skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They ultimately do admit their problems or else POS wouldn't be a thing at all, we'd still be using hand-cranked cash registers.

There is a reason they are a small business owner and not an employee of a similar business across town. They love their work and they want to steer the ship. I don't think you can even lump in "they want to get rich", because most of the small business owners I know make a middling-to-low, middle-class income.

So yes, part of being that person who thinks they can be in charge is that they tend to be arrogant. They probably have reason to be. They probably got told by everyone around them that opening the town's 10th pizza shop was a stupid idea, they should just stick to law school like their father. And yet somehow a small town can support 10 pizza shops! When you get to disprove your detractors, it tends to make you feel like you know everything.

The trick is learning how to work that attitude. You don't approach such people with "buy my product, do more work, and we'll tell you what you're missing". You approach them with, "how would you like to spend more time at home?"
But it doesn't? If the bait dose is 80mg, then 500 doses would be 40,000mg. I think they must mean 500mg -- that's consistent with the toxic dose being 200mg/kg in dogs and 10mg/kg in cats [1]. The phrasing is super bad, I wonder if it was altered by a copy-editor who added a unit but misunderstood the intended meaning.

[1] http://www.ebvet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=383
http://open.gl teaches the basics of using OpenGL to develop modern graphics applications.
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Show HN : This is my second attempt to improve phone support in every company.
In that case, it's your pre-interview screening process.
> What do you think is going to happen to them when they turn 18?

This is why we have jails.
I'm worried about my security with this application. I'm essentially telling strangers with a delivery van that my home will be empty until this time.

I'll deliver to my Office for now. I'm excited about this service but skeptical.

(EDIT: Upon re-reading this comment I noticed I came off sounding like this service might be a scam. I'm moreso worried about MITM and subpoenas)
I don't think it's particularly "meh". I live in NYC, in a building without a doorman. Because of that, "package delivery" is not in my vocabulary (well, Amazon Locker has helped a bit with that), and therefore I spend less money online because it doesn't make sense to ship them to my apartment.

Would I pay $6.99 for it? Probably not. But is it "meh"? No, I think it solves an actual problem, possibly in enough of a way to build a sustainable business.
I've wanted this so badly for so long. Why am I paying such inflated costs for last-mile delivery when it's magnitudes more convenient to just pick up my package at a nearby depot on my way home from work?

I've always wanted online retailers to just allow me to ship to a local affiliate for the same or less cost, and notify me when it's ready to pick up. This takes it a step further.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/

i tried to find any information, and it sounds as closed as it can be. So it may be right. even though wrong.
> Coming to NYC soon!

Great to hear! Another vote for NYC. :)
They want to control how their content is played back on your computer. That is not the same thing as wanting to arbitrarily stuff arbitrary computers full of arbitrary DRM. Yes, they've gone ridiculously overboard in the past, but DRM is not the goal in and of itself.
Unrelated to the topic, but it's always fun to see another 2 letter .gg owner around :)
Off-topic

I have seen even Nasa uses Spaaaaaace as a word.

Anyone have an explanation?
I am still at loss on how Due Process means people should get educational services for free. I understand why one may want to give these services for free, but I fail to see how it follows from Due Process. I guess that's why I am not a lawyer.
I wonder if algorithmic hiring would improve this. That is companies using statistics to sort job applicants instead of just a human. Even on HN there has been discussion against this and people are scared of it but I think it would be an improvement over human biases.

The statistics would quickly show that people with minimal or no education do almost as good, and are willing to work for less, and so they just hire them instead. Or maybe see that people from "lesser" universities are just as good as those from more prestigious ones. Maybe certification agencies would compete on the basis of how well their certification actually correlates with employee performance. Schools or training agencies could compete on a similar basis.
Social Security is a pay-as-you-go social insurance program, not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is fraudulent because it promises to pay back a greater return than is invested. Social Security is designed to pay back about the same as was invested on average. The reason this works is that the economy and the population are growing over time, so you have more people paying for the current SS generation's retirement than are in the current SS generation.

Social Security is a defined-benefit entitlement, so its spending requirements are fairly predictable. The rate of growth of the economy and the population, on the other hand, is not so easily predictable. This is why the Social Security trust fund was established in the 80s -- to patch the gaps that would result from the smallish Generation X paying SS for the Baby Boomers.

Depending on how long the Baby Boomers live and how the economy performs over the next few decades, the trust fund may run out in the next few decades. This will require either a cut in benefits or additional revenue for the system. Adjusting the inputs and outputs for a program to keep it in equilibrium in a chaotic, unpredictable world isn't fraudulent or a sign of a broken program.

