skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying shares in a public company is not an investment. You are not giving them money to spend on things with a payoff. You are betting, either that you will get a dividend or that you can find another sucker.

It is remotely possible that you are giving liquidity to someone who will invest the money into something useful. Probably not, though, it's a very small demographic.
Man searching his Hard Drive in Landfill, as it contains 7,500 Bitcoins
A British 28-years old IT worker would become a millionaire, if he hadn’t trough away his drive. James Howells created a computer program to “mine” the Bitcoins’ currency, and was awarded with 7,500 BTC bounties for this job, that he has stored to electronic valet file on his laptop. Low cost of e-currency made Howells to forget about it.
Microsoft websites went down because of Anonymous
Neowin’s reporting that most popular websites belonging to Microsoft services, including microsoft.com, outlook.com, msn.com, office365.com, Microsoft Developer Network, TechNet, SkyDrive, the Windows Store, sites hosted on Windows Azure, xbox.com and Xbox Live broke down.
The Redmond-based tech company has become unavailable on Nov 22, by getting complaints from its users who tried to access Microsoft’ services provided with a “Server not found” error. Later it became clear that the site went down because of attacks initiated by Anonymous group and launched as a part of Operation Killing Bay.
>even the next generation of ASIC mining hardware (which will continue the exponential growth of worldwide hashing power) would require hundred or thousands of years (I don't know the specifics and can't be bothered to find the numbers with specificity), on average, to find a specific hash.

It would take much longer than that.

The current hashing power of the entire Bitcoin network is ~5 PH/s. If we assume it will increase 200x over the next generation of ASICs (this is unlikely), it will still only be ~1 EH/s. That's 1e18 hashes per second, or 3e25 hashes per year. Finding an input that hashes to a specific 2^256 bit hash would take, on average, 2e51 years. The universe is only 14e9 years old.
If a startup has managed to grow successfully and raise a Series B, as the parent says, then I wager they can continue operating with their own domain. There's no reason why they cannot continue ignoring the .com (and the "ransom") and focus on growing their real business.
"That being said, good coffee is important for culture."

Without wishing to go all wikipedia, citation needed. What evidence is there that coffee has any impact on things like brand reputation, employee productivity, retention, morale, happiness. Those are the measures of culture. Show evidence that coffee changes them if you're going to make bold claims like the one on your website rather than assuming people's views are aligned with your own.

Not that I'd buy. You used the word "artisanal". Total turn off. :)
I'm not sure how to answer that question. An answer would either be horribly generic or extremely long (or both). I suggest you start reading some history books (or just start on Wikipedia).

Basically, a full bitcoin economy is a bit like an economy on a gold standard. Not perfectly, since gold is still being mined, and the rate of mining depends on its price.
Planet Money Makes a T-shirt
Seriously, understand what other people are saying (or make some sort of note in your comment that it's unrelated to the one you're responding to).

The wiki page says that there was very little financial damage from the tulip crash. It also says that "There is no dispute that prices for tulip bulb contracts rose and then fell in 1636–37". I responded to the claim that high tulip prices were a myth. The wiki page cited does not support that idea to any degree. And the portion you cite, in particular, also does not support that idea. It says there was little economic damage from the crash, which I acknowledged, but barely mentioned, because it was irrelevant to my point.

The picture, as wikimedia notes, is from the tulip book of P. Cos, which you could read about here: http://www.oldtulips.org/index.php?section=broken&content=ea...
Yeah, no matter how obvious something is, someone will probably be able to find a trivial variation of it to patent. I mean, if you have a Taco Copter, clearly a Burrito Copter is nonobvious. I wonder just how trivial they'd allow something like this. I mean it's obvious enough that you can adapt existing telemetry systems and collision avoidance algorithms to this activity, but I doubt the lawyers think it obvious.
But your first point stands: you can only use the .org because you willingly forego brand building. If you want to build your brand, you need the .com, because branding must agree with consensus, which is that powerful brands own the .com. I argue this is common fact.

So if you are not buying the .com, you are choosing not to build the AppointmentReminder brand. Why? Surely, more markets exist for you to sell to. The recognizability of a brand bridges market segments. Since every market segment communicates in its own language (because of varying contexts), they need standard identifiers of solutions to problems, which a brand provides. With a solid brand, you control a channel of communication between markets. Thus, you naturally expose the company to new markets.

There is nothing stopping you from growing AppointmentReminder 10x, at least. The markets exist for you to capture. So why don't you try to do capture them? The first step is paying $30k for the .com (maybe make the marketing materials first).
For all your sass, there are many millionaries now that only bought a few thousands worth of it a few years back.

I take it you are not one of them.
April fools was months ago.
SHA has nothing to do with prime numbers. Bitcoin also has nothing to do with prime numbers.

