skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not had this experience personally. The odd start-up maybr but if i generally dont know the answer i'll be very honest about the advice i give. Most people i've mentored it's been either that they've never even heard the idea before or they've heard it but want someone to confirm it to stop them from going insane from their own doubt.

Mentoring isn't just about knowledge expertise it can often be about helping people gain perspective.

Last week I had a call with a new start-up founder. I didn't tell him anything new but the fact that i was able to be there for him to bounce ideas with him and help remove doubts or confirm trains of thought was invaluable for him and he wants to come back for more.
> Greece is ok for startups

Sure... what about investors?
> This feels like the internet used to feel like. Back when you just used to assume that a credit card transaction wouldn't go through. Why? "Because internet". Bitcoin is so young and immature.

I feel like the "immaturity" argument is just an excuse. Bitcoin itself is young, but we know how to handle encryption materials safely, we know how to process online transactions, we know how to write exchanges, etc. Mt. Gox wasn't taking on any new problems here. Most of the new stuff that goes into Bitcoin is abstracted away by the Bitcoin protocol.

It'd be very nice for newer players with extensive experience in this area to step up. If not with a new service, then maybe fortifying an existing one (like Coinbase).
I dunno. If you don't know what you're talking about, its that much more important to talk about it. Otherwise, you'll forever be ignorant.

It sucks when you talk about something and then learn that you're an idiot. But more importantly, you _learn_ that you're a dumb idiot, and then you try to do something about it.

Teaching someone else (even if they know the subject better than you) is sometimes the best way to learn a subject.

So continue being the dumb guy who gives advice. It helps you become smarter.
...unless you like to travel.
Thanks for mentioning GitLab. As a GitLab.com co-founder I believe it offers a much more userfriendly interface than gitweb.
Totally different tone than last week. I'm glad to see you are looking up. I've learned that with most bad news, in the moment it seems like there is no hope, but with time, patience, and being honest with yourself it gets better.
No one here is going to call this crossing any lines. Ask Airbnb, Uber, etc.
>"I committed to my wife that I would find employment, rather than chasing another dream — at least for now."

Sounds like the author hasn't entirely bought into that notion.

Anecdotally, each person I've know who did this - put their dream on hold for their spouse as opposed to fully accepting the idea themselves - ended up extremely bitter about it.
Please define "the right thing."
Ok, I think I get it. So bitcoin is basically an alternative investment that is more liquid than, say, art.

I guess a follow up question, then. Internet geeks seem to really be pro- bitcoin. Do you think money laundering is not a big deal compared to the benefits of bitcoin? Do you think there is anything that should be done to try to fight it?
Coming from Russia, and skimming through related news today, I get an impression, nothing is banned (by any means).

What they might do at some point, is prohibit selling goods for bc, this is possible.

Mining / exchanging and buying outside of the country, or buying virtual goods will not go anywhere for sure :)

Again, another Orwellian-themed fake news about my place (or am I getting paranoid?)

UPD: just read the article at http://genproc.gov.ru/smi/news/genproc/news-86432/ -- yep, no new laws, nothing -- "measures will be taken to prevent fraud, etc."

The overall impression is, they are going (a some point, not now) to explicitly delegitimize cryptocurrencies as a means to make payments officialy, but not ban / outlaw using the mining tools, or exchanging the bitcoins.
Cool and good luck! I'd be cautious about the name sounding so close to Tweet, especially when you advertise it's "like Twitter." Less impact changing the name now than later.
I personally dislike discrimination because I find it to be one of the lowest forms of collectivism, and it is usually invoked by lazy fools in a vain attempt to see themselves as superior to someone. Racism has also been used to steal from the targets of discrimination, (usually by acts of parliament,) but this has become less common.

Your reason seems to be that your normative beliefs dictate that it is immoral for others to discriminate. I apologize if this is an unfair characterization of your point, but I am trying to accurately understand your post. This is a good explanation of why you would not discriminate, but does not mean you would embrace other cultures.

You did not answer my basic question though; why should corporate leaders "allow and embrace cultures other than those of their founders"? A failure to "allow and embrace cultures other than those of their founders" is not tantamount to discrimination or segregation.
If Google disappeared this weekend, we'd wake up Monday morning and our Android phones would still work, a few people would miss Play and the worst part would be listening to people complain about Bing search and everyone else's maps.

If Exxon disappeared I'd be in line at the pump filling up gas cans in addition to the tank and on my way to stockpile canned goods, potable water. and buckshot.
Coin is going to have to support EMV or it's going to have a lot of issues being adopted by enough people.
yo dawg, I herd you like nyan cat, so I put a nyan cat in your emacs so you can nyan while you program
My gut agrees. But I'm still wondering what their next hit is.

