skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been bootstrapped since the beginning, but, as much as we don't want to admit it, we're starting to outgrow what we can do as our very limited personal savings start to decline. Yeah, it's cool to have some money in the bank after doing these advertising deals, but it's not nearly enough that it's sustainable right away.

We have plans to expand to 150 schools across the country, and if we do that we project to be cash-flow positive within 6 months. But right now we don't have enough resources to expand to even 10 schools and try and maintain that. And especially with how our demographic (college students) respond to word-of-mouth with services like these, we really want to be available to as many students at as many campuses as possible before we lose any "buzz" that we're cultivating (either organically or through marketing efforts).

With regard to legal documents and accounting and all that, we have an LLC right now, with Quickbooks and a boilerplate operating agreement that I found in a book at Barnes and Nobles. I definitely agree that it is incredibly important to be on top of the legal side of things, but we honestly don't even have the money for that right now.
"It is that you are a whistleblower that embarrassed your employer."

To clarify: I was not employed at Sylint. I was a bored college student at UCF at the time.

Everything else: Thank you. :D
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True, but when I'm in a more senior position, we're less often in a situation where critical thing X is broken.
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Another thing that colors my perspective - I have been on my own for 15 years. I don't have to consider the company, legacy or other devs in the shop. It is me, whom I choose to sub-contract to and what jobs I choose to take on. There is a level of freedom in that I often take for granted.
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This is a sentiment lost on some people unfortunately.
Do you really need to roll out to 150 campuses in one year? Use the profits from your first to roll out to a 2nd, then use the profits from 1+2 to roll out #3, etc. BTW, for each new city you roll out to you should be trying to figure out how to do it better.

When you've proved you have a repeatable, scalable model, you can take on investors to accelerate the growth.

This is more or less what FB did.
After watching the robots move ultra-slowly during the Trials, I'm very happy that they are putting more time constraints on the tasks. Force the robots to be more autonomous, e.g., giving them the instruction "open the door" instead of the low-level instructions given currently, is another big change. Unfortunately, based on a conversation with one of the team-leaders, it doesn't seem like the robots are set up to handle high-level instructions, and they don't even have the perception algorithms needed to enable this kind of autonomy (e.g., no object recognition to recognize the door, and more generally no machine learning/computer vision). The teams will have a lot of work to do in the next year, but these new constraints are really needed if humanoid robots are going to do useful work.
Unless we're using ELO to determine these probabilities.
(Shrug) It's easier to trust people who don't do things like that in the normal course of business. Can a leopard change its spots?
When tweets start coming in it becomes very annoying when I'm trying to read a tweet and it keeps pushing it lower and lower and I have to keep scrolling down to read it only to have it get pushed lower again. But really good place to get a handle on all the news happening.
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Just added my iOS app to GitHub. Looking for some help and feedback.
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A graph can have branches, but a linked list is linear.
Sounds like a pretty sorry state of affairs. I hope that the author registered complaints with the responsible parties.
You realize you are going totally 'harsh the buzz' at the VC cocktail parties right? :-)

VC A: "How's it going?"

VC B: "We're crushing it, our portfolio is out of control successful."

VC A: "Really? I was thinking you might be looking for a new line of business based on what I read ..."

:-)
My probation officer only ever requested one email address from me.
What are you using, if anything, to replace the UI components ExtJS provides?
I'd say it really depends on your company culture, but as a young developer I do enjoy free little things: company swag (hoodie, jacket...), free reward lunch and the like. It's cheap for you and yet feels way more rewarding than a sticker that is exactly what you get as a kid! (Cf the 20 other comments).
You can also probably get approval from the hierarchy more easily for stuff like hardware upgrade. You know this guy asked a couple time for this 30" iDisplay but is still stuck with his 22" ViewSonic, well, maybe it's time to increase his productivity and make him feel special, boom one stone two birds!
My work on smart homes led to what we're doing w/Carvoyant. How about connecting your car? I'm a little biased towards "lock the door, arm the alarm" but it doesn't have to be all functional. We've got lights at office that flash when someone speeds (recently unplugged by an unknown offender) but that could also be flashing patterns based on who's coming home next.

In response to interest we got after Nest's API opening, Carvoyant's running a pretty low key contest, best Carvoyant+Nest mashup(s?) gets a Carvoyant+Nest+Hue package.
https://www.carvoyant.com/2014/06/24/my-car-told-my-house/

Personally, I'd love to see Raspberry Pi & Ninja Blocks in that mix and would be happy to foster a few more connected car/smart home mashups.

