skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi notahacker, thanks for the well balanced comment. We're incorporated with our surnames but operate under the name TradeMore. Alas, we're not Bitcoin billionaires.

You're right on a number of counts, but I disagree slightly with a couple of your points. For example, our borrowers are not "outside of our control", because they only borrow on very specific accounts where we have implemented stop-loss logic and where the withdrawal address belongs to us. This functions in a similar way to when you trade through a broker.

We have not included terms of service on our website, and this is something we should do. However, we do make sure to share the full T&Cs with lenders and borrowers prior to transacting. Right now these are in the form PDF documents which outline clearly each parties responsibilities. Send me an email if you want to take a look.

Point taken about "heading in the direction" of a Ponzi scheme. I know what you mean. We could say, "oh, we've had a bad week, let's just repay our existing lenders with our new lenders funds". It's a slippery slope. To avoid this we separate client funds. So for each our of clients we know where their funds are at any given time, and do not just let funds flow from one to the other. Point also taken about trading less. Obviously we want to grow, but not to the detriment of our quality of service.

On the point of lawyers and legislation in general, we have consulted a number of lawyers in the UK and US. Generally, the feedback we have received is that Bitcoin is a very grey area, with most governments in a 'wait and see' mode. However, we want to act as if we were already a regulated financial institution and stay ahead of the curve (one day, if the FCA accepts bitcoin companies into the fold, we will be regulated).
Two of the sub-comments here mention them, but anyone interested in this sort of chip should check out Cypress's PSoC line.
I'm sure it works well in the context where you are already using canvas, perhaps for a video game.
If the problem is really only guidance and outside input, wouldn't having advisors (no voting rights) solve the problem described in the essay without giving up any kind of control?
>but if they hate us...

Then we give them a pat on the back for being so perceptive.
Coding is analogous to writing a spell
This article articulates well that it's important to have good board members and it's disasterous to have bad ones, but then doesn't really explain what to look for in a board member besides experience.

I'd love to see some input here about what makes a good vs bad board member and how to identify one when making a board.
My guess would just be to research experts in the field of the startup. This person wouldn't be an investor but they may have some interest in the startup succeeding. Someone with domain expertise on the board makes a lot of sense.
sIFR 2.0?
> To be fair, I am coming at this from the standpoint of someone who uses git for science, rather than software development

As a software developer, I would rather spend my time on the task at hand (my own development) rather than git internals. I don't understand why so many people apologize for the (imo) poor user-experience that git provides...
Because it wasn't the topic of the essay.
It will be hard to say until I take a look; thanks in any case for the recommendation.

It's hard to speak specifically, because I'm interested in a broad array of design decisions per how you present information to the user. Examples of these decisions might be: how you decide what is an acceptable information density, how you decide whether to reduce or increase the space you're giving tabular elements, how to help the user track long lines, how and where to position information a mix of critical and non-critical information (where the non-critical information is still necessary for interpreting the critical data). Perhaps that helps?
Thanks!

Also, check out http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3377 for that style.

That's where this actual data dump came from. I just wanted something that was quick and easy, for when I'm on the bus, or have 2 minutes to kill and a knack for trivia!
I was talking about people who have 'stress induced depression because they have huge goals and occasionally need to be strong enough to be their own motivation because it seems like begging for other people to tell them what they want to hear' mental thing. I didn't call it an illness, I only know that I've experienced it.

I can't ask people to tell me I'm going to be the greatest computer scientist just to get myself to code or learn something new every day. I just have to dedicate my life to it until I am proud of what I am and what I strive to be.

That said, the right medication helps. So can having people to talk to. I don't like paying to have people to talk to about my people theories, or explain category theory to, because that's what I wind up doing in therapy.
Isn't that exactly what decriminalization is?

"The new law maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, the offense was changed from a criminal one, with prison a possible punishment, to an administrative one if the amount possessed was no more than ten days' supply of that substance."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
Very Interesting, thank you!

