skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very glad that OpenDNS have done this, as I think it makes them a worthwhile service. I was not prepared to use or recommend them with ads.

However, their lack of transparency on the business justification is a bit worrying.

A possible positive interpretation is that they hope to drive adoption and use this to make more money selling their other services.
I love it!

And I like your iAP monetization. Just bought 200 gif downloads for $1.99, well worth it :)
It's probably a bit old-school for you but let me explain.

The RAMDAC in an 'original' old style VGA card only had 6 bits per channel, and 256 LUT positions (also called the 'palette'). This allowed you to select 256 colours out of a maximum of 262144 colours, or 2^18.

So the maximum output value was 252, or hexadecimal FC for each channel.

You can't really output 24 bit ('truecolour') then because every colour channel will miss the lower 2 bits, and what should be 'white' will be slightly grayish and so on (white then becomes hex 0xfcfcfc).

Does that explain it adequately?
While it's really interesting and insightful overall, the "$40,000/year is enough" part bothers me. I see it doesn't include health insurance, and while it includes "savings" I have to question how much of a safety net he's actually building himself.

It looks like a classic case of "I'm young and nothing bad's happened to me so why get insurance?".
Steve Ballmer Said To Buy LA Clippers For $2B
No worries, I didn't take it as discriminatory (or sexist). It's hard to see what "other" people need, and it's easy to fall into the stereotype trap :)

FWIW, I don't object to activities considered stereotypical per se. By all means, create a "how to animate My Little Pony" workshop. Or remote controlled sewing machines.

Just don't attach "for girls". The issue is not the activity, but associating it with a demographic instead of letting it stand on its own. (And lest we forget, guys suffer from the same stereotyping - it's considered uncool by many for a guy to do anything remotely "soft and cuddly". Let's not reinforce)

I'm curious - have you asked your sister what kinds of things she would enjoy? What programming means to her, or why she would/would not consider getting into it?
Why is this a sleazy stunt? What about this story is sleazy? A bunch of girls flew to SF to go out, socialize, and have a good time. Sounds like everyone involved had fun.
I have no problem with the ethics of any part of this, but this sounds like a great way to grab a bunch of self-selecting people with significant combinations of personality defects, poor interpersonal skills, and overly-high estimation of their own worth. No personal judgment of them here, I recognize such defects in myself, I'm just saying why the whole thing feels 'wrong'.
Paid matchmakers and arranged marriages based on financial considerations are conservative.
only "protection"

Arecibo isn't like a public library or something. You can't just go in and start hitting buttons! They used it as the climax of a Bond movie!
Not at all. If you're just talking about what a bunch of other companies do, it's reasonable to say why doesn't apple do X?

One you start calling it an 'industry standard' you give false authority to what is basically saying 'do what everyone else does'.
second tier team

* Finished with the 4th best record in the league

* Made it to the 2nd round of the Western playoffs

* Have arguably the best PG in the game

* Have the biggest bandwagon next to Portland & GSW

The future is blindingly bright for these guys, and you want them to rebrand. Please
I momentarily forgot about that! You're right, though. Netscape International Edition, with 40-bit crypto for SSL. Good times.
I Support The Men's Rights Movement Over Feminism, Here's Why
Seems like encouraging more females to go into tech jobs and making training for them more available like RailsBridge's workshops would be a far better use of money and time.

If you want to simply stay on the dating side of things you could make a site designed for remote dates through web cam chats, cooperative games (anything from web based mini-games to co-op on Call of Duty depending on the interests of the players), IMing and texting. You don't need to be in the same physical place to get to know someone, thinking you do seems very backwards for a startup.

What's the plan here if two people do click? The service isn't going to pay for them to fly over for every date. It's the same situation as meeting someone online except that the initial date is face to face.
Why are there so many bachelorettes in NYC?

