skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very narrow view of reality.

1. It's not vanity or paranoia, ideas do get stolen, bringing down startups and setting back careers. I personally know of startups get ripped off by the big guys as well as entire research papers being ripped off from professors.

2. Reverse engineer Google's or Facebook's infrastructure, if it's that easy. Conversely, I've seen people reverse engineer a product from its wireless signals. It probably took years to build that product, but was reversed inside a week. Similarly, it took Apple years to create and refine the iPhone UI, and it took Android only a year to copy it. How is that fair? Secrecy works only if your advantage is never exposed to the outside world, like when it's hidden away in datacenters. And when it does work, how is that good for advancing the industry?

3. Your view assumes that every inventor can bring the invention to market. Look around you - you are surrounded by technology that requires thousands of different components and suppliers to make (of which of software is just one) and one could invent an improvement to any of them. Example: you thought of a more efficient way to transmit AC over power lines. How do you make, use or sell it? Do not assume you work for a power company.
Yeah, I might end up making two separate builds actually - or just add an option, I don't know yet. However judging by the number of downloads I'm getting (about 500/day), the current implementation seems to appeal to quite a few users.
Have you tried using Tripit?
Other options to consider: Tripcase & Worldmate
Playing the devil's advocate, here. When possible, this kind of if_arch/else should be compartmentalized in their own object files or dynamic libraries, and then, linked conditionally to produce an unique binary.

You shouldn't clutter your code with ifdef. It makes it hard to think with.
Because I didn't have any money after high school I decided to get a degree where I could work part time. I had been programming for quite some years but had an interest in media and politics. So I started to study media sciences at the largest university here in Switzerland. After a month I realized that I had made a huge mistake. There was a class called 'statistics in social sciences' and the assistants had trouble with basic stuff like calculating the mean, median, avg etc. They even celebrated their mathematical illiteracy to a certain degree. On top of that, much of the writing in the standard text books could be reduced to meaningless tautologies once you deconstructed the complex phrases a bit. I dropped out very quickly after that. The whole experience left a very sour taste in my mouth.
Many cities have a form of this for a subset of rides. For example, it's quite common for there to be a fixed fare from the airport to the downtown core.
You have got hacking wrong
Also interesting to note Walmart receives an absolutely MASSIVE amount of income from food stamps and other federal/state assistance. Their sales surge on days people's benefits are filled.

18 percent of all (national) SNAP sales are conducted at its stores—about $13 billion annually

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/big_...
My laptop's fan has has hit overdrive and beyond.
I think that is a dishonest refutation. Sure you can construct a situation where trust is the driving mechanic, by lying to them shortly before making promises.
But that doesn't mean it was the deciding factor in the original experiment.

A better way to demonstrate that would be to measure trust and see to what extent it explains delaying gratification.
Won't it be better to educate people and crackdown on buyers of animal products. Although poachers are doing the dirty work; they are not entirely at fault here. Drones and use of technology can make their work tough; but it won't deter them.
You can't expect people to pay a great personal (opportunity) cost for the benefit of society. Some do (give to charity and all), but most don't.

'Cause it's not just the $1000 check. If you refuse, that will likely be bad for your career. Don't underestimate the nuisance power of your boss.
Pretty much. It's the same approach, just with content.
> this could easily lead people to re-evalute their life choices in a more permanent manner than normal

What if more people would realize that they're constantly being controlled by fear created by commercial and governmental interests? This loss of power probably contributes to the fact that such substances are mostly banned.
I see this flash at nighttime as well and always thought that it was my sleepy brain jolting awake.
I'd say, it is more of a bandwidth problem not a compression problem, web video is not as widespread as it could have been because people don't have the bandwidth to stream it, not because google failed to compress 4k video.
Hands on big data – Crash Course on Scala and Spark – lesson 2
One doesn't need to think "all drugs are the same" to spot the obvious argument here: psilocybin, although not considered to be addictive, has far more dramatic side effects than nicotine.
That must be wrong.

Tesco turnover is £63bn, UK GDP is £1550bn, so it is 4% of GDP, which is equal to total expenditure.

Your house is misleading, as assuming you borrowed the money, that is other people's deferred expenditure (saved money) which you will pay back later, so that nets out when you pay the money back.
Followed this Uber thing for a little, Read a few articles from the neo liberal tech press, specially interesting when Uber was banned in germany.
Initial Reaction to this: haha
This looks great ! With the JetBrains expertise in IDE, that surely was a missing piece of software.

I am slightly concerned by the DSL thing, because I don't want each embedded projects to have specific dialects like we can see on LISP projects.

