skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's quite hard now. Lots of prop firms have closed down, regulation has increased significantly and is only getting worse. There's less easy money to be made. The majority of new traders are farmed from ivy league or top private engineering schools.

I've seen some people join as devs and swap into trading. Ironically in these cases they were terrible devs, but increased their salary several times by becoming traders.
I thought iWoz was bittersweet, even cautionary. Here's this brilliant guy doing unbelievable work, then after he makes it he's just spending his time figuring out what to do with the money ... and he designs a new remote so he can watch TV better.
I want a movie about bill gates
I've had to revert back to emacs 23, because it seems emacs 24 has had a huge performance regression in its c-mode.

Does anyone have any information about whether c-mode breakage in emacs 24 is a known/fixed issue?
The author says this is for logistical reasons, but I can imagine some principled arguments for the journals having such a policy too. The journal _is_ more useful for everyone if it can also serve as a source of reusable scientific images. In the ideal case, the authors would notice that they could not use a copyrighted photo of an ant, so they would go out and take their own photo, or pay a photographer to do so. If they just used ant photos under fair use, then nobody would have an incentive to create new CC-licensed ones.
Most of the time you should use C-j to insert a new line, not RET. If you press ctrl with your left hand and j with your right it is much more efficient than RET because you dont have to move your hands from the home row.
In their defense, this is EE, not CS. The main thing that matters to them is to get the future engineers proficient in C. When I push for SICP, I claim it will achieve this better than the proposed alternatives, which are all-C and Python-then-C.

Our CS department did use SICP for many years, including when I was a student. Unfortunately they just dumped it, I don't know why. The fact they dumped it makes life even more difficult for me with this...
Nitrates aren't harmful in themselves - it's the Nitrosamines that they can produce under certain conditions, which are very definitely carcinogenic.

Probably not so bad these days, since there have been steps taken to reduce the amount of nitrosamine in all sorts of foodstuffs. There's a good overview at http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/f-w00/nitrosamine.html

Given most of the information there, it's possibly a good reason to avoid the hippie celery juice bacon (though I've never seen it in the stores), mainly because you don't know how much nitrate you're getting. But it's a little more complex than "Lol, hippies."
Correction: this is what happens when poor Cherokee receive a stipend, but let's not pretend that the Cherokee are the ones we're worried about here. There are differences between the subcultures, and those differences almost certainly extend to how they treat money.

Furthermore, the psychological and social difference between receiving money from a source which a population would consider to be 'theirs' cannot be overstated. If you're a poor black person (or latino, or Cherokee, or whatever), and you're living in a land that's dominated by a group that's not like you, you are less likely to respect that money than if a) that money came from a source that was yours, and b) you knew that if that source believed that you were disrespecting that money, they would cut it off.

Both stipulations apply here. Giving a small band of Cherokee profits from one of their own casinos =/= giving poor blacks and latinos federal assistance. They aren't even close.

Successfully repeating this experiment in poor black and latino populations a few times would go a long ways towards convincing the skeptical that free money for the majority of the poor is actually a good idea.

Anything else, as I said in another thread, is half-measures.
It's the same way in the States too. If you look, you can tell what background a rich or poor person came from. It's just that we don't look as much.
I usually use office@....
That seems accurate, but it doesn't seem to account for the risk of the hedge fund going bust. It's a high risk fund so they either have the cash buffer we talked about or they transfer the risk to others. So the net effect is still null. The pension fund will be in much better position to take the 1% risk multiple times at sufficiently disconnected opportunities insuring each-other reducing the overall risk.
If your city has one, I've found Hackerspaces are a great way to find a community to learn from for this kind of thing.
I think that being a sociopath and practicing empathy are not mutually exclusive (although I understand that in your case or most cases, empathy probably drives away the sociopathic tendencies). From what I understand, empathy is merely the notion of understanding perspectives other than your own. A sociopath who holds contempt toward a point of view could possibly benefit herself by practicing empathy. Empathy just another means of obtaining information about the world around you.

My point is obfuscated by the fact in many contexts the word "empathy" and "empath" are intended to involve not only the person practicing empathy, but also the interaction with the person to be understood.

What it boils down to is that you can understand what people are feeling and still decide to disregard them.
Yes, there are certainly a lot of unsolved problems in communal ownership. I'm optimistic that solutions are out there.

>If communal ownership were a viable option, we should see the number of TICs increasing.

I don't understand how that follows. All that indicates is that some particular operating structures (the specific TICs in place in SF) are not viable on one specific market (SF) in one particular moment in history.

