skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. I moved over about a month ago (which was really easy).

A friend of mine recommended them and he's been happy for around six months now.
No complaints from me! :)
The source is the projects my employer gets and I cannot disclose.

It is a international consulting company that does large IT projects, mostly multi-site. You can imagine the possible candidates.

We only get JVM (only Java) and .NET (C# / VB.NET) requests for proposals for greenfield projects. Any other platform requests tend to be pure data spikes.
Application: looks good! Domain name: sucks. I would go with a much shorter name on a different TLD. e.g. 1invoice.co
you just need to pick one of those four

Outside of the VC industry, one technique used by some investment management companies is to launch enough funds that some will outperform the market by chance. Then they quietly close down all those that perform equal to, or worse than the market average and trumpet the success of the one or two that lucked out.

Perhaps which four of the thirty you should pick is only obvious with hindsight :)

or that Kauffman are bad pickers of funds

I assume when they compare VC funds to a "common stock index" they mean an index fund [1], a type of fund that aims to provide market-average performance with lower fees than an actively managed fund. For example, an index fund tracking the S&P 500 does it by holding all the shares that comprise the S&P 500.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund
I think my biggest issue is that standardized testing is loved so much because it appears to work.

UK has significantly higher graduation rates for both High school and for college than the US, and the UK just loves its standardized testing (it's where I grew up).

It's great in that those who would be under-performers are held to a higher standard than they otherwise would be. There's no getting a free pass for playing sports. The year I graduated high school, my school ranked as one of the top 5 in the UK public school system (it was also the only one that the examiners made no mention of ways to improve, meaning it was likely the top school in the country) and I didn't even know we had a football (soccer) team that competed against other schools. In fact, the only competition I was aware my school entered for sports was the cross country marathon because one of our class members (son of two Kenyan immigrants, no one was surprised as he used to lap us in track and field) won the competition.

However, it's bad in that the over-performers are held to no standard whatsoever. I was an over-performer. I got one of the highest grades in class and did nothing, didn't hand in homework because anything that was to the standardized test I aced. One of my elementary school teachers thought I was slow and wanted me to get tested for dyslexia or other learning disorders and said I would fail the Key Stage 1 tests. I was 3rd in my class. The bar was so low that me and my "nerdy" friends in high school barely worked in classes. My chemistry class we would be finished our work within 20 minutes and spend the rest of the class talking with the teacher.

There was no drive to excel. There was no "this kid's smart, lets focus on him more". I passed so they didn't give a fuck, it meant they could spend more time on the dumb kids and subsequently boost their budgets.
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P/E approaches infinity as you near "break even", so for a company like AMZN with both massive revenues and expenses, P/E is not useful when the two are almost equal. You must dig further and look at things like cash flow, revenue (not earnings) growth, operating margin (not profit margin), etc. These things give a much clearer picture than an odd-looking P/E. If a company with high P/E had operating margins that ware closer to profit margins (not triple, like AMZN) I would be a bit more concerned.

If capital expenditures are reduced just a bit, or if margins are improved slightly, the E part of the fraction will jump and P/E will fall massively.

All of that being said, there are still plenty of things that could go wrong for AMZN.
The official one from the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS repo:

qemu-system-i386 --version
QEMU emulator version 1.0 (qemu-kvm-1.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

Should i try to compile a current version without qemu-kvm patches?
Hmm, I don't think so. The answer for "yes" is to do a `git revert`, which does not modify history. Instead, it creates a new commit.

The answers for "no" all involve modifying history, which I think is generally perceived to be quite OK so long as you aren't modifying history that is public.
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could there be a antispam gateway that replies to 'maybe'(as in spam, ham and maybe) mails with a temporary url that hosts a webform, before they reach the inbox? the webform could even limit message length, prevent attachments, be protected by akismet and so on. let the message from the form be actually relayed to the real mail server. and once the recipient replies, automatically whitelist that sender or possibly even the domain?
I agree that _Design Patterns_ has little to do with security, but I think you are being a bit hard on it from a programming perspective.

Certainly the book is tremendously useful for ObjC programmers because Apple incorporated most of these patterns into Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. And as someone who has done code review with junior Android developers, I wish that more devs read it. When a security researcher refers to a MITM attack or SQL injection, this higher level concepts mean something and it enables clearer conversation. That's what design patterns provide to software developers.
or just stick with the exact match domain for better rankings in search engines...
It can't just be a poke because why would you reply to someone you don't know? The email has to be sufficiently interesting to convince you to reply, while not containing any confidential information.
"Youre not wrong youre just an asshole"
> ... one technique used by some investment management companies is to launch enough funds that some will outperform the market by chance. Then they quietly close down all those that perform equal to, or worse than the market average and trumpet the success of the one or two that lucked out.

