skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting - How does formatting work on the content stored in Dropbox? Is it just HTML on Dropbox or can it be markdown or even word docs with images, etc.
Glad it's written in Swift.
Parks can get crowded with people as well, to the extent that it's not very enjoyable for any of them. I assume that many parks have methods in place to prevent this, and I don't see why they couldn't be applied to small aircraft as well.
More videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvNWzY4IrNeSEDGgRoPTzPA
Come on; while the NYT is now paywalled for me as of today (I guess I used up my monthly quota), the date of the article shows it's during the Sandy Hook furor, when after a decade's pause the Democrats at the national level returned to gun-grabbing. Self-reported gun ownership to a nosy stranger calling you on the phone has always tracked the political situation.

Doing the math is a lot more productive; I don't know about the above (since I can't read it!), but when I ran the numbers on another gun-grabber claim of the sort at around the same time, it implied we gun owners have now, on average, accumulated gun collections worth more than $100,000. That obviously doesn't pass the smell test, especially N years into the Great Recession.
How is that any different than with native code? You can't just rip out your OS' implementation of libc and have all of your programs use another (not all implementations of libc are ABI compatible).

You can't boot your computer into two operating systems at once (or can you?). This whole post is analogous to running Windows in a VM on Linux.
You can definitely pay a lawyer to explain this stuff to you. Make sure to pick one who has regular experience with startups and equity. Because a) you don't want to pay 'em to learn it, b) they'll need current experience to tell you what "normal" looks like, and c) if things go south, it's good to have an established relationship with a lawyer who regularly works in the field.

The (awesome) lawyer I've used for years is Adam Slote of Slote, Links, and Boreman: http://www.slotelaw.com/

But I'd encourage you to do your research first, so that you aren't paying a lot of money to be spoon-fed stuff you could get from Wikipedia and elsewhere. I'd start here:

http://www.payne.org/index.php/Startup_Equity_For_Employees

https://avc.com/2012/04/mba-mondays-live-employee-equity-arc...
Time to crack out the papyrus and stylus and turn off the computer?
Something I have been really interested in is being able to replay the actual traffic our site is experiencing. So, we press record and everything that's going to our server is recorded for playback at a later date. Does anyone know any solutions like that?
Comparables are good, but you may also want to check out Aswath Damodaran's work. The simplistic version is to do a discounted cash flow analysis and use comparables to get an idea on the discount and other variables.
https://www.earthclassmail.com looks like it is still alive, no?
Very nice and with JS support it would be perfect! I wonder if this is a solution to potential XSS attacks with embeded iframes or embeded user-generated html+css+js.
At the moment you can put in HTML or Markdown files. The formatting is handling by the sites theme, but you're welcome to add inline styles to the HTML files.

Eventually we'll add support for any kind of file that you can put in Dropbox.

Good question, thanks!
Take a look at capsule[1] (I'm the author).

[1]: https://github.com/puniverse/capsule
I feel like we are recovering from a 20-year programming bender of heap allocations and dynamic dispatch. The "scripting" languages, Java, and crappy C++ books somehow convinced us that it was OK not to know what anything actually IS in memory, and use some clever tricks (vtable, dicts) to figure it out at the last minute. It's a great solution to certain problems but it's really NOT necessary for huge swaths of programming.
How do you get socrates.io to do latex? I could only figure out how to do markdown.
I think I understand patents as well as any average non-lawyer. What I'm trying to do is make sense of the language used to describe patents. It's clear that people can't agree on what they are, because the Supreme Court keeps needing to step in and refine the definition. The language seems not to make sense, which would help to explain why people can't agree on what they are.

Ok, you patent a machine. But that statement is vague and ambiguous at best. If I patent a machine that I built, then how could the patent apply to a different machine that I didn't build? Yet, that's the whole point: they apply to classes of machines, including machines that haven't even been built at the time that the patent is granted. The class would seem to be inherently something abstract.
Oh, here's our documentation on using Dropbox with Postach.io:

http://help.postach.io/intro-to-using-dropbox-with-postach-i...
I don't know if you have much experience with multirotors, but they really are not that loud. They're louder than a tripod, obviously, but once they're 10 meters or so away they aren't going to cause a disruption.

As for risks of mechanical or operator failure, that's obviously a valid concern, but there are ways to handle that risk without a total ban.

> How often does your tripod wander in front of other picture takers during use?

It's pretty common for humans to wander in front of other picture takers in parks. I wager that happens a lot more per day than drones flying in from of picture takers (even before the ban).
Here's our (Bloomberg) version of this. The bsls::TimeUtil component is used to implement the bsls::Stopwatch. It supports high-res timestamps on OSX/Windows as well as Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX (SPARC, POWER, IA64). It's a good base to start from and we'll continually tweak it for more performance as platforms change (I think there a few patches in the pipeline).

https://github.com/bloomberg/bde/blob/master/groups/bsl/bsls...

