skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Canadian in the US. I'm exploring moving back to Canada . Specifically, I'm looking at the Toronto area. I'm not impressed by all the process around incubators and raising small amounts of funds. It is a bit discouraging.

1) The govt seems to be putting money into encouraging startups, which is great. The way they are doing it seems to be broken. The programs all require gatekeepers with silly processes (e.g. applying months before, talking about IP protection from the get go[this makes me think lawyers run the show]).

2) The govt programs mostly have lots of strings attached to how you can use the money.

3) Some accelerators charge people for "program delivery". WTF!

4) I make over 6 figures in the US. Toronto jobs seem to be paying around half my salary (60-70K). So if I screw up, I don't want my fallback option to be move back to the states.

Here's an idea: any student who finishes a PhD or Masters from a Canadian school .. invest 30-50K in their company. Ask them for matching funds. Stipulate you can only use the funds for hiring employees.

Anyways ... sorry for the random rant. I'm just really frustrated. I guess this is good training for when I'm in the trough of sorrow :-p
>"Here's the deal. Yes, diamond ring existed before De Beers' ad campaign" //

Indeed. I agree with almost everything you're saying, including the general sentiment.

One of your Google Books citations didn't work but the other bears this:

"Diamonds had been a popular stone for engagement rings before Ayer came on the scene, but the agency helped give new meaning to the tradition and make it more widespread." (Brides, Inc: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, by Vicki Howard, p.50, transcribed E&OE)

Also worth noting is that:

"from the end of the Depresssion to the late 1940s, the percentage of double-ring as opposed to single-ring marriages increased from 15 percent to approximately 80 percent." (ibid, p.61)

I think that 80% matches the claim Ayers made for diamond engagement-ring popularity ('four-fifths of a carat per wedding' or somesuch turn of phrase). Of course the "double-ring" wasn't being promoted with the same massive campaign, though it certainly was being promoted by individual jewellers.

It seems hard to overplay what De Beers et al. accomplished and yet again, as in the GP post, it appears you've managed - like the part about movie stars, people already gave diamonds as symbols of love/marriage. Though in honesty I'd rather the exaggeration than the alternative of ignoring the virulent place of marketeers in Western Capitalism.
I wonder how does JackDB compare to Datazenit[0]? Looks interesting though.

[0] http://datazenit.com
Well, NASCAR only has 4 dates at 2 tracks with restrictor plates, but a lot is made of them. Cup has two course: Watkins Glen and Sonoma which each get 1 race. I do wish they would move one to the chase.

I cannot remember Cup racing a street course, but the Nationwide did in Canada and the Trucks raced on dirt[1] this year, so they might be a Cup date in the future. Nationwide ran a road course in Mexico City, so that might be a possibility for Cup.

They just don't let drivers have much info or else they'd let the drivers have a speedometer. Heck, they've banned cellphones in the car since that could be used to get performance information.

1) a Cup race on dirt is a scary thought, pitting would be odd
> No, of course you can not. How do you see the result? That requires a side effect of some kind.

The result is whether or not the program type-checks.

Your original claim was, again, that "without side effects you can't do anything". So, again, unless you are claiming that functions and libraries "don't do anything", your original claim was incorrect. Your new claim, that programs must have side effects to do anything, is still wrong but more debatable.

You can call me obtuse if you want to, or you can learn how to communicate clearly and say what you actually mean. Doesn't much matter to me either way.
Play the man, not the odds
I always find it confusing how people can prefer Xcode. I guess it's whatever you're most used to and comfortable with. Xcode does look a lot better aesthetically, but that's about the only thing I can think of.

IMO AppCode has much better code generation, refactoring and navigation. For instance, I've yet to locate a way to find all references to a symbol in Xcode.
I'd bet a dollar that your principal read 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' --- your story would fit perfectly with the many examples of positive discipline in the book.
A shortage is what happens when there is a significant delay between prices rising and supply rising.

If demand gradually increases, both quantity and price will rise steadily.

If there is a shortage, price first rises sharply with little or no increase in quantity and then falls with a significant increase in quantity.
"If they don't have this information, they are regulating blind."

Yes, exactly. That's why they've been asking the company for that information for months, and why they shut down sales of the product until the company complies. Glad we agree that this is the right move by the FDA.

"If 23andme's gene sequencers are inaccurate, then I expect market competition between competitors over who has the most accurate sequencing."

They aren't sequencing anything -- they're using microarrays. How can you possibly have such a strong opinion on something that you know nothing about?
Spotify has been trying to claim that 70% is too high, and were trying to push for a reduction in royalties paid to artists via labels and lobbying congress. Trying to point out that they were not profitable, even though they're a new business and expecting profitability in this area so early isn't realistic by most measures.

