skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear this. I think it's very rare to have things stolen from the trunk, were you followed or watched when you first parked the car?

Most credit card companies have car rental insurance to cover the damage to the car.
While I have no experience with Stripe, it feels like this is a common phase to go through for nearly every growing company :-/
> Sending a few people to Mars will be the first steps in becoming a multi-planetary civilization,

I think there is immense value in continued unmanned Mars missions and yes, even in manned missions, but I don't think that a trip to Mars would be a step towards becoming a multi-planetary civilization beyond "we can ferry humans between planets." Mars is not and most likely never will be colonizable. We might have an outpost or a station like the ISS, but Mars' extremely thin atmosphere and low surface gravity (a third of Earth's) means that long-term habitation will never be practical barring extraordinary technological developments in planetary engineering, the medical field, and/or artificial gravity.

Personally I suspect the only long term colonization prospect in the Solar System is Venus - thick atmosphere and near-Earth surface gravity - but for obvious reasons we'd still need extensive terraforming to cool the planet and make the atmosphere breathable - seeding the clouds with oxygen-producing bacteria would be a first step towards both, I suppose.
A clearly practical and influential advance from the last 10 years is the application of tracing JITs to high level languages (as in TraceMonkey and LuaJIT 2).
Apotropaic Practices and the Undead: Deviant Burials in Post-Medieval Poland
I'm very sorry about that! The support team has expanded a lot this year; we're working on it. Feel free to email me directly if I can ever help -- patrick@stripe.com.
Light pollution only has an impact on observing "faint fuzzies" - galaxies, nebulae, and other objects that are, well, faint and distant. It has essentially no impact on bright things such as almost anything within the Solar System, most of the nearby stars, some star clusters, etc.

The other big problem for astronomy, seeing (or air turbulence) is exactly backwards. It's the main enemy of seeing planets or other high resolution targets, but it has no impact on faint fuzzies, because your eye can't see much detail on those anyway.

This is why from my backyard, in one of the most light-polluted places on Earth, I can observe planets just fine. However, nebulae, or even the outline of the Milky Way, are difficult or impossible to see.

(This is related to amateur astronomy.)
Webview != pure Go, which is what the OP was asking for.
I still want to know more.

What should I be listening for in the video? There's the moment at 0:45 when everyone stops and says "wow", but that could come from either explanation.

Should I be expecting to hear a pitch that's higher than all the notes in the chord, lower than all the notes in the chord, or a different phenomenon that's not a distinct pitch?

This effect is sometimes claimed to happen with a 4:5:6:7 dominant 7th chord. In that case, would I hear it at the 28th harmonic? The 30th? The 420th (which is the lowest overtone that all the notes have in common)? The 1st (the undertone they have in common)? Or is 4:5:6:7 actually a bad example?

(I really doubt it's the 420th, of course. That would be a very high pitch around 17 KHz, which would be difficult to hear, and wouldn't be preserved at YouTube quality anyway.)
In practice you only need to do $H^{-1} g$; L-BFGS stores the {s_k} and {y_k} vectors which allow you to do the $H^{-1} g$ directly rather than needing to ever form the hessian or its inverse. There are techniques that aren't BFGS-based which approximate the hessian rather than the inverse and in that case you'd be better off solving.
At least in some Western countries, the standards are to break the door down anyway, and maybe hold him at gunpoint (see: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ...)
Maybe on details, but we disagree that you can rush creativity or genius. His trial-and-error method got him shadow volume years after a separate pair of engineers discovered it. This is why most great discoveries are done in research environments with teams.

He in my view, failed to see that he just filled his 'apple tree' time with tinkering. Some people plant a garden while thinking about code, or focus intently. I'm not sure there's much difference between methods, it depends on the field and person.

The most complex fields, involving what I'd consider true genius cannot be tested. It's just too general of a statement, and only relevant to him or a portion of the population.

