skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Times are changing quickly, but remember that Obama was on the same side as Eich

Really? Can you cite any statement or action of Obama advocating for or directed toward advancing the cause of removing the right of same sex couples to marry any place that it had been established?
The definitive 2048 rules can be gathered by decomposing the original source, bugs and all.
Equity crowdfunding might steal most of new product ideas away from the current Kickstarter model.
Taxes Won’t Kill Bitcoin, but Tax Reporting Might
> Precisely what makes them valuable is their difficulty to type.

Again, if they'd caught on you'd imagine there would be some eventual convention in text-editors for what keybind would be used to enter them. Too bad the AltGr key (intended for entering rarely-used glyphs) doesn't appear on pure-English keyboards.
Progress is a circle.
Why so so few company blogs + forums have an easy to find link to the main company page?

Having to head to URL bar and delete the "blog." is unpleasant.
Personally, I'm so sick of everyone being so damn sensitive about everything nowadays. Guess what? Business is business and 99.99% of the time CEO's are appointed on their business acumen and not their personal beliefs. If Eich is a professional he'll keep the two separate.
Our team put a lot of thought into deciding whether YC was a good fit for Ambition (YCw14) - well, after it was a possible option - as my cofounders actually didn't know I'd applied to YC for us until we were invited to interview.

We thought (as many do) YC was largely for consumer, idea stage companies, and that B2B was not a focus.

Demo Day was yesterday; YC has been an incredible experience and value add for Ambition. The partners are incredibly smart and apply product/ market/ sales expertise across various industries Cumulatively they have seen everything, so the knowledge base is deep.

Targeting customer segments, simplifying product, meeting investors, and being strategic about marketing, partnerships, and media.

Bottom line: our company is probably years ahead of where we were in Dec 2013. We now have a backlog of customers, relationships with a great group of investors/ partners, and our product is delivering.

If you're doing enterprise or B2B, I would strongly recommend looking at YC.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that CUFP was saying this. I searched for "chester bennin site:cufp.org" on Google and the only result returned was this page: http://cufp.org/users/genie
SpaceX is not an anomaly; most businesses that take subsidies for new industry markets either fail or go on to become successful companies. We simply hear about SpaceX more on HN because of Elon's relationship to tech, whereas most similarly situated companies don't have that name brand connection or are in fields that most HNers know nothing about.
You can type them in console and vim with

File separator - C-v C-\
Group separator - C-v C-5
Record separator - C-v C-6
Unit separator - C-v C-7

They are all visible characters in both vim and emacs by default.

You can see them on the terminal with `cat -v`

It would be nice if more tools were built to take advantage of these characters, but there are some that do.
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Wow. Self-describing your post as "carefully thought out".

Yeah, accuse me of pride. There's "takes one to know one", and then there's this.

> thinking up a rebuttal based on reasonable arguments.

Your post is rebutted by history. When you have a reasonable argument to make, go ahead and make it. Until then, your wall of sarcastic text is best answered by "a dash of sarcasm".
Snow vs. Sand: Why Breckenridge wins out
While many are heading to warm climates for Spring Break, you could be one of the lucky ones who are lodging in Breckenridge. So why does the town with its snow and slopes win out over sandy locales? You can hit the beaches across the nation any time of the year, but you only have until April 21 to stay at vacation rentals in Breckenridge if you want to play in the cold and snow. The town is fabulous all year round, but there's something extra special about lodging in Breckenridge and making the most out of the winter months while you're skiing, sledding, tubing, and snowboarding about town.
Was promised some, still waiting.
Maybe for transactions between individuals. However, a business couldn't last very long by 'just not reporting it'. This means that very few businesses will accept a bitcoin as payment, and its usefulness will be limited.
"I can't make myself to accept choices I do not respect."

I've been in your shoes.

I confronted the GM (my boss) because I completely disagreed with how things were being done/decided. I feel it was mostly do to a lack of communication and not seeing/knowing some due diligence was being performed by him. I can't respect and blindly follow decisions if I don't feel/believe that the risks have been honestly and truly considered. Show me you thought about the risks and the trade offs and it's easier for me to go along.

EDIT: He gained a lot of respect from me when/since he didn't can me for confronting him.
Seriously.

I'm trying to figure it out. The uproar here makes it seem like Oculus sold out to North Korea or something.

