skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still, what's wrong with toupper(), besides not getting to show off that you know the archaic characteristics of ASCII? (Not that I'm free from that sin of bragging myself, of course.)

Library functions provide idiomatic, readable ways to do things.
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Hint, check the global variable r.thebutton as alluded to elsewhere in thread.
But there will be company C raising even more money and beating company B. And then comes Google and beats company C.

In short, if you are building a company you need to built it based on some "secret sauce". That could be your team. That could be your patent. That could be just customer base. That could be your unique understand of the market. But money is never "secret sauce".

And please do not take me wrong here: raising investment is very important to make your company big. But first thing first.
The presence of advertising for a particular product, does not imply that use of the product is normal.

How many of us have seen ads for penis enlargement pills?
Just recently set up my local headless Linux server with PCI passthrough and a Windows VM for streaming games over the LAN, works really well! A neat benefit is the ability to connect multiple graphics cards with multiple VMs and effectively run two gaming machines in one, at near native performance.
Edited to take this into account. Now it will only click within an interval, from 15 to 20 seconds. In this way, if it was 0, undef, etc, it would not be clicked, thanks!
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So, you created code to repeatedly press a button you can only press once?
By definition science can't answer the question, "is there a reality that is outside science and what is its nature?" That's what I think Eddington is saying.

I think your 2. seems a little silly, metaphysics by definition is what is beyond science, which is the point Eddington is trying to make.

Thinking about metaphysics is a little like thinking about what happens inside a black hole, what happens to the physics and interactions and information. You can come up with a lot of theories but you'll never be able to test them. It's beyond our experience, but we can't say there is no reality going on beyond where we can measure and experience and reason about it.
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Interesting that you would call my claim "highly improbable" because I didn't cite any sources and in the same breath, make a claim without any sources.

"Unverified"? Sure. "Highly improbable"? You don't know that any better than I do.
Facebook slightly relaxed its policy of requiring accounts to carry people's real names, under pressure from cross-dressers. The company feared they would leave the site, and then it would be unable to do drag net surveillance.

doh!
The bar chart is from http://jamesrom.github.io/

Whoever made it must be a pretty cool dude.
No, to repeatedly check the time the button has and press it once at that time :)

The fact that it'll press it again if it hits that time again and do nothing is beside the point; there's no need to add complexity of exiting.
Honestly this just highlights some of the negative things about the internet to me.
Shouldn't the link be
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/Fixing-Your-XML-Error.pdf
?
What's the benefit of pressing it when it is near 0 seconds? You really want to be the last person to press it before the full 60 seconds expires.
Lovely. Very well put together!
Okay, now if you really want to impress me, pretend you work for reddit and write some code that would catch this kind of script and give it "cheater" flair.
Two mandatory books I would read are: The Innovator's Dilemma and Chasm Companion. They should help you better recognize good ideas for businesses that have a stronger potential to succeed.

If you want to expand on the ideas in those books there are also Innovator's Solution, Blue Ocean Strategy, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado.
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Way to downplay, tom.

You should probably mention that it was (Tor dev) Jacob Appelbaum's laptop, and that even he thinks it stopped there to be "fitted".
The article is basically just some guy's rant against Amazon. He found some very minor nitpicks, has blown them way out of proportion, and is using them as evidence that Amazon hates readers. Or something. Factor in all the insults, and it's not really worth trying to start a discussion, IMO.
Or maybe they'll pile up digits on higher positions. Linux 04.00, Linux 04.15; Linux 14.30 (new design).
> Programmers will check the kernel version, not the "friendly" consumer-facing string.

I wish that were true, and it may be if you're dealing with competent developers, but I've seen code that does exactly that in the wild!
I cant tell if your post is satire. Historically the life of the common working man has been one of varied conditions. People have worked more but also much less in the past. The conditions of society aren't fixed by any obvious universal constants
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And now this will drive traffic to the subreddit and continue to slow down the progress to 0. :(
In tech, successful companies usually happen because a good idea was implemented in a timely manner and in the process there was no major screw up.

Page & Brin didn't study "the art of startup". They were PhD students that created a good search engine that took off.

Neither did Jang & Filo. They started by maintaining a webpage with links to other interesting webpages, that became popular and they grew it into Yahoo.

Jobs and Wozniak didn't have any startup experience or knowledge on how to run a business. They had a good product.

Justin Frankel created Winamp when in college and sold it to AOL for $50 million.

I could go on.

I'm sure that there are successful people who did it with your mindset of "I want to run a startup, any startup" but majority of success stories that I know about follow the pattern of "good product leads to successful business".

