skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://i.imgur.com/DUtHvrY.jpg
Definitely a mod should change the title.
Your terms of service links to a 404
You can do this just as easily in Go as well, using reflection.
Fire your CTO if your company buys cell phone insurance. He’s bad at math.
"Rover did it somehow", even at a remove or two, isn't exactly an unsatisfactory explanation....
You're close to what I was imagining. I was thinking it's martians having a good time at our expense! "Watch the silly earthlings study this rock I'll put in their picture, lol!"
Thanks for the expansion. I took your comment as another "iPod sucks, blah, blah, all marketing" type. Obviously the problem lies in my knee-jerk reactions. :-)

> You're right - it was a bit of an exaggeration. Microsoft's "PlaysForSure" cert was nearly as bad, and all of Sony's lines were garbage (IMO.)

Aaaand, you hit on the top two candidates for "Why Did mikestew Buy an iPod?" MSFT's offering was broken from the start, and later yanked (buh-bye, music!), and the company that brought you the original Walkman obviously lost their magic. But of the $50 players, I never found one worth keeping. Maybe I just never learned about them, hence making your point of "marketing matters". :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ194S7KjRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izOJ7zX5I0

This is an opinion: They killed him.
The law is supposed to reflect the morality of the country. It should be unsurprising that the US president thinks that US laws are, on the whole, aligned with the country's general morality.
I am making my living doing part-time coding (still doing my degree) for the last 2 years, was unemployed for only about 3 months. I am doing PHP and AngularJS.

It's really all about the people you know. I got the best gigs just by asking people (normally other developers) I know if they know someone who needs a developer. So, yes, it's all about networking but not the numbers but quality of connection. No one, who talked to you for 10mins, will vouch for you, really.

I've tried elance a bit, and getting the first gig there looks like a game of numbers. If you apply for many jobs, sooner or later you will get one... But checking new postings, writing decent cover letter is time and mental energy consuming. I gave up there. I don't know, maybe it's worth the hassle getting the first one.

If you try to make a living doing part time, the key is 1) high enough pay rate 2) be strict about the payments.

I used to have a rather low rate and was very trusting (e.g. if the payment is late by 3-4 weeks I still trusted because I 'felt' that he is trustworthy). I ended up in the situation when I didn't have what to eat for a few weeks, while I was getting 'I really made the payment' BS, and 0 motivation and energy to do anything. But now I am happy that it happened, I moved on, and got much much better gigs and 1.5-2 times higher pay rate and payments always on time :)

AMA!
The U.S. government's bitcoin bonanza: How, where and when to sell?
She's not homeless, she just travels constantly and stays in other people's homes (via couchsurfing). She's not really "homeless" in the way you expected to read that title.
If you run a browser extension that breaks the web, the web breaks. Maybe try something like DoNotTrackMe instead?
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Leafly, The Story of Yelp of Weed Startup
A $10-20 million company you own all of, though. The VCs don't just give you cash for free.
That webpage killed my laptop. Presumably the video that did it? So thoughtful of them to play it automatically.
It must sting working at Techcrunch at this stage when even a TC, YC, etc favorite would rather release their news somewhere else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7078760

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230346500...
A similar website posted on HN. Very well done.

http://superherojs.com/
Palo Alto HN: 1st Event - Science Exchange (YC S11)
I agree. Calling it a storytelling system makes me think of fan fiction or something like that.

I'm not sure how to best describe this, but I don't think "story telling" is the best possible way.
https://github.com/spark/core-communication-lib/tree/master/...
When did WSJ start using that paywall?
Anyone got a link to a non-paywalled version?

Also - I love dropbox as much as anyone, but do they have the numbers to justify a 10B valuation?
>The thing that sucked was always iTunes, and the price.

Those things can't be separated from the product though, which required iTunes and was expensive. Replacing the firmware on an iPod makes it perfectly fine. The reasons that the iPod was worse than many of its competitors weren't due to incompetence, they were by design.

>Yes, their marketing was brilliant

I'm not even saying that their marketing was brilliant, just pervasive. When the iPod came out, a large portion of the population wouldn't have even known and/or experienced that your music could be easily put on a tiny device at all. Their first exposure to the concept would have been an iPod ad, or seeing someone with one.
GNOME is far from the only FOSS desktop these days. A desktop that demands you have a specific init system is not onw I care to use.
I recently added the statement "type T interface{}" to a piece of code, as a private joke about the generics-in-go talk.

now my code looks like "func map(x []T, f func(T) T)" and everybody's happy :)
Hopper, the Startup That's Been in Stealth for Six Years Finally (Soft) Launched
I agree that Snowden broke the law on divulging classified materials, as it codified. What I'm concerned about is the show trial where the Administration gets to trot out whatever stories they want to make up about how he provided "aid and comfort to the enemy."

