skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note: Quora tailors the digests on a per-user basis. I'm not certain what the algorithms involved are, but I'd be willing to bet that they use information about what you and your friends spend time reading about in constructing it.

For example, my most recent weekly digest does not have "What are some things that make you really sad?", but does have "What are your favourite quotes from Harry Potter?" -- it often seems to include Harry Potter. Maybe not a very great question, but it does fit my social network's reading interests pretty snugly.
Except you have no idea how many people are affected, you only know how many A) noticed, B) traced the culprit back to kernel_task, and C) reported it. That's likely a very small percentage of the afflicted population.

I'm also not sure how you explain a CPU pegged by a kernel process on a machine which should be doing almost nothing as "shear chance". That's a bug.
Do not underestimate the price of taxes to pay for said education. It probably all comes out about the same. This assumes you also work and pay taxes to the entity that provided your education.
The top-level answer is all the fluff without the substance. It is just nicely written.

The real answer should basically say that you need to start negotiating.

Of course you need to be nice and civil (read Dale Carnegie's book) but also understand that you don't need to liked by some people. For negotiating there are many books. But the point is basically very simple: 1) figure out what you really care about, 2) learn what other side really cares about, 3) be nice, 4) every negotiation needs to end with both parties satisfied, 5) "no deal" is also possible outcome
If they are a friend, I meet up with them in person and give them cash.
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I agree with most, except the last part. I came to SV from the Netherlands myself and i had the pleasure to meet Neelie Kroes (highly respected EU politician from Dutch origin) here in SF in the first month after I moved to the US. She was saying how Europe could learn from SV and how she was getting billions of EU funding to recreate SV in Europe and setup 'startup hubs' in places like Strasbourgh and Brussels. I think there's some flawed thinking here: you shouldn't want to recreate the success of SV by just copying it. It will fail. Europe should figure out what would work for them. It doesn't have to be the same as SV.
He answered a few questions in a reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1vcm7j/this...
An Example Of Using Shiny For Interactive Security Data Analysis
Mind you, -ProfileManager actually opens to the full profile manager interface (where you select a profile to run, or create a new one, or whatever). You can load a specific profile (that already exists) directly by replacing "-ProfileManager" with "-P [profile name]". (Omitting the name will open the manager, too.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...
I can only guess.

Many of these are older than OpenStack by a wide margin. OVH in particular is huge, they own many data centers, thousands of employees...you just don't make that sort of switch overnight. The cost and risk might not be justifiable.
I got through calc in high school and college and I really wish somebody had told me that radians were based on the radius like this. I had no idea.

Maybe somebody told me and I didn't take it in.

Shoddy math teaching was par for the course where I grew up.
Seeing as this came out in 2008 - I'm really curious to see if PG has any updated thoughts on the cities he mentioned as well as some of the new rising tech centers (Chicago, Austin, etc)
I'm with you. Probably most users are, too. People who aren't experiencing these problems have no need to inhabit threads like these.
Posted 16th May 2013
The argument in favour of tau in the formula for the area of a circle is this: To find the area of a circle with radius r, you integrate the circumference of every circle with radius between 0 and r. The integral of tau*r with respect to r is 1/2 tau r^2. Since 1/2 ax^2 is such a common form when dealing with integrals, it can be easier to remember this way.
Boost the signal on your jailbroken Apple iPhone with this 99 cent app
The public suffix list has two purposes: browsers won't accept wildcard cookies (desirable) but also won't accept a wildcard certificate against that name (undesirable). It's true that nobody should have a certificate for * .com or * .co.uk, but it is reasonable for Google to have * .blogspot.com.

To remove the cross-site exposure in shared domains using the PSL, there'd need to be an extra bit expressed with every entry in the PSL. Alternately, browsers could re-try the request without any cookies.
I'd be really interested in reading studies that have examined the effect of real estate development on prices. Any links?
unlike the techcruch article which has some glaring errors (don't they have proof readers anymore?) as

"You can just upload a file, email someone a link, and shut off your computer."

* should be "can not"
I've only paid attention to TWC since I use them. It's been semi-officially confirmed on DSLReports and I noticed it myself.
From working incident response and malware remediation in a fairly large company, I can definitely corroborate that statistic.
at first I read this and immediately thought that google had jumped the shark, but then when I realized that they are proposing to use quantum computing to make ANNs tunnel through local minima in converging on solutions, I think that's a really interesting use case - if quantum adiabatic annealing can be easily programmed to do this, (whether or not it has any sort of biomimetic relevance).
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Why do you believe Europe isn't doing well with startups?