But, on the average, gains are high: modules ! tests ! Inline contracts and model checking ! Very nice state machines ! I like that !

Also, why C99 ? There's hardware where only C89 compilers are available...
I preferred The Glass Bead Game.

Also, as with Goethe, don't bother with the English translations.

Yes, I am recommending learning German. You'll thank me.

By "you" I mean anyone reading this, not you, johnchristopher. As you have already read Hesse's work. I presume.
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India sexual harassment: American student shares horrific experiences
> Of every $1 spent in the US, $0.06 goes to Wal-Mart.

Apple here is trying to get into processing payments for your groceries, food and clothes. I'm not sure you've thought through what the statistics are saying.

Every dollar in the US counts payments like mortgage, car, student loans, etc. These are not only high dollar items that make up a huge percentage of most people's monthly expenses, they don't add up to a large frequency. These high dollar low volume payments in effect totally negate the value of looking at Walmart's influence from a percentage of the total US dollars spent.

A quick google tells me Walmart has 11% of the us retail market and an estimated 18% of the grocery market, however again this is not a good indicator of their overall size of pos transactions, it does indicate that their numbers are likely better than 6%.
https://openbazaar.org

So there goes your lengthy argument.
Almost fu*kedup my startup and this is what I have learned
It's the idea that none of us is as smart as all of us

That's the idea behind democracy. I believe the idea behind libertarianism is quite the opposite (that the few that are better should not be hindered by the hivemind).
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A Mailing List for Data Obsessed People
NASA before Powerpoint, 1961
I'm not up-to-speed with Apple's new shiny things, is Apple Pay compatible with existing contactless payment systems over here in the UK?
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Multi column support in Google docs
Once Apple makes it possible to receive money with Apple Pay, you know what can happen to Square!
Do you also see a pattern in the white flash (zebra stripes, lines, checkers)? I always assumed that was a normal side-effect of being startled while resting; changing from your brain-vision to eye-vision, though I'm not sure of the patterns significance.
Social Media Blowback
So this is something like the friendly-C variant proposed some weeks ago?
Lots of people like McDonald's. That does not mean that it is high quality food.

At the same time, the number of fires in a given country is undoubtedly lower since the rise of McDonald's, as there are surely thousands of cretins who would start fires by attempting to cook for themselves.

So yeah, I recommend making the VirusTotal thing an optional feature or remove it entirely; you say you don't like bloat, well that's a bit of bloat right there for many users.
Elon Musk: SpaceX Wants to Build a City on Mars
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Sean, you've written in the past that you tried Scala 7+ years ago; any reason beyond working for M$ that you don't give it another look? It's certainly improved a ton since your explorations during the stone ages of Scala ;-)

For example, you probably were never able to take advantage of type classes, (G)ADTs, value classes, recursive types, exhaustive pattern matching, etc., etc. back in the day.

Would be nice to have an OO expert/advocate on the Scala side of the fence to provide a counter point to the FP wave.
>>Drug dealers provide something of value and personally I think we would be way better off if drugs were legalized. So we're going to call our local drugs-gangs "disruptive startups" now?

Don't know about "local drug-gangs," but yeah, I see my friendly, neighborhood reefer dealer as an entrepreneur who provides a valued service.
When I work on an embedded system, I want as few layers between my code and the assembler as possible. Even your C compiler can produce undesirable code if you don't put the proper const, volatile qualifiers on your pointers.

The last thing I want is a layer of software and an IDE developed by a team that I can only assume has 0 embedded experience (judging by team page they are all architects or academics).

Secondly, if I handed off a work for hire implemented in this language I would not get a next assignment. There is no room for fad modelling in the established engineering trade and unfortunately I don't have the pull to start the disruption if I truly believed in it.
Why would it be irrelevant to Wal-Mart that Apple's marketshare is even lower amongst their customers than in the general population? I think it's crucial to note that price-conscious bargain shoppers and luxury fashion phone buyers may not overlap as much as the general numbers would indicate.
This is talked about near the end of the article. Having self-control is an important component but the other portion is having a "burning goal" as Dr. Mischel puts it. This matches exactly with what you are saying.
The advantage of the #ifdef DEBUG method is that it's possible to ensure that all of your allocations are clean at the object level, not just at the arena level.

One of the points of an arena allocator is to not have to be clean at object level because everything is intended to be freed anyway in the end. For example, one HTTP request or one copy operation fit perfectly for an arena allocator: the system is allowed to "leak" because it's known that the operation won't last that long within the lifetime of the process and all memory related to the operation won't be needed later. (Or cross-operation objects could be allocated from a different pool.)
Using Flex to Make a Perfect Post List
There is one positive aspect to all this that I would like to point out.

