skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In your profile you claim to be a lawyer (although misspelling "your" makes me wonder), so I'll assume this is true for your typical clients, whoever they might be.

But for folks in the YC orbit, I believe a Delaware corp is almost always the right choice. Getting investment in Silicon Valley has a bunch of common defaults, and sticking with those defaults means fewer bumps and less to explain. Unless a startup has a very strong reason to do something else, or unless they are sure they don't want VC investment, it's to their advantage to just do the standard thing.

As evidence, I'll offer YC's own words: "We require companies to be Delaware corporations as a condition of funding—which any startup should be anyway." [1]

[1] http://ycombinator.com/documents/
That's because Indians get lumped under Asians. Not sure about people of middle eastern origin.
sure it's valid JSON, but it really depends on the API as to whether it handles null values properly when it's expecting some other type. I honestly haven't tried that with the GitHub API, but based on what I've seen it probably handles it fine. Others may not.
>>> s="""If you have files encrypted by TrueCrypt on Linux:

Use any integrated support for encryption. Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation"""

>>> ''.join(a[0] for a in s.split())

'IyhfebToLUaisfeSaipfweaciaotpfafid'

That short string contains "beast of the apocalypse" [1] plus some other letters ('iuififwaifafi')

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation) - "The second beast is described in Revelation 13:11-18 and is also referred to as the false prophet."
I'm interested to know where you think the debate should lie. Do you believe that it should be debated empirically among economic journals or in the court of public opinion? Because the book is a compilation of the former and we are only seeing doubt in the latter.
And a non-zero risk of loss after replanting.
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Hey just built a hd wallpaper site. It uses facebook APIs to generate a cover photo and an automatic resolution detection system.

Any tips or feedback? Was thinking about other differentiating features that would be useful to my users.

Thanks in advance.
This story sounds a bit one sided. Sounds to me like the other cofounder chose a fantastic lawyer. I find it really, really hard to believe he did nothing at all for 2 months. Its possible its true, but considering how aggressive and forward your listed actions(bring in another dev weeks into the project to look over his shoulder, pushing him out completely after 2 months, using your own money to buy him out) I have a hunch this isn't the whole story. I wonder if its a bit more about the two of you having a disagreement about the direction of the tech/company etc and he became a bit unmotivated because you started bossing him around and treating him like an employee and not a partner. For example you ended trying to fire him like an employee and now your publicly throwing your friend the lawyer under the bus.
The primary issue here is how you can define "wealth" or "rich" and "poor." Income's one measure, sure. But what about the trust fund kids? What about college kids?

The real problem with collecting data like this is that there's no real good source of it. Most of what you get has selection bias, and the other stuff you can get is riddled with holes. And then you try to do it across countries, where definitions change and governments college disparate data at differing granularities and it just gets...frustrating.

An economist's toughest job is finding good data. The analysis is the easy part!
It scales already - it's crowdsourced.

I don't agree at all the doom and gloom about the book industry. I suspect we're actually entering a golden age of publishing. Before Amazon, I was stuck with pretty much whatever the local bookstore happened to stock, or whatever randomly appeared in a used bookstore. There were no rankings, no reviews to read. I'd read a book even if it was crummy, because there wasn't much else.

Now I can check Amazon, Goodreads, examine lists by my favorite authors, look for titles in sub-genres like post-apocalyptic fiction, look at curated lists by people I trust, etc. I'm not stuck with reading bad books anymore. Getting an out-of-print book is no longer any problem.

The barriers for any person wanting to publish their own book have pretty much all gone away. Sure, that implies mountains of dreck will be published, just like there are millions of crappy web sites. But the good ones still float to the top.
Interview with TrueCrypt developer (2005)
Digital Telepathy brings great Web design to the masses with its app store
If the analogy with climate science works, then the inequality debate will be even worse than the climate change "debate". The straws on which climate change denialism rests are so small because the level of evidence one can reach with physics is so particularly high. Economics probably won't ever reach the same standard of evidence.

To this day, people in politics are still having arguments about the relationship between inflation and fed interest rates, two of the most easily-observed quantities in the economy. Imagine what the inequality debate will be like in comparison.
I worked as a contractor at Google last year when I was 62. No age discrimination :-)

My opinion is that Google is hungry for good people, and they are casting a wide net.

BTW, a little off topic, it is much easier getting a job as a contractor at Google, so if you are curious about life at Google you might want to try the easier route. I think roughly 40% of the people there are contractors.
Usefulness to whom, and in what context? In the case of the climate change "debate", which has significant parallels to this one, denial is useful to entrenched interests at the expense of everyone else — including, ultimately, those same interests. How "useful" is that, exactly?
This headline is misleading. Anyone "accepting bitcoins" though one of coinbase / bitpay / gyft / whatever is NOT accepting bitcoins.