As far as I can tell, it pretty much comes down to this -- a lot of people just really don't like Facebook. That's as deep as it gets.
Absolutely. Too bad they went for a flat format instead of a sexpr-like format. You wouldn't even need 4 characters - just start,end, and separator.
The circle has already completed, for me. I do 99% of my work over corporate VDI, which is thankfully not horrible at all.
Are you implying that because someone does or does not write a blog post that somehow we know their true feelings?
If your complaint is "some haskell libraries move too fast for my liking" then you should say that in the first place. If you frame your complaint as "cabal sux and everything else solves this wtf is wrong with you guys" then you have to reasonably expect that is what people will respond to.
To be clear: [] can refer to two different entities, a data constructor (empty list) and a type constructor (the list type).
It's an interesting argument, and fungibility is a critically-important feature of Bitcoin.

However, I don't think this is at all an unexpected move by the IRS. Most of us were expecting this all along, and calculating our taxes accordingly.

Now, if the U.S. were smart and forward-looking we'd adopt the same policy as Denmark and Germany (Bitcoins aren't taxed). But we're not, and so we didn't.
Nudge theory: Behavioural economics and public policy
Loads of comments already, but here goes. My brother used to work for Big-DoD. He quit, for reasons you explain here. But, he did tell me about a time his perspective was changed.

He decided to stay late in the cube farm. His original idea was to go around to all the cubes and count to number of Dilbert Cartoons stapled to the oatmeal gray walls. he thought this would be evidence that everyone was cynical and full of shit. Ok, so, her grabs a post-it and goes about tallying it all up.
What he saw was not Dilbert and black humor but desperate passion. Most of the cubes were not messy, they were not cynical, they were not reflections of the company.
He showed me that ~85% of the cubes were more or less shrines to their families. Pictures of rosy cheeked little girls on swings, little boys with trucks and sticks, graduation photos, school flags and colors, game schedules and rehearsal dates, church functions, pictures of wives on beaches, men dancing the tango, wedding photos with really bad hair-dos, parents with liver spots and tubes in their noses, etc. Most of the cubes were just covered in pictures of family, just every inch.
Ok, got it? Most people at this company didn't give a flying turd about the missions or the day to day. They all knew it was some load of horse hockey. It was their families they really cared for. They went in day after day only for those kinky haired girls and those octogenarians. To give their families a better shot at life, to go to college and make a difference.
The plant shut down about 5 months ago, leaving all those there in a hell of a lurch.

Honestly, I don't know what the take away is here. That you should work harder, or that families are toxic to a company, or that they weren't dedicated enough to their families. I don't know.

But the people that you work with are just that, people. Forgive them. Love them too.
5) Do not delete any mail/written communication you or your peers had with them. Do not give the originals to anyone except the court no matter what reason they give.
Wow. I can't count the number of times that I saw a bug due to a newline, a coma or quotation marks inside a field.
It's not a circle, but extruded along a timeline represents more of a spiral/helix.
I think not working at 110% is difficult for those that "suffer" from imposter syndrome and always being afraid of being "found out".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Precisely. When VNC (for example) is the only way company secrets ever reach your machine, said machine does not need to be as trusted.
Author here.

We've trained a few people up on Haskell at IMVU now, and I'm starting to think that learning Haskell is at its very hardest when you're building tiny toy applications and all you have for answers are google searches and books.

It seems to help a lot to root the learning process in a specific concrete goal, in an existing codebase that already has idioms and patterns in-place, and to offer direct access to people who have answers to newbie questions.
That's something I've been searching for, too. I actually opened this page, wishing that someone linked to a benchmark for large data sets. Large datasets are the reason I'm trying to move away from mongodb completely, and I've been very happy with postgres but I'm willing to give a try to others.
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

Nowhere is this more true than in enterprise / gov, which is gradually being pulled out of the tech dark ages. It's inevitable - even if it's 5 years behind the rest of society, the tech profiles of these organizations WILL shift (ARE shifting).

Enterprise startups get a lot of hate, but I encourage everyone to consider what a joy it is to blow the mind of an enterprise user by solving their problem in a way they didn't realize was possible.

It's like being a doctor and a magician at once.
It doesn't explicitly require VR... but it does require having both "central vision" and "peripheral vision." Basically, to have the level of detail required to be able to read people's expressions off their avatars in a non-VR setup, you have to have their faces filling a large-enough degree of your vision that, in most setups, they're fullscreen on your monitor (you know, like Skype.)

To be able to interact with the world while talking to someone (because that's the reason you're in a virtual world rather than on Skype), you need to be able to see things going on around the person while focusing on them. So, you either need a grid of nine monitors, or this thing[1].

And you still can't have a natural conversation with more than one person (or especially express any status-regulation emotions involving looking at one person in preference to another) because tilting your head means you can't see the "central vision" part of your screen-wall any more.

If only there was some way for tilting or moving your head to just show you more of the virtual people and world around you, in a naturally-mapped way, you know?

