skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have a markup system based on Racket"

Interesting. I just discovered the excellent online book "Practical Typography"[0], which the author prepared using a system he created that he calls "Pollen," and which he wrote in Racket.

[0]http://practicaltypography.com/
Isn't H1-B purely an American visa type? How would companies outside of the USA be able to sponsor them?
Similar tactics work when reviewing code. On a scale from least to most effective:

1. "I don't like how this is coded."

2. "[#1]… because it can result in X happening under circumstance Y."

3. "[#2]… Alternatively, structure the code as A or B."

4. "[#3]… Here are code snippets implementing the change."

Almost no action will occur as a result of #1. However, #4 leaves no excuse but hubris on the part of the reviewee not to accept the modifications (obviously assuming they correct the issue and do not introduce new problems!).
Thanks. In touch with a couple lawyers now.
CSS Frameworks Compared: Foundation vs Bourbon
Well, Shoprunner is trying to be "Amazon Prime for the rest of the internet". It's even priced the same, $79. It's a natural comparison.
I'm curious — how does this deal with errors in async calls? RxJava has error handling built in with `onError` functions.
Minesweeper in core.logic
And HTML was not built for GUIs. Does it stop the ongoing madness? No.
FWIW your data isn't safe with Dropbox[1].

1: https://www.google.co.uk/#q=dropbox+prism
As the other replies mentioned, this is pretty standard. I think there's sometimes an exception for companies that a fund passes on, or for very small investments (e.g. if you personally invest $10k into a $5m company, then your fund's LPs probably won't care).

The main concern is this: let's say your fund passes on Twitter during its seed round, but you put $25k into it personally. 8 years later, the company has an IPO and you get a 100x or 1000x return. LPs are going to be frustrated that they let you invest on their behalf, but you took such a great investment for yourself. Even if the fund passed, there will always be the perception of "maybe they just passed so that Partner X could invest individually because the company looked very promising."
I believe that the Softcover typesetting system I'm working on meets all of the criteria you set out. It's currently in private beta; you can sign up for an invitation here:

http://softcover.io/

Send an email to the address in my profile and I'll fast-track it.
It is Institutionalized Theft! The Rich believe it is them who is being stolen from. When it is them who are stealing. If we did a flat 15% tax who would be paying more in taxes?????
Don't forget that sometimes strace is overkill, and similar more easily parsed things can be used instead, for example, /usr/bin/time (vs bash time) has been coming in more and more handy for me.
Wall Street trader making millions by 30; why he left it all behind
> She told me that there was not a clear enough of a struggle

Did she say no? If she did, then that's all that is necessary.

What is it with DAs in the Boston area being general piles of scum (see: Carmen Ortiz)?
> (2) Policy should look at what the post-redistribution (in the form of taxes, credits, subsidies, etc) income and wealth disparities are. It seems as though that is lost in the conversation.

It's pretty hard to have a conversation about a problem and how to fix it, when the data being flung around doesn't measure the problem, and doesn't measure the fix either.

As an example, looks like any data on poverty (often the basis economic inequality conversations) from US govt prior to 2011 is useless to measure the "war on poverty", because it doesn't measure most of the financial efforts to fight poverty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/experts-say-bleak-accou...
Many big companies have these policies:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/co...
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/unsolicited-ideas.html
http://company.zynga.com/legal/unsolicited-ideas
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/utilities/forms/790
Problem is the lack of third party libraries that does IO the way gevent works, if your lib does blocking IO, there is no point using gevent.

NodeJS does async IO by default,so all nodejs libs do async IO.

My point is , it's not so much about wether ruby or python can have the same capabilities as nodejs they can,it's about wether async libs have an ecosystem to support them or not.
3-5% of future cancers may be from overuse of medical imaging
Safari has a dangerous security issue
Most bank websites (at least in Turkey) open a popup window to get your credentials. I realized there is no way to tell if HTTPS is used if you use Safari.

Here are some screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/71G2Z.png http://i.imgur.com/vHQEa.png

This is very dangerous since it is not very hard to use mitm attacks to redirect user to a similar unsecure website.
"You can see the entire problem set online, thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, which recently digitized and posted course materials from this and one other class Sagan taught, at Cornell University. [...] Sagan may have been best known for his popular science books and TV show, Cosmos, but he also taught college classes for three decades."
Makes sense.

So what is the alternative? Reformation of patent laws, or no patent laws in general?
Do you really think that Amazon is doing something that they believe will lose customers so that they can make a point to about how they are smarter than stock analysts?

I have a very, very hard time believing that the people running Amazon would do that.
Hackathon for Cuba
I love the new landing page. So far I got interesting articles from the newsletter, keep up the good work!
Painless Core Data in RubyMotion
This is interesting, can you elaborate or provide and example? Thanks!
Then don't do it next time, your old laptop can live as a server for a good 5 years and will still be better than the VPSes you can afford by then.
(I'm really hoping this comment page doesn't turn into a shit storm.)

Why does the ADA need to dismiss her complaints? The ADA might feel that there is not enough evidence to make conviction likely, and that would be appropriate reason not to prosecute, but that doesn't mean you have to convince her that she wasn't raped.
I'm not saying the status quo is acceptable or that what she describes wasn't rape, but by no means do we want to head towards a world in which claiming you said a word is sufficient to convict someone of a serious crime.
I agree that wealth allows you a greater degree of freedom to be isolated from the rest of humanity. Really, though, I think (as he alludes in the final lines) that this isn't a uniquely-"rich guy" issue. The not-rich who are sequestered geographically (rural areas) or people who shut themselves away on purpose are in equal danger of being out of touch with reality. These people are the ones most-susceptible to the subtle perspective-distortions of media, whether they originate from Fox News or MSNBC.
Ask HN: How fast should space-wifi be?
I'm in the early stages of developing, with others, a space-based wifi system. It's a store-and-forward broadcast network that uses wifi multicast to provide content directly to mobile devices anywhere on Earth. One of way of thinking of it is GPS (50 bps) on steroids, or BitTorrent from space. The focus is more on unidirectional transmissions, rather than bi-directional connectivity, which would be way too costly at this point.

Although a constellation with as few as 25 cubesats is possible, the data rate would be incredibly low. Getting to dial up speeds will take a couple hundred satellites. So my question is: For people who would otherwise not have internet access, what kind of download speeds are useful? More about the project here http://outernet.is
> horrible language, inconsistent and badly designed and unpleasant to look at.

I can see how you might not like the language itself, I don't either. But inconsistency is rather orthogonal quality. I think it is actually pretty consistent, which is respectable in its own right.
3 days left to apply for the Female Founders Conference
Sure, most anyone can throw some data into an SVM and get a result out, maybe even a good one. The problem comes when someone like this has to answer questions beyond a simple 90% accuracy rate. What does the computed separation direction tell me? Could I improve accuracy by using some a priori information like how often one class occurs in relation to the other? What 10% of the population am I failing on? Is it an important part? Is there some easy way I could do better? Is my data so high dimensional that I'm getting some trivial separation and not anything driven by the data itself?

And what happens when this person gets a new data set and they are suddenly getting garbage out of some standard SVM? Is it just a matter of the data not being well-separated using a linear model but throwing some simple kernel at the SVM will do the trick?

Even something as simple as taking a mean can fall apart when you are dealing with data which doesn't live in a Euclidean space, let alone something like PCA or SVM which also make assumptions of linearity.

The point is, it isn't just about being able to invent new methods. Things like SVM make assumptions about your data and applying them in cases when these assumptions don't hold can give completely worthless information, even if it looks good on the surface. Using something you don't understand, even if it is at a (much) more basic level than someone with a PhD in statistics, is just asking for trouble.
> Over 50k modules all written in async style, ready to use

Actually, not true in "all" and "ready to use" parts.

I suspect there are enough libraries that, even while exposing supposedly-async API block under the hood. Or require careful handling.

Even core Node libraries are not throughly async. One obvious example is `crypto`, where only I/O stuff (accessing OS entropy pool) is async. Good luck generating a keypair in event loop.
Right, so these are basically the ip addresses of the bitcoind nodes that are the entry point into the bitcoin network. They are not the addresses of the end users who are transacting in BTC. Correct?
> It is unclear if there actually has been a enormous shift in incomes in the way it is being presented in the media.

It's pretty clear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A&t=6m30s
They are probably coming from different parts of the country too, though.
Budgeting isn't really an issue for me (managing my savings and investments is). Until I can find a better site that supports mortgages and investments, mint works the best. Though, I'd be happy to try hellowallet once there are some more advanced features.
The Mind of a Venture Capitalist
The point is that these things are faults of leaders, not necessarily ideologies, because you find them in every system. Do you want me to point you to hundreds of wikipedia links for atrocities committed by non-communist governments?

Furthermore, socialism is inevitable. Just look at the world today- distinctly more socialist than it was 100 years ago.

My parents have lived in both communism and capitalism and believe a mixed society is probably the best.
One of my professors in college wouldn't accept code that didn't compile with the invocation.

"Your compiler is trying to help you. Listen to it."
For backup I just use Amazon Glacier (backups with http://docs.bakthat.io/en/latest/).

No one ever said a DIY solution was going to be as reliable as a proprietary service, just that the relatively low risk is worth it for your freedom. I personally would never use Dropbox since they don't open source their technology.
The Floor is Jelly
>by no means do we want to head towards a world in which claiming you said a word is sufficient to convict someone of a serious crime

Are we not there already? Who hasn't heard of false rape claims and such going way too far?
Iconmelon: svg icons for the web
...to compose async code in Java?
http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/02/kill-myth-please-nio-...
Org is really good about letting you unobtrusively embed LaTex into a document and can export to a bunch of formats.

I was doing an algorithms course with lots of mathematical formulas last year. Org was a godsend for completing the homework assignments.
He expects to build a regional structure based on economics rather then politics in which Russia will play the main role. Portraying it as the second coming of USSR is plain wrong. It is also wrong to assume that there are plans to turn this union into political one - Russia doesn't need the headache of managing Ukrainian, Kazakh or any other nation's internal affairs. To achieve that Russia is willing to spend a few bln here and there to push them in the direction of CU. Again, EU did the same thing with Eastern Europe by accepting them on a super fast track.

I don't have bias, I am trying to see things as they are without cliches. EU is not likely to survive in its current form. One of the main issues with EU is that some countries made it there for political reasons, for which EU is beginning to pay dearly and has no appetite for Ukraine whatsoever. Putin may be making same mistake with say Armenia, but again he is just a bureaucrat like his European colleagues.
How Meetup Onboards New Users
Social media cheat sheet
Amazon needs to offer Prime for businesses. Amazon slaughters the competition when you need something overnighted, and it was one of the primary reasons we abandoned NewEgg.
The Prophet of No Profit
One marked advantage to buying a gun for cash in a private sale is that the state won't know that you have it.

While I don't necessarily believe that would lead to acts of malice such as confiscation raids, it has already led to bonehead moves such as publishing over the public network the names and addresses of all registered gun owners in an area.

Also, people buy illegal moonshine when legit liquor stores are available. People buy cigarettes sold in the wrong state or from a tribal reservation. Buying a gun from an alley is a possible choice for someone who would otherwise prefer to bypass taxes, paperwork, and bureaucracy--illegal, of course, but not necessarily a prelude to a different crime.
Is this largely a cultural thing?

Schools seem to teach blind obedience and rule following that I imagine would lead to this sort of response in adults.
Unless you really need the formatting, just copy-paste everything as plain ASCII. (This is a standard technique for de-classifying or otherwise releasing classified documents; convert everything into ASCII and then clear that for approval. Cuts down on inadvertent releases of meta-data, hidden text, etc.) Tools like PureText

http://stevemiller.net/puretext/

make copy-pasting as ASCII very quick and easy.
In my experience, a significant portion of the deliveries
take more than the advertised two days.

My experience is exactly the opposite. Rarely late, sometimes early.
Vimeo Down for Hours due to DDoS
The main motivation on my behalf is that it allows us to create synergy with sensors.

Company A sells door/window contact stuff. Company B sells indoor presence detectors. Company C sells plugs to dim/switch/measure appliances.

If they make their communication stack transparent anyone can jump in and combine these products to improve comfort (e.g. appropriately dimmed lights as you walk through the house), reduce the energy bill ("you're running the airco with the window open" or kill lights in unoccupied rooms) or add a level of security ("no presence inside, no appliances on but the window just opened...").

Without it you're limited to the island solutions provided by the service.
Emacs with org-mode works very well this way.
Grab this set: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/get/data-science-kit.do for Data Science, and maybe this set aswell: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/get/machine-learning-kit.do if you're into Machine Learning.

Both from O'Reilly (with some Packt mixed in). Excellent content.
I've been doing the same thing (Student discount for prime). If it went to $80 bucks for me I am not sure if I would renew. If it was $120 I highly doubt I would.
> no server has the non-blocking ecosystem of Node.js today. Over 50k modules all written in the async style, ready to use.

I read it as -- "Node.js doesn't properly support isolated units of concurrency and thus due to being forced to write callbacks inside callbacks that call errbacks for everything, we now have over 50k modules full of callback chains and we call this a GoodThing(tm)".
If you lib uses standard library primitives (sockets, pipes, subprocesses, etc) then gevent.monkey makes it cooperate.
Wouldn't without proper evidence this will become 'he said, she said' kind of scenario. As much as I want to have solidarity with the victim but without proper evidence and investigation, any prosecution would be vigilante justice; prone to errors.
Zuckerberg = Lex Luthor?
What this guy did was despicable and inexcusable.

You did the right thing by speaking up.

Best wishes for you now and in the future.
This shit was all over Texas when I was growing up--did some lasting damage to several folks I know. :(
True, perhaps even more than the first $500k, I worry about those that are trying to raise $100-$250k.
MRA, get the fuck out of here.
Adding in the ability to mark when a deploy goes out makes it really easy to see when deploys caused issues historically (and immediately for those not involved with the deploy itself).
>Lots of them were banished from the island by Russian Empire.

You either use this as a very politically loaded term for Stalinist Soviet Union (which is a problem with your post on its own right), or you are wrong.

>- But russians usually don't remember Dagestan(Russia) or the Chechen Republic(Russia) where the number of russians is less than 5%. Or Belgium with german speaking people .

Russia and Belgium, unlike Ukraine, aren't nation states. Russia is a multi-ethnic country, which is stated in its constitution.

> Ukrainian regions were a part of the Russian Empire for quite a long time. Why would they not join Russia?

Why should they?

>- Crimea is an autonomy, but even now russians stimulated by pro-Russia politicians say that they want Ukraine to be a federation. Do they know what is the difference between autonomy and federation?

So some Russians say one thing, other Russians say different things, so what? I tell you that there is a great deal of difference between unitary state with some autonomies and federation (which is obvious really, think Spain and USA).

>If you look at the Russian Imperial Census of 1897 you will see that people living in the eastern part of modern Ukraine were 80-90% ukrainian speaking. And now if you go to the country area of eastern regions you will see lots of ukrainian speaking people.

How is the census of 1897 related? You wouldn't say parts of Far East and Siberia, which were predominantly Ukrainian-speaking then should be parts of Ukraine now?

>There were 3 man-made famine in Ukrainian SSR conducted by Soviet regime and lots of repressions killed more ukrainians than ukrainians died during the 2 World War.

Oh, now 3 man-made famines specifically designed to destroy Ukrainian nation, great. What do you think of people of Lower Volga, North Caucasus and Siberia who perished of famine of 1932-1933? I guess you prefer not to notice their existence because they don't serve your political goals of the day.

>And now guess what Stalin does? He invites russians to the industrial western part of Ukraine. This region required a work force at that time.

Yeah, I guess it's also Stalin (a Georgian btw) who put all the iron ore and coal there, just to extinguish all the Ukrainians so when Ukraine becomes independent there are less Ukrainian-speaking people there? What a prophet, wasn't he? Or should he just ignore industrial potential of Eastern Ukraine whatsoever?

This is a really telling example of Russia-directed scare-mongering, I feel uneasy about it, as a Russian.
I have gotten to the point where I just can't take seriously anyone who equates "the async style" to "Node's event based system" as if Go, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, etc. don't exist. No, you do not have to choose between speed and sacrifice a sane coding style, and anyone still pushing that Node propaganda is just not worth listening to.

Node is consistently beaten by multiple Go and Java frameworks across all benchmarks [1], consistently beaten by Scalatra, somewhat inconsistently beaten by the Haskell wai implementation (missing some benchmarks, I suspect wai would continue winning though if they were implemented; also I think those benchmarks are on an older Haskell IO manager). Not only are you choosing a dangerous coding style, you're not even winning the performance you think you are. Node is not faster. And certainly every library for Go, Haskell and Erlang, and probably everything for Scala and Clojure (not 100% sure of their runtime models) is already "async ready", and Java itself probably isn't exactly running short of libraries at this point.

[1]: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7...
Thanks for the civil and rational response.
Most of the issue seems to comes down to "fairness". The natural world is not fair, but it is a working system. A elephant does not work harder than a an ant to survive, in fact you might say the opposite is true. The elephant won the ovarian lottery, this is not fair to the ant, but the system works.

I think it would be ridiculous to suggest that those 85 people worked 41 million times harder to get where they are compared to the other 3.5 billion, that's simply impossible. The successful seem to have a hard time grasping or accepting the amount of opportunity (luck) involved in their success.

I personally think its better to look at the economy as a game and the game must have arbitrary rules defined to "level the playing field". These rules must followed and enforced to maximize the enjoyment of the games participants. After all thats what a modern economy does, improve quality of life, not just survival. The rules will need to be modified and tuned over time to find the sweet spot. As with all games there will be super-stars and weak players that get compensated differently, however the ruleset will limit inequality to something "fair" and "enjoyable" to all participants.

One quote that always comes to mind: "The free market should be a prize fight not a barroom brawl".
How exactly is money laundering not unethical? What's so ethical about assisting someone in getting away with a crime?
Right.

That bottle of melatonin, $7 on Amazon, prime add on.

$15 at the localish drug store that's a 5 mile drive each way. Yes, that's the closest store.

It's incredibly annoying.

Also, smya 107 helicopter tail booms w/motor, $4.00 prime add on, $4.00 shipped free from HK with a 3-4 week delivery time. Kid wants it fixed. Might as well just buy it, and another copter just to have spares around and to hit prime shipping.

Just let me pay shipping. It's worth it. Anything else is just a big fu. They've got the item, I've got the cash. Let me use it.
You're both wrong. Rape is not merely defined by someone saying "no." Sexual assault/penetration needs to occur as well. Maybe you shouldn't have sex with people if you have any doubt as to whether it's consensual?

There are no more false claims of rape than any other crime. Please do some research before repeating such vile filth, especially in a male-dominated community such as this one. The fact that I am even having to post this is proof that your comment is rather derailing.

http://theenlivenproject.com/the-truth-about-false-accusatio...
So because I think the rich don't pay nearly enough taxes, I'm part of some idiot mob? I don't know anyone who actively hates rich people. The whole thing seemed like a giant straw man to me.