skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scare quotes are unnecessary; nobody would confuse you with a cultural imperialist.

The country is called "The United States of America," so its people are "Americans." Similarly, people from "The United States of Mexico" (yes, that's its real full name) are called "Mexicans."

Languages evolve as an emergent property of people who speak them. Language usage is not subject to revision or control by self-appointed intellectual fairness monitors who unilaterally arrogate to themselves such an authority. Linguists call this practice "prescriptivism," and it is widely denigrated as (ironically) an imperialist tactic used by the power class to enforce their social position.

However, the principle itself is not limited to any particular political orientation; leftist prescriptivism is just as unsupportable in a linguistic sense as imperialist prescriptivism is.
An 1100 user limit is absurd for a website this scale, and is likely predicated on serving content to logged in users, not anonymous readers. With some simple caching they could serve hundreds of thousands easily with very basic tech if they didn't require login.

The biggest problem, from a usability and a technical perspective, is the hiding of the information till you have signed up and given details. Apparently this constraint was added at the last minute, I wonder if insurance companies insisted on it?
Stop and sharpen the axe?! There's too much wood to cut to spend time sharpening the axe!

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SharpenTheSaw
Why do you want to pay taxes?
Berlin, definitely. It is the best mix of everything you need.
I think the top answer is very reasonable. As long as it relates to your work it's fair game. I'd add that exploring other technologies (through reading) wouldn't be too unethical as if you stay in the bubble of your own stack, you won't ever be able to explore other tools that might do the job more effectively.
People are also quick to jump to conclusions. Twitter/Facebook are awful mediums for expressing your thoughts within the proper context, so somebody that doesn't know you and hasn't followed you doesn't necessarily have the right context to judge you based on 200-chars messages or based on funny pictures or whatnot you end up sharing.

Therefore, at least give the guy the chance to explain those posts.
Coinbase could quickly do this as an add-on. They can give you an account and auto-deposit. And sending payments can auto-debit. Apart from latency because they aren't the bank and need to wait for confirmation, it's fairly smooth. (Assuming the purchase supply issue has been fixed.)

I would think it'd be extremely difficult for a bank to offer a bitcoin system. It'll be confusing for many users, and open a security problem (once BTC is sent, that's it, whereas intra-bank payments can be reversed). I'd also bet there's some regulatory stuff regarding buying and converting virtual currency.
> Do the type annotations result in performance/compiler optimization, as in Julia?

We've been designing the static system with exactly this in mind. The current implementation doesn't do anything fancy yet, but that's just because we've been getting off the ground and focusing on ergonomics and curriculum first. Getting performance in return for types is absolutely where we're going.
You can drag the "source code" text to scroll it.
The team behind Mac image editor Pixelmator plays David to Adobe's Goliath
Notation that really improved mathematics
Same problem... They'll just serve bitbucket with a takedown. I was hoping there's a way for people to easily rehost repos on their own servers.
(1) Free speech is uniquely important to the university;

(2) We select out those who exercise their rights.

(3) We're f@_king hypocrites.

(4) Because of (3) You are only free to express our views (2) or no views.

_______________

Empirical example: Its worth doing some research on Elena Kagan. [In 2001, she was named a full professor and in 2003 was named Dean of the Law School by Harvard University President]. Now on SCOTUS.

"because we are a community committed to reason and rational discourse"

Imagine a candidate for the U.S. Senate who has never taken a public stand on almost any policy issue. Imagine that her campaign consists of asking people for their support because, according to friends and colleagues, the candidate is smart, fair, and good to others. When her friends are asked what her views are on various political matters, they reply that they don't know-but that they're confident she'd make an excellent senator.

That worked, well.

_______________

Sounds like someone who really values free speech, huh?

________________

But this is not cherry picking, its common TCW:

Kagan Follows Precedent by Offering Few Opinions (NYT)

Solicitor General Holds Views Close To Her Chest (NPR)

The Lingering Mystery Around Elena Kagan (CBS)
It's called a debugger. There's a nice one in your browser probably.
They made a derivative work that added value to many people. And the law said that derivative works are generally banned, and society should be deprived of them. So their hard work to make Mario work for many people in the browser should be thrown away.

