skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40k? Why is everything so bloated these days? The last 6502 machine I had only had 32k in total.
there is a lot of uncertainty in valuing a startup. Conditional on this uncertainty, if I think it is worth 10, then absolutely, I should buy every share I can at 10 or below. The question is, is my valuation method correct. On average, since it is known that VC underperform the market, especially, the larger funds - the answer is probably, not quite :)
> "That's why Hailo is stopping in North America"

Why, exactly?
Fascinating book about the Kennedy time period in Berlin:

http://www.amazon.com/Berlin-1961-Kennedy-Khrushchev-Dangero...
Factor seems to be the only modern[1], mature, actively developed concatenative language right now. But I'm not really a concatenator so I can't tell for sure.

[1] Though maybe some Forths can be considered modern.
> In fact, professors would often use informality as a way to encourage students to actually interact with them, but if you want distance between you and your students, formalities are a good way to achieve that.

That's an interesting perspective. It's not universally true. I'm personally bothered by the fakeness of a "hey, just call me Ed" type of introduction from a professor, someone who has a massive amount of power over my future and who is not my friend, and it's going to create a distance and mistrust until I get to know them. On the other hand, it's never been a big issue either way. It's not hard to adapt to local norms, and the macro issues of education are going to dwarf little things like titles soon enough. (I'm currently a CS student, but I'm a comparatively old one :) )
Ask HN: Anyone based in Los Angeles?
I am curious how many people are working in (or previously from) Los Angeles, and what the tech community is like. 'Silicon Beach' is a moniker thrown around a lot and I was curious what the hot companies are (I know tinder, nasty gal, snapchat, myspace) and what people are working on in LA.
5 or 6 years ago the language got a good amount of hype and was progressing rapidly. It's been a long time since 0.96. Why has there been such a long delay?

(not a criticism, just a question)
So, You Found the Internet Arcade
Seems even closer to what Pearl Jam did for their 1996 album.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Code#Packaging_and_title
Bringing education to underprivileged children through Raspberry Pi
> quite literally felt like I had a degenerative neuromuscular disease when I used the trackpad

Was it jittery? I had this problem with an older thinkpad when plugged into AC, but the problem went away when unplugged, so I assume it was just a case of bad isolation from the 60Hz AC signal.
I've noticed two interesting anomalies in yelp ratings that might account for this: Sushi places usually get high ratings, Vegetarian/Vegan restaurants also.

I think this is for different reasons, but most Americans don't fundamentally seem to know what good fresh fish tastes like, Sushi is no exception.
There's a clear extrapolation from that one person being violent[1] to the idea that people with mental illness are in general violent.

> Right next to her is a hole in the wall punched by some other mentally infirm person that same day.

BadassFractal didn't witness that, but assumes it was done by someone with a mental health problem rather than someone who's just an angry arsehole.

> I would however love to feel safe when being outside of my apartment, instead of wondering if one of these dozens of visibly infirm people I pass by on the way to anything is about to assault me

This is directly linking mental ill health to violence, and it's just as abhorrent as linking violent crime to African Americans.

Those visibly infirm people are far more likely to be the victims, not perpetrators, of violence -- even if you remove self-inflicted violence.

[1] to property, not as far as I know to people.

EDIT: http://depts.washington.edu/mhreport/facts_violence.php

> - "Although studies suggest a link between mental illnesses and violence, the contribution of people with mental illnesses to overall rates of violence is small, and further, the magnitude of the relationship is greatly exaggerated in the minds of the general population (Institute of Medicine, 2006)."

> - "…the vast majority of people who are violent do not suffer from mental illnesses (American Psychiatric Association, 1994)."

> - "The absolute risk of violence among the mentally ill as a group is very small. . . only a small proportion of the violence in our society can be attributed to persons who are mentally ill (Mulvey, 1994)."

> -"People with psychiatric disabilities are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crime (Appleby, et al., 2001). People with severe mental illnesses, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or psychosis, are 2 ½ times more likely to be attacked, raped or mugged than the general population (Hiday, et al.,1999)."

> The effects of stigma and discrimination are profound. The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health found that, “Stigma leads others to avoid living, socializing, or working with, renting to, or employing people with mental disorders - especially severe disorders, such as schizophrenia. It leads to low self-esteem, isolation, and hopelessness. It deters the public from seeking and wanting to pay for care. Responding to stigma, people with mental health problems internalize public attitudes and become so embarrassed or ashamed that they often conceal symptoms and fail to seek treatment (New Freedom Commission, 2003).”
Have you tried "touch to click"? And also, "double-tap-and-hold-to-drag"?
A Tested Framework for Starting a Company
I don't understand this whole controversy. The the amount of money donate to you is so small (like under a dollar over the course of a year) then you don't need to declare it on any tax forms. If a random person on the street gives you a quarter, you on't need to report that on taxes, nor do you have to report a 0.00017 BTC donation.

On the other hand, if the donation is big (say in the thousands USD), I can see why someone could decide to not accept the donation because they don't wan to report it on their taxes. An easy solution to this problem is to NOT TAKE THE DONATION. If you don't take the money, you don't have to report anything. The tip4commit site supposedly states if a developer doesn't accept a donation the money goes back to the 'project pool' where it will get donated to another developer on that project.
The study you linked to didn't even mention the word "sugar", so I'm not sure what you're talking about there. I'm not going to read an entire apparently unrelated study because some anonymous dude says it's relevant to an argument I'm not even making.

The news article you link to is about two attempts at this in the 1990s, looks broadly, covers places with a very different food culture than San Francisco, and treats obesity as the only relevant health issue from sugar. So I would call it interesting, but not necessarily relevant.

Moreover, you seem to ignore that this is a process. If the soda tax doesn't work, then people will try other things. But this is the thing on the ballot, and the question isn't, "Is this the best possible thing to do?" It's, "Shall we try this next?"
This is sure to be an unpopular opinion, but convictions and meaningful sentences would likely have a positive affect. If there are only trivial consequences to crime, then rational actors will be more willing to commit them. If there are bigger consequences, they will be less likely to commit them. Moreover, if the criminal is in jail; there is a period of time they are taken out of circulation.
Cox seems to be on some kind of emulation and retro computing binge as of late. His G+ postings are all about Z80 and the computers that used that CPU.
But when you are out of school, you have a lot of time constraints that you cannot afford to break. Forcing me to finish something before some deadline does not make me learn better; it only deprives me of the chance to learn.
I'm not sure about that. I don't know about SF, but in many other CA cities, they have plenty of positions open, but are having trouble finding qualified candidates. Being in law enforcement is not very appealing.
So what sorts of horrible, unbelievably terrible things do you think are being done with his tax money that would cause him to reject the tax rate if only he knew?
It wouldn't cost much to hire some recent illustration or design school grads and have them do nothing but test the Surface all day and give feature and usability suggestions. Asking a busy person like the Penny Arcade artist to offer suggestions right before the ship date, and then use his suggestions in post-ship date fixes is just half assed.
Just saw this reply, a couple weeks late, but:

Yes, and no, at least not initially. I believe they repeated the test and it came back positive at a later date. So it seems likely that she got something from the tick, probably in part Lyme. The Lyme test is reputed to have a high false negative rate, not sure to what extent this is true.
I agree with that, but my point was that it doesn't seem very valuable to go "to space" when you can't stay -- kind of like how flying across the country, and flying over Nevada is different than "going to Vegas". So to me, the fact that they reach space really isn't the selling point, it is the fact that it is a thrill ride which lasts for however many minutes (more in line with a super roller coaster ride, or a step up from one of those parabolic curve plane flights).
I think, one of the reasons, many in Eastern Germany turn to right wing parties or groups, is that they see it as alternative to the capitalistic system, which is represented by the other parties. The other alternative, the left wing side was made unpopular by the fall of the so called "communistic system" and the saying, that Communism has lost, sticks to the people. So they turn right wing. Of course, the right wing parties are no real alternative to capitalism, but that is difficult to comprehend.

Even Hitler himself presented the NSDAP as alternative to the US capitalism in the 30s. On the surface, it was, but when you looked deeper it was some kind of "undercover capitalism" under the hood of a movement that claimed to be social and unite the people -- but in reality it united some people, by tearing the whole apart, by finding some new foes, the rest of the people should feel as one. But this was an illusion from beginning.

I think, the right wing parties and groups do the same today again. They find the problems, the people have with capitalism -- and capitalism did not treat the eastern people well after the fall of the wall -- and use it as cheese in their big mouse trap.

Yes, Germany is still divided in my opinion today, because the rulers did not understand that the people need more than only bananas and some money in their pockets to go shopping.

Many women -- it is said -- even had an abortion in Eastern Germany after the fall of the wall, because unemployment was pressing so hard and in spite of German laws, some employers pressured them to do so. With unemployment still high and wages still lower than in the western parts, it is understandable, that many people don't feel to comfortable with a system that gives money, but once again no hope to those people. In the old system, they lacked bananas, but they had peace of mind and did not have the pressure to beat their neighbors. I heard many times, that people where much more friendly and helpful with each other in the old system, than they are today.
The notion of there being a single kind of intelligence, and thus a single score measuring it, is so hopelessly archaic.
Will they? That's exciting.

How many racists have told you that you should pay deep attention to your life experience and consider how it differs from that of others? Could you name some of them?

I've read a bunch of pro-slavery literature from the civil war era, and also a bunch of modern white supremacist kook literature. I have to say, empathy and consideration for people from different backgrounds was not the major theme you say it was.

But hey, if I can't trust some anonymous goof, who can I trust? So I'm sure you're right.
They can't compete against Uber and Lyft, at least so they claim.

http://mashable.com/2014/10/14/hailo-leaves-north-america/
I personally think that Path MTU Discovery is one of the major obstacle of IPv6. It is quite unstable to me. My home WiFi router has v6-ready certification but cannot properly tell my Windows PC which MTU size should be chosen. I have to manually lower down MTU size but it keep reverting. Directly PPPoE from my PC is better but there's still some website I have to set my MTU size to 1280 to reach.
I have had a similar experience searching for a business co-founder. I might be able to help out, if you contact me through my profile email. I want to code a really good app store marketplace someday, similar to trading digital goods.
> The tip4commit site supposedly states if a developer doesn't accept a donation the money goes back to the 'project pool' where it will get donated to another developer on that project.

So tip4commit is being dishonest -- if the project has said that none of their contributors will ever accept a tip it is dishonest to continue accepting contributions for that project.
Slack feels like IRC with a cleaner interface, attachments, and user-accounts. You can even connect to it with IRC clients if you choose.

Regarding VC investments ... What prevents VCs from simply inventing wealth? That is, what is preventing a VC from investing $X dollars at an absurd valuation just to amplify the perceived value of their own investment? This chart perfectly shows the investment versus the valuation: http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
Pandatap an addictive mobile game, frustrating
The Top Four Dangers of Survival Mode
Most academic computer scientists are hackers at heart; they are quite genuine in their informality.
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http://kernelnewbies.org/
The agreements put in place regarding the partition of authority over Germany after the war did not require keeping the roads and railways open, but did require keeping air access open along certain corridors.

So the East/Soviet leadership was able to close the roads and railways without violating any agreement; the Western/US/UK/France leadership had simply not anticipated originally that this would happen.

There were documented cases of harassment of planes, but shooting them down would have provoked another war immediately. And the Soviets knew they were not prepared to fight another war. Especially because the Soviets did not yet have nuclear weapons at the time of the blockade/airlift (the blockade lasted June 1948-May 1949, and the USSR did not conduct its first successful nuclear-weapons test until August 1949).
Yep. Even today the Torvalds mantra is "do not break user space". If a patch of yours do, you will be at the receiving end of one of his infamous rants. At least if you happen to be high up in the patch chain and should know better.

just wish certain other Linux related projects would take that mantra to heart.

Btw, it is a similar mantra that has carried Microsoft all these years. Recently discovered that some software a relative of mine has been enjoying dated back to Windows 95. And it only broke now because the new computer was running 64-bit Windows 8.
Yes to all your questions, Mr. Cox.

Godspeed.
The Transitabkommen of 1971 guaranteed free Travel for Citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany.

http://books.google.de/books?id=GiCgOUq96dgC&lpg=PA115&ots=G...
DoCapture got 20,000 uniques the first two days. Not much but still hitting a few hundred daily http://skakunmedia.com/docapture/
Death by Celibacy: Sex in the Middle Ages
What year was that?

Reminds me of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Web_Tryp
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First OpenBSD commit to add ASLR was Sep 2003. Released in 3.5 on May 1 2004 (also the first release to support amd64).
Pick a house you believe to be abandoned or at least temporarily empty. Make up a name and have a package sent to that name at that address. Carefully go get the package or pay a third party to pick it up and bring it to you. Not my cup of tea, but it doesn't seem too hard.
I am clinically diagnosed with having ADHD.

Some of the symptoms you name sound like they're picked up from a list of symptoms for diagnosing children with ADHD:

Dash around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight, Have trouble sitting still during school and homework.

As a 20-something, relatively successful (founded and sold a company, work as an engineering consult for various companies, back in school getting my prereqs for medicine) male, I certainly am not playing with anything and everything in sight, nor do I dash around.

However, I do have a tendency to carry around something for my hands to play with -- a pen, squishy ball, my own fingers -- because they get restless. I also sometimes feel like I have a huge amount of excited energy balled up inside of me which I need to get out. I normally remedy this by exercising or running up and down a set of stairs a few times. One might say that my symptoms are adult versions of the childhood symptoms you point out.

As other people have mentioned, depression something that is often comorbid with ADHD. I personally have been severely depressed -- so much so that it caused "distress" (real-life problems) for an extended period of time. I became so tense, bored, disheartened, stressed-out by doing something I really loved. Depression followed. I won't say much else; if you'd like to understand this a bit more, let me know, and I'll spend some more time with a reply.
0.96 was released April 20, 2013[1] and was rather solid to use. Glad to hear that it received a fair amount of hype before (I wasn't aware of that myself -- perhaps I missed that phase). Most languages seem to release rapidly as 'low-hanging fruit' features are worked on, and then seem to plateau as major releases get longer and longer in between.

Factor came to my attention during the 0.94 release in 2010, which was solid enough to learn Factor in a great IDE. I wish that I'd had more time to invest more seriously over the years, but am extremely glad that it's still being actively worked on. You can tell this from the Factor github commit log[2].

As far as I'm aware, since the community is rather small, most people that code in Factor don't bother much with the release numbers and just compile their images straight from github as commits are made. The "releases" are done more as a public milestone.

[1] http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2013/04/factor-0-96-now-availa...

[2] https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/commits/master
That is true. For the right candidate, that is an option.
Yeah, we highly recommend blog post authors to put their `rustc -v` at the top of the page, at least until 1.0 (which is not far off).
Mapping differences in two German economies
Well-Roundedness Keeps Geniuses from Becoming Madmen
There is a lot of startup activity in Santa Monica and Venice, hence the Silicon Beach name, but there are a few companies out in Hollywood and Beverly Hills too. I interviewed at Whisper when they were still in a house in Santa Monica, and it looked like a scene from a movie with beautiful people walking around and lounging by the pool (not a lot of coding that I saw).

I work at a startup called Merchant Centric out in Westlake Village (not a sexy startup hub). We make a dashboard for small businesses to manage their listings and reply to reviews on yelp, google, Facebook, etc.

I'd like to see a bigger startup community in the San Fernando Valley area. Woodland Hills/Warner Center is a hip place with lots of shopping, dining, and (shockingly) public transportation, and housing costs are half what they are in West LA.
Code churning and Golang
Have you got any technology/design stack used to build this .. looks very clean and intuitive from UI/backend prospective ..
Pycharm has automatic formatting, much better autocompletion (it deduces type based on context), continuous PEP8 check, class hierarchy, refactoring support and a terrific debugger.

Don't get me wrong. I am not trying to bash your choice. I am merely curious how to achieve the similar in vim, because I have some urges to switch as well.
Generic endorsement of this comment, coming from someone who has an international business and has occasionally had to decline tips, for these (and other [+]) reasons.

I once had a gentleman attempt to put a rather small sum of money in my hand. Call it $50. He meant it as a nice gesture, because he had been consuming my professional output for years, and it had helped his business. He could not have known, but causing me to have US-source income would have potentially exposed me to several thousand dollars in additional tax liability during that year. (Long story.) There exist ways around it, but at the very least I would have had to loop my accountant in on the incident, so we could discuss whether I have to worry about the $50 "donation."

My accountant's rate is $10. Per minute.

All of this was going through my head when I attempted to gracefully decline.

[+] Totally separate from tax/compliance, I have social reasons why I prefer to not get tipped for things. Social expectations are a weird thing, but regardless of their intrinsic weirdness they appear to be real, and as a result I try to hew to them unless I have a really strong reason to not to. One feature of social classes in the US is that the one I aspire to be in does not accept tips. Tips are something which flow from the relatively well-off to the relatively poorly-off, and even in those relationships where I'm relatively poorly-off, lumping myself in with waiters and massage therapists doesn't sound advantageous when I hope to have a professional image closer to that of a doctor, lawyer, or investment advisor.

For related reasons, I remain very concerned that many OSS developers appear to think that they should have to throw hundreds of hours of professional labor into projects used by for-profit companies so that they can be allowed to participate in Internet busking on a scale which would be sneered at by actual buskers.