skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ESR is an idiot for a lot of reasons, but to be honest you're taking that quote a little out of context. The whole point of that blog post was to show his superior rationality and analytical introspective prowess--despite the “irrational” feelings he describes in the quoted paragraph, he was able to reason his way through all that and his neocortex and non-bigotry came victorious. Or so he claims.

One a certain level I agree with what he writes in that post in the sense that we shouldn't let certain mental reflexes, which are no fault of ours, overpower our reason, compassion, whatever... But on the other hand, I have to agree with you at least in part, because that paragraph is just messed up (it's the exact part that startled me when I read the post[0] a few months ago). Without it, that post would be one of the rare reasonable things he wrote lately. It left a bad taste in my mouth not knowing what to think really. Although, he has gone on verbal racist sprees before, without much analysing own visceral processes.

[0] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001

EDIT: Oh, and just to add: he self appointed himself as a speaker for hacker culture. I don't think anyone has taken that seriously. Who cares what one person with delusions of grandeur thinks?
http://www.supportfu.com - SaaS. bootstrapped.
The linux kernel basically already does this, right?

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
Thanks for answering everybody's questions. How do you get the data on which coupons are available for which locations?
There are millions of bitcoin that have never changed hands.
If you go with the articles premise that the "picky" A class PhDs are the people getting leftover by traditional employment options, what else are these people to do?
I make ~$2.5k a month from my simple iOS apps http://www.bytesizeapps.net/
Build Your Own MultiCopter
If you want to start building drones, this seems like a cool place to start. Any thoughts?
I think the difference is nobody is exploiting anybody else. "Leo the Homeless Coder" is exploiting himself for profit, but Patrick McConlogue is not exploiting anybody. I'm not 100% sure what his specific motivation was, but it doesn't seem like Patrick is attempting to profit off this in any way.
> when I started to develop using java, had to switch to linux...

May I ask why?
https://github.com/maxogden/websocket-stream
In other words: yes, it's vulnerable to SSL stripping.
I agree. When my family and I lived in Vancouver BC, we didn't own a car for 3 years, and we have little children. It actually worked quite well. We rode buses / walked / biked to work, rode buses for weekend trips (Vancouver is great in that regard. You can even go to a lot of hiking/skiing spots by bus). And for the occasional out-of-city trip we used a Zipcar. I think that overall, the time you would spend taking care of your own car (repair/fuel/clean/etc), balances out with the time you spend walking/waiting for buses, etc. With the added advantage of physical activity when being forced to walk or bike instead of drive. It is hard to resist the temptation of using a car when you own one. Another advantage of the bus is that you get to do stuff while commuting. I used that time to read books. And I think I've read more books in those 3 years than what I had the 10 years before.
That's great. I usually wade through Retail Me Not on my own, but it's time consuming to go back and forth to see what's available from different stores (and they try and hide the actual code). I'll give it a try next time.
Even if government isn't capable of building things out, they will eventually be able to buy them from third parties, likely venture-backed ones like Palantir.

Third parties have little to risk by targeting this kind of market because private companies are just as interested in exploiting customer data.
No. In general, you may only sue the federal government when the federal government gives you permission to sue them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite...
I actually think what he meant is that Bitcoin is valuable from the network that stands behind it and all the tools, websites, and services that have sprung up around it. In addition to all of that you also have the actual rules of the bitcoin system ("protocol"), which of course is interesting from a technical / mathematical standpoint, but also setup a structure and ecosystem that may (or may not) have long term staying power until the next and more sophisticated cryptocurrency comes along.
It is /very/ useful. I managed to mooch a free account for an open-source project and it has been invaluable. For Python projects, it has the best integration (being written in python) of any of the many that I have tried (most of which seem to focus on RoR and everything else is an extra).

I'm attempting to get it adopted at my workplace as well. The major point that seems to get the bosses interested is being able to host it ourselves (for free, it's open source) easily in the case that we outgrow the hosted version.
Mixpanel vs Keen IO - What's the difference, anyway?
I thought he was in jail and his equipment had been taken, not to be returned for months? I haven't heard any updates on that lately.. Anyone know?
Don't the planned Ubuntu Touch phones (and the current Dev builds) run a modified Cyanogen kernel and a bionic-linked userland? (i.e. Android in Ubuntu-brown)?

As far as I'm concerned, the next Linux phone is the Jolla.
Not sure it would be related, but python.com used to be a startling high-res extremely NSFW spread that you really didn't want to accidentally visit in a public setting when you really wanted python.org...

