skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can, but the expense of using this as a mfg process is generally prohibitive. I've read there are some advanced aerospace parts such as turbine blades w/ complex hollows or internal parts that require very advanced castings that it actually makes sense to use SLS as a build method.

A good example of part-strength is the 1911 Solid Concepts in Austin printed late last year[0]. They used a EOSINT M 270, a pretty advanced and expensive SLS printer. [1]

For reference, that 1911 ran about $600k in build cost. yeesh.

[0] - http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/12/robert-farago/gun-r...
[1] - http://gpiprototype.com/services/eosintm270.html
Presumably many hackers eventually get married and, being generally left-leaning, practice an egalitarian marriage as described in the article. So, relevant? Maybe.
The site is online here
I really enjoyed "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by Dr. Glover, it does a really good job of covering this very topic and providing the reader with a plan for how to fix the situation.
My favorite is "Problem Gambling." I don't even know why it'd be in their list of endorsable things.
I'm wondering if someone of Github's caliber can be hacked so easily, what about the rest of the masses developing web apps.

They're all pretty bad. SQL injection was a boondoggle for years until people wised up, or more likely moved to the then-newly-popular ORMs, but it still got Bell Canada recently. Target is #36 on the Fortune 500. That wasn't a webapp based attack, but even companies of their considerable resources still get security that wrong. Sure, you can tell yourself a startup is more tech focused and better positioned to get security right. But do devops building for server stacks and platforms they don't fully understand while pushing code multiple times a day really have both the skills and time to focus on security?
> What is needed is a standard for discoverable RESTful interfaces. With that, there could be a single client library for each platform/programming language to access any compliant API.

I don't get how that would work magically. Imagine that I want to update my phone number in my account data on two different sites. If I point this magical library at the two site's APIs, how would it decide which resources to update under which paths?

It seems to me that you would still need to implement the different concepts, resource names, and so on across different sites, and you wouldn't really win anything here.
"I have a $100 bill in my hand. How do I turn this into an anonymous Swiss bank account?"

Clearly, CHF is not in a state ready for mainstream adoption.
Check out the latest version of LibreOffice (4.2), interoperability with OOXML is way improved, and as always, there are some fixes in Calc/Excel https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-2-new-features-and-fi...

Maybe LibreOffice isn't perfect yet, but I believe it will get there.
hm. the common understanding (from Russians) in Bitcoin IRC back in 2011 was that all transactions for foreign currency _and_, insane enough, all _barter_ was technically illegal in Russia, and so Bitcoin probably was too... but at the same time no one cares about those laws so it was irrelevant.
To me that's not a software problem, that's a management problem. That organization did not pass the hit-by-a-bus test, it's just that in this case the bus was the main dev walking away.

That's a planning / organization problem, not an IT / software one.
Rainbows for Sochi
How one Kansas City man predicted the Esurance Contest Winner
Actually its all types.
It's actually a good strategy to price high hourly but over-deliver (doing lots of free work behind the scenes, or speculative unpaid work, etc.) -- rather than the market-clearing rate of ~100-150/hr, at least when you're trying to build a brand. At $400, he's clearly a specialist, and will get more interesting work; at $100/hr, you could hire him and just treat him like another developer, have him do cookie-cutter assessments, etc.

Personally, I think he'd make more money at $400-600/hr if he could also get some kind of manager to handle the interactions with clients; it doesn't seem to be what he enjoys, or is particularly good at.

(I've had drinks with him before, so probably the most effective way to accomplish my goal is to buy him drinks when I'm in town.)
Venture Capital in Slow Growth Markets; India, EdTech, Cleantech
I don't have any reason to believe the market has "priced
in" the value of Google's future growth

Why don't you think people deciding how much to pay for Google stock are considering Google's expected growth? Google's market cap is similar to Exxon's with far lower revenue and much lower profit.

Dollar cost average into it, and be a buy-and-hold
investor, and it's hard to go wrong.

It's not hard at all to go wrong that way: investing in only one stock is unnecessarily risky. If you're picking individual stocks you should be asking "what's my edge?" or "what do I know that other smart informed people don't?" Sure, you see lots of potential for growth at Google; so does everyone else, that's not going to make you any money. Unless you're better informed in a useful way it's much better to just buy a slice of the market with index funds.
No, my job is to work and your job is to pay me. If your business is successful or not, is none of my problem. Fuck you, pay me. I write your stupid shit enterprise cruft all day and cash your worthless benefits. You want me to create and generate new value? Fuck you, pay me. Nobody cares about your groundbreaking technology that is the foundation of thousands of other bullshit businesses selling nothing but hustle. Put the cash in my hand so I can get the fuck out of here.
The total of the Cash + Short Term Investments + Long Term Investments is $158 billion+.

