skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh ok, yeah I refered to 32/64bit floats / ints. I didn't like the notation in the article, so I didn't bother understanding what he was talking about.
Some of the comments here claim that we already have pretty long lived and robust software. While this may be true, I don't think that's what DARPA is looking for. I believe that they are looking something that could keep an interstellar probe running for few hundred years, or something like a remote base somewhere in space. Something that could detect and fix any issues with the software and hardware. But it's not only about reliability. Think about a Moon base, where the software keeps running for decades, and once in a while new module/hardware is added to it. MoonOS would have to detect new addition and reconfigure itself to work with it. Maybe it could even decide to move some critical parts of itself to the new hardware. It would do it without any input from humans.
Can someone explain to me why people return money to investors?

Legal reasons? Altruistic reasons? Selfish reasons (maybe that keeping it would hurt their reputation and make them feel guilty)?
Thanks, congratulations on the RC!
After taxes and other deductions it's never close to $1440.
> e.g., a high medical bill -- even with insurance

Don't pay them. Nothing at all happens if you don't pay medical bills. Just ignore the bill collectors, don't answer the calls or even open the envelopes.

New rules mean that it has no effect on your credit score.
> The government came up with a simple solution: if more than 80% of your income in a given year comes from a single company, they have to employ you.

This is bizarre. It gives contractors the power to unilaterally force companies to make them full employees by turning down work. Why?
I have had so many people tell me how fantastic PowerShell is. Not a single one of them was ever a *nix user. PowerShell is getting better with a tab completion of sorts but it is still a headache to figure out commands without web search.
I try to force myself to use PowerShell as often as possible, but continuously find myself going back to a GUI. I have the opposite problem when using Linux.
Absolutely, that's a fair request.

Someone has already opened an issue about it at https://github.com/shurcooL/go/issues/19, and I'm planning to take care of it.

Edit: Oh, I guess that was you.
I might not be reading this correctly, but in the absurd extreme, you can keep extending this argument farther and farther out beyond a single machine to a LAN and onto the wider internet. In that version of the argument, all the nodes on the internet need to have the global view of network state on every other node.

The controlling principle behind almost all congestion control algorithms is that a single node can derive the properties of the path between itself and the other end by using the state of the transfer visible only on that one node. Once you reject that principle, any algorithm you come up with will quickly become unscalable.
> Managing cashflow is hard. But the average monthly income in this example is still minimum wage.

You need a $640 cash cushion and you can handle variation like what you list. On minimum wage it's hard to collect that cushion, I'm sure. But much harder is the discipline not to use it.
I'm pretty sure the law is the same in the US. If your tips or whatever don't come to at least minimum wage they have to give you more to make up for it.
Every one of the 200,000 public employees working for the State of California gets paid once a month, on the 1st.
Are we not past the immaturity of having to post the fact someone trashed a house, but OMG it was on Airbnb?

Continuing this level of immaturity, it seems to mostly be just mess that a simple mop and bucket could fix.

But I guess to the immature having to clean for a few hours is a news worthy horror.

Yes a couch or three might be total write offs for the immature, where as a good steam clean from the non lazy might fix some of them, but Airbnb will replace them anyway.

The 'what's wrong with people' should really be directed to the people who watch these style of stories.
I understand that brevity is not the goal here but I have read through the first 3 "episodes" and feel as though the content has been mostly trite remarks. I don't mean to be a grinch here. I love what the author is doing and the informal "Khan Academy" approach to mathematics but I can't help but want more meaty content.
I find the idea that Kronos is 'cutting-edge' pretty amusing. Last time I had to interact with it, it was still an in-browser java applet with a user experience about on par with sticking your hand in a blender.
I still think that while backup solutions like this are technically very cool, the need for a working backup of the IA right now is so critical -- there is literally no backup, none, at all -- that it is just kind of insane that they're unwilling to consider straining their principles at all and doing something more prosaic in the interim like using tape even when people say "hey, we'll donate all the hardware needed". Nope, tape's too proprietary for them.
My first semester, sophomore year of college. Depression, Alcohol/assorted drugs combined with stress lead to auditory hallucinations. This affected my studies leading to more stress and depression and on and on... I ended up drinking a bunch of anti-freeze that following summer. Fun times.

I lost most/all my friends because of my antics, and (barely) graduated (6 years for a BS, god I'm an idiot).

Things have settled down now though- I'm in my mid-20s and work a lame job. I keep to myself and shitpost on the internet.
Announcing: Mesos-Consul service discovery bridge
What kind of conversion rates do people see from ph visitor to paying customer? I've seen blog posts talk about raw traffic but not so much the value of that traffic.
There's a legal difference between "loan", the legal transaction, and "loan", the economic transaction.

