skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all very well, but often people haven't thought of whatever you might tell them. By saving them from possible offence[1] you're limiting what ideas they have available to use. When I was running a startup I was more than happy to hear the same advice and ideas over and over again from mentors because just occasionally you got something that was new that you'd not considered before. That was far better than being saved from listening to people who might be suggesting things I'd already considered.

Advice and ideas that came from proven and experienced people were often better and more useful but only because that meant I didn't have to spend so much time researching them to see if they might work for me or figuring out the potential pitfalls - the ideas themselves were no better or worse than if they'd come from someone "unqualified".

Regarding the 'impostor syndrome' problem, that doesn't really enter into the equation if the person listening to your ideas and advice is sensible. No one just blindly goes and does what someone outside of their startup tells them to do, regardless of how much respect they might have for that individual.

[1] Anyone who gets offended by someone offering well-meaning advice is an idiot and probably wouldn't have listened even if that advice was based on a mountain of prior experience.
I had a subscription for a couple years and liked it quite a bit. Much of the writing is impeccably crafted. As though the author rewrote the piece 8 times to say exactly what they wanted to say.
I don't know about "normal" people, but all the pointless shit they put on Blurays made me go BACK to piracy. I started my first real job 2 years ago, so i felt i should buy my movies. Turns out, Blurays are EVEN WORSE than DVDs. Nonstop trailers, that use your bandwidth to download new fucking trailers, a hundred warnings about piracy and a DRM that requires constant annoying updates and a crappy PowerDVD software.

If i sound angry, it's because i am.
Imho you should switch 1) and 4) :)

Is there any chance that you could freelance for your current company.. or at least work half time?

About your dream project: Try to get steady validation from the beginning. Find your first user first. I just started a little side project and without encouragement and a tiny amount of power users, I would have stopped before I really started. Marketing to developers is incredible hard (at least for me). Prepare for frustration.

Getting into the right flow is one problem I face myself on a regular base. What helps me a lot is to just relax a bit (days!) and trust myself to do the coding somewhere in my brain as background job. After being afk for some time I can't wait to get back and make somehow progress. Just do your job for another two weeks and really use your free time to get some rest and have some fun.
Perhaps your outlook changes a bit after that.

What was the result from going to startup meetings? Never been to one, planing to visit some meetings in my area, but no clue what to expect.
So what you are essentially saying is that there are indeed some things that can be said to be unacceptable, even though they are practiced and accepted by a particular culture.
Could Yandex get away with this?
Regarding stuff like:

""" SPLIT INPUT INTO SENTENCES"""

god_awful_regex = r'''(?<!\d)(?<![A-Z]\.)(?<!\.[a-z]\.)(?<!\.\.\.)(?<!etc\.)(?<![Mm]r\.)(?<![Pp]rof\.)(?<![Dd]r\.)(?<![Mm]rs\.)(?<![Mm]s\.)(?<![Mm]z\.)(?<![Mm]me\.)(?:(?<=[.!?])|(?<=[.!?]['"]))[\s]+?(?=[\S])'''

Be advised that one of the nice things about python reg-exes is that they allow in-line comments (and naming of groups), if compiled with the verbose-flag:

""" SPLIT INPUT INTO SENTENCES"""
verbose_regex = r'''(?<!\d) # I can't actually tell
(?<![A-Z]\.)(?<!\.[a-z]\.) # what you're doing here...
(?<!\.\.\.)(?<!etc\.) # Is this one big group, or is
(?<![Mm]r\.)(?<![Pp]rof\.) # it several groups, with
(?<![Dd]r\.)(?<![Mm]rs\.) # different prefixes?
(?<![Mm]s\.)(?<![Mm]z\.)(?<![Mm]me\.) # Clearly, it's got something to do
(?:(?<=[.!?])|(?<=[.!?]['"]))[\s]+?(?=[\S])''' # with
# not matching the dot at the end of Dr.
# or as part of an ellipsis as the end of a
# sentence? But my point was that if such a
# regex is built-up and tested with comments
# it can be quite readable

god_awful_regex = re.compile(verbose_regex,
re.VERBOSE)
# continue here...

http://www.diveintopython.net/regular_expressions/verbose.ht...
Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft
(Fires up a decompiler) Let's check...

