skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NB: Not sure why you were down voted, it was a perfectly valid comment.

I agree with you. I guess I'm just giving the author a little credit: I think he understands the iPhone itself isn't an invention but that things like multi-touch displays were invented to make it possible. They didn't just take available parts and put them together, they had to invent stuff which would come together to create something. The comparison to the bulb is unfair as that is a 'simple' object (it does one thing, has one function).
"Well, at least in clang (3.4). Gcc (4.8.2) is too smart to fall for this separate destination thing and “optimizes” the code back to something like our original version."

This resonated quite heavily with me. I've spent rather large amount of time figuring out how to trick various compilers. This is especially critical in cases where there is no inline assembly, such as shaders. It's really sad how in some cases you can 'optimize' code by hiding information. In what sane world code runs faster if you make something not a compile time constant as an example?

I really wish that every compiler would have "Shut up! I know what I'm doing!" mode where it would basically do what you say as close as possible. 1:1 mapping on registers to certain variables and the few temp regs required for evaluating expressions.

This is not needed often but it's absolutely mandatory for going from 40-50% of theoretical speed to >90%. And in games and other soft real time applications this can spell the difference between 30 and 60 fps.
I took the story as descriptive, not prescriptive. Did I miss some subtext suggesting otherwise?
Right. Because 1) tax loopholes don't exist, and 2) corporations don't find ways to make employees cover costs whenever possible.
I've experienced similar, to a lesser extent (I never cheated, I just didn't do the homework). I also recently struck out on my own and so far I've been successful. In your case, you may want to just farm out all of the non-passion-inducing work. Accountants, book keepers, virtual assistance, all of these are there to help you succeed.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442067
I think a lot of the time people miss the positive side of these stories.

It's not just a story of impoverishment, its also story of adventure. If you were going to backpack around the world, you're certainly going to be sleeping somewhere dumpy, eating poorly, dealing with crazy situations, etc. But thats okay, because you've accepted that you're trading off comfort for some unique experience.

When I was a teenager, my friend would crash at my house and we'd just hack on our websites, play computer games, and occasionally step outside. For weeks at a time, that's all we'd do. And honestly it was some of the most fun and fulfillment I've ever had.

You don't really get to do that as an adult, except in extreme cases like when you try to build a startup. Life isn't about necessarily optimizing for comfort or salary. Sometimes its more fulfilling to do what you want to do, where you want to do it, on your terms.
Olacabs(India) raises $210M from Japan’s SoftBank Corp; enters $1b Club
No one in this entire thread agrees. Why are we even talking about it?

Stop upvoting this link bait rubbish to the frontpage HN.
"ignorance is not a defense" - It is a defense. Any reasonable person would accept "i did not know this thing i was doing, which hurts no one, was illegal" as defense against charges of a crime.

It's just not a _legal_ defense because the legal system unreasonably expects people to know and comply with the massive, ever-growing battery of laws.
It's disappointing to see comments like this rewarded. It's not even critical thinking.

First (as I wrote in a comment below), no, he really didn't mean "monetize" when he said "mediate". He's criticizing a trend toward mediated consumption of media at the expense of self-controlled consumption. That in and of itself is a perfectly fine trend to criticize (look at criticisms of Facebook's mediated timeline and Twitter's moves to do the same, or G+ social stream vs my firehose stream in Reader, as specifically called out in the article).

I'm not sure why people are asserting that he's saying otherwise.

Second:

> Google can freely evolve into a channel optimized for injecting paid content

> They'e ultimately in the business of finding more subtle and effective ways to deliver ads

Except google doesn't do any of these things now, so if you're argument is that they're moving to do these things, you're going to have to show some kind of evidence.
How do you set up the incentives so that it's in the interest of the court to do its job, and not bow to the inevitable pressure to rubber-stamp bills?
JaaS, empowering people to innovate with DevOps tools
DevOps culture is being implemented in big companies, where they are working collaboratively using tools and processes that increment their efficiency in a way they can deliver products faster and with more quality.
Imagine if all that power could be in the hands of everyone, empowering people to innovate in a way the world had never sow before.

We are heading to the next revolution in the IT world, so we are building JaaS to embrace it, and explore even more our capacity of creativity.

