skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to a be a binary view of either "chase ever time", or "never chase". How about you give yourself some latitude and before you start chasing an assailant take 5 seconds and consider public safety implications. If you're in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night, maybe you should make a different decision than if you're in the middle of a city at noon.

>You see groups of motorcycles and ATVs doing high speed wheelies through red lights regularly.

You don't see that, actually. And second, all you have to do is take their licences down and you've got them.
Yes. These are all good ideas. I have experience making APIs, but not ones designed for international use. This is good to learn. Thanks.
Look at my comment above. Prices weren't even close to bubble levels. They were lower than anything we've seen post crash.

Also I was clearly not talking about "betting" but rather investing. It's just not useful for someone to say something is happening far before it actually is happening. Perhaps he could have said the conditions are right for a bubble to start in the near future. In which case the correct play would be to make a lot of money in housing in 2002. There was no bubble then though.

http://us.spindices.com/indices/real-estate/sp-case-shiller-...
Mandatory charity is by definition not charity. It's a form of forced labor.

Charity: n. the voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need.
But without forcing yourself to write that code, the breakthrough wouldn't come in a day or two. The breakthrough will never come.

Writing that crappy code that feels like pulling barbed wire through your brain forces you to think about the problem. To look at the corner cases, to really figure out a solution.

The breakthrough in a few days is just a cleaner solution you were able to come to after a deep understanding of the problem.
Quite an interesting story. I guess I am a few years behind you, as in I just graduated a year back and get offers from startups which i accept/turn down. I often wonder how these startups would end up and where I would be relative to them. But I guess what makes the most sense here is the part that says "you made the decision that was right for you.". That kind of seems like the right line of thought.
I use namecheap for all of my domains (all transferred off of GoDaddy). Not sure about getting .io TLD from them, but otherwise their service is really good and prices are very competitive. It also doesn't have the stupid amount of dark patterns that GoDaddy has.
Nice job guys! very nice
Software is slowing down faster than hardware is speeding up. My work desktop takes somewhat over 5 minutes to boot; at 3.4 GHz and 4 cores, 5 minutes equates to almost exactly four trillion operations, which accomplish nothing at all WRT productivity. Of course most of the time is spend waiting for IO rather than actually calculating anything.

Years ago, four trillion instructions processed would have accomplished something powerful, something business critical. Now all it means is you've booted up.

The end user doesn't care about a waveform inside a box, all they know is computers are slower and less productive than ever.
I actually have an even more complete version of this which allows changing the Go shell cleanly. Dump https://gist.github.com/bpollack/7197532 in your .config/fish/functions directory and you should be good to go.
Change in real income by global percentiles
Hey, at least it's cheaper than what InterNIC used to charge ($100 initial, then $50/year).
I believe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triarchy_%28theory%29 is the solution
Thanks for all the tips! :)
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Sorry, no. I used Go.
namecheap is my preferred vendor and is generally cheap, as the name suggests. Their interface is great and their customer service tends to be pretty good. They're miles ahead of other popular registrars like godaddy and netsol.

I have no idea what io is or why the people at ICANN or wherever are allowing all these new subdomains. Its clearly a cash grab by all involved and the registrars are feeling out the market value of yet another vanity domain. I'm sure it'll settle into a more crowd-friendly price. Not sure what the point is. Just more domains businesses need to worry about. I'm sure Disney doesn't want some random jackass to own Disney.io.
Bubble talk and high valuations comes up every month or so. pud's comment sums it up nicely:

Generally, being profitable precludes a company from getting "silly [high] valuations" & buzz in Silicon Valley. Unless they're really, really profitable.

Big valuations usually stem from not knowing how much a company will make once they start charging for stuff. So the "it" crowd works itself into a frenzy and VCs take a big gamble.

But once you make a dollar, all the mystery is gone. You're judged & valued pretty much on your revenue alone. Which is usually low (startups are hard) and unsexy (so not a ton of buzz).

Not saying a agree with it. But that's how it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5236239
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Some great options here though most require some technical skill. Striking.ly is a YC company helping people build really simple and beautiful websites with no code.

http://striking.ly
For what it's worth, I've been using namecheap for over 2 or 3 years now, with around 10 domains registered with them, and I have to say that their service is quite good. The support is capable and promptly responsive. Very rarely, if ever, have I experienced technical difficulties. Even if it's not the cheapest in the market, the service is worth the extra $
Cool idea. However, you should remove your age from it. Given a lot of banks etc rely on date of birth as a security identification
Wow, a double negative! Does this mean that the article shows how to prove that P is equal to NP? :P
I have huge amounts of money stolen from me, and spent irresponsibly and inefficiently.

