skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I need to see what I'm signing up for before I make an account for anything. You need to show us what it does!
Just wondering, how do you get those netbooks to Uganda, and what do the students do with them?
It seems that Sony has narrowed the damaged units to those sold by Amazon. Hmm. With Amazon being one of the biggest shippers in the country, it is strange to see that they haven't got their system down pat.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/19/amazon-accused-of-bre...
This is a product for children and people who find computers intimidating. It's meant as a fun introduction to computers and programming.

Your comment is like complaining that a LEGO helicopter isn't a real helicopter, and that kids who build them are simply learning how to follow instructions.
This is what you need to know about Growth Hacking
ThePizzaButton.com launches a beta: Uber for Pizza.
Don't take this the wrong way - nobody means any disrespect your work, but I'm skeptical (to say the least) about this being a sustainable tempo of work.

So, if you are pulling it off, can you give a comment on how long have you been working like this, and whether there's an simple trade-off in terms of restfulness, social life, etc... You know, can you live like this, and for how long.
I like this idea. Would anyone find interest in a mini-site for programmers to talk about how they've squashed bugs? Sort of a mini-social network I suppose.
Brilliant Minds On The Roots of AI, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience
Unfortunately, Debian's stable version is 1.2.1.
Huh, it was pretty obvious to me that it meant 'not connected to the internet'.
What's a little surprising is that during the stopgap years, nobody adopted the bandaid of "RC4 but skip the first X bytes". That's been a known and reasonable workaround since AES was standardized.
"has Google's cooperation"

Ah now careful there. Its a secret algorithm so we have no idea how crypto-secure it is. It appears to have a constant salt and not too many inputs, because his testing showed the same output with similar inputs, so I wouldn't expect much. Even a dumb cryptographer would include a random 8 bit salt so you'd require an average of 128 cycles before noticing a duplicate, so I don't think its intentional crypto, although they'd know that I/we'd know so they'd know to ... this turns into annoying paranoia.

Possibly the contact has formal written GOOG corporate cooperation. But the theoretical minimum to know the cruddy secret algo is extremely low, like someone who knows someone who used to work there, or obtained the disk image of a stolen or improperly disposed of GOOG laptop or server hard disk, or someone who was bribed or was acting as the agent of a national government while being employed without GOOGs knowledge. Shoulder surfing an employee at the coffee shop, overheard something, etc.

Thats the problem with a cruddy crypto algo. Its a cruddy crypto algo.

Now what it probably is, is some kind of verification toy to prove internally some translator / load balancer thingy didn't mess up, or something probably very innocent like that. Of course if they were actually rolling out something evil thats exactly the right way to present it. Hmm.
I run my web, email and some other stuff off a cheap end DO droplet for $5/month. Can't say I've had any problems other than availability of droplets in Amsterdam. I'm in the UK but have a VM in NY2. To be fair the latency feels about the same as our production kit which is 7 miles from my house, not 3460 miles. DO is less hops as well.
soundAlarmIfEnabled();
1) Always get an experienced lawyer to review paperwork you sign.

2) It's pretty normal for people who give you money (be it a loan or an equity investment) to get their money back before you do in event of a sale.

Imagine the situation where you raised $5m for 20% of your company and then the next day you sold the entire company for $5m. You'd get $4m and the investor would get $1m, you'd be very happy and your investor very unhappy.

Hence no rational investor would give you money without a clause that ensured that in the case of an exit that they had priority upto the amount they invested.
Perhaps two different definitions of "fail"; the "returning nothing to any investor" is a fairly strong definition of failure, and I suspect the common 75% number is based on a weaker definition of failure (e.g., returning less than 1:1 on investment is a plausible weaker definition of failure for a company, though I don't know if that is what the 75% number is based on.)
Use Homerun instead of the default menu:
http://software.opensuse.org/package/homerun
http://userbase.kde.org/Homerun
>> - Don't make vested options expire soon after the end of employment. Don't force people to take big tax hits just to buy the stock that they have earned.

