skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you're saying. Sure, by some definitions the people behind match.com are behind OkCupid, but I'm pretty sure they're quite hands-off from okc's operations and general demeanor. Of course, they are probably involved in their profit strategies as you say, and that's hard to avoid.

I still have respect for whoever came up with the eco-friendly smoothies and was able to pose enough of a threat to Coca Cola, but instead of getting crushed by them is able to harness the giant's resources to make more eco-friendly smoothies. It's a lot better than folding under the evil.

There are no saints at the helm of any for-profit organizations, or they'd get destroyed. I'm talking within that (very realistic and tolerable) space, they do some creative things [as a past okcupid user and as someone interested in their data] that provide interesting value to the customer that are hard to find elsewhere.
Ah, I see I overestimated your interest in good-faith discussion vs. just flinging insults.
JWT is a fairly elegant choice in cases where you have a session-less API backend that is consumed by an SPA and/or mobile clients.

I've been really pleased with how simple and straightforward it is for implementors. It's good to see it getting more visibility. Thanks to Auth0 for educating the community.
That's interesting. I've always suspected that the rules/heuristics governing intonation for voice, wind and (unfretted) string instruments is free form, depending on whether they're carrying the melody or playing in the "corps" of small or large ensembles. This vid, by (I think) a respected violin prof addresses this: carrying melodies in Pythagorean, ensemble playing in Just intonation, and ET if you have to (playing with piano).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYOwIIvgHg
Meteorite Hits Nicaraguan Capital
Likewise! This was a huge help to me in my logic, circuits and architecture classes. As a pure computer science major, I was relieved to have a solid reference for the "hard" (as in hardware) stuff.
Just a heads-up: the font-weight of your lead paragraph makes it too light on Chrome+Windows, some of the diagonals pretty much disappear.
If you don't play poker this makes you realize why YC considers poker players to be good founders.
Max - appreciate the feedback. What other data points / insights would make it more useful? We've been doing these teardowns for various elite firms (Sequoia, Accel, USV, etc)and the reaction has been very good.

In fact, Fred Wilson of USV did a teardown of our teardown - http://avc.com/2014/08/tearing-down-the-teardown/

Let me know. Feel free to ping me directly as well at asanwal(at)cbinsights(dot)com.

Thanks.
To be precise, global garbage collection is the big problem: when one tab is collecting garbage we don't want to stall the other tabs. At the same time, we need to be able to share objects between threads in a fully memory-safe manner. Desirable is the ability to do this without any runtime overhead compared to C++ (e.g. barriers or pauses), because any browser engines will be compared head-to-head in terms of performance against engines that pass raw pointers around during layout, etc.

I know of no GC algorithm that is memory-safe and thread-safe, avoids stopping all threads, is barrier-free, can deal with cycles, runs on commodity consumer hardware without a kernel extension, and is competitive in performance with typical C++ memory management schemes.

Besides, once you have data race freedom (important for us) you are already most of the way to memory safety without garbage collection. (For more, see [1]).

[1]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/06/11/on-t...
stock is a claim against the assets in the event of dissolution

Holy crap. Stock makes sense now. Thank you.
He's said its probably your best bet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487793
Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I've thought a lot about this since I posted this question. At the end of the day, I've given them notice till X. So, it doesn't sit right by me to not honor that :(

Yeah, it's naive, but I think getting out of this mess without devolving to their level means something to me.
Actually, not every business has schedule as their top priority. That's true of most R&D efforts, and it's especially true of creative endeavors, which tend to be (in NASA parlance) "discovery driven missions."

It comes down to cheap, fast, and good. You can pick any two you like. If you're lucky, you'll get both, so you better be sure to note which matters most, because honestly, that's what's going to drive everything else. This is especially true of non-routine work, like much of art in general. Creative businesses that make a priority of hitting deadlines must either have very deep pockets, or enough latitude to ship sub-par product.

