skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or perhaps they're just trying to diversify their portfolio.

Perhaps similar to how while Google acquires all sorts of interesting startups, it doesn't mean they're shifting away from search/ads.
Yup. It's all a matter of what you want to optimize for.
What about startups that want to pay with equity instead of cash?
Think about the Golden Ratio more like you think about the binary or decimal system.

It's not a universal rule but it represents some type of pattern.
You should read that, it's very interesting:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html
Correct - article explains what HAProxy reload does behind the scenes and how it can drop connections for a very short period (many if you have many connections like yelp does!)
Probably just as many as Americans who memorize what Red #40 is.
I'd google for organizations you can help, but some ideas
- Habitat for Humanity (Global Venture could be good for travel too), a local ReStore, or a local house.
- A Meetup Near You
- A Startup Weekend Near You
- Ask a coworking space if you can be a coffee and copies intern
- Craigslist Gigs
- Your local church might know something.
I've owned Kindles for years, and never noticed any of these things. Nobody I know has noticed them either. My anecdote is just as valid as yours.

I'm not saying user experience critiques aren't valid, I'm saying the article is so filled with hypberbole and anti-Amazon insults that there's no point debating his complaints.

Like others have said, this guy is going to hate on everything Amazon is doing, because he's making it perfectly clear hates Amazon. It's a no win argument.
Obama not planning to endorse Clinton in primary campaign
I suspect the initial post was a response to Charlie Stross's remarks about existential risks: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/on-the-g...

Since we live in the twitteresque dark ages there's no way to know. Vannevar Bush would be turning in his grave.
Force quit not required on linux/firfox 37. Normal close function works. I think a blog post explaining why it is would be better.
Is there anything more you can share in relation to the numbers to comment on?

Feel free to send me an email.
At one point in the not too distant past the "absinthe" in the US was basically grain alcohol with food coloring. This coincided w/ the surge of absinthe popularity and led to people pointing fingers as to what was different, often the thujone level. This is no longer the case, nor did it have anything to do with thujone.

As you note, spirits which are extremely herbal in nature are going to have natural variance between recipes as each vendor finds their own unique flavor (e.g. fernets)
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I'm upfront and start the conversation with, "You employed me to give you an honest opinion. I think we are going in the wrong direction, we need more tests and some refactoring. This will cost us money now, but save money later." and I always get the reply that sure, they totally understand, but we're going to do a quick and dirty hack today and sort it all out next week...

I used to just refactor and test as I went along, but then you end up ruffling feathers and being slower that others. This is then used as ammo against you. So you lose by doing the right thing.

I think pouring energy into other things (open source) is more productive.
Right the configuration is loaded into memory, and you need to reload it to get any changes in.

I believe it's API let's you enable/disable existing configured servers but not dynamically add or remove them.
Hi Eric,
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i was just surprised, can't restart firefox at all w/ mac os x, safari not much happier but at least it recovers... was just surprised that a 64MB file can so easily KO it..
The Borg don't really stay stationed on planets, the Star Trek universe has FTL scanning technology, and as a general rule, physical projectiles are handwaved to be unable to penetrate shields on ships, and even if they didn't, that's exactly what the deflector is for.

Sorry you got downvoted though.
I think startups are different in this regard.

Most businesses are about turning the crank on the machine that makes them money. There you have relatively stable org charts, markets, products, cultures, and production processes. Need for information flow is modest.

Startups, on the other hand, are trying to discover or invent all of those things. The information flow is much higher. The very best communication medium we have is being in a room together, and a good startup makes great use of its high bandwidth and low latency.

At my last startup I looked for opportunities to hire remote workers for things, but rarely found them. The two I got to work were throw-away, low-priority code (e.g., non-critical-path prototypes) and Amazon Turk tasks. For the core work, though, it went best when we were all in one place.
Anybody knows the terms? I wonder why all this secrecy about the numbers...
Perhaps an interesting way to interpret what you're saying is that SF is bad enough that people no longer want to move there since all their surplus income will be consumed by housing costs (valid concern!).

But new immigrant salaries are as good as american salaries in terms of how much they can push prices up; so hiring H1-B is essentially similar to a pay cut for people (same $$, higher housing costs); following this pay cut some existing engineers will leave.

In the end you just end up with replacing some old engineers with new ones through a costly lengthy process.

This is the kind of absurd logical games one has to play in order to not acknowledge basic economics of supply and demand.
Inclusionism in the *BSD community
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Depends on who moves first and how much clout they have. If it's not the more powerful producers, they could seek any path that defended their turf.
If you want to track click stats but don't want to make it public, try my "lean startup" - http://taveo.net/

I usually describe it as bit.ly + Google analytics.
That sounds like malarkey. (Academic) organic chemists love to synthesize compounds that previously could only be done in nature.

