skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to companies, I think pg's answer is the correct one.

In real estate, there is an institution called "earnest money." It is structurally similar to your 2nd bullet point -- a deposit against the eventual transaction price which is forfeited if the prospective buyer doesn't close the transaction within a particular window of time. (It gets returned if the seller kills the deal.) Earnest money protects the interests of the potential seller by screening out bozos. It protects the interests of the potential buyer by reassuring the potential seller that there are 120,000 reasons attesting to the buyer being really serious about the $6 million commercial property acquisition being discussed and therefore questions about e.g. engineering, permits, tenants, etc should be responded to as quickly as feasible.

$50,000 is barely about two work-weeks or less at the rates involved of professionals involve in M&A. If you want a quick out from fishing expeditions, tell them that you're willing to entertain offers but that, to avoid wasting the business' legal/accounting/engineering resources, you'll require $50k earnest money prior to dedicating them to exploring the feasibility of a deal.

A related strategy: "I'm not super-interested in doing an investment / acquisition / etc at the moment, but I'm a reasonable businessman and willing to entertain your offer." "We need a $FOO to get the ball rolling." "I have entertained that offer and do not feel it is the best use of our time to proceed on this at this time." "It is absolutely standard to..." "If your firm really wants to do this, I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make it happen. If not, no worries -- we'll both end this chat no worse than where we started it. Best of luck in your endeavors."
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Glad to hear it will be of use. Send me a link if it ends up in production anywhere.
It reminds me of the blog post: "A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible" [http://prog21.dadgum.com/129.html]
So coming to my question, since vlc isn't a browser, on iOS it is impossible to support a browser which can play web videos using non-proprietary formats as it appears. Sad.
No. You can easily do over 100mph.
You can thank bugs bunny for that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#Idiom
I disagree. It feels very YC driven.
>"Instead it came off as an order or command: "Switch to a ketogenic diet.""

What if I told you;

It is up to you to be able to not ever take anything anyone else says as an "Order or Command"
Pastbin makes this very impersonal. This reads like a good first draft.
I think that would depend on the type of errors the device makes. If every 1s measurement is of by independent errors, you can simply do a running average and improve accuracy that way. If the error is fixed, you can determine it and compensate.

If, on he other hand, errors between close in time measurements are correlated, that won't work. You might get "things look fine" measurements for an hour while your glucose level is dangerously low or vice versa.

Given that the first two kinds of errors can be worked around, I would guess this device to produce the third kind of error. You don't need 1s intervals in glucose reading to improve the life of diabetics; 10 minutes or even an hour would be fine, too.
I am slightly disappointed by the list - for example C# threading is a book from 2003 and .NET has evolved a lot since then (Task, async, etc.). There are other, more recent books that represent current state of art in C#. Perhaps the reading list shouldnt state the year for which it is intended for?
>1/2GB of source code?

WebKit's entire Source directory is 247MB, and more than 100MB of that is ChangeLog files.
That one annoyed me too. The police stopped them on the grounds of actual threats of war and his reply is that they are not taken seriously.
So does the NSA.
`sum` does not accept a function as a parameter, the original example had an `foreach` instead of `sum`.

list filter isEven foreach println

As a side note omitting that many commas and parenthesis is very rare at least based on the Scala projects I've worked on. The above example is equal to the one below:

list.filter(isEven).foreach(println)
UEFI is clusterfucked.

USB is clusterfucked.

God says...
You_know in_theory wife wazz_up_with_that bad silly_human
over_the_top I_just_might exports Russia employee by_the_way
bad_ol_puddytat baffling I_could_be_wrong IMHO a_flag_on_that_play
quite huh whatcha_talkin'_'bout don't_push_it now_you_tell_me

The CIA is afraid of China and drones so they made the whole industry clusterfucked. Get out of computer science!
Find a founder or board member type person who has been through a couple of these. I sold my company a couple years ago, and it was invaluable to be counseled by proven exit veteran.

Here's some general advice:
* Come up with a number that you'd be willing to sell for, mostly to know when a deal is at least good enough
* Anyone who is serious about dealing with you will not expect you to work for free, unless you truly have no power, which I suspect is unlikely
* Keep growing & running your business until it's not your job anymore
* Have fun, and don't make big decisions when tired or grumpy

Good luck my friend :)
> Suppose you want to compete with Amazon, and you want Amazon to pay the same UPS rates you pay. It may make sense for Amazon to acquire UPS, or build a competitor to achieve rates that are more natural at their scale. [...] Vertical integration like this isn’t necessarily anticompetitive. Amazon, for example, runs AWS, but doesn’t appear to have engaged in anticompetitive practices with prospective competitors who run on AWS. Nevertheless, the scenarios above could be more undesirable for competition than the initial unregulated scenarios.