This is not a help.
There needs to be a distinct separation of Exploration mode and Implementation mode. This comic depicts a programmer in the latter mode where "collaboration" can be detrimental.

Exploration mode is crucial to the development workflow. It's a space where there isn't "right" or "wrong" and creatively constructive conversations can occur.

You're absolutely right that conversation belongs in development. But only at the right time for the highest effectiveness.
That's a good tip, I hadn't thought of that.
However, SuperCard is still around and just received an update for Mavericks. SuperCard can even convert HyperCard stacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCard
Than maybe it's too soon to have any kind of best practices. We agree that more experimentation is needed, but when is that going to happen when everyone is building according to the REST-but-not-really best practices and the systems trying new things are toy services?
Writing software != Selling software

You need mutually EXCLUSIVE skills.
As a HFT, I can safely say that you are correct. Volume and volatility (At least in the futures markets) have been drying up. My firm has gone from 40 to 20 employees over the past 18 months. I know a similar thing is happening at other HFT firms, but I am not sure to what extent.
If you're watching comments, how often do you change your lat/lon coordinates if at all? I'm just wondering if you track changes or you simply located your home.
It could be something specific to Brazilian employment or finance law that affects remote workers based there. Perhaps the company is afraid of somehow having a tax nexus there, e.g. (perhaps, and this is just a theory) because they're already doing some sort of activity in Brazil and are nervous they are getting close to whatever standard Brazil has for tax presence.

That would explain why they are specifically concerned about Brazil and not, say, Peru or Singapore or anyplace else. It might be that they have assets in Brazil that they are concerned about getting caught up in a tax or labor dispute.
Great, I can start using it on the servers too! Thanks a lot
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I'm not sure why, if the WHO falls under the UN's mandate, that asteroid defense wouldn't. They're both collective efforts to monitor and combat things that aren't human.

Moreover, there are obvious military applications for certain asteroid defense techniques. For example, if the U.S. was planning a Bruce Willis-style nukes-in-space approach to deflecting an asteroid, I guarantee the Russians would care (and vice versa).
I completely agree. I'll have a day at work where I just do not want to code, and anything I create will be garbage. Sometimes I'll do a rough prototype of what actually needs to be done, which will get my brain thinking. A day or two later, everything clicks into place in my brain and I go through, rework the prototype, and create a great piece of code I'm happy to turn in. If I get interrupted during that period of programming though, I usually lose my train of thought which make me stumble to catch up again. The prototype helps because I can see what I was doing if I was interrupted
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The expense is space, not so much the extra computation.

The nice thing about Bloom filters is that (if your hash functions are good), that you compute the vector length given the number of set elements and the probability of false positives that is acceptable in your application.
I would say both. Browsers are a mix of a client facing UI and business logic.
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.io is the CCTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
To really alleviate global poverty, every https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world nation Currency should be pegged to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opec Oil for 4 years due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
Perhaps your use-case is not one they consider important. (As others have pointed out, 300,000 files is a lot for a synced drive.)
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It has worked for Craigslist and eBay for a very long time...
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I have no idea what you are getting at. I am familiar with the invention of the transistor, and understand the comment I was replying to completely. Furthermore, there are no sibling comments to my comment....

What I am guessing went wrong here is that you are unfamiliar with sarcasm, so I'll help you out: I don't actually credit Feudalism with the invention of the transistor.
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So, it's just a coincidence that it happened on the day that the first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast?

:)
I was thinking about this. I think it would be cool to track live location via phone, but was concerned about security. I have it set to an arbitrary 'area' average of residence/workplace.
> What if you could take the percentage of taxes that you spend every year and choose whom to help with it.

Then it would be spent on pet shelters and the national trust instead of homeless shelters and the national health, because middle class people fundamentally don't like poor people, and are mildly frustrated taxes go to them at all, except as a means to clear the streets of nuisance beggars.

Photogenically poor people in exotic places we can feel superior to are different, of course. Those, the middle classes will tithe to, provided it goes to "schools and infrastructure" to civilize them up.
How to be right 90% of the time, and why I'd rather be wrong. (2007)
True and a quiet day might be enough as an pill.
Or at least sitting at home can help for some people.
Are we going to use sh and its descendants for the next 100 years? The original shells evolved out of macro processors, and as time went on, more and more programming language features were bolted on, but it's an uneasy fit.

