skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would assume if it has to stay above the weather its wings would be very prone to breaking. However at a descent rate of 0.5m/s and a 40:1 glide ratio. Descending the ~20,000ft before hitting weather would mean 150 miles travelled before being at risk of breaking up.

And I don't think an ejectable RTG would go down well with the public, although passive guidance onto a radio source would work and guided munitions sit for potentially decades and have to remain workable.

I wonder how feasible it would be to produce an aerostat that can reach 70,000ft. The DHS(or DEA, the networks shifted hands a few times due to budget cuts, etc) is operating radar based systems with one tonne payloads at 15,000ft. They have a system wide 98% operational efficiency despite being subject to extreme weather.

Carrying on my RTG love, the thermal output of shorter half-life materials could easily out produce the BTUs produced by a hot air balloon burner (800w/kg of vehicle weight) as the space based RTGs can already approach this and have longevities in the centuries. So I wonder if a hot air aerostat would have a longer longevity than the current helium based ones.
> immortal practices

Heh.
There's a lot of dead code in real programs, and this kind of optimization gets rid of a lot of it.
Memes from outer space are scary?

(Glances at news article about ISIS)

Can I trade?
digg seems to be famous for doing well by Kevin Rose and not by anyone else. It happens out in the valley too.
Or have your build system add memset_s.c to their compile on systems that don't have it.
Unfortunatly,your app doesnt hold a straight tempo(in the browser),cool idea,and cool app,but useless if that precondition is not met.

The problem is that even if you trigger something precisely with javascript,the way some browsers handle audio make sequencing totally unreliable.
As usually in C, you start from the name, then try to go to the right until you hit parenthesis, then go to the left until parenthesis, rinse and repeat.

So, first, the name:

memset_ptr

Then, try going to the right, but aha! before we can really gain speed, a parenthesis is immediately blocking us. We shrug off the bruises and turn to the left:

(* const volatile memset_ptr)

"Hey guys, memset_ptr is a volatile const pointer..." Now, we hit left parenthesis, so we're again allowed to go right, yay!...

(* const volatile memset_ptr)(void *, int, size_t)

"...to a function taking such-and-such arguments..." Uh, oh, the equal sign, so no more to read to the right; disappointed, we turn back to the left for the final run:

static void * (* const volatile memset_ptr)(void *, int, size_t)

"...returning a pointer to void! Hah, got you! Simple, really. No arrays, no pointers to pointers, not even a function pointer returning a function pointer, meh. Uh, oh, aaaaand, yes, by the way, the variable is static, so, like, file-local, um. Yeah, yeah, I saw it from the beginning, oh, go away, you're just picky. And, and, you wouldn't recognize a function returning a pointer to an array of pointers to functions returning anonymous struct even if it hit you in the face, pfff!"
Archive of ASCII and ANSI art
Seems to be lacking any way of knowing where you are in the pattern.
"Jitney" is a pretty awesome name for a rideshare service or even a rideshare service aggregator.
> TL;DR No reddit, no front page content on imgur.

With the number of image macro posts that are on the reddit front page at any given point, I'd say their relationship is pretty symbiotic. Without imgur, I'd argue that reddit loses a significant number of their highest viewed posts, and vice-versa. Reddit would certainly have content in their smaller subreddits, but their largest ones (AdviceAnimals, funny, pics, etc.) would be ghost towns without imgur.
How to Grow Coffee Plants from Unroasted Beans
IANAL but that license term only applies to derivatives of the Markdown code.

Markdown is written in Perl. Standard Markdown has released implementations in C and Javascript. It seems unlikely that they are using Markdown code, therefore I don't think they are bound by anything in the Markdown license.
I found this helpful: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/01/15/making-s...

there are job titles, there are managers, and there is of course hierarchy. its just different.
When roles have you: “living in their parents’ basement” (2012)
this is incorrect. Sellers drop off packages over a wide area anonymously. They don't just mail stuff.
That has been one of my problems. I frequently come home so drained that I don't have much capacity left for the day. That exacerbates my motivation/procrastination problems.
> instead of $125-$150 plus lottery tickets.

If you're working at a startup and getting $125-150k, you're lucky. Many people work at startups for half of that or less, plus those lottery tickets.
Nice teaser at the end there. Does it have something to do with the fact that the OS may have paged the memory containing the sensitive data to disk?
Depends on the area but 300k is probably pushing it outside management and less than 15+ years of experience. Most fresh out of college offers at big companies these days I hear are slightly north of 100k, so 150-200k for senior folks isn't out of the ordinary.
> That's not, per se, being magnanimous or generous, it's being smart businessmen.