My sister had an internship once at a South American company that bought receivables. In that country (probably Brazil), loans were illegal. A receivable is a promise of payment in the future according to some schedule. So this company would buy receivables at less than full value from companies (or individuals, I guess) who wanted the money immediately. Obviously, that's a loan (technically, it also assigns responsibility for collecting payment to the owner of the receivable). But despite being like a loan in all other ways, it has the key difference of not being illegal.

I suspect something similar is going on here.
I don't think they've extended it yet:

$ /Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom .
Silverlight was a half-assed, brain-dead attempt at trying to compete with Flash. It started out as a cool demo and then blew up into a role that didn't fit it well with insufficient support on the dev side. What it should have been was a competitor for AJAX/jQuery. What it turned into was just another video player browser plug-in.
There's really nothing I've done in my career more demoralizing than talking to bizdev people. Even when we successfully sold a company, the experience of doing it was enervating. Doing it unsuccessfully, which is what happens most of the time, is like punching yourself in the face until you black out, waking up, and then doing it again.

It is everything that is bad about trying to raise from Serious Venture Capitalists, but amplified.
My guess is that the OS kernel has a better idea of the total bandwidth available than each individual process. If two processes decide to increase their bandwidth at the same time, and both of them would miss a packet falling back. I'm guessing the flapping in this case is processes increasing and decreasing their bandwidth because of no central control of the data rates.
The ultimate custom watercooling guide
Vista had some big changes in it, but shipped with lots of issues and had horrible driver support at the beginning. A while back I set up a laptop for aged relative with Vista plus all the service packs and fixes, and it was really fast and smooth. Very surprising.
One reason is when the investors own > 50%, control the board, and decide to recoup 10 cents on their dollar.

But I've known entrepreneurs who made the decision independently, feeling it was the right thing to do.

And it is the right thing to do if the company has no other prospects or the team is falling apart.

But even so, returning the balance just keeps some salt from the wound. It doesn't make anybody happy.
This Is Why Your Apple Watch Didn’t Ship Yet
There's actually no data directly available on this page. All the links for the datasets give the message:

"Amazon review data will be made available (for research purposes) on request. Please contact ... to obtain a link."

Presumably, Amazon has placed restrictions on what this data can be used for.
Apple Watch: Faulty Taptic Engine Slows Rollout
Wrong link, oops https://stellartalk.org/topic/6699-how-to-create-a-new-coin-...
Microsoft Demonstrates Android and iOS Applications Running on Windows 10
well, I don't think you can say that's because of the caustic nature of the site or because of how it's now moderated more strictly
Only if by 'distro' you mean 'Apple'.
Ask HN: Acceptable average tenure per job?
What is an acceptable average tenure per job? Is it 2 years, or more or less? When I see resumes with a bunch of jobs less than 18 months, I definitely pass on them, but is 2 to 2.5 years per job acceptable? Is this just a Silicon Valley thing? And is staying at a job for a very long period of time (> 10 years) a bad sign as well?
Seems like they should have spent a lot of energy on making sure feeds were as compelling as possible for each user.

I think there's definitely room for this type of service and the original Secret was fairly well-executed.
Kind of tired of the "your technology is Hipster swill" parodies.

All technology is a tool, use the right tool for the job and move on.
This is terrible advice; depending on the state, you can have your wages garnished and funds in accounts seized. Missouri debtors have even gone to jail:

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/payday-lenders-use-co...

http://blog.credit.com/2012/08/in-missouri-debtors-prison-is...

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-new-bill-collecto...

Don't outright not pay your debts; negotiate with the creditors for pennies on the dollar, but advising people to straight up ignore them is extremely reckless advice.
Because the best validation is people using your product. Or technically, the best validation is people paying for your product, but if they're doing that in amounts great enough for a VC to notice then you don't need to raise VC.

The herd behavior comes from everyone having more-or-less the same metrics for what constitutes success: people using your product. If that metric isn't evident, you fall back on the fundraising strategy for people who don't have traction: try lots of VCs and hope that one buys into your vision enough to invest. If the next better metric - lots of revenue - is evident, then it's too late and chances are that someone else has already invested, or they don't need investment.
"Somewhat hidden in there is the ability to read an aribitrary program, transmute it to another program."

There'd probably be cases where it'd fall short of that capability, but ultimately, if the desire is to make sure you can run an arbitrary current program on an arbitrary future computer, you probably have to get pretty close to that.
Git Without a GUI – Tips and Tricks
60 second meditation
Great website! But FYI, in the "Just shoot me an email" part towards the bottom, the text goes outside the screen on my Samsung Galaxy S4
Do you have a blog post or some external site that you could link to for more information about the JVM vs. CLR? It'd be much appreciated
Microsoft HoloLens Proves Mixed Reality Is No Longer Science Fiction
See above. Basically we are just going with graph for posting cards.
I've seen a few models floating around surrounding video and imagery. The company maintains the hardware and then sells the imagery or data to the customer.
Ever tried to install an update to .net and powershell automatically without a restart remotely?

