skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addresses map to physical locations that never change or rarely change.

counterexample - military mail (APO/FPO)
Look at how hard Jeremy Lin had to fight for a spot on a team. Still lots of bias in pro sports.
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One important point to realize for the author is that games are not services, they are works of art. As such, you can't say this is an incredible game with the same objectivity as this is an incredible service.

Ryzom was a great game, but MMOs are built on one thing: atmosphere. Blizzard made WoW precisely because WarCraft was its longest running and most popular brand to date. Blizzard already had a massive fan base of WC fans ready to play WOW. The lore was considered a masterpiece, which immediately immersed the players in the world before they even played it.

With services, things are much more objective, because we don't care about branding. Using a service like Dropbox is not a deeply emotional experience, but it does work very well. Apple is one of the few companies that can instill emotion into its services and hardware, and that is due to their marketing and design philosophies, which are considered the best in the world. However, this is nowhere near the level of emotion that art invokes.

As such, I would advise the author to carefully distinguish between art and service. When making art, you should never make it with the expectation that others will like it. You should make it such that it satisfies your own tastes. If others like it, you know that your taste is shared. If not, your tastes are unique. It's a win win.

Don't regret making works of art. It is all that succeeds us when we leave this realm.
"That's not saying you can't be rich. Anybody can always get dumb success (especially these days) with things like advertising or affiliates or ebooks."

People that are doing this should speakup but I don't believe "anybody" can do the above. Your statement is general to a certain extent and could apply to many areas but I don't think successful people in these areas are any less smart, hardworking, determined than startup founders.
Really neat and approachable tutorial with clear goals. Effective instruction is difficult, so good work!
I feel so too. But I'm absolutely newby in this topic. Can you please advice me some links to the books or articles to start with? I will be glad to read something about networking.
There are things we don't know, sure. But if we just look at court cases we're going to see a very biased picture, because the bad effects of patents are much more likely to cause court cases than the good effects.
Jurisdictions like that have been increasingly disappearing. If regulators in major countries make it illegal to exchange BTC anonymously, it will significantly hamper its adoption.
Very interesting.

Coincidentally, I randomly spent about two hours Saturday morning reading about the Indian nuclear program. Did you know the Indian program went 24 years between the first test in 1974 and the second test in 1998? It was due to a shift in priorities during the late 70s and early 80s, as well as the formation of the Nuclear Supplier's Group which put increased restrictions on the exportation of nuclear technologies. Anyways, I was under the impression that everyone in the nuclear club sans North Korea/Israel/Pakistan just went about testing a whole bunch of designs for the fun of it after the first test. In total, India has tested only 6 detonations.
Not fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_involving_radioactive_s...
How is assertive "male" gendered?
We already have that. It's called TiVo Suggestions.

People aren't cord cutting because they can't find anything good on. People are cord cutting because their cable bill is too high.
I'd disagree with that one data point proving too much. For a start, I don't think it contradicts the "Zuckerberg-ness" issue- graduates from Waterloo are also very likely to be hoodie-wearing white men, I don't think that being Canadian counts as particularly 'diverse'.

Sure, PG is open to graduates that aren't from Ivy League universities. That's one factor. There are a lot of others.
What's sad is, and maybe lost on the jury, is it actually increases his credibility, he's so accomplished in his field those with the earned degrees said "we view you as a peer or recognize you as a pioneer of our field, just take the degree". He is so smart or dedicated he reached that status without going to a class. Usually that means you've gone above and beyond what a traditional student has accomplished.
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Hmm, I don't have a Vista machine around to test on unfortunately.
An interesting app, which recommends perfumes with birthday.
Scientologists subscribe to The Church of Scientology. It's a personal decision. Citizens are born into their nation. It is not a personal decision. Therefore, I cannot see the two as comparable. And I know lots of Chinese people who hate their government, societal structures, etc, because of all the problems that are inevitable from those Chinese norms. And that is corroboration for me that it is so easy.
Author here, thanks so much!
You can also learn a lot by studying (and even contributing to) other open source compilers. Here are about 100 javascript-based compilers, including tools for compiler writers at the bottom: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
All that matters is that the answer stays consistent for purposes of the 33 questions.
>I don't think people would commit suicide or become unduly despondent if they learned they have a gene.

What if the gene essentially means "you and your husband shouldn't have children?"
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Awesome stuff, I really hope they nail this one dead.