The article resume is "don't be pro regulation, because X company might acquire W company and create a vertical company?", because that is really not smart.

If it makes sense for Amazon to acquire UPS or run it's own courier, since it's not illegal to do so, be sure that it will. The Net Neutrality has nothing to do with this. Corporations don't do any favors, last time I checked.

According to the author's reasoning we should let any bill pass by, because hey if we push hard on the other direction, only God knows what other solution might find corp-X to make money, better the devil you see and we could go on like this for ever.

Hence:

* We should leave the NSA do it's job, because repercussions of our action - of protesting - might be grave!

* We should have accepted the DRM on mp3s, because Sony might buy an ISP.

* etc, etc, etc...
>At the moment, MS seems to have sort of backed off on enhancing C#

I assume you are talking about enhancing C# itself, because Roslyn is the next big thing for C# (and VB.Net) with a compiler compiler rewrite that will allow anyone to build language services.

The C# compiler code base is old now. It was done in C++ and apparently has become very hard to maintain. The C# team has been working on Roslyn, a complete rewrite of the compiler in C#, to make adding new features to the language more easily. It will also allow improvements to tooling (anyone can use the same compiler service rather than create their own) and should certainly facilitate meta-programming, construction of DSLs, etc.

I agree with you about F# though. It's so much to-the-point than C#, which is already a big improvement on java and C++ in the terseness area.

I love C# but I wish I was at least as proficient in F#, I know I could be a lot more productive with a language that requires less 'ceremony'.
Maybe they should rename to OpenSSH Foundation then ...
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Unlike your comment which was a true beacon of light in the darkness that is HN.
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I guess most meters have a display accurracy of 1 mg/dL, but that's just on display. If you check your blood twice in a row, you're likely to get at least a 5 mg/dL difference. I'm not even sure this is your meter's problem, but rather your blood having not 0.01 mg/dL-consistent sugar across all of your body.

Nevertheless 10 mg/dL is just the right accuracy needed to control type I diabetes. I don't tend to attach much importance to the last digit anyway.
The reason is that f# using the .net type system has no higher kinded generics. So you can abstract over t in List<t> but not over u in u<t>.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7073976 and in particular http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1usu93/1_2_3_4_5_112_n...
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> There's the quality of the laws, but then also the quality of the judges and the quality of the defense attorneys... there are many points of failure for a justice system.

An alternative way of looking at it: there are many safeguards.
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Hmm, how would one pop to the first page for ones open source tools? Asking because I'd like it to :(
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Once you understand that these universities are more or less (publicly or privately owned) corporations, their behavior starts making more sense. As far as I know, many of them actually turn a profit.
Ghost has the same problems as WordPress? That's extremely hard to believe, since there is no way that Ghost is made out of ancient, often questionable PHP code that you have to interact with to get anything significant done.
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Are there any other recommended reading lists? (For example for web development/windows programming etc.)
Heh. I bet his Powerpoint slides are impeccable.
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That might be a 'confusionRank' moreso than a 'usageRank'!
Looks like C++ got a bit of an upgrade in the canon...

The Programming Language
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ISBN 9780321563842
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Anecdotal evidence for you. I've tried driving in it a few times and wearing Glass wile driving is very distracting during the night time. Even when the glass was switched off every light was reflecting on the sides, it was distracting me from driving and in around twenty minutes (I was driving to Tahoe) I've started getting a headache and felt slightly nauseated (not normal for me, I can read in the car fine, without feeling any nausea). It all right during daytime, you barely notice when Glass is off and using navigation during daytime is also Ok (better than looking at a cellphone, worse than having voice-guided navigation).
The android app isn't any better.
It regularly refuses to skip tracks (instead restarting the current one), displays different tracks to the one it's actually playing and the offline mode is useless for everything beyond playing music (I can't add a track to a playlist, why?)
Good call! Thanks - I will.
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Emulation isn't guaranteed to manifest the same edge case issues that surface these defects, though.

Then again, it's possible that emulation could surface other edge case issues. That's completely orthogonal to the value of non-emulated archaic architectures for this purpose, however.
Hey bro, come back when you have 4 years classic ASP with IE6 requirement on your back.

The most advanced data structure was a array that you had to re-size by hand. Terrible.
You can't use a monitor while driving? The law says it's legal to use a mapping display while driving in California:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm
Actually most can't be emulated because emulators don't exist and those which can typically can't be emulated correctly (Sparc emulators for example which are notoriously sparse and bad quality).

