skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> probably incorrect use of = instead of :=

Oh, man, that bit me so many times, especially when it had to interact with some kind of scoping trick. I read that tutorial (or the equivalent from before the WL), and never really got good intuition for how immediate & delayed evaluation worked and when to use which.

> There might have been higher level ways to do this using functions like Array and Table, but perhaps not.

I was actually using Table, but I was thinking of it as "iterate over these variables". Table's nice, although every once in a while it would break the picture I had in my head of it as "map-over-cartesian-products".

> Plus, I think we have a chance in the next year or two to really leapfrog other languages with some amazing static analysis tools.

Great! Another beef I have with Mathematica (and Scheme, for that matter) is that it doesn't have types: since I learned bits and pieces of Haskell and started using Julia seriously, I've come to love the way a type system can save me from my own stupidity. This is definitely a matter of taste, though.
Not sure, I feel mine sometimes very slow, here is a list of Meteor/Telescope sites:

- http://www.bootstrappers.io/
- http://dataforgood.co/
- http://sidebar.io/

You can check if is only mine or all Meteor related.
If a smaller country does not have an independent currency, how much independence do they have?

Smaller countries means more borders where movement of goods or people can be tracked (papers please).

Smaller countries have less resources to defend themselves from multinational lawsuits enabled by free-trade agreements.
Yes, couldn't read news and follow blogs without RSS.

My setup is FeedWrangler as sync backend and ReadKit on Mac, Mr. Reader on iPad, and Reeder on iPhone.
Actually, except in specified circumstances in CA, bikes are forbidden from taking the lane in the first place, as they are required to ride as close as practical to the right-hand edge of the roadway.
This is great. Someday if/when the lectures are streamed real-time, consider a reddit group for remote students to ask good (upvoted) questions to the lecturer.
This can be done by relaying to dkimproxy, and have it relay back on a differet port, tagging the returned (signed) message. Check the list archives for examples.
Evolution doesn't ask itself whether it needs to "bother".
Boeing, SpaceX to build NASA's next taxi
Oh I definitely will! Its hard to argue that its a true substitute for face-to-face encounters, especially with some of the guest instructors. I don't mean to diminish the value of the online class at all.
So, do you still choose your partners by that kind of physical attributes or have you learnt something?
A culprit of Apple's insistence on a combined completion date for just about everything. Xcode has similar oddities. Sometimes it feels like today's the date, it compiles, ship it. We used to call that Microsoft Beta.
Get a labour lawyer, and get them on retainer. You may not need it, but that's fine. Lawyers hold funds in trust - not that anything can happen, but having them on retainer means that should you be in some sort of sticky situation, you can continue using said lawyer, as they're already on retainer.

Then - stop.

Don't do anything, anything, anything, without a discussion with said lawyer. Follow everything that lawyer says to a T - full stop. The only opinion that matters is the labour lawyer, who will undoubtedly base things on your contract, and any e-mails you exchanged prior to signing said contract.

Phone calls / voice conversations / things that aren't written down are too much of a he said/she said. Don't offer any money, don't so much as have a conversation with the company. For the time being, don't see your old co-workers, don't exchange email, just don't do anything.

tl;dr - Lawyer up
> without any evidence that it even is unhealthy at all!

I have plenty of evidence. I just haven't felt particularly compelled to spend my precious time conveying it to admittedly skeptical strangers online.

> Where have you heard that video games are unhealthy? Was there any research done? Did you perform long-term experiments? How large was the sample size? What control groups were there?

Contrary to popular belief, not all wisdom is obtained using the scientific method.

> In short, YOU KNOW NOTHING

I'm not sure why you feel you have the context to make such a bold claim, based on a few comments I posted to an internet forum.

But at least this demonstrates to me that your only goal is to talk and not to listen. In which case, this isn't a balanced discussion, and I'm out.
Leaked screenshot shows Cortana making her debut on Windows 9
My first task at my current job was to build a deployment system where people could deploy code using a website. After two and a half years, version 1.0 was essentially feature-complete (as far as minimal necessary components).

Those two and a half years were spread over dozens of tools, a svn->git migration, two rewrites of the core functionality, but it all stayed on track because I was building small pieces which did limited things, and chained them together (the unix-y philosophy). I could build some functionality, test it, integrate it into the tool, and use it for a while. Then I could add support for it to our distributed RPC-ish system, and then if that worked, I could add it to our automated scripts.