Most social science does not use math, so it makes it hard to argue against ill-defined concepts and ideas. So the fact that these mistakes were found is actually a positive thing and shows one reason why math is useful. That's not to say math cannot be used to obscure arguments and assumptions, it can, but words can do that too.
Screw the unversity, at this level people stop buying books anyway; if the book is too expensive, it's better to get a bootleg PDF or just borrow one from a library and xerox it for the whole year. No one cares, you don't need a textbook on lectures anyway.

But please oh please disrupt textbooks for schools. Parents are forced to buy new books every year because of social pressure. After all, you wouldn't want your kid to be known in class as "the one with parents too poor to even buy a textbook" and bullied for it. Not that adults would care about someone having a copied book - but the kids do. Recognition and respect of their classmates is of paramount importance to every kid in the school; publishers know this and they can charge whatever they like, and parents have to pay.
Why not use something like rust over this? Rust should provide the safety missing in C while also providing higher abstractions and a safe macro system with about the same performance as C
You write that "he had a few problems that hadn't manifested themselves yet". It sounds like he would have eventually reached the same behavior pattern even had he not had that experience with mushrooms.

Still, sad to hear.
vulcand was designed to do this with etcd

https://github.com/mailgun/vulcand
People are (mostly) more reluctant to refer unqualified candidates they know personally than unqualified candidates are to apply to jobs. Hence the ones with insider references tend to be more qualified.

Also, judging skill through interviews or whatever is hard at best. Insiders know the people they are referring much better than the company does, even after interviews.

My guesses, anyway.
We tried a bunch of methods, getting press, cold calling, newsletters, blogs, social media, etc. We learned that the most important thing is knowing who your target first customers persona should be and why (e.g. nicolasd, in another comment here, identified their Venn diagram). The more that you can narrow and define that persona, the easier it will be for you to learn about their habits and then get exposed at those places and speak to their needs.
One general issue I would have with Apple Pay is that I use credit cards that give me specific rewards such as money back or airline status-related benefits. Of course, there's no reason that Apple Pay couldn't be tied into similar reward programs but until it is, anyone who currently uses a reward card is likely to keep pulling out the plastic rather than bump the phone.
How big is the runtime? I have 64K of SRAM on my part and 512MB of onboard Flash.
Show HN: Pup – A command-line HTML parser
I have nothing personally to write for the JVM...or I would use Scala. That's what I meant by "better Java." Besides, the Scala community might not be a great place for an OO advocate, Dart and Typescript, or maybe Swift, are more of the future for us.
The real killer app for contact-less payments are not the big wall mart grocery shop. It is small payments that would usually need cash like a sandwich or magazine. These are also the kind of shops where loyalty schemes can be important. Think of the small coffee shop handing out "fifth cup of coffee free" cards. Think how easy it would be for apple to roll out loyalty schemes or promotions and absorb the cost into the transaction fee.
I can't recall any pattern - all I remember is a dynamic amorphous shape with different light intensities in different parts, and this just quickly flashes in front of my "eyes", right before loud sound hits.
If you will drop your own safety standards for money, that isn't a problem with drones.
MD5 was more a proof of concept than a design specification. However 32 characters is only 1/5 of an SMS so it's not beyond the realms of a practical (albeit lazy) fix.

Ideally though, you'd be right that something more concise would be preferable.
So there is an opportunity here for a company that does nothing by handle the ugly administrative stuff on the government end, presenting a cool hacker-friendly work environment on the other? And pocketing a hefty cut for the service, I presume. Sort of a general contractor with very different inside and outside cultures.

"Yes, we launched it and it works. We have a great technical staff, and we've won some very lucrative contracts. We called it EnterpriseAdaptor, thinking the geeks would go for that but everyone persists in calling it CondomCo."
We use Slack extensively at our work place. We moved from Campfire.Slack has more features than Chatgrape(come on they've just begun), but i don't see the USP for any one who searches for a "slack alternative" or "campfire alternative".
Slack have deeper integration, for ex updating tasks on Asana right from the Slack.
According to http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/apple-pay/:

> Apple Pay works with most of the major credit and debit cards from the top U.S. banks. Just add your participating cards to Passbook and you’ll continue to get all the rewards, benefits, and security of your cards.
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You need Cash/Caste to succeed as Entrepreneur in India. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-no... and
Did you really have to hijack the scroll on your website and make it faster?
Do you have more info handy? My immeadiate thought was it was a Fiji promotional video, and approved of. I'd love to read the intrigue on it.
Justice Sotomayor says technology could lead to “Orwellian world”
It's not "age discrimination" (in the negative-connotation sense), it's sober rational thinking.