How would you do that exactly? Even if you take advantage of SEC's rule permitting a private company to have 2,000 shareholders, the moment you convert those options to stock units (either restricted or open), they've got a brand new tax problem.

At least with ISO exercise you can juggle AMT taxation vs income taxation, RSUs or SUs are just straight bottom-line income.
The gold reserve act of 1935[1] devalued the currency by 40% and outlawed the private possession of gold. I am not sure how you can say the period 1913-1972 to be under the gold standard when the US government could set the exchange rate to whatever it wanted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act

I agree it was not a complete debt based fiat currency, but it's not accurate to call it gold standard. As soon as you create a central bank, you are not on a gold standard.
IPv6 is a must for my use case. Currently, I have to use an IPv6 tunnel which is OK, but definitely less than ideal.

Can you disclose what kind of allocation each instance or each customer will get? Hopefully, you guys will be much less stingy with them than Linode, and give each customer a /48 to allocate freely between the individual nodes.

I am a very happy customer currently and am looking to use DO for my next project which involves heavy use of your API and lots of concurrent instances. As a customer I can testify that your product is a fantastic value for the price. Keep up the good work!
Google rips apart Babylon's merger
It doesn't need to be perfect. I can deal with a more complex but functional feature tomorrow far better than a perfect feature in a year.
I find the biggest win about API first development is it forces discipline upon you. I find I can get most of the benefits if I code in a disciplined fashion. It's usually not easy though.

In many ways, I find API first development most useful in languages such as python, which lacks the idea of an interface. Similarly, I find interfaces not much more than yet another tool that forces discipline upon you.

It seems like as we develop these abstractions which increasingly force more discipline upon us we forget that classes and functions are supposed to be abstractions themselves. We are supposed to be relying on the interface of those classes and functions, not the actual implementations, even if the class itself doesn't use the interface keyword.

One of the oft maligned issues of c++ is the .h file. I rather like them though. They're a constant reminder that "this is all you should know". It becomes obvious when you add cruft onto it because you don't have that cruft obscured by hundreds of lines of implementation. It's much more difficult to notice it in languages where the implementation of a class or module is present alongside its interface.
JP Morgan agrees to pay record $13bn to settle charges over toxic mortgages
> For many consumers, any feature not accessible with a single button won't exist. It will be a major pain point. Having it be accessible as a sequence of actions or through a menu won't work.

Then those features don't exist, and that's fine. Is our hypothetical Luddite going to be switching audio streams to SAP? Playing with the picture-in-picture feature? Is he going to know what TTX/MIX means? DMA? E.MODE?

No. Undocumented features are also non-existent features. And for most users, the instruction-manual doesn't count.

It's a TV.

Give basic menu-nav buttons - 4 arrows, OK, Back, show/hide menu.

Give the basic TV tuner buttons - the 0-9 buttons, channel up/down, "Guide" menu button. There's the entirety of your TV facility. Guide needs arrow keys, but our main menu nav already provides that. We don't even really need a "Guide" button, "Guide" can be just be the default view of "Menu".

Volume control, input-selector for its functions as a monitor.

That's it. Notice something? None of those require horrifying abbreviations. We already have standard symbols for all of them. No unlabeled colored buttons. Most of those buttons don't even require words because they're so common we have symbols for them. We just covered all of Grandpa's uses - he wants to change channels and change the volume. We're done. Everything else? Your crazy abbreviated buttons are even more user-hostile than the menu, because at least entries in the menu have vowels.

You could easily cut 6 rows off the Samsung I used as an example and Grandpa would still be happy. Happier even because he's no longer confused about all these crazy weird tiny illegible buttons on his remote. You could even make a large-print version for him and it would be smaller than a dinner-plate.
The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees.

When was that written? 1985? Meaningful equity? "Meaningful" starts at 0.3/N (pre-dilution) where N is the number of employees. Anyway, equity is an awful model. Profit-sharing is better. Go here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...