It's being both.
Awesome stuff. Would love to be able to save and share à la jsfiddle.
Taser are pairing their LEO bodycam offering with an associated cloud storage product at EVIDENCE.com
DragonflyBSD is less mature. This allows them to play around with things in ways which we can't do in FreeBSD because we don't want to break production systems. In many ways DragonflyBSD acts as a skunkworks for FreeBSD -- we import a lot of cool stuff from there, once it has been proven to work.

On the other hand, I wouldn't want to run DragonflyBSD in production... because skunkworks projects often don't work.
You may want to read what I wrote one more time. I did not say that those outside of finance deal with lack of food, safety and health. I stated that if one has less money than someone else, they are much more likely to have to deal with things like being assaulted or killed or going without enough to eat etc.

So it just seems obvious that if you don't want to deal with these punishments for finding yourself with less money than 50 to 60 percent of the population, you would go into finance as it gives you the best chances of having more money than most and therefore dealing with less, if any, of the punishments US society hands out for having less money than others.
Worth the skim, if only for his recommendation of the ionarts Sunday link collections, e.g. http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2014/08/perchance-to-stream-labo...
I think this is generous but it really should be the norm. People who join start ups suffer a huge opportunity cost--hundreds of thousands of dollars in RSUs
This gives me another idea: how about we fit criminals with body cameras?
I know Sacha is still working on it, yup!

His recent post on the $5 logo got a lot of traction:
http://blog.folyo.me/the-5-dollar-logo/
Except they're not threatening to sue, they're threatening to drop TwitPic from their API.
It makes it more secure, but not fully. If the password hashes ever got dumped via other means, the effort required to brute force those hashes (even salted) would still be far less than you want it to be.
The key difference is not that Uber is well-financed but that it's one, cohesive organization. The technological difference is also not without importance.
I thought it wasn't uncommon for some reptiles to continue growing for their entire lives? Don't fish do it too?

Edit: it also says on wikipedia that they slow down in adulthood, so maybe it is somewhat different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_growth
This doesn't work very well as a remedy for the problem "civil servants [judges/police/etc.] at low levels don't know what's legal and what's not". Police officers are even routinely given immunity for violating laws they weren't supposed to have known.
Part 2 should be up tomorrow. ;-)

But no, I'm not talking about VM paging.
You're right, I didn't. The main thing I wanted to know about your original post is why your morals are relevant to my opinions, and you didn't answer that, but just repeated the standard annoying Libertarian line that libertarianism is the only moral political philosophy.
An acceleration on change of ownership clause is considered a poison pill.
Why would it not. That is the whole point of optimizing compilers. You write the code with as many variables and functions calls as it makes sense and the compiler figures out all the redundant stuff and throws it away, inlines some other things, packs structs, etc.
He should buy TwitPic and mix things up a bit.
How about bootstrapped startups?
Public health services are sub-par, if you want the best standard of care you'll need to go private. Ironically, government workers qualify for a special health insurance, which allows them to use most private hospitals.

Also, part of your salary goes into paying social welfare, and the employer pays some of it as well (about 11% from the employee and 22% from the employer). No idea how that compares to the US.
Easy to do in physics at Cornell and the University of Washington. Send emails or knock on doors; it's not hard to find a professor who's interested in working with interested people.
IFTTT now has a Best Buy channel
Wait...I'm cynical?
I am not sure why your comment is getting so much hate. Are there that many valedictorians on HN? I read so much about the dangers of performance metrics in the work place, but aren't grades the most widespread and pernicious of them all? Face it, a 4.0 does not require more than average intelligence, only the ability to quickly and precisely do exactly as you are told.
Reddit and GFM use the same table syntax. Reddit is huge [1]. GFM is widespread.

PHP Markdown, MultiMarkdown, etc also support that syntax. Stack Overflow is pretty much the exception [2].

I'm not interested in Markdown parsers which do not support tables. They are useless to me.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/about/ - "last month, reddit had 114,540,040 unique visitors"

[2] http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/138946/can-we-add-ma...
Not according to the author:

> However, to read Star Trek’s future as a simple reflection of the period in which each show was produced ignores how the franchise evokes longer histories of exploration and imperialism.

The author is explicitly taking cultural reflection off the table. For him, it's all colonialism, all the time.
Do you really need someone to explain this to you? The Endless September:

user:	burgers
created:	8 days ago
karma:	91

Have fun. I'm outta here...
I think you bring up a good point and that is something we will look into as we grow our writer base. Currently, we are contacting all writers who have applied with additional requirements and instructions to complete the process.
I appreciate your input.
Thanks for saving me the trouble of reading it.

I'd also suggest that one of the reasons people perceive the study of human behaviour as unscientific is that it so frequently is.

Studies of human behaviour are inextricably bound up in politics. Many studies are designed, whether consciously or unconsciously on the part of the authors, to advance the authors' own political or social agenda.

Even if you avoid that problem, many studies are just plain statistically lousy, and employ deeply non-random samples.

