skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Our credit risk control mechanisms have improved dramatically since that time, such that I think it's reasonable to expect that the value of lending funds can be maintained over time without erosion for the loans that are being issued today."

To achieve that at the max interest rate you allow (~10% APR), you would need a 2.4% loan loss rate. That's an order of magnitude below where Zidisha is now. That would be an incredible achievement and I would gladly cover it as a huge story!

Is Zidisha on track to deliver a 2.4% loan loss rate?
> they do so by strategically adding members to the company's board who are part of the oligarchy in place

Seriously? I'd like you to back that up. Because honestly, that's just baseless conspiracy-mongering.

I understand people don't like Rice joining Dropbox (which is what I presume you're referring to) due to her political history and leadership role in the Iraq war -- which is totally understandable, since she's a public figure with strong political associations.

But anyone suggesting that her joining Dropbox is not in order to help their international/governmental expansion (which makes perfect business sense), but is rather part of a nefarious secret plot to undermine the privacy of Dropbox users, really has to show at least a shred of evidence for it.

And implying that the level of freedom, or rule of law, in American society is somehow comparable to the level in Russian society, shows a tremendous amount of naiveté. American government certainly isn't perfect, but it's worlds apart from Russia's.
I'm thinking more of what goes on in founders' minds as they navigate the morass of SV.
Apple bundles updates to core applications all at once as a single install. So it's all within the security update. Of course the iOS update is separate.
Note that it's kind of pointless to sign up for this if you aren't currently on your Mac, since part of the process is downloading a Beta Access Utility.
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This might actually have been a reality for some time. See some of the exit valuations on AngelList - all seem to be $5m+. So $1.7m value at entry isn't out of whack.

It does seem though that the primary aim here is to provide more for living expenses, which means that the $1.7m implicit valuation might need to be taken with a grain of salt. Not that it matters much anyway.
Looks very nice. I do appreciate having more clean, well thought out web frameworks in the Go space. Type switches for your handlers is a good way to approach the net/http compatibility.

There are some people that find that Martini is a bit too magical for them, and that is completely okay. It's great to see another minimal framework that will suit their needs.
Absolutely. Being vetted by YC certainly won't hurt your company, but it's still tough though when you've dumped $100k-$200k of your own money plus your time and energy (which is not insignificant when you're an engineer in the Silicon Valley), and you're giving up that amount of equity.
Isn't the object of business generally to do as much nefarious stuff as you can get away with?

With bitcoin I think the 'moral' bar is a bit lower because this is new territory.

note: I do not believe this (that business moral judgements are just what they can get away with), but it seems to be a commonly held belief.

note #2: to people the downvoted this, if it wasn't a thought provoking or at least intelligent comment please elaborate why.
This is the best keynote he's ever given. It boils down to actually writing code and forget memorizing patterns.

That can't be more true.
I was just offered a signing bonus in Tampa for a Director/VP level IT position. It exists, but I think its role-specific.
> How would you go around Ruby's GIL for example when you specifically need multiple threads (not talking about green threads).

Using any of the Ruby implementations that don't have a GIL. Notably, JRuby, MacRuby/RubyMotion, and (I think) Rubinius.
Modern music players and online stores are really neglectful of classical music. I downloaded an album of Jascha Heifetz recordings from the Google Play store, and the track titles are all of the form "Violin Concerto in D Major", "Violin Concerto no. 2", etc, with no indication at all of who composed which piece. The tagging is terribly inconsistent, with the artist sometimes being the composer, sometimes the orchestra, sometimes the conductor, sometimes the soloist, sometimes an arbitrary subset of all those.

I'd really like for someone to make a music player or online store that worked better with classical music. Hell, I'd settle for one that didn't suck.
What does the product being physical have to do with its value?
It's not a gameplay mechanic, sure, but it's a mechanic used when coding games, which seems to be the point of the website anyway.
Would probably be a bit higher if some of the oil companies didn't buy local hotels.
> Your hand written CRUD operations gain you nothing but
> extra work.