Further, prime numbers are only useful in a very specific case of cryptography, nowhere near 'all encryption'.
Higher adoption of mechanisation leads to better availablity and lower prices for the machines, though.

I might be wrong, but think I see a trend where the barriers of entry for many businesses are becoming lower and lower. For example: 3d printers, UAV drones, computers, sewing machines, craft beer equipment. They are all easily obtainable by a private person without outside money.

Also, while some equipment is still too expensive for a layman, a huge amount of manufacturing processes are now offered as a service. Better automation makes it viable to produce small batches of custom products. It is because of this mechanisation trend that I'm now able to send a 3d file to some company in UK and get a few hundred custom injection moulded parts delivered by mail.
I'm surprised I haven't seen more of this mentioned - especially for market place sellers; just sold an item? there's a drone on it's way to collect it!

This will probably end up changing the inter-city courier / logistics greatly.
You won't get caught, though. That's the point. People abuse tourist visas all the time. Even people in YC.
The PVS-Studio analyzer has generated 3582 first-level warnings (the set of General Analysis rules) for this project. This number is very big. Most of them are false positives.
..
[a] simple operation lets us subtract 2300 false positives from the total number of messages (3528). We have at one instant eliminated 65% of messages. Now we don't have to waste time examining them.

[1] http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0205/
Good for him. If only every list brilliant person could re-center and take back their lives. I've seen too many bright stars burn out and fade away and not realize why.
If it works as it does, this would be a great way to hoard those small boxes that come along with the package, and later resell them :D
SV is a big place, and both rents and salaries will vary depending on where you are.

A good entry level salary is roughly 100k.
Crikey that's glum.
Live coding is developing vibrant communities of practice, and finding large audiences.
I thought HyperTalk was killed by Apple, but a quick search reveals several open source implementations of the programming language. It has been the easiest programming language to learn in my experience.
It sounds like previously you were losing money because your frequent trading generated a lot of transaction costs. Now you trade less frequently, you have removed a lot of drag on your returns.

Essentially, all I am saying is that if your trading were completely random (and buying based on "broad stroke feeling" and "gut" and "feel to your bone" is essentially random) you would expect to do better the less you trade.

Which is exactly what you are seeing.
That is not trading - that is investing.
Amazon testing drones for deliveries
Indeed, coming from Prolog/Erlang-style "most everything can be represented as a tail-call with a linked-list accumulator" programming, I'm very confused about what operations the GP is talking about. Adding/removing nodes at a position other than the head? Lookup by value? If you need these, you should be using a different data structure.
Hi,

a company I'm invested in encountered the same problem for a similar product (generating daily reports for the construction industry). If you like to discuss that, shoot me an email: thorsten (at) sixdoors (dot) com
How is a picture of a computer monitor filled with hex code "A general view of the Bushehr main nuclear reactor"?
AppointmentReminder isn't a brand. For the reason that Snapchat is a brand while DisappearingPics is not (and probably wouldn't ever be) a brand.

My guess is that patio went for SEO boost over brandability when picking the name.
"It was written several years ago as one of my first projects when I was in High School"
High school? Really? Are there any proper highschools like these? I am jealous now.
Late to the discussion, but I'm surprised no one is discussing the non-technical implications of drones. Even if safety/security/etc can be guaranteed 100%, personally I wouldn't want my view of the sky to be littered by drones.
Totally agree regarding the poor word choice with "artisanal".

I hear what you're saying about backing up claims regarding how coffee affects culture. I don't know of anything quantifiable. I do know anecdotally from previous jobs, many conversations were sparked around taking a break to brew a cup of coffee @ the office... many late night candles... all nighters... ad infinitum. I guess for those companies that don't really have the coffee culture already, we're not well positioned to convince them that they need to. I think we're focused on the companies that are already buying coffee regularly and want to just outsource that. Unless you thing making those statements detracts from our credibility?
Technically, you also get shared memory in Erlang--it's just table-structured rather than a block of raw bytes. I've never really come across a situation in Erlang, that calls for shared memory in other languages, that sharing an ETS table and passing messages about events on it doesn't solve more cleanly.
It's been a while since I looked, but I believe a few CentOS developers get paid by redhat, or if not, at least have alternate @redhat.com addresses. My impression has always been that CentOS and Red Hat have a good enough relationship that CentOS would not want to jeopardize that. Additionally, Red Hat benefits from having one of, if not the most common server distro (the numbers are hazy) based on their product.

The truth is, Red Hat is the only linux distro I can think of (besides maybe SuSE, but I don't know much about it) that has really made a significant push to take over the enterprise market from Microsoft (and now they've moved to trying to do the same thing to VMWare).
'Memories' pass between generations.
> If a well-managed stock will not sell better than a poorly managed stock (which is the case if everyone uses "whole market" low load index funds, which seem to be the best performers right now) then there is no longer any incentive for management to manage well.

