skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many run on capital raised from investors until which point they reach a liquidity event that exists irrespective of making money.

Some also make money.

But VC-backed startups, which is really the only connotation of startup that we use here on YC, are a special breed of startup (generally focused on massive growth) where operating capital derived from revenue is not a pre-requisite for success.
> but it'd be fantastic if he talked about something else for a change.

Bill gives his opinion on something? I predict a comment saying "Who cares what he thinks? Why does he think I should be interested in his opinion? Hasn't he cured polio and malaria yet?"
Currently what I do is move as needed to get money as needed, and the places where I ended so far everyone else as only passing through too, so new friendships don't have the chance to form.
Uhh, like Spain?

Mistaking a Chilean for a Mexican is no more offensive than mistaking a German for a Swiss (or a Spaniard for a Portuguese). If you think it is, then I strongly suspect you are actively looking for opportunities to be offended, for your own reasons.
>Thus in future cities crammed with computer hardware, roughly half of the volume is likely to be taken up by pipes that move cooling fluids in and out

A lot of this post reads like nonsense.
I get the feeling they don't really like Windows 8.
Yet another "PC is dying" article. Booooooring!!!

The reality is that market is saturated, and there was practically zero innovation for the past 5 years (except ultrabooks and SSDs). But as a working tool PCs are not going anywhere.

I want laptop with 4:3 high resolution PVA screen and replaceable battery.
Very nice. Even if just for marketing I think this is going to pay for itself. Many people have Raspberry Pi's lying around, semi-useless. Working on this gives me a nice a weekend-night project I can try without fear of borking something critical on my other devices, plus a new thing to play with is always welcome.
you need to understand how evolution works. populations don't control themselves, they are limited by their environment, and thus far the environment hasn't acted to limit the species population, but it will. We've not be around that long, give things time. procreation is the only thing that a population does. the rest is fluff.
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George Clooney: Global Warming Deniers "Stupid"
'tptacek commented 17 days ago about EC crypto (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608163):

You should never, ever, never, nevern, nervenvarn build your own production ECC code. ECC is particularly tricky to get right. But if you want to play with the concepts, a great place to start is the Explicit Formulas Database at http://www.hyperelliptic.org/EFD/ ; the fast routines for point multiplication are mercifully complicated, so copying them from the EFD is a fine way to start, instead of working them out from first principles.

He went on to say that only Adam Langley or Daniel Bernstein should be implementing ECC. Probably because there are so many ways to slip up; few others would have the experience necessary to avoid all the pitfalls.

'theboss agreed:

I've implemented ECC and you are 100% correct. Nobody should implement ECC unless you really really know what you're doing.

Mapping points to the curve, multiplying points, point addition, there is too much math stuff to mess up on.
Just don't do it. If you read one thing tptacek says, read the last paragraph.
Show HN: generate nicer nunit/specflow test reports using this new XSLT template
Recently I was setting up the reporting for our acceptance tests that I noticed two issues.<p>(1) it's terribly simple in style!
(2) it's missing some info such as namespaces (for when you have many folders in which you have tests) and categories.<p>So I edited the existing XSLT and rectified those two issues for me by adding twitter bootstrap style, prismJs syntax highlighting and adding the missing information to the output.<p>I hope this could be helpful for you too.<p>P.S. in case you have your own special-purpose report XSLT why not share it with others in the project?
Yup, I realize that. OP was sharing his interrogations about how he could best instill a sense of frugality in his kids, so I thought I'd give him an additional data point :)
Hmm, I just tried going to that link in Chrome and Firefox on a MacBook Pro -- Still takes me to an https. Also, doing an "inspect element" on a couple of images on there show me "https://static.licdn.com/..."

All the other links on that page (about, etc) do go to http://-only pages, but at least the links you provided and their static resources all go over https.
How you do that when noone you know in person lives close to you? How you do that when you are just another urban lone wolf?
Political correctness isn't really about 'preventing offense', and simplistic arguments like this make it clear you're not aware of the issues it's trying to deal with. Political correctness is mostly about not using language which diminishes people due to factors outside their control, such as race or gender. Any single such reference is not so much a problem, but when it becomes the way people speak, it very much becomes so.

PC is, on the whole, a good thing. It's just ridiculous when taken to extremes, which is the bit everyone is focused on.
The question is why story telling often works so well. This wsj.com article answers it: it's about emotion.

It's important to evoke emotion in your story. To be able to evoke emotion, you must do your homework. You must learn what makes your audience tick. What do they care about. Create a story that hooks into their world. You need to create a bridge between their and your world.

