skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can refuse to believe all you want, no one's forcing you to apply to the job.

A lot of people do a lot of things for reasons other than money. Almost all technical books, for example, do not make very much money for their authors. Certainly not enough to justify the work they put into them. But thankfully a lot of folks still think it's a worthwhile thing to do.

I'm sure non-monetary concerns are a significant factor in everyone's job choices. Otherwise why aren't we all spammers or grifters, or selling bullshit "audiophile" equipment at crazy markups? Are there any companies you wouldn't work for even if they paid you much more than the competition? Logically the reverse must also be true, that you will work somewhere for below average because you enjoy working there.

Yes, in most common cases what you say may be true, a lot of typical employers are exploitative. But PA isn't a typical case. PA very much is family. At a normal company it would be very unusual for everyone at a company to attend a coworker's wedding, but that's absolutely the way PA is. And not because of some bullshit corporate culture but just because that's how they've been and they've struggled to maintain that level of closeness even as they've grown.
How to Interview a Financial Advisor
Just back from Colombia. A swedish tourist tried to cross the Darien Gap in May. His last blog post is here: http://centramerica.wordpress.com/

"I’m in riosucio now, on the atrato river. From here it’s not far from panama. There are supposedly quite many paths from here to panama. We’ll see how it goes."

He hasn't been heard from since. Read the comments on his blog if you want to feel like crying.
> Instead, I'd bet the Chrome team are just watching for JS which matches the asm.js spec

No. All optimizations that V8 are doing are following from the JavaScript specification itself, not from asm.js specification. V8 does not use asm.js specification in any way (including type rules that asm.js prescribes). If you take asm.js code and slightly change typing so that it will no longer pass asm.js type check but still be reasonable V8 will continue to optimize what it can.
Okay, so you're someone that doesn't want them tracking your every move. How much would a VPN, scripts like Ghostly/NoScript and encripted mail help?
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-pay...

Seems that node.js outperforms the JVM for WebDev nowadays.
Cloud OCR Project: Learn to Develop for Windows Azure
"...at some point, and there are ways to do it but there's definitely a lot more research required..." Maybe it's better to abandon the whole legacy JS platform and move on to something that doesn't slow down innovation?
I think you added something to the conversation, and being the top comment it would seem so do other users. The comment made by 'joe_the_user, however, is shallow and pointless and advances the conversation in no direction but down. I think it's often good to have someone point out the "editorialisation" (for want of a better word) of an article, because after all this material has been designed for (somewhat) casual consumption, not as a how-to. But we're hackers and we like to start sentences with the word "Technically..." ;)
Wikidata/Technical proposal - Meta
The best thing about Berlin: There's no industry to speak of, so people need to get creative. Most of my friends have 'invented' jobs. This pushes people to create, to do with their time something they would never consider on a more conservative city. For example, I met a guy on the metro who gives tours around town on a sledge, using a pack of Huskies. He was carrying the huskies and sledge on the train :)

Lots of freelancers, startups, and people with job titles that don't exist elsewhere.
What if an excessive number of stories are off-topic, highly political, spam or otherwise inappropriate? Not all high frequency flaggers are abusive.
The same reason people prefer comfortable cars to bicycles (I commute by cycle myself).

Headphones are alternative solution to receive the sound with a pile of sacrifices, with the only advantage - not disturbing neigbhours. That is not a lie, you can feel the sound.

I actually understand your point of view, but I have a strong belief it is culture influenced (see side story).

If you want to save up, go for paper-thin walls. Some, like me, would rather pay extra for the comfort.

Side story: I spent my childhood in late soviet constructed building. These had impressively thick walls inbetween rooms and flats. Sadly not sound insulated, but by a degree better of what I have seen in UK so far.

Being a music lover, I would listen to a high quality (even had some of the rare DVD-Audio disks) on East EU-acceptable/West EU-loud volume every evening.