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/
I always liked the phrase "virtuous cycle" as well.
Measuring humidity with a Raspberry Pi
Yes, but few Bitcoin businesses are holding coins for more than a few seconds, or days at most. So the taxation issues will be minimal (and probably Bitpay and similar services will calculate any minimal taxes due automatically).
All the Bitcoin tax advice I've ever read said to pay capital gains tax on it. That's what I've done in the past, like many other people. The recent news from the IRS just gives us more confidence that the mainstream interpretation was correct all along.

So I don't think the sky is falling. Nothing has fundamentally changed. "Bitcoin is like digital gold" remains a semi-decent analogy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-g...

> Not that Mr. Newell hasn’t had opportunities to sell out. Valve has been pursued over the years by Electronic Arts, which would very likely have valued Valve at well over $1 billion had the talks progressed that far, said two people with knowledge of the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

> Although Valve’s finances are private, Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, estimates that the company could be worth around $2.5 billion today.

It's guesswork and no method is explained though, so it's not like that's a very reliable estimate or anything.
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From Messaging to Gaming, Mark Zuckerberg Is Buying
It's more likely that it's because they are two separate physical actions (returning the head to the left, and advancing the paper one line). They could be used independently: You could print a line in bold, for instance, by issuing a CR without an LF and then printing the same line again.

A carriage-return operation takes much longer than a single character, or even two or three. It doesn't make sense to issue two characters just to take up time. The printers always had to have some internal buffer memory (and handshaking over the communication lines to say when the buffer is full) in order not to lose any characters.
Yes I can and the machine's address is...

ec2-54-85-209-100.compute-1.amazonaws.com
>I see no reason why strictness would have pathological performance problems. If you don't need to compute a value, dinner compute it. No performance problems.

You just answered your own question. "If you don't need to compute a value, then don't compute it" is laziness.

>That seems absurd given that the overwhelming majority of programmers have gotten along without it for 50 years.

No they haven't. Most programmers don't understand it, but they tend to use it on a regular basis.
Who isn't a tech-crazed maniac these days?
The last couple paragraphs of this article are kind of ridiculous.

If the IRS decides that bitcoins are like stocks and bonds, the IRS will accept an average cost basis rather than the user having to account for each individual bitcoin (or fraction of a bitcoin).

If it works like inventory, then the taxpayer will have to decide between several accounting strategies (last-in-first-out or first-in-first-out for example) when deciding cost basis. It's complicated, but it's an order of magnitude easier than what the author is suggesting.
I have worked for one year as a Product Manager and quit over strategic differences with management.
We like domain expertise, but empirically it's not critical. The Airbnbs knew zero about the hospitality industry when they started. They just knew they'd had a life-changing experience when they rented out airbeds on their floor during a conference. The Stripes didn't know anything about payments before they started Stripe, except what any hacker who'd tried to process payments before Stripe did (that existing options were terrible). And it was because the Homejoys didn't know how to clean, and thus found themselves living in squalor, that they ended up starting Homejoy.

It's also rare for a startup to succeed without making money for the employees. The founders have the same type of stock as the employees, so the founders generally can't make money without the employees also doing so. There are occasionally cases where a startup gets so close to death that it has to raise money on terms that wipe out all the existing shareholders (including the founders), and then goes on to succeed. But usually those successes are middling anyway.

I agree about unsexy ideas though. All the startups I mentioned were unsexy ideas to start with, though their success has made some of the ideas seem somewhat sexier.
As a fellow consultant, I would like to add that the temporary nature of consulting work makes this sort of infighting and politics a lot more palatable to me. I know that in 3-6 months I can laugh at it...(or at least forget about it)

So I sort of suffer from the same symptoms as the OP. Consulting has proven to be a good choice for me, as I do get some variety and dont get as bored as I did when I was a FTE somewhere...
Oh, I proudly display it on mine. After the first few years of it I realized I was much, much happier as a consultant-- and that mobility was better than stagnation. "Sure, I'll be gone in a year or two, but by then it'll get boring and I'll have fixed the interesting problems."
IIR, for a long time Kickstarter wasn't about pre-ordering a product but about crowdfunding an initiative of some sort, then the semantics got all confused and now it is.
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Is this pretty much the end of last.fm, will they be able to keep paying subscribers without streaming radio?
The thing that leads to "lovely security bugs" is the nonchalant mindset; it has nothing to do with the simple text format. The same attitude paired with ASN.1 data has caused just as many vulnerabilities.
It does not solve the problem. Here is the points which I think.

1. Control characters are not supported in the almost of text editors.
2. Control characters are not human friendly.
3. The text may contain control characters in the field value.