Maybe I myself don't have a story to tell right now, but I want to say that I believe that emotion is vital. Much of my guidance and initial decision making is often based on (gut) feeling. My emotions tell me that I'm not on the right track, forcing me to think and reason why I feel this way and figure the reasons out cognitively.
Yeah, housing prices dropped about 50% between 2007 and 2008.
Looking at BeOS screenshots make me relive the disappointment I felt as a Mac owner in the 90s when Apple decided not to use BeOS as its next generation OS. It was quite a bit ahead of its time.
That can only be used with a fixed functor f; the scala version can send an (a -> b) to a (f a -> that), for any [a, b, that] combination for which a CanBuildFrom is available (this is basically a more generalized typeclass).
Who said anything about decent neighborhood?

Look at craigslist. :)
Narrative, it's all about the narrative!

As an educator, I don't teach the book, I don't teach the chapter, I don't teach the lesson. Because that's not what you remember. What you remember is the story. It's about big stories, small stories, stories that link together in a narrative. That's what sticks.
Really nice work, im preparing to roll out a audio application for the pi and this could be very usefull
>Thankfully they don't require proof of your name

... yet.
It does, when everyone else won't communicate with you when you give up those things.

For example, once a technology named call card existed, you sent those to other people houses to.invite them over. If you for example to use that, most people.won't understand, and those that do, will think you are some sort of museum crazy person.
Benchmarks: Node.js vs. Go vs. PHP
Success button with an Apple logo... nicely played ;)
That's not the entire picture though. I mean, regarding "techno libertarian" types, that could be part of it. But regarding Libertarians in general, it's not about knowing more than everybody else (I for one freely acknowledge than plenty of people know more about plenty of things, than I do), but rather the principle of being free to make choices - even bad ones. Freedom from the use of aggressive / coercive force, is it's own end, to Libertarians.

Even IF the use of that force would be to prevent me from making a bad choice, it's still wrong. Outside of economic arguments which are largely rooted in the Austrian School, that is the mindset that defines Libertarianism.

Now, as it happens, I will argue that, in many, many case, I do "know better", regarding things that pertain spefically to me. And that may be a bit of conceit, and that conceit is probably common to many Libertarians and is probably the essence of your statement above. But I would be a Libertarian whether or not that was the case.
Of course big data is about number of bytes. That's what something like map reduce helps with. It depends on breaking down your input into smaller chunks, and the number of chunks is certainly related to the number of bytes.
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Now you need to add some tests for the front-end too.
Microsoft research is especially amazing. Not only do they publish papers on their systems like Google and Facebook, they also do a lot of basic science on a very diverse set of topics.

The research talks are also worth checking out: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=vi...

The latest talks range from "Culture differences between US and China" to "Distributed Optimization via Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers".
I've suspected for a while that fb tries to play matchmaker by showing to you more often those of your connections that have demonstrated interest in you.
And it actually look very good. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5727009/screenshot-13841...)
Internet Explorer users face drive-by attacks targeting new 0-day bug
One thing to keep in mind is that if nothing ever consumes the data in the pipe, the pipe stays around and you eventually will run out of open file descriptors. So if you're scripting with named pipes, be sure you have adequate cleanup in case of errors.
USP is Unique Selling Point.

There's lots of technologists on HN and lots of business types, and only a subset of each understand the other's lingo. People should try and explain their lingo when they use it, for the benefit of the other camp :)
Cool project!

Unfortunate naming collision with Donn Felker's http://www.androidbootstrap.com/ though :(
Scala's standard library linked list is complex, sure. But it's also considerably more powerful than any equally safe implementation in any language, and considerably safer than any equally powerful implementation. If anything the fact that such complex libraries are written in it is evidence of scala's simplicity - if the language itself were complex, it would consume too much of one's attention for it to be possible to write such complex libraries.
Not exactly sure what you're saying here.
I suggest actually looking into the architecture of deep blue and followon programs, because right now you are exhibiting the very fallacy I was talking about. Exhaustive search over board states would take longer than the lifetime of the universe to compute a single move.master chess for grams work by using sophisticated algorithms to manage the search process. it's not the process that humans use, but it is intelligent nonetheless. Of course now that it is a solved problem, the common perception is different...
Because trying to confirm his paranoia runs the risk of disproving it.
The author assumes the demand for CPU cycles is elastic in the long term (i.e. as prices of cycles drop, people will continue to use more and more of them).

General-purpose desktops and laptops today often don't come close to using all of the CPU horsepower available to them, and many server applications are limited by memory, network bandwidth, and storage.

