skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That video is, of course, linked in the article... ;)
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I still heavily use my high end MBP early 2011.
I switched to an SSD and 16 go of ram when it became unuseable last year, adding 1 or 2 years of use.
I don't see how I could do something similar with Apple's curent product line.
It's easier to tell "time to leave" from "the whole thing has failed". It really sounds like the first is true for you. The second? Quite likely, because a lot of startups fail, but the definitive "it is over" moment might come loooooong after (like, 5+ years after) the point where you, personally, should leave. Your rich co-founder can keep it afloat-enough to say he has a job for years, but this does nothing for you.

My partner is fine actually, he has rich parents and doesn't really depend on the startup for income.

Sadly, this also means that he outranks you. It couldn't be an equal partnership even if he wanted it that way. He has the connections to find clients and funding (although it sounds like the latter is out of the question) and you don't, which means he'll call the shots.

If you're going without salary and not the boss, it's time to leave. Time to leave was a lot time ago, in fact.

I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already.

You're not. 25 is not old. You're losing money and opportunity every time you work at a dead-end startup, but that's not the same thing as "losing at life". Just make the best decision you can at this point. You don't have to justify your past or yourself. You tried something and it didn't work out; that happens to the best of us.
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I don't pay ATM fees (in the UK).

Also, bitcoin has dropped (it looks like) about 4% day, so as long as my ATM fees are less than 4% of my account, I'm still in profit for the day compared to bitcoin.
> gameshow presenter outfit

You mean a suit? Cause the photo definitely has him in a suit jacket.
A drone also isn't there thirty years later when the country has a different name and a different form of government and an eight-year-old puts an errant foot where there was once a target designated.
What makes you say that?

From wikipedia:

"WikiLeaks is an international, non-profit,[3] journalistic[6][7][8] organisation, which publishes secret information, news leaks,[9] and classified media from anonymous sources.[3][10]."

Based on the number of references for that sentence, I think we can conclude you are not the only one disputing this. What's your definition of press or what disqualifies Wikleaks?
I trust independent reporting which in this case is plentiful. No need to rely on "propaganda" from either side, thankfully I can (and you can to) easily find reports from the ground by actual citizens, and reports from news agencies around the world not under the influence of the US or it's allies/adversaries.
> Today it may seem obvious that communication using programming languages is protected by the First Amendment.

Actually, I didn't realize this. Good to know!

Though I kind of wonder what the limits to this are. Does a reporter have to disclose source code if they use it to calculate something the NSA/CIA/military don't want the world knowing? Can the government jail me for publishing source code it deems "obscene"?
2 tweets by carmack surrounded by 16 tweet/ads for PVS studio...

That said, I'm using CPPCAT (from the PVS studio guys) and I like it.
...ok. The first carrot quote is me (Classicsnoot, by the by, and it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance!). The other two are not, so in essence you have misquoted me. I do not think this invalidates all of your posts as I choose to see it as an honest mistake. Second, Climate Shift is occurring and it, IMO, is on par with the geological/climatological history of our planet as we understand it. Does human activity exacerbate this trend? Who cares? We cannot stop it. We will either evolve to adapt or join the dinosaurs. Arguing about the depth and source of the river is a bit silly as the waterfall is approaching.
I didn't know Gitlab provided its own hosting, so I went with Bitbucket for my private repo. Now I'm using (self-hosted) Gitlab at work and definitely prefer its interface over Bitbucket's. Either way, for private repos Github is probably the worst option of the three.
The major flaw of GitLab is using Git. After having used something as logical as Mercurial it's kinda hard to switch. Besides I don't care about social and Torvalds-hype.
Only 700mb? Maybe back in the perkin elmer days, these days they're up to 4gb, constrained only by the various linkers, file size and address spaces available...
It's amazing that so much pro-Israel (and anti anti-Israel) content, news, analysis and perspectives are traded at SONY including the TIP "NGO". Anyone know who Pascal or Amy are?

It also cropped up some goodies:

"They mention that it was a sony executive that told them to not use a fictitious name, but to go with kim jong-un - They mention that a former cia agent and someone who used to work for Hilary Clinton looked at the script - this might all be fine, but this is all info that the journalists have at this time."

"This was the first of the important article re; the subject for our doc that appeared in the British press this summer during the Gaza crisis. I think we will get full cooperation from the impt media in europe, the eu, the current conservative govt. in the uk, the current govt in france, angela merkel in germany, many academics ( def at Oxford, Cambridge, LSE ) and of course, major jewish orgs in the uk france germany and in most eu countries ..........
during the high holidays this year, no synagogue in britain or jewish school did not have police protection and private security provided by the cst ( the community security trust, an organization created to report hate crime and provide security to synagogues etc ...... kind of an armed ADL ...... funded by Sir Gerald Ronson ) The same for synagogues in every major European city.
The threat here is very real ....... in certain parts of London ....... even an American accent is commented on ........ negatively, since thebombing of Isis has begun.
This documentary is an essential tool for spreading our message. Ron"
Collusion isn't just possible. It's already been going on for at least two years now. As was said by one pool operator (paraphrasing), "the only people mining are 12 pools".

