skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The testbyte is only called in the end once a NULL is detected in the word, and will run in parallel.
It's in their best interest to say that this is not a tech bubble. Just saying.
It would be great to see this annotated on RapGenius in order to learn all the terminology and how investment like these work.
Not enough developers using the betas and providing feedback I guess? Running iOS betas has always seemed far more popular.
You mean like these?

https://www.aicas.com/cms/en/JamaicaVM
> will probably persist almost unchanged for months

The real test of the service will be sites that require constant changing (due to SEO rewards for timely updates as much as upgrades or general content management). When I hear "probably persist almost unchanged for months" I assume you are not in a position to benefit from marketing communication.
I like seeing people embrace static typing, but it makes me sad that it's a language where you can't even write a container (a map/dictionry/linked-list/etc) without giving up type safety.

I recognize that Golang is filling a gap, letting people get static typing without having to learn much new stuff, and there's value in that, but I think Go enthusiasts should read these great posts by Tikhon Jelvis with an open mind:

https://www.quora.com/Googles-programming-language-Go-seems-...

https://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language/Do-you-feel-th...
Introducing Smart Directions
True, but I don't think Putin has thought out his Ukraine folly and Russia will suffer in the long term. The West has become so dominant that Putin can rattle his rusty sabre and everyone says "meh".
That is true, but genericity is actually not an inherent attribute of Data Mapper. The key idea is that there are fundamental incompatibilities between two data models (e.g. a structure in your program and a relation in your database), and the translation between the two models is a reified component of the program rather than just being absorbed into the behavior of the object itself as in Active Record.

There are some efforts along these lines, such as gorp (https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp), but I don't think they're all that widely used.
That Time Cleveland Released 1.5 Million Balloons and Chaos Ensued
That $120k has to buy incorporation and legal fees, business operating expenses, and living expenses for at least 2 founders for three months. It's significantly better than $17k plus a note, but it's still a small enough amount that the program effectively selects for founding teams who either don't need the money (e.g. already have substantial financial means from other sources) or haven't got anything to lose (e.g. 20-somethings fresh out of school, or still in it). That excludes a huge talent pool.
Thanks for your feedback so far, guys. Let me answer some of your questions.

This is an early stage idea and I haven't got all of the details ironed out yet but;

1) The only way I see this working is me being the sole owner of the property and some sort of contract between me and the 90 other people ensuring that I pay them

2) Insurance/Liability this would be covered by the rental agents (the £600 figure is after their cut)

3) I have no real-estate experience

4) R.E unforeseen expenses, that's a very good point and not one I've thought of.

5) The income is really split 100 ways, I will get no more than everyone else involved, other than the contracted right to buy them out for property value/100 at any time

6) I wouldn't let anyone own 51%

Like I say, this really is just an idea and possibly not one that will work, but thanks for all of your feedback so far!
Consider giving merge requests a try, once you try line comments you don't want to go back
I wasn't a huge fan of LiteIDE when I tried it. I prefer GoSublime[1] with SublimeCodeIntel[2], with goimports[3] for my gofmt command. The combo of the three is really awesome.

[1] https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime

[2] https://github.com/SublimeCodeIntel/SublimeCodeIntel

[3] https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
Get poached by tech companies. Anonymously.
making the best of a bad pr situation, me thinks
A large group of people getting whipped into a righteous frenzy to punish a "target" for some perceived wrongdoing?
Not to be too much of a jerk, but how is this special? Why would I use you for a client and not the GOOG?

All of these things are possible with Adwords. Some of them require a little bit of scripting (ex. https://developers.google.com/adwords/scripts/docs/solutions...). Yeah, even most agencies don't know how to do this, but it's something that's known enough and written about in textbooks that it is not exactly a shocking new adtech innovation.

I wanna be excited about this, but when the feature your press release isn't just something that Google might clone, but actually exists already and has existed (albeit not as a core feature accessible via GUI), you kinda have a problem.
Agree with you. There is nothing passive about becoming real estate landlord.

