skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I question the amount of influence one can actually have on the the trajectory of a start-up, even if you are an early employee. Before I wised up and joined BigUltraMegaCorp, I worked for a number of small companies, and shared offices with brilliant, hard-workers, and we all moved mountains to try to make things work, but at the end of the day, no dice. I'm pretty much convinced at this point that start-up success is almost 100% luck, and you might as well play roulette instead of trying to pick the right one to work for early on.

Hindsight being 20/20, for every "She turned down being employee number 151 at Google to work for Siebel LOL" story, there are 10,000 (maybe 100,000) "I took a chance with Pets.com and they still owe me 6 months of back pay" stories.
Vimperator for Firefox lets you edit forms with gvim.
This seems a bit ironic to see this posted on one of the few sites on the internet that use continuations as it's primary control flow mechanism.
Try it with a DNS server you control, which does not support client-subnet, located on the other side of the world. If Virgin is MITMing your DNS traffic, the results will be the same as you have seen with OpenDNS. If the results are different, you're probably OK.
What I'm saying is, governments foster violent crime by criminalizing many peaceful things. The best thing you can do to dramatically decrease violent crime rates is get rid of governments.
Except that you don't need to live off $100K/year.

It all depends on what you define as 'comfortably' and how well you are able to control your spending on things you don't strictly need. That way you can build up some capital, make that work for you and relax your spending constraints when you are making more money passively.
PureScript has the advantage that it has a very lightweight runtime and maps to JS quite well.
Now THAT, is amazing - and perfectly explains what's going on. I operate several nameservers of my own for various domains, some owned by me, some not, and I'd not heard of that. I am happy with your answer, thanks!
you do have to be aware of the effect when QE is unwound which will depress the price of gilts
This is typical of what I read every day from the minority opinion that wants to place blame on the police for the violent actions of a criminal in the act of committing a crime while, at the same time, stating the officer is correct and the criminal is wrong. How can you talk out of both sides of your mouth at the same time?
5 years? How do you figure that?
Very uplifting.
So, the optimum would then seem to be to live in a low cost area making a high wage.
Ezra is an upstanding human, a generous and helpful spirit. He will be missed.
Immanuel Kant argued--some say proved--this very thing two centuries ago in his Critique of Pure Reason.
If i just need a small portion but has to download and run more, then yes.
It'd make a great sequel to Interstellar actually...
PDF directly from the Scientific American archives http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v252/n2/pdf...
It's possible for someone who was not yet alive when the last man left the Moon, to be a grandparent (in a healthy way, e.g. no teen pregnancies). We're two generations removed from having people on the Moon. That's a problem. What if we forget?
That was the article that made my know Rogue!
360° Oculus rift music video: Steye and the Bizonkid – What do we care 4
Diversification is considered to be one of the only "free lunches" in finance. It can both increase your return and decrease your risk, with almost no downside.

For example, going from 100% bonds to 80% bonds and 20% stocks will significantly increase a portfolio's expected return with reduced risk. Another example is owning the Total Stock market (small and mid-caps included) rather than just the S&P 500.

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/why-and-how-divers...
Pluralsight has a bunch of courses you might like. E.g http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/hacking-user-experience. I got a 30% discount email from them. http://www.pluralsight.com/signup?discountCode=b2cfall2014mo...
"On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism" (Luca Cardelli, Peter Wegner) http://lucacardelli.name/papers/onunderstanding.a4.pdf

Very nice intro to type systems.

"A Language-based Approach to Unifying Events and Threads" (Peng Li, Steve Zdancewic) http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/papers/LZ06b.pdf

For showing that if you have a sufficiently powerful programming language, the answer to the question "async events or multiple threads?" can be "the best of both worlds".

"The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls"
(James Bessen, Jennifer Ford, Michael Meurer)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1930272

If you ever wondered exactly how much wealth is destroyed by the US patent system, this paper provides some educated guesstimates.
A paperless office
You must take the harm that these drugs can cause into consideration when you say that you want to legalize them all - it is unfortunately not that black and white.

Heroine is a prime example. Whilst the argument could be given for "Educated use" you must take into account that the greater population at large will not educate themselves, and will come to harm - mainly through addiction.

Cigarettes are a nice example. We spend vast quantities of money on health care for people who smoke - the information is there, everybody knows that it causes cancer, yet huge amounts of people do it. We would be better off as a planet if everyone just stopped.

Whilst incarceration clearly is not the correct response to addicts, some form of regulation is needed to protect idiots from themselves.
Funny, instructive.

Good to practise regular expressions.
When I share a photo I want to be recognised as the author. Give a good reason for sharing photos anonymously and use it as a strength of your product when presenting it to the world. If people like it they will share and spread the word (you can provide means/rewards for doing it also)
The idea is that if it was any good there would be plenty of money thrown at them without having to approach random strangers cutting them in on the action just because they're such nice people.

