skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
two kinds of buzz - playing and making. making is easy for the reasons outlined by protomyth.

playing, i think, is NP-hard, and that makes games really addictive. see this research:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4420v3.pdf

which talks about flood filling games as being NP-hard. there's a satisfaction we get when we succeed that tickles our humanity in a unique way.
> His Objective DAC is more interesting in my opinion. If I ever need a 24bit USB DAC, I will get one.

FWIW I purchased his Objective DAC (from this site: http://www.headnhifi.com/odac-rca) and I don't hear less noise from this than my internal sound card (Terratec Aureon 7.1-Space).

So I was a bit disappointed. But perhaps my internal sound card was just that good, although I think the noise level is greater than is reported online. Audible noise at normal listening levels.
Slightly off topic, but mm or MM as an abbreviation bothers me. Isn't there something better? How does it even work? Is is some sort of bastardisation of the Roman system where is would mean 2000? Am I missing something?
An essential companion to the consolidated C++ FAQ is the indispensable C++ FQA.

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
The author's thrust seems to be that eventually, mobile users will want more than "just messaging" from their messaging app: they'll want a "platform" on which they can play games with their contacts and shop for things.

This might be true, but the history of telephone, SMS, email, and desktop messaging suggests otherwise. People don't seem to want a multi-faceted "platform", they simply want to communicate with other people.
Whoops. Missed the "when it comes to startups" part. Sorry. But yeah, I think all of the books help in the business world, even if they're not absolutely direct help. :)
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Well, he got himself banned drom audiophile forums from pointing out their inconsistencies and ridiculous claims. I thought that was pretty cool of him, since he had the means to back it up.

edit: I forgot to agree with you on the design of the damn amp. I never got one either, because everything was in the damn front of the little box. When friends ask my opinion, I just tell 'em to get a schiit modi/magni combo. Looks way nicer, is a little cheaper, and you won't be able to tell the difference in the audio anyway.
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Ask HN: Would any startups consider setting up shop in Imperial County, CA?
A question I've been wanting to ask for a while has been, are there any folks about to create a startup out there willing to locate there business down in Imperial County, California?

I know a lot of you enjoy the coastal climate of the Bay Area and other places, but you could think of our climate more like Phoenix (dry heat, lots of sunshine).

Now I know this type of whether is not amenable to everyone (particularly in the summertime when you have to deal with 100+ degree heat), but hopefully I can convince you to read on a little more and at least consider it and get some feedback of what others think.I've been wanting to ask this question because I feel like we have a lot of good things going for us, (except for the heat part and not being close to a beach, but some of you may actually enjoy that), for example:

- The cost of living here is much lower (rent is around the $700-$900 range for good-sized places)

- Good sized homes are available in the $150k - $250k range (http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/El-Centro_CA)

- We have decent Internet connectivity within each of the major cities (it's not Google Fiber, but it should be good enough for most)

- Office space is similarly much less expensive than you might be used to in the Bay Area

- We have good elementary schools

- We have a low crime rate

- Great place to raise a family :-)

- Fairly close to San Diego (2 hour drive to the West)

- Fairly close to Palm Springs (about a 90 minute drive to the North...Coachella is about 15-20 minutes before that on the road)

- Driving to Los Angeles is usually about a 3-4 hour drive

- A fairly short drive to Las Vegas (about 5 hours)

- Yuma, Arizona to the East (40 Minute Drive)
> which will lead to only prosecuting guaranteed wins.

Um, good? Marginal cases probably shouldn't be prosecuted unless there is a non-trivial public value to doing so.

I'm also a big fan of the fact that prosecutors should have no discretion in terms of jury makeup. If you can't make your case without stacking the deck, you should lose.
My guess is that Facebook (or some other nearly ubiquitous account) will always be a requirement for this site since it's all about inviting people into your home.
what is mongodb for then. what is the use case where it is better than the other tools?
It is interesting - also his curly e and the use of pentangles, and such.

Looking around briefly I found this http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/reading/commonplace.html listing of manuscript books by date. In particular this, http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14003562?n=5&imagesize=1..., from early 1600s uses the same y^e form.

I tried to find Wren or Boyle's manuscripts but a 2 minute search didn't yield them.
Then RubyGems (thoughtbot) would be worth more after gem signing security is set to MediumSecurity by default (warn on unsigned gems) and certificates are managed.

Can do it today yourself instead... ~/.gemrc:

gem: ... --trust-policy MediumSecurity # add this
Why? Defense attorneys would have no incentive to settle when they would get paid far more for winning the case.
this is pretty cool and I have been meaning to do sort of this for some time now. I even registered a domain for it: simgity.com (a simulator for git).

