skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that the original purpose of shared libraries relates to patching software?

Others seem to be suggesting that the emergence of dynamic linking was a response to general limitations in secondary storage and memory. Limitations that no longer exist.
I found that interesting- if you browse the rest of http://www.junkyardsam.com/blog/ there isn't any discussion of the usage figures of other startups, just art.

I'm not accusing him of being some sort of content shill, but it is interesting to think about - HN, Reddit and the like are a major force these days. An article that is negative about Foursquare absolutely could affect value in acquisition talks.

In fact, since this has since been said to be false, there's an even more entertaining possibility - Foursquare is in talks for an acquisition, but not by Yahoo. So they plant this story about Yahoo being interested to bump their valuation, while the unknown acquirer puts out posts downplaying Foursquare usage...
Microsoft states that this MAY help.

I don't have a MS server with IIS installed, but I would be very interested if the exploit check from the OP would be negative with kernel caching disabled. Anyone care to test this?
Given their location data and technology stack, I wouldn't be surprised if you've underestimated their spend by an order of magnitude (eg. $100-200k/month, ~$1.2-2.4M/year).
You probably know him as patio11
I highly recommend the audiobook narrated by Jim Norton. Ulysses has a lot of difficult-to-parse writing (such as the last chapter having no punctuation); the audiobook removes that parsing difficulty. It's also a great performance!
I guess it's about having someone who's going to stumble over the details that many of us would miss (because we have so much knowledge).

I watched a bit of their twitter demo and it was actually pretty entertaining. During the account creation process it suggested potential usernames like 'pam18773642' and she said, "how the hell would I ever remember all those numbers?" Once she'd picked a name it wasn't obvious that it was valid.

I agree, you need to know who your target audience are and test for them. Still, it's enlightening to see the web through the eyes of someone with very little experience.
Agreed (not sure about your parallel with those ads, though). From the FAQ:

> We're accepting suggestions for future moms to work with, so we can review more sites

This is just baffling. Could it be more sexist?
There was an article several months ago about people using fasting to reset their autoimmune system. I wonder if fasting could help for this condition too.
American sandwiches are really on an other level. If an older Swedish person sees you putting two toppings on a sandwich they might call it "tvesovel". The word has strong connotations of gluttony, wastefulness and low morals. Putting more than two toppings is just unheard of.
There are already grid fins on the F9, which provide aerodynamic control.
"He works a (shocking) average of 20-25 hours a week—a stark contrast to his former life as a salaryman."

Kudos @patio11! Will this pace continue with Starfighter? For your and your family's sake, I hope so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9373165
We use ~ 20 terawatts

Incoming solar hitting the ground is ~ 89,000 terawatts

At current conversion efficiencies and accounting for transmission losses, this translates to an area of about twice the size of Portugal spread out globally.
A gray whale migrated nearly 14,000 miles, setting record
All arguments can lean you strange places. They're inconsequential if they don't.

Luckily, the modern pragmatist is also socially aware.
>And the very sensible answer was that a law prohibiting the ownership of old objects would mainly have the effect that people fearing discovery would destroy their antiquities, simultaneously removing all evidence of any putative crime and preventing anyone from ever learning anything from what used to be a (semi-)valuable artifact.

If the owner had a record of exactly where it had been taken from, what other objects were found alongside it (and where those objects were now) and other contextual information then it would implicate whoever dug it up in the first place, which in most places is a crime. You could argue that maybe we should make it a crime to excavate or sell an artefact without that record and make the actual digging legal. That would probably run into some issues of practicality though.
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LLVM-Based Compiler for .NET
Build an MVP not a Beta
Lets not play the "my team is better than your team" hysterics, especially when we all had to do emergency patching for shellshock, heartbleed, samba, drupal, etc in the past couple months. Hell, sambra runs as root and that doesn't seem to outrage anyone.
Actually I'm sure you're right, it seems TCL is a separate company based in China.
The argument against going Android was to avoid being another "me to" company. Back then the mantra of the Nokia leadership was "differentiation" (it was basically their response to why they could not open source the power management on the N800).