Bitcoin isn't about distrust. It's about decentralized trust as that is the primary function of the blockchain. Bitcoin as an ecosystem hasn't been about distrust, but decentralized trust, and it has long been moving away from decentralization, which is fundamentally problematic.
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Interview attire != what you wear once you have the job

It's like dating - what you wear on the first date is not what you can expect your spouse to expect/tolerate once you are living together.
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A couple of years back I worked as a programmer maintaining and extending a Windows application whose development had started in 1993. Besides teaching me to hate the Win32 API with vigor, that job and the application taught me - and motivated me to learn - a lot about C. About halfway through my time at that company, I came across this book, and I really liked it.
Those were interestings times. ;-) We used OpenWatcom, whose debugger sucks really hard - basically, the moment your program crashes, you cannot inspect any of its state with the debugger, which pretty defeats the purpose of a debugger. The profiler sucked even harder. It was a PC-sampling profiler, and once the number of samples exceeded some magical value, it crashed, taking the program down with it. The compiler itself never gave me any problems, though, and it came with good documentation. It was also one of the few C compilers left that could target DOS. (Don't laugh, more recently I had to write a small program for DOS to set the serial port on a machine attached to an industrial control system to specific parameters.)

Sorry for rambling, but this brought up some pleasant memories... :)

I think the title is a bit strongly worded, but other than that it is a really good book. When writing large-ish applications in C, one has to develop strategies for dealing with some of C's problems, and even if you disagree with some of the author's suggestions (or, as somebody else pointed out, find them obsolete because of C's ongoing evolution), it gets you thinking about those issues.

EDIT: Whether C is the right language for writing large-ish applications is a different issue, but in the early nineties, it was a relatively prudent choice, and if a program is popular/useful enough, someone has got to do the maintenance.
Good retort. They certainly should push it forward. The continual overhaul is tiresome though... Now they have an entire new language! Not only will I rewrite all my solutions next year, I'll have to rewrite my notes from scratch and learn yet another language.

If all I did was develop iOS/OS X apps I would enjoy the continual improvements, but its tough to keep up with when you also have to keep up with a variety of other technologies (like OpenGL! -- which I have used since Iris GL).

The fact remains, rewrite your iOS apps every year.

Of course this pales compared to the crazy ADHD pace of JS frameworks -- that is truly beyond reason.
Hmm, just updated to that version and it appears to work. The only warning I get is "The identity of this website has been verified by Gandi Standard SSL CA but does not have public audit records". We'll do some more testing and see if we can dig anything up.

No worries about your comment, as I mentioned others had shared the same opinion so we are working on adjusting that. We've already updated the payment form to provide details on who our processor is and what to look for on your statement.
Thanks to the OP.
There's a big advantage in the bags, in that you can grab one when you're heading out for the day or a handful when you're gonna be gone for the weekend. It's hard to do that with a giant week-sized card.
I'm using this for a week now. Switched to it from Emacs Prelude (another config kit), and before that Vim itself.

I use Vim a lot less now: still have a simple .vimrc laying around for just-in-case.
I think there is a similar situation with guitar tuning where the G string can either be tuned to a 4th above the D string, or a Maj3 below B string, which are not exactly equal, so guitar chords are usually a tiny bit out of tune.
No, I didn't shift the goal post. I added an extra sentence to fix the "parse error". I use a Xcode debugger when it works, for example. However, I'm also able to effectively debug my code when Apple breaks it. I've been dropped in to debug JavaScript in IE7, for instance, and told that I couldn't install Chrome to debug it because it "wasn't a corporate standard".

Someone who wants a complete ecosystem before they can be effective strikes me as a problem.
The original's scan: http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/work/2009/AIM-239-ocr.pdf
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How did your move to Berlin go? I've been thinking about doing the same
You have to ride with awareness of the hazards I used to regularly ride in central London 15 years ago.

1 Ride assertively not aggressively
2 Don't ride in the gutter
3 Most IMPORTANT don't undertake slow or stopped traffic - that's what causes most fatal accidents (90% in london)
prior art: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/brooklyn-free-schoo...
So... yes? It is a bit petty to disregard the message because of the garb of the messenger :|
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Or the 2/3. Or you could, uh, transfer?
as recently as 2013 there were still libraries that had Fortran dependencies.
You can write the software, but where are you going to get the data? There are only a few companies that own it and they're not going to give it away. The data is very costly to collect. That's a lot of the cost of any financial software is data licensing fees.
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Good story at the intersection of tech and finance.
EVERYONE should read this MIT memo. And then go on to read Hank Warren's Hackers Delight. Knuth's Volume IV of the Art of the Computer Programming also has some interesting material. If this does not fascinate you, perhaps you should consider another profession.
Thanks for spotting the typo, fixed. It should be per user, per year.