Those who want to "get" Snowden have already shown that they have no compunction about lying under oath, so that is where my fear originates.
I need to have creative freedom in both design and features.
So far I have none, I'm a code monkey with a bunch of Photoshop, UX and "Project Director" goons taking shots.

None of them can actually build the end product nor work in the medium.
I did a google search with the link to access non-paywalled

https://www.google.com/#q=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fnews...

Click on the search result and it is non-paywalled
Right, but note that the VCs are effectively asking you to bootstrap anyway before you get any real VC, and absorb all that risk yourself, regardless of whether or not the lottery ticket story is true.

That's not to say there aren't ideas that really scream for VC: enterprise sales take a long ass time and require expensive sales-bots to get done, for example. But for a lot of SAAS type stuff, that isn't the case.
Dropbox Inc. has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.

A BlackRock Inc. BLK -0.33% investment fund is leading the deal, which also includes previous backers, said one of these people, who declined to provide more detail.

Dropbox wasn't immediately available to comment.

At $10 billion, Dropbox is one of the most highly valued companies backed by venture capitalists. The company's valuation has more than doubled since late 2011, when investors valued the San Francisco-based company at $4 billion. The company also got a higher price than expected when it approached investors as recently as November.

Dropbox raised $250 million in its 2011 financing from Goldman Sachs and venture-capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Accel Partners.

The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Dropbox had expected sales of more than $200 million in 2013. The company made $116 million in sales in 2012, according to people familiar with the company's financials, more than doubling its $46 million in revenue in 2011. The year before, it nearly quadrupled sales from $12 million.

--David Benoit contributed to this article.
Go through google and you can read it.
Google for "dropbox valuation"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online....

p.s: I thought this behavior was against Google's ToS...
> First rule of politics: never make a promise you can't keep.

Then every politician I know is a glaring exception to this rule.
Keyboard innovation is making them worse
Could someone please explain why they would raise another round at this stage? Investors are assuming an IPO and want to get in before that I guess.
We're currently on Debian Squeeze so we need to move to something as Squeeze is approaching end-of-life.

If we stick with Debian, we'll find ourselves back in this situation fairly soon, since Debian's security team only supports oldstable for one year after a new stable is released (approximately — there isn't a set timeline available).

Ubuntu LTS releases, on the other hand, give us predictability and five years of support. That makes me very happy from an infrastructure standpoint. And the more up-to-date packages in Ubuntu repos make our feature devs happier, versus having to maintain backports for modern software.
I'm sympathetic, but not enough so to donate $22,000.
"You should not be here yet."
Yes it has to be done at the congressional level, not executive, to make it much much harder to undo and with public exposure.

But considering the state of our congress, we're screwed.
Well, let's see: The increase in latency and decrease in throughput of a TCP connection from a single (improbable) occurance of a corrupted packet on a modern LAN is negligible. Even if these audiophiles are streaming raw 192 kHz 32-bit 5.1 surround audio, that only seems to be about 37 Mbps. Any network audio streaming program worth its salt will buffer some number of samples to accommodate minor interruptions. So "magic" aside, you're probably not going to be getting packet loss with a "regular" cable.

If a cable is good enough for Gigabit Ethernet, it's definitely good enough for your ears...
Congrats Drew and Arash!
Google the exact article title and follow the link from Google to WSJ. For whatever reason, it seems like they don't paywall traffic from Google searches.
Since they're hosted on AWS, their bandwidth and storage costs have to be monstrous per month. Anyone have a rough estimate of how much they're paying currently and how much they could possibly stand to save by using this investment money to possibly build their own data center/acquire one?
I'd say a sufficiently large goal is well beyond that of only self-fulfillment or making a lot of money. It would be an attempt to change a field, advance a given topic in that field, or create a system which a group of people could benefit from.
This is a patent for turning UPS and Fedex distribution centers into warehouses

I am picturing it more like turning the UPS and Fedex pipelines into short-term storage.

The shipping & distribution equivalent of delay line memory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
There is an important point in this: The American public (i.e. citizenry) must look itself in the face and question what it has begotten.

Our "leaders" really mostly follow. They follow votes. They follow money. Increasingly, the influence of money (and the votes, and redistricting into "safe" districts, that it can buy) appears to be superceding that of raw, individual votes.

But it is still the citizens who cast those votes.

It's not just "them." It is "us." (For U.S. citizens. And for non-citizens who have various forms of influence upon U.S. policy, directly or in response to it.)

In that sense, it might be argued we have very much gotten the government we deserve.

If we think we deserve better, it is up to us. Not them.
Curiously, I found some of these negative to be true for "managed" companies as well, certainly when the company is large enough:

1.Lots of chaos - yep. "It’s not entirely clear what’s happening, but there is a lot of activity and eventually large structures/tunnels get built. I know for a fact that we have Projects that were started and eventually abandoned because another Project was conflicting or duplicating their work". All this seems to hold true for the last company I worked for (MegaCorp, you'd easily recognize the name).

