skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both the McRib and Soylent are intended to extract a price from customers in exchange for sustenance and a positive consumption experience. The McRib leans towards experience in its marketing and Soylent leans more towards sustenance.

The marketing of Soylent is certainly more active these days which isn't really that surprising as the product and company have developed from a concept to a full fledged and funded company. They're affiliating themselves with claims and experiences that may be unfounded, just like the McRib implies it's a delicious BBQ pork sandwich and not processed meat (pork?) shaped to look like rib meat or how car manufactures imply that purchasing a new vehicle will improve your life substantially. Customers will decide if their product matches their claims or if the product serves enough of a function to purchase despite the fact that it may not meet all of the claims it affiliates itself with (like complete food replacement... which is a marketing affiliation, not a legal claim). If you buy Soylent and get sick because all you eat is Soylent and you don't take the necessary precautions when completely changing your diet then you're in that category of consumer that might buy Axe Body Spray and think it's going to be the sole factor that makes you attractive to female models.

Marketing can be over the top and distasteful, but that doesn't relieve consumers from their responsibility to be skeptical of marketing claims and do their own research and basic risk remediation before purchasing a product.
I'm under the impression that M:N threading has been implemented in Haskell, Erlang and Go. I think it's been reasonably successful in all three.
I know people who use Snapchat I wouldn't describe as an idiot, could you explain why you think they are?
There is also https://www.tocario.com/, which seems to have pricing similiar to Amazon. I guess there are tons of others.

So actually just another us-too product from big corp. Next Google news in 3, 2, 1....
I agree with the second part.

I think this example is unethical because of the standards it creates for women. It makes women think that their primary role is for sex, which is shitty.

I don't like the standards placed on men either, like how we're supposed to be emotionless, or the current trend of "idiot men" in commercials.

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment_300/327_top_10_li...
Russian Subways Now Accept Squats for Payment
PiePal: Order A Pizza With The Push Of A Button
I think this is where it helps to be part of a co-founder in a small consultancy rather than a "freelancer".
If a customer asks me to build something in framework A with features X , Y and Z I can probably do that, but as you say unless you have a strong reputation in a specific niche that makes you rare, you are competing against everyone else who can do the same thing.

OTOH a customer with a bigger budget who is looking for a more holistic solution may also want infrastructure provisioning and management, SEO and color scheme designed specifically to appeal to their target demographic. It's unlikely that any single person can do all of these things, at least to a level of quality that would justify a significant fee. So either you need a reliable bunch of subcontractors who you can retain for X days/month or you need to partner with somebody with complimentary skillsets.
Have to consider if they were offered Google shares or cash. If GOOG, look at the value of Google shares now vs then.
If true, that helps explain how they got their $3.5 billion valuation recently.

This also further goes to show: if you want Facebook's attention, do something with photos.
No, that isn't remotely his claim.

What happened with his wife was that she became motivated to learn number crunching. The game provided or increased a motivation to become comfortable working with numbers. That's all that happened.

Brain training has nothing to do with learning math. It just uses arithmetic the same way cross training uses a mountain trail.
Just another solution looking for a problem.
You should.

C is the average grade. B is above average. A is excellent.
You think he's not "good" because he's above average while learning calculus at 37?
I'm struggling with this, since it feels slightly like lying to call just myself "we".

What should I answer when the clients ask who "we" are?
Try selling all that Groupon stock and see how long the market cap stays there. 6 billion in cash or even Google stock is way better for the investors.
An alternative could be cloud based eye tracking testing services such as http://www.gazehub.com/ where you can get a lot info about how visitos navigate... and you dont need large volumes of traffic
exactly. see national securities letters. It will spur european services though and self hosted cloud solutions: own cloud and the like.

I am looking forward to see more of those initiatives. This growing distance between one and ones data is a dangerous path anyways, see also the rise of appliances and the decline of full access pc. it takes responsibilty away and media competence.
No limits at this time. :)
There is a big mindset shift between freelancer, to contractor, to consultant and beyond. All, however, can be relevant and it's important to know which one you can provide and what a customer is looking for.

I have a post somewhere here on HN outlining it if I can find it.. :)
Thanks! You answered my question, and it makes sense. There have been times where I have changed underlying technologies because it provided a better foundation for the future even though there was nothing particularly wrong with the existing solution.