The word "theft" is unproductive, because as this case shows, it might be more descriptive to claim that copyright is theft, as society was deprived of value for no good reason at all. Nintendo won't make more and better games because this website does not exist. People won't enjoy a single nice thing. Copyright stole this value from everyone.
Except sun light in the winter...
i've been trying to determine why this list bothers me because it's seems so reasonable, but i think i found it.

this list helps you identify a "goldilocks" product company. it's narrowly targeted at a specific subset of product-based companies at a specific growth stage with a very opinionated view of how the company should be organized.

try answering any of these questions from the shoes of microsoft or a no-name early stage startup. you cannot win in either case. i can only see a company like airbnb or dropbox succeeding in answering these questions to his satisfaction.

kudos to the author for knowing what he wants and what makes him happy. i think candidates will most likely need to compromise on more than a couple of these points with most companies they interview with.

edit: i absolutely agree that candidates should interview the employer as much as they are interviewed. and i think this list is very good. what bothers me is that it's hard to answer positively to all these questions, so flexibility on the part of the candidate is probably an important thing :)
The actual codes are not published within the articles: to big, and pointless. However, the practice is to give the URI to where they are publicly hosted (usually on the forge of your research lab, like https://gforge.liris.cnrs.fr/).

You only put in your article what is immediately relevant, for example an algorithm you are discussing. If if it big and really necessary, you put in the annexe.

Except for specific areas, source code are present in research: they are more an engineering problem. What you will see are demonstrators, prototypes, and examples. But very rarely clean production code, because that is not the objective.
Datomic Client Library for Python
https://web.archive.org/web/20131019203859/http://www.fullsc...
Well, not always. Estonia for exemple is really cheap, at least compared to France, Germany etc
How can a university admissions officer objectively determine which tweets are and are not "appropriate"? Doesn't that leave the admissions system prone to being even more politicized? I think they should stay far away from an applicant's online footprint.
If the copyright holders aren't also claiming everything made from donations off the back of this, he actually got off lightly here. If Nintendo had wanted to make an example of him, it would probably have been a very short court hearing. Leaving the donations button on the site at this stage seems like poking the sleeping dragon with a stick.
Maybe some cool 3D printed objects like a Klein bottle?
I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria right now, doing contract work for international clients.

Rent is generally very cheap, 250EU/mo for a central apartment (12mo lease). I am staying here only a month however, so am paying a lot more.

Eating out, beer etc is very cheap. Numbeo gets it about right.

Amusingly, most Bulgarians I speak to ask why I would want to come to Bulgaria of all places. I guess it's like many places: great fun to visit or live for a few months but painful for long-term residents.

Upsides apart from cheap living: it's a fun, walkable city with a lot of excellent parks and very little traffic.

Downsides of living here: shockingly corrupt bureaucracy.

That said, I'll head to Romania when my month here is up. I lived in Istanbul previously, so let me know if you want to hear about that too.
How many lines of code is in your favorite app?
Budapest, Hungary:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=budapest&tbm=isch

Nice downtown apartments are $300 USD/mo.
How can that line be drawn?

We could end the transferability of patents.
That's only a sliver of its intrinsic value. It also has value because the rest of the world (rather, their governments) recognize it, accept it, and buy/sell it. The U.S. government is one of the pillars lending strength to the dollars credibility, but you have to keep in mind that it's not the only pillar.
You want people to eat each other in a complete anarchy? We need some minor group of accountable well-educated lawyers and bankers to decide the laws and issues of life and death. That'd be more civilised. And this requires people to fork off a part of their income. It's a social contract, man.
This is, I think, the same reason why we should be sceptical of genetically modified foods - not because the process is unnatural, or is inherently damaging - but for a more banal reason, because it is similar to eating foods with a lot of additives. In both cases you fundamentally lose control over the building blocks of your diet. If you can only choose between different highly processed foods, that means you need advanced domain knowledge to be able to make a reasonable judgment about the trans-fats, the MSG, or the highly processed sugar. But, at present, these additives are not mixed into the ingredients, you do at least have the option of opting out.
Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists?
Salaries and startup scene in Prague are not by far what you can find in Vienna though.
I love the idea and product is coming around. People seem to like the initial product of what we are offering (beta test users avg time spent 9 min on site which I heard is pretty steller for what I'm doing).

I have 5 guys who all used to make well into six figures who are not taking a single penny and working 80 hours a week because we are passionate about the idea. If it was up to me, as long as I got enough funding to eating 3x a day and sleep 6 hours a day, I would love to work on it for a year to really see where this thing can go.
GOCE, an artifical satellite is falling from the skies
If the OP thinks he's done the hard work and it's just Nintendo being a lazy ass corporation profiting off of old game brands...why doesn't the OP use the same code, but instead of Mario sprites, hire a freelance designer to make some, and have people play the game with different sprites. After all, if it's only the code that matters, people will flock to "fullscreenantonio.com" to play it, right?

Of course not...part of the appeal of fullscreenmario and any other remake is from the psychological appeal of characters that the big bad corporation spent decades and millions to burnish. It's a cool project but don't play it off as Nintendo being the parasite
Thanks, that's fascinating - this idea of a currency by consensus is one of the most interesting features.
Sorry for derailing this, but I love the fact that you're using 'John Smith, not my real name' while having (probably?) your real name as a handle here.

