skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a good point in the "advice" for personal benefit angle, but don't mistake the goals of a VC firm for their point (i.e. their raison d'etre). The goal of a VC firm may be to generate a profit, but the reason they exist is to implement part of the the resource-allocation function of capitalism. If they are failing to do a good job at this, even if they turn a profit doing so, then they are an unsuccessful firm (at least, in a broader sense).
Interesting, are the founders behind the cold pitches generally non technical then? Most good engineers I know start to build first and then end up applying to YC etc.. after they have something worthwhile.
PHP handles this by having lists like this by requiring you to use an I put name like "bottle-on-a-wall[]". The brackets indicate that it should be a list. I don't hate this convention...
I'm thinking financial flow as in the billions of credit card transactions every year and financial events as possible chargebacks, refunds, purchases, that amazon runs into every second.
Not that I've noticed. There is a character limit on the process names, so sometimes the names get truncated, though.

This can all be done server side as well if you're just sending up a raw list every time. No need for an app update.
This is funny to me because, as a young customer, I distinctly remember thinking, "God, I hate coming to this *$#%@ store. The sales people seem like they're not plugged in. I'm trying to buy an <xyz> and they keep trying to get me to buy an <abc> which has nothing to do with what I'm looking for. What are they smoking? They're not even listening to me!"

I had no notion of selling on commission, but I did understand selling someone a bill of goods rather than what they wanted or needed. And that's about when I stopped shopping there.
An Unlikely Marketing Lesson from Patent Lawyers
I don't know how this is possible. By every metric, Carly Fiorina's term as CEO of HP was an abject disaster. Over her 5 years at HP, their stock fell by 60% (benchmarked to the S&P 500 which fell 20% over that period... yes it was a rough period, but 60% is crazy). She presided over the 2nd most bullshit merger in the past decades and swallowed Compaq (nothing beats AOL Time Warner for hubris and stupidity).

It's ridiculous that she has any standing whatsoever within the Republican party, or any organization whatsoever. She is the poster child for making bad decisions and destroying shareholder value.
Snake on a Keyboard
On the pro side:

This would make the campaign more entertaining, and if it came down to her and Hilary; that would be a historic horse race of epic proportions.

On the con side:

This is someone who wrecked the two companies she was in charge of ( Lucent and HP ) and who has a consistent history of being able to fail upwards.

My take:

If the republican party can't field a better candidate then they aren't going to be holding the white house any time soon. Sarah Palin was a joke, but Fiorina could be quite dangerous as someone who's good at acing the interview but chokes when it's her turn to bat.
I don't know what you have in mind. In order for me, or anyone else who bases his/her judgement on fact, to give you an answer which you'll be able to recognize as right, you'll need to point out a concrete problem or question that contains facts that can be independently verified, rather than something abstract and hypothetical.
Is there anything stopping the publishers from requiring cryptographically signed reviews by peers? E.g. we establish a bijection between public keys and institutional email addresses and then only accept signed reviews.
Thank you, Please feel free to make a pull request if you see any inconsistency.
Silk Road, Online Freedom, and the Prosecution of Ross Ulbricht
Full title: Silk Road, Online Freedom, and Why the Prosecution of Ross Ulbricht Should Worry Us All

Reason may be questionable but this court case does have serious ramifications.
Too bad they didn't test RNA... self replicating RNA doesn't need a compiler. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viroid (possible relics from the theoretical RNA world still around today)
In WA where I am, and I believe in CA, standing on the curb facing the crosswalk != using a crosswalk. Standing around looking like you might use the crosswalk someday doesn't mean anything; using the crosswalk (and having right of way) starts only from the moment they step off the sidewalk. The WA code makes this pretty clear; CA uses the specific phrase "withinin a crosswalk" which makes me believe the interpretation is the same there.

So waving through someone who's not actively crossing is not correctly yielding the right of way. OTOH, drivers should bloody well expect pedestrians to start crossing in front of them when you haven't stopped yet (both states say that a pedestrian may not step out if there is inadequate room for the car to react and stop; by the contrapositive a pedestrian may step out in front of a car if there is adequate distance.)
In terms of talent maybe Odesk. We mainly use for sourcing Eastern European engineers.
I used a Sager (rebranded Clevo) during undergrad and shortly thereafter. They're great machines, but the battery life is underwhelming. My brother still games on it and it's >4 years old at this point.

I actually plan on buying another this year for both development and gaming, but I'm rarely somewhere without a plug for more than a couple of hours at a time.
No need for anonymous window, if you go to a WSJ link from google search results it should work. Try clicking the first organic listing on this page: https://www.google.com/search?q=GoPro+Developing+Line+of+Con...
A Brief History of Graphics in Video Games
Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection (GC) Plan and Roadmap
Yeah. I feel like the bracket syntax is better. The other example above isn't explicit enough, IMO.
Hi tn13 I agree with every bit of what you said except the last bit, I think you are over scrutinizing. A situation where I break the law whenever it is advantageous for me to break them is pretty 'lawless' to me.

A murderer is still a murderer even if there are thousands of people he / she did not murder. Whether something is lawful or lawless matters only when it flies against convenience / dominance (much like free speech). The laws might, in such a situation, exist on paper but in practice that is not how things got executed.

So if the execution of the war was being described, it would not be an unfair adjective to use. More so because the fact that all fair use rules were dropped plays an important narrative role in the epic. The reader is supposed to shudder that this happened, it is a deliberate plot point, if you will, to show the fall from grace of humanity.
It's nice to know you've raised it to the status of a collective noun. I suppose you figure you're doing a favor by not calling her a Jewess.
The exception being a situation where there's not going to be a space behind you. If they're going to be waiting for someone to stop, and it looks like they've been there a while, waving them through can be reasonable.

Always be mindful of the people you're going to be making wait, though.
iflscience is sometimes interesting, but often (as here) ludicrously sensationalistic clickbait.

There's a couple major misrepresentations here; while 450,000 is an often-stated average, its important to note that there is no evidence of periodicity, so the idea that the planet would be "overdue" for a reversal is misguided.

The other cited evidence for an imminent shift is drop in the strength of the Earth's magnetic fields, but major variations in field strength appear without pole reversals.

The actual BBC Earth article [0] that IFLS gives a "hat tip" to as its source is not about an imminent pole reversal, but about research that suggests the average frequency of pole shifts has increased over time, and discussion of the possible mechanisms for that, mentioning it in passing in one sentence near the end of the article as something that some people speculate based on the recent weakening of the magnetic field.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141110-earths-magnetic-fiel...
Uber CEO must turn over emails in gratuity lawsuit, U.S. judge rules
We've never canceled orders due to price changes.
Man, you're selling an investment to a VC. If a stock broker cold calls you to offer you an awesome deal, you hang up. Venture capitalists are just like you in that sense; they have a practically infinite number of investment options and a limited amount of time. They owe you absolutely nothing.
A baseline rate of wildcards among cyclists encourages greater attentiveness in drivers that interact with me, whether or not I am a wildcard in that moment. It's a herd immunity sort of thing. The practices called "defensive driving" would not be followed by anyone unless there were something to defend against.
+1. I learnt to solder when I was 14 or so, and did hurt myself a couple of times too. But I lived in India, where there's not many liability issues.
I don't seem to recall ISIS citing the sword verses explicitly? How can you say Godse did not take inspiration from Gita?

The other thing I don't get is that how RSS types of Partition time seem to understand that apparently it's OK for _them_ to differ with Gandhi, but Muslims, because of not joining some Congress monolith, are to be punished for...wait for it...differing with Gandhi (say over Quit India)
We've closed this thread to new accounts to put out an off-topic political-religious flamewar.
Oh please, oh please, oh please.

I thought McCain/Obama was the parabolic blow off top of presidential campaign comedy, but a Hillary/Fiorina slugfest could set a new standard.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm taking a look at them now. What distribution of linux were you running? Did you have any problems with installing / hardware compatibility?
Are you based in the US? Yes? Congratulations, you have access to a pool of investors practically unrivalled by any other country (or, at least, Australia). At least you have the opportunity to get warm introductions to them.
I do it in UPDATES

UPDATE FOO
SET BAR = 1
, BAZ = 2
, QUUX = 3

I like it that way. Makes it clear the relationship between the continuing lines and their parents. Just the natural extension of

WHERE ALICE = 1
AND BOB =2
AND CHARLIE = 3
Marcus Lemonis: Real Entrepreneurs Don't Have Work-Life Balance
There were several amazing talks at hacker conferences last year about reprogramming storage devices so that they can tamper with their contents. This researcher's talk was one of those. Another significant one was

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5294.html

and I think there were at least two others that I can't find right now (plus recent stuff on USB devices that attack their hosts in various ways). In light of these and other firmware and hardware-borne threats, a good overview of the bigger verification and transparency problems is

http://www.slideshare.net/hashdays/why-johnny-cant-tell-if-h...
In 1996 I worked at a small Internet Service Provider. We were known for being one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) ISP's in New York City.

Back then if you wanted a machine on the network, you'd get a 10MB uplink to a T-3 (which was better speed than a lot of the other low-tiers). A port fee was $500 a month to be able to transfer 1 gig a month, up to $3000 to transfer 100 gigs a month. Then you'd have to lease a machine as well.

Nowadays, I can get a 125MB uplink on Linode, with 2000 gigs allowed a month - for $10 a month. No lease for a machine - the VPS comes with it for free - and is much faster, has more storage, memory etc. than anything I could have gotten for a reasonable price back then.