Yes, that's how independent investment advisors puff up their reputations also. In fact, it's the basis of a sneaky and convincing promotion scheme called "Miracle Man":

http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths/index.html#Miracle_Man

People who hear only the result of Miracle Man often say, "That's impossible!" But it's so easy that it can be automated.
Yep - if you spend 8 years working for someone else, that's 2-4 chances at a startup you've lost.
One issue with the current state of affairs with VM runtimes is that most developers without compiler developer knowledge, now think memory safe runtimes == VM.

I really think Java did a left turn there, by not providing native compilers as part of the standard toolchain.

At least .NET has NGEN and now will get .NET Native compilers as well.

Yes, Sun/Oracle JVM had quite a few security vulnerabilities, but many were caused by the native code in the VM stack. While others were indeed caused by real bugs in library code. Still way less exploits that in C and friends.

Besides that was one JVM, there are plenty of others out there which share 0% implementation with Oracle's.
The Tangled Web is written by Michal Zalewski. The book is the updated version of the famous Browser Handbook. [1] I still recommend looking at it if you can't get The Tangled Web. IMO, this is the bible of web security today.

I really hope people can put together a web security book (and free) that is up-to-date. To me, the Tangled Web does a pretty good job, but there are still nuts and bolts missing or wordy.

OWASP wiki is okay-ish but I really hate digging the wiki just to find the information is either incorrect or outdated.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/browsersec/
Clojure is becoming increasingly popular in banks in the UK. (as I heard from trusted person)
Glaring logical conclusion that is omitted: if there even is the slight bump in the likelihood of success having worked for someone else vs. not, it's still clear that simply the number of attempts at starting a company is still the overwhelmingly more important factor in overall success.

It doesn't dismiss the point as the author is refuting a specific claim made by PG and others (that you will be better off in your second startup having learned from doing another startup vs. having a job) but it's still worth noting.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know how academic positions are counted in these numbers? Are the Google founders counted as having been previously employed in tech, for example? (They had paid PhD research positions at Stanford CS, but never worked in "regular" tech jobs in industry.)
the compiler should not make any assumption about what memset_s is doing (same goes for user defined memset wrapper function in different shared library - the implementation of that function is not known at compile or link time); if it can't make such assumption then it can't optimize the call out.
Did you remove the analytics piece the review seems to be complaining about? If so I can imagine that someone might be upset that they couldn't disable it.
>So trying 5 times should assure 1 success

That's NOT how probability works. Just because you have a 50-50 chance of flipping heads does not mean it only takes two try's to get heads. On AVERAGE it does.
Not a valid comparison. Torvalds still actively rules Linux in every sense. If he'd just created it then buggered off leaving it half-finished, then complained when other people tried to finish it, then yes, he'd be a prima-donna/prick.
I had good experience with Citadel for an internal mail solution. It's a little old fashioned, but good enough for our needs. The setup was especially easy with the default ubuntu packages.
Also is http://www.paulgraham.com/ down for anyone else?
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Yeah I realize that, but good point. LLVM is very interesting to me, but you're right that it's not as utterly low level as native assembly. It is the most interesting assembly ("assembly-like"?) language to me at this time.

I didn't know SBCL did that. Cool.
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SpaceX is conceptually awesome, and it's incredible how far they've come already, and I find myself being unbelievably excited for the future of space travel and exploration whenever they put another Falcon 9 up there. (I'm rubbing my hands in anticipation of tonights/tomorrow morning's AsiaSat launch.)

But. They're not there yet. At the moment, they're currently providing a launch facility that is equivalent to services offered by a number of other vendors, albeit at a slightly lower (currently) price. And the service they're providing really does not directly impact on 99.9% of the lives going on around you.

Yes, their reusable launch system program is way ahead of anything else anyone is doing, but it's still experimental, and isn't yet providing benefits to even their direct customers, let alone anyone else.

Musk hasn't made lasting change yet with SpaceX. I really, really hope he does. Becoming a multiplanetry species would be the biggest thing for Humanity since, well, fire, standing upright, or speech, and Musk seems to be the person best placed to make that happen in the next 20-40-odd years.

But he's not done it yet.
This is what djb is doing using his "qhasm" assembly like language. He seems to be doing it for performance though, not to work around too aggressive compilers.