Property management firms can manage only so much and cost a lot. They will come to you for most big expenses and decisions. Unless you have lot of rentals, property management firms tend to be expensive and you barely break-even on one or two properties.

Another issue with rental real-estate is squatting and defacing of the property if your property stays vacant for a month or two and not in good shape.

From passive income aspect, it is better to invest in REITs to get exposure to real-estate or join property management/ real-estate partnerships as LP/GP.
Here is the Washington Post's datasource: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/county...
I think Lonsdorf needs to check out PureScript https://github.com/purescript/purescript. He's practically writing in a style like it already.
NIST should get a clue and follow Dan Bernstein's advices:

http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140411-nist.html
The only thing that puts me off Stash is that I'm a part time JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible admin (on site ~ 250 users) and my word both those things make me cry at least once a week with problems. If it's not dealing with the licensing hell and the tears of management when another $32k pisses down the drain on maintenance (mafia style protection) it's dealing with memory leaks, crashes and constant performance bottlenecks. And we run this on a cluster of three high end 8 Core/32Gb RAM/SAS disk HP machines...

I couldn't face Stash after that.

Edit: Atlassian support are excellent but we have to bug them too often with entire sites down (workflow consistency issues fucking the entire JIRA instance which happens at least once a month) for the product to be considered quality.
There was a long comment here, but I found a better way to make my point:

If I gave you $120k to start a company with 1-2 other people, and you had no other funding commitments, I don't think I'd be changing your odds all that much.

But I have no trouble believing that when YC gives founders $120k, they are changing the odds significantly.
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Java and Portals are not dead! :)
For the WebDAV RAMDisk, Safe will not use more than 1/5 of your commit so you're limited by that.
This is the entire argument of the piece:

"When he [company CEO] doesn’t [make the valuation call], bankers and lawyers run the show. Valuations are derived from spreadsheets: some figure times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), down to five significant figures. Never mind that many of the assumptions are bogus. The lawyers and bankers argue with the target, fudging the assumptions back and forth. But these valuations are at least tacked to something in the mortal realm."

"When the UMaster does care, the deal is just a made up number that he pulls out of his, er, pocket. All caution is thrown to the wind, and the bankers and lawyers scramble to back-fit the spreadsheets and assumptions after the fact. The back-fitting occurs because everyone needs to be covered. Everyone except the big guy, that is."

The author's argument is that the CEO of a company is incapable of making a reasoned value judgement about the "value" of a potential acquisition.

In my opinion, what he is actually saying is "I don't understand how these guys see value, it must be incompetence." And yet, somehow, the previous "stupid" valuation (of Instagram) seems to have paid off for Facebook, not only that but they are slowly and inexorably eating into Google's tender search advertising flank. How do you value that? How does Mark Zuckerberg?

So does the article really answer any question? That too is an interesting way to analyze it.

He claims it in the title, gives an actual (non-Tech) mechanism (quantitative easing and near zero interest rates that are known causes of inflation), and then rambles a lot about how he doesn't get the valuations being thrown around, labels those valuations as inflationary, and then backs off and hedges like crazy with "With billionaires now as thick as blackberries (the fruit), this type of overvaluation can’t be good for the rest of the economy. Only time will tell whether these fat birds come home to roost and we find ourselves buying chicken at $500 a pound."

Except that it is expected that $500 a pound chicken will come about as a result of pumping a bunch of money into the economy, so how much of that can be laid at the feet of a tech company acquisition? How about even a smidgen of a hint as to how he might separate out the impact of his two "causes" ?

As you can guess I think the complete article is, as I summed it up as, "I don't get how they got these values, they must be wrong or bad or both." and while I sympathize with his lack of comprehension, I never understood how lending money to people without a way to pay it back, to buy houses even passed the sniff test, I could give you some reasoning as to why I thought it was a bad idea.

Clearly you read it differently, help me understand your reading of how it can effect the broader economy?
For the cases I have benchmarked concatenation with << has been faster than join on an array.

