skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't a side affect of having a single customer that has X seats at one price and Y seats at another that you now have to keep track of multiple metrics per customer (# grandfathered users, # new users, price per grandfathered user, price per new user) instead of just user count and price per seat? And for the customer to understand how they're being charged they have to be told all these metrics as well in their invoice? What happens when you raise the price again in a year or two? You now have to track 3 different user counts per customers, all with different prices?
Don't use this series as your introduction.

Knuth attempts to build the discipline more or less from the ground up, using a mathematical perspective, and he actually more or less succeeds. The resulting books are awesome as references, but they're incredibly information-dense: not beginner-friendly at all.
IT security pros often seen as 'innovation killers'
I love the idea of having packages delivered to a locked location near my home.

Being able to have expensive things delivered to some where safe that has 24 hour access is awesome. (No Mailboxes ETC isn't a bad idea but it costs money and gets junk mail)

I also like that I can have people send stuff without giving my address. (there are some creepy people on Etsy and Ebay)
I've wondered whether the name is intentionally a kind of warning. I'm assuming that the company founders knew LoTR well enough to understand what connotations 'Palantir' brings, and while I expect not every customer would, enough might that it might give pause.
Thanks for the DeCAF plug! Here's a demo of the classifier with the pre-trained ImageNet weights in action: http://decaf.berkeleyvision.org/

I also have to take the opportunity to plug Caffe [1] - Yangqing's replacement for DeCAF which he actually open sourced just a few hours ago. All the heavy processing (e.g., forward/backprop) can be run either on your (CUDA-enabled) GPU or on the CPU, and the GPU implementation is actually a bit faster than cuda-convnet. The entire core is (imo) very well-engineered and written in clean lovely C++, but it also comes with Python and Matlab wrappers. I've personally been hacking around inside the core for about a month and it has really been a pleasure to work with.

[1] http://daggerfs.com/caffe/
"Quip now runs on 76% of the world's smartphones and tablets"...this doesn't say "Quip is now installed on" for a reason.

According to these ICT estimates, 38% of the population will have PCs in 2013, which would be about 2.734 billion people. (The key statistics excel sheet).
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.as...

Sure they may be overinflated numbers, but no different than what advertising bombards us with on a daily basis. I guess you've never heard of marketing copy.
> Also, just because something is "in" the Constitution does not mean that one can apply any contrived definition of its terms as justification for an action.

> While I can't factually defend against the assertion that I'm rehashing old business (which I'll agree that I am), I can factually assert that it has not in fact 'always been this way', which falsifies your argument.

> You've levied accusations, which you've supported with more accusations, none of which are provable.

> I took poorly to being referred to as "full of shit" on a subject I've studied a good portion of my life by someone who is literally countering factual arguments with untruth.

The first quote is in response to me saying, "The Constitution is, by definition, constitutional."

The second quote is you saying, "I could prove this but I won't." It reminds me of the schoolyard habit of claiming to know what a big word means, but then saying, "I'm not telling you!"

The third quote is exactly the kind of thing you've been railing against in our correspondence - that is, the focus on self rather than content.

The fourth quote is functionally an appeal to authority ("I've studied this for a long time, therefore I must know what I'm talking about!"). In reality, you may just a) suck at studying, or b) have caught yourself up in a feedback loop where your confirmation bias prevents you from actually learning anything.

Are you proud of yourself here? Have you presented the best form of your argument? What do you think I believe, at this point? I know your argument, but what is mine?

I just don't understand how a human being who thinks as much as you apparently do on this topic can write so little about it when asked explicitly to elaborate.
What-about-ism.
Agreed, a merger is probably a bad idea, but if Nintendo was to exclusive all Nintendo games to Apple and coincide with the Apple TV apps/game SDK/console they would sell a ton more on Apple devices.

They are already exclusive and this wouldn't change their business model much but it might mean less hardware from Nintendo, they haven't really been the best at hardware even though I loved the original NES that was better hardware.

I am positive developers would love this because developing for the Wii and Nintendo hardware nowadays means developing for a very small target, weak hardware and limits what can be done. Makes modern day ports a nightmare and we live in a multi-platform world for most games, starting with mobile (the new handheld) now.

Nintendo has made the best of that but kids all play tablets now. If they want to reach the kids they'll have to do something like this soon so they don't skip a large part of this generation. They were everywhere in the 90s, and a spike again with the Wii before mobile but their hardware just isn't as attractive now with all purpose devices like tablets and minis.

They are rolling on some nostalgia fumes still, but the Wii U might be a sign of things to come. Of course you could also say they didn't differentiate the Wii U enough, most people don't even know it is a new device, they think it is an add-on to the Wii. Horrible branding. They should have called it the Nintendo Revolution as is brought in their first tablet like device. (Nintendo Revolution was the code name for Wii during early dev).
You're right, the North Korean prison camps by all accounts seem worse, but the Wikipedia article actually contained a lot of information that was new to me. For example...