Of course they want to increase their profits, but that goes for any outbound sales effort. Just the fact that they try to convince you to want it doesn't mean it is good either, most likely it means you don't have the whole story.

So if you do not initiate the contact stay away from investment deals, especially when they're telephone sales calls.
That's a false dichotomy. One can certainly have an automated build pipeline and use a higher level of abstraction, thereby ensuring portability.

I don't think that we are in disagreement here. In fact I believe in order to ensure portability that both are necessary. I don't see it being feasible to use a Dockerfile to build a container and just expect it to simply work on a different processor architecture. A higher level of abstraction, in my opinion, is an absolute necessity.
Proof of concept made by a few friends of me.

Install the Surround Video app (https://appsto.re/nl/QdvDL.i) and use your iPhone/iPad as a Oculus rift alternative.
Actually we've got a lot better since then, and know a lot more about the neuroscience of addiction. Longer acting opiates are better at treating addiction and helping people get free of it - see suboxone.
To learn more about population growth and the many misconceptions around it, I'd recommend watching something from Prof. Hans Rosling. Here are a few things:

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-p...
Lack of exposure to natural light linked to physiological, sleep and depressive
As others have mentioned this seems entirely expected based on how Google uses DNS for load balancing and serving your query from a datacenter as close to you as possible.

If you want to see some details of how it works have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpBNm6lBU4 .

Disclaimer: I work for Google. I speak for myself etc. blah.
Right, that's probably saner. Also, more reason to try and get use to Vimperator again.
Using "Firefox 32.0 on OS X 10.7" for the sin/cos test I get Native functions = 1.5M/sec while SMath = 35K/sec.

Is it just the case that Chrome's native math function calls are slow?
This is a little depressing isn't it? I wonder if there is any mechanism to counter this?
Awesome. Let them. We absolutely should have the industry doing research into drugs that are safer and less addictive but still fun.

Imagine if we unleashed the full power of science and capitalism at the problem!

Of course we would need to find a regulatory framework that allowed us to optimise for that outcome rather than for addiction...
I tried again with OpenDNS at the suggestion of someone else in this thread with the same results - see my other comments.
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It's pretty straightforward -- if an evil agent does it, the act is evil; otherwise, it's good.

It always saddens me to think of how many people want to see this principle enshrined in law.
Is Rightscorp a music publisher?
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Sony looks at possible N. Korea link in hacking incident
Wow that's weird, the gap between Chrome and Firefox is crazy. Maybe chrome's math functions are really bad...

I also used typed arrays, so there might be problems with its current implementation in browsers.

But still, 1.5M on firefox and 14,000 on chrome... wat.
An important note on tax loss harvesting: it only defers taxes. If you'll be in a lower tax bracket in the future, that can be good; but if you'll be in a higher tax bracket when you need the money (eg house down payment), tax loss harvesting will actually cost you money, so beware.
If we do forget, maybe that suggests that the Moon wasn't that important in the overall human condition.
Consider that Dubai might have different cultural norms as well, which could affect drivers' hurry/accuracy factor.
My hope is that they see positive pickup from their "developer" release and also start making a "power-user" release. Because all the good work that they have been doing with regards to speed/responsiveness & memory management is being undone by dumbing down the interface to Chrome levels or worse. And if I wanted my browser to look like Chrome, I've would have installed it already.

Why is it that in the year 2014 there are still buttons that I cannot move (back/forward/reload/etc..)? Why is it that there still is the obsession with making all button bars and menus smaller or even hide them completely? I needed that on my Asus eee netbook in 2007, now, in 2014, I have retina screens everywhere. The icons for home/bookmarks/reload are so small on my screen that I have problems positioning my mouse over them. no: I do not want to hunt for a 18pix target when I have at least 1440pix vertically available.

And don't even get me started on hiding parts of the url. WHY would anyone on purpose hide parts of the web address that I need to see, if only to check that it is correct...

Of course there are many things that can be configured by userchrome scripts and about:config settings. But I do not want to carry around my personal "patchset" just to make a browser usable.
Make it happen. We might not go, but our far descendants would.
I can see why you would be curious, or maybe even concerned. My goals are arbitrary. They are definitely not expectations but rather hopes that my child will be able to meet them. He has already exceeded my expectations.

My approach to parenting is an experimental one. I don't assume that there is anything he can't do, I just expose him to ideas or different activities and see how he responds.

I'm happy that your two year old has a loving parent that has thought about how to teach him/her without compromising his play. That must be one happy kid.
There is a lot of research proving that learning using virtual labs is much more effective. E.g. only about 20% of the AP Biology curriculum actually require hands-on training.
As always, a balance is best, combining both virtual labs and hands on labs - just like pilots train in simulators before going into the airplane.

Here is an interesting article about it:
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n7/full/nbt.2955.html
I made a comment elsewhere in this thread, but will reiterate it here: tax loss harvesting only shifts the tax burden to the future. If you put in $100k today (post tax dollars), and tax loss harvesting is able to fully "realize" that $100k, you'll have to pay tax on that $100k when you go to sell it (because the basis will be down to $0).

Yes, you get the potential gain on the difference in your net worth; consider it a loan from Uncle Sam to you until you need the capital. It's a much more minimal gain than it seems, though. The only real place I see tax loss harvesting being a no-brainer is in estate planning for money left upon your death.
This gets you banned from Hacker News
Since it's Hacker News, I hope it's alright to post this here and spark some discussion on how to handle usage limits.
I'm curious where your supply comes from. Are you a chemist?
How do you see this interacting with Larry Lessig's MayDay PAC?

The message is slightly different, but the tactics seems identical. I'm always for the experimentation that comes with a new approach, but competition for funds and candidate engagement here could hurt.

Update: Jim is on the board of MayDay
Anecdotally, sweetgreen is the best salad experience to me. There are cheaper places like chop't, simply salad or just salad but sweetgreen tastes better. It's almost as if have captured the experience of an Apple Store when you order your salad, I've never left unhappy or unfulfilled.

They're doing fantastically well, going before 2 PM in the afternoon generally results in waiting about 15 to 20 minutes just to get to be able to place your order, it's not that they are inefficient and making the salads it's that the demand is so consistently high.

My cofounder and I joke that we are in the wrong business when we go to Sweetgreen for lunch, customers really want their product and the demand for it is seems to be growing over time. This is a business to watch.
Literally everywhere for the past years I see the advice to invest in index funds - the only question I have is what happens when a critical mass of people do just that? Wouldn't that influence the market in some way?
Financial Crisis Observatory: ETH Zurich and Prof. D. Sornette
I think this may only work if the executable is run by the shell, at least on Linux. If I recall correctly using exec() to execute it directly won't work, and there's special fallback code in the shell itself to run executables with neither a header nor shebang as shell scripts. It's generally safest to include the shebang.
I tend to agree with you, but looking at heroin I see most of the harm comes from it being illegal.

The supply chain funds warlords and criminal gangs. Impurities in the heroin cause abcesses and the need for amputation for injecting users. Restrictions on needles cause spread of blood-borne disease - and this also affect low wage workers who have handle sharps in public bathrooms and so on. People need money to feed their addiction and so they turn to prostitution[1] or acquisitive crime.

Treating heroin as a criminal problem has failed to protect people from themselves, but it also fails to protect wider society.

I do agree that we need to be cautious though. Look at the mess caused by alcohol. (That may be more true in the UK than the US.)
Hacking file uploaders with race condition
Notice frequent and sometimes strong bubble signal on the US Technology sector.

For background info, see: http://www.er.ethz.ch/fco/index

Prof. Sornette is an expert on complex systems and a track record of predicting several financial crises:
http://www.ted.com/speakers/didier_sornette

Prof. Sornette's TED talk: How we can predict the next financial crisis:
http://www.ted.com/talks/didier_sornette_how_we_can_predict_...

Note that Sornette himself acknowledges that a bubble may not end in crash, but as a "regime change" in price.
Parallel universes are real, and they are not parallel – they can “collide”
And even if all costs scaled completely linearly with your earnings saving 20% of your income in a high-cost/high-wage are will earn you more money than 20% in a low wage area.

You can always move to the low-cost area when you are ready to stop working.
"Also, considering the company’s huge profits, Uber owes it to the little guys doing their driving to provide much better software..."

Is it typical for reporters to confuse profits with revenue? None of the decks I've seen show profits, I've always assumed that my rides are subsidized by VC money.
too bad we are not going to be around when mortality will be fixed. out of luck, i guess.
So that is what consciousness is, the ability to construct a structured model of the world from disorganized unstructured signals.

Well, consciousness is more than that. It is also self awareness.

But to make a useful world model the brain has to constantly recalibrate model construction in reference to what you could call, well, what else but, the self.
that's the paradox of the efficient market hypothesis - if everyone is a passive investor then who keeps the market efficient?

(...which is a common counter-argument for the markets being efficient. The reasoning behind passive investment is that, net of fees, it's difficult to out-perform the market although of course, everyone can't outperform the market because everyone collectively IS the market)
It also seems at odds with what was said in this article, linked to here on HN a couple of weeks back:

http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-best-inv...
yeah we're out of luck unfortunately
For everybody else that didn't read the presentation, it's about how to remove patterns from your code.

