skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has always been my understanding of the obscenely rich. At some point, it can't be about material goods, and even status seems like a thin draw. It's got to be about power. Not necessarily as in a corrupt, evil way, but just the ability to impact the world on a national or global scale. The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire isn't how many private islands they can buy, it's how many people can be paid to further their goals, whatever those goals may be. Usually, this comes in the form of companies and/or politics. More money and more companies lets you change the world. And really, what person hasn't at some point had the thought, "Man, if I ruled the world, I would fix XYZ" You may not be able to rule the world, but with enough success and money, you can probably fix a few XYZs.
It is possible to program in java without allocating GC at all. (if you do not count class loader and some other system stuff). Use Unsafe and primitive (on stack) variables. Peter has some nice demos on his blog.
UK startup accelerators take matched service charges on top of invested capital?
Recently myself and co-founders applied to a UK startup accelerator in the hopes of obtaining initial seed funding to kickstart our startup.

In the process of negotiating terms, it was slipped into conversation that the accelerator actually invests double the amount requested into the business (artificially inflating the business valuation and potentially creating some pretty big burnrate questions for future investors), which is paid directly to the accelerator on receipt of funds as a service charge.

This service charge is apparently there to facilitate the other "free" mentorship, office space and introductions that the accelerator offers.

It seems like this is a bit of a tax fiddle from an SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Fund) perspective, as all they are doing is draining the fund to essentially pay themselves, exposing very little risk, but obtaining a decent equity share in a new start up business. This also eats into the £150k of available SEIS funding, as a chunk of it is not invested at all, just leaving through the backdoor to pay the accelerator.

Is this commonplace and is anyone aware of other accelerators doing the same thing?
A more serious postmortem/retrospective on Vagrant
> We need to present the mathematics that is most useful to the most students.

I wish it weren't this way! Mathematics is a wide and fascinating field, and I think more students could find interest if our schooling reflected that. But moving some of the detail and drudgery that is the calculus sequence to subject matter that requires it, in order to make way for linear algebra, is a great start.
What's wrong with "they" as singular 3rd person pronoun? [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_(singular)
Depends on the world you travel in. And I don't mean third world, first world, I mean the sort of places you have to visit.

Most defense facilities will NOT have wifi, and their meeting rooms will still have projectors with VGA in only. For travelers in the world that I inhabit, all those ports are a necessity. We would even still love to have a DB9 serial port because we often connect to embedded systems with serial consoles.

You and I live in different worlds, even though we both probably work on very technically involved things.
Rich people have always wanted things they can spend money on to show off their wealth. Such things can be divided into several kinds of categories, but in my opinion, the important category division is:

1. Expensive things that make the world a worse place for the rest of us, e.g. mansions that consume city real estate, private jets that burn fossil fuels

2. Expensive things that don't do any harm, and serve as nonviolent, ethical ways to transfer money to people who need it more, e.g. well... fancy watches

If you're going to criticize expensive toys for the rich, spend your criticism on things that fall into the first category.
We are 2 programmers from Vienna.

Our motivation to create redeemoid came out of a request from a friend of us, who also is playing in his own band. He was struggling to get download cards to promote his band. He wanted to give a digital download with each of their newly pressed vinyls. After some brainstorming, we created this download card service.

We would love to get some constructive feedback. In case this is even something you could use, please let me know, so I can give you a discount! :)
In Germany you can get sued if you use Torrents, but you can't if you use a streaming service, because your're not the distributor.

So many people stopped torrenting at all and started streaming all their video needs.

It's also faster for smaller things, like those clips mentioned by her.

For this particular type of content it's simply the superior platform :\
> Long term crew members have found themselves replaced by inexperienced people willing to do their jobs for lower pay. The quality of videos made under these conditions tends to suffer.

Do people care that much about video quality in porn? Hopefully the people gone can use their experience and go to higher payed industries.
I can actually see the point of the analytics messages being labelled as spam. That's precisely what it is usually.
Can you post the headers?
It turns out this is a serious problem with using a gmail account. I receive all the time email that was sent to some other unrelated person with similar name. This happens with lots of people that I know. I decided it is better to stop making gmail my main email, and treat it just as a junk mail destination.
The thing that annoys me most is that now GMail by default shows images which can allow spammers and marketers to detect open rates and validate active email addresses.

This is made worse by the fact that marking messages as spam requires you to open the email first. By the time you open it, the spammer knows your email address is valid and active and even if you mark it as spam, your email will probably have made it to some other list of 'validated gmail users'.
I'm not sure JKR is the go to source for great editors. It's perfectly clear from reading the series that as soon as she had the clout, she stopped listening. Hence the ever longer books.

