skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm homeschooled and I'm not fragile. I know a lot of men and women who were homeschooled and they aren't fragile either. Being frequently bullied may be one way to learn about life, but it isn't the only way. In fact I don't think it's even the best way.

> What's to prepare them for that when they're homeschooled?

Life. The homeschoolers I know do tons of things that help them explore life. There are too many to list here, but here's a short list of excellent things homeschoolers do that incidentally help them learn about life: dancing (contra, waltz, swing, etc.); running your own lawn care company; babysitting special needs children; babysitting in general; mission trips to foreign countries; film-making (for fun, commercials, competitions, etc.); learning to fly airplanes; regional equivalents of boy scouts (4H, boy scouts, something else that I can't remember the name of); and much more.

Edit: added word "frequently"
> I suggest you are suffering from the Blub Paradox[0][1][2].

Writing some C will cure that disease, but the treatment has possible side effects, like carpal tunnel syndrome.
The joy of being lost in the moment, and to know we can only do that now, makes every moment valuable. But we find ourselves again and again telling ourselves stories about who we are, and who others are. I've been trying to piece together how it's possible to interact with others without this need for ego narrative, but haven't found the way just yet.
Risk is relative. For a broke college student to quit school, move across the country, have no (or little) income, all for an idea that they have no clue will work is a huge risk. In the same vein, someone quitting their job after having already committed to car payments, house payments, and alimony is also a huge risk.
Guess I'll join in. My first computer was also an MSX. They were very popular in the Arab World because of an Arabic branded version made by (for?) a company called Sakhr. It played all the MSX games and that's what mattered. I'm pretty sure there's still a Metal Gear cartridge in my parents house somewhere.

I wonder what Sakhr is up to now, if they're still around...
ok i will bite: why ?
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the OP is talking about nowadays US, so no Rockefeller, Ford and friends.

As it's difficult to compare richness through history I was focusing on relative power. Can someone challenge US now? yes: Russia, China, Europe. Some past empires didn't have any counterpart because they were too powerful for anyone.
Every country protects its markets in various forms.
Love the fact that I was asked for my credit card info right on their page, not the credit card processor's web site! Huh ??!
It's only a myth if you're examining the situation from a singular angle -- that of monetary risk.

There's a great deal of risk and uncertainty involved in foregoing the completion of a degree, a potentially-salaried position at a stable firm, and so forth in favor of starting a company that is statistically unlikely to succeed.
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As a 35-year old Brit who has spent his entire career in the UK tech industry, I do not recognise what you describe.

However, there are many "tech industries" and so I can't tell you if the culture in the Java, C++/C#, Windows or Banking etc. industries is like that, because in the Internet, Startup, Ruby/Python type industries it absolutely 100% is not.

Animosity between permanent and contract staff is something I've never witnessed either. Contractors who aren't worth their money? Sure they're going to get a hard time, but if I'm working with a contractor who has 20 years experience on me, sure, I'm expecting them to earn good money. I always saw them as an inspiration, nothing else. I know my colleagues have too.

So, whatever sector you're in, and whatever employer you're with, get out and look elsewhere: it's not like that in many, many, many other parts of the industry.
I wonder what is the point of caring? If I was a founder a multi-billion exit under the radar sounds like a dream come true.

Celebrating success as the author puts it is merely a symptom of meritocracy and individual responsibility. Of course, it comes with its own issues (less of a social safety net and income disparity).
The gross world product is about 72 trillion dollars. Alabama's share of that is 0.2%. In order to 'come close to Alabama', a historical power would have to be close to 0.2% of the world's GDP at the time. And I don't think any of the ones in that list went that low.
https://gitorious.org/guile-2d/guile-2d

WARNING: _Very_ experimental, under-documented, and the README is out-of-date. Currently requires building Guile from the stable-2.0 branch in the git repository for cooperative REPL support and bug fixes. If you're interested in browsing the source code, 2d/agenda.scm, 2d/coroutine.scm, and 2d/signal.scm are the coolest.

A proper release is coming... eventually. I will show it off properly with a live coding screencast once that happens.
I think we are using different points of reference here. if you take the iPhone as the ground zero of smartphones, then Android was still new. But I'm looking at the Palm OS/Windows CE/Blackberry/Symbian days. This makes the parallel between MSX/Android and Panasonic/HTC even more clear.

And to go back to the point: OP implied that it was a stupid strategy of the manufacturers to embrace some standard. I see no fault at the strategy. It didn't pan out, that's all.
I got into programming in my first year of secondary school (year 7 in modern money), when I wasn't really fitting in well. I was getting bullied a little but had a thick skin so didn't care. Can't deny I relate to the escapist aspects of this though.

That said, this article is... odd. Programmers in the UK have a reputation of being anti-social, awkward and unable to integrate - think The IT Crowd - and this article is hardly going to turn that around, is it?
Ccame here to write this.

It's consumerism, it's users using things that people care about.
I direly hope that we get wireless charging to a point that I could just put my phone down anywhere on my desk and it could get charged.

With something like pebble, I wonder how much energy is necessary? Could some well-placed solar cell on the watch do the trick (think calculators).

If I could get one wish in life, it would be to have something like nuclear batteries we always see in sci-fi (actually, there are probably 12 other things that would be more important in the long run)
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Who is this "we" are you talking about? USA spends most of its income in military which is as dystopian as it gets, plus it haves 5.1 trillions in debt, while there are countries with no debt at all.
I've worked in the UK tech industry for 12 years. Never seen what you describe. Never been treated as low-status either, and I've never worked for the old street crowd.

I'm not sayin your experiences are wrong, but they might be less universal than you think.
Reading the comments, I guess the common sentiment is "to teach them (India) a lesson"?
It's a conspiracy theory to help out devs in Saskatchewan, Alaska, and Hawaii.
The companies will often argue the N% discount on wages is directly related to the N% reduced living expenses, which is of course insane. It is impossible to even to begin to justify making $75k in St. Louis if you can make $150k in San Francisco, housing costs and living expenses are not that crazily different.

People in richer cities travel more internationally, they do and buy things that many Midwesterners would never even dream of doing. A Mercedes is similar in cost in New York as it is in Cleveland. The wages are lower because the living standards are lower, it's not just about living expenses.
We are talking about foreign policy? I just found out, I would have swear we were talking about economical influence on international tech news coverage.
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For the US government it is usually August and September. The fiscal year ends on September 30.
Most tech companies may be that small, but most tech jobs are not with companies that small.

Either way, if you are bullied out of work we have a robust system of tribunals and workers rights over here. You don't need to be a union member to have rights and you shouldn't be scared of exercising them.
I was never any good, but what about nemesis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_2_(1987_video_game)
Python does it:

>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> Decimal(0.1)
Decimal('0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625')
>>> Decimal(1e50)
Decimal('100000000000000007629769841091887003294964970946560')
I can't find the previous discussion, so technically this is not a repost.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=iss+virus#!/story/forever/0/iss%20...

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=iss+virus#!/story/forever/prefix/0...

For me, the main problem is that this article is about a report of a 2008 infection. So the real new is old, and it was througfully discussed.
India has been fining international companies ridiculous amounts of money recently, I think the instability of the current government has something to do with it. Let's see what happens after the next election.
Agreed this would be great but I would be curious to see how Bourbon would deal with their extensive and growing LibSass user base which has the feature set of Sass 3.1.
Some more than others. It's not as though Coke and IBM have had to pull out of many other markets.
What home computers used this? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWTPC
Your post was in response to a post that contained the statement, "the richest and most powerful country in the world."

Foreign policy, affected by GDP, certainly plays a role in this.
When all is said and done - they're a bunch of monkeys - just like the rest of us.
This is actually an idea I came up with on my own: If increasing technology causes human population to increase exponentially until a civilization-destroying catastrophe, this implies that most humans will be born shortly before the catastrophe.
Yes, the new [@at-root](https://github.com/nex3/sass/blob/master/doc-src/SASS_CHANGE...) directive. It is verbose but will allow you to extend root level extends. However this creates selector spaghetti in your CSS and should be avoided if possible.
And both of those are blocked for those of us behind the great firewall.
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Elections are around the corner. This seems like an indirect request for donations or other favors by parties and groups in power. Or it could just be arm twisting to make it disclose user information. India's politicians are beginning to believe that there is too much freedom online and would like control.

India's politicians and crony capitalist class are India's worst enemies.
you should let HTML and Preview tab to be editable, too. Currently, you can only edit Markdown panel.
The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer was the most popular home computer in the USA to use the 6809.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

Motorola intended the 6809 as a transition between their popular 6800 series and the future 68000 line. The '09 could execute 6800 code with minimal modification.
There is no reason for them to hang around with such a big fine, since they make so little money India. This is like how google mostly pulled out of china, the costs and risks just were not worth the benefits.
You are right. The 6809 was relatively straight forward to program. It had a highly orthogonal architecture which made it a very effective and pleasing framework to think in.
Would that be a bad thing? I don't mean in a vindictive sense. Just so that the government might stop bullying companies.
Beautiful... except it's not true.

A quick google search through negocios.pt (probably the biggest Portuguese business newspaper):

* Whatsapp: 41 results

* Ono: 4 results

Europeans love success stories as much as Americans, but we're too American-focused to notice our own success stories.
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That's the equivalent of crossing half the United States.

China must have around 7000 miles of track by now. The US still has none. It's really hard to convince Americans that it's worth the money.

We probably won't realize our mistake until later in the 21st century when China converts it's 20,000 miles of track to maglevs running at 300 mph.
Stolen passports, perhaps. How is 20 passengers being from the same company suspicious, though?
Here are the only words that people should pay attention to in the article "a complaint filed with CCI cannot be withdrawn". Also there is no source for the $5 billion in fine.

With a bit more digging I was able to find extracts from the original complaint/concern.

CUTS believes that Google can potentially engage in anticompetitive activities to the possible detriment of these markets in India and that therefore such activities in this regard need to be thoroughly investigated by the CCI.

This is further explained using the following example:

CUTS conducted a thorough study on Google and we have come across instances where the firm is abusing its dominant position.CCI had asked us to further investigate. For instance, if you search for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Google, the first five results are on his Google Plus pages. His Facebook page was the 8th result.

This case may have been inspired by those filed in other countries:

1. In Canada:
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/12/13/google-inc-abus...

2. EU:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/eu-commission-i...

3. United states:
http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/01/google...
Some forms of "market protection" are smarter and less restrictive than others...
Sensible projections put the peak global population at ~15 billion some time in the next 50 years. Wikipedia puts all humans ever north of 100 billion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Number_of_huma... ).

So crisis averted.
It's the same reason that all other employees of any other employer shouldn't be tainted by the actions of their peers, even ones entrusted with the use of firearms. Punish the offender, not the group.
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The F.B.I. needs informants, but what happens when they go too far?
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When coke pulled out, hundreds of new flavors came into the market. When IBM did, thousands of software companies sprung up. So yes I hope Google pulls out too - the worlds information would get organized in hundreds more useful ways.
I said bonus, not raise. Your salary would never double at IBM unless you were one of the chosen few pegged for superstardom.
You've inspired me to add an activity to my agile coaching practice: bring a blog post that inspired you but you didn't act on. Then we'll design a goal around it together. Fun!

Maybe I can help my clients turn some of these McPosts into fine dining. :-)
This came in really handy as the startup I am currently working on is currently looking for fundraising.

If anyone has any other valuable tips to share please do so. I'm very keen to hear other experiences.
In the words of Henry Jones Sr. "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember."

Rote memory is fallible, fleeting and failing (in that order). Memorizing epic poetry is a noble cause, but even Plato would prefer to use those mental resources for applications more pertinent to a greater understanding of our physical reality. This sentiment accounts for the rapid transition to physically-recorded data, which everyone seems to agree was a general step in the right direction.
I have a great idea for a new alt-coin: The proof of work will be based on finding a Bitcoin wallet with more than 1BTC in it.
"...trading speed for altitude" Sounds to me like it trades using power to attain speed for using power to counter gravity. IOW, when it goes (near) vertical, it loses lots of speed but can gain a tremendous altitude.
I hope your prayers will help.
Then please post it with (2013) in the title so I know it's old and don't open the article thinking it's about new malware on the new Linux laptops.
0,2% of the world's GDP in 2012 is a good measure for a comparison of Alabama to other modern countries in 2012, not a comparison of Alamaba 2012 to Rome 12 AD.

That's like saying that the last person on Forbes 500 is not really rich because they barely have 0.05% ($3 billion / $6 trillion) of the group's net worth.
That does not matter. The fines will apply over global revenue and not just G' revenue in India.
"GPL v3 tries to close some loopholes in GPL v2." And what, in plain English, would those loopholes be?
You can also do

itertools.chain.from_iterable(itertools.combinations(a, n) for n in range(len(a) + 1))
Yeah, there are protections, but like all legal protections they are really only technically there. Practically, taking that course requires sinking a huge amount of time, effort and possibly money into it, and the outcome is not certain. Most people will quit and try another job.
Couple of questions for the original poster -

1) Were you already profitable or had revenues when you started fundraising?

2) How did you manage to get intros to Angels?
> There are also 255 representations of almost all representable numbers.

This isn't true. Only zero has 255 representations. All other numbers are limited by the size of the coefficient, 16 digits. So a number with 1 significant digit would have 16 representations, one with two would have 15, etc. Not that I'm defending the format, but if we're critiquing it for being sloppy, we need to be careful about such things.
Something struck me about love a moment ago... Perhaps the reason love seems elusive is that isn't reached directly, but is found as a byproduct of living in line with how you are.
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Similar to what the US is doing in terms of mobile market, thinking that they are somehow representative or "advanced".

We get millions of headlines for Apple launching video chat in the US market while they had that in EU 5 and in JP 7 years back.

At the risk of sounding overly condecending, if there is something that "ze Americans" do great is selling their supremacy (ie. we are the best).

BTW: Thats a good thing as they tend to fake it till they make it.
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1.Yes to revenues, we did an alpha test at the end of last season that was very small, read 10k. Built out technology, serviceable area, and started preselling. Keep in mind we are a seasonal business.

2. What we found were the best intro's were from Founders of companies they had funded. We are well ingrained in the Blacksburg community and were able to go through local angels who we had developed relationships with over the past months or get intro's from community members farther along the startup lifecycle.
I am running a complete payment gateway that supports VISA and MasterCard and mobile payments by SMS.

The name of the service is: https://www.bizify.me

For an introduction to the service: https://www.bizify.me/hacker-news/
There is also cost cutting. Multiple independent 'smart' systems are ok. But pushing cost down means higher integration to save money. Now when engine dies it may take down power steering or even brakes.

Self-driving cars are great example of cost cutting. It would take $ 100 000 000 000 to develop system which can actually drive. Google is using GPS with fraction of cost. But GPS signal is very weak, easy to block or even spoof. If self driven cars will become reality $20 gadget could collapse traffic in entire city for hours/days.
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I love the mad-lib style form on the home page.

I assum it converts well?
I'm in finance sector (mainly insurance) for reference on the J2EE/C# side of things.

I think a number of people have been burned by bad contractors in the city. There are tonnes of them from experience who cruise around with absolutely no reputation.
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China or Europe can challenge America? The Chinese can barely float a carrier and have only a few nukes. Europe depends of the USA for most of its defense. Russia counts, since this is the nuclear age with MAD and all, but it hardly counts if it's suicide.

Economically, china is still not into high income yet, while Russia is stuck in a natural resources trap with lots of corruption. Europe is quite fine though.
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> Europeans love success stories as much as Americans, but we're too American-focused to notice our own success stories.

this.

Plus, to be fair, I have never heard of ONO, mostly cos no matter how much of a single European market we are, we are not a single European language, so we are not a single European news feed.
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November 2013 really wasn't all that long ago. If a mod wants to do so, not an issue.
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And each of those sampling methods is exactly a function

Double -> Int

Which is also exactly why having an int type is important. It otherwise becomes much harder to talk about the meaning of those functions.
Yes, I'm serious. Apparently I only work with and know developers that use basic tools.
> The Roman empire conquered everything was worth conquering and he was providing free food and gigantic games to his poor citizens.

The Han dynasty coexisted with the Romans, and I think they had a lot more people and land in their empire.
I'm a contractor in the city but not in finance. If I had to guess I'd say you get bad contractors there because the money on offer is huge, so it will attract people who have no idea what they're doing but are great at blagging.
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Of course its difficult to separate correlation from causation on this subject. The best study I've seen on the matter (Magee, "The Optimum Number of Lawyers") doesn't try to detangle the correlation and the causation too much, though it does try to account for a number of other variables.

That said, its hard to ignore the track record of Anglo law. England was able to embrace a market economy earlier than its competitors in part due to its legalistic fixation on property rights. It had well developed legal structures suitable for bringing private money into the tasks of colonization and empire building. Its interesting to note that as China modernizes its economy, it is bringing over American legal experts to update its legal system.
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No, the amount we're eating is making us fat.
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Better for the watch form-factor would be the kinetic drive. Plus it gives you an incentive to be more active and the watch can annoy you if you're letting it die by being sedentary. But both the Citizen-style "eco drive" and the Seiko-style kinetic drive could be baked into the same watch. That's plenty of energy for the deep low power microcontrollers that exist these days, even a fairly powerful ARM-based one.

But that's still not enough power to drive the screen on most "smartwatches". Nor their higher power cellular/wifi components.

Fact of the matter is, TFT screens eat batteries like no-one's business. No avoiding it. E-ink screens would do better, but have nighttime visibility problems that would be hard to overcome.

Plain and simple, the undoing of the smart watch is the battery. It's an obstacle we may someday overcome, but until that day, it's not likely to catch on and become the big hit everyone wants it to be.
Where's the rest ? I mean the part containing the technical stuff, not the one saying "Miracle Machine".