They are accepting a third party who will stand in front of them and accept bitcoins in exchange for dollars. There is a big difference.
Google Fiber deployment in Austin hasn't started.
I really am trying to understand what they are doing here. So are they adding a layer on IFX to expose banking api to the clients/companies ?
http://standardtreasury.com/developer is not working.
Wordyard Project nuts and bolts: what I’ll do and how I’ll support it
Can you print your own cheques? All you need to know is your account and routing numbers.
Since I don't have the cred to edit a comment that's been replied to yet, I'll clarify in a reply:

You are absolutely correct, and I should have been more clear about the complete-meal-replacement aspect. I was referring to the small segment of people that would love to replace every meal with something like Soylent. So maybe "complete-food-replacement" would have conveyed my intended meaning a bit better.

I too ate lots of Ramen in college, but in order to prevent myself from wanting to slit my wrists, I'd usually seek out at least one meal a day with some nutiritional value, and, more importantly, flavor that wasn't just salt water.
OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative
"Network Time Protocol, OpenSSH and OpenSSL first projects to receive support; Open Crypto Audit Project to conduct security audit of OpenSSL"
Was with a advanced DoD company who was using this app to push the boundaries in the field for communications without walkie talkies or sat phones. The app worked extremely well and we were happy to win a contract based on what this app did for us and we built up from there.
It looks like you're sending the same data to every client, but it sounds like Socket.IO/Faye aren't handling this well. Do they not have a `broadcast` method of something of that nature that handles your use-case?
No, but it means you have the choice whether or not to refund them; you have no such choice with credit cards. And charge backs are generally a problem with fraud, not good customers.
At https://t1mr.com we don't use SMS for notification, it's too unreliable. Besides delivery issues, there are benefits if the monitor knows if someone has really seen the notification - we know when somebody answers a call, but we can't know if he has actually seen the SMS.
The stack head pointers can be swapped and flushed without knowing how much data is in it.

However, if you need to know the count/size...

Then in general you must accept that the count/size of the write stack is dynamic, so even if you use an integer to track the value (and keep updated with atomic exchange or increment), at the point that you read its value on one thread it may have already changed on another.

So it doesn't really matter if you reset the value to 0 using an interlocked exchange (this cant be done as an atomic unit with respect to the head pointers unless your platform supports a double CAS). Some loss of count/size information will occur.

Alternatively you can safely iterate through the stack to calculate the count/size anytime you need it (provided the next pointers are also treated atomically).

Neither option will give you the exact size since as discussed above its always dynamic, but this i no way impedes the functioning of the write/flush stacks as described. In my solution i just set the value of the count/size to 0, and disregard any loss of information since it is not critical.
It sounds like he planned that exit out, and was biding his time until the check cleared so to speak.

There's no other logical explanation for the work stoppage perfectly coinciding.
New patent reveals that Amazon may soon accept Bitcoins
I'll start the conversation. The best tool I've found is an open-source tool called Laverna: http://laverna.cc

Self-hosting possible, Dropbox sync, tags+tasks+search, Markdown support, clean UI.
maybe you should read Piketty's rebuttal? or any of the other dozens of rebuttals that have been written. burden of proof is on YOU to not be ignorant.
Laverna: Self-hosted Evernote alternative
So Amazon has no plans to accept Bitcoin but that doesn't prevent them from getting a patent they can use to badger their competitors who do accept it?
That does not preclude the fact that once there is a elite that runs the socialist state, they will put every resource, big and small, available to them to the task of perpetuating "bootstrap mode" forever.

Meanwhile, intellectuals who dream about the next coming of Communist Paradise on Earth will do nothing. Dreaming is cheap after all.
I was trying to parse that earlier, but it doesn't make sense. Is he saying he wants something as open as a C64, but running on modern hardware?
A lot of discussions of TrueCrypt replacements I've read today miss a major point, which is that users of the Windows version are now left with no reliable, up-to-date software with an equivalent feature set and security guarantees. I know we tend to be *nix-heavy here, but some of us used TrueCrypt because it was the best solution for Windows, not because it was cross-platform.
Death by Average Talk Time
It is no longer a question of whether we are using tools to measure our floor’s performance, but what kind of tools and what metrics we are looking at.
The quality varies. Sometimes the content is good.
Good thougths. But I think your lawyer being a friend or not is not as important. You need to hire right people for the given job in hand at the right time. It is just that most often these right kind of people for hackers not happen to be in their circle of friends. But not impossible.
All still problems Bitcoin would have avoided.
Did I just read the statement "startups do not have private investors" on YCombinator.com?
That's good feedback. We have a resources section at the end. Can definitely add some books there.
6 Easy To Implement Tactics That Will Turn Churn Around
That also seems very possible.
That's interesting, but I disagree. The cases in the linked article are uncommon. Most of the time set -e does what you want.