"By 38 you can't take so many risks-- especially if you have kids" is a statement of fact.

"This is one reason I'd bet on the 25 year old over the 32 year old." is a reasonable conclusion.

Calling this age discrimination is like saying all employers are evil because they discriminate based on having or not having skills required for a job.
If that's the case, why would anyone do this by choice? You could just work for McDonalds and make just as much money for less effort.
How to stop Ebola
That is quite a lot for an embedded system.

looking through them comments in an earlier HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268291 on running rust on the arduino DUE they link to zero.rs that should make it possible to run without any runtime
So Apple Pay will need to support EBT cards...
Disintegration
I can't be the only one who think that these valuations are insane right?
It's incredible how any anti-drug sentiment touches a nerve of the pro-drugs crowd here. Multiple people were offended enough to go and downvote every one of allegory's comments. This is fucking ridiculous and you should be ashamed of yourself. You claim that "we need a debate" but you react to expressions of anti-drug sentiment, by putting up a straw man interpretation and downvoting without explaining yourself. What the fuck? Your downvote deserves a downvote.

My original comment is pointing out the title is stupid and uninformative.
The university of Waterloo publishes the salary ranges and averages for its students [1]. You want math or engineering, work terms 4 or higher.

The ranges cover mom and pop shops in small towns as well as big tech companies in Silicon Valley. Hopefully it's a good starting point!

[1]: https://uwaterloo.ca/co-operative-education/hourly-earnings-...
Speaking of copy that's off-putting, the "makes your communication twice as fast" makes me immediately dubious and seems sort of amateur/icky. Twice as fast as what? Via what metric?
Europe gears up to fight back against giant US beasts of the internet
I am not sure how constructive posts like these are. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

That said, the longer I code, the more borrowing from the crufty old langiage/system/community/technology I see in the "shiny new thing", even if many folks slam the old entity.
I was looking at using Slack but wanted an OSS version - can anyone recommend one? I like that OTR is going to be an option with chatgrape, my team uses Adium with Jabber, but it could be a lot better.
‘Internet to be no longer a place where everyone has a voice’
I have similar needs to understand complex code base such as 5-20gb of Android platform code, so I wrote an webapp/site for that:

It lets you cross reference and document any language with gigabytes of code, e.g. Android platform code. Jelly bean ~9 gb of code.

Try it out:
http://www.srcmap.org/s/sl.htm/p=android-4.2.2_r1

Sample Documents created from that app are here:

http://www.srcmap.org/p/1/4af293f91271/Android_Init_startup_...

http://www.srcmap.org/p/1/80c16319d25e/Docker.html

http://www.srcmap.org/p/6/4a88339ceef3/mtpd_source_code_stud...

http://www.srcmap.org/p/1/212c9a285186/Google_IO_2014____sch...

The ux is ok. A few gigabytes of code db running in a cheapest $5 instance of Digital Ocean.

The app is very simple ~8 mb of standalone binary, no external dependency do any other app/db.
Melchior.js and CMD – An Alternative to RequireJS and AMD
You have a point, but they could compete on many grounds even with developers. From the top of my head: better UX, self-hosting option (AFAIK Slack doesn't offer this - and it would be a huge point to us), advanced usage metrics,... I am not saying that they will be succesful, but they are not doomed from the start.
Not everyone thinks the problem is the R&D cost. I mean if that was the only problem, then yes, I would agree, give them a blank check.

It's my opinion fusion just isn't a good way to generate power on the scale at which 21st-century civilization operates (i.e. a fusion reactor wants to be very much larger than a gigawatt) so we would be better off to forget about it and spend the money on either fission (which can actually do everything fusion promises except have emotional appeal - and I suspect the real source of the emotional appeal of fusion power is that it exists only in people's imagination) or if people won't politically accept fission, just keep working on solar, wind and biofuels.
I wasn't a big fan of TripIt but their Team version seems like it might be what I'm looking for. TripCase and Worldmate are new to me but neither appear to have something to manage bookings from an org level.
You should heed to Powell's advice http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rape-fear-keeps-US-...
Anyone find a link to the actual study? The author basically presents this as:

- take some smokers

- give them therapy for 5 weeks

- dose them up on psilocybin

- hope they stop smoking.

I am guessing there was more to the study then that.

Also the results of the study are never even listed, except for saying that it "worked in most cases".

Honestly, I am all for studying the affects of these drugs but this article is pretty garbage.