It's quite common for authors that achieve critical success. Stephan King even went back and published one of his older books with the material the big bad editors and publishers made him take out. Let's not even talk about Robert Jordan.
All the iPhone Apps You Can’t Delete Are There for Rich People
> You don't believe ISIS would kill as many innocents as possible? It is practically their mission statement.

It's pointless to argue about statements containing words with highly subjective and arbitrary meanings like "innocents". Were the employees of the TV station the US bombed (with good precision and information!) in Serbia "innocent"? Of what crime were they guilty if not? The US apparently thought they weren't innocent. Who are we to claim the people brutally murdered by the IS are - to the IS - "innocent"?

The IS kills Japanese citizens because their government is "guilty". The US kills women and children because their high-tech drones aren't good enough and their information seems to be bad. Or so they've been saying for years, while still consciously deciding to use these weapons to said effect. While both are morally wrong, the latter is also disingenuous and not worthy of a civilized nation. It's the consequence of trying both to enforce the "right of the strongest" and to attempt to claim a moral high ground.
The images are precached by Google so that this doesn't happen. The requested image doesn't come from its originating source.

For example, here is Basecamp's logo as it's displayed by Gmail:

https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/YBj6RKkd7c8dtR81gfn-...
Actually, most of those watches are built with taste of one sort or another. Apple Watch simply looks dumb in comparison.
Well, I mean, the video depictions are the whole point. Videography is a huge part of porn, and when you've seen enough (cough) you can definitely tell the difference between when the person behind the camera knows what they're doing and when they don't.
That's not quite right. Airbnb may not set the price of accommodations directly, but their cut does influence the prices that its providers are able to charge. A competitor who takes a smaller cut will be able to have cheaper accomodations in their network, yet Airbnb is still a monopoly.

Here's another way of thinking about the difference between Airbnb and Uber. Let's say you are building an Airbnb competitor, and you found a way to attract 25% of Airbnb's providers to your service, likely by taking a smaller cut. That's still not good enough, because users will overwhelmingly prefer the service with the majority of providers, even if yours is a little cheaper. You die and Airbnb returns to dominance.

Contrast the situation with building an Uber competitor. To compete with Uber, all you need is some minimum number of drivers to be able to provide service to your initial users, and this is relatively easy because drivers can quickly switch between networks. The users do not care if you only employ 25% of the drivers, since that's still enough to provide good service. Make your service cheap and the users will flock to you, so now you can compete with Uber on price.
That's the fatal misunderstanding.

There is no theatre.
5 Growth Hacking Tips for  Facebook Engagement
I go in every month or so to retrieve a handful of legit messages and mark them as not spam. Today I had about 50 things in my spam, about ten of which didn't belong. Most were things I don't really care about, like LinkedIn invites to: some email address other than my main one, and some mailing lists I've subscribed to, but still this is bad and getting worse.

On a side note, about 20% of my actual spam over the last few months purports to be from young women named "Jessica," though it's not clear that I'm supposed to believe that it's coming from the same person. Is this just a go-to name for spam pretending to be from friendly (young female) strangers?
Isn't Dropbox bit expensive? Check out hubiC.com
Part of the expense of products is to ensure a good, safe design. I could use common sense and research toxicity of materials, off-gasing, tensile strength, resistance to hot/cold/UV, shapes that are vulnerable to choking, strangulation, puncture wounds, etc. If every parent had to go through this for each purchase it would be a massive, unnecessary duplication of effort. This would take considerable time just for childrens toys, not to mention food, cars, and office buildings. I'm glad that cars have recalls driven by real engineers that drivers are proactively contacted about rather than relying on the average person's "common sense" about vehicle safety.
Still, the 'mouse' seems like a poor choice. As the op said - isn't the idea of big dumb buttons that we don't have to take our attention off the road to interact with them?
I'd be happy to share a few of these from the open source lists privately - you can write me, hope it doesn't end up in spam, and I'll send you the complete headers.
I'm not sure if that's possible. The screenshot in the article shows a lot of screens with a lot of information and a lot of possible actions to take. For software that I need to use to interact with large amount of complex data, I do not want options to be hidden behind 4/5 clicks.

When I was a part of a team that did enterprise-ish management software, one of the complaints of our initial design is that it's too simple and it takes too long to perform actions (>1 clicks from the main UI), and actually making it far more complex (users had to learn where the buttons are).

Also, "Taste" is pretty subjective. Personally, I find software that's easy to use to be of good taste. A high learning curve (lots of options) is not necessarily bad as long as I can be efficient when I'm familiar with the software (think: Vim vs Google Maps)
They are linked at the bottom:

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/hoho/chromium-os-hoho.ta...
Careful or you may fall into the 'What is an OS' discussion. :)

They are all kernels and suites of tools, namely Docker and usually Busybox. The primary objective in all cases is to have a minimal OS host for Docker containers so they can drop the normal suite of tools.
Exactly. The feedback loop doesn't drive more usable, tasteful software. Enterprise software is a top down model. There is no competition inside the corporate firewall for any given solution so it's a monopoly and, like most monopolies, they don't enjoy continuous innovation and higher quality.
I'm not sure where this is coming from as I can mark messages as spam without opening them using both the android app and browser.

Also, in the settings you can set it to ask before displaying images.
The thing that annoys me most is that now GMail by default shows images which can allow spammers and marketers to detect open rates and validate active email addresses.

These images are proxied, so the sender can't tell if you actually viewed them them. Only Google can. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.htm...

You can also disable the "auto-viewing" of images, as described in the link above.

This is made worse by the fact that marking messages as spam requires you to open the email first.

You can still check the little box next to the email (in the inbox view) and then click "spam". This allows you to mark an email as spam without viewing it.
As someone who did work at a University who also loved classes I would bring friends who were visiting to classes and every time they would say something like this, "I hated Philosophy as a college student, but somehow now I loved every second of that class." They were always surprised by that experience.
The Big Solar Eclipse 20th March
It's never one occurence.
It's outsourced to Capita, yes. If anything that makes it slightly more objectionable. Outsourcing is not a way of avoiding your moral responsibilities.
No, I get that the author is making that distinction between weird and cool. And I' get that you're making it. But this distinction... it's bullshit. Nobody identifies as weird or as cool. And being weird was never a prerequisite for being interested in computers . Most of all, being weird doesn't give anyone the right to exclude women, minorities, or even "cool" people from technology. I thought the hacking community was supposed to be inclusive!
> I think a better approach would be to revise the legal codex so that it becomes simple enough for individuals to research and lower dependency on professional lawyers.

I think this is about as realistic a goal as the Holy Grail of an English-like programming language that's easy for non-programmers to use.
We played around with what I believe was a prototype version of this at the BBC stall at last summer's Edinburgh festival. The kid loved it.

This is of course nothing like the RPi. You board has a grid of LEDs that you can control by uploading a program which you write on a regular PC. When we tried it, we were coding in a Scratch like environment.
Apparently there was some confusion, but from my perspective it was perfectly clear.
GMail is not displaying the images from remote hosts by default. They've recently started to proxy the images on their servers, thus they can check them before showing them to you.
And also this did the opposite of what you're saying about. Marketers/spammers will get no opens info given only GMail will fetch the image resource.
Finding out the Fourier transform was a way to multiply matrices was a mind blower :)
Introduction to fetch()
What's your point? Are those technologies less groundbreaking or not years ahead of anyone else because they've been developed for years?

My experience with G1 has been a higher CPU consumption overall, but a very significant reduction in worst-case STW pause times. It works especially well for "session scope" objects: objects that are born together and die together, but may live for a relatively long time (seconds to minutes). I am not aware of any other runtime with GCs that even come close to the JVM's.

I am also not aware of any other profiler with such depth of reporting and such low overhead as JFR.

The work on Graal will continue for years, but when it is ready, it will be way ahead of the curve.

Innovation in the JVM is vibrant, and we're getting new, extremely powerful features at a good pace. The fact that each of those features takes years to implement well only proves the emphasis on big advancements (although minor advancements, like the JIT control feature in Java 9, are also made regularly).
Which is based on apt-cyg AFAIK. And I missed the the ``apt-get upgrade`` functionality in both pact/apt-cyg.
I have a 2012 Mazda3 and it has a knob and buttons and it works great whether or not I'm looking at it. What a concept.
Lockheed’s laser can destroy a truck from a mile away
>I'm amazed that you say that calculus has had a much greater impact on society when virtually every database, graphics manipulation or economic analysis uses principles of linear algebra.

I'm not. Consider all of physics. Physics is written down in terms of differential equations. You need calculus to get these equations. In terms of graphics, for example, are you magically creating only static images that never change in time? How do you think people came up with the algorithms to do things like refraction or reflection? These all involve calculus. Calculus is the most important tool in applying mathematics to the real world. It is how we derive the models for pretty much everything I can think of. Any time you want to model something where anything changes, that is calculus. Any time you want to find an optimal solutions, that is calculus. I can't think of a single area of applied mathematics that doesn't use calculus in some form. Even mathematics in general, calculus is used in some form pretty much everywhere in some form, except maybe in the foundations of mathematics like set theory or logic.

Solving them, on the other hand, is a different problem. This is where linear algebra is important. When solving an ODE or PDE, when I discretise it, all I am doing is re-writing it as a giant linear algebra problem. Quantum mechanics, for example, is dedicated to finding the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian. Linear algebra provides the tools to solve the problems posed by calculus. But it isn't always required.

In fact, if you look at the history of linear algebra, it only really became wide-spread when quantum mechanics was developing since there is a deep connection between linear algebra and quantum mechanics. Heisenberg had never heard of a matrix before despite discovering Heisenberg matrix mechanics. He was told by Max Born that what he had been doing is actually this thing mathematicians called "matrices". Now linear algebra is a required course for physicists (incidentally, linear algebra was the first lecture I ever attended at university).

So I would argue that learning calculus is the most important thing someone should know mathematically, since it is the tool we use to build models. The second most is linear algebra since it provides us the tools to solve these problems. But in my mind, knowing how to derive these models is a lot more important than being able to solve them. That and linear algebra doesn't give you any insight into why we are solving the problem that way, it is just a tool to solve the problem.

Also in Calculus 1,2,3 and so on, you learn increasingly more complicated techniques of calculus to solve more problems. But when you start numerically solving them, linear algebra doesn't care. It doesn't care if your equation came from the Einstein field equations or Newton's second law. It's all the same to it. So in a sense, I can teach you everything you'll need to know about linear algebra in a single course but the same is not true of calculus, which requires multiple courses.
Who's to blame for the digital time deficit
Data expert for fast-growing startup - REMOTE or The Netherlands

What you tell your friends you're doing at work
"I am the data boss of Vita.io"

What you are really doing
* Designing innovative solutions to complex problems
* Working with databases such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Titan
* Writing algorithms for Hadoop and Storm
* Running algorithms in a cloud environment

Things we consider crucial to being successful in this position
* You are a quick learner who loves to pick up new tools, software, technologies and languages
* You think pro-actively about protecting the user from data-abuse
* You have knowledge of databases such as Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Titan or Neo4j
* You are experienced with at least two languages (eg. Clojure, Java, Ruby or Python)
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Unfortunately another contributing factor is that many enterprise websites or applications have to support old versions of ie. My company is still supporting XP due to a particular partner.
You make it sound like that was an absolute truth. In what ways did the killing of those children and women in the main article save lives?
While I'm excited for these kids, the title does not deliver. There is a distinct lack of minicomputers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer

I was totally expecting something more like the video where they take kids born in 2000 and show them a VCR.
Record Share of Americans Have Never Married
I would agree... it looked to me like something similar to an STM32F103.

Fingers crossed.

As much good as Arduino has done for the Maker community, the AVR architecture is outdated.
Apple watches don't do any harm? You need an iPhone to use it effectively for what I read.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
In a word: yes.

You're thinking about data that can't be lost, or your customers are screwed. Not all data is like that.

Log files come to mind. They're _nice_ to archive for a long time, but in many businesses, they're certainly not _critical_ to archive for a long time.

Intermediate files, too. You retain the original files in secured storage. But because the intermediate files are large and expensive to re-create, you keep them here in AWS.
I had some generic DP->HDMI adapter fail out of the box while setting up our booth at GDC last week. Luckily we had a spare, and the other five adapters worked fine. I do wonder if official Apple adapters have the same failure rate; maybe we just got unlucky.
Legal to download, but illegal to upload?

There's a BitThief for that - http://bitthief.ethz.ch/
Just how historic is the NBA's projected salary cap increase?
I have moved to naming global singletons with a The* prefix
Who has the IMF's Money
Sentiment data-expert for fast-growing startup - REMOTE or The Netherlands

What you tell your friends you're doing at work:
‘’My code predicts how people feel at work’’

What you are really doing:
* Designing innovative and scalable software solutions
* Getting better at Clojure, Java, Scala and/or Python
* Design and improve our sentiment analysis solution
* Keeping up to date with the latest research in text analysis

What makes you perfect for the job:
* You love finding patterns
* You automate every repeatable action
* You’ve got knowledge of Clojure, Java, Scala and/or Python
* You have experience with sentiment- and / or language analysis
* Experience in rapidly moving startup environments is a pré

We offer:
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* Travel allowance
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