If I ever build a company, I'll use profit-sharing (at much more generous levels) instead of equity, except for people who are truly partner-level. Trying to convince non-partners to think of themselves as more in order to extract more from them is just dishonest.

But the engineering tradition that spawned Silicon Valley was much more egalitarian than traditional corporate culture.

No, those supposedly stodgy corporate cultures (see: banks) are actually a lot more egalitarian. In banks and normal companies, your boss is a social equal, just more experienced, more valuable on account of being longer with the organization, and perhaps luckier than you are. In these VC-funded startups, founders (much less the unapproachable gods called "investors") are simply better than you. That's why they got introduced to partners at VC funds and you're lucky to get a reply from an associate.

No company would ever pay the 27-year-old VP/HR 10 times the salary of the 35-year-old programmer. You might see 1.5x, especially if the programmer is a bad negotiator (or female). But that's common with VC-istan equity. When it matters, VC-istan equity exacerbates the shit out of inequality because the executives are getting paid 10-100x as much as the workers (when no one would tolerate more than a 1.5-2x difference in salaries).

the Wealthfront Equity Plan should result in approximately 3.5% to 5% annual dilution assuming no executives need to be hired

Investor infusions dilute everyone, of course; but if employees are getting diluted for fucking executives then you, sir, are a fucking asshole and deserve to lose all the talent you have.

Honestly, this product (yes, this is a product pitch, not a real article) looks like a complex solution to a simple problem: the equity model in Silicon Valley is broken and actually very un-egalitarian in practice (look at house prices out there). Equity should be substantial but for genuine partner-level people only (and most people shouldn't, and won't want to be, partners). Everyone else should get substantial profit-sharing that can pay off like equity-- in fact, most get bonuses much larger than they get under the VC-istan system that awards mediocre one-time bonuses-- but (a) isn't persistent if the person leaves, and (b) doesn't come with all the nastiness (tax, regulation) of owning an illiquid security.
Sorry, I got that from:

REQUEST FOR CIVIL LOCAL RULE 3-9(b) EXEMPTION AND RETIREMENT
This complaint is not signed by a member of the Bar of
this Court and Plaintiff is a corporation. Civil Local
Rule 3-9(b) requires corporations to retain counsel...
It comes with a ready to go autopilot and, I think, the software to turn the imagery into useful data (the stitching and georeferencing).
thanks, we're working on showing the feed on the home page (before signing up)
I got this email a couple of months ago. The sales pitch, despite being poorly written, is interesting. I have no idea how they got my email address, but my guess is from AngelList.

"Hi,

Shouldn't Grasswire have a full-length, professional page on Wikipedia? Wiki-PR.com can craft you a professional Wikipedia page for the top 2-3 spots in Google Search.

Would you like more information? Please reply. It will be worthwhile. A full-length, professionally written Wikipedia page will drive sales and inform your clients about what you do best.

Your competitors are getting on Wikipedia. Shouldn’t you be on Wikipedia, too?

Best,

Vanessa Embers
Sales Consultant

Wiki-PR
We Write It. We Manage It.
You Never Worry About Wikipedia Again.

Tel: 888-819-0733
vanessa@wiki-pr.com
Twitter: @wiki_PR
San Francisco, CA

Disclaimer: This is an individual, personalized email sent by a human. But to unsubscribe, simply reply with "unsubscribe" in the email body."

The interesting thing about Wikipedia is that a lot of your ability to post edits without being caught is based on how often you're making edits approved by the Wikipedia community. If it's blatantly spammy or incorrect it will be corrected, but I'm sure there's plenty that slips under the radar, especially for editors with more experience and a lot of edits under their belts.
I think that thing is called a quote bug-tracker unquote.

(ba dum tss)
When you do photon tracing, you begin with beams of known intensity, wavelength, direction because you are aware of the light source. That combines with everything else that hits the sensor to give the image.