But this is Carmack as I've always seen him. Technically brilliant, missing the big picture (his games were in some cases restricted simply to show off a technical feature eg. the Doom 3 flashlight), and fairly narrow minded.
Indeed. My options were

1: "$3.99 rent, $9.99 buy" (the was called the "ReadCube access" option)
2: Purchase article full text and PDF: $8 (had no annotations, so presumably the "Nature" option)

In either case this is NOT "free". Nature, try again.
Q: "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" - unknown

A: "Because it's there" - George Mallory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory)
Want to try a refresh, I think it ought to be fixed now. Thanks
Add a divorce to that, and you get over %50 probably! Divorces are far more financially and emotionally ruinous than this.
> It would be a big step forward to have everything that runs as root written in something safer than C/C++.

As you know, options have existing since the early days, but mentalities are hard to change.

I came to the conclusion that many issues in computing are only solved with change of generations.
Yup, we're working on a number of other payment methods. (We have ACH charges in beta -- let me know if you'd like access. patrick@stripe.com.)
What model of car do you have?
Facebook algorithms and the problem with majority rule
Entering a fake name doesn't really help. If one of your relatives also orders the kit, your name can easily be found out.
I have found out through his family that he didn't ! So everything thing that is being donated is for the future of his baby . I too was hoping he had life insurance :-(
It's all hyperbolic rhetoric until you look at the average wage for citizens in the same area.

Going by the same example and assuming normalized distribution, do you think the average salary is closer to $380k/yr or $120k/yr?
Beyond the Bay: Comparing the world's top startup ecosystems
Introduce Bootstrap 3 to Develop Responsive Design Application
I had a similar experience. I grew up in the country and always took the clear sky sans light pollution for granted. I lived in the city for a few years for college and then work and then came back to the country to visit old friends. I was driving back to my parents old place one night and stopped and got out of my car in the middle of nowhere. I looked up and was blown away.
> political in-fighting, fractured organizational structure and lots and lots of red tape.

These things happen in private sector organizations too; the assumption that the private sector somehow will do it better needs to be supported. Really, we need to point to a specific private sector organization.

Name every place in the solar system where NASA missions currently are located. Outside the solar system? Where they have gone historically? Their achievements are staggering; history-making events are routine; they are by far the greatest explorers in the history of humanity. Certainly they aren't perfect and every organization can improve, but they do pretty well.
> We have too many people in the US as it is.

Do you know how many children are born every day in the US?
The price of milk is that paid by those with the deepest pockets. It's just that the supply of milk is plentiful.
Increasing the quantity supplied at the "prevailing wage" by way of H-1B depresses the prevailing wage from rising to what it would be in the absence of the H-1B for the positions for which H-1B has increased the supply (and has knock-on effects for other areas of work, because the Americans that don't get employed in the positions covered by H-1Bs then are competing in fields they otherwise wouldn't be, increasing the quantity supplied at any given price point in those fields.)

Its not only basic economics, but if it didn't work that way, there'd be no benefit to employers from the H-1B existing to justify the compliance costs.
"ethic-neuveau-ghettos .. insulating themselves rather than assimilating" Usually the kids assimilate pretty well, and thats mostly how it works, has always worked with non-europeans. You can't expect these people to wake up one morning, and do a running jump while yelling 'muricaaa!!' and assimilate in a flash. From my experience, most of them want their kids to assimilate while setting up personal thresholds for themselves as to how much they can/want to buy in. You'd be surprised, the country can learn a thing or two from these peoples, for eg. many of these folks come from places where evolution is common sense, and high-schools don't give people life long depressions from which people never recover.
When you say relaunched, does that mean you previously had other themes too (as I can only find 1 right now)?

Also, consider adding a contact form, not everyone has a mail account setup to their mail app.
"Should companies be taking advantage of low wages in other countries instead of paying market value?"

If someone leaves a programming job in India to take a programming job in the USA, they're implicitly saying, This is a better deal for me. The only unethical/anticompetative practice was that someone created an artificial barrier (often pushed through legislation because of xenophobia) to keep "others" out. If you don't think we should the USA should be hiring talented people from India, do you think California should prevent people from Seattle from working in California?

