skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running it in a local virtualbox VM. I have a 4-core imac with 16 GB of ram and throw all 4 cores at it and a good portion of the RAM. Going with a fixed disk size instead of dynamic gave a notable performance increase, too.
Agreed. Net75 and Net90 usually only happen when there is something else in the deal that's favorable to the supplier (like a down payment, or a consulting engagement, or co-marketing, or similar). They get something, we get something.
But unfortunately most devices don't (and can't) run Android 5.0, so they're stuck with the old, cumbersome Wallet (or, worse, tried it, gave up on it because it was a terrible experience, will never try it again).
I disagree. Decisions are made based on risk/reward. Just because the reward is raised doesn't necessarily mean that its ratio is higher than another endeavor's. Economic incentives lining up with the public good is the ultimate goal that produces the best outcomes for everyone.
Core wasn't touched
If this is the strategy, why would anybody invest any amount of content into their company's ecosystem of apps?
About that Apple Car
Revoking a certificate requires it to have been created with a functional CRL / OCSP configuration. This isn't the case here; there's no way to revoke the CA short of uninstalling it from every machine it's present on.
I'd be interested in this as well. My impression is that it isn't as severe as many believe and the phenomena is equally prevalent in tech as well (i.e. people doing startups who would otherwise do something more productive).

From what I've observed the people going into finance are a separate class of people from those who want to be doing research.

A further issue is that the quality of life for PhDs is low. Something like 1% of PhDs end up with tenure track positions and many are stuck doing years of postdoc work. It's easy to blame finance, but there are problems with other parts of our society that are driving peoples actions as well.
(Just wanted to point out that the obvious solution there is to fix the poor man's legs, not pave the world. For perspective, one of my best friends is quadriplegic and I'm pretty sure that he would love to visit the Grand Canyon and he would deplore this development with all his heart.)
There's also something about the sound effects in the modern Star Wars films that sound so fake & made up. There was a post on HN a few weeks ago about how the Millenium Falcon's hyperdrive sound was a mashup of actual sound recordings.
What does 'It's not a place for meaningful optimization' mean?
You do realize, that a nice luxury watch costs easily 20k, 30, 50k or even 100k. It's a whole other category.
20K definitely doesn't sound totaly out of the ballpark for a 18K Watch with 18K Gold bracelet.
What about Prism.js?
Let's add "Don't work with pedantic people for whom anything outside absolute positivity is a trigger."

Many a startup has been killed by this sort of up-with-people go-getter, who, with a (usually dumb) smile undermines this useful advice:

"Don’t deceive yourself about whether or not your users actually love your product."

"Ignore what the press says about you, especially if it’s complimentary."

IT'S NOT ABOUT NEGATIVITY OR POSITIVITY; IT'S A MATTER OF ACCURATE ASSESSMENT.
Siri founders' new startup Viv raises a $12.5M B round before it has a product
I'm pretty skeptical of React Native, for the same reasons you're nervous about the web. The great thing about Native development is you can drop down pretty low and optimize. During native development you do it alot. The native widgets don't suck, but performance can be awful as soon as you want to draw anything remotely special. So you drop down and start writing custom layout and drawing routines. I don't see React being good at that (maybe I'm wrong though, I haven't dug into it).

Those problems aren't that far from the web. There's no reason you can't draw entire pages made of canvas[top="0"][left="0"] and then measure position/transform everything by hand. You'd probably get great performance that way. Its basically what Flipboard did from what I read. Its what native app developers do as well. Phones suck. They have no power. You basically have to do this stuff to make them work. I have no idea why the web-dev community freaks out when someone does it. "You wrote a custom layout engine! Are you nuts!" is not something you'll hear from Android or iOS devs.
Yeah, it's perfectly fine not to have a good grasp of calculus. But basic math? We use it every single day. Someone who is innumerate is at just as much of a disadvantage as someone who is illiterate.
If you make less than $9,500/year you're exempt from the Obamacare penalty.
> The bank doesn't invest your money.

Yes they do. That's why runs on banks are a problem. Only the central bank (at least in the US) creates money. And you can't invest your money in the central bank.
The resources that are available geared specifically toward the improvement of education have been allocated more towards girls and less towards boys than they were in the past. As a result, the academic performce of girls has improved relative to boys.
V2 is still under lots of work but it is getting close to a reliable editor now. IndexedDB and WebSQL really helped.
You should. I have the late 2013 model that I got in Jan'14 and I ran into the random restarts, freeze ups. This happened last week and I was out of warranty, they made me pay for the repair and I just picked it up yesterday. This is good news for me but I think regardless, this issue does show up sometime during the lifetime of the product. I would recommend getting it checked out.
Announcing Goal-Oriented Git
I see your point as well, and it's quite well taken.