In a contrast, last five years I have been living in UK. Fully detached houses are heavily rare, people love to save money and go for semi-detached houses with thin walls. Being polite, the best I can hope for is watch movies with just enough volume to recognise the speech. In my hometown, I could get close to cinema (sound wise) experience without stepping out of home.

You would ask why I do not watch movies in headphones?

1. As mentioned earlier, low frequency soundwaves are received by the body, not ears.

2. That would be an awkward experienced watching a movie with (girl)friends, everyone wearing headphones.

3. Comfort of not having a piece of technology attached to your body.

4. I was exposed to a greater quality sound already.

England would be a hell, if everyone had loud speakers and used them at night. So, I am thankful and respectful to english-men prefering headphones.
a.) Unless, you use eval profusely, it really does not. I'm not sure how much metaprogramming power proxies really give you.

b.) It also has Google pumping a LOT of resources into making it fast.
60fps (old Intel HD graphics in Linux Mint).
Quantum Bees: http://discovermagazine.com/1997/nov/quantumhoneybees1263

I know it's Discover and probably total crap, but I just love the idea.
Automated video looping with progressive dynamism (SIGGRAPH 2013)
The scary thing of these kinds of witch hunts is that law enforcement is listening / reading / conducting hunts of their own. And they will be prone to the same mistakes as these readers.

That brings the frontrunners of Bitcoin in a predicament.

On the one hand they are often libertarians and very happy with the succes of Bitcoin. On the other hand, getting in early gives them some windfall gains, and law enforcement will go after them, since many of the real criminals using Bitcoin will remain elusive to them.

A little tidbit that will hit any of them sooner or later: did they properly file their taxes on the Bitcoins they mined? Trammell just admitted holding 800K$ worth of Bitcoins. Where did they come from? (Mining, I know, but those lawsuits will get hairy, because lack of knowledge.)
I'm gonna have to agree with darkmighty here: learn your physics from physicists, not from Eliezer. No matter how well or badly he actually understands quantum physics (which I'm not qualified to judge), we should be learning from actual expert practitioners rather than from a fellow amateur who happened to "ace the class", so to speak.

If physicists say probability amplitude, it's called probability amplitude.
How  To Become Extinct As Big Data Evolves - Infographic
But it's better to pick the one that could potentially lead to JS being phased out.
> Just as there are Journals of Negative results [1][2] so too should there be a journal of failed startups.

We used to have something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
When in doubt … Persevere
Doubt can kill everything you have worked for, believed in and fort odds for. Doubt can kill the light at the end of the tunnel and the efforts of your supporters – if any.
There are two outcomes when playing lottery...
I remember spending many enjoyable Saturday mornings attempting the Guardian crossword - more often than not set by Araucaria.

These things have an interesting way of marking the passage of our lives.
Do you have a CV that you can send through?
> It's a convention in physics to call it probability amplitude because, you know, it makes sense, as a direct analogous to energy.

Wait, what? Could you please flesh out the analogy between probability and energy?

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From the Wikipedia article:

> Probability amplitudes provide a physical meaning of the wave function, a link first proposed by Max Born, and this is a pillar of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Oh, my…

I'd say the real pillar of the Copenhagen interpretation is the word "probability". Which is rather weak, compared to the fact that the collapse postulate of the Copenhagen interpretation is non-linear, non-unitary, non-differentiable (even discontinuous!), non-local, violates CPT-symmetry and Liouville's Theorem, non-deterministic, and faster-than-light. Oh, and it's strictly more complex than a many-world interpretation, since it adds an extra postulate on top of existing equations. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q6/collapse_postulates/

Seriously, how many arrows to the chest does the Copenhagen Interpretation must endure before we declare it dead, and stop saying "probability" before every occurrence of "amplitude"?

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Fire a photon through a half sieved mirror, with 2 sensors to catch the 2 possible paths, such that no matter what, one of the sensors will go off. What do you think happens?

