skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen any public records on the sale of IndexTank, but I'm pretty sure they didn't sell for $1.6MM. I think you're reading the amount of funding they received before the sale.
So, ultimately, your assertion is that people cannot make educated guesses about their behaviour in unfamiliar situations?

OK. The world is awash with people receiving a criminal sentencing and then killing themselves. It's unfortunate we don't have any data whatsoever to disprove that...

Well done, Sir. You win the internet today. Aaron Schwarz taking his own life instead of facing a maximum of 6 months in prison is completely normal.
Not uncommon, for instance with MySQL in Python: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2424531/does-the-mysqldb-...
"is roughly linear-log and does not diminish as incomes rise"

That is inconsistent. What I believe they are trying to say is that there is no sharp cut-off. If the relationship is always roughly linear-log, then it always diminishes as incomes rise.
hmm, so audio is closer to what you'd get in the wild, ultimately making for more indicative practice. logging it might be useful down the line, though, in some format (provided users agree to that)!
What's the advantage for your situation of publishing to SNS which is in turn publishing to SQS vs. just publishing directly to SQS? Are you forking to multiple SQS queues?
http://econweb.tamu.edu/common/files/workshops/PERC%20Applie...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387813...
FYI I just checked and Shallot is entirely CPU based, so for brute forcing there is no point in using it at all - Scallion (open cl) will always be much, much, much faster.
Where are you if you don't mind me asking?
great feedback, will fix. thank you!
Drug violations are also up slightly and the increase from the three named groups is about double the previous year's drug violations.
Uber has definitely created. Typically speaking there's a hard cap on the number of taxi drivers. For example Seattle hasn't issued a new taxi license since 1990 [1]. That's insane! The area has grown dramatically in that time. That said there is some amount that are moved rather than created. It's definitely something that should be considered.

[1] http://www.change.org/petitions/seattle-city-council-break-t...
Samsung to end plasma TV production this year
Slightly relevant: Lessig is currently doing an AMA (with Jack Abramoff) over on reddit [1].It's only an hour old so there's still a chance that your question might be answered.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/29nq9p/lawrence_lessig...
> When sites load slow, bad colors, etc... it should become apparent.

It's not only that. When your user opens a new tab, they don't expect a huge marketing website to already be there. It's too disrupting, and in my opinion the overlay element just adds to the clutter.
This is a great example of the Streisand effect [0] -- trying to hide something draws attention to it.

Specifically, I now know about Stan O'Neal, who "was forced out of Merrill [Lynch] after the investment bank suffered colossal losses on reckless investments it had made." Google may no longer be showing the original result, but now I see the reason for the original article and the fact that he wanted it hidden.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Yes. "Retired" when I was 33 with about $4.5m (now 35). Posting under a throwaway account, because I'm a private guy.

Made money off being the 100th engineer at a company which had a huge IPO ($2m+), and some good real estate transactions ($1m+). Plus my wife is very successful in her own right and added a fair bit.

Just to put it in context, I wasn't a total lottery winner. I spent 80 hrs/week working throughout my 20s, and had extremely challenging positions at some top companies. The company that IPO'd recruited me, and I was able to get a relatively healthy equity package, plus about $250k annual comp.

It felt good, though it only became real once the IPO lockup ended, and I saw my brokerage balance.

I'm very happy. I have a much quieter life than before I had money. I spend a lot of time with my kids and wife, as well as do almost all the cooking and some house chores (my wife still works). I get to spend about 3 work days a week coding stuff I want to build with some moderate success so far.

Once my kids are a bit older, I will startup.

In contrast to one of the other answers here, I really haven't been to a bar or club since I made money. But this may also coincide with me having children around that time.
I disagree with the direction Coinbase is going. Of all the things they could have built next, this is what they chose? Why not develop a button that says "Pay with Bitcoin by Coinbase" that allows one-click payments on third party websites/mobile apps? Or why not compete with Bitstamp and btc-e on the exchange front? There's definitely tons of room for competition there.

Consider a traditional USD/EUR bank account. If your bank offers you a "vault" option to store your large balance to offer better reassurance that it won't get stolen from your "regular account"/wallet, aren't you going to have some serious concerns about security of the regular account? Instead of offering a "more secure account" why don't think just work on the fact that people feel that their regular accounts are insecure. This seems like a bandaid on the problem rather than the proper fix.

It's also overcomplicated. Now I have two account types and have to worry myself over what the differences are for accessing my money in each and how to use each. They're increasing the amount of friction it takes to get started rather than basing their model off a bank's model of "your account is as secure as it needs to be, just use one".
It's worth mentioning that I ran this under -c 100 or 200, not 1-8, which may change things significantly.
No, ActiveRecord uses bind variables. It uses prepared statements in some cases.
Google Cloud Platform goes 8 for 8 in World Cup predictions
It won't take long before a UK search for Dougie McDonald shows the article talking about how the articles about Dougie McDonald have been removed from Google, and what those articles are about.