Novig is not a chemist, and the recollection is 30 years old. It could be that he misremembered the story, or the original chemist was telling him a tall tale. Instead, this sounds like a just-so story that people tell to impart truthiness.

To be more concrete, what's the compound? As this Wired piece says:

> Much as it sounds, extraction involves the pulling of new chemicals from the oak, including phenol, benzoic acid, and vanillin. When you taste notes of sawed wood, burnt toast, smoke, or vanilla in a whiskey, it’s largely due to extraction of these compounds from the barrel, literally aldehydes and phenols leaching into your drink

Quoting now from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-new-... :

> He says the company’s chemists have found about 300 different compounds, and have identified some 200 of them. Once all elements are ascertained and understood, some fear it may be a short step to producing synthetic aged bourbon. “You could go to the lab and say, ‘I’m going to take one part per billion of this and one part per billion of this and three parts per billion of that, I’m going to put it all in a test tube, and I’m going to make the perfect bourbon based on our research,’ ” says Brown. He hastens to add, “I don’t think we’ll ever be looking to make a synthetic bourbon.”
Understood, and I agree that often there isn't very much productive happening by the end. Hopefully that will eventually change.
I think that "fresh-squeezed" is just what it means; if you look at the chemically de- and re-constructed juices (like Tropicana), they have some super evasive language on them about their juice being "squeezed from fresh oranges" or similar.
This was more complicated that I hoped it would be. Is there any reason HAProxy couldn't simply add a way to reload it's conifg file while running?

It already supports a bunch of commands to modify the config while it is running, via the Unix socket, but there's no way to pipe an entire config file to that socket.

It wouldn't work for version upgrades, of course, but that's not really the main use case.

Another option could be to start up a parallel HAProxy that listens to a different port. Then use iptables to route traffic to that port instead of the old one. Not sure if this would break connections, though, or if there is a way to prevent breaking connections.
I don't think fleitz was being sarcastic per se - certainly I didn't read it as suggesting human evolution was a 'bad thing'.

Rather pointing out that (at the time) oxygen in the atmosphere was hostile to more complex forms of life. As we know, oxygen is a pretty unpleasant element in its raw state - but we managed to work around that particular problem.
It's not in a stable orbit around the sun...

If it has velocity to escape earth's gravity then it does not match earth and will eventually go somewhere else.

If it does not it will fall back.

Only at a Lagrange point will it not deviate from earth.

Given that it is not heading to earth we simply point it at an appropriate trajectory to intercept the moon and/or another planet using that planet to perform aforementioned "banked curve" which directs it to the sun at increased or decreased velocity.

The primary cost of shipping stuff to the sun is escaping earth, once you do that the additional fuel required to reach the sun is nowhere near the amount of fuel required to slow from 30 km/sec to zero.

Basically all we need to do is reach the moon... from there gravity does the work for us with the correct trajectory and a small amount of fuel to correct the trajectory.
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I suspect they'd do both; use a process like this to drastically improve their low-end products, but make a labelling distinction between 'natural' and 'artificially-aged' scotch/rum/etc.
I dispute the basic narrative here. If you have tail calls, you have GOTO. If you have closures, you have pointers. The story (so far) is not one of features disappearing, but of features being subsumed by other more general, abstract features.
Really? I did not know this.

Interesting. What kind of dialects are you referring to?
As long as they are not directly available to the programmer.
You prefer fresh-squeezed because it's neither oxidized nor heat-treated. Squeeze an orange into 3 beakers and let the juice stand for 1/2 day, a day, and 2 days; you'll see that it loses the appealing brightness and floral notes quickly.

Related:

http://www.cookingissues.com/2010/10/01/fresh-lime-juice-wtf...
To be fair, the problem here is that the waste is already in orbit (by virtue of being part of earth). His point is that if you want to hit the sun: don't orbit it. To stop an orbit around the sun is a hell of a job.

But if you're not orbiting in the first place: no problem.
Is this a candidate for the great filter?