Component docs: http://bloomberg.github.io/bde/group__bsls__timeutil.html
'Nothing' is all about context!

Plus, college kids won't be able to steal your data...there isn't any.
I was curious, but had no idea how to use this on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install haskell-platform

download and extract the tarball

cd awgn-cgrep-8af1beb

cabal cgrep.cabal

Unfortunately what stops me using it on a large codebase is that I can't exclude directories like .repo (not sure about .git).
Implicit with the term "Java" is also the JVM, and the JVM has significant restrictions with regard to memory layout of arrays. I'm not sure any compiler can get around that.
Amazon coins? Why can't companies just use normal money instead of inventing their own monetary units?
PHP Framework suggestion
Hello!
I am a freelancer and I was given the task to create a car park / junkyard site. However, I dont really know what to use. I thought of using a CMS but I will have to modify quite some stuff to fit my needs and I'm affraid I will bump into the CMS' API and that will set me back alot. What do you recommend? Keep using a CMS (and if so, which one?) or go for a framework? I think it's better to use a framework so that everything will link together nicely. However, I have little experience with frameworks but I'm not affraid. Do you have a suggestion for a PHP begginer (sort of). I tried CI and Smarty but I don't really feel at home with them.

Thanks!
Just says "Yo. Please take security seriously.". Was this something else earlier?
It depends.

Generally speaking valuation is speculative. Think of it this way - a gallon of milk is priced at $3 because that's the price people are willing to pay for it. If it was $10, no one would buy it and if it was $0.01, they'd run out of supply. Same thing goes for business. The valuation is whatever people are willing to pay for it. If I buy milk for $3 it's because I know if I consume foods right now it will give me energy so I can do more things later in the day. Some people create a story speculating that a particular gallon of milk has the ability to give you twice the energy, so they'd price it at $6. These stories turn out to be true sometimes and sometimes not. Hence, why today valuations are considered crazy because everyone is painting a unicorn story.

A few factors go into valuing a company, which potentially aid the craze:

1. There is extremely low liquidity in non-public markets for investing. In other words, you don't have a millions of people in the US investing in startups every day. In a perfectly elastic market, valuations are 100% correct. Due to the high liquidity and number of actors, public markets are much better at reaching perfect elasticity whereas private markets are not. In other words, less actors dictating how much they are willing to pay for something means higher deviations from the true price.

2. Many tech companies are irregularly (irregular in relation to existing companies) evaluated today because they do not follow traditional investment metrics. This is largely set by precedence. When Facebook and Google IPO'd, the investing community was fairly clueless as to how to evaluate these companies. The metric they've chose is DAU/MAU because it translates into how much attention "land" they can acquire to resell to advertisers and hence increase revenues and profits. Now that these are "the metrics" it means every other "tech startup" is in a land grab to attain those numbers quicker anf faster than before. This is why Instagram and WhatsApp had such high valuations...their DAU/MAU's were crazy high and growing at faster rates than Facebook itself.

Generally, the larger investing community values companies based on earnings. EBITDA is usually a popular metric to do this, but one metric can't dictate everything about the valuation. Valuations are based on a series of metrics, a multiplier, all based on the speculative return of buying the business. So for example, a company a one-year $1.1m budgeted forecast might be speculate to be worth $5mil simply because the revenue growth trajectory means they can return. Now add in a multiplier of 2.2x because your team is a group of badasses and your contracts last 3 years, and bam your company is worth $11mil.

Because tech markets have high growth potential (Uber is quoting to having had doubled their growth every 6 months) it means the valuations are abnormally higher than many other businesses. How many hair salons do you know that are doubling revenue every 6 months and have relative businesses who have shown similarly consistent growth in that market?

All things being equal, the question ultimately becomes "what part of the hockey stick am I on?".
Your snark aside, "public" and "government owned, operated, and controlled" have no appreciable difference between them.
No, I never write code without doing the programming first. Coding is converting the planning into whatever language you're using.
You can compile any language down to C or C++, but that doesn't mean that it will run as fast as well-optimized C/C++.

The moment you include dynamic dispatch, auto-conversion to big integers, or one of a zillion of other high-level features without also introducing ways for the programmer to indicate how the compiler should implement them, you give up being just as fast as C/C++.

Yes, the difference may be small, and spending time on improving your compiler can make it smaller and smaller, but for any 'real world program', it won't be zero.

The same is true for C vs assembly, but there, the difference mostly _is_ small because C has none of those high-level features.