So no, I'm not aware that Social Security will become insolvent in the future. Any of a number of fairly simple adjustments between now and then would prevent the projected benefit cuts. Even in the absence of a fix, Social Security will still pay out the lion's share of its promised benefits.
Hopefully when we post it on HN it will get similar kind of popularity as this post. Otherwise you can follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/RoryDHughes
"Want to abandon all hope of sleeping more than 4-6 hours a day? Have a baby."
I think there are a few things at play here that should help you to feel better. Firstly, you're reading a website that is targeted at affluent tech workers. Who's most likely to market their product here? Second, the whole world is transitioning to online sales. Those people will go from stocking shelves at the grocery/department store to delivering it directly to you. I'm sure there are plenty of people working on important things that you just haven't heard about lately.
I think improving the efficiency and logistics of delivery services actually qualifies as 'an important thing'. It might not be as sexy as curing cancer or eliminating poverty, but it provides a service that allows individuals the opportunity to maximize their own productivity, which has both economic and quality of life impacts.

While this service isn't exactly revolutionary, it could put pressure on competitors to improve their customer experience. I think the end game (as does Amazon apparently) is sub-30 minute deliveries done using energy-efficient and autonomous technology, but that is a ways away, but at the very least, incremental improvements by upstarts will put pressure on the industry as a whole to improve their services (think about it, why doesn't Fedex/UPS already offer evening services to residential areas, they should have been doing this years ago).
In the presence of a shortage, the value of an employee approaches infinity. I expect that you are really constrained by the amount of money your company can afford, else you'd just walk over to Google/Facebook/Microsoft/whoever and walk out with their best employees in hand. Almost nobody is going to turn down a multi-million dollar offer, if it even takes that much.
jerkface 22 minutes ago | link [dead]

Yes, the Winklevoss twins are (supposedly) putting one together.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/11/12/winklev...

Edit: Jeebus, hellbanned already, and in only 3 comments. Guess one of my prior comments may have struck a nerve?

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Your previous comment was rather inflammatory.
Yeah, I think npm's model is the correct one for node, but it's not universally better than all others by any means. It's not possible at all in many languages, would result in absurd compilation times and disk space usage in compiled languages, and makes security audits much more difficult. It's certainly not very compatible with an environment where every dependency requires external approval.
A major benefit of college is a baseline of domain knowledge that will serve you in your professional career, but indeed, that’s also a major benefit of a technical program. The real disconnect is that college is also (or at least is supposed to be, or has traditionally been) a schooling in the liberal arts. Four years spent learning to think critically about society and culture as well as one's area of specialization, and to express oneself in the marketplace of ideas.

Which is just something many people don’t really care to do. And that’s fine. The problem is trying to get everyone interested in it, denying the fact that many lack interest and aptitude, and then diluting the experience for everyone while saddling the next generation with decades’ worth of debt.
I'd much rather have my packages delivered to a secure, conveniently located facility that notifies me of the delivery and that I can visit to pick up my package at my leisure. But then, I'm more concerned with completely offloading the stress over when my package might be delivered, whether or not it might get stolen, and whether or not I have to be there to sign off for it.

Still, this appears to be a useful step up from having packages delivered at random times throughout the day.
This. I can use "deliver to the office" for small packages, but for large packages, I would rather use Luna.
A good idea and it illustrates the growing trend of proxy-services. That is, traditional services are so inflexible or inconvenient that the best way to deal with them is to decouple them from the individual and insert a proxy that buffers the service.

I've noticed this with banking too, people decoupling the payment mechanisms ( card accounts, direct debits etc ) from their main accounts.

Edit: I wonder what non-IT people make of such patterns.
Great that you noticed it's an op-ed by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, but, is the college for all model working?
I've also been using IntelliJ for various large projects written in Scala, currently on the fence deciding whether upgrading to 13 worthwhile. Really hoping for an upgrade discount for all those who purchased IntelliJ in the "end of the world" sale last year. I also wish they'd add better support for profiling and heap dump analysis.
Turntable Live probably.
Best shot if you are in an insane hurry: Marry a US citizen and really mean it.

> I'm already married, so this is out of the equation.

Do NOT think about get-rich-quick-start-up ideas.

> Well, I have been working on this for a while, so it wouldnt be a quick-startup-idea, and lately I have been getting some good traction for this, so its a pity it isnt a straightfwd thing to pursue.
Master tradesmen are impossible to find. Skilled plumbers, electricians, HVAC people, welders, and some machinists make more than the average programmer and are always employed.