I was just suggesting that in theory communal ownership could solve the problem. How to actually get that to work, in practice, is a problem that entrepreneurs have been working on for decades, and it will take many decades more.
I figured that out later on, that I should probably not think of ruby as functional ( my brain hardwires no parentheses languages to functional languages I think). After which the experience becomes slightly less frustrating
The journal in this case is presumably licensed under a CC licence that permits commercial reuse and derivatives. In that case, they do need the same (or less restrictive) licence on each image that they want to include. Fair use won't be sufficient.
Dependence.

Turns out that when you incentivize something, you get more of it. Who knew?
Many people usually go under-appreciated for their work that leads to major engineering feats. It seems to me that society likes to look at the past and attribute one thing or one person to what changed everything, when in reality it is the accumulation of several events that lead to major breakthroughs. Thomas Edison never invented the light bulb, but he did find a filament for the incandescent lamp so that it could be mass produced.
So it seems you are better off working in a profession with a very clear quantifiable performance metrics. Software development is not one of them unless you work for your own company. I am curious about making a list of professions that have quantifiable performance metrics.

1.Sales and Marketing

2.SEO

3.Bloggers

4 ..
Learn Factor. http://factorcode.org/ It has a steep learning curve (meaning you'll have to learn a lot in a short amount of time!) which is good, because learning new things makes you smarter.
Students ought to grow wary of unwise comments and ratings they find on the "People's Web". Good students will go to the right classes independently of the few bad comments. In fact, they probably make the difference much better than their dean, because they're used to consumer forums.

Rather than cutting the source, if the Dean doesn't trust student's maturity, the Dean should educate them about how to read several sources of information coming from the Internet.
Great way for presenting this essay!

I especially like that they store the current scroll position as a cookie. There're also some previous drafts available commented out in the HTML.
China's GDP has increased by 500% since then, this is a different world.
Chrome on iOS does not. Chrome on some Android devices does.
It's a matter of perspective. The grass is always greener on the other side, and I think it's unrealistic to pine for an idealistic childhood.

I was born and raised in Palo Alto and I go to UC Berkeley now. I spend a lot of time in SF. A lot of what you said relates to my childhood. But a lot of what happened was the result of my choices. I love technology and I love the culture here. One thing that helped me before going to college was taking a year off to work, which really helped me figure out what was important to focus on and what isn't important (not important = grades. important = meeting people). Now that I'm in college, I could easily choose to party all the time and slack off. But that's just not me. Plus, I've had fun at parties/kickbacks in SF before.

As a side note. I use "Silicon Valley" to refer to the SF Bay Area (SF + East Bay + geographic SV). To me, Silicon Valley is a term for the entire technology region, much like "LA" describes the metropolitan LA area, and "Wall Street" describes NY finance in general.
Inbound Marketing - Things You May Not Want To Hear
They don't have to login from your malicious page, your malicious page plants your fake cookie only. The important part is that your browser sends your cookie, instead of the proper one, because it has a more specific path. When the user logs in, they login on your session.

A fix would probably be checking cookies more carefully, ensuring the value and path components are what they should be. You could also assign a new session id when a user logs in, so there is no chance of a polluted session.
Those three programs are, in most cases, barely enough to live on, especially not to live comfortably. Even if you make good choices, being on welfare and food stamps still provides you almost no opportunities other than getting as many minimum-wage jobs as you can.

You're talking about programs designed essentially to keep people alive and nothing more; to prolong life for its own sake. Minimum income is a way of ensuring that people can remove the stress and worry of being constantly broke and hungry so that they can focus on bettering their lives - going to school, choosing a good job, being able to afford a car, feeding their kids proper meals, and so on.

There is no comparison between the minimum subsistence that welfare provides and the programs that are being discussed here.
To me they are the quintessential yin-yang startup duo.

You don't have to pick a favorite. You don't need to figure out which one pulled more weight. It seems likely that if you removed one, the other would have failed.

edit: chill out folks, I don't mean either guy would have been a penniless itinerant without the other. I'm saying they were much more successful together than apart. I know it's popular here to hate on the charismatic businessperson and praise the technical genius, but the best companies will have both.
What, Anti-trust[1] wasn't good enough for you?

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
Magnus Carlsen in conversation with Peter Thiel
I've been a very happy user of bazqux for the past couple months. Minimalistic UI, all the features that I want and works great.
> For email you should probably not use Gmail.

I totally agree here. You're also forced to store a password (even if it's app-specific) in plain text, and the tracking/delivery features are non-existent.

