skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theft can destroy a lot more value than the goods themselves:

- stolen goods are hard to sell, and like others have mentioned credit cards are re-sold to others who make most of the profit

- even if there is a suspicion that a card has been stolen, it is often re-issued, causing a lot of operational cost even if it was not actually among those stolen

A lot of other options too like others have mentioned.
Rehab is not the only possible goal of a justice system. Deterrence is another valid goal.
for some reason it causes 100% CPU load after some time (Chrome 34)
A great many of these are aqui-hires, basically high-level hiring decisions. So the real headline is "founders and top engineers of a marginally successful startup hired by big company."
I think xs.map(Math.floor) takes the cake if I recall speed tests properly
I am cofounder of http://aircall.io
I created it because I didn’t find an easy phone solution with a great UX for my previous startup.

Feel free to register to our private beta, we still have several hundred active users.
I will be happy to show you aircall and discuss with you about your needs
I think the Knowledge Graph technology, which I used while I was a contractor, is very good. I think that Knowledge Graph will continue to make Google Now more awesome/useful and help somewhat with search results.

The SaaS/PaaS business will also be huge, but I think Google has a long climb uphill competing with Amazon, IBM, etc.

And, if Google makes a real AI then the value of the company goes through the roof.
Try Poacht instead -- www.poachtapp.com
I don't think we should be blaming female CEOs here as Yahoo and HP have certainly had more than their fair share of terrible male CEOs.
This is my theory, just idle speculation:

I don't think Google is desperate. I think Google is a personal playground for Larry and Sergey to invest in whatever takes their fancy - they have the money, and they don't answer to shareholders, given Google's unusual voting structure.

Sadly, they seem to favor flashy but questionable technology demonstrations (self-driving cars, glass, ara). Which is not to deny that some of the spending has been great (street view, google translate, etc.) They're no Bell labs, though, or IBM in its heyday, which is a real shame.
AS3 is not dead, and it is now open source
The reason why metal doesn't exist now is because you can't turn the memory protection stuff off in modern CPU's.

For some weird reason (I'm not an OS/CPU developer) switching to long mode on an x86 cpu also turns on the mmu stuff. You just can't have one without the other.

There's a whole bunch of research done on VM software managed operating systems, back when the VM's started becoming really good. Microsoft's Singularity OS was the hippest I think.[0]

Perhaps that ARM cpu's don't have this restriction, and we will benefit from ARM's upmarch sometime?

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/
Last time I checked years and years ago, yahoo was kind of a search engine/directory. What does it do now?
The biggest proof of the overwhelming preference for parens can be found in the dylan programming language. Despite having M-expression syntax (in fact, the original spec was prefix lisp), the same CLOS object system, and even a macro system, the language has gone nowhere with lispers. More interesting is that dylan was also unpopular with ALGOL programmers. The existence of "sweet expressions" (M-expressions) allowing infix syntax in existing lisp languages further removes this as the main issue.

The worst answer as to why people hate lisp is the "too many parenthesis" argument. C-style programmers are just as happy to mash 5-6 paren/curly-brace sets together in one line. The only major difference is location. For example, (if test (<result>) (<alternate>)) vs if(test){<result>}else{<alternate>}. In addition, the only reason the closing parens are on a separate line in C and the same line in lisp is convention.

I suspect the biggest barrier to ANY language is having a non-C syntax style rather than infix vs prefix or parenthesis. The inertia is simply too great.
This doesn't take away from your point, but from a practical perspective, small businesses pay 0% corporate tax. When you have just a few shareholders, as nearly all small businesses do, all profits get paid out as salary. If small businesses didn't do this, their owners would be taxed twice (first at the corporate level and then again individually).