But paying 70% of revenue for inputs isn't that big of a deal, especially for a business that can scale without having to make significant long-term capital investments.
I grew up in Sunnyvale.

A lot of my friends from high school have part-time jobs / intern over the summer at the startups/companies from where around I used to live...

But I don't live there anymore. And I'm kind of hesitant to move back to Sunnyvale (It is the most boring, soul-sucking place on earth) so I guess that doesn't really count for anything.

Meh.
Reflective XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails
I think that goes for blood donation, too. If it's a secret, no one has a model to live up to.

I hate calling attention to myself, but the good of the cause has to trump humility.
As I understand it, the plugins give the exact functionality that the more language-specific products offer. However they are typically one version behind. e.g. if RubyMine is on v6, the ruby plugin for IDEA will have equivalent features of RubyMine v5
Slightly disappointed to not see the obvious arguments.

As a university drop out I may be biased but I do believe that 'education for all' is a horribly misguided premise which persists because of the practicality of cheap childcare it provides (!)

I believe that vocational education is pretty flawed too...

I fail to see the value in qualification X if everyone can get it. All qualifications seem to be an exercise in desire and discipline... and this is why it doesn't work. IMO.

It works fine for serious and competitive fields like medicine and dentistry, but for the vast majority of fields out there a degree isn't worth much at all.

I can, and maybe have, written your dissertation from your textbook with no lectures... and I will do just fine.

Smart guys will drop out and succeed because of the same reasons they drop out, not in spite of it... just a shame so many drop outs are probably dropping out because education is not for them - or possibly university or vocational education is not right for their entire field.
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As soon as Chimps start observing my rights, I'll start observing theirs.
Right, my thought was that doing real tail calls everywhere that's eligible would almost certainly be a performance disaster. I'm not sure that hotspot could help, at least if applied naively, since correctness depends on never missing a tail call that could lead to unbounded stack usage.

For example, consider an F#-like language on the JVM. Given the definition `let apply f x = f x`, you could imagine `apply` getting called in all sorts of contexts that don't result in unbounded recursion, so a hotspot-like system would not generate a tail call when compiling the method given the first N invocations. But then if another function is defined as `let rec loop n = if n < 1 then n else apply loop (n-1)` and invoked as `loop 10000000`, then the lack of a tail call in `apply` is fatal.
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Any country that tries to create what he calls a "walled garden" of the internet would find the value of its GDP drop through the floor. Trade would be disrupted, cross-cultural exchange wither

While I agree with the sentiment of the article, I can't help but look to China's version of a "walled garden of the internet" and how that has affected China's GDP. It seems that China continues to do quite well in spite of the aforementioned "walled garden" approach to the internet.

Is the rest of the world doomed to a similar situation?
Really, really simple to use. 2000 emails a month will be plenty for me for right now.
£60 million dollar Bitcoin heist in real time
Personally, I'm not a fan of the Chromebooks BUT that tacky-ass website makes me want to love them. Did a billion-dollar company really make that crap?
The commercial JetBrain IDEs have lovely support for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, YAML, SASS, LESS, JSON, and so on. There's lots of stuff you're missing out on if you do web development with the Community Edition.

The IDEA Ultimate edition also supports lots of "enterprisey" stuff that the CE doesn't. Lots, of stuff.
I'd love for there to be less "by the book" and more communication in general, not just in schools. It's insane how much corporate america relies on "it's in the company handbook" rather than just communicating with people.

I worked at a place where a male employee was caught spending literally hours a day on the Victoria's Secret website. Instead of talking to him about it they waited until the next year's handbook was issued with a new directive about computer use so his manager could say "it's not personal, it's in the handbook".
You bring up the Koch brothers simply because the author wrote a report for the Manhattan Institute?

That's like bringing up George Soros whenever you read an op-ed by someone who once worked for the Brookings Institute.
Beats me. I guess someday when you're an old man, right before you close your eyes for the last time, you can imagine all that cool code that you wrote, and say what a great life you had. You were a hacker.

Steve, Larry, Notch, and the Instagram guys can know what they did made a difference. The world is a different place because they lived. They connected the important dots and hacked life...
Re: validity of the argument.

In engineering, you learn to discern logical fallacies rather quickly. Insulting your computer (ad hom) won't fix bugs in your programs. Insults in issues of importance to society are the norm, even going to the highest levels.

