skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all a matter of degree: virtually all successful companies take convertible debt, venture debt and other options along the way. We call ourselves bootstrapped but the founders took no salaries, put in $100+K and took $200+K from angels to hit profitability with a team of 30 and signing up 12,000 companies.
Sure!

I guess when I decided everyauth over passport about 4 months ago (there was an actual decision process IIRC) it seemed like everauth was more mature, I found more examples and other repos explaining how I could bend it to my needs.

Recently I've come across passport quite often and it appears to be the gold standard nowadays... So yes it's going in at some point in time (this is a minor side project only).

I will happily merge a pull request if you care to go for it - I currently only support facebook and twitter and was working on local user/pass up until an hour ago ... ;)
> It seems like they responded correctly to the incentives they were given.

What incentives were those? To create a police state with kind of distopian program "Overseer"? Because that's exactly what they are doing.
haha I guess you're right, I remember some rides in the trunk long ago and not feeling sick.
What’s really wrong with Squarespace Logo
Last week Squarespace launched Squarespace Logo, a new addition to their service designed to provide individuals and small businesses with the means to create a professional logo.Within hours of the service launching, social media was aflame with designers decrying the slow erosion of design standards and accusing Squarespace of deliberately undermining their industry.
The issue is that texting, with a few interesting exceptions, completely dominates most people's daily personal communication. I mean, the "People" app on my Android phone can do what he describes, but 99.99% of the time, my most recent text conversations are all I want to see when I pick up my phone to communicate. Both Hangouts and iOS's messages have convenient links to their phone app, making this pretty much a solved problem.

The only notable exceptions are the privacy-oriented messengers like Snapchat... but I imagine having the messages be silo'd is more of a feature than a bug for a lot of the users.
Any company could go bust at any moment, and the only risk to you is the transactional costs of finding a new job. Those could be high, but it's not your current/prospective employer that's determining what that amount is, it's a function of the labor market and your own value.

Beyond that, it's not as if you're putting any of your own money on the table. Ownership (whether that be private management or shareholders) is putting their money on the table.

If you'd like a higher risk/reward level, negotiate for equity or other variable compensation.
"People who are interested in angel investing often do not have the time to source deals and conduct due diligence on their own."

^ That's a shame. IMO if you're gonna do it, you should do it right.
Companies Flee U.S. Tax System by Reincorporating Abroad
I can understand the argument that Uber has some liability here, either through their own negligence or vicariously. But the author of this article says:

"Mr. Muzaffar, who cooperated with the police after the accident, had been driving for Uber about a month, his lawyer said. It was a full-time job, using his own car, to support four kids. In the new sharing economy, he takes the fall."

Come on! Regardless of whether Uber also has liability, this guy hit three people and killed one of them, he's not some innocent fall guy. In any event, he either had or should have had vehicle insurance, so in what sense is he taking a fall?
It's not hurting them insofar as they can sell this kind of useless (in terms of catching terrorists) data collection to bureaucrats who will sign off on it. I would argue that it is compromising their ability to sift the wheat from the chaff, when so much of their efforts and funding seems to be dedicated to adding to the latter.

Plus, the inevitable outrage generated when these tactics became public is undeniably hurting their credibility and in the long term their ability to gather information.
Hmm, maybe this explains why they didn't go up I-15 to I-70 in Utah, even though that route gives you access to Zion NP. That first part of I-70 is pretty empty.
They're not priced as a growth stock. P/E is about 13, and that's including their huge pile of cash. Average P/E for the S&P is 19.
This.

I question the need for custom smart light switch hardware like Goldee when low end Android tablets are significantly cheaper thanks to to the economics of scale.
A sphere is bounded but infinite*

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

*Infnite cardinality of points, not infinite in measure.
The premise is so far off, I don't know where to begin. Revolutions have complex causes, so trying to predict it from a one-dimensional value like income inequality doesn't make any sense.