> As another side question, suppose I sign up for a GitLab account and have repositories there. Is it possible to import / move them easily if I later decide to host my own instance? I noticed that you said it's easy to migrate from Bitbucket / Github, but can repos be moved between GitLab instances easily?

If you have a large amount of repositories, you can import them directly, rather than simply pushing them to the new server. Of course, we're happy to help you with this if needed.
So on what basis do we trust Snowden leaks? The Guradian releases whatever parts they want to, whenever it pleases them.
A surprising amount of twenty-somethings, actually!

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_holiday_visa

For example, as an American, you might be eligible for a two-year working vacation visa in Korea. The requirements vary, but you typically only need two-way airfare and a modest amount of cash to prove you won't become a hobo. :-)
I'm curious: what's wrong with Github private repos?
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There could not be a more stark difference between feminists I know in person and some of the cranks that are popular online. At least part of the problem is that social media selects for bombast. What horrifies me is that this mode of thinking and speaking is leaking into real world behavior.
Does anybody know the company they're talking about? Does the top piece use some sort of gyro-stabilized magnetic control system?
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Great. We have a blog post up:
http://blog.fixed.com/post/116649853902/a-problem-we-need-he...

... I'll setup a GitHub later today.
Scientists create self-powering camera that only uses light
...among other things.
Phillips heads are not really for high-torque applications. They stem from an era where many drivers didn't have a rapid stop, and the automated centering was very helpful.

Unfortunately, this persisted in the construction industry because of drywall. Phillips heads in drywall will readily "cam out" when you hit a high enough torque, which can help prevent over tightening or stripping. (of course, if you keep trying to tighten the screws they will almost always strip).

The bits were universal, but they were never designed to be a high torque fastener, and they are completely inappropriate for most woodscrews over 2 inches long (deck screws, etc.)

Fortunately, even home depot and lowes are now beginning to carry Torx drive screws, which work much better. If you are buying deck screws for any project, always try to get T25 rather than T20 size screws. They are sufficiently resilient that each screw could be reused many times, while phillips/square drive screws will start to loosen/strip after 1 use.
Nice, but there's more comprehensive toolset already: https://metacpan.org/release/App-RecordStream
I've tried a number of Vim replacements in the past that always omit really key features like macros, searching, correct escape configuration (Ctrl-[ god damnit!), g/s/v commands and any other number of things.

Is this one really, ACTUALLY a good vim substitute? Or do I have to relearn a ton of stuff just to get to the same level of knowledge and comfort I have with Vim?
Yes, it's an expression. The algorithm is evaluating that expression. However, algorithms also evaluate algorithms, and a better example would have been an actual algorithm that needs to be interpreted.
That's a very good way to put it.

Vim's editing model is much more functional (a la functional programming) than Emacs', whereas the latter's foundation is much more functional.

I keep thinking I should try Emacs with one of the Vim-ulators, but I've got a pretty good flow going in Vim and I've got a lot of other things I'm trying to learn right now, not to mention paying work to do.
Any continuous function can be described as a sum of sinus-functions with different amplitude and frequencies, given that the maximum frequency is limited. Finding these amplitudes can be done quite easily using something called discrete fourier transform. A lot of audio and imaging technology is based on this theory, jpeg compression for example, and almost any audio and signal-processing.
> does Apple really care about its developers?

Yes, of course, or you wouldn't have the ability to do it at all. But Apple cares more about it's users and the experiences they users have, and things like GateKeeper help them sell users on a safer, walled experience. As an Apple developer (in that I've paid for a license, not Apple-employed) with parents and a grandparent who have a Mac, I much prefer simply telling them to only install stuff from the App Store and not worrying about downloading and running anything from the general Internet.
> I've learned so much about programming and computer science in general from HN, and even physics, biology, politics, and other topics.

Nope. Been here for a long time (this is not my first account) - it's mostly senseless factoids that fade. Nonsense synthesized from research paper abstracts.

Linked from another thread: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/...

You are not building a systematic understanding of anything by reading HN, you are encountering unconnected assertions that mean nothing in isolation.
It's very interesting to watch.