Also, the unemployment system is basically designed for them. If you work for someone and get laid off between projects, you still get paid. The other path is going out on your own.
How to get my open source library secuity audited?
I just started writing a new python library (https://github.com/danthedeckie/simpleeval), having written several before, and am interested in having others than myself audit them for possible security issues. Are there reliable people online who would to this kind of thing, and how much should one expect to pay? Or are there forums where people congregate who enjoy doing this kind of thing for fun?
Unless I misinterpreted your first comment, I made the opposite point. Someone stated there are Constitutional rights outside those enumerated in the Constitution, you asked for some support, specifically saying "you don't just get to make that crap up." So I gave 2 obvious specific examples of Constitutional Rights not enumerated in the Constitution.

As far as the Commerce Clause that is not a Right but a Power, but again it supports the same point...just because the Constitution does not enumerate a power to the Gov does not mean the Gov does not have that Constitutional Power. The Commerce Clause is a good example, maybe the most obvious is Marbury v. Madison where the SCOTUS gives itself the right to Judicial Review.
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>>"Unqualified" by what standard? What makes you think your standards are appropriate for the positions you're offering?

Because we do very rigorous analysis of why successful employees are actually successful. We know what it takes to perform well at each job function.

>>And what makes you think your salaries are "very generous?" Lot's of companies think their salary/benefits packages are "very generous" when they're anything but. Without context your post is a giant meaningless assertion.

Lots of websites aggregate salaries by position and geographic region, so we know the numbers. We also have very good benefits. For instance, our 401k program is a dollar-for-dollar match up to 15% of salary, which is extremely rare.
Hey, I'm the creator. I'd love to hear any feedback/questions/suggestions you have, but specifically on the security model [1] I implemented, design/ux (my design skills are terrible, thank god for Bootstrap for making it look half decent :) and the marketing/texts (I'm not a native English speaker, so any corrections are much appreciated).

If you don't know what multisig/m-of-n means, check out the FAQ: https://www.bitrated.com/faq.html

If you want to play with it, there's also a testnet [2] version: https://testnet.bitrated.com/

When it asks you to share the URL with the other party, you can just open that in a new tab.

If you don't want to go through all the process, you can see how the transaction page looks here: https://www.bitrated.com/tx.html#DO-NOT-SHARE&alice=ApLwQcKS...

[1] https://www.bitrated.com/security.html

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet, you can get some testnet coins sent to the multisig from a faucet: http://testnet.mojocoin.com/
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Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Agreed that the domestics have been doing FI for a while, although many of the earlier turbos (like the Omni GLH, Spirit R/T, Thunderbird SC, Turbo Trans-Am, DSMs, Regal T-Type/GN) were fairly niche-oriented cars. Successors like the supercharged Buick 3800 in the Grand Prix GXP and Bonneville SSEI brought it a little more into the mainstream, but these were still marketed as a performance bump rather than taking the modern everyday economy and reliability angle.

I never heard nice things about the reliability of the Corrado's G-lader... not that the 12V VR6 is a marvel of easy maintenance either, but people seem to prefer them.
I don't think this should be the case on the type of out of order superscalar pipeline that this core has, as far as I'm aware of it. If there's a bind on waiting for memory an instruction should sit in a reservation station until its data comes in and that should take the same amount of time in either case. (In addition, with trivial accesses like this, it is highly likely a prefetcher would predict the access and have it fetched from cache in time. Though perhaps prefetch behavior works better in the longer loop?)

My intuition is that this is more likely to be behavior related to the trace cache and rayiner's comment points out several good suggestions on what might be happening here.

On the other hand, given the likely difference in how these instructions may be represented in the trace cache, there may also be interactions between the order and groups of instructions dispatched from the trace cache and that may change how things occupy different slots in reservation stations. Which may change the amount of instruction level parallelism in the loop. It doesn't seem likely, but it may be the case.
Sure, in that possibility, that is very true in that nobody could build a full fledged knockoff product. But, what concepts or features that could result in cheap knockoffs? Designed attacks? Password leaks and user privacy breaches? Customer information that can be sold to competitors? All of the bad PR and loss of business as a result?
So, uhm... how many blockbuster games have you shipped, just out of curiosity?
Not an ad hominem attack. Just, curious, because someone with such confident opinions as yours about notch's abilities must surely have shipped a few.
* Mac OS X: F# ships as part of the Mono distribution.

* Linux: http://fsharp.org/use/linux/

* FreeBSD: http://fsharp.org/use/freebsd/
Dart is very close to Java but with a number of language features altered to be closer to matching web APIs and for easier trans-compilation to Javascript. So Notch using Dart isn't very unlikely if he already liked Java.
We hope you'll give us a try
What I've seen is supposedly-experienced programmers who can't write FizzBuzz, or claim database experience but don't know why a cross-join is bad or what it is, or who claim to be experts at $TOOL but can only recite a handful of memorized answers and just pick whichever sounds closest to the question.