That said, I'm pleased that we've finally gotten a number of jurists now who are better able to navigate the complexity of the Internet, programming, and 'process patents' when they involve Internet programming. I also find it remarkable that the Trolls have trained up a specific jurisdiction by over using it and are now at a disadvantage there. No doubt they will start looking for somewhere else to file soon but the effect will be the same as opinions and case law flow out of the east Texas courts.

I am perhaps an optimist, but I believe we have turned the corner on stupid patents. And more and more of them will be brought down and fewer of them will be of use to trolls. With luck in another 10 years people will be able to talk about the 'bad old days' of patent trolls as being behind them.
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https://www.23andme.com/store/cart/ explicitly claims the test can help you manage your health.
Thanks, author here, the reason I mention to use Chrome is to make sure the screenshots on the guide match what the user sees on their screen.
You don't need the entire company there, but you should have a multi-disciplinary group there, aka developers, designers, customer support, sales etc. So get perhaps the product design team (whatever that is), at least 1 senior developer, at least 1 customer support person etc.
I've noticed that people who win the lottery are the ones who bought tickets. Also the ones that win usually play every week, increasing their chances.

So at this point how are you defining lucky? They might be lucky but then they also worked harder and longer (i.e. bought more tickets)
If you're a SV demographic outsider (say: black, gay, female) it's still going to be an order of magnitude harder to raise institutional money. You're not going to socialize in the same circles and thus your referral network will be tiny. If you get a meeting, you're going to need to spend the first 15 minute somehow counteracting the generalizations piling against you.

That said, starting with the same skills and money it shouldn't be any harder to bootstrap a tech business. If you're profitable and growing, raising money should also be pretty fair. Traction is the real meritocracy.
A very interesting piece, revealing a cultural side-effect I had not expected.
The stereotype we hold in the West about Japan is that conformity is the norm, which for the most part holds. But not in housing it seems.
They have my admiration AND sympathy.
I wish I knew more companies like that.

Shameless plug: Any companies like this, feel free to contact me through the email address in my profile. :-)
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1. We don't need to appreciate innovation by granting a monopoly. Math is thriving, even though none of that is eligible for patents.

2. You can be first to market by developing it secretly, perhaps collaborating with a larger company in exchange for royalties. That may not earn you as much money as a patent-monopoly, but that's fine.

In any case, if I independently invent something I should have full rights to pursue it however I want. That someone else 'thought of it first' is unrelated to my inventing it. That's the free world I wanna live in.

These inventions are built on our shared knowledge. Nobody deserves a patent for it. Inventors will invent anyway.
Shouldn't you wait to see what he has to say, not just who he associates with?
Yes, that tutorial is quite good.
GNU AFPL?

Clause 13 is a real pain to deal with when exposing this over the network.

I guess the developer wants to sell a license (like the mysql java client GPL'ing).

Can't blame him, he needs to get paid.
Do I have to spell it out? The machine could be under physical control of its operators, with rate limiting restrictions lifted only by manual intervention via a GUI interface, making the low bandwidth TOR connection the only link to the outside world (and a simple one at that). Or the the verification and signing steps done via TPM so as to prevent key theft. There are other possibilities too.

This isn't handwavery. It's basic security engineering.
No - I did not at all say they were very similar. The truth is we have very little to go on to know how much like a Marvell Armada XP is like an A15. In the past, Marvells have been known to be quite different from their stock counterparts.
If you store time in UTC, then you haven't solved all possible time storage problems - for example, you still need to take into account that some days have 25 hours; so any structures for exchange/storage of periodic data (hourly planning schedules; by-minute temperature readings) need to contain a variable number of data instead of fixed set of 24 hours. If your HR system is doing employee scheduling for 24/7 shifts, then those days may cause a lot of issues no matter how you represent that data.

And the 'display issues' are nontrivial - it's not just converting a timestamp to a string; it has tricky consequences for UI layout and printing if those night hours matter.
Additionally, your product might have separate areas that could have their separate product-design teams and meetings (the backend, the sales site, ...).

(Feel free to email me at peter@craftinc.co if you'd like to discuss further.)
http://hgraph.org/images/hgraph_manualinput_v02.jpg

This looks awful.
Why would want to do a polar plot for a time series?

Just so you can rotate it with your finger to go back in Time?
I don't think that that was Ahl's intentions when she labelled those terms as 'male-gendered'. I do not believe that she meant they were male-gendered like say.. 'he' or 'him'.

Likely, male-genderedness is suppose to mean something along the lines of "without additional information, most people would assume these words refer to a male rather than a female". The point isn't that you can't use these words to describe females, or that all males can be described by this, but that people just associate these words with males. For example, "chopsticks" -> asian, "NBA basketball player" -> African American.