And if one look at the current Android market, they may be right. Samsung is only where it is right now because of a massive marketing push in the last few years.
I checked, their math department appears to be five professors and an instructor, and only three of them have phds.
Disappointment? I beg to differ. Over here everyone likes Canapes [1]. I agree they shouldn't be called sandwiches though.

[1] http://www.confiserie.ch/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image...
I'm satisfied with the current quantity and quality of online travel guides.
It is funny to see that the total amount Yahoo gained from all her other acquisitions put together is less than a fraction of the Alibaba deal.
I specifically discussed putting human faces on the landing page to get more conversions and other design changes (e.g., button color, button copy). These don't change the product, only the landing page.

That's not a lie or bending the truth. It is manipulating the user.
Astronomers Searched 100,000 Galaxies for Alien 'Supercivilizations'
Because the data tree isn't available for free.
I second that.. If you could provide a screenshot and Curl example it would be great.
Why does it have to follow in that direction? Maybe because of the marriage penalty it follows that the tax code should take into account cost of living based on your zip code.

You've said several times that the tax code is set up to tax increases in wealth.
In the Game of Thrones, you either live or you…code?
I can confirm what Khao is saying from my own testing.
Specifically after enabling Output Caching for all .png files I send this :

curl -v http://example.com/image.png -H "Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615"
Meh, I doubt it would make any impact on the purchase price. I doubt if any serious buyer is under any illusions about how well FourSquare is doing...
And the point is that the converse is definitely not true.

Postgres knows about the structure of your data and where it's located, and can do something reasonably optimal. A generic map/reduce algorithm will have to calculate the same thing as Postgres eventually, but it'll have tons of overhead.

(Also, what is with the fad for running map/reduce in the core of the database? Why would this be a good idea? It was a terrible, performance-killing idea on both Mongo and Riak. Is RethinkDB just participating in this fad to be buzzword-compliant?)
Customer Tracker (built via declarative web dev using Oracle APEX 5)
Wild Wild Party
solar panels cost more in energy to produce than they give back during exploitation for example

The EROEI for solar is around twice that of wind and oil, but it is definitely not negative.
Wireless Computing Will Be a Bigger Advance Than the Alphabet
Why Did Humans Advance Among Primates? Look to Ants for the Answer
Some people have a lot of money ridding on comedy ;)
Talking point:
Would this work on American youth today?
Is the Call of Duty Franchise a parallel to culture such as Wayne's Green Beret?
Consensus Bias
> You don't deliver genuine progress by "fighting"-- it takes time and reflection and collaboration-- but our instinct amid scarcity is to fight each other and the behavior of competing-to-subordiante (as in a chieftain's harem, or in capital's harem, also known as the corporation) is quite old as well

Exactly. People considers that the idea of natural selection and darwinism applies in society, it should not, because society is not a natural construct, it's an artificial construct, designed by humans, for human purposes, and those purposes are to escape our animal state, protect us from the elements, etc.

Ultimately, people are deemed to fail if they can't see they life day to day, and understand the end of it other than through the lens of some "global systemic purpose". There seems to be no end to this painful work process people put themselves into, yet the majority of people are convinced they need to work.
HTTP.sys vulnerability test
The original plans for the space shuttle involved the development of two vehicles, the smaller of which might have been partially or completely airbreathing. There have been many conceptual spaceplanes (e.x. Sanger) that work the same way.

If you look at the patents, towing is the big difference. Other spaceplane concepts have involved the big plane carrying the little plane, but it is easier to tow another plane than it is to carry it.

The "prior art" that hasn't been mentioned yet is the Japanese "Baka Bomb" of WWII which flew as a towed glider until it got near a target, then the pilot would switch on rocket engines for the terminal part of the flight.
There's only one questions that matters:

Can I sell it?