Happy to "donate" it if the author is reading
- Plenty of Sand Dunes after driving out for 30 minutes to the East or West (if you are into riding dirt bikes, quads, ATVs and that sort of thing...or just like to pretend you're on Tatooine :-)

- Mexicali, Mexico is about 10 minutes away across the border (it's the capital of Baja California, so there's plenty to do down there, restaurants, shopping, etc.)

- San Felipe, Mexico is about a 3 hour drive away on the new highway they have (great fishing, or just a fun trip renting a beach house and soaking up some sun and enjoying good food)

- Plenty of great Mexican restaurants :-)

- Our winters are beautiful (hardly dips lower than 40F and today is about 80F with a clear blue sky)

- Minimal commute time

I just want to plant the seed and see if anyone might be interested in being in that sort of environment.

Since we don't have our own startup community, we can either do it ourselves with our local resources (which could take a long time) or I'm hoping with this post I might be able to jumpstart it and see if I can get a few of you interested in heading South (we already have plenty of Canadians that come down here during the winter time and temporarily balloon our population).A few additional links to look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_County,_California

http://www.ivedc.com/ - Imperial Valley Economic Development Corporation

http://www.siliconborder.com/ - Future Silicon Border project that's been proposedIf you're interested at all, I'd love to hear from you!
Could somebody provide some details about the picidae network [1] mentioned in the article? Its focus seems to be circumventing censorship as a proxy, which makes me wonder why they use images instead of just serving the same content.

[1] http://net.picidae.net/
Pretty much the MO for dealing with anyone with an inflated ego.

Make them feel like they're right and make them feel like they always get exactly what they want.
I'm currently a student, so with the great benefits of student loans in my country I am able to afford an OK standard of living.

I am currently working in my startup with some friends. I believe firmly that what I do is everyone's dream, though the need to have a stready income is greater for most.

I also have a part time job at the university, so I do have some sources of income. My startup provides no income, and takes a lot of time.

You can be happy both working at a company, and you can feel ownership to something you have made for that company, even though it might be labeled without your name. It all comes down to what you really want.

In any case I would say the time to try something for yourselves would be before you have ties somewhere, being a wife/kids, a car etc.

If you are fortunate enough to be able to live a good period of time with no money, and are prepared to work literally every hour of your day for a long, long time, I would go for it. If not the need to survive will become greater.

When creating something, unless you utterly hate the concept of the very thing you are making, I would say you gain a sense of ownership towards it. If you made the Paper app for Facebook you would certainly be proud of yourself.
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Funny video about a dog eating WAY too many cookies!
Actually it's a very good read. I'll glad you kept it as one post. Sorry I didn't manage to read it earlier!
For each engineer's new feature/enhancement, A/B test it and use the result in bonus calculations.
This article is from 2010 so it is well before kernel 3.2. This same author has since wrote about kdbus here: http://lwn.net/Articles/580194/
History has shown that black markets are extremely resilient. Those two are great examples.
We allow multiple charges today because a person can be guilty of multiple different crimes for the same act.

Your suggestion makes no sense. It would incentivize people to commit as many crimes simultaneously as possible, knowing that they could only ever be charged for one of them.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446320 (105 points, 22 hours ago, 57 comments)
Careful with phrases like "inertia .. pushes"... does it really?
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How is not relevant.

In other words, you're punting. You say "society has to change" but you refuse to give any information about how it has to change. Other than saying you think the money system has to collapse first, which doesn't inspire confidence; to say that "some hardship will follow suit" is a massive understatement.
This reminds me of a recent Martin Fowler post about micro services: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

Avoiding monolithic applications has a lot of advantages if the dependencies among components are managed carefully.
That is an extremely dumb idea. And I say that from the POV as someone who used to represent criminal defendants.

A person can be guilty of multiple crimes for the same act. Under the basic principles of criminal constitutional law, all crimes for the same act must be charged at the same time. Your solution would mean that someone guilty of rape, murder, and larceny would go completely free if they were found guilty of the two more serious crimes (rape and murder) but not guilty (or no verdict) for the least serious crime.
The real shift is thinking about the user interface as just another service, and one best provided by a static web application that talks to your API server and other services via CORS.

As long as you completely split the front-end and back-end, you're able to start with a simple single API and break it into services once you recognize pieces of your application that would work better independently. This also makes it stupid simple to implement new interfaces e.g. mobile apps.
I recently watched a video with Stanford AI researchers talking about how the general case of searching for an object like a coffee cup in office is still an unsolved problem. At the same time, my German Shepherd with a pea sized mammalian brain has learned to pick up garbage when we go on nature hikes. After pointing out enough plastic bags, cups, cans, etc., she's somehow learned the concept of trash in the forest and will often find it on her own and bring it to me. Advancing AI to this level, would be a worthy goal.
I really hope the Aaron Sorkin movie cuts through the reality distortion field and distills just exactly what entrepreneurs really should be emulating about Jobs.