In microcosm it demonstrates something I've often thought about libertarian proposals for government-less societies - in fairly short order a class of barons will appear and we're back to feudalism of a sort.
Now I wonder if anyone has gathered data on vocal ranges. I'd love to be able to query for a list of songs in my range.
The original trilogy seems to suggest that there is some form of inheritance related to force abilities, and the new trailer re-emphasises this. "The force runs strong in my family".

It seems from an evolutionary perspective that it's a very bad idea for Jedi not to marry and have kids, because it stops the traits that make them strong enough in the force from being carried on or even improved in the next generation.

With the Sith not being restrained by such a code, it would seem like this puts the Jedi at a significant disadvantage.
First off, thanks for your awesome tutorials!

I actually switched to Spacemacs, for largely the reasons you mentioned (everything is there, but easier to extend and largely better).

I was merely pointing out that vim with some plugins is good enough to get serious work done in Clojure, even though getting access to real refactoring libraries, a debugger, etc in my editor would be welcome.

The one problem I have with Emacs is that vim-sexp is and was much much much much better than paredit. Treating forms as text objects and letting you use regular vim motions to select text objects before slurping/barfing/etc is a move forward. It wasn't exactly obvious to me how to duplicate this with Spacemacs/VIM, but I also had work to do so I just went with the Spacemacs paredit bindings.
according to the EU this is an antitrust violation?
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It's true. It made me develop an automatic reflex to hit the Esc key every time after inserting a couple of characters, even when I wasn't using vi at all. It was pretty annoying. Imagine typing a document in Word and pressing Esc constantly. Fortunately I switched to Emacs and the reflex went away.
Google changed api terms and pricing out of nowhere
You’re not wrong, but we’re arguing about different things, and I’m not sure how I can make myself clear.

I think they didn’t mean to equate programming skill and masculinity. I also think they should be more sensitive in how they speak. I also think it’s dishonest to ignore the fact that one can be true without the other.

Furthermore, “manly man” is a wacky satirical caricature of “real man”, a problematic stereotype. “Negro” is just a problematic stereotype. I think we should find a better comparison, but one doesn’t come to mind.
You know, after the "Blurred Lines" incident[1], it wouldn't surprise me if the music industry started pushing for more limits on copyright enforcement.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/10/blurred-lines-p...
The Thrawn Trilogy and Rogue Squadron were probably the best book series in the EU and unfortunately they were dropped.
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If Apple customers can sleep outside, why can’t homeless people?
> neither do we know what they actually do

Actually, if you click through on the GPs link Apple provides information in two links with further links to PDFs and FAQs.

https://www.apple.com/recycling/gift-card/
Most of the time, the expensive part of travel is the actual transportation - especially as Americans. In my mind, there's two ways to overcome this:
1 - Move somewhere closer to your desired destinations.
2 - Travel to destinations for longer periods.

The first solution is maybe not doable for everyone, but if you can, it makes travelling so much easier. Consider that OP now lives in Germany. He can hop on a train and get to hundreds of destinations for relatively cheap and in a short amount of time.

The second one reduces the percentage of money spent while travelling on transportation. It doesn't really matter if you stay 2 days or 2 weeks at a destination, it's probably going to cost you the same amount. By extending your stay, you're getting more enjoyment/experiences for the same up front cost.
>Can the government jail me for publishing source code it deems "obscene"?

It's an interesting idea, but obscenity is a tricky one to pin down.. IIRC it's generally something that 'depraves and corrupts', and of course one man's obscene is another man's Art..

What would be obscene code and not already fall in the areas of law that already deal with illegality of code, i think that's one question to ask, in order to answer your question.
Totally agree, Philips is horrible to use with a screw gun. I'm just happy that star drive is so common now, I always use those if I can.
The business failed. You did not. The knowledge you just gained can't be taught, and you'll see the signs much earlier next time. Chalk it up as a life lesson and move on. Take a break, give yourself time to really go over everything that happened and let the lessons learned really sink in, and then get back on the horse. Aim for stability (a set schedule, an hourly wage), but don't stay there, only use it as a landing pad when you fall hard in times like this (its easy to become content with mediocrity).

Best of luck to you.
eBay has other restrictions, though. For example, there are caps to how much you can sell when you start out. I think these companies should be allowed to set these types of restrictions to protect consumers.

eBay doesn't set prices because it would be too onerous with the variation of items. It's more economical for them to have the market dictate pricing. Also, when I was a contractor using an agency to find work, I wasn't able to set my price for their clients. I'm fine with that because I traded my ability to set pricing for someone to find work for me.
fem·i·nism
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noun
noun: feminism

the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
synonyms:	the women's movement, the feminist movement, women's liberation, female emancipation, women's rights; informalwomen's lib
"a longtime advocate of feminism"
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Ok. But why would I want to use GitLab over GitHub?
Not only are they niche, they are also pretty distinctively not skinner boxes with a nice display. Games at the top often are.