skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On what basis are AirBnB and Square still classified as startups?
Wow, just going by quantity of green, Musl looks excellent.

Why have I not heard of it until now?
Also, even if they sincerely try to do so, a startup may not have the resources to service a large enterprise. For example, a multinational company with offices around the world will require support that's available 24/7 (you can't ask customers in Asia to call you in the middle of their night). And the bandwidth requirements of a large company may swamp the startup's servers.

But the biggest problem is stability: even if the startup's goal is to build a real business rather than being acquihired, most startups fail suddenly (e.g., due to cashflow problems and a lack of a bank credit line), and that would leave their customers scrambling to replace some critical part of their infrastructure. That's why established companies are reluctant to bet their business on a startup.

Anyone who is considering starting a company that markets to other companies needs to think about these issues (which probably accounts for the predominance of startups that sell to consumers rather than businesses).
Truth is hard come by with non foreign sources as well, we just comfort ourselves by thinking its foreigners who seek to deceive us.
Used to charge. For the OS, not for service packs or firmware updates, at least not in all the years I'm aware of (since I switched, in 2008). And now the OS is free.
There's nothing stopping one from having a non-redundant syntax. Multiple ways to end a line, or mark a block, aren't required to make a language work.
The article seems to miss out a very key point: How do they seize them?

Do you knock on your door and demand your private keys? How can they do that if you've broken no laws? How do they even know you have them in the first place?
Usernames are still better than the Orwellian Google "All your personal information are belong to us" real name policies.
One of the best things you can do first is get your PMI certifications. I work in IT project management for General Dynamics IT and this has been an ongoing project for me for awhile. Having a CCNA or some other IT related cert can also be of assitance in landing a job. I started as an engineer and moved into the project management role.

I prefer engineering. For me it's been a huge change going from a fixer/creator role to a paper pusher, but the pay is better when you become a manager so.. I guess it depends on your goals.

Getting your PMI requires having X Hours of leading projects and X hours of training. Start with your CAPM and work up to PMP. It took me 10 years of engineering to move into the project management side of things. I started without any PM certs, but I have CCNA, CCNA Voice, and Avaya Voice Certs.
furthermore the most dramatic issues arise with C++ vtables, although even that has been addressed with prelinking and a large address space helps a lot.
I agree with the core premise that trade negotiations shouldn't be done in secret, nor fast-tracked. That said, nothing in that comic really "convinced" me, it seems more like a place to fly his personal political beliefs than make a coherent point. Just seemed all over the place.
Out of interest, at what point do you think a company stops being a startup?

Picking the one company from that list I am most familiar with, AirBNB has been going since 2008. AirBNB are now the people acquiring and shutting down / changing other startups!
Here's a conspiracy theory for you: Pratchett's History Monks exist, and this was their doing. But nothing much happened during those three centuries anyway, not even the horse collar, and such stretches of fallow time come in handy when you've also got to worry about centuries like the nineteenth and twentieth, where a mere hundred years doesn't start to be enough time for everything to happen in.
The choice between the two doesn't matter much, as others have pointed out. The part that does matter is which language is going to keep you engaged?

Learning another language/framework and how to use it means an investment of time, and whichever one will provide that interest/motivation to keep using it will be the one for you. You note that iOS may be easier to make sellable apps for, so that might be the better route for you.
Why So Many Startups Are Being Acqui-Hired [2012]
Same here. I was thinking after my edit that I don't know of such an algorithm either, but I don't think in principle that there is anything stopping someone from coming up with one.

So... who wants a NIPS paper? Noel and I are happy to just be 2nd authors, since you know... it was our idea and everything. ;)
Great, thanks for the help and suggestions!
Deedle: Exploratory data library for .NET
Still just as cool years on.
My favorite feature is the ability to expand and collapse at the object level. Anybody have a favorite tool for this?
Google Cloud SQL now generally available
Blog entry: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/google-cloud-sql-now-generally-available.html
> Also it's easier to pass around images in a team,than installing manually every components or libraries one needs.