The equations (you know them more than I do) say the amplitude will flow and decohere into 2 non-interacting blobs. The blob where sensor 1 goes off, and the blob where sensor 2 goes off. (Note from Captain Obvious: the equations are deterministic. They do not say that God plays dice with the universe.) Now say you fire the photon, and observe sensor 1 going off. What do you think happened to the other blob, the one you don't interact with? Do you think it went away just like that? It would be like believing that a colonization spaceship going beyond the observable universe disappears, not only from your view, but for good. http://lesswrong.com/lw/pb/belief_in_the_implied_invisible/

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Of course this sequence is sketchy and hand waving (it doesn't even try to hide it). Its purpose is not to teach us Quantum Physics. Only certain aspects of it, to serve a philosophical agenda (most notably questions around personal identity and Free Will).
"case in point" :-)
I think 'lil Wayne got the answer predicted out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5G4hZOJSng
If you make changes to your site that make both IE6 and all other browsers fast, then what are you optimizing for?

Because this is what is happening.

asm.js is as a monolith: "use asm" in the foundation and a pyramid of typing rules, take one out everything crumbles. Right now V8 does not use "use asm" nor relies on any static typing (beyond what can be derived from JavaScript specification).

For example when V8 improves its optimization pipeline to handle coercion of boolean to integer inline this helps asm.js code, but it also helps anyone doing this operation outside of asm.js specification compliant code. This coercion rule is just a part of the language, so I really see this as optimization of JavaScript as whole.
Please look up copyright. I know the concept of magical numbers that nobody is allowed to duplicate is grating, but this is what business and life is built on.

As a musician, if I posted a piece of music to a site that permitted it to be played in their Flash player on the site, this does NOT mean I want it to be distributed does it? Unless I explicitly stated that it was alright to distribute it.

EDIT: I didn't mean this to come across as snappily as it did btw!
I have the same thing in Win and Linux.
No, I wouldn't appreciate it, but if I complained about my neighbor being noisy at 10AM and someone else complained about their neighbor being noisy at 2AM, I'd get more strange looks.

I'm sure most of us could stand to be more considerate of our neighbors, but I'd prefer if soundproofing became common enough that we didn't really have to.
Quickbooks' solution to DPI scaling: Don't.
I just signed up our company for the Backblaze trial a couple of days ago and your posts here have been reassuring. Good job!
Why 23andMe Terrifies Health Insurance Companies
Thanks for the link. I wonder how well it works. Did you try implementing it?
Bring your Bitcoin mining rig to the Icebreaker in SF
If someone would've said this before, they would've definitely been seen as paranoid/conspiracy type people. I mean it's ridiculous to even think that a government agency would concern itself with stuff like this - and here we are. It's like you can think of the worst stuff NSA could do to blackmail/discredit someone - and now you can bet they are already doing it.
Awesome, Zed!
I guess that you'll receive a lot of emails :)
Me included. lol.
>Does weiss == weiß ?

You need a case folding function/method to check for this.

For eg. in Perl, see the fc function - http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fc.html

fc("weiss") eq fc("weiß"); # true
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I know these are entirely different departments, and likely have little correlation to reality.. but google has a worse track record than microsoft for supporting some of their most popular products (iGoogle, Reader, free apps account levels)... it's hard for me to trust services to be around in the long run (this is probably more of an emotional bias here).

I know that there are api compatible systems out there, and one could roll your own (so to speak), it will get very interesting over time. I'm also curious what happens in the application space for docker.io based cloud offerings in the next year.
Just got myself a beautiful new 2560x1440 27" monitor. Set DPI scaling in Windows to 125% so I can enjoy the full native resolution while still being able to read text on the screen. Tried to use Quickbooks and half the fields are cut off. Their solution? I need to "optimize" my DPI scaling settings - AKA, set it back to 100%.

