skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have a look at Owncloud (http://owncloud.org).
I played around with it a couple of days ago and seems to be quite powerful. It acts very much like Dropbox and can be installed on any web server that supports PHP.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6658341
I've been wanting to do this. How expensive is the equipment to keep and maintain?
It wasn't the top comment. 1 point. You just got lucky.

And I wasn't criticizing. At least that wasn't my intention. Though now I'm amused that you lament HN turning into a criticism machine by criticizing my inadvertent criticism ;)

I was just trying to understand what the author meant by "to surface" an object. Still wondering...
It's not really, but there is no point in using it outside Apple platforms. I mean I spent time learning the thing and those skills are completely useless when not working on iOS and not really needed on the Mac in my case.
It will be interesting to see how the future pans out for both companies. John Carmack is a brilliant person and I think that Oculus VR will do very well with him on board full time.
No. I was under the impression that the same wallet can have an arbitrary number of addresses. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address seems to support this idea.
I am Norwegian and fucking proud of it right now, due to Magnus Carlsen.

He comes from a Nation consisting of 5 mill. people, compared to Anand's billion people.

This is probably the greatest sports achievement our country will ever make, as there are really no comparable sports achievements in the world, not now, anyway.

IMHO: They should knight him the second he gets of the plane when he returns home. Because no other Norwegian has ever accomplished anything close to this, with regards to bring honour to our nation.

Gratuler Magnus!
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This is a good point and one that I considered and wish I followed up on. I'm in the "support queue" with Coinbase right now because they absconded with 10% of my bitcoin holdings for no discernible reason. In case you're concerned, I'm not the one with $150M in bitcoin - it was 1 btc that went missing (greatly appreciated in value from when I acquired it).
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There is wringing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block#Wringing
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I don't believe that would work. You can't revoke someone's immunity and then prosecute them for crimes committed while they had immunity. Seems like it would violate the concept of rule of law...
As far as I can tell, the $50 million limit only applies to the Fedwire Securities Service for transferring Treasury and certain other securities, and there is no such limit for the Fedwire Funds Service that transfers money.
I think organizations may reach education better than companies:

http://codeforamerica.org/ for instance
Note however that this doesn't apply to everything. For example, Men's Multivitamins have different amounts of vitamins and minerals in them and there are legitimate reasons for the differences.

Same thing with women's shampoos. While there isn't anything that prevents men from using them, they are usually optimized for the types of products (esp. coloring) women typically use in their hair.
I think this check had been in the mail for a while. He is clearly far more excited these days about VR and where it can go. I'm sure he has more than enough money too to never have to worry about working again if he wanted.

I really wish him the best of luck, truly one of my favorite people in tech. I hope we still can get his annual keynotes, because they are great to listen to.
It's not philosophically wrong to model the problem upfront, it's just very hard to get it right in practice.

You don't literally have to start with one function. If you've solved a similar problem before you may have a good idea of what the code structure is going to be (this is what design patterns are all about). Frameworks may force a structure on you. There are shortcuts. But even then, I've been bitten more then once by the problems that looked awfully similar to what I've done before only to turn out to be very different at the end.
There are a lot of co-working locations in Portland and I think the list continues to grow. There are all types from small startups, incubators, and hackerspaces. It has been a few years since I was involved in Portland's tech community but here are a few I can remember:
OTBC: http://www.otbc.org/
Nedspace: http://nedspace.com/
PIE: http://www.piepdx.com/
Portland Startup Incubator: http://www.pdx.edu/accelerator/
Collective Agency: http://collectiveagency.co/
Flux: http://fluxlab.io/
ADX: http://www.adxportland.com/

Silicon Florist is the premier blog on Portland's startup scene. http://siliconflorist.com/

Calagator is an aggregator for events:
http://calagator.org/

Calagator also provides a list of venues:
http://calagator.org/venues?all=1
I don't know about the Netherlands, but in most countries, capital gains of private citizens are taxed when realized. I.e. if you hold a stock worth 100€ in 2009, 150€ in 2010 and 110€ in 2011, and then in 2012 you sell it for 120€, there is a capital gain of 20€ in 2012, but none in the other years.
Is there not a limit to the amount of money that can be transferred via Bitcoin?
I haven't tried but there's probably no reason this won't work with Ubuntu installed on a Vagrant VM. Which is exactly how I develop nowadays from a Windows machine. This is crazy!
Is it? I "interviewed" at one YC funded startup in particular and they asked me to build a trivially small and simple js application (even though I applied for a DevOps position, but I guess devops is different for everyone...). The only communication up to this point was over e-mail and I sent a resume.