Take it for a test: go write a project euler problem (or any small programming task--doesn't have to be math) in your shell of choice. It's painful.

There are weird features of shell languages that will never go away (globs and unquoted strings sharply limit the design space), but even given those limitations, it's possible to design nicer languages.

I don't fault someone for saying "right now, I'd rather use the default shell my box comes with, because the pain points of switching are too high". But yes, we really do need something to replace it. I think both zsh and fish make nice steps, but I don't think either really meets my hopes.
That was fast. They removed the reference from the post.
These days, critical mass means having the entire world on-board. I just don't see that happening.
My withdrawals, every time I went through them (before I was truly ready to quit with the support of my family, and the addiction clinic here) lasted a lot more than 3 days.

:(

Part of me wishes I had been locked in a room and dealt with it. But the other part of me knows that Suboxone gave me the band-aid to let me heal the other problems in my life, to tackle my addiction in full -- to deal with my depression, to get a stable job and place of residence, etc. etc.

And it worked for me. It doesn't work for everyone. I'm tapering now, and it's not too bad thankfully. I'm lucky in that regard.
As a full-time software developer just about to launch a Kickstarter for a novel (http://planetoz.net/kickstarter), I can confirm the numerous parallels between writing code and writing prose.

I like to think of writing prose as "writing code against the human BIOS."
I love the IO ccTLD, but it's just too expensive to justify on a free side project that doesn't make any money. First-world problem, eh?
This is why when you invest, if your goal is merely wealth preservation (and keeping pace with inflation), you invest in a wide portfolio and hedge your bets. A combination of bonds, equities, commodities and real assets will do that.

If you have a smaller amount of wealth, simply buying a house and investing in some index funds can be enough, maybe some short-term GICs (which will often put you on par with inflation).

Trading bonds, IMO, is best left to institutional investors.

On the other hand, if your goal is income (which is why I trade), you need to be more sophisticated, learn to time the market (to a certain degree, predicting it isn't an exact science), and to be picky...
hexonet and gandi are equally trustworthy and have .io registration for cheaper
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On OSX.
Remove noise, remove signal
Or moreover, why you shouldn't write parsers/lexers by hand.
Through the 90's and into the 00's I used emacs for the better part of a decade. But then as java became bigger and I 'had' to use an ide to be productive in it, I switched to Eclipse. Then when Rails came along, I switched to Textmate. Of course, TM 2 was open sourced and then I switched to Sublime Text 2. During all this, every 6-12 mos, I would download a version of emacs, play with it, then go back to work.

I know emacs can do everything including make me breakfast, and I think the happiest/productive I've been with a editor was when I could do all my java builds in emacs and run all my tests from a TM 1 window. I know emacs can do the latter - I'm sure someone has written this functionality, probably years ago.

One of the things I always missed with the current editors is split panels - I used it all the time with emacs. I never really cared for folder icons or a lot of gui chrome and I prefer never to have to use an ide. Maybe now is the time to check in again. :)

*side note: if you are building from brew, be prepared for a big compile. The emacs source is ginormous.
Well, in fairness, so can Google (assuming Gmail), etc. etc.

The ads bit is a bit shit though.
Correctness is the dog. Everything else is tail.

Don't know who said that first, might have been this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
Well, not if the Brazilian employee has established a company and then both companies can sign a service contract.

The Brazilian employee, through his company, would invoice the US company which would then transfer the money, via wire transfer preferably, so the Brazilian employee can pay his taxes.

I know this because I work for 5 years for an US company as a remote sysadmin.
3 month design, 3 month build, 3 month test

Keep it simple.

That was the philosophy. Don't bother reading the article, I just summed up the only info that wasn't just there to take up space.

Disappointing that this was light on any real details like who the contractor was, or if it was done by state employees. What the integration story was? Technology? Staffing count? Budget? You know, all those things which would speak to 'How' Kentucky built the site.
That's the thing though, how many "grandmas and grandpas" really need a file sharing service for blobs of data? There already exists "better" solutions to share common file types: flickr/picasa for images, youtube for video, email for word documents, etc. The vast majority of people simply don't need an arbitrary file hosting service. Somehow they've managed to convince people they do.

