skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ozymandias" will always be in his voice in my mind. It's one of the few poems I'm at all familiar with, and I like it a lot.

edit: Here's the poem, below, for anyone interested. And for anyone unfamiliar with what my parent's comment means: In the game Civilization IV, researching a technology is accompanied by a quote. Nimoy reads these quotes aloud, in this game, and '"And on the pedestal these words appear: / 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' / Nothing beside remains."' is the chosen quote for the "Construction" technology. You can probably find audio of it on the internet (which I recommend), but I can't youtube at work.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Just watched Fringe for the first time, which was the last thing Nimoy was in before retiring. Some great scenes with him, lots of gravitas.
Yup; but asserts that a) describe an entire 'object' (usually a map or list) b) can be composed together and c) be used to generate e.g. documentation or validated forms
Hmm. You get prime rates on a house -- where the asset's value fully covers the liability -- if you have a decent credit score and a source of income to cover the monthly payments.

Are non-dischargeable debts are just as good as having that asset there, and if not, how much worse are they? What's the additional risk added by having people with nil credit score and little or no sources of income -- more or less than 5%?

If this were really some sort of competitive market we could probably find out empirically by working backwards from extant rates, but apparently it's government-backed, so who knows :P
> they probably won't win so people don't vote for them, it looks like they have little support so people won't bother...

This is a symptom of first past the post voting. CGPGrey does a great series of simple videos demonstrating alternative voting methods that I found particularly enjoyable[0].

[0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo&list=PLEcHCTVM79B...
You may want to consider "life-hacking" your exercise routine. There's a lot of evidence coming in lately that suggests that an hour is far more time than you need to be spending for health, if you do different things.

(I'm not in love with using the term life-hacking, but, alas, it really is the best fit for the concept in question. Still, it need not be done as a fad or because it is "cool" in a certain set... it can simply be a useful way of improving yourself.)
From the Leonard Nimoy Wikipedia page:

On Twitter, he said: 'I quit smoking 30 yrs ago. Not soon
enough. I have COPD. Grandpa says, quit now!! LLAP (Live Long and Prosper)'
"software required to make hardware work well (for example, when we include unique hardware in our devices, like a 3D camera), security software and Lenovo applications. This should eliminate what our industry calls “adware” and “bloatware.”"

Which sounds awfully like bloatware. Maybe that's a bit snide; they are at least addressing the problem and committing not to install stuff which is really bad.
> Things like .lawyer also feel more inclined towards "ambulance chasers" rather than real law offices with money to get the .com they wanted.

I dunno, I think lots of real law firms will prefer, as one example, the new .llc or .llp domains (which Google applied for, don't think they've been awarded yet) to .com; having your domain name being more exactly your business name has value.
"La red" is Spanish for "the web", as in the internet.

Red is also a very symbolic and emotion-invoking color. It could be used in many contexts.
So when your browser doesn't work on modern web sites that make up 90% of what people visit, people will site "broken compatibility" and then move to Chrome or Firefox. You'll then reiterate your focus on the few outdated sites that no one visits stating that "broken compatibility" is the cause.

I think you may be mistaking broken compatibility with backwards compatibility. I don't use IE because it doesn't work with modern web sites.
In ‘oneminute', you get a daily notification and only get 1 minute to capture a ‘raw' slice of your everyday life.
In return, you get to enjoy a global feed of spontaneous moments.

oneminutes from all around the world get ‘frozen’ into the app the moment you receive the invite
I've heard a plausible argument that federally guaranteed student loans fueled a huge increase in the cost of college (http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76), and much of the increased income went to administrator salaries and new construction, rather than faculty.

Perhaps it's time to force colleges to compete on price.
Canada: Inflation at 14-month low, but how do they know?
Compelling Career Advice from Barack Obama
Linode rebooted my server in Tokyo ~16 hours ago.
And yet somehow they seem to have gotten it to work. I run a few Zookeeper-based systems where ZK just seems to work and I don't have to look at logging statements, either. I've never dealt with Zookeeper downtime that wasn't Amazon's fault.
Hello!

Sean from Saylor; like Danny, pleased to answer questions (and twice pleased to officially have joined Hacker News).
Congratulations Danny & Team!
I'm still wondering how such a disruption could take place (though I guess that's the whole point) due to the cost needed to compete with incumbents.

Even smaller networks (TMo with $30/mo for 5GB LTE and unlimited low-speed after, Sprint with unlimited voice/text/data for $50/60/mo) and the various MVNOs with similar plans are considered non-starters to many people because they can lack nationwide coverage.