Well, if you assume that a hundred percent of management's compensation is in the form of company stock, sure.

I somehow doubt that's the case.
the real killer here is scripts that load scripts, often several layers deep, and a blocking load and a round trip each time....
Look, I don't think that incarceration works at all. But this person created a possiblity for 34 thousands of other people (assuming one case per person) to get potentially raped in the prison.

I'm not vengeful or violent mostly, but shit like that makes my blood boil a little.

Policemen who wish to carry a tazer used to get electrocuted with one, just so they have an idea what sort of punishment they will dispensing to other people.

I think that every lawyer and DA and what not should be thrown in jail, right in the thick of it, so they'd get a good idea about what they subject other people to.
>> ... even mentions that he knows plenty of small individual investors who follow many tenets of the philosophy of value investing and they have consistently beat the market
Can anyone tell us who a few of them are? I'd like to know how many of them might exist, how consistently they've beaten the market, and for how long.

And if those answers are strong, I'd like to invest some money with them.
Add to that Webkit's retarded decision not to render any text at all if the web-page uses custom fonts.

The reasoning behind this is a wish to avoid annoying or "unestethical" flicker from one font to another once the font has loaded.

That's great if you're on 10mbps or more.

Now put yourself on a 64kbps barely functioning link on the metro, you have DLed the 800bytes of article text you really want read 5 minutes ago but you're still waiting for that one special font which webkit requires to be able to see anything. And that wont fully load until you're off the metro.

I tell you: Lesser things can drive a otherwise reasonable person completely mad.

Don't use custom fonts on any mobile stylesheet ever. Thanks.
There are other JVM languages that are far less verbose than Java, without the complexity of Scala, with better compile times, and better compatibility with plain-old Java. For instance, Kotlin.
Let Dave Chinner tell you: https://archive.org/download/Linux.conf.au2012ConferenceVide...
They're still available for free, no ads on it, but if you get too much traffic or something they yank the DNS and point it at an ad server
Wouldn't this be covered by restaurants? Just places where people gather to relax, eat, drink, read, chat quietly.
If you look at the old RFCs, you can see that the words were used differently before the change to the current usage.
The jury's decision... frankly I trust Whit Diffie on this stuff more than I would trust a jury from Marshall.
> (but I do not make that argument)

That's good because given the amount of code Red Hat contribute back to the community, including buying proprietary tools and open sourcing them, you'd look like a complete idiot.
I think a drone is probably more realistic in the short term. A self-driving car still has to get the package from the street to your porch, and while I'm sure someone's working on a little robotic deliveryman, the drone combines both transit and delivery in one package.
Because of the jury's decision.
There's a lot of "seems" going around from people who haven't used the language, or dynamic-typing folk who obviously aren't going to pick a language that bets the farm on static types.

As a long-time Java dev myself, Scala is solving problems you don't even realise you have, because you don't know to look for them.

Powerful types, immutable state and FP make a world of difference for writing clear solutions, with better abstractions, less code, less bugs and less bullshit than the horrendous status quo of corporate Java development.
My first day with Firefox OS
Modula-2 and Oberon-2 as first procedural and first OO language in my university as well (in Soviet Russia, no less :) )
I believe the canonical answer to that is that even Google Search, the page you'd expect to be the most cacheable bundle of HTML/JS/CSS on the Internet, has to deliver its pages from a "cold-start" more than 60% of the time. Making sure visits 2..N work smoothly won't improve the average user's experience when most of them are on visit 1.
I think this is fascinating, both for what the world will look like a few years down the road, as well as for all the questions that need to be answered.

A few random thoughts:

1) "Safety questions" - drones won't fly drunk, or while texting, or putting on makeup, or...you get the point. We regularly engage in what is arguably the most dangerous activity on the planet without batting an eye or thinking we should clamp down on the number of barely-trained 16-yo's doing it, so I'm not going to be moved by the safety concerns on this one. If for no other reason than drones are expensive, and lawsuits more so, so you can expect a pretty good safety record

2) "Noise/environment concerns" - I was working in the SF Bay Area when 9/11 happened; it was weird to suddenly not have planes constantly taking off from 3 different airports. For a few days.

It will be strange to have this things buzzing around the sky - for a few months. Then you'll stop looking up. I can't imaging them being worse than a leaf blower or a big diesel delivery truck.

3) "Airspace/regulations" - this part is fascinating to me. How do you avoid children's kites? Rival delivery drones? BB-guns? (I know that's what I'd be doing - a lucky shot to a rotor, and I'm the Hero Slayer of the 6th Grade). It is - literally (now that "literally" means anything you want it to, I can use it without fear) - a new frontier, with the same types of questions we're asking about Moon and Asteroid rights. I'm psyched we have these types of technical questions to deal with now.