I built it. It worked. Then they said my application was not aesthetic enough and said thank you for your time.

The whole thing seemed backwards...

In my opinion (as someone who has been going through the process for a few years now throughout undergrad with internships and now looking for a full time job at the end of my masters), very few companies do the "coding" problem right.

I don't want to work for you if you ask me to write a nested for loop and regurgitate the overhead involved in searching a b-tree. I also don't want to work for you if you ask me to build a application with no pre-defined criteria.

In my opinion...the best coding question you can ask me is fizzbuzz types of questions or pseudo-code for something complex (to see if the candidate can think through the steps of solving the complex problem without having to waste the time solving it).

So far not a single company has done the below.
Thank you for clarifying what to "surface" an object means. I'd never heard that before.
The irritating part is that even though AeroFS requires Java, it has platform-dependent libraries as well, so you can't just run it on, say, an ARM machine (which is what I'm waiting for).
I made one for myself, just spent 45$, 40$ for a desk protector from ikea, and some mirror mounts, and mounted it to my wall.
Wow. I had no idea that complying with the tax laws would be so much more difficult than just ignoring them and concealing your Bitcoin activities from anyone beholden to the authorities.

If there is anyone in Congress with even a quarter of a brain, they might want to take a look at how to keep Bitcoin users in the system. Otherwise, as more people read that guide, say "WTF?!", and decide to pay it all as much heed as "use tax" on interstate retail transactions, they will be forced to lean more heavily on debasement of the currency they can control.
I'm not sure why he would use that many inputs to transfer 0.5 Btc.
This is always the stated benefit to merchants. The author didn't miss it.

What's failed to materialize is any ROI on the Groupon "advertising" channel. The ads aren't working. Therefore the merchants are no longer buying.
Though it really based on what lever you are at. This kinda tests are always for entry-mid level recruitment I guess.
I agree with author 100 percent.
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haha. i've been thinking about that. what do you suggest i do to get users registered?

did it really make you not sign up?
Basically confirms that VR is in the "Slope of Enlightment".
I agree that the functional paradigm works very well for a problem like Hanoi. In fact, it's certainly very good for any type of operational/algorithmic challenge.

However, the question isn't just alluding to functional questions or algorithms. It's talking about designing a solution that can be used to manage multiple types of operations in a well organized manner.

Think: I want to change the colors of the tower pieces. I want to analyze them based on their properties. I want to attach meta information to them as I sort them. Perhaps I want to keep track of where they go over the course of their journey to the tower. Maybe I'm a particularly indecisive architect that wants to build 5 types of towers.

As you may imagine, it's possible to do this well in FP and in OOP. But the most likely best solution is a healthy mixture of both, to handle the true nature of problems that have verbs AND nouns.
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Used welders in good condition can be had for under $1000. Depends on if its a MIG, TIG, or "stick" (flux). Traditional welding relies on the shielding gas being generated from a solid material (flux) wrapped around the consumable electrode. Other methods (MIG and TIG) rely on inert gasses being provided by separate support equipment to a "gun", which is also feeding electrode wire.

To take the class should only cost you book and tuition fees. My total out of pocket at a community college in the Chicago suburbs was ~$600 for three classes (Welding 101, 102, 110).

EDIT: I have a whole box of welding books. If you're serious, I'm more than happy to ship them to you.
>I want to go from "shitty regulation" to "smart regulation".

I'm tempted to conclude this is something that happens so rarely you may as well count the times it happens as a rounding error.

It's a bit like saying government will just work if we only vote for the right candidate.
As I understand it's not bonding chemically.

"The process does not melt either metal, instead it plasticizes the surfaces of both metals, causing them to come into intimate contact sufficient to create a weld. "
On the other hand, as someone currently looking for my first dev job, I'd /much/ rather have a take home code challenge, where I can work at my usual pace, with my usual tools, without stress than have to do a code challenge while someone hovers over my shoulder. The take homes have been time intensive - I would say the average one has taken about 15 hours to do, but I feel they much better reflect my ability to code than real time nervous coding.
Obligatory mention of "Masters of DOOM", the biography of Johns Carmack and Romero:

http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...

Like reading iWoz... a lot of stories of brilliant engineering at an elite level.
Absolutely. But I think there might even be a little more nuance to this. The classic quote is "people don't want drills, they want holes" that's why they buy drills.

But I think you could get a lot more out of asking why they want the hole to begin with. Are they trying to build a house to help raise their family better, or to become a better investor. Or are they trying to become better at being a contractor, which is the business they run? When you ask Why a few more times about the problem they think they have, you come up with all sorts of useful things you can help them with.
Presentation is always important. It doesn't matter if it's a scientific paper or blog, presenting in a clear and intelligible way is critical to communication in all forms.