Some of the architectures also have different endianess and incredibly complicated peripherals to the cost effective host machines as well meaning that it's actually more power efficient to run native. A headless 100MHz VAXstation for example draws less power than the equivalent host that would be required to provide a full, accurate emulation with peripherals. These aren't arcade machines.
The two versions are functionally identical, which is why the shorter version without repeated code is better.
Strange that it's just refer several times but not list jQuery as a framework but did with Zepto.

It's not mention lodash / underscore which is very elementary if you want to avoid reinvent the wheel.
I think we now have to settle for "a pretty good understanding of a lot of things, just never the things you immediately need."
It never was a framework; it was a better API for the DOM + some various other browser APIs -- so much better, in fact, you can get a near-framework-like productivity boost using it.

(At least at first, before it starts to matter that it's no help in terms of organizing a larger application. :)
MIPS is on the rise again as recent SoCs are more power efficient than ARM. I don't have a source for this unfortunately.

Sony Bravia EX series televisions are MIPS and Linux based for example.
That's bitrate, which doesn't necessarily correlate to "sound quality". Vorbis at 160 kbps usually sounds better than MP3 at 192 kbps.
I've seen too much companies fail because of spending too little time of thinking what the customer actually needs. They just do what they like. In fact when studying UX, I've noticed a lot of companies don't actually even know who their most important client is and what (s)he wants, what her fears and motivations are and how she will go about getting what she wants. Creating a ux vision and strategy makes a lot of difference. (Based up on talking to actual potential clients Not based up on imaginging).
How can I not access a flash drive in my phone? It’s in my hand. I can just plug it in. If I want to access the files from a computer, I plug it into the computer.

That’s my point. “Cloud” storage is completely unnecessary for these storage sizes, as I can just carry my personal data with me.
That is very well put. I am often amazed what a big difference certain ideas make it possible to build complex things quickly and with low amounts of bugs. For example building a parsing subsystem "properly" as taught on compiler courses vs haphazard combination of regexps. It is mentally much more demanding, and requires more effort up front, but then to your surprise, every change you make just works almost immediately, and there are no hairy corner cases to resolve (this is kind of declarative vs imperative, but not quite). Another example is mathematical models, such as Markov Models and the like, where you can have a really complex behavior, but your parameters are simply matrices and all operations are some sort of matrix algebra. Difficult to understand at first, but very powerful and "clean" once you do.

In contrast, as you say, there are huge amounts of armchair ideas that are not worth very much even if they are correct. For example "software will eat everything" is something I believe is mostly right. It is also a business idea with direct implications for action. Despite this, it is only valuable to set the general direction (let's do software), but not any specific cases. It does not mean that every case of transforming a traditional business into a software one is going to be a grand success, or even profitable. In fact, these types of ideas have a tendency to cause one to forget the exceptions from the rule, and thereby being actively harmful.
The could, but the license leaves them equally able to say "fuck you very much" on donations or code.
Yeah, I've noticed that one as well, wasn't sure if it was intentional or a bug.
Yeah, Silicon Valley can be like that. Like a lot of things, it can be fun if you know how to spot the bad stuff (people who want you to work for free and always talk about how big it's going to get) and stick wih the better stuff (make sure you get everything in writing, if someone feels untrustworthy they probably are, etc)

Sorry you had a bad experience.
As anther poster mentioned, search may not be an indication of popularity.

Personally, I've used Backbone, Angular and now Ractive, and I spent at least 10x the time Googling when using Angular.
I'm not sure the "B" applies, unless it's from the same acronym as BOFH.
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> Don't use a big browser. It's not in the default install :)

Missing entirely the point of the parent post. I can claim anything is secure if I seal it in enough concrete.
There is this page - I'm adding a link to it from the homepage now: http://linkvau.lt/help#theapi
I guess it is down atm, the "/. effect" :)
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While I do get lost as to where the current hate is, is it not Java, rather than javascript, which is currently hated?
If anybody interested to work together on a software project, ping me as well. I am interested to work on a real estate based project.
Another type 1 diabetic chiming in here.

It is not weird not feeling it until such low levels at all. Some diabetics never feel low blood sugars; the longer you have diabetes the more common it is to experience this phenomena. Additionally how you "feel" a low blood sugar varies over your lifetime so the "tells" change. This means we may be feeling different, but have no idea that it is because of a low blood sugar since we haven't felt this new warning symptom before.