1. From a quick glance I can't find anything related to patching in backend or change handling classes. Either I'm missing something or it doesn't handle arbitrary changes well. There's some suspect-driving long ByteDelta property on Change class, but I fail to see where it's used in a meaningful manner.

2. It uses a lightweight abstraction over System.IO.FileSystemWatcher. This means inotify, when ran on Mono on GNU/Linux.
CNN reports Bitcoin prices "Plunge" – unsurprisingly this is not true 
If going from $850 to $719 is considered a "plunge" then I guess Bitcoin really has reached a new level of stability. Will the press ever get tired of trying to insinuate Bitcoin just met the hurdle it can't overcome? http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/07/investing/bitcoin-withdrawal-halt/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I feel like it is the opposite in western culture, express any views which go against the flavour du jour and you are branded a bigot, a homophobe, a xenophobe, <!-- Add -phobe here -->.
Also on top of controlling the experience Apple probably doesn't mind the percent of all transactions they get for providing that mandatory control. Apple will allow bitcoin transaction apps when they can control the transactions to a similar degree they currently control other monetary in app transactions, and will likely ensure they make a similar percent on each transaction.

I don't see this as Apple being sneaky or evil, I see it as Apple pursuing their existing business model, which has worked quite well.
On iPad it feels better to have a page flipping effect but on desktop instant jump felt easier on the nerves. Can optimize, thanks for the suggestion sir.

Right now on Desktop you can scroll using the SPACEBAR.
European Teslas to have built-in Rdio
GC is similar to a chief security officer in the need to be as independent as possible to look after the interests of the company and be free from undue pressure.
I GPU-mined that much and spent it on BFL hardware at $12 :)

In US-dollars, over time, I profited, but there were no US dollars involved in any of those transactions, except what BFL surely got from BitPay for my orders. I traded basically 22 Bitcoins for a decent shot at about 12 Bitcoins.

So it goes with the preorder game!
"Who actually writes non-templated HTML any more?"

Me.

My martini untemplate engine is a code generator that inputs HTML and outputs Java.

This creates a one-way flow of work. Designer creates the HTML, I create the backend. When the design changes, the backend (e.g. data binding) breaks during the generation and compile steps. Not in the browser.

Martini isn't ready to demo yet. It will be open source. But documentation and examples take more time that I have right now. Sorry.
I love the picture of central Italy (right?) but I'm not sure what the site is for.
PayPal Is Cracking Down on Bitcoin Sellers
Of course Google's feeling is that they should be able to do whatever they want with user's data and shouldn't have to tell anybody anything, and thus they believe privacy and data protection regimes are inappropriate.
Why do you leap to OVH's defense in any thread about them?
I always just say 'no' and refuse to give a reason. I don't feel like I'm obliged to give a reason.
Well, for one thing it uses slang which is probably only vaguely recognizable to the majority of the non-American English-speaking world. And for another thing, it relies on a fact which I (starter on the (American) football team for five years during junior high and high school) didn't know. I mean, it makes sense that the two throwing styles would produce spins in the opposite direction, but I had to stop and think about it.
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Of course, all investments involve some degree of speculation.

But, to be fair I think your question is a bit pedantic. I think your parent is saying that with those companies, there is some way to impute value vis-a-vis products, management, history, etc. That calculus would then inform opinions on resulting price movements.

OTOH, when Bitcoin was at $1, forming an opinion on its price movement was almost pure speculation.
Yes, it has been interesting progress over the last half century.

Solid rockets give a rough ride, so they aren't suited for most payloads. And they're not so fun for manned launches, because aborts get difficult.
> Banknotes have a number and in France they are probably renewed after 2 payments in average

France is a Euro area country, and only withdraws notes after they are too dirty or damaged to be usable, in line with ECB policy.

> If you take cash from an ATM and use it to pay a criminal [...] the number will be traced.

I very much doubt this.
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But then the question is, who is responsible to change them and, if the culture at issue is unable to change the problems what can be done to enable them to move things in the direction they collectively desire.

If something is acceptable it still doesn't necessarily mean that the question of who gets to decide what to do about it goes away. I still think that those questions have to rest with people from the culture.

I certainly don't think that a social expectation to retire with the kids falls in that category even if it forecloses an ideal of equality for same-sex couples.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here - scaling up a real exchange is incredibly difficult and the kind of talent you need to hire probably has a price tag hugely in excess of the revenue of all BTC exchanges combined. These guys are probably struggling to even understand the problems they're experiencing, so it should come as no surprise that they're having technical difficulties.

I bet they're having even more legal difficulties though, as just running a regular share exchange requires a team of top notch lawyers to keep abreast of the huge volume of exchange laws. I doubt poor MtGox even has 1 full time qualified lawyer and they're dealing with entirely new legal ground.
Yes, losing 15% of value is plunging. And yes, Bitcoin is currently much more stable than it was in August.
Though I agree, I think many people mistakenly interpret direct suggestions as being commentary on the junior-person/company Y's flaws and might be seen as more aggressive (asshole-ish)than having a senior-person/company X point out their own flaws. That makes X seem more humble, and more importantly, depicts success in the face of struggle as more attainable. I really think that's what provides the most benefit from his new approach; successful person/company X is not some mysterious deity that simply exists, it is the product of actions taken throughout the same process junior person/company Y has recently faced, is facing, or will face. Junior person/company Y may make, or have already made, different decisions or actions at various steps and, for better or worse, will be different because of it.
After all, who has five minutes to spare these days to enrich their knowledge of the world around us?

Everyone knows that if the information is important enough, the author will find a way to fit it into 140 characters. Well 110, with 30 characters worth of tags.
great idea here. love it. is there an example out there of these 'bindings' that somebody with strong html / css but weak javascript skills would be able to grasp and implement into a site?
Economy-x-Talk releases Installer Maker 1.8.2
Just to clarify: in continental Europe and USA billion means different number. [0]

I'd guess USA billion, as it's about taxes and taxes can't be bigger than what Google is worth...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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Google has every right to present their argument to a court. This is how law works.
Agree. I have no idea what this site is or is supposed to do.
The stupidity of computers is starting to get frustrating. As a software developer working on a distributed storage system, I've profiled my placement algorithm and after some thought have decided there is a better strategy based on a common use-case scenario. I create a branch in my repository and try out my changes. In the mean time my colleagues have made changes to the development branch I diverged from. My computer cannot seem to be able to run the differential of the profiling function against my diverged branches and tell me whether my changes validate my assumptions from a simple query (nor whether the combined changes would continue to validate my assumptions before I merge them... it couldn't even construct the profiling function for me).

Ontologies seem like just the tip of the iceberg.

It seems more likely to me that instead of a general-AI we're more likely to be able to map and simulate a human brain within a computer.
> "to get in before the IPO you have to be an accredited investor."

Exactly, or a company insider with options, preferably an early-stage employee. Being an accredited investor or early employee in a successful company dramatically lowers the pool of potential candidates to strike it rich.

You could still make a really nice return post-IPO, but it means you need a certain minimum amount of wealth you can risk investing to begin with (i.e. being able to access say, $100k or $1m and hope for a 10x return. This implies you are already upper-middle class or wealthier). I made up figures here so that the return would be life changing for most people. You could hope to turn $1000 into $10k but it wouldn't be that life changing for many people. Again, being able to access, say, $100k in liquid assets would dramatically lower the pool of candidates. Bitcoin was likely a one off like you say.
Nice diary entry. How'd this get to the top of HN?
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It's app launch day. Do you know what your KPIs are?
Completely different situations. Actually building an ASIC design is expensive, has a lot of cost in research and development, and the batch sizes are in the millions of dollars. You do benefit from scale of supply in the chips themselves, and you don't need to worry about pretty consumer cases and electrical safety certifications. Once you've paid off the R&D cost you're basically in the green (bitfury sold his up until this point, then abruptly stopped).
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How is non-fiat currency more in your control.
That's a very good point. We have a tendency to think we would have gotten out at the highest price, with perfect foresight. In truth, a 5x increase would have felt like a huge, nearly irresistible payday. Even a 2x increase would.
That's unfortunate, their reputations should be that of a company that is trying to get as much personal info as possible.
No, it's proprietary software.

The project structure is completely different, so it's probably not even inspired by iFolder.
From what I have understood they can't do that: they have no legal reasons to take the case to European court.
The HN-stasi have spoken: "Your text shall be white!"
What gives the state's law making capacity the magical ability to trump morality and ethics?

There exist laws so hideous and offensive to human dignity, that they should never be obeyed.

EDITED: I am not talking about the google privacy case specifically, previous posts in this thread had widened the scope beyond this point.
I have the same problem. I'm an asshole. I pray every day that I won't get anyone angry.

Last in date: I subscribe to a coworking space, and on Sunday I couldn't find the IP of the printer. The next Monday when the agent gives it to me, I immediately write it on a label on the printer, to help the next guy who would have the problem. She hates me since then.

Previous one. Accepted in a (young) incubator. I sat there and there's a cold stream of air in my feet. On day 3, I asked the president (they're just 6 volunteers) to take care of the heating (Well, members participate 350€ to the fees so I feel entitled). I has ass-kicked out and she discredited me to other colleagues.

So yes, I give advice, tell opinions, take initiatives, have requirements and more generally feel entitled when I should. It really is hard to balance between taking the room that you're entitled to while not hurting others. If you have experience to share, I'm listening.
Nice intro - if you put this at the top of the page instead of "Tell a Story", everybody understands what your page is about! :-)
In the ruby ecosystem Fog has existed for a long time which offers a similar service: http://fog.io/

Edit: I should also say it's neat to see an apache supported project in this space, more tooling around these services are very useful.
I wouldn't have expected this sort of behavior from a big tech company like AOL.
Fair enough. I think the reason people struggle with classifying this stuff is because there are a lot of gray areas and it's difficult to verbalize all the details meaningfully. One could say "Oh...RDBMSes!"...but teradata is still relational...it's just distributed. "Oh! OLAP vs OLTP!"...but it's not really that either. One _could_ use teradata for a couple gig data mart just fine (and argue that it's not big data). That's why i tend to fall back to the 3 / 4 Vs that have tended to typify the 4 aspects of "big data" (volume, velocity, variety, veracity).
As far as i'm aware there's no such thing as "true" or "real" distributed computing. It's a wide field of study with many different overlapping concepts.

The paper you linked to does describe how queries are resolved by Google, and not quite the whole picture required for a typical distributed computing model. But to say it's not distributed computing is... confusing. Clearly they must support this model over many sites the world over, and we know from other documents that they geo-locate data to make it more convenient, meaning it's portable and partitionable. Sounds like a distributed computing system to me.
Coinbase recently imposed a kind of ludicrous $3000 a day outbound limit on accounts that had previously been limited to 50 BTC/day.

Removing the limit involves buying coin from them, waiting 30 days, and solving some seemingly impossible credit report based identity quiz (some people report passing after 10 tries, you're limited to one try per 24 hours).
Agreed. If you feel that you cannot obey those laws, you should cease doing business in that country.
If they ask for advice that is one thing; if it is offered "For free" it can be a huge pain.