As for the content:

I've dealt with numerous developers who only want to do one thing, only backend, only front-end, only design. I've constantly run into shenanigans when working with such people in a fast paced dynamic environment. "I can't work on the frontend till the backend api is finished", "I can't work on the backend till the frontend data requirements are defined", "I can't work on the frontend till the UI/UX are defined". It's a never ending requirements dependency argument.

More capable full stack people are able to mock or fake the bits that are as of yet undefined allowing them to continue working on their core piece while gaining a better understand of the system as a whole. This allows them to contribute to the product definition at all levels instead of just living in their own little piece of it, waiting for definition from outside.
haproxy probably qualifies too.
I actually had one of these and I won't do another one either.

Here's the gist of how it went down:

1) first part was the "personality" interview. Two "HR" people blew smoke up my ass for about 30 minutes about how awesome my site and my work was, then asked me to do a "code challenge". I agreed - I mean, how bad could it be?

2) The code challenge. I was given a PSD with a straight forward design. Asked to code it, make sure it worked in legacy browsers, publish on a server and show them the code on GitHub

3) Passed and then was asked to come back and explain some of my coding decisions. I was told this was more for show and I was already in effect hired, I just had to pass this last hurdle. It turned out to be a very confrontational, inquisition type of an interview. Not at all the type of laid back code review I'm used it.

I got pretty frustrated by the two "Senior" devs who seemed to take great pride in tearing my code and my decisions apart. After my first heated exchange with one of the devs, I actually asked them how many of the sites listed in the gallery on their site they actually tested and validated the code on. They said "All of them, why do you ask?" I told them I actually ran all of their sites through the W3C validation site and none of them passed. Every single one had over 60 errors on it. I basically said, "If standards are so important to you, then why are you holding people who don't even work for your company to a higher standard than those who actually do?"

There was a long silence and then I finally spoke up and said, "Clearly, this company has its priorities in the wrong order. Thank you for time, but I'm not interested." and got up and walked out.

I got several worried calls from the company recruiter, but by then I was so pissed at how much of my time they had wasted, and vowed never to do something like it again.
I'm still visiting daily deal websites every day...

I never visited Groupon, that's not the type of deals I'm looking for.

Sites I look at are woot.com, dealnews.com, bitsdujour.com slickdeals.net, etc...

Groupon is for the masses.
This is interesting but where you go off the rails is with the word "dominate". If it's a currency and very easily divisible (move some decimal places) why would one need to dominate it?

You Bitcoiners claim to be more than just a mound of greedy speculators yet you view everything as a hoarder/trading scenario.
Fedwire and other real time gross settlement services (RTGS) are almost instantaneous.

SWIFT transfers usually are not: SWIFT is a way to communicate messages about transfers between banks, but they would still need a way to do the actual settlement. This could be very fast in the case of two large banks in different countries: if you are a customer in bank A, which has a correspondent account with B, and the recipient is also a customer with bank B. Then bank A can use SWIFT to say “please transfer $1 trillion from our account to the recipient’s account”, and that could happen instantly. (It usually doesn’t.)

But if the final recipient is actually a customer at bank C, then the money needs to get from B to C somehow. That could happen in the recipient country’s RTGS—Fedwire if it’s the United States—but it might also be slower, through ACH or an equivalent.

One problem with fast transfers is that many banks don’t have straight through processing for RTGS. This means that the money can get instantly from bank A to bank B, but may not get posted to the recipient’s account with bank B until a clerk gets around to verifying and booking the transaction.
President Obama can fire anyone in his administration any time he would like. That's how accountability works in our system, particularly when no clear-cut crime is committed. If President Obama doesn't sufficiently share your outrage, fundraise, campaign and vote for someone who you think would.
Why do you seem to think that selling them all at once is the only way to sell them?
I think you can still commit to one change per day, whether or not you deploy them in batches. It'd be exciting to see the growing list of stuff to look forward to, rather than wait in a void of information. Better for the team building it too. You could note in your changelog which ones are live and which are being alpha tested.
But speaking as an Android user, Android Chrome is a slow piece of crap, (with that horrible text resizing thing going on) while the stock browser actually works.
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Seems pretty much every link which would tell me something about your inventory/stores/whatever leads to the signup page. I don't sign up for services which don't tell me anything of value of why I should sign up for them.