Despite a million products, they're still a one-hit-wonder in terms of revenue.
I don't think his statement was with regards to Bitcoin itself. Calling it "a real tradeable asset" implies more about the market around buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin than the Bitcoin protocol. And its hard to argue that market is anything but immature.
It’s a good thing Pandora didn’t listen to that nonsense about “failing fast”
It's about having your supply chain as close to your customer as possible so you can pull (as in lean) on demand. What then happens is the customers' needs iterate faster and faster and you need to keep up. Fit the 3d printer in the shop, print whatever the consumer needs in less then it takes to drink a cup of coffee and you're the winner. Of course you need to make sure you have enough raw materials. That's something China has to import a lot. So unless China builds up domestic demand to much higher levels, western countries will gain more from 3d printing than China.
I don't think that's how he intended that. I interpreted it as a mutual agreement that for now he would find employment until he/they could afford to try again.

I don't know if you read his previous post, but the guy was in pretty dire straits.
Removing email templates from source code alone is a huge win - to your point, I don't know any devs who enjoy updating email templates :)

We wrote a quick blog post about this a few weeks back: http://blog.bvanvugt.com/great-b2b-saas-products-remove-tech...
It's easier to drip out as you need it, which is less suspicious
or prank a co-worker, thats the real intent :-)
Alright, I had to look this up. Here's some info on these types of jokes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff - referred to as a Russian Reversal

Ok, learned something completely wasn't aware of before.

But, no, no intent to make that kind of joke.
'comrade1' you have been hell banned since almost one year ago so (almost) no-one can read your posts.
I hope they won't but why would they want to ban PGP in first place?
Every time I try linux, I lose several days in config files, and at the end, it's still not perfect, just "good enough for now".
Hm, applying a bit of my personal sense, I'd say Exxon's business is drying up in the foreseeable future (oil is running out, renewable energy is on the rise).

Google is a software business with very strong network effects.

I definitely see how there is more demand for software in 100 years than for oil (as a fuel).

Economics is not a pure numbers game. They [edit: the numbers] just try abstract what the companies do now and in the future.
I don't think its valid to call the buying and selling of Bitcoin a "new market." Bitcoin itself brings new idea, but the exchanges around trading them don't really solve any new problems in the way Bitcoin did. Its all old hat, and it just requires proper execution, not innovation.
SFCave is availabt on Andoid, and it's very satisfying.
Exxon is sitting on a resource that will soon be replaced with a more efficient one: electricity. It is much, much, much cheaper to produce electricity in coal or nuclear plants and charge cars to run on the road than it is to refine gasoline and pump it into cars.

Google is sitting on top of the most amount of information ever collected by any profit-seeking organization ever.

Skate where the pucks going man.
Adoption.

Not that many people care/are aware about the privacy/security issues at stake.

It was too much of a niche thing (i.e. not for iphone's "average" users) and from a big enough player that Apple wouldn't protest.

But it was a complicated and long process to install/configure it. I doubt many non-geeks bothered. So it probably never got any traction beyond a few thousand users. Not worth keeping around at Linkedin's scale.
Mark Cuban triggers 100K download landslide after Cycloramic visits Shark Tank
I doubt Egor is being paid for posting these summaries to his own blog for all of us to see. Even if he weren't contributing code to various libraries and applications, these write-ups are a great benefit to everyone else who has yet to be a target.
A Lazy Evaluation – Why I Find Learning Haskell Hard
Introducing Moonstone, Spotlight and Enyo 2.4
It depends how you structure the plan. Publix is an example of a privately controlled* company that has wide employee stock ownership.

*the stock is held by a small group of owners and many employees. Transfers are limited by contract and by securities laws. Because of the large number of shareholders, the company does have to file periodic reports with the SEC but the shares are not listed on an exchange and not available to the public. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publix#Publix_stock
Any chance to obtain any financial redress?
Maybe she enjoyed the power of being the gatekeeper to the printer.
I give you an alternative view instead of answer to your question. Most of the black money exists because of money's fiat nature. Money is printed in large quantities. Counterfeits are added to the circulation. Banker/Politician/Bureaucracy nexus often takes cuts from the supply.

I think Bitcoin can fix this. Money with every transaction identifiable. Which can't be counterfeited. Can't be created out of thin air.

From where I see, it solves more problems (or other problems).