With that as a context, I don't think there's much value in focusing on the "startup" part. If you can come up with a product that people want (the YC motto) and implement it, the "startup" part will happen. You'll grow into it. And the more successful the product, the more mistakes you can afford in the "running the startup" part and still be successful.

The other side of it is that no matter how brilliant you are at the "startup" part, if you have lousy product, you won't be successful. See how Steve Jobs failed to make NeXT a success (he salvaged the business by selling to Apple, but it was more of a very expensive acqu-hire than a potential behind NeXT).

So how to be successful at running a startup?

Come up with good idea, implement it. If it turns out to not be good (and we never know a good idea until we try to sell it), come up with another idea. Repeat until you find the one idea that strikes gold.
I wonder if milk alone (breast milk? cow milk?) is better for you and more healthy than Soylent?
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The problem I see is not that it can function as a temporary meal replacement, it's that the PR pieces never seem to describe anyone using it that way. It's always the "Joe hasn't eaten another food in X weeks!"

Which, frankly, is going to turn a lot of people off.

One other remark--if you're skipping a meal on occasion, and supplementing it with some easy foodstuff, you don't really need to worry about it being nutritionally balanced. Virtually any western diet will get you enough nutrients on a regular basis that you don't need to supplement with vitamins or worry about the diseases caused by a lack of some nutrient, even if your diet is restricted for a while.
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It's called "fiber to the press release". And it's so disappointing so many "tech experts" seem to fall for it. but I guess that's what most tech experts do - live for the next press release and rumor[1]. I wonder what's the article he'll write when he finds out Google plans 10Gbit/s Internet [2].

[1] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140307/04485626475/weve-...

[2] - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2453466,00.asp

Also this "crushing" service costs 6x more than Google Fiber, so I doubt too many regular users would pay for it, if any.
After having owned three kindles, I have switched to a kobo about a year ago. The kobo has many of its own problems, but it gets the reading experience right: it uses (very un-aggressive) hyphenation, and the lock screen displays the book cover.

I miss going on Amazon, clicking some button, and immediately start reading a new book. Now that's a multi step process that involves a computer and a DRM removal tool. But the reading experience is easily worth it for me.
Ya, I sort of did this, but my option was a 10 year post doc, making a little over $32,000/year working 80 hour weeks.
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There is no reputation on the line here. Nobody would suddenly refuse to use reddit if they automatically clicked.
That sounds like fun! Any more details? Why? How? What?
I find it intriguing. Like a quick experiment that you could expand upon and turn into a broader social game, or a unique auction methodology.
AFAIK the lowest end was called MCGA.
Configuration files should be modified/replaced by configuration management systems/tools - that was my whole point. You don't edit code live on the server (you commit it to vcs and have a deployment system, right?) so why would you edit config files live?
It's $400. Google Fiber is $70.
> Programmers will check the kernel version, not the "friendly" consumer-facing string.

Cute. New to the profession?

Chew on this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...
Which they won't. It's $400.
Maybe if you were friends with the guy, sure, or if you really need a reminder that ideological enemies are still human. But I prefer to know whom I'm dealing with, so I'm appreciative of nemo for bringing up the guy's history. The Most Evil Person In The World may nonetheless have important and true things to say about being good -- but I'd prefer not to give MEPITW any of my time, I'd encourage others not to as well, and if I'm really interested in learning about being good I'd rather learn it from actually good people, who probably have the same important and true things to say anyway. I can hear it from them.
I've taken to lurking on #systemd in order to see when they sound the bells for an HN thread takeover.
would you pay $2-$3/hour for such a service from steam?
Don't be harsh, please read through his post. 100k was his client's supposed business losses because the project wasn't done in time, not the true value of the project itself if it were done by a true professional like you.
You're totally right; I should have read it that way.
That is how it works by default.

It's worth pointing out that some titles don't really support home streaming well. For example, some don't capture using game controllers as input well. Others don't pass through sound properly. It's not a perfect solution by any measure.
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I have been using a kindle keyboard (3.5) since January 2011 (still use it actually). It took until September 2012 for them to introduce what they call "crisper fonts" which were fonts that actually match the pixels of the device. This means that before "crisper fonts" the same letter could look different depending on its position (which was not aligned with the pixels). I have for that entire 20 months wondered if anyone at Amazon actually used the kindle themselves.

Other than that I'm still quite pleased with the thing (apart from the small trouble of having to remove DRM from most books to read my, paid for books on unsupported devices. Calibre plugins make this quite painless thankfully.)
really? How would you detect a clientside script like this?
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it all depends on what the definition of "we" is, I suppose.
It's actually pretty cool. Makes me wonder if they're working on abstracting it out so other subreddits can utilize tools like these as well.
Monkeypatch setInterval/setTimeout to mark people as cheaters. The more dedicated cheaters will hit the button API outside of the browser, which is pretty hard to stop.
Lost. All over again. Will the island disappear?
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feel free to show me that "strong argument" as well.