And to the examples in that page: I am unconvinced by examples 1, 3, and 4. In (1), it's your business to know what the exit status of let is, and behave accordingly. In (3), you wrote the function f(), so it's your business to make its exit status correct. Similar for (4).

These are unconvincing examples that seem to deliberately walk into minefields.
Yeah, just like companies using payment processors are not accepting credit cards but instead are accepting a third party who will stand in front of them and accept credit card transfers in exchange for dollars.
Try http://teamgum.com it allows your entire team to participate and organize.
I think I generally agree with what you're saying, but a comment made during a CFR discussion[0] makes me want to point out that those "Feelings" can be of value:

"What about Facebook? What about Twitter? I have no idea what Twitter is good for. But if it flips out every tyrant in the Middle East, I'm interested."

I guess it's just pretty hard to allocate resources in the traditional sense that most people are used to because of leverage that companies like google can provide, but people try anyways.

All in all, I think google is just trying to increase confidence from advertisers in it's content network.

[0]: http://www.cfr.org/technology-and-foreign-policy/technology-...
The ousted cofounder actually had no lawyer, he hates them.

As for our friend lawyer, he's a great attorney, but just for big corporate law.
Markets for artistic works are unique in that the creators are often (usually) not primarily motivated by money. Everyone else in the business is, more or less (meaning many authors write as an avocation, while very few people would consider doing extend work of a tedious nature like editing for no money).

With the rise of ebooks they are also subject to the wildly counter intuitive aspects of markets for digital goods. High fixed costs with near zero marginal cost, leading to a fat head, long tail market structure.

Authors such as Stross who are commercially successful are in a highly elite group, so I tend to discount their concerns as being generalizable as a societal concern. Not to say that I don't empathize. Or envy:)

It's unclear to me how the disruption of the publishing industry would affect the quality of published work. The services publishers provide, funding, editing, marketing, legal, are essential to the creation of good work.

If there is no mechanics to pair such services with gifted authors, then it seems a certainty that the quality of published work will go down in the aggregate.

But as far as I can tell, the profound change in publishing due to the changes in media itself has yet to shake out into a new stable structure.
It seems like a blog specifically about one company would by definition be dependent on it, no?
The Apple-Beats disaster
def compare(a: Int, b: Int): Int

This one has not only 232 possible results, but an incalculable (232)264 possible implementations. Even if we are generous and only allow the inputs to be 0 or 1, we still have 2128 implementations. If the only meaningful return values are -1, 0 and 1, indicating “less than”, “equal” or “greater than”, then why would we embed them like specks of dust in a big desert of undefined behaviour?

I don't agree with this. This is not a "big desert of undefined behaviour". The behaviour is defined along the entire spectrum of Integer values. "Less than" maps to all values <= -1, "equal" maps to 0, and "greater than" maps to all values >= 1. There's no undefined behaviour here.
> Certainly not what I expected given all the complaining I see on the net about Comcast and YouTube performance

Comcast gives many things about which to complain, but I've never had an issue with Youtube on them. What I've been shocked by in the past is the disparity between youtube on my comcast connection and youtube on people's TimeWarner connection when I've visited, where it has been completely abysmal in the past. Like, 1990s RealPlayer quality, not only because you have to turn it down to 144p just to play, but also because it still stutters horribly even at that resolution.

I feel like most of the "one weird DNS trick to fix youtube" posts have been about timewarner, though I don't know if my memory is accurate there.

Notably TimeWarner looks fine on these graphs (at least in a few places where I've had friends complain about it in the past), so maybe they've fixed things.
Leslie Lamport, 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award Recipient [video]
It comes from Callaghan's speech (as quoted in the article):

"We can truly say that once the Leader of the Opposition discovered what the Liberals and the SNP would do, she found the courage of their convictions. So, tonight, the Conservative Party, which wants the Act repealed and opposes even devolution, will march through the Lobby with the SNP, which wants independence for Scotland, and with the Liberals, who want to keep the Act. What a massive display of unsullied principle! The minority parties have walked into a trap. If they win, there will be a general election. I am told that the current joke going around the House is that it is the first time in recorded history that turkeys have been known to vote for an early Christmas."
The point is that the FT switched from one type of data to another, as per usual truth is probably somewhere in the middle, which would probably still back up Mr Picketty's analysis.