I mean, if they can't actually support scaling properly, couldn't they at least override it so the interface doesn't completely break itself with scaling turned on? It boggles my mind how they put out a new version of these products every single year, and yet seem to manage to avoid actually improving their most glaring deficiencies.

Edit: Just read the fine print more closely there. Indeed, in the Windows 7 compatibility settings in shortcut properties, you can turn off DPI scaling for individual programs. That helps!
Sad story makes me sad. Keep on trying and accept the help of all the people in this thread. Christmas season has officially started.
Why clueless and lazy? We know the strengths and weaknesses of PHP and other programming languages. Thing is, while we really do appreciate what others offer it's still easier / cheaper / better (choose whichever sounds good to you) to "import" good ideas from <insert language> than to change whole stack.
Clojure is 
Slides from my talk on Clojure at Paris Functional Programmers meetup.
JavaScript closure vs. object look-up performance
Well, that's what our software does too, so I didn't really have an incentive to do so!

Now, judging from how busy the engineers are here, I'd say this is a bit harder than it seems!
Also, recursive descent parsing can be used to generate extensible parsers using frameworks like Campl4.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/1gx71p/building_exten...
Sure, he can do what he wants to do with it.

That doesn't mean that it isn't very disrespectful behavior to his audience. :)

Only because one can do something doesn't mean one should.
But the first conclusion is completely meaningless without the data for the second. That's my point. It's this worship of numbers while ignoring the actual people that these numbers represent that has led to these intrusive practices.
In my experience, most of the 3.5" enclosure drives have been off the shelf. My last batch of HP ones were all WD Greens. I have seen a few WD 2.5" externals with proprietary connections :/
The syntax shown is completely trivial, it should be parseable with about a dozen lines without using any generators, frameworks, libraries, string replacements, or anything else.

Unless I missed something.
What about this one https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_syslog_patch ?
I love you Zed. I would bear manbabies for you.

I can remember the old days when there wouldn't be a week without Zedshaw this and Zedshaw that on HN.

And the very fact I love you is your pure, raw, passionate ethics.

I like you because you do not just ignore dumbasses. You give them a chance to see gravity of their delusion and to repent. If that means taking a dude and rubbing his nose into the poo, then be it.

Zedshaw is like an amplifying mirror. Be nice to him and he will reflect and amplify the niceness. Take him for a fool... Brace down for some Righteous Fury (tm).
Gave it a go on my iPhone held vertically, got a game started but got confused, what do you have to do?
... or you can include an ETag (optimistic lock) in your rows/mongo documents and do a conditional update to ensure no writes are interposed with your reads.
When we released gwtquake it ran poorly on FF and the FF team seems to have spent some time optimizing for it. Imagine a press release boasting how FF optimizes for GWT.

This press release is a little heavy on spin trying to market asmjs. While it does appear V8 is speeding up asmjs style code, until we know specifically about what they've done in chrome 31/32, this seems mostly like speculation. What if in fact asmjs was causing a degenerate case in their JIT and what they actually did amounted to fixing some bugs?
IMO the best way to go about it in this case would have been simply to express your appreciation/admiration/whatever for his actions here, and ignore the past. That would clearly imply that you've at least somewhat adjusted your opinion, without having to explicitly bring it up.

Of course, it also wouldn't have spawned a hundred-comment sub-thread.
(Note: I am not the author of this link; See its original HN discussion[1] for details.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6780008
Bitcoin Company To Open Transaction Shops To “Inform” People
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I also suggest zooming into those graphs to see which changes lead to drops (at least those that are currently visible). Then you could try to explain people what asm.js specific is in changes like:

https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=14658 and
https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=15147

[hint: nothing, they have more to do with how Emscripten has a tendency to produce extremely big functions which no human would write, and JIT has to accomodate for that to hit them in correct moment and not give up on them. Once it hits them however the optimizations that were there for ages, optimizations purely based on JavaScript semantics, start doing what they are intended to do --- make JavaScript run fast]
You can watch all of them on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/80274630
I believe Core Data can be backed by SQLite so what does this offer, just ease-of-use?
Determining What Parts of the Brain are Digital vs Analogue
Just the opposite:

Von Neumann programming would make you overly excitable, what with all these state changes and side effects.