Here's a simple benchmark:

require "benchmark"

n = 100_000
Benchmark.bm(4) do |x|
x.report("<<") do
n.times do
"aaaaa " << "bbbbbb " << "ccccc " << "ddddd " << "eeeee " << "fffff"
end
end

x.report("join") do
n.times do
["aaaaa", "bbbbbb", "ccccc", "ddddd", "eeeee", "fffff"].join(" ")
end
end
end

The results I get for this are:

user system total real
<< 0.140000 0.000000 0.140000 ( 0.143750)
join 0.230000 0.000000 0.230000 ( 0.228035)

I'd be interested to see if there were any use cases where the relative performance was reversed.
Y Combinator Ends YCVC Program, Implements Flat-Rate $120k Investment
Asynchronous Function In Hack
What about the whole "everybody is doing loudness compensation wrong" issue I pointed out? That's an example of something that is not merely a user interface design issue.
You say it "was a ton of money," but you haven't provided any reasons that is the case, other than claiming that Google would not exist otherwise, something we don't really know either. Maybe Larry and Sergey didn't really need that 100k either, but took it just in case? And even if it were a lot of money at the time, 1999 was a different time and place. First-time founders were a lot less sophisticated. The seed funding environment that exists today didn't exist. AngelList did not exist. The current market rate for engineers and cost of living is a lot higher than then.
Really glad they released OSX and iOS on the same day this time.
Dorian Nakamoto Thanks The Bitcoin Community For Donations
We fixed the password limit. Thanks for the great feedback.
This creek divides the US connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Badass. Now support Good Browsers™ like Safari and Firefox.
People In San Francisco Are Getting Evicted For Using Airbnb
The microlending websites you mentioned have much higher repayment rates, so that there's a much smaller amount of portfolio actually at risk:

* Kiva: 98.95% repayment [1]

* United Prosperity: 97.8% repayment [2]

* Vittana: 95%+ [3]

* Kiva Zip: 88.8% [4]

* Zidisha: 74.19% [5]

I noticed that Zidisha doesn't publicize its low repayment rate (and the correspondingly high loss rate) very broadly - for example, on your frontpage. If you did, your forums probably wouldn't be filled with comments like these:

"The long-posted 98% repayment rate left me with a bitter taste. I feel both deceived and stupid." - mewesten

"I think you will not care at all when zidisha folds and you will not care at all at all the lenders loosing all their money. You will pat yourself on the back at all the money given to borrowers and what good work you did giving away other peoples money. Is it legal what you are doing? These are funds provided by members of the public it is not your money." - Russell

"If the model is to be sustainable, lenders must surely be made to feel that their interests are taken into account. They may choose to act as if they are in fact not lenders at all but givers - but that is not your advertised model, and would soon run into the sand in any case." - Wiredfox

"Your vision for Zidisha as a marketplace like ebay was a surprise for me to read in the forum. There is no clear explanation of this on Zidisha’s website. The impression I have had from the website is that Zidisha is just like Kiva and the others, except for the comments and low interest. It never occurred to me that no one was reviewing the business loan applications. I assumed Zidisha was somehow doing this." - Evelyn

These are your own lenders talking.

I think that if you explored some of the ideas I mentioned (e.g. featuring the repayment rate and loan loss rate on the frontpage, and adding a mission statement to the frontpage as well), you would see less angry lenders like the above.

[1] http://www.kiva.org/about/stats

[2] http://www.unitedprosperity.org/us/risk_factors

[3] http://blog.vittana.org/scale-plan

[4] https://zip.kiva.org/

[5] https://www.zidisha.org/index.php?p=43
It also seems to me as if having to switch to the other side of the street or by having to circumvent a dangerous block as some form of coercion resulting from a very inconsiderate and self-serving illusion that everybody starts life with a similarly equivalent set of cards.

