDIT] I should clarify that I am a Brit and never heard the term "intern" used outside of my above definition until I started reading US tech news where it seems to be applied to older people as well.
Founding and running a company that made highly respected computers and a highly respected OS is an extremely rare achievement that makes him highly qualified to comment on the industry. Perhaps his opinion of these reporters should be taken as an indication that they should be listened to.
I heard the rumors about the $100 notes but I didn't 't get to try them out. Going into a bank and and changing bills just so I could sniff them would out me as the worst kind of American tourist.

Everything else smelled like maple syrup, though. So it wasn't a total loss.
Thanks for the reply.

I agree. At first, I got shocked when sites like FB and Twitter would reverse course from a developer friendly environment to a locked down one but now it's just an extension of the same story. FB doesn't care about your business, it cares about it's own business.
Excellent and I hope you acquired Proxima Nova legally. If not, better make that right.
There are a few potential issues with this business model, and I'm curious if/how you've addressed them:
1) if you're taking software IP from one country and moving it into another, aren't you then becoming an importer/exporter of the software? That would make you liable for duties/taxes as well as export restrictions. In particular, exporting certain encryption algorithms in software can be legally problematic (http://www.fosterswift.com/publications-Software-Downloads-E...)
2) Some vendors have geographically limited software or licenses (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell/geoinfo.aspx). In some cases the license may not allow you to run, for instance, a US version of the software primarily outside the US. Even if Germany lets you transfer the license, if the the license doesn't let you run the software in Germany, I suspect German law would agree you can't run it.
NSA surveillance panel temporarily shut down after staff is furloughed
With no database, you can install Dropplets in seconds on any server, compose offline using markdown, then simply upload to publish.

Cool, sounds almost as easy as writing html and deploying it with ftp. We've come full circle to 1996.
The days of idealism and superstition are over. We live in a time of science and hard common sense...

Unfortunately, it wasn't true in 1909, and still not true at all today
You shouldn't put it that way or you're going to make people restate the original question...
++ yes. for those not aware, all numbers in javascript are 64bit floats.

that said, you could still write your own bigint class if you need precision beyond that.
TL;DR - I've done it. One had a successful exit, the other bombed. Spend all your time, energy and passion into one and make it win.

I used to run two startups in parallel - 1) an online b2c startup - review and recommendation site for local businesses and 2) manufacturing and installation of bird spikes.

Not only were both businesses completely different in all aspects, they were also run out of two different cities. I used to run the online businesses, while the manufacturing one I handed over to a friend and would touch base with him very week to check progress and help troubleshoot sales, marketing etc.

The online startup was a roaring success. We exited successfully in just 3 years of starting up. The manufacturing one failed - the friend lost interest, I couldn't manage the day to day affairs and it ended up being a disaster.

So don't do two things in parallel.
Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin
If you make the assumption that each piece of 'content' takes the same amount of effort/money to produce, that's not really a problem. Site X has presumably spent 3 times as much on content creation, so it's fine for them to get 3 times the revenue (assuming equal quality).

The problem I see is that with spotify it's pretty easy to determine the rate of content consumption (e.g. songs or minutes listened). News sites are pretty adept at turning one piece of content into many (multi-page articles or slideshows), and the system would have to protect against that.
They already have the info, the problem is preventing the spreading (well, their problem on this scenario) so is just necessary to block the signal back
Those poor bastards. Their arms are going to be unbelievably sore by by 10a every day.
Are you referring to the Superdollar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
fyi, webstorm 7 has good compiler support for typescript, but the ide intellisence/ syntax highlighting is still not great.

i use typescript professionally, i use vs2013 for writing code, webstorm for debugging / testing
I think part of this may be that some of the types of tweets unlikely to be retweeted generally don't contain pictures. In particular twitter SPAM and and most of a twitter conversation after the first tweet.
I imagine that incognito mode would use a different anonymous identifier.
"50-100 more energy out than in to make up for inefficiencies in electricity generation using this kind of scheme."