Your photo of NYC on the homepage seems to be ~18 months out of date. WTC1 is finished as is WTC4
What country are you in? In the UK bank transfers happen within a couple of minutes.

You can login to your bank, transfer money to someone elses bank, they'll login, and see the money.
Extortionate. Especially considering there are alternatives that take nothing.
Slightly testy tone in that iD statement, isn't there?
Uhhhh... clearly I'm not in your target demographic.
But as someone whose girlfriend spends hours online browsing for the latest fashion crap, I think you might be on to something.
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I agree wrt security-through-community and its weaknesses. And indeed turning your guns inwards seems like the wrong move.
Here? On this site? Why? How?
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Found it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34269414/Redis-Persistence-Power
I understand the desire for a challenge, but you might consider not submitting them. Effort goes into advancing a candidate's application at each stage, so someone out there is wasting their time so you can get your "good job!" boost.
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Gold's other uses wouldn't make gold worth much on their own.

"Legitimate" uses of a commodity that trades more for its properties as money should be thought more of a really crappy put option, that is it sets a low price floor.

For example, it's been estimated that gold's industrial uses would only allow it to be traded in the low double digits per ounce if people didn't desire it for other reasons.

It's just in the case of something that isn't physical and isn't "backed" by any alternative uses, the floor is 0% of the current price instead of 1%, or similar.
It does seem like the Groupon model has promise for businesses that have low marginal cost of goods like an under utilized yoga studio. What other kinds of businesses have this quality? Sellers of digital goods for sure, in wich case the Groupon model becomes a form of price segmentation.
I did this with an Ikea tabletop and some shelf hangers while I was at GaTech. The shelf hangers framed the glass tabletop on a concrete wall. Albeit not a standalone board, it also had the ikea led strip. It worked well for me to map out ideas on, and fit nicely on my wall at home.

I think I came out of the project at around 150 bucks.
I hear you, but I also notice the developers still have not assigned bitcoin-qt a 1.0 version number. I might go ahead and transfer those millions anyways but the beta status would give me pause for thought.
I find it interesting that iD and Carmack are still described in terms of Doom and Quake.
You believe that single atoms of the most reactive element (fluorine) will not be quite as difficult as carbon monoxide molecules [1] to push around?

[1] The pixels in the first of the two videos you linked to, according to http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/madewithatoms.shtml#fbi...
Uhm. 50% actually seems quite conservative. If you have no data, the probability halves with each concurrent requirement. If Angels invested, on average, in two start ups a year, looking at the issue with no data, you'd expect 75% of them to regret at least one of their investments. If they invested in four you'd expect 93.75% of them to regret.

According to Almeida Capital Research, as cited by the DTI, the average number of annual investments by angel-backed funds in the UK is 6.5

http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file38273.pdf (see page 47)

Granted the UK is not the US, granted that angel-backed funds isn't necessarily the same as saying that each Angel made 6.5 investments.

Still, if those numbers are even vaguely in the right ballpark, that's a lot of uncertainty being reduced to get down to 50% regret.

And then, is their regret rational, do they only regret things on which they've lost money, and how much? If you make 80% of your income from 20% of your projects (I don't know the actual numbers) and you regret on average > 15.38% of your investments you may well be able to take on a fair bit more risk.

> Investors would basically prefer if entrepreneurs didn’t blow a lot of hot air. Considering that angel-funded startups are significantly more likely to survive at least four years and raise additional financing, its in entrepreneurs’ best interest to be honest and back their claims up with real information.

If they gave an honest valuation maybe they wouldn't get funded at all. The motivation of an entrepreneur is not necessarily to reduce investor regret.
I would never go to an interview which wanted to present me with a code challenge, and I don't have publicly available code repositories for you to browse.

What I do have is years of experience building mission critical applications that move millions of dollars per day in transactions, and I have a solid track record of being easy to work with. I am good at what I do and I work hard to be an asset to any company that employs me, and I work hard to be enjoyable to work with.

If you can't be good enough to figure that out from a conversation and looking at my track record, why would I work for you?

BTW, I haven't had to look for a job in over 13 years - although I've worked for several companies during that time.
Chile will probably stop being third-world soon enough, though (I heard something about startup accelerators popping up there?)

There should be a term for "third-world country that's probably going to stay third-world for the forseeable future, excepting a revolutionary change of government." Maybe... dystopia? Argentina is a dystopia.
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Modeling the enigma in code is one of the things on my todo list. I thought this was interesting.
It's bittersweet for me. I grew up with id games and John Carmack has just always been there as id's genius programmer guy. Feels like the end of an era.

On the other hand, John Carmack is working full time for Oculus VR!