You need the wrappers of defined state or sccm just to survive. Winrm can't even touch it. (except through ugly as sin scheduled commands)
I agree with the readability issue. The small text is part of it, but I can zoom to adjust that. However, the square alignment is the bigger concern and something I can't quickly remedy as a reader.
I really like cmder (http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/) which is a wrapper to conemu + clink (which adds a bunch of nice enhancements to the command line).
Well, okay. I see where you're coming from but you can absolutely teach motivation. It is, however, extremely harder, because motivation is not as tangible as talent in the case of the individual. I mean, I'm not sure I'm not alone in wishing my own motivation at 19 was matched by this very motivated person.

I think, however, that is the idea of this community. The I-Wish-I-Executed-My-Idea-At-19 types Even-Though-I-Only-Have-Words-And-College-Classes-To-Show-For-It. Maybe I'm wrong.
You're missing the point that managing a _consistent_ income of $1440/mo is far easier than doing so for an _inconsistent_ income which averages to $1440.

If your expenses don't show equal flexibility, you'll find yourself cash-strapped: hungry, utilities cut, possibly on the street.

It's part of the great risk shift, creating a new social an political class, the precariat.

The American Precariat
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/opinion/brooks-the-america...

Plutonomy and the Precariat
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noam-chomsky/plutonomy-and-the...

Why the precariat is not a “bogus concept”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/guy-standing/why-precariat-is-...
Microsoft has a new plan to capitalize on Apple and Google’s success
iOS has its roots in web apps. The original iPhone didn't support third party apps, and Apple was pushing developers to use web technology to make apps. This attitude persisted for a long time and to an extent persists even today.

When they introduced apps, they didn't want web apps to run differently in, say, the embedded browser of an RSS reader, than in Safari, because users have no clue that there's such a thing as different rendering engines and would be confused.

Of course, for a long time, WebViews and Safari used different versions of webkit, but at least they had identically implemented APIs for integrating with mobile hardware and such.
It annoys me that Apple didn't ship this a few years ago. We had business units test switching to 100% iPad with VDI, and many of them actually enjoyed it.

It would be fairly trivial to deliver a great experience like this. In my case, I'd have 20,000 iPhone user ditching laptops.
"Second, the media will only be interested in one thing about you: controversy. Because controversy equals page views. No actual controversy? No problem; they'll manufacture some."

Secret shut down today, and I think PandoDaily's coverage of Secret serves as a perfect example of this:

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Secret founder doesn’t care if teenagers kill themselves, as long as they don’t cause a PR headache - By Paul Carr On August 1, 2014

Secret accused of being “too busy raising money to care” about teen suicide warning - By Paul Carr On August 3, 2014

Now we’ve seen Secret’s ugly soul, will investors act? - By Sarah Lacy On August 3, 2014

With bullying app Secret on life support, investors learn the risk of investing in assholes - By Paul Carr On December 6, 2014

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Most of these headlines were complete with probably the most unflattering photos of Byttow they could find at the time.
I tried summarizing the following URL, and the output it returned was just the first sentence:

http://blog.sueraisty.com/lessons-learned-from-co-founding-a...
MFC is not a thin layer over the Win32 API, it's a thick document centric app building framework. If you want a thin layer around Win32 then try WTL.
+1 to JMeter, you can create complex http requests to a site simulating user behavior.
This is my experience as well. When there are a lot of small or even medium sized operations or connections being performed (almost all the time), node does extremely well. When dealing with big huge chunks of data at once its not great.
so far I am very happy with the raspberry pi as a homebrew platform ..

PROS:

- ports: 1x wired net, 4x usb 2.0

- runs linux, super easy to extend/modify (access via ssh from other devices)

- super reliable, with uptimes of months

CONS:

- bigger in size, and not beautiful without a case (except if you like electronic pr0n)

- requires an HDMI cable

- requires an external power source
I use the powershell script from the packer winrm project.

it's ugly as sin and requires many many reboots (and is slow as fuck) but at least it gets them all installed.
For the Wal-Marts-in-corporate-character of Slovenia that game the system to prevent providing their employees-in-all-but-name with the benefits due to an employee?

Sometimes, you have to balance the damage done by two wrongs. :)
Good thing (as well as in-process TCP stack implementations).
One note: text of black color would be much easier to read than this light gray.
Is there any good way to counteract that?
That's totally incorrect. New FICO rules minimize, but do not eliminate, the impact of medical debt on your credit score. They also don't eliminate legal remedies, like taking you to court to pay.
You could compare this to a 100 year old car. But that's not accurate. There are 100 year old automobiles in use, and likewise I expect some 40 year old software to still be in use in 60 years. Launch a space probe and its software will run as long as there is power.