No worries about the tone or replying to the entire thread instead of just my question. I would also be frustrated with some of the comments in this thread.
I mean... pg kinda wrote an essay on this very topic: http://paulgraham.com/herd.html
Bitcoin just broke 400 USD
a $100 CPM would be pretty high in any industry.
I was under the impression that lattice gas methods in CFD were more or less obsolete. They're nice in that they're unconditionally stable and only use bitwise operations, but the amount of CPU time you save from this is massively outweighed by the number of simulation runs you need to do to average out the noise. They're also not Galilean invariant (at least not without messing around with rescaling factors). Lattice Boltzmann is much more practical.
I think this would really benefit from a dead simple tool that would allow users to import from csv files into a local Hadoop instance, without having to do anything besides install Hadoop. But this seems like something that could really democratize data analysis on large data sets considering the number of people who are pretty good with Excel.
Occupy Wall Street's debt buying strikes at the heart of capitalism
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Did you consider asking your wife whether or not she takes offense and whether or not she wants you to do it on her behalf?
It really depends on what types of clients and gigs you want to take on, and what sort of ambitions you have for yourself as a one-man shop. Do you want to remain a one-man shop? If so, biting off more than you chew can be hazardous to your health (literally). You don't want to land the Pepsi account if you're not ready to handle Pepsi volume.

By presenting yourself as an agency, you might signal a higher degree of professionalism and (theoretical) resources. You're more likely to get into serious contention for those Pepsi contracts. At the same time, you might be signaling yourself as being too big or too expensive for the thousands of smaller, more easily attainable, ad hoc gigs that really do want an individual freelancer.

And BTW - you really don't want large-scale engagements, the kind that routinely go to actual agencies, if you're not running an agency. Those gigs are designed for agencies with staffs and resources to deploy. There will be more volume than you can handle as an individual contributor -- including all the work involved in client management, reporting, schmoozing at the corporate HQ, etc.
Lovely wiki find and a pure gem on many levels. Still best conversation you could ever have about snail mail, even if it did not work out.
I <3 you Greg! Thanks for the kind words and support!

This talk is very much the result of hundreds of sales office hours I had with founders.

I hope it helps lots of entrepreneurs out there hustle better :)
Why trust your family? As Biggie said-

Number 3: never trust nobody
Your moms'll set that ass up, properly gassed up
Hoodied and masked up, shit, for that fast buck
She be laying in the bushes to light that ass up

http://rapgenius.com/The-notorious-big-ten-crack-commandment...
"But, if you do see 10% significance(/90% confidence) in a small sample, this is just as good as 10% significance in a large sample". That is not true, strictly speaking. You are assuming that small sample describes the underlying distribution well. But this may not be the case due to non-normality of the distribution itself or potential biases
> NSA hyperbole

Where is the hyperbole? http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-files

> secret courts or any other silly end of the world predictions

As far as I know this is unfortunately not a prediction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellige...

You may have no problems with these things. I'm not a US citizen and these things do matter in my decision to host my data in the US. These problems are not new. The US never had a strong privacy law.

Taken all this into account it's hard sell for any business outside of the US to use US based cloud services. That's all I wanted to illustrate.
Web sockets 'a la charte'?

Is it good for turn-based games like poker or even tic-tac-toe?

I'm sold.
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I was head of Marketing & Sales @ TrekkSoft until September 2013. Steli gave very valuable advice how to get our sales going.
The 'boy band era' has been going since for-freaking-ever. Hey hey, they were the Monkees.
Yes there are FISA warrants. If you are this paranoid that your data is this sensitive you shouldn't even be thinking about keeping your data anywhere else besides your locked down datacenter that you alone have access to.

What I am stating above is, NSA revelations or not hosting your data with a 3rd party is an obviously inherent risk.
Snapchat rejected $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook
Aren't blocking operations also a problem if M:N threads are baked in to the runtime? If all of the idomatic APIs are using non-blocking IO then would there still be a problem?
For a start-up or small company, I agree with the previous comment - shorter resume with links is the way to go. But for larger companies, especially those that use scanners for initial screening, it may be better - or at least okay - to go longer. The scanners will probably ignore the links. Or. . .I'm aware of a couple of companies that include certain links in their keyword counting/weighting algorithm, but I'm not aware of the extent.
Thanks Darius :)

Here a article on VentureBeat I wrote about why I'm giving free sales office hours and you might want to do that too:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/28/office-hours/
Visual Studio now builds libav without C99-to-C89 translator
What? This is no different than any filtering in any domain. Who to hire? What movie to go see? You want someone who personally knows you, whose opinion you trust, to vouch for someone rather than going on a cold guess.
A year ago, libav developers introduced a tool to translate a subset of C99 syntax in order to build libav with Visual Studio* . At the time Microsoft famously recommended that developers wanting modern C language features simply use C++ instead* . For a long time, up until earlier this year* , it was thought that C in MSVC had been permanently relegated to legacy support. Even for those of us who don't develop for Microsoft platforms, the attitude towards adoption of newer C standards has ostensibly had a negative impact. Which is why, even in lieu of full conformance, it's refreshing and a good sign to see this tool become unnecessary with the public release VS2013 today.