The companies that get squeezed are not the Regular Joe Businesses but the midsize businesses that can't get away with paying out all profits as salary (because they have third party shareholders who don't work for the business) and yet can't afford to set up the necessary bureaucracy to take advantage of things like a Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich.
Actually, it doesn't have to. They could do a stock swap with present Yahoo shareholders. They can spin the shares into a separate company, and given those shares to the current share holders. There are plenty of tax advantaged games they could play.

Besides that, taxes are only a problem when you sell. If you look at the Yahoo Japan and Alibaba investments in terms of lookthrough earnings with all earnings held by the companies, the tax hit doesn't matter in the short term.
Instacart Could Raise A Big New Round Of Funding Valuing It At $400M
Little Differ for Github
Makes my palms sweat, api.
Julio Cortázar, for his majestic _Hopscotch_, but also and especially for his short stories.
The orbital plane of planets in a given system is random as far as we know, and not related to the plane of the galaxy. Our own solar system, for example, is tilted more than 60 degrees from the plane of the galaxy's disk.

So as you might expect, more than 99% of all planets in a sample are undetectable by this technique. Kepler has been so successful because it is watching about 150,000 stars at once, all in an area of sky that would be covered by your fist at arm's length.
To add to what Armon said: we always had Consul in mind when building Serf. But Serf was a necessary building block on the way to Consul: highly available, lightweight membership management. Every distributed system has a membership problem, and we didn't want to reinvent the wheel for every system we built. Serf provided an incredibly stable and well proven foundation for us to build Consul on top, as well as future products that are already in the works...

And while you may not see Serf as having much use, we've personally helped and seen Serf clusters with many thousands of nodes. Serf is very useful to these organizations for its purpose. And while some of these orgs are now looking at Consul, many don't need Consul in the same way (but may deploy it separately).

We're not stopping with Consul. We have something more on the way. But we now have some great building blocks and experience building distributed systems to keep doing it correctly without having to rebuild everything from scratch.
> It would require a massive investment in infrastructure and licensing to become a CA that I suspect the major internet firms are unwilling to pay.

Or they could just invest some of the vast pile of cash that some of them (I'm looking at you, Google) have lying around, and buy an existing, widely trusted CA, which would probably be lower-risk than investing in infrastructure and licensing; they still end up with full control of how the CA works going forward either way.
The discount is presumably also due to the fact that no one in management - least of all Marissa Mayer - has any interest in making Yahoo smaller. Although this would likely be the right thing for the shareholders, it would make their domain (and thus their perceived importance) smaller.
1215095 – The Flash Boys Mystery Solved
Greg is right. I am writing a book on the history of the southwest corner of modern China and saw an exhibition in the British Museum of British Library held historical copperplate prints produced in France for a Chinese emperor in the Ming Dynasty of his campaigns in the area (eg. the spectacular tropical/karst landscape pacification of Annam, or modern day north Vietnam). There are about 5 of these things I'm interested in, and the bastards wanted ~500GBP per image to photograph them for me for research purposes, with an explicitly threatening legal statement that this would grant no republishing rights. I mean, come on! Talk about holding the world's heritage hostage!
The pencils they used had plenty of military applications but that did not make the Saturn V a useful military vehicle. Because ICBM's don't need 5 Rocketdyne J-2's and spy satellites are not that heavy. This is 260,000 pounds to LEO that's 10 Hubble space telescopes or two Tsar Bomba which was considered to large for military use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

For comparison an actual 1969 ICBM has about 1/33's that payload to LEO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II making a single J-2 overkill.
You're Doing It Wrong – Database Standards
I don't know what the karma threshold has to do with the norm, but it's a norm because Paul Graham said it is.
One point that this article doesn't mention but the video does (starting about here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZhgTewKhTQ#t=350) is that the building wasn't built exactly as designed.

In particular, the 8-story-high diagonal parts were done in multiple splices that were supposed to be welded together but ended up being bolted together. It sounds like it made things much worse.
If only software flaws in large commercial proprietary/closed source systems were subject this kind of discovery and mitigation before things break.
> The word "Hacker" has got to go, it is the same as the word "Criminal", "Burglar" or "Felon" now.