Even better? There's a pmiller and you're pmiller2..
Well, I was going to add "EDIT: Or are you just being sarcastic?". Twice. But I didn't. After all, it's Hacker News.
What did you think of Istanbul? I just spent the last half year living and working in Europe, and I was thinking about returning next year, with Istanbul high on the list for a month or two.
Let us know about Istambul please.
From a holistic point of view, reading that book could help boost momentum, focus and drive for whatever problem you're trying to solve. It's a part of process that is inherently creative. To set such rules, can be stifling for certain people.
There's another response to this that I didn't mention. Shriram is writing a textbook that includes all the material for our advanced intro course and our programming languages course. There's a lot of good examples here:

http://papl.cs.brown.edu/2013/
Cubans consume a ton of MSG (sazón) and live notoriously long lives despite very poor living conditions.

Your last sentence is very troubling: You feel the negative effects when eating certain foods that you 'suspect' contain MSG. To me, that really sounds like you may psyche yourself out. ie. that you worry about MSG so much that it starts to cause you stress about it, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy/placebo effect/whatever. Anyway, I can't tell you with 100% certainty that MSG is healthy or not, but I can tell you that there are cultures that consume it in large quantities that seem largely unaffected.
This was the original thread (I think my post led to this one, which split the responses):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6700531
Wearable Tech - Its not a device its a system
Bitbucket has free private repos.
That could also be a good thing though. Eating all of those beans vs eating fatty salty potato chips.
Also see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703058
It doesn't need a back end at all. They've done exactly what I suggested in my blog but was too lazy to do — make a rough guess based on static data and hand you off to the vendor. It can be done client-side off static content. Using the IRS service to verify income would be something the real site could easily do, but it's not really necessary.

http://loewald.com/blog/?p=5349
Do you know many 13 - 16 year olds?

> I honestly don't have a solid grasp on who exactly their core market is.

I'm guessing it's whoever was using blackberry messenger.
"lots of bureaucracy" being code for authoritarian dictatorship...
I suppose if you want to learn about how you don't actually live in a police state in the West you could move there.
The DS and the Wii were two innovations pretty close to each other. We are only one generation after them and they are obviously still monetising on them while they are trying small things. It's not like companies innovate every other week.

Valve is not at Nintendo's (or Sony's or Microsoft's, for that matter) scale.
Hey, I am from Belarus.

True about taxes. There are almost no taxes (fixed 9%) for IT companies especially comparing to western countries. But, there are:

1. No shipment from amazon, ebay.

2. Startup culture is in really early stage. People talking about startups, but there are only few of them who have really achieved something

3. Most of European citizens need to have visa (not sure about price) to get there.

4. Coworking/hacker spaces are at the same stage as startup culture.

Hope these things will get sorted out in a few years :)
However, if someone decides to go work from Minsk - send me note, I will show you around.
Providence, RI puts you on I-95/Amtrak/Acela/MBTA an hour from Boston and 2.5 hours from New York. While not cheap, it's much cheaper than either of those cities. The art, music and food scenes are awesome. There are a lot of innovators and entrepreneurs.
Which doesn't matter because everytime you add a decimal point, no one gets any richer. No value is produced for people actually transacting bitcoin, whereas those doing nothing and hoarding it are granted more purchasing power for doing absolutely nothing.

BTC simply sits at a greed cross-section: it appealed to a certain group in terms of technology, and greed to convince people to buy in with real money - but the same properties which get those people in fundamentally kill it as a currency, since no one's who's out has any reason to accept a currency where they will be permanently impoverished, and there's no external reason for them to do so (i.e. you don't pay taxes in BTC).
How could such an NDA be enforced? You generally wouldn't have any way of proving who leaked the question (unless you ask every candidate a unique question), and even if you did spend the time and expense to litigate against the leaker, it would be hard to convince a jury that disclosing the question would have incurred a non-trivial loss for the company.

If an interviewer asked me to sign an NDA, I'd think the company was run by a bunch of crazy control-freaks and walk out.
You make a fair argument for changing copyright law to better reflect today's reality without undermining the motivation for having the law in the first place.

I don't think someone has much right to complain if they blatantly violate the law as it stands today and then get minimally called on it, though.
Valve is not at Nintendo's (or Sony's or Microsoft's, for that matter) scale.

For consoles, they're about to be.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/09/27/recap-valves-trio-of-steam...

For PC gaming, Valve is the gorilla. No one else comes close.
If Mexico is a consideration you can get 20BG symmetrical fibre internet from Axtel for under $50 a month. Various locations. It's excellent internet, have used it in Mexico City which is a very easy place to live inexpensively and well.

