skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just playing devil's advocate in light of an unreasonable position on the issue. I honestly don't know much about model rocketry specifics (build a few as a kid like 20 years ago, purchased as a kid, from a local hobby shop). I assume you can make them go more than 400ft into the air without much effort but you're probably not supposed to.
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Every VC firm has different interests from the firms that it invests in. That's the major pitfall of accepting investor money, their goals and your goals will never be perfectly aligned and sometimes are very much not aligned.

Beware of who you accept money from, especially if that money comes with strings attached (board seats, various preferences and so on).
It takes 8 pages. See Appendix A, which is the actual rules. All the rest is commentary, analysis, historical background, and something like 80 pages of dissents by the Republican Commissioners.
As someone who used Google Code a while back (and did indeed end up moving to Github): it's a pity it had to end, but thank you for hosting it while it lasted. In its day, it was a service of unequaled quality.
For people totally new to 3D printing world. From my experience with replicator series it is no different from typical RepRap clone, minus closed source everything. You still fight adhesion and delamination, but now you have no way to tweak process. 3D printing is not really ready for consumers yet IMHO.
>I'd expect they'll use one of the Cortex-M0 uCs with built-in BLE radio (like those made by Nordic or Cypress).

Actually, it sounds more like there will be a Freescale Microcontroller on board:

>Both Freescale and Nordic Semiconductor are working with us on making this initial 1 million devices a reality.

Freescale do make Cortex-M* uCs (the Kinetis range), but do not make any with BLE, so I suspect that the main micro will be Freescale, while Nordic provide the BLE radio. Most MBED dev kits use two microcontrollers, one to provide the USB interface (ARMs CMSIS-DAP Protocol), and one that actually runs the code, so the same is probably the case here with the Nordic SOC providing both BLE radio and USB interface.
Scala in large scale systems
Case in point, this comment just dropped three points. ;)
Remember the video where the GoPro falls off a skydiver's helmet and lands in a pig pen? Is the falling considered flying, in this case?
"Both Ross and I were subletters, so we never signed the same lease."
And that is when group moderation 'works'. It is not clear that it would in YikYak's case.

For both Reddit and HN, people have a bit more stake in their identities than yakkers.
Check out the new Housing app! It is pretty cool!
I am not entirely sure if there is a distinction between Drones and Piloted aircraft as it relates to the word "commercial." For example, I know while a pilot with only a private pilot license can not charge passengers for the flight, they can charge passengers for costs (fuel, maintenance, ect...). Therefore, if this guy truly made less than a dollar for his drone video, maybe he could prove that the videos do not even cover the cost of the flights.

And I just have to say as a fellow lawyer, I do not agree with the following 1st Amendment argument from the article, clearly calling something "art" does not prohibit government regulation:

>"Selling art is unquestionably one's right, and the government is forbidden from infringing upon that right."
A second passport is pretty appealing not from a tax, but from an back-up / insurance perspective. Especially as an American married to a Russian with all the tension between those nations...
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Your expenses for the old jacket are the cost of the jacket when new, your computer, the time it takes to post it, etc.

That makes it not commercial. The IRS has rules about "hobby" which are basically the same: If you don't [eventually] make money after expenses and deductions, it's not a business.
What would that entail to independent nature film makers or even companies like National Geographic?
The 840 Pro came with a 5 year warranty, while the 850 Pro has a 10 year warranty. I wonder if the warranty still applies if you exceed the limit.
They believe that money makes right.
Maybe they got lucky. They only tested one of each of these drives, and there was already a case (with the Kingston drives) where nearly identical models got wildly different lifetimes.

The low number of reallocated sectors suggests that the NAND deserves much of the credit. Like all semiconductors, flash memory chips produced by the same process—and even cut from the same wafer—can have slightly different characteristics. Just like some CPUs are particularly comfortable at higher clock speeds and voltages, some NAND is especially resistant to write-induced wear.

The second HyperX got lucky, in other words.

So it's definitely possible that the 840 Pro has reliability problems even though one of them won this test.
Dependency Injection Is Not Dependency Injection
Thanks for the great feedback!

I've changed the homepage according to your feedback in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/3a09175f...

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ mentions that it runs the enterprise edition in the middle box

The pricing page is a hard one, we'll look into that.

Any idea how we can make the three blurbs on the homepage feel more like different products?
No. It's not.

Once orders hit the market it's public information and you can do whatever you want with it. If you can do it faster than anyone else then go you!
This makes me question: how important does Google see developers as being as part of their ecosystem?

I mean, I understand all the rational logic of what they are saying. Sure, there are other services etc etc, the world will keep turning. But doesn't Google see any kind of benefit from having developers using their service? In terms of mind share, having developers think positively about Google, having them regularly come to and work with a Google service? Even in purely commercial terms, it would be something that Google could leverage to expose developers to their cloud services and other platforms. Traditionally, staying close to developers in any way they can is something platform companies strive to do.

