skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go to sleep. Practically speaking, you're at zero legal risk for exaggerating your income on a credit card application. Cancel it during business hours tomorrow. You don't need any reason more specific than "I decided to not go forward with the application. Please cancel it for me."

You can worry about improving the business, because a successfully executed freelancing business should more than pay the bills. We're in the best market since forever. But worry about that tomorrow.
> I had a friend who turned down a job at Facebook in late 2008 because he felt the 15 billion valuation was very high and it limited his upside.

He was way off and probably did not ask the recruiter proper questions. Common stock issued to employees is a different class from preferred stock issued to Microsoft.
Hmm.

Not bad, but the data is surprisingly sparse.

For example (former Australian Prime Minster) Kevin Rudd[1] is described as "Politician". DBPedia has much more comprehensive data on him[2].

It does at least have sensible "sameAs" links to DBPedia and in some cases Freebase and NYTimes, so that is somewhat useful.

But I'm not clear what this is supposed to give that DBPedia and Freebase don't.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/things/80731fc5-49c3-459a-93f7-a56478a9...

[2] http://dbpedia.org/snorql/?query=DESCRIBE+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdb...
Fragment and Its Lightweight Cousin
Lightweight Debian: LXDE Desktop from Scratch
Bending iPhone 6 Plus
Kimono Labs (YC W14) is hiring success engineers
India's First Mars Probe Makes Historic Red Planet Arrival
> even employees who joined the company as late as the end of 2010 were underwater

That is not correct usage of the term. According to external report, Facebook stopped issuing stock options to employees as of 2007. People joining in 2010 would be receiving RSUs, whose "strike price" is $0. While the monetary value of the shares at IPO was different than the value they imagined, they would not be underwater (having a strike price above market price, thus rendering options meaningless).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/for-founders-to...
> Both presentation styles are perfectly valid.

Where did the parent claim that this was an 'invalid' presentation style?
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In theory, the whole reason those legislators are there is to insulate the country from knee-jerk reactions on the part of the citizenry (or a vocal component thereof.) The framers understood that direct democracy wouldn't be sustainable.

Instead, what we've seen since 9/11 is that the legislators themselves are the ones who are afraid of their own shadow. Just as nobody marched in the streets after 9/11, demanding that George Bush invade Iraq, nobody begged the NSA to implement ubiquitous domestic surveillance capabilities with no effective oversight. These are crimes of opportunity.
I think the use case with phones will be a hard sell if just for the fact that they keep getting larger every year.
While I agree with the idea that working like crazy is likely to net more than a failed startup, a couple of comments:

> If you're going to work 80h/week anyway and you're a talented coder: source one contract job billing hourly in London and another in SF. Working out of EST you work 5AM-9PM on a 10-6 in both places -- Billing $80/hr with a good corporate setup and working 4000 hours/year you can get 320,000/year

I seriously doubt most people can produce 40 billable, quality architecture/programming hours a week, let alone 80 -- especially over a long period of time. Anyway 80/hour is way low for quality work as a consultant; 100 usd/hour should be a minimum. Target a more manageable 2300 hours a year (6 day work week or 5 long days) and invoice 230 000/year.

> if you have EU citizenship (potentially from one of the return countries) and US citizenship you can probably setup a decent double irish and keep about 280,000+ of that in offshore money.

Yeah, stealing (or tax evasion) is an easy way to get rich. If you want to break the law, you might want to look into smuggling or credit card fraud/skimming as well...
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There are easier ways to get rich? For Stanford Graduates, maybe. For those who don't have a degree in an ultra-paying job, I'd really like to know an easier way.

I'm usually sceptical about start-up chances, I know how much work it means, and I know that a lot of early-stage employees get rich, too. Yet, I don't think you can get rich this fast/easy with a modest degree... Even as early-stage employee often you'll still get a raw deal or you overestimate their chances of success.
The credit card company has no reason to believe that anything you told them was untrue. The worst they'll do is reject your application because they can't verify the information you gave them. They have no incentive to get you in legal trouble because (1) you don't have any of their money yet and (2) you're a potential customer. Calling them up in a panic would just be drawing attention to yourself. (I'm not saying that what you did was right or smart; I'm just saying that it's not likely you'll suffer any dire consequences.)

What you should really be terrified of is "going through cash and credit cards quickly". If you're financing your living expenses by borrowing against your credit cards (at a very hefty interest rate), you'll go bankrupt soon. If you can't make ends meet by freelancing, try looking for a full-time job. If you have the skills to build your own software you can probably get a job with a decent salary. You can continue working on your own projects in your spare time. Do you really want to risk you and your wife ending up broke and homeless?
I think you are right that here it's not the proper audience for this.