Also, few people have the skills and the time to wrote well-optimized C/C++.
PubNub real-time network backend serivce
It'll be interesting to see if developers can woo users into their apps by offering up to $5000 in prizes (Amazon Coins). I personally believe that Amazon should be offering the $5000 directly to developers to simply build apps through a large competition (i.e. top 50 apps in every category will receive a prize). This current approach is assuming there's a population of users to bribe which isn't necessarily true.
I'm going to guess it was an adaptation that provided a reproductive advantage. You are supposed to be very careful about getting Tomato plant leaves wet when watering them because getting them wet makes them much more susceptible to diseases. Being resistant to such things would be a huge advantage. I've noticed such water-phobic behavior on other plants in my garden, specifically kale and broccoli.
The valuation bubble will eventually burst -- the question is when?

The gross over-valuations occuring today are not sustainable -- the companies that are being purchased for billions USD are not actually worth that much. $16 Billion for an instant messaging company, $2 Billion for a research company with no product. Now everyone feels they are worth Billions when in fact, not only 3 years ago these companies would have sold for maybe a few hundred million USD at best.
Wanted something like this when I was 8.
Note that Chromium has been doing this for a while with impl-side painting.

What is exciting about this in the context of Servo, though, is that it completes the parallel pipeline:

* Script can be parallelized through PJS or Web Workers.

* All phases of layout are fully parallelized: selector matching is performed in parallel (one micro-task per DOM node), layout is performed in parallel, and display list construction is performed in parallel (one micro-task per render object).

* Painting is now performed in parallel on a tile-by-tile basis.

* Compositing is performed in parallel thanks to the GPU.

All of these tasks can also be performed in parallel with one another.
Are you guys using LevelDB off the shelf or have you forked it?
I believe it helps avoid legalities involving gambling and the such as well as helps to keep the money circulating in their marketplace.
The Glass half empty
Maybe leaves evolved these microscopic "needles" in order to increase their surface area, because this would help photosynthesis for 2 reasons:

1. More surface area = better ability to capture carbon dioxide from the air.

2. More surface area = heatsink effect = reduced heating under the sun (photosynthesis is less efficient under too much heat[1]).

The fact that these "needles" also create a superhydrophobic effect would just be a side effect.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21029116
I suspect he is referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooh_Afza

which can usually be found by poking around the shelves of Indian stores in bigger cities. Certainly Austin and SF would have it, it might take some phone calls to locate though.
Growth hacking tool for Instagram
Yes, there are programs to make other occupations diverse. This point has been made very many times on HN before -- every time a thread like this happens someone will make exactly the same point as you.

I'm surprised that you managed to get statistics about the disparities without also finding information about the various programs to increase diversity. They need to publicise those better.
"Resist the urge to raise and spend too much money. The track record of companies that raise $30MM or more in their first round is bad."

Q: Is the track record bad, or do they just fail louder than the ocean of companies that raise small amounts of $ and then quietly die? It'd be interesting if someone could prove that a large raise actually hurts your chances, but for a disciplined/veteran founder (who would raise a lot but spend it thoughtfully rather than recklessly), it seems like it shouldn't.

Edit: http://www.alleywatch.com/2014/02/the-10-biggest-series-a-ro... - "All of the companies are still operational in some capacity."
How does this compare with Ack?
I see the appeal but... Python's long, slow march to widespread adoption of 3.x, and Perl 6's much less successful experience, both suggest there would be a lot of danger in that.
Whatever the effect is, it's obviously stronger with girls given the ratio of adult men to adult women in STEM.

Which is the whole point of these sorts of programs, of course. The issue is not that some people don't go into STEM, the issue is that there is something about STEM that repels girls and women far more strongly than boys and men.

And since there is nothing inherent to STEM jobs that is in conflict with women's capabilities (doesn't require extremes of height, strength, weight, etc.), it seems likely that the issue is social factors, which can be changed with effort.
> stop worrying about unemployment and just start paying everyone a basic income?

What I've never understood about BI is how it works for the middle class. Consider: a cohabiting couple each work entry-level tech jobs and bring in a combined $100k. They buy a condo together, maybe a couple of halfway decent cars. They're being responsible. Then, economy tanks/tech bubble bursts/etc and they have to live off their BI which if I understand correctly should fall somewhere in the $15k/year range each, so $30k total. How do they pay their bills?

In other words, what good is $15k/year when you've been living on $15k/month? Or $7k or $5k/month? It's better than a poke in the butt with a sharp stick, but it's just delaying the inevitable, isn't it?

If then BI is instead mainly for the low-income portion of society, well, we already have that -- it's called welfare/social security/disability. I'm missing something.
I thought there was bacteria that used nuclear radiation to sustain themselves. They aren't doing fission...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019192814.ht...
The problem is, Amazon is notoriously bad to their vendors. Even getting paid $5000 in cash (which this apparently isn't) I don't know that I would want to be in business with them as a vendor.
the most sound way, imho, is discounted cash flow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow

if you are a saas company, check this out

http://a16z.com/2014/05/13/understanding-saas-valuation-prim...
Like what?

