skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will definitely second this.

If you can get your contract work, that is excellent. Otherwise, with your MBA and your fiance skills you should be able to get a high paying work.

I find the HN mentality of "I don't want a job" or "I hate what I'm doing" a bit immature. When you have just yourself, who cares. When there's others involved its a completely different story.

In your case, you have 3 kids plus a wife depending on you. Suck it up and get a job and plan financially better so that you have a large runway to do your business.

You have incredible value to offer to a company who will pay a premium to leverage this value.

Here's another way to look at this: Is your choice to not get a job add more value to your family versus going out there and making 80k-150k?

You will have much better chance of succeeding with your company when you know your family is provided for.
Man eats nothing but pizza for 25 years
Probably because government surveillance is completely expected now.
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I'd recommend a name change, very confusing...
> In other words, there's no easy way to get rich.

Of course there are -- very easy ways. But there's no reliable easy way to get rich.

> people looking to get rich quick in financial markets are probably better off learning how to play poker.

If we eliminate "quick", then not true. All one needs to do is invest in an equity index fund and patiently wait decades while ignoring the dubious claims of investment counselors. It's very reliable.

With respect to "quick", that also happens but with much less reliability. Consider that a blind computer program randomly flipping coins, with no strategy at all, will enrich a small percentage of its accounts by chance alone. This works for people too, but it's a rare, chance outcome, not any kind of strategy. More here:

http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths
Scientists demonstrate first contagious airborne WiFi virus
If Bitcoin were a government currency, all Bitcoin users would have to pay for MtGox losses and every MtGox users would get their money back.

That's the price of anarchism.
> “It pretty much means that the change has never gone through code review, or has been planted.” Or Hanlon's Razor; “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Going straight to dumb-ass conspiracy theories it what is unacceptable.
Some of these acquisitions weren't done for the users.

Aardvark, Jaika, Dodgeball, Picasa, Broadcast.com, FriendFeed (missing), maybe Flickr as well as more recent acquisitions like DeepMind ($900M to Google, zero users) were bought for some combination of the team and the technology.
Why buy a very expensive, high performance car and use cheap tires ?
I always liked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
My Conversation with Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox
Cool, didn't know that. But HTML5 will enable this in a platform-indepedent manner which is good for the web.
For me, terrifying can be read as a synonym for thrilling. It didn't scare me so much as fill me with awe, and delight, and any number of contradictory feelings.

Unfortunately, nowadays, I fall asleep much too quickly to contemplate the nature of universal size like I used to be able.
All this shows to me is how useless it is to compare by "cost per user". The note at the bottom says "Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 16 billion dollars, the largest startup acquisition to date. Cost per user was comparable to Google's YouTube acquisition.".

It's sort of close, but we're still talking about a swing of >30% there -- $5 billion dollars in WhatsApp's case.

There are many things missing from "cost per user" but I think the first thing to ask is "user doing what"?
The hell with GM process. There should be a way to push out simple changes like this, as soon as possible, for cases like this which is very important.
Even the supposed 10,000x speedup is utterly bogus...

The FPU here has 5,000 transistors.

If you can stomach the lack of full IEEE compliance, you can build a full 32-bit FPU with ~100,000 transistors:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.71....

So really what we have here is at best a ~20x performance boost in exchange for an absolute programming nightmare.

Or you can switch to DSP-like fixed point math with ~25K transistors per ALU:

http://www.idosi.org/wasj/wasj2%284%29/12.pdf

So now we're down to ~5x better performance in exchange for that programming nightmare.

And just to be thorough, if you're hellbent on nontraditional arithmetic, here's an error-free 32-bit integer ALU made with 1696 transistors, that would be >3x more efficient than the architecture here (assuming all you care about is throughput):

http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jece/papers/Vol3-Issue6/B03...

So now we're talking at best 1/3 to 1/4 the performance of what they could get if they dropped logarithmic math and went to something more predictable. Someone call Vinod Khosla, we're gonna be rrrriccchhhh...
>The year the Americans broke the internet.