A great example of this is the Clock of the Long Now, which is being designed and built by Danny Hillis. This is a clock that is designed to run for 10,000 years. Quality is job one. Right now, they have about $43 million to work with (supplied by Jeff Bezos). When people ask when it will be ready, they say "we don't know." Pressed for a ballpark figure, the answer is simple: "No."
I wish someone with the skill to do this would use their time to push the state of the art in small generator design. Here is a sampling of parameters, all of which I think could be improved:

Cheapest: Harbor freight's "Storm Cat" $129, 2-stroke, 700W, 91 dB, 63cc, 38.2 lbs, 18.3 W / lb, 1818 Wh / Gal.

Best power / weight, most efficient: Honda "EU2000i" $1000, 4-stroke, 1600W, 53 dB, 98cc, 46 lbs, 35 W / lb, 6737 Wh / Gal.

Quietest: Honda "EU3000is" $2000, 4-stroke, 2800W, 49 dB, 196cc, 134 lbs, 20 W / lb, 5939 Wg / Gal.

Lightest: Honda "EU1000i" $800, 4-strike, 900W, 53 dB, 50cc, 29 lbs, 31 W / lb, 5700 Wh / Gal.

(there are ~33440 Watt-hours of energy available in a gallon of gasoline).

The most recent innovation seems to be the inverter/generator. It means that the engine does not have to run at any specific speed to get 60 Hz, so it can be run slow to make it quiet. Perhaps an extension to this could be the generator equivalent of a "hybrid"- supply power from a battery to cover surges, but use the engine to supply the average usage.

It will be interesting if any recent work on engine design ends up in small generators. For example, there is the OPOC engine from the Bill Gates backed startup http://ecomotors.com

You would think there would be more competition from micro-turbines, but I don't think they scale down so well. There is this 2.6 kW "Dynajet" micro-turbine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8kS8EZWmQ

Edit: also.. what ever happened with small fuel cells? http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2013/01/31/why-a...
And with some very obvious exceptions, warrants are required to commit surveillance that violate certain privacy and property rights.
Excellent link, thanks for posting :)
Is there a video of your talk available?
Drawing Dragon Curves with Python's Turtle Module
Yeah, a single core seems like it ought to be enough for a watch. The real problem is that it's an old, power-hungry core with an old GPU.
I'm a huge fan of Vimwiki (https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki).

I've got multiple wikis for different projects I work on. I keep the wikis in a Dropbox folder to sync them across devices.

Since I use markdown for my Vimwiki files, I can edit them fairly easily - I use Editorial on iOS when I'm away from a computer.
Those automatic quartz watches seem to top out in the single digit microamp range.

Just spinning up a BTLE chip to receive a message takes far more than that (orders of magnitude), and without some sort of BT connection to your phone, the watch ceases to be smart.
All I know about causation and correlation I learnt hunting bugs in large legacy software systems. In that environment I got the impression that correlation almost never equalled causation, but that's only because the hardest bugs, the ones I remembered, were hard because the obvious correlations did not help identify the root cause. A similar argument might be made for scientific studies: most of the easy causes that can be identified from correlation have already been found, leaving the majority of new studies with correlations that don't easily establish causation.
My point was about the 72YO Spaniard. One big clue was the lack of means to cool and rid waste heat. Here's another video of his V12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YfTtGCsiD8
Search on Patelo for more.

Re. the Ferrari, that one definitely has signs of being a Otto cycle engine.... Exhaust gases, loud, etc.
Still, the level of protection for common law trademark is not the same as when registered. From http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/BasicFacts.pdf

1. "Common law rights exist only for the specific area where the mark is used" (vs registering gives you "a legal presumption of your ownership of the mark and your exclusive right to use the mark nationwide").

2. Registration grants you "the ability to bring an action concerning the mark in federal court". (It's not obvious to me how this differs from common law protections, but that's what the document says.)

Also mentioned in the document is that if you fail to defend you rights and the trademark enters common usage (e.g. "escalator" being the canonical example), then you lose protection under the law.