Software developers (supposedly) aren't stupid. Applicants for software development positions on the other hand...
I wonder if the founders/people working on the product are sleeping 2 hours a day since they started working on this.
As a computer programmer, this really hasn't been my experience. I did not get a degree in a computer related field (have a BA in Philosophy), but have had no problems getting a job. I just showed the work I did for personal projects, and landed a job in weeks. I have since hired many developers, and I only look at education experience if there is nothing else that shows they can do the work. I have hired many people who never went to college at all.
Or you could sleep for a regular amount hours on a regular basis.

This kind of brain-hackery bullshit is just marketing fluff. I envy and pity anybody with too much money and not enough brains, but this is just blatant pandering to nitwits and morons.

This is right up there with homeopathic medicine, magnetic wristbands to improve blood oxygenation, and compression nylon clothes to improve blood circulation. It's pseudoscientific bullshit.
My understanding is that the NeHe tutorials are archaic and do not properly reflect modern OpenGL usage. Iirc the legacy constructs used in NeHe have been dropped in mobile implementations of OGL.
It will combine perfectly with drones. One of the things I think is going to be really hard for drone delivery is the last ten feet - once there's a drone outside my locked apartment building, what's it going to do? Knock and hope the manager is there to let it in? Leave my package on the city street? (fuck no). But combine it with this, delivery at a reasonable hour when I can be home to receive it, and it's perfect.
- David Foster Wallace's great essays fill 25 nights: http://tetw.org/David_Foster_Wallace

- Billy Collins was on Stephen Colbert not too long ago, and when I looked him up, it turns out his poetry is awesome: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flames/

- I like Bukowski the poet. (Bukowski the person is kind of an asshole) http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-aliens/

- I like to find new essays daily at Longform. This could probably sustain you forever. http://longform.org/
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Doesn't look weird to you ... who are what? A female programmer tired of endless stereotypes in ads? Or a male who is tired of worrying about sexism and wants the discussion to go away?
64 bit might not be the right alignment, and even aligned to 64 bit boundaries you can run into page and cacheline issues.
Years ago it would have been terrifying for me. I had to change.

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela

If a person doesn't think they can execute despite their fears, then being in business for themselves is not for them. Fear never goes away. At best it gets replaced by new fears.
All the codes are redeemed - thanks!
"Advertised" was the wrong word. But recruiters are quite upfront with the salary range for each position when they speak to candidates.
Being the sort of "exceptional" kid that people like @will_brown talks about helping saved my ass on numerous occasions. In the post-Columbine crackdowns in schools, I use to come and leave highschool as I pleased. The administration was terrified of doing anything to 'gifted' kids because a few years earlier the parents of a gifted kid got a lawyer and apparently gave them quite a scare. I probably spend less than 25% of my senior year actually in the classes I was suppose to be in, spending the rest of the time either playing quake under the pretense of "gifted seminar", or knocking around town under the pretense of taking college classes. Had I been a 'regular' kid, I would have surely been expelled.

Getting declared "gifted" can give you massive amounts of privilege.
This addresses some of the limitations of Bitcoin compared to classical payment networks— the lack of reversibility, even where you want it.

I found the site super easy to use.
I'm no MD, but I did see a Stanford sleep psychologist for a long period to deal with my sleeping issues.

As usual, the answer to whether polyphasic sleep works isn't very attractive. In a nutshell, it will work for some people, but probably not for most. We evolved to sleep at night, plain and simple.

That being said, I would love more details on how this would help you manage your regular sleep. I see it supports "monophasic" mode, I would have definitely bought in at a lower price point.
This is a cool idea, and one that I would definitely pay for in certain circumstances (basically any situation where I end up having to drive to the UPS facility). However, I'd want to be sure that I can actually use the service under those circumstances.

My difficulty is when a company like Apple sends a package as "signature required." First, will I be able to specify the Luna address, or will I be required to have the billing and shipping addresses match up? Second, will the Luna representative's signature be counted as an authorized signature for UPS's purposes?

Both of these things are mostly out of Luna's control, unless they enter negotiations with these companies. And while this should be a no-brainer for UPS from an efficiency standpoint, you really can't underestimate their ability to make bad decisions.
They are in Estonia
These are really fantastic, thank you.
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Tere's also "keep my table headers frozen" functionality that's often requested along sorting, filtering and pagination.
Portal 2 reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeKMS62GrTI

Edit: It's clear that someone in NASA is a Portal fan - they sent a laser-etched image of Wheatley up with an HTV-3 resupply craft:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118637-NASA-Sends-...