skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I had it on PS2 and it was fantastic. Challenging, scary, and fun to play. I'm afraid to go back and look again though, because IMO very few games from that time period actually hold up these days. What's the opposite of the uncanny valley, where you can understand what the thing is supposed to represent, but you have a hard time actually seeing it that way? Things were simpler back then, and once you've been spoiled its hard to go back.
Police killed more than twice as many people as reported by US government
Alibaba Is Now Competing on Amazon’s Home Turf in the Cloud
I'm not disagreeing, however I've never been satisfied with any dishwasher I've used, which is a wide range of very old to pretty new. I have no idea about quality, etc.

I do NOT like food residue on my washed dishes, and it's always a problem.

I wash dishes by hand, and I actually enjoy it (and I'd have no use for a drill-scrubber like GP--I'm not sure what its advantage is, even).
> considering yourself a "potential owner" when you're not invited to the meetings where owners decide things means you are very confused about things

Well gosh, I don't think there's any need to get nasty about it. I may be naive but give me a break. When I refer to ownership I'm obviously simply referring to being a shareholder. No, I am not invited to board meetings, but as far as I know, neither is anybody else who's not exec staff. Is this unusual?

The options are on common shares. Can you elaborate on schemes in which common shares are made to become worthless? I have been explicitly told that there are no liquidation preference multipliers on the preferred shares, and the valuation is well above where that would matter. So what sorts of shenanigans would make my shares worth less? Please be specific if you don't mind. It may be a dumb question, but just telling me I'm dumb isn't really getting the point across.

Regarding going to {GOOG,FB,AMZN,MSFT}, I've actually already been through a couple of those and experienced the "real compensation packages and stock plans" and got a couple pretty respectable windfalls out of them, but I've decided the tradeoffs aren't worth it. Job satisfaction absolutely can't be beat where I am, and that's worth a lot to me. That doesn't mean I don't wonder what my n% is actually worth and how specifically that works.
Hey thanks.

1. Not yet but coming up
2. Stored on disk for now but will change later.
I encountered this myself and have a few conclusions:

1) Be open with them and tell them that without a cap table you have to assume the options are worth $0. Use that to push for more salary.

2) The reason for not disclosing that information is often that the company is close to another fundraising event (an IPO for example) and that is very confidential information. It's definitely not a bad thing.

3) A safe assumption (to use yourself, not in negotiations) is that the company will exit at around $10/share. There might be a reverse split or something so take this assumption with a grain of salt.

My experience was not that the company was being malicious. I joined and it worked out fairly well.
The spaceport is being built specifically to accommodate SpaceX rockets. The idea is to have the rocket automatically fueled when it gets docked, use robotics to stand things up, and add a bit more automation to the overall process. There are a few articles about it online, but I just found this one from Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-11/elon-musks-f...

It's not the be-all and end-all of space stations, but it's better than something that was built decades ago for a previous generation of vehicle.
In the United States (and Canada), these types of kids were referred to as, "Latchkey Kids" - which I always thought had a positive spin, but apparently some considered it more typical of the lower socio-economic class, and therefore negative.

To answer your question, Daycare or After School activities are two of the mechanisms used to keep children safe when their parents are working - which can be a real problem if the Daycare costs more than the salary being made by the employee - this is a real problem in the United States, and results in situations in which the parents would end up losing money by working.

Usually what happens is the parent finds another stay-at-home parent, or unemployed parent, to take care of their children for a smaller amount of $$$. Ask yourself what you did with your eight year old before he was eight years old. Now extend that out another couple years.
They had to delay launches because of resource contention on shared resources at CCAFS.
Working for wages is not enough to qualify: doctor, university professor, airline pilot, solicitor... All traditionally firmly middle class professions despite working for a living.
I'd think it's more greedy liars than idiots necessarily. Though if you're just talking to the recruiters it's both.
In fact, my point was the complete opposite.
Cannot agree any more; this is precisely the stance I took myself in 'high school' (dutch) with - thank god - support from my parents. (mental note: support my kids when they're doing this themselves)

IMO there's no point in forcing yourself into doing more work for subjects you really don't care about.

Luckily, here in Holland highschool grades don't really matter that much unless you're trying to get into med-school.
`cargo build --release` does more than just `-C opt-level=3`, actually. For example a regular `cargo build` also adds `-g`, and that's removed for `--release`.
My 1981 machine was a CADR so it had a portrait mode B&W bitmap display...
Or maybe not. Every change to the file would break the note association. I think the most robust way to do this would be to bind notes to inodes instead.
RDJ wants you to donate money to charity for chance to watch Avengers 2 with him
Yeah. They are aggressive migrating to aws-sdk. I managed to fully move to Terraform from CloudFormation and has been amazing so far!
Either the bot in charge of grabbing the abstract messed up, or they are playing god with cockroaches: "We find evidence that broad supernatural punishment drives political complexity, whereas MHGs(moralizing high gods) follow political complexity. "
Nationality is ultimately an obsolete concept. What rational basis is there for people having varying rights and privileges based on what side of an invisible line they currently reside on, or at what latitude and longitude on planet earth they were born?