I'm sure you're credible in something. Alas, your credibility in this matter has been compromised by your words.
To be clean, I think this is quite cool. Just, if you're going to release it, give me an option to turn it off.
The end draws closer: http://i.imgur.com/eZdoFUW.jpg
(See the kernel version just below the t-800 box in the center.)
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And some of the shittier korean mmorpgs on steam that use their own intrusive rootkit anticheat will permanently ban you for attempting to use a macro tool (PostMessage()ing keys from another process)
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company laptop. if it would be mine - i would just sell it :)
I would probably recommend setting everything up with an on-demand instance to begin with. You don't want your whole machine to be terminated as you're configuring things.
Then they should get lost together with their PR talk.
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Think backward. What could you have started working on twenty years ago that would make you fabulously wealthy now?

I can't think of much, offhand. It's even harder to skate where the proverbial puck will be twenty years in the future.
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> "People aren’t ants (and organizations aren’t immune systems)."

Yes, see also "sociobiology", http://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/01/against-sociobiol...

"..the science correspondent of the New York Times , wrote a front page article for the newspaper, “Updating Darwin on Behavior,” outlining sociobiology’s principal claim. In the older view, Rensberger wrote, the insect societies of bees and ants and the hierarchies of monkeys were seen as “evidence for the remarkable variety of nature.” Now, however, researchers were coming to a “more profound conclusion.” Beneath the variety there lay “common behavioral patterns governed by the genes and shaped by Darwinian evolution.

..there is a book that cries out to be written -- a debunking of the whole “genomania” upon which sociobiology was largely based. Perhaps we should think of it as the astrology of the modern academy, with the fashionable microcosm now replacing the heavenly spheres. Just as mysterious emanations from celestial objects were once thought to shape character (with a role reserved for free will), so today mysterious emanations from molecular objects are thought to do the same (with a role reserved for the environment)."
Admins (with the red [a] tag beside their name) are Reddit Staffers, mods (with the [m] tag beside their name) are just random redditors that moderate a subreddit.

(* = only shows up if they choose to exercise admin/mod powers when posting)
Response sound very diplomatic. There are references that flipkart paid a lot of money to Airtel for the deal. Let's make sure this thing doesn't happen to Internet. #SaveInternet.
I suppose you know that answers are on the bottom of the page. Right?
pretty cool, but i really don't think these chapters are elaborate enough for true beginners.

slightly offtopic: what is the recommended book for a more indepth look of how linux/unix works?
in sync with the stupid content tracker
I feel the complete opposite.
Dropbox works fine with symlinks, at least on Ubuntu. I do exactly what the GP mentions.
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^not getting it. some engineers love to think ux/design don't matter. on the aggregate it matters more than anything else.
Only 15 bucks to fix my old Kindle! Why didn't I think of that? I definitely miss the old one, and wish I'd thought of doing this to start with. I wasn't really excited about the new Kindles (the move to touch screens everywhere has been a thing I've been unenthusiastic about, always...I was hesitant to move away from the G1 to a touchscreen Android phone, too). I just assumed I had to "uprade".

Thanks for the link.
you get nice reddit flair the later your press it :)

no way to program it to guarantee you are the last person to ever press it.
Very nice observations. I was offered an RA position in the mid 90's to work on a document oriented database. In retrospect, I wish I would have taken it. Although I haven't seen any of the people involved anywhere near the Forbes Richest list :(
There are plenty of research opportunities that are speculative, or niche, enough that they wouldn't overcome the net present value of any third-party commercial investment. Of these, a not-insignificant number are likely to become keystone technologies at some point in the future, but rarely will it make economic sense to put cash in it early, rather than invest elsewhere and later use the returns on that to get a position in any future market.

Some companies -- Google, obviously, or Bell Labs back in the day, or companies run by well-heeled visionaries like Musk -- are willing to sink cash into high-risk research, but in general Google is going to see more returns out of incrementally improving AdWords rather than developing self-driving cars.

The other thing to think about is that R&D doesn't just "skate to where the puck will be," it actually places the puck on the ice. It takes fundamental and/or high-risk research to create these kinds of opportunities, which means that, in a world where markets solely dictate research objectives, a lot of potential advancements will be left on the table as long as companies have other, profitable, avenues of investment. Which is why we need government funding, though not government control, of research -- but that's probably a discussion for another time.
very strange. it works fine on Firefox Android (Fennec), but refuses to work on desktop Firefox or Chromium in Arch Linux. I can get to the "Enter Your Name" box, but it never goes past.