If I had to build the whole thing at once I probably would have ended up with a much nicer, cleaner design, a much worse product, and a far longer deadline, and we wouldn't have had useful automation tools for the two intervening years.
This also makes the point for why access to (and use of) birth control/family planning (and, even abortion) are so important for the financial wellbeing of lower-income individuals (women in particular, due to the imbalance in biological burden).
Those were the days... =D

I used Gentoo on my desktop for about three and a half years. I loved it. But then several things kind of added up. First, while a lot of the software was kind of bleeding edge, they took forever (more than a year IIRC) to support Python 2.5. Then POE broke, on which I had built a couple of scripts I used on a regular basis back then. All of a sudden, some of the coolest programs I had written back then stopped working. :(

And then, I was kind of offline for about a year. When I had Internet access again, the first thing I did was try to update the system. Gentoo went on a compilation spree that lasted about 36 hours, then something broke. I thought rebooting the system might help, only to discover that my system had become kind of not-booting.

So I installed Debian and haven't seen or heard much of Gentoo since. A while later somebody told me that stage-1 installs were no longer possible and was quite sad.
But none of the Linux distros I use nowadays allows you the kind of control over your system that Gentoo gave you.
I've ordered myself a leather case, so it shouldn't make a difference inside it.
Not a lawyer, so take this fwiw - From a risk perspective, if something went wrong with the DBA the S-Corp could become encumbered. For example, your SAAS product ends up malfunctioning and someone claims you've harmed their business, they can come after your enterprise consulting business/assets. If you had most of your liquid assets tied up in the S-Corp, that might might be a problem.
Frankly, I have done something similar just for convenience sake during the initial testing/ramp phase, and I'm not too worried about the risks. Good to be aware of them though. Longer term if the SaaS product works out I'd move it to it's own legal entity at that time.
Happy coincidence - I'm a current UCSB undergrad, and I'm taking the entrepreneurship class this Fall.
Aerospace Giant Poised to Beat SpaceX for U.S. Contract to Ferry Astronauts
I'd only dissent so far as I'm unconvinced that the Court wouldn't have reached a different opinion if, say, some newly independent spinoff brand of GM was muscling in on its parent company's dealers by trying to sell directly to consumers. That is, I am suspicious it helped that Tesla had the green halo it does.

If the law is producing bad outcomes, the legislature should face pressure to change the law. We shouldn't rely on the Court to stretch as far as it can to get the "right" result.

But JackC's summary of the opinion makes a reasonable case that the standing issue was properly decided.
Another great resource from Stanford on startups is their Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

Talks have been given by some of the same people (including Marc Andreessen, Aaron Levie, Reid Hoffman, and Marissa Mayer) and many others.

This talk on negotiation is one of the best lectures I've ever heard and I've recommended it to people dozens of times:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1573
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/485997372334297089
iOS 8 Jailbreak available to be release much sooner
The rules of the road generally specifically require bicycles to do things differently than cars, because the rules applicable to bicycles are different, because bicycles have different physical dimensions and operational characteristics than cars.
This gave them enough ammo to call a few recruiters and tell them that I quit without even a 2 week notice

Unless you have an employment contract that said otherwise your employment is "at-will", meaning you can be fired at any time and, in return, you can walk away at any time.

Two weeks is a common courtesy but is not required of anyone. Given the hostile environment, it probably would not have been a productive time anyway. And, obviously, the recruiters could care less.
> Maybe a talk about bootstrapping as well in the TBA slots?

So the YC course would talk to people about advantages of not going into YC? Hm.
YC leading the pack of incubator followers yet again. Excited to watch this!
To address point 7., My performance "award" was just an "employee of the month" style photo on the HR wall and a gift card for a decent dinner (not a performance bonus).
Yeps. It sucks when integrating libraries that use the STL, but otherwise they're actually much nicer in many ways. Simpler to use, at the cost of one extra pointer dereference - worth the reduced complexity and error-prone-ness, in many cases.
I would add the US to number 2.

The US does not allow states to secede. Guam or Puerto Rica may have better chances though...

From wikipedia:

"In Texas v. White, the United States Supreme Court ruled unilateral secession unconstitutional, while commenting that revolution or consent of the states could lead to a successful secession."
This question resonates with me because I used to have a start-up that was a site for people to learn how to cook. A lot of people in the yuppie demographic told me they wanted to learn how to cook, but in practice the only people really interested in the site were parents.

At the end of the day, the start-up did fail because I think we were targeting the wrong demographic.

Now kind of getting back to your question, cooking really is a time consuming experience. But I think cooking goes a little deeper than the actual act. Taking up cooking in your life almost requires a life change as it alters weekly rhythms and habits. For example if you cooked regularly, you would have to think about what to buy, go to the market, prep the food, cook the food, and then clean up. On the other hand, it empowers you with life skills to eventually help cook if you choose to have a family and gives you control of your health.

As for time, what I would advise is to get a pressure cooker and to freeze things. With a pressure cooker, you can cook chicken thighs in about 10 minutes which is pretty amazing. Pressure cookers have evolved to be much better, and they no longer are the scary things your grandmother might have had in her kitchen.