Can you elaborate on the first part? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Rent or buy a home? This map has the answer
I did not know exile.ru till I saw the link in your comment, but what I gather from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile it doesn't seem to be a serious source of historical knowledge. It's a Moscow based satirical tabloid - how came you, an American citizen, know it so well?
Saw you demo this at the hackathon session at CPW! Really, really cool.
No competition
If you're referring to the comment I'm thinking of, in which you mentioned mpd not knowing how to read but one format of ReplayGain tags, then it's a good example of what I'm talking about. The correct solution to that problem is to teach mpd about other tag formats, not to require that users retag their entire music libraries to compensate.

Update: The comment I'm thinking of wasn't yours, so presumably it's not the one to which you're referring. I've looked through the thread, but I'm not sure to what you are referring. Can you link it, so that I'll be able to update this comment with a response to what you're actually talking about, instead of merely to what I incorrectly gathered you were? Thanks!
I'd love to read more about this idea. You might consider doing some research and writing a piece on it.
They probably just downloaded the states individually (http://nlihc.org/oor/2014/NY) to get the 1 bedroom numbers.
Yes, this is 8 years overdue. As djb points out in a letter to NIST here [1], this is not just about one specific NIST recommendation that had problems. There are problems with the standardization process as a whole.

[1] http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140411-nist.html
It's probably because iOS betas attract a lot of non-devs. OS X market share is pretty low compared to iOS.
Are you old enough to remember the dot com bubble and bust?
Support has stopped. The latest update was 5 years ago. Most software doesn't support it anymore, including Chrome and Firefox.
Why, I think he raised a very important point. HW is not one person. People have different backgrounds and different needs. Sometimes, C macros are the the best you have. Just because they're generally to be avoided doesn't mean they should never be used.
That's the data used to generate the map, I was linking to where they got those numbers from.
That region is called the Bakken formation.
More scientific details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parting_of_the_Waters
> I suppose my question is more along the lines of whether
> we'll ever see a package in go that would standardize
> the data-object divide

There is no lucid standardization possible for the data-object divide, in Go or any other language. Too much depends on the semantics of the object and data system. Or, rather said: that standardization (that abstraction) is SQL itself.
That could well be. However, the link you gave doesn't say that it will be a prototype of a net energy fusion reactor, only that it will be a fusion reactor, and that they haven't yet achieved net energy, though they had hoped to do so by last year. "Getting it to work repeatedly and cost effectively for power production, that’s harder."

I presume you know this information from elsewhere. I judge based only on the information I read in that link.
In Firefox 31.0a1 I can copy the text only with Ctrl+C.
HTTP caching is hard, draw me a picture
Google to provide option to hide Chrome notification icon on OS X
> How many "passion projects" have I started and gave up on the first time something difficult came up?

Probably not as many as I have. This is the one project that I keep coming back to and the only reason it has survived so long is that I dogfood it.
Weebly: www.fightingwalrus.com the e-commerce feature is... improving. Shipping and accounting integration still needs work but they have been responsive so far.
HN is a social echo chamber [http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/28232.html]. Given it's libertarian leaning, it would be a big surprise, if it would try to objectively assess a topic that is under heavy propaganda from all sides.
OT but tangential, what do you guys use to build/make via GCC?

Makefile seems like you have to code every new addition in your build manually and take care of the dependency tree.

Eclipse CDT seems difficult to set up.

Ant doesn't seem like good C/C++ Make options and require lots of XML and extra plugins to get it work.

Scons seems like a good option. Haven't tried Maven. What do you guys use to do C/C++ builds for production or for fun?
Take the WordPress route.
... actually a "ton" of money is technically £2000, or $3365 at the 22APR14 exchange rate.
$120,000 is therefore ~35.66 tons of money.
This is more or less the philosophy of the Clojure community when it comes to web frameworks. Not sure what you're reasons for using Go are, but if you're open to dynamic typing you would probably appreciate Clojure's emphasis on avoiding this kind of complexity.