Americans revolted over fairly minor issues. Other people stay under very serious oppression for many generations.
Studies on what programming does to the brain?
At least you won't be trying to add 15 to lastName...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7133035
The new bot on the block: How robotics are changing everything
I don't think you can make that assertion. All the devices (meter, GPS, &c) in the cabin of a cab are set up for hands-free operation. Even when I've been in a cab where the driver is on the phone (which is often), he's invariably been using an earbud or Bluetooth headset (or, occasionally, speakerphone, which can be annoying).

The contention in the suit, however, seems to be that Uber's app is designed not to be hands free, and on that basis asserts negligence on Uber's part (where "negligence" is defined as "actions a reasonable person would deem likely to cause serious injury or death that are willfully undertaken despite that risk" — or something to that effect; lawyers reading along at home please correct or clarify as needed).

EDIT: s/criminal negligence/negligence/g
New Reporting Methods for National Security Orders
If anybody wants a secret cabal of skilled veteran sysadmins, you can do worse than former HG employees.
That's in contradiction with what a federal prosecutor says in this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...

To quote:
"In a Florida drug case he was handling, the prosecutor said, a DEA agent told him the investigation of a U.S. citizen began with a tip from an informant. When the prosecutor pressed for more information, he said, a DEA supervisor intervened and revealed that the tip had actually come through the SOD and from an NSA intercept."

Admittedly you only specified the IRS and FBI so perhaps you intentionally left out the DEA.
The article says that the lawsuit claims the driver was distracted by the Uber app.
> Hindley-Milner is actually a poor type system. It trades away powerful features like overloading and subtyping in exchange for global type inference. Scala, like C++ and C#, does not use Hindley-Milner but a kind of local type inference.

On the other hand, subtyping does add a large amount of complexity and is misused about 90% of the time.
Paywall. Lame.
I usually reach for Rails App Composer to spin up quick apps.
http://railsapps.github.io/rails_apps_composer/
I appreciate the irony of saying such a thing here, a message-board set up around the idea that a person with only an idea can change the world.
There is more subtlety in this case. The NSA has interpreted the law in a specific way which justifies their activities. If the Supreme Court later determines that interpretation is invalid, they most definitely can be convicted of a crime. If the Supreme Court instead determines that their interpretation of the law was valid, but that the law itself was unconstitutional, then ex post facto protection would apply.
"Aside from perhaps Montana/etc I've never seen a highway with a single 75MPH speed limit"

Well, South Dakota I-90 where Tesla put their chargers is a single 75mph on a very busy two lane interstate with a lot of truck traffic.

Minnesota is a single 70mph on I-90. Thinking about it, I haven't seen a split speed limit in the upper plains.

"You in a Tesla driving 65 in the right lane is not going to affect traffic much."

"In the wide open spaces, there's enough room it doesn't matter."

You are going to be a nice blocker in traffic that generally flows along at 75 - 85 mph. It is a very busy truck corridor and you going 65mph is going to be a problem.
Unfortunately requires Mongodb as every other boilerplate Node.js app.
This is completely untrue and speaks to a complete misunderstanding of what rights are to begin with.
Tesla have already announced that they will build multiple vehicles with the same battery form-factor as the Model S.

(I mean, you wouldn't even need a press release to know this - it's blatantly obvious that Tesla will do their best to capitalize on the massive investment that the Supercharger network represents).
I'm sure there are lawyers that take bitcoin.
Does it matter if the driver was in a Uber, Taxi or a personal car? It was a regular human in a regular car.
Analysts were all totally bullish - http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-shar... and http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/27/earnings-preview-w... and any result older than the last hour for 'Apple earnings' on Google.

The iPhone numbers missed expectation, and as Apple's main product it didn't look good. http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-q1-earnings-2014-1

EPS, Mac and iPad all did well.
http://www.apple.com/iphone-5c/
Kinda ironic if apple does increase sales with bigger screen, because it means apple is a follower, not a leader.
The relevant distinction isn't between "bounded" and "finite", but between the size of a container and the size of its elements.