As a lawyer friend told me once:

1. if justice is on your side, argue justice

2. if the law is on your side, argue the law

3. if neither the law nor justice is on your side, insult the other side
Students are very easily impressed.
This is not necessarily true for social apps where number of active users are actually a feature. Your app itself might be great, but if you don't have active users, say good bye to ever growing big. This is also true on the contrary. If you happen to have started some service before others (Craigslist, dare I say Hacker News), even though the app itself might not be as good, because of the people you have on the site, it will win out against superior apps that have smaller number of people.
Not the same at all! We're talking about Notch's process. I don't think there's any disagreement about his product being top notch (sorry). The product of BS is well, BS, and her process be damned.
It's supply and demand man. The reason I don't own a helicopter is precisely because there is a shortage. Anything with a free-floating price is in shortage. I would totally buy a helicopter if they were $10k or less.

My point is that there isn't this magical jobs fountain that people are holding back from the masses, it's that there are large portions of the population that lack skills that are in demand in the work force.

I don't see how this is a controversial opinion.
> On-Premises or Private Cloud

It would seem that their enterprise version does this.
Nice idea, one thing I'd like to mention is you really should state somewhere that you're not storing people's contacts (I do hope that you're actually not), otherwise the perceived security of Google authentication drastically reduces. But overall great design, I hope it takes off!
the author appears to have rediscovered nested containment lists http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17234640/
Ask HN: Once Smart glasses go mainstream, will we need Smartwatches?
I'm wondering. Smartwatches are a way to see your notifications, and interact with your environnement. But Glass does the same. Can both be complementary ? In what way ? I feel like once Smart Glasses go mainstream, there will not be any more use for Watches. HN, what is your opinion about this ?
It's not about money, it's about providing value. Beautiful code that solves the wrong problem is just broken, because it doesn't do what it sets out to do. I don't see much beauty in code that's broken like that.

"For every complex problem there's an answer that's clear, simple, and wrong."
Looks nice, but does this do anything I can't do with my Citibank n-of-m financial transaction arbitration service?

(kidding- thanks for another innovation that makes traditional banks look like fossils)
He means a link between, you donate, they make product. You donate, they achieve X with your money. This one reads more like, "We have vague plans and lots of money but we need more, please contribute to our slush fund".

As best I can tell, the direct impact of the kickstarter funds will be paying for a camera to put on a launch vehicle to watch the CAT engine, but it's not very clear.
> This suggests that anything less than perfect security is worthless. Which is better, having pentesters look for vulnerabilities in 50% of your surface area, or having pentesters look for vulnerabilities in 0% of your surface area?

Is this supposed to be rhetorical?

Say you buy a really good front door for your house, and forget to put a back door on your house. I would say that testing the security of the front door is a waste of time.
How do you relate this to something like home security? You have valuables at your home. People can come in and take it with varying degrees of force. Are you prepared for the maximum force attack, or do you accept the typical security features which you know to be minimally effective?
Apple is Reportedly Testing 2K and 4K Displays for 12.9-Inch iPad
Yes, the new WebView in Android 4.4 is totally debuggable: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/re...
It doesn't yet have the screencasting, but every other DevTools feature is in there.
Can you give a couple of concrete examples of why he's so terrible? Or at least the areas in which he is not strong. Because it's clear to me that Minecraft was a fun and stable experience from the end users perspective, at least when I bought it (which was probably a good 18 months after the initial launch).
From the actual study which forms the basis of your "59% of black women have multiple baby daddies" assertion:

> Taken together, the findings from Figures 1.2 - 1.4 suggest that multiple partner fertility is intimately connected with various forms of social disadvantage and discrimination, distinctions in cultural practices and kinship ties, and access to resources. And, many of these differences (particularly monetary ones) may lead to chronic stressors that represent serious long-term and cumulative hardships for MPF women relative to other women.

The majority of the remainder of your sources are news-magazine or tabloid puff-pieces that regurgitate information sourced from God-knows-where. Just because somebody said it once on a website does not mean that the information is accurate or has undergone proper scrutiny. Finally, your Breitbart article suffers from the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy, which means that just because someone important said something does not make it true.

All of that said, none of this is likely to change your viewpoints because I suspect that you have long-since cemented your positions, but I feel the need to stand up and say something because this is the sort of insidious racism that keeps us from moving forward.

Additionally, I would really like to know your name so I can avoid doing business with you.
Hi. ZeroMailer founder here - We're in fact not storing any contacts. We should make that more clear in the FAQ.
Interesting; I'm a bit torn over this. On the one hand, I don't think people should lord themselves over others because they support charities, forget the bragging about one's wealth aspect (haven't there been studies that show the opposite, ie, you're more likely to see a poorer person donate than a rich one). I also don't think that people should enjoy any overt advantages due to donating to charity (otherwise, it's not charity).

On the other hand, I do think it's a good example to set, especially for those who are normally maligned as "amoral", eg atheist charities in particular have had to learn to do more PR to counter the stigma (completely unearned; again, studies show that more atheistic/secular countries are more generous) that atheist groups have.

