skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all your mentions of the government, it's hardly the primary source of competition-oriented jobs, is it? I mean, even without the government's help, there are a lot of jobs in Company A and Company B simply fighting each other for greatest share of a fixed pie of consumer attention (e.g., large parts of marketing and advertising, though the phenomenon is far from restricted to these), no?
Oh I got the impression it was more a philosophical idea "moral hazard" was allowed to proceed, then it scared everyone. I seem to recall the Governor of the. Bank of England saying Lehman was an example of avoiding the moral hazard of bailouts then 24 hours later bailing out started.

There is a good podcast on LSE / iTunes with Adair Turner and Buttonwood Writer from The Economist who are the fire I have heard to beyond "Banks and fraud and regulation" and into "Global savings, infinite credit" and suggest things like 100% reserve banking (ie no credit if not created by central banks)

It's worth listening too even if it's rather uneven.
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That's how it's supposed to work. A company makes money and gives it to the shareholders. When lenders lend money to the company, they are getting a return for their risk. Companies adjust their capitalization all the time - it's a normal part of running a business. You can do it with dividends or share repurchases, and if it makes sense, you can fund either with debt. There is nothing nefarious about doing that.

Further, if you always pay your creditors first, there is no point in capitalizing with debt - you give up significant value by doing so. It is normal and healthy for some companies to finance themselves perpetually with debt.

Edit: Ok, so there are still some non-believers. Think of it this way. You own a profitable company with no debt. Your accountant tells you that you'll increase the company's value if you are 50% debt and 50% equity. This is a consequence of our tax code. Sounds like a good plan. Now what? The company already pays dividends and has as much cash as it needs for operations. You borrow money (which banks are happy to give you because you can more than afford the debt service), and pay out the proceeds as dividends. You are now have all that money in your pocket, and your company is basically worth the same amount (value = equity, which is now 1/2 what it was + debt) - a little more, actually, because of the tax consequences of the debt.

This is totally normal. Sometimes the optimal debt level is zero. Sometimes it's 90%. If companies are pulling huge amounts of cash out as a result of debt financing, it's only because they had a sub-optimal capitalization to begin with. Again - nothing nefarious here. It's all just a way of adjusting risk and optimizing returns to the shareholders.
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That God is a hypervisor? Or that religion is paravirtualization? I do know that we should be using some Ocaml/Lisp hybrid with hardware transactional memory support.
No, and even modest write loads will cause immense pain -- there was a single lock per db when I last used them. Plus lots of the standard tricks for getting performance out of dbs don't work for them. I'd recommend staying away unless your performance needs are very moderate and you must have unstructured tables.
Memorizing an unbreakable password to an encrypted file is a lot more convenient that memorizing the entire file and then destroying the bits.

However legally, I believe it should have the same net effect, because using technology to augment our increasingly limited biological memory shouldn't eliminate the protection against the government accessing that memory to use against us.

Maybe I'm 10-100 years early on this, but I think time will tell.
I remember when the thread about Uber's problems in Germany appeared, several German posters mentioned that they were perfectly satisfied with the existing, regulated system there.

Uber's argument that regulation = 'innovation stifling economic collapse' doesn't always track, not every market is New York or SF and not everyone is willing to accept at-will employment for slave wages with total personal liability.

Still, I think it will be interesting to see how far Uber is willing to push and how hard states are willing to push back.
>faster than a memcpy() OS call

I usually don't nitpick terminology but memcpy() is a C language runtime library function and not a Linux/Win32 os call.
Larry and the “Ping of Death” (2007)
Ah, no. Nimrod had nothing to do with Babel.
Yeah, just skip past that stuff.

I get the sense he's just compelled to post all that -- the random "Words from God", the racist stuff... it's not necessarily anything to do with inhibitions (or lack thereof), just rules he has to follow that won't make sense to us.

I was reading a random rant and noticed a "Fuck you, God." in there, in the middle of a few pages that seemed to be almost all compelled material and almost nothing else.

I.e., maybe it pisses him off that he has to post that stuff. But he has to.
Thanks for the help! Yea this would not be my first startup so I know developers are approached everyday with tons of ideas to get involved in.

I got accepted into Startup School so I'm looking forward to seeing who I can meet up with that could help me out.

As for as spending my own money, you are right, I have done this before and ended up being super expensive and outcome was not that good.

I know there are many of talented coders on here so if there is anyone that is interested in hearing more I'm more than happy to speak with them.
There are increases in suicide when economies hit recession.

It seems reasonable to suggest that some people's depression is triggered by poor economy.

I agree that sadness and grief are not depression and are normal parts of life.
> As CG in movies and videogames keeps improving, my suspension of disbelief is often broken

I have never really seen CG portrayal of people in live action films that didn't break suspension of disbelief, it always falls right into uncanny valley stiffness. The exception being Avatar, which for whatever reason doesn't seem to have had the problems other films have.
This actually sounds like a great fit for Cassandra and Hadoop. You could use Cassandra's built in TimeUUID as the primary key and have your data pre-sorted on disk in time-series. This would make big queries, using something like Hadoop, very efficient.
They just added a better export option, but another tool is at https://ohlife-export.herokuapp.com/
one of them being racism, another being the inability to control said racism.
don't break the back button on the site.
Do anyone remember which kind of bug this was?
There is a deeper message in that comment, "... his audience is those of us with showdead ..."
I definitely agree with you, to get a very good coder to put their best effort it will not be cheap so maybe looking for a partner could be my best option.
They figures on top of the workers look like they have a whip in their hand. May be part of an employee motivational program give the employee's a little whip for encouragement.
There were effectively living gods. Combing that with any sort of power would mean the peasants probably did whatever they were "asked".
3D reconstruction is used in state-of-the-art facial recognition as well.[1] Essentially you reconstruct the face in 3D, rotate the 3D model to the front, project it back into 2 dimensions, and then feed it through a CNN with deep architecture. Because this gives you very good alignment, you can do tricks like not having shared weights across the entire image. That is, each section of the input vector is known to correspond to a certain part of the face and thus can learn unique parameters that are well suited for that specific region.

The paper claims that it takes about 105 seconds to render a single frame. So one second of 30 fps video would take about 52 minutes to render. I would have to read more in depth to see what kind of savings can be had by sharing information across frames. (The paper also doesn't mention the use of GPU acceleration.)

[1] https://www.facebook.com/publications/546316888800776/
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But the "activities where they shouldn't" will be defined by the powerful. It's total state or corporate control, depending on your dystopian future preference.
The world is definitely better off with Terry. Thanks man and keep on doing your thing.
Or stated another way, we will lose trust due to an increase in levers of power made possible by massive amounts of compute.
Yes, I really believe what I said:

That rather than just vapid trash, I'd prefer seeing something occasionally informative in there for that market.

That monetising first through listicles in order to fundraise for more serious efforts could well be a valid strategy.

If you're Buzzfeed, and you're offering a bit of both, you can't really lose. You have the daily visitors reading their listicles and occasionally stumbling across something premium, and you have other markets who don't enter via the front page, but follow viral links from aggregators like HN or Reddit. Unless a front page is saturated with "ugh boring!!1" content, I don't know that there'd be a risk with their existing market.

One side of the fence gets slightly more educational content. The other gets more quality content, propped up by tabloid junk.
S4M - Learning how to code because I'm a non-technical cofounder and would like to become fluent. This won't be my first company/product so I know it will serve as an asset for the future. Thanks for the python site recommendation! Could I trouble you to explain to me a little more about Python? Is it a starter platform?

Also, I mentioned I was a woman because I always read about agencies which help women learn how to code and provide various resources for women- I'm just not entirely sure what they do.
I feel like this could be the seed for a large market shift towards sustainable energy, which could mean that renewable energy would have a flood of unprecedented new competition.

Do you think this divestment and re-investment in renewables is sufficient to catalyze a sweeping change in the market?
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Could fighting patent trolls be a solid marketing strategy? It could!
Your claims seem inconsistent across the site. On the page you linked to it says "Payment can be made monthly, but a two year contract is required." but then on the CEO page, it says "There are no contracts, overages, fees, or license charges at rsync.net." -- so am I missing something?
Maybe retina-related? It's the 2.3GHz version here http://support.apple.com/kb/SP653
The fine print:

> Not every Weeby engineer will earn the million dollars. Weeby will subject everyone to monthly performance reviews, and managers will make quick decisions, either granting the next $10,000 raise or offering feedback about needed improvement. Some will be terminated but given a "healthy severance" of at least $20,000, plus references.

This structure sounds like a recipe for stress, low morale and high turnover. And why in the world would the company promise references to employees it had to fire for not meeting expectations? "John is a great programmer. He made it to $150,000/year in annual compensation before we determined that he wasn't worth $160,000/year and had to terminate him. He's a steal if you pay him less than $140,000/year!"
I understand you pretty well because I'm in the same situation now. So what I've done? I've created something like a prototype using Prottapp (design was made by my wife in Adobe Illustrator). Another tool for this is Balsamiq. After this I'm going to create a crowdfunding campaign for further developing as I don't have enough money for it. May be you can try to do the same
Fraud alert.. How I found $595 of fraud clicks on Google GDN by digging deeper
RMS never actually made HERD. Terry actually has an OS.
It could, of course, but it's highly unlikely. The reality is that most common MDMA taking environments there will be very little psychoanalysis going on.

Though, I was commenting more on the implication that taking MDMA will be an experience around memories and exploring them - "I don't know a drug smart enough to recognize bad memories from good ones." MDMA will not suddenly bring up memories (good or bad) to haunt you. It will in all likelyhood invoke strong feelings of empathy and love for the people around you :)
I have a pair of Philips Citiscape Uptown headphones (http://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/SHL5905GY_28/uptown-over-ear-...) and they are awesome. Super comfortable and has good noise isolation (but not active noise cancellation).

I've used Sennheiser HD595, Koss TBSE1 (which are basically the Audio Technica ATH-M50), Sennheiser eH-350 and the Philips Citiscape Downtown as my main headphones at some point and the Philips Uptown sound as good as the best of them.

My only gripe with them is the volume slider on the cord isn't great and is staticky when you touch it. As long as you keep it in its highest setting though then it's not a problem. I've used the headphones to take calls on my cell phone and no one has ever complained about audio quality.
> Must. Not. Make. RMS reference.

Yeah because that wouldn't really make sense, considering RMS stated to be an atheist.
Thanks, I did not know that until now. Yes his technical know how is very impressive.
Work is hard, and staying on task in the face of digital distractions is harder still, but you can do it.

My philosophy is that in order to battle distractions, you need a more structured environment. Sure, some can manage without, but I think those people are probably outliers. Most of us are click-happy, trivia collecting pseudo-information junkies.

In school, that structure was created by classes, tests, assignments, due dates, etc. Those may seem like external factors, and yet they can be traced back to you: at some point you probably chose your course load and schedule, you likely chose your degree, and even the act of attending a college in the first place was, arguably, a choice.

College was a maze of your own creation, and you were the mouse running through it. After academia, though, that structure disappears. If you want it back, you have to go back to playing the roles of two different people: the visionary CEO of your life, who sets the broad agenda, milestones and deadlines, and the engineer who implements that vision.

Concretely, that means you need to break down big tasks into smaller ones, and deciding that those smaller tasks need to be done in a concrete amount of time, such as "today", "this week", or "this month". Make a calendar, put it up on a wall, make it visible. The structure dissolves if you ignore it, so make it hard to ignore it.

Oh, and invest in some of that "grit" everyone seems to be talking about: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09/measuring-self-contr...
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Scuba diving does make A LOT of noise indeed.

When I freedive I can hear scubadivers by their loud sound from far away; even when I cannot see them underwater nor their boats on the surface. Then, I change location because I know I won't be able to catch any fish where they are.

Even the slightest noise can scare fish, not to say marine mammals like whales. Of course I'm talking of those in open waters, not in marine reserves where they are used to humans.

I've been swimming with dolphins in the Mediterranean but they were very shy. Friends of mine have been freediving with common rorquals (2nd largest whale in the world, 75Ton) also in the Med. Their pictures which I'm no sure I'm allowed to share are just breathtaking. We, the human beings are so small compared to whales!

Also, a friend of mine has a rebreather. It's quite an expensive equipment and needs a special training in order to be used. They are quite complex too compared to regular scuba. Besides making no bubbles, rebreathers allow longer dive times. It's the best way to approach marine life without scaring all animals around besides freediving.
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Its the matrix, and Terry Davis is Neo.
Ask HN: Will Rackspace still exist in 3-5 years?
Ok, does Rackspace have any competitive advantage vs. these other larger infrastructure as a service providers? Rackspace keeps talking about better customer service, is this still true? I keep reading that Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are aggressively cutting pricing and Rackspace is getting relatively more expensive. Will Rackspace even be around in 3-5 years?
Price capping on equity orders
Probably also known by other names, unknown to me.

We've been using Interactive Brokers' API to execute equity trades, only to find out that they impose a price cap when the limit price exceeds a certain threshold. Apparently, this is exchange enforced, but left up to the individual brokers to determine the actual formula.

Does anyone know of any API-enabled brokers who do not impose such a price cap (or at the very least, have a watered down version) rather than attempt to protect us? Heard of robinhood, but they are some ways down the road.
If it's a joke, its a pretty convincing one.

Thanks for reminding me to fire it back up and hack on my destroyers!
Would you mind providing links to both of those? I googled for "sketch" but would rather be sure I have what everyone is talking about.

EDIT: Ok, this [1] and [2] would seem to be what everyone is talking about. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] -- http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
[2] -- http://www.pixate.com
I appreciate your point. But all of those consequences you listed in your example stemmed from the customer trying to get a price out of you for pricing leverage with a competitor.

If the company being used in this regard simply had transparent pricing, they wouldn't have to waste those sales resources in the first place.

I also think in this day and age of anonymous online review sites, Quora, Reddit, etc. that a lot of this pricing information gets out there anyway, NDA's be damned. So it almost seems like a futile battle.

I agree though with your statement on types of companies, and ultimately decided not to continue considering the large established enterprise players and focus more on the smaller, younger companies. There was still pricing negotiation and other sales process challenges, but overall the process was much less painful (still not anywhere approaching enjoyable though).
Thank you. How did you come up with the 50-50-50 setup, or was it purely empirical ? Did you try something simpler first, and how did that simpler method perform vis-a-vis this DNN ? Congratulations on topping the leaderboard.
This is pretty cool. Is there something like this for the LuaJIT VM?
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The repo has recent activity and instructions for getting stuff up and running, so it's beyond a joke. (But then again, I'm still not certain that Soylent isn't an extended piece of satirical performance art.)

Urbit is conceptually dense, that's for sure.
hiring a coder is going to be very costly once programming and design are included

You should start learning about coding now, not with the intention of building the app yourself, but with the intention of becoming more knowledgeable about what the developer's job entails. If you find a developer and say "build me an app" you might get estimates like 12 months and $50k. If you know that you just need a news feed, you can say, "can you take this jQuery mobile template and wrap it in Phonegap, and create a simple database to store a data feed from the following sources, you might be able to get it done in a few weeks for $300 [1].

https://medium.com/@morphmail/the-first-300-a-startup-launch...
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Apologies: I stand corrected.
The requirement protects their liability if later on you decide to sue them for losses.
I love the idea of a built-in hotkey for jumping to a random line across the entire codebase. Like a fuzzer, but for your understanding of your project.

...and now I really want to write a vimscript to do the same.
Pythonjs added new language features.Switch,and Inline Defs
That's not necessary though, if it works fast enough on a relational database in my opinion. I think this article has some valuable insight on the topic: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
Zing is amazing and I legitimately wish I had a reason to spend the money to play with it. In the interim, Shenandoah seems pretty cool (aiming for 10ms pauses for 100G heaps) and it's open so it's easier to lpay with.
It's always weird to see the amount of well meaning but misguided medical advice tossed out by people who have no medical training and who probably haven't been reading the research.

Here's what should happen if you were in England: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg90
This is one of the most important things a person who feels like an outsider can read. Even people who are not depressed fell that way. It's a basic part of the experience of being human - but you can see past it.

C.S. Lewis - The Inner Ring

http://www.lewissociety.org/innerring.php
> honestly does not seem to be doing a bad job.

Is there any difference between the goals of an individual (person, company) vs. the average? Is information a competitive advantage? Today we provide unpaid feedback to improve private algorithms, tomorrow ..?

Edit: downvoters, what is a rhetorical question?
This is really cool. Are you planning to support closed repos?
But i think they are un-necessary and , it will make code so much less readible. I am not a fan of switch too what do you think?
What's interesting is when sales people think they can get a leg up on closing the deal by going over your head because they don't think you are a key decision maker or influential enough in the process to worry about.

A couple years ago I had a sales guy at a large ad tech company that shall go unnamed try to go over my head to executive team members. Of course the first thing that happened after that initial contact was that executive coming over and saying "so and so reached out to me...what do you think about them?"

At that point I explained that not only did I not think they offered a great solution, but that it spoke volumes of how they do business if they go behind people's backs like that.

The icing on the cake was when that executive sent an email back to the sales rep, CCed me, and said that he would defer to my expert knowledge of our needs.

Note to any sales reps reading this...just because someone doesn't have an executive-level title, don't for one second think that you might be able to close the deal without their buy-off.
I was thinking more along the lines of assaulting people or committing crimes. Things that could ruin your reputation or career that are generally disagreeable. I think what you are trying to say is that the powerful will determine what is right and what is wrong.

I can see this being used primarily against those in power though, so you aren't wrong.
Three things which I like: dance (my favorites are west coast swing, waltz, foxtrot, and salsa), poetry (even if you don't write, go to readings), and improv. Lessons are important both for learning and becoming part of a group.