As an alternative, maybe write crypto algorithms in LLVM IR?
I think you misunderstand me. There is no guarantee that there will be no optimization of or around memset_s (at least, not provided by the standard), and we don't want one. What the standard has done is assured us that it will not be optimized away - that the effect of zeroing that memory will be treated as visible even if the memory is otherwise dead. Allowing the compiler to optimize without changing semantics is desirable, and is permitted by the standard but prevented by the attempts to erect artificial walls through linking (and also by the volatile function pointer in the article), so memset_s - in addition to being clearer - is a technically superior solution.
I don't understand your example. Is there an explanation for people who aren't Haskell experts somewhere?
Nice work! This is very similar to the invoice tool I made: http://invoice-generator.com
But, but, but... "Even a rookie would know better, and DPR is no rookie."

http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1dmznd/should_we_b...
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The reviews on there look fine to me. The one guy is being a bit paranoid and dickish but you can never please everyone.

Sure, you got a few bad reviews out of it, but unless it continues for several days I wouldn't worry too much about it. FWIW I haven't looked at the app or its source code but I wouldn't call this "cyber bullying".

Have you considered releasing the source code on github and linking to it so people can easily take a look and see for themselves?
The noise cancellation in these is so much better than competitors, according to reviews.

So i wonder whether machine learning can learn such noise cancellation algorithms and let others compete with bose ? Because lower cost "noise bubble" seems like something that many will buy.
Hahaha, have you seen their website?
If there is one thing Meteor needs to improve big time, it would be marketing!
the problem here is the $40 ARM boxes only have one ethernet, unless USB Ethernet is good enough for you.

I've considered putting pfSense on ARM.
In my observation, academic research shares a lot in common with entrepreneurship. Stealing from nostrademons above:

>>>> Working for someone else's startup, I learned how to quickly cobble solutions together. I learned about uncertainty and picking a direction regardless of whether you're sure it'll work. I learned that most startups fail, and that when they fail, the people who end up doing well are the ones who were looking out for their own interests all along. I learned a lot of basic technical skills, how to write code quickly and learn new APIs quickly and deploy software to multiple machines. I learned how quickly problems of scaling a development team crop up, and how early you should start investing in automation. <<<<

I pretty much experienced all of those things in the course of my PhD research, with the exception of forming teams.
I've got a Moto G through Republic Wireless (http://republicwireless.com). It's the stock android OS but with software making a hybrid phone where it makes calls over wifi if available and cell if not. Pretty tough to beat contract-free all you can eat minutes, text and data for $25 per month on a capable phone that is less than $200 cash. Blows my mind that people still pay $80+ per month for their smartphone plans.
Yea, I think even if people know this they don't intuitively grasp how far off they are. Five tries at 20% success rate is only 67% overall. That's about the same odds you have to win two rounds of russian roulette.

To have an overall 99% chance (what we might conversationally say is a guarantee), it'd take 21 tries.
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SO useful, thanks!

This is an area where I get completely lost with regard to the 'right' thing to do to fix things up.
Yes, removed it ages ago. Was trying this new analytics startup, never worked out though.
Nice ! But there are no Ads on your website. Did you intend to make money with it ? or was it a fun side project you did ?
Get downvoted to hell, still! We don't need that knowledge!!
Because the Mill has a single address space with memory protection, which works a lot better with L4 than it does with Linux. Porting Linux directly would probably be possible, but a huge effort the team wouldn't be able to pull off without a lot of extra resources.
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I think it has something to do with the idea that 3% of YC applicants have a 100% chance of getting an interview.

If you follow PG's ethos perfectly maybe you choose to work at a great startup that is going to succeed and then you start your own. Work at Justin.tv, and then start Twitch/ZeroCater
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Would running your file system read only and optimizing the system for fast bootup be a workaround ? If so you could zero successfully by rebooting...
Do you intend to make money with this ?
> enough time past for the historians to have a good view of the events (and their consequences).

One example is http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee
Those composerz are always high, or drunk -- didn't you know?
Interesting. I am on my sixth startup. The first one, in Los Angeles, shut down, but the product was sold to another company and became the core product in the next company over 10 years, and that company eventually sold for hundreds of millions in cash. (Nothing for me.) I learnt a lot of painful but good lessons.

The second company was a consulting company, in London UK, with some friends. We did well, but it was so boring eventually that I closed it. Learnt a lot though.

The third one was a software reseller, in London UK, which worked quite well for a number of years. Top worldwide reseller for several products. But the companies we resold for were so keen to cash out that they stabbed the resellers in the back to improve the numbers right before the sale. Handed over my part of the company to my colleagues and moved on.

Fourth company was another consulting company with some friends (Stockholm, Sweden). But quickly found out we were not lined up on goals and methods, so exited that. (Most of them joined me in the next startup, so it was ok.)