One nice thing about a connected car and a good rules engine in the home, is that our "things" can take independent action like dim the lights, adjust temp and lock up on their own, all the time. More timely adjustments can maximize the savings and reduce user intervention.

Even without the car, I'd really consider any design options/devices that can reduce or eliminate your intervention. The homes not so "smart" if you're always issuing commands.
Apple to Cease Development of Aperture and Transition Users to Photos for OS X
It's pretty interesting! I should have made the citation a link in the Readme, though. Good call.
I described that radar rather poorly. If you look at what I described in the radar, I basically want them to ship the swift compiler as part of the core OS, and an eval function would compile its argument and load it into the current process using the dynamic linker. I definitely do not want interpreted Swift.

Swift is certainly a language that relies on compiler optimizations. I don't want to change that.
First of all make an app on Android and iOS platforms. Then give your venture a piece of advertising. Meet a bunch of investors, convince them , choose the best of them that suits your needs and get it done. Soon you can be a billionaire. SO what are you waiting for just do it already.
Thank you :)
Despite the argument that the operation is being conducted by NEMLEC and not the city, it should be noted all of the activities of NEMLEC involve on duty officers - a reading of either the article or the NEMLEC website makes this clear.
This is a question I see asked all the time and it's absolutely mind-boggling to me that you could ask it. Who do you think writes the linked-list libraries you use? Do you think the libraries just magically appear when someone wishes them up? Do you think we should use the current set of libraries forever, calling them "good enough", and limiting ourselves to current programming languages for all of history? That's what will happen if we no longer teach people to write these things; or else (more realistically) we leave it up to them to make the same mistakes and waste time solving the same problems which were solved decades ago, because no one ever bothered to teach them the answers. Give it a few years and we'll have no one left who can program in anything but javascript; no one left to write the browsers! --- or so I worry when I read HN sometimes.
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This article has received an extraordinary number of user flags, and I can't tell why. It relates to some controversial questions, of course, but is there anything terrible about it?
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I'll be interested to see how he gets on. I had a read of his book and it's a tricky to see if that hidden hierarchical markov models stuff is going to the answer in AI or not.
I don't know of many campaigns where they are trying to help so many kids with an actual, proven set of media. As a youth with dyslexia, Reading Rainbow helped me so much. Now, as an adult with children of my own, I am glad I can help it to be brought to millions of new children!
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We can't determine which repo to give results for just by the name of the repo because multiple owners could have the same repo name (i.e. bob/bootstrap and jack/bootstrap). So we need both the owner and repo. This works:

http://kare.progger.io/search/twbs/bootstrap
Strangely, they didn't mention what kind of topic algorithm they are using. Is it LDA based?
Depending on where the attacker and where the potential victim are located and depending the protocol used and on how the network is structured all of that may or may not be a problem for the attacker. Maybe he already owned the last router before the victim via a totally unrelated issue and it's just a single hop.
I concur that this bug is unlikely to be exploited in the wild but I'm generally opposed to the statement "yes, that may be a critical problem, but who would do that?!" People that want to attack you do that.

Today I read an article where the response to a critical flaw in a process was "but that's not a real world scenario, those actions would need to be done deliberately and that would require criminal energy." Phew, we're safe then. Only positive energy around, move along, nothing to see here.
This is true, and why I also filed bugs asking for a robust reflection and dynamic method compilation. Thankfully, they were duplicates.

But not all of the cases can be accomplished using these techniques, and even those that can, it's often more code.

The ability to reason about which methods are getting called at runtime has been a powerful tool since the beginning of iOS development, and in Mac and NeXTStep development before that. It would be a shame to lose it.
I would love to find the definitive resource for preparing for interviews like this. Besides answers like "just be awesome", is there such a book or page?

In the past I've searched for various compendiums of algorithm interview questions and saw the cycle detection one come up. I knew I would never be able to solve such a problem on the spot. This blog post initially put it in perspective for me, that its pretty much a BS academic question that you have to already know the answer to - until I read the comments here, full of totally awesome alpha SV nerds who are saying "I instantly got the optimal answer without any foreknowledge". Now I don't know what to think.
Check out Collegis in Maitland. Not that far away.

http://www.collegiseducation.com/careers/
Right, I'm not saying they should get a trademark. I'm commenting on how ridiculous it is that the dogecoin community is worried no one will take them seriously after this. I guess I didn't realize a crypto currency based on an Internet meme was trying to get recognized as a legitimate money replacement.
The new Google Docs and Apps: Still second banana to Microsoft Office
That's not particularly relevant, you're thinking at the wrong layer. Seen from a program sitting on top of TCP, there's no such thing as a TCP message/block. You can very well grab a single 16MB chunk with 1 read() call, if the socket buffer is sized for that.