Honestly; I've founded many different businesses over the past 20 years (of varying levels of success), and I get really tired of people telling me everything I'm doing wrong.

If I wanted to hear what I'm doing wrong, I'd call my parents or talk to the wife.
It's funny. I think we've misordered our ideals. Tolerance, diversity, and freedom have been set up as goals in themselves, but then this means that perceived intolerance (and indeed it is anything perceived as intolerant) towards the wrong groups must not be tolerated, and hence diversity cannot accommodate real cultural or viewpoint diversity. It also means that freedom is more and more regulated, as if there was no real tradeoff between perfect justice and perfect freedom (but anyone who believes that should read Plato's Republic!).

I think, actually, these must be set up in the service of something else. If we have these in the service of self-improvement and learning, then we tolerate and appreciate diversity because we know that we can only learn where there is disagreement, and we respect freedom because without a right to make mistakes there can be no growth.
His name is not in the linked document.
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Nut.
They make 1.04 billion in profit each year and 9 million has him worried? It also seems to be a breech of trust that he outed 2 women and their children in this. I wonder if coworkers will have any backlash against these women. If that does happen it then it could easily become grounds for a lawsuit against AOL.

Also they spent $405 million on an acquisition in August (8 months ago): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL
Hi, my point is that you have a bug in the code. Your 'newsize' is the number of elements. When you call realloc (which expects a byte size) you have to take this into account and multiply with the element size. What you have in the code:

newptr = realloc(vc->data, newsize);

should be changed to:

newptr = realloc(vc->data, newsize * sizeof(int));
I do believe that sometimes an existing extension is rolled into the core, or at least made a default extension that comes in the download.
I think that _can_ be a starting point; however, there are definitely cases where it's not the case. Take ebay or facebook for example. I'm pretty sure their "data" data is "big" data...would you concur? I think the external data increases the variety (naturally) as well as has some effect (depending on the sources) on the volume and velocity of said data....thusly pushing it over the edge from "data" data to "big" data potentially.
But they loop back through the bank in between. They usually go from the ATM to the bakery, who gives them back to the bank. It's only after many cycles that they're retired.
This is the guy that publicly fired someone during a conference call without a moment's thought, at the snap of a neuron, and without whatever procedures were in place at his company. You should expect this kind of behavior from him 24/7.
I'd sooner consider your comment a reminder that people will apply whatever possible interpretation to the facts is necessary in order to appear right. It's hard to even understand what it is you think you're contributing to the conversation. A dad-from-Growing-Pains-style chat on where to put our money? Reminding us that Mtgox -- which has a story on HN about them every other day -- is a clunky Rube Goldberg machine?

This comment really seems like poorly disguised crowing and nothing more. Not a reminder, certainly. Maybe a reminder of your great prognosticatory abilities -- you took the default position on 99% of new technologies, products and innovations. Where do you find the courage?
That's an interesting question, and not one that I asked.
> That could be said for Nazism, Communism, Socialism and possibly every other socio-political out there: It's not the system, it's the implementation that's wrong.

True, those arguments can be said there, but don't apply here. Those are utopian ideas in that they require every individual, including the governing bodies, to be a saint in order to work. Not so with the free market, as a corruption in one organization leads to the ability for others to rise in their place (no "too big to fail" scenarios).

> Do you believe that education, energy, water, garbage, railways, lines (as in phone-lines, the network) should be private hands?

Yes. A lot of this work is already contracted out to private companies, which do a much better job for a much lower price. There's no reason to think they wouldn't do it themselves to make a profit. Which brings me to...

> What happens when a player is so big that with every move disrupts the market? The state should step-in or let everything flow naturally?

The state IS the biggest player so big that every move disrupts the market, thus creating more "big players" =) For example the government makes contracts with the big players, in the billions of dollars. That's tax payer money that's going to corporations instead of local smaller businesses, and the other guys can't compete. This is just one small example.

There are some good discussions on these topics here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/search?q=corporat...