skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple example is the concept of living paycheck to paycheck... If you work on contract or hourly and payment is delayed (either because there weren't enough hours to work or your client is slow to pay), one of two things happens:

1) You are wealthy enough to have credit and perhaps a bit of cash savings, and you can pay your bills with that savings/credit card. When your paycheck comes, you pay down the short-term credit and you are as good as if it never happens.

2) You have no credit and no savings. You must directly choose between which bills you can and cannot pay. Some bills go into default or incur late fees. Other bills may cancel service because you cannot be relied upon to pay. In this scenario, when the paycheck comes, you pay your late bills, but you are left with the extra fees, lost services, and are at a net-loss going into the next period.

Compound scenario 2 for a few periods, and you start to incur heavily negative consequences that are very difficult to overcome.
Gabe being in Seattle also makes it pretty easy to interact with him.
There are plenty of places where just these questions are asked, and answered. For Android I'd suggest looking around the xda forums. For reference, I use an oldish (launched in 2010) Android device (Motorola Defy) running Android 4.4.3. The battery generally lasts for 3-4 days before I get a low battery warning (meaning 14% left). Had I loaded the thing with constantly updating all-singing-and-dancing apps and widgets I'd need to charge the battery every day. Doing absolutely nothing the battery lasts for 28 days (from 100% to 2%). And yes, there are differences between Android devices, just as there are differences between cars and televisions and chainsaws and any other device which is produced in an open market.
In his case, he'd already generated bad press, so letting him comment to the positive on changes they're working on benefits them.
The first claim just sounds like a SQL SELECT with a JOIN; wouldn't this be easy enough to get overturned?
One book that might give you some useful advice is "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers:

http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fea...
Yeah you bring up an excellent point.. that there's not a way to prove perfect knowledge of any given system because you can't rule out the existence of factors that you don't know about and are unable to measure. Your idea of "a universe that controls our own" seems a little far out and quasi-mystical to me, but I do think that the probability seems quite high that there may be forces acting upon any given system which we are not yet capable of measuring (within our universe). After all throughout history science has continually discovered new factors outside of it's previous range of measurement.

I suppose that as long as you're using the word random as a placeholder for a best guess, estimate, or assumption about reality then I think you're on solid ground. I only meant to point out that there's no way of scientifically proving that randomness exists apart from a concept or pointer in the mind of man.
The fact that it's an installable application for other platforms doesn't mean that IE on Windows isn't used by system services... Quicktime is installable on Windows, so would you say Mac OS doesn't use it for anything? Because that's not true either.

IE has been used extensively by a bunch of Windows components and software for a really long time. Sometimes in unexpected places: http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/you-got-your-web...
This may be the most overwrought piece of writing I've ever read. Can someone summarize it? I couldn't make it past the first page. It didn't seem like it was going anywhere insightful though.
Yay, easy way to confirm false transactions :D
Rather than single out engineer and UX guys, it would be more accurate to say that some person(s?) foresaw the problem, and their concerns were dismissed by someone above them.
I wonder how companies like Service Magic manage this for the constracting/home improvement business? Maybe each gig only gets to have X number of qualified people submit a proposal?
Why we write elementary apps in Vala
The 4 & 5LP are 32 bit ARM, the 1 & 3 are 8 bit.
Wacky Wheels Remake
The company seems to be very interesting, they launched something like Ouya, but sooner... Because of the Ouya, they had debts (backers falling off and the minimum of backers for having a succesfull campaign)...

Interesting to see a downside of Kickstarter though... Seems to be a good company with some bad luck.
Make patents non-transferrable.
I just wish that articles like this focused more on how to solve it. It's nice that it acknowledges the problem. But that is not enough. The end of the piece gives a small snippet of examples of what works.

How do we start promoting things that do work? That really work? I think that does not get done in part because many people really do not want "the poor" to solve their problems. I do not understand why that is but there seems to be a hostile attitude towards poor people, as if being poor is evidence of lack of good morals or something and thus you deserve to suffer.