On the other hand, if you give something away for free that seems to have value, people will flock to it regardless of need. I'm curious if dropbox is actually profitable. I know of many people who use dropbox that I wouldn't have thought would even have heard of it. But not a single one of them pays for it. Perhaps what we're attributing to success is simply a company being sustained by the VC bubble. Even in the face of the "success" of dropbox I don't see the service in its current incarnation being self-sustainable.
As a zsh user, I am not really seeing the problem. Even Solaris had zsh in the default install. I don't see why avoiding installing an rpm/deb is any better or worse than not.

For regular shell scripts I tend to still prefer #!/bin/ksh and not bourne shell (no bash is not bourne shell).

I have to admit the line of thinking you're advocating reminds me of the vim/emacs "wars". With the "vim is on ALL THE SERVERS", well yeah but unless i'm at a serial console thats not all that convincing as a TRAMP user. I customized tramp so I could edit files remotely through sudo. What do I care about the version vim installed on the servers?
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This really isn't an API, it's more of a résumé that happens to be in JSON.
I base this on the few people I know in this industry. Not scientific by any means.

Now, people are hardly ever "evil", and they certainly never consider themselves evil. But even strangers would hardly call traders evil; they're just... how shall I put this... if you know some people working on (in?) Wall Street then you know the type. Of course, there are plenty of technical people working on the highly technical aspects of HFT with little regard to the domain itself, who don't fit the prototype; still, there are very few idealists in that industry.
A month too late :-) Gonna have to move it :)
There are quite a lot of companies out there, I don't see how it would be so hard.
The most interesting thing, to me, about the current valuations, is where they're going to be in another 6 or 12 months of this momentum. Yellen is highly likely to maintain the negative interest rate environment for years to come, and that should encourage a stock market move even higher.

Motivated bull markets never stop at a bit above historical average values. They go a lot higher, become quite irrational, and then crash. As it is already, about 85% of the gains in the market over the last two years have been pure PE expansion, as earnings growth has tumbled to low single digits.

I expect valuations for tech companies across the board to get significantly frothier before the music stops again. If a company like Snapchat is worth $3.x billion today, I see no reason to think capital won't bid it up to $5 or $10 billion over the coming year, assuming the very accommodating environment continues.
use-package is also an amazing way to clean up your init files.

https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
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> Because quantitative easing is totally pro-equality?

Quantitative easing increases the money supply. Which does favour the lower classes more than the already wealthy (decreasing the money supply would favour the wealthy). So yes, economists would say it does favour equality. Keep in mind this is on a macro scale...
I'm all for private solutions. Leave my money in my pockets.

If there are no solutions, so what? face it like a man. If you're so scared to die, then you'll donate YOUR own money.

Not mine.
Or in .bashrc:

bind "C-p":history-search-backward

bind "C-n":history-search-forward
Respect is earned. Treat people fairly and you win people's respect.

Friendly / Strict is a false dichotomy. The ideal boss is always friendly, strict when they have to be.
That's actually a really neat way of tackling the problem, but it does require people to change habits and use Ark instead of Mail.

So while Intro seems to have less friction, you have to give up privacy (HAH. Email and privacy always makes me laugh) to achieve it, which does suck.

Shame there wasn't a cooler way to try and handle it by only using headers or something, rather than MITM the whole damned email stack.

Ark is neat though. Out of curiosity, how do you handle double notifications? As in, I get a new email, now I've got a notification in Mail and Ark? Or does Ark replace Mail entirely?
I'm working on an O'Reilly book using IPython Notebook, I'm basing my workflow on Olivier Grisel's script (with a couple of tiny fixes):
https://github.com/ianozsvald/ipynbhelper
which extracts the Notebook's 'markdown' blocks (which contain asciidoc which obviously won't render in the browser) & code blocks, these get exported as asciidoc for O'Reilly.

It is clunky but I'm hoping we'll get better control as nbconvert evolves, so we're experimenting with this approach.

Most of the code examples are not 'live', they're pasted in along with analysis results (the book is about high performance and parallel computing: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028963.do ), as lots of the examples are best run from a fresh VM.
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> Yeah! It's also ridiculous because of the quote at the beginning: " When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. "

It's because an asteroid of that size usually goes undetected and it's not the UN involvment which is going to change that. This was a very small piece of rock, it would have never destroyed the whole human race. This kind of asteroid is relatively frequent. They just don't fall next to populated areas very often, that's all.

However, NASA is closely watching and building a database of the most massive rocks out there (and they are still doing it, if I recall correctly).