I really like many of his videos discussing science and atheism and that stuff, but his crusade against the feminist movement (part of it) and against atheism+ and Anita are a little too much.

I understand his disbelief about the threats against Anita but again accuse the supposedly victim for not behave as he would do it's very dangerous.

Now I do believe that followers of Anita and people whom hate him might organize his ban and that makes a lot of sense. For me the bann in the tweeter account is baseless and unfair independently of the opinion you might have about him.
Congrats team india!!!
The major problem is parallel construction.
If the police can use this data - obtained illegally and surreptitiously using tools like accessdata or cellebrite to search for confirmation, they could extract a plea from you or find/manufacture other facts that do incriminate you or tear down your defense.
In general, I agree with our assessment, but let me add that I constantly got great evaluations by my superiors, but when I asked for a 10% raise they laughed in my face. I don't work there anymore, but other companies also didn't pay much more when I went looking (without acute need).

Maybe it's the business (consulting) where they only care about the hourly margin, not about your performance (although I did an internal fixed-price project back then; probably saved the company's ass on that botched POS they had built). Generally, my impression is that salaries in Germany are very homogenous, and affected largely by age/experience and rank. You'd have to be a well-marketed freelancer to achieve high hourly rates (only a few people - relatively speaking - can do that).
Unless they specified a date, then putting your previous years full income seems a reasonable answer to the question.

In this case, I would do nothing and just see if they issue the card or not.

It's not like they have any means of knowing your income other than your reporting it... so they can't check it.

If would only seem to be fraud if you're doing this deliberately to mislead them and have no intention of repaying the loan.
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Maybe Acme is afraid of exploding into too much volume, and not being able to provide that aforementioned exceptional customer service.

Maybe they just choose to be humble and let their actions do the talking!

Either way, this to me is speaking volumes to the type of company this is, but I do share your desire to know what the name of the company is.
@enupten,

Following books provide an excellent insight on ISRO's beginnings and growth. They are a superb read:

"A Brief History of Rocketry in ISRO" by P V Manoranjan Rao, P Radhakrishnan

"India's Rise as Space Power" by UR Rao

"Wings of Fire" by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, with Dr. Arun Tiwari
That are some very optimistic assumptions... Startup founders don't generally work 80 hours per week. Not for 10 years, at least.
This could be great - what do you need, and how do we help?
One of the most recent examples on the need of space technology in India:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...
Companies cannot grant equity to employees at below fair market value without creating adverse tax consequences for those employees. Transactions like the Microsoft investment absolutely factor into the determination of fair market value. Bottom line: just three years after its founding, Facebook had a very significant valuation.
there was some race to hack the touchid (http://istouchidhackedyet.com) and the winner made this video walk through: http://vimeo.com/75324765
Workers Comp Foot Injuries
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Plus, most software engineers I work with every day are hardly nerds. Maybe 1/3 of them are, the rest are just wearing suits without ties but are very professional at their job and attitude.

The "nerd" idea is a myth, a prejudice I myself had back in college. But it's not the reality. Most engineers are very very boring family men, not the enthusiastic hipster type in funky colored pants.
Thank you.

When you write, "rank", what exactly do you mean?

Here in California, I think we do not use that word.
The MVP is a philosophy to get to "something that users love" as fast as possible.
You want to get to the real problem of lack of female leadership in tech?

THERES NO WOMEN IN TECH.

You need to be pointing your feminist attacks at womens lack of participation as much if not more than some misogynistic repression.
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I'm talking about the end-user. From server perspective, I would argue that it depends on the impact.

With a proper setup you should be able to tell if you are dealing with something on the kernel level .vs typical script kiddie style attack.

Reloading server with 1000's customers is not that simple.
Sort of. The catch is that even a very small write, say just a few megabytes, can drastically change the cost of an fsync(). On my test aws VM even writing just 4 megabytes one time is enough to trigger the problem. Even on an otherwise fully isolated system a few megs may be written from time to time, for example by a management agent like chef or puppet. Or by an application deploy copying out new binaries.

For example, here I reproduce the problem on a completely isolated machine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8359556
There is a very big difference between actually breaking the law and exploiting the fact that the law is poorly written, and doesn't properly account for a a variety of issues starting to be used by a sizeable portion of all US corporations.
Yes. Chandrayaan-2 (second Moon mission) consisting of a lander and rover is already in the works. Also, with the qualification of GSLV Mk3 medium-heavy lift vehicle and re-entry capsules[1], ISRO would be able to contribute more to "space transportation" missions.

[1] http://www.isro.org/rep2014/STS.html
I've heard that misspellings can actually improve the response rate. I'd believe that - felt more personal to me.
What an amazing achievement! And what a retro looking website! Congrats to the team, this is something to be proud of.
This is where Apple really adds value and why they have their own silicon design teams.

Some of the blocks:

-- M7 motion chip

-- Image processing chip to support camera

-- (I suspect) audio processing chip to do compression and feature extraction for SIRI

-- (suspect) video codec (though this may be done by GPU)

-- Secure Enclave -- CPU with secure data, random number generator, Apple Pay support, Fingerprint Sensor support

-- (I suspect) memory management units and io co-processors and the like that are too mundane to get much public mention
That's really great. Quite smart, too - the Catholic church approach ;)
@_random: $99 is too dear for multi-language cross-platform IDEs that rival VS in features and usability? You must think that any amount is too much to pay for high quality development tools. So download their free "Community Editions". (Not to start a flame, at all; I just disagree. I have no affiliation with JetBrains, other than being a happy customer.)
He believes he should recommend to risk a substantial amount of life blood (and money) on the chances of having a big success. Not to anyone, but a lot of highly talented individuals.

It depends on his ethics, of course, but I'd say this recommendation alone means he believes there to be a substantial chance...
Hello! I work on the team that produced this - the BBC's Linked Data Platform. The data our team has can be split into two parts.

One is the metadata we store about Creative Works, which represent content created by the BBC (programmes, news articles, blog posts, video clips). This is probably the data that is of most interest to the public, but we haven't opened this up - not yet, anyway.

The second is Tag Concepts - things that Creative Works can be tagged with. That's what were surfacing on /things, and at the moment we're only not showing every bit of data we have for each thing.

The "Beta" label signifies that it's just a first version to gauge reaction and see what the public want from a site like this. We'll be looking at things like this thread to help us work out where we should go next.
I remember playing with Logo 18 years ago too. My 7th grade students just had their second day of Python, after working with Scratch during 6th grade. Turtle is part of the Python standard library--makes for an easy transition. If you're interested in educational technology and haven't read Papert's Mindstorms, it's inspiring.
How I Plan to Connect 1M Women in Technology
For a second issue, there is a certain perception that start-up founders can produce far more than 40 hours/week of quality architecture and programming. Founding a company involves believing in that at some level. I agree it's not in the category of most people, but neither is start-up founder. If you have a serious belief in your ability to do so, try working like crazy on 3 month contracts and see if you actually can. Over 3 months you're unlikely to burn out completely, and you can adjust your expectations of the kind of hours you're capable of accordingly.
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> Aquagenic pruritus is recurrent, intense, diffuse itching upon getting out of a bath or shower, and although no one knows the mechanism, it’s a symptom of polycythemia vera, a rare condition in which the body produces too many red blood cells.

Oh wow, so that's what that is. I get that. I always assumed that was typical; it's a pretty horrid sensation, it's like my eczema crossed with pins and needles, and it happens when I get in or out of a shower or bath, especially quite hot ones (but even just warm can do it).
It worked for me (an apprentice).
You basically did what the majority of Americans do. There is a difference between fraud and FRAUD.

Your story is the equivalent of wondering if you'll be prosecuted for grand theft for taking 2 samples at the grocery store instead of 1.
Oh man, I remember reading this right after it was published.

How such a mundane thing as an itch can completely wreck your life and your body -- I still count it as one of the scariest things I've ever read.
I think you did fine; if anyone disagrees, they should post an alternate suggestion in reply.
I keep seeing this stuff over the years, so I go buy something other than Seagate like WD... and they fail within a year. So I replace it with a Seagate and no problems for years. See another report that says Seagate is terrible- repeat process.

I'm just going to keep using Seagate until my anecdata refutes the reality I live in.
This just in: first photograph has been taken using MCC payload (Mars Colour Camera) and will be released soon[1] :)

By the way, here's the picture taken by MCC when MOM was orbiting Earth:

http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/earth/mom-f...

[1] http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29440.msg12...
Sooner or later studios are going to realize if its not on something like netflix... it doesn't exist.
No results found for Mr Blobby.
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No results found for Noel Edmunds.
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No results found for Katy Hill.
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No results found for Jamie Theakston.
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John Peel - Radio DJ

Well at least they remembered him :-/
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No results found for Steve Lamacq. (he's even an active DJ for the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04j364l )

Can't say I'm particularly impressed.
Some startups "succeed" earlier than the 10 years. Lot's of big exits beforehand, lot's of growth afterwards. Also a lot of founders and employees have plenty of success in between, depending on salary, funding rounds etc
Except this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

The actual digital content issue isn't primarily contractual problems. It's more like Ford saying, "No, we won't sell you that car, you have to buy our car subscription service with a new vehicle every month that you don't want and can't use!"

Sure there are frictional costs etc, but to pretend that they--rather than stone age business models--are the primary cause of difficulty in legally accessing digital content is, well, not entirely sustained by the facts. HBO could easily make back any amount of cash by allowing download purchases of GoT etc. But they don't. They simply don't offer their content for download sale, and people stream instead (which is wrong, but entirely predictable.)
India triumphs in first Mars mission
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Watch Sam Altman's first lecture for How to Start a Startup, and participate in the discussion here: http://lect.io/#watch/CBYhVcO4WgI
I noticed that you probably always want the value if the value is a leaf of the tree (typically a primitive value). Similarly, for validation, do you validate records of the values on the records? If the syntax to access the values via a record cursor or via a record is exactly the same, then you can just pass the cursor to the validation function, rather than the record. The validation function doesn't even need to know that it got a cursor.

I'm curious whether you could shoot any holes in that reasoning.
Aweber all day. Mixed with leadpages for your landing pages
IMO this highlights the need for hash-verified script tags:

<script src="https://jquery.com/whatever.js" hash="sha256,deadbeef...">

The browser would refuse to load the script if its hash didn't match.

This would be far safer than what we currently do.

It would also allow the browser to more aggressively cache scripts -- if it already has a script in the cache from another URI whose hash matches, e.g. because someone else included jquery from Google's CDN, it can substitute it in.

This has an easy legacy story, too; old browsers will just ignore the "hash" tag and behave as they currently do.
True. I do believe that by doing close collaboration with NASA, ESA etc. India can help accelerate space missions all over the world. It will certainly be a win-win partnership because these Space agencies will save lots of money and India will gain expertise in executing complex missions.
The worst thing that might happen is that they give you the credit card.
No idea. I think investing is advanced enough that you typically need somewhat complex jargon and data to actually make money - over time it's basically become an old boys club and no-one's really trying to make it accessible to regular investor.
Did you just link to an article about people in South Africa using mobile phones in 2012? You realize that SA has been rolling out good infrastructure for a while now? Right?

Do you think people in South Africa need this thing to read about Ebola in 2014? How ignorant are you really?

Signed up 3 hours ago. Surprise.
I felt mixed about his speech (I listened to it fully). I think it lacked bit of finesse considering it was addressed to country's eminent scientists. But then, perhaps therein lies his genuineness.
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True, but there is no chance of being fined/sued and there never will be. That's the reality we live with, and there are proven business models that will make a huge amount of money in that reality. Businesses that attempt to live in a separate reality will suffer. It's hardly fair, but it is fact.
I was not privy to when Facebook started granting RSUs instead of options. My use of the term "underwater" was based on what was reported.

Still, this is a red herring. The fundamental point of my comment was that in the past couple of years, every single person here had the ability to purchase Facebook shares on terms just as favorable if not more favorable than many Facebook employees without having to spend a single day working for the company.

In fact, in the past several years, you could have on favorable terms purchased shares in any number of tech companies that have delivered fantastic gains to shareholders. Obviously, timing investments (or trades depending on your persuasion) is easier said than done, but it's probably no more difficult than trying to determine whether the startup you're going to work at for the next four years of your life is the next Facebook or the next MySpace.
BMC Software Sues ServiceNow for Patent Infringement
I think the most interesting question is how would you even go about proving 'willful infringement'?

It's interesting that the NG lawyer walked through the steps required for providing the $150k case. If you can convince him that those requisite facts are likely to be demonstrated, you will get a lot more money.

So I did some more research on the image in question. Honestly this sounds like something NG should have caught. I'm having a hard time imagining there's someone in NH who didn't recognize the image, and ensure it was properly cited. It's the cover image of a major issue, that should be something you get right.

If their process is so terrible they can't catch this image, then their process is willfully bad, and you can get them for $150k. It fails the De minimis test.

So I think that's the retort. Ultimately it's a bluff up until the point where you file a civil action. Tell them you'll take them to small claims and do it yourself if you must, there's definitely more money in it than $3k.

That said, I think NG does right by these letters. They have to start somewhere, and it's not by offering $150k up front. It was not aggressive and seemed genuinely apologetic. If they can give a plausible explanation of how this happened and what they are doing to ensure it never happens again you may find it wasn't actually willful.
Out of curiosity: Where would this be used? The only places I ever hear the word "lua" being used are with "embedded in a game as a scripting language".

Is this the case here? Does lua have a lot of use elsewhere?
Patents linked:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5978594
http://www.google.com/patents/US6816898
http://www.google.com/patents/US6895586
http://www.google.com/patents/US7062683
http://www.google.com/patents/US7617073
http://www.google.com/patents/US8646093
http://www.google.com/patents/US8674992
I certainly wouldn't want to encourage more use of the preprocessor. But I can understand having a preprocessor that does something more than whatever's stock on your system (JPL, for instance, has their own C preprocessor: http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/ , scroll down to "released code"), even if it's standard conforming.
What in the world are you talking about.