Pure functional programming leads to immutable calm.
This also holds us back from trying it out as our primary data store (but it is interesting as an additional store for other things that don't need additional unique keys)
I mentioned that I flag pretty much all of the climate change stories, and got my flag powers revoked. C'est la vie, I guess. I still don't think those stories add anything to this site besides some of the same old tired flame wars, so I'd probably continue flagging those and politics if I got the flag link back.
I see what you mean but allow me to theorycraft a bit more : Changes and removal of packages are considerably more rare than additions and either happens relatively infrequently. This makes cluster wide cache invalidation relatively trivial (it's easy but has scalability issues, and scalability won't be an issue here). Also, when I said "cached" I probably should have said keeping various indexes in memory to facilitate queries. I actually work with systems in a roughly similar technical domain (way different space though, I work on large scale TV systems).

Your other point is definitely the big challenge but that is exactly the main motivation to use hosted CDNs and other hosted services that have solved this challenge for you o a large extent.

I'm almost tempted to have a go at this.
I'm glad you're doing the research before taking the leap. There are lots of safe neighbourhoods and only a few I would avoid. Let me know if you have any questions about city.

Unfortunately, I'm not involved with any startups at the moment but would love to get involved with the right one (take a leap of my own). I moved back to this city about a year ago after being overseas for six years. I rushed the move due to family reasons and didn't properly set myself up in that regards. I have the right personality, but I'm not confident in my skills. I need to find a company where I can learn as well as contribute and flourish that way.

I hope you find something that suits you. Are you thinking of joining an existing startup or doing something on your own?
Better organization of content maybe? Too many drafts everywhere and the few comics I could find were not making their point explicit.
Australian Startups Say There's A Lack Of Money, But That Might Be A Good Thing
I don't believe he does mean 90 million kilometers (a tenth of the circumference of earth's orbit around the sun)
this is a better suggest for sure, at least in terms of avoiding social awkwardness
I'm willing to believe experts when I know nothing about a subject. Given the apparent current reception of MWI[1], I concede that things are not looking good for Everett.

On the other hand, arguments trump authority[2]. And Eliezer produced specific, very convincing arguments in favour of Everett. To this day, I don't know of any specific strong objection to his writings on the subject. Therefore I believe him. (For now. Please let me know if you know of any objection he did not address.)

Physicists say "probability amplitude"? I don't care. I'll go on saying "amplitude" alone. The term is less confusing, and physicists will understand me regardless.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Pol...

[2]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/
I do not support Recep Tayyip but, due to a reason which I do not know yet, the people of Turkey loves and believes him. Also we need to accept that, he is a strong man. To fix the economy, whole strategic companies have been sold. The power of military has been taken down. Also, the turkish companies and people are not supported by government.
There's a huge difference. Postgresql was formally correct first, then it became fast, then it became easy to use. I always had the feeling I could trust it with my data. Postgresql, if wrong, would be wrong towards correctedness and towards data safety, at the expense of speed.

I definitely don't get the same vibe from MongoDB.
I am not certain but I think you mash 3 buttons. The player who presses these buttons the fastest win's
On gitology
Here are two things you can consider:

1) Document why your company failed and have a PayPal Donate Button. I think a lot of people here will appreciate your sharing and glad to donate. I myself am one.

2) List out your skills and see if any remote work can be arranged.
Alas, what could have been an interesting discussion reduced to over analysis of some guy calling some other guy a cock.
One day to make a play
TradeBit.com storing User Passwords as Plaintext
Well he stopped saying there was no formal security analysis once someone linked him to one, I think. :)