http://unbouncepages.com/jaas
1. Framework is compatible with iOS 7/above and you can access the data in real-time. All performance issues are resolved and we have very happy customers.
2. You can use it in production of course and you may inform the user if you want. But there are lots of apps using FR in production.
3. Thank you, also we're joining Amazon re:Invent 2014 as a Startup Sponsor.
You see? Nothing is wrong. And things that might be perceived as "wrong" are unimportant anyway. Move along, everyone.
Regarding catch-all for Yandex Mail: you can enable it.
I guess you have already registered for yandex mail and added your domain.
Not sure if the configuration page is available in english (couldn't find it), but on the russian page click on the second of the three top links (Мои домены) to go to your domain list.
Then click on the second item of the secondary menu - (Настроить домен - configure domain).
The first entry in the drop-down menu is the default address - the catch all address. Select an e-mail address to use for it and save using the button next to it. Should work now.
Or Denmark. From Wikipedia:
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With 145.9 kg (321.7 lb) of meat per person consumed in 2002, Denmark has the highest consumption of meat per person of any country in the world.
Ask HN: Anyone in SF Interested in the Global Learning XPRIZE?
I just learnt about the Global Learning XPRIZE, and I'm looking for others interested in ideating concepts and possibly forming a team. You can see my contact info in my user page if you would like to talk further.
The disease model of psychology is fundamentally flawed from the gate. So there's that.

But fuck you right in the eye for making assumptions about other people's health decisions. Are there people jumping on a trendy gluten bandwagon for no reason? Sure. But the countless first-hand reports of those who had joint pain go away, or reduced sinus problems, or improved acne, or eliminated irritable bowel syndrome: clearly that must all be psycho-somatic, right?

Maybe other people know more about their own bodies (and minds) than you do, and if they're wrong (or mindlessly following what's hip), that's their prerogative.
I'm hiring a CSP to handle all the paperwork/taxes/etc and an assistant to handle organizing my appointments/schedule. I'm hoping that will be sufficient for at least the first six months or so.
I believe Taro would be the first person to tell founders they should NOT follow their path to building a company. In retrospect, he realizes how ridiculously naive they were. The lesson that I take away from their story is that even if you don't have a good plan and it turns out it was stupidly inefficient, you can still succeed if you just don't give up.

I see a lot of smart founders give up even with a good plan. The reason? They don't have grit.
It never attracted a giant user base. I miss Reader (especially the pre-G+ integration version) and I wish it was still around, but it's not mysterious why it got killed. If it had hundreds of millions of users it wouldn't have died.
For context: You probably failed because i've never dealt with car dealers. I live in germany and for the past 32 years have never even had a car in mine or my direct relatives' possession. I don't even have a license.
> The vegetarian diet had nothing to do with poverty or animal rights. Gladiators, it seems, were fat. Consuming a lot of simple carbohydrates, such as barley, and legumes, like beans, was designed for survival in the arena. Packing in the carbs also packed on the pounds. "Gladiators needed subcutaneous fat," Grossschmidt explains. "A fat cushion protects you from cut wounds and shields nerves and blood vessels in a fight." Not only would a lean gladiator have been dead meat, he would have made for a bad show. Surface wounds "look more spectacular," says Grossschmidt. "If I get wounded but just in the fatty layer, I can fight on," he adds. "It doesn't hurt much, and it looks great for the spectators."

Source: http://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.html

So yeah if I want to have a higher body fat percentage, I guess I could do this.
It is none of their business why I needed my money or how many trips it took.
I was talking about corruption, not economic growth. I'll bite, though.

The corrolation between high tax rates and economic growth is an incredibly partisan issue. There are lots of people saying that they are connected, but there are just as many saying that stagnation is much better corrolated to inequality (e.g.):

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1402.pdf

I will say that if you look at the "quality of life for the average person" indicators (health and longevity, infant mortality, leisure time), the high-tax countries smoke the rest. So my argument is: even if your country's GDP is growing a little faster, why would you care if it doesn't make your life any better?
Interestingly, while yandex webmail has an English interface available, the page to change your password presents you with a cyrillic captcha.
I run into this issue when setting up webmail for a Kenyan NGO team - since google wouldn't approve Google Apps for Education without some serious bureaucracy, Yandex Mail was used quite successfully, well, except for the password change issue.
The thing you find irritating is actually a strength of his writing, not a fault.

Imagine if he had been more particular about the tech behind VR, how poorly would the writing have aged then?

Instead he chose a set of workable metaphors to encapsulate the ideas and ran with it. In the end succeeded in transmitting those ideas so thoroughly that (arguably) the entire first round of VR (and thus the nascent 2nd) was largely inspired by his writing.
> If you need $35,000 for some purpose and make 4 or 5 trips to the bank to get it, your explanation of why you needed to make 4 or 5 trips is sure to amuse the investigators.

Because walking with $35K in your pocket is simply stupid?

Taking multiple trips would make the risk of being robbed at all go up but the amount taken could never be more than whatever fraction of $35K you decided to walk around with.

Anything over $5000 is madness. once in my life I walked around with in excess of $10K on my person and I felt decidedly funny even though nobody could have seen the difference between the skinny kid in jeans with and without that kind of money on him. Never been more nervous in my life on the street, it was as if there was a huge red light on my forehead spelling out 'target'. I could totally understand why someone would not withdraw $35K all at once but rather make multiple trips with much smaller amounts.