If you plan your meals right, you can probably freeze half of your portions and then carry it on to the next week.

Lastly I recommend visiting the farmer's market as it will be much cheaper for a single person. You can literally buy 3 carrots, 2 potatoes, and a small head of lettuce instead of buying huge bulk in a grocery market. The mark-up might be a tad bit higher, but your food waste will be much more controlled.
Books: the ultimate consumer product
I'm talking about a very different kind of obsession. Not the kind where they adamantly refuse to let go of a material possession, although that's bad too. I'm talking about the kind where their mind is held captive for months on end, not free to react to the world around them properly.

Sweaters don't do this. Minecraft has.
Are you kidding?

Where are you going to get the next generation of freemium mobile game and social network users from, eh?
I think the class you linked is different course number? Sam's class is CS 183B, according to the website.
Google granted patent on using what you watch on TV as a ranking signal
Women Who Conquered the Comics World
High-Speed Gondolas Could Take New York's Transportation to the Sky
In the specific area of filesystem research, what do you think of FUSE? Particularly high level language bindings, eg fuse-python/fusepy which make it almost trivial to write your own filesystem.
Yes, but those specified circumstances are pretty broad. If you don't feel safe biking along a strech without taking the lane, then the middle of the lane can be "as close to the right as practicable". Being further right for the sake of being further right, where there is not enough room for a car and a bike, just creates ambiguity and makes everyone less safe, and is thus not practical.
Clarification: The opening few slides (titled “who is NOT using floating point numbers”) contain a list of prominent software that uses floating-point. The author is not an idiot. Presumably this was more clear with the verbal portion of the talk intact, but it would appear to be rhetorical device: “who uses floating point? It would be easier to list who doesn’t; lots of prominent software uses floating-point…”

If you don’t know who Paul Zimmermann is, you may safely assume that he knows more about floating-point than you do (actually that he knows more about computer arithmetic than you do). While there may well be errors or typos in the slides, it’s far more likely that you are misinterpreting something without the context of the talk that went along with them.
Feedly. Didn't look long for an alternative after Google Reader shut down and just took the most popular at the time. Aside from a stupid bug which almost always displays incorrect unread item count, I am satisfied with it.
Considering the title I thought the article would highlight the flemish region of Belgium or the Basque country for which Scotland could be the canary or the blueprint. A lot of political leaders are paying real close attention to how things are going to unfold.

edit: I don't understand how I could missed it but the article does mention the flemish region and Catalonia (I wish they would have compared it though).
Let's Kill Semantic HTML
> anyone can purchase a self-driving car with financing.

To assert this as obvious strikes me as a bit ridiculous. Let's think through one facet of what happens once services like Uber, Car2Go, Lyft, etc. have self-driving cars. Those living in urban areas would then have a very viable option to avoid ownership, maintenance, storage, parking, etc. for what's commonly cited as the second most costly (and massively depreciating) asset they own after a home. It would allow a practical shift for many people from car ownership to car sharing. The cultural transition won't happen overnight, especially in the US where car ownership is practically a rite of passage. Yet I suspect that the economics will eventually be so favorable that once the business and technology pieces are in place, the transition will happen for a large percentage of the population no matter what.

In this light, Uber is one of several companies positioned for a massive transition of transportation from a product-oriented business to a service-oriented one. We'll see how it all plays out.
True. Employment was "at will".
Observation unrelated to article content: For some reason this site hijacks the swipe-left and swipe-right actions on a magic mouse, preventing Safari swipe navigation. It scrolls up and down instead.
No; more importantly, who are you going to sell them to?

When your livelihood depends on "a sucker born every minute", you need to keep that flow going!
Batch cooking and storing was a big thing for me when I was living on my own. Make a big portion of fried rice, and then eat it for the next four days. Make a big portion of ragu and eat it for a week. Some things, like red beans and rice, could last even longer.

It does sort of require being willing to eat the same thing over and over and over again; I'm totally fine with that, but I know that other people (notably my wife) are not.

The other advantage to cooking and storing, for me, is that you can set aside a big block of time on the weekend, for example, and get all the cooking out of the way for the week. And if you're doing large batches, it turns out that you can actually multitask pretty well; when something needs to simmer on the stove for two hours, it's pretty easy to sit down and play a computer game and just get up every 20 minutes or so to stir the pot and then sit back down.
A Social Network for the Country Club Set with a $9000 Sign Up Fee
I'm not surprised at all... It's not every day that a country democratically permits succession. There has only been, what? One new country since the end of the Cold War? Further, while Scotland isn't London, it has a large standing in culture for a number of English speaking countries due to it being the background of many people there, and further it still has some big economic issues surrounding it. 90% of the UK's North Sea Oil anyone?
If you replace language names with band names, this sounds just like an insufferable hipster riding a fixie in his skinny jeans talking about how he liked Node before it was cool.

