skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to skip the personal attacks and explain

1. What "trillions of visits logged" means, exactly. IE what you think is being logged past a request for a font.

2. What you think the data is actually used for

The web font loader is open source, so this should not be too hard to explain what it's sending that you think is valuable and why.

Or you know, you could just continue on with meaningless ad-hominen attacks, since well, you never responded to anything i asked.
Umm.. India?
I am from India and rote memorization of math formulas is very evident. I can not speak for other countries but you can pass all the exams till high school using rote using rote memorization and get 100 % too. Only exams like JEE and to an extent AIEEE actually test your ability to apply concepts and that's why they have the smallest selectivity ratio.
Ha, well there you go. I'm trying to write like a compiler.

Maybe I should give coffeescript a go again.
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Did you invest 100000k $ in Bitcoin? I suggest investing 1k as an anti-black swan option. Or something like that. (If the economy crashes, BTC might be worth a lot. Or not. But the option doesn't cost much).
Validates fine if you get the raw gist:

curl 'https://gist.github.com/krallja/7710464/raw/8d55ac6fb74e979b... | gpg -v

(...)

gpg: Good signature from "Baal_signing <Baal <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]>>" aka (...)
I think this story sits one below "The Invention of C++" [1] on /r/forwardsfromgrandma

[1] http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
He's being a prima donna. Edits by a third-party get reviewed, there is no way you could accept that edit (which was from a different account) without allowing other random people to edit his posts in the same way. You can't blame stack overflow for erring of the side on respecting the author's intent.
Nude pictures are fun. For all the reasons it's fun to take pictures at all, plus love and sex.

In a relationship that isn't really obviously screwed up, you have basic trust for the other person.

Part of that trust ought to include encryption, but that's another story.

I think that this situation is atypical. Leaked or lost personal photos might be available to the whole world, but most don't go viral linked to your name. So the 'normal' risk of a douchebag boyfriend is relatively low.

And why is it a risk at all? Why isn't it just safe and fun? What's the harm? Take this passage:

>My professional reputation? Tainted. My parents’ perception of me as their angelic baby girl? Blown to smithereens and then reassembled in the likeness of a leper.
>I sobbed daily.

Where is the harm here? It is coming from her potential employees, colleagues, and sadly her parents. They're the ones with screwed up attitudes about sex. It's their fault, not her fault, because she did nothing wrong. I hope their views are not as harsh as she thinks. But even if she's imagining it those are the ideas we get from our culture.

I get that you're worried about it coming out wrong, but much of your post was similarly victim blaming. The actual solution to murderers in alleys is to send police into the alleys. Not restructure our lives to be tolerant of the constant risk of murder. We should not just cede power to evil because the alley is dark.

And this is not a physical attack, all the harm is in the views others take of the victim. Your judgement of her judgement is part of the harm that the attacker expected.

A betrayal of trust should be blamed on the betrayer, not the betrayed. Is there room for learning better who to trust? Sure. Should we expect people to act like they can't trust anyone they love, and add scorn because they were the ones who encountered trust-evoking douchebags? No.

Personal porn should be fun and safe and relatively inconsequential, for all the reasons that love and sex and photos are fun.
It depends on what you define "pretty successful".

If you come from an American point of view, then success = money and nothing else. In America you need lots of money for everything, just giving a good education for your kids is 10 to 15 times more expensive than in Europe or Asia, same with health care.

But on other countries success is defined differently, like having a good relationship with your family and friends.

I know quite a few very rich people, and some of them are as miserable or more miserable as people without money. With broken families, no real friends, and no time for living outside work. With women or men around them that just want their money and will do anything to get it.
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I'm okay with giving my email but when it came to enter a password I stopped since I didn't know what I'm signing up for. There was no logo on that page and the initial Link said "to download"
Hi, FG from Redsmin here. We publicly launched a little more than one month ago and we will gladly appreciate any feedbacks from you guys!
Hm, why stop at $1.5 billion? $150 billion would be even funnier.
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But, but .. Linus does speak like that!
To a first approximation, the only text messages I get on my N4 are from Google's verification service, but I've never had one received incorrectly - or noticed a failure to receive one.
Is this a case where a lawyer reached out to people who would back him in his pursuit of a settlement?
the VC who backs this large co won't do the deal for internal politics reasons

"internal politics" is a problem to solve. The VC is backing the $6b company, and not yours? This is where your VCs/advisers/backers should provide that "non-financial assistance" they love to talk about.
This. It's worth pointing out that the antialiasing issue only affects Windows PC's. But this is very much a font issue us developers have to hack around. -webkit-font-smoothing and setting the value to antialiased sometimes fixes this issue.
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Why would you need Scala on .NET when you have F# and C# that are completely the same thing.
It supports Javascript. Node.Js runs on Javascript.