But this doesn't just hurt people who are currently poor. It means anyone who falls down gets kicked while they are down so it becomes unlikely they can get back up. This is not a good paradigm for society. It hurts everyone.
Read this before rooting your phone.
Unless something has changed recently, my understanding is that you do not need to provide a working prototype under US patent laws. You just need an explanation on paper of some kind that would allow a third party to be able to build whatever is being patented.

Of course, someone has to look at the explanation to determine whether the prototype could be built and be functional to have the patent granted. But who has time to deal with all that noise when you just grant the patent to let someone else deal with it?
You are a responsible adult capable of thinking about things like actions having consequences. You probably are also able to earn disposable income. You probably don't smoke, drink excessively, take whatever drugs your friends take or even have friends that take drugs. You might even turn up to work on time. Not everyone is like you and how you think is quite inconceivable to them.

People in their younger years with a need for independence from their parents are extremely willing to buy stolen bicycles. They would not have the guts to shoplift (or maybe they do), yet, for some reason they think that a stolen bike is okay to buy. They suspect it is stolen but do not ask the questions to ascertain that. Even if it was stolen then they can moralise it okay, e.g. if they didn't buy it then someone else would so therefore it is going to be bought by someone anyway, therefore it might as well be them.

If walking sticks were needed by twenty-somethings then there would be a hot trade in walking sticks. The unfortunate thing for bicycles is that they appeal most highly to those that need them to get about and that exact same demographic is not yet old 'n' wise enough to think properly about it. (Meanwhile walking sticks do not appeal to that demographic.) It is also easy to say that you bought a bike second hand when you know it is stolen. Nobody asks tough questions, e.g. the parents, the friends, the love interests. So it is get-away-able.

I spent some time working in the bike trade as a kid and my bread was buttered with new bike sales. To me I would not buy a stolen bike in a million years, not least because a new bike is actually better value (none of the parts are worn). Coming from that background I always did ask the questions in part because people would get me to fix their bikes, question #1 always would be 'where did you get it?'.

I was always surprised at how friends I trusted and considered to be good friends had no scruples whatsoever when it came to buying a stolen bike. These were people studying proper things at university, with posh accents and well to do parents. Clearly there were those less educated that I tended not to consort with, I am sure they were even more likely to buy a stolen bike without hesitation.

So on one side the bike is 'currency of the street', however, as much as every market needs sellers and buyers, there was also a lot of acceptance by young 'trustworthy' people that buying stolen was okay.
So it has some sort of CPLD-like functionality internal to the chip to map pins to logical units? Is there somewhere that you've seen that lists all blocks you can map pins to?
Outside of the SV bubble, it's extraordinarily difficult to fail without seeing your credit take a serious hit. And boy howdy is getting back on your feet hard when you (a) can't get an apartment, and (b) find yourself getting screened out of otherwise available jobs. Forget getting money on loan, this is just getting access to the basics of economical survival - work to do and a place to sleep.

The fact that we punish economic failure by making economic success even harder to achieve is evidence of the deep insanity within American culture. Sink or swim is a misnomer. Swim or be drowned is closer to the mark.

So it's great that we're making technical progress on every front imaginable. But how many of these advances see their promise still born in a culture that pays more attention to recycling its trash than the people it discards on its streets?

This winner-take-all/losers-get-ruin problem goes way beyond the business cycle. As Reuters noted a couple of years ago, entrepreneurship has been suffering a decades-long retreat. Having peaked in 1987, it's declined precipitously ever since.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/02/us-usa-economy-bus...

In just about every way imaginable, SV is the exception not the rule. For those who are young enough, smart enough, skilled enough, male enough, credentialed enough, connected enough, unencumbered enough, and possibly delusional enough it's great. But strike any one of those factors from the list, and watch the curve get steep. Start crossing off two or more and the odds on the lottery start looking good.

Those are the odds that the rest of America sees. So it's no wonder they're backing further and further away from risk, regardless of the long-terms costs the country. Until this country has a social contract that's worth a damn, people are going to be very adverse to even the slightest setback. And for good reason.