But it seems there are several methods to create composite views on SDO website (several freq ranges used as RGB of the output composite images). I guess there isn't one easy way to visualize all of this, or is it ? Do you know if the embryonic "3D magneto-hydrodynamic models" are by any chance available on the web to play with ? :)

Also, in the case of the video, I don't know the intent of the creator so it's just a supposition, but if it's for science vulgarisation rather than science exactitude, I guess a composite view, as http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/f_094_335_193_102... , would have be less appealing to the targeted public, as it would look way more artificial than the red/orange sun shown in the video (though it is also a totally arbitrary colouring). The suspension of disbelief in "hey look it's our Sun!" is probably easier using those culturally accepted warm colour tones to represent it.
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Interesting. Seems that there would be no need for expensive catapult/catchwire operations. Just synchronize speeds and grab the drone with a big mechanized claw of some sort. Drone takeoff could be just like dropping bombs.
Google's arrangement with Fiber cities is the exact opposite of a municipal partnership. With a typical municipal utility, there is a public agency with strong oversight over the utility, as well as rate-setting powers, etc. Even when with the private cable companies, municipalities routinely impose terms like build-out requirements, fees to fund public access TV, obligations to build municipal communications infrastructure for free, etc. Google won't agree to anything like that: http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2014/05/g....
In theory, sure. The practical issue is that advisors often don't have as great an incentive to be highly engaged.
There were three distributed VCS that were in the running for a while. There was git, bazaar (bzr), and mercurial (hg). For a while people were using on all 3, but eventually git won out.
All the more reason to buy locally-sourced bottled water. I have Eldorado Natural Spring Water (http://www.eldoradosprings.com/) delivered, which actually comes from a local natural artesian spring.
This is the old "parasite fighter" concept. It came from a big problem in WWII: fighters had less range than bombers, so bombers had no fighter protection near their targets.

Then came "fighter-bombers". The F-15, which is a fighter, has almost the bomb load of a B-29, considerable range, and the ability to fight its way to a target. It also can usually put a bomb on the target, rather than somewhere in the general neighborhood, so fewer bombs are needed. (In the WWII era, bombers had trouble consistently hitting the right city. There were cases where the wrong country was bombed. So vast numbers of bombs were dropped.)
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While block devices can go away, the notion of a file will probably continue to remain.

We run clusters of ephemeral linux hosts, and while we use disk, we also have plenty of hosts that run diskless. The disk mount point just becomes a tmpfs mount and the required minimal installation is made on a tmpfs partition which amounts to a trivial amount for hosting busybox and some conf files in /etc. Linux does appear to understand that tmpfs backed filestores are already in memory and do not need to synchronize pages and flush out dirty pages. That whole caching/memory layer for this fake block device is just not used at all.
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In our experience, the primary issues was the available number of analog I/Os, we were doing large-scale matrix-like switching between analog sources. That is to say, the PSoCs contained a small number of analog I/Os that could be routed relative to a "dedicated" FPAA.
I don't know. Some people even pick nick names related to mental issues, go figure.
You would look for someone with experience in the area you want to operate in, or maybe someone from a complementary sector. The role of the board is to look at the company in the larger context, i.e. within its market at large, and within its general industrial sector. You also want someone who has a good track record hiring executives, so that they can broaden the circle of people the CEO might hire from.

Your investors, by their virtue of having money, don't necessarily have experience in your specific market, so it's good to bring outsiders that are more interested in seeing the company succeed period, rather than maximizing their own investment, as investors are.
I don't have a very strong math background, but it seems to me self-evident that the strong vertical striping, for instance, would be a trivial artefact of the modulus rather than anything interesting about the prime numbers themselves.

This leads me to suspect that the rest of the linear striping has a similar explanation which is simply less obvious to me.

This in turn leads me to wonder what it is, exactly, that we're looking at. There will always be patterns visible because there is a deep connection between the ability to form a pattern and not-being-a-prime-number; the latter always implies the former, if not the other way around. So how does one perceive a "subtle" pattern of primes when not-being-a-prime is a property possessed by an overlay of an infinite number of patterns?
Basically it's a reselling system no matter which way you go. You buy access into a bigger ISP's network and then provide services on top of it.

If you've got a huge wallet you could run your own physical infrastructure but it would be hugely expensive for anything more than a small userbase [1]. If you went that way you'd make peering agreements with your closest internet backbone providers to hook into the rest of the internet (backbone providers being even bigger ISPs than those mentioned earlier, the ISP's ISP if you like)

[1] It has been done in the past: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/how-to-start-your-own...
Not really. Being on a board has a much higher level of commitment and "investment" than an outside advisor. It's also something of an internal position, board members get to see every wart, but lots of that information won't get communicated to outside advisors.
Environment flags would be good. Another suggestion: per-file flags? if "% pretex delimiters" is present in the file, change delimiters; else, leave them alone.
|\psi> should probably be written with the braket package and "\ket{\psi}" in theory, right?! Sure I thought about implementing the bras and kets besides the full braket. I'll have to run some checks to make sure it won't interfere. Would you prefer the "native" latex version besides a braket-package version? Maybe I should make the choice an option