The word 'filter' doesn't appear in the article, or on this page (at time of typing), but the whole argument really seems to lend itself to the possibility that a complicating requirement of a civilisation advanced enough to talk to (or visit) us, requires at least one long iteration of presumably CO2-rich, plant-abundant, age - followed by a sufficiently long period to turn that into what we think of as fossil fuels. And then have intelligent life pop up that can work out how to discover, obtain, and utilise that resource.
Related (Referenced in the article):

http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1952

Chris Ré covers this in his CS345 course at Stanford.
"Personally, my take is that MS and ARB always had the wrong idea. "

I think this is partly because the APIs evolved from the late 90s, when GPUs was less complex and simpler.
I'm still confused by this "If Albert can tell from just the month that Bernard does not know, then we can rule out all of May and June"
It's interesting to see that recent languages are making strides towards this list.

* Golang does away with inheritance and exceptions.

* Rust does away with mutability, or at least makes it explicit.

I wonder if a convenient language with all of these taken out could exist. I'm skeptical about a single number-type.

Also, wouldn't reference equality simply be gone if you take away pointers?

Also, his point about interfaces is pretty narrow, not every interface's manipulation can be characterized by one or one set of manipulations. I think Golang is a fantastic example of a language that forces a role-based interface pattern.
You could try join a proven startup like DropBox or AirBNB etc. They should be able to give you a good salary and equity and there is still scope for it to go up.

Or you can foray into sales, or CTO role at your smallco. Then as a director negotiate shares.

However sounds like you'd be good as a technical cofounder. You said "I can learn anything in no time" and it sounds like you are ambitious.

You could also launch a lifestyle business like many on HN have done, which can slowly grow to beyond what a dev could earn in a job.
That actually sounds fascinating and changes my thoughts, such that I'll probably pick this up.

I've been trying to figure out what bothered me about the way the thesis was presented in the article. I think I picked up on the bit about 'video games, pornography and gambling apps on your phone' and assumed the author was making a moral judgement on those things. That doesn't sound like the case though - i think I was just quick to judge.

Another one to add to the growing Kindle pile :)
That way government more closely follows the will of the people when people have geographically non-uniform distribution of what they want in government. For example, if 60% of Maryland wants children to be banned from playing outside while 40% of Pennsylvania does, it more closely matches the will of the people if Maryland bans it and Pennsylvania doesn't, instead of having the feds ban it or ban states from banning it. Not that "will of the people" democratic mysticism is a good justification for anything.
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How exactly is it worse if it's not different from classic scheme?
I know E150 but nothing else.

Plus yellow #5. Thanks to eminem.
"The company’s latest self-driving car runs on batteries recharged by electricity." I'm missing something, aren't all batteries recharged by electricity?
I guess you have a fair point. And I'm certain I've made such mistakes as well, it's just that I can't stand those two particular errors for whatever reason :) Maybe I'm getting old...
Previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9193521
There's good whiskey available for ~$20/bottle, or even less, so I'm not sure this market is a great new vista.

For what it's worth: what you're pitching is basically Templeton Rye (albeit for Scotch), which is also chemically "improved".
Question: The article mentions that a 1kg projectile travelling at 99% of the speed of light would have such and such more explosive energy than the most powerful nuclear bob ever detonated. I don't doubt the math, but would the destructive effects (e.g. to a city) of such a projectile weapon actually equal those of a nuclear bomb? I'm not talking about the radiation and such in the aftermath, just the explosion itself. Wouldn't the projectile basically go straight through a planet?

Edit: I suppose the shockwave from entering the atmosphere would cause a bit of a rucus too...still interested in any responses.
See:

http://chuckcowdery.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-best-kept-secre...
That's a long way from original claim that "the vi/vim editing model is just superior to any other out there", though. "You may need it in some crippled environments, so it's handy to know" is a considerably weaker claim...
You'd still be in orbit, and would still cross the plane at regular intervals, so you wouldn't "get rid of it", as with flying out of the solar system or into the sun.
You are begging the question
A Stirling engine powered by a solar concentrator could work very well for pumping and storing air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
"White House press secretary Josh Earnest says the president is staying out because other friends of his may also run."
The issue was authentication, not encryption. Though SSL of course does both.

Authentication can be done much more cheaply than encryption (well assuming you have the clout to force a change in standards). It could be implemented as simply as <script src="baidu" hash="a84b3">. In particular such a request could be transparently cached without security concerns.
Your pain reliever may also be diminishing your joy
"to save their lives" is a little dramatic, considering they were in a closed tech interview. I'm sure if you gave them 20 seconds on the internet (you know, the resource they would have in a real life problem solving situation) they could find one.
I decided to verify that I am not making things up ;)

Starting Strength, 2nd edition:

- There is a whole section on barbell rows in the "Useful Assistance Exercises" chapter. See page 263.