That's the joke? Or were you serious?
Yeah exactly this. If you want to tell me about something that's legitimately important to me, fine. But don't remind me to come play your game or advertise your other products via push. This will result in an immediate uninstall. Zynga games have been banned from my devices for this reason.
I'm not following. How does a corporation use infrastructure except through people (employees)?

And if there are particular imbalances, why can't they be resolved through more fair (and economically sensible) fee-for-use sort of taxation?
> They're not married, so he has no legal claim to them.

What? Where do you live? Third world country? Does your country still allow children to have less than 2 parents on their birth certificate?
What's this thing about protecting others from harm? Isn't harming your opponent what competition is all about? Not directly harming them, of course, but simply by being better than them, which is the case here.
I wish either the title requirements or HN users with sufficient karma could allow/add a @SavedYouAClick-style tag to these stories that would list on the front page ("Will the Ebola Virus Go Airborne? [Probably Not]"), rather than having the Betteridge's Law of Headlines discussion in every such thread.
Yes, I think it's really important to remember that the initial versions of iOS only allowed for JavaScript widgets, no applications at all!

Enterprising hackers who jailbroke the devices paved the way for the App Store as we know it: not Apple.
I think this is an intermediate step for bicycle advocacy:

Step 1.
Convince people that bicycle transportation infrastructure is sub-standard in all parts of America and is the underlying cause for accidents.

When cyclists ( total weight < 200 lbs, slow acceleration, fast deceleration) and motorists ( total weight > 2000 lbs, fast acceleration, slow deceleration ) are expected to use the same roadways and are expected to follow the same traffic laws, there will be problems for everyone.

Step 2.
Introduce "reasonable" legislation to improve safety for cyclists. "Reasonable" legislation encroaches on motorist's existing feelings of entitlement on the road.

Step 3.
Begin discussions on how to compromise:

a. Ban all bikes from everything except mixed used paths - No

b. Revert the "reasonable" legislation, implying cyclist safety is not a concern - No

c. Introduce more bicycle lanes - Maybe

d. Physically separate the bicycle-paths and motorways - Difficult, but not impossible: http://denmark.dk/en/green-living/bicycle-culture/cycle-supe...

e. Introduce a bicycle tax, so motorists can't lord around the idea cyclists are freeloading roads - Maybe

We're at step 3 now, what real solutions are there?
To me basically the question is: should the money be spend by private persons and corporations, or by governments. There should be a balance, but there is a long term tendency towards governments. Because in the end they make the rules. And its difficult to control ones powers...

Personally I am not sure the latter spends it better, in terms of good for the future of society. I am very happy with Google search, Gmail, my iPhone, iPad, etc. Looking forward to ever buy a Tesla hopefully ;-)

There are always side effects: a handful of people getting extremely rich or presidents who spend billions on big projects.

Governments should concentrate on lowering taxes (in Europe the taxes go just one way in the long run...) and keeping a very close eye the playing field: misuse of rules. Privacy and net neutrality come to mind. Software patents... As well as banks taking to high risks which are highly rewarded if it works out or payed for by society if not (which is a governmental decision !).

In my humble opinion our government leaders are just as human as the leaders of companies. Does anyone of them thinks of society ? Probably. Do either one of them think about their own future ? Definitely.
The article addresses the so-called airborne nature of Ebola in other species and calls into question whether or not it was truly airborne in those instances. Furthermore, "very nearly airborne" is not a fair characterization. Bodily fluids transmit the disease, and Ebola's particular ability to make people spew lots of virus all over the place from every available orifice seems to be the primary way to spread. The odds of getting droplets in the eye, on a small cut on your skin, etc... as a healthcare worker are very high if someone is spraying virus-laden blood all over the place. But this is not what we're talking about with a truly airborne virus. In the case of an airborne virus like influenza, you have infection via the upper respiratory tract from viral particles that survive for extended amounts of time in aerosols suspended in the air. There is no evidence Ebola can or does spread in this manner.

Obviously nobody can predict the future, but viruses that infect via the airway are highly evolved to do so. The article touches on it a bit, but doesn't get into the real specifics. I'm going from memory here, but I recall that in things like the common cold and influenza, the viral proteins have specific humidity, pH, and temperature requirements in order to dock with receptors in just the right part of the airway in order to maximize infection. You don't get that without significant evolutionary pressure which as far as I can tell is totally absent in the current environment. The virus is easily spreading via direct contact with body fluids, so even if it develops an ability to spread by air, this offers little advantage over the plain old bodily fluid route.
The list of speakers looks fantastic! This said, I think the list lacks diversity. I think it would be great to have someone outside of SV in it (e.g. Jason Fried, Jeff Bezos etc.) One of the better Startup School talks I seen was from DHH (that presented another way of building a successful company).