EDIT: I don't know what people have against an honest (though perhaps naive?) question.
What an abject waste of money.
Yeah, I've never heard of this company or this guy, but he sounds like a real piece of work.
I'm sure you didn't mean it that way - but I'd like to point out that "dating" and "working in tech" has nothing to do with each other.

Just because a woman works in an industry doesn't mean she has any interest in dating there.
Whatever happens in the courtroom, Chahal has lost already.
That was a very good explanation, but I was actually referring to the state of his comment. Meaning that I was unsure whether it means that it is indeed possible to bring a comment back from the dead or if this comment was somehow an exception to his deadban.
According to that article, it also lost power briefly for the same reason during a set of maneuvers that were used to repurpose it decades ago, so it's not the first time this problem has come up either.
Hey Thanks a lot for replying. I tried to send you a message via the contact form on your page, but it kept saying "message NOT sent". Not sure if you have received it..
Who knew NASA made a color picker.
Ridiculously fast, low-memory JSON validator and Diff Comparator
I agree that on a mobile device you should only have to log in once and be remembered forever (if someone compromises your phone, you have bigger issues), but I think that requiring a password (or OAuth, etc) on a non-mobile experience is a pretty good idea.
Damn, I think it's one of the best return on investment in the sport industry!
As the owner of the team do you get any share of the derived products? I bet it can be quite a nice amount if so, probably nothing compared to the TV contracts though.
Question is, can the Clippers generate more than 2B for Steve? Is it a pure buzz/fame investment or real money making machine?
Good thing this isn't sex trafficking in any shape or form whatsoever!
"the ads on the page don't monetize well"

Agreed. I can't imagine that the average person types in a bad domain name very frequently (compared to, lets say, the number of times they view a Facebook page each day). So you can't really sell a lot of ads this way. Also, if someone makes a mistake with a URL, they're not going to stick around very long to read an ad, since they're already impatient to be somewhere else.
Those are some nice added features. Awesome and kudos to everyone for making it happen.
Week they certainly don't have history or prestige, which matters a lot in sports teams' longevity of popularity.
To those who think this is a little sleazy, can I ask, would it be less offensive if the men were flown out to NYC? Or perhaps if the men and women split the cost of travel (whether the men flew to the women or the women to the men)? Or if both group split the cost of travel and flew to a midway point?

I'm trying to understand what makes this particular dating service more icky than Grouper, OKCupid, Tinder, or any other dating app or website. Seems to me like they are just hacking gender ratio imbalances to solve a social problem.
SpaceX Unveils New Space Taxi
Nooo, the uptime!!
I think you will want to consider it as more than just an issue of arrogance. You're showing your hand to your competitors (or potential competitors) as well as potential employees, etc. etc.

It's fine to share the details with some close confidants, if you feel it will help you and them. But are the numbers at this stage really as valuable as you think?
From the info you've given, you're talking a gross margin of just over $100k last year. That is nice as a young person bootstrapping a start-up with only two employees. It isn't great as a business, depending on what you want it to be.

If your goal is to run a lifestyle business, than why share the details of your revenue and margins? That seems to me to be completely about ego. How will knowing your revenue and margins enable somebody to help your business? I suspect if you just told them about what you're doing, you'd still get similar feedback and ideas about how to improve or grow your business.

If you're looking to create a large company from your start-up, you've got a long way to go. Your current revenues need to triple or quadruple. You need to grow exponentially. The info you're sharing, in this case, just lets everybody know how far you have to go, and could put doubts into if you'll actually make it.

By all means talk about your business, but be smart about what you share, and with whom. As a test, see what sort of response you get when you stop mentioning revenues and margins to people. Do you feel they are giving you less feedback? Or less valuable feedback? Do you feel that by mentioning the numbers to everybody in sight, it makes you feel better about what you're doing, rather than the effect it is having on them?

Do some A/B testing on yourself and see what happens.

Out of curiosity, what made you post this question? Maybe the answer to your question is in that alone.
Pretty sure the Celtics would bring in a decent number, given their storied past?
Agreed. Intent isn't magic; "what you meant to say" needs to be balanced with "what you said."
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
1. This discussion is grotesque. I'm not going to participate in it.