But that's not interesting.

Here we are taking not about software not as an instance, a physical entity of computation. We are taking about software is an idea, a design for computation.

What DARPA is looking for is the equivalent of a car design that is still in use after 100 years. One that can be maintained and occasionally modified in backwards compatible ways.

But that's a little stupid, both for automotive designs and for software (computational designs). Creating a 100 year car design is probably at best fruitless and at worst counterproductive. Trying to create a 100 year software project shares the same pitfalls.
The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem
I owe you a reasonable beverage of your choosing. Please redeem anytime you're in melbourne.au :)
Sure, but IE's rendering engine is probably not going to change appreciably from here on forward, it's just a legacy support thing.

If they'd called this IE 12, you'd be supporting IE 8-11 and IE 12. Instead, you're supporting IE 8-11 and Edge. Big difference?

Less of a big deal than the Webkit/Blink split, if you ask me.
Ask HN: How to add a toplabels in news.arc?
I hate that I have this reaction; when I read things like this, I can't help but feel that you're a 14 year old who accidentally found your way into the adult Internet. Welcome! Please try to not be a jerk here. We aren't 4chan.
"If you’re an experienced programmer, you might be asking yourself: I’ve been coding for so long without worrying about category theory or functional methods, so what’s changed? Surely you can’t help but notice that there’s been a steady stream of new functional features invading imperative languages. Even Java, the bastion of object-oriented programming, let the lambdas in. C++ has recently been evolving at a frantic pace — a new standard every few years — trying to catch up with the changing world. All this activity is in preparation for a disruptive change or, as we physicist call it, a phase transition. If you keep heating water, it will eventually start boiling. We are now in the position of a frog that must decide if it should continue swimming in increasingly hot water, or start looking for some alternatives."

In other words, if you think this isn't relevant to the programming you do, it is likely that the programming you do is the exact kind of programming this was written to be relevant to.
All of your links are about payday debt. I'm speaking only of medical debt.

> you can have your wages garnished

Only if they win in court. And in practice if you don't have any money anyway, what do you have to loose? Why go into non-medical debt to pay off medical debt?

Just ignore the debt till you have some money. If you lose in court (which is unlikely) you are no worse off.
What your sister did is called factoring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)

It is a thing in the US as well. Retailers and construction companies do it. I was looking into it for apps e.g. advance money against IAPs or ad revenue. It doesn't look like there is demand for it.
This is not the Internet Archive's own project, but rather the idea of Archive Team, an unaffiliated group. The Internet Archive presumably backs up their data and I think they have some older copies in the Netherlands and the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
I love when downvotes get politically motivated. No one wants to deny or refute that immigration has been in a gridlock for at least 29 years.
What I really don't understand is why Windows Update takes so long to apply each update. I wouldn't mind 200 updates and a couple of reboots if it only took 10 minutes to go through them.

In most Linux distributions, an update simply unzips a tarball somewhere and runs some bash scripts. Unless it's a very large package, each update usually only takes a fraction of a second on SSD, and maybe few seconds on HDD.

Windows, on the other hand, often takes minutes installing each update. Going from freshly-installed to fully-updated can easily take several hours, even on an i7 with SSD and a very fast connection (so the download speed is not a factor). It's even worse on an older computer; I've seen a smallish .NET update taking over 10 minutes to finish, and there were several such updates. What the hell is it doing behind the scenes that takes so much time?
Nadella didn't buy Nokia. The deal was already announced before he became CEO. He was actually strongly opposed to the idea initially.
Jive Chime Wants to Ring Slack’s Bell with New Real-Time Messaging App
The sort of motivation I'm talking about you can't be taught:

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-St...
Sure they could take you to court, but if you don't have any money nothing much will come of it. In practice they don't bother - they know they'll win nothing.
For those who don't know, it's the little book icon in the URL bar. Took me forever to realize that it wasn't a bookmarks button.

Just yesterday I noticed the same feature has started showing up in Firefox Developer Edition, which means that I can replace Evernote Clearly (seems to work better than Clearly, too).
What part of this bill would have made it harder to put Swartz in the bind he ended up with? His offenses weren't committed for financial gain. The market value of the information he took --- easily established from JSTOR's fee structure --- exceeded $5000. The tweaks to the definition of "unauthorized access" seem almost shrink-wrapped around what Swartz was actually accused of doing. And "Aaron's Law" doesn't modify the Wire Fraud statute, which Swartz was also charged under.

There needs to be an "Aaron's Law", but it should actually fix the core problem with the CFAA, which is that sentences and offense severity are graded by imputed damages, rather than actual financial gain.

The text of "Aaron's Law", the CFAA, and the Swartz superseding indictment are here:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2454...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

http://ia600504.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.mad.137...
Heard of Visual Basic 6?