4) "Surveillance/terrorists/et al" - whatever your concern - too late.

Start this post thinking to just think about & list my response to each major point raised elsewhere; looks like I've come out pretty keen on this whole thing. Hello, future! Isaac Asimov, you almost made it.
Have you flown computer-controlled multirotors? There's a big difference between fixed wing aircraft or helicopters and computer-controlled multirotors. These things are highly sophisticated and capable of making thousands of adjustments to the speeds of their rotors every second.
i have my own hobby UAV's and the more i see about prime air the more i think its a joke.
"Tiny" per-person carbon footprint compared to the west.
3rd highest.

And India is the problem?
If you hadn't mentioned Go, you could have described Java with these bullet points (with the exception of the last). Why throw away all the proven libraries, extremely good garbage collector, IDEs, intrumentation? Java is a perfectly fine language and if you think it is too verbose, there are good other options such as Kotlin, Groovy (which offers static typing nowadays), Ceylon etc.
Komodo Wins Chess Engine Competition, Beating Open Source Stockfish
We built a similar decorator/context manager for profiling, but it is really much more useful if you can export the data to statsite + graphite so that you can graph and view it on an on going basis. The insight into the runtime is much more valuable when you have historic data to compare it to.
Playing with word2vec and German
10^59 exabytes is more than 10^53 times as much storage as there ever has been manufactured.
Except that a huge chunk of the industry outside the Hacker News, Reddit, and start-up bubble is using Java or C#. In fact, I have many CS and AI graduates as friends, who love programming in the Java ecosystem.
It's worth pointing out the EPEL repository that makes many of the bleeding edge packages from fedora available to RHEL in a fully compatible way.
Well I guess good coffee > bad coffee, so all things being equal perhaps a company that pays for better coffee for its employees cares about the well being of its people more than companies that don't?

Of course, all too frequently this comes with the added expectation for employees to work longer hours.

Also, non coffee drinkers may be peeved.
I don't think you should trade stocks but buy companies instead. I think there's a mental shift in between stocks & the market and investing in a company.

Owning companies existed before stocks: stock markets grew to add easier funding and liquidity of ownership but I think that these days the markets are way more detached from the actual business the companies are doing than before.

It's my perception that those who buy parts of a company aren't generally interested in the stock market. You could as well buy part of the company privately and there would be no stock market for that particular company. If your calculations say it's likely to be a good investment for you then that holds even if the company is public.

What the stock market seems to provide is lots of noise. You generally don't want to hear any of that. I think that when you do your research on interesting companies, some companies light up, and then you should start investing in those companies as long as the light is up. If it goes out, then you should start selling the stock. To compensate against the market noise, you should buy in smaller chunks and spread the purchases over a longer period of time: this way you don't need to care as much as about the dips and spikes.
Yes, you can do this in scala with type aliases
A simpler validation process would be to compare the positive/negative ratio a chemist in a similar position produces. This would only involve sharing very small datasets between labs.
India was also colonized.

You aren't being unbiased when you point out medicine and technology, but not colonialism.
One of the people I admire most is Bill Murray. Every once in a while, when he's bored, he'll check his answering machine for offered acting gigs. The rest of the time, he does whatever he feels like, has more than enough money to get by day-to-day.

What does he feel like doing? Well, in one stint he studied Philosophy and watched movies at the Cinémathèque Française and generally milled about in Paris (I can think of worse ways to spend 4 years). He also plays golf, writes a bit, and crashes parties.

If I was able to use my intellect to get a huge paycheck virtually on demand, I'd probably live a similar life-style.
I don't think it would have changed the outcome.
From the pictures I saw, the speed must have been very high.

Now to answer your question, in a car accident, yes fire does play a big role since it doesn't take much to light up gas. On top of that gas gets everywhere inside the car. For this reason, I would prefer to crash in an electric car if I had to.

As for the Tesla S, it is one amazing car, maybe the best car ever built like some said. The price makes it a niche product that most of us cannot afford.

I'm not worried about the "fire cases" since they were all caused by collisions. My dad used to work for a tow company and car fires happens all the time and we rarely hear about it. Media focused on the Tesla fires just because it is electric and maybe because it is Tesla.
Well this one does. But (to keep within your metaphor) nearly all of them are numbers from either the past or after you will die. And the chances of getting a useful one are smaller than actually playing the lottery.
Yes, this information is incorrect. MySQL does not "run in memory" moreso than other RDBMS's; it has various in-memory caches but persists your data to disk. SQL is not a database, but the language you use to talk to one. NoSQL is not a specific file-backed database but a category of software, some of which persist data to disk and some of which don't.
Stop with your preaching already, India has blocked the talks because developed countries have gone back on many of the promises they have agreed to keep including funding, technology transfer and their own commitments to reducing their emissions.