2. Coordination is very hard - yep. "it’s up to individuals to take time to communicate what’s happening on their Project and how it affects others" - absolutely.

3. Starting Projects can be slow - well, I hear a lot of MegaCorps have entirely abandoned the notion of starting projects, and simply rely on acquisitions, either consciously or in practice.

4. I can’t make people do things - boy oh boy, please ask your friends working at MegaCorps about people who are "the only ones who know how this works". Delightfully funny stories, really.

5. It takes longer to understand what’s going on - I simply got the impression no one really understood what's going on. When high-level managers spoke to me about the status of my project/component, they were routinely misinformed, although it was clear they cared and have spent time trying to get informed.

6. Harder to hire people - OK, maybe this is true :-)

BTW, apparently there are citation-like watermarks when copy-pasting from the blog post - this isn't a big deal, but I don't see any particular benefit to anyone from this... Ryan, if you're reading, may I humbly suggest you reconsider this?
I'm not able to read this without signing up. I suggest a [restricted access] in the title of such articles like [video].
Wingtip of the new Airbus A350
I've always wondered if buying Bestbuy and turning them into store, showroom and local warehouses would be a workable model for Amazon.
Typical misleading and sensationalist titles from BusinessInsider. The value of a cryptocoin in isolation means nothing, because there could be only 10 of them available, and they have a market cap of $10 million, then 1 would be worth $1 million. This is no different than talking about a "MegaBitcoin" being worth $800 million, with only 12 of them or so being available right now.
Does Clojure differ a lot from Scheme for what SICP teaches? Is there any benefit for studying the Clojure version of SICP, rather than the original?
50X sales. That makes HP's purchase of Autonomy look cheap.
I think costly returns in this case is UPS shipping items back to Amazon warehouse in case they are unclaimed for a while.
And that is the cost to living in a free society: occasionally you have to deal with violent assholes.

Again, I'd rather live in a society where the innocent are free and unmonitored than one which the NSA, etc., reign supreme. Counter-terrorism efforts are inherently anti-democratic and anti-freedom, despite protestations to the contrary.

Not interested.
$200m in revenue and solid growth is pretty strong. It's at least not unreasonable.
They use the HTTP referer for that, forging it work just as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
Is Hurd successful? What about SmartOS? How any embedded boxes use BSD compared to Linux, vs ten years ago. Where's the trend headed?
A perhaps interesting side note: when I played around with genetic algorithms it became obvious that initial randomness (or randomness already present in the gene pool) in combination with chromosomal crossover was far more important than other types of mutation for the create of interesting new gene variants.

Anyway, I remember this rule of thumb from somewhere: if a gene gives just a 1% survival advantage, it would take over the population in only 100 generations. It sure seems like this is happening in Tibet.
Actually, I didn't know that. And it surprises me, actually. Intuitively I would have guessed that converging infinite sums would be well-behaved under normal algebraic manipulations. But you learn something new every day :-)

Can you point me to a reference?
Still paywalled for me
"The company uses more than uses more than 10,000 physical servers to manage user content, along with Amazon Web Services."

source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/10/23/how-d...

I was trying to find a comment on HN where one of the dropbox employees references their datacenter, but my hnsearch-fu wasn't up to par.
wow thanks! going to try this theme.
What a bunch of sophomoric horse shit this thread is.

Obama is a disappointment on this issue, and other things too. But there are differences between politicians, and all this blah blah about how they are all the same is a great way to get apathetic and do nothing to improve things. It can be hard work trying to pick out the good ones from the bad ones, and maybe sometimes none of them are that good. And you may feel let down when you misjudge one. But that doesn't mean you just give up and spout platitudes about woe-is-us as an excuse for not doing anything, or no longer attempting to vote for good people.

Two politicians: Nelson Mandela and Joe McCarthy. No difference?
you and i, maybe others too. but not the general sheep.
I believe that they aren't against bulk metadata collection because the majority of the public also is not against it.
>> "Also - I love dropbox as much as anyone, but do they have the numbers to justify a 10B valuation?"

I don't know but I am always surprised at the people I hear using Dropbox. I always look at it as a techie kind of service but most non-geek business people I interact with use it to share files, family members use it to store photos etc.
TL:DR - whoa Big Data can tell us many things.
I looked in https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and apparently the nofollow disappears when the story gets 6 point. The number may change without prior notice. Perhaps they are using a more complicated secret criterion.
I don't even know what Google's terms of service are anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030768
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> If it were under the GPL and each contributor retained their copyright over their submission

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer, everything I say below may be totally wrong.