On second reading Chomsky's quote doesn't seem as hand-wavy about the Fibonacci Sequence as it initially appeared. It's one of those topics that has such a myriad of falsehoods perpetuated around it, that perhaps I was too primed to see it here.

>Some call pseudo-science "magical" due to ignorance.

This was the sense in which I used magical, although you are right. "Magical" can be used to evoke either the vision of pseudo-scientific nonsense or "magical" in the sense of "insufficiently understood, complex, and thus awe-inspiring."

>If you haven't already read it, I think this is a pretty interesting take on it (in a sense):

I devoured A New Kind of Science when it was released because I was fascinated by emergent systems and cellular automata at the time, and have read it again about a year ago, and found it didn't hold up as well. Nevertheless excellent book, if a bit bold in its claims.

I haven't seem the follow ups, but thanks for pointing me toward them! I'll be sure to give them a read.

Apologizes if I pushed back a little hard, but rest assured my only grudge here is with misuse of the Golden Spiral, not with Prof. Chomsky and certainly not with you.
Everything old is new again. http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...
My guess on a catch would be that it'll focus ONLY the wavelengths that you select for. the others might be diffused or given wildly different focal points. This might mean that for certain types of photography you're limited in what you pick up (e.g. if you've lit a scene with mono-chromatic light that's not one of the selected wavelengths).
The process for applying is laborious and sort of demoralizing. I mean, think of it like a blind date in a lot of ways without the payoff of a really great conversations that might lead to friendship. The best interviews often feel fine, but the process requires you to expend a lot emotionally and you don't really get that back most of the time even if you're offered the gig.

The salary comments are accurate, too. I don't expect a hard number, but want to know where the range is though I tend to do my own homework and look that stuff up because in my field it's usually findable.

I think the biggest deterrent is the application process. If I have to fill out the official application AND send a cover letter/resume, it's a lot less appealing and often times, I'm not going to do it. I totally get making it more onerous to limit the number of applications, but...I think you can just have shorter windows for hiring then rather than wasting a lot of time.

Lastly, being transparent about timeframes. Politics being what it is, I know you can't always nail down dates, but giving people a sense of what they're working with in terms of a week or three weeks to wait to hear something is really helpful, especially if they're truly considering the opportunity with you and not just using it as a hedge against the thing they really want.
The economy wasn't blown up because an M&A or bond issue went bad. I don't think anyone seriously believes that "banks are bad", I think they (myself included) tend to think that "the banks we have are bad". It's a subtle, but important difference and totally consistent with the article.
I actually found these summaries to save me from having to read something just to find out I'm not really interested in it.
Neither extreme - asking for help with everything, nor asking for help with nothing - is good.

You don't want to distract your coworkers to the point that they can't be productive. But I've been in the situation where the right question can take 15 seconds of my time and save you days, judging by how long it took me to figure out when I ran into the same problem. All because of some arcane, poorly documented bit of domain specific trivia. And that's when I had the advantage of being the resident expert in the domain!

Should it be documented? Maybe. It might be! But it's missing the keywords you'd look for, it's out of date because the domain is a moving target, and at the top it says "poke MaulingMonkey to see if these docs are up to date" - so you'll be checking with me anyways, right? The docs are there to save me the trouble of re-explaining everything from scratch - I'll update them (again) and let you work through them. For the simpler stuff, it may be easier to just explain.

For bonus points, you can ask questions while minimizing disruption. Asking questions asynchronously (e.g. via irc/email) and letting them respond asynchronously (no 'did you get my email' 5 minutes later at their desk) is a great way to do this. I can respond when I'm compiling, when the 15 seconds to respond "the answer is 42" / "dunno, I can swing by in a bit if you need a second set of eyes" / "dunno, ask <relevant domain programmer>" isn't going to make me forget what I was working on.
Let's not kid ourselves here. Most people download exactly zero apps per month:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/25/a_comscor...

This matches my experience IRL exactly. The whole Native Apps are more popular than the web narrative is a self fulfilling prophecy. People have trouble using websites on mobile because everyone puts up stupid splash pages on sites to force them to download their app. It "educates" people that the web is somehow inferior, when really those sites should be making a proper responsive website so their users can get on with their lives.

Nobody gives two shits about your app and it's smooth animations when they are just trying to pull up a recipe for chicken tikka masala.
Yeah, and Steve Jobs dismissed tablets in 2003 ("people want keyboards") and dismissed smaller tablets in 2010 ("the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps") and dismissed putting a screen on an iPod in 2004 ("It's the music, stupid"), and dismissed larger-than 3.5" screened phones in 2010 ("Nobody's going to buy that.")

Ive has to say that rectangles are clearly the superior form factor. It's his job. That doesn't mean that two years from now Apple won't have a round watch. It doesn't mean that they will, either.

EDIT: Also, uh, what if someone comes up with a really good use for smart-watches that isn't lists-related? "Dealing with lists" is not selling me on the need to buy another multi-hundred dollar gadget.
The whole heirloom argument doesn't ring right. I mean, sure, this happens and is part of the market. But I'd wager it's a small part. There are many watch-guys and rich people who buy 20, 30K watches because they can and like them. Not because they might give them to their kids in 30 years.
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First off, you should retain an attorney and ask that attorney all of these same questions. This is non-negotiable. You will want this moving forward.

If the contract for this transaction is sound (refer to the "Get An Attorney" section) then you are buying 3% of the company at $3.34mm valuation and, if the seed money comes through at the amount and percentage you state, you have 6x'ed your investment. That's not a bad deal. However, there are some caveats. It all smells fishy.

First, this company has been in business for 3 years or so and they have not seen a profit until last month? Their valuation is effectively $0, especially if they are in the consulting space and not the product space. They have no assets. They make no money. They have essentially no history of being successful. I am not suggesting that they have no hope of becoming successful, just that they currently should not be valued at $3.34MM. That would be 13 times annual gross? No way.

Second, we can extrapolate that they are not worth $20MM. You mention that they were cash positive last month for the first time. Let's say that means they made $35k on a $30k burn. Let's also say they can keep at that level, month over month. At a $20MM valuation they are being valued at 47 times annual gross? No way. The investment firm will learn this quickly as they do their due diligence.

Third, let's look at debt. They aren't paying you. How many other 1099 contractors, vendors, and others are they behind payments on? Do they account that debt and those payments into their $30k monthly burn? I will not speculate, but if you are planning to invest $100k into them, you should know for sure.

If you were going to invest $100k into a company like this, I would suggest a much lower valuation. I would also suggest that you get a board spot. I would not be shy about asking for a stepped up equity position under various circumstances (The other investor doesn't come through? More equity for you. You spend more time working for the company? More equity for you. etc). Say 10% equity for $100k. another 10% if the seed money doesn't come through. X% annually as you help them grow the business over the next 4 years.

Now, if it were me, I would never invest in this deal. $100k is enough to invest in my own successful business without the baggage. I would leave, invest in my own company, and sue them for my unpaid work. But, that's just me.
It's pretty awesome. I don't have the 3K resolution screen, but the 1920x1080 is still great. It is heavy though and my commute involves a lot of walking so that can be a bit annoying.

I kinda like the mid 1990's look. I think the best thing though is the more traditional keyboard. I really cannot stand the chiclet-style keyboards that have become all the rage.
What do you think would happen if the entire population left the cities and moved to the countryside?
There have been gardeners for at least as long as there has been civilization. Entertainers have probably always been around. Your idea of "life needs" doesn't seem to coincide with history's.
How to Pay Independent Contractors
Found the Google product's name: Open Sesame

The site no longer exists, but some of the news about it at the time can still be found: http://www.webpronews.com/open-sesame-googles-newest-securit...
Don't you mean https://www.bis.org/publ/work490.htm
What kind of product is it?

A consulting business isn't really worth what you are proposing -$300k a year with a valuation of > $1m.

If I am understanding you right, if you invest $100k into the company, they would use that money to just pay back your consulting fees right? Why not have them compensate you outright stock and forgo cash compensation? It seems like a waste of time to put cash into the company and then pull the cash back out.

Also if you are concerned with them not raising the funding you could just make your investment contingent on the raise. Basically say to them "assuming that we can get this round done, I'm in for $100k". As an entrepreneur I hate this (makes me think you are betting against the company) but I could be persuaded if you picked up the axe and charged into battle with me. So make sure that if you do this you are busing ass trying to make the round happen.
Oh well:- http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/06/oecd-pisa-t...
It's fairly new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052128
So he didn't quit money, he quit being controlled by money. But still relies on people who make money to survive.
Are you saying that people would go to school to be math teachers and say "teach me the math I need to teach my students"?

This is how teachers in Ontario (who avearge around $75k/year) learn how to teach math.

As long as everyone has equal access to education, there isn't a problem here.
Mozilla on Key management
This is my favorite syntax highlighting JS library, by far.

The approach this library takes to building the highlighted DOM tree is very clever. It represents the original DOM and the highlighted code output as separate streams of tag open / close events and then merges them together. This allows the highlighter to maintain the pre-existing DOM structure of the highlighted code! The language auto-detection and sub-language handling are also very neat.

If you like interesting codebases, I'd recommend giving it a quick read. :)
Just re-read that book a little while ago. It's dated in a couple of its examples, but it's still pretty powerful and easy to read.
> how often do you want to pay for something that you don't care whether you'll actually get?

It is not that I don't care, but I estimate the probability the merchant is fraudulent is low enough that I don't feel the need to absolutely have the protection of the chargeback mechanism. I think this is true for the majority of the cases: MOST merchants are honest, MOST disputes can be resolved without chargebacks.

> Your bank covers you if they are though.

But it can be a real pain in the butt. I had to have a credit card replaced because the number and billing info of the previous one was stolen. I had to wait days to receive the new credit card. I had to re-set up all the bills I had set up to be automatically paid with the previous card to now be paid by the new card, etc.

> What's the specific advantage that would make people want to give bitcoin?

Bitcoin enthusiasts like to spread the technology, so they give bitcoins away to friends and family. But that's not my main point. My main point is that as Bitcoin is used more and more, it ends up in the hands of more and more people. This gives it organic growth: it gets more accepted, it is more transacted, it gains more value, etc.

> Most reputable card issuers will cover you for longer than the contract says. And even if not, 60 days of cover is still much better than the 0 days you get with bitcoin.

Still, some fraud scenarios are completely eliminated with Bitcoin. I pay a fraudulent restaurant with a CC that gets skimmed, I get to deal with the hassles of having to have the card replaced, potentially having my credit score damaged, etc. I pay a fraudulent restaurant with bitcoins, I know the restaurant can do nothing to steal the bitcoins remaining in my wallet.

Or I pay Dell with bitcoins instead of a credit card, and I don't have to care if their systems get hacked and my CC number stolen.

> Again, you're contractually liable but in practice reputable banks cover you at least the first time. Whereas if your bitcoin private keys are stolen, the money is gone and you'll never get it back.

Private keys can be very well protected and almost impossible to steal if you use a hardware wallet. And Bitcoin completely eliminates other fraud risks (see my examples above). So overall the tradeoffs of Bitcoin are worthwhile.

> Who's offering FDIC-protected bitcoin accounts?

Every day, millions of Americans use financial instruments that are not FDIC insured, yet that doesn't prevent the success of such instruments:

https://www.fdic.gov/deposit/covered/notinsured.html
There's nothing stopping you, besides adoption. Typically when you launch a new application platform, you need to bring the users on board first. It's not enough to provide a good developer experience: you need to provide a way for those developers to support their livelihood, which means that there need to be enough users that some fraction of them will pay money for software (or be worth money to advertisers as eyeballs).

Pretty much all successful platforms start as consumer products first. The PC was first a hobbyist curiosity, then a gaming console, then a tool for small businesses with Visicalc and Word Processing, and only became large enough to create mainstream software markets in the 80s, ~5-10 years after introduction. The web was initially a tool for scientists to share research, then a publishing platform for kids to create fansites, then became a large e-commerce & application platform. The iPhone started out as a phone, then a PDA, then got applications about a year or so later.
On Canada's education: I came from Belarus when I was 10 and was put into 5th grade. Until I got to 9th grade, there was no new math taught to me. I didn't know about the unit circle until 10th grade, however, my friends from home learned about it in 7th grade. This is only one example. Maybe Canada's university education is at par, I don't know, but the years leading up to it are mostly wasted, to say the least. Since grade 1 we sat attentively and quietly at desks listening to the teacher, they commanded our respect and their classrooms were always well organized for learning. Compare that with Ontario, when I was placed in 5th grade. We were never encouraged to read out-loud to the class, come to the front of the class to answer questions, solve math problems on the board or to memorize and tell a poem. We did not read classic authors, or poets and learn their works. Our reading speed was not measured, we were not assigned reading, writing or math homework beyond simple "spelling sheets" and "fill in the blank math sheets". We were not taught to keep an organized student planner, or keep an organized notebook. Our homework was not graded, our grades were not tracked and were never revealed to us. We were never told what we needed to improve. We never had to write short, well formatted and grammatically correct paragraphs and short pieces. We never wrote dictations, we never actually wrote anything beyond single worded "fill-in-the-blank" worksheets. Our penmanship was not judged, proper grammar was not encouraged or judged. All these things were taught to us in Belarus from grade 1 to 5. I was shocked to come to Canada and learn that in fifth grade, students had to sit on the floor for parts of the day as the teacher read to them, like kindergarten. Knowing this I often reflect on how much obvious potential is wasted and opportunity missed by Canadian elementary education systems. I visited Belarus when I was in 9th grade, my friends there were writing essays in English and Spanish as weekly homework. Compare that with French language education in Canada, by 9th grade, after 5 years of elementary school French, I could count to a hundred and read a little. I did not know proper grammar or how to write sentences. Anyway, there are many examples in other subjects as well. Each time I reflect on this, I cannot help but feel how pathetic the education is. It's not serious. It then comes as no surprise that there are teachers at conferences who are not able to comprehend weighted averages, as japhyr mentioned. I wish elementary education in Canada were reformed completely.
Once you go Canvas, you never go back!
The bitcoin community is tremendously ignorant of critical social theory and proud of it, which is a cause of concern. Some people care about more than themselves believe it or not.