Sort your list by how quickly you can honestly answer that question. By honestly I mean multiple people actually paying you, or at least attempting to do so. Ideally you can do this without even making a product. Throw up a landing page w/ a price and a buy button. When they click buy, you've got intent to purchase, and you can redirect to a signup for the beta. Even better is if you have a product where you can actually take their money and just do the work manually behind the scenes. If it takes off, then start coding/automating yourself out of the loop. If not, then kill it.

It's amazing how many "good" ideas just can't make any money. A lot of them you can't even give away for free :( That's your number one risk by far.
Like i needed any more reason to distrust the stock market...
Wow, apparently there are 2 Jim Norton's in the world. Would pay good money to listen to this one narrate Ulysses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5DI0nD24U
I found Parisians to be surprisingly friendly.
^^ This. It was a bet. Some times these things don't pay off.

A lot of folks were upset when a small app named Burbn removed a bunch of its features as well, after a year of stagnant growth.
I wouldn't call solar power "nuclear-based", unless you want to call most other energy sources (including fossil fuels, wind, tides, ...) "nuclear-based" too (since the primary energy source is the sun, which generates energy via nuclear reactions, of course, but is besides the point)
Refreshing it seems to fix it
I fully agree that the idea doesn't make sense, specially when coupled with memory unsafe languages.

Just wanted to make the point it isn't a Windows specific idea.
Why Is Cell Phone Call Quality So Terrible?
Obama asks Congress to remove Cuba from terror list
I'd just like to point out that most of our customers have webapps written in go - not just JSON apis so this argument that go is not for webapps is at best incorrect. I talk to gophers around the world everyday that are using it just for that.

They much rather hack on a webserver that they can use in 15 LOC from stdlib than some beefy JVM framework.

From the conversations I've had I strongly believe most webapps are going to be written in go in the coming years.
Plus there's the fact that in at least some US cases, the displacement is to allow space for a large business which will provide more tax revenue than the displaced could.
Are you sure about that hint?

The AWS case study linked below

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/foursquare/

mentions "stream[ing] hundreds of millions of daily application logs each day." These logs must be at least 0.5K w/ metadata (probably more), so we're talking about...what, 100GB/day of application logs? Alone?? You're not persisting those using cron + MySQL--they likely use Kafka/Kinesis, many threads/instances subscribing to topics, and a large, horizontally-scalable db or Redshift to manage them.

Note that I haven't even addressed querying those logs (I believe 4sq uses Hive, the case study mentions Tableau). That all costs money.

We also haven't mentioned reviews for their millions of locations, user auth, check-ins, app development (web/iOS/Android). Each of those is a problem for a company with a MM-level user base.

Do you have some kind of intimate knowledge of their monthly engineering costs?

EDIT: 4sq website says 2M legit businesses, 65M total places.
Lessons from Altoona: What Facebook's newest data center can teach us
I grew up thinking a roast beef sandwich was Arby's. I've since moved to the North Shore and fell in love with the local roast beef here. Not to say that they are any different from elsewhere, but I've always thought the number of older roast beef places in the area reflected an early fast food regionalism before burgers, subs, and pizza homogenized everything. The roast beef is generally freshly sliced thin, hot, and juicy and I eat it plain with just salt and pepper.
No Longer an Inspiration
Oh, I could be very wrong.

My own calibration settings for this is reading a bunch of comments on stormfront.org forums. While I dislike yummyfajitas's comments, they don't give me the same feeling I get from stormfront. I don't know what to think of him. Closest thing is perhaps super-insensitive, but I don't think he's oblivious to how people perceive his comments.... I dunno.
There was probably a bit of exaggeration about the pay but I don't think the author talked about engineer quality. He is not wrong that you can get some sort of position from attending a coding school though (maybe not just any coding school), but it probably won't be 100k and equity. Someone is willing to pay for what a coding school produces though and in my experience, not all jobs require good engineers. When weighed against the time and money spent on college with today's dubious outlooks on ROI, code camps are understandably worth a look even if you won't be a good engineer or making 100k at the end of it.