* http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2012/09/27/microsoft-visual-s...

* http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/vs_c99_support

* http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh409293.asp...
Ask HN: Co-founder/contractor Mobile developer
Are you interested in startup project? I'm looking for co-founder to develop prototype for a simple mobile app with social growth potential. The app will allow users to easily share plans.
Cherry-picking!? What did I leave out? :)

It's true that most of those details are not so bad. I've exaggerated in an attempt to recapture the feeling of being a beginner faced with all of them at the same time.
Yeah, my Galaxy Nexus went 24 hours without charging this past weekend and is about the same age, IIRC.
I bet a lot of them were lost. If I were in your class, I probably would not have been bothered by your question.

The questions that bother me are the type that stroke the ego of the person asking because they already know the answer.
Can you explain why men should feel uncomfortable with that video?

I'm a man, and I watched it, and felt zero feelings of discomfort about toned men in revealing underwear and junk. If anything, the absurdity of it all was pretty entertaining.

So what, exactly, should men feel uncomfortable about here?
If you've already done the profiling, you're probably already aware of this, but for anybody else:

Go uses RE2, not PCRE (which Perl uses, obviously) for regular expressions: https://code.google.com/p/re2/. There is also a third-party PCRE library for Go somewhere, though the standard library uses RE2.

One of the advantages of RE2 is that it guarantees that the regular expression runs in linear time (in the length of the input), unlike backtracking-engines like PCRE (which are provably undecidable, like the halting problem).

However, aside from not supporting backtraces, it also can be slower on certain kinds of regexes and inputs.

As always, the best (only?) way to know which approach is better is to test (profile) - which, I agree, is a piece of cake in Go.
Advertising can be so much more than a click-through
I agree, and I don't usually post mean things under a repost.

But this article had sense when inception was still in theater and all the hype was about the movie. It's not something really important, or amazing, or... years after it now became just another trivia about a movie. But I'm glad some people can hear about it for the first time anyway.
You have hit upon my biggest gripe with mathematicians, their love of 'notation', or more precisely their love of writing in symbology that makes mathematics seem more arcane than it actually is.

When ever I've run up against "impenetrable" math I often ask "So how would you use this?" and connecting it to the real world helped tremendously.
Fix your link too.
Agreed, but I'm not sure the solution is upping the statistical standards so much as educating researchers about what the statistical standards actually mean, how to use them, and how to construct a valid, repeatable experiment.
Thanks, we have had quite a lot of feedback on the blue! :D, hope the color does not take away from the summaries.
There is a book called "Finite and Infinite Games" that you should read. http://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1...

It's really metaphor for life.
I'm no expert, but I think that your portfolio is HUGELY more convincing than your business site. I get that your business can't really sell your skills, but it can sell your past projects, just to give some idea of the scale of the things you've done.

For example, you say "Enterprise . Mobile . Web" but don't have a single example there. I tried to click on them, but they don't link anywhere. If I pay you, will I get a website like this one? Will it be completely static? If I ask for a webapp, will people have to interact with it through the company email?

Some more content (portfolio, pictures of your apps, tech/product/opinion blog, etc), some kind of branding (logo, etc), or social stuff (twitter feed/LinkedIn/testimonials) or something would be a huge help, because it'd help convince people that you actually did some stuff, and have been doing it recently.

Sorry if I sound cynical--it sounds like you've done some really cool stuff. And your portfolio page does reflect that. But it doesn't really come through on the business webpage at all. Maybe you're just too busy working on cool stuff to fix up your webpage :-)
Quirky Raises $79M, With $30M From GE to Make Connected Home Gadgets
Probably not to undermine sales of the Nexus 5. Anyweay I'm waiting until January, this looks like a nice phone that does more than enough of what I want.
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Visiting a pornographic website = 40% malwares for a corporation
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Are any of the founders already worth $100m+? If not, they are complete idiots for not doing a deal. Want to continue building cool products? Its much easier to do with liquid assets in the bank.
Just for fun, I'm working on a small Docker distribution for the Pi using 3.12 + uClibc + BusyBox. It's currently ~13 MB but can probably be reduced more.

If you're interested in doing it yourself, I've just been using rpi-buildroot[1] and tweaking it.

[1] https://github.com/gamaral/rpi-buildroot
>And again, if you believe my assumptions are not sensible, replace them with your own and rerun the model.

And again, I won't be doing that because I think representing the situation as a naive, untestable model adds zero value to any debate about Basic Income. I don't believe that what I said was especially hard to understand for someone who had an interest, and you could have asked me to clarify any point you wanted.

If this model is supposed to represent the total of your beliefs about Basic Income, then it's not clear to me that you have considered the issue at all.

The part where you say "I’m more interested in Monte Carlo than in politics" makes this explicitly clear.
note in related post 'Investors don’t want to meet you. They wanted to be introduced to you (42floors.com)' ...human beings have a default filter on self promotion. If you are promoting a 3rd entity; even the shell 'myCo' you can apparently circumvent the first layer of this defense.
Very cool. Any plans for Ubuntu 13 LTS?
Alternatively: Arrive at SFO -> Book rental car via Kayak -> Take free shuttle to rental car counter -> Acquire car
> I don't want to risk inheriting their debts

You can't. Once the estate's gone, the creditors can pound sand because the person they contracted with is gone and all their assets are gone, too. They can't come after anyone else.

> Luckily she was able to somehow get her name off of the inheritance after the fact.

I seriously doubt this is possible even in theory.
Buying into stocks 50 years ago was also a good idea, though.
I'm not sure, but I'd assume that if you go around stealing packages, you're probably not doing it just because. You're doing it systematically for financial gain. In which case you have to be a repeat offender for it to make sense. In which case it's easier to track down. This happened near me last year:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/20/two-arrested-for-theft...
> For the Quirky products, GE is making available thousands of its patents on things like holographic and fast-focusing lens technologies, thin-barrier coatings for electronic devices and asset-tracking technology. GE is also offering up some of its relationships with suppliers, and other support for products as they emerge and are built.

Interesting move by GE to make intellectual property available for product development.
No the reason you will may never be a billionaire enterpreneur is that you are probably yet to build something. If you did build it, and Facebook offered you $3bn. You are damn near a billionaire if not. Who's still counting? $500million or $1billion. I don't know that I can tell the difference or feel it in my lifetime.
Yes! Some graphs would have made this feel much better. I can't believe it didn't occur to me, but I totally see that gap now.
Imagine if management had not vetoed non "Java-like" syntax's during javascripts creation. Maybe Brendan Eich could have gotten a decent scheme dialect into the browser instead, people could have learned it (because in hypothetical retrospect, what else were they going to do? Not learn it?), and we would be in a far more pleasant position today...
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Could try calling their sales folks and see if a rep will just sample it.
Find Washington D.C.'s Best Bars to Watch Soccer
We have no shortage of places to watch soccer in DC and online lists of 'soccer bars' exist, but complicated and shifting allocation of broadcast rights make it tough to know who's showing which match. I got tired of calling bars to ask if they had specialty soccer channel X or would show soccer match Y. The recurring posts in /r/washingtondc and on various local blogs suggest others were looking for quick answers to their "soccer bar" questions too.

So I started making calls again, but this time put the data on the interwebs: www.crossbardc.com

If you find yourself looking for a place to watch an early morning EPL match or just somewhere to watch USMNT in good company, I hope CrossbarDC makes your life easier. It's simple, mobile-friendly and can be easily "added to home screen" as an iOS web-app.
Only 106,185 people have signed up for plans through ACA exchanges as of Nov. 2
Oh dear... I do that a lot. You're right.
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Ulyssean or Sisyphean?
That is a fantastic point. Where would IDEO be if David Kelley didn't first make the leap to David Kelley Design?
Yeah I think this type of stuff will depend a lot on buffering/rendering technology. You can imagine that it would be a terrible experience if it literally sent your keypress to the server, registered it in a game & then sent back the screens display pixels.

But I imagine (as with online gaming systems) that the experience is much more like... server loads the necessary rendering resources into the devices RAM/storage and then gameplay occurs the same as if files were loaded from a CD/other media.

I'm sure you could learn more by digging deeper but I imagine it is something more along those lines -- advanced API for a rendering engine.
Kind sir, we appear to have run out of Nazi extermination camps. However, I invite you to book a one-way trip to North Korea. I hear their concentration camps are wonderful this time of the year.
In my experience sensors like this are inaccurate compared to calipers or a hydrostatic body testing (if you can find a place or mobile van to do this).

How would your method differ, and how would it produce more accurate results?

Edit: Does it need to be a standalone device or could it be an attachment like a case on an iPhone?
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Doesn't sound like a very accurate description of Costa Rica's Internet:

http://www.ticotimes.net/Business/Internet-slow-but-speeding...

Costa Rica has among the slowest Internet speeds and least broadband access in South America.
You can solve this by setting up your own Certificate Authority.
Ask HN: No experience - how much salary should I ask for?
I don't have any direct tech experience, but I do a lot of open source work on the side. This startup has invited me in for an interview and I'm sure they're going to ask for my salary requirements. One website where they listed openings stated between $80K-$120K for salary. Searching online I've seen ~$60K listed as starting salary for right out of school.

Any suggestions on what to ask for or where else to research? If I ask way too high (e.g., they think $60K I'm thinking $80 or 90K), are they likely to just say no or make a different offer?