Draw your conclusions.
So the hardware estimate is more "how long will it take to debug the prototype, and bring it to production"?
It's basically equivalent to Scala for the compilation itself (no noticeable difference).
But the browser refresh in dev mode can take up to 5 seconds (or down to under 1 sec, depends on the machine).
There is a tool that helps with this by using clever tricks to refresh the browser without reparsing the standard lib:
https://github.com/lihaoyi/scala-js-workbench
For what its worth I think it's an effective method for teaching. Now of course the execution of these particular set of videos is questionable, but I think the idea behind it is a sound one. I'm also a very visual learner and seeing things play out is very helpful. The first two videos were on the right track with having dynamic equations that represented the concept being talked about. The third/forth videos didn't seem to have as meaningful of graphics/equations so the benefit wasn't as great.

Also, seeing you in the video was just a distraction. Especially the cuts to maintain verbal flow were jarring because of the obvious visual cut. Just a whiteboard of equations like kahn academy would be better. If the idea here is to overlay graphics over any lecture that would also work, but then you'd have to either switch between live lecture and whiteboard or just have a whiteboard on the side.
If internal politics is the major reason for the acquisition not going through, then your product must be good enough to attract other bigcos. Seems like the progress you had with the acquisition talks would also be a selling point to VCs when you raise your next round.
I'm sure I'll be downmodded for pointing this out, but your post also suggests why these disparities persist even after college.

Via a sisyphean effort, colleges manage to graduate a group of unintelligent and unmotivated students. But after graduation those students are still unintelligent and unmotivated, they simply had knowledge of calculus forced into their heads for long enough to pass an exam.

As an employer, I need employees who will show up and start building shit. Walmart and McDonald's have time for heroic efforts in extracting value from employees, I don't. This is part of the reason why github is such a great hiring tool - pushing good code all by yourself is a strong indicator that you are intelligent and motivated. Graduating college, not such a good indicator.

Interestingly, if colleges didn't engage in heroic efforts to get their students to graduate, college would be a much better hiring filter.
True, but its main target is definitely the browser. The stand-alone interpreter of Node.js can run code written in Scala.js, and is actually used for benchmarks (along with d8) [1]. However, Scala.js does not emit Node.js modules, nor does it provide any built-in way to import other Node.js modules.

[1] https://github.com/jonas/scalajs-benchmarks
Hindsight:
Always deal directly with the decision maker.
Don't put all the eggs in one basket / Have mitigation strategies. Does show validation.

Foresight:
Leverage nimbilness. Read up on other aquisition cases.
Maybe 3rd year is the charm?
Quite an accusation :

Match are acussed of

- seed their database with fake profiles using photos of models to make their site more appealing. So many that they make the difference in their leadership of the US market

- match use Russian/Nigerian scammers to do this - or at least knowingly allow the scammers to create enormous numbers of fake profiles (not too clear which choice)

My view: yes this goes on, and the whole case hinges on how much effort match puts into cleaning its house on a regular basis .
What actually happens? My wife was thinking about getting one and uses SMS all the time so this could be a deal breaker.
It's also beautiful code. It's a great project to learn from.
Somewhat related discussion about a possibility of building tracing JITs for other languages on top of the LuaJIT code base:

http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/To-which-extent-LuaJIT-...
Most importantly, don't despair. Things may not turn out exactly the way you want them to, but they will turn out ok. You live in a great time and have phenomenal skills and experiences. You'll do ok. Never lose sight of that.

It's great that you asked the question. When you're overtaken by waves of emotions, it helps to get an impartial perspective. Here is what I think about your situation. In the movie Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis delivers this line:

A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll point you to
True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice
about the swamps and deserts and chasms that you'll encounter
along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge
ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to
sink in a swamp... What's the use of knowing True North?

You just screwed up with your tactics and fell into a swamp. That's ok -- just make sure to learn your lesson. Deals fall through. No deal is ever done until the paperwork is signed and money is in the bank. When it comes to deals, never put your eggs in one basket. I'm sure you already got it, so there is no use brooding over it. It's time to move on.

