skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One specific problem (amongst the many others pointed out in this thread) is stock transfer generally triggering a tax event. Specifically, gifting of stock requires, by IRS -amongst other reporting requirements- for you to: 1, calculate the value of the company; 2, determine the valuation of the stock; and 3, pay taxes on given year against that valuation.

In most startup contexts, 1 & 2 is both costly, time-consuming, and non-productive, while 3 is not really desirable. There are structured ways to have founders, and stakeholders stock (or first proxies thereof) of the company in their assets without triggering these. Kindly consult with your accountant to figure out what these might be.
TEDx talk: "Saving lives one Phone at a time"
CISPA is back with a new name
Carrying a loaded gun in your car is perfectly legal in Virginia without a permit. Many other states allow for car carry of loaded handguns - it's really not a big deal.
Have until 8/25 to comment on the Comcast acquisition of TWC
SwiPe the Official Trailer
They're not using HTTP as a mere transport layer, since they're using different HTTP methods and URLs to indicate different semantics. If they were passing payloads through a single endpoint and method, like XML-RPC and SOAP do, that would be using using HTTP as a mere transport layer.
Unbundling innovation: Samsung, PCs and China
If SecDB sounds interesting, check out GemStone/S (http://gemtalksystems.com/).

It's Smalltalk (the language) within an object database. Applications are coded 'as normal', but the objects are persistent - no need for ORM! More detail here: http://isaiahperumalla.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/why-gemstone...

Sounds far more advanced than SecDB, but in this case, 'good enough' is what counts...
Instrument onboard Hubble reveals the universe is ‘missing’ light
You define your own life.
Because nobody likes Pi anymore, we need the Tau filesystem.
You're going to kill my productivity tonight! ;)

Isn't the answer on level 2 "robot"?
Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years
Hooli is gonna be pissed when they learn that Pi-ed Piper nailed a compression algorithm.
I'd like to suggest thtat you can talk with the startup about the work hours first.It more accurate and objective.
Colorado has zero poverty?
LEVAN: Learning Everything about Anything
That's completely false. Cell service was inoperable due to high volumes - tens of thousands of people trying to call to check on loved ones. [http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/04/16/cellphone-net...]
Nick Szabo suggested to leave small holes unplugged:

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/69174500046/leaving-small-hole...
@sangupta
Coming soon, an easy way to build Ionic apps
Thanks for the feedback. The perspective you articulate is exactly what we're trying to do with money management. A lot of people feel pretty bummed when they think about managing their money, and consequently avoid thinking about it and realizing that they could derive more short and long term satisfaction with the ways they spend their money. We think that a positive, visceral experience can help people reframe their relationship with their money and ultimately derive more satisfaction--aka, "love"--the way they are spending their money.
Worse, nearly 1 in 100.
Thanks for the feedback! As you use the app, please let us know if there is anything we could do to make it better for you.
If only our forefathers would've had the sense to put a no donation / fundraising clause for elections... instead the gov't would give a lump sum--equal to each candidate, and that is the ONLY money they could use for their campaign and they would have to make it stretch the best---we'd have some tight leaders who can actually budget sensibly if that ever happened.
Thanks for the feedback! What about this works for you? What could be even better?
CrossOver 13.2.0 Released
I believe this was an invited talk at FLOPS, so the standards and expectations of rigor are a bit different.
It sounds wonderful!
Kubernetes will be great for organizing my related containers. It's great to see workflows for running on other platforms besides GCE. I look forward to the rest of the articles in this series.
If you've been able to keep up with others solely with the know-how you've picked up on your own in terms of software development, then great; my advice: take as many non-CS classes as possible. After you graduate, you'll spend all of your time in CS - constantly learning. But you'll rarely get a chance to learn anything else. College is where you do it.

Really, I see college as a way to learn how to learn. You've done that with CS, it seems. Now learn how to learn in other areas. You'll probably never get another chance.

During college I hated having to take any non CS class. In hindsight, I'm really glad I had to.
input: "man"
output: germany, human

UX: you talk about "concepts" and learning but all I see is substring matching. How can "man" return Germany but not Brazil? =)
Coding Together at Scale: GitHub as a Collaborative Social Network
Rather than cluster API, I guess you meant child process API but otherwise I agree 100%.
Great, now we're going to see a DMCA takedown for π as it contains copyrighted content.
I'm a 'self-learner' (graduated with a non-CS degree) who went through the Machine Learning course on Coursera, which inspired me to pursue my Master's in Computer Science

You are right about self-learners avoiding heavy academic subjects. The huge problem with self-learning is that I had a moron for a teacher. There's just too many unknown unknowns - I didn't know what I was missing out on.

Oh, and the credential helps too. Immigration departments don't look at Github profiles :)
The "more cops deployed in schools" thing lagged the preference for police intervention and legal charges for school-site crimes that previously might have been handled informally (deploying cops to schools was a response to the fact that the cops were being called to schools more often.)

So if it was the change in disciplinary approach that drove the decrease in violent crime, its quite possible that effect would somewhat precede the increase in police deployments in schools.
If you check the cryptographic explanation, you see the first step is sending p and g to the other party. This is the 'common color' you talk about. These aren't predefined in the protocol.
So ... if movak could costlessly move the traffic to a better route, why isn't that the normal way it's working now?

Why can't Netflix just use that route?
http://xkcd.com/1312/
But they shouldn't have skin in the game. Treating people like children without the capacity to make grown up decisions will only encourage this type of behaviour. Whytf do we need something like charge back?! To me it just seems like a poor justification for having a centralised router of money.
At first glance, I'm gobsmacked at the idea of an electronic system that hovers around 90% planned uptime, but then again, of all the services I might wish to demonstrate a total lack of efficiency, the selective service would probably be my first choice.

Even now, to look at the website, it seems like it might be running on some server dating back to covered wagon times. Here's to hoping it stays that way.
I think it's great. I love the simplicity and the UI. A lot of times we over complicate things. This is a great example of getting back to basics. I'd argue that this is not budgeting software, nor should it be. Instead, it's a way for users to stop and think about what they are buying and ask themselves if they really need to make the purchase.

I know someone who buys two drinks at Starbucks every day. To them, this was about $7/per day. No big deal. I quickly did the math and showed her the result, $2555 per year. Sometimes, perspective is a huge motivator.

Also, nice job on the design and web based app. I'm happy that I simply needed to navigate to a URL on my phone. I didn't have to install another app, grant permissions etc. etc..

Great work! Good luck!
I worked through SICP years ago and used scheme as my primary language for a couple of years. I write in an ML dialect at my day job.

1. lisp got a lot of stuff wrong; there's really no reason not to use scheme.

2. lisp syntax is more something to overcome than something to become "enlightened" about. Language syntax no longer has to be motivated by ease of parsing.

3. Dynamic typing only gets so enlightening. At the end of the day, type theories are where the rubber hits the road.

4. Macros don't excite me much. I mean, they're cool, sure. Okay.

At the end of the day, there's a lot more exciting stuff out there (e.g. any math class beyond the calculus sequence or so) that people get way less worked up about.

It's possible to understand lisp, think that there are important ideas there, but not go around evangelizing. Most smart people who study something non-trivial don't evangelize.
My account is at https://twitter.com/moszeed .
I tweet primarily about WebDevelopment ...
Scripting Nginx with Lua (2012)
Let’s discuss Docker Remote API Commands specific to images
Federal government will say it's a local issue, talk to SPD. SPD will eventually cite confidentiality agreements with Aruba Networks. When pressed, one of them will provide outdated and/or incomplete data citing jurisdictional boundaries and pleading lack of technical resources to adequately address the request.

They've already repeated the drone playbook, public apologies and assertions that only certain capabilities will be used.
Short answer, no, a SAFE is not a debt instrument.

Long answer, see: http://www.ycombinator.com/docs/SAFE_Primer.docx

I think the more interesting question is, do you have to register under an SEC exemption to sell SAFEs? I'm going to say yes, I'm sure the SEC would considered this covered by the regs. I think that's the next hurdle to make financing a LOT easier.
Aswath Damodaran, for what it's worth, is the same professor who got similar press last year for valuing Tesla (then trading at $170) at $67 a share:

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2013/09/valuation-of-wee...

OP's article nails it: precise financial analysis is meaningless if you base your projections on way-off assumptions.
Isn't this a reason to not use AWS anymore?
Whole product can be replaced by an app.
Half of the products on there seem to be ridiculous and that was before they opened it up to "potato salad".
And on iPad it reads "Download Breach alpha v0.3" [it won't work]
Graph Analytics with GraphX
Drop-A-Spell : "magic" spells to transform the web
Hydrostor Wants to Stash Energy in Underwater Bags
It really is. That's why they used Scheme for the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). If you look closely at it, you'll notice that they don't actually spend a lot of time teaching you anything about language itself, just the processes.
My claim has nothing to do with resource allocation in a market economy. It is merely that one cannot derive "needs it more" from "willing and able to pay more." It may well be that adopting "willing and able to pay more" as the standard for resource allocation yields the highest possible level of human flourishing. It might even be true that statist capitalism unfolding from the starting conditions of the world as it exists today is what will yield the highest possible level of human flourishing (though I doubt it.)