My bank seems to agree with this principle because it is impossible to transfer more then 20K in one go even from my own account to one of their internal accounts.
Garbage collection is an issue breaker for some systems software, you can't use the "fork and start a new process model" for utilities, and memory usage for small systems is going to be an issue too.
The article mentions readelf as using the same buggy library :(
> Less than 0.1% of reports actually led to people's money being wrongfully seized—that's a low enough rate that it's hardly worth worrying about.

Unless of course it is your money that is being wrongfully seized.
The MINIX one looks OK, for example:
https://github.com/jncraton/minix3/blob/master/commands/simp...

It does attempt to parse a.out format, but any weird values in the header won't cause reading/writing beyond the end of a buffer.
I absolutely agree, but people need an honest appraisal of the situation. You should be making these sorts of decisions because this - in the moment - is the lifestyle you want, not because you believe it will make you a founder of the next WhatsApp.
Agreed and exactly this is what I was thinking while reading this! Positive thinking vs. naivety differentiator was not there!
Easy explanation:

To avoid getting stopped by cops who'd "confiscate" it just because carrying so much money is suspicious and drug-dealer-like.* Or, what amounts to the same thing: To avoid losing such an amount of money in a mugging.

* http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...
It was a conspiracy theory? Literally, a hypothesis that has been supported by testing to explain a group of people collaborating to commit a crime? Was that what his mischaracterization was?
If you asked Washington or Jefferson probably something like death for those who have (treasonously) knowingly violated the constitution.
From random readings, it appears that great musicians, scientists, artists live not only during the same era, but usually very close to one another.

I guess today you could call the Internet the city/town.

There is also something to be said about what seems to be serendipity. When there is a high concentration of people doing the same thing, you are more likely to bump into people who can help you turn your vision into a reality. This is why you hear the joke "Go to jail with a bachelor in theft, come out with a PHD in insert_high_level_crime_here."
I know a psychology professor who often says: "The only people who see the world clearly are the clinically depressed."

Reasonable self-deception is actually a very important thing for us to develop, because we're not good at doing things we don't believe ourselves to be capable of doing. It's not about thinking you're superman, or pretending you've accomplished something you haven't. It's about giving yourself the go-ahead to try.
> The point of the article is that Google is moving / transitioning businesses into areas where they can effectively monetize it

Except it's not the point. The article points out that it's moving to mediated consumption of email instead of just a good interface on "here's all your email". There's no argument about cash flow in the article, and you'll have to actually demonstrate that they're moving in that monetization direction to assert it.

Meanwhile I'm not sure what a non-hyperbolic version of "buying a spot" would be, so you'll have to specify for me to respond to it.

>> and selling an advertising email slot guaranteed not to fall into the spam folder would be the dumbest move an email provider could possibly make.

> Explain your thinking here?

Google makes money if people choose to use their products. Since so many people already use Google products today, there is some lock in due to convenience (all my email is already in there, I have an Android phone at least until my contract renews, etc), but offering a spam filter that doesn't work as long as someone is willing to pay would be a death blow.

The Promotions tab contains advertising in email, but it's the advertising you signed up for. For some reason this blows people's minds, but people really do sign up for those email updates from businesses to see new products and deals. Having a way to organize those emails is not some sinister new advertising plot by google.

Not to mention that an offer by google to make sure spam bypasses the spam filter for only 1 cent per 1000 messages or whatever is kind of going to get noticed.
Have you considered digging deeper into Elastic Beanstalk? There's a deeper level of understanding than what the AWS Management console provides.
Twitpic saved by Twitter just hours before planned shut down
So you're expecting rents to go down?
The question stands, She isn't experiencing what a student experiences she is experiencing what a student experiences when there is another adult in the room. Two very different things.
>You have a pretty good chance of making the case that you are just doing your business

Did you read the article? Specifically the story of the business that made <10k deposits because they had theft protection of max 10,000 ?

