skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly believe that you have the single most important thing for a startup (a true 'just starting out' startup). The right co-founders (co-founding team).

It's the one thing out of all the other things that you listed that cannot be learned. It is dependent on pure and simple luck. So, I have hopes for you guys if you have that plus a plethora of lessons learned. Good luck! Even though you may not even need it. ;)
That's not quite the whole truth. There are two Mac models where you can simply enable it: the mid-2011 Mac mini, and the mid-2011 MBA. Every other model it could potentially work on, you literally need to upgrade the wireless card.

Given that, it makes me wonder how the unmodified Mac mini and MBA perform.
The counterintuitive thing about counterintuitive things
That's a total riot!

Some parts are true. The rest are too
close to being true.
Initial evidence indicates the plane broke up because of operator error (deployed feather while under power) rather than mechanical failure because of inadequate testing.
Raspberry Pi Model A+ with 40 pin GPIO leaks
Number of figures per Nature Letter by year
>Have you heard about neighborhood watch? They even have menacing signs all over the area that they patrol, reporting any suspicious activity, calling the cops on you if you linger and look around.

It is beyond me why you think this is menacing. These things weren't set up to catch reds or terrists, they were set up to prevent burglaries and child kidnappings, which are real, regular occurrences. 99% of the time there's not even really a watch, it's just a sign to deter burglars.
OpenRISC 2000 may end up converging on the RISC-V ISA. A blog post and accompanying comment[1] shed a bit of light on David Patterson (creator of the original RISC instruction set[2]) and his team's decision to setup an entirely new project.

EDIT: Looks like the RISC-V FAQ references the same blog post since so many people ask the same question.[3]

[1] https://blog.riscv.org/2014/10/why-not-build-on-openrisc/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patterson_(computer_scien...

[3] http://riscv.org/faq.html#otherisas
it's a shame
Ask them why you are being pushed toward CI/CD/ops... maybe they see you as a strong resource in those categories.
The problem isn't with disk IO as much as it's with speed of the stat() syscall. IIRC Cygwin stat() is backed by three different NT syscalls, so it's slow because it requires three transitions to kernel mode, where Linux only needs one. Setting core.fileMode to false makes Git use a Windows optimized version of stat(), so it runs a lot faster.

Unfortunately it's still not quite as fast as on Linux and OS X, but it's about as fast as native/MSYS versions of Git on Windows.
Started a startup in Vancouver using Machine learning to automate the sports betting odds generating stack. Got two cofounders one MBA (yah i know) and a fundraiser, both failed badly as I did all the code. ended up doing 40% of the fundraising. fired the MBA for incompetence, 4 coders I had all left when other co founder did a deal where the term sheet was pulled last second. packed up left the company to the fundraiser and used all 12 man years of work to bet on sports. Now a successful sports gambler, completely financially free. Single most deadly killer to startups is a bad cofounder.
You should publish your book of ideas as a GitHub repo and submit it here. It might help you find a perfect cofounder for one of your ideas, etc. Or just get general feedback. :)
It's amazing how much our military seems to dehumanize innocent people. BTW, what's wrong with using police forces to stop terrorists?
Big Hero 6 star Baymax was inspired by a real robot
I don't think it is possible to do with more than two of work stress; personal life stress; physical safety or health stress simultaneously. One at a time is ideal, but most startups have work stress and physical stress (due to time) simultaneously.

You don't have to be single and childless to do a startup successfully, but if you have family life or interpersonal relationships, they have to be good ones, or at least low stress ones.
Asmara, Eritrea: architecture is a unique blend of Italian and Eritrean style
The Asian-American Advantage on Southeast Asia's Startup Scene
Wow, this sounds like a total clown-car operation:

Out of the first group of 30 dogs, only four managed to detonate their bombs near the German tanks, inflicting an unknown amount of damage. Six exploded upon returning to the Soviet trenches, killing and injuring soldiers.

and later...

Another serious training mistake was revealed later; the Soviets used their own diesel-engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines. As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks.
I'd have to say web development. When I say that I mean these skills specifically:

SQL (I recommend PostgreSQL), one of Python/Ruby/Scala, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and one of the popular JS front end client libraries, like Ember or AngularJS.

I'm working on that skillset myself right now, having already learned android development and at least given iOS a spin.

As for Android, be prepared to have the Dev team changing the damn API all the time.

For iOS, you're gonna pay up front just for the privilege to develop.

For both Android and iOS, you're looking at using a monolithic app store as your primary distribution mechanism for whatever software you write and being cheifly at the mercy of Google and Apple. Sure, there's other app stores... They're not enough to put dinner on the table.