And finally you've got the annoying problem that people know they're being studied and may modify their behaviour accordingly.
Is it easy to negotiate a change or add an acceleration clause in the options grant? Seems like those docs are set in stone and very hard to change without board approvals etc.
Risk of employees is actually a lot higher than that of a founder. Founders have access to crucial financial information, employees do not. Thus higher risk. Founders have all the control, employees do not. Thus higher risk. Founders can make almost arbitrary hiring/firing decisions that can affect a future (!) career of an employee. Last, but not least, employees may need a reference from their former bosses, founders don't.
Presumably they'd at least know about that rule, which would then prevent them from busting people for trivial crap when they show up for something serious, whether or not that trivial crap is legitimate.

As for the bigger problem, if we started holding civil servants liable for damages caused by failing to do their jobs correctly, it might help.
Good. If you are dumb enough to fight a cop you will have no respect for an average citizen and you should be removed from decent society.
I think it's far more entitled to think that because someone had a good idea and either connections, money, or a great pitch that they are entitled to 1000x more money than the people who actually turned the concept from a napkin into reality.

During the previous bubble I was employee #20 of a company that ended up having a $900M exit 5 years later.. I got less than 100k out of the deal. Do I think I was entitled to 50 million dollars? No way.. but I certainly think I added at LEAST 1 million dollars worth of that value.
It's sad that so much of the internet consists of people trying to tell others what to do with their own time and money.

Go be generous with your own money, dude, and quit trying to be generous with other people's.
Steve Wozniak for one. Steve Jobs wouldnt share his Apple stock with anyone. He repeated this with Pixar.

In the 1980s a decent IPO would be about $100K for workers. It would go towards a home down payment.
If you make a Venn diagram in your mind, with one circle people technically savvy enough to use something like IFTTT, and the other circle people who shop at best buy, is there any overlap in that diagram?
The widget, he said, goes well beyond a search tool by helping websites embed copyrighted images for commercial use. Getty's own embedding tool, by contrast, is only available for non-commercial websites and includes photographer attribution, he said.

"Now you have someone else's picture in full, beautiful display on your website, having never paid for it and with no attribution to the photographer at all," he said.

Microsoft's at fault here. Using another person's work without attribution is pretty scummy.
You don't see any negatives to giving ubiquitous surveillance equipment to every government body?
Engineers have better outcomes at the start of their career and have better odds of starting their own company successfully. If you're a good economist, you'll go into economics. If you're a great economist, you'll go into engineering.
Creativity and appreciation but not focus.
Those are what I meant when I mentioned founders' savings, and I agree that they are risky:

> there are some startups funded by the founders' own savings or mortgages, which is a big risk

EDIT: Sorry, I now realize you meant startups that grow from their own income (or am I still misunderstanding?). Those don't seem very risky to me, since there's not much high gains/high losses potential to them.
Ah, stupid me! Thanks for clarifying it.
Take a look at http://www.evidence.com/

It's all stored securely in the cloud, so what could go wrong (asks Jennifer Lawrence)?
Breaking Down the Freelance Economy
Different contexts. For weapon systems and industrial systems, real-time operating systems are needed to guarantee true real-time behavior.

That usage makes no sense in the context of internet messaging for the reasons you describe. For human-to-human messaging, I think they're referring to a property more akin to synchronous (versus asynchronous) messaging, i.e. chat versus email. I speculate that the matrix team thinks this is an acceptable overloading because, as a practical matter, the two concepts have nothing to do with one another.
thousands/millions of images form twitter users that could be converted seemlessly in to twitter's in house solution providing a good user experience for their users preventing the breakage of the site and creating a PR problem for them...
I hate being 'that' guy, but any chance of an android version?
wow, these look awesome
Sure they're smart businessmen (and women), they built awesome companies and successfully negotiated substantial exits. If they weren't smart then neither of those would have happened in the first place! But in the article there are some very good examples of situations where most C level teams and founders would have happily made off with the loot without sharing any of it with their co-workers, as one CEO in the article put it 'the ones they went to war with'. And there would be nothing or nobody to stop that from happening, and because this is 'normal' nobody would have likely even said anything about it beyond some grumbling at the watercooler and a maybe slightly higher turnover directly post acquisition.

So I read their generosity as the first driver to do this, and that there maybe is another reason is possible but I've yet to see a repeat successful team which would allow the conclusion to be that the second reason is also a motivator.

They're doing good, and good by their people, and that's about it. No need to search for an ulterior motive.