You're right, Bundler in Ruby seems to have spoiled the hell out of me. I don't think nginx belongs in your development environment. If something's not available for your system, virtualization can be used effectively, if you run one machine per service you're depending on, as it would be done in production. Or architecture your app so that you can use dummy services in development. With thin interfaces and continuous integration this shouldn't introduce any problems.

But really, you should be picking mature services to depend on. One of the signs of a mature software project is that it is available for multiple environments and the configuration remains mostly similar. External service configuration should be considered code and committed to your repo. All that's in your project config should be where the service is at and what port it's running on. You could make the argument that depending on something that's not available for all the development environments you're working with is a smell.

> Further more virtualisation == 0 consequences on your machine.

Personally, I treat my development machine as "crash-only software". If something goes wrong with it, I'll wipe it, re-install it, then git pull and bundle install. All important files are kept elsewhere and my development workflow is streamlined enough so that I can reinstall everything pretty quickly. All of my tools are in my dock. Chrome, Sublime, Sequel Pro, iTerm, and an SSH Tunnel Manager, the latter I consider an ugly hack and am working to get rid of. Service dependencies are painless to install with Homebrew.
Any alternatives to relayd?
Firefox for Android and Chrome for Android support it, according to that table (unless your driver is blacklisted).
> gcc -W -Wall -O6 -o ph7_test ph7_intro.c ph7.c

Nice! I wish creating Lua executables were this easy. With Lua you have to create a wrapper C file, use squishy to combine multiple lua files into one, and finally a script to turn the lua script into a C byte array. I have a boilerplate project that I use so that I just have to run `make`, that avoids the need to ever touch C for the most part. But it would be nicer if luac and luajit did this automatically.
Can't you leave the climbers at the end to add to the counter-weight? Or am I misunderstanding something?
There's a mic, a wide angle lens, and an internet connection.

How do you know they're not constantly recording what you say?
While "big" and successful, they are still young companies with startup ideals. Not simply legacy companies where every employee is long removed from the original drivers and mission. Just because AirBnB has a $1B+ valuation, doesn't mean it conducts business like IHG or Marriott. They still have startup values.
> The FBI already owns 5 to 10 percent of [bitcoins], which are now out of circulation.

Given that money laundering and drug transactions have become major parts of bitcoin's current use case, law enforcement's tendency to seize bitcoins puts yet another deflationary pressure on the system. The biggest obstacle to bitcoin becoming a currency rather than a speculator's darling is the stability of its value. Meanwhile, the system's incentives seem to promote hoarding in hopes of a price spike.

Not that this is problem in and of itself. Bitcoin's decent anonymity creates very real value, and it looks poised to be a medium of exchange. It just puts a damper on the hopes that future transactions will be denominated in bitcoin rather than dollars.
CanIuse is incorrect. Firefox on Android has supported it for years. Chrome added support recently.

That being said it is easy to OOM mobile browsers with textures.
Simplify Twitter(Web) Timeline with Pretweetify browser extension
>Certainly it holds for some things.

Two points:
1) at one point in time, I triple booted between Windows, BeOS (yes it's a long time ago) and Linux: Linux and Windows booted far slowly than BeOS (don't remember exactly but it was >1min while BeOS was 14sec) and afterwards felt less responsive than BeOS..
BeOS is dead though (yes, I know about Haiku).

2) Buy a SSD and you won't have to wait anymore 'a full minute' to have your computer in an usable state..
I do not have high confidence in any bitcoin exchanges, they all seem to be held together with rubber and glue. This one could well be different...

.. However, the ability to roll out even a simple change like this in such a short time, suggests that there is no testing, code review, or anything...

So praise them for being responsive, but I'd shun them for proving to be unsafe... which ultimately is what matters more.
El Nino tracking system in Pacific Ocean faces collapse
The cable is 62,000 miles long. The atmosphere goes up maybe 100 miles (0.16%) of it, and meaningful wind only goes up about ten miles (0.016%). The pressure doesn't even register.

That said, I've got to imagine that bottom .1% of the cable will be made differently to counteract all the water and oxygen around it.
Nearlyfreespeech is explicitly not for anonymous hosting. They are just very unlikely to take anything down without a court order forcing them to do so.
On the other hand, the single-source engine is so large, GitHub won't display it on the web. :/
Did you get 8tracks API permission for use in a commercial app?

http://8tracks.com/developers/terms:
For commercial use of the API (including ad revenue) you must receive permission. Please contact api@8tracks.com.
Somehow managing to believe everything while believing nothing. Aliens at Roswell? Sure! US managed to land on the moon? Ridiculous!
Huh. So, reincarnation exists, and Robert A. Wilson's spirit speaks Russian now. Who knew?
I tried WebStorm for a while but didn't get on with it. Too many confusingly implemented IDE features hampered by sprawling settings menus. One too many times I hit upon a frustrating editor feature that seemed like it should be simple to tweak, but wasn't able to get it right. IMO a case of trying to cover too many frontend dev task use cases with not enough attention to UI/UX etc. This was a few versions ago though so maybe it got better and of course YMMV. I think I prefer a simpler and more transparently configurable IDE these days with any fancy stuff happening explicitly in a declarative build/watch script.
That is one big C file. Curious if you've ran against any of the Zend tests in the original implementation [1][2]. I do not see anything on http://ph7.symisc.net/.

1 - https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/tests
2 - https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/master/Zend/tests
Hell yeah. First author gets to do the poster session. I'll do the skiing. ;-)
I agree with all your analysis. In this case the presentation is discarded and, as I see it, only the facts are retained.

For example in parsing chemical structure diagrams what is recorded are things like the number of atoms in a section of a molecule, their angles and what kind of bonds exist to neighbouring molecules. These data are then analysed to generate the formula and re-construct a correct diagram.

There are no licenses to my knowledge on older papers that allow publishing the analysis (but within the University we have agreements with JSTOR, for example). Looking at public domain stuff is OK. This is part of the issue - that knowledge should be a public good.

If you're a lawyer I'm sure Peter would appreciate hearing your opinion.
My impression was that frequentists and bayesians do actually disagree in some cases.

The example I remember is, suppose you have a coin with a uniformly random bias, except that the bias will not be zero. What is the probability that you will see heads if you flip it once?

- Bayesian: 50%

- Frequentist: Anything except 50%

Although you'd probably find they agreed on all the "what do I expect to see" stuff, so I guess that kind of is like interpretations of QM.
Statisticians do not spend time arguing this issue; some people like some tools and other people like others, but at this point people are pretty accommodating.

But they're not mathematically equivalent. That's like saying that neural nets and random forrests are mathematically equivalent.
> claim that frequentist methods need to make strong modeling assumptions.

> Assumption that horse race winners are not completely random and that there is a strategy

This is kind of the assumption that people tend to blame frequentist statistics for doing (well, any statistician I guess). There are nearly always assumptions made about what the random variables are or aren't. If the horse race was completely random, your guarantees fall apart as it's a simple dice roll with no strategy beyond chance. Yet you've used your assumption to dump money on the table, and now you've probably lost it.
The whole pose looked off to me. It seemed odd that important papers would be signed kneeling. Is that customary anywhere?
YAGF 0.9.3 released
I agree with you. I only meant to refer to the (log(x))^2 case as nonsensical, though I think my wording was ambiguous. I understand its a hort-cut but it doesn't make mathematical sense as a notation. I think it makes more in the log(log(x)) case, for the same reasons you've pointed out. Though, at least in my experience in my field (theoretical CS), I see it used as (log(x))^2 far more often than log(log(x)).
Old but still cool
Not everyone runs some PHP damaged setup where connection pooling has to be pushed out to a proxy. Some people use sane applications in the first place. There is no reason for those people to add an extra layer of latency and potential failure to achieve what they already have.
I would think that the conversion from a rasterized scan to an "open markup language" would be sufficient to count as a new presentation, no?
Working in Safari 5.1.10. Make sure "enable web gl" is checked off in the "Develop" drop down menu
Only want to hire elite genius rockstars ... to implement a really boring CRUD app ... for median (sometimes lower) wage.

Not too surprising this strategy doesn't work out too well.
the whole library gets mmapped, there is no point doing otherwise, the mapping itself is cheap.

You are probably talking about demand paging (which happens on statically linked binaries.
This article offers an interesting look at Russia-US relations:

"Diagnosing Sochi Media Coverage: Virulent Russophobia...

The water, the toilets, the hotels – nothing pleases our pampered media divas, whose hatred of all things Russian oozes from between the lines of their "reporting" like pus from an old wound."

All the antipathy we saw aimed at Russia during the cold war years is now being revomited up by the political class, albeit in a new flavor: instead of genuine martyrs like Andrei Sakharov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn being lionized, we see the professional provocateurs of "Pussy Riot" elevated by Western media to the status of "dissident" stars.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/02/09/diagnosing-soc...
But you have to be in range of the wifi to do it. This isn't something that's going to be a widespread problem.
Counteroffers, Secrecy, and Fear
Heavy handed approach is seldom adequate, especially in situations with separatist sentiment. Retribution is an invisible and hard-hitting enemy in the long run, and going all guns blazing is a guarantee to breed one.
Why not compare to glibc? Am I missing something?
I've always been partial to Brad Efron's explanations, see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.179....

IMO he nails the key distinction here: "One definition says that a frequentist is a Bayesian trying to do well, or at least not too badly, against any possible prior distribution."

And there's some nice humor also: "The 250-year debate between Bayesians and frequentists is unusual among philosophical arguments in actually having important practical consequences."
I have US dollar bill B03542754F in my pocket right now. I wonder about its "blockchain" and how it has flowed into and through our economy. I wonder if it at anytime in its life has been a part of illegal activity.
Sample mixtape: https://www.mixtapp.co/m/oq4
Student debt is terrible and irrational, in one chart
Google Cloud SQL now available with an SLA, 500 GB databases, and encryption
Buddhabrot renderer in HTML5
No more than I would trust a Bill Clinton or George W. Bush autobiography- but all these types of works provide fascinating insight into the psychology of the people involved, just maybe not the facts of events :)

Although, even from Ceasers time we can find accounts by other Romans, Greeks, etc and use archeology to see where he is likely bending the truth.

The problem now days is accounts of events, due to ease of communication, while more plentiful are less independent.
FCC Plans to Issue New 'Net Neutrality' Rules
The Trouble with Darwin
Doesn't work for me in Mobile Safari or Chrome on iOS.
The tether would extend far far out over a geosynchronous orbit, such that the centripetal acceleration is exactly equal to the force of gravity. Thus, it would be weightless on the ground, maximum tension at geosynchronous orbit, and an easy launching platform at its end.

Also, it can be easily deployed by unrolling the tether in both directions simultaneously from the geosynchronous orbit.
Thank you SO MUCH for this. I had no idea. Whatever I do, I can't make my brain remember the various navigation keyboard shortcuts and guessing a file always felt better than moving to the mouse, opening the menu and thinking about the appropriate item to use.

This is amazing. Very easy to reach shortcut and very broad search (while still being fast).
This was submitted a gazillion times about 3 weeks ago, and this is now the second submission in a few hours. Why is it suddenly re-surfacing? What's changed?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=skydrive+onedrive#!/story/forever/...
>Personally, I treat my development machine as "crash-only software". If something goes wrong with it, I'll wipe it, re-install it, then git pull and bundle install. All important files are kept elsewhere and my development workflow is streamlined enough so that I can reinstall everything pretty quickly.