Completely true. Theoretically, the NIF target has enough fuel to produce 10-20x the amount of laser energy driving it. Once things work, it isn't a huge step to get to an energy gain (energy_out/energy_in) of ~50. That said, the real world is always more complicated and NIF has yet to ignite.
Not saying I support him, just providing justification why a "Free Ross" concept might exist and draw significant support.

There's also the chance he knew he wasn't actually hiring hitmen, and just figured it was a good way to pretend to be really serious. Not a bright move as far as having charges on him after being caught, but I get the feeling he was operating as if he'd never get caught, or if he did, he'd be so screwed that additional charges wouldn't matter.
How Google Uses Data to Build a Better Worker
> 2012 is actually NT 6.2 (as is Windows 8).

Notice that I listed Windows Server 2008 R2 as 7.0 rather than as 6.1. And that I listed Windows 2000 as 2000, rather than as 5.0.

In other words, I was giving the equivalent workstation OS -- not the internal NT version number.
The experiment on pregnant mothers in Tennessee is just awful. One article cited [1] reads:

> During the 1940s, 800 pregnant women, the poor patrons of a pre-natal clinic at Vanderbilt University, were given a "cocktail" including a tracer dose of radioactive iron. The object of the experiment was to determine the iron requirements of pregnant women. Ongoing lawsuits point to a higher-than-usual incidence of malignancies in the children of the women subjected.

[1]: http://news.psu.edu/story/141518/1996/03/01/research/subject...
I know HTML and CSS already. Thanks for the comment.
Ad Vulna: Vulnerable and Aggressive Adware Threatening Millions
Ad Hominem attacks aren't cool.
Agreed. It can be fun and/or sometimes necessary to roll your own, but, at least get it reviewed by someone who knows what they're doing - anyone on the IETF Kitten working group, for example (for a SASL mechanism).
But you don't need triangles, they're not semantic, just ask W3C.
I disagree. It would be sad if a triangle couldn't be created in CSS at all.

In fact, I think it's awesome that a triangle can be created from a "very broken rectangle", along with many other hacks that make this simple language quite powerful.
The U.S. consumes 8 or 9 million barrels of gasoline per day and imports a net of about 300,000 a day. So there is quite some domestic refinery production there.
Developer here - I'm happy to answer any questions folk might have!
I was able to pick up D3 fairly quickly and I love it. Dashing d3 [1] was a great starting off point, but nothing beats looking through a ton of live examples.

[1] https://www.dashingd3js.com/
Another option might be to proportion revenue in accordance with membership sources into the cartel. E.g. if site 1 delivers 10 new subscribers, and site 2 brings in 2 new subscribers, the money goes to the sites in a 5:1 ratio, minus maybe 10% off the top for operating expenses.
Or, use RFC 4121. It's not just for Kerberos: GSS EAP (Moonshot), BrowserID (Persona), and SAML EC all use it for message integrity and privacy. And those specifications were all written by smart people (save for myself, at least) who could have rolled their own if they wanted to.
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(your comparison is nonsensical for many reasons)

A hundred billion dollars is a lot of money. The annual budget of NIH is ~$30B and it funds a high fraction of the most advanced biological research worldwide. The DOE also has a budget $30B and funds (along with this project) many other projects including alternative energies, advanced computing and the Human Genome Project. NSF is (only!) another $7B, leaving around $33B addition funds for a diverse research portfolio.

This kind of expenditure is required to maintain US at or near the highest level of technology research in the world (other countries can compete with us in many ways, such as lower labor costs). There are things that can only be physically done in a single location in the US and nowhere else in the world- and it will be that way until on of the postdocs goes back to Europe or Asia and replicates the result in their lab.

So yes, $100B is a lot of money- and that's the kind of investment that often ends up benefiting the US (and other) economy. The fusion research-- to the extent that what NIF is doing is translatable to other domains-- doesn't really meet this sniff test.
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Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.

Sadly, nope, unless you're applying to a high-end private school. I know the UC system doesn't care at all about your work experience, and even if you founded a company when you were in HS, that would at best be worth 150-300 SAT points.