At any rate, the point is, this is trademark law, not copyright, so don't assume what you know of copyright law applies (or that your licenses which are written to protect copyrights will adequately address trademark issues).
I think the fault is in the whole idea of giving reduced sentence for confessing. I understand that a confession is easier and there should be some incentive to make one, but it seems like the police coerce defendants into making confessions by threatening the longer sentence if there is no confession. While this may result in true confessions sometimes, it also inevitably results in some false confessions. It is just too easy for a prosecutor to make their evidence sound very strong in the absence of a judge and jury to scare the defendant into a confession.
Your Content + Foci = Geo Content
Should Twitter algorithmically curate the timeline?
Jeff Atwood calls out John Gruber over Markdown (2009)
Things You Learn When You Take a Yearlong Break from Facebook, Twitter, and Work
They allow some small number of articles for each browser before putting up the wall. And I think you can defeat it by removing your cookies. I think that qualifies it for free linkage.
For an angular js implementation with server examples:

https://github.com/sahat/satellizer

It's still a very new project, but looks promising.
In general, TV people have absolutely no idea what's involved with coding. Accordingly, they're likely to assume that it's much easier than it actually is, not realizing that their "simple" request may involve a fairly complex process to deliver.

Ironically enough, they get this principle when it comes to other people's misconceptions about television. Very few people have any idea how much time and effort goes in to film and broadcast production. Producers are constantly fielding requests from clients, executives, and others with limited technical skill who say things like "Can't you just..." or "I don't see why we don't just..." or "How about just...?".

You get the picture.
Don't read "The Game". Also, you don't love her.

As someone who's batted above and below his league, trust me when I say that being yourself is the only way to lasting commitment/happiness.

On the other hand, if you want to get laid, play the game.

I've tried both paths. The key has always been to be seem genuine.
I don't know anything ( or I couldn't talk), but this should create some change relevant if you are a China-based softy, but otherwise not relevant. Also, I think no chairs will be thrown over this :)
I pay $75 a month for wireless 6mbs and 90ms ping times to google..
The referenced USV post (https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/union-square-ventures-teardo...) is much better in terms of analysis and conclusions drawn from the data. (statistics, trends, etc.)

The post of YC data is essentially limited to SQL queries using aggregate GROUP BY functions, with the article photos specifically cropped to showcase your analysis tools.
You're right- we didnt focus on the ability to see maps that others have made. We reckoned that until we get a particular user base, pretending like Linkwok has a network effect would be a waste of time and resources. Right now, there is a very small hook to make this point- one of the search engines listed is Linkwok- where you can search for maps that others have made. We have metatags and other stuff built and kept ready so that the maps can be trawled by Google and other engines too. We expected that this 'ecosystem' would come into its own after we had some solid traction and focusing on that instead of creating traction might be a waste of resources today.

As for use cases, a common one would be planning a holiday with your significant other or friends- more time goes in communicating suggestions and feedback over email, Word files and the like- Linkwok would be an easy platform to send these back and forth. Here's an example: https://app.linkwok.com/map?id=cWzkjEghEgtqewHuP

Another example is creating an at a glance overview of something complicated, namely the mess of kingdoms in George RR MArtin's Game of Thrones series: https://app.linkwok.com/map?id=cWzkjEghEgtqewHuP

Teachers can also use Linkwok to give more information about a topic. Here's an example where a friend wanted to teach his class about the history of Linux: https://app.linkwok.com/map?id=gNEtYqPbJyacbEfmd

As for the number of searches, http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/

And you're right- search engines do a great job of giving you an answer, as long as the answer is encapsulated within one statistic (weather in NYC, Welsh corgi personality, etc) but anything that requires even a modicum of research, finding the 'right' site is increasingly more difficult...
You don't really know what love is. Posting on HN isn't going to fix this.
Simplifying Micro-Service testing with Pacts
Love is caring for someone else without requiring anything else in return. It's OK to signal your affection as long as you are willing to do without reciprocity - put your feelings on the table and let events proceed at their own pace.
With an e-ink display the battery could last month (think of Kindle e-ink display).
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how does python know what map data to use?
http://www.withings.com/activite/en-US
This watch takes a different meaning of smartwatch, but it's closer to a year of battery life.
Yes, my understanding is that quotients should be much more convenient to use than setoids. Univalance means you can more or less ignore equality in the quotient after you define it---proofs should just be transportable.
I highly suggest Robert Harper's lectures from the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School. I watched the OPLSS'12 lectures, but I'm sure they're great any year.
A great, actionable guide I'd recommend is the book Running Lean.