That being said, I try not to bring up my donations to charity, unless they come up some other way, but I also wouldn't be doing them if I didn't enjoy doing them, so it again doesn't "feel" like "charity". I feel actions speak louder than words, and it's best to try to set a good example.
> I wonder if it was altered by a copy-editor who added a unit but misunderstood the intended meaning.

Someone linked to a video of this story, and if you watch it the original quote was very clearly bait doses.
µ-ops stand for micro-operations. Behind their CISC frontend, modern [0] x86 (and x64) actually perform as RISC processors. x86 opcodes are translated to these µops on the fly, and executed.

I'm not familiar with the caching mechanism, but here's an educated guess. There are potential optimizations in the CISC -> RISC translation, according to the x86 opcode sequence (reorder operations in order to run some of them in parallel, for example), and it is possible to cache them, sparing cycles in the process, since the processor wouldn't have to analyze the code each time to perform the optimizations.

Edit: apparently, my guess was correct :-) Thanks to Symmetry for the confirmation.

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[0] By modern, I mean "not ancient". The first processor to do that was the Pentium Pro.
When they turn 18 they will be allowed to choose where they spend their time and what they do with it and who they spend it with, which is likely to reduce both the need to self-medicate and the chance of getting caught doing so.
Your "cranks, or scammers" assessment raises an interesting question. Let's assume psychic powers don't exist. If someone who believes in them calls a for-pay psychic hotline, with which of the following 'telephone psychics' will their interests be best-protected?

(a) a psychic true-believer, who also cares about the caller

(b) a psychic true-believer, who simply wants to maximize their own income at the caller's expense

(c) a non-believer willing to pretend they are psychic, but who also cares about the caller's welfare

(d) a non-believer willing to pretend they are psychic, who simply wants to maximize their own income at the caller's expense

The 'psychics' of (a) and (b) are irrational/superstitious (or maybe even outright insane): that is, 'cranks'. The 'psychics' of (b) and (d) are amoral criminals: 'scammers'.

But (c) is kind of an interesting case. They're telling pleasing lies to someone, but that might be the best the caller can get. (Compare the 'white lies' often told to children, or people in psychological distress.) But the 'psychic' is still sane and empathetic. For example, they're not going to tell someone with a real health issue to skip professional treatment for just 'manifesting health'. They might give reasonable advice... under cover of 'psychic insight'. They won't view the solution to every issue as 'pay our hotline more money until you're broke'.

I have no idea about the details of Mrs. Pavlina's practice. I just think that given the existence of devoutly-believing psychic-seekers, and the existence of magical-thinking (a)- and (b)-type 'psychics', and cynically exploitative (d)-type psychics, the most compassionate response by rational and ethical people might not be just debunking/avoiding the whole enterprise. It might involve some practicing (c)-type 'psychics'... a little like harm-reducing clean needles for drug addicts.
Your last sentence is so important, and was basically what I was thinking the entire time reading that post, that I want to repeat it: In short, OOO cores are weird and horribly complicated and completely untrustworthy where performance is concerned.
Aka "worse is better," aka "New Jersey style"
Hi, can I shoot you a few quick questions over email about the process of applying for OPT extension while employed at your own company? Would really appreciate some advice on this.
You might want to take a look at our product, PlayCanvas. We've tried to do all the maths for you, so you don't have to. :-)
The older you are, the more likely that you have a spouse or child who can receive said packages, or a suburban home, where leaving a package on a porch isn't (as large) a risk, etc.
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>It's actually amusing in her in particular [...] //

The amusement lies, presumably, with your consideration that wearing pink and having coiffed hair are inconsistent with wanting to do outdoorsy stuff.

I have nieces too - they're being themselves when climbing trees just as much as when wearing pink tutus IMO. Perhaps they're wearing pink to fit in with their friends at school; perhaps they're climbing trees to fit in with me?
Perhaps it's because as a group, iPhone users are more lucrative than Android users, for example: Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/27/apples-ios-brings-...
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Google's microoptimizer actually has "try inserting random NOOPs" as one of its optimization passes: http://code.google.com/p/mao/
As far as I can tell, $6.99 is per delivery so one could presumably batch several packages.
I agree with this firmly and have often doubted if it made me a naive "non-marketer". When discussing with marketers I would often point to the idea that our funnel was already resulting in so few long term customers, why would we spend money to pour more people into such a tiny funnel? I think a really good and "enchanting" (to steal from another front-page article) first impression is necessary particularly when demoing to end users due to the large amount of products they're being bombarded with on a daily basis.

So while I agree with your overall stance, I'm worried about the implied advice to wait until your product is good enough. Since the phrase by definition is difficult to assess otherwise everyone would succeed.
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