2. Anyone who wants to read dead comments, can. Just turn 'showdead' on in your profile. Therefore this entire "issue" is a contrived drama.

3. Anyone who has questions of this nature should have the good taste to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of creating a spectacle.

4. Obviously, we're burying this thread.

p.s. Why is it grotesque? Because it's an invasion of privacy; it's presumptuous to speak for someone in this way ("I suspect it will make a huge difference for Terry"); and for an internet forum to debate a human being like this—a poll, for fuck's sake?—is degraded.

p.ps. I should add that I don't doubt jacquesm's good intentions for a second. My concern is entirely with the systematic effect (i.e., is it good for the site).
The author specifically mentions he is still under his parent's health insurance.
A negotiated guilty plea in California is required to be supported by an inquiry into the factual basis by the court of the defendant; Chahal's argument here would seem to necessarily be that he lied to the court out of a profit motive, and, on top of that, that the board somehow had certain knowledge of what the outcome of a criminal jury trial would have been.

Good luck with that...
He isn't banned, he's hellbanned, and he knows he's hellbanned. I leave on showdead too, and I'm glad it's an option. I don't want to remove the option of people to avoid markov chains of racial slurs and religious manias when they're reading their tech discussions, though.

If you really want more Davis, email him. I'm sure you'll get an interesting response. If you can't ban him, though, you can't have any grounds for banning anything.

edit: Everybody knows who he is, everybody knows he is pretty awesome, and everybody knows how to read his writing if they want to. Isn't that good enough?
There are tons of bat shit crazy ideas everywhere. Despite all the sensationalized stories, SF is a great area, filled with great people (for the most part).

But you will be paying nearly $2k/mo to rent a bedroom; that much is true :-p
Actually he said he _doesn't_ save anything -- he had some savings going in to it. Furthermore, if he had an extra $800 per month "savings" would be at the bottom of his list.

Pretty responsible guy.
>A side benefit is that when someone says "What's the probability that the new purple dragon logo outperforms the old one?", you can give them an answer without backpedaling and explaining null hypotheses, p-values, significance levels, and all that jazz.

This is surprisingly valuable. As a former quant/math person, I am shocked time and again how most self-professed data driven people have no idea about inferential statistics. I've learned over time that most people just want to see data and descriptive statistics, preferably in visual representations, and interpret them somewhat creatively and pretty much non-rigorously.
> The men who are the customers of this startup are the rich guys in Silicon Valley who are awash in cash and cannot be fired.

I'm guessing you missed the news over the last couple months of GitHub[1] and Rap Genius[2] each letting a co-founder go?

[1] https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-...

[2] http://recode.net/2014/05/26/rap-genius-co-founder-moghadam-...
Interesting concept, but how would you implement the initial entanglement? Or would you just grab a passing electron and transmit states to it on the theory that it must have been entangled with another electron at some point? That seems pretty hit-and-miss to me.

I'm sure the first applications will be diplomatic/military, since that's a field with an obvious need for ultra-secure communications, plus many countries with resources to spare have global networks of secure embassies/installations where you would want reliable communication without any reliance on external infrastructure. My impression of the apparatus from the description provided was that it was relatively compact, the bulkiest part being the cooling bath for the diamond 'electron prison' - it seems like you could build this into something the size of a refrigerator, and it was put together with existing commercial components, a big plus.

A more medium-term application with obvious benefits would be on interplanetary probes, manned and unmanned. We could probably significantly cut the attrition rate of space probes if we had real-time telemetry data and control with no transmission lag. If I understand Bell's theorem correctly, then the energy requirements ought to be independent of the distance involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Probing_dif...
Looks like an interesting list of datasets, but it's such a large number that it's tough to get a feel for what all is in it (without reading a lot of the entries). I wonder if some sort of organized table might be a way to present the information in a more skimmable fashion.
Yeah, this isn't but there have been problems with actual sex trafficking.
>'While efficient, I’m not sure how I feel about this revelation. At first glance, it seems great, but as I’ve thought more about it, I’m worried that in this initial judgement I’m likely biased towards certain types of people.'