Not sure how old this map is or what areas are covered exactly: http://juridicoriva.com/cobertura2.html

I found the coastal sides of Mexico a bit difficult, but that's because the internet is slow and the humidity is very very bad for electronics (unless you like living with AC on constantly). But cheap and quick to get to for a beach or surf-weekend when you need to get out.
One pet peeve of mine is foods that advertise to be MSG-free and then contain yeast extract as an ingredient.

Yeast extract contains MSG, but it also leaves an unpleasant aftertaste in the mouth for hours.
This made me laugh hard because I couldn't agree more.
Now you know why it was submitted to HN. Here we lionize the small percentage of startups that succeed and actually build something worthwhile, while demonizing the big fish in the pond, and pretending the heaps of failed startups never existed.
+1 to this based on anecdotal data from friends. That's if considering former "Western Europe" block of countries and excluding Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and others.

Budapest is quite nice too, strong expat community, strong programmers and generally nice people. Bitch of a language though, very contrived.
"MSG is especially worrying because there are some studies that show negative effects of MSG"

Have you read the actual studies? There are no "mixed" studies, they're all conclusive. One of the biggest studies done was a decade long and found absolutely nothing.

Sources:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009....

http://www.livestrong.com/article/408512-neurological-effect...

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-52156839.html
Huh, is this bad? I typically cook enough rice in a rice cooker for two days and leave it out and haven't had any adverse symptoms...
That feeling in your gut that there's something wrong with what you're doing, even though you know what you're doing is completely reasonable, is from having internalised the dominant culture's view on work, which from an anglo-american context probably means suspicion of anything which doesn't place an emphasis on a projection of looking busy like a labourer on a factory line with some kind of neurotic rendition of the protestant work ethic.

Obviously if your boss is a tool, or has issue with it, even though its reasonable, whether to continue on with it any way is up to you.

But if you know its reasonable, and its just the feeling, screw that feeling. Your life will be better off if you can get rid of it completely. Its the same feeling that makes bankers stay at the office for 12 hours even when they don't do anything for 6 of them. Not only will you do your job better if you're spending some time researching and thinking about the task, but if your boss is a tool, you'll likely be upskilling your future self for your next job as well.

All this is assuming you work at a job or living a life where your skills are actually the important thing, and not just the impression you are constantly working...
> While in some sense I agree with you, stuff like code bubbles is just a incremental step from folding.

I said it was a "beacon in the direction we want to go," not a lighthouse at the destination!

> the point being that the underlying representation does not particularly matter. Having underlying text, however, means you have a good fallback in case your tools do fail.

Sure, do this, so long as the representation doesn't limit the objective capabilities of the environment and so long as it doesn't limit the ways tool makers think about code. Unfortunately, our current representations clearly do both.
The Netflix Of Books (Review)
You can't arbitrarily exclude their biggest innovation and then claim they're not innovative. The Wii was revolutionary.

The DS was also huge. Remember, it had a touchscreen and came out three years before the iPhone. Everyone thought dual screens was a crazy idea.

The 3DS remains a crazy idea that hasn't worked out as well as one might hope, but you can't say it's not innovative.

Nintendo's efforts on the N64 are also often underestimated. They invented the modern analog thumbstick. Also, Mario 64 was an incredible achievement that has influenced game design ever since.
Urbana-Champaign, IL. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located here. There's a big research park where your startup can get cheap offices/labs, it's 2 hours drive from Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis, and it's cheap.
Porto, Portugal: It has a river, sea and beaches, lots of history, nice weather, great food, nice people and it's inexpensive. It also has Ryan Air, which means that you can visit other parts of Europe cheaply (<100 euros for a roundtrip in most cases). I am at least living here now and I enjoy it.

If you like a little bigger city then Lisbon, Portugal is also an option.
Parts of the UK outside London are actually pretty cheap to live in.
I live in Edinburgh, slap in the middle of the city, which is also a World Heritage Site. I have a 5 minute walk to work and flat (apartments...) go for £500/800 for a 1/2 bed.
Other parts of the UK are much cheaper again.
A Home at the End of Google Earth
Forget about the technical co-founder (and don’t learn how to code)
A bit of topic, but the blog conclusion made me wondered if anyone would one day expose code in a museum.

Any people who've seen real top level code know there is a kind of beauty or at least aesthetic in very correct code, so why not put them on a frame and expose them. Same could be said of some really important mathematic or physic formulas, but they're sometimes short and their meaning really is obscure. Whereas code is at least partially written in human language, which would make such an exhibit still understandable by everyone.
Can those of you who just want to advocate or share techniques for knowingly breaking the law please do it somewhere else?

HN is one of the better forums on-line, and it would be a shame if it started getting associated with illegal activities, however much you personally might feel that law is wrong.