It also carries the best explanation for why one would want to use monads that I've seen.
One time I was working on doing some tricky distributed routing for a freelance customer that was using Merb. At the time I didn't know Ezra and we'd never personally met, but I explained my problem over email and asked if he had any suggestions. I wasn't really expecting a reply -- it was essentially a cold call.

He immediately dropped what he was doing and emailed me back, "that sounds like a really interesting problem -- can I call you and we'll set up a screenshare?" He then spent two hours helping me get it right, free of charge, and he never asked for anything. (I eventually had to email a few of his colleagues to figure out his office address to send him a thank-you present.)

I think that is the sort of thing that epitomized Ezra, from everything I've heard from his many other friends: he was funny, patient, and most of all kind.
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Sony’s New Movies Leak Online Following Hack Attack
Except for the O'Neill cylinder, I guess? :)
I remember reading somewhere that they use the Foursquare API for something.
I quite liked the types section, particularly the bit about making illegal states unrepresentable so you can enforce business rules, eg. validating email addresses.

One of the things I'm always thinking when people talk about the merits of various type systems and the problems they solve is: "But I don't have those problems". However, there are a few good examples in there that opened my eyes a little and I'll give type-centric programming a go on my next project. Not necessarily solving problems that I have, but certainly presenting a different, hopefully clearer, way of writing some functionality.
Do you mean that it is contrary to your coding standard or merely not required. If it is contrary to the standard then he should stop doing it.
I had no problems on my laptop. Firefox on Windows 8.1
Yep. The problem right now is that everything is locked down because someone somewhere may get some escapism out of it.

At the same time developing brains are fed all kinds of uppers and downers because they react badly to an outdated educational system.
1)Whatever metric you are looking to determine merit, whether it is University affiliation, GPA, or performance on a coding evaluation, don't think of the result as a single number. Think of it as a range. Even a probability distribution. The mean value of technical merit may be higher but the variance is so large that the metric may be meaningless unless you have a large number of applicants.

2)Whatever metric you are looking at, recognize ahead of time that you might be getting it wrong. So you might want to include a sample of candidates from the rest of the pile just to evaluate your evaluation methods. Unless you are the type of company getting dozens of applications from people at top schools then this shouldn't be a problem.

3)Hiring somebody right out of college is a roll of the dice anyway. No matter what their ability, you have no idea how well they work with other people, how well they listen to instructions, or how well they can handle the grind of the 9-5. Once you get to the interview phase I would look more for maturity than technical merit so long as they meet a minimum acceptable criteria. But I also suppose this depends on what stage your company is at.
You probably want to look into Zed instead. I found it to be the best editor I could run on an unmodified Chromebook.
Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Mental State Attribution and Empathizing
That sounds just like the guy I met at RailsConf in 2006. We were starting Kongregate and I saw Ezra's talk on Rails Deployment. It was amazing and after talking to him I decided to try to use Engineyard for Kongregate hosting. We were one of their first five customers and unfortunately the distributed filesystem didn't work well for us. We switched off to our own colo but Ezra helped us at every step of the way, long after it was clear we weren't coming back.

Such a loss.

Link describing the talk:

http://martyhaught.com/articles/2006/06/25/railsconf-2006---...
>I suppose it might depend on the individual.

As with all medicine. Therefore it needs to be done with carefully measured dosages under controlled circumstances so that any harmful side effects can be nipped in the bud.
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That's a US-specific law though. The article is mostly about the UK market, and in the UK the law bans specific chemicals, and attempts to address families of chemicals. It invariably falls short and molecule-tweaks can skirt it.

The drugs mentioned in there - Benzo Fury (I hate that name, let's call it 6-APB because that's the molecule on the wrapper) is extremely close to MDA, aMT is a tryptamine which escaped the generic tryptamine regulations and the NBOMes are a twist on the generic 2C-x structure.
Swiss reject additional immigration curbs
A simple out for the ISPs, accept common carrier status.
Building a Software as a Service web application with Rails: Intro and Setup
Bootstrap Dashboard Application
It can be done. My wife and I both work remotely and are able to earn significantly more than the average income for our area. She is an hourly engineer and I work as a consultant. We get to live where we want and do the work we want. We could both make significant;y more if we were to relocate, and we have in the past, but we enjoy the lifestyle here and are happy to give up some top end income for quality of life.
Not only is it easy to make there is no downside to making it. If the markets don't turn down then, he can claim that they will in a couple more years, or the fed is juicing the stats, or something else.

What would be more compelling would be a screen shot of his portfolio that shows that he is much more invested in short positions than longs, or has moved his investment into something besides equity markets.

What would be downright highly profitable for him, is if he could show over a long series of years that his ability to "imagine" future market conditions outperformed a strategy of just buying the market over the highs and lows and averaging the return.