Even if all that is true, the most one can say if a rich person outbids a poor person for a good is that the transaction proceeded according to a principle that will tend to maximize human flourishing.

To say that it demonstrates that the other person needs it more, or values it more, is simply a category error.
> An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment.

Your own linked source does not say that -- it says that an exclusion based on an arrest record alone is not considered "job related and consistent with business necessity", and so will not be an adequate defense against a discrimination claim if disparate impact on a protected axis (e.g., race) is established. It does not, however, indicate that deny employment on that ground is per se prohibited.

Further, it does clearly state that the employer may use the fact of an arrest, even without conviction, as a trigger for exploration of the "conduct underlying the arrest", and may use that as a basis for denying employment or other adverse job actions even without an arrest -- providing, unhelpfully, nearly the most extreme possible example of an arrest without conviction as an illustration (an elementary school principal arrested but not convicted of sexually abusing minors where an internal investigation triggered by the arrest found some evidence supporting the accusations but still no conviction occurred), which certainly indicates why an arrest without a conviction may be sufficient to demonstrate that the decision is reasonably job related, but does little to illustrate where the boundary is.
I didn't say it bothers me, just that concluding "needs it more" from "willing and able to pay more" is fallacious.
This is a story? A well funded tech product didn't materialise? Typical day for a VC. Selected and paid for by the general public? That's insane. Kickstarter sounds almost destined to fail but somehow it's succeeded so well that a failure is a story.
Como definir el abdomen rapido? en la cocina
Personal Cloud Computing
After nine years of research, Numenta finally has apps that mimic the brain
I don't plan to retire at 50, but dying at 70 is somewhat realistic. 30's is definitely not mid-career though.
There is already ChromiumOS/ChromeOS. Though native linux application support is (still) missing (not the "NativeClient" Chrome API).
1%0 is not found on the number line. It's not a number.
"Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life… The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t."
I have tried a similar technique and discovered browser limitations in the millions or tens-of-millions pixel height range (depending on the browser), for a scrollable div. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all refuse to add scrollable height beyond a certain limit, even when the content is taller. Have you run into the same limitations?
Your point is well taken. I think the important thing is to readjust expectations to a more likely/reasonable outcome. Aiming for the stars is great, but crashing to the ground, which is the likely outcome, isn't. Instead, aiming for the moon and hitting it is pretty awesome considering.

I hope I don't remove or reduce hope, but instead adjust their sights better - with actionable advice.
Okay, but even if 50% or more of startups don't actually succeed in being useful to people, by failing, they still aren't trying to be whatever you deem Goldman Sachs to be -- they are (many of them are) attempting to make something useful.

(I also think Goldman Sachs does useful things too, like buying commodities when they're cheap so that they can sell them when they're not cheap, an act which, if Goldman makes money off the trades, causes certain units of that commodity to be more used more efficiently.)
Sorry, my mistake. Don't know where I got the idea that I had seen D-wave on your gh profile.
DC fast charging like in the supercharger is kinda hard on the battery. It doesn't void the warranty, of course, because then Tesla would be in the ridiculous position of stating that their own chargers damage their cars, but you shouldn't be doing it very often. With battery swapping, you can charge the battery nice and slow.
Tech stuff account which I woke up yesterday: https://twitter.com/area51research

I tweet tech news and my thought stream while programming
> The study appears to be using "arrested" to mean "convicted of a crime for which the person could have been arrested (taken in to police custody)"?

No, it uses it to mean arrested.

> Example: I have never been arrested/taken in to police custody but, I was convicted of providing alcohol to minors at a college party and, had I not willingly taken the citation from the officer or, had I been belligerent and uncooperative, I could have been arrested.

Legally, a citation issued for a crime is a non-custodial arrest. [1]

> Technically, you could argue while the officer was issuing me the citation I was under some sort of arrest, but that does not comport with either the legal notion of being under arrest or what most people think of as being under arrest.