It costs next to nothing to put a product out nowadays. Google Play and the App Store. 100 million people want to download your app from Google Play? No worries - it's hosted on their infrastructure.

Aside from that things like Github are around. There are open source libraries that do everything, and with foreign function interface you can use libraries from almost any language. A lot of your coding is done for you. A lot of what I do is hooking two libraries up together, put a UI on it, and then maybe a little bit of my own code. Voila, a product.

I have no idea why anyone who can code would feel dependent on investors.

Get in a hurry to where you, or you and your co-founder(s), are "ramen profitable", and then devote yourself 100% to building up revenue and getting product/market fit.

In high school, I used to have to sneak into the Columbia University engineering library to read the 1978 Bell System Technical Journal articles about how Unix worked. Now I can go down to my local bookstore and there is a shelf of books on it. I don't even have to leave my home, I can get the information on my PC. Not even that - all the information I want to know about Unix is on my phone at any time I want - which runs Unix.

It's like people are looking for someone to tell them "no". Every day that passes by, it gets easier and easier to build a product that hundreds of thousands of people want. You don't need a lot of capital, it's practically free. You just need to know a little programming and get to it. Of course, the more programming you learn, the easier it will be.
dspguide.com is good, also anything by Rick Lyons. Most of the other textbooks people tend to cite are excessively math-heavy and abstract in nature, or just plain not very good.

You wouldn't want to learn DSP on dedicated hardware at this point. Look into software-defined radio as a gateway to DSP development on native CPUs.
I'm not much of a Python guy, but that chained comparison operator is sweet!

Sure, it's just syntax sugar, but it saves a lot of keystrokes, especially if the variable name is long.

Is Python the only language with this feature?
Yep, they have already went through one IRS audit because too much of their income was concentrated on too few sources (makes it look like a front set up by those sources for tax purposes). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#IRS_audit for example.

(Disclaimer: not a MoCo/MoFo employee)
Silk Road and online freedom: Mother of Ross Ulbricht speaks out
Nice story, Steve. It's cool to look back over a career / life and think about what you've done and where you're going still. I think I'm about 15 yrs from where you're at... also a fan of music, although due to coding and career and kid, I end up not doing any music practice. :-| But I code music-related apps! Hehe.
Groundbreaking Microscope Makes 3D Video of Living Cells in Real Time
Betzig Lab
I've also had a Spectra, and after that an 88 weighted keys alesis QS8. had the ZX Spectrum (i'm still using n as default for loop variable) and then got the marvelous commodore 128. good old days. I was born in '71.
Seattle? Place yourself in the bike lane stopped at Eastlake and Fuhrman southbound. Very common commute route. No way to not be in the bike lane there given you just crossed the U bridge. (Unless you like riding on steel grating while drivers honk at you.) Then try to make the left onto Harvard Ave (again, extremely popular route) after the light turns green. You have one block to move left across two lanes. Post youtube if possible. I guarantee that proceeding across Fuhrman against the red light, doing your lane changes in the absence of traffic, is safer and less antagonizing if there is even moderate traffic. Only other safe alternative is to use the pedestrian crossings, which kind of fucking proves the point here. There's a million little situations like this.
React is not even stable yet...
I don't agree with Example 9, we should use data uri scheme for file content

"files": [{
"name": "dahut.txt",
"src": "data:text/plain;base64,REFBQUFBQUFIVVVVVVVVVVVVVCEhIQo="
}]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
I have this on my phone, my 5 and 9 year olds like it!

I find the hard level pretty hard - it would be good IMO if you could change the mode to include negatives (maybe roots and squares [+other powers?], like here) and to expand the number range to. I seem to remember someone mentioning (probably on here) that they played a mental maths game where you had to give an operation on a number, you didn't say the answer but the next person had to add an operation, there was always a range (age adjusted) that the answer had to fit within: was that game the inspiration or was it just a novel idea for you?

Like the game anyway, thanks.
Based on your friends list and their data they can figure out tons of that stuff without you putting it on there. You probably don't even need to login for them to create a detailed dossier on you if you have connected with enough other people from various contexts.
Again, agreeing with you wholeheartedly in every bit except the last part. I am just uncomfortable about endorsing / invoking Tilak. That man was a bit cuckoo when it came to things about Hindu supremacy. In his eagerness to show racial purity he frigging claimed Hindus were Aryans originating from the North frigging pole and backed it up with his 'scientific' reasoning. Honest, I kid you not, wish I had something I could cite, but am pretty sure it wont be too hard to Google the right source.

EDIT: Holy crap wikipedia has a page on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arctic_Home_in_the_Vedas
Here is a significantly better-formatted version, with a bit of additional material (I'm not sure which is the canonical version, since this seems to have been taken from a speech): http://downlode.org/Etext/how_to_build.html
Too niche, not enough profits. My Radioshack plan...

1. Sell off all the inventory.

2. Rebrand, lose the name Radioshack because it's the definition of cheaply made, overpriced garbage. It's embarrassing to even be seen in that store.

3. Go with a minimalistic store layout, like the Apple store (http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AppleR...), because existing stores look like a warehouse or junkyard. Carry higher end phones, tablets, ebook readers, laptops, headphones and accessories.

4. Sell some cables and things cheap to get people in the door. Instead of selling an HDMI cable for $100, sell it for $5, so people walk in the door, and don't feel like they're being screwed over. Then, when they're inside, they can play around with the expensive hardware, and potentially walk away with a tablet.
10 things a programmer must invest in
Is that stack available for times-tables ready to install and use, if not can you share it? Thanks.
As of today (Nov 26), Yahoo Finance shows RadioShack as having 3-ish billion USD in revenue, and a market cap of of 83 million USD. I guess there isn't a lot of faith on Wall St. that RadioShack is going to turn itself around.
I wish he would comment more on what he finds wrong with HDLs?

I fail to understand why using a HDL for a digital ASIC is fine, but using one for a FPGA in the context of acceleration is not.
And what social problem does FB solve?
WTH?? then why release it in the first place.. That's the only crucial step in this whole concept..
Why Regin Malware Isn't the Next Stuxnet
tn13 is correct actually. I think he is saying the ISIS arent violent because of Koran but because of their political aspirations (at least the way I parsed it, only th13 can clarify that part).

About the rest, the source of the confusion is Hindutva, a political narrative that champions Hindu supremacy started formally by Savarkar (who snitched like canary to the British, excuse my hashed metaphor) and Hinduism the religion. The Godses were motivated by the former. [I am going to burn some serious karma here, you see Savarkar is a golden hero to the RSS]
Square roots should be improved, just ranges from squares of 0 to 6.
"Open submissions" doesn't, or at least have to, mean that you literally take any submission from anyone. It means things like having a larger group go a longer way in the submissions process and trying to stay away from arbitrary qualifications.
I'd love to see something like this for smartparens and slime.
The quote from the article does start "As we know, the process of submitting to a scientific journal ...", not "math journal".
actually, there is no such thing as a "Hindu" per se. And it is here that Hinduism (as an overall politico-sociological concept) differs a lot from traditional christianity or islam.

there is no singular book.

South Indian "hindus" dont believe in a lot of texts that the north indian "hindus" do including the mahabharata. The interpretation of the vyas ramayana and the south indian Kamba Ramayanam are different.

In general, the ramayana and the mahabharata are two epics, and thereby occupy a singificant mindshare in popular culture - so you can argue that it is pan-Indian. But if we veer away from them and go into other books, the differences are even more stark.

I actually love this part of "hinduism" - the fact that there is no "one-true-way" has given rise to a whole bunch of fairly conflicting theology that is really interesting. For example, explaining Advaita non-dualism to a conventional "hindu" is really interesting - because the concepts of the Gita are thrown out of the window (a lot of advaita scholars maintain that the original Gita was much smaller).
We have a fantastic Radio Shack in our town too. Granted, they've branched off quite a bit and sell firearms and ammo as well as electronic components, but the owner is incredibly helpful and knows that his business only thrives because he is service minded. I've long swore off Radio Shacks as a whole, but spend money there whenever I need a component or two even if things are cheaper online.
Contest for hacking the Linux kernel to provide real-time characteristics
I am typing this on a 3 year old Dell E6520 running Arch Linux, paid $900 for i7-2720QM, 8GB RAM, and 240GB drive back in 2011, spent another $250 for two 128GB SSD's and 16GB RAM, total of $1150. It came with 3 year Dell business warranty + 1 year extra warranty for using Amex/Discover card. The battery life was about 7 hours initially with 9 cell battery, but I bet latest gen haswell can give 8 hours with much smaller battery.

I would suggest to check out E6540 in Dell outlet, they have 20% to 30% coupons frequently http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/Online/InventorySea....

This is coming from somebody who also has a 2014 Retina Macbook Pro, absolutely don't care for it, I keep it closed in the corner of the room and do remote desktop when I need something Mac specific.
Nice list, but I was confused by the arguments to the dict .get() example until I looked up the definition.
I've heard several computational physicists make this complaint to NVIDIA sales reps. The standard response, which I'm sure is correct, goes as follows.

Designing a fast processor is very expensive, far beyond the means of the research community. The only way anyone can afford it is to sell millions of the things to gamers. To put $1 of special hardware on your numerical card, we have to put it on 1000 graphics cards too, so you'd have to pay $1000 for it. Bad luck: scientists are destined to hack hardware that was designed for larger markets.
I might like to talk to people if they weren't all hiding incompetence behind a sales pitch.