And maintainability. (shrug)
To some degree, the elite universities are selling success to those already predestined for it. This is an end game state for any popular institution that accepts a subset from a pool of applicants. The battle to get in ends up being a significant source of the value creation.

Raising a venture round from Sequoia is probably a decent non-academic example of this. I would not be surprised if companies who turn Sequoia away are just as successful as those who are funded by them (although the former is probably a small data set!).
This mentions the 30%, they should have mentioned it in the article, it's the standard amount they use every year I think: http://nlihc.org/oor/2014

Also, many places won't let you rent without meeting the 30% of income amount.
This looks interesting. I've been looking at using getdown[0] for a desktop java app to push updates. It's unfortunate that launching java and updating apps is so terrible given the otherwise excellent cross-platform nature of the jvm.

[0] https://github.com/threerings/getdown
> Vkontakte is larger than Facebook in Russia, and the CEO has to flee due to ugly pressure. This isn't germane technology news?

Odd. You have successfully convinced me to flag this, whereas I hadn't before.
For me, the standout feature in Mavericks is the "Ram Doubler" feature (for the old fogies among us who even remember what Ram Doubler was) -- lets you get away with having less RAM.

Given that Apple now solders the RAM and charges relatively high prices for it, the memory compression is a pretty nice feature to have.
>facebook login is annoying but did get us out the door

Do you plan to allow for a truly anonymous registration option that doesn't require anything beyond an email address (no facebook, no scanning my contacts, no phone number)? If so, when should I look for it because that's the feature that would make me try out WUT.
I see why some would call Martini "magic" but I'm not entirely sure I prefer having to deal with a giant `map[string]inteface{}`. What you are really doing is moving the "magic" from the framework and onto the developer (I now have to do type checking and casting).

That said I'm a huge fan of Martini and I actually use codegangsta's Inject in my other projects to manage shared state/resources, so I am heavily partial to it.
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Your point about "why does anyone else care" is very good, but I think it's unfair to characterize the author's position as "I don't understand how these guys see value, it must be incompetence."

The author's point about how M&A traditionally happens is accurate. A team at Morgan Stanley or wherever looks at the company's numbers (cash flow, debt, growth rate, etc), and comes up with a valuation based on very concrete factual information. The target, if it's shopping, will have its financial advisers do the same thing. Then the CEO's will argue over those figures. It's a banker-driven process.

Tech M&A is often detached from that traditional process. A $19 billion valuation for WhatsApp didn't fall out of some Morgan Stanley analyst's spreadsheet. It's CEO-driven. It's a result of what Mark Zuckerberg thought it would take to buy the company. That's a very different process from how M&A valuation is traditionally done, and it's not wrong to point that out.

You're right though, in that I don't think all this means we'll end up with $500/lb chicken.
Users are flagging it and moderators applied a penalty. This is standard practice. The only question is whether it should be on the front page at all, given the predictably low quality of the thread.

It's not a question of it being off-topic. It's a question of it spurring shallow discussion that is high on agitation (noise) and low on reflection (signal). Consider the distinguishing features of the thread:

(1) A top comment that has no substance and is merely an internet witticism to fire up the crowd;

(2) A person attempting to contribute substantively accused of being a propagandist for Putin;

(3) A predictable Snowden argument whose only connection to the story is "Russia".
Very nice. Will give it a try.
Did you ever get a chance to evaluate what it does under PyPy? In my experience, there's quite a few such cases where it eliminates most of the overhead, and it's not even uncommon to see it generate what appears to be optimal x86_64.
Nearly by definition, someone has to go to very below average schools, and someone has to live in the very below average housing.