I'm not entirely sure what you mean with the unicode thing. You mean Unicode psi input, latex \psi output? I've started doing those in an earlier version before I realized that there is probably no practical situation where you have unicode input. Any use case that I haven't thought of?
How did pot become heroin in your analogy when it's not nearly as dangerous as beer?

edit: Are you questioning the possibility of heroin being regulated as pot is in Colorado. or are you questioning pot being regulated in Colorado like beer has been regulated for the past century? I'm confused by your intention.
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Hmm - yeah and its not available on BBC's site either:

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is+World+2014+How+China+Fooled+The+World+720p+x264+AAC+HDT&tr=
udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftra
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Of course Title II isn't the only option. There's tons of other things the government could do, including writing completely new legislation - or, for that matter, doing absolutely nothing at all.

I know many disagree, but I don't think Comcast messing with p2p downloads and a few carriers throttling Netflix speeds justifies getting the federal government involved, with all the oh-so-hilarious unintended consequences that usually come with it.

The above goes double when you consider the executive branch's first instincts here - instead of crafting something specific, let's just throw Title II at it. Have you read Title II? It's horrifying! But don't worry, they'll use 'forbearance' to just not apply the horrifying parts. We can trust them, after all - who has more restraint and self-control than the federal government?
The problem with the Blub essay is precisely the assumption that all languages can be ranked on a one-dimensional axis called "power". That assumption is false. (I know this is heresy to say on HN, but in this essay, PG is simply wrong.)

I'm repeating myself here, but: A Haskell user and a Lisp user are both sure that they're at the top of the power curve, and they're both sure that they're looking down when they're looking at the other language, and they can both tell you precisely why they're sure they're looking down ("It doesn't even have a decent type system" and "It doesn't even have macros", respectively). But they can't both be looking down. What's wrong here?

What's wrong is the assumption that all languages can be ranked by a one-dimensional attribute called "power".

Or look at it another way: Power? Power for what? Well, for writing programs. But what kind of programs? General programs? I've never written a general program in my life; I've only written specific ones. Then "power" is whatever's going to make it easier to write the program I need to write. Whatever language does that is the "most powerful" language for the problem I'm facing.

What power is Go shooting for? It's the power to write a ten-million-line application and have it be maintainable for two or three decades. (That's not my guess; it's what Rob Pike said the language goals are.) If you face that kind of problem, Go may in fact be a very powerful language.
Yes please. Whenever I try typesetting anything with bras and kets (or inner products), I can't stop muttering "langle rangle langle rangle" for a day afterwards.
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Alibaba owns their own PayPal competitor (Alipay). I don't think you need to worry.
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Cannabis is a neutral term, yes. But 'marijuana'? Might want to do some research on that one. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/14/201981025/the...
My biggest issue is deciding the scope of the project. In the beginning I have an idea and it seems possible. After a few days of planning I just turn it into some extremely complicated thing and just psych myself out of it.
Network Neutrality Debate Descends into Political Shoving Match
I drink bottled water when I'm out and about, the main reason is that it's frequently the most/only healthy option available. Fruit juices can be good for you too, but they're high in sugar and not great for your teeth if you drink them frequently.
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Not sure if your comment is directed towards me or the OP. However, there is in fact a Controller class in this project, so you may be confusing this framework for vanilla Backbone?
Hmm yes configuration options need to expand beyond command line arguments. I'm still debating the best way. A separate json or cfg file would probably be too annoying? Latex comments would be a neat way, I like that
This is why I drink bottled water.

"The documents reveal that the wastewater, which is sometimes hauled to sewage plants not designed to treat it and then discharged into rivers that supply drinking water, contains radioactivity at levels higher than previously known, and far higher than the level that federal regulators say is safe for these treatment plants to handle."

"...some sewage treatment plants were incapable of removing certain drilling waste contaminants and were probably violating the law."

"radioactivity in drilling waste cannot be fully diluted in rivers and other waterways."

And the EPA has not intervened.

from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html

Also:

"Environmental officials in Pennsylvania have failed to adequately regulate the state’s booming natural gas industry, a state report said, reflecting what critics say is weak oversight of the oil and gas industry at a time when drilling is spreading across the United States."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/us/pennsylvanias-auditor-g...
The Net Neutrality Fight in a Video Timeline
Like with most things, popularity is not derived from what you expect, yet popularity exists for good reason. Git may or may not be perfect, depending on your point of view. However, it's more than sufficient to do the job, and it does the job pretty darn well. The other factor is that it's popular because.... it's popular.