I'm not sure if this is the same as cash but it may be.
Yes Ripple is much more similar because it doesn't have any mining, the theoretical basis is disparate parties are unlikely to collude, not proof-of-work.
I use it to test various versions of IE on my Mac without having Windows installed.
Completely agree. If this is true, I'd never want to invest in the bunch of muppets who were wasting time on this.

Conversely, it's probably now RAISED the profile of the competitor, made them look like more a threat than they really were.

Maybe I've just nailed it, and it it's secretly the 500 Startups company who're behind it. If they are, that's pretty clever.
I'm assuming your anecdotes (the 500 person company and the eCommerce company) are two different companies? Because if a 500 person company folded when they lost a single employee then there's a whole lot more messed up than quality of code.
Why does the API respond with keys like this?

"this": "succeeded",
"by": "getting",
"the": "dweets"

It's cute that it's human readable but one would have to write awkward code like:

if(response['this'] == 'suceeded') print response['with']
To list some other SCM tools that support Git that you can deploy internally:

* (free) http://www.scm-manager.org/

* https://rhodecode.com/

* https://deveo.com/

* https://enterprise.github.com/

* https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash

Those last 4 cost money, but allow self hosting with more "professional" tools.
Does anyone know how this compares with VLIW designs like the original Yale/Multiflow machines? Seems very familiar.

(I ask as a survivor of Multiflow in the late 80's. ;-)
Some would argue that your programming position is too manly, that the programming field itself is too insulated with the male gender and that it should be seen as less of a boy's club and more of an equal ground for all.

Weird, when you think about it. Clicking and typing. I suppose there's some rhetoric about "X is better at math than Y and programming is based on math" but at the end of the day it just seems like bologna. And it doesn't address any insecurities you may have as an individual who is also a man.

My solution, though, as a man is to simply not care about being a man. I'm a person. I've got all the skills of all genders because I believe all skills are, unto themselves, genderless. Mannerisms, fashion, hair-styles, etc. can follow as well but really, they don't bug me. I've got other interests in mind. I think we, as a society of computer users and consumers, have all these other worlds to fancy ourselves with nowadays. Sometimes I catch myself in the mirror and have to realize I am not just some running narrative but a person with "roles" and "definitions" It can be a bit jarring. Still, that passes and I'm back to being me, my little identity, not caring about gender roles and other hang-ups like that.

I hope some day that everyone can be happy being themselves and not have to question "What does it mean to be X, and how do I follow that rulebook?" Instead we should ask, "What does it mean to be me?"
Well, the assumption is that the tech companies aren't paying dividends NOW because they're focused on growth. After they grow they'll pay dividends.

Theory and reality may diverge in this instance.
Regulation of industry creates government jobs. The governing body will not relinquish its regulatory capacity without a fight. The taxis are more likely to get Uber regulated then they are to get themselves deregulated. Rememebr that the government is itself an interested party. It isn't Uber Vs. Taxis. Its a triangle.
Yes. If you read the paper you will find out that not only do such couples have more than 1.5 times more sex, the women are more sexually satisfied.

Husband’s share of core housework is very heavily negatively correlated (p < .001) with wives' sexual satisfaction.
It certainly doesn't seem to follow that "manly man who takes out the trash and fixes the car, roof, and does the lawn" has to be a dick in any manner as you put it.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/14/men-wom... reports that men spend 10 more hours than women doing paid work at work while women spend six more hours than men doing household work. That's not being a dick either, and is considered manly by many.
Will they need to pay royalty to the family? What if they want to add a digital Robert DeNiro without paying the real actor? Is that something one could do?

Just trying to wrap my head around this.
"But as your career continues, you'll find that you are _always_ learning, and in that process of learning you, too, will do the kind of stupid shit that someday a wiser you will wish you'd done so, so differently. The point is, in time, people and organizations of all sizes build legacy. Yes, even startups. You should actually feel pretty good if you work on something that lives long enough to develop a few warts."

I have done bad things. Everybody will.

"There are two related skills you really have to work to build. The first is the discipline to set time aside to fix the broken things. You'll be surprised how hard that can be. (ESPECIALLY in a startup.)

The second will be tolerance; the ability to accept that, yes, some things are totally wrong in the purest academic sense—and maybe embarrassingly so—but at the same time, they are working and the best customer outcome may be a focus on some other feature."

Fair points.
Fixing things is always hard. I learned that on the Java Project.
And yes as long as they are working I'm on your side.
But and that a honest question:
What would you do when you see that thing X will break in maybe a year and there is no way to scale it and the manager is ignore that it will break in the near future?
> I am compelled to febreeze every bit of code smell I come across. I often rewrite large sections of working code into better structures, more readable/concise syntax, better naming of variables/functions, etc. and In the process I have at times introduced bugs.