But it seems like Google doesn't see any value in any of that. So my basic question is, does Google still care about developers? Or have they simply moved on as a company?
Actually, I will pick somebody to be real over "posturing." I hate people who try to be "showy" more and refrain from easing up occasionally.

I know this is converse to the way the "professional" world is and also converse to people who play along the rules of professionalism.

But dammit, it ain't real! And it needs to stop! Be who you are! And then change it from the inside out, if you need to.
Me too! I've incorporated some of his idea's in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/3a09175f...
Two issues with that:

i) bootstrapping is different from self-funding. All of them might start with self-funding, but bootstrapping is getting revenue to fund the startup. Not the founder's money to fund it.

ii) VC's money are not their own money in totality. They raise funds with outside investors and they decide where to invest other people's money too.
No, the warranty for 850 Pro is "10 years or the maximum TB written reached" (at least in EU).
On the subject of PHP, this kind of issue is also amusing:

assert($str1 != $str2); // Two different strings or passwords

assert(md5($str1) == md5($str2)); // Are the same hash !?

This isn't a hash collision, but a different kind of collision caused by hexadecimal and PHP's loose == handling. First it can interpret certain string-patterns as numbers with exponents, and secondly zero raised to any power is always zero.

So any strings that both match /^0e\d+$/i are equivalent under == rules, and some hexadecimal outputs are going to match that.

'0e1' == '0e9'
Maybe that's because we (software engineers) are not providing them value?

As far as I can tell, the EMR system my surgeons & doctors use is solely a hindrance to his workflow as compared to paper charts. I'm sure it's easier for the people/computers processing paperwork and billing on the backend, but for the doctors and nurses in the room all I've heard so far are complaints. From my observation, the UI/UX of the whole thing is terrible. I'm actually embarrassed by it as a member of the profession.
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Architect with a Design for Failure Approach
But most common computing applications aren't CPU-bound, they're IO bound, or in some cases GPU bound. CPUs haven't really been a bottleneck for quite a few years.
(shudder)
Yes, this, a thousand times yes. The transparently-malicious abuse of ads on SourceForge is a tragedy and it's been that way for years and years. It is a honeypot for lazy people (or those without meticulous attention to detail) and the malware venders didn't even have to purchase the site. SourceForge just rolled over and let them do it.
The great experiment is finally over.

Very proud to exclusively use 840 Pro SSDs in my towers.
The problem is you're feeding the other candidates (and the audience) the illusion that they have a fighting chance against the insider. This deceit won't be taken kindly after they realize how they were beat out.

This is the equivalent of insider trading among government legislators. It's a very real problem, and there is no realistic solution since it is a systemic flaw of the startup/VC model.

It's quite possible startup culture can't continue working forever, and if this is a growing trend, that eventually too much encroachment by VCs will smother and scare away everyone who isn't an insider.
This is exactly what I was going to say. You may not like politics, but it's always going to exist to some degree, and you can't just ignore it while expecting true career growth. If you ever want to become more than someone who simply implements the requirements passed down to them from on high, you need to be effective in working across the organization.

Personally, I wanted to stay technical, but I also wanted to play a meaningful rule in creating and steering the company vision from the product side of things. To do that you need more than technical chops.

That said, if you just want to be a head down coder, that's fine too. Also, none of this means that you shouldn't find a new organization to work for of this one is toxic. Just know that it may not be as bad as you currently think it is, so perhaps this is a growth opportunity.
“Germany will be quiet for a thousand years after we nuke it”
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This is a rather watery definition of evil. It is fairly close to saying a restaurant is evil for not keeping a menu item you like.
I've had some breakage with Brew, so, I tend to prefer MacPorts. Not that much of a difference between them for what I do.
Wearable technology: The wear, why and how
Can you explain the game theory behind that? I would've expected that, in this case (where the worst case for a user is what will currently happen), responding with a request for more rather than cooperation is actually the rational behaviour.
If my CEO is going to demand internal pre-prepared solutions to everything, then I'd demand that they be competent enough to not need my input anymore.

I mean, "hire someone who knows how to fix this" is obvious enough that it needn't be stated, nor defended behind this "bring an idea for a solution, don't just bring a problem" talk.

Which frankly sounds like something a motivational poster writer should be saying, not someone concerned with running a business. Platitudes are rarely the solution to a meaningful problem, in my experience.
The problem with that is it will take quite a while when you join before you can actually do anything with your vacation.
It is effectively a crime to demand a trial by jury. I say effectively because of how much harsher a sentence you'll receive if you lose compare to the plea bargain you are offered (the very reason for this is to force individuals to take a plea deal).
I like http://www.halfbakery.com/ -- ideas there aren't quite serious.
Bitbucket also has free private repos
Sure. But I think the author's point was that he does find these concerning, and that other people (LPs and entrepreneurs) might also find them concerning if they were more aware of them, and that he thinks that VC firms should institute rules against them.

So yeah, you can totally have the perspective that those two points don't matter. I'm not saying that you should think that they matter. But some people do think they matter, and I don't think it is wholly unreasonable to feel that way.

My goal with my earlier comment wasn't to make you agree with the author. It was just to point out that the author's points aren't just about "fairness": they're also about whether VC firms are best delivering value to LPs.

On a nitpick point: I never said "idea". The idea that people are worried only about "ideas" is silly. There are other things to worry about: if you're raising a series B and are providing data about your business, that data potentially has concrete value beyond merely an "idea". I don't personally think it's at all unreasonable to be concerned about people misusing that data.
We live in a country where our public officials openly state that companies are "too big to jail", and they are unwilling to prosecute them for wrong doing because it could cause "systemic failure".

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_45/ag-holder-confir...
From the looks of it, it seems Khrono's API may actually be significant better/easier to use than DirectX?

I haven't heard of DX12 getting overhauled for efficient multi-threading or great multi-GPU support. DX12 probably brings many of the same improvements Mantle brought, but Vulkan seems to go quite a bit beyond that. Also, I assume DX12 will be stuck with some less than pleasant DX10/DX11 legacy code as well.
Why don't you lobby for introducing "court grants of legal aid" (in German: Prozesskostenhilfe).
> I want to send you XX mbps and you want to receive it. You pay Comcast. Am I now entitled to a free connection?

Yes, provided you deliver it to the designated IX for my location and pay whatever applicable meet-me-room fees. Realistically only CDNs are going to do that for the O(100s) of locations in the country.

The alternative is to "negotiate" with Comcast. Since your BATNA is losing access to a huge fraction of Internet subscribers, Comcast is going to calculate your business's profit per megabyte and demand 90% of that. They know what Netflix costs. They know how much bandwidth the average Netflix customer uses.

A peer connection in the same city as the subscriber is literally the cheapest traffic for Comcast's network to handle. If their rates don't cover bandwidth to that, they should raise their rates.
The Legend of Canvas: Recreating Zelda in HTML5 and JavaScript
We read and studied "Guards! Guards!" at school, and we were fortunate enough that he visited and spoke to a group of us, answering questions. I seem to recall that I asked a fairly dumb question... This was about 25 years ago, but I'm honoured to have met him and will always remember his enthusiasm and charisma.
What will happen to the bug trackers of large Google projects like android, chromium, app engine, etc?
> You have to work to get the law changed if you feel it is absurd.

Aaron Swartz tried...
Insecure Direct Object Reference: Is Your ASP.NET App Data Secure?
Less Than 50 Percent of People Can Recognize the Apple Logo in This Photo
> Conditions, loops, function definitions, types, and so on, can be expressions (depending on the language, they may be fundamentally so), but having them look different, that reduces the interpretive burden, I think.

I think this is a very important point. Since everything is the same in Lisp, it's nearly impossible to have an idea of what the program is doing "at a glance". In (sane) syntax heavy languages, you can glean a significant amount of information in a short period of time just by scanning the syntax without reading the code.

This is less of an issue when writing a program, and more of an issue when maintaining one.
It's the other way around. Not having this language would give courts a good reason overturn the rule.
I migrated all my projects to Bitbucket when GitHub decided they do not want to host release downloads (they reversed the decision after that). I also use other Atlassian products and I trust the company to maintain the product, much more than I trust GitHub.

Bitbucket has much better review tools - hierarchical comments, approve button, side-by-side diff (GitHub has added that recently).

You can see commit log as a "graph", not just a simple list. It's easier to identify merges.

And it does not charge for personal private repositories.
I obviously meant general page whitespace; but you are right, the particular sentence I quoted was referring to the screenshot you posted, in which there is gratuitous (and horrific) lack of space.

I still think that my comment is appropriate for the general stance of the article, but the downvotes were undeserved (I upvoted you, for that matter)
Dubai Police: Using VPN in United Arab Emirates Is a Punishable Crime
Ellen Pao faces heated cross-examination at sex-bias trial
Bootstrapping is usually defined as 'pulling yourself up by your shoelaces' so using the revenues to fund the growth, but the prototype and initial capital is almost always provided from another source (savings, loans).

Not all VCs take outside investors, but plenty do.
Inside view of advertised israel 'silicon valley'
Silicon Valley needs to understand the food domain and it's environmental impact better before investing in these processed food startups. We already have the most efficient machine that converts plant matter into meat. It's called a cow. Cows and other ruminants have evolved over millions, if not billions of years, to make this process super efficient using just solar energy (photosynthesis) and water. Who are we to think we can do better in a few years in the lab?

Have these companies thought about the environmental impact of growing more row crops to create this fake meat and eggs? Row crops destroy ecosystems and reduce topsoil. It's also a system that sounds like it would need lots of logistics and energy to operate. Also it's not sustainable.

Silicon Valley should instead fund organizations looking to work with nature to create the future of food. Companies like Summer Technologies [1] are doing the right thing by acknowledging nature and creating technology that empowers sustainable agriculture that scales. With the right tools, these kind of farms can be more productive than massive industrial farms [2], feed the growing population of the world [3], while improving the quality of land and reducing CO2. It's a win-win-win if I've ever seen one.

This article also fails to mention anything about how the dangers of meat are greatly over exaggerated and not corroborated by modern science. [4] And what's wrong with eggs? They're one of the most nutritious foods out there with healthy omega-3 fats and a variety of minerals that are sorely lacking in modern processed food diets.

[1] http://www.summertechnologies.com

[2] Soil Carbon Cowboys: http://www.carbonnationmovie.com/about/clips/225-new-video-s...

[3] http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world...

[4] http://chriskresser.com/red-meat-it-does-a-body-good
...use your words... not your down votes
> Only if you make a habit of using reflection
Or type switches. Or nearly anything involving interface{}.
It sounds easy but it's not: imagine you're the software controling the SSD. Before you do write you don't know if the write will succeed. Once you've written, exactly the information that gives the pointers to the valid data could be the one that is destroyed. Then the "raw" data you can access can be "out of order" but that would still be better than nothing. I can imagine that there would have to be some special "recovery mode" which would allow ythe user to rescue the data blocks even with the uncertain order, in case you are willing to piece some of them together. But almost certainly there aren't much people willing to pay for that.

"Read only" after some fixed number of writes would be safer. But then the complaints would be "why can't they just allow me to write as much as I can, I have the backup somewhere anyway." Which is also a valid wish. So it would be the best to be able if user could select the mode.
There is nothing about not having rent controls that prevents this from happening.
I've been thinking about the reverse kickstarter for years. It is an awesome idea, but it would also suffer from a lot of problems:

- Just like any "network": not enough contributing members.

- People would pay now or when the problem was solved? Are they going to guarantee payment for something without a certain date?

- Who would decide if the problem was solved or not?
Not sure, but I'm imagining it's to avoid someone throwing out a read-only drive filled with sensitive data (and unable to erase it through conventional means - that is, writing to the drive)

Of course, there are other solutions to this problem: sledgehammer, etc
This is interesting, it's good to hear the opinion of somebody who's actually programmed against the APIs. I think the increase in exposed complexity is probably a good thing. The AAA studios have proved that they're able and willing to throw engineering resources at tough problems, so actually allowing them to directly interact with a lower level of code is probably a good thing.

I'm sure there's a counterargument that it raises the bar for indie game devs, but when's the last time an indie game directly programmed against DirectX or OpenGL (barring webGL)? This should let engine developers better use their development time.
It's a bit over my head, not sure I get what you said. But IIRC, Terence Parr wrote an article about composable parsers still being open research problem.

But I'll add one delightful trait: sexps split usually complex parsing stage in two simple separate ones:

- chars -> sexp
- sexp -> meaning (special forms / anticipated mental evaluation).

It's like a catalytic system.
A simple hack SQLite used to stop frivolous support calls
Don't break your promises ($q)
Oh, I've got it. Let's institute a policy whereby parents can only have one child. We could call it the "Single Kid Policy."
Yeah, sure. I don't think that contradicts my post: I'm just saying that people might be concerned about those things, and an LP might question whether a given VC firm is best managing the assets under its control. The author didn't say that VC firms were obliged to invest in outsiders, just that these rules might give LPs more confidence that firms were behaving properly and in their investors best interests.

That's not a wishy-washy "fairness" thing: it's a concern about whether the firm is fulfilling its obligations to its backers. You don't have to agree with the concern... but it isn't an unreasonable thing to be worried about.
Normally I'm all for entertaining whatever criticism anyone has, but this displays exactly the worst aspects of armchair commentary.

I don't think you have any understanding of what the situation on the ground was like.

1. What, do you think putting "Don't give up" on a poster in Swartz's office would have helped?

2. In a chess game, you can sacrifice the queen without blinking, but in real life the decision might not be cold and you don't get to make it into a cold decision if you're in the situation.

3. Spoken like someone who will never, ever take a risk or a stand on principle. What you saw was the actions of someone thinking it through! This I think is where your arrogance is most evident, in that you're evaluating someone's strategy in a calm environment without any display of understanding of the pressure the situation creates.

4. You seriously think Aaron didn't fight? You just think he should have fought more? What a nice little opinion you have.