The biggest question you need to answer right now is if you still believe your startup is the True North. Is it the best possible thing you could be working on? From your question it sounds like you still believe that. If you do, good. Then it's time to fight like hell. If you don't, there is no harm done. If it's not the True North, what does it matter if you fell in a swamp? You can pull the plug and start again, with the new, truer direction, now based on everything you've learned.

If you still believe in your company, then fight! I don't know the details of your particular situation (valuation, metrics, team size, runway, amount of money you need to get to the next milestone, etc.) so I can't give tactical advice on how to get out of your particular swamp (or even if it's possible). Pick five advisors you really trust. Poll them on what they think you can do to get out of your situation and move on to building your company. Then decide on the best strategy and fight like hell to make it happen.

Feel free to contact me privately if you need to (email in profile), and good luck! Don't despair. Take a day off and do what you have to do to forget about your company for that day. Then pick yourself up and get into work. It's the first day of your company's new life. Where do you want to take it?
I took the web dev course by the founder of Hipmunk and it was absolutely great!

This was going from "best thing ever" to "lousy idea" in light speed. That is the downside of big ideas if they haven't been validated early. Not only investment of time and resource, but psychological energy. This is really the story of all change. It it unlikely, extremely hard and often at the wrong time.
Sure! me@[my HN username].com :)
..unless they decide that you are a "radical", in which case they very well might leak it to your family, friends, and acquaintances in an attempt to distance them from you.
"I can't decide if this is happy or sad."

I'd go for happy. Concentrating people with ideas like this in a supportive area is a classic incubator for change. London in late 19th Century had all kinds of European trouble makers concentrating (and being spied on by bowler hatted detectives[1]). The ideas they had certainly had impact!

[1] http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1409
Same story, different source, significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809065 (theguardian.com)

Yet more sources, no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814293 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815087 (msn.co.nz)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818746 (bbc.co.uk)

I expect we'll see this story picked up and reported over and over again. It's about BitCoin, and everyone loves a good bit of schadenfreude.
If a product is so disruptive, how can it possibly fail within two years? I think you are misguided.
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Significant discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6816067
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Significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6821269
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Not sure I know what you mean.

I can say is that with jQuery you just get the JSON or HTML you need. And then you either process it or put it where its supposed to go. The server just creates the JSON or HTML.

An RJS file is a template for generating javascript on the server side with your data. Writing code with a tempting language is more of a pain than just writing that processes JSON or moves HTML.
Same story, different source, significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809065 (theguardian.com)

Yet more sources, no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814293 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815087 (msn.co.nz)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818746 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822051 (yahoo.com)

I expect we'll see this story picked up and reported over and over again. It's about BitCoin, and everyone loves a good bit of schadenfreude.
> I find the C backlash to the excesses of C++ fascinating.

I whole-heartedly agree. Something that blew my mind back in undergraduate school was tree.h by Niels Provos, [1] which is a complete key/value-type agnostic Red-black Tree [2] in a single header file. Just recently when re-learning C I stumbled upon klib [3] which has a similar take on generic programming by "abusing" the preprocessor.

If I am allowed to side-track, I found "C The Hard Way" to be a good resource when re-learning C. I also had a lot of fun with "Expert C Programming", although it is a bit dated. I highly recommend it once you have a grasp of the language basics. I have heard good things about "21st Century C", but I am still wondering what other good resources there are out there.

[1]: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys/tree.h?view=mark...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree

[3]: https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib
Why only Wordpress? There are so many alternatives..

https://github.com/search?q=CMS&type=Repositories&ref=search...

https://github.com/search?q=blog&type=Repositories&ref=searc...

- http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/web/zine
- http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/blosxom
- http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/pyblosxom
- http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/web/chronicle
- http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/web/tdiary

And that is just a "apt-get install xyz" away. That's no big effort.

All in all, what you are telling me is that your own blog post is important enough for you to not just use wordpress.com, blogger, tumblr or whatever is out there but that your visitors privacy is non-important to you. But you're a tech-savy developer, you're on "hacker news", you should care for at least some basic amount of privacy! ;)
What's not portable about the usleep function? It's in the POSIX standard for portable operating systems (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989799/xsh/usleep.h...). It doesn't get much more portable than that.

Edit: Apparently, it has indeed been removed from SUSv4.
People don't really care because they don't "get" new technology. That doesn't mean you shouldn't care. One could even say that it is up to us (the tech-savy hacker news surfing sysadmins) to do the right thing.

Why WP? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822766

As an experienced sysadmin you are telling me that setting up some basic blog with commenting takes a long time? Why would you even need nginx?! (or apache for that matter)
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There's some stuff he doesn't explain properly, and he makes some assumptions about prior knowledge which aren't really valid.