And there are very few if any negative consequences to not doing 'the right thing' with respect to your team, because that - unfortunately - is business as usual. These are the exceptions, definitely not the rule. I hope it becomes more common though.
It should provide actual evidence, or evidence to the contrary, that the police in NY are murdering people on a regular basis as a matter of policy. All of the footage of police not murdering people is of value as well, after all.
One of the most successful adaptive strategies on earth right now is to be delicious and/or addictive to humans. It guarantees you'll get planted and tended at large scale. :-)
I bet if I had a treadmill in my shower I'd have twice as many good ideas.
If your compiler wrote every variable into memory, every time you changed it, your code would run at least 3 times slower. Compilers generally do not worry about making sure the value of unallocated blocks of memory are what you expect, as there is no way to observe them within your program.
Not mentioned in the article, but you'd think an animal like this would need to be semi-immersed, such that the water would support much of its weight. A blue whale is about 170 tons for example.
I knew Nvidia was desperate to enter the mobile market as a real major player but I had no idea they were this desperate.

Their new K1 is actually pretty awesome piece of hardware. So why on earth do they need to resort to underhanded tactics?
The fact there is an UPDATE statement that is actually an INSERT is clever, but possibly misleading to many users. The design is for insert only so you hate to see syntax that is actually a different semantic.
I like that we are moving towards a state of affairs where police have to act appropriately in their position of power.

However, I seem to be the only one who sees the irony in complaining about the NSA recording everything we do, and simultaneously giving large amounts of recording equipment to other parts of various levels of government.

How do we ensure that these cameras aren't turned against us, also?

Who watches the watchers?
Where do you think those vast resources come from? Those resouces come from selling every ounce of information on you they can, they are even reading your email before you even open it. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/09/04/google-spyi...
Thanks for the link!

This quote sums it up for me

> In fact, to an outsider, it is a wonder that anyone in a holacracy ever masters these detailed procedures without the help of a resident lawyer, or that people ever have time to get anything done and deliver value to customers, given the time and effort needed to master and comply with these immensely complicated internal procedures.

I tried reading the original post, some links, holacracy.org, watched some videos. Had a look at the constitution[0].

It all sounds terribly confusing and complicated. Maybe if you're in this, it makes more sense. To me as a total outsider I couldn't make any, even though the metaphors sound sensible.

[0] http://holacracy.org/constitution
With Chris Dixon being praised in the piece, I have trouble believing the writer had Hunch in mind.
Notice that all of the top-level comments so far on this are basically "Don't try and be uppity and make your own business at the same time as you hold a job." In many cases, sure, but it's interesting to see such an anti-Labor position here.

We're all being bought and enslaved, bit by bit, paycheck by paycheck. Don't fight the system, the company cares about you (lol).
are there any such pre-exit companies out there?
OK, I can't believe I am compelled to "someone is wrong on the internet" over fucking Star Trek...but

Anyway, the first Star Trek film [Star Trek: the Motion Picture] predates The Next Generation by a decade. The next three movies [Wrath of Kahn, Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home] also predate the premier of The Next Generation.

To put it in perspective, the cultural big deal with Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a woman with a bald head. That is how the world was before MTV.
And, if you're working at a non-startup and getting $250-$300K, you are very, very lucky. That's far, far outside the realm of what I would consider believable, even in Silicon Valley. I may be a grossly underpaid sucker, but in my 15+ years of experience I've never seen even close to that. Jeez!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8266839
Well, even if you don't care to use Best Buy, you might be interested in product availability or price changes, which in some cases would represent availability or price changes in the retail space in general (e.g., a particular game has a price drop).
Visible grid lines would be great. It seems there is a 5x2 grid since you can use the Q-P keys on a QWERTY keyboard to access them. Q-T is the top 5 and Y-P is the bottom 5. I found the keys to work much better for more accurate placement and timing.
What do you mean by founders bear most of the risk and responsibility? Most founders are not personally liable and haven't put significant amount of their own money in the company. At most they get some rough talk from the investors/customers, just like an under-performing employee would. They just stand to lose some of their time that could have been spent in more profitable employment.
I dont think so, sometimes it definitely adds the touch of some stunts e.g in the competition he develops an algorithm which not only overcome their competitors but is a break through technology within a night and is able to present it, kinda stunts. But Overall this certainly covers startup culture perfectly.
Why are update statements actually inserts? Am I missing something ( besides eventually consistency by design ) or are they trying to trick me?
Then you go somewhere else. Nobody forces you to take a job with extra risks and a contractual situation that allows others to pull the rug out from under you when the pay-off materializes.

Really, the only potentially bad contracts are the ones that you've signed. So as long as you haven't signed you have negotiation room and if your choice is between being paid 'market rates' versus being paid 'half of market rate + options' and those options are subject to change without notice then you're just setting yourself up for being hurt if you chose the second.

Nothing is set in stone, that's more a matter of self-confidence and knowing when to walk away.
Although Woz wasn't a CEO... for those that don't know about this, I thought you would find it interesting [1]:

"And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time."

[1] Woz's entire post is on this page:

https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf