skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree that this has a high probability of falling into the same zone as Marketplace. For businesses, this implies all the difficult choices of using someone else's platform (customer lock-in, rule changes, etc.). It also brings the benefits of Amazon's reputation and innovation (e.g. allowing Prime customers special benefits).

But I think no one is focusing on the benefits to customers and not businesses. Amazon has historically been awesome for the consumer - bringing a high quality product at low prices. If it can do the same for services, I (as a consumer) will be very happy.
Syntax != semantics. The JavaScript problem is not a syntactic one. Baking "channel <- message" into the syntax only introduces unnecessary syntactic complexity; why not just `put(message, channel)`?
Clearly defined blocks are not a bad thing, and let you do things python can't.
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Has Vipassana helped you further?
Platform seems promising, but it lacks a proper user manual, or at least a tutorial on the basics
Possibly, although in the first of these the green thing in the middle has half a watermark on (very visible) while the rest of the watermark extends to the right, and in the second I can clearly see bondwires running from the edge of the die to something brownish in the central area.

It might be die-on-die packaged memory or something else part of the original, but I'd like to know what it is.

http://weaponre.com/config/R8J328XX_Decapped_WM.jpg

http://weaponre.com/config/CXD5130R_Decap_WM.jpg
F# doesn't allow tabs, you have to use spaces.
Many criticize Christopher Nolan for not managing to create emotional characters, but it would definitely look awesome!
I don't think a country's size correlates to its stock market size.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats8.htm

So, I don't see why you would think that's inevitable.
I think the best way to have that API would have been to provide an app-specific link with an optional (or maybe even required) second parameter to a fallback link to the website for the same action.

Let's say your app has a "share to FB" button, you'd poke the iOS Api by calling a method and passing both the facebook://shareSomething URI and the http://www.facebook.com/?sharestuff URI as a second parameter in case the app-specific URI is not handled by the device.
I agree that this is anti-consumer. But I can imagine similar schemes that aren't.

Say a city decides to have a market in the park every Sunday. They issue resellable medallions for stalls, food carts, etc. A few years later, they cancel the market or the medallion system or otherwise make the medallions worthless.

With uber there is some ambiguity. Maybe uber aren't cabs. If some awesome new public transport system lowered demand for cabs the city wouldn't be responsible. Claiming that they aren't cabs is how/why uber get around the medallion system in the first place. Taxis and medallion issuers are challenging this in someplace.

In any case, I think there is a genuine question here. Even if medallions were wrong in the first place, issuing them was the wrong, not buying one. Buying a medallion is the only way to operate a cab. I don't understand the downvote-anger.
> Particles emitted from radioactive atoms are a form of ionizing radiation—they have enough energy to scramble atoms and molecules they crash into. (This is different from non-ionizing radiation, like the kind emitted by your cell phone, which does not have enough energy to break bonds.)

I think this is a poor explanation. Radiation from your cell phone is electromagnetic radiation. This is far different from a radiated particle, an actual proton or electron flying out.

Essentially a particle vs a wave, which is more of a difference than "not enough energy". Is that correct?
why are there 89 trackers on that site? boo!
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The description of "Hammock-driven" development is very similar to how one has to function in academia, where the problems are hard and a lot of time thinking is necessary.

I also like to operate this way - the solutions created in such moments of brilliance just cannot be reproduced while in constant states of stress.
That strategy specifically relies on the app author to support specific apps then.

A better solution would be using the share sheet, so any app that supports the type of data you're sharing, can make use of it.
'So what is "strong typing"? This appears to be a meaningless phrase, and people often use it in a nonsensical fashion. To some it seems to mean "The language has a type checker". To others it means "The language is sound" (that is, the type checker and run-time system are related). To most, it just seems to mean, "A language like Pascal, C or Java, related in a way I can't quite make precise". If someone uses this phrase, be sure to ask them to define it for you. (For amusement, watch them squirm.)'

page 263 "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" Shriram Krishnamurthi 2003
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> you can in fact have heavy social control but small-government in terms of economics ala Singapore and have a country make rapid economic process.

Singapore's rapid economic progress is due to anything but small government. If you read Lee Kuan-yew's memoirs, you'll see the lengths to which the Singaporean government went to kowtow to Western (and later, Japanese) multinationals. They rolled out the red carpet over and over, for years, before any of those companies made significant investments in Singapore.

Also, there are several reasons why generalizing the Singaporean experience to Sinosphere countries doesn't work:

1. Although Singapore has a lot of ethnic Chinese, the country is inherently multicultural and has adopted many British cultural traditions and practices.

2. The country is very small, making social control much easier than in a country the size of China.

3. Lee Kuan-yew himself has said that the Chinese government won't be able to maintain social control as the Chinese population migrates to the cities[0]. The system will have to change, and that will be very difficult.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlkPuamwrlg#t=2m52s
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I'm disappointed you feel justified in your rude and dismissive behavior, but since you don't see any need to examine it, I request that you refrain from challenging my comments on that same basis in future.
The problem is that backing up data is fundamentally a management task. It requires skills to actually do right. People view backing up their computer in the same way they view changing the oil in their car. Just like there is no button you press inside the car that says "change oil", there is never going to be a backup solution that is easy to use for the regular user. At least not one that does a complete job is backing everything up.

Here is how I handle 'backups': I never do it. If the data is important, I make sure I store it on a device that is already redundant. If I take a photo that I really want to keep, I'll send it to dropdox or google drive or gmail or some place like that. Neither my macbook, nor my iphone, nor my linux laptop is the canonical living place of anything important. If any of those devices were to disappear, I will lose stuff, but nothing important. This system I've sort of subconsciously migrated towards over the past decade or so of hard drive failures and lost phones.
A couple things to note on this:

1) Market cap changes of the stock market doesn't tell much. If a company changes it's capital structure (more or less debt relative to stock, or Private Buyouts) the market cap changes.

2) A better metric would be "Total value of the equity and debt of all the companies" with an equity and debt breakout.

3) Even still, this would miss privately held companies. It also would just measure the asset values, and not ownership.
Not every page has to be a web app - the Blogger thing annoys me too. But if it's an app you're making, the web browser is the biggest deployed platform and therefore an appealing target. http://xkcd.com/1367/
I went back and watched the original films recently; it was really nice how the camera doesn't pan or jerk around or lose focus, so you can actually see details and understand what's going on.
1,609,954,648 of those shares are labelled "indirect" - does that mean that they don't actually belong to him and he merely has controlling rights? iirc the walton family is quite big

and his name is "Samuel Robson Walton", not "Walton Robson"
It would be interesting to get Oren Eini's opinion on this, as the author of RavenDb. (http://ayende.com/)
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It's his own work. He does not be to be compliant with anything.
I've attempted to sell a product on Flippa before... Buyers are pretty skeptical especially about revenue and traffic.

You generally need to have some proof of revenue and that it's continuing to generate income, leads and traffic prior to the sale.

Trying to sell a product that's been offline for weeks is going to be an uphill battle unfortunately. On auction sites like Flippa for instance most of the buyers are SEO-focused so 2 weeks of downtime is going to be a liability.

If you want to sell it getting it back up should be a priority
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>Domestic responsibilities are unevenly distributed. This is bad. It has nothing to do with Hackathons.

Note that the statement is "Domestic and career responsibilities". No it is not bad, it is just fine. I'm quite happy with working less out of the house and working more in it. And so are most women who choose to do so. Which is why it has to do with hackathons and other events. If you want more women to show up, child care is something to consider. Saying "oh, just change your life so that you and your husband are both less happy" does not solve the issue, and would still leave such events with fewer parents in attendance.
Go, Swift, and C# all have braces, looks like Python and CoffeeScript were overruled. I do agree with you on the semicolons, though (that's 4-to-1).
Gamma radiation (i.e. ionizing radiation) is just a highly energetic photons. Alpha and Beta particles are not photons, and are not referred to as ionizing radiation.
> Twitter is a stream of little posts and real-time notifications.

The stream part is easy enough, with pagination. I have no objection to hiding the pages with JavaScript, making any page 'bottomless.' Real-time notification, obviously, can't work without some sort of execution, but one could simply show notifications on the next page viewed (or calculate them when sending that page, or whatever).

> My webmail client isn't a document, it's a browser for documents.

Good thing that you're using a browser…

I'm not opposed to using JavaScript to speed things up or enhance them, but using it to deliberately break the Web is just wrong.
I love almost everything about this and dislike only a few things:

As k__ pointed I see no point in including semicolons, if you already have parenthesis that can be used to delimit expressions and newline characters, why include ";" ?

Another thing that I don't like is how the language is encourages type weakness in circumstances that normally lead to a dozen pointless bugs in my software during the development process:

a = -1

if a { // Actually meant a > 0
console.log("In if");
}

This could be avoided if languages didn't implicitly convert int, float etc values into boolean in the conditional expression of if. The result wouldn't even need a lot more code

if Boolean(a) {

That would probably require more code to implement into Spider in sections that might be performance critical. CG coders love to use those binary shortcuts in their code.
Yeah, it is really sad how the term has been so heavily co-opted that few people even know what an actual hackathon is.
The responses here are very interesting. I would think mindfulness would increase empathy, but many of them appear to be sidestepping your experience.

Was your course at one of the centers listed on dhamma.org ?
Agreed. Anyone find an authoritative explanation on the photo? I couldn't.
All in current USD (2012).
Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I am definitly going to invest in myself and take time to improve, its just that when you look at Show HN, you begin to think your years behind everybody else.
Uh, that's exactly how brainwashing works.
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't. You're right. Medallion prices look pretty close to average for the dataset, which only covers 18 months. The article also mentions problems with the data. Low data, small dataset, questionable outlier removal.

"There was only one medallion sale in September, followed by nine in October"

This data doesn't really say anything. The remarkable thing here is that medallion values aren't dropping. This really is terrible reporting.
Prior Art [1]:

* no$gmb
* VGB-DOS
* Boycott
* GNUBoy
* HelloGB
* KGB
* Virtual GameBoy

Just as Nintendo owns few of the patents on the computer chips inside the original GameBoy, they do not automatically get to patent the rights to a virtualized version. "Possible" improvements (especially when none are listed or implemented) do not allow wiggle-room for this patent, either.

Someone should call Marat Fayzullin [2], and have him sue nintendo for violation of his intellectual property (Virtual GB was the first implementation), then bring that lawsuit to the patent office as evidence of an improper patent filing, in order to bring it up for a review.

1. http://www.zophar.net/gb.html

2. http://marc.rawer.de/Gameboy/Docs/GBCPUman.pdf & http://fms.komkon.org/GameBoy/
But what you described is just economy of scale. It's not really all that different than a large factory being able to manufacture a product at lower cost than a small factory.
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Gee, that seems pretty reasonable.
No intellij deal :-(
If you haven't seen the current customization options in Firefox I advise you to check there, you can move all buttons and bars, add new buttons and tailor your UI to your taste.

I took a shot while writing this post showing the customization screen:

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Firefox still the most customizable browser out there.
Can you give an example of the code you write which is on par with C in terms of speed and is non-trivial? Did you look up the algorithm? (it is perfectly defined recursively)
Arguing what is nicer is subjective.

To clarify, I did not write the code (mine is the C version), the results are from the paper. Read it, beat it and post results.
I think, when he is the author, than he can decide which licence to use. There are many examples (like MySQL) where double licensing is used. The original author can decide, which licence he finds appropriate.
I thought this was the point of US going to war in Afghanistan.

US went in Irak to build the infamous oil pipeline and Afghanistan to restore opium production after the reserves that lead to a drop in price were depleted. At least this is what was reported here in Europe by the alternative medias.
I don't know anything about stocks, but a quick google search for "indirect stock ownership" brings this up: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080628050611A...

And also this which has more details: http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.958-1
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>But anti-nuke makes headlines, and gets people fired up, and is better for the oil and coal industries.

Agreed. Much as routine, daily road deaths don't typically make the headlines, the guy down the road dying of lung cancer is hardly newsworthy. In my experience most people are totally unaware of the enormous number of deaths attributed to coal burning (estimated at ~1 million per year globally by the WHO in 2008 [0])

I don't know the quality of the research, but in the wake of the Fukishima accident, NASA researchers published the following report, which estimated the number of deaths avoided by the use of nuclear power as a substitute of fossil fuel based power generation:

"Using historical production data, we calculate that global nuclear power has prevented an average of 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent (GtCO2-eq) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning.

On the basis of global projection data that take into account the effects of the Fukushima accident, we find that nuclear power could additionally prevent an average of 420,000-7.04 million deaths and 80-240 GtCO2-eq emissions due to fossil fuels by midcentury, depending on which fuel it replaces." [1] [2]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_coa...

[1] http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/ (summary)

[2] http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2013/2013_Kharecha_Hansen_1.p... (report)
Can you point to any other examples other than Singapore or Hong Kong?

Both of these to me take advantage of inefficient neighbouring countries (in a doing business sense) to offer a safe place for those with the resources to do business. I don't know if you can apply that example to somewhere like China.

I also cannot see them lessening their grip on business. Ultimately money is power and in the past the Communist party has always seemed to favour maintaining political control over economic consequences. I cannot see them allowing potentially competing power structures to develop outside of the Communist party structure.
"Actually, the reality of C is much more complex: C has two different type systems. There is one type system (with types such as int, double and even function types) at the level of the program, and a different type system, defined solely by lengths of bitstrings, at the level of execution. … As a result, it isn't even meaningful to talk about soundness for C, because the static types and dynamic type representations simply don't agree."

page 263 "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" Shriram Krishnamurthi 2003
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^ This is really important to get. Hackathon isn't some required thing you absolutely have to do, or even finish for that matter.. Its a great way to get your feet wet not only in whatever you're hacking with/on, but just to meet the community.

If you're going to go to try to win, that's great.. but people shouldn't feel that there is some sort of responsibility to be there, and to give it your all. I have left hackathons because of other commitments, or I just got bored.
Thanks for that. The tone of Dan Harkins reply is fun. There's clearly a lot of ego in crypto ;) Not sure I see the point in balanced PAKE myself. If you turn weak passwords in to preshared keys then why not just use strong preshared keys to begin with and trust in the bits? Worrying about parameter binding to the verifier seems irrelevant to EC as well.
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Where does it say that the post is about mandatory hackathons organized by a company for its employees?

Also, I think you're missing the point of the parent post. The point is that the balance of pros and cons of a hackathon is a subjective matter. Some people enjoy their intensity and challenging conditions, others hate the inconvenience. You can observe this for hiking and other demanding hobbies.

Bottom line is that if a hackathon, hiking, etc happens to be a way you love spending your free time, you will want to rearrange your life to participate.
It isn't his own work apparently, he copied the simulation and removed the GPL license statement.
Do you know that it steals all of your credentials and session cookies from other browsers?

I did an install, realized that I already logged in facebook, gmail and some other websites. How come this is done so easily? So I immediately removed it from my pc.

I don't suggest anyone to install it. I learnt from the hard way.
In fairness, try calling an Uber in San Francisco when it's raining.
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Given that eww (the latest Emacs web browser) is written in elisp, it's safe from buffer overflows and such, which are the most common form of vulnerability in software written in C. The actual parsing code uses libxml, which isn't elisp, but is one of the most widely-deployed parsers around.

Obviously there's no such thing as perfect security, but I would guess it's way more difficult to exploit than your conventional browsers.
You mean because he has enough money to pay for the extremely expensive medallions?
There is an sweet in India called [0] phirni when you start eating from outer layer to inner layer, you will feel like walking in heaven.Now you are in outer layer.I hope you enter to the inner level and feel the python still. :)

[0] http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Phirni-%28a-Rice-and-Milk-Dish%2...
What was the outcome of your attempt then? Did you manage to sell?
I didn't say anything about whether either was correct. I simply was trying to help people avoid talking past each other, because the parent seems to be addressing something the grandparent didn't say.

People have unquestionably used Valgrind to find errors, in trivial and nontrivial applications. The question here is whether the result is "safe code". It may be, but the parent does not seem to be speaking to that question, hence my attempt at clarification.
Hackathons are awesome. I try to do like 6 or 7 a year. And I'm married and in my mid 30s.

To take the OP's points one-by-one:

- Hackathons are worth the commitment. They're a fast, efficient way to try out 1) new frameworks and APIs, 2) new employees/cofounders, 3) new ideas.

- Hackathons only exclude people with "lives" who don't choose to make the event a priority. Hackathons filter out timid and less motivated people (and those two attributes are related) and you're generally left with pragmatic people who will make it through the weekend.

- The OP is right. The inconvenience isn't evenly distributed. Life isn't fair.

- Hackathons are only as unhealthy as you make them. Gardening can also be quite unhealthy if you don't wear sunscreen.

- Competition is a positive force, and the extrinsic motivation of judgement and a deadline are real, and good for the hack you produce.

- Since this is a competition, you can't work on a preexisting product any more than you could start a marathon a kilometers up the road.

- They're not just toys. Take a look at POWr.io and Zaarly, both of which came out of hackathons. There are many others, and if anyone knows of some of the top of their head, please reply with them.

I think it's great that people are coming together to help code on your gardening project. Hackathons may not be right for you, but they are definitely right for me and the dozens of ambitious people I've coded with at hackathons over the years.
What you're missing is that these middle men almost certainly exert political influence to ensure that this situation exists. You're treating the two as independent, when I doubt they are.
I didn't mention asm.js but it was on my mind when I wrote the parent; it's possible that it is 'good enough' and eventually becomes widely adopted enough, but I wonder if we might do better by eschewing the need for compatibility with Javascript.
Years ago, huh? Was it before Emacs added support for whitelisting file-local variables? These days you can't just place elisp in arbitrary files and have it get executed.

(Of course, propagating to other elisp files is both easy and completely orthogonal to Emacs, since you could do it in basically any language.)