The difference between "bounded" and "infinite" is the difference between "measure" and "cardinality". That is , "bounded" refers to a notion of distance, while "finite" refers to a measure of count. There are bounded infinities (such as the set of all rational or numbers between 0 and 1), but there are no unbounded finities.

A container that contains finite objects of all sizes must be an infinite/unbounded container.
> I wonder if a people widget for Android would be useful

Is the contact widget what you are looking for?
How your company can benefit from being open: Lessons from Balanced
> It's pretty clear that in the not too distant future it will be illegal to not make a good faith effort to identify anyone you are selling bitcoins to.

Is that a bad thing?
Point taken, it appears that in Crimea 58% percent is Russian according to the 2001 census.
To my understanding, if a taxi driver was to strike a pedestrian, the taxi company would be liable, because the driver was operating for the taxi company.

Even though a taxi driver is pretty much a regular human, and a crown vic in taxi-yellow is pretty much a regular car.
To understand scale: Apple has given $43 Billion to investors since July 2012. Twitter's market cap is $32 Billion. Apple's net profit of $13b over the last 3 months was more than the company made from its founding in 1977 'til the iPhone launched in 2007.

Last night my wife and I were organizing our room, and ended up putting our computers together, and we found three MacBooks (one is really old), two iPads and two iPhones - about $3500 worth of product. The phones are heavily subsidized by our phone bill, the computers are simply "must-haves," and the iPads are our most expensive ($350 ea.) toys. We're one year out of school and make $40,000/year.
Phones and tablets are very close to the point that desktop/laptops got to a few years back where unless there is some major disruptive technology introduced (eg. batteries with 100%+ efficiency over current ones) on top of them the one you bought this year is pretty much good enough to keep for the next many years, until it breaks somehow.

There will still be a market of ultra-fashion-conscious buyers who really need this years model, just like there are people who lease brand new cars every year, but that market isn't big enough, IMO, to sustain the growth that Apple, Samsung, etc have enjoyed thus far.
Yes, because when all drugs were legal, slavery wasn't a thing, right? No one has ever been sold into prostitution for a reason that doesn't relate to drugs.
These guys just announced a constellation of 24 satellites with HD video: http://www.skyboximaging.com/
https://crosswalk-project.org/ is a Chromium-based runtime that works on Android 4.0+
Stack Exchange for Android is here
It's an extremely common refactoring in modern Java/C# IDE's. Swapping arguments isn't necessarily a big deal (but being able to do it safely and automatically means that there is also no cost). A bigger one is adding/deleting parameters or renaming methods.
42 Kilobytes Unzipped Make 4.5 Petabytes
If anyone would like to have it, the file is here: https://mega.co.nz/#!ZJ8VkD7Y!sD6zSM-qcWKMO0-vMDIgY1fx2wYqDUASi6vQKJqv1Jk

The password is 42
Strange specific brand and model namedropping.

As a Wisconsin guy with a couple outdoor winter hobbies I'm not particularly bothered by the -20 so much as the -20 with high winds. Zero in the sun with calm winds is fairly comfy. Windy and 40F sucks.

Cotton kills. If you stay dry, the warm usually takes care of itself, if you get wet you'll die doesn't matter how thick your clothes are (which is the long format explanation of cotton kills). Overwork until sweaty = dead. No source of fire in an emergency equals dead. Small roll of duct tape so a wardrobe malfunction doesn't equal frostbite or dead. Spare gloves when you accidentally soak your main gloves. Ditto socks. No emergency kit in the car (blankie, that kind of thing) equals dead. Being outside in pair with a partner saves more lives WRT first aid etc than buying any specific type of warm undies or boots. I donno if you're better off walking around naked rather than walking around wet like the old timers say, but its a coin toss. I'd never wear anything if its gotten wet.

What I consider reasonable for long distance snow shoeing in the middle of nowhere or visiting my ice fishing relatives in the middle of a mostly frozen lake might not correlate with the requirements of someone walking to and from their car in the parking lot.