After all, there's a big difference between the kind of failure that can be chalked up "a valuable learning experience" and failure so catastrophically crushingly severe you never, ever, get back on your feet. There's a lot of that in America. It's where the Fear comes from. That's what drives most people. Not dreams of being one of the great or the good. Those are luxuries for the fortunate few. Most people just live in constant dread of being thrown in the street.
I don't think anyone would say it's all luck. People with skill will do better than the AVERAGE rolls. But with a large enough population, some one will be able to get all 6 out of a hundred rolls just by luck. Given a success list alone you can't tell if it's luck or skill.
I don't want to disparage the author's hard work, as it was quite beautiful to look at, but as someone who already understands what he's talking about, I felt this was a terrible way to present it. (Like I say, it looked great, but I don't think it would aid a new student learning about complex numbers at all.)

The notation he invents is confusing, too. That "1∠90°" just means a vector with length 1 and pointing 90° from the X-axis (which the author later changes to the Y-axis for no apparent reason).

In my opinion, polar coordinates (which is what the notation represents) are a fascinating tool that can be very helpful. I use them quite a bit. Conflating that with complex numbers is confusing if you don't already understand both polar coordinates and complex numbers, in my opinion.
From the datasheets, it looks like the principal difference is that the 4200 has "programmable digital blocks" which are basically micro-FPGA's, programmable in Verilog. I'm not sure how capable they actually are but it's a pretty cool idea.

4100: http://www.cypress.com/?docID=46324
4200: http://www.cypress.com/?docID=46322
That should help the language grow.

As an aside, what does this mean for your position at Balanced?
> There was no mention of where exactly these would go.

From the article:

"The system takes search queries coming from Bing and offloads a lot of the work to the FPGAs, which are custom-programmed for the heavy computational work needed to figure out which webpages results should be displayed in which order. "

That looks like they're in the interactive path somewhere.
IE has been a system-level service in Windows for a long time. Naturally, you could boot the kernel without it, but a bunch of included Windows software (by Microsoft, as part of the distribution) and even system libraries rely on parts of IE.

Even now, there are weird dependencies on IE components that you wouldn't expect:
http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/you-got-your-web...

It's quite possible it was all bullshit at the time of the antitrust case, but it's been true for quite a while now. In practice, 'removing' IE from windows at this point would just mean removing iexplore.exe, because literally every native .dll and COM .dll bundled with IE is probably leveraged by some application or component somewhere in the OS. The whole IE object model and programming interface are documented on the web and exposed, so there are programs using them - Valve's Steam game management/storefront app used to use it before they moved to their own embedded version of WebKit.
> They are very good at committing to a project, and being in it for the long haul.

How so? I can think of several projects (especially hardware) that they abandoned after the first version. Granted, they gave the Zune a fair shake (though I don't think the iPod had much to be scared of). SPOT, too, considering that smart phones were starting to get useful about a year after SPOT's release.

But as a counter example, I know of one unreleased hardware product they're working on right now that stands little chance of going beyond V1 due to (without inappropriately saying too much) a lack of commitment on MSFT's part. Could be that in this case they're not "determined to win", but I'm not in a position to know how determined they are.
Heh, a nice piece of post-hoc rationalization. Compare to this article in the newyorker from 2 years ago (different author, but still...): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/14/120514fa_fact_...

(h/t to Jay Rosen on twitter: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu )
What issues did you find with React?
Planning != merely thinking. Planning implies intent. And how could white hats harm anyone by practicing a hack on their own system? There's also a benefit to this sort of thing. Where is the benefit in planning a murder or searching for children to abuse? Poor analogy.
It doesn't really matter, in my opinion, because the major learning hurdle generally isn't the languages, it's the Cocoa frameworks. Experienced programmers can pick up Swift or Obj-C in 2-3 days. The frameworks will take you considerably longer to feel comfortable with.

That said, Swift isn't production-ready yet, and there's not a wealth of books and documentation, but it's very, very likely the future of iOS and OS X application development.
Wait. If the attacker did any of that while it was in control, then wouldn't it fail validation for every other bitcoin miner?

If they lose their 50% control then they generate invalid blocks. Particularly the part regarding the number of coins generated per block. That one will obviously be wrong.
There's a big difference between an idea that makes it past many filters but you still don't know if it'll work and between a million random ideas that don't have a chance in hell in the first place.