If some criminal elements run away with the money. Solution will be to dedicate huge amount of resources to find them and recover the money. Instead of creating new money, which is like tax on everyone else holding it.
It's a markup, but $6 really isn't much considering it's delivered to your door. People have made similar dismissive statements about a lot of the to-your-door service startups, but the market is flourishing.
Search engine marketing, for one.
I remember visiting my childhood elementary school and seeing that the "forest" behind the building was just a scraggly patch of trees with a chain-link fence on the other side. It seemed so much bigger back then...
Beats Music- prime example of a pitch perfect visioning video
there are places like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods that offer bakery fresh high quality bread that isn't "tough to find"

... and those cost $3-$5, so you're paying a $3-$1 markup for delivery.
> The American Psychological Association's report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that in the United States IQ tests as predictors of social achievement are not biased against African Americans since they predict future performance ...

The flaw in the reasoning should be obvious to anyone but a psychologist -- the test outcome becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, rather than an unbiased predictor of future performance. The contempt for science among psychologists is shocking.

> so the consensus in psychometrics is that iq tests are not systematically biased against particular groups.

Psychologists also came to a consensus among themselves (and, as usual, without any scientific evidence) that Asperger's was a real mental illness, and that Recovered Memory Therapy was a real therapeutic method. Fortunately, and to some extent because of these credibility issues, society is in the midst of dumping psychology as a serious endeavor:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

In summary, until there is some science in brain research, all this talk about IQ testing is overreliant on effects without any clue about causes -- on descriptions without explanations.

Notice the name of President Obama's recently announced program -- the "Brain Initiative", not the "Mind Initiative". The handwriting is on the wall.
Surely carrier A wouldn't let carrier B be able to block an imei belonging to their customers.
If carrier B did block it though, you, customer of carrier A, wouldn't be able to roam in the network of carrier B - but still work fine in your home network of carrier A.

However, that results in carriers needing to assert ownership over an imei, which would be come quite a mess - so it very well could not be done.

I do believe national blacklisting registers of imeis, as already done for many years in certain european countries is much better than not doing it though.
I'm not sure about "necessary" but dash cams make even more sense for bikers. The default response for police in car-bike traffic accidents is to assume the biker did something stupid and let the driver go or worse, issue a ticket to the biker without any evidence at all.

See:
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19284/it-must-have-...
Google Nexus 8 set for April launch, says report
Interesting idea, hope you do well.
Descomplica Lands $5M From AngelList’s First International Syndicate
> "the mismeasure of man" is a garbage book by the noted fraud and liar steven jay gould.

When you post like this, do you ever stop to think how you're making psychology and its supporters look?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man#Awards

Quote: "The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle; the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association; the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991; and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time.[10] In December 2006, Discover magazine ranked The Mismeasure of Man as the 17th-greatest science book of all time."
Amen. When I think, "I love my job", I'm generally thinking about the "easy" part, where the tools are all under my control and well known, and I just have to build something with them using my knowledge of algorithms and architecture.

However, the reality tends more often to be:
- Frantic Googling trying to figure out the magic code to pass to a black box 3rd party component that will prompt it to spit out exactly what I need
- Banging 3rd party components together to see what happens to be compatible
- Trying to figure out how to work around the limitations of an API without being too inefficient or complex
- Spending 4 times longer on conference calls discussing a problem than actually fixing it
But more clients = more potential customers for their credit lines. Unless it's a huge drag on their resources (doubt it), opening a simple checking account for a new business should be a no brainer - they should take some ideas from US banks...
Details Emerge on The Mark One Carbon Fiber 3D Printer
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We often ridicule tech companies for having inflated valuations. I don't disagree with this in general.

In your specific comparison, which company do you genuinely think will grow more over the next N years? Google has shown the ability to dominate multiple markets time after time.

I can't see Exxon as any more than an oil company. There's certainly nothing stopping them (any more than any other business) from innovating.
Reminds me of Urbit[1], which is in many ways also a filesystem as an RPG or RPG as a filesystem (though they call it an operating system).

[1]: http://www.urbit.org/
Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says
I've seen a lot of advertising around GoPro lately, even on TV shows that normally have nothing to do with it. Now it's explained.
Ask HN: How do you remember things you think of while walking?
Pulling out my cell phone and opening an app isn't good enough (fumble for the phone, enter PIN once, maybe twice, load the app) and I'm really not good at walking while using a pen and paper. In particular, if I'm walking with my girlfriend or friends I want to record the thought but not really interrupt the flow of conversation.