This is in no way an argument for anarchism. Political subdivisions are necessary for representing the people within them and balancing their interests against the other subdivisions. But there is no reason why any person should be excluded from basic rights and privileges because they aren't "owned" by any particular subdivision. Nothing could be less logical than that.
Ah, thanks. You might want to redo the video because first impression is important and you shouldn't rush through what people see the first time.
A few launches got delayed because of the customer.
VISA is typically around 2000 tx/sec, so it'd only saturate at peak. And anyone with gigabit fiber won't be bothered even at peak. If we reach that traffic level, gigabit will probably be fairly widespread by then.

I don't see how those nefarious miners could succeed, unless they were powerful enough to carry out a 51% attack anyway. Otherwise their secret chain will soon fall behind the public chain.
I'm a programmer and I hate doing this kind of statistics analysis. Not my cup of tea.
During the beta period, the service is available for free. Once it comes out of beta, developers will have to pay $0.40 per million for the first 100 million API calls each month. Users who need to send more messages will pay $0.25 per million for the next 2.4 billion operations (that’s about 1,000 messages per second) and $0.05 per million for messages above that.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/googles-cloud-pubsub-real-t...
Nothing wrong with not wanting to hang out or be around stupid people ("average Americans" as you put it). And yes, calling soccer a "Mexican sport", Tesla "something for tree huggers", and wanting a stupid president are exactly what makes one stupid and insufferable. I totally relate to your situation at the time. Unfortunately, it's not limited to small towns.
Information Processing Language
I don't believe launches from the Cape have enough fuel to boost back to Boca Chica though, do they?
I think they're worthless because of the nature of liquidation preference. There are a select few elite startups like Dropbox that I would value common options at, but those companies will obviously IPO. Clearly the person who I responded to is at a company that is not going to IPO, exercising options is extremely expensive, and there are well known avenues to making common shares worth $0 and so it's an enormous financial risk. Again, if you're not invited to board meetings, how much do they value you, and how much do they consider you a co-owner and partner? If they don't, and you're in the dark about so much critical information, taking that financial risk is even more of a bad play.
>I even take it a step further: it's much more important the I make the right choice than they do. I am giving them my time, which I can never get back. They are giving me their money, which they have plenty of and can always get more.

The other employees at the company are people too, and their time is just as valuable as yours at a personal level, even if The Company in the abstract sense only sees it as a negligible increase in the payroll.

It's important that both parties make a good choice.
My preference is to have unoptimized by default, unless there is only a negligible difference in compile-time between the two options. I mostly don't need optimized programs while I'm developing them.

Alternatively, don't have a default and let people opt-in to whatever default they like. That forces people to actually make a choice, instead of being lazy and publishing poor benchmarks without having even looked up what optimization knobs there are to turn on or off.
Multiprocess broken in docker: how to fix it
Last Day of Launch Festival
SKILLFUL: An app to help martial artists train smarter
Just to make sure you installed the document detection in the beginning go to Settings icon and click the "Install Document Support" and click ok.

That should work. If not PM me and we will figure out whats going on.
Totally agreed, they're not likely to be worth anything. Maybe they will! But probably not, and getting your hopes up is counterproductive. But then maybe I've just read one too many stories about people's options turning out to be worthless, even when one would expect otherwise.
It's that merge (edit: GC is a better term) step that's difficult to get right. Google screwed this up badly with LevelDB which had(still has?) horrible performance issues caused by compaction. Even with concurrent compaction it can be difficult due to needing additional disk space, adding additional read and write pressure to the storage subsystem and the effects that has on latency. I'm not sure what RethinkDB's approach was there, but I'm very curious to know.
The site is terrible. I have NO idea what it's supposed to be. Github is mentioned twice, in tiny lettering.

Your blog post is what your homepage should be. If I'm a first time customer coming to your site looking at this, I close it and move on.
Why the heck was the name of this post changed? It rather conveniently puts the author in a better light by downplaying the anti-intellectual nature of the article I commented about above. I thought the general rule was that posts should be titled with the title of the linked article, which was the case before but now is not the case.

EDIT: To answer my own question, the submitter is clearly the author based on his submission history. So yes, this was an act of self-censorship to try to hide the author's disgusting attitudes.
Their algorithm uses a sequence of four slightly spaced out frames as its state. So it has a memory, but a very short one.

It could probably solve a maze quite easily if the entire maze fit on screen. That problem requires no memory. If it had to make decisions based on information not present on screen, it would fail.
> Well SF is clearly saturated with people working in the tech industry.

It sounds like you didn't read the article. (Ctrl-F "It turns out")
The loss of which I've bemoaned for about 30+ years. This, or something very like, it is exactly what I want going forward. My biggest concern would the fate of my virtual computer should the provider go belly up. Without providing for that contingency I'd be really hesitant to put all my eggs in the basket.
> the recruiter I was going through literally told me nobody has ever asked these questions about the options they were getting.

Whenever someone says something like that during a negotiation, you can be sure it's because they don't want to answer the question.

Other good ones:

-"This is totally standard"

-"That form is industry standard"

-"Nobody else has ever had a problem with that"
Interestingly, I also work remotely from a rural farming area and have found that the farming community is a lot like the tech community. They, like you, love the future and technology. Robotics is huge in agriculture right now. Tractors that drive themselves, cows that can milk themselves, how software can be used to improve the bottom line, etc. are hot topics, and come up frequently among my farming friends. In my eyes, if there is any competition, it isn't who has the biggest truck, it is who makes the most effective use of modern technology.

In addition to being a developer, I also farm. Maybe I have a different perspective than you by being able to speak their language? It makes a big difference, in my opinion. I also enjoy being around programmers for the same reason. I find you can get into much deeper discussions more quickly when you have a shared background.
Never heard of "C shell"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell
>anyone thinking of using this should probably instead just look for an existing implementation of something like the Damerau–Levenshtein distance.

"anyone" with over 400 bytes, you mean.
Suppose the following scenario:

A VC invests $10MM at a $100MM valuation and owns 10% of the company with preferred shares. For simplicity, we'll assume they are the only holders of preferred shares.

An employee is given $500,000 in common stock, equal to 0.5% of the company at the same $100MM valuation.

The company then sells itself to an acquirer for $11MM, substantially below the $100MM valuation. The VC, with preferred shares, gets paid first. So they get their $10MM back. The remaining $1MM would then be divided among common stock holders. The employee above would get $5,000, instead of the $55,000 that 0.5% of $11MM would imply.

In the real world, founders, executives, and VCs often get preferred shares, which ultimately screws regular employees.
'Tinder for Muslims' Lets Users Hide Their Photos, Appoint a Guardian
Patterns of Refactored Agency (2012)
I want to slap that person and ask why the hell do you think anyone live sin a suburban cul de sac if not for this!
Is there any indication that the roaches are having their motor control stimuli hijacked instead of simply being electrocuted and attempting to steer away from the source of the pain?
Q&A with Eric Ries at a private event on March 21st – here's how to attend
That's the thing. I haven't seen anything, because the documentation doesn't mention it. You might be entirely justified, but I can't tell because neither you or the documentation elaborate on any of my questions.

gitless remotes look exactly the same as git remotes as far as I can tell. Why are they saner?

git init vs. git clone is a triviality, though I'll grant you that init works for both use cases

publish is just a synonym for push, and pull is what gitless seems to call merge. gitless seems to outright ignore the fetch/merge distinction. How do I fetch commits from a remote repository without merging them?

Overall the impression I get from that single web page of documentation is that gitless is a porcelain that misses the point on many things. I realize I might be completely wrong, but gitless' documentation neither answers my questions nor encourages me to try it out.

You're seeing negative comments wondering about gitless' purpose because the introduction fails to offer any motivation.
Elon Musk said many times that not soon.
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=spf%3astate.gov&r....

"No SPF records found"

Looks pretty spoofable.
This feels very hacky to me.
Immigration, the H-1B Visa, and the Tech Industry: Why It Matters
Quick scan:

Oh, it's like Google Wave. Cool, ish.

other thoughts:

Does it integrate with LDAP/AD/SAML or other sign on solution?
If yes, then it can be a enterprise candidate, probably. If no, then, "aargh".

The FAQ is almost unreadable in my (OSX Safari on widescreen monitor) browser. Literally.

If you can swing an experienced someone to play Product/Marketing, you'll probably be in a decent spot for information management type people (PMs, admin assistants, etc). I /think/ the tech has possibilities, but I am not really a "make a new account and play" kind of person.
Lots of people leap before they have a parachute because the plebeian view is that entrepreneurs take risks. The reality is that good entrepreneurs manage their risk neurotically. It doesn't help your situation now, but always start these endeavors as night + weekend projects. Manage your risk. Test the market. Get 5 paying customers, then start thinking about quitting your full time job.

So, some feedback...

From what I gather, OpenLoop a tool for me to organize information and/or projects, generic enough to be used across many verticals and company orgs. It sounds similar to Trello or Basecamp. And that's OK. I'm not sure if my view is accurate, but that's what I feel like you're trying to sell.

"Show, don't tell". Go look at trello.com. Go look at basecamp.com/tour. As a potential customer, I want to see screenshots of the software before I signup. I want to see what's different. I'm asking myself "is this worth my time?" Show me a gif of OpenLoop in action. Or make a short screencast (with actual video of the software, not a high-level animation) and stick it right in the hero. Put up a demo at demo.openlooopz.com. Automatically wipe/reimage the account every night to keep out spam and vulgarity. Let people play with it.

Explore verticals. Are there verticals currently using OpenLoop really well? Project Managers? Nurses? Accountants? Is it really great at bug tracking? Highlight those on your website - "Project Managers use OpenLoop to Deliver Great Products", "Squash bugs quickly with OpenLoop". Build some dedicated landing pages for those verticals and buy some FB ads. Measure pageviews/signups and see who is most interested.

Testimonials or Case Studies. Talk to people currently using OpenLoop and ask them for a quote to put on your page.

Blogs. Setup a tumblr in 15 seconds and start blogging about how people are using OpenLoop. Publish guides on popular workflows. Publish ways you're different than your competitors.

Refine your copy. People generally don't read large blocks of text. I could tell you were struggling to describe your product because the first item in your FAQ is "What is a loop". Ditch the copy and show me the software.

Ditch the "Slack Meets Github" tagline. Perhaps you only used that here. But it didn't help me understand the product.

Naysayers come and go. Don't give up, but make sure you're providing if that's your role. If you're out of fuel (money), time to do a contract gig to earn some more runway. You might even have to go back to full time work and do OpenLoop on the weekends. There is no shame in that. If you can, take a 2 week break from anything OpenLoop related (perhaps a contract) and spend time with your family. You'll come back refreshed and find yourself with tons of new ideas for ways to market/advertise, new verticals to research, better copy, etc.

Best of luck to you sir!
Correct, also they are not allowed to overfly land.
Anyone with a solid platform can make a lot of noise. Our blog has an article[1] that gets more traffic than you can imagine, and it's been part of the cause for some serious changes in a billion-plus dollar industry.

Never underestimate the power of the pen and some quality research.

[1] https://blog.priceplow.com/protein-scam-amino-acid-spiking
How much does it cost to run an ICANN Registrar? (2010)
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There is also a similarly impressive 'sequel' that came out as a PS2 game; it picked up from the end of the movie, the base reduced to burning wreckage you explored. Worth tracking down if you are a fan of Carpenters' reboot (the original came out in the 50's).
I work for a 30-employee company that only hits your first bullet point, but I wish it hit a lot more.
@mattnewport

Wages vs. salaried worker i.e. being paid weekly, possibly cash in hand for hours worked vs. a regular fixed monthly bank payment based on an annual salary.
It can, though it's not likely. The kernel only uses free ports even in the ephemeral range, so if an application binds to something in the ephemeral range first, then the kernel just won't pick it for new connections. You've effectively removed one port out of tens of thousands.

You may be in trouble if the kernel happened to choose an ephemeral port for an outbound connection and then an application tried to bind to it for receiving new connections.
Show HN: Argon, set and get native data from browser local and session storage
> I'd love to see something that makes git easier to use.

I'm not really aware of any problems with mercurial's git-support[1]. It might not really be "working with git", but does support working with (as in pushing and pulling) git repos. And while I think there'll never be a consensus on mercurial versus git -- I find that the interface is much cleaner in mercurial, than with git.

So if by "easier" you mean "easier command line use", I think mercurial is worth a look. If not, perhaps look at various guis -- but I've not got any experience with them.

hg help git
Working with Git Repositories
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Basic Use
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You can clone a Git repository from Hg by running "hg
clone <url> [dest]".
For example, if you were to run:

$ hg clone git://github.com/schacon/hg-git.git

Hg-Git would clone the repository and convert it to an
Hg repository for you.

(...)

If you are starting from an existing Hg repository,
you have to set up a Git repository somewhere that
you have push access to, add a path entry
for it in your .hg/hgrc file, and then run "hg push
[name]" from within your repository. For example:

$ cd hg-git # (an Hg repository)
$ # edit .hg/hgrc and add the target Git URL in
# the paths section
$ hg push

[1] http://hg-git.github.io/
Does anyone knows which app has been used to create the "handwritten" images? I draw very badly so I'm looking for such an app to explain data flows on a corporate blog/wiki.
Terrifying/sad/fascinating story. Did you ever take an extended holiday over that time and notice general improvements to your health?
> Someone sounds a little jaded.

I will admit, while not a horror story, I did have the latest Hobbit movie on my mind. I think I could cut 1/3 from from the latest movie and not impact the story. If anything, probably bring it inline with the book.
You'll have to go into detail. Mutable data structures mop the floor with immutable ones, synchronization issues aside. What's actually better depends on the specific case in question, but mutable data structures have a superset of the techniques available to immutable ones, and that's never a disadvantage. It, might, however lead you to use a poor design that falls down under contention.