It seems conceivable to me that at some point, before reaching thermodynamic limits, CPU cycles will stop being scarce for many application spaces, and future computing investments will mainly be in networking, memory, storage and software.
I came across this article[1] that has a list of "hot" tech companies. It's from 2012, but I think it's still relevant.

[1] https://blog.wealthfront.com/hot-mid-size-silicon-valley-com...
Yeah but his criticism is objective and thoughtful. I have read about 5 different reviews he made and I can totally understand now why he dislikes Windows 8.
Personally I think it can't be reversed. Its too profitable and there are too many sheeple out there.

As for something "altogether different". I don't see it happening. There are just too many powerful vested interest at work. e.g. We can't even get a HTML standard pushed through without DRM.

This might sound cynical, but personally I feel its the end of an era. The internet used to be the wild west where anything is possible. Now its become a commercial turkey shoot via dark patterns, micro-transactions, data mining and a dozen other buzzwords.
1. Yes
2. No
3. A bit. Not macros or templates but nonetheless you can do some type of meta programming with reflection.
I wrote something like this once, never did anything with it but you might find it useful: http://jordanwallwork.co.uk/2013/01/faking-typed-function-ov...
I see this person didn't use Wikpedia before 2007, it used to have exactly what he's suggesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoiler#Why_spoiler_...

In addition to the arguments listed there the thing that bothered me most about it was that it imposed a straitjacket on the editorializing of any article that contained spoilers, you now had to bend over backwards to partition it into spoiler and non-spoiler sections.
Agree! I still can't figure out how Google went into my
Ipad Pictures app and stole a picture of me. I deleted it,
but should have kept it for evidence.
If you are even minimally concerned about privacy, all free VPNs are terrible. Find yourself a good, reputable paid VPN. Lots of folks whose lives depend on keeping their real identities hidden say this list is a good starting point, but ultimately you need to do some research on how these companies log data, if at all, and what their privacy policies contain. You should also take a look at their reputations.

http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymit...
... or it's simply that profit dives lag behind reputation. Facebook's stock price is climbing as their users leave for Twitter...
Can you explain what happens on the site, with more details?
First impression is that you're using my compute power (browser) to find the next bitcoin.
How do these numbers compare to television (sincere question)?

My understanding that in the US, news programs get ratings in single digit percentages. This number is tied to the number of households with televisions (I'm seeing the number 115 million thrown around.)
Maybe the comment is being downvoted because "Chicken and Pig" is a dehumanizing way to speak of someone. Personally, I'm not thrilled to know what the analogy means and even less thrilled when I hear it bandied about.
I wrote a post about this a while back, which may be of some help to some. http://vincebuffalo.com/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.htm...
Yes, social sciences are extremely hard to get right, and in general you have to be very careful anytime you try to paraphrase (or even quote) a scientific paper. However, my point is that the response to claims such as "black people are less intelligent" should be rooted in intelligent responses, such as the ones you made. What I am objecting to is responding to such claims by calling them racist, which completely fails to explore why they are incorrect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pIZM2r_AJA&t=2m11s
You ran with this "three complete type systems" line in the last thread, and it's still totally wrong.

ADTs/pattern matching are not "a complete type system". Structural types are not "a complete type system". Scala unifies the different concepts by expressing them through Java-style classes and inheritance.

Even if they were incompatible non-orthogonal type systems sitting side by side (they aren't), it is immensely useful to have both dynamic dispatch and ADTs/pattern matching in the toolset; they are often useful for different problems.
In fairness to James, I think the comparison he's making is in regard to the idiosyncrasies of developers, and that Java developers tend more often than not to use synchronous blocking calls. It is entirely possible to perform async IO in Java of course, but James's point is that being async is a more natural state when using Scala.
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Unfortunately the article links to the wrong video.

Link to actual youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojo9M1cPSPI
I'm not sure what you mean. The analogy just does not make sense. Mother nature's way of solving problems is by throwing random solutions and millions of years at them (you know the whole 'evolution' thing) and the solutions that come out of this process are not exactly optimal. If you have millions of years to finish your project, please go ahead and don't write tests. I think that I will though. I also think that you are really misunderstanding the TDD methodology if you think that writing tests somehow constrains your creativity.
I recall spending silly amounts of time years ago trying to locate some of the more exotic stuff on that site (particularly GlobalView & NewWave). Nice to see that direct access to these important historical resources is much improved since then.

Looks like CommonPoint is still the one that got away; oddly it's probably the most interesting one (http://root.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot...).
Haskell seems an unlikely word to stuff in. I can find a few in a quick search (eg Jane Street who are well known for Haskell).
If that's the one I think it is it, the proposal would make type-level programming much harder to debug than it currently is (because it becomes impossible to specify the types of type-level functions).
Apple’s Siri chief moves to Samsung to build connected device platform
I consider Bill Gates to be the modern equivalent of Andrew Carnegie. Both good and bad.