This could actually be studied (though I can't find any studies... my social sciences research-fu is apparently really weak), and could actually be proven (as much as such things could be proven).

That said, without the proof that they actually are male-gendered, it's kinda flimpsy.
>$100,000 bonus - Haha what? What department/branch of the bank? No way is it IT. Investment? I work at a bank and the most I've gotten was $10k and that's extremely rare for anyone. Hell, making $100k salaries you need to be here for like 15 years.

I'm in the wrong fucking field.
No UPS for a lot of machines. I can't imagine the OS/2 getting an update simply because core ATM features haven't changed since the 80's. But it was still impressive uptime because ATMs are generally cantankerous creatures.

A software upgrade on the XP machines was ridiculous. It usually involved 3-4 hours of loading and booting and restarting with several different CDs. The other techs and I were convinced that NCR padded the installs/updates to take longer since their certified field techs billed out at around $300/hour.
is it just me or is this more of an insight into India's feelings about their nascent role as a superpower. In the article I count 3 deaths in 4 years and one attempted kidnapping. That makes for a long weekend in some towns in the world and does not seem like it would be statistically significant in an "industry" that employs ~ 200 000 people

So why is this news and why on HN? I suspect because it's tapping into something in Indian society - the fear of them, the Men in Black, secret power structures running underneath the democratic institutions. it seems to be part of a malease with our institutions globally - they just don't fit or react as we would expect them to. I cannot tell if this is more or similar in india so would be interested in comments

Of course it could be the men in black ...

number of people in India nuclear industry: guesstimate from scaling up British nuclear group at selafield - 13,000 for one site. The npcil site is not helpful.

edit: tidied up
>Not to mention that these frameworks undergo alot more extensive testing than an average developers code will ever go through. By using a framework you benefit from not having to go through the pain of dealing with all the different browser models and quirks that every version introduces or takes away.

This is particularly what I value in open source frameworks - the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, maybe even million of man-hours that have gone into debugging edge cases, cross-browserifying, and finding security holes, stuff I would never be able to replicate on my own in any reasonable time frame. Especially the latter, given the security situation on the internet these days.

My SOP is, stand on the shoulders of giants, unless there's a particular requirement that precludes doing so. Such requirements are rare, most client work actively benefits from use of a framework.
I don't agree with many of the author's assumptions (do most people working at startups in SV really think that their web/mobile app will "change the world"? do everybody in SV think that tech entrepreneurship is a solution to everything ?).

I would say that most people just want to work on something they like, having an alternative lifestyle to a 9-5 job and possibly taking the chance of making it big.

I agree that there is a excessively romatic view in some circles, but is it the real representation of what people in SV think ? Or is it the most appealing view for the media ?

Regardless, some points are valid. The fact that most (all?) entrepreneurs come from middle/upper class rings true, and the "white male" argument as well (although less so, imho).

But to the credit of tech entrepreneurship, there ARE proyects that are helping to close the gap, offering education to everybody, I think about Khan's Academy, Coursera, Udacity...

I think it's too convenient to classify tech entrepreneurs as a single group, with the same vision and ideals.
I would highly encourage anyone who thinks that the solution is as simple as "don't use XYZ" to see what Moxie Marlinspike had to say about "Changing threats to privacy" at Defcon 18: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
It's great that you are in this situation. When its only you, well it comes down to the lowest denominator for living costs.

I think there is a lot of people that didn't start young with the entrepreneurship bug and ended up married with kids. With these people, paying the bills has a direct and noticeable impact on their family. I would say there is a lot of people in this situation and the dynamics of going "all in" with their idea just doesn't work the same.

I don't think you would argue with what I am saying at all, but there are many people that have obligations to others and we are not all single and only responsible for ourselves.

Being in this situation myself, I look at it as a optimization problem. Given the constraints I have, how can I optimize my situation to be successful with a company.
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No, they need to prove to the FDA that their tests do each of those things. If they say the test lets you find out "if your children are at risk for inherited conditions", should the FDA just trust them about that? I mean, that's a pretty serious thing to be testing for.
I started writing my own compile-to-JS language a while back after reading this book: http://createyourproglang.com/ and I'm loving it!