The Mandrill API is pretty rad (I'm using it in my Go app) and the tracking, ability to re-send an email from the last 24 hours (on the free plan) and the server-side templates are all very useful.

try:
mandrill_client = mandrill.Mandrill('YOUR_API_KEY')
message = {
'subject': "Hello there.",
'to': [{'email': 'recipient.email@example.com',
'name': 'Recipient Name',
'type': 'to'}],
'from_name': "Matt",
'from_email': "matt@example.com",
}
result = mandrill_client.messages.send(message=message, async=True) // It'll fire it off without waiting, and you can either set up a web-hook *or* manually re-send if it fails via the dashboard if you don't do massive volumes

except mandrill.Error, e:
# Mandrill errors are thrown as exceptions
print 'A mandrill error occurred: %s - %s' % (e.__class__, e)
# A mandrill error occurred: <class 'mandrill.UnknownSubaccountError'> - No subaccount exists with the id 'customer-123'
raise

Pretty simple stuff. Add in some MergeVars (|NAME|, |PURCHASE_ID|) and server-side templates and you can pass whatever is needed to the API without having to keep "content" in your code or pull in an external template (i.e. Jinja).
Who the fuck is Carms Perez?
I'd recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley if you haven't seen it already. It covers both Jobs and Gates in the period where both Apple and Microsoft began (though I'd argue that it's a little more focused on Jobs).
What I value most in a programming language:

1. I'm able to concisely express what I'm trying to do.

2. I never, never have to copy/paste or otherwise do repetitive work because one case is slightly different than another.

Number 2 is probably more important to me. It's why I'm happy when a language has first class functions and closures, and why I'm unhappy when the language is Java.

I think the cases where you can't modularize things enough such that you have to essentially include two version of the same thing is a programming language expressiveness failure.

Finally, I strongly disagree that programmers aren't or shouldn't be language designers. Nearly every worthwhile program I've written that people have used has needed an API or scripting/query language. So any language had damn well be suited to writing a parser. LISP fills that bill
too.

If LISP has shortcomings, its expressiveness and power are not them. If you want to complain about a lack of consistent implementations, lack of libraries, difficulty interoperating with any other language, lack of a canonical free implementation, no decent supported GUI toolkit, or the impossibility of distributing binaries real people can use without spending thousand of dollars on a professional LISP environment, go right ahead.
They are more like the means used to reach the goal. But if you get rid of the goal, there's no need for the system. So I think his idea "Forget setting goals" fails.
Should I use FreeBSD?

This may seem dumb, but, my RAID 1 NAS, powered by various versions of SuSE for 10 years, recently died (autopsy & self-reflection indicate gross user error). So I'm coincidentally shopping around for a new set-up.

I need NFS, transmission-daemon, and mdadm. I've used FreeBSD in a vm and on an old laptop, so I'm slightly familiar, but not like Linux (and I love being able to access SuSE's YAST over SSH)

Why would you pick FreeBSD over SuSE for a home NAS?
A year ago they announced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin which was released in April but I've yet to see it installed on any demo computer in the large IT sales halls around China. They all have Windows 8 pre-installed.
This is basically systems thinking, which was around before Scott Adams was born. It's okay for people to independently come to the same conclusion in a way that's meaningful to them. He's not claiming an invention, he's trying to pass on wisdom.
Except that the plurality of U.S. charity goes to religious charities.

Charitable giving for health, education, and human services accounts for only 33% of all charitable giving in the U.S. How much of that goes to programs designed to address poverty is debatable.

Source: http://www.alysterling.com/documents/GUSA2012ExecutiveSummar...
I'd very much recommend you to listen to a certain episode of Hypercritical (i believe) with John Saracusa, in which he slams the book heavily. I still very much like the book, but as with everything, it's nice to get another experts view on the topic.
Low tech dependency management
> They are restrictions on the copyright owner.

What do you mean? Moral rights do not restrict the Moral Rights holder in any way, and they do restrict the ways that any other person is allowed to present, re-present, or modify the work.

Moral rights can only restrict copyright holders when the copyrights have been transferred from the creator of the work to another party, and in that case, Moral Rights restrict all people who didn't author/create the work equally, it has nothing to do with who holds the copyrights.

> It [US copyright law] specifically mentions that it [database copyrights] doesn't exist.

You have a good point! I was at least partially, if not completely incorrect. :)

But, it would still be a bad idea to assume you have the right to copy someone's database. It might not be a violation of copyright law, but there's a good chance it is a violation of some law. The sui generis database rights link happens to give a separate reason for why it would be a bad idea to copy someone's database. :)

I also just had to check... ;) The text of US copyright law does mention databases twice. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf It specifically mentions, in definitions, that databases are not works of visual art, and that databases are not considered a "digital audio recording medium". It does not seem to specifically exclude databases categorically, but considering the language in the 'sui generis' article you linked, "Uncreative collections of facts are outside of Congressional authority". The keyword is 'creative', and if a database were shown to be the primary form of a "creative" work, copyright law may apply.
Retail margins are frequently 50%. (50% margin, 100% markup) Unless a company is vertically integrated. Does the author really not understand that? Markup/margin varies by product and retailer but is still one of the largest factors in the price you pay at retail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_as_theft
I'm an absolute layman when it comes to this subject, so forgive my verbosity and lack of proper terminology:

When I clicked on that link and searched for "banana" and then clicked on "banana, raw", I was hoping to see a list of the scary-looking names I saw on the blog post that started this thread. I only see things I recognize.