I'm lucky enough that I spend 99% of my time in metro areas so I can get away with paying $30/mo for data and a handful of minutes that I rarely use anymore. But clearly the "big guys" are leveraging their legacy and reach to charge more for something others can't afford to offer.

I wonder what other sorts of ways there could be to offer nationwide voice and data coverage (or even just data) that enough people could access that it's considered comparable to the services offered by the bastard children of the "Baby Bells".
Nice work Hage! Much appreciated.
I found this one more powerful.

Don't smoke. I did. Wish I never had. LLAP

https://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/554102742084370432
I think of YesGraph applying whenever a user takes an operation over their contacts. Invites, sharing, referrals etc.

For B2B that can be a collaborative software for companies like Slack, Yammer, or a tool a team uses like CRM. For consumer, invite flows to add friends on an app have a lot of room for optimization.

The idea is based on what pioneering social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn have done with tools like People You May Know (PYMK). They drove an incredibly amount of performance improvements.

We want to bring that kind of insight everywhere.
Y Combinator and 500 Startups – A founders comparison
He lives on in kirk.
Where's the silver surfer?
Yeah I can certainly see why he felt that way!
Oops, I'm on it.
Interesting optics. I first see $1m as a "small raise" but maybe you're just running really lean and don't need as much money?

Good luck
HTML is anything but general purpose.
I really liked him in the 1978 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/
Slightly changed the page. We will not charge until the first session is completed.
That's very true, I wonder why that is? I feel the same way very often. I'm not a particularly anti-sociable person either.
> These things have kill switches built-in, don't they?

Not all of them have kill switches - Knight Trading had something with no kill switch that cost them $400M in a matter of hours. (It wasn't even a trading program - some kind of simulation system that was erroneously allowed on the real market).

You could say "it didn't need a kill switch, because it wasn't a trading algo!". But many trading systems are made of small parts that can break, and you only know your kill switch works after it saved you - otherwise, it's just an "untested feature before QA".

> My question would be, what happens to the markets if there is a quick fall, the algorithms shut down, and all the HFT liquidity is removed?

We've seen such mini events before. We see what's known as a "flash crash" (price goes down significantly within seconds, only to come back to more or less the same place), or alternately, a "flash smash" if it goes up (to come down later). This has been happening since 2007 at a frequency of about once every two months. Sometimes trades happening during the flash {sm,cr}ash get retroactively canceled, and sometimes they do not.
As others have said, this is a unique situation for the text editor component.

In a lot of more conventional situations, it's very likely that React's diffing code is highly tuned for performance over years and will do as good a job as you manually writing the JS, while saving you a ton of time in having to worry constantly about the DOM.
It's so careless users don't burn through their data plan in 3 minutes by downloading a multi gb app and movie. It's a safety net because the high majority of users do not have unlimited data plans. At least this is how I always interpreted this rule.

I don't think that is what that rule does. It is mainly to protect the user who downloads an app to still be able to use it if they are on wifi and 4G, even if the app maker didn't pay to have "special access" to the 4G network that month.
Should be enabled by default. Just seek within a video file to any position that is not at the very beginning or the end and close VLC. Once you play that file again it should prompt you to resume the playback.

EDIT: of course this doesn't apply to streams or non-seekable files
His books are probably a good way to start.
He had a brief cameo in the most recent Star Trek as his last appearance, I think.
> If the writing is on the wall for wireline profitability, companies like Comcast will take their capital and buy companies like NBC instead of investing in their network.

Cable companies, like Comcast, did that with broadcast companies, like NBC, without net neutrality, so, not seeing the nexus to the immediate issue here.
Here's an analogy: McDonald's Big Macs. Is the code in question part of the Special Sauce(TM), or is it just something like the buns? McDonald's makes the Special Sauce, but I bet they just buy the buns.

If it's not part of your special sauce, if you can buy it, do so. Spend your time on the special sauce.
Sounds like you've had a bad experience.

Hopefully they had tests. And unless they've mathematically proved the code always does what it expects (I've only seen that in avionics systems).

Also depends on application of course. Large concurrent and distributed applications benefit a bit less from static typing in traditional languages. Or rather, they are so hard, that type error are not as much of a significance. How concurrency, communication and failure is handled is more critical.

But say a game or a large desktop application with millions of lines of code, could get a larger benefit from static type checking, no doubt.

Now for a bit of personal experience. I have programmed in Java, C#, Python, Erlang, C++. I have found that when working with large or unknown code bases C# for example is great. Just having the IDE and generics support in C# during compile time is awesome. But if I program something from scratch, I can make a lot faster progress in Python. I often put more work into both unit tests and integration tests because I just have more time available.

Also failures during run-time, even in Python, in my systems a very rarely type errors (those are caught pretty early one). But they are often logic or concurrency errors.
"most all you find are squatters."

Everyone likes to think that of course.

However you are assuming that if what you call a "squatter" as a pejorative didn't have the name it would be available and wouldn't have been grabbed prior to you wanting that particular name by someone else. Like a flower shop in Omaha or General Electric?

At least people in the domain business are in the business to sell domains. Every try to buy a domain that google or any large company owns? I have. Money doesn't even matter to them at all. They don't need more money, right?

I have a case now where I am trying to buy a name for a client that will pay $500,000 USD for it plus stock options. And the corporation that owns the name (not google but a company in the UK) has no interest at all in parting with the name at even those price levels. Part of the reason is that the people in corporate jobs don't personally stand to gain by selling the domain the money doesn't go into their pocket. So they aren't motivated by economic benefits at all which makes it particularly difficult to get deals like that done (although there are other ways for sure).
Fringe. He doesn't appear until well into the show, but he definitely steals the spotlight.
It's not clear that "privacy" and "Google Android" are compatible, unless you go to Cyanogen and dump all Google services.
The Death and Life of Great American GeoCities
My father of 77 years passed away last Sunday. My sister and I often called him Spock because he was a physicist and he looked like Spock. RIP my dad. RIP Leonard Nimoy. They both were the best Spocks.
Ask HN: Looking for a JavaScript contract but don't have code to show. What should I do?
I've been working remotely for the last year as solo developer on a MVP for a startup, doing full stack work (PHP / Node.js / jQuery / Python). The product is in private beta and it's not 100% related to the type of technologies I'd like to use in my next contract.

I just moved back to London, UK, and I've contacted many recruiters for JavaScript contracts: the point is, I've got many years of experience, great clients and a strong CV, however I don't have any JavaScript projects to show that I'm proud of (the ones I've got are too old/outdated technologies and they don't really show my skills).
My GitHub account is not very solid from this perspective either.

So I'm in the process of creating a portfolio to showcase four of the best and most recent/relevant projects I've built, with the objective to use the portfolio itself to showcase my skills: I'll then be able to use it as an example of code I'm proud of (or by looking at the source or by publishing it on GitHub).

Do you thinks it's a viable solution?
Do you have any suggestion?

Many thanks for your time.
i tried but sublime doesn't work in SSH :(

You're right. Editing a large file with syntax coloring and vim slows to a crawl. I just can't get away from Vim though as it works so well in terminals.
I'm sorry I attacked you, thought you were saying different
http://alienvoices.net/audio-dramas/
LOL at $1M being small. Imagine explaining that to your grandparents.

But you're right! This is just a seed. Demo day is coming up, so we're thinking about the strategy there with a larger seed. I guess I'm not allowed to say I'll be fundraising because of SEC rules? [edit: for those confused, there is a rule that you can't fundraise in public. I think that means I can't say "we're fundraising" but I'm not sure about future tense. IANAL]

We have a team of 4 and I'd like that to be 6 or 7 soon. Payroll makes up most of our costs.
They certainly got the disruptive part down, their pricing is ridiculous. I'm now the owner of a fitness band despite my previous reservations about how useful they actually were, because the Xiaomi MiBand was $17. It's pretty incredible how cheap these guys sell things for.
[Disclosure - I work at YesGraph]
What are some lessons learned from Tipjoy (YC W08) that you're applying here or doing differently with running YesGraph?
It is indeed awesome, but from a practical perspective it doesn't even compare with Xen.

Hardware support is up to you. I think you can boot it on x86, but that's just the microkernel -- you have to add all the hardware support. I don't think seL4 is meant to run on servers either.
You can't call yourself "class of X" unless you graduated.
Will it? Says who? Already operators are refarming 2G spectrum out in the UK at least. There may be coverage but it may become increasingly patchy as it is reused for 4G.
Introduction to functional programming in JavaScript
This is a great move on their part, but would have been much better if preceded or accompanied by an apology.
One nuanced difference is the intents: CSIS was intended to capture "Foreign signals", it wasnt ever supposed to be used on Canadians. the CSE iirc does.

I think they're analogous to the NSA and FBI respectively.
Android for Work – A Developer Opportunity
You could try applying some of the techniques used by fans to restore one of the corrupted SpaceX landing videos. Find out where in the file the first bad pixel is stored, then insert or remove bytes until the color cast is fixed, for example.
A new positive way of life using Buddhism and mindfulness
What’s the criteria for a billion dollar valuation?
Put your shoulder to the wheel
Microsoft HoloLens release date, specs and possible price
good luck with the tiny house and farm!
Rand (the main docs guy right now) has been doing a ton of work on this, and still more to come!
Sweet!

I just tried it on my Mac and it works! Blu ray on a Mac! :D
It has similarity to Bayesian approaches as well. The correlation coefficient calculation is a variant of the uncentered Pearsons.
Luke, congrats for releasing it!
Surprisingly sad about this.
The advice I've always given people is to realize that they're already testing, and that they should just keep those tests rather than throw them away.

If you're writing a function to do a calculation, you almost certainly create a little script to call it and make sure it's working correctly, right? Well, don't just do it with irb (or whatever), put it in a directory called tests, and set it to run automatically. If you change it and it breaks at some point, you'll be alerted to the problem.

Now, if to run a test, you instead fire up a server, click or type on a page, and check output, automate that process and put it in test folder.

Here's the problem - sometimes the tools are designed so that it's far easier to fire up the server and do this manually than it is to automate it. This creates a problem, since writing tests should be as easy (or easier) than doing things manually. When this happens, yeah, your tools are tempting you to not write tests.

At that point, unfortunately, you do need to bring a bit of personal discipline to it, as well as sometimes push back against clients or managers who are tapping their fingers impatiently about features. And while people should write tests, I can't exactly act all surprised and appalled if they don't.
On modern hardware, I believe AES and SHA-384 are very cheap. But yes, in a private network it's overhead.
Slice of MIT's Anthology of Sports
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Yes, poorer people are less likely to have the time and resources needed to learn to code. But compared to practically any other discipline, programming is extremely accessible. It only requires a computer, internet access, and time. 85% of the US population has internet access, and (as Sam Altman later says[1]) libraries are available for the less fortunate. Compare that to biology. Or chemistry. Or mechanical engineering. Or becoming a plumber. If you are poor, all of these are harder to learn than coding.

Maurice's story is inspiring, but his bulleted list isn't the only way to become a programmer. Mentors are helpful, but they're certainly not required to learn programming. Ditto for entrepreneurship programs or hacker bootcamps or college education. The only really necessary things are (again) a computer, internet access, and time. Everything else is for widening the funnel. Beneficial? Yes. Worth funding more? Certainly. But not required.

Really, I think the post misses Altman's point. If you read the whole discussion stemming from the original tweet, it's pretty clear that he: 1. Is talking about this in the context of increasing immigration. And 2. Is in favor of more aid for domestic coding education.

In short: They agree vehemently, but Altman's just being honest about the relative difficulty of learning to code.

1. https://twitter.com/sama/status/549746694900813825
We must bulldoze what’s left of the nerdy white men’s Internet
It is a good reaction, so they get some props for that I guess. I mean they had to remove Superfish, but going beyond that and committing to removing all "bloatware" is at least a good declaration of intent.
Problem 2 will go away fairly quickly if the two biggest ISP's do not invest in their infrastructure as they will create a situation where it is easy to get leapfrogged by other players. Net neutrality curbs an aspect of piss taking and bad behaviour that is both current and proven and is merely a law to abide by for all players, whereas breaking up independent companies is surely far more of a sledgehammer, and one that should only be used as a last resort if legislation fails.
Excited to work with Danny's team at Accredible! Great development for hacking a DIY education.
I like the idea of a WP API. I guess in the future you could more easily build non-browser apps that utilize WP data. Of course, there's always going to be the people who don't very much like the whole front-end JavaScript MVC idea (Backbone, React, Angular, etc.), but there will still be the regular PHP themes for them to use.

My only wish is that a proliferation of horrible themes based on inefficient JS does not occur. Front-end MVC can be done right, but don't abuse it with bad code that gives the rest a bad name!
See also http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/. But while we're looking at voting systems, let's not forget the issue at hand.
This was a good read - i struggle with fonts, and found it insightful. I'm always big on usability but its interesting to think that in the end they're often readers above all else, and to optimize around that.

But I do not agree with paying for a webfont library - Not that its a bad idea, but its likely not appropriate for most people.

Google fonts is good - if you stick to the popular ones its hard to go wrong.

I also use this to get some ideas for combinations, all from google-fonts: http://femmebot.github.io/google-type/ if you suck at typography but want your site to look nice, this is a great way to clean things up without much thought.

For me, I've tried to focus on the tone, feeling and readability when looking at fonts. You have to really trace over the letters and feel everything out - or compare how different fonts portray a given letter and which style you want. Also, what font weights are available? if you want bolder or thinner text you'll need a font that has several weights - not all do.
I was thinking WTF myself until seeing a heavily cropped and shrunk version on Google News. Once it grew, it just became the blue and black dress even when it shrank back down.

I can only guess that those who do see it as a white and gold have a brain the is wired to analyze areas smaller than the dress or in low detail.