If you're especially looking to be able to develop your own MVPs and launch something, just learn the web side yourself, develop that, make an API, and expose it. If your app is good enough people will just write mobile clients for it and they'll sell them on the app stores...
You are correct, fork() is part of the POSIX specification, Windows does not implement POSIX.
Internet is generally slower, there is no 4G yet. Wifi is actually pretty common it seems, but I'm in a fairly popular part of Patagonia right now (San Martin de Los Andes and Bariloche). Tomorrow I'm driving South towards a town called El Chaltén, where there is apparently NO cell coverage, because the people who live there don't want it. I'll have to depend on Wifi 100% there.

Aside from Internet coverage, Patagonia is beautiful, if you like lakes and mountains (and glaciers)!
Was it "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram?
Which 4K monitor that's a monitor, rather than a TV, is less than 60 HZ?
Probably not. From the looks of it, GoW is just a mashup of MSYS and MinGW compiled binaries, much like msysGit except without Git.
Downtime incident today
Big Hero 6 – CMU Robotics Institute
Sounds like Wolfram's New Kind Of Science.
I was probably getting downvoted because I was rather undiplomatic about how I expressed it. E.g. drawing the parallel between voting for keeping drugs illegal and mass murder means I also implicitly accused anyone who belives drugs should remain illegal of sympathising with mass murder. It's harder to ignore that, than if someone "just" claims that drug prohibition kills without connecting the dots.

But I stand by that.

Still, it stands at 0 at this point, which is quite moderate given how harsh I was.
Still, I have far more than $200 worth of electronics I have no immediate use for lying around.
>once in a while (1-2 a month) the sound doesn't work after resuming from sleep. I have to reboot to get it back.

I have a 2013(?) Mac Mini that was running Lion (and then Mavericks) and it did the same thing with HDMI audio on every single unsuspend. It took months for an update to come out that finally fixed it. Not saying your problem isn't due to hackintoshing, but getting the real thing (since 2005 and the first mac mini, for me) hasn't been problem-free either.
Great post, thanks for sharing. Did the ad revenue generate some good returns for you?
http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/pprof/#Profile
Provides a "blocking profile" that tells you what things blocked and for how long they blocked for.
You can use it to find places where you've deadlocked as well as places where adding buffered channels might help performance.
I worked with a guy who was part of the crew of an Atlas missile control center. I remember talking over drinks at his retirement party, and he recalled now pissed he was at the time that he didn't get to vaporize some Russians.

I found that more disturbing than Dr. Strangelove.
More than that, a signaling NaN should raise an exception if used in a comparison. Otherwise, you get a bogus comparison and a bogus branch.
>>This experience taught her how she wields her bi-cultural identity, business is business and success ultimately relies on performing better than the next person. “To earn their respect, I really had to prove I was worth listening to. The way I earned their respect [was to understand] the issues they were facing," said Koo. "I was able to bring them so many clients that they both doubled and tripled in size. I had to earn their respect by showing them I could outsell them.”

tl;dr - only by outperforming locals will others be forced to listen to and respect you to compensate for the disadvantages of looking like a local but not speaking a second language fluently.

The shtick is that supposedly superior Western culture (and upbringing), processes and know-how coupled with an understanding of local market dynamics beats the Asian 'lemming' upbringing and implied second-tier domestic home-grown business processes.

The article talks about Asian-Americans being "aggressive" presumably due to an American upbringing. However, I usually feel it's the other way around -- that Asian business sense and culture has a much more aggressive and competitive undertone.

I will concede that there is less of a risk appetite in some countries, but hesitate to simply restrict this supposed educational system failure to Asian countries alone. This old HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069731) touches upon the idea of a culture being considered risk-averse, but was specific to startup culture differences between Japan and the US, and not generalized to 'all' Asian countries as this article seems to be doing.
I'll do it right now. These aren't issues I've personally run across, though, just stuff on julia-users.

edit: Nevermind! On rereading the mailing list thread (especially this message [1]), I might have mischaracterized the issue slightly. It probably came from speed issues with small integer powers (i.e., there are faster ways to exponentiate small integer powers than there are for general exponentiation that Julia hadn't been using but other software like matlab and octave were), and that issue in Julia seems to be fixed now.[2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/n3LfteWJAd4/jag6...

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2741
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Serial is troubling. It's creepy to have a relatively recent event, with affected people still alive and struggling, used as pop culture entertainment. It's worse than reality TV.
Yeah, this was the biggest surprise for me in founding my own startup. I had worked for two previous startups to learn what to do and what not to do, and went into my own startup with a whole laundry list of pitfalls to avoid. It turns out that I ended up committing almost every one of them (except the ones that were management-related, and those only because we never got big enough to employ people. I think that when I ended up becoming a team lead at my job later, I ended up committing a bunch of them too, or nearly committing them and catching myself right before).