Also of note: http://www.kevinoleary.com/kevin-oleary-steve-jobs-was-the-t...
I am not sure. Basically many people move away from platforms (like facebook) to more specific apps for simple tasks like messaging (WhatsApp) or photosharing(Instagram/snapchat). This suggests that the whole circle will now start over again ? I hope not ;)
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His point about country usage patterns even applies to the US and Canada.

I remember in Canada when most of my friends were on ICQ (and the ubiquitious "uh oh!") and then the slow switch to MSN. Yet the majority of my American friends used AOL Instant Messenger.

For the younger folk that have never heard the default ICQ notification sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPIUGnHQ8
Your idea is already addressed by standard criminal procedure, except for the bizarre part about letting the defense strike off any charge of its choosing.

In a nutshell: after the arraignment but before trial, they have a court hearing (the "preliminary hearing" aka "probable cause hearing", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preliminary_hearing for a layman's description) in which the prosecution is required to lay out sufficient evidence to justify each charge. They don't have to provide evidence sufficient to prove guilt (yet, because that is the jury's function) but they have to show sufficient evidence that a jury could find guilt. Charges which do not satisfy even this basic level of substantiation are dropped by the court.

Edit: You can downvote this comment all you want; it doesn't change the fact that preliminary hearings have been a basic part of US criminal jurisprudence for decades, functioning more or less exactly as described above.
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Adobe’s bold embrace of the computing cloud should inspire others
I thought MM would be 2000 if one used the Roman system. It's some sort of weird Roman system with maths in between the the Ms assuming I'm correct.
I honestly think that if a messenger app wins, it will be more valuable than Facebook, and its not even close.

Facebook at its core is really only about 2 things:

1) Identity

2) Photos

But if a messenger wins, it will actually take over 1) Identity, and can potentially take over 2) Photos.

This is because Messenger Apps has way more reach in terms of devices.

If most people in the world use one service, or most people in the country use a service, this service can now become a platform for all sorts of things, but most importantly, in terms of monetization, it can be a platform for purchasing goods and services.

Never in the history of this planet has there been anything like the Mobile Phone. Something everyone in the world could potentially have, and there is a chance that there can be a single service that almost everyone in the world uses.

The author seems to be in his own personal bubble though.

He lists Line, Kakao, WeChat, Kik as the only potential messengers that can become the biggest messaging platform. I don't believe this is true. It's possible for new entrants and even Facebook to win.

It may also be that messaging stays fragmented in its current state without a unifying messenger for the entire world, with each messenger being ubiquitous to a country or region.
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Contract work is not quite the same as the at-will arrangement, nor is it the majority of available work in London. That said, you're right and that's the reason I do it. It's the only way I've found to match the salary I had in Australia.
It might be worth trying to take account of the perspectives of these companies. There are a relatively small number of the most talented engineers available. Being in such demand meant that they pay was being bid up out of reach and putting at risk development of critical products. It is also important to understand that at the time this was going on Apple was still just emerging from a near death experience during which it let go of five digits worth of employees. These companies felt poor, at risk, and their backs to the wall.

If this were about workers being treated unfairly or very badly that would be one thing, but that is not what happened. All of the workers involved had great job security, compensation near or above six figures, great benefits, and stock options. Some peaks of compensation were prevented, but it is not clear that bidding wars for top talent would have been a good thing for the tech labor market as a whole. It could actually have been a drain on pay for everyone else because there was only so much to spend on workers which is pretty much the bulk of costs for these companies at that time.
My favorite MOD of all time: http://modarchive.org/module.php?68048

To me this MOD embodies all the nostalgia I have about games, programming and tech culture growing up in the late 80's and 90's.
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The Internet might stand a chance if government wasn't been fed vaccines in the form of centralized faux-disruption web startups that will be quite juicy targets to control. Conversely, outdated regulations might be something to be up in arms about if these businesses were actually creating level playing fields rather than just installing different middlemen to need protection from.
Ask HN: Is it unethical to scrape OS code from GitHub to demo my SaaS features?
It's a hypothetical question. I'm thinking about productizing (and selling) one of our internal dev tools (as SaaS) and I'm wondering how would I market it. One scenario that I would imaging would be:

1. Scrape OS projects from GitHub (the ones, where my tool would add value).
2. Make "project" pages for them into my SaaS (where my value add is shown) and link back to original source in GitHub and authors.
3. Advertise the value of my product by bringing these projects as examples to public web.
4. Hoping for some inbound rush...