- Barbell row substitution is mentioned in the "Programming" chapter. Page 289, start of 5th paragraph: "People without access to bumper plates may choose to use the barbell row instead of the power clean. This is not a terrible substitution, but be aware of what you're giving up if you do..."

I guess Rip changed his mind?
Eventually the first question will be asked more often.

Today's 5gb is tomorrow's word document.
I was amazed when my best friend wrote a full game in Forth while he was still in high-school. I couldn't do it, and I'm still puzzled about it :)
I was wondering if you had any advice for hardware startups?

I'm currently exploring the idea of integrated-circuit spectroscopy, and have the physics/simulations down but the capital required to fabricate the chips and iterate on the designs is quite high.
I'm surprised it's hosted by the .NET Foundation. I feel the .NET Foundation operates somewhat independently from Microsoft, but there is a large alignment with what Microsoft wants. Using LLVM feels like a departure from some of the things they're working on now.

Some blog posts I have read on the MSDN Developer Tools Blogs suggested Microsoft was already working on their own AOT compiler, this statement seems to suggest LLILC has not been developed for this purpose yet. So it's an independent project?

> Today LLILC is being developed against dotnet/CoreCLR for use as a JIT, but an ahead of time (AOT) compiler is planned for the future

Which doesn't make much sense to me, unless Microsoft is planning on ditching their existing AOT work for LLVM. (Fine by me, LLVM is quite nice.)
Makefiles = crap
Another approach: have haproxy fork/exec a child, inheriting the same file descriptor for the listening socket, then have the child tell the parent when it should stop accepting connections on that socket.

No idea how that works in practice, but it seems like a sound concept? :)
This might give the beginnings of an idea of what would happen:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Except you couldn't call it Scotch due to the name being a protected mark, with most countries, the US included, participants in treaties that protect those marks.
Planet Labs has raised a total of $160.1 million in funding across 4 disclosed rounds.[1] I'm going to assume there was also an angel round. Here is some (super) rough math:

| Round | $ in MM | post-$ | non-VC % |
|-----------|----------|----------|----------|
| Founding | - | - | 100 |
| Angel | 1 | 10 | 90 |
| Series A | 13.1 | 50 | 75 |
| Series B | 52 | 225 | 58 |
| Series C | 118 | 550 | 45 |

Note this announcement is the "second closing" of the 95MM Series C from January[2], which means the terms are very likely identical. The WSJ reported the Series C valuation as "materially above" 500 million.[3]

I picked these valuations out of thin air. The only "standard" thing I've seen is that most VC funds are structured for 20% minimum stake in Series A rounds. Later-stage rounds often target less ownership.

The above calculation doesn't take into account any stock for employees. With that, I'd estimate the founders still collectively own about 30-35% of the company.

This could also be totally wrong, since I have no idea what the real numbers are. But as an exercise, you get the idea. :)

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/planet-labs

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/20/planet-labs-95m/

[3] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/01/23/data-collecti...
This is a crappy comment. It would have been funnier, though, if you had posted something like, "I could solve this with a Perl one-liner."
That might work, it would have to be detected soon enough to allow for the time to build it, though.
I think learning C++ is fine, and I don't think you should worry about obsolescence. I think any language that replaces C++ will still use its idioms. When it comes to high performance stuff, the real knowledge is not in C++, it's in dealing with cache-friendliness, how to shovel stuff in/out the network or other devices quickly, architectural stuff like event loops vs. threads. I think C++, the language, is a tiny portion of that knowledge.
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Maybe 4e4th on the MSP430 Launchpad would suit your needs: http://www.somersetweb.com/4E4th/EN.html
I was thinking the same thing. When is something just a library, and when is it something more? Think about concurrency in Go. Goroutines are cool, but what makes them more than just a cooperative threading library? Channels? Those are just concurrent data structures. The special sauce in Go is the select structure. It allows you to easily express control flow that cannot be expressed without select (or at least not easily). What is the special sauce in these probabilistic programming languages? What could not be implemented using a library?
Having actually been to the lab and used some watches for an entire day, I can confidently say the picture he posted doesn't do the display justice. It looks really good and vibrant and the resolution is very high - higher than the original iPhone packed into a much smaller space.
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wait, wait.. You want to use your phone as your portable home directory?

Does anyone else see why this is a potentially horrible idea?
I'm not sure I understand your objections with editing the content of the video. The leaked episodes were screeners, intentionally degraded in quality (low res, watermarked). Changes like these will obviously not be shown to the final viewer.
I think you can use -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED to match existing tcp flows.

But that builds on conntrack, you could get in trouble if this HA proxy is public facing and handles a gazillion requests ?