In 2004 Spc. Sean Baker, a soldier posing as a prisoner during training exercises at the camp, was beaten so severely that he suffered a brain injury and seizures.

How many deaths are swept under the rug at places like Gitmo or at CIA black sites? If they're beating people to the point of brain injury, I'm guessing it happens.
> thinly-veiled anti-Semitism

Oh please. Make one negative comment about Jews and you get called an anti-Semite. It's even worse than with blacks.
I'm from France, have lived in half a dozen countries and visited about 4 times that amount, currently live in Oakland and work in SF, and I'm having a hard time believing that I just read someone on HN say that living conditions for some people are worse in SF/Oakland than North Korea :)
Yes, you either generate the key on the TPM chip (for SSH authentication, that would be one per user), or you generate it in software and "import" it.

I've clarified how it works here:
http://blog.habets.se/2013/12/How-TPM-protected-SSH-keys-wor...
Yeah, I think that people are starting to realize this. E.g. Go and Rust don't have exceptions (or Java/C++ style exceptions).
This is great. At Airbnb we usually track one metrics and have a drag-metric to control for quality. Often people over-optimize to a local maxima only to find out that they just pushed the conversion drop to another part in the flow. For every volume metrics we have a quality metric
It does when you only have a set amount of effort that you can dedicate on a project. Which is usually the case.
Scientifically analyzed Essential Mixes reveal traits of the world's biggest DJs
I think the point is not doing what you believe to be wrong.

And to have ethics as a group, there needs to be some discussion on what's right and wrong. That might help you to (further) develop your own ethics, and also give you same backup from your peers if you decide to not do something.
How to refactor code with poor test coverage
"[Pointers are] arguably the trickiest concept in low-level languages, having no simple real-world analogy[.]"

I'm not sure how "address" is not a good, "simple real-world analogy" for pointers. It may be that I've just internalized enough of the behavior of pointers that I'm glossing over important differences, though... I struggled with pointers long enough ago that I don't remember struggling with pointers.
> automation is intended to eliminate [jobs]

Automation has the potential to eliminate jobs, but also has the potential to allow much more work to be done by a single person, or allowing that person to do the same work with less effort.

Perhaps I'm overly simplifying your words, but I don't think automation is inherently "evil". Like all tools or techniques, they may be used toward good or bad ends.
There is a TODO comment for adding in login with email in the source code. So hopefully that will change soon!
If you're going to nitpick, please be accurate. Terrorism is the strategy of taking actions to incite terror within a population to achieve some goal. It goes back much, much further than the current concept of a nation-state.
It was probably done by someone who'd never heard of Dr. McCarthy, as a matter of standard procedure. Stanford hosts websites for employees. Is one J. McCarthy still an employee? Nope, so kill the site.

You might want to send a formal request (to whom I don't know) to have the page permanently hosted. Possibly some form of petition might help.
> The labor isn't meaningless, it's simply worth less than $7.25 to the private sector.

It's labor chosen by the government for arbitrarily many individuals with an unspecified skill level. The government is not suited to finding economically productive work for arbitrary individuals. The market would find far more productive work for these people at a wage that corresponds to the value of their work if there were no minimum wage, but then they wouldn't be making enough money to live. The government could provide for these people by paying the difference between the price the market values their labor and the minimum wage, except that all existing minimum wage jobs would then begin paying $0.01/hour knowing that their employees would have the rest made up by the government. The way to fix that is to pay the minimum wage unconditionally and then let people have whatever their private sector employers pay them on top of that, but that's just a basic income.

Step back for a minute and separate the two programs from each other. Suppose the government has work for these people at a value of $3/hour, and it a) provides a basic income, then b) offers to pay them the $3/hour their labor is actually worth on top of that if they do the basic job. The only reason they have to turn down the basic job is if they can find something more valuable than $3/hour to do somewhere else -- some other job, or some personally rewarding activity which is more valuable than being paid $3/hour. Why is that a problem? Why is it bad that a person has found some activity that they value at a higher amount than anyone is willing to pay for their labor in the market?

> Do you consider the work of FDR's CCC (e.g., forestry, national parks) to be worthless?

There aren't enough jobs like that for everyone who needs one, and not everyone who needs a job is qualified to do the productive work the government needs to be done. Also, those jobs today pay more than the minimum wage, so are you proposing to reduce their compensation?

> I take it you were opposed to the New Deal?

FDR would have been better off implementing a basic income than the New Deal, yes.

> Also, you seem to be under the impression that people who would hypothetical receive the BJ cannot find a job. Most are not looking for one.

You're assuming the people who take the basic job will almost entirely be people who are currently unemployed, rather than people who have horrible low paying jobs, or who lose their jobs and find it easier to take the basic job than find a different private sector job.
If you don't support weird dietary restrictions like dpiers listed, you will miss out on a lot of offices.

Source: I currently work for ZeroCater. dpiers used to work at ZeroCater, and these are questions you're going to get hit with.
What's missing is any explanation of why the author considers the precursor question of "Why would Apple even think of buying Nintendo?" What prompted the article in the first place? Sure, the games are good, but there's enough games for iOS & OS X out there; remember, Apple only creates software as a reason to persuade people to buy more hardware, and there's certainly enough compatible games out there to make that happen.

Next, it keeps comparing the non-sequitur of Apple buying Nintendo with the absolutely unique Apple purchase of NeXT, which was unlike any conceivable purchase because it amounted to Jobs taking a sabbatical to, having experienced creating Apple, see what he could do with a complete ground-up reboot of the process, and then folding that work back into Apple as a means to better advance the company without the consternation of wrenching the original company in that direction before figuring out where the target was. It amounted to branching the vision, doing independent work, then merging that branch back into the mainline.

Apple should not buy Maker's Mark either. Purchasing a flash storage fabrication facility was a much better decision.
This is where the Less Wrong post on Occam's Razor [1] comes in handy. It helps make clear how to respond to someone who argues that backward perspective.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/
>If you remember history, every single extant liberal democracy has had surveillance capabilities for decades, and continue to be healthy free societies.

the difference here is the actual massive surveillance (basically total possible by the technological means of the time) performed by the KGB/Stasi outside of the due process inside the jurisdiction of their respective countries. It is exactly the emerging characteristic of fusion centers and NSA activities. Please name an "extant liberal democracy" which has had such massive surveillance capabilities and applied them in such a way.
This.

I started a bunch of niche job boards (pythonjobs.com, bigdatajobs.com, railsjobs.com, etc) using a 3rd party platform - but wasn't happy with the platform so built my own.

Fast forward blood, sweat and tears I now offer the platform as a SaaS offering for other looking to create niche job boards (www.JobBoard.io).

Starts out as simple CRUD - gets much more complex - especially when multi-tenancy is involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Guantanamo_Bay_detenti...
I'm a teacher by day and a hacker on my own time, so I look at ed tech initiatives with a critical eye. One thing I want in educational offerings: free and open access for teachers, students, and schools. These kinds of offerings are the only kind that have the potential to truly disrupt existing learning gaps.

What you are describing sounds good, but I'd like to know: is what Clever offers truly open source, or is it just free as in beer?

From my quick perusal of the Clever site, I don't see any real assurance that this is a truly open offering. I admit I'm taking a quick look on my lunch break, so please correct me if my impression is off.
As being a part of the team, I think the point of the start up was to show that anyone can do it, it being making that green show up. You just have to hustle. We took something we enjoyed (perhaps was losing it's joy by day 3 but still a ton of fun) and we turned it into a venture that anyone would be willing to work that half day / month for that profit. We weren't trying to revolutionize start up weekend or show other teams that profit is the only thing that matters. We were just trying to fulfill Noah's challenge (http://www.appsumo.com/sumo-jerky/) and show that if you hustle you can make it.
Fascinating. Can you give an example?
Wouldn't keeping equity in the country be in the interests of the people anyway? It's the wealthy who want to ship their wealth overseas.
Lots of suggestions to travel. If you choose to do so, I'd recommend traveling cheaply and openly. Its an incredible feeling to travel with no defined end date or destination. Try long distance hiking, or a one way ticket to a cheap area of the world. WWOOFing if you're into farming/sustainability. The style of not having an end date allows you to take your time in an unstressfull situation to ponder the world and where you want to take your career, then when something motivates you enough, you can immediately stop and pour all of your energy into it.
Where is this already happening?
Absolutely not. The implicit agreement is that they provide a service to hold, manage, and use your stuff, and you give up a certain amount of privacy by allowing them to see it - and they get to advertise at you while you use the service, and maybe make money in other ways off your information.

So in other words, it really is your stuff. Imagine if they locked your accounts from you out of malice - it's legal gray area, since I don't believe there have been any court cases, but I'm pretty sure the result would be obvious. You would easily be able to sue them to get back your access to it.
here's an interesting quora post by Garry Tan about designing the Palantir logo -- it's both supposed to be a crystal ball & look like a human reading a book. you can read the whole thing here: http://www.quora.com/Logos/What-does-Palantirs-logo-symboliz...
I've been thinking this might be well ameliorated by using checked exceptions, but even languages that have them don't get sophisticated with them, so they wind up being painful enough they're not really used (in my experience).

For instance, I don't know of a language that lets you say "This function accepts a function (f) and returns a function which throws anything f throws except FooException."
Not all mercury is pure, though. Organic mercury compounds exist which behave similarly to elemental mercury but they have a greater health risk associated with them.
Seems the party responsible behind this is vbsocial.com, who at this point, doesn't allow comments. Surprise? I think not.

http://vbsocial.com/ignitiondeck-scam
Thanks, your query led to my belated discovery of http://cs.stanford.edu/jmc

And this: http://library.stanford.edu/collections/john-mccarthy-papers...

Agreed, tho, the links should be salvaged.
If a web designer needs to by anywhere close to your stylesheets, I would recommend LESS. SASS (especially SCSS) is way too verbose and complicated.
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Google says:

> Mylists.apphb.com would like to:

> View your email address

> Mylists.apphb.com and Google will use this information in accordance with their respective terms of service and privacy policies.

Does Mylists.apphb.com have a privacy policy? If so, I can't find it. Sounds like you're probably violating Google's TOS, along with failing to get a sign-up from me. Might want to fix this.
How do you deal with security updates? You'd have to apply them to differen code bases all the time. Pas bad as it sounds it's easier to work with one for base
The value of money is grounded by the fact that you have to pay your taxes in it or you go to jail. This doesn't determine the absolute value or prices, but it stabilises them. This stability is the inductive step that allows the "base case" value derived from the gold standard to filter through to the present (minus inflationary effects).
> The ability of a single person to add someone's name to a kill list that will be carried out with zero Congressional oversight is a cessation of ultimate power to the Executive Branch.

According to the Constitution, that's how it works. Congress can pass laws to require the executive branch pass these lists through congress, but they haven't, so the executive branch doesn't have to. That's how the Constitution was designed.

Want to change it? Petition your congressman/woman.
Snowden Civil War
Gotcha. The parent comment made it seem like that was a link to information about retrospectively adding GC to other languages, especially given that Lisp already has GC as nearly an assumption at the language level. But I can see what he was trying to get at.
some clocks work in recent Firefox or Safari

Wish it would indicate which ones. Too many clocks to go thru testing each, clicking then waiting several minutes to see if anything happens.
Loading remote data into bootstrap tabs
Its better surmised as just anti-civilian warfare.
If "no refunds" is your policy, that's your policy, and there's no shame in sticking to your guns. If that was my policy and a customer told me they'd moved on and would like a refund, I'd tell them "tough cookies" and move on myself.

That said, my products[1] have a full money back guarantee. A very small percentage of my customers have taken me up on it and the ones who have have almost always had a pretty good reason. The refund policy has basically cost me nothing since Stripe refunds their fee.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
Prohibition What Was It Good For?
It's an analogy. "We do not respond to ultimatums" would also work, but then this post would belong more in their FAQ or policy section than a blog post.

And if anyone has diluted the word "terrorism" recently it has been various governments.
Well I think this is only a problem with runtime exceptions. You have no choice but to deal with compile time exceptions (of course you can deal with them poorly if you choose). But it seems the compile time exceptions are unpopular.

I think there's another way to deal with this and that's a better type system. AFAIK it's impossible to have a null pointer exception in Haskell. EG: If you do something like `hashmap.get` the type system forces you to write code to react to the situation when the value doesn't exist in the map. Your code won't run otherwise.

...I can't tell if I'm rambling or replying to you :)
We've automated the invoicing and $ metrics part so there is not really that much to keep track of manually.

I get where you're coming from but the reality of B2B SaaS is that you'll almost always have factors that will make some differences in your $Rev per customer/seat.

Think about a) offering discounts to some customers b) different prices per seat tier c) old pricing plans etc etc

The goal needs to be to increase your CLTV over time and unfortunately this often means increasing prices, changing old pricing tiers/plans etc.
The only huge benefit to Apple would be exclusive Nintendo games. Especially when they launch the Apple TV, if they alone have Mario on that first it would be massive. I don't think Apple would be interested in a merger, they essentially recreated their handheld business the right way. They would only want the exclusive games and Nintendo still makes some of the best games that are perfect for the casual market. i.e. Apple TV, tablets, pods, minis, the new consoles and handhelds.

Apple iOS 7 also allows external gamepads to this it an opportunity for nintendo as well to put out some nice gamepads and maybe other interesting motion controls.

Apple also recently bought PrimeSense and the Apple TV console is still on the way. It could be a perfect storm if that launches with Mario and Zelda.
Mozilla does have a habit of rejecting code like WebDB/SQLite and PNaCl, so people are always surprised to see them reusing code, especially from Google.
One of the big problems with engineers is that they like solving problems, but sticking around to debate how those solutions will be used is "politics" and they say, "I hate that shit". Thus it's easy for the psychopaths who run this society to come in and use automation for bad (depriving others of participation, rather than distributing the benefits).