That said, most teachers will also make the same mistakes.

He's not a great teacher. He's a good teacher who uses a new medium very effectively.
I'm confused here. Why would match _want_ fake profiles on the site? Wouldn't that drive people away pretty quickly once they catch on that the hot chicks they're trying to talk to aren't what they seem?
In a way Hacker News more insidious than Reddit, because a lot of the articles are about people being productive and successful it tricks you into thinking it's more "wholesome" than Reddit/Buzzfeed/etc. It is, but that doesn't warrant the hours and hours of idle browsing that you can potentially spend on it.
Lol, it must be difficult being sued for $1.5bn in a $2.1bn industry. http://www.marketresearch.com/Marketdata-Enterprises-Inc-v41...
My bank does send Flash SMSes for 2FA codes as an optional fallback to the chip+pin-card based 2FA keypad, that does both time-based and challenge-response to authenticate the transaction, and is mandatory (i.e no SMS fallback) for adding people's IBAN and outbound transfers.
Unfortunately not. When you have not written to a C variable, it doesn't have a random value, reading it is undefined. Different reads can produce different values.
I had a Nexus 4 from launch until the Nexus 5 and never had a problem with receiving or sending SMS messages.

I've never heard of it being a common problem either. Your wife should go ahead and get the phone if she wants one.
"Public interest" usually distinguishes journalism from other media. Granted, this is a nebulous concept. But it is hard to make the case that revenge porn serves the public interest. It targets the powerless in order to dominate and dehumanize. Even state surveillance pretends to serve the public interest - Moore and his ilk make no such claim.

The Weiner case is an arguable comparison. The character/judgment of a political leader is usually considered a question of public interest. And voters didn't reject him for the images - he was the leading mayoral candidate for a time. Only the 2013 scandal made Weiner seem irredeemably dishonest.

If anything, Weiner benefited from the gender bias in these kinds of cases.
Not yet. I am working on a replacement for the Asciidoc/Docbook toolchain which I am not satisfied with. It handles an extended version of Asciidoc and aims to produce code for a few output formats (HTML, TeX).
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I think you're making the same "Facebook will kill Google because it's social" argument all over again, just from the mathematical, rather than social, perspective.

What I'm trying to say is Google incorporates many types of signals into its algorithm, it's not just one thing such as "social", which is why Facebook could never in fact "beat Google" at their own game (search engines), no matter how hyped up that was a few years ago. I think the same is true about Wolfram Alpha.
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this paper is useless for understanding ripple
is Agile flawed for Entreprise software?
1.5bn!!!...they have to go bankrupt..
I personally find this comment to be incredibly condescending. It smacks of misplaced elitism.

It comes across as though you are a bad manager who simply doesn't know how to nurture your new employees and you are trying to blame them.

If you don't want to nurture young people straight out of college, most of whom have simply been told exactly what to do at each stage, don't hire them. Hire experienced professionals.

That's why they cost more.
If you've been hiking on similar trails so much, why haven't you built a land rover or rail system that gets you there every time?

You're like the expert sherpa trying to convince people to use your message delivery service when the internet exists.
fora is a plural form of forum

aka forums
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Oddly they are continuing to make it worse. For at least a year you have needed JavaScript enabled to view Blogger sites. It's a blog, why do you need JavaScript to display a loading screen! And they scroll horribly in mobile Safari too.

And now these light boxes. I don't get it.

Related to the BoldPort product though, I think electrical engineering world is world could use some better tools. Earlier in the week one of our electrical engineers spent a day helping to debug a new board. The problem ended up being a signal name was renamed in one place but not another. If the current EE design tools don't have refactoring support much less some sort of electrical "uninitialized variable" error, there must be room for improvement in these tools.
Yep - Same here, SMS's have always been perfect. I reckon the GP poster is simply trying to stir..
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It is not me. Here it is like 1 in every 10 or more videos, chances are when I continue to watch videos there could be no ads. Actually, some ads I really like that I want to replay.

It is not like in Chinese Youtube-alike online video sites, like Youku, Letv, they have 30 - 60 seconds ads in every beginning of a video, and there was no chance to "skip" the ads, even I use Adblock, it MAY be block the contents but never the ad itself.
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From my experience, it's all a matter of balance between the time needed to set up and maintain your system vs the burden to coerce someone else's system to behave† the way you want.

† behavior covers both technical (features, compatibility...) and ideological (privacy, openness...) areas.