In any formats, we cannot avoid the escape characters, so even I think CSV/TSV format is reasonable.
Bitcoin's value is based on market perception. Unfortunately the market may not have been as savvy as yourself. Just because you are and have been willing to treat bitcoins this way doesn't mean that the market is.
Well that explains everything. That's not a startup, it's a startup scam. It's not possible to stay motivated without having a stake. Even if they pay a lot which they probably don't. And the level of bullshit is much lower. They are treating you like a stupid customer and you are supposed to buy into their bullshit.
AWS announces price reductions
Of course not, but at some point we have to take most people at their word, otherwise life becomes difficult.

You didn't answer my question. I'm genuinely interested in who you're talking about who's using their notoriety to "coerce" people.
ASCII 0-31 are called "control" characters so it should come as no surprise that you could type them using the Control key.

Unit Separator is Control-_ (underscore) and Record Separator is Control-^ (caret), for instance.

Most modern text editors won't pass through every control character. Vim lets me type the unit separator, but not the record separator, for instance.

Control-C and Control-D, End of Text and End of Transmission, still have utility in most shells, and it goes back directly to these ASCII control characters.

https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/c0.html
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A bigger problem with Bitcoin now is its current transaction fee, which currently it prevents just the micro-payments. If Bitcoin will rise its value (just) 10 times, it will become unfeasible to be used for even more market goods such as books or meals. I'm curious how the debate is still carried around the legal problems when there are unsolved technical ones.
I don't think CSV is a rigidly-defined format - I'm sure some implementations will happily accept spaces between the comma and the opening quote.
Check my AI for 2048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474909

Only reach 8192, but with the game implemented in the right way :)
The Rift debacle? What are you talking about?
>Every year I read on HN that this year is Haskell's year

Really? Every year I read on haskell a bunch of uniformed dismissal of haskell from people who seem to have a deep seated hatred of learning. How do you get "this year is haskell's year" from his comment at all?

>Anyone got a link to a good todo-mvc implementation

A what? MVC is an object oriented pattern, I would certainly hope nobody tried to do it in haskell.
So having given this a try. To setup a user with a machine is trivial. You enter their name, email address and what type of machine to give them.

Then an email is sent to them with all instructions and a validation code.

They do not need to have an AWS account.

And, it can tie into a firm's existing directory of users:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/conn...
Romney was blah, not divisive in the primaries.
Conversely I could play Descent all day long and feel fine, but Doom would make me feel motion sick after a few hours.
Usability Test on Quora: Browse and Search Results
Will it be free? Will the models be free? Would be very neat when used with blender...
How are changes in the value of "traditional", state-backed currency taxed? If I, say, bought 1 Euro for $0.80 in 2000, and sold it for $1.60 in 2008 (prices from https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/euro...), am I taxed on the difference?

Or do currency speculators and day-traders get off tax-free? That seems odd.
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Data: URI Generator
Even with ubiquitous/cheap bandwidth latency is still an issue (until we get Tachyon Display Port) in any real world scenario.

This might serve a subset well enough but got would it be painful (as you correctly observe) for anything who is hammering the machine.
Perhaps it can't work as a currency in the United States sure, I always expected the USA to fudge up the acceptance of Bitcoin.

The world is a large place and Bitcoin is a very amazing, worldwide thing that I fully believe can continue to work as a currency, outside of the USA of course.
Ask HN: Who do you use to register domains? And for hosting?
GoDaddy, Namecheap, hostgator?

I always hear of "Never us X, it's the worst", but was wondering, pro's and con's for each one?

And do you host with the same company? Or is your hosting plan different? Hosting a static or dynamic site are of course very different scenarios.
You still don't have to pay capital gains if you purchase something with Bitcoins (rather than converting it to USD first). You do however have to pay the tax on the item.
My product is aimed at the enterprise and I actually thought about applying to YC and may still, but it was really off putting seeing the video requirement. I really don't understand the purpose of it. Once you know my name you'll be able to find my linkedin profile with my picture:

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ab5e41c4c804017c36e071b54cb20...

What is the purpose of the video?

I like to think I'm pretty articulate but I really hate speaking into the air with no visible recipient. It is the same reason I despise leaving voice messages. Maybe their is a technical term for this, who knows.
The Music and Video game industries are already "fixed". The web is bursting with quality independent content that is either Free, free or priced well and delivered without DRM. The choice is already there, it's no ones fault but your own if the only content you care about is the stuff pushed by these toxic companies.

Your comment does seem to apply to the TV and Film industry though. An indie film equivalent of Bandcamp would be great. Bollocks to the current movement with their film festivals and limited screenings, at least make a fucking effort to be accessible.