If it hurts its probably not frostbitten, so if you haven't even started crying yet, you're fine, not even hurt yet. If you were crying but now it doesn't hurt anymore, that's because its frozen so may as well start driving to the ER right now.

Slowing down and paying attention will save more lives than a specific model of shirt.

If your core is warm, you can get away with some stupid clothes on your extremities and they'll still be warm. If your core is cold, nothing you put on your extremities will warm them up. If your hands are cold the solution is zip up your coat or put on a sweater, not play games with multiple layers of gloves (unless its really cold)

For you southerners who never seen snow before, my advice is don't eat the yellow snow. Even if some Yankee tells you its lemonade flavored or whatever.

Also northerners with northerner reflexes, even old people, can dance around normally on black ice that would result in a southerner, even a teenager, falling and breaking a bone, even if they try to be careful. Something about internalizing reflexes about balance and center of gravity or something. When I was in the Army the relative performance of northerners and southerners on ice even just plain snow was always fairly comedic. Their driving is like that too, the southerners would cry and wet themselves over what the experienced northerners considered pretty good travel conditions. I had a lot of good southerner friends but they always drove me bonkers in the winter. No, you can't get frostbite when its 40 out, by definition, although you can die pretty well of hypothermia at 40, and if you think early October is terrifying wait till January...
Wow, Sounds like you used to work at Opera.
Usage of the Java package sun.misc.Unsafe. For some reason, I was thinking NNTP groups ...
They've been following on more than a few things already - notifications, multi-tasking, etc.
Yep! Thanks, I hate the Android widget menu so I just guessed it'd be called People since the app is now.
Another great quarter for Apple. Growth in gross margins as well as growth in units in every product line but the iPod. China Mobile sales will end up in next quarter.
This happens every single time Apple gives an earnings report. AAPL rises before the report and falls after the report. If I had the money I would short the stock every single time.
I wonder about these workshops (even asked Uncle Bob Martin about them in a recent thread). I can't shake the feeling they are the exact opposite of agility (obviously, he is better qualified than me to judge that). Their limited time schedules, which is essentially a bound over the amount of contact between the client and the supplier, seems analogous to the infamous "requirements document". Also, there doesn't appear to be a "shippable" product at the end - the developers apparently don't end up practicing TDD.

I used to be an instructor for a living, and I kind-of equated lectures to waterfall and exercises to XP. There is even a semantically analogous term in teaching research, problem-based learning (each word corresponds to the respective word in test-driven development - cool, right?). Is there anyone else who sees these analogues, or am I completely crazy here?
Yes, because the ~6 Million iPhones that didn't get bought were because people were freaked out by the NSA. I think it's more likely because the general public weren't that thrilled with where iOS and the iPhone 5C went.
Government to Allow Companies to Disclose More Data on Surveillance Requests
Wrinkled doughnut solves geometrical mystery
I don't read that or anything else the article as a plea to pardon Mr. Muzaffar. It is not disputed that his operating a motor vehicle was the proximate cause in the death one person and serious injury to two more — all of them pedestrians.

The issue here is Uber's being all, "Woah, wasn't us. Dude didn't have a paying fare in the car at the time, so it's all on that guy."
If he only had standard vehicle insurance, it wouldn't cover him if he were driving professionally.

He'll take the fall because Uber's going to do everything in their power to ensure the claim doesn't hit their insurance. Fortunately, the CPUC passed a law last summer to ensure that the ride-sharing companies have to actually carry a significant level of insurance for their drivers.