(as an aside, still waiting on Zed Shaw's boot camp destruction)
Store Brands Aren’t Just about Price
c++ had huge compile-time issues which is one of the motivations behind go's compile-time speed - it feels like you are working in a dynamic language
To dream the impossible dream: Privacy on the net
Six Years In. A Few Thoughts on Foursquare (23 Mar 15)
Looking at Foursquare's history on CrunchBase, they show "only" $150 Million in funding. That's not even accounting for some of it being debt rather than equity financing.

That makes $900 million a good return, even though I'm sure it's not the peak return FourSquare good have ever gotten.
It's also not completely accurate. The Sun is not the center of the planets' orbits, but it is one focus of their orbital ellipses. Also, using the Sun's reference frame is only an approximation due to forces from other stars, the galaxy, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory

>Many aspects of Lorentz's theory were incorporated into special relativity (SR) with the works of Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski.

>The introduction of length contraction and time dilation for all phenomena in a "preferred" frame of reference, which plays the role of Lorentz's immobile aether, leads to the complete Lorentz transformation (see the Robertson–Mansouri–Sexl test theory as an example). Because the same mathematical formalism occurs in both, it is not possible to distinguish between LET and SR by experiment.
The war of the whitespaces rages on among programmers
"never appear more relaxed than your boss."

This is so true and has gotten me into trouble many times.

I'm highly focused, I worry a lot about the downside, I work hard but my calm exterior and relaxed, aproachable manner has led this type of comment: "You're a pretty laid back kind of character, aren't you". Meant as a criticism, not compliment.

I hate it. Not sure what to do about it. Submit to the corporate BS, or startup on my own with my own rules.
Success Kid is campaigning to get his dad a new kidney
Actually I said "I can't think of a single advantage beyond PR". You don't seem to disagree.
No. The gov't would just borrow against the expected revenue windfall in April.

The problem is that people wouldn't save enough money to pay their taxes and wouldn't be able to pay. It's the same reason your landlord expects you to pay monthly and won't let you pay yearly.
LA's "sandwich shops" are burrito trucks. As a Texan who used to live in LA, I much prefer them to any east coast sandwich shop.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380232
I'm quite active in the open access movement in France. And most of the people I meet agree that SJS is a dead-end because its creator categorically decline to open source the software (he wants to be able to sell it).

Apart from that, but it has already been pointed out here, I don't believe that something not able to at least read TeX sources can easily be transitioned to.
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I would. But I'm sure YC techno-libertarians will find a reason it's a bad idea.
An Interactive Map of Shakespeare's London
Do you happen to have a screenshot of the BSOD, or could test it a second time to take a screenshot? I don't really have a free test server that I can crash anymore since I tested this morning when not a lot of people were at the office yet.
It's absolutely ridiculous that we can't get pre-filled tax forms here in the US. As the article notes, a large part of the reason for that stems from questionable behavior on the part of Intuit, which has been known to not only engage in lobbying [1] but also astroturfing, creating fake "grassroots" campaigns made up of "concerned citizens".[2] (I guess these "concerned citizens" just really enjoy spending time doing paperwork and buying tax software.)

[1] http://capitolweekly.net/turbo-tax-maker-intuit-again-is-mir... (link from the article)

[2] http://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-linked-to-g...
To give a concrete example of this, fragments of Roman amphorae (wine vessels) are pretty common and not super valuable unless they're very unusual. Roman amphorae found in South India tell us something about long distance trade in the classical world.
Thanks my syntax was slightly off I'm now able to reproduce.
All About Circuits (www.allaboutcircuits.com) is an expanded version of this open-source textbook.

It looks like any corrections and additions made on All About Circuits feed back to this source too, but AAC has a slightly more web-like layout and links to additional materials (forums, worksheets, video lessons, etc.).
> Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes?