Google tells the media which articles are being expunged, the media writes about the articles Google expunged and then Google indexes these pages in their search results. Interesting process.
Dart now supported on Google Cloud; new lib also supports Datastore, memcached
> Hardware headphone amplifiers are obsolete. Software equalizers are the solution.

What?

My headphones need a lot more power than is provided by a typical headphone jack. Not to mention the DAC built into most amps that gets rid of any line noise. Equalizers and amps are two completely different things, too.
I think the people running exit nodes gave up on democracy a while back and for good reason.
Without the infrastructure to support bitcoins, the value bitcoins will remain stagnate or may even go down. Investing in companies to build out infrastructure for this currency is only "sure" bet you can take unless you gamble on someone else to make the investment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978474
The submission title ("Larry Lessig's PAC is fighting big money in politics with crowdsourced Bitcoin") was not only highly editorialized, it was linkbaity (Bitcoin is barely mentioned). Submitters: this is against the HN guidelines. Please don't do it.

The article title isn't great either. We can change it if someone suggests an accurate, neutral replacement, preferably using language from the article. Usually an article contains a natural such title in its first paragraph, but I don't see one here.
If I recall correctly the GameBoy Color could only assign sprites 3 colors.

What's interesting is Nintendo also made the GameCube GameBoy Advance attachment much later
you will be happy to hear that 90% of the companies we fund still get mocked on HN and elsewhere for "being small".

certainly agree that's usually the way to get huge. and even the "hyper-ambitious" companies we fund have to start with going after a very small market--in fact, their first products mostly sound like toys, and that's a feature not a bug.

it's a mistake to build a startup that looks like a huge government project. it's also a mistake to not think about how to be a huge company one day. in fact, i remember one of the first meetings i ever had with airbnb. i told them how i thought that this silly-seeming thing they were doing could one day change the way most people travel. i think it seemed crazy even to them at the time.
Oh true... So we should create a company that destroys things and creates jobs to rebuild them... :-O

Edit: Looks like the "List of largest employers" in the other comments confirms this with the military companies as the top employers. :-(
One of the more interesting discussions about this that I've seen: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/azgs6/iama_guy_who_so/...
Yup we are. There might be multiple applications interested in the event and they each get their own queue.
Ask HN: hiring part-time Financial Manager/CFO?
For a startup which is seeing some cashflows but is still unable to afford a full time, well networked CFO or Financial Manager (150k+). But could afford 5-8 days per month of his or her time.

Does it make sense to hire s/he on a part time basis. My reasons would be:

1) offload accounting, treasury, and tax functions.
2) offload some of the fund raising responsibilities.

Would anyone have an opinion or experience they would like to share?
Well, they wouldn't have to retroactively do anything, since marijuana is still a federally controlled substance, and federal law still considers its sale and consumption illegal.

The only thing that stopped the dispensary raids on California dispensaries was discretion. The law hasn't changed substantially enough that what they're doing is still considered kosher to the federal government.

As it stands, the next president, whatever his party, could simply decide to resume those raids, and would be perfectly within their statutory purview to do.

That said, I agree with the assertion that it is a states' rights issue, but SCOTUS precedent extends the power of the Interstate Commerce Clause to include much more than this, so according to current precedent, states rights only exist where the federal government expressly abdicates making a policy decision, which isn't something our federal government is terribly good at doing.
One of the main reasons to use a dynamic DNS service is because your IP address changes frequently. A service that requires you to pay for each record update is a non-starter for that use case.
The blockchain, on the other hand, would:

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain/blob/master/README.md#...
I doubt it, if it wasn't for Android everyone would still be split between Ant and Maven.

I am yet to touch Gradle outside Android projects.
Certainly! Too many bored cops are not a benefit to the community. Drug legalization laws should definitely have police force reduction measures, whether that's a direct population-ratio requirement or just a diminution of funds.
While this article serves its intended purpose ("No, DNSSEC wouldn't help here"), I find it disappointing that it takes very little time dismissing the possibility of a technical solution preventing the hijacking ("legal" or otherwise) of a domain.

It seems unlikely that a technical solution based on the existing DNS infrastructure could prevent hijacking, but that doesn't make it impossible to design a naming infrastructure resilient against such attacks. There do exist at least some proof-of-concept technical solutions that would work, such as those based on blockchains; a production solution hardly seems impossible.
The text makes it seem like they're using SQS for many things, but the diagram only shows it between Orders and Shipments. I guess everything else communicates through the database and HTTP requests?

Using SQS means you're either polling or long-polling with hangups every 20 seconds. This seems pretty shitty to me. Also how do you structure one of these services around polling or long-polling to get its info? It sounds like they're using Rails. Does Rails have something that makes this easy to do?

At first, reading this reminds me of the Blackboard pattern from The Pragmatic Programmer. This pattern seems like a neat way to separate an application into different agents.
Yep, and if you dump all your coins into an account with no private key, nobody can get your bitcoins ever, so that's really what everybody should do.
What worked for me was taking functional programming concepts, and applying them in languages where I was already comfortable. That way, I wasn't learning a new syntax and a new programming paradigm at the same time.
"...found his seam..." Ever heard of the chink in the armor? It's more impressive to persevere for 89 minutes and score in the 90th entirely unassisted. Watch him play and try to call his "funny soccer" anything but impressive.
Great! thank you. I'm looking forward for this.
Of course you're seeing transients/homeless where you didn't in the past. The City Council is playing Whac-A-Mole: the police blocked off significant portions of the downtown library green areas and patrol the river. Where do you expect them to go?

Besides, Boulder has been hostile to recreational marijuana. Denver had retail shops open on the 1st of January...it took until March or April for multiple shops to open. I doubt a couple months of legal weed has spiked the population.

Boulder, like San Francisco and Seattle, has always had a significant homeless population. The big change I've seen in Boulder is Conservatism and intolerance. Take Patti Adler, for example.
The Preamble to the Constitution says:

> We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Constitutional scheme to think that the Framers implemented "limited government." The federal government was indeed constituted as one of limited powers, but it was created against the backdrop of the state governments, which were conceived to have inherited all the powers of the British sovereign, limited only by their own constitutions.

You can invoke the Constitution to argue that some particular policy is better implemented at the state level than the federal level, but it is incorrect to say that this or that end is not the function of the federal and state governments taken together. We live, by design, in a democracy: the ends of government are whatever we want them to be, subject only to the limitations outlined in the Constitution.
My wife pointed this out to me today and said she wanted to give $200 because the issue is very important to her. We gave $500.
Strava will let you do this if you pay for premium. It's called Personal Heatmaps. It's typically used for running/cycling/swimming, but nothing stops you from using it to track your location.

http://www.strava.com
Reading this post was very uncomfortable, especially the follow-ups describing women as having "no intellectual curiosity", but also the general tone. I was also perplexed at how many others described this as an ideal life -- perhaps they were just referring to the raw facts (lots of fun, dating, throwing good parties, etc.) and not actually adopting many of the implicit attitudes in there.

Still, I couldn't help but read this post in the voice of a ~19 year old college "douche"[1] type, which felt very weird coming out of a 41 year old.

Perhaps the real lesson in here for young HNers is to live their lives fully, to grow, mature, and develop our emotional maturity, so that we don't sound like that at the respectable age of 41.

--

[1] - couldn't find a better word; is there an alternative with less negative connotations, but carrying the same denotation?
The Dart lib is at: http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/appengine
He actually says in the talk that it's appropriate to test a method when it's the flow of the method you're trying to describe. But they are throw-away tests when the implementation changes.
Every interview you run has positive expected value - you get better at the process, and it may end up in a positive-value hire. If you've got low opportunity-cost time, this is a great tool for consuming it.
I knew I was making a strong assertion when I mentioned function composition. I'm grateful for your feedback, but perhaps you could elaborate? I don't see why they have to be "very different". I think you called me on a certain case, but an example like this demonstrates that they are not so "very different":

def a(b):
m = 0
return b(m)

Or even:

def a(b):
m = b(1)
return m+7

I don't see how these are not a form of function composition. I'm definitely no expert. But I'd really appreciate an elaboration so I can learn from any mistake I'm making.
> Running a TOR exit node almost certainly would not constitute an agreement under federal law.

You may very well be right. All I'm saying, and this is the EFF's position as well, is that at some point a prosecutor (or several) will test this. By running the node, you have agreed to have traffic run through your system. Given the shady reputation, you are saying "come do illegal things with my internet connection, I'll protect your identity".

Federal prosecutors are smart, and most are gunning for jobs at high-end law firms. Someone is going to try to get a nice resume bump by testing this eventually, and there will be an unlucky exit node operator that will at best only have to pay a six figure defense bill, and at worst will spend time in prison.
Put down your Google pitchfork. The article is clearly not placing the blame on Google: "As for Google itself, it's clearly a reluctant participant in what effectively amounts to censorship." The second paragraph says this is the result of a court ruling.

If the most concerning thing to you about this article is that it doesn't spend enough time exonerating Google for their role in this, then I don't know what to tell you.
I'm from Mexico City, and I'm genuinely surprised by the biking activity.

Unfortunately, only in the touristic areas, and near the "Ecobici" routes, there are bike-exclusive lanes. On the other side, drivers feel entitled to use the streets exclusively, and they perceive bikers as a hindrance in their way.

I wanted to commute by bike to my work, but at the end I gave up, because I didn't want to get hit by a car and risk my life like hardcore bikers do.
It reminds me of 1984, where the party is perpetually rewriting history to fit their narrative. This is it, history is being rewritten.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past
The reason you might be perceiving this is because once you're past the learning curve hump, the concepts become extremely obvious and the definitions stick to your head.

It takes me a few seconds to rewrite foldl from rote understanding: foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f x) xs, because it takes a function, a 'zero', a list of head and tail, and calls itself again with the same function, a zero 'going up' (so accumulating) and a list 'going down' (being exhausted). So as you see this is an almost a visual way to understand it, which is natural to those that already are familiar with these abstractions, but is meaningless to those who don't.

If someone then says "how dare you ask that" then they have the wrong approach to things. Socrates asked every question and thought they were all valid. By asking the basics you learn the abstraction as if you're proving it to yourself, and that's more powerful.

So it boils down to familiarity, is what I'm trying to say. I usually come across as more passionate than arrogant about it. If you stick to it, it will make sense. It took me 4 years of Haskell exploration for it all to click really hard and now I'm trying to shorten other people's paths. In my opinion the gap is around mathematical abstractions, how they're created, what do they mean, how they actually relate to reality, and what work do they accomplish for us that we then don't need to do anymore.
Nice.

> B. The following shall constitute indicia that a person's assertion of patent infringement was made in bad faith:

>1. The demand letter does not contain:

>a. The number of the patent that is asserted, alleged, or claimed to have been infringed; or

Wouldn't this outlaw Microsoft's Android manufacturer shakedown strategy? If I recall, Microsoft's settlement demand letters never actually specify which patents are infringed, and they only provide this information if you settle with them and agree not to disclose it (to prevent Google from routing around the allegedly infringed IP).
I have had Aline Lerner reach out to me as a recruiter before. She is one of the best. She worked hard to find great matches.
>knocking on doors

Specific doors, or you just approach families and ask them if they or someone else is looking for a lodger?

I'm considering doing long stay travel this winter, and want to figure out some logistics beforehand. I was thinking of renting airbnb for a few days, then looking for something with these characteristics:

* Private (could be attached to a family residence)
* Meals cooked
* Cleaning and laundry handled
* Not terribly expensive. I speak the local languages of the places I plan to travel to, which should help.

Any experience finding that kind of accommodation, or do you know how you'd look for that kind of place if you had more money?
Surface Area
Leveraging Appium for Mobile Test Automation
That and a healthy dose of troll.

It's an entertainingly daft read if nothing else.
This is awesome. There is a chance I may be looking for work later this year BUT I've been doing my own thing for > 10 years.
They need to apologize if they worry about the PR mess this has become and about their ad prints revenues.
> First, that is a low blow linking to others doing it.

I thought the same thing at first, but the users that are linked to are all big, big names that get millions of plays on Soundcloud that will never get takedowns, whether they have clearances or not. It's more like saying "why are you hassling me for my $10 unpaid fine when you don't care about these corporations' $100,000 unpaid fines" than it is about narcing on the competition.
I can see it as good for practicing for the interviewer. It'd also be good if I could easily make an offer out and use that as a way of sourcing candidates and getting my referral bonus on.
No, they're saying that there's no cut-off. More money always brings more happiness.
It's been really interesting over the last 24 hours or so to watch the reaction from Joe Kay[0], whose label/collective Soulection[1] has shared hundreds of hours of mixes and dozens of original tracks and remixes on Soundcloud[2], and to an extent (at least initially) built their following on the site (not to take anything away from the impact performances, etc. have had on their growing popularity), but were always at high risk of this sort of takedown due to remixes of popular rap/r&b tracks.

One of my initial takeaways from this development is that while Soulection may not have come to exist without Soundcloud, the "next Soulection" will almost certainly take root anywhere but Soundcloud.

It's a shame.

[0] https://twitter.com/J0EKAY

[1] http://soulection.com

[2] https://soundcloud.com/soulection
Interviewer can be the person responsible for hiring in a corporation/startup. He/She can hire the interviewee. This is a win win!
Ever heard of a StartUp Slut?
It is absolutely a restriction on freedom of speech to tell Google that it can't mention the very existence of various Guardian and BBC articles.