Fortunate in the sense that this girl's family might see some sort of consideration for their daughter's death and the other injuries.
The original article was really quite informative about this. Please have a look:

When drivers accept a call, furthermore, they need to
interface with the app. The suit goes on to note that
under California law, it is illegal to use a “wireless
telephone” while driving unless it is specifically
configured to be hands-free — which the app is not. In
essence, the suit argues that Uber was negligent in the
“development, implementation and use of the app” so as
to cause the driver to be distracted and inattentive.
Non-replaceable battery is probably a primary why this may not be the case. My iPad 3 seems to be discharging much more quickly these days, and will probably mean a replacement will be needed sometime next year.
Not only are the poor not storming the barricades, in the USA especially many (most?) of them vote against their own interests.
None of that disputes the fact that longer is still better (obviously with all else, like quality of life, being equal).
It's error prone and time consuming. How do you promise that your tests cover every instance of calls to that method? How do you make sure that you are only changing the correct method (especially when it has a common name)?
> Perhaps, but to the extent that the value of bitcoin is supported by people buying it based on (a) the perception that they can use it in can't-get-caught criminal schemes, or (b) the perception that other people will buy it for that reason, then events like this (and them being reported widely in the media) are bad for bitcoin (value).

I would rather such people left the Bitcoin community. IMHO that would increase the value of bitcoin, even if it means a dip in the price.
Code School vs. Law School
Snowden-Interview in English | NDR
> but that market isn't big enough, IMO, to sustain the growth that Apple, Samsung, etc have enjoyed thus far.

Which is why Apple is pushing so hard into "Developing markets" like China, Brazil, India, etc. etc.

There are hundreds of millions of people on the planet that have never really even had the option of buying an iPhone or iPad. I'll wager tons of them have the means to buy one, and they clearly have the desire.
Similar. In my case not violence and not necessarily targeted at other people, but I surprised myself how twisted my morals can get.

I even contemplated suicide about it. Of course people come rushing and tell you that you have a mental illness because no one in his right mind would think of killing himself for something that might as well not happened as no one took notice of it. But it is in my mind and I have to life with my mind.

Then again, centuries ago people raped and murdered and yet aspired to become great people. And some did. Certainly they never thought about ending their lifes merely because a million other people hoped they would die in a ditch.
I can't help but think that a cab driver who ran over someone would be personally liable. Perhaps the cab company would be too, but the driver is licensed to drive completely aside from his employment. He failed to drive properly.

http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/special-licenses.php

A truck driver who ran someone over similarly might be personally responsible and the company he was working for at the time might also be responsible. Truck drivers either work for an hourly wage (if the company they work for owns the truck) or they get paid by the mile (if they own the truck). What would happen if an owner-operator ran someone over on his way to pick up a job? I imagine that it would be completely on him and the company that arranged the job for him would bear no responsibility.

UberX drivers get paid a portion of the fares they collect, so they're not paid by the hour. I think it would be fairly clear they're not "employees" in the traditional sense but rather contractors. http://readwrite.com/2013/08/19/financing-your-next-startupa...

I'm not saying that I think Uber is doing the morally responsible thing by distancing themselves from this situation but neither is it an open-and-shut case that they're 100% liable for sure.
Or maybe two people came to the same logical conclusion about someone's post.
Is ego death such a bad thing? I have heard accounts from people who claim to have experienced it and enjoyed it.
I want to capitalize on my argument on huge barriers to entry being a major factor. In industries with such barriers (huge initial investment required) there's always only a limited number of players, and usually no one is interested in "spoiling the market" by selling their products with too small margins. Some of that are just natural dynamics, while sometimes explicit, illegal under the table deals are being made (where prices across the whole industry are being set).
The magic paragraph:

The Company sold 51 million iPhones, an all-time quarterly record, compared to 47.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 26 million iPads during the quarter, also an all-time quarterly record, compared to 22.9 million in the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 4.8 million Macs, compared to 4.1 million in the year-ago quarter.

If I were to play armchair quarterback, I'd say that iPhones are reaching saturation (which, given the 5C, is relatively surprising) and the iPad is where the majority of Apple's growth lies in the coming quarters.

EDIT: Apple's trailing twelve-month revenue (credit to Benedict Evans): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfBIdoYCEAAzNqI.jpg:large