skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the plug but I just wrote an ebook which teaches you how to find a startup internship. You can check it out here: http://www.learntohustle.com/
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Sequential_downloading_is_bad
How much longer till a machine can produce an identical, working and complete copy using only raw materials and a blueprint?
Is branding the biggest reason for hosting your own git server?
Steve Jobs Told Top Employees No To Television
More languages need to go the Leiningen/Clojure route and make the language version work in a way similar to import/require statements or be specifiable in a manifest file. IIRC, with lein you specify the clojure language version you want in the project manifest file.

For interpreted languages, I don't know why we can't just do something like:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby-2.1.1

In the main() file of our application.

Languages in general would be better off designed around having an executable that bootstraps loading the version appropriate for the code you are trying to execute. i.e. the `ruby` executable shouldn't be versioned, but instead be designed to to determine the version of ruby you need and then execute your code using that version. The obvious way is to have user's specify the version they need, but there is nothing stopping someone from creating a tool from each language that does nothing more than trying to parse the AST for a language and searching for tokens and language features that identify that code as being executable with version X, Y or Z. Furthermore, the language could easily keep a key-value db on disk whose sole responsibility is keeping keys that are the absolute path of the file on disk and the values are the mtime and sha256 of the file and the version of the language with which to execute that file when not explicitly stated in the file or program manifest.
I would gladly pay the ~$100/month required for decent cable (as in, not basic) to have complete access to all the latest TV shows on-demand. Charge ~$10 extra for Netflix-like access to movies and HBO-level shows.

With the current market, I would pay ~$100 for thousands of hours of content I would never watch, and the shows I do want to watch I'd have to timeshift anyway because I'm busy. That's why I cancelled it, I was paying for an abundance of content I never watched, and the content I did want, I had to download or buy separately.

Of course, this will never happen because production studios want their own little silos.
your comment is also dripping with stereotypes unfortunately
It's extremely simple:

The only real value a share has is dividends, and dividend-like things (like share buybacks, the whole company being taken private, etc.).

In theory (and practice) the price of a stock is the expected value of the time-discounted sum of its future dividends.

So yes, people are precisely buying GOOG stock because they believe that at some point in the future, they will pay dividends. Google do, after all, have to do something with all their money one day.

Voting is also not very important. In some cases it might be needed to keep the board/executives in line, but for an individual shareholder, the right to vote is of no importance.
Isn't there some rule that a domain must be registered with a real name, or it doesn't really belong to you (and all anonymization services for domains are therefore suspect)?
"...one of your most valuable business resources is your wife."

That's the objectifying part imo.... Would you disagree?
I can't wait for HackBCA! :)
What exactly is the verification step? Do they mail you a verification token? Because it sounds like you simply clicked a link to verify your address.
I am sure you have some great photos of this (or at least I hope you do)

My wife and I keep on having [hand|head] moments when we miss these photo ops
Loving the HS Hacker movement! Nicely done to whoever organizes this :)
The founder's wife sounds like she was threatened by JAH being an attractive and presumably smart woman being around her husband. The founder sounds like a pussy-whipped loser who doesn't know how to set boundaries for his wife. Most of what JAH describes is unfortunately very believable. I've had resentful coworkers delete/overwrite my work in the past.

That said, complaining about men staring at hula hoop dancers just sounds really odd to me. If someone is hula hooping in a non-private space, of course people are going to stare. Being geeks/nerds/people who generally tend not to have the most highly developed social skills, some of those stares may be awkward. Get over it. She wasn't even the one being stared at.
Wow this is awesome.
>Yes, I can. Resistance to Roundup is exacerbated by using Roundup-Ready GMOs, while resistance to other herbicides is decreased.

No, you can't. Well, you can...in the same way that you can say up is down and down is up. That's literally what you're doing.

You previously stated that resistance is no way exacerbated by using GMOs. Now you're saying that it is for one GMO, but trying to qualify it with a "but". Too late. You've already conceded the point. Now you're trying to lawyer it.

With your initial claim refuted, we can move on to your qualifier. That is, whether there is some secondary effect whereby resistance to other herbicides is decreased in direct proportion would be another question. But, you fail on that point as well. Resistance is dose dependent. GMOs allow higher dosing. It's the entire point.

The more herbicide-resistant GMOs we use, the more herbicides we'll use and the more resistance we'll see. It's really as simple as that.
I lived in Germany around 1970 when there were no malls or McDonald's there. What was fun was even department stores were palpably different than in the US. Everything was different, and that made it much more fun. Even the grocery stores were way, way different (I sure loved the German cheese selection!).
Uh huh, but the prosecutor threatened him with 30 to try and scare him into bargaining, and Swartz apparently believed him, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Thanks! There is a lack of good high school computer science education, and we feel that hackathons are part of the solution!
For me personally, I guess the biggest reason is being able to control the user's experience, as well as my own. Plus I think it's neat, and it was a fun project to do on a Sunday afternoon :)
What I learned by switching to Bitcoin donations instead of traditional ads
6 days ago I posted http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/202pts/im_taking_the_ads_off_my_popular_website_and/ ) about taking all the ads off my website ( http://www.spaceindustrynews.com ) and replacing them with donation links for BTC. I plan on doing this for 6 months and at that time if I'm not making enough money to keep the servers up I'll have to switch back to a traditional model.

Here's a recap of what has happened and what I've learned so far from my experience.

I've received some very positive feedback about my move away from traditional advertising to a donation based format. I've been contacted by numerous people in the industry ( NASA, etc. ) about this. They are truly intrigued and didn't really understand how I was going to keep the lights on.

The BTC community has been overwhelmingly supportive through this transition as well. I've gotten so many PMs from people that have built systems for easier BTC integration and I'm truly grateful for that.

How much BTC has been donated so far?
Day 1: I received 0.0125 BTC which equals ~ $8.00 USD.
Day 2: 0.0015 BTC = ~ $0.95 USD
Day 3: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 4: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 5: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 6: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD

There are probably a few reasons for this. One is that after the initial post moved down the page less BTC influencers were coming to the site. My normal audience comes from links and Google so who knows if they user BTC at all.

This news doesn't halt me one bit. I'm in this for a while and will continue doing what is right and what is good.
Like I said before, this is still only a few days old so there will be design changes, traffic changes. I'm still 100% behind BTC!

Thank you for the donations, I really do appreciate it.
really wish i could make it. sigh.
Not node.js specific really, but the Ace editor and CodeMirror are both JavaScript-based code editing tools that work in the browser and would be embeddable in more feature rich editor.
In a purely mathematical sense, if tan(pi/2) doesn't denote a number, what is its type as a value?
Can't imagine my life without malls. Haha!
> I am aware that other companies have done this, but I find it a bit slimy.

Well, it's not written that charities must be above slimy behavior. It's also not written that all organizations that call themselves charities are actually charities. It's well-established that an organization that calls itself a charity can social-engineer people into doing things they wouldn't otherwise do.

Here is the Better Business Bureau's listing for GiveForward -- in a nutshell, no serious problems:

http://www.bbb.org/chicago/business-reviews/fund-raising-cou...

But I should warn you that some people adopt the name of a legitimate charity to scam people.
I don't think that reasoning is correct. My comment on that blog was:

I don’t think the fixed cost should be as high as you suggest because the functionality would (arguably) not be safety-critical, in contrast to your examples, and therefore subject to weaker regulations.

Emergency geolocation doesn’t affect flight safety, only rescue operations. What happens if the new GPS location functionality fails? The only deleterious consequence is if the other locations systems fail (ELT) and the error causes, in the event that saving passengers is possible, for SAR to look in the wrong place when they otherwise would have looked in the correct one.
So much linkbait on HN today.
You can get a milling machine + lathe + a bunch of tooling for way less than that, and have plenty left over to make it CNC if you so desire.

http://littlemachineshop.com/
After we discover a way to make microchips in factories that cost $1k instead of $1G, and deal with the revolution in economics and computing that follows it... Then we can think about machines that reproduce themselves.
Also: http://www.mini-lathe.com/
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So by your reasoning, students caught smoking marijuana should be expelled? What about people like Edward Snowden? Should he have gotten the Aaron Swartz treatment too if he were at MIT? Right, because all laws are just.
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Dear Startup CEOs
I use GitLab at work, but for home, the amazing GitBucket does the trick and took a total of 30 seconds to install https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket
I only went to the local mall to go to the movie theater, which was located inside the mall. Then the movie theater shut down, so now I never go to the mall.
There's no one "chain of events", and she did start the one I was referring to. You are horribly confused.
> You can't argue that CS isn't vocational training and then say:

Yes I can. Being vocational and making you marketable are orthogonal.

A math degree makes you very marketable--you can't argue that a math degree is vocational.

A computer science program isn't designed solely to teach you to be a professional programmer. Computer science to is designed teach computer science. Some people use that skill to be professional programmers, while some people go into research.

> Just because you go to a school with "University" in the title doesn't change that.

"Universities" do have actual job training programs, where they help you become certified members of a profession, and even require short term apprenticeships. Nursing and teaching are 2 of them. Even those degrees however require 60 hours of general education, which separates them from what are commonly called "vocational" programs.

So yes I can say that the general education requirement means that a degree program at a University is automatically not a vocational program.

I'm not really sure what you're arguing about. Your first point was that your SO's Russian lit degree was at least partially responsible for her making a lot of money.
My point was that a Russian lit degree by itself is not worth very much, financially.

If money doesn't really interest you, or you have enough already, or you are planning on some kind of post-graduate education, then a Russian literature degree is great.

However, if like the vast majority of students, you are in college for financial reasons and only for 4 years, Russian literature is a poor choice.

Is there a debate about this?
In case an electrical fault is detected.

Protecting the passengers from the pilot is anyway a false goal. You can't really do it without removing the pilot.
I agree that the title is linkbait, but an ineffective amount of bureaucracy can definitely be turned or perceived as malicious.

I read about this originally when they made the rule and it seemed arcane and ridiculous, I dont know how it ever was passed. I believe everyone who some experience with whois info knows the information is either false or hidden behind privacy emails and contact information. If they are not, they are subject to annoying or even abusive misuse. (I remember someone back in the day calling me repeatedly because they found my website after I beat them in some video game, the internet is filled with nutters.)

If ICANN wants to know the details, I dont care, but if all the internet wants my phone number, they can take a long walk off of a short pier.
Government computers running Windows XP will be vulnerable after April 8
What? Is this comment in the right spot?
The end of the article raised a good point though: this is going to train people to click on links in emails that look like they came from their registrar.

That's bad.

The registrar is public information. The registrant's contact information is public (or at least publicly accessible). So, wait a year for people to get accustomed to clicking on links in emails from their registrar, pick a target domain, forge an email from the registrar, send it to owner contact with a link to a phishing page. Congratulations, enjoy your new domain.
Yup. Both malls are packed any given night of the week whenever I've been there. Definitely as far from dead as a mall can be.
Your hypothesis was what I was thinking, and that a) was the part of the story that wasn't being told.

Like you, I have no idea what's actually going on, but the way the story was told, either by Horvath or the TC writer, the details didn't quite add up. I guess we wait until Github comes out with a statement.
That's led to one of the most marking bug I've had
As a kid, I developed an education in software in visual basic. The software I had developed worked fine on my computer but when I installed it to any other computer it would fail.

It took me a long time to find out the issue. I was saving files in CSV using standards methods from Visual Basic. By default, the decimal separator in French is a comma. When Visual Basic saved a number in the CSV file, it saved it with the comma and without escaping or quoting. When the file was read back, the decimal part of the number was thought to be another column...

The only reason, it worked on my computer is that I had set up the decimal separator to a dot there because I found it more readable.
Whoever did the graphics on this crappy presentation out to be fired right now, and some bright young person hired off the street to replace them.
This is not a gendered problem, this is a 'loud brash people' versus 'quieter nicer people' problem

It's my hope that having a more diverse workplace will help the "quiet nice people" with and without Y chromosomes.
> So what happens if the people in charge of giving certificates ... decide they don't like me

Then the developers get angry and throw out the people in charge. Imagine, for example, what would happen if IANA arbitrarily stopped just a few people from getting domain names. We'd get a new IANA. (We can't do this with the "apps marketplace" vendors, though, and that is a problem. It's probably something that should be solved with an anti-trust suit or two.)

> If someone buys a computer, why do there have to be barriers from getting and using software directly from the developer?

Because--and this is the whole point of the Users/Administrators distinction--Users don't know enough about computers to distrust malicious software.

We put barriers between people and phishing sites, so they can't be tricked into giving their money away. We put barriers between children and in-app purchases, because they don't understand the consequences.

This is the same idea. Most people would go through whatever series of scary dialog boxes it took to run "cat_videos.exe". If you, an Administrator, were standing right there beside them, you'd grab the mouse from their hand and stop them, for their own good. We can't be there all the time. We want the OS to grab the mouse from their hand for their own good.
New York Times Reported Osama Bin Laden Death in 2002
A lot of this is really good advice, but I don't like the presumed self-aggrandizing attitude behind it. Even if it is affected, it's snotty.

Most recent college graduates are scared, anything we can do to make the world a less scary place for them is a classy move, in my opinion.
So, two thoughts:

1) this is the kind of slideshow that works effectively online and without vocals. All the words are on the slideshow in the first place.

2) So many of those slides were unnecessarily hard to read, and it would have been much better as a regular article with a bulleted list. Those font choices and that trendy style would seem more at home animated in a kinetic typography setting.
> But sin, cos, tan, cotan, log and all their friends by themselves don't compute, they are just a different kind of notation for numbers.

No, they are a notation for ideas. The fact that they have numerical values associated with them is true but misses the point that trigonometric functions are primarily defined with respect to each other and with respect to certain geometric concepts.

In other words, cos(0) equals 1, but 1 has many more meanings than just cos(0). I would much rather have a student tell me that tan(x) = sin(x) / cos(x) than to say tan(x) is just a number.
Meh. If startups aren't for you, then do something else. There is a lot more to get out of them than striking it rich or "glory". For the most part, if you don't truly believe that the product/software/hardware a startup is trying to build should exist, then you probably shouldn't be there in the early days when you're likely to be working longer hours to be successful.

Personally, one of the biggest draws for me isn't the glory or the opportunity to get rich, but instead the opportunity to build something I believe needs to exist and the opportunity to create something entirely new in the world from scratch and be responsible for the majority of important design decisions. I've learned far more than I would hacking on someone else's legacy code (unless I had the privilege of working on the legacy code of truly great engineers I respect) or by being told what to build and how to build it (again, unless that person happens to be brilliant at making those types of decisions).

Those who work at startups should do so for the same reason that people who work long hours on open-source projects do so; they are makers that are building something they believe should exist.
"...one of your most valuable business resources is your accountant"

Do you consider that statement equally objectifying? If not, why?
tan(pi/2) is undefined, like 1/0.

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/189621/is-tan-pi-2-u...
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I'm trying out Qubes on my next install - it just looks too cool not to try.
How dare someone try to improve the discourse in a community they care about!
I didn't know a thank you card after an interview was considered a mandatory thing. Is that true?
Yawn. Its one thing to say there is or was an ice age; its entirely something different to say humans caused it. Alot of global warming nuts like to confuse these arguments.

"I don't think humans are causing global warming." "So you don't believe in global warming? You're crazy!"
Could Spritz boost your reading speed?
Reasons I Will Never Hire Your Company To Do PR:

1) I can make ugly Powerpoint presentations full of bad clipart myself. Thanks, though.
Why is import a Python keyword?
"Ignoring that every word in programming is in US English: color, gray, program."

The parochialism of the wannabe "hacker" (entreprenerd) here used to be cute.
I can only imagine the author of this must work for a marketing agency, because degrading people for ceremonious reasons (like looking away when shaking hands or writing a thank you note) is quite common at such places.

While I'm not a new grad, nor will I ever be one, I can appreciate that dealing with a swarm of new graduate applications can probably be tiring. But guess what? You're hiring and you've chosen to go to that pool of talent. You're better off keeping your mouth shut than offering up a bunch of condescending "tips."
But how do we distinguish between this possibility, and the possibility that we are treating women as delicate flowers who can't deal with 'bad words' or blunt criticism?

In the Victorian era, until relatively recent times, men were expected to refrain from swearing or discussing 'serious' subjects such as war or politics when 'ladies were present'.

The usage (or not) of blunt words of criticism or profanity in informal company documents (e.g. code comments, pull requests) isn't necessarily a gendered thing. It speaks to the company's culture, but it nevertheless feels like a step backward to suggest the corporate equivalent of "gentlemen need to mind their language when ladies are around".
Yeah, it's a PR agency.
Two hundred years ago, the law allowed slavery. So that made it ok?
Might as well throw the whole list on here.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=videogameadapt...
Could you go through this process? I just did something where I used a file that was outside my repo but I knew there must be a best practice that I just didn't know about. What is it?
therom reading the article, I got the vibe that the wife may have felt innatelyterritoriallyly?) threatened by the thought of a (pretty) female in the company getting close with her founder husband in a more intimate, rather than professional, typofof way. Thoughts?