(They are now 'no longer accepting new affiliates' though, and the pictures are gone.)
I too did not read the article.
I'm assuming they bought him a chromebook. That's like saying do you want $100 cash or a $250 chromebook and coding lessons.
do you work at a ruby shop?
Cool album. How did you get a big enough audience to make real money from this? Was it just word of mouth from making good tracks? Or was it also from doing shows or reaching out to music blogs or something?
They hide the actual code until you click on their link so they can get the affiliate traffic (otherwise people would just copy the code, and leave, resulting in no revenue for them).

Retailmenot was part of the inspiration for the site - I always found pizza coupons on their site to not be very accurate.
Personal blog: http://ashishb.net/
Makes money from adsense.
No where close to 1K/month but growing towards that.
This is a great move. Thank you.
Interesting question. I read her post, checked out the blog, disabled Adblock but still didn't see any ads. So I disabled Ghostery as well and finally saw the source of her income. My initial thought was "who the hell clicks these ads?". I suppose the target group isn't people like me who use extensions Adblock and Ghostery. And people like me are (and probably most of you) - at least for now - a pretty small group among web users.
I suppose you could move your entire controller server-side and share a cache for the complete composed JSON documents such that you do a single HTML page request followed by many cached JSON requests afterward one for each "page", but if a page always gets rendered to HTML, you'd only be skipping the last step.
You risk losing a lot with early exercise. The expected return on a $1 investment in option exercise is ??? hard to say.

What's even worse though is three years into employment deciding you hate your job and that you want to leave, realizing that staying and being alive are incompatible. And here we get real hypothetical ... you think the company has legs and that your stock might be worth something. But your strike price is $.05 per share and fair market value on Common Shares now is $1.50 per share. If you exercise your three years of options at this point hoping for the likely $10 per share IPO, you're stuck paying immediate regular income tax rates on your $1.45 per share immediate paper gain. And you may not have enough money to pay those taxes because they far outweigh your outlay for the stock exercise itself. And then you also risk the company going bust and you may end up with deducting max $3k/year in capital losses for the rest of your life.

That scenario is why I like buying up front in an early exercise.

In my last company I did the early exercise, though. And I stuck around for a long time. And that early stock was highly diluted and ended up being a small fraction of my overall stock option grant. I'm not sure it was worth it but we finally were acquired.
"s/every day/frequently/g” is a UNIX-y way of saying “substitute ‘frequently’ in place of ‘every day’ in the entire document”.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed#Substitution .)
The first one is the Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwan (Gōng Zhǔ Bìng), the 2nd one is the Cantonese pronunciation in HK (Gung Jyuh Behng)

Taiwan and Hong Kong both share the same written text (Traditional Chinese Characters) so the symbols are the same.
Couldn't agree more. One of my professors wrote a 200 line Matlab code to extract a column from a csv file.
Just to echo your point; I saw an article where the author likened Bitcoin to investing in IBM before Microsoft or Apple were ever companies. There will surely come something else which improves upon the currency and its algorithms, security, and ecosystem, but until then we still have a functioning cryptocurrency which is well understood and trusted by a select community.
It seems like an interesting social experiment.

There was a documentary a while back of a homeless guy given $100,000 and no restrictions.

http://voices.yahoo.com/a-homeless-man-blows-100000-free-mon...
Calling Deleuze lucid is the opposite of the truth: his use of language is obfuscatory and arcane.
Linux went mainstream ages ago. First with TiVo, now with Android.

GNU/Linux + X11 + Gnome/KDE never went anywhere near mainstream, perhaps, but Linux sure as hell did.
You can be put to Death for Atheism in 13 Countries around the World
Is it similar to Stokes Theorem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_theorem
Bonfaire Acquired by Moda Operandi
Seems like this news is not public. But unintentionally leaked on their staging site. :)
Keith Windschuttle is among the last people I'd trust to assess anybody's knowledge of history. He is most well known for arguing that the Australian Stolen Generations are made up, and that the enlightened nature of white European settlers in Australia in the 1700/1800s makes it virtually impossible for them to have treated Aboriginals as poorly as is generally accepted - outright accusing most historians he's ever mentioned of being liars or political patsies. Saying that other people don't know anything about history is pretty much his default stance.
I'm quite sure there will be. Everyone I know working on those standards is interested in seeing server-side rendering, it just a matter of getting there.
Awesome idea and easy to use
A smashing good holiday - shot on the phantom flex
a very cool holiday video for all ages where gingerbread houses, Christmas balls, champagne glasses etc are smashed in high-speed 900-2564fps and shot on a phantom flex camera

a smashing good holiday - shot on the phantom flex
link to video: https://vimeo.com/81556976
Ah that's great, thanks for linking to the album, I love video game music :)
Are you thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada ? I've never heard of a purpose-built BSD phone other than those (although there are plenty of unofficial ports)
I don't know what the stats are for the PhD market overall, but one issue might be trying to match up with the "highest ranked" company. Unlike MBAs, PhDs are specialized and not fungible. You can't approach a PhD job search the way a Harvard MBA approaches a banking job search (Where there is a clear hierarchy of desirable employers).