The nice thing about having knowledge and experience is that oftentimes it shortens the time required to realize you're making a mistake. Folks who haven't done this before and haven't read about other peoples' experience can sometimes waste years doing something that clearly isn't going to work. If you've read about it before you might catch yourself after a few months, and if you've personally experienced it from the other side it might take you a couple weeks. But it really does require committing the mistake, learning (painfully) from it, and then doing it the right way a couple times before you'll start getting it right automatically
Those parts links need a List Link to easily view each bundle together on newegg/ amazon.
It's always fun to learn the first time how little some big organizations care about security.

I received an offer about 10 years ago, on a Friday evening, to sell me 100k stolen credit cards, and was given a sample of 10k stolen credit cards to show they were serious. I did some checking and determined that samples seemed real.

I called the FBI to report this. They were not interested, and suggested I try the Secret Service. I did, and they were not interested.

I tried a couple major credit card companies. One was not interested. One gave me an email address to forward the sample list and the full list offer to and said someone would look at it Monday morning.
Simple answer - it's too generic of a level to allow copyrighting it. It ends up in vendor lock-in and anticompetitive behavior. Same reason abstract ideas aren't allowed to be copyrighted - it gives too much monopoly to those who would claim them.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/8/4276466/jeremy-riney-everyt...
The author completely missed a major point of the movie (along with the people in this thread), that it was the United States military who was pursuing research on a 'doomsday device' (computerized nuclear armageddon). The S.A.G.E radar defense system, adjusting for inflation, is the most expensive computer system ever assembled. The Q-32 was the crown jewel of the whole operation and it would also later become the first node in the network that today is referred to as the internet. SDC is responsible for the firsts computer implementations of relational database (KWIC), semantic networks, the first WAN & time-sharing device(Sage & Q-32) and the first complete speech recognition system (Synthex). They also trained 22,000 of the first 25,000 programmers in the United States. The term hacker was actually coined by business and military personnel to describe the decline in professional programming standards that occurred with creation of computer science department in the 60's and the unskilled students they produced who didn't properly document their code. Little computer history for all you.
if you can't find humor in the absurd level of fraud in the bitcoin sphere you're poorer for it
I don't think the cited case law for exemptions for interoperability in interfaces applies to this case. For instance, the Sega and Sony cases apply for, as far as I can tell, computer systems interoperating with each other. Lotus applies to humans operating software applications running on computer systems. APIs on the other hand, are mainly for humans to communicate with each other when building systems that interoperate. As such, APIs are primarily a means of expression between humans - from those who provide the interface, to those who use it. So from a copyright perspective, I don't see how binary interoperability between systems or the GUI layouts can compare to textual expression between humans.

Also, as others have mentioned, the whole "method of operation" argument is also a dangerous slope to be slipping down. What is all code anything other than a "method of operation" of the hardware it runs on?

I've said it before, but copyright is not really a good mechanism for IP protection of code. Software was shoehorned under copyright because 1) other mechanisms were not available and 2) there is sometimes creative expression involved in writing code. It's only the potential of creative expression what grants copyright protection to any written code. By that standard, APIs are no different from any other code.
Another fake Bin Laden story
The beginnings of what I'm sure is a fascinating story, but there are some real weird turns of phrase in this story:

>It was a real world case of survival in the face of disaster, like the movie "Gravity."

>In October 1947, he ejected out of one of the first combat jets, the Republic F-84, and hit the tail at 500 mph, breaking both legs and busting his face.
You're touching on this but the importance of tangible vs intangible property cannot be understated. In Katz v United States:
"Because the Fourth Amendment protects people, rather than places, its reach cannot turn on the presence or absence of a physical intrusion into any given enclosure. "
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/389/347/

That sets a good precedent but gets destroyed in Smith v Maryland

"Petitioner in all probability entertained no actual expectation of privacy in the phone numbers he dialed, and even if he did, his expectation was not "legitimate." First, it is doubtful that telephone users in general have any expectation of privacy regarding the numbers they dial, since they typically know that they must convey phone numbers to the telephone company and that the company has facilities for recording this information and does, in fact, record it for various legitimate business purposes. And petitioner did not demonstrate an expectation of privacy merely by using his home phone, rather than some other phone, since his conduct, although perhaps calculated to keep the contents of his conversation private, was not calculated to preserve the privacy of the number he dialed. Second, even if petitioner did harbor some subjective expectation of privacy, this expectation was not one that society is prepared to recognize as "reasonable." When petitioner voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the phone company and "exposed" that information to its equipment in the normal course of business, he assumed the risk that the company would reveal the information"
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/442/735/case.htm...