Where would you draw the line?
Why Klout Needs a Good Reason to Add Another Database
Just released v1.0.2. Now supports SSL connections. Use the "Check for Update..." menu item to download the update.
You can buy a SFH for much less than $2.5m (more like $1m) in good school districts (the best districts are more like $1.5m+). Perhaps not in Mission San Jose, Los Altos Hills or in San Francisco proper, but many many places with a good commute to most of the valley.
Firefox Hello: An in-browser WebRTC client in Firefox 34
You think the organization that landed man on the moon and rovers on mars can't get stuff done?
This is very, very true. L1 seems like a good deal since your spouse can work, but ends up being really bad since you have no negotiating power at salary adjustment time.
You don't think the budget will increase as they take on their biggest challenge yet, by a couple orders of magnitude?
This is a lame half assed solution.
YouTube: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser
I wouldn't maybe laugh, but can confirm.
The only mental illness I suffer from is a propensity for C# and .NET... even though I know better. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi8jMRMsEJo#t=1114

http://i.imgur.com/1ry8whI.jpg
>> Only if you define the market rate as "That paid by those with the deepest pockets",

This is exactly what market rate means. That's why apartments are so expensive in SF or NY.
If we accept that maximum utility (that is, the jargon economists use for maximum human fulfilment) is not only about maximum output, then the idea that we should open all our borders to the lowest bidder, becomes invalid.

What is in the interests of corporations is not what is in the interests of our society.
You think that will pay for a human expedition to Mars and back?
People said the same thing about Italian and Irish immigrants 100 years ago. And yet, things didn't fall apart.
OK, got that. Did some further reading (again) on the topic and it's still about 4 km/s to reach the orbit. People are working on it, but for what I read it looks hard to overcome for 2030...
Maybe consider adding an even smaller micro(?) plan. 0.25kg of honey is still too much for a lot of people, to receive on a monthly basis. Maybe a plan that has honey sent once per quarter?

Digging the design, so good job on that!
I didn't ask for any reform in my post, are you referring to the post I responded to?

I would say that corporations exist for shielding against any negative consequences whether they are risks, immoral, and/or illegal acts. They protect people in the corporation who may or may not have had anything to do with said acts. The reason I would not change that is because what is considered a risk today may be considered immoral tomorrow, what is considered immoral tomorrow may be considered illegal after that. Since we live in a society that is more than happy to discredit and attack based on patterns of the past that may or may not be relevant today, then such protections are warranted.
Does Amazon actually use AWS to host Amazon.com?
LATERAL is awesome. It makes a lot of queries that required sub-select joins much simpler to write and later read.

It's also great for set returning functions. Even cooler, you don't need to explicitly specify the LATERAL keyword. The query planner will add it for you automatically:

-- NOTE: WITH clause is just to fake a table with data:
WITH foo AS (
SELECT 'a' AS name
, 2 AS quantity
UNION ALL
SELECT 'b' AS name
, 4 AS quantity)
SELECT t.*
, x
FROM foo t
-- No need to say "LATERAL" here as it's added automatically
, generate_series(1,quantity) x;

name | quantity | x
------+----------+---
a | 2 | 1
a | 2 | 2
b | 4 | 1
b | 4 | 2
b | 4 | 3
b | 4 | 4
(6 rows)
Not if it's doing 0.999c.

obwhatif https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
Relaunched in the sense that the site used to belong to Marc-Andre Cournouyer and he launched it in 2012, and it was all based on Twitter Bootstrap 2.

We're the new owners and have invested a huge amount of time updating that original theme, and starting new themes!

Thanks for the tip, that's a good catch.
That may be his goal, but even all of his money is orders of magnitude less than what it would take for either a small colony or a manned mission with return. See sibling post about NASA annual budget, relatively small though it is, still blowing away SpaceX's market cap and Elon's personal wealth.

Elon also hasn't just blown money senselessly on longshots or unsustainable one-offs, like a private Mars mission would be. SpaceX and Tesla both have some innovative concepts and have advanced their respective fields, but both are also perfectly ordinary businesses in most regards, with very reasonable plans for revenue. I don't see any potential for revenue in travelling to Mars.
I agree that there's a big transparency benefit to using the same basket everywhere, but I don't think that actually gives the most realistic answer.

Imagine that every day, for every meal, you eat spaghetti carbonara. You'd be almost as happy eating linguine with pesto, but you happen to have a slight preference for spaghetti carbonara. Now you move somewhere else where, for whatever reason, spaghetti is 100x the price and every other ingredient is only 2x the price. Are you suddenly 100x poorer? No, much nearer 2x, because you'll just switch from spaghetti to linguine. You'll be slightly worse off than 2x because, darn it, you preferred spaghetti, but only slightly.

Moving to San Francisco from (say) Minnesota is a bit like that. Housing is a bajillion times more expensive, so you'll have to make do with a lot less of it, but unless housing is the only thing you care about that doesn't mean you're a bajillion times worse off. You do need some housing, and many other things are also more expensive, so there's no argument that you're worse off in SF for any given level of income. But not by the factor the price of housing would suggest.

(A couple of other remarks about this sort of comparison. 1. The richer you are, the less these things matter -- if you're putting a substantial fraction of your income into investments, those don't change in price at all just because you move to San Francisco. 2. Relatedly, if you are able to buy a house rather than renting, you're not as much worse off as the eyewatering price of the house would suggest -- because later on you can move out of San Francisco, sell that house, and get the money back again.)
So you're okay with paying extra taxes today so money needn't be borrowed from the kids (and their kids) for a Mars expedition?
There's something wrong with the math here. 100 km/s delta-V means you go from standstill to 100 km/s. Solar system's escape velocity is 42 km/s at Earth's orbit. By the very definition, any A->B travel for any A and B within the solar system, requires less delta-V if Hoffman's orbits are used.

In reality the delta-V for Earth_surface -> Mars_surface journey is between 19 and 21 km/s (depending on the relative position of the two bodies) for Hoffman's orbits. Without using aerobreaking. If using aerobreaking, it's less by about 3-4km/s [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
I've been looking into this too. There is the Chromium Embedded Framework (on which atom-shell is based, and brackets-shell too for that matter), and a few others.

https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Huh, apparently CEF is used in: Spotify, Evernote, Rdio, Github for Windows, Google Web Designer, and Macaw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#App...

This article is a bit outdated but gives some hints on where to search next:
http://clintberry.com/2013/html5-apps-desktop-2013/
On the future of Object.observe
On leaving your own business
This is patently false, and a common misunderstanding of immigrantion laws by U.S. citizens.

>Requirement 4 - You must be paid at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher.

http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupatio...
It look me a minute to realize, but you can change to any of four different data-visualizations by clicking the large buttons under the header.
I really don't think you can claim they're not innovating when they've already propulsively test-landed (in the sea, but successfully) two Falcon first stages.
We still haven't built most of the stuff we want to build. We're not available in most countries; there are countless payment instruments we don't support; there's a lot of functionality we'd like to add. We want to do this as quickly as possible, which is expensive, and we assume that every round we raise might be our last ever.

That said, we've generally erred towards raising less rather than more -- most companies raise much more money than this in multi-billion valuation dollar rounds.
Runbook is also opensourced https://assembly.com/runbook/repositories (I guess all products on assembly are)
Pet peeve in case Jeff Barr (or another AWS person) reads this. I purchased multiple 3-year heavy utilization RIs just a few months before the price wars last year. The ROI on those went from "great" to "very modest" overnight. I know there is an RI Marketplace where I could try to sell them, but as the on-demand prices went down so far, I would not be likely to get a decent deal. It felt like the best customers, those who have committed for multiple years, were being left out in the cold. I will not be doing any long-term (over 1 year) RI purchases again unless they make it possible to participate in price drops.
The world needs more Musk fanboys and less Beliebers, thank you very much.
Interview with Head of Growth at Creative Market on Growing Multiple Startups
I saw your articulate response in that thread. Thank you for that response. I don't need multiple dockerfiles right now, but if i invest more into docker, I will. I think your responses might have convinced shykes that the need won't be going away.

There was a similar disconnect on data volumes a while ago that took some convincing before the discussion moved forward. It has always been trivial in OpenVZ to bind mount into a container (ie: share a very large read-only mount between containers).
Socket activation isn't mandated and completely optional. If an application detects it didn't get its sockets it can certainly just start listening instead if it wishes.
Do you plan to offer phone support?
No, who will be more likely elected to office are likely corruptible or already corrupt individuals whose vices are known levers for allowing their wealthy/corporate masters to control them easily and cheaply. Anything that breaks through can be controlled by a thoroughly corrupted corporate media.

This is the natural outcome when money is equated with speech... only the money has any say anymore.
One could make the argument that the organizations that manage their processes with the least amount of in-fighting will be the ones that survive.
Wow, I applaud you for being among the very few people who can both support a space mission and be willing to pay for it!
Mars will never be settled any more than Antarctica is settled.

NASA should be dreaming much bigger.

There just isn't any good real estate off-Earth in this solar system. Relativity limits us to the solar system. Deal with it.
Interesting article ...

> "I'm trying to make a software version of Stephen's voice so that we don't have to rely on these old hardware cards," says Wood.

So back in 2010 we had someone help us extract the program ROM code from the SNES DSP-n coprocessors (used in games like Pilotwings and Mario Kart.) It turns out these chips were NEC uPD7725 DSPs. There was basically only one very terse document on how the chip worked, and no emulators for it, so I had to write one. Had a bit of help in fixing the overflow flag calculations from Cydrak.

A while later, I spoke briefly through a liaison with Sam Blackburn (who was then Stephen Hawking's assistant) back in 2011'ish. They were looking for permission to use my uPD7725 emulation code (which I said yes to, obviously.) Apparently the Speech Plus text synthesizer uses NEC uPD7720s. This is basically the same chip and ISA, but with less ROM/RAM. It's a neat little fact, but not too surprising. These DSPs are really versatile, and different programs can make them do very different things.

Reading this article, it sounds like the effort was as yet unsuccessful, though :(

(It's also important to note that the uPD7720 is probably an infinitesimal part of the overall system, so I suppose they ran into additional problems.)
The essential issue for Mars, as well as for most other issues, is the Republican Party's refusal to fund government programs. Until they change or are voted out of office, all planning and discussion are hot air.
Running low on nuclear fuel for space travel
The metaphor you used appears to objectify immigrants.
Pd2pg: Open-source tool for PagerDuty analytics with Postgres
Alot of cynicism in the comments on this, so I just wanted to say I am excited and I believe in NASA.
Daniela Galbin – It's Christmas Day (extended Edition)
You still have to match velocity with the fuel. Crashing into your fueling station at 10000 km/h doesn't help anything.
"Mars will never be settled any more than Antarctica is settled."

This is a broken analogy in two ways.

One is that there's a huge qualitative difference between going elsewhere on Earth and settling another planet, and I don't think you can hand-wave that away. You might have no interest in settling another planet, which is fine. There are seven billion plus people on Earth, and all we need is about 10,000 over, say, a century or two who do have that interest. I think you'd have so many applicants for a serious mission you'd have to be very picky.

Secondly, it's illegal to settle Antarctica. It's all "claimed" and tied up in various treaties and conservation laws. What would happen if you opened Antarctica to settlement and allowed squatters' rights or land claim rights? I think a whole bunch of people who are interested in trying new political ideas, etc., would jump at it. It'd be significantly easier and cheaper than seasteading. There'd also be natural resources to be found, so you'd probably have a gold rush.