I'm honestly curious, the only docs i see say the opposite:

"To implement the Java Virtual Machine correctly, you need only be able to read the class file format and correctly perform the operations specified therein. Implementation details that are not part of the Java Virtual Machine's specification would unnecessarily constrain the creativity of implementors. For example, the memory layout of run-time data areas, the garbage-collection algorithm used, and any internal optimization of the Java Virtual Machine instructions (for example, translating them into machine code) are left to the discretion of the implementor."

From the JVM spec: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-2.htm...

I also know of static java compilers that do mess around with this.
In the general case, you need to be able to put arbitrary objects into the array, regardless of how they were allocated. You also need to be able to keep track of null elements.
Kevlar Inventor Stephanie Kwolek Dead at 90
Looks like that small percentage of drone owners don't have a voice. The majority use hand devices. A small sacrifice for the good of the majority.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/19942784:

"So; to cut a long story short, if you want an accurate performance measurement you're mostly screwed. The best you can realistically hope for is an accurate time measurement; but only in some cases (e.g. when running on a single-CPU machine or "pinned" to a specific CPU; or when using RDTSCP on OSs that set it up properly as long as you detect and discard invalid values)."
Because ot creates confusion in the mind of the buyer who will then not realise how much they are spending in that ecosystem.
Cms -> typo3
Framework -> silverlight

But if you ask me - it's try and error case.
Test some frameworks and use the where you feel save. Usually as a beginner you should take one with a bigger userbase (e.g for questions)
The fundamental questions seems to be (1)"what is the purpose of a BOD"; and (2) are the "good things" the primary purpose of the BOD or the emergent phenomena that happen as a result of (#1). In other words, will (#2) type events happen outside the context of (#1). And this includes changing (#2) type things to be (#1) at a formal level.
I think the argument is that a job is more than just about salary, as long as you're getting paid enough to live comfortably, because there's more to job satisfaction than your paycheque. In the case of Apple, that comes in the form of working in a good (pro-design) environment, on a good design team, on projects that people actually use. On top of that, you're working for a famous company on highly visible products, which is an additional bonus on top of the rest of the job.

I certainly would never tell someone to take a crappy job because of visibility, but if you're getting paid enough, then highly visible work is a 'nice to have'.
Why your reasons for no-longer using a CSS pre-processor are wrong.
Tapped in: How your phone gives you up to companies and criminals
I'm guessing no. I don't remember how,* but I managed to jump higher than the level pole once, but hit an invisible wall and slid down it anyway.

*Game Genie? Emulated ROM?
previous tech/node fabs often build things like the motherboard chipsets, and other things. 100nm node machinery probably isn't used since there is probably enough production capacity from more recent nodes that there isn't any point (as has been pointed out, silicon wafers aren't really much cheaper for the older nodes, so you might as well stamp more processors out with newer tech)
If recent science is correct http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130912/srep02617/full/srep02... then we should be able to actually touch the leaf and "feel" the needles ourselves.
"'Just be yourself' when dating"

Perhaps off topic (at least vaguely relevant to these boomerangs), but what's wrong with this "truth in advertising" advice?

I say this from a position of ignorance, that's what I did (sans explicit parental advice, but I suppose it was implicit), and it worked for me.
Fluid Construction Grammar – Video Tutorial Series
Beyond what the others have said, one of the reasons you wouldn't want to use older chip tech is power efficiency. In many cases newer chips are so much more power efficient that the power savings alone more than make up for the difference in cost over its lifetime.
A taste of Kandinsky
Tor anti-censorship using Google, Akamai, Cloudflare as proxies
I give it 5 minutes after release until the first phallic levels are uploaded.
Clojure Pedestal 0.3.0 – a grand step forward
Most consumer multirotors are not audible from long distances. "Several square miles" is a wild exaggeration. For most drones that non-professionals would be using at a park, I think a 20 meter radius would be more realistic.
Perhaps he was a pescatarvegan.
SusHack: a free sustainability themed hack day in Oxford on Saturday 28th June
So, for me it is that I can not really decide "what to say next" until I have gotten "what I'm saying now" out of my head and onto the screen.

That is, if I can keep an even pace where I'm typing at roughly the speed I'm saying what I want to type, then I don't do this stutter that often. However, if I am constantly getting adrift in how fast I'm typing versus how far ahead I've thought of what to say, then I stutter like crazy.

I'm assuming it has a lot to do with how you "speak" in your head. Some people (myself) do so verbally. Some do so visually.
It may also be related to the fact that the get-big-quick scheme is inherently risky in order to return the necessary rewards. If you're raising a ton of money you have to be a home run, and that means you may pass on moderately profitable opportunities in order to keep looking for insanely profitable ones.
Young workers hate their jobs