I've considered digital voice recorders, but would prefer something easier to get to. If my Pebble could record audio, that would probably be the "best" solution to me.
3D pictures become possible with two straight lines
There are many types of technical debt. It's something that accumulates organically in any real world project, because the real world doesn't care if your code is a paragon of programming excellence or not. It's expected, and simply part of the process, to develop technical indebtedness. The important part is controlling that indebtedness so that it doesn't cause major disruptions -- this usually means periodically cleaning up old debts and ensuring you have a robust system of monitors and failsafes. In a niche like finance, you certainly have to be more aggressive to ensure that no serious breakages or irrevocable indebtedness make their way into critical transaction code.
Program an Arduino Yún without writing code Temboo's Sketch Builder
Not allowing other cultures is discrimination.
US TRY'S TO START WW3, SMASHED UP BY ALIENS YouTube 240p
Isn't gist an entirely separate application from dotcom? My impression was gist is a Sinatra app, not Rails.
I think this really cannot be understated. It will help you get ahead and in many, many different ways while also strengthening your base knowledge and understanding of the subject matter.
Direct link: http://davesblog.com/blog/2014/02/05/verizon-using-recent-ne...
The two games clearly have some differences, but I'm not sure that I'd class any of those as being particularly unique.

Somehow, something about this game has grabbed people's interest, but it's not some brilliant gameplay innovation that the rest of the gaming world had overlooked.
who is using this
I agree that his comment seemed haughty, but I'd like to mention that yours does as well.

I disagree that "only people who are overly concerned with and take advantage of mentioning their IQ". More likely, it's just that smart people with empathic intelligence don't mention it. You know, because they realize that others don't like feeling "dumb".
But some assholes do claim to care. It's a clever way of avoiding blame, by saying "I don't _want_ people to get angry, so it's not my fault when they get angry at the horrible things I say or do."
I removed mine about the same time frame too. No regrets. It has not hindered my networking or hireability.
Having just built rpgfs and played around with it a bit, I have to say your comment amounts to something of an insult against Urbit.
Wouldn't this be exception-safe, provided lock_iter defines a ctor, dtor, operator bool() and operator ++()?

#define LOCKED(lk) for (lock_iter i = lk; i; i++)

(Edit: I thought lock_iter could be an empty class but no, it can not, so I edited my post. lock_iter will have an internal flag that should be optimized away following the same logic int i is optimized in the OP's version)
I would love this type of service but with food catered to individuals with gluten-intolerance or celiac disease.
Money earned is not a measure of morality.
Ya, perhaps I am being thick, but what would this be useful for?
'Kill switch' for smartphones in proposed California bill
I can also envision Google being targeted by regulators and tax agencies and law makers around the globe in the next ten years. In addition their business model is vulnerable as open access networking becomes less advantageous to more businesses and it becomes increasingly feasible to inject advertising locally or strip off Google's customer's ads and replace them at the ISP level.
No you're not alone, considering this was a combination of security holes that allowed people to get read/write access to others repos, including private.
C with classes is what the google c++ style guide mandates: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...

No exceptions, no boost, no lambda, no rtti, streams only for logging, avoid operator overloading, etc.
The Epoch Init System: A New Beginning.
Or, you caught a guy agreeing without understanding because, if the user thinks he solved with the problem you should just go with it.
Agreeing on an objective definition of "poor", if only for sake of a given discussion, would help immensely. Use of different terms for objectively different conditions would help too (i.e.: not using the same word for "below subsistence" and "still better off than >80% of world population").
Similar story to the one from a couple of days ago?

Am convinced that support reps would know nothing about throttling, and wouldn't trust what they say on the matter.
Just wanted to say I hate endorsements as well.

I never accept any endorsements and I think some person actually removed me off his contact list because:

a) I didn't accept his endorsement.

b) Didn't endorse him in return (people seem to expect this?)
Google doodle statement-- Google.com
"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter
your phone is probably able to record your voice.
Qihoo provides 36T cloud storage for free: http://yunpan.360.cn/index/index/?trad=1
Many, I’ve had personal discussions with this week. Most were supportive, a few, not so much.

Curious - what does an unsupportive investor look like in these moments? Do they throw a fit? Act passive/aggressively? Badmouth you?

Honestly I'm a bit bummed to read this. I assumed that in these moments investors are almost universally supportive or at least understanding.
There was a C with Classes.

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#invention
>If Exxon and Google were both liquidated today

Well, that's exactly it, isn't it? Google has more potential for the future than Exxon.
I honestly wish they'd never bought Grand Central,
at least it would have improved in the last several years.

Or more likely Grand Central would have been acquired by someone else or shut down.

I was a Grand Central user and while Google Voice hasn't lived up to all my hopes and dreams it's a pretty kick-ass service.
Or you just kept asking different service reps until you found what that had no idea what you were talking about just said, "Yup!"

I have no idea if or if not Verizon is fucking with Netflix. However, this reporting is absolutely worthless and is basically just muck racking at this point.