The companies I used to work at, one wireless, one telecom, weren't Google or Facebook, but we had a very high ratio of PhDs because we had very specialized needs. If your thesis topic was networking formation algorithms, you might find that a small company working in the mesh networking niche will find you much more valuable relative to a BS than say Facebook.
Its important to distinguish (a) talent from (b) rank. The latter is best thought of as Rank=f(talent, experience). It never makes sense to hire the wrong rank, or to invert the rank in a junior/senior reporting role. Hiring top talent is really a separate qustion, but its implied that A players with a lead in experience will outdistance A player of lesser experience...as they both acquire experience linearly together.[1]

[1] Hence you are more likely to successfully hire and incorporate A talent only if you have it to begin with. Senior rank B talent struggles when junior experience A talent is aquired. The benefit of increasing experience accrues disporportionately to the higher talent A, and eventually a rank conflict ensues as the Junior A group catch up and surpass the (previously) Senior B's. A messy promotion/re-organiztion situation typically ensues.
Nice round up and insights from Evernote.

However security should be baked into everything one does. Also using a good modern framework to enforce security and good practices is a quick win.

Password encryption & SQL injection in 2013 should be a thing of the past. It has been brought up so many times in the past you'd think people would make sounds decisions to use solid frameworks and/or best practices to avoid these common security holes.
Deleuze by himself is actually very straightforward, I bet you're speaking of his work with Guattari.
If I get this right, then the irony here is, that everybody is correct and wrong at the same time. Just draw some dots, circles etc. on paper and it could be that one day that non-local representation of the holographic universe holds true.
No, I'm talking about the technique, not a specific library.
Sprint CEO: 2014 Is Our Comeback Year
Homelessness is a serious and complex issue rooted in mental health and poverty, and the "mentor" behind the homeless coder reduced it to a game, just to show that all one needs to succeed is the patronizing goodwill of some privileged narcissistic clown.

Stories like this are actually a disservice to the cause of technology as an agent for social and environmental change.
... and a critique of that style of 'rigor' is a large part of 'whatever the fuck' they're talking about.
"ZMQ still relies on a message passing model, which is orthogonal to the threaded shared memory model all our hardware actually presents to us."

So what? There are all sorts of successful language and computing models which are light years removed from threaded shared memory. Message passing without sharing state, except for some lock-free primitives, is bloody brilliant for very scalable concurrency - as Erlang has shown us for coming up on 30 years now.

"The advantage is more being able to go from threads to processes, then to the network, easily."

That's the raison d'etre for ZMQ to be sure. But very pleasurable multithreading is a massive advantage too. If it scales out to nodes as well, so much the better.

"That advantage is just as useless to most applications as threading is to achieve concurrency (rather than parallelism)."

Threading using ZMQ message passing is a superb way to achieve concurrency (given that this is the real world and we can't all rewrite our apps from scratch in Go or Clojure). I'm a threading beginner and I've got video decoding, graphics handling and networking for a real time app all in separate threads going great guns without falling over or messing each other around - on a very low spec machine too I might add. On a four core workstation, all threads get a whole core to themselves no problem.

Try it. You'll like it :)
You'll need to ask the owners of the company for the 409A valuation.
I do not vote.
Users can submit codes, or I add them when I see them on sites like slickdeals. I built a python backend that checks where a code works for new codes. After that, I have some methods so I don't have to check as frequently.
Details of the Obama forgery exposed
I am not claiming you are wrong by asking, I am genuinely curious, how do you know?
I purchased without the intent to use it, I consider it as more of a donation.
Mysterious smart ring project gives smartwatches the finger
So AeroFS had been in beta for like 4 years so they could do serverless peer to peer dropbox. And now they are launching a private cloud server product. Can't help but worry that these guys don't have any clear product they are committed to.
There is no "the" in "Ukraine".
Nobel winner boycotts glamour mags
Good on you! Curious to know how do you market & promote the app, considering that project management is a very competitive/saturated market segment?
I picked one up on my last visit to the US. It works just fine in Canada (no GEO IP blocking as far as I can tell).
Please forgive my ignorance, but if you know the number and price of the options, is the problem that you don't know the current valuation? Because it seems like if you know the price of the option, how many options you're being offered, and the current valuation, it's trivial to work out the number of outstanding shares. I guess the current valuation is privileged? Or that there is no current-valuation if it's been a while since the last round?
Want more Customers? Listen to the ones you already have
NOWHERE - Crowdfunding Trailer 2013
The FreeBSD Foundation does get some monetary support from both commercial users and end-users; some commercial FreeBSD users (e.g., Netflix, Juniper) have core developers on their payroll, so they indirectly contribute in that way instead.

FreeBSD also benefits when companies release or contribute to other BSD-licensed, open-source projects, since that code can then be used within FreeBSD itself. Apple's (and Intel's) contributions to Clang/LLVM are a prime example; another is Apple's open-sourcing of launchd, the FreeBSD port of which was just relaunched (no pun intended): https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd

But yes, as some GPL proponents will point out, there are companies who use FreeBSD for their commercial products without contributing back. In the end, they probably lose out as much as anyone though, due to the cost of paying developers to maintain a completely separate codebase.
I suppose this is okay, but it can quickly become a mess as soon as you need to make the modified portion of the dom interactive:

$('#messages').prepend('<%=j render @message %>')
.find('.delete').click(fn)
.end().find('.reorder').hover(fn,fn)

I suppose they work around this problem with event delegation.

If you use something like angular, the whole mess becomes:

$scope.messages.unshift(message);
Maybe take your witty little contributions over to reddit instead?
I can't speak for the church or any particular mission, but from my experience as a Mormon missionary over a decade ago, backpacks 1) Make missionaries look like students, when they are not. 2) Are awkward on public transportation (and using them on transport is considered quite rude in some cultures). 3) Are more prone to being pickpocketed or losing things than a bag at your side/front that you can see more readily.
What I'm enjoying about these documents is that they reveal the 'correct' amount of paranoia.

If you're pretty technical, it's easy to simulate what the NSA does with your imagination. Just imagine what databases they have, and imaging what you could do in a limited way if you made it your side project. Badabing.
Amazon ships the Chromecast outside the US.
Hot Girl
Especially because the police are not professional soldiers. They might think that that APC of theirs makes them invulnerable and pull some crazy shit. Actual soldiers with one APC would live in dread of rednecks with hunting rifles.
You don't really need those calc courses to learn linear algebra. It's more about "mathematical maturity": familiarity with vectors, functions, inverse functions, a general intuition about multidimensional coordinates, and so on. A programming background would probably go a long way (although I don't speak from experience; I learned a lot of math before I started programming).

It's hard to overstate the importance of linear algebra in software. It's really worth learning.
wow, this thread gets more and more interesting. I think the discovery of the holographic universe just broke all norms and worldviews of physics for the most of us.
US Fails To Close TPP Deal As Wikileaks Exposes Discord
There's a lot of truth to this. A PhD is to a considerable extent a product of their project, and no two projects are alike, even for students working in the same lab. In fact, a physics problem isn't necessarily going to be solved using physics techniques. My lab mate solved his problem by developing new theory. I solved mine by overwhelming it with electronics and code.
They can dump the professors now too... tenure doesn't mean as much as it once did. If you are in the sciences tenured professors are now only guaranteed a minimal salary and an office. If you want to keep any sort of lab going, you need to have external (grant) funding.
Have you used Square Wallet yet?

Experience is awful. It is thought that BLE might be better tech that leads to a better experience.
The first smartring has an LED screen, tells time, and accepts calls
Want to lose weight? Watch this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

....every single time. Now watch as the comment section get destroyed. It's already the top-comment. By the time my comment is 12hrs old, this comment thread will take up 2 screen lengths and hardly any other comments will occur outside of it.... that is, if HN's algo doesn't drop this story from the frontpage in the next 15mins.
Shots heard around the District
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
I wish I'd known about this a few months ago when I was in the market for a new bag. It meets all my picky bag criteria including not being made in China.

I ended up getting a SealLine shoulder bag which are pretty pricey but excellent.
Like I said, it's been falling. Transportation to/from Home Depot is time and expense. Enterprise will pick you up, but there's slop in when exactly that will be, and it still doesn't entirely remove the time to/from the rental car place. The nearest ZipCar isn't always available. And nonetheless, these might be fantastic options for most people. My only points were that overhead shouldn't be overlooked, but that it's been falling. If you look at it and determine that, for your situation, it's less, then great! That will be the case in an increasing number of situations; I make no claim at all about how many or few.
Good on ya! Curious to know how do you market & promote the app, considering that it's a pretty competitive market segment?
FYI, I just tried to send you a message via the "Contact Us" link on your site, and clicking "Send" results in a classic Ruby on Rails "We're sorry, something went wrong" error page. You could be losing sales if those messages aren't going through.