I'm glad the author is thinking this one over. Without exception, I've found people who are unquestioningly confident in their quick judgments to be horrible judges.

I'm guessing it's some sort of loop of confirmation bias latched with confidence in the initial judgement.

>'Finding a balance here is something I’m working on now.'

For me, I've found it helps to try and change perspectives. To go from trying to classify how I feel to considering how 'they' might feel.

It's going to sound cheesy and possibly really abstract, but I try to think of people less as a classification problem - sorting marbles into bins and more like legos - considering a fit for each piece.
Hahaha let me buy you a drink sometime for this comment. It seriously made my day.
He says he's on his parent's insurance, so at least he has that. Also, people survive on far less than 40k a year in the states.
I seem to remember as countries get near 2:1 you get wars.
Although they say it is a "one time password" which is smart, email is still assumed to be not secure. Like for example, you wouldn't want to send your SSN through email because servers along the way can possibly sniff it. So, while it seems safe in most situations to do this, I feel that it probably isn't 100% safe but maybe good enough for most people.

What is the risk though? If someone did steal your one time link and get into the app could you somehow prevent them from continuing to access it? And what could they do in the app -- change your address and buy stuff on your credit card and send it to themselves? Feels like there is just some tiny level of risk here that probably wouldn't happen... but I wouldn't feel completely safe with this.
But that was near the beginning of its life, so the batteries would have worked.
Oh, c'mon, give it a rest. Linus, while not necessarily mild-mannered, "gets" people. Theo sounds a lot like a socially clueless ubergeek. They are both abrasive superficially, but Linus is aware of the "meta", or strategic, level in human interactions, and knows when to back off; Theo is blind to it. That much is obvious even from a cursory glance.
Really? There's a interest police out to get all the poor guys? Or maybe, just maybe, it's time for guys to learn that women should be treated with respect. (And obviously vice versa, before that gets rolled out). Sexual innuendo does not qualify as respect. It certainly doesn't belong in a K-12 classroom.

As for your "evidence" from GeekFeminism, you will note that that's a linkspam page, merely linking and quoting, without any commentary. And the quote is not about The Dating Ring, but about the changes that are necessary for the industry to become more diversified. (Yes, there's a lot of irony in this coming from the women who're responsible for this bride-for-sale scheme)
Libvips Blog
Apparently having fun is sleazy.
There's a lot of literature on the web as to "how to validate" your idea, but not all of it is good so I'll reiterate the tactic that has worked for me, time and time again: Build a landing page, and send traffic to it.

1. Decide what your core value proposition is, then write enough copy to fill up a landing page. If you're not an experienced copywriter, hire this out. Otherwise, all you'll validate is your own ability to write shitty copy.

2. Make some fake screenshots. You don't have to be a photoshop wizard, chances are someone has implemented something that looks like whatever features you want to highlight, so just steal their screenshots and Photoshop your branding onto them if necessary.

3. Download a decent-looking Wordpress template. Host it on DigitalOcean, they have a preconfigured Wordpress droplet and you can get 2 months of hosting for free (more than enough time to validate your idea).

4. Set up an email subscription. This will give you a nice heuristic as to whether or not people find it valuable, and if a lot of people sign up, you have the added benefit of having a list of people to market to once you launch. You can do this with MailChimp, also for free.

5. (Only if you plan on charging) Build a "button to nowhere" with a pricetag attached. This is the true test of whether or not you've come up with something people will pay for. Make sure it actually does something, and be sure to tell people that they won't actually be charged, that you're just validating the idea and you're really happy they're interested. If they haven't already signed up for the newsletter, give them a chance to do so here.