Now that I think about it, it's scary that I still remember this.
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If his TED Talk on the David and Goliath story http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_the_unheard_story_... is any indication, his book is for people who find Sun Tzu too subtle.

Much of his previous writing and public speaking are, at least, literate and entertaining. Listen to the whole TED talk, I dare you! I could not finish. The treacle was too thick, the grinding of clashing unapt analogies too loud.

It may be easy and popular to slag Gladwell, but man he set himself up for it this time.
I wonder how many insane snap judgments on part of management were justified by Blink.
To clarify, I'm not trying to turn this banking/bitcoin discussion into a discussion about the business model, just point out that "solving" a legal problem problem in one way (moving the transaction) may introduce new problems (import/export). Also, software companies seem to have put some thought into how to restrict these sort of maneuvers.
For the love of almighty and merciful God please do not use GSSAPI. MAC-then-encrypt? CRC checksums? All-zeroes IV? CBCMAC? This stuff died in the '90s for a reason.
> would've required them to get international cooperation and extradite him

This still applies. Of course it would just make them that much more pissed at you since they had to do more paperwork to nab you.
I'm not sure I understand your remark about Capitalism. Are you saying you think the article draws some sort of parallel between the success books of the time and Capitalism? Are you now drawing that parallel in today's world? I can't tell what you're getting at.
it will look better on a resume for jobs/further internships down the road though which is just as important anyway
Why don't you think it's a good example of a commercial use? Why don't you think this is a good moment for Microsoft?
Well, you could just imagine projecting the judgement onto a bell curve. Plenty of psychotic failures and psychotic geniuses, but everyone in the middle we just give the benefit of the doubt (because "we" most likely lie on that part of the curve as well). Whether the term 'psychotic' is correct I don't really know.
I thought the goal was to have a self sustaining reaction that would only require laser pulses to hold it in place. Is a continuously pulsed laser necessary to provide thermal energy to drive the reaction?

Also I've read (sorry no citation) that the indirect drive was necessary to ensure even dispersal of the heat generated by the initiating laser blast.

Any clarification would be much appreciated, this isn't my field.
> We'd have the economic rationale for removing all military engagement in the middle east.

This only works if fusion can make petroleum cease to be a strategic resource.
Ask HN: Want to hack for education?
The Virtual Hackathon: Reforming Education is on! Bunyad[0] is looking for someone with Rails experience to lead the tech side of the project. If you are passionate about this, why not join in and positively influence millions of students?

[0] https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/virtual-hackathon-reforming-education/hacks/bunyad
it is unlikely that fusion energy will be cheaper than current tech. however, it does not emit CO2, is not a proliferation risk, and cannot have a nuclear meltdown.
You probably mean "it's"
The Spawn of Craigslist (2010)
I don't quite understand the newsroom gimmicks.

They aren't really newsrooms, at least not like they used to be. Now it's all about improving ratings at the expense of long term credibility.

(But then if all are doing it, we're talking about relative credibility.)
I bet you can't beat the "McGurk Effect" Illusion
In Vegas, Some Say Bitcoin Will Do For Money What The Net Did For Information
The O'Reilly Factor.
Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
I really hope you're being sarcastic. Sometimes these things have a way of whooshing over my head...
I've added Bunyad[0] to this, looking for an experienced Rails dev to lead the development. If you can't make it to this hackathon, we'd still be around (https://github.com/Bunyad/bunyad)
[0] https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/virtual-hackathon-re...
That is definitely something we're thinking about.
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Correct, technology like Glass has to be socially acceptable before there can be adopted by the masses. It's a chicken and egg problem but then again I've never used a Bluetooth headpiece.
Make your value of m different each time in the hash and then choose a distribution of m's such that you get your desired output time at least probabilistically. You can balance parallelizability and the level probabilistic trust you need by setting the distribution of m and number of hashes.
I think I should study for the SAT, because I'll only be giving up one of my summers (I can intern during my Freshman, Junior and Senior summers)
which then lead to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
Indeed. My issue of great concern is that many people are unable to admit nor even understand the nature and negatives of their own actions and beliefs when their morality is forcefully imposed on others. This is not to say there aren't subjective positives in a person or group's views. This is only to say that there are also negatives.