When I first was diagnosed with diabetes I could tell quite early if my blood sugar was low. If my blood sugar dipped to just 70 I would start shaking like a leaf. Now I don't have any warning signs at least until I hit around 55 and sometimes not until the low 30s; when I have symptoms at all. I have twice had incidents where I fell because my blood sugar had dipped so low with no physical warning signs. Both times my vision went black for a second and I fell over. I don't know if this was me actually "passing out", but in both instances I recovered almost immediately and immediately consumed large quantities of juice to get my bgl back to normal as quick as possible.

When I do have a tell it is difficult to even notice now; the best way I can even describe it is that I have a very sudden sense of dread as a feel my mind sort of shifting away from me. By this point I'm so low as to be in serious danger zone. I try like crazy to stay out as far away from that as possible by testing as frequently as possible, but your fingers can only take so much; and even if they could take some more the insurance carriers won't cover more test strips anyway.

I think this Google product is a great idea and I would love to see something like this actually work, but like the parent of this thread; I'll believe it when I see it. I've been reading about all sorts of wonderful continual monitoring solutions for BGLs for years and have seen nothing come of it.
IMPORTANT: the current stable official node-mongodb-native silently wraps exceptions. So completely non DB related code might be failing in your app, but because it's called in a callback, it won't ever show up.

This is acknowledged by 10gen/MongoDB inc: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/node-mongodb-native/...

Use the beta 1.3 driver until 1.4 comes out unless you want to tear your hair out.
Besides the update on the official book, Bjarne has written a new one that teaches how to write modern and secure C++, instead of using the unsafe C underpinnings.

A Tour of C++

ISBN-10: 0321958314
ISBN-13: 978-0321958310

http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html
Seconding the recommendation. I have this meter for the same reason.

You need to use the Bayer software to talk to it (I'd recommend actually installing the software rather than using the copy from the meter itself). But then the readings are stored in a standard sqlite database without any obfuscation etc.
It uses some sort of hash so you can't actually modify things, but for just getting the raw numbers I didn't have any trouble.
I would have loved it to be some old ARM ISA to use it as a testcase for Avatar[0]. On the same topic, FIE paper may be an interesting reading for msp430 lovers[1] (but it needs source for symbolic execution, so doesn't directly apply here).

[0] http://www.s3.eurecom.fr/tools/avatar/

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity13/technical...
As the person who asked: I do in house database programming, so while I am aware of GoDaddy (they are the biggest registrar, no?), I wouldn't know what to expect differently from one registrar over another, as I don't use them. I registered a domain for my Mum's business over ten years ago, but haven't used a registrar since.
I mean, we still have the death penalty, so yeah.
Ah, embracing innovation the British way.

I recall that 6 months before one of those "date the person right next to me" sites picked up in the US, something similar was launched by some students in a UK university (a pretty high-profile one, though I can't remember which one... LSE? Imperial?). Anyway, long story short, the university IT department shut it down on the grounds that it was not appropriate use of IT facilities.

Six months later, the same launched in the US and grew insanely fast.
Not speaking for the parent, but I'm a 35 year old T1D who has been diagnosed for only about 7 years and I am already nearly asymptomatic when I have low blood sugars. The risk of becoming asymptomatic for low blood sugars increases over time, but it is completely inconsistent. Some diabetics have always been asymptomatic for low blood sugars, others will go their whole lives and always have easy to detect symptoms. I have a friend who is in his mid forties and is also a T1D; he was diagnosed about 30 years ago and he still consistently gets the shakes when he is any lower than 70.
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Planning to switch from c to c++; I'm really exited to read this.

@commenter: The word switch doesn't have to rely on relevance between subjects it is referring to. It has more to do with the speed of changing the direction.
And I'll add to that, you better pay off your technical debt otherwise you might end up with problems, in the long term - seen it way too many times.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/paying-down-your-te...
H+FJ are in a class of their own in the world of typography

Are they? That's a pretty insulting claim to make when you consider the achievements of other giants of the typography world. Robert Slimbach at Adobe has a similarly impressive portfolio, for example. If you look down any list of the most popular fonts for use in professional typography, Adrian Frutiger probably designed several of them. From a slightly different angle, Matthew Carter was creating screen-optimised fonts decades before all these trendy web font services with the luxuries of modern digital formats and hinting technology came along, among other significant achievements. Hermann Zapf? Carol Twombly?

H&FJ have made some very nice fonts. They've also made some so-so fonts, had much more aggressive licensing terms than most major foundries, and arrived several years late to the web fonts party. I'm sorry that their situation has reached what we're hearing about today, but please let's not spend all day indulging in hero worship.
They do. Maybe he meant 100BASE-T4.
Here's a better screenshot. I do not find this bad at all.

http://img.creativemark.co.uk/uploads/images/298/15298/img3F...