Or you can append incoming data to a big internal buffer which you pass through decompression once that buffer fills up.

You would have to look at protocols sitting above TCP that transfers compressed data, that typically would define a message based protocol, and how an implementation decompresses that data.
> Fundamentally, why shouldn't people have a right to privacy? Are you saying that there isn't any information about yourself that you'd want to keep private? Why are the details of my life anybody's business but my own?

You don't own yourself. Everything you do is an interaction with the world (including your own body and mind), which belongs to everyone equally.

Whether or not the imperfect beings we are want to hide things from others doesn't justify it to be right. People want to keep things private because they gain something from it. There's a lot of things I want from this world, but society don't hand them to me in the form of a fundamental right.

> Well, for one thing, privacy is neither immoral nor illegal. How are these things even related?

Says who? I would argue that privacy is actually immoral. Above all, though, what's immoral is to make illegal any non-coercive acquisition of data. Making that illegal is the real mistake here. And I don't suggest we make privacy illegal, that wouldn't be possible.
If orion had politically one out and been weaponized it would make current MIRV technology look like a BB gun. Threat of it's development might have triggered a preventative first strike. You can make up all kinds of hypotheticals for either way.
True, but for your primary tech stack you should be on top of that anyway, and the benefit is you can install the full updated version beside the old version, swap over to the updated version with a command, test your app, and if there are any regressions, roll back to the old version with a command.

Anything not part of your primary stack, sure use the repo.
This is a different situation.

We have

P(Belgium reaches quarters) >= P(Belgium wins overall)

P(USA reaches quarters) >= P(USA wins overall)

P(USA reaches quarters) >= P(Belgium reaches quarter)

That does not imply

P(USA wins overall) >= P(Belgium wins overall)
To add to this: think about the target market for this. It's not the person who knows objective-c and wants to make an Android app. It's not the person who knows Java and wants to make an iOS app. It's the person who already knows .NET and wants to make an app for either of those platforms.

I guess I also made a fundamental mistake in the above sentences. It's not a person, but rather a business that is looking at it. In the .NET world, it's common to have an MSDN license for each developer. Looking at the costs from that perspective and the licensing costs for Xamarin make a lot more sense.
UC considering ban on Uber, Lyft, Airbnb
There really is not much similarity between Linus and Ulrich. Linus relies on his "lieutenants" to do most of the work in Linux... not only the code, but also reviewing the patches of others. Ulrich was a one-man show who would often rewrite patches rather than accept the work of someone else.

Anyway, Ulrich was just wrong about a lot of things. I remember one bug that affected ARM that he tried to close because "ARM is not a real arch." He made a lot of very questionable decisions, like leaving out strlcpy and strlcat. To be fair, there is valuable stuff he did behind the scenes (like ELF TLS support and some of the dynamic linking documentation). But people (reasonably) focus on the negative things, because a negative maintainer can cause huge problems for downstream projects...
This is a really interesting approach - and I concur w/ elsen - it's not that far from wikipedia's current mobile implementation [1]

Last summer, I build a couple of MediaWiki skins; one based on Zurb's Foundation [2] and one based on Yahoo's Pure [3]

Both of these projects showed me many of the non-obvious challenges in redesigning Wikipedia; tabs, tables, and editor come to mind immediately. Cascading a new look&feel down to common (and uncommon) extensions is, of course, it's own level of effort.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
2. http://foreground.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page
3. http://filament.thingelstad.com/wiki/Main_Page
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I tried stow a while back too but there was something I didn't like about it, but can't remember. It might have been that stow only supports a single version of each package or something, less flexibility in putting version no in the paths, maybe?
To have such a slam dunk in the apartment rental space, and such big wins selling advertising to small businesses so quickly, thats huge.

I've met so many people over the years struggling so hard with products trying to get in on this market and never making a dent.

The product design is top notch too. No wonder its a hit. Congrats
According to that critique it isn't his math that's wrong, but his whole understanding of machine learning. He has apparently written a book on statistics and has a degree in math somewhere along the line, but I've seen people who are quite mathematically and statistically adept still draw unsupported conclusions of the kind Gottman is making.