I can absolutely relate to that. It has happened that I find code so terribly written that needed to be modified. As nobody on the team actually understood how it was supposed to be working, I ripped it out, and rewrote it in a cleaner way. I knew this may introduce regressions, but I knew the modification I had to make would very likely do the same thing. But if there were going to be bugs, I'd rather have them come from a maintainable codebase.

> You know it's dirty back there, but it's not stopping the fridge from keeping your food cold.

Unfortunately, the more technical debt you accumulate, the more difficult it is to change anything. So, yes, enough dirt will eventually lead to "we can't do X because it's too risky/too much work". Ideally, we should all do some refactoring every week.
" В соответствии со ст. 27 Федерального закона «О Центральном банке Российской Федерации» «официальной денежной единицей (валютой) Российской Федерации является рубль. Введение на территории России других денежных единиц и выпуск денежных суррогатов запрещается». Получившие определенное распространение анонимные платежные системы и криптовалюты, в том числе наиболее известная из них – Биткойн, являются денежными суррогатами и не могут быть использованы гражданами и юридическими лицами.
"

translation:

"According to the title 27 of the Federal Law "On Central Bank of Russian Federation" "the official currency of Russian Federation is rouble. Issue (introduction) of other currencies and currency surrogates on the territory of Russia is prohibited". Anonymous payment systems and cryptocurrencies, including the most popular - Bitcoin, are currency surrogates and can't be used by physical persons and corporations.
"

This determination - bitcoin as a currency surrogate - was made by the "expert group" consisting of high level bureaucrats from the enforcement side, ie. Central Bank, FSB, police (police in Russia is one big vertically integrated structure from local to federal level), Attorney General office.
Certainly Wolfram didn't invent the notion of a universal system, nor claim to, nor was that intended to be implied above, as bad as my writing might be. Indeed, on page 1125 of NKS he discusses Church's and Turing's contributions.

What Wolfram repeatedly points out throughout his book is that the threshold for such universality is much lower than one might suspect given the complications involved in, say, a Turing machine. And because that threshold is so low, there exists the possibility that much of the natural world that is not obviously simple is exhibiting universal computation.
Valuable pieces of advice! Thanks a lot
yes try holding together a crufty pile of code that is your companys old billing system.

And when you have your first 1,000,000 month you CTO (who i think reported to vint cerf ) nudges you saying this had better be right or we are both of a job.
In fact electricity driving cars is so much more efficient that you could burn gas in power plants and it would still outpace crude internal combustion engines.
I worked at Gox as a PM for about three weeks before walking out. Currently looking for a new job. sigh.

Would be willing to share my story, with proof, but sadly I'm not a good writer. :(

But I can confirm that it is as screwed up as the commentor on Reddit wrote. Not even the developers would trust their money or BTC to Gox.
Having pretty software and good code makes my job easier. It's less about the company being successful and more about my work day not being compromised by anger.
This is wrong.

According to the original study, the gender stereotype couple would be having sex 39 times a month if the equal couple has sex 26 times. This is for couples at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Very very interesting, thanks for sharing! What would the path be to using existing code/where would Mill appear logically first?

Also, could something like Mill work well within the HSA/Fusion/hybrid GPGPU paradigm? E.g. from my very amateur reading of your documents, it looks like a much needed and very substantial improvement to single threaded code; how would a mixed case where we have heavy matrix multiplication in some parts of our code as part of a pipeline with sequential dependencies work? Would an ideal case be a cluster (or some fast interconnect fabric in a multi socket system) of multi core Mill chips be the future?

Realistically, is this something that LLVM could relatively easily target? A simple add in card that could give something like Julia an order of magnitude improvement would be a very interesting proposition, especially in the HPC market. I come at this mainly from an interest how this will benefit compute intense machine learning/AI applications.

Sorry for all the questions.
There's a huge ethical problem with a vendor imposing limits on the relationship between a human being and their tools. Apple customers are self-selected for being okay with this.
That's a nice inspiring story but please don't forget that there
are losers when someone files for bankruptcy:

"One of the partners screwed the other two and he had to declare bankruptcy."

"Unfortunately, that one also failed. And he declared bankruptcy for a second time."

Have you ever held large accounts receivable and had a customer file for bankruptcy? I have.

Not everything is "startup lottery" using investors money to spread around the risk so really nobody gets hurt (in the way I am illustrating I mean).