It might be true that Europe isn't doing well with web startups reaching stratospheric valuations in no-time, but Europe is full of startups doing well, and starting companies in Europe is not particularly hard (co-founded several; been one of the early employees in a couple more). And in many countries you can practically get government grants thrown after you if you put in a minimum of effort into applying.

You have some points with translation, but where you see problems, I see opportunities: Translations can be done cheaply enough that being aware of internationalization issues and cultural issues can create enormous benefits in the form of erecting barriers exactly against US companies. I've worked with a number of US companies on i18n issues, and I've yet to find a single one where the US team understood the European concerns (I still shudder to think of the one multinational who thought that it didn't matter if all their past invoices changed if they changed their invoice template, to, e.g., change their VAT registration number).

I also don't agree with about culture. Well, sort of: What you say is true about the US too. Most people don't want to start companies badly enough. Or they would have. At least a huge number. Lots of people do though, we just don't have a single geographical area as small as the valley where it's all concentrated.

There are hundreds of internet startups in London alone, for example.

And I don't buy that you have so few success stories in the Netherlands, though perhaps you're not aware of them as they're not in "as hot" sectors. E.g. consider Bibit - a payment processor funded in Bunnik, that was acquired by RBS and merged with (London founded) Streamline/WorldPay (who has also acquired half a dozen other European startups in the payment space over the years), just to take one of the top of my head that I've personally dealt with. (And a bunch of the people from Bibit are now behind Adyen - another Netherlands based payment processor startup)

Though there is definitively cultural differences. The "fail fast" approach that many in SV takes is definitively less popular, not least because in many countries here for many types of jobs, having a failed company on your CV, at least as a founder, is seen in a more negative light. And this probably explains a lot of the perception too: Many European startups takes longer to grow big and may never even aim to grow as big as an equivalent Valley startup, and so may often be seen as a medium to big established company by the time mergers and acquisitions happens - it's easy to fly below the radar for the entire lifecycle of the company as an independent entity.
I've often thought about the allure of moving to the Bay Area and being part of "startup central", but I can't help but suspect that I have an overly romanticized view of what it would be like. And there are existence proofs that a startup can be founded - and succeed - in North Carolina. So while I get what you're saying, I have some major doubts about moving out there. Higher cost of living, more traffic, more smog, more competition for talent, etc., etc. - these all strike me as factors that argue against moving.

OTOH, the energy, the vibe, the ambition that pg talks about here... I so want to be around that and more like minded people. And while the Raleigh / Durham area has a burgeoning startup scene, I don't get the impression that it can come close to touching the energy in, say, Palo Alto or Mountain View, or San Francisco.

Guess I need to just drag my ass out West and take it all in sometime. I keep hoping a consulting gig will take me out there and give me an excuse to go for a few weeks, so I can check it out. :-)
I think Snow Leopard (10.6) was the most stable OS X release.
I wonder what the threshold of detail is to remain effectively invisible or beyond notice. That's all that's needed. I'm sure that's been deeply studied by the military.
Perhaps the title should be "Cities & Ambition & My Snarky, Arrogant Generalizations".
> 1 - Europeans, though are certainly enthusiastic, are not going to go for 80h/week workloads, not even as founders.

First of all, yes, we do. Been there, done that. That said, I don't think it is/was beneficial - I've had to send people home to rest because they became a net drain on the team.

I think your points are highly dependent on where in Europe - I don't recognize myself in any of your top four points.
I won't swear to it, but I suspect you're going to have to largely roll your own, and that it will be at least partly heuristic driven. I use Apache Tika[1] to extract text from PDFs and then index it with Lucene, but we don't need to discriminate between various chapters or anything. But I can picture how you could use OpenNLP[2] and some custom code, to break down the chapters.

[1]: http://tika.apache.org

[2]: http://opennlp.apache.org
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not to mention NYC, and especially so since he specifically mentioned whether New York could grow into a startup hub to rival Silicon Valley
This SO post is really good, but some of the points made in the post are not very clear. For example, why is arr['key'] = 5; consider bad? I've read the post and the code, but it's still not clear from the example.

When does using Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty lead to bugs?

Any benchmarks on case statements being slow?

Any additional reading on this type of thing (books, etc)?
This post is brilliant. It puts into words an unspoken but pervasive sensation I had in the small town I grew up in, before leaving for greener pastures: it didn't ask me (or anyone else) to be anyone or anything better than I already was. I hated it for its leniency, for its forgiveness that ended up being suffocating. It makes sense to choose to live in a demanding place.
It appears you've learned the lesson, having developers that write working software results in a more profitable company than having developers who remain in their seats for 8 hours a day.

The key is to make the company culture fit those who write working software.
This is why i like Chef...i feel there are tools out there to test your code better....FoodCritic...ChefSpec...Test Kitchen...before rolling to production and having to validate machines in production....ouch
The OP's username pretty much reflects my reaction to this website.

Here's a question asking for a white paper:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=979.0

It links to a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8

There's a lot of hand waving.

Not to mention that I wasn't aware Amazon, eBay, FedEx, et al accepted Bitcoin and integrated with the Keyhotee network...
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Hey HN community. I'm wondering how did you become productive programmers?
How are they anonymous? https://buybitcoin.ph/about
It's also a great lesson for software development as having the Manager class instruct the 'managed' classes is usually a worse design than having the managed classes inform the manager.
>From a cursory glance, I think he believes Snowden is a misguided traitor, Manning should spend the rest of his life in solitary, and Wikileaks is a Russian-funded intelligence front.

He's a professor at a military school, I'm not the least bit surprised that he thinks that way. I agree completely that it limits the extent to which we can trust him as an authority.

Manning's conviction was actually pretty fair IMO. He was acquitted of leaking the video evidence of a government hiding illegal activity; he was also acquitted of aiding the enemy because that assertion was ridiculous. He was rightly held to account for releasing close to three quarters of a million classified documents that contained no instances of illegal activity. Had he done his due diligence like Snowden, he should have (but probably wouldn't have) walked away. That being said, I would be happy if they paroled him ASAP. I don't think we should take some kid's life(35 years will destroy your life just as surely as a lethal injection) away for making a stupid decision when it didn't cause much demonstrable harm.

What I find most entertaining about this article is that his argument is basically "Young people have an inflated sense of entitlement and that's why they don't worship the ground I walk on."
>what I really want from high-res VR is the ability to get rid of monitors altogether.

I don't want to get rid of them, I want to emulate an arbitrary number of them within VR.
Have had the ribbon since it came out and I use Office all the time. I don't hate change, I welcome it.

The ribbon is garbage and still wildly less productive than the toolbar. Not even close.
The split-spacebar idea is actually a lot older than this: http://www.impactcomputers.com/247431-101.html

Compaq called them Erase-Ease. I have one and it says 1997 on the back.

To account for left/right preference, you can use a key combination (something like ctrl-alt-shift-escape) to cycle between space-space, backspace-space, space-backspace configurations!

Edit: more links: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NMB+introduces+Erase-Ease+back...

And a comical example of someone stumbling upon the configuration key combo: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sys.pc-clone.com...
I guess the European peons did learn some lessons from all the centuries of oppression under the feudal nobility. The Americans never had that experience, so they bought into the company line hook line and sinker.
Was the article clear but I missed it? The problem is the Java browser plugin, not Java proper, right? Does anyone have any examples of Java proper not being secure?

Even more bizarre, at least to me, is this quote:

> Most legitimate Websites will not use hidden or obfuscated JavaScript, and few will redirect users without authorization, he explained.

What?
That they're working with Oculus VR and sharing their knowledge is super awesome!

> By showing them a
prototype with low persistence, we convinced Oculus of its importance, and the lack of blur in Crystal
Cove is a direct result of that.
Hey Google, knock it the fuck off.
Sure, but in reality they did work 7-day weeks and he did get a massive payoff. To express the theoretical desire to have better work/life balance is meaningless without a sincere expression of which part of his fortune he'd trade for it.
Abrash says in the slides they're not actually working on a device internally, except for research. I could be wrong but I remember reading that Ellsworth's team was developing a product.
Or a browser for that matter.
It's not an animation, but when I saw the visual illustration of eigenvalues/eigenvectors on this page I was blown away:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors

I studied linear algebra in college and computed plenty of eigenvalues/eigenvectors, but until I saw that graphic I had no idea what they actually were. I can't believe in retrospect that a textbook would explain them without an illustration like this.
I originally had a landing up on nyckl.com. I took it down because I wanted to give the application people needed more the better name for branding reasons.The application is a spin on time-management to answer your first question.
My city does a pretty good job saying "we like you just the way you are."
Living for a few years in the Bay Area, I didn't really end up with the same impression, though that could be my fault. My biggest impression was that the Bay Area wants to be extremely wealthy, but feels slightly inadequate about it. There was a constant palpable rivalry with both NYC and Southern California, a rivalry that was mostly one-directional. And on the Peninsula, in particular, there was a strangely obvious class structure. In particular the startup scene around Stanford was super-weird. I didn't know the Googlers (wrong years), but the kids I knew ranged from "comfortably upper-middle-class" to "extremely wealthy". Mostly my peers were their employees, not in the founder social group; the founder social group had a remarkable ability to raise "friends & family" money despite having no product (the most recent raised $750,000 from a company in China owned by an uncle, to develop mobile games). The demographics are so unbalanced that Stanford actually will give an automatic full-ride scholarship to any accepted student whose family makes under $100,000/yr, since not many admitted students qualify for it anyway.

Overall I don't really miss it, though I did like eating VC food and drinking VC beer at the ubiquitous lavish parties. But the culture might be even weirder than NYC, in terms of what it promotes.
Gulp is an interesting idea, but I'm skeptical of its long-term viability. As Wintamute said in another thread, large projects have a lot of needs, and streaming isn't enough for all (most?) of them. Gulp's creators were pretty adamant about not supporting other use cases when this came up on Twitter. [1]

Another issue with Gulp is that it's highly concurrent. Although that seems like a nice idea for speed, I suspect it will lead to a lot of hard-to-write and hard-to-debug edge cases. I've already heard reports of people getting strange behavior from their Gulpfiles [2].

At this point, I'd take a "wait and see" approach with Gulp unless you like playing with build tools or if you really need its focus on speed. If you're looking for a good build tool for that lets you "just run JavaScript," I'd check out Jake [3] instead. And of course, Grunt [4] is the current leader for JS builds, thanks to its immense plugin library.

If you're interested in a more in-depth review of Gulp, I have one here: [5]

[1] The Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/funkytek/status/423762923421302784

[2] Somebody runs into strange behavior from Gulp: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/1v4tez/bottom_li...

[3] Jake: https://github.com/mde/jake

[4] Grunt: http://gruntjs.com/

[5] My Gulp review: http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/comments/lab/1#comment-...
How minimal should your MVP be?
I remit monthly to parents (and in-laws) in Australia and India from the US via Bitcoin.

So far international wire or Western Union fees outweigh net losses due to market volatility. We'll see how that continues...
In particular the startup scene around Stanford was super-weird.

That's very interesting. Would you elaborate a bit more about this? What was it like, beyond the fact that those people have connections that most people don't?
I moved from Pittsburgh to SF, and I have zero regrets. I've found no where in the world better for people trying to build the future.

I agree with PG that the best conversation is in Cambridge, MA, wealth-gathering in NY, but if you want to build your ideas - the Bay Area is the center of the modern enlightenment.
And then they further argued that he hired hitmen to protect Silk Road which he thought was changing the world for the better. And that unlike others with similar websites, he never ran off with the money. If anything, the article was pretty darn positive for a guy who wanted to kill people.
Can i contact you in the email you are giving in your profile?

I dont think exposing it directly here wont be very succint.. (i wish this was more simple to explain about)
since there are some details about how the technology works (or should work)
and since i dont wrote any docs about it besides my personal notes.. i was expecting
to jump here at HN with a working prototype for us to play with in some months from now..
as it would be easier for people to wrap their heads around it

Im glad to talk about it to anyone interested, and if anybody else is curious, just drop me some mail
at fabiokaminski at gmail dot com

With more people interested and involved, of course i can just stop coding and write a doc or paper about it in more
detail.. i know theres a lot of pressure out there for something like this.. as the journey for me to get into this formula
was driven by my own needs, and the lack of something already real that i could use... (couldnt do it for web browsers
and app platforms wasnt really there)

It wasnt easy to get into this formula.. and i can say that this engine is REALLY cool, once its a reality
i have no doubts, it will be a much more heavy-weight sucessor of what the browser could have been if
it was reimaginated and designed to be more powerful than it is.. (and with the things we do know now :))
He had me until he said this in the fifth section:

"DC and LA seem to send messages too, but I haven't spent long enough in either to say for sure what they are."

...and then went on to opine on both those places, with relatively shallow stereotypes.
The Valley urges its inhabitants to become more powerful... by creating cat photographer social networking iOS fart apps?
I think part of it is that in social position in large parts of Europe has come to be less dependent on money, and social welfare systems and strong labour movements driving salaries up have created a situation where there's less cultural pressure towards seeing money as a proxy for worth.

On the extreme end, there was a survey mentioned in Norwegian papers before christmas which stated that the majority of Norwegians believed they earned the equivalent of about $16,000/year more than they need.

That doesn't mean many wouldn't love to have more. But if you feel you're making $16,000/year more than you need, then it takes something other than money before you start taking big risks.

Of course Norway is an extreme given the income levels, but I feel that the general attitude of "having enough" or even more than you need is more prevalent in Europe - across income classes - than it seems to be in the US.

It's different from lack of ambition: Many of the same people who feel they have enough money, still want very much to reach some hard to reach goal. But choices can get very different if money isn't an important part of setting those goals.