However I'm having a bit of trouble right now with my grammar, I'm using Jison (http://jison.org) and the error messages are kind of confusing (I didn't even know they were error messages at first, I thought they were some kind of logging). I apparently have shift-reduce conflicts just about everywhere, but I didn't bother solving them as I was building the rest of the language since everything is working fine! (well I'm sure there are edge cases that I haven't ran into yet)

So if anyone here has a good link on the basics of parsing, grammars, LR(1) and whatnot, I'd like to understand what I'm doing ;)
Though the right place at the right time is almost never at home watching TV. Getting out and meeting a lot of people greatly increases the chance that you will be in the right place at some point.
He means the players, not the teams. Player compensation is tied more closely to performance than most other sectors, although not perfectly.
For the purposes of this problem (and most other purposes) if you have a question that divides answers in 47%:A 51%:B 2%:'stupid_question_doesn't_fit_me_I'll_answer_randomly', then it's still perfectly okay.
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By your argument any action the US government takes against anyone is 'stomping on the little guy'.

How is a generic anti-government argument relevant here?
Nitpicky: but please don't have video auto play. Eek.
SableCC is quite good.

yacc and lex are handy to have around, but feel like Jurassic tools when compared to more modern parser generators tooling like ANTLR.
> But transfering bitcoin is not instant and not free is it? Please correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understood you will have to wait for your transaction to be included in a (few steps of the?) chain, and unless you pay a fee you might not get included for a while?

Well, it's free to the transferers, because new coins are issued for work performed, and likewise, the new bitcoin compensates and incentivizes the efforts of the blockchain verification, so that balance should be even as well. Sounds zero-sum to me.

> And is there not possible that in the future, if the amount of transaction increase as bitcoin becomes more popular, and the money you get from mining goes to zero, that transactions with fees will be the only ones accepted (at a reasonable rate)?

Yes, this is an ongoing potential problem with bitcoin: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/876/how-much-will...
1) When large amount of BTC are stolen or moved, the fiat value would be far less if the coins were sold on the open exchange.

2) The article title becomes immediately obsolete due to exchange rate fluctuations. On the day of the theft for instance, the BTC/USD rate was hugely volatile, fluctuating between $522 and $788.

We could go dig up the old Bitcoin Forum posts about people losing 25k coins and mark-to-market those losses for more sensational headlines. Or we could simply post the BTC amount in the headline along with present fiat value.
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For an absolute beginner, try running through this first:

http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

Then register an account on KGS - http://www.gokgs.com/

Play games with low time limits (something like 5 - 10 minutes main time and 5 x 30 s overtime) and play a bunch! Ask for reviews on the KGS Teaching Ladder (a discussion room on the server), if you can get a good teacher or two to help early on you can figure out what the game is about with less pain.
> Is it a compiled language? is it something like "a framework"?

It is designed in such a way that it will be easier to implement source-to-source compiler for it. The project's goals in fact are close to GWT, but more generic. And also I don't like Java. :)

> Are you seeking to make a spectacular launch to build a startup around this language (support, consulting, etc) ?

Kind of, but I don't have strategy right now. I just have a technical idea. That's why I'm asking.

Also I will be appreciated if you advice me how to build business strategy for this topic.

> Otherwise, just push your code to github, blog about it...

I will do all these things too of course. This is the minimum I can do. But it doesn't look for me like a good plan. I don't think there will be many people who will pay much attention to another one programming language made by unknown guy.
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On any of my commutes I'd just be doing chess tactics on my phone. After like a year I played some 100~ games. Won like 75 of them because I got really good at predicting moves and recognizing patterns. Seriously just nail out tactics day in and day out.

They are micro puzzles that increase in difficulty and isolate specific parts of the chess game, be it beginning, mid, or end game. Once you do a couple thousand of these, move on to a real board where every piece is in play.

Trust me, you'll get good fast, it just depends how much time you're willing to put in. Also, go to chess clubs. I go every Monday in my city and it's a huge help to get insight from veterans and pros.

Once you start even remotely understanding strategy and moves, you will get so addicted. Just need get over that beginners hump. I'm still shit by the way.
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Of all the things that have a clear negative impact on health, 23andme's existence and business practices do not (in my opinion) merit a single hour of agency/burocratic time.

FDA interest in 23andme is driven solely by rent-seeking incumbents trying to keep 23andme out of the game.

Every single piece of information on 23andme is accompanied by confidence estimate, and most of it is very low confidence. Every single concern mentioned in that letter is clearly and obviously addressed by the site as part of its core functionality.

As a happy 23andme customer I wish the FDA would stop harassing a company I enjoy doing business with so that it can get on with releasing new data and building new features rather than just hiring lawyers.