You want to validate your business assumptions sooner rather than later and there's nothing wrong with that. You should also tweak your business based on the real world. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing really that new about that either. Other than that maybe Pivot is the new Agile?
I think this must be a standard ARM thing. The nRF51822 Cortex M0 (with BLE) from Nordic can do something very similar.

They call it PPI (Programmable Peripheral Interface). All the peripherals (timers, ports, low power comparator, even a quadrature decoder) have "events" and "tasks" and you can wire them up as you please. It's pretty neat. Doesn't have any op-amps or capacitative sensing circuits though.
Preconditions.js: A simple library similar to Google's Preconditions from Guava.
The 3 Same Demons that Startup Founders and Stock Traders Face
Downvotes are probably there due to sarcasm and because you assert that it is all learning and discount mental illness in 2nd to last paragraph.

But I agree with your argument.

In my opinion the current strong social pressure to be a "founder" has led many people to attempt it who are unfit to handle the challenges it brings.

Its the way of nature. Attempting to lead and failing is painful and possibly fatal. If you're a lion you don't start a convention celebrating your and other beta lion's failure to unseat the alpha. You either get busy plotting your attempt, or ctfo.

What is anyone railing against anyway? Founders risk depression. Alpha chimps test extremely high for stress. If you play the game for the biggest rewards it will be brutal, full stop. If your potential upside is 50 zillion dollars, you have just run out of sympathy points with everyone but your own kind.
There are quite a few downsides.

The first problem is that now you have to dedicate a whole lot of work to maintenance. Even if this was done in good faith, you'd have millions spent just reading and rubber stamping laws. Legislatures get little done as it is to add more work.

Then, we have the problem of getting the legislature to take this seriously. What stops gigantic omnibus renewals that, for all intents and purposes, lead to the same thing that we have now?

There's also the risks to partisan fighting over controversial laws. Imagine what happens to an impasse over immigration law, or gun control. The winner, politically, would always be the side that would be more capable of tolerating no law at all. This is far more politically charged than just keeping whatever was the consensus in the past.

So that proposal is only a good idea if you believe that having a harder to govern country is something you want. Rarely a popular opinion among people that make laws.
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The typical hacker shouldn't be testing this device, then. I'm sure Microsoft has someone with the skills on their teams.
Tesla: More Like Google, Less Like Apple
I left Balanced a few weeks ago. I really loved the team, the product, and the work, but I couldn't stand living in San Francisco. I wasn't really doing development work at Balanced, so remote didn't make a whole lot of sense, either. I really want to dis-associate my work requirements from time and space, rather than need to be physically present at an office most of the time. Sometimes, things just don't work out, even when everyone involved wants them to. I still hang out in IRC and even answer questions from time to time.

I elaborated here: http://words.steveklabnik.com/sf
Pretty sure chillingeffect's idea is to have Microsoft behind it, so I'm not sure how that applies.
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Mine just died. Firefox 29.0.1 on Linux. I had to disable webgl.
> but implicit in that statement is that regulation is never desirable.

Not exactly. What's implicit in that statement is that a structure with the physical ability to create and enforce regulations will probably create some effective regulations, and some ineffective regulations. Just like how a market will probably lead to some efficient outcomes, and some inefficient outcomes (i.e. market failures).

So the question becomes which structure (government or markets) can do better overall, or if there's some way to combine the two such that you get "the best of both worlds" which is better than an all-or-nothing approach. My belief is that markets can do better overall than a pure command economy or a mixed economy, primarily because governments (at least modern republics) are, at the end of the day, somewhat subject to market forces in the form of elections, lobbying, personal incentives of government officials, etc., This makes the whole "let's use government to solve some common market failures" idea seem fairly silly to me. If we as a society can't aggregate our desires effectively enough to avoid a market failure (e.g. to fund a public good, like a highway system [0]), why should we expect to be able to aggregate our desires effectively enough to give legal authority to an organization to use violence to avoid a market failure?

[0] Using the broader definition of "public good" that includes club goods, and assuming the highway system isn't so congested that it can be considered rivalrous.