No.

Stop with these stupid stop-gap measures. Income taxes are inherently flawed on so many levels, it's absurd. They're difficult to calculate, easy to cheat on, don't tax swaths of people who don't have a traditional income, cause grief every year and untold resources to calculate, verify, audit, etc.

Just stop.

A national sales tax, property tax, or frankly, any other option, would be better by far.
One other possibility, is that your systems have already been compromised and are giving you back incorrectly safe-looking output. I'm not saying its probable, just possible.
I disagree. We have no idea how HTC, Motorola, Sony, LG, and others would've approached the market without Google. It's nearly impossible to say with any degree of accuracy.
IDEs fix both problems: writing verbose code and reading terse code. The thing is, code isn't always examined in a working IDE, and it tends to be read outside of an IDE more than it tends to be written outside of an IDE.

The disease is far worse than the cure. I frequently (at least once a day) find myself wishing code was written in the smalltalk style but I've only found the smalltalk style inconvenient on a small number of occasions.
It's funny that that the article lists Intuit as the primary opposition. Every company that does tax preparation and creative loopholing, as well as the people taking advantage of the loopholes is a likely opponent.
Sources Say Yahoo, Foursquare Are Not in Talks
For those who don't know, Burbn is now known as Instagram.
The best way to simplify tax preparation is to simplify the tax code. The percentage of people who save money by itemizing deductions is extremely small, as is the percentage who claim (or are eligible for) any of the more generous deductions.

Doing taxes in the US feels like going through a garbage can of bad social program ideas, bureaucratic waste, etc. Then to make matters worse we get expensive wars...
The $200M Marketing Budgets Behind Website Platforms
I've used Practical Electronics For Inventors by Scherz Monk. I really like this book, it explains things well and simply.

There's a lot of content, but chapter 3 alone is really helpful.
Convert SMS to Speech with Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Resin.io
My mom gets tired of computer stuff, but she's still set up a router with port forwarding and installed parts in a computer before. Last week she was trying to get her cloud dvr working so she could leave her house while her mare is in foal.

I think if you build something that's internet-connected you could probably stand to ask yourself whether someone like her can use it. She may try, after all, and she's definitely the kind of person to leave frustrated reviews of your product on Amazon.
If you've read much of Patrick's writing (over on Kalzumeus), you won't find anything surprising in this article - still as authentic and consistent as ever.
I used TurboTax this year and it's horribly buggy. I ended up having to print and mail two state returns due to TurboTax bugs. Not using it again.
Groups that call for lower taxes, like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, say it is a “conflict of interest” for the government to both collect taxes and calculate how much people owe.

I think there's some logic in this objection, but then again, I don't see these same complaints levied against the other "post-billed" taxes people deal with, like property, vehicle, and so forth.

Really, there's no likeable side in this. The tax prep software people (never buy Intuit!) have a vested interest in keeping the tax code complicated, and decent portions of the government has a vested interest in same.

The solution to both problems is a massive simplification of the income tax code - too many people opposed to it for that to ever happen, though.
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They are stopping Samsung from making it's own ecosystem. By forcing Google apps on Samsung devices, Samsung isn't able to develop their own competing ecosystem without also marketing Google's ecosystem simultaneously. So unless Samsung can compete with all Google products all at once, Samsung can't compete.

Developers having to do real work is irrelevant, because developers are not the goal of antitrust law. Antitrust law is about protecting consumers, and if developers have to do more work because of it, so be it. If the EU's new limits on Google after this case causes their infrastructure to collapse or become unfeasible, that's Google's problem to solve. These are technical issues, not legal ones, and have no place in this discussion.
Thanks for keeping alive another beautiful language :) Just made a throwaway account to say this.
I let HMRC do it, and they've been good enough to even refund me when I was overpaying. So, yeah, I'd let the IRS do it if I moved back.
I suggest: HypnosIIS. https://twitter.com/eloydegen/status/588362098314477569