By the time you "make a case" you're already out lawyer fees and risk your business being closed. Please read the article (again). IRS does not need to show that you were trying to evade reporting requirements to seize the money. They don't even need to file a case!
I understand what you are saying, but the law says different. My main aim with the comment was to point out the (apparent) subtlety, not to declare my views on the situation.
Yes, but what you are trying to say is that oscillators and voltage reg are really complex and hard, but they aren't, parts that are half the cost have them and much much more complex functionality. The best argument I've seen so far is that the FTDI stuff has additional functions, like built in GPIO pins, which other USB-RS232 converters don't have. IMHO, the FTDI stuff is just way too expensive for what it does. For example, look at Silicon Labs C8051F387-GM. Tiny little chip, runs off of 2.7v to 5.25v, talks USB, has an internal oscillator, and costs $1.72 per unit. FT232RL only goes as cheap as $2.65 per unit if you order 2000. Talk about a major price difference...
Part of the story of Robin Hood is where Prince John, in need of more money to satisfy his personal needs, increases 'taxes' on the population and sends his collectors around to basically take what they can - a rather strong resemblance to the situation as described in this article.
Ask HN: Does MVP apply to Games?
In most of the startup material I've read, there is a fairly constant drumbeat that you want to open your doors once you get your MVP (minimum viable product). I take a look at the current alpha version of my game (playable at http://nawegr.blogspot.com/p/project-gliese.html), and I wonder if I should setup a landing page to let folks preorder rather than continue to slave away and hope there will be enough buyers at the end to justify the time and investment. On the other hand, I have a hard time believing I could get $29.95 for what I have currently produced. Thoughts?
Is Cursive Writing Dead?
Thread-level speculation is exploiting ILP. In some contexts it's compiler-assisted but in this context I would imagine it is fully microarchitectural (i.e., in hardware/translation firmware, running a single instruction stream of user code, invisible to the user). Dynamic multithreading (Akkary 1998?) did this by splitting the thread at predictable points like function calls/returns and (IIRC) backward branches. So it's still ILP within a single thread, but at a much longer distance than what an OoO scheduling window provides.
Why do states love to promote rent seeking behavior? They ban Tesla and promote cabs, ISPs, etc. This is especially silly in a State that is trying to have a significant tech community in Vegas. Promoting rent seeking behavior and banning a service you constituents are embracing is anti-competitive, ant-business, and illogical.
Now, if only I could replace my chromecast stand-by screen with this... :)
Perfect. Thanks.

Yes, the domain control panel is in Russian only. Overall, I'm impressed with Yandex Mail. It has a few rough edges like that but also has features not even Gmail offers. Most prominently, scheduling emails.
These are all reasons I left the US in 2007; I saw the writing on the wall. Preparing to move to south america at this point, because as Doug Stanhope says, this continent is done.
And how many of the 128 were "drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists"?

There are always bigger problems. If a discussion thread just becomes long enough, eventually you get people telling us to be happy because there are others in Africa not having food.
MANY thanks. That's a keeper. I'll index it
so that I can find it when I need it.

Some of what you said I'd guessed but didn't know
the details or the level of importance you made clear.
E.g., I suspected that I needed business insurance,
but I've been unclear on all the reasons why.

The rest, I didn't know. Yup, I'm learning now.

Partly I was wondering if it was expected and
required and in practice permitted to make
gifts, say, cash to the local police. I very
much hoped not, and would have checked with
a street-wise, SMB lawyer. Your advice of
just do not have routine interactions with the
police sounds about right.

Thanks.
The second last photo seems like something from the rolling tapes era? Something to do with old-room size mainframes?
This saying comes to mind.

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"

Not to mention innocent until proven guilty.

If the rate is really 128 proper seizures out of 739, it makes no sense to keep this automatic seizure. Instead have them do more investigative leg work before seizure so that it is whittled down further. Or even freeze the money only for a month before which the IRS needs to make a case to a judge about why further time is warranted before returning the money.
So is this basically TypeScript with annotations and types available at runtime?
In what market would you be charging $30 for an indie game?
There's millions of small businesses, there must be hundreds of thousands making frequent medium sized cash transactions and they made 600 seizures.

A statistic like that doesn't make things any more just for the 600, but it serves as some sort of guide for how much a cash business should worry about it.
It's about the context - rewriting ton of code that is in C libraries right now. If that had to be done using Rust without its runtime libs it is an huge disadvantage to solve the issue at hand.
This might sound controversial but I believe it would actually be better if Google would close down their service.

There is too many people using it for their email which creates unhealthy imbalance, also the shut down would not be as painful since there are plenty of other mail providers. For that reason though they won't do this.

I agree with the authors suggestion regarding that Google does not want any service that acts as "dumb pipe".

It explains what happened to Dejavu (currently Google Groups), or current separation of Google Talk from the rest of XMPP network.

It seems like Google Voice will be next, I am starting to think that they used it for training their voice to text functionality, but since now there are other services such as Google Now/Voice Search they probably no longer need it.
>He also won a gold medal in the Olympics for boxing

I heard that's mostly a myth

edit:

there was apparently different Pythagoras, who was a boxer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(boxer)
I've known people who've subsidized their phones and unnecessary possessions with college loans, yes.
Flynn also was IBM's guy on the 360/91 -- 8 double
word instruction cache, 16 way interleaved memory,
60 ns cycle time. He
was also a prof at Johns Hopkins but left before
I got there; I'd been hoping to take a course
from him.
Then perhaps it's gut bacteria causing it?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-bacteria-may-p...

Causative factors for anorexia and bulimia were found in gut bacteria.

http://www.neomatica.com/2014/10/08/molecular-origins-eating...
I can easily come up with a system with a lower error rate. Just get rid of this silly reporting law so we no longer have the opportunity to make mistakes with it.