Fifth company was a software product startup in San Francisco. Made several mistakes on sales, marketing and people and ran out of money in the dot com bust, and a VC investment, where we had a term sheet, evaporated.

Went back to the third company for a while to help them restructure and pick up new products then moved on.

Sixth organisation started seven years ago and we now have 60 people and have stared expanding rapidly worldwide in a market which is very different and very rewarding. I am finally able to use everything I learned in the previous five attempts and really use that knowledge. People from three of the previous startups are also in this one.
Finding which startups to work for is the trick
The plethora and popularity of reality TV doesn't say much about our older generations.

Sarcasm aside, the relative popularities of Fox News on TV and Vice on the Internet are pretty good examples of what this article is talking about.
On you site it says "Free Invoice Generator does not store any of your data online. Instead, all of your settings are saved to your browser through the LocalStorage mechanism. Clicking the above button will delete the data that Free Invoice Generator has saved to your computer so far."

Maybe I have a poor understanding of the logistics but on reading that I have the impression that my data never leaves my browser. If so, how are you generating the PDFs server-side which are populated with my data?

This looks great and my question isn't a complaint. If you store user's browser data for 10 minutes or so, then you should probably change the wording in your claim to reflect this. And if you can generate a PDF server-side which somehow adds user data without leaving my browser's local storage I'd be most interested in learning how that works as it sounds almost magical.
This should more accurately say "traditional broadcast TV is increasingly for old people".

There's still plenty of people watching content in the TV format, they just are not doing it from exactly 8pm to 11pm in the way that they used to.
Lets say you login to gmail in chrome. You open another tab and there are you are signed in again. This is the google+ crap I guess. The only option is to use an incognito window.
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What does "I don't think it means what you think it means" refer to?
small additions.
1. there's also no such thing as zoom lens for rf.
2. i think you can avoid the 'seeing around the periphery' problem somewhat by shooting with both eyes open.
3. i always imagined smaller glass area is always a handicap. the bigger the glass the sharper it ought to be. works even better if there's bigger film to capture the bigger image. i.e. using ever larger format cameras...the larger the sharper...
3.1. larger glass is usually also brighter. i personally always wonder about people who care about sharpness..like unless they always shoot on tripod, how does it work? they get sharp motion blur?
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They want you to upgrade to the full invoiced.com service.

I've used this free site once in a while. It generates good looking invoices.
There actually is a recent spec, although I'm not sure if it still needs some updating. http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/
> According to the author: - 18% success rate for time founders - 20% success rate after that ... so just trying 5 times should assure 1 success.

Not according to the Binomial theorem. For a success probability of .2 per independent trial and a binary outcome (i.e. success or failure, no intermediate states):

Trials Probability of >= 1 successes
-------------------------------------
1 .20
2 .36
3 .38
4 .48
5 .67
10 .89
100 .99

But the probability of success never equals 1.

Source: http://arachnoid.com/binomial_probability
Possibly that `git revert` doesn't somehow remove the commit you've done, rather it creates a new commit removing the changes, along with a commit message saying which commit is being reverted.
Here is the version that I am using:

$ qemu-system-i386 --version
QEMU emulator version 1.1.2 (Debian 1.1.2+dfsg-6a), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
True, this would be much more secure. My eyes glazed over the "isolating proxy" part.

By the way, upon re-reading the FBI's full report, it looks like they may not have found the IP address through the environment variable leak, but rather some of its resources (like its CAPTCHA image) were actually be served from its clearnet IP address.
Analysis like this is interesting because it assesses entrepreneurship like a career choice. Most entrepreneurs arise out of an idea. They aren't sitting on HN dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur(not that there is anything wrong with that). You see an unfulfilled need in the marketplace, believe you have the solution and can smell the money.

The thought, "is this a good long-term career choice?" isn't in the equation. That's for people looking to build a career. This is your one great idea that will make you rich, fuck a career. You are your boss from now on.

If your thought process doesn't look like that than maybe you just haven't stumbled upon that great idea. The idea that strips every rational bone out of your body, that keeps you up at night. Or may you just don't have the risk tolerance for entrepreneurship.

It's a fairly cavalier mindset, but you have to have that kind of naivete to outlive the struggles of starting a business.
It's true. I own a company that makes casual games. We had people yelling so loudly that the game cheated and dealing hands wasn't random that we actually posted the source code. It doesn't mean anything - loud people more often want to hear their own loudness than anything.

We have millions of players, but the most vocally aggressively negative - those that just bash us as a company and as liars non-stop have been playing our games for years. YEARS.

You will never get away from trolls in any industry that has public reviews. Ask any restaurateur on Yelp, anyone with an app on any App Store, etc. It's absurd but just part of the deal at this point in time.