Hmm, you seem to basically be describing Vagrant, but with the added complexity of resetting the rest of your computer as well.
Growing App Ecosystem for Ubuntu phones
New IPv6 Measurements: Comcast nearing 25%, Verizon Wireless 46%, DT at 18%
Quit Smoking: Braining Training App for Android
Maybe they'd require US exchanges to seize blacklisted Bitcoin when it gets deposited.
There is an R package for that ad modeled on Apple ad
I wrote real-time signal processing code in C for 5 years. I used lists and arrays. Indirectly I used queues as well, but those were buried down in the mailbox code in the middleware. Also was not allowed to malloc and free during runtime or use recursive calls without a very good reason. No DFS or BFS to be had anywhere in the code. No sorting, except for a couple calls to the Standard Library qsort function. My algorithm text of choice was Skolnik[1], not CLRS.

Guess I wasn't writing software for a living. Plenty of SV companies sure got that impression.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Radar-Handbook-Edition-Merrill-Skolnik...
Mobile Apps Driving $57 billion Digital Content Industry
The Developer Shortage Lie
Facebook Star Ratings Design Flaw
And now it's offline, looks like we used up all his money.
Pretty neat! Good job on that, hope it goes viral fast :)
Chrome in iOS is just using UIWebView to render the webpage, so it is still Mobile Safari, only with the services provided by Google.
There is a policy against it. Its kind of lame since the design is well known and lots of photos existed beforehand.

The actual reasons were likely that I didn't ignore problems the company had previously ignored and a falling out with a freshly ex-roommate who went and harassed my company's management until something happened (I was a vendor). I had gotten a TRO on this guy and my company ignored it and ignored the advice of Microsoft management.

In the end everyone agreed to forget the matter and move on. I have since not had issues with working at Microsoft.
SQLite style: The amalgamation is a single C code file, that contains all C code for the core. With one big unit, the compiler can perform several smart optimizations that cannot be done if the source code was split between different C files.
Just to point out: If they were created by the US government , they would normally be automatically dedicated to public domain, so there would be nothing for the UK to infringe.

There are weird exceptions here, and i can't remember which agencies fall into them.
Blog entry: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/google-clo...
a. How is that onlive thing working out?
b. Remember Digital Fountain? How'd that work out.

The guy sells snake oil. I don't get why press keep buying it.
Now accepting Crypto Currencies for Web design, Development and Hosting
That's almost a straw-man argument. When you're making statements about pure probabilities, everyone is a bayesian. Most toy examples make "frequentists" look like morons, because essentially all of the judgement and discretion is removed from the problem, so you'd have to be an idiot not to apply Bayes's rule.

The difference shows up when you actually have an interesting data set to analyze. Bayesian statistics can disagree with frequentist stats in small samples because they're (often) using different normalization strategies; and they can disagree in large samples where the CLT fails. There may be other settings where they diverge too that I'm not aware of. But neither of those scenarios is one where insisting "I'm a Bayesian, so the answer is blah" or "I'm a frequentist, so... blah blah" is likely to be a good strategy. Those are the settings where it's hard.
Upvoted as this is great and handy software. Try it out before Google buys it and makes it less awesome!
why the need to touch a screen? In a car, wouldn't it be better to have gestural controls that don't require looking at a screen or touching it, or voice control?
Because a working fool will do more than a sitting genius?
I don't remember the saying (English is not my first language).
Is a DiSC Style Permanent?
"The Libyans!"

Back To The Future is my favorite example of the pre-90s perception of terrorists - gullible, ambitious beyond their means, a comical mix of bloodthirsty and inept, and only really dangerous if you stand still right in front of one with your hands in the air.

I think public perception started to shift well before 9/11, with 1995 being a critical turning point with the one-two punch of Oklahoma City and the capture of the Unabomber.
Elasticsearch as a smart cache
Basically, we will stop buying HP and buy SuperMicro. Very simple.
Coming to Node.js v0.12: Debug clustered apps with node-inspector, here's how...
So what if a bomb goes off on the thing and manages to sever the cable? Look out below! Up to 62,000 miles of high-speed fun coming your way...

Multiple SF authors have covered this unpleasant contingency. It seems more of an example of why we can't have nice things to me.