But knowing is half the battle. By this point everyone should know about Lean Startup and Customer Development. The true test is having the discipline to apply the principles rigorously and not cut any corners. That's where most entrepreneurs stumble, I think.
Show HN: Online thesaurus
I think many people are approaching it that way. Ultimately you can end up using higher inductive types as "synthetic homotopy", i.e. homotopy theory which is by construction valid to the definition instead of carefully isolated from other constructions.

So you can certainly just take the type theory and start to get at pretty large stuff in actual homotopy theory.
i am so shy...its really difficult for me to even look into her eyes.....i sincerely like her...i m being so restless.
Physical dependence != addiciton.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addict...

Addiction often leads to physical dependence, but you can for example be a light smoker that's addicted to nicotine. However, you generally need to be a fairly heavy smoker before withdraw symptoms show up when you stop. On the other hand people without addiction to caffeine will often display withdrawal symptoms if they stop. This is vary common in people who enjoy soda or tea, but don't use it to stay adjust alertness.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_dependence
Yes. In this case, you have two outcomes: Recovering and Not Recovering. You also have two starting states: Drug and Placebo (which both came off of the original starting state, Participant in Study, with a 50% probability).

So your Drug -> Recover has a 98% probability, vs. Drug -> Not Recover of 2%. Likewise, Placebo -> Recover has only a 2% probability, vs. Placebo -> Not Recover of 98%. In this case, you know with very high probability that the fork you stuck in the road caused two very clear, disparate outcomes. Especially because you actually began the "give drug" phase.

However, usually medical trials have results more along the lines of: Placebo group of 35 participants: 10 recovered in < 5 days, 12 recovered in < 10 days, and 13 failed to recover.
Drug group of 35 participants: 17 recovered in < 5 days, 13 recovered in < 10 days, and 5 failed to recover. With data like that, clearly SOMETHING causes people to recover, and clearly your drug is not the underlying cause of recovery. It may be supporting whatever process is causing recovery, but it's very unclear whether that's even the case.
Facebook’s Feeds Give Videos a Boost
Poker is a pretty good analogy for entrepreneurship -- you constantly need to re-evaluate your position, re-judge your market and your competitors, calculate probabilities, have a plan, and bluff your ass off =)

And, of course, if you seriously mis-step in either pursuit it can cost you the farm. The trick is not to do that.
The current version of the ATS language apparently uses libgmp to avoid the mentioned overflow issue: http://sourceforge.net/p/ats-lang/mailman/message/30692243/ .
i rather have a geek's image....who could better understand me than you all
Benchmarking ruby Unicode normalization alternatives
Seriously. http://www.amazon.com/Game-Penetrating-Secret-Society-Artist...
In the world of mobile we've always had developers consider different platforms, but in video we have a monopoly, even though its so much easier to "port". I would use a tool that allows me to upload a video and have it be submitted to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo etc and also have it be licensed freely (CC) for reuse across the internet.
amazing link...jst read the plot...seems its me.
No one needs this many pixels on a screen! This is just petty consumerism at play. Capitalists disgust me!!

...I'll take four.
That's what we call "Halo Effect", as well.
It's fed in by the JSON file that was downloaded in Step 1 from Google when you request an archive of your data.