Contacting with every project owner and asking them to try out my thing...would be too time consuming for a small start-up :)
If you guys think my plot here is dodgy, then I'll stick with the honest plan and just contact projects one-by-one.
Wow, I'd forgotten how bad the economics of boxed software were.
Are there any known allegations or just flat-out known instances of Steve Jobs getting physically abusive with any of his employees or in the workplace environment?

It's obvious he was verbally and emotionally abusive person and he was generally an all-around asshole, but I've never heard of him getting physical, and that sort of surprises me.
Here are some showcases:

http://www.openfl.org/showcase/

http://haxeflixel.com/showcase/

Also we're waiting for our educational game to be approved by Apple app-store, and will make an announcement when it's done. :)
I'm really getting tired of this.

Tesla is in a different category from Uber and Airbnb.

Tesla makes a real product, distributes it, and sells it. They are bumping into old laws that actually make no sense in the modern era. HOWEVER, unlike Uber and Airbnb, they are attempting to comply while they get the laws changed.

Uber and Airbnb are bumping into old laws that make real sense for consumers even now. In the case of taxi laws, they demand that drivers have things like a commercial drivers license (much harder to get than a standard license), liability insurance, and some requirement for fair practices.

Uber explicitly ignored all of these and now they are getting bashed for it. They didn't have to ignore the taxi laws. They could have gotten certified as a taxi service and overlaid that with effective use of technology. But that wouldn't be a billion dollar social internet company that they could cash out--it would be a solidly profitable 50 million dollar company that they would have to run--and that's not what they wanted. So, now they're getting bashed--and they deserve it.

In the case of Airbnb, lodging rules also have a purpose. They guarantee things like liability insurance, standards of cleanliness (bedbugs are a real problem again), and non-discrimination. Airbnb could have complied with these laws, but, again, chose to ignore them in order to enhance their profitability. And now they are getting bashed for it. And they deserve it.

The difference is that Tesla attempted to do things itself and comply. Airbnb and Uber attempt to push the liability onto someone else and flout the law.

I suspect that Airbnb and Uber are actually going to provoke a law that says that companies also have some liability for their subcontractors. And that's going to make a mess ... all because a couple of greedy business types wanted to make a few extra bucks.
Ah you are right. I re-read pg's original post and was confused the first time.
Because an acquittal is not a finding of innocence. It is merely a finding that a person was not determined guilty to the level required by law, i.e., beyond a reasonable doubt. It is entirely possible for everyone to be "pretty sure" that a defendant is guilty but for the defendant to walk simply because they couldn't cross the evidentiary threshold.

In those rare instances where actual innocence are found, the jurisdiction does end up paying for the defendant's attorneys fees, and more, as a result of the civil lawsuit the defendant inevitably files.
If I was given this job, not knowing anything about typewriters or spying, my first plan would be to modify all typewriters regularly by switching parts around according to a random draw, and also by rejigging any calibration settings (individual letter height, etc). This would modify both the sound of the typewriters and the fingerprints of the actual typed output [1].

This way, there would never be a per-typewriter profile, because all machines are randomised every week. Obviously, I'd also have a white-room analysis team checking whether the scheme works.

Maybe someone who knows more about typewriters could tell me whether this would work at all, or there is a fatal flaw.

[1] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=%22typewriter+identif...
True. I'll confess that I'm not 100% sure how "MM" originally came to be used in financial and accounting notation. But it's been used to mean "million" by way of "thousand x thousand."

It's possible the M's in the financial notation system are not actually Roman numerals, so much as abbreviations of the word "mille" (or some equivalent thereof).
Conceptually, I think what they cover fits more into presentation than behavior, because its how the transition from one state to another is shown. So I don't see CSS transitions as an example of the line being drawn in the wrong place.

I'm not saying that its always clear cut or that reasonable people can't disagree on where to draw the line.
Cool. Still not as convenient as it could be, though. "If the intended recipient is outside the sender's Exchange environment or if the sender is not using an Exchange account, the recipient's certificate must be installed on the device."

What that means is by default any email you send would never appear "trusted" so... It's not a great marketing device. A green address bar does more to market SSL than its own advantages, sometimes. I'd argue that certificate trust -- even to say that the email address belongs to gmail.com, for instance, would do wonders to promote the technology.

More on how it works in iOS: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4979

Sadly, no support on Android, since apparently on Gmail everyone only emails within Google services and never for businesses? ;-) Microsoft should promote SMIME in its online Exchange offerings more, to compete with Gmail.
Is this another one of those projects that's using the Arduino name without permission? I'd be wary.
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