Edit: The losers in bankruptcy (in addition to the one filing bankruptcy) are the creditors. I'm not talking about Bank of America but the vendors that sell you food or the electrician who did work for you or the guy who sold furniture to you. Not knowing the specifics I don't know exactly who was hurt but there was most certainly someone who extended credit in good faith and lost something that now has to work harder to make up the money that they lost. (IN theory at least.)
Yes should point that out more clear!

the 500 person company had more then just technical problems.
Welcome to the real world.
(fyi software/it is not the only broken thing in companies)
From the graph on page 40 of the original report, it appears that the couples where men did little of the "core work" (core work being indoor chores like cleaning, cooking, etc.) had sex almost 5 times a month. Couples where men did nearly all of the core work had sex slightly over 3 times a month.

So the article really does mean [amount of sex] - 1.5
Actually there's a fair bit of magic in the software as a result of exposing the hardware rather than trying to hide it. Once the software can know how long things will take, suddenly it can do things that in x86 land would be magical.

This seems to me philosophically what Sony was trying to do with the Cell processor. Expose the hardware to programmers so that they can manage things better. The big difference being that the Mill was designed by a compiler writer rather than a bunch of guys who design GPU pipelines.
Jobs For The Machines
> Amazon also had your entire purchasing history, and its servers could instantly compute recommendations you would be likely to accept.

I wish. I have long been surprised at how poor Amazon recommendations are given that they have a large pool of actionable data: things I have actually purchased. What else could be a stronger signal?

I have even informed them which purchases not to use as a basis for recommendations, or when recommendations they have made are not interesting (at least, those that are made from my page while signed in, no ability to do so with the emails they send).

I preorder plenty of technical books, so Amazon could easily suck more money out of me if they kept me informed on up and coming books by authors I have purchased from, or in the specific area I purchase in. Instead, I seem to get weekly emails about the latest "popular" books in a very general area (e.g. programming).
Many parts of the HAPI spec seem to be in outright conflict with the established best practices and standards. E.g.

> A HAPI must support the HTTP GET verb on all operations.[1]

Contrast this with HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616:

> In particular, the convention has been established that the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods ought to be considered "safe".[2]

[1]: https://github.com/jheising/HAPI#general-rules

[2]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
We don't store a copy. Good question though..
In companies often developer do organizing too.
Or you have influence on the management
Not only did I ace my IQ test, I suggested improvements through annotations. Also, my Battle School graduation plaque is thrice-laminated. #rekt
This title is very inaccurate.

SeattlePi references the New York Post, who then references the Hollywood Reporter, who then says nothing about Philip Seymour Hoffman being digitally recreated for the Hunger Games.

It seems like they somehow thought he was going to be digitally recreated based on this quote: “You can do digital things, you can have conversations where you’re not focusing on him but the people he’s talking to."

I think they're just talking about creative camera angles and the story got twisted as it was passed along from reporter to reporter.
> Wouldn't it take weeks for the surface to cool down since its in a vacuum?

The fact that Mercury has no atmosphere doesn't decrease the rate of heat radiation, it increases it (compared to a planet with an atmosphere). Your question appears to relate to the efficiency of vacuum storage bottles, but that's a different case with a different logic.

For a vacuum thermos, the presence of the vacuum represents a less efficient heat conduction medium than air (or foam), which uses conduction and convection to transfer energy. The difference in temperature between the contents and the environment also plays a part.

But for a planet, no atmosphere means radiation operates at maximum efficiency, and radiation is a very efficient energy transfer method, especially when there's a large temperature difference between the object and space.

Even on earth (with an atmosphere), radiation directly to space turns out to be more efficient than atmospheric conduction and convection, such that objects on the surface can fall well below air temperature if the sky is clear of clouds.

It's not uncommon for earth's surface to drop below air temperature overnight, which can produce such effects as "radiation fog" near the ground, caused by condensation of water vapor in the air cooled by the surface.

It's common to believe that on earth, air conduction/convection is the majority heat transfer method and radiation is less effective, but in fact it's the other way around.
33 ops/sec? :)
Wow, just... wow. There are companies in this world that you can get behind, where you can "generate value", and where your involvement actually improves your life instead of shitting all over it. I'm sorry you think the world is divided between soulless snake-oil corporations and mercenary employees, both of whom are out to totally fuck the other over. That's a dark world to have to live in.
Not on HN. I confess to doing it on Reddit on occasion, when the vote counts are small enough that the single downvote will make the difference on comment order. HN not showing the scores does help discourage it for me.
Agreed. I had this problem a lot when I was starting out. I could not believe why they would use such outdated software. One company was even still using a COBOL program and this was in 2010. Then I realized that the people who use the program are not engineers, they are people just trying to do their job. Software just has to work and it does not matter what language or protocol it uses. This is often hard to swallow but the fact is companies make money off software doing its job, and sometimes its job does not require "secure" or "fast".
Believe me, I'm not gloating. I can't count the number of times I've drawn a bogus conclusion after missing a critical calculation step.