When you do ray tracing, you don't immediately know if 10 million photons were captured. You know how many rays you are going to send based on the resolution of the image. This also means there's issues with say light coming from narrow apertures because you limit yourself to a finite number of rays.

If you use photon tracing and a light source sends 10 million photons and 70,000 are absorbed that's 70,000 data points to define the image which may be plotted on a 200x200 canvas. If you use ray tracing with a 200x200 canvas you will have the same size of image, but only get 40,000 samples. Even if you expand the size of the canvas, there may be some photons which can reach the camera but whose path the ray tracer can't reach.

For instance, say some photons hit the camera at pixel x-coordinates 10.0003 to 10.0005 through a fine aperture.

This will illuminate the camera in a photon tracing simulation. The ray tracer will not capture that photon unless its resolution were 10,000 times higher. The ray tracer will trace back from 10, 11. It can't do every intermediary step. The photon tracer can account for those circumstances.
I do wish there was something akin to S3 to allow for larger amounts of storage, without necessarily being bundled in complete package that gets upgraded together (and there would be no SSD required). Obviously using S3 is still an option, but it would be nice to have the network locality and maybe even the general value proposition that DigitalOcean provides.
>how is that API-first development

We have several clients, the web site is one of the clients. The iOS app and the set-top-box are also clients. Figuring out the service boundary of your queries and events is part of the API development.
Smart TV from LG phones home with user’s viewing habits, USB file names
While one would have to know a lot more details but the basic take away is control, control, control.
There are some rare metals, other than silver and gold, that did not become a currency, despite having all the same features. Why?
Kit Kat for the Masses
Right, which is why I was asking which class of bugs are we talking about. If "undefined" is the only class that this would remove, it sounds less than compelling. Especially if it in any way impedes considering the logic of what is actually getting done. (I mean, correct me if I'm wrong and "undefined" is actually a large part of the problems that afflict writing code for the kernel.)
SC13: Intel reveals Knights Landing high-performance CPU
From the release:
openSUSE 13.1 comes with much improved font hinting thanks to the new font engine in Freetype 2.5.

It's actually fixed by default now.
Oracle database costs are driving firms to Postgres, says EnterpriseDB
Why do you think that Bitcoin fraud would be handled differently that fiat currency fraud; that is, by offering credit, doing chargebacks, and so on, just like people do with fiat currency?

I mean, it's not like we don't have options like wire transfers for transmitting currency without the possibility of chargebacks; but as you notice, most people choose to use credit cards, which offer the buyer protection, rather than using wire transfers for purchasing goods online.

Bitcoin isn't a particularly good payment system, and I can't imagine that most people will wind up sending Bitcoins directly as payment for the vast majority of purchases. It's more of a replacement of bank transfers or wire transfers, which are used in particular specialized circumstances but not by the average consumer.
It's not super clear from their website but if you buy Pencil, apparently you get the tools for free while you have the stylus connected.
The amount of hate in this thread is sickening.
Agree, I am also running out of disk space now, don't need additional RAM or CPU power.
What Does Cancer Smell Like?
Jump tables don't increase asymptotic space complexity, whereas some of GHC's optimizations will. You can also see how much jump tables increased the space usage of your program by inspecting the size of the compiled binary.
You certainly can do this for much cheaper. [0]

[0] http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=mapping
Just use third party APT packages.

You can either use the Phusion Passenger one: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/install_debian

Or the Nginx.org one: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html

Both support Debian 6 and 7, and both supply the latest Nginx stable version.
I am curious about the software stack. Google didn't return anything relevant about KanoOS.

Can anyone cast a light on this ?

(and I like that keyboard)
This doesn't seem so impossible, if device can work as a wi-fi hotspot, instead of forwarding Internet connection, it can just send a file to other device, unlike AirDrop, which needs a router to establish communication between devices.
Or maybe I'm wrong...
That's correct (I'm the @solomonstre in question :). We do our best to not imply the contrary by accident. Docker is a clean slate which incorporates all our operational learnings from dotcloud - but it is a full rewrite and this not yet production ready.
> I contend that creating debt money and giving it to tier 1 banks has a much larger wealth transfer effect than deflationary currency. My evidence is the wealth equality gap increasing from 1972 - current.

I contend that the wealth equality gap increasing from 1972 to current is better explained as the direct result of fiscal policy, particularly tax policy changes which both reduced the (higher with increasing income) income tax and increased the regressive in part and flat in part payroll tax, and has nothing to do with change from the mostly fiat dollar of the late "gold standard" period to the pure fiat dollar of the post "gold standard" period.

> Inflation does not impact all people in the economy evenly.

Right, it transfers wealth from net creditors to net debtors through decrease in the value of assets denominated in the inflationary currency.
There is a patch for older versions:
http://nginx.org/download/patch.2013.space.txt
And nginx -V will show you how to rebuild it manually.
Imagine it wasn't wget, but a tool you'd never used before and you didn't know what the arguments meant. All those options are poorly defined. Also, it's confusing how filetypes switch from checkboxes to a listbox.

Trying to cram everything into one panel has left us with nothing but the controls and very little space for information.

Also, even if you wanted that layout, the alignments are terrible and the use of frames is arbitrary and inconsistent.
Moving wordpress to https on aws/cloudflare
I had to go in an remove the custom font CSS in chrome to get through that article. That font is absolutely terrible!
It didn't need those amounts of resources when Dropbox first started... What changed? Now it's literally causing Windows Explorer to be stuck on folder renames etc, I'm dying to get off the bandwagon the first opportunity I get. This isn't a good way to compete in a crowded market - hope the competition is just as bad.
Probably no unrelated people at all were executed or imprisoned in 1917 or 1905. Even for the most frantic career revolutionaries it wasn't uncommon to flee from the deportation and live illegally in Russia or to emigrate.

I don't think what you are describing is in any way specific to Russian Revolution and Civil War. If reasoning like that is justified, you can 'prove' the same thing about any society that lived through a social calamity.
I use it to collaborate with a fairly non-technical person, where it's marginally easier to use than email. That's it. I'm actually rather horrified at the people using it for backup and git. These are stupendously bad ideas. Proper collaboration with multiple parties also dictates that some form of locking is required. Something more advanced than yelling "I got it!"
US releases (redacted) NSA records
I've never heard anyone using finger input to do smudging. That's so obvious but so smart. I don't know how I haven't heard of that before.
1) As another poster pointed out, almost nobody _wants_ 100+ channels.

2) Good God, nobody wants to enter "3-digit codes". Your 100+ channels fit into a regular grid, with, you know, pictures. So I can actually see what's what, without remembering that "124" is "shitty shopping channel #16".

Said grid can be navigated quite quickly with a d-pad. If it was just a regular grid of, say, 12x12 entries, you can reach any entry in 12 clicks. (Assuming your UI does the smart thing and wraps)

3) If you had a better interface, like e.g. categorization, you could do with less than 12 clicks. Optimally utilizing the 4 directions, 4 clicks would do. You'll probably need one or two more, but it's fairly straightforward

4) If the UI designers had paid any attention to decent UIs, they'd be aware of such nifty inventions as "Favorites" and "Recently visited", which means even less key strokes.

5) Can we already ditch the "dedicated remote" nonsense, even the Apple one, and admit pretty much every household has some sort of Wifi enabled touch screen in their home? E.g. a much better device for your UI?
These have colloquially been referred to as blind credits, and are seriously frowned upon by the card networks. We told a Visa exec that we were planning on doing these and he said that at any substantial volume, we'd get shut down.

Square has a totally different cachet than GiftRocket does, so they may actually be in a position to bend the rules. Seemingly, other smaller payments providers have been able to implement APIs around this.