What he has done apparently is shown that "there exists a set of characteristics that can be used to separate these entities into two classes", and then claimed "this set of characteristics is generalizable to all entities of the same kind (marriages)".

The problem with this is that if you look at any collection of entities (up vs down days in the stock market) and any reasonably large set of attributes of those data (daily rainfall, previous day's trading volume, etc) you'll find a way to separate the entities into two classes without much difficulty, particularly if you allow combinations of factors into your classifier (N attributes gives N*[N-1] pairs and so on, creating a combinatoric explosion of possibilities, one of which is nearly certain to be "accurate" by chance alone.

So he basically has nothing. No conclusion can be drawn from what he's done, if the Slate article is correct.
Apple to replace Aperture and iPhoto with 'Photos' next year
I like its target audience, but am I supposed to just forward this to my superiors? Can't imagine they won't feel at least a little insulted, even if it's a concept they need to understand.
I was extrapolating from cognitive thought and physics to the obvious example
I certainly hope you're right. That happened in 2011; it's already 2014 and the clock's only going to continue to move forward. Nothing can be gained from being stuck in the past forever. :)
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Thanks for the feedback. You're absolutely right, that is really annoying. We're going to implement pausing that live feed when you scroll down.
The New York Code + Design Academy is actually the first school to launch an in person evening program on Swift, being taught by the good folks at Bitbase:

nycda.com/classes#IOS

The course launches on July 7th =)
See my parallel answer to 'molbioguy'. I would argue against your point (mainly, you don't need that with icbms + fusion bombs; more than a factor of ten in killing the enemy is a waste of money), but it isn't relevant to my point regarding the Fermi paradox.
I don't have to deal with npm either for that matter.
Yeah, if apt has the versions you need it's definitely first choice. But for a lot of things it lags too much, and that's where this is useful.
And I continue to just not get it... I have no idea how people can compare Uber, which uses drivers who must have a license (not just a driver's license, but a license/permit/insurance to transport passengers, and must comply with local laws), and Airbnb, which has zero regulation, and most of the time hosts who use the service are violating local laws (at least in the US). The two services, at a service-functional level, are just not the same.
Agreed, it seems like money might not be the barrier here. It also sounds like you are still bootstrapping (so to speak). You've identified a market, which seems to grow organically.

Some (traditional business) problems you might have.

- Sales. Looks like you need boots on the ground to get small businesses to advertise and owners to list property

- Acquisition. How are customers (ie renters) finding you.

- Advertising? Are you at the point where you need to spend money to advertise? Small scope might be useful here: local ads, flyers, etc...

My suggestion, target your next (physically close) market, apply and refine your existing strategy. Find a more remote market, and see what's required to replicate your local success.
> If you are carrying a Google phone and using the Google systems you are giving them access to where you are going, where you have been, who you have met, who you know.

That's great! Profit while it's still free. We'll soon have to pay to get businesses to track us.

> All these can be intimate personal details at times. They may provide information about health, sexual partners and activity. They can also reveal journalistic sources and high level company meetings that might give rise to insider trading.

All of these things are great too! What do you not see?
While that happened, around the globe men are marching on the streets dressed like that. And they called it pride. And if those who disagree, are either called boring (gay men), or homophobic.

Don't expect anything to change while kids grow with movies that portray women with impossible physical dimensions, or blockbusters where women are not in for their being smart or funny or cool.

And guess what the whole comics community had to complain about when the cast for wonder woman was announced. Yes, her being to skinny. As in having small boobs.

Things might be better next year, or the next decade, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
There isn't an active police investigation, not in Japan at least. In Japan, there are bankruptcy proceedings scheduled, and absolutely no police investigation into embezzlement that anyone knows of.

A court requested Karpeles appear in Texas to face possible charges for criminal wrongdoing, but again, this was only after he had been called out by the wider Bitcoin community for fabricating excuses. FYI: Karpeles turned down the offer.

Fact is embezzling Bitcoin has unquestionably _been_ the perfect crime for everyone who has attempted it. Karpeles made copious amounts of errors on his way to embezzling coins, and there's still people out there like yourself that would allow him to get away with it. Imagine if he had been anonymous. Imagine if he hadn't used the transaction malleability excuse. Imagine if the MtGox private database hadn't been leaked. Imagine if there were no investigative reporters in the wider Bitcoin community! Again, if that were the case, which thankfully it has not been the case, Karpeles would be looking at simple Japanese bankruptcy proceedings followed by a lifetime of world travel with a hidden fortune rivaling Satoshi's.