No, it comports quite exactly with the legal notion of arrest, which can either be non-custodial (the type you report having experienced) or custodial (the type which tends to involve handcuffs.) To the extent the Wikipedia article you cite is inconsistent with that (and you seem to have linked to an irrelevant section of the article, though I do so material earlier which, though it is inaccurate, supports your presentation), it is simply wrong.

[1] See, e.g., http://www.waprosecutors.org/manuals/search/May%202012%20%20.... @ p. 252: "A non-custodial arrest occurs where the defendant is issued a citation for a criminal offense at the scene of a stop."
10 time-saving social media tools (so you can actually enjoy your vacation)
Bingo. It's all about network effects. No other language can overcome Javascript's dominance in the browser ...for now.
Please understand that this is a racist comment.
What Colour are your bits?

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’
Good article. It's clear, covers the important points, describes the basic technology reasonably well to a non-expert, debunks some common myths, and, thankfully, steers clear of "mining".

Mining is really a terrible term for the layperson that evokes thoughts of real mines that produce resources at a continuous rate. It should be called "Distributed transaction verification. And, oh yeah, by the way, verifiers have a chance to win a prize, lottery-style."
You can do whatever you want from an XUL perspective, but the split-pane behaviour you describe already exists (sidebars). I don't know if there are any extensions that provide a sidebar like that, though, but it's certainly possible.
I'd like to see a video of ex-cops in the unemployment line after their funding gets cut because of too many bullshit, overzealous raids like this.
if you have this large base file with pi-numbers, you could use it to compress data right? and with the current internet speeds, pi-storing in the cloud could be an option.
or hell, even distributed pi files :)
Nope, sry: "In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π."
Data Exchange Layer X-Road Europe
Quantum computing will abstract that away so we don't need to know whether the location is longer or not before using it.
Ask HN: Is this copyright infringement?
Let's say I build a node-webkit browser based app which pulls content down from various public sites to display into a new dashboard.

Maybe it's financial data (stock quotes), maybe it's real estate, maybe news, or RSS feeds, whatever.

There are public APIs, designed to be pulled by a browser, where anyone running the software would be sending requests to whatever services.

To me, my guess is it shouldn't be infringement because the user is operating the software to access public interfaces. The user should be able to decide how to view content which you make available to the user.
I've little experience in apply statistical analysis to this data (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018014, thank you to that user), so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but would it be possible to remove poverty as a confounding factor?

I am guessing, based largely on American television I've consumed growing up, that a higher proportion of black males grow up in poverty than white males?
Also, there's a wonderful open standard called ICE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Establ... - that 'properly' encapsulates STUN and TURN into a very effective NAT traversal mechanism.

IIRC, Google's Jabber/XMPP library - https://developers.google.com/talk/libjingle/- that was once actively maintained had an ICE implementation that also included access to Google's STUN/TURN relays but sadly this has gone unmaintained.
It's obvious that, like many compression algorithms, this one is best suited for certain specific applications such as yours.
However, the alternate argument is, how much control should the publisher have over the full manor in which that content is displayed to the end user? I guess, this is what robots.txt is all about.

But where's the line to call something "robot"? A script run by a user, for their own use, I don't think it's bound by robots.txt. Does it matter who wrote the script?
Relevant: https://github.com/ipop-project/ipop-tincan

Libjingle is the underlying library of Google Talk and WebRTC implementations.
Your answer sounds suspiciously like "give up before trying". I say the correct answer is try, and if you're thwarted, think about it and try some more.

If anyone is interested in getting involved, you can call or email the EFF. [1] They've done stuff like this before, and they'll help you get started. If you want someone else to get involved, donate to the EFF. [2] Or even the ACLU [3], because they'll eventually be the ones to defend some victim of the system.

[1] https://www.eff.org/about/contact

[2] https://supporters.eff.org/donate

[3] https://www.aclu.org/donate/join-renew-give
> Hmm, they're parsing the reports a bit stronger than I am. The nomination is held back for now, but it hasn't quite shuffled off the mortal coil yet.

Its not even clear that the planned nomination was ever even real -- it was claimed in an "e-mail newsletter" by an author citing anonymous "reliable sources" and then picked up by outlets with broader readership (like Ars) and reported (and headlined) as fact; whether the origin was a result of real knowledgeable people leaking information, or a trial balloon, or people wanting to assure a contrary result pretending to knowledge to create political pressure in the opposite direction or, the author of an email newsletter making stuff up to get attention, or any of a million other ways Washington rumors get manufactured is far from clear.