Though to be honest I do see a decent amount of value in not rewritng form handling/validations/auth in a bunch of different ways.
My WordPress workflow.
Apple Allowing Non-Developers to Apply for OS X Beta Program
You still end up ahead since you can day trade yourself into a higher income bracket.
What does Audacious's sample rate conversion filters have over libswresample?
I was unhappy with the examples that I have seen online and wanted to give a real work example. Let me know if you find this helpful.
Every time I see a web framework for Go, I just want to see an example or two of a website developed with it. Does anybody have any solid examples?

Hopefully, like me, some others enjoy exploring existing code as well as reading the examples / docs.
I don't think it has anything to do with market share, the iOS betas attract more users because they offer more attractive new features. For better or worse, iOS 7 was a huge redesign and many people wanted their phone to look "cool" early.

Trying to explain to non-techies why Mavericks is better is much harder, aside from better battery life.
Happy Earth Day: An Open Letter – From The Earth to The Geek
A 3Dish, pixelartish head on a wall. Something I built over the Easter weekend.
Thanks, and very sorry for the rambling on this topic! I just have a fascination with the post-WW2 / early Cold War period.
Wow - this is amazing.

Right this very moment (well, a few moments ago when I wasn't procrastinating on HN) I was in the midst of extracting data from a client's old website in preparation of creating a new website.

A lot of that data is contained within images.

From a few preliminary tests, I'm hugely impressed. This seems on-par with any other OCR software I've used, and the fact that it happens in realtime in the browser is amazing.

I tried it on a piece of content I'd just had to type out, that was originally in an image. Typing out the content took about 10 minutes. Copying and pasting with Naptha, and then making some minor edits/corrections, did the same thing in about 2 minutes.
Here's an example that shows x ||= y behaves like x || x = y, rather than x = x || y

class Foo
def foo=(object)
puts "foo= called with #{object.inspect}"
@foo = object
end

def foo
puts "foo called"
@foo
end
end

puts "x || x = y"

a = Foo.new

a.foo || a.foo = 1
a.foo || a.foo = 2

puts "\nx = x || y"

b = Foo.new

b.foo = b.foo || 1
b.foo = b.foo || 2

puts "\nx ||= y"

c = Foo.new

c.foo ||= 1
c.foo ||= 2

This outputs:

x || x = y
foo called
foo= called with 1
foo called

x = x || y
foo called
foo= called with 1
foo called
foo= called with 1

x ||= y
foo called
foo= called with 1
foo called

and you can see that the output for ||= matches the output for x || x = y
What I meant to imply was that the emergence of fractional dollar tick sizes was probably due to the fact that they were easier to deal with before the advent of computerized execution, clearing, and settlement. By the mid nineties most of that had been automated and there was therefore no good reason for such large tick sizes. When humans were still doing all trade processing manually, it made sense to have a system that incentivized fewer large trades (vs more smaller trades). Large minimum price variations and round lot requirements would have been a means to that end.
The end result is that the music comes out sounding quieter, so the user ends up increasing the analog gain of their amplifier. This increases dynamic range because the alternative is having the highly compressed music sound very loud resulting in users keeping their amplifier gain low.
There are super wealthy who actually use their wealth to make the world a better place; then there are super wealthy who use their wealth to stack the odds ever in their favor, at the expense of everyone else.

Unfortunately, it seems most of the super wealthy are part of the latter group.
Sorry, I'm actually from Austria I don't really know anything about that, interesting though.
Lesson's learned
SocialBus a fault tolerant data collector for social networks
I just want to raise the point that your Apple example doesn't take inflation into account. The $4300 in 1975 is roughly $18.5k (to within $500) in today's dollars. This is inline with YC's previous seed funding of $17k.

I have to agree with you that what is "a lot of money" is entirely relative; I don't think that $5k in today's terms is a lot of money by any startup's standards but any amount upwards of $15k or so is definitely "a lot of money" to a larval startup.
somewhat relative to factor: whatever happened to slava pestov?

I used to follow his blog about factor with interest some years ago and then all of a sudden... he was gone.
No, they're almost completely different under the hood.

[edit] On second reading, I see perhaps you were sarcastic. If so, well trolled good Sir! :-) I had it coming.