The more one selectively filters and dismisses the negatives of forcefully imposing [what one wants] on others, the more that person becomes conditioned to accept violence. The continued path of this mindset is easily one where imprisonment and economic suppression, and the overall appeasement of violent systems, increasingly becomes a rational response to even trite conduct. Disobedience by those who are different becomes itself vilified. Ends begin to justify means. Force imposed upon nonviolent people that would otherwise be heinous becomes common.

In contrast, I find that the more someone begins to examine, to self-assess, the negative nature of his or her own actions, the less willing he or she is to use force to impose those subjective views. It leads to admission and mindfulness. Recognizing the violence [of self] can take one on a path of peace and tolerance [of others], where one begins to seek more progress through culture alone rather than through law.

Laws by their nature are oppressive. We'd agree that there are many variations of systems and laws that we might mutually favor in principle. Though, in fewer words, the more a system lends itself to arbitrary law, the more a system lends itself to tyranny. That's because oppression and violence -- in law or in other forms -- in and of itself is no justification. Systems protecting people from violent actions certainly become a resounding cause when they use forms of oppression to protect people from great oppression (e.g. rape, murder, etc.). Though the way systems of justice do it is largely unjustified (to me), in light of the astonishing increase of a prison-military-police industry and the society that brought it into existence. It's one of many systems with systemic problems, in dire need of critical change, humanity, compassion, and transparency.
No questions yet but we'll be trying this. Thrilled to see more tooling for this language.
Did you miss the quotes?
Fighting back against the NSA with HTTP
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Emotional and persuasive perception of fonts
ah, that's + undergrad. yup, my bad.
The world has changed so much since then. I am only 22 so I think we are pretty much the same age. Kids don't even watch cartoon now. They play games on ipad and make vine videos...
Here's a fun thought experiment: find the first "good" encryption method you could crib from off of a simple Google search, and provide the Google search that found it.
For anyone who might be interested, the greater part of Chesterton's work is available for free online.

The essay quoted in the blog post above is from this collection:
http://archive.org/details/allthings00chesuoft

Many volunteers have shared recordings of themsevles reading Chesterton's writings aloud

http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22G%20K%20Che...
Feds Arrest Alleged Top Silk Road Drug Seller
True, but I wasn't trying to attack him. I was surprised that someone would ask that a thread be deleted that vehemently so I got curious about his background. When someone is in a competing position, s/he has to respect other people's expectations about them.
Shenzhen Map for Makers
If broken screens are indeed a big problem and this is effective in preventing that problem then this would be a huge competitive advantage for them, no doubt far outweighing any small loss from people replacing their phones less frequently. Competition drives far more than attempts to milk the installed base, at least at any sane company.
Kinda not factoring in the notion that he was ordering people to be killed during this timeframe, right?
I'm interested if anyone has been able to identify the library or spot any clues other than the image from the article http://www.fireeye.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/scree...
What makes you think they would want to cast doubt on his arrest? Let's put it this way: if there were two DPRs and one was arrested, and the arrested involved shutting down a Tor hidden service (i.e. the feds found the hidden service), would you really go around announcing that you were still walking free? Assuming that there is another DPR / SR admin / whatever out there, he or she is probably at a rifle range shooting every storage device with any SR material on it.
Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center
Kids definitely still watch cartoons. A lot. Source: currently watching Regular Show with my 4 younger siblings.
Yeah. That was a concept video created before anyone (even the ad production team) had seen Glass.

Kinda weird that they didn't even get the display position right.
I think I missed the part of what 'pallandt said where he was appointed judge and/or jury. I thought maybe he was just expressing his understanding of what happened.
I recently busted the screen on my Nexus 4 -- and I was planning on still using it, but I guess I was one of the unlucky ones -- the touch screen wouldn't work at all afterwards.
> (btw, I think they seized some cocaine from him as well if I remember correctly)

I haven't heard anything about that. Are you referring to the fake cocaine that the undercover agent sold to a SR employee right before arresting them?