Before, chromium worked. now neither browser does in Arch Linux.
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Most likely, it's everything else on the motherboard. Think things like the IPMI chipset, which tends to be on all the time. If the boards have SFP+ transceivers, those may very well use a few watts waiting for Wake on Lan packets. Certain SCSI controllers will have their own Out of Band management chips that use a few watts. Then you have a fan spinning slowly to keep the power supply cool for handling all those parts at idle. Servers tend to have lots of bits and pieces that like being on all the time, so even when shut down, the motherboard still tends to be a hive of activity.
One frustrating thing about side loaded books, you cannot read them with Kindle for PC, Kindle for Mac, or Kindle cloud reader.
Most likely the average HN reader is well aware that dropbox must have access to read your files. But possibly an average joe who doesn't read the TOS and who doesn't think everything through would assume that private storage is private to joe only and that the advertised encryption extends beyond transport to storage.
Instead of one big filter there can be huge number of small filters.

Take a few dozens independent 90% filters together and you got the expected success number in the "1 per observable universe" territory.
I think they already do. You begin the download and after it has downloaded some portion of the game you can launch it and the stream the rest.
Google (PageRank) was founded 17 years ago. Nvidia was founded 22 years ago. Qualcomm (Viterbi algorithm) and Pixar (Catmull-Clark subdivision) were founded 30 years ago.

Inventing a piece of the puzzle is hardly a guarantee, but it has worked out well for some.
Reputable + April Fools joke = ?
I know folks who consume food to relieve stress. When I was at MIT, I would do the same with international news until discovering http://selfcontrolapp.com/, which was the reason I switched from Linux to OS X.
Cool ! At some point, you could also consider building an index: retrieve "possible candidate corrections" by issuing a query against this index, and score the candidates using some combination of features (such as edit distance, phonetic similarity etc).
Mascots apply.

Larry the Cow, El Pufiachi.
What positive elements of the internet does this highlight?
The very phrase "beyond science" is a bit nonsensical though, and using it to define a category of knowledge that is "beyond science" is a bit like defining a new land called "metanorth" containing whatever is geographically further north than the geographic North Pole.

I don't think it's fair, either, to compare metaphysics to black hole physics. Everything in my layman's understanding of physics, astronomy, and cosmology suggests that the prevailing theories of what happens inside a black hole are supported by evidence gathered from what happens outside a black hole, rather than being invented from scratch with no evidential basis.
>coveted yellow flair

Until of course orange and red start to appear.
Industrial safety regulations impose restrictions on how you may treat others, not on how you may treat yourself.

Those regulations coerce employers into treating their employees well (which is not bad[1]). If you were to privately, in a manner that did not put others at risk, conduct an experiment in your backyard that violated those very safety regulations, I doubt you would get in trouble for it.

[1] It's not as bad a thing for government to regulate how individuals treat each other, as it would be if it regulated (passed laws around) how an individual treated himself/herself.
How long until we find out what happens when it reaches 0? Let's be pessimistic and assume that everyone wants to click it. There were 3.4 active accounts on Reddit last month. 700000 have clicked it so far, so there are 2.7 remaining. Assuming an upper bound of clicking it at 1 second remaining, we get ((2700000 users) * (59 seconds/user))/((60 s/min) (60 min/h) (24 h/day)) = 1843 days, or a little more than 5 years. Of course, it will be less than this. I'm not sure what the distribution of click times is, and it will definitely change as more people have clicked.
I use Kindle Paperwhite 2 every day in bed. The built-in light is very useful. I hope they will make Kindle's screen bigger.
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Bundling together the process of downloading packages and building them is
a very bad idea, but you have moved it to the whole next level!

Congratulations!
Can somebody with some background explain why this Holacracy thing exists and what problems it hopes to solve? Also, what is this self-management etc?

The article seems to presuppose that we are in the loop of what is happening at Zappos - I for one have no idea.
I'm pretty sure that where the teen stepped over the line is in endangering a teacher with a potential reputation as a sexual danger to children. I'm surprised there isn't more discussion of that. Note that it does not matter what we, a liberal audience, might think about homosexuality. What matters is what kids and parents think, and I have found both groups to be champions of boundary-policing and conformity-enforcement.

If the young person didn't pose such a risk to the teacher's financial security, then there wouldn't have been such an issue. Now the teacher has to lay a trail of official evidence which shows that he is not secretly homosexual, and did not engage in sexual activities within a teenage context.

Both the school and the teacher need to be sure that at a later time, an issue does not arise where the teacher's secret homosexual activities on school grounds is in question.
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