Yeah... you're welcome, I guess?

I suppose I should have called my representatives, right? Well, their interns, at least...
Get better quality images and stop thinking like a print designer
The point of responsible disclosure (as opposed to telling the company and then not telling anyone) is to force the company into action, and force them to fix it with the threat of public disclosure later
How To Quickly Make Startup Memes Even If You Don’t Have Photoshop
I am an expert in web technology (approaching 15 years of experience) and I absolutely disagree that that's is the best we have.

Edit: damn, it is more than 15 years already. I've brought home the first HTML spec printout in 1996 and got first money for the website I've built in 1998. Still remember fixing <center> bug in IE3 when it came out…
I tend to think that it is instinctual, probably related to the vastness of the thing, and the fact that it is simply beyond our ability to grasp completely.
I got my start from something a bit more modest - the HTML chapter of some Pocket Guide to the World Wide Web. I ate it up. I wrote tonnes of pages.

I remember my dad saying that if I got a domain name and it got popular, I could rake in tonnes from sponsorship. I was amazed. I asked him if he could buy me a domain. He said no :( In fairness, I was only 10...

What's quite funny is that I actually work for a company that has essentially done the above and actually provides a big portion of revenue. The pages are not much better quality either (they need more <blink> tag imo).
If the pop-ups make the thing unbearable, how could it have a better design?
1/ IE4 was really a better browser than Netscape at the time (never used Opera so please spare me on this one). I think it's the only IE I used my main browser before switching back to Navigator and then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

2/ You could style the scrollbars on IE4 !

3/ About link styling : for some time underline+overline was all the rage on :hover. I don't think it will make a come back, who knows.

Exciting times
Brings back first .cgi issues and learning to add double new line at the beginning of the output :)
`print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";`
How to safely generate a random number
Let's just jump to the Wolfram Language! hehe, that would be awesome.
What a great book. Every site need an intro and a "foyer" page, and a wall of images that were split up and aligned in a table.

It seems so goofy now, but his advice was actually an improvement over the gray-background, fat-bordered, use-every-font stuff that passed for Web design at the time.
Using PostgreSQL Arrays The Right Way
Well, or it gets hate because you have to code for multiple competing implementations that aren't good at interoperability.
The man accusing me of "web creationism" jumps from "HTML etc suck and were poorly designed from the start" to "there's no explanation for their success". And in the same breath you engage in magical thinking regarding cause of the popularity of the web (indeed, I would bet you aren't capable of mentally separating "the web" from implementation details like HTML, CSS etc). Creationism was highly "successful" for the longest time too. Bravo on looking an absolute fool.
I don't know who would want this. Is it really a demand from people? It is programmers who love static sites who use this? Or the non-coders everywhere?
For some reason I have &#
> Mozilla has been through every revolution, first hand.
> They know what they're doing.

Oh yes, I do remember those nice <layers> in NN4 and that CSS wannabe mingled with JS.

For what I am grateful is Firefox (before the rise of chrome). However I think the proper mindset left Mozilla together with Blake Ross and all that's left is posturing and politics.
You make a valid, and well understood point. Ken Thompson's classic paper: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
It's not just the insurers but regulations. Although I wonder how much they can skirt around that, for example hiring a bunch of low wage unskilled workers to just sit on the ship doing nothing so it counts as "manned". Perhaps you could have the ship be remote controlled rather than completely autonomous. When something unexpected happened, a person takes over remotely, but otherwise it acts like autopilot.

Perhaps the boats could transfer cargo to and from manned boats in international waters to get around local regulations, or even just bring people on board the ship.
Are we talking about eating human meat ?

It seems so crazy that I am not really sure what I am reading...

It is not the wrong way to use technology ?
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Brian Beckman presented a session at YOW!2012 where he briefly discussed the possibility of implementing the Mathematica language in Javascript.

http://yow.eventer.com/yow-2012-1012/term-rewriting-in-javas...
So, is this an actual product that you are ready to start producing, or is this just something to raise interest? If Kanye West came to you and say, "you can now push the boundaries of taste with my meat", would you be ready to go?
Man, if I had known that badge existed I would've stuck it everywhere.
I think one of the reasons I'm so confident with web stuff nowadays is that for the first 3 or 4 years I had literally no idea there were text editors other than Notepad. I remember trying to put together a simple web site on Mac OS X, which frustrated me greatly because I had no idea where to find a plain text editor (for some reason I never found the toggle in TextEdit.app, let alone opened the terminal to run Vim).
I highly recommend Continental's ExtremeContacts. I'm on my second pair on my 5 series* and I think my dad has used them on multiple vehicles as well.

*My 530 isn't nearly as fast as the Model S, but it is a stick and I tend to drive in a spirited manner, yada yada yada...
Apple had more than 4 days. Apple knew about and fixed the iOS bug. We don't know when they became aware of the SSL bug (in iOS & OSX), but it certainly wasn't on the day that Apple released the OSX bug
>plan to do auto conversion of C++ to Rust

This... is news to me? I'm pretty sure we have no such plans at all.
Sorry, I just didn't see anything in your original post that reflect the actual reality of what law enforcement does when you really get defrauded.
Hey, I read like you, how can I get in touch with you? I have a few questions.
More like US Appeals Court broke internet
I think the cost per employee is even more interesting. $320 mil for every WhatsApp employee, compared with ~$76 mil for everyone at Instagram.

Now is a good time to be in the yacht business.
Oh jeez. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/portal2/issues/21
Not to mention that the Tesla (and other hybrid ev) have been holding their value better than any gas powered vehicles. Though you did say "even assuming" .. just wanted to make that point clear.

I'd love to get a Tesla S, but being I live in an apartment, it's not really a practical option for me.
"The Year Multinational Corporations with Powers Beyond the Scope of Individual Actors Broke the Internet" just isn't as catchy a title, huh?
Your ISP could be MitM-ing your plaintext HTTP already, and it's the use cases that we currently use plaintext HTTP for that this is addressing.

If you care about security of your data, end-to-end, then you should probably only use this feature, if at all, with the proxy running on a machine you control - but presumably in that case you currently aren't using plaintext HTTP for anything anyway, so I don't see how it relates.
compare to what? Typical blue collar worker at the heights of their respective industry was able to afford house, car, and may be, after some careful saving, send children to college. Do developers can afford more than that?
"Content" is the key there. But I am at loss what exactly iOS and Android are failing to do? I think they do very well with music, movies, books, etc, thank you very much. Hypertext content? Well, we do have web for that.
Microsoft Office paperclip (aka. 'clippy') joins group of whistle-blowers
It's up there with "I'm not a racist, but..."

Doesn't affect facts, though. Just means be more sceptical...
Now Twitch.tv is Playing Kirby
L O freaking L
I think Google Now is just getting started, but the cards are a good start. I am a bit torn here: I believe in privacy (I contribute to ACLU, FSF, etc.) but I also see the value of an intelligent digital assistant that needs to know a lot about me to be useful.
Is this a parody on Soylent? If so, I like it.
Square is Testing a New App for Ordering Food: Square Pickup
> that's an American dream story there

Even a broken clock is right sometimes.
it sounds like cannibalism, but they use a modern design and minimal iconography so it's probably fine.
Alternatively, formspree could publish a public key which you could use to encrypt your email address. To make it easy, they would just have a form on their website which does the encryption for you, giving you the opaque string to use in your form.

The UX for the user is the same if Formspree were to just generate a random token and store in their DB mapping it to an email, but this way Formspree doesn't need to store anything in their DB.
> If you look at a typical discussion of trading here on HN you will see lots of totally uninformed hyperbolic assertions about what goes on in the market. How everything is rigged and how corrupt the players are.

Yes, one does see such remarks, but an excellent counterargument is almost never heard-- and that is that (a) business leaders aren't stupid and (b) if the equities market was really significantly rigged or inefficient, these people would refuse to raise capital using equities.

The fact that some of the most skeptical, cautious people in existence, people with plenty of practical experience, are willing to fund their businesses with equity capital, means that equity trading is substantially fair and that the efficient market hypothesis is at least approximately true.
It wouldn't necessarily be autonomous but remote controlled. Or have a single manned boat with security forces on it guarding dozens of unmanned ships in a fleet.
The question is: is it human meat if it didn't grown on the human?
Show HN: Twetris
Hence the "or". In this case, stupidity is equally unacceptable.
> I mean, Sweden looks more communist than Brazil to me, and Sweden is not actually communist (it's a capitalist welfare state).

A welfare state like Sweden's is about what you get when you start with capitalism (under its original definition), and apply about half of the program in the Communist Manifesto to it.

Western European and Scandinavian "welfare states" are the closest thing in the real world to applying the Marxist program to the kind of economies that it was designed to address what Marx saw as problems with.

"Capitalist welfare state" is something that people are able to say with a straight face only as a result of the Cold War idea (mostly, ironically, originating from the side that ended up losing) that whatever stands in opposition to Leninism and its descendants is fairly described as "capitalism".
Is Quicksort in-place or not?
It reminds me of dimensional analysis in physics. That works really well when the number of possibilities are low and the system as a whole is contained enough and well-constructed enough that there aren't many pitfalls.

But everyone knows physicists can't manage factors of 2 and pi. :-)
Well, as has been pointed out[0] on Scott Aaronson's blog, it wouldn't be so hard to tell if, say, you had a universal quantum computer; you could run Shor's algorithm, quickly factor some large numbers, and have a pretty convincing demonstration. The D-Wave machine is more limited, however; it only does quantum annealing, and the thing about quantum annealing is that it gracefully degrades into classical annealing. This is a plus if you want something that will work when your qubits are low-quality (such as in the case of a D-Wave machine), but a minus if you want it to be unambiguously quantum.

Edit: In addition, apparently it's not even clear how much of a speedup quantum annealing provides over classical annealing in the first place, which is a sort of just a general minus.

[0]http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1687#comment-100732
The web is made of these technologies.
Fox Business story has confirmed leaked docs from Mt. Gox CEO
> I see its use limited to academics mostly

I hope not. If results depends on a specific implementation of a proprietary tool, there is no way to precisely replicate the results from scratch.
it's not much like MF global when you think about it, other than a financial institution failing.

MF global collapsed due to risky behavior by management team. left a lot of assets, and operates in a regulated sphere where principals are known and subject to courts. the scandal of MF global was that the former governor of new jersey, and goldman sachs bigwig, was so arrogant that he though he could prop trade with customer funds...and lost.

Gox collapsed due to incompetent security procedures, if i understand the story correctly. a bank robbery of a sort. outside of the jurisdiction of many of the victims.

we now know that something around 6-7% of the total bitcoins in circulation are now owned through theft. that's a staggering amount. in any normal currency - the heist of a millennium. there's no court system to adjudicate this or try and recover assets for those who lost money.

we know who is responsible for MF global and we know where to go to recover assets. John Corzine might be politically connected, and the folks who lost money might have a hard time overcoming "the system" to get funds, but they know where to go.

And - quick google search - there was $1.5bn in missing funds, which apparently will be recovered: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/mf-global-customers-w...

With Gox? Tough luck I guess. (I lost a token sum, FWIW).

It's enough to make you wonder - if digital currencies are now well understood, flaws analyzed and hacked... and we are starting to know enough to say - digital currency is awesome...

Maybe we should start over with another alt-coin. i'm not particularly thrilled about putting real money or time behind a coin which now has a large chunk of it owned through theft.
Mt. Gox in Feb. 2011
There have always been multinets even if it seemed like one over-arching Internet, but users and technology are just going to have to become more sophisticated. Some good folks will be lost along the way to criminals and "intelligence services" (but I repeat myself!) We can't give up the dream and that remarkable goal of networked computing and communication and information accessibility.

It took some time but the assholes got their shit together. Which is what we're seeing now. These assholes have always been with us throughout human history, causing problems and violence and bringing out the worst in the rest of us.

So we need to maintain vigilance, and work early to undo their harm they cause to us and themselves. I forgive them, because they are born with hearts of fear and that will never change. We can't allow them to dictate our lives though. We know what's right and what's wrong, and we simply need to make sure they are put in the sandbox to play with their toys where they can't hurt anyone else while we move forward together as a family.

This is why no one individual should have too much power over anyone else, and no office or government should be similarly afforded the powers to destroy on a whim. There will always be these folks with us, and if we offer them opportunities to express themselves, they will to our shame and regret.

(I know, lots of "theys" and "us." I invite you to take a chance and perhaps expand your mind.)
Yes, they fixed the 7.0.X branch, but the 7.1 beta branch is still unfixed.
For anyone with access to an Oculus Rift, I can't recommend "Titans of Space" highly enough. It brought me to tears. The sense of scale you get is utterly amazing.

http://www.crunchywood.com/
Yeah, thats what I thought too, until I read this little gem, suggesting that OpenSSL was written by monkeys: http://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html

Its kinda hard to disagree with that conclusion.
Or Mr. T
I'll take this with a side of Soylent. That would be awesome.
The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia
This was portrayed in the film Antiviral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_(film)
Any U.S. decision on net neutrality can only affect the part of the internet that's within the U.S., so outside the U.S., the internet remains as it always was. I'm surprised that the author, writing from the U.K., thinks of "the internet" in such a U.S.-centric way. Did the Great Firewall of China also "break the internet"?
Or "I don't mean to be rude, but..."
That's by virtue of being older, not simpler. There was also a time when 1x1.gif and tables weren't supported anywhere.
Better Bitcoin Exchanges Could Balance Out the Destruction of Mt. Gox
Check out some of the bitcoin/dogecoin 'faucet' list sites and you'll see they've been reincarnated, right down to the terrible GeoCities web design.
That's it. I'm creating a VMRL magento implementation where even the admin panel is in 3d.
You're probably leaving most of the diversification benefit (which is the only edge you really have, unless you're assuming a fat equity risk premium haha) on the table unless you're a pro at that, as well. I think some of the newer automated-investment services are OK at building portfolios, although I would personally want a lot more exposure to other currencies/markets than my home (see: Home Country Bias)
Deeply disturbing... mainly because that salami looked quite tasty.
Flexbox has mostly landed:

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/vertic...
Looks like it's actually dropboxstatic.com - which is returning a 403 to all requests.
> ... how do you feel about laymen investing with a buy-and-hold strategy?

The answer is that buy & hold is a very reliable way to grow your capital, and it does without the services of investment advisors and brokers, which is why they don't want you to find out about it.

On average, buy & hold investors do better than those who enlist the help of brokers or who become day traders (who on average do worse than anyone else).

For actual evidence, one need only examine the outcome of the Wall Street Journal dartboard contest, which compared expert equity picks to random picks. The expert picks weren't sufficiently better than random picks to justify the broker fees, and this outcome went on for years.

http://www.investorhome.com/darts.htm

Quote: "... the performance of the pros versus the Dow Jones Industrial Average was less impressive. The pros barely edged the DJIA by a margin of 51 to 49 contests. In other words, simply investing passively in the Dow, an investor would have beaten the picks of the pros in roughly half the contests (that is, without even considering transactions costs or taxes for taxable investors)."
...do you mean &#160; ???

That's the numeric entity for a non-breakng space. &nbsp; is the named entity for the same character.
Cat gifs aren't a thing in china, I think its mostly an American fetish.