6. Throw traffic at it. You can find coupon codes for AdWords and Bing Ads credits all over the place. Post it here, and promote the hell out of on various websites, mailing lists, etc. BetaList is a good one.

7. Personally talk to anyone that signed up for the email (preferably over the phone/Skype). Get a really good idea of the problem they want solved, and see what features they'd like. Ignore the made-up Henry Ford quote about faster horses; just be sure to take outside input with a grain of salt and you'll be fine.

I can guarantee that if your landing page is decently appealing to the eye, and your copy adequately expresses your value proposition in an appealing way, then you will validate your idea.

All of the above can be done for 0 money down, only a bit of time (which hopefully you have available to invest in spades, since you're considering doing building a product). Good luck, and if you need any help, shoot me an email: hello at duncanmsmith.com.
From an admittedly brief look through the source, it looks like the zone module does two things:

1. Creates the "Zone" and "Gate" abstractions, and,
2. Monkeypatches Node to use Zones and Gates.

To make setTimeout work, the zone module monkeypatches global.setTimeout and replaces it with a version that uses Zones and Gates. Rather than do that, what you could do is not use Zones and Gates at all, and monkeypatch global.setTimeout and replace it with a version that uses Promises. And: there, Promises work with setTimeout. Just as easily as Zones and Gates do.

(Alternatively, what many Promise libraries do is offer ways to generate "promisified" versions of individual non-Promise functions and encourage you to call those instead, rather than monkeypatching globals.)

My objection to zone is just the new abstractions, Zones and Gates. They don't seem to offer much (anything?) over Promises, and they seem needlessly incompatible with them. Instead of the two-part module, where you introduce Zones and Gates and also monkeypatch everything to use them, you could just have a one-part module that monkeypatches everything to use Promises. It would be less code and it would interoperate with the existing JS ecosystem.

I don't have a particular love for the Promise abstraction: it's just that everyone is going to have to learn and work with Promises anyway (since they're in ES6, and already in V8), and there's no reason to invent a new abstraction for asynchronous try/catch when one already exists. There are lots of Promise-supporting libraries, and no Zone-and-Gate-supporting ones, save for zone itself. Why bother with the fork?
It doesn't even teleport the data. It merely shares the same state—you can't move information through this shared state.
Sure, it'd be possible, but it would also require changing the language. And that's not going to happen for something like this.
> For non-commercial users we are making Renderman free.
I am not so sure.

I have two daughters. Both love computers, but will never go that way. Both are fearless about traditionally male pursuits; hunting (bow and speargun), fishing, mechanic-ing, surfing, dog training, ranching stuff.... one brought home A SHARK she'd speared. It was delicious.

One's a master of one of the big stats packages (SPSS? I forget) and the like ( was in a bio PhD program; got out with a Masters before she crippled her career prospects ).

Yawn.

It just does nothing for them. My extremely biased sample says "girls just aren't as likely to want to code." Trust me, I tried. Nope. Perhaps reverse psychology would have worked....
Hehe I immediately spotted it too :p
So a female programmer walks into a bar... and nothing of importance in relation to her gender happens. What a piece of crap article. Why is she obsessing about her gender when it clearly isn't affecting her in any way mentionable, let alone writing an article about it? Such a useless article. Doesn't surprise me a woman wrote it.
This is actually a rather annoying problem. This is what I'm doing temporarily (all fields have the "omitempty" tag):

Fetch struct A from DB
Unmarshal JSON data into &A
Unset read-only fields of A
Save A to DB

It's very inefficient but it beats dealing with bugs caused by various flags not being set (or being unset).

I'll switch to using pointers to boolean, int and string since most other (non-trivial) fields are pointers anyway. I'm not happy about the indirection, but it's certainly much faster than the current database roundtrip I'm performing.

And for anyone shouting 'Rust' - there's always going to be that perfect language out there, at the end of the rainbow.
The streaming portion of Apple's purchase of Beats? ~$500m.