I can recognize the one without forgetting the other.
If their focus is on the Internet of Things and hardware applications enabled by the Pi, their next focus should be creating or linking to documentation about how to expose hardware interfaces like the Pi's GPIO to guests.

Of course a higher priority should be cleaning up the process in this article, making the install simpler, getting precompiled kernels/images out there, getting it to work with Raspbian host.
How is Scala faltering?
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Mom agrees to nose piercing with 10k retweets. Gotta love the Twitter support.
Having lived in the Philippines and the U.S. I have this observation. The U.S. is not more or less corrupt that the Philippines. They just do it with more _style_. By that I mean, they are just better at hiding it.
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I've long wondered something similar about energy storage: could you store energy by spending to learn the times when you should open the doors (in the Maxwell's Demon though experiment) to sort the molecules?

In that case, you could get much better energy storage densities because you'd only be limited by how densely you can store information.

(It's know that you can't generate energy by opening doors in a chamber at just the right times to let fast molecules go on one side and slow on the other. This is because you'd have to spend just as much energy learning when to open the doors. However, that's not a barrier to using this technique to store rather than generate energy.)
PHP has actually matured pretty well. Since the introduction of Composer and frameworks like Symfony 2, Zend Framework 2 and Doctrine 2, you can actually build very sophisticated software in PHP. However, for green field projects I personally wouldn't use it.

However, having said that, there are still plenty of guns lingers out there copying and pasting crap from PHPClasses.
CCTV cameras in people's homes would make them more accountable, and would likely also lead to frustration.
Docker awesome. Anybody who wants to play around it with can do so easily with the Docker-friendly Vagrant boxes that I've built. http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/11/08/docker-friendly-vagrant-bo...
It used to be a minor pain to provision to Vagrant of the system reboot required to replace the kernel, but these boxes have already done that part for you.

Docker still has some bugs though. I hope they'll fix them quickly.
Bash's Process Substitution
Why go on a film's wikipedia page if you don't want to know the plot.
The reality is that most people don't want a "full" PC. The PC certainly isn't going anywhere - desktops and laptops are here to stay for the foreseeable future. However, it's not a growing market. And that's perfectly OK.
At least the OPEC guys are paying attention. No search results on LinkedIn for OPEC as current company.
I don't think you can blame the "genius" engineers. These seem rather more like business decisions. As soon as Google started talking about the total number of Google+ accounts as though they were in competition with Facebook, it became clear that the goal was to increase that number at any cost, including intrusive and downright anti-user tactics.

The only explanation as to why they are continuing to push forward on this front even in the face of increasing criticism is that it must be working, at least in the sense that the number keeps going up. However, these UX nightmares are eventually going to catch up with them and drive people away. In short, they are going to win the battle but lose the war.
Design Thinking and the Internet of Things
A very basic Unity 2D tutorial in C#
but you have option. like that fancy pants academic video? nice. thumbed up a silly cat video just to show someone later on your phone? too bad. its there now too.
Have you looked at the large investment banks (Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse etc) or any major hedge funds?
Could you take a crack at explaining code-unit vs code-point? I'd never heard of them, and they sort of looked like the same thing on Wikipedia.
Ask HN: Why has Google kept Android and Chrome OS separate?
the separation of chrome os and android puzzled me for a long time. why not merge the two and concentrate resources on a single os? now i suspect they kept the two apart because they serve different purposes. chrome os is designed to reduce the cash microsoft generates from windows -- specifically from desktops and laptops -- much as google apps reduces the cash from office. android is meant to ensure no proprietary operating system dominates on mobile devices. keeping the two divided allows them to focus on their respective objectives more effectively.

anyone have different theories?
That's very helpful feedback. Looks like I'm going to have to spend more time making this a "marketable" product. I'll definitely be addressing the questions you raised, thank you!

In terms of my market, my initial goal was Pebble users/developers, but it hadn't occurred to me to look at it from the other end: the sites that could be targeting Pebble users. Perhaps this is something I should consider...
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know:

http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Quantum
Philips Hue Competitor LIFX Ships Friday, Launching With Best Buy
The U.S. Navy makes port call at Subic Bay multiple times per year. I actually made a port call there as recently as 2008. Not to mention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom_%E2%...

Even though we don't have any "permanent" bases (which is up for discussion) in the Philippines, we still have very strong military ties with them.
No it isn't. Read the README. It is a library for native Android apps to use.