From the site:
# Create a dataframe from the json file in the filepath
raw = pd.io.json.read_json('/Users/chrisralbon/Downloads/Location History/LocationHistory.json')
I find 'view' fine for things like looking at a logfile, but not great for one of my more common use-cases for a pager, which is looking at something from stdin that's either large or slow-to-produce. You have to wait until vim reads in the entire stream before you can do anything with it. With 'less' you can immediately navigate/search/etc. while the stream is still coming in.
The sadder thing is that the accused typically has so little faith in the justice system that they'll accept a "deal" rather than take their chances with a judge / jury.

That cynicism translates back into broader society and causes antipathy if not hostility in the general public towards the police. The whole thing creates much more harm than good.
I'll say this for what its worth, i have been very surprised at how good their business articles are!
Collins, Infrastructure management for engineers
Actually, the Google-provided version restricts you to only 30 days. If you're interested in everywhere you have been, ever (according to Google), then this is quite awesome and you get much more options with how you display that data and what else you can incorporate with it.
A Destructable Ball That’s Blowing Up Unexploded Land Mines
It's also usually a bad idea. Memory allocated via PInvoke or similar APIs is basically opaque to the garbage collector. This can produce undesirable behavior, from polluting your code to interfering with GC due to memory fragmentation. Marshalling also isn't free.

Basically, if you're at the point where the GC is impacting you but if you haven't tried Roslyn-level optimizations -- do that first.
(I'm going by US law here, which may not necessarily be applicable in this case although if someone is issuing DMCA takedown requests then presumably at least some of this is under US law).

A non-exclusive copyright license in the US does not need to be explicit or be written. It can be implied.

One court noted, "An implied license can be found where the copyright holder engages in conduct from which the other party may properly infer that the owner consents to his use" [1].

I'd say that a copyright holder submitting his code to a project for inclusion in the project allows the project to properly infer that the copyright owner consents to the project using his code, and so supports an implied non-exclusive license to use the code.

That implied license would be revocable, so if the author changes his mind he can tell the project to stop using the code, but would almost surely not be able to sue for damages over the past use. (Major exception: if the copyright holder was paid for the contribution, that might make the license irrevocable).

Implied non-exclusive licenses are limited in scope, but as far as I have been able to tell there is no good objective way to tell what the scope is. If I post a comment on a forum (let's assume nothing in the TOS that I purportedly agreed to said anything about copyright), it is generally believed that I am granting them in implied non-exclusive license to display my content on the forum, and giving an implied non-exclusive license to other forum posters to quote my post in theirs without limit. But what if the forum wants to publish a "best of" book and include my post? Does the implied non-exclusive license cover that?

In "Goldstein on Copyright" (one of the top two references on US Copyright law--the other being Nimmer), he says of the various cases on implied licenses and their scope, "The fact patterns of these cases suggest a close connection between implied copyright licenses and the doctrines of laches and estoppel", so I think I was on the right track suspecting that estoppel could play a role. Unfortunately, for more info that cite a section in the book that was not covered in the Google Books preview I was reading, and much as I would like owning a copy of Goldstein, it is way over my law book budget (it's almost $1000...about 1/3 the price of Nimmer).

[1] Field v. Google Inc., 412 F. Supp. 2d 1106, 1115-16 (D. Nev. 2006)
That's right, I'm the stodgy conservative one and martin is the fearless innovator. Where is this version of the movie playing? I'd enjoy seeing it.

Your second paragraph lands somewhere between completely wrong and "not even wrong" if it is supposed to have some bearing on the matter. You don't appear to know the first thing about what I've said, what I've done, or what is really going on here.

Reflexive loyalty of this kind, unhinged from any objective reality, is what has brought us today's scalac. You should reconsider whether your having worked on the scala 2.7 eclipse plugin nearly a decade ago qualifies you to take a position on this. Then to position martin as the scrappy underdog - "let's hope he doesn't cave" - just let us know when the novel is finished, and I hope it's better than the movie.
> Especially about lesser advertised cultures such as the Islamic one.

The idea of a singular entity called "Islamic culture" is something very recent in History though, Pan-Islamism. That's from the 19th century at best.