As far as I know, this is exactly what happens. Canonical's Contributor License Agreements stipulates a form of joint copyright assignment where both Canonical and the author have ownership over the contribution, thereby creating two source trees: one on which Canonical has full control over, the other owned by the collective of individuals who contributed to the project (just like the Linux kernel).

Even RedHat requires you to sign a similar CLA in order to accept contributions for Fedora, 389 Directory Server (LDAP), etc. The FSF does something similar for their project, so does Node, Apache, etc. Canonical's CLA used to be nasty but since they started using the Harmony Agreements I think their terms are reasonable.

Personally, as long as they don't ask me to relinquish all and every right on my contribution and/or ask for unreasonable provisions, I'm fine with a CLA.
The same is also true for baseboard heaters, in general there is one thermostat per room.
It is possible to have generics without having the specialization rules of C++.
How could it have been corrected? Though I hesitate to say Romney would have been worse, he gave no indication of being better.

Plus, campaign promises have a tendency toward melting away when facing hard reality. Even if a Green or Libertarian candidate had won (absolutely 0% chance), there's no reason to think they'd have followed through on their promises. They might want to, but so does Obama, presumably. It's just the structure of government that someone in the executive branch isn't going to be willing to use all of their political capital in a battle that weakens their own authority.
Poster here -- good suggestion; I just added "($)" to the title.

EDIT: Looks like it got deleted.
I guess you get to use the Java API, but overall I can't think of any reason to modify the SICP, regardless of everything.

On the bright side, at least it's not JavaScript.
It's not power efficiency, it's money.

MIPS SoC licensing is less expensive than ARM licensing at the smaller volumes inherent in low-end routers (.vs phones and tablets).
You're either trolling or not old enough to remember what the portable player scene was like in 2001. Burned CDs on portable cd walkmans were the norm. Minidisc was high tech. 2/4GB of onboard memory + expansion slot was typical. "Anti-skip protection" was still a feature worth mentioning.

The iPod's storage capacity was massive in comparison to nearly everything else. The firewire connection made uploading huge amounts of music crazy-fast in comparison to the old USB connections other players were using. Look at digital players of the same vintage -- stupid complicated interfaces & displays -- the clickwheel was a revolution in UX. So much so that it remains, largely unchanged, on all but touchscreen ipods.
Apply for Google Summer of Code! They'll pay you to work remotely on an open source project, even internationally.
Where is the coin slot so I can put some money into this awesome project?
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well that's a shame...
> "NASA space suits are pressurized to an altitude of 6,000 ft, which is about the same as a commercial airliner cabin."

This seems to check out, but I am not sure how to reconcile it with astronauts needing to prebreath for a few hours before an EVA (since the ISS atmosphere is comparable to Earth's at sea-level).

From what I can tell most passengers can tolerate up to 8000 feet unpressurized, and although the planes climb fast enough to pop your ears I've certainly never heard of anybody getting the bends.

I think maybe the difference is the difference between oxygen pressure, and the total gas pressure? Space suits (unlike modern spacecraft) use pure oxygen.
You do realize that people who look at the tutorial will discover the lack of generics on their own, right? And that if they share the "my God, lack of generics is a war crime!" attitude, they're bound to discover it literally right away?
Perhaps, on my DD-WRT WAP its pretty easy to tell who is in the house and who is next door with their signal strengths.
I think it depends on your level of experience. For someone who's a beginner to Clojure and functional programming but wants to use Clojure as their home environment for working through the concepts presented in the book, I suspect they would face some challenges translating the semantics of certain examples in the book, such as streams, to their closest Clojure representation. If you're primarily concerned with just working through the material in the book, you may not want to have to deal with that overhead straight away.
Can the Global Internet Survive Realism About Surveillance?
Well, we're not talking US laws "on the whole". It's about the few specific ones Snowden has been charged breaking.
On spot! Just the day before July 4th, founding fathers were right. But what they were doing was illegal. And called terrorist by DHS trainees...
The point is nobody hires the actual top 5% of the best people, just the subset that happens available and interested in them within given period.
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it's called IE7. Any feature that's not cross browser supported is guaranteed to not be supported in IE7. A.K.A. lowest common denominator.

Very soon to be IE8.
> just be happy that people are interested in math for a change

Sorry, can't do it. Mythbusters actually is real science, and anyone who thinks it isn't doesn't understand science. But this video is not real math, notwithstanding that the result it derives looks the same as one that can be derived using real math.
Yup. Fixed, thanks! Also, should add, the main reason I like doing contracting gigs like this is to stay sharp. At least twice this year something I've learned on a side gig has directly helped my dayjob company. Nice effect that.
so could microsoft and google, but neither SkyDrive not Google Drive have made dropbox suffer much yet.
Clearly, MSFT, Apple, or Google could buy them.
But... Selling your business on eBay is a scary-looking exit strategy for any potential buyer.
Looks to me, as somebody had taken the guts out of the puppet. It is really a sad thing to watch.