That's where things get fucked up.

Simply because you use a service means that you assume the risk that the company would reveal that information. Privacy is not guaranteed as soon as you use a service - setting the precedence for NSA mass surveillance. Unfortunately, these laws were passed when the fact that everyone you know, interact with, and communicate with is in your pocket all the time.

Different laws for different times...
For floating point exceptions, I'd say go with a mechanism like C's fenv.h [1]. It's out of the way, and handles rounding flags too. For if you're passing attributes around in different threads, my first thought would be (ab)using a language's type/object system to make sure that all your threads are using the same assumptions for floating point behavior; something like classes named FloatUp, FloatDown, FloatZero, FloatClose.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/fenv...
The main benefit of PowerShell over other shells is the object pipeline.

In classical shells, a pipe basically connects binary stdout -> binary stdin. A pipe between PowerShell cmdlets, on the other hand, can produce .NET objects directly without having to serialize them, so the pipe can connect .NET object producer -> .NET object consumer. If the consumer can't handle objects, the pipe degrades to binary stdout -> binary stdin.

For instance, the pipe in `ls | grep` is drastically different from `ls | fl`, because the latter is an in-process transfer of a .NET object collection, while the former transfers lines of text from one process to another, (in this case, to GNU Grep.)

Upside: the consumer doesn't have to "parse" stdin to get reasonable data on which it can operate.

Downside: if you want to write a consumer, you're stuck in .NET land. (Oh, how I wish I could write a consumer written in python that could advertise that it supports a specific object-oriented serialization on stdin! Then we could write a PowerShell stdin/stdout compatibility layer into python as a module... Alas, I'm guessing this task is reasonably hard.)

Oddly, I couldn't find a great readable intro to the topic, but this comes close: http://www.darkoperator.com/blog/2013/1/28/powershell-basics...
While Google's this year's submission was good, it didn't seem to contain any particularly inspiring ideas, as it was mostly just a collection of small improvements on previous ideas. Personally, SPP-nets seem to be the most interesting idea to come out of this year's competition.
You can't walk into the Atheros Store at the mall to get warranty service.
Wow, that guy could step into Tom Clancy's shoes. Why is he doing all that A-level creative writing for free?
Same here, I run a spec that Apple simply won't sell me. The moment they sell me a computer that's user upgradable over time and allows me to choose the monitors (no glare, please) that fit my needs, I'll say TAKE MY MONEY!

My Hackintosh built in 2012 for less than $800, it has:

- Core i5 3.4 GHz (still competitive with Mac CPU specs sold in 2014 and into 2015)
- GeForce GT 640 with 2 x DVI + 1 x HDMI for a triple monitor setup (much better than anything in Mac Minis and some iMacs)
- 2 SSD drives for main OS
- 2 x 3TB magnetic drives (sync'ed to Amazon Glacier)

Note that two years after my initial build, faster CPU options and graphics cards can be swapped in with incremental upgrades as my requirements increase.

I'll post separately in this thread tomorrow about my recommendations and experience running this machine, but it's hands down the best Mac money can't buy, with room to grow.

I don't do it because I don't want to give Apple my money, I have to do it because Apple won't take my money.

-

P.S. IMO, Hackintosh only makes sense for desktops. While the various methods could get it to work for laptops, no manufacturer comes close to Apple's build quality. That trackpad is just amazing.
Everyone who owns a mutual fund has a stake in Google.
Which is worse losing a test vehicle or losing pilots? Latency should be a non issue at the distances they are dealing with.
My answer to that question is pretty much the same as my answer to anything else about investing in the stock market - don't pretend you know more than the professionals; just use index funds. My problem wasn't with TSLA.

> Why is it less risky to buy 100 shares of SPY (at around the same $20k as TSLA) vs a $300 call spread on SPY? How can it POSSIBLY be riskier to spend $300 vs $20,000?

You're fighting a strawman here. I'm not saying which of those is riskier; I'm saying they're both stupid things to be doing.

My question to you is: why do you think you can beat professionals despite spending 1/100 of the time learning about it? And why do you think this is advantage is scalable? You're playing a zero-sum game coming from a huge disadvantage.

Think about it this way: in a zero-sum game, you winning means someone else is losing. Who are you beating, and why are you doing better than them?

My answer is that the market is largely unpredictable and those who win have just been lucky so far.
Certain chemicals will spontaneously combust when wrapped in cloth. They absorb into the cloth, and the increased surface area exposed to the air lets them react with oxygen faster, producing heat. The cloth also insulates it so the heat slowly builds up until it gets hot enough to combust.

This is why keeping oily rags are a fire hazard.