The first situation is more scary than the second, of course. Being young and single and in good health with no kids it was fine living below average.
Worst common denominator programming
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/worst-common-denominator-programming
But as stated above, Dimensional already does Celsius to Kelvin and vice-versa. Which is indeed of the form you just stated:

f = m*c + b

where m is simply equal to 1. Why wouldn't Fahrenheit conversion be the same thing, just with different constants?
This doesn't sound appealing unless it gives access to the next major point release. I'm sure only a marginal number of people are interested in testing 10.9.x compared to 10.10
Here is a BitTorrent tracker that logs download statistics and ensures that every torrent has at least one seed: https://github.com/astro/prittorrent
It is used by the bitlove BitTorrent podcast distribution service: http://bitlove.org/

(Tim Pritlove had the idea for both, hence the names. He didn't write any of these, though.)

Does Hefur have these kind of features?
Project Parfait – PSD CSS Extraction, Measurements and Image Optimization
This is amazing! Is there a planned open-source license or commercialization of this?
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If you're running into a major bug on the current release, it's nice to try out the next point release to see if it's fixed.
Any insight on how stable the pre-releases are? I'm tempted to sign-up because updates seem very infrequent on OSX, but I'd hate to have to fight more bugs when working.
If I remember correctly the initial versions of node had the ragel-based http parser from mongrel but then ryan rewrote it. http-parser is hand-written.
I suspect it's because iOS devices feel far more disposable than ones main work computer. By that I don't mean in a product design sense, but in a data loss sense. People are used to the idea that their phone might lose their contacts, or some other important data, and therefore keep them well backed up (iTunes even has a utility to do this). With peoples main computer though, the possibility of something going wrong seems far more dangerous, even if the probability is similar. People often back up their main machine far less often, and care more about the data on it.
Heartbleed: Pointer-arithmetic considered harmful
Absolutely, you can get your Game of Thrones in HD every sunday.
Because you don't want to push your business secrets to a (US) company?
I can imagine quite a few blind people are creaming their jeans about now.
Curious, what makes you find those to be better than Chrome? I recently switched to FF for a variety of random work reasons, and found it so much worse than chrome (basic UI, dev tools, speed) that I switched back asap. Maybe I'm missing something awesome about them.
Anybody know how to uninstall if at some point I decide I don't want to participate?
Professional Organization of English Majors :)
Who says this won't give you access to major releases? To me, that's why this is so interesting with WWDC in a month and a half. Could they be preparing to release changes to OS X that are large enough to warrant the opening of beta testing to the public?
I avergaged the 1-bedroom numbers for all of the counties in Rhode Island (guess why I picked Rhode Island) and got ~$15.00, which is ~$3.00 less than the 2-bedroom on the PDF. So they probably calculated it correctly.

Two bedrooms are always surprisingly close in price to one bedrooms.
And to clarify, you have to pull the XLS in order to get the 1BDR numbers. The PDF is still just 2BDR.

But yes. dm2 is correct. This is probably the link that should have been shared to start: http://nlihc.org/oor/2014
I can't speak for Goji. But one popular open source Martini app is Gogs https://github.com/gogits/gogs
A lot of companies talk about changing the world, but Teespring really puts their money where their mouth is. Not only have they been quietly supporting us (Watsi) since the beginning, but to commit $50k to every YC non-profit is truly incredible. Teespring is setting the standard for the next generation of startups, and we're proud to call you guys our friends.
Note also that Googlers have stated that they use the public version like everyone else.
Open Letter to my Alma Mater about The State of Technology
I think it's also a great deal for first time founders and people who aren't all that familiar with startup funding. $120k for 7% is a lot clearer than $17k + $80k for 7% + converted shares no cap no discount.

I also think this is great news for what it will force other accelerators to do. Many people out there claim to copy YC's model with much less friendly terms on the convertible note. This puts everything out in the open if they want to keep up.
It's in the Frequently Asked Questions.
How poorly run do you have to be to not make money simply selling the hardware and harvesting bitcoins during the burn in period? It's no different than using the float in other ways. Do it in a way that customers are still happy and everyone wins.
may the FAQ be with you.

»How do I leave the OS X Beta Seed Program?
To leave the program, visit the Leave Program page and follow the instructions to remove your Apple ID and your computers from the OS X Beta Seed Program. This will stop pre-release updates from appearing in the Mac App Store on your computers.« – https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/faq
I thought the quotes were good and I don't mind that they are your own tweets. I think you should remove the attribution and the date to make them more like pull quotes. A discreet, low contrast link to the tweet would let people share if they want.
I agree, but point releases can occasionally have new features. 10.9.3 apparently enables 60 Hz 4k output on late 2013 macbook pros. 10.9.2 is limited to 30 Hz which apparently feels very laggy.
What does SublimeCodeIntel provide that GoSublime doesn't already give you? GoSublime gives you Gocode support, so you have full auto-complete already.
By means of an amazing new technology on which Ames and Dolan, the eXile's erstwhile proprietors, saw fit for some reason to publish much of the same content which they included in the pages of their newspaper. This new technology of which I speak is colloquially known among anglophones as the World Wide Web. Perhaps you've heard of it?
Got a feeling the "backup your mac with Time Machine" step is a good sign of how you'll have to uninstall it.
As someone who essentially took that path, I can't recommend it. My parents and I had saved up a decent college fund ($100k or so), but instead of using that to go to Top School I took the chance on a school which offered me a full ride.

Sure, I'll be graduating about ~$140k better off than most other students. But over the lifetime of a successful tech entrepreneur that amount of money is fairly meaningless. Having spent a significant amount of time on top campuses (where most of my friends went), I often regret making that decision—the caliber of students is truly higher, and the friends/networks you have from a school like Harvard will pay dividends throughout life.
Depends on the update but the early betas have noticeable problems and crashes, in my roommates experience. Plus, wiping the hard drive and doing a clean install of the final new OS can be a pain
Nice reply, thank you. Well put.
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Pivot tables are from Excel which is very... functional. So, more functional programming features?
I just updated and noticed no changes. Seems to be very stable so far.
Well there is a stat page, as you can see in the link I posted to the Debian tracker and Archlinux tracker. There is no persistant stats logging (nobody needed it yet).

Ensuring that a torrent has at least one seed is not a feature of Hefur, and I don't think that it needs it.
Not to mention if you ebay it during the conference, as many people do, you often get several times the eventual retail price. Then just buy it cheap when it comes out.
If you're interested in Google's metadata spec for what the camera actually captures:

https://developers.google.com/depthmap-metadata/
A lot have:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7600130
Creating a User First Mindset at Your Startup
Pretty interesting reading about the MSFT-AOL interop issues. I was also under the impression Messenger was closed/proprietary, correct?

As an unrelated note, this part is weird: "Microsoft’s Vista operating system, which needed to be restarted almost from scratch in order to ship three years late, came because it was written in a new language of Microsoft’s own design, called C#, that did not offer sufficient micromanagement to make Vista run quickly enough" ... not sure what he's talking about there. Anyone?
>>However, the link you gave doesn't say that it will be a prototype of a net energy fusion reactor

Uhhh? Are you trolling me?

See the TITLE of the article: "General Fusion will start building a full size prototype fusion reactor as early as this year"

From the first paragraph: "Possibly later this year, General Fusion [website] will begin work on a full-size prototype reactor."

Even the link is "general-fusion-will-start-building-full.html" :-)

For added support, go check the website of GF:

http://www.generalfusion.com/slides/#gallery1

Look at "where we are going", second image from the top.

"Full Scale, Net Gain Prototype

In the next phase of development, General Fusion will be constructing a full scale prototype system. The prototype will be designed for single pulse testing, demonstrating full net energy gain on each pulse, a world first."

Click the arrow -- it says "GOAL: Fusion energy released is 6x the piston energy input"

(I upvoted you for successful trolling. But please stop that.)
Yes, it really seems like a variable approach would work better. There's a big difference between spending 30% of your income on housing while living in a rural area and doing so in the middle of Manhattan. I imagine that percentage could go considerably higher in big cities.
Why not just allow it to be open source.
Mark my words, this is the first step. I predict we'll see iOS beta installs as an option in iOS 8. Looks like buying TestFlight paid off.
Yep. Absolutely.
Have you tried reaching out to other companies (or even VCs) to see if they'd do something similar?

Not that $20k is a huge difference, but it seems like the dividends from funding a YC non-profit for nearly any player in the tech scene far exceed $20k.
Purely a donation
If you ran the code through gofmt, it would remove the () around the cond for you. I code go in SublimeText with GoSublime. On every save it runs the file through gofmt and reformats it for me. Keeps my code looking pretty with very little effort.
I'm asking cause you were referring to "their archives from the years during which they published in print". Were you not suggesting you knew the "historical facts" from their printed version and it was difficult to find those articles in their online archives?
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenNTPD/
CMake is worth a try. Notably, it's the first build system that IntelliJ's new C/C++ IDE will support once it's released.

Although it's discouraged, CMake does have a way around the "code every new addition in your build manually" problem: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.8/cmake.html#command:au...
Another interesting application is as a display. A display w/ a lens array to pixel configuration matching the one of the sensor is able to re-create the light field for 3d viewing.
Years of experience is also hard to define. It's as precise a metric as lines of code are.

I've seen people saying 10 years of experience when they're closer to have 10 times one year of experience since they continuously do the same thing over and over. I've also seen people with barely a year or two of experience already coding circles around people with 10+ years.
No, we really wanted to use PyPy, but if we couldn't get it to work on ARMv5 it was of no use to us :(
Have you tried arkivmusic.com? They're classical music only, and a pretty good place to get music. I buy physical CDs only (the crappy tagging being one of the reasons), but they seem to take classical music seriously, so my guess is their digital downloads would be pretty good regarding tags and other info.
Does anyone know how this differs from the seeds already available through developer.apple.com?
This would never happen to me because I frequently format my doc, and it wouldn't be indented.
Museum acquires 'virtually complete' source code from Atari's arcade heyday
I think your post is a bit misleading; in the OCaml example, both functions are curried. This would be a better juxtaposition (I'm mostly guessing at the syntax; I'm a Haskeller).

let uncurried = fun (foo, bar, baz) -> qux
let curried = fun foo bar baz -> qux

It's a relatively small nitpick, but that's what currying means in this instance. And really, JavaScript is the same way; a function with "multiple arguments" is really just a function where the argument is a tuple. It's just that syntactically, it's cleaner in JavaScript (and many other languages) to declare and call functions with tuples.
Before anyone knee-jerks the "you asked for anarchy" response, bear in mind that A: libertarians generally are OK with contract enforcement and B: the real world legal system is apparently already quite involved, and I doubt anyone's complaining.

(Libertarianism isn't anarchy. If it were, we wouldn't need a separate word.)
The Zilog Z80 would definitely be in this category.

It would be really complicated for a compiler or human programmer to work around the quirks of the Z80 instruction set, where only certain registers can be used for certain operations. Even an optimal implementation of the word solution would probably be quite a bit slower than a straightforward naive implementation.

The Z80 instruction set only supports word reads from constant addresses (but bytes can be read from an address specified in any register pair). The Z80 has very few registers, so the more complicated algorithm will probably face register pressure. Also, word comparison is only implemented for the HL, DE register pair unless you want to use an index register which requires an instruction prefix, which will make your code even slower.

But memory reads from an address in a register pair other than HL or an index register can only go to the accumulator register A, thus you'd need HL for both the comparison and the address. So you need more instructions to save and restore HL. (You can't even use the fastest option EX DE,HL because DE is also needed for the comparison.)