Yes, it's a good idea to take on git because other people use it. It's not a personal tool like your text editor where you can lord over your little realm and customize the crap out of it. git is a collaboration tool.
[Pedantry^2] Both effects are important on different timescales. When first starting a shower, the distance between the hot water tank and the spigot is what matters, and this tends to produce a long-period oscillation that manifests as just a single over-shoot at the start. Then there is a short-period oscillation due to the tap/spigot distance.

The initial transient is still technically an "oscillation" in the sense it is described by the same mathematics, even though it's a one-off.
As long as we care about computational latency, the forces that give rise to caching will continue to hold force. The speed of light places a fundamental limit on the response time from a storage system of a given physical volume, and there are equivalent physical laws on the maximum amount of information that can be stored in that volume.

Which technologies we use for our caches and main storages will change, but we're never going to get around the need for caching.
Same thing. Got 500 error by messing with that url. Seems like the idea is to chain that together in a way to login before you login.
Has to be The Star Fraction - which is the first book in two series!
Indeed, it's a situation where the needs of the many (HN community as a whole) outweigh the needs of the few (banned non-troll commentators). The danger lies in becoming such an elite, closed group due to blind moderation and banning even the most innocent members over a perceived slight, that the moderators themselves end up the trolls of what is left of the community.

For example, there's a certain GNU/Linux distro that is maintained by a core group of devs who have become overtly hostile to any new users of their project, and actively seek to discourage "newbies" from seeking help and getting any benefit out of the project. One would think the toxic atmosphere would have killed the distro off long ago, yet it's maintaining popularity and even seeing an uptick in a certain niche community. I certainly don't understand how it thrives with such a rotten core; yes, it's overall a very well done distro, but even the best product normally can't survive that kind of cancer.

That's not to say that HN would ever end up like that; indeed, from what I've seen they are doing an excellent job overall with maintaining and moderating this community. I just hope it continues to stay that way or improve, instead of going down a dark path towards chaos.
Vehicles in aircraft was a popular concept in the 70s. See the Phoenix aircraft from "Battle of the Planets" aka Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. Don't judge my bad taste in entertainment too harshly, I was just a little kid at the time.
Microsoft prove more popular than Apple among 18-24s
I had to send an email to info@soylent.me to get them to send me my first order. It arrived today. They said it was delayed because of a "shipping error"
Vulnerability in Microsoft TLS library could allow remote code execution
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I don't know how it is in the US in particular, but in addition to Chlorine, tap water usually contains Al, Cu traces, lacks Ca and Mg and is low on bicarbonates.

So not only tap water already lacks compared to mineral, just letting it gas out, although can help with taste, is not enough to ensure quality, a filter is recommended. I don't know why you claim a filter is not necessary, I've never seen that.
WxPython: Freeze and Thaw
Some xorshifts can and some can't; I don't think any 64-bit xorshift does.
that was an interesting article, though i dont understand the grave tone.

Most likely, the grave tone is intended to be ironic. The article adopts the perennial complaint that "the new generation is the worst generation." But Adbusters has a hipster readership, and magazine targeting their fan base is ironic. Hipsters thrive on irony.

The article even describes a woman who fits every hipster cliché, including being critical other hipsters and refusing to self-identify as a hipster, and the magazine/article does exactly the same. Oh, the irony. Finally, a Google image search of the author reveals a young mustachioed man who is, to judge a book by its cover, himself a hipster.
> There are already proposals to make it illegal to parody things like presidential candidates.

If we dispense with Net Neutrality, parodying presidential candidates (or some other form of speech) will be less possible due to lack of access, without passing any laws.

All traffic is either equal, in which case we need to declare that the Internet has no bias and make it stick thru regulation, or we decide that some forms of traffic are more important than others, then decide which traffic is more important.

You can't have it both ways. I can guarantee, however, that no one will ever agree which traffic more important. Well, until someone starts shouting about "patriotism" and it's "for the children".

It's pretty clear that the market just wants to milk people for all the money it can. Which would be fine if it did so by charging those with more resources more money for more access. But it's also clear that the market is all in favor of charging those with fewer resources more, because they have fewer resources to defend themselves against predation.
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