Now? To the majority of the population, it has had that meaning since the 80s.

It's only in tech circles that people have insistent it has another meaning, but that is useless if the majority doesn't share that meaning.
Why do you think it would be lower risk?
> "Personally I think the fading out of negatively scored comments is one of the best design choices PG ever made for the site. I once told him that, and he expressed surprise and said he never sees it. (The admin version of the software doesn't do any fading.)"

I concur. It makes a big difference to how I read the site and react to comments, especially since comment scores are not visible. I'm kinda surprised that pg (as an admin) didn't experience this.
Yes. A client that doesn't pay up-front doesn't have any skin in the game. It makes it easy for them to walk away.

Also it serves as a negative filter, weeding out cheap or incompetent clients. Like any other business, finding good customers is vital to your flourishing.
Don't get me wrong. I'm happy for them. But I agree that these aren't really front page news items unless it's a huge acquisition or one that is immensely significant for the economic/political landscape of the industry.

But then again what makes it to the front page here seems quasi-random at times. :)
As far as I can tell it's now a network of content sites (Tumblr, Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Weather, a long site of Yahoo {{content_type}} sites, etc), monetized through targeted advertising.

Their demographics are typically older than average, and therefore easily monetizable through display ads. They seem to be doing quite well.
As much as I like Camus's The Stranger, and am not familiar with Marquez, I still agree with coldtea. In a single opening line (when you know nothing of the rest of the book), Marquez places a beginning (seeing ice) an ending (the firing squad), and makes you want to read more to see what happens in between.
Well, here's a gay activist explaining the very same position, so clearly there is:

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/full-episodes/vk9n20/april-9-...
Ask HN: What's the quickest and cheapest way to de-risk my startup?
I have a little startup doing $10K+ MRR and I've done nothing on the legal front in terms of having a lawyer review the business or my site. I haven't written a terms & condition on my website.

I don't have any insurance.

I haven't incorporated, etc. I run it as a sole proprietor & have no employees.

So, I'm wondering what's the minimum effective dose to de-risk my business. I'm looking for an 80/20 solution to minimize my legal risk without dumping a bunch time & money into lawyers.

Any suggestions?
http://readable.sourceforge.net/

from this:

(define (factorial n)

(if (<= n 1)

1

(* n (factorial (- n 1)))))

to this:

define factorial(n)

if {n <= 1}

1

{n * factorial{n - 1}}

and if you want to use parens, they just work (you can mix and match the two whenever you want without issue). That said, even with such things available, most lisp programmers opt to use parens.
Well yeah, of course all this exists somewhere else. And it's making those folks money hosting it, not DB.

The problem is that DB caps your outgoing bandwidth so hosting even moderately large number of users will kill your site dead pretty quick.

It's obvious that people want to use it for these use cases, but DB hasn't been able to execute on that demand.
Sorry, i misunderstood your comment - i read "EL distributions of ubuntu" and thought you were using EL to mean LTS.
What are good ways to play this besides just buying the stock? In or out of the money calls? Leaps?
Fix formatting please. On Chrome I cannot see the price as it is covered by PP button.
I worked for a medical software company which had to deal with incoming digital images (DICOM) from all kinds of manufacturers (Siemens, GE, Philips, and tons of other smaller players).

I once heard one of our lead developers say that 80% of the code we wrote was to work around problems in everyone else's implementations. The DICOM format has a bunch of predefined fields and supports custom fields that manufacturers can use, but a lot of manufacturers would, for no reason I could figure out, use fields incorrectly a surprising amount of the time. They would store one of the most basic pieces of information in the wrong field, and then store that data nowhere, or put it in a custom field, or store it in the wrong format, etc.

Enough manufacturers doing 95% of things right and 5% of things wrong, making everyone else jump through hoops to handle their broken behaviour, and suddenly your code grows massively. Sure enough, we had to write an entire system for remapping fields from certain machines so that incoming data from broken implementations would be somehow magically coerced into being correct (either by simply copying data over to fields, or more advanced post-processing).

The less time browsers spend wondering what to do with inherently, irredeemably broken HTML, the faster they can render content which actually does work properly.

Unfortunately, that only works in controlled environments, like store kiosks, intranets, etc. Otherwise you end up choking on the 95% of the content which is only 5% broken.
Is this the best way to auto-deploy a gem to rubygems? Can TravisCI do this? What are people using, if they're not using manual triggering from a desktop or something? What do major gems like rspec, etc use? (or how can I find out?)
A Frog That Can Survive Being Frozen Alive
I guess this is in a way a response to Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming"?

https://vimeo.com/71278954
NSA Leadership Study
Leadership Training Evaluation at NSA. "Epistemological reasoning, emotional concepts, self-understanding (self-as-leader), and conceptions of good employee and good leader in a diverse sample of NSA employees"
You don't really even need legislation. Most produce you buy from the supermarket are from F1 Hybrids [1] which if you plant the seeds are highly variant and lack vigor (i'm not sure of the % of tomatoes in supermarkets are F1s specifically though). This is one natural way things like this have not come to reality and one way most seed producers (especially ones focused on commercial use) use to protect their varieties.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_hybrid
Dependent Types For Humans
Go Quakers!
That is correct! I read that novel about a month ago, in my IB English class.
> It's an HN norm.

I'm aware this is how the majority of HN members use the down-vote feature, but the first time I've seen it presented as working-as-intended.

The fact that you're saying this makes me think we need more formal guidelines on the proper use of this feature. More often than not I see it claimed that down-voting should be an expression of "adds value" vs. "does not add value".

If I had to choose, I'd pick the latter.
By flagging too many things that a moderator thought were on-topic.

Keep in mind that many people have a wrong idea of what's off-topic for HN. For some reason they think HN is only about tech and startups, when that is not true at all. Genuinely interesting posts from off the beaten track are among the most precious things on this site. Flagging those is like stepping on wildflowers. That's one reason why people might lose flagging. Another is just by flagging way too much (e.g. dozens of stories at a time). But I'd have to look at the data to answer in any particular case, and even then might not be able to.
Incorporate. That's by far the biggest bang for your buck you can do. Without that, you're personally liable for everything your startup does. If you get one disgruntled customer, they sue you instead of your startup, and all your assets are at risk.

Incorporate.com offers standardized Delaware incorporation for $79, and (YC-backed) Clerky offers it for $99. I haven't used either of these personally, so YMMV may vary, but they seem legit.
Vitruvian Geology – da Vinci and the Realistic Depiction of the Earth’s Surface
It seems to me like making a fast Rust compiler would be an easier problem than making JavaScript run native code fast :)

Thanks for the offer of help. Unfortunately I can't send our code, but I just talked to our guy working on emscripten and he said he's already been in touch (though not about code size yet). https://groups.google.com/d/msg/emscripten-discuss/n1qfKPPAy...

My impression of emscripten code size might be out of date, I know that development on asm.js has been pretty rapid.
Preparation for a bad outcome.

Aereo has played very fast and loose with the definition of "antenna".

In reality, it seems that they have a couple of good antennas in an area that record the shows, upload them, and then they stream them using the net.

You "local" antenna isn't really doing anything.
Both of your points are mentioned in the article.
If you're a bit more curious but don't want to get the game and try it out, Valve made an excellent documentary [1] that gives an introduction to the game and shows why it's so incredibly compelling.

[1]: http://www.freetoplaythemovie.com/
Is the navy project similar to power-to-gas projects in europe, like Audi?

Reading about that is probably one of only two positive things I've read about in the last decade. The other being birthrates dropping in the US and elsewhere.
Funny - I was expecting this to be some U(I|X) post about why card swipes should be down.
Les métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia
After a stroke I couldn’t answer the question ‘what is the opposite of true?’
IANAL, but at minimum I was say to form either an LLC or S-Corp. Your costs will be at most a couple hundred dollars, but if something should happen down the road it can greatly reduce the risk of personal loss if a customer comes after you.

Not sure what your business is, or what you are doing for customers, but you may also want to get the lawyer to draw up a simple terms/conditions or contract (depending on your business). This lays the groundwork for preventing problems with customers. If something does happen and your case goes to court it is your word against theirs and without anything in writing their word is most likely going to be a lot more believable to the court system unfortunately.

Other than that, I would keep finances separate. If you form an LLC or incorporate open a business bank account and keep that money separate from your personal money. No cost in doing this and it will make things easier should the tax man come digging into your finances.
> Why do you think it would be lower risk?

Because gaining control of an existing trusted CAs (and, consequently, existing widely trusted root certificates) gives them built-in reach that doesn't have to be be grown.
I'm a fan of Rich Hickey, too. And I think Clojure is a solid language. But I wouldn't suggest Clojure as the entry point when seeking a overall understanding of Lisp. There's too much baggage and history swirling around it for explanations ever to be comfortable - e.g. even if Rich Hickey always makes convincing arguments, it's important to note that they are always arguments.

That is there always seems to be at least as much of a subtext of Clojure defining itself by what it isn't as an explicit statement of what Clojure is. So much of what is said about it is said in the context of "Clojure is not Java, or Haskell, or Scala, or Scheme, or Common Lisp" and because that is so much a part of its culture, it has details drawn from 'the best parts' of each and mashed up.

Like Common Lisp, it is a language for working programmers and will trade practical accretion over striving for internal conceptual consistency. Unlike Common Lisp or Scheme, it doesn't have the sort of simple core that lends itself to tutorials from first principles and even if it did, the community tends to be experienced where just jumping into the middle is more the norm.

That's nothing against Clojure. It's just that any sort of gentle introduction to Lisp is probably better sought in those places where it already exists - SICP or the Racket ecosystem or Practical Common Lisp or PG's On Lisp are probably better introductions to what makes Lisp different. Clojure is probably a better second Lisp dialect for many people once they are ready for full tilt production code.
Well, if hype and vapor is what's getting bought, you might as well try to produce and sell it.
Yes, this is much better. It definitely should have been the post (I changed it). HN always wants the most substantive version of a story.
It would be pretty awesome if you could get some case studies out about these deployments of serf. I would really like to hear more about them.
You need:

['10', '10', '10'].map(Number);
First, I very much love the material of the talk, and the idea of Metal. It's fascinating, really makes me think about the future.

However, I also want to rave a bit about his presentation in general! That was very nicely delivered, for many reasons. His commitment to the story, of programming from the perspective in 2035, was excellent and in many cases subtle. His deadpan delivery really added to the humor; the fact that he didn't even smile during any of the moments when the audience was laughing just made it all the more engaging.

Fantastic talk, I totally loved it!
It is in a sense. I had an early form of the idea that became this talk in the spring or early summer of 2013. Bret's talk (which I loved!) was released shortly after. That made me think "I have to do this future talk now in case the past/future conceit gets beaten into the ground."
If you're setting the bar for intelligence at "reaching the moon", then aren't you saying that there were no intelligent species on the planet at all until July 21st, 1969?

You need to set your terms much more clearly before there can really be a discussion. It seems like you're trying to say that invention is a hallmark of intelligence; well, how do you define invention? Is it just taking an object and using it for a purpose other than it's natural one? Crows do that; there are documented incidents of crows using sticks as tools to solve puzzles. Crows were flying before humans were; by your own logic, that seems to indicate that crows are actually smarter than we are.
Container-less web apps
A down payment on a house in the Peninsula is going to likely cost more than a Ferrari or Lamborghini