I think what would be cool/interesting (and I'm guessing what cing meant to say) would be if there were a way to get that list (the scary-looking one, not the vitamins and minerals one) from some procedure done to a vegetable.

In that sense, the link you provided does not have the same information that the author of the blog post is (apparently) compiling by hand.
If we could all be as gracious and even-keeled and creative as Woz the world would be a better place.
Many homes can end up being teardowns after 30 years. That means that not only is the house itself worth nothing, but there'd be significant expenses to demolish it as well, effectively making the value negative. So it's possible to just end up with land value less demolition costs. How much of the current value is based on building and how much is based on land, depends on the property. There's also many circumstances where a house can be sold below 'market' value or forced to sell under poor market conditions such as divorce, death etc. Many people greatly overestimate the liquidity of housing. The paper value of a house is meaningless until it's actually sold for that amount.

15x what the original owner paid in nominal dollars doesn't give nearly enough context as to the real return. How many and which years was that over? What was the rate of inflation over this period? How did the Dow, S&P, or <insert stock market index here> do over that same period? And that's kind of beside the point.

Like I said earlier, I'm not arguing in favour of either owning or renting. I'm just making the same point as the submission, and that is to use full, accurate numbers to make informed decisions. If more people did (and everyone should), we probably wouldn't have such extreme bubbles and crashes.
In my experience, most US companies don't provide EU style invoices for everyone, but every single time I've asked for one, I got it, except for namecheap - and trust me, I asked multiple times. Receipts are useless in most EU countries, since you need a valid invoice to claim the expense. That includes listing both the buyer and seller legal names, addresses, what was sold, etc... as well as VAT numbers (or local equivalent).
How do I begin customer development?
I have a basic idea for the B2B app I want to build (and the problem that it would solve), have selected a target customer, and I would like to start the customer development process. There are a few companies that I would like to speak with to see if they really need this app. But I'm not quite sure how to "get out of the building" and get that phase of the process started. I've been fighting every temptation to simply start coding, but I want to make sure that I'm not just a solution in search of a problem.

What's the best way to get in contact with the right people at these companies?

I would love to hear how you worked through this process. Thank you for your time.
This is definitely a useful tool to embed diagrams on source code.
There is no "diagonal" line mode. You're probably confusing that with the arrow line mode.
How many people do you know personally who rely on those things to survive? I don't mean people you've met, but people you've grown up with, friends, family, schoolmate, etc. — that sort of thing.

For example, can you name three people you know who have applied for social security disability? How likely is it they'll qualify for it? How long does the process typically take? Who do they have to convince and how?
Ahh, so volumetric rather than holographic then.

I always get a bit suspicious of claims of commercial holographic displays due to the data requirements, if nothing else. Here's an analysis from the MIT Spatial Imaging Group, for instance.

"a hologram of dimensions 100mm by
100mm and a viewing angle of 30 degrees contains approximately 25 Gigabytes of information, or
the equivalent of 25 billion samples of information - all for a single frame. In order to update such
an image with 8-bit resolution at a rate of 60 frames/second, a data-rate of 12 Terabits/sec would be
required for transmission of the hologram"

http://www.loreti.it/Download/PDF/Olografia/holovideo/MIT/sp...
http://123d.circuits.io/
Yeah, I figured so myself.
Agreed. I saw a few articles about it and purchased it. I wasn't disappointed. It paints a very complete picture of Jobs. I loved the sections on his relationship with Gates.
Not everyone is in US. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086631. If you want to claim an expense for something you bought in a shop, you need to ask for an invoice at the time of the sale. In fact, even non-business entities can ask for an invoice (even if it's useless to them) and is illegal for the seller to refuse.
> Unless of course, those $39 kettles use a digital solution to stop the water from boiling.

Right, micros and temperature sensors are really expensive these days, especially at mass-production volumes.

> But that is just rather silly, given that an analogue solution works better.

tab closed
You can't use the amd64 build as the raspberry pi is ARM based. There is likely a raspberry pi build available somewhere though.
Coming in 2015 - Civ VR?
Really good course to get into hardware prototyping: https://www.edx.org/course/utaustinx/utaustinx-ut-6-01x-embe...
Visualization of living US presidents over time