As many people have said, is the UK one of the most equal societies in the world? This seems very unlikely
I've said this before in a few places, and it's (semi-) relevant here, but I really think people need to relax about replacing TrueCrypt. Despite the "security concerns" expressed in the TrueCrypt page, which were clearly a joke, there's no reason to think TrueCrypt has any significant vulnerabilities at this time, and the second phase of the audit will take place as scheduled. The last time TrueCrypt was updated was two years ago - it's stable software that doesn't need constant tweaking, so the developers bowing out is not a problem.

Chances are, someone will either fork TrueCrypt (version 3.1 of the TrueCrypt license seems to make this a legitimate possiblity) or create a replacement, possibly using the same container format. TrueCrypt is pretty much just as good as it was before this happened. Give it a couple of months before you start switching over to some other solution (which is likely to be less "battle-hardened" than the incredibly popular TrueCrypt anyway, and thus somewhat more likely to be insecure). There's no rush.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825

Here's the actual article: http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

And here are some previous submissions of this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725886

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7687354

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7684773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681621

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679055

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673047
The http server's job is to translate URLs into http requests for consumption by the application. The http server should generally be agnostic regarding the semantic meaning of your URLs, which take the form of business rules, the proper place for which is the application layer (whenever possible).
It's also important to check what the provisions actually are when a founder leaves with unvested shares. In the UK it's standard to require them to offer back the unvested shares at their nominal or par value (pennies, or fractions of). However, at least once I've seen lawyers use _market value_ as the phrase, which basically defeats the entire purpose.
In the Boston area, one ISP already does this (for Netflix, at least). Not only do I get flyers in the mail, but they also advertise online[1]; though that page has been updated to highlight some new feature with TiVo boxes, it used to specifically mention RCN being the fastest ISP in and around Boston for Netflix. The page still does say "RCN is Optimized for Netflix: RCN is directly connected to Netflix, providing the best possible Netflix experience, including a better picture and faster start up times."

[1] http://www.rcn.com/j/netflix
I Connected With Mark Cuban on Cyber Dust
I am not all that diligent, but I just use Instapaper. Save all the relevant links (the link itself will say to me if it is a competitor that I must keep an eye, an interesting prospect, a tip on sales, copywriting advice, a SaaS i will want to use in the future).

At the most I separate into two generic folders: code and business.
I would suggest attending talks and meetups, where companies sometimes discuss their architecture.
RVM 2.0: Post-fundraiser progress
"set -x" enables debug-mode, for anyone else heading off to Google to investigate.

So given the script:

#!/bin/bash
set -x
echo "Hello World"

The output would be:

+ echo 'Hello World!'
Hello World!

Where the "+ ..." is the command executed. And it can be disabled with "set +x".
Reeder 2 for Mac Released
I didn't have the privilege to be able to go to Stanford.

I didn't have the privilege to be able to go to any Ivy League University. Nor to any university in the US, for that matter - I got my Engineering degree from an unknown university in a small south american country. But I did fine in the interviews so they hired me.

So many people say "yeah, they only hire PhDs from Stanford". OK, how do I put this - no.
The kind of person I can see maintaining Truecrypt for a decade I can also see making this decision. They're upset and are completely done with the project. They take down all the old versions, knowing that the licensing means they're largely useless for purposes of forking (unless you want to violate the licensing, which causes questions to the validity of the fork). Despite their frustration with the project, they still deeply care about crypto and keeping their users secure, so they publish some brief recommendations on alternatives, and release a read-only version of their software to support it.

There are any number of possible vulnerabilities that could exist. Its definitely a plausible possibility. I could fairly easily believe that they were contacted by a researcher who was about to publish a major AES flaw, or one of the other algorithms in use.

There's a number of relatively plausible theories. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't find out for 20 years what the actual reason for this was, when the developer is on their deathbed.
I'm having a really hard time seeing how this is an actual improvement on the status quo. It just seems to build up a lot of complexity and create new and more confusing corner cases. I have a hard time following the demos, even with copious comments, and one of them even has a null exception catch and calls it a good thing (the http long stack demo).
I think you are correct... this is for a niche market.
We can always use TrueCrypt, which everyone was fine with and most people were recommending 2 days ago, even though it hadn't been updated it 2 years.
Decoherence by wave packet separation and collective neutrino oscillations
It's good that you're strong enough, mature enough, wise enough to ignore that kind of idiocy. The problem is for the weaker, younger, more naive person that hears it and takes it seriously.
TrueCrypt version 7.1a didn't suddenly stop working yesterday. It is still just as secure and easy to use as it ever was. Relying on TC into the future might not be wise, but there's no reason for users to immediately dump it.